The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. . JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, _—— oo NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hzrarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. 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. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. twenty-oighth tireet ant Browdway- fHE, BIG BO- NANZA, at 8 P.M.; closes at lu:d0 P.M. Mr. Lewis, Miss Davenport, Mrs. Guibert, TONY PASTOR’S OPERA HOUSE, Xo, amt Bowery.—VAKIETY, at 8 P.M; closes at 1045 yo M. 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M. to9 THEATRE, RAUS, at SP. M.; closes at | WALLA’ Broadway.—THE SHA loau P.M. Mr. Boucicauit STEINWAY HALL, | Fourteenth street—DRAMATIC KECITALS, Miss deunie Lotebkiss, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtietn street—MARKED FOR LIFs, at 3 P. M.; closes at 1045 P.M. Matinee at2P. M, TIVOLI THEATRE, Figh’h street. between Second and Third avenues.— VARIBTY, at & P. M.; closes at 12’. M, BRO! Washington street.— closes at 1045 P.M. way. EVA CROSS, at8P. M.: ink Roche, Mrs. F. 5. Con : STADT THEATRE, | Bowery.—THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, at 8 P. M. Miss Lina Mayr. RAN OLYMPIC THEATRE, Pi a Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8. M.; closes at 10:45 Yr DAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day wili be cloudy. Watt, Srerer Yestenpay.—Stocks were generally lower and business without feature. Foreign exchange was steady. Gold advanced to 115}. Tue Boarp or Surcrons was re-established | yesterday by the Commissioners of Police, | EUM, Broaa may and Thirty-fourth street.—PARIS BY NIGHT, | Yr | which with some natures makes lucrative in- | cognate natures. The President's cherished | sively, but never father and son simulta- | neously. | nature, the craving of this sort of distinction, NEW YURK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Resiguation of Grant—Its Prac- teal Value. The question of President Grant's resig- nation we mean to press earnestly, with little hope that he who alone: can answer it affirmatively will now do so, until we extort, as we did in the matter of Cmsarism, at which so many jeered, a response from the American people which shall make itself felt. Though the process of conviction may be dilatory we do not wholly despair of satisty- ing the President himself that such a step will be the best for him. We | should have no doubt of this, for some generous instincts are still slum- bering in his soldier heart, if he were but once free from the companionship, high and low, which environs him and forms the in- trenchment which honest public opinion has not yet stormed. It is very clear that among the infirmities of President Grant’s once noble nature is an ambition to be something or to do something entirely different from his predecessors; to be spoken of now and written of hereafter as having left the rut of prece- dent, however sacred, and hewed out a path for himself. None but himself is to be his parallel. This is noticeable in small things as well as great. No President before ever appointed multitu- dinous relations to lucrative offices. Washing- ton, that obsolete exemplar, refused to make his nephew, whom he loved, and who was | worthy of his love, District Attorney at Alex- andria ; and this because he was his nephew. What our incumbent of to-day has done and continues to do we all know and need not re- peat. No President before ever accepted presents or paid visits or went junketing | about the country with a class of privileged | pets. No President before sought an increase of salary. So is it in greater and graver | things. No one of his seventeen predeces- sors ever dreamed of or suggested the ac- quisition of, @ distant insular territory or colony ; for the Alaska folly is hardly an ex- | sound statesman like William R. King or the | would have had a better chance with a Ken- will not take counsel or heed warning. His Springfield letter showed that the chain which binds him to the President as the leader of the republican party is beginning to chafe. If it snaps there is no smithy that can weld it together again. In a merely selfish point of view the succession of Henry Wilson, while a friend, by the voluntary act of Grant would not be without its fruits. Not only might the trustworthy members of the Cabinet be retained, but the new President could keep in office at least some of his pred- ecessor’s family without reproach. We are Persecuting Poor Bergh. It is painfully evident that that body of law which the future will know as Mr. Bergh’s code is inadequate to the occasions of the society for the invention of offences against animals and its Torquemada. In fact, this great Panjandrum has left himself uncovered at several points, and his ingerious enemy, the public, is in a fair way to find all the joints of his legal armor and to pierce him savagely, of course. This fact appears in the course taken by the Grand Jury in calling to the attention of the Court the fact that an undue and im- confident he would appoint none of his own. That such an arrangement would save the re- publican party and give peace to the country from one end tothe other we have said over and over again and