The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1875, Page 8

(NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AND ANN STREET. NOTICE TO SUBSCRABERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yor Hznaup will be went free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- ‘ual subscription price $12 All business or news letters and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Hznacp. Rejected communications will not be re turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received snd forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL-+.-+-2esesereeee «NO, 98 — AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQUE, Fam Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:45 7 POLITAN MUSFUM OF ART, Foutmont® ‘sireet.—Open trom 10 A.M, to P. M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, ye avenue.—VARIETY, ac $Y. M.; closes at 10:45 BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, e ear Sixth avenue, —NEGRO BEARDS AC AEE Mites STE Da ryant. GERMANIA THEATRE! th street —INDIGO, at 8 P. ie; closes at 10:45 . Wiss Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, F(% Broadway VARIETY, at8 P.M; closes at 10:45 ROMAN liLrPODROME, jae and ney venth street —VISIONS a) BOWERY OPERA ROUSE, aa maha at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE TRFATRE th street and Broagway.—THE BIG BO- Ee A. at8 P. M.; closes it 10.30 P.M. Mr, Fisher, Mr. wis, Miss Davenport, Mrs. Gilbert. PARK THEATRE, Bosra eo i. CRUCKETT, at 8 P. M,; closes at 230 P. Mr. Mayo. BOWERY THEATRE, Bore .—AROUND THE WORLD In EIGHTY DAYS, arse. . GRAND OPERA HOUSE, th avenue and Iwenty-thira street —AHMED, at& ». M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. EESEr'Y., BOOTH's THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, ateP. M;closesa i1P.M. Mr. Rignold. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street. near Sixth avenue—LA JOLI£ PaRFUMEUSE, at3 P.M. Mile. Aimee, SAN FRAN Broadway, corner 0! ents MINSTRELSY, at's P.M.ccl t TIVOLI THEATRE, between “econd and Third avenues— P. M.; closes at 12 P. M. WaRinAY a3 vaY STEL Fourteenth street.—CONCE Kt WALLACK’S THEATRE, p—ROMANCE OF A POOR YOCNG MAD, at PM closes at 0:40 P.M. Mr. Montague. cou way ond Thirty-tow’ exhibitions daily, at 2 D ytd with the Wood's MUSEUM, way, corner of Thirtieth street—THE BLACK ear. ‘at 8 P.M: closes at 10:5 r.M. Matinee at 2 IT. HALL, REHEARSAL, at2 P. M. treet\=-PARIS BY NIGHT. ands P. M. E GARMO HALL, Great Musicians, at 8 P.M. J. N. PLE QUADRU NEW YORK, THE APRIL 8. 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities gre that the weather to-day will be clear and warmer. Wart Sreeer Yesterpay.—Stocks were firmer. Forcign exchange was steady. Gold was steady at 114]. Money easy on call at 3 per cent. Tue New Jensey Senate refuses to allow slergymen of all denominations to instruct the inmates of prisons. Tur New Yorn State Mernoprst Conren- ZNczE is in session in Poughkeepsie, but has as yet transacted only routine business. Tue Hepson may be said to be open at last—nearly a month later than usual. Generally we bave an open river by St. Patrick's Day, but this has been a hard Season. Martens look lively in the Pennsylvania | foal regions. It seems to be the yearly burne | ing out of a very smoky and dirty chimney. | This coal difficuity is a disgrace to the civil- imation of as great a State as Pennsylvania. Axp Now comes the rumor that Charley Ross has been found in Nova Scotia, on the Bay of Fundy, in charge of a female fortune teller. The ramor does not appear to be well vorified, but wo trust it may prove well founded. ’ Tur Sanatoca Recatta.—The Rowing As- gocistion of our colleges met yesterday in Springfield, Mass, and made several impor- tant alterations in its constitution and rules. Twelve colleges wefe represented, and the preliminary arrangements for the Saratoga Regatta were completed. . Tne Exrrnor of Austria is having a pleas- pnt time in Iialy. He did not go to Rome, probably to avoid any complications witn the | Pope, who would scarcely have welcomed a | gaest of Victor Emmanuel, and who, on the other hand, could not well be rude to an Em- peror of Catholic Austria. So the ceremonies of the visit were interchanged at Venice. Kaiser William is too old and too feeble to visit Italy, and consequently the Prince and his wile will go in his stead. Tux Scnoon Qvestion.