The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1875, Page 6

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RE, nd Third avenucn— | M.; closes at 12 P.M, BROO lon street. —THT sat i045 P.M, Mr. HE “ROSS, ata P.M; Roche, Mrs. f', B. Con: | understood NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1875,-TRIPLE SHEET, Pe Sg Rp toa veto he | Fifth avenue maybe done in so workman- Govermer Tildem’s Quarrel with Mayer Wickham. The between these demo- cratic functionaries, which we print this morn- ing, will startle and alarm the great body of the party who have not been let into recent political secrets. They will be concerned to find that Governor Tilden is in a fair way to divide the democracy of the State into hostile factions, He and the Mayor were alike elected on a platform of which ‘home rule’ was one of the chief planks. Nothing couki be more unexpected and sur- prising to the honest democratic masses who voted for both than to find them, before they have been two months in office, waging a public contest with each other on this question of ‘home rule."" This scanda- lous and disorganizing controversy results from the personal weaknesses and infirmities of temper of the immediate parties to it. Mayor Wickham has not made due allowance for tho individual peculiarities of the Gover- nor; and, on the other hand, Governor Tilden has stood too proudly on his official dignity in dealing with a local officer who | might have been won to his views by frank confidence and courteous attentions, but is, like most self-respecting men, repelled by the ‘insolence of office.” ‘The sharp legal sparring betwoen these offi- cers, disclosed in the correspondence which we publish, must not mislead anybody into the belief that they are exhibiting this want of harmony ona mere disputed question of law. The truth is that each of these officials has taken his ground on a question which is only personal, and that their legal con- test Is m mero trial of wits to give a color of law to foregone conclu- sions. All who penetrate to the pith of the controversy will find that it hinges on the question of the removal'of Comptroller Green, upon which the Mayor has set his heart, and which the Governor has decided to oppose. Had Mr. Green been out of the question this public quarrel between the Mayor and the Governor would not have arisen. Governor Tilden would have been too glad to give his assent to the removal of the Corporation Counsel and Fire Commissioners, and there would have been none of the punctiliousness exhibited in the official correspondence if the parties had not been looking beyond the immediate occasion. The Mayor could have had no sort of reluc- tance to putting the Governor in full posses- sion of all his information in the caso of Corporation Counsel Smith, and the Governor would not have stood fas- tidiously on his dignity in demand- ing o detail of proofs. But they both that this was a preliminary looking, on both sides, to tho * Hence Mayor Wickham } skirmish, removal of Green. has been anxious to establish a precedent which would curb the prepossessions of the | Governor in favor of Green, and hence Gov- ernor Tilden has tried to keep warily aloot from any precedent which would embarrass STADT Vidi TRE. Rowery.=<THE. wekAy WINGS Ue INDSOR, at 8 P. *. Miss Lina Mayr. YMPIC THEATRE, Xo, 624 Broadway. VARIETY, at P x e, : closes st 1045 ROMAN HIPPOL h rireot and Fourth av “Twenty. evening. ne COMTQER, RIETY, at SP. Mf; ch ses ay lus HF BIG BO. | Ti oP MN. Me Lewis, MY OF MUSIC at 220 0% M, ADE PHILHARMONIC REHEAR SAL, TRIPLE STMEE r New "YORK, Fribay, PERRY 19, 18%. "From our neal this inorning the probabilities | are that the weatl y ill be warner and | tondy, with possi Wart Street market was nns° Money y Yusterpay.—The ttled. Gold closed at 1 easy foreign exchange un- was steady. | A Sovrneen Proresr.- ‘The Sonth and Southwestern democratic members of Con- | yress have prepared an address protesting | against the misrepresentation of the Southern | | him in protecting his favorite. The contro- versy does not really hinge on a | question of law, but on a ques- tion of personal motives. The legal | | conflicting personal prepossessions and an- | We of the public. The inevitable ‘nigger in the fence,” concealed under all this idle parade of legal points, is Green, | | whom the Governor thinks it neces- sary to protect in furtherance of his | disenssions are a mere blind to conceal the | real question. Mayor Wickham is bent on breach in the democratic party, and they can push Governor Tilden to the veto which he unwarily foreshadows they will have created o split in the democratic ranks which will destroy Governor Tilden’s chances for the Presidency and greatly weaken the party that elected him. By publishing this correspond- ence he strengthens the bands of his personal and party adversaries. If the Costigan bill becomes a law it will render this controversy between him and the Mayor of no account, and unless in a fit of impulsive disappointment or passion he has decided to veto it there can be no rational explanation of