The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1875, Page 6

i onan, iar aaa a a mana ee pa A ek NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, TL NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly Bditions of the Nzw Yorx Hznarp will be gent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- wual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New Yorx enaxp. Rejected eommunications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly pealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HEBALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. SSS VOLUME XL-e.-ccccscsccseeseerseccsescscnsssNO, 67 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. TIVOLI THEATER, et, between *econd and Third avenues— , at8 P. M.; closes at 12 P, M. WALLACK'S THEATRE, .—-THE SHAUGHRAUY, at 8P. ML; closes at Mr. Boneicault, MRS. 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TRI ee and England, which excites uneasy | threatening condition, and to set our house in | storm. | we have retrenchment. When we study Our Busin Prospects. The meiting away of Congress trom our “exposures” and ‘‘revelations,” the end of the jobbery and corruption which have darkened | Washington for the last three months, bring a sense of relief. We are glad it is over. | Legislation is done for the present, but other duties begin. We are now at the beginning of a long recess, The republican party has gone out ot power, except as power remains with the President. General Grant is still po- tent for good and for evil in many ways—in handling the finances, in the administration ot the South, in the conduct of foreign rela- tions. Government, so far as it affects our business prosperity, is in the hands of the people, and we must now address ourselves to questions of more vital importance than those which have had such a noisy prominence in Washington debates, The spring opens with brilliant prospects of prosperity and activity in trade. If we are only wise and prudent we shall enter upon @ season of per- manent prosperity. The condition of affairs in Europe is not re- assuring. There is no immediate danger of war, so far as we can read the diplomacy of the hour. But the misfortune of European governments is that no wisdom can penetrate the purposes of the few men who are charged with the awful responsibilities of peace or war. Modern campaigns on the Continent have come as suddenly as athunderbolt. The war against Austria only lasted six weeks—less time than it took McClellan to march from Washington to Manassas. Just before the war between France and Germany the English Foreign Minister publicly said that never had the diplomatic heavens appeared so serene ; that there was not a cloud in the sky, not an issue to disturb the public peace. And yet, in a few days after this declaration, the armies of France and Germany were rushing to the battle field, and be fore the summer passed greater changes had been wrought in the map of Europe than at any time since the fall of the first Na- poleon. Consequently we know nothing of Europe except from the indications that we gather in the general drift of events, There | has been an ugly correspondence between comments in the English press. We see Austria, Russia, France, Germany, England, straming every nerve in warlike preparations, and as nations do not create armies to play with, and as the angry feelings engendered by recent campaigns still live in their intensity, it is wise to regard Europe as in a critical and order, so that we may be prepared for any With Europe thus looming up before us, like a thunder cloud that may at any moment burst, what is our duty at home? Evidently retrenchment in all directions! The only assured business prosperity will come when the effects of the great contest between England and Napoleon we observe that long atter the defeat of the French England suf- fered from the effects of the war; that the labor.ng classes showed discontent and vio- lence; and one writer speaks of the achievement of the greatest victories in Spain as being celebrated ‘‘amid a popu- lation who had been prevented by the burden of taxation on the absolute necessa- ries of life from securing a livelihood by the sirictest industry;” and, he says, “bank- ruptcy and ruin fell upon the trading classes and absolute exhaustion of the resources of the country seemed almost reached.” It was along time before England recovered from the effects of its financial depression, and only | then by a series of vigorous, commanding | efforts toward honesty and solvency. Let us | in America imitate this manly course of England. We are now suffering, as Mr. Hunter well romarked in bis letter which we | | wheat will have » genuine value, daily life, the silence of irritating debates, of | will receive a good day's pay, and a bushel of and the government credit will attain the rank of that of France or England. But to do this we must throw aside the delusions that have surrounded us since the close of the war, and take the advice of men like Mr. Wells and Mr. Hunter and others whose views have been given in the Hepaxp. It is