The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1876, Page 6

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Postage. free. 4 Inreuxx Feux.—Assemblyman Murphy's punishment before the entire Chamber yes- terday was richly deserved, and if the de- linquent is a man of the smallest sensibility the lesson should last him for his lifetime. Tax Coxviction of Kelley, the ‘Molly Maguire” murderer, following the conviction of Doyle, will do much to break up the gangs of ruffians who have made themselves the pests of the coal regions of Pennsyl- vania, Waat Is Oxror> Dorsa?—One hundred to thirty are Jong odds against a crew that started three weeks ago on its trial row- ing with the odds in its favor. To-morrow will tell the whole story, and perhaps the prophets may be mistaken. Watt Srreet Yxsterpay.—Stocks con- tinue to show the effect of depressing in- fluences. Gold opened at 112 3-4, advanced to 113 and closed at 1127-8. Government and railway bonds were steady. Money | loaned on call at 3 and 4 percent, Foreign exchange was quiet. Rarip Transit.—The report of the Com- mittee on Law Department of the Board of Aldermen to that body cleanly squelches a piece of trickery meant to obstruct rapid transit at the Battery. Alderman Reilly is invited to report on how aman feels with the ground cut from under him. Tur Imuicrants.---We are glad to see that no time has been lost in laying before Con- gress a bill to supply that protection to poor | immigrants, the collecting of means for | which, by a head tax, has been declared j unconsitutional by a State. Senator Har- vey’s bill is a careful measure and covers the ground very well. It should be promptly taken up and passed, for the need is urgent, and it has no political features on which the spirit of partisanship can fasten. | Keeping the channels of commerce tree and | Spunrovs Cuampacye.-—-The democrats of the Fourth ward will be pleased to learn that efforts are being made to put a stop to the domestic manufacture of their favorite beverage. A great deal of the crime in Bax- ter and Mulberry streets has of late been traced to the poor quality of champagne drunk by the inhabitants. Short hairs and | swallow tails can unite on this common ground to back the prosccution of the iniquitous fabricators of this fine American drink. ‘Cut the wires of another” will be the motto of the reunited democracy. Loxorst1ow ron THe EnxGuisn Misstoy.—- ‘The best answer tothe alliance in the Senate | which defeated Mr. Dana is for the Presi- | dent to send in the name ofa man who will be above reproach, who will command the confidence of the governments and citizens | of both countries. Such a man is Henry W. | Longfellow. In some respects Mr. Long- fellow is our most distinguished citizen. i ‘There is no American, wo are confident, who | would receive from all ranks of English | pociety so genuine a welcome as Mr. Long- | fellow. His career is full of beauty and | achievement. His works area part of the i literary and domestic life of Aimerica and | England. Nor is there any reason why we H sbould not have a literary man at the Court | of St James. Some of our most eminent | writers have been in the diplomatic service— | Barlow, Payne, Hawthorne, Taylor, Motley, | Haneroft, Everett and Boker, nuines honored — Vy the English-speaking world. General ; Grant eptld do nothing more gracious and | timely than to add'to this list the name of | Longfellow. — , mn NEW YORK HERALD NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEKT. General Grant’s First Signal Gun Announcing the Presidential Battle. If, in the days preceding a great battle, when the troops of one army are massing from : various directions with contlicting cleims to the right of command, the booming of a gun is heard in the far distance announcing the | position of the commander-in-chief and his heavy battalions, and indicating tho ground | on which the engagement is to be fought, the hubbub.and uncertainty of the assem- bling troops is immediately relieved and-all parts of the army gets more distinct idea of the ensuing military operations. Something similar to this has just happened in relation to the marshalling of the republican army for the Presidential contest. General Grant has broken his Sphinx-like silence and re- | moved the most important element of un- certainty in the fight to gain possession of the Cincinnati Convention, Had he stood aloof from the preliminary contest, ex- erting no influence in favor of any of the rival candidates, but reserving his great power until the republican nomi- nee is in the field, the struggle for the con- trol of the Convention would be too doubt- ful for ihe friends of any candidate to have plausible ground for claiming it. But sincs President Grant has expressed his prefer- ence for Senator Conkling and avowed his intention to support him the fog begins to clear and we get a better view of the pros- ect. » We refer to the interview between the President and the Hon. Jere Haralson, re- ported yesterday in the Washington de- spatches of the Hzratp, Mr. Haralson is the colored member of Congress from the First district of Alabama, and bids fair