The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1876, Page 8

i | 1 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or ben ara despatches must be addressed New Yore Hera De Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OF FICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. TS TO-NIGHT. geeteee THIRTY FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. ‘VARIETY, at 8’. M BOWERY THEATRE UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, atS lM. Mrs. G. C. Howard PARISIAN VARIETIES. VARIETY. at SP. M. Matinee at 2 P.M BAN FRANCISCO MINST Sate P.M GLOBE THEATRE. VARIETY, at8P.M. Boori ATRE, JULIUS C#SAR, at 8 P.M, Mr. Lawrence Barrett, THEATRE COMIQUE. TNCLE TOMS CABIN, at 5 P.M. 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Tue Apvisony Councrt continued its work yesterday and turned over to a committee a resolution declaring Mr. Beecher innocent wf the scandal charges. For the rest it lis- jtened to Mr. Shearman. Duc Decazxs, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in an address to the electors fhas given his adhesion to the Republic. ?This is curions reading from an oflicer of a zepublic, but it is good news. Don Carros is said to be expected back at Jhis Austrian home shortly, and if he had wnything more than his personal ambition wat heart he would never have left it. The ‘Alfonsists are creditably pushing things, and a decisive engagement may soon be ex- pected. Tar Tunsiyecs anp Wrxprxes of the saintly Bwindler, Winslow, are described in our cable despatches, and his extreme cleverness only hopped him out of the Dutch frying pan into the English fire. It is so pleasant to be able to trace the providential in the de- feat of villany that when we think of Tweed, Sweeny, Connolly, Fields and Genet, se- curely beyond the reaching arms of New York justice, we cling to the hope that even our municipal scoundrels may yet stumble into their own traps, like Winslow. Mn. Jenxtys, or Enotanp (not Ginx baby Jenkins), hgs vindicated his claim to unbe- ‘lief in a personal devil through a judgment srendered by the Judicial Committee of the \Privy Council. The Rev. Mr. Cook, who -denied Mr. Jenkins some of his rights as an \Episcopalian, has been admonished not to vdo so in future. It is not very certain how anuch of the devil Mr. Jenkins believes in ; but, for the sake of vivid pictorial art, we ‘wre sorry that the spear-pointed tail and the wloven feet have nothing in them on which ithe Privy Council could hang an approval of the judgment of the Court of Arches. "What will Mr. Moody say to this English decision ? a ST “UnsgaTep ror Bar lection laws hove, yand those who k ale very strict, of elections in jthe United K li admit that there was a terril : »orrnption to stem jthere. Inc ® vote was ya commodity r publicly wffered for +9! larly paid’ for. fPhere was a certain lovai obloquy attached to taking money from both parties at once, that only one could be voted , but otherwise there was no public feel- against bribe taking. It was done some- hat in this way: The tory candidate went ‘0 the tory tradesmen and paid a few guineas Po cach for sundry articles not worth as amany shillings; tho liberal did the same “with the liberal tradesmen. If any poor \ gnan was neglected by his candidate it shook principles to their foundation, and prob- fe 4 his vote. Mr. Hurst has just unseated under the new law for prom- paythe railroad fares of those who ~The English | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, ‘ FEBRUARY 17, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. President Grant's “Happy Family.” It was an amusing idea of the great Amer- ican showman to put snakes, birds, cats, dogs, rabbits, a young fox and innocent chickens in the same spacious glass cage and exhibit them to the public as living together in the loveliness of perfect peace and affection- ate harmony. Our ancient friend sop, who endowed his animals with the gift of speech, and made them convey so many beautiful les- sons of wisdom, would have needed the gift of prophecy, in addition to his significant shrewdness, to have invented so nice a fable as that by which Mr. Barnum prefigured, twenty years in advance, the state of things which exists to-day in the official family of Président Grant. Foxes and chickens, dogs and cats, snakes and birds are not commonlly deemed the fittest company for exhibiting the amenities of social intercourse, and even Mr. Barnum, since he has come to wear the dignity of His Honor the Mayor of Bridgeport, might hesitate to make up a municipal din- ner party with such an odd _ selec- tion of contraries as he put into his spacious glass cage and named ‘the Happy Family.” That amusing feat of his, when he was a mere showman, and had not yet risen to the dignity of a Mayor, had the blended truth and satire of an Asopic fable. It was prophetic as well as ingenious, and his countrymen may at last realize the moral in the spectacle of the human ‘‘Happy Fam- ily” just now on exhibition at the national capital, We never quite understood the art by which the great showman made his natur- ally discordant family so harmonious, but we presume he gurfeited