The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1875, Page 8

8 NE BROADWAY —_—_-—_— AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, W YORK HERALD| NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1875:~QUADRUPLE SHEET. The Question of the Hour. Canal, but never attained that high honor? * We have no doubt there are many subjects We do not propose any special plan. All | more interesting to the Governor and the | we want is rapid transit Let our | Mayor than this of rapid transit. The ten- | people agree upon the scheme that is dency of politicians is to devote themselves to | ™08t feasible and economical. The wise | | ae and combinations, to vague | way would be for the Governor and Mayor | and sounding declarations on general prin- | Pus Ge of papa one ane agree upon a plan, and then, by a | of the investigation is at an end, yet we have Let Us Have Peace. | door oi ueaven and behold the Lamb in the The Beecher trial promises to be one of the | Midst of the throne. Mr, Andrews will begin | institutions of the country. The third week | ® Course of sermons to-day on ‘Patriarchal and Jewish Worship,’’ and Dr. Rylance will not concluded the examination of the first | Pursue his studies on ‘Reason and Faith” witness, Mr. Evarts promises that he will be and set forth Paul's confidence in the Gospel through with Mr. Moulton on Monday morn- | asa result of faith, and Mr. Nye will continue NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | ciples. Governor Tilden, for instance, finds | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly sent free of postage. no more interesting subject for a special mes- | sage than the affairs of Louisiana and the in- | editions of the New Yorx Herarp will be | terference of General Grant. He bas found | | no such theme in the growth and develop- ment of New York. We are persuaded that Of the democratic organization in the recent | js because the n | done. strong effort of party discipline, adopt it. There is no reason why this should not be There can be no excuse for failing to | do it. We have seen too much of the power | Rejected communications will not be re- | Governor Tilden and Mayor Wickham could | "Vase, and especially in the contest for the | turned. o Letters and packages should be properly sealed. win an enduring fame by giving their atten- tion to the domestic questions of this metrop- | Senatorship, not to know that Governor Tilden has but to demand rapid transit. This is the olis rather than to lofty declamations about | Westion of the hour. We have said again and | | federal wrongs and Southern rights. De | again, and repeat now with the utmost em- | ing; but, as the others may have further his detence of Universalism as a plain Bible questions to ask, we share no such hope. In the meantime the newspapers discuss the trial, from point to point, notwithstanding the admonition of the presiding Judge. This ewspapers know that this is not a trial so much as a play, and that there is no more harm in discussing it than tor the | spectators in the theatre to discuss the inci- dents of the performance between the acts. | doctrine. | Aside from the serial sermons there are | several interesting topics to be considered in other pulpits to-day. Father Bjerring will enter his energetic protest against unbelief and indifference in religion. Mr. Hawthorne will exhibit the power of spiritual fervor pro- duced by the excellency of the knowledge of | Christ, obtained, as Mr. Kennard will show, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK Witt Clinton is remembered, not for | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. . | 8 opinions pn the embargo, or Mon- roe’s forei icy, 3 in- Subscriptions and advertisements will be en policy, or Adszs’ admin istration, but because he gave New York the received and forwarded on the same terms Erie Canal. Governor Clinton bad opinions | as in New York. i BOOTH’s TH Bh ces orner of Twenty-third street and Sixt sa fits EM'LY, at 8 P. sat 10207. Ma. Mx we. SOMIQUE, | HEY aes. Bi; closes at 10:48 | arsP. M SLYN PARK THEATRE, POCO STINENT. ar Sr Mis closes at 10x45 | ACROSS THE CONTIN PM. ROMAN HIPPODROME, fwenty-sixth street ant Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and | tvening, at2and & A HOUSE, | P.M; closes at 10:45 B, THEATRE. and Broadway.—WOMEN OF THE Sat 00 FM, Mr. Lewis, Miss DAY. at Davenport, M RRY West Twonty-tn MINSTRELSY, 4 Bry ant. NT Bri str 4NGO' way, between T —Opera | Boul T, atS P. M.; closes at GE Fourteenth street. closes at 10:19 P, M. NIA TH ATRE, MAUS, at 8 P.M; Mayr. FLE: s Lina t + ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fourteenth street.— 1 OPERA,'at 8 P, M.; closes acl P.M. Miss Ke NIB. baie sehen: ve tS P.M. ; closes at 10:45 TIVOLI THEATRE, ighth street, between Second and. ARLETY, ats P. M.; closes at Il P.M. D MINSTR nty- ninth wp. M. E v. SAN FRAY Broadway, corner of MINSTRELSY, ats P. M.; ROBINSON WALL, i Sixteenth street.