The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 2%, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorK Heratp. AWUSEMENTS. THIS EVEN'NG, FIFTH AVENUE THEATR, strest.— Tun PROVOKED Huszaxm Twenty-fourth OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—' TOMIME OF HUMPiY DoMPry, aeaterenrtgh ours LINA EDWIN'S art —l or ine Yoee THEATRE, 72) Broadway.—WiTcurs BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third st,, at ‘Tue Foows SRATES, enty-third st., corasr Sixth ay. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broat - AM APLACK'S THEATRE, Broatway ant 13h atrast, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 3th av. a Lara Kookn. ie ne oe. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, betwee Prince Houston #t.—La BELLE SAVAGE, Ps La 8T, JAMES' THEATRE, Twenty-ei: wih JAMES! 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S—Covgress: Tarif Tinkering 1 we senate; Chi. caso Relief Bill Referred tn te House; the the Army Appropriations—‘'ne Indian War: Important Despatch from Superintendent Ubituary—Pulitical Movements and he Labor Party’ Committee—Long t otes—Yachting Notes—Female Phy- TO-DAYS HERALD. F Leauing Article, of the Adwinistration—The Imme- Duty of General Grant'—Personat In- geliigenco—Amusement Announcements, 7-The Swamp Angels: New Perils for the Heraid Correspondent; Outlawed vy a Board Of kobeson Magistrates; He is Paroled by the Angeis and Presents Himself jor Arrest; Re- Jected as a Prisoner; Return to the Murderers’ Camp; Scuiietopians Seeking Revenge; The Dovohue, or Mequeen, to ve Murdered by Boss Strong's Brother—Buiish Universities Boat Kace—The Alabama ¢ ianus—Cable Teie- grains {rom England, France, Italy apd Cuba—Business Notices, S-Inieresiing Proceedings in the New York Couris—The Tenth Avenue ‘omictde—Mue nict al Asairs—The Jersey City fraude—Tam Many Reform—Mayor Hall: The HERALD'S Predicuon Veritied—The Bulls and Bears— Attempted Murder—The Brussels Murder— Bond Robbery—An Offal Outrage in South Brookilyn—Aquatics, 9=Financial aud Commercial: A Lull in Wali Street; The American Certiticates Made “A Good Delivery” in London; Pacific Mail Ke- pairing Damages After the Squail that Upset ihe Subsidy; Koopmannscnoupf Insatiate; Graceful Yielding of the Vanderbilt Party— New Jersey Legisiature—Sudden Death of a Merchant—Marriages and Deatls—Advertise- ments. 10—The Fasnions: Opening Day in the Metropo- jis—Troubles in St. Domingo—News from St. Thomas—Atfairs In Hay and Venesueia— Kairoad Excitement Out West—European Markels—The HERALD a8 a Detective—The Death in the Denustry—A Little Shot in Brooklyn—Pigeon Shooting—Shipping Intelli- avertisements, emenis. SeinCuts, Tne New Court Hovse anp ComprroiLer Green's Oprortuniry.—Half a century ago a hundred and fifty thousand dollars were con- sidered a large expenditure for a Court House for the county of New York. The present Court House, according to Comptroller Green’s report, in answer to a resolution of the State Senate, has already cost over cight millions, and the prospect is that its completion will require five millions more. Thirteen millions for a Court House in the county of New York! This reaches the amount that was required for the completion of the Capitol of the nation at Washington. What Comptroller Green should do is this: He has the opportunity to signalize his reign as Comptroller by completing the construction of the new Court House within the shortest possible period, No one who has the credit and the honor of the cily at heart will be- grudge an expenditure that will wrest the city from its present poverty of County Court House accommodations, and Comptroller Green is just the man to help the work along. Eanrt Granvitiz’s Seconp Note ON THE ALABAMA CLAIMS—THE AMERICAN CASE FOR Inpmrect DamaGEs.—A cable despatch dated in London this morning reporis, on Eng- lish newspaper authority, that Earl Gran- ville’s second note in reply to Secretary Fish's despatches on the Alabama claims case was delivered to Minister Schenck last | Wednesday, It as asserted that in this com- munication the English Foreign Secretary maintains his position against the American claim for indirect damages, which, it is said, he ‘‘repudiates.” He proposes, however, that the counter cases on both sides be lodged with the Geneva Board of Arbitration at the proper moment, and that this be done without prejudice to the position taken with regard to indirect damages. This looks to us like an attempt to return to the first principle, or the ‘‘as you were” of the drill of diplomacy. There appears an inkling of a more complete acktowledg- ment by Great Britain of the fact that there is “something” in the indirect damages case as presented from Washington; and evén that is @ good deal to gain New @ diplomatist like Lisanvillo, Moana eat verivwor, “mexico!” the Countorsign of tho Adminis. tration—The Immediate Duty of General Graat. When Robert J. Walker wrote his famous letter from Kansas to President Buchanan in reference to the condition of affairs preceding the adoption of the Lecompton constitution, he said “Cuba! Cuba! (and Porto Rico, if possible) should be the countersign of your or the first adventurer who lands on the coasts under the protection of alien guns, he becomes the citizen of a powerful State, and bas oppor- tunities for advancement and comfort and security. He wants a nation and a flag, and he can find them in the confederation which has already absorbed Texas and California. Apart from this there are political consider- ations which cannot be overlooked. Mexico, administration, and it will close in a blaze of | 8 she is governed, is a menace to our peace. glory.” This eminent statesman had felt the popular heart, and of his advice bad been ' | try, the aid he gave to the rebellion and the taken Mr. Buchanan's administration would have escaped the evil fame which bas gathered over it, Let us say to President Grant, in the spirit of the departed atatesman, ‘‘Mexico! During our war we saw how Maximilian, under French protection, occupied the cou.