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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-28

The probabilities are that The sceather IN Neso
York and its rieinity today wiH be sra''m, ,cith
rain and possibly brisk ,cinds. Tomorrow 1t
riH be slightly colder and clearing.
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SENIOR LEON DE la COY

Leon dc In Cova. the Venezuelan Consul at phils-
delphia. died ON Sunday, after short illness.
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TRIPLE SH e e II H..

NEW YORK. TUESDAY. JANUARY 2s; 1879.
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The Royal wooing by Telephone.

The wooing conducted by telephone be-
tween the young King Of Spain in his
stately palace in Madrid and the Arch
miles distant, is picturesque illustration
of the practical applications Of modern
science. It seems only the other day that
the capacities of this necromantic little
continuance were first exhibited in the Ole
town of Salem, and already its use has
spread throughout the world and made for
tunes for the inventors and their early ASSOC
ciates almost as magical as the instrument
itself 1t was a very appropriate place for
the first public display of the telephone
that old town where the Puritans hanged
witches and pressed to death Giles
Cory, whom Longfellow has COM
memorated in one Of his dramatic
poems. If the spirits of any of those un-
happy martyrs of superstition were hover
ing about the spot they must have felt
themselves avenged by heholding the de-
scendants OF their judges and executioners
in the admiring audiences; and still more
satisfaction, ifpossible, must the ghosts of
the victims Of the Inquisition take in hear
ing Spanish king whisper love messages
into u machine the possession of which his
ancestors and their Dominican inquisitors
would have deemed ample cause for sem
tence to the stake But if pair may WOO
by telephone, why may they not marry by
the same? And if they may marry by tele-
phone, and the wire happens to stretch be-
tween conflicting jurisdictions. what COM
plicated difficulties as to the law of domicile
and divorce and loci contractus does not such
n possibility involve
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Under the above discourteous heading
which may be translated "The HEnALD's
Tootings," the Raza Latina, takes us to
task for our leader of Tuesday, entitled
ssThe New Crisis in Cuba--Emancipation
the Remedy" Our contemporary is one
of the novices of New York journalism,
the editor having arrived in this city
only few months ago. expelled from
Mexico by President Diaz as a ''per-
nicious foreigner" He thereupon estab-
lished his paper in this city as continua-
ton of the Colonid Espdnoid, which he had
conducted for six years in Mexico, and
which boasts of Don Emilio Castelar, as it's
correspondent in Madrid. We are not be-
traying any secret in referring to the
above facts, since the editor has occu-
pied considerable space in every issue
of his paper with a manifesto setting forth
his grievances against Mexico. The cause
of his expulsion, as we learn upon his own
authority, was that he was considered to
interfere too freely for foreigner in Mex
lean politics and to be altogether too unan-
imous in advocacy of Spanish Intervention
in Mexico.
We are sorry for the mishap which
befell our Spanish contemporary in the
'sIalls of the Montezumas," and we would
by no means justify the procedure Of which
he complains. But when he accuses us of
pedantry, rashness, bravado and various
other crimes because we said that "Ameri-
cans have right to demand of Spain such
measures as are necessary to make Cuba
prosperous and progressive. is he not him
self rather straining the privileges of free
speech while SO anxious to insert gag
in the mouth of the HERALD? He says
that our article exemplifes "the eter-
nal Yankee mania for ordering and die
tating in other peoples houses" and
kindly advises us to devote our whole
attention to home subjects, such as
terrorism in Georgia, and to devise some
plan for settling our own "family ques-
tons" in tho South. If the editor
were better acquainted with the files
of the HERALD he would know that we have
devoted abundant attention to our own
family questions, and do not need his
genial promptings. Does not our contem-
porary think it worth while for Spain to
take measures for making Cuba prosperous
and progressive2 II not, what is the mis-
sion of the Latin race" in America? And,
by the by, is the peculiar Spanish mixture
of Celts, Basques, Goths, Suabians Php-
niciaps, Arabs and Berbers, with sprin-
king of Roman blood, any moro entitled to
call itself the Latin race" than the equally
variegated founders of our own Repub-
lic2 We hope our contemporary will
take time enough from his favorite occupa-
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The Prisoners or sligo.

