The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1875, Page 10

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1875-QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD! BROADWAY ANDO ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly tditions of the New Yore Hezaxp will be rent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- mal subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic lespatches must be addressed New Youre Tenarp. Rejected communications will not be re- urned. Letters and packages should be properly raled, (ONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. ‘ARIS OFFICE—NO. 3 RUE SCRIBE. tbscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQUE, [pit Broadway.—VAnIETY, ‘ats P. M.; closes at 10245 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Fest Fourteenth street —Open from 10 A. M, to BR ARK c THEATRE, Ae ayenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. 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M.: closes at 10:30 Signor Agramonte. y | At that period nearly the whole | udices had a great influence in softening the | confederacy compelled the Protestants of The Catholic Church im the United States. The interesting ceremonies of investiture appointed to take place to-day in Bt. | | Patrick's Cathedral may be considered a8 | marking the completion of a centennial cycle | in the growth of the Catholic Church in this | country. It is fitted to rank, in Catholic estimation, with the patriotic centennial cel- | ebrations on which we have just entered. | We are persuaded that no person thoroughly conversant with American history will think | this a fanciful or tar-tetched suggestion. It is a well known fact that at the beginning of | the Revolution our people were not only | aggressively Protestant, but that they denied | ordinary political rights to Catholics. The great principle of religious freedom, of per- fect religious equality and its necessary corol- lary ofacomplete divorce between Church and State, made its first public and decisive step one hundred years ago as indisputably as our Revolution had its birth in the battle of Lexington. If this statement should strike any reader as a paradox we beg that he will follow us with candid attention in the brict historical statement which we will lay before him, It was one hundred years ago that the Con- tinental Congress sent a formal address to the people of Canada inviting their co-opera- tion and hoping to secure at least their neu- trality in the straggle against Great Britain. popu- of Canada consisted of French Catholics who had been subjugated in the then recent seven years’ war by which Canada was wrested from the King of France. Our forefathers and the British government were equally anxious to secure the support of that Catholic province. With this view Parliament passed what was | known as ‘the Quebec act,” reinstating the Canadian Catholics in the rights they enjoyed under the French dominion; and our Conti- nental Congress made them a public offer of religious freedom if they would join us. ‘Those two acts laid the foundation of partial | religious freedom in England and full relig- ious freedom in America, As tothe effect of | the first of these—the Quebec act—we will | quote our national historian, Mr, Ban- | croft:—‘“The troubles of the thirteen colo- | nies,”’ says he, ‘ed the Court of Great Britain toits first step in the emancipation of the Catholics, and with no higher object in view | than to strengthen the authority of the King | in America the Quebec act began that series of concessions which did not cease till the British Parliament itself and all the high offices of administration have become ace | cessible to ‘Papists.’” It is equally true that | the invitation extended by the Continental | Congress to the people of Canada to join our | resistance to the British Crown was the first | great step toward the full establishment of | religious equality in this country. The Que- | lation | bee act went into effect May 1, 1775, and the | | address to-Canada by a Congress whose mem- | | tained by the great body of our intelligent | | Protestants, who regard the proceedings at bers were imbued with bitter Protestant prej- religious bigotry which possessed most of the | colonies. We quote again from Bancroft :— | “But the desire of including Canada in the | BOWFRY OPERA HOUSE, Pat Bowers. VARIETY, at § P. M.; closes at 1035 | Wooo's MUS v Ls eae SHEET. QUADRUPLE S From our reports this morning the he probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be cool and | duty, with light rains. Wat Srnzer Yesterpay.—Speculative stocks were generally lower. Foreign ex- change was firm, money easy, and govern- | ment and railroad bonds strong. Gold closed at 115}. Rarm Tzansrr.—To-day, in both branches | of the State Legislature, the all-important question of rapid transit for the city of New York is to be discussed. It will be well for members to recall the fact that the attention of their constituents is steadily fixed upon them. