The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1875, Page 6

6 IN ICY FETTERS. Continued Freaks of Our Frosty Foe. KITCHEN BOILER DANGERS. How the Bursting of Water Pipes May Be Avoided. SOME TIMELY SUGGESTIONS. Great Accumulations of Ice in the Harbor. SPASMODIC FERRY TRAVEL ‘The probable continuance of the present severe weather jor some weeks yet 19 more than likely, toincrease tne inconveniences and annoyances that householders and venants are called upon to puter, in so jar asa short supply of water 18 con- cerned, as well as irom the disturbing influences exercisea on the domestic arrangements, brought about by bursted and leaking pipes, to whicn rei- erence was called in yesterday's HERALD. In the article upon this subject the causes operating to effect this trouble were treated of at considerable leugth, Numerous suggestions, too, were oftered, which, if put more generally into practice, would { tend !n no small degree to obviate this sore infliction on the part of rude old Fatner Winter, Rich and poor alike ‘Wiil do well during the continuance of this reign ol ice to pay timely heed to tne matter of their water conduits and not wrap themselves upin a false fecling of security because they have, up to the present moment, enjoyed an immunity trom the troubles of Nooding from bursted pipes. Every pne occupying a house, A FRENCH FLAT, or a floor in @ tenement will do well to at once tn- stitute a complete and thorough examination of the pipes under their immediate control, more espec ally if any of them have become frozen and the water has ceased to low. Toey may discover in time a slight fissure, which, if at once attended to and repaired, wiil prevent uatoid misery and save a vast amount of expense. on every side it is common to hear people, when descanting on the miseries of the cold, say, “1 don’t know what to do, the pipes in our house are ail frozen up and we have to go half @ block ior water, as our next door neighbors are in the same plight with ourselves.” Generally this 1s.the extent of the notice taken of the mat ter and, the pipes are leit to themselves, in the be- he! that after a few days all will be might again. Now, however, !s the time when peopte should ex- ercise the ureatest caution and at once institute @ rigid inspection, not oniy for the sake of their comfort but for that of their pocket also. The pipes io the bathroom and closets should be spe- cialiy attended to, and more particularly if the latter is within tne house, for by even a tempo- Fary stoppage of the water supply much annoy- ance and danger to health is caused. Foul odors and disagreeable smeils, if such places are not kept scrupulously ciean, are generated and iorce THEIR INSIDIOUS WAY over and througn every part of the dwelling, which, if allowed to continue for any length of time, result in attacgs on the inmates of typhoid and other fevers, oftentimes {atal in their ter- minativo. ven should no sach severe tliness occur, headaches and sickness at least cannot be escaped. Ihe drain pipes in the sinks and other places should also be watched, for these as fre- quently become obstructed by the freezing process the water pipes themselves. They, too, occa- sivnaliy burst, but not so often, for they are | generally made of iron in place of ijead, end, being eo )6COf §6=slarger calibre, are better abie to bear the strain. Should a | fracture occnr and be left unattended to the disagreeabie consequences can be more read- lly imagined than described. It nas been eug- gested to the writer that ali this trouble might be guardec against in a very great degree, if not prevented altogether, vy cue encasing of ali pipes, ota [rom the main and up through the house, io @ boxing Of wood Glled in with eituer SAWDUST OR DRY SAND, or some other inexpensive material which would prevent contact with the air, The old saw has it, “An ounce of prevention 1s better than a pound oi cure,” So it is 1m the case of (he water arrange- | Meuts within our homes, Aod every one that Values bis own comiort and his property | should be constantiy on the ale:t during the wine | fer months to prevent tueir belng overcome by tus swamping demon. Where pipes are pitced outside in the open air | they should be covered on the first approach of cold Weatuer, OtuerwWise Luey are lable to become | frozen the frst time that the thermometer sinks below the ireezing port. If the temperature jails but a few degress lower the water is cougeaied and expanded unttiacrack is caused and taen when the thaw sets in a fluod Of water escapes, whica dejuges basemen(s and cellars aud reoders the whole ciructure above damp and unwacie- tome lor several months. The water Will not as reauily drain off in winter a3 iu sumer. Ruoeu- Malisin, Cullls, and Other disagreeauies are the re- sult to the tenants living ia Wwe uouse. A HOUSEHOLD DANGER, The above are some o! the anuoyances and evil consequences that resuit irom frozen pipes, but there i+, besides, a terrivié Source of posiuve dan- ger inevery house that requires to be puarded ainst with the utmost forethougnt and viguauce Biising (rom this same (roavie. 1b 18 One, Loo, that may at any moment desiroy the peace o! any fam- uy, and hurl, Without a moment's Warning, the members thereol into eternity. Or it may result tu cousequences ulmost as disastrous, sucu as maiming and dis@guremeut of persou and body, couvembing tie uulucky vicim to @ lie: jong and terrivlie susering. ‘This danger | is to be found in ine kitchen range aud botier, or ratuer in the box wherein the water is heated, which flows thence into the buller, Every day beasly accounts come to hand describing the explosion of voilers in private houses aud the kiliug thereby one or more of the inmates. it would be sup »osed that the warn- | ngs contained in tuese aunouncements, which are made public through the vewspapers, would induce # greater degree of cuutivu on the part of those using ranges With bollers attached, out It realy seems io be the exception aud not tbe rule tor any particular attention to be devoted to a fegular and systematic daily exawinacion, by the terrible results of oegiect might be | Jers are allowed to become entirely emptied ter beiore it 18 discovered Chat there is Both. tog in them and that there is A STOPPAGE IN TUE SUPPLY somewhere. in (ue meautime the fire is lighted | as usual aad ater tue plates at the vack have be- | | | come red lot water suddenly dows tn, tue | oostraction by some means baving been With. drawn, to the Water 00x; the Water at first is res pelicd irom the suriace ol the plates, but after a tme vecoMes 50 thoroughly overneated as Lo be instantaneously into steam aud thereby causing an expios At this season it 18 DO Uncommon thing for the supply pipe to become irozen during the night and tne botler, too, | titer, so 1 the wenerated in the unabie to escape through the usual cuannels. LNED Kets BO SULETLEAdi Cd as LO CaUsY au explosion The pipet suppiyiag toe water to ve beated should be examined every