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WOOD'S M tJSEtlM.
Broadway. corner of Thirtu tti stri?t?WEALTH AN'D
CRIME, at 8 P. M. , clow" ;t! 10:44 I*. M. Matinee at 2
P. H.-CNDiK FALSE roLORS.
theatre COMIQL'K.
>?. 814 Brosdfray ? VAKlhTY, at a P. M.; closes at 10:45
f. M.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OP ART.
West Fourteenth street?Open irom 10 A. M. to 5 P. M.
? _ OLYMPIC THEATRE,
f.0^624 Broadway.?VAKlfcTY, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10 -,V>
METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
>o. 585 Broadway.?VARIETY. at s P. M.
BOOTH'S THEATRE.
corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.?
i A.Nfc SHORE, at 8 !*. M.; closes at 11 P. M. Mtfs t. !ara
Morris.
BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE,
rn^on avenue.?VARIETY, at 8 P M.; close* at 10*5
^ FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
'^?nty-eighth s'reet and Broadway.?THE BIO BO
MaUne'V at' 1 Jo I* ir'??eS " W * M" lir:,"d Exlra
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.
THEODORE THOMAS' CONCKRT, at 8 P. M.
LYCEUM THEATRE.
S?o^??.nth ?reel ne"r Mx,h avenue.?GIROFLE
UIROFLA. at8 P. M. Mile. Geoffrov.
SAX FRANCISCO MINSTRELS.
571- ?JT?'r;/.?rrM>r ol Twenty-ninth street.?NEGRO
MJXoTRfcLSY, at 8 P. M.; clones at 10 P. M.
WALLA< KS THEATRE.
Brosrt wav.?IHE LADY OK LYON.', at ? P M closes
at 10:10P. M. Miss Ana Oyas. Mr. MuntagM.
BOWERY OPERA HOU8F,
V^30l Bowery.-VAKILTY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45
ROBINSON HALL.
IHR(?rLtVats'p ""S'ith Opem-GIP.OFLE
_ . PARK THEATRE.
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TRIPLE SHEET.
FEW YORK. WKPNKSI.'Y. MAY 2'". 1*7:,.
From our report* ihit morning the probabilities
are that the weather to-day trill be cool and
clearing.
Erie Was Aoaex tlie feature of the stock
market yesterday npon a further decline,
whi<*h induced a weak feeling generally. Gold
closed at 110, being the lowast fisruro of the
day, having sold at llfij.
Is THE Bkzcbzb Trial ex-Tndpe Porter
will finish his argument to-day and Mr. Evarts
will begin his speech, which will probably oc
cupy the remainder of the week.
The Bslotax Government has given as
surances to Germany that a hill covering roch
offences as that of Duchesne w;ij be propoted.
The papers in his caw- hive been given to the
German Ambassador, and it is clear that there
? ill be no war if little Belgium can prudently
avert it. The government has been as concil
iatory as it could be consistently with the \
self-respect of the nation.
Mob* CARDrsviA?A special despatch by
cable to the Herald from Rome informs
?he pnblic that the 1' pe will hold a Consistory j
on .lune 24, when the tire cardinals in prt'o
will be fnlly confirmed in rank. The Bishop
of Viterbo. Italy, Mgr. Seralini, w,l| ?1,0 as
sume the purple. A point of more interest to
Americans is that ( ir<i:nal Mc< loskey is ex
pected to arrive in ll<?me l? fore the Consistory
meet*, and will then choose bis title as a
Prince of the Church.
A SnrorLAR Divobce Cask is beins triefl in
this city in which the party known to Ersgh.?h
law as the "co-respondent" is a witnraa for the
husband, who is the plaintiff. The wife de
clares the charge to be the result of a c-nspir
acy. Daniel W?tbster ooce spoke of a man
who occupied a position similar to that which
Kincal holds in this ca*e. as haring "perjured
himself like a gentleman;" but if the accn.
sation of Mrs. S?>arle ir true Fins;al has told
the truth like a hlarkcuard.
Tnr. flF?rniisrBn.rTT for the deposit of
organic matter in the low lands known as the
Harlem flats is bandied betw, n the B >ard
of Health and the Police Department nntil
tbe public begin to think the fault feats with
br.th. liet the new Commissioners, Gcnerol
flmith and Dr. .lanewav, deal so boldly with
the question that they cannot be charged with
any sympathy with the past action of the
boards to which they belong. It is due to
themselves that, they should take a bold stand
in a matter so much affecting the public well
being.
