The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1875, Page 6

Lj NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Heraxp will be | rent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every Gay in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news /etiers and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New York | Herarp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed, ius LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE--RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. | Will the Governor Now Give Some Attention to New York City? The last shred of an excuse fer Governor Tilden’s strange neglect to act on Mayor Wickham’s removals is taken away by the adjournment of the Legislature. The pre- text has been that the Governor's time has been so occupied with his canal investigations and the multifarious duties which fell on him during the session that he could not command time to give the subject bis deliberate atten- tion. ‘This community has been of the opinion that it was rather disinclination than want pique at the Mayor’s hesitation to send him the details of the evidence—that has incited the Governor to treat Mayor Wickham with such eupercilious indifference. The people of this city have been unable to divest themselves of the sus- picion that the Governor has been veiling his real motives under the convenient plea of a pressure of other duties. But the Legislature has dissolved and this plea will no longer | avail, although the Governor is seeking to extend it over the ensuing thirty days. With the dexterity of which he is so great a master he has informed an Albany reporter that he will be overburdened with official cares for the ensuing month. He says the adjournment bas left two hundred and forty bills in his hands for examination, which he must sign within as in New York, VOLUME X AMUSEME S THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING, Wwoopn’s MC Broadway. corner ot Thirti CRIME, at 8 P.M. ; cl P. M.—UNDER FA M, n street,—WEALTH AND | 10:45 P.M. Matinee at2 THEATRE COMIQUE, Xo, plé Broadway.—VARIETY, ato Y. Mi; closes at 10:45 M OF A RT. METROPOLITAN MU: F -to5 P.M. West Fourteenth street. —Open OLYMPIC THEATRE 3 aa Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 45 A M 5. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway.—VAKIETY, ats. M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, orner of Twet third street and Sixth avenue.— AEG SORE, al M,; closes atll P.M. Miss Clara ‘orn! BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, ye avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1045 AV VE THEATRE. ‘and Broadway.—THE BIG BO- loses at l0u i. M. Grand Extra Fi ‘bwenty-eighth Wanaxate Matinee at 1:5) CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. THEODORE THUMAs’ CONCERT, at 5P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near sixth avenue.—GIROFLE- GIROPLA, ats 1. M. Mile. Geoffroy. | SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Brosdway, comer of Twenty ninth, street —NEGRO INoTRELSY, at 5 P.M. M. ; closes at 10 P. M. wa Broadway.—THE LADY ( atluMuP. M. Miss Ada Dy 5 closes BOWERY OPERA HOCSF, om Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 ROBINSON HALL, West sixteenth ee Opera—GIROFLE- | GIROFLA, at8 K THEATRE. Brosdway.—GALAT&A, at 5 P.M. Miss Lina Wassmann, Matinee at ior.» DAY, MAY From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and | clearing. : Enre Was Acars the feature of the stock market yesterday upon a further decline, which induced a weak feeling generally. Gold | closed at 116, being the lowest figure of the day, having sold at 116}. Ix tee Bercuer Tara ex-—Jadge Porter will finish his arzument to-day and Mr. Evarts will begin his speech, which will probably oc- | cupy the remainder of the week. Tar Brroranx Government has given as- snrances to Germany that a bill covering such offences as that of Duchesne will be proposed. The papers in his case have been given to the German Ambassador, and it is clear that there will be no war if little Belgium can prudently | avert it, The government has been as concil- intory as it could be consistently with the | self-respect of the nation. | More Canprxars.—A special despatch by | cable to the Henarp from Rome informs the public that the Pope will hold a Consistory | on June 24, when the five cardinals in petfo will be fully confirmed in rank. The Bishop of Viterbo, Italy, Mgr. Serafini, will also as- same the purple. A point of more interest to | Americans is that Cardinal McCloskey is ex- | pected to arrive in Rome before the Consistory meets, and will then choose his title as a | Prince of the Church. A Srxectan Drvonce Casz is being tried in | this city in which the party known to English law as the ‘‘co-respondent’’ is a witness for the | husband, who is the plaintiff. The wife de- clares the charge to be the result of a conspir- | acy. Daniel Webster once spoke of a man who occupied a position similar to that which | Fingal holds in this case, as having “perjnred | himself like a gentleman:"" but if the accn- | sation of Mrs. Searle is trne Fingal has told the trnth like a blackguard. Tae Resronersurry for the deposit of organic matter in the low lands known as the Baflem flats ix bandied between the Board of Health and the Police Department until the public begin to think the fault gests with both. Let the new