religiously believe. It would in giving peace disarm all opposition. It would reanimate the best feeling in the South, and who better than Henry Wilson could reconcile the North to meagures of pacification of his devising? It w6uld relegate the soldier to his proper position as necessary for unlikely emergencies and not our daily police inter- mediary. In conclusion let us say—and the retrospect is not a fanciful one—that there have been times before, within the bitter memory of most of us, when a Presidential resignation would have been a blessing undisguised. Had Franklin Pierce resigned before the Kansas- Nebraska crime was committed and handed the executive trust to a veteran, conservative, President of the Senate, the Missouri line would never have been disturbed and the chap- ter of that day’s woes not been opened. If, in the fall of 1860, after the people had pronounced against him, Mr. Buchanan had gone back to Wheatland, his later days would have been happier, and though John 0. Breckinridge became ultimately a Confederate soldier and a brave one, no one can doubt that the frustrated Crittenden compromise ception. The recently published diary of | Mr. Adams, when Secretary of State, shows | that this very subject was considered in Mr, Monroe’s administration and decided nega- tively, on the distinct ground of the want of | constitutional capacity. This seemed to Pres- | ident Grant the chief inducement to covet | | St. Domingo, and not only to covet 'it but to urge it upon a Congress ; which he thought subservient by means which, desiring to be deferential, we forbear to describe. So with the third term | idea. He clutched at it the more greedily because of the adverse tradition, because there had never been a third term President before. It was, we do him the justice to believe, less the greed of office, though that no doubt was operative; less the vis inertia cumbency so sweet, than it was the ambition to be what no President had ever been before. It is very odd to note how such ambitious specialties (if we may so term them) possess friend, Senator Cameron, showed this in his desire to have his own son as his colleague. Father and son had been Senators succes- This was a more amiable motive than the President's, but they are gener- ically the same. This, then, being the peculiarity, the | strength or the weakness of our President's | | the moral of it all, on this matter of resigna- tion, is obvious enough. Why not be the only President who ever voluntarily resigned, or, if imperial phrase be more agreeable, like Diocletian and Charles V., “abdicated?” It would make a mark in history deeper and brighter than success in any or all his other ambitions could have done. It would be picturesque and heroic—one of those great deeds of self-abaegation on which the student of our story will love to meditate. The | record of it would be better than the familiar narrative which schoolboys used to be made to read out of ‘Doctor Robertson” of what occurred in Brussels centuries ago. It would be the conclusive answer to all the calumnies, as they would then seem to be, imputing to him selfishness and mercenary impulses. under conditions which are elsewhere ex- | plained. Tur Coxprtion or tHe Sraeet Hyprayts | causes alarm. A noticeable improvement has taken place in the navigation of the river, but the Sound is still frozon fast. | Tre Commissioners or Exicration yester- day elected Mr. Forrest President for the year, and urged upon the Legislature the necessity of relieving the financial embarrassments of the Commission. Tae Democratic Convention of Connec- | Supreme Court of his own creating turning its | 5, cisewhere published, ticut yesterday renominated, by acclamation, Governor Ingersoll and the whole State ticket, and we have no doubt that his party depends upon the administration at Wash- ington to assist in his election. Tue Berecuer Casz.—A new feature was in- troduced into the Beecher trial yesterday—the production of a witness who testified to hay- ing seen what may be considered impropriety between the defendant and Mrs. Tilton. The rest of the day was occupied in the cross-ex- amination of the plaintiff. Sovra Amenica.—Our news from South America is, on the whole, favorable. Peace may be said to be restored in Peru. The un- provoked outrage committed at Aspinwall on Dr. Pigott has excited great indignation, but | ag he is a British citizen he is certain to re- | where. Why, then, not listen to it, why not | | yield to it, and set the great precedent of | obedience even tothe extent of self-sacrifice to the popular will? Now or soon is the hour, for another reason, to which time and again we have alluded in the discussion of this subject. It is better, far better, to hand over the sceptre, barren as ceive full reparation. Proceeptncs ix Cosoress Yesterpay.