The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR. | | NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yorx Henarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- | nual subscription price $18. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henarp. 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 sais York. VOLUME KLsrssoneereesssee» sees seeee sosgeaeiOy 55 AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING. | STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street —"SINGEN =KEWL.” at 8 P. M.j | closes at 10:40 P.M. Howard Mission Children. A THEATRE. Fourteenth pe, “DIE KRAUKEN DUCTOREN, at 8 P. +h closes at 10:45 P. M. PARK THEATRE, .—French Opera Boutle-GIROFLE-GIROFLA, EET Te aT IASE ML Mile. Coratie Geoltroy. O's, CABIN, at 8 P. M.; closes at Broadway.—UNCLE TOM’ 104. F. M. Edwin F. Thori COLO=sF away and Thirty-fourth sad In a} Frome. Two exhibitions daily, and BOOTH’S THEATRE, | corne! 3 of Twenty. anes street. and’ Sixth avenue.— HENRY V., at 81’. M.; cioses atl! P.M. Mr. Rignoid. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway. corner of Twenty-ninth street, NEGRO MENSTKELSY, at 8 P.M. eloses at 10 P. 3 ROBIN: Sixteenth street —BEG: closes at 10:45. M. Mr. ACADEMY OF DESIGN, wieiniow went ei pest and Fourt OF WATER COLOR PAIN from 9 4. M. to 5 P. M. and from 6 P. M. Eighth street. ne ALOE THBATRE, baad street. between Second, an avenuen— VARIETY, at 12 P. M.; closes at 2-30 A. M, THEATRE, RAUS, at SP. M.; closes at | “ute DEL ARE, at 8 P.M; cabe. avenue. —' EX. ‘TINGS: Open WALLA! Broadway.—THE SHA 10:40 P.M.” Mr. Boucicault i WOOD'S MUSEUM. | Brondway, corner of Thirticti street SCHNEIDER, at | SP Micloses at 10-45 P.M. Matines at2P. M. ' (THEATRE, at§ P. M.; closes at 10:45 ROO! by see street.—| P.M: Mrs. Ada Gadi STADT THEATRE, Bowery.—OBPBEE AUX ENFERS, at 8 P.M. Miss Lins | jayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, | No, 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 F. M. ; closes at 10:45 P.M~ Matinee at 2 P. M. | ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twen'y-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—~Afternoon and evening, at2and & THEATRE GOMTOU No,Sl4 Broadway. VARIETY, at $F. Fc; closes at 10:48 YOM. Matinee at2 P. FIFTH AVESU EB THEATRE, byg ty-ciehth Me ag ant ot at eg a tig & ag ANZA. at § P. M.; closes at 10:9 P. iiss Davenport, Mrs. Gilbert. TONY PASTOR'S ‘OPERA HOUSE, be eg Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M., closes at 1045 | Be vie KATRE, } F nd Sixth avenue. “PICKWICK, and Ly BoDoLR ate. loses at 10:45 P. | Loole. SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street—FREE EXATBI- TION OF WATER COLORS. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Fulton avenue.—VARIETY, at 2 and 8 P.M; closesat 10-45 P. M. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, } West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue. NEGRO | MIN <TRELBY, 4c., at 8P.M.; closes at 10 P.M. Dan TRIPLE SHEET. SDAY, | FEBRUARY 24, 1875, pg our reports this n morning pike probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and | cloudy or rainy. Wat Srrzer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- | ket was excited and prices were generally lower. Gold, 1143. Foreign exchange steady. | Money easy at 24 and 3 per cent on call. Tue Last Revouction rm VENEZUELA is | snded, but no one knows when the next one | Tue Leorsuatcre has no subject before it | | sors in the position of a stranded ship. | and sinking fortunes; but the chance has been | that wears even the simulated outside form of | aging thing of all is the confession by its ad- | | vocates that this party which has so long con- | | electioneering topic of that campaign. | Never was a bragging comparison so put to | of the public debt would stop. The payments this cession more important than that of rapid | transit for New York. We give elsewhere a | summary of the bills to that end which will | be presented for its action. | Tae Sean or Pensta and the Irish Rifle Team take an interest in the Centennial Exhi- | bition. There is no reason to doubt its complete success when such opposite exam- | ples of appreciation are disclosed. Tue Execution or Ontwern, the murderer of the Hammet family in Western Pennsyl- | vania, took place yesterday. This murder re- sembled that committed by Probst several | years ago in Philadelphia in its motive and | its method, and in both cases a full confession | was made. Our correspondence from Pitts- | burg conteins a full account of the crime and | of the execution. | | Tur Bercnes Triat yesterday tooka dif- ferent turn from that which was anticipated | by the public. The plaintiff rested his case after the cross-examination of Mrs. Moulton was concluded, and it is to be inferred that if Mr. Tilton has other witnesses they will be reserved for the rebuttal of the testimony for the defence. To-day Mr. Tracy is expected to begin the answer for Mr. Beecher. The plaintiff thus far rests the case upon the direct testimony of five witnesses—his own, Mr. Moulton's, Mrs. Moulton’s, Kate Carey's and Mr. Richards’. General Tracy's course will be awaited with intense interest. Mayor Wickuam axp Governor TrupEen.