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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
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VOLUME XL SO. 139 !
AMUSEMENTS TO-XIGHT.
BOOTH S THEATRE.
corner of Twaotvtblrd ?ire*t anu Slxtti aeenae.?
MAi BElU, at SI'. M. ; clo<w? at II P M. X u Clar*
Morris _
LYCEUM THEATRE,
Fourteenth stret-: tteir fi\ih avenue.?GI80FLE
ulHu> la. at Si*. M. Mile, (k-ortro*.
SAN" rBAXCIS'C.t MINSTRELS.
Mr (Mill corner i-t r-wrnt> uintli ?treet.?XEORO
Ml.VorRhLOT. at - V M. tki> > it 1 ' P V.
WALLACE'* THEATRE.
Rroadwav.?THt IRI-U llKIKf>>. at ? P. M ; clo?e* it
U .tj I*. M. Mi? A'l j Mr Montague.
HOWLRY OPERA HOUSE.
No. JUI Bowerv. ?VARIETY. at " P. M clow* atlO-ii
P. M.
WOOD'S MISEIM.
Sroau*ay. r?rn?r ot Thir'iet'i *tri?*t.?JIM BLEDSOE,
a: *P M.; clo-e* at I0:ti P. V M.ltcn Noble*. MatlBM
?t :r m.
THEATRE COMIQCK,
<0. .*44 Br?a !wa? ?V ARIKTY, at - P. M ; riot* at lii
p. m.
METROPOLITAN" MCSECM OF ART.
We? rourte.-nth street.?Ooeu from 10 A M to 5 P. M
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
So "OiBroadwaj-.-VAKlETY. at 9 P. M.; Com* at 10-45
P. M.
GRAMD OPERA HOUSE.
Hi.! th awnaf and Iwentj thlnl meet. ?IW ELY E
iEMPCArlO.NS. at 8 P. M ; clomt HI 11 p X
OR P. MAM A THEATRE.
fourteenth street ? Oas uoEse t RAl*LEI\?at5 P M.
kifth avbmcb theatre.
"Tw?ntjr-?1ghUi street ami Knwdwav.? IUE BIO BO
saxza,?ar.v.iclosesat 10 op ti.
BROOKLYX PAItK THEATRE.
Pa'tftn aananu* ?YAlilETY. at ? P.M at l-trtl
r M
METROPOLITAN* THEATRE.
Ko. SM Broadwar._rARIKTV. at ? P. M.
CENTRAL PARK 4.AROEX.
THEODORE THOMAS' CONCERT, at 8 P. *
ROBINSON HALL,
Went *ixteent?i street.?Eazlt?\ Oj>era~0IROFLE.
GIRO FLA. at S P. M
TRIPLE SHEET.
VEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. MAY lft. HT.'i,
from our report* (Kit morning the pmbabUiliet
<1re thai 0* uenthrr to-day iril be Ihniteving,
local rains.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were
'.mrer and the market lererish. Gold ad
vanced to 116f. Foreign exchange was lets
firm. Money easy.
Mr. Bebob ha? ajzam interfered for the bet
ter protectirm of animals. Ungrateful bog*.
ladiff'Tent doc*, irreverent hones?none of
Use beasts will ever thank him for his services.
^zabztt s Bwr-ms.?The report that Shar
ker, the Dotonoo* murderer, who escaped
trrrn justice. is do* on Lis way from Hsvhiis
to New Yora, baa created mnch excitement in
tbaa dty.
T?z Ororn*o Kicr> of the spring are, of
course, interesting, :uid we give a lnll report
of the trotting meeting at Fleetwood Park, in
which Tornado Maid and Ix'lr Binoche were
the winner?.
Tut Port according to our special cable
despatches ii'itn Ron,' , is delighted with the
enthnaiahm shown in America on aceonnt of
the ??eTaU'->ii of Mr. McCIoskey to the Cardi.
M late.
The Whthmi yesterday was an aaaarance
that -prinwr has come at last. with June as her
hesitating, deligtitfnl companion. We muy
now believe that winteT is over and that orer
and shawls may be laid away till Ikli.
fUnx> Transit.?The Hunted Sill, or, as
we hare called it, the Tilden bill, has paused
to ? third reading in the Assembly. The vast
rcsponaibility is thns thrown upon the
vcui?. which, in duty?to itself and the pub
lic, ia bound to act npen the question
proaaptly and with regard only to the general
interest.
