The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1875, Page 6

eT ee Le ee eh rn ON ee ee ge a eT ee Tye See eh emt wt NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New York Hrnitp will be | sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henayp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. peel Leal 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 as in New York, VOLUME XLeeeeee AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. yroops 'S MUSEUM, | orner of Thirtieth strest.—SHERIDAN & Basie Granby vaRteiy lOMMLNATION, at 8 F. M4 closes at 10 5PM. Matinee at2P. M ILMORE’s : SUMMER GARDEN, Rerean's ‘Hippodrome. PO. oie a8 P.M; closes at IL >t dren's Datines atzr. M. =: LAR CON- Ladies’ and chil- PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, “VARIETY, at §P. M.; closes af 10:45 P. M. | METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, | ‘West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. to 5 P, M. ARK THEATR E. | Broadmay EMERSON'S CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS, OLYMPIC THEATRE, yom Broadway.—VARIs TY, at3 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | Fieri AVENUE THEATRE Twenty-eight street and 3: —THE BIG BO. NANZA, at 8 P.M. ; closes at CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, FHEODORE THOMAD’ CONCH RS, at 6 P.M. ETROPOLITA a0 (THEATRE, So, 586 Broadway.—VAKiiét ateP. M. | f WALLAC: Iway.—THK DONO M. Messrs, Harrigan ROBINSON HALL, street.—English Opera—GIROFLE- To KATRE, oe P. M.; closes at 10:49 rr ~ A arr: Gia at TRIPLE SHEET. NE 10 NEW YORK, THU RSDAY. 1875. From our rerorts this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy, with ocbasional rain. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Heraup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Au, do go, Mr. Wickham. Please recon. | sider. Wart Srnzer Yestexpay.—The principal | feature was a decline in Union Pacific. Other securities were unsettled. Gold sold from 117 down to 116}. Tue Bercuer Case has reached another stage, and we see land. Mr. Evarts closed on / Tuesday evening and Mr. Beach opened for | the prosecution yesterday in o temperate, able and eloquent address. Szxaton Morton sees some things clearly. He says there was no reason for Grant writing his letter now that did-not exist six months | ago, and that some may think one thing about it and some another. Tratias Orera.—There is considerable ex- citement in operatic circles about the prom- ised visit of the last of the great dramatic singers, Mlle. Tietjens, to this country in | the fall. If she visits this city she will be supported by the best artists of Mapleson’s | company at Drury Lane. A New Yacut, the Mohawk, the property of Mr. Garner, was launched yesterday at Williamsburg, in the presence of a large number of people. Yachting has now be- come one of the most favorite sports of New Yorkers, and each fresh competitor that enters , the water is looked upon with a deal of in- terest. This summer the Mohawk will find plenty of competitors and foemen worthy of her steel. West Porst.—The examinations at the National Military Academy by the Board of Visitors appointed by the government are likely to be of a very searching character this year. The boys will be put through such an ordeal of drill as they never dreamed of be- fore, and mammas, papas and sweethearts of the cadets will find that all is not rose-coloxed and bright during the impending examination. Tue Ascot Racrs.—The second day of those popular turf sports in England proved to be of unusual interest yesterday. Twenty horses came to the starting post for the Royal Hunt Cup contest, and Thuringian Prince proved to be the best one Maud Victoria won the Coronation Stakes and G.l- bert beat the favorite in the race for the Ascot Derby Stakes. In race for the Biennial Stakes Balfe beat the the Two out of the score. he winner of Thousand Guineas purse, Camballo, and won after an exciting rac Tur New Mosancuy Torrentna.