—- The issue between the Mayor and the Gover- nor is not political, as both were lifted into office by the tidal wave which swept the re- publican party in New York from power. We print to-day important documents relating to the grave issue which has been raised in respect to the removal of the Corporation Counsel and the Fire Commissioners. The letter of Mayor Wickham to the Governor is ted by the opinion of Mr. Charles Conor, and we give to the public the facts ‘and arguments in this important case. | own showing, | condition than ever. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1875—THRIPLE SHEET, | Phe Clesing Days of a Misspent Ses- sion. For the long period of fourteen years the | republican party has maintained an uninter- rupted ascendancy in both houses of Congress and has been able to pass every legislative measure on which the party wes agreed. It 1s about to part with an advantage so long en- joyed, and after the little remnant of eight working days, crowded with unfinished busi- ness, the Forty-third Congress will adjourn, leaving the political organization which has controlled it and its six immediate predeces- During the wasted session, which is so soon to terminate, the party has had an opportu- nity to retrieve at least partially its broken squandered by lack of sagacious leadership. | The new Currency act, which is the only one an important measure, is regarded in all intel- ligent circles as a hollow humbug, which, under a false pretence of remedy, leaves the financial situation unchanged and every | evil which the business of the country suffers unredressed. Aside from this legislative sham Congress has allowed the session to glide away without passing any bill which even looks to the relief of the business com- munity or to the settlement of the political questions that disturb the public tranquillity. The Tariff and Tax bill, which has en- | gaged the attention of the House for the last | week, is exposed to serious objections in its details ; but the most extraordinary and dam- trolled Congress has brought the Treasury to the brink of bankruptcy, and that unless they can pass this ill-digested measure the Presi- dent will have to call an extra session of a hostile Congress to enable the government to keep faith with its creditors. What more conspicuous proof could the repub- | lican party give of its improvidence | and incompetency than the necessity of | | a makeshift to save the Treasury from ap- proaching bankruptcy? By whose want of | tical confession that its Southern policy has utterly failed? The republican party is about to retire from the government, leaving the country in a condition like that of an estate which has run down under a long lease to 4 bad tenant. The projects which divide its attention in the last hours of its supremacy are incontestable proofs of its unfitness to gov- ern the country. We conclude from our latest Washington in- telligence that Congress is about to decide to pass its patchwork finance measures and sub- mit to the loss of the political bills. If the republicans adopt this course there will, of course, be no extra session. The President will not think of assembling a Congress through which no measure can be passed without the consent of his political oppo- nents and ask it to legislate on the Southern question. If the appropriation bills should fail he might be driven to the necessity of calling an extra session to provide for the wants of the Treasury; but he would not wish to thus proclaim the incompetency of a Con- gress of his ownsupporters close upon the heuls of its adjournment. It is probable, therefore, that the fiscal bills will be taken up and dis- posed of, and by the time that is dono the sands of the session will have run out. The Report of the Louisiana Com- mittee. The majority report is brief, clear, con- vincing, and too compact for condensation without impairing its force. Referring read- ers to the document itself for the facts and arguments we will merely state the conclu- sions of the committee. On one great and vital point the committee are unani- mous. The members who sign the ma- jority report and those who subscribe the minority report agree in saying, with no limitation and strong emphasis, that the pro- ceedings and decisions of the late Returning Board were illegal. The whole committee unite in affirming that the Returning Board awarded seats to candidates for the Legisla- ture