Tmx Cna J r antra Cot-bts bill was de
feated yesterday in the Assembly, but a vote
for reconsideration wm taken, so that it may
?gain be called up, recouaidered and paaeed.
Ra defeat ia not to be regretted. We need a
reform in oar district courts, bat this bill ta said
o hare been the offspring of a bargain for (he
judgeships between certain dcmoctats and
republicans. Such combinations are always
objectionable and liave invariably given 11a
Undesirable public officers.
0??T?r<Tt*f? an Ijtminattokal Cottrst.?
There ia tronMe in Great Britain. A bridge
at Clontarf has been pronounced unsafe, and
as it lies in the road by which the contestants
in the great international rifle match are to
reach the ground heretofore selected as the
theatre of the stnijjgU: for tbo championship ol'
the world, the government has insisted tb?t it
?lnll be repaired. The localauthorities? men
?f the Jerry MeGuirw stamp are not to I*
Aictsted to. Anything that looks like coer
cion throws theui instantly into a condition of
?birt sleeves aud ahillalahs. The rickety
bridge become* the tail of their coat the chip
on thsir shoulder. Repair it? Never! under
fcaxon dictation! So we are informed by
oabia that ths international rifle match will bs
bald at Cumgh, Wicklow, or some other
nJao* not tm ths vfafautr of Dtblia.
War R?eorda and War Iiium.
Oar Washington correspondent telegraphs
us that the publication of General Sherman's
! "Memoirs, " and the criticisms attending it,
j bavo produced a profound impression in Wash
ington. "The feeling among many army and
navy officers" he says, "is intense against
the General of the Ariuv, and u thoasand
pens will leap to the defence of the principal
characters who have been so harshly criti
cised. The complaints will cot be ccntined
alone to army circles; and, should the re
mark.? anticipated about the nary appear in
the forthcoming wort, there will be broad
sides to giro as well as to receive." "The
severest censurc," continues our correspond
ent, "the book has yet received has been from
the old army officers who served with General
Sherman in his Western campaign, and who
were in his confidence in the most important
movements." Our correspondent furtlier
says that the friends of General Grant wr
urging him to prepare material for his
memoirs of the war. "His experience," he
adds, "has been more varied than that of
General Sherman, and advantages for col
lating lacts and arranging them are offered
the President which General Sherman did
not enjoy." So, altogether, we are on the eve
of an interesting and lively discussion.
Before we drift too far into this debate let |
us see what the situation really is. General j
Sherman publishes his "Memoirs" in two vol
umes, giving a graphic, brilliant and complete
history of his connection with the war. In
this work for the first time he enables Ihe
country to measure his exact status as a gen
eral. In doing so bo follows the example of
the greatest commanders, of Caesar, Frede
rick, Napoleon and Scotr. In speaking of
generals who served with him he uses a
frankness which is censured, but we think uu
justly. General Sherman has as much right
to express his opinion of officers who are liv
ing as any other critic. Napoleon did not
hesitate to do the same even during the life
time of bis associates. Xlurat, Napoleon said,
was a man ot "extraordinary courage and
little intelligence. " "One who remained cour
ageous and nothing more;" who deserted his
crtu?-e with unfeeling brutality and ran with
"unblushing baseness to hail the new dy
nasty." Ney was "the bravest of the brave
and nothing more." who sacrificed his honor
in his defence at his trial. Bemadotte was
"swayed by personal considerations and silly I
vanity and all sorts of mean passions." j
Angerenn wns n bravo. .Tnnot a spend- 1
thrift and a boor. Jerome Bonaparte was of
?-boundless extravagance and most odious
libertinism." Berthier was a goose, who im
agined himself an eagle, whilo Wellington
was a man whose "faults were enormous'' j
and whose glory was wholly "negative." So I
that General Sherman's criticism on his as
sociates in the war are by no means as sharp
or comprehensive as Napoleon's. Sherman
expressly saja tha: he does not care
to write anything that will bring annoyance
to many of those who were actors in the war
and who are still living. As to whether his
judgment of the different generals is right or
wrong we, of course, cannot say. That is a
matter of history anl of discussion. But why
there should be so much indignation in ,
Washington at the publication of a frank,
manly statement of tbe part taken by an illus
trious general in a great campaign is sur
prising. The only question to be considered
is, "Does Geaeral Sherman tell the troth?" i
Tf sc. then he can stand the criticisms npon
his work.
