The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1876, Page 6

i } 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. ns All business, news letiers er telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nzw York Henraxp. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 2 ko AES 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. AMUSEMENTS “THIS AFTERNOON AND RVENING. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ORCHESTRA, QUARTET AND CHORUS, at 8 P. M. GILMORE’S GARDEN. GRAND CONCERT, at 8 P, M. Offenbach, ‘3 THEATRE. + SP. M. Matinee at 2 P. M. WALLAC HOW SHE LOVES HIM, Lester Wallack. TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE. VARIETY, a 8 P. M. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. CONSCIENCE, at 8,P. M. 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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1876, = —- = we From our reports this morning the probabilities sre that the weather to-day will be warmer, clear or partly cloudy. Notice to Country Newsprarers.—For pt and reqular delivery of the Henan hr mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage jree. Watt Srreer Yesterpax.—Prices at the elose showed an advancing tendency. The leaders of the market were Lake Shore and Western Dnion. Gold opened at 112 3-4and closed at 112 5-8. Money was supplied at 21-2 and 3 percent. Government, railway and investment securities were not materi- ally changed. Tre Enourse Hovsz or Commons has passed the Merchant Shipping bill, and Plimsoll, the hero of the measure, is no doubt happy at last. Tue Recerver of the Third Avenue Say- ings Bank is to pay a dividend of fifteen per cent to the swindled depositors on Wednes- day next. There has been a mysterious delay in the prosecution of the criminal guits initiated against the trustees, which may one day need explanation. Tue Sxootrxc at Creedmoor yesterday was tolerably good, but the interest centres in the contest for the Leech Cup, which will take place to-day. The distances for the match are eight hundred, nine hundred and one thousand yards, and a number of our best marksmen are expected to compete for the prize. Tux Suv-Commrrrze of the Congressional Committee on the Department of Justice, of swhich Mr. Meade is chairman, continued its investigations yesterday at the Astor House into the Davenport and other cases. Tho object of the inquiry in this city is to get at the tenth in regard to John I. Davenport's bills, which they allege they were unable to extract from the witness at Washington. Tux Surreme Count has granted the mo- tion for a mandamus to compel the Judges of the Marine Court to assign to duty Mr. James P. Sinnott, who claims to have been appointed a Judge of that Court by Gov- ernor Tilden. The decision of the Court confirms the right of the Governor to ap- point without the Senate, and declares that the assignment of judges to their duties is a ministerial and not a judicial act. Tae Workmen or Pants are disposed to be independent. Forty-four of their socie- ties have decided to reject the proposition of the government to bear the expenses of the visit of the workmen's delegation to the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition on con- dition that it be allowed to select the dele- gates. They prefer to pay their own ex- penses and select their own representatives, and they will not be the less welcome here on that account. Me. Tax Comnmsstoxrr Wneeuzr, who has for some time made professions of re- form, yesterday united with his Tammany colleagues in the Board of Apportionment to vote an extravagantly increased appropria- tion to the Tammany Excise Board, in oppo- sition to the protests and arguments of Comptroller Green. The first movement of the Comptroller in favor of o reduction of | the enormous expenses of the city govern- ment for 1877 has thus been defeated. Tue Meetrxc of the liquor dealers to against the recent sudden enforce- ment of the Sunday Liquor law, which is to | | being known as a powerful worker in the | ‘be held at the Cooper Institute to-night, promises to be largely attended. As the Police Commissioners have become alarmed at the unpopularity of their action and have | f& disposition to lay the biame on pari te feat Walling and to take the back track the disgraceful scenes of last Sunday are not likely to be re-enacted, VOLUME XLI NO. M7 | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY | ne Arithmetic of the Political situ- | the same ticket with Conkling, if he is will- ation. , Our republican contemporary, the Times, printed yesterday a carefully prepared table which purported to give the number of votes, that will be given to each candidate at Cin- cinnati, so far as the delegates have yet been chosen and their preferences are known. Another republican contemporary, the Com- mercial Advertiser, complains that this table is unfair to Senator Conkling. ‘‘In estimat- ing the relative strength of the candidates | for the Presidency at Cincinnati,” says the | seven votes out of his own State. The Times j"knows that he will