The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, AY, MARCH 18, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Kal OE Aaa meats 2 dai Pevensie bel et li cae TS ia a a NO SS AN AS ES a coe deepening of the Erie Canal and the | Row Among the Commissioners ef NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ie THE DAILY HERALD, pubitsh | ear, Four cents per Copy. Annual subscription | price $12. | Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. The Inflation Question—General Logan and His Position. The debate in the Senate upon the ques- tion of the currency, like Tennyson's brook, seems fated to go on forever and for- ever. General Logan illuminated the discus- sion yesterday with a speech which lasted four ed every day in the | bours. There is, perhaps, no Senator we would rather listen to for four hours than John A. Logan. He is an_ interesting character, a type of a class which has reached perfection in America, and which, we are proud to admit, we possess to the exclusion of eer. | . . LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK _ older nations. He isa distinguished amateur, and has shown in his conspicuous and corus- ER. NO, 46 FLEET STREET. i HERALD—N : ts will be | Cating career a variety of sentiment and versa- * Subseriptions and Advertisements w © | tility of genius that are unexampledin our received and forwarded on the same terms history. The true amateur has that universal, easily fitting quality which makes him reject no employment and avoid no duty. In older countries, and in some States in our own, a | man devotes himself to one calling and craves | no other. He seeks out the way through the | world that is most inviting and never abandons it. The diplomatist is a diplo- | matist from boyhood. The general is only TAINMENT, at 8, the ultimate development of a lieutenant. | The judge climbs to the Bench through the different stages of the law. The statesman as in New York. Volume XXXIX.......-..-5655 514 Broadwi M.; closes at No. e BOOTH? Sixth avenue and Twe: , THE COLLEEN BAWN, at 7:15 P.M; © P.M. Dion Bouci- represents years of service and study and long caulk familiarity with affairs. But in our rapid West- Santora aia - He rivars, ats | ern prairie country we despise these sluggish P.M. closes at 1 a Glider, MissJeifreys | forms and traditions. We have the kaleido- Lewh. - i | scopic quality, and with every turn of the year TorOvATO® ace, Mo"Rfis. | We assume new forms. We are sons of son, Vary; Ca ae the creatures of inspirations, HEATRE, the children of the prairie and the Broadway aud Bleecker streets — | VAUDEV NTERTAINMENT, at | mountain. The grocer to-day may be a \igueataie Matinee | general to-morrow, as the general to- | oppestia O10 clams at | day is the grocer of yesterday. We | UP M | have nomadic tendencies. Men wander | through life like Arabs, drifting into what- | ever career opens to them, without consider- | ing fitness. We go up the hill and roll down again, only to merrily begin the new ascent. | Senators become Representatives, Representa- ATRE, ARIETY | ENTERTAIN- loses at LI P.M. ITAN THBATRE, Y ENTERTAINMENT, at Bowery.—REVEN MENT Begins al METROP. Broadway. — M. ; closes dt 10:30 P. M EN, dw: ouston streets. —DAVY ives ‘ai Bronaway. b Son tree Aus | tives become Senators. When a faithful old Mayo. | party ‘‘war horse” runs into rickets and lame- Me ies | ness in Washington, and is off his feed and Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue —French Opera |. Boutle—LA DE MADAME ANGOT, at 8 P. SL; | in a bad way generally, he takes the first Mile. Marie Aimee. | | opening the Treasury barn will afford. Some- | times he is fortunate in gaining a foreign mission, and he drifts abroad to astonish | foreign representatives with the free man- ners of our great and growing country. | Or if he falls upon barren times he accepts a consulate, and lives in lodgings in some for- eign seaport until a change of administration, when he returns home to open a grocery or edit a rural newspaper. Editing a newspaper and keeping a corner grocery seem to be the last resource of the drifting politicians, the universal impression being that these are em- ployments for which all men are born. Other | professions are acquired, but, like original sin, these come by nature. ‘ eloses at 0 6 P STADT THEATRE, : Rowery.—Grand German Opers—THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at 3 P. M.; closes at 1 P.M. Mine, Lucca. woop’s MUS Broadway, corner Thirtieth str : closes at 4230 P atsP. ICK WHIF#LES, HE MAN FROM M. ; closes at 10:3 GE ATRE, Fonrteenth | street, place.—KRISEN at 8 e .; closes at il UE THEATRE, 1y.