The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1874, Page 6

6 NE Ww YORK HERALD ee ae ee STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, All business or news jetters and telegraphic Gespatches must be ddressed New Yorx Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Ba Le ae LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. will be | yeceived and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX Subscriptions and Advertisements jo. 1 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ac CADEMY or Mt corner of Uving place.—KELLOGG | VOIA, ats. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Fourteenth stree GRAND OPERA IIOUSE, street HUMPTY ; closes at 145 P.M, ‘N AND WIFE, Mr Harkins, Miss Ada | Wa Broadway and ae closes at 11220 P.M, Lewis. Y, Wallack, Sass Jedreys THEATRE, BOOTH y-third street—LA FEMME DE Sixth avenue a FEU, at 7:45 P. M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, een Houston and Bleecker streets.— | nd NOV BLTY ENTERTAINMENT, at8 BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn,—KIT; OR, THE ARKAN- ELLER, at SP. 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M. | millions of capital; | increased to that extent we should not now be | Message we find | Assessment bonds. . The City Finances—The Deceptive Statements in Mayor Havemeyer’s Message. Mayor Havemeyer'’s exhibit of our financial condition proves that he is either incompetent to understand the subject of which he treats or willing to aid in practising a deception upon the people. The statement that the total city and county debt on January 1, 1874, had only increased $14,494,712 over the debt of 1871, while the amount required to pay the interest on the debt of 1874 is three million dollars larger than was required to pay the interest on the debt of 1871 is of itself sufficient to prove the unreliable character of the Mayor's figures and deductions. Three million dollars pays interest at seven per cent on nearly forty-three hence if our debt had not paying three millions more for interest than paid on the debt of 1871. How can this glaring discrepancy be acconnted for? In the was the tollowing summarized statement: — cr Y AND COUNTY a. Revenue bouds—antici- puting taxes. ~ 23,7 Revenue bo: payable fi lien. 82,119, BUS: cscs Sioc coed $115,700,558 $131,204, From this statement it appears that the funded debt has increased trom $82,119,158 in 1871 to $107,802,617 on January 1, 1874, or an increase of $25,683,458, and that the assess- ment bonds have increased in 1874 $10,102,872 over 1871. This makes a total increase of $35,786,331 on the funded debt and assess- ment bonds. But the ‘revenue bonds antici- pating taxes’? are set down in , 1871 at $22,766,200, and in 1873, including the special bonds, payable from building lien, at only $1,474,581. The difference between these two amounts ($21,291,618) ap- parently lessens the increase of the debt by so much, and makes it seem to be only $14,494,712, as stated in the Mayor's Message. But the ‘revenue bonds anticipating taxes’’ are in reality no increase of the debt at all, because they are only issued to obtain the money for the ordinary current expenses of the government in advance of the receipts from taxation, and are redeemed with the taxation of the same year as soon as the taxes are collected. The juggle of which Mayor Havemeyer has been made the tool is performed by including the revenue bonds anticipating taxes in the debt of 1871, when in fact they were redeemed and cancelled by the taxes im- posed that year; thus reducing the debt from $116, 709,858 to $93,943,658. The Mayor has, however, been more completely duped than in this. He has been made the instrument of placing before the people an untruthful state- | ment of the amount of reyenue bonds out- standing on December 31, 1873. In the above summary we find the following: — Revenue bonds, aioe ne taxes, out- » 187% $1,472,547 2,034 8 “special, fre building licn, outstanding pec. 31, 1873... Total revenue bonds outstanding Dec. 31, WBIS....eseeceseeesssseecrecescsccescevees $1,474,581 The figures of the Finance Department, made up to December 31, 1873, show this to be a false exhibit. The true condition of the rev- enue bonds at that date was as follows: — CITY REVENUE BONDS. TRIPLE SHEET. Bew York, Wednesday, . Ja oy a1, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THb CITY FINANCES! THE DECEPTIVE STATEMENTS IN MAYOR HAVEMEYER’S MESSAGE” —LEADING ARTICLE — SixtH PaGE. THE SPANISH IRON-CLAD NUMANCIA AGAIN AT CARTAGENA! ADMIRAL TOPETE 