— The speech of Mr. Sargent on Louisiana | was | matters, partly delivered on Monday, concluded yesterday in the Senate; but was received with what may almost be called perfect indifference ‘Treas- the bill reorganizing the entire ury Department by changing the sala- | is sure to be, by the unlineal hand of a resent- | Some of the jurors apparently were the pure ries of the officials and defining some of | ful democracy. Such a transfer is desira- | to whom ‘‘all things are pure,’’ and could see their duties and functions anew, and an effort was made to continue sideration of the Revenue bill, but was not successful. This is supposed to presage the | escaped the Vice President's lips. They sat had a profound effect upon the jury, and as tailure of the measure, which may cause the | at the same love-feast the other night at Phil- | experts their views were entitled to great which | if they were in the land of the Esquimanx. necessity of an extra session of Congress. 'The Conference Committee's report on the | state of things may last. Vice President Wil- | Recorder Hackett laid before the jury re- bill to confirm the lease of lands made by | son’s patience may be exhausted. He is too | mains undecided, and the cancan dancer, the Seneca Indians and to legalize fature | loyal and grateful a republican, his fame is | with a graceful movement of her skilful toe, by the few auditors assembled. The House passed | it may be, to a friend of his own political | could not agree upon the merits of the case If these views—entirely personal—have any force, so far as the President's fame is affected, it diminishes with every moment of delay. Now is the accepted time. It would have | been better, or at least more graceful, before decision confirms all that Mr. Boucicaulé | the political revolution of last autumn ; but | has claimed. Eight scenes of Mr. Hart’s play better now than six or three months hence, with | | an adverse House of Reprosentatives, dam- | | aging investigations, possible impeachment, | them is declared to be perfect under the of the initiation of which, be it remembered, | | the House is the exclusive judge; the certain | | loss of more State legislatures, the shrinkage | | of a friendly majority in the Senate, and a | | cold shoulder. Now, or before these things | | actual or potential are realized, the President | has itin his power to act. Then it may be, | we don’t say it will be, too late, for better | late than never. A resignation now would | | be a new and marked feature in the working | | of our constitutional system. It would be the | | assertion or confession of ® new responsi- | | bility in our public servants—a responsibility | | cisive a form as it was last fall. No Ministry in England resists even & Parliamentary vote waits for it. If ever the great popular con- stituency of the United States has proclaimed utter and absolute ‘‘want of confidence” in an administration it has done sonow. The echoes are repeating themselves every- faith than to have it wrenched away, as it | ble 80 long as the parties continue the con- | friendlyyns they are now to a great extent. | mony of the young ladies, who said that they | No word of personal unkindness has adelphia. There is no telling how long thia | so, in a different degree, is this of ours, and | of the solar rays nor any disturbance which | | sunlight. | nomena of irradiation and may result in the | | 1n all parts of the world, just as the data of | 1761-9 were invaluable to Stone, who scruti- to popular opinion when manifested in so de- | of “want of confidence.” Generally no Minister | tucky President, commanding the confidence of the South, and the agony of the impending future might have been averted. Those were, we concede, abnormal and exceptional epochs; the remedy which then might have failed is sure to succeed now. The Transit of Venus. The full report of the American astronomi- cal expedition, under the direction of Profes- sor Hall, which we print to-day, is rich in scientific facts and general interest. We give | with it sixteen diagrams showing different periods of the transit of Venus as observed from Vladivostock. Professor Hall's party ob- served a slight ligament, a fact which con- trasts strongly with the observations made at Sydney, where the sun was almost in the | zenith and the sky was perfectly clear. There no ligament or black drop was apparent. This | would indicate that where there are clear air and perfect appliances there is no interruption makes the air opaque to very thin beams of | The value of photography in astronomical observations of such distant phenomena will , be tested by these experiments. It is prob- | ably unreliable. The mathematical calcula tion of the angular distance between the | transit lines from stations in the northern and southern hemispheres will prove far more ac- curate than the plan of measuring it by pho- tographs. This opivion is no disparagement of the photographic operations of the expeditions, for the pictures will be of great value in future speculations on the phe- invention of faultless instruments. The data accumulated by the photographs will be use- ful to the astronomer of future times, upon whom will devolve the colossal task of sum- ming up the calculations and results obtained | nized the labors of the expeditions of the last century, and was the first to discover the mis- take of three millions of miles in the estimate of the sun’s distance from the earth, The Boucicagt Injunction Granted. The preliminary case between Messrs. Boucicault and Hart has been decided by Judge Woodruff upon legal principles, d upon the grounds of common equity, which we have asserted from the first. The are