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The New York herald., 1876-01-03

the commission which ne asked authority q
| appoint last winter was mere subterfugt
for postponing the question. He would hav,
been ready to act on it in 1870 if he had
been Governor at that time, because he had
then no motive for oourting Tammany, bat
he evades it now because the cooperation Of
Tammany is necessary to his success. He
has not forgotten that Mr.. John Kelly was
his champion at the time of his nomination,
and that if Tammany had not fought his
battle he would not now be Governor His
sense of obligation was shown at the last
Convention by the admission of the Tam
many delegates. His success in the Conven-
tion to be held in the spring for choosing
delegates is impossible if Tammany should
work against him, and he will therefore con-
tribute to no reform which Tammany has an
interest in opposing.
One Of the points on which Governor
Iilden has so unequiyocal a record that he
cannot change his views is the necessity Of
holding our municipal election in the
spring. The reasons for such a change are
appreciated by the Governor, and nobody
could state them with more conclusive force.
But the trading Tammany politicians do not
desire spring election. It would prevent
them from subsidizing candidates for State
and county offices and candidates for Con-
gress and the Legislature and making them
tributary to the schemes Of city ring.
We trust that the republican Legislature,
which does not wish to play into the hands
of the democratic Governor, will take up
this question at an early day and pass
amendments to the charter containing such
reforms as Governor Tilden has approved
and cannot veto. Changing the cleo
ton to the spring has no necessary
connection with the organization of the city
government. A spring election would be
salutary, whether the Mayor has much or
little power, whether the other city officers
come in and go out with him or not and
whether he has the sole power Of appointing
them or shares it with the Common Coun-
ell. A spring election would be beneficial
under any form of organization, and even if
no other measure of municipal reform could
be carried at this session it would be worth
while for the Legislature to pass bill trans
ferring our charter election to the month of
April Such n bill would no doubt embarrass
the Governor when it came before him for
his signature, but he could not afford to
veto it.
The New York herald., 1876-01-03
The New Year In IN. Pulplta.

II was natural that in many of the churches
yesterday the preachers should have dwelt
upon the thoughts suggested by the birth OF
the year. Thus Cardinal McCloskey and
Mr.. Hepworth both met in the reflection
that the year gone by has left many of our
promises broken, our resolves unfulflled.
Both drew the lesson that love of God is tho
one cure-all for our ills, so that in the utter
ance of the solemn prelate of the old dog
matte Church and that of the young
pastor of an untrammelled congrega-
tion we can trace their inspiration
back TO its source in common Gospel
Observing this point where they meet tho
incubation Of love of God-we can pause
TO wonder that sectarian hate could find
foothold anywhere between Christian and
Christian. Mr.. Beecher's sermon was diff
ferentiated from the New Year thought 10
the changing influences of time. He con-
tended that things should live in essence
and not as figures of memory Painting
with pre-Raphaelite detail the Saviour AZ
He lived eighteen centuries ago he considers
archeologizing Christ, while what man wants
is to feel the breath Of living Redeemer in
his nostrils. 1t may be that Mr. Beecher
wished to show how hard, for instance, it is
to write the Life Of Christ" acceptably now
adays, while it is easy as wishing to
realize Him in our hearts This -
a wholesome religious thought and the
better that it may be an unfavor-
able hint to Mr. Beechers publishers.
In Mr. Harris sermon at the Allen street
Methodist church we find the illusions 20
the New Year more direct and local than in
any other, He pointed his moral with refer
ence to the ladies' tables on Saturday, and
adorned his tale with homily upon the
salutation of the season. In view of the un-
certainty of time he thinks it sounds 'Iike a
ghosts laugh ;" but we hope that it may
prove "a spirit Of health" to all his hearers,
and not what Hamlet feared his fathers
spool might otherwise be. Mr. Conway's
elaborate essay on "The New Testament"
is worthy Of careful perusal, as well from it's
learning as from its evident earnestness. 1t
contains new thoughts, bat on a weightior
subject than the New Year
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PERSONAL INTELLIG ENCE.

