The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1879, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, Puitished ceery apy én the year. Three cents per copy (Sunday's excluded), Tou dollars per ear, five dolla X months, two dollars and fifty cents was heatent ennaalten uarsienth toe r three months. Sunday edition meluded ; t Sunday edition, eight dollare per year, treo of LY HERALD—One dollar per year, freo of post- K TO SUBSCRIBERS,—Remit ‘ost Oftice money orders, and where afts on New vibers wishing their sodress eb. red must give as well as their new addres: vrs letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera, : Letters and packages should Rejected commuunieats be returned. PHILADELPUIA OFFIC 2 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 49 AVENUE DE LOPERA. E—NO, 7 STRADA PACE, ptions and advertisements will be recelved and ou the same terms as in New York, properly sealed. AMUSEMENTS TO-DAY AND EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE—H. M, 8. Pixavonx. Matinee. ‘ims. Matinee. WALLACK’S THEATRE—A Scuar or Parez. Matinee, UNION SQUARE—Tux Banken’s Davcurke, Matinee, GERMANIA THEATRE—Mauit Stuart. Matinee. THE AQUARIUM—Rzp Ripixg Hoop. Matinee. BIANDARD THEATRE—H. 3. Pixavors. Matinee, BT, JAMES OPERA HOUSE—Doxprsany, Matinee. BOWERY THEATRE—Custan, Matineo. BOOTI’S THEATRE—Litrux Duxe. Matineo. NIBLO'’S GARDEN—Biack Crook. Matinee. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Davip Cnocksrs. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. x Matinee. TONY PASTOR's— MASONIC HALL—T: STEINWAY HALL—S: GILMORE'S GARDEN— TRIPLE * SHEET. MARCH 29, 1879, The probabil ies are that the weather fork and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, possibly with rein in the early por- tion, followed by clearing and colder weather. To- morrow it will be cool and clear, Watt Stneer Yesrerpax.—The stock market ‘Was active and strong.- Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads strong. Money | on call lent actively at 6 a 7 per cent. Snap are now running in the Hudson River, ¢ bones and all. Ir Seems that Mary Ann was \young and charming many years ago. Sunscrivtions for the relief of the :Szegedin sufferers are increasing, we are glad torsay. Tue PoLicemeN are happy, therproposed Te- duction in their pay being declared illegal. Mayor Howe t is opposed to lighting the etreets of Brooklyn with naphtha insicad of gas. Ovr Borcuers are be compelled to avoid unnecessary cruelty while slaughéering animals for food. Mr. Tatmace is having a sharp tussle with “Common Fame,” and seems to be getting along famously. AN Impatient Murperer was gratified yes terday at Knoxville, Tenn., by being hanged at the hour designated. Work on THe BrooKtrn Brmen’ will be re-+ sumed at an early day. The structure should’ have been finished long ago. Tne BrookixN Turatre is to be rebuilt. We hope the architect will not forget to furnish ample egress from the new building. Civi. Servick Examinations are to begin’ next month, red tape at Washington having de- layed the necessary blanks until now. Tne Ponce NERS are having lively’ times among poset ‘Ives, and their sabordinates' find the Board a rather unpleasant body. Mexico must be an agreeable country to re- side in, for no sooner is one revolution quelled than another pops up in an unexpectedsquarter. Pronunciamentos are evidently very cheap. A TruckMAN has been granted $2,500-dam- ages for injuries sustained by falling into o manhole in Water street. How mach cheaper it would have been to keep the pavements in Tepair. Litrie Wo.r’s band of warriors, who have been for some time on the warpath in the Yel- lowstone Valley, have at length surrendered in starving condition. How long is this state of affairs to continue! A Resrecrante Lapr, acting in an innocent manner, was arrested yesterday in a Broadway dry goods stare on suspicion of theft. This’ sort of thing has gone on long enough, for it is posi- tively becoming dangerous for ladies sto go shop- ping in the large retail stores. If merchants cannot employ detectives possessed of common seuse they should be made to pay:roundly for the social injury oecasi: i by an arrest under such circumstances. Professional thicvea.are no doubt too smart to ‘be detected by these shop “detectives,” hence their readiness to pounce upon innocent persons. An example in the shape o nuges is the one thing necessary to eheek these outrageous arrests. Tar Wrarner.