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

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 Yors Heraxp will be tent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- vual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hunan. 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. VOLUME XL. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ROMAN beni et aged 1. —CIRCUS, Fourth avenue sud Twenty seventh street.—CIRCUS, TROTTING AND MENAGLEII, aiternoon aud eveuing, atlang& BROOKLYN PARK THBATRE. Fulton avenue.—VARIETY, at 3 P. M.; closes at 1045 | yom OP: RA HOUSE, , near Sixth avenue —NEGRO Daun West Tw: Piura Vest Twenty third sir MINSTRELSY, &c., atSV.M.; closes at 10 P.M. Bryant GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street,—GIROFLE closes at ly iS, Ml, Mise Lin: NIBLO’S, Broadway.—RORY O'MOBs, aud HERRMANN, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:45 P, M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Ko, 201 Bowery.—VAKILTY, at 6 F. M.; closes at 10:45 Mm FIPTH AVENUE THEATRE ‘Twenty eighth stree and Broadway.—iHE BIG BO- NZA, at 81’. M.; closes at 10 330 P. Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lewis, Miss Daveaport, Mrs Gilbert LYCEUM THFATRE, Fourteenth street, near Sixth ANTOINETTE, at dP. M. Mme. Ristori. PARK THEATRE. Broadway.—French Opera Bouffe—DAVY CROCKETT, | aid P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mile. Coralie Geoffroy. GRAND CENTRAL THEATRE, poe Broadway.—VABIETY, ats P. M.: closes at 10:45 BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue — corner ot ats ¥.M.; closes at il P.M. Mr. Rignoid. HENKY V., SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway. corner of Twenty-ninth street.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Fighth street, between second and Third avenues.— VARIETY, at 3 P. Ml. ; closes at 12 Y. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—THE SHAUGHRAUN, at]. M.; closes at 45 P. M Mr. Boucicautt COLOSSEUM Broadway and Thirty-tourth street -PARIS BY NIGHT. | ‘Mwo exhivitions daily, at 2 and $F. M. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Brooklyn. —1HE MAN O' AITRLIE, ata P. M.; closes at 10,307 M. Mr, Lawrence Barrett. Woop's mu Broadway, corner Thirtieth str vcloges At lUnS P.M. Matinee ‘AS-SA CUS, at 8 P. P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Pca Broadway.—VARIETY, ats F. M.; closes at 1045 ROBINSON HALL, Fixteenth street and Broadwey.—CAL’ ENDER'S GEORGIA MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10 P. M. THEATRE COMIQUE, No, BI Bros: iway.—VARIETY, at $ METROPOLITAN MUSEUM CF ART, West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. to'5 P. M. kK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clearing. Wax. Srrzet Yustrrpay.—Gold advanced | to 1164 Stocks change steady. and declined to 1153, closing at 1153. were generally firm. Foreign ex- Tue Srantso Minister yesterday delivered to the President the autograph letter of King | Alfonso of Spain. Ovr Axupany Corresponpent reports the probable defeat of the Costigan bill through the action of the Committee on Cities and a partisan vote of the Senate. Tae Fatt River State has been happily ended by a virtual compromise, the em- ployers agreeing to restore on April 1 the ten per cent they had deducted from the wages of the operatives. It is a fortunate conclusion of an unprofitable struggle. Ir Was Not Senator Goosz, as might have been supposed, but Senator Fox, who proposed yesterday that the State Senate | should adjourn over St. Patrick’s Day. This is a poor imitation of the late lamented Tom | Field’s claptrap about making St. Patrick’s Day a legal holiday. Mn. Beecner’s Orrsion of the American Cardinalate is notable as a characteristic expression of his freedom from religious bigotry. He thinks it an honor which should have been long ago conferred, and a proper recognition of the Catholic Charch in America by 1s head in Rome, Tue Frexcu Assempty.—The censure of the Bonapartists, which the Duke d’Audriffet- Pasquier delivered on taking the chair of the Assembly, and the declaration of M. Dufaure, Minister of Justice, in favor of a dissolution of the Assembly in August and a new election in the fall, were significant events of yester- day. Slowly, yet with accelerating motion, France scems to be approaching the crisis of her irrepressible conflict between the imperial and republican parties. Pewce Bumarck axp tue Porr.