The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | ditions of the New York Heratp will be | gent free of postage. bench iaiadiindtice All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yous HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned, 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, LONDON OFFICE,OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND - EVENING, STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Ewenty-vichth street, near Broady ny ThE NEW LEAR, | At Be ML closes at 10:90 P.M.” Miss Clara Morris Aleut woo at 1:30 7 EAGLE THEATRE, Broadway Set Thivay-shied street. —VARIETY, at 8P. M. Matinee at 2 1’ GLOBE Noa, 728 and 7510 Broadway. INST: LSY and VARIETY, SPM, Matinee at 2 P.M. WoOD's MUSEUM, Broadway. corner of Thirtieth street—O'NEIL, THE | AVENGER, ats P.M; cloves at 10:45 P.M, Matines at 2 BLM. Mr. Joseph Proctor. TONY PASTO! Nos. 585 and O57 Broadway. THEATRE, RUSTY, at 8 POM. eenth street. LINES, ut 3 P. Matinee at THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, Chird avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-first street: INSTRELSY and VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matines a GERMANIA,THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving pluce.—LEMONS, at 8 P. M. | TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue. —VARIETY, at 8 P.M. | Matinee at 2:90 P.M. YWERY THEATR BO RE, fowery:— —STREETS OF NEW YORK, at 8 P.M. Joseph COLOSSEUM, Chirty-fourth street and Broadway.—PRUSSIAN STEGE OF | PARIS. Open trom 10 4. M. to. 5 P. M. and from 7 P. M. to (OP. aM. CHICKERING HALL, | Fifth avi and Eighteenth street. ORCHESTRAL CON- cunt, ’M. Von Bulow. | it only by way of compromise, Other mem- | date was of no value. We have seen no rea- = | son to change our opinion. | as the last Congress was to enactit, A re- | aration which would gradually lead up to | been reserved for the last. If Congress had | greenbacks and bring them .steadily toward NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, Senator Ferry’s Views on the Cur- rency. In the interesting interview with the President of the Senate, telegraphed from Washington and printed in the Henaxp yes- terday, he made a frank exposition of his financial opinions. Justice requires us to say that they are not such as should set the country wild with alarm in the event of his ernment. Although there are parts of his views from which we dissent there are other parts which are reasonable enough to merit respectful consideration. His prompt recognition of the right of the country to know his opinions in view of the new con- tingency which has arisen is square and manly, and should exempt him from cap- tious criticism. Mr. Ferry’s opinion that it was unwise to fix a definite date for resumption. He was the head of the committee which framed the law requiring the Treasury to pay specie on and | after January 1, 1879; but he makes no se- | cret of his opposition to that feature of the law, and explains that he consented to bers of the committee favored January 1, 1876. Mr. Ferry was opposed to fixing a specific date at all; but he yielded so far as to consent to place it in January, 1879, wish- ing to extend the period as far as possible to give time for preparation. The Heraup maintained at the time that the fixing of a We contended, when the bill was on its passage, that such a pledge was worthless, because any subse- quent Congress would be as free to repeal it peal is inevitable if it shall be found, when the period approaches, that the legal tender notes still remain considerably below par. It was our opinion then, and is our opinion now, that it would haye been wiser to fix no date, but to adopt practical measures of prep- an equalization of the currency with coin. Let this equality be established, let it be maintained for a year or two without disturbance or fluctuation, and it will then be safe to put a law in force requiring specie payments. The law of last winter began at the wrong end; | what it enacted as the first step should have passed measures tending to appreciate the par the country would have justified it in waiting to watch the progress of appreciation and see what further legislation might be needed for hastening an advance toward the goal. If, eéter such preparation, it should | be found in 1878 that the paper currency was already at par, it would then be a safe and easy step for the Congress then in session to pass a law requiring resumption in the fol- TRE, “P.M. Matinee at 2 | | WALLA | Broadway and Thirteenth str ‘at 8 P.M. ; closes M1040 PN, Mr. Hurry Bockett, Miss "Ada Dyas.’ Mati- wwe at 1301 M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, | fixteonth street, wear Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 i’. M. STRINWAY HALL. | fourteenth street.