The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1876, Page 4

_ anxious to explain, has been fought against | 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON B PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. teeelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | month, free of postage. All bu ss, news letters or tele pera h despatches must be addressed Nx Yous Himan INETT, D. Letters and packages should be properly fealed. Rejected communications will not be ree turned. PHILADELPHIA OF SIXTH STREET. E—NO. 112 SOUTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-—NO. 46 F T STREET. OFFICE--AVENUE DE LOPERA ytions gee forwarded on the same terms AMUSEMENTS TO-N NATIONAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION fi WATER COLOL FIFTH AVENUE PIQUE, at 8P. M, Fanny Daven THIRTY-| Fount 8 STRE VARIETY, at 8 powany THE NEW YOK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1876.—W1TH SUPPLEMENT: The Water Supply in Néw York. The sufficiency of a water supply in a great city like New York is always of the utmost importance. In growing cities, and ities where new and lofty edifices are taking the places of the low structures of the last century, the water facilities seldom keep pace with the growth of the towns, Even when the supply is sufficient it is often found that the means of distribution are inadequate. ‘That this is the case in New York the late fire in Broad- way is sufficient proof, and the disastrous consequences which would in ly have followed if highwind had prevailed during the: conflagrationsalmonishgns to prepare against any sudden emergency. In any direction a spread of the flames would have produced lo 2 or down Broadway commerce’ palatial hotels of great value would have been swept a’ On either side of that great thorou > an immense number of factories and storehouses would have len a prey to the flames, The great fires in Boston and Chicago occa- sioned comparatively small losses to those which would result from an extensive confla- gration in the lower part of this city, and we doubt whether either of those cities was as badly off for water as that part of D York below Fourteenth street. Even at night the IDA, ats P.M. on Ralte ARISTA ‘VARIETY, at sh M. SAN FRANCISCO MID GLO! VARIETY, at 8 P.M. BOOTH’S THE JULIUS CASAR, ats P.M. THE. CABIN TIVOLI THEATRE, VARIETY, at § P.M. wooD SP. M. M THIRD AV VARIETY, at Sl. M WAL JOHN GARTH, at 8 OLYMPIC T ©NCLE TOM's THE Sry, VARIETY, at 8 P. EAST LYNNE, PANORAMA, 1 to 4P E. TICKET-OF-LEAVE M. TWENTY THIRD CALIFORNIA MINSTER GERM, OTF AND SCHWE! Fomor reports this morning the pr probabilities | H are that the weather to-day will be colder and | clearing. Tuer Henavp py Fast Mar 1 dealers and the public throu, will be supplied with the Da: Scunpay Her. free of postage, their orders direct to this office. muntry Weexty and | by sending | Watt Srraer Yesterpay.—The feature of the day was an advance in the granger stocks. Express and some of the investment stocks were also strong. Gold was steady at 113 1-8a 1-4a 1-8. Money was in supply at 3 and 4 per cent. Tue Puripries.—Spain has a little war of her own in the an expedition of eight thousand men having left Manila to punish the Sooloo pirates. Tux Bevcun Liperats appear to regard a Catholic procession much asa bull does a red rag, and accordingly dash at it with an intent to injure, which is generally success- fulin producing a long list of casualties. Malines, the railroad centre of Belgium, was the scene of the late: us disturbance. East, Gammerta’s Oneax, the République Fran- gaise, has brought down the wrathof M. Buffet upon it in the shape of a prosecution for attacking the government—namely, M. Buffet. If he could only chain up the ex- Dictator instead of his organ the Premier's desires would approach nearer to gratifica- tion. Not being able to get the moon he cries for he contents himself with eating green sheese. Tue Scxz Cana Puncuass.—The debate in the English House of Commons over the purchase of the Khedive’s shares has been postponed until next Monday. It is not wery likely that any serious objection will be made to paying out the four millions ster- ling required. The liberals will assent to it after a little grumbling. No party in England ever ventures to interfere with a foreign policy which the people at largo Mndorse, as ‘they have done with what Disracli would call his bargain. That idea of a chain of fortresses from London to India would make John Bull generous to his mother-in-law. Tue Porte Arrr. xrovs to act in good faith with the Christian Powers who have quietly coerced it into accepting the Andrassy plan of reform. The Turkish government’ have not only issued orders to put the new reforms into effect in the re- volted provinces, but we are also informed of their having formally begun to punish offences against: Christians in other parts of | the Empire. We are, however, still without any indication that the Herzegovinan insurgents have any idea of again submitting | to Mussulman rule, even at the price of the Andrassy reforms, honestly applied. Bascoce’s Cruen.