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I JTheij- aro cvi.lontiy about to expond all their in' ilcbate to broalt forco pi; Garfield's able attack' upon 1 Micir rijvpiuonary propramtno. (i'hat ettorti touch Wter show of arfruments than those wliioh- Quoted from Mr. Stephens in our Washinon dispatches, to havo! the sliglit-mtchjiyof influencing tho uilprcjudicod opinidil 'of the country. Some attcn- tion i the Jesuitical evasions of Mr. 6TEpq may help to familiarize lh genoratiou with tho ease Southern statesmen were in the Constitution anything which-l Wtcd them to And there.

Mr. to quibblo away the Veto pfyfit in a fashion decidedly niore UffSetio of a sharp attorney than a pro- fos8edtifrist, "aud he shows a tho real issue pre-onteJliy tho Democratic caucus more editable to his ingenuity t)an bla. fTttftkncK. If the special plead- injef thfc gentleman from Georgia, is the feest thfitcn be. said favor of theDo'ino-eratietjramrrie, tho week's dobate will leave tho party policy in rather worso odor uau iKupre ne aiscusstou opened the pryjVbiition to divide the Appropriattons Committee, tt is evident that plenty of places -jiU.

bo made for members who bo-aiegn hapless Speaker for good positions on tbf itfmmiittoes. The CommiUeJ on Rules have; agreed to report in favor of stitutlnsr our new soccial pon- One of theaejis to considor "the statoof the law reBPectlnir the asoortai u-LiMiiuiucUb AUU dlnrktlna and -j- Ul VtVK LIOQL of IVOHident and Vice-President. The lait Cohgresa failed to take any a tion on thlf important subject; and if the peciai shall begin a movei lent whichHhail result in the enactment bf a UtuU. eloar up loxtstinjr difficulties in the4 law; 4 mosl desirable end will bet ae-compltkKoiL Tho preposition to increase th meinbership of stime of the eommii tees from ft 15, and of others from 7 to 11, Waygrat lfyplace-sooking members, but it is ot likely to expedite legislation. j.v.?---- f.

ono of the National" op-reaeutatives from Alabama, is likolyto fall Into diareputa with his Southern brt iren if persists in tolling what hokrows about la the South. 'Beii a National, i he found, ln his late amass, that u. th.rnllng race" were determine to crash bin: and his auppor'ters nnless they oughfc th reforms which they 1 desired through the- Domoc ratio Party. Col. Lowri atf ex-Oonfedorate, and an ant i-lpubUcan, thus confirms tho atate-monU, concerninar the n.t Boutharn Nationals lat It nnM4h.wt In Tit Tints.

Two or three equally explicit and autheutle reports are made by other Southern Oreenbaekera, and thefOreeiit aek men IniCbngresa may 'well txuise before iacy iemi (Qemscivca to tho overthrow of Ihe law whica (s designed tocgaarantee free Curioasly the negroes, fth eoncot roto the KepuWicaa ticket, are thought likely to traia with the Green back-era, as' there they Und some show of protee- tion. AVaat new phase of oolitic m.v Tiae froct this, ft Is impossible to predict 5 Whatever foreo there is in Kr. Bsoolxa's eomplaiat of IhO partisan complexion of the Uepubliean vetreaehment in New. York City Alariea. haaba frih4 by 1 tlon and lncApeity the majority of the Am-m-M Committee on Cities.

The stated term of the legislative 'session has been twj awriy ana yet no aen- niie- proposal for general redaction Of the pay of City employes Laa vet been submitted to the Aasemblr. Tha committee I Cni unable to agree on any meaaure "which Uoaamet that the bar of those now' in offio not protected by the Constitution, and titer appear to be eouallr ineaoable of the Very simple task of proriding for the payment oi reancea saiafiee to tlie saeeessors oi those now In office. If Dr. Hatu propose to take counsel on this -subject rather with the tax-eaters than with the tax-payers, hU Chairmantthip of the Committee on Cities in likely to prore a more dismal failure than that of hlaredecessor, Mr. Fisil Mr.

Eroardt has been making startling discoveries about the way in which tho public money is spent in alleged attempts to clean the streets. He finiLi. for exam ple, that about 80 of the employes of thor btreet-cloaning Bureau were unfit -to perform a day's work, and that his reoresenta tions on that point' were followed by the discharge bf but 23 of these decrepit City pensioner. Ho finds also that tho carts owned or hired by the Bureau of Street-cleaning not only carry very light loals, but get credit'" for a groater number of loads than thoy actually carry. These facts have not been entirely unknown to the general public during the last few years, and might, long ago, have been discovered by Mr.

Erhardt in tho course 'of the most casual inspection of the business of cleaning the streets. His now found vfgilance is deserving of encourage ment, but it comes rather late. A DEMOCRATIC APOLOGY. Tlc Northern Democrats," a Southern Senator is credited with saving, "have nut us in thisholo we did not seek it wo only cared really for the repeal of the test oath out ine Northern Democrats said in caucus that thoy could not, carry Ohio and New- .1 ork unless the Supervisor law was repealed, and we were forced into this business." To make the explanation complete, the Southern Senator should state why the Sen ators and Representatives hi whose namo he speaks allowed themselves to be forced into the approval of tactics which their judg ment condemned, which the people have not sought, and which hare already fastened upon the Democratic Party more resDonsi- Dinty ana more odium than it. can carry.

