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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27
Will the British Beat Our Amateurs
40 the Dart

Now that two out of the three famous
British rowing Universities purpose sending
crews to row in the Centennial open amateur
four-oared races, and it may be announced
any day that Oxford also is coming, the in
terest is already naturally very great in the
oarsmen we will be able to bring forward
to meet them and in the probable result
The best amateur four that America can
muster must certainly be made up largely,
if not wholly, from the present racing teams
Of the Atalantas and Argonautas, or of Cor
nell, Columbia and Dartmouth. Untried
crews sometimes row very fast but the rule
is that the winning is generally done by old
hands, and up to the present writing the
crews named have earned front places more
often than any others in America. Harvard,
to be sure, beat Dartmouth at Saratoga, but
she has now only one man from the crew
she then had. and, though Cambridge
did whip Oxford recently with crew
hope for similar good fortune. While all
Of these crews arc thoroughly alive to the
great struggle in store for them, and arc
working hard to be rs ready when the
time Of trial comes as they possibly can, it
is far from certain that at their best, they
can keep the worlds amateur championship
on this side Of the water. Cambridge es-
pcc;ally is exceptionally strong, and long
before her recent victory oil England was
very confident that she would win. Can any
crew we have whip picked four out of her
renowned eight? This is the question which
will ero long DO in all mouths. Neither is
the support she will have from Dublin to be
for moment despised. More than once at
Henley have both Cambridge and Oxford
learned that the little Irish University
could teach them how to row, and Messrs.
Pcntand, Hickson and the two Barring:ons,
already in active training, will doubtless pull
very fast race. The London Rowing Club,
or team chosen from it, and the Royal
Chester, of Liverpool will also take excel
lent care at the oar, as they have often done,
Of England's fair name. Cambridge will
outweigh any team we have, will be trained
with the utmost care, and few rowing men
will believe that there is any thing in America
that is likely to show such superb form as
she did on the Putnoy course. If we are to
win, unless our form improves amazingly
during the next four months, superior en-
durance alone is all that will win Us tho
laurels at the Centennial contest. But it
would be far better to be beaten in such a
contest than not to row it, and If in this
Grst visit Of British boating gentlemen they
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

The temper of the newspapers from tho
West is that there will be no candidate nomi-
mated at either convention who will not rep
Of the Union. Long continued power hath
made our brethren of tho Mississippi Valley
resolute in their ambition to control tho
Union. The East may pay money to build
railways and develop the country and sus-
tain expensive postal routes. but there will
be no division of the power which has ruled
the Union since the war began and will con-
tinue to rule it as long as jefferson and the
Virginians did in the beginning of the Gen.
fury. First Lincoln, then johnson, then
Grant, and now - That is the question
agitating the souls of anxious politicians,
who scan the canvass with anxious eyes.
However we may, as Eastern men, object to
this, we may as well accept the inevitable,
and consent to the election of some Western
man who will be broad enough to take in the
whole country.
This is the way the democrats west Of the
Mississippi talk. They have also before
them the apparition of the labor vote of the
grangers and those curious movements
which threatened ct one time to paralyze our
politics. This leads them to consider the
value Of Judge Davis, OF the Supreme Court,
as the candidate who can carry three Of the
Western States-Indiana, nlinoisand Ohio
without whose aid we can have no Presi-
dent.
SO that, with the resolution of the West not
to be deprived of empire, and with the evil
den. necessity of having the aid of the three
States mentioned, it would not surprise us
to have David Davis, of Illinois, as the "dark
horse" at st. Louis
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27
Louisiana Politics.

