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

Be ond NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY reption Rale the Hourt While we have believed that the public opinion in favor of rapid transit would com- pel the passage of a complete measure for the | achievement of that result we have still never cota ey | ceased to regard with anxiety the attitude of NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and , ome of our legislators. The vote on the elle Pekeobeed Y,. 876, too daily and weekly | PAP! Teena BAL, en we ‘print It this editions of the New Your Henacp will be fent free of postage. AND ANN STREET. bea Trapsit im Albany—Shall Cor- | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR not without foundation. Unhappily, experi- | ence in the past with our Albany statesinen | convinces us that too frequently individual, THE DAILY HERALD, published every | political and corrupt interests are more pow- Cay in the year, Four cenis per copy. An- erful than those of the people. When a cor- awual subscription price $12. | poration bas a large amount of money to ex- All business or news letiers und telegraphic pend either for the deteat or the success of % sé | any measure its inflaence 1s apt to be more | despatches must be addressed Naw Your | potent than the indefinity expression of the pene Fizray. public will, Our aim has been to keep the Rejected comiaunicntioas will not be res legislaters under the constant observation of | tamed _ the public; to pursue these rapid transit a es a | cussions from step to step, so that they might — Ree rpnoneuer Sepia be Dropenly always be in the light. To watch the lobby sea | step by step moving on in its corrupt, debas- ing course, and to prevent, if in our power, ores LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-—NO. 46 PLEET STREET. oe: | which too frequently the will of the people is surrendered to the eupidity of jobbers and politicians, Althongh rapid transit is the express de- PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. i Subscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. known that there are poworful interests in this city opposed to it in every form. | have, first, the street railway combination, a rich and grasping monopoly, which can very readily afford to pay a good deal of money to TO-NIGHT. OLYMPIO THEATRE, poe Broadway.—VAKIEIY, ato w AMUS SEMEN Nis ‘ closes at 10:45 franchises, We bave always felt that he | building ot a steam railway would not mate- vially affect the mterests of the street rail- ways; that the local traffic would still be large, and that the Third and Eighth and , Sixth avenue roads, which are now crowded beyond their honest capacity for doing busi- ness, and which at certain periods of the day more resemble Western catile trains than pas- senger cars fur the conveyance of human be- FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eight rect, and Broad way.—Combination matinee at 130 P.M. THis BIG BONANZA, aio 7 biG eigees at 0 P.M BROOKLYN P. Falton avenue.—VARIBTY, mt THEATRE at S$ P.M; closes at 10:45 METROPOLITAN THEATE: No, hg Browdway. FEMALE BATH EE RO. Woeat sixteenth virven— Vat ier poorirs TAP ATE? i 5 corner of Twenty-third sirect aud Sixt) avenue. | ings, would have a full and profitable local RVADNE, at 8 ¥. 3; Closes at il PW. Mim Clare | business, ‘This would be one great advantage LYCEUM THREAT! Foartesnth street near Sixth ave HBMSCUEN, atSP.M. Mile. Armee. the relief which a through steam line would afford. But rapid transit is wanted chiefly for the people who reside wish to reside Manhattan Island. flourishing cities in its vieimity are already well enough accommodated with facilities of travel between their homes and the metrop- of rapid transit LISCHEN AND SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS way, corner of Twenty-minth street —NEGRO oP. we M. or Dimetakiny, loses at 10 P. ROOKLYN THEATRE THR TWO oneHaNe. at 8S P.M. Mises Minwle aod Ailaw ansaiode THEATERS, Dendy rH il ALS atin PM slows ACW lig People residing at Yonkers, at White Si earn RG Plains, at Flushing or in the numcrous BOWERY OPERA HOUSE : No. {01 Bower" =VABISTY, at 8 P.M. ciosesat 04) smaller towns along the Hudson, in the we county of | Westebester and on Long wo M Brosaway. comer of Thyrteth waverra. at sland, have easy and quick access to FM; oluses at 30 46 F. the city by the Hudson River Railroad, the Harlem Railroad and the Long Island rail- roads. The difficulty begins when they reach the city. A citizen of Yonkers, doing busi- ness in New York, reaches the Grand Central depot iu less time than it takes to pass from the depot to his downtown store or office. | Rapid wansit is needed for facilitating inter- course between places within the city limits. Ont of town people need it only within the city, for outside the city they enjoy it already. STA THRATEY T GPRM Fourteenth street.