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Year: 1875

The Rapid Transit Commissioners appear
to have encountered an obstruction to their
work precisely where none could have been
anticipated They have not yet agreed upon a
route, and already it is intimated that the
expiration of the time to which they are linn
tied by the law will find this important point
undecided The Commissioners have plain
duty to perform. They are not appointed
to protect the interests of the Third Avenue
Railroad Company the Harlem Railroad
Company or any other privileged corpora
ton. 1t is not their province to study the
benefit or the injury that steam railroad
may do to the real estate of this or that prop
erty owner. They have accepted the respon-
sibility of carrying out law designed to
give relief to the people of New York by the
accommodation of steam communication be-
tween the Battery and the Westchester border
If they fail to accomplish the work theYhave
undertaken they will be classified hereafter
with the venal Legislatures through whose
corrupt intrigues rapid transit in New York
has been heretofore defeated.


The first object of an honest and capa-
BILE Commission must be to enlist the conf
dence of capital in the undertaking, so that
the money for the construction of rapid
transit road may be forthcoming. To accom-
plish this the route covered by the charter
must be one that promises a remunerative
amount of business. Some of the avenues
are closed to the Commission. Broadway
Fifth avenue, and Fourth avenue above
Forty street cannot be used. The
west side has the Greenwich street line in
operation. The Third avenue route, or the
Lexington avenue route, lying between
Third and Fourth avenues, seems to present
advantages that cannot be overlooked The
travel over the Third avenue horse car line
is larger than over any other line in the city,
and, except a small percentage, is travel that
would use steam railroad. The route is
built over almost unbrokenly from Harlem
bridge to the Battery. rapid transit road
running along the Bowery and Third avenue
would accommodate more people on its direct
line than could any other route in the city,
and would be more central than any other
route, excluding Broadway and Fifth avenue,
which are prohibited by the law, and Sixth
avenue, which ends at the Central Park.
These facts are known to every citizen of
New York, and if the Rapid Transit Commits
sioners close their eyes to them the people
will believe they are blinded by something
else than stupidity
Year: 1875

Some of the republican statesmen still
think it may be necessary to renominate
General Grant; but, if we may credit General
Burnside's Judgment, the third term is
not, after all, what racing men would call
q ''walk over" and the third termers need
not expect to have things all their own
way. Rhode Island, the General told a
HERALD correspondent the other day, is
pretty unanimously opposed to third term.
The people of Rhode Island want change


General Dix's Long Island fisherman, who
complained of the hard times last fall on the
score that he got now ''only about half an
eel to the pot" also thought it we'll to have a
change, and accordingly went to the polls
and elected Mr. Tilden Governor Possibly
the CLANS are not abundant in Rhode Island
this year. However that may be, Rhode
Island does not approve of a third term


During the late unpleasantness" Southern
soldier in Lees army hailed q Northern
vidette opposite, and being asked to what
regiment he belonged replied, "The Sixtieth
South Carolina what regiment do you be-
long to?" To which the Northern man
promptly replied, 'The four hundred and
ninety second Rhode Island" 'That does
not sound well for the Southern Confed-
eracy," remarked laughing Southerner,
and so Rhode Islands opposition to third
term seems to block the wheels little.
Year: 1875

CAPTAIN WEBB has succeeded in swimming
from Dover to Calais; and this is certainly a
great feat and exhibits the wonders of which
human endurance and strength are capable.
1t is, perhaps. not so useful an achievement
as Boyton's, for Webb cannot communicate
his faculty to others for the price of an india
rubber suit but it is far superior as an evi-
deIce of human capability to wrestle with
adverse circumstances Every one must re-
joice in one aspect Of the case. 1t seems to
hold out the promise that we have at last got
rid of Leander and Lord Byron as the typi-
cal great swimmers. Who will dare to men,
tion the swimming over the Hellesporh now
that man has swum across the English
Channel?
Year: 1875

THE CATTLE DISEASE IN NGLASD.-Thouph
we import only few cattle from England,
and those costly animals of fine breeds, it
will be well to adopt precautions at all our
ports against the introduction Of diseased
csttle if the report proves true that a disease
of the mouth and foot has broken out in Dor
setshiro with great virulencc. Twelve thou
sand animals arc said 10 be down with it,
and the distemper is spreading rapidly. Our
farmers and stock raisers have had several
severe experiences of cattle disease and will
desire all possible guards to bs Ssed against
the introduction Of contagion.
Year: 1875