On thoir own showing, tho position they occupy is a humiliatinf; one. Mr. Bayard's surrender was sufficiently pitiful. All his pretensions were demolished w'nen; he meekly ato own? words and joined others in doing that which he had declared ought not to bo done. The promising candidate for Presidency became tho tool of tho demagogues hehad denounced.

But according to tho statement we have cited, the Southern Sejiators generally have yielded quito as abjectly They have sacrifjeed self-respect to partisan clamor, relinquishing ma-ohood to preserve their good btanding iu the party, and descending deliberately into "this hole" in order that fraud' may have freo course in Ohio and New-York. If the Southern soetion of the Democracy is willing that this version of tho part it plays in the conlliet shall go forth, Republicans will not olfer an objection. Any condemnation they might have pronounced on the Southerner: in Congress could not have been worse than that implied: in tho -attempt of the hatter to extenuate their conj-nection with' the policy decreed by thfe caucus. This policyhas not even the recommendation to be detrivod from an outsido expression of partisan opinion. Neither at the North nor nt the feouth has the slightest evidence been furnished of party feeling on the subject.

That tho elements in this City represented by tho Coxes and Wobns are a versa to effective, supervision at tho polls, no one has doubted. Tammany knows too well' consequences of an honest election to look favor on the machinery provide dunder the Federal laws. There is truth in tho declaration that with really hlnest vothur and counting New-York State is lost to tho Even here, however, ho organized cry has been raised for the repeal of tho law investing Supervisors and" Deputy Marshals with requisite power, or for the repeal of tho law in relation to Federal troops. Peliticians have grumbled, awl there has been no lack of abuse in Democratic newspapers; but nowhere has publio opinion made itself heard in support of the measures which the Dom ocrats in Congress aro pressing as matters of Life and death. Tho conventions hav been silent on the subject.

It had noplace in the canvass last Fall. The Democratic candidates confined their attention to other subjects; this, which is now presented as of vital importance, was not mentioned. Orators racked their brains in quest of grievances, but the possible pres-enco of troops at the polls, and the rossi- blo action of Federal Huriorvi 1 s.sva UUU Deputy Marshals, wero not used to stimulate the partisan zeal of any Northern constituency. faint outcry was heard from tho South when tho Atforney-Gencral issued instructions pointing to the exercise ot Federal authority in two or three Southern States, but it soon passed away. Tho Northern Democrats, who were the originators of the policy now to be ear ned out, did not then pretend that danger to liberty lurked in the laws whose rental they -demand.

The whole movement is a contrivance of politicians in no degree does it reflect popular feeling. It may be that a consciousness of th fact has contributed to tho hesitancy and infirmity of purpose which aro already api parent in the conduct of the Congressional majority. The defiant tone of the Ut House is gone. Tho uncompromising spirit which (controlled -tho recent caucus haa not ventured to assert itself in chamber. The Democratic ft ia no heart for the fray.

Thev turn diaetuaion as though it was a trap designed 10 eaten ertpple theia. Adjournment Utha god-send of which thev avail tw.m. wvesaay aiur Democratic Rre- vntahVM are; similarly wnbarrfcW, peeting to tare everything tbir Sown way, they find themtelve. 00 th Instead of i 1- -i ust when, according to the programme, they should bd concentrating in attack on Pederal encroiehments, they are required to tell by a riilitary provision! which their party helped i enact has suddenly become i a I a a a a pojecuenaDie, ana wny uie anmoniy-uieir party 4mployi to bant down a fugitive felave niay not ae exercised in defense of an enfrandhLsed reedman. It is an awkward positioii and Uollyunlooked for.

And as the emharrasb' dent grows, the Senators and membels who have been dragooned into submission to demagogues will remember that thi-ir ma -ters have not the poor ex-tnseVliich th prevalence of popular ex--citemerit affor 4. A party thJtj has undertaken to begin a revolution saould have for leverago a popular- and feep-seated sense of wrong and a clearly ekcressed nonular determina tion to! obtain redress. Stoppage of sup plies is sugge stive of ferment among the people the'n en who propose it, even as a contingency, 8 iouid be reasonably sure that the peole wil their action. In the present'instante not ono of these conditions exists. I The LNnocratic Party out of doors gave noiencouiiigement to a movement born of the JntrigiJ of managers who desire to capture in a'lvanee the outworks of the 3i far, the popular effect has been th oppol jte of that hoped for.1 Tho Democrats arol and dismayed the Republicans aii united, alert, and resolute Tho-Deinocrati bee that their leaders have chosen a positipn which does not admit of defense The Republicans feel that they aro in the pre nee of an old enemy under a newlflasr, nhd that having Saved the Union, (ho cohjitry will stand by them in their fifiht forltjie Government.

The anxiety of outhefii Senators to explain shows that thejy comcehend the drift of events. jifp nrusEss of cosgkess. It is propost to reorganize the. committees of iho Hciio, special reference being hd to the mo equal distribution of the labors ojf the if mbers. The proposition is one of such ol irious expediency, it would be strarigOyn'f i lencoun'tered any opposition.

