The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 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 pditions of the New Yorx Hexnaxp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Rejected communications will not be re~ tarned. Letters and packgges should be properly evaled. ——_—->—————- 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. CA a ay AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. sagen 'S THDATRE, Twenty.third street and) Sixth evenue— ate Po M.; ieloses at uy. M. Mr. Hignold. SAN ger dys att beg corn ninth, street—NEGRO SINS Y are Po me; closes at 10 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, between Second ad Third avenues.— M.; closes at 12 P me AU + closes a re ae Bourisaule: Mauuee at 120 P. of MaYv., Febery avs arsP. Broadway and Thirty-fi th '—PARIS BY NIGHT. fourth stre % Two exhibitions cally, at Zand 5 P. X. MRS, CONWAY'S BROOKL GREEN BUSHES, at 8P. M.; Moses avi rae M. Mra | Conway. WOOD'S MUSEUM, way, corner of Thirtieth streét—WILD CAT, at M5 CASTLE GARDEN, at 8 F. M.; closes at 1045 fe OLYMPIC THEATRE, flo, p2s Broseway. VARIETY, ato ¥, Mx closes at 10:45 HEATRE COMIQUE, Ti Seta 514 Broadway.—VAKIETY, até P. M.; closes at 10:45 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ‘West Fourteenth street.—Open trom uA. M to’ P. M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, <y -aeheptaeectiielaasmtaciin at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:45 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ENGISH OPERA=THE TALIS- MAN, at 8P. Mu ‘Vis Kelioag BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, mnty-third street. near Sixth NEGRO LEY, &c., at sP. M.; closes at 10% P.M, Dao Misa GER. IA THEATRi Fourteenth street. (IR ~ closes at 1045 P.M. Mis ROMAN UIPPODROME, ge apd Twent: venth ee THE SROCRIS. at? a8 P. TONY PasTO. Roy? zn Bowery.—VARL OPERA HOUSE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, eighth Po aaesd and Broadway.—THE BIG RO ats P. M.: closes atl) :30 P.M. Mr. Fisher, Mr. ywis, Miss Davenport, Mrs. G bert PARK THEATRE, 4—DAVY CROCKETI!, at 8 P. M.; closes at aE | ‘ vd Ww fre Mr. Mave. GRAND CENTRAL THEATR! eta 585 Broadway.—VAXIETY, at 8 P. M.; ition atlos | WERY THEATRE, BO’ ery —ABOCND Tit WORLD IN EIGHTY Da¥Ys, GRAND OPERA HOTSE, a avenue and Twenty-third street.—AHMED, at 8 TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. ———— NOTICE TO “THE PUBLIC. MARCH aI, 1873, Owing to the pressure of advertisements on | the columns of our Sunday editions we are | obliged to request advertisers to send in ad- vertisements intended for the Sunday Hzratp during the week and early on Saturdays, | thereby insuring a proper classtfication. From our reports this morn e probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be cloudy and warmer, with } light 1 rains. Watt Srnerr YesrErpay. —The stock mar- ket was extremely excited and important changes were made, Gold declined from 116; to 115. Money on call was generally steady at five and six per cent. Anz Ovn Statesmen forgetting all about | rapid transit? Ir Szems to be understood that Mr. Beecher will be examined to-day. This leads us to hope that the issue in this celebrated pro-~ ceeding is about to be tried. We Prrmr an extraordinary letter this morning from Mrs. Woodhull further explain- ing her relations with Theodore Tilton. Tae FrexcuMen are disturbed about the Colorado beetle and have forbidden the im- | portation of American potatoes into France. | It is strange that we should only hear about this mysterious beetle from abroad. | Governor TipEN reminds us of Hercules and his labors. He overthrew Tammany, and now means to destroy the Canal Ring. If he succeeds the people, without distinction of party, will rise np and call him blessed. Bux Kixa proposes to vindicate himself from the charge of perjury by pleading the statute of limitations. Bill should resign his seat in Congress and return to Canada. This country will soon be too hot for him, and | Canada is a colder climate. Honest Mex would do well to avoid Wall street until this excitement is over. How Wovtn Ir Do for some of the Manhat- tan Club statesmen to go up and dig in the Fourth avenue improvement and for the Mulligan statesmen to come down and drink the Mavhattan Club champ ? This would average matters with tho democracy. We Ane Guap to hear that there is some prospect of passing the Hudson River Tunnel bill. There is a story that Mr. Vanderbilt opposes a tuunel. We caunot believe this. Mr. Vanderbilt bas already received too many favors from the corporation and people of sure Now York to stand in the ny that will extend the prosperily the tropolis, Let us have the tunnel, the Brook- lyn Bridge and a steam line to Westchester, no matter who opposes. By these paths metro- politan greatacas lies, of | loanable money in all the commercial centres | proves that the circulating medium is in ex- | illustration) why add fifty or a hundred mill- | the existing currency lies idle in the banks | for want of money, but for want of oppor- | these interviews is the retardation of busi- | lateness of the spring is no doubt | stand it. | portation of wheat, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3], 1875—TRIPLE SHEET, Business Prospects. On this great topic, of more universal inter- | est than any other, the Hznazp has tried to | discharge its duty to furnish the country with