The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1879, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. peti eter sapater Reast THR DAILY HERALD, Published every day in the year, Three cents per eopy (5 ‘excluded. Ton dollars per fi fi two dollars and fifty eonts the, r oF at rate ioW than dre months, Sunday edition imeluded ; ¢ Sunday edition, eight dollars por year, free of Subscribers wishin: ress changed 1m Jd ns well as thelr new addres news letters or telegraphic despatches ew York Henan. De addressed 3 Lotters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. . M2 SOUTH SIXTH OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— T. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. PARK THEATRE—Exa BROADWAY THEATH . Pixarone NEW YORK AQUARIUM—| 1D1NG Hoop, ¥ieTH AVENUE THEATRE—Was, WALLACK’S—A Scnar or Parvin. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Davy Cnocxert. BTANDARD THEATR {. 8, Pinarone, UNION SQUARE THEAT! um Baxken's DAvantin, BOOTH'S THEATRE—Lrrrix Down, NIBLO'S THEATRE—Btack Onoox, ST. JAMES OPERA HOUSE—Dunpazaev. BOWERY THEATRE—C: ve PENAFORG, LYCEUM THEATRE—Tie Maske Batt. MASONIC HALL—Tux Mipcers._ BAN FRANCISCO MI S—Mup Scow Prxaroas. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Comtositixs. TONY PASTOR’S—Pixarone Buntesgur. THEATRE COMIQUE—MULLGAN GuarD BaLt. STEINWAY HALL—Svaruony Concent, GILMORE'S GARDEN—Prpestrtan TouRNaNENt. vimana af canst ER TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1879. The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy, with rain, followed toward night by gradual clearing. To-morrow it promises to be cooler and partly cloudy or fair. Watt Srreet YesterpAY.—The stock mar- ket was more active and prices were higher. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads higher. ‘ Money on call lent at 5 a 6 per cent until the close, when the rate was 7 per cent. Coav Is Stitu Fatiixe and sunshine is be- coming more abundant. Even Haytt Decuixes our silver currency unless it be first subjected to a tax. And once we were told that non-exportability was a virtue! Tue State SENATE declines to reduce legisla- tive salaries ; perhaps it might begin reforming at the other end by inereasing the working hours. . Botsu Houses or Concress adjourned yester- day alinost as soon as they met, but the Senate considerately allowed time for the introduction of new bills, as the present session is to be short. Tue True Inwarpyess of political asseas- ments by the National Republican Committee began to leak out yesterday in Washington. The leaks aggregated more than a hundred thou- sand dollars. Ose McrprErep Samor was legally avenged: yesterday by the sentence of the murderer, who kept a snilor’s den, to life imprisonment. It is to be’ regretted that the prisoner cannot be accompanied by most of his ¢ “Come Isto Tus GARDEN, Maun,” is all very well when Maud has not succumbed to a multi- plication table ; but when she has been increased fourteen-fold, as was the case at Gilmore's last night, the invitation comes not from the ruder Bex. Prestpent Wurte, of Cornell, has beerPnomi- nated for the Berlin Mission. What will Simon say—if he has time to devote to such common matters at present—to this new evidence of the govertiment’s weakness for ‘condemned literary fellers !” Gesrrnat Terry, who is good authority on gach matters, does not believe Sitting Bull will make an unprovoked attack on the whites, Perhaps not, but battles are frequently started by the irresponsible “bummers” of one side or the other, and even a competent commander like Sitting Bull cannot expect to be free of these. Mr. ArtHoR SuLttvan, whose music even be- fore the production of “Pinafore” was very pop- ular in America, has just acknowledged receipt of his first remittance from this side of the Atlantic, and yet there are publishers and others who insist that no international copyright law is necessary for of authors’ rights. Tuy Weatuer.—The disturbance which was gspproaching from the northwest, as stated in yesterday's Henratp, has now moved into the central valley districts, As it passed over the Northern Mississippi Valley it began to expand rapidly, and yesterday evening it dominated the wen in all the districts east of the Rocky Mountain regions, except a small section of the New England States, where the barome- yter was high, but falling steadily. ‘The “eentre of lowest pressure is now moving eastward from the Ohio Valley and the gradients on its eastern margin aro becoming steeper on account of the high area that over- lies the ocean off the Middle Atlantic coast. Rain has fallen in the lake regions, the central valley and Middle Atlantic districts, and snow ix reported in the North. The winds have beon brisk in the central valley and lake districts and generally fresh clsowhere. A fall has oc- curred in temperature throughout