The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1876, Page 7

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. . JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business, news letters or telegraphic ent must be addressed New York | BALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 114SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 ET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLI-. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M. WoOD's MUSEUM. D, at 8 P.M. Oliver Doud Byron THOROUGH BRE! M. nee at2P. aye WARIBTY, at 8 P, gross THEATRE, BOOTIUS THEATRE, JULIUS CASAR, at 5 P. Mr. Lawrence Barrett. THEATRE COMIQUE. ‘VARIETY, at 5 P. M. ? BROOKLYN PARK WHE OCTORGON, at 8 P. PF. THIRD AV. NARIBTY, at 6 P.M. WALLACK'S THEATRE. MARRIED IN HASTE, at 5 P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack, STAD PAPENHEIM GERMAN 0 TIVOLI WARIETY, at 6 P. M. THEATRE. S. Chanfrau. é THEATRE. « PANORAMA, 1 to 4P. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY. 30, 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. Tne Independent Democrats and 4& Spring Election. The proposition to change the time of holding the New York charter election from the autumn to the spring was fully dis- cussed, and, outside the circle of the Tam- many party, was generally indorsed during j and immediatély subsequent to the last po- litical campaign. It was no new question, but, on the contrary, one that had for many cates of municipal reform. In 1856, when the evil of holding the general and local elections on the same day was made mani- fest by the most glaring frauds on the ballot box, the demand for a change became 80 emphatic that the politicians did not ven- ture to ignore it. They succeeded, however, in effecting a compromise by which our municipal officers were to be chosen in De- cember, one month after the general elec- tion—an experiment that only aggravated the evils of the preceding system. When the charter of 1871 was under consideration in the Legislature some of the nist promi- nent and intelligent business men of New York strove to secure a return to the policy of a spring election, but were powerless before the influence of the Tam- many Ring. Immediately after the ex- posure of the criminality of Tweed and his associates, when the subject of administrative reform was uppermost in the minds of the people, the Committee of Sev- enty prepared a charter, one of the princi- pal features of which was the change of the municipal election from November to April. This change was determined upon only after a careful investigation of the practical work- ing of former charters, and as the result of conferences with many of our most intelli- EA VARIETY, ot 8 P.M. BROO! ALSE SHAME, ut 5 P TONY PASTOR'S VARIETY, at 8 P.M. NEW THEATRE, UNION ROSE MICHEL, at 8 P OLYMP VARIETY, at 8 P.M. VIFTH AVI PIQUE, at 8 P.M. Fanny Davenport. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, LUCREZIA BORGIA, at 8 P.M. Milo. Titions, THIRTY-FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. VARIETY, ats P.M. BOWERY THEATRE. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, at8 P.M. Mrs. G. C. Howard. PARISIAN VARIETIES. 8qu ARE THEATRE. VARIETY, at BP. M. see? TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 1876. = From our repprts this morning the probabilities Gre that the weather to-day will be clear and cold. Tne Henarp py Fast Mart Trars.— News- dealers and the public will be supplied with the Dam, Werxiy and Sunpay Heraup, free of ae by sending their orders direct to this vffice, an Watt Srerer Yestenpay.—The temper of she market was in favor of higher prices. Stocks were generally strong. Gold was steady at about 113. Investment securities ind government bonds were very firm. Money on call loans was supplied at 5 @pd 6 per cent. Tuat Huncany Saoutp Honor the remains of Francis Deak is but natural, and when wise patriotism such as his is honored hu- manity feels the better for it. Russra, according to our Berlin special, floes not see any cause for European inter- Terence with Spain in her treatment of the Cuban question. Tax Russtan Bupoet for 1876 shows an wtimated surplus of about seventy thousand follars, This is not much, and if there is pny trouble around the Golden Horn it is likely to disappear very rapidly and show a ‘ong list of figures on the deficit side of the Dzar's ledger. Monrenxacro has been trailing its coat so industriously for Turkey to step upon,-and to bring its big brother Russia into the fight with the Sick Man, that its assertion of the Porte's determination to make war upon it $s only the offspring of its doughty wish in that direction. “Spanish Magpraczs” were a fruitful sub- ject for political intrigue in Europe during the present century, and, if the Cologne Gazette's story, that the bodies of Spaniards who died without having their civil mar- tiages supplemented by a church ceremony will be removed from consecrated ground, has any truth in it, we may look for European attention being once more directed to Spanish wedlock. Tue Canuist War.