The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1877, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, WEEKLY HERALD.—One dollar per year, tree of post- MROTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,—In order to insure atten- ton subscribers wishing thetr address chunged must give their old as weil ir new All business. be uddrevsed New Youx Hxkatn, Letters and puckuges should be property sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTI LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK NERALD— dO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, NAPLES OFFIOF—NO. 7 STRATA PACE. is Fubsert and adv wilt iy received and 01 BAGLE THEATRE—Rot THEATRE FRANCA: GILMORH)S GARDE WALLACK’S THEATRE—Faiss Suamn, BOOTHS THEATRE —iir Vas Wixkux, cue Tom's CABIN. @HICKERING HALL. FATIONS; IMPRRSONATIONS. BOWERY THEATRE—Mutawona, FIFTH AVENUE THE. 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Money on call was easier at 5 a 6 per cent. Tur AnyvaL Perrormance of the shooting stars is billed by the astronomers for to-night. masters are on exhibition at tho muscum on Fourteenth street. ARRANGEMENTS are makjng for tho speedy trial of Police Justice Duffy. All the judges of the Caurt of Common Pleas comprise, under the statute, the Court of Impeachment. "ARTMENT, for some reason or another, is beginning to show a little more vigor in the enforcement of the law. It ob- tained several convictions yesterday. ~ Jamaica and other towns of Long Island have resolved to make the tramps and ‘able-bodied paupers work for their living. .They will give Long Island a wide berth this winter. Jupce McApam, of the Marine Court, holds that composition in bankruptcy does not wipe out a debt incurred by fraud—a point upon which there has been some difference of legal opinion. Vicorovs Ovrenatioss have been resumed against the liquor dealers by the temperance people. The war is to be waged this time, not only upon the small and disreputable establish- ments, but upon the large aud fashionable hotels, Iv Seems that the Illinois delegation in Con- gress w allowed to select the Minister to Ger- many and that Colonel Ingersoll was their unanimous choice. The Ilinois men, unlike those of Pennsylvania, probably took the precau- tion to find out the predisposition of the admin- istration in the matte As Exrraonpinary Sc of the Jersey courts yester ‘The Grand Jury, which was evidently reluctant to indict. the pool- sellers, was brought into court, and, under the threat of being locked up until they discharged their duty, presented twelve indictments against the persons they had attempted to screen. 2 took place in one A Feature of downtown business life, the existence eyen of which is unknown to the great majority of city people, is elsewhere de- scribed. We mean the system adopted by the banks, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Henatp composing department and other large establishments for providing the em- ployés with dinner and Junch during business hours. In thirty-three of the fifty-eight banks that form the Clearing House Association din- ner is eve y given to their clerks, and in the Western Union building a large restaurant plan possesses business is conducted. The many cdvant Tun Werati sult of a surprisingly rapid change in the condi- tions from those that prevailed up to midnight. At that time the barometer on the Middle lantic coust was steadily rising, with a gradually falling temperature, a northerly wind aud sixty- two per cent of humidity in the atmos- phere. The pressure fell toward the cast nnd light rains prevailed at the head of the St. Lawrence Valley and fell at a few pomts on the coust. Toward morning, however, the wave of low temperature descended rapidly from the north, the winds on the coast of New England shifted to northeasterly, a rapid condensation | of atmospheric moisture took place and a steady rain commenced to fall which continued throughout the day. The wind change on the coast was caused by a rapid advance of the isobars of high pressure eastward and north- ward of the Middle States. As the surface winds always follow tho direction of these lines the lower air currents flowed from the’ direction of Nova Scotia toward New York and followed the coast line southwestward to Florida, Thus the wind brought moisture from the ocean, which was condensed into rain by the low temperature on the land. At present the pressure is very high over the Mississippi Valley and the lower lake re- gion and Canada. A continuance of cold northerly winds will therefore be experienced until this area of high pressure passes eastward of our meridian, when ‘southerly winds will bring o higher temperature. ‘The pressure is falling steadily in the Northwest. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day wil! be cold and cloudy, followed by decreasing cloudiness aud lightly higher temperature, t NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Ul, 1877.