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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

We see q statement of the grants made by
the directors of the Centennial Commission
for certain privileges on the grounds of the
Exhibition. These privileges include the
monopoly of certain rights. The aggregate
sum realized is $3.50, 0OO For the catalogue,
100000 is paid; for restaurant and beer
rights, $685. 600. Milk, bread, chocolate and
candy bring $1,000. Soda water will earn
$50, 900, and tobacco S21, 900. There is one
grant for rolling chairs, and another called
"The Department of Public Comfort, which
are to realize over $4,000.
Of course it is proper that there should
be some revenue from these grants. They
will, no doubt, be valuable in many ways; but
at the same time there should be care taken
that they do not become abuses. One Of the
troubles with the Vienna Exhibition was the
endless number of restrictions imposed
upon all who had any business with the Ex-
hibition. glass of water chair for a
moments rest-the most natural and neces-
sary comforts-were taxed. The conse-
quence was that, in addition to the price of
admission, the visitor was so taxed before he
left the buildings and grounds that the
charge amounted to an extortion, This is
something to which Americans will be much
less likely to submit than Austrians. If
these grants are to be a monopoly it will go
toward destroying all the good results ex-
pected to flow from the Exhibition. We
trust that in making any concession the di-
rectors will take the utmost pains to protect
the people.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15
The Crowntng shnms.

We indorse the views of contemporary
in reference to the failure of the Freedman's
Savings Bank in Washington. There is
not one among the many investigations now
pending to which we look with more in
terest The Freedmans Savings Bank
was established for the purpose of aiding
the freedmen to save their money, amass
property and become good and thrifty citi-
zens 1t was encouraged by all who wished
well to this most unfortunate class. The
depositors, many of whom in their ignorance
felt that they we've giving their money to the
government, were only too glad of the in
ducement held out to them. Millions were
deposited, and suddenly, in a day, the
whole concern came down with smash. 1t
was not simply the loss of money, but it
was the class which was robbed.
I The men who did this thing deserve to be
damned to everlasting infamy. In fact, this
whole business of the failure of savings
banks should be looked into with severe
scrutiny. We are too lenient with these
robbers of the poor. Who has been pun
lshed for the failure of the many savings
banks which have failed within the past few
years When swindler like Oakley robs
the English people he is sent to Jail and will
probably be called on to pick oakum. But
with US the whole matter is over and forgot
ten, and the men who robbed the poor are
allowed to go out and invent new rob-
berries. BY all means let the Freedman's
Bank be investigated, and when we are
about it let our reform Governor win q new
title to the esteem of the people by prose-
cutting the robbers of the poor.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15
Health and Business.

An irresistible argument in favor of an
elevated railroad on the east side of the city
is that such a road is necessary to the pro-
lection of the public health. The present
system of transit not only distributes dis
ease, but causes it. We shall refer to only
one of the evils Of the horse cars at present
They reverse one of the fundamental prin-
ciples of hygienic travel-which is, that a
car should be warm in winter and cool in
summer The street cars freeze their pas
sengers in winter especially at night-or
are only heated by the exhalations from wet
clothes and the bodies of the crowds they
carry. This method of warming cars is not
ing-box system makes comfort impossible
and the suffocated public in both seasons
feel like a thermometer turned upside
down, registering cold when it ought to be
hot or being cursed with the tropics
when it has longing for an Arctic
wind. Now, the elevated road can
alone reform this evil. Steam cars
can be heated in winter, and they can be
ventilated and cooled in summer. This is
one great advantage that persons have who
live in towns on the Pennsylvania, Erie,
New York Central and other roads, and do
business in New York. 1t is an amazing
difference to q man whether he sits for an
hour in a slow street car, sweating as if ne
were at the Equator or shivering as if at the
Pole, or is swiftly carried to his home on an
elevated road in pure and eluable air.
Objection has been made to an elevated
road on Third avenue on the ground that it
will injure business on that great thorough
fare. This is not true 1t is the street cars
that injure trade on Third avenue. Thou
sands of ladies do not visit the stores be-
cause of the notorious overcrowding Of the
street cars and the insults and inconven-
fences to which they are in consequence ex-
posed. The difficulty of reaching any given
place on Third avenue keeps buyers of
all kinds away from the shops, and, there
fore, the dry goods trade and many other
important branches of business are steadily
tending to the western portions of the city,
The elevated railroad would reform these
evils and, by making travel pleasant and
quick, would bring Third avenue far more
business than it has
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