The HEnALD's interviews with the three
Irish prisoners on trial at Sligo, as cons
municated in our special cable dispatches,
are very interesting from the explicit reve.
lation they afford of the radical aim OF
the agitation in which their arrest has
given them prominence. So is the
report of the incorporate harangue
of their counsel, bitterly antagonizing
the Catholic Church and extolling Fenians
and Ribbonmen. Ireland never has been
deficient in spirit of reckless martyr.
dom for the cause of her nationality. Evi.
IDENTIFY she is not now. But it is not mar.
tyrs that she needs for the welfare of hel
inhabitants in their present difficulties and
sutferings. Cool heads and temperate
tongues would serve her much better, and
of these there does not seem to be very
bounteous supply among the partisans Of
the prisoners of Sligo.
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FINE ARTS.

''pRooFs FROM sCRIBNERs AND ST. NICHOLAS"
Under the title OF proofs from Scribners
Monthly aud st. Nicholas" scribner Co. have pub
lshed in elegant quarto form. on thick paper. 1O2
carefully printed proofs Of wood engravings which
have appeared in those magazines. They are printed
on white paper. with small white margin. the rest
OF the page being tinted to light gray and produc-
ing pleasing effect. Though there are number Of
the most striking cuts with which VIC familiar.
We think that many which fail ind might
with advantage have been chosen In place OF
many of those which VIC do. Among the engrav-
ings which wo particularly pleased to in the
present form Stuarts PORTRAIT OF Washing
ton," Whistler's etching. "Joe;" Snam Gfrords
Marsyas." vanderhoofs .'shipchandlery." Rey.
nolds' strawberry Girl. O'Donovan's bas relief of
Payne child, Mayors waiting ORDERS" Mod
jeska as Juliet engraved by Cole; Saint Gauden's
'Ready for the Ride" Dubois group. Charity
Abbey's "The Griffin at Work." his Revolutionary
SCENE" the portraits OF the poets. by Wyatt
Eaton; Mrs, Foote'S "Biorn the Bold, Lafarges
miss Boothby;" whistler's portrait OF himself.
Mayors bringing in the Bears Head" Muhrmans
"a Prize Bull" the Countess Potocka,' Chapins
bronze group. 'Gratitudo;" Homer Martins mIhe
ny's Grading" Mrs. Foote'S "Donito and His Pet.
Leonardo's Mona Lisa" Shrlaw's Roxy, For.
tuny's Piping shepherd" Maxs 1.-THE Last Token
whistlcrs ''The White Lady" drcuze's THE pau-
ton Rivieres CHARITY. Luffans interrupted Pill
grims" and Miss Curtis ''The Fays." Why the outs
l. 8, a. Is. 10. a. 40 49, A. AZ. g. o. 60. GO,
"a So g. 81 So w. w. 9G ana ~ were poS s.
pies OF engraving, were left out, Is hard TO- UNI
dcrstand. Messrs. Cole, Marsh Juengltng King
Davis, Mueller, Wolf. Miss Powell and Mr.. Linton
the principal engrsvers to whom great credit II
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that a combination which has required such
guarantee as the sale actually made
means that it's purposes shall not be stayed
or limited at a critical moment by the scru-
pies of the man who inherited the Central
as ga great trust"
There is one effect of this event upon
which we may count as tolerably certain,
and that is that it will force upon the minds
of thoughtful men throughout the country