-—The new Spanish Monarchy, which came into power sided by the g seem to jake root. The republicans in Madrid show sm tineasy feeling. There aro fours of another outbreak. There was never a more nefarious fiolation of justice and liberty than the coup @ dat which ended in the coming of tne Prince Alfonso to the throne of Spain. The as- sumption that a boy fresh from his tops and ponies and school books could reviveand gov- erp turbulent Spain is an absurdity. The pouner 1 ends the better. Alfonse has beon mainly émiployed ia soothing the priests wo want their government allowances and in banishiag the noblest men in Spain. This is not the way to restore order and greatuess to ‘us country, and this is, no doubt, becoming TD cased nus of Pavia, docs not | North; | friends. | | the average Northern man that the ‘ypical | | bullying, | curely rob and misrule. | part of the population. ‘The Use of Bunker Hili and Other Centennials. We return to a suggestion made by the Tiezap some days ago to the Bunker Hill | Committee, that they would do well to give | their celebration a thoroughly natioval char- acter, by inviting delegations from all parts of the country to take part in it as their guests, and especially Southern men. We speak of Southern men particularly because there are some signs that the centennial )ear may | easily be made a (rue year of jubilee and re- conciliation. The two sections, Norh and South, have been long estranged. They have | not cerrectly or intima‘ely known each other for more than a quarter of a century. Tue men of the South are misunders‘ood in the the men of the North are misunder- stood in the South, We stend to each other in the relation of countrymen, living under “one flag and paying taxes to a common gov- ernment, but we are, in fact, nearly as much strangers to each other as though we were members of different and distant nationalities. Acquaintance must precede reconciliation. Until we know each other we cannot be truly There is not the slightest reason to doubt taat when the two sections do know each other they will become the fast friends which natural situation, a common lineage, a common history and a common future make it of the utmost impor- | tancs they should be, Avy one who} | knows both sections mows that there is still a good deal of irritation on | each sid2 toward the other, and not only | irritation, but suspicion of motives. These | | feelings are so general that in the North a | man who speaks kindly of the Southern peo- | ple is regarded witb distrust, while more than one instance could be cited where a | Southern man, having had opportunity to in- form himself of the true spirit of the North, | | bas laid bimself open-to misconception and | criticism at home when he has frankly ex- | pressed his conclusions to his own people. Nor is this remarkable. For many yearsa bitter political struggle estranged the two sections. For some years afterward the most furious military stroggle of modern history | divided us. Since the close ot the war grave | faults on both sides, causing bitter political animosities, have continued the estrange- | ment, until to-day it is absolutely true that neither section knows what is the real spirit and intent of the people of the other. On | each side the faults or blunders of the other | are magnified until they are taken to repre- sent its real and prevailing spirit. It is, for instance, difficult to persuade overbearing, bad-tempered | Southerner is not a swaggering, whiskey-drivking, person, who at home mourns over the de- | struction of slavery, longs to shoot a negroand | brings up his children to desire a now rebel- | lion. It is equally difficult to persuade the | average Southern man that the typical North- | erner is not a greedy bypocrite, who hates | the South and wants to keep its intelligent | people under the rule of ignorance and cor- | | ruption, in order that his section may se- | Now, we of the | North know that this ideal Northerner has no reat existence. We know that the Northern people, be they republicans or democrats, have no ill feeling toward the people of the Southern States, and that we would not con- sciously countenance there, more than here, vile political intriguers or the rule of igno- rance and corruption. But they of the South | | know also that our ideal Southerner is a mon- | ster whose reality is as undiscoverable as the Northern monster which the South has con- | jored up. There are men on both sides who answer to the description in each case. What ought to be known—what can only become | known by a meeting face to face ot gonsider- | able delegations from each side—is that on both sides the mass of the people are honest, just, lovers of peace and order, desirous of good government, and not animated by a spirit of hatred toward any | Wherever, on the occasion of public or pri- vate festivities. men of the two sections nave come together, whether in the North or the South, the result has been a mutual good | understanding, and the conviction that how- ever ignorance or partisan malice may cause | a blundering policy, the real motives of the mass of men North and South are honest, kindly and American. It seems to us that | the importance of making such a good under- | standing general cannot be overestimated; the prosperity of the country ts involved in it. We cannot be truly and soundly prosper- ous