New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-15

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| ing to mako smooth his road to the Demo-
| cratic candidacy for President via the Govern
| orsbip of Pennsylvania. They will find 1t
necessary to name strong candidate to out
| weigh the agreeable surprise presented in Mr.
Hartranft's good record as Governor.
| gThe Democratic party in this city is not
| altogether united on the question OF the dls-
tribution of patronage. The new plan an
nounced by the leaders of Tammany requires
office-seekers to get the Endorsement Oh thelr
Assembly District organization. and parcels
out the patronage to the Districts. by THIS
system Assemblymen, Aldermen, and Others
are shorn of much of their influence in recon-
mendations for Office, and accordingly express
dissatisfaction. But it is claimed on oehaiI
of the new system that it will secure better
men for Office In that faint hope. men out
side the Democratic party, as well as the judi
| cious within it, will fervently unite.
We have heretofore printed cOpious extracts
from the reports of the State Charities Ala
| Association. and the completed documents
NAV now be found by those desiring fuller IN
formation in regard to their work az the oi,,o0
of the Association, No. 81 East Twentietn-s'' "o
can now only add our hearty commentator oi
the purpose and the processes OF this meriVorious
| Association. 1t is in want OF few thousahu
dollars to carry on it's work, and ought TO nave
if. The best way will be for its friends TO
make a small annual subscription which VIII
cause them to bear it in mind at least once
wear. But of course all subscriptions, OF what
ever kind, will be gladly accepted and faith
fully and intelligently expended. The names
and amounts OF contributions received VIII De
| published in The TRIBUNE.
| Fish culture as described by the Hon.
Robert b. Roosevelt, in lecture deilv-
cred on Saturday evening and reported on
our second page is form of practical science
| of the highest order of benefit to humanity
| The rapid success of this process during the
few years in which it has been attempted on
a large scale has exceeded the hopes OF
| all Int the most sanguine of those who
first attempted it. From the mere expert
ments of naturalist i'll a laboratory 1t mas
grown into the source of q vast increase OF
the productive industries of our country. Ev-
erythng so far indicates that the whole DuSl-
ness is yet only at the beginning OF Its devei-
opment. and unlike many reforms and I'M
proyements, while it adds to the resources OF
a large class of the population, 1t makes no.
body the poorer.
The report of Committee of the New
| York Hospital, which has just been prepared
gives hope that the hospital accommodations
of the city are to be extended IN liberal
and satisfactory way. The Society proposes to
erect in West Fifteenth-st. a central hospital,
to cost. without the land, $435,OOO, and to
build several pavilion hospitals, each having
twelve beds, and engaging the attention OF
one physician and one surgeon. The need
for ample hospital provision below twenty
tbird-st. is thus to be in great measure sup
piled, although it is for some reasons 10 De
regretted that the new central building Is not
| to be further down town, as so many accl-
dents occur in the lower part Of the city.
The introduction of the pavilion system by
the New-York Hospital viii be heartily well
coined by those VINO know of the excelient
results which have been attained in Europe
with that plan of hospital service.
Our Washington dispatches throw some light
ON the circumstances attending the amend
ment of the Postal laws, by which Congress in
its last hours doubled the postage on transient
newspapers and periodicals. Nearly all OF
those who voted for the amendment seem to
have done so in absolute ignorance of its eff
feet as to newspapers and periodicals, the
prevailing impression being that it was appli-
cable only to the merchandise which the Post
Office Department has recently been carrying
at rates so low as to rouse the ire of Express
Companies, and induce them to send agents
to Washington to devise and put through a
scheme for their relief. This is one of the
cases, however, in which legislators ignO-
rance is no excuse and if this is true of
members of Congress generally, what can be
said of the Senator who introduced the
amendment-Mr. Hamlin-whose long expe-
rience on the Post Office Committee and pro-
fessed acquaintance with postal affairs ought
TO have made him a safe guide in such mat
tersf We fear Mr.. Hamlin will have to divide
with the Express Companies the responsibility
for saddling this heavy and utterly indefen-
sible tax upon the people.