always disagreeable to.say harsh things. It ie so much pleasanter to say that the heavens are blue, the sun shining, the seas smovth, and thet all nature is pleasant and smiling end inviting. But when the truth is to be told it is the highest weakness to conceal it; and the truth now is that weshould regard the condition of financial affairs in the country as requiring the most serious consideration ; that we should begin this spring prepared to meet any emergency, and that we should drive the government, by the stress of honest public opinion, into the paths of resumption, economy and reform, and in doing so enter upon a period of real and lasting prosperity, with no Black Friday panics or Jay Cooke failures to come suddenly upon us with de- structive force. Especially should we see the folly of bubble speculations, fancy stocks and interests of false value which are being constantly floated before us by greedy adventurers, who deal with the people as the bandits in Spain by the traveller—robbing them for their gain. The sooner these bubbles are pricked and pass away the better. These large, rotten corpora- tions, that have become a scandal and reproach to the American name, aro really cancers in the business system, and should be extirpated and no longer be permitted to infest it, We believe that the American government itself could have better afforded to have paid five hundred million dollars than to have suffered what we have suffered from the Pacific Mail investigation, the old Erie scandal, the Emma Mine disgrace, the Memphis and El Paso negotiations in France and other trans- actions of this character. So long as we follow this false idea of business, so long as wo refrain from the severe, honest duty of economy, resumption and reform, so long we shall be liable to such a panic as we had last year, to an explosion, to the injury of vested interests, to geueral. suspicion, alarm and despair. The true policy, therefore, is to avoid these panics by looking ahead and preparing to meet them. A panic is like a gale ora fire; it is not necessarily destructive if we are prepared to meet it, It is only when it falls upon a community unprepared that men lose their reason and great injury results to those who can ill afford to bearit. By carefully considering these dangers we shall serve our best and highest business interests. Congress has adjougned. We are entering upon a long | recess. It's well to look at every point, to put our business house in order, and to resist and ‘destroy, if we can, every influence that leads the country one step further in the per- nicious paths that we followed during the war—the paths of inflation, speculation and gambling. It we do this now, courageously aud firmly, it wil be better in the end for our business prosperity, for the interests of our people, for commerce and trade, and espe- cially for the credit of the nation. The Condition of Our Streets. The people of New York have paid a great deal of money for pavements; but it is so long since they have seen them that their existence bas become a matter of doubt. It is probable, however, that there are pavements somewhere, though at what depth is un- known. Anxious to throw some light upon the subject we publish to-day an important letter from Mr. Van Nort to Mayor Wickham, in which the cost of repairing the pavements during the last three years is examined and | their supposed condition vividly described. It has been a long while since Mr. Van Nort has seen any pavements in this buried city; but they have certainly not been im- prinied yesterday, because ‘‘we have wasted and misapplied the capital of the country.” axy.—Money ruled at | call loans. Gold was | Stocks were buoyant. | a 115. ign exc hange was dull but firm. Morton began his | of the new French Cab- | inet is reported from Paris, and the great diffi- | cuity is said to have been settled by the selec- tion of the Duke d’ Audiftret-Pasquier as Min- ister of the Interior. ATION Tse Porg permits Austrian bishops to com- ply with the Austrian laws relative to appoint- ment of priests, but his encyclical letter, pub- lished to-day, directs the disobedience of simi- lar laws in Germany. In Berlin this is looked upon as inconsistency in the Pontiff, but from the Vatican point of view it is very natural. Wer Uspensranp that there has been an im- portant and ivteresting correspondence be- iween Mayor Wickham and Mr. Tilden upon | he question of removing Dennis Mulcahy | O'Shaughnessy from the position of Fire Bell Ringer in an uptown ward. The Governor is mformed there are no fire bells. The Mayor refuses to furnish the evidence upon which ‘bis removal was made. The Governor is anxiously seeking for precedents. This cor- Fespondence, it is said, will make about three thousand pages of a quarto voinme, and its publication is anxiously awaited. Tax New Hawreros Exxcrion.