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The New York herald., 1875-09-01
The sensitive PhiIIirs.

Mr. s. L. Phillips, the President of the
Third Avenue Railroad, is as sensitive as he
is fscetious. We had not the slightest desire
to make him ridiculous On the other hand,
we were only too anxious to honor him.
Lord Byron is reported to have said of him
self that he arose one morning and found
himself famoas. Mr.. Phillips has done
better even than Byron. He made q speech
intended to be convincing in its seri-
BUSINESS, and there is every reason
why he should be surprised at the
result-that speech has made his reputation
as the funniest man in America The whole
production was as extraordinary in its way
as Third avenue Car, with which nothing
in this world or the next can compare. In
stead of grieving over his great good fortune
Mr.. Phillips should rejoice in it, and thank
us for our speedy recognition of his humor-
Gus qualities. Other humorists have not
Jared so well, and we are sure that Bret
Harte and John Hay, and Mark Twain and
the late Q. X. Philander Doesticks would not
have taken umbrage if we had done as much
for them. But we suppose Mr.. Phillips
can no more help being sensitive
than he can avoid being funny. tbs the fate
of genius to be welded to some misfortune,
and it is not surprising that Phillips
fate should be too much feeling. He IS,
however, in position where his sympathies
as well as his humor find full vent He evil
IDENTIFY loves that noble animal the horse for
which the distinguished Mr. Bergh has also
a great affection, or he would not be satisfied
with mile an hour as the speed of street
car in the busy periods of the day 1t is GER
tain that he loves his own kind also, or he
would not press them so tenderly and
closely together and refresh them for
hours with the odors of the Bowery
and Third avenue. Twenty-seven mill
ion people enjoyed his benefactions at
five cents apiece during the past year, and
now every mothers son of them is tickled
with his humor, as well as suffocated in
his sweets All New York must see to it
that his sensitive nature is not wronged, and
especially that Hart's dividends are not
diminished by rapid transit road along the
line of the Third Avenue Railroad Now
that we have real humorist among US we
must not injure him in his feelings or his
employers profits, but even forego rapid
transit and consent to ride in Third avenue
car forever if thereby we can testify how
much we reverence humor and the humorist
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

but after going there TO make remuneration
and receive absolution he can be Of consider
able service to his party in Maine, where the
imitation question is not an issue The
argument of some of the New England demo-
cratic journals that Senator Morton was
invited to Maine because the republican
party there fears defeat is disingenuous
fetch The Maine republicans do not merely
aim TO carry the State, but TO make gains on
their last years. vote, and thereby convince
the country that 1.-THE tidal wave" has spent
its force and is receding. Mr. Morton has
gone to Maine to help the republican can
vass in Ohio. If the democrats should be
worse whipped in Maine than they were last
year such result will tell on the October
elections and aid the republicans everywhere
in their attempts to recover lost ground
The candidates for the Governorship in
Maine this year are Sheldon Connor, repub-
hcan, and Charles w. Roberts, demo-
crat A special election is also to be
held in the Fourth Congressional district
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Samuel F. Hersey, republican. The candi-
dates are Harris NJ. Plaisted, republican, and
James G. Madigan, democrat. Last fall the
republicans had majority of nearly thou
sand in the district, and they will easily elect
their candidate to fill the vacancy. 1t seems
unlikely that the Ohio democrats will receive
any encouragement from the Maine election.
The Ohio canvass presents curious COM
plication since it is for the obvious interest
of leading Presidential candidate on each
side to have his own party beaten. Unless
the democrats are defeated Governor Tilden
has no chance of Presidential nomination,
and, on the other hand, unless the republi-
cans are defeated the imitation issue will rise
into sufficient Importance to reconcile the
party to another nomination of President
Grant. No State canvass, in what is called
an "off year." was ever watched by the
country at large with SO keen an interest as
that which is now in progress in Ohio.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01
"Coupon Clippers"

