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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
A Batch OF Execu lions.

The hangman reaped pretty good har-
vest yesterday. In all there were five exc
cutions-two in Delaware and three in
Georgia-the victims being in every case
colored men. The crime for which the Del
aware criminals were executed was the vulgar
and by no means uncommon one of an out
rage upon o woman, which, under the laws
of that stern little State, is capital offence.
Public opinion seems to have been divided
upon the question of their guilt but the
representations made to the Governor failed
to convince him of their innocence, and if
he had any doubt on the subject
he gave society, and not the Grim
inals, the benefit of it by ordering
their execution. In the case of the
Georgia convicts there can be little doubt
that they richly merited the fate they met
Their crime was an aggravated one-the
murder of poor widow with whom they
had some dispute about land. They were
brothers, and 80 clear were the proofs
against them that repeated trials resulted
only in conviction. Pending sentence they
escaped from Jail, and for four months sue
ceeded in eluding their pursuers in the
woods and swamps, where they almost
starved to death. Life is held very cheaply
in many Of the Southern States, not only
among the blacks. but among the lower
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23


Spiritualism is in theory pretty thing,
but in practice it is generally absurd. After
it's devotees have sat in darkened rooms for
hours, and dim and shadowy beings have
been floating about. and the true believer
has told the doubter that what the Witch of
Endor did for Saul the medium was doing
for them-only that and nothing more-it
has turned out that some vulgar Snowman,
aided by trapdoors, theatrical properties,
cheek and accomplices was the author OF the
manifestations" Still the true Spiritualist
departs like the ghost of Hamlet's father,
''more in sorrow than in anger" meeting
the sneers of the world with the as
surance that ''there is more in heaven
and earth than is dreamed Of in your
philosophy" He will admit that what
he believed to be n spirit Of light
was only goblin slammed, but he will
hug ghosts and ghostesses to his heart of
hearts and bide his time. He got his op-
portunity this week. 1t was none Of your
hole and corner cabinet ghosts exhibited at
n dollar head, but ghost that haunted
whole New York ward-the ward of John
Kelly aud James O'Brien-the ward Of Cor
oner Croker. It was disembodied watch
man they knew him by his seedy clothes
and his lantern, as the Athenians knew
Diogenes. What was he after, sweeping
down by the East River in the pale green
rays of the moon? In life it had been his
practice to awaken early risers, and it was
thought he was now going to keep it up
and tug ut bells and pound on fourth floor
shutters and tap on dormer window panes,
and do it not merely for his old customers,
but Tor the whole ward. But he did
not. Ho held up his lantern and peered
about, as we'll as his actions could
be made out in the pale green moon
light. Ha! it was the old Athenian
cynic himself, looking around the Twenty
first ward for his "honest man." 1t was
confidently predicted where he would go ON
this errand by the Twenty first warders, and
we grieve to add that the savings bank pres
idents and politicians of the entire city went
up every night in the hope Of being selected
by the old ghost. But it was soon evident
that the ghost was not on that mission, and
then the coroners began to think that there
should be fee in it somewhere. II there
was ghost he must have lett O body behind
him, and the coroners all declared If they
could get that they would ''sit" on it. The
Spritualists wero agog at the thought Of o
mans ghost giving evidence under oath at
his own inquest. A general police alarm
was sent out, "Arrest the ghost Of a man
with lantern" but instead of this they
brought in log with some tattered clothing
and lantern fastened to it. The unbeliev-
ers say the log was the ghost, but the Spirit
ualists shake their long hairs and say the
ghost is still at large and that the log is a
weak invention Of tho baflled police. Which
ore right?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
Holding the Elevated Railroads
the Charter Obiigat ions. T.