I HE 1 REMi H AasEMBLf.- The ilitltl*' ijce of
the republican supporters of the present
constitution of France wu shown yesterday
in the election of thirteen i?. mbers of the
new Committee of Ihirty, among whom u
11 Laboulaye, whom all Americans rejoice
to see in a position of power, both as a tri< nd
ot the United Htates and a man whose dt vo
tion to freedom is not accompanied with
fanaticism or ignorance. The imperial
party offered no candidates. They do not
wpcct to MMNd by the conauuiuoa. but in
?oite ol it.
Will the Governor Wow Give Bom*
Attention to New Tork City J
The last shred of an excuse fer Governor
Tilden'a strange neglect to act on Mayor
ickhain's removals is taken away by the
adjournment of the Legislature. The pre
| t?xt has been that the Governor's time has
been so occupied with his canal investigations
and the multifarious duties which fell on hiiti
during the session that ho coaldnot command
time to give the subject bis deliberate atten
tion. This community has been of the
opinion that it was rather disinclination than
want of time?and, perhaps, a pergonal
pique at the Mayor's hesitation to peud
hiin the details of the evidence?that
has incited the Governor to treat
Mayor Wickham with such tupercilioiw
indifference. The people of this city have
been unable to tiivest themselves of the sus
picion that the (rovernor has been veiling his
roal motives under the convenient pica of a
pressure of other duties. But the Legislature
has dissolved and this pka will no longer
a\ail, although the Governor is seeking to
extend it over the ensuing thirty days. With
the dexterity of which he is so great a master
I he has informed an Albany reporter that ho
will be overburdened with official cares for the
ensuing month. He says the adjournment has
left two hundred and forty bills in his hands
tor examination, which ho must sign within
thirty days if they deserve his approval.
The amendment of the constitution which
prescribes this limit ot time is excellent, but
there is probably not one bill in fifty of whose
merits so capable a man as Governor Tilden
caunot ji.d^e by one deliberate, careful read
ing. At the very utmost there cannot be
more than a dozen bills in the whole batch of
two hundred and forty which require investi
gation and research, especially if he has
watched legislative proceedings with proper
vigilance during the period between the intro
duction of the bdls and their final passage.
Moreover, he has the valuable assistance of a
most com patent private secretary. Mr.
Htebbins, who was induced to resign a place
I on the commission for revising the statutes to
j accept this confidential post, has a more minute
| acquaintance with the laws of the State than
the Governor himself, and with the aid of so
j good a lawyer Governor Tilden is under no
necessity of bestowing laborious attention on
the mass of minor bills which present no
questions of difficulty. Five days in the thirty,
or one day in six of the whole time allowed him,
will be ample for considering the few bills in
the whole number which can occasion doubts
as to the propriety of signing them. There is
a kind of charlatanism in parading the whole
number, as if each would present points of
difficulty, or as if common sense could be
smothered by a futde arithmetic.
Having thus demonstrate 1 that the Gov
ernor is burdened with no duties which can
justify a continuance of the neglect and post
ponemant which are so disrespectful to the
chief magistrate of the city, we have a right
to expect his immediate attention to the cases
of removal which have been nearly five
months before him. This long delay is the
more surprising and unaccountablo lrom the
tact that before the Governor went to Albany
to tfike the official oath he was confidentially
i consulted in relation to one of the most im
portant of these removals, and left the city
with an implied undrnrtanding that he would
sustain the action of the Mayor. On
the very day that Mayor Wickham
, was sworn in ho made formal and elaborate
charges against Corporation Counsel Smith
and summoned him to answer. It was no
secret that the charges and arraignment were
drawn up by Mr. O"Conor, and they were
stated in the mc*t vigorous and incisive style
of that great lawyer. It is a fact which is
j equally true, though less public, that that
, accusatory document was read to Mr. Tilden
before his departure for Albany and that he
express d approval of its general tenor and
snbatance, though cnticiaing some of its lau.
guage. Those consultations and that assent
morally bound the Govern#* to indorse the
action of the Mayor. Unless ha was acting a
double part and raising expectations be
meant to disappoint, be bad made np
bis mind a* to tbe propriety of
removing tbe Corporation Counsel before he
went to Albany. In view of these lact* bis
subsequent plea of a want of time to look into
the two in preposterous. What new light
dawned on bim ' Why did be "go back on
tbo Mayor" after giving him this encourage
m-nt? It i? ridiculous to say rhat be could
not find time to examine a question which he
had already decided on the charges drawn by
Mr. O'C nor and accepted by Mr. Wickharo.