The fact that Dolan in this city, Ruben
stein In Brooklyn, and Piper in Boston, are
now all under sentence of death draws at
tention to the old discussion in reference to
the advisability of capital punishment as a
means of REFRESHING crime. Into that dis
cussion we do not propose to enter. The
law declares that whoever takes life shall for
felt his own, and that law is the master Of us
all But there are some points in reference
to its administration which should not be
overlooked. We really have the most cruel
law in the world for the punishment of muir
der. We complain of the french and
Chinese systems. We shudder at the guillo-
tine and the barbarity Of the Chinese, who
torture their victims and behead them with
the sword. Butwhat torture is to be compared
to that which our criminals suffer when under
the sentence of the Court and awaiting its
execution There is no certainty that it will
not be executed Many wretch has felt
the entangling rope around his neck without
abandoning the hope that his lawyers had
succeeded in another stay. The delays in
justice are an immunity to crime. The muir
4
and Scannen and feel that there is no capital
punishment.
Now, we owe.it to justice, which should be
stern and sure as well as to humanity,
which demands that even the most depraved
shall not be tortured, that our criminal code
should be revised. There should be none of
the delays which we had in the Scannell case.
There the murderer was in prison for years
before his case came to a judgment When
person is accused of murder he should be
tried before competent tribunal-say two
Judges of the Supreme Court or any two Of
our criminal Judges. Then, upon sentence,
! he should have the right to take his case at
once to the Court of Appeals for revision.
This should be to him writ of right. This
Court should be compelled to hear this
writ within thirty days. and say whether in
all respects the conviction is in accordance
with the law. Then it should be the duty
of the Sheriff to carry the sentence into exc
cution within fortnight or three weeks
after this judgment.
By this means all interests would be
served. The prisoner would have the high
est safeguard that the law can throw about
the life Of the citizen. There would be none
of that agonizing uncertainty which now at
tends every sentence of death. The inter
ests of society would be served by the prompt
and sure punishment Of murderers. 1t would
be well for our friends in Albanyto look
into this subject. AS it now stands our law
in relation to capital punishment does not
answer the purposes of justice.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15
The "Times, Is Right.

In an excellent editorial in yesterdays
Times on the distressing scenes witnessed
inside and outside a crowded horse car
the writer draws attention to an incl
dent coming under his notice on Sun
day last Two miserable, overtasked
horses, drawing crowded and jammed
Fourth avenue car, stock it into their dumb
heads that they would not bear this sort of
thing any longer. And so they stopped
short, and stood in their tracks 1t was
plainly a deliberate determination of two
overworked beasts that their good nature
should be no longer imposed upon" Then
the writer proceeds to apply the lesson to
New Workers, who suffer as much as the
horses from the unhealthful and indie
cent overcrowding. We should at least
show as much spirit as the horses, that
gained their point by their determined
protest, for in submitting without murmur
1--WE are worse than the very horses,
who with us, suffer from the impositions of
their masters and ours, the street railway
companies" The Times is right New York
ers must exhibit not only the same equine
determination, but Ca little downright
mulishness, in this fight with the oppressors
of man and beast:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

THE RE-EsTABLIsHaIENT OF SPANISH CREDIT,
which Canovas del Castillo referred to in adj
dressing the ministerialists of the new
Cortes yesterday, is a far greater task than
putting down the Carlist rebellion, which has
only dragged on because the pretorians Of
the army never, until lately thought it
worth their while to grappie with it
earnestly. The constitutional monarchy of
Alfonsos royal mother never could place
Spain on financial footing with the rest of
Europe, and the difficulties have since in
creased hundredfold.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

