The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YOKK HERALD, WEDNES NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be ; received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. SENENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | = NIBLO’S GARDEN Broadway, between Prince and Houston | streets.— FAUSTUS, at AP. M.; closes at M43 P.M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock ‘and Miss Ione Burke. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-secoud sircet—The Morumer Brothers, at 5 P.M WoOOD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth street.—LIPE OR DEATH, | v2 P.M; closes at 4:4 P.M. POMP, at8 2. M.; closes 0:10:00 BM Mr. Harry Clifford. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ROUSE, Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. ML; loses ai 10:0 P.M. METROPOL! 85 broudway.—Parisian Cameaa | CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty-ninth street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CON- CHAT, at 3 P. ML; closes at 10:30 P.M. THEATRE, ean Dancers, at 8 P.M. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of thirty-titth street.—LONDON BY | NIGHT, at 1 P.M; closes at 6 P.M saime at7 P. M.; | loses wt 10 P.M All gave to each a helping band, and the old streets and avenues, again lined with massive looking structures, are monumental to that dauntless spirit which cannot be over- | Amother Great Fire in Chicago—Th: Lessoms of Experience Go for Noth Unfortunate Chicago ! city bas been visited by a calamity similar to the terrible catastrophe of three years ago. As we write Chicago is once more in flames. ‘The extent of the disaster cannot be estimated now; for the conflagration has not been stayed, already laid part of the old, Chicago in ashes. Even the details that have already reached us, Again that proud | and may yet lay part of the new, as it has } meagre as they are, tell a fearful tale—a story | that is doubly terrible because the suffering | | probably a hundred per cent to the contractor, | who undertook to build for twenty-five thousand dollars a work which should have cost three times that sam. The Middle- | field dam, which was swept away on Saturday, | is another example of similar recklessness and | folly. All our enterprises are characterized by a like disregard of security and endurance, and it is not impossible that for # century the imperfections of the present epoch will avenge themselves by a long series of ever re- curring calamities. Before we turn away from a subject, the and loss of the great fire of 1871 are still fresh ceased talking of that event. The calamity | was so unexpected, so complete and so har- | rowing in all its aspects that it impressed itself upon the imagination like some great battle too sanguinary ever to be forgotten. But in the meantime a new city had risen on the ruins of the old, Though hundreds of wealthy men had been impoverished, though thousands of people in comfortable circum- stances had been utterly ruined, never were such pluck and energy displayed. | come. So quickly and so completely had all | this been accomplished that Chicago was ROMAN HIPPODROME, nue and, Twenty-sixth street GRAND PIONS. at 1:30 P. M. Madison ave PAGEA) TP. T—CONGRESS OF Na’ at7 P.M. LE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, July 15, 1874. | | THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To NEWsDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC:— The New Yors Heratp will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake | George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- ing the season at balf-past three o'clock A. M., | and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Herarp along the line. Newsdealers | and others are notified to send in their orders | to the Henan office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be fair and hot. Wau Srazer Yesrerpay.—Stocks were un- ‘settled and closed off. Gold was quiet at 109} to 109}. Hypvrornosu m EnoGianp.—Considerable | excitement has been caused at Brighton, in | ‘England, by a case ot hydrophobia. John | Bull must be very excitable, We have daily cases, and yet we keep cool Curs are quite | plentiful in the streets even yet. So long as mad dogs bite only our neighbors we bear | ‘with them philosophically enough. Krpnarpzrs.—The theft of a child as prac- tised in Philadelphia is not an uncommon | over her calamity. Poor, unfortunate, un- proud of her conflagration and vainglorious happy city! A Nemesis seems always to follow her to cast her down at the very moment when | the future seems brightest and loveliest. It is a fearful fate—the seeming wrath of the | Furies—but it is a fate that Chicago had pre- pared for herself and that may befall many other cities besides Chicago. It would be vain to attempt to recount the course of the flames. Beginning without the lines of the previous conflagration, but in a populous part of the city, the fire swept rapidly in the direction of the scene of the former calamity, and everything fell before the devouring element. Many dwellings were burned and thousands of people made home- less. A magnificent church was destroyed, and its destruction was followed by that of the Post Office. And the parts of the city but recently rebuilt seemed as much fuel for the flames as the parts saved from the previous fire to be swallowed up in this second. ca- lamity. All this is proof that we have been building cities that great conflagrations may destroy them. Once before Chicago went through an even more terrible ordeal of fire. A year later Boston experienced a like visitation. Later still block afler block in Baltimore was des- crime in England, and we are probably in- debted for this visit of the kidnappers to the | What city will next be swept away by one of | fact that their achievements have made that country too hot for them. Now that Ross has the money he will get his child and they ‘will begin again. Who will be the next vic- tim? Take care. Schoo. Cumpren Ferep.