The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every cay in the ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must’ be addressed New YorE Uxraxp. year, Four “guts per copy. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OF HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms os in New York. FOLUME X —E—=——— (NUSEMENTS TIS AFTERNOON AND. EVENING, ————— FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, [renty-etghth street, near Broadway.—’iQUE, at 8P. M. Fanny Davenport. TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE, foe. 585 and S57 Broudway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.'M, PARK THEAT! Broadway and Twenty-sec Ot THE CRUCIBLE, at P.M. Oakey Hall, Ba Prondway anc Tir: Uatines at 2 P.M. BOWERY THE. jowery.—VALLEY FORGE, and at 8 P.M. Mr Leison. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broulway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, ate PM. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street. t FAUST AND MARGUERITE, at 8 P.M. closes at 10:45 P. M. Roberts Matiiee at 2PM OTHE FORTY THIEVES Belle Hewitt GLOBE THEATRE, Nos. 7a and 7 730 Broadway.—VARIETY, at8 P.M Mati- woo at 2 BOOTH’S: THE) ATRE, frgnty.s third street and Sixth avenue. JULIUS CASAR, SPM. Mr. Lawrence Barrett. THEATRE COMIQU E, fo. 514 Broadway.—VARIBTY, at 3 I'M. Matinee at2 eM CHICKERING HALL, Pith avenue and Kigbteenth street GRAND CONCERT, “8PM. Von Bulow. E THEATRE, h and Thirty-frst streets.— at 51’. M. Matinee a 2 P.M, THIRD AVES Third avenue, between Thirt MINSTRELSY and VARIET COLO8SEUM, yer -fourth street and Broadway.—i?RUSSIAN SIRGE OF Ania Open imi P.M. tod! M. and trom 7:30 P.M, TIVOLI] THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. WALLACE'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—HOMI, at 8 P.M 410452. M. Mr. Lester Wallack 3 closes PARISIAN VARIUTIES, Sixtoonth street, uear Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. GERMANLA THEATRE, fourteenth street.—HARD TIMES, at 5 P.M. BROOKLYN THEATRE, Fashington street, Brooklyn —OUR BOYS, at ST. M. Me. ‘ohn B. Owens, UNION SQUAR Frondway nua Fourteenth at E THEATRE, %—HOSE MICHEL, a8 OLYMPIC THEATRE, fo 84 Browtway.— ARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 tT RIPL E SHEET. 1BrF, EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANU sid 5, — From our reports this morning the probabilities tre that the weather to-day will be cold and dear, ' Tux Henarp py Fast Man, TRaws,— News- Tealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pemnsylvania, as rell as in the West, the Pacific Vogst, the North, he South and Senthwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- sections, will be supplied with Taz Heraun, ree of postage, Extraordinary inducements ered to newsdealers by sending their orders lirect to this office. Waxt Sraerr Yestrepay.—Gold opened at 12 5-8, sold at 112 34 and closed at the first tamed price. Money on call was firm at 7 ver cent, gold. Stocks were irregular and at he close lower. AppaRENTLY THE ConsTITUTIONALISTS in Spain are frightened and are anxious to wert their full strength in the coming elec- ions to the Cortes. Quxen Isaneria, of Spain, is reported, by ) special despatch to the Hznarp, to be atally ill. Her demise would come as a rolitical relief to her son, the young King, sowever it might affect him personally. Mr Troms Hvenxes is not coming to America next summer, and he does not hold vat very high hopes of an international aquatic sontest on this side of the Atlantic. It is to pe hoped, however, that the matter can beso srranged that the American challenge willbe accepted. Tur Stars Lraisatur RE met yesterday md both bodies organized for business. Everything was done with that complete order which shows that the party managers aave the members well in hand, and it will pe surprising if the session produces any re- sults beyond such as are of mere political im- »ortance. How Jury Paxnis are » made up was curi- yusly illustrated in the Tweed suits yester- | jay, but the objections which apply to the struck jury in this case are oqually applica- vle to every case before the courts, Our sretched jury system has been mismanaged v0 long to be madea fresh means of prevent- ng the administration of justice. Tux Kueprve axp Mn. Cave, the Brit sh Jommissioner to Egypt, have had serious | lifferences. The English financier objected | ‘o the balances shown in the Khedive's reasury, and suggested the dismissal of the Minister of Finance. This threw the Egyp- Yon satrap into a passion, and he abruptly sJoged the interview, saying England should sot have sent him a Commissioner whose ob- cet it was to impose a syndicate. But for all these high words the Khediye has gono ‘00 far to escape the consequences of his ‘<ilianee with England by # few hasty speeches. He may be impatient, but for all chat he will be strictly held to the term of CE OF THE NEW YORK | ‘ia bargain, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUAKY 5, 1876,— —ITRIPLE SHEKT. Governor Tilden’s Message. The Annual Message of the Governor is 80 long-winded that other demands on our space compel us to drop out some of its pad- ding. It isa mistake for public officers to spin out their productions. Such intermi- nable documents are glanced and