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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-21

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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

As will be seen by our Albany correspond
ence to-day there exists strong feeling that
the Costigan bill will be defeated, owing to
difficulties between Tammany and the au-
thorities at the Capitol. The Evening Post
comments upon the course Of the HERALD
in the matter of this Costigan bill, saying
that our mEn' purpose is to force Mr.
Green to retire from the COMPREHENSIVE.
This is true in one respect We think Mr..
Green's retention in Office is violation of
the compact virtually made between Tsmmany
Hall and the people at the last election. In
that point alone Mr.. Green cannot be re-
tanned, except by a moral breach of faith. 1t
is also o curse and burden to the city. The
Comptroller's policy is to stifle the metropolis,
which Sweeny and Tweed robbed. He piles
debt upon debt, and is the minister of OBJ
struction and misgovernment We are in
favor of his removal just as we favor the re-
moval of any officer who fails to minister to
the public welfare or to retain public esteem.
If bill is necessary to secure the result we
would support bill. The Costigan measure
was q good deal more to US than a menace to
Mr.. Green. We supported it because itopened
q new policy and the prospect of better gov
eminent. 1t promised us home rule and
would have put an end to the shameless policy
which has from year to year regarded New
York as rich placer to be robbed by Albany
thieves. This is the reason why we supported
the Costigan bill. Mr.. Green's fortunes have
nothing to do with it. But if the bill would
destroy the present system and at the same
time rid us of Mr. Green we shall regard its
defeat as doubly unfortunate.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

The full report of the American astronomi-
cal expedition. under the direction of Profess
sor Hall, which we print to-day, is rich in
scientific facts and general interest. We give
with it sixteen diagrams showing different
periods of the transit of Venus as observed
from Vladivostock. Professor Halls party OBJ
served q slight ligament, q fact which con-
trasts strongly with the observations made OF
Sydney, where the sun was almost in the
zenith and the sky was perfectly clear. There
no igament or black drop was apparent This
would indicate that where there are clear air
and perfect appliances there is no interruption
of the solar rays nor any disturbance which
makes the air Opaque to very thin beams of
sunlight.
The value Of photography in astronomical
observations of such distant phenomena will
be tested by these experiments. 1t is prob
ably unreliable. The mathematical calculn-
ton of the angular distance between the
transit lines from stations in the northern and
southern hemispheres will prove far more ac-
curate than the plan Of measuring it by pho
tographs. This opinion is no disparagement
of the Photographic operations of the
expeditions, for the pictures will be of great
value in future speculations on the phe-
nonena of irradiation and may result in the
invention of faultless instruments. The data
accumulated by the photographs will be use
full to the astronomer of future times, upon
whom will devolve the colossal task of sum-
ming up the calculations and results obtained
IN all parts of the world, just as the data of
176l-9 were invaluable to Stone, who scruti-
nized the labors OF the expeditions of the last
century, and was the first to discover the mis-
take Of three millions of miles in the estimate
of the sun s distance from the earth.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

will not take counsel or heed warning. His
Springfield letter showed that the chain which
binds him to the President as the leader OF
the republican party is beginning to chafe.
Ifit snaps there is no smithy that can weld it
together again. In a merely selfish point
of view the succession of Henry Wilson,
while q friend, by the voluntary act OF
Grant would not be without its fruits. Not
only might the trustworthy members of the
could keep in Office at least some Of his pred
ecessor's family without reproach. We are
confident he would appoint mono of his own.
That such an arrangement would save the re-
publican party and give peace to the country
from one end to the other we have said over and
over again and religiously believe. 1t would in
giving peace disarm all opposition. 1t would
reanimate the best feeling in the South, and
who better than Henry Wilson could reconcile
the North to measures Of pacifcation OF his
devising2 1t Would relegate the soldier to
his proper position as necessary for unlikely
emergencies and not our daily police inter-
mediary.
In conclusion let US say-and the retrospect
is not fanciful one-that there have been
times before, within the bitter memory of
most of us, when Presidential resignation
would have been blessing undisguised. Had
Franklin Pierce resigned before the Kansas
Nebraska crime was committed and handed
the executive trust to a veteran, conservative,
sound statesman like William r. King or the
President of the Senate, the Missouri line
would never have been disturbed and the chap
ter of that days woes not been opened. If,
in the fall of 1860, after the people had
pronounced against him, Mr.. Buchanan
had gone back to Wheatland, his later days
would have been happier, and though John @.
Breckenridge became ultimately Confederate
soldier and brave one, no one can doubt
that the frustrated Crittenden compromise
would have had better chance with Ken
lucky President, commanding the confidence
of the South, and the agony of the impending
future might have been averted. Those were,
we concede, abnormal and exceptional epochs;
so, in different degree is this of ours, and
the remedy which then might have failed is
sure to succeed now.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17
Political Sentiments OF . Soldier.