Clearly enough General Sherman is justi
fied in writing this memoir. He shows that
the admirers and the friends of President
Grant hav- steadily fostered the idea that to
the President moat be attributed the credit of i
the march to the sea, which is universally
conceded to have been the mo*t brilliant ,
achievement ot the war. Some ot the admin
istration journals now nay that there was no
junification for this feeling on General Sher
man's part; that the President himself never
has claimed the credit of the achievement of
any other officer. General Sherman has
another opinion in his book His exact
words are : ? m itnoral Grant has never, in
my opinion, thought to or said so''?namely,
th'it be planned the march to the sea. And,
as we have all along contended. General Sher
man is 1 in fueling that an attempt
has been made to take from him
th* credit of his illustrious achieve
ment. General Badsan, whose life of
General Grant Is, if anything, official,
and who writes with clearness and eloqaence
and the tnile-?t information on the subject, says
expr?-*.sly that General Grant frequently ex
plained to his staff, of which (General Budeau
va> a iii' inbfr, his plan f??r fighting his way
to Atlanta and then cutting loose with the
army for either Mobile cr Savannah. Further,
according to General Badeau. when General
Grant left the armies of the West for Wash
ington to take command as Lieutenant fiene
ral, "it was his firm intention to return to
Chattanooga, and, while he retained control
of nil the armies, to lead in person those
whieh moved toward the sea." This is a clear, !
exj.lii it statement, and fn?m the President's
chosen and < heriabed historian. In the preface
to his work (ieneral Badeau says, in order that
his evidence may have the utmost value, that
he was a member of General Grant's staff be
fore thi President assumed command of the
armies, that he remained with him until the
end of the war. "I huve not," says the Gen
eral, "meant to state one tact, unless it came
under my own personal observation, or has
been told me by the General of the army or
one of his important officers, or unless I know
it from official papers" To General Sherman
he expre.-v-dy returns thanks "for much valu
able information." Now, if the official biogra
pher of (General (irant, not only an honorable
but a trustworthy writer, affirms, as he doe.*,
on page .">71 of the tir*t volnme of his work,
that General Grant had conceived the
movement whieh ended in the march to
the es. and wai s<? impressed with it
that he thought of"retorning to Chattanooga
and leading m person fhe armies, certainly
Sherman ha-, a right to assume that, unless
he vindicates his own fame, tf *dl suffer.
I i?on what authority doe, Geueral Hftdean
make his special statementt Did it come to
him from hi? own "personal observation," or
was it fold to him by General Grant "or one
of his important officers," or "did he know it
, from official papers?'' As if to strengthen
this statement Mr. Charles A. Dans, at that
time Assistant Secretary of War and a mem*
I bar of Oxanl s military family, expressly says
that this whole movement to the sea was one
of Grant's grandast conceptions.
We do not see how General Sherman could,
especially with tbe evidence which ha presents
in hi* "Memoirs,' remain quiet while the ad
mirers of General Grant were steadily depriv
ing him of his reputation. General Sherman
(amply shows by letters and despatches which
are matters of record, an J, of oourse, by his
own averments, that the march to the sea was
his own conception ; that General Grant op
posed it at first, being anxious he should at
tack Hood ; that Grant only consented to it
after repeated urgency on Sherman's part.
He Phows, further, that the capture of
havanuah was General Sherman's act. and
that General Grant's orders would bave taken
the army off west from Georgia and left
Savannah in the hands of the rebels, if
General Sherman had not successfully pro
tented. We should be glad to bave Genc-ral
Grant give his view of these campaigns, as
our correspondent believes to be his purpose.
They aro rapidly passing into history. The
names of those who acted in them will never
die so loog as the aunals of this Republic are
read. Far be it Irom us to take awav one
laurel that rests, and justly rests, upon the
brow of the President. It would be unworthy
of him und unworthy of his fame to even, by
implication, consent to deprive Sherman of
his justly acquired triumphs. Wo can only
understand the feeling in Washington which
our correspondent so graphically describes
as another phase ot that adulation which offi
cers in the army as well as other place-holders
are only too willing to heap upon the Presi
dent, the dispenser of power. What we wish,
however, is truth, not flattery. If General
Sherman has not told the truth let it bo made
manifest. As the controversy stands now he
has simply done his duty like a gentleman
and a soldier. He has only controverted im
pressions for which General Badeau, Charles
A. Dana and others are responsible. It re
mains for those who dissent from his opinions
to tell us upon what they base their case.
