The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1874, Page 6

& NEW YORK IERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR —_—— HE DAILY HERALD, published every Four cents per copy. An- day in the year. nual subscription price $12. ——.- LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subseriptions snd Advertisements will be and forwarded on the same terms receiv No. 315 Votume XX¥ ANUSEMENTS THiS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | ROBINSON HALL, Sixtoenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— VARIBTY, at 6 P.M, PERA HOUSE, West Twen vr rosixth —NEGRO MINSTROLSY, &e., at SP. ML; closes at 10 P.M, Dan | Bryant MET OLITAN THEATRE, No. 586 Broadw ARICTY, at $ P.M. closes atl0 | P.M. Matinee ac 2, M. ~ TONY PASTO S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VAKIBTY, at 8 F ». M. j closes at 10 P.M. CO MINSTR. Broadway MINSTRE LYCEUM THEATRE, o) And Sixth avenue.—GENEVIEVE DE | VOOR; closes at Waid P.M. Miss Kmily 2 % 3 a a B en Sixty-third add Sixtv-fourth | EXHIBITION. COLOSSEUM, of Hurty-tifth street —STORM OVER JARLEYS WAX WORKS, at 2:30 FP. Broadway, corner PATS WoobD’s MUSEUM, ot Thirtieth strect.—DONALD Me. | md ats P.M.; closes ai Wd P.M, K STADT THEATRE, Bowery —( pers Boufle—LA Vit. PARISIENNE, | atse.M 0PM, Miss Lina Mayr, PIC THEATRE, Xo. 024 Rrondwoy. VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; cloves at 10:45 P.M. Matince at PARK THEATRE, Broadway, he tween Twenty-first and Twenty-second D AGH, at8 P.M; closes at 10:3) P.M. Mr. Johu T. Raymond, THEATRE COMIQUE, foie Broadway —VARIETY, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 | STEINWAY HALL, e's BEGONE DULL CARE, Fourteenth street MS PM. close Cie b, M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of T ‘d street and Sixth avenue.—RIP yAN WSK Mo; closes av 10:30 P.M. Mr, Jetterson | Re HIPPODROME, ! Twenty-sixth s urth avenue.—Afternoon and evening, at: THEATRE, i roadway. —S! |, at SP. M.; closes at 10:30 | P.M. Mr. Boucic: NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston street —THE DELUGE, at 5 V.M.; closes ac P.M. The Kiraity Family. _ FIRTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-e' street and Broadway.—MASKS AND FACH.s -; closes at ll ¥. M. Miss Panny Daven- DEMY OF MUSIC, { Foarteenth stree:.—italian Opera—LUCIA, at & P. M.; closes at li P.M, “Mlle. Albani. ees ATRE, Broadway.—VARil seloses at 10:30 P.M, | BRO} HAMLET, at 5. Mure P. M.’ Mr. Davenport. \ Fourteenth 5 THE LAUGHS, at8 Ba, Cree = i are that the weather to-day will be clear and cool. Wait Steer Yesterpay.—The market was | fenerally firm, but without important feature. party is going to be on the great subject of | or snwkind are absolutely out of the question. Money advanced to 4 per cent, but the bulk | the finances. This is the paramount ques- | yen the police force, according to the recent | of business was done at 24 and 3} per cent. | Gold was steady at 110}. Yue Sare Buncuany Triat at Washington still drags along, and the Judge thinks the | drag may continue to the end of November. PES ARSE ERR { Tae Onsequies or Bisnop Bacon, at Port- | land, Maine, yesterday, were very impressive. | Archbishop McCloskey delivered the enlogy | over the remains of the deceased prelaie. | Tse Frrerwoon | Park Races ‘yesterday at- } ton and the bay mare Lady Dablman were the winners in the two trotting contests. Tae Loxpon Standard announces that its correspondent at Berlin had been examined in respect to the Von Arnim affair, but that | the correspondent of the Herarp considered | it his duty to reserve Lis information for the | paper he repre Tae Prot of the steamship Parthia has made a statement to the Pilot Commissioners, which goes far toward showing that the col- lision with the Adriatic last month was un- | avoidable. The English courts will, however, finally decide the matter. | Farugr Jon Brzsoy, a warm advocate of! “the poor Indian,” had a slim meeting at the Cooper Institute yesterday, at which he at- tempted to get np a delegation and schools for the improvement of the redskins. A very good idea, if our redskinned friends don't | sealp their beneiactors, | Ex-Govexxor Warger, of Virginia, gives to the public in our columns to-day his views upon the elections. He thinks that the peo- ple won the victory, and that the next Con- | gress must execute the policy of economy, re trenchment and reform. As Governor Walker will be an influential member of the Forty- fourth Congress it is encouraging to find that his opinions are so practical and wise. Gewerat Guant and Cotonen Mossy under- stand each other, and when the despairing office-seeker finds himself shut out by a failure to pass the civil service reform examiners let him go home, make a publio speech or two in favor of General Grant fora third term, and then return,io the White House and ask and he will receive bis appointment. Grant