The New York Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hznaxp will be ent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- pual subscription price $12 All business or news letters and telegraphic flespatches must be addressed New Yorx Hrnatp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly pealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. NO, 104 AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING, | BOWERY OPERA HOUSE, a Bowery.—VARIETY, at SP. M.; closes at 10:45 | PaRK THEATRE, Parr 2 x. OROCKET!, at 8 P. M.; closes at wu P, Mr. Mayo. ROWERY THEATRE, yma” THE WORL) IN’ EIGHTY Days, BSP. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, th avenue and Twenty-tuird street.—AUMED, at8 MW. ; closes at 10:45 P. M. 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M. | BROOKLYN = avenuc.—VARIETY, ACADEYY OF MUSIC, yenth street and Irving place.—L'OMBRE, at M. Mile. Emma ‘aurel. ROBINSON HALL. i Sixteenth street. near Broadway.—HIBERNICON, ats _ P.M. Matinee at 3 P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, | teenth street.—INDIGO, at 5¥. M.] closes at 10:45 | M. Miss Lina Mayr. * OLYMPIC THEATRE. 6%4 Brondway.—VAMICTY, at SP. ME; closes at 10x45 .M. Matinee atz P. M. FIFTH AVENCE THE ty-eighth sireet and Broadw: ANZA. at 8 F. M.: closes at 10 0 P. wis, Miss Davenport, Mra. Gilbert. SHE . APRIL 14 From our reports this morning the probabilities | @re that to-day there will be light snows followed by searing and cool weather. Watz Sracet Yestrepar.—Stocks were ir fegular, government bonds steady, foreign exchange firm and money abundant on call, Gold closed at 115}. Tue Esncratton Commission yesterdey held & mesting and discussed the financial embar- | fassments which prevent it from fulfilling its objects. It was finally determined to take steps toward obtaining from the State the | necessary assistance. | Tux Porr did not appeal to the Emperor | of Austria for the protection of the Church, as the cable asserted. These reports are sin- | gularly contradictory, and it would be well to | examine them more carefully before circulat- ing them over the world. Mr. Fisher Mr. Matinee atl P.M. TRIPLE NEW YORE, WEL 1875, Sous or tHe Loxpon Eprrons are to be gammoned before the bar of the House of Commons to answer for breach of privilege | in publishing news. They are not likely to | get the worst of the dispute, as the news ap- | ‘pears to have been furnished by a Parliament. | ary committee. | Iv Exotaxp should recede from her agree- | ment with the other Powers as made in the Declaration of Paris in 1856 it would have an | impertant influence upon the stability of Eu- | fopean treaties. A motion to this effect was rejected in the House of Commons yesterday by a majority which shows that Parliament andérstands the danger of such a step. Cnear Transportation is equally important to the interests of the West and the East, and the proceedings of the association whose ob- ject is to bring about that result are of interest to a large class of business men. The excessive charges on the carrying of grain | are especially onerous upon our merchants, and the public ultimately is required to assume the burden. The Western producers should see that it is to their interest to emu- late the enterprise shown in New York in combating the monopolies of the railroad companies. Tae Sovrn has naturally no ordinary in- derest in the Centennial celebration, for it offers an occasion not only for the display of the resources of that portion of the country, but for the evidence of its patriotiem. Our correspondence from Mississippi and Georgia indicates the interest which the Southern people take in our national anniversary. It is unfortunate that the Southern States are too poor to give much pecuniary help to the enterprise, but we trust that by next year they will make important contributions of their ions. We cannot leave the South out of the Centennial without some discredit to the policy the North has pursued since the Wake | greater thon it was last year, and the appear- | and chinch bugs, and agriculture have been | been destroyed. Be this as it may, the pros | son and the possible ravages of insects. E 7; | large market for manufactured articles created | | | borers out of employment or diminishes their | wages, so that in proportion as food is dear | | | eommercial importance by diverting Western | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1875.~TRIPLE SHEET, The Wheat Crop of 1875—General | harvested in July and August. But if the Business Prospects. The Chicago Times, following the recent ex- ample of the Hzraup, has performed a useful service in collecting from a wide area infor- | mation relating to a subject of deep interest to the business community. Our Chicago contemporary has indeed pursued its inquiries ina different field from ours, and directed them to a different object. We sent reporters and correspondents to all the chief centres of commerce in the United States, instructing them to interview leading bankers, merchants and manufacturers, and to report the interviews verbatim, when of sufficient value, accompanying them with a gen- eral summary of results. The informa- tion thus furnished attracted wide notice in the press of the country. The Chicago Times has directed its inquiries, not to the great cities, but to the rural