The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD @ROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy An- uual subscription price $12, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Youre Herarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx | Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly 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. Volume XXXIX No. 334% A MENTS TO-NIGHT. #0M. Miss Lina Mayr, THEATRE, dway.--li® HEART OF , Closes at 1030 P.M. Miss Twenty-eighth street and B MID-LOTHIAN, ac 8 P. Fanny Davenport, Mr. Fis! BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, & Wert Twenty-third street. near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at 8 P. M.; closesatl0P. M. Lan Bryant TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIET'Y, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10P. M. INSTRELS, ninth stree.—NEGRO at lO P.M, SAN FRANCISCO Broadway, corner of Jwent; MINSTRSLSY, ats P.M. GLOBE 1 RE, ; closes at 0:30 P. M, LYCE. Fourteenth street. ani DUCH#5s, até P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss bmily Soldene. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street -ULTIMO, at8 P.M. woop Broadway, corner of Thiri @lBP. M.; Closes at 1:45 USEUM, street. QUARRY DELL, M, Matinee at2 P.M METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 58% Broauway.—VASIESY, at 8 P, W30 P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, no. 624 Broadway.—VARIE/Y, at8 ’. M closes at 10:43 ally GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eh a wey streetand highth avenue.—THE BLACK CROOK, ats P.M. ; closes at ll P.M PARK THEATRE, Broadway. between Twenty first and Twenty-sccond | streets. GILDED AGE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1033) P. Mr. Jobo T. Raymond METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OP ART, Fourteenth street. —Opeus at 10 A. M.; closes at P. ML LYN THEATRE, 36 P.M. Mr. Stuart Robson. BROOK LAW IN NEW YORK, OMIQUE, ar SP. M.; closes at 10:20 THEATR No. 54 Broadway.—Vakl PM. BOOTH's THEATRE, corner Twenty-third street and Sixth avenne.—RED TAP and 1HE WIDOW HUNG, at 8 P. BL; closes as 1040P.M. Mr. John S. Clarke POMAN HIPPODROMZ, Twenty-sixth street and Fourt hoe.—FEVB AT PEKIN, afternoon and evening, at 2 and & WALLACA’S THEATRE, Broadway.—THE SiiAUGHMAUN, atS P.M; closes at WX Mr. Boucicault, TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Fifty eighth street and Lexington avenue.—VARIETY, at8P. M. j closes at 10:30 P.M. ASSOCIATI PROFESSOR RUBERTS! » HALL, ADINGS, at 8 P. M. NEW PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN. MARY WARNER, at 1. M. Miss Car.otta Leclercq. NIBLO’S GARDEN between Prince and flouston Broadway. streets. — TUE LAY OF LYONs and CUsiOMs OF THE COUN- TRY. at8P.M. Mass Lilue bidridee and Mrs Barney Williams 1874. New York, Monday, Nov. 30, | are that the weather to-day will be cold and partly cloudy. ing confiscation. Larest From Sparn.—Military operations | against the Carlists suspended by stormy | weather and more troops despatched to the graveyard of Cuba. | Wicxnam can be the best or the worst of | Mayors. But he can only be the one or the | other, There ce for mediocrity. Ex-Prrstpent Tutens has made two impor- tant discoveries—First, that Italian unity is an accomplished fact, and, second, that tho true course for President MacMahon is to rec- ognize the Republic in France. “Rarrp Transit’ e sign by which Tilden can conquer. Let Wickham write ‘Rapid Transit’’ on the banners of his new administration. Tue Statements of the physicians at the Deaf Mute Asylum indicate that there is no cause for alarm in the breaking out of the | smallpox at that institution. The disease is | under control, and, it is believed, will remain | so, The action of the Board of Health has been prompt and effective. Ler WickHam remember that he is no man’s | man, but the man of the people. The people will remember and reward him. Tue Lire or Amentcan Srupents in Paris and their opportunities for obtaining medical knowledge, picturesque and entertaining letter from our correspondent in the French capital. Tur Peorue of New York want a liberal economy and honest expenditure, not a policy of suffocation. — tre Mz. Brrcuen’s Views upon the proper obs | servance of Sunday will be read with interest | by all, especially as he takes advanced ground as to the right of all persons to observe the day in any manner they choose. } truly great man only needs his opportunity. ‘Tho greatest of men cotild have no better op- portunity than is now given by the govern- tucat of New York. Tow Oaw “Nerorism’’ and “corrgption in spetronage” be mado party cries in the Presi- | dential canvass if Tammany continues the | ‘nepotism and corruption in patronage which | has marked so many Tammany