skimmed, but seldom read. If their authors could learn “that last and greatest art, the art { to blot ;* if they would condense their im- | portant matter and prune away redundancies, they would make a stronger impression on the public. It is related of some Judgo that he cut short a prolix advocate by sharply remark- ing, ‘‘The counsel may assume, if he pleases, that the Court knows a little law.” In like manner the Governor might have greatly shortened his Message by assuming that the Legislature, to whom it is addressed, possess the ordinary information of other citizens. He might have dispensed with his little trea- tise on the physical geography of the State, | in which he communicates the true but not | very novel idea that the break in the moun- tain chain that runs parallel to the Atlantic coast for the passage of the Hudson makes the mouth of that river the natural seat of a great city for commercial intercourse with the West. The relation of this topo- graphical fact to the commerce of the continent was stated with an eloquence sur- passing Governor Tilden’s by one of his pred- ecessors nearly forty years ago in the elab- orate introduction tothe ‘‘Natural History of New York,” published by the State, and at that early period it was a fact of great sig- nificance, because internal commerce was then chiefly carried on by water communica- tion. It has not the same importance since the era of railroads. With the usual fate of borrowers Governor Tilden has introduced the plagiarized idea out of season. All those parts of the Message meant to be ornamental are equally needless and unseasonable. Why should he tell the Legislature, or tell anybody, that our State canals ‘‘are a link of three hundred and fifty miles in a system which, on the one hand by one thou- sand five hundred miles of the waters of the great lakes, and on the other hand by three thousand one hundred and fifty miles of the waters of the Hudson River and the Atlan- tic Ocean connects the crowded populations of Europe with the fertile prairies of the Northwest, covered with their network of tributary railways?” What member of the Legislature needed to be informed of the éx- tent of the great lakes, the length of the Hudson River, or the distance across the At- lantic ? The Governor adopts other methods of padding out his Mossage to wearisome length. He gives a history of the part he took in the constitutional conventions of 1846 and 1867, which may doubtless be ac- cepted as information, for Mr. Tilden was not at either of those datos a statesman of such prominence or such promise that his action in either convention had much chance to be remembered beyond the passing day. But why need he cite it? If his present views are sound they can stand on their rea- sonableness; if unsound the fact that the Governor entertained them thirty years ago can add nothing to their forea. Why should he lengthen out his Message with such irrel- evancies? Another source of prolixity is long quotations from his own documents of last year. There is a long one from ‘his special canal Message of last winter, and two long ones from the memoranda attached to bills which he disapproved after adjourn- ment. All these documents are easily ac- cessible to members of the Legislature, and a mere reference might have sufficed without encumbering the Message with tedious quo- tations. The heavy prolixity of public docu- ments is such an infliction on public patience that it is the duty of the press to castigate it in cases of unusual flagrancy. If the Governor had followed the advice of our bright contemporary, the Sun, and made his Message short, it might have had a hun- dred readers for every one that will now wade through it. There are sound views and valuable infor- mation in the Message if the chaff were win- nowed out. Every citizen has an interest in the statistics relating to the fiscal condition of the State, and will approve of Governor Tilden's zeal for diminished taxation. The near extinction of the bounty debt renders a large reduction of taxes possible ; but we do dot see that the Governor helps the matter by his sneers at the creation of that debt. Nobody disputes that the faith of the State is bound to pay it, and there is no other apparent reason why the Governor should denounce it at this late day but to recommend himself to the South as a Prest- dential candidate, There are other portions of the Message which are addressed to the South with the same view. Nobody needed to be informed how grossly the South has been misgoverned since the war. The Gov- ernor cannot think he is conveying any in- formation on this subject, and, as it is not in the power of the New York Legislature to apply a remedy, why does he swell the bulk | of his Message with such a topic? This | piece of irrelevance, though sent to our \I Legislature, is addressed to the democratic | party in the Southern States and is a bid for | | | Tilden delegates to the National Convention. There is another part of this document in which the Governor has more successfully practised tho ars celare artem, and does not quite so clearly disclose his intention. We refer to the long theoretical dissertation on the general subject of currency which occu- | pies so much space in the Message. As a | speculative production we do not choose to | diseuss it. Ifwe were to criticise the doc- trines put forth we should prefer to do it in connection with the sources from which Governor Tilden has borrowed them— | namely, Fullarton and Tooke, and their partial indorser, Mill. Governor Tilden seems familiar with the writings of this able monetary school, but shows no ac- | quaintance with the writers who have re- viewed and, as many good judges think, re- futed them, Lord Overstone, Mr. McCul- loch and Colonel Torrens are financial au- *thorities whom even Governor Tilden might study with profit; and had he read the ablo octavo volume published by Torrens about the year 1858, in which he makes mince meat of some of the chief arguments of Tooke and Mill, the Governor might not have thought it wise to put on such an air infallibilitv and assurance. But as his cur- rency speculations are entirely borrowed we need not disenss them in any other view than their political bearing. The currency is the most ticklish subject connected with his canvass for the Presidency, and perhaps he could not have done better than to try to befog it by a laborious dissertation drawn from the English tomes we have mentioned. From the point of view of his personal aspi- rations the politico-financial problem is one of no small difficulty, He must pull the hard-money string to get nominated ; but if he should secure the nomination he will need the support of the soft-money democrats to get elected. Hence the singular feat of straddling exhibited in his Message, which contains some truths, some half truths and some palpable self-contradictions, But he has, on the whole, proved . him- self a skilful political acrobat on the financial rope. It is a hard-money Message, with knowing winks to the Ohio democracy. He indorses their idea that prices have little or no connection with the amount of the currency. He maintains that bank notes are so insignificant a part of the machinery for transferring property that it is Teally of very little consequence whether their amount be large or small. He thinks, with the Ohio school, that resumption should come by a slow and gradual process, without any fore- ing. he general tenor of his views shows that he would not object to the repeal of ‘the act of Congress fixing January 1, 1879, as the date for beginning specie payments, He resembles the citizen who believed in the Maine law, but disapproved: of its enforcement. The part of the Message relating to the currency is a labored attempt to belittle the question by showing that the quantity of money is of little consequence. He says that the receiv- ing of greenbacks in government transac- tions is “a practical redemption”—which is good Ohio doctrine. He has interwoven many sentences in the Message which might be quoted next fall by the speakers who stumped Ohio for Governor Allen in October to prove that Mr. Tilden does not differ from them in principle, but only in details, and that he isin accord with their wish to ‘make haste slowly.” It is quite clear from the Message that our hard-money Governor is willing that the Ohio democrats should be gratified in their demand for the repeal of the resumption law of the last session, which is the only point they in- sisted on in the latter stages of their canvass. ‘The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob.” Uses of the Cable. There are persons who believe that the cable is only to be used for the transmission of the price of cotton. Overwhelmed with their sense of the sublime in the presence of the price the cable company puts on every word, they cannot conceive that any ordi- nary events of human life are worthy to be chronicled at such expense, and they are satisfied to wait forthe mails. This, as our readers know, is not our idea; but, on the contrary, we give the whole drama of Eu- ropean life—even to the exits and entrances of very little fellows. Yesterday we gave a pithy despatch on the result of a suit for libel against a popular journal, brought by a distinguished actor, Itis not of stupen- dous moment to know, on this side the At- lantic, that Mr. Irving sued a comic paper ; yet it is a fact the publication of which might possibly have remarkable conse- quences, for it exhibited the distinguished actor in a ridiculous light, and distinguished actors are very averse to such exhibitions, How many distinguished actors in this city, just on the verge of suing our comic contem- poraries, will be deterred by the timely publication of this example of the figure cut by the juvenile tragedian of London! By the slow process of the mails we should get this story may be two weeks hence, when all the harm would be done, perhaps, and warn- ing useless. The New Year in Wall Street. Three stocks have for a long time attracted, or tried to attract, the attention of Wall street. Mr. Jay Gould has a particular in- terest in all three. They are the objects of his anxious solicitude. He is like the fond mother of triplets, and, unfortunately, they and he are not ‘doing as well as could be ex- pected.” Pacific Mail is selling under 40. It has $20,000,000 of stock. At 40 this would be worth $8,000,000. What is it really worth? Any one can cipher it out. What is a stock worth which has paid no dividend for