the third term may be a delusion and a snare, butto Colonel Mosby itappears as profit- | able in ite dividends as the Crédit Mobilier. | upon is a flotilla of light gunboats on Lake Aral, and from this base of operations, no | doubt, a line of military posts and depots will | be established as rapidly as practicable up the valley of the Oxus, and s0 on to the mountain walls of British India. And then, between the bear and the lion, will come the tus of war. | Bpparent. Nov. 11, 1874, | ‘The financial condition of the country will gradually improve during the next three or four years, but not in consequence ot demo- cratic successes in the clections nor in conse- quence of democratic legislation, More than three years must elapse before the democratic party can pass or repeal any act of Congress. From March 4, 1875, to March 4, 1877, it will control only the House, the President and the majority of the Senate being against it. Un- less there should be an extra session of Con- gress in the summer of 1877—which is un- likely—there will be no democratic legislation on the finances previous to the regular ses- sion beginning three years from next Decem- ber. So that for more than three years there is not likely to be any other change in the financial condition than such as results from the operation of the laws of trade without material alteration in the amount or character of the national cur- rency. Congress, at its next session, will leave untouched the currency act passed in June last, and during the life of the Forty- fourth Congress the House will block repub- lican and the Senate will block democratic | legislation, so that the laws relating to bank- ing and currency will remain unaltered tor several years. It is odd that this obvious legislative impo- | tence is insisted on by the democratic organs as the great reason why the country need have no fears of rash and dangerous measures from the democratic party. It isa strange line of argument fora democratic journal to main- tain that its party need cause no alarm, for the excellent reason that it is powerless. This would seem a more appropriate ground of re- assurance in republican than in democratic mouths. A republican might legitimately con- sole his party since its recent great defeats by showing thata long period must clapse before the democrats can do any legislative mischief, and that meanwhile efforts can be made to re- | cover lost ground. It would be a most extraor- dinary vindication of the character of Tweed to point out the length of time be must re- main a prisoner, dication differ in substance from the argument that the country need borrow no trouble about the democratic successes, because the party continues as powerless as it was before to enact or repeal any laws? The country has the same kind of interest in the character of the democratic party that the people of England have in the character of the heir When it is objected to the Prince of Wales that he is a prodigal, a man given to questionable indulgences, of empty, frivolous | tastes, without political judgment or solid in- | formation, it would be a ridiculous reply to enter into an argument to prove that the | Queen, his mother, is likely to live several | years, and that he can meanwhile | do no mischief. It would be more to the purpose to show that | his favorite associations were with states- | men, that he cultivated habits of business, | that he took constant interest in the politics of the British Empire and the diplomacy of | Europe—in short, that he was taking some | pains to qualify himself for his future respon- | sibilities. In like manner the people of this | country would gladly be assured that the | democratic party is united on a line of policy | fitted to inspire public confidence, and would | prefer to have their feeling of security depend | on the shortness instead of the length of _ time before the party comes into power. | The country bas an especial interest in knowing what the policy of the democratic tion. The recent political revolution is chiefly | owing to public discontent and suffering on Stebbins, is insufficient to maintain aoe ‘account of the business condition of the | country. The people meant to con- the financial policy which caused the disastrous disheartening stagnation which has since prevailed. They knew what they meant to condemn, but they do not yet sec what they ought to approve. The people in these elec- tions have acted like a tamily indignantly | dismissing a physician who bas maltreated his patients—sure they are right in that, but not very well knowing whether his long | | slighted village rival will prescribe with more skill. The business of the country will improve year by year from the spontaneous operation of natural causes; but whatever improvement | may come within the ensuing three years will | be in no respect due to democratic