No Mayor ever had reason to suppose he was )
1 proceeding oa surer ground in any pnbiic set '
! than Mayor Wickham had in bis at
tempt to remove Mr. Smith. We !
wi-h some of Governor Tilden's organs i
acquainted with these facta would try
to vindicate his good faith in encouraging
Mayor Wickham to undertake a removal and 1
then making him appear foolish by involving ,
him in a fin.ico. This trick was not played
upon a political opponent, but upon a political >
friend. And why ? Until some authorized 1
luoutbpiece ofth" Governor shall put a letter ,
face upon it the public will continue to be- |
lieve that the reason why the Governor did ,
not kep faith with the Mayor waa his deter
mination to save Comptroller Green. The
hard hita at Green in the Mayor's Message I
aroused the Governor* resentment that a
known friend of his should he treated with so
little forbearance, and peeing that Grin's re
moval would probuhly be attempted the Gov
ernor made up bis mind to thwart and
humiliate the Mayor by rendering all his
removal* nugatory.
Tbe pba of a want of tin>* was a fetch
which hardly served the purpose of a dis
guise. It was too transparent to hoodwink
anybody, and it bait now tjecome obsolete by
the adjournment of the Legislature. The
Governor Lias given so many proofs that he is
determined to protect his sycophant <ire?-n at
ail hazards that nobody expects a change of
purpose at this late day. But why xhould he
longer resist the removal of other notoriously
unfit officer*? lie is. of course, entitled to
jndge whether the charge* against them are
supported by sufficient evidence; but (or his
further neglect to examine the evidence there in
nuexcu-e. It tbe charges have no foundation
it is an injustice to the officr-rs to let them
r?*t under the Mayor's imputations. If, on
the other hand, the charges are true, it is an
equal injustice to the city to continue corrupt
I or unfit men in office. Nothing can bs clearer
than the duty of the Governor to examine the
cases and decide thorn one way or the other.
A Governor who found time to inquire into
Irgersoll's claims to a pardon and set him
free lrom a righteous sentence might at leant
have acted on the removal of the Corporation
Counsel, whoaa conduct ha had him
self examined during tho preparation
of the charges. The idea that the claims of
a Tammany thief to pardon were of more
pressing urgtpcy and hud a better claim on
the Governor's attention than honest govern
ment in this city evinces an estimate of the
relative importance of things into which this
community does not readily enter. As the
Governor found time to investigate and par
don IngersoW, it would seem that he might
havo found time to act on the Mayor's re
movals. Tt he was uuder a necessity of post
poning one or the other, it is the impression j
of this community that the Tammany thief I
might have waited until tho interests of tho i
metropolis had received proper attention.
But our citizens will overlook the past if ;
Governor Tilden will now, at last, co-operato
with Mayor Wickbam in an attempt to
make the city government as good as is pos
sible under our defective charter. These two |
officers together, if they act in concert, have !
perfect control of the personnel of the munici
pal government in cases where unlit, in- !
capable or obstructive officers stand at the j
head of departments. The charter, in pre
scribing that removal shall be for cause, ^
without enumerating or defining the causes, |
gives a reasonable latitude oi discretion to I
the removing authority. Offices are not j
created for the benefit of the incumbents
but for the advantage of the city, and
when their duties are not discharged in a man
ner conducive to the public interest the de- .
fects of capacity, temper or integrity which ;
disqualify an officer for usefulness is a suffi
cient ground of removal. According to tho j
plan recommended by the Governor in his i
municipal Message it will require) two years
to put a new systom in operation; and, mean
while, he should b6 willing to support the ]
Mayor in his attempts to make as efficient a
government as possible under the present bad
charter. Since the adjournment of the Legis
lature has deprived him of his standing ex
cuse of a want of time it is to be hoped that
he wid aid the Mayor in his honest purpose
to correct municipal abuses.
flit Crisis 1? ITr?nc?.
