The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1875, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. —On and sfter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yous Hunmarp will be went free of postage amen siieaaneee All business or news letters and telegraphic dexpatehes must be addressed New Youx Hen. Letters and packages should be properly foaled Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Slee: LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 4 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded om the same terms | oe in New York. =z SSeS VOLUME Xt Casal NO. 276 oe = “AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Bee. SHO end OFT Broadway VARIETY ao? Mw ub UM THEATRE, new ae PARISTAN VARINTIEG. 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ACADEMY OF MUSIC Erving place and. uarie WORLD IN Eiulity Da -AROUND THE cmon 8 11 PO DARLING A HOUKE Twenty-third street and sixth avenue —COTION & RERD'S NEW YORK MINSTRELS, at 5 P.M. ; clones ae 10 FM THRATRE No, sie Broadway.—V ARIE a) comme at 10.45 4 - Wooo's MVSkOM, Broadway, corner of Thirtioth sirect KIT, a © PM; doses at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at ah M STRINWAY WALL, root MILLE. TITIENS CONCERT, a 6 NEW YORK, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1875, @re that the weather to-day will be cool and elear. Tur Fast Mar, Tnarvs.—Newsdealers and the public throughout the Slates of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, North and Soutlavest, glong the lines of te Hudson River, New York Central and Penn- sylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Taz Heraup, free of post- age, by sending their orders direct to this office. Watt Sraret Yestexpay.—Gold was strong at 1171-4, at which rate currency is worth about 85.29 on the dollar. The stock market at the close was weak. Foreign exchange dull. Money easy and unchanged. Lrrenrarvre.—In our literary department to-day are some interesting reviews of new books and the latest gossip about foreign and American authors, Tse Inpun Acexcy Rascarities.—If it were told in a novel people would believe it exaggerated, for the story told by our cor- respondent at Fort Berthold is more won- derful than fiction. The burning of the buildings and the supposed object of destroy- ing them would make a good chapter in a sensational novel. We give with this letter a map of the buildings, showing the portions destroyed by fire, which will aid the public to understand this precious piece of incen- diary villany. The fire has one merit—it throws a lurid light upon the infamies of the agency. A Canrver Crrsis.—Piff, paff, pouf! The Cabinet crisis in France is over. It was all about a speech, or, rather, a line in a speech, at a banquet. M. Say, the Min- ister of Finance, had said, ‘The coalition of May 24 is happily dissolved.” ‘This isa re- flection on the coalition,” exclaims M. Buffet; 80 he refuses to publish the speech in the Journal (fficiel. A Cabinet} coundilis held and explanations are made. M. Say writes a letter declaring that he did not intend to be understood as saying what hedid say, and M. Buffet admits the speech, accompanied by the explanatory letter, into the columns of the official journal. So the crisis is hap- pily over, Piff, paff, pont! Tae YacutTino Cuaurencrs.The fall yachting season has already been rich in in- terest and novelty, and yesterday the Brook- lyn Club closed its racing year with a brill. fant regatta. The Seawanhaka Club also spread the canvas of its fine vessels to the breeze. Bat the season will not end with these interesting events. As will be seen by the correspondence published to-day no less than four challenges have been addressed to Mr. Rufus Hateh by owners of yachts who wish to contest races with the Resolute. These yachts are the schooners Estelle, Comet (the winner of the Brooklyn Club re- gatta yesterday), the Vesta and the Dread- ganght. If all these challenges are accepted the fall season will be as exciting as the | , summer, NEW YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1875.—QUINTUPLE SHEET A Word to Some City Democrats. Tammany Hall has formally and heartily ratified the platform and nominations adopted at Syracuse. This would, under ordinary circumstances, be but an empty and insignificant formality, but in the present condition of the democratic party, with divided opinions in different States upon a vitally important question of public policy, this ratification by Tammany of what was done at Syracuse is, in fact, an important reiteration of the sentiments adopted there, which will have a good effect on the party in other States, It is a renewed and intensified rebuke of the cardinal blunder of the Ohio and Pennsylvania democratic platforms, and is, therefore, a notable incident in a political struggle in which not merely the democratic party but the whole country is interested. ‘Tammany Hall, long dragged through dirty waters and misused for petty and venal aims, once more conspicuously places itself upon right and patriotic ground. There is still, as is well known, a combination of demo- cratic factions outside of the Tammany organization ; outside of it by reason of dis- putes and