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. NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
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?OLUME XL NO. 103
AMUSEMENTS .TO-NIGHT.
FIFTH AVE*I E THEATRE.
Tweaty-elshtQ street mid Broad war.? THE BIO TO.
NA.NZ1, at 8 P. II.: closes at 1U -.30 P. M. Mr. Fisher, Mr.
Lewis. Miss Uavenport. Mrs. Gilbert.
BOWBRY OPERA HOCSE,
Ko. :0l Bo wery?VARIETY, at 3P.M.; cloees at 10ss
P. M.
park theatre,
Broadwav?DAVY i RUCKET1', at S P. M.; cloees at
10 :Su P. M. Mr. Mayo.
BOWERY THEATRE,
Bowerr.-AROCND i?JK WORLu IN EIGHTY DAYS,
at 8 P. M.
GRASP OPERA HOCSE,
Flehtb avenue and Twentv-taird street.? AHMED, at S
P. A)., closes at 10:? P. M.
BOOTH'S THEATRE,
oomer of Twentj-third street auil Sixth aTenue.?
liESRY V., at 8 P. M.: doses at 11 P. M. Mr. Rijnold.
LYCEt'M THEATRE.
Fonrteenth utreet. near Sixih avenue.?LUCREZIA
BOIIOIA and LADY >1 ACbEiB, at s P. M. Mine,
historu
FAX FRANCISCO MINSTRELS,
Broadway, corner ot i ?eatv-uintti street?NEGRO
MWSTRfc.LT, at 8 P. M.; close* at 10 P. M.
TIYOLI THEATRE.
Elyhfh street between Second and Tbirfl avenue*.?
VaMKIY. at 8 P. M.; closes at 12 P. M.
MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.
THE TWO ORPHANS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:44 P. M.
WALLACE'S THEATRE.
Broadway.?RAFAEL, at 8 1'. M.; closes at 10:40 P. M.
COLOSSEUM.
Broadway and Thirty-fourth ctreet.?PABIs BY XIQHT.
Two exhibitions daily, at 2 and 8 P. M.
WOOD'S MCSETM.
Broadway, coraer of Thirtieth street?BEX McCCL.
LOCOU.stS i'. M ; cloies itt 10:11 r. M. Matinee at 2
THEATRE COMIQCE,
0..BH Broadway.?YakiETY, at 8 P. M.; cloees at 10:ts
?.V
METROPOLITAN MTSETM Or ART,
West Fourteenth street.?Open from 10 A. M. to S P. X.
BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE,
Fo'ton avenue.?Variety, at 8 r. M., closes at 10 ?5
P. M.
germania thfatre.
Fourteenth afreet.? Dfc.lt I.ET7TE BRIEP. at 8 P.M.:
eioses at 10.tt P. M. Miss Lina Mayr.
OLYMPIC THEATRE,
No. Broad way?v a it 11 ;tv . at 8 P. M.; closes at 10-tt
ADRUPLE SHEET.
NEW YORK. TI'F.SDAY, APIUL in. 18T?.
Fh>m o*ir reports this morning the probabilities
are that the veaihrr to-day irijl be dear and cool.
Wat t. Stbeet Yi stebdat.?The stock mar
ket wfis unsteady and lower prices were estab
lished in many instances. Gold w;is firm at
11.r>$. and foreign exchange strong. Money
on rail ranged from 3 to -I per rent.
Mr. Tablet has closed his mission in this
city and departs in a day or two for Boston.
He failed to convcrt the reporters, which is
deeply to be regretted. The nest best thing
in his power was to anathematize them, and
that he did with great energy. If he had only
converted the reporters all the newspapers in
the city, except our own, would be obliged to
stop publication.
The Pkzkdext has declined to attend the
Centennial Celebration of th Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence, fop reasons ex
pressed in his letter. Genet al Grant has ac
cepted so much that this declination may be
regarded as an apology to the country for the
errors of the past. The North Carolina com
mittee, however, it must be remembered
neitLer offered him a dog nor a hone?nor
anothertcrm.
The Episcopal Church has recently been
embarrassed by the question as to the net en t
lo which differences in doctrine may be
tanght by the clergy or believed in by com
municants. This subject was discussed at the
Conference yesterdsy. The Episcopalian de
nomination has recently become liberal in its
news, and even the doctrine of eternal pun
ishment is no longer regarded ax an essential
article of religions faith. Certainly few of
the leading clergymen preach it, though some
ci them may possibly practise it.