legislation, and is more likely to act against the party | than in its favor in the Presidential election. This year’s elections happened to come at the | most discouraging period of depression. The | great panic of September, 1873, was looked | for the city, might demur at the proposition upon at the time as o transient disturbance, which Congress was expected to rectify at its next session. More was expected of legislation than legislation could accomplish; and the law _ actually passed, after six months’ debate and one memorable veto, was harmless, indeed, but utterly futile The country, naturally hopeful, then looked forward to @ revival of business in the fall—a revival which did not come. The late elections took place at the very culmination of the public disappointment; atthe point of time beyond all others most unfortunate for the republican party. Had they occurred at the end of the summer the country would have been still buoyed up by hopes of a business revival as soon as the grain and cotton crops should begin to move, Had they been deferred till next spring the natural causes of recuperation after the great panic would by that time have begun to be felt. But in October, when the West fully realized that the business hopes of the year were disappointed, the Western elections came and gave full expression to that disappoint- To General | ment, The November elections—as business could not revive in the short interval—were the natural sequence of those in October, and & more indignant expression of the public dis- | content at the chronic stagnation of business, | Roussts im Cznrray Asta is strengthening | But it is reasonably certain that this stag- | favor of the constitutionalily of the law famil- her armed occupation on the land and the | nation will not continue very far into next | iarly known as the New Police Justice law. water. The latest addition to her defensive | year, and that by the autumn of 1876, the period | The decision confirms in office the present and aggressive forces in Turkestan resolved | of the Presidential election, business will be | police justices, appointed in May, 1873, by sperous state, in the least by again in a comparatively without having been aid democratic legislation. We will not undertake to state now the Teasons why business will necessarily and continuously revive after the present year, ‘The reasons are intelligible and convincing enough. but we have not anaca for them now. The Elections and the Finances. ‘The ordinary course of commercial crises has But how would such a vin- | { security, owing to the apparently unsafe cof- collapse last year and the | been studied by political economists, and is as well understood as the ordinary course of fevers is by the medical profession. The wheels of business get in motion slowly after aconmercial crisis; but in the second year the worst symptoms of deadness are relieved, and by the third year there is a tolerably vigorous revival of enterprise and hope. Such a revival, due to no party, due to no legisla- tion, but the simple result of well under- stood business laws, will bein healthy opera- tion during the autumn of the next Presiden- | tial election. That election will not take place amid the complaints and suffering of an | unemployed, impoverished, dissatisfied peo- | pie, like the remarkable State elections which | | have lately astonished the country. The demo- | | cratic party can claim no more credit for the im- | provement than for the good harvests— if they | happen to be good—of the Presidential year. | | The party is, therefore, more likely %o lose | | than to gain during the ensuing two years, | unless it shall agree on some financial policy | 80 obviously sound, wise and salutary as to command the hearty approval of the country. | The democratic party is not agreed on any | financial policy as yet, much less on one | which will stand the ordeal of public discus- sion. Shall We Have = Good Zoological Garden? No feature of our great Central Park can be made more interesting, instructive and useful than a zoological garden worthy of so magnifi- cent a pleasure ground. The Regent's Park in London and the Jardin des Plantes in Paris completely meet these purposes, and | each is an example for us which should not be disregarded. So far all our attempts in the same direction‘have been unworthy of this metropolis. Many of the travelling shows | | carry with them a better collection | ot wild beasts than is found in our Central Park menagerie, and yet the best of these | present only a fow ill-preserved specimens of the commoner kinds of animals. Many addi- | tions must be made to the present insufficient | collection, which we have dignified with the | name of a zoological garden, before it will | even begin to be worthy of the city of New | | York. And, besides, the present inadequate and unsightly buildings