—The re- sult of the election in New Hampshire to-day is awaited with considerable interest, for generally tho parties have been rather evenly divided, and the voie will have, in these troubled times, Yresh litical significance, The democrats w ecesstul in electing the Governor last year, e contest being thrown into the Legislature, and expect to m Mr. toberts the suceessor of Mr Weston by a majority over both opposing titkets, The prohibitionists in present a ea date, thongh last year they polled only 2,097 votes, and their reappearance in the field un- doubtedly weakens the republicans. Three Congressmen are also to be chosen, and our ial despatches give the Jatest news of the It is the opinion of our correspond- but that the democrats will elect their candi- dates in all the districts, 9 gain of two Repre- sentatives in Congress, and will also carry the State, | cause 2s | ceded—gencrated this spirit of gambling and | | The late panic was due to “the diversion of | | proper uses.’’ Our whole system bas been | from hand to mouth, and we are really worse | | some | the capital from profitable production to im- | proved by the mud and snow and water. We would not wonder if ef the experimental wooden and asphalt outrages should be found to have vanished entirely when the excavation of the city is completed in the spring. We pre- dict also that a large number of dogs, off to-day financially, so far as the é vern- | ment is concerned, than we have been at any time since the war. The spirit | of speculation, or the gambling spirit, | has become as much a part of our finan- + | cial life the lottery in Spain. The pro- tective s) speculation and has made sm gambling, almost a |} recognized civaie The rise of vaines dur- ing the war—which were nominal, really, be- greenbacks advanced money re- speculati Our people hastened to get | rich, amessing quantities of paper, in the be- | licf that the; essed m Oar railroads, canals and telegraph ¢ smpauies watered their stocks on the pernicious princ that values could be declared before they we We | planted railways through the wilderness and | endowed them with land grants and bonds, and speculated upon the ‘profits that would come from the local carrying trade.” These “Jocal carrying trade’ anticipations could not be realized certainly for fifty years,'and the whole system injured the national credit. One false value followed another false value until, when we Jook around over our financial and business life, we see our large industries crippled by protection, our large interests either robbed by rascally adventurers or on an unjust value, upou the foolish idea that it is only necessary to cali a railroad worth one hundred million dollars to make it really Consequently industry, our com- merce, our business interests have been strained to sustain these false values. The been taxed and robbed to relieve j This has led to a condition of feverishness and suspicion, and we find its most painful result im the fact that our credit a it a lower ebb in England than it en before. It is our duty to rise » throw it off, arne 80. our stockjobt is to ever b from thi the por, te and to begin nieve resump- solution to ack by no me at the isheartenin 2 signs, . Every down to what the miners call This is better abo all things for the business mon than the con- dition of suspicion and panic in whict have lived since the war. The duty ot the true citizen and patriot is to assist the government in finding solid, substantial specie basis, where a if w hone m in s to ge “hard pan. st man desires we _ dollar will be really a dollar, a day's work | horses, carts, carriages, children and a few street cleaners who have mysteriously disap- peared this winter will be found buried in holes along the avenues. Mr. Van Nort’s | letter does not treat as fully as could be wished of this branch of the subject, ‘but he clearly proves that the condition of oar | streets is a standing reproach to a great and | trogressive community, and suggests practical | methods for the r improvement. The Case of Sharkey. Tse fact that a convicted and condemned | murderer, under sentence of death, should be aliowed to remain at large in a neighboring island is exciting mucb comment. We do not know exactly the attitude of the administra- tion on this subject, but Secretary Tish is cer- tainly aware of the circumstances attending the return of Bidwell, the forger, to the English government, and his sentence after- ward to imprisonment for life. Bidwell was an American citizen, and, although there was | no extradition treaty between England and Spain, he was given up by President Castelar at the request cf the British government and the Bank of England. It was an act of comity, although Bidwell was only under indictment and bad not been convicted of any offence. condemned, a far more aggravating case. Why should not the American government ask irom Spain o courtesy that was shown to England? A suggestion has been made that a request from Governor Tilden to the Captain General of Havana would succeed in obtaining Sharkey’s return; but we question whether the Governor would have authority to do this. ovat Box who is suppos Tae 1 to govern Spain is weary of the task, and our special | cable despatches announce that he is with | diffienlty prevented from abdicating in | ivor of the Duke de Montpensier. In