Can it be true that neither party has yet
learned wisdom in Louisiana, and that each
is preparing to nominate a State ticket for
which no conservative citizen Of either side
would willingly vote? 1t is o melancholy
story which comes to us to this effect. The
republicans, it is said, mean to nominate
either Warmoth or Chief Justice Ludeling for
Governor, and the democrats talk of Nc
Emery or Wilt Is it not time for .'new
of New Orleans, the sugar and cotton plant
ers and other men of substance in the in
terror, energy and influence enough to force
one of the two parties to nominate some new
men, men that deserve to rule the State and
who have character, ability and moderation?
1t is pitiful to see so rich o State as Lou
isiana torn by political factions, and injured
in its prosperity by the determination of
politicians either corrupt or turbulent, or
both, to assert their petty ambitions. Lou
isiana ought to be one of the richest and
most prosperous States in the Union. She
has all the elements of great wealth. No State,
not even California, has greater future, if
only her people could rid themselves of the
rule and strife of demagogues.
We warn the people of the State that they
lose the sympathy of Northern men and
they repel Northern capital if they cannot
master their politicians. The republican
party has abominably abused the State it
ought to be easy to drive out of power the
thieves who have plundered it in the name
of the republican party. But it can only be
done by the nomination of conservative
ticket containing the names of men of known
character and moderation, and not by put
ting forward men who, whatever their merits,
are identified with scenes of violence and
known as leaders Of the extreme wing of
their party, disliked and distrusted by the
substantial citizens. We hope yet to see
good counsels prevail in one party or the
other in Louisiana.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

The TRuFFLE Hoo CASvAs.-The truffie
IS . dainty that all epicureans cherish.
II is tuber that grows beneath tho
soil. 1t has no power of coming to the
surface. If not found it rots away. A hog
is trained to root into the soil and dig it
out. For this service the hog is rewarded
with handful of acorns. The truffe hog
earns immunity and renown by his nose.
We have him in our politics, and he
never had so much reputation as now.
Washington seems TO be vast Provencal
forest, with hundred truffie hogs running
hither and thithcr, digging the earth with
their shouts, eager to rake up some scandal
that may give flavor to the campaign. In
the absence OF a better designation we pro-
pose that the canvass of 1876 shall be known
as the Campaign of the Trufle Hogs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

The ESCAPE OF GAS in the public parks
affects both the roots and the foliage of the
trees, and the Park Department is meditat-
ing the use of kerosene for lighting pur-
poses instead of the present system. 1t
may be doubted whether any other method
for illuminating streets and places of public
resort is equal to the use of gas, but it is
well enough for the department to ascertain
what can be done in the way Of illumination
by some other system.
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shows how difficult it is to adjust the local
quarrel carried to Utica from this city. On
one side equity required that SO large body
Of democrats as acted with Morrissey last
fall should receive some recognition by the
Convention but. on the other hand. the
Kelly delegation is regular in form, has pre-
cedents in its favor, and showed an unfinch-
nothing. Tammany has gained its point,
but there may be stormy session when the
Convention reassembles this morning.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

THE SENTENCE OF McKxs to two years i'm
prisonment and a fine of ten thousand dol
lars is not too severe for the offence of which
he was guilty. When respectable men use
their social standing to organize corruption
and profit by frauds on the government
their offences must be sternly punished.
Pardon for men like Mckee and Avery and
Mcguire is out of the question. and should
the Attorney General recommend this in the
case of any of these men he cannot escape
the odium Of the act.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND, as in the
United States, is annually voted down by
the men who hnve.authority to pass upon it
by virtue of mems votes !; but if women were
allowed to determine the question for them
selves the majority against it would be even
more overwhelming than that in the British
Parliament last night. In both countries il
might be well to dispense with the annual
farce for few years at least.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

