The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1875, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD AND BROADWAY ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and) after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henatp will be | eent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- neal subscription price $12 All business or news letters snd telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yorn Henav. 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: 10-NIGHT. OPERA. HOUSE, |, Near Sixth avenue. ene iy ‘M.; closes at 10 P.M. Dan sressceceseseeNO, 78 | GERMANIA THEATR! Fourteenth street.— AE GIROFLA, ater M; closes at 1045. M. Miss Lina Mayr. frosdwey RORY. 3 Closes at 10:45 P NIBLO'S, yMORt, and HERRMANY, at 8 P. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, yom Bowery.—VAKIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 M. _LYCEU 4 TREATRE, Vonrteenth th Drone tres ae. Me PARK THEATRE, avenue.—MARIE xt “me. Kistori. Btoadwres. —French Opera Boutle—GIROFLE-GIROFLA, | atS i. M.; closes at 10:45. M. Mile. Coralie Geoffroy. GRAND CENTRAL THEATRE, Ss Broadway.—VAkIE TY, ats P ATS closes at 10:65 ¥ . ay BOOTH'S THEATRE, + | corer of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth _avenne.— HENRY V., at8 P.M. ; closes at ll P.M. Mr, Bignold. adway. corner of Twenty BINcIRELSy, at8 P. M.; ci TV et, hetween Seco z ighth VARIET ats P. M.; closes at ALLACK’S ae ATRE, Broadway. PATHE SHALGHRAUN, ats P. Met clones at 1045 P.M. Mr. Bone Broadway and Thirty: Two exhibitious daily MRS. CONWAY Brooklyn.—RICHE LIE Mr. Lawrence Barrett. WOOD’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth strect.— ‘MONTE, ¢ Cgaitne and SAS-SA CUS, at 8 P. M.: closes at 10:45 P. M. OLYMPIC THEATRI zm Broadway.—VARIETY, at +P. BROOKLYN THEATRE, 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. M.; closes at 1043 Sixteenth —CALLENDER'S GBORGIA winstreDs ats P. x. : Closes at 10 P. Me: THEA Fone Brosdway.—VARIETY, at §P. M.; closes at 10:45 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ‘West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. Foorth avenue and Twent TROTTING AND MENAGERI atiand& ME, venth street.—CIRCUS, afternoon and eveving, BROOKLYN PARK THEATEF. ete avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. New YORK, PRIDAT, MARCH 19, eb our reporis this morning ing the probabilities @re that the weather to-day will be cold and cloudy, with possibly 1 rain or snow. Warr Srreer YxsTERDAY. —Gold was firm at 116}. Foreign exchange was steady. Money | on cali ranged from 3 to 5 per cent. Tae Greenwich Strect Evevatep Ran- BoaD was indorsed yesterday by the Common | Council, who adopted resolutions asking the Legislature to pass the pending bill authoriz- ing the company to extend its route and im- prove its road. France.—The Versailles Assembly has wereed to adjourn from March 20 to May 5, a committees of twenty-five members to sit dur- ing the recess. the dissolution of the Assembly the Ministers refused to express any views, and the propo- sition to order no more partial elections was referred toacommittee. Unless tho dissolution is agreed to the Left will urge the prompt fill- ang up of all vacancies. An attempt to re- store Paris to her position as the capital was | Hefeated by a close vote. The legislators are evidently getting tired of their self-imposed exile. If Versailles were a few miles further sway from the Palais Royal they would long | wince have surrendered at Lroterby No Szat No Pay.—A bill has been intro- need in the Legislature to compel street rail- | toad companies to furnish a seat tor each pas- wenger who enters their cars. In case no seat js provided no fare can be exacted. The overcrowding of our street cars at certain hours of the day is one of those nuisances | that should be abated, being injurious to health as well as being very uncomfortable. ‘The only feasible remedy is to compel the companies to piace on their lines a larger number of cars during those hours of the day when the traffic is greatest. The proposed Yaw, in which the principle of no seat no pay is established, would, doubtless, be efficacious In attaining the desired end LicensmxG Rarvroap Cars.