- | danger of war which we narrowly escaped. It required the subtlest diplomacy of Mr. Seward to prevent our government from send- Mexico! should be the connteraign of your | ig Sheridan with an army across the Rio administration, and it will close in a blaze of | Grande to attack Maximilian, and General glory.” President Grant’s foreign policy has been full of good intentions. destroyed by Sumner and Schurz ata time when they professed to be frieuds of the ad- ministration and republicans, and were so enabled to stab the President under the guise of amity. The trouble with St. Domingo was tha: the President sacrificed the greater to win the lesser, and failed to win either. Our policy with Cuba may have been prudent and wise. Certainly it has been courageous, for it has been regarded by the country with restiveness and anxiety. We have never felt comfortable about Cuba. Somehow the country thinks that Spain bas kept us under @ menace all these years; that we have been practically told that we have no power to interfere, and that any threats of in- terference would be gasconade, and might offend Spain. As to the English question, that splendid plume in the diplomatic cap of Mr. Fish has been sorely bedraggled by re- cent developments, We donot know whether we have a treaty or not, whether we are to have peace or not; and the danger is that the most splendid diplomatic achievement of the generation, and one that doos great honor to the President and the Secretary of State, will be overthrown. So that we are justified in saying that the foreign policy of the admin- istration will present fewer phases of interest than its policy in regard to the Indians, the finances, civil service reform, and the treat- ment of the South, And yet there is no Grant himeelf is belisd if he did not pat him- self on record as favoring that expedient. St. Domingo was When as calm and patient a man as our Presi- dent—fresh from war and dreading it—felt that the occupation of Mexico was a hestile act, what must he think of the danger which its condition constantly presents to the United States? If-it was worth a war to drive the Austrian prince out of Mexico, is it not worth a diplomatic effort to make it impossible for any future adventurer to occupy the country? Then, as to the Gulf, we must hold the Gulf as we hold Lake Michigan. Already the flags of seve- ral European Powers have footholds on its coasts and islands. We saw the immense advantages Nassau and Havana proved to the South during our rebellion. As soon as war was declared we found on the very fringes of our coast rebel depots of supplies protected by neutral flags and beyond the reach of our guns and our diplomicy. It is safe to say that the possession of Nassau, Havana, Matamoros and other ports by foreign flags during the rebellion cost us in money hundreds of millions of dollara and largely prolonged the contest. Now, if we felt thisinjury when they were simply neutral ports, what would be our condition if they were in the possession of a power with which we were at war? We can defend ourselves against Canada, because Canada is withia our military lines, But we cannot protect ourselves from the injury that would certainly accrue from Vera Cruz, Matamoros and the ports of the Antilles under phase of government policy so apt to attract a people as what pertains to foreign affairs. We are more interested, as a general thing, in what concerns our neighbors than in what concerns ourselves, As a people we are anxious to make ourselves felt in the world. The annexation theories of Jefferson, Jackson and Polk were of eminent value to the demo- cratic party, and the President, in overlooking the field and arranging the lines of his cam- paizn, will see that he needs strength in his foreign policy. We might, perhaps, urge him to follow Gov- ernor Walker's advice and interfere with Cuba. There we reach a hazy atmosphere. Can we interfere in Cuba without a war? Do we not see that Spain would be compelled to regard any action of this kind as war? Do we re- member that in a war, which would be purely naval, Spain has more ships cruising around “the Ever Faithful Island” than we have In our navy; that this Spanish navy was worthy to meet Nelson at Trafalgar, and that in an active maritime contest in any naval conflict except where our ports were defended by tor- pedoes we would be overmatched? We can estimate that a war with Spain would, even if we were successful, cost more than the amount necessary to purchase the island. We are far from saying that we should be deterred from interference in Cuba by the fears of a