the best accessible information. In faithful | pursuance of this object it bas procured | interviews, through its reporters and corre- spondents, with the leading bankers and | business firms of all the principal cities of the United States, and it publishes this morning | the first instalment of their reports, including | interviews with prominent business men in | New York, Baltimore, New Orleans and St. Louis, The reports of similar interviews in other commercial cities will soon follow. These statements will be read with interest by busi- ness men in every part of the country, because they give the opinions, not of mere theorists, but of people engaged in commercial pursuits, who have great facilities and every motive for gaining a correct knowledge of the state of affairs in their respective branches of trade in their own localities. Before commenting on | any of the particular interviews we will call | attention to some features of the situation, as to which there is a pretty close agreement among them all. We will begin with that great topic of uni- versal concern in every part of the country, the state of the money market. It appears from all these interviews there is a great | abundance of currency in all the commercial | cities, Itis the pretty uniform testimony of the bankers whose views have been solicited that their deposits are redundant and that busi- ness does not suffer from want of money ready to be loaned, but from a dearth of borrowers | who see their way clear to employ money | with profit. This unemployed abundance of illustrates the wild folly of the demagogues in Congress who so noisily insted that the grand cure of business stagnation was a large expansion of the currency. Experience cess of the means of emplosing it, and that additions to its amount would have been as idle as a large increase of the rolling stock of our railroads as a means of attracting freights at a time when prostration of business permits but a diminished amount of trans- portation. Why add a thousand freight carsasameans of earning railway profits when a great part of the cars already owned stand idle on the sidings ? And (to apply the ions to the currency when a great part of because commerce can find no use for it? | We call attention to this general feature of the interviews in the hope that if another inflation craze, like that which the Hzzaup 80 vigorously combated last year, should arise, facts may count for something against the delusion, Business does not stagnate | tunities to employ it with profit. Meanwhile it is satisfactory to know that whenever | business revives the monetary wheels on | which it moves are ample for all legitimate uses. Another poiut which is strongly put in all ness this year in consequence of the extraor- dinary prolongation of our severe winter | | into the spring months. We are unable to make an instructive comparison between the to a revival of business by an increased ex- portation of grain. So long as wheat can be exported at all the higher the price of gold | the greater the price in currency which the | farmer receives for his wheat. If gold were | at 200 the farmer would receive two dollars | in currency for every dollar of the gold value of his grain, and he could liquidate his mort- | gages at a corresponding advantage. We | therefore regard the gold speculation in Wall | street as a mere bubble on the surface of busi- | Ress, which need not be considered in a gen- eral estimate of business prospects. We do not choose to go, at present, into an analysis of the commercial situation. No judg- ment can be trustworthy which is founded on exceptional cases, and several of the cities whose business men we have interviewed are in an exceptional condition. We will instance New Orleans for illustration. That city is not a sample of the general condition of the country. Quite aside from the political | troubles of which it has been the theatre | there are intelligible explanations of the de- cline of its business, It has been tapped by the railroads which convect points above it on the Mississippi with the Atlantic coast, carry- ing off a considerable portion of the cotton trade which centred at New Orleans when it monopolized that branch of trade in the regions tributary to the Mississippi. When | the only communication of Memphis with the outside world was by water all the cotton gathered there was necessarily sent to New Orleans ; but a great part of it now goes by rail to Charleston for shipment to foreign ports. It would, therefore, be absurd to draw any conclusion as to the general state of busi- ness from the condition of trade at New Orleans. | The Centennial National and Inter | mational Regattas at Philadelphia. We have recently called attention to the commendable enterprise and forethought of the gentlemen of the Schuylkill! Navy in having already secured from many of the principal rowing clubs of Europe |& promise to come and take part in the friendly contests on the Schuylkill in the early part of July of next year, and we are giad they have taken our hint and concluded to adda very interesting feature, and one en- tirely novel here—namely, a graduates’ race, The rapid strides taken of late years by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, promis- ing at the July meeting of this year a tresb- man race of not less than six, ani a univer- sity race of