—The debate in the Prussian Diet yesterday on the | new Ecclesiastical bill began with a bitterness | that augurs badly tor the quiet of Germany. The declaration of Dr. Faik that the Papai encyclical forbade in Germany what the Church permitted in Austria was quite enough to arouse passion ; but when Prince Bismarck described Pius IX. as “a Pope misguided by Jesuits,’ against whose teachings the German government was bound to defend its subjects, itis plain that the coming religious struggle will be made upon very broad issues, and will be conducted with unusual energy. GIROFLA, at 8 P.M; | Mayr. “avenue,—MARIE | Mi; closes at 10:45 | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. i ernie |The Politieal Contest in Commecticut. The State election which is to take place April 5 (two weeks from next Monday) ex- cites more interest than it could have done if the democrats bad not met an unexpected check in New Hampshire. Had the New Hampshire democrats made gains, or even held their own, the republicans would already have been as good as defeated in Connecticut, because in this State Governor Ingersoll had a plurality of 6,782 over Harrison, his repub- lican competitor, last year, and in the pre- ceding year the democratic plurality was 5,086 ; whereas in New Hampshire the demo- crats barely carried the State last year, the election of Governor being thrown into the Legislature, where the democrats had a small majority on joint ballot. The democratic party has been considerably smaller in New Hampshire for the last year or two than it | has in Connecticut, and the republicans will have to make much larger gains than they did in New Hampshire to carry the State. But their unexpected success in New Hamp- shire will stimulate them to herculean efforts. It is of incaleulable importance to both po- litical partics, with reference to the August, September, October and November elections, that the two opening elections of the year should furnish grounds of hope. The result of the New Hampshire election encourages the republicans; for, although it came so near being a drawn battle, the substantial fruits of victory belong to the republicans. Last year, like this year, there was no choice by the people, and the election of Governor devolved on the Legislature. But last year the demo- cratic candidate had a plurality of 1,465, and this year the republican candidate has a | plurality of 100. Neither last year nor this year was there an election of Governor by the people; but last year the Legislature was | controlled by the democrats, and this year it is controlled by the republicans. Tho practical consequence is that when the New Hampshire Legislature meets in June it will elect a republican Governor instead of a democratic Governor, reversing the result of | last June. The election this year is a repub- lican victory more against odds, but cer- tainly a victory, since that party is in posses- sion of the field. Such a result, slender as the advantage is, infuses hope and courage into the republicans and emboidens them to make strenuous ef- forts to wrest the State government of Con- necticut out of democratic hands. Should their hopes be realized their success will have an immense effect on the August and Septem- ber elections. They will accordingly do their very utmost in Connecticut. A victory in April, following the New Hampshire victory in March, would be interpreted by the repub- lican press of the country as a proof that the ‘tidal wave” (we owe an apology for using such tumid slang) of last year had been ar- rested and turned back, and that the strong feeling of dissatisfaction with the Grant ad- ministration had expended and exhausted its force. The democrats are as sensible as the republicans 6f the moral effect of a republi- can victory in Connecticut on subsequent elections, and there will be a concentration of forces on both sides to carry the State. Judging from present appearances the re- publican party cannot succeed in Connecti- | cut. So siight a reaction as took place in New Hampshire would still leave them in a minority. They lack the advantages of the New Hampshire republicans, who, in their platiorm, boldly repudiated the third term and lican party from the personal fortunes of President Grant. The Connecticut plattorm warmly indorses the President. Every man | on the republican State ticket and the repub- lican Congressional tickets is an out-and-out Grant man, with the single exception of Gen- eral Hawley, who is a candidate for re- election to Congress from the Hartiord dis- tric. We have no doubt that General the Force bill, which was a pet measure of the President; he voted in favor of Mr. Poland’s Arkansas resolution, which was « exception of General Hawley every prominent tepublican candidate in Connecticut is a sup- porter of Grant. Mr. Greene, their candidate for Governor, is so ardent a Grant man that | as Mayor of Norwich he ordered one hundred guns to be fired in honor of Grant's Louisiana message. The presiding officer of the Repub- lican State Convention pronounced a tulsome eulogy