Commissioners, General Smith and Dr. Janeway, deal so boldly with the question that they cannot be charged with | any sympathy with the past action of the | boards to which they belong. It is due to themselves that they should take a bold stand ina matter so much affecting the public well being. Tas French Asseupry influence of the republican the present | constitution of France was shown yesterday in the election of thirteen members of the new Committee of Thirty, among whom is M. Laboulaye, whom all Americans rejoice to see in a position of power, both as a iriend of the United States and a man whose devo- tion to freedom is not accompanied with fanaticism or ignorance. The imperial party offered no candidates. They do not The supporters of anite of it, aronsed | thirty days if they deserve his approval. | The amendment of the constitution which prescribes this limit of time is excellent, but there is probably not one bill in filty of whose merits so capable a man as Governor Tilden | cannot judze by one deliberate, careful read- ing. At the very utmost there cannot be more than a dozen bills in the whole batch of two hundred and forty which require investi- gation and research, especially if he has watched legislative proceedings with proper vigilance during the period bet ween the intro- | duction of the bills and their final passage. | Moreover, he has the valuabie assistance of a most compstent private secretary. Mr. Stebbins, who was induced to resign a place on the commission for revising the statutes to accept this confidential post, has a more minute acquaintance with the laws of the State than the Governor himself, and with the aid of so good a lawyer Governor Tilden is under no necessity of bestowing laborious attention on the mass of minor bills which present no questions of difficulty. Five daysin the thirty, or one day in six of the whole time allowed him, will be ample for considering the few bills in | the whole number which can occasion doubts as to the propriety of signing them. There is a kind of charlatanism in parading the whole number, as if each would present points of difficulty, or as if common sense could be smothered by a futile arithmetic. Having thus demonstrated that the Gov- ernor is burdened with no duties which can ‘ | justify a continuance of the neglect and post- ponement which are so disrespectful to the chief magistrate of the city, we have a right to expect his immediate attention to the cases | of removal which have been nearly five months before him. This long delay is the more surprising and unaccountable trom the | tact that before the Governor went to Albany | to take the official oath he was confidentially consulted in relation to one of the most im- portant of these removals, and left the city with an implied understanding that he would sustain the action of the Mayor. On the very day that Mayor Wickham was sworn in he made formal and elaborate charges against Corporation Counsel Smith and summoned him to answer. It was no | secret that the charges and arraignment were drawn up by Mr. O'Conor, and they were stated in the most vigorous and incisive style of that great lawyer. It is a fact which is equally true, though less public, that that accusatory document was read to Mr. Tilden before his departure for Albany arid that he expressed approval of its general tenor and | substance, thongh criticising some of its lan- guage. Those consultations and that assent morally bound the Governor to indorse the action of the Mayor. Unless he was acting a double part and raising expectations he meant to disappoint, be had made up his mind as to the propriety of removing the Corporation Counsel before he went to Albany. In view of these facts bis subsequent plea of a want of time to look into the case is preposterous. What new light dawned on him? Why did he ‘go back on the Mayor” after giving him this encourage- ment? It is ridiculous to say that he could not find time to examine a question which he had already decided on the charges drawn by Mr. O'Conor and accepted by Mr. Wickham. No Mayor ever had reason to suppose he was proceeding oa surer ground in any public act than Mayor Wickham had in his at- tempt to remove Mr. Smith. We wish some of Governor Tilden’s organs acquainted with these facts would try to vindicate his good faith in encouraging Mayor Wickham to undertake a removal and then making him appear foolish by involving him in 4 fiasco. This trick was not played upon a political opponent, but upon a political friend. And why? Until some authorized mouthpiece of the Governor shall put a better face upon it the public will continue to be- lieve that the reason why the Governor did not keep faith with the Mayor was his deter- mination to save Comptroller Green. The hard hits at Green in the Mayor's Message known friend of his should be treated with so little forbearance, and seeing that Green's re- moval would probably be attempted the Gov- ernor made up his mind to thwart and humiliate the Mayor by rendering all his removals nugatory. The plea of a want of time wasa fetch which hardly served the purpose of a dis- guise. It was too transparent to hoodwink anybody, and it has now become obsolete by the adjournment of the Legislature. The Governor has given so many proois that he is determined to protect his sycophant Green at all hazards that nobody expects a change of purpose at