morning, and ti jound ob structed With Ice suould be (Hawed out vevwre tne fire is lighted, jor there is oly a smail quantity of water at (he back of the fire vo ve Operated on the effects irom the sdperveating of the steam generated are likely to be equally of the same dangerous charac Mapy jumilles have litiie ones, whom they love and cherisb, who are alowed to play in the kiteben or wre Constauliy running In aud oul. NO THOUGHT OF DAN deters them, nor do the parents stop co think that the.r eruminai—lor itis crimioul—negiect exposes tiese taoughtiess and lunecent enidren to the chances of d sti uction aby moment should a bursting of the bower happen. The plates torn ny the Water VOX, 100, sAvuld be olien exXaminec jor by the action of the fire und Water iney be- come worn on tue Bre side aud coated and jurred on the inside, rendering them liable at any min- bo trae by any UDusual pre-sure froin bl mM Within, if the 1eed Is MOL equal to tbe Co! sumption ol Water. liotel Keepers, mannfactmers anu others who use large 0) either for heating purpuses or lor motive power, will do well, also, to canton the wen baving toe boilers in charge to pay close On constant! atiention to their Water pipes 80 Jorg a& the irost iasts, jor by (his meuns many a valuable lie may ¥ aved and mueh loss of | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMEN'!, money, inconvenience aud annoyance be pre- vented. In large and high buildings, too, where are used, an examination of norning before putting the mactine to work should also be the raie, alshouga irom the very nature of the service required the pipes used are mude unusually strong. Still a littie extra caution in extreme cold weather can dono harm aud may possibly be the means of preventing even a probable SACRIFICE OF LIFE, Iron 18 liable to crack or give way when acted upon by sev cold as well as by pressure. To sum up the sudject in a ‘ew words, it benocoves every individual lor the sake of his own comiort and that of those dependent on him, when he is burdened with the cares ol @ bousenold, to watch Witt Wary and jealous eye 'y pipe in the place where he may reside torough which water is s allowed to flow, and to repair without delay the slightest delect or crack that He will then him: above described, money and temover. |, when cali ervise him while at work; otherwise it may uscovered that shortly after nis depar- ture his services will nave to be again called in to stop @ leak which has cecurred suddenly in-some otner spot, not iar remote irom the one just mended, There are without doubt honest plumbers; but water pipes tn frosty weather are very tender, Like young Diants they require to be handled tenderly, and must be protected trom rude hands and chilling blasta with about tbe same degree of care. THE ICE BARRIER. TROUBLES IN THE BAY AND AT THE FERRIES— DEPARTURE OF A VAGRANT SEAL—AMUSING SCENE ON THE EAST RIVER. Notwithstanding the mildness of the tempera- ture and the calm atmosphere of the last two days, the icy oostructions ta the rivers and bay bave diminished in quantity but little. The char- acter of the ice has, however, changed greatly, and in place of the solid crystal outtresses which have frowned defiance to the river crait for tne past week thereis now only ® spongy mass of broken fragments, Yesterday ushered tn a great improvement in river navigation, and tne work- ing classes, to whom Sunday 1s the only day of rest and recreation, appreciated greatly the in- creased facilities for river transit, Great hopes were entertained during the early part of the day that a thaw would intervene and terminate this unprecedented season of ice. During the latter part of the afternoon the weatier disappointed the anxtous observers, and tke cold northwest wind, with a rapidiy fall- ing thermometer, biasted the too sanguine hopes raised by the mildness ofthe morning. Should Ube glacial era return, as is prophesied by many philosophers, Manhattan Island will surely be among the first localities affected by the icy fiend. After the unparalieled experience of the present winter it 1s easy to believe almost anything, and many & shivering soul that has been forced to wait for hours in the middle of the river, HEMMED IN BY ICE, unable to move in any direction and half dead with cold, will readliy accept the dictum of an eminent professor of natural phenomena, whose theory 18 that the end o! the wor'd will be caused, not by fire, as the orthodox believe, but by intense cold and a gradual blotting out of our planet by the accumulations of ice, ON THE EAST RIVER. But little difficulty was experienced by the ferries in the East River. Trips were made dur- ing the entire day with tolerable regularity. From Fulton street the ice, up the river, extended nearly irom shore to shore, and to a casual observer it seemed to offer an almost impassabie barrier, 1b most instances, however, the cakes were smail and easily brushed aside by the pad- dies of the steamers. Occasionaliy a large floe would muke its appearance, but its spongy tex- ture rendered the work of demolition compara- sively easy. No serious :mconventence or delay was caused at any of the ferries. The line from the foot of Roosevelt street to Williamsburg nad probabiy the most difficulty in making trips. ‘The boats pluckily dashed into the ice and, with jew excepttons, succeeded in making nearly schedule time. AtFulton jerry the boats were obliged to make @ detour nearly every trip but managed to ply regularly. The worst blockade of the river was at Catharine street about half-past two P.M. A continuous mass of ice extended to the Brooklyn side and no channel was visible, Yesterday being Sunday the juvenile popula- tion, released {rom school restraint, were outin force, eager to take advantage of tne facilities tor river skating. Not to have been on the ice in the East River is 6ne of THE SADDEST THOUGTS that can harass the mind of the youth{ul denizen of South street, As the slips remained frozen a fine chance was given him yesterday to retrieve his reputation. About two P. M., while the HERALD reporter was gazing admiringly at the panorama presented by the floating vergs near Fuitvn lerry, anumber of small boys, each provided with one skate, softiy descended into Fulton slip. Buckling on their skates, the smail poys proceeded to bave @ good time. A portiy policeman soon appeared upon rhe scene and commanded the rash youths to desistirom their perilous sport. The guardian of the puolic peace, Sad to say, Was treated With contempt, especially | by one young American of about ‘ourteen sum- mers, who littie anticipated that Nemesis was switly jollowing. ‘This young gentieman took of nis Solitary ska e, and expressed bis determina- tion to make a cruise about the slip on one of the bomerous floating cakes, With @ plank lor a paddie, THE YOUTHFUL COLUMBUS Started on bis slippery craft, and threaded bis Way among Cacal boais and’ barges to the great admiration and envy of Ms less during cowrades. Bot alas! the