differences of a purely personal nature, involving questions, not of principle, but of individual ambition. The leaders of these factions are multitudinous. There are | ex-Congressmen Morrissey, Wood, Creamer | and Roosevelt ; ex-Surveyors Andrews and Hart ; ex-Something-or-other Waterbury ; ex- | Sheriff O'Brien and ex-candidates for the Presidency Uncle Dick and Theodore Tom- linson. These leaders are free lances. They ‘‘make war on Tammany,” and en- deavor, in revenge for their personal dis- appointments and grievances, to make a | break in the democratic organization. We | desire the attention of these men and of their | allies, for we mean to speak seriously to them, if they are honest democrats, about the blunder they are making. The position of the democratic party is just this:—It has been for a number of years the instrument of wicked and foolish men, who have unhappily controlled its councils | in this eity and State, and in other States, as well asin the national conventions. The mis- conduct of these men has brought the party | into disgrace with the people, ‘has lost to it the popular confidence, and has kept in power the repablican party until that, secure in its predominance, has also become weak and | ecorrapt, and until the people heartily | desire and loudly demand a change, a purifi- | cation of the government in all its parts, federal and State. At this moment the demo- crats in this State, having redeemed them- selves from the misrule and corruption of the } ‘Tweed Ring, and being engaged in a vigorous | purification of the State government, adopt | @ platform of principles at Syracuse which meets the approval of sensible and honest | men of all parties, They do this in the face | of the democratic action in Ohio and Penn- | sylvenia ; in the face of opposition in their own ranks at home; and they speak un- hesitatingly, honestly and without reserve. | These Syracuse democrats have by this | courageous action done a very important service to their party and to the country. | They have given a rallying centre for all who | desire the success of sound political prin- | ciples and of honest and economical govern- ment. They have encouraged all over the countryin Ohio, Pennsylvania and else- where—those democrats who adhere to sound principles, and who have seen with silent dismay the spread of false doctrines on the currency in their party. The question at issue to-day between } York and Ohio and Pennsylvania is, whether the democratic organization shall be controlled for the cam- paign of next year by inflationists and pol- itical free lances, all fighting on their own hook and for their own hook, or whether it shall represent and advocate the old and sonnd doctrines of the democracy when that was a power for good in the country. The Ohio and Pennsyivania democratic leaders have committed themselves to a policy which would plunge the country‘ into almost irre- trievable ruin and disgrace. The demo- cratic leaders in this State have boldly de- | nounced that policy, and placed themselves and the party here upon a sound and admir- able platform of political principles. In this battle between good and evil in the party all personal grievances and ambitions must be laid aside. If the twenty free lances who fight for the loaves and fishes, each for himself and himself alone; if these selfish, grasping men could be animated by any public spirit; if they could be induced to regard politics as higher than a con- temptible and demoralizing desire for place and money for themselves, their duty would be clear—to lay aside at once all their personal differences and join heartily in the support of the democratic principles and ticket in this State and city. If they believe themselves to have suffered wrong this is no time nor place for revenge. | They have but one politieal duty now, and that is to give their most entire and faithful support to the Tammany organization, which | is the trne and only representative of the democratic party in this eity, and to show by | their good conduct and energetic service party, and that they are animated by some- thing higher in their political course than mere self-seeking. party is a matter of broader than mere partisan interest. It concerns the whole country. Both parties have in the last twelve years be- come corrupt and inefficient. The republican | to serve the country. Its organization has | fallen into the possession of men who are | heedless of the public interests and seek only to use it to advance and improve their personal fortanes. Long one of our most vigorous political organizations, it appears to have lost the power to purify itself and to eliminate from its leadership and its policy the corrupt and corrupting elements which have gained the upper hand. It appears to have lost the power of reforming evils and retrieving blunders. It has become a close corporation, whose chiefs use it for theirown purposes and aim at succuss by “sticking | together.” The democratic party, long led by incapables and demagogues, at last shows signs of a new and vigorous life, In this State, in Massachusetts and im some other States. now that they are worthy members of the | its leaders appear to grasp the public