—Mr. William ‘ troyed. Now it is Chicago a second time. these terrible conflagrations it is impossible to burden of which will to-day astound the | in the minds of all. People had not yet American people, holding up to them as does DAY, JULY this second Chicago calamity another terrible | vision of their own recklessness and the in- stability of all their works, we cannot but rebuke the spirit that belittles the conse- quences of this conflagration. * This a grin in the face of Death to say that Chicago will be better off in the end for this second Visitation. Such utterances are only born of madness and despair, and we fear for the gloom that will settle down upon a city so fair to the eye and yet so sadly and terribly unfortunate. As we go to press we know not what fate is still in store for unhappy Chicago, and we can only trust that our fears, which seem only too well founded, may not be re- alized, Bismarck Congratulated. The lucky Chancellor of the German Em- pire, in response to the felicitations of the good people of Kissingen, stated that ‘the attempt on his life was not aimed at his per- son but at the cause he represented."’ A little consideration might have convinced him that the blow was directed against both. But even in so simple a matter as this the Chancellor wants to make the most capital off his enemies. He has been very lucky and may well congratulate himself and his friends on his escape. This is the second time his life has been attempted, and there is a great prob- ability that it may not be the last. Men like Bismarck make lasting enemies. His open war on Catholicism places him in a very dangerous position, for religious fanaticism will carry a man to greater lengths than even political hate. The arrest of a priest at Schweinfurt seems to point to @ connection between the assassin and the Church. Even if there were no real con- nection it would be to the interest of the Chan- cellor to lay the crime at the door of churcb- men in order to excite against them the strong, national feeling of the German nation. Under these circumstances the alle- gation that churchmen were at the bottom of the plot to kill Bismarok should be received with caution. Departure of John Mitchel. In accordance with his previously expressed intention of returning to Ireland without the permission of the British authorities, Mr. John Mitchel sailed for England yesterday on board the Idaho. Although there was a large assem- blage of his friends and political associates no formal demonstration was attempted. | Some apprehension was expressed lest tho | British authorities should arrest Mr. Mitchel on his arrival It would not be diffi- | predict. That all are equally exposed to danger, especially all the cities | of the West, seems almost certain, | We have built without regard to security from Butler Duncan, the well known banker, bas fire, and a spark may cause a terrible con- | ‘set an example in throwing open his beautiful | flagration not only in Chicago, in Boston and j grounds to the school children for one day, | in Baltimore, but in every city in the Union. | ‘which we hope will have many imitators. | __ i Seven hundred children attending the Staple- | New York is to-day more at the mercy of the | ton public schools received the hospitality of | winds than a stanch ship upon the seas. This | ‘Mr. Duncan. It is worthy of notice that not a | is not the case in Europe. There has not been single instance of misconduct occurred on the | agrest fire in any of the European capitals part of the children, though the temptation | within the present century. When the to appropriate some of the beautiful flowers | Ra ae SE - by which they were surrounded must have Pantechnicon in mndon was burned, heat was intense, not ‘been pretty strong. Acts of kindness of this | though the matare leave pleasant impressions on the young people and exert an elevating in- | When the miscreants of the Commune j cult to find a colorable pretext for doing so, and it is questionable whether the conserva- tive government will be able to refrain from seeking vengeance on a man who, at one time, was certainly a dangerous insurrectionary leader. More than twenty-five years have, however, passed since then, and though Mr. Mitchel has never abandoned his position of hostility to the English connection the gen- eration of Irishmen that acknowledged his leadership has passed away. Sheath turns to his country broken in hi thciigh still defiant. It is understood that he will not immediately enter the political field, but will take counsel with other prominent Irishmen PY BS = = ® surrounding building was destroyed. | before venturing on the troubled sea of Irish politicd: We have little doubt that the British uence on their minds. Tue Bexcuer-Tiwrox Scawpat.