to bea man of mark as a representative of his race. Borna slave and several times sold from owner to owner, Mr. Haralson found himself free at the close of the war in 1865. He was then not twenty years of age and could neither read nor write. He has energy like that of the late Andrew Johnson, who wus equally illiterate on reaching man- hood, and, nevertheless, rose to the highest public stations. It is a proof of Mr. Haralson’s excellent natural abilities that, in spite of disadvantages, he came into Congress at an earlier age than a majority of the white members, and itisa proof of President Grant's ‘sagacity that he gives his confidence to this rising representative of the colored race, whose talénts and energy are likely to make him the most influential leader of five millions of our countrymen. The negroes form the great bulk of the*republican party in the Southern States, and President Grant is proving that he understands the best methods of access to the negro heart by recognizing Mr. Haralson. The following extract will enable the reader to see how unequivocally the President has committed himself to Senator Conkling:— Mr, Haralson avowed himself to tho President a strong Grant man, and went on to explain that the peo- Jo of his State were very much divided up between ristow, Morton and Conkling, and sinco the recent decision’ of the Supreme Court on the Enforcement act the colored people were very much staggered and did not know whut to do, as the democratic Southern country papers were full ot the cry of “No more force bills !’* “No more nigger voting!” “No more military rule!? as a republican Supreme Court had decided upon it, ‘the President was very much interested, and was cx- ceedingly stirred up and maaitested his feelings quite impressively to Mr. Huralsov. ~The President said that Mr. Morton was a very good republican and avery strong map, but Mr. Conkling was also a strong man, and had always been upright and con sistent, as well as never having had his repu- tation assailed in any way. The President wanted to know how the delegation from his State would go and for what candidate. To this Mr. Haralson answered he could not really say; that Mr. Morton was very highly thought of, and so was Mr, Conkling, as well a8 Mr. Bristow; but the colored peoplo would ‘not think of Mr, Biaine. The President reiterated his conviction that Mr. Conkling would make an excellent President, and Mr. Haralson said to him, ‘Why, Mr, President, are you going to electioneer for bim ??” To this the President signified in answer that he was decidedly in favor of Mr. Conkling, as ho thought be would make the strongest republican candidate, President Grant sees the force of the rea- sons which have been stated by the Hznatp for making Senator Conkling the republican candidate. We will not recapitulate here the personal reasons why Mr. Conkling should be preferred to Mr. Morton or Mr. Blaine, but the main political reason is so solid, weighty and unanswerable that no candid mind can resist it. It is founded on the fact that the electoral votes of New-York will de- cide the Presidential contest. It hence fol- lows that it would be an act of political sui- cide for the republican party to nominate any candidate who has no reason- able prospect of carrying this State. New York is not, like Massachusetts or Vermont, a republican, State to be held, but a democratic State to be recovered; and only a candidate who is exceptionally strong with the New York republicans has the slightest chance of taking the State away from the democrats, All the reasonable hopes of the republican party are staked on the possibility of doing this. Mr. Conkling’s strength in this State is a tested fact; it is not a matter of conjecture, but of knowledge. It is possible that some man who lies con- cealed in the background may be stronger in New York than Senator Conkling, but there is nosuch man among his known competi- tors. With Morton or Blaine as the re- publican candidate the battle would be lost in New York before it was begun, and it is certain that without New York the republi- cans cannot elect the President. As among the candidates who are at present urging their pretensions, the question of accepting oy rejecting Conkling is simply a question between keeping or flinging away all the | possibilities of success, President Grant evinces judgment, sagacity and party loy- alty in declaring his preference for the only | candidate who, among those yet named, can | carry the indispensable State of New York. Among the minor causes which may have led to, or, rather, may have hastenad, this declaration, we must not lose sight of what was done and said at the Syracuse Conven- tion by the masked supporters of Mr. Riaine, The amiable and scholarly Mr. Curtis never made a more signal display of his weakness as a political strato- gist than in selecting the grounds of his o position to Senator Conkling. Mr. Curtis is so artless and sincere that we should do | | It is itaportant there should be no appear. | him injustice if we suspected him of o design to strengthen the chances of Mr, Conkling under a pretenco of opposition, and we are, therefore, compe! 