—THEO THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 2 P. M. ‘CO MINSTRELS, New Opera Hou gj corner of Twenty-ninth street, | ateP.M. Mav : THEATRE COMIQUE, £5" Broadway.—VARIETY, at 37. M. Matinee at 2 | BOOTH'S THEATRE, street and Sixth —PANTOMIME, at 3 . Fox. Matinee at 2) ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fonrteenth street—German Opera—FIDELIO, at 2 P.M. Wachtel Company, PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second street.— GAR, at STM. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. HE MIGHTY :DOL- Matinee at2 P. METROPOLITAN M fe. {98 West Fourteenth see WITH | xEW YOR: K,. UM OF ART, —Open from 10'A. M. to 5 UPPLEMENT. SATU Dal From. our reports this morning the probe ies. are that the weather to-day will be cold and | wear. Tse Henaup py Fast Mam Trars.—Ners- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South and Southwest, also along the lines of the Iudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Tae Hznaxp, | free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Wart Srnzer Yesrenpay.— After a tempo- rary exhibition of buoyancy stocks declined. Money on call was quoted at 5 and 4 per | cent. Rag paper is worth 87.33. Gold was steady at 114 1-2. Masxep Rospers are murderers at heart, and hence no efforts should be spared to | trace the desperate men who surprised and | ransacked a schooner at Hunter's Point on Thursday evening. Such offences must not be committed with impunity. A Srvcrvian Epiwsope is reported from | Bilbao, where Mr. A. H. Layard, the British Minister at Madrid, recently refused to re- ceive Captain General Burriel, the butcher of the Virginins prisoners at Santiago de Cuba, There was as much courage as bru- tality in the act of the Spaniard, but it was | deed at which the world shuddered, and | its perpetrator finds in this discourtesy the disgust with which his offence is regarded. Tue Latest Puase or tay SH Qurs- f10n.—We print elsewhere an important des- patch from Madrid in reference to the diplo- | matic complication between Spain and the | United States, The meaning of this news is that Spain concedes nothing she has not con- ceded before, and that, while a state of war lasts in Cuba, she will not be prevented from enforcing military justice upon all who take part in the insurrection. As this was the ground taken by our own government in of circumstances of a similar character, it is difficult to see how we can this declaration. At the same time we can understand how this position on the of Spain could be made a pretext for renewed activity on the part of our navy. Much of what scemed dark appears clear enough by the light of this latest news. | utterly worthless, since it does nothing tow- | notes and gold. On the contrary, the pre- | mium | its reduction by the operation of that | course, refer to France. | butt end foremost. | any risk which might imperil the stability of | | day for specie resumption, although its cur- | fix the date it did not select an immediate lowing January. The law of last winter is ard equalizing the value of legal tender is higher than it was last win- ter, and there is no reason to expect law. If it should be found in 18%8 that the paper currency is still below par nothing is more certain than that the Con- gress then in session will be forced to repeal the act of last winter fixing January, 1879, as the date for resumption. On this point we are in accord with Senator Ferry, and could fortify his opinion with stronger rea- sons than the brevity of his interview with our representative permitted him to state. The truth is that the act of last winter was not a measure of finance, but a mancuvre of | politics. The republican party had just been disastrously beaten in the elections and thought it necessary to do something to re- trieve its sinking prospects. The measure it adopted was a mere lip service to specie pay- ments. It amounted to nothing, because no provision was made for the intermediate steps. It was as absurd as it would be to say to a workman that at the end of precisely four minutes he must stand on the topmost round of a high ladder when the ladder had no rounds and none were supplied for the first forty feet from the ground. While our government has been thus trifling with a great subject there has been a success- ful contemporary example of intelligent dealing with a similar problem. We, of The government of | France has acted on sound financial princi- ples. It did not attempt to drive the wedge It did not begin by fix- ing a day for resuming specie payments, but by adopting measures for bringing its paper currency to par. It had succeeded in this nearly two years ago, but even then it was in no haste to