—This un- | happy affair drags on its way in the columns | of the newspapers. It is still all vagueness and conjecture, thongh the Investigating Com- Mittee are taking evidence which will enable them to deal with the scandal, so far, at least, as Plymonth church is concerned. It is evident that the efforts to explein away the charges | that have been hinted rather than made will not be successful. Before the present contro- versy comes to an end the whole story will certainly be made known. It would be better, therefore, to face the issue at once, whatever it may be, and so put an end to the very un- | Pleasant discussion going on from one end to the other of the country on this most regret- table scandal. Tae Saratoga Recarra.—The crews are ‘hard at work preparing for Thursday's con- ‘tests. From all appearauees the struggle will “be of a most exciting character, and a good deal of anxiety is felt by the men themselves as to the result, The regatta will take | ‘place under the most favorable auspices. | Saratoga is crowded by the (lite of American society, and even the Presi- ‘dent bas abandoned Long Branch to Jend the weight of his presence to the great trial of skill and endurance. Everything | seems to point to the time when the regatta at Saratoga will be as national in character and | ‘as full of general interest as the Oxford and Cambridge contest is in England. Sap Resvits or CaneLessxzss.—It is some- ‘what dangerous to witness the lannching of a Bhip at Port Jefferson, L. L On Monday a, q@umber of persons were assembled to see a ship launched and congratulate the builder ‘on the completion of his work, Owing to the criminal recklessness of some parties the oc- easion was turned to mourning. Without a word of warning the rope sustaining a buge ‘battering ram was cut, and the result was | four men killed outright and many others grievously wounded. It may be weil ques- tioned whether recklessness of this kind does | mot deserve to be treated as a crime and | visited with severe punishment. Certainly | the authors of this last slaughter deserve | richly to be made an example of, and we hope | that the Coroner will hold them up fearlessly | to public condemnation. If the law cannot | | sought to fire Paris their efforts failed because | government, with that profound wisdom which | distinguishes it, will allow Mr. Mitchel toland the city was free from all the elements of in- | without interference, and that so long as he flammability. The capitals of the Old World | seem fireproof, and it is only the young cities | of America which crumble to ashes when a | spark chances to fall in some unguarded spot. Our houses are a succession of tinder boxes, standing in compact rows and inflammable from garret to basement. The leap to roof can from roof and | envelop house after house, and there is no | power that can stay them while anything is left to burn or until the winds change in their course and sweep the monster back upon its fiery track. As we remarked before, we build cities that great conflagrations may destroy | them, calamity can be so terrible as to deter us from courting like calamities in the future. What are we to think of ourselves as a peo- ple when we see that all the lessons of ex- perience go for nothing? and it seems impossible that any We do not believe that the new Chicago or the new Boston isa whit more secure than the old. A city built ina year or in two years must be a sham. That the Lake City of the West wis a sham from the day the first rude cabin was built upon its site up tothe present moment has now been doubly proved. A real city could not have been twice destroyed. But, worst of all, this second conflagration may not be the last. Ina week we may hear of another fire | | in Chicago as terrible as either of those that have already occurred. While there is a city or part of o city there to burn it may be burned. And all this because we build reck- lessly and in haste. A spirit of false economy impels us to prefer the cheap to the | lasting. This is not true alone of the way in which we build cities. The Mill River dam, which broke away only a short time ago, let- ting loose an angry flood which devastated a lovely vale, dealing death everywhere in its cours, is another example of our recklewaness, conducts his political campaign within the law he will be allowed to enjoy the fullest | liberty. In view of the amnesty granted to other leaders of the '48 movement the gov- ernment cannot well arrest him, and, even if it ' could, it would not be a wise course to adopt. , Persecuted, Mr. Mitchel would be regarded as be largely increased. Dereat oy THE French Muinistry.