The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1875, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and > alter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yorse Heratp will be | sent free of postage. | THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed Nzw Yore_ Hrnaxp. | Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. ee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. VOLUME XI+-.--++ AMUSEMEN | | seeesNO, Bt TO-NIGHT. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, wr i street, uear Sixth avenue—NEGRO | MSI RE Ley ke ues P.M closes at WPM. Dan Bryant GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—FAMILIE HUERNER, at 8 P. M.; | closes at 10:45. M. 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NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. ooo ‘The Political Situation, 1, In the next House of Representatives the democrats will have a majority of at least sixty-five votes. 2. In the Senate the vote will stand thirty- five republicans, thirty-one democrats and eight doubtful, of whom at least six will probably vote against ‘‘strong Southern 3. For practical purposes and on the most important questions of the day, therefore, the democrats, if they should prove wise and con- servative, may be fortunate enough to control both houses, 4. In the country: at large the democrats have not gained since the fall elections. The failure to re-elect Schurz; the refusal of some other democratic legislatures to select first class men as Senators; the evident lack of harmony among the party leaders on the cur- rency and tariff questions, and the feeling that the party has no policy except opposi- tion to the republicans, and is not ready to of democratic politicians to make the country slow to give them its confidence. If, in the should act with extraordinary prudence and wisdom, this would undoubtedly help them. |» But the next House coatains a good many new members, and leading democrats have quietly opposed the call for an extra session, because they fear that their people will be more zeal- follies disgusting to the country. 5. The republican purty in Congress is at | present composed of two factions—one adher- ing blindly to the admiuistration, ready and | eager to do General Graut’s bidding and de- | | termined on a bitter and relentless policy to- | tion republicans are madv up in part of South- ern carpet-baggers, whose political existence depends upon a continuance of federal inter- ference in the South; im part of Northern | demagogues, who will do anything to ‘keep the party in,” and who fear to lose the South- ern electoral vote, and in part of men who do not know that the war is over, who believe the | Southern democrat to be a monster of wicked- These men, from different mctives, agree upon closesat l045P.M. M. ACADEMY OF DESIGN, orner of Twenty-third street and Fourtl BIBITION OF J from 9 4. M. to 5P. rth avenue,—EX- E NGS. Open » and from 6 ¥. M. too P. M. LACKS THEATRE, By roadway.—TAE AT Gamat SN, at SP. Mj; closes at 10301. M. Mr. Boucicauit WOOD'S MUSEUM aeeiey: corner of Thirtietn street.—SCHNEIDER, at BP. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at2P. M. BRO! THEATRE, hyip mag straet.—HELEN#, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 M. Mrs. Ada Gad STADT TH“ ATR Pavers. --ORPHEE AUX ENFERS, : SP.M. Miss Lina jayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, 5S ad Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:45 ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenuc.—Afternoon and | evening, at2and & | THEATRE COMIQUE. Yo, 514 Broadway. VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | FIFiE AVENUZ THEATRE, cs ge tr — Broadway: TRE oe, = avenport, M: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, a Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M.; closes at 1045 Twen: RA Riss LYCEUM THKATRE, | Foartecpih Bs and pixth avenue.—PICK WICK gna { Toole ateP.M. at Wo P.M. Mr. J. | W YORK, _ TCESDAT, From our reports this morning the probabilities G@re that the weather to-day will be warmer and | cloudy. “FE = Wasmrxctoy’s Bretapay was celebrated yesterday with all due honors, and the only thing that cast a gloom over the festivities was the knowledge that Washington was not present. Tze Repvericans my WAsHINcTon seem to find it hard to agree upon a policy, and their caucuses are not very harmonious. They have but ten days left to decide upon a course, and it is hardly likely that in that time they | can arrive at ary acceptable conclusion. We Ane Ixpestep to the Chilian Consul for interesting information of the Exhibition to | be opened in Santiago in September. It will | be seen that North America has commercial reasons for participating in this display, and the government of Chil: will deal generously | with contributors. Tae Escape of Rochefort and his com- panions from New Caledonia is paralleled by that of two other French Communists, who arrived at Queensland in an open boat in December, after enduring great hardships, | This memorable voyage is vividly narrated in | our letter from Sydney. Tae Genman Government is attempting to prevent emigration by laws of repression. It would be wiser to reform those tyrannical rules of military service which are driving its | subjects to seck safety and quiet in America. | One proof of the error of Bismarck’s military policy is that it tends to the depopulation of | the Empire. The laborers remain at home, | but the skilled mechanics aud higher classes | of workmen eagerly emigrate toa country | where they will not be molested. Tue Axwrus.