The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1875, Page 6

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Jerome Hopkins, TIVOLI THEATRE, Fignth street, between Second and Third avenues.— VARIETY, av3 FP. M.; closes at 12 P.M, § THEATRE, } closes at 10:49 he BOWERY OPERA HOUSE, eo je Bowery.-@vARIETY, at 3 P.M; closes at 1045 woop" Broadway, corner of Thi P.M; closes at 10.45 2. Al. N RAND, at 8 ML THEATRE COMIQUE, rie Broadway.—VARIELY, at SP. M.: closes at 10-45 GFRMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth sireet.—aM ALTAR, at 8 P.M. METROPOLITAN MUSEI'™M OF ART, ‘West Fourtcent siree.—Open trom A.M. w5 P.M. | BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Prive avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 ‘ OLYMPIC THEATRE, Eig Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 #. M.; closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. HAO Me Be lot a 3 ee wt vianer, Ma To be sure, the State constitution, as re- cently amended, requires railroad laws to be Me me esbaseny -VouaLarbataRee ser. xx. canes. 2 General tenne s pal the Common z. Council bill 1s in strict conformity with this WeieGahishatn Gaseee oe Quik Famry y.ocer.u, | Tequirement. There is nothing in the con- — stitution which forbida one general law for corner of oon h avenue. —AMY | horse rnifroads and another general law fea eee Mua Neilson. | for Jocal steam railroads. The vice of LYCEUM T meses ciety Se x Dee WAS REM two im one incongruous act. Had this aa. a aha | bill been restricted to ordinary street SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE railroads, constructed on the surface BINSTRELAS. at: Se'm.y closes at WP. Me | and worked by horses, it would answer very well with some amendments of its details. man ANtoiniite, wid Pe Nine. Ki But steam transit in cities is not needed ex- atid P.M. Mme. Kistori. From our reports this morning the probabi are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy, with possibly light rain. Wau. Srreer Yesrznpar.—Stocks were lower, on a feverish market. Money was easy. Foreign exchange firm and gold 115}. Ir Wow Bz Sxen from our cable de- spatches to-day that there has not been a fresh note from Germany received by Beigium. Too bad! Tur Emrrnror of Brazil is evidently anxious to shift the responsibility of the quarrel with the Church from the shoulders of the Crown to the Legislature, In his speech at the open- ing of the legislative chambers he impresses apon them the necessity of taking definite action on this subject, hinting also at the importance of financial reforms. Tae Amentcan Rirtz Tram has at length | eon selected for the coming international contest in Ireland. The successful candidates tre Major Henry Fulton, Colonel John Bo- dine, Colonel H. A. Gildersleeve, General T. 6. Dakin, G. W. Yale and L. L. Hepburn, the teserves being Messrs. Coleman, Canfield, Jr., end Jewell. The Irishmen will have to look to their laurels when they meet such a band of experienced marksmen. Tar Brooxtys Scanpan Tran was enliv- med yesterday by the testimony of the | | corresponding to what we mean by rapid | transit. | on the surface of the ground, in the middle of | streets, will answer all their wants. The other | should’ grow beyond expectation they will ex- | tion, | struction to its equal extension on every side | figure to go into a ready-made clothing store | gins by auchorizing the incorporation of com- | to see the Common Council of New York | It would result in a greater number of con- | of the clashing plans should be adopted it | NEW YURK AHKRALD, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET, Rapid Transit as « Practical Question. Rapid transit in this city is so urgent a necessity that delay and semi-despair long | ago brought our people toa mood in which they are willing to accept almost any plan | likely to be put in prompt execution. “Only give us the thing," is their feeling, “and we will not quarrel with the method.” But still | there is a great difference in methods, and we | are free to say that we do not wish the Legis- | lature to pass all three of the pending bills, but only one bill. Three jostling bills stand- | ing in one another's way would operate as three mutually obstructing impediments. We | wantonly one bill, and the best, As to which | of the three is best we have oo sort of doubt. The chief competition lies between what is | called the Prince bill and the bill of the New York Common Council. A brief comparison | will, it seems to us, demonstrate the immeas- urable superiority of the latter. | We do not object to the Prince bill because it is prolix and minute, but because it has no | especial adaptation to the wants of this city. | It is » comprehensive general bill for the construction of local railroads of every sort and description in every part of the State. | Now, in point of fact, there is none of the wultitudinous cilies and villages of the State | outside of New York that needs, or is hkely to need for the ensuing twenty years, anything Ordinary horse railroads, ranving cities are not so large that travel at the rate of |" three miles an hour in horse cars involves any great waste of time. Even if such cities tend pretty equally in all directions ; whereas New York, trom its situation on a narrow tongue