thirteen six-oared crews, have insured a national interest, and there is hardly an event in the year of which the news is more eagerly sought, And mainly doubt- less for the reason that a desire of fair and friendly tests of athletic strength is natural to all men, and especially all young men of healthy tastes and inclina- tions, England long ago learned to foster and develop that fondness, and she now looks with just pride on a nation of sons, the equals, if not the superiors in vigorous and healthy bodies of any on the globe. To see the great energy in all callings which is charac- teristic of our countrymen placed on a more solid and enduring framework, 50, thet | instead of tiring out at forty they miay, like Vanderbilt and Cooper, Emerson and Dix, look healthy at eighty, has always been and | will continue to be a favorite idea with us; March business of this year and the March | | business of 1874, because this year’s March has | been equivalent to last year’s February. The | first great impulse to the revival of business is expected from the movement of the grain | reserves held in the West. Thereisno branch | | of business with which the unwcnted severity | of the weather has so seriously interfered. The state of prices in the foreign markets is | favorable to large exportations, and we are | confident that as soon as the softening weather | permits the grain stored in the West to bo | moved all the nerves of business will be | touched and stimulated into moderate activity. | In tlie course of two or three wecks the nayi- gation of the lakes and canals wiil be re- opened, when cheap transportation and good foreign prices will impart briskness to that great branch of trade which infuses lite into all the others. The general impression that | the unusual founded. There is one other general remark which we may be permitted to make, although it is not suggested by anything said in the inter- business has been obstructed views. The recent gold specnlation m this | city and the advance in the price of gold is a | topic which was not brought to the attention | | of the bankers and merchants of distant cities with whom our correspondents sought inter- | views ; but as the price of gold in this city regulates the United States its bearing on general trade deserves attention. A high price of gold, though an impediment to imports, is favorable to the export trade, and especially to the grain trade, grain being the leading a: of export from this city. We will explain this point so simply that even a child may under The price ot grain in Liverpool is not affected at all by the fi New York gold market. Whether grain can be exported at a profit depends upon its price in gold here as compared with its price in Liverpool. If there is difference pay the ocean freights and yield a fair profit wheat will be ted quite irrespective of the state of our dom ¢ gold market. This being the case, it is evident that the higher the price of gold in this pro- vided it is not so high as to obstruct the ex- the greater will be the amount of currency received by the farmers its price throughout expe country, for their grain. Itis the gold price in this city as compared with the gold price in Liver- pool which determines the possibility of ex- portation, and the higher the premium on gold the greater will be the amount of cur- re received for ® ca: Now, as the i can discharge all their debts in the curre legal tender, they are ob- viou 1igh premium on gold, be- ’ m on brings them es for their products. aug as the th to permit its rtati to the rat Liverpool an exporting geld dolla the same fe » to fi wk of preci quite a farmer on the Wester prairies ether he gets 110 or 116 in currency for the value of a gold dollar, because ali Lis mort- gages and other debts are payable in ourrency. The increased premium on gold in, therefore, | fluence and responsibility. uatious of tho | enough to | no impediment | and thus we heartily welcome the manly sports—those which excite a proper and friendly emulation. We are very glad to ob- serve that the interest in these contests is great- est among our most favored young men, those who in later years will fill positions of trust, in- If this meeting at | Philadelphia is carried out in the broad and | | generous spirit in which it has been inaugu- | rated, it will do much toward making similar ones common, not merely to the Eastern and | Middle States, but to the whole land. There | is good material everywhere and in abun- dance; all it needs being proper or- ganization and training. At the national amateur events last August at Saratoga and | on the Mohawk, the Wahwahsums from the | | Northwest, the Potomacs from the Potomac | and the Vernons irom Savannah, all contrib- uted to make the Beaverwycks, of Albany, and the Argonautas, of Bergen Point, fight | hard for victory, not merely over the first mile, but to the very end of the last one. The Centennial races will be six in number, | that for the National Association, the college clubs, the international college clubs, the graduates’ race, the international amateur ce, and the professional race open to the | world, and an entire day will probably be de- to each event. The prizes announced | ar a very liberal scale, the course not the usual one the city, but one seven vor on mal y | form breadth of six hundred feet, much about the same as the Thames