—So much attention has re- cently been directed to the Arnim family that the account given of its genealogy in our Berlin correspondence will gratity a wide- spread curiosity. tis one of the oldest fami- lies in Prussia, and its record is rich in illus- trious names, both in diplomacy and war. It is no doubt hard for the head of such a fanily to be imprisoned and defeated by Bis- marck, whose titles of nobility are of very recent date. Ovr Loxpow Lerrer contains an account of a new government measure for the regula- | tion of criminal prosecution in the British islands. There are public prosecutors in Scotland and in Ireland, but there are none in England. The bill to be presented in Parliament will provide for the appointment vf such officers, who are to be clothed with important powers, and its passage in some , form is believed to be certain. The present system, by which departments of the govern- ment conduct prosecutions, has long been known to be unsatisfactory and oppressive. | them know nothing. They are ready to carry | centralization to the furthest extreme, and on | them General Grant can safely count as sup- | sacrifice them to Grant rather than see the | | proved of the New Orleans affair and the | every republican of pronounced ability be- | longs to this side. | come slowly up to their views, though it is | | gingerly and maintained friendly relations | | with them, and it is only since Congress met | | late he no longer conceals his partisan pur- | poses. The motive of his policy is, at all. | | and it is his firm intention, as he once said, | of forming an intelligent opinion, who would | But, a proscriptive and interfering: policy, regard- less of constitutional limitations and heedless | of the lessons of history, of which most of | porters of his third term project. Those of them who have ambitions of their own would republican party lose power. 6. The other republican faction, less nu- merous in the House and imperceptible in the Senate, has not yet the courage of its opin- ions. It believes that we have gone far | enough, and even too far, in Soutinern inter- ferenc2; it views the President's attitude with repugnance and alarm; it strongjy disap- Vicksburg interference; and the recent Arkansas Message undoubtedly strengthened its determination to resist and brought it re- cruits. This faction actually contains most of the brains of the House; indeed, nearly 7. Timidity has been the vice of this faction, and this is not unnatural. The country bas now in advance of them. Accustomed to act within parly lines, and conscious that a mere protest would only sacrifice them without benefiting the country, they have been slow to act, and tbeir policy has been rather to ob- struct. The President has dealt with them that they have discovered that though he in- stantly gratifies their persona! wishes he will have none of their advice. To-day not one of | these men has the least influence at the White Honse, and all are conscious of this. They | see even Shepherd preferred before them. H 8. As one of the most important elements in | the political situation comes the third term. The President has slowly thrown off the mask of moderation in the last three months, and of hazards, to keep the Sonthern States in re- publican hands or else to nullify their vote, | to “drag the party tbrough.”” It would be | difficult to find a dozen persons in Washing- ton connected with public affairs, and capable say that they did not believe General Grant. means to achieve a third term. The convic~ tion is universal, it is not denied by his closest adherents, and it is everywhere taken for granted. 9. Finally, public sentiment. The opinion. | of the country is anxiously studied by mem- bers of Congress, and those who wish to know it have abundant means of informing themselves. It is believed, first, that the country does not trust the democrats, and would not, at present, like to see them in power. It does not kuow what they would do; and it believes that they would be ca- } pable of mischief and folly. Second, that the people are opposed to a third term, and will, under ordinary circumstances, prefer o democrat to the re-election of General Grant. third, that a foreign war or Southern. troubles might create a state of alarm and ex- | citement under cover of which the third term might hope to succeed. The immediate dan- ' ger of a foreign war has measurably passed. away by the acknowledgment of our claims against Spain; but there is talk among ad- ministration men of our need of another slice | | of Mexico; and the proposed caucus bill wonld, of course, give the President the means of stirring up revolution in the South. | 10, The Southern men are in such a condition that they will give almost anything for a ces- sation of federal interference. Most of them would make an alliance with moderate repub- | licans rather than risk a third term, and the wiser gt them confess freely that they would rather see an independent and trustworthy republican in the Prosidency, sure to carry the North with him in moderate and consti- | tutional measures, than a democrat who might | lack the support