neces- ' sities. They have the courage to place them- selves upon sound principles and to de- nounce corruption and maladministration, not only in their opponents’ but in their represents the opinions of all true demo- crats. More than all, it is at this time the single hopeful sign in our polities, It gives a promise and guarantee of reforms in all branches of our government, State and federal, which are bitterly needed and loudly demanded by the people everywhere. It demands the hearty and vigorous support of all democrats in this State, in order that other States that right sentiments and a just policy are approved here, and that the re- form wing of the democratic party, repre- sented by the Syracuse platform and ticket, is the real democratic party. These free lances are simply, to use an ex- pressive phrase of the past, ‘‘soreheads.” ‘They see the political world through a look- ing glass, and find no one but themselves to serve. The people are nothing. Morrissey and Creamer do to-day what Kelly and Wickham did yesterday—namely, fight to “reform” Tammany Hall only that they may capture the machinery of Tammany Hall. With the grave transcendent issues now be- fore the country how can honest democrats be expected to turn aside from the duty of saving the country and purifying the State to serve a party which seems to have no higher duty than to secure to ex- Sheriff O’Brien his long disputed claim for fees? Why not this time forget their own mercenary aims and think of pro bono publico? No good army ever quarrels about the spoils until after the victory is over. Here are democrats quarrelling about the spoils in the city before the national battle is begun. If they keep on quarrelling they will fly before the battle opens. When the army of Cortes entered Mexico its discipline was perfect, its courage dauntless, its victories as unerring as a demonstration in geometry. When these same sdldiers came into the possession of the treasures they fell into sad ways. Success was only a step toward failure. The free lances are acting the unworthy part of a sutler during the Revolution, who, in the midst of contending armies, and when the fate of liberty hung in the balance, went about the camps crying out ‘Beef! beef!” In this struggle sutlers and camp followers must either take up arms and fight for the cause or go to the rear and be sunk in deserved oblivion and contempt. This is not atime for revenge ; for the grinding of private axes; and if to-day, and in this State and city, any man who calls himself a demo- crat lets his own personality interfere with a cordial support of the party he had better at once go over to the other side. He has no business in the democratic ranks. His place can be filled with better men. The Syracuse platform appeals to the support of the thoughtful citizens of all parties in the State, and it will receive the votes of a large num- ber who have hitherto stood aloof from the democratic side. The free lances must under- stand that the day has. gone by for their ma- nipulations; the very idea of an honest and thorough reform requires that they shall take back seats and let statesmanship and char- acter come to the front. If they are not con- tent to do that—if they cannot fit themselves and postpone their ambitions to the new duty, they had better make up their minds to go elsewhere. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The tone of several of the topics to be dis- cussed to-day by our city pastors shows their interest in and anxiety fora revival of re- ligion during this winter. Bishop Snow will consider it in the light of a good time com- ing; Mr. Lloyd will treat it as the sound of victory in the mulberry trees; Mr. Ganse will treat of the revivalists, Paul and Apol- los, and Mr. Taylor will explain what it is to follow Christ, while Mr. Newton will take up the general subject of revivals of religion and consider it. The guest chamber where the Saviour sups with His disciples will be furnished by Mr. McCarthy, and the evil effects of indecision in spiritual matters, together with the mysteries of Providence, will be pointed out by Mr. Leavell. The Lord as our helper and our banner will be presented by Mr. Hawthorne, and the time and coming of Christ and the end of the world by Mr. Lightbourn. Mr. Saunders will take up the subject of modern miracles, which is now so prominently before the pub- lie through the cure of a Brooklyn pastor of a disease of many years’ standing. Several Brooklyn pastors will also discuss the same theme, and will give attention to the coming revival as well, These are the chief topics for consideration to-day. Tux Bawk or Cautyronnia has had the highest of all possible compliments paid to it by the community which it serves. Generally when ao bank sus- pends public confidence is - dimin- ished, but in thie case it is increased, and when the bank reopened yesterday the peo- | ple were quite as eager to deposit as to draw | their money. An institution thus sustained The time has come in our polities when | personal ambition mast be dropped. After the Presidential election, when we have saved the country, we can discuss municipal griev- | ances. The purification of the democratic party, long possessed of power, has ceased | cannot fail unless the people fail first, and | that is the last of all things to be expected from California, The rejoicings in San Fran- | ciseo yesterday are described by our corre- spondent, and the event was celebrated with | as mach enthusiasm as if it had been the | glorious Fourth. Rarm Taawerr.