The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1875, Page 8

true condition as in its reputation. The . NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henaxp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy, An- nual subscription price $12 All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henavp. 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 und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL--vesceseeesseenserveneeeneeseeesNO, 103 AMUSEMENTS .T0-NIGHT. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twremty-eizntn t and Broadw .—THE BIG RO- RANGA TSE, SS cioses at i033) Peak, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lewis, Niles 1 Savsnnet Mrs. Gilbert. BOWERY OPERA HOUSE, a" Bowery.—VAKIELY, at 82. M.; Closes at 10x45 PARK THEATRE, Reavy: —DAYY CRUCKETY!, at 8 P. M.; closes at wuP.M. Mr, Mayo. BOWERY THEATRE, Bomerg.~AROUND Tul WORLD IN’ EIGHTY DAYS, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fine avenue and Twenty-taird street.—AHMED, at 8 closes at 10:45 P. M. BOOTHS THEATRE, SORE Twenythira street and, Sith avenne.— RY V,,at8 P.M.; closes atll P.M. Mr, Bignold. LYCEUM THEATRE, teenth street, near Sixth avenue. a ag poeta and LADY MACoETA, at 5 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTER! Broadway, corner of 1 wemtv-uinth MINSTHELY, ats P. M.; closes at TIVOLI THEATRE, Fighth street. between Second and Third avenuea— VARIB1Y, at 8 P. m.; closes at 12 P.M. MRS. CONWAY’ THE TWo ORPHA WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—RAFAEL, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:40 P. M. COLOSSEU . Broad fourth street.—-PARIS BY NIGHT, Preeauibitions daly or 2aud 8 PM Neeeak —NEGRO P.M. ROOKLYN THEATRE, 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 7. My WOOD'S MUSEUM, cormer of Thirticth street—BEN McCUL- 5 ae ‘at ¥. Si.; closes at 10:45 r.M, Matinee at 2 THEATRE. courtans. Fe 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M,; closes at 10:45 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fouriesnth street —Open from 10 A. M. to5 P. M. BROOKLYN P. K1 THEATRE, pare avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1045 GERMANIA THEATRE Fourteenth street—Déit LETZTE BRIEF, at 8P.M.; Blosesa! 10:00 FM, Mies Line Mayr. HEA’ pose raawoy “Vaktent: bas Ms closes at 10:45 From our wr reports this morning the probabilities Gre that the weather to-day 1y will be clear and cool. Wann Srncer Yestenpat.—The stock mar- ket was unsteady and lower prices were estab- lished in many instances. Gold was firm at 115§, and foreign exchange strong. Money on call ranged from 3 to 5 per cent. Mr. Vanzer bas closed his mission in this | tity and departs in a day or two for Boston. | He failed to convert the reporters, which is deeply to be regretted. The next best thing in his power was to anathematize them, and that he did with great energy. If he had only converted the reporters all the newspapers in the city, except our own, would be obliged to | stop publication. ‘Tue Present has declined to attend the Centennial Celebration of the Mecklenburg | Declaration of Independence, for reasons ex- | pressed in his letter. General Grant has ac- cepted so much that this declination may be regarded as an apology to the country for the errors of the past. The North Carolina com- mittee, however, it must be remembered | neitLer offered him a dog nor a horse—nor another term. Tue Eriscorat Cuvaca has recently been embarrassed by the question as to the extent to which differences in doctrine may be taught by the clergy or believed in by com- manicants. This subject was discussed at the Conference yesterday. The Episcopalian de- nomination has recently become liberal in its views, and even the doctrine of eternal pun- ishment is no longer regarded as an essential | article of religious faith. Certainly few of | the leading clergymen preach it, though some | of them may possibly practise it. | ‘Tae Coxprrion ov Anxkansas.—Arkansas is | 8 very unfortunate State, not so much in its political strife in Little Rock has induced many persons to belicve that its whole popu- Jation is in a perpetual turmoil. But the | political disorder is superficial ; the material | progress is profound and intelligent. Our Memphis letter to-day tells many facts thet have been lost sight of by the country in the | strife between Baxter and Brooks and in } Grant's threat of military interference, and | shows the real progress that Arkansas has | been making in agriculture and other inter- ests ot civilized society. How to Re AD THE Herap. 5. —The Phila- | delpbia Press, apropos of our quintuple | sheets, declares that ‘‘the Henatp is undonbt- | edly the greatest newspaper in the world, and | to the Henatp we must look for the news- paper of the future.’ But it thinks that the Hematp is even now too big for any | one person to read, and is anxious to know what shall be done about it. The City item, @ Philadelphia paper, published with New York enterprise and style, has commented | to similar effect. We respectfully suggest | that if one man cannot manage a single copy | of the Henaxp that he shall call in his neigh- bor to help him. We print the paper, and if it takes a regiment to read it, then let the Governor order out the military. | who at Vienna not only live at peace with | is to be broken in war in the expericnce of | de rt | State, and should set a good example to her | and France concentrated on Austria for com- | mon operation while NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1875.--QUADRUPLE SHEET. The War Cloud Europe. Europe is once more agitated with the thought of war; and this, too, a general war, one in which Russia, Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, perhaps England, would take part from the outset, or into which any one thot escaped at the inception would be drawn ere the close of the titanic struggle. Naturally the alarm begins at Berlin. It is proverbially believed that the man in the crowd who shouts ‘‘stop thief!'’ most lustily is in all probabihty one who has the stolen property in his pocket; so it is the pro- moter of every scheme of ambition that can be realized by arms who now raises his voice to deprecate in the councils of the Continent the heedless conduct of half a dozen minis- tries that are about to precipitate the collision of nations. It is one of the singular incon- sistencies of human conduct that the great Prussian Premier—so blunt, so downright, so outspoken in his declarations of the doc- trine of blood and iron, who has shown 50 ‘little regard to many of the cherished prejudices of humanity— seems yet to care enough for the opinfon of the world to wish to dissimulate the most im- portant points of his policy. and consequently adopts a Machiavellian fancy in making all the wars he wishes to wage appear as if forced upon him by others. There is but one ob- vious explanation of this point, so inconsistent with much of the Prince's character, which is that the object of these tactics is less the world than the German Emperor. Without William's consent his Chancellor cannot ‘make war, and William’s consent cannot ap- parently be had unless the war is made to ap- pear as the only salvation for Prussia from the machinations of her enemies. But of that possible war, against which a Berlin paper warns the nations, Prince Bis- marck is the sole promoter, and the encroach- ments of Papacy are the pretext. But what is the real object? Asto that our Paris de- spatch gives a hint of what is in the thoughts of people in Europe, that the real object of the new battle is the host of “gigantic shad- ows’’ that have dominated the great brain of the greatest of modern statesmen. It would be a strange Nemesis if the unparalleled leader who has raised Prussia to her present splendor, who has created in our own time what was the growth of centuries in another time, but who has believed more than any man in any age ever didin the omnipotence of mere force, should become the victim of his own dreams, the monomaniac of tremen- dous armaments, Although a case for war cannot be seen on the European horizon there are, no doubt, many inimical signs that an overburdened brain might torture into threatening spectres. Perhaps the conference of the Emperor of Austria and the King of Italy is more political than has been given out ; and now we learn, also, that the programme by which the Em- peror William was to have gone to Italy has been changed and that visit is given up. Are the kindly relations of Austria and Italy brought about by the pressure of common apprehension? They would not dare just yet to make the true cause of their kindliness known if this be it, but it is pretty clear that the aggressive tendencies of the northern Power have some relation to this effect, Prussian remonstrances, it is well known, were made at Rome on the subject of the Pope, and it was suggested to Italy that the law of the Papal guarantees was too lib- eral toward His Holiness and that it would be appreciated at Berlin if there could be any modification of that law. Visconti-Venosta replied that the law was a treaty made by the new kingdom with a Power to whose tempo- ralties Italy had succeeded, and as such was inviolable. If the great believer in the appli- cation of military force wou!d go across the Alps with representations like this how much might naturally be apprehended by those the Pope but guarantee certain ecclesiastical rights. And if one Power is really menaced, and another sees that menace applies equally to her and only waits its turn for fulmina- tion, it