—The Alfonsist gen- prals are actively carrying out their plan of attack upon the Carlist positions, and yo far with uniform success. The move- ments are circumstantially narrated, and leave it tolerably clear that the Narlist accounts of the engagements will not materially alter the story as told from Madrid. The generals have now an object in using their best endeavors, for high honors gent and prominent citizens. The question was, therefore, familiar to the people of the city and of the State when it was under dis- cussion during the recent campaign, and the expressions then recorded in favor of the proposed alteration of the law were not made without due consideration. It was then conceded that a union of the general and local elections is conducive of corrupt bargains between unscrupulous candidates, and that in the excitement of political issues our municipal interests are apt to be over- looked or disregarded. Very few persons outside the circle of Tammany attempted to refute the argument that we are more likely to select capable and honest city officers when matters relating to our local govern- ment are alone before the people than ata time of high political excitement when na- tional and State issues are at stake. Nothing “has occurred since last November to change the aspect of the question of a spring elec- tion, and there can be no good reason why the sentiments then entertained should not still prevail. The anti-Tammany democracy, at the meeting of their County Committee on Fri- day last, placed themselves on record as ‘‘in favor of a municipal election in the spring of the year, when all good citizens, irrespec- tive of differefices upon State and national issues, can join hands in support of all can- didates honestly in favor of municipal re- form.” This avowal of principles shows that the anti-Tammany democrats have not changed their views on the subject since last November, but are still prepared to unite with all independent citizens to secure a de- sirable reform in our local affairs as speedily as possible. Their position is wisely taken. Tammany is not always all-powerful in the State conventions, and is not likely to ex- ercise an overshadowing influence in the na- tional conventions of the democratic party. Standing alone with charter officers before the people her leaders would almost cer- tainly meet defeat ; but so long as they can cover themselves with the shield of pre- tended “‘regularity,” and force their local candidates upon the party in connection with democratic State and national nomi- nees, there will always be danger of their partial or complete success, The anti-Tam- many democrats are, therefore, wise in re- maining steadfast to the policy of a spring election and in urging its adoption upon the State Legislature. If any change of views has taken place on the question among the opponents of Tammany it must be sought in the republican ranks, As the republican party is in the majority both in the Senate and Assembly it will be wholly responsible to the people for the defeat of the desired reform, unless, indeed, a law providing for a spring election should fall before the Gover- nor’s veto. It will be well for the leaders of that organization to reflect upon the conse- quences before they incur such responsi- bility. The only objection that has yet been urged against the proposed change is that the business men and property owners of the city cennot be induced to spare the time for registration and voting twice a year, and especially in the spring, when trade is reviv- ing and active. But this plea is so trans- accepted by the people as a sufficient and emoluments are open to the soldier who can command success. Brsmanct, it is said, has stated his willing- ness to see all the other amendments to the Penal gode rejected if the Reichstag would only pass what is known as the Arnim clause, that is one giving the Chancellor power to have incon- wenient German diplomats sent to prison For the very elastic offence of not carrying put the orders from Berlin. We observe that this has been passed in a modified form, al- theagh an amendment directed against troublesome ecclesiastics was rejected. The sigs of a truce with the ultramontanes are mary. 0) ae 283! Tux Tvrsish Dirricutry.—It is to be hoped that the report from Constantinople, mentioned in our Berlin special despatch, of adesign on the part of the Old Turks to massacre the Christians, is without foun- dation, Inthe dissemination of such ru- mors we may plainly see that excuses will not be wanting for anchoring the was vessels of the European Powers in the Bosphorus +o take quick advantage of anything which looked like @ chance for intervention ofa decisive sort. The report that the Sul- ton is likely to meet with grave Mussulman opposition in attempting to carry out the reforms proposed by Andrassy is, doubtless, true, but whether the opposition will be a loody one the relative exasperation of the | ene at the change in affairs can only Ue- explanation for the neglect of a republican i re to secure to New York a reform demanded by her best’ citizens and opposed only by the Sachems of the Tammany Society—the dictators of the Tammany democracy. Besides, it is well known that the rank and file of the New York republicans unite with the anti-Tammany democrats in favoring aspring election. Hence, should the necessary legislation be defeated, the re- sult will be due to the political intrigues of the leaders, and cannot fail to have a demor- alizing effect upon the party. This is already foreshadowed at Albany, and it is almost certain that the rejection-of the proposition for the amendment of the New York charter in this respect