BUfkwfll'i Island.
"W e print this morning a startling story of
onr modern life. Having beard lrom mauv
sources of the cruelties practised in various
city institutions the Hkrald resolved to put
one of them to a severe and practical test.
Selecting an adventurous and ingenious re
porter, not without experience in dealing with
the hard ways of the world, a man who has
dived into the under world to see what man
ner of men and women there abide, we ar
ranged that he should make n practical trial
of the real life on Blackwell's Island. This
seemed to be the only way of testing an insti
tution which plays so large a part in the dis
cipline of New York society. Our intrepid I
agent found his own way of coming within I
the stem operation ot the law. Ho owes much
of his success in achieving his mission to Mr.
Bailey, of the Board of Charities and Correction.
That gentleman entered heartily into the
work. As a public officer charged with an
important trust he saw plainly enough that
it was to the interest of the" people that
we should know fully the manner of life on
the Island. Our readers will comprehend
the whole story. They see how it is possible :
that an institution partly for punishment and
partly for reformation should become an
agency of cruelty and shame. Now that
public attention is directed to Black well's
Wand in the only manner in which we" onn
know the truth the best results will follow.
Already President Bailey and bis colleagues,
upon learning of the state of affairs as
pictured by our reporter, have taken prompt
measures to reform it. In this way what was
in the l>eginning an inquiry, actuated by the
natural spirit of enterprising and progressive
journalism, has become a benefit to the com
munity by compelling a salutary reform.
nitUkct of lafalllbllfty.
A Roman newspaper announces that the
Pope has resolved to convoke the Vatican
Council again to discuss certain ecclesiastical
reforms in the Catholic Church. Wc do not
know how true this story is, nor are we dis
posed to accept it without reserve. It would
be difficult to assemble the Council in Rome
without embarrassments which the Pope
would scarcely wish to encounter. Consider
ing that the last Council, before it adjourned,
made the dogma of infallibility an article of
faith, we do not me why it shonld be neces
sary to reopen its deliberations for rhe pur
pose of ditcussing ecclesiastical reforms whou
it is in the jtowt r of the Pop?, as n supreme
head and absolute master of the Church, to
proclaim these reforms by the stroke of his
p?*n. Nor do we know in what respcots the j
Holy See conaiders reform to be necessary.
At the same time, if we were allowed to ex
press an opiuion, it would l?e that th- course
of the Pope toward Spain, for instance, is a
blunder, and calculated to do harm to re
ligion. We observe in a despatch fr-jm Ma
drid to the London Daily A'eies that the Papal
Nuncio had made a formal demand upon Al
fonso to restore the Catholic religion to the
position it occupied before the revolution. In
other words, that the Catholic religion should
be the only tolarated faith io Spain; that no
other churches should be allowed but those
dedicated to the worship of its creed ; that
no cemetery should be opened but those which
bad been consecrated to the use of per
sons who died in the faith. Ws can
not imagine any religious system more
dishearten ing and narrow than that which
prevailed in Spain before the fall of Isabella,
and which the Pope would now re-establish.
It is to the honor of Ring Alfonso thst he has
l not permitted his clerical adviser* to restore
j it. He answers, wording to the despatch,
that he is resolved to maintain liberty of
worship in tipain. This is s just r.nswer. It
ia incredible that the Holy See in thia nine
teenth century, and in the presence of what
may be a<'sn iu America and England and
other free connlri"*, xhonld make
inch a 'i' stand as this upon the .Spanish
government. It only Rive? rise to
those criticism! of the Cttlholic kith
L ou in the >>Atl do harm. The Holy See
has no mere i.uthfnl Jotfewera than in tbs
United Mates. In no coaotry baa its minis
ter* .so much freedom nor are the decrees of
the Pope so widely respected. Why, then,
shonld ths Holy See, in the presence of the
liberty extended to its churches and priest*
in a republic largely Protestan', insiot upon
a policy of repression and illiberally in a
country where its followers are paramount ? If
the Holy Set demands m Spain that, because
ths &p*oiar Js are generally Catholic, no other
Christian afatem can be tolerated, what
reason hare we to doubt that the same de
maud would not be repeated iu America if
the prayers ot its prelates could be answered
i aud the American States were to become
Catholic iu as large a proportion as the
provinces of Spaiu?
England and Peace.