districts, aiming to give an authentic statement of the present pros- pects of the wheat crop in the principal wheat- growing States of the Northwest. It has agreat array of telegraph reports from numerous points in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and Minnesota— in short, all the wheat-growing States any considerable portion of whose products seek a market through Chicago, the great grain mart of the Continent. The accounts relate chiefly to the breadth of ground sown with wheat as compared with the area last year, and to the condition and appearance ot the winter wheat since the close of winter. On both these heads the reports are satisfactory and encouraging. The breadth of wheat sown 1s represented to be even ance of the winter wheat fields is generally very fine and thrifty. It was apprehended that great injury would be done by the un- wonted severity of the winter; but, fortu- nately, these forebodings have not been real- wed, owing, it is supposed, to the depth of snow which lay on the ground during the period when the cold was most intense. Whether the protecting snow was an unmixed blessing may per- haps be doubted. Had the ground lain bare, and the frost done its perfect work, @ great part of the winter wheat might have been killed, but with it the life would have been frozen out of the eggs of grasshoppers exempted from these scourges for many years to come. The ground might have been re- ploughed for spring wheat and other crops, and the severe winter have proved a blessing in disguise. ‘e do not know whether winter wheat can stand a greater degree of cold than the eggs of insects; but Jet us hope that it | can, and that the seeds of these pests have pects for a good wheat crop are excellent, bating accidents of weather later in the sea- These promising reports from the great and fertile Northwest are of universal interest, Agriculture is altogether the most important of our industries, and the one which gives life to all the others. It is the main pillar of the public prosperity, A healthy revival of business in the later summer and early autumn months depends on a propitious and fruitful season. The ma- jority of our people derive their subsistence | from the cultivation of the soil, and their | ability to purchase goods depends on the | abundance of their crops. It is the grain | crop more than any other which sets the | wheels of trade in motion, not only by the | by the wants of its producers and their ability | to pay, but also by the effect of cheap food in increasing the consumption of other things by the inhabitants of cities. When food is | dear and it takes a great part of people’s earnings to supply their tables there is little | left for the supply of less indispensable wants. Moreover, a stagnant demand for manufactured goods throws artisans and la- they have less money to expend in its pur- chase. Agriculture is thus the main axie on which the business of this country turns. It also furnishes the chief employ- ment for our great lines of transportation, the clamor for cheaper freights within the last | few years having arisen in the great grain- growing regions of the country. It is the grain trade which covers the great lakes with vessels, which gives employment to our | canals, which creates the chief competition between rival Attantic cities, which encourages | the hopes of Canada to rise in the scale of products down the St. Lawrence. The grain products of the West are the chief source frora which the stream of our foreign | commerce is fed. The single article of cotton | makes, to be sure, a larger figure in our ex- | port statistics than the article ot wheat; but | if we join with wheat Indian corn and the products cf Indian corn, like bacon, pork and | lard, the total considerably exceeds the export of cotton. We insert the following statement of the value of such articles exported in | 1874 :— Wheat and fonr.. Indian corn and m Bacon ana hams + 19,308,019 6,808,712 Lard... Pork Total .... +006 sane weeeseee S218, 645,416 The value of the cotton exported from the United States in 1874 was $211,223, 580— or $7,321,836 less then the value of grain products exported, if we reckon pork, lard and baconas a condensed form of Indian corn. Whiskey is also a condensed form | of various grains, and a considerable por- tion of the cotton crop ought to be classed | | umder the same head, since a great deal of | the food consumed on the cotton planta- | tions is produced in the grain regions of | / the Northwest and is transmuted into cotton through the muscles of the negroes. It is strictly correct, therefore, to say that the production of grain is the main pivot of our foreign and domestic trade and of all our other indusiries. grain crop is thus a subject of more uni- versal interest than any other in the whole circle of our material prosperity, if interest be measured by real importance. | its nest under the window-sill. | butterfly the next day? The prospects of the | It may not be quite true that “winter | lingers in the lap of May,'’ but the great snow | harvest should be as abundant as there is rea- son to hope the dawn which now begins to appear will brighten into clear day in the autumn months. It is in anticipation of this that the New England mills are coming again into full activity, the fabrics they turn out during the next*three