The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1876, Page 6

_ English fleet being sent to Chinese waters to NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every fey in the year. Four cents per copy. | welve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. i All business, news letters or telegraphic espatches must be addressed New lore ‘Letters and packages should be properly Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112S80UTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLI AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND No. 47 | = 1 FIFTH E THEATRE. | PIQUE, at 8 P.M, Fanny Davenport. Matinee at 2P.M. | THIRTY-FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. VARIETY, atS P.M, Matinee at 2 P.M, BOWERY THEATRE UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, at8 P.M. Mrs. G. C. Matinee at 22. M. PARISIAN VARIETIES. VARIETY. at 8 P. M. 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Tn the stock market the features were New York Central, Rock Island and the granger securities, all of which were active and higher. Tue Rvumonrs of General Schenck’s retire- ment are probably unfounded. President Grant would be more likely to sustain the Minister than to demand his resignation at this late day. In any aspect, however, these stories must prove disagreeable to the Ameri- tan people. Cour Axpnassr’s Necotiatrons for the termination of the Bosnian and Herzegovi- pan insurrection seem to be progressing favorably. When Turkey yields completely to the great Powers the insurgents will also be compelled to accede to the Austrian plan of pacification. A Parat Duspensation has been granted for the marriage of a daughter of the sculptor Btory, a Protestant, to Commendatore Peruzzi, a Catholic There isa significant liberality in this, which is all the more im- portant in view of the fact that the concession is in favor of an American. . Qorew Vicront is to be Empress of India. We can conceive of no title more useless, ex- cept, perhaps, the old time custom of Eng- lish sovereigns to style themselves kings of France; but Mr. Disraeli's measure is sig- nificant of the coming struggle between the Western Powers for supremacy in the East, Wrstow, the Boston forger, has been ar- rested in London, and he is held for ex- amination and extradition. It is quite likely that ‘the Hub” will have the erring brother returned for trial and punishment, and then all smaller sinners will be com- pelled to forego notoriety while the greater sensation lasts. Tae District Bonps.—The conference committee on the bill for the payment of the interest on the three-sixty-five District bonds have finally reached a conclusion, and the holders thereof may congratulate them- | selves on the prospects of receiving what is | due them at an early day. Exatanp anv Cutva.—We believe there is | an old prophecy that England and Chinaare | to go to war about this time. Those who in- | terpret what has been foretold on this sub- | ject declare that the struggle must come in the spring time, after an unusually mild winter and before the close of Mr. Disraeli's administration, Other nations are to be in- volved in the contest and there is to be a happy time generally. When we hear of an support German claims it begins to look as if the old prophet was not much at fault. Jovertan 1x Cupa.—Strange rumors reach us from Cuba in relation to the insurrection in that island. According to these accounts | Captain General Jovellar is to occupy the | Fort Cabaiias preparatory to disbanding the | Spanish volunteers of Havana, and it is also asserted that he is to make the government of the island as liberal as English rule in | Jamaica, The insurgents, it is said, have ac- | ceded to these concessions and only wait their tee by some other Power before laying | down their arms. These stories are improba- | ple on their face, but they may have in them | to see what was the real difficulty in the | Mr. Nordhoff made a profound impression | impression from that of Mr. Nordhoff. He | old masters cannot make him a slave. When | in no sense social equality. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. The South—The Contest for Good Gov- ernment in South Carolina—The Duty of Southern Democrats, We print this morning an elaborate letter | from Mr. John Russell Young in reference to politics in South Carolina. Some time since, when the condition of the Southern States was uppermost in the minds of all true patriots, we sent Mr. Nordhoff | way of good government. ‘The letters of | at the time, and have since been printed in book form by the Appletons as an im- portant contribution to the question of recon- struction. Mr. Nordhoff did not bring South Carolina into the sphere of his labors, and, consequently, what we print now from a cor- respondent as thoughtful and unbiassed, will be of great interest, especially in view of the movement of Chamberlain, the Governor of South Carolina, to secure a good govern- ment. These efforts on the part of the Gov- ernor have the sympathy of good men in the country without regard to party; for the issue in South Carolina has long since passed