—QUINT Russia and Turkey Lord Beaconsfield had a somewhat deli- cate duty to perform in the speech at the Lord Mayor's dinner, and acquitted himself with tolerable success. His position, mor- ally, demanded that he should make the most of the Turkish successes, yet that he should not stroke the Russian bear the wrong way. He had to crow plainly and unmistakably over the energy shown in the Ottoman defence, over the exhibition of a vitality that it was thought had departed from the Moslem nations, and over the justi- fication presented by this energy and. vital- ity of that English policy which maintained the propriety of preserving the indepen- dence and integrity of Turkey; and he had todo all this without offending the suscep- tibilities of the Russian government. Al- though he was a trifle maladroit in a state- ment of Russia's position, which gave undue prominence to her defeat, he got over his case very well. There is no doubt that the world at large— and not less England than other nations— has been surprised at the course of the war, and especially at the slow progress of the Russian arms ; but the notion assumed by Lord Beaconsfield that these successes dis- prove the common cpinion that Turkey is only a barbarous and exhausted Power is erroneous. ‘To argue that because Russia has not walked over the heads of the Turks with any facility therefore the world must accept the Sultan’s promises in regard to the reform of his Empire is applying rather too literally the effect of victory ; for the world was right in regard to Turkey all the time, and her victories do not fairly dis- prove any rational opinion that she is no longer fit to govern a considerable part of Europe. Statesmen should not take hasty and careless views of this war and its results, for it is likely to prove an event of the greatest importance in contemporary history. If they discrimi- nate properly the real nature of the surprise that the summer has supplied they cannot but observe that it.is not Turkey that has astonished the world, but Russia, Europe has not been so much sur- prised to see one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand Turks fighting with val- orous obstinacy in the Danube Valley. It has. seen that in every generation for three or four centuries, But it has been sur- prised to see that the Russian administra- tion has completely broken down in the effort to wield the great resources of that Empire. ; In fact, the most remarkable feature of the war is that it has been a conflict waged on either side by but little more than three hundred thongand men. It is no fair occa- sion for astonishment that Turkey has proved able to muster a first rate army of that size, for it was very well known that she had such a force actually on foot. But what was altogether unexpected was that three hundred thousand men should be enough; that this num- ber of Ottoman soldiers—not o large number, if we consider tle comparisons of recent European wars—should prove sufficient to arrest the progress of the Rus- sian armies, For there was every reason to believe that the Czar would put in the field armies that would outnumber two to one the Moslem force, and that if occasion re- quired he would ere this have had a million men with the colors. It is that anticipation which has been disappointed by thé events of the summer. In 1876 the composition of the Russian army on the peace footing in- cluded three-quarters of a million men, and on the war footing a million and a quar- ter. Reasoning from these numbers and making a liberal allowance for deficiencies— for the discrepancies that would inevitably appear between an army as drawn up on paper and an army equipped for battle—it was to be presumed that the government of the Czar would in the course of the season have put in the field from eight hundred thousand to a million men. In fact, it has been too hastily taken for granted that o fow strokes of the pen would suffice in theso days for the addition of half a million men to the armies of a great gov- ernment. ‘Too little consideration has been given to the financial difficulties. Confusion of ideas on this subject’ has grown out of the recent history of Germany. In 1866 Prus- sia had an army of about three hundred thousand men; but four years later she fought out her quarrel with France with nearly a million men under arms and half a million behind that she could call upon at any moment. All that appeared as the sudden military aggrandizement of Prussia without the consideration that it was the actual force of several other States put under her leadership ; and all the other European Powers, not having kindred nations about them that they could similarly absorb, yet endeavored to increase their armies to an equality with the German force by simply carrying over on the statistical returns of their population so many more men for the respective depawtments of the service. But ag a merchant who makes a fortune on his own books by marking up the prices of his goods finds that he doos not really get rich very rapidly in that way, s0, at least, two great nations have now learned that the mero alteration of their military statements does not give them great and cffective armies. Russia is the latest victim to that delusion. Lord Beaconsfield’s position in regard to the evidence that Turkey is notan exhausted Power rests also on some loose logic. No- body ever argued that a barbarous Power was effete