The Paris Moniieur informs us that we owe
to the influence of England the fact that
Europe in now nt peace. We do not know
bow ftp this is exactly true, but the words of
the yfonitenr are caretuily expressed. "Eng
land," it says, "by raising her voice in favor
ol peace has naturally recovered her just au
thority and influence in Continental affairs,
and the present Ministry has acquired a de
gree ot strength and power which will procure
lor it the grateful respect of Europe." If it
can be demonstrated that Lord Derby has
really suoceeded in preventing a content that
must have become one of the most extraor
dinary calamities of modern time6, then he has
won for himseif an enviable fame as a states
man. The reproach so otten addressed to the
late Ministry of Mr. Gladstone was that Eng
land had abdicated her functions as a leading
European Power ; that sne had been content
with taking a second rate position among the
nations ; that the glory she had won in the
time of Napoleon had been surrendered to a
commercial and money-loving spirit. Wo
think it was Mr. (Jarlyle who 6aid, in a con
versation reported to us by an inquisitive
American correspondent, that Mr. Gladstone
was simply a "bagman," and that he dealt
with England as though he were at
the head of a large dry goods business. He
believed that Mr. Gladstone had surrendered
the best interests of his country at the dicta
tion of America when ho consented to the ar
bitration at Geneva, and that this contributed
more than any other influence to the destruc
tion of his Cabinet When Mr. Disraeli came
into power it was with the assurance that
England was once more to become a vigorous
member ot the European family of nations.
If it can be shown that the influence of his
government has preserved the peace, even
against as restless a country as France and as
imperious a statesman rts Bismarck, it will go
far to rpdeeui Victoria's reign Jrom the re
proach which has fallen upon it.
It is natural that England shonld ask for
l>eace and insist upon it by the strongest
pressure. There could scarcely be a war on
the Continent in which England could remain
neutral. She is bound by treaty to guarantee
the independence of Belgium. She is oloselv
allied to Germany by interests of religioa and
commerce, the family relationship of the
reigning houses and a common ancestry. At
the same time, during the last thirty years
there has grown up between England and
France, hereditary enemies in the past, the
closest relations of commerce and friendship.
While there does not exist between the French
and English the samo natural and binding
ties that we find between Englishmen and
Germans, still in the movement of
iiffiiirs in diplomatic interests they are
even more strongly allied. France is the
only country in Europe upon which England
can depend to assist her in maintaining the
route to the Indies. France is the natural
ally of England in every question which may
lead to war, except, perhaps, the independ
ence of Belginni. Therefore anf war be
tween Germany and France would necessarily
involve England. If England were to stand
by and allow the destruction of France there
could be no reason why Russia would not
march to Constantinople.
England sees also that the misfortunes of
France have become the opportunities of
Iluss a. The recent war with Germany was
seized upon by the Russian Power to
abrogate the Sebastopol treaty and allow
Russia to resume possession of the
Black Sea. All tbe results of the
war of twenty years ago were destroyed
by one stroke of the pen, simply because
France, which could have aided England in
cherishing them, was lying bleeding at the
point of (Jermany's sword. The public opin
ion of Earope is in such a condition now ttiat
the next war must necessarily be universal.
It is hard to see how with these armaments
growing larger and larger crery day, with the
war spirit controlling the councils of the dif
ferent empires, with tbe soldiers making
ready for tb?> combat, with so many angry
questions at issue, questions like those
between Bismarck and the Holy See. calcu
lated to rouse the dcej>est spirit of indigna
tion. how we could huvc any war but one
: the mod comprehensive and destructive in its
j character. Nor can the most far-seeing
philosopher anticipate what the result of
such a war would be. Great questions ar*
brewing in Europe. The knowledge of tho
people grow* clearer and clearer every cUy.
: The legend of div;ne right, the time-honored
monuments of nobility and royalty, the estab
lished churchcs, the established castes and
established armies have no longer the same
influence upon the common people. In Eng
land especially we see public opinion drifting
rapidly from any allegiance to either Church
or State. Tens of thousands of men assemble
I in Hyde Park to declare that the Lord Chief
Justuv ot England is a corrupt judge and the
verdict of an English jury the result of in
timidatiou and fraud. It is easy etougn lor
lings to make war, but ran they control the
people when wnr has begun? England,
therefore, in compelling peace, has no doubt
prevented a revolution, the extent ot which
cannot be imagined.
Steam liinti and Ssmmcr Travel.