who had no valid title, and deprived others of seats whose election was clearly foresight, incompetency and mismanagement | has the government been brought to so hu- | miliating a pass? Itis high time for a party | to ‘step down and out” when it makes this practical confession of the justice of the sen- tence passed upon it in the last elections. By | its amazing imbecility during this session it | has forfeited its only remaining opportunity and “sinned away its day of grace.’” | The contrast between the boastful republi- can stump speeches in the last Presidential | canvass and the republican side of the recent | debates in Congress is like ‘‘a step from the | | | | | | | \ | | | i sublime to the ridiculous.” The people have not forgotten the appeals to their confidence and admiration which were made by the sup- porters of Grant when he was a candidate for | | re-election. It was proclaimed on every stump and reiterated in every party organ | that the success of our fiscal policy was the most splendid achievement of modern finance—a sort of eighth wonder of the world. The prodigious reduction of the pub- lic debt during Grants first term was the chief We were pointed to a full and overflowing Treas- ury, to Boutwell’s weekly sales of surplus gold and purchases of government bonds, to the great reduction of the interest account in consequence of President Grant and bis party having diminished the debt at the rate ofa hundred million dollars a year. And, to set off the brightness of this picture by contrast | with a dark background, the republican statesmen and stump speakers painted in the | gloomiest colors of foreboding eloquence | what would happen to the finances of the country if poor Mr. Greeley should be elected and a democratic Congress come in with him. sbame. Every financial evil which was hypo- thetically predicted under Greeley actually | overtook the country under Grant. It was said | that if the opposition succeeded the payments have stopped, but poor Mr. Greeley and his supporters are‘not answerable. It was said tLat a swift and desolating | panic would come during the first year after | Greeley’s inauguration. A swift and deso- lating panic did come within the year of the inauguration; but it happened to be Grant’s inauguration, and not Greeley’s. It was said that great business houses would go down, that our manufacturing and mining in- | dustries would be arrested and hundreds of thousands of deserving laborers be thrown out of employment—all of which has come true, but under the very régime which was held forth and extolled as a sure protection | | against it. The swelling financial boasts of | the Presidential campaign are very fresh in | the public recollection by their prominence, | their recentness, and the short period that in- tervened before thick-coming disasters made them ridiculous. It isa great and deep de- | scent from all that electioneering panegyric | to the language of distress and danger now | heard in Congress from the same mouths on | the necessity of a makeshift tax bill to save tion from dishonor. Ob, what a falling off is here, my countrymen! For the last tew days the republicans of | Congress have been anxiously caucusing and | deliberating as to whether their makeshift fiscal measures or their measures relating to the Southern States shall take precedence in the order of business. That is to say, it has | become a serious question, under their man- | | | | the Treasury from bankruptcy and the na- | agement, whether the South has not fallen into such a condition of anarchy | as to reqnire redress even at the risk of losing the appropriation bills. This doubt involves as serious and damaging a con- fession as does the debate over a hand-to- mouth tax bill to save the Treasury from bankruptcy in the interval between the retire- ment of this republican Congress and the first | regular session of its democratic successor. It is ten years since the close of the war, and during this period the republicans have been | attempting or pretending to rehabilitate the South, politically and industrially, and they practically confess that their policy has been so egregions a failure that it is a debatable question whether new remedies are not of more urgent importance than the wants of a ‘Treasury which approaches the verge of bank- ruptey. The patient bas grown constantly worse under their treatment, and, by their is in a more dangerous How could the republi- | can party more emphatically pass apon itself | a sentence of condemnation than by this prac- the members of the committee there is not one who pretends to justify, |or even to palliate, the action of | the Returning Board in cooking up a ficti- | victory. It hence follows that even without | was practised upon the coldred voters, the | | might | ished by facts than