for the simple purpose of war. On the contrary, that is the one purpose for which barbarians are always as good as their civilized neighbors, and often better. But States have some other relations to their neighbors in this age besides those created by battle. Indeed, the military function is forone yearintwenty. Itis the exceptional case, In all the other years the State has other functions. If it is effete as to theso and capablo only as to that of war they are still in the right who believe it should be swept away. ‘Lheir opinion might be of little account, however, if the barbarous Power were so capable in war that it could stand alone. This is not the case with Turkey, Cut off froin the assistance It derives from civilized Powers it could not stand a day against the Russian armies, Its successes are, therefore, not absolutely an argument | flict that it was decided to let it go over} . places. for barbarism against civilization even in war. In the quality of the Turkish soldier there is found a partial advantage of bar- baric life ; but if this soldier were left to his barbaric conceptions of war and his bar- baric arms what would become of him? An army corps of men like Hercules armed with clubs could not storm a redoubt held by a brigade of pigmies armed with breech- loaders. But Turkey, which in all the lim- its of her dominions cannot make a breech- loading rifle, is yet able to face her foes with the weapons that have been contrived and perfected with all the ingenuity of civiliza- tion in other countries. Neither is it sur- prising that Turkey 1s able to pay for such arms, since if a person of any resources whatever suddenly stops paying his debts, or even the interest on them, he has money to spare. Ali that the war has proved so far is that the resources of a great nation cannot, in an age of advanced civilization, be developed by government of the primitive type, such as survives beyond its date in the Russian Empire. Nota fact proves that Turkey is worthy to stand, but many prove that if Russia is to be equal to her great destinies she must burst the shell in which she has hitherto grown. No nation that aspires to play a part in the great drama of European politics in the nineteenth cen- tury can count in the game until it has re- lieved itself of the government under which it came out of the flood of Tartar invasion five centuries since. In all the qualities of good soldiers the Russians have in this war proved themselves not only stiperior to the Ottomans, but equal to any men in the world, In steady courage, tenacity and dash, and in their susceptibility to tactical instruction and discipline, they have shown their high military quality. It is in virtue of this quality that, while only equal, or barely equal, in number to their foe, they have invaded his country—completely crushed him in Asia and brought him to the verge of desperation in Europe. But for the incubus of grand dukes they might ere this have been in Constantinople. Intimidation at the Polls in France. It was hastily concluded on this side of the Atlantic that since the French republicans had come through witha handsome majority of one hundred the depth of tampering with the ballot box which has been occasionally touched here had not been reached in France. The facts, however, are now com- ing out. Inthe more enlightened districts fraud of this kind was not possible, but in the remote districts of the southwest, where the population is most ignorant, a state of things was kept up’ which the rascally car- pet-baggers who so lately ruled our South- ern States could not improve on. Intimidation is not so appropriate a word as terror to apply to the roughshod way the Ministerial Prefects, whose hands were trained under the Empire, rode the popular sentiments down. ‘The war ‘on the rural republican newspapers extended to such fine repressive details as surrounding the pressos with gendarmes and not allowing a copy to be struck off until the official had seen the proofs and cut out all that he con- sidered objectionable. In spite, of all this the papers were seized regularly on tho flimsiest pretexts and heavy fines declared against the editors, All this, too, in direct violation of the law. ‘Troops and artillery were paraded through tho dis. tricts by the Prefects, as the United States troops were not so long ago by the United States marshals in the South. Arrests were made without any charge and wholly with a view to frightening the ignorant into the belief that it was dangerous to be a republi- can; false news of pretended arrests was promulgated by the authorities with the same object. At the voting places the in- timidation was shameless. Peasants who feared to boldly vote the republican ticket resorted ‘to the use of what we call ‘pas- ters;” but in making the count all such were rejected. Citizens who had a perfect right té be present at the balloting and counting were hustled out of the polling Every mean and shabby trick to swindle the republican peasants out of their votes was resorted to, and lastly cases are coming to light wheto, as in that of the Louisiana carpet-baggers, actual frauds in the count were so clumsily made that they could not be concealed. This.was in the districts where conservative, gains were re- ported. It is easy now to see what became of Gambetta’s four hundred. to foretell that there will bo considerable squirming in official circles when the inev- itable investigations begin. Probably the knowledge of this wrath to come makes the conservatives talk so wildly of holding on. 