1N- VESTIGATING THE INTRANSIGENTE RE- VOLT—SEVENTH PAGE. EX-PRESIVENT THIERS PRESENTED A GOLD MEDAL BY FRENCH PHILADELPHIANS! FRANCE AND AMERICA! GOVERNMENT SUCCESS ON THE MAYORALTY QUESTION! NS WITH ITALY AND THE CY—SEVENTH PaGE. HEAVY GALE ON THE ENGLISH COAST! THE RUPIURE BETWEEN MR. LOWE AND MR. GLADSTONE—SeventH PAGE. REMOVAL OF THE PORTUGUBSE QUARANTINE ON VESSELS FROM THE GOLD COAST— THE INTERNATIONAL POSTAL CUNGRESS— SEVENTH PaGE. THE GRAND STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE CON- TRACTIONISTS AND THE INFLATIONISTS 2G \ WASHINGTON! THE GRANGERS EST AND SOUTA TAKING A DE- CISIVE HAND—Tarep Pace. NATIONAL CURRENCY INFLATION! EVIL EFFEC SCHEME! GOLD UP! FINANCIAL A MERCIAL TRAN: TIONS PALPABLE ND COM- YESTERDAY— THE RAILWAY “MONSTROSITY! THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS AND CANALS DEFINE THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF CONGRESS IN THE REGU- LATION OF INT TATE RAILROAD TARIFFS—Fovurtu Pace. CHEAPENING TRANSPORTATION! THE NA- TIONAL SENATE ON THE RESTRICTIONS NECESSARY TO BE PLACED ON THE RAILROADS! SENATOR BROWNLOW’S FINANCIAL SPEECH READ FOR HIM! MINORITY RIGHTS—FirtH Page. GOVERNOR DIX’S MESSAGE CONSIDERED IN THE LEGISLATURE! THE CLERK’S IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDM ! THE TENTH DISTRICT SEAT CONTEST— TENTH PaGs. GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE! TERMINATION OF THE HEIDENBLUT TRIAL, IN PHILADELPHIA! A CONFES- SiON—Turep PAGE. bd @WO MORE “PLANS” FOR RAPID TRANSIT IN NEW YORK—A BOSTON PRIZE CANDY SWINDLER CaUGHT NAPPING—FourtH Page. THE BRENNAN “BLOW-oUT!” AN ENJOYABLE HOP—AMUSEMENT CRITIQUES—SEVENTH PAGE. QUTDOOR SPORTS! PIGEON SHOOTING SWEEP- STAKES AT DEERFOOT PARK—THE CAR- NIVAL OF THE ICE KiNG—Testu page, JHE JAPANESE INDEMNITY IMBROGLIO BEFORE THE FEDERAL SUPREM T YESTERDAY—MOVEMENTS OF WAR ves. SELS AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY Yarnp— SES Firtn Pace, APOLLO HALL SECURES THE Gi SHAT IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY—JERSEY ORIM- INALS ARRAIGNED—Firtu Pace. © IMPOKTANT JUDICIAL DECISION ON BANK DE- POSITS! GENERAL LEGAL SUMMARIES— THE ASSISTANT ALDERMEN’S FiGHT— CIVIC CHARITY—Fiauru Pack | Met |Payarte| standing | st nant ayadle| standing | Since TMA. | ‘Dees Sky | desued, Redeemed) nisi? , 1872, 1573. ean, 16. yaaa —!" $113) 497 ber et ./ten. (6,000) $28 29) =| 2,947,200 4 i] "2800 “ed =| “zzaio00 —| 9.525. sal 7,453,045 2,072,547 | aI 2034 Pye oS een el COUNTY REVENUE BONDS. Total city... Tperct..|Jan. 15.) $20.0 ee —} $820,000 iher .\/eeb. 1.) 827.700] $27,000 | 874,700 of ler wd —| 3,063,100] 2,998,100] 65,000 City and county total ontstanding Dec. $1, 1873.$10,449.979 It will thus be seen that on the last day of December, 1873, there were outstanding and unpaid city and county revenue bonds to the amount of nearly ten anda half million dol- lars, instead of less than one million anda haif, as stated in the Mayor’s exhibit. Such deceptive statements will not help the city’s failing credit or serve to save our present in- competent Finance Department from being eventually swamped by its own mismanage- ment. The trick to which Mayor Havemeyer has lent himself or of which he has been made the victim is too shallow to deceive any per- son capable of considering the subject of our city finances. It is, in fact, exposed by the very statements heretofore made by the Fi- nance Department. In the Comptroller's financial statement for 1873, dated on January 6 of that year, is the following exhibit of the city and county debt of 1871 and 1872, up to January 1, 1872, and January 1, 1873, respec- tively — Debt Payable by 1871, 1872. Sinking fund. + $22,819,216 $24,160,663 Taxation.. 80, 89,625,592 County debt» 29,987,404 Revenue bonds (city). 6,446,497 Revenue bonds (count; "390, 000 1,667,700 TOCAIS........eeceeeee ve $93,607,708 $101,387,856 This affords us at once a clew to the mystery and to the deception practised by the Comp- troller upon the Mayor and through the Mayor upon the public. Taking the statement of the debt as it was on the last day of last Decem- ber, and comparing it with the Comptroller's official statement of the debt as it existed on the last day of December, 1871, and we reach the following result :— Total city and county debt December $1, 1873, according to the Mayor’s Message, not including revenue bonds. $129,720,989 Revenue bonds actuail, istand. December 31, 18% 10,449,979 140,179,968 ‘rotal debt on December 93,607,708 Increase in 1873 over 1871....... eevee $49,572,200 We can understand from