his publicly ventilating this quarrel between himself and Mayor Wickham. The publication of the papers hardly admits of any other interpre- tation than a purpose of the Governor to veto the Costigan bill if it comes be- fore him, and his implied avowal of that purpose must operate as a strong temptation to the republican Senators to give him an opportunity for splitting and weaken- ing the democratic party. Whether Mr. Til- den or Mr. Wickham is technically correct in interpreting the charter is a small matter in comparison with the effect of this quarrel on the democracy of the State. According to present appearances Governor Tilden has already ascended to the highest point he will ever reach on the ladder of ambition. Had he possessed the talents of a dexterous political leader he would have avoided this public quarrel with a high official of his own party. a if Bismarck’s Vacation. The announcement that Bismarck wili take six months’ vacation’ at the request of the Emperor, although it may prove erroneous, is given on good authority. Some days since the Cologne (Gazette reported a rumor that the great Chancellor would retire definitely from public life on his sixtieth birthday, which occurs the Ist of next month, That report had in some degree the appearance of coming from Bismarck himself. It looked lke a story set afloat in the press by the agenoy of the Prince, who either intended to retire in reality or to make people believe that such was his intention. Few will believe that a man of his temper would not personally rather die in harness than give way in the midst of a grent conflict with the only Power that remains to dispute in Germany the sovereignty, in the service of which he fights. In the midst of the greatest labor of statesmanship that this century has seen undertaken in Europe—the political or- ganization of Germany—and having in the conflicts it involved overcome the centrifugal tendencies kept up by the smaller sovereignties he has crushed out, and having overthrown all foreign opposition, it is incredible that the one incomparably great man of. our time would willingly yield the field to the opposi- tion of the old nobility and its stanch ally, the Church of Rome. It is more probable that the Gazette's ramor was put out to give shape in the public mind toa coming event, seen to be inevitable, to make appear as the result of his own volition retirement which, removing Green and Governor Tilden is de- termined to prevent it, and everybody will | go astray in judging this controversy | who overlooks this cardinal fact. If the | official fate of Green had not been | involved there would have been the frankest official intercourse between the demo- cratic Governor and the democratic Mayor. Mr. Tilden would have had no occasion to demand, and Mr. Wickham no motive to re- | fuse, a full transcript of the evidence in any ease. This unseemly controversy has not arisen out of poinis of law—which would | have been courteously waived between euch parties in ordinary cireumstances—but ont of | tipathies. This icing the case, we decline to goat present into the merits of the legal hair-split- ting between these democratic functionaries, prefer to deal with facts and not with the thin pretext with which the underlying points of difference are glazed over for the deception people practised by t their friends. and | carpet-baggers Genwax Waa Croup. man Empire hi The peaceful Ger- ordered five ships-of-war to get ready to on some secret mission, It is thongbt 2 demonstration against Spain is | intended. The North German wants to put his fin in the Spanish pie. It is a dan- gerous experiment. No one ever interfered iu Spain that did not regret it sooner or later. Tax Parsipeyrs Psociamattoy. —Presi- dent (rant has issued a proclamation con- | vening a special session of the Senate for the Sth ot March, It is evident that General Grant is resolved to use that body in carrying out his policy as far as it can help him, The meeting of the e will cuable the public to hear from the pew members, Dr. Kiocare has been admitted to his wat. He will probably make himself as dis- to the people who sent his client to prison and would have liked to send his counsel to keep bim had they possessed the power. It is probable we may hear something more about | ‘Sir Roger,"’ now that bis counsel can speak without fear of the Benchers. agreeable as possible “Sir Roger company Prscapacn’s Case Postrosep.