—CHARITY, at 8 P. T, Miss Fanny Laven- DaLY’s FIFTH AV. Twenty-eighth street and Broad M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. port. Mr. Lewis. Miss Ada I )PERA HOUSE, TY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8P. Twenty-third sireet, near Six EGRO MIN- STRELSY, dc., ats P.M. COLo: 7M, Broadway, corner of thirty-fitth street.—PARIS BY e Dp! ly no higher ¢; of this MOONLIGHT, atl P. M.; closes at F.M.; same at7 P. We probably have no hig ‘ype M.; closes at 10 1”. M. quality of public man than John A. Logan. We are far from hinting that our gallant and resolute statesman will finally resolve into a groceryman or country journalist. We have no such thought, but sincerely trust that in whatever direction his ambition turns it may | mount to the summit; that if he goes into the Church, for instance, he may become a bishop. During his life John A. Logan has been | anamateur. He was an amateur democrat Hearts or Over Prstic Men.—Admiral before he became an amateur republican, and | Porter and Frank Blair are reported by the | the violence of his democracy was only sur- physicians to be on a fair way to recovery. | passed by the fervor of his republicanism. The condition of Judge Dent, however, con- | Then he became an amateur general, and tinues critical, and little hope is entertained | fought his way into high commands with dis- of his restoration to health. General Spinner — tinguished, if at times tumultuous, valor. After | has resumed his official duties and Nathan Sar- | the war he was an amateur revolutionist and TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, March 18, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-la; will be rainy, partly clearing towards even | fisd' that: his’ ‘wages: would not parchase | this important Riverside Park improvement— gent appears to be improving. The doctor's list | was bent upon sending Johnson to the guillo- Bismarck aND THE Reicustac.—The Ger- man Parliament has shown a disposition to is, unfortunately, pretty long, but the sufferers | tine and running for the Presidency | seem to be progressing favorably. | upon “war issues.” Since the failure of | | that experiment he became an ama- | | teur statesman with varying success, until the financial debate developed him into an | obstruct the army policy of the man of iron. amateur financier. In all of these parts John But as he does not intend to stand any non- | a, Logan has shown exhilarating qualities, sense his organ, the Cross Gazette, plainly | go much so that we shall not be content unless tells the members that unless they vote the | we see him an amateur bishop before he dies, army establishment at four hundred thousand | or at the least an admiral in the navy. There men they will be sent about their business. jg an élan, a rush, a verve, a sparkling, con- This gentle hint will probably cure the Parlia- fdent quality about Logan that makes his in- | ment of any disposition to carp at the meas- ures of the Prince Minister. Tae Lavy Docrors.—Quite a formidable number of young ladies received their diplomas as medical doctors yesterday at the Commencement of the Medical College for Women. There was a good deal of en- thusiastic talk about extending the sphere of ‘woman’s usefulness, which was very nice and very appropriate. But if ladies are going to take possession of the medical profession we fear it will become so pleasant to be sick that “no feliah’’ will want to be well. ‘Tue Inpian Famrng, according to our ac- counts of this morning is shown to be , severe almost beyond the fears of those who feared the most. In Bengal the distress is increasing, and many thousands of the natives are said to be dependent upon the govern- ment for food. Within the last ten days, we are told, one hundred thousand persons in the | Tirhoot districts alone have made application for relief. No such sorrow as that which has fallen upon the millions of India has fallen upon any people in modern times. The actual suffering is to doubt far beyond our extreme calculations. What it amounts to we know not now, and perhaps we may never know. The result, however, may seriously affect the relations between Great Britain and India. A suffering people are very lidble to blame the government under which they live. Ovr Cuanrrasie Ixstrrvtions.