The Conditio* or Abkaxsa*.?Arkansas is
t very unfortunate State, not so much in its
true condition as in its reputation. Tho
political strife in Little Rock has induced
many persons to believe that its whole popu
lation is in a perpetual turmoil. But the
political disorder is superficial; the material
progress is profound and intelligent Our
Memphis letter to-day tells many facts thr.t
have been lost sight of by the country in the
strife between Bnxt?r and Brooks and in
Grant's threat of military interference, and
shows the real progre?? that Arkansas has
1 em making in agriculture and other inter
ests of civilized society.
How to R?;*n the Hr.RALD.?The Phila
delphia Press, apropos of our quintuple
ahrets, declaros that "the Hnuu> is undoubt
edly the greatest newspaper in the world, and
to the Hkbald we must look for the news
paper of the future." But it thinks that the
Hkbald is even now too big for any
one person to read, aud is anxious to
know what shall ba done about it The City
Htm, a Philadelphia paper, publishfd with
New York enterprise and style, has commented
to similar effect. Wo res pectin I ly suggest
that if one man cannot manage a single copy
of the Herald that he shall call in his neigh
bor to help him. We print the paper, and if
it takes a regiment to read it, then let the
governor order out the military.
Th? War Clowrt In Knropt.
Europe is once mow agitated with the
thought of ?war; and this, too, a general war,
one in which Russia, Italy, Austria, Germany,
France, Belgium, perhaps England, would
take part from tho outset, or into which
any one that escaped at the inception would
be drawn ere the close of the titanic struggle.
Naturally the alarm begins at Berlin. It is
proverbially believed that the man in tho
crowd who shouts "stop thiel! most lustily
is in all probability the one who has the
stolen property in his pocket; so it is the pro
moter of every scheme of ambition that can
be realized by arms who now raises his voice
to deprecate in the councils of the Continent
the heedless conduct of half a dozen minis
tries that are about to precipitate the collision
of nations. It is one of the singular incon
sistencies of human conduct that the great
Prussian Premier?so blunt, so downright, so
outspoken in his declarations of the doc
trine of blood and iron, who has
shown so 'little regard to many of
the cherished prejudices of humanity?
seems yet to care enough for the opinion of
the world to wish to dissimulate the most im
portant points of his policy, and consequently
adopts a Machiavellian fancy in making all
the wars he wishes to wage appear as if forced
upon him by others. There is but one ob
vious explanation of this point, so inconsistent
with much of the Prince's character, which is
that the object of these tactics is less the
world than the German Emperor. Without
William's consent his Chancellor cannot
make war, and William's consent cannot ap
parently be had unless the war is made to ap
pear as the only salvation for Prussia frcm
the machinations of her enemies.
But of that possible war, against which a
Berlin paper warns the nations, Prince Bis
marck is the sole promoter, and the encroach
ments of Papacy are tho pretext. But what
is tho real object? As to that our Paris de
spatch gives a hint ot what is in the thoughts
of people in Europe, that the real object of
the new battle is the host of "gigantic shad
ows" that have dominated tho great brain of
the greatest of modern statesmen. It would
be a strange Nemesis if the unpaialleled
leader who has raised Prussia to her present
splendor, who has crcated in our own time
what was the growth of centuries in another
time, but who has believe! more than any
mau'in any age ever did in the omnipotence
of mere force, should become the victim ol
his own dreams, the monomaniac of tremen
dous armaments.
Although a case for war cannot be seen on
the European horizon there nre, no doubt,
many inimical sigDs that au overburdened
brain might torture into threatening spectres.