six years? Union Pacific is selling under 75. There are $36,000,000 of it, which at 75 would stand at $27,000,000, What is it really worth? Who can tell? If any one actually believed it was worth 75, he would very read- ily pay that. But nobody knows for sure. Of Lake Shore there are $50,000,000. A tremendons effort of the people interested in it on Thursday failed to raise it to 60. At 60, if it were actually worth that, its value would be $30,000,000. Is it worth that? Who can tell? Will it pay a dividend in February, a question that will probably be answered to-day? bad a show as in July, why should it not fall to 30? J One-man government does not appear to answer in Wall street, People who have any money don’t like to trust Mr. Jay Gould. He is a strong man; no doubt, from some points of view, he isan able man. But he has been ill ; he lives under great nervous strain ; he may fall seriously ill ; he may die—and then what ? We mean, of course, what would become of the stocks which he has supported? Nobody can tell, Nobody knows all about them. Something disagreeable might hap- pen ; the stocks might plunge downward, for instance, Hence, in these hard times people who have any money stand from under, and they are wise, The risks are too great, Atlas makes a fine figure. He bears up the globe with ease. But suppose Atlas should in these damp days get rheumatism in one of his shoulders ? Waex tar Brooxirn Porsce are unable to discover an assassin they assert that the vic- tim shot himself. There have been several cases of the kind, the latest being that of Mr. Johnson, who was found shot in Lafayette place, To be nearly murdered is bad enough for an innocent man, without being accused of tha orima of anicida, If not, and if it makes as‘ Municipal Elections in the Spring. We publish a further instalment of inter views had by our correspondents with Sena- tors and Assemblymen previous to their meeting at Albany. Like those we gave yes- terday, they show that the whole drift of sentiment is in one direction, Considering how widely men differ on every public ques- tion which is at all debatable, the unanimity which provails respecting the expediency of spring elections for municipal officers is a strong, presumptive proot that there are hardly two sides to the question. Republicans and demoerats alike, in every section of the interior of the State, warmly favor the change advocated by the Heravp, and if party manwuvres did not interfere with the judgment of the members it is past doubt that the present Legislature would transfer our city election to the spring of the year, The views of members who resido in the interior cities are of especial value, because they have had opportunities to see in opera- tion the system which we advdcate and are able to testify to its value on the solid ground of experience, Senator Emerson, the suo- cessor of Jarvis Lord in the Twenty-eighth district, says:—‘Here in Rochester the municipal election is held in March, and I believe, so far as I can judge, that the majority of the people prefer having it on a day when there are no State issues to be fought over. It affords every citizen full time and opportunity to post himself as to the qualifications of the candidates, Having no other candidates to think about the voters very naturally, when the election takes place, devote their whole attention to local issues, and I think the result is always better than it would be were there other than local issues to be considered at the same time.” Assemblyman Monroe, of Syra- cuse, the successor of Mr. Alvord, and for- merly a State Senator, expressed himself as follows to one of our correspondents:— “I have always been of the opinion that an election for municipal officers should not take place on the same day as a general election, and I have as yet to find the argument that could change that opinion. To my mind the interests of all cities stand on the same footing in this re- gard, be they large or small. Tho principle is the same, and if there be any difference I think the argument holds better for a large city than for a small one.” The greater part of the interviews are of the same tenor. We wish—we fear it is a vain wish—that the powerful: influence of the editor of the Commercial might be given in aid of this strong body of sincere, spontaneous and en- lightened public sentiment as expressed by members of the present Legislature. He is the fitting successor of Thurlow Weed in moulding the republicans of the Legisla- ture—the worthy disciple of a renowned master. We fear he is too great an adept in strategy to pursue simple methods, and that it is his besetting infirmity to ‘steer too near the sands to boast his wit ;” otherwise, we should expect him to organize at Albany the public sentiment which so strongly fa- vors a spring election. In the long run his party wouki gain by it, though perbaps at the sacrifice of a transient advantage. The capture of our handsome Mayor is no doubt a feather in hig cap—for his hand is discern- ible in this dexterous manwuvre—but a man of his sagacity ought to look further ahead and consider per- manent consequences. The constant danger of the republican party is that its reliable majority in the rural districts will be swamped by the democratic