this late day. But why should he longer resist the removal of other notoriously unfit officers? He is, of course, entitled to jadge whether the charges against them are sup ported by sufficient evidence; but for his further neglect to examine the evidence there is no excuse, it is an injustice to the officers to let them rest under the Mayor's imputations. If, on | the other hand, the charges are true, itis an | expect to saered by the constitution but in | equal injustice to the city to continue corrupt of tirme—and, perhaps, a personal | the Governor's resentment that a | It tbe charges have no foundation | | than tlie duty of the Governor to examine the | eases and decide them one way or the other. | | A Governor who found time to inquire into — | Ingersoll’s claims to a pardon and set him free from a righteous sentence might at least have acted on the removal of the Corporation Counsel, whose conduct he had him- self examined during the preparation | of the charges. The idea that the claims of | a Tammany thief to pardon were of more pressing urgency and had a better claim on | the Governor's attention than honest govern- | | ment in this city evinces an estimate of the | | relative importance of things into which this | | community does not readily enter. As the | Governor fonnd time to investigate and par- don IngersoM, it would seem that be might have found time to act on the Mayor's re- 4 movals. If he was under a necessity of post- | poning one or the other, it is the impression of this community that the Tammany thief might have waited until the interests of the metropolis had received proper attention. But our citizens will overlook the past if | Governor Tilden will now, at last, co-operate with Mayor Wickbam in an attempt to make the city government as good as 1s pos- sible under our defective,charter. These two officers together, if they act in concert, bave perfect control of the personnel of the munici- pal government in cases where unfit, in- capable or obstructive officers stand at the head of departments. ‘The charter, in pre- scribing that removal shall be for cause, | without enumerating or defining the causes, gives a reasonable latitude of discretion to the removing authority. Offices are not created for the benefit of the incumbents | but for the advantage of the city, and when their duties are not discharged in a man- ner conducive to the public interest the de- fects of capacity, temper or integrity which disqualify an officer for usefulness is a sufti- cient ground of removal. According to the plan recommended by the Governor in his municipal Message it will require two years to put a new system in operation; and, mean- while, he should be willing to support the Mayor in his attempts to make as efficient a government as possible under the present bad charter. Since the adjournment of the Legis- lature has deprived him of his standing ex- cuse of a want of time it is to be hoped that | he wiil aid the Mayor in his honest purpose to correct municipal abuses. The Crisis in france. The rumor that there is a disagreement be- tween the Left Centre and the government of Marshal MacMahon which may end in the overthrow of the present Ministry and the | formation of a coalition between the Bona- partists and the legitimists is serious one. The question upon which the Ministry and the Left Centre differ isin reference to the election of the delegates to the new Assembly. ese Left Centre and the republicans insist that the new representatives shall be chosen by each arrondissement, while the govern- | ment prefers the present plan of choosing | them by departments. To make the distinc- | tion clear the point is this: —Should we elect | members of Congress on a general State | ticket or should we elect them by districts? The proper method in republican govern- ments is certainly to elect representatives by the district which each member represents. This is the custom in England and in America, and we see no reason for making any excep- tion in France. The immense power wielded by the Home Office enables those in authority to infinence largely the elections when they are controlled by departments. The,Home Office could do more, for instance, with the Department of the Seine-et-Oise than it | could with the different communes or arron- dissements composing it. The character of the Republic will depend very largely uponthe men who are chosen to fill the next Assembly. Although the Republic has been officially pro- claimed and accepted in France the friends of the empire and of the monarchy are endeavor- ing strenuously to deprive it of every element of republican character. If by any means | they could lead to another revolution in poli- tics, in the overthrow of MacMahon’s govern- | ment, there would still be a chance for Bona- parte or Bourbon, Our readers who have | carefully observed foreign affairs will note this one controlling fact, that no royal party in any country in Europe will permit peace except as the price of their own success. All the interests of the royalists in Europe are warlike, just as the interests of the Republic are peaceful. It would, however. be a ca- lamity of an unspeakable magnitnde it the Republic should be thrown away upon a minor question of this character. Our hope is that the friends of the Republic and the men of the Left Centre, who, without any de- cided sympathy for