declared to be taken from the “‘Shaugh- raun.” Mr. Boucicauit’s copyright in statute, and Mr. Hart is restrained by an order of the Court from con- tinuing their performance. This injunction, which is so important to dramatic writers, It is probable that many persons do not fully understand the nature of an injunction. It is a power vested in a judge, during the progress of suit, to command one of the parties to desist | from doing that of which the other complains. In all cases, however, in which such orders are issued, the judge will, nevertheless, re- quire the complainant to be responsible for | any damages that may arise if the defendant | should be wrongfully enjoined. This is a technicality ot the law, and Mr. Boucicault will now proceed with his suit for damages, | which he lays at twenty-five thousand dollars, and which will determine some important questions of copyright, and throw light upon | many curious matters connected with the | stage. yal Trrsirr Cuurcn yesterday witnessed a | touching sight—three brothers laid to rest from the cares and troubles of life. They were old men, and it had been vouchsafed to came to all three within a few hours of each | other. Tur Cancan.—The jury in the cancan case and were yesterday discharged by the Court. no evil in the celebrated dance. The testi- | knew of nothing improper in the exhibition, weight. ‘The question, however, them that by some mystic sympathy death | proper pressure had beem exercised upon their deliberations by the only wise, just, pure and. virtuous man in this or any other community. Bat the friends of virtue and dogs and cats; the believers in the champion of tortured tur- tles and defender of impolitely handled hogs need be under noapprehension. Bergh is not to be sat upon by a grand jury and not to have his head diminished by the learned judge. He will come out with the useful ex- perience that has taught him what further leg- isiation he needs. Hitherto he has wanted only this knowledge. As the operations of his society proved defective for want of authority he has made his short trip to Albany, secured an additional statute covering the doubtful point and retarned to the charge. This inci- dent of the Grand Jury indicates the direc- tion of further operations of this nature. He needs first a law defining his relation to grand juries. This statute should provide that Mr. Bergh as the great Panjandrum of the society for minding other people's busi- ness, and all his associates or persons desig- nated by him, shall be excepted from the oper- ations of all statutes or constitutional provis- ions or rulings of the common law in virtue of which the Grand Jury is protected in its special‘funetion as the sole and only inquisi- torial body under our political system. It should make it a misdemeanor for any grand jary man to be guilty of the gross imperti- nence of having an opinion of his own on any subject whatever upon which the contrary opinion of Mr. Bergh has been brought to his notice or is publicly known. In fact, this statute might broadly provide the subordina- tion of the Grand Jury to the Grand Inquisi- tor. Another law should designate the exact penalties for that grievous offence now first known to our law—the failure to sympathize | with Mr. Bergh in his noble and philanthropic | enterprises. This law should strike both those who do not admire Bergh and those who publicly or privately express their sympathy with the poor wretches whom he gets “mewed up in prison walls’’ for saving their lives or eyes from cats. In virtue of a litile statute like this of about twenty lines Bergh would be censor of the press, and that would make him supremely happy. It is strange he has not secured such a law already. Another statute should settle in general terms the great point in regard to good in- tentions. It should determine, once for all, that everything that Mr. Bergh does or pro- poses to do is right, and must and shall neces- sarily lead to good results. Much of the trouble in the world arises from the way people have of considering good men like Mr. Bergh fanatics. There are persons who argue that it is as proper to make a dog work as a horse, and that Mr. Bergh in preventing it only uses the law to give effect to his own opinions. People say that all the persecu- tions, the burnings and roastings of religious wars, the butcheries of the Spaniards, the English, the French, in the Middle Ages, were all contrived and intended to make men bet- ter and more amenable to the right. In short, to take the ‘‘cussedness” out of humanity; and they say that while Bergh’s intentions are equally good his procedure is at least equally objectionable. . Such a law as we propose above would end all that and leave no longer any room to doubt as to the full propriety and satisfactory consequences of any of the acts of this ad- mirable man. John Mitchel and Dr. Kenzaly. The election of Andrew Johnson to the United States Senate has found parallels in the elections of John Mitchel and Dr. Kenealy to the British Parliament. These events will cause great excitement in England, and the election of Mr. Mitchel will. command atten- tion everywhere, as it involves constitu- tional questions of deep importance. Dr. Kenealy, who is so well known as