—The storm which moved ever the Middle Atlantic States on Thursday afternoon has entirely passed away, and the ba- rometer has risen steadily along the Atlantic const. The disturbance which was over the Missouri Valley has advanced into the lake re- gions with rising barometer, and will pass over the northern districts of this State during to- day. Rain has fallen throughout the lake re- gions and the New England. States. The winds have been brisk to high in the Northwest, brisk in the Middle Atlantic, Now England States and the Jake regions and generally light elsewhere. The temperature has fallen along the Atlantic coast and in the Northwest. It has been variable in the other districts. The storm of Thursday ‘was felt very much on the New England const. The = repor from Newport state that it was 1 severest that has been expe- rienced jvc some time. The Hudson River is open as far na Hudson, and the prospects for carly navigation of the river to Albany are favorable. The weather continues unsettled over the British Islands, and, to judge from the following warning issued by the Meteorologi- eal Office at London to tho southwestern consts, it is likely to stay so for some time:— “New depression approaching. Keep up south cone.” The disturbance over the lakes is likely to become very severe as it nears the Atlantic coast. The weather in New York and its viein- ity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, pos- sibly with rain in the early portion, followed by clearing and colder weather. To-morrow it will be cool aud clear, i | selves against Ottoman neighbors. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. Another Turkish Difficulty Overcome. Some conflict of opinien appears in the report of the settlement between the cabinets of Europe in regard to what shall be done about Eastern Roumelia, From Vienna it is reported by an authority which sometimes has good information and some- times makes hnppy guesses that the plan for the occupation of that province by troops supplied by the different signatory Powers has been abandoned, but that an understanding will be reached satisfactory to all parties. From Berlin the report is just contrary to this, and says that the mixed occupation is fully agreed upon. Berlin is probably right, and Vienna is in- consistent even, with itself when it reports that a satisfactory understanding will be reached, and denies that agreement which is in fact the only satisfactory understand- ing that is possible in the circumstances. Berlin authorities wert in the current of this negotiation, and our despatch from Tashkend, published on Thursday, which showed the Asiatic part of the agreement made, implies that as Russia yielded there England yielded in Europe. The report that the plan will fail because Turkey ob- jects to it is a trifle ridiculous. Eastern Roumelia, the reader will! remem- ber, is that part of Turkey in Europe which England saved to the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of Berlin. By the agreement between Russia and Turkey, made earlier at San Stefano, all the Bulgarian countries, almost to the gates of Constantinople, were set apart under the name of Bulgaria, to be guaranteed a constitution, local ad- ministration and self-government ; and the important point in that change was that all the good population of that district, which is Christian, and which had been under the foot of Ottoman robbers and oppressors for. ages, would be able to take care of them- But England, which 1s very fond of fair play sometintes, did not care particularly about fair play for the people in Turkey then if they happened to be Christian people ; for while. England isa Christian government when collecting taxes for the support of the Established Church she is extremely lib- eral on points of religion in foreign coun- tries, and does not stand on trifles as to any religion that is in the way of her interests. England, therefore, cut in at Berlin to prevent the freedom of a vast section of the Bulgarian people, to keep them under the foot of the worst government in the world, for the sake of her commercial interests— afact which finely illustrates. the working of that pocket philanthropy which she carries with her everywhere, She restored to the dominion of the Sultan a part of the territory which the Russians had redeemed, and that part is called Eastern Roumelia. But the other States of Europe which do not generally make so much noise about their own love of virtue, and do not declaim over the roofs of the world as England does the Christian purity of their own motives, all these States retused to assent to England’s project, unless some system of local gov- ernment could be established for these people before the withdrawal of the Rus- sian troops should hand them over once moreto the tender mercies of the Ottoman authorities, backed by the Ottoman dispo- sition to wreak on any. Christian populace revenge for the calamities of the war. Should the Turks come into the full right to occupy Eastern Roumelia before the In- ternational Comimission has completed the organization which the Powers agreed at Berlin the province should have, it is, cer- tain the province would never obtain that organization without another war. All the history of the relations of Turkey with the European Powers shows this. That govern- ment never meets any condition nor fulfils any promise that implies a reform in ad- ministration or involves a guarantee of jus- tice for the people