This campaign is SO dark and bitter that
any indication Of harmony will be welcomed.
Nothing is more pleasant, for instance. than
the manner in which the democratic candi-
dates treat each other When we hear Bayard
talk about Tilden or Tilden about Thurman;
when we hear the Sage Of Oneida, Seymour,
in prolonged interview. how sweet and
fraternal is their conversation / All is love,
appreciation and brotherly harmony. In
fact it seems as if there would be some diff
fculty about the democrats making nomina-
ton, each candidate seems to be SO anxious
to decline in favor Of another. More than
all. the democratic newspapers protect their
candidates, while the republican journals
delight in nothing so much as in destroying
a republican leader. See how tenderly the
Word shields Pendleton from the conse-
quences of his iniquity, and how we have
never word calculated to smear the party.
The republican candidates are, on the other
hand, quarrelling like SO many mastiffs in
dog pit. They spend their time in setting up
dynamite machines for each other. Blaine
is to blow up Morton, and Conkling is to
destroy Bristow and so they all go! WASH
burne will have nothing to do with Conk-
ling, and Blaine has not spoken to him for
years. Could anything be more beautiful
than this democratic love or more painful
than this republican antagonism
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Tho Labor Movement in the West.
The friends of the laboring man" are not
dead by any means, but waiting for their OPP
portunity. We know the importance Of this
diversion when we consider the value of the
labor question in the last canvass against
John Kelly. What defeated John Kelly
was the fact that he was paying creatures
like Tom Dunlap large salaries while he cut
down the wages of the iaboring man on the
Boulevard to dollar and sixty cents day.
We cannot underestimate the importance
of such cry in the country at large. We
have as eloquent man as Wendell Phillips
and as bold a man as General Butler waiting
to raise the standard of labor. Conse-
quently, when the democrats of Illinois talk
about Judge Davis, of Illinois, now MEM
Der of the Supreme Court, as the one candi-
date who can carry this vote, and who can
also carry the States Of Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio, we have problem presented which
contains in its solution the elements of VIC
tory.
The question Of reconstruction in the
South is an important one, but not SO i'm
portant rs the question of reconstructing
the relations between capital and labor.
That is question as interesting to the labor
ing man in tho cotton fields of Alabama as
in the wheat fields of Pcnnsylvania-to the
black man and tho white man. If Judge
Davis comes rs the representative of this
sentiment he may become the champion Of
the democracy, the winning horse in the
great race, the great unknown" who is SO
carefully studied by political philosophers
all over the country. The fact that the Judge
was republican would have some value as
nm argument against him if the democratic
party did not need to conciliate republicans
enough to elect their ticket.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

A RIcHTEous VERDICT is that found
against Matthew p. Bemis and William Van
Name in the suit to recover money taken
from the Market Savings Bank and lost in
stock speculations in 1869. The case shows
the utter disregard Of honor in business
which characterizes the management of
many of our banking institutions, and it
reveals one of the most remarkable and dis
graceful episodes of tho kind ever brought
before court Of Justice.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

RUMoRs OF PEACE and the extrcmities of
war always 60 together, as is again illus
trated in the stories of renewed armistice
and the chances of successful negotiations
between the Turks and the insurgents at the
same time with reports of the unsuccessful
sortie at Nicsic. 1t is likely, however, that,
in spite Of these hopes of peace, the'war in
the East has only begun in earnest.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

DENMARK is excited. The lower house Of
the Rigsdag was dissolved some time ago be-
cause the National Defences bill was beaten
by majority of eighteen, but the elections
have resulted in an opposition majority of
forty-six against the measure. Everywhere
the millions for defence theory is being ex-
ploded. and the Danish elections are only
another proof that standing armies and
ornaments are becoming distasteful to the
people.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

THE HoIsE RAILROADS are fighting rapid
transit with bitterness to be expected from
these profitable monopolies. The Sixth
avenue road has obtained temporary in
junction against the Gilbert elevated road,
and if the courts can be induced to help the
horse car companies there will be no rapid
transit. The people will jcalously watch
Judge Speir's action in the case now before
him, as this question is one of public neces-
sity and the highest public interest
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

THE GREAr METROPOLITAN STAKES, among
other events, was run yesterday at the Ep-
som spring racing meeting. 1t had seven
starters, and Prince Soltykofrs New Holland
proved the winner. Mr.. Sanford's American
horse Bay Final was in the field, and though
he made creditable fight FIR two miles,
finished nearly last
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