beyond the realm of party discipline. Our correspondent writes with a different sees the South with different eyes. Instead of dwelling upon the crimes of the negroes and carpet-baggers he goes into the question which has often been asked—namely, ‘Why is it that the Southern white men have not succeeded in dividing the negro vote, so that the elections should not always be on the color line?” ‘This is an evil which Mr. Young, as well as Mr. Nord- hoff, deplores. But they do not agree as to the causes which lead to this state of affairs, Mr. Nordhoff saw the South at the feet of a mob of ‘‘carpet-baggers,” “scalawags” and negroes, who had their hands on the throats of proud and sovereign Commonwealths, and who were sustained in their work of outrage and robbery by the military power of the United States. But for the United States, according to Mr. Nordhoff, the power of these miscreants would not last for a day. The ques- tion which Mr. Young asks, “Why is it that the Southern people have not taken the negro and withdrawn him from the control of the Spencers and Packards and the rest?” is answered by a criticism upon the Southern peo- ple. ‘Above all things,” he says, ‘‘the burning question is that of race.” “It is not intelligence or corruption, republican- ism or democracy, but race.” ‘The negro is thrown back upon his Northern ally.” “They have driven the negro away.” ‘‘As a consequence the negro is in the hands of the adventurer.” The negro’s “political education embraces a sentiment and a fact: the sentiment is Lincoln, the fact is Grant.” “I am profoundly convinced,” he continues, “that if, instead of mourning over the lost cause, as in the,past they were wont to blus- ter about the Yankees and slavery, the Southern people had dealt wisely with the negro and generously with the Northern im- migrant, these States, and especially South erm men by the Southern men. We have often felt that the two words, ‘‘carpet-bag- ger” and ‘‘Ku Klux” have cost the South mill- ions of dollars. We have no doubt that a great many adventurers went to the South like the ‘‘bummers” which used to swarm after the armies. But it is safe to say that nine out of ten of the men who would have gone South after the war, and who would go now if they were not deterred by the chaotic condition of affairs, care nothing about politics, Well, the answer is made that if the Northern men will only go South and keep out of politics they will be welcome. But why should any citizen keep out of polities? Southern men come to New York and go into politics. When Sunset Cox tired of Ohio and came to New York he went at once into poli- tics. Mr. Blaine did the same thing when he went from Pennsylvania to Maine, And yet no one calls Mr. Cox, Mr. Blaine, or Mr. Burton N. Harrison, the former private secretary of Jefferson Davis, ‘‘carpet- bagger,” or denies any of them the largest liberty in politics. The liberty which we extend to the Southern man the Northern man has the right to receive from the South. It is an unhealthy sign in any political sys- tem when it is made a reproach to a man that he was born either in the North or the South, The conservative men in the South should banish the word ‘‘carpet-bagger” from their politics, The Southern States have had much to vex and wound them, but they are not alone in that respect. We, also, have had much to wound and annoy us, If South Carolina has been robbed by Scott and Moses we have been robbed by Tweed and Sweeny. No government in South Carolina can compare with the government of New York under the old Tammany régime. But in time we broke it down. The dominant sentiment in the minds of all classes, no matter what their color or politics, is in favor of honesty. The thief is the exception and the rare ex- ception. Once teach the voter in the Caro- linas, no matter how ignorant, that the con- test is between honesty and crime, and the result will be certain. What the South wants is peace and _ toleration. What the negro wants is education. There are many things that the South must learn. It must learn that slavery and all that comes from it died with the war. It is madness to think that in any way it can be revived. The South needs capital, energy and labor. It needs the Northern man. If by any means a hundred thousand Yankees could be sent into South Carolina it would be a blessing to that State, no matter what they did in politics. For, afterall, in this harrying, practical world, with our bread to earn and clothes to buy, it makes little difference how we vote. There is a far nobler future for South Carolina and the South than this vain longing for power. The way to win it is to accept the inevitable as the decree of that Infinite Being who controls the destinies of men and States. In this sad Southern question there has been folly, and Carolina, would be free and powerful.” This is rather an extreme conclusion, es- pecially when our correspondent admits that the power of Grant is absolute in the mind of thenegro. If, with the affectionate and con- fiding dependence felt by the negro in Grant, the administration had taken the Whippers and the Caseys and the Spencers