The statement of the condition of the saw
ings banks of New York up to the 1st of July
is interesting in more respects than one.
There are deposits to the extent of
1916, 1886, GIT 80. The assets Of these savings
banks are 1886, 3OS, 236 49, Since the first of
the year the deposits have been increased by
twelve millions of dollars, and there has
been a gain also of thirty-six thousand in the
number of depositors. This is the largest
increase in the amount of deposits since
1872.
This exhibit is valuable as showing the
growth of habits of thrift among our people.
1t has another value and this we commend
to General Sam Carey, of Ohio, and those
enemies of the coupon clipper" who are
now canvassing the West. This three hun
dred and thirty-six millions of dollars
represent to large extent govern
ment bonds. The coupon clippers"
are more numerous in savings banks than
elsewhere Now, if General Sam Carey
and his friends can convince the people"
they will make war upon this vast property
representing 'the savings of the people" and
achievement it would be for General Sam
Carey TO exterminate these coupon clip
pers." Why should there be three hundred
and thirty-six millions Of dollars boarded up
| by the "bloated depositors" in savings
banks? Why should the people of the West
and agricultural regions be poor while these
''sordid" depositors are enabled to gather to-
gether such vast sum Of money! Why
should not this money be taken out of the
banks and given to those who need it, the
brawny-fsted laborers Of the West2 Here is
good chance for the enemies of the coupon
clipper" We trust that General Sam Carey
will not overlook his opportunity when he
hears the astonishing and painful fact that
in New York alone over three hundred and
thirty-six million dollars have been slowed
away and buried in savings banks by those
enemies Of freedom coupon clipping" de-
positors.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01
Cable Rates.

Is the Anglo-American Cable Company a
Legitimate enterprise or mere speculative
adventurep We notice that the managers are
publishing figures whose purpose is to show
that the recent reduction of the rates has not
so far produced a corresponding increase in
business, and that the result is decrease in
the gross revenue. But these figures do not
show that the amount Of business the
company are now doing at the present lower
rates is unremunerative; and if the reduc-
ton of rates had really inflicted loss it
would be difficult to account for the recent
rise in the price of Anglo American stock. If
the managers of the company would perfect
their system of administration SO as to trans
act business more promptly and with greater
regularity they would satisfy their customers
and the public and secure in q short
time handsome increase of business To
raise the rates to the old figures as they ap-
pear now to threaten, would bring down upon
them justly the Indignation ofthe commercial
class on both continents, and would cause
demand for the interference Of the govern
ments to prevent such see-saws. The price
of cable dispatches should be regulated by
the cost of the service, and not by the neces-
sites of the public; when two cables are
working the Anglo-American puts its rates
down. Why should it raise them now2
If the company chooses to manage its
affairs with due regard to the convenience of
the public, and shows that it is satisfied with
such constant but moderate profits as form
the proper returns in any legitimate enter
prise, it will probably continue to prosper.
But if its managers propose to make the
public the victims of careless service and
arbitrary rates the time is near when the
governments of Great Britain and the
United States will be compelled by general
demand to assume the control of the cable
and manage it for the public interest. If
they did not the newspapers Of this country
and England are now rich enough to lay
new cable on their own account, and they
are not incapable of doing So
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

CHURCH AUTHORITY. attempt OF the
Catholic Bishop Of Louisville TO supervise
the financial condition Of the churches in his
diocese has led TO rebellious outbreak
among some of the priests. The curious fea-
ture is that the rebels do not wish the laity
to be mixed up with the financial affairs OF
the Church. This exhibition Of o spirit of
caste is perhaps only the natural result Of the
relations existing between the priests and
people, but it is certainly not feeling that
can be looked on with favor in this country.
The churches belong to the congregation,
and their administration ought 10 be care
fully supervised by their owners The mere
fact that the members Of the priesthood are
intrusted with the care and administration
of certain property does not give them the
right TO assume the airs Of proprietors. In
Europe lay Catholics are almost wholly ex-
cluded from the direction Of the affairs Of
tbeir own churches; but we doubt that in
this country the congregations will be will
inc 20 see clerics assuming absolute control
of property which docs not belong to them
and of which of best they are but trustees foi
the benefit Of their uarishioners'
The New York herald., 1875-09-01
The Trouble in Georgia.