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” A Bop Rorsenr was committed in Eigh- teenth street yesterday, a highwayman knock. ing down ao lady in broad daylight and seizing her purse before the eyes of the | passers by. An officer in citizen's dress | succeeded in arresting the thief, and we sannot doubt his punishment will be as swift | as his capture. Tae Gaeat Scanvat Triax entered upon | its seventeenth week yesterday. The prin- cipal point of interest in the proceedings of the day was in that Mr. B. F. Tracy, one of the counsel for the defendant, took the stand to explain Moulton’s relations to the scandal. Pending his examination the Oonrt adjourned tili this morning. Orricen Cartes Wrii1amsox, who clubbed aman to death in Liberty street a few days ago, has been committed without bail. From the testimony before the Coroner his offence seems not to fall below that of murder in the second degree. At least it is necessary that the officer, who so wantonly clubbed the man Campbell, should be tried for murder, and the Coroner was right in refusing bail. outrages in this city will not cease till some of the men by whom they are committed are adequately punished. Tue Awxrery or THE Poxrrictans regarding the vacant Commissionership is perhaps natural, but the only consolation we can of- fer to the different aspirants is that, as there | are too many candidates and too few vacan- | cies, they might as weil prepare for disap- pointment now. are too sanguine; somebody must be refused, and it would be comfortable to the disap- pointed candidates if they are prepared in ad- vance for tBeir fate. ed his mind Sxcnerany Detax » has chang sbout resigning. His conduct in this respect ig as we feared it might be, though contrary to our hopes. The new position of the bead of the Interior Department seems to be that because everybody was pleased with his with- drawal he will not go. Weare sorry for it, and we believe that if he gives the country another chance nobody will say anything | about him till heis out of office. Mr. Delano, \wy your countrymen once more, | ple of Police | We are afraid all of them | | deeply embedded in the institutions | America to adopt and promulgate the princi- } religious equality and freedom. | In the masterly address to the inhabi- | tants of Quebec, drawn by Dickinson, | all old religious jealousies were condemned as | low-minded infirmities, and the Swiss can- | | tons were cited as examples of a union com- | | posed of Catholic and Protestant States.” | Everybody must regard it as a singular, and Catholics will be apt to look upon it as a | providential coincidence, that the ceremonies of to-day mark the centennial of the fruitful public proceedings to which we have referred, which led to the emancipation of English Catholics and the complete divorce of Church | and State in this country. Another coinci- | dence which we will mention in passing is | the fact that the buH of Pope Pius VL, cre- | ating the first Catholic bishop and thus | | organizing thgCathohe Church in the United | States, was issued in 1789, the very year that | our national government was organized under the preset constilution. The American prejudice against Catholics | was only partially obliterated during the Revo- | lutionary War, although some events of the war had a strong tendency to lessen it. The | chief of these was the aliiance of France, a Catholic nation, which so powerfully assisted us in our independence, and the undivided loyalty of the Catholics of Maryland throughout the struggle. The reply of Washington to an address of the Maryland gaining | Catinolics on his election to the Presidency is | a proof both of remaining bigotry and of his own sense of its injustice. We can quote but one sentence:—‘‘And I presume,"’ said Wash- ington, “that your fellow zens will not 1¢ pattiotic part which you took in shment of this Revolution and the establishment of this government, or the | important assistance which they received from | a nation in which the Roman Catholic faith is professed.” ‘The gratitude which the coun- try has always felt to Lafayette, Kosciusko | and De Kalb, and its veneration for Charles Carroll, who was the last surviving signer of | the Declaration of Independence, have done much to produce a more liberal and just feel- ing in the American mind toward Catholics. But the full achievement of religious ireedom in this country was a work of time. Jefferson and his able condjutor, Madison, did more for this great which lar of our institutions, than any other American statesman; but we have not space to recite their pre-emiment services ¢ It is to them and to the sense of Catholic » vices in our Revolution that we are in for that noblest conquest of Ameri dom by which the rights of conscience ar wholly emancipated from governmental con- trol and the principle of relig cause, is a chiet pil- “ye ions equality i of t | country. There is nothing in ovr hi which better deserves a centennial comm ration than the earliest of those events which led to the divoree of Charch and Ste 1 this monies ority of view the have an interest which @ 1 imangnration cere ns cannot be Ameri expected to feel in tacm atholic Church. ith pl of the Americ&u press has commented on this event in an ungracions or churlish spirit. The fear of Catholic ascendancy has quile | died out, and the general feeling of the conn- | try is one of congratulation, with perhaps a | i AS @ mere event in the C We have noticed w sure that no part | population would find a new motive for lov- | land detest monarchy with as