some distinct consideration of the fact that
interests of such moment to the public
welfare-interests that concern the con-
venience and fortune of every individual
ought not at any time or in any country to
be at the mercy or subject to the dictation
and the caprice of so smalla number OF men
as now control the great mass of railroad
interests in the United States. In other
countries the public dominion makes itself
felt in these concerns the general will as
declared through the. law marks fixed
limit to the vagaries ofspeculative trickery.
Here the general will of the nation does
not touch the subject, and the local
will, as heard in the State legislatures,
mostly declares itself like the directors
above referred to in order that it may be
bought out. Our people please themselves
with the fancy that they are free because
they have the right to NEEDLE little in
politics now and then. In conventions, in
legislatures and in all similar places they
chatter and twaddle and scream like SO
many crows and jays over the eternal prin-
ciples of freedom as secured in the political
fabric, and meanwhile the great economical
facts Of life-the facts which are and always
were the really shaping and controlling
forces in the political destinies of peo-
ple-sweep rapidly and certainly forward
on lines that indicate the will and movement
of a despotic spirit. In that movement a
great collision with the popular will is in
preparation.
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No other festival day since the civil war
ended has been SO generally and heartily
enjoyed as yesterday was. The many reli-
gious services of the day were we'll at
tended, and so were all the places of amuse-
ment the streets were filled with good
natured people and the dinner table tempo
rarily supplanted the family altar as a
popular gathering place. The poor were
more generally cared for than on any
other day in months, and the prevailing
good cheer found it's way even into tho
prisons. Nature herself seemed to take part
in the jollifcation, as was no moro than
her right, in consideration of the prom
inent part she played in providing the en-
tertainment and the cheerful spirits with
which most people came toit; so she smiled
from the skies, allowing her countenance
to become slightly clouded only often
enough to enhance the value of her recur-
ring favors. She gave to thousands de-
lightful day at the Park-a pleasure gen.
orally unexpected so late in the season, aud,
although unable to redecorate the trees in
their natural robes, she diffused an
atmosphere and light so delicious that the
eve revelled in luminous distances and
effects which foliage might have /. de-
creased. The man or woman who does not
find remaining any of the spirit of the day
with which to begin another year should
spend few minutes in retrospection before
beginning the work of to-day. Christian
without gratitude when there is cause for
it is mournful spectacle, and even con-
sistent pagan is in duty bound to freshen
his love for generous Mother Earth when
she has poured forth her treasures SO
abundantly for his benefit.
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An Old Project Revived.