from Putney to Mort- Jake, three miles and a half long, and almost entirely straight, and the whole affair is in the hands of a body experienced in all matters | aquatic—the Schuylkill Navy—who purpose | appointing a committee of twenty-five, various parts of the country, to aid them in | perfecting all arrangements. The | Miners’ Revolt. The straggle between the mine proprietors and their workmen in Pennsylvania threatens to degenerate into an insurrection. By the latest accounts the through the troubled districts, compelling the workingmen to join with them in la’ sand violent demonstrations against the capitalists, If this unwise course is persevered in the terference of the State authorities for the pro- miners were in- Ikill, said to be of a uni- | from | marching | | of deaths ; | who seek our columns were suddenly tection of life and property becomes inevit- | able. Whatever grievances the miners may have to complain of, their course of pro- ceeding is not calculated to win for them pub- lic sympathy. They have a most undoubted right to refuse to work at an in- sufficient rate of remuneration, but they cannot claim the right to compel the apitalists to accede to their demands by the use of violence. In depriving themselves of poplar sympathy and support they leave themselves more than ever at the mercy of their enemies. Only men blinded by passion and urged on by stupid and unprincipled demegogues could think of adopting such es a3 a means of redress. In ordinary s the public authorities in this country and apart in ali quarrels between labor and papi tal ; takes to break the law the whole power of the nation is ready to maintain the majesty of tho law and protect the rights of the citizens from the assault of lawless mobm but when one of the parties under- | | A Map of the Busy World. The Henaxp has not attained that heavenly perfection of journalistic happiness which we are sometimes taught to believe exists only in the absence of advertisements. Our readers will therefore share our interest in contem- plating such a newspaper as we print this morning, and as we printed on Sunday. Sometimes we are advised that newspapers should spurn advertisements. We never hear such advice without recalling the observations of the fox, who could not climb the vine, upon the general unhealthiulness of grapes, or the recommendations of still another fox, who had lost his own tail, in favor of a general abolition of tails in the whole fox kingdom, A newspaper with a few straggling advertisements, mainly composed of insurance notices and “warnings to the afflicted,” with rude engravings of the patent rat trap and sewing machine and Indians gathering herbs, and exhortations to ‘‘adver- tise while there is time”—a newspaper in this plight of fortune reminds us of a pedler who carries tapes and laces for a living, and dis- courses with his patrons at farmhouses upon the vanity of human hopes and the folly of trade and gain. We do not see what subject could better occupy the peddling mind than the folly of trade. The one thing he would hate would be his pack, just as the one thing which a newspaper, blazing with two or three columns of pills and rat traps, despises ‘‘ad- vertisements.” When we study a great business newspaper, publishing the news as well as the advertise- ments we see the map of the busy world. A perusal of its columns is like a stroll down Broadway from Grace church to the Battery. All the world passes before us—the world of religion, politics, amusement, art, enterprise and business. We have the panorama of a great metropolis—the expression of human hopes, wishes, attainments, employments and desires, The globe seems to have been put under contribution to make Broadway. Here is the church, and hard by the theatre. This bazaar is filled with the stuffs of Asia, the fabrics of Europe. Here is the taste of France, the solid, manly achievements of British industry. The eye is at tracted by laces as light and airy as the trailing arbutus; by silks which shine like gold and burnished silver. At every step we have evidences of the greatness of our own land, the resources of our soil and mines, the fertile genius and enterprise of our people The thoughts which such a stroll suggest are also inspired by a study of the columns of a representative newspaper. Let us take this journal that lies before us—the Heraxp of March 28, 1875. Here is a newspaper of twenty large pages. Were the type here printed amplified into a volume it would embrace all the plays of Shakespeare, In other words, here is as much labor in the way of type set- ting and printing as would print the works of Shakespeare. We look into these columns and we find, of the one hun- dred and twenty, seventy-nine devoted to advertising. These seventy-nine columns represent the wants of nearly three thousand persons. In other words, this one journal conveys to the world the business and desires of three thousand people. We look at the departments and we find there are eighty of them—eighty different forms of business demanding the bospitality and consideration of the world. This spectacle of three thou- sand citizens, each one with a special purpose yery dear and close, calling upon the world to listen to them, is a marvellous illustration of the strength and utility ot modern journal- ism, and we can well understand how it would disturb the peddling mind, as it tramps along the road with burdensome pack and wonders of what use the great city can pos- sibly be to civilization, with its foundries, stores ard mannfactories, while he stands ready to supply all the world. We look closely into these columps and the study becomes more and more curious. Here are seven hundred people who have houses and apartments to let or who seek homes. And we see right well that May Day is at hand, for here are six hundred who would buy or sell houses. And we have another evidence that Easter brings good cheer and promise of better times in the fact tbat two hundred eager, active men seek “business op- portunities."’ They do not care,to go West, but to stay in New York and trust their foriunes with the Henanp. There is a fine array of auction sales to gratify the Mrs. Toodles mind, and if our peddling friends should tire of walking here are a hundred chances to buy a horse or a carriage. We are reminded of the mutability of human affairs in the two colurans but we learn that the world is not all sadness in the wedding bells that peal through the column of marriages. over four hundred people asking employment or seeking for help, and we trust they find their account with us in these invigng spring days. The world must be amused, as two pages of theatres, concerts, operas and lectures inform | us, and if we choose to amuse ourselves here are two columns which tell us where we can find fiddles and harps, flutes and pianos and other instruments of melody. Altogether, therefor: erobarrassment and disappointment would ensue if these three thousand worthy people denied ey access to them. Useful as journalism is, in all of its functions, os the mes- senger of news, the commentator upon current events, the historian of great men | and great deeds, how much more useful it becomes as the friend and servant of the The citizen finds comfort in his yaper from day to day, as he buys it tor what the editor provides for his instruction and amusement. But how much more neces- sary it is when his necessity enter its columns and ask the the world to the one th people! attention of all hat is nearest to him! A newspaper has st ribers because it pleases them. It has rtisers becanse it is necessary to them. urual, there- lic it fulfils a fore i 1 to feel that this has been attained by the Hrnanp, Bie wanzas tumbled yesterday. The gamblers gave them a new lift, but they are a heavy burden. By Tur Wa AY, a best means of avoiding a ‘gold corner’ is for our merchants not to sell what they do not own. ‘Lhis disposing of property which people expect to own a month hence is mischievous, and all this gold trouble in Wall street comes from the evil practice. There are | we cannot help wondering what | compels him to | Governor Tilden’s War om the Canal Ring. Every honest man in the State without dis- tinction of party applauds Governor Tilden for the assault on the Canal Ring in his bold, vigorous Message, and nobody doubts the truth of his startling exposures. From the beginning we have not had the slightest fear that he would not be warmly supported by the people, but our confidence in the Legisla- ture wasnotsanguine, and the events of every day tend to diminish it. It would be scandal- ous if, after the revelations made by the Gov- ernor, this session should end without any- thing being done to prevent a continuance of the frauds or to punish their perpetrators. We dislike the look of things at Albany even more than we did two days ago, because we find still stronger reasons to fear that the righteous attack of the Governor will not be vigorously supported by the Legislature. The members of the Canal Ring are cunning. ‘They have wider connections than appear on the surface; they will exercise a diabolical art of impugn- ing the motives of the Governor and exci'ing hostility against him on other grounds than his attack un a corrupt combination to plun- der the State; they will leave no stone un- turned to undermine his influence in every open and every insidious way. In such a contest it is the duty of the people to give him their strong and unflinching support, quite regardless of everything that may be said by the allies of the Ring to impugn his motives. The people do not care whether he is aspiring to the Presidency or not. They know that most of our distinguished public men have coveted that prize, and they have too many reasons for wishing that Presidential aspirants had never attempted to strengthen themselves by more objectionable means than exposing and denouncing corruption. A man who seeks the Presidency by such methods selects the most honorable path an ambitious man can pursue. We wish there were more Presi- dential aspirants disposed to rest their claims on their zeal for public honesty instead of making alliances with combinations of plun- derers. The people will regard all questions respecting Governor Tilden’s motives and am- bition as impertinent. The only question the honest masses will consider is whether the Governor is right in this particular contro- versy, and on this point there is no room for doubt. Whatever the Legislature may do or fail to do, the people will give hima strong and nearly unanimous support. But we have a profound distrust of the Legislature, Its attempt to set two different investigations on foot is a piece of overdoing that betokens insincerity. They do not really