his ravenous ani- mals with superabundant food. Whether salaries and perquisites will equally ex- plain the phenomenal harmony at Washing- ton is a point on which we do not feel called upon to express an opinion. But we are not permitted to doubt that it isa very *‘Happy Family” which now exists inthe Cabinet, because so many assuring | despatches to that effect are sent to our con- temporaries. Everything is lovely between | Secretary Bristow and the President, be- {tween the Attorney General and District Attorney Dyer, between General Babcock | and the prosecuting officers, between Mr. Pierrepont and the Treasury Department, and between the head of the Department of Justice and the district attorneys to whom he sent his extraordinary circular of caution and warning. Barnum’s “Happy Family” never, at any stage of its exhibition, presented a more affecting model of the mild and forbearing Christian virtues, How cordially these ami- able animals in the glass cage at Washington must love one another! To be sure, they sometimes bristle up their fur and show their teeth, but we are bound to under- stand that it is done in mere sport and play- fulness. The unceremonious dismissal of Mr. Henderson was, of course, meant as an act of courtesy and approbation to encourage Secretary Bristow in his prosecutions. Mr. Pierrepont's warning to the district attorneys, and its implied menace against witnesses who turned State's evidence and testified against their accom- plices, was equally intended to aid Mr. Bristow in bringing the boss thieves to justice. Of course the Secretary of the Treasury takes all such demon- strations as marks of applause and as a shining proof that the President does not wish him to spare General Babcock or any other person whom his zeal and energy have forced into a position whichis more dramatic than agreeable. Attorney General Pierrepont gives an au- thentic proof of his evenness of temper and unruffled serenity in the interesting de- spatch which we print this morning. We are sorry that our eminent and respected fellow citizen cannot say, or at least does not say, that the Presi- dent was not consulted in relation to that strange circular which has evoked such a chorus of indignant comments in all parts of the country. As the sole purpose of the despatch is to relieve the President of responsibility, that purpose would have been more effectually accomplished if the truth had permitted Mr. Pierrepont to assert that the President not consulted and’ never the until after it was sent. The Attorney General does not venture to say this, and inasmuch as the ex- culpation of the President would have been complete if he could have said it it is safe to conclude that the truth did not warrant such an assertion. Mr. Pierrepont says was saw circular he “assumes” the sole responsibility. We accept his statement as a proof of his loyalty to his official chief. Had his judgment been overruled in such o matter it would have been his clear duty to resign, and his assumption of the ‘sole responsibility” for the joint act of himself and the President saves him from that necessity. Besides the im- plied confession that the President The constant denials every day sent from | Washington that there is. any difference be- tween the President and Secretary Bristow must be interpreted with proper regard to the facts of the situation, There need be no hesitation in giving full credit to such despatches when they as- sert and reiterate that there has been no personal outbreak nor any interrup- tion of the forms of official courtesy between the President and the Secretary of the Treasury. Secretary Bristow has, of course, no motive or incentive for official or personal rudeness to the Presi- dent, even if it were in his character to violate the proprieties of intercourse. He has simply discharged the duties imposed on. him by law, and he is bound to suppose that he has the approbation of the President until the contrary appears by some official expression. On the other hand the Presi- dent cannot afford to have Mr. Bristow leave the Cabinet while the whiskey trials are pending, and he will, of course, do nothing which would furnish the Secretary with a good excuse for resigning and making an appeal to the country. Nothing could be more awkward for the President than the resignation of the Secretary of the Treasury at this junc- ture on the ground that the President had sought a quarrel with him because he was not sufficiently tender in his treatment of the President's friends. We do not doubt at all that there is the utmost appearance ot cour- tesy and cordiality in the .personal inter- course of these officials. The Washington correspondents who base their despatches on these specious appearances are as correct in their facts as they are wrong in their in- ferences. The intercourse between Presi- dent Grant and Secretary Bristow will be kept on a footing of the most perfect exter- nal courtesy until matters are ripe for the final rupture. There can be no doubt that Mr. Bristow understands his posi- tion. He knows that he retains his office by the fears and not the good will of the President; he