would disrupt the republicans politically as effectually as it would disap- point the hopes of the people of the city. The anti-Tammany democracy, however, with their young and vigorous organization, can accomplish the object they have in view if they will go earnestly to work and confine their efforts to the single point of securing a spring election. Let them take up this ques- tion pure and simple. and demand of their | allies in the recent successful battle against the hosts of Tammany fidelity to the princi- ples for whici the united army contended only three months ago, ‘%mmany is the | same now as she was when she sought to | drive Hackett and Phelps from office and to | seize the whole machinery of the criminal courts, The sentiment of the people is as | strong now against the one man vower as it years been maturely considered by the advo- | parently unsound that it will scarcely be | was when it struck down every Tam- many nominee on the county ticket, despite the personal respectability | of the candidates, There is as much ‘need of the expulsion of Tammany influence from the municipal government to- | day as there was when the Recorder's court and the District Attorney's office were pro- tected by the barrier of the ballot box against the assault of the Tammany ward commit- tees. A spring election is needed to com- plete the good work commenced last No- vember. Why should the republican wing of the united army withdraw from the con- test? Are the people of New York any bet- ter pleased with Tammany rule now than they were three months ago? We believe not. No reason existed last November why aspring charterelection should be favored by the people that does not exist to-day. As the proposed change in the law would se- cure a city government independent of Tam- many influence and free from partisanship it is not wise to hamper it with other pro- visions, Let the anti-Tammany organiza- tion concentrate its powers on this one point, and other reforms will follow in its train. The first object of the anti-Tammany lead- ers should be to insure success in this, and earnestness, vigilance and firmness will give them the victory now as it gave them the victory in November and as it will secure their triumph in the spring election. There could be no doubt of the result of the charter contest with Andrew H. Green or Charles A. Dana as the people’s candidate for Mayor. The former would draw to the popular banner all the solid business and financial interests of the city and all the intelligent workingmen who have learned that the lawless gains of corrupt rulers come out of the pockets of the poor as well as of the rich. Mr. Dana's name would be atower of strength, He would command support as the Bayard of reform, and withal would ex- cite an enthusiasm among the young men of the city which would inspirit the campaign. A spring electfon under the banner of Green or Dana would be a certain victory for the people—a certain Waterloo for Tammany. How can the republicans justify themselves in drawing back and refusing to act with the independent democracy to secure so desira- ble a result? Our London Cable Letter. It will be seen from our cable despatches that the great London public is casting an eye upon what rarely troubles it now—the royal family. The fact is that matters royal roll so smoothly over there and in an ever- contracting circle that it requires remarkable exertion to get up popular excitement about them. Even in Prince Albert's time Queen Victoria did not keep a very ostentatious Court, and since his death—that is, for fif- teen years past—she has kept no Court at all, except by deputy. Hence has arisen great grumbling from John Bull. The low wits have taken liberty with the Queen's good name; the Regent street tradesmen have shouted ‘‘parsimony ;” the aristocracy who have money to spend in display and daughters they wish to see shine at Court whisper ‘abdication or a return to public life” The mob which loves shows and parades would echo this if it was well above a whisper, and even a vulgar book like “Edward VIL” is likely to catch the public ear. A sketch of this work will be found in our cable letter, and if it had nothing more improbable in it than a special Hzratp The Boys in the Apple Tree. The celebrated Dr. Johnson was once ¢on~ sulted by a lady as to the degree of her som’s turpitude in robbingan orchard. “Madame,” said the Doctor, ‘it all depends on the weight of the boy. I remember that my schoolmate, David Garrick, who was a little fellow, robbed a dozen orchards with impu- nity ; but I always was a heavy boy, and the first time I climbed up an apple tree the bough broke, and it was called judgment. I suppose that is why Justice is represented with a pair of scales.” Since Tweed’s time no bough of our muni- cipal apple tree has given way with a crash ; but the pockets of the “light weights” all together hold a great many apples. Tweed lanced an artery in the body politic. That has been tied up, but the patient has been bleeding ever since from leeches. The peo- ple of this city do not get their money's worth in any department of the municipal service, unless it is the Comptroller's office. Little leaks, little evasions of duty, labor tickets, incompetent inspection, over pay- ments, perfunctory administration in a myr- iad ways, cost us several millions of dollars ayear. Nor is the waste