4 to believe that it was by maladroit simplicity that he did the best thing possible for the statesman he was bent on defeating. He played into the hands of his adversary by sheer anskil- fulness in the game. His chief topic of in- | stanch support of President Grant. Wheo @ friend of Blsine was unwary enough to put this slur on the President and publish | his hope of humiliating the administration, he ought to heve known, though he did not, that he was pursuing the surest course for enlisting the President on the side of Conkling. Nobody could have strength- ened Senator Conkling so much os Mr. Curtis did by this provocation of the President, who is forced to support Conkling in self-vindica- tion. The influence of President Grant is worth at least two hundred delegates in favor of the candidate he supports. The confidence reposed in him by the negro population of the Southern States, and his contrul of the federal patronage, enable him | to mould all or mostof the Southern dele- gates to Cincinnati, and to virtually dictate the nomination of a candidate who is | backed by New York and Pennsylvania, the two most important and populous States of the Union. Asthings now look Mr. Conk- ling will go to Cincinnati with the one hun- ; dred and twenty-eight delegates from these two great States and about two hundred and seventy-five delegates from the South- ern States given him by the influence of the President. With such a formidable display of strength on the first ballot the chances j are greatly in favor of Mr. Conkling's suc- cess, ‘This state of the game evinces the shrewd- ness and penetration of Senator Cameron, who was prompt in detecting the drift of the current. His practised intelligence enabled him to see at once the stupendous blunder of Mr, Curtis in offering an open provoca- tion to the President and enlisting his pride and credit against Blaine and Blaine’s friends, who seek to rise on the ruin of his reputation. ‘The trained sagacity of Senator Cameron enabled him to see that Blaine was an impossible candidate, and perceiving that Conkling would be supported by the President, after such an affront, Mr. Cam- eron set his sails to take advantage of what he knew would be the settled direction of the wind. Morton is virtually out of the race by the determination of the President to give the Southern delegations to Conkling, and the only remaining candidates who have any ap- pearance of strength are Conkling, Blaine and Bristow, with an immense preponder- ance of chances in favor of Conkling. But Mr. Conkling’s friends must not be too con- fident. ‘‘There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip,” and the Cincinnati Con- vention is still two months distant. It may turn out at last that the dark horse will win, and as the dark horse is not yet in the race nobody can estimate his speed and bottom. The Coming Emperor. A meeting vill be held at Delmonico’s to-morrow evening, to consider ‘‘what steps should be taken to extend proper hospitali- ties to His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, during his proposed stay in this city.” The gentlemen whose names are signed to the circular summoning this meeting are among our best citizens. A meeting under the di- rection of Royal Phelps, J. Pierpont Mor- gan, James M. Brown, E. D. Morgen and men of that class will do everything possible for the credit of the city. The coming of the Emperor is among the most important events of the kind that have ever happened in our country. We have liad royal and imperial guests before—princes who were to be kings in their day, and once or twice princes invested with a royal rank. We have had a king and a queen from the Pacific. We have had princes of the houses of England, Russia, Bonaparte and Orleans. Their reception was in all respects hearty and becoming. Mr. Tick- nor’s memoirs show how gratefully the Queen of England appreciated the civilities we paid to the Prince of Wales, and, although there was some feeling on the part of the Czar as to the mannerin which the President treated the Grand Duke Alexis, His Majesty was eager to acknowledge the kindness shown his son by the people. But the coming Em- peror is in adifferent category from our other guests. He isa prince of ancient and illus- trious. lineage. He is dirtctly descended from the houses of Bourbon, Braganza and Hapsburg, three of the ruling houses of the world. So that in rank alone, so far as we may feel disposed in this free and easy coun- try to regard rank, the Emperor is deserving of the highest consideration. He isa man whose tastes and acquirements are those of ascholar. Even among scholars he would be distinguished for his learning. This is a great deal, especially in a century which has had-so many princes who were high and privileged vagabonds. More than all, the Emperor is the chief of a great nation, the greatest, next to our own, on the American continent, It is not merely therefore Dom Pedro of the Bourbons—prince and em- peror, scholar and gentleman who comes to our shores, but the chief of a power- ful nation, with whom we are on terms of peace, and whose ruler we