of land, can expand in only one direc- Acity which has no geographical ob- must become very large indeed before it feels the want of quick transit between its centre | and the various points of its widening circum- terence, In such a city the streams of travel are divided and flow in all directions, with not enough on any one route to | fares would never reimburse the cost, because | in other cities there is uo mighty tide of + travel moving back and forth every morning | and evening on a long, narrow strip of land | flanked on each side by rivers, A bill, there- | fore, drafted, like that of Mr. Prince, to in- clude all the cities and villages of the State, has no peculiar adaptation to the necessities of the city of New York. It is like compel- ling a man of a tall, gaunt and very peculiar and select s suit from among those made for average dumpy men, instead of allowing a | tailor to take his measure and make a suit to | fit him. | the Prince bill is that it jumbles the cept in New York. The whole urgency of the case lies in the wants of this city. Ex- cept for thg great inconvenience suffered by New York all legislation on the subject of local railroads might be postponed for three or five years without detriment, since there is no city in the State where there is any present call for new horse railroads, There is no reason in the world for expediting the Prince bill or any other similar bill except as a means of securing rapid transit in this me- tropolis. But for this 1t has not only no spe- cial adaptation but is clumsy and ill-con- trived. For purposes of rapid transit it takes nold of the problem at the wrong end. It be- panies to construct local roads and gives them the initiative, whereas the survey and establishment of routes and the determina- tion of plans ought to originate with the local authorities, with dne consideration of all interests to be affected, and not with mere reference to the profits of the constructing company. The Prince bill makes the Common Councils of the various cities the controlling authority in such matiers, which, we have no doubt, would work very well in the cities of the in- terior m relation to new horse railroads in the streets; but we should be extremely unwilling clothed with supreme power to select routes | and adopt plans for rapid transit in this city. | flicting and mutually destructive projects than have ever been before the Legislature, We should expect nothing better than a wrangle, ending in a deadlock; or if any one would as probably be the worst as the best. eccentric Pantarch, Stephen Pearl Andrews, tnd the first appearance of Henry ©. Bowen m the witness box. The peculiar doctrine of the former, gravely announced Ly himself, steated mach merriment, while the contradic- tion of some important points iu Mr. Beecher's | evidence by Bowen gave sombre interest to the day's proceedings. The latter witness | Council avoids these dangers. Though gene- | ral in its terms it is framed with strict refer- | shown the finest sense of propriety in many | heen kept at the highest standard, and never The bill sent to Albany by the Common | i t ft ita : . 5 | Pah Se A) MORLT gy teenra teeaiy Onis preachers, without any true religious spirit, | required for steam roads above or below the é | me and that the effect of their work surface of the ground. In otber cities the | f will io the long ran be perni- work requiring the highest o. of exeoutive capacity to a jarring, jangling Common Coun- cil, it makes provision for the selection of fit men possessing special qualifications. It takes the Common Council the judge of their competency, which is ali the power that body can usefully exert in a business so purely administrative. The bill re- quires the Mayor and Comnton Council to appoint three commissioners to establish routes, decide on plans and prescribe all the details of construction. Before any route or plan is adopted it must have the concurrence of the Mayor and a majority of the commis- sioners, These being decided on the Mayor advertises for proposals to construct the work, but the bill binds him and the commissioners to accept no bids which they do not think advantageous to the city. If none of the bids are satisiactory the Mayor is to advertise again for new proposals, This method is safe and practical. If the bill passes the commis- sioners will be appointed at once and the sur- veys prosecuted with vigor. The routes and mode of construction will probably be de- cided on before the end of summer and tho work let out to contractors in the early autumn months. We hope this bill will pass both houses and be signed by the Governor before the session closes and enable us to gain one full year in forwarding this indispensable means of promoting the growth of the city, the convenience of our oitzens and the value ot our property. The Revival in London, The fact that the Presbyterian Synod now in session at London has approved the revival efforts of Messrs, Moody and Sankey is sug- gestive. Messrs, Moody and Sankey, as our readers know, have been travelling over England making speeches, delivering ser- mons and conducting religious services on a large scalé. They have succeeded in awakening a spirit of religious enthusiasm such as has not been known for a long time. Tens of-thousands