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The New York herald., 1879-03-10
The Ashley Belt.

After O winter of almost countless foot
races there commenced at Gilmore's Gar
den, at one o'clock this morning, contest
which promises to easily outstrip them all
in the interest it will excite. The foremost
pedestrian in England, in trying to wrest
from OLeary the championship Of the
world, has, if report be true, no slight
ground on which to base his hopes. Conf
dent as O'Leary may be. if Rowell has
actually made five hundred and fifty miles
in one hundred and forty-two consecu-
tive hours, and can do it again this
week, he will stand ON excellent
chance of winning in this great
race. He seems to be the only man
who has thus far proved himself able to do
q tremendous distance on the first day and
still have enough left in him to make hard
fighting all the other five. Hughes and
Campana both followed this plan and alike
signally failed, yet it is claimed that Rowell
will do it and win. If he does it will go
far toward making jog-trotting the favorite
method in these long distance contests,
instead of the matchless heel and toe walk
ing of OLeary. If Rowell has no light
difficulty to contend with from being but
yet partially acclimatized, O'Leary hos no
less serious obstacles in having to battle
with two different sorts of Jobs comforters
at some time during his weary pilgrimage.
For it will be remembered how, in his race
with old "Sport," his heels so troubled him
as to need frequent pairing and other
medical aid. But he is liable also to an
noyance of serious sort, and one not
generally known. He says that more than
once in these arduous contests he has lost
an entire toe nail and has been forced in
consequence to put up with day or more
of decided pain. Now n toe nail is not q
great thing, but before Saturday night it
may prove, as 1t did with another nail now
famed in story, that for want of it the battle
was lost, ''and all for the want of that"
same toe nail.
To get q better idea Of the magnitude of
the task these four fellows are now so bravely
essaying and of what stuff they are made,
suppose Peralto, the peerless mustang rider,
mounted on the toughest horse America
could prod uce, had started with these sturdy
walkers at one o'clock. and had pushed that
The New York herald., 1879-03-10
New York's Future.

On site of peculiar adaptability for the
building of great city New York has
grown from being little Dutch trading
station to its present magnificent proper
tions. Compared with that of other great
cities the growth of New York has been
without parallel The past of the metropo-
lis having been remarkable one it is
reasonable to suppose that the inherited
energy and increased wealth of the popula-
tion will make the future one Of extraordi-
nary development. But, SO far as the build
is TO say, Manhattan Islands concerned,
we must recognize that certain interests Of
trade, manufacture, &C., have crystallized
around certain physical centres their pc
culiar structures, and that south of line
which may be drawn across the island at
Fifty-ninth street all the space allotted for
building is already occupied by buildings.
Therefore, while the future will probably
work great changes, and perhaps improve
ments, in the .built-up section of the city,
that which is yet unbroken ground and re-
tains much OF its original rudeness will be
the field ON which the refined taste, supe-
rior skill and increased wealth of the
architect, engineer and capitalist will be
iavished.
In our columns elsewhere this morning
will be found an article on "New York's
Future" which deals with the subject in a
very full and intelligent manner. To this
we add diagram of that region known. as
the western plateau of Manhattan Island,
on which is shown the general scheme
of improvement contemplated and
being carried out on the west side
of Central Park, and from Fitty-ninth
street to One Hundred and Thirty eighth
street. The Riverside Park, which utilizes
ON otherwise comparatively vnlueless strip
of ground and gives q symmetry to the up
town improvements of the city, is an i'm
portant feature of this we'll digested scheme.
The Morningside Park, which serves as
link between the two larger public pleasure
grounds. will become ga thing Of beauty
and JOY forever" to the future residents
OF the transformed wilds around 1T. Finally.
the Metropolitan and New York III" rail-
roads, running northward along Ninth ave-
nue. to One Hundred and Tenth street, and
thence into Eighth avenue, will guarantee
to the dwellers Of new centre of wealth
and luxury oil the advantages of rapid
transit. We have long insisted that New
York can become for the Western what
Paris is to the Eastern Continent Indeed,
it can become greater even than Paris by the
addition to its rank of commercial and inan-
cial capital that OF being the chief centre of
social and artistic progress of q continent.
This accomplished, no other city in the
world can compare with New York, for she
will be perfect in every sense as centre of
civilizafion
The New York herald., 1879-03-10
ssFair Play ON the Chatham Square
Crossing.