must give place to a new, commodious and secure structare, in a | better locality, both as regards visitors to the | Park and citizens living in the neighborhood. | At present our zoological garden is | | nuisance to the people in that vi- | cinity. While the animals are feeding | their unearthly noises can be heard for blocks | | around. At all times there is a feeling of in- dition of the buildings in which the wild beasts are housed. The menagerie should be placed somewhere near the middle of the Park, so that the noises would not be heard in the streets and houses on either side, and yet the garden be easy of access to visitors. If this change in location is made, suitable buildings | constructed anda worthy collection of ani- | mals secured, we shall feel amply rewarded for having called the attention of the people of New York to this important subject of a zoological garden. | The first great obstacle in the way of secur- | ing for this metropolis an American Jardin | \ des Plantes is the difficulty of obtaining | | sufficient funds from the Board of Appor- | tionment. The appropriations which are now allowed the Park Commissioners are | wholly inadequate to keep the works already | constructed in proper repair. Improvements. | report of Mr. Olmsted to President and suppress immorality. in Vicious per- | its most public re- | | sons congregate jdemn and have emphaticaily condemned | ports and lurk in its most retired nooks, | | making it as dangerous, if not so appalling, | as if the whole herd of wild beasts was let | _ loose, The Park cannot be properly main- | | tained nor can a zoological garden worthy | | of the city be provided without money. | | Our citizens are willing and even desir- | ous that the improvement shall go on, | and the Board of Appropriation is making a serious mistake in refusing | the funds asked for by the Commissioners. | We reprint an article from the Evening Post } of yesterday, which shows some of the dangers | | which are threatening our fine pleasure ground | because of this short-sighted policy. It is a | course to be deprecated both as regards the | necessity of preserving what has already been constructed and of providing what is neces- sary to the beauty and interest of the Central | Park. We can imagine how officers, who are re- sponsible for the many expenditures necessary | to provide the funds necessary to equip a ' suitable zoological garden in the Park. Yet | the money could not be more worthily ex- | pended. In Paris the Jardin des Plantes is | constantly receiving additions, and it is only _within a few weeks that the new reptile house was opened. The building is spacions | | and well aired, with a tank for the crocodiles | and alligators, well-wired cages for the ser- | | pents and a neat glass case for the huge and | hairy spider, the bird-catching mygale of } Brazil. This change of quarters ior the rattle- | | snakes and the boas was matter of great | interest in the French capital, and so would be every step in the formation of a zoological garden in this city. The botanical gardens in all the principal capitals of Europe are | used as means of educating the children in schools and students in colleges, and so our Park might be made the zoological centre of the United States. Professor Agassiz estab- lished on the island which will always be associated with his name a noble school for | the student of icthyology and geology, and | the metropolis of New York might well emu- | Jate so illustrious an example. It is @ matter of the greatest importance and ought to ree | ecive immediate and general attention. Tae Court or Arpvats has decided in Mayor Havemeyer. The law thus sustained | is chapter 538 of the Laws of 1873, ‘An act to secure better administration in the police courts of the city of New York.”” It provided for the appointment instead of the election of the police justices and legislated the elected judges out of office ten days after its passage. The decision will vive ceneral satiafaction, Sher single representative in the seven-mile | interest at Cambridge, at least till recently, | lost her stroke and best oarsman, the remain- ‘cover why, if no mishap | tion and thoughfal aid which they deserve, ‘The overthrow of the new law would have greatly embarrassed the administration of justice and have raised questions as to the legality of convictions, which might have ended in letting loose upon the community a set of criminals now securely lodged in jail. The University Boat Race—The Pros- pects for 1875. As at present advised we understand that all the colleges and universities represented last summer on Saratoga Lake mean to meet again next season, while two or three new recruits, one from our own city, are likely to join them. Princeton, who, after a gallant effort, suc- ceeded this year in bringing up the rear, has no idea of being again contented