have attended their minis- trations and thousands have risen up in tears and exclaimed that they had found religion, The criticism has been made upon them that they are shallow, ranting, wandering street cious. As Mr. Frothingham expressed it the other day to a Haun reporter, it will be like the rising of the waves in the sea, which, when they subside, will only show larger deposits of mud, The fact, however, that a body as sober as the Presbyterian Synod approves the preaching of Moody and Sankey convinces ns that they do not justly fall under this criticism. The Presbyterians were never “revivalists’’ in the sense which we might apply the word to the Mormons or the Jesuits, the Methodists or the Moslems. ‘They | never mada, efforts to proselyte, With them questions of faith have been of more couse- quence than simple professions of devotion, and, therefore, when we see that our fellow countrymen have so conducted their efforts to convert the English people as to meet the approbation of Presbyterian synods we must regard the movement as a serious expression of religious interest, Corruption in a New Form, We have no doubt that ex-Senator Pratt, of Tndianva, will make a most useful Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue. At the same time we think the action of the President in appointing him is open to grave censure. Mr. Pratt has been a Senator. During that time it was his duty to advise and consult with the President upon many of the most important acts of his administration. At the Nowspapers and Libel Suits. Nearest tec eet South, so this Convention in'the capital of the | me Onstructive Policy of the ffi Wo havo had recently, in different courts | Old Dominion, on the eve of the Centennial and in different countries, an unnsually large number of actions agains: the press for libel. In London the proprietors of the Athenoum, most respectable periodical, were sued tor libel by a map publisher and compelled to pay damages to an extent, we think, of many thousands of dollars. It seems that the Athenaeum threw doubts upon the authenticity of certain maps in one of its book reviews. For this a jury imposed upon it an extraor- dinary fice. In Chicago the editor of the Times has been cast ina verdict of twenty- five thousand dollars for publishing as a mat- ter of news a false report in reference to thecharacter of a young lady. In Charles- ton Mr. Bowen, formorly Congressman, is suing the newspapers for a defamation of his character. Mr, Bowles, of Springfield, in suit bronght by a powerful politician, has been fined a hundred dollars. When we are through with the Beecher tral we are promised a half dozen libel suits between Mr. Tilton and some of our contemporaries, So that the saying, ‘It never rains bat it pours,” would seem to be verified in our own protes- sion. It is impossible to discover in the results attending these actions that any definite prin- ciple regarding the freedom of the press has been evolved. In the case of the Athenaum nothing, we think, could be more unjust than the verdict against its proprietors. ‘here was no libel intended, no malice proved, nor, on its face, could there have been malice, It is rather alarming to know that any jury could be induced to impose so heavy a fine upon a newspaper for the statements ina book review. In the case of the Chicago Times it is also a hardship to see an editor fined twenty-five thousand dollars because he was imposed upon by some wretch in a country village who, to wreak his revenge upon a young lady, wrete him a story affecting her character. No one supposes for a moment that the editor of this journal invented the statement for which he has been condemned. It is ad- mitted that he made every ¢ffort to retract, and that he published a retraction, If journalism can be at the mercy of any one of a hundred correspondents or subordinates who are thoughtless and, in some cases, irre+ sponsible people who may in one way or another find access to its columns, then it is about as hazardous a business as making powder or mining with nitro-glycerine. There may bo au explosive shot in what appears to be the most innocent line on the page, and if every person whose name is mentioned in a news- paper column except in terms of commenda- tion can be allowed access to a jury, with tho certainty of obtaining a verdict of damages, then there is not only no freedom of the press, but no opportunity of doing auything in journalism but printing market reports and marriages and deaths, At the same time we are in favor of a rigid law of libel, Only let libel be clearly defined. We do not ask any special liberty for the press. On that subject there has been a wonderinl amount of cant and nonsense. This country has suffered ten thousand times more from the license of the press than it ever possibly can suffer from its fettering. Editors sbould not be allowed to plead busi- ness or ignorance or haste or carelessness as an excuse for the publication in their columns of statements damaging to private character. A well organived paper can prevent the publi- cation of these statements as efficiently as a well organized bank can prevent the passing into its coffers of forged checks or counterfeit bank notes. This will come by system, by employing gentlemen as journal- close of his