under its. authority. . It snapped its fingers at the requirements of tho Treaty of Paris as gaylyas it did at all those demands for reform which British ambassadors, with their fingers beside their noses, used periodically to make to His Majesty the Sultan, Rational creatures inight suppose that the war had opened the eyes of the Ottoman Power as to the need of heeding demands made by all Europe, but it will not do to reason on the mental operations of Sultans as if they had any re- lation to those of rational creatures. People suppose the head of a Bourbon to be the ex- treme type of intellectual impenetrability, but, in fact, the Bourbon brain is o fine sponge compared to the Ottoman brain. Recently there has been some uneasiness in Europe as to the probable fate of Roumelia—more in Russia than else- where, because the International Com- mission appointed to regulate the points which could not be safely left to the Ottomas government had not completed its labors, and certainly would not be able to complete them by the date at which Russia had agreed to withdraw her troops from the country, It was imminent, therefore, that a part of what Russia had done for the people of the Balkan countries would be sacrificed, From having been almost free, and from having held before them the hope of independence, they would be plunged again into the condition from which the Russian invasion had saved them. In order to prevent that consequence the proposition was mado that when Russia had withdrawn her troops the country should be contemplated as a sort of European ward, to be cared for jointly by the Powers until such time as tho labors of the Commission were completed and it might be deemed safe to give way to the Ottoman rule. Europo has acceded to that proposition, England and Turkey having been the only Powors to make objection. England has given way apparontly because sho judges that this is not a moment to push trouble. some issues extremely with Russia, Our despatch from Tashkend showed the equiv- alent exacted for her concession, and indi-« cated clearly enough that England, which had sold out Christianity and civilization’ for the sake of the Turk, has now sold out the Turk himself for other menaced inter- ests. With a sad mishap in South Africa it would be very bad indeed to have a sad mishap in Afghanistan also, and Russian influence there could make the Afghan as troublesome to the British troops before | them as. the Zulus were to Colonel Glyn's column. Russia has apparently never shut out from the Afghans till now all hope tor aid to their cause, but now the final word has apparently been given, and this is cer- tainly the result of an agreement with Eng- Jand as to Roumelia. z England is famous for betraying treaties to which she is a party by secret agree- ments with some one or another of the Powers with which she negotiates. Imme- diately after the Treaty of Paris she made @ secret treaty in regard to that document, and while negotiating the treaty at Berlin she agreed secretly with two of the Powers present against all the others respectively, and it need not astonish the world to hear one of these days that, by a new secret agreement, she has gone further in regard to Roumelia than the mge relinquishment of her objections to mixed occupation. Safety the Best System. When self-interest and duty oppose each other nothing is more difficult for a corpo- ration than to resist the temptation to de- cide in favor of the former, and nothing is apparently easier than to invent a multi- tude of plausible sophistries to make the worse appear the better reason. But this process, however pleasing and ingenious as an essay in metaphysics, becomes utterly inadmissible when the subject of discussion affects the most vital interests of a great metropolis. The New York rapid transit companies cannot be too often remihded that, just as there are no duties without rights, so there are no privileges without cor- responding responsibilities. Those great corporations are in the strictest sense the servants of the public. They derive their very existence and all their facilities, for pecuniary profit from franchises granted them exclusively in the public interest, and they will be held strictly amenable in the exercise of their great trust to the tribunal ot enlightened public opinion. That the Haratp is a diligent and vigilant exponent of public sentiment upon this subject the elevated railroad companies already know, and one of them has just given a striking illustration of the fact by receding, ‘under fire” as it were, from‘an untenable position. Inadopting the Hznaxo’s advice and ceasing to tempt Providence by exposing thousands of passengers to incessant peril of life and limb the New York Elevated Railroad Com- pany has acted a prudent part. While we heartily congratulate the com- panies and the public upon the prompt de- cision to abolish theswitch system, we must and will sternly and emphatically protest