'Ts Tweed in this city ?" couundrums the New Or
leans Bulletin Give 1t up
The GLORIOUS weather" was the topic OF conversa-
ton at no less than 800 festive tables on Saturday
last
scott wike Congressman from the Quincy district
IN Illinois is In the city. He believes in Morrison
Very natural
Senator's Bainbridge wadlelgh, OF New Hampshire,
and Phineas w. Hitchcock, Of Nebraska residing at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel
contemporary gravey asserts that the entrance Of
he centennial year moro demonstratively ccle-
brated than any Of its predecessors"
A Western paper remarks that it required that tho
people should detect the Of Governor Bede OF
New Jersey, before Princeton College made LII D. OF
hyn.
oregon has just lost one OF its earliest settlers and
most prominent by the dcceaso OF Dr. James
Mcbride, formerly member Of Congress, the age
ofseventy three.
We indebted to Indiana paper for the lnforma.
that Harriet Prescott spoaords husband is Libra
TO Congress and Grace Greenwoods is Chief Clerk
Of the Land ONCE.
Dr. j. p ordway has introduced into the Boston
School Board order prohibiting corporeaI punish
in the public schools OF that city. 1t should
have been abolished long ago
Governor Chamberlain, OF South Carolina is called
"whppcr snapper" by the Boston Traveller, just be-
he snapped whlpper and Moses from the Judicial
bench OF that state summarly
The Washington Republican asserts that from tho
very outset OF the Investigations into the whskcy
frauds, the President and the Secretary OF thu
Treasury have been In perfect accord.
The statement that Cassus W. Clay will present hs
own name to the next Democratic National Convention
as candidate for Wee President does not appear ia
create much OF a sensation nywhere
one hundred and twelve OF the most cnterprsns
business men In Whamsport Warren county, Ind
have organized grecnback club The green backed
monster is still unclaimed in the West
Secretary BelEnap left Washington Saturday night
for Iowa II is already known that he is a candidata
for the United States Senate in the place Of Judge
Wright who order to the practice Of
law that State.
The Pottsvle PA Miners Journal thinks that ons
consolation for people is that they will not ba
called upon TO endure another such night Satur.
dsy for hundred years. The miners there raised the
racket and the minors here initiated them
The last insalment, about seventy five u number.
Of the Southern refugees who emgratod to Brazil al
the close Of the Rebellion have reached Port ROYAL,
s c., In the United States steam frsato swatara
They are doubtless glad to get ''home again
Referring to the Iowa United States senatorship tha
Keokuk Gate city remarks that II Harlan is selected
for the position large majority OF the Congressional
districts, including The First will thenceforth send
democrats to Congress-vhlGh will Ia bad for tho 70
publican party,
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The Pre.Idsnt. Reply 60 congre...

The Presidents Reply 90 Congress.
/ II may be taken for granted that there is
nothing more important to the American
people than the character of their own
government Wars with Mexico or Spain,
new treaties of commerce, &c, are specu-
lative or possible events, but the election
of President this year is certainty in
which the whole country has an immediate
interest. It is time that both great parties
should have some knowledge of the inten-
tions Of their leaders, and specially of the
persons who are to be candidates for the
Presidential nominations. We hold it un-
worthy of any man claiming to be fit to oc-
cupy the Presidency TO steal into conven-
tion and, by the arts of cunning or bargain
ing to win place upon the ticket. Who
ever aspires 10 that great Office should be
manly enough to say so.
II this is true Of candidates generally it is
especially true Of a candidate who is also
the President. General Grant, if he is
candidate for denomination, has inestimable
advantages over all his competitors. They
are derived from the influence Of his Office.
He is also, in that case, the author Of an in
novation on republican customs. He is
bound, therefore, more than any other man
in the country to declare his purposes in re-
spect to the Presidency. To refuse to graf
ify the natural and just demands of the peo-
pie is virtually breach of trust.
The policy Of silence which the President
has hitherto maintained must soon end. For
Independently Of the broad and general rea-
sons which make it matter of honor for him
to relieve the national suspense, he is now
confronted with an official question. He has
declined to answer the conventions Of his own
party. He has treated with naughty silence
the protests Of the press. We are now to
see whether he will treat with equal
contempt the formal interrogatory of
Congress- The people have waited, not
impatiently, for his response to the anti-third
term resolution passed by the House of Rep
resentatives on December 10. The House
then declared by the overwhelming vote of
232 yeas to 10 nays that in its opinion ''the
precedent established by Washington and
other Presidents Of the United States in re-
tring from the Presidential Office after their
second terms has become by universal con-
currence a part of our republican system
of government, and that any departure from
this time e-honored custom would be unwise,
unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to our
free institutions" This was q direct
challenge to the President, through whom
alone this peril to our free insti-
tutions can come. Can he afford to
neglect it? He might frame excuses for not
answering party conventions and protests of
the press, but he cannot pretend that Con-
gress, as the official and immediate repre-
sentative of the people, has no right to put
him to his purgation. We expect, therefore,
that as soon as Congress reassembles Pres
ident Grant will make frank, honest re-
sponse to its authoritative summons. To
refuse to speak now would be to confess
that his designs on the Presidency forbid
him to be candid, or to treat the nation with
undisguised contempt.
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

