The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. | 1 JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR —__-—__—_—_ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. | ‘Twelve dollars per yeag, or one dollar per | month, free of postage. a3 All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yors Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | ed. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH 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. FE = VOLUME XLI... << AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ate cesesesenes: aee+-NO, 140 THIRTY-FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. VARIETY. at 8 P. M. KELLY & LEONS MINSTRELS, mer. M. FIFTH AVENUB THEATRE. PIQUE, at8P. M. Fanny Davenport. GLOBE THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M, Wood's MUSEUM. BNDER THE GALLOWS, at 8 P.M. Matineo as 2 P, M. BROOKLYN THEATRE. PRIDE, & 8P. M. 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Nore to Country Nzwspzarzns.— For npt and regular delivery of the Henatp fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to is office, Postage jree. ‘Waut Srrzer Yesrerpa¥.—The chief inter- est of the stock market was concentrated on Pacific Mail, of which the sales aggregated 65,000shares. Prices were generally :rregular. Gold sold at 112 3-4 a 112 7-8 a 1123-4 Money on call was supplied at 3 a 3 1-2 per cent, Government and railway bonds were quiet and steady. Rarwar Coxsonmation under government control progresses better in Germany than in Italy. The bill passed its first reading in the Prussian House of Peers yesterday. Ex-Suzrr Brennan got a verdict yester- day, on his claim for conveying prisoners in 1872, at a considerable reduction on the amount he demanded. The jury considered the question from a reform standpoint and gave their verdict accordingly. Cueap Locomorion rx Panis is the subject ofan interesting article published in to- day’s Heratp, which furnishes many les- sons which may be profitably learned in New York. We need a system of cheap ‘transit in this city which shall be free from the abuses of uncleanliness and over- crowding from which the people suffer at present. The profits from such an enter- prise would be very large and our city tran- sit monopolies would be humbled into re- specting the rights of travellers. Tue InrerminaBLeE Brooxuzn Scanpau added another page to its gloomy record last evening by the proceedings resulting in the expulsion of Henry C. Bowen from .the membership of Plymouth church. Mr. Bowen, however, gives Mr. Beecher warning that ‘‘the end is not yet”—t state- ment we, unfortunately, believe to be true. Tae Arrair aT Baxou Sana is involved in considerable contradiction as to its impor- tance. Despatches from New Orleans state that it was a small affair, arising out of the stealing of a cow; while information at Washington, through radical sources, give it very gory dimensions indeed. The Presi- dent has so far declined to listen to the ap- peals of Governor Kellogg for federal troops. Tux ConerecationaL Cuurcn at Green- field, Conn., has celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its foundation by asenes of exercises which were largely at- tended. A number of interesting historical facts were related by the Rev. Henry B. Smith in his address, which carried this hearers back to the struggles between the early settlers and the hostile Indian tribes that disputed with the white man the right to settle among the green forests of New England. Tue Mvnvener Piven is enjoying excellent health and affects the utmost unconcern re- garding his impending fate. He feels easy, now that his mind is relieved from the weight of his dreadful secret. Cahill, the alleged assistant of Piper in the murder of Bridget Landergin, has been declared inno- cent by his counsel, who states that his client is willing to return to America at any time to prove how guiltless he is of tho crime. Comptzts Amxxstr to the imprisoned and ‘exiled Communists still contumacious was by an overwhelming majority defeated dn the French Chamber of Deputies yes- . This was anticipated even by the movers of the resolutions, and the announce- ment of the government that pardons would be granted only to those who have not . ghown a disposition to repeat their rebellious courses, and in proportion as the Assembly lets amnesty alone, has no uncertajn sound, eres the lips of M. Du- The Centennial and Its Shortcomings. The managers of the Exhibition seem to be unfortunate in the opening so far as the weather is concerned. A series of showers in the middle of May, and» thunder storm thrown in, are enough to dampen even centennial show aflame with Philadelphia enthusiasm, The anticipations of an ex- traordinary rush which came with the opening have ndt been realized. We pre- sume the clear-headed men among the man- agers abandon the idea of paying the owners of the Centennial stock any part of their subscription, In addition to the subscrip- tions of the city of Philadelphia, the State of Pennsylvania and the sales of stock to private parties, we understand there isa debt’of 4 million and a