The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. SROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR aeeeeal THE DAILY HERALD, pwhiished every vay in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and . after January 1, 1876, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Heratp will be sent fres of postage, ; ncn All business or news letters and, telegraphic despatches must be aditressed New Youre Henarp. Letters ard packages should be properly Fealed, Rejected communications will not be re turned, oa ee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Votume XXXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING aE BOOT THEATRE, corner Bwenty-third street and “ixth avenue. —RIP VAN WINKLE, a8 FM; closes ac lo40P, AL. Mr, Jefferson, Siaiines atl P.M roma? ROME, Twenty-sixth staeet and Fourth avenue,—Afternoon aud evening. af 2 aad 3, WALLAGA'S THEA Broadway. THE SHAlLGBRAU We. Mf, Boucicault, Matnee i closes at KDEN. and Houston _ streets.— LIAM TELL, ac8 P.M. NIBLO® Broadway, between Pi PIZABKY, at 1:20 ¥ BROOKLYN ATHEN ACM, BEGONK DULL CARE. Mr. Frederick Maccape. Mailnee at2 P.M FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twency-cighth street and Rroadwa Hk HRART OP MID-LOTHLAN. ac 8 P.M. ; closed at 10:30PM. Miss Fanny Davenport, Mr. Fisher vM, ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, benween Brogd way aad Fitth avenue, — Variety, aig r. M, Matinee FM. BRYANT'S RA HOU: Weet Pwenty-third strect. near Sixth a MINSPREGmY, de at 3 P.M; closes at Bryant Matwee at? P.M. 4. NEGRO POM ban a @ STADT THBATRE, BOWKRY.—DTE FLADERMALSS. Lina Mayr. TONY PASTOR'S OPI Xo. 201. Kowerv.—-VARIBTY, at 8 Matinee ata. M. HOUSE. yctoses at lOP. M. SAN PRANCL Broadway, corner of MINSTRELSY, at 8 P.M. at2 P.M. MRS. 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Matinee at 1:3) P.M. second VPM, ACADEMY OF MU Irving piace, IL BARBIERE 9) Mile. vonaaio, signor De Bassini, GLIA, ats P.M. ormes, METROPOL Fourieenin street —( JM OF ART, ; closes ATS P. M. BROOKLYN ACA UNOLE TOM's CABIN ati. M ¥ OF MUSIC, Mrs. G. C, Howard, « RE VOMIQUE, No, 54 Broadway.—VARIKTY, at 3. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee at 2 ir. M. SSO0TATL P.M. Pr HA ssor Ko WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Thursday, Nov. 26, 1874, ry READINGS, at 3 penta. From our reports this mov the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be eb Watt Srreer Yrsrerpay.—Stocks at the close were generally lower. Gold, aftor selliog at 111}, declined to 111g. Money was easy at 3. 3] per cent. Nevapa is not a healthy State for journal ists, The ex-editor of the Truckee Reyrblican is the last victim, having been made a target tor pistol practice by some one who did not admire him. Tar GrassHorrer FERERS are sending a committee on to New York to solicit subscrip- tions, The plains of Nebraska being swept clean by the insect plague the people are in great distress there. Evacuation Day was yesterday marked with the usual honors of the occasion; but the 31st day of December will be an evacuation day in this city which will be far more interesting to the parties concerned than the evacuation of the British army nearly a hundred years ago, Tax Dmecr Unstrep Sires Capir will probably be laid and completed by the middle ofJanuary. ‘The steamship laraday, engaged in the enterprise, has encountered very rough weather, and it has been found nece: to bnoy the cable twice, The completion of the work is anxiously looked forward to on both sictes of the Atlantic, ~The President yesterday, having set down to the important work of preparing bis anousl Messags to Congress. We are gratified to hear that he intends to be unnsn- ally full and explicit in his views and reeom- mendations on the ¢ the tariff and the affairs of outhern States, Tur Parswens's Messace, Was not at home to visitors cy question, Tar Wasuiaron Conspiracy Triax, which has attracted such universal attention from the prominent positions of some of the parties concerned in it, has now reached its most in- teresting point, The case passed into the hands of the jury after 4 very interesting | charge by the presiding Judge, but up to midnivht a verdict had not been rendered, Misa | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 26, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT, Ramors of Cabinet Changes. A strong and widely diffused wish is a soil in which the drifting seeds of rumor easily take root, and the feeling that a reconstruc- tion of the Cabinet would be for the public ad- vantage is go nearly universal in the popular mind that expectation is kept on the alert, sometimes on ingufficient grounds. It gives Us great pleasure to state that we have ascer- tained by careful inquiry in Washington that the rumor of Secretary Fish's ill health is | happily not