The FREycH Senatorial ELECTIONS show
ing the cause of the conservative defeat in the
balloting, are ably treated in our Paris letter
elsewhere. Now that the Chamber is dis
solved and the ex-Deputies returned to their
homes for electioneering purposes, the pas
sions which agitated French parties a fort
night ago can be studied with interest. The
government has gained its point relative to
the state of siege, which was then in doubt.
and both parties, the Left and Right, 80 be-
fore the people, each somewhat chastened
and somewhat elate. The same tact, how
ever, which made the powerful Right Centre
the laughing stock of France in the Senate
elections managed to make the vote on the
state of siege yield some benefit to those it
was intended to crush utterly. The judi
cious management of the Left in all its late
Parliamentary battles is another strong prop
to the Rep ublic.
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

Ir Is DIsGRACEFUL to our government that
the first news of its attempt to negotiate for
European Intervention in the affairs of Cuba
should come from abroad. The HERALD'a
special cable dispatches from Madrid and
Vienna first unmasked this unrepublican,
Rip Van Wrinkle diplomacy, which has for
its object the dragging of European inAu.
ence into American affairs. The miserable
piece of underhandedness now reveals itself
in our dispatches from Paris; where it found
the light in the columns of the Libcrt6. Even
there it will be found that President Grants
humble prayer for French Intervention is
prefaced by disclaimer of any desire on our
part to annex Cuba. The American people
do not want Cuba but the witty French will
not be slow to say to Mr. Grant:-"Q,a ser
cuse, SaccuSe."
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

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are seven months 20 work In. and while no
advantage should be sacrificed which simple
justice and common prudence alike demand,
every step short of that should be taken
rather than fail The present Regatta Com
mittee is an excellent one and can safely be
intrusted with such power.
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

The ARRIVAL OF THE S1IER yesterday in
this port with number Of the survivors Of
the Deutschland disaster and some of the
passengers of the Mosel at the time Of the
dynamite explosion reawakons the mournful
interest in these horrible catastrophcs. We
publish a number of interviews with the
SAliers passengers
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

The MYSTERIES or CHcAoo's crooked
whiskey will soon be laid before the public.
The modes of cheating the government differ
but little from those employed in st. Louis.
1T is, however plain in all cases that only
through official connivance have the frauds
cane
The New York herald., 1876-01-03
NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
RoPRIETOR
The New York herald., 1876-01-03
BE !-And Are the English and Irish
Oarsmen Coming!