half still to be pro- vided for out of the receipts for admissions. This deficit and the running expenses will absorb a good part of all the money taken in. Then comes the loan of the government. This loan is a special lien upon the Exhibition, and is to be paid as a preferred debt, We believe there is some question about this, and rwe have heard that the act was drawn up meaning one thing and passed meaning another, and that when the government comes to recover its money it will have no lien, but rank with the ordinary investors. We have paid no attention to this, knowing the managers of the Centennial to be honor- able men who would not be a party toa trick. More than all, the government is segured by a bond of half a million of dol- lars, signed by a hundred of Philadelphia's millionaires, who would, we are convinced, much rather pay the government the million and a half out of their pockets than allow it to be deprived of the money by any legisla- tive legerdemain. Still we are not without hope that there will be enough from the admissions to pay not only the running expenses but the de- ficit and the special government loan. We have supported the Exhibition as a national measure, and not as a speculation, feeling that it was a wise thing to do even if nota dollar were returned. If the Exhibition yielded a financial profit so much the better. But all the conditions are against financial success, In London, in 1851, there was a surplus, and from this grew up the Kensington Museum, one of the attractions of that noble city. But the London Exhibition was small compared with Philadelphia—small com- pared with any that came after it. The great nations, France, Austria and now America, in imitating England, ran into bigness, be- lieving that the larger the display the more successful it would be. The history of exhibi- tions will, we are convinced, show this to be a mistake. It was so in Vienna, and it will be so in Philadelphia. The best part of the main palace in Vienna, the part given to the Austrians, was little more than a walk along the Graben or the Ringstrasse. And, as one of our Philadelphia correspondents puts it, the best part of the American section of the present show is little more than a continua- tion of Broadway or Chestnut street, A walk through the American department is like reading the advertising columns of a newspaper. When exhibitions run into big- ness, like this in Philadelphia, they lose their value. We can see toys and sewing machines and trumpets and meerschaum pipes by walking up Broadway and down the Bowery. We can see wax or plaster fig- ures, dressed in foreign costumes, at any one of a dozen shows, and Gilmore and Thomas are our own, without going to Philadelphia to hear their fiddles. It would be much better, looking at our fair as an educa- cation, if it were one-half its size. Instead of striving to cover more acres than Paris or Vienna we should have made our fair com- pact and representative. Instead of select- ing jurymen who will go from exhibit to exhibit arranging the medals and prizes, how much better to have made the selections in the first place. The proper world's fair will be that which has on exhibition the best results of industry and taste. The compe- tition and awards should precede the show. Take the ar® galleries. We donot know how many thousand pictures are within their walls, The correspondents say it is a day's journey from one end to the other. Yeta, competent committee, not composed of artists with their own interests to serve, but of clear-headed men who know art, could select all the pictures worth seeing or having any instruction in their colors and not have more than fifty. So there might be a judicious process of elimination in all the departments. People already complain that there is too much to see. Itis not in the power of human en- durance to go through this Centennial in a week. And yet everything worth seeing could be seen in a day if we knew where to find the gems, A visit to the Centennial reminds us of searching a mountain of chaff to find a peck of grain. The grain is there, but what a labor to reach it! The grain is in the Cen- tennial, but where is it? The stranger, as he enters the gates and sees about him the new city, which has grown up like an Alad- din’s palace, even os by an enchanter'’s wand, looks to the right and the left and asks, ‘Where is it? I came,to study the results of a century of civilization in one compact panorama; to see what my country has done in acentury of freedom and what friendly nations have attained in the same time. I came to know what the energy of England, the thrift of Germany, the taste of France have contributed to ourage, I hear the whir of the engines; I see vistas | of showcases and decorations; a hundred | thousand flags waving in the breeze; I jostle against the Chinaman in his pigtail, the Turk in his fez, the Arab in his turban; Icatch the sounds of as many tongues as were heard at the building of Babel; Iam astonished with the miles of canvas, all duly painted with trees, sky, water, habita- tions, men and women; but where is the result of all