AMEND KniLIAN's BuL-The Leeisla-
ture which stopped all other business in the
early days of the session to rush through
the Masquerade bill should show similar
alacrity now to enact reform which would
be boon to the toiling hundred thousands
of New York and not the qualification of the
whim of a few hundred pleasure-seekers.
Let Killian's bill be promptly put on its
passage Let it be amended so as to hand
the task of seeing that the law is enforced to
MIR. Bergh, and giving the fines resulting
from all violations of its provisions to Mr.
Bergh's society. BY these means we can
promise that the law will be carried out in
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

AssEMBLYlIEN ON THE FENcE.-In the inter-
views of our Albany correspondent with the
Assemblymen of the Railroad Committee
and the Committee on Cities we have OBJ
served that several of these gentlemen place
themselves on the fence in the matter of
giving passengers on horse cars a seat for a
fare. How is it that they find it so hard to
decide between the plain rights of the peo-
pie and the unhealthiness, indecency and
discomfort which the crowded cars force
upon the travelling public? How is it that
they hesitate between a system which would
insure decency, comfort, healthful transit
and safety to personal property and one that
gives steady, safe and lucrative employment
TO a thousand pickpockets in addition to
favoring oil the monstrous evils above
noted? Is the money Of the railroad COM
panies in the hands of the lobbyists at
Albany enough to make these Legislators
balance it against the crying needs of the
people? We want to know. We shall keep
a sharp watch on those doubtful gentlemen,
and, when they have decided, shall deal
with them according to their deserts.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

its letter and splrK If there is any attempt
to smother the bill in committee it will be
proper for some public spirited member to
move, in full Assembly. that the committee
be ordered to report forthwith. Then we
shall put all members on record and gauge
whether the public right or the railroad
lobby is the stronger. Surely the commit
tee can do their duty without waiting to be
''seen" by the agents of the grasping monop-
olies
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

VICTIM TO OvERcRowDED Cans. John
CHINA was killed by being thrown from the
platform of an overcrowded car on the Sec
ond Avenue Railroad. The seats were all
occupied, the car full, and displaced
switch, throwing the vehicle suddenly out
of its direction, pitched the young man into
the street. His father has recovered three
thousand dollars damages, or the equivalent
of sixty thousand fares, from the grasping
company. Another sad argument for mo
seat no fare"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15
Spain and Cuba,