—I* isa matter ct con- pratulation that the committees who are ecnsidering the school question on be Crown of the Board of Education and the managers of the parochial schools are approaching com- alt mon ground. The hope is that if this d sion is harmonions and temperate and actuate by the spirit of pence ard tair play and proper peacession a vexed question may be solved end an issue full of grief, irritation and heast- barning be removed trom our politics. nd SP. M.; Menagerie | y | possible —— civh its Against the Tammany Ring. Things have suddenly grown very warm for Tweed when he was least expecting it. His counsel have lately argued his claim to release from imprisonment before the Court of Ap- peals, and have encouraged him to expect a favorable decision. While he has lately been looking forward from day to day for a restora- | tion to personal liberty his vigilant and re- | lentless pursuers have been engaged 1n secret but energetic preparations for disappointing his hopes and causing the fair fruit to turn to dust and ashes in his mouth. If the Court of | Appeals decides that he cannot be longer held under the criminal sentence he is destined to find in his release a beginning of new trou- bles. A favorable decision by that tribunal | will not bring him! even a temporary respite from confinement, but will merely result in The New Island to the County Jail in the city. He will remain in the firm clutches of the law and goin a still more bitter experience that ‘the way of the transgressor is hard.” ‘This new stroke has fallen on him with the suddenness of a thunderbolt. He probably had no suspicion of it until the pardon of Ingersoll was announced and its motive ex- plained. At the very time when his counsel were arguing, with great force and ability, before the Court of Appeals, that he has al- | ready suffered the full measure of punishment | which the law allows, the Attorney General | of the State and his vigorous assistants were | silently weaving about him a legal net from which there is no chance of @scape. The par- out the secret, was deferred until the legal trap was fully set, into which Tweed will step the moment he emerges from his prison doors, | ifthe Court of Appeals should throw them | open. The arrangeweats are fully completed, moment of freedom, let the court ot last resort decide as it may in abridging his term under the criminal sentence. | He will leave the Island in custody |,of a Sheriff and pass at once from the cell of a felon to the cell of a defrauder. His case has something of the painful interest of a tragedy; but ‘rigid law cries out ’tis | just,’ and it is to he hoped that this example | of righteous retribution will serve as a warn- to come. The atmosphere of official life needs purification, and the svund, moral feel- | ing of the community will strongly indorse | the faithful zeal of Governor Tilden and his powerful coadjutor, Mr. O'Conor, in> turning | the stream of justice into this foul Augean | stable and performing a labor more worthy | of renown than any of the feats of Hercules. Nothing short of the full execution of the | law against the abusers of public trusts can | render official life in this country again whole- | some and pure after the long debauch which has tainted it with infamy. The unsparing | execution of justice upon men like Tweed has | | become the most urgent of public necessities, and the public conscience will indorse all the | security which the new law authorizes and re- | quires. | The great mass of legal papers connected | with these new suits which we spread before our readers this morning will put them in possession of all the information needed for ‘forming a correct judgment ot the proceed- ings in their present stage. It will be seen by the date of most of the affidavits (March 20) | that not a day was lost after the passage of | the Civil Remedies acts in making proper | | preparations for these new suits. A great deal of time and effort were necessary for get- | ting the papers in a condition to be sworn to, and it is only by marvellous diligence and energy that they could have been completed at so early a date, which shows that the emi- nent movers of these prosecutions are thor- oughly in earnest, It will be perceived by a perusal of the documents that there is no loop- | hole of escape for Tweed, provided property | can be found now for satisfying the judgment of the Court when it sbali be rendered. In this view we call particular attention to the affidavit of Mr. Wheeler H. | Peckham, of the lawyers employed in the abortive civil suits. Mr. Peckham states on oath that, so far as he knows, none of the defendants im the former civil suits ever attempted to dispute in court the truth of the facts on which the suits were founded. Neither Tweed nor Ingersoll took the stand to testify in his own bebalf, and not a witness was summoned nor a document one former produced to prove that the alleged frauds | | were notactually committed. The detendants in the former suits rested their whole case on | | a point of law. The point of law