MembefiJ of 1 Committee on Appropriations wjtild Rurally soo mischief in any schomej of ri organization which should promise? to cu-tail their powers end influ- icnee. tut, ns that committeo has not yet been pej-naanei tly constituted, tho present time, hilo lie" entire scbedule of appointments is in abeyance, is the best for.consjderin;: the proposed reorganization. It is interest ng to note how the business of the various tanding committees of Congress hiis been affected by the changes in public aiffairs. jn the Sunate, for example, prior to the wr P. the Foreign Affiirs was considered th leading committee.

John M. Mas(X, of 1 irginia.was the Chairman of that coiimitte dtiring the Thirty-sixth Con gress, ahd if any Senator disputed or shared in his leadership, it was Jefferson Davis, Chairman of I the Military Committee. By reason 'c tho complications with various: foreign powers, which arose immediately ter the breaking out of the rebelliob, tho Committee on Foreign Relations, with Ciurles Sumner at its head, maintained all its old importance. Hen ry Wii-Ios, Chhirma of the Military Conj nit th- man to assert his cial inijortanc( was charged and, ihough his committee th what was unquestionably the mo.it business of Congress tho levying anil lnaintenaniof armies the lejwiership of ferrod jto the Jhe Senaro was quietly de-K'nior fi-ora Massa- chusettti. financoe LatAr on; however, the national becai quite as serious a sub ject 'fir con-ideration as miliary af fairs, iand a Finance Committee of onco rose to great iihougli tho financial legis- the Senate importance.

lation icf Co: the Iloiise, Tn tTess chielly originated in SrEVFJSsthen being Ways and Moans Coinmit- Chairman of tl tee, nYii.uam Qtt FessenU)EN, Chaii-man of the SenatJ Finance Committee, was somewhat imjl rioas when ihis committee took v6 the bit iness of As ho had hijj own iJeas concerning questions of national finanut, he was not ikely, either, to bear with raecKness any rivalry" in leadership of rtho Sen- FESSEND2N and SUM- both in tho Se nate. a legiimato ato. NER While I wero oveTy pno faniiliar withl tho course of its busineis felt tt hat concealeii under the fino irony Of tlies asperity of fee two great leaders was an ng which spring from mutual An Mr. Fessenden did not al his contempt for Mr.BuM- ways disguisi) I ker's at ostentations display of scholarship. Khen.

Mr. FessEnden took the Se4retaryM ip of tho Treasury, vacated by Mr. jChake iho leadership of the Senate was rdstored; to Mr. Sun-, tho probloms of recon- ner. fviter pt structipu begin to call for tho exercise of the tatesit: inship of Congress and the questidn of Imitting Senators from the States lately 1 11 rebellion brought to the front 4e Corai liWEo of Privileges and Elec tions.

Thisi lommitteo led. and vet WrU the Keaate 5 unng the Chairmanship of Olivei P. questions of commitoc. some of tho greatest Ifc time were decided in this Fbr some timo to cornel how ever, it is likjcll: that the Finance Committee will boUho mo important of the Senate. In tifo Hoiisf similar mutations have oc- jcurredi thou tho changes made iu the or- ganization of Rommittees have beea.

less radical Fon etample, the Ways and Means Committee, (ol which Thadi-eus Steveks was CSiirmnn, and in which he was subse- uentlsuccjoc led by Hf.nky L. Dawes, had charge of 4ll legislation in any way connected Withjth 1 finances. as the national I inking svstem biiLn tr ipand, tiio cjoninittee on lianking and Cur rency wascdnsjituted, WithSAMt'ELlIoOPER, of Masachtlsc Jt.it its head, The appro priatioi bill: ro'nest allotted to another new fomiutlee, and it became a tho old Committee Means, or the new question Whcffier of W4ys aill Committee of Appropriations, should be entit tit to ilio it ttjre La; leadership of the House." iut tevu' no real U-ader of the House jfincie TUAiptr'8 left it. althwa Ai, Ur tue of Li prior right to coin of the House for the eon-s eouimittee's buoiKtss and pi-mUre. tti of niand te 00.

fciittfAtjfJIl oth-r Muiiar th Vtf u4 Uctm La a ewcain Uniiim wuica ntilka Lm to eouoidttation. prt- vious td tjii. di riofl of this coifuaittee, the oruAij LL WMfrr necessity of iexplaining nd pologixing. thcomxnittee originally charged with, tho basineas of the 'department for whose imp-port the approppatfon was asked. Thns, tha Army' Appropriation was.

reported by the Military Combif-! tee, the Naval Appropriation bill by the Committee on Naval Affairs, and so on through the list, leaving only three bills the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, the Sundry Civil, and the Deficiency to the Ways and Means Committee. When the Appropriations Committee was eonatU tutod, in 18C7, all the appropriation bills were referred to that committee, as It was supposed that the three bills taken from the old committee would not give the new committee sufficient dignity or work. Results have proved that this was an unwise experiment The committee has been loaded with work, ten or twelve great appropriation bills being thrown on it at each session. The labors of the committee were, of course, hurriedly and badly performed, and the committees which should certainly have a vpice in the disposition of moneys asked for the departments have been stripped Of their prerogatives. The Appropriations Committee has monopolized nearly all the business of the House, and a place on that committee is now reckoned equal to a Chair-1 manship of any other committee.