—The French government has been again defeated in the Assembly. This time a majority of one hundred and six was rolled up against the Ministry. This significant check was, caused by the proposition to increase the tax on salt, which was rejected by an over- whelming majority. During the debate Rouher, the leader of the imperialist party, attempted to speak, but was hooted | down by the Left. This rather cavalicr treat- ment was due to the discovery of the Bona- partist plot, which fortunately never came to anything. The government investigation is gradually implicating all the prominent Bona- partists and considerable uneasiness is felt among that faction. So far flames | ® martyr, and his power for annoyance would | the Minister of Justice has not yet taken any | proceedings against the persons implicated in the conspiracy, but there is reason to believe that they will be brought to trial. Judging are not likely to be allowed to flag. | against the Commissioners, and when a judi- : ‘ial investigation is made of their offic from the temper of the Left, the prosecutions | : kd sere It is a | kind of poetic justice to see the Bonapartists | punished with their own weapons, Tax Twewrtu or Jury i Ireranp.—The Orange anniversary was celebrated in Ireland on the 13th inst. There were street parades and after dinner meetings and loyalist utter- ances pretty much as usual. The fighting was scarcely worth mention in comparison with the battles of former years. Home rule and ultramontanism were denounced, not- withstanding the fact that King William the Third entertained a very high opinion of the manner in which the Irish managed their local and commercial affairs, and that he took | tor his wife the daughter of King James, his \ | ® reform government they believed that the | dition for the past twelve or thirteen years will | | $6,000,000. The policy of providing for | tally looked to as an index of political pros- 15, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, The City Debt and the xpenses or| the Municipal Gevernment. The rapidity with which we have been piling up the city debt during the past three years, despite the stagnation in public im- provements and the largely increased amounts | raised annually by taxation, is sufficient to excite the serious alarm of property owners and taxpayers. Three years ago, when the people became satisfied that they were being robbed by almost every city and county official, they supposed they had discovered the secret of their large public expenditares, | and when they applied the remedy by electing | burden of debt and taxation would thenceforth | be lightened. A glance at our financial con- | best illustrate how far these expectations have been realized. Our yearly appropriations for | city, county and State purposes, since 1862, | have been as follows: — $11,103,746 | 12,945,213 have been thus steadily increasing we have been adding to our debt on a yet grander scale, as the following exhibit will show: — Year. 1864, January 1865, January 1. 1866, January 1. 1867, January 1. 46,977,474 1868, January 1 49.746,030 | 1869, January 52,205,430 1870, January 66,049,052 1871, January 1. + 91,439,446 1872, January 1. 1873, January 8,815,229 1874, January 1, 131,869,571 | So during Mr. Green’s term of office the debt bad increased up to January 1 of the present year $40,000,000 and the taxation | 93,607,708 the gradual liquidation of the debt appears to have been abandoned, and in its stead we | have the new system of “bridging over’ by renewing bonds ag they fall due, by issuing new stock to take up stock that has matured, and by postponing to o future year the tax- ation that legitimately belongs to the present year. Between January 1, 1874, and January 1, 1875, the amount of stock and bonds falling due, and which should have been paid and cancelled, reaches $23,773,513. Yet although the appropriations for the support of the government under the new estimate are in gross $34,822,391, the sum of $1,180,763 alone is set apart for the pay- ment of debt, leaving over $22,500,000 to be “bridged over” and still drawing seven per cent interest. This does not pre- sent an encouraging prospect, but our finan- cial condition is even worse than these figures make it appear. We have other liabilities, the amount of which the Comptroller, in his Policy of deception and concealment, refuses to lay before the people. This floating debt consists of claims and suits against the city, none of which are embodied in the Comptrol- ler’s debt statements, although a large pro- portion, with costs and back interest, must eventually be paid out of the public treasury. The Commissioners of Accounts were sup- posed to be engaged in making a list of these unadjusted claims in January last, bat their report has been suppressed. The Corporation Counsel’s statement, made about that time, showed that suits were then pending against the city to the amount of $6,800,000 and $450,000 against the county, making a total of $7,250,000. The claims not in suit are estimated to reach about $12,000,000, and thus the floating debt of the city is doubtless not much less than $20,000,000. We may probably hope to escape payment of half this | sum; but the other half, with back interest i and costs, will not fall far short of the gross ;&mouqt On 31 last ¢! lebt, éx- clasive of the floating debt, had reached | $136,317,503. We have, therefore, at the | present moment about $156,000,000 of gross indebtedness, and we are called upon to pay nearly $35,000,000 of taxation tor the current expenses of the years The departments whose appropriations have been reduced are principally those of Finance, Charities and Correction, Public Parks and | the Street Cleaning Bureau. The salary list | in the Comptroller's Department was cut | | down $31,000. It ought to have been reduced $100,000, but half the year had passed, and | the economy so much needed and which will, | no doubt, be enforced next year, could not | now’ be wholly secured. The Finance De- | partment’s expenditures have been shamefully | extravagant. Under the most reckless year of | Mr. Connolly's Comptrollership the appro- priations for that department for cleaning markets, contingencies and salaries was $339,737, but the amount expended was only $252,285, or over $55,000 less than is appro- priated this year to the department under Mr. Green. The old hangers-on of Comptroller Connolly are retained by Mr. Green at exorbi- | tant salaries, and his own office and the | bureaus in his department have been asylums | for his friends and followers, who have | virtually been pensioned on the city’s treasury. The entire expenditure of the de- | partment should not be over $250,000 at the outside. The Department of Charities and ; Correction, which was cut down about | $100,000, if honestly administered could be | | tun for a quarter of a million less than is now | squandered on it. Grave charges are pending | conduct it will probably be seen that their | appropriation has not been sufficiently re- | duced. The street cleaning appropriation | was reduced $50,000, and every person will \ agree that the reduction was a proper one to | be made. The Park Department stands in a different | position from the rest. There can be no sus- picion of dishonesty or extravagance in its expenditures while Colonel Henry G. Steb- , bins is at his head. But there is a very gen- eral belief that the laws which authorize—if they do authorize—the payment of salaries of the employés of the department out of the proceeds of construction bonds, which go into the permanent debt of the city, are wrong | in principle, and should be amended. It is | | father-in-law being a famous ultramontanist. | also thought by many prudent citizens that Tue Tvar is in danger in England. Some reach them public opinion can, at least, do parsimony and greed. That structure, tor | of the knowing ones want to cut it, so the gomething }o papish thew ae ther yassiy + Lvegsu» meso aantingl af destruotion, paid | ‘‘teaka” ate to be comanleds | we can do very well with Central Park as it is wise economy to confine the expenditures to | [x the next ten years, and that it would be a and in making a “Rotten Row” inside the | expenditures wherever economy ia desirable, coe OE BTV | districts, and the democratic nomination for | in securing the rural delegates to the State , Between him and Judgé Church there is no | | couraging und paralyzing the republicans, present condition, and to discontinue all im- provements and embellishments of an elabo- rate nature until we are better off financially than at present, Colonel Stebbins, as an enthu- siast in all that pertains to the Central Park and 4s a gentleman of refined taste and of a poetic turn of mind, would no doubt desire to see all the beautiful but costly projects that have been conceived in regard to the Park com- pleted, including such an aquarium as the splendid one at Brighton, in England. But many plain, matter-of-fact men would prefer that the money these works will cost should be expended on repaving streets outside the Park, Park. This is @ mere matter of opinion, however, and no sensible person would desire to embarrass the Park Department in any improper manner, or to discontinue any perishable work. On the whole, the members of the Board of Apportionment, to whom we owe the general reductions made in the tax list for 1874, are entitled to the thanks of the community. It is to be hoped they will per- severe in their effort to reduce the public Senne en juring two, Betwoen the tunnel and the am fenced excavation, which serves as a pitfall for belated pedestrians, from Forty-second street as far as Yorkville, the Fourth Avenue scheme seems to be attended with more loss a1 life and injury to taxpayers than it is likely te compensate for during the present generation. Why should there not be some safeguards against accidents provided for by the project- ors of this enterprise, or, in their absence, im- terference on the part of the authorities for the interests of the public? Human life should be regarded as of more value than the negligence, indifference or criminal parsi- monionsness of the unscrupulous owners, The Works of Public Improvement tis the City. The report called forth by a resolution of the Board of Aldermen in relation to ous works of public improvement shows that im this direction, at least, we have benefited by a reform in the administration. The cost of the maintenance of streets, roads, avenues, aqueducta, reservoirs, Croton Pipes, sewers and that they will apply the pruning knife to the several depurtments of the city govern- ment yet more effectually next year. The Gubernatorial Contest Yerk. The fortune of the democratic party in the next Presidential election is staked on its suc- cess in the New York State election this year. Unless the democracy can rely with absolute confidence upon the steady support of New York it can entertain no reasonable hope of electing the President in 1876. Since the out- break of the civil war Mr. Seymour has been once and Mr. Hoffman has been twice elected Governor of this State, political parties having been so equally divided that the democrats have succeeded