We publish elsewhere to-day communi-
cation signed Fair Play" which is an ar
gument in favor of the use of crossings
guarded by patent interlocking switches,
signals, experienced vigilance and other
unlikely things The writer cites
number of cases wherein crossings are
used by many hundreds of trains daily,
and with safety, due to system
of safeguards which he pronounces per-
feet. We are quite willing to admit that
mechanical engineering is quite equal to
the reduction of the measure of danger on
surface railroad and near terminal station,
such as that Mt Cannon street, London, to
very low minimum. That is to say, we be-
lieve q system of switches and signals
can be so organized as to prevent col
lisions on such surface road as our
correspondent describes, provided an
equally perfect system of supervision by
railroad employees is applied to its opera
tion. But, unfortunately, the history of
railroads is filed with instances where just
nt the wrong moment some otherwise un-
important detail of supervision is neglected,
and the authors of the system of mechanical
safeguards are astonished to find on what
q slender thread of good luck they have
been calculating the probabilities of safety.
The mere fact that such extraordinary and
complicated arrangements to insure safety
are deemed necessary for n certain point
on n railroad Is full admission that there
is dangerous point to be guarded, and as
the employment of inanimate matter'as an
agent in securing safety depends on human
intelligence and vigilance it follows that, no
matter how perfect the machinery of safety
may be, its operation for its purpose
is governed always by that often unreliable
human machine, the railroad einploye.
Applying the most perfect system of
switches and signals to an elevated railroad
crossing is to increase the chances of dis
aster to a value out of all proportion to
those for surface road. Even If patent
switch is misplaced by ''accident" on a
surface road the worst that may happen is
a collision in which the loss of life would
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

Congress may constitutionally make paper
promises to pay legal tender in time OF
peace; if it is true that the constitution
authorized the federal government not
merely to coin money, but as General Butler
asserts to make money, it is better we
should all know this as soon as possible,
and argue with the greenbackers and fiat
money people on a definite and not on
vague and uncertain basis. If, on the
other hand, as we believe, the con-
stitution gives and was intended to
give no such dangerous and fatal
powers to Congress or the federal govern
ment, then it is of the utmost importance
that this should be known as soon as possi-
BILE, on the highest authority, so that oil
controversy on the question may cease and
the country have rest and relief from the
threat of imitation which has so long turned
honest enterprises into gambling transac-
tions. Hence we regard this attempt
at settlement as one of the most
important events of the day, however
unwelcome it may be to the tribe of poll
ticians. For il is clear and undeniable that
SO long as men are able to assert that Con-
gress has the constitutional power to make
its promises to pay q legal tender and to
order the continued issue of such legal
tender notes, so long every Congress that
meets will be moved to increase or diminish
the volume of such notes. and at every ses-
sion the country will be threatened with
a change in the value or price of every
product and we shall be subject to per-
petual arrangement of all our industries.
The New York herald., 1879-03-10
Oriental Meanderings.

If the public most enjoys to hear Of that
which to it is most unfamiliar the letters
which we print to-day from our corre-
spondent with President Grants party in
the East will be voted specially interesting.
Volcanoes, three famous specimens of which
are alluded to, are not numbered among
our native luxuries at any time, and soft
skies and Yachting water are about as in
visible at present. Then there is reference
to great country where the sound of the
omnibus is not heard in the land and rail-
way trains pay no moro attention to time
tables than if the distance they have to cover
were reckoned only in Bridgeport miles. The
ex-commander of our national armies has
been crossing the lines of another famous
campaigner-one Moses-who, forty CEN
turies ago, placed the Red Sea between
himself and the enemy, and did it without
any pontoon train, either, or any detach-
ment of bridge builders, though his plan
of crossing failed, upon subsequent trial,
to meet the approval of the enemy's en-
gneers. We read, too, of sun which is
explaining to the voyagers the mystery of
the Oriental complexion, and this while
our readers in New York are strongly in
disposed to accept sunshine as q substitute
for stoves and hot air registers. The tour
lists even saw Mount Sinai. q place once
famous as source of law, though how it
may now be regarded by generation that
has experienced Washington and Albany
yearly or oftener we shrink from contem-
,,lafipo
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

horse to his utmost throughout the whole
long week. does any one believe that the
horse would be in first at the goal; or that,
if the four are as good as they are claimed
to be, they would not all beat him? No
wonder, then, that the splendid race now
going on is proving we'll worth seeing.
The New York herald., 1879-03-10
TRIPLE SH e d T
NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1879