The proposition to rektore to the appropriate committees the bills to pay the annual expenses is a sound one. It will equalize the labors of members, and greatly facilitate the business of Congress. lXTEMPEASCE isfestiga ted. There has been more than ono attempt made in recent years to induce Congress to enter upon an. exhaustive investigation of the subject of intemperance, and the means available for its diminution.

Whether it will ever undertako the task is somewhat uncertain, but meanwhile we may, perhaps; learn something from the inquiries and experiments made in other countries. A se-. leet committee of the British House of Lords, after working on tho subject over two years, and collecting a vast amount of evidence upon its various branches, have just submitted their conclusions and recommendations in a report, of which tho latest English papers furnish a summary. They conclude that the recent legislation in Great Britain, which has been progressively more restrictive, has, on' the whole, worked favorably. There has' been a marked decrease of disorder in the towns, the number of low beer shops has sensibly diminished, and the character of licensed houses has improved.

But at the Same time there has been an actual increase of intemperance, or at least of tho consumption of liquor, and of apprehensions for the offenses against law induced by drinking. The evidouce which they accept as most trustworthy. show3 that the expendi ture for intoxicating liquors iu the United Kingdom was or 2 Gi-d. per head of tho population1 in 1800, or 3 16s. 2d.

per head in 1870, land 147,2879, or 4 Ps. head in 187H. Tlie number of apprehensions for drunkenness in England and Wales in JSdO in 1S07, 100,357 in 1870, 431.870, and in lS7o, The in crease in tho consumption of liquor in recent years- has been mainly in the largo cities and towns and tho mining districts of the north, and the committee attribute it to the prosperity of tho years following 1800, the increase of wages, and tho greater amount of leisure orijoyed by the working classes. Though there has been a reaction' since, the habits formed at that time are not readily shaken off. This statement appears to iudicate that the -increase or decrease of intemperance, like that of the consumption of other articles than intoxicating liquors, which are not absolute necessaries, is affected more by eeououuc conditions than legislation.

The committee state that drinking habits have decreased in tho ranks of the more intelligent anil better-educated class of artisans, and the increase has been only among the lowest; but possibly it might bo as logically claimed from the same evidence that drinking habits are dragging men down continually from the upper to the lower ranks, and increasing, the latter at the exenso of tho Incidental mention is made of a marked increase of intemperance among Tho committee's report, so far as wo aro furnished with its substance, deals ivery sUghtly with tho moral or strictly material aspects of the case, but is occupied mainly with the practical considerations that are regarded as relevant to any advisable change in legislation. It apparently discards the idea from the start that legislation can properly aim at direct moral or economic results, so far as individuals are concerned. It favors further restriction in behalf ef tho gopd order and general well being of tho community at large. Various proposed changes in the system of regulation for the liquor traffic are considered and pronounced upon. Of these, five are discussed.

That of free licensing, which was tried some years ago in Liverpool and certain parts of Lancashire, is though it is ad mitted that under it intemperance rather do- creased than increased. prohibition, the scheme so persistently advocated by Sir Wilfrid Lawson, tho most, active and irrepressible of English advo cates of temperance by act of Parlameat, is set down as unsound in principle, and likely to prove either mischievous or inoperative in practice. The commute disoover no eonsiatencynj-reason in permitting the and possession of an article, and prohibiting.its sale. Whatever their coi.clusions, thoy are whouy opposed to tho policy of prohibition! The plan of leaving tho business in; the hands of local licensing boards, which is virtually that of local option, is not favored by them. There remain two schemes of whieh they speak with favor, but one is only a hiodifi cation of the other.

First is tho Gothen. burg system, so called from a town in Hwo den, in which it wn. to have originated; The civil authority of that town in ihg4 transferred the whole public honsu traflia ii liquor limited liability company, whiuk was bound to conduct it iu the interest Uuporauee and mo to make no profit out of it for itaelf Uyond the ordinary rati of inureot ou iu paid-up capiul, uur pt, wit uuy on actiug under it to da so, and turn over the fctt profits over and alove it itrUre.rlt dividA-ad to tho Tuwii Laj a oDuiaiiuj. fli. pared and reported by 000, th paid-up dt th company amounts, to- only $28,500," and the annual profits are $200,000, which got to reduce local taxation.

The number of licensed places has been reduced under its management from 119 to 56, and the plan is said to work well both fofpablie order and temperance and for the local treasury. ItMias been adopted in every town in Sweden with more than 6,000 inhabitants, exeept ene, and in 27 towns with a smaller population than 5,000. This system is approved in principle by the House of Lords committee, but the form more especially favored is that of Mr. Chamberlain, member for. Birmingham, who proposes that the town authorities should take the business into their own hands, instead of placing it jn those of a private corporation.

This would necessitate tho acquiring of the freehold of all licensed premises, either by agreement or lgal compulsion, and the purchase of the leases, stock, good-will, and fixtures of present license-holders. This is to be done by means of a special loan, and the municipal authorities, having acquired control of the business, are to conduct it with a view to the public interests involved, and out ot the proceeds pay the interest and requirements of a sinking fund for the town, and turn the balance into the Treasury to bo divided equally between tho education rate and the p'bpr rate. The Town Council of Birmingham, by a vote of 46 to 10, has its- desire -to adopt the plan, and the Board of Guardians have given it their unanimous approval. The House of Lords committee recommend that authority be given for a trial of the system by such local authorities as desire it; FRUITS Of RAPID TRAXSTT. no timo during the past seven years has building in this City been so active as at present.