was that | suits for the recovery of the money could not | be brought by tbe State, but only by the county, the asa suing party having no standing in court. The defendants stood on this legal technicality, and they were vised by their counsel, as the © sustained this plea and decided on this pu technical ground. But the Civil Remedies acts strack ay this prop, and if the members of the Ring cannot suc- cessfully controvert the facts they have not an inch of ground to stand upon. The facts are supported by impregn: evidence. On this point we ac who would understand the case against Tweed to examine | of Governor Tilden and his cle who assisted him in ‘conducting his investiga- tion of the Broadway Bank accounts in 1871. ny evidence was ever « ly conclusive bie str. th: It ts of no an T, and no mem- ber of the g ever undertook to answer it, | either in court or out of cow So far as the | great fact of theit is concerned, and so ar gs the personal distribution of the plt is coneecrned, the evidence is simply crush- ng. Had the state of the law wh the former civil suits were tried been what it is now since the Civil Remedies acts were | passed the stolen money would e been long ago recovered, so far os property could have been found for the officers of the At presont the law is adequate and the facts pute, so that there s to the law to seize, an be no rmination of these pated only difficulty to be appr the led preperty relates for t! ments which it sin the | that the full six mil is robable ong ‘er he recovered, because that amount of property cannot be | But, so tar as got hold of, property be- j} longing to the defendants can be found, it | recur for years, if ever; and the Centenniql | his transfer from the Penitentiary on the | don of Ingersoll, which has at length brought | and this great offender will not enjoy one | | | ing and a terror to evil-doers for generations | er will promptly be taken possession of beforo the trial of the suits. It will be seen by the documents that Judge Davis has already issued a warrant of attachment against all the property of Tweed, which will retain it in the | control of the Court until the suit against | him is decided. A warrant has also been issued for his arrest under the new law, woich will be executed the moment the decis- ion of the Court of Appeals is announced, if | it should release him from the criminal sen- tence, No offender was ever more inextri- cably in the toils of the law than Tweed is at this moment. Those members of the Ring who have fled to parts unknown are in no personal danger, but if they havo left any property in this city which can be traced and identified it will pretty certainly go toward satisfying judgments against the owners. But no warrant of attachment has yet been issued except against the property of Tweed, the arch-leader of the infamous Ring, True Political Criticism, The decision of Connecticut upon the ques- tion of the third term illustrates the value of judgment and sincerity in political crit- icism. When, two years ago, President | Grant ran against Greeley for the Pres- idency, he was elected by an extraor- divary majority. Yet those who remem- ber that canvass will recall the bitterness which marked it and the extraordinary number of stories and accusations invented about the President, the charges against him ot nepotism, idleness, gift-taking, incompe- tency. ‘There never was a canvass for the Presidency in which the successful candidate was more thoroughly denounced. The demo- cratic press and the other opposition journals | united in their efforts and assailed the character ot the President. And General Grant himself was so moved by these assaults and so grati- fied by their futility that, with questionable taste, he returned his thanks to the people of the country in his inaugural address for having ‘‘vindicated’’ him. ‘ The question may be asked why a canvass like that for the Presidency failed, while re- cent canvasses, especially in the November elections in the Middle States and in the spring elections in New England, have proved so marked a success. We will give the rea- sons. The canvass for the Presidency was based upon insincerity, folly and meanness, The recent canvass was animated by a great overbanging national ideaa The American people, when they were told that Grant got drunk and appointed his relatives to office, | and sailed around in a revenue cutter, and liked janketing, and took presents, said to themselves: ‘This is simply the malice and envy of impotent newspapers, and so long as the President attends to the business of the country well he’may drink what he ‘pleases. Let him appoint his relatives to office! It is | his privilege, and probably we would do | the same thing.’ So that these stories fell upon the canvass ss purposéless as the | leaves of autumn tall upon the ground. They were blown away by the first gust. But when the people were told that the third term | idea was gradually assuming importance; | when they saw the President surrounding | himself by men who cared for nothing but | destroyefl the republics in France and Spain, | and threatened sure destruction to America, | they recognized .hat the time had come for mperative and prompt action. Consequently, | when the campaign gave expression to their | feelings it wrote the condemnation of Grant. The lesson from this is that in our politics, as in our business and social lite, the Americans are a generous people. in meanness and injustice either in criticism or in business. | supports the constitution and the traditions of the Republic. | Grant cast away his duty in this respect that he brought upon himself and his party the condemnation of the people. The Centenni The movement in favor of the Centennial gathers force from hour to hour and rapidly becomes a question affecting tke whole na- tion. One State after another roils into line, and even laggard New York begins to show the same interest that is seen in States like Nevada and Delaware. There is a proposj- tion to brmg to Philadelphia selections of all the beverages not intoxicating used by dif- ferent countries. Thig would be of value to the cause of temperance, and we allude to it as one of the unique advantages of the Cen- tennial display. pared to the stimulus that must be given in various ways to scientific investigations, which, irom their magnitude, require the co-operation of the civilized mna- tions. An imstance of such international | | | observations was afforded by the various ex- tions which our own government and sev- | eral of those of Europe sent just year to ob- | serve the transit of Venus. It now seems probable that, im addition to the objects directly obtained by the astronomers, these expeditions may be made to couduce to the nization a system of international scientific research, It has been proposed by eminent European {ronomers that there should 2 ar at Philadelphia representatives of all ot the expeditions which observed the transit of | Venus, and that they should arrange their in- | struments and portable observatories on the Exhibition grounds in the same relative po- sitions which they occupied on the | the globe on December 9, 1874. Th s of comparing the different metho nd ns used by the several notions, and of discussing the results obtained, are obvious. The practical benefits that would result would might ctorily also be very great. For instance, be more than by correspondence, the | work to be the next Venus in 1882. Again, such undoubtedly arranged, much done at tr an ¢ assemble | would asir | | | their personal advantage; when they saw the | growth of that spirit of Cesarism which bad They do not believe | A President is sure of support so | long as he isa reasonably good officer and | Jt was only when General | This is a@ minor point com- | assemble next | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL | \ from all parts of the world, and from their meeting a new departure in that science might | such T succeeded by | probably be dated. One convention other astr | would generat me ¢ at that congress might be mete. which might bring of instruments tial to the development of the orck wni- and ity hich are es: science, | The occasion is a grand one that cannot observations | | | problem thus dealt with. ought to be utilized as much for the advance- ment of science as for that of commerce and industry. The meeting at Boston yesterday avd the news from France indicate how the Centennial is progressing ht home and abroad. Oar Embassy from Rome, There was something exceedingly pleasant and gracious in the courtesies extended to the embassy which arrived from Rome on Tuesday bearing the appointment of Cardinal McCloskey. These ceremonials are so many expressions of civilization, and, although we may question the taste of some things doner the exact propriety of the speeches of men in a high etate of hospitality and religious enthusiasm, the spirit which animated the transaction was noble. We have looked with interest and favor upon the growing tendency of the Roman Church toward America and liberal institutions. Now, although America is a Protestant country and strongly governed by the traditions of the Protestant Church, the influence of the Roman Church upon the world is so prodigious that we cannot but regard with favor every manifestation of a growing disposition toward liberal institutions upon the part of its rulers. In this sense the ceremonies attending the