Our correspondence in another column
gives the programme of the movements of the
Georgia freedmen. Their aspiration was for
a black mans red republic-a rouge ct noir
Utopia. They had the same beautiful idea
in their difficult heads that has several times
disturbed the brains of the people of the city
of Paris. An equal division of the land and
the establishment of public schools was the
claim of these unconscious plagiarists of the
Paris Commune, and they seem to have fan
cied that one of these was as practicable
and as just as the other; and if they
could not get both, or if they were in
terfered with in the organization of an
armed force intended to secure both,
then they were ready to fight for their cause.
Exactly what would necessarily be the result
! of their attempt to enforce such programme
they perhaps could scarcely understand. and
therefore they may have used in comparative
innocence of mind words that have become
commonplace when they said they would
fight for their cause; but white men
who are familiar with the history of
movements of this sort know what
terrible significance this commonplace
may acquire in the collision of races where
there has been slavery. Frightful as
might have been the results of a move
ment on this theory it is very satisfactory to
see that the colored people of Georgia were
fully as innocent as the mildest interpreta-
ton of the words they used would suggest ;
but they were the dupes of two or three ne
gro agitators of the worst type. These men
seized upon an organization of negroes ap-
parently made for praiseworthy purpose,
and attempted to pervert it to their destruc-
tive and plundering schemes. One negro
confession indicates that one society used by
the negro Morris originated in pursuit as
peaceful as that of political economy. Its
first purpose was ito stop selling corn at
thirty or forty cents bushel for whiskey
and then having to buy it in the spring :"
and another purpose was to bury members
properly, put them away right" If the
negroes have got men among them who will
organize societies with a purpose like this
first one they may be trusted for all ordinary
competition with white men; and if the
State will encourage the growth of this sort
ofleaders by kindly hanging the other sort
the General Morrises and the Cordy Har-
rises-the negroes will give less trouble in the
South than any reasonable creature might
Justly have apprehended.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

TURKEY, apparently, is on the eve of great
war. Besides the revolt in Herzegovina and
the unquiet condition of Bosnia our cable
reports this morning bring news Of great
military activity in Egypt and of the formation
of Servian Ministry, composed mostly of
members of the Young Servis" party. SO far
as the Khedive is concerned throw of the
dice might determine his opposition to or
suppors ofthe Porte, and Servia will certainly
revolt unless the rebellion in Herzegovina
is speedily suppressed. This is not to be
expected unless the Powers intervene and in
any event lively times may be expected
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

THE TEXAS FRONTIER We print letter
this morning in relation to the outrages of
Cortina and his bands On the line of the Rio
Grande as they are reflected by Texas senti-
ment by way of Long Branch. 1t is just
possible that the worthy Texans who are
absent from their State may do the govern
ment injustice in its intention of dealing
with the Mexican marauders General Grant
has shown some purpose to suppress the
outrages from which the people on the Texas
frontier have suffered SO much, and we are
slow to condemn his policy while there is a
prospect that the necessary protection 10
American citizans will be afforded.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

FRANcE AND THE CENTENNIAL Viscount
de Meaux, the French Minister of Agricul-
ture and Commerce, is pursuing wise
course in urging the manufacturers Of France
to send the products Of their industries to
the Centennial Exhibition. In no other way
can the business relations of the two coun-
tries be SO surely promoted or their friend
shin cemented
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

A CATHOLIC SYNOD has met at Maynooth,
Ireland, under the presidency of Cardinal
Cullen, to consider the education question.
Though the conditions differ in some re-
spects the problem is really She same in Ire
land and America, and this Synod may prove
the first step toward the adoption Of well
defined policy on this question in both
countries
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

