The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly ditions of the New Yorx Henaxp 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 @espatches must be addressed New York Benarp. Rejected communications will not be re- burned. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. . G4 . VOLUME XL AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVE COLOSSEUM jurth stre et PABIS BY NIGHT. roadway and T b Spt Sree Boom sT FReear, mci as of Twenty-third street any —_ IENRY VY. ars PM. M.; closes at li”, M. Mr. Rignola. oataa! M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 10. 585 Broadway. ohn at SP, M.; closes at 10:45 M. Matinec a! SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner of Iwenty-ninih street.—NEGRO Y, at@P. M:: closes at 10 P. Matinee at Broadwa: sd PM N HALL, DULL OARE, at 8 P.M; cabe. Matinee at2 P.M. ATRE, 1 stmeet, between second nad’ Third avencea— | niet Ys ata Few: closes at 2M THE SH Ws ar. Bouck MRS. CONWAY'S es n.—-OURS, a: 8 2. ‘allack. Matinee USEUM, Broad’ corner of street. —-THE WATER alow N and KIDNAPPED, al § P.M; closes at 345 P.M sie ati. lo. voadveare —VA oF P.M. Matinee at 2 P. EATRE, ,atBP. Mh; closes at 10:65 ROMAN HIPPODROME, | Twenty-sixth stree: and Fourth avenue—PEDES- | TRIANISM. Professor Weston. THEATRE COMIQUE, | 'o. 514 Broa away VARILT at8 P. M,3 closes at 10:45 | » Me ‘Matinee at2P. M. STADT THEATRE Bowery.—ORPHEE AUX ENFERS, at 8P. M.; closes at M5 PM. OPERA HOUSE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1045 ton avenue.—VARIETY, 8 P.M. albees at 105 Mp Matinee at2 P. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, third street, near Sixth avenue.-NEGRO fest Twenty. Piacente xc. 3 ¥ M5 % Matinee ataP. M, GERMANIA THEATRE, FROU, at 8'P. 0; closes at | et oe fice st | oT’ | i} | 5 closes at 10P.M Dan | Broad irate Goer Fontes TROFLE.GIROPLA, }way.—French Opera Bonfte—(i LA, | P.M; closes at 10 |. Mile. Coralie Geoftroy. ‘ince set PM. Brosdway.—CORD AND CH E, atSP. M.; closes st 45 P. Matinee at2 P. M. ere Ay NUE THEATR: aru avig ace nty-eighth strect and Broadway.— Fy ANZA, at 8PM. closes at 03) Mr. Lewis, Davenport, Mr. etidert Matinee at 130 Pr ME. Ly SHOMAS’ | FIRST closes at 10:30 P. M. WITH SUPPLEMENT. From our reports this morning the provabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with | rain or snow and colder temperature. Wart Srrert Yestrrpay.—Stocks were higher. Gold was firm at 115. Money on | callloaned at 3and 5 percent. Foreign ex- change dull. A Lrrrz Merrnopist Rericioy, according to our cable despatches, is mistaken for in- sanity in England. AxoTHER DisTnes: ported, the bark Giovanni, Boston, bemg wrecked at Highland Light, Massachusetts. Sixteen men perished within four hundred yards of the shore. SASTER at sea is re- | from Palermo for Tue Wan iw Sparx forms the theme of a very interesting letter from Estella which we print this morning. It1s a full and brilliant e@ccount of the desperate battle of Lacar. Both the Spanish armies were in the ficld end there was herd fighting, which always makes agreeable te ading. Lrrmiz Ruopy will not brook federal in- | terference, and somehow or other war seems imminent between the State and the United States. We deprecate hostilities, first of all because the State is scarcely large enough for two armies, however small; though it must be confessed that Governor Howard's belli- cose message is pleasant reading in these piping times of peace. Tae Stockvis Case reveals some queer no- tions of official duty, not the least curious of which is the anxiety of the police to prove that the deceased man was intoxicated at the time he was arrested. Had the officers cared to inquire into his condition before his com- mitment the Coroner would not now be com- pelled to resort to the humiliating necessity of advertising for the testimony of citizens, Tae Remozep Dirrr ns between Eng- land and Russia are od by the the Englishman, a trustworthy India, that ali the troops in that ¢ ordered to be ready for active service, vi reports of spaper in ry are th mise being that they are to be used in Europe sur- and notin Asia, War was repeatedly threat- ened—first, on account of Russia’s declaration as to the neutrality of the Black Sea in 1870, and later because of Khivan complications ; but England has not been in a hurry to fight and it is likely that something of greater im- portance than the waning influence at Con- | been conducted in its spirit, he might have | since Washington, | taken no | his sincere and settled aim, the most indulgent | for him to tranquillize the country by | tary vigor, is rendered | defeat of the Force bill and the passage of the | Louisiana and Arkansas resolutions; | most