Perhaps the conference of the Emperor of
Austria and the King of Italy is more political
than has been given out; and now we learn,
also, that the programme by which the Em
peror William was to have gone to Italy has
been changed and that visit is given up. Are
the kindly relations of Austria and Italy
brought about by the pressure of common
apprehension ? They would not dare
just yet to mako the true cause of
their kindliness known if this be it, but it is
pretty clear that the aggressive tendencies of
the northern Power have some relation to this
effect Prussian remonstrances, it is well
known, were made at Rome on the subject of
the Pope, and it was suggested to Ttaly that
the law ot the Papal guarantee* was too lib
eral toward His Holiness and that it would
be appreciated at Berlin if there could be any
modification of that law. Visconii-Venosta
replied that the law was a treaty made by the
new kingdom with a Tower to whose tempo
ralis Italy had succeeded, and us such was
invio'able. If the great believer in the appli
cation ot military force would ro across the
Alps with representations like this how much
might naturally be apprehended by those
who at Vienna not only Lvo at peace with
the Tope but guarantee certain ecclesiastical
rights. And if one Power is really menaced,
and another sees that menace applies equally
to her and only waits its turn for fulmint
tion. it is, perhaps, but natural that the sov
rteigns of such Powers should confer person
allv on some convenient occasion, and at
least as natural ttat a great intelligence con
stantly scanning the horizon for threatening
possibilities should find some significance in
such a conference. Just in time, too, to add
a Ir sh tint to the complication comes the
remonstrance of the Pope to his Catholic son
of Austria against Prussian aggression, while
the reply of the disciplined Kaiser of Sadowa
is as mild a piece of adviJr as Bismarck could
expect under tho circuusances. It has been
repeatedy thought that the Russian Chancellor,
who in a different vein U not less ?agacious than
his Prussian rival, and who has equally, or in
a greater degree, the confidence of his Em
peror, has disliked th" German tendencies on
the frontier of those Russian provinces which
brar now the same relation respectively to
Russia and Germany that Alsace and Lor
raine bore to Germany and France b?fore the
late war; and it has consequently been specu
lated that he might not be averse to a quad
ruple alliance, to which France would be the
fourth Power. But if the power of Germany
ii to be broken in war in the experience of
tho present generation it will not be by such
a combination. If in the time of Frederick?
when operations could be kept secret, when
tho movement of a hostile army was first
known through its arrival at the threatened
point?if in such an age combination was
powerless to b??at down the hardy vitality of
that northern Power, how much lrss is the like
lihood that it should be effective iu this age,
when no secret can be kept and when commu
nication so far outfits advance that prepara
tion need never be found at fault? If Paly
anil Franc* coneen'rated on Austria for com
mon operation while Russia menaced Berlin,
Austria, the keystone of the arch would be
annihilated before help could rei.ch her, or
before the shadow of danger could tall over
the cily on the Spree whose street.* are adorned
only with monuments made out of cannon
taken from her enemies.
But there is perhaps a better reason why the
Cz?r should keep out of combinations again?t
l*ru?.sia than any for him to join them, and
the course taken by the Berlin statesman in
the present crisis points distinctly to that
reason ; indeed, the adroitness of Prince Bis
marck is as perceptible as ever in the peculiar
detail of this quarrel and in the smoke with
which ho essays to cover that detail, and it is
this that gives th9 case its main interest as a
lact and ita onljr thwatenina aaccct Whv
does he warn Belgium? Why does he menace
the little Power in the Low Couutriee, that
would scarcely disregard any request be
might make in the undertone of diplomatic
correspondence ? Because he has his eye on
Russia. And what are the relations of Belgium
aud Russia ? They are related only in Bis
marck's scheme, and there they are relative
through England. England guarantees Bel
gium's neutrality. If, therefore, any quarrel
arises between Prussia and Belgium, any
quarrel that leads to war, that cannot be
compromised nor conciliated into any sort of !
a peace, a quarrel that no government can !
knuckle down low enough to escape, then i
England must necessarily be engaged against
Prussia; not merely by the terms of the
treaty, but by the pressure of popular
opinion, that would drive out forty ministries
one alter another in the pugnacious little
island rather than fail to try one stout battle
with the arrogant bully of Europe. Now the
position of England in such a war inevitably
determines the position of Russia. They are
hostile Powers in all their relations, and if
Bismarck procures a quarrel with England,
though he will bave a stout too, he is sure of
Russia behind him. The answer of Disraeli
in the House of Commons yesterday to the
question of how far the government will stand
by Belgium is significant just now. It bears
on its face just a suspicion of nervou.? joy that
Germany has contented itself with its bullying
attitude, without further aggressive action,
and it falls back on a generalization vague
enough to satisfy English puplio opinion and
yet not provoke the terrible Bismarck.