shall only be too glad to honor. In cofsidering, therefore, what is due to Dom Pedro as our guest, we should consider the honors that would be paid to General Grant, if, while | President, he were to visit Brazil. He would ; have an imperial reception. The Emperor and the high functionaries of the State would {meet him Men-of-war would escort his | vessel to the wharf; soldiers would escort fived and brilliant court would await him, Tt would not be the meze man that would thus be weloomed, but the Chief Magistrate | of the United States, We cannot expect to rival the splendor, | the ostentation snd the ceremony of » court. | Our government does not admit of this, But we have itin. cur power tu so receive this | Fmporor thot Brasil wi! feo! that wo delight to honor her tn the person of her Emperor, Brazil is & country with which we have always beeg on friendly reiations, with which we Lave many thes of commercial intercourse, | ance of‘solinesa in cur welcome. Therefore | his reception should not be left exclusively | to the respected ant hospitable gentiemen who are to meet so-tworrow at Deimonico's, | whe government should take an official ‘part in the reception. We have o@ flect ‘at Port Royal, within three days’ sail jof New York. Wo could give the short-sighted | bay. The President—or, if that is not | according to precedent, then the Secretary | of State in his name—accompanied by the Admiral of the Navy, the General of the Army and other high officers of the govern- ment, should meet the Emperor and wel- come him in the name of the nation. We do not know what precedent requires, but it seems to us that if the President and Cabi- net, accompanied by the foreiyn Ministers and a staff of high military and naval officers, were to receive the Emperor in landing, it would be in all respects becoming. We could have a military parade on Broadway. If the government were thus to take the lead the citizens would do the rest. The Em- peror would see, as he slowly passed up Broadway from the Battery to his hotel, in the enthusiasm of the people, in the multi- tude and variety of the decorations, that we honored him as a gentleman and on Em- peror as well as the head of a great and | friendly nation. Cabmen’s Mistake. Our friends the hack drivers labor under a great mistake when they imagine that the Henarp desires to make war on their busi- ness in advocating a system of cheap cabs, They are hard worked in many ways ; they pass many honrs at their business, few of them profitably ; they are exposed to all weathers, and do not reap a proportionate reward. What we wish to see reformed is their way of doing business, thereby to extend their prosperity and usefulness. Because they drive a certain class of vehicles at certain rates, which limit their employ- ment to a fare or two daily, they think that a reduction of fare will simply cut off so much from their earnings. This is very short-sighted. They are, by the fact of their license, privileged public ser- vants; they are secured from open com- petition. This is why the city assumds to regulate their rates of fare, and why they should prepare themselves to sub- mit with a good grace to what is in- tended to be of advantage to them as well as to the public. Instead of being compelled to pass hour after hour in idle- ness upon the hack stand they would readily double their present earnings by a cheap system of fares. They must not be afraid to earn the money in taking a number of passengers for short rides which they barely eke out now by charging for a single ride a price out of all proportion to the ser- vice rendered. If it be admitted, for the sake of argument, that it costs five dollars a day to run a carriage and pair of horses, including their wages, the hackmen cannot suppose that it is fair trade to have that repaid by an hour or two's work. If they had constant employment, they would, supposing they worked six hours, make The him toa paince, and all the graces of a re- | two hundred per cent on the outlay. We are convinced they do nothing of the kind, but they might, under a fair system, with one horse cabs—four wheelers and hansoms— do a steady business which would be far more remunerative, while placing them on a better footing in the eyes of their fellow citizens. A Centennial List—The English Mis- sion. The President has a good opportunity to send a good Minister to England. He can solve many problems and simplify many embarrassments by making the proper selection. We have presented the name of Mr. Longfellow, but there are other gentle- men eminent in letters, science and the law who would honor this country at the Eng- lish Court. Let us give the President a cen- tennial list :— GEORGE WILIAM CURTIS, of New York, EDWIN D. MORGAN, of New York. CYRUS W. FIELD, of New York. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, of New York. ANDREW D. WHITE, of New York. PETER COOPER, of New York. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, of Massachusetts, WENDELL PHILLIPS, of Massachusetts, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, of Massachusetts, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, of Massachusetts, JAMES G. BLALNE, of Maine. MURAT HALSTEAD, of Ohio, HENRY C. CAREY, of Pennsylvania, Here is a list of which any country might be proud—a centennial list which the Presi- dent could throw into a hat and draw out blindfold, feeling that whoever came would be a prize. Mr. Curtis would meet the sup- port of Mr. Conkling. No gentleman would be more welcome to the Queen. He could show those pleasing traits of character which have given him fame as the composer of essays upon manners and fashions and “show to behave.” Mr. Morgan, as a great merchant, would appeal to that commercial sentiment of England which has made Britannid mistress of the seas. Mr. Field has already won so many honors in England that his presence at court would be a com- pliment to both nations, The name of Bry- ant is so illustrious that he would be re- ceived at Windsor with honors like those paid to Franklin at Versailles. President White, of Cornell, represents the best aspect of Young America, while Peter Cooper would fitly represent the Republic in the city of Peabody. Wendell Phillips, the chief ot our orators, would be peculiarly welcome in the home of Gladstone and Bright. Lowell and Emerson shine so brilliantly in the galaxy of our literary stars that they would give lustre to tho mission. Mr. Blaine has too mnch intellect to be wasted in an un- availing contest for the Presidency, and might relicvo the canvass by accepting the inevitable and going to London. Murat Halstead is a war horse among the tremen- dous journalists of the West. If it were | necessary to make the lion roar he has the courage and abiiity to do so. Henry C. | Carey could end his long and useful life in {no position more gracefully than at the Court of St. James. The President shonld thank us for this centennial list. As wo said in the begin- ning, he could put these numes in a hat, foeling suro that the first name drawn would j be that of a gentleman who would honor his | country. he Tus Messexozr Boxs.—We do not wish to | be understcod as condemning the gencral mode of carrying out its business by the District Telegraph Company, but ithas been | generally remarked that there is not of late ' the same promptness on the part of the mes- sengera that was co od:nirable at first. This is | ; to be regretted, as a keen supervision by the company over this most important point | veotive egainst Conkling was Conkling’s | Emperor a naval reception in the lower | would eradicate the fault Galled Jade Wince. | One of the comical developments of the era of investigation is the appearance on the scene of a grand inquisitor from California | named Page, He takes a conspicuous and | extreme position in regard to the thefts practised by functionaries intrusted with the administration of Indian affairs. Mr. Page is a member of a committee whose duty it is to investigate and expose such thievery, and officially, therefore, he is under obligation to assist such exposure; but, like a great many other men in these days, his official obligations sit very lightly on his conscience when weighed in the bal- ance against reasqns more personal His official obligation to expose thievery is evi- dently a feather compared to his personal inclinetion to embarrass, oppose and sup- | press all inquiry in that direction. Intima- tion has already been given very plainly that in his efforts to divert and cripple the inquiry into Indian frauds Mr. Page was inspired by no less a fact than that he was interested pecuniarily in some of those transactions. If he were interested criminally, if the ex- posure would result in his trial for an offence that might send him to prison, he could not be more extravagant in his efforts to make it ineffective. In the course of their search for persons who had been in the Indian country and observed the fraudulent practices there carried on the Indian Committee very naturally came to a Hznaip correspondent, from whom they doubtless obtained a great deal of information, and who has, we hope, materially assisted their inquiry on the subject before them. But Page has princi- pally examined this correspondent on a sub- ject that we did not know the committee was authorized to investigate. This subject is the Hxeraup. Page wants to know what salaries we pay, what our politics are, what arrangements we make with our corre- spondents, where they get their imforma- tion, and why in the world they have not a greater respect for Page. Is Page in- terested in any California newspaper that he wishes to assist by knowledge thus cheaply acquired? Or has he a fancy to take to honest industry and become a corre- spondent himself? If we should at any time want to send a correspondent to Mare’s Island we might deal with Prge. But the position in which he would be a brilliant suc- cess no longer exists in any newspaper office, if, indeed, it ever had any existence in civilized cities. There is a tradition that every newspaper establishment once kept a bully, and if this was ever a fact anywhere it must have been in the Southwest. It has been commonly supposed that the duty of such a functionary was to browbeat the whole community, to snort through