—The result of the debate in the Senate on Pinchback’s credentials as Senator elect from the State of | Louisiana is a victory for the true republican. ism of this conniry. Though the session was prolonged and wearisome the speeches delivered on both sides showed suf. | ficient ability and energy to warrant he opinion that tho case has now) / con thorengbly considered and that the ex- | « ise for further ceeupying the short time of tis Congress with its diseussion is no longer | vilid, Although the subject may not be de- bated at such length again strong efforts will probably yet be made by the administration | Senators to accomplish their policy of securing the passage of Mr. Morton's resolution, The Prosident’s proclamation gives us an inkling of what the radical programme is to be. | REST | | | | appear that Governor Tilden bas perpetrated a Presidential aspirations. The law has been strained on both sides, as wo might easily show, if we were dupes enongh to regard this asa legal controversy. But knowing that the | | legal dispute between the Mayor and Gover- ; | nor would never have arisen if it had not ! | been prompled by personal motives we must | be excused from disenssing straws and per- | | mitted to deal with facta, Governor Tilden, | who is playing his game for the Presidency, | | fancies that he would be damaged outside | | the State if he consented to the removal of | Green. Mayor Wickham, who has no other | motive than to raise himself in the esteem of | the citizens who clected him, believes, on | | good grounds, that the removal of (Green | would be the most popular act he could at- | tempt, and prefers the honest approbation of | his constituents to the flashing favor of an | aspirant to the Presidency. This controversy between the Governor | and Mayor as to their respective rights under | the city charter will fade into insignificance if | | the Costigan bill, which passed the Assembly | yesterday, should also pass the Senate and be | approved by the Governor. If the law under | which this controversy arises should be re- pealed within the ensuing five or ten days by a new enactment, conferring upon | the Mayor the sole power of removal, it would great blunder in first getting into and after- ward publishing this controversy with Mayor | Wickham. His consent to give the documents | to the public at this critical stage, close on the heels of the passage of the Costigan bill | | by the Assembly, is @ pretty clear indi- | cation that he will veto the bill if it gets through tho Senate, If this is what he means his passions have be- trayed him into a great blunder, After mak- ing up his mind to protect Green at all baz- | | ards he correctty judged that it would be | better for his personal interests to have the | bill strangled in the Assembly than to be compelled to veto it, Bat it is an enor- thcugh put in the shape of a vacation forced upon the faithful servitor by his Sovereign, is none the less an expression of the success of the cabals that the great Minister combats in | Prussia and Germany. No fortification, the soldiers say, is stronger than its weakest point, and an analogous formula applies in politics. Bismarck’s great combinations all had their weak point, which was the Emperor of Ger- many. It was not only necessary for the Chancellor to do great things ; he had also to make the necessity and the dynastic safety of these things apparent to the small soul of his Sovereign, and in this labor his persistent spirit has at last either suffered the eclipse of his own disgust or of the Junker and priestly influences, Tho Repavement of Fifth Avenue, While the residents on Fifth avenue are unanimous in thinking that. new and better pavement is an urgent public necessity they | are equally united in the belief that tiie adop- tion of a patent concrete plastering of that im- portant street would be a wasteful and odious misapplication of public money. If any of the miserable concretes which have been tried, with bad results, in that and other im- portant streets within the last few years should be incorporated into a bill for repav- | ing Fifth avenue the residents, who have so near an interest in the question, would prefer that nothing be done at present. If the avenue is not to be substantially paved, but only plastered, the expense would have to be | Tepeated within two or three years, and the | residents would be subjected to the annoz- ance of having the street torn up twice instead of once, They would entirely prefer to have the improvement de- ferred for another year rather than have , the avenue torn up now and again torn up within two or three years, with an interval before the second repavement of annoyances greater than those which it is sought to remedy. It is for the interest both of the residents and the city treasury that when the work is done it be done, once for all, in a manner so solid and substantial that the people on the avenue may expect a period of | quiet. The proper method of dealing with Fifth | avenue is to give it the best possible specimen of a Macadamized road. The basis of such 8 road should be laid in a good foundation, at @ sufficient depth, of flattish stones, with their edges turned upward, and there should be superimposed upon this a bed of broken stones of the size of turkeys'eggs, to be sur- mounted with another bed of clean gravel, with a finishing surface of some of the best tested forms of concrete. If a road were once con- | atructod on this model nothing but the | mere surface Would require any repairs for the next twenty or thirty years. There would be occasional sinkings of the surface under the weight of constant travel, but they could always be smoothed and rectified with- out tearing up the foundation of the street, A few