—sO0U BRETT RUCAK, ats M THEATRE COMIQEE No. S14 Broad way.—VARIBIY, at 8 P.M; closes at teas ru. MeTROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF AR West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10.1, Mow 6 P.M. ‘TRIPLE SWEET. But they are a small fraction of the NEW YORK, FRIDAY. MAY 14. I875 vast amititade that moves, morning and = == = : - evening. through onr lor city avenues, From gur reports this morning the probabilities my oie intereet in the question, so fur as they are that the weather today, lO ONE I Sie any, sof pi ely the same nature as and partly ee oe that of the dwellers on the island, and con- Ware Srreer Yesrerpay.- ‘The stock mar- ket yesterday underwent trifling fluctuations. in passing, by our slow means of conveyance, {Phe principal activity was in Erie and Pacifie from one part of the city to an- Mail. Gold closed at 115j. Money was easy other. Rapid trausit is thereiore almost and toreign exchange firm. ,silely a question of autermal convenience | emer =: within the hmits of the city. it Avormam Smipriwo Disastee is reported | we hud rapid transit roads fire-sixths of all from the Seilly Isles, due, like the Schiller | thei, fares would be collected from people calamity, to the prevalence of toggy weather | and—bad management somewhere. who live in the city. A berge proportion of the people who live south of the Central Park | would go home every day te lunch, moviog over the steam road instead as they do Tux Parat Ampassipons yesterday paid a visit to the institutions on Blackwell's, Ran- four times » day of day, once & now, over a} morning, shows that our impressions were | the suecess of any of those cocult schemes by | _ mand of the people of New York it is well | We | remain undisturbed in the possession of its | beustit of | on | Those who live in the | | music bas found a chorus equal to the de- sixts in & saving of the time they daily waste | ‘this Pacliiels any sound plan of ste transit—to pass what is called the Common ; Council bill. This act, according to the re- cord, bas been passed; but it is loaded with | amendments which render it nugatory. {Tho most fatal of these amendments ‘is that forbidding the running of a street railroad ‘ton or along the surface of any street, road, or avenue in any city of this State upon which a street railroad has | been constructed or heretofore authorized to | ports of any elevated rapid transit railway on any parts of the tracks of said street rail- | | roed."’ There is another amendment for- | bidding a steam railway on Broadway or— | Fitthavenue or Vourth avenue. Now, on their | | face these amendmer.ts are harmless enough ; yet when we come to analyze them we find | that they really take out of the Common Council bill all us vitality, How can we | | build a rapid transit railway im New York that will be of any accommodation to the peo- | ple without taking it either over or under one | of the avenues which are now crossed by | street railways. 1 we forbid Broadway, Fifth | _ avenue and fourth avexne, and then exclude | all other avenues uniter a general provision ' there is po way of building a steam railway except in the air or on piers out in the river. Vractically, therefore, the lobby has succeeded in passing a rapid trrnsit measure which has uo life in it at all. be vote which led to this | calamity will be found on the motion to pass the bill as sent down from the Senate. We give elsewhere the uames of the genllemen who voted against this motion, and feel justi- tigd in arraigning them os men who have shown themselves willing to sacrifice the interest of th people of New York and of the State in the interest ot a vicious and selfish | combination, The qnestion is now very clearly drawn. 4s the railroad lobby in Albany stronger | than the people of New York city? Is | this combination of selfish interests more powertul than the Governor, the Mayor and the democratic party? We believe that if an earnest effort were made on the part of the democracy, at least of those who are re- | sponsible to the people for the conduct of affairs in this Siate, that rapid “transit could | still be secured. As it is corruption has car- { ried the day. | * | Growth in Masical The musical festival at Cincinnati is a most yratitying event because of the evidence it affords of the growth of musical culture among the people. In the past the works of the great composers have been made acceptable only becanse a tew great singers invested them with something of the genius of the masters, while it was almost impossible to find a chorus and | orchestra capable of doing justice to classical | be constructed; or to place the piers or sup- | tion respecting the authorship of ‘Junius.’ | for the present, to abstain from discussing the | ford thinks so indicates that he reads these | days, and it ia semaais that Mr. Beach will ocoupy still loss time; so it is probable the case will be given to the jury at the end of week after next. Seven days for the counsel on both sides and one day or leas for Judge Neilson's charge will bring the mstructions to the jury to a close on Friday, May 28. More Mocklenbarg Letters. Tho interestof the Mecklenburg controversy seems likely to be as inexhaustible as the quos- We print to-day two new letters, one by ex- Governor Graham, the other by Mr. A. R. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress. There are no remarks which it occurs to us to make on Governor Graham's communication that | would not carry as nearer to the pith of the dispute than we care to go, while surrender- ing so much of our epace to writers whom we have mvyited. The attitude of neutrality » hich we assume during the controversy restrains us | from going into the arena, but does not pre- | clude us from making incidental observations on minor points of the argument on either side when the adyvcates tall into errors of | haste, or do not seem quite accurate in their interpretation of what has been said on the | subject by o‘here, Mr. Spofford’s letter is a | clear, skilful, methodical argument agninst | the claims of the document ef May 20, and we have no inclination to contest its logical force. But he has not quite escaped the temptation which besets all writers who take aside in a controverted question, of weaken- ing bis case by over-statement. As we intend, main question on its merits, we will illustrate our nicaning by referring to Mr, Spofford’s supplementary observations after the conclu- sion of his series of points. He claims that our principal historians of the Revolutionary period, naming Mr. Ban- croft and Mr. Lossing among the number, give the weight of their authority to the side which he advocates, Tho fact that Mr. Spot- | authors through a bias. If they had, in fact, expressed the opinions which Mr. Spofford thinks he finds in them, such opinions should have great weight; for no two men living have devoted so much time and research to the details of oyr Revolutionary history. But Mr. Lossing, when he last wrote on the subject, looked with favor on the disputed Mecklen- burg declaration; and as we have recent evi- dence that Mr. Bancroft has not changed any part of the views he expressed in the seventh volume of his history we think he cannot fairly be counted with the side which denies that there was a meeting and declaration at Charlotte on May 20. Mr. Bancroft was oue of the first whose opinion on this point the Henatp asked, and he replied by referring our representative to his seventh volume for a music. These wants have been grievously felt | at the Academy more than once, and there | has been scarcely an oceasion where oratorio | such works the “Elijah.” is of as Great prime donne and even great oratorio | singers Lave been heard in abundance; but | that musical completeness which can come | only with a full and harmonious orchestra and | | chorus has uever been attained. Even the | Cincinnati festival is not a complete success; | ; bat it as weak only where it was compari- i tively it strong, and strong where weakness has always been considered | unavoidable. It was to be expected that Mr. | | Lhowas’ orehestra would be eqnal to the ocea- | it wos; but the perfection of the | chorus is almost phenomenal. In a great | mewsure this gratifying fact is due to the mu- | sieal enthusiasm created and fostered by Mr. | Thomas’ efforts. ago clussical music was little appreciated, aud | | genuine mosical educatiog was out of the | | question, The growth has been as rapid as it was remarkable, and if the present rate of | easy to make siou, and Eveu as late ax ten years | progress is continued a few years longer we shall really become a musical people. Indeed, | the success of the choras at Cincinnati seems | dall’s and Ward's islands, and exprewped | ¢ pe to indicate that we have at least one musical | themselves very well pleased with whut they | horse railroad, The saving i Pepe to | city already, and if this example is copied as bad seen people residing above the Central Park generally as it deserves to be the single | | woald be about two hours daily—valuable to ree | Tas Tu.roy any Woopavia. Levrens which Mr, Beecher's lawyers failed to put in evi- devee will be tound in anoiber colump. They tre likely to prove disappointing, as they are business men and needtal to laborers, who | wight mise an hour later each morning and yet | reach their work as early as they do at pres- ent and would gain two hours tor rest or rec- swallow system of opera which has be to the higher | performances, as | m festival of song. yogne so loug will give place and better class of mt was the case in this West We are not of those wh » believe in amateur | naar! so clever Dor so uanghty as WAS eX | tion. Rapid transit is needed chiefly for opera or oratorio any more than we believe in mi the accommodation of people who live in the | aiiatenr drama, but music belongs to the Fraxor.