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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-03-29
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Professor Tice prophesies long drought, and milk
will be stronger.
Texas is improving her stock by heavy importations
of Kentucky short horns
where is the bold swordsman KilpatrlckH An
anxious house are painting for him.
Mobile brags that soon, very soon, 1t will be the
centre of a great coal and iron interest
Genera Saigo, President OF tho Japanese Commits
sion, arrived at Philadelphia yesterday.
Ben Butler says he can stand on his head and you
can't tell whether he is looking at you or not.
Mock orange leaves poisonous after they have
become withered. The same may be said of Ber
Hill
Twenty million trees have been planted the prai.
RIGS of Minnesota In time there will be a change in
the climate
An Indiana paper boasts with fluent rhetoric that
Speaker Kerr frequently leaves his seat and goes down
the floor. S-o-h
Joily Joker sends to us asking, ''was Boknap post
radersn Aud we quote that Solomon in all his glory
was not a raid like one OF these.
Suffer Creek tCaL) girl found $40 worth of gold
the sidewalk. The sidewalk had been made of quartz
dumpngs from the Amador mine.
The Detroit Free Press funny column is intcrestngi
but It is not artistic credit the Albany Argus with
paragraphs from the New YORK HERAhD.
The new Bessie Turner whiskey is becoming very
dumped around and DO as quiet II ho were dead
drunk.
Senator Christiancy Is getting young again-almost
in his second chldhood and you see both of them
sliding down the bansters without being able to get
past each other
Peter Jansen, OF Russian colony in Gage county,
Nevada owns 500 acres of land 3 700 sheep tof which
number !. 500 are ewes head Of COWS and head Of
thoroughbred hors
Honolulu people yit rains nine days in the week at
Hlo and thirteen months in the year. and once in
great while II rains into the bunghoe OF barrel faster
than IL can now out at both ends
The government OF India has to transmit to Eng.
land annually to pay interest on debt salaries and
PENSIONS. to purchase stores and materials and fol
various other purposes. about $75 600, COO.
Senator Sargent Of California, is very dignided
man: but they do say that whom chunk OF leo foos
of his boot heel no lays down with his legs in the air
like a canvas back duck In a dish OF gravy
A correspondent writes:--"The HERALD saws that
ammonia cures snake bites You don't tell whether to
take IL internally apply It externally Well. IL
you've got II bad you might put few drops IN youf
boots.
The Oakland Call Mems, published in the pretties
city tho Pacific Slope, is lively paper, shown,
much local enterprise II has the honesty and wisdom
to republsh department from this paper and call
"HERALD Personals"
negro servant in New York recently wrote the fol
lowing letter.
"Brothcr Charlcs-It seems to mo that
1t is not very applicable for you to
Correspond, whether it is because this
Is the centennial year and also leap
Year, that battles your understanding.
That is q maxim TO be answered"
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The Disagreeableness of virtue.