this—what are the instructive points of this vast bewildering show?” This is the question that the intelligent stranger asks upon visiting the Exhibition. It is a ques- tion it would be hard to answer. Let us suppose that the whole Exhibition had been arranged upon the same plan as the Netherlands and Brazil. We take these two countries because, from what the cor- respondents tell us, they are representative in their character. Here, in a space which might be studied in an hour, you have the best results of Dutch and Brazilian civilize ; NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MA Y 19, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. | tion. In this small, compact enclosure you | have an epitome of the two nations, Noth- | ing is repeated. There are not a hundred | rackery dealers or carpet weavers showing the same kind of crockery and carpet. There are statistics, maps, plans, a condensed em- bodiment of what each nation is and the pur- pose it serves in the world. It would be hard to find in our own display an answer to the question, “What is California?” or ‘What is Pennsylvanin?” And yet Cali- | fornia and Pennsylvania are two of the most important facts of American progress. One is the land of gold and wheat and silver, the other the land of coal and iron and petroleum. Upon these staples the material greatness of the Republic largely rests.’ It would be hard to find any intelli- gent idea of California or Pennsylvania in the Exhibition. Suppose that these States, instead of building cottages as “‘headquar- ters,” where politicians might idle away the long summer afternoons discussing the canvass for the Presidency, had given us an exhibit like that of Brazil or the Nether- lands, or even the Sandwich Islands, where the visitor might have studied each State in a couple of hours as though it were a picture, where he could haye learned the extent, the resources, the topographical aspect, the fruits, the rivers and towns, the mineral products, the exact relation it bears to the country and the world, how much better it would have been for the highest purposes of this show. The visitor to the English department will have no diffi- culty in understanding in an hour the exact value of Australia or New Zealand. The English have done what our people failed to do—what they may do now if it is not too late. The impression of the Centennial Exhibi- tion, and more particularly of the American department, is that of bewildering bigness. Several thousand persons have tumbled out in the Fairmount Park steam engines, saws, sewing machines, biscuits, soda water foun- tains, pictures, tombstones, California wine, ploughs, traps, crockery and innumerable other articles, and ask us to look at the heap as an illustration of our century’s progress. It is big, wonderful; but if Broadway could have been taken up at one end and emptied out into the same park it would have been bigger. We cannot resist the conclusion that as a lesson in the highest sense the American department of the Centennial Ex- hibition is not a success. As a pageant, as an example of industry and strength, as a study of resources and energy undaunted by four years of war and ten years of civil commotion it will impress the world; but it might have been so much more impressive that we cannot but regret the absence of any intelligent directing mind among those who represented the State governments, and in no State so much, we are sorry to say, as New York. Revolution in Turkey. When the mob can force a government, in the face of foreign difficulties, to change its principal officers it is a sign that passion attempts to supply the place of rational policy and precipitate fury the need of real strength. Premonitory symptoms of what is now reported from Constantinople have for some months been visible, and in calling attention a few days ago to the loath- ing with which the fanatic Mohammedan would regard a project to place the native Christian on a political level with him, we scarcely expected to see it so signally mani- fested as in the scene before the Sultan’s palace, when Abdul Aziz, mindful of the fate of Selim IIL in 1808, bowed to the will of the Mohammedan roughs, led by the softas from the mosques, and changed his Grand Vizier, or Prime Minister, at their desire. Following so closely on the murder of the consuls at Salonica and the Turkish endeavor to atone therefor, this is a proof of the utter feebleness of the government, It gives the last touch of ridicule to the late ostentatious efforts at Berlin to map out a course for the Porte which would satisfy the insurgents in Herze- govina and Christendom generally. It may be significantly noted that the chief object of execration of the softas was Russian in- fluence, the Grand Vizier being denounced principally because of his supposed subjec- tion to that influence. However that may be, their action in showing the utter weak- ness of the Porte to keep order, not to speak of enforcing a reform, makes for Russia more than the services of a dozen Grand Viziers. The revolution means that the Turks wish to govern strictly according to Turkish