The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and aiter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | ditions of the New Yorx Hxnarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- wus! subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic | Gespatches must be addressed New Yonx | ‘Wena. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letiers and packages should be properly’ | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET PARIS OFFICE—NO. 3 RUE SCREBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. tory, a bestowal of reasonable legislative | Ge caiain Gills capi it will fill the | or pushed aside; the Mayor's attempts to re- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY! APRIL 29, 1875.--TRIPLE SHEHT, —$—$$ $$$ Rapid Transit in the Legtsiatare— “How Not To Do it’ | The provoking neglect of New Yor‘ inter- | ests by this Legislature is a trial of the | patience of our citizens which they had no | reason to expect when the result of the No- | vember election was declared. This city had reason to count at least on justice, if not favor, after the splendid success of the demo- cratic party in the State. This city 18 the | stronghold of the democratic porty. The Governor, who was so triumphantly elected, | | is one of its citizens, supposed to be capable | of appreciating its wants and willing to do anything to promote its prospenty not incon- | sistent with his duty to other parts of the | | State. The democratic party had been de- | | nounciog for fifteen or eighteen years the in- | cessant and injurious interference with its affairs by political gamesters at Albany. Municipal home rule was one of the most prominent pledges of the Syracuse platform, on the faith of which the great democratic victory was achieved. The people of this city were, therefore, fairly entitled to expect, as one of the earliest fruits of that vic- | pains on the wants and grievances of the me- | tropolis. But the home rule pledge has been dishonorably forfeited; necessary amend- ments of the city charter have been ignored form municipal abuses have been defeated by WOLUME XLeeo-sessesssesssesessesnseraseneeNO, 119 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND) BYEMAG. ETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, area roa street—Open from 10 4. M. 05 P.M | ing of all our wents, a provision for rapid | difference, as if it were of no more conse | quence than a petition for a new bridge across the contemptuous neglect of the Governor to | act on cases of removal; and the most press- transit, has been treated with apathetic in- BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, | a avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10965 OLYMPIC, (HEAT! 6% Broadway.—Vattir'¥, «to P. Fo ae wryant Memorial scatines, THEATRE. fyi ad way. Dara atisoP. M 4, Closes at 10 } ie ee view BIG BO- Mr. Fisher, Mr, ie <gR EM closes at Miss Davenport, Ars RK n= DAVY PAROCE at § ¥.M.; closes at | Mr. Mayo. Dan fryant Memorial Matinee, WERY THEATRE, | ywery.—TRUE RY STE. 2 8 P.M. Dan Bryant | mnorial Matinee, at 13) P. pgs | GRAND OPERA HOUSE, wer — third street—AHMED, at 8 5 hth avenue {closes at I! sc BOOTH’S THEATRE, | of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—AMY | RT, at 5 F. M.; closes at Ui P. iss Neilson. Brvant Memoria: Matinee, at 1:30 P. M, {| M THEATRE, at sixth avenuc.—LA JOLIE PAR a Aimee, Dan Bryant Me- 5 Ieee AO SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Ener rae, oi or ee ninth street. —N TNSIRELSY. at 8 F. at OP. M. Dan Bry- Memorial hatines, atl TIVOLLT. svi’ it. between Secon , at &¥. M.; closes at 12 LLACK'S THEATT.©, | wor way. —BOKI TO RUIN, at8 P. ¥.; closes at 10 40 ir. Montague ie Jeltreys-Lewis Dan Bryaat Matinee, at i:i0P. pBingor HAL SYATUE I Meaning M. AGINAIRE, at 8 bata. BOWERY OPERA ROUSE, 21 Bowery.—VARIETY, at & P. if.; Sd at 10245 . M. Dan Bryant Memorial Matinee, at 2 P, woop" Broadway, corner Thirties tS P. M.; closes ai 10:4) P THOROUGHBRED, tunec at 2 P. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, street and Irvinz piace.—Dan Bryant Beerorial 8 Matinee, at 1:10 P. M. THEATRE, GomrQue, roadwar.—VAiit Bryant Mernoriat St iin TRIPLE SHEET. THURSE AY. shone At los M. APRIL L 2. 