hearty a sin- | that nothing is so favorable to the propaga- | the Catholics formed but one-eighth even of | | as the third, or, at least, the fourth, of our | es |The Tammacy Fight and the Big | votes out of nearly four hundred. Vigorous | nan, Hayes, Coulter and others had enlisted | fulfil the promises made before the last elec | present time nothing has been done to reform slight tinge of national satisfaction that our Catholic fellow citizens have diminished reasons for looking abroad for spiritual guidance and objects of ecclesias'ival reverence, It the Pope himself should even come to reside among us no, intelligent Prot- | estant would grieve, and dur whole Catholic li ing their country. Nothing would do so much to spread the great American principle of a complete separation of Church and State throughout the world as for this country to | become the local seat of the Papal authority. The Pope would enjoy here the most perfect freedom in the discharge of his ecclesiastical functions, and the genius of our government is so totally repugnant to any blending of ecclasiastical and civil authority that nothing would tend so powerfully to a final dissolu- tion of every Church in Christendom from ties to a supporting State. There is no sound reason why any citizen should object even to a Pope, much less to a Cardinal, on American soil. Our people have become too enlightened to think liberty is en- dangered by the Catholic faith, That great ‘“‘keystone in the arch of freedom,’’ Magna Charta, was extorted by Catholic sub- jects from a Catholic king. All the great safeguards of liberty which we have inherited from the mother country date their origin from the time when England was Catholic. Catholic France assisted us to achieve our in- dependence, and then overthrew monarcby and aristocracy at home. Even the Catholics of Spain revolted against Charles V., in the name of popular liberty, The Italian repub- lies of the Middle Ages were established by Catholics, . The Catholic colonies of South America set up republican governments when they threw off their allegiance to Spain. The Catholic immigrants to this country from Ire- cerity as any class of American citizens. The Catholic population of Louisiana oppose Cesarism with intenser hatred than the people of any other American State. The wonderful growth of Catholicism in the United States should convince every Catholic tion of a religion as national institu- tions which forbid favor or hostility to any sect. There is no country in the world where Catholicism has advanced with such gigantic strides as it has in the United States since the full establishment of our great principle of per- fect religious equality, One hundred years ago the population df Maryland, and were a mere handful in the other States. Now they rank | Caristian denominations in point of numbers, and next to the first in the value of their Church property. But all our Protestant sects together so greatly outnumber the Catholics that the latter are ina minority of seven or | eight to one, and nothing could be more chimerical than tears that they will ever con- trol the government, No such fear is enter- | the Cathedral to-day as a pleasirig addition to the variety of American life. Chief’s Responsibility. The fight in the Tammany lava beds yesterday week was not so severe as the boastings of Captain Jack’s enemies had ‘in- | dneed people to anticipate. Indeed, the | Shacknasty Jims and Scar-faced Charleys made but a shabby show, mustering only five efforts had been made for a week to perfect a combination of ail the dissatisfied elements inside the Wigwam, and it had been asserted confidently that Big Indiaus Morrissey, Bren- under the Green-Waterbury banner. But the young chief Red Buck had taken away the | committee of Big Indian Coulter and indorsed Captain Jack; the veteran warrior Morrissey, with his young brother Hayes, refused to put on the war paint, and Sachem Brennan was held in check by the tempting bait of a prob- able Police Commissionership. So the fa- mous Green-Waterbury combination tailed, and no seaips were gathered. The vote of the Tammany Society was a reindorsement of Mr. John Kelly's leadership. | ‘The democratic organization expressed their willingness to allow Mr. Kelly ample time to tion—that the victory of his nominees in the State and the city should be the triumph of | home rule and should restore the government of the democratic city of New York to demo- cratic hands. Mr. Kelly is now doubly bound | to see that the Governor and the Mayor re- | deem the pledges he made in their names to the democratic party. Ho is directly re- | sponsible for the nomination both of Gover- nor Tilden and Mayor Wickham, and will be held accountable for their acts. / Up to the find reorganize the city government. We are to-day more directly under the control of State authorities in our locel sounicipat affairs than we were when General Dix was | our @overnor. Not a single head of a depart- | ment has been removed from office, although | several are under charges of misconduct and some have been adjudged by the | Mayor unfit to retain their positions. } We are under the same policy of | suffocation that has weighed so heavily upon the city’s interests for two or three years past. Our finances are still in a