want investigations, but postponement, and have proposed these investigations as a pre- text for staving off legislative action. It isa dishonest mancwuvre for consuming time, and the more time they can waste before the in- vestigations are started the better they are pleased. The investigation resolutions of the Assembly were passed promptly enough, but six days have elapsed and they still hang in the Senate. What the ring members of the Legis- lature desire is a sham pretence of investigation to enable them to gain time, but a real in- vestigation is what they do not want; and having already succecded in diverting public attention from remedial laws to legislative inquiries they now wish to impede these in- quiries, and the prompt resolutions of the House stick in the Senate. We trust the zeal of the people may make up for the slackness and covert hostility of the Legislature, and hope that the meeting in this city to-morrow evening may be so large and respectable as to assure the Governor that the best classes in this community are his strong and unswerve ing indorsers. Foreign Nations and the "Centennial. The declaration of the Duc Decazes in the French Assembly, in reference to the Centen- nial, will be read with interest and gratifica- tion. The Duc said, inanswer to a question, | that “the work had his entire sympathy, and measures would be taken to promote it in every possible way.’’ When the Assembly | met again a vote would be asked, giving a grant enabling I'rance to make an appropriate display in our Exhibition Building. The fact that the head of the French commission should be a descendant of the illustrious Latayeite | makes this reply of the Duc Decazes espo- cially grateful to Americans. It is a new evidence of the friendship which France has always felt for our Republic. Thus far foreign governments have taken a | greater interest in the Centennial movement | than many of our own States. The English House of Commons recognized it publicly and officially, andthe English Ministry, in ask- for a vote, said that this will be the last exhibition in which England will take an official part. All the countries of Europe, with the exception of Russia, have expressed their intention of appearing officially at our Centennial Exhibition, Those who under- stand what these exhibitions have been can well understand the magnitude and the gran- | deur of the display that will represent the riches and industry and taste of these great | Powers. we § tmey well excite the admiration and, we trust, the emulation of our own people. exhibition has America shown what it really can do. In France, in 1867, our display was fair enongh, but nothing compared to that of other nations. Our explanation was that we had an ocean to cross, and therefore we could not do what we desired. At Vienna our use- fulness was destroyed by a scandal and mis- mar ment, and we had nothing but a rly array of sewing machines and cases of false teeth. But now we ask foreign nations to come into our own land, to enter into rivalry with us on our own soil, to compete | ing begg From England, France, Germany | ll have manifestations of industries that | In no past | | | | | | | with us in our machinery, our manufactures, our industries. We have long boasted the | supremacy of American enterprise and skill. If it exists n is the time to show it. What we should like to sce in the Centennial is every State fully represented, not by the scattering efforts of a few public spirited citi- | zens, but by combination, judgment and dis- cipline. When the foreigner comes to Phila- delphia he should be able to go from State to State through the uibition Hall, and learn ina day’s journey what foundation there is for the boasted greatness and wealth of America, Above all things, what will New York do? What display shall we make to compare with France and England? Here | we are, a State as large os many kingdoms, rich in every form of wealth, the empire of a commonwealth and the metropolis of cities, our fame known throughout all the world. What shall we do at the Centennial? How shall our exhibition compare with those of even Belgium, Switzerland and Sweden? Badly, we fear, unless our citizens show more energy than they have done, and unless our State Legislature turns aside from the gonge beating which has characterized the legisla- tion of the past three months and gives a moment's thought to the dignity and honor of the State, If Carruth Dios! In another column we print a letter from a friend of Mr, Carruth, the Vineland editor, recently shot by Mr. Landis, which letter is written professedly to give ‘‘the other side of the story’’—to put the painful subject before the public in the light in which it appears to the journalist and those who sympathize with him in dislike of Landis, In such a letter we might expect to find the justification, if there is any, of Carruth’s course in assailing week after week a resident of the town in which hia paper was printed and dragging domestic oy other properly private topics into public diss cussion, All the ‘justification’ that appears, however, is that Carruth considered Landig guilty of ‘general humbuggery.”” He mada himself the mouthpiece of all the discontents of the. community. Every man who had bought a piece of land and built a house and’ afterward grew tired of his bargain naturally held Landis responsible