The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANS ‘STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Letters and packages should be prop erly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. year. Volume XXXIX AMIUSEWENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING pee i OE BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth avenue, corner of Twenty-third street—DAMON Asp fe a at6P. M.;closesatlu4>P.M Mr, John jeCullough. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, st No. [85 Broadway, 745 P.M, ; closes at 10:30 Broadway, corner of Th: closes at 4:30 P.M. JUSTICE, at sr ie Y. M. Louis Aldrich. DALY'S FIFTH UE THEATRE, ‘Twenty. th street and Broadway.—MONSTEUR ALPHO. at 2 ¥ Mt. OLIVER TWIST, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:30 P Mr. Louis James. + THEATRE COMIQUE, No. $M Proadway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. |. Miss Fanny Daveuport, Bijou Heron, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—SCHOOL, at 8 P. M.; ¢ cu P.M. Mr, Lester Wallack, Miss Jetreys OLYMPIC THEATRE, °, between Houston and Bleecker strects — LLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at M.; closes wt 10-45 PL My GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.-ROBERT ANDL, ATLA, wt PML; closes at 10:30 P.M NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. —~VARIBPY ENTERTAINMENT, at; 2:80 F = j Closes at 5:30 P, M.; also at 3 P.M.; closes at il BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, enty third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- | STRLLSY, &c., at P. M.; closes ato P.M. | BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, IMMONS, & SCLOCUM'S MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 UPL M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, street, corner ot Irving place.—SOIREES | Sats P.M. Professor Herrmann. Maunee at? NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. venue and Twenty-third street.—ANNUAL EX- Fou UioIi10N. Open day and evening. lible index of Western opinion, because isi, at 1. M,; closes atS P.M. Same at? M.; closes | Geference for the President To get atluP. M “ at their real views the statistics should have Madison avenue and. Twenty-aixih street GRAND | been gathered while the question was still PAGEANT—CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P, Mand TRIPLE SHEET. | New York, Wednesday, May 20, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be generaliy clear and warm. | thes. From the hour when President Grant foiled was certain that no bill resembling the one | tion bill by the Senate could not, therefore, have been intended as a measure of practical dent, the inflation leaders cannot believe that the question has any financial life or that its agitation can lead to any financial result which they would regard as satisfactory. Un- less they are indulging a ‘blind and aimless Opposition to the settled determination of General Grant, they are prosecuting the con- troversy with an expectation that some politi- cal advantage may be gained, notwithstand- ing the utter subversion of their financial hopes during the residue of this Presidential term. Mr. Morton and his coadjutors are: proba- bly of opinion that the republican party will lose nothing by any course they may take on this subject, inasmuch as the democrats are as much divided upon it as the republicans. A majority of the democratic Senators voted for the last inflation bill as well asa majority of the, republican Senators, Neither party as a whole has a record on this question which will be of any service to it in a popular contest with the others. ‘ The persistent repub- lican inflationists run no such risk as they would if the democracy presented a united front. The real stake for which they are play- ing is not a hopeless expansion of the cur- rency, but the Presidential nomination of their party in 1876. And as against any other candidate than General Grant, it is by no means a desperate game. ‘This sectional manwuvre for controlling the Bepublican National Convention in favor of a Western candidate would not seem very hope- | ful, in view of the fact that a majority of the republican papers of the West approve of the veto. But the inflation Senators and. Rep- resentatives do not regard this fact as a sure indication of Western opinion. They may say it is indefinite and unreliable, because a mere statement of the comparative number of the newspapers, without the amount of their circulation, proves very little one way or the other. They may also say that even allowing the aggregate circulation on both sides to be in proportion to the num- ber of the journals, it is no infal- pending in Congress previous to the veto, when .they expressed unbiased opinions. The inflationista who do not accept the polling of the Western journals as conclusive will be apt to ask how many of the editors who support the veto hold federal offices or have friends who do; how many of them are channels of government advertising which the administration may take away. The fact War. Srreer Yestenpay.—Gold opened | and closed at 112}. The extreme prices were | 112 and 112}. Stocks were a trifle firmer. Wisconstx, Mrvnzsora, Iowa anp NEBRASKA promise us nearly a hundred million bushels of wheat. Ir seems to be official that General Sherman will transfer his home to St. Louis, Has he lost his enthusiasm for Washington, and what | are his views about the transfer of the capital | to the Mississippi? Tae Morery System.