—We print this morning a compilation which well de- serves consideration. It shows that New York is generous and liberal to an extent which does her honor. It also shows that the management of organized charity is painfully expensive. The figures speak for themselves. It is not good for the cause of charity for the public to know that one society gives for relief thirteen thousand dollars and for salaries nothing, and that another society gives for charity a few paltry dollars and for salaries thousands of dollars, The comparisons all through are painful. ‘We commend the figures to our readers, and it is our opinion that before they are through with it they will come to the con- clusion that so-called organized charity is slightly too expensive. Institutions of the kind might be and ought to be better man. eged, fluence upon the country like that of nitrous | oxide gas or champagne. He is so earnest in what he does. This is why he is the most popular man in the West and a candidate for the Presidency. He isso pronounced, so sincere in his beliefs, with so much fighting quality, that we all feel like tarning out and follow- | ing him, as the villagers follow the splendid horseman, in laces and gold braid and feathers, when he comes to announce that the ‘unparalleled show” that we have so long expected is about to ar- | tive in grand procession. treme phrases and unusual adjectives, for the ordinary resources of the calm imagination are inadequate, be confined to a limited or meagre entertain- ment. We shall have the drums and instru- ments. ForifJohn A. Logan does not know all about the subject, we are in the presence of a man who thinks he knows it all. That is a | great deal, and it is the one essential in which the amateur statesman surpasses his fellows and wins the applause of the multitude. , It is no injustice to our Dlinois Senator and no disparagement of his admirable and varied gifls to say that upon financial questions we prefer the words of the dead Sumner to the living Logan. This morning we print ina letter from our Washington correspondent the last words ever written on the financial sub- ject by Charles Sumner. In response to a re- Leently expressed wish that he would give the country, through the columns of the Henaty, bis views upon the financial ques- tion, the illustrious statesman, with that | gractous promptitude which was one of his ‘striking characteristics, wrote what we print elsewhere. Here it lies before us, the old, unmistakable, strongly-marked antograph, made almost sacred by the death that came so swiftly after:—‘Thé possibility of a new fsgue of inconvertible’ paper he regards with amazement and anxiety, \ and, in his judgment, such an issue would be a detriment and @shame."’ We quote these words with reverence, for in this debate , | they have the solemnity of a testantent. The | wisdom, the experience, the ripe scholarship of Sumner's life could bring him to no other | conclusion, We turn to our dazzling Logan | and he unfolds this luminous argument:— “Now thatthe West is in want they give her So whenever | hi hss we see Logan, especially on the floor of the | brated on that day, when the city is given up | Senate, we inadvertently lose ourselves in ex- | sea ‘ | people is in a state of expansion, not only We know that we are not to | the cold shoulder.” The only way to relieve this want is to adopt the policy which would be “a detriment and a shame.” We admit that it would be unbrotherly and selfish to forget the West in her time of distress. But is the West in want; and if so is the true | remedy an issue of currency? For if the West has no money now how are the people to obtain this new issue of currency? Money follows money, and the new issues would be in Wall street within twenty- four hours, and there they would remain ; for Wall street could buy this currency, which the West could not. It must be purchased when issued. Senator Logan certainly does | not mean to issue so many greenbacks a head to | his suffering constituents to enable them ‘‘to enter upon a new career of prosperity.”” And in the fulness of his knowledge he must be | aware that an addition to our volume of curreacy would be to increase the cost of every article of commerce, of the comforts and necessities of life, of our flour, our | potatoes and our salt. It would increase | these values and decrease the wages of labor. | Every man with a fixed income would feel the | change immediately. The poor man would | what they did before. have every article industry increased in value, his crops and stocks and other possessions de- creased; for the moment we begin to call | printed paper currency it has an artificial | value, and we do not know where we rest. | We go the way of the French assignats, the | Continental currency, the Confederate notes, | the old-time ‘‘shinplasters.” Of what value | is a hundred dollars to the poor man if a din- ner will cost him two hundred? And, once | enter upon that policy, where will it end? It | The former would | necessary to his | | can only result, as the venerated Sumner so gravely and truly says, in ‘‘a detriment and a | shame.’ | Mr. Logan draws a picture of what would | result from the increase of currency. Into the | realms of his imagination we have not the | courage to penetrate. It is in rhetoric of this | soaring quality that the amateur statesman | always holds us at an advantage. We | are certain also that the Senator will | stand to his position, no matter how the | moneyed monopolies may attack him or the | metropolitan newspapers abuse and criticiso | him. We have no desire to either abuse or criticise the Senator; for we hold him in | especial kindness, so much so that we repeat | | nothing would please us more than to see | | him advance in his circling career, and | become an amateur bishop or an admiral in the navy. What the Senator fails to see now | he would have to learn before entering holy | orders, that we cannot call the falsehood 4 | The Riverside Improvements and the Municipal Departments. A bill now before the Legislature at Albany, in relation to the Riverside Park improve- ments, has become a bone of contention be- tween the New York city departments. Why | this should be the case will probably be a | mystery to those unfamiliar with our munici- I pal affairs, As the work involves consider- able labor and responsibility it might well be imagined that the desire of each department would be to shift it upon some other and not to covet it for itself. But these construction works involve large outlays of money and an important control of patronage, especially about election times, when the power to put thousands of laborers to work may decide the political complexion of Senatorial, Assembly and Aldermanic districts andsprobably turn the scale in favor of a Mayor and a Governor of a particu- lar political stripe. As both a Mayor and a Governor are to be elected next Novem- ber, as well as an Assembly which may decide the political status of our next United States Senator, it can readily be understood why there is so much anxiety to obtain control of at least on the part of some who are engaged in the legislative fight. Three propositions have been made—one, to put the work under the authority of the Common Council, now substantially demo- cratic and very likely to be soon distinctively Tammany; another, to place it in the hands of the Commissioner of Public Works, the only municipal department which is absolutely republican ; and a third, to assign it to the Department of Parks, which bears a non- partisan character. Democracy has de- manded the work for the Common Council, and reformed Tammany has issued its edict to its followers to vote in favor of the first propo- sition. Senators and Assemblymen, although democratic, are supposed to be under some sort of oath or obligation to vote as they con- scientiously believe the public interests de- mand on such questions; but reformed Tammany teaches them that their first duty is to vote in such a manner as will strengthen the patronage of their own party and weaken | that of their opponents. Republicanism, with a few honorable exceptions, has insisted that the Riverside improvements shall be in- | trusted to the Commissioner of Public Works, who is a decided republican, and whose al- ready large powers, with this important addi- tion, might be made to paralyze the efforts of the reviving democracy at this end of the State next fall, Senators Wood, King and Lowery have led in the efforts to set aside both these partisan bodies and ta give the work to the non-political Department truth without breaking the commandments. | of Parks. In the event of the failure of the Before he went far into navigation he would learn that two and two make four and not eleven, and that no act of the Senate can make thesum eleven. These propositions are the very | alphabet of reason, and it seems a waste of time to dwell upon them. But statesmen like John A. Logan generally skip the alphabet in en- tering upon a new calling, and this is why we find it necessary to impress upon him, as an amateur financier, that we cannot print paper and call it money; that we cannot add to the burden of our debt and expect to become a solvent, specie-paying people; that, in the words of the venerated Sumner, we can not issue a new volume of incontrovertible currency without undergoing “a detriment and a shame.” St. Patrick’s Day in the Streets. In this city yesterday, of course, the proces- sion was the glory of the day. One of the heroes of the great event, interrogated in regard to the possible effect of the unpropitious weather, declared, with a defiance like that of Ajax, that the men ‘would walk if they had to swim;’’ and swimming was what it very nearly came to. It is generally a procession of black broadcloth coats and black stovepipe | bats, and to this rigidly formal appearance were yesterday added miles of open umbrellas, so that it was sombre as to color. There were thirty thousand men and boys in procession, and fully sixty thousand men, women and children packed on the sidewalks to see the show. In a city where the streets are so cramped and crowded as ours are such an addition was sensibly felt, and the popular temper