1875, | lies at the door of Governor Tilden. | hold control of the Senate, is nonsense. Pray, | nor’s refusal to act on Mayor Wickham’s re- | with the knowledge and consent of the Gov- | ernor Tilden violated. some stream in a remote county. Aconsiderable part of the blame for this | mexcusable contempt of city rights and needs He has | pressed other subjects upon the attention of | the Legislature, but has neglected to press | this. Instead of pushing our local interests | he has obstructed them. The excuse offered by some of his organs, that the republicans what had the Senate to do with the Gover- into neglect, Astatesman is not a man of one idea, but a man whose mind is capacious | enough to take a comprehensive view of all the great interests of a community. Con it is but one of several subjects that | require legislative action at this session, and a true statesman should give to each an amount of attention proportioned to its im- portance. But when every other great ques- | tion is swamped in an excitement over | canal reform the people of the city arc im- pelled to inquire on what ground this dis- crimination is made against their interests. What is the object of canal reform? To secure cheaper transportation. But what is the advantage of cheap transportation? Why, to bring business to this metropolis and pro- | mote its growth and progress. But without serve to build up the rising towns on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson. We expect the men at Albany to legislate in the interest of New York, and not with a view to increase the wealth and build up the prosperity of a neighboring State. Cheap transportation on northern portion of this island with buildings and inbabitants. But cheap transportation without rapid transit will merely add to the taxable wealth of New Jersey. {Vhen, there- fore, the Governor so engrosses the attention of the Legislature with one of these two closely related subjects as to exclude the con- sideration of the other, he is acting as the con- stituents of Governor Bedle, of New Jersey, would wish bim to act. Mr. Tilden, however, is not the Chief Magistrate of New Jersey; he is the Governor of New York, and he is bound to take a comprehensive view ot New York interests. Without rapid transit his canal reform beats the bush for New Jersey to cateh the bird. The growth of New York is impeded until we get rapid transit, and an in- crease of transportation from tho West through the canals will simply cause an over- flow of business and population into the neighboring New Jersey towns. Our people were under the pleasant illusion last Novem- ber that they were electing a Governor of New York. movals? Four months have elapsed since the Mayor forwarded his charges against the Cor- poration Counsel. Those charges were made | ernor elect ; they wero drawn up by Mr. O’ Conor and submitted to the criticism of Mr. | Tilden before they were made ; they were | strongly indorsed by the democratic organ in | action on them from that day to this, He | was at least bound to consider them. He was | by the Mayor for removing the chiet of one of the most important of the municipal depart- | ments. It was at least his duty to investigate | the charges and decide a question which came before him in accordance with a statute of the | State. Assuredly the republican Senate did clearly logical that for allsuch cases the oper- | not compel him to snub a democratic Mayor. | It was not merely a rule of courtesy that Gov- | It was not merely the obligations of official propriety that he disre- | garded with a nonchalant insolence for which | plainly enough that in the given case of | there is no justification. He has failed to per- form a duty required of him by law. When | the Mayor submits a removal according to law the Governor is bound to act upon it, He may not be bound to accept the views | of the Mayor, but he is incontestably bound to examine the | its merits one way or the other. The | same reasoning applies to the other cases of | General Blair’s Case=The Transfusion of Blood. From some of our St. Louis contempora- ries we Jearn that General Frank Blair has twice undergone the operation for the trans- fusion of blood, that the operation was to be performed a third time, and that it had had xxoro | this city ; but the Governor has taken no | the happiest effect on the General's condition. It is the melancholy experience of that por- tion of the public which has given the subject ‘bird avennes— | at least bound to weigh the reasons presented | any attention that reports of this nature are commonly followed almost immediately by re- | ports of the patient's death; for the benefits of the operation of transfusion are in all | cases of organic disease as evanescent as their promise is brilliant; and this result is so tion should be looked upon as inexcusable. By this operation blood is transtused from the vessels ot a healthy subject to the vessels of the patient, and the theory of the operation is | divease it is the blood of the patient that is at fault; and so exclusively his blood that it a | healthier blood can be substituted his condi- | z ian ii | tion will be ameliorated, if his disease is not | never allowed his political convictions to be- cured. In all cases of organic disease this ns . has been found to be erroneous practically, | ease and decide it on | while theoretically it is rabid nonsense. If | the patient has lost blood by a wound the supply by transfusion may save life. If he From our reports this morning the probabilities removal on which the Governor has neglected | jg reduced by an ansmic or spanemic con- @re that the weather to-day will be clear and warm. Wart Srezer Yesrenpay.