—There was quite a | lively time in the House yesterday over the | moiety question, Fernando Wood attacking the | administration in his usual vigorous style. The discussion was enlivened by some per- sonalities. Some Twenty Apprrronan Bopres have | been recovered of the victims of the Mill River Valley disaster, No further loss of life than that already recorded. has come to light, | and it is hoped that the published list now covers the total loss. THe AngANsas Wazn.—All seems quiet along the hostile lines, and this State is gradually Teassuming its wonted aspect as the bands of | rival warriors melt away into the mass of peaceful citizens. The President’s action threw a wet blanket on the warlike enthusiasm of the rival parties, and though a good many tall fellows have had enough of the strife for governorship the country may be congratu- lated that the danger of civil strife has passed away. A Sovrnern Jovenat tells us that over one hundred and forty thousand people are with- out food and shelter in the South, and that the floods have robbed them of all but life. First the war, then the carpet-bag domination and now the floods. Never in history were a people so severely punished. Can we not do something to relieve their burdens, something more than to sing hymns and strew flowers over Confederate graves on Decoration Day? Anornen GOVERNOR IN AnMs.—Governor Moses, of South Carolina, accused of grand larceny, calling out the State militia to re- sist arrest is certainly a delightful picture of the value of reconstruction. It would seem that Mexican ideas are spreading in the South and thegpoliticians rush to arms on the slightest provO@tion. In the present case the belligerency of the Gov- ernor was short lived, and he has consented to dismiss bis army and give bail to answer the charges made against him. This is the most sensible as well as the safest course for Arp For THE Massacuuserrs SUFFERERS. — ‘The terrible calamity on the banks of the Mill River, by which so many lives have been lost, jhas awakened the sympathies of the entire American public to extend relief to the house- leas and destitute families who are now in a helpless condition. We bave already spoken of the noble response of the merchants of New York to-the wail for relief that reaches us trom the desolate valley in Massachusetts. Now the Grant's chances of & third nomination since and other representa- | his unflinching veto. He is the one repabli- tive bodies come forward and tender practical | can candidate, if he decides to be a candidate, sympathy to the distressed families. A great deal of money has been slready sent on to relieve immediate suffering. Oharity could scarcely find » more congenial theme than the | the veto out of personal deference for one furnished to it by the death-dealing reser- Connecticut voir in Massachusetts. that the inflation Congressmen maintain an unbroken front and show no signs of yielding is pretty good evidence that in their opinion \ they are supported by a majority of their con- | stituents. They seem to have no fears that | the firm stand they have taken on this ques- | tion will interfere with their re-election. However it may be in the West and South NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1874. The Inflation Question tm Party Poll- | He has advantages for influencing the choice of delegates not possessed by any Eastern opponent of Morton. He alone could carry the inflationists by his decided negative it | ke War into Africa and bring discomfiture upon that demagogue in his own domain. vetoed could become a law during the next | Perhaps the only, thing which. could reconcile three years, The passage of another infla- | the right thinking portion of the American People to the third election of a President, is & combination of circumstances which would finance. It was only a piece of political | ™**ethat, the only resene from further debuse- strategy, With the known views of the Presi. | ™¢2t of the curreucy and national dishonor. Morton, therefore, with all his craft and astuteness, is playing a shortsighted game. He is pursuing a course which tends to invite and almost foree into the field the only antag- onist with whom he has no possible chance of coping successfully. Of all our public men President Grant has established the best record on the currency question. Of all our public men he has rendered the most signal and timely service in a critical juncture fraught with alarming danger. Of all-men in the country he is best entitled to stand as the rep- resentative of anti-inflation. If that is to be the great issue in the Republican National Convention his claim to the nomination can be contested on no other ground than the in- expediency of nominating a candidate who has already held the office two terms. But if the inflation issue is forced many citizens will reason precisely as they would if ‘we were in the midst of a great-war, in which the services of & military President could not sately be dispensed with. Their cry would be, “Better three terms than inflation! Better three terms than the possibility of a President who would sacrifice the public prosperity and national honor!" If, therefore, Morton desires the republican nomination, a true perception of his own in- terest should lead him to acquiesce'in the veto with as much alacrity and as good a grace as possible. It is the strong card ‘of his most formidable rival, and he ought to be too wary to give him an opportunity to play it. If