until we have a thorough understanding’ with each other. We need, for are-establish- | ment of our industries, the confidence which | can only be inspired by faith in each section that the otber means not hostility, not injury, but good will and helptulness. Nor is it wrong to suggest that the North shall be the first and the most active to move in this matter. Not only were we the victors in the struggle between the sections, not only | were we saved from the devastation of actual , war, but it is our part to remember, what has been too much forgotten by us in the strife and heat of political turmoil, that we did im- pose upon them of the South a change of habits, customs and prejudices greater than has ever becu imposed upon any civil- | ized people, and that whatever opposition they mas de to this in the first years have now, in good faith pted it; bave actually con- s toit; are peacefully and @ their industries with free everywhere adapted them- selves to ot things. We are too apt to forget that great change has been wrought over a vast territory in | 4, and amid a cons‘ant political turmoil and under the rale of Northern men in many of States whose acis were eminently cal- culated to make Sonthern men hate and ro- sist the Northern policy, which was justly im- posed on them, but too often very iniquitously administered. We should countit the auspicious beginning of a great movemont toward final and thorough reconciliation betweon North and South if, among the invited guests at the Bunker Hill celebration, should appear many and honor formed their steady pursu labor, and b han ten and large delegations of citizens of the South- ern States, for they would there see into the heart of New England and would behold, what too many ot them little expect, a thorough and sincere desire for lastirg pea and brotherly good will The lessons of | Bunker Hill and of our other celebrations will | | whole community. | sire is an excuse for the use of garbage, and | | bat | dumped into the flats as the result of this con- | with them it is not so easy to practise fraud. | weather of the present season have prevented | | if their labor is well directed, can accomplish | Tom Murphy could review them. | assemblage if the weather will permit. The | first for the Juvenile Stakes, distance half a | have the most beneficent results if they result | in the bringing of the sections into a closer union. Thera are two sentiments which should never be forgotten during this cen- tennial season. The first is respect tor the + memory of the loyal and gallant men who fought so bravely for their king during the Revolution, and whose name of ‘British soldier” should be banished from our hearts as an epithet of reproach, The second is the hope that Northern and Southern | men will alike feel that the Revolution was vational, not sectional; that the blood of New England and the Carolinas darkened the | same fields, and that we can best appreciate | what our fathers did and strove to do by re- wembering only their patriotism and obeying | thetr precept; that this Union is our strength and the bulwark of our freedom, and that it must last forever, one and inseparable, No Sime for Words, Gentlemen. The Board of Health 1s making a great mistake in the resolution allowing clean coal ashes to be used as filling forthe Harlem flats. 1 it was certain that coal ashes only would be @ UNE 10,- 1875,—TRIPLE A Hegpy Thought from Sngland. A despatch from London relates that Messrs. Odger and Wicks, two radical politicians, who had for some years interested them- selves in the condition of English farm hands and have led them in a series of strikes in- tended to better their condition, have been appointed by the Federal Union of Agricul- tural Laborers to come to this country and ascertain whether the Mississippi Valley is they represent. This is important news, for it looks toa movement which may be of the ley, but to the English laberers whom Messrs. | Odger and Wicks represent, Surplus men are only men in the wrong place. There are no surplus men, as yet, on this planet, unless wo except the small number of American pol- | iticians who have committed themselves to a third term, Certainly, if we count only men able and willing to labor industriously for a living, men with strong hands and with willing hearts, even if they have sometimes muddled brains, for such men employed there would be no objection to their use and we would not complain of the resolu- | tion of the Health Commissioners; but expe- | rience has proved that to allow the use of | ashes at allis to open the door for street sweepings, garbage and the other deteterious | matter which now threatens