salutary. The desolating effect of earth- | | temptations ! of Lee. | ean do mu stantinople must occur before we shall seo | @aglish armivs in the field. | their NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1875-—WITH SUPPLEMENT, “Let Us Have Peace!” | Now that Congress—the last republican Congress before the expiration of President | Grant’s eight years—has adjourned, without | placing in bis hands any new offensive weapons against the South, it would be wise for him to avail himself of this pause in the | storm to take observations for ascertaining his official latitude and longitude, and find how far he has drifted from his course amid the buffetings of political waves and weather. He has not sailed by his original chart, The fervent and patriotic aspiration with which | he closed his first letter of acceptance became | a popular motto in that political campaign; but, although it was then tuken as a promise, it has not yet been fulfilled as a prophecy. But it is the wisest of all the recorded sayings of General Grant; and, had his administration been the most admired of our Presidents He could have under- nobler task than that of | pacifying and tranquillizing the country, | pouring balm into the still bleeding wounds of the civil war, healing differences among his countrymen and restoring the old bonds | of fraternal affection. Had it been apparent | throughout his administration that this was judgment would have passed on the occa” sional mistakes incident to his want of civil | experience, and he might have given a con- | spicuous exemplification of that noble senti- ment of Milton—‘Peace hath her victories | no less renowned than war.” It is not yet too late for the President to return to that wise and magnanimous policy | foreshadowed by his celebrated motto, but not realized in practice. In fact, it is the only resource now left him for re-establish- ing his popularity. The failure of the Force | bill and the House resolutions respecting Louisiana and Arkansas have taken out of his hands all means of success in a contrary policy. Peace by the agency of the sword is not in his power, and it only remains magnanimity and the arts of conciliation. The policy recommended in that wild de- spatchof Sleridan, the policy of treating the Southern whites as ‘‘banditti,” and making | short work of their opposition by sheer mili- | impossible by the and | since every other road is blocked we hope he will ot last try the effect of kindness and moral influence. Quiet and silent agencies | are, after all, the most powerful as well as tho quakes and convulsions of nature cannot be | compared with the gentle, genial influence of | the sun which releases ice-bound capacities of | vegetation and covers the world with verdure, | beauty and gladdening harvests. In the moral | and political world, as in the natural, the | most potent influences are the gentlest. The | propagation of Christianity changed the face | | of the world. The quiet growth of modern | commerce has enlisted great interests on | the side of peace and diminished the | to desolating wars. Public | opinion has become more powerful than fleets | and armies. The ballot box is a substitute for violent revolutions. The universal diffu- | sion of a taste for luxuries subverted the | fendal system and the institutions of the | | Middle Ages and changed hosts of military | | retainers into industrious artisans. ! close of our civil war, Congress had at once | Tf, at the | released Southern estates from threatened | confiscation, enabling the owners to givo se- curity for loans of money from Northern cap- | italists, the wheels of Southern industry | would have been set promptly in motion and | the general eagerness to recover lost wealth | would nave supplanted political discontent. pation fitted to absord their attention and withdraw it trom political controversies, Even modern despots understand this, and | there is no stronger proof of the sagacity of the two Napoleons than their attempts to occupy Frenchmen with the adornment of | their capital and other works calculated to draw off their attention from politics. Unfortunately, the policy of President Grant has tended to engross the Southern | mind with irritating questions which are a the wisest policy is one of forgetfulness, | which turns attention to the future’ and | spreads a mantle of oblivion over the past. No man in the country had a clearer per- | ception of this vital truth than General Grant | had for the first two years after the surrender | There is no part of his career on which his countrymen look with greater pride | and admiration than his magnanimous bear- | ing toward the conquered South while his