and confidence of the North. | What they want and need is a permauent set- | tlement and constitutional government. | 11. Under these circumstances it would not | both parties in opposition to General Grant, and to combine the elements in such a way that neither the third term nor 4 democratic candidate could hope to win in 1876. But a movement of this kind needs courage ; it needs a leader; it requires con- fidence and the determination to run risks. That the leaders of the moderate republicans will be found on the right side when the struggle comes no one need doubt, They will sacrifice all their personal ambitions in 1876 rather than permit Grant to win his third term. But meantime they act as prudent gen- erals ; they skirmish. The fear is that they will keep up the picket fight too long, and that while they are at the outposts the army will get disconraged and demoralized. The fault of the moderate republicans may be in- action ; lack of courage to seize the auspicious moment. 12. In the calculations of the future wise politicians of both sides remember that last fall’s triumph was gained by the democrats by a singularly small aggregate majority. A total of only fitty-seven thousand votes turned from the democratic to the republican side, and properly distributed would have sufficed to give the republicans a majority in the next House and to carry the State tickets in Penn- sylvania, Indiana and Ohio. The democratic majorities were often remarkably small ; and with a leader having the confidence of the country the republicans could hope to retrieve their losses this year and in 1876. 13, The Presidential election lies eighteen months off. But New Hampshire and Con- necticut elect this spring and Pennsylvania and Ohio in the fall. At prasent the prospect is that the last two will be carried by the democrats. For it must be confessed that the | moderate republicans are very slow to act. The Opening of the Harlem River. Under authority of an act of Congress Gen- eral Newton bas for several months been oc- cupied in a careful survey of the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and the official re- port of his labors we give to the public this morning. It will be observed that nature provided the Island of Manhattan with a navigable waterway connecting the Hudson and East rivers, ora way easily made navi- gable, and that it is simply owing to neglect | or bad management that it has been blocked. The growth of this city and the movement of the population northward make the improve- | ment of this line of water communication of great importance to the future, and General Newton’s report only anticipates enter- prises which will soon become com- pulsory. It describes all the obstruc- tions to navigation which exist in the Harlem River, and points out the manner in which they can be removed. The ideas of General Newton are liberal and broad, but he is not too far in advance of hisage. The Harlem River could be made to New York al- most all that the Thames is to London or the Seine to Paris, and has the advantage of both | rivers in the smaller rise and fall of its tides. The suggestions of such an experienced and | successtul engineer as General Newton will no doubt have great weight with the government. His brilliant operations at Hell Gate last year gained him the confidence of this community, and his plans, if they are worthily executed, will make him famous among the great en- gineers of the time. American Observations of the Transit of Venus. Venus is worshipped now by those who were once her enemies—the philosophers, and the enthusiastic manner in which they rendered their devotions last December forms one of the scientific epics of modern times. The ex- tent and elaboration of the observations of the transit of Venus have no precedents in astronomical records, and show the marvellous progress which science has made in this cen- tury, and the acknowledgment of its usefulness by all civilized governments. As the reports come in from the different expeditions we are | rejoiced to find that they were so generally successful, and to-day we add to them the in- teresting account Prussian astronomers on the Auckland Islands, | which was made by the United States expe- ditionary ship Swatara. This letter of our | correspondent brings the good news that the German party aro not only safe but that they were very fortunate in their observations of the | transit. The American astronomers at Queens- town, New Zealand, were quite successful, | Dr. Peters having had no difficulty in obtain- ing perfect photographs or in making exact measurements of the contacts. The data for comparison obtained in both the North and South Hemispheres will enable’the astrono- | mers to make a large number of calculations, and thus to show that the great expense and greater labors of the expeditions were not wasted, but will be of immeasurable value to science. We append to this letter the speech made by Dr. Peters at a banquet given to the French and American astronomers at Otago, in which the achievements of his party are de- scribed. Tue Navat Acapemy.