true, and cannot be assigned as a reason for his leaving the Cabinet. We should be sincerely sorry to have him retire from any | ! other motive than his unconstrained free will and sense of public duty. So long as he | chooses to stay we trust he may enjoy the | | vigorons good health which makes labor a | pleasure and smooths the rough edges of official lite. While we should regret to see Mr. Tish compelled to retire from pub- lic life by the state of his health we | should regret even more to have him give out | as a pretext anything different from the real | reason, which isa kind of dealing with the | public of which we believe him quite incapa- ble. Mr. Fish will always act with perfect | | sincerity and candor, and the certainty that | he would not affect an illness he did* not feel | ' caused the recent ramor to excite an anxiety which we are happy to dispel. It is not Sec- retary Fish but the republican party that is sick, and there ia little chance of its getting | well without more radical treatment than | simple rest and quiet. Sincerely as we rejoice to be assured on the best authority of Mr. | appointment of Mr. Blaine as Secretary of the would look like a retreat by the President from the bold position taken in his veto, But Blaine’s skill as a political manipu- lator may be thought worth purchasing at high price. President Grant probably cares little for the Reciprocity treaty, and Mr. Blaine’s views on that subject would be deemed no serious objection to putting him at the head of the Cabingt, He understands the temper of Congress better, perhaps, than any other man in the country, and could exert more influence in procuring such legislation as a reconstructed Cabinet might think desir- able. Mr. Blaine would be a strong accession to any Cabinet which undertook to mould or recast the politics of the country, and a great contrast, in this respect, to every mem- ber of the existing administration. We think, however, it would have been a wiser stroke of policy for the President to have carried out his first idea of recalling Mr. Waghburne, Washburne is not so adroit and shifty a politician as Blaine and might have less influence with the only Congreas the republi- can party will control during the remainder of General Grant's term; but as an old and tried friend he might be expected to give more disinterested advice, and he would naturally have a stronger hold on Western public opinion, But Mr. Blaine has courted the West as far as he could without forfeiting the confidence of the East, Grant is to change his Cabinot he has a right to make his own selections, If Blaine is more acceptable to him than Washburno as re | Fish’s good health we do not change our opinion that it would be a_ wise {and patriotic act for him to retire | from office, and thereby force a com- | Plete reorganization of the Cabinet. Mr. | Fish has none of that sordid love of office | which clings to it for its own sake. Its | emoluments are nothing to him; he spends | ‘many times the amount of his salary to main- | tain the dignity of his station; he isan ac- | complice in no Washington jobs, and the only | motives that can bind him to office are a sense | of public duty, love of honorable distinction and personal friendship for General Grant. | ; None of these motives should have any great | force in the present condition of affairs. The | \'traest friendship tothe President, since the | | recent great disaster to the republican party, | would be to smooth the way for him ,to make a new bid for public confi- | | dence by reconstructing his Cabinet. A | ! senso of public duty cannot require Mr. | Fish to retain his place when our foreign relations are not critical and might safely be | committed to a statesman of less experience and prudence. On the other hand, the do- | nestic politics of the country are in a most | | critical, and, as regards the success of Presi- dent Grant's administration, a niost alarming | state. S.cretary Fish keeps studiously aloof | from domestic politics, even in his own State. He must be sensible that a vigorous, aggres- | sive and dexterous politician at the head of | the Cabinet would be of great service both to | the President and the party. No immediate credit or éclat is to be won in the manage- ment of our foreign relations, either by the Secretary who conducts or the administra- \ tion which is responsible for them. Mr. Fish evinced sagacity and sound judgment in his wish to resign at ' the close of the year in which he negotiated the great treaty by which the Alabama claims were settled. There was no period at which ‘he could have retired with so much dignity | and reputation ; but he allowed himself to be | | overpersuaded by the President, and so long as the administration retained its popularity he lost little by staying ; but his