—The Common Cowncil passed an ordinance yesterday reguir- ing the railroad companies to pay a license fee ot fifty dollars on each car, the ordinance to take effect immediately after being signed by the Mayor. The certificate of to be affixed to each car in some conspii place, with a fine of fifty dollars for each that a car is ran without payment of the licenee. The details and exceptions are sct forth in the ordinance which we print with the proceedings ; we only state its substance in this place. This ordinance will be popular, mrovided it is legal. We suppose the com- ponies will contest it in the courts as incon- sistent with their charters, and that no license will be paid until the question has been adjudicated, ment is ae BY NIGHT. | 3 closes at 1045 _ On the important matter of | NEW YORK HERALD, The Business Outlook. There are good reasons forthe assertion | that the great commercial revulsion under which industry and enterprise have been prostrate for so many months has at last spent its force and that business of all kinds is about to revive. We propose to state below and justify the hope that the year 1875 will | mark the beginning of a new era of general | prosperity. | 1. Itis a fact that the expenses of carrying | on business have been greatly decreased during the last eighteen months. In some branches there is still extravagant management; but | the majority of business men all over the | country, as well as in this city, have been | compelled to retrench in their living expenses and to manage their affairs more closely. | Store rents are lower, merchants live on a | less princely scale, clerks, salesmen and agents are more economical. As a result, | commerce, the exchange of products, is per- | formed more cheaply and with greater econ- | omy. | 2 Production has been materially cheap- ened. Abundant food crops for two years have lowered the price of the necessaries of life, and wages have also fallen. The great | time to consider the effect of trade unions and other labor organizations upon their real prosperity, and as American workmen are, in | the main, a sensible folk, we hear lessof eight hour movements and strikes. Labor has to a | considerable extent adjusted its demands to | the actual condition of the country’s in- dustries, and, except in the coal region of Pennsylvania, where disorders still break out sporadically, it may be said that the laboring force of the country, too long intoxicated by the artificial stimulus of paper money and the war, has now come to its senses, and 1s willing once | more to give a fair day’s work for a fair day’s | pay. ‘The'time was when a dollar a day and Bt roast beef was a favorite political cry, and | the time now is when over a great part of the | country the laboring man is content if he re- ceives that wage. 3. The vast economy which was the enforced resn}t of the stagnation of the last two years begins to tell. Drvide forty millions by five, and we get eight millions as about the number of families in the United States, allof whom have been compelled, during the last two years, to live on less than they ex- pended for some years before. In this and | other cities many families have economized to the extent of thonsands of dollars per an- num each. What the average per family all | over the country may have been it is impossi- | ble to tell. | one hundred dollars, and we should havea | saving of eight hundred millions per annum. Put it at only half this great sum, and it is | still an enormous saving, which begins to | tell. 4. The West owes less money than ever be- | fore. The farmers have obtained, on the | whole, good prices for good crops; Western | merchants owe but little in the East, and the | process of liquidating old debts has been | almost completed. | 5, The South also is prosperous. The | sugar crop has been large and very profitable. | The cotton crop has brought fair prices and has been yearly increasing; and those who | raised it were ablato lay by a large amount | old debts. Rice also has been an uncom- | monly profitable crop. 6. Prices of merchandise are now so low | that merchants do not incur a great risk in , | carrying stocks of goods, Production also has been so fat cheapened that already last fall we began to export cottons to China and Cumberland coal to the West Indies. ports increase but slowly, to be sure, and the | great amount of cotton and woollen ma- | chinery in the country, the result of injudi- | cious and grasping tariffs, makes a large ex- port trade necessary to enable manufacturers to get rid of their surplus products. But the immediate future looks hopeful, and, though ‘a thorough reorganization and simplification | of our customs duties are needed before we can | with our ships and buy foreign commodities with onrown manntfactures, production isnow in many important branches so far cheap- ened as to enable us to sell in the markets of | | the world to some extent. 7. The action of Congress on the currency | question is now seen to be unimportant in its | results ; it will not either inflate or contraer, and for a year to come, except in the un- | likely case of a foreign war, business men may begin new enterprises without the fear of snd- den or great changes in values or prices. The banks are on the whole ina healthy condi- suspicion on accommodation paper, notwith- , Standing the low ruling rates of interest, | which naturally tempt to imprudent invest- ments. Every one who desires to see busi- ness re-established on a sonnd basis must re- ! joice at this evidence of conservative discrimi- nation in the banks. 