The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. we WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- $.—Remit in drafts on New “ elegraphic despatches must D. be properly sealed: not be returned. :ADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH F Ov THE NEW YORK HERALD— NUE DE LOPERA. STRADA PACE. we received and STREE! LONDON NO. 46, . ae — AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. SakiaaaRalin BROADWAY TIEATRE—H. M. 5. Prvaron, FIFTH AVENUE THEATR 0 THe Dank. LYCEUM THEATRE—Pixat d SORCERKR, WALLACK'S—A Scrar APER, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Lomexcnim. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—My Son. WINDSOR THEATRE—H. M. 8, Prxaromm UNION SQUARE THEAT! x Banker's Davcuten, THEATRE COMIQUE—Mut NIBLO'S THEATRE—Bta BOWERY THEATRE—Kit.__ GERMANIA THEATRE—Ja, so Stxp Wir, STANDARD THEATRE— OLYMPIC THEATRE— PARK THEATRE—Ew TONY PASTOR’S—P1 TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniery, ; NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Rep Rinixe Hoop, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Ccmiosirixs, MASONIC HALL—Tux Miparts. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS—His Mop Scow. KURTZ GALLERY—Ammnicay Artists’ Exursition, GILMORE’S GARDEN—IntenationaL WavKixe Matcn. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE—Rosixsox Cruso1 TRIPLE SHEET. YORK, MONDAY, MARCH V, 1879. ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy. To-morrow it will be cooler and clearing. Srven Baptist Converts showed the faith that was in them yesterday by plunging into a stream near Deckertown, N. J. A large hole had to be cut in the ice for the purpose. No INTELLIGENCE has yet been received from the fourteen fishing vessels that left Gloucester just before the severe gales of last month. It is feared that the boats and all on board were lost. ‘Wave Hampton has got the better of that mule. He is now so far recovered that he is able to give his views on current questions and to think of taking his seat at the extra session of the Senate. ALTnouGH one-half the session of the Legis- lature has passed away not a single one of the many bills aimed, in the interest of the public, at the great corporations has yet been acted upon or even come out of committee. The lobby ap- pears to have things its own way at Albany. eer ont Common FamME was busy yesterday with the Brooklyn Presbytery committee which is charged with the investigation of the Talmage case. The prevailing opinion appears to be that it will recommend that the charges against the Tabernacle pastor be dropped, which would certainly be the wiser course. Ex-Presipent MacManon is reported as hav- ing declared that if the Chambers decide upon impeachment he will demand to be placed on trial with the Ministers. If true this declara- tion is more chivalric than prudent on the part of the Marshal. Frenchmen sometimes have an uncomfortable way of taking their rulers and ex-rulers at their word. Paris is a little more pleasant than New Caledonia. SEVERAL THousaND PERSONS were present in Gilmore’s Garden at one o’clock this morning when the four contestants in the international walking mateh started on their long tramp. The match promises to be the most exciting ever held in this country, and the progress of the pe- destrians will be one of the chief subjects of eonversation until next Saturday evening, when it comes to an end. Tur Sermons YESTERDAY were, as a rule, of the old fashioned order. Mr. Beecher explained the ninth chapter of Romans and the objective point of Paul's preaching; Dr. Hepworth de- scribed the Kingdom of Christ, and Dr. Armi- tage gave his ideas of Satan and his attributes. The lumanity of Christ was enlarged upon by the Rev. Mr. King, and the poetry and prose of @ spiritual life by Father Langeake. Mr. Tal- mage pronounced the doom of sectarianiam, while Mr. Frothingham selected as his theme the “Press,” which he discussed in a broad and intelligent spirit. Tue Weatner.—The depression is now mov- ing over the lakes toward the St. Lawrence Val- ley. Its influence extends into the Central Mis- sissippi Valley and from the Northern Missouri River to the New England boundary line. Owing to the great uniformity of temperature in the eentral valley and, lake districts the rainfall that attends the disturbance on its southern margin has been light. On the Middle Atlantic snd New England coasts the precipitation was more general, because the warm southerly and southwesterly winds came in contact with the cold area that overlies the northeastern districts, The area of high barometer extends over the At- Jantic and Eastern Gulf coasts, but the pressure is falling steadily north of Cape Hatteras, and will be below the mean this afternoon. The depression’s course will be so far to the north that the weather in our district will not be very mach affected during its pase- age—that is to say, we