resume, being unwilling to take what it had accomplished. It was not until some seven or eight weeks ago that it fixed a rency had been maintained steadily at par for a long period. And when it did recently but a distant one. The Bank of France will not resume specie payments until January, 1878, although its notes are at par and it has gold in its coffers to the amount of five hundred million francs. This may be succeeding to the highest office in the gov- | A great deal could be said in defence of | is not so clear that its honor is bound to procure the gold by any particular method. We presume the public creditors would be equally satisfied if the gold were raised in any other manner. It is not proba- ble that the value of the government bonds method of providing the gold. But, be this as it may, it is quite certain that the payment of the customs revenue in greenbacks would | have a good effect on the currency and tend | to appreciate its value. Besides relieving the government of the reproach of discredit- | ing itsewn paper, which is the point made | by Senator Ferry, it would have another | important effect which he does not explain. It would increase the uses of the currency and diminish the amount in circulation, and both parts of the process would enhance its value. The increased employment it would give to greenbacks is obvious. But, besides this substitution for gold in collecting the customs revenue, a considerable proportion which is now kept in circulation would be locked up in the Treasury, as gold from the same source is now locked = up. If the public faith is pledged toa different course the public faith must be kept ; but it seems like a strain- ing of the statute to put upon it such a con- struction. If doubts can be removed on this point there is no one measure of preparation for specie payment so valuable as that recom- mended by Mr. Ferry. We totally dissent from the view which he held in the spring of 1874, and which he still defends, in favor of increasing the paper cur- rency to eight hundred millions, and fixing that as the maximum limit. But that is an obsolete question. It is only the present opinions of the President of the Senate that are of any particular interest to the country. We are glad that we find so much in his present views to approve, and we think we have done a valuable service in drawing them out and appeasing a widespread solici- tude. We thank the President of the Senate for the frankness and courtesy with which he responded to our reqnest and communicated his views for the information of the country. Alexander Dumas’ New Play “L’Etran- gere.” Sardou once entitled a famous play ‘La Famille Benoit,” and it was announced to appear by that name. He received by mail the energetic protest of a person accom- plished in the small sword exercise, who, in- timating that he had the honor to bear the name of Benoit, expressed the chagrin it would give him to see any unpleasant use made of it. Sardou then called his play “La Famille Bonnasson,” and the parts Were changed throughout to that effect. This stirred up the widow Bonnasson, a respect- able person, who said that the Bonnassons were a virtuous family and did not appreci- ate the attentions of his muse. Then came the last name, ‘‘La Famille Benoiton,” which was adhered to against the strenuous objec- tions of a gendarme, who wrote that his friends were of opinion that the dramatist meant to ridicule him personally in this use of his name, and hinted luridly at the possi- bly tragical a saat of such a proceed- ing. Now that it is known that M. Alexandre Dumas has written a play called ‘L’Etran- gere,"” that is in our clumsy English the “Foreign Woman,” it is to be hoped that all the quarters of the world will not be uneasy on this example and too hastily take the compliment to themselves. Let not Italy tremble, nor England hide her head; let not the German Ambassador in Paris prepare to inform the Ministry that the play must not appear if the woman is Teutonic; let not the Czar betray his excitement by adding: to his dominions four more provinces in Central Asia. These nations may be easy. Their withers are respectively unwrung. They are not the galled jades that must wince at the touch of the artistic pen to which we owe so many faithful and startling pictures of French life. Their respectable names are not intended. The foreigner who is of such importance in Dumas’ new play that she gives the title to the piece isan American. Her husband is in the piece also; but whether she deals with that person as the French women in Dumas’ pieces always deal with their husbands it would be premature to say. It appears, however, that she is not presented asa model of the virtues, for a writer in the Figaro says that she is not