have more than forty votes on the first ballot from other States than New York.” The Commercial does not, however, point out the States from which cover some errors in the Times’ table we think the false impression it is cal- | culated to make does not so much lie in particular inaccuracies asin the mislead- ing effect of unexplained figures grouped with little regard to their real meaning. Even if we were to accept the table in the Times as accurate it would only be necessary to analyze it in the light of well known facts to make its deceptive character apparent. We insert the summary appended to the table as the basis of our remarks:— Blaino.. Total. The mate on the mind of a careless reader would be that Blaine is the strongest of all the can- didates, and that Conkling is weaker than Morton, weaker than Bristow, and superior only to Hartranft. That such an impression would be false is known to every person who has kept a close watch of the canvass. Nobody can dispute that Mr. Conk- ling has a large revérsionary interest in the delegations of several States which will give complimentary votes to other candidates on the first ballot, but Mr. Blaine has no such reversionary interest in the delegates from any State. All the support Blaine gets will be given him at | the outset, Even by the Times’ count he | has only two hundred and fifty-seven, | whereas three hundred and seventy-seven are necessary to a choice. He, therefore, lacks one hundred and twenty votes, and the most sanguine of his supporters cannot point out the sources whence they are to come, Most certainly not from the three States whose delegates are yet to be chosen, for, if he should get them all, Mr. Blaine would fall very far short of a majority. These three States are Florida, Iowa and Louisiana, hav- ing together but forty-six delegates. Of these neither Louisiana nor Florida is likely to elect Blaine delegates, and even if he should get all those from Iowa he would still lack ninety-eight of a majority. He is already very nearly at the maximum of his strength, and of the delegates expected to vote for him on the first ballot very few are pledged or instructed, the greater portion of them being quite untrammelled and free to support other candidates at any stage ofthe delegates short of a majority when he enters the Convention, and the highest vote he will receive will be on the first ballot. There is another point in the Times’ fig- ures—miade as favorable to Blaine as the facts will at all warrant—to which we wish to call attention. They show that Mr. Blaine is not strong even in the New Eng- land States. Outside of his own State of Maine New England sends sixty-four dele- gates, and of these sixty-four there are forty- two, or about two-thirds, that will not vote for Blaine. In Connecticut he has not a single delegate, ten of the Connecticut dele- gates being for Jewell and two for Bristow. He has only nine of the twenty-six from Massachusetts, only one of the eight from Rhode Island, only three of the ten from Vermont and only seven from New Hamp- shire, A candidate who is so weak in his own section, where he is ‘best known, and who is repudiated by Pennsylvania, the State of his birth, is not likely to gain strength during the progress of the Conven- tion. With two-thirds of the New England delegates outside of Maine opposed to him his Western strength is pretty certain to de- cline after the first complimentary ballot. Turning to Mr. Conkling, whose pros- pects the Times seeks to belittle, it is not dif- ficult to see from what quarters his support is to come after the obligations of mere compliment shall have been discharged in the early ballotings. It has been conceded from the beginning that Governor Hartranft will be withdrawn, and that he will not receive a single vote in addition to those of Penn- | sylvania. Nobody even affects to doubt that the Pennsylvania delegation will support Conkling when Hartranft is withdrawn. With the votes of New York and Pennsyl- vania Mr. Conkling only needs those of Ohio to secure his nomination if he should get two hundred and five of the Southern votes, and it seems probable that he will receive a much larger number when the friends of Senator Morton shall admit that he cannot be nominated. It is safe to assume that Morton will not be the successful candidate, and as soon as he is out of the ficld the administration influence will wheel the Southern delega- tion into line in support of Conkling. So if Governor Hayes will accept the nom- | ination for Vice President there is a straight and easy path toa Conkling triumph in the Convention. That Governor Hayes would | be willing to take the second place on the | same ticket with Senator Conkling may be | inferred from the strong language of com- | pliment in which he spoke of him in the | interview printed in the Heratp of Thurs- day. “Conkling,” said Governor Hayes, “has certainly a better chance than Tilden in their respective parties. Conkling stands | straight and square on the platform of his party, and has always stood there, besides