term he is given by the President an important office. We do not say that this appointment is in any sense a reward for his “fealty to tne party;'’ but the custom of mem- bers of the House and Senate at the close of their term insisting upon receiving a public office is calculated to bring the Legislature under the control of the Executive. Such a control is inconsistent with representative government and with true freedom. If a President can use his patronage to affect the vote of the Senate or the House then how can there be freedom of legislation or inde- pendence of Executive dictation? We know it has been the custom since the foundation of the government for Senators and mem- bers to expect, on their retirement from their legislative career, to receive Executive ap- pointments, In some cases, where it is neces- sary to have a high, special fitness for certain work, it would be a hardship not to allow the President to select a Senator or a member, and no one would complain of such action— for instance, as making Mr, Chase Secretary of the ‘Treasury, as was done by Mr. Lincoln upon his entering into the Presidency. But when it becomes a custom it is a dangerous form of corruption. President Grant has made it acustom. He has exhausted the patronage of the government to find places tor every Senator and member who was deteated at the last election. He has shown future Presi- dents how they may maintain an influence over Congress of the most potent character. He has taught members that they need care | nothing about their responsibility to the people, because if they will serve him hy proving recreant to them he will give them place and power. General Grant hag not | ence to the wants of this city, as it ought to | be, considering that the rapid transit which | more offended the vital principle of freedom in | of the club has been to nationalize yachting, is so imperatively needed here is not wanted | legislation and independence in public life | to encourage a taste for this finest of all in any other part of the State. The other cities will be as free to avail themselves of the Congressmen who were driven from public | tribute to the science of boat building and of his acts as President, but in nothing has he | than in his efforts to reward with high places ists, by holding correspondents and re- porters and writers to the severest accounta- bility, and by taking pains to know the truth betore an article is printed. if a journal is too poor of too lazy or too indifferent to take this trouble then its editors should go into another profession. Of course this will take time and money, and will be an annoyance, but journalists have been given great power in this country. Their power has grown to an enormous responsibility, aud they have no right to shirk it. If tho resalt of these va- rious libel saits against newspapers will be to establish a general system, clearly defining what is libel and showing editors how far they may goin dealing with the law, it will be an advantage not only to the press but to the public. What the true journalist wants is to know what is right and to do it. The Yachting Season, The reluctant May will not disturb our gallant yachtsmen, who care nothing for a spring squall. In fact, a wet sheet and a flowing sea are among the attractions of this noble and genuine enjoyment. New York has advantages for the yachtsman surpassed by no other city in the world. Here is the bay, | the Sound, the Hudson, and the broad ocean within easy reach. The club house on Staten Island will be worthy of the club, and, if our hopes are not darkened, there will be a season of unusual gayety and enjoyment within its walls this summer. The programme for the regattas and races and the craises will give our yachtsmen abundant opportunity to show | their prowess and their speed. The yacht club is one of those New York institutions which bas grown in character, inflaence and usefulness since its foundation. It has always celebration of our country’s independence, may, we trust, be the harbinger of a peaceful reunion of every section in the enduring bonds of Christian fellowship and love."’ No worl: could be more beneficial at this time than that suggested im the Richmond circular, nor conld the task of bringing tho poople of the North and South to a clearer understanding of each other's wants and condition be so effectively undertaken by any body as by the Young Men's Christian Association. ‘Chis Jonvention may be made a harbinger of peace for the whole country if it is attended with full numbers and a proper spirit, After calling upon the people of the whole country to “re- unite in the cordial bonds of one harmonious brotherhood’ the Richmond committee de- clares that “nothing can do more to revive our former devotion to the Union of onr fathers and to strengthen the bonds of affec- tion between the North and the South, the East and the West, than the co-operation of every Christian in tho objects of this Convention.” If we sought only material and political ad- vantages we should hope for a very great suc- cess for the Richmond Convention, and it its deliberations result in peace and good wil! be- tween the sections it will accomplish what is in every way a Christian work. Mr, Gladstone’s Letter. There was no incident connected