on Grant on taking his seat. In their platform the Connecticut republicans declared their ‘‘andiminished confidence in the integ- | rity and patriotism of President Grant.” | With a Grant platform, an enthusiastic Grant candidate for Governor, and three of the four candidates for Corgress ardent Grant men (General Hawley being the one exception), the Connecticut republicans go into the con- test on a very different footing from their brethren in New Hampshire. It makes a great | difference whether republicans indorse or repudiate Grantism. In New Hampshire they repudiated it and barely won a victory in a pretty evenly balanced state of parties. | In Connecticut they have indorsed Grantism, and, with this heavy load to carry, must take their chances of success against a large democratic majority in the last election. Such being the situation if ,the demo. crats lose Connecticut in the approach- ing election it will be a blow to their na- tional hopes from which they cannot easily recover. If the republicans should carry Connecticut on a platform which strongly | indorses Grant, and with a candidate for Governor who caused a hundred guns to be fired in honor ot the Grant-Sheridan ‘‘ban- ditti” policy, such a victory would fling the gates wide open to the third term aspirations of the President. | Even General Hawley, who, with a sharp eye to re-election, voted against Grant's pet measures in Congress, shuffled and trimmed on the third term question in his recent speech. He was pointedly asked whether he would support Grant for a third term, but he failed to make an explicit answer. He professed to regard ,it os an improb- But if he is so entirely sure that President Grant will not be again a candidate why should he hesitate to declare that he will not vote for | able and therefore an idle contingency. | If he believes that him in any contingency? explicitly separated the policy ot the repub- | | Hawley will be re-elected. He voted agninet | | | pointed condemnation of General Grant's | wish to oust Governor Garland and install | | Brooks; and he will probably maintain | himself in his district by his opposi- tion to the policy of the President on these important questions. But with the | Grant is not intriguing for a third term and does not want it what objection can General Hawley have to declaring that he will not vote for him, even if he should get the nomination? His cautious, gingerly talk on this subject, and his hesitation to commit himself unequiv- ocally on this great question, betoken a lurk- ing belief that Grant may be agai a candi- date, Otherwise there is no reason why he should not proclaim, in the most emphatic language, that he would not support Grant again, even if the Republican National Con- vention should again renominate him. As the Connecticut republicans have indorsed | | Grantism instead of repudiating it their suc- cess, with the strong odds against them, | would justly alarm the country. Patrick, Gentle and Saint. That St. Patrick was a gentleman as well as asaint is well established by traditions of the Church that are more trustworthy than our contemporaneous history. We may not credit all that we are told of our own times, yet we know that St. Patrick was a gentleman ; that his family was respectable ; that he built achurch in every town in Ire- land, and on each church put a steeple ; that be honored in his own life the holiness he taught to others, and that the legends which cluster around his memory, as the ivy covers an ancient tower, are kept green and fresh by the vital force of his simple, honest, gentle and devoted character. He deserves to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland, for he redeemed her from bondage to paganism, and looking back through the darkness of fifteen hundred years we see the figure of the fearless Christian, toiling through the land and bearing the message of the cross to the brethren he loved. But inde- pendently of the sacred vocation in which he labored with miraculous success St. Patrick had evidently personal merits for which his memory is enthusiastically cherished. He must have been warm hearted, genial, social and have had a sympathetic soul with a bit of humor in it, like a glowing piece of peat on a friendly hearth, or while he might have been as reverentially remembered, he would not still be the object of so much passionate affection. No saint in the calendar is probably as | widely known as St. Patrick. ‘he sun will shine on no part of the earth to-day where his birth will not be celebrated with pride and joy. The wrongs that have expelled from | their own land so many of his countrymen have helped to make his fame universal and his services cosmopolitan, and thus Ireland has become too small to hold him