tne health of the All the contractors de- | they are sure to use it. This always has been the case, and it will continue to be while the Board of Health sanctions the employment of | ashes as fit for filling the salt marshes and low lands on the upper part of the island. The contracts of McQuade and the others could not have been violated so easily for the clause permitting the use of clean ushes, and the Health Com- missioners knew, or ought to have known, that much of the garbage which now infects a large part of the city was cession by the Department of Public Works. What is required is good loam, sand or gravel. These are in themselves a disintectant, and Fresh earth is needed to prevent an epidemic, | and it is needed immediately. The Board of Health must sce to it that there 1s no delay. The Commissioners have the power to move in this matter, and if they fail to meet the emergency they will be held responsible by the entire community. Only the late spring and the unusually cool the most serious results. The danger is not | past, however, and with every day of summer it will be increased. In such an emergency | we can only rely upon the Board of Health. | To the gentlemen who compose the Board we have only to say, You have the power to meet | this emergency and there is no time for words. Red tape is not allowable while a great calam- ity is impending. Your action must not only be immediate, but vigorous. Employ a thousand men and as many caris as can be obtained, and see to it that the pest beds are buried under a thick layer of clean earth. “Nothing else will suffice and the whole work can be completed within a week. A thousand soldiers who throw down the musket and take up the pick and shovel are able to transform the tace of nature in a few hours. A thousand workmen, wonders in a few days and make the impend- ing epidemic impossible. In this emergency the public looks to the Board of Health to avert the danger, and we sball expect the Board to perform its whole duty with great vigor and withont delay. Wicxnam should not miss the chance of seeing the Beeteaters in the Tower. Boss Jznome Park Races.—Tue third day of the | ninth spring mesting of the American Jockey Club this afternoon must attract an immense attendances has been so far very en- couraging, and certainly with such a mag- nificent performance as that which is an- nounced to-day public interest should be doubly excited. There will be five races, the mile, in which the untried youngsters will take part. This will be, as far as betting is concerned, the most interesting event of the day. The second race, mile heats, will be for a purse of $700. The third race, distance one mile and a half, and the fourth race, distance one mile and an eighth, will be a very agree- able introduction to the extra event, the steeple chase between the favorites, Bullet and Trouble. There is a deal of enjoyment at Jerome Park, owing grincipally to the se- lect character ot the patrons of the club. The clab gains more and more in popularity each season. Achange in the starter anda few more watering carts on the road would be desirable. Tue Barooxtxs Buroran's victim, Mr. Shute, is still alive, notwithstanding the ex- tent and terrible nature of his injuries. The old, old story that the police are making strenuous exertions to capture the would-be assassin is again revived, although, judging from the accounts published about this latest outrage, there is not the slightest reason why the miscreant should be stili at large. Of all the muvicipal departments in New York and Brooklyn none can compare in point of in- efticiency with that intrnsted to the guardians of the peace. Mr. Shute’s assailant should have been captured ere this time if Brooklyn had policemen worthy of the name. Crope Tarsxisa. —Th ‘Philadel sIphia Times falls into the unfortunate habit of only seeing half a question. It s -“The idea of Cosarism and a crown in this country is simply ridiculous. Grant never thought of such foil This is not the sentiment that gives life to the third term discussion, No one fears that Grant will buy a crown and assume the airs and authority of a dictator. No one dreads a coup d'état like those in France and Spain. What we dread is the slow sapping | of the foundati ot democracy by the ons growth of centralization, undue reverence for the mere man in the White House, the elevation ot the Presidential office above the people, th y of plac ito & com pact poli that will enuble politicians | to control conv is and stifle the voieo of | the nation. This is Cosari and this, under Grant's policy and philosophy, may pecome a power infinitely more dangerous to liberty | than a king