The two questions Of most interest to the
public which are to come up at the Convention
of the Rowing Association at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel tomorrow are Where is the race TO
be rowed? and Are the English or Irish
University oarsmen or both, to compete
Our national university course ought, as the
English one was, to have been fixed long ago,
but several of the colleges will probably vote
tomorrow for a place wholly untried and
equally unfit for their purpose-New Lon
don. Harvard and Dartmouth are to so
vote; Bowdoin, very likely Brown, Trim
ity and Wesleyan, very likely, while
the five votes from the Middle States will
almost certainly be for Saratoga. Whichever
way, then, the two remaining votes go, if
they 90 together namely, those of AM
herst and Williams-so so will go the race.
Last year the majority for Saratoga was not
large but it was well understood in some
quarters that this was to keep the town up
to its work All this doubt now may be
again for bid, but it is hazardous
ground To choose the best place
in all respects has never before
been nearly so important os now and will
hardly be so again this century. Visitors
from all over the world are expected in un-
precedented numbers and our country and
its products are to be thrown open to their
inspection. a first class athletic contest,
especially between gentlemen, is always in
teresting to most men, and ladies, too, and
often exciting. The greatest one we have
ought this time to be conducted with pecu-
liar care for not only will our guests desire
to witness it, but many of them, coming
from nations far ahead of us in athletics
will view it naturally with critical eye
The course should be the best we have; so,
too, the accommodations for the visitors. Is
it wise, then, at this juncture, to depart from
a track which has been twice proved excep-
tionally fit for the American style of univer-
sity race, and especially when there are near
by the greatest and best appointed accom-
modations for guests that can be found in
our or any land and 60 to an untried track,
certain (being tidal one) to give very per-
ceptibe advantage to the crews drawing
favorable positions, and so be unfair; and
where, in the month the race is to be rowed,
there will hardly be comfortable bed room
for the fathers Of the hundred
and moro oarsmen alone, to say nothing of
TIE thousands Of graduates and the legion
Of other friends who would like to see the
race, the public at large, and especially our
foreign guests? 1t will prove a piece of bad
Judgment and extreme discourtesy to public
feeling which will very rightly go far-much
farther than did the wretched mismanage-
ment Of the Convention at Springfield a
month ago-to throw our university race
into disrepute, and it will be plain to every
one where to place the blame.
Again, if the word is that but one Of the
foreign universities accepts the invitation to
participate, care should be taken to leave to
a competent committee full power and in
structions to strive their utmost to yet in
sure the presence of two, if not all three, Of
| tina renowned institutions 50 invited There
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

TIE MILD WEATHER OF yesterday proved a
great inducement to pedestrians, and the
churches reaped the benefit The spring
temperature, however. did not sit comforta-
bly, on the heavy winter clothing worn by
the wise majority who distrust "Old Prob
at this time Of the year even when bearing
thermal gifts.
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

LIEUTENANT CANERoN's STORY Of his won
derful journey from Uiiji, in the centre. to
Ioanda. on the west coast Of Africa. will be
doubtless very interesting II was hoped at
first that he had solved the great problem Of
the destination Of Livingstone's great river,
the Lualaba but it would seem that he was
forced aside from this task. Fuller details
will be awaited with impatience. The news,
rs far as received in London, will be found
elsewhere.
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

THE CONCENTRATION OF THE CAEL1sT forces
near the French frontier, as reported from
San Sebastian, doubtless indicates that some
lively times are ahead for Moriones, who
was recently reported to have arrived at that
point
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

From o,r reports his morning tie probabilities
ure Hat the ,reatler today ,rM be clear or partly
clear and cooler.
The New York herald., 1876-01-03
Speaker Kerr's Health.