this the reason why we are now paying three million dollars more interest in 1873 than we paid in 1871, and can properly appreciate such reform as Mayor Havemeyer and Comptroller Green have given us. But, unfortunately, the state- ment of our debt, as given above, discourag- ing as it is, does not truthfully represent our financial condition. We have a temporary or floating debt, the amount of which is studi- ously concealed by Comptroller Green, The Commissioners of Accounts, whose duty it is to examine the books and papers of the Fi- nance Department, have been long attempting to ascertain the extent of the city and county liabilities in this direction, but have with annoying obstructions, and have not yet completed their labors. A large amount of indebtedness which Appears to be cancelled on the books of the Finance Department has not in reality been paid, the warrants being still in the Comptrol- figures prepared tor the Mayor's | NeW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JAN ler's possession, Claims to the amount of miilions are outstanding against the city, and while some of them are no doubt fraudulent or excessive many are just and will havo to be settled. All these liabilities are, in fact, debt. Although the reckless “bridging over’ policy of the Comptroller drives off the day of reckoning it will come at last, and the final settlement will be the heavier through the ad- dition of accumulated interest and legal ex- penses. By lending himself to this policy the Mayor renders himself responsible for its con- sequences, and it is not difficult to predict what those consequences will be. The Logis- lature at least should carefully examine all bills that relate to the finances of the city of New York, and should positively refuse to allow any further funding of debts that ought to be paid by taxation. New Departure—Where Will End? When General Grant, weary of the con- stant strain required to nurse the monstrosi- ties which his political friends have taken into the arms of their party, declared, “I am tired of this nonsense,’’ he was evidently resolved to free himself from the ‘ead weight,"’ whatever his associates might do. He is not a man to hesitate and dance attend- ance on the opinions of others when his mind is thoroughly made up, and he no doubt weighed well the consequences of a breach with the republican Senate before he took a step in his new departure. Whatever may be said about the political inexperience of the President he has a keen perception of the dritt of the popular mind, and he no doubt foresees in the indications afforded by The it the recent elections, as well as in the distant mutterings in the air, a violent revulsion of feeling in those who have hitherto been induced to bear with the monstrosities for the sake of the good their republican nurses have accomplished in the past. He is shrewd enough to know that he can do without the party at least as well as the party can do without him, especially while the Presidential election is three years distant, and that in his new departure he will carry a formidable number of his friends with him from the start. The politicians who are anxiously watching the signs of the times will probably discover in the President’s nominations for the Chief Justiceship, commencing with Williams and ending with Waite, an evidence of his readi- ness to make an issue with the Senate that shall at once establish his independence and give him the upper hand in his future deal- ings with that body. After the refusal to confirm Williams, the nomination of Cushing looked like a defiance, and when that nomination failed the selection of Waite, without consultation with the Senate, seemed to take the same character. It is certain that the majority of the Senate would not have hit upon the Ohio lawyer as their choice, even if they should feel bound to confirm his nomination. Indeed, there is some reason to believe that the Senate caused the President to be informed of their preference, which was given to a very different person, and that the name of Mr. Waite was sent in as a prompt response to the hint. In the Texas case it is also clear that the action of the President was taken without reference to the views of his party, and the immediate and decisive reply given to ex-Gov- ernor Davis is regarded as having been designed to cut off political interference and party intrigues in his behalf. There will not be wanting those among the aspiring re- publican leaders who will be ready to accept the issue and to endeavor to widen the breach between the President and his party. At present President Grant appears to be master of the situation. The old po- litical organizations are as good as dead. A new party formed before the next Presidential campaign would be based upon principle and not upon a factional quarrel, and would possess a very different character from that of the last campaign. In sucha movement President Grant would be the Warwick. Who can say that he does not foresee the opportunity and aspire to the réle? Taat Untucny Bam.