endured its usual ordeal with the cus- tomary outbursts of impatience and stolid fortitude in equal proportions. We rejoice with our Irish citizens, who bave celebrated once more their national holiday, and | we rejoice also with our other citi- zens, who are glad it is over. Taking the subject as a whole, we are inclined to regret that St. Patrick was not born on the | Fourth of July. If his festival were cele- to processions and the heart of the whole would he be regarded with favor by those who now are annoyed at him as an obstructer of | the streets, but there might cease to be a sense of opposition patriotism in the event. Can- not it be historically proved that the Saint | really was born on the Fourth? Vanity of Political Wishes. Life drifts in our country as in all coun-- tries where social conditions are somewhat in transition and where society itself isin for- mation rather thanin fixed form. One day a man is a conductor on the horse cars; ina | month he is at Albany in the Legislature, and if it is a season when laws are in demand he may come home with enough money to open a savings bank and soon make millions by fortunate ‘‘suspension.” From the rapid suc- | cession of these events society suffers, because no man has genius enough to master so many | pursuits in going through them with this democratic energy. Hence our car conductors lack accomplishment and style, our legis- lators know less than we could desire of the science of law and our savings bankers are de- ficient in all knowledge of finance save the mere abstractions. As for the political as- pects of this peculiarity of our life, it makes men amateurs, but this is altogether against the will of the politicians. They do their ut- xnost to hold on—to become steady figures in pottics—but just as they seem to be getting | the elewgents of the subjec the people thrust | | them uncsxemoniously out of office, and that is the end of the’ attempt and of many splendid aspirations;" 2 man who was just on the eve of startling ¢ orld with his political genius is dropped forever into the obscurity of a corner grocery or worse place, | Common Council proposition, which is tol- | erably certain, they will have the aid of the | democrats, who would rather the patronage | should go to a non-partisan commission than to the republican Department of Public Works. Such is the political complexion of the pending struggle, and unfortunately we hear | agreat deal about its political bearing and very little about the real interests of the prop- erty owners and of the city. The people of nicipal affuirs made the football of partisan adventurers, to be kicked about from side to party or the other may be for the moment the stronger. practical work of the Park Commission. That work was commenced well years ago, | and has been faithfully prosecuted by every commission that has since existed. Our parks and public places, like the Croton water sup- ply, owe their splendid success to the fact that they have been under the con- trol of a department whose exclusive duty has been their construction, care and supervision. They have escaped the corrup- tion and ruin that have overtaken most of our public works. It seems eminently proper and desirable that all the streets and avenues im- mediately adjoining the parks and places, and to those public grounds, should be under the control of the Park Commission, both for then be no conflict of authority, no inharmoni- ousness of grades and no disfigurement of the park approaches. Indeed, the people would be glad to see the authority of the Park Com- mission extended over the whole of Fifth avenue, from Washington Parade Ground to the Central Park, so that we might make sure of at least one fine drive through the city to the suburbs. The present condition of that hand- | some thoroughfure is deplorable, and is really @ cruelty to the suffering animals that travel over it, especially in frosty and stormy weather. It is surprising that the matter has not attracted the attention of Mr. Bergh and been agitated by him with that energy and power which he frequently expends on less practical reforms. The travel on Fifth avenue is enormous, and the animals driven over it— some of the finest in the city—are martyrs to its miserable pavement. If Mr. Bergh will co-operate with the Park Commission, and obtain control of Fifth avenue for the latter, he will do a good work in the cause of hu- manity. With the means of systematizing labor that is in the hands of the commission and the care for animals that Mr. Bergh would exercise in the choice of the pavement, we might get one really fine street. Many of the fine streets of London, and nearly all the | great thoroughfares of Paris, are paved on the | Macadam system, which is excellent for the horses and is found to wear far better than any pavement we have ever had that was not ruinous to animals. In Paris they have a |,Belgian pavement is laid for six or eight feet ateach side of the roadway, and the Mac- adam road is made between these. Such a pavement laid on Fifth avenue would make it a magnificent drive, The Legislature should lay aside politi- cal considerations in it. And if they will stretch that power the York will approve the license. Tue Erm Canau.