—Ng more elections for members} city and who would furnish the greater | Loonie and it can only iulfil its own glorions | of Assembly will'be held in France until’ the | part of the rev by which the steam jaigsion when it becomes an art in which ail | elections for the new Chamber are completed. | roads would be rendered profitable. The | 3.41) be as proficient us in language or in eti- | ‘The estailighment of tie Senate will | way traffic” travel for short distances, quate strengthen the hands of the reasonable Freveh going to church, making afterucon calls, France the prospect of shopping, sitendiug the theatres aud other | necessary journeyiugs, which, after all, take up a very large part of the citizens’ time in would unavoidably fall upon the In Londe teystem of rapid transit, the street om- liberals and secure for liberty with order. Tar Vincrstvs C\se may now be said t be completely dead and buried, as the final instalment of the indetmnity lms been paid by Spain to Minister Cushing. Pity the whole affair could not be forgotten and all record of the meanness and cowardice displayed by erty travel mp, Where there is a horse tuilways. pe nibuses and cabs, which take the place of our railways, derive enormous revenues from The Beecher Trial. | The public will feel a great sense of relief | that the testimony in this extraordinary suit | that is all im at iast. and nothing remains which can occupy much space papers but the argaments of connsel. These | will necessarily be loug, but the community | are not hkely to think them tiresome. Most in the news- : this way traffic. The existence of as swift | people havg been so puzzled and perplexed by | oan Seren aen ee ee Pe 2 ey would undergronad railroad, enabling the artisan or | the conflicting testimony, involving flagrant | perdu eargey hs mmenmer target de the clerk to go from the teeming roar, perjury, either on one side or the other, that | expenditure of tears to wash out this blot Fn ity to the «fresh fields of | they will welcome able assistance in solving the eee Norwood or Hampstead in « few minntes, does | riddle, The arguments will be read with more Ms cana Daves has put ia his cliim to be | 2Ot emventislly interfere with the legitimate | intereat than has attoured the testimony of ranked at last as @ reconstructed rebel A vain of the internal means of communication, the leading witnesses. e general effeet of despatch trora Honston staves that in an ad and so it will be with New York. If those the unexplained evidence has been to baffle | {reas to the Texan vel of the Merican | "0 control our street railways would look at | the curiosity it excited and leave the public war Mr. Davis exhort: d them to be as Joyal this © from a cow ™ n sense point of roind in the sam . © — uot de ubt which to the Stars and Stripewus they were brave in ' View, aod socept as inevitable that the trafic existed before the trial commen Taken as detending the sume flag whin they has gone beyond their control and that it iso whote the testimony is s maze and & under it in Mexico. Mr. Davis himself won "ecrnmry 1 find some new racans for peo- | muddle, and af ~ eg » be acted on distinguished crelit as on efficer ip the Mexi- ple’s irensportation, they would abandon their by the jury without th rmments of war, and everybody who wishes him well , 1 lish opposition to this meavure and cor- counsel and the charge of the it would wt t his reminiscences of that Jislly co-operate in its success Le bewildering. Its mass is so enormous, it eae But these gentlezsen do not mewn to doso, | is so overloaded and eucuicbered with con- brillant campaign have reawakeued the senti- ments of loyalty which be then felt. When even Jefferson Davis gives himself out fors# good Uaion man it is time to bury ail the ani- suosities excited by the civil war. ‘They will not consent to any system of rapid trapsit until they are f ad ‘by the irresistible voice of public opinion, Their tactics during the present session of the Legislature show that they heave nnder ther coutrol o lobby Tar Custom Horse Frasers. The story more than usually skilled, and evidently sup- told im another coluwna by District Attor-. plied with more than ordinary sume ot money. bey Bliss is certainly very startling. Jt All the old lobbyists whose names are familiar will probably damage the reputation ot to those