with a dozen crown | English | Health has the power to do everything which | there is room and to spare in the world. It needs only that they put themselves in the right place; and we can assare Messrs. Odger and Wicks and their constituents that | there is just now probably not another region on this or any other continent where the agriculcural laborer, strength, habit of toiland poverty, can do so well, or to which he can be got so cheaply as the Mississipp Valley. In the first place, the manner in which farm laborers are employed in the richest and most productive part of this great valley— namely, in the cotton region—ts peculiarly | adapted to the condition of men who are poor | and need to receive a support from the day they begin to labor, The cotton planters of | the South almost ‘walversally rent their lands out to laborers in tracts of from ten to forty acres for a share of the crop; and in making this arrangement the laborer not only takes cleared land, ready for the plough, but with it is furnished a house, sufficient firewood, room for the keeping of a few hogs and a cow, and suf- ficient ground for a vegetable garden. Be- sides this the planter expects to make ad- vances to the tenants, from the time he signs the contract, on the coming crop; he expects to superintend and direct their labor, seeing that they plough, plant and cultivate at the proper seasons and iu the proper manner; he Bede a gin-house for cleaning and baling | | the cotton and for tltat part of the product | which remains to the laborer at the close of the season, and when he has paid for his ad- vances he can always get cash on the spot. Cotton is the direct equivalent of money. It | has always an instant market; and many a Southern negro rolis his bales on to the gal- | lery of his cabin and kecps them there as though it was money in bank, spending a bale as he needs. It will be seea that by this method of en- gaging labor the workman needs, in fact, no money ahead. If heis put on the land his subsistenes is assured from that moment, And-no doubt there are thousands of planters who willagree to take families on tho levee | at New Orleans, pay their way to the plan- | tations and subsist them from the moment they sign the labor con- tract. Nor is the culture of cotton difficult. It needs but little knowledge in advance. Tho planter always, now, watches and guides the labor of the tenants. It needs mainly industry and the skill to plough and to care for animals. In the South, at present, it is customary for tenants to own their ani- mals and tools, but’ this is by no means an in- variable rule, and on thousands of plantations the planter furnishes these necessaries, charg- ing, of course, for their use. As to the future, an industrious English ploughman cannot fail, unless he drinks over- much, to become in a few years in the cotton country the owner of land. A negro tenant | now usually makes from seventy-five to ono | hundred and fifty doliars, clear of all ex- penses for living, from his year’s work. If he has two or three boys, and if his wife is | an active woman, he can make from one hun- | dred and seventy-five to two hundred and fifty dollars clear money per annum. *The South- | ern negro cultivating cotton lives to-day bet- | ter than the average English agricultural | laborer, for he has meat at least once a day ; | and he might live much better than he does if | he would keep a vegetable garden. Land is abundant im the cotton country and cheap. | A year's toil would buy a small cotton farm | for any thritty English ploughman, and there | is no such man whom Messrs. Odger and Wicks | can bring out who cannot hope, with patient labor and thriit, to be, ia two years ater he | lands, the owner ot a homestead of at least twenty and perhaps forty acres, on which he can live comfortably with his family and be his own maa. If (hese two Englishmen have really a con- stituency behind them ready to como over and willing to labor they cannot do better than go at once to the cotton regjon of Lonis- jana, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, They will find planters very ready to show them that their people can have, not only abundant labor, but on such conditions as will enable them to reap, in a proper and en- couraging measure, the fruits of their toil. They wiil find communities where hfe and | property are secure, where the State provides | schools for children, where the climate is so mild as to make living a small expense, where food is abundant and easily procured, and where a man need only labor steadily | and live with common and by no means | pinching economy to quickly gain what to an English agricultural laborer would seem a | splendid independence. Don't Srarxxie Savt on Irs Tart.