Holding the Elevated Railroads to
the Charter Obligations.
The recent exposures of the HERALD of a
contemplated bargain between the New
York Elevated Railroad and the Gilbert
Elevated Railroad for combining their in
terests and creating a monopoly has at
tracted the attention of the Legislature,
and we have strong hopes that the plot will
be foiled. A resolution was offered
in the Assembly yesterday by Mr..
Wilson, and adopted, instructing the
Committee on Railroads to investigate
this subject and report what further legsla-
ton is necessary for holding the roads to
the requirements of their charters. We
have no doubt that the investigation which
has been ordered will defeat the plans of
the monopolists. It will be the duty Of the
committee to summon the chief officers of
projects against the public will not bear the
light it is probable that the concocters
of this plot will make haste to renounce
it. The resolution adopted by the Assembly
yesterday attests the value Of vigilant pub
lie press, which acts as o sentinel Of the
people and sounds IN alarm-at the first ap-
proach of danger. We trust that no polite
disclaimers on the part of the monopolists,
when they appear before the committee to
testify, will prevent the enactment Of q law
which will give the city complete security
against n revival of the project after the
Legislature has adjourned. Soulless cor.
porations. even when their enterprises are
praiseworthy, will bear good deal Of watch.
ing, and they should be held to strict per-
Torrance of their obligations.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
"The Principle or Arbitration"

In conn ection with the Halifax award
precious bit of sentimentalism has gained
currency to the effect that we ought to pay
the extortionate award lest our refusal
should discourage the practice of settling
international differences by arbitration.
This argument is equally verdant and shall
low. Nothing can cause courts Of arbitra-
ton to be held in honor but the fairness Of
their composition and the equity of their
decisions. If the parties bind themselves
to accept mi ustice with the same prompt
alacrity ns justice; if the packing OF
commission and the exorbitance Of an
award is to make no difference and
can justify no complaint, this method OF
settling disputes will lose all hold on the
the decision of q tribunal is binding cannot
recommend it. The decisions of the old
Tammany Ring judges were binding on
suitors, but that circumstance only made
them more odious The only things that
can make any tribunal respectable, or even
tolerable, are the honesty OF it's composition
and the equity Of its judgments. The fact
that they are binding and irreversible is
not q recon m len dation but the strongest Of
objections, if they bind the parties to sub
NIT to manifest injustice.
We shall probably pay the Halifax award.
We shall not pay it because the government
or citizens of the United States think i.
reasonable or just, but only because we are
unwilling to have the national character for
good faith called in question when there
are colorado reasons for maintaining that
we bound ourselves by compact to submit
alike to just or IN unjust judgment of the
tribunal. Our national pride may re-
strain us from repudiating o bargain,
even though we may think ourselves
overreached and swindled but vol
untary submission to injustice, instead
of strengthening our attachment to arbitra-
ton, will increase our repugnance to get
ting caught in such predicament again.
"rhe principle Of arbitration" can be made
acceptable to nations only by the absence
of all trickery in selecting the arbitrators
and the scrupulous equity of their awards.
Even President Woolsey, who maintains
that we have no choice but to pay, stigma
tizes the Halifax award MS 'inordinate."
We may be bound by the treaty to pay, but
we did not relinquish our right to scrutinize
and protest.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Dan Rice Is In Arkansas.
Cackling men usually marry q Growing hon.
The Georgia negro says ''Get thee to hem
ncry.'
In Arizona many mines named after Confederate
generals
Spaniard makes cigarette papers OF water cresses
They are said to be very hoalthtuL
Governor Emory, Of Utah, Is In Washington, and
had M interview with tho President yesterday.
Hero Is Delaware newspaper which secs in the
future only the figure OF Grant on horseback the head
OF q new dynasty.
IL must always be remembered that Mr.. Blaine Is o
Maine man only by adoption He camo from Penn
sylvana and mis- ancestors lighters In tho Revo-
Iution.
In tho new drinking fountains for Paris, OF which
large number are In course of preparation, special
arrangement at the foot provides for the wants Of
thirsty dogs
Az a fashionable wedding in London tho seven
bridesmaids woro dresses OF ruby velvet la prin-
cesse gold lace collars and vevot hats OF tho
Same coiors, with ostrich feathers.
The statement that Mr.. Beard, OF New York, pre-
scented an alegorica picture Earl Rosebery and his
bride Is incorrect Tho painting presented by
Mr. Samuel Ward, Of this city, and was from the
brush OF Mr. Albert B,ersiadt.
General W. s. Hancock has been inspecting the
troops Atlanta, and tho Contribution OF that town
calls him "hs bravos Of federal soldiers and says
moreover :-"wo who fought against him respect him.
and that makes him hero"
The Cincinnati Enquirer, speaking OF the value Of
properly Ohio, says that there Is nearly hall hog
for every man, woman and child. But VIC thought
that since the rush for government appointments
everybody In Ohio wanted tho whole hog.
The parents OF Senator Edmunds were poor, and
life has mover with his temperament which exacts as
much from himself as IL docs from others. been very
easy with him. He has been hail-iellow, but
he Is one the very great Americans OF our gen.
GRAFTON.
Mr.. Hayes. wnen boy, was never known 10 crawl
under the shady of circus tent; never got be-
hind q fence and drank up half tho milk his mother
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
PETER CooPER's NEW PROJECT.