while the world is not too large for his increasing repu- tation to fill. The anniversary of St. Patrick’s birth will be in no city more truly honored than in New York, as the parade to-day, the religious services, the banquets and the general joy will prove. There can be but one thing to mar this celebration, and that ‘is the | absence of St Patrick himself, But | this is a misfortune which may be deplored | but cannot be helped. It might happen to any one who lived fifteen hundred years ago, | and has happened to thousands of compara- tively modern antiquity. We can be sure | that if St. Patrick were living now he would | be proud and glad to walk to-day with so | many of his friends and admirers. He would call upon Cardinal McCloskey and congratu- | late his diocese upon the honors conferred | upon its venerable head. He would work a | political miracle by changing the Board of | Street Commissioners, and for the comfort of | the parade would excommunicate the mud as | he did the snakes. He would respond to the toast to his memory which will be given at | the dinner, and, with all respect to the ora- tors of the day, we must say that he could doubtless make a better speech for himself than any one will make for him. It would be a great thing to have St. Patrick celebrating his own birthday; but although he was a very mighty saint he was also a modest gentleman, and might be abashed to find that fifteen cen- | turies have only made his name more glorious | and beloved. But if St. Patrick cannot be here his spirit may. It was a gentle, brave, temperate spirit, abounding in love for his fellow men, | free from intolerance and incapable of any- | thing that is low. By obedience to that noble spirit he can be honored most. It is | not our province to assume the prerogative of | the Roman Church and ask the hundreds of thousands who will celebrate this day to imitate | the virtues of the saint, but we may at least say that there is no better wsy to keep the | festival than to imitate the example of the | gentleman. | Father Walker and the Public Schools. We have reason to know that the violent | attack upon the public schools which Father | Walker made in his sermon last Sunday offended the Catholics of the city as much as it has astonished the Protestants. But if | there were any doubt that all intelligent clesses indignantly repudiate his startling doctrines the letters we print to-day should remove it, while at the same time they should convince the over zealous priest that this is nota healthy climate for his peculiar theology. Some of our correspondents point out the in- disputable fact that the true harm done by Father Walker is to the Church he pretends | to detend, but which we hope he mis- represents. There could be nothing more injurious to Catholicism in this country than to have the appointment of an American cardinal accompanied by an apparent move- ment of the clergy against the system of free popular education. The people would naturally then oppose as # menace an event which they now regard as an honor. Without any desire to be too severe upon | Father Walker we feel that it is only proper to add that in sach a case as this, where an | unjustifiable outrage has been committed | upon the whole community, there is only one adequate atonement—that is, an apology from | the offender as public as the offence. If this is refused by Father Walker then the respon- sibility 1s transferred from him to the Church, which by silence would seem to justify his course, Ir toe Testimony taken yesterday in the Stockvis case is not sbaken it must be ad- mitted that his arrest and treatment were inexcusable. The discovery of this outrage upon a sick and helpless man was owing to accident, and how many similar cases have remained undetected and unpunished? We | fear the public has had but a glimpso of the | Gto8s mismanagement in the cily institutions. | | “watching” each other. | are under sentence for removal by the Mayor The Spring Floods. As the warm breath of spring is felt we enter the critical period of our spring floods and river inundations, Last year in Northwestern Europe a most grievous water scarcity was experienced. The rivers ran low and sluggishly; the soil was dry, and the wells and subterranean fountains appeared to be sealed. When the long-protracted rainlessness of last summer in the United States occurred it seemed as if this country would in 1875 suffer as Europe did in 1874, and had it been so the effect would have been most disastrous. The winter rainfall is that most essential to the water supply of a continent, and practically decides the fertility of the earth for the ensuing season. Fortunately for this Continent the alarm excited by the summer snd fall droughts has been