—BEGONE DyLL CARE, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:40 P.M. Mr. Maccabe. * GLOBE THEATRE, Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3P. M-; closes at 10:30P. M. M THEATRE, xth avenue, —TWIXT AXE AND at 109 RM. Mrs Rousby. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.-1HE SiAUGHRACN, at 8. M.; cl Wa0'P.M. Mr. Boucicault LY Fourteenth street and CROWN, at 8 P. M.; cle THEATRE, t. at 8 P. M.; closes at lU45 Miss Carlotta Leclercq. legiington, street, WoOD's M er ot Thirtieth BUM, h sreet.—JACK » Closes at 10:45 P.M. corn 8PM. ML iis ETROPOLITAN THBATR! EW YORK STADT THEATRE, N LEOPOLD, at & P. M.; closes at 10745 N Bowery.—MEL P. M.- OLYMPIC THEATRE, No, fu Broad way.—VARIETY, at8 P34: closes at 1045 QUADRUPLE SHEET SUNDAY. 875, NEW TORK, JANUARY 9%, 1 From our reports this morning the probabilitie . 24 Governor Tilden himself sees, that the fame = | which comes {from establishing one great work | enduring than a thousand volumes of political | | | tance to the growth of New York city as the | Look for a moment at the figures, as we find ‘gave our city and State an advan- tage which our sister Commonwealth | has never interrupted. So we find | | New York steadily growing from 123,906 in | phia represents simply one city, that of | Jersey City, Newark, all really a part of New | of prosperity and enterprise, we noté that Third averues— between 1860 and 1870 something arrests this ati | development. ‘street.-NEGRO | lyn advanced largely, Elizabeth doubled in : | population, Paterson, Newark and Hoboken loses at | rounding towns there has been an unusual | increase. If we look at the natural situation | an Poster “Mat: | rivers. In wintry weather like the present dway.—VARIETY, at8 P. M closes at 10:30 | = healthy, freer from malaria and marshy in- S| fluences thanin New Jersey, or even in Kings. | ten years the natural increase of New York | | obstacles. | on these high questions as confirmed as tnose | ; of Governor Tilden. He saw, what we trust of national improvement will be far more.! discussion. De Witt Clinton’s opportunity was the Erie Canal ; Governor Tilden’s is rapid transit. The question has become of as much impor- | Erie Canal was to the growth of the State. them in the latest census reports:—In 1820 New York and Philadelphia started even in | the race, the census showing a difference of , but forty people in the population of the | two cities. The success of the Erie Canal 1820 to a population in 1860 of 813,669, Dur- ing this time Philadelphia attained something over 675,000. While the growth of Philadel- New York shows the rise of other cities around it—Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Hoboken, York and fragments of the metropolis. While we find the steady growth of New York from 1820 to 1860 attributed to general causes | Within these ten years Brook- increased at the same rate, and Jersey City nearly trebled her population. During these | is less on an average than any other | of our leading cities except New Orleans, now resting under the blight of a miserable government. It shows also that in the sur- of these cities we find that there are many | New York is divided from her | | suburbs in New Jersey and Kings county by | | they are impassable. Even under the most | favorable circumstances they are a discom- fort. Consequently the tendency of the | growth of New York in population would | | never naturally be toward Brooklyn or Jersey City, with the forbidding ferries be- | tween, and the uncertainty every winter and beyond | dered General Gront has done the country | 70" M | | is still enough in the various letters and docu- | phasis, that the success of our Governor and | Mayor will depend upon their success in | achieving it. Should General Grant Resign? Since the day when Fort Donelson surren- much good service ; but it is not an exaggera- | tion to say that in all his remarkable career | he never had an opportunity to benefit it so | greatly as he could do now by resigning the Presidential office; and probably it would be | impossible for him to do any other act or take any other step whatever which would | meet with such almost universal acceptance and favor from the public. Does any one doubt this statement? Let | him ask in the South what would give peace | to that large section of our country and make hopeless the demagogues who are robbing | under pretence of ruling the Southern people. He would be answered unanimously, the dis- appearance of Grant. Let him ask the re- publican leaders in Washington what single | event would revive their fading hopes and | encourage them to dispute the next election with the democrats, and they will tell him the removal of Grant. Let him, finally, ask the public plunderers, the disreputable class who live and mean to live on the Treasury, what would be the greatest calamity which | could