only a “stranger” in the sense in which every foreigner is, but that she is also a stranger to morality and the social proprieties; in short, almost an enemy to the human race. This person is called Mrs. Clarkson, and her husband is Mr. Clarkson. In order to draw their pictures with unmistakble Ameri- can lineaments M. Dumas, we are told, has read ‘‘more than thirty volumes” on the his- tory and manners of North America. His Americans, therefore, will be as indisputably successful as ‘‘the cataract of the Ganges with real water.” It appears that the Ameri- can is shockingly put down in one exciting scene by a Duchess, in whose parlor he pre- pares to load his pipe with a view to'a com- fortable smoke. She protests. He yields the point, but not without demonstrations of astonishment at the discovery that it is not customary to smoke in the parlors of an excess of caution; but it is better to err on the safe _ side, The | fundamental requisite of a good cur- rency is stability of value, and it would | have so unsettling and calamitous an effect to resume and then be again compelled to suspend that it is better to wait until busi- ness is firmly rooted after the currency is brought to par before actually redeeming it in gold. Not only is Senator Ferry sound and cor- rect in his opinion of the inexpediency of a fixed date for resumption before the values of gold and greenbacks are equalized, but one of | the principal steps he recommends for that | purpose is entitled to candid discussion. We do not indorse it without qualification, for we recognize the possible force of one of the objections that might be urged against it. It may be said that the government has | pledged its faith to the public creditors to collect its customs revenue in gold and set apart cnongh of it to pay the interest on the national debt and meet the requirements of | the sinking fund, There can be no ques- tion that the public faith is explicitly | pledged to pay the debt, both prin- | cipal and interest, in gold; but it | ception! refined life. Startling fidelity to nature of a great dramatist! Wonderful nicety of per- Who can wonder at the success of the author who derives points like this from the perusal of ‘‘more than thirty volumes” of American history. And yet we may not | complain, for when we consider how Dumas has pictured his own countrymen perhaps we should be content if he says no worse of us than that we smoke ignorantly. | Tue Scannect Trin is drawing to a close. The verdict will depend entirely upon the question of the insanity of the prisoner at the time of the shooting. | Fox Huwrixe is to be promoted, if for no other reason because it affords Mr. Bergh a | new theme for his interminable essays, The first of this series we print this morning, and it will be observed that Bergh rivals Dono- hue in the use of the vernacular. In THE Twxep Case in the Supreme Court | the motion to vacate the order of arrest or re- duce the bail in the one million suit was | argued yesterday, but the decision has been | reserved. While fees are to be earned it | seems the lawyers will continue to find ex- | vedients for earning them would depreciate at all by a change in the | Tammany Must Be Destroyed. Tammany is the only conspicuous instance in our history where a secret society has worked the political machinery persistently and steadily through many generations, | Other secret societies have come up from time to time, like the Know Nothings, and been swept away by the results of the next election ; but here is a regularly organized society operating through whole political periods like the secret tribunals of Italy and Germany in the Middle Ages, always for the support of a certain class of society and for the oppression of all others. Now, the per- sons oppressed by the Tammany machinery are the democratic voters of this city; 1t dis- franchises them; it permits them formally to vote, but not before it has determined for them how they shall vote and whom they shall support. Is this freedom? No! The demo- cratic voters are tired of that machinery. ‘They are the political vassals of Tammany Hall, and the way to free them is to demolish the machinery. This is vigorously said by the Times of yes- terday as follows:— It is an outrage upon the people of this city that our government should practically be under the control of @ secret society. No one can associate any good work with the name and history of Tammany Hall. When it & not been engaged in the endeavor to plunder the yers it has ceaselessly endeavored to prevent the wi hig the pepe from raion fair expression at the oo the same point i is made by the Sun as follows:— In his speech denouncing Recorder Hackett “Mr. Kelly did appear to us to show an almost utter want of comprehension