Diplomacy chooses the tortuous path in
preference to the straight one. We have
now an indirect" reply to Mr. Fishs
last 'tindirect" note concerning Cuba. 1t
is very absurd to see two Powers like
Spain and the United States conversing
with each other through third parties. Spain
now says that there only 800 whites in the
Cuban insurrention, the leaders being foreign
adventurers, while there are 1000 native
Cubans among the Spanish volunteers Still
$4,000 Spanish troops during the last year
have reinforced those already on the island,
and the end of the war is not yet owing to
'the difficulties of the country" Spain,
however, can make no terms with an insur-
rection which has sustained itself for nearly
eight years. To make both ends of its
statement meet it falls into inconsequences,
which may be put as follows There is no
instruction worth speaking of; hence a
hundred thousand soldiers are wanted to
put it down. The island is twice as pros
porous as it was; hence gold is at a high pre-
MUM and the soldiers are unpaid. We can
make no terms with an instruction which
does not exist; hence no reforms can be
granted until it is put down. The Epoca OF
Madrid, says that Spanish official thieves
have robbed more than the rebellion has
cost. Truly difficult country"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN
EXHIBITION OF WATER CoLORS
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
PIQUE, at r NJ. Fanny Davenport.
TaIRTY.FouRTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.
VARIETY, at & r. NJ
BowERY THEATRB.
IDA, at p. NJ. Mr.. Ration.
VARIETY at S p NJ
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs, atsPW
r GLOBE THEATRE.
BOOTHS THEATRE.
JULIUS CESAR, at 2. NJ. Mr.. Lawrence Barrett
THEATRE COMIQUE
UNCLE TOMS CABIN, atSP NJ.
T1voLI THEATRE.
VARIETY, at S p. NJ.
WOODS MUSEUM
THE SPY, at p NJ Matinee at 2 p. NJ.
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE
VARIETY, at T. NJ.
wALLACK's THEATRE.
JOHN GARTH az =. NJ. Mr.. Lester Wallack.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
VARIETY, at P. NJ.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
EAST LYNNE, at P. NJ Lucille Western.
COLOSSEUM
PANORAMA. / to 4 p NJ and 80 o1oP.M
EAGLE THEATRE.
TICKET-OFLEAVE MAN. at 8 T. NJ.
TWENTY THIRD STREET OPERA HOUSE.
CALIFORNIA MlNsfRELs, at r NJ.
GERMANTA THEATRE.
ZOFF AND SCHWERT, at s p. NJ.
sTEINwAY HALL.
READINGS at 8 P. NJ Mrs Anna Randall Diehl
BRooKLYN THEATRE.
QUEEN AND WOMAN, at 5 p. NJ. Mr. Fred. Robinson.
,,- TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE.
VARIETY, at r. NJ.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
ROSE MICHEL, at s T. NJ
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

THE BELGIAN LIBERALS appear to regard a
Catholic procession much as a bull does a
red rag, and accordingly dash at it with an
intent to injure, which is generally success
full in producing long list of casualties.
Malines, the railroad centre of Belgium, was
the scene of the latest religious disturbance.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. The feature Of
the day was an advance in the granger
stocks. Express and some of the Investment
stocks were also strong. Gold was steady at
113 Is Ia is. Money was in supply at
3 and per cent
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

GAMBETTA's ORGAN, the Rfpobliqae Fan
caiSe, has brought down the wrath of NJ.
Buffet upon it in the shape of prosecution
for attacking the government namely, M.
Buffet If he could only chain up the ex-
Dictator instead of his organ the Premier's
desires would approach nearer to gratifca-
ton. Not being able to get the moon he cries
for he contents himself with eating green
cheese
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

A CoURT Como BEGGTNG. scene at
the City Hall yesterday was not pleasant
one in which Recorder Hackett, Judge Gill
dersleeve and District Attorney Phelps APP
peared before committee of the Board of
Aldermen to beg proper accommodation for
the Conrt of General Sessions. The steps to
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

The SUEz CANAL PURCHASE. The debate
in the English House of Commons over the
purchase of the Khedive's shares has been
postponed until next Monday 1t is not
very likely that any serious objection will be
made to paying out the four millions ster-
ling required. The liberals will assent to it
after little grumbling. No party in
England ever ventures to interfere with q
foreign policy which the people at large
Endorse, as they have done with what
Disraeli would call his bargain. That idea
of chain of fortresses from London to India
would make John Bull generous to his
mother-in-law.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

How UdLx PoL1TIoA1 ASSESSMENTS may be
made to look when they are brought into
court after a lapse of twelve years See
Fowler VS.. Wood in the court reports.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

THE PHILIPPINES. Spain has little war
of her own in the East, an expedition of
eight thousand men having left Manila to
punish the Sooloo pirates
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

GARvEY AND INeERsoLL retold yesterday
the story Of their criminal connection with
the Tammany Ring in the Tweed six million
case. 1t is marvellous how interesting that
old story still is.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

The HERALD BY FAST MAIL TRA1Ns.-Ne,cs-
dealers and the public throughout the country
WiA be supplied lcth the DAILY, WEEKLY and
SUNDAY HERALD free Of postage, by sending
their orders direct to this office
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

provide rooms for this important Court
should be taken Immediately. The present
arrangements are disgraceful to q city like
New York.
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WITH SUPPLEM E Mt
NEW YORK, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY Is. 1875.