who know anything of Albany are some New York merchante for hon- swarming aronnd the legislative halle. The esty and that strict wense of honor which tactics by which every honest bill of rapid ought so be the merchaut’s greatest pride, | transit has thus far been prestrated ond There is some consvlation, bo in | threatened with defeat indicate shrewdness Knowing that sooner or Inter the most skilful | and courage. The lobby has indirectly de- combinations of rognes are discovered, as it in Obedience to some watural law. We hope the government may be able to punish the guilty in on exemplary manner, aud so din- | the effect of which would be to take away tented every measure that looked toward rapid They have, while apparently sup- porting it, introduced cunning amendments transit. credit this system of public robbery, in whica any practiesl value trem the — mens no many so-called reepectable persons do not | ure. We have always felt that there dositale bo eugaxe. was but one wav to sernre feom fastog und apparently irrelevant details, and the mnmporiant parts so bristle with flat con- traditions, that no jury con!d thread their way through the labyrinth help from connsel and the Coart, The nearly universal public demand, last autumn, that this scan- dal should be cleared of donts and the truth ascertaived by a judicial investigation and the appliration of the legal rules of evidence, was founded on an overestimation of the efliciency of this means of bringing ont the exact trath. Up to this stage of the proce edings the public mind is as unsettled as it was before the case without was brought into court. The summing up will begin on Wednesday, with a speech for the defendant by Mr. Por- ter, who will be followed by Mr. Beach for the plaintiff, Mr. Evarts closmg for the de- fendant, Mr. Evarts stated to the Court yes- terday that he and Judge Porter together | is no true repregentative of the inte ' Graham, though cautious not to commit them- | adopted by any assemblage of people in | Mecklenburg Convention and its proceedings, | Lossing | stantially as they are recited by the cham- | | specific date to their earlier stages. | the date of their completion. | tallies with the statement of bis present views. Both Mr. | Bancroft and Mr. Lossing, as we read them, | lean to the side maintained by Governor selves to it unequivocally. In Mr. Lossing's ‘‘National Hisiory of the United States,’ a later work than his “Field Book of the Revolution,’ he qnotes (pp. 149, 150) the disputed Mecklenburg Dectaration entire, and treats it as genuine. ‘These resolutions,” Mr. Lossing says, ‘‘embodying a declaration of independence, and the first are too important, considered in their ultimate effect, to be passed by by giv- ing merely the substance.” After inserting the resolutions in full Mr. Lossing goes on to way that, ‘Doubts having been ex- | pressed concerning the truth of the alleged the author of this work wrote to Governor Graham, making inquiry touching his posses- sion and the authenticity of the copy of these | proceedings alle sed to be in his custody. He | politely auswered in the uffirmative."’ Mr. | ustrnets his Narrative on the theory | of their authenticity, giving May 19 as the date of the assembling of the mecting at Charlotte, and stating the occurrences sub- Mr. classing pions of the 20th of May Declaration. Spofford is therefore incerrect in Lossing on his side | His error in regard to Mr. Bancroft is not | so palpabie, for Mr. Bancroit is studiously | non-comuiittal, He assigns the proceedings | to “May, 1775,” and ecareiuily avoids giving a | His nar- ra‘ive is so constructed as to imply that they | ctally guarded by the Finance Department. were protracted throngh a considerabie part | of the month, and he at last gives May 31 as | According to | Mr. Banerott meeting at Charlote assembled time in May,” and he | states that the news of the bloodshed at Lex- | ington arrived during its consultations, which account given by the cham- | pions of the 20th of May Declaration. Mr. Bancroft seems to convey the Impression that Epbraim Brevard framed his resolution sub- sequent to the meeting by which the substauce ol thew was adopted, aud that they were last formally sumed by him finally adopted by the people on May 31. “Before the mouth of May had come to an end, Bancroft, “the resolutions were Ephraim Brevard, as clerk of the and were adopted by the people mined enthusiass. Mr. the “some at | and says signed by pumittee, th deter- Bancrott's whole narrative implies thet the proceedings rau through a considerable part of the moth of May, and that what took place on the dist was a mere formal authentication of what had » done at some previous meeting, That previous meeting was as likely to be held ou ay 20 as on uny other