—Stocks were irregular and in several instances lower. Gold was steady at 115}, aud money on call loans active between 2) and Tue Ustow Paciric Ramway is again open, toact. Besides snubbing Mayor Wickbam he | virtnally nullities a law of the State when he | contemptuously ignores grave official charges against municipal officers. The plea of on adverse Senate is equally irrelevant as a defence of Governor Tilden’s nised opposition to the Costigan bill. He was the accomplice of the republican | dition the supply may be temporarily advan- tageous, but the assumptions of the operation do not apply in other cases, certainly not in those of prolonged disease. General Blair is paralyzed. Either the disease is in his blood or itis not. If itis not, then there is a diseased condition of the brain; the ma- chinery of the vital operations is disordered. and the snow blockade between the Missis | Senators in the defeat of that bill, passed by | J¢ the machinery is out of order fresh blood sippi and the Pacific has been rairod. Bismarck proposes to put another Catholic Bishop im prisor. We wonder if this is the surest way of consolidating the greatness of a free country. Turn Is an ugly rumor that the laboring men ia Belgium are in arms and that there the democratic Assembly and voted for by all the democratic Senators present when the | vote was ta It is preposterous to say that | his zeal for home rule was thwarted by the republican Senate. Governor Tilden was not thwarted, but gratified, by the action of the | republican Senators. They voted in accord- ance with his known wishes. It was not the will not change it and will only aggravate the trouble by stimulating a crippled organ to activity for which it 1s unfit and so will hasten the fatal result, But if the disease is in the blood—as transfusion seems to assume— what then? How long will two, four or six ounces of new blood lasta man? ‘Two, four or six hours, may be, and then shall there bo are riots. Is this the revived ghost of the | Governor and the democratic members who | g new transfusion? And if there 1s not a Commune? Spars soothes German pride by a national salute to the German flag. If Spein could only pay all of her debts with powder she would be in a state of happy solveccy. ‘Tae Parsce or Wazes nas of the Masonic Order in England, and yester- | day was installed Grand Master in place of Lord Ripon, who resigned to join the Catho- lic Church. There was immense enthusinsm. Tae Assrmpty Committee is in favor of washing New Yorkers. The bill providing for additional free public baths this summer bas been reported favorabty. w, for the sake of health and of cleanliness, which ix pext to Godliness, let it become a law. Tae Newmarnet Races were run yester® @ay. Camballo won the Two Thousand Guinea stake. Those of our readers who are interested in sporting matters will remember that in our admirable sporting letters from London our correspondent predicted this re- sult and ranked Cambalio as the best horse of the season. We Have a strange report from Belgium to the effect that there has been an alliance Between Bismarck and the liberal party in that country. The purpose of this nnion is to enable the Ge Munistry out of power and bring the policy of Belgium more in ha with Pre Buch an alliance would be wise on both « But two things are certain. [f it were really fade it would not If it Browed it would be fntile. » drive the Catholic avowed, wore le tive im the | We Havz snother terr fal town of Oshkos', antic all the business part « vn isinashes. In spite of the confusion produced such an event, and the destry of aph Offices, oar special despatcbes from Milwaukee bring us particulars which sho Josses to the flourishing lumber city by Lake V e- bago to have been very heavy. Wo exterid the people our earnest «ympathier, We can- not help feeling, however, that until our citi« mens really begin to build houses there will | come the head | | its | home | “thought the same things concerning the Re- | public,” ’ but the Governor and the republican members, which is o ridiculous illustratien of his speech at the Manhattan Club on a well known occasion. What ex- cuse can be made for his going over to the republican camp in the battle for home rule? He was to be the ally, the aceomplice, of the republican Senators in their deteat of the home rule bill; and it will not do to say that be was overborne by an ad- verse