The probabilities are that the ,ceather IL. Ne,c
York and its rieinity today ,ciN be ,carm and
partly cloudy. Tomorrow II ,ciH be cooler and
elearir1.
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

SEVEN BAPTIST CONVERTS showed the faith that
was in them yesterday by plunging into a stream
near Deckertown, N. j. A large hole had to be
cut in the ice for the purpose.
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

No INTELLIGENCE has yet been received from
the fourteen fishing vessels that left Gloucester
just before the severe gales of last month. 1t
is feared that the boats and all on board were
Lost
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

WADE HAMPTON has got the better of that
mule He is now so far recovered that he is
able to give his views on current questions and
to think of taking his seat at the extra session
of the Senate
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

SEVERAL THOUSAND PERSONS were present in
Glmore's Garden Mt one o'clock this morning
when the four contestants in the international
walking match started on their long tramp. The
match promises to be the most exciting ever
held in this country, and the progress of the pc
destrians will be one of the chief subjects of
conversation until next Saturday evening, when
IL comes to an end.
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

THE WEATHER.-The depression is now NOV
ing over the lakes toward the st. Lawrence Val
Icy Its influence extends into the Central Mis-
sissippi Valley and from the Northern Missouri
River to the New England boundary line. Owing
to the great uniformity Of temperature in the
central valley and. lake districts the rainfall
that attends the disturbance on its southern
margin has been light. On the Middle Atlantic
md New England coasts the precipitation was
more general, because the warm southerly and
southwesterly winds came in contact with the
cold that overlies the northeastern districts.
The area of high barometer extends over the At
lantic and Eastern Gulf coasts but the pressure
is falling steadily north of Cape Hattcras, and
will be below the mean this afternoon. The
dcpression's course will be so far to the
north that the weather in our district
will not be very much affected during its pass
nge-that is TO say, we are not likely to ex-
pericnce the heavy rains that will fall when tho
nutre Of the disturbance nears the ocean. The
Winds, however, will probably increase during
to-day "a steep gradients will be formed by tho
rctarding influence of the high pressure on the
coast. The weather on the northern New Eng
land and Nova Scotia coasts will be stormy to-
night and tomorrow, during which time the
centre of tho disturbance will pass over the
Gulf Of st. Lawrence into the ocean. Another
thunder storm passed over Canada last night.
The weather has been clear in all the districts
except in the Central and Northern Mississippi
valleys and the northern lake regions. Morn
ing fogs prevailed on the South Atlantic
const. The winds have been brisk throughout
the country except on the South and Middle
Atlantic coasts. On the lakes they are increasing
somewhat. A decided rise in temperature oc-
cured in the Middle Atlantic and New England
States. II remained nearly stationary elsewhere.
The rains continue in California, but are not so
heavy. The streams are swollen and heavy
SHOWS blockade the railroads in the mountains.
Tie weather over the British Islands is overcast
aud threatening. The weather in New York and
its vicinity to-day will he warm and partly
cloudy. Tomorrow IL will be cooler and clearing
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

Ex-PREsIDENT IMAGINATION is reported as hav-
ing declared that if the Chambers decide upon
impeachment he will demand to be placed on
trial with the Minister'S. If true this decara-
ton is more chivalric than prudent on the part
of the Marshal. Frenchmen sometimes have IN
uncomfortable way of taking their rulers and
ex-rulers Mt their word. Paris is O little more
pleasant than New Caledonia.
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