befall them, and they too would reply the resignation of Grant. Nor even would the democratic leaders, if they are wise, regret to see him resign ; for they must know that so long as he is in power | so long he is capable, in the last emergency | and to subserve his own purpose and perpetu- | ate his power and that of the plunderers who | are his intimates, of plunging the country into | a war, be it with Spain or with Mexico, with | the expectation that such an event would en- able him to confuse.and set at naught the oppositicn he has to expect in the next Con- | gress, and thus pave the way to a third term. There is talk among the republican leaders | in Washington, we are told, of an effort to | induce General Grant to declare openly | against a third term, and to remove from his | intimacy and protection the swarms of dis- | reputable characters who make his adminis- tration odious. But we venture to say that not a man of those who desire this has the least hope that the President will heed the remonstrances or obey the counsels of wiser | and abler men than himself. He does not | change in that direction. If the re- publicans dared, if they had a leader with the courage and determivation of Thad Stevens, they would impeach and remove General Grant even during the present short | session. But they fear to make the attempt. | They are afraid of the ‘‘cohesive power of ~ | morning whether the night will not close | public plunder,” which would range itself in | . | the channels of navigation. The country | =| around New York Island formidable array in defence of the President. | the Harlem River is more attractive, more | i | needs. General Grant's sinister and impassive face bars the way to every reform the country | His gloomy meditations over the problem of a third term tinge all his policy. | sre that the weather toxlay will be warmer and | The tendency of our growth, therefore, is | His firm belief in his own good fortune, which cloudy, with light rein. | toward Westchester and the upper part of the | makes him regard himself as the saviour of | Want Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- | island. In spite of this we find that the city | the republican party, leads him also to use ket was dull and unexcited. Exchange was | has come to astandstill; that itis in a con- | public events only as the means to tortity | Money on call | ‘ition of atrophy ; that all uround new com- | himself in the continued possession of power. steady and gold firm at 11 was abundant at 2 and 3 per cent. Tux Resvvrs in the Tennessee Legislature yesterday were not enconraging to the ex- President. We should be sorry if Mr. John- son were defeated, for he would make the Senate more lively than it has been since the a ays w hen it was made a cx yurt to try him for | city? Rapid transit is not merely a want, but misdemeanors in the Presidency. But Mr. | q necessity. It is not simply an advantage, Bates and his friends take a different view of | but a question of life and death. We might the matter. Ovr Lrrerary Deparrment.—The diary of | of the want of free and speedy communication | | munities are becoming fat with its prosperity. | | Now, if a question of national improvement, | | like the Erie Canal, could, under a great | | statesman like De Witt Clinton, become the | means of reviving New York State, why can- | not Governor Tilden and Mayor Wickham | | and the party in power do as much for the | H | show conclusively by the records that because His resignation of the Presidency would | remove @ lead of anxiety and a load of evil from ihe country, under which ail its inter- ests are suffering. It woald settle at once | many of the darkest apprehensions of the | future. The possibilities of two years more of his rule are vast, and all in the direction of evil and misfortune. Continued internal dis- orders, increasing public plunder, a more rigid personal government, a mulish opposi- tion to the will of the next Congress, external war for speculative purposes, and to promote such a man as John Quincy Adagas could not | With our suburbs the city has come to a stand- | the great end of a third term—all these lie in ke published without illuminating the politics | Still. The question will soon arise whether and the personal history of the period in | the city is the metropolis or only a suburb of which he lived. We give to-day a full analy- | some greater city to grow up on the Jersey or the near future, with Grant at the head of | the administration. Of course, itis not probable that he will sis of this important work, which has recently | Kings county shore. Now, we do not envy | resign. Too many evil interests are bound been published, and it will be found rich in | the prosperity of our neighbors. We rejoice | up with his own to permit it even if he were tnecdote and political revelations. Other lite- | that Jersey City has taken prodigious