months being, of course, intended to supply the fall trade, The Panama Canal, The sea which divides also unites. In ancient times the command of the ocean gave power to nations, for then commerce was almost entirely a question of transporta- tion by water. In war time victory was decided by the strength of navies. Thus England was for centuries the ruler of the world because of the superiority and the en- terprise of her sailors. But a change has come over the world. The invention of steam makes railroads more useful than canals, and the ship is superseded by the locomotive engine. The Union Pacific Railroad controls the trade of a continent, and the passage around Cape Horn has become almost as ob- solete as the voyages of Captain Cook or the discoveries of Magellan. Still, in spite of this enormous value of the railroad to civilization and commerce, the ocean still plays its part in the world’s affairs, The wisdom of the great engineering feat of cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Suez has been fully vindicated by its results. Enge land has profited more than France by the speedy communication it affords Europe with India. The commerce of the world has been benefited by the new means of transit. It is not strange that the United States govern- ment, in view of this success, should be de- sirous to emulate it by cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Darien, But it should, not be forgotten that the configurations of the conti- nents make a vast difference in the situation. The Suez Canal is more valuable to Europe than the Darien Canal can be to America. We have—what Europe has not—direct railroad communication ocean to ocean above the fortieth degree of latitude, and through ao ter- ritory subject to but one government, Because ot her rival and jealous nationalities the railroad system of Europe does not pos- sess the same security nor offer equal advan- tages to the commerce of the world. There- fore, we must not imagine that the Nicaraguan Canal is as important to America as the Suez Canal is to Europe. The conditions are ale together different. But there is no doubt that the Pacific and Atlantic oceans will be ultimately joined by a canal upon one of the lines through the Isthmus of Darien which bave been surveyed under the authority of the government. The railroad cannot stop the canal. The thorough report we present to-day of the results of the United States surveying expedition, which arrived at this city yesterday, will, therefore, be re- ceived with deep interest. It explains the ad- vantages of the different plans proposed, especially of the Nicaragua and Panama routes, and, though there is little probability that the work will be begun soon, it is well to have the facts fully presented for the consid- eration of the public. The Beautiful Snow. Come, gentie Spring! ethereal Mildness, come! Spring has come, with its buds and flowers, ard snow and hail, and umbrellas and pneu- monia, and many other things, some of which the poets have mentioned, and others which they have been careful to omit. This charm- ing season of the year, with its crocuses and violet beds, does more to encourage the sale of red flannel than all of its sisters put together. Anybody can go out and buy a beautiful bouquet in spring, price ten cents— arose impaled on a wire, witha geranium leaf to sympathize with its misfortunes—but what is the use of a rose if you cannot smell it? Flowers are wasted upon a pretty girl who happens to have a cold in the nose, Why should we go look for daffodils in fields of snow, or wander by the silvery stream with an umbrella? There is something apparently incongruous in reclining upon beds of violet blue, or half blown roses washed with dew, in an Ulster overcoat. The poet who abandons himself to the pleasures of spring must put his feet in a hot waterbath at night and put on a mustard plaster in the morning. When we sing of Spring—beautitnl Spring!—it is well to clear the throat with Brown's bronchial troches. The dandelion is delight- ful as a flower, but it is more valuable as a gargle. Spring reminds us of a politician, It has every quality that is required for success in polities. It is rich in promise and poor in performance. Trusting to its smiling face we lay aside the germents of winter and appear in | what the ironical tailors call spring suits. The skies are blue, the sea is calm, warm breezes blow from the South and the sunlight is bright and warm. The butterfly makes its appearance and the wasp crawls out of Where is the The unfortunate insect has perished in the effort to extract honey from an icicle, while the wasp, like Death, has lost its sting. The flower girls get up o corner in bonquets, and the doctors consult privately with the druggists. The voice of the hilarious undertaker is heard in the land, and he | snorteth like the steed who hears the sound of the trampet afar. The disgusted fly returns to his cave and the snowbirds tarn back from their useless journey to the North. Nature, about this time, discovers that fraud. She is conscious that while she is successful in getting up a winter she disgraces herself in attempting to produce a decent spring, and suffers the mortification of know- ing that everybody agrees with the opinion. These are conclusions which were forced upon | us by the experience ot yesterday. We have lost all confidence in spring, and intend here- after to repose our faith in nothing but gum | shoes and umbrellas, Tae Mrxens.