the Middle Atlantic, New England States and the North- ‘west. In the other sections of the country it has risen. An cloctrical disturbance of local @ovelopment passed over Cairo, IIL, yesterday morning. The lightning damaged a Jarge con- vent building eonsiderably. In another column is printed’a cable despateh from London which tells of the complete fultilment of the predictions sent by the Herat» Weather Bureau. The storm noticed by the Meteorological Bureau in London agrroaching the west coast of Ireland last evening was predicted to arrive between the | Y5th and the 27th, attended by gales from the southeast, backing to the northwest. It will be won by the warning issued to the southwest coasts from the Meteorological Office that the storm arrived on time. * The weather over the British Islands will continue unsettled until the early part of next week, during which time the winds will gradually back round by the north. Caucus Programme of the Democrats— ‘Wil It Be Wrecked on a Veto! The measures and the method of carry- ing them through the two houses which were finally resolved on in the dem- ocratic caucus last evening will no doubt succeed up to the point when the contemplated bills are presented to the President for his signature, The democratic majority in both houses will force their passage, and they are certain to become laws unless the President shall in- terpose his constitutional negative. The whole interest of the legislative situation at Washington centres in the question whether, President ‘Hayes will sign or veto the bills which the democratic majority have decided to pass. Since the President cannot, witbout a plain violation of decorum, announee his purpose in advance, the question is of that speculative kind on which we can form no judgmeut except by weighing the probabilities of the situation, Still itis possible to narrow the grounds of conjec- ture and to mark out the limits within which the discretion of the President mast be exercised. We wish it to be noted that the only point which is mooted in this article is the probable action of the Presi- dent on the biils which are pretty certain to be passed in pursuance of the cancus programme, The democratic cancus has decided that the repealing laws shall not be passed as separate measures, but incorporated in the appropriation bills, One of the reasons, or rather one of the excuses, for this amal- gamation, is the fact that under the rales the political measures, if attempted sep- arately, could be obstructed and defeated |, tactics. The session might be prolonged indefinitely in vain attempts to pass the politi- cal bills against the obstructive de- vices of the republican minority. As such obstructive tactics cannot be brought into play against appropriation bills the democruts have decided to engraft the re pealing legislation on the appropriations as a means of saving time and expediting the business of the session. Most assuredly it is a vicious mode of legislation to lump in- congruous measures in the same bill, but the history of Congress furnishes abundant precedents for attaching general legislation to appropriation bills, and the democratic caucus has only resolved to do what has often been done before. The question which we are now consider- ing is whether this blending of unrelated measures is a proper ground fora veto. We think it very clear that it is not. The con- stitution makes the two houses the sole judges of their own methods of proceeding and of the forms of legislation whick they will adopt, and the President has no right to call in question the action of Congress in the passage of bills. Some of the State constitutions limit the action of their Legis- latures in this respect. ‘The constitution of New York requires that certain classes of bills ‘shall not embrace more than. one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.” There is nothing similar to this in the federal constitution, which leaves Con- gress at liberty to combine as many snb- jects as it pleases in the same bill. Our tate constitution also permits the Gov- ernor to veto particular items in an’ appropriation bill and approve of the other portions, but under the federal constitution the President must approve every bill as a whole or reject it as awhole. It is not competent tor the Presi- dent to veto an appropriation bill because it contains general legislation. If he dis- approves of such a bill it must be on his \judgment of its merits and not on his opinion of the inexpediency of joining incongruous measures in the samo act of legislation. Senator Hoar’s vehement speech can therefore have no influence on the action of the President. Senator Hoar's argument against’ this kind of lumping legislation is sound enougi, but it is with- out force if addressed to the President, because it is no proper ground of a veto, the