The rumors from Washington that Speaker
Kerr's health is so impaired that he will be
incapable Of discharging the duties of his
position, and that a Speaker pro tenn will
have to be chosen to relieve him. have a
strong color of probability from the fact that
he has been for years a valetudinarian, com
ing frequently 20 this city for the advice Of
medical experts api obliged at one time to
give up all business and make trip to Eu-
rope in the hope of recovering his health.
His friends, had they been real friends,
would have dissauded him from run
ming for so laborious and exacting
a position as the Speakership. Health is the
most invaluable of blessings, and an invalid
of many years. who had lately regained a
little strength, was badly advised when he
put his frail constitution in peril in accept
ing an Office whose exhausting duties are a
daily drain upon the nervous system,
especially when broken nerves were the
foundation of his long-standing malady 1t
is given out that his visit to the bedside Of
q dying brother, at Pittsburg is the cause of
Speaker Kerrs present prostration but the
real cause is doubtless the excitement
which attended his election and the
strain and anxiety of the uncon-
genial business of forming his committees.
1t requires firm and elastic health
to preside over the House during long ses-
sion of Congress; but since Mr.. Kerr has
been entced into so trying position the
public will look upon his shortcomings with
considerate indulgence. 1t is not so much
his fault as that of indiscreet friends who
wished to utilize him for political purposes
that he is destined to the depressing lassi-
tude of attempting to carry burden to
which his physical strength is unequal.
Mr.. Kerr's appropriate place in this Con-
gress was the Craftsmanship of Ways and
Means, for which he is admirably fitted by
his abilities and studies, and whose
duties would have been congenial, and
therefore not wearing. His mastery of
the questions which come before that com
mittee would have made his labor pleas
ure, and his readiness on the floor have ex-
empted him from a very severe tax in ex-
planning and defending the measures recon-
mended by the committee He would have
had many days of comparative rest and ease
while questions were debated on which it
belonged to the chairmen of other commit
tees to take the lead, and he might have got
very comfortably through the labors of the
session. 1t is a pity that so able upright
and amiable a man should be sacrificed to
the political projects of questionable friends.
4 MaterinIized Crooked Whiskey Spirit.
Babcock is to come ont unscathed, say
Babcock's friends. The convict Mcdonald
says the private secretary is innocent, and
that there was no whiskey in it; that it was
woman, lovely woman, made the gentle
Babcock
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

pro.sr., ana rToE s2E4HE TnE3gFE MICHEL
OLYMPIC THEATRE,
No GA Broadway.-fARIETN, at T.. Vi.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twcntyc 'ghth street. BroadWay-IlQUE at ?. NJ.
TONY. PASTORS NEW THEATRE,
PARK THEATRE.
RT.adw'y apa @ second street.-The cRVclBLE' at
Broadway and ThiTty, y,thrd st5eei-vARIErY, at NJ
- ERoywyERY rHEATEE,
SSSa5g-' 5rst.aG ALLEY FORGE ana i''o' at T. A Mr.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsrRELs.
Ney oPsra House Broadway corner Of I"ent. ninth street.
TIyoLI THEATRE, n,pn
i Ghth street, near Third aveuueN ARIETY, at p NJ
WOODS MUSEUM
EtRGUEGlTE, at 5 P ~; closes At i645 ? NJ. ] B.
Roberts Matinee al +. M.-THE FORTY THIEVES
GLOBE THEATRE.
Nos rs and $50 Broadway.-YARIETY, al s Pm
BOOTHS THEATRE.
i'rS g. street and Isth ave"oeJUUs CESAR
CuICKERING HALL.
1ifth ayonuc and Eighteenth street-GRAND CONCERT,
ats +. ". Won Bulow.
THEATRE COMIQUE
No. 5l4 Broadvay.-NARlETY. At p NJ
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE
Third avenue. between Thirtich Thirty first
&INSrRELSl and VARIETY. at Z. NJ.
COLOSSEUM
Thirty fourth and Broadway PRUSSIAN SIIGE or
PARIS open hCm z. NJ. TO +. NJ. ana 80 T. II.
10 10 T. ~
WAILACK'S THEATRE
Broadway and Thirteenth street-HOME r. VI closes
~ 10 4j Z W. Mr.. Lester Wal'ack
PARTISAN VARIETIES
Sixteenth street. Broadway VARIETY, AZ p. ".
GERMANIA THEATRE.
Fourteenth street, OMTESSE HELENE. at I NJ
BROOKLYN THEATRE
Washington street Brooklyn.-OUR BOYS At r. VI. NJ.
Jnhn T. Owens
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THE SPANISH PRESS took the reference TO
Cuban affairs in the Presidents Message in
very unequal spirit Indeed, although they
had day extra to think over it before writ
ing about it, they do not seem to have been
able 10 make up their minds as to what the
enigmatic passage really meant Thus we
end that the liberal Impdrcidl views it with
Measurable calm, while the iberia, with our
old friend Don jose Ferrer de Couto in the
character Of a picddor pricking it on to mad
ness, plunges at the Message like an angry
bull at red rag. We have, indeed, had toe
many enigmas from President Grant, and
this last perhaps the most undignited o.
ali We surely can afford to speak our mind
plaiuly to Door. worried SPAIN
The New York herald., 1876-01-03

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