laurels will wither if he remains attached to an adminis- tration which the people have condemned, and which, unless something decisive is done to redeem it, will go out of power covered , with obloquy. Mr. Fish must take his full share, unless he escapes it by a timely retreat. | By remaining he can benefit neither President Grant nor the republican party, and, least of ‘all, his own reputation. He would be fully justified in retiring from a position in which | he can win no farther honors and risks his well-earned fame. The Mullett difficulty is an indication of want of stability in the Cabinet. We do not choose to discuss Mr. Mullett’s qualifications as an architect, but it is quite certain that no man wh» stands high in that profession would serve the government for the paltry compensa- | tion of four thousand dollars a year. If Mullett ‘is a skilful architect he must be piecing | out his salary with illicit gains. It is churged that he is in clandestine copartnership with “Boss” Shepherd and various contractors, by which he levies a private tax for his own | benefit on the work and materials of public buildings in all parts of the country. should turn out that Mullett’s rings are an overmatch for Secretary Bristow, | and if the self-respect of the latter should compel him to retire, a fresh disgrace would fall upon the administration, to be shared by all the remaining members, and among the | rest by Secretary Fish if he were still at the head of the Cabinet. If Bristow gocs out in consequence of his quarrel with Mullett Secretary Fish will sink with bis remaining associates whom he cannot buoy up. Pru- dence, foresight and patriotism alike dictate his retirement, especially as his resignation would force an immediate reconstruction of the Cabinet. The romor that Mr. Blaine would be called | into the Cabinet if Mr. Fish retires needs to be received with distrust, what the administration most needs in this crisis. But Mr. Blaine, having had other objects in view than a Cabinet position, j bas done things which seem qualify him either of the only two places which he could consent to accept. The President is more or less committed to the Reciprocity treaty, which Mr. Blaine has de- nounced with unsparing severity, in the hope, as was stpposed, of courting the vote of Penn- sylvania in the next Republican Convention. for would imply a change of front by President Grant on the reciprocity question, but he might think it better to postpone that subject than allow the party to drift tocertain rain, There is an equal obstacle to putting Mr. Blaine at the head of the Treasury Department. In flation question he acted the part of a trimmer, whilo the President took decided ‘ground avainst the Weatern views. The | sel employed at their expense. | possibility of clearing anybody under like cir- If it | Mr. Blaine is one | of the most dexterous politicians in the 1- | publican party, and astute politicians are | to dis- | the struggle at the last session on the in- | Secretary Fish’s successor, if Mr. Fish should retire, the Heraup will be too glad to see greater political vigor in the Cabi- net to make any captious remonstrance, wasa favorite saying of the first Napoleon that imagination rules the world, A change of Cabinet would have an inspiring effect on the hope and courage of the republican party, not only by acting on ita imagination, but by the solid, visible’ advantage of giving the political tools to men who can handle them, Mr. Fish, with his training and experience, would doubtless conduct an important nego- tiation more ably than Mr. Blaine; but there are no important negotiations in prospect, and Mr. Fish cannot be compared with Mr. Blaine for shrewdness in home politics, the quality in which the present administration is | most wanting, although the salvation of the republican party depends upon it, A change is indispensable in another view, if the President wishes to retire from his great trust with honor. There is an odor of fraud hanging about several of the public depart- ments, and although President Grant has no complicity with the alleged breaches of trust he cannot be ignorant of the charges, some of which come very near home to persons en- | joying his official confidence. By a thorough change of his Cabinet he would break up these disreputable connections if they are real, or break up the damaging associations in the public mind if they are fictitious, and in either case he would relieve his administra- tion of a heavy load of imputations. He needs not only to strengthen and purify the public service, but to disinfect and sweeten the popular imagination, which last cannot be accomplished, even if the first could, with- | out personal changes fitted to arrest attention Senteace of Schwab, Schwab, the convicted liquor dealer, who | sold Rhine