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The New York herald., 1876-03-23

mentary vote in a republican convention.
The lesson should not be lost upon Mr.. Cur
tis and Mr.. Roberts; for, as our readers
may we'll understand, we regard this cry
about Conkling and "Grantism" as the
veriest cant. No man in the State
has done as much for Grantism as Mr. Curtis,
unless it is Mr.. Roberts For seven years
they have stood by the administration,
smoothing over every blunder, extenuating
every knavery. Therefore for them to come
into republican convention and ask the
party to repudiate Mr.. Conkling for being
the same manner of republican as them
selves is to insult the intelligence of the
party and its sense of fair play. These gen.
tlemen, and Conkling with them, must stand
or fall together They are weak as Grant is
weak, and strong as he is strong. 1t is too
late to ask the sympathies or even the pa
tience of republicans in their efforts to
reform party" they have been supporting
for seven years. This is the lesson of the
Convention at Syracuse. 1t did well not to
be driven into false and cowardly position
by the political assassins who followed the
lead of Mr.. Curtis of Staten Island
New York. therefore, has spoken, and the
question is, What of the country? There
is candidate even stronger than Mr. Conk-
ling, who has supported Grant without in
curing the odium of Grantism; who has
done the party and the country a grand SER
vice; who has passed through the fire of in
vestigation without even the smell of fire on
his garments; man who is regarded ms the
embodiment of reform-Mr. Bristow, of Ken
lucky. The real value of Mr.. Bristow in the
canvass must be considered at later period,
when we see what Grant will do. As it now
stands the Convention places Conkling in
the field with the power and majesty of the
Empire State behind him. If to this we
have the deciding voice of the President
there is q fair chance that the momentum of
this support will make Conkling the candi-
date of the National Convention. If Grant
should say nothing and the mutiny which
came to q disastrous end yesterday takes
new life and spreads over the country, Mr..
Bristow will have position which cannot be
challenged. AS it is now the Convention
presents the name of Conkling, and in doing
SO has done worthily. There is no reason
why Mr.. Conkling should not be the repub-
lican candidate When it comes to elect a
President it will be time to inquire whether
he is the fittest man for that high Office
The New York herald., 1876-03-23
The Price OF nm Introduction.

The rascality and corruption which honest
manner when he was at the Court of Madrid
were not greater than the revelations at
Washington this winter Gil Bias tells us
that everybody bribed or was bribed at court
for places, from the Prime Minister down to
the lackeys; and so it is at our American
Court Belknap supplied the tragedy, and
General Z. w. Rice, of Iowa, now supplies
the burlesque. This veteran hero is the man
who charged poor Mr.. J. S. Evans one thou
sand dollars for introducing him to General
Belknap-the highest price which perhaps
any one over paid for that felicity and
not have known many people in Washing
ton, or that General Belknap must have
been extraordinarily inaccessible. Perhaps
he supposed that General Rice, of Iowa, had
unusual influence with the Secretary. But,
whatever may be thought of the necessities
or simplicity of Mr.. Evans, what must we
not think of the meanness and colossal ra-
pacity of Rice? Was it his business to in
troduce strangers to the Secretary, and did
he always charge that fee? There is moth
ing more absurdly contemplate in all the
scandals than this charge, which is more ex-
cessive than even Pendletons. One thing
is sure-Mr. Evans would not pay General
Rice that sum now for an introduction to
General Belknap, and if he should sue for
his one thousand dollars he might get it
hack with interest
The New York herald., 1876-03-23
A Centennial List.

It is singular that in this centennial year
the republican party should have hit upon
thirteen candidates for the Presidency. II
there is any luck in numbers, and in odd
numbers, too, it may be happy augury.
Here is the list
ROSCOE CoNKLING, Of New York
HAMILTON FISH, Of New York
W. M EvARTS, OF New York.
e. D. MORGAN. OF New York.
JOHN JAY. OF New York.
F. T. FRELINGHUYsEN, OF New Jersey.
JAMES G. BLAINE, OF Maine
ULYSSES S. GRANT OF Illinois
OLIVER p MORTON, of Indiana
b. n. BRIsTow. OF Kentucky.
GOVERNOR HAYES, OF Ohio.
E. B. wAsHBURNE, OF Illinois
MARSHALL JEWELL. OF Connecticut
This is the constellation of candidates
from which the lucky star is to be chosen.
Who *ill be the happy star? Will it prove
the star of victory? How proud New York
should be that in this centennial year we
have five candidates out of the thirteen, and
the galaxy by no means exhausted. We do
not feel that we are violating any confidence
when we say that New York alone can name
the whole thirteen candidates and no extra
nav required.
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Amnesty i'm France.