muddled, onsatis- | factory condition. The doors of the Finance | Department are barred against the Mayor, and | subordinates in the city government are lobby- ing in Albany for such measures as will pro- mote their individual inter without regard | to the wishes of t , the Common Council or the Mr. Kelly is bound, by the part he took in the nominating conven- | tions of last fall, and by the new mark of con- | now bestowed upon him by his part The es him the r municipal or Tilden, The | h long enough. present moment t and disergan- z iyor Havemeyer. | Mr. Kelly should insist upon knowing what Governor Tilden is going to do about it. fidenc matters. lety mtion in to compel a et the t to deme vote of Tue uxmmr or ‘Joun Hanprr took place | | then, what was doing elsewhere, here in this | | point on which the imagination fastens. What Was Done Elsewhere? Massachusetts, and especially the little cluster of towns where, within narrow space, the first effectual flames of revolution burst forth, kas had no cause to complain, and weare | confident does not, of any want of sympathy in her recent commétnorativerite. Rarely, | ifever,in the history of our country, never indeed since the visit of Lafayette, just balf a century ago, has there been so pure and gen- erous an outpouring of popular sentiment. But, now that it is well over, we may, without | fear of disturbing harmony, ask the question what, in those critical times, had been done and was doing elsewhere when those Lexington gunshots fired the train of revolution? This is a question which familiar history enables us easily to answer, as it is right it should be answered, truthfully, lest any section of the narrow strip which was the area of the Old Thirteen should be deluded into claiming a monopoly of fame or undue priority of action. Aside from the action of the Continental Congress, which was more the agency of s0- cial than of political union, it is marvellous to see how compact that social union and sympathy had become before a shot was fired in anger. It is worth while to note in detail some of these movements, and in doing s0 let us, on the threshold, repair an injustice which history, and especially Massachusetts his- tory, has done, Because Captain Whipple captured a revenue schooner in 1772 it cer- tainly is no reason to dispute the precedence of Lexington as the first Revolutionary fight. But in one respect “little Rhody’’ has not had fair play, for it is a fact, not familiar to the cursory reader of our story, that she first, on the 17th of May, 1774, suggested a General Congress, and that she also, as a State, declared herself independent two months before the 4th of July, 1776. But much farther than Rhode Island did this practical sympathy extend. It was the Boston Port bill that made the Revolution, and the mingled sentiment it aroused throughout the colonies was generous pity for the immediate victims of oppression and of selfish apprehension that the fate of Boston might soon be theirs. New York and Penn- sylvania acted in quick succession, each em- berrassed by the “loyal’’ sentiment in their midst. As the initiate battles were won by a rural population—literally the yeomanry of the country—so was it that, had resistance and revolution in the Middle States depended on the cities, they never would have been con- summated, Especially was this the case with Pennsylvania, and it is curious to note that while Philadelphia in the outset, perplexed by intestine broils and overshadowed by proprietary influence, with a large population opposed on principle to war, longest hesitated, not only did her central situation and tbe presence of Congress make her the objective point of every hostile enterprise, but when | the die was cast no community showed greater spirit, contributed a larger contingent of able and heroic men or endured sharper trials. Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia all moved into line at once, Let us see what Virginia did. It is an old story, butit is worth telling again. When the news of the | Port bill reached Virginia the House of Bur- gesses was in session. A resolution was in- troduced and adopted fixing the Ist day of June as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer. The book of precedents to which the Virginia “faithful subjects’’ had recourse was one of evil omen to royal authority. “No example of such a solemnity,’ says Mr. Jefferson, “had existed since the days of our distresses in the war of '55, since which a | new generation had grown up. With the help | ot Rushworth, which we rummaged over for | the revolutionary precedents and forms of the | Puritans of those days, we cooked up a reso- | lution, somewhat modernizing the phrases, for appointing the Ist of June, on which the Port bill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, to implore Heaven to avert from us the evils of civil war, and to dispose us with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the heart of the King and | Parliament to moderation and justice.” The Governor dissolved the Burgesses, and the | members, acting as private citizens, with full confidence that they had a true constituency, meeting at the Apollo Hall, carried out their measures of co-operation. In the year | which then ensued, from May, 1774, to April, 1775, more practical