with that glory; but, with her fast and victorious Freshman crew to choose from, abundant money and a fondness for athletic contests hardly equalled at any other college in the country, she will be heard from, far higher up than last, in the race of next July. Trinity retains all her old men save one; and with the experience of this year, the heaviest crew of all, one of the tallest and oldest, a good practice course and plenty of grit and money, she will be very likely to carry back better word to Hartford than she has been able to heretofore, Cornell disappointed her friends more this time than perhaps any other university; for it will be remembered that, instead of fourth place, which she claimed in 1873, sixth was the best she could show this year. There is no lack of facilities at Ithaca for the best of work, and the powerful young university must not slacken her hand, especially now, when, if accounts are correct, two of her crew have graduated, if she expects to re- deem her reputation and do herself any real credit. Dartmouth, too, has again shown a fond- ness for one of the middle places, though her rowing had quickened and improved much since she made her maiden essay at the oar, showing that hard and judicious work will at last, if persevered in, shake a reef or two out of even marked unwieldiness. But what she has always sadly needed she still needs scarcely less—good coaching. She ought, too, with such reach and stride and such grand air | to train in to show better in the foot races, walk, it will be remembered, breaking down long before doing much over half the dis- tance. Williams, to the delight of her many friends, who felt badly enough in 1873, strode from tenth and last that year straight up to fourth or fifth place—one of the best surprises of the week. She will hardly improve on or | even hold that place next time, although she , does lose only one man; but he happens to be | man worth almost any other two in the boat, and one of the best three or four from all the boats together. hat his place will be filled is extremely doubtful, even though there is a year to doit in, which shows how close | and fine these contests are getting when one man can make so real a difference. Harvard, of which so much was expected, and whose promising career was so unhappily terminated by an entirely unnecessary col- lision, has lost much of her strength, a stroke-oar of three years’ standing and much dash and style and two of her tallest and strongest men -having become ineligible by graduation. Such a loss, with a lack of which, owing to the dulness of the outlook, has almost bordered on indifference, does not | hold out much encouragement for her chances next season. Thanks to the collision Wesleyan moved up to second this year; but, though she has ing five are uncommonly tough, and, with an abundance of money, hitberto unknown, and much valuable experience, together with the high hopes her taking second place twice | running has naturally given her, there is no kind of doubt that she will again give a good NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER Ul, 1874.-THIPLE SHEET. duties of the Mayoralty ho will use his powers for the benefit of the whole community, and not for selfish ends nor for the interest of any political party. The Mercantile Library Dinner—Poli- ticians on Neutral Ground. It is a pleasing fact that our public and social life is so diversified as to bring into frequent intercourse men of the most opposite ways of thinking and make them acquainted with one another's genial qualities. At col- lege anniversaries, literary festivals, army gatherings and other occasions of the like kind, stubborn and aggressive party chiefs, belonging to opposite sides, brought to- gether under circumstances of constraining courtesy which melt down their differences and exhibit their best traits both of manners and sentiment. The Mercantile Library din- ner, reported in the Heraup yesterday, was such an occasion, when the two most note- worthy speeches were made by distin- guished statesmen who have fought on opposite sides for many years. We of course refer to the Vice President of the United States and the Governor elect of New York. There was an amusing touch of good humor and good fellowship in Mr. Wilson’s allusion to Mr. Tilden as ‘my +} old comrade of 1848." This was a good hit at the successful democrat and a happy reminder of political duty. In 1848 both Wilson and Tilden were supporting Martin Van Buren as the free soil candidate for the Presidency, and Mr. Tilden was advocating the election of John A. Dix, the free soil can- didate for Governor of this State. It was a timely and not discourteous thing to remind the most rising statesman in the democratic party of his original anti-slavery sentiments, thus suggesting a reason why republicans might expect liberal views from him on this