wine without a license and at- | tempted to evade the penalty by swearing in court that it was not wine, but German cider, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Bar- | rett to thirty days in the City Prison and a fine of two hundred dollars. | This case is of considerable interest in several respects, In | the first place, it is a warning to ‘multitudes of others who are selling liquors in this city without license that it is time for them to stop. | They must now see that they cannot disregard ‘the law without greater danger than an prudent man should encounter. Schwab's cause was espoused by the Liquor Dealers’ Association, and defended by very able coun. | If there was a cumstances Schwab would have been cleared. Every liqnor dealer who has heretofore sold without license will jast ax certainly be con- victed on prosecution if the mere fact of selling can be established to the satis- faction of a jury. Every pradent friend suould advise them to procure a license at ouce or abandon their business at once. As Schwab's is the first case of conviction Judge Barrett stated tiat ho gave a milder sentence than may be expected for such offences hereafter, ond hee would have been still more lenient and have made | the penalty merely nominal, in con- | sideration of this being the first conviction his testimony, and come as near as possible | to perjury without quite committing it. We | advise all dealers to suspend their business until they can procure a license ; but, if any one should expose himself to prosecution, | tet him understand that it is a costly business to swear that Rhine wine is not wine at all, but only German cider, and if President | It | | of the kind, if Schwab had not prevaricated in | Undercurrents in European Politics. The Republic of yesterday contains a sug- gestive despatch from London, which, like many despatehes from abroad, hag more value than appears on the surface, Foreign affuirs are controlled by influences that do not always make themselves manifest to the run- ning reader, What we regard as an event is frequently only an indication. The Republic tells us that some leading journals in London attack the Seoretary to the Metropolitan Board of Police “for sending detectives, at Bismarck’s instigation, to the London office of the New Yorx Henaxp to track the Von Arnim corre- spondence.” This is a secondary matter in itself. The spectacle of a Prime Minister, the Chancellor of a great empire, busying himself about the secrets of a newspaper office has more value from what it suggests than in the event itself, It shows that the German Premier sees more in the Arnim controversy than a mere effort to enforce a criminal law. If it were simply @ question affecting the liberty or the honor of Count Arnim as a nobleman and a citizen it would long since have been remanded to the jurisdiction of the courts, But, as we have all along said, Bis- marck, like Wolsey, is making a terrific struggle for power, and not only power for himself but for his party. A minister in Prussia like a minister under the Tudor kings, may be said to recall Byron on the Bridge of Sighs. There is the palace and the prison on each hand. The contest has never really affected the honor of Count Arnim, No one has ever supposed that he, a great nobleman, a member of an illustrious and powerful family, indirectly connected by lerns, ambassador from the imperial person to two of the most important governments in Europe, Rome and Paris, could really have made himself amenable to the law against com- mon larceny. There was at one time such a pretext, but it was too monstrous to be pursued. Our latest despatches printed this morning show this. Bismarck cares | nothing for Count Arnim. He sees him only as the representative of a principle and a | party—the principle of nationality and the party of Germany against Prussia. Bismarck has achieved splendid résults as a minister. No such man has lived since the great Na- poleon, But he has never been more than a | Prussian. For centuries his ancestors have served the Hohenzollern princes, and he has simply carried out the traditions of Frederick the Great Germany should rule Europe, Prussia Germany and Bis- marck Pruasia, The Emperor was only a mere symbol, a pageant, the weak Louis behind Richelieu, tho stubborn, shallow Henry behind Wolsey. leon in the daring of his genius he has been like him in his blunders. As Napoleon en- deavored to dominate Europe so has Bis- | marck. He does not see that after all, in this world, the work of one man is only given to one man, no matter how gifted, and that so long as there is a,God in the heavens and nations on the earth Napoleonism and Bis- marckism are impossible. So we see a party rising up in Germany which naturally clusters about Arnim. It is liberalism against absolute