The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD |™ “7% Ee & oes vor BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and aiter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yor« Herarp will be | “cent free of postage. SA Hai THE DAILY HERALD, pvblished every Cay in the year. Four cents per copy. An- | anual subscription price $12. | All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Youre Gilera. 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. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. fubscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. | VOLUM | sea in circumstances of peril. | these two parts of the problem in their order | in the light thrown upon them by the terrible NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, ages. The prodigious increase of travel between America and Europe within the last tew years makes the wreck of the Schiller, so soon after the similar horrible catastrophe of the Atlan- tic on the rocks of Newfoundland, a subject of far-reaching importance. It is a growing practice of our prosperous classes to spend their summer vacations in Europe, and there 1s an annually increasing number of our im- migrant population who are in a condition to friendships and strengthen domestic ties. These great additions to the travel made necessary by a gigantic and ever-expanding commerce have converted the Northern Atlantic into a regular highway for thronging multitudes of going and coming pleasure- seekers, of coming and going business men, whose safety deserves the careful study of governments, steamship companies and in- ventors. It is to be hoped that this last ap- palling disaster will give a stimulus to them all as well as to the press which urges this subject on their attention. the ocean is a problem consisting of two parts—first, efficient arrangements on land for warning and rescue, and, second, proper regulations tor the management of ships at We will notice wreck of the Schiller. We are first to consider what botter provis- {ENTS 'TO-NIGHT. AMUSI THEATRE COMIQUE, go, Broadway.—VARIKIY, ato P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ‘West Fourteeush streeh—Open from 10.4, M. 5 P.M, THEATRE, TY. ator. M. x & ow 10 Leal Broadway.—V ABLE’ ; Closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, eet and Broadway. —C ombiuatt . THe BIG BONANZA, at 5 1. MA; BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE. Figen avenue. VARIETY, at 8 FM. closes at 1045 oF be effectively discharged. | houses wonld be sufficient for purposes of | warning ifthe sea were never enveloped in | fogs; but no light bas yet been invented of | such penetrating power as (o be of much use | in a dense fog. The ill-fated Schiller was | METROPOLITAN THEATRS, Po, 586 Broadway.—PeMALK BATHER., at 6P.M ROBINSON HALL, ‘Nest ‘ixteenth streeu—VARIBTY, at 8. M. 5 LYCEUM THRATRE, Eaves street, near Sixth avenne.—LA FILLE K MME. ANGOT, atS dille, Aimee, ROOTH’S THEATRE, orner of Twenty-third sireet and’ sixth aver VADNE, at 8 P.M; closes at 11 P.M. Bliss orris. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, roadway. corner of Twenty-ninth street —NEGRO IsSTRELSY, avs P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. BROOKLYN THEATRE. TB TWO ORPHANS, at 8 ¥.M. Misses Minnie and slike Conway. os a 40 BML WALLACK’S THEATRE, —THh TRISH HEIRESs. ats’. M.; closes at Mr. Montague, Miss Jeflreys-Le wis. BOWERY OPERA HOUSE om Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEUM, roadway. corner of Thirtieth street —MAZEPIA, P.M: cloves at 10:45 P.M. at GFRMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—SUU BRETTENSTREICHE, at 8 P.M. GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN Cincvs, Pil — street, East River.—Periurmauce at sand 7: ‘ERP LE From our reports this are that the weather to-day will be warmer, cloudy and rainy. Wart Srarer Yesrenpay.—Stocks were only a trifle better, and Wall street was ina fever of doubt. Gold opened and closed at | distances. | ion can be made on dangerous coasts for the | security of navigation and the rescue of peo- closes a¢2045 ple in cases of shipwreck. This question | comes within the recognized duties which be- | long to governments, as is universally acknowledged by the erection and main- tenance of lighthouses. This part of the | problem, therefore, involves no new question | of principle. It ia merely & question whether a duty which all governments acknowledge to be ineumbent on them in respect to their own coasts shall continue to be only half performed Mere light- within a short distance of the B.shop's Rock , Lighthouse, and at the very moment she struck some persons on board were in the forecastle looking out for the Scilly lights—a striking proof of the small utility of light- houses