presentation to the Cardinal of the insignia of his new rank, which aro elsewhere described, will be read with deep attention by the people without regard to their faith. It is this view, and the belief that the ap- pointment of the Cardinal will be received in this truly catholic spirit, that makes us ques- tion the wisdom of a speech made by Major Keiley in welcoming Mgr. Roncetti. What was the use of denouncing Italy as ruled by ‘mpious” men, and Germany as “the infidel German Empire?” Italy, whatever its pres- ent form of government, is a country almost universally Cathohe, and it is not the best taste for citizens of a Protestant nation like America to insult Catholic nation like Italy with the phrase “impious.’’ And it should not be forgotten that the German Em- pire, “infidel” as it is, has under its do- minion Catholic nations like Bavaria, whose devotion to the principles of the Church is as steadtast as that of Major Keiley. If Protes- tant Germany can be called “infidel” what shall we cali Protestant America, which the Pope now honors? How is Germany any more ‘infidel’? than the United States? This wild method of talking, this utilizing of a simple religious ceremony to give expression to political antipathies, is a misfortune which threatens all public speakers while in a state of religious enthusiasm. The danger of dem- onstrations of this kind is that they will make the Cardinalate misunderstood. So far as America is concerned, the appointment of a distinguished citizen to the highest honor in the gift of the Pope is a courtesy so unusual that every citizen will look upon it with respect, no matter what his religion may be. The ceremonies attending the elevation of Cardinal McCloskey to his new dignity promise to be of the most interesting character—inter- esting not alone to his own Church, but to all Americans. We have seen no disposition to regard the appointment with any other feel- ings than those of kindness and appreciation. Theretore, what good end is toke gained by enthusiasts, by people who might be called. professional Oatholics—just as we have in this city professional Irishmen and profes- sional Germavs, men who live upon their religion and nationality—flaunting in the face of the Protestant sentiment of the country offensive speeches, and giving a tone to the whole ceremony that must offend all but ex- treme believers in the Cath:he faith ? It is singular also that while the Holy Father should be leaning toward republican- ism and democratic forms of government in the temporal policy of his Church, here in New York his faithful followers should break into unscemly and uncontrolled admiration of the royal power once wielded by Pius IX. He has given & Cardinal to New York, and now proposes to give the same dignity to Baltimore. The Catholics of New York should learn what the Holy Father teaches them, that henceforth Catholicism means republicanism. They should see that His Holiness looks above the insincere support given to him by selfish kings and princes to the aid of the people. They should study the policy of Rome and learn that the effect of the pending controversy in Germany, Italy and Spain is to gradually drive the Church into the arms of the democ- racy. If they would pause for a moment and think they would see that there could be no event in our modern civilization more fraught with important consequences to the yeace of the world than such a union. Once let the Church of Rome, its chief speaking as the infallible successor of St. Peter, say that the papacy henceforward believes in tho people, and not in princes, and there is not a crown in Europe wayth more than its value as crude metal on a pawnbroker's counter. There- fore, if our Catholie friends in New York | were wise they would accept this embassy, not as the representative of a dethroned mon- archy, bat as the ambassadors of a new and growing power in the Roman Church—the power of democracy allied to the Holy See. How to Secure Honesty in Offiee, Mr. Charles O’Conor states very succinctly the theory that the best way to make corrap- tion in government impossible is to redace the sphere of government, or, in the words given by our reporter as tke great lawyer's own, ‘‘to reduce the action of government to the narrow limits of absolute necessity."’ Perhaps half the thought of political phi- losopliy has been given to the solution of the An ineredible amount of ingenuity has been exercised in the continuance of administrative systems that iid make the administrators honest in spite of certain human tendencies to the con- trary, and it has been found easier to seeure nearly every other pommt in politics than this. Indeed, the general despair at the results of this effort is summed up in the declaration that | sysiems themselves ave of po consequence, which is best admimstered is best.” le theory of government has been to s (he danger to a minimum by the pro- cess indicated by Mr. O'Conor; but that is not a remedy for the evil. Indeed, Mr. O'Coxor’s response avoids the problem; tt begs the question. Governments must exist; and in municipal communities, such as ours, the extent of the governing ma- chinery must be very great when restricted to the narrowest possible limits, while, taking the country together, with all its citics and all the States and 8, 1875—QUADRUPLE SIEET, Poeean AS Se the general government, the aggregate of its operations, if reduced to a mere police basis, would still be enormous; and certainly of such extent that the possible corruption might continue to appall the honest mind. It is, moreover, doubtful if the corruption is even lessened by the process indicated. No doubt the State is enormously robbed in the opera- tion of the canals; but the railroads are built and operated by private interests, and yet it would need no great ingenuity to show that the corruption in public office which is the direct result of the expenditure of railway capital is quite as great as that which has rotted away the vitality of the canal administra- tion, States must have certain things, as court houses, capitols, jails and great lines of com- munication, aod it must either operate the latter or define the relations to the people of those who do operate them, and whether the servants of the people betray their trust in paying the labor to make these things, or in paying for the things when made, or in de- fining the privileges of great monopolies, the result is the same. Your pocket will be picked if you get in bad company, and if it is to be picked it matters little whether the money be taken from your vest pocket or your pantaloons pocket or your coat pocket, and the only rule in such a case is not to get in bad company. So the only hope of safety against corruption is in public morality and a higher standard of official life. Rapid Transit as a Duty. From our information it looks as if there is a railroad Ring in Albany as powerful as the Canal Ring, and combining to paralyze rapid transit. This Ring is striving to make any legislation looking toward a steam railway over Manhattan Island impossible. There is bill before the House in reference to a tun- nel under the Hudson River, so as to enable trains from the Southand West to come to New York Island, and thus avoid the irrita- tions and the delays of ferry travel, especially in winter. Although there is an evident and natural feeling in favor of such a tunnel, thus far the question has been buried. The the- ory that this is the work of Mr. Vanderbilt, who desires to keep all trains from the island unless they come to his depot, is incredible, especially when we remember that the city bears so large x part of the expense of his Fourth avenue improvement. The argument in favor of this generous action on the part of the city toward Mr. Vanderbilt was that there was a great advantage to the people ja tbe building of this line from Forty-second street to the river. The samo argument applies to the tunnel. The great lines that connect New York with the South and West should come directly to the island. Every improvement that does away with the river travel is an advantage to the city. For this reason, in discussing this question of rapid transit, we have always supported it upon the highest grounds—not in the interest of New Jersey, Long Island or Westchester— bat for the good of New York. Rapid transit will be attained, not when we have a steam line from the Battery to the Harlem River, but when we have @ tunnel to New Jersey, a suspension bridge to Brooklyn, and a steam road to Westchesten Tho people should have constant and uninterrupted access to all the country surrounding the city. Newark and Flushing are as much our suburbs as Yonkers and New Rochelle. And the statesmen who now control the destinies of New York will secnre rapid transit in its largest and most necessaty sense when they enable us to cross the rivers in winter and summer weather. This being the duty of the party in power, the Governor should begin by making a war upon the railway Ring that now holds Albany in the severe grip of an unreasoning monopoly. We are willing to do what we can to strengthen the railways, so long as they are a benefit to the people. They cease to be so when they insist upon stifling all legislation that is not directly in their interest. The surest way of developing a ‘“‘granger” and “‘anti-monopoly” spirit so powerful that it will abolish all the railway privileges granted by the