subject, and why the Bourbon democrats can- not reasonably demand that he should favor a reactionary policy on a question that has been settled in accordance with Mr. Tilden’s own early convictions. Besides the neutral ground of @ semi-literary dinner Mr. Wil- son dexterously pointed out further neu- tral ground between the republican party end Mr. Tilden in the contributions which the latter made to the early growth of anti-slavery politics in this country. We are sorry that Mr. Tilden did not, in his speech, make some jocose but significant response to this good-humored hint, He expressed, how- ever, his pride in the State of New York, and the best justification of such pride, we hope Mr. Tilden agrees with us in thinking, is not the commerce and wealth of the State, important as they are, but its great men. But how many of the statesmen of whom New York is justly proud have borne their testimony against slavery! How many promoted the sentiments which finally caused its overthrow ! Mr. Tilden himself, as a devot-d disciple of Mr. Van Buren, deserves to be enrolled on the list, or, at least, Vice President Wilson will interpose no objection to his being placed there, if he will accept the ripe fruit of the tree which in younger years he assisted to plant. The Democratic Majority in the Assem- bly—What Will They Do with It? The democrats will hold control of the next State Assembly with a fair working majority. The Senate remains politically with the oppo- | sition, but as there are four or five republican | Senators who may be relied upon to support | good legislation their votes will be sufficient | to insure the success of any honest and de- | sirable measures that may originate in the Assembly. The Executive authority will pass into democratic hands before the Legislature convenes. The democratic party will there- fore have the power, if it should have the will, to reform the character of legislation next ses- sion, and especially to protect the people of the metropolis against those acts of spoliation ten years, The first difficulty the majority in the As- account of herself, and likely snough keep her usual place. And the boat which will lead her will hardiy be Oolumbia. ‘Two of her crew have gone, one of them her ‘strongest man. | She will work mightily, no doubt, to fill the vacant places, and, if possible, repeat the glorious news of last July; but unless she has | unusually good material to choose from her loss must cripple her seriously. Good oars- men can be made in a year, but these univers- ity contests have of late become so close that the old hands stand the best chance, and Columbia can hardly hope, for many years to come, to see her two most dangerous rivals | again hopelessly interlocked and thrown out | of the race long before it is over. But whatever doubts and fears the friends of the others may have those of Yale may well view complacently the outlook. Too often they have known what it was to antici- pate only defeat, and find in the end that they had judged but too correctly. But this year all the best chances are their way. A crew already very tast and evety man of it | remaining, a captain who travelled six thou- sand miles first tu learn himself and then teach his men how to row, the spar of last year’s work thrown away, familiarity with her opponents’ strength and weakness, should the race take place this fall, Yale would win almost to a certainty, and we have yet to dis- comes to her, her chances for the first place next summer also are not the best of all. In any case there is abundant promise that there will then be all around» marked improvement, and should a foreign foe come then to try | conclusions we may safely trust the resuit to | those in whose hands it now rests. | Mr. WickHam, our next Mayor, was very properly called upon, at the Mercantile Li- | brary dinner, to respond to the toast of ‘The | City ot New York." In the first place, he will ' soon assume the responsibility of the Chief Magistracy of the city, and, in the second, be has been for years intimately connected with the management of the library. The speech | he made was worthy of the occasion, and in- | dicated that in his administration our public literary institutions will receive the considera- “All institutions like this growing and splen- did library of ours,” said Mr. Wickham, “which is a fountain of self-education, which | trains and elevates its members in good citi- | genship, deserve universal sympathy and | support.” We infer from the tone of Mr. Wick- | ham’s remarks that when he entera upon tha | sembly will encounter will be in the selection of a Speaker. Their material, so far as the members are known, is lamentably poor. If they had among them such a dash- ing legislative cavalier aa Gencral Husted, | | coming triumphantly from the battle field where so many warriors bit the dust, their task would be