imperialism. no secret that the head of this party is the present Imperial Prince, Frederick William, son to the Emporor and heir to the throne. Bismarck evidently sees end with the life of the present Emperor, who | is now nearly eighty years of age. The Im- | perial Prince, if we rightly understand his | policy, sees clearly that there is a Germany beyond Prussia which will not always lie at | | the feet of the Hohenzollerns. The uneasy | ' activity of Bismarck meddling everywhere, in | Rome, in Bavaria, in Spain, in Paris and now in the London office of the New York Henarp, is akin to that restless spirit of Napoleon,-who ' believed he could only found his Empire by | constant war. So for twenty years he spurred | France from one bloody field to another, al- | ways victor, but always growing weaker from | the blood shed in «victory, until she fell from | sheer exhaustion. Unless Bismarck is checked | Germany may likewise fall. In ten years | she has had three wars, and: war is now more | imminent than ever. Against this policy the | revolt must come sometime. When it docs | come where will it end? Napoleon may have | uttered a prophecy when he said that in fifty | years Europe would be republican or Cos- ; sack, His term has just expired. The tele- | gtaph, the public school and newspaper have | | made the Cossack impossible, but they have ‘made the Republic more and more probable, | with ominous clouds, but behind them we | sce shining the sun of republicanism, | Europe republicanism means peaca, Nor do | we see how there can be lasting peace with. | out it. The Mallett Muddie, It is evidently ‘a very pretty quarrel as it | stands,” but if the exact issues were more | clearly defined and the partics were more | | plainly seen the case would be followed by | | the public with greater interest, Boss Shephord’s relation to it is one of the points marriage with the blue blood of the Hohenzol- | Like Napo- | the party of Germany against Prussia, of | Itis | The immediate future of Europe is dark | In! made in the ring interest, fish tatarauy | terest on mortgage one thousand and Atty begins to believe that he has already been there too long. : Thanksgiving Day This is Thanksgiving Day, the appointed day of social reunions, family dinners, active charities and general thanksgiving asa people for the blessings of the year. It was an exclusively New England institution before “the war;'’ but it has become a national fes- tival. Under the old slavery régime the cele- bration was regarded down South as a Puritan- ical affair, too closely allied to abolitionism to be adopted or recognized. Under the new régime of universal liberty and equal rights Thanksgiving Day is appointed for the length and breadth of the land in a proclamation from the President of the United States, This day, therefore, from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific coast, from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the sources of the Mis- sissippi to the outlet of the Rio Grande, that magnificent native bird, tho turkey, will super- sede in the honors of the festival the broad- winged American eagle, The imperial tur- key will this day through all the land be lord of the table, excepting the great plains, the snow-capped Rocky Mountains, and thence to the Sierra Nevada, where, perad- venture, the bison, the antelope, the elk, the big horn or the grizzly bear will take his place. We say nothing of Alaska, where the polar bear and the walrus are always in order. In this city-the day will be a particularly welcome one, rain or shine, to the thousands | of the unfortunate under the care of our benevolent institutions and charitable soci- eties; and thousands of other unfortanates outside the pale of these beneficent organiza- tions will donbtless be made glad by the timely generosity of.their prosperous neigh- bors. And so we hope to report to-morrow a general and happy observance of Thanksgiv- | ing Day in ond from Manhattan Island and the extreme East to the orange groves of the far South and to the iron-bound coast and the Golden Gate of our Western Ocean. An American Cardinal. A oable despatch printed in The Republic of | yesterday morning announces that His Holi- | ness the Pope has resolved to elevate two of our Roman Catholic priests to the rank of cardinal. It is said that this honor, the first ever conferred upon an American prelate, will | be given to Archbishop McCloskey, of New York, and the Bishop ‘of Pittsburg. Some European cardinals will also be created, ; notably Archbishop Manning, whose valiant defence of the Papacy against Mr. Gladstone has given him a new claim to the affections of | the Holy See. It has long been felt that the | Catholic Church in America, by virtue of its loyalty, patience and fidelity, has deserved | some special recognition