in thick weather. There is also a fog bell at Bishop’s Rock, but it was as useless as the light, for no sound of the bell reached the imperilled steamer. It must be possible to ' contrive a far better acoustic signal than any tog be. The piercing shrillness of a very | | powerful steam whistle can be sent very far | in every kind of weather, and one would sap- pose that an instrument of this kind might be contrived which steam of intensely high pressure would render audible at immense It is worth the study of inventors to produce an instrument which shall give torth sounds of the utmost sharpness, sbrill- bess and penetrating force. The quality of | the sound should be studied, as wel as its | power, with a view to distinguish it from | the notes of all other steam whistles and prevent its being mistaken for those of | steamships at sea. This object might be fur- | ther promoted by # combination cf sounds— say two whistles of different notes, to be blown in regular, measured succession; first alter- | nately and then together. Their joint effect | would penetrate to greater distances, and the | intermediate separate notes would identity the character ot the signal We suppose their sound might be sent five or ten times as far as — 115}. Money was easy and foreign exchange | that ot a fog bell. This is, perhaps, the best firm. | that could be done by way of warning, and had visit the land of their birth and revive early | Provision for the safety of haman life on | lights at the very moment the Schiller struck? He could not but know, no capable com- mander could fail to know, when he had nearly traversed the breadth of the Atlantic. If he had known with absolute certainty that he was nota cable’s length out of his course his prudence could not be impeached; but no commander of a steamship could know that atter four days of thick fog. Evenif it were not doubtful how far the compass can be re- hed on in an iron ship, there is no certain | ot currents in the ocean. In point of fact Captain Thomas was several miles out of his course without knowing it. But he did know that he had nearly crossed the Atlantic, did know that the coast he was approaching is dangerous, and he had no moral right, in his ignorance as to whether his ship had been deflected from her course, to imperil the lives of his passengers by advancing further so long as the fog continued. Even constant sound- ing (and it does not appear that there was any sounding at all) would not have insured safety unless he knew that he could approach land only by a shelving shore, and he could not have known that in his total ignorance of | his whereabouts. Had he headed his ship | the other way and sailed slowly back and | kept moving slowly back and forth for a dis- tance of a few leagues, until the fog lifted, he | would have pursued the only proper course that was open to him in his certainty that he had nearly crossed the ocean and his uncer- tainty as to his distance trom a dangerous coast, veiled trom his eyes by a heavy fog. It is painful to criticise the dead, but the press owes a duty to the living. till, the fault of Captain Thomas was less his own than that of the company which employed him. That company, like all the new companies, prides itself on quick passages, making them the means of bidding for the patronage of an im- patient public. A long voyage is tedious, sea- sickness is disagreeable, danger is despised | by thonghtless ignorance, and the joint pres- sure of employers and passengers is not easily resisted by a commander whose place and | popularity depend on the shortness of his trips and the punctuality of his arrivals. Wo | hope the steamship companies will learn wis- dom from the disasters which shock the world and sbake confidence in their lines, and that they may give such instructions to their | officers as will preclude future calamities like | that which overtook the Schiller. It is note- | worthy that the oldest line of transatlantic | | s‘eamers—the Cunard—has never met with a | loss, which is a pretty conclusive refutation of | the idea that these shocking disasters are due | to accident and not to mismanagement, | Secretary Bristow and the Whiskey | | Ring. The Treasury Department deserves credit | and recognitiou for the careful scrutiny the Secretary is making into the management of _ the Internal Revenue Bureau and his bold ex- | posure of the newly organized Whiskey Ring, | with which some of the Treasury officials ap- | | parently have been in complicity. It has been known for some time that whiskey was selling in this city for less than it could pos- sibly be sold if the taxes were properly paid, | means of estimating the imperceptible effect | | will hardly act with the republicans. Mr. | Jean boulevard as he