unblemished character.” high in the organization and is greatly re- | spected in Ohio.” There is no other Presi- | dential candidate of whom Governor Hayes | spoke with such warm and unqualified | ' praise, He can have no objection to be put on these votes are to come. Although we dis- | proceedings. Blaine will be a hundred | organization, a man of high attainments and | “Conkling stands | | ing to take the Vice Presidency at all, and it is so high and “honorable an office that he will notdecline it. With this understand- ing the Ohio delegates will be transferred to Conkling, and Conkling and Hayes will make the strongest possible ticket, because it will insure, success in the two great Pivotal States of Ohioand New York, on which the election will mainly tarn, Blaine | Would be weak in New York, would add Comercial, “it gives Mr. Conkling bnt | nothing to the party strengtli in Ohio and has not the slightest chance of getting the Morton or even the Bristow delegates when these candidates are taken ont of the race. The foregone certainty that he could not rescue New York from the democrats is of | itself a fatal bar to his nomination ; for with- 7 | a two-thirds majority. out the vote of New York it is impossible to elect a republican President. We stand by our judgment that “Conkling and Hayes | against the deck” is the best expression of the probabilities of the republican canvass. The democratic horoscope does not point | to so cleara result. Governor Tilden will lead on the first ballot at St. Louis, as Mr. Blaine will on the first at Cincinnati, but he will be even further behind the requisite majority than Mr. Blaine will be. Only a bare majority is needed at Cinginnati, but at | St. Louis the successful candidate must have two-thirds. Governor Tilden is not likely to receive even a majority, much less We do not doubt that he,would make an able and upright President, nor that his administration, if he could be elected, would be distinguished by remarkable vigor and efficiency. We do not doubt that so conspicuous a representative of reform would be supported with en- thusiasm and receive a large popular vote. But there are, nevertheless, insurmountable obstacles to his nomination. A powerful and determined democratic faction, in his own State has resolved to defeat him at any cost, and, what is more important, the Western wing of the party would bolt and destroy all chances of success if Mr. Tilden should be nominated. A man, must be politically blind or in a state of lunacy who does not see that these adverse elements will be strong enough to control at least one-third of the. St. Louis Convention. Governor Tilden cannot annihilate these facts by shut- ting his eyes. “Irue patriotism, magnanim- ity and party loyalty require him to take note of the situation, withdraw his claims and turn his influence in favor of a candi- date who would save all that is valuable in his own principles. Senator Bayard would make as honest and incorruptible a Presi- dent as Governor Tilden ; he is as faithful an advocate of sound monetary doctrines ; he has a large experience in national affairs, while Mr. Tilden-has none; he has excited no personal enmities in any part of the country ; and he would be enthusiastically supported by the reunited democracy of New York and of every section of the Union. Let Governor Tilden rise toa noble and gener- ous act of self-abnegation and strengthen his party by laying his personal aspirations on the altar. The Fatal Collision at Sea. It is difficult to account for the fact that the most experienced seamen become in ime totally indifferent to dangers that strike an intelligent landsman as being the most likely to overtake a ship when ap- proaching a frequented coast. We have known of large steamers being dragged on the rocks by oceanic and littoral cur- rents that have been carefully traced on charts for the purpose of marking their dangerous influence on navigation, and yet, when approaching these treacherous locali- ties, the utmost indifference is displayed by captains. Narrow channels that lead to im- portant ports are entered at full speed, while with good luck for pilot the ship master takes all the risks that come in the way without making a solitary provision against disasters that threaten on’ every side. So with nearly every other movement and mancuvre known to navi- gation, a recklessness, which is the direct outgrowth of familiarity with danger, in- creases that danger tenfold and too often re- sults in a catastrophe like that described in to-day’s Heraxp, by which the British brig S. N. Collymore was sent to the bottom and four lives were sacrificed. The collision took place at night, during a dense fog, in the vicinity of South Shoals, off Nantucket, and in the track of vessels bound coast- wise. The National Eagle. was bound south, for Rio, and the 8S. N. Collymore north, for Nova Scotia; and although both captains were familiar with the dangers of the vicinity they kept right on and drove through the densa fog until the National Eagle drove the 