allayed by the copious and widespread precipitation of snow and rain during the winter now passing away. These copious rains and heavy snows were due largely to the intense Polar cold, which in January and February chilled the surface of the earth to great depths, thus rendering it @ powerful condenser of the vapor held in every wind that blew in upon it from the sea. The amount of precipitation since January 1 has been very great, over all the country drained into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlan- tic Ocean. In order to get an idea of the amount of water stored up in the snow- crystal and ice-block on our Appalachian slopes it must be remembered that no record can adequately exhibit it, since the heaviest snowfalls have taken place at inaccessible summits. Already the floods occasioned by the brief spells of warmer, snow-melting weather, have given intimation of what may be looked for. We begin to receive the reports ot booming freshets, flood waves and ice gorges sweeping through the waterways that drain both the eastern and western slopes of the Alleghanies, Three or four days of high temperature, followed by a heavy rain storm | from the Gulf, will complete the work of ice dissolution and dislodgement. The sections most threatened are, appar- ently, those on either side of the Allegha: es and Blue Ridge, north of Tennessee and North Carolina. The Mississippi is most re- motely concerned in the spring floods of the Appalachian rivers, though its mighty volume is now swollen and may soon give trouble in Louisiana and Misissippi, as it has often done in March. In the central part of the Ohio Valley the highest annual floods have occurred in connection with the melting of the Alleghany snow, and, though the highest spring freshets have usually been | in February, it is not too late for one during the present month, which would probably be felt most disas- trously at Louisville and below. There is evidently like danger to the two Kanawhas, the Alleghany and a and the trib- utaries which enter the Upper Ohio, They have several times experienced sudden fluc- tuations within the past month, owing to a temporary relaxation of the winter tempera- ture. But that they have yet carried off the amassed winter rain and snowfall of the regions they drain is hardly possible, and the great bulk of itis probably yet to be melted and set free. The calamities for which the country has for many days waited in dread are upon it at last. Our despatches to-day show that the Delaware, the Susquehanna, the Ten- nesseo and their tributaries have burst from confinement and are sweeping with desolating force through the val- leys. Bridges have been carried away and much damage has been done on the Dela- ware and Susquehanna. This, we fear, is but the first sad chapter of a long story of loss of property and perhaps of lite. The Disorganization of the Municipal Government. No person doubts that the several depart- ments of the city government need a thorough reorganization. When Alderman Vance be- came Mayor the popular desire for a change in the administration of our local affairs was so evident that he felt justified in making im- portant removals and appointments, notwith- standing the briefness of his accidental term of office. His vigorous action won general approval and would have been indorsed by the people had it extended to the Police, Fire and Finance departments, as it undoubtedly would if his official term had been more ex- tended. Yet his democratic successor in the Mayoralty has now been nearly three months in power and the departments remain just as Mayor Havemeyer made them and as Mayor Vance lett them, except in those instances in which resignations have taken place. So far asthe Mayor’s authority under the charter extends removals have been made in the case of four heads of depart- ments—the Corporation Counsel and three Fire Commissioners ; but the Mayor's certifi- cates of removal have been in the hands of the Governor of the State for some seven weeks, and have neither been approved nor disapproved. The municipal departments are, therefore, in a more confused, uncertain and inharmonious condition now than they were when the present administration as- sumed office. If Governor Tilden would spare sufficient | time to glance at the present situation in the | city he would certainly recognize the neces- sity of some prompt action unless the demo- | cratic administration is to be # worse failure | than the administration of Mayor Havemeyer. | The Board of Aldermen are investigating, through their law committee, the management of the Finance Department. The evidence ad- | duced shows that there is no co-operation, harmony or friendly teeling between that de- | partment and the other