tramps around Brussels, mont and growth. Music in this country owes more to him than to any of those who preceded him, and his triumph m Cincinnati is a matter to be recorded with unfeigned pleasure. The contest between the rain falling on the roof of the festival ball and the noise of Wagner's music must have been a pleasing episode, despite the interrup- tions of the performance, especially us these were so amply compensated by the subse- quent triumph, Onur correspondent bears testimony to the splendors of this performance of “Lohengrin,” and it was not less a victory for Mr. Thomas, who has labored so hard to make Wagner appreciated in this country. The Repeblican Party and the Third Term. Woe took occasion some time since to show that the real danger of the third term, as an issue in American politics, came from the apathy of republicans themselves in under- estimating the importance of tho question, and from tho fact that the division of party interests is so great that Goneral Grant him- self is evon now stronger in the estimation of his own party than any of the gentlemen who have been mentioned in connection with the republican nomination for the Presidency. ‘There are two reasons for this, The first is that the republican party has been sub- mitted toa process of elimination the result of which has been to throw out of it the men who would naturally and under ordinary cir- cumstances be candidates for the Presidency. Power has enervated this organization. When we come to look over the field we are struck with the paucity of the material from which to select an available candidate for the Presidency. If we take military renown, and this has on nearly every occasion been & potent element in the calculations of poli- ticians, who can exceed General Grant? ‘The democrats have had a wandering idea at times of nominating a military chieftain in order to answer this condition of success, but General Grant's prominence as a soldier is only matter of history, and no politician could serious!y question it. In statesmanship who remains? ‘There are three or four repub- licans whose names are in the mouths of their friends as proper cardidates for the Presidency, but compared with the men who founded the party and whose genius gave it strength and dignity they are weak and commonplace. ‘There is scarcely a republican leader, no matter how strong, who really has a national in- fluence. Mr. Morton is powerful in Indiana, but he would not carry @ single Eastern State upon his financial platform. General Butler has o certain rude strength in the South based upon his achievements as a com- munder in New Orleans, but he would fall be- fore the influence which would be fatal to Morton. Mr. Blaine would have some strength in Pennsylvania and in New Eng- land, but bis name will have no especial strength in the West and South. Mr. Evarts, who seems to be the favorite of Mr. Halstead, Conkling is little more than a locai leader, who controls the New York organization. Mr. Washburne has probably more national ele- and the quantities of illicit liquor were so great | that it was impossible to account for them, | | unless some of the officials high in authority | | were acting with the mannfacturers to detraud | the government. It does not clearly | | appear as yet who were the guilty | | parties in the public service, but one | | or two supervisors and some of the officials in | | the revenue department are in a position | which requires the strictest investigation. We | have no evidence that Commissioner Douglass | | was suspected of being in collusion with the | Ring. His removal was necessary as the | first step toward the detection and punish- | ment of the wrongdoers, as it was under his Tax Mrvens' Srurxe in Pennsylvania seems there been such an appliance at Bishop's jj oinistration that the fraudulent scheme nearing its end, and it will be better for everybody when the end comes. Tue Peace or Evrore seems to be assured cases for the moment, but there can be no guaran- Rock we presume the Schiller might have been saved. There sbould also be better pro- | vision for rescue from drowning in of wreck—that is to say, o means of conveying prompt intelligence of fee for the future, and sooner or later the | disasters to places from which boats could be great Powers will be secking to adjust thew despatched. boundaries anew. It is pleasant, however, The Coroner's jury on the Schiller calamity made one good suggestion on | that just now peaceful assurances are being this point by coupling with their verdict a | exchanged between the Ministers of European | recommendation to establish a telegraph be- countries, and it is to be hoped these will not | tween Bishop’s Rock Lighthouse and the rove, as they sometimes do, the