The French governments plan of action in
relation to the proposed amnesty reminds
one forcibly of the dying Corsican who was
told he could not go to heaven unless he for
gave his enemies, and who thereupon called
his eldest son to his bedside and said:-.I
forgive them, but thou needst not forget
them" The government want to draw fine
lines between offences and offenders, but if
they wish to take full popular benefit for
clemency they might just as we'll come
plumply to the point of amnestying
the Communists remaining alive who
have been tried by French law. The
wholesale slaughter of men and women
on the entry of the Versailles troops into
Paris, and the wholesale and prolonged
executions at Satory, left the boon of mortal
breath to very few of the prominent Com
munists who fell into the hands of the na-
ton. Some, like Cluseret, escaped altogether,
and few, with Rochefort at their head.
escaped from New Caledonia. The former
has been industriously decrying his fellows
ever since and has possibly lost caste among
the fiery blue blouses but Rochefort, secure
in Switzerland or Belgium, has poured
out his venom against everything re-
spectacle in France, his attacks on
President MacMahon being particu-
larly scurrilous. 1t would, therefore,
appear that Rochefort is almost the only
man whose present activity makes him objec-
tionable to the government, and when we
consider that by having him within the
power of French law and stripping him of
the garb of political martyr the force of his
sting would be gone we cannot see why he
should not be allowed to return. There is.
of course, the very tangible ground Of his
personal offensiveness to the Chief of State,
but that should not weigh in a popular gov
eminent. The Cabinet is, however, acting
cautiously, and that itsseems willing to see
amnesty made almost complete without de-
string TO reap the popular applause which
full act of oblivion would bring must be re-
membered to its credit in this age of pos
turing in public afairs.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

If THE EMIGRATION COMMISSIONERS have
been declared by the recent United States
Supreme Court decisions to have no legal
right to collect the head money from steam
ship companies under State law the sooner
Congress takes mp the question the better;
for the country cannot think Of returning to
the practice of leaving emigrants to shift for
themselves and be at the mercy of the har-
pies known in old times rs emigrant runners
and baggage smashers, the class from which
some OF our model Tammany statesmen
have been drawn. 1t is possible the steam
ship lines would organize some form Of
protection, but it would surely prove in
adequate. because irresponsible.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23
Tho Lobby at Albany.

Mr.. West, the chairman of the Assembly
Railroad Committee, confesses to singular
curiosity in regard to the ways of the lobby.
According to his own account when he first
went to Albany he was accustomed to en-
courage lobbyists to come to him ''for no
other reason on earth than to see how it was
done" They used to come to my room at
the Delavan," he said, "before breakfast,
and I've had them offer me five hundred
dollars to 60 for a certain bill" The en-
coumgement of this sort of thing was queer
conduct for an honest man, and not the least
singular part of it is that nobody ever heard
of anybody being kicked down stairs at Mr..
Vests hotel. Nor did West, the incor-
ruptible, ever think it his duty TO expose
the men whom he confesses have tried to
corrupt him. We infer, however, that now
he is ready to unbosom himself, and that he is
counting an investigation that he may be able
to tell all lie has learned, in his own pc
culiar way, about the lobby. Let us have
committee of investigation by all means, for
it is plain that many interesting develop
ments will be made. West will contribute
an invaluable report of his lobby tests.
Killian has a number of points which he is
doubtless painting to explain more fully.
Many persons want to know which of his
personal friends deceived him in regard to
the time when the report on his bill was
made to the House. He can also give more
complete information in regard to his alb
sence on that occasion; for it is not little
singular that the standing committee Of the
Assembly, before which he says he was on
that occasion, should have held a meeting
while the House was in session. Many
points suggested by these worthy statesmen
need elucidation, and we hope everybody
concerned in these queer transactions, of
which West, Killian and the rest have told
us, may come out of an inquiry with their
blushing honors thick upon them.
TUNIs appears to be q hot place for con-
suls, irrespective of its high temperature.
The Italian Consul is the latest upon whom
murderous attempt has been made; but
as the would-be assassin was killed Moslem
fanaticism may require the visit of an Italian
iron-clad or two before it will be quite safe
for foreign officials to take their promenades
Signor Puliga attempted to pull against
Tunisian etiquette.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