—-The Rapid Transit Com- missioners, it is said, will not recommend | any particular plan of construction foran elevated road, but will lay down certain con- ditions and specifications with which the constructors Will be compelled to conform. | This will probably lead to a combination of | several plans. In some places the arch, in | others the upright columns and in others the cable plan may be the most practicable and desirable; hence the decision of the | Commissioners appears to have been wisely made. | Tae Srnacuse Rervnticans have decided | that they do not want ex-Speaker Thomas G. Alvord to represent them in the Assembly next year. Mr, Alvord was beaten in the Convention by four votes. Well, Mr. Alvord is very experienced in Albany legislation and perhaps the Svracuse veople have done wisely. own ranks. The Syracuse platform to-day | theelection may show to the democrats in | The Autumn Races. | The meeting st Jerome Park yesterday was an interesting event. The races wero unusually fine, and there was a promptitade about the starting which we have not ob- served*at former meetings, and which added largely to the interest of thesport. The acci- dent which befell Calvin was a melancholy event and threw a gloom over the gathering, every one of whom seemed to feel 4 personal interest in the misfortunes of this noble beast. Accidents will happen; but we are glad to think that in this case it was not the result of mischief or malignity, The weather was beyond criticism. It was every- thing October could be. This is saying a great deal, for in our Northern climate October is rich with sunshine, fresh breezes and clear, life-giving air. The interest shown in the races yesterday bids fair to continue throughout the whole meeting. The best stables in the country wero represented, and the leaders of our turf rejoiced in the opportunity of showing what they had done in bringing the horse to per- | fection. In reference to the suggestion by | our reporter, that it might be well to | make these races more popular by limit- ing admission fees to the stands and the quarter stretch, we have only to say that, practically, the race course at | Jerome Park is open to the public ; for, as was seen yesterday, there were as many peo- ple outside of the gates looking on from the hills and the points of observation beyond the park grounds as there were within. At the same time anything that makes horse racing popular by enabling the people to take part in these annual meetings will be of advantage to the turf and to the people. The value of racing is not simply in these trials of skill, but in the results which come from the education of the horse. When we see the amount of capital, the time, the energy, the ability, devoted to this pur- suit, when we observe the affectionate inter- est which racing men feel in their noble charges, we can well understand how the pop- ularity of the turf must result in the im- provement of the horse. The fear that the turf would sink into a mere gambling concern is not justified by any experience in England or America. Of course venturesome people will gamble on horses as they do upon stocks or church pews or in railways. The gambling spirit would find occupation if there were not a horse ora racing track in America. There would be just as much justice in recommending the abolition of horse rac- ing because pocls are bought and sold as there would be in recommending the abo- lition of the Central Railroad because job- bers in Wall street buy ‘‘puts” and ‘‘calls” on its stock. The real value of the turf is in the popularity it gives to horsemanship and the interest it excites in the development of the horse. For this reason we congratulate the people upon the opening at Jerome Park yesterday, as showing that we have a hearty, manly interest in this Anglo-Saxon sport. The Bubbling of the Caldron. If the anti-Tammany free lance elements in New York could be consolidated there would be a lively time ahead for the chief of the Swallow-Tails and the descendant of Brian Boroihme. We have various factions in a state*of disorganization. There is the O’Morrissey party, who propose to run their chief for Senator against ex-Senator Fox in the downtown wards. There is the O’Creamer party, mainly composed of the citizens of avenue A, who believe that ham- stealing should not be punished with twenty years’ imprisonment while peculation of the treasury is made a means of professional dis- tinction. On this platform O’Creamer can make a xovel contest, as this ham- stealing qnestion is becoming an impor- tant if not a controlling element in our politics. There is ex-Surveyor Rufus FP. O’Andrews, with his Teetotallers; there is ex- District Attorney John McKeon, with the Ultramontanists, who mean to contest the school question under the leadership of the old Jacksonian democrat. There is ex-Assem- blyman and ex-candidate