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Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-23

. oOEaS AND BOARD.-Th gentle
! men ana theif wives can be accommo-
dated with single or suites of rooms and
board, corner Fort and Franklin streets, one
block from Court House. Inquire at 7S Main
street marll-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-23
FOR SALE.

A Splendid Bargain. One of the best loca-
ted cottages in the city, ready furnished for
sale at bargain. Liberal terms. Address
G. this office.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-23
Dve. Kurtz & Rene.
PHYSICIANS AND SUGE0NS.

Special attention paid to disease Of the eye
and ear.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-23

4 ~ WAGONS FOR SALE by VIM.
w Stoddard, No. 7S Main street.
marll-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-23

CS CslA Per day, at home. Sam
md : 10 ~ pies worth 81 free. STIN-
SON & o.. Portland, Me marl4d&wly
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-23

Estate of Jacob Keller-Petition for distri-
button; sufficient notice not being given leave
asked TO withdraw; petition granted.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-23
County Court-o'MELvENY. j.

Probate Gourt-O'MELvENEY,J ].
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The New York herald., 1876-01-21
The Excavations at Olympia.

As the study Of language has within the
present century been reduced to a science
whose researches are carried on in broad
channels. to which the accessible linguistic
records of all peoples and ages have been
made to contribute. it is not surprising that
the same comprehensive treatment is applied
in dealing with other sources of human
knowledge. The study of antiquities affords
a most fascinating field for this application,
and hence the excavations under the auspices
of the German government on the plain Of
Olympia, IN the Peloponnesus, attract the
deepest interest. We have had tentative
archaeological researches in all the classic
lands of antiquity. In Rome, in Pompeii.
in Etruria, in Greece, in the islands
of the Archipelago, in. the Troad, in
Egypt, in Assyria and Babylon, the
students of antiquity have brought
many interesting relics of the dead ages
to light but in the excavations now i'm
progress on the scene of the Olympic games
that attracted all Greece for q thousand
years we. see the task of disinterring the
buried past set about on plan which wa
may trust to yield up the entire record
which time and iconoclastic barbarism hava
spared. The search was begun in pure
spirit of Philhellenism, under the protection
of treaty with Greece which secures the
articles unearthed to her, although Ger-
many bears the entire expense. The diff
ference between the present work and those
which have preceded it is that chance or
he fnr o1 al nf oh
as statues, or the demonstration of the truth
of a special theory, such as Schliemann's
search for the Ilion of Homer, has directed
almost all other antiquarian inquiries Of
which the spade was the instrument, while
in this case well known site is selected, and
the object is to exhaust s'all and singular
the sources of knowledge which it contains.
Our London cable letter of last Sunday
announced that the search had already been
rewarded by the discovery of the torso of
great figure of Zeus and the statue of Vic
tory, which Pausanias described seventeen
centuries ago. Gratifying as these results
are, when it is understood that the entira
plain and the bed of the river Alpheios will
be searched for their treasures, it can ba
seen how great are the further expectations.
The excavations around the Temple of Zeus
are but a small part of the entire plan. The
Great Altar without the Temple, the Tenn
pie of Hera, the treasure houses in which
the votive offerings of the States were depos-
tied, will all be searched, where, as the
learned Ernst Curtius, the prof ector of the
work. observes:-"We may confidently pre-
dict that we shall recover vestiges of ans
tiquity from the earth, not at long intervals,
but at every STEP" Scholars and students
of every land will watch the progress of this
great work with keen interest, and when the
time comes for exact scientific inquiry into
the yestiges of the vanished races in America
we shall have fine model to work upon.
In prosecuting such works as this Germany
shows her recognition of the respon'A Utilities
which her proud position among the nations
has brought her.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21
overcrowdcd street Cars.