It is very doubtful, however, if Germany
"cares for war, and all the rulers of Europe are
deeply desirous to preserve the peace their
interests require and dictate, and it is more
than possible that the noise now raised, the
war cloud so suddenly flaunted in all ej-es, is
meant mainly for effect within the Prussian
limits. Berlin borrows a page out of the old
political tactics. How many times did the
late Emperor ot the French silence revolution
ary clamor and unite the whole nation in sup
port of his policy by the alternate threat or
promise of foreign war? So now the German
Chancellor may silence a lively opposition in
his battle with the Church; for those who want
war know that he is the man they must stand
by if it comes, and those who fear war will
support the policy he points as the one to
avoid it, and when he has thus rallied the
most unlikely parties to his support his great
storm of war will float softly away, "blown
like a cloud from St. Agatha's altar."
Governor Cochrane and the Centen
nial Celebration.
Governor Cochrane, of Delaware, is plainly
a sincere man, and hi* opinions in regard to
the Centennial are representative of those of
a largfe number of citizens. In his statement,
published yesterday, he informs us that his
State is in debt, and that it cannot be ex
pected to contribute largely to the Contenninl
expenses. Bat he believes that the credit and
the honor of the nation is pledged to the suc
cess of the Exhibition, and is desirous that
Delaware shall give all the assistance in its
power to the celebration.
One objection which Governor Cochrane
makes to the celebration is that it ia laughable
to invite John Bull to participate m the celo
bration of tho declaration of American inde
pendence of England. But this is an ob
jection made a hundred years too late. The
English care nothing lor tho defeat George
HI- aml his Ministry met in our Revolutionary
ASar. They are satisfied that tin United
States arc independent of British rule,
and understand that an island could not long
continue under any circumstances to control;*
continent In truth, statesmen liko Disraeli
and Lord Derby are delighted that the Revo
lution was successful. 1 or they know that
otherwise the British kingdom would now be
a dependency of America. Ireland would be
to us an Louisiana, and London and Liver
pool would be subordinate to the metropolis
of New York. Independence probably faved
the British Islands from political subjugation
to their ancient colonies. Thercl .ro there is
no reason why Governor Cochrane should
suppose that the English will feel hurt by the
invitation to participate in tne C?ntennial
Exhibition. They will bo delighted with the
chance to display their wonderful progress in
manufactures and arts, and the action they
have thus far taken in the matter only makes
the growing lriend?hip of America and England
tha stronger. Governor Cochrane has more
rem on for his fear that the celebration will
display to foreign countries the failure of re
publicanism in America, as disclosed by the
ambition of Grant to perpetuate his power as
the ruler of the Union. Still, Delaware can
not avert the evils that threaten the rest of
the country, profoundly as she feels them,
and might as well give the Centennial her
complete support, irrespective of English
sensibilities or Presidential usurpations. The
Governors of Illinois, West Virginia and
Tennessee express their views relative
to the Centennial Exhibition in our col
umns to-day, and aftbrd new evidence that all
tho States begin to appreciate their responsi
bility for the success ef the common anni
versary. Delaware is a comparatively ancient
State, and should set a good example to her
younger sisters. Let us see what her Legis
lature will do.
j Ma. Green's Bill was virtually defeated
in the Assembly yesterday. It was referred
to the Committee on Cities, and even its
champions have little hope that it will now
become a law. Oar Albany letter gives the
full particulars of the action of tho Legisla
ture yesterday.
_ ???
The Verdict of the Coroner's jury in the
caws of tho late Dr. Walker, who died from
the poison of conium, is elsewhere presented,
with farther evidence in the matter. The
jury found Hint the medicine tct"l with extra
ordinary potency, and blamed no one 1 or the
unfortunate nnd unexpected r. -,ult. Wo
think that this verdict is fully justified by
the facts in evidence.
The New An.trroiR The protest of the
P">plo against the propo, abattoir r,n the
North River took an official lorm yesterday , t
the meeting of the Beard of Aldermen. Mr.
Delafield's argument against the outrage on
tin public health, and that of Protestor
1 Coandler, will Im found in ane^thcr column
and dci-erve careful cot?id ration. All
f>Liughter heins^s should le b yond tho limitg
ot a sreat citv.
The Bill tor th? Komo-rmi of
OflNn.
A bill so important as that just reported by
the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, but
not yet acted upon, will be discussed with
warmth both in the Legislature and out ot it.