8. As signs of the actual revival of business | we may quote the fact that already a number | of contracts for new buildings are completing in this city. The iron industry, which was the most deplorabiy prostrate of all, | slowly reviving. Most of the railroads now buy steel rails instead of iron, and we hear that the steel rail works in different parts of the country are all busy and have orders for two or three months ahead. In the Sonth, where violence and disorder have very greatly decreased during the last year, confidence is so far re-established that South- as railroad and other mortgage is ern securities, bonds, are bought for local investments in | Meautime the liqui- | considerable quantities, dation of Sonthern State debts is going on, and, though the sealing of State debts is not a pleasant thing for those who hold these seenrities, it is an important means toward a healthy re-establishment of Southern business and socie The low rate of money in Eng- land has indneed a epeentation there in our breadstufls and provisions which is likely to create a greater demand here for export, and lias already, indeed, affected prices. There are indications hero, too, of un od demand for money, whic ake leading financiers believe it probable t by Ann me may be worth six percent. The job- bing grocers are doing a.pretty good business alreas The reduced cost of building will probably draw capital into house building to afew of the facts which lead to this belief multitude of unemployed workmen have had | Suppose it to have amounted to | | of the proceeds last year, for they owed no | Our ex- | hope to greatiy and permanently extend our | foreign trade and once more cover the sea | tion, and it is a good sign that they look with | considerable extent as the spring opens. | Finally, in the leading articles of production | there is believed to be at this time no over- stock in the country, and as confidence is steadily increasing and stocks in retailers’ hands all over the country are short, there is | | every reason to expect a fair business for the | year, which, fortunately, will not be specula- | tive, but based on the needs of the people | and their ability to buy for cash, | | 9. It is believed by the shrewdest and most | cautious men that real estate in and near New | York has seen its worst day, and that espe- | cially improved and productive property and | that situated on a real line of improvement is | about to rise. 10. It is also the belief of our most cautious financiers that for men who do a legitimate business, with sufficient capital, the present year is likely to be fairly prosperous, 11. Finally, in any consideration of the future, the immense recuperative powers of | the country must be taken into account. Our condition is that of a young and vigorous man with a sound constitution struck down | by fever. He may lie long in peril of death ; but when once the fever is mastered his recov- ery is rapid and sure. The country is rich and strong; it has now peace at home and abroad ; it has passed the point of danger | and is on the way to recovery, and its upward | course will be more rapid than cautious or | fearfal men anticipate. Many of the causes | of business prostration and loss of confidence | have disappeared. A check has been at last put to the misgovernment and spoliation of the Southern half of the Union, and industry once more thrives and has its reward there. | In the North a great mass of speculative enter- prises have perished, and if the country is still in debt on their account at least farther waste is stopped. We have learned one bitter | lesson of economy and caution. But that we | are safely past the dangerous point and on the | upward turn all indications prove, and this consideration alone will greatly help to revive production and exchange by re-establishing confidence in the future. Mayor Wickham’s Message on the City Debt. The sound Message sent by the Mayor | to the Common Council yesterday after- noon will be indorsed by every honest man in the city. The bonded and funded | debt of the city, already gigantic and ap- palling, is constantly increasing by means | over which the city government has, at present, no control. In consequence of State | tionis periculo liberavit.”” laws passed in 1871, while the Tweed Ring | was still supreme, the enormous city debt | grows from year to year, and the municipal | authorities are helpless to prevent or arrest it. | When the Board of Apportionment mects | from time to time it is compelled