are not likely to ex- perience the heavy rains that will fall when the wntre of the disturbance nears the ocean. The winds, however, will probably increase during to-day, as steep gradients will be formed by tho retarding influence of the high pressure on the coust. The weather on tho northern New Eng- land and Nova Scotia coasts will be stormy to- night and to-morrow, during which time the contre of the disturbance will pass over the Gulf of St. Lawrence into the ocean. Another thunder storm passed over Canada last night, The weather has been clear in all the districts except in the Central and Northern Mississippi valleys and the northern lake regions. Morn- ing foga prevailed on the South Atlantio const. The winds have been brisk throughout the country except on the South and Middle Atlantic coasts, On the lakes they are increasing »what. A decided rise in temperature oc- cured in the Middle Atlantic and New England States. It remained nearly stationary elsewhere, The rains continue in California, but are not so heavy. The streams are swollen and heavy snows blockade the railroads in the mountains. Tie weather over the British Islands is overcast aud threatening. The weather in New York and ita vicinity today will be warm and partly NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1879.—TRIPLE The New Test of Legal Tender. The question whether the constitution has conferred on Congress the power to make anythitg but gold and silver a legal tender for private debts has been before the Supreme Court in several shapes, but al- ways with important limitations. The Court has decided in an Oregon tax case that a State law may make taxes payable in | gold, in spite of the Legal Tender act; but that was on the ground that a State may levy taxes in kind—for in- stance, in wheat or wool or labor—and this of course left the legal tender question untouched. In Hepburn against Griswold the Court decided that contracts made pay- able in ‘dollars” and which were made be- fore the Legal Tender act was passed must be paid in coin or its equivalent, which was a declaration that the Legal Tender act was not retroactive. It is true the Court added:—“'We are obliged to conclude that an act making mere promises to pay dollars a legal tender in payment of debts pre- viously contracted is not a means appropri- ate, plainly adapted, really calculated to carry into effect any express power vested in Congress; that such an act is inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution, and that it is prohibited by the constitution.” But in point of fact the case be- fore it—Hepburn against Griswold—con- cerned only a claim that an agreement to pay ‘‘dollars” made before the enactment of the Legal Tender law could not be re- deemed in greenbacks. In Bronson against Rhodes the Court decided that coin con- tracts are valid, the Legal Tender act to the contrary notwithstanding. Finally, in Knox against Lee, the Court, reversing Hep- burn against Griswold, held that the Legal Tender act was retroactive, and covered contracts for the payment of ‘‘dollars” made either before or after the passage of the Tegal Lender law. What the Supreme Court has therefore actually decided concerning the Legal Ten- der act is that it was constitutional as an ex- ercise of the war power, justifiable on ac- count of extreme necessity, and to save the country ; that being enacted, it covers con- tracts to pay ‘‘dollars,” whether made be- fore or after its enactment, and that it does not cover contracts to pay gold or any other specific kind of dollars, whether made be- fore or after its passage. The Court has never been required to decide whether or not the constitution confers upon Con- gress the power to declare paper notes a legal tender for private debts in the ordi- nary course of legislation in time of peace. No case involving this question has ever come before it, and of course a court decides only the questions actually before it. Acourt does not move of itself—it is moved. It is plain, therefore, that this question remains open so far as the Supreme Court is concerned, and it is this question which two citizens, General Butlerand Representative Chittenden, have agreed to bring before it. That they can do this in a perfectly regular, proper and effective manner is maintained by capable lawyers, and General Butler, who ranks very high at the bar of the Su- preme Court, not only has no doubt of it, but in his reply to Mr. Chittenden states precisely the manner in which it may be done. He writes:— Acase can easily be made for a friendly suit to bring up the points. Leta note of any person of up- ward of $5,000 be presented to him for payment. Let him tender therefor payment in greenbacks of the issue of 1878 or the issue of any date since August 20, 1866, which is the official date of the end ot the war. Let the party holding the note refuse the tender and bring suit. Let the tender be