There are already strong indications that the
republican party will oppose it, and unless
some of the republican Senators vote tor it
there is no chance of its becoming a law at
this session. We think it right in principle
but open to grave objections in its scope an
method. The substance of what it umter
tabes to enact would be more appropriate as
an amendment to the State constitution than
as a mere act of the Legislature. Governor
Tilden is by no means the first to discover,
and declare that the powers of our State Ex
ecutive are too limited. Governor Hoffman
was strongly of the same opinion, and made
it one of his chief reasons for the Constitu
tional Commission which, on bis recommen
dation, tho Legislature anthonzed him to ap
point. Among the amendments proposed by
the Commission was one clothing the Gov
ernor with a power of removing high State
officers, similar to that embodied in the pres
ent bill. That amendment was approved
by the Legislature of 1873, but was rejected
by the Legislature of 1874, and could not,
therefore, be submitted to the people, with
the other amendment*, in the last election.
Tho Constitutional Convention of 1867 pro
posed similar changes, but they were de
feated before the people by the joint oppo
sition of tho Canal Ring and the Tammany
Ring. The Governor's power of removing
high State officers ought to be defined in
the constitution and not left to be the
sport of successive partisan Legislatures. Any
law on the subject which this Legislature
may pass the next Legislature could repeal,
and would bo quito sure to repeal, if a party
advantage could thereby be gained. A
matter so important as the general powers
of the Governor, and especially to remove
officers elected, like himself, by the people,
ought not bo a football of shifting partisan
legislation. i
If the Governor is to have power to remove
all the heads of the chief executive depart
ments, he ought also to have power to appoint
them. Our present State constitution was
formed on a totally different theory. It makes
the Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treas
urer, Attorney General, State Engineer, Canal
Commissioners and State Prison Inspectors
the officers this bill seeks to empower the
Governor to remove?elective by the people
like the Governor himself. By the theory of
the constitution they are not responsible to
him but only to the people, as the Governor
hi mself is ; like the Governor they are subject to
removal by impeachment, and so long as they
are all alike common agents of the people, ow
ing no allegiancs to one another, but only to the
people by whom they are chosen, there would
seem to be no tnoro reason why the Governor
should remove the heads of the State depart
ments than why they should remove the Gov
ernor. If the Governor grossly violate bis
duty the people have provided for his im
peachment, and they have provided the same
mode of redress against their other clected
servants. If impeachment is a bIow process
against them it is also a slow process against
him; but bo long as they derive their
authority a? directly from the people as he
does his there is no reason why they should
be removable in a different manner from
what ho is, unless tho people, tho common
source of their authority, ordain otherwise in
the constitution. The people have done so
in respect to one State officer?the State
Treasurer?whom the Governor is authorized
not to remove, but to suspend until thirty
days after the meeting of the next Legisla
ture. The safety of the State funds was a
sufficient reason for taking the Treasurer out
of the operation of the general rule, which
makes the heads of departments removable
only in the same manner as the Governor.
In the fedcnl government the heads of de
partments are appointed by the President,
are responsible to him and subject to his
direction, and it is therefore fit that ho
should have the power to remove them. But
the heads of departments at Albany are not
appointed by the Governor, are not sub
ject to his direction, are not answerable
to him for their conduct, and it seems incon
gruous that he should remove them unless
the people, speaking through the constitution,
conter that power directly upon him.
As we have already said, we believe the
principle of this bill to be correct; but it is a
principle which ought to be carried out by
amendments to tho constitution, and not by a
mere act of the Legislature, which may bo
pasded this year and repealed next, subjec t to
tbc fluctuations of party ascendancy. This
bill is prompted by the abuses of canal man
agement, but the plaster is broader than the
tore. All that Governor Tilden asked in his
late Message was authority to remove tho
Canal Commissioners and State Engineer, and
it would be wise to amend the bill by restrict
ing it to those officers. So amended, we should
be willing to see it passed as a temporary
measure, but M a temporary measure only.