from Rome. The | | Pope has been gracious enough to say on | | many occasions that in uno country is the Catholic Church so free ag in the United States. The only objection to the appoint- ment of an American cardinal is the fear that to sustain the dignity; that creating as it does | an office with the rank and courtesies of a | | prince, such. an office would be incompatible wise and does not need this supreme honor. But, on the other hand, it is held by wise | the Church in this country is not ripe enough | with republicanism, and that the Church is | also more of a missionary church than other- j dollars ; for insutance, rates, repairs, &c., say, two hundred and fifty dollars, or a total of one thousand nine hundred dollars—rather a heavy amount for a person who owns his residence, and actually more than he would have to pay for rent if his money invested in the hotise had been put out gt interest in stocks or bond and mortgage. Yet whenéver there is an attempt to decrease our ruinous tax rate by cutting down the departmental estimates a loud cry is raised by tho munictpal politicians in’ opposition. The Board of Aldermen have recently distin- guished themselves by adding to the estimates cut down by the Board of Apportionment and asking for still heavier taxation, The Board of Apportionment shirked its duty by its fail- ure to reduce the estimates to a much greater extentthanit did, If those of its members who profess to favor honest appropriations do not resist all these additions and insist on further reductions when the estimates are again be- fore them they will prove that the economy they professed last June was only a spasmodi¢ virtue. —_$_______. A Gross Ourrage has been committed In Spain on the correspondents of the Hurap and Times, who wero arrested in defiance of their passports and afterwards subjected to revolting indignities, They were released yesterday, and one of them was rearrested for using threatening language toward the Mayor of Fontarabia. But it is supposed that the civil action against him for this oifence will not be pressed, FERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Pleasant delusions—The pablished quotations of the market price of poultry. What's the word ?—Turkey ! ( All his janissaries together could not defend the integrity of the Sick Man this day. His port is suolimer to-day than ever. General Sherman left the city last evening [op his home in St. Louis. C. J. Taylor will edit the Forkvitie Argus, a proe jected east side weekly. : Mr. J. B. Lippincott, of Phitaaetphia, is regise tered at the Hofman House, Senator William B. Allison, of lowa, bas aparte ments at the Brevoort House. Ex-Yenator James M. Thayer, of Nebraska, ig sojourning at the Astor House. - The republicans could not ‘unload” their party, but the people have discharged tt, Congreasman Charles Albright, of Pennsylvania, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Pity we cannot apply the bell puncn principle to legislators and public officers generally. Sefor Mardi has been appointed head of th Spanish financtal administration of Cuba, Mr. Randolph Rogers, tho sculptor, will salt for Europe to-day in the steamship Pommerania. Ex-Governor Thaddeus C. Pound, of Wisconsith is among the latest arrivals at the St. Nicholad - Hotel. Hon. Lyman K. Bass, member of Congress elect was married yesterday afternoon, in Bufalo, tq Miss Fannie Metcalfo. At the present time the countries subject to the Emperor of Russia are equal in extent to one-sixti, of all the “Iry land.” : Mr. Bancroft Davis, United States Minister ta | Germany, who has been in Paris a few days, leaves that city to-day for Berlin. * Mullett is gone. Now wiil some one take down thas little meretricious dab of gold with which tha new Post OMice is disigured * ‘The flags were gay on the City Hall for Evacua> | tion Day, but the most Joyful evacaation there ‘will happen on the 1st of January, Mr. Wililam Robinson, Governor of the Bahamas, arrived from England yesterday in the steamship | City of Montreal, and is at the Clarendon Hotel. there is any need of the office of cardinal it ig as necessary to America as to Italy. Fur- thermore, it is unfair to America, as a great Power and ranking politically with the great- est of Powers, that she should be considered’ | and independent Catholic thinkers, that if | that he must | | work while it is day, and that his day will | ‘The coffin makers in convention nave uman« {mously resolved that cremation is contrary to every principle of right, honor, justice and truth, M. Liais has left Paris: for Kio Janeiro, with the apparatus for the organization of an observatory that will be one of the most complete im: thé world. : as a simple missionary field like Patagonia or New Zealand. There is also the fear that the government of the Holy See