New-York tribune., 1874-12-05

ter. To him the danger has long seemed so
imminent that it weighed upon him like q
nightmare.
Our Paris letter shows that, as general
rule, the Legitimsts in France prefer the
Bonapartists to tho Republicans. This il not
difficult to understand. But there is probably
q still larger number of voters who, ut the
time of the first elections for tho Assembly,
we're comparatively indifferent to party divis-
ions, and are now likely to turn the balance
in favor of tho Republicans.
The Berlin letter, published on our fourth
page, treats of the capacity of Count Won
Arnim to fill the post Of German Chancellor
which he so much cOvets. Resting his hopes
for attaining that position upon court intrigue,
he has hitherto been no more successful IN
that direction than he would be in office with
only Conservatives to support him in Liberal
Parliament.
A strong opposition to the proposed reci-
procity treaty with Canada is exhibited by the
National Wool Growers Association. They
see in it, free trade with England as well as
with Canada, both in wool and woOlen goods,
and consequent destruction Of our own in
dustries. They say that on the other hand
the Dominion offers us what we do not want,
or what we have already. Their views are
presented with considerable force.
The Presidents Message, we are now told,
is to be mild document of negative flavor
and chary of recommendations. Speaker
Blaine. having got nd of the notion that the
South would burst into blaze over Demo-
cratic successes, thinks that the present Con-
cress will have an uneventful session, in which
one party is afraid, while the other dares not
Perhaps it will be best for the country
"happy are the people that have no history"
Mr.. Schenck, the auctioneer, assumes very
different tone in his letter to The TRIBUNE
elsewhere printed from that in which he de-
nOunced The TRIBUNE and rOundly abused
Mr.. Clarence Cook when attempting to sell
his bogus Salome. We say bogus, because
Mr.. Cooks letter. also printed this morning,
seems to settle the case as absolutely by Its
citations of authorities as it was settled be-
fore in the mind of every critic capable of
Judging, who merely decided by the testimony
of his eyes
The name of Mr. Fred. Law Olmsted ranks
so high that readers will be glad to accept his
authoritative explanations, given elsewhere In
a letter to The TRIBUNE, as to the genuine
improvement of the changes LOW making in
the grounds about the National Capitol. The
extreme difficulty, however, which has been
experienced in getting either work on the
Capitol or in the grounds about it carried to
completion on a uniform and well digcsted
plan may well give us pause. What Is to
follow the present destruction of trees plOw-
ing up of turf, and changing of grades MIR.
Olmsted is excellent; but after Olmsted-whO
About year and half ago the Washing
ton correspondence of THE TRIBUNE gave ex-
tended details exposing the frauds in the
construction of the sewers and pavements of
Washington. The work was simply shameful,
and its utter inadequacy is now apparent. In
the report of Lieut.. Hoxie, Chief Of Engineers
for the District, which we publish to-day, the
structures of our correspondence are fully
borne out. Many of the sewers are entirely
worthless and will have to be reconstructed
at great expense. The new pavements are
already in a deplorable condition. OF an ex-
penditure of 100000 during the year, on
sewers and pavements, very considerable
proportion was merely for repairs.
The Cheap Transportation Association has
spoiled it's best property-a good name, be-
cause short one. 1t is hereafter to be called
the American Board Of Transportation and
Commerce. 1t has not only added to its name.
but it has increased it's patronage OF water
routes by adding to the four great liquid
highways that it deems necessary to national
salvation, the Rock Island and Hennepin
Canal. With the four and half we are to
have a commercial millennium in which hard
times are to be unknown, specie is to take
the place of greenbacks, and the talif will no
longer be needed for revenue One OF the
members called attention to real improve
ment which may render some of these costly
schemes more than ever unnecessary-the
marked reduction in the cost and time of car
rying grain from the West since the intro
duction of steam on the Erie Canal.
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