What the Legislature ought to do is to pro
pose an amendment to the constitution re
lieving 'he Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
State, Comptroller and Attorney Gen
eral from the duties which devolve
on them as members of the Canal
Board, and putting the canals under
the management of officers to be appointed
by the Governor and confirmed by tho Sen
ate. These officers the (rovernor should havo
power to remove for cause ; but not State
officers fleeted by the people. At present tho
Lieutenant Governor has tho same power, as a
member of the Canal Board, as tho Secretary
of State, Comptroller and other officers whom
this bill seeks to make removablo by the Gov
ernor ; but he is omitted from tho bill, al
though there is no more reason for exempting
the Lieutenant Governor than tor exempting
the Secretary of State and Comptroller. It is
absurd to make all the chief State officers,
who are elected to discharge duties quite for
' eign to the management of the. canals, mem
bors of the Canal Board. If left to their ap
propriate duties there is no reason why thev
should be removable by the Governor, and so
long as they continue to ba elccted by the
i people they should be liable to lose their
i offices only by impeachment, like the Gov
I ernor himself.
The correct system is that presented by the
Constitutional Convention of 1867, which was
defeatad bv the covert influenoe of the Canal
Ring and the open opposition of the demo
cratic party then controlled by the old Tana
many Ring. That proposed constitution
abolished the Canal Board and the officee of
Canal Commissioner and Canal Appraiser, and
substituted for tbem a single officer, with the
title of Superintendent of Publio Works.
This officer was to be appointed by the Gov
ernor, with the consent of the Ssnate, and to
be removable by the Governor for cause.
Under the Superintendent, to perform the
duties of detail which devolve on the Canal
Commissioners, there were te be three or four
deputy superintendents, to be appointed by
the Governor on the Superintendent's recom
mendation, bnt removable for cause by the
Superintendent. That proposed system was
admirably calculated to enforce responsibility.
Governor Tllden and Mayor Wltkhtm.
It is a very old maxim that the most suc
cessful of diplomatic arts is the art of Riving
good dinners. Our estimable Governor at
Albany has a shrewd perception of the
methods by which men are most easily in
fluenced, and as his wealth has long enabled
him to dispense a liberal hospitality and hiB
amiability makes him a genial host, it is not
surprising that he resorts to social blandish
ments to make political conquests. The en
tertainment he gave to Mr. Bryant in the
early part of the winter was a nice stroke of
social tactics; for although there were excel
lent private reasons why ho should thus honor
an old friend, he could not have been insen
sible to the effect ? of such a compliment be
stowed on a political opponent in conciliating
the good will of the people, who admire a
handsome thing handsomely done. His hos
pitable attention to Mayor Wickham and his
family, though more quiet, are equally sug
gestive of the Governor's skilful use of the
arts of conciliation. Mayor Wickham will
find it quite as difficult as Mr. Bryant to
oppose the Governor after accepting his hos
pitality. We are not curious to solve the
puzzle which agitates the quidnuncs as to
the particular things which were talked about
and arranged between the Governor and the
Mayor in this visit. Even if no word was
exchanged between them in relation to the
points on whjch they have differed, the fact
that the Governor proffered and the Mayor
accepted pleasant hospitalities is a conclusive
proof that they will not push their quarrel to
extremities. They are on the sure
road to a cordial understanding when
Mrs. Wickham spends a week at the
Governor's house and her husband goes
up to pass Sanday and attend church and
visit the Albany Penitentiary in company
with the Governor. Even if no politics were
talked between them (which of course nobody
believes), the fact of 6uch pleasant, social
intercourse suffices to prove that the hatchet
is buried and that these discordant function*
aries have smoked the pipe of peace, like
Tammany braves, who have como to a mu
tual conclusion that hostilities are unprofit
able.
We will not speculate on the possible things
they may have arranged during this visit.
The progress of events during the residue of
the session will disclose them. Corporation
Counsel Smith and the Fire Commissioners
will naturally bo anxious, and if the Gov
ernor has consented to their removal the fact
will appear in duo time. That the Governor
assured the Miyor that he disliked tha bill
for making Comptroller Green a municipal
Crcsar appears by the virtual collapse of the
Miller bilL If the Mayor's grateful seasc of tho
Governor's hospitablo attentions has induced
him to let Green alone that also will be ap
parent alter the lapse of a week or two. It
need not surprise anybody if the Governor
and Mayor have concluded to observe in poli
tics the admirable morality which they both
learned in the nursery, but which the demo
cratic party has of lato forgotten?"Birds in
their little nests ngre<?, and 'tis a shameful
sight when children of one family fall out
and chide aud fight." There is greet need of
a revival of this pretty lesson, and wo con
gratulate the Mayor aud Governor that they
are the first to think of it
Mcdicine and the Pr*u.