ob: e ice, impatient v1 its upac- customed work, suddenly went to pieces. and the young nero sunk beneath the waves. Made a landing and clamoered siiely upon the whari, where he exclaimed, with apimauon, “Here's a lark!” The reporter looked Jor tne iark, but was unwole to see it, although there were many guis and other aquatic birds in the vicinity. Swilly divesting himsell of ts clothes, which he | laid outto dry, the youtuful Arab remained for heariy an bour Will LO protection trom tie cold gave avery clin and remarkaoiy snort shirt. He seemed to enjoy the situation, 80 it may ve pre- sumed be Was “acclimated.” ON THE NORTH RIVER muci improvement Was manilest. The tcc was heaped up in large Masses on the New York side, but Ihe centre o/ the river Was quite clear, Oa tne Jersey side there Was no ice at al, and both | sleumers and sailing crait ran with esse as iar cowu as CommMuUMIpAW. A seal Was seen drilting down on the evb tide last evening. It was proba- biy On¢ Of Woe two that saliea up on @ floe during saturday. The North River ferries were not em- arrassed during the day aud ran with much greater regulurity. IN THE BAY the ice accumuiated auring Saturday night, form- | lug floes of atleast elghteen inches iu thickness, ‘fhe Inman steamer City of Antwerp anchored of the Quaraotine on @ (ull head of steam the poweriui vessel attempted to lorce ber Way Up the bay. Uaugut Im the foe, ever, ber effurts Were of vo avail, and sne heiplessiy (or several miles BELOW THE NARROWS beiore extrication became possible. The steamer Utopia, of the Anch rf line, Was caught about tne sume time, and whe driting with the ice came juto collision with the Inman steamer. Fortu- ately no serious damage Was done to eitber ves- sel. The City oj Autwerp arrived at her pier at eleven o'clock A. M., aud Ger picturesque appear: auce attracted many idiers to the Wuart An icy armor bound her irdm stem to stern. ‘Ihe rigging roared WICH Ice, Small ropes looked Lik nd pendant irom every av aug lung und thick, O steamer stared thal the passage had ost seVEre Of Lhe seasin, Krom Shin ock Bay pearly to New York the sou.l snore of Long Island was imprisoned by svild icy vetters, extending in some cases [en and twelve miles out wo sea, LATE LAST EVENING huge foes, detached irom tue banks of the upper Wudsoo by the noriuwest wind, foated down tke Nortu River, filing it nearly irom ove shore to the ovher and impeding the progress of te terry. bovis. ‘The pilots anticipace another biockade, abd, a8 enormous quantities oO: ice have accumu: ated up te river, a connuance uf the northerly Wind will surely Uring most of it to tue nelwhuor- hood of wWeecliy. From the toot of Fourteenth street, where the memorab.e passage was maue ast week, af immense mass extended to within a few wundred i@et of tne Kivsian F the Hovoken jerces w the only ones gy eatly atected by ine new olockade. At Coristopher Sireet only one boat, the Chancelior Livingston, attempted toran. From Barclay street the voats ran reguiarly ontii mine o'clock. The Hackensack arrived at the New York siip at a quarter past nihe and made several unavailing attempts to reach the Wharf. ‘Ihe ice fwd drifted into the sup aud had re jozen Jast, Alter many jute efforts the boat managed to ap- proach with a jew leet and gang-pianks Were brought imto use vo complete Communivation With the snore. The Hackensack, on returning to Hoboken, was laid up tor repairs. The ice which Hoaved to tue city last pigat seemed to be very He soon | | Saturday evening aba ound | | hersel. yesterday moruiox jammed in apage flue. | At half-past seven auchor was weighed, and ander diferent from that of the last few days, It was comparatively thin and much more brittle than any before encountered, and the pilots of the terry steamers devoutly hope that 0 more glacial ex- | travagances may be presented. As tue HERALD goes press, however, the indications are that a@nuther biockade must be endured, THE SKATING IN THE PARK. ‘ala day yesterday in the Park—a It was o Sabbath gar's ikaliog carnival, hardiy without preeedent in its previous history. ‘There could not have been a better day tor this fascinaung and exhilarating outdoor sport, a cloudless sky, @ brilliant suoshiue, with just enough warmth in At to take off the cutting ‘edge trom the keenly- Bipping air, suerp and icy, and yet alielectric with life, ana the ice on the pouds mirrors of glassy smoothness, Lovers o! the ekatatonal art could not bave asked for @ better day, and it cer- tainly has never veen more extensively or thor- br yo shined than was yesterday's skating in 1 Among the doubtfully contingent things of this world, and particularly neh peseaniar portion of it centralized on our Isle o! jattan, the trans- itoriness Of skating 18a fact most widely known and appreciated, Seeing the bail up yesterday morning—and thousands of youtalul, eager eyes gazed Wistiully tor the joyous token—wus tue hereiore, for an early commencement of skating sport. Jt was young America, of course, WOO took the lead: that is to say, the earaptured schoolboy and young clerk, and young arusaps to whom holidays are rare, and specially with the rarer luxury 0! skating thrown ib. ‘ine early morning cars Were mainly filled with this ciass of young travellers and the moment they struck the Park they paid littie heed to the cir- @uitous gravelled waiks, but scuaded cross-lots in A HURRY SKURRY SCRAMBLE to reach the ponds in the quickest time possible. Besiaes having alonger time for induigence in their iavorite sport these early visitors lad the aduitional pleasure Oi trying tue ice 1a its virginal smoothness and iresbness. it was not until about eleven o’clock, : owever, that the tide of visitors really began. The rus) continued until avout three o'clock, when tne tide might be said to bave Teached its Nood. All the ponds were filled with skaters, excepting the pond devoted to “curling,” on which skaung 1s never allowed, Of course the ‘vig pond,’ as it 1s called, Was the central point of attraction. The lower and upper ponds, however, had their share of patrons, In tact all the ponds were so thronged that they could not very we'll accom- >} modate very many more skaters with any degree of comiort. A more picturesque scene cannot well be imagined. he skaters were Of all ages and oO! all classes. Some were inaifferentiy clad, some poorly ciad, and many Renmegney gotten up—gentiemen in a multiplicity ol that would do credit to a Kussian nob} man, and ladies in gaudy colored plaids ana rib- bons that would do credit to a fancy dress ball, to say nothing ol Long hair scattering in the wind, Curis that flew a yard behind. A process o! scattering and flying mace more apparent with the rapidity of their skating. 