Morton had but the good sense to say, ‘The known views of the President render any fur- ther expansion of the currency impossible ; that has ceased to be a practical question, and I will not distract the republican party by urging impossibilities,"’ this controversy would die out before another year, and Genc- ral Grant would have no peculiar hold upon public feeling as a candidate for a third term. ‘We give the ambitious Indiana Senator good advice ; it is for himself to decide whether he will accept it. Political parties in this: country are more likely to be wrecked by the action of their national conventions than in auy other manner. Candidates rely so much on the cohesive strength of party spirit that they fancy the battle is gained if they can but get Douglas judged in 1860, and thereby split and prostrated' a party which embraced a great majority of the voting citizens. Inflation, if madly pushed, may split the republican party in 1876, as slavery did the democratic party in 1860. Even smaller schisms may be fatal to success. In 1848 the Democratic National Convention rejected the barnhurner delegates from this State, and the consequence was that they went home, organized a new party, nominated Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams on their national ticket, and General Dix for Governor of New York, and thereby defeated General Cass, the regular democratic candidate. The republican party will doubtless hold together until 1876, but we do not doubt that a majority of the people of the whole country are opposed to inflation. But there is such an utter confusion of party lines on this question that the people may not get an opportunity to give a square vote either for inflation or against it. Our politics are practically controlled bya small minority of active place hunters. It is not majority of the people who control, but less than a major- ity of the dominant party, as must necessarily be the case in the caucus government into which our political system has degenerated. Even in theory public affairs are controlled by about one-fourth of the voting population; but in practice by a much smaller proportion. In theory a majority of each political party selects its candidates and makes its platform. A bare majority of the successful party will usually comprise rather more than one-fourth of the whole number of citizens. But in point of fact the country is governed by a majority of that small portion of the success- ful party who attend its caucuses and thereby control the action of its national conventions. | Probably not one-third of the legal voters be- | longing to either party habitually attend ‘its caucuses. Instead of exertions being made to | bring them out, as is done at the elections, | the wirepullers preter their absence, in order | that they may more easily pack the conven- | tions by sending delegates of their own way of thinking. The practical question with Morton and his supporters is whether they have strength enough in the West to manipulate and mould the republican caucuses and secure the Western delegates to the National Conven- tion. The Convention has the same geographical constituency as Congress, and if each district which is at present represented in Congress by an inflationist | member, should send a delegate of the same | stripe to the National Convention, Morton would have good chances for the nomina- | tion. When he had once gained this position | he would probably care little for the ladder | by which he had climbed to it. Having se- cured a majority of the delegates he would | think more of an election than of inflation, and his friends would offer compromises for keeping the party together. They would ac- cept an Eastern hard money candidate for Vice President and a trimming platform, susceptible of one interpretation in the East | and another in the West, The democratic | party could take no advantage of the equivo- cating position of the inflationists, because ite | own record on this subject is as unsatisfactory as that of the republicans. | It is the encouragement that Western and Southern feeling gives to this kind of degrad- ing strategy, making great questions and im- | portant public interests footballs of personal | mbition, which has so strengthened President \ who can certainly thwart the machinations of Morton and his fellow inflationists. Such of the Western republican journals as indorse its author could be kept steady and unless Morton and his associates are wise enough to drop. the inflation issue it may meet @ fate like that which overtook the proud and over-confident democracy in 1860. If the Western leaders carry the inflation question into the Congressional elections of this year their pride will be too much enlisted for aay retreat afterwards, and although they may not succeed in ruling the republican party they will be pretty sure to rain it. Temperance Crusaders in Trouble. The ladies of Cincinnati, who entered into the temperance crusade armed cap-d-pie with ‘Watts’ hymns, shrill voices and iron-ribbed parasols, have come to grief in a police station in the Queen City. Music is popularly sup- posed to have charms of an irresistible nature, but in this case they were of no avail. The obdurate policeman tapped for silence with his club as the conductor of the Philharmonic Society does at a public rehearsal when one of the trombones becomes unruly. Probably a spectacled soprano or contralto was indulging in unwarrantable excursions outside the legal bounds of tone and tune in music, and the critical ear of the policeman was thereby shocked. In any case, a merited re- buke bas been administered to those women who venture near the barrooms of disreputable streets fora Quixotic purpose of dissuading the besotted inmates from frequenting such places. We have had an example of the utterly impracticable method such women pur- sue in this city in the absurd manner in which they went to work to reform the bibulous population of the metropolis, If women will only exercise at home their powers of eloquence, where they are all potent, they will do more real service in the cause of tempet- ance than a year’s preaching outside or in- side of barrooms and liquor stores. A Detacate Quzstion.