8. N. Collymore to the bot- tom. There was no shortening sail; no sounding of the fog horn on either ship; no precaution whatever ; so that the probabili- ties of a collision were rendered as nearly equal to the chances of escaping one as the masters of both vessels could make them. It appears that the captain of the Na tional Eagle made a creditable effort to rescue the victims of the disaster; but will any one commend the hus- band for abandoning his wife on the wreck without making the slightest effort to save her? It wasa case of ‘‘sauve qui peut” with the captain of the Collymore and his men, in which # helpless woman, a sieeping man, young sailor and a boy were left to their fate. A better system of night and day fog signals is much needed for safe naviga- tion along the New England coast, bat none will prove so great a protection to vessels as the recognition by captains of the \ rules which should govern the most as well ag the least experienced seaman in approachibg a frequented channel, Mr. Rosent Rurenry, of Jersey City, wi recently left the painting business to try hi fortune as a diamond merchant, evident): mistook his calling. His first stock in tradi consisted of a pair of cluster earrings, a pai of solitaire earrings and a diamond breast. pin. He took the solitaires and th stones in the breastpin out of their setting and disposed of them at the moder. ate sums of ten and twelve dollars each and the clusters he sold for one dollar and a half. The police of this city took charge of him and sent him back to Jersey in order that he might be taught a trade at which he can realize better profits, acne Geman wee eens se oll | tortions, mismanagement and selfishness. | | | ie 5 ; The Centennial. | The fair weather has made the Centennial | more attractiveand profitable for the past few days than at any time since the open- ing. It'is to be regretted that the adversity which fell upon this splendid enterprise at the outset did not teach the managers the wisdom that must come with experience. What the Centennial Expositiom needs is liberal management—an adaptation of means to results—bringing the fair in its largest sense home to the people, Nothing is more painful than to hear out of this centennial’ enthusiasm discordant voices about ex- There has scarcely been a day since the opening when we have not had these voices from Philadelphia—voices of reproach and | entreaty, When the journals of that city | complain of the comments of the Hzraup | and the other journals and throw out impu- tations of insincerity as to their support of | the Centennial, they forget that we could do | the Exhibition no greater harm than to print what we read every day in the Philadelphia | papers, We feel that the greatest embarrass- ment under which the Exhibition labors is the fact that as a national and international show it has been imposed upon other than | @ metropolitan city. The true place for the Centennial was New York. New York could have taken the Exhibition without feeling it. As it is our Philadelphia friends have gone into sublime speculations as to the effect ‘the Centennial will have upon the greatness of the city, forgetting that so much remains to be done before it is a success, How can we expect. statesmen who are deep in calculations as to the influence of the Centennial in restoring to Philadelphia the supremacy she enjoyed in the beginning of the century to bring their minds down to the question ot lodgings, and transit, and beer, and opening on Sunday. And yet the suc- cess of the Centennial will depend more upon the manner in which these humbler matters will be handled than upon any abstruse calculations as to the balance and movement of trade, : What the Centennial needs is a head. Since we have recognized the propriety of holding it in Philadelphia we should all do our part to make ita success. Nothing will contribute to this result more than severe criticism, We regret so many occasions for criticism. Philadelphia will learn that her Centennial fever, like fevers generally, has had its illusions. The Exhibition will not make the American commercial and political world stand still. The city will not be show- ered with wealth. The stagnation of trade will not be arrested. There will be no over- whelming additions to the city’s resources. All the country and all the nations of the civilized world will not hurry to pour their money into the broad-brimmed hats of our Philadelphia friends. The city will not gain a new life. In fact, we shall be surprised if this period of business stimulus and artificial success will not give way toa season of depression. , Philadelphia has exerted herself beyond her strength to help the Centennial, and it would grieve but not surprise us to find a season of mis- fortune and severity as the result of this artificial straining. Tlse facts are intelligible and not embarrassing. There is a stupen- dous show in Philadelphia, greater than was ever dreamed of by the people, greater than her capacity to handle it. This, at least, is what persons outside of Philadelphia