against its | own judgment and its sense of city | interests to issue new bonds, which | swell the funded debt of the city, | because the last Legislature, controlled by Tweed, clothed individual officers or the heads | of particular departments with discretionary | | power to prosecute undertakings and incur | | expenses. These improvident laws which the | Board of Apportionment is compelled to obey | ‘must remain in force until the Legislature | i repeals or amends them. It is the purpose of | | this excellent message to secure the co-opera- | | tion of the Common Council in an appeal to | the Legislature now in session to give the city government control of its finances and invest | it with power to check the alarming increase of the municipal debt. It is the desire ot the Mayor that the great money-expending and debt-incurring depart- ments, like the Public Works and Docks, be subordinated to the Mayor and Common Council and deprived of their present au- | thority, under unwise State laws, to pile Ossa on Olympus and Pelion upon Ossa in the creation of new debts. The Mayorshows, bya detail of instances, that even the ordinary current expenses of certain departments, such | | as the salaries of officers and clerk hire, go to | swell the funded debt, though no proposition | can be more undeniable than that all stated | current expenses should be met out of current H revenues. The Mayor shows that the Legisla- | ture of 1871 (Tweed’s last) gave to the Com- missioners ot Public Works and the Commis- | sioners of Docks a debt-incurring power | which cannot be safely exercised without the | supervising authority and deliberate consent of the elected representatives of the city, con- | | sisting of the Mayor and Common Council. We trust that our city legislators will give their prompt consent and zealous co-operation in this praiseworthy attempt of the Mayor to secure the passage of such luws at Albany as | will bring order out of the existing chaos and | arrest the stupendous progress of the munici- pal debt. We commend the Messege to the thoughtful perusal of our citizens. | i | | Avprrman Briurxcs, having got his hand | in, is trying to suppress the exhibition of per- forming bears in the streets as well as the music of church bells on the Sabbath. As | bears have a fancy for giving hugs which are apt to be more close than affectionate we see no objection to this resolution, although the street urchins may demur, who get what they consider a good sight for nothing. Bruin, thongh not a friend, sticketh closer than a brother, and most people would be willing to | dispens> with his polite attentions, But it 18 odd that the same Alderman, at the same meeting of the Board, proposes to suppress | church bells and dancing bears almost in the same breath. Why did he not inciude the bears of Wall street in his engthema? Their hugs are more freqnent and more dangerous to the victims than those of poor Bruin, and they are a greater nuisance than the pleasant chimes which would be stopped by silencing the church bells. Tre Evrpe ed filative to ‘John Doe” before the Coroner's jury does not show the police in a very orable light. The habit of giving evidence against prsoners 50 grows on police officers that they make dam- to magistrates withont aa to whet ng assertions selves ranch trouble giving not the or they may be exact. All the civilian testimony goes to prove that {stoclvis, or “John De the police rechristened him, was a sobev, steady and industrious man, and that his death was hastened by the neglect of the police anthort in failing to secure for him the proper wr sl treatment. Stupid police men, when they find a man helpless m_ the streets, too apt to assume thet drunken- ness must be the cause, It is due, we sap- pose, to u profe-sional prejudices Garibaldi and the Agro Romano. Engineering science has recently cut through the Alps, pierced the isthmus that joms Asia aud Africa, and is sharpening its tools for a greater labor than all—sending a railway under the sea between England and France. It is a great age, therefore, for achievements of this nature. The facts indi- cate that the practical sciences have in our time so far realized the results of some cen- | turies of thought and discussion that they can grapple with difficulties that altogether van- quished the science of other ages. And it appears to have occurred to General Garibaldi, who always has Rome in his thoughts, to wonder whether this new condition of en- gineering science might not be advantageous to the Eternal City; whether, in fact, this would not be a happy moment to return to the struggle with that tough old subject, the Tiber, one of Rome's implacable enemies. As against the great city the yellow Tiber is guilty of two crimes, or rather, he