The GEORGIA DELEGATES to the Democratic
National Convention are reported as more
favorable to Tilden than to any Of the candi-
dates named for the st. Louis nomination. As
these delegates were chosen in the Congress
districts, and not bya State convention, their
sentiments may be accepted as indicating
Southern feeling and as foresLadowing the
nomination Of either Tilden or Bayard.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

BRrsrow's TRIUMPH in the Massachusetts
Republican Convention at Boston yesterday
will give the Secretary of the Treasury great
prestige at Cincinnati. With the. exception
of Judge Hoar all the delegates at large are
his friends, and Judge Hoar is not likely
to oppose the sentiment of his State if Mr..
Bristow's nomination is possible
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were
irregular and the market without other fea-
lure than dulness. Gold opened and closed
1T 112 5-S Money on call loaned at 3 1-2
per cent. Government and railroad bonds
were generally steady.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

The BROKEN CABLE this time is the ono
known as the French cable We trust it
will be speedily repaired, instead of being
made the pretence for advancing the rates.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION was in ses-
sion yesterday, and there are some indica-
tions that its meetings will not promote har.
mony in the management Of the Exposition.
So far as appears on the surface at least the
work of erecting the Centennial buildings and
preparing for the Exhibition has been intel
ligently and efficiently done, and any fac
tious opposition in the commission at this
late day would be as unworthy as it is un-
necessary. What the American people want
now is to make the Exhibition success in
every way, and nothing must be done in the
commission or out of it to mar the fortunes
of this great enterprise.
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Tn. Logic or operate Failures.

Although another performance is prom
be considered practically at an end, and
that, too, under circumstances which COM
pei the confession that it has been failure.
1t is not surprising, however. that this latest
endeayor of the Messrs. Strakosch should
have failed. In many respects they ex-
ayers, and but for them New York would
oftener have been deprived of opera than
has been the case since they undertook the
direction of the Academy Of Music. But
they have failed more frequently than they
succeeded, and always because they assumed
that single swallow was enough to make
summer. In 1894, when they gave us
Nilsson, with such artists as Campanini.
Capoul and Maurel to support her, together
with q strong and efficient chorus and
well balanced orchestra, the season
turned out to be rs prosperous az it
was brilliant. The Albani season failed
for precisely opposite reasons, and now the
Belocca failure is still further proof that it
is impossible to give operate concert and
have it accepted AS opera. In the case Of
very great artist such as Titiens, for instance,
the public may be willing to accept operatic
surroundings as preferable to the cold and
barren concert stage, but Mile Belocca can
not expect to find herself in that position
for many years to come. The young prima
donna is a very good artist but, while
she possesses both culture and talent,
it is impossible that she should bear upon
her own shoulders the whole weight of an
opcratic season. She has been unfortunate
in this country; but she has done herself no
discredit, and under more favorable circum-
stances she would secure in this city and in
this country complete triumph. This can
only be, however, when she is properly sup
ported and not tried beyond her strength.
But to ask the public to go to the Acad-
envy simply to hear Mile. Belocca is to ask
what they will not do. If Mr.. Wallack man.
aged his theatre on any such principle we
should soon have no Wa,lacks Theatre. In
dramatic management we see one house after
another closed because of insufficient attrac-
ton. Indeed, the two extremes seem to
meet, anu We nave no vaudeville u StIo IOI
exactly the same reason that we have
little successful opera. In proof of this
we have only to point to the fact
that the Lyceum Theatre is empty, though
little real talent behind the footlights
would secure full benches in front. So, too,
at the Academy. Real opera will always fill
the Irving place opera house. while the
pinchbeck article will ruin everybody con-
nected with it. We trust that at last
Messrs. Strakosch have learned the
logic of operatic failures and that
they will take their latest mishap
SO much to heart as to avoid in the future
all the causes which have led to it. What
we want is opera, not operate concert-a
perfect ensemble, not one or two good artists
supported by bundle of sticks. We shall
look to them and to Mr. Mapleson, if he
brings company here, to give us this, and
if they do it they may rest assured that the
New York public will support them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-27