The Kings County Medical Society has
adopted a series of resolutions which deserve
i the attention of both physicians and patient*.
Doctors have as a matter of dignity ignored
1 newspapers, and the member of the profes
sion who advertises is for that reason alone
{ looked upon as a quack. The Kings County
Medical .Society has wakened up, and pro?
poses to establish a department of public in
, struction. We are plciissd to observe that it
has discovered that the l>est way to educate
the public is through the press.
I That "the profession has everything to
gain in the way of dignity and influence
through the well instructed int^llicnnee of the
constituency to which it ministers" is a tru
ism which should long ago have been recog
nized and acted upon. The theory that a
! doctor is a being without responsibility and
absolute in his delicate and difficult vocation
can no longer ho accopted. Science and
education have changed the situation. Al
i most every intelligent person now under
| stands something of the general law* of
| health and a little of the principles of medi
cine. The doctor is not the less important,
but the patient is the more helpful. We
welcome everything which shows that the
medical profession is not inclin d to mako a
mystery of general laws and proclaimed dis
coveries, but is anxious to call into Its service
j the common sense of the wbol^ community.
The Kings County Medical Socicry deserves
credit for the principles it has declared and
its evident inclination to illustrate practically
the proverb that "an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure." If it can give us
good ventilation in our public schools, if it
can make the laws of health public property
instead of a professional privilege, it' it can us9
the newspaper press to disseminate correct
1 ideas and valuable discoveries, it will desarve
J more than nroial boner, not only for its enter
prise, but for itM example. Medicine ought
not to be a mystery any more than leligioB.
Concealment of facts and principles in the one
tends to ruin the body and in ihe othcr to tho
destruction of th soul. Candor with the pub
lic is, alter ail, the secret of success in any of
the liberal professions.
The Date has not jet been fixed for the in
vestiture of Cardinal McClosksy wilh the
robes of office. The desire to seo tho cere
mony is intense, and the Cathedral will not be
l&rce enoufih to hold the public.
H?td Nontfi
The proposition before the Assembly to in
crease (he amount of head money demanded
from emigrants entering the port of New York
is unwiso in principle and is calculated to
injure the interests of this oity. The increase
in the tax is urged on the ground that it will
benefit the emigrants ; but there seems good
reason to conclude that the resources derived
from the existing tax, if economically admin>
istered, would be sufficient to meet all the just
requirements of needy emigrants. In the
eyes of a great many people the increase of a
dollar a head in the tax on emigrants
is a matter of slight importance;
but then it should be taken into con
sideration that to a large class of European
emigrants even a dollar in the passage makeg
a very considerable difference. Boston, witb
true Yankee smartness, has understood thi
importance of this apparently trifling mattei
and abolished all chargo on emigrants landing
at the New England port. As a result several
of the steamship lines are directing an im
portant portion of their emigrant trade to
that port The National, Cunard and
Allan lines have established a regular service
with Boston, in order to avoid the payment of
emigrant head money in New York. During
the past year over twenty-flye thousand emi
grants have been diverted to Boston who but
for tbis obnoxious tax would have been landed
in New York. Baltimore and Montreal har?
also profited largely by the penny wis*
policy of the lawmakers of this State. Th<
true policy would be to encourage the flow oi
emigration to this city. All taxes and head
moneys, however much they may be intended
for the good of the emigrants, act only as so
many inducements for persons seekina homee
in this country to enter by some other port
By our Chinese policy the commerce of New
York has already suffered very much. The
coffee trade has gone to Baltimore, and the
metal trade is divided between Boston and
Baltimore. Our tax on emigrants threatens us
with the far more serious loss of the emigrant
trade, which has so materially contributed to
build up the greatness of this city and make it
the capital of America. Our legislators al
Albany ought, therefore, to bo very careful
before making changes in thus head monoj
law, which may seriously interfere with th?
welfare of New York.
The Membebs of the theatrical profession
announce their intention to take proper ac
tion in respect to the death of tho late Dan
Bryant, a gentleman who was deservedly en
deared to all his associates, and popular,
almost beyond rivalry, with the public
throughout the United States.
The Louisiana Conff.bence is expected to
be decided to-day. There is considerable
opposition to the terms proposed by Mr.