—It seems to be as- sured that Representative Mellish has become. insane. The sympathies of the public will attend him as well as his friends in this appalling misfortune, But a delicate question arises, affecting the personal hberty of @ Representative in Congress. How does the House know that Mr. Mellish is insane? Should it be possible for the friends of any Representative to be able to put him in duress without the House satisfying itself that there is real ground for the detention? A time may come, as in the contests for the Speakership before the war, when the absence of a member for one day might change the political situa tion.’ How easy to secure such an absence if members can be taken to an insane asylum without inquiry on the part of the House! ‘The point is certainly worthy of attention, Axp Yet !—A New England newspaper in- forms us that recent inquiries into the condi- tion of the cotton mills in some parts of Mas- sachusetts show wonderful prosperity. Div. idends of one hundred and forty per cent are declared, stock multiplied ten times in value, and the stock of a bank doing their business has quadrupled in ten years. And yet, with all this prosperity, we have disasters like this at Williamaburg arising simply from the ava- rice. and cupidity of these owners, who revel their number increased by General Grant. in purple and fine linen, - aregular nomination. So Breckinridge and | The Department of Charities Correction, Mayor Havemoyer announces his intention to commence an investigation into the charges against the Commissioners of Chari- ties and Correction to-day at the office of the Commissioners of Accounts, The imme- diate cause of the inquiry is the presentment of the Grand Jury, in which it is stated that the evidence produced before that body was sufficient to prove official neglect, if not cor- ruption, in the purchase of dry goods by the Commissioners, Although the testimony of the witnesses has not yet been made public it is pretty well known that it relates to large pur- chases of Gry goods—some twelve thousand or fourteen thousand dollars in amount—in two months of o person who is nota dry goods merchant, but is a brother of the son- in-law of one of the Commissioners of Chari- ties and Correction, Mr. Myer Stern. It is said that some of these purchases were made in a manner iaconsistent with the provisions of the city charter, and it will be matter of investigation whether the goods were sold to the city by the agent at an advance on the price paid by him to the merchant of whom they were originally purchased. If so, the city will have been defrauded to that extent, at least. We congratulate Mayor Havemeyer on the decision he has reached to conduct this inves- tigation with open doors. Damaging. reports are afloat in regard to the Department of Charities and Correction, and the rumors may be worse than the truth. It is very certain, however, that the department is in a con- fused and disorganized condition. The voluntary statements of the Commissioners prove this fact. When we remember that about one million five hundred thousand dol- lars pass through this department in the course of a year, that enormous amounts of supplies are purchased and distributed, that sums of money uncertain in amount are re- ceived and handled by the employés, and that, in the midst of all this responsibility, Commis- sioners, bookkeepers and clerks admit them- selves to be in confusion and set about condemning each other, we must admit that the people have a right to be parties to the pending examination. But the inquiry should not be confined to the allegations embraced in the Grand Jury’s presentment. While these allegations are sufficient to prove the necessity of investigation, the whole system of doing business in the department should be over- hauled, and it should be ascertained whether any other purchases have been made in a suspicious or objectionable manner. The Mayor should also be careful not to allow the charges against the present Commis- sioners to be befogged by mixing them up with alleged corruptions of the old Tammany commission. It is not unlikely that in the matter of the questionable dry goods purchases an attempt may be made to show what prices were paid for similar goods by Mr. Alexander Frear and his associates. Such issues have nothing to do with the ques- tions involved in the present inquiry and should not be countenanced. In the instances embraced in the Grand Jury presentment it is the duty of the Mayor to ascertain whether the dry goods were purchased of @ person who is not a dry goods dealer; whether this agent charged the city twenty- five or thirty per cent, or any other amount, more than he paid for the articles; whether the purchases were made by a duly authorized