The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Your HERALD. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters ard packages should be properly | sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Eubseriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. seeeNO, 305 “AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Froadway, corner of Twenty ninth ‘street.—NEGRO | MINDIRELSY, ats P.M. ; closes ac 10 P.M, ROBINSC Sixteenth street.—BEGO cabe, GLOBE THEATRE, Broadway.—VARIETY, at $ P.M; Closes at 10:50 P. M. GERMA NI Fourteenth street.—W1N THEATRE, LSCH RHIBER, aceP Mw LYCKUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—CHILPERIC, at 8 | VM; closes at 10451". M. Miss Emily Soldene, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Rroadway.—THE SHAUGHRAUN, at 8. M.; w40 P.M” Mr. Boacicault closes at WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Pee street.—THE CAR PENTER oF SROUE N, at 2P.M, ARRAH-NA-POGCE, arsP. M.; closes at 1045 P.M, J. H. Tinson. METROPOLITAN THEATRI a he Broadway SV ARIETY, arse. MM; NEW PARK THEATRE, 5 oy street, Brekiya Tease sap THE CLOCK, at 8 ; Closes at 10:45 P. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Fifty eighth streeL.—CIRCUS, at 8 P. M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, nos i Broadway.—VARiLTY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 1045 | GRAND OPERA HOUSE, third street and meee seeaues -—-THE BLACK a6 oP. M.; closes at Trent CBOOK, TONY PASTOR'S gv HOUSE, Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. : closes at 10:45 P. M. PARK Tl TRE, Broadway, between Tren eas and Srpony srgoes \ streets, GILDED AGE, at 8P. Mr. John T. Raymond. THEATRE COMIQUE, a Broadway.—VAKIETY, at8 P. M.; + Closes at 10730 P. BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty: third street and Sixth avenue a THE | HERO OF THE HOUR, at8 P.M; closes at 10:40 P. M, Mr. Henri Stuart. BROOKLYN ATHENZUM. CONCERT, at 8P. M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sxth _ str Fourth ‘avenue.—BLUE HEATED and FETE AT FOKIN-atwermoon aud evening, at 2 ane ee ats TIVOL! Eighth street —VARIE I FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Tygntyoienth street and Broadway.—A NEW wars a2 D DEBTS, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. Derenport BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street. near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at 8 P. M.; cloves at 10 P.M. Dan Bryant METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ¢ oF oF, Fourteenth street.—Open trom 10 A. P.M Broadway.—JACK AND SHEL, ite P.M. BROOKLYN THEATRE. Fgehineton street.—MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, at P.M Mr. Frank Roach, Mrs, bees ical WITH ‘SU PPLEMENT. NEW YORK, “MONDAY, DEC From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clearing and | colder, BER 2, 1874, Zur Vea dtung.—In Veriiefidtigung des | Groen Sntereffes, weldes die heutige Ausgabe | bes , Herald” befonders fiir dem dentid) reden- den Theil unjerer Lejer haben diirfte, diene den- felben hiermit zur Nadhridjt, dak mod) Eremplare dicfer Nummer in unferem Surean 3 haben find. Frepentick Tarren would meet any stan- dard of excellence that Mayor Wickham may choose to adopt in reference to the succession to Comptroller Green. ‘Tue Van Buon affair has apparently ren- | dered the path of the burglar very difficult. | On Saturday night one of the ‘‘craft’’ re- ceived some severe handling at East Jamaica, LL, as seported els elsewhere to-day. Mayor WickHaa 9 would gratify republicans | and democrats by the nomination of John Grenville Kane to be Comptroller in the place | of Andrew H. Green. A Sap Drowntno AcctvEr is | reported in | our columns this morning. Three children went on the frozen canal at Bowertown, near | Paterson, N. J., during the absence of their | mother, fell through the ice and were drowned. The mother had to seek her children beneath the ice when she returned from market. Tse New Mayor would commend himself to the admiration of business men, witbont | distinction of party, by appointing Edward | Cooper to be Comptroller in the place of Mr. | Green. Mr. Cooper will not accept. Is there no way of showing Mr. Cooper that nothing would gratify the people of New York so much as the acceptance of this office by Mr. Cooper? Tae Accwenta, Suootise of Captain | Bourne, of the Brooklyn police, yesterday, | was @ sad affair. The Captain was showing a reporter some pistols, who took one up, and, while testing the spring of one of them, | anfortunately shot the Captain through the heart. Tae Tiwpen-Kecix-Wicknam-Grrex Com- | promiss.