—The curious and | strongly suggestive batch of despatches in eiphor which passed between General Bab- cock and Major Luckey last November are printed elsewhere, both in the original and | translation. of that month of being called to St. Louis, although he demanded to be placed on the witness stand as soon as the evidence in the Avery case was closed, and compliance with his request was an impossibility, This does not need comment; but another thing may de pointed out—namely, that the admission on the trial of the ‘“Sylph” telegrams, which in his despatch of the 30th November he was so | tooth and nail by his counsel. As they have They show that Babeock was | | in mortal dread during the early~part | will meet all the exigencies of the future. supply seldom reaches the top floors of the larger buildings down town, and during the day there is a great scarcity of Croton in many of the principal streets. It is possible there is a sufficient supply in the reservoirs, but the mains are too small to meet a great demand; and so, whatever the head, the quan- tity is limited. In order to illustrate this subject fully and to enable the authorities and our citizens to understand just where the fault is, we publish elsewhere a map of the city from Houston street to the Battery, giving a view of the more exposed localities | and the mains and pipes by which they are supplied. This will afford an excellent op- \portunity for studying the whole question, and we hope our illustration and exposure of the inadequacy of the water service may lead to the construction of the larger and more serviceable mains which the growth and safety of the city imperatively require. | It is seareely necessary in this place to re- | count the story told in another column of the insufficient methods adopted for supply- j ing the most important part of the metropolis with water. No argument is required to prove thata thirty-six inch main is inade- quate to feed all the pipes in the down | town streets in the vicinity of Broadway. Our map shows, however, that all the lofty and magnificent structures in Broadway and in the adjacent streets not only draw their supply from that single pipe, but that the | firemen also are dependent upon it. Under such conditions no head could force a sufli- cient quantity of water through the main for a great emergency, and the Fire Department would in consequence be practically helpless before a great conflagration driven by a high wind. In the fire of last week, even, much | difficulty was experienced, and had the flames spread rapidly, as in Chicago and Boston, calling the whole force of the Fire Department into requisition, the results of the disaster would have been mostly attribut- able to the scarcity of water. The fault be- ing known, and involving in its conse- quences the safety of a whole city, the rem- edy isa matter of the utmost importance, and it is to this that we call the attention of the Fire Department, the Commissioner of Public Works, the Board ot Aldermen and the people of New York. More mains and larger and more service- able pipes are absolutely required for the | safety of the metropolis. Other means of | providing against a great conflagration | ought to be adopted, as cisterns at the street corners, to be used only in cases of fire, and stationary pumps on the North and East rivers with independent mains and hose ; but the great remedy, after all, isan enlarge- ment of our whole water supply system. When the mains down town were built New York was not the great metropolis it now is. Buildings like that at the corner of Broadway and Dey street had not yet been constructed. The towering edifices Which now line all the principal thoroughfares had not yet replaced the low structures our grandfathers were ac- customed to regard as imposing. Our means of supplying the lower part of New York with water were designed for a different city from that which exists to-day. While the metropolis has been growing, not only in extent, but in height, while our water supply itself has been increased and means supplied for its distribution throughout the upper | part of the island, no thought has been taken of the effect of all this upon the city of forty years ago. ‘The means of water distribution down town are what they were in the begin- ning, and it is not surprising that in view of all the changes which have taken place within a few years they should be found inadequate. Neither is it surprising that our people should be slow in learning the effect of these changes upon their own security. A lad is always the last to recognize that he is grow- ing out of his clothes. It is now many years since New York‘ outgrew its water system, and it is possible that only a great calamity will teach us a fact that is plain to every eye. We trust, however, that a danger which con- fronts us every hour will not be much longer disregarded, and that we shall soon havea system of water supply commensurate with the necessities of the metropolis. In a matter of this kind it is all important that we should begin in the right way. The disease and the remedy being both ascer- tained it still remains wisely to apply the eure. Nothing must be done except upon a full understanding of our present system of water distribution and the means which These ought to be determined as quickly as possible and then put in the way of speedy and economical execution. It is foolhardy to wait for a great calamity before beginning attention that Broadway, between