military laurels were yet fresh; and if the noble sentiments which then inspired him had been steadily cherished in his political administration he would have filled one cf the purest and brightest pages in American history. Those sentiments were equally creditable to his head and his heart, and he still retained them when the glittering and see duetive prize of the Presidency was first placed within his reach. His letter of accept- ance, in response to the Chicago nomination in 1868, was conceived in the spirit of a patriot and a man of sagacity, and if that memorable wish, “Let us have peace,’ had been firmly acted upon in his practical politics, the country would have been spared these six years of civil strife which leaves the South more distracted and unset- tled than it was when President Grant came | tothe helm. He is now presented witha favorable opportunity for retracing his steps. Congress has refused to place in his hands the means of carrying ont the ‘‘banditti’’ policy of Sheridan, and since it is in his power to eve peace only by conciliation, let him, at ack last, try the eff y of this noble method whose value he was among the first to recog- nize. It is impossible to exaggerate the ap- plauding revulsion of popular feeling in his favor which would follow a decisive return to the 6 animity which in a the memorablé wish we have quoted from his letter, yntaneous mag: But what can he do at this late day ? h: h; If Let him dismiss every carpet-bagger who holds a fed- eral office in the Southern States, and fill places with moderate, judicious citizens who enjoy the respect and confidence of their respective communities. he can do everything. | | ment The surest way to hush civil turmoil is by | | giving the people objects of interest and occu- | | through political influence. | to those who are so earnestly | In selecting such citizens let him indeed | make the Exhibition a grand national success. | make sure that they loyally accept the results | of the war and that their local influence will be exerted to soothe asperities and reconcile the Southern people to the new order of things. He will have no difficulty in finding such men for every office, and nothing would so cultivate respect for the federal authority as to have all its local agents in the South men of high standing in their own States. Tbrough such officers the President could easily wipe away threatened disturbance in the land by a moral influence which would arbitrate differences, inculcate forbearance on the part of the whites and give good counsel | to the negroes. The federal officers in the South bave heretofore fomented the jealousies | of the colored population and been more will- ing to stir up strife than to allay it. Even with his present office-holders the President | could keep peace in the South if he gave them to understand that they must act as friendly mediators between the two races and persuade them ‘to mutual forbearance and wise indulgence. If the federal officers in the South were made to un- derstand that it is their duty to close breaches | and never to widen them a change would come over the whole spirit of Southern affairs. If in Louisiana, for example, Packard end | Casey had been instructed to act as arbi- trators and forbidden to be partisans the quarrel in that State would not have grown to such formidable dimensions, and the ad- ministration would have escaped its most damaging controversy. ‘We think this an opportune occasion for advising the President to change his Southern policy. Even if the ‘‘banditti” idea were sound he has no means of pursuing it, and no future Congress will clothe him with powers which a Congress of his own party has denied. The wisest thing he can dois to go back to his original policy of peace and sub- stitute healing moral influences for physical force. If he will do this he may recover his lost popularity, and retire from his great office two years hence with the respect and grateful appreciation of all his countrymen. Our Public Institutions. If we accomplished only a little actual re- form every time that happy achievement is attempted it would not be long until such abuses as that of which we are nowcomplain- ing would soon become impossible. We reter, of course, to the Stockvis outrage. In any other country so marked a wrong is not possible at any time. Here it happens be- cause the people are long suffering and official responsibility is limited. Perhaps a hundred other cases, equally flagrant, are committed by each of our police justices in the course of ayear. Very few, indeed, come to the public knowledge out of the many cases which are heard in the police courts each day, and this Stockvis