with the celebration of the battle of Lexington more grateful than the letter written to the com- mittee by the late: Prime Minister, Mr. Glad- stone. The American people accepted it us an evidence of kindliness and patriotism on the part of the English Minister and not as in any way lowering his character as an English leader. It seems, however, that Mr. Glad- stone has brought upon himself the condem- nation of the tory press. The Standard, which is the organ of the ‘conservatives, severely criticises him for writing the letter, saying “that the habit of toadying to America is dis- creditable to English public men and journal- ists. The results of the republican experiment in the United States are corruption of public life, extinction of public spirit, oppression of the minority, disgust of honorable men with politics and the transfer of the govern- ment into the hands of corrupt and unscru- pulous and ignorant men."’ On the other hand, however, tho Times indorses Mr. Gladstone's letter, although it says that great evils exist in some American institutions, “which must be remedied if the progress is to be kept up.” We should regret if an act of courtesy on the part of Mr. Gladstone to the committce of Americans who asked his presence at the celebration of the battle of Lexington showid render him liable to misrepresentation, The criticism of the Standard only illustrates what we have had occasion to say so frequently, that there is a public opinion in Eng- land resolved to be hostile to the United States. Of course this opinion arises from ignorance, and in time it must give way. Itis curious to observe, however, that while Americans are always anxious to welcome Englishmen and to cultivate the best feelings between the two countries, there is scarcely a day in which we do not find in some London newspaper just such an expression of feeling as we read in the Standard. There has not been an Englishman of any note who has visited America recently who has not gone back giving expression to the kindness of our people, their friendliness, their desire above all things to be on _ pleasant terms with their cousins Mr. Forster, in @ speech made on the occasion of his returning to Europe, said:—* There are mischief makers who, sometimes from | recklessness and sometimes from malice, try on both sides of the Atlantic to represent that there is some ill-teeling between the two coan- tries and between the two places, and there- fore I am glad to take this opportunity of say- ing that trom Boston to the Rocky Mountains and from Niagara to New Orleaus I never heard one mention of my country that an Englishman would not like to hear.” In every relation of life the English have been made welcome to America, ‘hey form a re- spectable and influential body of our citizens. ‘They preside over our colleges, edit our news- papers, practice law and in many cases are chosen to high offices, It isnot made a bar that they are subjects of a foreign State. Several of our journals in New York are edited by Englishmen, but no one objects to it. How long would the English people, especially those represented by the Standard, be content if it were known that the Daily News or Telegraph were edited by an American, or that an American was Chancellor of Oxford University ? The truth is that Americans are never welcomed into English business or society as Englishmen are with us. There are few, but very few, cases to the contrary; Sir Curtis Lampson, J. S. Morgan, George Peabody, Russell Sturges and Joshua Bates area few of the names that we can recall of Americans that have gone to England and made it their home. There are ten thousand Englishmen who have had the same oppor- tunity in Now York, and they come to us every day. Mr. Gladstone expressed the sentiments of a statestnan and Christian in his letter. If these Centennial celebrations were meant to | revive the old spirit of the Revelution or to more so than under its new officers. The aim | signalize the triumpbs in war over the English | troops our people would reject them as un- | worthy. ‘hore is nothing in the Centennial | celebration by the American Republic that pen sree! pati apeagpiabormnad exer | should not rejoice the heart of every English- man. privilege aa we are; but rapid transit roads | will be actually built only in New York, | | because it is only in New York that there is a sufficient tide of travel moving in one di- | rection to make elevated or underground a | steam roads pay. Although there is a con- | Cuntnat Pank is deservedly regarded as the | stitutional necessity for making the law gen- most attractive feature of New York, and the | eral it will be practically a law for New York Commissioners to whose care it has been in- | city alone; and as the garment can have but trusted should feel a pride in making it in | one wearer it should. be cat to his measure every way useful as well as ornamental. | and fit hie peculiarities of form. The draft | During the summer months various sports of th and pastimes, inaugurated by our athletic | transit bill and not also a horse railroad bill, stubs, would tend to excite the interest and | and is framed to suit the wants of the only gmulation of our youth and enabie them to | city to whieh any rapid transit bill can apply gain strength and y | sufficient to cope with | for many long years to come, This is the “he severity of tho winter months and the | peculiar excellence which distinguishes it ardvoms cares of business. This can be ac- | from ali the yr ous which have been pre- somplish' introduction of athletic | sented to the Legislature. amen ainda a early action on the | It is also euperior to them all in its methods will continue to-day to tell what he knows bout the scandal and the parties concerned, end there will be, undoubtec other new and startling features and xing ques- “ions of veracity introduc: 1 d, Common Council is merely a rapid | celebrated last Sunday by a revolution, life by their constituents. A | navigation. We should inherit a taste for the | Tus Boanrp or Epucation discussed at their | sea it we have anything of the Viking in our meeting yesterday the question of German in | blood. The fact of our being here at all will the schools, and after s warm debate ad- | certify to that, remembering the stormy time joarned, without taking any definite action, our fathers had before they had steamships ‘There seems to be an unnecessary and undig- or even sailing yachts. We rejoice in tho nified display of personal feeling in the dis- prosperity of the club, and congratulate ita cussion of this important subject. | members and our Paps who b ree interest Le Eee maT” UT? i chting upon the of the coming | Revouwtion iN Harrz—The dark-skinned | rd vibra as du ne citizens of the model Republic of the Antilles | SESE SaN SERRE aE dur- | A Harbinger of Peace. ing which many atrocities were perpetrated. | Tho twentieth Annual Convention of the A general was dragged from church and shot Young Men's Christian Association is to be and forty foreigners lost their lives. A servant | held in Richmond this year, beginning on the | of the British Consul was among the number, | 20th inst., this being the first event of the kind | and as there are a couple of British gunboats | in the South since the commencement of the on hand there the lawless acts of the revolu-| civilwar. In calling attention to this fact the If the Centennial represents anything it is what the English race is capable of doing | in the advancement of civilization, It is not a spirit of vainglory that leads us to say that the United States Republic is the highest achievement of the English race. It is some- thing for England to have conquered India, to have overthrown Napoleon and to have broken the power of Louis XIV., to have cov- ered the world with its navy ; but it is some- thing greater still to have founded a Republic of forty millions of people speaking the Eng- lish language, obeying the English laws aud worshipping God according to the faith re- ceived from English ancestors. The highest statesmanship of both countries is that which | | brings these nations together. In the tremendous time that must surely | | tionists will likely be visited with severe chas- | committee of tho Richmond Association says: — tisement, Government in Hayti rests on very | “As the last Convention which was held ina | insecure foundations and partakes more of the | Southern State was on the eve of a great to shoulder in defence of their liberties, their | come nothing is more necessary than that the } men of the English race should stand shoulder | pert of the Commissioners would be a vublis | of procedure and its machinery for practical goon | mdenimintnest~— — ygtead of carnmitt ing a | character of @ farce than anvthine alu fratricidal war between the North aud tho | civilization and their laws. mance Department, If Mayor Wickham and Comptroller Green could indulge in their unseemly fights with- out obtruding them upon the public it would matter very little how much they might snarl at each other. If their inclim~ tions prompt them to display their antagonism upor every occasion, in season and out of season, they mightat least so arrange it that innocent persons would not be compelled to suffer. Governor Tilden, it seems, is deter- mined to keep Comptroller Green in office, although his peculiarities of temper should throw the whole city government into: confu- sion and his financial tinkering sheuld’ bank- rupt the taxpayers. ‘The Mayor, therefore, cannot get rid of the present head of the Finance Department until the expiration of Mr. Green’s term of office, unless by the in- tervention of an authority over whick the Governor has no control The Comp- troller, on the other hand, will nob be allowed by the Mayor to usurp functions tbat do not pertain to his office, not will he be any longer permitted to intermeddle with and control the patronage of departments with which he has no official comnection. Under these circumstances both the Mayor and Comptroller, as men of sense and self- respect, should cease their unseemly wrangles, attend to the duties of their respective offices: and adopt some outward show of official: courtesy when the public business requires them to act together, whatever may be their private opinions of each other. » It is dus to Mayor Wickham to say that im the indecent brawls between these two officers! the Comptroller has invariably been the aggressor. His latest act of hostility has been to send to the Mayor this month the warrants for the payment of the fire- men separately, instead