who read the reports from that city believe. Now let the people, and, above all, the managers of the Cen- tennial, resolve to disappoint the country in this as they did in the success which at- tended their efforts to found the Exhibition, To do this we must have cheap and rapid transit from the grounds to the city, We must have no more extortions from hotel keepers and restaurant people. We must have the grounds open on Sunday. We must have a higher spirit in the management than money-getting and political preferment. ‘We must have the visit to Philadelphia made a comfort and not a burden. Above all things do not let what Congress, the people and the country intended to be a Centennial Exposition of national wealth and achieve- ment degenerate into a Centennial Exposi- tion of national meanness and incapacity, The Theosophic F: “How soon we are forgotten when we are gone” is the simple and trne remark of poor Rip Van Winkle after he was awakened from his sleep of twenty years in the Kaatskill Mountains. What shall be done with the ‘body of man after its life has left it has always been a problem. The East Indians deliver it to be devoured by birds ; the West Indians, in our own country, place it on trees, exposed to the slow decay of the atmos- pherio effects, while the Christian, who is told that the body and the spirit shall be raised at once, antagonizes annihilation and demands that the mortal shall, in the lan- guage of the New Testament, put on immor- tality." Yet true religion would seem to tell the world that what happens to the mere mortal frame is of little worth. The Theo- sophical funeral is no better than any other funeral, unless it conforms more than other methods to sanitary laws. It will be a very interesting and instructive ceremony, but its importance may be exaggerated. It is not the dead that we should care for so much as for the living, and one act of kindness is worth a dozen sentiments of regret. We recom- mend the Theosophical Society to study these truths. It is not how a dead man is interred in a grave or inurned nor by what ancestral ceremonics he, is honored that is so essential to the world as what is done to the living, the poor, the criminal and the wretched. Generosity alone truly proves the worth and humanity of our pub. li¢ corporations. All after death is a mys- tery, but,life is all we know. Tue Goverxon has commuted the sen- tence of Fuchs, the Brooklyn butcher mur- derer, to imprisonment for life. The com- mutation was granted on the statement of the Judge and the prosecuting attorney that the murder was not premeditated, but was circumstances. In other words, thestate- ment of Fuchs as to the situation in which he discovered his wife and the mur- dered man was true. But if this be really tho case what justice is there in imprison- Fuchs at all? Either ho is a brutal mur- committed suddenly and under aggravating | 27, 1876,--TRIPLE SHEET. | derer who ought to be pat out of the world | like a wild beast, or he has committed no crime that deserves perpetual imprison- ment. The Executions Yesterday. The two executions yesterday presented a singular contrast. The man Piper—if we may dignify the brute so far as to give him credit for any manhood at all, when he was almost destitute of any real human trait— went to the seaffold like a beaten hound, The applause of the people outside of the prison when they heard the beast was dead simply expressed the universal feeling of indignation at his crimes. Under the garb of religion and in the shadow of the holy cross Piper perpetrated crimes of the utmost cruelty. He was probably irre- sponsible, but that is no reason why he should not have been put out of existence. The wolf and the rattlesnake are irresponsi- ble, but we naturally shoot the one and tread upon the head of the other. , Frost went to the scaffold bravely, and though the manner of his execution was ter- rible it was not disgusting. Even if hedid not repent he did not exhibit physical terror, and there is some respect to be paid even to a murderer if he dies what is called “game.” Physical courage is always respected by mankind, and the moral courage which strengthens a convicted man to go deliber- ately to the hangman’s noose must com- mand asympathy with the man, notwith- standing the fact that it is attended by horror of his crime. Frost was so far superior to the brutal Piper that, though both were murderers, the one seems almost innocent in comparison with the guilt of the other. The question of capital punishment is one of profound importance. It has been much confused by the sentimentalists. They pity every murderer, yet they do not care for his victim. They ask for mercy, yet are unable to declare a true system of justice. It is very likely, we are willing to admit, that the hanging of Piper and of Frost will not deter other men from com- mitting murders, for no murderer ex- pects to be detected, and many have not yet been discovered, and yet the teeble- ness of the influence of the death penalty upon the morality of the public and upon social