person, in a regular manner and in accordance with the provisions ofthe charter; whether any alteration has been made in books, papers or bills in the Department of Charities and Correction or elsewhere ; in what shape and under what circumstances the suspicious bills were audited and paid, and what division was made.of tho plunder if the city has been charged for the goods more than they cost. It is further the duty of the Mayor to investigate the whole business of the department, with- out fear or favor, and we are willing to be- lieve that his new movement indicates his in- tention todo so. But would it not be well to assign their proper share in the investigation to the Commissioners of Accounts? They are the officers designated by the charter for just such duties, and they ought to be competent to trace out and lay bare transactions which would be mysteries to the venerable Mayor. AvxorHEs Missine Stzamsarr.—From St. John, N. B., we have @ despatch informing ‘us that all hopes of the safety of the steamship Trojan, of the Anchor line, have at last been abandoned. The vessel has been out forty days, and no tidings of any kind have been received regarding her. Is it bad luck or bad management? The Anchor line must look to its ‘laurels. Nogmanvx rejoices in the prospect of an un- usually fine fruit crop. Tax Rerommep Ermcoran Onvrce con- cluded-its council yestérday evening, in an enthusiastic meeting for lay memibers. Several important changes in the rubric and formula relating to the holy communion were proposed end agreed to. The feature of the day was the appearance in council of the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., who was formally in- troduced. by Bishop Cheney. Mr. Tyng ad- dressed the meeting as an outside friend and sympathizer, and he assured the Conncil of the sympathy of the Church and congrega- tion of the Holy Trinity, of which he is pae- tor. (It is quite manifest that Mr. Tyng will not much longer find it possible to retain his eomnection with the older Episcopal body, His seceasion is only a question of time. Mr. Tyng, in our, judgment, would act a nobler part if he joined the new body ationce. He is evidently battling between two opinions and striving to serve two masters, As he cannot love and serve both he ought to de- cide at once. The Reformed Church is gain- ing ground. Its next Council is to be held in Chicago in May, 1875. Axoraer Destauctive Fire m Constantino- piz.—In Galata, a suburb of Constantinople, @ severe fire broke out on Monday night, destroying about one hundred housés, mostly occupied by Jews of the poorer sort. We cannot but express our sympathy for the unfortanate sufferers, “These ‘destructive fires have of late been more than usually frequent in Constantinople. Pity that they are not turned to better account! No sooner are the wooden shanties burned down than they are replaced by others similarly combustible, and thus it is that the work of destruction goes on from generation to generation, without any lesson being learned or any improvement made. F TRIPLE SHEET. The Diplomati¢ Quarrel in Germany, Our cable despatches yesterday morning att nounced what may be called the findlo of the quarrel between Count Von Arnim and Prince Bismarck. The Emperor has ordered the re- tirement of the Count from the diplomatic service. This controversy arising at the time of the Church troubles in Germany has: pro- duced great excitement all over the Continent, and may lead to serious results. The true history of the difficulty is of course not known, and will not be known, for the first duty of diplomacy isto conceal in this gener- ation what history will write in the next. But there are many threads of narrative which we Pick up from the foreign journals that are not without value. After the treaty of peace with M. Thiers had been concluded at Paris, Count Von Arnim became imbued with the idea that he held in his possession important information of which he considered it his duty to dispose with the best advantage to himself. In correspond- ing with his chief he appears, to bave hinted, from time to time, that inasmuch as he had been instrumental in winning the honors to his country he desired to reap some of the substantial rewards, His demands met with a cool reception. .He had been but an officer, he was informed, to’ carry out orders from headquarters, and was not’ entitled to special recognition. A disposition to remove him from Paris irritated the Count, and when he was appointed Minister to Turkey, by some means the tell-tale despatches curionsly un- masking the policy of Germany, and, fore- shadowing the ecclesiastical war that was sub- sequently to be waged, appeared in the public prints. ‘ How far the agents of Count Von Arnim were responsible for the publication of these despatches does not appear, but’ the Count was, immediately assailed in the most furious manner. by the Ger- man official press and accused of not only being in disaccord with the policy of the German Empire on one of the most important questions, but also with having committed a gross breach of trust in giving to the world information intended only for the diplomatic eye. A despatch was at once sent to the Ambassador expostulating with him on’ this deviation from the diplomatic rules, butin the meantime the Count. had written a long letter to Dr. Dillinger, of Munich, explanatory of his conduct and adhering to his right of de- fence against public defamation. Whatever favor the German government