'That is the way Wells, Anderson, Chamber- lain, Patterson and the rest talked last year. Congress Wosterday. The republican leaders in the Houce yes- terday made a very strong effort to many- facture some partisan capital on an amend- ment which Mr.. Hooker, of Mississippi, offered to the Army bill prohibiting the em- ployment, of troops in the suppression of insurrection or for other purposes except at the request of the Legislatures and Goy- ernors of the States, The opportunity was at once seized upon by Mr. Garfield to re- mind the House and the country of 1861 and of the events.which followed, The member from Ohio must havo been disap- pointed at the result of his dexterous little diversion, for the responses it called forth were very far from what he evidently ex- pected they would be. The Southern men wero too sharp to fall into the trap that had been set for them, and nearly all who spoke took the broadest and most patriotic positions on the question, specially commending the administration and its policy. ‘The amend- ment received only thirty-eight votes, Another noteworthy feature of the debate was in reference to the contradictory re- ports and despatches of the Adjutant Gen- eral in regard to the strength ef the army, According to the statement of Mr. Atkins, the chairman of the Committee on Appro- priations, five’ hundred men have been en- listed since the bill was prepared, which, he maintains, wasa clear violation of law and which will be made the subject of in- vestigation, ‘Lhe bill was finished in come mittee of the whole, but the amendments adopted were found to be so much in con- It is also easy, until next week to enable the committee to put the measure in proper legislative form. The True Function of Municipal Government. Sanitary statistics of the period between January 1 and October 1 of this year reveal that in the city of Brooklyn the ravages of diphtheria and scarlet fever have increased toan alarming degree. More than thirty- three per cent of the cases of diphtheria and twenty-five per cent of those of scarlet fever have proved fatal within tho past nine months—that is, eleven hundred and sixty- nine deaths have resulted from causes due to unsanitary conditions in Brooklyn, and which are from their nature preventable by a proper administration of the sanitary code, This is simply slaughter, for it bears no proportion whatever to the natural death rate. The families whose members have perished from diphtheria and scarlet fever can justly lay their loss at the doors of the city government, whose duty is, above all others, to prevent the development and spread of disease, It would seem that at last the Brooklyn Board of Health is about to adopt measures calcu- lated to stay, in some degree, the march of the destroyer, It is preparing to quarantine all cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever, | both as regards the patients and those of their families who would be likely to spread the diseases named into new places and dis- tricts, It is well known that the public schools have been the very hotbeds whence diph- thoria and scarlet fever are spread among the. youthful population of large cities. The children are brought into close associ- ation during study hours from all quarters, and through ‘parental ignorance and often brutal carelessness children suffering tho early stages of the diseases named aro forced into the crowded schoolroom, Tho brothers and sisters of sick children attend school daily without any regard being paid by their parents or teachers for the possi- ble consequences. The proposed action of the Board of Health of Brooklyn is, therefore, well enough, so far as. it goes, but falls far short of what must be done if these horrible diseases are to be driven from the city. It is safe to lay down as a principle of municipal government that the rigid administration of the sanitary laws is its chief function. A sanitary police will more effectually preserve a community from moral and physical dangers than any other power. The trouble now is that city gov- ernments affect to despise dangerous con- ditions that may be truly said to be the chief sources of all evil and attend only to some of their effects. Dirt and crime are close companions, Disease is assuredly the child of such parents. If it is desirable to limit or prevent an effect we must operate on the cause, otherwise all efforts fail. ‘To insure a rigid observance of the sanitary laws, the cleaning of strects and dwellings, the supplying of the popu- lation with pure Water, a class of officials must be employed who can appreciate the nature of their dutics and execute them faithfully. As it is such persons are not charged with these duties. . Therefpre, although the Sanitary Superintendent of Brooklyn may succeed in quarantining cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever, and