twas Californian sage who said, ''Be vir-
tuous and you will be happy, but you won't
have good time" We suspect Messrs. Ran
dali and Holman, in the House of Represen-
tatives, are painfully discovering the truth
of this proposition. No virtue is SO COM
mendable to everybody, in the abstract, as
economy. Make retrenchment party cry
and you call out thousands of enthusiastic
orators who will make haste to prove, with
out the least economy of time or of figures,
how easy it is to save millions in the public
expenditures how shameful it is to squan-
der the peoples money, and how necessary
it is to lower the taxes. Economy is the
road to wealth." they cry, and quite forget
the Wall street brokers' complaint that he
had found it 'the most disagreeable road he
ever travelled"
Mr.. Randall took hold with great courage
and vigor, directly after the meeting of Con-
gress. He has labored with unhagging pa
thence, and he has made his committee work
with him and now that his and their labors
begin to bear fruit, in reduced estimates
presented to the House for approval, poor
Mr. Randall finds himself suddenly one of
the least popular of men and the jealous
body of economists and retrenchers who not
long ago filled the chairs on both sides now
regard him as the enemy of the human
race and the least agreeable man, always ex-
cepting Mr.. Holman, in either house of Con-
gress His name has, we hear, become ter
ror to clerks in Washington. When he rises
to move the consideration of the Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill
the average member wants to adjourn ut
once, and there is even q rumor Of an organ
lied mutiny against his rule by the door
keepers and messengers.
All this is unpleasant but we hope Mr..
Randall will go on undaunted. If he imag-
ined that he was going to be cheered in the
House when he proposed to save seven mill
ions he of course, prepared himself great
disappointment. He had right to expect
bitter opposition in Washington. That
city lives on the federal taxes. The higher
they are the more it prospers. 1t is a
strongly republican city, because the repub-
licans have for years run the government
machinery at needlessly great cost. What
ever Mr. Randall lops of, no matter in what
department, will be felt and resented there
under his nose But let him only persevere,
and he will get the thanks of the country at
large. The peoples interest is to have the
public expenditures largely diminished,
and fortunately, the people still rule.
We have but one fault to find with Mr..
Randall's efforts at retrenchment He has,
it seems to us, been in too much haste. He
seems to us sometimes to be mastered by the
immense and complicated details of his
work. The work which the federal govern
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ment has done since the war has been almost
continuously done at an increasing and
needlessly great expense; but the undertake
ing of reducing the overgrown expenditures
requires a comprehensive study of the whole
field, which, we fear, Mr.. Randall has not
given it, He proceeds upon a theory which
is erroneous, and exposes himself to objec-
tions which he will have trouble to meet.
He is, for instance, cutting down all salaries
from ten to twenty per cent. But the trouble
is not that the salaries paid by the govern
ment are too high-with few exceptions they
are not too high-the trouble is that too
many persons are employed to do the work.
The government offices have become places
of refuge for numbers of persons who would
have no places there but for the importuni-
ties of political friends; and the work is done
in an uneconomical way, not because clerks
and others are overpaid, but because more
are employed than a good business man
would need to do the work.
Again, Mr.. Randall appears to us to have
erred in attempting to cut down all depart
ments upon the same scale. Thus his Con-
sular and Diplomatic bill, as it has passed
the House, would cripple that service, and
after all save but q trifing sum; and we shall
be glad if the Senate makes such opposition
to many parts of this bill as will induce the
House to reconsider it. 1t is in the War,
Navy and Interior departments that Mr..
Randall can make his real savings. We
have shown him how, without reducing the
army, he can save dozen millions in the
war estimates; and we believe he could save
not less than twenty millions there by
careful study of all the details, such as we
cannot give them. In the Navy Department
he ought to save at least seven or eight mill
ions, and perhaps twelve. In the Interior
Department, including the Indian Bureau,
he ought to be able to save six
or eight millions. If he will ask Mr.. Bris-
tow to help him they ought by combined
effort to make some handsome economies in
the cost of collecting the internal and GUS
toms revenues. In these ways Mr.. Randall
can make great and important savings, for
which the country will thank him. Then,
again, there are the huge bills for internal
improvements, which ought this year to be
cut down very sharply.
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Unconstitutionality of the Enforcement

Act.
Had the decision of the Supreme Court
declaring the Enforcement law unconsti-
tutional been rendered at an earlier period,
before the republican party lost control
of the House of Representatives, Congress
would forthwith have passed new bill
avoiding the objections made against that
which is now adjudged void. The Court
fully admits that Congress may pass a
law for insuring the civil and politi-
cal equality of the negroes. If the
republican party had sooner known that
by attempting too much they had accom-
plished nothing it would have been in
their power to substitute appropriate
legislation for the unconstitutional law
which they enacted But this decision of
the Supreme Court, coming when It does,
not only annuls the Enforcement act, but
puts that provision of the constitution in
allegiance which authorizes Congress to pass
laws for the protection of negro equality
After the INSCRIPTIONS abuses of leg
islation practised by the republican
party under color of that authority, and
which the Supreme Court has condemned,
the democrats are not likely to consent to
any further legislation on the subject. The
negroes, for the ensuing two years at least
will have to depend for protection on the
State governments. There will be no further
interposition of federal authority supported
by federal bayonets to support their rights
or redress their wrongs. This important
decision marks the beginning of a new era
in the political relations of the negro race in
our Southern States.
If the Southern governments should be
Just, humane and considerate, they can easily
detach their colored citizens from the repub-
lican party and virtually annihilate that
party throughout the South. The negroes
ment law with the broken Freedmen's Saw
ings Bank They will feel with keen resent
ment that their rights have been no safer
than their money in the custody of the re-
publican party. Finding their hopes disap-
pointed, their confidence abused, and that
they must, after all, depend for protection and
prosperity on the communities with which
their lot is cast, they will be disposed to CO.
operate more cordially with their immediate
fellow citizens than they have ever been
since their emancipation. They have nothing
to depend upon now but their own industry
and sobriety and the justice and good will
of their neighbors. If the whites act with
sense and moderation the undeceived ne
groes will hereafter give them no trouble.
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Why DOES THE SENATE FAIL to pass the
bill for protecting witnesses who testify be-
fore committees of Congress? The personal
assurance given TO Marsh and his wife by
the President extends to nobody else, and
the fact that they needed such assurances
before they could safely return from Canada
Is warning to other witnesses that they
would run risk by telling the truth The
investigations in Washington are obstructed
by this cause and the Senate should at
once remove the obstacle by passing the
House bill
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-03-29