that no half-way measures in this matter can be accepted or tolerated by the public. The Heap accepts the réle of public pros- ecutor, and will not consent to the adoption of a mere makeshift, a penny wise and pound foolish compromise, upon a matter affecting the most vital interests of our me- tropolis. ‘That ‘‘enlightened self-interest” which our positivist contemporaries so elo- quently advocate should long since have taught the rapid transit companies that their only safety lies in the complete adoption of the system we have so earnestly advocated and illustrated in these columns. ‘The dis- continuance of the branch lines at Chatham square and Forty-second strect is a step in the right direction, but the preparations to dperate them again upon a different system are far from satisfactory. Nothing less than the entire abandonment of crossings and switches can meet the requiremonts of the case, and a very ordinary discernment will suffice to show that a perfect system will be cheapest in the long run. The companies naturally insist’ upon their franchises when pressed by our argu- ments about the danger of their joint dines and multiplied crossings on the east side, but we once more warn them that they had : better cease their contentions about com- mon rights of way and amicably divide their routes in an equitable manner. Thera, must be no joint operation of a single yard of elevated track in this city,-but there may and should be a pooling of issues and a di- vision of profits where the double franchise already exists. This may readily be accom- plished by arbitration. Sooner or later, and the sooner will be the better for them, the companies must adopt the plan which was so elaborately presented and illus- trated in the Hzxatp of the 2d inst., by which the New York Elevated Railroad should concentrate its energies to the de- velopment of an uninterrupted line trom City Hall, via Third avenue, to Harlem, con- ceding with as good a grace as possible to its Second avenue rival the section of ita present line below Chatham square to South ferry. The concession will come with a better grace now than hereafter, but it must come soon. - More Lambs Led to the Slaughter. A letter addressed to the Hxnaxp office from the Exchange Hotel at Montgomery, Ala., states that an individual calling him- self by the grandiloquent name of Hamlet 8. Felton has been spending some weeks in that city and other neighboring towns, trav- elling with free passes and exhibiting cre- dentials on parchment purporting to be from the Henavp, which accredit him asa travelling correspondent ofthis journal. The letter, which is signed J. R. Powell, coolly inquires whether the said Felton is really connected with the Henaup, and intimates that o draft upon this office apparently in- dorsed by the writer of the letter had been protested at a bank in Birmingham, Ala. This would scem to be enough in a week, but now we receive a telegram from Lonis- ville, Ky., signed C. P. Atmore, stating that the day before he had “issued passes to J. W. Murrell, representing himself as a correspondent of the Naw York Hznaxp.” ‘The passes issued show that J. W. Murrell had laid out quite a route at the expense of Mr. Atmore, for. the latter says that J. W. Murrell has been authorized to travel free “irom Louisville to Memphis, from Mem- phisto Bowling Green, from Bowling Green to Montgomery and from Montgomery back again to Louisville.” ‘Tho innocent query which the simple-minded Mr, At- more asks after giving us the above in- formation is, ‘Will you please say if he is all right?” It is curious Mr, Atmore did not think of asking the question before issuing his passes. ‘We ‘have neither sympathy nor patience with petsons who’ allow themselves to be gulled by such shallow impostures. Such queries at this late day as those of Messrs. Powell and Atmore emphasize the impossibility of conveying warning to men who are predestined to be cheated. How often have we conspicuously stated that the Heratp never allows. its representatives to accept railroad or other passes, hotel hospi- talities or extraneous pecuniary compensa- tion of any kind for the performance ot their commissions? ‘The experience of many years ought to have satisticd’all who come into contact with the genuine repre- sentatives of the Hxrarp that they are neither to be. bought nor bribed. Persons who will not take the trouble to ascertain the code of conduet observed by all reputa- ble journals have only themselves to blame, for they certainly would not lavish hospitality and bank checks upon persons from whom they expected no puffery in re- turn, Wil Mayor Cooper Explain? On Wednesday, the 19th inst., the Mayor had three members of the Police Commis- sion before. him to show cause why they should not be removed. It was his inten- tion to limit the hearing to that day, but at the close of the proceedings he accorded them an additional day of grace to put in such further written replies as they