THE WATER SUPPLY.-The evidence seems
to be satisfactory that the Croton mains in
the lower part of the city are insufficient for
ordinary wants, and are so inadequate to
possible demands of great fire that this cir
cumstance affects the rates of insurance.
There seems to be evidence on this point so
clear as to entirely relieve the proposition
for new mains from the suspicion of originat-
ing in the wish to give a fat contract to a
sympathetic pipemaker. Nevertheless the
republicans in the city government oppose
the step, not out of regard to the public in
terest. but because it gives patronage to the
Superintendent of Public Works, a demo-
cratic functionary. They take their cue from
Comptroller Green, whose theory is to op-
pose the democrats, though you ruin tho
city.
Year: 1875

Our correspondence from the Black Hills
and the map given to-day are instructive on
several points of interest in one of the impor-
tant topics of the time-the great Indian
problem. Our correspondents effort to in
terview Red Cloud and the diplomatic OBJ
servation of that celebrated red man
that 'the great paper man knows enough"
are specimens of the humors of this
sort of intercourse; and indicate the
keenness of the Indian in keeping an eye
to the main chance. Indeed, Providence
would appear once more to have supplied this
remarkable race of people with great man
adapted to the circumstances. War would
be hopeless, and an energetic fighting man
would only insure the ruin of any tribe in
which he might appear, as the Modocs dis
covered. But a crafty leader who can dis
cover the exposed side of his oppressors and
make the most of it to their damage is worth
all the war parties that could be organized.
Few Indian agents would be shrewd enough
to get the better of Red Cloud in ordinary
transactions, if the Indian could help him
self but the sanction of the law and the
force of the white man are behind the Indian
agent, and the red man cannot help himself; I;
but in getting around the difficulty-in the
discovery that the moral sense of the nation
was in favor of honest dealing and in appeal
ing to this through Professor Marsh and other
wise-this Indian has shown superior COM
prehension of his case and gives a new aspect
to the relations of our government with his
people.
Year: 1875

HENRY A. WISE has pot been heard from
this long while, but has just come to the sur
face to breathe and remained long enough to
say that, with an extensive experience of the
United States bank system, the State bank
system and the Sub-Treasury system, he is
convinced that every one of them was better
than the present ''no system" of our finances.
Sound for Wise
Year: 1875

The COUNT OF PARIS HIsToRY.-The third
are reviewed at length in another column.
At the rate of progress thus far made the work
will apparently make at least eight volumes
and will be the most elaborate history of our
civil war yet attempted.
Year: 1875

TIE FERRYBoAT COLLISION. From the testi-
mony taken yesterday in this case the APP
pearance is that the Twilight was entirely to
blame for the accident. From the evidence
of the people on the Twilight, even, this fol-
lows; for the only way in which the North
field could escape collision was by going of
her course to the eastward. This she did,


but was pcrsistontly followed up by the
other boat until the deviation from the
course was greater than can reasonably be
Year: 1875

BoeARDUs ON PIGEON SHOOTING. Tho
suggestion made by Captain Bogardus,
that in pigeon shooting matches 'boun-
daries' should be abolished and a
time allowance to gather in the bird
substituted, deserves the attention of
all sportsmen. Under the present rule
matches are often decided by pure luck
Strong birds, though badly hit, drop outside
the boundary and the sportsman is credited
with miss. This is manifestly unfair, and
it would be a great improvement to allow
three minutes to gather in the birds, doing
away entirely with tho boundary system If
this rule were adopted the best shots would
always win and pigeon shooting cease to be
game of chance and become an absolute
trial of skill in craftsmanship. This would
be change welcomed by all good, reliable
shots.
Year: 1875

SATISFACTORY. - The inquiry into the
abuses in the Kings County Insane Asylum
has resulted in the dismissal of the incul-
pated nurses and the recognition of the need
of more thorough scrutiny in the choice Of
such attendants
Year: 1875