is, perhaps, but natural that the sov- ereigns of such Powers should confer person- ally on some convenient occasion, and at least as natural that a great intelligence con- | stanily scanning the horizon for threatening | possibilities should find some significance in such a conference. Just in time, too, to add | afresh tint to the complication comes the remonstrance of the Pope to his Catholic son of Anstria against Prussian aggression, while the reply of the disciplined Kaiser of Sadowa is as mild a piece of advite as Bismarck could expect under the circumgfances. It has been repeatedy thought that the Russian Chancellor, who in a different vein is not less sagacious than his Prussian rival, and who has equally, or in | a greater degree, the confidence of his Em- | peror, has disliked the German tendencies on | bear now the same relation respectively to | Russia and Germany that Alsace and Lor- | raine bore to Germany and France before the | late war; and it has consequently been specu- | lated that he might not be averse to a quad- | | ruple alliance, to which France would be the | fourth Power. But if the power of Germany | the present generation it will not be by such a combination. If in the time of Frederick— | when operations could be kept secret, when | the movement of a hostile army was first | known through its arrival at the threatened | point—if in such an age combination was powerless to beat down the hardy vitality of that northern Power, how much less is the like- | lihood that it should be effective in this age, when no secret can be kept and when commnu- nication so far outflies advance that prepara- | tion need never be found at fanit? If Italy | Russia menaced Berlin, | Austria, the keystone of the arch would be annibilated before help could reach her, or before the shadow of danger conld tall over the city on the Spree whose streets are adorned only with monuments made out of cannon | taken from her enemies. But there is perhaps a better reason why the | Czar should keep ont of combinations against | Prassia than any for him to join them, and the course taken by the Berlin statesman in the present crisis y % distinctly to that reason ; indeed, the adrottness of Prince Bis- marck is as perceptible as ever in the peculiar | detail of this quarrel and in the smoke with | which he essays to cover that detail, and it is this that gives the case its main interest as a | fact and its only thxeatening aspect. Whv | | the frontier of those Russian provinces which | complete support, | with farther evidence in the matter. does he warn Belgium? Why does he menace the little Power in the Low Countries, that would scarcely disregard any request he might make in the undertone of diplomatic correspondence? Because he has his eye on Russia. And what are the relations of Belgium and Russia? They are related only in Bis- marck’s scheme, and there they are relative through England. England guarantees Bel- gium’s neutrality. If, therefore, any quarrel arises between Prussia and Belgium, any quarrel that leads to war, that cannot be compromised nor conciliated into any sort of a peace, a quarrel that no government can knuckle down low enough to escape, then England must necessarily be engaged against Prussia; not merely by the terms of the treaty, but by the pressure of popular opinion, that would drive out forty ministries one after another in the pugnacious little island rather than fail to try one stout battle with the arrogant bully of Europe. Now the position of England in such a war inevitably determines the position of Russia. They are hostile Powers in all their relations, and if Bismarck procures a qaarrel with England, though he will bave a stout foo, he is sure of Russia behind him. The answer of Disraeli in the House of Commons yesterday to the question of how far the government will stand by Belgium is significant just now. It bears on its face just a suspicion of nervous joy that Germany has contented itself with its bullying attitude, without further aggressive action, and it falls back on a generalization vagne enough to satisfy English puplic opinion and yet not provoke the terrible Bismarck. It is very doubtful, however, if Germany ‘cares for war, and all the rulers of Europe are deeply desirous to preserve the peace their interests require and dictate, and it is more than possible that the noise now raised, the war cloud so suddenly flaunted in all eyes, is meant mainly for effect within the Prussian limits. Berlin borrows a page out of the old political tactics. How many times did the late Emperor ot the French silence revolution- ary clamor and unite the whole nation in sup- port of his policy by the alternate threat or promise of foreign war? So now the German Chancellor may silence a lively opposition in his