In an interview with HERALD reporter
Mr.. John q. Schumacher, formerly Cor
poration Counsel, District Attorney and
Congressman on the other side of the East
River, revives discussion of project
once greatly sgitated hore--the annexation
of Brooklyn to New York. Mr.. Schumacher,
as Brooklyn capitalist, frankly admits
that he is unable to see what New York
is to gain by annexation, but warmly
advocates the measure as admirably
calculated to enforce economy in Brooklyn
and in that way to assist the City Of
Churches out of her present financial en-
barrassments. Some startling propositions
are also advanced concerning Prospect Park
as "useless luxury" and the East River
Bridge as thing in which it is not wise to
put much faith. Real estate experts will be
interested in Mr.. Schumaker's revelations
concerning the wastefulness OF those
Brooklyn officials who have permitted
streets to be closed and wharves built
across the ends fronting on tho river
to the advantage Of individuals and the
detriment of the city at large. 1t is fact
that Brooklyn has oil the expenses and
less than the income of q first class city.
Her people are our people and her interests
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In letter to tho Art Interchange. published IN tho
number Of the 2Gth inst. npropos of recent men-
ton In that paper OF him AZ an American and de-
NAL from ''s. W. q. b." George II. Bougnton says.
among other things not pleasant to the latter.
II was q baby when our entire family
and many relatives left England for tho new homo
beyond the sea. My first impressions OF anything
art incuded--are American My first fond belief
counter current to all strict orthodox teaching.
that the world was created on the Fourth OF July.
began to paint In Albany and before finally left for
Europe had spent some twenty Ave years In Amer
ica." "Such OF tho good people
OF England who know or care anything
about me always consider me as an American.
There is no earthly use in me telling them about
being born In England; II upscts oil previous Inn
pressions. AS i began so must 60 on. After the
last election Of tho Royal Academy number OF tao
bost informed art papers spoke of the singular cir
cumstance OF three "forcigners'' tAlma Tadefha.
Herkonicr and MYSELF being elected did not cor
root the statement IL kindly enough said ono
calledme Canadian. which pleasant variation.
always speak OF myself, when Desired to be exc
plicit, American artist born In England; and
have never yet found any serious. thoughtful per-
son who questioned tho claim have on both coun.
tries. My only sorrow IL that several thousand
miles of stretch between. have really been
long time away; but when tell you that only In
tended to stay q week IN London In the first place
you will see that II has been rather accident than
| any fixed intention ON my part"
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Nothing can be more certain than that
after the census of 1880 there will be q large
dimnution of the relative political strength
OF the South-that is to say, decrease in
the number of it's Representatives in Con-
gress and its Presidential electors The fears
expressed by the stalwart republicans Of
the growing influence OF the solid South
are destitute Of any substantial basis. The
South has no new States preparing to come
into the Union; but while its area can never
expand all our vast Territories in the North
west are filing up with settlers and will
in a few years be admitted rs States to
swell the great preponderance Of the North.
Even without those new and rising States
the increase OF population in the North
ern States already in the Union SO out
strips the rate of increase in the South
that the latter will be left further and further
behind by loss of Representatives after each
decennial census. At present it requires
only forty seven electoral votes in addition
to those Of the united South to elect Presi-
dent, but after the next apportionment it
will require at least a hundred. II the
Presidential election of 1880 were to be on
the basis Of the census of 1880 the republic
cans would be able to carry it without the
State of New York.
The reasons why the population of the
South does not increase like that of the
North are not difficult to discover With
the exception Of Texas they SO conduct
their affairs as to discourage immigration
and repel capital, and are therefore left to
the natural increase of their existing popu-
lation. There are good grounds for sup
posing that the negroes do not multiply in
a state of freedom as they did in slavery.
The check in the rate of increase be-
tween the census of 1860 and that
OF 1870 was very remarkable. But
there was also diminution in the
rate of increase of the white Inhabitants
both of the South and the North, but that
is explained by the tremendous waste in
war of the lives of men who would other
wise have become the fathers of children.
But, except few colored regiments on the
Northern side, the negroes did not render
military service, and yet the falling off in
their rate of increase was more than one-half
Between 1850 and 1860 the increase Of
the negro population was 500, O22, or
twenty-five per cent; but between 1860
and 1870 the increase was only 438, 179. or
trife less than ten per cent. This was
owing in part to the better care taken Of
young negro children in slavery, when they
had pecuniary value, and in part TO the
want and misery which prevailed in the
South during the first years of peace. The
South lacks the conditions of rapid growth
both for its white and it's colored popula-
ton, while the North, and especially the
Northwest, are increasing as if by magic.
The political influence of the South will
constantly dwindle by Limitation of area.
by the slightness of immigration and by
the fact that the negroes do not multiply
in freedom as they did in slavery. 1t is
ridiculous to fear that the declining South
will ever regain it's old ascendancy in the
federal government.
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state Liquidation Touching Trade.
marks.