The rumor that there is a disagreement be
tween the Left Centre and the government of
Marshal MacMahon which may end in the
overthrow of the present Ministry and the
formaliou of a coalition between the Bona
partists and the legitimists is a serious one.
The question upon which the Ministry and
the Left Centre differ is iu reference to the
election of the delegates to the new Assembly.
Tbe Left Centre and the republicans insist
that the new representatives shall be chosen
bv each arrondissement, while the govern
ment prefers tbo present plan of choosing
them by department*. To make the distinc
tion clear the point is this:-Should we fleet
members of Congress on a general State
ticket or should we elect them by districts.
The proper method in republican govern
ments is certainly to elect representatives by
the district which each member represents.
This is the custom in England and in America,
and wc see no reason for making any excep
tion in France. The immense power wielded
by the Home Office enables those in authority
to inflnence largely the elections when they
are controlled by departments. The.Home
Office coald do more, for instance, with
the Department of the Seiue-et-Oisc than it
could with the different coaaumncs or arron
dissements composing it. The character of the
Republic will depend very largely npon tbe men
who arc chosen to fill tbo next Assembly.
Although the Republic has been officially pro
claimed ttnd accepted in France the friends of
the empire and of the monarchy are endeavor
ing strenuously to dtprivo it ol every element
of republican character. If by any means
they coald lead to another revolution in poli
tic*, in the overthrow of MicMahou s govern
ment. there would still be a chance for Bona
i?rte or Bonrbon. Our readers who have
careful! v observed foreign affairs will note
this one controlling fact, that no royal party
in any country in Europe will permit peace
exce> < as the price of their own success. All
the interests of tbe royalists in Europe are
warlike, just as the interests of the Republic
arc peaceful. It would, however. l<e a ca
lamity of an unspeakable magnitude it tbe
Republic should be thrown away upon a
minor qu?*tion of this character. Our hope
is that the friends of the Republic and tho
mm of the Left Centre, who. without any dc
cided svmpathj for democratic opinions, still
recogniz* the fact that France has gone far
beyond any hope of ever being peaceably im
perial or royalist, will find some common
ground for action so as to protect the present
government, at least until after the elections,
whe n the new Assembly, fresh from France,
will have had opportunity to decide npon
the Steps necessary to strengthen the govern
roent. ^ -
I ft f iOO IS t ? Fl
In Mr. Nordhoff's letter printed to-day he
answers quite at length tbe inquiry whether
republican citizens of Louisiana are
sale from democratic persecution, anl
whether the blaek population is habit
n.illy buffeted and outraged by the
white. Our correspondent does not merely
?i?e his opinion on these points, but fur
nishes ampl" materials from which readers
can lorm an intelligent judgment of their
own. He does not draw his facts from one
locality, but trom several, an 1 his instructive
comparisons and deductions will assist a
proper interpretation of tbe fact*. Among
the parishes Mr. Nordhoff has investigated is
that of Natchitoches so notorious last year as
the scene of disturbances?and ho shows by
statistics taken trom records kept by the
republican officials that most of the murders
of negroes were perpetrated by perw?n? <?'
tbeir own color. Of the forty-one murders
committed in tbe last Heven years in that
parish there were thirteen nt whiU-s by whit*-,
thirteen of colored by colored, four of v bit.*
by colored, three of colored person* by whites,
one Iudiah by a while man. o?e negro by
an unknown murderer, an.l thrca officer*
killed in attempting to serve warrants
will thus be seen that tho murder line does
not ruA |?arallel with the color line, but
crosses it. so to speak, at right angles, so
untrue is it that most of the victims we
negroes and most of the murderers white
men.
Another parish in which our correspondent
nas made minute inquiries is Tensas, where
no disturbances have occurred. Like Natchi
tocbes it is a cotton growing region, with a
1:?rj?o preponderance of negroes. But it has
happened to have honest republican officers
and has been well governed. Hence the con
trast in the peace of the two parishes. "It is
not the radicals but the ttiioves that we hate
and oppose, '* is the common sentiment of the
Louisiana conservatives. The Ktate is now
quiet, in the hope that better government may
result irom the lato compromise, its former
disturbed condition since Kellogg was counted
in having been tho effoct of justifiable discon
tent with official lraud and incapacity.
The Pfnntylvanla Republican Con
vention.