Howard and Grand streets, was crowded during the “whole of last week to so great an extent that it was almost impossible for the ordinary pedestrian to force his way through the mul- titude, has not had the effect of awakening our people to a full appreciation of their condition. Yet it is plain that there is a great scarcity of water in the lower part of the city; that the street mains are unable to carry a sufficient supply for the ordinary wants of business, to say nothing of the quantities which would be needed in a great emergency, and that seven hundred and fifty million dollars’-worth of property is in danger within two blocks of Broadway from “Spring to Chambers streets. It is not pos- sible to contemplate such a condition of our water supply without feelings of alarm, and we commend the whole subject to those whose duty it is to provide against the con- | tingencies of the future as one of the most important consequences, Health and Business. An irresistible argument in favor of an elevated railroad on the east side of the city tection of the public health. The present system of transit not only distributes dis- ease, but causes it. We shall refer to only one of the evils of the horse cars at present, They reverse one of the fundamental prin- ciples of hygienic travel—which is, that a car should be warm in winter and cool in summer, The street cars freeze their pas- sengers in winter—especially at night—or are only heated by the exhalations from wet clothes and the bodies of the crowds they carry. This method of warming cars is not what the people want. In summer the pack- ing-box system makes comfort impossible, and the suffocated public in both seasons feel fike a thermometer turned upside down, registering cold when it ought to be can be heated in winter, and they can be ventilated and cooled in summer. This is one great advantage that persons have who live in towns on the Pennsylvania, Erie, New York Central and other roads, and do hour in a slow street car, sweating as if he were at the Equator or shivering as if at the Pole, ox is swiftly carried to his home on an elevated road in a pure and equable air. Objection has been made to an elevated will injure business on that great thorough- fare. This is not true. It is the street cars that injure trade on Third avenue. Thou- cause of the notorious overcrowding of the street cars and the insults and inconvén- iences to which they are in consequence ex- posed. The difficulty of reaching any given place on Third avenue keeps buyers of | all kinds away from the shops, and, there- important branches of business are steadily tending to the western portions of the city. The elevated railroad would reform these evils and, by making travel pleasant and quick, would bring Third avenue far more business than it has. ‘ Spain and Cuba, Diplomacy chooses the tortuous path in preference to the straight one. We have now an ‘indirect’ reply to Mr. Fish’s last ‘‘indirect” note concerning Cuba. It is very absurd to see two Powers: like Spain and the United States conversing with each other through third parties. Spain now says that there only 800 whites in the Cuban insurrention, the leaders being foreign adventurers, while there are 40,000 native Cubans among the Spanish volunteers. Still 28,000 Spanish troops during the last year have reinforced those already on the island, and the end of the war is not yet, owing to “the difficulties of the country.” Spain, however, can make no terms with an insur- rection which has sustained itself for nearly eight years. To make both ends of its statement meet it falls into inconsequences, which may be put as follows :—There is no insurrection worth speaking of; hence a hundred thousand soldiers are wanted to put itdown. The island is twice as pros- perous as it was; hence gold is at a high pre- mium and the soldiers are unpaid. We can make no terms with an insurrection which does not exist; hence no reforms can be granted until it is put down. The Epoca, of Madrid, says that Spanish official thieves have robbed more than the rebellion has cost. Truly a ‘difficult country.” ASSEMBLYMEN ON THE Fencr.—In the inter- views of our Albany correspondent with the Assemblymen of the Railroad Committee and the Committee on Cities we have ob- served that several of these gentlemen place themselves on the fence in the matter of giving passengers on horse cars a seat for a fare. How is it that they find it so hard to decide between the plain rights of the peo- ple and the unhealthiness, indecency and | discomfort which the crowded cars force upon the travelling public? How is it that they hesitate betwoen a system which would insure decency, comfort, healthful transit and safety to personal property and one that gives steady, sate and lucrative employment to a thousand pickpockets, in addition to favoring all the monstrous evils above noted? Is the money of the railroad com- panies in the hands of the lobbyists at | Albany enough to make these legislators balance it against the crying needs of the people? We want to know. We shall keep a sharp watch on those doubtful gentlemen, and, when they have decided, shall deal with them according to their deserts, A Vict 10 Overcrowprp Cans.