the counsel for the claimant in the Tichborne case, was chosen yesterday from Stoke-on-Trent by a majority of two thousand—an unexpected victory for a man who has so lately been driven out of his pro- fession; but Mr. Mitchel’s triumph is far more startling. Dr. Kenealy has sought from the people a vindication from the accusations of his fellow barristers; but Mitchel has appealed against the sentence of the Crown itself. His election to the House of Commons from Tipperary, without oppo- sition, appears to be understood by the government as a defiance, and it was promptly met yesterday. Mr. Dyke moved in the House for copies of all the documents con- nected with the trial and conviction of John | Mitchel in 1848, and with his escape from Van Dieman’s Land. This motion was | adopted by a vote of 174 to 13, and the debate shows that the government is determined to regard him as an escaped felon, and to deny on that ground his eligibility to election. In execution of this policy Mr. Disraeli an- nounced that he will move to-morrow that a new writ of election be ordered for Tipperary county. Both cases are singular examples of the way the whirligig of time brings about its revenges, and their progress will be watched with as much interest in America as in Ire- land or England. Tue Icz B1ocxape.—From present ap- pearances we might be almost justified in predicting the near discovery of the North Pole. Either it has become tired of its isolation or curious as to the con- dition of life of the countrymen of Kane and Hayes, and is resolved to visit us. The de- scriptions which we print in another column of the condition of our coasts and har- bors are unpleasantly suggestive of the experience of Arctic discoverers—ships im- prisoned in fields of ice, sailors making expe- ditions from their blockaded ships to the city of Boston and acting generally very much as In other localities floating icebergs render navigation perilous. The only persons who | Finding facts scarce they fell back upon The Leuisiana Reports. While awaiting the official report of that part of the committee of Congress which was last in New Orleans the public will be glad to learn from an authentic source what view is taken of the evidence by the Louisiana con- servatives. This rational curiosity will be satisfied by the letter which we print this morning from Mr. Zacharie, who served as chairman of the Conservative Committee be- fore the Returning Board and also before both of the sub-committees of investigation. No other gentleman en the conservative side has had such opportunities to be perfectly well informed or can spoak with so much authority as a repressntative of that side. Mr. Zacharie’s clear statement will assist the pub- lio judgment in its estimate of the forthcom- ing official report. | We will refer particularly to only two or three of his points, which we prefer to notice in a different order from that in which they stand in his letter. We first call attention to Mr. Zachario’s statement as to General Sheridan’s participa- tion in the events of January 4, when the five conservative members were dragged out of the Legislature. General Badger, the Super- intendent of Police, testified on cross- examination that Sheridan, through Emory, by means of the police telegraph, gave the orders and instructions on which De Trobri- and acted on that occasion. This testimony, if true, proves that President Grant was either insincere or misinformed in that part of his Louisiana Message where he stated that Sheridan had nothing to do with the trans- actions of the day. Mr. Zacharie asserts that a strong effort was made to induce the last sub-committee to take testimony on this point and that they refused, by a tie vote, to go into the investigation. There is really no point on which it was more im- portant to learn the truth, but the friends of Grant and Sheridan on the committee were too wary to take the risk of bringing out awkward facts, Another striking point in Mr. Zacharie’s letter relates to the charge of intimidation in the election of 1874. He declares that there was no other evidence to support the charge than mere impressions and hearsay by per- sons who were either State officers under Kellogg or federal officers under Grant. the Colfax and Coushatta massacres, trying to make out by inference from those horrors that they must have had an intimidating effect on black voters. Mr. Zacharie explodes this inference by showing that more blacks than whites were registered and voted in pro- portion to their respective numbers, as given by the census, in the parishes where Colfax and Coushatta are situated. Another noteworthy point in Mr. Zacharie’s communication is his strong assertion that there is no republican government in Loui- siana, and that it is the duty of Congress to fulfil the federal guarantee. Herein, as well as on the subject of compromise, he holds the same views which have been consistently maintained by the Hzratp, proving that we have more faithfully represented the conserva- tive sentiment of Louisiana than the demo- cratic organs of the North. The Costigan Bill and Mr. As will be seen by our Albany correspond- ence to-day there exists a strong feeling that the Costigan bill will be defeated, owing to