ideas, and a few days will probably decide whether the mob feels itself strong enough to begin, or the government continues weak | enough to permit, a massacre of the Chris- tians. To carry the reforms necessary to satisfy the insurgents would require a goy- ernment as strong and with resources as re- liable as Mahmoud II. commanded fifty years ago when he extinguished in blood the power of the Janizaries. In the present case the Sultan—a moody creature, alternating listlessness with expensive whims, and fond of gross pleasure—finds himself taken unawares and brofight face to face with not merely an unruly armed mob, but the religious passions of his entire peo- ple, The English government profess to see | ablue sky opening over the Turkish diffi- culty, but we take this assurance for a ease of diplomatic color blindness, and shall not be astonished if called gn to chronicle the storming of Constantinople by the fleets of the Christian Powers, and the beginning of the end of that anomaly in | Europe—a government the essence of Asiatic | barbarism. An overwhelming display of force off the Golden Horn may avert it, but it lies more closely in the self-restraigt of the Turkish mob, and that just now is a poor reliance. Tae New York Gnatn Menrcnants have awakened to the fact that they must fight hard to preserve for this port the great grain business which has helped in the past to build up the commercial metropolis, Efforts are being made by the Dock Commissioners, at the instance of the merchants, to provide better wharf accoramodation for the handling of freight, but the utmost exertion mast be | made to recover the loss of trade which New York has suffered from the want of foresight of her rulers. Montreal and Baltimore are at- tacking the commerce of New York on either flank and we already feel the consequences | of their business energy. Hew the Inflation Folly May Affect the Presidential Canvass. The signal triumph of the rag money fac- | tion in the Ohio Democratic Convention bodes no good to the democratic party. The inflationists have made up their minds to “earry the war into Africa,” and they will fight their battle at St. Louis with the same unflinching vigor which they exhibited at Cincinnati. If the Ohio democrats stood alone in their rag money fanaticism the case might be easily dealt with. But, unfortu- nately,¢hey do not stand alone. They are strongly supported by the party in otber States, as is proved by a@ fact of great notoriety. We allude to the action, or, more properly, the inac- tion of the democratic Representatives in Congress, The whole winter was spent in abortive eftorts to bring the party into har- mony on this important question. All these efforts were baffled by the stubbornness of the rag money representatives. Caucuses were held, adjourned, reassembled; they kept adjourning and. reassembling after fruitless deliberations, until the patience of both sides was worn out, and the subject was then abandoned. The inflationists were too set in their policy to be moved either by argument or persuasion ; they could not be brought to “listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he ever 80 wisely.” When it was found that no impression could be made on their in- vincible stiffness there was a tacit under- standing that the hard money and the rag money factions would agree “to differ,” in the hope that the Presidential canvass could be made to turn on the reform issue. The action of the Ohio Convention shows that this is‘impossible. The inflationists will force this question into prominence at St. Louis. They will stand their ground with the same unbending firmness which they exhibited throughout the winter in Washington, but, exchanging a passive for an aggressive attitude, they will fizht with the same boldness which they exhib- ited on Wednesday at Cincinnati. The rag money victory in Ohio cannot, be smoothed over by saying that it is only the action of a single State; that the Ohio demo- erats are eccentric and impracticable and out of accord with the party at large. Where shall we look for evidence of the sentiments of the party at large, if not to its chosen Representatives in Congress? What motive can the members have to misrepresent their constituents? They will soon go before them asking for re-election, and, if hard money were’popular in their districts, they would be only too glad to array them- selves on the strong side. It is because they know that their constituents are infected with the rag money heresy that they have been deaf to all remonstrance, and have stood out with unconquerable tenacity not merely against sound propositions, but against attempts at compromise. If they re- flect the views of the localities that elected them and from which they seek a re- election the democratic party of the country is pretty equally divided on this important and exciting question. ey The public is naturally curious as to che effect of the Ohio folly on the prospects of Presidential candidates. It is easier to esti- mate its tendency than to predict its actual effect. By enabling the republican party to appropriate all