—In reference to the rumors of a sol- | emn compromise having been effected between | Comptroller Green and Governor Tilden, John Kelly and Mayor elect Wickham, whereby the first named gentleman is to con- tinue to hold his present position until 1876, itcan be authoritatively stated that they are HALL, DULL CARE Mr. Mac- | E, H Closes at 10:30 closes at 10:30 | \ France. | to overthrow the power of Rome. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1874.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Arnim—Blood and Iron—Martyrs and Their Uses. “Count Von Arnim arrived in court at five o'clock in the evening, leaning on the arm of his son, looking very pale and haggard. The crowd rose sympathetically as he entered the room, and remained standing until the presiding Judge asked the illustrious accused to be seated.” The above words, quoted from our special Berlin despatches to-day, form a strange picture and teach # universal moral. When Jesus Christ was brought before the high tribunal, bound and scourged and crucified at last, the very sepulchre in which He was placed became the birthplace of a new idea for the world. To kill Him was the fatal error of His foes, for they could not kill the spirit of His doc. trines. Thus Christianity was born. Then, in its infancy, the apostles were persecuted and slain; but out of their graves the religion rose with new strength and fervor. The per- secutions of the Christians under the Roman emperors followed, and the very acts of cru- | elty which were intended to exterminate the sect added immeasurably to its numbers. | Through persecution Christianity became / so powerful that it turned upon itself, as when the Catholic Church in the Middle | Ages exacted too much of the people and | Luther was made possible. Protestantism | arose out of the tyranny of Rome and swept through England like the plague, and poured through Germany as the Nile fertilizes Egypt | with its floods. In France the persecutions of Catharine and St. Bartholomew made the Protestants more strong, and Milton's appeal | in behalf of the Waldenses— | | Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose | Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold— has had its answer in the history ot Europe. Protestantism itself became tyrannical, and | the emigration of the Huguenots to the Caro- | linas had its counterpart in the emigration of | the Pnritans to New England and the | Catholics to Maryland. The Puritans in | their turn persecuted the Quakers, and so in | time constituted that sect a power, to tyran- { nize in its own turn over other faiths. Always | in history persecution has defeated its own | purpose and the martyr inevitably becomes | the founder. John Brown was hanged asa | helpless, lonely telon. Yet only a few years | afterward the song which bore his name in- | spired the Northern armies as they marched | into Richmond and through Georgia to the | sea, He died single, but his resurrection | was an armed and conquering host. It has always been so, and must be, and no | example of this law is in our time more strik- ing than that of the arrest and trial of | Count Von Arnim. This eminent man, it is now confessed by his enemies, had com- | mitted no crime, and yet has been treated like |a criminal He was arrested as if he had | been a traitor, imprisoned as if he had been a wretch like Kullmann, who attempted | the murder of Bismarck, and subjected to indignities which only a traitor or a mur- derer could deserve. He was proclaimed before the world to be not only false to his | sovereign and his country, but to be a com- ‘ mon thief, such as may be seen any morning | im the Tombs. The attempt was made to | Tain bis reputation and destroy his influence, ‘even before he was tried, and it so far succeeded that the world was | for a time persuaded that Count Von Arnim | had indeed committed some startling offence against the State. Nothing else could be | inferred from the extraordinary severity with which he was treated. But the moment he is brought to trial the fabric of the prosecution falls to pieces. The principal charges are de- clared by the Court to be unfounded and his vindication is complete—not the less so that he is nominally punished for an offence which every one understands to be ridiculous. His real offence was that, in behalf of Germany, he opposed Bismarck, and his real triumpb is that Bismarck has been beaten on his own chosen field. Persecution has again failed, and in this case has not even the fleeting glory of a temporary success. Bismarck might have learned from history the folly of his | course. He has simply repeated the error of all men who, becoming great by serving the people, imagine that they are the people } and that national greatness is embodied in their own lives. Cesar did this wrong to Rome; Napoleon did it to France; Grant, three months ago, would have done it to’ America. Bismarck would be the master of Germany, not