prelude to | shore, expressing their opinion that if such war. | Tae Govrryon’s Mrssacz on municipal effairs was sent to the Legislature yesterday | and is printed im our columns this morning. | ‘It is an elaborate and carefal review of past | legislation on this subject, and concludes with | ® recommendation for the appointment of a | commission to report to the next Legislature ‘the forms of laws or constitutional amend- uments required for the future. It is evi- | dent that the tinkering of charters for our great cities must cease even if the constitu- | tiona) amendments already adopted do not make all such legislation nugetory, and a general law, wise and comprehensive in its provision, take the place of the present ill- essorted instruments, This can only be attained by some such course as the Governor recommends, and the sooner it is doue the better. | Tae Cenresntan.—The meeting of the mer- cLants of New York and New England with | those of Philadelphia yesterday, the tour of in- spection through the partially constructed | Centennial buildings and the stirring speeches which closed a very interesting occasion are a happy harbinger of the success which is to atiend the great Exhibition a yar hence. These things are sure | sign that the apathy and indifference which were at first such an obstacle in the | ‘way of this great undertaking are fast disap- pearing, and we hardly needed the assurances | of the distinguished gentlemen who spoke of it yesterday to convince us of the fact. | ‘There is no jealousy between New York and Philadelphia in this matier, for we would mo more refuse our neighbor the right to this important event than we would deny her the honor of Independence Hall. ‘This city will unite with the rest of the ‘country in making the Exhibftion the great ariumph it onght to be. It iso national, not fo local matter, and every city and State has no equal interest in promoting it. The words tbat were uttered yesterday, and for which «ve find space in our columns to-day, will help ty make the Centennial worthy of the nation, end this is an object in which all Americans paunot fail cordiaily to unite. communication had exieted all on board the Schiller might have been saved. Other modes of signalling might oe established, but they should be of so peculiar and distinctive a character that their meaning could not be mistaken. Aside from what gov- ernments might do in this respect a new set of peculiar signals should be established by the ships themselves, so differing from all other signals that their character could not be misunderstood. Mr. Dorrien Smith, of the Scilly Islands, wrote to the London Times that many lives were lost because the Schilier’s guns and rockels were thought to be ordinary | signals of arrival, which have frequently caused false alarms, and were, therefore, dis- regarded. By the consent of mariners of all nations signals should be agreed on for ships in danger and distress, and governments should make it a penal offence for officers to permit them to be used on any other occasion and impair their distinctive significance. Having touched on the points that occur to ns in respect to which governments could make more eflicicnt provisions for warning and rescue on dangerous and frequented parts of their coasts, we proceed to consider the precau- | tions which steamship companies should en- | force on their officers. We lay out of view for the present the danger of collisions in mid-ocean during periods of fog, for the adoption of steam lanes or separate paths for outward bound and returning vessela would reduce this danger to a minimum, if not en- tirely remove it, if all steamers were required to move at a uniform speed of so many pre- scribed knots an hour in thick weather. The most appailing and constant danger is that of running upon @ rocky coast in # dense, en- veloping fog. of an officer whom all the surviving paesen- gers praise for having nobly tried to do his whole daty in the last extremity of danger; but itis impossible to hold Captain Thomas blameless, He certainly knew that be was approaching the most dangerous part of the coast of England. Why else did he sincken his speed and run the Schiller at half her ordinary | | rate? Why else were some of the passengers | on the forecastle looking out for the Scillv We would not speak unkindly | was organized. The business of the bureau | had been so loosely performed that it was not | | only possible for a few men to organize one of | | the most poweriul rings which ever preyed upon the Treasury, but suspicion rested on so | | | many shoulders that the Secretary knew not | whom to trust among the officials about bim. | That this suspicion was well founded is ap- | parent from the fuct that word was sent to the | | illicit