—John to provide against it. We know that all the lower part of the city is exposed to disaster; | we know that some districts which will be found marked on the Henann's map are | peculiarly exposed, and we know both the cause of this and the remedy. But there is something else in the way besides the difli- Ginna was killed by being thrown from the platform of an overcrowded car on the See | ond Avenue Railroad. The seats were all occupied, the car full, and a displaced | switch, throwing the vehicle suddenly out | of its direction, pitched the young man into | the street. His father has recovered three Deen admitied General Babcock may now | culty of applying the cure—the apathy of | thousand dollars damages, or the equivalent begin his explanatory task, and might as | well include the cipher correspondence at | our municipal people in face of the danger. Even the the same time. late fire, although it excited such general authorities and of the | of sixty thousand fares, from the grasping | company. Another sad argument for “No | Seat no fare,” highest importance and fraught with the | is that such a road is necessary to the pro- | hot, or being cursed with the tropics when it has a longing for an Arctic | wind. Now, the elevated road can alone reform this evil. Steam cars business in New York. It is an amazing | difference to a man whether he sits for an | road on Third avenue on the ground that it | sands -of Indies do not visit the stores be- | fore, the dry goods trade and many other | Walt Till the Election Is Overs The testimony of Mr. J. W. Douglass, ex- Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in the trial of General Babcock contains some curi- ous revelations. The President, the Secres tary of the Treasury and the Commissioner were all agreed, we are told by Mr. Douglass, as to the existence of extensive frauds in the revenue service and the necessity of inves- tigating them, and in order to facilitate fair inquiry it was determined to issue an order transferring supervisors from one place to another, This was based upon the principle upon which Douglass afterward sent Joyce to California, so that he would not be an ob- stacle to the investigation of his affairs in St. Louis. The order of transfer was a wise measure, and ought to have been carried out at once, But Mr. Douglass coolly testi- fies that upon consultation with Secretary Bristow they ‘cencluded to wait until | the fall elections were over. We waited,” he said, ‘‘and then there were a number of Senatorial elections, and we had to wait until they were over; then we found that we were in the midst of the Presidential election, and that was another obstacle; | after that we arranged to make the transfers.” Here is'startling news for the people. Enor- mous frauds, amounting to millions of dol- lars, are committed by the Whiskey Ring. The President and his nearest advisers know of the facts, and are in duty bound to dis- cover and punish these wholesale robbers of the nation. Butthey refuse to doso. They postpone the investigation three times. They wait till the elections are over. Why should they wait upon such a pre- text ? Because the thieves were the politi- | cal friends of the administration, hold- | ing positions of trust and honor under its appointment, and able to control conventions and votes. To have exposed these men would have been to have | proved the charges of corruption against the | republican party and to have cut off a large 4 portion of its political revenugs. Gen- eral Babcock told -Douglass that the | pressure on President Grant would be so | strong that the order would have to be re- called. McDonald, who is now in jail, con- victed of the very frauds this order was in- tended to expose, telegraphed to Douglass on February 3,.1875 :—‘Don’t like the order. It will damage the government and injure the administration.” On February 4 the President revoked the order by the following note through one of his private secretaries, Luckey, to the Commissioner :—‘‘The Presi- dent directs me to say that he desires that the circular order transferring supervisors of internal revenue be suspended by telegraph until further orders.” Truly, Babcock was right about the strength of the pressure that, was to be brought to bear on the President. Joy was carried to every member of the’ Whiskey Ring with the speed of electricity. It is true that after the elections Secretary Bristow prosecuted these frauds, but the fact is evident that before the elections the admin- The honor of the government was dograded' |. to win the elections for a party, and the rev- enues of the people were allowed to be plundered to swell the revenues of State committees. We learn with grief and shame that in the opinion of the administration it is more important to carry an election than to punish crime. Is this the spirit in which the President’s famous order, ‘Let no guilty. man escape,” is to be interpreted? It would: rather seem to be, ‘‘Let all guilty men escape till after the elections.” Then, after mill- ions of dollars have been taken, after States have been won by deceit, after Senators have been elected who would have been defeated ; had the people known the truth, then pun- | ish the criminals whom it was necessary to protect before. The President now claims that he revoked the order to remove sus- picion from the minds of the guilty officials, in