of the great principles of indepen- dence and liberty which lie at the foundation of Amert- can institutions, So there was an astonishing degree of arrogance and assumption in his speeches after the election, the burden of which was that he had fur- nished to the voters of New York a good list of candi- dates, and yet the voters had not olected them. He did not reflect that overy other voter in New York had just as good a right to supply a list of candidates as him- self, He assumed a function which does not exist under our system of government. It is well enough known in the Tammany machinery that ‘this function does not exist,” for if it did their society would have died long since. The function to name the ticket exists in the nomination conventions; these are created by the General Committee, which is inspired by the Boss, and the Boss and committee and all alike are the creatures and tools of the Tammany Society, which thus puts itself in our political system boldly in the place of the people. The Times says justly :— Nor is it within the bounds of probability that the organization can ever be reformed. A house which is built on rotten foundations cannot be made secure by putting in a new door here and there and mending the broken windows. Tho principle on which Tammany exists and is managed is thoroughly bad, and the sub- stitution of another *Boss”” for Join Kelly would be an idle form’ The only means by which it can be pre- vented from doing further harm is to abolish it alto- gether. That is the point. Reforming Tammany has been tried. Attempts to “reform” Tam- many have often resulted in defeating it at the polls, But what then? Beaten by the honest democrats the Tammany democrats first organized the Ring system for plunder- ing the treasury of the city with the assist- ance of republican votes. Attempts at re- form are futile ; it must be destroyed. Pxrymovrn Cuunca had quite an exciting and important business meeting last night. Several letters of withdrawal were received from members, and also one from Mrs. Fanny West, asking that her name be dropped. ‘The latter letter was finally referred to the Examining Committee, as was also the case of her husband. But the importance of the meeting was found in the action taken by the church in relation to Mrs. Emma C. Moulton’s letter of defiance. A lengthy document was submitted, review- ing the question from a Plymouth aspect, and deciding to grant her request for a coun- cil to judge of the case in all its bearings. The ‘‘answer” was finally adopted and the details left for the Exam- ing Committee to arrange. This decision on the part of Plymouth church will undoubt- edly renew the discussion over the great scandal, and once more will the public be worried by the troubles and griefs of the Plymouth pastor. Anp Now Count Von Arno is to be in- dicted for treason on the charge of being the author of the irritating pamphlet which re- cently appeared in regard to the trial and punishment of that distinguished statesman. It must be confessed that the work was as imprudent as it was bitter, and among other things both the Prince Chancellor and the ambassador, in an interview which took place between! them in 1873, are represented as deficient in dignity as two fishwives. Bis- marck's treatment of Von Arnim, long before the trial, is characterized as cruel persecu- tion; but the cause of all the trouble seems to lie inthe fears. of the former and the hopes of the latter in regard to the suc- cession to the Prince Chancellor's place. This being the case Von Arnim will certainly be indicted and convicted of treason if Bis- marck lives long enough to effect this pur- pose. | Ir 1s Sexpom a moneyed institution makes so bad a showing as that of the Central Park Savings Bank. With only forty-five thou- sand dollars of deposits a building was bought which was to cost seventy thousand dollars, and forty thousand dollars of the depositors’ money ‘was paid for it. These facts are in themselves a sufficient condem- nation of the management of the institution. ‘The list of broken banks, especially savings banks, is becoming alarmingly large, and if the failures continuo depositors will not feel security anywhere. Rigid investigation and rigorous punishment are the only reme- dies in these and other cases which may fol- low after them. Tux Svez Caxat has been purchased by Great Britain as a political measure. This step is a bold and audacious one, and, consid- India, the encroachments of Russia in Cen- tral Asia, the natural antagonisms between the Khedive and the Porte, and the troubles which are constantly springing out of the Eastern question, its importance cannot be overestimated. The possession of this great the complications of the future, the Suez Canal being she key which closes or unlocks the communication between the West and | the East. Srcrer Socrerms are a nuisance at best, but in colleges they are absurd. The troubles in Princeton College grow, out of these un- necessary organizations; but it is difficult to determine who is most to blame, the Faculty or the students ered in relation to the British possessions in | | work gives England a powerful advantage in | | | NOVEMBER 27, 1875.