day. At all events in Mr. consistant with a meeting and declaration at that date ore ja nothing Baneroit’s puges in- Back Lest which we print to- commended to the attention of Every member of the Legislature for this disgracetnl mana vre for defeating rapid transit, under color of supporting it, bas exposed his motives to snspicion, and it is to be hoped that none of them may be re-elected to the trust he has abused. We are sorry to be con- strained to place the respectable name of Mr brederick W, Seward in this list, bat he has THe day is citizens. who voted Among so many that are corrupt there are doubtless some who are only mistaken, and we refrain from applying to Mr. Seward We will not judge but he pais of the rule nascitur a sociis, | his motives by those of his associates, | would conanme but four. or at the most five | New York ; cent. | more than one-half of the met debt ot chosen his company and we cannot help it. | twenty-three citi NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY MAY 14, 1875-—-TRIPLY SHEET. a nn enn nD NEUES NINES INIIIEE TET ENONTIITT Is Politemess a Part of a Pablio OMicee’s Duty? Tt is generally expected of a pablic officer that he will be pleasant and agreeable in his intercourse with the people whose servant he | is and with those who are associated with | him in an official capacity. A proper degree of courtesy among persons whose daties | oblige them to act together in the conduct of | the public business is an ossoutial of good government. If the Mayor of a city should be naturally quarrelsome, arrogant and offen- sive he could searcely look for cheerful 6o- | operation on the part of the heads of sabor- dinate departments, So if a subordinate offi- cer ina city government is captious toward his superiors and insolent with his eqnals in office he is a disturbing element, intertering witb the harmony and efficiency of an admin- istration. It is, therefore, as important tothe public interests that an oflicial who occupies an important public position should be pos- sessed of courteons manners aud gentlemanly | instincts as that he should be u man of per- sopal integrity and capacity. One of the faults fonnd with Comptroller H Green is that bis manners are overbearing | and insoleut toward all who do not happen to gain his personal friendship, or who are an- willing to yield to his caprice and dictation, Honest creditors of the city who have busi- ness with the Finance Department find them- selves treated as rogues or interlopers by Mr. Green and his cross-grained employés. Ci gous huving business wilb the Comptroller's office are constantly kept kicking their heels at the clorks’ desks for hours, or Ra Agra to pay viyit altor visit jo the department b they are able to gain the ear br the attention of its autocratic head. ‘The meetings of the Sinking Fund Commissioners, of the Board of Apportionment, and of other bodies of which Mr. Green is @ member, are disgraced by bis wranglings with his associates and his assaults upon other officers of the city government. In his official acts, even down to the payment | of the city’s empioyé s, the Comptroller manifests his spite toward all who hap- pen to have incurred his ill will, Hey chooses to look upon the Mayor as his enemy, and he avails himsclt of every opportunity to fusten petty annoyances on that officer. The latest and most coutemptible | piece ot impertinence indulged in by Mr. | Green was his refusal to send to the Mayor's office for the warrants for the payment of the employés of the Public Works Department, after they had been countersigned by the Mayor. He insoleutly demanded that Mayor Wickham should return the warrants to the Finance Department through one of the em- ployés of the Executive Chamber, and de- clared that the clerks and others in the De- partment of Public Works should not get their pay until the Mayor had sent back the war- rants in accordance with his demand. The Mayor very properly informed Mr. Green that the Finance Department employed messengers for the express purpose of carrying warrants | backward and forward, while toe Executive | Department did not, and, moreover, that the | warrants, completed by the Mayor's signature, wore valuable securities that should be espe- lience he required the Comptroller or his rep- | resentative to receive them from him in the Exeentive Chamber. Of course Mr. Green, being clearly in the wrong, was in the eud forced to obey the orders of the Mayor. Bul the unnecessary impertinence of his action is not the less reprehensible beeatise he eventu- ally receded from his position, and this | paltry exhibition of spite only turnishes ad- ditional evidence of bis unfitmess for the po- sition he at present fills. City Debt and The Heavy Burden Taxation. ‘The statement of city