outrage shows that there is reckless- ness and inhumanity outside of the police courts as well as in them. The police and the officers on Blackwell’s Island are dis- honored in this transaction as well as Justice Flammer, and the whole machinery by which the city is governed has been brought into discredit If such an abuse as the arrest of Stockvis and his deten- tion without medical inquiry can be com- mitted by the police in the first instance and perpetuated in the courts and in the prison, there is no telling where the wrongs may end. This caso seems to suggest that our wholo municipal machinery is rotten. At any rate investigation is imperatively required. The | Henaup is making an investigation on its own account, the first fruits of which will be read with interest this morning ; but there must be public action as well as public | knowledge. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction must take up the matter and make a searching inquiry into the manage- of all the institutions under their charge and displace all reckless and incom- petert nurses and officials. We believe that our hospitals and other public institutions are full of incompetent officers. We know that many of the clerks in the police courts cannot spell. Most of these men, both in the institutions and the courts, have been placed in positions, not becduse they are quali- fied to perform the duties of their office, but the same influence which placed them in office to keep them there, they are reckless and even | inhuman, as was revealed by the Stockvis | legacy of the war. After a great civil war | case, the Collins case and many others, Let us have a complete overhauling of ali our in- stitutions, so that fresh outrages may become impossible, while kindness and humanity and justice shall no longer be discredited in ; their servants. The Common Sense of Rapid Transit. A correspondent in yesterday's Hznatp, commenting upon our suggestion that the Greenw the cheapest and most direct way of attaining rapid transit. He advises that this railway be extended to Forty-second street and Ninth avenue ; let it come down Forty-second street, which is wide, and there connect with the Vanderbilt trains. We do not care which street is adopted. It would be apity tu spoil Forty-second street, which is one of the widest | avenues of the city, and makes a fine open access to the depot, by running a railway over it. The natural connection would be in the rear of the depot, along Forty-fourth or Forty- fifth street. It might ran down Thirty-third street and connect with the tunnel which now exists, and which can be used for pur- poses of steam travel. However, these are minor points. The true way to achieve rapid transit now is to make a counection between the Elevated Railway and the Harlem depot, and whether it is made on Iorty-second, Thirty-third or Vorty-tourth street is of no consequence, s0 long as we establish the fact that there can be s' unication be- tween the Battery ster county. Yesterday another meet Citizens’ Association was held, ional steps were taken to advance Mason Dut m com and We and ad the project. colored orator from Sonth t th 1 Cooper nta- ique pres Il command respect on "REPARATIONS continue, by Congress, though e original giving a new impetus to the work. of our government gives more encouragement laboring to the approp much reduc Depending on | ch Street Elevated Railway should be | extended to the Harlem depot, accepts it as | estimates, | The action | with a Statesman. The Hon. John Kelly, King of Tammany, is now in the full enjoyment of the honors and | the cares of royalty. He must feel, like manv rulers who have gone before him, that no head lies more uneasily than tbat which wears the crown. His first essay in govern- ment was t> elevate to the Mayoralty his bosom friend, Willam H. Wickham. Those who know the reai nature of the relation which culminated in Mr, Wickham's election may well believe that nothing is more beautiful in the history of friendship than the devotion of the Tammany King to his henchman. Now, if all is true that we hear, this henchman is not as docile as a confiding sovereign could expect. In many of his appointments the Mayor has followed his own judgment, not even consulting the King. This is something out of keeping with all the traditions of Tam- many discipline. Mr. Kelly had a great tri- umph with his Legislature in Albany in securiog Mr. Kernan. In New York there has been no such success, The painfal thought is that the Tammany braves—faithful followers of the old flag—in- sist upon holding Mr. Kelly responsible for the very things he does not do. Naturally enough, the most natural thing to a monarch, under