fore- was consulted the despatch of the Attorney General throws light on another point. He asserts that the letter to the district attorneys was meant to be “confidential,” and that it was ‘exposed by | gross impropriety.” Weare surprised that the Attorney General did not perceive, in the haste and zeal of his denial, in what an unpopular light this avowal puts the trans- action. He acknowledges an intention to give secret instructions to the district attor- neys to pursue a course which would not | bear publicity. If it was a fit and proper thing to instruct the district attorneys that they must not receive the confessions of | accomplices except on the understand- | ing that their testimony would sub- ject them to all penal consequences, why = should he attempt _ to hide such an instruction from the public view? Why attempt to burrow in the dark- ness if the thing was right? He, of course, knew how a circular calculated to discourage participants in the whiskey frauds from be- traying their accomplices would be inter- preted by the public, and we concede the prudence of his attempt to conceal what he was doing. With his ready per- ception of the tendencies of public opinion Mr. Pierrepont sees how infinitely damaging it would be to the President to have it sup- posed that he was the prompter of such o circular, and he magnanimously interposes What would the elder | to protect his official chief at the expense of sees that he will be forced out of the Cab- inet; he knows that the President is only awaiting an opportunity and an issue which will enable him to do with safety what he would gladly do at once. Since General Babcock’s indictment, or rather since this indictment came in sight, Mr. Bristow has received: no sign of encouragement from the administration. On the contrary, he has met with nothing but indirect rebuffs. The dismissal of Mr. Henderson was his first warning. President Grant's open espousal of the cause of Gen- eral Babcock was a still more marked ad- monition that his prosecuting energy was distasteful. The extraordinary circular of the Attorney General was a signal warning that he was going too fast and too far. He finds among his subordinates in his own de- partment too many evidences that he is not supported. These people have a quick per- ception of coming events. They know that President Grant will not go out until the expiration of his term, and they see so many signs that there will be a new Secretary of the Treasury that they are unwilling to risk their places by devo- tion to their present chief. The consequence is that Secretary Bristow has hardly anybody about him whom he can trust, and the per- formance of his duties has become exceed- ingly irksome, He knows that the President intends to force him out by making his position intolerable, while observing toward him all the forms of official courtesy. Such astate of feeling will necessarily lead to an open rupture, and both sides are mancn- vring to put the blame on the other. While the Cabinet is a ‘‘Happy Family” externally it is too evident that an angry break-up cannot long be delayed. Senators and Patronage. It is said that one pf the reasons why Pinchback is not admitted to the Senate is that West, the Senator now in his seat from Louisiana, is anxious to have a monopoly of the patronage. This whole question of patronage has grown into a monstrous scan- dal, so far as the Senate is concerned. The Senate has adopted a custom, which is vir- tually a rule, that it will not confirm any nomination made by the President unless it is satisfactory to the Senator from the State of the candidate named. Consequently if the President should send in a good man the name is hung up unless the Senator should acquiesce. This was seen when the Presi- dent sent in the name of Pardee for Judge from Louisiana. West did not like the nomination, and it was withdrawn and the notorious Billings nomi- nated in his stead. Consequently the Minister Schenck’s Resignation. We learn by despatches from London that Mr. Schenck has resigned, and by a despatch from Washington that his resignation has been accepted. The only appropriate com- ment on this news is an expression of regret that the resignation and acceptance have been so long delayed. We will express no opinion as to the legal guilt or inno- cence of Mr. Schenck’s transactions in connection with the scandalous Emma Mine, but certain it is that his usefulness as the representative of the American government was fatally impaired from the moment when that disastrous speculation exploded. To say that he was himself deceived and was him- self a victim is no valid excuse. He should not have permitted his name to be used at all in furtherance of any speculation. Had it been his own name as a_ private gentleman which he thus lent or sold to promote the speculation the transaction would stand in a different light. What he really did was to give the prestige of his great station, which he held as a public trust, to a scheme for drawing money from the pockets of the Eng- lish people. Had he been a_ private American citizen sojourning in London he would have been at liberty “to