is passing into the hands of a ring of foreign prelates, mainly Italians, who countrymen and ignore great nations like England and Americg, An illustration of this is seen in the appoin‘ment of a young | Cardinal Bonaparte—when a young, intel- | lectually indifferent and obscure priest, sim- ply to please his cousin, the Emperor of | the French. If this great honor could bo | given to gratify au emperor it could also be given to gratify a nation. The Pope seems to have grrived at this conclusion, New York will rejoice to see tho dignity of cardinal bestowed upon the Arch- bishop of New York. The end may be a} Yankee Pope. With one of our wide-awake Yankee priests in the chair of St. Peter the controversy between the Holy See and Bismarck would take another turn. Taxpayers and Politicians. Some of our city politicians are taxpayers. In the former character they are persistent in their demands on the heads of depart- ments for appointments, contracts, tickets and other official pickings for their frionds and supporters. In the latter capacity they are constantly growling at the rapid | increase of debt and taxation. Yet they know that the principal cause of the heavy expense | of the city government is the pernicious sys- | tem of making the municipal departments , almshouses for the relief and support of Anoraen New Parry was started in Indian- | 0f Which there can be no doubt, and another | political adventurers, and that for this sys- | apolis yesterday, but theve is little chance that the new-born infunt will live long enough tocry. The platform of these hopeful gentie- men contemplates the abolition of the national | banl's and the replacing of their notes by an equivalent amount of gieenbacks, inter- changeable back and forth for federal bonds. | This is a specimen of the crop of wild | parties that would spring up if the republican organization should disintegrate and dissolve, But we expect nothing of the kind. There still remaing in the tepublican party vitality enough to fight a strenuous battle for the next Presidency, and all these small erratic factions will be absorbed, in the progress of tho contest, into one or the other of the great parties, Since the practical extinction of the+liberal repub- | licans and the farmers’ granges as political | His appointment to the Department of State | | organizations the prospect iy sleuder indeed | for any new party until after the next Presi- dential election. Tor New Anny Racisrer, which will be | published by the Adjutant General ina fow days, will give a lamontable exhibit of the | effects of reducing our military force to a mero | skeleton. Some of tho departments have been cut down to such an oxtent that thetr oxist- ence apams to be at the moat shadowy kind, obvious point is that there is 9 difference of | opinion between Boss Shepherd and Mr: | Bristow as to which of them is Secrotary of | the Treasury. Is the Prestdent a neutral? Is he merely a benevolent spectator of the | | intrigue and the conflict, utterly indifferent | which may win? That would uot be a very | proud position, but we are compelled to hope itis no worse. Grant's undisguised support of Shepherd in a former emergency, when he was brought to a sudden halt by the Senate, suggests the possibility that the man who ‘‘sticks to his friends’ may once more bo found in company that can do him no honor, And if Mullett only represents Boss Shepherd, and Boss Shepherd has on ally in tho P resi- dent, it not only follows that Bristow is | of the sin of being one to three. Itis o great differences, and we hope that Bristow has not fallen into an error of that sort. lation is worth watching. Fish's alarm indi- cates one consequence. He is anxious to get away before things come down with a run. If Bristow prevails it will be the second public rebuke of jobbery to which the Executivo bas made no open opposition; but if the others vrevail it will bo a change of tha Cabinet guilty of the sin of having more virtue than | his betters, but it also follows that he is guilty | blunder not to be the stronger party. in those. ! But the so- | | tem they are themselves in a great measure | responsible, Not a single department in the | city government is conducted as an individual | would conduct his private business, Some of them are more economically and more hon- estly managed than others, and show a decreased expenditure from the prodigal rule of four years ago. But the best of them, if confined strictly to the expense necessary to the proper discharge of its official business, could be run ata greatly reduced cost In many of the departmonts one half the annual appropriation is so much plunder taken from the public treasury for selfish and corrupt | purposes, | Thirty-seven million dollars is an enormous | Amount to raise in one year by taxation in a city