loads of gravel to fill up an accidental | holiow, and a few square yards of surface | concrete, would be the only requisites for maintaining the street {n excellent repair. This casual mending of the surface would subject the residents to no annoyance and the mous mistake for him to publicly com- ‘mit himself to a veto ag i travel of the street to no interruption, Wo sincerely trust that the protests of the resi- The Winter Outlook and the Froba- ble Effects of the Recont Polar ‘Woather, The present winter will be long memorable for the great January frost, which came so unexpectedly and has clung eo tenaciously to the country. It carries the mind back to some of the earlier cold seasons which made their mark in the history of the Republic, and whore rigors are still remembered by the oldest citizens. Although the almost Arctic scenes that have recently been witnessed around New York have been so keenly felt they do not, however, equal those to which we refer. In 1780 Long Island Sound was completely covered with ice, and an ice-bridge between New York and Staten Island afforded a safe passageway for the Revolutionary troops. The winters of 1811 and 1817 were similarly marked by intense frosts in this country, as also were those of 1825 and 1835, during which there are records of mercury freezing in parts of New York. In the last named year the records of the period show that all the country east of the Rocky Mountains and north of a line drawn from Natchez to Wil- mington, experienced a fall of temperature down to zero, Long Island Sound being ice- bridged; and in Now England the snow re- mained from December to May. While the present winter has not yet de- veloped such rigorous and protracted cold the intensity of its frosts must nevertheless exercise a potent influence on the climate and soilof the earth for some months to come This infinence is varied, and it is of great im- portance to forecast some of its effects. One of these, which has been most clearly dis- cerned, is seen in the sanitary returns, which indicate the deadly power of Arctic weather, when it suddenly bursts over an unsuspecting and unprepared population. But the anti- septic property of cold, though not made so palpable to us by mortuary statistics, is a well known and most invaluable compensa- tion for the other disadvantages it entails upon the publio health. It was found by Dr. Kane's party that, under certain circum- stances, the thermometer may sink to a point where this antiseptic property is neutralized. But, ordinarily, even the terrible cold of the Polar regions serves as a preservative from the decomposing agency of the atmosphere, and the bodies of lost Arctio mariners have been found kept by their icy cerements for many years as perfectly as an Egyptian mummy. After the present winter gives way to summer skies we shall doubtless find that the deep-striking severity of its frosts have been guarantees for future immunity from disease and epidemic. The effect of the winter upon agriculture re- mains to be seen, and should be made a matter of scientific inquiry. Among the im- mediate consequences of the Polar waves which have swept over the country we may unhesitatingly expect, on the one hand, a large destruction of trees. But this, too, has an offset in the retardation of the vegetative processes, and hence in the saving of enor- mous quantities of fruit, which in ordinary years is cut off by early and untimely warm | weather in February, succeeded by the boreal blasts of March. It is safe now to say that it will be late in March before fruit trees which are exposed reach that condition. Ex- periments upon the soil-penetrating power of cold have established the fact that in light, loose soils, though the frost is more felt on the upper layer, the ground does not freeze as far below the surface as in the heavier and clay soils. Considerable por- tions of the great grain-growing regions of the West, lying in the alluvial basin of the Mis- sissippi, are clay soils, into which the recent cold must have deeply struck. Though this may delay the operations of the prairie farmer it isa pretty sure indication that the gross- hoppers and other insects which last year ruined their crops have been frozen in the soil, no more to emerge when spring appears to darken the air and destroy the harvests with their myriad ewarms. In addition to these physical consequences likely to evsue from the Polar weather we have had it is probable that the spring rains will be unusually large. The amount of water abstracted from the passing clouds and vapor- laden winds depends largely, if not chiefly, upon the coldness of the earth’s crust and its consequent condensing power. When the worm and moist spring winds begin to blow over the country from the Gulf and the Atlantic, with the return of the great equa- forial air current, they will impinge upon a continent intensely chilled and in a condition to condense immense quantities of vapor. We may, therefore, hope for the speedy restoration of the balance of vapor, which has been lost since the fearful droughts of Jast July, since which date the agricultural in- terests have suffered greatly from the general rainlessness. Such are some of the compensations that may be anticipated from the present ‘winter of our discontent.’’ Tue Frencn Senats.—-A new bill for the organization of a Senate has been introduced | by the deputies of the Centre, which may be accepted by the majority. It provides for the selection of seventy of the Senators by the Assembly, who shall be irremovable, leaving two hundred and twenty-five to be elected by the Councils-General, the municipal coun- ceils and councils of the arrondissements, one-third of the latter to be replaced every | threo years. This bill is sufficiently liberal to same time offers guarantees to the conserva- accept itas a compromise measure, and has already abandoned ail claim to the right of ap- | pointing any portion of the Senate. By the aid of established, and if the republicans are well | advised thoy will accept a measure that will | place the control of affairs almost wholly in their hands. By the time the Septennate comes toa natural end France would be bet- ter prepared to carry out the republican pro- gramme to its logical conclusion. A Conner tx Watxr.—The condition of the pipes up town is such that the supply of | water is stopped. | trade ia water, We have heard of corners in watered stocks, but this Nova Zembla weather { the bill passes the Lower House, By thus | dents may be Leeded, and that the ropaving of | has brought us 9 corner in water, | merit the approval of the Left, and at the | tives, The government is evidently willing to | | this measure the Republic might be definitely | There is now a thriving | The Cabaun War. Judged by the representations of the Spanish authorities the position of affairs in Cuba is well nigh desporate. The insurgents are car- rying out, in spite of all the efforts of the gov- ernment forces, their plan of laying the coun- try waste. In order to get rid of the Spaniards the patriots have resolved | to make a desert of Cuba. They will no longer permit Spain to draw resources from the island with which to carry on the war. This is the policy of desperntion, but it is the one best suited to the circumstances in which tne Cubans find themselves, The ag- gressive attitude of the insurrection proves its power and shows how absurd were the statements put forward by the Spanish authorities that the insurrection was maintained by wandering bands of ma- rauders. Some weeks have now passed since General Gomez with his forces crossed the much-vaunted Trocha, We were told by the Havana papers that the Spanish columns were in active pursuit and would scatter the Cuban bands like chaff. Six desperate battles have been fought since then, and on every occasion the Spanish ' forces have been disastrously defeated. How desperately these men fight can be judged by the state- ment of the losses suffered in the last engage- ment. Out of threo hundred and sixty-five men engaged on the Spanish sido one hun- dred and fifty are reported killed and wounded by their chief. As the Spanish invariably un- derestimate their losses probably half the column was destroyed. This proves that the fighting must have been desperate beyond example in modern times, Instead of being dispersed the insurgents are destroying all the plantations in Cienfuegos and Sagua, Already twenty-six of the most important have been given to the flames. The where- abouts of Gomez is not known, the work of destruction in the named districts being carried out by his lieutenants, Sanguili and Gonzalez. We should not be astonished if Gomez should suddenly make his appearance in the direc- tion of Colon as soon asthe Spanish troops have been sont to attack his lieutenants, leay- ing the rich plantations in the level country about Colon without adequate defence. The success of the insurgent movement in the able to re-establish her power on the island. Cuba is the second edition of St. Domingo. Poor Greont Mr. Greer, who occupies the position of the Old Man of the Sea around the neck of Mayor Wickham’s administration, has written a report on the condition of the financés, This report reminds us of the answer of the condemned criminal who is called upon to give his reasons why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him. What mon generally do under these circumstances is to abuse the jury and expross an ecstatic desire to leave the world and go to heaven. Mr. Green is in this frame of mind. He has been condemned by public opinion. Owing his place to the direct nomination and appoint- ment of the most conspicuous and successful thief of the old Ring, he has not been un- worthy of his origin. The Tweed-Sweeny combination robbed New York ; this creation of Sweeny and Connolly has stifled it, Under pretence of economy he has piled debt upon debt, and has shown no evidence of financial genins except to borrow money. His pretences of reform have been merely pretexts for misgovernment, and the result of his unchallenged dominion over our finances is that New York is in a worse condition now than it was at any time under the Tammany