-—After a series of mis- fortunes which would test the patience of Job to the utmost the Arapiles and her crew have at length reached the Battery. From the time that the coal barge placed itself across the foot of the dock in which the Spanish iron-clad was being repaired until the present it would seem as if she could never get out of New York Harbor. Between the mud which for a time held her hard and fast in its slimy embrace and the unauthorized butting pro- pensities she exhibited when clear of that ob- struction the last days of the unfortunate ram in this city have been anything but pleasant. The Spanish officers will not soon forget the anxiety and chagrin they experienced during those exciting days previous to the Fish-Polo protocol, and will be inclined to give New York a wide berth for the future. An un- wieldy sea monster wallowing in Wallabout mud, with a dozen spiteful little tugs scream- ing around her, is not calculated to be agree- able to Spanish pride. Raprp Transtt.—If we had a steam railroad running from the Battery to the Westchester border in half an hour the tens of thousands of families who now live in crowded tenement houses and inconvenient apartments in the heart of the city would spread out over the now unoccupied and unproductive acres in the upper part of the island and in the newly annexed Westchester territory. Thus, the business community and the property owners would be alike benefited. Rapid transit would give labor and comfort to the poorer classes, would largely increase the trade of retail dealers and would benefit the wealthy. With all these recommendations in it#*favor, and with the certainty that a city railroad for steam cars would be a largely re- munerative investment, why should we be without it another year? Tne Grancens IN Cativonxia have already undertaken a grand scheme for fertilizing nearly two millions of acres of land in that State by means of a canal to cost thirteen mil- lion dollars. As a matter of course the Legislature is to be asked to supply the money. All this may be very well, but it seems a little remarkable that with half a con- tinent waiting for emigration it should be necessary already to reclaim waste lands on the Pacific slope by the aid of the public money. The College Rowing Convention— What Course for 1874? Great and unusual as was the interest in the intercollegiate rowing race last July on the Connecticut there is good promise that it will be completely eclipsed this year. Apparently determined, if starting early will do it, to make sure of preventing the blunders which so marred the race at Springfield, delegates from the various colleges and universities which were represented there purpose meeting in conven- tion to-day at Hartford, and it is reported that there will be there, besides, not only men from Princeton and Rutgers, but that Brown University, the Troy Polytechnic School and Chicago University all intend putting in an appearance. We doubt if, in the history of this country, so many of our seats of learning have ever been formally represented ata meet- ing of any sort, and it is equally probable that no other cause than that which cails them to- gether now is nearly so vigorously at work in improving the bodily strength and health of our more favored youth, and those who will ere many years be looked to for the protection of the country’s best interests. The principal question will be the determining where to have this year’s contest. The elements that should, and likely will, weigh most in reach- ing a right conclusion are, first, the obtaining of a suitable course; next, proper accommoda- tions for visitors, and, lastly, readiness of ac- cess. If, omitting the other considerations, the necessary crowding at the start did not demonstrate that the course of last year was not a fit one the arrival of these five new- comers manifestly will. Indeed, their par- taking in the struggle at all will render imper- ative the selection of some course hitherto un- tried, at least by the collegians, unless it