like New York, without providing for the payment of a twentieth part of the portion of | the public debt falling due, while no works of public improvement are in progress, and while even the repairs necesary to keep the streets in passable condition are neglected or obstructed, The tax to cover this amount, after deducting the receipts from city and county revenue, is three por cent on nll the taxable property in | the city, A man who lives in his own house, | osseaged at twenty thousand dollars and mort. | gaged for fifteen thousand, will have to pay | next vear fox taxes wix buadred dollars: for ins | give Church honors lavishly to their own | member of the Napoleon family—the present | labor | M. Lucas was saved from falling into the river by. the loose end of a@rope. A great many have been saved from falling in the same way, but they didn’& enjoy it. Mary Hanley, female detective, has obtained a reward of $1,000 forthe discovery of the mure | derer of Charles Goodrich, whose murderer ts ume fortunately not yet discovered. There are 8,000 men on Strike inthe Pennayls vanta coal region, and they kill one another at the average rate of fivea day. If this continues the amicted community will have peace in a little ever four yeara. ART MATTERS. Brooklyn Art Asseciation., This association, which has done so much for the advancement of the interests of highart in Brooke lyn, will hold its twenty-ninta reception om Mon- day, in the art builaing of the Academy of Music, Arrangements have been made to secure a splen- did collection of native and foreign works for exe hibition. | Aaseltine’s Collection. Last evening a private view of the large coulec- ign of pictures belonging to Mr. Haseltine was offered to a large number of invited guests at Leavitt's art gallery. The collection ts very large und the works are of every vartety of merit. Among. the more important will be noticed “The Right Path,’ by Merle; “Toe Buriat of the Bird,” by, Lejeune; “Tne Serenade," by Escosura, and ‘‘fhe Garaen Kamble,” by Laintio. Quito a number of well known artists are repre- sented by works of less importance. The collec- tion willremain on exhibition for some weeks, when It will be disposed of by auction, Goupil’s Gallery. The winter season has been opened vigorousty at this gallery by the simultaneous exhibition of a number of very important works by distinguished American and European artists. George H. Bongns ton sends one of bis largest canvases, “The Heir Presumptive.” It ts painted in his best style, with ail the pleasing harmony of atmospheric effect for which he is remarkable. In the foreground am old gardener leans against a young sapling while he stops !rom hts labor of raking up the dead leaves tosalute the approaching heir. The cen- tral figure 1s @ delicate and dignified por who evidently ianherits all the pride of blood whict be- longs to noble ancestry. Tho time chosen is even- tide, in the autumnal season, and the glow of tha setting sun mingles with the gray of evening, pro- ducing that tender sentiment which Is the great charm o/ Boughton’s style. “THE BRIDAL PROCESSION,’ by Gustave Brion, will repay attention. It ls res markubly rich {n color. ‘The costumes of the Alsatian nis being biended with remark- able aki grouping is well done and the Painting strong and vigorous, ESCOSURA, “re ‘ A large canvas is employed by this famous ar- tist to show how Rubens painted Marie de Medi- cis, Itis remarkably brilliant in color, and has something of that happy touch of humor which impelled Zamaois to paint “The Education of ® Prince.’ Marie de Medici is evidently more 1 terested with & parrot and hor lapdog than at the artist or his work. She has AA forgott My the existence of both, and is engaged playing wit! her pets while the great artist rests inactive unt! it shall please her to remember her existences The way in which the flesh tints are painted recall the work of Rubens himself—there is the same freshness and suggestion of animal Ii! ing Marle he has imitated most suc style of the old master, “SHEEP IN PASTURE.” An admirable picture, (ull of sunshine, sheep are painte landscape displays a combination of imagination) and power of representing actual nature seldom found inthe same work. The hazy summer at- Mosphere has been produced most successfully. and without any apparent effort, “THR BEACH AT SCHAVENINGEN."? In this canvas summer daylight effect has been) most successfully rendered, Tho groups of fashlonables in their elegant costumes are made to contribute to a seaside picture of unusual merit., Exception might be taken to the richness of the toilets, which seem scarcely appropriate for sea aide lounging, A large number of other cele- brated painters are represented, bat reference ta, their works would occapy too much space, Th with @ masterly touch, and th