battle with the Church; for those who want war know that he is the man they must stand by if it comes, and those who fear war will support the policy he points as the one to avoid it, and when he has thus rallied the most unlikely parties to his support his great storm of war will float softly away, ‘blown like a cloud from St. Agatha’s alt Governor Cochrane and the Centen- nial Celebration. Governor Cochrane, of Delaware, is plainly a sincere man, and his opinions in regard to the Centennial are representative of those of a large number of citizens. In his statement, published yesterday, he informs us that his State is in debt, and that it cannot be ex- pected to contribute largely to the Centennial expenses. Bot he believes that the credit and the howor of the nation is pledged to the suc- cess of the Exhibition, and is desirous that Delaware shall give all the assistance in its power to the celebration. One objection which Governor Cochrane makes to the celebration is that it is laughable to invite John Bull to participate im the cele- bration of the declaration of American inde- pendence of England. But this is an ob- jection made a hundred years too late. The English care nothing tor the defeat George TIL and his Ministry met in our Revolutionary War. They are satisfied that the United States. are independent of British rule, and understand that an island could not long continue under any circumstances to controla continent. In truth, statesmen like Disraeli and Lord Derby are delighted that the Revo- lution was successful, for they know that otherwise the British kingdom would now be a dependency of America. Ireland would be to us as Louisiana, and London and Liver- pool would be subordinate to the metropolis of New York. Independence probably saved the British Islands from political subjugation to their ancient colonies. Therefore there is no reason why Governor Cochrane should suppose that the English will feel hurt by the | invitation to participate in tne Centennial Exhibition. They will be delighted with the chance to display their wonderful progress in manufactures and arts, and the action they have thus fer taken in the matter only makes the growing friendship of America and England ths stronger. Governor Cochrane has more reason for his fear that the celebration will display to foreign countries the failure of re- publicanism in America, as disclosed by the ambition of Grant to perpetuate his power as the ruler of the Union. Still, Delaware can- not avert the evils that threaten the rest of | the country, profoundly as she feels them, | and might as well give the Centennial her irrespective of English sensibilities or Presidential usurpations. The Governors of Illinois, West Virgiuia and Tennessee express their views relative to the Centennial Exhibition in our col- | umns to-day, and afford new evidence that all the States begin to appreciate their responsi- bility for the success of the common anni- versary. Delaware is a comparatively ancient younger sisters, Let us see what her Legis- | lature will do. Ma. Green's But was virtually defeated | in the Assembly yesterday. It was referred to the Committee on Cities, and even its champions have little hope that it will now become o law. full particulars of the action of the Legisla- ture yesterday. Tur Verpict of the Coroner's jury in the | | ease of the late Dr. Walker, who died from the poison of conium, is elsewhere presented, The jury found that the medicine acted with extra- ordinary potency, and blamed no one for the unfortunate and unexpected result. We think that this verdict is fully justified by the facts in evidence, Tre New Anatrom.—The protest of the people against the proposed abattoir on the North River tuok an official form yesterday at the meeting of the Beard of Aldermen. Mr, Delafield’s argument ogainst the outrage on the public health, and that of Protessor Chandler, will be found in another column and deserve careful consideration. All slaughter houses should be beyond the limits ot @ great city. Our Albany letter gives the | | does his there is no reason why they should | be removable in a different manner from | | The Bill for the omoval of state Officers. A bill so important as that just reported by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, but not yet acted upon, will be discussed with warmth both in the Legislature and out of it. There are already strong indications that the republican party will oppose it, and unless some of the republican Senators vote for it there is no chance of its becoming a law at this session. We think it right in principle, but open to grave objections in its scope and method. The substance of what it under- takes to enact would be more appropriate as an amendment to the State constitution than asa mere