pro- mote such a speculation, subject, of course, to his personal responsibility for the truth of his representations, But he had no shadow of a right to traffic in the honor of his government and inveigle unsus- pecting people to purchase worthless shares on the faith of his standing as the American Minister. Even if he had not consented to be a share owner himself, his indorsement of the speculation would have been indefensi- ble. But when he had a personal in- terest, and that personal interest had been given him as a means of purchasing the in- fluence of his official position, every senti- ment of honor, delicacy and propriety was violated by permitting the speculation to be boosted into factitious credit on the strength of his indorsement. Instead of waiting until he got into very hot water and then accepting his resignation the govern- ment should have demanded it at once, as soon as it was apprised of the facts. Semator Conkling and His Poets. Silence! ye wolves, while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes night hideous, Auswer him, yo owls, If we have received one set of verses claim- ing to present a correct rhyme for Conkling we have received five hundred. Never did we know that America had so many bad poets, though we read the magazines regu- larly. The extraordinary galvanic, gutta percha contortions into which this battalion of poets twist the English language excel the most ingenious efforts of Tom Hood or Bar- ham. Heaven knows whether it be true that poets are born, not made; but if it is true it would be better for mankind if some of them had been stillborn. Still, they are welcome. It is sometimes necessary to sacrifice two or three muses for the good of the world, and if these rhymes are ruinous to literature they may be of service to Mr. Conkling. The eminent Senator should be proud of the interest taken in his name. It is an un- blemished title, notwithstanding that the legion of poets are in danger of making it as odious as the word ‘“‘oceupy,” which Doll Tearshect declared was an excellent good word before it was ill-assorted. His name is illustrious enough, but with what unheard author of the Billings nomination is West. We can scarcely imagine a more flagrant violation of the spirit of the constitution than is involved in this rule. The Senate is rapidly becoming an oligarchy which may be dangerous to the liberty of the country. If we ever do have a truly democratic party it must address itself to the business of limiting the powers of the Senate by repeal- ing ‘‘rules” like this, which makes an ad- venturer like West the dictator of patronage for a sovereign State like Louisiana. tic Tae “Riva Tactics."—While the six million suit against Tweed is progressing at fair speed we are called upon to note p counter-move in the shape ofa suit by Mr. Charles Devlin, which is characterized by the Corporation Counsel as having ‘the sole and only purpose to hinder, obstruct and de- lay the prosecution” of the suits against Tweed and Devlin, the latter being oneof Tweed's bondsmen. The “Ring” dies hard. “Anti-Staypino,” who wants to know whether, under the present state of the law, hecan refuse to pay a fare on a horse car if not provided with a seat, asks a question which we are sorry to answer in the nega- tive. If he rides like a sardine in a box ora hog in a pen, breathing a tainted air, in- commoding others, hanging to a strap or clinging by the splashboard to the platform step, he must still pay. He has no rights which the company is bound to respect. That is just where the trouble lies. If ‘no seat no fare” was attainable without recourse to Albany we should have had the thing set- tled long ago. Let “‘Anti-Standing,” there. fore, keep his eyo upon the legislators who represent his district in Senate and Assem- of words is it not assorted now! But this is not the fault of the poets so much as of the language. English, we begin to appre- hend, is too poor a tongue for such a distin- guished cognomen. But the poets are doing their best to invent phrases which shall meet the deficiencies of the English tongue. If they fail, no doubt we shall have rhymes from the French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Slavonic and all the dialects of the world. It is a high compliment to any one to have the public take such a deep interest in his name, and Grant may well be envious of such flattering solicitude. Out of the vast pile of rhymes we have received we can only print a few, taken at random. The first is the following :— Republicans, with democrats a fair sprinklin| Give us for President Roscoe Conkling. ~ The author writes, ‘‘The above is the best I can do,” and we believe him. We hope, however, that he will continue to write, and in time become quite a Byron. Here is another extraordinary couplet :— I the proof of « pudding is chawigg a dumpling, For our next President echo says Coukling. The only objection we can make to this is that it is not rhyme, but blank verse, and in that respect alone Miltonic. We trust the young poet will favor us again. Milton himself was at one time of life incapable of writing better. Another more accurate rhymester sends this:- ~ A$ David the Philistine smote with a strong sling, ‘So ail foes Presidential we'll do with our Conkling. Then we are honored with another poet, who calls himself ‘An Infant,” which is new evidence of the Scriptual doctrine that out ofthe mouths of babes and sucklings shall be brought forth praise:— & J. Tilden has no chance With such a strong man as Conkling. Blaine, of Maine, will have to dance To gota bite from the dumpling. Cnorvs.