—The necessity of sending the troops to the region of the disturbances in | terday. Disorderly parties of miners came into storm yesterday stretches winter so far into | collision with the troops, and have been re- | the spring months that the business season | pulsed in their attempts to break through the will be short before the midsummer heats | picket lines. The military did not provoke. come on, and we cannot expect a very vigor- | this outbreak, but their presence has probably ous revival until after the grain crop is | prevented more serious disorders, over the Continent from | she isa! A Dying City. Senator Morton is reported as saying to the reporter ot a Western newspaper that New Orleans is a dead city; that it bas lost its opportunity ; that St. Louis, Galveston and even Chicago have reached out and robbed it of its former trade privileges, and that no amount of good government can restore it. We have had many stories of this kind from the Crescent City, and we confess that noth- ing since the war has distressed us moro than the blight that seems to have fallen upon New Orleans. It is one of the most interesting of our cities, It has a continental quality that none of the others possess. Its roots extend into other soils than the Cavalier or the Puri- tan. New Orleans, French in its origin, and at one time under the control of the Spaniard, has always shown the influence of France and of Spain. There is something of | Paris in the sprightliness and taste of the | people ; in the chivalry, which does not even now disdain the duello; in the merriment, which makes Sunday a feast day and not a day of fasting; in the Carnival and Mardi Gras, Every street in the old city recalls the glory of the Bourbon or the ambition of the Bonaparte, Belore the war it was a prodigal, luxurious metropolis. The planters looked upon a winter visit to New Orleans asa re- compense for a hard season’s work in the cotton field and sugar house. The Missis- sippi poured its treasures into its lap. Tt was the entrepdt of Mexico and Cuba and Texas. There was no city to challenge its dominion but Mobile, for Gal- veston was a little seacoast town that was scarcely known in the family of cities. Alone, therefore, far distant trom the other ruling cities, mistress of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi, New Orleans rapidly strode along, and before the war had perhaps as much wealth for her population as any city in the Republic, Even now New Orleans is ninth in the list of cities, if we may take the figures of the census of 1870, It then reported 191,000 population and 33,656 dwellings—something more than Sun Francigco and less than Cin- cinnati. The latest authority as to its com- merce, Edward King, in his valuable and in- teresting work on “The Great South,” shows still many signs of prosperity. The last re- ported cotton crop, 1872-73, was a hundred thousand bales larger than the year before the war. The total value of the imports in New Orleans for the same year was more than one hundred miilions and the exports over six hundred millions, More than one-third of the cotton passed through New Orleans, This isa source of enormous wealth alone. It is hard to think that a city should be dead, or in any apprehensions of death, that sends out from its ports more than six hundred millions of doliars a year. There are, of course, many reasons that affect the growth of a seaboard town. The railroads have diverted much of the Missis- sippi trade. The sugar crop in Louisiana has fallen away. The Western produce, that in past times was floated down to New Orleans in rude flatboats, now seeks New York and Baltimore. Texas has been growing since the war into imperial prominence, and naturally seeks a port at Galveston. The railroad has shown its supremacy over the river. In the olden times the river was the line of military defence, the channel of trade. But now the railroad has usurped that function. We de- fend our railroads in war and depend upon them as the artcries of commercial life in peace. ‘Therefore the growth of the great railway systems of tue West and partly ot the South have injured New Orleans. The fed- eral government, by the subsidies it granted to the Pacific railways and other lines in the Northwest, has thrown its influence against the South and largely against New Orleans. So far as the account of the general govern- only taken millions from the Southern States the Western States in the way of railway en- dowments. Is it any wonder, then, that with all these causes in operation, an indulgent gov- ernment strengthening the West and neglect- ing, pay, trampling the South, there should be signs of paralysis in the great metropolis of the South west? Senator Morton is aneminent statesman of the republican party. He has been the apostle of repression and revenge. He has | championed every infamy or usurpation in | a dead city he speaks his own condemnation represents the ignorance, the cupidity, the folly and the crimes of Mr. Morton's party. But we are confident that he has passed too harsh a judgment. New Orleans may suffer a temporary depression, a syncope from war and “reconstruction,” but there are elements of strength and glory about the old