Although the influence of the elevated roads has not as yet mado itself felt on the West Side, as it has on tho East, there is a great degree of excitement among up-town property-owners and real-estate operators. In the up-town district on the lino of improvement new ground is constantly being broken- for houses.and rows of houses. and the streets adjacent thereto, from Sixty-socond to Seventieth streets, presents 'a scene of great activity. Some forty or. fifty brown-stone, houses are in' various stages of completion, while many more' will, it is understood, bo started in the tamo neighborhood within the next thirty days.

Speculators are eagerly looking out for every chance of securing property at prices current six months ago. The region of the greatest activity lies) between Fifth and First Sixty-third and Seventy-ninth streets. In this district and east of Third avenue large plots of land, running well into the acres, are held by.the Jones, Lingdon estates. This property is now coining on the market for tenement flats and sAali second-class dwellings. Rccentlj'-sold lots on Sevonty-second-street, near Socond-avenue, belonging to the Jones estate, are now being improved.

-Seventy-second-street, which is a portion of the so-called Eastern Boulevard, and forma the principal avenuo of approach to the Park from the east side of the town above Fifty-ninth and below Seventy-ninth street, will be the sceno of much building during the present Summer. Mr. Lenox owns tho sixty-four lots, or four between Seventy-first and Seventy-second streets, Fifth and Fourth avenues. They cannot be bought at market rates, and willj Consequently, not bo improved, as Mr. Lenox himself does not build.

We hear, however, of recent sales of lots on the south side of Seventy-secotid-street, between Lexington and Fourth avenues, and on the north side, between Lexington and Third avenues, all of whieh will be immediately improved. Arnold Constable aro digging out on tho north side of Sovcnty-seednd-street. between Lexington and Fourth avenues, for a row of seven brown-stone houses. The whole region from Madison to Third avenue is being rapidly built up. Many improvements are in progress on Lexington-avenue and the streets adjacent thereto, between Seventy-third and Seventy-ninth streets.

The success which has attended tho operations of those builders who last Spring commenced the building of small, elegantly-finished brown-stono houses in that region has attracted the attention of a cluss of builders with money and credi during tho last five or six years, have been lying idle. Withfew exceptions, all tho small first-class houses lately built between Sixty-fifth and Seventy-ninth streets. Madison and Lexington avenues, aro sold or rented. We speak of houses worth from $12,000 to $10,000, and this is moro especially the class of honso which sells and rents in this very active and growing part of tho building district. Large 25-feet front houses ahove Sixty-fif th-street drag and hang, while small and medium-sized ones say, ISJi, 18.9, or 20 feet front, sell readily when offered by good builders at fair prices.

Tho reason is obvious the small house appeals to a very much larger class of buyers the number of people able and willing to pay 13,000 for a house is moro than double that of those who can afford to pay $25,000 or $30,000. The exodus from the lower to the upper parts of the City is likely to be greater than ever before known on next moving day, that is, May 1 next. All the up-town region as far as Yqrkyille is now. immediately available fof small dwellings, which canLe sildawetnunerative rates as soon as built. In two or threo years tho whole East Side, south of Eighty-sixth-street, will be covered with ono solid mass of bricks.

and mortar. Unimproved property; in this locality, which, two or throb years ago, owners would have boon glad to sell at any sacrifice, has within tho last few weeks bovn withdrawn from the hands of agvnts. who have- boon vainly endeavoring to sell it. Tho Huocessful accomplishment of rapid transit has attracted tho Attention of a better class-of builders toward the up.towo building district. They enu buy land on the most favorable terms for cash, and inclose their buildings before Jooking out for a permanent loan, thoof nitm art.

legitimate speculative buildor. tLey build houses to sell, but they build tlium solidly: and substantially. Man witii cash in Land ean to-day buy lots paying ay 20 pfr ewitodawa. ai.d balance oii inortgagel-at sueh low' ratf aa Uut t.a uiudtratU -JJ th heavily-mortgaged akin buildings in their neighborhood. phere are certain 25-feet.

houses on, upper tadison-avenne, erected by a skin builder on building loan, wbjieh are mortgaged for considerably'more than it would eost to bar land one block above iand erect houses ot similar site, but every way their superiors in solidity of build, elegance, and style ol finish. During the last four years by far the greatest portion of thejspeculative building has been done on building loans, by men of small means, and not infrequently by men of neither means, credit, nor responsibility. Prudent builders kepi aloof from the market, on gradually declining values for land, labor, and materials. Since 1873, what may be' called le-gitijmate speculative buildingjias been comparatively at a stand-still. Rapid transit has brought the region about Central Park and the iower part of the City within twenty-five minutes of each other.