strides. | willing. But it is none the less true that his rary matter and the latest news of authors | We trust that it will increase. end books is appended. Tae GraxDEvR OF THE OPENING of the new | men who made them are our neighbors and Paris Opera House was somewhat diminished | friends whom we meet in every-day business | | this wealth 1s in New York. Here is found | the money which builds these towns. by the amusing circumstances which attended | jie, They do not seek these ontside suburbs it, and which the public may read in because they prefer it, but because they are | onr lively correspondence from the driven away. New York should be their French capital to-day. That forty home, But they are driven out. They take thousand deadheads should be created out their money and the enterprise that should yf gratitnde to an editor who thought strengthen and advance the city. More than he had persuaded Mme. Nilsson to sing may | a, New York is to-day reproached because, surprise Americans, but they should remem- er t recvives from the government a yearly allow- ance of one hundred and eighty thousand dol- lars. Unusual interest was taken in the open- ing, as it was agreed to regard it as a national event and a ceremony in honor of the Sep- | vennate. phenomenon not unfrequent in our winter— the formation of an ice gorge in the East kiver. For two hours the dream of the Brooklyn bridge was realized, and it is esti- mated that twenty thousand persons crossed pon the temporary structure. Russia built an ice palace, a wiracle not yet melted ont of history but it was but a toy with this mighty work safely Cath- erine which romance ; has wand in comparison qnarried by winds and’ builded by the tides. | fame and his a To cross the river on these frozen bridges is, | to these questions in pr unlike any other city in the Union, it is the | manufacturing, laboring, professional classes | which form the basis of prosperity cannot | find a resting place. Land is too high, rents | | are too dear, taxes are too heavy. There is | no place for the poor man but in a tenement | place where honest labor can | | | | house—no rich territory lying between the Hudson and the Harlem rivers would become the homes of a hundred thousand workingmen, each sitting under his own vine and fig tree, with sunshine and fresh air, playroom for his children, opportunities tor recreation, amusement and study. Atthe same time he would be within twenty minutes’ ride of Battery or the City Hall. But these are points that may he trusted to the Governor. It would be far better for his ministration to give attention his business at the ference to more at- however, dangerous, and such passages will | tractive themes, like the finauces of the coun- ve avoided by prudent citizens. The tides | try and the disturbances in Louisiana, Let destroy in a few minutes what they have been | him establish the policy which rebuilds hours in making, and a few years ago a num- | New York, and he will live in history with a | The source of | The | | wise offer itself. | will be thrown out of employment.” resignation would be such a short cut to peace, order, a purified administration and renewed | confidence and prosperity as does not other- Tur Croup ry Exociann.—The cable de- spatches announce ‘that the iron masters and colliery proprietors of South Wales threaten a general lockout unless all their employés re- sume work within a week. If the threat is carried out one hundred thousand persons This is | a significant event, occurring at the present it the management of the Opera House || home of beggars and millionnaires. The great | time, when politics in England and Europe are in so uneasy a condition. Nothing is more calculated to produce collision between the laboring and the moneyed classes than a | siatement like this. It seems to us that there | must be a way of adjusting these questions without the summary and cruel process of of New York | securea home. With rapid transit all that | foreing one hundré@ thousand meu out of | , and Brooklyn were yesterday united by a | work im the middle of a hard winter. But if the classes representiog caste and privilege and the governing power of wealth take this method they mnst not wonder tbat there is in history the excesses of the French Revolution. * Tae Resovetions of inquiry in regard to the management of the Park Department, offered in the Board of Aldermen, are emi- nently proper to be passed. No department of the city government should be managed as a close corporation, and where there are no faults to conceal secrecy is not necessary. We are confident that Colonel Stebbins will ap- prove the inquiries suggested and will cheer- fully answer them. Evil inflnences have sometimes prevailed in the management of the ver of lives were lost by the sudden break- | higher fame than he could win even as Presi- | department for which its President is not re- ing up of the