—The attacks upon the colored midshipman Baker by his com- | rades at the Annapolis Naval Academy are | with the sailors that I am frequently asked | ‘Are you going up that | cowardly, and must be suppressed by the , government for the honor of the service. These young gentlemen should remember that all races are equal before the law, and that a colored man is entitled to all the nghts | | which a white man possesses. Yet we are in- formed that one huvdred out of a class of one hundred and fifteen refuse to give pledges that they will not repeat their assaults upon | their comrade. This is ungenerons, unmanly, un-American, and public opinion will sustain the commandant of the Naval Academy in the measures he has taken to obtain fair play. “Free Guroany.'’—The German Empire, according to Minister Bancroft and editor | Medill and other eminent exponents of the | rising growth of the German Power, very inuch resembles the United States in its free- dom, system of law and the tendency ot its institutions. This we have been informed again and again, and it comes rather harsbly apon us, therefore, to learn that in this Em- pire newspapers are fined and suppressed ‘because they publish an encyclical letter from the Pope. of the search for the | Mr. Medill is editor of an ample | natural instincts of life. will be resumed. The testimony of this lady has evidently made a profound impression upon the detence, and will require from Mr. Beecher an emphatic contradiction. The trial has passed through the preliminary stages, and the rehearsal of the statements of Messrs Tilton and Moulton has given place to the direct testimony of new and important witnesses. Every day now is likely to in- tensify its interest, The Dangers of Arctic Exploration. We think the North Pole can be reached provided those interested in the matter will only go about it systematically, as men go about any other business. In order to build railroads capital, labor and deliberate prep- eration are necessary; and why in the prose- cution of a great scientific enterprise the same system should not prevail would be dif- ficult to understand. Let the nations con- cerned sink their individual ambitions and postpone until a given time the execution of their plans. The English have taken the lead during the past few months, with the idea of sending out an expedition by the way of Smith’s Sound during the coming summer. If they would put off the completion of ther preparations another year we have no doubt that Germany, Austria and America would be ready to join with them, and thus the more certainly insure success. This, as we stated a few dnys ago, has been seriously proposed in England, and a power- ful and concentrated effort is necessary.- But, while all this is discussed by scientific socie- ties and in the n3wspapers, people are con- tinually throwing cold water upon the proj- ect by declaring that, even if important re- sults are to be achieved, the dangers to human life are so great that no justification can be given for the risk. Thus highly important explorations are needlessly embarrassed by a mere fancy. It is well known by the ex- perienced that the dangers of Arctic travel are not greater than those encountered in other parts of the world, and are incomparably less than travel in Africa. The history of Arctic explorations, from the beginning to the present time, presents comparatively little of disaster. Lives have been occasionally lost, it is true, but the proportion has been sur- prisingly small, when we consider the great losses which have attended like enterprises in the tropical regions. The fate of Sir John Franklin and his two ships’ companies of one hundred and twenty-eight souls is fresh in the mind of the public; but this is en- tirely exceptional, no similar event ever having occurred except in the case of Sir Hugh Willoughby, who, in 1553, was lost, with his ship's crew, on the coast of Lapland. Barentz, in 1596, passed a terrible winter on the north- eastern point of Nova Zembla; but his party escaped atter the wreck of the ship in open boats, with the loss of three men, including thesturdy commander. This case is paralloled only by that of Dr. Kane, who escaped in like manner, in open boats, from his ice-be- leaguered vessel, the Advance, with the loss of only three of his party, two of whom died from causes incident to exposure without suf- ficient protection. Scurvy has always been re- garded as the great scourge of Arctic voy- agers, and Kane's party, like many others, suffered trom that dreadful malady, caused by eating salt food. But Dr. Hayes subsequently wintered in the same locality without having among his crew a single trace of the disease. Game was there in abundance, and the ship was bountifully supplied with canned and dried | fresh meats and vegetables. The scurvy did not make its appearance in Captain Hall’s ex- pedition, and no serious consequences resulted to anybody, even although half the gship’s company drifted on an ice rift, atter the Pola- ris was wrecked, sixteen hundred miles, and the winter. Captain Hall himself was the only victim; and his death was probably in no way attributable to the climate, and re- sulted entirely from natural causes. Ship- wrecks, it is true, are common, but not more so in proportion to the number of vessels en- gaged in Arctic navigation than in any other | quarter, while the risks to life after shipwreck are ordinarily much lvss, vessels being rarely wrecked except by being crushed among the ice fields, where opportunity is always offered for escape and _ for the saving of clothing, provisions and boats. In