is charged with two. He is guilty of one, but as to the other we incline to the opinion that there are doubts in his favor. Father Tiber inundates the city from time to time, makes mimic rivers of its streets, floods the cellars and the shops and the first floors of the palaces, gives the people such an acquaintance with water as prejudices them against it for the rest of the year, and so tends to prevent its use in even salutary quantities. Asa great part of the city, all that part in which the Corso runs, is but a little above the level of the river, this inundation is only a | natural consequence of the freshets which require that enough water to furnish the Mis- | sissippi for a few days should run tranquilly in the bed of a river like the Passaic. The Tiber would be a more remarkable river than it is if it could meet this case and leave the city dry. Naturally the Romans did not wait till the coming of Garibaldi before making an effort to remedy this trouble, Claudian tried it and Trajan tried it Trajan fancied he had suc- ceeded and left behind, cut in substantial stone, the observation, “‘Urbem ab inunda- He also thought he was a liberator. Garibaldi’s notion is that the bed of the Ti- ber would be sufficient to carry down all its waters if it were not for the ob- struction of a delta at its mouth and the consequent division of the river ito unequal and inefficient streams and the slug- gishness of the currents thus caused, which permits the channel to become clogged. He proposes the construction of a canal from a point above the city to the sea—using in the construction, wherever it is possible, the bed of theriver. He would make this canal five hundred feet wide, thirty-three feet deep and about twenty-five miles long. From Rome to Ostia, at the mouth of the river, it is, as the.) bird flies, about fifteen kilometres, but by the | line of the river it is twice as far. It does not appear, as the detail is not yet laid out, whether Garibaldi’s camal would follow the sinuosities of the river; but, as it is pro- posed to use the natural channel ‘‘where pos- sible” it would rather appear that he proposes a straight line. the admission up to the city of large ships. It is objected, first, that the inclina- | tion is so slight that the canal cannot be kept clear, but will fillup es the river does ; and, second, that the necessary money cannot be raised, as the first estimate is thirty million francs—which sum will certainly be inade- quate. The second trouble caused by the Tiber, and which it is also thought this disposition of the water will overcome, is the condition of | North- | the Roman Campagna as to malaria. east and east to the Appenines and southwest to the sea the once fertile and highly culti- vated Ager Fomanus is now a desolate waste, unfit for human habitation. In the descrip- tion of Strabo it is called a healthy country, “except a few spots near the sea which are | marshy.’’ In this district there were once | many cities, and Laurentum, Ardea, Antium, Veii and Owre were still in a flourishing state in the fourth century of Rome, while as long as Rome was free the immediate district within five miles of the city was held in small farms by the Roman people, and was as faith- fully cultivated as any piece of earth in a) garden. But as wealth increased, and large forlunes were accumulated, the small farms | gave place to large tracts kept for pasturage, an/l the mdustrious laborers to whom alone the | country owed its value were driven ont. All | that was not done of this in the imperial days of Rome was achieved by the devastations of | later wars, and the district was made desolate. But how much of its malarious condition is | due to the overflow from the river and how rouck to another consequence of its abandon- ment as a human habitation it would be diffi- cult to say. As a general principle the rela- tions of the hot sun and decaying vegetation | and moisture as necessary elements for the production of fever miasm are known; but our knowledge is neither very particular nor very exact a step iurther. In fact, in wet sea- sons there is less fever than at other times, | for the presence of water longer or later than usnal seems to interfere with those operations | by which the heat of the sun acts on the | vegetation in producing malaria. If, therefore, Garibaldi’s cana) prevents the overflow of the plain it may for several years produce malaria of a more violent type than bas been pre- ‘viously known there, and this change may continue until the inhabitants, if any can be attracted, shall work out of the earth by | agriculture the accumulated poison of mony | centuries. Engineers can certainly prevent the inundation of Rome, but the redemption of tne © ato pagna from malaria i is less certain, ‘Tae