and thrown them out of authority in the South as so many vipers the negro would have ac- cepted this as an earnest that Grant, in se- curing them freedom and protection, did not mean that they should be used to plunder sovereign States. If we givo the argument of Mr. Young its logical appli- cation there is no resisting the conclusion that even if the President were not directly responsible for the carpet-bag outrages in the South he is indirectly so by conniving at so much that has been done. Take the case of Chamberlain as an illustration! This Gov- ernor, according to our correspondent, is en- gaged in an effort to reform the State and drive out the villains who have lived upon its plunder and its shame. Well, what sign has Grant made that he in any way approves the course of Chamberlain and that his sym- pathies are not with the infamous Whipper and the degraded Moses? None - what- ever! On the contrary, the government organ in Washington intimates, whenever it has occasion to refer to the subject, that Chamberlain is no better than a democrat and that it means to expose him. At the same time there is undoubted force in the argument which Mr. Young presses home, that it is the fault of the Southern men themselves that they have not won the negro. We have yet toseeon the part of any Southern State, or of any con- siderable element of the democratic party in the South, a desire to regard the negro as in any other relation but that of one who, having been taken from slavery by force, can never be the equal of the white man. In Texas, in Georgia, in Virginia, wherever the democrats have unquestioned power, they have never treated the negro but as an in- ferior. Well, granted that he is and the question is answered. The negro feels in- stinctively that he is free only because his he is asked to vote the democratic ticket he is asked to vote for his own degradation. Now, our Southern friends should see, as we do in the North, that political equality means In the North | there are thousands of men who act with the utmost harmony in politics who have | no social relations whatever. We see this | in New York more than elsewhere, because with us there are dividing lines in the dem- ocratic party which have never been crossed | even by men who are in complete political | sympathy. If the Southern men would | recognize the fact that the negro, whatever | perhaps madness, on’ both sides ; demo- cratic as well as republican knaves have had their will with these noble Commonwealths. But the true course is the manly one. Let the people, without distinction of color or birth- place, unite to save the State from the thieves who infest both parties here, and, we pre- sume, do the same in the South. There is work for black and white, for Northerner and Southerner. When they once take hands and work with a will the thieving ring in South Carolina will be broken as effectively as we in New York destroyed the thieving ring of Tweed and as we hope to destroy the thieving rings in the capital. The Dog in the Manger. No better illustration of the dog-in-the- manger policy of some of our city corpora- tions could be given than the farce which has been enacted during the last two days before the Rapid Transit Commissioners, The commission is in session for the purpose of hearing objections to the construction of an elevated railroad in Third avenue, the Bowery and Pearl street; and our readers who have watched the proceedings have ob- served that the objectors are not the prop- erty owners in these thoroughfares, but such corporations as the Third Avenue Rail- road Company and the Underground Rail- road, whatever that may be. It was from such sources that the opposi- tion was to be expected. These com- panies will not give us rapid transit themselves, and if they can help it they will not allow any other company to do it. This is the meaning of the long arguments of Mr. Parsons and Mr. Vandenburgh before the Commissioners, and to gain their end there will yet be almost endless discussion. It is due from the commission to the people of New York that this dog-in-the-manger policy should not triumph. If there is any one thing which the city needs more than another it is rapid transit. For this we look to the Commissioners. Objections such as are urged to the construction of an elevated road in Third avenue will confine the im- mense travel of that street to the slow and overcrowded horse cars, against which so many complaints are constantly made, and it must be as plain to the Commissioners as it isto the people that this opposition only means the street railroads forever. the families of deceased firemen, which we print in another column, is not only timely but honorable to a great city like New York. No class of men in the community, as was shown in the recent fire in Broadway, run greater risks to life and limb in the service of others than our firemen, and it is certainly | due to the widows and orphans of those who are always ready to sacrifice their lives in the performance of duty that the business men he may be as a human being, is a citi- zen, that he has a full right to the protection of the laws and political con- sideration, it would go far toward solv. ing the saddest question in our politics. If Governor Chamberlain does anything to bring about good understanding by dividing the republican party upon some other ques- tion than that of race he will do a great deal toward building up South Carolina and breaking down the power of the adventurer. Another point which Mr. Young candidly , makes is that the Southern States have been a gtain of trath, and we print them for what ther are worth, injured by the unfriendly treatment of North- jwent of the city should raise asum which will keep the families of deceased firemen from | Tux Ixpraw Burgav.