the anwhile the Carlist war continues, with a m1 battle near Figueras and a bombardment of Oria. Tax Derrcizncy or Water in part of the city and in that elevated portion of the island known as Murray Hill is not only # constant inconvenience but a danger. Van Nort and Mr. Tracy, the Chief En- gineer, have recommended plans for an in- | creased water supply which it would be well | for the Mayor and the Legislature to consider. An@rew Johnson in the Senate. The interview with Mr. Johnson sent by one of our Washington correspondents and printed in the Heraxp yesterday will correct @ prevailing misconception. It has been generally expected that Mr. Johnson's return to the Senate would bring intc that body an element of aggressive pugnacity, and that his resentful sense of what he endured from the republican party while President would impel him to pay off old scores. He takes pains to disclaim any such purpose, He regards his Senatorial position as a responsible public trust, to which he would be recreant if he de- scended to any sort of bravado or used it to chastise his old enemies, Nothing could be in a better tone than this statement:—‘‘And now I want the Hznaup to correct one thing for me. An impression has gone abroad that I come here to avenge my private grievances, to redress personal injuries. It is notso. I have now no wrongs to redress but my coun- try’s. My election settled all personal inju- ries ever inflicted. I consider that triumph sufficient and bury all of my grievances behind it, I come now to deal only with present issues, Of course, if any of my acts while President were attacked it might be necessary at some time to defend myseif; but that aside, I come here not asa party man, but entirely independent.’’ The course which the ex-President has marked out for himself is entirely consistent with his former record asa Senator. The most hon- orable part of Mr. Johnson’s career is his service in the Senate, It was in that theatre that he made the high reputation to which he added nothing while exercising a higher office, In his speeches as Senator there was none of the intemperate invective in which he indulged so freely and unwisely in occa- sional addresses while he was President. He was indeed very decided in his views, very plain and outspoken in his language, but he always kept within the limits of parliamen- tary decorum and avoided personal contro- versies, His Senatorial speeches were clear, logical, cogent, and won for him a favorable national reputation. His conduct as Mil- itary Governor of Tennessee during the war neither added to nor detracted from the pre vious high estimate of his character. When he was nominated for Vice President, on the same ticket with Mr. Lincoln in 1864, the Evening Post expressed its opinion that the Convention would have done better had it reversed the order of the names and nominated Mr. Johnson for Pres- ident, We recall this circumstance merely as showing the estimation in which Mr. Johnson was held at that time, Soon after the assassination of President Lin- coln there was a great Unitarian festival in this city, at which Governor Andrew, of Mas- sachusetts, was the principal speaker. He spoke quite at length on the then critical posi- tion of national affairs, and regarded it as an interposition of Divine Providence that a man of more vigor than Mr. Lincoln had been brought to the head of the government in so important a conjuncture. Governor An- drew’s estimate, like that of the Evening Post, was founded on Mr. Johnson's career as a Hore is a murderer, convicted and | | Nigel,” ‘for, dotard as he is, he will make an | Senator. It cannot be disputed that his Pres- idency was a failure; but the fact that his pre- vious service in the Senate created a strong impression of his eminent fitness for the high- est office is a strong testimony to his distin- guished ability asa Senator. If he adheres to the intention which he expressed to our cor- respondent in the interview he will easily re- cover the good opinion he lost in position for which he was not so well fitted. Peter B. Tho announcement that the cable rates will be reduced on the Ist of May to fifty cents a word may not be without its effect in the economical administration of Tammany Hall. Matters are becoming so perplexing in our — importance. It is very evident that there should be some communication with Peter B, We believe he is in Paris ; but there could be no substantial difficulty in finding out his whereabouts. Ex-Senator Bradley, who keeps one ot the largest livery stables in the world, somewhere up town, would not be altogether without information. Peter B. would have better discipline in Albany. izing the government,” with schemes tor the pare one bill and pass it. Peter B. would not have given the most im- portant office in the control of Tammany Hall to one of the darlings of the Manhattan Club. Peter B. knows that the Manhattan Club is good for about one hundred votes when it votes, which depends largely upon the weather. He would have, of course, satisfied Supervising Commissioner of Steeples—and paid him well for it; for