The Republican State Convention of Penn
sylvania will moot in Lancaster to-day, and
will nominate candidates to bo voted for in
tho fall. This will make ft campaign of un
usual length, though mii'-h activity will not
be shown till July, when the Pennsylvania
statesmen assemble at the watering places and
combine the search for health and pleasure
with the business of supporting the ticket.
The Convention will nominate candidates for
(ioverucr and State Treasurer, and over the
first dlice there is no dispute. Governor ;
Hartrauft will be renominated beyond ques
tion, and probably without any opposition.
This was made inevitable by the action of the.
Republican Convention of last year in declar
ing him to be the first choice of the party in
Pennsylvania for the Presidency. His nom
ination is not to be regrettaJ, lor he has been j
a popular Chief Magistrate of the State, and 1
if ho has made mil takes thov have j
not been serious enough to endanger his posi- j
tion. Tho miners hive resented his course
and will vote against him, and the temperance j
men will probably attempt to punish him lor
signing the act which repeals tho Local Op
tion law, which he had previously approved.
But these? aro questions for the people to con
sider in lho canvass, and there is little doubt
that ho is as strong a candidate as the re
publicans could fiud at proseut Tho only
contest, so far as the ticket is concerned, will
be over the State treasurership, Mayor Rawle,
of Erie, and Senator Strang, of Tioga county,
being tbe principal candidates. The Phila- j
delpliia delegation is supposed to be for Bawle,
and the delegate olections in Lancaster also
resulted in his favor.
Another important question upon which
the Convention may act is that of the third
term. That the Pennsylvania politicians are 1
opposed to tho renomination of Grant was
shown last year by their significant choice of
Hartranft; but whether they will have the
courage to take a positive stand against Grunt
is doubtful. With Zeriina, iu "Don Gio
vanni," they siug, "I would, and yet I j
would not; I feel my heart misgive." The ,
Philadelphia Times is probably right when it
says "it it be possible to appear to declare
against a third term, and at the same time 1
really not make a hostile deliverance on the ;
subject, it will bedone." But this is not pos- |
sibl<\ It is not the time for evasions, and tho j
experiment of last year cannot bo wisely re- I
peatM. Tho Convention must choose between j
absolute silence and direct spccch, or rest un- j
d- r the imputation of timidity. Governor ;
Hartranit has a dircct interest in the decision, j
He is a good man to nominate, but it is not -
certain that he is a good man to elect. The
perilous position of tbe republican party in tho
State was made plain to him by the election last 1
year, nnd it is to his interest that be should
not go into the canvass burdened with tbe !
odium of tho third term conspiracy. The Re- I
publican Convention can do nothing better
for tho success of the party than
to aquart ly declare against the third term,
and our tel grams indioate that the ini]>or
tance of such action is understood. The dis
avowal ? >! the thir 1 t?rm conspiracy may save
the r< publican parly in Pennsylvania Irom
overthrow nest fall ; but tacit acquiesence in
that plot or evasive treatment ot tho issue
will m ike i*s defeat inevitable. t
lilnbrrkrr as a Talker.
Mr. Abraham Disboekcr is a young gentle
man who has a talent for many things, bat
his strongest faculty seems to be the utter
ance of the wrong thing at the right moment.
He ran talk more glib nonsense in his own
condemnation in a shorter time than any man
we know. Like the traditional Irishman it in
impossible for him to open his mouth with
out putting his foot in it, and. what is even
ninro remarkable, he seems charmed at the
sound of his own voice though everybody
else can see that his idle chatter only makes
hun appear absurd in the eyes of all. SI ill,
as Dogberry was not the last Police Commis
sioner who insisted on writing himself down
an ass, we suppose Mr. Disbecker must be
allowed to talk until he is tired, even though
the result be the same.
The last subject of Sir. Disbecker's dis
course is "garbage." It is a topic in which
he aoetns well verged. He knows all about the
filling in of the Harlem flats and is perfectly
willing to talk al>ont it till the end of time.
First of all. the dirt sold to the contractors by
the I'olice Hoard is not garbage at nil. This
is Mr. Dieliecker's grand achievement in his
I capacity as a talker, and prepares ns for the
1 assertion that follows namely, thit the gnr
btge ami nshes are carefully aeparatcd and
the p;irh.ig?? s^nt ont to sea. After all this who
cau doubt, when Mr. Disbeel cr asserts it, that
the g.n ! age remaining in the ashen is corroded
in tlicnn and thus l?ecomes perfectly pure and
harmless? Like most great talkers Mr. Din
liecker proves too much. It if the old story
of the borrowi d kettle told over again, nnd
we must be pardoned lor rcntating it in a
shape that will moat dearly demonstrate Mr.