—Many a lad has vainly endeavored to catch the coveted bird by putting salt on its tail. The Board of Health seems disposed to adopt a | similar policy in dealing with the Harlem flats nuisance. The proposed conference with the Sanitary Commission, with the Mayor and | with the Commissioners of Public Works, is only salt on the bird’s tail, The Board of | ean be done by the Department of Pablic Works toward abating this nuisance, and the quires that the Health Department shall prove | rgency. The Heatth Com- missioners tae community by @ feeble policy of inaction and red tapo, and danger eqnal to the em cannot si suitable for the settlement ot such people as | greatest use, not only to the Mississippi Val- | with his | | sure, Mrs. Victoria Demosthenes Woodhull. | | we think of the blessings W: to the ‘health of the city re | SHEET, The Mayor's Waning Opportanity, The Mayor is not so young a man that he can throw away opportunities. The more we think of the invitation to London and the chance it affords of displaying all of thoso qualities which make His Honor, like George | IV., the first gentleman of the age, the more we feel that he should change his mind and accept the invitation of the Lord Mayor of London to visit that city. We have sent so many doubtful Americans abroad to represent our country that the time has come to select one altogether worthy of our native land. Most of our American friends have gono abroad as agents for sewing machine compa- nies or dealers in mining shares or as refu- gees irom Tammany Hall. Now let us send areal Mayor. Wickham is not needed here, The ouly undisputed duty left to him is to reviow Irish processiors on St. Patrick's Day. Tilden exercises the higher functions of the office. Green takes care of the money. Kelly makes all the appointments, Morrissey looks after the moral progress of Tammany. There is really nothing for the Mayor to do but to review the processions. Just now we are preparing for Bunker Hill and other fes- tivities, and the Mayor is the man to explain the real meaning of these events. He would reach London in time for Bunker Hill, and could strike terror into the British heart by | an appropriate and exalted spesch in Guild- hall upon the history and wislowehy of that event, With Moody and Sankey as apostles of American religion, why not Wickham as an apostls of American statesmanship? Then think of the retinue that would sustain and accompany him! We could not, of course, think of sending our Mayor alono and un- attended on such an errand. Tho Princo | of Wales is about to visit India with imperial pomp. The Mayor should go with metropolitan splendor. There should be representatives of all classes, Lo{ us show the English what manner of men we have as the moving spirits in our society—our lnw- yere, our divines, our financiers, our states- men. Happily, also, there are many distin- | guished and able men who could well be spared to attend the - Mayor in his progress. There are the four bosses—Tom Murphy, Boss of the Beet Eaters; John Morrissey, Boss of the Short Hairs ; John Kelly, Boss of the Swallow Tails, and Tom Creamer, Boss of the Plug Uglies. These illustrious men would make a sensation in London. They are our princes, and not princes of a day or of a new creation, like the Cardinal, but descendants of Irish kings. Then we have our finan- ciers—Jay Gould, King of the Big Bonanzas ; Uncle Dan, ex-King of Quicksilver, and Uncle Dick, the friend of Napoleon the Great and of Vanderbilt, whose experience | in watered securities has led to his | being called the Admiral of the | street. Let these three wonderful men go to show Europe the sources of our financial greatness. Big Bonanza Gould could explain how to dosolate the land with grasshoppers | when he is “short,” and how to convert the alkali stretches into gold mines when he is | “Jong.” Uncle Dan could show how it is possible for a great man to buy and sell mill- ions of gold without having a specie dellar in | his wallet. Uncle Dick could demonstrate how the British Empire could be converted | into shares and sold ‘‘shor:” under a morning call. If the Sorosis ladies could be induced to ac- company the Mayor it would be a happy thing. The ladies of this wonderful society for the | dissemination of tea and poetry and useful in- | formation would add largely to the Mayor's | glory as he stalked down Pall Mall, carrying | the American flag in one hand and the Ameri- can engle in another, with Patrick Sarsfield | Gilmore ahead, playing ‘‘Yankes Doodle” on | his bugle horn. Then we can well spare Mrs, Stanton and Misa Aathony, and, under