——W!TH SUPPLEMENT, Our Real Interest in Cuba, The people of the United States would like to see Cuba free ; just as they would like to see all the West Indian islands ruling and governing themselves ; just as they rejoiced when the Spanish colonies in South America and Mexico obtained their liberties and began to exercise the rights of self-goy- ernment. Considering our own history, it is inevitable that Americans should sym- pathize with every attempt of other Amer- icans to shake off the rule of Europe and become independent nations. ‘This sym- pathy, however, has never hitherto led us to fight the battles of people engaged in such an attempt ; nor should it now; especially when we find that a considerable proportion of the Cubans who profess to desire the freedom of their island live here in peace when they ought to be fighting the Spaniards, But the people of the United States have a real interest in Cuba of quite another kind. Our trade with the island is very large. We are one of the principal cus- tomers for its sugar and tobacco, and the’ islanders have use for a great many of our products, But under the present treaty ar- rangements between Spain and the United States our traffic with the island is so seriously hampered that it has for a great many years been an extremely one-sided affair. For in- stance, in 1871 we imported from Cuba prod- ucts of the island to the amount of $58,240,000, and sold there of our own prod- ucts only $14,200,000 worth. In the year ending June 30, 1875, we imported of Cuban products $66,745,000 worth and sold in Cuba only $15,586,000 worth. For a great number of years the discrepancy between our im- ports from and exports to Cuba has been quite as great as these figures show, and this is owing to commercial regulations of Spain which are antiquated, and which even Span- ish statesmen have been willing to change. Now, instead of going to war with Spain or threatening her in such a way as to bring about hostilities, which would only cause us a needless expense for which we are not pre- pared, and would derange our commerce and finances, the real interests of our people would be furthered by negotiations for a more liberal system of commercial regula- tions, such as would enable us to sell Ameri- can products in Cuba to the same value as the Cuban products we buy. Nearly twenty years ago Spain offered usa new commercial treaty, which, had it been accepted, would have greatly increased our commerce and enriched our producers. But the ruling powers here at,.that time rejected this offer, being then busied with a scheme for buy- ing Cuba. Why does not the Presi- dent reopen negotiations at Madrid for a revision of the commercial regula- tions, such as shall enable us to export our products direct tothe island? Spain is hardly in a position to refuse what we could justly ask, and the opportunity seems to be favorable for such a negotiation as we sug- gest? A treaty with Spain allowing us to send direct to Cuba and to enter there free, or with a moderate duty, all of our products which can find a market there would bo hailed in this country as one of the wisest and the most important achievements of the present administration; but a war with Spain would receive no favor here except among speculators and contractors, The Programme for the International | Rowing Contests at Philadelphia. We lay before our readers this morning the official card of the committee appointed by the Schuylkill Navy to take charge of the great rowing meeting next summer at Phila- delphia, and the long and excellent standing of the many clubs composing this organiza- tion is ample guarantee that the conduct of the affair will reflect credit on the nation. The programme has many noticeable fea- tures. While it is customary to divide row- ing into amateur and professional only, the committee has wisely separated the former into three classes—namely, that for college graduates, college undergraduates, and crews composed exclusively of neither, The first distinction—made at the suggestion of the Heratp—introduces a new and valuable featurein this ccuntry, though not unknown abroad. In preparing for it, as for all the contests, there should not be a day lost. Many foreigners, and especially Englishmen of the better classes, purpose attending the | Exhibition in large