Tho we'll known phanthropist leaves New York
mex. TUESDAY, accompanied BY his daughter, Mrs.
Hewitt, for trip to the South. The principal objset
of his VISIT before stated In tho HERALD sto vlcv
the beautiful Of country and spartans-
burg S. c. for the purpose Of purchasing about sshs
hundred acres of land, including several large buiid
ings known Limestone springs, where he purposss
daughters of tho South. Although this projecs
does not contemplate excluding our Northern girls,
II they choose TO avail themselves Of III
advantages, Mr. Cooper said to HERALD reporter
last evening that his plan was for all the pupils to
pay their own board aud deiray thor personal ex-
penscs while the instruction, Of the most liberal
character should be free He added that II would Do
time before bis scheme could DO In active opera
ton, even II he mndo tho purchase contemplated.
HIS stay In tho south will be OF uncertain Duration
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

The German priest who was found guilty
of murder in the first degree at the end OF
his second trial, yesterday, at Philadelphia,
points a sad moral Of the restraint upon
temper which should never be relaxed.
Here we find Blasius Pistorius. man In
holy orders, o scholar and u linguist, so far
forgetful of his holy calling and his human
duty as to shoot down Isaac Jaquette, the
neighbor Of his brother, because Jaquette's
cows were brought to a certain creek for
water. OF what use are all the literary ac-
compliments in the world if the man who
attains them has never learned how to bear
and forbear? When the intellect is assidu-
ously cultivated and the garden OF the soul
LETT to such rank growths that the Gospel
seed is choked and strangled in it's effort to
grow into golden ears OF the wheat that makes
the moral bread of life we behold the sad
picture of civilization and progress self
stultified The browning glory of intellec-
tual progress in all ages has been that it
walked side by side with morality. In the
ordinary halfsavage murderer who, per-
haps first realizes the law of mutual for
bearance which is at the foundation OF
society in the stern grip with which he, its
fragrant transgressor, is held, we allow q
certain pity that civilization has shed so
dim light upon his mind to temper our
horror of his act. What sadness, then,
should come to US when one who must
have keenly studied all the lessons OF the
mild Saviours life, who must have preached
them to others, should be found by rash
act in the ranks of the murderous wretchcs
who never heard an echo even of the thun-
der on Mount Sinai, or who never had been
taught the simple and touching lessons of
the Lords Prayer. Civilization and religion
should weep over the spectacle OF Blasius
Pistorius, the priest and scholar, in the
condemned murderer's cell.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
popular ballad concert Is 10 be given on Tuesday
evening next at Stcnway Hall. in which the Apollo
Club and Miss henrietta Beebe will take part
An immense audience assembled last evening at the
Brooklyn Academy OF Ausio 10 Jarrett paImsr's
spectacular revival OF "Unclo Toms Cabin" The
songs OF the Jubilee Singers and tho woll-knowA
scenes OF the play were received with apparent de.
light The piece is to be repeated this afternoon and
evening.
A novelty In circus parades will be o denomination
BY the Great London Show through the principal
thorous TINS evening, with the aid Of torch and
calcium lights. Thors will be any number Of kn,ghta
armor, hundreds OF illuminated animal cageS
grotesquo Mardgras figures and other features. The
route includes Madison avenue. Tweny third street.
Filth avenue, For.y-secoud street, Eighth avenue
Hudson, Canal, Bowery, Third avenue, Forty-ssconA
street, Madison avenue, to Glmorc's CARBON. The
opening takes place Monday evening a.t
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