this is in the report of | that the census of 1870 showed 87,076 white | | while the two democrats agree with the Senate | recently chosen Legislature. The democrats | | think they should not purchase their unques- | tionable right to the lower branch of the Leg- established by the returns. Among all tious republican majority in the new House | of Representatives, when the majority in fact and in law belonged to the conservatives. The committee who come to this unanimous con- clusion on the cardinal point of the recent | controversy are too furbearing and respectful | to the President to draw the necessary infere ence which follows from their judgment of the Returning Board. The omitted logical | inference is that the action of the army on January 4 was a wanton and meddlesome ex- | ertion of illegal military force to give effect | to the indefensible action of the Returning Board, and deprive the party which had suc- ceeded in the election of tho just fruits of its any compromise the conservatives are entitled to the lower house of the Legislature and can- not be deprived of it without manifest injus- tice, deliberately persevered in with full knowl- edge. While the whole committee are constrained | toadmit that the action of the Returning Board was illegal and indefensible, the | minority attempt to show that intimidation | minority thus going behind the actual re- turns and speculating on what they have been in the absence of | the alleged intimidation. Never was a pre- tence more completely exploded and demol- the majority. They show that the colored registration exceeded the true colored vote ; and 86,913 colored males over twenty-one years of age, and that the colored registration 1 was four thousand in excess of the census, | and the white registration was ten thousand less than the census. This fact alone upsets | and refutes the charge of intimidation by the conservative side. Neither branch of the committee investi- gated the election of 1872, and their opinions of its validity are mere impressions, founded | on sources of information open to everybody. Five of the seven members, including all the | republicans, incline to recognize Kellogg, committee who investigated the subject two years ago, that Kellogg has no shadow of a | legal title to the office. The chief diffi- | culty which obstructs the compromise, of which there has been so much talk, relates to the official status of Kellogg. The republi- cans insist that he be acknowledged as the legal! Governor in return for an admission on their part that the conservatives are entitled to the islature by conceding the bogus title of “Governor” to Kellogg. Practically it is | certain that the President will continue to | | mphold Kellogg, and for the sake of the | tranquillity of this vexed and misgoverned | State we hope the compromise may be effected. Mr. Green and the City Treasury. Investigations seem to be the order of the day, and Mr. Green caunot complain that he is the subject of neglect. The Law Com- mittee of the Board of Aldermen yesterday resumed its inquiry in regard to his alleged | official misconduct, and the evidence was to | a great extent unfavorable to the distinguished detendant. The Heraxp has again and again been obliged to inquire into the mystery of Mr. Green's immunity from a fair investi- | gation, and is glad to find that Mr. Van Nort, the committee, Mr. Rowe and the witnesses generally, seem to be uninfluenced by the panic which the Comptroller has tried to create. We trust that Mayor Wickham and Governor Tilden will profit by the example set yesterday by the Board of Aldermen. We see | no reason why Mr. Green’s accounts should not be laid before the public, nor why he should claim the right to conceal the documents which tell the history of his im- peached administration. There is no mer- chant in the city of New York who would per- | mit his bookkeeper to preserve the singular secrecy upon which the Comptroller insists, and yet Mr. Green is little more than a book- keeper for the taxpayers of the metropolis. | Let him show his figures, produce his books, tell his story and answer to the demands of the indignant public. But his policy of | silence cannot be annented. and we are glad to see that dermen is disposed to extort the truth and to put an end to the defiance of the lawfully con- stituted authorities, who simply ask from Mr. Green a plain and exhaustive statement of his mysterious department. The public is not satisfied with Mr. Green’s apologies—it asks for his official accounts. The French Senate Bill Passed, During the session of the French Assembly yesterday the Senate bill was considered clause by clause, in detail, and passed. The main provisions of this important measure are reported in our columns by cable. The Senators are to be elected by colleges, the