might choose to offer. This betokened a retresh- ing impatience of red tape and of the dila- tory proceedings of lawyers, and the public was led to expect that the Mayor, being thus quickly in possession of all the evi- dence he thought necessary, would forth- with remove the Commissioners and send his decision and the grounds of it to the Governor. That summary hearing was on the 19th of March; to-day is the 29th, and, so far asthe public knows, the removals have not been made, and painful doubts are beginning to arise in the minds of many who are dis- posed to strengthen the Mayor in his origi- nal intention as to whether this surprising delay does not betoken a quailing before obstacles which may result in an abandonment of his purpose. We sincerely wish him well, and tell him in all frankness that he canzfot afford to let these painful doubts grow into a settled distrust. His studied reticence is operating to his disadvantage. Unless he either acts at once or explains his friends will find it difficult to stand up in his defence. It is not wise for a public officer to disappoint the reasonable expecta- tions of the public, especially expectations which pe has himself inspired and en- couraged. Ifthe Mayor finds an ai neces- sity for forbearing or postponing action he should be glad of an opportunity to explain. We propose to give him this opportunity, which he ought to appreciate and even to covet. We shall send to him this afternoon a courteous and intelligent reporter who will offer the colaumnsof the Henarp for any statements which the Mayor may choose to communicate to the public with- out the awkwardness of seeming to pro- trude them unsolicited. Woe have found in our experience that public men in high stations are often glad to accept this kind of courtesy from the Heraup, and we proffer.it to Mayor Cooper in a sincere and friendly spirit. Of course, he must be his own judge as to whether he will accept it; but if he declines it there is one excuse which we trust he will-not offer,. He is re- ported to have said on several recent oc- casions, in reply to inquiries of the press, that he is not a prophet and can therefore answer no questions in rela- tion tohis future action. We would gladly believe that he has never said anything of thekind. A public officer who doves not himself know what he will,do next-in a matter on which he is presumed to have entered with @ deliberate purpose puts himself before the public in an unenviable light. It isavirtual confession that he does not know his own mind. Prophecy is con- cerned only with the uncertain part of the. future, anda public officer, with a plain duty before him, who regards his inten- tions as coming within the scope of prophecy—that is to say, who cannot con- jecttire to-day what his own mind will be to-morrow—is not properly considerate of his dignity. Proposition for Revision French Constitution. On the project for the revision of the French constitution with regard to the sent of government the Paris correspondent of the Lordon Zimes says, in one of the despatches we give to-day :—‘‘In the event of the Chamber of Deputies attempting to dispense with the concurrence of -the Senate the government would be bound to prevent such a violation of the constitu- tion.” We presume there is no ground whatever for the imputation thus put forth that some important section of the Deputies have entertained this revolutionary project, and we suppose this to be a mere gratuitous pieco of injustice fram a man who loses no opportunity to show his malignity toward the Republic, On the point as to one house dispensing with the other for the labor of changing the constitution there is no room for doubt. Tho law declares that the chambers shall: have the right to de- clare separately that there is occasion to revise the constitution, and that “after each one of the chambers” has so declared the two shall form oa national convention, which shall act npon the constitution and change itin one way or another by vote of the majority, ‘There is no revision without the convention, and no convention unless both houses are. agreed that thefe shall be one, and we do not believe that the repub- licans have evon thought of any violation of the aw on this point, Tired of Philanthropy, Happy is the people that has no history; find fow nations can possibly be happier than tho Swiss in the enjoyment of a tran- quil and placid existence seldom disturbed by the ruffle of an event worth repo-ting to the world as nowa. Just now, however, there is a ripple on the ordinarily calm sur- face of Swiss life. By that revision of the Swiss constitution which generalized and unified the penal laws that had before been different for every canton the death pen. og the alty was abolished, and Switzerland has been for several years in the enjoyment of » season in which murder was compara- tively free, ‘Lhe guillotine was ‘played ont.” Naturally the experience of this period has inspired a