The passage we printed yesterday from the
speech of General Burnside, the Senator elect
from Rhode Island, is admirable in temper
intends to act with the moderate republicans,
of whom Vice President Wilson and Speaker
Blaine are the leading New England represent
tatives. General Burnside thinks the Southern
people, and especially that part of them who
served in the Confederate army should be
treated with generous confidence He stands
on the same ground which our most illustrious
soldiers occupied at the close of the war,
before some OF them became warped by
politics General Grants honorable oppo-
sition to measures for Furnishing Lee
or any part Of his army for treason
after receiving their paroles, and General
Sherman's attempt TO end political hostility
and persecution as soon as military operations
had ceased, betokened sentiment which was
widely shared by our army. We rejoice that
Senator Burnside's soldierly instincts have
not been perverted by party politics, and that
he will go into the Senate as o strong advo-
cate Of kindness and Cancellation. He sees
nothing alarming in the election Of ex-Con-
federate officers to positions in the federal
government, maintains that their loyalty can
be safely trusted, and declares that "the peo-
pie are anxiously impatient TO see all the
States OF the Union under the supervision of
their own properly constituted authorities "
This certainly is not Grantism, and it may be
accepted as fresh proof that Grantism has
had its day among the New England repub-
licans.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

PROCEEDINGS IN CoSoREss YESTERDAY
The speech of Mr.. Sargent ON Louisiana
matters. partly delivered on Monday, was
concluded yesterday in the Senate but was
received with what may almost be
called perfect indifference by the few
auditors assembled. The House passed
the bill reorganizing the entire Treas
ury Department by changing the sala-
RES of the officials and defining some Of
their duties and functions anew, and an
effort was made to continue the con-
sideraton Of the Revenue BILL but was not
successful This is supposed to presage the
failure of the measure, which may cause the
necessity of an extra session of Congress.
The Conference Committees report on the
bill to confirm the lease of lands made by
the Seneca Indians and to legalize future
transactions Of the same kind was agreed to
by both houses
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17


While awaiting the official report Of that
part of the committee of Congress which was
last in New Orleans the public will be glad to
learn from an authentic source what view is
taken of the evidence by tho Louisiana con-
servatives. This rational curiosity will be
satisfied by tho letter which we print this
morning from Mr. Zacharie, who served as
chairman of the Conservative Committee be-
fore the Returning Board and also before
both Of the subcommittee of investigation.
No other gentleman on the conservative side
has had such opportunities to be perfectly
we'll informed or can speak with 80 much
authority as representative of that side. Mr..
Zacharie's clear statement will assist the pub
lilo judgment in its estimate of the forthcom-
ing Official report .Wewin refer particularly
to only two or three of his points, which We
prefer to notice in different order from that
in which they stand in his letter.
We first call attention to Mr.. Zacharie's
statement as to General Sheridan's participa-
ton in the events of january 4, when the
Ave conservative members were dragged out Of
the Legislature. General Badger, the Super
intendent of Police, testified on cross
examination that Sheridan, through Emory,
by means Of the police telegraph, gave the
orders and instructions on which De Trobri-
and acted on that occasion. This testimony,
if true, proves that President Grant was
either insincere or misinformed in that part Of
his Louisiana Message where he stated that
Sheridan had nothing to do with the trans
actions of the day. Mr.. Zacharie asserts
that strong effort was made to induce
the last subcommittee to take testimony
on this point and that they refused, by
tie vote, to 60 into the investigation. There
is really no point on which it was more i'm
portant to learn the truth, but the friends of
Grant and Sheridan on the committee were
too wary to take the risk of bringing out
awkward facts.
Another striking point in Mr.. Zacharie's
letter relates to the charge of intimidation in
the election of 1874. He declares that there
was no other evidence to support the charge
than mere impressions and hearsay by per-
sons who were either State officers under
Kellogg or federal officers under Grant.
Finding facts scarce they fell back upon
the Colfax and Coushatta massacres, trying to
make out by inference from those horrors
that they must have had an intimidating
effect on black voters MIR. Zacharie explodes
this inference by showing that more blacks
than whites were registered and voted in pro
portion to their respective numbers, as given
by the census, in the parishes where Colfax
and Coushatta are situated.
Another noteworthy point in Mr.. Zacharie q
communication is his strong assertion that
there is no republican government in Loui-
siana, and that it is the duty Of Congress to
fulfil the federal guarantee. Herein, as well
as on the subject Of compromise, he holds the
same views which have been consistently
maintained by the HERALD, proving that we
have more faithfully represented the conserva-
tive sentiment of Louisiana than the demo-
cratic organs of the North.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