ANOTHER FAILURE in London is reported.
The time seems to have come on both con-
tinents when houses doing business upon an
insufficient basis will be compelled to
succumb There will not be much occasion
to regret this if the disasters lead to the adop-
ton of sounder principles in business in the
future
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

POSTMASTER JAMES must see to it that all
such nuisances as the soda stand in the new
Post Office are prohibited. bar would be
quite as necessary as lunch room or soda
stand. The location for these places is in
the contiguous streets, and it would be un-
wise TO continue them in the Post Office build
inc
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

CHINESE INSULTS AND APOLOGIES seem just
now to be the principal advertisements of
English diplomacy. England is not afraid to
make war upon the Celestials slow as she
would be to court it in any other direction,
and the Chinaman had better be careful Of
the British lion.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

THE NEwsBoYs' Picnic. Trustees OF
the Free Excursion Fund announce that the
newsboys will enjoy picnic on Saturday
next 1t is pleasant to know that this hard
working class of our industrial children are
not to be forgotten this year. That the boys
will have jolly time there can be no doubt
and it is to be hoped that the efforts of the
Trustees will be further supported, in order
that the excursions may continue. Nearly
ten thousand boys and girls have been given
holiday so far this summer, and there is no
reason why that large number should not be
increased Next Saturdays excursion will
be an interesting one, owing to the peculiar
class who will participate in the pleasure of
the day. The programme of arrangements
is of character to insure success
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

The DIRECT CABLE is likely soon to be in
working order once more. The Faraday has
found the end of the eastern part, and it is
probable the other end will also be recov-
erred
The New York herald., 1875-09-01
Decline OF Carlism.

II Is said that the recent defeats Suffered
by the Csrlists have convinced even the Pre-
tender that it is useless to- continue the strug-
gle for the possession of the Spanish crown
under the present condition of affairs. IL
Carlism were not the outgrowth of an unrea~
soning fanaticisn we might believe that this
utter hopelessness of the work its leaders
have set themselves to accomplish would in
duce them to throw down their arms and re-
store peace and prosperity to their country.
For moment only was there the slightest
chance that the reactionary party repre-
sented by Don Carlos would succeed in pos
sessing themselves Of the government Of
Spain. Had the party been strong enough
and bold enough to grapple with the disor-
ganized Republic of Pi Margal and Cas-
telar the conservative element might have
accepted Don Carlos and his friends as sa-
viors of society. 1t was at this period
that Carlism demonstrated its inherent
weakness and its incapacity to im-
pose itself on the nation. 1t became-
evident that Carlism was local evil, and
that even its alliance with the Church party
Woo ulioDle 10 rdlSe III 10 Jne ulSIlIy VI BIcdI
national party. That exhibition of weakness
was fatal to it, and since then in spite of the
blunders of the Madrid governments, Carlism
has daily lost ground. Were it not for the
difficulties nature has thrown in the way of
military operations in the northern provinces
of Spain the bands that support the preten-
sions of Don Carlos to the throne would
long since have been dispersed. Now they
are wholly unable to do more than protract
the war by taking advantage of the nature Of
the country. All hope of their success is at
an end, and the funds of the Carlist support
ers must be exhausted by the constant de-
mands made upon them. Though we may
not hope for an immediate cessation of the
civil war in Spain the area of operations
must become hourly more restricted. The
rank and file of the Carlists, when once con-
vinced that their cause is hopeless, will be
only too anxious to abandon struggle that
is laying waste their fields and strewing the
hillsides with the best and bravest of Spain's
sons.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

The AMATEUR REGATTA at Troy began
yesterday, Courtney holding his own and
the Argonautas winning the pair-oared race.
Great interest is felt in the races, and the
regatta is likely to prove one of the most
successful of the season.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