departments of the city government. The Police Commission is occupied in investigating the corruptions and | official misconduct of the detectives, captains | aud others belonging to the force, and the Commissioners admit that they are also | The whole depart- | ment is rotten and demoralized from Mul- | berry street down. The Fire Commissioners on grave charges of official misconduct, and | one Commissioner, Mr. Hatch, has virtually condemned his associates by alleging that he | made charges against them himself to Mayor | Havemeyer. The bead of the Law Depart- mont is under a similar sentence. To-mor- row weare to have an investigation by the Mayor of the conduct of the Superintendent of the Building Department in the matter of the St. Andrew's church calamity, and the Mayor must necessarily feel embarrassed hy the kmowledge that the removal of that official for criminal neglect of duty, if made by him, may be tossedaside, and left unnoticed by the Governor. We ask Gov- emmor Tilden whether these facts promise well for the interests of the city of New York; whether this condition of affairs is calculated to give the people such a municipal govern- ment as they have a right to expect, and as will redound to the credit of the party in power? The fault lies with him. So long as he refuses or neglects to take action one way or the other on the removals already made by the Mayor, either to approve or dis- approve them, he encourages discord and in- subordination in the departments, brings the office of the Mayor into contempt, confuses and paralyzes the municipal government, and disgraces his party by proving its incapacity to discharge public duties harmoniously, efficiently and in the interests ot the people, The Third Term. The Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, ex-member of Congress, of the Utica Herald, and the Hon. John M. Francis, ex- Minister to Greece, of the ‘Troy Times, have embarked in a fervent con- troversy about the third term. When the ques- tion of Casarism first came into our politics Mr. Roberts, like many ot his republican col- leagues, opposed the mere thought that Grant should seek a third term. He endeavored to convince us that we were mistaken in our conclusions. The result of the controversy, however, was that Mr. Roberts accepted our logic and induced the Convention which nomi- nated him to Congress to pass resolutions condemning the third term. He has since joined with the Heraxp in our efforts to com- bat the schemes of those who would renomi- nate President Grant. “If,” says Mr. Rob- erts, “the third term is left in its present uncertain status until the fall, we do not hesitate to predict that the republican party will not then carry a single one of the States which will then vote.” To this sagacious opinion Mr. Francis replies, condemning Mr. Roberts for his ‘‘third-term harpings,” denouncing it as “a humbug invented by the New York Hera,” “originating in a spirit of mis- chievous sensation,” ‘sustained in a spirit of partisan malice.” Mr. Francis informs us that his relations with the President enabled him, as far back as October, 1873, to deny that hewasa candidate for re-election. He sum- mons a8 a witness our esteemed fellow towns- man, Hon. Bichard Schell, commonly known as “Oncle Dick,’? who says that ‘General Grant had personally said as much as that to him.’’ Mr. Francis is convinced that the President never uttered a word indicating any purpose but that of retiring at the end of his term, and he describes an interesting interview at which he was present, when General Grant informed a delegation of Cherokee Indians that he would only be ‘two years longer in the White House.” This statement Mr. Francis communicates to Mr. Roberts, because he “earnestly desired that the third term forebod- ings that have so muda troubled our good friend should be at once and forever dis- pelled.”” It would afford us the utmost pleasure to be the means of restoring harmony between Mr. Roberts and Mr. Francis. The spectacle of Mr. Roberts refusing to be comforted by Mr. Francis indicates a mutinggs quality—a Fluellen spirit—worthy of the ancient and illustrious race from which Mr. Roberts springs. The difference between these two men is that Mr. Rouberts has bewa for four years in Washington studying the institutions of the republican party, while Mr. Francis has been spending this time in the classic | land of Greece, ‘Where burning Sappho loved and sung.” A humane, high-minded, statesmanlike diplomatist returning from Greece—his soul filled with the classic mem- ories of that gracious land; thinking of Socrates, Pilato and Homer; his ideals of government based upon those early models of Spartan simplicity and patriotism which the Greek genius gave to the