democratic opinions, still recognize the fact that France bas gone far | beyond any hope of ever being peaceably im- perial or royalist, will find some common ground for action so as to protect the present | government, at least until after the elections, when the new Assembly, fresh from France, will have had opportunity to decide upon the steps necessary to strengthen the govern- ment. Peace in Louisiana. In Mr. Nordhoff's letter printed to-day he answers quite at length the inquiry whether republican citizens of Louisiana are | safe from democratic persecution, and | whether the black population is habit. | nally buffeted and outraged by the | | white. Our correspondent does not merely | give his opinion on these points, but fur- nishes ample materials from which readers intelligent judgment of their own. He does not draw his facts from one locality, but trom several, and his instructive | comparisons and deductions will assist a proper interpretation of the facts. Among the parishes Mr. Nordhoff has investigated is | that of Natchitoches—so notorious last year as | the scene of disturbances—and he shows by | statistics taken trom records kept by the | republican officials that most of the murders | of negroes were perpetrated by persant of their own color. Of the forty-one murders | committed in the last seven years in that parish there were thirteen of whites by whites, | thirteen of colored by colored, four of whites by colored, three of colored persons by whites, one Tudiah by a white man, ose negro by an unknown murderer, and three officers killed in attempting to serve warrants. It will thus be seen that the murder line does can form an crosses it, so to speak, at right angles, so | trast in the peace of the two parishes. | Governer and State Treasurer, and over the | delphia delegation is supposed to be for Rawle, negroes and most of the murderers white men. Another parish in which our correspondent as made minute inquiries is Tensas, where no disturbances have oceurred. Like Natchi- toches it is a cotton growing region, with a large preponderance of negroes. But it has happened to have honest republican offcers and has been well governed. Hence the con- ‘Tt is not the radicals but the thieves that we hate and oppose,’’ is the common sentiment of the Lonisiana conservatives. The State is now quiet, in the hope that better government may result from the late compromise, its former disturbed condition since Kellogg was counted | in having been the effect of justifiable discon- tent with official fraud and incapacity. The Pennsylvania Republican Con- vention, The Republican State Convention of Penn- sylvania will meet in Lancaster to-day, and will nominate candidates to be voted for in the fall. This will make a campaign of un- usual length, though much activity will not be shown till July, when the Pennsylvania. statesmen assemble at the watering places and combine the search for health and pleasure with the business of supporting the ticket. The Conyention will nominate candidates for first office there is no dispute. Governor Hartranft will be renominated beyond ques- tion, and probably without any opposition, This was made inevitable by the action of the | Republican Convention of last year in declar- ing him to be the first choice of the party in Pennsylvania for the Presidency. His nom- ination is not to be regretted, tor he has been a popular Chief Magistrate of the State, and if he has made mistakes thoy have not been serious enough to endanger his posi- tion. The miners have resented his course and will vote against him, and the temperance men will probably attempt to punish him for signing the act which repeals the Local Op- tion law, which he had previously approved. But thes¢ are questions for the people to con- sider in the canvass, and there is little doubt that he is as strong a candidate as the re- publicans could find at present. The only contest, so far as the ticket is concerned, will be over the State treasurership, Mayor Rawle, of Erie, and Senator Strang, of Tioga county, being the principal candidates. The Phila- and the delegate elections in Lancaster also resulted in his favor. Another important question upon which the Convention may act is that of the third term. That the Pennsylvania politicians are opposed to the renomination of Grant was shown last year by their significant choice of Hartran{t; but whether they will have the courage to take a positive stand against Grant is doubtful. With Zerlina, in “Don Gio- | vanni,”” thoy siug, “I would, and yet I} would not; I feel my heart misgive.” The Philadelphia Times is probably right when it says ‘it it be possible to appear to declare againsta third term, and at the same time really not make a hostile deliverance on the subject, it will bedone."’ But this is not pos- sible. It isnot the time for evasions, and the experiment of last year cannot be wisely re- peated. ‘The Convention must choose between absolute silence and direvt speech, or rest un- der the imputation of timidity. Governor Hartran{t bas a direct interest in the decision. He is a good man to nominate, but it is not certain that he is a good man to elect. The perilous position of the republican party in the State was made plain to him by the election last year, and itis to his interest that he should not go into the canvass burdened with the odium of the third term conspiracy. The Re- publican Convention can do nothing better for the of the party than to squarely declare against the third term, and our telegrams indicate that the inspor- tance of such action is understood. The dis- avowal of the third term conspiracy may save the republican party in Pennsylvania trom overthrow next fall; but tacit acquiesence in that plot or evasive treatment of the issue will make its defeat inevitable. , success Disbecker as a Talker. Mr. Abraham Disbecker is a young gentle- man who has atalent for many things, but his strongest faculty seems to be the utter- ance of the wrong thing at the right moment. He can talk more glib nonsense in his own gondemnation in a shorter time than any man we know. Like the traditional Irishman it is impossible for him to open his mouth with- out putting his foot in it, and, what is even more remarkable, he seems charmed at the sound of his own voice though everybody else can see that his idle chatter only makes him appear absurd in the eyes of all. Still, as Dogberry was not the last Police Commis- sioner who insisted on writing himself down an ass, we suppose Mr. Disbecker must be allowed to talk until he is tired, even though the result be the same. The last subject of Mr. Disbecker’s din- course is ‘‘garbage."’ It is atopic in which he secms well versed. He knows all about the filling in of the Hariem flats and is perfectly willing to talk about it till the end of time. First of all, the dirt sold to the contractors hy the Police Board is not garbage at all. This { is Mr. Disbecker’s grand achievement in his capacity as a talker, and prepares us for the assertion that follows—namely, that the gar- tage and ashes are carefully separated and the garbage sent ont tosea. Afterall this who can donbt, when Mr. Disbecker asserts it, that the garbage remaining in the ashes is corroded in them and thus becomes perfectly pure and harmless? Like most great talkers Mr. Dis- becker proves too much. It if the old story of the borrowed kettle told over again, and we must be pardoned for restating it ina shape that will most clearly demonstrate Mr. Disbecker’s abilities as a conversationalist: — 1. There is no garbage ased in the filling of the Harlem flats. 2. The garbage is separated from the | ashes and sent out to sea. 3. The garbage is corroded with the ashes, | and becomes sweet and pure. IfMr. Disbecker had only given us his theory of the smells which arise trom the pure gar- bage he has been depositing in the upper part of the island we should bave been even more | obliged to him. But he has afforded us one | bit of information for which we cannot be too | thankful. During the winter, according to ous mater in the very heart of the city. It was a very remarkable thing for a police com- missioner to do, thus personally to interest himself in behalf of cuntractors who needed his assistance in promoting malarial fevers. But for his great qualities as a talker we might not have known the kind of man this Police Commissioner is. Now that he has told us, however, we are convinced that the sooner we get rid of him the better. Public officers who neglect their duly are bad enough, but those who plant poisonous gases in a populous néighborhood and see no harm in it are too dangerous to be‘kept long in of- fice. Mr, Disbecker has shown that the com- munity has very grave reasons for fearing him, and the people of New York are now anxious to dispense with his services. Itis a little singular that, withall his talking, Mr. Disbecker should not refer to the terms upon which the contracts for filling were ob- tained. The embankments were to be formed of good loam, sand or gravel; no muck or im- proper material was to be used, and coal ashes perfectly free from garbage was allowable only to within one foot of the proposed height of the filling. Yet Mr. Disbecker, whose duty it was to See that these conditions were ful- filled, assists the contractors in violating them and apologizes for their broken faith by asserting that there was only a percentage of garbage in the ashes used. In every way this talking official convicts himself to the hurt of his neighbors and his own disgrace, The Intercollegiate Meeting at Sara- toga. We publish in another column the pro- gramme for the student walking and running races at Saratoga in July next, and it will be seen that there is promise of a very interest- ing'day’s sport. Tollowing, as it does, the University boat race, it will allow the flower of the rowers to compete, and as the winners on land are often not trom the first boat an equalizing and consoling effect will, in some measure, result. Several new features in the list are worthy of note. There are to be ten events—twice as many as ever before. There are to be both morning ard afternoon meet- ings, the latter including most of the more arduous contests. Some of the races—a most excellent plan—are to be thrown open to graduates only, thus affording admirable facilities for comparing tho best men of former days with those now coming up. The track being a half-mile one the competitors are never even a quarter of a mile from the spectators, and thus their every movement is easily watched—an advantage over the rowing contest which will yet make the foot racing, if well handled, the more at- tractive of the two, especially as no summer breeze will, as in the case of the latter, pre- vent its taking place