1t Wus a perfect Kaleidoscopic picrure, the woirlings and twirlings o! the skaters, with here and there @ mad jostie and a sudden downiall. As lenny- 800 migut have sald, bad he been there— They skip, they glide, They slip, they slide. Of necessity there is @ good deal of awkward skating; but, then, among tue skaters were some Oi the Lest in the city. Great crowds delightediy looked on irom the shores at the fantastic ireaks of these skiiled skaters. kverything that a skater evidently could do on ice was done here, and it really was astonishing to see the exhibi- tons Oo! superlative skill given by many. If 18 QUITE APPARENT that the art has been carried to as high o state Oi periection as is possible, They luliy realized Thomson's description:— As they swept On sounding skates a thousand different ways, In circling poise switt us the winds along. The skating was kept up with undiminished vigor and pieasure combined till six o’ciock, wuen the ponds were cleared and the day’s pleas- ure seekers reluctantly hau to turn their aces homeward again. ‘There was considerable com- plaint at the rule requiring that skating shall cease at six o'clock OM Sunday evenings, whereas on other evenings skating 18 allowed to be kept up tll eleven o'clock, Many vainly endeavored to devise some reasonable grounds Jor the issue of vhis edict, but they gave it up as one oj the mys- teries of the Park management surpassing the ken of ordinary mortals. We have said nothing about the visitors at the Park outside the skaters. They certainiy numbered many thousands, and while the day was specially delizhtiul to tue skaters 1t was hardly less celightiully spent by the other Classes o1 visitors. RAILWAYS BLOCKADED. TRAINS ON THE ERIE ROAD BOUND FAST BY SNOW DRIFTS—DETENTIONS ON OTHER ROUTES. SUSQUEHANNA DEPOT, Pa., Feb. 14, 1875. The snow storm of Thursday last interiered greatly with business on the Erie Railway, accord- ing to reports from tne western portion of the road, West of Hornelisville, both on the main line god on the Bunalo division, the road was com- pletely blockaded until Saturday alternoon. West- ward bound trains couid get no farther than that Diace, and for two days all eastward pound passetger trains were made up there. Snow drifts from fifteen to thirty feet uigh and of great length, were found in the Western and Buffalo divisions, and though large forces of men were busy clearing them away, the work will not be completed before to-night. Yesteraay express trains No. 4and No. 8 were got through for the first since Thursday, and were many hours late. On the Rochester division, branchicg of at Corning, huge snow banka also impeded travel. Frigay morning the Addison mail became imbedded ina drift 100 Jeet long, near Warsaw. Train No. 5, when it reached Horneilsvilie irom the bast, was sent out to the aid of the snow-bound train, with four locomotives. The obstruction was not re- moved until Friday night, the train reaching Hornelisvile nearly a day behind time. Owing to the biockade the stations between Susquehanna Depot and Hornelisville nave been | flied with westward bound ireight trains, occupy. | ing all spare swiccu room, ‘he cold weather has | disadled @ large number of locomotives on the road, and this has made matters much worse. Every extra locomotive on the road has been out since Thursday. ‘Trains began to move to-day, and matters will be in usual working order by to- morrow evening. Lack of power has delayed trains greatly in the Eastern avd Delaware division aiso, trains having been trom an hour to three hours Jate ior nearly a | week. Telegrams have been received here di- | recting all spa: | Eastern division. The passenger train on the Monticello branch of the road, rupning trom Port Jervis to Monticello, | leit the lormer place Toursday noon, It did not reach Monticello, twenty-lour miies distant, until | the next day. yhe roud was so badly blockaded that travel on 1t bas been abandoned ever since. | Operauions will probably open again to-morrow. locomotives to be sent to the lantic and Great Western Katlway, compelling an sbacdonment of trains, have reached here, but no aetails, INTERNATIONAL LOVE FEAST. FRANCE, ENGLAND AND ITALY FRATERNIZED FOR UNION IN CHARITY AND IN WAR. The Enropean journals of the ist cf February re- port that the grand banquet given on Saturday evening, January 30, in the Englisn metropolis, in aid of the institution by the Committee of the | French Hospital tn the British capital, passed of most brilliantly. Count de Jarnac presided, and | among the three hundred persons present were: Tae Lord Mayor of London, the Chevalier Ca- dorna, Italian Envoy; Lord Eliot, Lord Foiey, General Cadogan, the Persian Minister, Mr. Alder- man and Sheriff Ellis; Mr. Sherif shaw, &c. | The French Ambassador, in proposing ‘The Heaith of the Queen and Koyal Family,” reserrea to the terms in which Her Majesty bad recently spoken of the cordial relations existing between France and Engiand, and, in a peaceiul ailusion \o Lue Prince of Wales. Count de Jarpac said thay His Royal Highness had returned irom his recent visit periectly charmed with the reception he had met with in France. fhe succeeding toast was “The Presiaent of the Republic,’ and tue Ambassador lauded Marshal de cMahon aS a tModel of “uprightness ana or.’ Who would persevere to the end in the e100 With Which he had been intrusted oy the vote of the National Assembiy and the wisies of the nation. The toast was e.Veu with enthusi-« astic and prolonged appiau In proposing the “Army and Navy" the Count, speaking in Engiish, dwelt upon the fraternity which eXisted between the forces of both coun. | tries when they fougnt togetver in tue Crimea, and General Cadogan, who responded, expressed a cobfident opinion, foundes on his acquaintance with the leeings of the army, tbatin case war Was to break oul soon, tue troops o England and France would be ouud ranged side by side. (hu- thusiastic cheering). ‘The Chevalier Cadorna, who is about to q post in London, baving been called to the his resi+ dency of the Italian Council of State, in replying to fis health, «said that no country in’ the world is more’ devoted than France to the propagation of ideas favorable to the cause Oo; humanity and progress—es she has oiten proved to ner own 1088. ‘As an Italian, | acknowledge,” said the Minister, “tat my coun- try owes to France the transition which she tas Made (rom being a mere geographical expression inio @ state of political entirety.” (Prolonged applause.) The iord Mayor of London, having alluded to + conierred by the imscitution ed to support, relerred to his ris and (he cordial reception ae Ail Clusses of the population here, He had formed no idea belorenand of its being likely to attalu to snen proportions, and he looked on it a8 one ore demonstration of the undoubted cordiality existing between the two greut capitals | | and the Dations of which they ure the centres, BRYANT AND TILDEN. Mrs. Pratt’s Entertainment—Its History and Significance. A BIRTHDAY PARTY Was the Nomination for the Presidency Only a Joke? (FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. | ALBANY, Feb, 14, 1875. The Gubernatorial guest of Albany, William Cullen Bryant, having left, we breathe easter. Dame Rumor has folded