the political capital which is to be made out of the hard money question it favors, and almost neces- sitates, the nomination of a republican can- didate who has been conspicuously, right on this great issue. It would be preposterous to put Mr. Morton forward as a representa- tive of sound monetary ideas. Two years ago he was the foremost leader on theinfla- tion side. Mr. Blaine’s currency course is not so bad; he trimmed in the heated dis- cussion of 1874, and has tried to rectify his record by delivering a strong hard money speech in the present Congress. Of all the republican candidates Mr. Conkling stands best on this question. He vehemently opposed the Legal Tender act when it was passei in 1862, and from that day to this he has never wavered in his steady adherence to hard money views. Governor Hayes also stands very well on this question, owing to the accident of his having been the successful candidate for Gov- ernor in Ohio last year. But altogether the most vigorous and inflexible representative of hard money on the republican side is Sen- ator Conkling, and every event which brings this issue into the foreground is favorable to his chances for the republican nomination, On the democratic side the action of the Ohio democrats tends to produce a muddle, It has impaired and perhaps destroyed the chances of Senator Thurman, It is not favorable to the prospects of any democratic hard money candidate. It injures Governor Tilden, because it gives importance to a dif- ferent issue from the one on which his claims chiefly rest. Governor Tilden is too pronounced a hard money man to be ac- cepted as a compromise candidate. If the hard money democrats should secure the platform an attempt will be made to con- ciliate the West and prevent a bolt by i the candidate from that section. The inflationists, and the timid hard money men who fear a split in the party, are protty certain to control at least one-third of the Convention, and Governor ‘Tilden is one of the last candidates to whose nomination they will be disposed to consent. It requires a very sanguine faith on the part of his supporters to believe that the out-and-out hard money men will have a two-thirds majority at St. Louis. Tue Late Assempry, according to Mr. A. J. Campbell, was an eminently respectable body, that only needed an efficient head or leader to give it a high rank in the history ‘of these legislative bodies in the State of New York. Taking this expression of opinion as correct the inference is as clear as though Mr. Campbell had not stated it in very plain words that General Husted was not a success in the capacity of Speaker, and that the House was compelled to guide its presiding officer into the paths of legisla~ tive rectitude. Mr. Campbell further lays at the door of the ex-Speaker’s political ob- liquity the failure of many bills which pos- sessed merit, He considers that many of these could have been acted on during eulogizes some of his fellow members while | plain. He thinks Mr. Bristow would do casting the shadow of reproof on others, and further states that rapid transit was not de- feated by any machinations of the lobby— that béte noire of all good citizens who are not members of the third house. The opinions of Mr. Campbell, as published on another page of to-day’s Henan, will be read with ifiterest, and particularly so because he takes issue with General Husted on several important questions relating to local inter- ests. It is only after school hours that the hoys talk out. Go on, gentlemen—we are all attention. - Across the Continent. On the Ist of June the fastest railroad ex- cursion train on record will start from New York for San Franciseo. This is Jarrett & Palmer's special fast transcontinental train, which is expected to reach San Francisco in eighty hours, That is, the passengers will lunch in this city on Thursday morning and dine in San Francisco on Sunday. The dis- tance is three thousand three hundred and twenty-five miles, and the average rate of speed will be about forty miles an hour. Greater speed than this has been attained, especiafly on the English and Continental roads, but only for short distances and under favorable conditions. The Hzratp express trains to Saratoga and Niagara Falls last sum- mer made sixty and seventy miles an hour. But the greater the distance the greater the difficulty of maintaining this enormous velo- city. Thére are connections to be made, ar- rangements to be foreseen and interruptions to be guarded against. In this trip five rail- roads will be used—the Pennsylvania, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, the Chicago and Northwestern, the Union Pa- cific and the Central Pacific, The imagina- tion can hardly conceive this continnd™® rush, the locomotive tearing across the con- tinent, a cloud of smoke by day, a pillar of fire by night, with scarcely a single stop in its lightning career. Such an excursion as this would be im- possible in England. The story of the Western hunter who was afraid to walk out at night in that little island lest he should fall off the edge is made almost probable by the comparison. The