THE LATEST BLASTING ACCIDENT occurred in
East Eighty-seventh street, near Fourth av-
enue. The lawful regulations were carefully
observed that the rock in fragments smashed
through the windows of school in session on
the opposite side of the street. That lives were
not lost or serious injuries inflicted was not the
fault of the blasters. This is u case where the
police might arrest somebody. The school prin-
cipal should make complaint before police
mneistratc.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

sent MIN for never dog ont hall the inside Of warm
loaf OF bread on his way homo from the bakers; IN
fact, ne never did any thing but be good
Captain Hme. Royal Artillery has dcduced from
practical experience a simple rule for determining
the difference Of lcvol OF the shells OF . gun whom
gun is In action on uneven ground. "Fiud BY the
clnometer the inclination OF the horizontal line on
Of tho muzze OF tho gun; the inclination OF
this line degrees equal 10 the difference In height
OF tho wheels In inchos.n
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
A LITERARY ENTERTAINMENT.

An entertainment was last night given in the large
hall OF the College OF the CITY Of New York by the
Phrenocosmian and CIionian Literary Societies
neced with the institution. Tho main feature Of the
programme a debate as TO whether the sphere Of
government should DO widencd as civilization ad.
vances Mr.. Whitolaw Reid Aclod referee, aud
with few appropriate remarks presented to the
winner prize, consisting of Emersou's WORKS. In ton
volumes TIE College orchestra, undor direction of
Mr. o. b. Weber, rendered some difhcult selections
from ssTannhauscr' in pleasing manner
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
JAMES ROSS sxowDEN

James Ross Snowden died on Thursday afternoon
ut Humevie, Bucks county, Pa, aged sixty-eisbt
years Ho was prominently connected with the AZ.
fairs OF Pennsylvania having repeatedly been elected
to the Legislature whore be served two forms IN tae
Speakers chair. He subsequently, filled the positions
OF state Treasurer, Treasurer OF tho United Stxtss
Mint, and Assistant Treasurer OF the United States
at Philadelphia In 1888 he was appointed director
of the United States Mint nnd held that position until
1881 OF late years he had devoted himself 70 ltsers.
ture anu SCIENCE and several works on numsmasoogy
are published over his signature ....... j. ...-. -
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was active and feverish, showing decline
In the morning and strong rally in the after
noon. Gold opened at 1O1 ls and closed at 1O1.
Government bonds were firm, States steady
and railroads quiet Money on call was easy at
Al per cent, closing at 3 per cent
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WITH SUPPLEM Mt.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY. MARCH 80, 1878.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ADvERTIsERs.-Io
Insure the proper classification Of advertisements
tits absolutely necessary that they he handed il.
before eight o'clock erery erening.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

The probabilities are fhat the arcather IN Neso
York and It's ricinity today sciH be scarner and
fair or partly cloudy. Tomorrow il wiH be soarn,
and partly cloudy or cloudy, sciM increasing
eciuds
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

Ar THE CONFERENCE yesterday between Mr..
Ewing and Mr. Chit,enden, representatives of
the Banking and Currency Committee, and
some of our prominent Bankers it was stated
that seventy-fve million dollars worth OF our
bonds have been returned from Europe since the
agitation of the silver question. This ought to
satisfy Mr.. Ewing and his friends that it is time
70 stOD
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

LIBERIA, the Washington colored men say, is
; Southern snare and delusion They propose
to 70 West.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

THE RHODE ISLAND democrats went through
the barren forlnality yesterday Of nominating u
State ticket.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

THE STORY in another column of Minnie Wat
Don, who is probably one of the most expert
female thieves in the country, is after all sad
one. worthless husband has lived Oh the pro-
cecds Of her crime, doing nothing toward her
support 1t is pity he cannot be sent with her
10 the Penitentary.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23
OBITUARY..