domination. The publio opinion which has condemned Andrew H.. Green grows firmer and firmer. The Hzratp has simply expressed it. We have no feeling against him. So long as he was a good officer we had only words of encouragement, Personally he has never risen to the level of our contempt, When he censures the Henan it is only the condemned criminal who insists that he is about to be hanged because he fell into the hands of a perjured jary and a corrupt jadge. He com- plains that some of our advertising bills against the city exceeded our usual rates, This is the feeblest kind of a falsehood, worthy of Andrew H. Green, The Hunaip has never received a Corporation advertise- ment without regret, nor printed it without reluctance. We have never charged a penny more than our regular rates, have never made the shadow of o discrimination between our customers, Mr. Green says “the highest ordinary rate of the Heratp for advertising was forty cents a line.” have found out the truth by inquiring at our counter, He would have learned that for some classes of advertisements we charge as high as a dollar a line, and for others | less, according to position. This system ob- tains in all newspapers, We printed the Cor- poration advertisements whenever they were ordered, and charged according to our rule, ‘We have more advertisomenta than we can in any way accommodate, We have declined government business in a hundred instances, and the miserable pretence that with our over- flowing columns, with a constant anxiety as to how we can accommodate our patrons, we should be anxious about the advertisements of the Corporation, is worthy of the intellect of Mr. Green. It shows us how utterly unfit ho is for any position connected with finances outside of s country grocery store. Mr. Green has told us why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him. Con- demned by public opinion, and in all respects an unpopular, inefficient, obstructive and un- worthy official, the sooner ho is removed the hotter it will be for the credit of the city and the success of the Mayor's administration. Krxo Fnost.—The misery caused by Black Friday is nothing to what is daily suffered by thousands of households in the city of one of the first nécossities of life. It would be eu. rious to consider the many evils and in- conveniences caused by this water blockade, How many little boys and girls go about with dirty faces, rejoicing that their hydrants are frozen, and how many old topers find an excellent excuse for taking their whiskey straight. Whilo the mass of the citizens, tracted, crying for water, water, the plumbers | are the only class who secretly rejoice, and | nightiy offer up prayers that the thermometer may fall a few degrees more, 60 that every hydrant in the city may aced their cara. Villas destroys all hope of Spain's ever being | Mr. Green conld | the present corner in water, which deprives | especially in the uptown districts, are dia. | ———— rg The Soott-Garrett Raiitread War, - Tho great body of the community can feel but a passing interest in the fierce contest bee tween Tom Scott and President Garrett which has broken out within a few days. The great reduction of fares betweon the East and the West is a benefit to.the travelling public whilo it lasts; but there is too much reason to fear that it is ouly temporary. If the Baltimore and Ohio road can really afford the rates it now offers from sudden resentment or emula- tion the cost of travel will be materially and permanently ‘reduced; but this is too much to expect. Tho public cares nothing for jeal- ous squabbles between rival railroads except so far as the public may be itself benefited, If they result in nothing beyond a transient reduction of charges, to be followed. by a combination for putting them up again to the old figures, the quarrel hardly rises above the dignity of a college boat race or a contest between cham- pion billiard players. Wo imagine that thia rivalry will cease with the opening of lake and canal navigation in the spring. Tho quarrel grows out of the refusal of the Baltimore and Ohio road to accept the Saratoga arrangement for regulating winter rates. ‘That arrange- ment, as we understand it, related only to freights, and not to passengers. The extension of the quarrel to the passenger business is the result of sudden heat and animosity and will be of no permanent advantage to the travel- ling public. ‘The explanation of this exciting quarrel is to be found in the fact that tho general de- pression of business under which the country is suffering makes it a dull winter for tho railroads, Each is anxious to get what it oan of the diminished amount of freights, and the refusal of the Baltrmore and Ohio to come into the Saratoga arrangement leaves it free to underbid the other roads. All the business i¢ can attract to Bultimore by low rates ia a great gnin, becauso that road haa only a inoderate share of the profits of trans< portation to New York or Philadelphia (not owning the lines which connect with these cities), whereas Western freights delivered in Baltimore contribute to the income of no other toad. The Baltimore and Ohio road runs the hazard of having its communications to Now York and Philadelphia shut egainst it; bat during the winter season this is of little ac. count. President Garrett is aiming to secure for his road the slow business which at other seasons passes through the lakes and canals, and he has made arrangements to deliver goods in New York by a line of steamers cone necting with Baltimore. This may give him & practical monopoly of the slow business doring the winter, but it will contribute noth. ing to permanent cheapness of transportation, We are, therefore, constrained to regard thig lively railroad war as a matter of transient interest. Oor Licutnovse System.