A correspondent deprecates the suggestion
that the street cars be allowed TO carry only
as many passengers as can be provided with
seats, on the ground that the enforcement of
such rule might prevent many persons
from obtaining passage at all. The alter
native of walking, which he fears, is even
more tolerable than standing up in street
car, while his plan of charging lower rate
of fare for standing room could not fail TO
prove an intolerable nuisance. The passen-
gers who are seated in an overcrowded car
suffer quite as much as the 'standees, and
they are certainly entitled to some considera-
ton. 1t is for the sake of those, and at the
same time to compel the accommodation of
all, that we are anxious for law which
shall prevent overcrowding. If the Leg
islature will pass such an act its
good effects will soon be visible in the
increased accommodations which will be the
result. In ten years the street railways have
built few if any cars, and most of the lines
run fewer cars to-day than at that time
There is no care for the comfort of passengers
and no improvement in any direction. Even
the elevated road, which has more business
than it can accommodate, has not been able
to stir up in the street railways spirit OF
competition. In the meantime, however, the
crosstown lines which have come into ex-
istence are to be noted as an improvement
on the numbering cars of the Third, Sixth
and Eighth avenue lines. If similar cars
and plenty Of them, say one every minute,
were introduced on the uptown lines, leav-
ing the old two-horse cars now in use for
cheap fares for working people morning and
evening, the business would be largely in
creased and everybody might be accommo-
dated with a seat. The point is to give
seat to each passenger, and this is what must
be attained by our street railways
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

after" the 5th of last November, but on the
20th of January the Spanish Ministry gives
out that, though it is aware of the existence
of such a note-for it has received summary
of it from every capital in Europe-yet the
document has not officially come into its
possession from us-that is, the American
Minister has never delivered it, 1t reached
st. Petersburg Vienna and Berlin early in
December. In all those capitals it was duly
communicated to the several governments
and by them referred to the Spanish repre-
sentative, and Spain has answered it in q
lofty and, it is said, ''belligerent" style, so
that we have been put in the false position
minor magnates with a rigmarole of COM
plants against Don Alfonso, and Don
Alfonso has followed and bullied US in every
place, and yet Mr.. Gushing has never de-
ivered his despatch in Madrid.
But Mr.. Fish says that the note in ques-
tion 'when communicated to the Spanish
government was received in a friendly
spirit, and that seems explicitly to declare
that the note has been communicated yet
the Spanish government says it has not been
communicated. What does all this mean
Was the note to Mr.. Gushing written merely
that copies of it might be hawked about
Europe, and the note itself withheld from
the Power to which it was nominally adj
dressed Did shallow aecretary believe
that by reading to other Powers copies of
note to Spain he could gain some end for
which it was not worth while to venture the
serious step of addressing them formally?
Is there an unseemly piece of pitiful trick
cry beneath all this, or only one more of
those blunuers that have so seriously COM
promised our diplomacy abroad under the
present administration?
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

THE PLAN OF AN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY
USrr does not it appears, meet with much
favor in England. The London Times, in an
nouncing its impracticability, takes occasion
to twit the United States on their suspension
of specie payments, and rolls up England's
millions of circulating gold sovereigns before
our eyes rs Dives might display his dinner
of courses to Lazarus gnawing his crust.
John Bulls non poSslnus always stands on
the border.ground between the awe-inspiring
and laughter-provoking Senator sherman
can, therefore, feel rebuked or tickled, as the
fit takes him.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

with the minority against it. Thereupon the
President of the Convention, Mr.. George W.
Crawford, proclaimed that ''the State of
Georgia was free, sovereign and inde-
pendent"
On January 81, in secret session, Mr. Hill
was appointed one of committee of thirteen
to frame a constitution for independent
Georgia, and on January "a he and Mr..
Stephens were appointed two of the eight
delegates from that State to the Convention
of seeding States at Montgomery, Ala, to
frame the constitution of the Confederate
States. On january 20 Mr.. Hill concurred
with the Committee of Seventeen in report
ing to the Convention a reasonable and IN
truthful address, written by Robert Tombs,
to accompany the PRONUNCIATION of the ordi-
nance of secession, and on the same day
the Convention adjourned to reassemble on
March at Savannah.
During the recess Mr.. Hill took ON active
part in framing the Confederate constitution
and electing Jefferson Davis Provisional
President. of the Confederate States. On
March 13 he reappeared in the Georgia Con-
NeuIlOH, anu Oh NdNcn 10 he IecOrueu MS
vote, together with Mr.. Stephens and Mr..
Harris, for the adoption and ratification"
of that constitution "by the State of Georgia,
acting in its sovereign and independent
character"
On March 21, 1861, Mr.. Hill joined with
his fellow members of the Committee of
Thirteen in reporting in secret session q new
constitution for the independent State of
Georgia, which, as finally adopted, contained
the following PROVISIONS
''The General Assembly shall have no
power to prevent immigrants from bringing
their slaves with them
''The General Assembly shall have no
power 10 pass laws for the emancipation of
slaves"
The foregoing record throws some light
upon those passages of Mr.. Hills speech
in the House of Representatives at Wash
ington last week, i'll which he declared that
the South committed mistake in withdraw
ing from the Union instead of remaining
and effecting her purposes within 1t ; and
that it was blunder which she never would
commit again.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