may possibly be Winnipiseogee Lake—that is, if the race, as we hope it always will he, is to be an abreast race. ‘The places thus far announced as anxious to compete for the honor are New London, Troy and Saratoga. To the first named there are serious objections. It is out of the way, far from central, almost sure not to have adequate hotel accommodations for the an- nually increasing throng of visitors, and any course in its neighborhood broad enough for so many boats, if not too exposed to the southerly summer winds, must be perceptibly affected by tide or current or both. In regard to Troy, our correspondent yesterday reports its hotel possibilities as indifferent, its course but eight hundred and fifty feet wide on an average—a fatal defect in itself—which is one hundred and fifty feet less than the Connecti- cut was claimed to be at the starting line last year, a bad bridge or pier over it at that, and playful canal boats frisking about on its bosom at brief intervals, Plainly, if a course can be had where there is neither tide, current, bridge nor canal boat, which is unusually sheltered from the action of the wind, is far wider than any other, better located for spectators and easier of access, is much more central for those competing, and especially if that course surpasses all the rest named, both in these respects and through its surroundings in ability to care for the welfare of guests, it should command prom- inent consideration. To insure that con- sideration a delegation from the Saratoga Row- ing Association purpose asking leave to lay the advantages of their lake before the con- vention, and the many attractions they hold out show that they have devoted to the matter much time and thought, and that they pro- pose as well to help most generously with their purses. Free passage for crews and boats from Troy to Saratoga and return; the board of all crews kept down to a reasonable rate; penurious and refractory hackmen restricted to decent prices; the admission of all visitors to all lands adjoining the lake free of charge; the absence of the large craft which infest a tidal course; a boat house and dock to each crew free of expense, valuable prizes of plate, ample railroad facilities, accommo- dations for thirty thousand visitors at hotels accustomed to caring for them by the regi- ment and in a way they are used to, well sprinkled Macadamized roads, beautiful scenery, together with the famous springs, the charming maidens who annually swarm there, and the many other concomitants of one of the oldest and most justly famous watering places in the world—these are among the good things in store for the students if they will but come to Saratoga. Moreover the testi- mony of the fast professional rowers of this country, England and Canada as to the satis- faction and delight they experienced in their various races had already on Saratoga Lake will be submitted, and the fact that from looking after these, and especially the races where so many amateurs took part last autumn, they have their work pretty well in shape, as their brilliant success in the instance last mentioned shows. As no other place in America will, if indeed it can, hold out such real advantages, and, as we have said, as neither of the others named have absolutely fair courses, Saratoga is nearly sure to be settled upon for the tussle of the sixteen crews in 1874, and if all goes as smoothly as it has done with her races heretofore the American Putney-to-Mort- lake has been found at last. In fact, it is this finding which has generated such enterprise among the Saratoga folk, for they freely avow that if they thought they could get the race on their lake for one year only they would not try. But how will they answer the wail that, started at Springfield and taken up by the religious press, will come up like a cloud against the fascinations and allurements of the great American gambling house so danger- ously near? ‘To shut it they have no right. To prevent pool selling they claim to be equal, as the law is at their back. But how about the other? That free from it Saratoga would win the choice to-day is a foregone conclusion; that even with it she will is nearly as certain. But this association numbers among its hun- dreds of members many of the most prominent men of the place, and there is yet reason to think that they will greatly impede, if not chain, this troublesome tiger. Moreover, when the question of place is de- termined, let the collegians, as we have sug- gested before in these columns, either take steps