war if that action were to become necessary. The time may come, and that speedily, when the United States, in the interests of humanity, will be compelled to put an end to cruel, end- less, merciless strife. But the duty must come to us so clearly that we cannot escape it. It must come as an honorable, unavoidable duty. We cannot go around the world seéek- ing quarrels, and, however necessary it may be to make Cuba the countersign of the ad- ministration, every reason makes it impossi- ble at this time. The West Indies are gravi- tating towards the United States. In time our flag will float over the Spanish main, All in- dependent enterprises against St. Domingo, Cuba, Porto Rico and St. Thomas are unneces- sary. We take Cuba and control the Gulf of Mexico when we occupy Mexico. In that di- rection lies ‘‘manifest destiny.” If any considerations of humanity are to enter into our diplomatic relations (and con- siderations of this character underlie ‘‘the sympathy for Cuba”) they apply to Mexico. Here is a country blessed with all the resources and attractions bestowed upon any nation in the world. All climates, with their fruits; tecs; rivers and mountains and sea coasts attracted the Spanish adventurer and excited the imaginations of European monarchs long before the Hollander ascended the Hudson or the Pilgrim landed on Plymouth Rock ; sparsely settled, eight millions of people, in a territory four times as large as France; no government, no society, no security for property or life— this Mexico, blessed among nations, has been cursed among nations with the curse that seems to have fallen on Greece and Turkey and Persia. On one side of the Rio Grande we have a Power rising into gigantic stature and ranked among the first Powers of the world. Is there any reason why a narrow, tinction between Mexico and the United States—one sinking below what the Aztecs left it, the other keeping step with the progress of mankind? Certainly, if we are to be tempted by considerations of human- invites us like Mexico, The government is a scandal, The whole fabric is honey-combed and moth-eaten. Even the Church, which held the light of civilization during the darkest periods of history, and whose discipline and enthusiasm rescued Europe from the Muasul- man—even the Church has fallen in Mexico | into universal decay, Every consideration of humanity calls upon us to interfere, Mexico is our neighbor, We have shown what we can do with her by what we have done with provinces like Texas and California, We de- prive the Mexican of none of his liberty, as his mines which gave gold and silver to the Az- | muddy, running stream should mark the dis- | ity to diplomatic enterprises, no country | foreign flags, For the honor of an administration which needs some decisive, brilliant stroke of foreign policy to complete the splendor of its record; for the sake of that noble, but sadly-used Mexico, whose people cry for protection and kindness; for the true defence of our coasts and seas in the event of war; for every rea- son that can appeal to an upright statesman like Grant, we trust he will give his close atteniion to Mexico and establish a protecto- rate over the country. He can add no greener laurel to his fame or make any nobler contri- bation to the civilization of the world. As Napoleon said before he assumed supreme power, ‘The pear is ripe.” He saw his op- portunity and won France. The pear is ripe in Mexico. Let President Grant seize the opportunity and wina new claim upon the affections and confidence of the people. “Mexico! Mexico!” should be the counter- sign of the administration, and it will close in a blaze of glory. The Comptroller in the Markct—A Pleas- ing Declaration from Mr. Green. Comptroller Green yesterday paid a visit to Washington Market in company with the new Superintendent, and held a levee among the butchers, poulterers, buttermen and produce men of that interesting locality. These deal- ers, who have been so long the victims of official plunderers and have been so con- stantly compelled to submit to the most out- rageous extortions from the officials connected with that department of the city government that, like eels, they may be sald to have be- come accustomed to skinning. No wonder, therefore, that they extended a hearty greet- ing to the officer who has at last thrown around them the protecting mantle of official integrity, and who no longer suffers them to be blackmailed out of a good percentage of their profits, No woader that the batchers presented to the Comptroller their friendly knackles; that the poulterers crowed over his visit; that the buttermen were oily in their compliments, and that the produce dealers pro- nounced him the pink-eye of perfection, His presence created such an excitement as has not been witnessed in Washington Market in the memory of its oldest butcher, and the vis- itor was welcomed in a speech by a market- man, who, we are informed, ‘is also a hard- shell Baptist clergyman in regular standing,” and who thus unites the feeding of the body with the nourishment of the soul, In reply to the welcome of the sturdy Wash- ingtonians Comptroller Green made a neat | speech, in which he expressed some very and fertile haciendas ; a country whose wealth | gratifying sentiments. ‘Reform and improve- ment are synonymous terms,” said