—The House Com- | mittee on Military Affairs have reported a | bill for the transfer of the Indian Bureau | from the Interior to the War Department. Should the bill become a law it is to be / hoped the “traditions of the army” still re- tain sufficient influence upen its officers to enable them to purge what has become, corruntian, The President and Attorney General. Our special correspondent in Washington yesterday gave the public some surprising information in respect to Attorney General Pierrepont's letter concerning the punish- ment of informers in the whiskey cases. That letter, written to the district attorneys in the West, referred to the newspaper state- ments that ‘there would be no further pros- ecutions of many guilty persons who con- fessed their crimes in St. Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee. I cannot believe this to be true,” continued the Attorney General with much simplicity, and grounded his inere- dulity on the improbability of faithful district attorneys ‘favoring or protecting men who have defrauded the government.” ‘It is the repeatedly expressed wish of the President that no guilty man should escape,” he said, and added that he was determined that the prosecutions should be so conducted that when they were over the honest judgment of the country would be that no guilty person, who had been convicted or who had confessed his guilt, had been left unpun- ished. This sweeping order naturally startled the country, for, if it were literally executed, the whiskey prosecutions must stop. The members of the Whiskey Ring could never be convicted upon the evidence of men who were not in the Ring. Their movements were shrouded in secrecy, and the government could only reach them by the aid of their repentant or their frightened accomplices. The disintegration ofthe Ring could only be effected by encouraging the dupes and smaller criminals to point out the ringleaders, Every lawyer knows that to punish the great criminal it is sometimes necessary to condone the offence of the small one, The Attorney General's letter repudi- ated this essential method. It placed the penalty of conviction upon confession and rewarded repentance with a prison. That the Attorney General appreciates the effect of this letter is shown by his explana- tion. We are told that he did not originate the letter, but that it was written by special direction of the President, who sent for him for that purpose. It is also said that he soft- ened the terms of the letter as much as pos- sible, and that when the President saw it he was dissatisfied because it was not stronger. Here is a mystery which needs to be ex- plained. The President is not a lawyer; he is a plain, blunt soldier, who is so inexperi- enced in the detection of rogues that the revenue service is filled with them. He probably did not know that when he ex- pressed his wish that ‘‘no guilty man should escape” he was declaring a principle upon which all guilty men would escape. Is Bevis, the whiskey distiller, who testisfied yesterday that Joyce induced him to re-en- gage in the manufacture of fraudulent whis- key by showing him the “Sylph” telegram— “I have succeeded. They will not come. Will write’—and the “Bab” letter—is this important witness to be punished because he confesses? The President's policy, as inter- preted in the Attorney General's letter, would deprive the government of its strong- est evidence. But if the President is not a lawyer Mr. Pierrepont is, and his letter has placed him in no enviable position. Is the Attorney Gerreral a mere clerk of the President, bound to execute his command, or is he a consti- tutional officer of the United States, holding a direct legal responsibility to the people? Has he not taken an oath to fulfil his official duties? Can he not be impeached and re- moved for neglecting them? We presume that Mr. Pierrepont would indignantly re- fuse to be considered the President's clerk, and would claim the full dignity and powers of his office. How, then, did he come to write this letter, containing instructions which he must have disapproved, the terms of which he was obliged to soften, the fact of which he is now forced to explain, the effect of which would have been to have paralyzed Mr. Dyer in the trial he is now conducting in St. Louis, and to have jeopardized the prosecutions of the Whiskey Ring through- outthe country? Important questions such as these should have formal answers, and if the Attorney General