—To get a bite from the dumpling. Another poet rhymes Conkling with “inkling,” but we are obliged to decline his ode. Here is one which is epigram- matic :— As “Lo” the poor Indian in war paint ho flies, ‘And does to his hatchet and thong cling. We dou’t think Ulysses would open his eyes, To wink much in favor of Conkling. And so we might continue to quote in- definitely, but prefer to end with the fol- lowing stanzas, which really do contain correct rhymes although they are some- what forced. One is called ‘A Wild Goose Song :"— In serricd ranks on high they fly, With their harmonious honkling, Prociaiming with dehghtial ery The name of Roscoe Conkling. Tt is rather strange that another poet should have hit upon the same rhyme, but the application is more satirical:— Honk! bonk! says the goose, as she leaves her nest, To provid the little be ompa | But her flight is naught to the goose chase Of Senator Roseee Conkling. The verb ‘‘honkling” is permiasible, but the noun is not to be found in any work on natural history that we know of. We trust that Senator Conkling will take into consid- eration our respectful suggestion that he should offer a prize for the best rhyme, for we really think these poets ought to be encouraged. . rified,” gives some good advice, and it Our correspondent, “Unter- more ‘mute inglorious Miltons” from their silent halls, lectoral Votes Were Counted in 1873. Are the authors of the twenty-second joint rule to be permitted to consign it to oblivion and evade their responsibility? The follow- ing is the clause no longer of value to the dominant party :— And no vote objected to the concurrent vote of th 1 be counted except by ‘@ houses, which, being immediately reassem- bie, and the presiding officer shall then announce the decision of the question, and upon any such question there shall be no debate in either house. A republican Senate and a republican House of Representatives agreed upon this rule in order to count the electoral votes in 1865, and it has remained in force until the assembling of the present Congress. A few extracts from the Congressional Globe of Feb- ruary 12, 1873, will demonstrate the ease with which a Presidential candidate could, under the rule, have been deprived of his majority had he been unacceptable to a Con- gress controlled by his political opponents:— Mr. TruMBuLt objects to the counting of the votes cast lor President and Vice President by the electors ip the State of Mississippi, for the reason that it does not appear from tne certiticate of said electors that they voted by ballot. Mr. Hoax objects to the counting of the votes of the State of Georgia, because the votes reported by the tellers, as baving been cast by the electors of the State of Georgia for Horace Greeley, of New York, cannot be lawtully counted, because said Horace Greeley, for whom they appear to have been cast, was dead at’ the time said electors assembled and cast their votes, and 80 hot a person within the meaning of the constitution, this being a historic fact of which the two houses nay Properly take notice. Mr. Baxxs—I rise toa point of order, and it is that we have no power to decide on the eligibility of any man voted for for President. Mr. Binguam—ts debate in order? ‘The Speaker—It is now Mr. Hoar’s resolution that the electoral voted of Georgia for Horace Greeley should not be counted was passed by a vote of 101 to 99, Mr. TRUMBULL objects to the vote of Texas, because there is no certificate by the executive authority of the State that the persons who voted for Pfesident and Vice President were appointed as electors of that State, as required by the act of Congress. Mr. Dawes—! think the statute of the State of Texas should be read, as it all depends on that, The Speaker (Mr, Blaine)—Reading the statute of the State of Texas would bo in the nature of debate. The Senate having resvived as follows:—Reso!ved, That the electoral vote of Arkansas should not be counted (22 for counting, 28 against counting); And the House having resolved as follows: —Resolved, ‘That the electoral vote of the State of Arkansas, as re- ported by the tellers, be counted (103 for counting, 25 against counting), ‘There being a non-conourrence of the two houses on this question, the vote of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the joint rule, will not be counted. Both houses concurred in not counting the vote of Louisiana. . Who could have foreseen that the elections in 1864, 1868 and 1872 were not to be closely contested? Certainly not those gentlemen who have for eleven years been apparently unaware of the dangerous nature of their own method of counting votes. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, was one of the tellers in 1873, yet it is but a few weeks ago that he was heard in the Senate to say that civil war was contained in this rule. The proposal of the Senate to rescind the joint rule at this particular time is a confession of indefensi- ble partisanship in its original adoption, and the objections of republican Senators to con- sulting with the democratic House of Repre- sentatives may have the effect of withdraw- ing the whole disgraceful matter from public scrutiny and also leave us without any pre- seribed method whatever of counting electo- ral votes. There is not a man in the United States to-day who knows how the votes in the approaching Presidential election are to be counted. It is true, there remains the constitutional provision that ‘‘the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted.” It seems that this was insuffi- cient, as it does not say by whom or how they are to be counted. Its framers, however, evidently believed that the composition of our highest deliberative assembly would always be such that a simple grant of power to count votes would be unattended with danger, and on the other hand that the peo- ple were to remain watchful and appreciative of their rights. Turkey and the “Reforms.” The cable tells us of a firman granted by Turkey to the inhabitants of the revolted provinces declaring certain ‘‘reforms.” These reforms are of a comprehensive char- acter and have been granted ‘‘in accordance with the friendly advice of the great Powers.” They include complete liberty of worship, tax reforms, sale of the waste lands to needy inhabitants and the expenditure of money to improve the country. In addition to this there is a complete amnesty to all who have taken part in the rebellion. We have little confidence in ‘reforms” granted under the duress of the great Powers. The Turk concedes because he is compelled to do so by the united opinion of Europe. The promises he now makes will only last until the pressure of the great Powers is removed. The way to solve the question of the Principalities is for the ‘Turk to leave Europe. He has no busipess there. His going is only a question of time, and the sooner the better. There is nothing in the Ottoman system that makes its tolerance in Europe desirable. And the fact that a Christian race, with a glorious history like the inhabitants of the provinces, should be under a dominion with which they ‘| have no sympathy is a scandal. As to the fature of Turkey no one can prophesy. It seems as if the historic land of the Lower Danube is to be the scene of events in our own time as important as those which made it memorable in the past. But whatever may be in store for the Principalities we trust that the time is not far distant when the power of the Turk will come to an end in Europe. Tue Rossgns or tur Poon.—Now that the investigation into the management of the Freedman’s Savings Bank is going on with so much energy in Washington would it not be well for our authorities to look into the savings banks which have failed in New York? We do not doubt that every one of these failures is the result of criminal mismanagement on the part of the directors; This is a sweeping statement, but there is no business which if well con- ducted need be more absolutely safe than savings banks. The law throws around the business the utmost protection. A failure may be accepted as primd facie evidence that the low has been broken. Why does not Governor Tilden, as the friend of the people, take up this question and see that every one they cannot be made to restore to the poor people their hard earned savings, at least sent to Sing Sing to do a little of these thieving directors is punished? If _ “No Seat No Fare” at Aibany. We are informed from Albany that Mr, Killian, the introducer of the ‘No seat no fare” bill into the Assembly, anxious to per- fect the measure, will so dmend it as to cover all the ground taken by Mr. Bergh in the admirable draft of a bill published in these columns and drawn up by the lawyer of hig society. That is right: We want a plain measure which shall provide for the need of the travelling public and affix the penalty for violation of its provisions in such a dis. tinct manner as to leave no loophole for the grasping car companies to wriggle out of serving the public properly or suffering for failure todo so. Whether this can be done by properly amending Mr. Killian’s bill or accepting Mr. Bergh’s as a substitute we do not presume to say until we have seen: the amendments, but we like the business like form of Mr. Bergh’s better than that of Mr. Killian’s as first presented. Outside of making the bill ultimately enforce what it so clearly intends we have no choice of forms. We want the letter and spirit of the measure to join hands in relieving New York in its use of the horse cars from unhealthfal- ness, indecency, discourtesy, discomfort and safely-intrenched gangs of pickpockets. To) protect their overflowing coffers the companies loudly proclaim their right to continue inflicting these monstrous evils upon our travelling public. They have no- torious lobbyists at Albany, from Banana - Carey to the heads