up her tent for a brief period and silently stolen away in the drawing room car, bearing to the metropolis the venera- ble sage, poet, author, statesman and philoso- pher. To-night, & pro‘ound calm pre- valls over this always dull and sleepy town. The statesmen of the capital nave deserted the Dela- van, Congress Hall, the Eldridge House and other hotels. Mysterious gentlemen of the iooby; poll- tictans of the dyed mustache order; originative individuals trom all parts of the State, who come to see what can be picked up; meditative country members, whose ideas oi speedy emoluments have been shattered tc the winds—all"have gone to children, wife and fireside. But there is a cen- tral figure occupying ovr minds—a figure at whica the finger of Propnecy points instinctively as the coming man for President of these United States, THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. Eagle street has been well teaversed during the past week. The residence of Governor Tilden 1s but five minutes’ drive irom ihe Capitol. Jingling of sleigh bells, music of laughter, bright eyes and bisoming cheeks have adorned the thoroughfare for days past, Hundreds of the elite of Albany called at the Executive Mansion to pay tbeir re- spects to Mr. Bryant and Governor Tildeo, Mrs. Pelton and lady assistants did the honors of enter- tainment, The gorgeous parlors were redolent with the perfume of flowers, Happy smiles and artistic music created a domestic paradise. Beau- taful ladies rustied through the hallways, fingered the grand piano, chatted gayly witn visitors, and even iniringed upon the sacred precincts of Gov- erpor Tilden’s part of the premises. His Excellency bas arranged @ portion of the house where he wisnes to be alone and entirely free irom the blandishments of Reports of a serious snow bioc,ade on the Ate | lady irtenas. ‘Do you think Governor Tilden fee! the loneliness of his bachelor itie 7? usked a beam- ing blonde of your correspondent at the reception of Monday night. I ventured to assert that he did not. His surroundings are so peculiarly pleas- ant in the way Of ladies’ society 1t would be dit- cult to form a different conception. Then his si: ter, Mrs. Pelton, is the very embodiment of kind- hess and homelike manners. Thoroughly affable, simple in character, with silvery gray hair and soft, motherly eyes, she is that refined deity of home yet destined, it is hoped, to adorn the White House. But the ladies want to know if the Gover- nor ts content with his single jot. I cannot answer tne question conciusively, although I venture an opinion, Prooabiy he may quote, ashe sinks to resti— . A wife! O fet! ters To man’s blessed Liberty! All tnis world's prison, Heaven the high wail about it, sin the jailer; But the iron shackles weighing down our heels Are only women. GOSSIP ON THE PRESIDENCY, The only real gossippers that I have found here as yet on the Presidential question are ameng the ladies. Not among lady lobbyists, God biess the mark, as I have not yet come across any of that ine teresting and insinuating class. Ask 6 leading poll- ticlan in Albany, ask Governor Seymour, Senator Kernan, Judge Church or any other distinguished demoorat what he thinks of Samuel J. Tilden for President, He wili look you straight in the eye, want to know when you are going back toNew York, have you read o! the transit of Venus, dia you ever read the life of Silas Wright, or some other absolutely sorelgn subject to the leading question just propounded. But the ladies are dif- lerently constituted. {ney mean to make the gear Govertor President whetner he likes it or not, particularly the unmarried unes, ‘Mrs. Presi- dent Tilden” would be such a nice name, ‘Thus it was at MRS. PRATT’S ENTERTAINMENT the other evening. By tue way, tere were only twenty persons ul this gathering. 1t was siricuy private. Tue prying eye of curious people has en- Geavored to eater the charmed circle, nowever, around whica decent conventionaliues ought to have built @ proper saleguard, Mrs. G. W. Pratt, at whose house the entertainment tovk place, is a relative of Governor 5e)mour, a very estimable lady, @ Wl'ow about thirty-live years of uge. I dare not go ceyont tuat estimate. Her residence is situated at No. 71 Hawk street, in Duley row, ag it 18 called, An e.egaut collection ot brown stone houses are grouped together apon this block. 1t1s considered the most aristocratic part of Albany. The houses Were buiit by Mrs. 8. Dud- ley, since deceased. She was immensely weal: hy. In her service was a colored waiter, and at her death she Jeit him $20,000. Wise specula- tion increased this legacy, and the water ot former years became @ man of large property and drove wis carriage througn the streets of Albany. Reverses, however, came, ana the once wealthy darkey became? a vankrupt. He1is now gone to that happy lana beyond tne Jordan, At No, 65 Haws street reside Mrs. B, Tibbits and t Mr. George Jamily, and at No, 67 Hawk st Evans. ‘Ihey are ail relatives of Governor Boy mour, aud the block should be tmumediately changed to the coznomen oi “seymour Row.” A BIRTHDAY PARTY, | before he goes to the politictaus. Mrs. Pratt’s ent & jumily gathering. ‘anment was almost entirely Mr. Bryant being in town, Was, oO cuurse, invited. 1t Was Governor Tilden’s birtuday, the sixty-frst. Fond. pleasaut and | sorrowiul memories clusiered ar und it, A gen- eration bad passed, and With tt many of the great men With Whom Governor Tiiden bad been as- sociated, Van Buren, Wright, Marcy and others paa departed, leaving velind palpavie | shadows of their greaiuess on the pages | of American history, Tilden was the only one leit of that massive old schoul. How such iecoliections must have struck lim. Bui yer | there was sull apother who had jougnt intellectual batties victoriously lar away in the dun past. Wiultum Cullen Bryant could telt stories oi those | eariy Jays beiore Samuel J. Tilceu bad ever learned to lisp the maternal utle, Pieasant recoi- | lectious were freely mngied witn remini cences of otuer days. Friends were there who had custered around ‘the Governor for many years—men and Women whom he had seen liited siep by step Irom the Innocence of childhood to the full vloom and Vigor oj Wature lie. it Was @ sacred assemolage in more seuses than one. its privacy, surrounaea aud diessed by sucu hallowed jwemories, was of a | Character that suould not easily be disturbed, | CONVERSATIONAL NARMKATLV EB: | | Lhave conversed with severai oi those present | as to the nature of the remarks made by Mr. | Bryant, and the manner in which lresidential | talk was introduced. Ose of these xyentiemen oc- | cupies 4 bigs OMcial posiuon iD the Slate govern- | | | | | ment, and his word, to ny mind, cannot be ques- toned, “vid Mr, Bryant make @& speech nominating Governor Tilden Jor the Presiaenucy ?”’ | queried, “Not at ali, sit; Dothing of the kind, ihe matier came up in Chis Way. After dinner the ladies vegan to clamor jor speecoes, One or two of them joked Governor Tilden as to the Presidency. ‘Then Mr. Bryant said te hoped the Governorship would prove 4 stepping-stone to something higher tor his frend Tilden, The latter returted by expresa ing a disinciinauon for any further boners while Mr, seymour, much more deserving, stood beside lum, ‘Then We had a general jaugh ali around, Why, the entertainment ve.ng given ai a priva hous®, Where ladies predominated, the 1atroduc- tion ul politics Would seem (ome very much oUt of place. But those ladies are responsine jor what littie did occur, Ihey would have somebody to (aik, aud their natural inquisitiveness poimted to @ suilition Of the Presidential enigma.’ “Were smith M. Weed and Joseph Warren, of | Butlaio, in che party?’ “Noy neither of them,” “Was Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer at the | entertainment?! * Yes; Mr. Dorshetmer is a thoroughly cultivated | Mentiedian, & OTiiant conversational st at ames, particuiarly Wheo his companion happens to ve a bandsome iady. He is 4 Handsume mad Uimsell ana @ Welcome guest everywhere, Quick at byplay and retort, (ae ladies always clusier around lis well- shaped, ponderons figure, ava parry with him to ther earls convent. courteous, With graceial refinement of manner, our loeutenant Governor bas attwenhed to himsel( aiready # host of Wiends at the capital. As Minister to France or England te would prove a most fitting representative. Who can tell what Ube lortcne of 1876 may bring forth’ CHAMPAGNE, CIGARS AND POLITICS. Such Was the substance of my conversation with the gentlemen, Ladies who were present, and wan whom I #ed, wI80 ye Ms exact coloring to the p It was exceeaingly dit cull, however, to wet the fair arures to touch at ali upou the subject. Governor Seymour and senator herman were undvabiediy of wne party. | ‘ynere was ehampagne, white lightened = duil hearts ana opened reticent lips; fragrant cigars | dispensing pulls oi Presidential witticum ; bright nerves of democratic statesmen. [tis @ wonder that our bachelor Governor did not lose himself completely and. basking in tue mellowness of that evening's lestival, pledge nis ialtu to the skirts of some lair sel, But no doubt the patriarcnal figure of his iriend Brvant restrained such an outburst, and the ladies oi Albany must wall pa- Uenuy Jor @ more lavorabie opportunity. DOES THE VENERABLE POET CHERISH A LATENT POLITICAL AMBITION?—LIKB UNTO GREE- LBY—TILDEN'S TACT AS 4 PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT, . [FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT,] ALBANY, Feb, 13, 1876. On the nigh authority of our guest, the distin. guished poet from the metropolis, we learn that the dead are everywhere—on the mountains and the platns, the sea and the sands—not to mention closets under obscure stairways, where they have left only the proverbial skeleton, Take the wings of morning and ere The Barcan doserts=iol the dead’ are there— Aad 80 on—crowding tn all the geographical names that will run on fiveteet of more or less inexoravie lambics. In fact, the great poem of Mr. Bryant contemplates the earth as one vast howl- ing graveyard, rushing @ continuons funeral pro- cession *hrough space gt an incomprehensible Dumber of miles per hour. As everybody must die, and everybody ia apt to be buried more or less decently—and as every inch of the earth’s sur- face basin all probability been peopled at one time or another—the thought 1s within the limits; nay, it 16 perbaps too strictly and prosaically true to be poetical; and i¢ gives a new measure of Mr. Bry- ant’s talenta to contemplate the success with Which he bas used in poetry an essentially un- Poetic and disagreeable theme. Voltaire made a characteristic use of the main thought of ‘“Tuana- topsis’? when he argued that every particle of the earth’s surface had at one time formed @ portion of some human creature—and even of several hu- man creatures—for there nad been generations enough to use up the suriace of the earth many times in the structure of humanity; and further, that the Angel Gabriel, in calling a general resur- Tection wou'd excite no end of disputes between people who would set up rival claims to the same particle of matter as a proper constituent element of their bones or other parts. This is a less poeti- cal statement of the case than Mr. Bryant’s, but it puts the /acts in a Clearer light, DEAD MEN AND DEAD DUCKS, Mr. Bryant has, therefore, it 1s evident, thought deeply in bis day of the pumber of dead men there are in the world; and people here wonder @ little If he has ever reflected with equal force on the number of what Mr. Andrew Jonnson once called “dead ducks.” Has he pondered on the number of defunot politicians who try to man- q@uvre their own resurrections, and who, left badly crippled by the wayside, hobble up and try Tidiculously to take one more turn in the great foot race lor office. It was the opinion of the 1ate lamented Juvenal that no man knew his own house so well as he (Juvenal) knew the Grove of Mars anc the Cave of Vulcan and the Zolign Crags, to which the poets of his time made casual refereuce—the places and what happened there— quid venit agant, quas umbras £acus torqueat; apd imilarly nope of Mr. Bryans own lines should be more close to his memory than the Picture that must be Jamiliar to him ag gn editor of the moribund politigaan who will not die quietly and be buried, and so become one of the files in the amber of a political “Thanatopsis,” but who struggles to his leet once more, perhaps with the fancy that he is game, but in truth only to prove that he has lamontably misjudged his ca- pacity a8 compared with the obstacies he has to overcome. THE POET'S POLITICAL USE. Already, a8 you are aware, our Governor is in for the Presidency, and certainly his claims asa candidate are more thin respectable; but it must be thought that he makes au ungenerous use of the poor old poet as a cover under which to stalk bis game. He brought Mr. Bryant here ostensibly to honor the bard. but in jact, as 1t appears, to put him in the widdle of a whirlwind of political pro- Jects,1n whicn he is aptto simulate his famous Prosorype 40 gray, denouncing tyrants and rulers when Loose his beard, and hoary hair btreamed like a meteor to the troubled alr, Mr. Bryant was brought up to put the Governor formally on the Presidential course, and he has done it, He bas definitely nominated him at a dinner of small oligarchs in the true democratic style of the jast generation, Asi have said ubove, the claims of Governor ‘Tilden are more than respectable. ‘They are valid and real. He is a man of capacity, known to hold Ormly the doctrine so acceptuble to tue people vut obnoxious to party men, wnat honesty in office 18 of greater public consequence than any other attribute ot the ofMce-holder, He is aiso a man wno maintains that theory of our jederal government which prevailed in better days—a theory whicn was pushed to abuse by the southern democrats, but which needs Teassertion, because the contrary view of the re- ubiicans—the notion that there are no States so y favor of Conuress—is seen '0 be necessarily Tutooug co our whole fabric. Mr. Tilden bas a national Jame as the man most conspicuously as- sociatea with te great assertion of public indig- Ration against oficial thieves; the man most Prominent tur his services rie it the great evil of our time, and the man indorsed as sucn by the peopie of this State, MR, TILDEN’S TACT. With th points commoniy recognized it Was only a question of times, places und persons, when dis Dame should be formally given to the Public im this connection; and Mr. Tilden has chosen his person and hig time with his usual adroitnese. 