Legislature is to persist in this attempt to prevent rapid transit. The necessity of securing rapid transit is as great as that which inspired the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal became necessary to the development of the State. Its ecimple- tion was the beginning of the career of great- ness which for a half century has attended this Commonwealth. De Witt Clinton was statesmaa enongh to see this, and politician enough to secure it. The time has come for the performance of a duty as imperative—the duty of lifting the metropolis out of the slough of despond into which it has fallen. It is intolerable that this should be prevented by any selfish rail- | way Ring in the Legislature. Our hope is that the Governor will take courage from the success which has attended bis war upon the Tammany and Canal rings, and teach the railway men that they cannot under any cir- cumstances be permitted to interfere with a policy that is necessary to the grandeur of the metropolis. Let us hope that the new meas- j ure introduced in the Assembly yesterday by Mr. Kenneddy will help to remove a por- tion of the affliction of New York by giving ‘us a railroad, as well as ascheme to build one. The Grecen-Husted Sensation. Since Comptroller Green's official life was saved by the defeat of the Costigan bill im the State Senate that functionary has sought the further humiliation of Mayor Wickham by stripping him of a great ‘part of his official authority, The nature of Green’s intrigne was divulged by the trap so suddenly sprung | upon the democratic members of the Assem- bly on Tuesday evening under the leadership of ex-Speaker Husted. Husted is a repub- | lican, and he would have spoiled his game if he had offered the bill himself. So, with the aid of Green's lobbyists, he made a tool of o democratic member, Mr. Miller, of Orange, who smuggled in the bill without exciting suspicions of its character. “For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain” Messrs. Green and Husted are as peculiar as the heathen Chinee. ‘Their trick of get- ting this bill offered by a rural democratic member would have be flash in the pan” if by ‘ways that are dark’ they had not secured that portion of the democrats who voted against the Costigan bill, and are known in Albany by the nickname of ‘The black horse cavalry."’ There were twenty democrats who voted with Husted and the republicans to put this new bill on the first steps toward its passage, The purpose of the yesterday, was to alter the city charter by stripping Mayor Wickham of a great part of bis authority and transferring it to Comptroller Green. It abolishes the Department of Pub- lic Works, degrades General Porter into a mere street commissioner, and vests the appointment of various city officers in tha Comptroller instead of the Mayor. Mr. Green has overshot the mark. His scheme cannot succeed unless the public haa formed a mistaken estimate of Governor Til den, who, we are confident, will never sanction so barefaced a trick, But the Green-Husted plan of operations is evident enough. They built their hopes upon those democratic mem. bers of Assembly who voted against the Cos tigan bill, hoping to recruit the black horse cavalry by a few more recreant democrats, If, by such a manoeuvre, they could get through the Assembly the bill for transferring a great part of the Mayor's powers to the Comptroller they had no doubt of its passage by the republican Senate, and they relied on Gover nor Tilden’s friendship for Green to secure his approval. The Governor can never sign such a bill. In the first place it would be un-« worthy ofehis character to indorse such a trick ; and in the next place he cannot afford to disrupt the democratic party of the State, as his approval of this bill would inevitably do. We are confident he will wash his hands of so disreputable a juggle. The surprising part of this affair is the ability of Green and Husted to capture and control twenty democratic members. This recreancy is probably a consequence of the unfaithfulness of the democratic organs to the principle of homo rule, which they ad- vocated with noisy zeal in the canvass and abandoned as soon as the Legislature met, The black horse cavalry, who voted against the Costigan bill without a word of rebuke or censure from the home rule organs, thought it would be safe to go still further in support of Green, The apology of the home rule organs for deserting their principles when the Legislature met is lame enough, The substance of this defence is that the Senate being republican there was no chance of pass« ing the Costigan bill, and that it would have been a waste ot ink and effort tosupportit. By the same rule hard money and free trade, the