Froops, as will be seen from onr tele- graph reports, did no further damage yester- day, and the cxcitement 1% subsiding. opportune cold weather which came on dur- ing Wednesday night and has continued since postpones, though it may not remove, future danger. There is some reason to fear further serious destruction of property on the Dela- | ware and Susquehanna, but not on other | Northern rivers. The Mississippi will, of course xe greatly swollen by the melt- ing of the snow in the mountainous re- gions that teed its sources, and there is too inch veagon to expect crevasses and desolat- ing inundations along the lower part of that mighty stream. We do not know whether \ ps have been taken since the floods of last year by the Legislatures of the lower | riparian States to strengthen the embank- | ments and gnard against a repetition of such ca‘amities. If they have failed to do so their | Part of the plan is a port and | The | FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. neglect is criminally culpable, The bridge of the Erie Railway which was swept away at Port Jervis isto be promptly replaced. A contract was made yesterday fora new iron weeks. Itis tobe constructed by the Wat- sand dollars, The Senate Yesterday. portant business for which the extra session but there is some reason to fear that it will not. The President sent word by one of his private secretaries on Wednesday that he had no further communicationto make. The Sen- ate is supposed to have acted on all his nom- inations, and it ratified the Hawaiian Recipro- city Treaty yesterday by a vote of 51 to 12, after an animated debate of four hours. The this profitable treaty that it is pretty sure to accept the amendments engrafted on it by the Senate. One of these adds tobacco, leather and manufactures of leather to the list of arti- cles to be admitted free of duty into the Sand- wich Islands, and another requires the Ha- waiian government to engage to sell or lease none of its ports or any part of its coast or territory to any foreign government other than that of the United States, and not to grant any new exclusive privilege in the islands to any other foreign nation. By a minor amendment, adopted in the last stage of the proceedings, the word ‘fruit’? was stricken out and the word “bananas” sub- stituted among the articles to be freely ad- mitted into the United States. This last amendment was for the benefit of the Cali- fornia fruit growers, The proper business of the extra session having been thus concluded there is nothing to detain the Senate longer in Washington after to-day beyond the contemplated party tndorsement of President Grant’s action in Louisiana—a measure of such doubtful expe- diency, even in a party view, that the repub- lican caucus has been as yet unable to agree upon it. It seems pretty certain that Frelinghuysen’s resolution will not be pre- sented, but a committee has been appointed by the caucus to draft another and report this morning. If this committee should bappen to agree, and the caucus should adopt its draft, nobody can foresee when the session knowledge of this fact may induce republi- cans who are anxious to get home to abandon the attempt. Certain it is that no resolution of the kind can be paesed except by the sheer force of cancus discipline, binding a part of | the republicans against their individual judg- | ments and sense of duty. An indorsement | forced through in this way could be of no moral value to the President and would not strengihen him with the people. Mr. Evarts a Resident of Brooklyn. The Eagle of last evening states that Mr. Evarts has taken rooms at the Mansion House, in that city, assigning as a reason that he finds the daily trip to New York incon- | venient. This looks more like a pretext than areason. As the Court regularly adjourns at four o’clock im the afternoon, and does not sit | ditional distance to the Brooklyn City Hall is own office, the inconvenience of crossing the river is a bagatelle. Besides, why should he | make the change for such a reason at the very end of the week ? | Monday? We suspect that the real reason is different from the one assigned. We in- cline to interpret Mr. Evarts’ stay in Brook- tyn as an indication that the trial is approach- ing an important crisis, and that Mr. Beecher | will be brought upon the witness stand as early as Monday, Mr. Evarts will, of course,’ conduct the examination in chief, and he probably wishes to spend his evenings and early mornings in consultations with the witness. During the progress of the examination they will prob- ably be together a great part of the out- and gleep. If onr surmise be correct next | week will be the most interesting in the | | course of the trial, unless the direct examina- | | tion consumes so much time as to carry the cross-examination to the week following. | Both the direct and the cross-examinations of | | Mr. Beecher will be of intense interest; ordeal in the hands of so skilful an inquisitor | as Mr. Fullerton has proved himself to be. | will rejoice if Mr. Beecher's direct testimony | is not shaken and he succeeds in vindicating | his innocence. His unwise letters most cer- tainly need explanation, and it he can succeed in giving one which is not weakened by the | eross-examination a depressing burden of doubt and anxiety will be lifted from many minds. GurMANY.AND THE Porse.