may have accorded to the dissenting canon for his assistance towards carrying out the policy of Bismarck during the Ecumenical Council as recently developed, the fact of Count. Von Arnim explaining to him as a clerical instead of to the Chancellor at Berlin will certainly widen the breach between the latter and his former Minister in Rome, and place Dr. Dillinger in an unenviable position in Germany. As will be seen, the result of it all is that the Count has been driven from the diplomatic service of Germany; but it is os certain that Bismarck will have to encounter another shower of pamphlets on diplomacy, asin the unfortunate case with Goneral La Marmora. In all his dealings with Rome during the past eight years his anti-papal notions have led him beyond the bounds of discretion; and the injustice of seeking to embroil the Italian Ministry, the Boman Catholic Church and Austria,-in a vital quarrel, so that he might the easier attack the ecclesiastical power in his own country, is now recoiling with unpleasant foree upon himself, Hitherto ‘his trouble with Count Yon Arnim has been kept within respectable bounds by the'interference of members of the imperial family; but if this mediation has been withdrawn Von Arnim will undoubtedly publish more “light” than La Marmora ever possessed. The Count publishes a letter vindicating his conduct. He protests that the letters which he Wrote from Rome,’ first printed in the Vienna Presse, were published en- tirely without his knowledge, He farther- more strongly complains of the publication of his confidential report, dated May 14, 1869, by the North German Gazelle, evidently under official authorization, as opposed to the tradi- tions, not only of the Prussian, but of every diplomatic ‘service. . He admits the polemical character of his letter to Dr. Dillinger as directed against Prince Bismarck, but. main- tains that the controversy was forced upon him. In other words, he has been forced into his present attitude by the resolution of Bismarck to drive him out of the service of the Emperor. Hoe intimates in this letter that he will make further disclosures, We should think, after the publication of thé Italian cor- respondence about Bismarck, that the one thing about: which he would care nothing would be ‘disclosures. Bismarck has been compelled in dealing with events to say and do many things which would not read wéll on the cold pages of history. But this has been no more his fate than it was the fate of Napoleon and’ Palmerston and Talleyrand and other men’ who dealt largely: with the | affairs of nations. What the world wants from these men is accomplished events; and the unification of Germany, which the genius of Bismarck has. done so much to complete, will be his forgiveness in the eyes of Germany, no matter what. disclosures may be made by Count Von Arnim. Taz ApjounymzENt or OononEss,—Mr. Edmunds called up his resolution yesterday providing for the adjournment of Congress on | the 22d of June and the Senate pnssed it’ | unanimously without discussion. It remains | to be seen whether the House will concur. | Thero is « great deal of work to be done, but | if Congress should set about doing it in earnest & month ought to be long enough to finish all that is necessary. The currency question will be, probably, the greatest drawback. As there seems to be little hope of an pgred- ment on that, members may prefer to postpone it and to cotisult their constituencies at home before taking definite action, : Boston rx Gurer Anovr Lostxa THe Ov: wand Srzamsnrrs.—The Ounard Steamship Company has-coneluded that it does not pay to send their vessels to Boston. Thore is not business ‘enough, The company has had, however, the politeness to put this, fact in the least offensive shape possible, and says the high cost of railroad freights on grain and other products has compelled the withdrawal of the steamers from the Liverpool and Boston route and the transfer of them to, New York. It is reported by telegram that much fooling exists in business circles and that efforts are tw be made to induce railroad managers to lower their rate of charges. We are sorry for Boston and should be glad to learn that tho railroads will reduce their rates for freight; but we think the Cunard Company will con- ¢inde it is more profitable to come to New York under any circumstances. The Proposed Reduction of City Tax ation. We presume that the revised estimates of all the municipal departments, which were re- quired to be made out by the 16th inst., are now in the hands of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. It is the duty of that Board to meet at as early a day as possible to consider these revised estimates and to decide what can be done to decrease the heavy taxa- tion of the present year. As their decision will be final, it is important that the whole subject should be carefully considered and it is but right that the taxpayers should be afforded the opportunity to know exactly what action is contemplated by the Board before the matter is closed. When the estimate is first made the law provides, after its adoption, for its submission to the Board of Aldermen and for its reconsideration by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, so as to insure for it full publicity, discussion and mature deliberation, The law passed by the last Legislature authorizing its reopening makes it, in, fact, a new estimate; but only one authority, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, has