methods of legislation being beyond his power of review. If he vetoes tho bills it must bo for some other reason than the union of unrélated subjects, The engraft- ing of political legislation on appropriation bills may properly and justly be quex- tioned elsewhere, bat it cannot be officially objected to by the President. If President Hayes vetoes the legislation which the democratic caucus has decided to carry through Congress it must not be on objections of form, but of substance. It will be his duty to examine the conglom- erate bills which are likely to be sent to him with the same care and the same candor as if the combined measures were presented separately and to be ‘governed by his judgment and his con- science 6 to the action he will take upon them. It he thinks 1¢ better for the public interests that the appropriations shoul be lost than tosave them by approving the extrangous legislation incorporated in them he will of course interpose his veto. What- ever else may be thought of Mr. Hayes, it can- not be disputed that he has shown himself a singularly self-poised man, subjecs to no sudden gusts of passion and possessing sufficient steadiness of purpose to act on his own judgment. Our knowledgo of his character may perhaps enable us, at least partially, to forecast his sotion on the bills which are likely to come before him. First, as to the Army Appropriation bill, It is proposed to tack upon this n repeal of the law allowing the presence of troops at the polling places to preserveorder. Wo think this repeal in such a connection ridiculous, but that a veto of the Army Appropriation bill on this ground would be still more ridiculous. Our effee- tive army consists of about twenty thousand men, the greater part of which is serving in the Indian country and on the Texas frontier. The small residue is em- ployed to man the fortifications on the sea- board. The polling places in the United States number severil hundred thousand, It is‘n physical impossibility that any elec- tion should be seriously affected by the presence of federal troops at the polls. It would be necessary to cut each soldier by parliamentary The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and gloudy, with rain, followed to- ward night by gradual clearing, To-morrow it disposable for such a use into ton thou- send pieces to place a fraction of him ludicrous to pretend that the freedom of elections is endangered by the presence of federal troops at the polls, metic enough to compute proportion between the available rs and the multitudinous polling plac The dan- ger from this source is chime! 3 and, on the other hand, it would be preposterows for the President to attach any importance to the futile law which permigsthe presence of troops at the polls. We confident he | Will not veto the Army AppRopriation Dill for a reason so utterly emptyand frivolous, Next, as to the Federal Elogtion law. The democratic caucus has not. decided to re- peal it entirely, but only to amend it. All that part of it which relates to elections outside of large cities is to stand, that part of it which rolates to cities of twenty thousand inhabitants and upward is to be repealed, ‘The supervisors of elections in each election district are to by continued, * with the right to examine and _ re- port all the stages of an elec- tion. This will furnish to Congress am- ple means for judging of the validity of the election of its own members, and it is diff- enltto see that anything beyond this is im- portant. It is proposed ‘to repeal those sections of the Revised Statutes which authorize the appointment of n chief snper- visor of clections in cities of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants and“the ap- pointment of deputy marshals. Whether. the President will think it his duty to veto a bill which repeals the discrit#imation between large cities and small towns in the management of elections is a question which only he can decide. ‘Taxation of City Bonds. . A lucid and carefully teasoned atticle by Mr. Perry Belmont in the new nuniber of the International Review raises the queatibn of the expediency of subjecting municipat bonds to taxation by the cities that issue them. The constitutional right to tax stch bonds is not disputed, and the ques-- tion is one of simple expediency. It is for the interest of municipalities making loans to borrow at the lowest rates, and they could unquestionably make loans on better terms if theyforbore to tax their own bonds. ._ There is no reason, for ex- ample, why the city of New York should not borrow money from its own citizens at as low a rate of interest as the federal government. The federal government is disposing of four per cent bonds with great snecess, but it would be impossible for the city of New York, whose credit is equally good, to sell four per cent bonds at par. The rea- son