its ser- vant; but the power by which he rose may be the power by which he will be destroyed. The nation will revolt against a policy which has for its fruits the acquisition of territory, the creation of religious feuds and the concen- tration of power in the hands of a single man, | who lifts an empire to crush s personal foe with its weight. These are the results of the policy of blood | and iron. But is there to be no end of this | policy? Germany saturally asks this ques- tion as she remembers her three wars, and | sees a new issue which may be more terrible | in its results. It was thought. that the | humiliation of France would usher in an era | of lasting peace; that the feud of generations | haa been fought out; that_ the _ Father. | land, “where Germa is the’ name for | friend and Frenchman is the name | for flend,’”’ had at last been consolidated. But | no sooner is the war with France at an end, | and with on appalling loss of men and treas- ‘ure, than a new war is threatened. The | patriotic spirit of Germany was invoked to ‘ aid in national unity and the destruction of The religious spirit is now invoked The mean- | ing of this new summons is that Europe is brought into a position akin to that before the Thirty Years’ War. A great crisis is im- pending, Mr. Disraeli hints it in the tone of prophecy. Victor Hugo relates it in the thapsodies of his verse. Evanglical clergymen pray for it. The Protestant nations are called upon to be ready to do battle against the | woman of Babylon. In the meantime the | Pope, who, with all of hig infallible wisdom, is not the best tempered of mon, showers anathema after anathema upon all who would raise a hand against St. Peter. In Germany, in France, in Russia, in England, but one voice is heard—the voice of the drill-master. ‘The manhood of Europe isin arms, The in- genuity of its artisans is taxed to make more terrible cannon and easier means of army sup- ply and transportation. The Parliaments in Franceand Germany vie with each other in the alacrity with which they vote money toarm the country. The policy of blood and iton utterly devoid of truth extends over the Continent. Germans find that peace has not come after so much war, and thousands are flying with terror from the threatened aspect of new wars to the protect- ing shadow of the United States. It is not at all unnatural that Germany should protest against the continued policy of blood and iron. What comfort, what peace, what repose can remain with a people who expect at any moment to hear the drum-tap which summons their sons to war. A proud and valiant race will make the ultimate sacri- fice at the call of patriotism. That is a noble phase in our civilization. The Frenchmen did so when they marched in ragged battalions against the combined armies of Europe. The Russians did so when they preferred to die in the ruins of Moscow than live under a foreign sword. The Germans did the same when, under Frederick, they fought the allied power of Russia, Austria and France. But the proudest and most valiant of men will shrink from an endless series of wars. Napo- leon, the greatest of captains, led his armies of Frenchmen, the vainest of people, from one glory to another until the earth was covered with French glory, hke an aurora in the heavens. But even France, loving war and fame, and commanded by the supremely gifted captain, even the France of Napoleon the Great, mutinied, and, when the enemy came into Champagne and Paris, sullenly refused to drive him back. Many wars had made the nation weak and weary, just as many wounds will break down the sturdiest frame. So it is with Germany! Three wars in ten years; three glorious, advantageous wars; so much blood and so much iron, and still no peace! Alas! no sign of peace; only the tramp of armed men, the clank of the armorer’s ham- mer, the voice of the drill-master, the beat of the alarming drum, the daily summons to the barracks and the exercise ; anger and menace in Parliament, hatred in France and envy in Rassia—nothing but “blood andiron!” This is the present aspect of the Fatherland. The effect of the persecution of the Count Von Arnim will be even greater in the future than in the present It is not Bismarck’s fault that he is not a political martyr; and the failure to ruin him utterly, to make his name infamous in the annals of Germany as that of Arnold is in our own is the beginning of the decline of Bismarck’s rule. As on the shore at night the lightnings flash and flicker in answer to the flames that leap from the storm at sea, so the Germany which is in America will flash back its indignant answer to the Fatherland. Every German who reads the despatches we print to-day will make his infla- ence felt in Europe. Every German at home will feel the stronger and act