of so much money the worst of it. Still worse is its effect onthe relation of New York to other cities as an avenue for trade and transportation and a desirable place of residence. Boston on the north and Baltimore on the south thrive on our misfortunes. Nothing but our prodigious natural advantages prevents us from show- ing an actual instead of only a relative decadence. Something needs to be done, and to be done quickly. If we wait for Governor Tilden’s munici- pal commission to tell us what to do we shall wait long and vainly. It was consti- tuted for the very purpose of delay. So far as itis busy at all it is busy considering theories. Mr. Jackson 8, Schultz, for in- stance, a few days ago, addressed a letter to it declaring that ‘universal suffrage and an honest and economical municipal govern- ment are incompatible with each other,” and urging it to devise a ‘‘Board of Control,’ for every city in the State, to be elected by the male and female owners of real estate. This is a fair illustration of the nature of its deliberations. It is not reasonable to expect any measure of relief through the agency of this commission, when we remember when, why and how it was appointed. The only practical measure which has been proposed that is capable of immediate adoption is a spring election for municipal officers. One of the February magazines has just printed an interesting letter which was written by Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis soon after the battle of Gettysburg. The General put his commission at the disposal of the President for the reason that in case of reverses the usual and proper remedy is a change of the unsuccessful commander. In that case the President wisely refused the offered resignation ; but there is no doubt that the General's theory of usage and pro- priety was right. It holds equally good in the conduct of a municipal administration. When a Mayor, after more than a year’s ser- vice, fails to enforee either harmony or economy in any of the branches of the city government, it is time for him to step down and out, no matter how much longer is the term of his commission. If he will not do so, then itis reasonable to ask the Legisla- ture to abridge his term. When a Board of Aldermen deliberately resolve to squander the money of the people in iron-clad it might be taken as a prophecy. As an offset to whether or not the Queen will open Parliament we are told that the impossible Dr. Kenealy is going down to St. Stephen’s with a procession of his magna chartists—a very spurious kind of de- mocracy. We learn, also, that the Episco- plian clergymen are wroth at the Privy Council allowing even a Wesleyan minister to call himself reverend, and that the Lord Mayor of London has entered ona Third Com- mendment crusade, which, if successful, will reduce the Cockney vocabulary by a stout three-fourths. We are sorry to learn that the Universities are not likely to send crews to the Intérnational College Regatta, but we hope to see some of them, as promised, at Philadelphia, in August. It is pleasant to see’ good American securities in demand abroad. Our Paris Cable Letter. Paris is busy with balls, parties and elec- tions, and it is not wonderful amid so much life that it turned aside to go to a funeral. It was eminently fitting that Victor Hugo, the high priest of the romantic school, should pronounce the eulogy over one who 80 splendidly illustrated it on the stage as did Frédéric Lemaitre in his palmy days. Those who have seen the great old actor mumbling | painfully within the past eight years could just catch a glimmer of the genius that | flashed from him when young Victor Hugo | was making his fight with the classicists, It was just like Paris, too, that a political turn should be given to the solemn occasion by cheering Victor Hugo, the radical, when they should have let Victor Hugo, the pallbearer, pass by in silence. But then the Prefect of Police has forbidden public meetings, and Paris must uncork its ebullience in some } manner or overturn the government in the attempt. It is somewhat Parisian, also, to see all the political parties rejoicing before- | hand over victories which are yet to be won, | and outof the fights from which some of | | the parties must come discomfited. In Eng- | ‘ jand both parties would celebrate after the | | fight, for a defeat is better than no excuse fora dinner, and John Bull must have a dinner on every occasion. In America the | rejoicings only gu with the spoils. We have afew choice theatrical items from the gay capital, and one from Vienna which will set the manager of the Bowery Theatre in frenzy of envy. They have dramatized Thomassen’s crime there. It ought to suc- ceed; for, as Tom Hood said of the ‘Miller and His “Men” when asked what were its chances:—‘Any piece that has an explosion in it ought to ‘go off’ weil.” Oxx Repusricay axp One Rapican are all that remain in the Spanish Cortes of the two parties between which the Spanish ex- periment of popular government came to 80 ignominious a failure. The best, if not the most practical, of the republicans survives | politically in Castelar. There has been a clean sweep there ; too clean to bode good td the Spanish monarchy. gratuities to political favorites, and make a willingness to pay more than the market rates for labor the test of qualification for office, it is time for them also to