The CANcAN.-The jury in the cancan case
could not agree upon the merits of the case
and were yesterday discharged by the Court
Some of the jurors apparently were the pure
to whom ''all things are pure" and could see
no evil in the celebrated dance The testi-
mony Of the young ladies, who said that they
knew Of nothing improper in the exhibition,
bad profound effect upon the jury, and as
experts their views were entitled to great
weight The question, however, which
Recorder Hackett laid before the jury re-
mains undecided, aud the cancan dancer,
with graceful movement of her sklful toe,
has knocked the hat from the head of aston
ished Justice.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

THE QUESTION Is whether Fifth avenue will
be paved or plastered. If any Of our readers
believe in asphalt or other chemical COM
positions let them study the Reservoir Park,
the Worth Monument vicinity and other
experiments in pavement chemistry. They
will see how useless it would be to cover our
noble Fifth avenue with this brittle prepare
ton. They will also see that none will give
as much satisfaction as the fine old Macadam
pavement, which has been tried on a thousand
occasions and never failed. The question be-
tween asphalt and Macadam is between Q
pavement that never failed and one that has
never succeeded.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

The preliminary case between Messrs.
Boucicault and Hart has been decided by
Judge Woodruff upon legal principles,
and upon the grounds of common equity,
which we have asserted from the first. The
decision confirms all that Mr.. Boucicault
has claimed. Eight scenes of Mr.. Harris play
are declared to be taken from the "Shaugh-
raun." Mr.. Boucicauts copyright in
them is declared to be perfect under the
statute, and Mr.. Hart is restrained
by an order of the Court from con-
tinuing their performance. This injunction,
which is so important to dramatic writer's,
is elsewhere published. 1t is probable
that many persons do not fully understand
the nature Of an injunction. 1t is o power
vested in judge, during the progress of
suit, to command one of the parties to desist
from doing that Of which the other complains.
In all cases. however, in which such orders
are issued, the judge will, nevertheless, re-
quire the complainant to be responsible for
any damages that may arise if the defendant
should be wrongfully enjoined. This is
technicality OF the law, and Mr.. Boucicault
will now proceed with his suit for damages,
which he lays at twenty-five thousand dollars,
and which will determine some important
questions of copyright, and throw light upon
many curious matters connected with the
stage.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

The CENTENNIAL facts which show
the value of Centennial Exhibition stock as an
investment are set forth to-day, and especially
the value which the celebration will be to New
York manufactures and commerce. We are
glad to know that committee of ladies will
be organized in New York to aid in making
the celebration national success.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

SoUTH AMERIcA-Our news from South
America is, on the whole, favorable. Peace
provoked outrage committed at Aspinwall on
DIR. Pigott has excited great indignation, but
as he is a British citizen he is certain to re-
ceiye full reparation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

TIE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION of Connec-
ticut yesterday renominated, by reclamation,
Governor Ingersoll and the whole State
ticket and we have no doubt that his party
depends upon the administration at Wash
ington to assist IN his election.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

The CONDITION OF THE STREET HYDRANTs
causes alarm. A noticeable improvement has
taken place in the navigation OF the river,
but the Sound is still frozen fast.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

The BEEcHER Casa new feature was in
troduced into the Beecher trial yesterday-the
production of q witness who testified to hav-
ing seen what may be considered improperly
between the defendant and Mrs. Tilton. The
rest of the day was occupied in the cross-e1-
animation of the plaintff
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

THE COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION yester-
day elected Mr.. Forrest President for the year,
and urged upon the Legislature the necessity
of relieving the financial endorsements Of
the Commission.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

The BOARD OF SURGEONS was re-established
yesterday by the Commissioners of Police,
under conditions which are elsewhere ex-
planned
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

The Ics BIocKADE.-From present APP
pearances we might be almost justified
in predicting the near discovery of the
North Pole. Either it has become tired
of its isolation or curious as to the con-
dition Of life Of the countrymen Of Kane and
Hayes, and is resolved to visit Us. The de-
scriptions which we print in another column
of the condition Of our coasts and bar
bors are unpleasantly suggestive of the
experience of Arctic iscoverers-ships i'm
prisoned in fields of ice, sailors making e1pe-
ditions from their blockaded ships to the city
of Boston and acting generally very much as
if they were in the land Of the Esquimaux.
In other localities floating icebergs render
navigation perilous The only persons who
regard the present state of things with salts
faction are the Skaters who have certainly full
opportunity to enjoy themselves,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17
John Mitchell and DR.. KenxaIy.