in one-half of our State elec- tions and the republicans in the other half. The two parties having such balanced strength in this great and debatable State it is natu- in New pects, and a defeat of the New York democ- racy in the approaching election would be a drenching wet ‘blanket on the hopes of the party. If it loses this election in New York all cool observers will conclude that the democratic party is defunct, that the republicans will elect the next Presi- dent, and that effective opposition can be made only by some new political organiza- tion. But if the New York democracy should achieve a decisive triumph this yoar the party would be strengthened and encouraged by & reasonable hope of success in the next Presi- dential election. The prosperity and the very existence of the party being so obviously staked on the ensuing campaign in New York there ought to be a free sacrifice of local and personal feeling by democrats who cherish a sincere faith in their party. Everything, therefore, depends upon put- ting a strong candidate in the field against Governor Dix, who will be the renominee of the republican party. Seymour is understood to have declined, Kernan has declined, Beach has declined, Potter, who would be glad of the nomination, will not press his claims, and Judge Church, the only democratic can- didate whose nomination would be equiva- lent to an election, hangs back and prefers his judicial position. It requires but a slight knowledge of politics to see whither all this shrinking reluctance tends. It looks to the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden as the democratic candidate for Governor. And we are constrained to admit that if all the other prominent democratio candidates take them- selves out of the field, Mr. Tilden has good chances for the nomination. He is a politi- | ian of great astuteness, and having been | chairman of the Democratic State Committee since the death of Dean Richmond, he has established such cloge relations with the lead- ing rural democratic Politicians of the State im & great advantage in manipu- lating the primary meetings w ich determine the chgige of delegates to the State Conven- tion. If neither Church, nor Beach, nor Pot- ter, nér Seymour, nor Kernan, nor Ganson exert themselves to gait the delegates, the quiet and subtle activity of iden will secure | be an assured thing, although he is less pro- | ferred than any of the gentlemen we have named. The reasons why none of these | gentlemen are willing to be put forward as candidates are well understood. ; Seymour's political career ended with his great defeat in 1868. Kernan, who is one of the purest and most upright men in the State, found that the Protestant feeling is an insu- perable bar to the election of any Catholic; | Beach is a particular friend of Tilden’s and will not run against him, although he desires the office, and Church thinks it would be ab- surd to relinquish his present high office, whose long tenure, for a man of his age, is a provision for life, unless he could see his way clear to make the Governorship a stepping | stone to the Presidency, which is the only position he has any good reason to court. Bat if none of these democrats contest the nomination against Mr. Tilden he will prob- ably secure it. He has sedulously cultivated his opportunities to make friends in the rural Governor depends upon preliminary activity Convention. If no other democrat contests the field against Mr. Tilden his quiet astute- | ness will secure him a majority of the dele- gates. Mr. Tilden is not a strong candidate. | sort of comparison in personal popularity with the democratic masses, and if he gets the nomination he can have no assurance of an election ; whereas if Church were nominated | he would sweep the field. As against Gov- ernor Dix Mr. Tilden would be a feeble can- | didate, and his nomination, instead of dis- would inspire them with confident hopes o: carrying the State. Unless Judge Charch | will consent to be the democratic candidate and his friends will be active the party will lose that “tide in the affairs of men which leads on to fortune.” If the democrats lose New York this year the party is virtually dis- | banded and dissolved, | i ' Danoens or rar Fourta Avante TUNNEL -- This great work at the upper ond of the Island | of Manhattan has already caused many tatal accidents to those engaged upon it, Yester- day o portion of the roof caved in and buried | | the peonex wainteuance of the Park in its | several of the workmen, billing que and in- 8 majority of them, and his nontimation will | ' Mr. Moreau, of St. Denis. | Second one previously. Result the same in bot | epithets as ‘base,’ and public buildings, and for gas and sup- plies, in which the great leakages generally occur, has been largely reduced since the over+ throw of the old Ring. The expenditure un- der this head in 1871, under Tweed’s manage- ment, was over three million dollars, while in 1872 it was only one million eight hundred thousand dollars, and in 1873 four hundred thousand dollars lees than in 1872. The ex. penditure under the assessment fund debt waa also one million dollars less in 1873 than in 1871, and under the permanent debt for con- struction one million three hundred thousand lesa, At the same time the fact that the ser- vice is more efficiently