debt and taxation accompanying the Governor's Message on municipal government is likely to attract much attention. It is certainly a starting exhibit. In a population of a little over two millions, embraced in twenty-four cities of the State, anunal taxes are impored of over fifty million average tax of nearly twenty-two dollars per head, while a debt exists of one Lundred and seventy-six millon dollars, or nearly seventy-six dollars per head. The total assessed valuation of real and personal estate in these cities reaches one thousand tive bundred and seventy mill- ions, and the rate per cont of taxation ranges doliars, or an from two dollars and twenty-four ceuts to seven dollars aud sixty-oue cents. These figures do not speak well for the economy of our municipel governments, yet they understate the burden resting on the tax- payers of New York. The increase of popula- tion in five ycoars caunot be estumated at twenty per cent. The increase in ten years, from 1860 to 1870. was less thun sixteen per Estimating the increase since 1870 at ten per cent we have now a population in round numbers of one million. Iu caleutating how much per head it costs the people of New York to maintain their city and State govern- ments we should take the whe amount of our annul budget, without deSucting the city Tevenues, he correc! staternent of onr financial con- dition for the year 1874 is as follows: Population of the city (SO¥) «+66. see 1,000,100 3s honded det Dn oer st, exclusive of reven Net dent, December Anata: badget for the year is saebt per bem “pet dew per bead. . Aniount 6 AQoUnt Of anual expense per head... oo Lhe per cape va Governor Tilden's states ment is made to appear on deb: $101 87 and It is evident that # cal- on taxation $28 58, culation intended to show what oar annual ex- penses of government are for each individual of the poprlation— man, woman and child— should be based on our gross annual budget, Otherwise it is an untiair aud decep- tive exhibit There are some other points in the Gov- ernor's tables that deserve attention. The population of the twenty-three cities en- braced therein, excluding New York, 3s larger together than the population of the metropo- Yot their combined debt iw very little hse these Tue combined taxation of stor 1874 was only # little million dollars, against thirty- six millions for New York. The following statersont of our public debt for five years will show bow steadily under a ‘‘reform’’ over eighteen financial policy the load has piled itself up | We exclude from the | | higher and higher. | amount of debias far uy possible the revenue , Whose first ' rom Europe back to Kio DON4AS Issnea vo aNTicIpate the Incoming taxes of the year;— Debt on December : Debt on December Debt on Decemosr Debt on December vebe on December 31, 187: Increase in four years, from December Jl, IST), to December 31, 1874. . 79,523,246 : Sonate 8 59,573,011 Governor Tilden is a man of figures. In wht light does be think this exhibit places our present financial management? Taw Birrapay or tHe Pork was celow brated at Rome yesterday with more than ordinary interest and marks of congratula- tion, This venerable Pontiff has completed his eighty-ihird year, and although the claima of the hierwvehy, of which he is the head, were pever opposed with more vigor than at the present time, their chief repre- sentative is regarded throughout the world with deep respect, aac by ell the members of his own communion with loving reversaes, Deputations, letters and telegrams came to the Vatican in a constant stream during the day, and tuey muat have been as gratetul to the sensibilities of the man as they were satisfactory to the ruler of the Church. They expressed as much personal affection as religions devoted- ness, and mnst have been extremely gratify- ! ing to the aged Pontiff, who may, perhaps, ! never see another return of his birthday. Tux Inrensavionat, Rivte Maver. —One Dablin. letter gives interesting details about the position and form of the ground selected as the place of trivl between the Irish and American riflewen in ihe forthcoming inter- national match. Tt hag evidently been chosen ith a view to give the Trish team ag much advantage as possible, by compelling the Americans to shoot under novel con- ditions. This is, of Course, — per- tectly but it fair, warns our riflemen that they wnst work hard to retain the laurels won iu last year’s contest, for they will have to deal with adversaries who may be dependod upon to leave no honorable effort to secure victory untried, ‘The place selected for the match ia signiticant. It is part of the famous battle field of Clontarf, where the Danist power received its great amd crushing over- throw, ‘The spot has more than once proverl fatal to foreigners in straggles with tho natives, aud doubtless this tradition may have had some influence in deciding its selee- tion, Tae Prorenry or rae Nowrnern Pacer Rarproav will be sold at public auction in front of the Custom Honse in this city on the first Monday in August, in pursuance of a decree just issned by the United States Cir- enit Court of the Southern district of New York. Whoever buys it will purchase an ele- phant. Its lands will ultimately be of great yalue, but they are held on condition of build- ing the road, an{ a body of capitalists must be sanguine who would anderlake to carry that road through to the Pacific with sacha monu- | ment of ruined expectations belore them as Jay Cooke. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Atveady the bathing season is livevy at Biarrits, Paris is led by 1,500,000 Freuehmen aud Dive, of Elmira, i sojourning at House. liying cry it would have been a few yours ago, je Metron is saver.” State Senator Butler B, Strang, of Peansyivaaia, Is Staying at the Grand Central Hotel. Congressman Sumue! J. Randail. of Phitadet- phia, is residiug at the Hofman House. Judge Dwignt Foster, of Boston, m among the late arrivals at the Puch Avenue Hotel. Rev. Cauon G. M, Innes, 0; London, Ont., noe taken ap bts residence at the Homan House, Rear Admiral Wiltam Reynolds, United States Navy, arrived jast evening at the Glisey House, Congressmen Wilham H. Barnum, of Coane cut, and George M. Beebe, of Monticetio, N. ¥., at the Filth Avenue Hotel. is 4 romul beteer than rum? Tos is the problem of the day. it depeuds a lite ow what romauee {1 s—and Wass ram. ight handred dows siaagttered already this season in the litte city of Geaeva, They thin them out betore tbey become dangerous. Aman hanged bimsell ta Pacis in the prese: of bis paralyzed wile, who Was Ghavie Lo. move ery [Of usMistance Aud Wao Was obliged fo Witness the horrifying sigat of his death +traggies, Mr. KH. Horas. the autnor of “Orion,” &e,, nas iu the press 4 new edition of uis histotieat tragedy of “Cosmo de? Medici.) enuirely reconstracied, 1 are | The publication wili also comprise “other pooma.’” vom Vedro, Emperor of Braz, the jour years wita Farner Cametlo de the bishopric of exile irom the die Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in st Lonis from Livtie Kock yeaterday, He was cailed upon by a pamber o! prominens ettizens and nas sn informa! reception at Lue resideuce uf ex-Sena- ior Jobn B. denderson ast might. Great exciiement in a tien famiiy at the disap has commated Td labor seuteuce agaiuse Antade, ex-auministrater of Thamvuco, inte oue year of | pearance of a guid snumvox, richiy set with bri: ants; and equal sa isfaction when a young gentieman of st acknowledged that he had au ized Ht a8 acoMin aud Huried ib WIth Mis peLoanary iu the garden. The @ducutional avtnorities in Belgiem have decided advetsely the proposiion to “admit women to the practice of certaim branches of tue medical proveseion,” but iavor We notion that the oramary midwives actually in practice snail re erive better Instruction—whien, im fac’, concedes the py jecided adverseiy, Naulica, Ptoriem.—suppose the good oid ene Plymoath Church, fall of passengers, shoud Gnd wer & yale of wind off a lee shore, atid breakers, with engines stopped, masts carries away, hell failof water ana pomp choked, woat would you 10 to save the hives of those om bowrd ¢ Answer (promptly) —Beecuer, here is A man in Paris with a great project. He proposes to light taal city with one lamp. le want® a vig Iainp Sud Wants to suspend ic ata proper hetgat Py mean@ of # balloon. Hy argu Inet is that all Paris can be hgeted on that pian as well a8 an Opera how Tue aathorities aa prejudice agatne( his plan, because he boards ina Inautic asylin. M. A. Gout iniesioner to toe Cenrenatal BX won at Poth Dita, Caled upow the President, ia Washtogton, yesterday morning, with a letter of introtagtion from Minister Wash burne, M. Coubert is eharged to look into the eda cational system of our coaatry especially, and te js now investigating the subjecr with a view to Taukieg -uch Improvements a the Freaen syatem as nay be advisable. The Kmperor of Brazil has abandoved all idew of voyagiug abroad, during ‘he presen: year al least, owiug to the ascercuined pregnancy of the Prim Imperial, Countess eBid was stitinern, last in cofsequence, 1 18 said, Of taneiro, the French year, the voyuge which the camora of the Opposition and the fears hae biTHh aorcad would be herealter wileged as & bar to suceexsion to the throve of the empire forced the government to require from the Prinvess, aeapite tre advice of the Parisian doctors, ‘This time the young Princess Wii! not be allowed to coms evem Wo Mie daaeire, Lut will remals at Petropolis, ta avoid the pers of a carruage deive and Of tbe Waler LOAvGle