GARCIA MoRENo-Our news files give
in fuller detail to-day the story of
the assassination of this small Caesar
of q Spanish-American Republic. In
all the Spanish-American States we see the
rapid advance through various forms-the
early ripe and early rotten conditioner
politics with the hot-tempered races Ecua-
dor was only as rotten as the rest when
Moreno came upon the stage, and like all
Caesars he Immediately purified the atmos-
phere in certain respects only to make it
fouler in Others He ruled for fifteen years.
and would have ruled for fifty but for the
machete, which proved the only limit to his
term. He organized himself in office on the
ring system but it was not contractors
ring nor an Indian ring 1t was ring more
in consonance with Spanish nature--a
priestly, Jesuitical ring He agreed to give to
the Jesuits the plunder of the State for their
services to him in the retention of power.
1t worked superfcially to a charm both for
him and them but it filled the shadow of
every wall with vigilant enemies, and it
sharpened the inevitable knife of the assassin.
Year: 1875

Advices from Rome say it is understood
that Cardinal McClosky will leave for the
United States about the 10th inst.


Cardinal Simeoni is said to have made a
report to the Vatican of his hopefulness of
arrangement with Spain. ,


The members of LInstitut Canadien held
a meeting last night, and decided to hold
Guibord's funeral on Friday or Saturday of
next week. Preliminary arrangements are
being made to-day, and all the details will
be fully carried out. A requisition is to be
made on the military for assistance, and a
secret preparation will be deposited in the
grave and render it dangerous for mcddlcrs
to attempt to disturb the body. The Super
intcndlnt of lie Institute yesterday visited
the Protestant cemetery vault, and, opening
Guibord's coffin found the outline of the
body still distinctly traceable. This is the
first time the coffin has been opened since
being closed, six years ago. The general
feeling is that a second attempt at burial
will be resisted as violently as before.
Year: 1875

A reporter of the New York Herald in
picturing the scene in front of the Third
Avenue Savings Bank in that city which
has suspended payment gives the follow
ing:


One old laly, scarcely al lie to wa k,
stood facing the door Of the bank Leaning
on the arm of her daughter. The tears
were streaming down her cheeks and her
voice was broken by sobs, as she said to
the reporter all that we have in
the world is in that bank every dollar
nearl y thousand. came here two weeks
ago to get it and they told me to wait un-
til next week. Then l came again, and
they told me to come yesterday. I came
here then, and the man said must come
this morning. Now they have closed.
What shall do? What can do to pay
my rent in the morning? 1t must be paid
or the landlord will put us out. Oh! God
have pity on us! What can we do?'


One ofthe policemen on duty in front of
the door said, IL had $500 there last week,
but my wife coaxed me to take it out"
A butcher, doing business on Second av-
enue, deposited 81, ,450 last week, fearing
10 keep it in his own house Until to-day,
when he wan ed to Use it. Hundreds of
poor people aocked around the doors early
in the morning., for the news of the failure
spread like wildGYe, and all earnestly de-
nounccd the managers of the bank for their
mismanagcmont.
Year: 1875

When Mrs. selkreg complained that he
occupied too much time in looking at the
pin-back dresses he piously replied that he
was absent minded and thought that lie
was in the Garden of Eden.


As the faithful Indian agent gives poor
Lo his rations of salt beef he mournfully
says:-"That beef's different from any beef
yoId get if you were white man living
in the East. Beef in the East don't have
any swell to it at all. Just think of that"
Year: 1875

The cutting and dressing of stone is
now done by the new diamond -toothed
saw, which is regarded as one of the
most important mechanical inventions
OF the age. 1t is said to +" execute in
stone almost what the common circular
saw does wood The speed of this
saw may be varied from five to FIVE
hundred revolutions per minute Stone
may be sawn to any length up to four
teen feet and of any angle or depth to
i've feet. 1t is claimed that one circu-
lar saw In this machine will do the
work of more than one hundred hand
saws, and this accurately, true and out
OF wind The machine has already
sawn one huudr d and twenty-five feet
OF superb ial feet of actual cutting in
one hour. of the hardest kind of Beu-
rea sandstone
Year: 1875