world; his types of citizen- ship, Epaminondas, Leonidas and Aristides— would be the last man in the world to com- prehend the atmosphere of Washington. Therefore the evidence of Mr. Francis, which we have carefully weighed with all the an enthusiastic expression of confidence in General Grant, and not an indication that the President and his friends have no idea of the third term. If Mr. Francis had gone to the Senate, for instance, he would have found one member of that body—than whom no one stands higher in the confidence of the Presi- dent and the esteem of the republican party— who would have said to him, as he told others not long since, ‘that the next nominee of the republican party for President would either had not yet been mentioned.” On any question of Greek philosophy, liter- ature, poetry or diplomacy the opinions of Mr. Francis would be far more valuable than those of Mr. Roberts. When it comes to Washington politics and the manauvres of the republican leaders Mr. Reberts testifies to that which he knows, He knows that the whole drift of republican discipline since Gen- eral Grant’s re-election has been to consolidate the party so as to give it military strength | and obedience. He knows that there has been no leader in the councils of the republican | party that dared to oppose the wishes of the President. He has seen leading republicans who ventured to question the Executive au- thority taken out and shot like mutineers. He has seen the South governed by a system of pro-consnls, recalling the Roman policy and leading toa government like that of Rome. Reasoning from these facta and from the char- acter of the men with whom he has been as- sociated, he cannot resist the conclusion that the supporters of the President do not mean to abandon power until they are compelled to do so by the decisive vote of the people. The narratives which Mr. Francis gives us of the declarations of the President are in- teresting but meagre, Now, let us ask Mr. Francis himself ono question. Would he accept General Grant tor the Presidency if nominated by the republican party for a third | term? If Mr. Francis will make a record on | this point it will go far toward strengthening | the republican sentiment in the State against athirdterm. This is the shibboleth that should be administered to every leading republican journalist and politician. We offer it to Mr. Francis and await with interest hia response. Forrtan Goops aT THE CENTENNIAL— The story started in Germany, that the goods of foreign exhibitors at the Centennial cele- bration would be subject to seizure if the International Exposition should prove a fail- ure has emphatic and official contradiction. The opinion of United States Attorney Gen- eral Williams, elsewhere published, is positive to the contrary, and Mr. John L. Shoe maker, counsellor for the Commission, givea an opinion, sustained by two of the most eminent lawyers in Ponnsyl- vania—Benjamin H. Brewster and Henry M. Phillips, that the law of the State is well settled that goods thus placed on exhibi- tion are free from seizure and are not liable for the debts of the person or corporation re- ceiving them. ‘The story is a stupid one, but deserves exposure. The property of the exhibitor is doubly secured ; in the first placa the Exposition is in not the slightest danger of bankruptcy, and in the second place thero is national and State law for the security of the goods exhibited. Aw Lersovement on Sraeet Rows in Ricz- Monp.—Time was in the good old days of! the chivalry when a street row in Richmond was dangerous to one or more of the com- batants. We remember instances in which: fiery journalists have shot down their men om the sidewalk or been shot down by them, and when a simple knock down without the ac- companiment of bowie knives and revolvers would have been regarded as a very low affaira But we have changed all that, as a recent bloodless encounter between an editor and legislator shows. ‘Mr. Brown, I believo,”’ says the legislator, after the pattern of the discoy~ erer of the great African explorer. ‘Yes, andl you are the scoundrel Jones,’’ is the polite reply. Thereupon Jones draws back for & ‘facer’ on Brown, Brown seizes Jones by} the throat, friends separate the irate gentle- men and the effray is over. This certainly ia not a very heroio encouuter, yet it isa far safer one than those in which the Virginial chivalry were wont to engage. A ConresponpEnt Compxarns that when he hires a street cab and pays the regular fare the driver always demands more, and upon a refusal becomes abusive. The remedy is a simple one. Take the number and report the case at the City Marshal’s office. The present rate is one dollar by the hour or fifty cents a mile for one passenger and seventy-five cental a mile for two, or at the rate of thirty-seven{ and a half cents per mile per passenger where there are more than one. The present officialal have promised to enforce the law and to pune ish all who make overcharges. Pracrican Barr Transrt.