at the time set, rain be- ing the only troublesome visitor. As so many colleges may take part it would be well that each should bave in the more difficult races a representative man, who could be justly understood by the public to be the best man in his*ccllege at that particular sort ot work, and who, of courso, must be admittedly the best his college could bring out. This, while it would not bar less promising men, would both greatly deepen the interest felt and would be more likely to assure good racing; for not fast nor slow, but close work, is what fixes the attention and makes the struggle exciting. Again, there are in our country not a few who bave shown themselves good men in the interuniversity sports across the water. Were the two graduate contests opened to them it would add a feature which would be a pleas- ant foretaste of what we may look for at the Centennial sports next year at Philadelphia, and make these college meetings what they already give strong promise of becoming, a permanent attraction of the only week in the year when the young men of the land meet at all generally for friendly trial of strength and stay. We offer these suggestions knowing that they will be considered, and believing that, if followed, the step wil never be regretted. Carruth’s Retirement. Carruth, the editor, shot some time ago by an aggrieved citizen of Vineland, N. J., has relinquished, ‘apparently, all present hope to resume his editorial labors, and announces in an article which we print his retirement from journalism. He takes leave of his readers in a vein curiously mingled of humor, pathos and impertinence, which evinces his capacity to be vivacious in difficult cireum- stances as well as the flippant taste for pitiful smartness that was the source of so much trouble to himself and others. He says, “Our impaired eyesight, shattered nerves and pulsating brain admonish us that for the coming year we mnst not stray too far from the hospital.” For a man thus ineapacitated for his ordinary labor—the more especially if that labor was the only or the main resource for the support of a family—there is a common impulse of sympathy, which would perhaps be more acute it the thought did not follow that he is in afl likelihood not the greates sufferer. How paintul have been the effects of the tragic event in the family of the man who shot Carruth and on that man himself has not been made apparent, for they seem to have studiously withdrawn themselves from public attention ; but there will be lives in that family made as miserabie:and barden- some to their bearers by these events as the remainder of Carruth’s life will be to him. Ont of all the public reaps a benefit in the withdrawal from journaliem of a man who added nothing to it by his talents, who was incapable of appreciating its better functions and conspicuously almsed its privileges. Marder in Boston. Tt seems to he one of the curiosities of crime that comuranities which contribute bat few enses to swell the criminal calendar give terrible examples when they give any. But perhaps this is not so much a curiosity as it appears superficially. All ordinary murders are the outcome of ungovernable temper and sudden fury; and the factors are either drunk- enness and the consequent loss of perception of consequences, or the passionate nature with which consequences or any other ulterior facts have no weight; to which the present immediate impulse is all there is of life. Now there is none of this sudden passion in the kind of humanity that natural selection produces in the netghborhood of Boston, or there is a minimum of it. If a man 1s thor- ough-paced in the Massachusetts discipline not ruf parallel with the color line, but | his own showing, he appeared before the | he has, in the conception of every act, a pan- Board of Health and obtained the consent of | or unfit men in office, Nothing cam beclearer | untrue is it that most of the victims are | that department to the depositing of poison- | oramic view of its uttermost consequences, and he does not venture the act unless it will ! pay—that is, unless it will procure him the largest amount of satisfaction and the smallest degree of evil. Crimer are, therefore, only committed under the influence of a temptation so great af to reduce the penalty to a trivial fact by comparison; and when done in that way they are done with a deliberate purpose and consideration which make them almost sciem tific transactions. There are scarcely any mere rum murders there save in the slums These murders, therefore, are mainly of twe classes—those planned with some money pur: pose, or those that are the result of homicidal mania in the murderers. Common murderers are both cowards and fools. They kill their victims clumsily, hastily and leave traces by which they are caught nine times in ten. But @ really diabolical crime, done coolly, care fully, adroitly, and as if without the fear of humanity or the devil, results when a dew perate fellow with the ordinary Yankee cam pacity has made up his mind that it ‘will pay”’ to kill some of his rich relatives, No instances, howevor, can ever be worse than the crimes consequent upon that strange deform. ity of impulse, the mania to kill—and not merely to kill, but to kill in some strange and peculiar way, and to kill particular kinds of persons. So far as at present appears the murder of the little girl