IT has come at last, the proposition for a
competitive trial for horses" at the centen-
nial exhibition next year. One Philadelphia
paper thinks the centennial commission
ought to give at least 100000 in prizes to
the best specimens of the worlds horsefesh,
and is inclined to believe that show can be
got up which will eclipse the English Derby
day. Perhaps Congress can be induced to
vote 100000 more. OF course the race will
be under the direcsion of the agricultural de-
nartment of the exposition and will be a
purely agricultural horse trot."
Year: 1875

THE Philadelphia Times thinks the art Of
making political platforms a lost one. Well
there seems to be some good timber in the
Ohio and Pennsylvania platforms, and it is
put up in good shape. Some of the planks
have been used before, it is true, but they
are sound enough for another decade.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return reserve commu-
nicatons that not used.
Year: 1875

The use of "trade-mark" should be necessity
to every manufacturer who has faith In his ow.!
wares The first step towards making the manufac-
turer independent of the commission merchant
should be to make tbe name of the goods and ,he
trade mark by which they are distinguished widely
known to the consumer.
Year: 1875

A HANDSOMELY FURNISHED SECOND FLOOR,
n everything requisite for housekeeping also two Rooms
third private family, location hrs class
very moderate; Elevated Railway 4os West Thirty
fourth
Year: 1875

On Wednesday next of this week there
will be annular eclipse of the sun, partly
visible in Philadelphia. The eclipse will be
central and annular to persons, living in
parts OF New York, Massachusetts, Vermont
and New Hampshire. The sun will rise
partly eclipsed, and the eclipse will be yisi-
Die throughout the United States east of the
Mississippi river, being nearly central in
Philadelphia. The large size of the sun and
the comparative smallness of the moon,
makes the shadow Of the latter uoon the
earth small, and it is only along the path oil
this small shadow that the eclipse is visible.
The best view Of an annular eclipse oan be
only by those who are in line with the
centres of both bodies.
Year: 1875

ARREST OF BOULDER AND HIS WIPE,


The HERALD, some days ago, gave an &C.
count of the robbery of peddler, at Port
Penn, and the issue Of warrants for the ar
rest of the suspected parties, hotel keeper
and his wife. On Friday the constable at
Delaware City brought Boulder and his
wife to this city, aud hearing of the case
was had before Esquire Frazer, but the case
was adjourned until to-day to obtain more
witnesses. In the meantime Boulder and
his wife are out on $500 bail for their ap-
pearance this afternoon.
Year: 1875

The San Antonia (Texas) Herald
gives the following notice to its sub
scribers : "Hereafter We shall pub.
lish the list of the names of those
who 60 fishing on the Lords day
and fail to send US string of trout.
Perch and suckers have too many
boues in them to allow US to forget
that the moral element of our popu.
latiOn look to the press to eradicate
this gro wing desecration of the Sab
BATH"
Year: 1875

The proper Office of theory is to explain the
relations of facts. When the tlcorist disre-
cards facts or creates them by an exercise OF
the imagination, he turns science into romance.
This is the fault we have to find with the IN
fationists They exaggcratc the existing dis
trcss. They ill tho minds of thOughtless per-
sons with false notions of what society owes
to them and what they owe to society. Ihey
ascribc to the currency n thousand evils IN
which money has no part. If we cXamlnc
carefully the real situation we shall find that
most of the evils and all the remedies on which
they dcscant are imaginary.


We ale told for example, that the people
are starving and that Onc-third OF the labor
ing population is ont Of employment and de-
pendent on charity for bread. This Is not the
fact. Probably of the entire population OF the
country there are not eight per cent fewer
persons earning a living than there were four
years ago Tea, coffee. and sugar are articles
of semi-luxury or semi-necesSity, in universal
use among the people. If there were any such
quantity of misery as the paper money men
imagine would not the consumption OF tea,
coffee and sugar have fallen off amazingly !
Let us now see what is the actual record. The
following table gives the annual importationS
of these articles for the last six years
Year: 1875