pres- | Speaking of clubs, there are the Lotos and the | Arcadian, associations devoted to beer and elo- | quence and dining, composed of the most bril- liant men in the land, who write verses to cach other, and who couid illustrate the beautiful j religion of mutual admiration. We can send | them as ‘‘leadhead’”’ guests. Sinco it isin- | tended to have harmony in the “progress” there are sunny Sunset Cox, and Gortehakoff Wood and Terrayin Randall, from Philadel- phia, to diseuss the Speakership on the way, with Commentator Wiik»s, who believes Shakespeare to have been an American, and | Commentator White, who believes him to be avything you please, to kill time in tho roar- ing latitudes. Jimmy Hiyes could bo spared also, and as Jimmy has been in a penitential mood since last election we could send John | Cochrane, an available statesman, * without | visible means of support, and tho liveliest man we have ever known under so many mis- | fortunes, to cheer him up. Fred Conkling has never been appreciated at home, and who knows what would be his fortune abroad with | so mavy crowns bogging? The treatment Colonel Fred has received from his fellow men is a stigma upon this generation. Once | | the eyes of royalty gazed upon that grand, | glowing and peculiar brow there is no | knowing what his fate might be, | Speaking of unappreciated men, we had | almost forgotten our old friends Disbecker | and Green—Disbecker, who finds the balm of Gilead and sweet perlumes in the garbage beds, and Green, the watendog of the Treas- uey suffering from hydrophobia. Disbecker ant Green should certainly go. We are not | good enough for them. Disbecker, with his musical tastes, could play on the fiddie, while | Green could make himself universally popu- | lar by keeping out of everybody's way. When ickham could con- fer upon his city by quietly going on board one of the Frenca steamships with this retinne—we suggest the French line for ob- vious reasons—we are amazed at his’ hesi- taney. By all means let him go. Lot him take the bosses and the financiers, the | Beecher trial, judge, jury and all ; the Sorosis and other clubs, Fred Conkling, our fragrant | Disbecker and our gracious Green, and show England what we can do in the way of genius and eloquence and beauty. As to coming | home, he need not hurry. As we bave said, | Tilden is now virtual Mayor, and he only | needs a green cont to enable him to review | | the Irishmen. The longer the Mayor stays | the more the community will rejoice. If he | could only come home and leave his retinue be- | hind Lim Manhattan would build him a statue there is no use in their attempting to put sale | on the bird's tail, on the old Tweed plaza and honor him as ; blessed among the benetactors of our race. Indict the Contracgors. The contractors who undertook to fill the salt marshes known aos the Harlem flats agreed to use oply pure earth or clean ashes as filling. It is notorious that they have vio lated their contracts and dumped great quan- tities of garbage -upon the grounds, Even Commissioner Disbecker, who is their cham- pion, admits that five per cent of the filling used was garbage, while Dr. Fetter and Dr. Walker place it as high as twenty or twenty-five per cent. It is clear that the contractors who thus violated their agreement with the city have created a nuisance and com mitted a fraud. For this criminal offence they must be indicted and punished in the crim. inal courts. When men deliberately poison a whole community for their own profit they must not escape with impunity. But a crim- inal procedure alone is not sufficient, and the public expects the Corporation Counsel to re- cover the money they obtained in violation of their contracts and at the risk of the public health, In no other way can the men whe work for the city be compelled to fulfil thei agreements honestly and faithtully. There never was a better opportunity cither for Mr. Phelps, the District Attorney, or Mr, Smith, the Corporation Counsel, to serve the community and punish wrong, and we are persuaded that the officials whose business itis to care for the public welfare will see to it that these faithless contractors are indicted and tried, and that the money which has been paid to them for work they tailed to perform accord ing to their agreements is recovered. Wicksam might produce the most beneficial results by taking Disbecker and Green to Mme. Tussaud’s chamber of horrors, and— leaving them as new attractiong, Pnorzsson Cuanpuer sadly misunderstands his duty as a member of the Board of Health if he thinks he can be indifferent to the publio interests in the face of animpending calamity. | Both of his associates