the bolder for the sympathy of America. Bismarck’s fatal blunder in reviving the persecutions by which other empires have fallen and by which all great religions and faiths have been estab- lished marks the beginning of a change in Germany and a new era for Europe. Hitherto the world has seen only the strength of Bis- marck and the splendor of his policy; now it is to behold the weakness of the man and the fundamental error of the theory by which he rules. The Church and Its Modern Teachings. The Christmas season influenced the ser- mons preached yesterday in this city and Brooklyn, but, unfortunately, the heavy snow, which blocked up the streets and stopped the cars, prevented many persons from attending the churches, as usual. The Rev. Dr. Hep- worth preached upon the “Outlook from Bethlehem,” his argument being principally upon the civilizing influences of Christianity, as contrasted with social conditions which were not based upon its truths. The Rev. Mr. Frothingham uttered some rather heter- odox ideas concerning the opinions of Christ, and defined His spirit as one of glad- ness and joy. It is instructive to see how modern clerical teaching dwells upon the brighter side of our religion, and almost altogether evades allusion to its threats and terrors. Mr. Beecher is famous for this kind of preaching, and he rejoices in the sunshine of the Gospel promises with a zeal which shows how repug- nant to his nature are the old ideas ot hell and eternal pain. We think of Mr. Beecher always in connection with birds and flowers and music, as if he should speak from a bower rather than a pulpit. Yesterday his theme was patience, a virtue of which he has recently made a close study. Mr. Talmage can deal out the penalties of the Scriptures when he thinks sinners,need it, but yesterday morning he yielded to the spirit of the Christ- mas holidays and furnished his congregation with a list of amusements suitable for Chris- tian people. As the agent of the Almighty he said that he would servea writ of eject- ment upon those who have squatted upon the domain of earthly pleasure, and argued that ordinary sinners have no right to enjoy themselves in preference to good Christians. The Rev. Father Mc- Glynn’s eloquent sermon at St. Stephen's was devoted to the uses of frequent com- munion. Dr. Wild spoke of the birth of Christ, and the Rev. Father Morrill, of St. Alban's, also dwelt upon the miraculous story of Be hlehem, These and other sermons will be found reported elsewhere; ‘pat we would point out the notable fact that the ca mlur old fashioned ‘Preaching of the doc- tmnes of punishment for sin has almost en- tirely disappeared from the metropolitan pulpit. Our clergymen make religion 50 agreeable that it is really a sacrifice {o remain a sinner, and we are compelled to consider those persons very foolish who avoid the churches, when they might so easily obtain the assurance of heavenly joys without giving up a single respectable worldly pleasure, Ivy Mayon Wicxuam would like to know who would make an acceptable Comptroller iet him take John J. Cisco. Icetanpic IMMIGRATION IN ALASKA.—A com- mission of lcelanders who recently visited our remote territory of Alaska, for the purpose of judging of the adaptability of their country- mev to its climate and the character and extent of its resources and products, give the results of their observations in @ report to the President of the United States, published elsewhere. They were very much gratified with their experi- ence, and Alaska is apparently in their eyes a land of blooming promise. It is probable that, with this encouragement, considerable immigration will flow thither from the hard- toiling nation of Iceland, and we shall gain ‘a most valuable addition to our varied popula tion, The Interview with Count Arnim, There were many things connected with the Von Arnim affair which the Count could not set forth in his defence or in the presence of the Court, but they are clearly stated in our special despatches to-day, in which is re- ported the interview which the correspondent of the Henaup had with the Count Von Arnim in Berlin. The Count gives a clear statement of his position, and throws new light upon the causes of his ex- traordinary arrest and trial. He denies that he ever opposed the French Republic or con- tributed to the fall of Thiers, though he con- cedes that he believed that event inevitable. Desirous of having the facts known be- fore the sentence of public opinion is finally pronounced, he says that the Court has withheld part of his corre- spondence, and has made no distinction be- tween the secret letters of Bismarck and the gpecial instructions. The charge that he intrigued against the Chancellor is indig- nantly repudiated. ‘It is one of the most infamous legends ever spread abroad,’’ the Count says. “There is not one word of trath in it, I would scorn the idea of lending myself to anything of such a nature.’’ He attributes the opinion to the contrary to the influence of Bismarck, ‘‘who has a great pro- pensity to distrust all and everything not sub- ject to his complete control." The hatred which Bismarck entertains for the Count is ascribed by the latter to the interference of “‘go-betweens,"’ whose false reports prevented a reconciliation. The interview, which we print in both German and English, is especially important, as it gives what the report of the trial could not give, the opinion of the dis- tinguished prisoner upon the merits of his case. Punishment in England. Some time since the English people were distressed by the renewal of the terrible crime of ‘‘garroting.’’ Quietly-disposed, middle-aged people going home at midnight would be seized by ruffians, half strangled, robbed and left lying unconscious on the highway. The ordinary punishment for as- sault and battery, or even an attempt to rob, failed to check the crime. A life in an English prison has become rather a welcome retirement to the ordinary class of criminals, especially as the system of ticket-of-leave practically diminishes the time of punishment of all who observe prison regulations, Con- sequently, to meet this new crime Parlia- ment imposed a new punishment, or, rather, revived an old one. When any criminal was convicted of robbery accompanied with felonious assault it was within the power of the Judge to add to the sentence of imprison- ment a certain number of lashes. This punishment has only been inflicted in rare cases, and the judges seem to have used ex- treme discretion in imposing it. Among the items in the recent English files we observe that two men, named Moulton and Cullen, have been flogged at Newgate for ‘‘knocking down an engine fitter, stealing from him four shillings and brutally ill treating him. Both men showed the greatest terror at the punish- ment, and from the beginning to the end made frantic appeals for clemency.’’ Ever since the operation of this law there has been an agitation in favor of its repeal. Mr. P. A. Taylor, member of Parliament from Leicester, an extreme radical, who will be re- membered as one of those who voted against the dowry of the Princess Louise, has written articles to the newspapers protesting against the revival of the lash as “an outrage to mod- ern civilization." The London Telegraph of | the 16th of November contained an elaborate article from a correspondent attacking the law. asks why it is that when a husband beats his when a German baker violently assails o woman, kicking and bruising her, or when i “g respectable young man, described as a clerk,” assaults_a young lady with his fist, the lash is not applied? The writer quotes from the police reports cases similar to these, and insists that the lash should be applied to wite-beaters and men who commit indecent assaults upon women, as well as upon high- waymen. ‘Which,” he asks, ‘is the wick- eder offender—the ignorant navvy, who, blinded by passion or maddened by drink, | fells the man or woman with whom he has quarrelled to the ground, or the delicately bred ‘gentleman’ who takes care to mark his wife ina manner where her bruises shall not be apparent, or who wreaks upon her one absolutely devilish act of cruelty, the nature | of which might be stated in a medical journal, but not here?’ The writer reminds the public that the Iash has been discon- tinued in every civilized nation save in England, and that the English are. “literally the only people in the world who deliberately and systematically flog their children and criminals.” Crimes of violence, it is forcibly argued, are neither more nor less prevalent than they have usually been among a very low, thoroughly indolent and habitually ly drupkey class of laboring men, The trie panishment should be the increase of imprisonment. The writer marks the improvement in taste which has grown with English civilization | by referring to the fact that Sir Robert Peel once opposed a bill for the abolition of bull baiting as “an unwarrantable interference with the amusements of the people,’’ and that the] prize fight between Heenan and Sayers, He does not think that the lash lessens brutality, and he ‘can conceive of no moro opprobrious and unchristian law.” We have watched with interest the practical effect of the revival of the lash in England, Lord Palmerstop publicly refused to prevent | It does look, taken from a sentimental point | of view, like a return to the obsolete customs of the past, like the renewal of the pillory and the whipping post. At the same time it must be said that the revival of this punish- ment has practically exterminated the crime