THE MARINE Court BuL.-The bill in
troduced in the State Senate in regard
to appointments in the Marine Court
is good measure and tends directly
to the publication of the Bench 1t is one
of the main points of the revolt Of the people
against the domination of Tammany Hall
that the judges of the courts must be sepa-
rated absolutely from all those vile compli-
cations that ensue upon the division of the
spoils of office. If we cannot have pure
courts in this city we can be sure of no single
point in the administration of justice, and
we cannot have pure courts if judges are to
be elected on the Tammany standard and to
be weighed beforehand in the maneuvres of
the spoilsmen. This bill gives the appoint
ments to the County Clerk, and thus makes
the usage the same as with regard to the
Supreme Court. 1t matters but little what
responsible authority makes the appoint
ments; the essential fact is to separate the
judges from all the bargains involved in
such function.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

THE PART WHICH MoSrESEoRo is to play in
the Eastern difficulty has been ill-deined,
but il must strike q good many that her
Prince is more directly under the influence
of Russia than of any other Power. The
Prince has been lately clustering and posing
as o little Jupiter holding the Sclavonic
lightnings in check, SO as to frighten the
Porte from bringing its troops too near the
Montenegrin frontier. He is like the Irish
man warning the piper not to play the
'tBoyne Water too close TO him for fear he
could not stand it II Russia has secretly
chosen him to precipitate the fight with
Turkey he is certainly enacting the prologue
admirably. How the latter Power can put a
stop TO the insurrection without cutting it
Oh from outside assistance is not very clear
no that tho action of the Prince wears the
aspect Of desire 10 provoke war.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21
The Mexican boundary Question.

For several months there have been ru-
mors in Washington concerning serious re-
suits to follow from the Mexican boundary
that the President intended in his annual
Message to declare that unless Mexico made
amends to us he was ready to advise such
extreme and retaliatory measures as would
probably have led to q war. Fortunately,
if General Grant ever had such designs he
was better advised, and there is at this time,
we believe, no reason to apprehend new
Mexican war. The reports of sinister inten-
tions, which formerly circulated, were
usually accompanied by hints of a mystic
rious map, which, it was said, influential
politicians had engaged competent en-
gineers to prepare, intended to show where
a new boundary line might with advantage
be placed, and to exhibit the nature of the
benefits to be secured by it. Elsewhere
we print letter from one of the per-
sons who have interested themselves in
its preparation. The information he gives
possesses general interest. The plan he de-
velops has many of the shining merits of
castle in the air. 1t certainly does not lack
audacity, and it will probably find more i'm
mediate favor with speculative dreamers than
with practical statesmen at present.
One sound suggestion, however, the writer
makes. He remarks that we would do better
to cultivate more intimate relations with
Mexico than to trouble ourselves about Cuba
and that for half the cost of Spanish war
or Cuban alliance we could probably obtain
the immense region he has struck off from
Mexico, and, at the same time, bring the
coffee cocoa and sugar of that country to our
own doors and make ourselves independent
of Cuba. We do not know of any circum-
stance which should give to the project in
question political Importance at this time.
But several of the matters presented in the
letter which we print deserve to be studied
by American and Mexican statesmen, and to
them and to time we leave them.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