other capital articles of the democratic creed, must be as coolly abandoned when Congress meets. The plea tor no longer keeping up a bowing acquaintance with these old frignds will be doubly strong, because instead of merely an adverse Senate, which obstructed home rule at Albany, there will be in Washe ington both a hostile Senate and a hostile Executive. The same apology which was offered for hiding in the rear while the home rule battle was fought in Albany will serve even better to excuse the dumb silence of the same organs on the great questions offhard money and free trade when these come up in Congress during the next two years, ‘Call you this backing your friends?” It ws safe to assume that there cannot be many admirers of the practice of raising a great cry for cere tain principles while an election is pending, and then inventing excuses for showing them “a fair pair ot heels” when they come to be pressed as practical measures in a legislative body. ‘Te Question of woman's rights has been considered in the House of Commons upon @ bill to enable unmarried women to vote fox members of Parliament. One of the argue ments against the measure was that the “agie tation emanated from turbulent women in America.’’ Auother was that it would enfrane chise “immoral women.’’ Why immoral men should have rights that are denied to immoral women is a question that did not come into the debate. On the division 153 members voted in favor of the measure, and among them Mr. Disraeli. This is a very strong vote, especially in the tory Parliament of- conservative England. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor Samuel C. Cobb, of Boston, is reg ered at the Windsor Hotel. Vice President Henry Wilson left this city last evening for Wasnington, Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, if staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. General S. C. Armstrong, of Virginia, 1s among the late arriva!s at Barnum’s Hore}. The Marquis de Chambrun, of Washington, hag apartments at the Union Square Hotel, Bishop Thomas F. fendricken, of Providence, arrived last evening at the Grand Cenvral Hotel, General Jonn C. Robinson, of Binghamton, has taken up his residence at the Metropolitan Hote, Inspector General Randulph B. Marcr, United States Army, is quartered at the New York Hotel, Mr. Edmund D, Tucker has been appointed Vice Consul at Halifax, N. S., lor Norway and Sweden, “Lientenant Commander Henry H. Gorringe, United States Navy, 1s stoppiog at the Hofmam House. Kladderadatsch says the only way horses can ga out of Germany into France is with Ublans om them. Mr. De Pestel, the newly appointed Dutch Minis ter a: Washington, ts sojourmng at the Hotel Brunswick. Mr. Franklin Haven, Jr., United States Assistant Treasurer at Boston, has arrived at the Fite Avenue Hotel. Mr. Allan Rutherford, Third Auditor of the Treasury, arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last evening from Washington, Leigium is apparently tne Tittle lamb who dis- turbs the water of tne stream from which tne Pruseiao woll says he wishes to drink, Generai Adam Badeau, Untied States Consal Generai at London, arrived from Liverpool in the steamship China and is at the Brevoort House. Senator Newton Boosh, of California, who has been “visiting friends in New England, arrived from Boston last evening at the Sturtevant House, Even as Peter B, used to cater the country re- publicans of the Legislature, so have the players of the republican game now caught the country democrats. Judge Loring. of Massachusetts, Who has bech @ member of the United States Court of Claims for many years, has signified his intention of resigns ing next summer, The first part of the sale of the racing stud of Mr. A. Fould took place at Paris March 13, and realized 78,000 franca. The highest price paid for a single animai was $3,000, London’s newest entertainment is@ “soiree of hatrdressing,” in Which @ professor of the art per forme on chosen heads besore the public with the skil! and artistic sense with which Paganini per formed on the fiddle. Yoe aetbronement of Isabelle, the flower girl of the Maris Jockey Clu, is asensation in the gay city. This ‘girl’? is forty years old, stout, very dark, somewaoat rich and mean enouzh not to support her mocner, Tere are four or five other flower girls in Paris. They all get rich and wear diamonds in their ears, Serjeant Ballantyne, who defended “the clatme ant” in bia first trial, has now got another queer client. He has gone all the way to India te defeud the Guicowar of Baroda, charged with ate tempting to poison the British Resident in his dominions. Ballantyne was received with great . bill, as described in our Albany despatches enthusiasm by the natives,