for the Presidency Theodore O'Tomlinson, with his famous plat- form in favor of making clamshells legal tender, and ex-Congressman Uncle Dick at the head of the Paper Collar Democ- racy. Uncle Dick proposes to give to every able-bodied voter a thousand dollars in greenbacks—a most attractive platform, | which, when it comes to be explained, will no doubt have a wide influence on the elections. Thus far we have O'Morrissey, O'Creamer, O’Tomlinson, O’Schell and— O'Botheration ! These various free lance bands of guer- illas, if they could only be combined under a strong leadership, would test the courage and genius of ex-Sheriff O'Kelly, and especially if they formed an alliance with republicans anxious for a canvass and a market. There are the John Cochrane republicans and the liberal repub- licans and the Beet-Eaters of the Custom House, headed by ex-Collector O'Murphy, and the anti-Beef-Eaters, just now without a head, looking around for a leader who can pay expenses, The prizes at the next election are none of them tempting, but quite honorable. It will be mainly a judicial fight. There are to be chosen a Judge of the Superior and the Common Pleas Courts, eight Civil Justices, Surrogate, - Recorder, two Judges of the Marine Court, City Judge, District Attorney and Senators. Many prominent citizens are named for these stations. As it now stands the hearty common sense of the democratic party, which seés the real contest in the national fight, and this local affair a mere tournament of free lancers, will not be seduced into an attitude that will do no good4o the city but be of grave harm to the democratic party and the country at large. Caprams McCutioca’s Tran has been postponed until next Wednesday. By the way, what has become of Captain Williams and his trial? ‘Tae Para: MIA RarLnoaD SLAUGHTER. — A Coroner's jury has been inquiring into the enuse of the death of the victims of the col- | lision between an excursion train and a pas- senger train, drawn by a dummy, in Phila- | delphia last Sunday, The acting engineer of the dummy was pronounced guilty of criminal negligence, and was committed to | await the action of the Grand Jury. It is to be hoped that a full investigation will be made by the Grand Jury and that all who are found to have been responsible for the slaughter will be punished. An example in such cases is needed for the public protec- tion. The Death of American Girl. American Girl, who died yesterday at El- mira, was a horse more fortunate than the vast majority of mankind. Although she died young, even in the computation of equine lives, her career was full of splendor and success. It was bright and swift, like a comet, and the time of her circling course was calculated with almost as much mathe- matical accuracy as the orbit of a celestial body. One-quarter of a second was as im- portant in the measurement of her speed as it would be in that of the transit of Venus, She was waited upon like a princess ; she lived in a stable which was more comfortable than many Italian palaces ; when she appeared in public it was amid the acclamation of admiring thousands, and she was worth twenty-five thousand dollars, which is greatly above the commer- cial value of most men, excepting Congress- men and legislators, Her personal quali- | ties were excellent; she was gentle, kind and modest; victory was never known to turn her head ; indeed, she often won by a neck, and, with more consistency than many pol- iticians, she never was known to bolt. The death of American Girl, like that of Garrick, will sadden the gayety of nations. So far as sorrow is concerned, the world could have better spared a better man. Wherever the horse is loved this magnificent specimen of the race will be lamented, but regret will be softened by the superb dra- matic effect with which her career was closed. As it was figuratively said of Earl Chatham, Thaddeus Stevens and other distinguished statesmen, so may it literally be said of her that she died in harness, Death and Gold- smith Maid were almost the only brutes that could beat her. The old Queen of the Turf has kept a full length in front of Death for nearly twenty years, t#ll, baffled in his at- tempt to catch her, he entered invisibly in the Elmira races, and, mounted on the w. g. Pale Horse, distanced poor American Girl in the first heat. This defeat broke her heart; but let us trust that the rainbow which, ac- cording to the high authority of the Associated Press, rested upon the head of the dying mare, is typical of her radiant future. If there is indeed a horse heaven she has gone to it. There she will meet with Bucephalus, with the horses of Achilles, with Balaam's ass, Rosinante, Dapple and all the mighty steeds of antiquity, to sport with them in fields of immortal bloom and feed upon celestial oats. The ghost of Alexander may be proud to mount her and race against all other quad- ruped shades, with infinity for a course and eternity for time. American Girl in her prime and all other good horses like Eclipse, Fashion, Flora Temple, Goldsmith Maid and the stallion Patchen, then the terrible Swift's ‘Gulliver,” where he tells of the Houyhnhnms, or horses of superior rea- son, who had men for servants, seems