numbers. Out of Oxford and Cambridge alone are annually graduated the material for many excellent crews, and there is a good prospect that our oarsmen will find backing up to the line next season, in the presence of an assembly not unlike that which yearly pours out of London to view the Putney to Mortlake contest, more than one English crew well able to put them to their very best. Columbia and Cornell have already shown themselves entirely safe custodians of the fair name of the Empire State, and both are looking sharply to keep the undergraduate champion- ship within the State during also. Now let Messrs, Rees and Ra- pallo, Timpson and Cornell, of Colum- bia, work together a couple of hours daily this winter ; let Messrs. Bacon and Kennedy, of Yale, call in two of their old mates ; let Mr. Loring bring from Boston three of the men who sat behind him in '68, and Mr. Eustis put another good Wesleyan with Messrs. Rodgers and Downs, work them this winter and coach them all ‘hext season, as they know how to; and Mr. John Chambers, even though he has rowed two hundred races, may bring the bes¢three Cambridge graduates he can get and find plenty of work cut out for them. learned how to insure fast and close work all over ffie course, and, with old and sea- soned stuff like this, there is ample promise of really superb racing in these graduate contests also, especially as the distance is limited to a mile and a half. Another and welcome feature is that six- oared boats are at last done atyay with, and club work confined to fours. To this end we have labored in season and out of sea- son. Now there will be no more weak or doubtful men in the crews on which we stake our names. Four excellent men have often sat in a boat, six almost never, Limit- ing it to four, there are sure to be good re- lays, the boat is more easily handled on water or land, costs less, can probably be better modelled, and will now accommodite our visitors, most of whom never saw @ 9ix- oar, Row the University race in fours, and 1876" Already the undergraduates have | | go to a restaurant to get my dinner ?”” | Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams and Bowdoin can all bring men already familiar with the trying work of a university race and render the 1876 meeting more brilliant than any of its predecessors. In the amateur racing for non-college men we shall probably be beaten, at least if the work of the Atalantas, Argonautas, Beaver- wycks, Buffaloes and Duqnesnes last sum- mer is the best they can do. Know Nothingism in Tammany Hall. One of the objections to Tammany Hall ig that it is a secret association, There isa lodge which meets in private, the members of which are governed by passwords and grips and signals, who have no responsibility to the people, whose deliberations are un- known and who have power to dictate who shall be the chief of Tammany Hall. Now, in the old Know Nothing times, when a secret organization claimed to do this thing, to ostracize men because they were Germans or Englishmen or Irishmen or Catholics, there wag a great howl all over the country. ‘The common sense of the American people stamped it out as an invasion of public liberty and a violation of national rights. Since then the name of Know Nothingism has been a reproach to every man who belonged to the Order. Those who wero prominent in the movement have been diligently striving to erase that part of their record. Tammany Hall is only a Know Nothing society in another form ; but, like the Know Nothings, it claims to ostra- cize every honest democrat who will not be governed by tho will of an irresponsible leader who is not liable to public opinion, who is elected no one knows by whom, who is not open to impeachment or censure or even removal from office, who is a mystery and is capable of the highest acts of tyranny, be- cause there is no way to reach him, Wixterrne wy tHe Arcric Rratons,— Dr. Hayes presents in a letter we print to- day a view of a winter passed in the frozen regions of thick ribbed ice that will certainly be new to the great majority of readers, and which tends in some degree to strip Arctic exploration of its terrors. The Doctor sup- ports his yiew of the comparative safety of wintering in the Arctic seas with the facts in hand, and shows even that the proportion of calamities to voyages is lower than it is in many seas commonly deemed far less dan- gerous to navigate. Tue Founeran of the late Vice President Wilson took place in the Senate Chamber yesterday, and the remains will reach this city to-day. Much -heartfelt sorrow was shown during the ceremonies at Washing- ton, and the grief of the public men with whom Mr. Wilson was associated will find a response all over the country. Mux.