pleaded, state what it was, and let that plea of tender be demurred to, and the record of the whole case need not take up two pages, and thus raise the whole question of the right of the government in time of peace to issue legal tender notes as money. That explains the whole procceding, and the method so lucidly described by General Butler has the concurrence of the two emi- nent counsel engaged on the other side, Mr. William Allen Butler and Senator Edmunds, The statutes of this and other States author- ize amicable suits on an agreed state of facts and require only that it shall appear by affidavits that the controversy is real and the proceedings in good faith; and when such a case so made has been decided by a lower court the Supreme Cofrt will hear it on ap- peal by either party to the suit. It remains, then, to ask whether it is worth while to move the Supreme Court to decide the question in point. About this no man who has watched the course of currency discussion in Congress for years past down to the very last week of the last Congress ; no business man who has found his enter- prises deranged by the general feeling of insecurity in the public mind concerning the currency ; no laboring man who com- plains of the hard times and stagnation caused mainly by the unwillinguess of men to begin new enterprises until the currency question is sottled—none of these classes can have any just doubt. Every session of the last half dozen Congresses has spent the greater part of its time in attempts to do something by way of tinkering with the currency, and even the resumption of specie payments, so called, which has at last come amid struggles lasting to the very end for the repeal of the Resumption act—even this important event has not quieted the question or silenced the agita- tors who want to unsettle all that has been accomplished. Although gold and green- backs are at par, and although the possessor of a greenback can get gold for it at the Sub-Treasury on domand, so far is the mischievous currency question from settlement that it is slmost certain to be a conspicuous issue in next year’s Presidential canvass, and, no matter how the public interests may suffer, the plain truth is that both political parties unite to keep the question alive. Anything is better for the country than this continued uncertainty which enables every demagogue in the land to strikea blow at the country’s prosperity. Cer- tainty is what the country needs, If the constitution really gives to Con- gress the power to make paper notes a legal tender in time of, peace, that is a vitally important fact for the country. If, on the other hand, Congress has, under the constitution, no such power, that again is vitally important. The Supreme Court alone can decide between these two views, and there ought to be a speedy and final de- cision of the matter, because anything cloudy. To-morrow it will be cooler and clearing. / is better than continued uncertainty. If SHEET. Congress may constitutionally make paper promises to pay a legal tender in time of peace; if it istrue that the constitution authorized the federal government not merely to coin money, butas Géneral Butler asserts to make money, it is better we should all know this as soon as possible, and argue with the greenbackers and fiat money people on a definite and not on a@ vague and uncertain basis. If, on the other hand, as we believe, the con- stitution gives and was intended to give no such dangerous and fatal powers to Congress or the federal govern- ment, then it is of the utmost importance that this should be known as soon as possi- ble, on the highest authority, so that all controversy on the question may cease and the country have rest and relief from the threat of inflation which has so long turned honest enterprises into gambling transac- tions. Hence we regard this attempt at a settlement as one of the most important events of the day, however unwelcome it may be to the tribe of poli- ticians. For it is clear and undemiable that so long as men are able to assert that Con- gress has the constitutional power to make its promises to pay a legal tender and to order the continued issue of such legal tender notes, so long every Congress that meets will be moved to increase or diminish the volume of such notes, and at every ses- sion the country will be threatened with a change in the value or price of every product and we shall be subject toa per- petual derangement of all our industries. Afghan Victorles—Zulu Defeats. A despatch from our special correspond- ent at Tashkend announces the receipt of official news by the Afghan ambassadors that tranquillity had been re-established at Cabul and that Yakoob Khan had been proclaimed Ameer. ‘1 his was to be expected after the recent exhibition of military vigor by which Yakoob asserted his right to- his father’s throne against rival claimants, But in addition to the above there