Lnsbeekrr's abilities as a conversationalist: ?
1. There is 110 garbage used in the tilling of
the Harlem flats.
'2. The garbage is separated from the
ashes and sent out to sea.
:t. The garbage in corroded with the ashes,
and becomes sweet and pure.
Ii Mr. Diabecker had only given us his theory
of the smells which arise from the pure gar
bage he has been depositing in the upper part
of the island we should have been even inure
obliged to him. Hut he has afforded ua one
bit of information for which we cannot be too
thankful. During the winter, according to
his own showing, be appeared before the
Board of Health and obtained fhe conBont of
that department to the depositing of Doixon
ous ma ter in the very heart of the oity. It
was a very remarkable thing for a police com
missioner to do, thus personally to interest
himself in behalf of contractors who needed
his assistance in promoting malarial fevers.
But tor his great qualities as a talker we
might not have known the kind of man this
Police Commissioner in. Now that he has j
told us, however, we are convinced that the j
sooner w e get rid of him the better. Tublic
officers who neglect their duty are bud .
enough, but those who plant poisonous gases j
in a populous neighborhood and see no harm
in it are too dangerous to be kept long in of
fice. 31 r. Disbecker has shown that the com
munity has very grave reasons for fearing
him, and the people of New York are now
anxious to dispense with his services.
It is a little singular that, with all bis talking,
Mr. Disbecker should not refer to the terms
upon which the contracts for filling wero ob
tained. The embankments wore to be formed
of good loam, sand or gravel; no muck or im
proper material was to boused, and coal ashes
perfectly free from garbage was allowable only
to within one foot of the proposed height of
the filling. Yet Mr. Disbecker, whoso duty
it was to see that theso conditions were ful
filled, assists the contractors in violating
them and apologizes for their broken faith by
asserting that there was only a percentage of
garbage in the ashes used. In every way this
talking official convicts himself to the hurt of
his neighbors and his own disgrace.
Tlie Intercollegiate Meeting at Sara
toga.
We publish in anothor column the pro
gramme for the student walking and running
races at Saratoga in July next, and it will be
seen that there is promise of a very interest
ing day's sport. Following, as it does, thu
University boat race, it will allow the flower
of the rowers to compete, and as the winners
on land are often not lrom the first boat an
equalizing and consoling effect will, in some
measure, result Several new features in the
list are worthy of note. There are to be ten
events?twice as many as ever before. There
are to be both morning and afternoon meet
ings, the latter including most of the more
arduous contest?. Some of the races?a most
excellent plan?are to be thrown open to
graduates only, thus affording admirable
facdities for comparing tho best men of
lormer days with those now coming up.
The track being a half-mile one the
competitors ara never even a quarter of a
mile from the spectators, and thus their every
movemeut is easily watched?an advantage
over the rowing contest which will yet make
the foot racing, if well handled, the more at
tractive of the two, especially as no summer
breeze will, as in the case of the latter, pre
vent its taking placo at the timo set, rain be
ing the only troublesome visitor.
As so many colleges may take part it would
bo well that each should have in tho more
difficult races a representative man, who could
be justly understood by the public to be tho
best man in his'ccllegc at that particular sort
of work, and who, of courso, must be admittedly
the best his college could bring out. This, while
it would not bar less promising men, would
both greatly deepen the interest felt and would
be more likely to assure good racing; for not
fast nor slow, but close work, is what fixes Ihe
attention and makes the struggle exciting.
Again, tbero are in our country not a few
who have shown themselves good men in the
interuuiversity sports across tho water. Were
tho two graduate contests opened to them it
would add a feature which would be a pleas
ant foretaste of what we may look for at tho
Centennial sports next year at Philadelphia,
and make these college meetings what tliey
already give strong promiso of becoming, a
permanent attraction of the only week in the
year when the young men of the land meet at
all generally for friendly trial of strength and
stay. We offer these suggestions knowing
that they will be considered, and believing that,
if followed, the step will never be regretted
Carruih'* Retirement.