RAPID TRANsIr.-The report of the Rapid
Transit Commissioners was up for final ar
gument yesterday before Chief Justice Davis
and Judges Brady and Daniels, holding the
Supreme Court, General Term, and the OBJ
jectors had their last opportunity to suggest
stumbling blocks to the accomplishment OF
the city's great need. The confirmation of the
report by the General Term will put tn,
scheme fairly on its legs and we hope to Sc,
it at an early day.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

wALLACK'S THEATRE.
ROMANCE OF POOR YOUNG MAN. ntsPM NJ
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE
VARIETY, at SPIN
BROOKLYN THEATRE
ROSE MICHEL p. NJ. Miss Rose Eytinge
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
FERREoL, at 8 r. NJ G. r. rhorne. Jr
rARK THEATRE.
BRASS, at P. NJ. George Fawcctt Rowe
CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES
VARIETY, at 7. NJ. Matinee at y. NJ
BowERY THEATRE.
HEARTS AND TRUMPs. atsP NJ Miss Maria Mcrdaunt.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
pTQUE. nj g +. VI. Fanny Davenport
THIRTY FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.
VARIETY. at g Pm.
MONSIEUR ALPHoNsE at 3 p. NJ. French Company.
GERMANIA THEATRE.
EIEGENL1ESCHEN, at 8 =. NJ.
GLOBE THEATRE.
VARIETY, atsP.M.
cHIcKERING uALl.
TON BULoW RECITALs. At p. NJ
PARTISAN VARIETIES
VARIETY. atsPM.
BAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs atsP.M.
BOOTHS THEATRE
JULIUS CESAR, ats p W. Lawrence Barrett.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
VARIETY at 9 pm
TWENTY. THIRD STREET OPERA HOUSE
CALIFORNIA MINsTRELs. at sP. NJ. Matinee = r. N
sTEINwAY HALL.
THOMAS SYMPHONY CONCERT, at2P.h.
WOODS MUSEUM
oFLANIGAN. at sP. NJ. Matinee at m.
LYCEUM THEATRE
VAUDEVILLE. at sP. NJ. Minnie Palmer.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

THE BOGUS LORD business has always
fourished in America, and the individual
styling himself Hugh Leslie Courtenay and
operating" as nephew of the Earl of
Devon-who has recently made this country
his stamping ground"-has proved no ex-
ception to the rule. His range is very wide.
for he is said to have extracted goods from
tradesmen in London, twenty-franc pieces
in France, sovereigns in Melbourne, paper
dollars in New York and hotel board ou,
West. An extended notice of his career will
be found elsewhere. Moral. The more en-
gaging in manners the nobleman you meet
who wants to borrow dollar the less the
chances of his being royal duke.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were
Irregular, on n somewhat improved business.
Gold brought ia 1-S. Money on call was
loaned at 5, 4 and l-2 per cent. Foreign
exchange firm Government and railway
bonds were easier.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

We HAD THE JAcoBIS CLuB in Paris. In
New York we have the Dark Lantern Know
Nothing Tammany Club, which would give
MS simply bosom friends in office. Now we
have the Union League Smoking Room cabal,
which objects to Mr.. Conkling because he is
a republican. The whole business of clubs
in politics" is bad.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

The MANLY ART" was illustrated yester-
day in battle fought in Delaware between
two Philadelphia pugilists, and won by a
gentleman named Cleary. There was no
unsportsmanlike interference by the au-
thorities, and, indeed, the whole thing was
delicate compliment on the part of 'the
fancy" to the little Whipping-post State
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

VIZ NOTE that the new Appraiser of the
Port is sto be manned by Mr. Conkling +"
Nothing is more painful than the interfer-
snce of Senators with patronage 1t has de-
graded the Senate. Mr.. Conkling would be
stronger if he declined to have anything to
do with the business.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

LOVE LAUGHS not only at locksmiths, but
at national hatreds. Here is the French
Ambassadors daughter at Berlin betrothed
70 Count Talleyrand-P -Perigord, naturalizcd
Prussian, and one who comes of n Protean
French stock, which, in the person of one
man, was priest, republican, imperialist,
legitimist and orleanist ist-everythingp political
that was French or that Frenchmen were.
Let us have an entente cordidle
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