odministra- ML; closes at NE The New York Senmatorship. Attention is recalled to this subject by the publication of a new letter from ex-Governor Seymour to the editor of another rural news- paper, declaring that he will not be a candi- date. “Methinks the lady doth protest too much.” But Mr. Seymour ought to be taken at his word, and his party friends should not | throw doubt on his sincerity by entreaties and | expostulations which imply a hope of chang- ing his purpose. It is to be presumed that he deliberately weighed the reasons on both sides | before publishing his decision, and as circum- stances have not altered, and are not likely to alter, there would be an unseemly appearance of vacillation in changing it, As he evinced | remarkable instability on the most conspicu- ous occasion of his life, he has something to | redeem in this part of his character, and he | cannot afford to expose himself a second time | to the same kind of ridicule. Having been | once caught up and borne away by a tempest | (this was his own explanation of that memor- | | able change), he must not put himself in a posi- | | tion to need the same rhetorical excuse again, | lest his fellow citizens suspect the lightness | ofa body that can be lifted {rom its place | by every passing wind. | | But, even if Mr. Seymour's infirmity of will | should cause him to waver, his penetration should enable him to see that Mr. Tilden | does not want him in the Senate. Mr. | Tilden is the rising man of his party, and 1s | supposed to regard the Governorship as a | mere perch from which he meditates a higher flight. If Seymour were to go to the Senate | he would hold a more conspicuous place in | national politics than Tilden through his gift | | of persuasive speaking, for which the Senate | would afford a commanding theatre. The | New York Senator would be likely to eclipse | | the New York Governor, who, having set his | heart on the Presidency, desires to stand be- | | fore the country as the most distinguished | democrat of his State. Seymour was defeated | | in 1868 by his war record, but the defeat of | Dix by ‘Tilden proves that war records {can no longer avail to help or harm | | political candidates. So, although there | | is no likelihood that Seymour will | ‘ever be nominated again, Tilden may not wish to have a man in the Senate who might outshine him, and against whom | the old objection can no longer operate. But whether such motives exist or not, Mr. Sey- | mour has precluded himself from accepting | the Senatorship by the encouragement he has | given to other candidates. They are at full | liberty to canvass the democratic members of | the new Legislature without offence or rival- | ship to Governor Seymour; and after they have made some headway it would be ungra- | cious and ungenerous for him to enter the | field against them, and especially against his friend and neighbor, Mr. Kernan. This state of the situation is so well under- stood that we doubt whether the democratic press intend anything more than a mere com- pliment by remonstrating against Mr. Sey- | mour’s purpose every time he makes a new | declaration of it. They do not really wish | him to recede, but only to support their favor- | ite candidate, as he would soon find out if he \ were to make the trial. Seymour's declina- ture has brought two other candidates into | | the foreground, either of whom would | make a respectable Senator, although they have unequal chances, As between Francis ; Kernan and Amasa J. Parker nobody can | doubt where Mr. Tilden’s preference will be | given ; and it must be borne in mind that Mr. Tilden is at present the most influential democrat in the State. Judge Parker allowed ' himself to be made the candidate of Mr. | | | | | Tennessee planter have overthrown the United | | put forth by Mr. Seymour is absurd, as might | the courage of that daring explorer. | ters of Bazaine and Count Arnim and Arch- | vision, the planet Venus is now to the mind’s sound faculties make an absurd assumption of superiority we infer that his pride has been in some way wounded to the quick. But Mr. Seymour's strange letter excites our wonder. Does he believe that Washington, at the age of sixty, had “failed to make a good record?” Washington was precisely of that age when in the last year of his first term. Jefferson and Hamilton, who agreed in little else, united in pressing on him the importance of his serving again, which was idle if he would have been equally influential out of office, Jefferson wrote, ‘I consider your continuance at the | head of affairs of the last importance,” and Hamilton, ‘If you quit much is to be dreaded.” It seemed to those advisers, and to Washington himself, who was convinced by their reasons and yielded to their impor- tunities, that it made a vast difference in his