if he could not have got the money on a supply bill Garvey, Inger- soll or Keyser or some of the thieves would | have furnished it. But he would never have | appointed Fitz John Porter to dispense the | patronage of Tammany Hall. Club can be managed without patronage, Peter B. would have discouraged the ten- dency of the Mayor to correspond with Goy- | ernor Tilden upon all questions. ‘Have no | money dealings with my father,” says Martha to Lord Glenvarloch in the | ass of you.” Peter B. could have informed | Mayor Wickham that in the matter of corre- spondence Governor Tilden can surpass any man in this generation. Peter B. knows that letter writing never comes to any good. A the lower | | It might be more economical for Peter B. to course, it is not for us to intrude upon the retirement of the vanished He is probably waiting until events suggest the propriety of founding a Mr. | great statesman during the Tweed empire never | wrote letters. Such a man as Hon. Michael Angelo Norton, then top rail rooster, of the Kighth ward, never wrote a letter in his life. Peter B. would, from the results of his | larger experience, insist that there should be a complete separation between the judiciary | and politics, and that the patronage of the courts should not become # partof the patron- age of ‘Tammany Hall. When politicians ask favors of judges they are expected to recipro- cate. This is not always best. | come home; but, o' statesman, local politics that this fact may be of great | This business of a dozen Senators | running around, each with bills for ‘‘reorgan- | regeneration of New York, shows a want ot | discipline and harmony. Peter B. would pre- | the Manhattan Club and nominated Fitz John | | Porter to some very high offico—say Grand | Manhattan | “Fortunes of | | some such leader as Peter B, is taken, we shall have a livelier St. Patrick’s Day in New York | politics than has been ecen since the time | of Donnybrook Fair, Christian Statesmen. Mr. Senator McMillan, of Minnesota, begins | his career in Congress with an affectition of Christian statesmanship which is sufficient cause for a good deal of anxiety and alarm on the part of his friends. We have had Christian statesmen before, but they did not turn out well. Most of them were too good for | public affairs, and when brought into contact with the ragged edges of the world they yielded to temptation more readily than the nore worldly minded. They were not Peck- sniffs exactly, but united in one personality the conglomerate hypocrisies of Chadband, the oily, and Oily Gammon. They professed old- fashioned notions in matters of faith and doc-, trine, and talked of the Sabbath day witha peculiar intonation. Mr. McMillan seems like them. Heis mildly surprised that people in Washington talk politics on Sunday, but sternly refuses to indulge in like dissipations himself. He even declines to give his views to the Heratp on Sunday, and hints at the awful moral depravity of our correspon- dent by suggesting that he must be come more demoralized than he now is before he will consent to desecrate the Lord's day by mere worldly conversation. This isa very high plane for a young Senator to occupy. Few men can hope to reach Mr. McMillan’s level, as none, we believe, ever altempted to attain the perfection and grace of Mr. Colfax. Still we had hoped that when Colfax was lost to us the race of “Christian ‘We are rejoiced | to sny that ‘caaliaa’ menmures for advancing the project were adopted by both meetings. A New Precedent, A few days since Governor Tilden ap- pointed one of our citizens to be Civil Justice “in place of Stemmler, deceased.” It was dis covered after the appointment that the Gov- ernor had been misinformed, and that Justice Stemmler was not dead, There have been some amusing criticisms upon tho haste shown in making the appointment, We think our con- ; temporaries havo failed to see the exact meaning of the Governor’s action. The Goy- ernor comprehends the embarrassments of our local politics, tho difficulty of harmonizing all parties, the stubbornness of Comptroller Green, the anxieti:s and irritation. He bag resolved upona new departure. The value of this will be seen when.we studv caretully this appoiatment as a precedent. The Gover- nor certifies that Mr. Stemmler is dead. A sealed mstrument cannot be altered by any parole evidence, hence” any statement that Stemmler is alive cannot for a moment weigh against the Governor's legal formula. Asa matter of law, therefore, Justice Stemmler is dead. Lord Bacon says that the common sense of common men is better than the wisdom of the wisest men. Common sense, which is the common law, which is tho gathered wis- dom of a thousand years, will determine that when a Governor pronounces an officer dead there can be no appeal from his decision. Now, see the value of this precedent. The Governor, having by this appointment es- tablished the fact that a seated instrument statesmen’ had diedout. They need so much watching. They have such innocent ways of doing things which ordinary sinners would not doatall, Their subsequent explanations are so childlike