11 there 1s anything that the people sus- pect in (hese days it 19 the nomipating convention and its common product of unknown mea; and If, | on the other Dana, there is an especially palatabie | morsel tu politics it18 to see @ Dame growing soin | common esteem that public opinion forces the politicians to stand or tall, as they ceetde to accept Or rejectii, ‘Jilden’s game, therelore, is to make cow meudable heatway in Popalar thought lence he caused the suggestion of his name to come irom the gentleman Who was calied in the Legisinture “the most distinguished citizen of our cuuntry.” It was to give to Tiiden’s name the value in the | eopie’s estimation of everything that comes irom | ¥. Bryant’s mouth. No doubt, moreover, us the | nomination o1 a nan o! ripe experience, who has | tried all parties, and who 1s mn high repute jor | | Many suMcient reasons it will command thought- ful attention, BRYANT’S LATE AMBITION, But Mr. Bryant apparentiy benedt in the case. And this 18 such @ recogni- tion as he has iaied to receive during fourteen years of republican ascendancy rom a party to which he tas rendered capable and intelliget servize. He wants office, apparently, and people aid not dream this; and he will lose in popular esteem 1M proportion as the jact 1s known and rec- ognized. He repeats in some pommts tie history of Greeiey. Figiting the batties of the public jor meny Years he is seen at last tobe ready to go , over Irom (he people's side tu the side of the oMce- holders be has criticised 80 constantly and per- sistenuy. Ibis at last evident that he Was not m- spired So Much with fervor for the public cause as with a desire to profit in bis person vy changes 1D ofice-holders, His coquettiog with Tilden 18 an ane nouncement to the repudiican party equivalent to | to have his | Greeley’s Jetter dissoiving the firm of Seward, | | Weed \Greeley, A LETTER FROM GLADSTONE. HONORARY CHANCELLORSHIP OF UNION UNI- VERSIT=. At the semi-annual meeting of the Board of Gov- ernors of Union University, recently held at the Albany Medical College, an interesting commuut- cation Ww: presented from the Right Hon. Wil- liam £, Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone having been | prevented by his inability to cross the Atlantic Jrou accepting the annual Chancellorship, Bishop Potter, of New York, who enters at the next com. mencementon the fiftieth year since his graduation | from Union College, has consented to deliver the Chancellor's address on that occasion. Tne fol- lowing extract is taken {rom the letter of Mr. Gladston HAWARDEN CASTLE, CHESTER, Jan, 2, 1875. The communication reached me a lew days vack 1D the midst of overwhelming Occupations, aud | regret to say it 1s realiy nota matter of choice With ine whether | shail accept of dechue the most Kind and Gatterimg ivitation, Iu tratn my en- ut8 are such, and my Correspondence, that Dhardiy lace them by constant work every pretty nearly all day; and [ am obliged at once to put aside What dees not cume to me as proximate duty, indeed, that in the most considerate Way au offer is made to absolve the from a‘tend- ance ob the re@uiar occasion tor It; oul this dis- Peosaton Would Hecessarily be iD he nature of a Posiponement—when, as! lament to say, that I must make over to other, to younger and to iess | occupied men, the Hope Of Crossing (He AUANLC. | vave but one complaint to make. Liie 18 too full, Lime too rapid, Which in truth means that the provision divinely made for our exercise aud KFOWlH Ix too LDounteous, Batt! produces @ reta- | live penury, & penury of power to do the cuties | that are waiting and crying out to,be done, You Wil, |am sure, appreciate my reasons and commend tiem to Kind acceptane: assored of iny Geep interest 1a the progress of all good learning in America, 1 remain respectiuily and fatth(ully yours, W. E, GLADSTONE, | him so, nn eyes and soft glances that played sad havoc with | THE CUBAN CIRCULAR. Proclamation by the Cubans to “Good Spam iards” and Other People. A Terrible Indictment Against the Ruling Power. Havana, Feb. 8, 1875, The following is a translation of a circular which has appeared on ¢! treets of Havana, Matanzas and Cardenas. It bas neither date nor signature;— To THB GOOD SPANIARDS O¥ THE ISLAND OF CUBA:— In the districts of Santt Espiritu and Cinco Viilas there are events occurriug whicu we would think almost doubuul if their iatal Consequences were hot seed aud Jelt in such @ direct way. It not quite a year ajnce these districts were q and caim, owing to the tntelitgence, loyaity a activity of our worthy authorities, but now these districts are again lacie to be overrun by insur: U heoveer per who threaten witn destruction the ives and property ot honest people, It is unnecessary, at aby rate, for us to seek for any reason why tlie insurrection was not suodued here fp the interval of its greatest development, but yet it is not subdued, in spite of its sligut im- portance, Ivis evident, as every one knows, that our milt tary authorities have immense resources to over- come the insurrection 10 these districts. There are 12,000 men of the reguiar army in the district of Santt Espiritu and 7,000 in that of the Cinco Villas, besides tne volunteer forces and tae contra- guerillas suppited by tne municipalities. In spite of this we have to gricve day by day over losseu occasioned by the 1nsurgents. On the night of the 18th of January the suburbs of Santi Kspiritu were invaded, pillaged and sec on tire by & numoer Of the insurgents; two ol. cers of the army Were Killed and another carried MT. for nothing has siuce been heard of him, @ villuge Of Jibara, three Jeagues from Santt Espiritu, was also destroyed & ow days since and more than 100 persons perisued; among the num- ber several Women and childreu. seven days agoa company of artillery near Cienfuegos Were surprised and sustained 8 loss of three killed, twelve Wounded and four aitssing, In the neighborhood of Villa Clara all kinds o} crimes are elected by the insurgenis, On the san Felipe estate, Don Pascagio Alonso and 4 negro were murdered. Ali travellers are captured and their horses and money taken, and so bold are the rebels that they cam be seen every day from the city. : In fact, us we said before, we have moro re sources than we need to destroy the insurgenta (and they are increasing every