The CONFIRMATION OF Mr.. ALLAN CAMPBELL.
TO the Commissionership of Public Works
city politics, the Aldermen having voted for
him with solitary exception. Mr.. Bryan
Reilly's reasons for voting in the negative
made it surely unnecessary for him to say he
is mo demagogue." Perhaps he felt that
the demagogue often passes current by call
ing himself "a friend of the workingman, ="
and the suspicion that he might have thought
the former while avowing himself the latter
compelled him to draw the distinction. We
sympathize with him.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21
The Probable Response OF Oxford and
Cambridge TO the Rowing Chal-

Cambridge TO the Rowing Chal-
Ienge.
Although vacation time when our corre-
spondent visited the English universities,
his letter this morning will awaken unusual
interest in the very encouraging particulars
he was able to CLEAN from some of the most
prominent varsity oars. Mr.. Stayner, Cap
tain of the Oxford Eight" will at the COM
ing special meeting strongly advise the ac-
ceptance of the invitation" Mr.. Frank
william, bow of the 1869 international four,
and one of Oxford's most renowned oars, is
much pleased at the proposal, and inclines
decidedly to the opinion that the challenge
will be promptly accepted.
The word from Cambridge is hardly less
favorable. While the prominent rowing
men were away, those lingering about the
University thought that the response would be
to our liking. Indeed, it would be singular
if an institution, numbering far more rowing
men, and good ones too, within its walls
than any other in the world, would not hesi-
tate long before declining contest certain
to exceed in interest any in which she
ever shared. The only possible obstacle
raised-rowing without a coxswain-was not
pressed with vigor; in fact, Cambridge has
lately in her home contests rowed cox
swainless several times. Her Captain, Mr..
Close or his brother, if we are not mistaken,
showed himself so skilful a bow in boat
without coxswain in the unfortunate affair
with the Atalantas that his steering was far
ahead of that in the rival boat With SO
valuable a man at this juncture it is
not likely that the coxswain omission
will be allowed to stand in the way
of match Bells Life devotes considerable
space to the invitation, and quite ignores
the coxswain question: only insisting that in
order to keep the Henley fixture for the mid
die of June, which they must do, the
two English universities could not, with JUS
tice to themselves, row here before late
August or early September as they ought
to have two months or ten weeks to get ready
in. Itadds:-''That our universities may take
part in the international collegiate race, and
also the international regatta at Philadel-
phia, is the wish of the whole country" We
arc glad to find that our college men here are
determined to have race, and will almost
certainly, as they ought, place the fixing of
the time quite in the hands of their guests.
Oxford's courtesy to Harvard in this respect
was very marked and generous, and any
fears that our men will be backward in recip-
rocating are entirely groundless tom
Brown" has declined to stand as umpire in
I
attention of the committee to the fact that he
has not-as he did not in 1S69-in the inter-
national one
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

INTERNATIONAL CHESS PLAYING.-A corre-
spondent calls attention to the methods pro-
posed for assuring the success of the interna-
honal chess tournament at the Centennial Ex-
hibition. Without entering into the merits of
the question he considers, we may say that
the Philadelphia Chess Club will be held re-
and it seems reasonable that it should have
control of the preliminary arrangements
The New York herald., 1876-01-21
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.


BROOKLYN THEATRE.
CASTE, as p. M. Mr.. Montague.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE
ROSE MICHEL, At +. NJ
OLYMPIC THEATRE
VARIETY. atsP.M
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
rIQUE. AtSP. NJ Fanny Davenport
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE
VARIETY. at . +. NJ. Matinee at T.
EAGLE THEATRE
VARIETY. atsP NJ
GERMANIA THEATRE
GRoszsrAEDTIsCH, atsPM
BowERY THEATRE.
TIE PHOENIX at p NJ Milton NobleA
PARTISAN VARIETIES
VARIETY. at sPM NJ
BAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs. atsP.M
WOODS MUSEUM.
BEN MCCULLOUGH, at . L. NJ oliver Doud Byron
haslnee At 2 y. NJ.
GLOBE THEATRE
VARIETY. atsP.M
BOOTHS THRATRE.
JULIUS CESAR. at s P. NJ. Mr.. Lawrence Barrett.
THEATRE CoMIQUE
VARIETY. ateP.M.
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE
VARIETY, atsP NJ.
TIvoLI THEATRE.
VARIETY. atSP. NJ.
wALLACK's THEATRE
MARRIED In HASTE, at p. NJ Mr. Lester Wallack-
LYCEUM THEATRE.
La BoULB. MsP.M
COLOSSEUM
PANORAMA. to P. ~ and 30 20 10 p. NJ
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