is that the city taxes its own bonds, whereas the federal government neither taxes its bonds nor permits them to be taxed by State or municipal authority. The city of New York could not sell four per cent bonds because, like other property held in the city, they ‘are subject to a tax of more than two and a half per cent. Aiter deducting the tax the income yielded by such bonds would be only one anda half percent, and nobody would wish to purchase bonds sub- ject to such liabilities. The city gains little by the tax, because it is in great part evaded, but since its bonds held by its own citizens are liable | to it, it operates as a fatal impediment to cheap loans. Mr. Belmont shows that the city receives only twenty-five thousand dol- lars per annum from taxes on its bon it could save two per cent in the ri oa terest by exempting them from ta: therewonld be an annual relief to the tax- payers of two million dollars. The article in the International Review deserves’ the thoughtful examination of the municipal authorities of all American cities, Shall a Broadway Ratiroad Be Built? The Aldermen are still interesting them- selves in a Broadway railroad. Mr. Morris isagain in the field with a long series of preambles and resolutions apparently de- signed to promote the enterprise; but as he follows them by ao declaration that he is opposed to putting a railroad on Broad- way under any circumstances, his proposi- tions, excellent as some of them may be, must be looked upon with distrust. Mr. Slevin wisely suggests that the Aldermen had better find out whether they have the right to grant such a franchise at all before discussing on what terms they are ready to dispose of it. i A railrond should only be allowed on Bron4way, between Union square and the Battery, as a public convenience. If it “ought to be constructed and built” the constitution provides how it may be done, even against the wishes of the property owners. But the property owners in this instance favor a railrond, and it seems to be conceded that the public interests demand one. Whether a general law is needed be- fore such a road ex be constructed, or whether the Common Council basa right to grant the franchise without farther legis- lation, it is certain that if it is built the people and the city ought to be better pro- tected than they have been in regard to other street railroads. As @ valuable fran- chise it ought to be mado to render a fair equivalent to the city, whether in the shape of © premium or of a good percent. age of the receipts. The company can afford and ought to be required to clean Broadway, to remove the snow and to keep the pavement in good condition, and those requirements ought to be rondered some- thing more than a mere form by tlic im- position and prompt enforcement of pen- alties in case of their non-tulfilment. Tho people's interests ought to be guarded by the limitation of the faro to tive cents for through trips from the Battery to. the northern termination of all connect- ing ronds. The company shguld be required to ran a sufficient number of cars at convenient intervals ; to admit ton car only 48 many passengers as can be supplied with seats; to divide tho sents, as on the elevated railronds and to provide heat in the winter. If the Commen Council has thet authority to grant a franchise for a Bioadway railroad with these safeguards and restrictions, it ought to do so at once and stop talking about it. Ifa general Jaw is needed it ought to bé passed by the Leg- .| islature, for the people want a road thus guarded, and the real estate owners beliovd that it is the only Vhing that con save ‘romises to bo cooler and partly cloudy or fair, | at each polling place, It is perfectly | Broadway property trom deterioration, * News from Tashkend. Afghanistan will be counted in the future we have arith- | as one of the provinces of the British In- dian Empire, and the time in the futuro when it shall be so counted will turn merely on tho readiness of the English gov- ernment to push events to a hasty concln- sion. This fact follows almost necessarily from the report in our Tashkend despateh, which points out that the only Power which could possibly stand in the way, and whose assistancé to the Afghans would have enabled them to resist indefinitely the British efforts at conquest, has Yithdrawn from all interest in the problem and stands aside for England. Russia's interest in the fate of the Afghans was a simple one, clearly understood and haying its natural limits, ‘Chey were tools whom she could use to annoy and embarrass England in thit part of Asia just as England used the Turks to emDarrass Russian policy in Europe, Had the ‘relations persisted be- tween England and Russia in Europe which led to active relations between the Russians and Afghans the British would never have reached. Cabal. hey would never have