very active move- ment for the re-onactment of that penalty. They find that the assassinating classes take it too seriously. But there is a hitch between the two parts of the federal Assem- bly, and the Council of States and the Na- tional Council cannot agree to recommend the revision of the constitution, so the sub- ject must be submitted to a popular vote. As the class of possible victims is more numerous than that of actual assassins it is highly probable that the popular vote will decide to have a life for a life whenever it is possible to get it. Puzzling Procrastination. It would not be an act of friendship. to the Mayor to dissemble the general disap- pointment which is felt in the city at his dilatory course in regard to the recreant Police Commissioners whom he has under- taken to remove, The better portion of our citizens are nearly unanimous that he was in the strict*line of his duty in attempting to depose these inefficient officers and sup- ply their places with competent successors. We had our doubts as to the sufficiency of the hearing which ho accorded to them, and expressed our fears at the time with the - frankness of earnest well- wishers to his saccess in accomplishing the removals. What we feared was a de- cision by the courts that the hearing was inadequate and a consequent reinstatement of the Commissioners, which would embar- rass and mortify the Mayor and put him back to the point from which he started. It seemed to us that he could have flanked this danger, that he might have escaped this risk entirely, by the exercise of a little patience in granting such a hearing as would have afforded no ground for bring- ing his action into the courts of justice for review and possible reversal. The Mayor took his own course in pursuance of such legal advice as he had received; and al- though we feared that he took needless risks, we felt inclined to applaud the reso- lute vigor, determination and promptitude which he was seeming to exercise in the dis- charge of a necessary, indeed a most im- perative duly. We expected, and this whole community shared the éxpectation, that Mayor Cooper's decision would be as prompt as the brief hearing he accorded to the Commissioners had been summary. When he ghve them barely twenty-four hours to put in such additional defence in writing as they might choose to offer this stringent limitation of time was construed by friends and foes alike as evidence of an intention to make short: work with the Commissioners. It was expected that the.act of removal would be on the way to the Governor within the ensuing twenty-four hours, Teu days have passed and nothing is done, .The'commaunity is-puzzled and be- wildered, especially as the Mayor keeps his lips closed and has thus far steadily refused to give any intimation as to whether he in- tends to advance or to retreat. The people are beginning to indulge in conjectures as to the possible causes of this unexplained and most surprising delay. Has he been convinced on further reflection and better advice.that the course he pursued on the hearing was too hasty and - hazardous? Does he begin to. have misgivings as to whether he acted with the prudence and caution befitting an officer whose decisions are subject to review by an authority superior to his own? Removals by the Mayor are inoperative until approved by the Governor, and even then they may have to pass # judicial or- deal. In transmitting his action to the Governor he is required to send the grounds of it in writing. Governor Tilden decided in a well known case that this requirement includes a fall transcript of the evidence. Mayor Cooper took no evidence. No wit- nesses were examined before him either to prove or disprove the churges. He has therefore nothing to transmit to the Gov- ernor except the mere charges supported by his own opinion, The Governor may require something different—proof— before consenting to consider the case at all, Nothing could have been easier than for the Mayor to have brought three or four reputable citizens before him to swear to the facts, But he took no testimony atall, and bas, therefore, nothing in the shape of evidence to lay before the Governor to justify his own action and guide the judgment of the Chief Magistrate of tho State. If Governor ‘Tilden was right in the very emphatic views he put forth in reply to. Mayor Wick. ham oa case against the Commissioners presented in this form is insuflicient. ‘There would have been no lack of ovidence had the Mayor chosen to examine witnesses and send the record of their ‘testimony to the Governor. We suspect that too tardy a perception of this requisite may be the cause of Mayor Cooper’s embarrassment and his unexpected delay. It places him before the public in a predicament which his frionds (including, we believe, a major- ity of our best citizens) must regret unless he reassures thom by a satisfactory cx- planation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Roseoo