Se Why did he not act with his party? y did he go over to the enemy on this vital question? The democrats of the Legislature made 1 faitbfal attempt to keep the home rule pledge of their platform, but | the Governor “thought the same things” as republican opponents. Every justifica- tion of the Governor is a condemnation of the democratic members of the Legislature. The uublican Senate did not thwart him, for he was their nndisguised accomplice in thwart- They from party motives, | ad personal motives, wished to save his friend, Comptroller Green, and the con- test presented a curious array of Tilden, Wh r ing home Green and the republican Senate on one side aud the democrats of the Legisinture and the Syracuse platform on the other. ‘Politics s,’ and # comr led to the singular Governor Tilden and the republi- om “pigging together in the | sarae »bed.”” The pbrase is a! little coarse, but as it is quoted from Burke tit may pass. At an . the flimsy | that Governor Tilden’s fidetity to was foiled the senate justifies xe Leartiness of deri On the great question of rapid tr such urg y to the growth of’ the 5 id struction by the Senate is, if si The ert; republican rule t, of | t « » ot o} still more preposter | no temper to postpone th at subject to | Governor Triden’s Preside nti il aepirations. It is not a party question, ond there is no | conceivable reason why the Senate should not | support any wise recommendation of the Governor ou this subject. Unfortunately, it is a question out of whic no political capital | new transfusion will not the criginal inca- pacity of the system to make good blood re- cur and reduce tho man to the state from which he was raised by the stimulus of the small dose of healthy vital fluid? Will he not even fall below that condition by reaction from his tewporary intoxication? Tae Swomuc Stason—The performances of the English swimmer, John Batista John- son, last summer, and lgs race with Trautz, gave an impetus toswimming which prom- | ises to be continued this season. Mr. John- son returns to Europe in June, and he has already deposited one hundred dollars tor a match with Harry Gurr or any other swimmer in the United States for any sum from one thousand to five thousand dollars aside previous to his departure, The distance, | choice of water and all details he leaves to his | competitor, Jolnson’s former atiempt to swim across the English Channel failed be- cause the medical men and judges m the attending boat insisted upon taking him from | the water after he bad swum twelve miles, in | | the apprehension that the cold would over- on his return to | England, to attempt the feat again, wearing 4 | come him. He intends, buckskin, to keep out the cold. Gurr pro- fessed to b hence he will probably ae ept ae 5 challenge, Tae Conmissto: fi RATION grants entering this port. which this imposition of the tax upon ¢ In view of the injur. of excessive head money threatens to infliet on the commerce of New York by turning | away the tide of cmigration we hope the Albany legislators will refuse to grant the nureasonable demand made by the Commis- Tt 1m sien to ingu sioners. re into the sion. While claiming to be trange that the expense of | carrying on the work ot the Emigration Com- | mission should cost two dollars and sixty | cents in 1875, when, under (he oid Comanis- sion, the same work was done ia 1864, during war times and with war prices, for one dollar mais: present Comm: reformers it is be this constant recurrence of desolatory fires. | can be made, aud the Governor, though | per bead, | citizen of New York, is willing it should fall | fessedly important as canal reform is | rapid transit cheap transportation will merely | skintight éress of oiled silk lined with fine | as for a match Jast summer ; | relax | nothing of their efforts to obtain an increase be well to appoint a com- | workings of the | The Change in the Cabinet. The nomination of Mr, Pierrepont to be Attorney General will be regarded as a com- pliment to the loyal republicans of New York. Mr. Pierrepont has been true to the President. His first conspicuous act as a republican was | to subscribe twenty thousand dollars to the | election fund for the first Grant campaign. | Before this he had been a democrat, and at the time of his conversion to republicanism, or, to use a more expressive word, ‘‘Grantism,” wasa sachem in Tammany Hall. If the con- version was late it was none the less sincere. He has never wearied in his friendship for the President, and during these six years the question has been asked a thousand times, «What is the President going to do for Pierre- pont?’ He did try to send him to Russia, but Mr. Pierrepont had no fancy for an icy exile Ho made him a District Attor- ney, but it was a trivial station |and he declined it. Taere was a story that he would become Seerstary of State, but Mr. Fish comes from a race with staying Dutch qualities. There was 4 purpose on ono cecasion to make him Secretary of the Treas- ury, but this did not ripen. And all this time Mr. Pierrepont has never faltered in his de- votion, Other men were promoted, but he never repined, The President went off into the Dismal Swamp atter his Akermans and into the lava beds after his Williamses, ut- terly neglecting his eloqnent and learned and munificent supporter. Every now and then we hada rumor that Pierrepont was*becom- ing restless, that he meant to assert himself, like Carl Schurz and John Cochrane, and break party bonds, But these rumors never ripened. It may be that Mr. Piorre- pont did not feel altogether sure of his welcome at the Mavhattan Club if he returned as an ‘‘independent states- man.’’ Tbe Manhattan Club is always glad to welcome the ‘‘manly” and ‘‘courageous’’ and “high-toned” gentlemen who Lesa Gs the republican party aa crave “reform.” But, when it comes to welcoming one who was “‘in- dependent?’ enough to vote against the Man- hattan Club it is quite another matter. So that if our distinguished townsman in those moments of despair which are said to attend impatient statesmen who lack appreciation or recognition ever contemplated secession, ho never carried out his threat. He meant the Cabinet all the time. For this he resigned one office and declined another, and he now sits in the seat of Akerman and Willams. When a public man actually wants a seat in the Cabinet we presume it does not much matter what kind of a one it is, The waiting virgin is not always coy whea the chance of marriage arises. Mr. Evarts once went into the Cabinet under circumetances that would | test the courage of any man. It is something for a lawyer, we presume, to be able to write Attorney General after his name. It is the | highest plume, the crimson berretta of the profession, and the temptation to wear it is | natural enough and commendable. So we shall not criticise the taste which finds honor in the remnant of a discredited administra- | tion. Mr. Pierrepont will give the President good law. He will not allow a boozy judge to issue midnight orders for which he | has no authority. Nor will he be as unreasoning a partisan as Williams. He has no motive and no desire. Mr. Pierrepont come an enthusiasm. Somehow they always seemed to be a part of his profession. He prac- tised polities as he practises law, and when the democrats did not suit him he at once took the republican brief. He was never an actual bodily leader in the party. He had | little association and no sympathy with the rank and file. Pierrepont has always been regarded as a good thing to have in the house—a kind of political parlor furniture to be used on State occasions. We have heard of him as chairman and president of conven- tions or as making one or two elaborate speeches in a canvass. But he was never io the heat or burden of the fight. If his repub- licanism ever went beyond his devotion to the Presideut’s personal fortunes it never became apparent. There is story that the President meant to have made General Butler his Attorney General, and that upon informing the Cabinet If this is true it pos- The fact that Gen- threatened to resign. sesses a varied meaning. Cesar yearns toward the one statesman of his party who has no doubt about the third term, Whatever the views of General Butler may be, on one point he is sound—the third term. It means, also, thata sentiment of independ- ence has entered into the higher walks of the perty, and that the men who advise the President do not mean to commit suicide in his interest. General Butler would make a lively sdministration, which is what | we do not expect from Mr. Pierrepont. But we con hardly think the President really contemplates asking bim into the Cabinet. Third term or not, General Grant must want a quiet administration. He craves acalm summer ond sume Jittle time on the seeshore and at the Missouri stock farm, which, we are pleased to learn, is flourishing, and in those gentle amenities of travel and observation with which the second Washing- ton delighis to solace his Presidency. With s1 Batler at large in Washington no pradent President could think of leaving the | White House, and we aro inclined to question the truth of any story to the effect that he plated summoning him. an upon his ervice will ever con We | bring honor tpon the country. | Tao Assrocre orts of the Agricultural Society and American Institute. These jo ave been fastened upon tbe State year alter year ond hav e made o large item in the enormous prof- | of the Albany State printing nga ices, The eter of these “extra copy” resolations ‘od from the fact revealed on an v nto