the dangerous navigation of Baftin’s Bay hundreds of ships’ crews have, without difficulty, escaped to the south, as did Dr. Kane in 1855. In truth, Arctic service has been popular, not only among the whalemen of Hull and Aberdeen and New Bedford, but is peculiarly attractive to the British man-of- | war's man. Men who have been to the North once almost invariably desire to go again, and certainly the privations are best understood by those who have been sledging over the barren ice fields, especially during the past twenty-five years. These men are not scared | by the mere recollection of cold fingers, even if they have nothing else with which to en- | liven their stories of Arctic adventures. “Men,” says Captain Sherard Osborn, ‘do not volunteer for certain death or starvation; and I can only say that so popular is Arctic service | by old seamen, | way again, sir? Do not forget I am a | volunteer.’ The fact is more sailors haye been dent to service in China and the coast of Africa, within the past four years, than befell in thirty years’ Arctic service; and our sea- | men and officers know it.”” There seems to be a peculiar fascination about the romantic and mysterious regions of | the hyperborea to inspire men with ambition | to taste and retaste of its pecaliar sweetness. | What this is we may be ata loss to under- | stand, especially when the mercury stands, as | ‘This, however, is a matter of individual fancy; and to those who have a disposition to gratify it we give our hearty support, though reserving to ourselves the right to seek | | our own enjoyment in some other quarter. People are not allured by danger without some extraordinary temptation; and the temptations presented by the Arctic regions | 889 hardly great enough to overcome the Unnsual danger and important newspaper, and he might find | may, therefore, be thrown out of the category of occasion to instruct ns upon this anomaly, Tue Bescana, Trtav.—To-day begins the | eighth week of the celebrated contest in Brook- objections to sending out any number of ex- | peditions for the solution of the mysteries | which still, despite the efforts seem to be difficult to unite moderate men of | lyn, and Mrs. Moulton’s cross-examination | North, 1 the other half lived in a miserable hut through | thrown to the sharks from the diseases inci- | it has so long lately, down in the zeros. | of cen- turies, continue to shroud the regions of the Love in Politics. The question as to whether, ot a recent convivial assembly in Albany, Mr. William Cullen Bryant nominated Mr. Tilden for the Presidency remains in abeyance. An accu- rate and truth-loving correspondent informs us that the story was somewhat exaggerated, and that instead of a formal nomination by Mr. Bryant of Mr. Tilden to ths Presidency there was a courteous expression on the part of the venerable poet that his venerable friend might ascend to still higher dignities. A compliment like this may naturally. be variously consid- ered, We would trust his rhetoric no matter how much he may have been under the in- spiration of Pommery or Clicquot. A food deal must be pardoned to midnight and cham- pagne. The soul awakens like an opening rose under the inspiration of Verzenay. But Mr. Bryant is a master in the use of phrases. He understands as well as anybody else the value of what is reserved in a phrase. He may have intended the allusion to a higher dignity to be a gentle suggestion that when Governor Tilden retired from his station he might become the cditor of the Evening Post. Mr. Bryant, we believe, is too good a journal- ist not to know that the control of a great newspaper like the Evening Post is a far higher station than the Presidency. Therefore the question is this—Did Mr. Bryant, when he welcomed Governor Tilden to ‘‘higher digni- ties,” mean to nominate him to the Presidency or to resign to him his own editorisl chair? As the truth-loving correspondent informs us, Albany at this season has fallen upon a merry, golden time. Every day brings an account of the joyousness of- the present ad- ministration, the dinners that are given, the wines that are tasted, the cigars that ore smoked, the parties that are attended. We have fallen upon an cra of illustrious men—men not unworthy of the honor they received, even from Mr. Bryant. There is our Governor, the Hamlet of modern democracy, the de- stroyer of Tweed, the conqueror of Tam- many, in the full winter green of a ruddy old age. Then we have Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer, who seems to develop extraor- dinary attributes, A few years ago he was simply “Bill Dorsheimer,” District Attor- ney in Buffalo, or somewhere out West, and an assiduous republican beef-eater. But, by the heavenly process of change, which has converted him from a republican into a democrat, Bill is now the Adonis, the Apollo, the coming De Witt Clinton of New York, the Pitt, the Talleyrand—we scarcely know what to say—among our rising democratic statesmen. This is a lesson which the republicans would do well to fol- low. The transmission from Bill Dorsheimer, the eager, bustling lawyer of the West, to the Lieutenant Governor and the coming De Witt Clinton of the East is as remarkable in its way as the conversion of St. Paul, andshould be an example to all beef-saters to change their politics before it is too late. Surrounding this