of on payrolls for each company, as provided for in the charter. When Mayor Wickham took office. he called the Comptroller's attention to the needless delay occasioned in the payment of the city’s employés by the practice of draw~ ing separate warrants for each individual’ account, and pointed out to him the provision. of chapter 757 of the Laws of 1873, section 8, which provides as follows :—‘*Wages and’ salaries, including payments for the Board of Education, may be paid upon payrolls, upon which each person named thereon shall sepa- rately receipt for the amount paid to such person; and in every case of payment upon a payroll the warrant for the aggregate amount of wages and salaries included therein may be made payable to the Superintendent, principal, | teacher, foreman or other officer designated tor the purpose.’’ This provision was inserted as an amendment to the charter of 1873, be- cause it was discovered, after the passage of the original law, that to be compelled to draw separate warrants for each individual in a department where a great number of men are employed would not only seriously embarrass the business of the departments, but would necessarily cause delay, annoyance and needless trouble to the city's employés. In accordance with the Mayor's request the fire- men were paid on company rolls in February, March and April. Now Mr. Green has a new spite aguinst the Mayor, so he sends him a thousand warrants to sign instead of about fitty. It the Mayor should allow the Comp- troller to continue this abuse the men would be kept out of their money until nearly the middle of the month, instead of being paid, as they oaght to be, by the second or third day of the month. But Comptroller Green cares nothing {for this so long as he can spite the Mayor. The law authorizes the drawing of the men’s pay on company rolls, and they receive their money from their foreman in their engine house. ‘The city derives no benefit from paying each individual fireman a separate warrant; but then the Mayor can be kept busy signing a thousand needless papers, and Mr. Green's malice is gratified. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Blanton Duncan, of Kentacky, is sojourning at the Hoffman House, Rey. Dr. William Patton, of New Haven, is stay- ing at the Futn Avenue Hotel, General J.J. Abercrombie, United Staves Army, is quartered at the Hotel Brumswick. Mr. James R. Osgood, of Boston, has taken up his residence at the Albemarle Hotel. State Senator Butler B, Strang, of Pennsyivaata, is registered at the Grand Central Hotei. Captain H. Tibbits, of the steamship City of Paris, has quarters at the Kv 4 House. Mr. Edward P, Smith, ted States Commia- sioner of Indian Affairs, bas arrived atthe Fifta Avenue Hotel. General Jonn Katon, United States Commis. sioner of Education, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening from Washington. Viscount ae Thury, of Paris, woo arrived from Europe yesterday in the steamsnip L’amérique, bas apar:ments at the New York Hotel. Mr. Jay, late Minister to Austria, arrived in Washington last evening, and is staying with his brotner-in-iaw, Dr. Bruen, on Farragut square. The government of U New Dominion has offered to Hon, Edward Biake the Chief Justice- ship of the Supreme Court—tne highest judicial position in Canada. Mgr. Roncetti and Dr, Ubaldi, legates of the Pope, With other distinguished persons, arrived in Albany at three o'clock yesterday from Boston, They remain until to-day as the guests of Bishop McNierney, Who accompanied them to Boston from New York and from Boston to the Stave capital, Vice President Wilson left for Nashville last night, baving spent the day in company with General Ekin at tne old Taylor farm, about five miles from Louisville, Ky., where the body of ex- President Taylor lies buried, The Vice Pregident will be received there in form by Governor vorter, Mayor Lowell and other State and city oMicers. Obashi Musatake, @ schooimasier at Nakanoge, Tokio, recently refused a pupii on the ground thas bis batr Was cut short, like toat of Europeans, Ohashi is a ehizoku of Tochigi-ken, and the son of the late Ohashi Junz0, Who was @ greats hater of Europeans. He lectares on the doctrines of Men. cins, old Chinese poesry ana ‘saden, ne of the works of Contucius. ‘A comraittee has been formed, with Mr. Disraeit ‘as ite President, for the purpose of erecting a memorial over the grave of Lord byron, in the chancel of Bucknell Torkard choreb, near New- stead Abbey. Among the members of the com- mittee are Mr. Alfred Tennyson, Sir Thomas Frv.- ser Grove, Lord Lovelace, Colonel Dudiey Carte ‘ ton, Lord Houghton, Mr, Wilkie Collins, Mr. Williams F. Webb, of Newstead Abbey; Mr. E. J. Trelawnoy and the venerable B. Trollope, Archdeacon of Stow. An Irish lectarer thus endeavored to prove that the late Joho Stuart Mill was not a “naman ma “An aonatural and laborious child, he took no delight in the proper amasements of youth, spending the hours that ought to have been de- voted to fairy tales im the study of Greek gram- mar and Euclid; growing up without tye hope of re | laxarion in this world or of enjoyment hereafter; Working out the knowledge of many sciences, find yet ignorant of men, and apending what love elled heart miguthave haa for woman OQ ‘whe love Of abstract ideas.”