THE SERMONS YESTERDAY were, n rule, of
the old fashioned order. Mr.. Beecher explained
the ninth chapter of Romans and the objective
point of Pauls preaching; DR.. Hcpworth de-
scrbcd the Kingdom of Christ and DIR. Armi-
tage gave his ideas of Satan and his attributes.
The humanity of Christ was enlarged upon by
the Rev. Mr.. King, and the poetry and prose Of
q spiritual life by Father Langcake. Mr. Tal-
mage pronounced the doom of sectaransn,
while Mr.. rockingham selected as his theme
the Press" which he discussed in a broad and
intelligent sprit.
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

COMMON FAME was busy yesterday with the
Brooklyn Presbytery committee which is
charged with the investigation of the Talmage
case. The prevailing opinion appears to be
that it will recommend that the charges against
the Tabernacle pastor be dropped, which would
certainly be the wiser course
The New York herald., 1879-03-10

ALTHOUGH one-half the session Of the Legis-
lature has passed away not single one of the
many bills aimed in the interest of the public,
at the great corporations has yet been acted upon
or even come out Of committee. The lobby ap-
pears to have things its own way at Albany.
The New York herald., 1879-03-10
WADE HAMPTON.

GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONDITION or
THE sENAToR-PRosPECr OF HIS ATTENDING
THE EXTRA sEssIoN-vIEvs on PBoAIN1xR
ouEgrIONS
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-17
The Hungry south.

n \, Tribune. t.
Yes, hungry as well as solid. Indeed,
the South is solid mainly because it is
very hungry. When any decent man
protests against the bulldozlng and fraud,
the tissue.ballots, the systematic assassina-
ton and the wholesale massacre by which
the South has been made solid, there are
Southern citizens who whisper, one to an
other, ''We must have the votes in Con-
gress, or we cannot get through our Jobs
or collect eur claims" Tho whole South.
ern country is overgrown' with these de.
mands upon the Treasury, which spring
up with more luxuriant growth than any
other class Of weeds, and are harder TO
kill. 1t is not an easy matter to extermi.
nate the Canada thistle, but II can be
done. Nobody has yet discovered any
way oil eXterminating the more miSchiev.
GUS and obstinate weeds known as
Southern claims. Some time ago the
Tribune gave ~ startling summary
oithe claims and Jobs (which theiSolid
South had up TO that time presented, but
expressed the belief thai the number and
amount Of these demands upon the
Treasury. would be enormously increased
II the South should get controioi the Gov.
eminent. At the last session the Solid
South considered itself sure. 5Itheld th(
House. 1t entered into control ot.tht
Senate. It felt sure OF electing the mex
President, and was, therefore, confden
THAT its measures would not only pas
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-17

NEw YORK, October 49, Cotton-Steady at
lO3SGlOAc; futures firm. Fourth fair de-
mand: receipts 1909 barrels; superfne west.
cru and State S. 26aG on; common 10 good
s. S5a6 0O; good tn choice SO lOa7 rs: white
wheat extra IS 75a6 70; extra Olio so GOAT "a:
St. Louis IS 5Oa7 go: Minnesota patent pro.
CeAs 81 25AS 10. Wheat-suong; receipis
2IS0OG bushels: rejected spring $ll5; un-
graded spring 81 S9al $50; No. 8 spring 81 IS
al 80; No. do 81 40Hal Il; ungrldCd win
TERED 81 4lal ASK; No 2Sl 4SaI OIL; mixed
winter 81 47al 49,; nngraded amber 81 40a
| ID; No. amber 81 47Al 40: ungraded white
81 4S; No 2 do S. 40; No l do, sales of So
600 bushels at 81 4sal so; No 2 red October.
sales OF $4,000 bushels at 81 4Skal 81; No.
venber, sales Of 1900 Bushels at 81 50a
! 63: December, sales Of 100000 bushels at
81 63Hal 5SA. Rye-Firmer; western 0Oc
Corn-Demand aclve; receipts 2I4,OO0 bush.
els ungrAded Gael 1Ic atlOat; No. 2 October
6lNc; November 62Aa623c; December Ola
4%c; store 6la6l Y, 0AtS-Moderate trade :;
receipts q, 900 bushels; western mixed 4Oa4Sc;
white western 4ia46c. Hay-Firm and un.
changed. Hop,-Nominally unchanged
Golee Firm. sugar-Quiet but firm fair to
good refining fHa7Nc. NJ ,la>ses-Quiet but
lirm: Steady; Petr0leum-Firm; Uni
1ed S61Sa0Oc; crude 6hs7hc; refined Ike
Tallow-Steady at 6Na5Hc Ro,in-QuiOt
and unchanged: Turpentine-Firm at SEA
32}Sc. Eggs-Western quiet and unchanged
Gut meats-Qniet and nominal. Lard
Strong; prime SO 37IEa6 30. Butter Firm:
western lOa27c Cheese-Firm at 71Sal2c.
WhSEy-$1 y bid, 81 Is asked.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-17
PUCK FOXES SHAKESPEARE AT TIL
THIRD TERN.