the Comp- troller. ‘‘Reform means improvement in all directions. It means improvement in our parks; it means improvement in our build- ings; it means improvements in our boule- vards; it means clean streets and rapid com- munication between one end of the island and the other. All these improvements must be made with a view to economy and permanent benefit to our citizens. The era has passed when nine dollara out of every ten could be stolen with impunity and dishonest men fatten upon pilferings from the poor, I am for progress—-progress in all directions—progress in markets—progress in everything.” The people of New York will read this profession | of principle on the part of their chief financial officer with lively satisfaction, They will now ; hope to see Comptroller Green championing and urging those broad and liberal schemes of public improvements so much needed in the metropolis, and, above all, they will hail him as an advocate of two splendid viaduct railways along the rivers on both sides of the city, to be built and managed by the government in the interest of the people. There has been an impression abroad that the Comptroller was disposed to be parsimonious in his policy and might lose sight of those great works demanded by @ wise economy and by the future prospects of the city, This popular error will now be re- moved, and Comptroller Green will be recog~ nized as a valuable ally in the cause of pro- liberty is simply Icense. We secure him peace and order, and instead of drifting in bis half barbaric way, at the mercy of the first clever bandit who takes up arma in rebellion gress as wellas of honesty, The taxpayers of New York are intelligent, enterprising citi- zens, and they will not complain of taxation for degixable objects, provided, ta the words of Comptroller Green, there shall be a “‘strict application of every dollar to the purpose for which it is designed, and not to fill the pockets of public plunderers,” The Necessity of Viaduct Railways for New York, and the Policy of Their Construction by the City as Pudiic Works. The experience of the present legislative session—without going back to the lobby oper- ations of former years—should be sufficient to convince our representatives at Albany of the impracticability of securing rapid transit for the city of New York through the instru- mentality of a private corporation. Every scheme that is pressed at the State capital has for its object the enrichment of its projectors, and not the interest of the public, and a valu- able franchise is asked at the hands of the Legislature only for the purpose of making money out of it for a ring of speculators and lobbyists. No regard is bad to the feasibility of the proposed work. It may be a one- legged wheelbarrow concern, like the Green- wich street humbug, or an impossible tunoel under Broadway that would upheave the city for ten or twelve years, destroy its business, tumble down half the buildings on the street, and end in failure at last, or a three-tier underground, surface and upper story pro- ject, about as practicable as a railroad to the moon. Such trifling considera- tions as engineering difficulties and a hundred or two millions of cost are cavalierly set aside; the plan amounts to nothing ; what is needed is the franchise and the money that is in it, either through the sale of shares to confiding simpletons or the black- mailing of the property owners. The stock, or the main portion of it, is divided up among the ring and the legislators, lobbyists and Bo- hemians who support the job, as in the case of the Pneumatic concern, and thus if the scheme were really practicable it would start with an amount of encumbrance that would render the construction of the road, from its illegitimate cost, of no value to the masses of the people. To-day the rival underground jobbers have managed to divide the Senate and Assembly between them—the one having “fixed” the Senators and the other the Assemblymen— and there is to be an attempt at compromise between them. That is to say, an effort is to be made to take the lobby, the legislators and the projectors all into one concern and make it big enough to give them all ashare in the spoils, so that if a compromise bill should really pass, uniting the corporators in ono franchise, the scheme would start in life hampered with a burden heavy enough to build a practicable railroad half the distance between the Battery and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, It is time that the honest portion of the State Legislature should look upon this subject in its true light and should set seriously to work to secure for the metropolis the much needed rapid transit through the instrumentality of the city government. It is notorious that a viaduct railway is the only feasible plan yet proposed or likely to be proposed for steam travel through the whole length of the island, and it is certain that in the best interests of the people it onght to be built by the city asa public work. By this policy, under an hoa- est government such as we now have and can retain if we will, the road would be con- structed at its minimum cost and run at its minimum expense, so that the laboring classes and citizens of moderate incomes would enjoy the benefit of the lowest possible rates of fare. In the hands of any private