The ALGERIAN INSURGENTS seem to have
little chance of success in their conflict with
the French.
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beat US on our own waters. one thing is
pretty certain: we will SO thoroughly learn
how they did it that it will be long before
they can do it again.
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

VARIETY. stsPM
rxnnroL ;. gsI + n sSG 4 Ts.I rsS =.
EAGLE THEATRE.
VARIETY, at p. N. Miss Minnie Palmer
PARK THEATRE
BRASS, TSP. N. George Fawcett Rowe.
CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
HUMPTY DuMrTY, atsP.M
PARTISAN VARIETIES
n8P. NJ Matinee ai2 +. NJ
BowERY THEATRE
DIXIE. a.sPM
THIRTY FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.
.,or. FIFTH AvEIUE THEATRE
PIQUE. atsP. NJ. Fannie Davenport
HOWE 4 cUsHING's CIRCUS
at2P. N. and s L. NJ.
GLOBE THEATRE
VARIETY. atSP NJ.
WOODS MUSEUM.
DONALD MoKAY,msr-M oliver Doad Byron.f Matinee
NURRAY's CIRCUS.
afternoon and evening
SAN FRANCISCO MIYsrRELs,
n,n THEATRE coMIoUE
GERMANIA THEATRE
MEM LEOPOLD, al 3 r. NJ
wALLACK's THEATRE
LONDON ASSURANCE, At 5 P. NJ. Lester waliack.
BOOTHS THEATRE
HENRY v: at p NJ. George Rignold vincenss Bene0t.
PROFESSOR cRoMwELL's ENTERTAINMENT. a.
BROOKLYN THEATRE
Fun in FOG. at . i. NJ. VokeE
AcADEMY OF MUSIC.
TONY PASTORS JUBILEE, att +. NJ
AMERICAN INSTITUTE.
BARNUM'S SHOW, M.
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BARBADOS is quiet, and We hear that since
last Saturday not single white man has
been injured by a negro. All the stories
of war which came from that sunny island
turn out to be exaggerations, and for the
future we may expect Mr.. John Pope Hem
nessey's government to be as placid as the
waters of the Caribbean Sea.
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TRIPLE S H ZEE T.
NEW YORK. THURSDAY, APRIL 81, 1876.

From oar reports this morning the probabilities
are that he ,reaher to-day soiH be cool and clear.
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The third party does not grow. The
trouble with these saints in politics is that
they support administrations until the pat
ronage is all given out, and if theyare not in
the Cabinet they begin screaming Reform |"
Look how it happened in the last canvass.
The reformers went over in swarm to
Grant after Greeley was nominated. What
assurance have We now that there would not
be the same exodus Of the saints in the
event of the nomination of some one who
does not belong to them at st. Louis? When
Napoleon went to Egypt he had with him a
company Of savans, whose duty it was to tell
him something about everything. These
Swans were useful in their way. But
when tho fighting came it was the custom TO
form the troops into hollow square and
mass the Swans in the centre with 1.-THE
donkeys and the baggage" to keep them out
OF danger. We predict that when the battle
begins next fall we shall find our saints in
the hollow square of some republican or
democratic column praying for the battle TO
end, no matter how it ends, and willing to
90 with the victors and reform" the country
at good salaries in comfortable Offices.
There is nothing rcformer likes so well as
to ''beneft society" in some good, fat, pleas
ant Office, with timc to think and little to do.
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become almost as great question as was
German unity few years ago. The trans
fer Of the railway system to the government
is one Of the necessities OF the Empire, and
it is not surprising that Prince Bismarck
should be working so steadily for their con-
solidation under imperial auspices.
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