and bland. As a matter of course Mr. McMillan is not one of them, measured accordiug to the Colfax standard, but he shows a sad want of taste in emulating the Colfax example. It always was the prac- tice of mankind to distrust the ‘‘unco gude,”’ and the young Senator from Minnesota ought to know that since Colfax’s time it has been the custom of the American people to distrust the “Christian statesman.” General Wimpffen and partists. Once more the battle of Sedan has been fought over; this time not between the French and the Prussians, but between the adherents of the imperial dynasty and an adverse public opinion. It is apparently the mot d’ordre in the imperial party that no endeavors should be spared that promisein any degree whatever to relieve the late Emperor of the fearful re- sponsibility of the defeat and surrender which placed France at the feet of her enemy. Itis conceived with some distinctness by the Bona- partisis that the odium of that day must be cleared from the escutcheon of the dynasty be- tore 1t can be trusted by a nation that lives in no other element of its life so much as in its pride. Up to this time the Bonapartists have found no more satisfactory plan for saving the fame of the dead Emperor than that of sncri- ficing General Wimpffen, who was in com- mand. M. Cassagnac, editor of the Pays, and writing in the interests of the imperial party, wrote against General Wimpffen in this spirit, holding him alone responsible for the calam- ity. General Wimpffen, months ago, ap- pealed to the civil tribunals in ao suit for damages. On that occasion the Court decided it had no jurisdiction, because, as the General wasa public functionary, if any actionable words had been published against him it was a criminal act and must be tried by the criminal courts. Suit was, therefore, brought in the courts for the punishment of Cassagnac, and atter the whole ground has been gone over he bas been acquitted. But does this prove that Wimpffen and not the Emperor is responsible for Sedan? Far from it. It appears to have been the judgment of the Court that Wimpffen's incapacity was such as to remove from him all sympathy and to justify any criticism that the severest writer might utter ; but this only proves one more imperial general to have been as worthless as | all those hitherto exposed. It will prove but little for the Bonapartists if they can even show, as clearly they can, that but for General Wimpffen they might have retreated with more or less success from that inglorious trép into wich their Emperor had taken them. All the responsibility of the disaster rests upon him, who, knowing that his march | thither was in violation of all military prin- | ciple, carried his army forward because it was demanded by the political difficulties of his dynasty; and this, by his own acknowl- | edgment, was Napoleon III. the Bona- Tue Transit or Vienvs.—The only remain- | ing party of American observers hitherto un- heard from has at length communicated from the wild and far-off shores of Kerguelen the joyful tidings of perfect success in observing the planct’s journey across the solar disk. Owing to the fury of the elements around that inhospitable region but faint hopes were cherished that the scientists there could view | the celestial wonder under such bright auspices as those vouchsafed beneath the sun of calmer climes. The special tele- read with uncommon pleasure by the votaries of science, inasmuch as it furnishes the miss- ing link in the story of our American expedi- tions and gives the assurance that the work of | the astronomers is to be crowned by the patient and victorious labors of the observers on the romantic I and of Desolation. Ovn Arpany Torrrent contains interesting political news relative to the arrival of Sena- tor Woodin at the capital and another cloud of war in the Legislature. | To-Day Coroner Kessume will begin the in- vestigation of the Slockvis case, and it 1s to | bo noped it will be thorough and impartial. The newly discovered facts in respect to the death of Mz. Stocl published else- where, and have an interest for all citizens. aro Tre Rar Tr, culties of obtaining ssrr Mx) vapid t ~The diffi- re indicated ns in our report of the meetings of its friends | There was one meeting of the sub- | yesterday. scribers to the deferred capital fund and one of the Ex Rapid Transit Association. The reported opposition of some of the great capitalists is a new Committee of Seventy. But, certainly, serious obstacle to success, and it certainly as things are going now, unless the advice of | shows a short-sighted and mistaken policy. graphic despatch we publish to-day will be | outive Committee of the Citizen's | really contains the power of life and death, may proceed to solve all the perplexing problems of New York politics. He could appoint Arthur Leary Comptroller ‘in place of Green, deceased,” and no appeal in the world could deny the fact, thus solemnly set forth, that Green is dead—and whata comfort that would be to the com. munity! He might nominate William M. Evarts to bo Corporation Counsel ‘in place of Smith, deceased.” Smith