corporation the work would be loaded down with just such jobs as we now see developed in the Albany lobby, and the fares would be raised to the highest point in order to squeeze high dividends for the stockholders out of the travelling public. Besides, if the franchise be really a valuable one, there is no reason why the people of the city to whom it belongs should not enjoy the profit it would yield, instead of bestowing it upon a set of un- known lobbyists and speculators. It will be said that no public work can be honestly prosecuted and that the viaduct road or roads, if built by the city, will be made a huge-muni- cipal job. But the experience of our splendid Central Park disproves this theory, and we can point to that work to-day as having been always honestly and efficiently prosecuted under all régimes, even when corruption reigned rampant in the city government. Let us have honest men in charge of the building of two viaduct railways as a city commission of railroads—men of wealth and character, such as are now in the Department of Docks—and the work will be faithfully and economically done, the roads will be speedily completed, the whole real estate of the island will be en- hanced jn value, and the people will derive the solid benefits to which they are entitled from the roads, as they are now enjoying the advantages of the Central Park, Two viaduct roads are demanded for the ac- commodation of the population of New York— one to run on the west side of the city, from the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and the other on the east side, from the Battery to Harlem bridge. These roads should be built along the line of the rivers, either between the blocks nearest to the rivers or along the new streets contemplated in the comprehensive and admirable plan of the Dock Commission- ers. The alleged inconvenience of getting across town from these river roads is not worth consideration, as the speed of travel would render the trouble of reaching the cen- tre of the city from either branch immaterial. By means of such roads the working classes of the population would be enabled to reach the pure air of the extreme northern end of the island or of Westchester county in less time than is now consumed in making the journey between the Battery and Twentieth street. The river streets from the starting point of the roads through their entire length would be benefited instead of in- jured, and warehouses and wholesale business houses would crowd out the present shanties and tumble-down buildings and infected dis- tricts on both sides of the city. The assessable value of real estate all through the island would be materially increased, and the general rate of taxation correspondingly diminished, The health and morals of half a million of people would be improved by their release from the impure air of close streets and the evil Influences of overcrowded tenement houses in which the soxes are too often indis- criminatoly mixed together, There ia every reason, therefore, morally, socially, polltle cally and economically, why the work of rapid transit should be undertaken by the city, and why the two great roads we have mentioned—the East River Side and North River Side Viaduets—should be built and rua as public works, The prejudice existing in some minds against the city proprietorship of railroads is mainly fostered by the speculators who seek to secure for their advantage these valuable franchises, No sound argument can be ad- vanced against the principle. The Croton Water Works stand to-day asa proof of the wisdom of keeping these great interests in the hands of the p2ople, and not placing them at the mercy of private monopolies. Water would be an expensive luxury in New York at the present moment if its supply had been left in the hands of a private corporation. The Central Park we have already alluded to as an evidence of the fidelity with which an honest commission can prosecute a public work on behalt of the people. The steam railroads are, next to a full and cheap supply of water, the most important and valuable interest in the city to the masses of the population. Let them become the prey of a greedy corporation and they will be nothing more than a mockery to those who are in the greatest need of rapid and cheap transit; let them be built and man- aged honestly by the city itself, and they will be a blessing to more than half the residents of the metropolis. The English Universities’ Boat Match Said To Be “Ot.” The American people will be surprised to learn from the London telegram report which we publish in the He RALp to-day that the English Universities’ annual boat race be- tween the students of Oxford and Cambridge, which was to have been rowed on the Thames to-morrow, 28d instant, may not be contested, the match having been declared ‘‘off,” as we are informed, on good authority, in the British capital yesterday afternooa, This action was taken, it is alleged, at the instanca of the Oxford men, who refused to “tug the oar.” The resolve of the boys in ‘dark blue” will surprise our readers, should it be main- tained to a positive final perseverance. Both crews were, as will be seen by our statement of facts, well organized; the mon were of weight and mettle; Clasper and Salter were ready with the boats, the training was pleas- ant and