the schools may be temporarily closed to the children ‘of the same families wherein such cases occur, the result will not be as satis- factory as is anticipated unloss all the sanitary laws are everywhere enforced. This is the true function of the municipal government. A Hard Case. A boy thirteen years of age, whose parents reside in this city, had an aversion to going to school, and persisted in playing the truant. His mother, properly desirous that the child should receive education, and thinking to give him a lesson that would secure a change in his conduct, made a complaint against him for truancy before Judge Murray, who sent him to the House of Refuge. After a short time, believing the boy to have beon sufficiently punished, the mother applied for his release, but to her amazement and grief found that, under the law, he would be detained at the House of Refuge until he was twenty-one years of age. The parents yesterday made applica- tion to Judge Lawrence, petitioning tho Court that their child might be restored to. them, the father claiming that the mother had acted without his knowledge or con- sent in obtaining the commitment. Judge Lawrence reserved his decision. It is unjust that the law should compel the detention of the boy from his parents for seven, years, Such a statute would be a disgrace to hu- manity. A mother might be willing enough to part with her child for a short time in order to break up any bad habits he might have contracted, but it is not natural that she should consent to lose him until he grew tobe aman. Bosides, the very act of the woman in having tho firmness and courage to part with the boy for his own good, and the affection which now prompts her to plead so earnestly for his restoration to her arms, proves that in this case at least tho child will have a better and more useful guardianship at home than in o semi-penal institution. Pulpit Topics To-Day. This being a week devoted especially to the moral and spiritual well-being of young men many of our city pastors will preach on subjects peculiarly adapted to them, But of the 1-st Dr. Hepworth will reconcile tho antagonism between roligion and cul- ture, and will direct troubled souls where they may find rést and joy and become like those who shall be described by Mr. Lloyd— sunlike Christians, of whom there are too few in all our churches. Mr. Hull will demonstrate that the Christian’s strength resides in Christ crucified and risen again, while Mr, Martyn draws lessons from tho childhood of Jesus, and Mr. Plumley ex- plains how men may come to Christ, especially if they are in the condition of Mr. Oolcord’s man—seeking for God. Mr. Johns will describe scenes on the Lake of Genesareth, and in doing so will drive nails into sure places by apt illustrations and pointed practical truths. Dr. King, will tell us who is greatest in tho kingdom of heaven, and Dr. Crook will give a Biblo reading on The Lord’s Prayer—tho first, UPLE SHEET. cluuse of which Mr. Rowetl will consider as well as present the points in Peter’s doubts. Dr. Armitage will show that our Lord was joyful in His life, and that therefore Ho has joy of heart for all His servants. Mr. McCarthy will indicate what he means by wilderness work, and will then re- view Dr. Talmage’s scathing denuncia- tion of John Morrissey and inquire if all our pulpits are dumb dogs, that only one should be found courageous enough to denounce political iniquity. Mr. Sweetser will carry his flock, in imagina- tion, over a large tract of the Holy Land, including the cities of Bethlehem and Jeri- cho. Dr. Wescott will prove the divine in- spiration of the Bible by the fulfilment of prophecy, and Mr. Moment will discuss Babel and its builders and contrast the con- fusion of tongues on the occasion when that famous tower was left unfinished with the multiplication of tongues on the day of Pentecost. Waking Up at Last. It is really a pleasure to record that the Brooklyn Board of Health has awakened to the fact that such a thing as unwholesome milk is to be found in Brooklyn. Tho pleasure lies in the belief that the citizens of our.sister city as well as many in New York will probably enjoy, fora time at least, an immunity from the horrors of swill milk and that a nefarious traffic will bo suspended, When the Heranp_ re- cently exposed the condition of the swill milk stables in Brooklyn the utmost indignation was created by the dis- closures in the Board of Health of that city. 