Carruth, the editor, shot some time ago by
an aggrieved citiz. n of Vmeland, N. J., has
relinquished, apparently, all present hopo to
resume his editorial labors, and announces
in an article which we print his retirement
from journalism. He takes leave of his
readers in a vein curiously mingled of humor,
pathos and impertinence, which evinces his
capacity to be tivarious in difficult circum
stances as well as the flippant Usto for pitiful
smartness that wns the source of so much
trouble to himself and others. Ho savs,
-Our imjwired eyesight, shattered nerves and
pulsating brain admonish us that for the
coming year we must not stray too far from
the hospital. For a man thus incapacitatcd
for his ordinary labor?the more especially if
that labor was the only or tho main resource
for the support of a family -there is a common
impulse of sympathy, which would perhaps
be more acute if the thought did not follow
that he is in afl likelihood not the greates
sufferer. How painful have been the effects
of the trogir- event in the family of the man
who shot Carruth and on that man himself
has not been made apparent, for they seem
to have studiously withdrawn themselves
frotn public attention ; but there will be lives
in that family made as tnisorable and burden
some to their l*>'tri?rs by these events as the
remaindrr of < arnith s life will Iks to him.
Out of all the public reaps a benefit in Ihe
withdrawal from journalism of a man who
added nothing to it, by bis talents, who was
incapable of appreciating its better functions
and conspieuoiHlv abused its privilege*.
Murder in Boston.
It seems to 1?> one of the curioeities of
crime that communities which contribute but
[ few cases to swell tho criminal calendar give
I terriblo examples when they give any. Hut
I perhaps this is not k<> much a curiosity ns it
1 appears superficially. All ordiunry murders
ar?- the outcome of ungovernable temper and
sudden fury; and the factors are either drunk
enness nnd the consequent loss of perception
of consequences, or the |>o**iouatc nature with
which consequences or any other ulterior
facts have no weight; to which the present
immediate impulse is all there is of life.
Now there is none of this sudden passion in
the kind of humanity that natural selection
produces in the neighborhood of Boston, or
there is a minimum of it. If a man is thor
cugh-paccd iu the Masgachusttts discipline
he has, in the conception of every act, a pan
oramic view of it? uttermost consequences,
and he does not venture the act ?n.loa? it will
pay?that is, unless it will procure hits
the largest amount of satisfaction and
the smallest degree of evil. Criin?
are, therefore, only committed under Um
influence of a temptation so great at
to reduce the penalty to a trivial fad
by comparison; and when done in that waj
tbey are done with a deliberate purpose anc
consideration which moke them almost scion,
tiflo traductions. There are scarcely anj
mere rum murders there save in the slums.
These murders, therefore, are muinly of two
classes?tbose planned with some money pur.
pose, or thoso that are tho result of homicidal
mania in the murderers. Common mnrderen
arc both cowards aud fools. They kill theij
victims clumsily, hastily and leavo traces bj
which they are caught nine times in ten. But
a really diabolical crime, done coolly, cam
fully, adroitly, and as if without the fear ol
humanity or the devil, results when a dea?
perate fellow with tho ordinary Yankee ca
pacity has made up his mind that it "will
pay to kill some of his rich relatives. No
instances, howovor, can ever be worse than the
crimes consequent upon that strange deform
ity of impulse, the mania to kill?and not
merely to kih, but to kill in some strange and
peculiar way, and to kill particular kinds of
persons. So far as ut present appears the
murder of the little girl found in the churoh
loft is likely to prove a result of mania,
and her murdorer may prove to be a grow?,
up Jesse Pomeroy.
Mr. Disbcrlcer'* Great Discovery.
As an authority on science Mr. Police
Commissioner Disbecker is a great success.
Sir. Disbecker's scientific attainments havo
not heretofore been the prominent topic of
admiration on the part of his friends ; but
men of his calibre have ttio pyrotechnio
faculty of developing some now beauty in
every corruscatiou. Just now Disbecker ap??
pears before the New York community as the
exponent of the healing and grateful influence
>'t garbage. Not long since Professor
Chandler, of the Board of Health, assured ui
that the washiugs cf tho fiolds into tho Croton
reservoir were not detrimental to health. Mr.