legislative corruption, that | an Albany firm paid ten thousand dollars ono session to a protessional lobbyist to carry through its charges fur such jobs in the Sup- | ply bill. The Assembly deserves credit for j its action. It is to be hoped it will not re- i verse it, | of his purpose two of the present members | eral Grant means to defer to his Cabinet in | anything indicates a change of heart andaten- | dency to seek counsel on the part of the Pres- | ident. It means, also, that the soul of our | himself and advantage to | 2 nave done a good thing in | to order the printing of extra copies | |The Politicians and the Mayor's Appointments. The hopes of the brogan politicians are centred in the Board of Aldermen. Mayor Wickham has hitherto had his own way, they say, and has been generous toward his per- sonal triends ; but he must now get his nomi- nations confirmed by the Aldermen, and we shall see whether Ed Shandley, Lysaght, McCarthy, Guntzer, Reilly and the rest will “go back on the boys.” In fact, they confi- dently reckon on a refusal of their direct representatives to act favorably on any nom- inations that would not receive the approval of the working democracy. Men are not wholly unselfish, even when they are poli- ticians, and democrats who have spent time and money year after year in the service of the party insist upon considering their title to office superior to that of highly respectable gentlemen who seldom vote and nover work at elections. Hence the rank and file, finding the elegantly fitted Executive Chamber inac- cessible to them, are looking to their district representatives to protect their interests and what they imagine to be their mghts in the distribution of the commissionerships about to become vacant. It is evident that the Mayor will have no easy task to perform in making his selections under these circumstances. If he continues to satisfy the broadcloth section of his party he will be very likely to offend the corduroys, and then the confirmation difficulty will arise. The Aldermen are dependent upon their pop- ularily in their districts for future political preferment, and they are very likely to espouse the cause of the working democracy in such a controversy. On the other hand, Mayor Wickham would forfeit the reputation he has established for independence and integrity if he should suffer any considerations to induce him to make bargains with the Aldermen and to make objectionable nominations. His safe course is to select for the heads of depart- ments citizens of established character and whose capacity and strict integrity cannot be called in question. If he does this the Board of Aldermen will scarcely venture to offer any factious opposition to his ap- pointees. His opportunities hitherto have been limited, but the few appointments he has made have been a vast improvement on the Havemeyer régime and have satisfied all re- spectable citizens. He will now tor the first time be called upon to selects number of commissioners of impor- tant departments, and if in discharging this duty he displays a proper regard for the in- terests of the city he will not only compel the Aldermen to accept his nominees, but will create a public opinion that must induce the Governor to act on the removals now in his hands. Mayor Wickham must understand that there is a constituency behind him larger than that contained inside Tammany Hall, and while no one will blame him for prefer- ring members of his own party to his political opponents in his selection of public officers his appointments must not be made at the dictation of ward politicians. We are not likely to have any improvement of our present charter; hence the people can only look tothe carrying out the laws for the protection of their interests. | es eae Rome and the United States, The United States and the head of the Roman Catholic Church have always been on excellent terms. As we enjoy religious free- dom and are out of the reach of the preju- dices and intrigues of European politics we have never entertained other than kindly | feelings for the Pope. Of course we have all denominations, but asa people we have always respected the sentiments of the follow- ers of the Catholic Church, and have been | ready to honor its bead. Probably the action of Pope Pius VIL in regard to the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte with Miss Patterson, of Baltimore, in 1803, lad much much to do with laying the foundation of this friendly | feeling. | Bishop Carroll, | desired its annulment by the Pope. In his | communication to the Holy Father he set | forth the fact that the marriage could be easily set aside by the civil courts of Paris, as i | ‘The marriage was celebrated by of Baltimore. Napoleon the Gallician Church regarded such contracts as