trce.r The three were handed out. little doubt
full about the squareness Of the trade the traveller
gently uncovered one OF them before completing the
purchase. Separating the two slices OF bread care
fully he looked within. single glance sufficed-
There was a mixture Of disappointment and indigns-
ton in his tone, as he scornfuy returned the pro-
visions and said. "A little bit o ham and some
bread! Look byar You can't play no Yankee
trick on met I'm from the country. but know
enough TO know that amt no sandwich. 4 sandwich
is a fish, And he w0uld't take them.
Year: 1875

with such antecedents, gain . credit OF
s1OO,OOOf Is it chat merchants are
fools 7 Times are hard. perhaps, aad
even a shaky customer may offer bet
ter hopes than the prospect of not selling
at all But that staple goods like those emu
merated should he sold on credit to con-
victed felon in large amounts by number OF
business firms is proof positive that the spirit
of needless speculation has not yet been
starved out by sad experience.
Year: 1875

always answered the unjust attacks OF his rad
ica critics with unfailing good nature and
thanks for their zeal. The best augury Tor tho
new Republic in France is to he drawn from
the cooincss and calmness OF ITS leading
supporters, and from the violence and reck-
Iessness of all the factions of its enemies.
Year: 1875

The story which was told yesterday in court
in solution of the mystery of the Ocean Bank
burglary of. 1869, charging that the treasurer
and subsequent President connived at the
crime, il almost incredible. The statement was
er porte, and no proof was given of the asser-
ton, which the accused official stoutly denies !;
but it is amazing if any lawyer in good stand
ing at our courts could indulge III such asscr-
tions without absolute proof.
Year: 1875

The reduction of the National Guard was
recommended in report by committee OF
the Board of Aldermen yesterday. There will
be undoubtedly marked differences of opinion
in the community in regard to the advisability
of carrying out this suggestion, but tax payers
In general will hardly quarrel with the com
mittee's advice that the armOry leases be in
vestigated, and that the validity of those in
which an excessive rent is demanded be tested
Immediately
Year: 1875

Now register. There are only two days
left. Tomorrow there will he a bigger crowd
than to-day. To-day there will be bigger
crowd in the afternoon than in the fore
noon. Register this morning. Your place
for registering and voting will be generally i'll
the same house as last year. Any policeman
fn your district. at any rate, can tell you where
Year: 1875

The pigIimages to the city OF the Centennial
Exhibition, which are becoming the order OF
the day, indicate the growing popularity of the
great undertaking to which the energies of the
people of Philadelphia were so long de-
voted without elciting substantial sympathy
from the country generally. In another
column correspondent describes one Of
the most interesting of these pilgrim
ages. large number of representative
men from Western business men and journal
lists having visited the Centennial grounds
and had their enthusiasm quckcned by seeing
for themselves tie forwardness of the work OF
preparation Philadelphia rightly considers
that the hospiable entertainment OF visitors
on such an erland is like bread cast on the
waters.
Year: 1875

spiritcss campaign in Pennsylvania, IN
stead of the heated contest predicted lew
weeks ago, affords another evidence OF the
crushing nature of the blow received by lnfa-
ton when the financial vagaries of Allen and
Cary were vetoed by the people of Ohio. The
soft money men who captured the Ere Con-
vention and then filled the air with their war
cries, are now content to court oblivion by ST.
lence. This may be sound policy on their
part, but it is questionable whether the Re
publicans are as wise in declining to follow up
their advantage, trusting merely to the moral
effect of the result in Ohio for the final over
throw of initiation.
Year: 1875

The dearest deght of the rural editorial mind is
to nominate somebody for the Presidency. little
while ago half the country papers were announcing
that in case Hayes should succeed in Ohio he
was the inevitable Republican candidate while
that if Allen should succeed, he would stand
far ahead of Tilden, Bayard and the rest
since the election the idea seems to have got INTO "a
good many heads that, after ALL majority of 5000.
either one way the other. in a State canvass, does.
not quite make man, hitherto unthought
Of, the leading Presidential candidate The
davs when our abieSt chosen for
the Presidency may have gone by but
accidental prominence does not count for
quite so much in chaotic state of politics as it does
when everything is running in the party grooves.
and the two regular machines furnish all the power
needed. Gov. Hayes is an excellent man, and would
make IA better President than We have had for
time; but he is not at present oyersprcading the
whole horizon az the inevitable Presidential can
didate.