manufacturers in St. Lonis, Chicago | aod other places as soon as the secret of | his intended seizures became known even to the few persons to whom he was compelled to intrust a knowledge of his plans. Notwith- standing the endeavor of faithless public servants to weaken and embarrass his efforts they met with something more than fair suc- | cess, and it only remains for him to follow up | the work already begun with so much credit to himself. In a matter of this kind there | ere no partisan or political interests unless | the party in power seeks to cover up and con- | ceal the frauds upon the government, or per- | sists in keeping in power the corrupt men by | whom they are perpetrated. A case in point is the war ot Governor Tilden upon the Canal Ring, many of whom were democrats, and his success must be regarded as encouragement for a republican Secretary of the Treasury in + exposing corrupt republicans. There can be no safety for the Republic unless punish- | ment is certain to follow fraud in the public service, and the spirit evinced by Mr. Bristow in this respect is in every way satisfactory. We trust he will not be deterred by party cries or party considerations from | doing his whole duty in this matter, but bring all the real culprits to justice, be they who they may. | be well also to have a little punishment. Mr. | Bristow, since he took charge of the Treasury, ments of strength than any of the others, but | they are negative in many ways. He has been absent from the country and made a fine record during the German war. He established his fame in Congress as the opponent of subsidies and land grants; but | while these elements would give him strength with the people they would injure him with men who heretofore have been poyerful enough to control conventions and whd even now aré aiming to control the country. So that in tbe matter of personal strength alone | the republican party has become so debil- itated and weakened by the exercise of patron- ege and the interference of federal power that General Grant is to-quy its strongest conspicuous member. | In addition to this: strength we have the | apathy on the part of the republican leaders | which we cannot comprehend. Senator Sar- | gent, of California, the other day in an inter- view with a newspaper reporter, said that be | | had no fear of Graut ruoning tor a third term; that the President was weary of public station and craved rest. ‘I have had,” says the President to Senator Sargent, ‘‘no rest daring the war, none until the succeeding adminis- tration, only labor and anxiety. I have had no rest during the past six years, I have two more years of labor and I shall be glad when the end comes.” When Mr. Sargent was asked, however, what he would do in the event of General Grant's renom- ination he said:—“If I believed General | Grant could be elected aud the choice were between him and a democrat or a republicen | of weak backbone and doubtful principles | I would support Grant. Personally I see no danger or inconvenience in a third or fourth term, and I am satisfied that a strong re- publican administration like his is necessary to the peace of the country, perhaps its unity.” Ex-Governor Denison, of Ohio, in discussing the same subject with a correspond- ent of a Western journal, said that from what he had heard General Grant say he was convinced that the President was “vexed about the third term matter,” feeling that it had been started to ‘annoy him,” and had determined to “say nothing about it."’ With this temper on the part of the President Governor Denison deprecated the passage of any resolution by the Republican Conven- | | tion of Ohio on the third term lest it might In a little while we shall | waite mae rae “raged cpencaaepey pe resol, tlemen contain in themselves all the danger Congress begins this necessary work it would | | bas received @ very general recognition for | the integrity he brought to the department. | He will deserve still better of his country if he compels his subordinates to be as honest | as he is himself, and punishes those who cor- | rapt the public service and defraud the rev- | enue, whether they are or are not in the em- ploy of the government. Tuer Mostcan Feertvan at Cincinnati be- gun last night under auspices #0 favorable that the occasion must be regarded as a great gain for music in Amerie. Brabm’s ‘Song of Triumph,” though not a great work, per- | haps, as we estimate orusical greatness, extremely difficult, and the which attended its interpretation | shows the progress which has been | made in musical culture within the few years | that Mr. ‘Thomas haa devoted to its develon- was cose be “a gratuitous insult to the President.’ The opinions expressed by these two gen- | that we apprehend from the third term. On | the one hand we have Senator Sargent, a distinguished, capable and leading Senator, virtually admitting that he would not regard Grant's renomination as a violation of the sacred traditions of the constitution, but would support him. On the other hand we have Governor Denison, of Ohio, formerly. | Postmaster General under Lincoln, a leader in the republican party when great men con- | trolled its councils, and afraid to express an suc. | opinion of his own or to permit the expres- sion of an opinion by his party, because the President is in a bad humor and will not be “vexed.” In other words, all the hopes of tho party, ita principles, its policy, its duty, its indepen- dence, its courage, its discipline, are made anbservient to the temper or the purpose of | the President. If it is right for President poy to run for a third term why not frankly 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. the issue? If it is wrong for him to permit his friends to entertain such an ambition why not say so as a matter of truth and opinion, caring little for the opposition of the Prosident ? The whole tendency of Grant's rule has been to make the party subservient to the ad- ministration, and, consequently, it is no longer an active, healthy organization, repre- senting certain principles and aiming to identify them with the country. It is simply a body guard of the President. There is no strength in the republican party outside of President Grant so long as men like Sargent and Denison will timidly acquiesce in the intrigues for a third term. The Fourth Av: eo Improvement. Tho announcement that the Fourth avenue improvement has been so far completed that there are cars now running as far as Ninety- sixth street will be received with as varying emotions by our people. Men of a practical turn of mind will rejoice that this fine work is so nearly atanend. It is the completion of one of the finest monuments of engineering inthe country. It is a step toward rapid transit. Now that we have steam travel from the Battery to Thirty-fourth street, and from Forty-second street to the Harlem River, we even than that ot the railroad ring to prevent the achievement of steam travel over the whole island. There is another aspect in which the com- to our sympathies. Since the fall of the great ‘Tweed empire and the exile of the Tammany Napoleon to the St. Helena of Blackwell's Island a great number of statesmen have been employed on this useful undertaking. ‘Those who care to moralize upon fallen great- ness will find a visit to the tunnels and equeducts of the Fourth avenue improvement auseful errand, Herein steady, hard employ- ment, blasting the uncongenial rock, lifting the heavy stone to its place, scraping, drilling, stamping, digging and delving, are the men who, only a few years ago, were the administrators of our justice, the disbursers of our revenao, the collectors of our taxes, the makers of our laws. In the ab- sence of accurate statistics we cannot say how many Tammany statesmen have found relief and opportunity in the Fourth avenne improvement. Here they have been digging at two dollars a day, awaiting the return of their Emperor with his Imperial followers. What will become of these statesmen now that the Fourth avenue improvement is finished? disposition to restore the old rulers to power. The sturdy yeomanry of Mullingar who followed Genet and Norton and Sweeny in the olden times, voting early and voting Fitz John Porter, “Baldy” Smith and Townsend Cox, are in authority. Genet is a wanderer in foreign lands, Fields lards the Norton is establishing an honest reputation as the champion clam opener of Coney Island, and there is no leader left to rally the discom- fited democracy and summon back the spirit of the old days. The question, what the Tammany statesmen will do now that they have finished the Fourth avenue improvement, is a serious one. Mayor Wickham does not seem inclined to give them a share of his patronage, They might ‘go West,” taking advantage of the present decrease in railway travel The fu- ture is not encouraging. They might go back | to Mullingar on the present reduced steerage rates, were there any inducement to return to | Ireland. It is very hard, however, to tear | themselves away from New York. As we are, with all of our strifes and differences of people, would it not be well for the Manhat- tan Club rulers to found a fund for the relief of the fallen and unfortunate statesmen of the Old Tammany empire? The Pope's h and Earopean Politics, We have again the rumor from Rome, for the thousandth time, that His Holiness the Pope is ill and that his physicians are in con- stant attendance upon him. Such rumorsaro natural, ospecaally when the subject of them isa very old