order that they might be more easily de- tected, but Mr. Douglass contmdicts him; and if the testimony of the latter be true, the government has committed a greater offence against the people than any with which even the Whiskey Ring itself is charged. The Two Big 8s of Brooklyn. There are many persons, in Plymouth church particularly, who profess to believe that the real antagonist of Mr. Beecher has always been Mr. Bowen. He is the secret enemy, they say, who, like the man in the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,” continually poured from his concealment oil upon the fire that others vainly tried to quench. Mr. Tilton, they tell us, fought openly, but Mr. Bowen attacked treacherously, and for years kept the scandal alive by his intrigues. Well, however this may have been, the mask is dropped at last, and Mr, Beecher and Mr. Bowen confront each other as open foes. The religious editor has called the preacher hypocrite, perjurer and adulterer, and the clergyman has called the layman slanderer and liar. This plain issue is made, but it is very uncertain whether {t will soon be settled. Mr. Bowen proposes three judges who are to try the facts and render a the names of persons concerned; and to this Mr. Beecher objects. The position is like that of a modern prize fight, which never comes off because of a dispute, about the referee. Some years ago two no- torious pugilists got into a ring in a Western State and glared at each other and called each other names for half a day, and left the ring at last without fighting, because neither side would accept the referee the other named. It isto be hoped that Mr. Bowen and Mr. Beecher will not weary and disgust the public with such an ex- hibition; but so long as they merely abuse each other there can be no other feel- ings in regard to their dispute. If Mr, Bowen can accept the summons of the Examining Committee of Plymouth church to appear in ten days and tell his story he should do so, and if Mr. Beecher wishes to clear himself he must not oppose any impediment to an im- partial inquiry. As the affair now stands the two big Bs threaten to become the two big bores. A Count Gone Buoamsa.—The scene at the City Hall yesterday was not a pleasant one in which Recorder Hackett, Judge Gil- dersleeve and District Attorney Phelps ap- peared before a committee of the Board of Aldermen to beg proper accommodation for | the Conrt of General Sessions, The steps to istration suppressed even the investigation. » ‘ verdict to the public, but are not to reveal j; provide rooms for this Important Court should be taken immediately. The present arrangeme!®s are disgraceful to a city like New York. Capital Punishment. » The fact that Dolan in this city, Ruben- stein in Brooklyn, and Piper in Boston, are now all under sentence of death draws at- tention to the old discussion in reference to the advisability of capital punishment as a means of repressing crime, Into that dis- cussion we do not propose to enter, The law declares that whoever takes life shall for- feit his own, and that law is the master of us all. But there are some points in reference to its adininistration which should not be overlooked. We really have the most cruel law in the world for the punishment of mur- der. We complain of the ¥rench and Chinese systems. We shudder at the guillo- tine and the barbarity 9f the Chinese, who torture their victims and behead them with thesword. But what torture is to be compared to that which our criminals suffer when under. the sentence of the Court and awaiting its execution? There is no certainty that it will | not be executed. Many a wretch has felt the entangling rope around his neck without J abandoning the hope that his fawyers had . succeeded in another stay. The delays in justice are an immunity to crime. The mur- ,derer may well look at the cases of Stokes ‘and Scannell and feel that there is no capital punishment. Now, we owe.it to justice, which should be stern and sure, as well as to humanity, which demands that even the most depraved shall not be tortured, that our criminal code should be revised. Theré should be none of the delays which we had in the Scannell case. There the murderer was in prison for years before his case came to a judgment. When a person is accused of murder he should be tried before a competent tribunal—say two Judges of the Supreme Conrt or any two of our criminal Judges. Then, upon sentence, {he should have the right to take his case at once to the Court of Appeals for revision. This should be to him a writ of right, This | Court should be compelicd to hear this ‘writ within thirty day3, and say whether in all respects the conviction is in accordance with the law. Then it should be the duty of the Sheriff to carry the sentence into exe- eution within a fortnight or three weeks after this judgment. By this means all interests would be served. The prisoner would have the high- est safeguard that the law can throw qbout the life of the citizen. There would be none | of that agonizing uncertainty which now at-" tends every sentence of death. The inter- ests of society would be served by the prompt and sure punishment of murderers. It would "be well for our friends in Albanf*to look into this subject. As it now stands our law in relation to capital