will not reply to the press and the people Congress might properly try the effect of an official inquiry into the whole matter. the The Canal Frauds, We publish this morning an abstract of the first report of the Canal Commission ; but of much greater importance than this document is the testimony which accom- panied it and part of which we print. The story of the Albany Basin, now made public for the first time, is in itself an astounding revelation. An inspector was appointed to measure this work, and, according to his own testimony, he not only falsified the record but was paid a bonus of ten cents for every load of sand delivered to the new Capitol Commission. Such un- blushing corruption as this scarcely dis- graced the city of New York in the worst days of the Ring. Besides, some testimony is made public in regard to the improve- ment of the Oneida Lake Canal which shows that George D. Lord and his associates in that work were able to obtain ninety-two thousand dollars by special legislation above the amounts to which they were entitled under their contracts. The deeper the com- mission probes these frauds the more as- tounding do they become. Every work, however insignificant in itself, was a moun- tain of corruption. The Canal Ring, which Governor Tilden's enemies last year declared had no existence in fact, managed to rob the State in every direction and with an effron- tery which Tweed would scarcely have shown, and we fear that now the exposures are nct even complete. One thing at least is certain—namely, that punishment has been slow in overtaking fraud. On this sub- ject we have a right to demand of Governor ‘Tilden what he is going to do aboutit. If he was as sincere in pursuing the canal thieves as he pretended to be a year ago now is the time to punish them. These expos- ures must be made to bear correctional fruit, and for this we look to the Governor. Krxo Axroyso’s Srencn from the throne is of rose water quality. The ill-advised Prince, Don Carlos, has been reduced to powerless- ness, the negotiations with the United States whether justly or otherwise, a synonyme of | are conducted in a friendly spirit, and the relations with the Vatican ara to be settled in the interest of both the Church and the | pass, or some bili fike it. But at the State. Evidently Spain is one of the hap- piest countries in the world. The Interest in Manly Sports. We print this morning an interesting arti- cle from The Turf, Field and Farm, a weekly sporting journal printed in this city, de- scribing the game of polo, now so much the vogue in England and India. This article embraces an extract from the London Tele- graph describing the game as played at Cal- cutta by some officers of the British army. We infer from the letter that the game has an Indian origin. It is odd that we should be indebted even for our games to that wonder- ful people who are now honoring the Prince of Wales. The description is exciting enough, and we infer from what the corre- spondent says it is a game of ball played on horseback, requiring unusual agility and courage. It ranks with the best class of games—namely, those which require the open air, close physical training, coolness, nerve and endurance. The tendency of men of Saxon blood toward games of this character lies at the bottom of their stamina and their power of conquest. It is said of the Duke of Wellington that, as he stood looking at a group of Eton boys chasing a cricket ball over the field, he remarked that it was in such sports that the battle of Waterloo was won. There is no reason why the game should not be adopted here, especially as the Mexi- can mustang ponies, which are well adapted to it, may be readily obtained. With us it is not a familiar pastime, but we ought to welcome every new sport and every attempt to make popular the old ones. We are not enough in the sunshine in this eager, hurrying, money-making, ledger-grubbing age. We need a revival of manliness as well as a revival of religion. In fact, we do not know, with all respect to Brother Moody, whether a revival of religion would not come more surely by teaching the people the value of exercise and training and a development’ of all our faculties. Brother Moody is one of the sturdiest men in our generation and looks as if, should the worst come to the worst, he could get away with the Hon. John Morrissey without violating the rules of the London prize ring. He himself should take the initiative in teaching sinners that true religion means the enjoyment of all inno- cent amusements. Exercise makes a healthy man, and a healthy man ‘is sure to be a good citizen and the best material for making a good Christian. This revival in athletic sports—in coaching, yachting and field games—is, therefore, one of the most gratify- ; | ing signs of the times. The centennial year will give us an opportunity of seeing what our friends across the water have been able to do with the whip and the rod, the oar and the bat, the horse and the rifle. Whenever we have had a fair chance with our friends we have been able to hold our own, and in some cases, as when the America went abroad some years