—The struggle be- | tween Bismarck and the Pope is carried on | vigorously at Berlin. It must be confessed | that the odds, so far, appear to be heavily in favor of the Man of Iron. He has his enemies another knock- blow, notwithstanding their skilful \ | given down | fence. | Parliament has decided on withdrawing the State grants from | bishops. The debate appears to have been | very lively, the fiercely. One sturdy member on reading the Pope's Encyclical | in spite of the protests —of House. | effect of converting Bismarck’s followers, It is questionable whether these victories are not somewhat dearly purchased. have the effect | fanaticism ag insisted letter the of encouraging dividing North and South Germany inte two hostile eamps, one support- ing the Kaiser, the other the Pope. religions and | ‘Tar Cenrexytan.—The preparations for the | proper celebration of the first Centennial of Awerican independence goes on bravely over the country, Jt is now evident the under- toking will be as sue ful as it undoubtedly | | deserves to be, The State Legislatures | are voting the necessary funds to allow them to be properly represented | in the great fair. sign. bridge, which is to be completed in about five | sons, of Paterson, at a cost of seventy thou- | The Senate completed yesterday all the im- | was called, and it ought to adjourn to-day; | | his cause, he represents Hawaiian government is so anxious to get | will end. The democrats will debate | and filibuster, contesting every part of the ground inch by inch, and a | until eleven the next morning, and as the ad- | but about twenty minutes more than to his | Why not postpone it till | of-court hours, except those devoted to meals | the success with which he goes through this | | Every honest man and every friend of religion | just | | monthly, just to get rid of a little floating debt he By an immense majority the German | but | the latter will be more keenly watched, be- | cause his character and fame are staked on | smaller European Powers to those instructive industrial fairs the indifference of our State government to the proposed Centennial Ex- hibition affords ground for unfavorable com: ment. Carlist Prospects. The Carlist Pretender to the Spanish thront is likely soon to change his opmion of the in: fluence which his ‘‘poor little cousin’’ is likely to exert on his fortunes, Alfonso personally resembles Don Carlos in this, that while he brings no remerkable genius to the service of an idea that strengthens the authority of the men who rule in his name. When Don Carlos uttered the patronizing phrase about the little schoolboy who suddenly found himself a king he forgot that the reappearance of a king representing liberal traditions would rally the divided monarchical liberals into one compact body to resist the development of the reac. tionary Carlist movement. But he also over- looked what was of infinitely more impor- tance—namely, the effect of the enthronement of a Catholic king at Madrid in depriving the struggle of its semi-religious character, from which it derived its greatest vitality. In the eyes of the simple mountaineers, who make the real strength of the Carlist forces, the Republic was closely connected with the author of all evil, and Biscayans and Aragonese took up arms against if with much the same feeling as actuated their fathers in their conflicts with the Moors, Once God and the King became again asso- ciated in their minds, and every one capable of bearing arms in the four provinces was will- ing to die, so that the devil should not triumph in the person of Castelar, an unbe- liever and a republican. So long as that feel- ing remained intact it was no easy matter to reduce the mountaineers to subjection, but now that a King who has been blessed by the Pope reigns in Madrid the crusading spirit is likely to die out. The defection of Cabrera, the idol of the mountaineers, is , likely to exercise a very unfavorable influence on the fortunes of Don Carlos. Rumors of treason are becoming rife, and, should the de- sertion of General Elio be confirmed, no doubt other prominent commanders will hasten to surrender. The leaders of the movement perceive that their chances of suc- cess are at an end and that the government of King Alfonso is gradually restoring that order in the administration of the govern ment which will allow the wholo strength ,of the army to be used in suppressing the in- surrection. For the suke of humanity it would be well if means could be found to tere minate this useless slaughter, which threatens to go on interminably. Tar News rrom Rome.