found in the church loft is likely to prove a result of mania, « and her murderer may prove to be a growne up Jesse Pomeroy. Mr. Disbecker’s Great Discovery. As an authority on science Mr. Police Commissioner Disbecker is a great success, Mr. Disbecker’s scientific attainments have not heretofore been the prominent topic of admiration on the part of his friends; but men of his calibre have the pyrotechnic faculty of developing some new beauty in every corruscation. Just now Disbecker ap- pears before the New York community as the exponent of the healing and grateful influence of garbage. Not long since Professor Chandler, of the Board of Health, assured us that the washings ct the fields into the Croton reservoir were not detrimental to health. Mr. Disbecker has improved upon Professor Chandler, for he has discovered that garbage is only another form of the innate beauties of nature ; that it is pure and harmless, invigor« ating and delightful to oppressed senses. In after years Disbecker will be remembered and extolled as the Newton of the nineteenth’cen- tury, eminent among scientific men because of this discovery. The only marvel is that Disbecker, like Newton and Galileo and other illustrious men of wisdom, does not take the fullest advantage of his invention. He should profit by it immediately, and win from the people of New York the ultimate, if reluctant, renown attending a philosopher who has the keenness to discover what is truth and the courage to avow it. Mr. Disbecker informs us as the result of many years of scientific lucubration that garbage readily corrodes in ashes, and that all the stories about the noisome gases that exude from the Harlem flats, the offensive odors that arise from the stagnant surface of the green pools only come from the imagination, and that garbage as dow livered by the contractors on these uptown districts is a beneficent and wholesome arti- cle. The trouble with Mr. Disbecker, like many philosophers whose modesty stifles their genius, is, he does not follow out the logic of his convictions with courage. Why should not Mr. Disbecker become ‘*Professor of Garbage?’’ If it is such an excellent filling for exposed lots that a police commissioner presents it as a bouquet to the whole city, why not introduce it as a perfume, as a balm of a thousand flowers, new mown hay extract, or essence of vanilla, or the ottar of roses, te the theatres and operas and musi¢ gardens and churches and other places where multitudes do congregate and where this sweetness might be enjoyed? ‘Disbecker's Patent Double Distilled Extract of Garbage” might become the fastionable perfume of the season. Nothing but the modesty of the emi nent discoverer prevents it from assuming this valne. Disbecker does himself injustice. He neglects the virtues of his own compound, If he is only true to himself, to the convice tions he has so admirably expressed to our reporter, instead of handing over the garbage gatherers to the police he will insist upon the distribution of the delight/ul but heretofore unrecognized composition into every house: hold of the city, and thus allow us all to en joy the benefit of the wonderful bonque! which makes Harlem flats like that land “«where the cypress and myrtle are emblem of deeds that are done in their clime.” We do not desire to destroy the illusion thus con veyed, but it would be a great pity if, follow ing out the figure of the poet, the labors of Disbecker should be misconceived, and the re. sult of this treatment of the worthy inhabi- tants of the Harlem regions would be deeds that ‘‘should melt into sorrow or madden to crime.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, . Professor &. F. Salisbury, of New Haven, ts re siding at the Westminster Hotel. Dr. A. M. Ross, F. R.S, of Toronto, Canada, i registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Adjutant Robert H. Hall, of West Point, is among the jate arrivals at the St. James Hotel. Senator William A. Wallace, of Pennsylvania arrived last evening at the St. Nicholas Hotel, _ Ex Governors Jon B. Page, of Vermont, and Thaddeus C. Pound, of Wisconsin, are registered at the St, Nicaolas Hotel. Mr. Dewitt C, Ellis, Superintendent of the Ran¥ Department, arri at tbe Metropolitan Hote! last evening from Albany. Hon. W. McDougall, the first Lieutenant Gov- | ernor of Manitoba, was yesterday elected to rep. resent South Simcoe in the Ontario Legisiatore, It is announced that His Excetlency President Grant and Governor Tilden will attend the ap proaching commencement exercises of Corneil University, ‘The cttizens of Saratoga gave Judge George s, Batcheller a reception last evening, which was largely attended. Judge Hatcheller will sail for Egypt on Saturday. At bis own request, Assistant Commissary Gen- eral Beckwith has been relieved trom auty in Washington and ordered to St. Louis, for which place he leaves on Saturday, General Crook, United States Army, returned yesterday to Omaha, from an extended tour of | observation through the Department of the Platte, inei@arng the Indian agencies. wermany has made a formal demand on Franée for more mdemmnity, Arvonud, @ workman, of Grenoble, Married a German woman, and the couple lived some time in Lyons, where the hu band died. Then the woman retarned to Germany and became a pauper. Now the German govera- ment demands that the city of Lyons shall pay for tha woman's annnort.