deprived of much of its sting and bit- terness, The inferiority of humanity to the equinal race ceases to be so humiliating. Farewell, then, American Girl! May the monument which shall be raised to thy memory fitly celebrate thy deeds and vir- tues! Well may it be said of thee, “Green be the turf above thee !” for in life never was there a horse who stepped more lightly upon it. A Seasonable Topic. It must have been noticed by the public that a gentle breeze of puffery sweeps over the land. Indeed, the time when the leaves in the forest show the touch of the frost with their red and yellow brilliancy is the chosen season of puffery. But the season is not rig- orously fixed. It has no such definite sign as the oyster season has in orthography, though it has nearly the same limits; neither has it the positive dates of the game law, out- side of which it becomes a criminal offence for a man to be found with a puff on his per- son, or offering one to an editor, and this is to be regretted. But it has a general relation to the end of the summer festivities out of town and the commencement of the gayeties of the city. In May or thereabouts the im- presario disappears suddenly, silently, as a bird of passage. No dormouse stowed away in timber or earth is quicter for awhile. ‘Then he sends us from time to time a well conceived reminder of his existence. He sends these teminders by the cable. First we hear that Signor Flummerini, the great tenor, has met with a severe accident, which has damaged his collar bone, but has not in- jured his magnificent voice. ‘Two or three days later the attentive cable tells us that Flummerini is better, and that there is a probability that he may be induced to visit the United States this autumn. Alas! in ten days this hope is crushed by the sad news that Flummerini has accepted the over- whelming offers of the Emperor of Russia and will go to St. Petersburg. Soon, how- ever, hope, which springs eternal in the hu- man breast, revives once more, and presently the grand news comes that the impresario is actually on the sea with the great prize that he has torn from the very clutches of the Northern Bear. All this important intelli- gence is sent us by the now active impresa- rio, and generally, we believe, at the expense of the Associated Press. At least we know, and we hope the public knows, that these despatches are not our specials, They pre- pare the public mind, however, and so it is of no consequence at whose expense they are sezt. Eventually the great artist arrives and is welcomed to our shores by some brilliant orator ‘‘in the name of the Union.” At this stage there are what are called ovations; there are excursions to meet the artist, crowds turn ont to serenade him and the enthusiastic people have even been known to take out the horses and drag his carriage themselves. ling story of his life appears in all thé pa- pers, filled with pithy and sometimes dra- matic details. No doubt it is interesting reading to the artistand the manager. To us it seems to be generally an inane and fulsome rigmarole, there has not been enough of all this, All these processes are old and dolorously famil- iar to their smallest particular. Cannot the managers invent some new processes for When we remember satire of Immediately the start- | Let us gently inquire if puffery? If they cannot we would respect- fully call their attention to the advertising columns, Our rates are forty cents a line. If any man has any article he offers for sale to the public that is the place for his commend- ations of that article; and justice to the reader requires that his commendations should be kept there. If the life of an artist and acrit- ical statement of his merits is put in the ad- vertising columns it will read just as well there as in any other columns, and the pub- | lic will understand exactly who it comes | from. For our part we distinctly object to the further use of any other of our columns for this purpose. A Movement ror Economy. —It is rumored that some citizens familiar with the princi- ples of finance have agreed to consult to- gether for the purpose of considering how we can best check the rapidly growing debt of the city and decrease our heavy expendi- tures. Some action is undoubtedly necessary if we desire to save the city from bankruptcy. The net debt on January 1, 1871, was seventy- three million dollars, It is now about one hundred and thirty millions, being an in- crease of fifty-seven millions, ‘Ihe expenses of the year's government in 1870 were nine- teen million dollars. This year they are thirty-six millions—an increase of seventeen millions. In 1871 the real estate of the city was valued at seven hundred and seventy millions, and in 1875 at eight hundred and eighty-four millions—an increase of one hundred and fourteen millions, in the face of an actual shrinkage in real estate of about thirty per cent. In the meantime personal property is valued ninety millions less im 1875 than in 1871. These few facts are better than a volume of argument to prove the necessity of financial reform, A Geyrieman who was about to leave the city last Friday evening called upona lawyer and intrusted him with a bond, a bank book and a little over one