to have the race of this year—or, at fur- thest, that of next—a four-oared one, It will bring better crews, closer racing, many sur- prises, less expense, less risk, far greater satisfaction, and last, but not least, better chances with London, Cambridge or Oxford when they come, as, if Saratoga is fixed on to-day, a little more enterprise would doubt- less prevail on some of them to do this year, UARY 21, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET, And, finally, if this Convontion would like to enhance the attractions of what may and probably will to many of the oarsmen prove their last and greatest rowing race, why not, now that they can have abundantly broad water, give each crew a separate stake to turn, and so bring them all down home by the grand stand, full of their friends, ready to welcome them even more heartily than they did in the intense excitement of the start? Then the whole race could be seen, instead of a little bit at one end, and for interest even that one on a neighboring field between tamous Harry Bassett and renowned Longfellow would be a light affair beside it. The only objection of apparent weight is the expense of a new boat. But fours cost less than sixes, will turn the stake easier and without danger of strain- ing, there is abundant time yet to build them, the Sale of the present craft will partly pay for them, and the money saved by the happy omission this year of the costly trainer will do the rest. Not till the racing is out and home and in fours will the grand aqtatic spectacle come, which can come as well this year as at anytime, and one beside which, groping about among the eddies of the muddy, narrow Thames, between Putney and Mortlake, even though a million Londoners look on, will be simply insignificant. The Death of the Siamese Twins. A despatch received at this office on Mon- day evening announced the death of Chang and Eng, the celebrated Siamese twins. The death occurred on Saturday morning last at their residence at Mount Airy, Surrey county, N.C, The despatch that gives this informa- tion does not presen¢ a very pleasant picture ot the last days of these remarkable phe- nomena. According to that account Chang had been partially paralyzed since last fall, and this affliction had made him habitually fretful and driven him to drink as a means of solace. Added to this was the fact that for some years the brothers had not entertained as undisturbed an affection for each other as formerly. As the reader will perhaps antici- pate, a woman was, or rather two women were, at the bottom of this disaffection. The twins had married two sisters, and the sisters, instead of cementing the reciprocal love of the two strange beings so phenomenally linked, were the means, innocently, perhaps, of dissipating it. One of the brothers was fortunate enough to have six children, while the other had only five. The report does not state whether Chang or Eng was the afflicted party; but it appears that he of the smaller family nursed a feeling of envy against his brother. This bitter emo- tion and the disease and vice of Chang's last few months of life must have rendered in- tensely painful the indissoluble companion- ship to which fate ordained the two men. The struggle, however, is now over, and a question which has so often occurred to every one who has wondered what effect the death of one of the twins would produce upon the other, is answered. Several interesting Considerations pacer themselves in contemplation of this event. Some years ago the twins paid a visit to Paris for the purpose of consulting the most emi- nent physicians there in regard to the possi- bility of safe separation. A series of experi- ments was made, and the experiments proved that a separation would involve the death of both. It is said that the twins were led to seek information of this character with a view. to ascertaining the probable effect of the death of one of them upon the other; but it is easy to imagine—in fact it is difficult not to imagine—that other motives may have had weight. It is almost impossible not to be- lieve that the many embarrassments entailed by that indissoluble band of flesh, which married the brothers to one another in a less revocable tie than that of conjugality, were heightened to an indefinite extent by the duties, privileges and cares of matrimony. The most active and ingenious imagination can scarcely form an adequate picture of the un- speakable annoyances to which the brothers must have been subjected, not so much on account of conflicting