—The determination to increase the price of milk in this city ought to be resisted by everybody. Twelve cents per quart for this necessary article is exorbitant, and any combination to impose such a- price upon consumers cannot be regarded as otherwise than criminal. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. |. Senator Algernon 8. Paddock, of Nebraska, has apart ments at the Windsor Hotel. Senator Newton Booth, of California, arrived from Washington last evening at the Sturtevant House. Mr. Charles E, Lewis, M. P., of London, arrived from Liverpool in the steamship Abyssinia, and is atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel. Richard Proctor, the astronomer, has just had twing, The ocenitation was a sort of nearness, But astronomy © shouldn’s be fooled with in this way, Acaple telegram from Rome, under date of Novem- ber 26, poporie. i arrival of the Most Reverend Bishop of Pittsburg, U. S., in the Eternal City, Henri Quatre has retreated again to Frohsdorf, but {t must be a feint, for bis man Friday, Count de Mont, has been sent to Versailles with ‘inal instructions ta the Assembly.” As the Board of Aldermen in a city in our most noighboriy State burst into laughtor, the Prosident rose and said, “Gentlemen, wo will not permit longevity im a grave and reverend assembly.” Senator Aaron A. Sargent, of Cai:fornia, John J. In- galls, of Kansas, and Charles W. Jones, of Florida, ar- rived at the Filth Avenue Hotel last evening from Nor- walk, Conn., where they have been attending the funeral of Senator Ferry. “Coal Oil Johnny,” instead of working as a laboring man on a railroad, is at fresont building 4 fence around a 200-acre farm which he lately purchased in California, He saved $15,000 out of the generat wreck, and “Johnny” has become a stranger and is doing well. ‘The Abbé Junqua's honeymoon lasted but a week. Thon he applied to a court in Brussels to secure his wifo’s property, The Court placea the property ta the hands of a notary and bis wife now swears tho mar- riage illegal. A very happy start in life for the Abbé. “My dear,” said Mr. Lombrey, the giver of the party, “I have just been telling Mr. Tuttlo that unelo, who died the other day, left us something that should have run down in the family, He says a clock, sus- penders, pull-bac« elastic, whiskey; my dear, what was ite?) “Why, an heirloom, pa” “vb! yes,’ said Lombrey, “I know it was somo kind of machinery.” General Sherman defines his religious position. “I believe,” he says, “‘if people will act only half as well as they know how in this world they will be all right in the next."’ Bf General Sherman acted only half as well at the battle of Shiloh, when he was surprised, as he knew how, no doubt he will, if Buell comes up in time, get, like Nicholas Nickleby, a little molasses in his sulphur in the next, Colonel Brooks, the evangelist editor of the Wash- ington Republican, is about to begin a series ot revival meetings in his city. Colonel Brooks’ conversion the first time was considered a very strange ir, when he succumbed the second and then the third time it was no longer a matter of levity, Colonel Brooks has engaged Secretary Belknap and Senator Sargent to assist him three aights in the week, Washington needs a re- viv at makes me Jove my delicate little blue-eyed doy,” said the fond father, as ho and the pastor on- tered the library, ‘is that sometimes the tears run down the wrinkles in my cheeks as 1 feel his fine points | touching me to the core and wonder if God will let him stay with me very, very— here the fond father sut down ona pin and said, “Mariar, will you foree me to Mr, McGahan, author of “Campaigning on the Oxus,” who accompanied Captain Young in his late Arctic ex- pedition, is preparing an account of the voyage under the title of “Under the Northern Lights: Tho Cruise of the Pandora to Peel’s Strait tn Search of Sir John Franklin’s Papers.” The publication of Mr, McGahan’s “Don Carlos and the Basques,” recently aunoyneod, will be postponed tll the spring, Pittsburg recently attended the funcral of ono of her best known gitizens, Mr. William H. Brown, the s0- called “Coal King.” Beginning life in a humble way, he accumulated wealth and extended his business until at his death he was worth more than $5,000,000, ‘and was one of the largest miners and shippers of coat in the world. Besides thoso boats which he bired, hie own floes amounted to more than 1,200 boats an@ varges, and were scattered from Pittsburg to New Or- Ioana, He is said to have carried tho larger part of his” immense businoss “in his head,’ aud was in many re- spects aromarkable man, But, attempting to do too much, Nature took her revenge. His brain gave way, and the man who bad controlled the lives of so many bad to b» shut ap in an insane asylum, and there diedy