thousand dollars in money. Changing his mind, he called later in the evening to take back his property, but the lawyer retained the money, giving back only the bond and book. The matter was taken before a police court for investigation. Probably the lawyer deems the money only an adequate fee for his trouble of trusteeship, and according to the cost of legal advice to the city and to the gentlemen of Ring repu- tation with whom the city has legal transac- tions the idea is not so preposterous, after all. Avorner Accrpenr Occurrep yesterday through the breaking of a rope used in hoist- ing a safe at No. 2 Cedar street, This time a man received a compound fracture of the skull through being struck by the falling block. Two such accidents within a few days should direct public attention to the necessity of providing for severe penalties and punishment in all similar cases. Any neglect to make the hoisting apparatus en- tirely safe should be made a criminal offence, Tue Fryanctat Question.—We print else- where a letter from the Hon. Elijah Ward . upon the question of the currency, and call the attention of democrats here and in other States to his vigorous presentation ofthe necessity of a sound currency and a resump tion of specie payments. Tne Portce are to be instructed to arrest all truant children. This will give them something to do, for such arrests they wil probably be able to make. Tux Covnts.—To-morrow begins the lega’ year in the State Courts, and the information elsewhere published of the different terms will be of interest to the lawyers and clients. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Governor Thomas C. Reynolds, of Missouri, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Ratcliff, of England, is among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Bass, the British beer man, has 40,000 “drummers,” according to the latest call of the roll. There was a time when the romantic school of musie thought they had it all their own way, Four hundred persons in Tennessee would not have to pay any taxes if they did not own dogs. Mr. G. W. Atherton, of the Red Cloud Indian Com- mission, is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Tammer, an Austrian, has a quartet of dogs which bark in two notes each and produce simple airs, An engineer from the Black Hills reports gold at twenty cents a cord and bread at $11 a crumb, Mr. George 8, Bangs, Superintendent of the Railway Postal Service, is sojourning at the St. James Hotel. Mr. Alfred T. Goshorn, Director General of the Cen. tennial Exhibition, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Ex-Governor Leland Stanford, having returned from Saratoga to California, says he never thought of buying the mare Lula, One hundred and forty thousand girls in California are ready to be married, but their fathers do not belong to the bank syndicate, Mr. John O'Connor Power, M. P., of Ireland, returned to this city last evening and took up his residence as the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Neal Dow wishes that taxes should be paid in instal. ments, but when Maine offered to drink her barrels ot whiskey in instalments Neal Dow objected. Obio's famous hunter does not use a breech-loading gun, He goes out carly in the morning and when he returns at might he invariably bas a dozen watermel- ons, Out in Newada, if we are to believe newspaper stati ties, the atmosphere is so Light that a cord of wood let out over bight will shrink to three-quarters of a cord before morning. Wheu Mra Selkreg complained that he occupied too much time in looking at the pin-back dresses he piously replied that he was ab-ont minded amd thought that he was in the Garden of Eden. As (ho faith fit! Indian agent gives poor Lo his rations of ealt beef he mournfully eays:>—"That beef's diferens | from any Leet you'd get If you were a white man living ia the East, Beef im the Kaw ‘thave any smell to itatall Just think of that,” Lotta’s Fountain, presented to her native San Fran- cisco, haa become popular institution, As the pearly drops fall (ute the elegant basin the 'Friscan thinks he hears the far-off tinklings of ber banjo, and goes aad Gres stones at a Chinaman, | \ slow music, Wendell Phillips wae presented by certain Boston Irishmen with au edition of the “Eneyclopwdia Brie tannica,"’ becanse he lectured so well about Daniel 0'Com- nell, He can now look into his books for anything he does not kuow, but be is not 4 man who will ever open them | Marta Loretta, ap Itallan girl, of San Francisco, went to her father and said that Guiasipe Galli ought to marry her, Old Loretta was only 4 vegetable pedier, but be seid, “Maria, it # too late to-night to get out @ warrant; there isa knile."” And he lay down and wont to sleep. 4 Robinson, of Winnebago county, Mlinols, turned out | to hear exdenator James K. Doolittle say that a mar- Fed man ought to have two votes, because he always feprosents at least two in the interests of good govern. mont, and has bad more experience than a «! man ‘tm goverming human society Then Rovinson wont home, and a6 he kicked over the lam batch of bread he was hoard to remark that now «man could sell bis yore | Wo both candidates without going Yack om bis party,