act of the Legislature. Governor Tilden 1s by no means the first to discover and declare that the powers of our State Ex- ecutive are too limited. Governor Hoffman was strongly of the same opinion, and made it one of his chief reasons for the Constitu- tional Commission which, on bis recommen- dation, the Legislature authorized him to ap- point. Among the amendments proposed by the Commission was one clothing the Gov- ernor with a power of removing high State officers, similar to that embodied in the pres- ent bill. That amendment was approved by the Legislature of 1873, but was rejected by the Legislature of 1874, and could not, therefore; be submitted to the people, with the other amendments, in the last election. ‘The Constitutional Convention of 1867 pro- posed similar changes, but they were de feated before the people by the joint oppo- sition of the Canal Ring and the Tammany Ring. The Governor's power of removing high State officers ought to be defined in the constitution and not left to be the sport of successive partisan Legislatures. Any law on the subject which this Legislature may pass the next Legislature could repeal, and would be quite sure to repeal, if a party advantage could thereby be gained. A matter so important as the general powers of the Governor, and especially to remove officers elected, like himself, by the people, ought not be a football of shifting partisan legislation. ' If the Governor is to have power to remove all the heads of the chief executive depart- ments, he ought also to have power to appoint them. Our present State constitution was formed on a totally different theory. It makes the Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treas- urer, Attorney General, State Engineer, Canal Commissioners and State Prison Inspectors— the officers this bill seeks to empower the Governor to remove—elective by the people like the Governor himself. By the theory of the constitution they are not responsible to him but only to the people, as the Governor himself is ; like the Governor they are subject to removal by impeachment, andsolong as they are all alike common agents of the people, ow- ing noallegiancs to one another, but only to the people by whom they are chosen, there would seem to be no moro reason why the Governor should remove the heads of the State depart- ments than why they should remove the Goy- ernor. If the Governor grossly violate bis duty the people have provided for his im- peachment, and they have provided the same mode of redress against their other elected servants. If impeachment is a slow process against them it is also a slow process against him; but so long as they derive their authority as directly from the people as he | what he is, unless the people, the common source of their authority, ordain otherwise in the constitution. The people have done so in respect to one State officer—the State Treasurer—whom the Governor is authorized not to remove, but to suspend until thirty days after the meeting of the next Legisla- ture. The safety of the State funds was a. sufficient reason for taking the Treasurer out of the operation of the general rule, which makes the heads of departments removable | only in the same manner as the Governor. In the feder:l government the heads of de- partments are appointed by the President, | are responsible to him and subject to his direction, and it is therefore fit that he should have the power to remove them. But the heads of departments at Albany are not appointed by the Governor, are not sub- ject to his direction, are not answerable | to him for their conduct, and it seems incon- gruous that he should remove them unless the people, speaking through the constitution, conter that power directly upon him. As we have already said, we believe the principle of this bill to be correct; but it is a principle which ought to be carried out by amendments to the constitution, and not by a mere act of the Legislature, which may be passed this year and repealed next, subject to tbe fluctuations of party ascendancy. This bill is prompted by the abuses of canal man- | agement, but the plaster is bronder than the gore, All that Governor Tilden asked in his late Message was authority to remove the Canal Commissioners and State Engineer, and it would be wise to amend the bill by restrict- ing it to those officers. So amended, we should be willing to see it passed as a temporary measure, but ss a temporary measure only. What the Legislature ought to do is to pro- pose an amendment to the constitution re- lieving the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of | State, Comptroller and Attorney Gen- eral from the duties which devolve on them as members of the Canal Board, the canals under and putting | the management of officers to be appointed | by the