man of infirm health and op- pressed with unusual cares, Those who re- member the report of our correspondent giv- ing an account of an interview with His Holiness will recall the vivid description of his personal infirmities, and need not be sur- prised if at any moment we should hear of his death. Although the probable death of the Pope has, to use a street phrase, been “discounted” in every Cabinet of Europe, and its contingencies fully considered in every aspect, it would be an event of extraordinary character, not merely in a personal sense as the death of a pontiff who had held the chair for a longer time than any of his pred- ecessors, nor as the withdrawal from otser- vation of a peculiar, original, gifted character, but as a political circumstance. The condition of political affairs in Europe is so critical that the agitation conse- quent upon the election of a pope may pro- duce the gravest results. Even in peaceful times the election of a pope is always a serious matter. The monarchs of Europe are naturally concerned as to who shall fill a chair in itself more powerful than any of the thrones. When the present Pontiff was elected there was an exceedingly earnest con- troversy, not only between the great Catholic Powers, but between the cardinals in the Car- dinals’ College. At that time there were four different parties, who might be called in our American political phrases reactionists, radi- cals, extreme radicals and conservatives. Tue present Pope belonged to the moderately radical party and was chosen for his liberal ideas. At that time, however, Austria was anxious to have a reactionist, and the one country that favored his nomination was France. The story of his election reads with a sirange interest at this time. The pontificate of Gregory XVI. had not gratified the people. They were disaffected and disorderly. The Pope ‘had wide fame as a scholar and a priest, | but he had no political knowledge. He had small traits of personal character, which did not elevate him with the people, The rev- enues were badly handled, The favorites of the Pope received large salaries, The Pon- avow that and come Yefore the country upon | tifical debt qps ingressed bw twenty millions think it would require an influence stronger | pletion of this improvement commends itself | Mayor Wickham and the Bourbons show no | often, are not biddon into the municipal coun- | cil. ‘The darlings of the Manhattan Club, like | opinion and faults, in the main a charitable | Pe SES ere Soe a enna of dollars. Pius IX. was fifty-four,years old when ho was chosen. Fifty-four votes had been cast. On the first ballot the present Pope received but sixteen, on the second forty-two, It was his duty to announce the ballots. “His voice faltered,’’ says the bis- torian ; ‘his strength failed as ho discovered the result of the final vote.” When his eleo- tion was announced, “overcome with emotion he fell back on his seat, and, according to Oas- telar, turned to the cardinals, one by ono, and. begged, prayed and insisted that they should remove that cup from his lips.” The death of the Pope will give new vitatity- to the controversy with Germany. How tar this new power, which already has become # colossus in the politics of Eurepe, will be allowed to influence the choice in the Oardi- nals’ College is a problem. Upon the new Pontiff will devolve the gravest responsibili~ lies ever encountered by a pope. It is impos- sible to venture upon speculation as to which of the cardinals will succeed him. The de- cision will depend largely upon the character of the men in the Sacred College and upon the: ipfluences brought to bear upon them by the great Catholic Powers. If Austria and France unite upon a certain candidate the chances are that their influence will be successful Rapm Transrr.—It is strange that the Mayor of a great city like New York should be compelled to appeal to the State Logisla- ture for the passage of a general act to enable the metropolis to have rapid transit ; yet such is the fact, while it is by no means cortaim that the appeal will be heeded. Our Albany statesmen all profess to be anxious to grant us this boon, but they carefully sbstain from granting it, Only a few days yet re main of o rather unprofitable session, and we trust that in the short time that re- mains something practical will be done. If Mr. Prince's bill, which passed the Assembly last night, is cot of a character to give the city what rt needs, it ought to be reconsidered and a better measure substituted. Members cannot escape the responsibility of their votes on this question, and must expect to be held to the strictest accountability by their con- stituents, for the people of the State do not wish to deny to the city a thing so ocaseatial to the prosperity of New York. Tae Vivetann Sxoorme.