The election of Andrew Johnson to the
United States Senate has found parallels in
the elections of John Mitchell and DR.. Kenealy
to the British Parliament. These events will
cause great excitement in England, and the
election of Mr. Mitchell will command atten-
ton everywhere, as it involves constitu-
tional questions of deep importance.
DR.. Kenealy. who is SO well known as
the counsel for the claimant in the
Tichborne case, was chosen yesterday
from Stoke-on-Trent by majority of two
thousand-an unexpected victory for o man
who has 80 lately been driven out of his pro-
fession; but Mr.. Mitchers triumph is far
more startling. DR.. Kenealy has sought from
the people vindication from the accusations
of his fellow barristers but Mitchell has
appealed against the sentence of the
Crown itself His election to the House
of Commons from Tipperary, without oppo-
sition, appears to be understood by the
government as defiance, and it was promptly
met yesterday. Mr.. Dyke moved in the
House for copies Of all the documents con-
nected with the trial and conviction of John
Mitchell in 184S, and with his escape from
Van Dieman's Land This motion was
adopted by vote of TIA TO Is, and the debate
shows that the government is determined to
regard him as an escaped felon, and to deny
on that ground his eligibility to election. In
execution of this policy Mr.. Disrael an
nounced that he will move tomorrow that
new writ of election be ordered for Tippeary
county. Both cases are singular examples Of
the way the whirligig Of time brings about its
revenges, and their progress will be watched
with as much interest in America as in Ire
land or England.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were
generally lower and business without feature.
Foreign exchange was steady. Gold advanced
to ll51
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17
TRIPLE S HEET.
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY II, 1875.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the reather today wA be cloudy.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17
NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
PROPRIETOR.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS and
after January /, 1875, the daily and weekly
editions of the New YORK HERALD will be
sent free of postage.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

plishsd ~ Private Capitals
It is very desirable that steam communica-
ton between the lower and upper parts Of
this island be supplied by private enterprise
and not done by the city. While it would be
better to have it at the expense of the city
than not to have it at all, rapid transit could
be pushed through by private enterprise with
greater energy, in briefer period, and at
smaller cost by o company of capitalists, and,
out of the pockets of people who use the roads,
economical construction is the proper basis of
low fares. The mass of the community is
taking deep interest in rapid transit but
unfortunately, our heavy capitalists hang
back in apathy, although steam roads would
SO much enhance the value of their property.
This regrettable languor on the part of citizens
who ought to be most alive to tho importance
OF the work tends to conviction that the city
will finally have to build it, in obedience to
strong public sentiment of its necessity. As
soon as tho mass of our citizens shall be con-
WINGED that nothing is to be hoped from
private capitalists resistless cry will 60 up
for tho construction Of tho work by the Cor
poration in spite Of tho drawbacks and the
possible jobbery with which such improve
ments are beset when the watchful eyes of
private owners are not kept upon the expendi-
ture of money.
We sincerely trust that public sentiment
may not be driven to such an alternative.
But if it should at last como to that the peo-
pie will decide that steam roads must be
built as necessary public highway. 1t is
conceded by the best judges that there is ne
constitutional obstacleto this method, and as
the Croton water works and the Central Park
were constructed by the city without any
scandalous jobs the people will insist on
another experiment in the same direction,
with all its hazards, if they become convinced
that there is no other way Of securing so in
dispensable an improvement The heavy CAPT.
talists and taxpayers will suffer most from the
waste, extravaganza and jobbing that might
attend the prosecution of the work by the city,
and we warn them in their own interest Of
what will undoubtedly come, at no distant
period, unless they rise out Of their indiffer-
ence and bestir themselves in favor of work
which is so urgently demanded by popular
sentiment and by public and private interests.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

TRINITY CHURCH yesterday witnessed q
touching sight-three brothers laid to rest
from the cares and troubles of life They
we're old men, and it had been vouchsafed to
them that by some mystic sympathy death
came to all three within few hours of each
other
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK
HERALD-NO. 46 FLEET STREET.
Subscriptions and advertisements will be
received and forwarded on the same terms
as in New York.
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twenty-eghth street and Broadway THE BIG bo-
MANIA at p NJ. closes at IL 80 r. 81. Mr.. Lewis.
Miss Davenport Mrs. Gilbert
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE.
No 0i Bo wery.-yAhIETY, at p. NJ. closes at 10 10
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-17

LYCEUM THEATRE
Fourteen nth street and sixth avenue. -OFF THE LINE
and THE DODGER SP. N. closes at ~ :45 T. NJ Mr..
j. L. 1oole