comes the important announcement of two Afghi victories over the British invading forces, which may have a very decided bearing on the issue of the war. We heard through British sources that Yakoob Khan was actu- ally negotiating for a settlement of bis troubles with England, and now we hear from Yakoob himself that two English bat- talions have been defeated and pursued by the Eldji tribes, probably mountaineers of the Khost district, where a British administration had been set up, and that at Fort Lagna, in addition to the cap- ture of the post by Eldji warriors, the Eng- lish Governor was carried in triumph to Cabul, bound with ropes. It is unlikely that we shall hear much about these little military incidents in Afghanistan from Brit- ish sources, but their coming irom Cabul shows that either Yakoob Khan has taken to romuncing, which is not very likely with the Russians, or there are fewer laurel branches lying around loose within the British lines than the world was invited to believe. From South Africa there comes a story of Zulu defeat, which looks to us, in part, rather like another version of an old ac- count. Colonel Pearson’s position of de- fence was attacked, it appears, by quite a large force of Zulus. ‘The latter are stated to have been defeated with much loss and pursued toan important military kraal in Zulu territory. We do not credit the latter part of the story- namely, that relating to the pursvit—because we do not think any officer of experience would abandon a position which "he had only defended with success to follow an enemy who may have been trying to draw him away trom his intrenchments. The slaughter at Isandula occurred because the British fought what they thought was the whole of the enemy's force, in their front, while the real danger Jay in both flanks and rear. Colonel Pearson has probably grown too wary to take to hunting Zulus without knowing who was getting ready to hunt himself. The Astley Belt. After a winter of almost countless foot races there commenced at Gilmore's Gar- den, at one o’clock this morning, a contest which promises to easily outstrip them all in the interest it will excite. The foremost pedestrian in England, in trying to wrest from O'Leary the championship of the world, has, if report be true, no slight ground on which to base his hopes, Confi- dent as O'Leary may be, if Rowell has actually made five hundred and fifty miles in one hundred and forty-two consecu- tive hours, and can do it again this week, he will stand an_ excellent chance of winning in this great race. He seems to be the only man who has thus far proved himself able to do a tremendous distance on the first day and still have enough left in him to make hard fighting all the other five. Hughes and Campana both followed this plan and alike signally failed, yet it is claimed that Rowell will do it and win. If he does it will go far toward making jog-trotting the favorite method im these long distance contests, instead of the matchless heel and toe walk- ing of O'Leary. If Rowell has no light difficulty to contend with trom being but yet partially acclimatized, O'Leary has no less serious obstacles in having to battle’ with two different sorts of Job's comforters at some time during his weary pilgrimage. For it will be remembered how, in his race with old ‘‘Sport,” his heels so tronbled him as to need frequent paring and other medical aid. But he is liable also to an- noyance of a serious sort, and one not generally known. Ho says that more than once in these arduous contests he has lost an entire toe nail and has been forced in consequence to put up with a day or more of decided pain. Now a too nail is not a great thing, but before Saturday night it may prove, as it did with another nail now famed in story, that for want of it the battle was lost, ‘‘and all for the want of that” game toe nail. To get a better idea of the magnitude of the task these four fellows are now so bravely essaying and of what stuff they are made, suppose Peralto, the peerless mustang rider, mounted on the toughest horse America could prod nce, had started with these sturdy walkers at one o'clock, and had pushed that horse to his utmost throughout the whole long week, does any one believe that the horse would be in first at the goal; or that, ifthe four are as good as they are claimed to be, they would not all beat him? No wonder, then, that the splendid race now going on is proving well worth seeing. A Great Opportunity. We publish in another column a letter signed “‘A Child of the Church,” asking the Hrraup if it will act as custodian of such contributions as may be made by the members of the Catholic Church for the relief of the poor depositors who have been ruined by-the bankruptcy of Archbishop Purcell. Our answer is unhesitatingly, “Yes.” We are willing to act as custodian of such a fund, as we are always willing to discharge a similar trust for any worthy