ago and the riflemen last year, we have gained triumphant victories. There might be a series of international com- petitions during the year in all sports in which we have attained any proficiency. Whatever looks toward encouraging out- door life and the sports of the field will give manliness and dignity to the national charaster, The Street Cars—Mr. Bergh’s Plan. We print this morning a communication from our friend Mr. Bergh, the President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in reference to the car question. Mr. Bergh has come before the public with so many Utopian schemes for the further- ance of his pet hobby that when he really falls upon a subject of public interest like the car question his recommendations are worthy of praise and respect. Mr. Bergh gives an amusing description of his adven- tures in the street cars, in which he will have the sympathy of those of our people who have undergone the horrors of the “middle passage” between the Hxrap office and Harlem. Mr, Bergh proposes to strike the whole thing at the root. He pro- poses a bill, drawn up by an accomplished lawyer, which makes it incumbent upon the railroad men to provide seats at least twenty inches wide, divided by an iron rung or arm. When the car is full the conductor shall so signify in a notice on the outside of the car. It will be a misdemeanor for the company to allow any more passengers than the car can carry, and the officers shall be liable to arrest fora misdemeanor. This is to be punished. The execution of the act will be left to the officers of the society, of which Mr. Bergh is President. We need not say that this will give us an assurance that the act will be enforced. Altogether, we like this bill, although it may be amended in some respects, especially so as not to give Mr. Bergh the inquisitorial power that he sometimes assumes in the dis- charge of the peculiar functions of his office. We are not without hope that the owners of our cars, now that they see that the people are in earnest in opposing the outrageous manner in which they abuse their franchise, willamend their course. The ownership of these rontes is a franchise of enormous value. The people are willing that these owners shall have a good interest from their investment ; but they are not willing that the journey from the Henaxp office to Har- lem and Manhattanville shall be like the old | slave ships in crossing the Atlantic with their human cargoes. These routes were given to the owners, not to carry cargoes, but passengers. This whole question of transit and rapid transit must be settled upon a proper basis. ‘The time is rapidly céming when the monop- oly of these long lines will come to an end. We must have rapid transit. The money of the railroad people may delay the measure, but the tide of public opinion will go in re- sistless flow. Rapid transit will take away from the longer lines a good part of their business, but it will leave them as much as they can do with due regard to the comfort of the public. There will always be a large travel on the street cars from ladies going to shop, passengers south of Thirtieth street, people who have leisure and are indifferent about time, visitors who wish to see the city. There is business enough for two classes of railways. We trust that the bill of Mr, Bergh may same time it would be a pleasant thing if the car owners were to do gracefully what they will probably be called upon to do by compul- sion. Tue Apvisory Councm, which has been called to determine all questions affecting the discipline of Plymouth church in dropping certain of its members from its rolls met yesterday and took such prelimi- nary action as was necessary for the consider- ation of the matters to be settled. Little real progress was made, but the committees which have these matters in charge will probably report to the Council to-day, when the discussion will begin in earnest. Whether the result will be anything more valuable than discussion remains to be seen. But, after all, the Council can scarcely deal with the real question at issue be- tween Mr. Beecher and the peculiar recusancy of Plymouth church. In this view of the case Dr. Bacon's declaration, that the Council was nota body to whitewash anybody, goes for very little. If theCouncil is not to inquire into the matters which made the differences between the church and Mr. West, Mrs. Moulton and others of its mem- bers, but only to determine whether the church has the authority to pursue the course it has followed in these cases, there will be no opportunity for whitewash. Whatever such a Council may agree upon will be only preliminary, and the scandal itself, which is the real thing to be got out of the way, will be as far from settlement as it was at any time during the last two years. Justick To A Lxapen.