easy. Or if they could find ‘ asly old legislator like the Sage of Syracuse in their ranks, with parliamentary rules at his made. As it is, they must either trust to chance and select as their presiding officer the most promising new member that offers, or take some characterless and incompetent legislative hack pressed upon them by political leaders who may desire to use him for their ! own purposes. The former will be the only | safe policy to pursue, for without unyielding in- tegrity in the Speaker's chair there cau be no hope for honest legislation. If the fountain head is impure the whole stream must neces- sarily become tainted. Should the democratic majority secure a Speaker with oharacter and integrity there will be no difficulty in passing salutary laws through the Assembly, tor the democratic members will be under good party discipline. As the city of New York has been the greatest sufferer through corrupt legislation | in the past she should be the first to benefit by the revolution accomplished in the late election. Governor Tilden owes it to the city of his residence to use his influence with the members to enforce a substantial reform in the hails of the Capitol, and especially to | procure the passage of such laws as the metropolis needs, Republican legislatures have trifled with the question of rapid transit in New York and made it » source of trade and profit session after session. The fran- chises of the city have heretofore been openly hawked about at Albany and sold to the highest bidders. We shouid have a law passed this session to take the subject of a steam railroad in the city forever out of the hands of the Legislature, and place it under the control of a commission tormed of our best known and most prominent business men, who should have power to build such a road or roads as public works, or to provide for their construction by private enterprise. | This is the first great need of the city, the measure that would add hundreds of millions | to the value of real estate and give an impetus to business sufficient to speedily double our present population, Then there should be a cessation of all the special and jobbing legis- lation promoted by office-holders and other intercated, partiea avery yaar, and a rengal of all those objectionable laws which have already been fastened upon the city by such malign influences. The democrats in the Assembly ere strong enough to accomplish this important work, and if they set about it earnestly and in good faith the Senate will not dare to defeat it. The responsibility, therefore, rests wholly with them. If they will drive out the lobby, purify the halls of legislation, give us honest and salutary laws and make the session a short one, devoted te work, they will hold the power they have won unshaken in the State for ten years o come, A New American Actress. When a bright star sets in the West we sometimes see another splendor rising in the East. We should be glad, indeed, if, as Miss Cushman retires from the stage she has so long adorned, another American artist should emulate her success, in the person of Miss Kate Field, who is to make her first ap- pearance at Booth’s Theatre on Saturday night. If intelligence alone could make an actress there would not be the slightest ques- tion of Miss Field’s complete success, and certainly intellect is always wanted on the stage. In literature she has shown rare pow- ers—knowledge of the world, fine descriptive ability, a delicate and far-reaching humor, ap- preciation of the characteristic, and more than usual versatility. These qualities are as val- uable on the stage as in literature, and their possession augurs favorably for Miss Field’s future as an actress. Miss Cushman, in her late farewell address to the public, made the notable remark that it was necessity that compelled her to go upon the stage. Of this compulsion Miss Field is ignorant As @ successful author she has no reason for act- ing, excepting a sincere love for the dramatio profession. This fact illustrates the growing importance of the dramatic art. It is no longer, as it was when Miss Cushman first played, a refuge for women of intellect, but a temple in which they find it an honor and a privilege to officiate. If Miss Kate Field, who is successfal im literature, becomes celebrated in the drama it will doubtless be in a very different sphere from that which @harlotte Cushman has so | long occupied. Judging from the literary | productions of the new candidate for theatri- cal honors we should say that comedy would be her choice, She has selected Peg Woffing- ton as the character in which her début will | be made, and we anticipate that this per- formance will be brilliant success. Miss Field will not replace Miss Cushman, but she may make a new place for herself upon the American stage, and undoubtedly this first effort, in a beautiful but decidedly difficult | part, will have the warm support of the intel- | ligent public of the metropolis, and especially of those who have read and admired the many brilliant creations of her experienced pen. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Professor W. B. Rogers, of Boston, is stopping av | the Westminster Hotel. Mayor Henry M. Lewis, of New Haven, is sojourn. ing at the St. James Hotel. District Attorney N. C. Moak, of Albany, is resid- ing at the St, Nicholas Hotel. General J.N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s stam, te | registered at the Windsor Hotel. The trial of Clement Duvernois for swindling to which they have been subjected for the last | fingers' ends, their choice would be easily , | Was commenced in Paris yesterday. | Commander Alfred T. Snell, United States Navy, | ts quartered at tae New York Hotel. | Congressman Thomas ©, Platt, of Owego, N. Yu | 1s stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. | Mr, Moss K. Piatt, Inspector of New Yore State | Prisons, has arrived at the Futh Avenue Hotel. Mr. Fulton Paul, United States Consul at Trint- dad, bas apartments at the Westminster Hotel. Ex-Governor Jonn T. Hoffman and daugnter er | rived from Albany yesterday at the Clarendom | Botel. | Juage Jackson, the American Consul at Toronto, | Ont, lets there yesterday morning on a visit w Washington. | State Senator John H. Selkreg and Assembiye man W. L. Bostwick, of Ithaca, are at the Metro- politan Hotel. Judge Douglass Boardman, of the New York | Supreme Court for the Sixth district, is at the | Grand Central Hotel. Among the visitors to the President yesterday were Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, and Sena- tors Lewis, of Virginta, and Logan, of Illinois. Malicious people in England say that if the | students elect ine Duke of Edinburgh Lord Rector, they must put up with a solo on the violin in lew | of @ rgctorial address. Mr. W. E. Forster has declined the candidature for the Lord kectorship of the University oT Glag- gow. The liberal students will nite in support ing Ralph Waldo Emerson. Tne manicipal authorities of Seville, Spain, have + Offered a reward of $10,000 for the recovery of Muriilo’s great painting, a St. Anthony, which was stolen irom the cathedral in that city. Mr. Jonn Crossiey, a member of the British Par- lament, whe has been making an extended tour m the Soutn and West, has returned to this city and taken up Mia residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Since tue Chicago Tribune has been in the hands of the men who cut it loose from party trammels the stock has risen in valde from’ $1,500 to $5,000; but there are people out Weat who say that plan ‘was a failure. In Paris the police have orders to arrest all the Itali bp music boys (piyerart) found in the streete anc take them to the house of the Italian Ambas- sador, and the Ambassador sends to Italy all who are under eighteen years of age. A suggestion has been made tn London to lighten | the Sunday labors of the postmen. It Is for the sender to make a large M ou the envelope, denot- ing not necessary te deliver ti Monday. Such ice ters could easily be slipped as:de by the sorters, and would lessen the labor of stampers and deliv. erers too, It is understood there {34 rich man whose eo centric charity consisvs in paying the postage on all letters that have been insaiiciently prepaid by the senders. This keeps them ont of the Dead Letter Office. Now that this factis Known we suppose there Will be 4 great increase [a the aum- ber of letters ‘Insuilciently prepaid.” Berlin seems Very desirous to Know to what ex- tent Belgium and Switzerland are capable of de- fending respectively the neutrality of their terri tory. France can invade Germany through either of those countries if sne chooses to disregard weir neutrality, Hence their neutrality is Germany's only guarantee on their frontiers, and she wishes to know the exact strength of that guarantee, \ In the quarters of Constantinople inhabited exciusively by Turks there nas been in force til now a asage called the Baskine, a primitive piece of iynch iaw continued for the provection of morais. im virtue of this usage tue people nad | the right to break into any house to suppress and punish (mmoral practices. This custom vecame a cover for many abuses and aow the police are | directed co suppress it. General OLX’s story about the tnfluence of eels on politics has a very gvod double in a story now current in the French papers. A journalist im | Search of information inquired of a man working in a vineyard which of the candidates was likely to be elected in that district, “Well,” said the saborer, “no one call tell, All that depends oa the vintage. If the vintage is good the conserva tive will be elected. Busif people are dissatished with the harvest, the radical, who ia amaumst tne governments wil pe Rasen."