punishment does not answer the purposes of justice. The “Times” Is Right. In an excellent editorial in yesterday's Times on the distressing scenés witnessed ‘inside and outside a crowded horse car the writer draws attention to an inci- dent coming under his notice on Sun.) day last. Two miserable, overtasked | horses, drawing a crowded and jammed: Fourth avenue car, ‘took it into their dumb | heads that they would not bear this sort of thing any longer. And so they stopped short, and stood in their tracks. It was plainly a deliberate determination of two overworked beasts that their good nature should beno longer imposed upon.” Then the writer proceeds to apply the lesson to New Yorkers, who suffer as much as the horses from the unhealthful and inde- cent overcrowding. We should at least show as much spirit as the horses, that gained their point by their determined protest, for in submitting without a murmur “we are worse than the very horses, who, with us, suffer from the impositions of their masters and ours, the street railway companies.” The Times is right. New York- ers must exhibit not only the same ‘‘equine determination,” but “a little downright mulishness,” in this fight with the oppressors of man and beast: Centennial Privileges. We see a statement of the grants mafle by the directors of the Centennial Commission” for certain privileges on the grounds of the Exhibition. These privileges include the monopoly of certain rights. The aggregate sum realized is $450,000. For the catalogue, $100,000 is paid; for restaurant and beer rights, $125,000. Milk, bread, chocolate and ‘candy bring $11,000. Soda water will earn $52,000, and tobacco $21,000, There fs one grant for rolling chairs, and another called “The Department of Public Comfort,” which are to realize over $30,000. Of course it is proper that there should be some revenue from these grants. They will, no doubt, be valuablein many ways; but at the same time there should be care taken that they do not become abuses. One of the troubles with the Vienna Exhibition was the | endless number of restrictions imposed upon all who had any busingss with the Ex- hibition. A glass of water, a chair for a moment's rest—the most natural and neves- sary comforts—were taxed. The conse- quence was that, in addition to the price of admission, the visitor was so taxol before he left the buildings and grounds that the charge amounted to an extortion, This is | something to which Americans will be much less likely to submit than Austrians. * If these grants are to be a monopoly it will go toward destroying all the good results ex- pected to flow from the Exhibition, Wo, trust that in making any concessidn the di-’ rectors will take the utmost pains to protect the people. Auenp Krmuuy’s Brt.—The Legisla~ ture which stopped all other business in the early days of the session to rush through the Masquerade bill should show a similar alacrity now to enact a reform which would be a boon to the toiling hundred thousands ‘of New York and not the gratification of the whim of a few hundred ers. Let Killian’s bill be promptly put on its passage. Let it be amended so as to hand the task of seeing that the law is enforced to Mr. Bergh, and giving the fines resufting { from all violations of its provisions to Mr. Bergh’s society. By these means we can promise that the law will be carried out in 4 its letter and spir®. if there is any attempt to smother the bill in committee it will be proper for some public spirited member to move, in full Assembly, that the committee be ordered to report forthwith. Then we shall put all members on rocord and gauge whether the public right or tho railroad lobby 1s the stronger, Surely the commit- tee can do their duty without waiting to be “seen” by the agents of the grasping monop- olies. een urcse The Crowning Shame. We indorse the views of a contemporary in reference to the failure of the Freedman’s Savings Bank in Washington, There is not one among the many investigations now pending to which we look with more in- terest. The Freedman’s Savings Bank was established for the purpose of aiding the freedmen to save their money, amass property and become good and thrifty citi- zens. It was encouraged by all who wished well to this most unfortunate class. The .| depositors, many of whom in their ignorance felt that they were giving their money to the government, were only too glad of the in- ducement held out to them. Millions were deposited, and suddenly, in a day, the whole concern came down with a smash. It was not simply the loss of money, but it was the class which was robbed. * ‘The men who did this thing deserve to be damned to everlasting infamy. In fact, this whole business of the failure of savings banks should be looked into with severe serutiny. We are too lenient with these robbers of the poor. Who has been pun- ished for the failure’ of the many savings banks which have failed within the past few years? When aswindler like Oakley robs the English people he is sent to jail and will probably be called on to pick oakum. But with us the whole matter is over and forgot- ten, and the men who robbed the poor aro allowed to go out and invent new rob- beries. By all means let the Freedman’s Bank be investigated, and when we are about it let our reform Governor win a new