influence whether he remained in office or re- tired to private life. Andrew Jackson was sixty-two the year of his first inauguration, and it is a wild idea that his influence during the ensuing eight years would have been as great as a Tennessee planter as it was as President of the United States, Could the States Bank? Could he have put down South Carolina nullification? The opinion be proved at length by citing the careers of four-filths of our eminent statesmen, and if his sensitiveness were not in some way hurt he would be incapable of uttering so unten- able an opinion, or one so at variance with modesty and good taste. It becomes no man to assume that his political influence is so great that official position could not strengthen it, Mr. Seymour, doubtless, sees through Mr. Tilden’s motives for preferring Mr. Kernan tor Senator, and his own unwillingness to minister to the ambition of a man who has so long stood below him in political estimation may account for what seems singular in his language and conduct. Mr. Stanley in Africa. The extracts from the London Telegraph elsewhere printed relative to the progress of Mr. Stanley in his African expedition will be read with proud interest by all who admire It would not surprise us if Mr. Stanley’s achievements in Africa would surpass what he has already done in that strange land, im- possible as this may seem. Already he has con- tributed most useful information to our knowledge of Africa. Without yielding to too sanguine anticipations as to what may be done by Mr. Stanley and his expedition, we note in the progress he has already made an- other evidence of the enterprise of the American press, which in the present case has an international value, for the press of Lon- don and New York work hand in hand, Mr. Stanley carrying with him the flags of England and the United States. The journalism of the day only marches from one victory to another. The expedition to Khiva and the explora- tions of the Soudan are evidences of what courage and foresight can achieve, The let- bishop Manning to the Hzraxp show that the press of New York is becoming, to use an Oriental phrase, the tribunal of all the world. The complete freedom of our press, and the fact that we speak to every nation, make our columns the asylum which all seek, no matter how high their station or how vast the inter- est at stake. The Transit of Venus. Almost as large as the earth, yet so far away from us that it is but a luminous point to the | Tilden’s opponents in the angry heat of the eye the most important member, of the solar ‘called the spirit of cosmopolitan progress the | to the Senate he would not use his position to | which will occur on December 8, for the first | tions. Mz. Tilden wishes a tried and devoted | ticipated with extreme interest by the whole | from this State—a man who will hold the | this little dark spot over the bright disk of Syracuse Convention; and if he were elected | system. Its passage over the face of the sun, promote Mr. Tilden’s Presidential aspira- | time in more than one hundred years, is an- | | personal friend for the democratic Senator | givilized world. For during the transit of | shrewd a judge as Mr. Tilden at their true is the subject of a) same relation to him that Silas Wright held to | Van Buren. Parker does not stand high in From our reports this morning the probabilities | Tilden’s confidence and intimacy, but Kernan ward determining the celestial does beyond any other man in the State with qualifications to make a respectable Senator. or jealousy, his feeble health, long habits of re- | pose and the lack of force and strenuousness, | more interest than they look upon revolutions which is the weak side of his character, would make him far less serviceable os a friend than | | Kernan, whose close industry and vigorous | nature of the phenomenon and the advantages warmth and zeal are estimated by so value. Mr. Kernan is able enough to be use- ful but not aspiring enough to be dangerous, | | nor high enough in position to feel envy or | jealousy of a man who has always outranked | which are designed to make the exposition | him in New York politics. But Seymour has plainer. Russia, England, France, Germany, always outranked Tilden as much as Tilden | the United States and other nations have made | has outranked Kernan, and no public man ever | extraordinary preparations for this event, feels quite easy in being passed by an inferior | with whom he has been in habits of close in- | tercourse. The relations between Mr. Sey- | | mour as a Senator and Mr. Tilden as a candi- | date for the Presidency would be too delicate | to stand the wear and tear that would be put | upon them, and accordingly Mr. Kernan is | the candidate of the incoming Governor. | Judge Parker will receive a smaller