town | which even the war and republicanism can- not destroy. Dead at Last. The election in Connecticut has determined one fact—that the third term agitation is at “gensation,” or a phantom, or a jest, or a @inning contrivance of the | Henaxp to control the republican party, may now breathe freely. After the vote in Con- Grant shall have a third term but whether anybody the republicans nominate shall have a first term. For ourselves we congratulate the country that it has passed out of American politics. Those of our public men who be- lieved it had no life did not read clearly the signs of the times. more certain than another in the drift of political events it was that President Grant, his judgment and moulded his actions, moved steadily on to a crisis in politics] affairs that could mean nothing but a tuird term. As it tion has power enough even to control the conventions and name the successor to Presi- dent Grant. Certain republicans who train | behind Blaine and Hoar and Foster will gather new sirength from protesting. Grant has shown himself unable to carry the repub- the republican party will insist upon carrying Grant, and in doing so go with him into utter and irretrievable ruin. Tae GoveRxon has had an interesting cone versation upon the canal reforms with a mem- ber of the Produce Exchange, and has again ment with the South is cuncerned, it has not | in the process of war, but given millions to | the South that called itself a government. j Therefore, when he pronounces New Orleans | and that of his party. Dying New Orleans | jan end. Those who believed in this as a | New Yonx | necticut the question is not whether General | If any one thing was | through those who surrounded him, controlled | is now we question whether the administra- | mig | liean party. The quostion now is whether | Pennsylvania is justified by the events of yes- | emits 6 q asserted his determination to enforce honest and intelligent management, The latest de- velopments of the matter will be found fully stated in our Albany letter. Defeat of the “Green Charter.” The generalissimo of the Black Horse cav- alry and his second in command, the West- chester general of the republican contingent, have met with an ignominious overthrow. Generalissimo Green does not seem over well acquainted with cavalry tactics. There was, indeed, something of the dash and sudden- ness of a cavalry charge in the first onset, but Green cannot have studied with much profit the feats of such daring riders as Mosby, For- rest and the rest, who, even in their least suc- cessful raids, contrived to retreat without military dishonor. It is impossible to play the part of a Mosby and a Moltke at the same time. A successful commander of cavalry rides at the head of his men and puts spirit into them by his daring example and prompt fertility in resources; but the redoubtable generalissimo of the Black Horse cavalry planned his Albany campaign in the closet, as if he aspired to the fame ot a Von Moltke, and his success has borne a very distant resemblance indeed to that of his great model. Perbaps he thought his “bald eagle’’ was an omen: of victory; but the tame eagle of Louis Napoleon in that first ridiculous attempt which made him the jest of Europe was not a more ill- boding bird than ‘the bald eagle of West- chester.” In the desertion of Green’s adher- ents even Husted spread his wings and flew away, declaring at the lust moment that he had never regarded the movement as any- thing better than a trick, which he was ready to abandon when it had served his purpose. Green seems to have been the only man who had any serious expectation of success, and he must be filled with mortification to find how he has been coquetted with and flung aside. He has earned the distrust of the democrats and the contempt of the repub- licans, and no party will hereafter be willing to own him. Nobody has profited by his scheme but his paid lobbyists, and nobody will grudge them their feesif they are supplied from Green’s own pocket and not out of the city treasury like those of Hawkins a year crtwoago. The money Green paid for the power he expected would have been a cheap purchase, but to pay roundly for being made ridiculous is not so pretty a bargain. Now that Green's preposterous ambition has ‘“‘overleaped itself and fallen on the other side,”’ it is to be regretted that the Legislature will not make a wise revision of the city charter and take the municipal government out of the slough in which it has so long been floundering. This was attempted by the Cos- tigan bill, which was very wellso far as it went, but proved distasteful alike to the | democratic Governor and the republican | Senate. The fact that the Senate is republi- can is no reason why a good Dill should not be passed. We doubt whether a really sound and wise charter will ever be obtained except from a Legislature in which each party has a majority in one of | the two houses. If the whole Legislature should be democratic next winter it will make a partisan charter, which the first re- publican Legislature will be sure to subvert. This has been the history of alt recent charter legislation. The charter ot 1871 was in the in- terest of the Tweed Ring, which controiled that Legislature. The charter of 1873 (the present charter) was passed by a republican Legisla- ture to keep as many