got through the passes of the border land, But the British government, while it has roared as loudly its Jingo politics as if the Bully Bottam in the lion's skin were a real lion has in fact played cunningly enough its game of concession with Russia in Europe, and by such concession: has purchased its advance 1n Asin, Alone the Afghans can- not resisthe English, and they know it, and will make tho best- terms they can, while Russia may the more readily consent to their presence, since this advance will maké an important provinco more valuable in onfe they should ever conquer it in the future. Another Brutal Murder. ‘The marder of Judge Elliott at Frankfort, Ky., as told in the Hzraxp’s despatches to- day, is one of those revolting crimes which seem to palliate, if they do not justify, the summary punishment of their perpetrators at the hands of an incensed community. Ajudge of the Court of Appeals who has rendered a decision in a case in which he can have no interest save that of doing equal justice and vindicating sound principles of law is met in the public streets by the suitor agaihst whom the judgment of the Court has been given, and without a word of. warning is shot through the heart and laid dead on the sidewalk. ‘The murderer, on being arrested, admits that the second barrel of the gun with which the crime was committed was loaded for the assassination of anotherof the judges, and would have been used upon him had not some children been in the way. So mis- erable a murder is inconsistent with the idea of a sound mind. It is charitable to believe that the man’s brain must have been affected, probably by his legal trou- bles, until he was insane enough to regard even the calm judicial tribunal before which the case was argued as his personal enemies, The excitement that prevails at Frankfort is natural after such & crime; but it is to be hoped that justice will be catried out in proper form and that the murderer will be punished according to the provisions of law after a fair trial. In this case, as in the Porter butchery in Texas, the failure of justice would reflect upon and seriously injure the communities in which the crimes were committed. — SSS " Blectricity Versus Gase—Kdicon's Light. Woe recently advised the sceptics and gas manufactarers to leave Edison alone with his electric light and make Old Father Time the umpire as to the merits of gas and elec.” tricity for public lighting. We felt sure that if Edison’s invention turned out to be what he claimed it would be all the argu- ments to prove it otherwise would be vain, and mauy persons would feel anxious to recall their hasty criticisms. It was in the interest of such persons that we tendered the above advice, because we desired to spare them the mortification of finding themselves in the ranks of false prophets, and that the failure of their prophecies was due to their ignorance of the ground on which they ventured. Our report of the first practical illustration of the progress made by Mr. Edison toward perfecting his plans for electric lighting will be read with much interest. In the battle of the lights the public bave been hoping for the success of any new mode of public and private light- ing that would relieve poor civilized hu- manity from the despotic, and not always just, rule of the gas meter man. ‘The in- ventor at Menlo Park has, it is claimed, practically succeeded in his object of divid- ing the current so ns to furnish a number of electric lights each equal to eighteen to twenty candle power on one circuit and in the proportion of six lights per horse power expended in generating the carrent, ‘Lhese .are remarkuble results, even if they ex- haust his powers of invention. But we do not think they do. They represent only the first developments of a system of light- ing destined to replace that of gag, as the latter has replaced the ordinary candle, But the application of gas does not end with the superiority of its iliuminating power. We feel satisfied that instead of a decrease in the manuiacture of gas there will bo an increase if the chomists only show the same amount of skill in applying it to other uses as they display ingenuity in vainly argning the impossibility pf em- ploying electricity for lighting purposes. Edison's success will inspire other inventors’ to rival and surpass him, and the world will be benefited, although some established in. terests may temporarily suffer. City Salaries. Mayor © oper yesterday submitted to the Legislature his views regarding the pro- posed reduction of salaries in the several departments of the city government, ‘The Mayor is correct in sayiug that a reduction that would not reuch the Police, Fire and Educational depattments, which exbaust about seven millions of the ten millions appropriated tur salaries, would be om in- signifivant saving, He might have added that