During the coming Summer the building district will present a scene of bustle, labor aud enterprise rarely known even in this Metropolis. A ride in crowded horse cars fron City Hall Park to points north of Six-tioth-sireet has come to be regarded with about the same feelings as was years ago the ride in the omnibus to points north of TwOnty-third'-street. What omnibuses and hore cars have slowly accomplished in the way of building up tho City in the pasy steam and the elevated roads will accomplish more rapidly iu the futurei forso-car lines will continue to prosper and flourish-; their necessity wiH be even greater than before the introduction of rapid transit, and their use for local business in short trips" will render their service fully as profitable as it has been in the past. The combination of these two modes of transit will ino doubt render New-York the -best served City in the world every inch! of her real estate will enjoy the benefits iof perfect accessibility and will be equally desirable for business or residence purposes. The ehief objection to the elevated railroad system, and one which time caniiot fail to justify, is- that of its perishable nature.

It cannot be regarded as other than experimental and temporary ill its character. That we shall, in a not distant future, have an underground road from City Hall Park to Forty-secoud-street, connecting there" with tho Fourth-avenue improvement, there can be little doubt- Such a road, built on a solid foundation, free from all obstructions, and not exposed to tho inclement weather of our severe Winters, could carry from to 60,000,000 passengers a year between the Battery and Harlem River, at the rate of forty miles an hour. No surface or elevated road could successfully compete with it. Will Mrj Yanderbilt complete a cherished plan of his late father, and bring City lHall Park and Central Park within ten minutes of each other by means of an derground road uu- Th puerrilla warfare which the hill tribes of aro fid to to witting cgalnst tho English stationed there Is a fresh example of those teaming and uselesi small wars upon whieh KUL'lanJ has wasted blood and treasure tor ytan past Without glory and without gain. Ever, since the Indian mutiny of 1S57, almost every other year has witnessed some expedition against one or other of theL swarms of human mosquitoes which borer along the lodges of the Himalaya.

The Looshuls, the Kqpkns, th Abor-DofBas. and others too many to naiue, have all offended and been chastised in turn, only to rexume the offensive as soon as the efiVet of the chastisement has died away. To soch a height has this adnoyance risen, that a veteran explorer, who knows Northern India and its peopla by heart, recently asserted, ln the coarse of eonhreesation. that nettling short of absolute extirpation can remedy the evil. "Let the Government," said he, instead of wasting men and powder, jnst offer a bounty for every head brought in, and these fellow would exterminate each other in no time.

There not one of them who woaldn't cut the throat of his best friend for a sufficient reward." Tula straightforward method, however, though it has been successfully employed elsewhere, is, perhaps, a little too meUhuval for civUized diplomacy. Any; person who lives to be 00 Is very apt to survive nearly all the friends of his youth, and when he has; lived to be 70, he finds very few of the intimates or acquaintances he has enjoyed In middle ago. liastlh to ttO or HO he is destined to a kind of isolation as respects affection or sympathy which Is very painful, if he have any sensibility or lore bf Lis fellows left at so advanced a period. Gohlg beyondUO to 00, for exainpie. as Mine.

PattUl. sos-iiujiApABTS has done he survives all his contemporaries; he bfcomos a human anachronism. When ahe dies, as she will, doubtless, within a week or two at farthest, the last direet connection with the fatnily of the great Napoleon will be broken. She h4 outlived everybody, and almost everything. Her hatband, tho youngest brother ot who her at 19 and lived to be 70, has been dead l'J years.

All the actors in the great wart of the French Emperor, every character in that gran and startling drama of v. hleh be was the hero, appear now to belong to ancient history. Elizabeth Patterson, the pretty daughter of the rich Baltimore ncrehant, was married 12 years before tlie battle bf Waterloo. Xapoleox was then Firvt and Jcsoaa Boxapaute was only a Lieutenant tn the French Navy, his imperial brother hot then having power to, knock down the anointed sovereigns of Europe and set up the mem. bera of his family in their stead.

Aftor Waterlog, Mme. PaTtekson-Boji apabte attracted wide attention In Pari from tha most distinguished people. Wellington admired her beauty Talleykaxu complimented her; Miaa Dl StaEL called her lovely. A few yfora ary the secret correspondence reciting the negotiations which, lji was fondly believed, would result in placing on jBsTSFV shapely heaa one of the ravlthed crown Napoleon was preparing to distribute to his brothers, was found, it is said, among tbe rubbish of a Baltimore rag-shop, and It would read strangely by the light of subsequent Americans are in such perpetual haste that some 6t Ihem do not take time even to get married, most peoples, whatever their urgency or lmpaiirnp are willing to pause long enough for the tying of ae-puptud knot in the ordinary conventional fahio. Women, who set great store by the mere weaaing ceremony, could be very rarely oor- suaded ti be in tho least precipitate at that particular tlow.i But there are exceptions, and aere la ene ot them Tbe other even leg a young woman en gaged a auction on a sleeping-coach on tbe Pennsyl vania tUilway at PWUborg.

informing the conductor that she wanted to be its euie occupant until she bad reached Uarrlsbur, After leaving Altoona she roee trota berlbfcrUt, and. made an elaborate toilet that ia, a toilet as any woman can max ua-der th tiioonvenlent and dispiriting circumstance iuseparkjil from sleeping coach. She thea told the conductor thati sometblne would bauneit wh. they shiiuld hat arrived at llarrUbarg. fib tl- peeled tq meet thefe.