—In the aes of the uncertainties that attend all rapid! transit schemes it is consoling to think that we have an instalment in the shape of the Greenwich street or ‘one-legged’ road, whicly may be increased if the owners possess en< ergy and the people common sense. Governor’ Dix’s veto of the bill for the general extension, of this road was great mistake, but it ig now said that the company is desirous of ex< tending the line to the Forty-second street depot. This would be a great public cons venience. At the same time the company should be authorized to extend the elevated rails across the streets through which they pass, from curb to curb, so as to afford the accommodation of double tracks, a greater number of trains, greater speed and increased confidence in the safety of the structure. Tur Government is desirous of opening the Biack Hills country to emigration by law- ful methods, but will not permit illegal ex~ peditions to violate the Indian titles. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Rev. Thomas G, Addison, of Washington, is stays ing at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge Charles Wheaton, of Poughkeepsie, 1s so- journing at the Albermarie Hotel. 3 Professor O. C. Marsn, of Yale College, bas taken. up his residence at the Hoffman House. Rear Admiral Charles 8, Boggs, United States | Navy, 18 quartered at the Everett House. Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsyl- vania, 1s residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Messra, Wiliam E. Chandler an‘ N. G. Ordway, of New Hampshire, are among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Mr, William D, Bishop, President of the New . | York, New Haven and Hartiord Railroad Company, respect due to his high character, is simply | is at the Windsor Hotel. ¥ Mr. George B. McCartee, Chief of the Printing, Division of the Treasury Department, is registered at tne Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain William Gore Jones, naval attaché of the British Legation at Washington, has apart- ments at che Clarendon Hotel. Rev. Elmer H, Capen, of Providence, has been nominated as President of Tuft’s College, Boston, and will accept. He ts but thirty-eignt years of Prince Bismarck always was 8 wideawake man, but the trouble now is that he is too wideawake and cannot get to sleep when he wantsto. His be General Grant or some one whose name | brain, like the famous Oork leg, wont stop. Strange that Grant should call King’s attention to the fact that he was ‘indicted by the Min- nesota Legislature.” It would seem as if Grant might have in him some respect for public opinion, Tooker & Jarrett propose as a fortncoming sum- mer entertainment for this public a trip to Boston, and they have gone to see about the’boats. There isn’t apy sight in the world more comical than Boston. Colonel Fletcher, Private Secretary to the Gov ernor General of Canada, having been ordered to rejoin his regiment in Kngland, bas tendered his resignation, and will leave Canada tor England on | April 10, Mme. Furtado draws from the French Treasury every three months the sum of 1,000,018 francs, the interest on government securities held by her, which amount to 80,000,000 francs, or $16,000,000, and this is but a portion of her wealth. ‘The English preacher, whose fash.onable congre- gation drew many pickpockets, mentioned just before the service thas there was an All-Seeing Eye to which there were no secrets, and also there were hall @ aozen detectives in the house, In Belgium théy sappress the Colorado ten. liner on American potatoes by @ good washing, as neither the insect nor ite eggs are found in tne potato, or, strictly speaking, on the potato; bus oniy inthe earth that happens to aducre to the vegetable. It is reported that the Bonapartist Commission has issued a circular informing the tutthful throughout France that the reason why Prince Louis did not come up No. 1 tn his class at sohoot was that he aid not know suficiently the Eny- lish language. His Excellency the Governor General of Canada will shortly leave for Europe, to be absent three months, The government will be administered during his absence by Lieutenant General William O'Grady Haly, 0. B,, Commanding Her Mjesy'’a forces at Halifax. It is understood that Lawrence Oliphant, now in Ottawa, formerly Military Secretary to Lord Elgin, in india, will succeed Colonel Fletcher as Military Secretary to Lord Dufferin, Mr. Herbert, @ cousin of Lord Carnarvon, is algo Mentioned aa & DOssIble GuCCGAHOT,