vote of this city, which is increased in every State election by the money, zeal, influence and ambition of the local candidates, the efficient auxiliaries of the democratic State candidates, A spring election would detach these powerful rein- forcements and separate the city democrats from their chief base of supplies in the State election. Neither Mr. Hastings nor the republican Legislature should be in- sensible of so great an advantage, which is now within their grasp. Charley Ross. How deeply the sympathy for the Ross family and with little Charley himself has taken hold upon the public mind may be seen by the avidity whith which every possi- ble clew to the mystery is caught up and by the tenacity with which people cling to any supposed solution. It is hardly too much to say that it will inflict real pain on thou- sands of persons to be compelled to give up the hope that the little boy now held at St Albans is the lost Charley. People in Ver- mont are ‘‘satisfied that he is the boy % but this is not the case apparently with people in Philadelphia. Certainly the boy tolda remarkable story, and one that might be identical in many points with the story Charley Ross would tell, and when it was found that he was not “the consummate lit- tle liar” from Milford the better probability of his identity seemed strengthened. His remembrances of Miss Grant, his school- teacher, and of at least a dozen schoolfel- lows, whose names he gave, were very clear. Now Mr. Ross says that his son Charley had never gone to any school whatever, and, con- sequently, never had any schoolfellows nor any teacher. It is to be apprehended that the case of Charley Ross has reached a very painful stage. As it originated in a scheme of speculative scoundrels it is likely to be used still more by the same sort of crea- tures. In a small way it threatens to be treated as the Tichborne estates were. Lit- tle ‘‘claimants” will constantly turn up, taught to play a part by older scoundrels than themselves, that they may touch the sympathies and the purses of simple minded people. American Competition with Russian agri- culture is just now a disturbing influence in “the Czar’s dominions. Ocean transportation, if not affected by heavy tollson the land lines, will make America the great wheat country of the world ; and if our statesmen in Congress understand the true interests of our people they will provide the means of cheap freights to the seaboard. This is the only way by which commercial supremacy for America can be gained and maintained. Geawan Srwrarny with the President's position on the Cuban question is pretty clearly established, as will be seen from our special despatch from Berlin this morning; but it is not likelv to produce any results, The University Race Coutse—Saratoga Chosen a Third Time. ‘The action of the Rowing Association yes- terday in deciding that the University race of 1876 shall take place, as it has done for the last two years, at Saratoga, was in every way sensible, while it is very unfortunate that doubt is allowed annually to arise on a question that should have been settled years ago for good. New London certainly came forward this year with some strong points in her favor, which were ably and fully pressed by Mr. McCall, of Dartmouth, in his mi- nority report. But the fact should never be lost sight of that the two absolute essentials of a successful university race course are a track manifestly fair and adequate accommo- dations for the visiting spectators. The Eng- lish contest only needs the former, for the course is so near London that the assembly can easily be home again by nightfall. But no course has been found, and probably none will be, near any of our large cities which will suit, simply because our great breast race must be rowed on broad water, free from tide or current, or itcan never be fair. A smaller place, then, must be had, which, besides having a suitable track, must yet be able to board and care for over night an immense number of people whose inroad lasts but for a day or two. New London, by calling in all the outlying villages and anchoring a floating bedroom or two off her dock, thought she might be equal to the emergency. But it does not take long to determine in which tavern the average American would prefer to sleep ona hot night—a ten-footer at Niantic or Poquonock, or the Grand Union, Congress Hall, United States or Clarendon. Springfield has beén tried, and failed utterly; and New London would have proved, in the matter of accom- modation, at least, far more unfit. If any other place in the Eastern or Middle States can atall compare with Saratoga in being suited to the University race it is strange that it was not heard from long ago. None such exists, and the students ought to know it by this time To have rowed at New London any year would have caused such needlpss annoy- ance to thousands that the public would hear of the University race with feelings little short of disgust, and it is especially fortunate that this new blunder was not stumbled into in this above all years, just when our guests would have the chance to see wretched bungling, and in a sort of affair with the conduct of which many of them were long ago familiar. Whether the English universities are to come is