blockade. But waile the gorge lasted yesterday it illustrated the immense | value @ permanent bridge would be to the people of both cities, dent of the United States. How many Presi- | dents has New York forgotten, while she cherishes the fame and services of her distin- | guished Governor who gave her the Erie sponsible aud which he will no doubt, be glad to expose, The greatest injury that could be inflicted on the Park Department would be the exhibition of a desire to evade investigation. Our solicitude has been in the interest of | by justification through the power of Christ's peacg The issues involved have gone beyond | Word, and the result of this reconciliation the province of a jury. No verdict can deive | with God will be set forth with his ac- Mr. Beecher out of Plymouth church, nor do | customed ability by Mr. Hepworth. That the we see that it can meterially affect the fame | rock or foundation of the sceptic’s or world- and foriunes of Mr. Tilton. If Mr. Beecher | ling’s hopes is not like that of the Christian | enough to enable plaintiff and defendant, | witnesses, Golden Age subscribers, members | of Christ’’ 1 ti be t of i | tS Fi | tion between the houses of Bourbon and | veracity a hair would turn the scale, but we shonld receive a complete exoneration there ments and covenants that have been published to paralyze his usefulness as a Christian min- ister. The congregation which sustains the clergyman who wrote the contrition and the “ragged edge’’ letters can very well pardon an offence no greater than that recorded agvinst King David. If Mr. Tilton should walk out of coyrt with a hundred thousand dollars in his pocket it would not excuse many of his eccen- tric proceedings in politics and biography. It is nota trial, but a comedy. Considering, therefore, that there can be no definite result, that Mr. Tilton is suing for money he does not want, and that Mr. Beecher is defending a reputation that he has already survived, is | there no way in the interests of public moral- ity and peace to bring the play to an end? It seems to us that a true solution is the | emigration of the whole party. We are will- | ing to subscribe liberally toward a fund large of Plymouth church, purchasers of the ‘Life and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to “go West.” When Brigham Young, nearly thirty years ago, found himself in theological | difficulties, he went West, took his con- | gregation with him, became the President of a powerful Church, the Messiah of a new faith and the provident husband of many de- voted wives. Mr. Wilkeson, whose knowl- edge of Western land is a matter of celebrity, might indicate some beautiful section in the far distant Wyoming or Mon- tana, where the authors and agents of the scandal could pitch their tents and | make statements forever and forever. The proper place for this settlement is near the Yellowstone. This is a land of spouting gey- | sers aud springs of boiling mud, where Na- ture shows her most grotesque phases; the air is filled with smoke and noise and flame, | and the springs throw out porcelain clays of | orange, purple and crimson. This would be the home for a tempest-tossed intellect like that of Tiltoh. His sorely-burdened spirit would find congeniality in the springs | burning sulpliur. Mr. Beecher might gain new waimth from the geysers and new color for his rhetoric from the liquid porcelain clay. As to Mr. Moulton, he bas developed | such a variety of talents that we do not see how we cau live without him. He has shown great military capacity and familiarity with | the use of the pistol. He has sworn that he can read and write, which is more than many | other great captains could do—Marlborongh | | and Napoleon, and even our own Washington. He would be the proper person to take charge | of the military part of the expedition. It | would be impossible to reach the Yellowstone country without passing through the Sionx, a warlike, savage tribe under the command of Red Cloud. Mr. Moulton is precisely the man we would select to encounter Red Cloud. | | Therefore, in this expedition his first function | would be that of a warrior. We should not like to spare Mr. Evarts, as he may be neces- | sary as a candidate for the Presidency in the | | future; and the removal of the acéomplisbed and courageous Mr. Beach from New York | would be to unhappily extinguish a beautiful | and alluring light in our jurisprudence. We believe we could part with Judge | Morris, whose oratory has a geyser spring | quality. If Mr. Shearman should insist on accompanying the expedition as the keeper of Mr. Beeeher’s legal conscience there would | be no objection. Furthermore, as General Butler has expressed a resolution to retire trom public life at the end of the present Cougress,"he might be cajoled into joining the party. The difficulty hitherto existing between Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton might break out even | in the new settlement. The foundation of this quarrel was the fact that Plymouth | church was not great enouga for Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton. It reminds us of the aliena- | Orleans. It might be settled in the same | way. The Count de Chambord has adopted the Count de Paris as his royal heir, and there is no longer trouble. Mr. Beecher might adopt Theodore as his spiritual heir to succeed him as the messiah of his faith. ‘The best solution of this trouble is the exodus to the West. ‘I'he scandal has become a burden to our community. It troubles the newspapers. It is worse than the chills aud fever and the malarial influences of the marshy lands. Jt seems destined to go on forever and e Why not, therefore, eliminate it from | our society, and give it full scope in the free, far West? If anact of Congress is necessary to adopt this we have no doubtit could be | passed, with a subsidy and an appropriation sufficient to take the whole colony West, pay their expenses and give them farins. Pulpit Topica To-Day. Courses of sermons are the order now in many of our city pulpits, and in announcing the topics very little change will be noticed in the titles; but while they or two general heads there may be a wide difference in the topic itself and in its treat- ment. Such a course is going on now in Christ church under the general head of come under one “Cbristianity and Social Morals,” on a sub- division of which—‘Christianity and the Peace of Nations’’—Dr. Osgood will speak this evenin Dr. Armitage, too, is pursuing a series of sermons on “Night Scenes of Christ,’ which he will edntinus today. Mr. Terry in course of sermons is expound. ing the Apocalypse, and to-day he will invite his congregation to look through the open Mr. Saunders will prove, and Mr. Alger will demonstrate man’s need of the Divine Father | and urge the importance of laying up treasure for immortality. Dr. Howland wi!l illustrate the value of being in the way when Jesus of Nazareth passes by, and Dr. ,Moran will de- fine the limitations of spiritual knowledge. The End of a Mustache. Mr. Fernando Wood at this present time, no doubt, wishes he had shaved. Long ago it was said of his mustache that some time or other it would bring him into trouble, and how that terrific prophecy is fulfilled. Pope is authority for the statement that ‘Beauty leads us by a single hair,’’ and Mr. Wood in some manner finds himself an illustration of this truth, being drawn into the Pacific Mail investigation literaily by the beard. The trouble of Mr. Wood seems to be that he is the owner of a superb mustache, and that the mysterious unknown person who ac- companied Mr. William S. King to draw Pacific Mail Company cash from a New York bank was described by the cashier as “a man with a remarkable mustache.’’ Here is a coincidence which the committee of Congress could not overlook. Especially was this the case when Mr. Shanks, in conversation with a few friends, heard Mr. A. Oakey Hall, apropos of Mr. Beck’s remark about Mr. Wood’s mustache, say to Mr. Jarvis, in a significant way, ‘Jarvis, if they should summon us we could tell about Wood and the Pacific Mail.” This was enough to give cause for the pro- foundest suspicion of Mr. Wood. It was almost as convincing as Mr. Pickwick’s let- ters to Mrs. Bardell about the warming pan and “chops and tomato sauce.’’ Mr. Shanks made 2 memorandum of this startling obser- vation, which occurred at Delmonico’s, and handed it to Mr. Reid, and Mr. Reid pub- lished Mr. Wood’s connection with Pacific | Mail upon Mr. Hall’s authority, and then the Congressional committee summoned Mr. Reid to testify to the fact, and Mr. Reid referred to Mr. Hall, who telegraphed to Mr. Wood de- nying the remark ascribed to him, and the ommittee, feeling itself incompetent to comb this mustache as it deserved, at once adjourned until Monday. The principal fault is’ with Mr. Wood, the | unfortunate owner of a suspicious mustache. Those malicions hairs betrayed him and | brought him into his present trouble. It is true that Mr. Oakey Hall now asserts that if | he used Mr. Wood's name it was an error, Stockwell. Mr. Stockwell also has a mustache, a remarkable mustache, and Mr. Hall, appar- ently, would like to pull it. Jarvis and he | had nothing to say about Mr. Wood in con- nection with Pacific Mail, but they could have told a tale of Mr. Stockwell. But it Mr. Wood | had shaved, this blunder could never have oc- curred. Mr. Reid would not have been mis- led into accusing him of being connected with Pacific Mail affairs, and Mr. Stockwell would be the heir appareut to the Congres- sional investigation. But Mr. Wood is not alone in this misfor- tune, and if he reads history he cau find illns- trious precedents for his grief. There was Samson, whose strength and weakness were both embodied in his hair, and who became | a victim of the shears of