void. Butas he recognized the danger of allowing this Protestant influence to hang | around a young prince of nineteen years of age, who would be thus exposed to seduc- tions against the civil laws and all propriety, he wished the highest authority of the Church to annul the marriage. The royal request | was accompanied by the present of a magnifi- cent tinra to win the Pope’s compliance with its prayer. | Pope Pius VIL refused to declare the mar- ringe null, despite the golden gift. “The dis- parity of religion,” he said in his reply to Napoleon, ‘‘considered by the Church asa diriment impediment, does not exist between two boptized persons, even though one is not in the Catholic communion. tween a Catholic and an infidel. abhorred by the Church, are nevertheless recognized by her as valid.’ After going into other arguments in support of the validity of the marriage the Pope added :—*“Your Majesty must see that, on the informa- tion we have hitherto received of this fact, it is ont of our power to pass the judgment of nullity. If, besides the circumstances already alleged, others deduced of any facts constituting an impedi- ment capable of establishing the nullity, we might then stipport our judgment of this | proof and pronounce a decree conformable to the rules of the Church, from which we cane not depart by pronouncing invalid a marriage which, aceording to the declaration of God, no human power can dissolve.” The refusal of the Pope to be bribed by presents or controlled by dread of a mighty | power wos punished by decrees against dir- | cipline at Milan, and led to those aggressions | which culminated in the virtual imprisonment of the Pope. But it won the lasting respect of a growing nation destined to ontlive oleon and his race. On the subsequent marriage of Jerome Bonaparte with a princess of Wurtemburg His Holiness publicly re- affirmed the validity of the Prince's first mar- riage with Miss Patterson. When Pius VII. was held a prisoner, seven years after the } Patterson marriage, the Catholic bishops in character of those intrusted with the duty of | onr full share of intolerance and bigotry in | This impedi- | ment exists only in marriage contracted be- | Marriages | between Catholics and Protestants, although | exist from which proof might be | | picture, the United States were the first to issus a pro test declining to consider as valid any act of the Pops while he should be restrained of his freedom, The Lateral Canals. The bill providing for the appointment of a commission to consider and report on the dise position to be made of the lateral canals has been amended in the State Senate, on motion of Mr. Laning, of Erie, by substituting the Canal Board for the proposed committeo, This is a sensible amendment, All the intor- mation relative to the expense of maintaining the lateral canals, the amount of business they do, their cost to the State, &c., is in pos. session of the Canal Department, and the expense of a special commission would bea needless waste of money. ‘Che Legislature of 1876 will act upon this informetion, The recommendations by which it may be accom.’ panied will only be for their consideration, and may as well come frum the Canal Board as from a commission. ‘There scems to be very little doubt as to the expediency of freeing our canal system from the burden of the laterals, In what manner this should be done, whether by their abandonment, leasing or sale, will be for the next Legislature to decide. The various propositions will be certain to be freely discussed by the press at the proper time, and, as we shall have a new Senate, as well as a new Assembly, next year, our representatives will no doubt act in con- formity with the public sentiment on the subject. Tue Bru to authorize free instruction in drawing in the public schools has passed the State Senate. It will, no doubt, become a law. Drawing isan accomplishment that has great practical value, and its adoption as a portion of the free instruction system has beon ate tended with excellent results wherever it has been tried. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Pigeongram is what they call despatclies sent by carrier pigeon post. Senator Algernon S. Paddock, of Nebraska, is sojourning at the Windsor Hotel. Professor 0. (, Marsh, of Yale College, arrived last evening at the Hoffman House. Baron von Hollenven, the German Chargé Affaires to Japan, has arrived in Jeddo, ; Mr. Dantel Dougherty, of Phtiadelphia, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, “He’s got it at last’? was the universal cor ment yestervay on the new Attorney General, Adjatant General James A. Cunningham, of Mas sachusetts, is staying at tne St. Nicholas Hotel, Iaeutenant Governor Robert F, Ligon, of Ala bama, is registered at the Grand Central