Assembly, the munic- ipalities, the departmental bodies, and thus by deputation the people at large will be represented. The Senatorial term of office is to be of different periods of duration, so that there will be an infusion of new members every now and then after the lapse of the first few years subsequent to the operation of the bill. The Senators chosen by the Assem- bly are tobeirremovable. Vacancies by death, resignation or other causes, before the ex- piration of the Senatioral term, are to be filled by the Senate. The Senate may become a high court of justice for the trial of the Presi- dent or his Ministers, and other functions of the most serious import for the future govern- ment of France have been accorded to the body. As the office of President is now created by law the Senate is one of the neces- sary factors. Napoleon I., adroitly ad- vised by Talleyrand, found the Senalus con- sutum almost as useful as his nephew found the plebiscitum, and it is naturally appre- hended that such a body once more estab- lished as the adjunct of a military executive may so far lose its sympathetic relations with popular impulses as to regard them only with hostility. But although such a possibility is before them the pressure to take a Senate as the condition of getting the Republic is clear, | and leaves their line of conduct as well defined as that of a gentleman who accepts the large estate that has been bequeathed him, even though there are some encumbrances. Advice Gratis to the Cuban Patriots. Our deep sympathy with the inhabitants of Cuba and desire that they shall be prosperous and happy lead us to make a suggestion to Colonel Manuel Anastasias Aguillera, Colonel Rio Rosada, President F. V. Aguillera, Mr. José Joaquin Sorantes, and the remainder of the Cuban patriots who asssembled in this city recently to determine on ‘‘the best means of assisting their struggling brethren in Cuba,” and we feel emboldened to offer our suggestion by the fact that, simple as it is, | it does not appear hitherto to have occurred to them. The best way for these ‘Cuban patriots” to help their struggling brethren is to get over to Cuba at once and fight the Spaniards. We believe it to be not only the | best but the only way. There are between twenty and thirty thousand able-bodied ‘Cu- ban patriots’’ now living in the United States. | While they remain here they secure their own safety, to be sure, but they do not help Cuban independence or injure Spain. Their meet- ings and resolutions, indeed, are an injury to their ‘‘struggling brethren;’’ for our prac- tical people get a poor opinion of patriots who never get further than resolutions. Lorenzo Dow, of whom perhaps Colonel Manuel Anastasins Aguillera has never heard, used to say: —“‘Giving to the poor is lending to the Lord; with the money.” patriots’’ to act on Dow’s principles. When they next hold a meeting let them resolve that every man present at it will go at once to Cuba, with a revolver and a pocket full of ammunition. There is no difficulty about this. If they can landa keg of powder they can land a man. And if all the Cuban patriots in this country should take our ad- vice the Spaniards would be driven into the sea in sixty days, amid the applause of a world which, no matter what its prejudices may be, always admires courage and success. Meantime we advise the Cuban patriots in this country to hold no more meetings. Our people like Cuban patriots in Cuba. But the Cuban patriot in New York is getting to be, to | use a California phrase, a little monotonous. David A. Wells for Congress, There is some talk that the democrats of the Third Congressional district in Connecti- cut will nominate David A. Wells, its dis- | tinguished writer on finance, against Henry H. Starkweather, the present member, who will be a candidate for re-election. be glad to think that the Connecticut demo- crate will do anything so sensible; but the example of their brethren of Missouri in re- jecting so able, eloquent and accomplished a | statesman as Senator Schurz does not give a very hopeful idea of the wisdom of the party. There ore no two men in the country better qualified for usefulness in Congress than these two liberal republicans, Schurz and Wells. As the Third Congressional district is the republican stronghold in Connecticut, and a ; regulae democratic candidate would have | hardly » chance of success, Mr. Wells may perhaps get the nomination, and if he does he will give Mr. Starkweather a lively con- test. Wells is a very taking popular speaker ; if he stumps the district he will make a great impression and, if elected, will at once take rank as the ablest member of the House on | the important range of questions to which he has devoted himself. Mr. Wells and Mr. | Starkweather are fellow townsmen, being both residents of Norwich ; and although, if Wells is nominated, the contest between | them will be sharp and vigorous, we are sure that it will also be good-tempered and courteous. Mn. S#anxey, who escaped from a prison in New York, has succeeded in getting intoa prison in Havana. He is evidently dissatis- fied with his freedom, and is, perhaps, auxivus to be returned to this city, where his presence has been long desired by the authorities. Tue Onance in THE Weatner.