in the Bourd, Dr, Jane- way and Dr. Vanderpoel, have no doubt of their authority to deal with the nuisance occasioned by the dumping of garbage inta the Harlem flats, while Professor Chandler indulges in purposeless generalities about compelling landowners to have done to theiz property that which they do not desire. We are sorry to see the spirit which is thus mani- fested by this official, and would commend ta him the example of his associates as worthy of imitation. Professor Chandler is not so great a man that ho can afford to disregard the interests or wishes of the people, and his arrogance can only draw suspicious eyes toward him. A Sorpu:n ot the Marine corps was yester~ day sent to the insane asylum for telling another marine that Tilden meant to remove Cowptroller Green, Tae soldier insists that the marines still cling to this delusion, Tur Porz anp Repupiicanisu. —The Pope and President MacMahon are exchanging marked courtesies. This disposition of the Pope to pay attention to republics and repub- lican magistrates is only another illustration of that policy of liberalism which seems to have recently possessed the Holy See. The Pope sees that democracy and Catholicism are notincompatible, that religion, no matter of what creed, is nover really strong and sound except where it is free. Only yestere day he created a republican cardinal and now he compliments a republican presidont. It would not surprise ns to hear from the Pone tiff or some infallible successor that the dogma ot “divine right” is a myth and that henceforward in government all men are free | and equal. The enunciation of such q doo | trine by the head of the Roman Church would disturb acd in time overthrow every throne in Europe. Disnecxrn’s Ganpacz Pxrrume has been admitted on the tariff list for export, free of duty. Disbecker isa rising man. His “ex tracts’ are marvellous. He is the coming Buchu Helmbold ot New York. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General 5. K. Schwenk is at the Merchants? Hotel. Will Willard L. please send bis address to this | office ? Surgeon Edward D. Payne, United States Navy, 1s at the Sturtevant Hor ‘The only thing ‘asshoppers couldn't endure in Missouri was day.” Bishop William McU.osKey, of Louisville, arrived last eventing at the Glisey House, Rey. vr. T. K. Conrad, of Philadelphia, ts re siding at the Fiita Aveaue Motel. “congressman Elias W. Leavenworth, of Syra cuse, 1s sojourning at the St, Nicwolas Hotel, Professor M. B. Anderson, President of Rochester | University, has apartments at the Bverect House, Lieutenant Commander Heory L, Johnson, United States Navy, 8 quartered at the Homtwan House. Captain HB, Tibbits, of the steamship City of Paris, has taken up his quarters at tue Everett House. Senator Morton had @ lengthy consultation with | Attoraey General Pierrepont in Washington yes. terdas. ‘There are two cases now jn tho Paris hospitals of persons In a somnolent state. One has slept two montis.” Lieutenant Coloncl G G, MoCawiey, United Staies Marine Corps, is stopping at the Fifth Ave. nue fHotel. Ex-Attorney Goneral George H. Williams ar. rived at the Fifta Avenue Hotel last evening from Wasblogton. Levy Hubbell, United States District Attorney at Milwaukee, has bet nded, No successor is yet appointed. Mr. Robert M. McLane, of Baltimore, formerly United States Minister to China, is registered at the Hoilman House. The report that the Princess of Wales was “losing her hearing” was only a Cockney per- version, She lost an ear Bishop J. P. B. Wile of New Orleans, has ar rived in this city, and is staying at the residence of Commodore Garrison, on Park avenue, Jetierson Davis has been tenderea, and will ac. | cept, the presidency of the Texas Mechanical and Aaricuitaral College at Bryan at a salary of $4,000, ion. J. M. Thayer, Governor of Wyoming Terri tory, 18 stopping at the Mansion House, Long Branch. He calied on the President on Tuesday, The Waterloo Zvening Hegisier, ‘the only two cont paper in Central New York,” has departed this Ive, and commemorates the event ia sixteen columns of iuneral sermon. ‘The Paris authorities are endeavoring by moral means to induce the large numver of women who reguiarly abandon their newly born tofauts in that city to keep and rear them, Unwittingly our Chicago correspondent did the guilant Sheridan an injustice im intimating that he was 80 far reveliious to the Church as to re ceive her sacrament of matrimony witrout the prefatory sacraments oO: penance and eucharist, Philip 1s too good u Soldier to think of aisobeying orders, and Whore Cnuren, bride and conscienve all commanded a visit to the confessional Sherk dan was not the man to shirk.