Governor and confirmed by the Sen- ate. These officers the Governor should have | power to remove for cause ; but not State officers Blected by the people. At present the Lieutenant Governor has the same power, as a member of the Canal Board, as the Secretary | of State, Comptroller and other officers whom } this bill seeks to make removable by the Gov- ernor; but he is omitted from the bill, al- though there is no more reason for exempting | the Lientenant Goverzor than for exempting the Secretary of State and Comptroller. It is absurd to make all the chief State officers, who are elected to discharge duties quite for- eign to the management of the canals, mem- bers of the Canal Board. If left to their ap- | propriate daties there is no reason why they | should be removable by the Governor, and so | long as they continue to be elected by the people they should be liable to lose their offices only by impeachment, like the Gov- ernor himself, The correct system is that presented by the | Constitutional Convention of 1867, which was defeated by the covert influence of the Canal | | will naturally be anxious, and if the Gov- | mystery of general laws and proclaimed dis- | Ring ond the open opposition of the demo- cratic party then controlled by the old Tam- many Ring. That proposed constitution abolished the Canal Board and the offices of Canal Commissioner and Canal Appraiser, and substituted for them a single officer, with the title of Superintendent of Public Works. This officer was to be appointed by the Gov- ernor, with the consent of the Senate, and to be removable by the Governor for cause. Under the Superintendent, to perform the duties of detail which devolve on the Canal Commissioners, there were te be three or four deputy superintendents, to be appointed by the Governor on the Superintendent's recom- mendation, but removable for cause by the Superintendent. That proposed system was admirably calculated to enforce responsibility. Governor Tilden and Mayor Wickham. It is a very old maxim that the most suc- cessful of diplomatic arts is the art of giving good dinners. Our estimable Governor at Albany has a shrewd perception of the methods by which men are most easily in- fluenced, and as his wealth has long enabled him to dispense a liberal hospitality and his amiability makes him a genial host, it is not surprising that he resorts to social blandish- ments to make political conquests. The en- tertainment he gave to Mr. Bryant in the early part of the winter was a nice stroke of social tactics; tor although there were excel- lent private reasons why he should thus honor an old friend, he could not have been insen- sible to the effect’of such a compliment be- stowed on a political opponent in conciliating the good will of the people, who admire a handsome thing handsomely done. His hos- pitable attention to Mayor Wickham and his family, though more quiet, are equally sug- gestive of the Governor's skilful use of the arts of conciliation. Mayor Wickham will find it quite as difficult as Mr. Bryant to oppose the Governor after accepting his hos- pitality. We are not curious to solve the puzzle which agitates the quidnuncs as to the particular things which were talked about and arranged between the Governor and the Mayor in this visit. Even if no word was exchanged between them in relation to the points on whjch they have differed, the fact that the Governor proffered and the Mayor accepted pleasant hospitalities is a conclusive proof that they will not push their quarrel to extremities. They are on the sure road to a cordial understanding when Mrs. Wickham spends a week at the Governor's house and her husband ‘goes up to pass Sunday and attend church and visit the Albany Penitentiary in company with the Governor. Even if no politics were talked between them (which of course nobody believes), the fact of such pleasant, social intercourse suffices to prove that the hatchet is buried and that these discordant functions aries have smoked the pipe of peace, like Tammany braves, who have come to a mu- tual conclusion that hostilities are unprofit- able. We will not speculate on the possible things they may have arranged during this visit. The progress of events during the residue of the session will disclose them. Corporation Counsel Smith and the Fire Commissioners ernor has consented to their removal the fact will appear in due time. That the Governor assured the Mayor that he disliked the bill for making Comptroller Green a municipal Cmsar appears by the virtual collapse of the Miller bill. If the Mayor's grateful sense of the Governor's hospitable attentions has induced him 4o let Green alone that also will be ap- parent after the lapse of a week or two. It need not surprise anybody if the Governor and Mayor have concluded to observe in poli- tics the admirable morality which they both | learned in the nursery, but which the demo- cratic party has of late forgotten—‘“Birds in their little nests agree, and ‘tis a shameful sight when children of one family falt out and chide and fight.’ There is great need of a revival of this pretty lesson, and we con- gratulate the Mayor and Governor that they are the first to think of it. Medicine and the Press. The Kings County Medical Society has adopted a series of resolutions which deserve the attention of both physicians and patients, Doctors have asa matter of dignity ignored | newspapers, and the member of the profes- sion who advertises is for that reason alone looked upon asa quack. The Kings County | Medical Society has wakened up, and pro» poses to establish a department of public in- | Struction. We are pleased to observe that it | has discovered that the best way to educate the public is through the press. That “the profession has everything to | gain in the way of dignity and influence through the well instructed intelligence of the constitnency to which it ministers’ is a tru- ism which should long ago have been recog- | nized and acted upon, The theory that a doctor isa being without responsibility and absolute in his delicate and difficult vocation can no longer be accepted. Science and education have changed the situation. Al- most every intelligent person now under- | stands something of the general Jaws of health and a little of the principles of medi- cine. The doctor is not the less important, but the patient is the more helpful. We welcome everything which shows that the medical profession 1s not inclined to mako a | coveries, but is anxious to call into its service the common sense of the whole community. | The Kings County Medical Society deserves credit for the principles it has declared and | its evident inclination to illustrate practically | the proverb that ‘an ounce of prevention is | worth a pound of cure.”’ If it can give us | good ventilation in our public schools, if it | ean make the laws of health public property | , instead of a professional privilege, if it can uso the newspaper press to disseminate correct ideas and valuable discoveries, it will deserve more than usual honor, not only for its enter- prise, but for its example. Medicine ought not to be a mystery any more than religion. Concealment of facts and principles m the one tends to rnin the body and in the other to the | destruction of the soul. Candor with the pub- lic is, alter ail, the secret of snecess in any of the liberal professions. Tar Datr has not yet been fixed for the in- vestiture of Cardinal McCloskey with the | robes of office. The desire to see tho core- | mony is intense, and the Cathedral will not be | large enough to hold the public, | Mr. Head Money. The proposition before the Assembly to in crease the amount of head money demanded from emigrants entering the port of New York is unwise in principle and is calculated to injure the interests of this city. The increase in the tax is urged on the ground that it will benefit the emigrants; but there seems good reason to conclude that the resources derived from the existing tax, if economically admin istered, would be sufficient to meet all the just requirements of needy emigrants. In the eyes of a great many people the increase of a dollar a head in the tax on emigrants is a matter of slight importance; but then it should be taken into con- sideration that to a large class of European emigrants even a dollar in the passage makes a very considerable difference. Boston, with true Yankee smartness, has understood the importance of this apparently trifling matte: and abolished all charge on emigrants landing at the New England port, As a result several of the steamship limes are directing an im portant portion of their emigrant trade ta that port. The National, Cunard and Allan lines have established a regular service with Boston, in order to avoid the payment of emigrant head money in New York. During the past year over twenty-five thousand emi- grants have been diverted to Boston who but for this obnoxious tax would have been landed in New York. Baltimore and Montreal have also profited largely by the penny wise policy of the lawmakers of this State. The true policy would be to encourage the flow of emigration to this city. All taxes and head moneys, however much they may be intended for the good of the emigrants, act only as so many inducements for persons seeking homes in this country to enter by some other port. By our Chinese policy the commerce of New York has already suffered very much. The coffee trade has gone to Baltimore, and the metal trade is divided between Boston and Baltimore. Our tax on emigrants threatens us with the far more serious loss of the