these circumstances, would be to dis- avow all responsibility for these political transactions. For a king to express any doubt as to his power is to abdicate, and Mr. Kelly, with true royal instinct, chooses rather to accept in silence the reproaches of his fol- lowers than to lay down the crown, But even from the best of kings there will be a murmur if all things do not go well. Take the case of the Commissioner ot Publio Works. No one, we believe, questions that General Fitz John Porter will make a good officer. If the patronage of New York were distributed tor the purpose of securing efficient publio servants there would be no question as to this nomination. Mr. Kelly has publicly avowed himself as in favor of it, but somehow the boys cannot understand it. General Porter was an officer in the army—a major general—a {rend of the high control- ling spirits of the Manhattan Club, a demo- erat who drinks chainpagne and wears kid gloves and clotbes himself in purple and fine linen. There are many democrats of the same school in Tammany Hall, but we are bound to say that the proportion is very small when compared with the rank and file of the Sympethy Distinguished of long-headed and shrewd statesmen—of which Mr. Justice Quinn, who views ‘with alarm the growth of the German power in this country of ours,” may be called the represen- tative—cannot understand the policy of giving this office to a gentleman who was never heard of in Tammany Hall until he was offered the richest place in its gift. There is a wide gap between General Fitz John Porter and Tip- perary Mike, and John Kelly is shrewd enough to know that in managing the affairs of Tammany Hall Tipperary Mik: is a more | efficient element than the accomplished officer whom he has honored with his patronage. Restless democrats in Albany are also poking bills at the Assembly for the ‘‘reor- ganization of New York’’ of which John Kelly does not approve. One proposes this plan, a second proposes another plan. If this spirit of mutiny continues we shall have the whole organization of Tammany tumbling about our ears. Something should be done to restore harmony. It is not a pleasant out- look for the next two years to have these mis- understandings. Only two months ago of Tammany Hall. Tweed in prison, Sweeny and the remainder wandering in Continental many régime who had escaped indictment steadily at work on the Fourth avenue im- provement earning a precarious two dollars a day, and nothing remained but for John Kelly and his tribe to enter into the land and occupy it. There was a little disappointment about ‘Jimmy’? Hayes, to be sure, and that distinguished stateeman, John Morrissey, yond this all was serene. But the clouds came from all directions. Governor Tilden quarrels with Mayor Wickham, Mayor | Wickham cannot manage Green, and Green defies the head of every other department in | New York. Senator Fox is bungling about Albany with all manner of bills, and instead of abard-fisted representative democrat as Commissioner of Pubtic Works, who knows | the peovle and who understands the wants ot the democracy, we have an anointed major general from the perfumed chambers ot the Manhattan Club, who does noi know whether Mullingar is in the north or the south of Ire- land. Yet for all this John Kelly is responsi- ble in the eyes of his followers. Certainly no friends more earnestly than the ruler ot Tam- many Hall, and it would not surprise us if the era ot peace and good feeling and bosom | friendship which came with the new year would break out into Donnybrook Fair before the arrival of St. Patrick’s Day. Our Relations with Spain. organization. Consequently, that large class | nothing was rosier than the political heavens | in exile, Sharkey in Havana, Field and Genet | therefore, that the people of Spain, by a sol- emn vote, should have accepted Alfonso as King before we hastened to treat with him as a legal monarch, We are republicans, and we should hesitate before covering with our sanction any violation of popular rights like the coup d'état ot General Primo de Rivera. A Warlike Scene at Albany. The present legislative session has been so insufferably dull and stupid that the inquiry into the curiosities and mysteries of the new Capitol at Albany has proved a pleasant re- lief. The preposterous charges made against the Commissioners and others connected with the famous building destined one day to hold the assembled legislative wisdom of the State have been the spice of the session, and but for the meetings of the committees of investi- gation, growing out of these charges, the idle lobby and the weary legislators would ere this have been half dead with ennui. It was omus- ing to