THE RANDALL Faction in the Pennsylvania
Democratic Convention were defeated yes
terday by the Wallace men in the contest for
delegates-at-large to ST. Louis. Carrying
the Convention, we would remind the demo-
Gratis, is n very small way toward carrying
the keystone State, rs they will find later on
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

Would it not be good thing for our re-
form democracy to take up the cases of Schu-
maker and King9 These statesmen demand
'vindication," and their claims will most
likely be forgotten unless the sluggish ma
jority are spurred to their duty.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

THE HERALD BY FAST MAIL AI~s-Ne,rs-
dealers and the public throughout The country
,niN be supplied ,oith the DAILY. WEEKLY and
SUNDAY HERALD, free Of postage By sending
their orders direct 10 this office.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

THE RACE FOR THE LINCOLNSHIRE HANDI-
CAP wns won, in field of thirty horses, by a
dospised outsider, called Controversy. Put
not your faith in ''tips" and prophecies.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

JEWELLERS BEWARE The robbery Of the
store of the jeweller, Kuntz, on Third
avenue, at 18th street, is the third
of its class in New York and
Brooklyn. One successful crime is GER
tain to produce a number of others, and
hence those having large quantity of valu-
able goods exposed that do not occupy much
space and are thus easily carried of should
prepare to give thieves warm reception.
The thieves plan is simple, only
requiring coolness and boldness, qualities
many of them possess. A jewelry
store is entered by two men who engage
the salesmans attention, and when in o
favorable position he is knocked insensible
or frightened by the display of pistol into
inaction while the store is ransacked. He is
bound and gagged, and the thieves decamp
with the property. A crime of this kind re-
quires to be met promptly and punished
sharply, as 'garroting' was in London, be-
fore the criminal class will turn to some less
alarming branch of their nefarious art. The
police should turn their attention to this, as
a timely arrest like that in the Grand street
case would do much to stop it.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

WE HAVE Nor HEARD of any butchery of
those captured on board the Octavia by n
Spanish man-of-war. Can it be that her
English flag protects them?
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

The RuMoR that William G.. Barrett has
gone to Europe to found London Bar Asso-
citation is plausible, but not probable.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

WHAT Has Roscoe CoSKLrNG done that
George William Curtis should censure him
They have hewn wood and carried water
for Grant ever since he came into the Presi-
dency
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

From our reports this morning the probabilities
fre that the ,oedther to-day toM be partly cloud,
und rdrmer
The New York herald., 1876-03-23
Trustee. and Their obligations.

In the case of Mr. Barrett public attention
is very forcibly called to what must seem TO
every one a very defective state of the law.
Here is man who has spread ruin all about
him by the misuse Of funds and other prop
erty intrusted to his charge yet his offence
under the law, if it has any existence at all,
is only trivial; and the punishment that
could be inflicted, if he were in the hands
of justice, not only bears no adequate rela-
ton to the wrong he has done, but is not
equal to that meted out for the forgery of
check that would ruin no one. Dispropor-
tions like this are the monstrosities of the
law, and are the real source of that wide
spread opinion that all men are not equal
with regard to it, but that it contemplates
the high and the low, as to social station, with
very different eyes. Every one recognizes
that cases like this are very difficult to deal
with under the general principles of the
law that large discretion must be given
to trustees who have to invest money for
others that every allowance must be made
for what are really errors of judgment but
it does seem as if legislation could afford
some further security to estates in this
matter.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23
L r IPLE S HEE T.

NEW YORK. THURSDAY. MARCH sa, 1875.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

THE DIsoBAcEFUL NEGLECT Of the authori-
ties in permitting the corpse of Mrs. Rose
Young to remain moored TO pier in the
East River for twenty-four hours after its
discovery is surely worthy Of more than
mere condemnation. There are few things
more pitiable on record than that of the hus-
band of the unfortunate woman watching
wearily through the long night over the re-
mains of his wife rs they rose and fell and
swayed with the tide. Can no one be pun
ished for this outrage on humanity?
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

WE PRINT with pleasure the card from Mr..
w. Butler Duncan relative to the synopsis
OF the case of the foreclosure of the first
mortgage bonds, amounting to six mill
lion dollars, Of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, which was published in the
HERALD of yesterday. The case is pend
ing in the United States Circuit Court
of Alabama, and a trial Of the facts
may well put different face upon the
matter to that which would appear from
reading only one side of the story.
The New York herald., 1876-03-23

VOLUME ..................Yo 50
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wALLACK'S THEATRE
ROMANCE OF POOR YOUNG MAN. at r. N.
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE.
VARIETY AZ
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The New District.