emigrant trade, which has so materially contributed to build up the greatness of this city and make it the capital of America, Our legislators af Albany ought, therefore, to be very careful before making changes in this head money law, which may seriously interfere with the welfare of New York. Tue Memszns of the theatrical profession announce their intention to take proper ac- tion in respect to the death of the late Dan Bryant, a gertleman who was deservedly en- deared to all his associates, and popular, almost beyond rivalry, with the publio throughout the United States. Tue Lovistana Conrrrencs is expected to be decided to-day. There is considerable opposition to the terms proposed by Mr. Wheeler and agreed upon by leading men of both parties, but in the present condition of political affairs what better adjustment can be obtained? Louisiana wants peace above all things. Absolute justice 1s, unfortunately, out of the question. Mr. Bercuen yesterday denied all that he is accused of. It is plain that some one has been guilty of unparalleled sworn falsehood in this remarkable trial. For the original question ot adultery that of perjury has been substituted, and the public is anxious to know which side is guilty of the innovation, Beecher’s proposed statement to his church was read yesterday, and as it isa new document will command no ordinary attention. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator Conover, of Florida, is in Washington. Senator Roscoe Conkling has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor McCook has departed trom Wash ington for Colorado. Godiove S. Orth, Minister to Austria, is at Wash- ington awaiting instructions. Captain John H. Upshur, United States Navy, is qhartered at the Everett House, Congressman N. Holmes Odell, of Tarrytown, M. Y., is staying at the St. James Hotel. Professor GriMn, of Williams College, 1s among the late arrivals at the Irving House. Congressman John K. Tarbox, of Massachusetts, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge James H. Howe, of Wisconsin, has taken ‘up his residence at the Windsor Hotel. Captain Samuel Brooks, of the steamship City of Ricnmon4, 1s at the Grand Central! Hotel. Lieutenant Aulick Palmer, of the United States Marine Corps, ia stopping at the Gienbam Hotel, Queen Victoria recently called at Cniselnurst and spent an hour with the ex-tmpress Eugéate, Mr. Henry R. Linderman, Director of the United States Mint, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hoe tel. Mr. Robert T. Lincoln, son of the lamen‘ed Abraham Lincoln, is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. There is.a dread(al rumor tn England that Ricky ard O'Gorman 1s going over to stand for Parlia ment, like Mitchel. Captain Wilham Prince, of the Ordnance Depart: ment, United States Army, is registered at tne Metropolitan Hotel. Lieutenant Commander Frederick Pearson, United States Navy, nas taken up his quarters at the St, James Hotel. Professor Spencer F, Baird, of the United States Fisheries Commission, arrived at the Filth Avenue | Hotel yesterday irom Washington, Grant said that Butler was bottied up; but 1 Butler had seid that Grant was bottiéd up it mignt have been deemea an offensively personal ob servation. In Liverpool “the Select Vestry” buys port wine for the Workhouse infirmary at twenty-two csnts a bottle, If you don’t like to drink it, don’t go to the Workhouse. Somebody sent to a lady in London an Raster egg Which contained an African scorpion, by which interesting insect the lady was bitten so that sne will probably ie. Parson, B-ownlow was disgusted at Andy John- son's want of diguity on a certain occasion, and went a little farther than Andy on the same line to show his disgust. Religious orders are to be suppressed im Gor many by @ law of the imperial Pariiamente=so that they may not crop up 1n other States as fast as they are put down in Prossia, Woat moonshine to dream of new parties in these days. There is only one possibile national issue delore us, which 1s Whether the next Prest- dent will ve Grant or some one cise, Epitaphs were discussed before a fellow of twenty-five, who thought they were too complicat. ed, and gave the following as what he would lke to have on bis tomb:— JOHN THOMPSON, 1850-1950. Victor Hugo spoke over Quinet’s grave a dis | course filled with trashy bifalutin, in which, how. ever, occurred this one happy seatence, “It is the pleasure of proud souls to be troublesome to tyrants.” Treasurer Spinner yesterday received an aute graph letter from the President accepting nu resignation as Treasurer of tue United States, and expressing for the retiring oficial the warmest sentiments of tegard (or him personally, together with a high appreciation of his, well-known pro | bity. patriotism and oMicial integrity.