immense breadth of our continent makes this journey wonder- ful, and even the dream of M. Jules Verne, in his novel of ‘Around the World in Eighty Days,” is eclipsed by this fact of “Across the Continent in Eighty Hours.” Those who have read that amusing tale will remember the journey of the hero from San Francisco to New York, how the train was attacked by Indians and how it leaped an immense chasm at full speed, alighting with its wheels squarely on the other side. This train will go twice as fast as the imagi- nation of Jules Verne, and if the rate of speed could be maintained, regard- less of the impediments of oceans and mountains and deserts, the whole world could be encircled in less than twenty-five days. Mr. Tooker, who accompanies the train, is dissatisfied, it is said, with even this rate of speed, and ex- pects to get out occasionally and walk. The correspondents of the London Times and the London Illustrated News have armed themselves with rifles and anticipate the delight of buffalo hunting on the Plains. Our own correspondent will ride on the cowcatcher, not, as might be supposed, for the purpose of gathering up the game his companions will slay, but in order to be, as usual, in advance of all contemporaries. We trust that the whole party will havea pleasant journey, and are quite sure that they will have no trouble in their efforts to kill time, Promised Reform in the Aldermen. Mr. John Kelly, who controls the nomina- tions made by the Tammany Hall democ- racy for public offices, is said to have recently expressed his desire to improve the charac- ter of the Board of Aldermen, or, in his own alleged words, ‘‘to nominate this year a better class of men than have hitherto been allowed to run for Aldermen.” As, through the division of the Aldermanic districts, Tammany has generally been able to elect a majority of the Board, Mr. Kelly's promise of reform would be very acceptable provided there was a fair prospect that it would be faithfully carried out. Tammany’s repre- sentatives in the Common Council have not, asarule, been persons who the taxpayers and property owners of the city would care to trust, and the scenes of blackguardism enacted at the Board esterday, in which two Tammany Aldermen allowed their natural instincts to gain the ascendancy over official decorum, show that Mr. Kell; is correct in regarding the present Boar. as ohe susceptible of improvement. But to make the Common Council more respect- able in character implies the refusal of John Kelly to renominate the Purroys and John Riellys of the Board. Can he afford to throw them over? The appointment of a Comp- troller and a Corporation Counsel, if made by Mayor Wickham at all, must be confirmed by the present Tammany Aldermen, and if amy number of them should be refused a renomination the rejected gentlemen would not be so tractable as they have hitherto been, and would be very likely to reject the Kelly-Wickham nominees. We do not put much faith, therefore, in the professed intention ofthe Tammany leader to get rid of such representatives as the brawlers who figured in the beer-garden exhibitions at the City Hall yesterday. The present model Tammany Aldermen will all demand a re- nomination and will all receive what they demand, Boatd of Tae Mutz Casz Once Monz.—We print this morning, not without reluctance, because we are very weary of the scandal against public men, the story of cer- tain rumors said to be current in Wash- ington concerning the notorious mule case in which Secretary Bristow was once counsel, We print the tale, not as believing it, but be- cause in these times rumors and scandals against the characters of public men can do injury only while they are whispered about, and are apt to disappearas soon as their pub- lication enables those they concern to meet and expose them. This correspondent who sends us this communication, though a democrat, does not, apparently, himself be- the closing hours of the Legislature if the | lieve that Mr. Bristow had any share in the Speaker had so willed it, Mr, Campbell | mule case which he cannot honorably ex- well to explain at once, and in this we sup- pose all hia friends will agree. In this view we do Mr. Bristow a favor in making public what, so long as it is the subject of private scandal, he has not the opportunity to meet. The British Crews to Meet Our Ama- teurs, but Not Our Students. Of the three univerfMties invited to send crews to row at the Centennial, Dublin is al-- ready working with might and main, while, as will be seen from the interview with a Cambridge graduate in another column, the crew of Trinity College, Cambridge, which is to come is next to the “Head of the River,” and may, should it win at Henley next month, prove a representative team after all. Oxford, too, should she do well there, may pluck up heart, and so, practically, all three institutions would be well represented on the Schuylkill. While this much is gained it is still to be noted that no arrangement has yet been made to bring them and our students together, and unless this is done and quickly they will come and go away without our college men