In the plan for re-apportiopment
submitted by the conference com.
mittee;we notice with dismay that
it is proposed in that measure to
district Latourche with St.
Charles. The meaning of this is
simply that the white majority OF
this Parish il to be overcome by
the overwhelming colored major
lty OF st. Charles. So undoubted
is this majority that we believe
there is but Onesticke: ever run
i'll that parish, aud including the
white vote of Lafourche the pro
posed district would still be re-
publican by seven or eight HIM
dred majority.
Nor is this the only objection
to the measure; both the members
OF the Senate at present represen
ting the district composed Of Lii.
fourche, Assumption and Terre
bonnie. reside in the latter Parish,
and in the event OF u breaking
up. this parish will I've nnrepro
sented in the Senate. In addition
to these objections the new dis.
trict will have no election till the
year 1873, while Terrebonne will
participate in all election for Sena
tor in November next.
Though it may be dMlce ct deco
rum pro patria mort, it is decidedly
unpleasant to have II majority We
have long struggled to obtain rem
dered valueless through a measure
OF this kind, and we look to our
representatives to USE every
cndeavOr to avert tue threatened
disaster.
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IN MENIORIAM.
HILL HOME Hook e. LADDER Go. NJ.

HILL HOME Hook e. LADDER 20. No. l,
Ihibodaac, La., Jan. %, 1876
At u regular monthly meeting
of this Company, held this day,
the following resolutions we've
unanimously adopted and spread
Oh the Minute Book
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Divine Provi-
dence to call unto himself our Brother and
e~x.Ireasure HONORE FAURE ; and
WHEREAS, His loss is irrepairable to
society and death deprives us of a member
just and capable his demise will be sensi-
bly, felt by all the members of this COMPANY:
therefore be it
Resolved, That We tender our warmest
and most heartfelt sympathies to bis family
aud while recognising the all powerful will
OF o. Great Master above. we bow our
heads with grief and mingle our tears with
theirs and be it further
Resotued, That as an ordinance of our
respect for the memory of our late brother.
the Truck and Hall be draped in black, and
the members of this Company do wear the
usual badge of mourning for thirty da,s:
'
Resolfed, That these resolutions be pnb.
ished i'll the THIBoDAUx SENTINEL. aid
that q certified copy of the same be sent to
the family of the deceased.
j. OMER LANDRY
WV, z: RAGAN, Special Com.
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briekbat, IN short, all the sounds
which eonspire to make up the
pleasing symplony Of a.fir>t class.
row, fell on our ear, and admOn
iShed US that "Still in its bosom
glow the wonted fires" Soon from
the melee one tall form broke,
and in the classic parlance of the
place, showed a straight shirt
tail for the near section house.
The crowd, with unerring instinct,
turned Oh the first who was down
and the sound Of conflict died
away, leaving us absorbed in adj
mlratiOn forthe promptBess with
which a free fight was organized,
aud the energy with which it
was pushed to a close, albeit
somewhat surprised and disap-
pointed that there was no list of
killed or missing but our pro-
phetic soul revels in the sensation
al item which We are sure will
soon be afforded us, now that the
section hands have shaken off the
lethargy which threatened to sap
the foundation of their fame.
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From many sources we learn
that the late warm weather has a
marked bad effect on the seed
cane. While very little is actually
spoiled, nearly all is more or less
injured by sprouting. and these
sprouts bring very delicate, it is
impossible toavoid breaking MANY
Of them while planting. and once
broken they are destroyed. Many
planters fear a bad stand of plant
cane as the result of this condi-
ton, but should there he no more
cold weather, the stubble crop
will more than make up any de-
ficiency in the plant cane. Already
there is a perfect stand on nearly
all the stubble We have seen, and
II the pairing of birds, budding of
plants, etc., may be accepted as
IAN indication that winter is over.
ats growth will continue uncheck..
ed.