DE-. ALFRED HENRY CoLLINo.
Dr. Alfred Henry Colling, a prominent citizen Of
Utica, and member OF the Now York Dental Society,"
died at midnight on Thursday, aged hfty-iour yeara
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

class of the white population, and it is only
by rigidly and sternly enforcing the law as
it has been enforced in the case of these fve
unfortunate men that VIC can hope for
better and more orderly condition OF So
ciety.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

Our METROPOLITAN BIRDS have at last won q
victory. They have badly whipped the Long
lslnnd chickens
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

BoGARpus was beaten by the birds yesterday.
He undertook to kill eighty-fve out OF one hum
ared but fell short twenty-five.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

The REVIEW Of the years business by the
Produce Exchange shows very healthy con-
dltion of our foreign commerce. Since the open
ing of the Erie Canal in 1925 one hundred and
seventy million tons of property have been
brought through it to the city.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

THE WEATHER.-The depression which over
lay New Brunswick and Newfoundland during
the past few days has entirely passed off the
barometer, which, like the former one, has de-
seconded from the north-northwest after tr.vcrs-
Ing the region between the st. Lawrence
Valley and Hudson's Bay. The marked
influence Of the local temperatures and atmos-
phcric humidity due to the Gulf Stream
are shown in this peculiar development OF
low prcssurcs over and off the British Atlantic
coasts. Another depression has moved from
Montana eastward into Manitoba and Northern
Minnesota. The depression moving through
tho Gulf has now reached Florida and is passing
over that region attended 10y rains and high
winds. The barometer is relatively low north
ward through the Mississippi Valley to Missouri
and Tho Lower Ohio River. The pressure
changed yesterday rapidly over the districts
east Of the Mississippi, dssipating more or less
tile threatening conditions of the previous even
ing and night. In the West and Northwest, as
we'll ~ in the Southwest, the temperatures have
risen very decidedly, giving the highest records
for considerable areas that have been noted this
year. Local storms will probably occur in the
West and Northwest. On the Northeast coast
and generally southwark to New York the tenn
pcraturcs have been low and snow Is reported
off the coast by vessels arriving last night. The
weather in New York and its vicinity to-day
will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy. To-
morrow it will DO warm and partly cloudy or
cloudy, with increasing winds.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-23

OLEARY, ''THE AMERICAN PEDESTRIAN" who
is SO gallantly carrying the Stars and Stripes to
the front in the great international walking
match in London, is a Corkonian, having been
born in the county Of Cork, in the State Of
Ireland, in the year 1916. good deal has
been said about the quality of the leather in his
boots, but O'Leary himself depends upon the
toughness of his Cork soles. The contest now
lies between OLeary and Vaughan, with every
prospect Of the American" coming in ahead.
At midnight OLeary had made 457 miles,
against AL accomplished by his opponent
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of his power, dignity and prestige,
should court such intercourse, as
giving him facilities for influencing
Legislation in the public interest. There
can be no doubt that Secretary Sherman
has, by his frankncss and urbanity, headed
off and defeated great deal of wild and
mischievous legislation, and if his recent
action is right the theory on which Presi-
dent Hayes has been trying to conduct his
administration is wrong There ought to
be cordial cooperation between the great
departments of the government, and every
thing will 60 wrong when they maintain
toward each other IN attitude of distrust
and defiance.
It accords with common sense that the
Executive and Congress should be on terms
OF easy and pleasant intercourse. When
Senator Sumner was deposed from his posi-
ton as chairman Of the Committee OF
Foreign Relations because friendly inter-
course mad been interrupted between him
and the President and Secretary of State
there WAS tacit recognition of the kind Of
intercourse which should subsist between
the administration and Congress. Instead
OF frowning and scowling upon each other,
instead of magnifying the separation of
their functions and standing upon
jealous and naughty dignity, it was
thought expedient that their intercourse
should be cordial and mutually helpful
This is unquestionably the true footing
on which the Executive and Congress
should stand toward each other. Mr..
Hayes practice is an innovation which lis
more honored in the breach than the OBJ
servance." We are glad that Mr.. Sherman
has SO conspicuously deviated from 1t, and
hope that his action foretokens general
change in the same direction.