object. Our correspondent may be too sanguine in predicting that ‘‘a half million of devout Catholics will respond to the call, as they keenly feel that to permit the poor to suffer in consequence of the misfortune or negli- gence of one of their highest dignitaries would be a lasting disgrace to their Church and a stain on their Catholic character.” However, as we pointed out some days ago, and as one of our contemporaries repeated yesterday, it is possible to wipe out the whole of the debt by hearty co-operation on the part of the whole Catholic population. There are in the United States about six million Catholicos, and less than a dol- lar from each would cancel the indebted- ness. It is very probable, however, that upon investigation the grand total of the amount deposited with the Archbishop will be found to be much less than six million dollars ; but even should it reach that sum it could be paid in a day by o general sub- scription. ‘The moral effect of so splendid an illus- tration of Christian faith and good works would be incalculable, As an evidence of solid faith it would be of more practical value than a score of costly cathedrals, The Catholics of this country have, in our opinion, the greatest and grandest oppor- tunity to show the faith which is in them, and at the same time perform a noble charity, that was ever offered to a religious denomination. To save their poor, rdined brethren of Ohio by a united effort such as our correspondent suggests wduld be the most impressive moral spectacle of the cen- tury, the brightest chapter in the history of the American Catholic Church. To allow the opportunity to pass unimproved will be to deepen, if possible, the stain that has fallen upon the Catholic name and character. Oriental Meanderings. Ifthe public most enjoys to hear of that which to it is most unfamiliar the letters which we print to-day from our corre- spondent with President Grant's party in the East will be voted specially interesting. Volcanoes, three famous specimens of which are alluded to, are not numbered among our native luxuries at any time, and soft skies and yachting water are about as in- visible at present. Then there is reference to a great country where the sotind of the omnibus is not heard in the land and rail- way trains pay no more attention to time tables than if the distance they have to cover were reckoned only in Bridgeport miles, The ex-commander of our national armies has been crossing the lines of another famous campaigner—one Moses—who, forty cen- turies ago, placed the Red Sea between himself and the enemy, and did it without any pontoon train, either, or any detach- ment of bridge builders, though his plan of crossing failed, upon subsequent trial, to meet the approval of the enemy’s en; gineers. We read, too, of a sun which is explaining to the voyagers the mystery of the Oriental complexion, and this while our readers in New York are strongly in- disposed to accept sunshine as a substitute for stoves and hot air registers. The tour- ists even saw Mount Sinai, a place once famous as a source of law, though how it may now be regarded by a generation that has experienced Washington and Albany yearly or oftener we shrink from contem- plating. “Fair Play” on the Chatham Square Crossing. We publish elsewhere to-day a communi- cation signed ‘Fair Play,” which is an ar- gument in favor of the use of crossings guarded by patent interlocking switches, signals, experienced vigilance and other unlikely things, The writer cites a number of cases wherein crossings are used by many hundreds of trains daily, and with safety, due to a system of safeguards which he pronounces per- tect. We are quite willing to admit that mechanical engineering is quite equal to the reduction of the measure of danger on a surface railroad and near a terminal station, such as that at Cannon street, London, toa very low minimum. Thatis to say, we be- lieve a system of switches and signals can be so organized as to prevent col- lisions on such a surface road as our correspondent describes, provided an equally perfect syste of supervision by railroad employés is applied to its opera- tion. But, unfortunately, the history of railroads is filled with instances where just at the wrong moment some otherwise un- important detail of supervision is neglected, and the authors of the system of mechanical safeguards are astonished to find on what a slender thread of good luck they have been calculating the probabilities of safety. The more fact that such extraordinary and complicated arrangements to insure safety are deemed necessary for a certain point on a railroad is a full admission that there is a dangerous point to be guarded, and as the employment of inanimate matter*as an agent in securing safety depends on human intelligence and vigilance it follows that, no matter how perfect the machinery of safety may be, its operation for its purpose is governed