safety must not be permitted to inter- fere with justice. The story is told of Dr. Johnson that he proposed to marry Mrs, Thrale, when that celebrated lady replied, “It would disgrace you, for I have had an uncle who was hanged at the Old Bailey.” “That makes no difference,” said the Doctor, with his usual good sense and candor, “for Ihave had a dozen relations who ought to have been hanged, but, much to the general regret, were not,” We are inclined to be- lieve that hanging does not prevent crime, “but it at least extinguishes criminals. “Give every man his deserts,” said Hamlet, ‘‘and who shall es- cape whipping?” There are many men in the world who oughtto be hanged, but won’t be, and the chief objection to the scaffold is this, that it settles no general principle of right or wrong, but simply deals with ex- ceptional and extreme cases of crime. OmMeial Inhumanity in “Jersey City. “Man's inhumanity to man” has from the very beginning of his tenancy of earth caused untold misery and affliction. It would seem as if the sight ofa suffering fellow crea- ture can steel the hearts of men and women who have been known to lavish the utmost affection on favorite brutes, and many a starving child has been turned from tho street door with harsh words of refusal and reprimand while the obese poodle was eyeing with satiated disdain the daintiest food that could be provided to tempt its ap- petite. We fear that the tale of horror and misery, of human suffering and inhumanity that reaches us from a neighboring city, will set many thinking on the wide difference that exists between the theory and practice of charity. Mrs. Ratigan,’of Jersey City, who was driven from her home by fire on Friday last, had a child sick with the smallpox, and fled from the burning building into the street with the little sufferer in her arms. Seeking a temporary shelter from door to door she was met by a refusal in every instance, and was at last compelled to’ lay her sick child in an old wagon that stood in the open street, and, wrapping it in a thread- bare quilt—all the covering she could pro- cure—she clasped the poor little creature in her arms and there passed the long, dreary nights This was in Jersey City, only ten minutes’ journey from the City Hall of New York. It did not happen in Dakota or in Arkansas, but here at our very door’. The selfishness of fear filled the souls of the neighbors, and there was no room in their hearts for charity. All this we can understand; it is human and presents the contrasting feature to the theoretical virtue which we have referred to; but what excuse does the Health Board of Jersey City offer for its conduct in thi8 monstrous affair? This organization for the relief of the sick poor that costs Hudson county over twenty thousand dollars per annum— this bureau that has been specially established for dealing with emergen- cies created by epidemics, and for which a smallpox hospital has been built and two ambulances provided— where were the officials of this model insti- tution while the mother sat shivering in the open street, as she strove to shelter her dying child with her bare and trembling arms? Shame, eternal shame rests on the shoulders of these well paid sinecurists of the Jersey City Health Board, who, in their lazy indif- ference to their duties, permitted a scene to be enacted in the streets of their city which could not be witnessed among the ragged tents of a starving band of Sioux Indians, Tne Emma Mrxr.—A notice has been given in the English Parliament of an in- quiry to be addressed to the Premier on the subject of the Emma mine on Monday next. Mr. Disraeli is to be asked whether, in view of the disclosures made before the Wash- ington investigating committee, the law officers of the Crown are to be con- sulted as to the propriety of instituting criminal proceedings against the persons implicated in the alleged frauds. These sharp speculations are looked upon as swindling in England, and are likely to bring down punishment on the parties engaged in them, The Sultan's Troubles. The Berlin note to the Sultan is very Positive in “its tone, if its contents are cor- rectly reported in the cable despatches from Paris to-day. The Sultan is accused of having, by his failure to promptly fulfil the engagements he contracted in accepting the terms of Count Andrassy’s note, encouraged Mussulman fanaticism and caused the deplorable calamity at Salonica, The Powers have therefore agreed upon six points, and signify that they must be accepted by the Sultan before the expiration of the armistice or such measures will be adopted as may appear requisite, These points demand of the Sultan a two months’ armistice to afford time for a final settlement of the Herzegovinan troubles, the restoration of the Christians’ houses and churches, the supply of the owners with food for one year, the exemption of the refugees from taxation for three years after their return, the withdrawal of Turkish troops except from six fortified towns, the disarming of the Moslems before the Herzegovinese, and other severe