court, with the venerable Tilden at the headand the young Laertes at his side, the embodiment of personal grace and genius, we have a select and honored group. There is ex-Governor Seymour, after declining twenty offices that there was no pos- sible chance of his receiving, actually de- clining one to which he might have been elected. There is Francis Kernan, who as- cends into the Senate by the grace of Gov- ernor Seymour. There is the delegation of gifted statesmen from New York in the Senate and Assembly, who neither steal nor intrigue nor plot, whose thoughts are | high and whose ways are pure, whose days are given to legislation and whose nights to the courtesies of Governor Tilden. The dark spot upon it all is, according to our correspondent, that our Governor—a model in every respect in democratic virtue and in- tegrity—fails in one essential to meet the hopes of his fmends. He isa bachelor! His life is a reflection upon the ordinances and sacraments of Christianity—upon the corner stone of society. It is a serious question whether the father of a family can commend this example of a high cfficer whose life is a protest against society. All the ladies of Albany—whose beauty is said to be Andalu- sian—have conspired to compel the Governor to amend his life in this respect. The sugges- tion that he has passed the time when mat- rimony has charms is absurd, especially when | we see that Mr. Disraeli, ten years the Gov- ernor’s senior, is about to enter upon this state of dignity and honor. It would surprise us, therefore, to find this winter’s merri- ment, social gratification, splendor and dis- play come to an end without Mr. Tilden imi- itating the example of Disraeli. The contriv- ances for the Presidency may culminate in the one point that the future of the democratic party in America will depend upon—the reso- lution of Governor Tilden to accept or to refuse the thousand brilliant opportunities now spread before him, and thus to redeem his reputation from the stain of indifference to | the highest duty which Providence haa im- posed Spon 8 mankind. Mr. | Mr. Green's juggling reply to the inquiries | of the Common Council in regard to the eon- dition of the city finances bears so plainly | upon its face the evidence of imposture that | it is surprising to find any intelligent journal | accepting its statements as correct. Besides | Green's Financial Jugglery. misrepresenting the increase of the city debt and stating falsely the number and amount of “anadjusted claims” against the city, Mr. | Green bas evidently made an untruthful ex- hibit of the litigation in which the city has been involved during the three years anda | quarter prior to the 30th December last, and | of the expense that has been thereby fastened | upon the city. He states that there have in | that period been five handred and seventy-two judgments entered against the city, exclusive of assessment cases, amounting in all to 389, ineluding $66,082 for costs, of which about two-thirds were for debts owing by the city prior to the present Comptroller's accession to office. The dogged refusal of | Mr. Green to give any information in | regard to these or other matters connected with the Finance Department renders it impossible to discover how much money has | really been wasted by him in needless litiga- tion until the secrets of his confused and loosely managed office shall have been | dragged to light in spite of his opposition. This is what the Aldermen desired to discover, | nna this is just what Mr. Green's financial jugglery conceals. Everybody knows it to be untrue that the sum of sixty-six thousand dollars will cover one-fourth of the amount the city has been compelled to pay to lawyers and for costs through the Comptroller's litige iousness ; yet no one hopes to discover tha truth except through the labors of the Com- missioners of Accounts or after Mr. Green's removal. On the 30th of September last Corporation Counsel Delafield Smith published a report of the: suits then pending in his office against tae city and of those concluded during the prior three months. That is the last official state. ment in our possession, but it affords quite enough information to prove the deceptive and untruthful character of this portion of Mr. Green’s statement. More than nine bun- dred suits were then pending, exclusive of those to set aside or restrain the collection of assessments, and the amount claimed from the city in those suits reached nearly eight mill- ion dollars. A large proportion of them were for debts and alleged liabilities incurred since September, 1871. During the months of July, August and September, 1874, which are the slackest months of the year in the courts, a little over two hundred suits against the city were decided or ended. In seventy-four casea judgment was given for the plaintiff, and the amount recovered exclusive of costs, was $241,521, besides twonty-two judgments for salaries, the amounts of which are not stated in the Corporation Counsel’s report, In one hundred and thirteen cases the suits were settled or dise continued on payment of the claims by the city, and in these the sum of $154,492 was involved, exclusive of costs, besides eighty- six cases thus settled in which employés and laborers were the plaintiffs, the amounts in- volved not being set forth in the Corporation Counsel’s report. Out .of the suits thus de- cided or concluded, numbering over two hun- dred, only four appear to have been in favor of the city, and these noton the main issue. In one a motion to open judgment wat granted, in two motions for judgment on an- swer as frivolous were denied, and in one an application for a mandamus was refused. In one case Judgment was given for the plaintiff on the ground that the detence put in by the Comptroller was frivolous. This official re- port of the Corporation Counsel, covering only three months out of three years and three months of Mr. Green’s term of offive, must be sufficient to satisfy every one that the Comptroller’s reply to the inquiries of the Aldermen in relation to the cost of liti- gation is as gross a piece of jugglery as his false statement of the debt increase and of the amount of outstanding claims against the city. The necessity of a thorough investigation of the Finance Department becomes every day more apparent. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Scrtdner’s is of all the magazines tn this country or other countries the best printed. Mr. Amasa Sprague, of Providence, is among the late arrivals at the Everett House. Es-Senator John B. Henderson, of Missouri, is staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. In France they say toat Sir Thomas Carlyle” will be the next English Poet Laureate. Ex-Governor H. H. Wells, of Virginia, arrived from Washington last evening at the Hofman House. Now that an oyster famine ts upon as how will Theodore get “the food he wants to nourish his brains?” Acolored woman named Lucy Hawkios died in Washington yesterday at the advanced age of 115 years. There isa man in a Paris hospital in the Orss stage of Rip Van Winkleism. He has been asleep 103 days. That writ of error in the case of the Claimant ts said to be based on startling new evidence ob tained in Australia. Assemblymen Thomas G. Alvord, of Syracuse, and James Faulkner, Jr., of Dansville, N. Y., are residing at the Metropolitan Lotel. Mme. Riscori arrived at Havana from Vers Cruz on the 2ist instant, and sailed yesterday or the steamer Crescent City for New York. Punch pictures all the liberal Jeaders who are proposed to succced Gladstone, as engaged like the famous suitors in the effort to have the bow of Ulysses. All the Pope’s old clothes are burned, and thare is arace of men who regard this regulation as aimed especially at them, like certain words in the dictionary. Berlin physicians are all of opinion that Bis. marck bas overworked fis brain, and must gi up. He ts now incapable of continued thougnt om apy single topic. All the deposed Bourbon princes in Austria and elsewhere seemed a@ perennial source of supply for Carlos’ cash box, but the accession of Alfonso nas changed all that. Tie United States Pension Agent in Washington has received information of the death of a pen- sioner in Georgia, aged ninety-nine years, who left a son sixteen years of age. An English physician. during a lestare to a female audience on the use of alcoholic bev- eFages, asserted that the “babies of London are never sober from their birth until they are weaned.” The Marquis of Hartington, the new liberal leader, made his début in a criticism of the refer- ence in the royal address to Alfonso, and Disraell called the leader’s speech a string of “grotesque reminiscences.”” Mr. Raintcairioony {8 about to visit London from Madagascar, In which country he is prime minis- ter and commander of the forces. Of course he is @ Tipperary man and will be sorry not to see Mitchel there. George Washington’s history seems in @ fair way to be reduced in the common mind to a story of ahatchet, as ‘Tell’s was toa story of an apple; and there was no apple, and it is pretty clear there was no hatchet, In the sult against the London World for libel in some sharp articles against money lenders the Court dismissed the compiaint, holding that malice ‘Was not made out and that “a strong case of pub- lic benefit was shown.” It is said that the proposed compliment to Carlyle was a joke of Disraeli’s; and 1t is probable that the crusty Scot will come out on the Premter ‘with some of the worst English ever seen in the pages of a magazine. His £&xcellency the President has given Mise Kate Forsyth, of Philadelphia, & bouque,t with bie autograph, which will be raMed to-night at the Academy of Music in that city at the tea party for the benefit of the Centennial. Senator Fenton leit Washington late on Satur- day night for his home in this city, He is sum moned here on accountof the death of his aged mother. It is expected that the Senator wiil re sume his seat in Congress on Thursday morning. As Parliament has deciined to admit Mitchel and he is to be re-elected they will decline again, and how long will they keep on that way? Per. hays until the government feels ttsell provokea into arresting him on the old score as an escaped convict. ‘The London journals of the 8th of February, re- port as joliows :—Amid every manifestation of ro spect, as well from the general pubditc as irom the profession of which he was so distinguished an or- nament, the remains of the late Sir W. Sterndale Bennett were on Saturday deposited in Westmine ster Abbey. Inthe long line of carriages which made up the fnneral procession were those of the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Ediue burgh.