proportion of votes in the democratic legislative caucus for Senator than he had in the Syracuse Con- vention for Governor, and if Mr. Kernan gets the caucus nomination his election by the democratic Legislature will follow of course, The motives assigned by Governor Seymour | for his refusal, in his second published letter, | are so odd and fantastical that they seem mere pretexts. When a man of sense and | abilities gives a foolish reason for a decision it is natural to conclude that there is some- | thing concealed behind it, Mr, Seymour | says:—“I have made up my mind that ifa ! an who has reached the age of sixty is not as fnMuehtlal out of office as he can be in an official position hé has failed to make a good record.” This has been interpreted as ao covert fling at Mr. Tilden; but we do not so understand it, although it may unpleasantly remind the Governor elect that he is begin- ning his official career pretty late in life, But, whether intended to contrast the writer with Mr. Tilden or not, it is one of the vainest things ever uttered by a distinguished public man. Mr, Seymour virtually asserts that the personal influence he has acquired is so great that official station could add nothing to it, and that every man’s public career is a failure if he has not reached this sublime elevation at the age of sixty tions in New York ? . vears, Ordinarily, when we see man of ERS ee eee we ekeree | | nomical investigation. Taxation ry New York is rapidly approach. | Seymour would be less acceptable, not only | offers the best opportunity of measuring | for the reasons we have indicated, but be- | the distance from the sun to the earth, and it | cause, even if he were quite free from ambition | astronomical the sun scientific observers will be able to ascertain facts which will go far to- 1 distances new basis for astro- ‘The transit of Venus and forming a is such a rare event that it is not strange that modern astronomers look upon it with far and wars or the downfall of kings, We publish to-day a full explanation of the to be derived from the results, It is written ina clear style, by which even the un- reader will be enabled to understand the subject. This history and analysis is illustrated by diagrams, One fact which makes the next transit of Venus more valuable is the vast improve- ments that have been made in scientific in- struments since 1769. It was impossible for the astronomers of that year to apply the delicate tests, the ingenious methods of meas- urement, the photographic instrument, the spectroscope and all the mechanical con- trivances which modern astronomers have } at their command. It is reasonable, there- fore, to expect from the observations now | to be made results far transcending | in accuracy those upon which the existing | calculations are founded. The transit also | marks upon the vast dial of the universe the advance of our own civilization, so petty in its progress when compared with the enor- mous cycles of time which such celestial | events indicate, and yet so vital to humanity. | ‘The interest taken in the transit by all civil- | ized countries, and even by countries which acentury ago were not considered civilized, | is an evidence of an increased and almost | universal appreciation of the usefulness of scientific facts. Among the various expedi- | tions which have been sent to ail parts of the | earth from which the transit can be observed | that organized by the United States govern- | | ment is one of the best equipped, and we have reason to trust that its results will not | be the least important, | Tmpen axp Wicxnam should remember | | that New York is the most grateful of cities | | to those who serve her well. | A Peptzc Dest which represents the degra- | dation of New York like the debts of the | Tweed régime is the worst of calamities, A | public debt which gives us acity like Paris | revelation. At the Friends’ meeting house in Law in Velvet and Law tin Fustian. The law is master of us all, and there can be no freedom in a society which does not recognize this as a fundamental principle. There has been a great deal of discussion over the statute of 1860 forbidding any public | entertainments on Sunday evening. This statute is comprehensive, preventing any kind of amusements—‘“interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, farce, negro minstrelsy, negro or other dancing’’—under a penalty of five hundred dollars fine and a forfeiture of license. | As to the wisdom of such an act much has been said. The argument that what is proper on Monday cannot be improper on Sunday | is hard to answer. The ‘‘Shaughraun” and | “Rip Van Winkle’ are better moral lessons | than many of our orthodox sermons, and there is piety enough in ‘Lohengrin’ to found a new religion. It is hard to see the harm in ‘‘Hamlet,"’ even on Sunday. Our most decorous American cities—say Boston and Philadelphia, which may be classed among the eminently proper, and are certainly more straitlaced than cosmopolitan New York-- are no better than Paris and Madrid. In Paris we may see an opera on Sunday even- ing, and in Madrid the whole population flocks from Sunday afternoon vesp:rs to witness a brutal bull fight. This is one of the ques- tions that must largely be decided by usage. There are many customs proper in Europe that would not be allowable in New York. Some of the most pious people in the world— in Bavaria and Spain—celebrate their Lenten fast by Passion plays in which actors per- form the whole Passion of Christ from the entrance into Jerusalem to the resurrection. This is a pious office, springing from a con- trite and humble heart. Buta Passion play in New York would shock the conscience of the community. For the men who stumbled up the cold and frozen Plymouth Rock on that memorable December day have ineffaceably stamped their rigid ideas upon this Yankee nation. The Puritan spirit reigns. It is hard to es- cape from it. We have it in our laws. In any contest between it and what might be former will win. We have not educated our- selves up, or it may be down, to an apprecia- tion of a French Sunday. They have done so in New Orleans; but that is because New Or- leans is rooted in French soil. The law makes it impossible in the North, and this law is, as we have said, master of us all. For some time there has been a tendency to make this law obsolete. Ingenious managers have, step by step, invaded it. We have had ‘‘sacred’’ concerts and operas—the sacred concert generally beginning with oa strain or two from Handel’s anthem, as a compli- ment to the day, and running quickly into pastoral ballads and opéra bouffe. Nothing could be less harmful in itself, but it is the opening door, and if unchecked in a few years we shall have, as in New Orleans, double performances on Sunday and ‘extra attrac- tions."” This is what the statute of 1860 was intended to prevent, Against Sunday amuse- ments every religious element, witha stray and wandering exception, is arrayed. The Catholic Church, which permits the Sunday bull fight in Spain and the Sunday opera in France, as @ concession to the sentiment of those coun- tries, arrays itself against the Sunday opera in New York as a concession to the sentiment of this country. So, in the contest which has | arisen not only religious public opinion, but | the exact letter of the law, is on the side of | those who oppose Sunday amusements. The severe operation of this statute may be a hardship, and, no doubt, is. But we have no concern with that. The law is the law. We cannot have one law for velvet and an- other for fustian, although in the administra- tion of recent justice this has been too often the case. The powerful gambler, with his | gilded halls, is unmolested, because perhaps | his voice is dominant in scme political con- vention. The police close their eyes to his splendid defiance of law. But the poor devil of akeno player is summarily hauled up to answer for his misdemeanors. It is now as in Shakespeare’s time, plate sin with gold and the lance of justice will have only a pany in- fluence upon it. There can be no tampering | with statutes. The law of 1860 must be en- | forced. If it is a bad law the people will find it out in the only proper way, by feeling its | harsh consequences. As President Grant said, “Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed to as well as those in favor ot them. I know | no method to secure the repeal of bad or ob- | noxious laws so effective as their stringent | execution .'” Christian Duty from the Pulpits, Asif inspired by the beginning of the new Church year the sermons yesterday were | nearly all devoted to expounding simple Christian duty. At the Church of the Dis- ciples the Rev. Mr. Hepworth preached on | the “Good Shepherd,’ telling of Christ’s in- | fluence upon men in life and death. It was a | plain, practical discourse, full of earnestness and interest and a model of old-fashioned | Christian preaching. The Rev. Dr. Ormiston | brought his hearers back from the prevailing | tendency of considering the Old Testament narratives as so many allegories, and, while | expounding the account in the Scriptures of | Jacob wrestling with the angel, stoutly de- | fended it from the modern view, which re- gards it only as the record of a vision. It is in its literal sense that Dr. Ormiston wants us to accept it At the Calvary Baptist church the Rev. Mr. MacArthur spoke of the work of the Holy Spirit; the Rev, Dr. Wild discoursed of Judas’ sin at the Seventh avenue Methodist church, and the Rev. John F. W. Ware preached on faith at the Church of the Messiah, As appropriate to the