—The rise of the thermometer from almost an average of | vero to over fifty degrees has had a great effect upon the comfort of the public, ice has almost disappeared, but the slush, un- less removed, is likely to have a bad effect upon the general health, especially in the de- velopment of typhoid disease. The extraor- dinary changes of this climate should cause our citizens to be particularly careful in dregs and exnosnre to the weather. We should | if you like tho security, down | We advise the “Cuban i The | | suppose, of which a patent medicine might be | the Board of Al- | A Hope of General Grant's Resigna= tion. We have at last reason to believe, or at least to hope, that at no distant day, perhaps on the 4th of March, General Grant will gratify the people of the United States by leaving the Presidency. There has lately sailed from San Francisco for an island group in the Pacific, in a United States man-of-war, an intimate friend and favorite of the President, one A. B. Stein- berger. He goes on a mysterious mission to the Samoan Archipelago, of which, less than ® year ago, he brought to the White House a description as glowing as that which the poets used to give us of the fabled Isle of Atlantis. These islands are clad in the freshest and most enduring verdure. Their shores are umbrageous with the majestic cocoanut palm. Their steep mountain sides bear the nutmeg— of a spurious kind, to be sure, he remarks, but that does not matter for the project we are about to hint at. Their forests, according to Mr. Steinberger, harbor that celebrated bird the do-do, well known to be the primor- dial type, as Darwin would say, of which Jim Fisk, Shepherd, Casey, Williams, Kellogg and others of the best known friends of His Ex- cellency are but varieties, or ‘‘sports,"’ to use the language of men of science. Finally, and to conclude an over-long catalogue of charms, all the inhabitants of these isles are pious, and most of them are Methodists. In what follows we wish to be understood as speaking not by authority or from infor- mation received from General Grant himself. His Excellency, as overybody knows, is a reticent person, not given to bruiting his de- signs abroad. He fails, even, sometimes to consult his Cabinet before he acts. He, no doubt, intended that his friend Steinberger should sail as secretly as he intends to follow | him. But in these days it is difficult for even the most astute mento conceal their designs from a vigilant and unsleeping press. Nor was the good Steinberger’s mystery difficult to penetrate. He gabbles, unfortunately; and thus we know that he sailed in company not only of a momentous purpose but of a field howitzer, a quantity of small arms and am- munition and, so far as we are informed, un- limited powers to form a government suitable to the habits and wishes of the illustrious and interesting colonists who are to follow him. He possesses, besides, we have reason to be- lieve, a supply of flannel nightgowns and a colonel’s commission. Atleast he has made himself known as ‘‘Colonel’’ Steinberger. Fortunate man! His promotion is likely to be as rapid as that of ‘Colonel’ Fred Grant. Let us hope that his military career may be as free from danger. By this time, we suspect, the design of General Grant is understood as well by our quick-witted readers as by ourselves. Happy man! We already see him, the cares of an ungrateful South and a dis- respectful North flung aside, the Continent traversed in a luxurious Pullman car, career- ing across the deep blue waters of the Pacific to grasp his island kingdom. We see him landing on the umbrageous beach at Pango Pango and wiping the perspiration from his brow as he receives the adulation aud the gifts of the chiefs of Samoa, who will crawl down from their mountain fastnesses on their hands and knees to welcome their great sover- eign. We imagine him closing the audience with the noble words, ‘Let us have piece’ and thereupon taking the whole ‘of the islands into bis royal possession. We faucy him as he rests at eventide in the royal hammock or disports himself in the milkwarm surf, happy in the consciousness that henceforth neither an impertinent and meddling Congress nor an injudicious, not to say malevolent, press can trouble him and that he may at last carry out, unobstructed, the great plans of government which he bas pondered in the