for the results of his own shortsighted haste, and perhaps uttered his ill-will loudly at all the corners; and all’ this was gathered up, treasured and fulminated in Carruth’s columns. ‘General humbug- gery” on the part of Landis justifies Carruth’s acts as little as those acts justify Landis, and the friends of Carruth do not put much faith in such justification, They depend on the straightforward New Jersey laws, and confi- dently anticipate that Landis will be hanged if Carruth dies. But if Carruth dies now surgical testimony will figure very largely in the trial, and we have seen it happen that a multitude of surgeons were more useful to a man in Court than in the hospital. Carruth holds on to life very tenaciously, and seems likely to es tablish the fact that the wound given was not necessarily a fatal wound. He might have been killed by the shock of such a wound, or by immediate hemorrhage, or by inflammation consequent on the wound, and he may yet die from secondary hemorrhage, the result of the opening of some large artery by sloughing in the track of the bullet, All the possibilities here involved may vary greatly, as constitutions are different, and also as doctors are different, and out of them and out of the surgical and medical opinions that come in the lawyers can beat up dust enough to trouble the vision of any jury. It may be clearly shown that the bullet was not neces. sarily fatal, and'that it had an accessory in causing death, which accessory would be the want of skill of the practitioner. If the trial comes to this point, as it certainly will if Carruth dies, the case of Landis will be all the stronger for the tact that the wound was treated by a homeopathic practitioner to the exclusion of a great surgeon. Tuerz Is Some Exctrement in Chicago about sending an editor to jail for contempt of court, The reasons for the action of the Judge are not apparent, and until we hear them we cannot express an opinion. At the same time we cling to this wholesome rule— that an editor who libels a citizen should be punished; that when he outrages the law he should be subject to its pene alties, and that there is no cant moro pernicious and absurd than what we constantly hear about the ‘liberty of the press.” The press does not want “liberty,” but justice, and editors who ask for any spe. cial privileges or immunities are simply beg. gars, who claim what they do not deserve, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, —e England enjoys a revival in Freemasonry also, Senator Morgan C. Hamilton, of Texas, 1s stay: ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, is re siding at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. George M. allman, of Chicago, is among thé late arrivals at the Brevoort House. Senator Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jersey, id sojourning at the New York Hotel. Senator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Gilsey House, Our contemporary, the Christian at Work, ap pears this week in a new coat, sprightly and sparke ling. Major Peter ©. Hains, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, 18 quartered at the Fifth Aver nue Horel. In a recent boar hunt in France one wild boar disablea twenty dogs and was only conquered by a ballet. Seven years ts the time counted for the cone struction of the tunnel between England and France. ‘The Prince Imperial says that if he joins any regiment in the British service he will enter the artillery. Collector James F. Casey, of New Orleans, are rived in this city yesterday and is at the Filth Ave- nue Hotel. Archbishop Manning is the eighth Englishman who has been advanced to the rank of Cardinal since the Reformation. Mr. N. RK. O’Conor, Second Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, 1s stopping at the Westmoreland Hotel. Director General Alfred T, Goshorn, of the Cem tennial Commission, has taken up bis residence af the St. Nicholas Hotel. State Senator Nathaniel Wheeler and Mr. Wib liam D. Bishop, of Connecticut, are registered a the Union Square Hotel. in France a man has been condemned for a libel which he wrote with a sharp stick on the 6kin agreen pumpkin growing in the fleids. His ®xceliency the President yesterday ap pointed A. ©. Bristow, of Rnode Island, @ member of the Board of Indian Peace Commissioners, There is an elm tree in Paris that was planted in 1605, in the reign of Henry IV. This year Its leaves were as early as those of its younger neighbors, Governor John A, Campbell, who has been ape pomted Assistant Secretary of State, left Cney. enne, W. t., tor Washington yesterday, to assume the duties of nis office. ‘The Rev. James Stoddard Deacon, assistant minister in Trinity church, New Haven, wat yesterday recommended to the Bishop to be or dained to the priesthood. Senators Cameron, Chandler, Morton, Anthony and Patterson, and Tom Scott and party, bound for Mexico, reached Atlanta, Ga, yesterday after- noon, and leave to-nigat. Mr. Join ©. New, of Indianapolis, paid nis ree spects to General Spinner at che ‘ireasury im Washington yesterday. It js not recorded whether there was an interchange of pious salutations, His Excellency the President and Lady Grant, Colonel and Mrs. Fred D. Grant and Mr, and Mra, Sartoris leave Washington to-day at twenty-three minutes past nine A, M. for this city. The Pree, dont Will not return to the White House vciess Saturday.