always by that often unreliable human machine, the railroad enployé. Applying the most perfect system of switches and signals to an elevated railroad crossing is to increase the chances of dis- aster to a value out of all proportion to those for a surface road. Even if a patent switch is misplaced by ‘‘accident” on a surface road the worst that may happen is a collision in whioh the loss of lite would be comparatively small, or the running of a train off the track, to which it could be ‘jacked on” again without much delay. But a collision on the “L” roads would be a far more serious matter, when it is considered that to the shock and crushing of the cars is added the fall of the wrecked trains to the street below, and the killing or maiming of a large percentage of the pas- sengers. But aside from the question of collisions and runnings off there must be considered the chances of trains breaking down on the crossings so as to block all the tracks. Connecting rods will break, axles will break, steam pipes will burst, cylinder heads “give out”—indeed, the number of things that can possibly cause an accident is eqnal to that of the parts of an “L” passenger train, We would rather see the crossing plan abandoned than the introduc- tion of all the improved patent interlocking switches, signals, &., &c., in the world on the “L” roads. We must not hear the rail- road officials crying to the wounded like Talbot to his friend at the siege of Orleans— What chance is this, that suddenly hath cross’d us? | Speak, Salisbury; at least if thou canst speak; and to the signal man in the patent inter- locking switch tower— Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand, ‘That hath contriv’d this wotul tragedy! New York's Future. On asite of peculiar adaptability for the building of a great city New York has grown from being a little Dutch trading station to its present magnificent propor- tions, Compared with that of other great cities the growth of New York has been without parallel. ‘he past of the metropo- lis having been a remarkable one it is reasonable to suppose that the inherited energy and increased wealth of the popula- tion will make the future one of extraordi- nary development. But, so far as the build- ing up of the site proper of New York—that is io say, Manhattan Island—is concerned, we must recognize that cer‘ain interests of trade, manufacture, &&., have crystallized around certain physical centres their pe- culiarstructures, and that south of a line which may be drawn across the island at Fifty-ninth street all the space allotted for building is already occupied by buildings. Theretore, while the future will probably work great changes, and perhaps improve- ments, in the -built-up section of the city, that which is yet unbroken ground und re- tains much of its original rudeness will be the field on which the refined taste, supe- rior skill and increased wealth of the architect, engineer and capitalist will be jiavished. In our columns elsewhere this morning will be found an article on “New York’s Future,” which deals with the subject ina very full and inteliigent manner. To this we add a diagram of that region known. as the western plateau of Manhattan Island, on which is shown the general scheme of improvement contemplated and being carried out on the west side of Central Park, and from Fifty-ninth street to One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street. The Riverside Park, which utilizes an otherwise comparatively valueless strip of ground and gives a symmetry to the up- town improvements of the city, is an im- portant feature of this well digested scheme. ‘fhe Morningside Park, which serves as a link between the two larger public pleasure grounds, will become “a thing of beauty and a joy forever” to the future residents of the transtormed wilds around tt, Finally, the Metropolitan and New York ‘‘L” rail- roads, running northward along Ninth ave- nue to One Hundred and Tenth street, and thence into Eighth avenue, will guarantee to the dwellers of a new centre of wealth and luxury all the advantages of rapid transit, We have long insisted that New York can become for the Western what Paris is to the Eastern Continent. Indeed, it can become greater even than Paris by the addition to its rank of commercial and finan- cial capital that of being the chiet centre of social and artistic progress of a continent. This accomplished, no other city in the world can compare with New York, for she will be pertect in every sense as a centre of civilization. The Broadway Railroad. An important proposition made by a responsible person was printed in Sun- day’s Hxnaxp, and we trust it has not been overlooked by the Aldermen of the city. It was the offer that, if the franchise for the Broadway Railroad was put up to be sold at auction, to start the bidding at the sum of one million dollars for the right of way from the Battery to Seventeenth