hear that so pious a Christian os Hamilton Harris had put the big stones of the Capitol into his pockets and carried them away; that so pure a philanthropist as Abe Van Vechten had raised to a premium the stock of an impoverished horse railroad by the transportation of, imaginary loads up State street hill; that the great champion of reform in the Senate, Daniel P. Wood, had smuggled into the Supply bill an unauthorized item of ten thousand dollars to pay his own appointee as superintendent of the new building that modest amount of salary for a year’s services. The very ex- travagance of such accusations makes them the more diverting. But, while the comical proceedings called ‘investigations’ of these matters have af- forded harmlegs recreation for the idle hours of legislators and lobbyists, the bearing of the fiery Brigadier General Batcheller before Senator King’s committee this week proves that all persons do not enjoy the fun alike. There is a question of veracity between Gen- eral Batcheller and Major General Daniel P. Wood, of Onondaga. The former declared that the conference committee did not insert the now famous ten thousand dollar item in last year's Supply bill General Wood de- clared that the conference committee did insert it—after a fashion. That is to say, the item not being in the bill when the committee finally adjourned, General Wood asserts that he ‘‘went round” and got the assent of General Batcheller and some others of the committee to its subsequent insertion, if it was all right. This may be considered the lie circum- stantial. General Bateheller has branded this statement as wholly false—the lie direct: So when the two generals met in the commit- tee room on Wednesday last—their first per- sonal encounter since their wordy wartare— they bit their thumbs at each other in the most gallant style. General Batcheller re- fused to testify before Senator King, who had expressed an opinion on the matter in con- troversy, and indignantly turned up his mar- tial nose at the wily Syracuse Senator when the latter essayed to ask him questions, In- deed, he went so far as to allude to certain familiarity on the part of General Wood with the wicks and manipulations of the lobby, and cast into bis teeth his alleged Third House record of 1859. This capped the cli- max. General Wood, we are toid, “grew livid with rage,’ General Batcheller’s eyes shot “withering glances” at his lead-colored antag- onist. Every one in the committee room sprang to his feet, and Senator King shouted for the police. But “the storm rolled onward and disdained to strike.’’ The livid warrior recovered his natural color and took his seat. The withering hero strode from the room and took the Saratoga train. | generals parted for the time and peace was capitals, and the late statesmen of the Tam- | restored. But it is to be hoped that at future meetings of the committee Senator King will he well guarded by police or United States troops, and that if blood must flow in the | next encounter between the gallant generals it will only be from the nose. Tae Cucrcn Disaster.—The coroner’s jury | is still engaged in taking testimony in the case was said to be moping in his temt. .But be- | | and several injured. monarch ever needed the sympathy of his | As we understand the policy of the admin- | | istration in dealing with Alfonso, the new King of Spain, it is this:—Spain has promised | to pay America eighty thousand dollars in gold for the ex- ecutiun of our fellow-citizens at Santiago de Cuba, payable in three instalments. The American government recognizes Alfonso as an indemnity amounting to | the lawful King of Spain and directs Minister | Cushing to present his credentials to the | Madrid Cabinet. we state the position exactly, but we are gov- erned by the best information. It is an un- seemly thing for the Aine n government to enter into a dicker wit the profound feeling aroused at the time, the sums spent in fitting up the navy and our preparations for war, it is a surrender of our privileges and a lessening of our honor vain. as a complete in- sand dollars. It this with the recog- There nation to ac cighty tl conple as 8 demnity, is a mistake to n of the is no nation whose frieudship 1s of more rtance to Alfonso than the United 8, While we should not make it a point that any government should be republican, at the same time we should hesitate before giv- ing the seal of approval to a military usurpa- tion, We claim to be governed by represen- | tative forms and to base our authority upon the will of the people, We should insist, niti Spanish government. Sta We do not know whether | Remembering | ot the Duane street church disaster. Experts and others