'Yhis was not because our statements regard- ing the swill milk were true, but on account of our audacity in disturbing the comfort- able sleep of the Board and exposing the character of the traffic that was going on under its very official nose, At that time the Board indignantly denied the existence of a swill milk stable in Brooklyn, but now it discovers the necessity of taking ex- traordinary precautions agninst the sale of ‘uhwholesome, skimmed, watered or adulterated milk of a less specific gravity than 102.9.” We are indeed happy for the sake of Brooklyn and New York that the Board of Health of the City of Churches is awake at last. We would recommend to the officials the careful perusal of several long articles in the Henarn on the subject of unwholesome milk which were published while the Board was asleep. Much valuable and, above all, reliable information will be found in our columns which cannot fail to prove useful to tho Board now that it is once more awake, Amusement for the People. The theatrical season has rarely presented greater attractions at this time of the year than will be found announced in our col- umns to-day. There is scarcely a public hall or a place of entertainment in the me- tropolis that has not been engaged, and the faith of managers is illustrated by the earnestness with which they are respec- tively pushing the claims of the several ar- tists under their charge. The public, how- ever, have no reason to complain of a want of dramatic pleasure. At Wallack’s we shall have during the week an exquisite play en- titled ‘False Shame,” superbly mounted and in every way in keeping ‘with the reputation of this well known theatre. At the Union Square the “Mother's Secret” is on the bills, and it bids fair to secure ao place, as it has done in Paris, among the most success- ful sensational plays. Mr. Joe Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle has been doing good business at Booth’s and people never seem tired of contemplating the beauti- ful | character which he impersonates, Nevertheless, there is a universal desire that ho shall illustrate his art in other ways and give the public other pictures of the profession of which he has such a command, A great actor like Mr. Jefferson cannot afford to confine himself to a single part and hide his talents in a napkin. Janauschek, after o wonderful inter- pretation of Brunhiide- at the Broadway Theatre, has wisely changed to ‘Chesney Wold,” and will give us during the week representations of Lady Dedlock and the French maid Hortense, two of the favorite characters of Charles Dickens, around which sho has thrown her own artistié strength and enthusinsm. At the Fifth Avenue to-morrow night Miss Mary An- dergon makes her début in New York. This lady has been on the Western and Southern stage for several years, and everywhere has won praise for what is described as phenome- nal acting. Strength, originality and fine elo- cution aro said to be her strong points, and the public will doubtless watch with in- terest her endeavor to fit the shoes of the great tragedians who have passed away. It is said of Janauschek that she wears the mantlo of Charlotte Cushman, and it is true that in some of her impersonations she does resemblo in act and feature that great actress; but it is alleged to be equally true that when Mary Anderson plays Meg Mer- rilies sho will reveal a power that will mark her as the coming American tragedienne. With such attractions as these the New York public certainly havo no right to com- plain, and the managers deserve hearty support. Foreign Markets for American Man- ufactures. Itis the duty of Congress in legislating on the tariff and kindred subjects to take note of what is passing in other parts of the world, and particularly in England. Our cotton goods of various descriptions have already found, their way into the English markets and are offered for sale in all the English towns. This is per- haps our most advanced manufacture ; but others are treading close upon its heels in comparative cheapness. Our shoes have gained a footing in several European coun- tries, and some of our manufactures in steel and iron are better in quality and lower in price than any articles of their kind made elsewhere, An interesting London letter in the World states that in consequence of the appearance and ready sale of American goods in the English markets “the cry for protection ‘is daily growing stronger in this country. The workingmen are thoroughly alarmed. They seo Ameri- can calicoes in every shop window and know that they are admitted in this country duty free,” The London Times says in a recent market report:—‘The business done with Australia and New Zealand in Bir mingham and Sheffield is not now worth a tenth of what it was three years ago There is evidence that the Australian orders for American hardware have increased in the same period nearly twenty. fold.” When the quality and cheapness of our manufactures have reached this stage and are making their way against our most formidable rival, both in England herself and her distant colonies, our tariff legislae tion should be adapted to this change, The theory of protection has always heen that we needed to foster our manufactures during their infancy and while they were attaining maturity, but that they would at length outgrow ‘this necessity. That time has come, and it is now as much for the interest of our manufactures to encourage their introduction abroad as it formerly was to protect them at home, We are at the beginning of a new commercial era, Wise action by Congress will enable us ta supplant England in the markets which have been the chief source of her wonder. ful prosperity and wealth. Our sectional controversies have rendered us inattentive to the approach of this great opportunity but the wise policy of President Hayes haw ing given us domestic tranquillity, after a long period of political