—By our despatch in another colnmn it will be seen that the news printed by us on Tuesday last made its appearance in the London papers forty-eight hours later. It is a sufficiently common event for news to be given in our columns one or two issues earlier than the same piece of news appears in other papers ; so common, indeed, as to be scarcely noteworthy as to re- ports of ordinary occnrrences. But the Lon- don papers plume themselves especially ox the closeness with which they watch and re- port occurrences in European capitals ; and Rome and the acts of the Pope have attracted lately far more than usual attention. In such circumstances to have bettered the vigilance of the capable and accomplished journalists who serve the London press is a teat worthy especial reference. Tue West Six Property Owners are ro solved to protest vigorously against the delay in carrying out the projected improvements for which taxes have been levied and paid. It does look like a breach of fuith to take money from taxpeyers and give them nothing in return. PERSONAL. INTELLIGENCE, Up at Port Jervis they object to the proposition to “dam your rise.” Count de Kergarion, of Brittany, has apartments at the Hoffman House. Congressman John A. Kasson, of Iowa, is staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Tue British Parliament is urged by 1,680 peti- tioners to abolish vaccination. Gladstone objects to life thatit ts ‘too short.” It depends a little upon whose life it is. Mr. Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, is among the late arrivals at the Brevoort House, Chief Engineer Charles H. Loring, United States Navy, has quarters at the Union Square Hotel. Adjutant Genera! James A. Cunningham, of Mass- achusetts, 1s quartered at the St. Nichoias Hotel. Judge George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, has taken up his residence at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Mr, Joseph H, Robinson, Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury, is stopping at the Grand Centra) Hotel. United States District Attorney Anthony Hig- gins, of Delaware, ts registered at the Albemarie Alotel. Lieutenant Colonel S, C. Lyford, of the Ordnance Department, United States Army, is at the St. | James Hotel. Dr, H. R. Linderman, Director of the United States Mint, is residing temporarily at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ‘The progress made by the project for a subma rine tunnel under the Straits of Dover has not kulled the project for a bridge which is now before | the Assembly, It 1s proposed in Parliament to put Kenealy down by the snub general and particular; but too many members are curious to know what he is going to do about it. e Khedive of Egypt wants to borrow 75,000,000, at twelve per cent, interest payable has of about the same amount, It must be merry In Mexico, If a herd of cattle is descried at a distance from any town It is taken | for granted that it js @ band of robbers coming te ultramontanes fought | It does not appear to have had the | They must | New York alone makes no | Compared to the support given by the | the Roman Catholic | Make @ requisition, and the alarm 1s consequently | given. As Kenealy’s forthcoming speech in Parttament on the Ticnborne trial is understood to be more for the reporters than the House, itis possthi¢ that the House may require the reporters to with: draw during its delivery. Alexandre Dumas’ chair in the French Academy | is the vame that was held by Montesquieu. ‘The difference between the two authors indicate the difference In the quality of the literature mos honored in thetr respective periods, Old Baron Rothsehid gave a louis to a charity fund, and the person rec said, “Ab, Mone | steur Baron, you only ga ® lows your sen | gave five? “And reason cnougt said tne | Baron; “his father is @ tuillionnetre and i'm only or orphan.” There are $19,000 at Liverpool that they don’ know what todo with, This sum {ys tue surplus o what was collected to reliove ine poor of Chieag | on the occasion of the to Invest it, and so keep it togethe greal fire im Aa at An Italian chemist has invented a process fo | the chemical decomposition of biuwanity that not disagreeabie and leaves no residuum. 1s | be urged as better than cremation, But peopie had better be careful, Those Italians are great fellows for making soap and cundies,