—Mr. Carruth, the Vineland editor who was shot through the head by Mr. Landis, still lives, and his case is remarkable in the annals of surgery. His homosopathic doctors, who were called in the case to the exclusion of one of the most celebrated surgeons of Philadelphia, have given him but one medicine from the begin- ning. They have administered arnica inter- nally with the view to provent inflammation, and have not yet attempted any surgical operation. The orifice of the wound is in fact contracted, and the use of the probe is considered injudicious. The ball is supposed to have lodged near the eye, upon the skull, and should it become encysted there is hope that the patient may recover. That he still lives and is conscious is either a marvel of nature or a triumph of medical skill. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor Samuel ©, Cobb, of Boston, ts residing at | the Windsor Hotel. Rev. Dr. J. ireland Tucker, of Troy, i ataying at toe Hoffman House. Jndge E. C. Kattell, of Binghamton, is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. General Jono M. Corse, of Chicago, has taken ap his quarters at the Gilsey House, Rev. Dr. Samaei K. Lothrop, of Boston, has apartments at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. Sartoris, the President’s son-in-law, arrived in Wasbimgton last night from Europe. The Marquis de Chambruo arrived from Wash ington yesterday at the Union Square Hotel. Captain James Kennedy, of the steamship City | of Berlin, ts quartered at the New York Hotel, | Judge Pierrepont wili return to Washington on Friday to enter apon his duties as Attorney Gen- eral. Ex.Congressman Joho Cessna, of Pennsylvania, bas taken up bis residence at the Metropolitan Hotel. Rev. Dr. Wiliam G. Spencer, of South Norwatk, Conn., is among the late arrivals at Barnum's Hotel. Colonel Washington seawell and Dr. Oharies McCormick, United States Army, are at the Futn Avenue Hotet. Judge Nathaniel Shipman, of the United States District Court for Connecticut, has arrived at the Everett House. Mr. Ulifford Stanley Sims, United States Consat at Prescott, Canada, 1s sojourning at the West- moreiand Hovel. Alexandre Dumas, the father, said that Paul De Kock's fame would outlast bis own, as well as George Sand’s and Balzac’s. Captain John L. Davia and Commander Joon G. Walker, of the Lighthouse Board, yes' rived at the Brevoort House. Mr. Isaac Hinckley, President of the Philadel- phis, Wilmington and Baltimore Railway Com- | pany, Is at the St. Nicnolas Hotel. Seflor White, the violinist, who was ordered by the Spanish government to leave the island of Cuba, sailed for Mexico from Havana yesterda: General David Vickers, of New Jersey, has appointed United States Commissioner to attend the Industrial Exhibition in Cail, to be beld this year. The French Senate will be more democratic tham ours, or the whole namber of persons authorized to vote in the choice of Senators ts upward of 42,000. Associate Justice Ward Hunt, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived in this city last evening from Washington, aad i at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Sonator Pratt, the new Commissioner of In- ternal Re arrived in Washington yesterday. He will bave a conference to-day with the Presi~ | gent with reverence to the time when be 7ili tako | possession of tue office. | Vice President Wilson arrives © Littie Rook, ; | Ark., yesterday afternoon, zat was received by the city officials and walsed on by a depatation of colored men, He will provabiy goto Texas irom there, and thence co Kansas. A painting hes just been discovered at Pompeti, which # ‘a@ most important brought to ligmt up to the present in the destroyed city. It ts an filus- tation of the story of Lacovon. The painting is in @ good state of preservation and the colora are Bot much faded. Captain Bads arrived at New Orleans.yescerday morning and was waited upon by committees or the Cotton Exchange, Merchants’ Exchange, Boara of Trade, Ohamber of Commerce and Ship ana Steamship associations. Captain Huds was ten. dered the hospitalities of the city last nignt, any does not take kindly to the suggestior to give Beigium to France as an equivaient for, Alsace and Lorraine; frst, because sne does nos! concede that France has any claim to an equiva- jent, and, mext, because she ts of opinion that France would still be os eager as ever to get Alsace and Lorraine. At Englishman at Passy, in france, wished to experience the sensations of hanging, but seems to have gone & littia too far, and did not recover. Apropos 0 i# experiment, aman in Paris sen- tenced to the guillotine, shortly offers his place to ny person Naving 4 curiosity vo experience the feelins of decavitation. | |