republicans as possible in city offices. If, in 1876, the democrats | should have both branches of the Legislature, | they would pass a charier to promote party interests rather than the welfare of the city. | The republicans of the present Senate have a great and deserved respect for Governor Til- den, and if he would recommend the outlines | of a wise, non-partisan charter both branches i | of the Legislature would probably pass it on | its merits, and we should have a better chance of stability end good govercment than we can ever expect from a succession of such schemes as are built up and pulled down by partisan Jegislatnres. Cheap Homes and Rapid Transit. There are some interesting facts to be learned from the census returns, so far as our | cities are concerned. New York, in 1870, was | first in the list of cities, returning a popula- tion of 942,292. This population was divided into 185,789 families. These families were | | Jodged in 64,044 dwellings. Brooklyn had | 80,066 families, multiplied into a population | of nearly 400,000, and housed in 45,834 dwell- ings. Philadelphia was conceded 647,000 in- habitants, representing 127,746 families, living | in 112,266 honses. Now, although Philadel- | phia returns nearly sixty thousand less fami- lies than New York sbe has nearly fifty thou- gard more houses. In other words, New York has nearly fifteen inhabitants for every house, while Philadelphia has only six inhabitants to each house. There is none of our large cities which shows this proportion but Phitadelphia. | New Orleans and San Francisco are a little | better off, and so is Washington. But the one fact stands ont emphatic and suggestive, that Philadelphia is the City of Poor Men's Homes. So New York might be if we had rapid | transit. In Brooklyn and Jersey City there are between cight and nine persons to a house. In Newark the number is smaller even. New York is almost entirely surrounded by water. The channels of growth are narrowed by | rivers—not easily crossed at any time, and in | winter apt to snddeniy choke with ice. Consequently New York cannot become the | city of homes. We are compelled to pack | our people closely. We are trying to make a shift after the French fashion with apartment houses, but the American somehow likes to | be master of his own doorstep, Our laboring people are driven into forbidding and un- | wholesome quarters, where the sun rarely comes—where dirt and typhus have sway. Asa consequence Philadelphia invites the vory class which New York repels—the very | class upon which the trae greatness of all | facturing interests prefer to conduct them in | | Philadelphia. They say that Inbor is cheaper | | and of a surer and higher quality, In Phila- | delphia the blacksmith or the weaver nt once | | anchors himself into a home. enough, to be sure, but he has all the modern comfor —light, air, water and sunshine, He has free schools around the corner for his children. All this comes within his earnings. The money he would pay for a grimy opartment in a» New York tenement house, in some Five Points or Seventh avenue section, will give him his own home in Philadelphia. One of the glories of Philadelphia—which makes it truly the Home City—is the almost endless line of small houses which one sees in the outlying sub urbs. There is no reason why we should not have the same in New York, There 1s no part of Philadelphia or in the country around itte compare in beauty wilh Westchester, Staten Island or the region beyond Brooklyn. There are no such views of sea and mountain, rock and forest and stream. Long Island Sound, the Bay, the Hudson, the Kill Von Kull, the Palisades, the Harlem—what are they but so many panoramas of beauty, which are neither possessed by Philadelphia nor by any city in the Union! Here there shouid be homes for a million of workingmen, and within easy and constant access to the Battery. If our contriv« ing statesmen in Albany would only ‘‘cease theia damnable faces and begin” the real work of statesmanship all this country could be thrown open to the workingmen. This would result from a broad and generous system of rapid transit, Let us have a steam railway from the Battery to the Harlem, the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge and the opening of the tun- nel under the Hudson. Let us have rapid steam transit into Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey. This would solve the prob- lem—the sorest problem now connected with the prosperity of New York. Then would New York become what Philadelphia and other cities are to-day—the city of the Poor Man’s Home. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Captain k. £, Ward is quartered at the Brevoort Huuse, Fora tippler todream that he has been baw Telled up is a good sign, Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, has apart ments at the Gilsey House. Senator William Windom, of Minnesota, is resid ing at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, Ex-Governor Englisb, of Connecticut, is at Mem phis, en route home from Louisiana, Senator Theodore F. Randolpn, of New Jersey, is sojourning at tue New York Hotol, Governor Dingley, of Maine, has written a letter declining to be a candidate for re-election, General Joseph R. Anderson, of Virginia, ts among the late arrivals at the St. James Hotel, Judge Solomon L. Hoge, Comptroller General of South Carolina, !s staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr, J. H. de Hegermann Lindencrone, Danish Chargé d’Affaires at Washington, has arrived at the Hoffman House. Mr. Thomas H. Nelson, formerly United States Muioister to Mexico, has takeu up his residence as the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. John fl, Stiress was yesterday elected Ass@s ciate Justice of the Supreme Court by the General, Assembly of Rhode Island. Mr. isaac Hinckley, President of the Philadele phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railway Com- pany, 1s at the St. Nicholas Hotel. it has been decided in a French court that the landlord who fails to have his guests duty awake ened to catch the trains they wish to take is Matle in damages. Mr. Joseph Hickson, general manager of the Grand Truok Ratlway of Canada, and Mr. R. B, Angus, manager of the Bank of Montreal, are at the Brevoort House. Vice President Wilson left Washington for Phila deipzia yesterday to preside over tue Centen+ nial meeting of the Pennsylvania Abolition So ciety, Which meets to-day. Captain Thornton, the famous executive officer of the Kearsarge, and lately of tae Monongahela, jert his ship at Cape Town, February 16, to returo home on account of til health, He sailed from Cape Town by the mail steamer Roman. Here is something else they mavage better in France:—A man and a woman who had eaticed a young girl trom her home to lead @ life of de bauchery, have been sentenced in Paris to ime prisonment for five and seven years respectively, His Eaceiiency, the President, wil leave Wash- ington to-morrow morning for this city, where he will remain uotil Friday. He will be jomed here by all his Cabinet except Attorney General Will jams, and the party will proceed heace to Boston, Vicomte de Chabot, aged ninety-four, and still iving th Ireland, 13 the father of Count de Jarnas, who recently died in London while residing there as French Ambassador; but they co not tell the old father of the death of bis son for fear of killing him. Watson Wiixes, it seems, insists on styling hime sell “George” Wilkes, much to the annoyance of the editor of the Spirit of the Times. Whatever the motive of Watson ne can scarcely expect to be taken for tne gentleman whose name he appropri- ates for court purposes. Mr. Horace Maynard, United States Minister to Turkey, was at tce Windsor Hotel yesterday on his way to Bos‘on. He will return to this city oa Tuesday next, and on Wednesday will sail in the steamship Russia for Liverpool, proceeding thence to bis post at Constantinople. Mme, the Baroness de Macedo, widow of a Pore tugnese admiral and domiciled in Paris for thirty years, has just committed suicide. She had beep operated upon for cancer, but a second operation was necessary and se preferred immediate ueat) to the repetition o! painful postponement, If you write down the fivure 5 ard twenty-on cyphers and ca'l the unit tons, that ts, they say, the weight ot (his world of ours, For instances 5,000,600,000,000,000,000,000. If there were som unit of weight that represented @ milliard of tom there would be five thousand milllards of tha weight. It is said that the precedency question betwees the Princess Louise and the Duchess of Edinburg? is very troublesome at Court. ‘The Princess Louise js understood vaguely to rank as her husband does, yet she has precedence over the Duchess, who is an emperor's daughter, married to @ queen’s son. There woman in Paris who goes about tne streets watching for a man to tumble down witt apoplexy. Then she rushes forward in great als | tress and goes with him and the police to the tation, takes care of him, &c., and steps out o sight before he recovers his senses, when it generally foand that his watch and portemonnai nave disappeared. Mr. Squibb, the manufacturing chemist, doe not believe that Mr. Walker was killed by contum, but that he died from syncope, though he believes that the syncope Was caused by contum; which Is like arguing that a man did not die irom baving@ builet put in his orain, but died from having a hole made in his head, whicn hole you admit was made by a builet. Neat advertising. There have been often foand in Normandy, Maine, Anjou and Brittany buried treasures of com, deposited there by the English, itis thonght, when they left the country, some centuries since; and now It is said that @ manu script has been found indicating all the points where treasure was buried, and this 18 to be pub lished in the Catholic Review. Mrs, Marie Antoinette N thalle Pollard had recently to explain to @ Baltimore audtence, be- fore whom she was lecturing, that soe was not tne person connected with some Unpleasant shooung cities rests. Capitalists who have large manu- | gcandais in Maryland and Virgiaia, She ts simply the widow of BE. A. Pollara, the bistorian, Some one has biundered sadly in attributing to her the bistory of another lady of the same name. After the Franco German war the Grand Duke oj oburg-Gotha said to Bismarck that the decors It is small | tion of the fron Cross had been distributed toc freely. “Weil,” seid the Prince, ‘it is been given on one hand to brave fellows who earned it im battie, and, of course, jastiy given; on tne other band it bas been given out of pure courtesy, as to Your Highness and to mo, and we aad better Rot say too much about it.’”