Disbecker has improved upon Professor
Chandler, for ho has discovered that garbage
is only another form of tho innate beauties of
nainre ; that it is pure and harmless, in vigor*
ating and delightful to oppressed senses. In
after years Disbecker will bo remembered and
extolled as the Nowton of the nineteenth cen
tury, eminent among scientific mon because
of this discovery. The only marvel is thai
Disbecker, like Newton and Galileo andotbei
illustrious men of wisdom, does not take the
fullest advantage of his invention. He should
profit by it immediately, and win from thi
people of New York the ultimate, if reluctant,
renown attending a philosopher who has the
keenness to discover what is truth and thi
courage to avow it Mr. Disbecker informi
us as the result of many years of scientifia
lucubration that garbage readily corrodes in
ashes, and that all the stories about the
noisome gases that exude from the Harlem
flats, the offensive odors that arise from the
stagnant surface of the green pools only come
from the imagination, and that garbage as do.
livered by the contractors on these uptown
districts is a boneficent and wholesome arti
cle. The trouble with Mr. Disbecker, like
many philosophers whose modesty stifles their
genius, is, hedoesnot follow out thalogic of his
convictions with courage. Why should not
Mr. Disbecker become "Professor of Garbage?"
If it is such an excellent filling for exposed
lots that a police commissioner presents it as
a bouquet to the whole city, why not introduce
it as a perfume, as a balm of a thousand
flowers, new mown hay extract, or esscnoe
of vanilla, or tho ottar of roses, t?
the theatres and operas and musii
gardens and chnrches and other places when
multitudes do congregato and where this
sweetness might be enjoyed ? "Disbecker'i
I Patent Double Distilled Extract of Garbage"
might become the fashionable perfume of thi
season. Nothing but the modesty of the ernv
nent discoverer prevents it from assuming
this value. Disbecker does himself injustice.
I lie neglects the virtues of his own compound.
, If he is only true to himself, to the convi<v
tions he has so admirably expressed to our
reporter, instead of handing over the garbage
gatherers to the police he will insist upon th?
distribution of the delightful but lieretofor*
unrecognized composition into every house
hold of the city, and thus allow us nil to en
joy the benefit of the wonderlnl bonqne'
which makes Harlem flits like that land
"where the cypres^ and myrtle are emblemi
of deeds that are done in their clime." \V?
do not desire to destroy the illusion thus con.
veyed, but it would Ix? a great pity if; follow,
ing out the figure of the poet, the labors of
Disbecker should be misconceived, and the re
sult of this treatment of the worthy inhabi.
touts of the Harlem regions would be deed*
that "should melt into sorrow or madden to
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Professor fc. K. Salisbury, of New Haven, is ro
slims at the Westminster Hotel.
Or. A. M. Rom. K. It. s., ?>f Toronto, Canada, If
registered at the FlftB Avenue Hotel.
viiutant Robert H. flail, of West romt, tsamonf
the late arrivals at tne St. Jatncs Hotel.
senator William A. Wallace, of Pennsylvania
arrived last evening at the St. Nicholas floteiv
Kx Governors John H. ra;<\ of Vermont, an*
Tnadrtens C. Ponnd, of Wisconsin, arc registered
at the St. Nir,aulas Hotel.
Mr. DewlttC. Kills, .superintendent of the Ban*
f>opartment, arrived ai. tbe Metropolitan Hote
last evening from Albany.
H<>n. W. McHougall, the first Lieutenant Gov
ernorof Manitoba, was yesterday elected to rep.
resent South Simcoe in the oniario Legislature.
It Is announced that His Excellency President
' Grant and Governor TUden will attend the rip
proac.htng commencement exercises of Cornell
University.
The citizens of Saratoga gave Judge George s.
Hatcheller a reception last evening, which wn?
largely attended. Judge Hntcheller will sail tot
K?yi>t, on .Saturday.
At lis own request, Assistant Commissary Gen
eral Heckwith ha* been relieved iroin duty In
Washington ana ordered to .St. I.ouis, for WHICH
place he leaves on Saturday.
oeneral trook, tinted States Army, returned
I yesterday to nmalia, from an extended tour ol
observation through the Department of the Platte,
inclifcv.ng the Indian agencies,
Germany has made a formal demand on Franco
for more indemnity. Aruond, a workman, ol
Grenoble, rnarrie.l a German woman, and the
couple lived sonic time In Lyons, where the hus
hand died. Tnen th- wom.in returned to Germany
and became a pauper. Now the German govern
ment demands that the city of Lyons (ball pay
! l?r(M?niiuj'? stinnorfc.