Delilah. There was Absalom, also, whose hair w: thick boughs ot a great oal and who per- ished by the luxuriance of his locks. Absalom been bald he had not met such an awful fate, and if Mr. Wood had been desti- | tute of a mustache he would not have been confounded with Mr. Stockwell. The latter gentleman, we believe, has as remarkable a mustache as could be wished, though it is of a different color from Mr. Wood’s. A bank | officer would probably look upon it with re- spect; though we do not wish to intimate that the Pacific Mail money was drawn for pur- poses not yet explained to the committee. It would seem as if in this question of are disposed to acquit Mr. Wood of any com- plicity in the Pacitic Mail affair, and to con- cede that Mr. Oakey Hallis correct in deny- ing any intentional use of his name in that unpleasant connection. It It is as white as the new fallen snow, and no donbt as pure. It can curl in derision at the rumors of wrong doing, and ueed never eroop in distress, Vainly may his wicked foes attempt to wax it. And yetifa mustache is to compromise and | embarrass its possessor it would be well to pert with it, and the close shave which Mr. Wood has made in the Congressional commit- tee is a warning which he will do well to heed, “EvEvEN Minsi0ns.""—We observe among ndar an action against dollars, alleged to have been stolen by him, or others with him, from the treas- ury of New York. So far as wo kno Tweed has not paid back a dollar of t money, although he offered, through some of his viates, to return three million dol- provided the suits against him were ad- | justed. Yet all this time he and his friends | are beating at the prison bars and clamoring | for merey an old man confronted by a cruel 1 No one will deny merey to Tweed, but is it not an insult to justice and reason to expect any | mercy until he returns to the city of New York a part of the vast sam he took from its coffers? Mercy, by all means, but let us have justice first, and justice means | restitution, and that his intention was to speak of Mr. | caught in “the | Had | he was the companion of Mr. King when | was a mistake | easily made, but we believe Fernando Wood's | | mustache to be*innocent. ‘Tweed to recover eleven million | ey Police Roform. The recent action of the Board of Police Commissioners in removing Captain James Irving from the command of the detective | force and remanding a number of his anbor- | dinates to patrol duty may appear to those | unacquainted with the workings of the de- partment as a complete revolution, or, at | least, a long step in the direction of thorough. going reform. To us nothing could be more conclusive of the want of any adequate or in- telligent idea of police duty on the part of the Commissioners. They have exchanged one set of detectives for another; they have reversed the duties of the Superintendent and the day inspector and they have ordained that the detective office shall be separated from the rest of the world. Beyond this they have done nothing and attempted nothing, and this, we fear, will go for nothing. The fault is not so much in the men as in the Board, and, apart from the inexperience of the Commis sioners, not so much in the Board as in the system. It is true that until we shall have a Board capable of grasping the scope of their duties there is little hope of obtaining an effi- cient police force ; but if we had an effective system under the direction of an officerclothed with sufficient power to manage the depart- ment the by-play of the Commissioners would not be a matter of so much concern. Super- intendent Walling is, in reality, no stronges now than he was on Friday; for the removal of a few officers, even though they were cor. rupt, is no remedy for a system that is defeo. tive in all its parts. Under these circum. stances the ‘‘reform’’ in the Detective Bureau resolves itself into a mere farce. Disbanding | the detectives will not be a sufficient remedy for the evil that existed, and though the Board did right in removing the chief detective from an office he had brought into disrepute there was no sense in reversing the duties of the Superintendent and the day inspector. Effi- ciency is never obtained by the mere shifting of officials, What is needed is a Board that will insist upon the arrest of thieves and other criminals and their arraignment before a magistrate, and a police system that will insure these results. There is scarcely a case of burglary or theft where the culprits could not be arrested if the detectives were com- pelled to do their duty. If the arrests were required, whether the stolen property was recovered or not, and the rewards for the recovery of property disallowed unless the criminal was also secured, the Detective Offics would soon begin to show a more healthy appearance. Let us have more cases like that of Officer Titus, who got his man and the money and very properly receives his reward. Ina word, let us have more detects ive work and less compounding of felonies, Until the Board can show us that this i« doing we shall haye no faith in their pre tended efforts at reform by means of secrel: passages and enclosed headquarters. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Alfonso XII. wears an Ulster. Mr. Franklin A, Alberger, of Buffalo, is residing | at the Metropolitan Hotel. | They are discovering ip Europe that Alfonso XIL 1s a boy of wondertul genius, Darwin has anew book in press entitled “Tn sectiverous and Climbing Plants.” | General Nathaniel ¥, Banks, of Massachusetts, | arrived last evening at the Flith Avenue Hotel, Mr. T. B. Blackstone, President of the Chicage | and Alton Railroad Company, 1s registered at the | Windsor Hotel. Assemb!ymen George Taylor, of Rochester, and James Faulkner, Jr,, of Dansville, N. Y., are at the | Metropolitan Hotel. Judge D. N. Cooley, of Iowa, formerly United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 13 sojoura- | ing at the St. James Hotel. | France is taking up all foreign nottons—even prodery. It is suggested to discontinue at the School of Fine Arts the use of women as models. Over 1,200 copies of the “Greville Memoirs® were sold here at the importers’ prices of $12 te | $18 aset belore the book was pubitshed by the Appletons at $4. Senator John Fox bas met with another sad | affliction, following closely oa the loss of bis son, | the death of a daughter eleven years of age, | The bereaved parents will have the sympathy of the whole community in their heavy sorrow. Among the deaths announced in Paris recently ig that of Baron Corbineau, at the age of eighty. three. The Baron lost his leg at Wagram, and in | the picture at Versaliles he 1s to be seen opposite | the Emperor, being carricd away ona stretcher. |. Another snot at the Tulleries, The authorities have directed the construction of a street, eighteen metres Wide, across the famous garden, | from the toot of the Rue Castiglione to the Pont de Soiferino. Public convenience 1s of greater | consequence in these days than all else, | Cham has the longest legs in Paris. A friend | who wasto fight a duel with pistols at twenty | paces wanted Cham for his second. “Is it a serious business,’ said Cham. “Thoroughly serious, and | you must count the paces,” was the auswer. | “Come, now,” sald Cham, stretching bis*legs | “twenty of my paces and thoroughly serious.”’ Judy has a cartoon which pictures Mr. Disrael as the Keeper of a “patent conservative safe,” into which cli classes want to deposit what they hold most prectons—royalty, its privileges; the people, their liberties; the rich man, the rights of property, and the bishop the rights of the Church, ‘This cartoon is @ jocular epitome of the British | constitutton. Here are two speeches that might please His Excellency in Washington. 4M. Buffet, President of the Assembly, said to Marshal MacMahon :—*I present to yon the good wishes of the National Assembly, The year 1875 will insure, if our prayere are heard, the prosperity and security of France.” | ‘Yhe Marshal rephea:—“I hope that the result yow | desire wil be attatned by our efforts and our good | intentions.” In that connection “good intew | tlons’? was an unbappy phrase. | M. Buffet, President of the French Assembly, | has nit on a pleasant fancy. There are dozens oi | members of the Assembly who constantly inter- | rupt, but who never make any speeches. Indeed, | the interrupters are of the non-speaking clasa, ; They dread the tribune as an 1dtc schoolboy does | the recitation of @ lesson. M, Buffet now ad dresses these gentlemen when they interrupt, ane | informs them that they shall “have the floor” tm | mediately after the next speaker. They shut up. | Funny trial at Marseilles, Charlois drove his | donkey in the street as the Fourth regiment of Chusseurs marched by. He said:—"There are the ws who surrendered at Sedan.” He was ar ed. His detence tn court was that he had named his donkey “Badinguet, the Surrendere: of Sedan,” and that in the alleged words he was only talking to bis doukey, and thata man had a right to talk to bis donkey. For this precious privilege he was, however, compelled to pay fity franes. For the opening of the French Opera Nilssom was to sing Marguerite, in “Faust.’? Mow, in thas establisiinent the part of Faust belongs to M, Gatibard, who sang it with Patti, Nilsson, how. | ever, insisted on Faure, and went to the Minister of the Interior about it, aud bad her way. It mado a dreadiui time in the theatre, for all the artists sympathized with poor Gailnatd, thas deprived « @ brilliant opportunity to gain new distinction. a aresutthe wits quiz Faure. Taey say he wii) leave the Upera because the magnificent staircase | is more talked avout than he 18; also that he wit | leave on account of the gas bills, insisting that \ “the gas should not be paid more than the basse.” |