of the profession, engaged in attempting to perpetuate these evils. Members are to be bought up like cattle to preserve these profitable outrages upon health, comfort and morality. Even the unfortunate horse car conductors have been instructed to echo through day and night the song of the companies that ‘‘No seat no fare” will never do for a free people who are in the future to cry for their straps as the poor, drugged and _ starving infants at the baby farmers’ aro said to cry for ‘soothing syrup.” The conductors, in denouncing ‘‘No seat no fare,” do, of course, as they are bid, and some of them, perhaps, with the more alacrity, because the system which would give them less work would also diminish their chance of stealing. Thus we have the grasping companies, the dishonest among the conductors and thé pickpockets on one side, and the entire mass of the public on the other. Which of these will prevail can be little in doubt if the friends of decent transit are only as keen and active as those who champion indecent transit for their own gain. Savines Banx Pensuny.—The decision of Justice Duffy in the case of the criminal in- formation sworn against the officials of the defunct Third Avenue Savings Bank is one which we are glad to think the law enabled him to make. If these defendants could gain a judgment going to prove that swear- ing falsely to a savings bank statement was no perjury it would be asad thing for the tens of thousands of our citizens who risk the custody of their little savings upon the strength of such sworn statements. Justice Duffy put the matter on its proper base when he decided that perjury in this case needed no special law to make it criminal. The case can now come to trial on its merits, and - if perjury has been, as alleged, committed ». the road to punishment is clear. Some or THE Newspapers are complaining because the Caucus Committee of the demo- cratic party in the House contains three members from Louisiana and none from New York. These complaints are unworthy. The whole action of the democratic party in the House, since the organization and beginning with the election of the Speaker, shows that the majority think the North and East have no rights which the West and South are bound to respect. There used to be a good deal of talk about sectionalism ; but Speaker Kerr and his friends have taught us what sectionalism really means, so far in the dis- tribution of the honors of the House. “Misptacep Conripence” is the plea of Babcock’s counsel in opening the defence. Joyce and McDonald were designing, scoun- drelly spiders, who wove their adhesive web around this unsuspecting administra- tion fly. Babcock buzzed “thoughtlessly or playfully” to them as he would to any simple minded muscadin around the White House, and all the time the naughty, horrid spiders were roping him down with slimy gossamer. We fear this picture of Babcock is more ridiculous than pitiable. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The St. Louis Republican compares Bilow with Paul Morphy. Oakland, opposite to San Francisco, has almond trees in bloom. Lace making {s taught to girls in the public schools of Rome. Lieutenant Geveral Sheridan bas been conferring with Grant. Rear Admiral James H. Strong, United. States Navy, is sojourning at the Everett House. The Hon. James EB. English, of Connecticut, has. been made a member of Tammany Hall. In some lowa fairs kisses are sold at ten cents @ smack, ‘ Who first cries hold, enough?” Baron Blanc, Italian Minister at Washington, arrived in the city yesterday, and ts at (he Clarendon Hotel, The aegroes who leave Georgia for Mississippi com- plain that they find a worse climate than that of their native State. Bismarck’s two letters to the Emperor sum up Count ‘Von Arnim’s case thus:—‘‘You cannot believe one word ‘This is all “Pro nibil-o."” polling bee im England must baa drone Ata recent meeting a female speller achieved the follow- ing:—“The ’orn of the unter ts "eard on the ‘il.”? Victor Hugo says that Paris is the frontier of the fas ture, the visible frontier of the unknown, ali the quam tity of to-morrow which may be visible in to-day. Medill is affected by Twain's rhyme, and when any- body aske him what be will drink Ge sings:— Panch, brothers, punab, &o. ©G. A”? writes:— ‘A host of cranes flies from. the South, Load clapping and loud coees i Shut every hungry crana the mout You doughty hunter Conkling! The Pall Mall Gazette says of the Amorican girl im England:—‘Like the wind, she goeth where she Hisveth; bat every man knoweth whence she cometh, She arouses the hostility of English matrons the mo- mont she sets foot on British soi. Few of them are aware that she has been purposely trained’ to. self~ reliance solf-assertion, like her brother, from in- fancy. Such atrainiag shows itgolfin her mapner, which grates as barshly on British feelings as her voice too often does ou British ears,’? Pat Hawes, the pieman, who was driven from the vestibule of the New York Post Office, still holds the right to keep the stand. He was elected to Congress from Nebraska, but was ruled ont was not ontitied to two again this fall, and if he is net