Wheeler and agreed upon by leading men of
both parties, but in the present condition of
political affairs what better adjustment can be
obtained? Louisiana wants peace above all
things. Absolute justice is, unfortunately, out
of tho question.
Mb. Beeches yesterday denied all that he
is accuscd of. It is plain that some one hat
been guilty of unparalleled sworn falsehood
in this remarkable trial. For the original
question of adultery that of perjury hae
been substituted, and the public is anxious to
know which side is guilty of tho innovation.
Mr. Beecher's proposed statement to his
church was read yesterday, and as it is a new
document will command no ordinary
attention.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Senator Conorer, or Florida, Is la Washington.
Senator Koscoe conkling baa apartments at tht
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Ex-Governor McCoolc has departed (rom Wash
ington for Colorado.
Go Hove s. Orih, Minister to Austria, la at Wasb<
Ington awaiting Instructions.
Captain Jobn !1. Upahnr, United states Nary, u
quartered at the Everett House.
Congressman N. Holmes Oaeil, of Tarrytown, S.
Y., is staying at the St. James Hotel.
Professor CrilTln, of Williams College, is among
the lam arrivals at the Irving House.
Congressman Jobn K. Tarbox, of Massachusetts,
la sojourning at ttic St. Nicholas Hotel.
I Judge James H. Howe, or Wisconsin, baa taken
np his residence at the Windsor Hotel.
Captain Samuel Brooks, or the steamship City of
I Richmond, is at the Grand Central Hotel.
Lieutenant Aallck Palmer, of the United States
Marine corps, Estopping at the Glenham Hotel.
Queen Victoria recently called at Chlselnursi
and spent an hour with the cx-Kmpress Euglaie.
Mr. Henry It. Llnderman, Director of the United
States Mint, has arrived at the Filth Avenue llo>
j tel.
Mr. Robert T. Lincoln, son of the lamen'ed
; Abraham Lincoln, la residing at the Fifth Avenue
j Hotel.
There is a dreadful rnmor In England tbat Rich
ard O'Gorman Is going over to atand for Parity
ment, like Mttchel.
Captain William Prince, of the Ordnance Depart
ment, United states Army, is registered at tn?
j Metropolitan Hotel.
Lien tenant commander Frelerlck Pearson,
United Slates Navy, has taken op bis quarters at
the St. James Hotel.
Prnfe. sor spender F. Balrd, of the United states
Fisheries Commission, arrived at the Filth Avenue
Hotel yesterday irom Washington.
Grant said that Itntlur was bottled up; but I!
Butler had s-sld that Grant was bottifd np it might
have t>een deemea an offensively personal ot>
servation.
In Liverpool "the Select Vestry" bays port win#
for the Workhouse Infirmary at twenty-two cjnts
a bottle. If you don't like to drink it, don't go to
the Workhouse.
Somebody sent to a lady In London an Raster
ecg which contained an African scorpion, by which
Interesting insect 'he laay was bitten ao that siu
will probably die.
rarson. Bownlow was disgusted at Andy John
son's want ol dignity oa a certain occasion, and
went a little further than Andy on the same ins
to show his disgust.
Religious order* are to be suppressed in Ger
many by a law of the imperial Parliament?.*0 thai
they may not crop up in other S'.ates as last astney
are put down In Prussia.
wnat moonshine to dream or new parties in
these days, 'ritere Is only oin possible national
Issue ociore us, whn-h Is whether the next Presi
dent will oe Grant or some ono else.
Epitaphs wore iluuuised before a fellow of
tweniy-flvc, wno thontrht the* were toocompllcat.
ed, and gave the following as what ho iron Id Iikj
to have on his tomb:?
JOHN THOMPSON, 18.vy.inso.
Victor Hugo eooke over Qnlnct's grave a dis
course fliled witn tra^b/ hl/alutin, in which, hotv
ever, occurred this one huppy sentence, "It ta the
pleasure 01 proud fcoul.s to be troublesome to
tyrants."
Treasurer Spinner yesterday received an aui?
graph letter from tno President accepting hu
resignation as Treasurer or me United States, and
expressing lor the relirin* ocieial lbs warmest
sentiments of regard for him personally, together
with a high appreciation of his well known pro.
bitr. patriotism and official integrity.