not yet known, because the chal- lenges reached them during vacation and official action could not be promptly taken. Our despatches on the 2d inst showed that at both Oxford and Cambridge the matter would receive favorable attention, and while they may hesitate about one or both of the changes asked—namely/ that they row in our way, in sixes and without coxswains— they should remember that Harvard made even greater changes in order to meet Oxford in 1869 and that some concession now would only be civil Vice President Leslie, of the Dublin University Boat Club, fears that his crew cannot come, which, especially after the marked courtesy extended our riflemen in his country, is to be particularly regretted. If the expense of the trip is the real obstacle a good way of overcoming it has already oc- curred to several of our college rowing men, and we would be glad to see them press their plan to accomplishment. Dolls. One of the very happy points in our great despatch from London on New Year's Day was in these words:—‘‘The doll show at the Alexandra Palace is a grand success. There are to be seen walking dolls, talking dolls, ogling dolls, flirting, loving, dancing, house- keeping and automaton dolls, all delighting the crowds of children who witness the scene.” London is a great place for shows of all sorts. They have in that city once a year a dog show that is worth a journey half round the world to see—for any real lover of our half human comrades, ‘Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart.” - From the toy terriers that may be carried in a lady's muff up to the gigantic mastiff there is a whole canine gamut that is a remarkable study in natural history. They have cat shows, too; not so readily appealing to mo culine tastes as the dog show, but very ardently encouraged by lonely ladies who have been faithful through fifty years to some early vow. In some years they have ‘barmaid shows,” which are very cockney entertainments indeed. But the show-making mania caught a very happy thought when it seized upon the subject of dolls, with all their varieties and the many ingenious inventions applied to them, and brought them all under one roof in the gorgeous Alexandra Palace. What a fairyland it must have been for the little girls of the great city! There are some people, we are startled to note, who are indifferent to dolls, whose su- perior wisdom and ponderous dignity, if not actually scandalized by our report of this doll show, at least make no secret of the fact that they look upon such things with con- tempt. Hard, withered, wretched is the heart that has never been reached by the sight of some little doll-awakening reminis- cences of the tiny fingers that had tied rib- bons in its hair and dressed and undressed it, or of the little musical voice that had by turns scolded and petted it. Robert E. Lee fought some great battles in his time, and will scarcely be called a milksop ot a namby pamby person by any generation of men, and one of the daintiest touches we have seen in the whole outline of his character is sketched by that charming letter of his, in which he refers so touchingly to the fate of the doll “Angelina” He actually descended to notice a doll ; but then he was only a mis- taken hero and a great soldier, not the editor of an awfully smart newspaper. Per- haps the great rebel commander might have been weak enough to be pleased by that little paragraph in our London despatch ; but whether he'was or not all the ladies in the city were, and all the little girls in the city to whom the ladies read it, and our view of journalism contemplates the women and children as an important part of the public, Tux Powen or tam Boaup or Exctsx to revoke a license is baing tested in the courts, ‘fog. id sacilinenticencuatiquih tanasiat 6 @ large class in the community, and the de- cision of the Court will be awaited with much anxiety. Our Streets. Now that the Legislature is once more in session we hope that something will be done to better the condition of the streets in this city. Few provincial towns even have thor- oughfares so badly paved as are those of the metropolis. The avenugs are next to im- passable and many of the lateral streets are in a condition ‘equally bad. Such a thing as a good carriage road is unknown to New Yorkers in their own city, and the Fifth ave nue, which ought to be a model drive, is as badly paved as Eighth or Ninth avenue. What is needed is a macadamized road, such as are to be found in the principal cities of Europe. No other pavement makes so good a carriage way, and it is cheaper because it is more lasting than any ather. Among the really excellent public highways in this country is the turnpike from Philadelphia by way of Harrisburg to Pitts- burg, It was macadamized more than half a century ago, and, notwithstanding com- paratively little work has been done on the, roadway since it was built, it is still in @ high state of perfection. During the whole year it is in better condition throughout its entire length thdn most of the streets of New York at any season. Such a work, though long desired by our citizens for the leading thoroughfare of the city, has always been denied us, while more expensive but less suitable pavements have been given us instead. Can not the people of New York for once have what they desire? It is in the power of the Legislature to give us the kind of street we need for the principal avenue of the city, and we trust the appeal of our peo- ple will not be vainly urged before the As- sembly and Senate which yesterday began the legislative session of the year. A Lerree yvrom THE CENTENNIAL €cmo- porg.