ONE REASON Why we pay six per cent for
our money abroad is that we have fallen into
a habit of universal SANDER. We degrade
ourselves, defame our country, trife with
pur credit, call upon the world to see what
rascals and knaves we are, and then marvel
that the world should take us at our word
and charge us more for money than nations
without half of our resources. We shall
strengthen our credit when We protect our
self-respect.
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SOME OF THE NEWSPAPERS chronicle the
fact that DR.. Russell will represent the Times
Mt the Centennial Exhibition. DIR. Russell
will be welcomed here. His letters during
the war were fair and kind, much more so
than was ever credited to him. He told the
truth then and he will tell the truth now.
This is all that the country cares to have
done by any journalist
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The WANT OF STATE PR1DE.-A CORE
spondent discusses the recent Syracuse Con-
vention in the following significant letter.
To THE EDITOR HERALD
Did 1t occur 10 you that among the reasons why
New York has received proper recognition from
the republican party is that this party in the hands
of aliens-of men who have sympathy with the
State or pride in its statesmen mean aliens in a
State and not in a national sense The movement
against Conkling is alien movement Mr.. Curtis Is
a Yankee, and of course supports the New England
candidate So might go on and give you twenty
names of prominent men, Union Leaguers and SO on,
who have no real sympathy with New York. Tho
truth is that the republican party is in the hands
of Yankee ring, and the triumph" at Syracuse over
Mr. Conkng, II triumph it may be- is that Of Yankee
ring. Yours sincerely kMcKERBocKER
Our correspondents idea is worthy of
consideration by all who care about the
matter New York is not loved city, we
are afraid. A true State pride would make
Mr.. Conkling the choice of the republican
party
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MEXICAN ADvIcEs continue to be of an
alarming character, and revolution and
anarchy are again imminent. Not only is
The Lerdo government threatened with over
Throw. but the state of chronic revolt from
which Mexico suffered for so many years
keems about to be renewed. 1t is unfortunate
that resort to arms is the first thought of
The dissatisfied Mexican politician for the
country cannot expect to be prosperous and
happy while the disorders consequent upon
these constant 6nle,des are allowed to disturb
The people
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-03-29

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. -Stocks were
more active and lower. A sharp drive was
made at Lake Shore, Erie, Michigan Central,
st. Paul preferred and Northwest preferred.
Gold closed at liza gain of Is pei. cent.
Money loaned at , II and per cent. Gov
ernments, railroad bonds and investm ent
securities were steady
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THE DIRECT CABLE CoMPANY's REPORT will
attract much attention in view of the opinion
of Sir William Thomson and Mr.. Bramwell
that the recent breaks in the cable were the
result of violence. If this opinion is correct
a skilful detective ought to be able to unravel
the mystery, at least to the extent of showing
by whom the act was committed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-03-29

THE PRoPosAL to nominate David Davis, of
the Supreme Court, for President, is weak in
this, that no man should be taken from this
lofty station for the Presidency. Let us
have our courts removed from the contami-
nation of politics. Presidential ambition
was the shadow over Mr.. Chase's life, and is
now the blot upon his fame. Let our judges
celibates.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-03-29

''SKIRMIsHING. "-ODonovan Rosa in
forms reporter that there is now no Fenian
movement on foot, but that money is raised
to keep up system of ''skirmishing 1t
would be interesting to know what share of
Ibis ''skirmish" fund goes to Mr.. Delmonico.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON And EVENING.


BowERY THEATRE.
THE WONDER LAND at 3 p. NJ.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
PIQUE, at & T. NJ. Matinee at T. NJ. Fanny Davenport
THIRTY-FoURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.
VARIETY, at 8 r. NJ Matinee at ? 7. NJ
GLOBE THEATRE
VARIETY, at S 2. NJ. Matinee at ? r. NJ
PARTISAN VARIETIES.
VARIETY at sP.M.
FAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs. tsP.N.
BOOTHS THEATRE.
JULIUS CESAR, at +. VI. Matinee at 80 r. NJ r. Q.
Bangs.
OLYMPIC THEATRE
VARIETY, at s 7. VI Matinee at 2 7. NJ.
TwENTY-THIRD STREET OPERA HOUSE.
CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS, at s NJ
WOODS MUSEUM
KIT at 2. NJ. Matinee at , Z. VI. +. $. Chanrau
LYCEUM THEATRE.
VAUDEVILLE, at p NJ. Matinee at 80 p. NJ. Minnie
Palmer.
wALLACK'S THEATRE
THE WONDER, at 3 r. NJ Lester Wallack
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE.
VARIETY. at 8 L. NJ.
GERMANIA THEATRE
DER FRAUENADOkAT, at +. NJ.
EAGLE THEATRE.
VARIETY, at 8 i. NJ Matinee ut T. NJ
BROOKLYN THEATRE.
FALSE SHAME. at p. NJ ii. j. Montague
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
TERREOLL at q F. NJ. c. X. Thone. Jr.
PARK THEATRE
BRASS, at T. NJ. George Fawcett Rove.
CHICKERING HALL.
Won BuLow REcITALs, at P. NJ. MARK TwAINs
LECTURE. a: 10 7. NJ.
CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES.
VARIETY. At 4. NJ.
VARIETY, at Pm
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THE OXFORD CREW is likely to win the
University race again this year, if the betting
is any criterion upon which to base a judg
ment of the result
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SOME OF THE NEWSPAPERS report the COM
plants of General Sherman over his pro-
posed recall to Washington. If Sherman is
needed in Washington let him have his
headquarters there. If he does not like the
transfer he has the remedy in his own hands.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-03-29