difficulties between Tammany and the au- thorities at the Capitol. The Evening Post comments upon the course of the Hzraup in the matter of this Costigan bill, saying that our msin® purpose is to force Mr. Green to retire from the Comptrollership. This is true in one respect, We think Mr. Green's retention in office is a violation of the compact virtually made between Tammany Hall and the people at the last election. In that point alone Mr. Green cannot be re- tained, except by a moral breach of faith. It is also a curse and a burden to the city. The | Comptroller's policy is to stiflethe metropolis, which Sweeny and Tweed robbed. He piles debt upon debt, and is the minister of ob- | struction and misgovernment. We are in favor of his removal just as we favor the re- moval of any officer who fails to minister to the public welfare or to retain public esteem. Ifa bill is necessary to secure the result we would support a bill. The Costigan measure was a good deal more to us than a menace to Mr. Green. We supported it because it opened @ new policy and the prospect of better gov- ernment. It promised us home rule and | would have putan end to the shameless policy which has from year to year regarded New York as a rich placer to be robbed by Albany thieves. This is the reason why we supported the Costigan bill. Mr. Green’s fortunes have nothing to do with it. But if the bill would destroy the present system and at the same time rid us of Mr. Green we shall regard its defeat as doubly unfortunate. Political Sentiments of a Soldier. ‘The passage we printed yesterday from the speech of General Burnside, the Senator elect | from Rhode Island, is admirable in temper and spirit, and indicates that the new Senator intends to act with the moderate republicans, of whom Vice President Wilson and Speaker Blaine are the leading New England represen- tatives, General Burnside thinks the Southern people, and especially that part of them who served in the Confederate army, should be | treated with generous confidence, He stands on the same ground which our most illustrious | soldiers occupied at the close of the war, before some of them became warped by | politics. General Grant’s honorable oppo- sition to measures for punishing Lee or any part of his army for treason | after receiving their paroles, and General Sherman’s attempt to end political hostility and persecution as soon as military operations had ceased, betokened a sentiment which was widely shared by our army. We rejoice that | | Senator Burnside’s soldierly instincts have not been perverted by party politics, and that he will go into the Senate as a strong advo- | cate of kindness and conciliation. He secs | nothing alarming in the election of ex-Oon- federate officers to positions in the federal government, maintains that their loyalty can be safely trusted, and declares that ‘the peo- ple are anxiously impatient to see all the States of the Union under the supervision of their own properly constituted authoritics.'’ This certainly is not Grantism, and it may be regard the present state of things with satis- accepted as a fresh proof that Grantiam has transactions of the same kind was agreed to | too closely connected with that great party, to has knocked the hat from the head of agton- | faction are the skaters, who have certainly full | had its day among the New England repub- licans, by both houses be willing to see it shipwrecked by a pilot who | ished Justice, opportunity to enjoy themselves, Rapid Transit—Shall It Be Accom=- plished by Private Capital? It is very desirable that steam communica- tion between the lower and upper parts of this island be supplied by private enterprise and not done by the city. While it would be better to have it at the expense of the city than not to have it at all, rapid transit could be pushed through by private enterprise with greater energy, ina briefer period, and ata smaller cost by a company of capitalists, and, as the expense must ultimately be reimbursed out of the pockets of people who use the roads, economical construction is the proper basis of low fares. The mass of the community is taking a deep interest in rapid transit; but, unfortunately, our heavy capitalists hang back in apathy, although steam roads would so much enhance the value of their property. This regrettable languor on the part of citizens who ought to be most alive to the importance of the work tends to a conviction that the city will finally have to build it, in obedience tea strong public sentiment of its necessity. As soon as the mass of our cilizens shall be con- vinced that nothing is to be hoped from private capitalists a resistless cry will go up for the construction of the work by the Cor- poration in spite of the drawbacks and the possible jobbery wit which such improve- ments are beset when the watchful eyes of private owners are not kept upon the expendi- ture of money. We sincerely trast that public sentiment may not be driven to such an alternative. But if it should at last come to that the peo- ple will decide that steam roads must be built as a necessary public highway. It is conceded by the best judges that there is ne constitutional obstacle%o this method, and as the Croton water works and the Central Park were constructed