street, or at one million and a quarter from the Battery to Central Park ; the franchise thus bid upon to be subject to ‘all the condi- tions proposed by either set of applicants.” One set of applicants have agreed to pay into the city treasury five per cent of their gross receipts, to equip the line with cars equal to the finest that are to be constructed for the Metropolitan L, and to keep the Broadway pavement in repair; while another set have agreed to all or nearly all these and to take charge of the cleaning of Broadway, even in the times of ice and snow, Now, if a company or an individual pro- jector will undertake to meet all these points, to assume all these as inseparable conditions of the franchise, and start the saloof the franchise at the sum of one million dollars for the right to a certain street, and at one million and a quarter toa certain 1urther distance, the proposition so made must not be neglected by the persons, who- ever they may be, who have the right to convey the franchise. It has always been held in the Henatp that the street car fran- chises were properties of great value. We have never been for a moment deceived by tho fictitious accounts made ont by the horse car companies in the form of official re- ports, and we still entertain the opinion that if those franchises had been properly handled they might to-day return, to the city treasury a sum sufficiont to olean all the streets of the city effectively and not farcically, and without taking o cent out of the pockets of the taxpayers, Now, the most valuable franchise of all remains unbe- stowed: and whoever shall get the right to carry passengers from the Battery to Cen- tral Park, by the line of Broadway to the point whence it is necessary to diverge at the upper end, will gain that tranchise of supe- rior value, and should pny for it proporly. ror Should this right be put up, as proposed, the million dollars that our correspondent agrees to bid will probably not buy it, Others will bid more, and our correspond- ent himself, thoroughly versed in the value of property of this nature, contemplates the sum named only as the point at which heis fully prepared to start the sale, Promises are, of course, easily made, but in all the promises made here as to horses, cars, and general maintenance of the line, this bidder will give bonds to fulfil his contract. With an offer of this kind on the board shall the franchise for a Broadway railroad go through the same history as that famous franchise of Forty-second street? Shall promises to remunerate the city properly be put aside with contempt in order to carry out little games with projectors not ready to remunerate the city, but ready, perhaps, to remunerate some city functionaries ? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Heraup on Saturday :— Bandell, Harry E., New York. Berger, George C., New York State, No. 39 Boule vard Haussmann. Brooks, Dr. J. P., Rhode Island, Continental Hotel, Clark, Charles P., Boston, Grand Hotel. Cordon, Dr. 8, C., Portland, Me., Grand Hotel, Evans, George and wife, New York State, Hotel dw Rhin. Good, Rev. J. J., Pennsylvania, Hotel de St. Peters» bourg. Gunport, Alexander and wife, New York State, Hotel de Bayidre, Hoyt, Rev, A. 8., New York State, Hotel de 8% Petersbourg. Knight, H. Williston, New York, Splendide Hotel. Lamberton, C. L., Pennsylvania, Hotel de la Cour ronne. . Monrose, L., New York, No. 18 Rue Say. Nickerson, A. D., Rhode Island, Continental Hotel, Paine, J. D., New York Stato, Splondide Hotel. Pratt, Miss E. J., New York State, Hotel du Rhin, Pratt, Mrs. George W., New York State, Hotel da Rhin. Sayles, F. C., Rhode Island, Continental Hotel. Sullivan, A. and family, New York, Hotel Binds, Van Horne, Rev. David, Pennsylvania, Hojel de St, Petersbourg. ~ Wakeman, Jessup, New York, No. 66 Buco Basse du Rempart. Wheeler, C. W. and wife, Chicago, Splondide Hotel. Yeomans, D. M., Boston, Hotel du Louvre, Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa, is at the Bree voort House. Mr, Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, is st the Everett House. Secretary Evarts arrived at the Brevoort House last evening from Washington. Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, of the United States Supreme Court, is at the Buckingham Hotel. Mr. Victor A, W. Drummond, Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Rey. F. F. Emerson, one of the ablest ministers of Hartford, Conn., who has left the Baptist Church on the communion question, will enter the ministry of the Congregational Church. Mrs. General Sherman, on being asked if she cone sidered it would make a bad precedent to pay Arch- bishop Purcell’s debts, answered :— “A bad precedent! Why, it would be s good pre» dent. You might as well say we should stand by and seea man drown, with folded hands, for fear of establishing a bad precedent by saving him. If I had $1,000,000 I would give it to the