A FIRE AT SEA is always regarded as some
thing peculiarly terrible, but it is not often,
except in novels like Mr.. Theodore Tilton's
Tempest Tossed, that the birth Of fine
baby is the first event to happen after the
rescue. In the case Of the coal schooner Au-
nelie. burnt at sea. whose crew was saved
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

Persons going ont Of totcn for the summer car
hGve the daily and Sunday HERALD mailed h
them, free Of postage, for 81 per month
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TRIPLE S HE E T.
New YORK. WEDNESDAY sEPTRMBER l, l875

From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the toeather today SciA be 0Grm and
clear, or partly cloudy.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

WALL STREET YESTERDAY stock mar
ket feverish prices lower business more
active. Gold firm at 1141. Bonds gen.
orally steady
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

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MORE MURDER. Another murder by sud-
den violence has occurred in the city, and,
of course, nobody knows who did it; and at
Police Headquarters it will perhaps be
deemed ridiculous fancy for the public to
suppose that the police should forthwith catch
the murderer. But the police have all the
machinery in their hands, only they are
without either the intelligence OF the energy
to use it. In properly organized police the
law for the arrest Of habitual criminals would
have settled this case, as it has often settled
similar ones in England. Under that law
the slums would have been swept within five
hours of this murder, and every known
criminal would have been in the hands of
Justice. One of the mon thus caught would
probably have been the man wanted, or
would have known the whereabouts of that
man. Moreover, the sudden arrest in that
way about once o week Of every known
rogue would stimulate the disposition Of
rogues to visit neighboring cities.
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

after being four days and nights In open
boats, the story is embellished by an event
not unlike that in Mr.. Tilton's story.
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GILMORES SUMNER GARDEN
late Barnum's Hippodrome POPULAR CON-
CERT, at T. NJ closes al IL 2. NJ
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MIR. Morrissey on Wages.

It has been finely observed that good
man struggling with adversely is spectacle
for the admiration of the gods and if it is
possible to get up finer show than that we
fancy it must be the picture of great man
sensitive to public opinion. In this character
we are delighted to recognize the Hon. John
Morrissey. Some envious Casca out of the
Kelly camp launched few days since ter
rible imputation against this gentleman's
honesty as reformer and his consistency as
a democrat. He meanly limited that Mr.. Nor
paid two dollars day in this city, but
thought that less was necessary at Saratoga;
and we, as faithful chroniclers of what is said
and done in the world, reproduced his story.
For our part, however, we did not sympa-
thize, and we regarded the innuendo as one
of the plainest Of all the tricks that are vain.
1t was, in fact, merely job of some chaps up
at Saratoga to get their wages raised. If
Morrissey paid them dollar and half we
thought it was most likely all they were worth.
Indeed, we will venture the opinion that at
this season of the year there are two or three
thousand persons at Saratoga who would be
overpaid if given thirty cents day to labor
at any useful occupation. Shall all Northern
New York come in for its two dollars day,
not because it earns it, but in order that Mr..
Morrissey may be consistent ? Mr.. Morrissey,
however, magnanimously shows his hand.
He puts before our readers his payroll. 1t
is fine document We are glad there are so
many of them, and if the luxury of the
time likes to enjoy itself at a race there
comes out of it the one advantage that it
distributes the money that would not COM
fort so many homes if virtuously boarded in
Puritanic tills. But Mr.. Morrissey says
his payroll averages two dollars and
twenty-six cents q man. We are afraid
this is Joint in his armor Averages" is
bad. What will the city payrolls average?
Put in the thousands of the Mayor and the
Comptroller and all the big wigs and shake
them up with the units and tens of the Tins
and Mikes, and we should not be surprised
if it gave an average of five dollars q man.
Averages" was an unhappy thought, for if
the magnate of Saratoga hopes to keep up
with the city he must go several points better
The New York herald., 1875-09-01

TIvoLI THEATRE,
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Iwenty eighth street. near BroAdway.-MEXICAN JUVEN
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