step down and out. If they will not, then it is reason- able to ask the Legislature to put them out. Our present Mayor and Aldermen were not elected upon considerations pertaining solely to municipal affairs, Their nomination and election depended upon political bargains relating in great part to affairs of the State and the nation, with which the city was but remotely concerned. We ask the Legislature to give us for once a purely municipal elec- tion. This they can do immediately. It cannot make anything worse than it now is, and it may make everything much better. It will not interfere with anybody's projects for amending the charter in other particulars; nor will it interfere with the deliberations of the Governor's confmission. It is capable of being considered and granted on its own peculiar and separate merits. Steeplechasing. The American Jockey Club, acting on the Heratp’s suggestion to increase the height and breadth of the jumps in all steeplechases at Jerome Park, have, it is understood, taken the matter into con- sideration, and will soon arrange a set of rules to regulate that particular style of racing. The time test will be ignored, and | jumping will be the paramount attraction of the sport in future. -é The sporting press of this city are dis- cussing the question as to the correct mode of conducting steeplechasing, and nearly all of them agree with us in advocating an in- crease in the height of stone walls and hurdles and in the abolition of the time test, as will be seen from a few selections made from some of the papers, which are pub- lished in another column. The New York Sportsman is alone in its objections, and is afraid that higher obstacles than are now in vogue would be dangerous on account of the | great numbers that have to be gone over, land that ‘they wire in and out and around about;” and it urges that “a good, wide stretchaway should be secured” by running over land ontside the racecourses, instead of having the race ins side the field in front of the grand stands. This kind of argument does not seem ten- able, for the reason that, should the jumping be taken out of sight of the people in the grand stands and club houses, there would be no use in having these races. The charm of steeplechasing isin the jumps, and the closer these are to the spectators the better ; and there certainly are not too many of them at Jerome Park if the speed of the horses is properly regulated and bottled up for the final half-mile run home on a clear track after ail the jumping is over. We hope the owners of all the large racing stables through- | to their present strings, and give notice to | the American Jockey Club that they will be bp opened for the coming spring meeting. By testing the experiment thus early all necessary improvements could be made to insure capital sport in the autumn. But by all means begin schooling your horses for the work at once, ‘so that you may be ready for the opening of the racing season at Jerome Park. Our New Business Centre. Among the needs ofa great city none is plainer than the necessity of stability in business localities: For years the trade of New York has been seeking special centres, but the growth of the metropolis has com- out the country will add a few steeplechasers | ing for the assembly of a bloody-shirt con- pelled a change in these in every decade. Now, however, every class of business, as we pointed out the other day, is finding its true and permanent home, of which there is no clearer evidence than the changes. effected by the erection of the new Post Office. It is only a few months since that magnificent structure came into the occupancy of the postal authorities, and already the neigh- borhood is becoming the financial centre of New York. In addition to the banking houses and insurance companies which have offices in this locality we hear that others are seeking sites in the adjacent streets, and a very few years will effect a complete trans- formation in this respect. It is only natural that this result should follow the change of the Post Office from Nassau street to Broad- way and Park row. In London the Post Office is the money centre of the British metropolis, and it always was so in this city. The change from the rickety old building so long occupied by our Postmaster and his assistants to the splendid edifice in the City Hall Park left the banking and insurance business behind ; but a change in the loca- tion of the latter is now inevitable and will be for the better. Broadway and all of the lat- eral streets in the vicinity of the City Hall are admirably adapted to business of this nature, and even Chatham and Centre streets and the reeking, filthy section of the city west of the Bowery, of which the Five Points is the centre, may be transformed by this great and necessary change. From East to West Broadway and from Canal to Wall street is the future money centre of New York. This district thus used will give us a new and beautiful city, and, as the rapid transit roads are to converge in the vicinity of the Post Office and the New York ter- minus of the Brooklyn Bridge is to be in the same neighborhood, it will be as accessible as it is specially adapted to the purpose. No city in the world can boast a more admirable money centre, and as the change is inevita- ble we commend the subject to the careful attention and study of our business