The BRooKLYN SCANDAL has been famous
for its letters, and two more are added to the
batch in the correspondence published else
where between Mrs. Moulton and her coun-
sci, Judge Van Cott The Judges letter
points mysteriously to 1.-The unproduced
evidence that is known to exist" He can
not think, however, that it is Mrs. Moulton's
duty ito go Enthusiastically not just now"
He would leave Plymouth church to ga dis
trusting and portentous public opinion"
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

NJ BUFFET, the French Premier is carry
ing matters with pretty high hand just
now. In treating with contempt the remon-
strances of the Permanent Committee of the
Assembly against the influence the projects
were exercising over the elections he
showed his purpose little too soon !;
but his position was one from which
the committee could not drag him. He
knows very well that the committee is that
anomaly, live branch on q dead tree, and
has hardly an excuse for existence His marked
and defiant separation of the Executive
from the will of the power which appointed
him is unfortunately, nothing novel in
France, but it is also capable of retribution.
which is likely to be painless in proportion
to its provocation. The returns of the cleo
tions of Sunday come in slowly.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

MARITIME CAMPos is said to be moving
against the Carlists in Navarro. 1t is time we
heard that the Carlists were doing something.
They have had plenty of time for reorganizing
their affairs lately, and the mountains where
they most do operate are rather unfriendly to
their foes at this season of the year.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

The DEADLOCK in the Bavarian Chamber
will be removed, it is said, by dissolving the
Parliament The difficulties of the religious
question in Germany may be guessed from
complications like this. The Bavarian gov
eminent is not averse to receiving ''inspira-
lion" from Berlin. but the deputies elected
by the Bavarians object to making laws at
:he beck Of Prince Bismarck.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

REVOLT OF SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS against
the administration is lively item for the
opening canvass. Our Charleston corre-
spondent telegraphs us that convention
to be composed of such recalcitrant
republicans will be shortly called, and
that the effort will be made to wash their
hands free of the misgovernment which
has proceeded from Washington in the South
during the past eight years, and which has
taken eight republican States out of ten into
the democratic fold. This promises most
interesting campaign material Some at
t4ibute it to Mr. Blaine's ambition to kill off
Grant in his southern stronghold but we
scarcely expect to sec the ex-Speaker take SO
bold step as to father it
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

The Ice SUPPLY. We catch the means of
the ice man from all over the land because
the mercury is high in the tube Let him
possess his soul in patience winter is not
over yet for all that the peach trees down
South are blossoming.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

The CENTENNIAL. Elsewhere our Phila-
delphia correspondent describes the nature
Of the brilliant display which Germany will
make at the Exhibition.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

The CENTENNIAL APPROPRIATION DEBATE
progressed in the House of Representatives
yesterday, with Mr. Townsend. of New York,
and Mr.. Banks, Of Massachusetts,, in its
favor and Georgia democrat against it
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

The HERALD BY FAST MAIL TRAINS. -Ne1os-
dealers and the public ,oiH be supplied ,oith the
DAILY, WEEKLY and SUNDAY HERALD, free of
postage, by sending their orders direct to this
office
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

THE Evasion OF PERSONAL TAXES is good
subject for reform Governor, and the state-
ments made to Mr.. Tilden should be exam
ined by him without deby.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. AY.-Gold advanced
10 113 1-8 and closed at 49, Money on call
loaned at six per cent. Stocks were irregu-
lar and without significant change. Foreign
exchange was firmer.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21
WITH SUPPLE M E Mt
NEW YORK, FRIDAY. JANUARY 81, 1876.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
ure that the ,oedthcr to-day ,oiH be cold and partly
cloudy.
The New York herald., 1876-01-21
NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
The New York herald., 1876-01-21
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