of garroting. One of the effects of punish- ment is to terrify other persons disposed to crime from violating the law. The lash seems to have a terror that no other punish- ment except capital punishment has pro- duced. The law will hardly be repealed in England unless its opemtion should be abused, and against this there is the best guarantee in the character of the English Bench. We may add here that highway rob- beries are becoming alarmingly frequent in the streets of Ne: New York. Anrnun Lxany would make an admirable Comptroller, | nicipal affairs. Mr. Tilden is under sll The correspondent criticises its operation, and | : | cess in the late political canvass, and it would | wife, or whena wife stabs her husband, or | | Andrew H. Green. The question of most immediate interest to the popular mind in connection with the ad- vent to office of the new Mayor is whether he will suffer Comptroller Green to retain his place, abuse his trust and obstruct the smooth and easy movement of the municipal govern- ment. This uncomfortable, conceited, prag- matical and pugnacious officer has made him- self odious by his insolent manners, his inter- meddling with things outside of his own do- partment, his deceptive public statements, his malignant jealousy of every city officer who will not bow to his supercilious dictation, his incessant litigation, in which the courts con- stantly decide against him, and which serves no other purpose than to gratify his igno- ble spite in vexing and annoying peo- ple who have legal claims against the city, his throwing himself and all the power of his office across the path of needed improvements, his permitting an enormous increase of the municipal debt with nothing to show for it By an ob- structive and vexatious administration, of which these abuses are specimens, Mr. Green has made himself the most detested officer that ever held a high place in the city govern- ment, ‘The new administration, under Mayor Wickham, cannot be popular if it retains this man at the head of the Finance Department ; nor is there any act by which it could excite so much hope and confidence as by his imme- diate removal. We discredit the current rumors that Green has made up his quarrel with John Kelly and secured his influence to retain him in office, This rumor is too improbable for belief. Mr. Kelly is a manof sense and sagacity, who knows that Green is too heavy a load for any city administration to carry. He has every motive for wishing the administration of Mayor Wickham to be successful, Mr. Wick- ham having been his especial favorite as a candidate, and his own reputation being staked on the popularity of the incoming city government. If Green had a powertul body ot supporters among the people, it might be expedient to conciliate him; but nobody knows better than Mr. Kelly that Green, once out of office, would be utterly impotent in the politics of the city. To make an alliance with him would be as absurd as to tie a living body to a putrid corpse. Mr. Kelly is not only a man of sagacity but of temper and spirit, and it is incon- ceivable that he should stretch forth his hand to drag up this sinking Comptroller, who was the prompter and inspirer of the late Mayor in his fierce assaults on the Tam- many chief. The community has formed a mistaken estimate of John Kelly’s manhood, vigor and sense of character if he can again make Green ® political associate after the part he acted with the late Mayor in trying to blacken his reputation and destroy | his political standing. Such an alliance is incredible. Why should Mr. Kelly fasten this millstone to the neck of the new city ad- | ministration, for whose personnel he is so largely responsible, and whose success is necessary for the maintenance of his own popularity ? We do not doubt at all that Green has been trying to gain Mr. Kelly’s protection. It is quite in keeping with the littleness of his char- | acter that he should now bend before the man whom he so lately united with the late Mayor to destroy. Mr. Green’s former close rela- tions with the Governor elect is the probable foundation of his absurd hopes. But this is a vain reliance. Mr. Tilden understands Green’s unfitness for his present position, and he is | more likely to be influenced by Mr. Kelly than to influence him in a matter relating to mu- obligations to Mr. Kelly for his splendid suc- | be an ungracious and ungrateful return for his zeal and fidelity to insist on his reconcilia- tion with a man who made cowardly masked | attacks upon him through his control of the ; late Mayor. Mr. Tilden has too much in- sight not to perceive that in such a step | the political blunder would be as great as the | personal ingratitude. Mr. Kelly has o vast body of attached supporters in the demo- cratic party who