—Some envious po- litical newspapers question the propriety of the Heraup calling the Hon. Hugh Hastings the leader of the republican party and the successor of Thurlow Weed. This is unjust! Mr. Hastings is one of the oldest, most ex- perienced and most trusted of the republican leaders. He has had a high place in politi- cal affairs all his life. Thus we find in the diary of John Quincy Adams a suggestive extract, which we commend to these envious journals. In volume 9, page 120, Mr. Adams says:—‘‘Morning visit from Hiland Hall, of Vermont, -with Mr. Hastings, of Albany, N. Y., one of the delegation from the memorialists of that place. Mr. Hastings told me, that he was at the Prési- dent’s last Saturday, with Job Pierson, ot New York, and that the President asked him when the House would take up the question of the deposits.” The ‘‘President” here re- ferred to is AndrewJackson. As the date of this entry is April 3, 1834, it shows that forty two years ago our contemporary was a power in political affairs, as he is now, and that he had the ear of Adams and Jackson, as he has now the ear of Grant. « Crosstown Carry.—The people of this city cannot fail to understand the impor- tance which the horse railroad companies attach to their privilege of overcrowding when it is known that these corporations keep such a man as Crosstown Carey at Albany to lobby against the ‘‘No seat no fare” measure. But Senators and Assembly- men must remember that the people of New York are also aware that there is only one argument which lobbyists can use against the rights of the public and that bribery isa punishable offence. In the beginning we warned the Legislature against lobby in- fluence in this matter, and now that it is manifesting itself we can again call the at- tention of members to the dangers of deny- ing the people their rights in the interest of grasping monopolies. Neither Crosstown Carey nor any other agent of the street rail« roads must be allowed to defeat a measure so necessary to the comfort of the entire population of this city, and every member will be held to the strictest accountability for his vote. A Tzrerstx Story of shipwreck and death is that of the British ship W. J. Hatfield, re- ported bya special cable despatch to the Heratp this morning. Although the sequel to this story is yet to be heard there can be no doubt that all on board of the ill-fated vessel perished. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Miss Florence Jewell wears apricot silk. Mrs. Fred Grant wears lavender and point lace, Harriet Hosmer, the sculptress, is forty-four and une married. ‘ The inventor of fine cut chewing tobacco is said to have been a lady of New York, named Mrs. Miller, who flourished about half a century ago. ‘The hula-hala, a voluptuous dance of the Sandwich ~ Island girls, was witnessed by the daughter of a mis- sionary, and it caused her to faint. At Lucknow, in India, kite making and kite flying flourish as of yore, when, amid a heavy bombardment, the sky above the ety would appear flocked with kites, A Western paper says ‘Conkling has the President's ear.” That is probably the reason why we see so many of the latter’s ear marks in the political manipulations of Conkling. The Boston politicians are discovering that the Massachusetts republicans are not for Blaine, ‘‘Tem- pleton”’ says even Conkling would ran better in this State. It seems like a bold assertion, but we believe it is trae. —Springfield (Mass.) Republican (ind.) The Troy Whig (rep.) distrusts the movement to give the vote of New York to Conkling, and says it be- lieves it ought not to be, adding:—\The Custom House and post offices can make the State Convention, but they had better not. It is nota good year for them to take an active part in politics, They should remember the roat of 1874 and the recovery of 1875, when the office-holders kept away from the State Convention and allowed men of large and liberal views to have a chance,"’ 6 Touching ‘“‘Grant’s Legacy to His Party,” the Spring. fleld Republcan (ind.) avers that Grant has treated, not | merely the government, bat the party as his personal property. He has introduced a semi-military disci. pline. He has imbued his political lieutenants—the Mortons and Conklings and Chandlers and Logans and the rest—with something of his own temper and methods, In the process. he has driven many of the best republicans in the country from the party, and has disgusted and alienated many more. In lowering the tone, materializing the aims and degrading tha leadership of the party, he has finished by seriously impairing its morale as an organization. ‘The Sun of yesterday said-—''We wore informed yes. terday that in the beginning of June Mr. Louis J. Jonnings will withdraw from the post he has so long and so efficiently occupied as chief editor of the Times, and will sail for Europe with the intention of ro- maining there indefinitely, This event wil, we think, be a public misfortune. In the fow years that he bas been at the head of the Times Mr. Jennings has given it a higher standing and @ more influential character than it had even while it was under the control of the late Mr, Raymond, He has made it bolder, more independent, and more con sistent as well as more varied in the rango of its diss cussions and its information. Whoever his successo® may be ho will find 1 dificalt to render the Timer more able, more useful, or more respected than it has + been in the bands of Mr, Jennings.”