the added, with many blush and great piwrnt delight, a young man, who was a splendid fellow, ali th wurld to bar. and oa ct the noblest ii tu the World. Buderslood, of rourse. the lmmadialelr lseTf4 eoaanblal tymplom. At llarrliiturg.

as had beea apprised, lb splendid f4U.wb did nut show his avleuduf to the ob- ditotor tord4 the train la ouuipany with a etotsy suaa ad a f.w aad la a misat they wr oftV While they wr deaaui oa at tha rata of ISO (ullaaaa jaeur, the, service was performed, aad yauarf eofevl apAr4 so very asi-sr that las sraW- al uDdutu wutd to relate the isalt il hi ae BaiXawM vita a jaaiaUc 4 laarriaca vwy rasuaa. neatly bejram. Bat a AldaV Be iarty taU Mrasslf. with a saraonte walla, let thea. tad It torthewlTMi i1 i The many Americans who have visited Japi wlthia a few yean Japaa I only aero the fwaur) way.

reauy aeon oxmst saw via auup sawswwaom --aararjeaaatraek B7 tba alaaeat faulravaal prra teae of tb dlt lyttsa tstra ili Toil, Tab. aama. Nagasaki, Kaaaatawa, Bikodadl. ta all elUn and tewus wbethar Via; or littla, at tvetela, mtaaa aata, aaepa. bar-rooms (ireilil so frta, ly fixed that it i hard to par aasa, Waea Jroa bay anrthlng, tha alerk saleemaa yaeutf yoa wiii a eArl wti Brash lix pad la whieh yo writ the article, tu prV.

aad four aasna, aad tbe thing s. day. la fact, yoa b4 bo moaey tor any erdlnary purpoa as til th and of tha raonta, wkaa red Uoav -daUyearcAt7aa4bglaar'gala. to eentd very dUhenorabl not to pay yoa cirita. If yaa not, your aam la hoag up oa tho wall of tl tablishment wboco you aro In dobt.

and can cot. nothing- moro tboro. Still, la Japaa. as la everr aoarler of tho atoba than aro person, ana woe a lew, wno ooa payi aad who. whea shut oat fro us.

oa place, go to aaothor, and make freah bllla. Thytiata as bad as bad eat V. It. iJ.I- L. II I mnflltr.

It bnrta tha maaf who aeta it as wall as t-Va principle, to encourage oxtrayagaaea, to dn'J laost bility, to waaJteacharaatos. Hundreds, yaa tboa, sands of persons in Japaa to-day bar loot than sense of Integrity, aad all idea of financial prorap. wo would not bar doaa so bat hot taia pa. nirioos order of credit. Tb caatom aroa aoasa Tar ago, from th scarcity of small ehang.

whlek 1 1 1 ,1 cnang aounuana tae eastoni continue, wixn na signs of disruption or decay. Tradesme aad rry, hAV .1,. t.ff.. Mttatl h. 1ft Itavlnv kl IK.mJ -A each year, a number of debt not only but uncollectible.

Business newt- will Bo, and nv an any sound or desirable basis la Japaa antll -a thorough roformatioa shall have bea instituted i-- It was in June. 1839, that the first dog- show was held ia England. It was organized at New. castle, aad In the following r-iovember tb first an. Aivviwy ui un uhult n.in uuj uov.ubi ms The JO years which hare alapaed arne thea have scale which bear oomparlson with any instlt.

tlon that ha grown up daring a similar period, both a Ih. Imiuirit.M IS M.h nil al by reason of the gradual Increase of its supporters i and friends. Tfea Crratal Palaea show at 1-170 ni i i i a i rr 11 for th iruldanea of bench shows and nek founded mostly on tho racing and coursing rules, are almost precisely tha aam as thos in as in this couutry. It Is.doubtful If tho eomlng show will mm aimvm mm uw Ni.u imi uiai.j mitw a. 1 al.

1 UTT -V. much to do with Ha success, for hi nam alone wag a great attraction. The Rector of Choadlo did not, however, come to New-York merely to witness a nwK Mtv vim wnw juusjv w. mm 'ill ill 1 in order to apply, certain knowledge which be has acquired, aad in whieh ftf person equal him. to IKa laMlaman nt th.

ntiaaftlAii alka. Ikta nw V. a other neeimeo waa really the better, and toaastsf in improving tb breed ol dogs generally. 4 Besides looking after tho caulne race at OUmoro'a Gardea through th week, th reverend gentleman exercised on a Sunday, so that hi visit la likely to remain ta a tb dat of an epoch ln the history aUk of American uotrs ana men. i a 05 is a popular an mnL He nftan holds rvt.ltl.tn nf pii at mnA raanna.

aibillty, guarding the-property of his master by I V. Jt 1 1 TT 1 Li distinction which all human belacs cannot bo said to enjoy. It' makes him an agreeable companion for his own sake that la, he is liked aal loved oa hi- own merit, without the alicbteat defleeting la nf intarut n.l.Manahla uwuwv wa a vawa.vuA.. Ul 1 I And yet it a earioua fact iht the dog not onet inntioned resoectfolly or Uuderly or Ubdly in tb whole Bible. Tbe horee flanirtM Kmndly on Job poeuc tzAnwu to ox inu am are weiu spoxea waa nw wj ear imici assaaaao -a 9B W1M1 LI rV aJ fc sU tha Terr dre-i and ofTaMonrin7 of nticla.n tahlnirsv JlfaR.