the country the sound of his own importance, never to stand on any nice points of pro- priety, but to bray down all opposing voices. Does Mr. Page innocently believe that functionaries of that traditional sort really exist in newspaper offices, and does his conscious sense for his fitness for such a post suggest his anxiety in regard to the salaries we pay? In case he should think of becoming a correspondent, our requirements are :—Some talent, the capacity to write good English, industry and honesty ; and our one instruction is, ‘Tell the truth.” If Mr. Page should endeavor to fill such a position we are afraid the pay would hardly remunerate him for the strain on his constitution. These tactics of the enemies of investiga- tion are transparent. In the course of these inquiries into corrupt practices the Hznaup has done important service to the country. Once before we intimated that a member of the committee knew more of official thievery than he cared to tell, and his attempt to browbeat one of our correspondents un- earthed the Pendleton roguery. Now a member of another committee seems to find inquiry coming uncomfortably near him, and he endeavors by a first class display of Congressional blackguardism to intimidate the correspondent and to extort from him the names of the persons to whom he was in- debted for information. If men on com- mittees believe that by acts of this sort they will frighten correspondents and so pre- vent the publication of unpalatable truths they do not know what sort of persons they have to deal with. It is not for a moment to be believed that the House will sustain Mr. Page in the position he has assumed as an authority to discipline our correspondent, His committee is authorized by the House to perform certain services in the public intor- est, and the House will sustain it in any steps necessary to that end and might punish any refusals to answer that bore on the proper inquiry. But when Mr. Page perverts the public inquiry to his private uses the House will scarcely cover with its authority his scandalous departure from the line of his duty. i Dog Bench Shows. Next to field trials bench shows are the best methods leading to improve- ment in the races and breeds of useful dogs. By this means the finest strains of blood are brought into competition, ; selections made and comparisons drawn which will tend to the perfection of the ani- mal. Dog shows, properly conducted, can be made very popular in this country, and as there is a growing rivalry in the different sections of the various strains of blood it is through these public exhibitions that beauty of color, graceful form and stanch points can be seen and compared and excel- lence reached by judicious and selective | breeding. But the premiums at these ; Shows should be liberal and always in money, and not, as the Rod and Gun Club, of Springfield, are doing, by giving one of Parker Brothers’ guns for the best pointer dog, because the owner of the dog might prefer to shoot with a Grant, a Purdey ora Scott gaa to one made by the Parkers, and, therefore, would not bring his dog to the show. For the best collection of setters Frank Wesson gives ono of his rifles, and the owner of the best retrieving spaniel will be rewarded bya dealer in fishing tackle with one of his patent-hollow-joint-bass- rods, This may be « good way for manufac- turers to bring their wares before the public, but it may not suit the owners of fine bred dogs to compete for snch articles, Nothing but greonbacks will induco owners to go to the expense of taking their dogs to bench | Mr. Page amd the Herstd—Let the | shows. The Centennial Commission has provided for a bench show of sporting and non-sporting dogs, to be held in conjunction with the international exhibition of horses, commencing September 1 and continuing eight days, when we hope money premiums will be given of sufficient importance to in- dace gentlemen to send their pets from all parts of this and other. countries. A com- munication from Burnet Landreth, Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, will be found ip another column. Cheap Cabs and the District Telee graph Company. In urging the District Telegraph Company to take hold of the business of providing cheap cabs for the New York public we do not wish our proposition to be confounded with the efforts the company are making in another direction. They are entering into arrangements with certain stables near their branch offices to supply vehicles to their present gustomers as the latter may desire them, ‘This shows progress, but it is not enough. Doubtless the want of capital and a fear of travelling outside of what the com- pany consider their messenger business make them hesitate to embark in the owning and running of a cab service on their own account. We think their organization ad- mirably suited to making such a cab service of the greatest public utility, and, therefore, profitable. Such men as Mr. Belmont, Mr, Vanderbilt, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Astor and others of our wealthiest citizens could be called on to furnish the capital for the ad- ditional outlay, since, in