will stand by him in every emergency. Mr. Green has no influence at all, except through the office he abuses. On | public and political grounds Mr. Tilden has ; every motive to acquiesce in the removal of Green, and on personal grounds | he is bound to Mr, Kelly ty alto- | gether stronger ties than to Mr. Green, one being a recent benefactor and the other only a former protégé. We have only to credit Mayor Wickham with an honorable ambition to make his administration accepta- ble to the city to encourage the universal hope of his prompt removal of Comp- troller Green. The idea that Mr. Kelly will dissuade him from this necessary step is preposterous, and if Governor Tilden does not sanction the removal when it has been made, and the grounds of it laid before him, a heavy cloud will gather over hts official career at its’ beginning ‘which will grow constantly thicker and darker with further experience of the Comptroller's unequalled faculty for making enemies. Tax Spann Army iy Cupa.—Four handred and fifty Spanish soldiers, under command of General Rojo, were landed at Havana yester- day to reinforce the army in Cuba. We have reported the fact of the landing of military contingents from Spain for the same duty | quite frequently of late. The muster counts | up two hundred, three hundred and fifty, four | hundred and fifty, and it has been set down | as high as six hundred in one instance. We | never hear of any troops, either disabled or | relieved trom colonial service, beifig returned to Spain. What becomes of these gallant | fellows? The Spanish soldier is noted for his | bravery and his ability to endure fatigue. | The army in Cuba is unable to cope with the | insurgents. Its commanders are always cry- ing out for reinforcements. The logical in- ference is that the men are either killed in action or die off rapidly from disease, and | that Spain has found. in Cuba an exhaustive | drain vent in which she may gradually bury the bulk of her military population without achieving anything. Tae Latest Mn, Riven Disasren, altfiough not so terrible and tragic an episode os that which happened, last May, just as plainly points a moral, and that a very stern, one. The freezing of the cement, which should have firmly united the great blocks of granite ii in ‘the dam, caused its crumbling upon the slightest pressure of the giant of power which it was meant to confine, and the floods burst forth almost unimpeded. A flagrant lack of wisdom and of prudence was evidently the cause of this calamity. What Mayer Wickham Should De—. The Compé#roller. ‘We can hardly expeet from Mayor Vance so important an act as the removal of Mr. Green, although if our thirty-days Mayor were a shrewdly ambitious man he would make a great deal of capital by throwing upon Gov- ernor Dix the responsibility of retaining Mr. Green. At the same time let the burden go to those who have the honors as well as the duty. Mr. Wickham when he enters upon power, as he will at an early day, can decide the ques tion. He can remove the most unpopular officer'in New York—a man whose incumbency of office is a burden to New York—and he can nominate a citizen worthy, efficient and popular. Let us indicate a few of the many citizens whose nomination would surround the new administration as with a nimbus of popular fame: —John J, Cisco, Frederick Tap- pen, W. Seymour, John Grenville Kane, John. T. Agnew, Arthur Leary, E. P, Fabbri, Edward Cooper and Abel Dennison. Any one of these gentlemen would make an admirable Comp- troller, and the appointment would command the confidence and respect of the people. But this is certam—there can be no suc- cess for the administrations of Mr. Wickham. or Mr. Tilden that does not begin with the removal of Mr. Green. Concerning Enterprise. Our able contemporary, the Nestor of tha American press, the Hvening Post, makes this admirable comment: — It is koe cht this morning in the HeRALp that Von Arnim has been sentenced to three months? imprisonment, and that the time which he already has passed in confinement 1s to be reckoned aa part of the term, The HeRap’s despatch is rather vaguely contradicted by an Associated Press de- spatch, which is printed in anotber columa. We are inclined to believe, however, that our contem- porary’s news 1s substantially correct, and in any event such aresult of the trial as it aunounces would not be surprising. This is very strange. The Heraxp corres spondent sent us this news on Friday even- ing. Under the rules we sent it around to our partners. One of these partners, a brill- iant, enterprising and appreciative contem- porary, used it. The next mcrning the Asso- ciated Press ‘‘vaguely contradicted’’ it—only few hours later to confirm it. It does seem strange that the agent of the Associated Press should be permitted to disparage the news of one of the journals in that organization; but if the Associated Press will not even print the news when the Heratp sends it to them, what can we do? Mr. Simonton should be sent to London. In times of emergency Grant always sent Sheridan and Napoleon Murat ta the front. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor Wickham must remove Green, General Silas Seymour, of Quebec, is sojourntag at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Wilt Mayor Wickbam accept Green as the Old Man of tne Sea of fis administration? Congressman H. H. Hatnorn, of Saratoga, is ree siding temporarily at the Gilsey House. Tue Hotel de Nice at San Remo has been rented for the season to the Empress of Russia. Lieutenant Colonel W. R, Shalter, United States Army. ig quartered at the sturtevant House. There is nv trathin the story that Mr. Wilham P. Douglas bas been appointed an aid to Gover. nor Tilden. i Sefior Blanco Valle, the Spanisn Ambassador to ; Mexico, arrived at Havana yesterday on the steamer frown Cadiz. i Mr. Jonn W, Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Uhio Railroad Company, bas apartments gt the Brevoort House. now suspended while the xtre. authorities discuss the point whether the foreman of the jury in addressing the Judge may keep bis seat or must speak standing. J. Mm. Le Sage, of the Davly Telegraph, has been appointed adeputy lientenant for the city of Lon- don, It 1s 8 national snd not a civic post, the ap~ pointment emanating from the War Office, John J. Cisco, Frederick Tappen, W. Seymour, Jonn Grenville Kane, John T. Agnew, Arthur Leary. FE. b. Favbri, Edward Cooper and Abel Dennison are | among the names mentioned in connection with the Comptroilership. In France brother-in-lawiam is illegal. Two brothers-in-law were elected to sit in the Council of the Commune of Cancal, but the fact ts againat | the law, and one mast retire. Even a ring so small as to have only two membersis thought dangerous. Disputation at Basle. The anthorities put a tariff on water from Lourdes, which is imported in large quantities. The importers say it is simply pure water. The government says if it cures tt ig @ medicine, Here is another watch, quite a match for La- fayette’s. it was found tn the street in Paris—an enormous gold watch, with this inscription :—“This watcn belonged vo King Louis XVi., and was given by him to the Abbé Edgeworth in the vehicie oa the way to the guillotine.” Hy M. Sacre was nineteen years in the French opera asa machinist. In that period all the ordimary deductions from his pay were made titat would have entitled him to @ pension at the age of ailtys; but he was recently dismissed, without good rea- son, ag he holds. He, therefore, sues for 40,000 Janes damages on account of the loss of his pen- sion. An old soldier corrects the common error itn re.) gard to the rank of General Grant’s son. Hetsa second lieutenant in the Tenth cavairy. General Sheridan is entitled to'a certain number of stam officers with the rank of lientenant cvlonel, and has appointed young Grant to one of these places, and while on that service he bears nominally that rank, out his real rank in .the army is that of pis piace in his regiment. The Medical School tn Paris was reopened on the 3d Inst., and M. Chatffard lectured, It wili be re- membered the school was closed some weeks ago on account of disturbances made by the students, who had determined that this professor, on ac- count of hts obnoxious political opinions, should not lecture. No disturbance was made on the 3d, but the students manifested their tncolerance by | staying away {rom the lectares. That account will be settled, perhaps, when they want their | diplomas. How many sermons come out of the notion of the Nemesis of crime as illustrated tn the deatn of Mosher and Dougias. Yet, after all, it ts not strange in the least, bu* very natural, In any game you play the most unlikely side will surely win some time if you Keep at the game, and tne votaries of crime simply keep at the ga They get away luckily from one crime to- another to-morrow, and so from nundreus ina year, and this year after year. At last comes <ne time of Nemesis. She wins once, and she only needs to win once. Somebody disposed to be in time writes to Figaro to know whether, in making New Year ‘vieits, me must tarn the corner of his card and whieh corner, if the person he calls upon is ‘not at home.” Figaro quotes the authorities to tne effect that if the card ts lef as @ formality and without the intention to make 8 visit, tt must 0@ left Nat. But if there is an intention to mare ® visit and the person called apon is not at home, the whole right end of the card must be turocd down in a large fold, 80 that she jold will bead 1@ the underside of the card.