conditions to enforce the faithful carrying out of those named.: The terms will be regarded as se- vere, but they could scarcely be more mod- erate. The Sultan is in a bad way. To refuse the demand of the Powers will destroy him; to yield to them will probably cause his sacrifice at’the hands of his own people. The Irish U: versity Crew Preparing for the Centennial. Whatever may be thought of the course of Oxford and Cambridge in replying to the recent handsome invitations to row our students on Saratoga Lake—and it may e well. to suspend judgment thereon ntil the quality of the proposed Trinity four is learned—our despatches show that there can be no doubt about the spirit and energy of game little Dublin University. She now proposes to send overa six-oared crew instead of a four, as had been all along expected. Her men hope to reach our shores late’ in July, and “generous friends have at the last moment of- fered to pay all expenses.” This evidently means d@ race, and courage like this will find a most generous appreciation throughout our land. But as there has been no challenge to a six-oared contest, and the Centennial Committee have wisely deferred to the very general custom in both this country and Europe and made fours the standard craft for club racing, entirely excluding sixes, there is doubtless some mis- apprehension on the part of the coming rowers, It is hoped that this will be promptly remedied, as the time is fast slip- ping by, and all preliminaries should be adjusted as soon as possible. We predict a most hearty reception for the coming crew and a visit that will be long remem- bered for the good time and treatment here enjoyed. Paris Cabs.. j The rates and regulations of cabs and hackney carriages in Paris, which we publish to-day, will afford our citizens a further in- sight into the abuses to which we are sub- jected in New York. It will be seen that the rates of fare are even less than in Lon- don, and from the number of vehicles and ‘horses employed in the business it is evident that it is a profitable one to fol- low. The cab hired in the street or ata railroad station costs thirty-four cents only for the ‘‘course," or forty-five cents by the hour, with a liberal allowance for baggage and a trifling charge for extra trunks. The General Voiture Company possessed last year over five thousand vehicles, éver ning thousand horses, and employed up wards of five thousand workmen. If a passenger desires to make a little more show than a street cab enables him to do he hires a visiting carriage and appears on the boulevards and avenues in a handsome coupé, with a liveried coachman, from one o'clock in the day until five in the evening, for the small charge of three dollars. For the added luxury of a liveried footman in addi- ticn he pays only a single dollar more—little enough fora full grown man in gold laceand buttons. A coupé or victoria tothe theatre and return costs only one dollar and sixty cents, and other entertainments, such as balls, soirées, weddings and funerals, can be attended at a proportionate expense. We even have satin lined carriages for ladies’ use at only a small extra charge. When will some sympathizing individual give us such luxuries in public conveyances in New York? The Gainsborough Robbery. What folly it was to cut from its frame the famous. portrait of the Duchess. of Devon- shire, by Gainsborough! Such a theft as this is futile, for the thief can derive no bene- fit from his offence. If s man steals a bond ora dollar he may sell it in the open market, but a celebrated work of art is not disposed of so easily. The value of this picture depends upon the fame and | the name of the artist, and unless the name | is revealed in the sale wherein is the thief te profit? A reward of five thousand dol- | lars has been offered for the arrest and conviction of the wretched of fender who stole the portrait of the Duchess, but he has probably already dis. covered his mistake, He has stolen what is not marketable, and might destroy the picture to escape detection. Gainsborough was a celebrated contemporary of Sir Joshua Reynolds, although he never equalled that’ great master of the Inst century. His most remarkable picture - ig the famous “Blue Boy,” in’ which he attompted to produce o warm effect, while using what artists describe as cold colors, and succeeded superbly in his effort, The robbery will remind the public of the cutting ont of partof o Murillo in Spain recently, and the plan to sell it in this coun- try, which was soon detected. | Within a few days nearly four million dol lars’ worth of dry goods have been sold in this eity at public sale, and at prices which, while they satisfy dealers, present to manu. © facturers the conditions of the market they are called upon to supply. This may not be exactly a revival of trade; in fact, the event is still too recent for an opinion to be safely given of its probable effect upon trade gen: erally, but it looks encouragingly like an issue ‘from the deadlock that existed. Un- certainty in trade, the inability to make