the paring down of all salaries, includ- ing theso deparéments, would only bs as a drop in the bucket of economy as compared with the decrease in our annual taxation that might be secured by the consolidation of departments, the abolishment of useless THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1879—TRIPLE SHEET. bureaus, the simplifieation of tho govern- ment machinery and the stoppage of the great leakages that are to be found in almost all the supplies’ furnished and work done for the eity. The Mayor thinks that the salaries of the Police and Fire departments ought to be fixed by law, and in this the Hznarp concurs, It would be unadvisable to allow the politicians to bid for the support of these departments with promises of in- creasing the pay. In the Educational de- partment the Mayor believes that the sala- ries should be under the control of the Board of Education, because the differences in the grades and qualifications of teachers make it inexpedient for the Legislature to attempt to fix their respective salaries by law. But the salaries might be graded by law, leaving the Board of Education to classify the teac: rs in aecordance with their qualifications, The people have not much confidenee in a Board which has cut down the teachers’ salaries without reduc- ing the total cost of the department, and with no oth€r effect than to leave a large amount to be squandered on book jobs, supplies, repairs and similar expenditures, No doubt the salary account of our city government is extravagant and ought to be Yin some mauner reduced and limited ; but shere is little prospect that a Legislature which wastes its time in squabbling over insignificant economies will afford any sub- stantial relief to the overburdened city. The interviews with the managers and other officials of the “L” roads, which we print this morning, show pretty clearly how sharp is the struggle between the rival ronds for the possession of the prize of the east side traffic. We commend the position assumed by Mr. Field regarding the danger to public safety caused by switches, junctions and crossings on the “LL” roads, and congrat- ulate hjm on his wisdom in adopting the Henaup's views. But as he is ‘‘only one among thirteen” his good wishes for the adoption of plans that will insure safety are not enough to satisfy the public demands in the case. The plans must be adopted at once, and the sooner each individual of the particular ‘‘thir- teen” and of all other thirteens under- stands this imperative necessity the better for their interésts. ‘The Grand Central trains, except for local accommodation in Forty-second street, should be discontinued without a day's delay, and steps promptly taken to remedy the other existing evils to which we have so often called attention, Regarding the proposed crossing at Chat- ham square, the spirit of concession to public opinion exhibited by the “Li” managers is wonderfully modified by what these gen- tlemen are pleased to call ‘our rights.” President Field is perfectly willing that the safety of the public should be secured by the abandonment by President Garrison of all “rights” to the Pearl street route. He even offers’ the latter gentloman “six hundred thousand Brooklynites” in a lump to induce him to step out of the way. President Garri- son says, “No; keep. your Brooklynites yourself. This Pearl street route is as much ours as yours, and we mean to have our rights,” Now, beneath all this solic: tude for the public safety expressed by Mr. Field there is a desire to prevent the Metro- politan “L” from crossing the.New. York “L” at Chatham square; not, we suspect, because it would be a danger, bat to cut off the Metropolitan “L” from a sharo in the profits of a certain dis- trict. The Metropolitan ‘‘L” will make the crossing, it is pretty certain, unloss there is a compromise or the law interferes, The directors hope that all apprehensions of danger growing out of Tuesday's ‘‘acci- dent” will fade from the public mind, and that everything - patent switches, receipts, signals and dividends—will be lovely. Well, we shall see; but in the meantime the Henan will not fail to show the differ- ence between public safety as viewed from outside the “‘L’” companies and as seen from within. Have We a Prophet Among Us? In the Graphic of yesterday appeared a report of an interesting conversation on “The Future,” in which the gentleman ‘upon whom the onus of answering fell in- dulged in predictions which, for number and variety, cast into the deepest shade the most oracular utterances of our other esteemed metropolitan contemporaries, We are informed that the present year will be, in general, prosperous, although there will be a widesprea: interest in precious metal mining, o dang«rous speculative feeling in other industries, a partial failure of crops and two important failures, in Wall ‘street. The prosperity of the year is to be as de- eeptive as that of the seven fat kine of Pharaob, however, for an unsuspected weukness of our national, banking. sys- tem promises to expose itsolf, the bal- ance of trado is to shift to the other side, Secretary Sherman may be nominated for the Presidency, and a foreign war and anew pestilence, or an old one with a tendency to visiting, may be ex- pected in the not remote future. As these predictions are in the line of contem- poraneous human interest it naturally follows that sensible people will want to have them ot hand, where they can follow them up. We, therefore, scissor and reprint the list, so that our renders may not complain that wo have left them unwarned. Between bless- ings and afflictions the line is drawn with reasonable consideration, but there is still enongh of warning in these prophecies to cause any prudent man to keep his weather eye open. Cleaning the Streets. Fourteen thousand loads of dirt from tho surface ot the streets and twehty thousand loads of ashes have been removed since the Mayor intimated to the Police Commin- sionors that he intended to take some vigorous action jn regard to their abandon- ment of the performance of their duties. At this rate the streets will present y be clean; in tact, they are row clean in many places. For more than a year it has not been possible to get so good # view of the Pavement as may be had now, and if tho Commirsioners keep on and remove thirty- four thousand loads of rubbish every weck for several weeks to come we shall at least see the benefit of having ao Mayor to stir them up. ‘Nobody has fniled to observe the activity with which the official excavators have sought for the city pavement since the initiation of proceedings againgt the Commissioner,, and it has been thought that the Commis-’ sioners were getting ready to have the streets examined by experts who would, testify to their condition before the Gov-’ ernor. But perhaps when they report how clean the streets were the Governor will want to knew the date of their examina- tion, If he does this late activity will not. help ; but what it will dois to prove the possibility of cleaning the streets, and therefore show more plainly the delinquency of tha Commissioners. We hope the Com- missioners in their present cleaning up will , not neglect their statistios, but keep an accurate and minute account of the number’ of loads and half loads removed from the streets betwoen the time of the Mayor's’ movement and the discovery of the pave-, ment in every part of the city, because, from the figures thus obtained we may learn just how much rnbbish has to be’ removed every week, since the weekly! quantity will be about one-twentieth of what has now to be taken. ‘PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. . Maroh is going out like a crab, Can the direct cable ever give the lie direct ? ‘The Chicago Journal calls it the widow's smite, A good many lovers are laid up with newmoonia, Bishop Fitzpatrick has been prelate of Boston for thirty-five years. i As Mrs. Oliver came from Kentucky she must hes bine grass widow. Mr. George 8. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Queen Victoria isa good ballad singer. Only her own family can hear her, according to etiquette. A correspondent wishes to know whether a ciren- lajing library ought to be kept in a stationery store, It is said that Gambetta’s father used to deal in oranges, Mrs. Oliver says that Simon did the same, John Sherman is now singing— + Q, Zachariah, O, Zachariah; Come over and sit by our kitehon fire. , Neal Dow, the temperance agitator of Portsmouth, Mo., has recently celebrated his seventy-fitth birth- day. If the Cincinnati Commercial is trustworthy Boh Butler’s brickbats are smashing Widow Olivor’s spring bonnet. Colonel W. T. Pelton, nephew of 8. J. Tilden, is lying very ill of nervous prostration at his rooms ip the Everett House. The Wayside estate, formerly tho_home of Nathan- . fel Hawthorne, at Concord, Mass., has been boughs by G@. P. Lathrop, his son-in-law. James Russoll Lowell, Minister to Spain, will this summer retiirn to America on leave of absence. He; has just passed his fiftieth year. Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte arrived from Europe yesterday on his way to Baltimoro to visit his grand- mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson-Bonaparte, who is very ill, His family will come to America on the let of May. ; . Walt Whitman will lecture in New York on Abra- ham Lincoln. Colonel Tom Scott has given him a pass to Callfornia and he is trying to pluck up cour- age to go there. On the 3ist of May Whitman will be sixty, and if his lecturepn Lincoln is nots failure he will prepare one on tramps. Mr. F. D. Millet, at Paris, has been margied to Miss Elizabeth Greeley Merrill. Among the witnesses to, the marriage were Mark Twain, Leslic P. Barnum, Augustus St. Gaudens an? W. G. Bunce. At tho re coption at Millet’s studio were many well known artists, journalists and officials, among whom were Consul Generel Fairchild and Secretary Hitt. Mile let’s last picture, of an Eastern sword cutter, will be exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, PBITUARY. i JAMES STUART, ‘Mr. James Stuart, a well known banker, who hag lived in this city for the last forty-four years, died last Tuesday at his late residence, No. 27 East Thir- ty~eventh street, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. The deceased financier was born in 1802, at Market Hill, county Armagh, Ireland, He came to America at the age of thirty, and made Philadelphia his place of abode for s few years. In 1835 he came to New York and made his permanent home here, At the time of his decease he was a leading member of the banking firm of Messra. J.and J. Stuart & Co., No. 23 Nassan street. Upon his arrival in New York he embarked, during Se ie 1835, in the dry goods trade ‘with his brother William, and car- ried on business at No.2 Gold street. The house continued for the period of twenty years to transact large amount of business, and became one of the most extensive firms at that time inthe dry goods trada, having a branch in Manchester, England. Tho concern extended its operations to city branch: which in due course of time were euscosstll opel in Pine, William and Nassau streets. The firm sold out its di oods interesis in the year 1856, and comm a banking business in the premises now oceupied by: it. In the course of his successful career as a citizen of New York, tho late Mr. Stuart occupied at ditlor- ent times various posts of ureat trust. At one time he was tieasurer of the Irish Emigrant Society and filled ths position for many yeurs to the satistuction of all concarned with the association, whose aim and ebject was to alleviate the hardships of Irishmen secking un occupstion and ® home op these shores. He was a director of the Fourth National ik, of the Mercantile , Fire Iusurance Company, of the Scottisi# Commercial Insurance Company, of the Hanover Insurance Company, and_ presi: dent and director of the Hanover National Benk, He married, in the year 1838, the daughter of the late Mr, William Whitewright of this city, who is still living, by whom he had two daughters and one son, all married and residing in New York. Dur. ing the last fitty years tho deceased gentloman and hit wite have been members of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of New York. For the most of this half cen tury be filled tho office of older. He has been unre mitting in his duties as a charch-goer, and was looked upon as a :iberal patron of charitable institu. tions. He owed his marked success in life to active energy and untlagying perseverance. Hix death ie the combined result ot overwork and peng race pie ‘The consigerable wealth which he leayes behind goos to hie wite and children, EX-CONGRESSMAN JOHN M. COGHLAN, John M. Coghlan, ex-Congressman from the Third district of California, died fo-day at his residence in Oaklaad, near San Francisco, Born at Louisville, Kya in 1835, he emigrated to: California iu 1850; was ad- mnitted to the ; Was @ member of the California Legislature in 1365-6, and was olected a Representa. fave (republican) from California to the ae Congress, surving from March 4, 1811, to a HTS. DR. OC. F. DISHLER, Dr. ©. F. Dishler, one of the most prominent and highly respocted physicians in Now Jersey, diod of fever at itstown, on Monday night, after on iltnese of ony to days. Ho waa but thirty-six yoars of age, but had taken high rank in the profes sion ond waa secretary of the Ntate Sanitary Council, a beloved, respected Christian gentleman, a man high in social end political circles and @ good phy- wician. JAMES DRUMMOND. Fow men were better known to bankers than ola “Jimmie” Drummond, whose death is announced. He was born in the county Antrim, Ireland, and e to America in 1831, For forty-four years he was in theemploy of I. & I. Stuart & Co., bankers,’ being eighty-one yoars old when ho died. ‘One ot the firm that be had so long and faithfully served’ died on the same day. c. T. NUANGST, At his home in Bloomfield, on Tuesday, died Mr. Christopher T. Nuangst, one of the beat known citi- zens of Exasex county, and long un employé of the Morrie Canal Company. Decoased was sixty years of age, and for many re wae an active Tat, but @ year ago joined the greenbackers, He leaves considerable property. JOUN KB. HATCHER, JOURNALIST, { Jolin E, Hatwher, a woll known journalist, and one of the editorial staff of the Loutavillo Cowrier-Journah died at Nashville, Tenn., yostorday. JOUN A, GANDNER, John A, Gardner, late United Staton District Ab torney for Khode Island, died yesterday morning at Providence