storms, the time has fully come for Congress‘to revise our commercial rogulations and trim our there cantilo sails to catch the favoring winds, How te Mect the Difficulty. General Smith, the President of the Polica Board, has gone to Europe on a pleasure trip, to be absent two or three months, Mr. Erhardt, another of the Commissioners, is holding over after the expiration of his term, the Aldermen having refused to con- firm a republican as his successor, and the .Mayor remaining faithful to his determinas tion to maintain the equal political division of the Board. ‘The commission cannot, therefore, be said to bo in a very well organized condition, and, indeed, it is an open secret that the Board is so inharmoni« ous as to seriously threaten the discipline and efficiency of the force. This is very much to be regretted. The old squabbles of the Police Commissioners were a scandal to the city, and it would be unfortunate if they should be renewed under Mayor Ely’s administration. The police is one of the most important departments in the muni. cipal government, and the Commissioners should be selected from our most reputas ble and capable citizens, instead of being selected on political considerations, Thera are abuses in the force which cannot be core rected because political influence stands in the way. The streét cleaning business is a disgraceful farce under the present manages ment, yet we can have no reform while the commission remains as it is. ‘ Of course Mayor Ely can do nothing so long as a partisan Board of Aldermen stands in his way and rejects any good nomination he may make in the interest of the city. But he can at least refrain from entering into any improper bargains 4s to the ap= pointment of Commissioners with the Alders menor anybody else. His firmness in res fusing to make the Board a partisan body by nominating a Tammany politician in Mr. Erhardt’s placo has gained for him the confidence of the republicans and of all good citizens, and there ought to be no diffi- culty in passing a law atthe next session of the Legislature dispensing with the con- firming power‘of the Aldermen and giving the Mayor the right to appoint heads of departments directly for full terms as he now does in the event of vacancies. Gove ernor Robinson would approve such a law, as itis in accord with his idea of the pri ciple of direct responsibility in a municis pal government. Such a law would give Mayor Ely the power to place the police under the control of capable, efficiont and honest business men, and if he should then neglect to do so the people would know just whore to fix the responsibility. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘Twine ran tn the family. Bob Ingorsoll never swears 10 fan. General Butler has stopped proposing, Game birds sometimes pick up spent shot and are poiso McClellan is telegraphing on to Halleck for a much largor majority. ~ The Cinctnnat! Commercial worrles because France has no Boucicault. No girl ever shot herself because sne was in love with Mark Twain, Boston girls are not so well educated as tho boys, bat they know more, s Congressman Conger, of Michigan, threatens to be the wit of the session. Talmago has registered for heaven, but the deuce may challenge his vote, We propose Private Dalzell or W, M. Twoed as the patron saiut of journalism, ‘We are convinced that the late election was a vindl+ cation of Henry Clay Dean. Song of the bank president on his way to Canada— “Shall we know cach other there?” . Congressman Townsend, of Troy, must not permit Conger, of Michigan, to steal his laurels. Bishop Kip, of the Methodist Church In California, “Ie visiting Justice Field, in Washington, Governor Hampton must keep up his speechos, If he does not he will not be Vice President, Senator Morton was in early life a hatter, what led him to say ‘Shoot the hat,”” Halstead thinks that republicans are alive yet, even though they did stay away from the polls, Govoral 0. O. Howard isin San Francisco, Let's make him the noxt Governor ot New Jorsey, ‘The Toledo Blade !s one of those papers that steal an laea and working it over presont it in a new shape, The widow of tho late Senator Morton will reside at en until her son Oliver graduates trom Yule, This te idoa that modorn reformers think that whatever is ia wrong. . Morrissey and Pendleton will probably head the democratic ticket for Presidont and Vico President noxttime, ‘What the republicags regret is that Tom Hyer is not alive so as to head some kind of@ ticket and make it interesting, Sir Philip Edmund Wodehouse, K, ©, B, and Sie Henry Wilmot, M. P., of England, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Senator Voorhees, ot Indiana, ts far from being @ rich man, He wil) arrive in Washington on Monday with bis family, “Yes,” said a Chicago girl, “I weighed 140 pounds, but whon Rignold glued his eye Onto mo 1 weighed only seven and a hall,”’ The more you got hit with rotten eggs in the cone tosta of this lifo the bigger the slice of choese you cut out for yoursolf for the other world, Mr. &, O. Perrin, Clerk of the Court of Appoals, re- turped on tho Egypt from a European tour, aad bad a hard voyaga Tho Court assemblies at albany te morrow, .