are examined as to the condition of the wall, and as to what was and what was notand what ought to Lave been done. But there are two facts that need no corrobo- rative evidence. The wall of tne Shaw Build- ing fell, carrying with it the roof of the adjoin- | ing church, and several persons were killed | The proof is found in the ruins to-day and in the sad funeral pro- cessions afew days ago. Now the Superin- tendent of Buildings is an officer whose duty it was to prevent this accident, foreseen and almost certain as it was for six weeks. He | neglected that duty and should have been removed from oftice within twelve hours of | the occurrence of the calamity. If ever pun- | ishment first and investigation afterward can | be justifiable it is Chennai il in this case. Tax Meetixe or THE New SENATE yester- day was an event of unusual interest, and Sen- | ator Johnson received an ovation, in which the Vice President led. Bouquets were os abund- antas at the opera on the prima donna’s night, and the new faces which have come on the scene were as fresh almost as the flowers. Among the new men there is none for whom it is pos- sible to predict a brilliant career; but most of them promise to be useful, which is all the country will ask of them, Louisiana is already before the Senate in o tion recognizing the Kellogg government, which was offered by Senator Morton, and it is not impossible that we shall have the views of Mr. Johuson on that question before the end of another week. The country evidently expects him to say something worthy of his fame, and he is likely to say it Mn. Perry, of Suffolk, has introduced a bill into the Assembly proposing to allow Mrs. ‘Tilton to be a witness imthe trial now pending in Brooklyn. Of the equity and justice ot this bill there can be no possible question, but there be a question as to whether it is wise to frecting the statute law of the | | | | | resolu- | | cate Mr. a A Question of Comity. When Bidwell, the American citizen whe was charged with swindling the Bank of Eng land, escaped, he took refuge in Havana under the flag of Spain. There was no treaty of extradition between England and Spain. England had not even recognized the Spanish government, for Castelar was President and it was arepublic. Buc the English authorities asked Spain, as an act of comity, to arrest Bidwell and send him back to London, which was done. He was tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life. England is a country so largely interested’ in commerce that any crime, like forgery, calculated to affect prop: erty interests, is looked upon as almost at grave as murder. Havana has now under itt protection another American citizen, a refu. gee from this country, a condemned murderer, under sentence of death. Our relations with Spain are of an amicable character, for we have just recognized the Spanish govern- ment. Why, then, should not Alfonso send Sharkey, the murderer, back to New York? We have as much right to expect this from Spain as England had in the case of Bidwell. We have a better right, for in this instance it is a murderer who has escaped, and in the other it was simply a forger. Is it possible that the relations of our government with Spain are on so uncertain a foundation that we cannot receive from that country a comity extended to Great Britain? It would be very Strange if the Bank of England has proved itself stronger than the American govern- ment. Tue New Oarnouic Szzs.—It is said that the Pope will create four new archiepiscopal prov- inces in North America at Easter, and that he will make Archbishop Manning a cardinal in England. This news is confirmed ina despatch from Rome. We trust that in this dispensation of infallible power His Holiness will not forget his faithful flock in the United States. The Pope has taken occasion to say publicly that in America the Catholic Church enjoys a free- dom possessed in no other land. It is not fair to us to rate our churches with the Catho- lic missionary enterprises of Patagonia and New Zealand. If cardinals are necessary to Church discipline and dignity they are neces- sary in America. We do not wish to in- struct His Holiness, but we cannot help thinking that if a cardinal’s hat could be bestowed asa courtesy upon a young and rather indifferent priest, who had no claim to the office but that he wasa prince and a cousin of the Emperor Napoleon, it certainly could be bestowed as a compliment to a nation. Joun Mrrcwex’s Posrrion is discussed in @ letter from Dublin which we print thie morning. The subsequent action of the Eng- lish government gives especial importance te everything connected with his nomination and election, and the whole story is an inter. esting episode in the struggle tor Irish nation: ality. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Thomas Ewing, of Onto, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor O, C. Marsn, of Yale College, ts resid ing at the Hoffman House. Senator Henry Cooper, of Tennessee, has apart ments at the New York Hotel. An International Chamoper of Commerce is one of the best of the new things projected, General Eugene A. Carr, United States Army, te quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Pay Inspector Gilbert E. ‘Thornton, United States Navy, 1s stopping at the St. James Hotel. General David D. Colton, of California, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hocel. Congressman-eicct George W. Hendee, of Ver- mont, is registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Bismarck 1s 80 as to sit up, and now It isin fronts | of Moltke’s door that the doctor’s horse gets So the doughty | rested. State Senator Roswell A. Parmenter, of Troy, arrived at the Coleman House last evening from Albany. “Bill for the regulation of attorneys practising before Congress.” Any reference in that to Vestibuli Rex? Another way to dispense with cemeteries, even without cremation—Take all the newly invented pills, and don’t die. Maximilian Cartouche, descendant ot Cartouche, the famous assassin, and himseif the last of his | family, died lately at Paris. Not much heard in these days of the marriage a Alfonso with Montpensier’s daughter; but nothing 1s Said about the murder of Prim. In signing himself *Vestibuli Rex,’? Sam Ward claims formaily the title of King of the lobby, and now there Will be disputes about it. “Please don’t,” said Augustine Broban, toa per son Who touched her foot under the table, *M: heart ts old and my boots are new.” Cardinal Bonnecuose went to the funeral of bi brother in a Protestant church, and tne people a the most nigh flavored piety disapproved, Ex-Congressmen Ricaard ©, Parsons, of Ohio, and Robert M. Knapp, of Mltnois, arrived from Washington last evening at the Winsor Hotel. And noW the Spanish authorities in Cuba an talking avout bauditt. Strange how the neigh boring nations pick up constitutional principles, Rey. Wiiliam Mul, Bapust minister, receatly de funct, Jeit @ Jast will and testament, in which he specifically proposes that “God snail kil the devil Congressmen-elect James BuMnton, of Massa- cbusetts, and George A. Bagiey, of New York, Delegate Marcin Maginuis, oi Montana, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. In the Carnival festivities at Berlin there was io the procession a car on which was dressed up the figure of Ku!lman. This car was drawn by mes dressed as priests. Kakobun, the Fiji King, has been to Sydney, 1) Australia, There he saw a steam engine, and hy reflection upon it was that ‘the white men neve jound that out themselves," There 1s a school in Paris that was once caller the Lycée Bonaparte, then Lycée sourbon, ther Lycée Condorcet. It 18 now Lycée Foutanes, and they propose to cal! it Lycée Racine. Berlin correspondents of Vienna journals ind. Benniugsen as a possible successor of Kismarck, by the Chancellor's own designation, He 18 a Hanoverian, but hitherto a heucaman o the great leacer. Lovers of heroic romance will remember the ‘famous Durandal, the sword of Rolaud, and wil ‘be pleased to hear that Heindrich, the former | belia and putative father of Atfonso, executioner at Paris, gave this fine name io tht kuife of his guiliotine. Don Franci:co dAssises, the husband of laa wave a dine ne said he ber partyin P lately, at whi should stay in Varig and not make any eifort to take charge of the Spanish nation. Yesterday morning Hon, Reveray Johnson called upon ex. { gind Senator Jotingon at lus hotel ia Washington, ane mpanied him te the Capitol, arrivir before the time for him to enter i Ho took mia tute | the rooting room oft yreme Court, where he introduce Juste Who tutro y toaccomplish individual results. There is every reason why Mrs. Tilton shon!d be examined in a ease involving her honor and the happiness of her children, But there | might be instances where the privilege would be abused, whe: actions for criminal con- versation would be instituted for the purposes of blackmail, and the wife would be a party in collusion with the husband to subject an innocent party to wrong. The measure is certainly worthy of serious consideration, m to Chi @ Waite, While Mr. na Genera Gordon, ne North to stump New Hampshire jor the coming election, the Vice President is preparing for @ journey through tne Southern States as goon as the Senate adjourns He means,to visit Texas, and, on his revuro, pro poses to see for himself the greater part of the South.