The constantly recurring steamship dis
aster* on the high s**??, painful as they arc.
might in the end become a blessing if every
calamity could be made a lesson. Li^f year,
when the world was shocked by tbe disaster
to the Vilh' du Havre, the Hkiujj) urged
upon the steamship companies to establish a
system of "steam lanea;" in other words, to
lay out a certain track across the
? ocwti. south of tbe ntnge of ice,
to be not more than twenty miles in
breadth, orrn- which all steamers should sail.
The effect of this would be that with the
large nnnibei of steamers leaving our ports,
especially during the summer season, there
would practically be a vessel always in sight.
Therefore, in the case of a sudden calamity like
that of the Villc du Havre tho chances of es
cape would be largely increased. In tbe
event of the steamship companies not con
senting to this measure, we then felt it the
1 duty of the governments of Germany and
Franco and England and tha United States to
define by treaty tbeae steam lanss, axxd to
compel tlie ship* bearing their flag* to ob
serve them. This discussion took a wide
range. Many eminent scientific men con
tributed to it Now that we are about to
begin our summer season the discussion a??
sumes a new value. We certainly think that
the owners of Rteamships could do nothing to
commend themselves more heartily to the
people than to assemble and quietly lay down
the route between t.he Old Worid and the
New. There is no reason why such a route
cannot be designated and observed. If they
hesitate, tben the maritime governments
should take the matter in hand.
The President Appealed To.
There is something almost painful in the
journey of the Sioux chiefs to Washington.
As stated in our despatches, they called at the
Interior Department yesterday and had a for
mal but brief interview with Commissioner
Smith. It will be remembered that when
these chiefs complained at Omaha tbat the
Indian agents had compelled them to take
with tbem interpreters who would present
only the smooth 6ide of any picture, they
were termed a band of liars bent on an errand
of slander, and that extermination was the
mildest punishment they should expect. Red
Cloud has turned the tables on his enemies,
however, for said he yesterday, "When I
fpeak I always call on the Great Spirit to
hear me, because I tell the truth. The white
man tell mo lies." He became troubled in
his mind about the constant lying and de
termined to journey to Washington to tell the
Great Father all about it.
There are certain general facts about the
Indian question that no one will dispute.
These agents have for years and years made
vast sums of money. The Indians under
their care have either been exterminated or
destroyed by disease or iorced into wars
which ended in their massacre. Steadily from
year to year our Indian system has driven the
red man West and has utmost obliterated the
ancient tribes, and has been an advantage to
no one except the Indian agents. The only
way these agents could mako money is by
robbing the Indians and cheating the govern
ment. We know enough of the power of
rings of this kind over our administration to
fear that the government is perfectly helpless,
unless the President will deal as promptly
with the Indian frauds as be has dealt with
the frauds upon the revenue.
It is due to President Grant to say that he
has never hesitated to strike a blow at any
system in the government, no matter how
powerful, if it could be shown that it was
stained with corruption. Here he has a
splendid opportunity. Whatever we may
think of the Indian character and of its cer
tain sad future, the sentiment has gone deep
into the American mind that wc have, either
actively or by our neglect, treated the Indian
in a perfidious manner. These poor savage
chiefs who come on their wandering errand to
the East have a story to tell of wrongs un
speakable, of infamies that would scarcely
be credited, of a policy toward them
and their ancestors which has no parallel
for baseness in the history of crime. Delib
erately, for purposes of grin, in violation of
our pledges and our treaties and humanity
itself, we have permitted these Indian agents
tn fasten upon the tribes that once owned thin
Continent like vampires and to suck their
blood for their own nourishment The agents
have grown rich and great and powerful,
while the Indian has melted away. The er
rand of Red Cloud to President Grant in
almost mournful in its tenderness and pathos.
We trust that the President will feel, in deal
ing with these chiefs, that he represents, in
its highest sense, the justice and humanity of
the American people.
Tit* Rrpavlng and (leaning of tk*
Ntrcrt* of !Vtw York.