Hotel, Chief Engineer William W. W. Wood, United States Navy, is stopping at the Union Square Hotel. Major Jared A, Smith, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, 1s quartered at the Union Square Hotel. ‘The Japanese Commissioners sent to Siam last winter have {ulfilies thelr secret errand and re: turned home, Mr. James Domvilie, member of the Canadian Parliament for New Brunswick, has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Senator John Snerman, of Ohio, hes arrived 19 this city, and 1s residing with a iriend in West ‘Thirty-seventh street, The festival at Nagasaki, Japan, in commemora tion of the events in Formosa, continued thre¢ days, with great spirit. Indigestion was said to be “the remorse of the stomacn.” Correlatively, then, remorse ts the indigestion of the conscience. Secretary Delano left Washington yesterday ta attend the wedding of his adopted daughter tu Omo, He wil! return by next Monday. George E. Stearns, a lawyer and Grand High Priest elect of the Independent Urder of Odd Fel- loys of the State of Ohio, died in Cinciunatt yes- teraay. Messre, Capron, Wasson and Caesel, Americans, were presented totoe Mikado of Japan on the occasion of their withdrawing from the Japancs¢ service. Speaker McGuire says that all the city demo. erats dance when Mr. Kelly pulls the string. Now, then, for a movement in Taminany to abolish the Speakership. As the Emperor W.littam could not go to Italy if ‘was reported that “Unser Fritz” would tako his place, and now Fritz cannot go. Why not give tt up at once, and say so. The Irish Church Synod refuses to amend the Athanasian creed in that particular in virtue of | whieh tt has been compared to a wild cat—that is, its “damoation clanse.”” D. Riker [iéer, of New York, cabin passenger ov the steamship City of Pekin, now at San Francisco | died on the 27th instant, on the voyage of thr | vessel from China and Japan. Her Majesty Victoria bas autnorize? the contin ‘ation of the word “Niagara” on the colors of the 100th regiment, Where it was originally put te commemorate an event of 181. ‘There ts a bili before the British Parliament to establish a commission with power to buy up any interesting monuments of antiqnity—tociuding tumoli and standing stones—which the owners may threaten to destroy or deface. There is a ship ashore on the Jersey coast, lader with hemp and jnte. This isa plain swindle os the honest Jerseymen, What can they do wit? ‘hemp or jute? Except for an occasional hanging these provucts are uscless fo a thrifty people. Gari Schurz holds that 1t woul) be a great bless ing if we “could have a full-grown statesman iv the Presidential chair.” So it would; bat the dif ficulties are insuperable. There must be a large mind to boid the whole of statesmanship, and the | man of large mind will not grovel in the presence of the pigmy President makers. No representation had been received by the Eng lish government from the government of Canads on the charging of duty on cans containing lob ers imported into the United States from Can ada, but the matter had been discuseed in the Canadian Parliament. The great conundrum o reciprocity is whether thie isan fufraction of the Treaty of Washington, which provided for the free importation of fish from Canada. Miss ‘Thompson, the patnter of “The Roll Ci,” who awoke one morning and foand herself famous, has completed another military subject, “The Twenty-ciguth Regiment at Quatre Bras.” The which represents the Inst effo:t of the Freneh at about five o'clock in the noon of the eventinl day, is remarkable for the variety o: characterjdelineatod in the faces of the mea form ing the square and the excellent grouping of sc many figures within so small & spa6-. Mr, Gladstone's pictures, as well as the collec. tion of pottery and porcelain, are announced for sale. The pictures Include about 100 specimens to the Spanish, Itallan, Dutch and English senoots, together with many valuable engravings, There ate piso bronzes and marbles. The pottery and | porcelain consist of choice Engiish ana foreign sale wiil Inciade sof the time oF enh and itaian specimens; and it 1s sate that ‘he @ quantity of ornamental farnit Lous XV., together with oid Ger euver-gut plate. The republican party in France je engaged in drawing up @ list of candidates tor the seventyelve reats in the newly created Senate which the Na tional Assembly Will have the power of filling, The legitimist party appears to conni on a large number of its members being ele ia the de partments of the south, centre and west, M Rouber has, itis said, received the assurance @ beg elected in Corsica, and the Duke a’ Aumal Will, it Is tuought, be appointed in the Oise, M Thiers has received a number of offers of nomp Ration, and it is believed that he will accept them.