past. What pleasant and useful days he will spend in “directing the employment” of the cocoa- nut, the poi plant—a kind of rhubarb, we made—and the ‘‘spurious nutmeg,’’ by the | traffic in which he might expect to pay any national debt which he may create. He will be able to send General Babcock to Fiji and | | Rorotonga to concluds treaties of annexa- tion without fear of a Sumner to defeat his well chosen designs. He will allure the Aus- tralian steamers to his royal port of Pango Pango by the promise of a subsidy which shall not subsidize them. He would be sure to reform the civil service of Samoa, and if, unhappily, he should find that there, as here, “generally the support which this reform re- ceives is from those who give it their support only to find fault when the rules are apparently departed from,’’ he will naturally declare such recalcitrant faultfinders banditti and hand them over to be eaten by the traly loyal, with whom they will, on that occasion, let us hope, agree. Well, we shall not part with General Grant | without regret. We have not always been able to agree with him; but on the whole we can honestly say that no one has been more anxious for his success and good fame than the Hzraup. We have been To his faults a little blind, And to his virtues ever kind, or words to that effect. And as we have not failed to give him good advice in every emer- gency of his Presidential career, so now, at its conclusion, when, as we hope, he is about, to use the words of an eminent divine, to “step down and out," we respectfully counsel him, if he means to have a cabinet in Samoa, to take Judge Pierrepont with him as Secre- tary of State. The Judge has long felt him- self called by nature to that position, and in Samoa we have no doubt he would do well. Here in the United States people naturally : prefer Hamilton Fish. ‘Tue Resvits of the recent t labors of the Commissioners in the principal departments of the city are set forth in our local reports. Dratn on THE Siepce.—The artists of the Middle Ages delighted to portray death intrud- ing unexpectedly into life, into its pleasures and occupations, aud the ‘‘Dances of Death,’’ by Holbein, Durer and others, embody many singular Jessons of mortality. We print to- day a painful contrast of pleasure and sudden death in the story of the fatal catastrophe of » coasting party in Meriden, Conn. Death came upon them with a tiger leap, and joy was converted in an in- stant into mourning. Albert Durer might have painted the exultant skeleton guiding the rapid sledge and triumphing over his laughing and thoughtless companions, re renin nr ERE ‘The Blessings of Royalty. It is interesting to read that the Sultes of Turkey is in the enjoyment of an income of ten millions of dollars a year, and that his entertain ments are fabulous for their splendor, variety and quantity. No one knows how many dishes he has at every dinner, and the cotre- spondents are constantly instructing us about the progress of his new palace. These an-~ nouncements coming to us immediately after the graphic description of the return of King Alfonso to Madrid, and his increasing the do- nation to the clergy by several millions a year—although Spain cannot pay the interest on its debt, and is borrowing money frow every pawnbroker's shop in Europe—are gratifying evidences of the extension o! the royal system. But it is painful to observe in Turkey that the liberality of a sultan does not produce more happinese to his people. A subscription is now under way in England to relieve the distresses of the inhabitants of Asia Minor. ‘Over an area of forty thousand square miles there were more than ten thousand persons,” says an English journal, ‘‘who died for want of food. The distress is increasing rapidly, and the large portion of the population that survive only survive upon herbs, grass and the skins of animals.” The efforts of the Turkish govern- ment have not been able to check this famine, nor is there any reason why it should exist. Asia Minor is a country, according to the Saturday Review, ‘rich in all nat ural resources, once alive with the most buoyant activity, favored above other countries, facing on the sea, which has been withering away under the deadly grasp of the Turks.’’ Tho evidence shows that misgovernment, corruption and diverting the resources of the country from their true sources of benefit to the people underlie this famine. We saw something of the same in Persia, whose monarch left a starving people, to scatter diamonds over Europe. Even in the best governed countries there will be famines, or periods of want, great natural disasters. In our own country we have had misfortunes arising from floods and prolonged drought and grasshopper plagues. But our system of government always arreste the evil before it becomes a national calamity. England, by the exercise of the wisest anc highest statesmanship, arrested the stu- pendous Indian famine before it gained head- way, and saved that rich aod interesting Em- pire froma terrible calamity. But famines from misgovernment, asis the case in Asia Minor, are crimes on the part of a monarch which have no parallel in the calendar of crime, In looking into this Asian famine, this Car- list war, the famine in Persia and many other events in our own generation, arising from the misgovernment and ambition of monarchs and aspirants to monarchical power, the ques- tion arises whether all the crimes attributed to mad republicans in their moments of pas: sion and vengeance would be a drop in the bucket compared to the crimes that can be attributed to the royal system since the begin- ning of civilization. The famine in Asia Minor will pass away and be forgotten in a short time, but no one ceases to remember the excesses of the French Revolution. Yet which is the greater crime against hu- manity ? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ——_>+__ Ice has cornered the fish market. Prosecution ciosed and Bowen notin yet. He “go so’ tor slippery. Judge Charlies L. Wooabury, of Boston, is staying at the New York Hotel. Mayor D. M. Halvert, of Binghamton, is regis- tered at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Edward Learned, of Pittsfield, Mass., arrived at the Fiith Avenue Hotel last night. The subscriptions ior the Paris loan amounted to lorty-two times the sum asked for. Captain Z. L. Tanner, of the steamship Coion, ts quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Chancellor John V. L. Pruyo arrived at the Bre- voort House last evening from Albany. Mr. John H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore, is residing temporarily at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Beecher is the happiest manin Brooklyn and Colfax the happiest man out of politics. The Chevaller Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut are now called the Paul and Virginia of Bohemia. His Excellency the President has nominated John Bruce to be United States District Judge for Alabama. Messrs. Jobn G. Sinclair and John M. Bill, of | New Hampshire, are sojourning at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. Mr. H. P. Dwight, Superintendent of the Mon. treal Telegraph Company, is stopping at the New York Hotel. No three men taken at random anywhere seem to agree on the Beecher case, and how then shall twelve agree? Lieutenant Cameron's map of Lake Tanganyika, showing the whole coast line in great detail, has reached Enyland. Mr. H. B. Hurlbut, Vice President of the Cieve land, Columbus, Cincinvati and Indianapolis Rai ‘way Company, is at the Windsor Hotel. In London they are advertising “Prince Bis. marck’s sauce for fish, flesh and fowl.” They should get from the Pope a certificate of its excel lence. “Manoa Lescaut,” adapted to the stage by Barritre and Fournier, and announced asa “new comedy,” was first played not less than twenty years ago. In an English town twenty barrels of gun. powder were taken from a sbop and putin a cart, ‘The driver mounted, sat on one barrel, lighted bia Pipe and drove away. Conclusion by next mati, The Roman Catholics ot Germany nave resolved to demonstrate their uniaitering allegiance to tne Holy See by @ pilgrimage to Rome, in which depa- tations irom every diocese in the Empire are to take part. There is some apprehension in regard to the British constitution, One of the judges of the Qneen’s Bench recently used the word “chisel’* for “cheat.” There isa slight hope that it may have been a joke. That kind of emotional madness which the re vivalists call religion wilt flourish in London thie season as special edifices are in course of erection in different parts of the metropolis under the auspices of Moody and Sankey. Althougn Tennysou’s verses are a fortune to him Great Britain still boasts some of the oid fashioned sort of poets—and one of these died in the Poornouse at Jaisley a short time since, His name was William Alexander. ‘The latest “sweet thing” irom Paris inthe way of headwear is “the baby hat,’’ made tn quite the infantile style, with @ soft crown and plenty of lace and colored bows. It is pretty on young faces, but may not become Susan B. Anthony. jtis funny that some keen Americans sould, in Paris, turo up as green as boys from the country in the hands of our city sharpers. Paris papers recount the case ol arica American swin died by two casi acquaintances out of $19,000 by a confidence game, Lucky Forney. While he was enjoying the {es tivities of London society as a Centennial big gun, the Morning Post published an Awerican letter, with an account of the Paciflc Mat! subsidy, including that item of $25,000. Well, 4. W. was misspelled into “Mr. Torrey.’ s .| '