measures of con- cert were adopted and matured, especially in the organization and equipment of local | | militia. ‘There happened, too, at the moment | very convenient Indian hostilities, and the two | great colonies of Penusylvania and Virginia | had a good excuse for keeping, for those times, large bodies of troops underarms. This, ina measure, accounts for the promptitude with which a whole nation sprang to arms without | a national or continental soldier or a flag | under which to rally them. Washington was | made commander-in-chief on the day after Bunker Hill was fought, and, of course, be- | fore the news had reached Philadelphia, and in less than a fortnight thirty thousand men held the British in hopeless siege in Boston. | These were the echoes which Concord and | Lexington awoke, and what would they have / been without the echoes? When it is asked, | familiar thrice-told . tale we have the answer. The commemoration at Lexington over, with | the one at Bunker Hill to follow, there will be | a long interval, quite a year, in which there | will be a lull of military centenaries. We | ean recall now but the winter assanlt on | Quebec and the summer defence of Fort | Moultrie, and neither of them are likely tu be commemorated. Tho slow and sure proce: of construction, such as our ancestors were engaged im during that year, has no salient | There should be no stint of reverential grati- | tude on this account, nor will there be when the time arrives when the great Centennial of | consummate independence is to be celebrated. The whole nation must then feel tor Philadel- | phia what we bi gladly felt for the little | Massachusetts om Na Rarinoap ‘Accent. “Aiter a long his we are those trightial x rem editions resulti fo person and property vas pions injur; the blame of which it is generally to ix. Inthe present inslance there seem to be little doubt that gross careless- ness was manifested on the part of the em- yesterday from St. Paul's Methodist Episco- | ployés. In view of the possibilities it is a | pal church. Addresses were made by Dr. Chapman and Bishop Janes. matter for congratulation that the results were | no worse. | and transi | The present direction « so difficult | would | ‘Anothee of Comptrolier Green's Tricke— | short freight for the transportation of five An Artful Bill, Comptroller Green has placed before the Legislature, through the medium of Senator | Booth, a bill purporting on its face to be de- signed to decrease the rate of taxation for the current year, 1875, This is a fraudutent pre- tence. Such is not the object of the bill, as | an examination of its provisions will immedi- | ately show, and such would not be its effect if | it should be suffered to become a law. The first section of the bill authorizes the Comptroller to deduct from the gross amount of the tax levy of the present year, as finally passed by the Board of Apportionmenty such amount of estimated revenues of the general fund, and of interest to be received on assess- ments daring 1875, as he now calculates will be realized, instead of the amounts of such estimated revenues as have already been de- ducted by the Board of Apportionment. Mr. Green gives as his reason for this pro- vision the alleged fact that the rev- enues will be larger than he estimated they would be in December last, and he professes to be anxious to deduct thy increased amouut from the final estimate in order that the burden of the taxpayer shall be lightened. The imposition is too transparent to deceive any person of ordinary intelligence. The estimated revenues now deducted from the final.estimates are three million dollars. If Mr. Green should have made an error of half a million dollars it would prove him to be grossly ignorant of the affairs of his depart- ment. But this amount would not save the taxpayer one-seventeenth of one per cent in this year’s tax levy. Besides, itis well known that there is and always will be a deficiency in the tax levy, and any surplus of the city revenues above the amount deducted from the final estimate by the Board of Apportion- ment would be used to pay the yearly appro- priations left deficient by the failure to col- lect the whole amount of the tax levy. Mr. Green does not tell us how much the city revenues will realize over and above the amount estimated in December ; but, whatever the amount may be, its deduc- tion from the tax levy would not. benefit the taxpayer or decrease the expenses of the year by a fraction of a ceht, and the false representation that it would do so proves that the Comptroller has some real object covered up in the bill introduced by Senator Booth which he desires to conceal from the public. The second section of the bill is of an equally deceptive character. In the tax levy of the present year is included a little over one million and a half dollars to pay the city’s liability for the Fourth avenue im- provement. ‘The second section proposes to lay over unti] next year seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this amount, and to authorize the Comptroller to issue revenue bonds, in anticipation of the receipt of taxes, for the balance remaining in this year's tax levy. Even if the “bridging over” policy were not objectionable the amount thus postponed until next year would make such an insignificant reduction in the taxation of the present year—only aboul one- sixteenth of one per cent on the assessed valuations—as to afford no manner of relief to the taxpayer. The power to issue revenue bonds in advance of taxation is already pos- sessed by the city, andis only made a part of this section, to aid in the deception attempted by Mr. Green by giving a seeming importance to the bill. These two sections being deceptive and valueless we look for the real object of the bill in section three. This section is a inis- chievous one and improper to be passed. It provides that all balances of appropriations made for the year 1873 and for all previous years, remaining unexpended at the time of the passage of the act, ghall be ‘‘discontinued and declared to be lapsed into the treas- ury.”’ It also provides that all balances which shall remain unexpended for two years after the year for which the appropriations were made, shall in like nuer be ‘discontinued and d of | EE gas cg wee aha | Pp, F. Lyndon, of Boston, and Bishop P. J. O'Reilly, lapsed into the treasury.’’ All the efforts of the Board of Apportionment, the Mayor and the Common Council have failed to extort from Mr, Green a clear statement of the un- expended balances of former years and of the disposition that has been made of them. There has been an evident anxiety on the part of the Comptroller to prevent any inves- | tigation of this portion of his accounts. The bill he now sends to the Legislature would | “discontinue” all such unexpended balances, declare them ‘‘lapsed into the treasury,” and thus cover up the tracks of the Comptroller and enable him to prevent any further inves+ tigation in this direction. This is, beyond | doubt, the real, although secret, object of the bill he bas now sent to the Senate. If the amount required for the payment of in- terest on the city debt should at any time have been falsely stated, and the money appro- priated for that purpose in any year improp- erly and illegally used in a manver forbidden | by the charter, the Booth bill would obstruct discovery or probably prevent the punish- ment of such a dangerous offence against the law. So if other appropriations should have been unlawfully used in a manner unanthor- ized by the Board of Apportionment in the city estimate and apportionment, the perpe- trators of the misdemeanor would interposo this bill to escape the penalty of their official miscondtct. Besides, the principle of the section, which Mr. Green leaves unnoticed in his “memorial,” but which js the real sub- stance of the artfully drawn bill, is wholly ‘The only proper way of keep- accounts is to close each year’s | objectionable. ing the city business and balance ¢ providing for defie year’s books by tring unexpended balances to their several appro, levy is made. We irust that this exposure of | the chararter and object of the bill will insure its rejection. Kigvainc Ra os.—The Erie Railroad appears in past years to have been a rich placer for persons 1 ot over-sensitive in their discriminat between ‘“mine” aud ‘thine.’” the road, under the presidency of a practical and experienced railroad man, bas made it its business to dis- | cover and stop all leakages. Already they have succeeded in recovering, or putting iu the sure way of recovery, largo sums of | | money, counting up among hundreds of thou- | | sands, diverted from the road by frauds in way bills, and now they have put their hands | n future tax levies, | accounts when a new tax | stock, This is the sort of management that has long been needed in Erie, and it speaks well for the future of the road in o business point of view, as soon as the general trade of the country shall have recovered from its late exceptional depression. OxstavcTixG THE Pauxk DzPABTMENT.—~ Comptroller Green and his allies are opening their batteries against Park Commissioner Martin, whom they chorge with ‘obstructive and disorganizing efforts’’ to interfere with the management of the department, out of ‘unreasoning hatred” for Mr. Green. But what right has the Comptroller to meddle with the Park Department and its manage- ment? If he attended to his own business and kept his fingers out of a department with which he has nothing to do Mr. Martin’s course as Commissioner could have no effeot, upon him and would bear no relation to him, The attack upon Commissioner Martin is a proof that Comptroller Green does unduly and improperly intermeddle with the Central Park management—an interference which the present President of the department has on occasions denounzed as ‘‘a system of interfor ence and espionage inconsistent with the interests of the city and injurious to the de partment.”” Srnixc.—Never could it be more truly said that winter lingers in the lap of spring, the lice apparently having been written for seasons like the present, But while old winter has tarried with us a longtime this year, it seems to be going at last, and the few warm days we have had have made Broadway gay with bright colors and fresh young faces—things which always come with spring, Saat Banp, the postmaster at Atlanta, Ga, will be allowed to hold office till the 1st of July, his resignation having been demanded to take effect on the Ist of June. Even with this extension it may be considered hard on Sam, but the country would have been better pleased if his resignation went into effect now. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Thiers is seventy-nine, and hale for his age. The yearly military crop in Europe foots up 2,284,439 boys. And so the Marquis de Patt-Caux is not dead! What a mistake! General George Crook arrived at Omaha from Arizona last evening. Bishop M. A. Corrigan, of New Jersey, 1s residing at the Clarendon Hotel. Governor Henry Howara, of Rhode Island, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Murat Halstead, of Cincinnat!, is among the late-'’ vals at the Brevoort House, Mayor C. W. Hutchinson, of Utica, has tagen up his residence at the New York Hotel. The Curé of Santa Cruz has given up politica and intends to ‘devote himself to religion,” Major W. B. Slack, of the United States Marine Corps, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major Browne, of the Ninety-seventh regiment, British Armay, 18 stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, John Bull is drawing in his horns. They have taken seven inches of the length ofthe British bayonet. Mr. Henry Adams, son of Mr. Charles Franctr Adams, of Massacausetts, is staying at the Bre voort House. Co-operation makes progress. In Moscow they have discovered a co-operative society of thieves, sixty in number. Colonel Stepnen C, Lyford, of the Ordnance De partment, United States Army, is registered at the St. James Hotel, Bishop T. F. Hendricken, of Providence, and Very Rev. James Hughes, of Hartford, are at the | Grand Central Hotel, General 6. R, Cowen, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, arrived from Washington yi rday af the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mme. de Lavalle, wife of the Peruvian Ministe§ at St. Petersburg, died tn that city in March, onlg two months #fter her arrival there. Glasgow has had “a great porridge question,” | and the authorities have determined that the use of Indian meal is justifiable—if mixed with oat for the year 1873 and subsequent years, | eee Mr. Selwyn, Chief of the Geological Survey of Canaaa, will leave shortly for British Columbia, for the purpose of exploring Frazer, and Peace Rivers. Archbishop John J, Williams and Vicar General of Springfleld, Mass, have apartments at the | Everett House. Mr. Crombie, Division Engineer of the Canada Pacific Survey, left fur the Pacific coast last evens ing, to be occupied tits summer in locating a line | for the railway. Bishop B. J. McQuaid and Vicar General James M. Early, of Rochester, and Bishop E. P. Wad- hams, of Ogdensburg, arrived last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel. It ts judictaily decided in Berlin that therg are No privileged commenications between journalista | and persons from whom they receive secrets to be published as news, In Poris the police have suppressed speculation in tickets forthe theatres; all persons offering tickets for sale om the streets are invited by a polite oMcer to accompany him to the nearest station. six di are appointed for shooting among | Irishmen at London, Dublin and Belfast in this and next month, and the best shots in these trials will be put up to meet the Americans in the retars game of the international match, Rear Admiral Reynolds has been detached from special duty at the Navy Department, Washing ton, and ordered to New York to take passage te the United States steamer Tennessee for the command ot the Asiatic station. Martial Chevalier, Consul of France for Canada, will leave Quebec shortly for Havana, to taxe the place of Consul Megan, deceased, and will be sae ceeded here by Albert Lefebvre, Consul at Charles ton. M. Trey, Consul at Riga, succeeas M, Leiebvre. It is rumored in diplomatic circles in Berlin that the German government, destrous not to lose sight of the new military organization in France, nas sent a number oi snperior oMcers to Pang charged with giving it the fullest information as to the progress of that organ zation, A French Christian Brother, returning from @ mission to the Caspian Sea, brought with hime plant said tobe an infalithle remedy for scurvy, Dr. Demeanx has presented a report on tts merite to the Academy of Sciences, trom which it appears that the plant can be acchimatizea in Europe and wil) prove of the greatest vaine, ‘The Marquis de !a Valette, Minister of Foreign Affuirs under the Empire, has been for some time indisposed an: is, itis thought, om the death bea, Tis fame Was signed to the famous letter by which the Emperor gave his adhesion to thar policy ct reviving nationalities in whiter Italy and Germany are no longer “goograpi tts axe pressions.” | During the past four Weeks Mrs. Fb. Cun may kas been lying dangerousiy ti, Until last Priday no jears were entertained of her demise, notwih. | standing the fact of ber severe illness, Oa Fricay afternoon, however, she began, and has since con- tinned, to sink rapidly. Last eveniny tt was teared that sue would Hor be able to survive throughout the nignt, During the carly part of the evening large crowds of onxXtous and toquicing friends con gregated in And around the theatre, asking for the latest news jrom the sick room. About eleven | P. M. she appeared to be rallying, and tne ate tending physicians Lave hope that she may entirely ‘ona deficit of some ninety thousand dollars | recover.