Archbishop it it would save him, Ido not think the hierarchy will refuse to help him. Are we to stand by and see him ruined?” she exclaimed. No doubt Mrs. Sherman thinks with a great many that the people who prate about a bad precedent are looking about very herd for sn excuse not to pub their hands in their pockets. WADE HAMPTON. GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONDITION or THE SENATOR—PROSPKOT OF HIS ATTENDING THE EXTRA SESSION—VIEWS O% PROMINEND QUESTIONS, [BY TELEGRAPH TO°THE HERALD.) CHARLESTOX, 8. C., Mareh 9, 1879. Senator Hampton, who is now recruiting his health at the Lowndes plantation, Colleton county, was ine terviewed to-day, and during the course of the con- versation let fall some expressions indicative of his future movements and political position. The only visible trace of the suffering he has undergone since his accident is a slight increase in tho gray in hie whiskers. His general health is excellent, except that the change from his formor active out of door life tothe necessary confinement of the past three months has developed dyspepsia, which causes him the loss of much sleep. His leg still gives him great trouble and frequently intense pain, the end of the remaining portion of the bone being dead. The physicians are waiting to allow thts an opportunity of coming off itself, but should it fail to do so during the next month it will probably have to be ampu- tated. ATTENDANCE ON THE EXTRA SESSION. Being questioned as to the probability of his being in Washington at the extra session, he said that it was*uncertain as yet, although he would go if he possibly could, The doctors rather advised against it, but he hoped to be able at least to go and pair off with somebody, or else he might wait and see if the business before the Senate was important. In case it was particularly so he intimated that he would go at any rate, as he hated, he said, the idea of not ful- filling the trust committed to him. THE ACTION ON APPROPRIATION BILLS. ‘The reporter asked him his opinion of the action of the democrats in refusing to pass the Gs ong tion bills without the amendments abolis! -. the test oath for United States jurors and the United States supervisors of election and forbidding the use of troops at elections. He replied that he thought the House was right. Hy» would favor Con- gress sitting forever, if necessary, before it an inch from its ion. He did not think the President would hi right to oppose the amend- ments if Congress tinued to urge them, as such action would show that they were the will of the people. THR CHINESE QUESTION. On the Chinese question he expressed the opinion that Mr. Hayes’ action was right. In the first place, he did not think Congress had the power to sbro- gate a portion of atreaty, He thought that body wrong in yielding to the clamor from California, This conversation took place as the Senator sat in his canoe, with the wounded leg resting on an air cushion, Several fine trout, captured by himself aud little boy who had accompanied him, lay in the bottom of the boat, and at the termination of the interview the paddle was again plied and the little craft floated slowly away down the pond. If its dis- tinguished occupant was in search of quict he could have selected no better apot for it. From all the indications, he seems to be gradually but surely gaining ground, and there seems to be no reason to Souvt that the thousands all over the country who admire and and the people prc Line boyd an so proud of him, feo pen ratiti seeing him live many more years fainess honor to himself to his POPE LEO'S JUBILEE, At St, Patrick's Cathodral in Newark, N. J., yertor day, Chancellor Flynn read a pastoral letter from Right Rev. Michael Augustine Corrigan, D. D., Bishop of Newark, and the apostolic letter of His Holiness Popo Leo XIII, proclaiming a jubilee. The Pope, fol lowing the example of his predecessors, in view of the approaching anniversary of his election to the sovereign pontificate, proclaimed to the Catholic world, by letters apostolic dated Fobruary 15, @ plenary indulgence in the form of general jubilec, The jubilee began on Sunday, March 2, and will continue until Penticost (tho Ist of June next) ‘The conditions prescribed of obtaining this spiritual favor are six visits to a church or churches, with the recitation of prayers for the intention of the uey Father; fasting, including abstinence from_ fi meat; alms to the poor or to some pious work, and Contexsion and communion, ‘The Bishop designates the churches to be visited aa follows:—In Newark, the Cathedral, St. John’s and St. Mary’ City, St. Peter's, St. Mary’ beth, ‘St. Mary’s, Paterson, St. John the Baptist n Trenton, St. John’s, St. Francis’, St. Jamden, the Immaculate Conception, Sta, 1; in Hoboken, Our Lady of Grace, St, the "8; in way, St. ‘hy "s. In other * laces throu moat ‘ne diotees the parish church is to be visited six times,