day, the Rev. Father Carroll expounded the mystery of the | incarnation at St. Stephen's Roman Catholic church, and the Rev. Dr. Chapin, at the | Church of the Divine Paternity, seized upon the occasion which the lesson of the Saviour's advent afforded to consider Christianity as a Rutherfurd place the paramount duty to God was enforced by Elder Foulke, and in most of the other churches of the different denominations the same sub- ject was the theme of ministerial com- ment. Ina few of the churches, however, a special topic was chosen, The most notable instance of this, perhaps, was the sermon of | the Rev. O. B. Frothingham, which was on charity and the poor. Like most of Mr. W’ YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. the New Testament theory that poverty is virtue, and regarding pauperism as the direct fruit of charity. It is in the genius of tho in- dustrial age that he expects to find the substi- tute for almsgiving. The Rev. Mr. Nye ex- pounded the idea of a universal heaven at the Universalist church in Clermont avenue, Brooklyn ; but aside from this unorthodox view his sermon differed little from the orthodox discourses of the day. At St. Patrick's Cathedral the mission for men was begun, Father Damen preach- ing on the return of the Prodigal Son. It will thus be seen that most of the preaching yesterday was without salient features, and, perhaps for that very reason, the best preaching. The King of the Sandwich Islands. King Kalakaua has arrived at San Fran- cisco, and is now the guest of the American people. As a general rule monarchs, with real crowns, seldom visit this country. We bave had monarchs without crowns, such as Mr. Louis Napoleon, Joseph Bonaparte and the Bourbon who was among us. Future sovereigns, with the phantoms of what seemed to be crowns above their heads—as, for example, the Prince of Wales and a Grand Duke of Russia—we have seen; but a real King has been rare, It is, therefore, with | unusual pleasure that the advent of His Majesty of Hawaii is received. We cannot but admit our delight; and when he reaches Washington we trust that Secretary Fish will assure him that he does us honor. Two great institutions were named after Lord Sandwich—the first the islands which King Kalakaua so ably rules, the second the delicious combination of bread, mustard and ham which that eminent Premier invented. The latter sandwich we have always with us, and it can be had by any one, with a mug of ale, for the small price of ten cents. But the King o* the Sandwich Islands is a novelty anda prize. His country is sandwiched be- tween America and Asia, and is valuable to both continents. To the commerce of the Pacific it is important, and especially so to Americans. We have always been on good terms with the Sandwich Islands, and this visit will assuredly add to the friendship of the two nations. No king in the world could be more warmly welcomed than King Kala- kaua, for he rules by the will of the people, and is not a despot, but a kind of republican monarch, such as a third or fourth term Pres- ident might be tous. We interpret his visit as an evidence of good will to the American nation, and it will be our fault if he returns to Honolulu disappointed in his trip. San Francisco received King David Kalakaua with the honors of cannon and flags; Wash- ington will officially welcome him, and New York may be expected, as the metropolis, to give’him emphatic proofs of the nation’s hos- pitality. Strange things will be seen by him in his journey through our territory. Every | man he meets will be a sovereign, and he will be one of a great Congress of Kings, He will see railroads, steamboats, manutfactories, im- mense plains, cities and rivers, which, as he has never before been from home, ought to astonish him. In fact, he is expected to | be astonished, and in. some, respects is | certain to be. Our architecture will surprise him, and when he beholds the New York Post Office he will admit that Honolulu can boast of nothing of the kind. But he ought not to be surprised at the enthusiasm the American people will show during his journey over the Continent, for that will be natural and sincere. He is not a common King, but one to whom we can give our allegiance for a time witha clear conscience, for we believe him to bea good man, who has the happiness of his na- tion at heart, and a good friend to the Ameri- | can Republic. Long live King Kalakaua, and long may he reign! will be the Christmas greeting our royal visitor will receive through- | out the length and breadth of the land. i i | Aveustus Founp Rome brick and left it | marble.’ Napoleon did the same with Paris. Tilden may profit by the example. | Museum, Fifth Avenue. | No part of New York has suffered more in | what may be called ‘the policy of suffoca- tion’ which Green and Havemeyer have | adopted than Fiith ayenue. And yet there is nothing that the city should take more pride in nourishing than this same Fifth avenué. | It is our finest highway. It connects the city with the Park. The resident always carries the stranger to it with pride, as something worthy of the mighty city. Oa gala days it is a promenade to rich and poor, and on agreeable Sundays is as much of a pleasure route as the Champs Elysées. A liberal city government would take as much pains to im- | prove this avenue as to improve the Park. This | is nota matter that especially concerns those who dwell on the avenue. They, perhaps, have the least interest in it. But custom has | made it a city highway, and it should at once | be made worthy of its office. Let us havea new macadamized pavement on Fifth avenue, Ali manner of experiments have been tried with it and with other strests—wood, gravel, pitch, tar, asphalt, and soon. But nothing has been found to equal the old-fashioned Macadam pavement, made of honest, sound, | smooth stone, Such a pavement, well | laid, not by o Tammany ring con- tractor, who has to pay assessments | to the party, but by capable workmen, should last as long as those Roman ways that manifest to-day the sincere purpose of the men who made them two thousand years | ago. The experiment of throwing sand upon | the avenue, which was tried a few days since, was well enough, and showed a disposition to | do something. But the true way is the best, and that is to immediately lay a Macadam pavement from Washington square to Central Park, and to lay it so firmly that when our grandchildren drive over it they will honor the | foresight which planned and made it. Sranvation AMono THE Minens.—The letter we print to-day from Scranton, Pa., describes & feariul state of destitution among the miners employed in the coal regions. Men without work, women without food, families in danger of starving, should not only excite our pity, but our alarm, for distress so great as | that pictured by our correspondent must surely end in crime. The facts are as start- ling as they are painful, and should command the attention of all prudent and philanthropic citizens, The hunger of a starving people is | Frothingham’s discourses on practical ques- | would be cheerfully borne by the veonle, fiona. it waaa bald effort. taking issue with | ities that fire and flood can cause. more dangerous to society than all tho calam- | visitors’ book. te Me. Teimagé amd His Critic, What the Rev. Mr, Talmage said yesterday in Brooklyn of the awfal angespe of the modern stage we contrast elsewhere with what a correspondent thinks of Mr, and his remarkable religious doctrines,’ The vindictiveness with which the B: preacher attacks the theatres is matched by the cool but cutting satire of his criti. In reading these contributions to the discussion of the drama, we are reminded of the descriptions which travellers have given of scenes in African wilds, where the black rhinoceros plunges and roars and tramples down in his fury all in his path, while close by are heard the quick, sharp shots of his hunter. Few Christian clergymen, we are glad ‘to say, go as faras the Rev. Mr. Tal- mage in insulting the theatrical profession. and all the good and great men and women who have written plays or acted them, and his extravagant rage makes him an easy prey to his merciless opponent. We believe with Shakespeare that mercy is twice blessed; but as Mr. Talmage does not grant it he has cere tainly little right to expectit. Had our cor- respondent have been less severe hoe would have shown that in the Chris- tian virtue of charity he might with profit to the congregation take the pul- pit which Mr’ Talmage does not creditably fill. It would be at least interesting to pic- ture Mr. Stuart in the latter position. Can Mr. Trpen hope to have civil service an idsue in the canvass for the Presidency un- less he gives us an honest civil service in New York? Way Snourp Dipxruerra and typhus be the welcome guests of our municipal government? Mr. Wickham can answer this question when his time comes, Tue Nzw Court House is a monument of the infamy of old Tammany, as the new Post Office is a monument of the enterprise and thrift of the general admimstration. Let Tilden and Wickham build us monuments in rapid transit, newly paved streets, commodious docks and piers, that will do honor to the new government, Ler Tue Porcy of suffocation which has characterized the reign of Havemeyer and Green be succeeded by a policy of regener- ation. Mr. Trpen has no higher responsibility than the successful administration of New York by the democracy. The way to Washing- ton lies through the metropolis. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Congressman Charles A. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, is sojourning at the Hoffman House. Mr. John S, Clarke, the comedian, has taken up his residence at tne Coleman House. State Senator F, W. Tobey, of Port Henry, N. ¥., is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor Bonamy Price, of Oxford, England, has apartments at the Westminster Hotel. Right Rey, William H. Hare, Bishop of Niobrara, is among the latest arrivals at the New York . Hotel. Mr. Saunders has received his exequatur as | Vice Consul for the United States at Berlin, Ger-. + maay. Mr. Nathan Appleton, of the firm Bowles Brothers, {8 passenger on the steamer Abys- | sima, which sailed from England for New York on the 28th inst, in Milwaukee they have experience, and they say that when Olive Logan acred people wished | she would lecture; when she lectured they wished she would act. Messrs. Richard Harrington and A. B. Williams, heroes o! the sale burgiary farce in the District of Columbia, recently closed, are residing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Style of the good ola times in France:—‘A stag was brought to bay at Chantilly, ripped up two dogs, and was finished with the carabine by the Prince de Joinville.” In France they compare the Centre Gauche in the recent elections to “those women and chil- dren whom the rioters put in front to prevent the soldiers firmg on them.’ The “Book of Kells,” valued at $60,000, which Was anuounced as missing irom the library of St Columokili, in Dublin, has Leen found in the British How it got there is @ mystery, Milton Turner, United States Minister to Libe- Tia, {8 how in this city, leave of absence having been granted him (or the purpose of recuperating his bealtn, which has been seriously affected by the severity of the Airican climate, - Fivaily a man has actuaily caught a fish in the Seine, at Paris, Many men have, however, been alter that fish a great many years, It was a salmon, which was sold to the Keeper Of a restaurant on the Palais Royal for torty-three francs. This will give anew impulse to ishing from the quay, the pursuitin which Paris “oats and indulges its soul.’ Protection 'n full bloom. In Germany the grow- ers and sellers of Rhine wine are about to petition the Reichstag to lay a heavy duty on French wine, because their own trade suffers by the competitions that is, they mtend to ask government to compel the people to give up @good and cheap beverage | Out o1regard to the commercial interests of a ciass. In France the papers rejoice somewhat over @ | fact which tney do not see is to the honor of Ger- many—the fact that at Mayence, Cologne and some Otuer cities there are committees framed for the decoration ol the graves of the French soldiers who died in Germany. It would not be well for any one to undertake to decorate the graves of German soldiers in France. On his arrival in London Bazaine called at the house of the Duke of Cambridge, the commander of the British army, and inscribed his name in the Andit is further chronicled that “on learning the fact upon his return home His Royal Highness expressed his feelings in thas forcible language in which he is said to be accus- tomed to indulge when highiy incensed or an- noyed,” Next Easter an international congress for the | promotion of geographical science will be held in ' Paris. Baron Richtholen, President of the Berita Geographical Society, weil known for his explora- tions 1p China; Professors Petermann, of Gotha; Kiepert, of Berlin; Peschel, of Leipzig, and Wap- pans, of Gottingen, the greatest authority om South America since Humpoidt, are among the Germans who will attend, Lieutenant Lubowita, who bet that he would go from Vienna to Paris on the same horse in fifteen days, has won his bet, and bis horse was severely kicked in @ stable on the way. In the time of ' Louis XVL the Prince de Ligne went from Vienna, to Paris in six days. He was allowed to change horses as oiten a8 be liked, but was never to pus his foot to the ground, Hissaddle, with him ints, was lifted irom horse to horse. Here ts an tinportant fact in chemistry: Dealers in kirschwasser test {ts purity with gum guaiacum, and this test 18 accepted as absolute in the whole trade, If tt 1s kirschwasser made {rom cherries is turns the powdered guaiac diue; but Hf it is & counterfeit made oi flavored alcohol it does. not have this effect. Recently, however, one of the best distillers has made known that his kirsch- wasser made irom cherries, with every attention. to details, does not give the required reaction. Upon inqiury he finds that the ordinary kirseRe wasser made ona small scale 1s made In copper ketties, takes up capper from tho vessel, and that it 1s this cor per in kirsch which turns gualacam viue, But the prejudice has so firm a hold of the trade tuat he bas to poison uis liquor in order ta well ih is