continuous, and it will be really regretable if a full confirmation of the news of a public disappointment should be deliv- ered to us by cable to-day, The Oxfords have not been in ‘‘humor” during the past few years, Cambridge came out with ils more democratic muscle, which enabled its ‘‘men” to deliver the long and strong swing-stroke of victory. The results of the later contests were not, consequently, pleasing to the more aristocratic element of English society. The ‘‘race” itself did not enjoy the full warmth of the smile of royalty in 1871; so that, all things considered, perhaps it may be a fact that the ‘‘jolly good” sport of the British national ‘‘institution” of the Universities’ boat race has passed away with the glory of the ‘‘wooden walls” of their navy for the countrymen of Duncan, Nelson, Howe and Jervis. The very latest despatch, dated in London yesterday evening, affords hope that the race may come off, as arranged, to-morrow. The statement is perplexing, however, by its word- ing. It is not positive, nor, indeed, very dis- tinct. One may infer from it that the Oxford men did not withdraw from the strife, but that the Cambridge boys did; that the first report was genuine, but lacked actual confirmation, or that the rumor of withdrawal was a mere canard, such as has been set afloat in almost similar terms at different times on the eve of great sporting ‘‘events” both in the Oll World and the New. Harper’s Weekly and the Swamp Angels. That enterprising illustrated journal, Jar- per’s Weekly, in its current issue, evinces its appreciation of live topics by a number of capital sketches of the exploits of the Lowery gang of outlaws, as detailed in the graphic letters of the Herap correspondent, which bave evoked such universal interest in the mongrel Rob Roys of North Carolina, Por- traits of several of the gang are given, and will be found to bear out the pen and ink sketches of the HeraLp correspondent. Some of the most notable incidents in their careers are also picturesquely depicted. The daring and enterprise which have been exhibited by the Heratp writers in all parts of the habitable globe, supported by an unstinted expenditure of means on the part of this journal, are sufficiently re- warded in its services to the cause of human- Rac ity and in the applause of the civil- ized world. It is gratifying, then, to be able to point to another journal which in its own sphere exhibits its constant desire to keep pace with the prozress in jour- nalism of which we are proud to stand at the head. The admirable services which the cari- catures of Thomas Nast did in helping the overthrow of corrupt Tammany, displaying at once the talent of the artist and the resolution of the reformer, is a subject of which mention is now almost needless, In his current picto- rial attacks on the “‘sorehead” opponents of President Grant and his cartoon of the over- throw of the Erie Ring, he shows that his pencil and wit have in no wise lost their keen- ness by seeking other objects for their just scorn and ridicule. A live paper is Harper's Weekly Tnx ANGLO- FRENCH COMMERCIAL TREATY. — The government of the French republic has | resolved to terminate the commercial treaty concluded with England by Cobden and Bona- parte at the moment of its expiration. The formal notice.of renunciation, provided for in the treaty itself, will be served on the Eng- lish government and the instrument be per- mitted to expire by non-renewal, according to its own limitation. The French people ap- pear to be more in national accord with re- gard to the policy of taxing raw materials im- ported for textiles than they were some short time since, and the Assembly opposi- tionists have toned down very considerably towards the Thiers proposition, The Assem- bly committee was influenced in its action | considerably by a study of the system of the United States, as observed before and afier the Union war, as will be seen from tho facts which we append to our cable news telegram to-day. This action of Thiers and the repub- lic may produce most imyortant conscauences ja Kurope, | ‘The Bxportmental Ubarter in the Senato< What Is To Be Done with Now York? The charter of the Committee of Seventy Is to be reported to the Senate to day, it is said, with certain amendments, among which are provisions for retaining Comptroller Green and the Commissioner of Public Works, Mr. Van Nort, in the positions they at present fill to the satisfaction of the people. This is vory well as far as it goe:, but our citizens will be anxious to ascertain whether any material alterations have been made in those provisions of the charter that are regarded as of ques- tionable expediency and that propose a hagard- ous experimental goveromeat for a city of overa million of inhabitants, The retention cf Messrs, Green and Van Nort in office will, no doubt, meet with general approval, and probably no person will be disposed to inquire too closely upon what considerations and through what inducements personal to the legislators it has been brought about. There is something beyond all this, however, deserv- ing of consideration in framing a law under which the metropolis should be able to live for the next twenty-five years and fulfil the splendid destiny that lies before her. We despair of inducing the present Legislature to