—We print 4 letter this morning from Mr. Alexander Evang protesting against any change in our light. house system, which we commend to tho at« tention of Congress and the country. Mr. Evans puts the argument very forcibly, and shows the great folly of exchanging a system which has had the best results, under acien~ tific direction, for the imperfect plan which tho Lightbous: Board supplanted. It is always well to let well enough alone, and in this case any change must prove calamitous, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, REESE. ea Ambrose Thomas says he likes Faure better ia “Hamlet” than in “Favorita."” Paymaster Henry B. Reese, United States Arzy, 1s registered at the Grand Hotel. Commander Gurdon, of the British Navy, ls re- aiding at the Fifth Avenue Hote}. General Henry Brewerton, United States Army, 1s quartered at the Sturtevant House, Coionel H. 8. McComb, of Delaware, 1a amoag the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Captain Lewis A, Kimberly, United States Navy, yesterday arrived at the Sturtevant House, State Senator Nathantel Wheeler, of Connectix cut, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermonh arrived last evening at tho Fifth Avenuc Hotel, Captain Rathbup, of the steamship Henry Uhaun- cey, has taken up his quarters at the Union Square Hotel. Mr. D. L. Harris, President of the Connecticut River Ratlway Company, is stopping at the Sh Nicholas Hotel. Great scandal in Dresdcn because the heir pre- sumptive of the Saxon thronc has a Jesuit pre- ceptor for nis son. Mrs, Lester Wallack and her son (Harold Wal- lack), of this city, arrived at the Grand National Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., On the Lith inst. Senator Stewart says that tnodemocrats cannot elect the next President, Has he any private in- formation of arrangements made to the contrary? Hans Yon Bulow’s visit to this country is ine way to take practical shape, as Mr. I. D. Palmer, who goes to Europe shortly; goes partly to consult with Bulow on his coming. Mile. Dianie, of the Theatre Cluny, at Paris, ‘. Rot gracious to her edmirers, and a student whose bouquets and notes were disregarded resorted the other evening to more forcible measures for atiracting attention. lie opened fire on the young Judy from tho orchestra stalis with his revolvers but he was fortunately not a good shot, The Paris Figaro says:—“EXciusively to show that we arc well informed we note the presence in asplendid dweiling near Versailles of a per- sonage Of great importance, who will to-day or to-morrow visit the Chamber; but we will say no more for the moment, as we must respect the traveller's inoogntto."’ The traveller thus reierred to was the Count de Chambord, Andrew Johnson is expected to arrive In Wash ington next week In anticipation of tho extra session of the Souate. He will be publiciy re- ceived by his fricads, au4 on that day there wilt ve pat into circuiation a large engraving, hand. somely embollisied, contaming Jac similes ot the autographs of Senators and Kepresentatives ‘who voted jor and againat his impeachment, with other information on that subject, The portrais of Mr. Johnson at the bead of the chart 1a from» photograph recently taken. Nine Senators of the Fortieth (or Impeachment) Congress are dead, Tweive will serve with tim in the coming (or For: ty-fourth) Congress, This is the way they propose to vote in the French Assembly, when the construction of tha apparatus is complered:—‘Before every Depaty two lvory buttons will be placed, like the buttons of etectric bells, If the Deputy wishes to vote ‘yes’ he presses the button on his right, tf he wishes to vote ‘no’ he presses the button on big left, The voter estaolishes by this moans an elec: tric communication which 13 transmitted to an apparatas close to the President and his secre- tories. Every time the electric current acts thus {t openg the door to @ ball and the ball fala through a tube Into the baliot box. The balls ara made of glass or ivory, and are strictly iaentical in weight, Tn@ two ballot boxos are then weighea and the number of balls 14 indicated by the weight. Fivaliy, by turning @ handie aii the balig , And they number Of members who have abstained absent whem the vote was taken, Noth- tng can be more simple. M, Jacquin has offorea toset up his apparatus in the Versailles Assombiy for the sum of $12,000, Tima i money.” rs a