—The necessity of adopt- ing measures to facilitate communication between New York and the great West is forcing itself on the attention of the mer- cantile classes. Yesterday the Produce Ex- chance adopted resolutions urging the New York are about tired of seeing their mu- | | shall be put up as a forfeit in case the road is side of the political arena according as one | They have before their eyes the | forming, in fact, the approaches and entrances | construction and supervision, There could | | is, however, much vagueness in the reports | hibition of sham. It is too bad that not even | are going to be afflicted with sham volcanoes | hope Carolina will take heed of this, and if it , good modification of this system by which | with our municipal government, | of the attention of the average politician, i this Riverside im- | provement matter and give the Park Commis- | sion the power which legitimately belongs to | length of Fifth avenne the people of New | substitution of steam for horses as & motive power. The change would be of immense value to the grain trade of this port, and would secure a trade that is being fast diverted into other channels. This con- sideration alone ought to convince the gentle- men who preside over our destinies at Albany of the urgent need there is to improve the Erie Canal so that it will be able to meet the requirements of our increasing commerce. Napoicon’s Fortune. Whatever may be said against the Third Empire, and it is a subject upon which a good deal has been said, it is evident that the Emperor did not use his high place for his own personal gain. He died comparatively poor. A commission is now in session in Paris to determine how much of what is called the ‘Chinese Collection” at Fontainebleau belonged to the private estate of the Emperor. This collection comprises articles of unique worth and value. After the Summer Palace in Pekin had been captured by the English and French armies its contents were taken and divided. Part of the trophies were given to Napoleon, and these dis heirs now claim as his personal estate. M. Rouher, in pleading the case for the Emperor's family, said that the fortune left by His Majesty was greatly encumbered by mortgages, and that an cffort was being made to have them paid. If France made an allowance for the Chinese Collection there would be no trouble in this payment, but if,not he would be com- pelled to goto the courts. We believe the amount demanded is about six hundred thou- sand dollars, and we presume it will be allowed, so that the collection may remain at Fontaine- bleau. It is not long since France paid eight millions of dollars on account of old claims to the Orleans family, already one of the richest in Europe, and we should not think there would be much difficulty about the compara- tively small sum demanded by the heirs of the Emperor. We note one point in this discussion which is of interest. When the allied armies cap- tured Pekin the French commander issued in- structions not to burn anything. Notwith- standing this the English troops set fire to the Summer Palace, and would have burned the Winter Palace also if possible. For a generous and humane people the English seem to like unnecessary harshness in war. Their troops burned Washington while in temporary and hurried occupation. They burned Magdala andthe Chinese palace and seemed to have destroyed Coomassie. Yet if any army were to sack London it would be “a crime against the human race.” The burning of the Sum- mer Palace in Pekin seems to have been a brutal and wanton use of power. It is to the credit of the French that they are anxious to’ disavow it. But it does not look august or im- perial to see the heirs of an Emperor quarrel- ling for the possession of works of taste, art and ingenuity, robbed from the palace of a Chinese sovereign. Portixe Ur Fonrrerr.—It is reported from Albany that the appropriate committee of the Senate will report in favor of the Fourth Avenue Elevated Railroad bill, and ‘have decided that one hundred thousand dollars not finished and in running order within two years and a half.’’ This is not very clear ; but it evidently means well. It would be good if the legislative intention hinted at in the above paragraph could be made a general principle of operations at Albany. If every company | that proposes to build a splendid elevated road for rapid transit could be made to ‘‘put up’’ a good forteit to go to the State Treasury if the company did not put up the road some good might come of all the projects. One of these days there would be enough money for the city itself to build a road with ; that is, if the | deposits were ever made otherwise than on paper, and if the lawyers should not be able to prove such conditions vvid in law, and if subsequent Legislatures did not give ‘‘exten- sions,’’ and if the money was not stolen by financial functionaries of the State or city as fast as it was deposited, &c. Tue Votcano m Canrorma.—Considerable agitation exists in the minds of people in the neighborhood of Raleigh on the question of the threatened volcanic eruption. Rumbling | noises are heard in the mountains and the | area of disturbance is also extending. There | we receive about the volcanic manifestations. So far they are not at all worthy of this great | country, and threaten to be only another ex- in nature can we escape from the influence of | this modern evil. Itis bad enough to have sham statesmen and sham artists, but if we | our reputation will be completely ruined. We must bring forth a volcano let it be something | big, and worthy of the great Republic. Danczrovs Smewarxs Up Townx.—The numerous building speculations up town that | have converted the vicinity of Central Park for | | some years past into a huge mass of mortar, | dilapidated streets and piles of uncouth bricks | have been to some degree abandoned or post- | poned, owing to the financial troubles of the | season. Yet from Forty-second street to Fifty- ninth street many places will be found where portions of the sidewalk have been removed, and on any evening in such localities extreme danger to life or limb will be experienced by belated pedestrians. In no other city would such a condition of things be permitted to exist without the interference of the police. Here they are regarded as perfectly in accord The safety of the citizen seems to occupy the least part | Hosprrats For tHe Crry.—If the Governors of the New York Hospital have bought, as reported, the Thorne mansion, in West Six- teenth street, and mean to make it the head- | quarters of that institution and to open in rear of it a small hospital as preliminary to organizing a system of small hospitals, they have taken one good step, and we hope there may be no delay in the prosecution of their plan. It is a subject to which public atten- | tion is only called in case of great emergency, but a fact of constant evil, that this city is without any efficient hospital system, and without half enough hospital room, and this especially applies to the city below Twenty- | third street, where there are no hospitals | at all, z Emigration. The worthy gentlemen whose duty it is to receive and shear the foreign immigrants arriving at this port had, yesterday, a jolly row. Some wight, called Willy, accused those shepherds of the emigrant flock of a tendency towards Know-Nothingism, and co inflamed their anger that, like Eastern des- pots, they set about decapitating their subor- dinates in 8 manner truly alarming. In a won- derfully short time twenty heads were lopped off by the process of resolution, which, for cleanness of execution, leaves the guillotine quite in the background, Around the con- fines of Castle Garden wander twenty head- less spirits who, in life, held situations more or less snug until Willy trod on the Commissioners’ toes by hinting that they were Know Nothings. The repre- sentative of the German Society declared that to his own knowledge the charge was true, and that the Commissioners sneered and turned up their Know Nothing noses at poor Hans when he arrived in this country. Ger- mans have been sent South at considerable expense, but this does not satisfy their repre- sentative. What are kindly acts if accom- panied by a turning up of noses and ‘the spurns that patient merit” receives at the hands of bloated Commissioners? The public will not be sorry to learn of the row among the worthy persons who run the Castle Gar- den machine. There is a vague suspicion that some light on its interior workings would be of benefit to the immigrants ; and, perhaps, this little break-up of the Castle Garden happy family may be the opening through which the light will enter. Justice to the Khedive. A bill was passed by the Senate yesterday, which, without attracting atteution, decided an important question. Under existing trea- ties with Powers like Japan, China and Turkey we claim the right to exclusive jurisdiction over the lives and liberty of our own citizens in those countries. All judicial powers are exercised by our consuls and consuls general. Thus, in a suit between a subject of the Sultan and an American citizen the Judge