might write a thousand columns of Jetters and arguments to the contrary, but the sealed instrument would stand. And so with the Fire Commissioners and boards of juris- diction and administration, Even the Mayor himself, if he did not prove docile and was disposed to rebel too frequently, could be killed. The Governor would simply recite, in an official instrument, that he appointed John Kelly or Charles O'Conor to be Mayor “in place of Wickham, deceased.” There would be no help for is. So that, instead of the Governor having made a blunder in appointing a Civil Justice “in place of Stemmler, deceased,” while Stemmler still lived, he was merely creating a solemn and important precedent. Governor Tilden thus shows himself to be not a hackneyed statesman—like many of our fellow citizens who held office under Tweed and who now work on the Fourth Avenue Improvement— but a wise, original and sagacious Governor, atraid of no responsibility. Tue Dearns of two centenarians are re ported from Baltimore, one of whom had lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and seventeen years. If the native vitality is strortg tho flame of life burns long, when shielded and protected by constant care. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Professor W. P. Blake, of New Haven, ts staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Hon. William C. Maxwell, of England, is among the late arrivals at the Brevoort House, It cost Cousin Jobn Bull just $2,195 83 to make the Shah of Persia a Knight of the Garter. Congressman John VU. Whitehouse, of Pough- keepsie, 18 residing at the Albemarle Hotel. Rome has given Garibaldi “a splendid villa; but he cannot be induced to wear white shirts, General George J. Magee, of Schuyler county, New York, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Assistant Attorney Genera! E. 0, Brearley, of Washington, ts sojourning at tho St. James Hotel, Assemplyman Warner Miller, of Herkimer county, New York, 1s registered at the Union Square Hotel. Grant repudicans are very happy to hear that Andy Jonnion has “no ecnemies to puntsn;” but they Must not take too much comfort In it. In Engiend they “compound felonies” also, The Earl of Dudley has paid the thieves who stole his Wite’s jewels $40,000 and recovered the jewels. Score one for Grant. He killed the bill for ad. ditional bountices—which was a fob of claim agents covered by the claptrap patriotism of Logan & Co. No more coins for the Pope to de made at the Italian mint; but Brassels, ever reaay to turn an honest penny, Will turn them out Jor the Pope o} any ope else. Softly! Softly! It 1s announced that Isabelis will not return to Spain. On, no! Only in July, perhaps, and for a little while, she will ran dowa there “to visit her son.’. Ex-Congreasmon Ells H. Roberts, ot New York, J. Hale Sypher, of Louisiana, and T. T. Crittenden, of Missouri, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, Colone! Hofman, the new Secretary of Legation at London, was presented at Court on February 22. The levee was held by tne Prince of Wales, but by command of the Queen auch a presentation is considered equivalent to a presentation to Her Majesty. Men ofthe Alpine clubs find there 18 so iittle | oxygen in the air at great altitudes that they prov pose to carry some with themin bags. Perhaps, therefore, there 1s more oxygen In low places, and | tliis accounts for the impulse of average humanity to go that way. In Switzerland, in the Canton of Url, the conat- tion of the snow is such that isolated villager will be blocked up till Jaly unless there is an an. usually early thaw. “Souls are ripened in the northern sky,” but people nad better have them half ripe than live there. Fancy what the Empire did for France. Before the auspicious period of its advent @ woman's hair | was worth only four fraucs & pound. Now the commonest article ts worth fifty-two francs @ pound, and sometimes a single head of high quality is worth two thousand francs, Vive U Empire, In one of the English military prisons there is a man who has deserted eight times, He could neither lve out of the army nor init. Every time he deserted he enlisted ta some other regiment— | except once that he took to the water and became a marine, Whenever he found desertion monot- | onous he surrendered himself to some one of bis | former regiments aid accepted the panisnment. Pipe-en-Bois, an eccentric republican, once a favored acolyte of Gambetta, has been “invited by the authorities to leave Belgium. The ri an | for this attention 18 that whenon the day of tha marriage of the Prin Royal the King came ont on the balcony of t tude cheerea him, Pip top of an omnibus, at Ns Majesty, The thieves of rope, more progressive thag | the politicians, have united the several countries | in a species of confederacy t recognizes no | national ivontiers and stealsin every language, | Theft ts more progressive than pure politics, and perhaps the true cause why we are ahead of all other nations is that ail our politicians are halt thieves aad hall our thieves are politicians, toyal Palace as the multi. *Bols, Who was on the