—By the letter of Commodore Ferguson in another column our readers have now official information of what has been done andis doing by the Centennial Commission to insure the attendance of the first oarsmen of Europe to participate in the international contests at Philadelphia the coming summer. From personal interviews with the officers of many of the leading clubs, such as tho Lon- don Rowing, Kingston, North London, Ox- ford, Cambridge and the Gesling of Paris, and those of Liverpool and Dublin, he is able to report that the plan of visiting us and taking a turn with us at the oar meets with general favor. The régular official invita tions go out to the different clubs through the medium of their respective national com- missions the present week, and favorable responses from many, if not all, of them may be looked for at an early day. Tus Remark or Warpen Waker, of Sing Sing, that previous to the Ist of January, 1876, more convicts than usual would escape from the prison, owing to the fact that the uncertainty of their tenure of office would make the keepers easily approachable by the friends of the prisoners, is more than verified. The remark of the Warden sounded almost like a suggestion, and the remarkable story of the attempted escape of Kingsland, the bank robber, shows how well it waa acted upon by Keeper Hastings. It is plain that there can be no discipline at Sing Sing while the prieon is managed as a political institution. Tae Spxcrm1 Caste Desparcues which we print this morning, including the special to the Huening Telegram, give a graphic and in- teresting résumé of the condition of Europe, These letters are an excellent example of the uses to which the cable may be put, present- ing, as they do, the latest European news in the most attractive form. Ammnrcan Mzat in London is the latest addition to the contributions of the New World to the comforts of the Old. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Sultan {s a pigeon fancier. Bronchitis is prevalent‘ia London. ‘Tho lecture system grows in the South, Natives of India imitate English habits, North America yielded $30,000,000 in bullion fast year. on coh ot. buildings were added to Chicago last year, On dst, tho English Channel tunnel will be com menced next April. Offenbach, being intensely French in feeling, Is angry because he looks like a German. Miss Braddon performs household duties anti! noon, and then writes all the afternoon. Heine says of a certain German professor :—‘‘He com siated of nothing but soul and plasters.’” Senator James BK English, of Connecticat, arrived at the Windsor Hotel last evening on his way to Wash- ington. Professor Haeckel says that the valuo of publications: in scientific institutes is in inverse ratio to the mag- nitude of buildings and the splendor of volumes. Herr Stamm says that Austria must have protection to home manufactures against England, which, since 1854, by special license, has been permitted to have re~ duced import duties Baron Edouard de Rothschild and Count de Tarenno, of Paris, returned to the city last evening from a two months’ trip across the Continent to San Francisco, and are at the Brevoort Fousa, Sam Bowles vaines the old, unadulterated Yankee vernacular above “‘Webster’s Dictionary,” and thinks that “the best’’ slang of the vulgar is more expressive than the poetry of the refined, Sam Bowles is often a sensible man. ‘©The government,” gays the Duke of Cambridge, “have a right to hope that the country will justify them in paying such an amount of wages to the mon as will enable us to secure at all Se eae moderately large army.”’ Lieutenant Governor Caron, {nstead of giving ee annual New Year’s ball at Spencer Wood, sent $1,200 to the Mayor of Quebec to be distributed among the poor, The Mayor mimself increased this sum by a per- sonal coptribution of $500. The Omaha Repudiican thinks that a Secretary of War should have the privilege of appearing on the floor of Congress to defend or explain his budget, It adds that wine out of ten Western cities, begtnaing at Pitta-y burg, have grown from military posts. Colonel Villette, the aide-de-camp of Marshal’Baraine who aided in bis escape, bas Onished the period of im. prisonment to which he was sentenced, and hrs become & wine merchant, in order to earn a living, as he has been deprived of the right to a pension. A Cincinnati physician wrote to tha’ Gazette of that eity advising the abolition of the horys, The Enquirer cruelly obsorves:—"Some ass is writing in the Gaselte {mn favor of abolishing the horse. Phere was always am antipathy betwoen these useful #aimais."’ Judge James Johnson, who ‘will be remembered a4 the Provisional Governor of. Georgia under Presidemt Johnson, has announced fimsolf as an independem candidate for Governor on the platform ot principle ombodied in Grant’4.Dox Moines aneoch and Message ¥ as appears from our law’revorts this morn- | Congrosa,