take a broad, states- maniike, independent and unselfish view of this important question, and to give us a strong charter of concentrated power and direct responsibility, embracing Brooklyn and all the otber suburbs in one grand municipal government, and providing liberally for such improvements and such progress as will soon become an imperative necessity in a city des- tined to become the commercial centre of the world. But we may at least ask our repre- sentatives at Albany to pauss before they fasten upon us a complicated and muddled form of government so signally calculated to foster corrupt bargains and dickerings, so susceptible of being used as an instrument of political schoming and fraud, that one might rather suppose itto have been the work of ® new and improved Tammany ring than of a committee of professed reformers. They can- not escape the responsibility that rests with them in this matter by simply patching up an arrangement by which two honest and capa- ble men are to be continued in office, and then following the example of the Assembly, to “let the charter slide.” If we are to have minority representation at allin the Board of Aldermen, secured by law, it should be throagh the instrumentality of some other machinery than the complicated and questionably legal cumulative voling ex- periment proposed by the theorists of the Reform Committee. For instance, if nine Aldermen are to be elected in each Senate district, each elector might be entitled to vote asingle ballot for Aldermen containing only six names, the nine receiving the highest votes to be declared elected. This would in almost every instance secure the retura of three of the minority candidates, and, in case of no choice of the whole number, the vacan- cies could be filled by the Board immediately after its organization. The idea of carrying out this minority and cumulative voting policy through all the departments of the government is the most dangerous feature of the experi- mental charter. Theevil of mixed and cum- brous commissions needs no illustration now ; it has already been proved by the practical experience of those hybrid metropolitan abor- tions that laid the foundation for most of the corruption and wholesale plunder from which the city has so severely suffered. Unless there is concentrated power and responsibility at the head of the city government and in all the subordinate departments there can be and will be no efficient and honest admiaistra- tion of our municipal affairs. There is surely some intelligence in the Senate of the State capable of grasping this important subject; let us see whether there is honesty and inde- pendence enough in that body to stand up against a dangerous experiment and to de- mand for New York city a charter under which we can hope to live and prosper. Caracazy’s Account or Himset¥.—Our St, Petersburg correspondent informs us of the reception of M. Catacazy by his imperial master and also by Prince Gortschakoff. The fussy little Minister, whose diplomatic course is run, was received very coolly by both. Prince Gorischakoff refused to meet the little man save in the presence of wit- nesses. At least so it was rumored in St, Petersburg at the time. The Prince evidently knows something of the peculiarities of the Minister. Gossip has it that he is now about to lay aside the cares of State and resume the journalistic pen, If he wields his goosequill with the same dezree of energy with which he usually exercises his tongue the chances are that he will have “his hands full.” But then Catacazy is a queer little fellow—he has such funny ways—and he is in his natural element when in ‘hot water.” Tur Brac Pyeumatio Tuse SWINDLE was up again in the Senate yesterday, We are not much astonished to find Mr. Madden de- fending this attempted outrage upon the city, after recalling his course on the Erie Classifi- cation Repeal bill. Senator James Wood's ac- tion does not surprise us either, but there should be a limit to shame. lessness. The honest Senators who, in the interests of the people, oppose this and all kindred jobs, will not be forgotten at the proper time. The three tier absurdity and the Gilbert monstrosity are also looking hun- grily for support. Let the honest legislators kill them off one by one and give us two via- Personal Intelligence. Judge C. D. Pace, of Gcorgia, has arrived at Earle's Hotel. Prof. E. N, Horsford, of Cambridge, has rooms atthe St. James Hotel. Charles H. Miiler, Secretary of the Japanese Em, bassy, with Vice Ambassador J. If. Ito and Commis. sioners Nakayama and Utsumi and four Japanese oMcers arrived yesterday from Washington and are. stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel, H. B. Jussamma, T, Okubo and Joshu H, Ito wit their secretaries, Messrs, Comatz and Oaara, together with their three attendants, will leave San Francisco, and thence to Japan, on April 1, Secre. tary Sugulwoora will leave the St. Nicholas to-day for Washington. Secretary Foukoutsi will remain a few days longer in New York, and then return to Washington, N. Na¥ayama, T. Wootsml, T, No~ mura, Commissi rs {rom Japan, lutend to leave for England noxt week. Mr. iwakura, the Coit Ambassador, is in Washington. His intention ta to visit New York, West Point, most of the Now Mugs lund States and oiler places Of interes) tm We country,