men, that the new city which is to rise in this locality may be built wisely and well. ' & Simple Remedy. During the week we discussed the street car nuisance with great thoroughness, and ourcolumns have been open to the complaints and suggestions of the public. There is no more important subject affecting the health and comfort of the community than this question of agreeable transit in a great city like New York, and, viewing it from one side of the case, it is not surprising that the subject excited so much attention or that there was such general participation in the discussion. From another standpoint, how- ever, the discussion is in itself a curiosity. After all the question is a very simple one, and this is perhaps the only large city in the world where there would be so much talk’ over so plain a proposition. The good na- ture of the American character is so extreme that our people are often befogged on the simplest question of personal rights, and the tolerance of abuses practised upon them by great corporations has become so universal that it sometimes requires a good deal of ar- gument to convince our people that there is a remedy for the plainest of outrages. A practical solution of’ the problem of rapid | transit would not surprise anybody ; but so accustomed have we become to the street car abuses that the application of the simplest remedies is regarded as hopeless by many persons, while it would be surprising to all. A solution in the present instance is not im- possible, however, and let us hope that the full and free discussion of the subject dur- ing the week has prepared the way for the remedy. The remedy in this case is as simple as the disease. Let the Legislature pass an act providing for ‘‘no seat no fare,” and the prob- lem is solved. Some member may be in- duced to offer such a bil], and few. will care to oppose @ measure so manifestly just. We are not unmindful, however, that the rail- road lobby at Albany stands between the pub- lic and their rights in this matter. Had not this been the case we should have had a law of this kind long ago. Only last year a bill of this nature was smothered in committee by lobby influence. The bill which is to be introduced at the present session must not meet with a like fate, and every member must know that in opposing the measure he is placing himself upon the record in antag- onism to the true interests of the people of this city, and that he will ,be held respon- sible for his vote. Another remedy, immediate in its effects and almost as simple in execution, is for the people who are in the habit of using the crowded cars to holda meeting and raise funds to test the right of the companies to demand fare without providing each pas- senger with o seat. A single individ- ual refusing to pay for ‘standing room only” has no chance against these powerful corporations, but effort will accomplish much. It is not easy to eject twenty men from a street car, and if twenty will begin it the war will soon be- come general. In London the passengers on the railways take these matters into their own hands, and refuse to allow more persons to enter when a car is full. A combination to do both of these things will soon bring the companies to their senses, and it must be the remedy if everything else fails. Sexaton Morton has taken ap esfraordi- nary time to deliver his Mississtppi speech, and people arejin danger of the beginning before they hear theend. Why is this? A speech always loses its effect by being scattered over the greater part of two weoks. Is it becattse Mr. Morton was wait- ready to make entries for wll stakes that maw | wal And has he delaved hia great effort @ combined | SEEEESEEEEEEnneeeen al because of an unexpecte? hitch about the convention? Itlooksso. Perhaps Mr. Mor- ton will begin to see by and by that the bloody shirt is—to use the expressive lan- guage of one of its orignal wearers—‘‘played out.” ~ No, Mr. Bergh, No, Mr. Bergh; you are mistaken. The result would not justify your gloomy fore- bodings. Emphatically, no! If you sallied forth armed in the majesty of law to- morrow and stopped a Third avenue car “crammed with men, women and children like mackerel (not mackrel, Mr. Bergh) in a barrel” we should not shout that « is arbitrary ; he has too much zeal ;” but we should say, ‘Bravo! Mr. Bergh ; keep it up, Mr. Bergh ; Mr. Bergh’s zeal just toes the mark”—contradictory as the phrase in pho- netic reading would appear., Men, women and children we believe to be of more account in this world than horses, dogs and “such small cattle ;” but if the law has left car-travelling humanity no protection, save in 8o far as cruelty to them involves cruelty to’ the beasts that drag them, then shall we storm high heaven with applause of the sagacious Mr. Bergh who has discovered that fact. Thus does the good survive and multiply. When our legislators at Albany, out of pure benignity for the lower links in the Darwinian chain of animals, enacted laws empowering Mr. Bergh to prevent cruelty to animals, they did not fore- see that these godlike acts: would become an engine for the protec- tion of men, women and children. When St. Martin of Tours divided his cloak with the Mr. Bergh of the period, he did not fore- see that the piece of cloth would be the means of saving his soul: When the time of’ need came the saint, who had’ forgotten the gift, found it