If the Legislature should adjourn, after its
protracted session, without passing laws pro
viding for the repaying and the proper clean
ing ot the streets ot New York it will be guilt*
of a gross injustice toward our citizens. Un
der the existing charter it is found impostdble
to undertake a comprehensive system ot street
improvement. The lower part of the city
suffers great injury from the wretchod condi
tion of the pavements. Business is inter
rupted, and in some instances almost de
stroyed, by the obstructions to travel and tha
impossibility of dragging heavy loads over
the rood*. While taxpayers down town are
called upon to bear their proportion of the
expenses of uptown improvements they find
their own property deteriorated lrom the want
of absolutely necessary repairs to the streets
ori which it is located, and no sufficient power
exists in the city government to afford them
relief. A bill to provide for the repavemont
of the streets of the city has been tor some
time before the Legislature, but its prog
ress has been unaccountably slow, and
we find it at this late day reported from the
Committee on Cities in the Senate, with a
number of amendments. As it at present
stands it authorizes the repavement of tho
old streets at the general expense, when the
Commissioner of Poblic Works, the Mayor
and the Common Council agree that the work
ought to be done, and it gives the selection of
th sort of pavement to be used to the said
Commissioner and places the work under his
control. We do not see any objection 'to these
provisions, and ss the necessity of passing
some law under which we can securo the re
pair of the downtown streets is conceded it
is to be hoped that the bill as reported in the
Senate will be passed before the adjournment.
The street cleaning abuse is patent to all
our citizens. We are forced to pay nearly or
quite a million dollars a year for street clean
ing, and the work is never done, the money
being used as a sort of political pauper
fund. Ignorance, incapacity and dis
honesty have boen found heretofore in our
street cleaning business, and we ran
hope for no improvement until the system is
radically changed. It has been proposed that
the prr *ent law be abolished, and that an act
l>e p-us<-d ' iimpelling the property owners to
do the street cleaning themselves at their own
expense under a heavy penalty for neglect.
Considering the manner In which the money
appropriated to the work is now used the ex
pense of this system would probably be less
than under the existing method, and certainly
the work would be better done. But if this
experiment is not to be tried we should
st least have some change from the present
?VKtsm
Ctamkont'i Faith.
The Count de Cbambord, heir toth? throni
of France as Henry V., has written a letter to
his faithful lollower, M. Belcastel, to the
effect that he still Las hopes that France will
summon him to the throne of his ancestors.
Although everything looks toward a republie
, in France, and although the influence of Ger
many, so fur as it can affeot French politics,
' would be against the accession of a prince who
believed in the claims of the Holy See, still
i everything is possible in a country which has
seen so many governments in the past century.
It is hard to see upon what foundation the
Bourbon's hopes rest It is now nearly half
a century since a Bourbon lived in the Tuil
eries. The restoration was a misfortune to the
Bourbon throne. It was what might be called
a new trial ot the family, which ended in sum
mary dismissal as unworthy of the throne.
Count de Cbambord has no personal quality
to render him attractive to France. He is a
stout, middle-aged, somewhat lame gentleman,
I who has spent his lite in writing letters and
going to confession. He might have been the
King of France if he had not staked his crown
upon the color of his flag. There were two
opportunities for the Count de Cbambord?
one when Franoe, in the panic ot surrendes
and humiliation after Sedan, elected a Na
tional Assembly largely composed of Bourboi
' dukes and^heir followers. The other oppor>
tunity was when Marshal MacMahon indicated
his willingness to take the Count de Cham
bord it he would give France the tricolored
> flag. Since that time the march of events has
been directly against the Bourbons. The
Assembly, which would have welcomed him
as King, has, by a slow process, been led into
the proclamation of a Republic. There are
but two parties in France with any positive
personal strength. The one is the Bona
partist, the other the republican. The next
election will be between these parties. The
republicans will probably carry France, be
cause they will have the active aid of th4
royalists and the passive aid of the legiti.
mists. They hope by continuing the Bopublio
to keep the door open for the Couut de Paris
or the Count de Cbambord, while the
proclamation ot an emperor means that ther?
bball be but one throne of France, and th?
prince to occupy it a Bonaparte, not a
Bourbon.
j. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
| Baron Eienck, of Germany, baa apartments at
I the Albemarle Hotel.
Major C. W. Hutchinson. of Ctlca, Is sojourning
; at the New York Hotel.
Ex-Governor John Evans, of Colorado, la atay*
in? at tbe St. Nicholas Hotel.
Judge R. D. Rice, of Maine, la among the late
arrivals at the FUth Avenue Hotel.
Senator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, baa takes
np bis residence at the St. J amen Hotel.
Boston has had its Qrst bobolink, and tt sow
seems very probable that spring has come.
Very Rev. w. b. Bond, Dean of the diooeae of
Montreal, has arrived at tbe Sr. Nicholas Hotel.
Mr. Daniel Needham, National Bank Examlnar,
arrived from Boston last evening, at the Flltb
Avenue Hotel.