by the city without any scandalous jobs the people will insist on another experiment in the same direction, with all its hazards, if they become convinced that there is no other way of securing so in- dispensable an improvement, The heavy capi- talists and taxpayers will suffer most from the waste, extravagance and jobbing that might attend the prosecution of the work by the city, and we warn them in their own interost of what will undoubtedly, come, at no distant period, unless they rise out of their indiffer- ence and bestir themselves in favor of a work which is so urgently demanded by popular sentiment and by public and private interests. Tae Question Is whether Fifth avenue will be paved or plastered. If any of our readers believe in asphalt or other chemical com- positions let them study the Reservoir Park, the Worth Monument vicinity and other experiments in pavement chemistry. They will see how useless it would be to cover our noble Fifth avenue with this brittle prepara- tion. They will also see that none will givo as much satisfaction as the fine old Macadam pavement, which has been tried on a thousand occasions and never failed. The question be- tween asphalt and Macadam is between a pavement that never failed and one that has never succeeded. Tae Cxnrenniat.—The facts which show the value of Centennial Exhibition stock as an investment are set forth to-day, and especially the value which the celebration will be to New York manufactures and commerce. We are glad to know that a committee of ladies wil) be organized in New York to aid in making the celebration a national success. PERSONAL | INTELLIGENCE. ie See Mile. Albani will sail for Europe to-day in the steamship Abyssinia. General F, J. Herron, of Louisiana, is residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. AS the Cabinet is so shockingly out of repaira Carpenter would be use‘ul. Mr. John W. Forney, Jr., of Philadelphia, is stay- ing at the Westminster Hotel. Sir John Swinburne, of England, bas taken up his residence at the Gilsey House. Governor Henry Howard, of Rhode Island, has apartmeats at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Seaator James W Patierson, of New Hamp shire, 18 registered at the Gilsey House, Mr. George W. Riggs, the Washington banker, arrived last evening at tne Brevoort House. Generali W. ©. Wickham and Mr. John Echois, or Virginia, are sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Is Mr. Bergh aware that “care killed a cat,” and does he intend to inquire into the circumstances? Mr. Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, N. Y., is among the late arrivais at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. That publication of the speech the Speaker made in the caucus is worse than a chil-Blaine tor Grant. Assistant Adjutant General J. B. Stonehouse ar- | rived at the Hotel Brunswick yesterday trom Albany. “Dear Tom—Come immediately if you see this, If not, come on Sui . This dificult invitation appears as @ personal in the London Times, Baron de Schaeffer, the Austrian Minister, has satied from Yokohama {or Siam, to which country, as well as China and Japan, he is accredited. Ex-Governor Wiliam Claflin and family, of Massachusetts, are at the Windsor Hotel. They will sail tor Europe to-day in the steamship Abys- sinia. Hon. G. F. Seward, United States Consul General at Shanghal, has been offered a Danish decoration n token of friendly services rendered to Den- mark. Carpenter wonid certainly make a better Attor-. ney General than Williams, espectally tf things were managed 80 that he would not get too “des perately short.” If pisrael! should withdraw from the leadership of his party it is thought that Sur Stafford North- cove would lend the House, though bis claim would be disputed on behalf of Mr. Gathorne Hardy. The statement published tn some of the news- papers that Miss Anna E. Dickenson will shortly | make her appearance on the stage, in the char. acter of Joan of Aro, 18 without foundation, thas lady having no such purpose. “T wiil vote for the dissolution of the Assemmy sooner than for the erganization of the govern- mentin a republican form.” So sald, recently, the Duke D’Audiffret-Pasquter. In the election that would jollow dissolution nis party may have achance; in the other contingency tt certainly would have nene. “although my husband,” says a Paris lady, “is a fierce conservative, | am for the provisional; for while this taste the republicans will always pro- pose the republic, and that will always be voted down; and whenever there 1s sucn a vote my husband is so delighted that I can always get bim to give me jewelry.” ‘The British Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ts of opimion that vivisection “should be deait with cautiously.” So it auswers @ petition that it take steps to this resource of science not suppressed, but regulated. Sir William Fergu son, Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Varlyle were among the signers of the petition. There was a man yclept Bill King And Congress sent to grap bim— He climbed up to the chimney to; Aud then they thought they’ nab btm; But he jumped dowa on the other side And then they coulun’t find him, He ran fourteen miles in filteen aaya And never looked ochud him, | |