The abolition Of the federal trademark
laws by the Supreme Court raises State
legislation on the subject into such Inn
portance that u compilation of it's present
provisions which we print to-day is valua-
BILE to domestic manufacturers who have
henceiorth to depend upon them, supple
mented by the common law, tor protection
against infringers. Undoubtedly at the
approaching winter sessions of the various
legislatures there will be spontaneous
movement toward q common system on the
subject, and o comparison of these existing
laws shows the urgent need Of nearer APP
proach to uniformity. Indeed, there even
are some capable lawyers who advance the
opinion that without substantial uniformity
it would be better tor commerce If oil the
State legislation were repealed and common
law rights and remedies were retained
alone.
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are largely identical with those of New
York. In 1880 metropolitan capitalists
were eager for union. then haughtily re-
jected, but whether they would favor to-
day an annexation that means an increase
OF obligations is a conundrum that will
not be easily solved.
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Secretary schurx ON the Indian Cues.

Secretary SchurZ ON the Indian Cues.
ton.
Readers Of the clear, persuasive and hui
name discussion of Indian affairs in the
annual report of the Secretary of the In
terror will be puzzled to know why there
should be any friction between his depart
mcnt and the army relative to this subject,
unless they look below the surface. There
can be no dissent from his assertion that
sthe solution of the Indian question de-
ponds upon the civilization of the Indians
and their ability to take care of them
selves. The detailed propositions of what
he styles "the Indian policy of the Depart.
ment of the Interior" directed to this end,
are equally acceptable. His statistics of
the progress Indians recently have made in
agriculture and herding are intensely
interesting and gratifying, and so is
his certificate of their fidelity In
freighting supplies. We accept also, in
its fullest sign ifcance, his assertion that
''they must be treated not only with justice
but also with patience" and yet the fact
remains uncontroverted by him that in case
of the disobedience of it's savage wards his
department is utterly helpless to enforce
authority, and that the army must compel
their subordination. When the frequent
bloody penalties Of official misconduct of
Indian agents, or of the encroachments of
INSCRIPTIONS frontiersmen upon Indian
rights, or of the savagery of the Indians
themselves, all are necessarily visited upon
the army, it is but reasonable that the army
should be intrusted with tho management
of Indian affairs preliminary to such trou-
bles, and be itself responsible for any
calamities of which it must bear the brunt.
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ASSESSMENTS TONIGHT.

SEVENTH REGIMENT FAIR-FREEMAsoS's DAY.
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-FRENcH FLATS.
STANDARD THEATRE-FArINIrzA
GERMkNIA THEATRE-GRAr ESSEX
ABBEY'S PARK-FRIrz IRELAND.
DALY'S THEATRE-wIvEs.
GRAND OPERA HoUSE-orHELLo.
ITALIA THEATRE.-EINER Won UNsERE LEurE
HAvERLY's THEATRE-THE ocroRooS.
BROADWAY OPERA HoUsE-PINAFoRK
ABERLE's THEATRE-THE FRENCH SPY.
BOOTHS THEATRE--LA BELLE HELENE.
NIBLOS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
WALLACk'S-OuR GIRLS.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-DAME TRor.
TONY PASTORS THEATRE-vARIErY. Matinee.
COMrQUE-MuLLIGAY GUARDS CHRISTMAS.
AQUARIUM-PERroRMING ANIMALS Matinee.
ROSTER BALLS CONCERT HALL
AMERICAN DINE observation-disclosures
LENTS NEW YORK CIRCUS.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELS.
ACADEMY OF MUSIc-MAnrnA
CHICKERING HALL-MAriNEE LECTURE.
ASSOCIATION HAL-LEcruRE
sTEINwAY HALL--ELrJAn MATINEE.
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WITH SUPPLEM EN- T.
NEW YORK. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER sS. 1879.

The probabilities are that tie reGLte,. in Ne,o
York and It's ricinity totay ,ciu be mDm and
cloudy, ciM rains. Tomorrow Tie same con-
daions wiH prccail, Jollowed By clearing and
cooler aceather.
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IT Is GRATIFYING to learn, from the report of
Secretary Thompson, that the condition of the
navy has improved greatly in the past year, for
n little improvement goes great way in so
small concern. The education of cadets as
naval constructors is advised; steam vessel is
asked for, that the cadets may have more eifcc-
tive tuition in scamansfip and gunnery, and an
effective system of ventilation for ships is an
nounced.
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FROM THE SHOCKING CASE of little Willie
LAM some of the benevolent societies should
learn that charitable and religious visitations
are not the only errands that should be made
among the poor. Experience has long taught
that drink will turn even loving mother into %
brutal iiend. Simply for humanity's sake such
women should be watched as closely as any
other members of the dangerous classes.
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THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION receives unex-
pccted support from the latest reported case of
clubbing by policeman. The alleged offender
is said to have given his victim money with
which to pay for necessary surgical attendance.
In time the force may possibly develop club
Der honest enough to confess his fault, as any
gentleman would feel bound to do under similar
circumstances.
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ANY One who looked unsuccessfully for
shooting stars last mig ht may find some consola-
ton in Professor Parkhurst's letter explaining
why the meteors might not be visible.