Captain Edward Simpson. Chief of tbe Torpedo
Corps. Unfed States Navjr, la quartered at the
Everett House.
Adjutant General Franklin Townsend, of Gov
ernor Tllden's staff, la rending temporarily at the
St. .lames Hotel.
?Beiore tne war." saya a French publlaher, "we
never sold more than 4.000 copies of a manual of
geography. Now we sell 14,000 almost before we
know It."
At a spiritual ec-ance la Paris lately, the ?ptrtt of
Cartouche, the lamoua thief, was called np and
came so praoticaliy that nearly every one preaeot
subseqix-nily missed a waica or purse.
inere are now is the French army 90,000 horaea.
If the same army were put in active aervlcait
would require 220.000 horses. Hence tbe Impor
tance of that German decree in relation te
horses.
Upon the death of her busband tbe lady married
bis brother, and when a iriend saw the portrait
of the first hnsoand in tbe boose he said, "la thl?
a member oi yourfarauy f" "It Is my poorbrother*
in-law," she said.
Duke Edmond Louis Rose d'Acbery baa Jsst bees
raised by tbe I'ope to the dignity of a Roman
prince. Tnls gentleman ta a descendant oi Pierre
d'*chery, otberwiae known as Peter the Hermit,
of Crusading tame.
Max Mtiller happened at Florence Into tbe Instl
tuto of Superior Studies when Professor Trezaa
was expounding Clccro to his ciasa, and the whoia
audicnce rose to its feet and gave him a round ol
applause which lasted some minutes.
That w a strange story oi a practical joke wltl
a ratal result. That a mao might he shot tn suet
s case is In the highest degree probable: but tc
come so close as to have bis throat cut with a
t carving knife without discovery seems in
credible.
A lieutenant ta tbe Russian Navv has Invented a
device ror quickly stopping boles made m ships nj
collisions. It consists of a waterproof, pliable
patch, with mechanism by which it may be readily
adjusted on tbe outside of tbe leaking surface
Tbe Russian men-of-war aro belnc supplied with It
Some one has several good diplomas for sale. H?
advertised la Parts that be would lend money tc
physicians upon the presentation or their dlpiomaa.
; Man? young doctors left tbeao traaanrea at lus
! establishment to be verified, and be disappeared
next uay. So the dlpiomaa will b? offered snouiy
Louis XVIII. wanted to aee Bo.ldieu, and when
tbe composer came His Majesty sad, "How di
you manage to flnd all tnese charming melodies?''
Holldieu said, "Your Majesty, I bare no merit la
It. I a*rk them, it Is true, but they find me."
>1. b.?The reason why Boildteu comes up just now
la that bis centennial occarred the other day.
i An article n the journal tie St. rn*r*t>9*#rg calls
i Germany "lie electrical machine" or Europe, and
says:?"Let Germany no longer charge bar pile;
the continent will then be so more sbaken by bei
experiments, and the nerves or tbe Teutonf
people will be reiaxed in a very satisfactory man
ner."
Pretty variation to have a battle in your parlot.
Thev were a lively and polite company, tn ths
height of their enjoyment, and an enormous New
fonsdiand dog. evidently mad, made a bouacr
through tne window. Pancy tbe scene, Slxauott
Irom revolvers, Ac., were necessary to bring bias
to terms.
Mr. Heury Howard, Secretary of tb* British Le
gation at Washington, has been transferred to ?
1 corresponding position In the British Legatloa
at Tbe Hague. Mr. Howard arrived at the Bra
voort House last, evening from Washington. an*
will sail ror England with his family today In tbi
| steamship scythia.
Artists in Italy are excited over tlie -uK o
Tommaso nagllardi against Larktn G. Mean foi
sixty per cent of the money paid for the Lincoln
monument. It Is ( aimed that Qagliiirnl not only
made all the designs, but flr?t induced Mead la
become a competitor, the latter nut being inclined
to enter, because persuaded tnat. the order would
ba given to Miss lioamer. ?
^ln the recently pabllihed "Memoirs of Odlllon
iiarrot," tt Is recounted that In the course oi the
flight of Charles X. hi* party enconn tc r Jd oue trt
mendons difficulty. They came to it town in
wulch there were only round table*?lot a square
table In the wnorn place. At a round table sll are
equal. Only a square table permits a king to att
alone. For a little while l? was apprehended that
tney could sot dine, but they aolved the great
problem. They cut a round table aod made it
.1 aaaara.