addition ta doing a great publicservice, they would be making a perfectly safe investment. Under such auspices and with the management in hands that would guarantee a business-like administration, the entire publio could be acceptably served at rates far cheaperthan the most progressive stableman would be- lieve possible. If the District Telegraph Company examine the matter on a brond basis they will see that it would beas absurd for them to rely for this cab service upon independent stablemen as it would be to rely on their neighbors for messengers. All the public wants in order to create a great cab business is a perfect understunding with responsible parties, prompt service and a fair rate. The District Telegraph Com. pany, with a little enterprise, can supply all these. Let them try it. New York’s Air Poisons. The Committee on Public Health ap pointed by the Assembly to examine into the sources of the disagreeable and unhealthy smells that poison the air of New York have returned to Albany after a mere flying visit to some of the breeding grounds of these enemies of the public health, and without visiting some of the most offensive places at all. Probably the, ex periences they had during their two days' inquiry on the east and west side about Thirty-fourth street were enough for them, but they surely might have spared time and strengthened their stomachs for a visit ta the pestilential area of Harlem flats, If the thing was worth doing at all 1 was worth ‘doing thoroughly. New York demands the suppression of these nuisances which came under the observation of the committee, but from Harlem flats roll miasmatic vapors quite as offensive to the sense of smell, and infinitely more dangerous to health. Our municipal aus thorities have proved themselves unequal to the task of dealing with this huge nuisance, which, since the days when Disbecker found it a paradise, scarcely anything has been done to mitigate the evil. Whatever measure is passed by the Legislature to relieve New York of its stenches let the purification of Harlem flats be included in it. The com- mittee, after their run up the river, should be sufficiently refreshed to return and face the horrors of the flats fora single day. The warm weather is now approaching and every day adds to New York’s danger. Mexico's Revouurion is making its baneful effects felt upon the trade of that unfortu- nate country. Every mail brings us stories of pronunciamentos, followed by robberies and slaughter, while commerce that may in some cases thrive during a war is prostrated by a disturbance that leaves chaos behind it, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, gL Bret Harte is in Wastington. Ship building has not decreased in Maine. Phil Sheridan has bought a bass fiddle for the baby, Dr. Mary Walker does not believe in knee breechet for the Centennial, The Chicago Times says that Pendleton can never forget party ties vor railroad ties, ‘ It was an Indiana man who sent twenty-five cents by mail, pasted on the back of a postal card. Thomas G, Lawson is named as a candidate for the Forty-fifth Congress from tho Georgia Sixth district, “are You My Wife?” is aconundrum asked on the title page of a new novel published by Estes & Lauria, Thirty-five thousand seveg hundred and fourtecs dollars in atlver ate said to weigh aton, Still, silver a tonic. Mrs, Jones heard that Mrs. Brown wore four-button gloves, and exclaimed, ‘Lordy! why I wear seven- batten shoes,” The sclection of Sr. Bayard Taylor for Centennial poet was nota bad one, Mr, Taylor is capital ena occasion poet. Two Vermont drivers sat in their wagons for four hours becanse neither would tura out, Then the Sheriff turned then out. ‘The Crown Princess of Germany {s said to be very untidy, and it is complained that ber shoes are some. times untiedy too, John Smith, a hod carrier, of Boston, died April 2, At tho last moment he muttered, “Telegraph thas another Bostou man is Rone.'” Emerson says that man 1s not intended for a mon. strosity and does not naturally he, Emerson docs not read the Kansas City Times. Sccrstary Bristow arrived at Louisville yesterday morning, and will remain there a few days to rest and meet his many friends in that section, ‘That balky avimal the tobeter, which blashes at hot water, into which it is always getting, will have a short crop of iisel! this year, owing to the storms. Anew life of Alexander . Stephens, by Colonol R. M. Johnston and Dr, W. H. Browne, editor of the Southern Magazine, 1s ia the press of Turnbull Brothers, Baltimore. Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, is named im ry Washington special to the Cincivnatt Gazette as ¢ prominent candidate for the second place on the re publican Presidential ticket. The Brooklyn Argus says:—Thousands of immortal young souls are running wild through the jungles of Africa, withont clothes and without a God, and yet here's Zach, Chandler giving $1,000 to whitewash Babe cock.” Each volume of Walt Whitman's now book will con+ farm the portrait and autograph of the aathor, who has done most of the manual labor of the work. It ts not often that an suthor is his own printer, publisher and