would be an American consul. Now, we are far from say- ing that our consuls in these countries have not been calm, high-minded jurists; animated by a noble sense of justice, learned in the law, of even temper and especially skilled in inter- national questions. For the sake of argu- ment we will admit os much Bué the danger that we might appoint some worthless politician, who would sell justice for his own ends and bring the nation into contempt, isso great that Mr. Cameron wisely introduced a bill to provide against it By this bill all legal questions within the Ottoman dominions and Egypt are referred to a mixed tribunal, under the author- ity of the Porte, and administering justice satisfactorily to the Turkish suthorities and with due regard to the honor and safety of our. citizens. There is no reason why the Khedive especially should be treated with less consid- eration than the Czar. He is quite as en- lightened a prince as any in Europe, and wa may trust his administration of the laws as fully as we trust any other European Power. Trearnica, SraresMaNsHre.—Mr. Disraeli has signalized his return to office by an act far more in the nature of a coup de thédire than in the dignified, quiet course of government. His sending Sir Garnet Wolseley out of his homeward way to receive and escort the corpse of Dr. Livingstone is liable to many in- terpretations, but to nono that approve it as an altogether judicious act. If he means to treat with disdain the war left him by the last government, by sending the commander of the army on undertaker’s duty, he surely over- looks the national interest in any war what- ever in which English blood has been poured out. If he means to intimate that Livingstone alone did more in Africa or as much as Wolse- ley and all his troops, and that they were equal English heroes, his compliment takes an extravagant and sensational form that will scarcely serve the fame of the grand old ex- plorer. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ezra Cornell, of ithaca, 1s at the Astor House. Senator Reuben E. Fenton arrived yesterday at the Windsor Hotel. Judge A. Anthony, of Poughkeepsie, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Congressman George W. Julian, of Indiana, is registered at the Astor House, Colonel W. P. Craighill, United States Army, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Lieutenant Governor A. B. Gardner, of Ver- mopt, has arrived at the St. Denis Hotel. Congressman George F. Hoar, of Worcester, and E. R. Hoar, of Concord, Mass., are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Henry J. Gardner, of Massachu- setts, and Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith, of Ver- mout, are among the New Englanders at the Windsor Hotel. Senators Sargent and McCreery and the other members of the Congressional delegation who escorted the remains of the Jate Senator Sumner to Boston, arrived in this city yesterday on their way to Washington. Judge Theodore R. Westbrook, of the Third Ja- dicia! District of this State, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Owing to the illness of Judge Barrett, Judge Westbrook has been assigned to the General Term of the Supreme Court for the New York city district. Mrs. Moxon, Charles Lamb’s adopted daughter Isola, of whom Elta’s letters so often speak af- festionately, is now living in poverty in London. She was married to Moxon, the poet and pub- lsher, who died in 1868, leaving ner and family solely dependent upon his business. Misfortunes have met her since almost continually. Tennyson has headed @ subscription for her benefit. Lord Westbury, whose bitter satire and cynt. cism were a great annoyance to his opponents in life, bas left to the Master of the Roils great dim- cuities in the interpretation of his will. He made ft himselr, and would seem, out of perverse- ness, to have purposely rendered it obscure. The Master of the Rolls would giadly refuse to construe the document on the ground that it is not capable of interpretation; but Lord Westbury again stands in the way, for a decision given by him while Master of the Rolls prevents tne following of such a course by his worried successor. ‘The personal property of the defunct Long Island Club was soid at public auction yesterday by Sherif Williams, tn pursuance of a judgment against the club in a suit brought by the city of Brooklyn on a note foand among the assets of the alleged delauiting City Treasurer, he Se zz Spragne. The property dis: 1d of consisted of the elegant furniture of the house, the plate, ohio some of which brought good pri while other portions went of for remarkably smail sums, The auction was very largely attended, and among the pap ly were several mem ot the club, It is said that the club is to be reorean- 120d On & less pretentious scale,