N6W lOrk fuck.
KINu ULYSSES L-TERu III.
People, hOOiINNI, Eit.
Hall Hall lsIng live the kingl
Mug Uiyi5es ]. lIrdGsiHg LhS pkaNk).
Right BiAd aIe We
To tread again our realm; " see our subjects
Loyal unit UuG person aud our cause
Eagor " render low ObeiSaucstO
That strange divinity that doth hedge king.
Our absence hath been much prolonged but stores
" knowledge gAlhtd 10 inUnGTUhies Gillette
WI help US make our kingdom more like them:
Avoiding that wherein the, have done we'll
We now will initiate what they do III.
Somewhat We feared, while We sUjVuFaed abroad,
That temporal Affairs within our realm
Might fuller; but, tepOsInR special trust
In our beloved, tue shreWl aud blalWArt lIoscye,
And In the trusty aud efficient Blaine,
We thought 10 'SCapH awhile the cares Of state.
AZ last We have returned, TANNER but well,
Anxious aud litter TO rtBumO our throne.
EnteT Page H. II. "
llithCr, our Page! Each rage helps make rOal)m,
The Ink thou st flung wound iOal the shin VI ttatel
uuf himble Fagel Cunt read rs we'll ~ wrlte2
What say our letters waiting Aimee last MRyH
Page OR, "
Alas! bad news your Majesty; tue tidlnsS are
The while sir ltOsyoe did IN futile dallanee
Forget bis knlghtlY fame, was fought aud lott
The battle VI s. Praguei aud worse the RnIble BlaD
ana he make common cause leach for himSslG
AgAlns, your Majesty aud, while In tue Eat
EhtH plot their IreacheFy, tbs West country
u thrown into tumull by the USuTper Hayes
Y no makes the people promises, aud seeks
10 seat htmseit again upon your throne.
RiAg Ug6IeS l.
la! Say they 90? Our realm cut Into schnl(ls
Ny ChildS and what Of hIm2 Write " our Herald:
Let him announce that soon shall We 70 East,
MeanWhile wei show ourAell to yOnder IhrOnR,
And, while the ioy-bells ring we'll ponder what
Cautious and we'll planned scheme aud action Dromp
VII! best advance our righteous cause, and swiit
Confusion bring to I'LL our GnGlnIe.
DsaHiJ RearHey
| am present, l; but-HiSti liza! ilol Keen shady.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-17

BALTIMORE, October 16-Flour-HiGher
and active; western snpcrilne IS 90; extra
$40; family SO 75a7 So Wheat Western
active, excited and higher; No. Q western
winter red, spot and October 81 81 %al 81 II;
November 81 62ASal 81; December 81 5ia
l54k. Corn-M estern Fctive and higher |;
western mixed, sput and October, e6a68@c |;
November, 6ia65c; December and steamer no
bid. oats-Firm and higher; western white
42a45c: do mixed 39i4Oc: Pennsylvania 42a4uc.
Rye-Higher at Csc. Hay-Flrm; prime To
choice Pennsylvania SlSal6 per ton. Proyi!
saIons-Firm, active and unclaimed Butter
Ia Egs@Ictiye ' at i7c s PstToga nso 5gs
changed. CofTee-Fifm; Rio cargoes l3al 8IIc.
sugaF-strong; A soft SSSas}Sc, Whisky
Firm at 81 llall2. az
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-17

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