having met them at all. It remains with the latter to avert this unfortunate result by at once inviting such student crews as do come to meet them in a friendly contest on Saratoga Lake and to be their guests through most, if not all, of their stay in this country. They will arrive early in July and so in time to witness the Univer- sity race on the 19th. Let fours from the three leading crews in that race meet them on the same track at as early a day thereafter as will best suit the visitors, Then on our national racing course will be settled the long mooted question which country can produce the better student oarsmen, and for acentury to come our college boys will strive each year to bring their time inside that made in this maiden visit of these dis- tinguished oarsmen. Let no stain, then, be unjustly cast on Young American hospitality or pluck. The Rapid Transit Controvetsy in the Courts. The application of the Ninth Avenue Horse Car Company for an injunction against the Elevated Railway compelling it to stop its work of construction and to take down and remove its tracks, was before Judge Daly yesterday, but the final hearing is ad- journed to next Monday. As this case is of great interest to the people of the city it may not be amiss to give a succinct state- ment of the legal points, The suit by the Ninth Avenue Horse Car Company is a consequence of the successful application of the owner of the Pacific Hotel fora perpetual injunction restraining the Elevated Railway from constructing a turn- out near his property. The foundations of the pillars interfered with his vaults under the street. It has been judicially decided that the ownership of real estate in this city extends to the middle of the adjoining street, except so far as the land is needed for street purposes, including water and gaa pipes. Chief Justice Daly decided that this right of the owner of the Pacific Hotel cannot be interfered with except by legislative au- thorization to take private. property for a public use, with just compensation to the owner. But Judge Daly, in the very able opinion he delivered, did not stop here. He examined the acts of the Legislature on which the Elevated Railway has been con structed, and showed that they are uncon- stitutional and void. The act of 1868 is un- constitutional because it violates that pro- vision of the constitution which declares that every local act shall include but one subject, and that subject shall be expressed in its title, The act of 1875 is also unconstitutional, because it violates that provision of the constitution which for- bids the re-enactment of any former law by mere reference without inserting it in fall. The consequence is that the Elevated Rail- way never had ashred of valid legal au- thority to build and run its road. The in- junction, however, granted by Judge Daly, and made perpetual, merely restrained the company from constructing a turnout which interfered with the property of the Pacific Hotel. It was on the strength of Chief Justice Daly's decision in the Pacific Hotel case that the Ninth Avenue Horse Car Company has commenced proceedings for compelling the Elevated Railway to take down and remove its road. We suppose sucha suit oan be maintained only by a in interest whose rights are infringed and who com- plains of a substantial injury. The mere fact of competition does not tum nish such a ground, and the grievance complained of by the horse car company is that theig horses are frightened by the Elevated Railway. This seems slender enough, but the judicial decision that the Elevated Railway Company never had a particle of legal authority to build theif road encouraged its adversary to strain a point to dispossess it. It is to be hoped that the Court will decide that the horse car com. pany is not sufficiently a party in interest, or has not suffered a sufficient injury to give it a standing in court in prosecuting such ¢ suit, Be this as it may, we presume thai legal ingenuity will be able to protract th« case by dilatory proceedings until a new Legislature can validate the franchise of the Elevated Railway. There is no doubt that the Legislature intended to give the road the rights it has attempted to exercise, nor that the company has proceeded in good faith. The present complication is the result of oversight on the part of the Legislature in carrying out its intention, and the next Legislature will be bound, in fair ness and justice, to rectify the blunders and - oversights of its predecessors. The Soft Money “Aunt Sally.” After the victory of the ragamuffins in the Ohio Democratic Convention every friend of the national I. O. U.’s will regret that the Indianapolis Greenback Convention went to the trouble of nominating a Presidential candidate. Woe grieved all day when we learned that our venerable and philanthropio fellow-citizen, Peter Cooper, had had the position of “Aunt Sally” to the hard money men tendered him. Barely to think of his aged form set up as a Yarget for the irreverent platform spont- ers in behalf of financial sanity to pelt their Rhetorical sticks at, moved us to extreme RA ae a ed ei BE a