Conkling is fifty-one, ‘Tramps have gorge-us times, says Puck, Captain Williams believes in thud and blunder. When Washington lobbyists cannot raise money thoy raise stroet rows, ‘Texas kills strangers with revolvers and avenges them with chin-music, Wearers of early and loud spring overcoats look like proud checkerboards, Both the United States Senators—Butler and Hamp- ton—of South Carolina have lost a leg. e,. Englishmen in tho streets of London are much more charitablo toward beggars than people in American streots aro, You can tell by the way a man walks into the cabin of a ferryboat whether he is deciding which side of the ferryboat he will buy, Sitting Bull threatens to break away from Canada and attack the Eastern States, At least he promiscs toclean out several beer saloons in the Bowery, In tho heaven of John of Patmos, author of the “Revelations,” there was’ ses of glass, The Com- munists, however, fancy that thélr heavon contains 8 wea of beer, John Morley, editor of tho Fortnightly Review, te only forty-one years old, He should be distinguished from Heury Morley, the lecturer on literature, who is an older man. Arumor that the Canadian government have de- cided to dismiss Lieutenant Governor Letellier is again current at Ottawa, Nothing official, however, has been made public. From all parts of the country the news comes to us that spring chickens are hatching out in great quantities. About eleven years from now some boarding houwe keepers will serve up those spring chickens for breakfast, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, of Boston, who ought during the past twelve months to have been proud of the praises she has received from English critical journals for her poems, will spend the sum: mer in England, whither she will sail April 5. OBITUARY. ALVRED W. CRAV-N, Mr. Alfred W. Craven, whose death is announced in London, was one of the most prominent engineersin this country, His father was a purser in the navy, and the deceased was left early in life to provide for himself, He entered Columbia College, graduated with hqnors, and studied engineering, rapidly rising to the first rank in his profession, The care of many important railroads in the West and South was in- trusted to him, and he managed them so well that he was employed by the Reading Railroad Company as an expert and consulting engineer. It was while acting in this capacity that he inaugurated many new changes in the ordinary method of constructing rail- ways. He was enabled to carry out his ideas through the facilities accorded him by managers of various roals. Mr. Craven lived to see many of his improve- ments in successful operation, In 1849 the deceased became prominently idgntitied with the Croton Aque- duct. He had advocated the building of the works for some ime before, and shortly after their com- pletion was selected to tuke chargeof them. He filled the position of engineer-in-chict, and was after- ‘ward choseti as ‘commissioner, in which capacity he superin' all the operations of his depart ment. He subsequently occupied both posi- tions at onct, and took complete charge of all the public works. He built the reservoir at Boyd's Corners, made surveys of the watershed at the sume place and constructed the reservoir in Cen- tral Park wrod is in his work in this connection that Mr. one ae showed his | ype apr tale a ting engineer. also planned and ng pao nthe system of sewerage now operagion, in this city. The work had_been for sdine time under the complete control of the Common Council, but shortly ater Mr. Craven assumed office it was turned over to him and he completed if. He ‘was the most.active man in the Croton |, supere intended all the work committed to its charge, and took satite og control over all public improvements. RA the 1866 Mr. Graven. hy a Dates ot i other lomen, appeared before s- = in reference tovthe Broadway Und und oe ag which was then, the topic of interest in this city. Mr. Craven, being a member of the Cro- ton Board, opposed this agutent of transit, on the round that great inconvenience and damage would See caused to the water service. He guve his opinion in favor of the greater ing Beoreen of @ railroad suspended and sr the blocks, through the between the houses, When the subject of. inking the Harlem Railroad tracks was brought pro mineutly forward Mr. Craven and Mr. Allan Camp) Mt hy typ mgr of Pub- lic Works) were ap} as enyineers to take charge of the worl nat the cost of the roposed improvement was to be paid by hig city and the other half by the Van- derbilt interest. Mr. Craven was not brought into phon great notoriety in this connection, In 1868 his to be seriously impaired. He had been in the service of the city for ore twenty years and his doctors advised a foreing trip. Ho byron 4 travelled throughout the Holy Tana and othor tant countries. On returning he sorglon down iaip ihe quiet practice of his profession, being consulting engineer on miany occasions, ‘April