day) and tueir crimes are augmenting daily. To whom is at tributable the 1ault? Let forces be well employed. Let us fight the losurrection agaivst Spain with ali the means the authority has in its power, and the imsurrec: tlon 1 these districts will disappear, as it bap: pened not long ago. Let us take good care oi the soldier; let the itrepidiiy of the volunteer be sustained; let us have ap intelligent combination ol military Operations, and we will not have long to Wall jor resulta. Otnerwise, 11 the well-being, health and iiie of the pour svuidier 18 abandoned; if the volunteer is despised ; 11 there 18 not @ clear Intelligence amovg the officers to orm a comoina- uon Of military Operauions; tf we do-not try and find out the Means v1 Coastising our enemies, the insurrection will increase aud the good spaniaras, who up to tnis time have made incalculable sacri- fices, will receive in return ruto and in,amy. We are lorcea to avow that the authorities who now rule us do not fulfil tueir nigh task as we would wish them todo, There ts cited ip their deeds of care, love and activity, which is needed in this case, Uncared ior, no pay since last October, no hos- pitais 0! good conaition, badly fed and dressed, vhat their lile and nealth have been) endangered, how cua the soldiers be prepared to encounter with enthusiasm the dangers of the war? In the barracones called the hospitais, in the steamers coming irom the eastern part of the isiand fillet up with sickness, there are scenes too horrible to attempt a description. Laid down on the floor, subject to ali the rigora of the weather, wWilhout apy means.of mitigating their sutterng, the pvor solaier’s life, which he so generously dedicated to his country, 1s sacrificed. ‘Tue pale lips ot the dying soldiers are filled with curses and must resound ou the conscience of the guiity. ‘Toe enormous taxes to which we ure liable, bee sides those Which existed belore the ten per cent on our uncertain profits and the five per cent on our capital Was instituted, ougut to be sullictent to meet the exigencies of the insurrection. Besides, the Generali Command Oj these dis- tricts remains inactive anu receives the unlucky news ol the destructive work of tne enemies of Spain in the field with the greatest Indifference, ‘A general ot a brigade some time since could sustain peace by the wise application of his ex. celient qualities ; now it 18 impvssibie for five Generals to do so. For these reasons we have been induced to say that what has transpired here is inconceivable. Generais, woogse only wish 18 to pillage the towns, generals wno are all the time at fests and officers without morality, who waste ip every branch of the administration—that 18 what, to speak in @ bold mavner, is to be seen, while we see the people witacut repose, an army witn- ont bread and the name of our couutry without prestige. Juaging from what the papers say the authori. ties luidl their duties, the paciiication of the Cinco Vilas 1s @ jact, the insurrection 1s subdued and there 18 nothiug wauted but to praise and give titles tu those who bave succeeded in estab. Iishiag onthe island of Cuba such a state of pros. perity. It jooks ratner impossible that a censor of a press of native loveresis aud sustained by good and loyal Spaniards deiends such an absurdity and employs sucod sarcasm against us, Are the) Dot, for instance of public note, the abandonment of Our authorities ana their abominable adminis tration? According to the opinions of two Captain. Gen- erals ot the island and of two Intengaotes vf Finance the incomes of the custom houses are suilicient of themselves to meet all tie requirements of the rebellion. ‘nis beme the case, to what use 18 the incaleuiavie re- | sources which the new and ioolish taxes produce? or, in otner words, What becomes of tnis enor. mous amount of revenue’ “If the administrative syscem veionzed to our enemies they would not wave anything else to add to tue acts of our pres- ent rulers.” Itis time for everybody to know what occur: here; it 1s time that public opinion should not be lunger cheated by a lying. flattering press, in order that all good Spaniards should be avie ta persist that our evils should be alleviated, and in order that noble spain may Keep all the glory Which emobellishes the sublimest pages oi her his- tory. PROGRESS OF THE CUBAN WAR FOR LIBERATION— MAXiMO GOMEZ’S DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE CINCO VILLAS. Havana, Feb. 3, 1875. For the past three weeks there have been @ great many rumors in circulation in regard to the invasion of the Cinco Villas by Maximo Gomez. The number of nis forces has been estimated as high as 12,C00 men, well armed and equipped; but from sources which | deem reliable I learn that his Jorce does Dot amount to More than 6,000 men, most o| Whom are mounted. FIRE IN THE SUGAR ESTATES DISTRICT. On the 25th ult, the insurgents set fire to four sugar estates—the San Antonio, Tunicu, Sag Ysidro ang Serafa, which were entirely de- stroyed, togevuer with all the dwellings and out houses, ‘two houses, which were fortified and used aa forts lor the Spanish troops, were also destroyed, the troops retreating into Sanu Espiritu, SPANISH OFFICERS KILLED, On the night o/ the 18th ult. @ party of tugurgenis entered the ourskirts of Santi Espiritu, and@en- countering Jour Spanish oicers, killed them With their macuetes abd succeeded in Making their escape. FREEDOM OF TRAVEL IMPEDED, By orders of the Captain General no persons, except in the military service, are allowed te leave Santi Espiritu and come to Havana, GRANT'S RESIGNATION. HALF A MILLION DOLLARS SUBSCRIPTION 8UG- GESTED TO PAY THE SALARY AND EMOLU- MENTS OF THREE TERMS TO HIS EXCELLENCY. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— You certainly express very singular views regards the resignation of our worthy President and must be either very dull yourself or thipe He cannot afford to resign with so large @ jamily to jook alter and provide ior. Itis nec essary that he have ali the pecuglary advantages Nis position can possibly atiord, Ii he may be considered as to some extent nexlecting his onicit duties you stould excuse him on tue ground ol pressing fawily envagements, Now, you are great on “dolar subscriptions,” and | propose that you put one on fool to raise a hall million dollars, Which Would about pay ule swary ior the Unexpired term of iis ofice—ot course, including the third term to which bé is justly entitled. Do this, and, tike my word tor tt, you can get resignatiun, abdication or anytuing else you may require. No one sould be allowed to subscribe more than $i, (hus aflording toa large number of grateiul people an opportunity o: contributing to the port of a Wortay saimily and making glad the ne Of the beneiactor of their country. xX. X The police of the Eighth precinct raided on tap gambiing house kept by Lawrence MeCarthy at No. 96 Bleecker strect last night and arrested eighteen persous Wio were playing. McUartug escaped, »