idiosyncrasiey of tem- perament, or opposing currents of opinion, as because of the bias which the wife of each must have given to his general character, Could the domestic history of these twins be truthfully written, could their individual char- acters and the influences operating upon them be accurately portrayed, the result would be both interesting as a psychological study and improving as an illustration of social and per- sonal morals. A sensitive mind, gifted with tact and delicacy but as full of power as re- finement, would be necessary for the proper performance of such a task; but we have no expectation that a biographer of this de- scription will be forthcoming. What- ever might be instructive in the modest, truthful and discriminating record of such phenomenal condition of existence would be apt to be lost mid the vulgar description of accidental habits and external eccentricities. These, of course, are not without interest. Nothing can be without interest in the case of two beings brought into such unhappy and irre- mediable intimacy with one another, and we would give everything its due place. But the general world would be too apt to forget that behind the physical phenomenon of the uniting band of flesh lay moral and intellec- tual phenomena not less strange, and which that unwritten but irrefragable bond was the means of creating. Meanwhile a post-mortem examination might possibly throw light upon more than one physiological question which these wonderful brothers have suggested from time to time, and we shall be surprised if no such examination has taken place. Tue Exxcrion in the Twenty-first Assembly district yesterday resulted in the triumph of Mr. Sullivan, independent democrat, over Mr. Crary, Tammany, and Mr. Allen, republican. Mr. Sullivan is a member of the Jefferson Club, the political organization with which Genet was associated. The result has no special significance, except as indicating the strength of the oppposition to Tammany in the uptown wards. Prestoent MacManoy’s Durmrrton of the relations of France toward the Pope and the Italian King, delivered by Duke Decazes to the Assembly at Versailles in the name of the Executive yesterday, is‘calculated to allay the anxiety which has lately prevailed on the sub- ject. The spiritual functions and claims of His Holiness and the temporalities of Victor Emmanuel will be respected, with due dis- crimination, by France. Where Economy Becomes Criminal. The New York pilots want the government Guthorities at Washington to look after the buoys in our harbor, which every winter diminish in number to an alarming extent. For the can and nun buoys, which through insufficient anchorage are liable to be cut adrift by the ice, it has been the custom to substitute, and sparingly at that, spar buoys. Our pilots complain that in foggy weather it is extromely difficult to get along with such indicators of the channels, as they do not easily catch the eye. The immense commerce which finds its way to this port imperatively demands the attention of the United States Lighthouse Board to this important subject. Yet they evade the responsibility by the flimsy plea of a want of funds. Surely the general government should not risk the safety of the numerous vessels arriving at and leaving our harbor, especially the European steamers, to save a few thousand dollars. It is absolutely essential to the interests of navigation here to have the channels properly buoyed, and a grave responsibility lies at the doors of the authorities in charge, and criminality, too, in case of disaster. Economy in some other quarter might be commendable, but in this case it is in the highest degree reprehensible, There is no reason why action should be de- layed until the steamship companies combine to place the harbor in a proper condition for navigation. As well might the police suthor- ities allow a thoroughfare to remain ob- structed until those immediately concerned should take the law in their own hands, It is to be hoped that the ,plea of the New York pilots will yet receive a favorable answer in Washington, Mr. Grapsronu's IniNzss.—A cable dos spatch informs us that the British Premier, Mr. Gladstone, is indisposed and confined to his home. William Ewart Gladstone is one of the few really great statesmen of the day, and his death at this juncture would be felt to be @ great public calamity, not in Great Britain only, but throughout the civilized world. He has done great and good work, the effect of which will be as lasting as it is already beneficial. He has long been “a potent voice in Parliament,” and he has done much “to moulds mighty State's decrees.” There is still, however, a place for him in the councils of his sovereign, and much as he has done he has still much to accomplish. In the future of his country his name will be remembered, and he will be spoken of as occupying a place in history not second to that of Pitt or Peel. Ler Tae Prorre Sprax.