now power to act upon it. Under theae circumstances we sug- gest to that Board, and especially to Alder- man Vance and ‘President Wheeler, that it will be eminently just and proper to print and publish in the City Record, all the revised departmental estimates and, the budget pro- posed to be finally made for the year, so that they may be in the hands of the people before the Board finally acts upon them. The rate of taxation is not likely to be so high, under any circumstances, as it has been hitherto represented, ‘since in caleulating the rate for the year the assessments in the newly annexed territory have not been taken into account, and these will, of course, decrease it. Nevertheless the tax will be heavy enough, and the greatest economy should be practised in all the departments. No necessary work of public improvement should be stopped or embarrassed for the want of an appropriation, but all work of a fancy or Lettie: character, all work that ‘is not absolu' necessary, should be discontinued or post. poned until more prosperous days, In this direction,.as we have said, very large reduc. tions may be made: without damage to the public interests in the ‘Park Department—es- pecially in the fancy architectural and engi- neering departments, Let us appropriate all that may be needed to keep Central Park in its present excellent condition, but let us ree fuse to squander money on unnecessary tan- nels, fancy bridges, new walks, mythical mu. seums and the like, until the streets of ‘go city are decently paved and other necessary public improvements. completed. The estimates of the Finance Department, now extravagantly high, should be materially reduced in view of the saving promised in the consolida- tion of the accounts of the city and county governments. Care should be taken that no item should be added to the taxes which is not included in the present final estimate. It is only through decreased expenditures in the departments that the tax- payers will save money. The mere driving over until next year of the Fourth avenue im- provement appropriation, or of any other amount that must be paid at last, is not money saved; it is simply a postponement of the day of payment. We commend these suggestions to the consideration of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and we trust that in this important matter the action of the Board will not be so merely mechanical as it has generally been. Lovers of claret will be pained to learn that the cold weather in France seriously threatens the vineyards around Bordeaux. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Arkansas Brooks has dried up. General John C. Breckenridge is out of danger. General W. ©. Wickham, of Virginia, is staying at the Astor House, State Senator John A. Selkreg, of Ithaca, ts at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor O. 0. Marsh, of Yale College, is regis- tered at the Hofman House. Ex-Congressman Roswell Hart, of Rochester, is residing at the Gilsey House. Sam Bowles has bought the moynard dairy farm, On the Boston road, near Springfield. The German Crown Prince and Princess will visit Queen Victoria at the Isle of Wight in July. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Thomas G. Alvord, of Syracuse, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major Walter McFarland, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, is quartered at the Gienbam Hotel, George W. Miller, formerly Superintendent of the Insurance Department, is again at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J..N. McCullough, General Manager of the Pitts- burg, Fort Wayne and Onicago Railroad, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The would-be assassin of Sefior Pi y Margall at Madrid was a priest’ who tad just been released from @ lunatic asylum. Ex-Presidént Theodore D. ‘Woolsey and Professor | Francis A. Walker, of Yale College, are among the recent arrivals at the Everett House. One Fielder, an “Honorable,” of Georgia, is. af- fMicted, like Sergeant Danzell, with cacodthes sort. bend, and the Georgia editors want to kill him, Senator Joun Sherman, Chatrman of the Finance Committee of the United States Senate, arrived from Washington yesterday at tte Firth Avenue Hotel. The Senatus of the Edinburgh. University have resolved to petition Parliament to grant a royal commission to inquire mto the educational dis. abilities of women. Assemblyman Weed is in mourning because ha rushed into print and charged that the Supply bill bad been tampered with, whereas an investi. gation shows the contrary. The Comte de Ohambord has been discovered, ‘An enthusiastic writer on the 20 inst. declares:— “{ saw him yesterday in Frohsdor@f, at the Wiener. heustadt, where he was seeing the Countess of to Switzerland. ady Fellowes, the widow of the traveller, Sir Charles Fellowes; has just dicd at the Isle of Wight, She has bequeathed a large and curious collection of watches accumulated during her lifes time to the British Museum. Romualdo: Vignalet, Secretary of State to Don Carios, has written to the French ana British Con- suls at Biscaye, in the name of “fis Majesty,” from Darango, asking for their assistance in pasung persons and material in his interest, Colonel Clifferd, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, has lost nis action in the Court of Common Pleas against Mr. Hoare respecting a right of way in Kensington road. Lord Coleridge held that the Plainti? had not suMfered the fraction of # jarthing of real dawage.