From o1fr reports this morning the probabilities
are diat The areather to-day ,oW be colder and
clearing.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

The PORTE APPEARS ANXIOUS TO act in
good faith with the Christian Powers who
have quietly coerced it into accepting the
Andrassy plan of reform. The Turkish
government have not only issued orders to
put the new reforms into effect in the re-
volted provinces, but we are also informed
of their having formally begun to punish
offences against Christians in other parts Of
the Empire We are, however, still without
any indication that the Herzegovinan
insurgents have any idea of again submitting
to Mussulman rule, even at the price of the
Andrassy reforms, honestly applied
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15

BABcocK's CnHER.-The curious and
strongly suggestive batch of dispatches in
cipher which passed between General Bah
cock and Major Luckey last November are
printed elsewhere, both in the original and
translation. They show that Babcock was
in mortal dread during the early-part
of that month of being called to ST. Louis,
although he demanded to be placed on the
witness stand as soon as the evidence in the
Avery case was closed, and compliance with
his request was an impossibility. This does
not need comment; but another thing may
be pointed out-namely, that the admission on
the trial Of the "Sylph' kilograms, which in
his despatch Of the 3Oth November he was SO
anxious to explain, has been fought against
tooth and nail by his counsel AS they have
been admitted General Babcock may now
begin his explanatory task, and might as
well include the cipher correspondence at
the same time
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15
NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET,

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-04-01
m.yo& w,pxEB, Attys for said Petitioners mar25 Aw
nH,INIsJ - ALE OF
REAL EsTA1 r..

Public notice herebv gveh that oy vrtue ana 10 puF
an and decree OF the County Court OF
Sale county In the state of Illinois, made on tbe lVh uaJ
Of August 1874 (he same being one OF the Gays o. .ne
Inly fern 1874 OF laid court) La certnh cafse
wherein Sarah Strawn, Adminstratrix; ana Ws,.e,
petitioners and Theodo l.. Eeerso and Joseph
Eberso her husband, and Bertha Morgan ana ihoas
d. Morgan, husband. Clara Strawn kiia Suawn ner
man l. Strawp. Cora Bel Strawn Lewis Foger refer 81
nor phllpC watts Loui- Corthay Frederick Eeis John
t,rsg. Robert H. Moss Alba Bain Ell HHdgson Morga
Intrim Loretz Kennedy James M Coz per Cha!les Is
orreii Frederick S'oHord Porter Daniels sarah .usw
ard WAFER D. Strawn were endsns being petition or
the sale of the Teal Estate Of said David Srawn uecessed
for the ment OF the debts sganet hia csat the noe
.icne kdmpistratrx and Administrator oi the Estate OF
said David Strawn, deceased will sell Al PUBIC vehnue m
ssnr te lots or parcels highest bidder At the soun
door of the County Court House, In the CITY OF uaws III
the 29 day April d. 1876 commencing az me nouI
Two c ock In the afternoon. the following real esta,e VIZ
the east half OF southwest quarter oil section twenty
and half OF the northwest quarter OF sec
lion thirty four all In township thirty three north OF range
three east the hird principal meridian IN
l La Sale and state OF Illinois.
The terms of said sales Will he follows. VIA: The
hnIs nj the purchase mouey to be paid At the Time OF
sale or onefourh thereof be paid at the time on safe
ner cent prr snnum. In twelve months thereafter ~ u.
bnton OF the purchaser the deferred pay meats TO be We
en- ed the Of the purchaser Win good personal se
cnrv and NOR gage tie premises sold Deeds for hs
sold will be executed 10 the purchaser upon tht
| snproyal OF the sale by raid court
M"'N ' WALTER ID. SfRAWN.
Administrative and Administrator Of tue Esis'
of David Strawn, deceased
n y IoNns. Attorney for Administrators.