title to the esteem of the people by prose- cuting the robbers of the poor. Tue Re-zsrasiisHMENt or SpanisH Creprt, which Canovas del Castillo referred to in ad- dressing the ministerialists of the new Cortes yesterday, is a far greater task than putting down the Carlist rebellion, which hag only dragged on because the pretorians of the army never, until lately, thought it worth their while to grapple with it earnestly, The constitutional monarchy of Alfonso’s royal mother never could place’ Spain on a dinancial footing with the rest of Europe, and the difficulties have since in- creased a hundredfold. Ganvey anp {norrsorx retold yesterday . the story of their criminal connection with the Tammany Ring in the Tweed six million case. Itis marvellous how interesting that old story still is. How Uarx Pourrican ASsnssMeNTs may be made to look when they are brought into court after a lapse of twelve years! See “Fowler vs. Wood in the court reports, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The Southern States talk of raising much coffee. ‘The latest hymn is “Moody, Make Room For Your Sankey.” After to-day “donkling’’ will not be printed in this column as a rhyme for Conkling, unless it comes from Tennyson. Many of the houses im Virginia City (Nevada) are Protected against avalanches by V shaped structures, intended to divide and turn aside the descending snow. The great estates of English landed propriotors have been chiefly formed by the gradual aggregation of pur- chased lands round an original nucleus of patrimonial property. James Phrton is fifty-four and his stepdaughter wifs about forty. Parton was thirty-four when he married Fanny Fern, and she was forty-five. The whole thing is a general avorage. Norristown Herald:—It is sald that Mark Twain will dramatize his ‘Pink Trip Slip for an Eight Cent Fare,”” fhe does ho should be “‘puached in tne presence of tho Passenjaire”’—or any other man, “Vent” writes a long poem, with the following con- clusion :— Of whom, to give you an inkling, Roscoe, first natne; after, Coukilng. Many rhymes to ‘Conkling’’ sent to this office are omitted either because they are repetitions or because they are undignified. No poetry should be written about a Senator unless it is august. ‘The Virginia (Nevada) Enterprise predicts that {the time fs not far distant when silver will be depreciated to half its present value. The production, already im- mense, is destined to be vastly increased by the im- proved methods for reducing ores. The great estates of the Scottish landed proprietary consist chiefly of what acentury ago was the merest waste land, valuable to nobody, but subsequently brought under cultivation though the wiso liberality shown in granting ae leases to skilful capitalist farmers. Itissaid that Professor Giofling, of Gormany, has produced from chemicals influenced by a galvanic bat- tery a perfect egg, which by artificial means he has hatched, The chick, however, has no feathers. It is bald-headed all over and won’t need singeing. Thus does German genius triumph over pin feathers. Bilow says:—“For a certain kind of technical knowl- edge and depth of musical cultivation Boston stands first, But for abreadth of comprehension, a down- right thirst for good music and a keen appreciation of it, give me Philadelphia, It has the most sensitive music audiences I have played to in this country.” ‘The Troy Budget says its contemporary. the Whig (both republican), evidently.takes delight in ‘“punch- ing”’ Senator Conkliag, and fails to recall Mark Twain's idiotic lines :— Punch, broth anc! inch with caro, Punch'in the presence Of passenjaire. Which is bad for the Ho was a minister from the country, tall, sel/con- scious and with a tuft of pale beard on his chin. She, his wife, held his arm in a buoyant way that told ofa once gleeful girlhood. She was glancing ata candy window when he said; “We must not think of worldly affairs.” She thought of the five children at home and sadly replied, “Dear, you aro always right.” The Richmond Whig, speaking of a Southorn Pacific Railroad, says:—‘Much better would it be for tha South and the whole world were the government, if it really intends to go into work this of facilitating com- merce, to begin and complete at as early aday as possible a canal either through the Isthmus of Darien or by the Nicaraguan or Tehuantepec route to the Pacific Oooan.* Prince Gortschakofl’s special organ, the Journal of ‘St. Petersburg, thus unconsciously exposes Russia’a Eastern policy and the humbug of the triple alliance: — “Tt should be borne in mind that this government haw in no respect abandoned its traditional policy in the Eastern question; it is Europe which, frankly recogniz- ing the loyalty and disinterestodness of that policy, has coased to regard it with suspicion and mistrust,” ‘The Albany Argus (dem.), in reciting “tho issues bo fore the country,” asserts that the “whole republicam policy 1# merely a morbid method of governmental ac~ tion, The natural action is to be attained by a return to healthy democratic principles. The real issue before the country is, whether these morbid and unhealthy Tepublican processes shall continue, to the exhaustion and destruction of the vital forces, or whether the gov- erament shall discharge its functions as St founders desiened.”*