outbalancing his‘own short- comings. Honor, then, to Mr. Bergh. Away with all breathings of despotism and tyranny. We go to Albany, indeed, to have his more-than-ever-useful society abolished and Mr. Bergh immured in a Third avenue car for life—not abitof it! On the contrary, if Mr. Bergh does as he says, we shall pat him on the backgand say, ‘‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” On the contrary, we, might even advocate a statue to him in front of the Hzraup building—not an eques- trian statue as ordinarily understood, but one with a Third avenue horse on the shoul- ders of Mr. Bergh (not by any means Mr. Bergh on the horse), while a number of “gyros” revolved after the fashion of an au- reole around the affecting group. No, Mr. a Bergh; your action would be deserving of all praise. It would téach as loud as the neigh of a warhorse that goad is better than good, and it would inform the people and their legislators that they can help you in your kindly work by giving us a law compelling the horse car companies to give the travel- ling public a seat for a fare. Elsewhere our friend Mr, Bergh’s remarkable letter will be found. Pulpit Topics. Infidelity and scepticism in their various aspects will be discussed to-day by Revs. Lightbourn and Merritt ; ‘Culture, Spiritual or Intellectual,” will be presented by Messra. Seitz and McCarthy; ‘Religious Revivals and Their Results” will be considered by Dr. For- rester, and ‘‘Noah’s Raven” will bring its les- son through Dr. Armitage to his church. But the great theme of the day in most pul- pits of the city is Christ in one or more of His aspects and offices. As a healer, bring- ing the balm of Gilead to wounded and sin- sick souls, He will be presented by Revs. Kennard and Lloyd; as the one refuge for the chased and terror stricken soul, He will be held up by Mr. Phelps, and as the abiding place for the believer, by Mr. Knapp. Mr. Harris believes that humanity is poisoned by sin, and he will offer Christ as the only remedy, and Mr. Saunders will correct some of the false judgments concerning piety, than which perhaps no undertaking is harder, because the unregenerate heart is in that state that it cannot take in all the elements of piety, and cannot, therefore, pass a cor- rect judgment thereon. PERSONAL INTELLIGENC: Eighteen thousand, one hundred and forty-four Chi. namen came to California last year. Bees are dying out in the Kentucky blue grass region. Never heard of biue grass bees before. Lord Rosebery, the young Scotch peer who visited this Gountry a short time ago, made $25,000 on the British turf last year. Professor Seelye, of Massachusetts, takes the ground thai in the States the Indians should be handed over to the care of the State governments. ‘The Chicago Tribune says that a million Americans eat with their knives. Yes, and there is another mill- jon who would be glad to eat with anything. To use the language of M. Marcel, quoted by Herbert Spencer, ‘‘What the learner discovers by mental.exer- cise is better known than what is told him.”’ “Maudie” is what they call a St. Louis young lady. Her lover sings, ‘Come into the garden, Maudie, but put on your arctic shoes.’ Cincinnati Gazete:—“'The resignation of Barclay, the veteran Journal Clerk of the House, leaves Speaker Kerr wholly at the mercy of the parliamentarians on the republican side.” Augusta Constitutionalist:—‘It would seem to be the duty of the pulpit and heads of families to inculcate lessons which would give us less of modern ‘civiliza- tion’ and more of old fashioned morality.” Jones, of Nevada, the statesman, thinks that silver bars should represent the amount of money in circula- tion. Yet if Jones did not take home his $20 every Saturday night and did not put it into a teacup in the shape of a silver bar, he wouldn’t feel like being knocked around with a broomstick, Webster City, says a Burlington paper, rejoices in a local novelist who is publishing her earliest efforts in the k papers. “‘Elfida, behold the mune.” “The perbe me lord?” “Ay, mune; wherefore doestest thou echoest me?” ‘Good me lord, I echoest no. body.” “Then, thank heaven, we are saved." * ‘The Bostan Post philosophically says:—" Baltimore'a growth imparts the whole secret. Her trunk line to the heart of the West, her capacious elevators, her model terminal facilities for a heavy and increasing froight business, with the consequent activity of trade ‘and rapid growth of industrial interests, the increase of her population and their general satisfaction and contentment, are standing testimonies before tho ooun- try to the wonderful power ‘that lies in a city’s hus- banding its resources for their intelligent local concen- tration.” Henry Watterson, throwing the lemon and sodden Sagar out of window, Frencivly moralizos on tho Mackenzie clopement by saying:—"She is gone, this Candian beauty, and Brydges with her; and whore’s the good of recalling her, and what use is she naw to anybody? The world is no wiser and no better than before, The ignorant are led astray. The vicious \ follow weir desires. ‘Thoso that have the pretext | of domestic infelicity affect to da the best they can; | aud some go up and some go down, while the pro- | ductive cause, such as it is, goes on forever. Wives vention dn Washington to give @ Merton | and daughters never (ali for nothing. Tho fault is alwava with the man ont the woman’