CORPORATION COUNSEL WHITNEY has sent
an interesting letter to the Assembly, dis
cussing the questions relating to sewer as
sessments since 1870. Mr.. Whitney makes
good showing in favor of the passage of the
bill now before the Legislature.
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The HERALD by FAST MAIL TRAITS. -Ne'os-
dealers and the public throughout the country
sciH be supplied lcM The DAILY, WEEKLY and
SUNDAY HERALD, free Of postage, by sending
their orders direct to this office.
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From orr reports this morning the probabilities
are that the ,oedthcr to-day aoiH be threatening,
riM ruin.
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THE DAILY HERALD, published erey
Ioy in the gear. Four cents per copy.
Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per
month, free of postage.
All business, news letters or telegraphic
dispatches must be addressed New fonK
HERALD.
Letters and packages should be properly
sealed.
Rejected communications will not be re-
turned.
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Put 1t in the Platforms.

The politicians are so apt to overlook the
true interests of the people that the latter
must employ every means of pressing their
rights on the attention of the former. The
most feasible means of economy is the re-
funding of the six per cent bonds at lower
rate of interest, but as no party capital is to
be made out of such measure it is slurred
over and neglected by the demagogues in
Congress. The people must therefore, in
sist on its being put in the party platforms
and that all the candidates be pledged to
promote it. 1t is worth altogether more
than the fussy, cheese-paring economies
which have been proposed in Congress this
winter for party effect, and several of which
are calculated to cripple the public service.
Secretary Bristow has no doubt that he
could sell four and half per cent bonds if
Congress would extend the period of redeem
ability from fifteen years, as now prescribed,
to thirty years, and at the beginning of the
session he asked Congress to make that
amendment in the law. An act for that pur-
pose ought to have been passed within five
days after the meeting of Congress. In the
sixteen months preceding the Secretarys
annual report he had refunded SITS, 54S, 800
of the national debt and if Congress had
given him the means of proceeding at the
same rate s44, 637 900 might have been re-
funded in the four months that have since
elapsed. A saving of one and a half per
cent interest per annum on that sum would
amount to s667, 900 year, or nearly twenty
seven times the proposed reduction of
$50, 900 in the salary OF the President. It is
the duty of the people to protest against
such penny-wise, pound-foolish economy,
and to insist that the political platforms
pledge both parties to the prompt support
of all reasonable measures for tightening the
burden of the national debt by refunding it
at a lower rate of interest.
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
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TRIPLE S III Z E T.

NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 90. 1876.
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GENERAL ScHENoK gave history of his
connection with the Emma mine before the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs yester-
day. He denounced Lyons story as untrue,
and told how he purchased and paid for the
stock held by him but accepting his ac-
count of the transaction in its most favor
able light, the showing is not good one for
n man in his position. He may have taken
no active part in the sale of the mine, but he
allowed his name and the credit of his
position to be used for the promotion of the
scheme. Even if the whole transaction was
an honest one he erred in this in way that
will long be remembered against him.
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ENGLISH RIFLEMEN are apparently averse
to trial of skill with the Americans. We
should be sorry if there is no English team
at the international match at Philadelphia,
and we trust the present intention will be
abandoned. There is no reason why Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland should not be
represented by separate teams.
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NEW YORK HERALD

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
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PARTISAN VARIETIES.
g T. Nj
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GLOBE THEATRE
at S p. NJ. Matinee at Z. NJ.
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SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs. atsPN
BOOTHS THEATRE.
JULIUS CESAR, at 8 +. NJ. Matinee at 80 T. NJ f. O.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
PIQUE, at +. NJ Matinee at 7. NJ. Fanny Davenport
THIRTY-FoURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.
VARIETY. al L. NJ. Matinee at 2 7. N.
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BowERY THEATRE.
WONDER LAND. at SPIN
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TIvoLI THEATRE.
VARIETY, Mt S p. NJ.