rendered under the present régime is shown by the increased re- ceipts for water rents, penalties, &., which are nearly two hundred and fifty thousand dollars more in 1873 than they were in 1871. We have always condemned the false econ- omy of stopping necessary public improve ments and thus blocking the progress and prosperity of the city. The investments we make in well considered and needful works have always been and will always be found re- munerative in the end. The Central Park, when first advocated by the Hzraup, was op- posed as a wild, reckless scheme of expendi- ture that was certain to run the city into ruim- ous debt, yet the increased value it has given to property has more than repaid all its cost. The splendid boulevards and avenues in the upper part of the city will have the same effect in the end, and it is false economy to embar rass and delay their completion. It is a litdle singnlar to find that the principal uptown im- provements, which are now almost daily de- nounced by Comptroller Green as extravagant and unnecessary sources ‘of expenditure, ener- mously increasing the public debt, were im fact mostly projected and commenced by him, and that the greater part of the outlay was made under his control. His opposition te them now is due solely to the fact that the work has passed under the management of another department, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Advertisements on eggs are the latest lay. ‘The raging of the dog star is a Sirtus subject, Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Buffalo, is at the Astes House. chevalier Wikofl sailed for Earope on the Bri- tannic Forney’s gone, and who will care for the Centem- nial now? Parton will maintain there is no truth, because he 1s unable to teil it. Secretary Bristow left Louisville yesterday after- noon for Nashville, Tenn. Congressman William H. Stone, of Missouri, te | residing at Barnum’s Hotei. State Senator Samuel S. Lowery, of Utica, is reg- istered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. A. T, Stewart sails in the Scotia to-morrow fora ’ vacation in eereRes ©. Armstrong, President of Hamptom College, Va., is stopping at Barnum’s Hotel. Ex-Congressman Giles W. Hotchkiss, of Bimg- { hamton, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Wales had a garden party at Chiswick. Three colnmns in the Tumes for the names ofthe guests. ‘The dreadful Welsh bards have been roaring at | another Eisteafod. Is there no Edward L in the laud? “SP xin Ex-Governor H. ©. Warmoth, of Louisiana, ar- rived in the city yesterday aad is at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. ‘Tilton says he will tell, Alter all tt may prove a mere story of a “ridiculus mus.” What a disap ; pointment! | Mr. Jacob B. Blatr, of West Virginia, late United States Minister to Costa Rica, te sojourning at the Astor House. ‘ Mr. Joseph Price, Generai Manager of the Great Western ailway of Canada, has apartments at the Brevoort Hous¢, If any one wants to know the price of putty let him ask @ Map who had hia conservatory smashed by the recent hailstorm, Kochetort’s ietter to the H&RALD, translated into German, has solid to an enormous extent in Germany as @ number of the Lanterne, Mr. Orlow W. Chapman, Superintendent of the New York Insurance Department, is among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotet. Chevalier Alphonse de Stuers, Chargé d'Affaires of the Netherlands at Wasaington, arrived from Long Branch yesterday at the Hotel Brunswick. General Van Buren sailed {n the Colima from San Francisco yesterday. He proceeds to Na- gasaki, Japan, where he will assume consular duties. M. Axel de Berend, Secretary of the Rassian Legation at Rio Janeiro, was married to Mise Florence Mary Buckley, daughter of the Britua Envoy Extraordinary. French law now jorbida the training of a child te any “dangerous periormance” belore it ts‘twelve years old. Pity they did not make such a law when the Prince Imperial was a baby. Aud now they have analyzed the first wife of They had analyzed the cases. Slow poison; small doses, skiliully given. Woodhull says that Tilton Orst had the story from one of his children. Perhaya the child had ag much imagination as Pip when he told the story of the big dogs and the silver trays and the veal cutlets, An O'Sallivan protested {n Parliament against the adulteration of good Irmh whiskey with thas in’erior article made tn Scotiand. He compared the whiskey thus adulterated to sparrows paintea ag canartes—both chirpy. Hugh Chariick and Oliver Gardner will be ap winted to the places recently occupied respec- tively by Oltver Gardner and Hugh Chartck, as soon as Mayor Havemeyer can spare a moment jromn the study of those papers, ‘Tilton will make a statement; Moulton will make ® statement; Howard, Wilkeson, Carpenter—an will make statemeuts, in short, nearly everbody in Plymouth church will tell the world what ne nows; and it could all be put on @ sheet of fools cap paper. It is ordered that {n the Irish Paritament, whem the home rulers get it, such terms as “thief of the wurruld,” “spaipeen,” ‘nager,”’ “villain,” “pol throon,” ‘“‘thraytor,’” “omatnawn,” 4c., and suo® brutal,” “Dloody-minded” and others named tna schedule to be farnisned te Members shall be considered unpariiagmentary, p GRcant WREN Used Lo tke Baas Of dapette . VX ee eee