last ho -wet to Europe again, and had not since re- turned, He leaves two daughters—one married to Lieutenant Palmer, and the other to Mr. Sidney ao Kay. One of tho brothers of the deccased tn “te adeiral te in the navy. Mr. Craven was @ gent of fiue presence & most genial and kind ea hearted inan. His remains will be conveyed to New Yoi in’ asd his two daughters, who went with bi COMMENDATORE ANTONIO TANTARDINI, SCULPTOR, Advices from Milan, Italy, of the 10th inst. an- nounce the death, on the morning of the 7th, of Antonio Tantardini, onc of the most prominent sculptors of the modern Italian school. He was a native of Milan, tho city in which hq-spent his life and where he found appreciation and distinction, and at the time of his death was but forty years of age. Commencing his early life as s volunteer in several Garibaldian campaigns, his many honora- ble wounds rendered him .popular with those whb were champions of the éause of United Italy, and finally found him in the studio ardent fevoted tot 2 art which ho afterward graced by the production of works which have found their way into numerous Ne th mina Many will re- —- gentleman, who, st ihe contaaniat 3 Exposition in ihe by by ‘his amiability and never ceasing fund of good bi jumor did so much. = make the arduous labora of the Art Commission a merry pastime. To hig indefat efforts and his rare ability as a just but severe critic was due the fine rep. resentation of Italy in the Memorial His lis works are numerous. His memorial of the \boldi family—one of his late productions—is the delight and wonder of a constant stream of sight- seers. “The po gel of the Resurrection’’ was con- ecived in so. astrain as to praises from sternest crit ved produce songs from soverdl Italian poets. His alae of mn on the Cavour Pesce in Milan is universally known, while his senting & Biblical apiable. now in the: "Guth , and his colossal * eine for a unfinished court of that a won him decorations trom the late Ki His nu “Vanity” and “The Mirror’ are to found = “replicas” throughout Europe, and his grou; Faust and M: rite’ became so ular that less than twen' fig! rd were 07 ins ie year. The press of Milén and other Italian cit sounds notes rot, hhoartfalt mourning, and hundreds feel keenly the loss of onc whose fame as artist waa secondary only to his raro charms ag merry and whole souled companion. CAPTAIN RICHARD T, RENSHAW? Captsin Richard T, Renshaw, of the United States Navy, died at his residence in the suburbs of Ports. mouth, Va., late Thursday night, from disease of the liver, The deceased was a sen of Commodore Ren shaw, was fifty-seven years of age and leaves a wife and several children. Captain Renshaw was born in the State of Pennsylvania and entered the navy ase midshipman from that State in 1838, He was first attached to the old bo ew envi in the Pacific squadron, in 1852. He resigned his position iu the —_ when out he for @ commission and re-entered pie 2 2 as an acting lieutenant and was assigned to the command of the gunboat Louisiana. He served in the North arg bpenrserig arin ot"iloenake ing the ak we promotion tn) es aa pa ot commander made in 1862, and ho wad placed in commnad of the steamer Massassoit, where he remained untii the war closed, par ticipating in the meantime in several « ments in the James River and doing impo bloe! aut His last cruise closed in 1874, in the We Indies, on the Ticonderoga, when he returned to Portsmouth and there too up his residence, He was retired for disability arising from bilious disorders contracted while in service in the West ao oY my, the war deceased was in the naval sorvice, thirty-nine years, The body be be “parte fall ae honors to-day, all the officers Ya marines at ¢! rt Navy yarn co on the war ships in Norfolk bor taking part in the a monies, - DANIEL M. DATES, Daniel M. Bates, late Chancellor or Delaware, died yesterday at the Ballard House, Richmond, Va. He ‘was there as counsol in the suit against the Washing. road Com; » His body will be ton and Ohio Rail: Ky pent psy ae iin eae oes a ber, jovernor or Delaw pointed ‘panel M. Bates Chanccllot of the State in of 8. M. Harrington, deceased, Mr. Bates was eminently — by oir ae and ox- perience to fill Lo fo agp held the office of Secretary of yoo ‘THorp, was ee tnited isto Saroner tor Delaware during successive terms nts and Buchanan aud was one of thd Commissioners from Delaware in the Peace Congress which met at Washington Oy the commencement of the rebellion. MOTHER MARY REGINA LAWLESS, In the sixtieth yoar of hor ago, the Rov. Mother Mary Regina Lawless died yosterday at the New York Catholic Protectory in Westchester. She was and estimable momber Sisters ‘ity, Mount St. Vincent Hue Seats Montag eh bun onbates onto I8AAG GILL. Inanc Gill, aged wixty, native of England, diod of Nowport, 8. L., last night after a brief ilinesss. At the pn wert Ye, Lodge ie. ia Sane tod held thie, highest ofices mm Knode wT oe Deblois Ss Some Hoyal Arch ‘Masons,