—The people should make their voices heard in favor of rapid transit. The subject is one of peculiar interest to all classes, and especially to those of limited means. A steam railroad, with a cheap rate of fare, would enable men not only to obtain houses at cheaper rents, but to secure more convenient and more pleasant homes. We only need rapid transit to cover the upper part of New York, including the newly annexed ier- ritory, with comfortable residences within the reach of most of our business and laboring men. This would empty the unhealthful tene- ment houses and set free a large and im- portant portion of the city for business, which is steadily and rapidly stretching up town. The people should take up the subject, discuss it and urge action upon the Legislature. They can secure the great boon this year if they set earnestly about the work. PrestwenTiman Aspmants.—It is a singu- lar development of American politics that no sooner is a man elected to one high station than he is virtually nominated for another by the charges of his enemies that he desires it. A case in point is that of Governor Booth, of California. Before he was inaugu- rated he was charged with seeking an election as United States Senator. This has since been accomplished, though he had pledged himself to serve out his full term as Governor, and now it is alleged that he is looking for the Presidency. The Governor and Senator will find a good many people east of the Rocky Mountains with like aspirations, and it is not likely he will be the first President from the Pacific slope. Neel Tae Tyornpike Murprrer, Gordon, has at last received the fatal sentence which every assassin should expect sooner or later. The criminal annals of Maine can scarcely furnish a like horror to the butchery of the Thorndike family by one connected with them by ties of blood. Before the sentence of death was pronounced the usual sophistry was indulged in by the murderer, and asseverations of in- nosence were abundant. Only in this city can the crime of murder find advocates strong enough to save the criminal from the gallows. Money and respectability, unfortunately, are in some cases regarded as the strongest argu- ments in favor of a murderer in New York. Tue Sxatinc Szason was again in order last night, and Parkwards the thoughts of all lovers of this exhilarating sport were turned with hopes that Jack Frost would not soon resign his sceptre. The lake and ponds are im excellent condition for the inevitable rush which will take place to-day, and one day’s skating, at least, may be enjoyed with im- punity. mip fp utceeaie mites PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge Smalley, of Vermont, has arrived at the Windsor Hotel. Washington McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Mayor Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia, ts stopping at the Hoffman House. Ex-Congressman Julius Hotchkiss, of Connecti- cut, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Chancellor John V. L, Pruyn, of Albany, is tem- porarily residing at the Brevoort House. Congressman E. Rockwood Hoar, of Massachu- setts, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Governor W. W, Hoppin, of Rhode Island, is among the recent arrivais at the Windsor Hotel. Jonn V. Farwell, of the Indian Peace Commis- sion, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenae Hotel. Franklin B. Gowen, President of the Philadelphia and Reading-Railroad Company, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Lieutenant Genera! Phitip I. Sheridan and Col- onel George A, Forsyth, United States Army, are quartered at the Filth Avenue Hotel, M. Lefatvre, late French Consul at Charleston, 58. C., igat the New York Hotcl, on his way to Ku- rope, having been appointed Consul at the port of Riga, in Russia, THE LEBIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. PHILADELPHIA, dan. 20, 1874. ‘At the annual meeting of the Lehigh Valley Ruit- road Vompany to-day Asa Packer was re-elected President, ‘ihe annual report contalus the fo!low- for the year, 4 oe a eat reccipts trom all sources, xpenses, $8,804,950 5 $k ie: ; @ Det income, \