SUTRas THE TCNKEL CONTBOVEE6Y JJEABLt' KKPEO DETAILS OF TBE AGEEEXEST, TO BS SIOKED. Sam Francisco, March 31. The eompromloa between the mining companies of tb Comstuck Lode and tb ISutro Tunnel Company was to' bav been brought to a conclusion this morning, bat delay was caused by th absence of papers from the Yellow Jacket Mining Company. The preamble recites the pricing! umisnt of March. 1WC b.

tween the Gould aad Curry and Sutfo 1 unnel Com panieK, and oeclares all tb mine interested ta adjusting the difference. It Is provided that thi tarsia I of tbe original agreement have been complied with by eah party. 1ha main tunnel Is eonsiderej-to constructed aecording to the terms of th original agreement, bat provision I mad' for th eonatrac tlon of a sub-drain wlthia 90 day, water ahaE be seat through tb tunnel until th end ot i0 days, unless th sab-drain 1 sooner ready. Lateral tunnels, eight feet wide and Seven fee, high, shall be constructed on running north to a point about 500 feet eaat of th Utah shaft, and one sooth to a point about 200 feet west of the New Overman haft work on them, to commenced wlthia DC days and poshed diligently. Deflection may ba made from the regular course ot tb lateral tan nets If unfavorable ground ie encountered.

Tha raining companies agree to advaue )70 a foot of the lateral tunnels, payment to bo made on the 5th of each month on the work done during the preceding esvl-endar month, each of th eompaniee may eoa struct a lateral tunnel along It own claim, being credited therefor at th same rate. Th companies are to-tw repaid thea advances by a ded action ot one-half of the monthly royalty oa ore reduced or old. The royalty I redunod from S2 to $1 a ton cm or yielding not over 40 a ton of 2,000 pounds. Mine lying between th California and Cbollar ahull bo conxiderrd drained whenever the tunnel is ready to receive water from the mines now connected with it th mines north of th California and south of th hollar to considered drained, when tn lateral tunnels reach their respective centres. Mining com-Das lea are to make sworn returns of the ore produced each month, with tho yield of ballion, and pay charge thareoa by th 10th of -each succeeding month, No mine shal allow any other mine not included in the agreement to so discharge it water that it eaa pumped into the tanneL Proviaioa I mad the construction of an outside parallel drain whenever it ia necessary.

Mr. 8utro think that th tunnel will be ready for as within 60 day. estimates that th daily output of or after th mine ar drained, and tb connection with the tunnel ar made, and cross -cuttings under way. will arerago 3.0OO ton, of which 500 ton will be ot the latt yielding over $40 a ton. He make at present ao estimate of the revenue likely to arise fnm th ns the tunnel for transportation, furnishing firewood, timber, eompreeeea air.

water for power, irrigation, mill supply, beside what may be reaJ-iiv-d from the grant of ground oa each eid of th tnnnL whieh will be vigoroaaly prospected, but i of the opinion that it will aggregate before long a very large amount. At tbe annual meeting of th eVatro Tuna! Coja pany to-day. tb fol rowing officers were elected. President, Elliott J. Moor; Vie-Preatnt.

C. Brush: Directors. P. 9. Low.

i. 3. William, Alexander Weill. Patrick N. MaeKay, and John F.

Miller; Treasurer, Laiard Frerer General Sapecln tendent. A. Sutro, Secretary. Pelham W. Ajuea.

THE S'JE WAXK COXFEliXXCE. Port Jebvis, N. Y.i March 31. The llrtd business of th Nwark Methodist Episcotal Confer PC this morning wa tb appointment of a Coar mltte. on th Confennc Board of Church Extension.

Tho following wero eontinned Jtev. Ht. Tomoff, of Kcw-Hampahirt Iaaac Croas, Waahint ton, IX Dr. John Porter, Buiiingtoa, S. I4 Joeiah F.

Can Held. Springfield, 11L; James Ayera New-Provldenee. N. J. Kemarks were mad by Kev.

Dr. Porter. 11 waa aUtionod at Pbiladeiphia la 1 180a ia 134 ho married, and ta brata-rn at that plae lafonaed him that the could aot afford to have air married la tha district, bat if wa willing- to remain forU amoant was reeelriag as a inca tDan. WW year, they would petition tbe ibop to ratals hita. He implied thst be txalieved la itinerancy, a woald bo uo party to aay agoAlatloa.

He wa astst to N-nrark. Hi wife wss a native of Bartttteei. -N. aad has nrada that plae hi hoaaa. 1 llpaaaiy waa selerlod- a th pise for th aaxt ar Stun of the Co fereoc.

A memorial eerw-e wa held ia boBorof th lata Barthoieraew Weed, wk was H6 yvars old wha a died oa Jaa. ft. Urn had.) beea Vi yaara ta th miatAtry. i mm SOrXCSlTXK TOR TUB WiBA SB SOi IX yi lxoiAMAt-oiaia, March Foot Uin Coaaty Court ha refused appolat a for tha YaUlh aad a tha i A.