The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1876, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, UU EEE IIE InEE ae JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every ay in the year, Four cents per copy. “lwelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | znonth, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorE Hizraxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. vids (LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, -PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. , Subscriptions and advertisements will be xeceived and forwarded’ on the same terms zs in New York, VOLUME, » dh Ceeeerereer es AMUSEMENTS "WIS APTERAGON AND EVENING, EAGLE THEATRE, Est se ‘Thirty-third stroet.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. atinee at 2 P.M. BOWERY THE Bevery THE CARPENTER OF Ki Letzon, Nat 8PM. Mr, ‘0 MINSTRELS, corner of Tweuty-ninth street, New Opera House, Broa SP. M, Matinee at 2 woop’ roadway. corner of ARGUERITE, at 8 P berts. Maiines at 2 P. 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Trams.—News- | deaters and the public throughout the States of | New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as | well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, ithe South and Southwest, also along the lines Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Tux Heraxp, tree of postage, Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office, Wart Srrazet Yusterpay.—Stocks were higher. Gold was also firm at 112 7-8. Money on call was supplied at 5 and 6 per cent. Foreign exchange 4.85 a 4.89 for long and short sterling. ‘Tae Aronsist Warnrxo to merchant ships to keep away from the Spanish coast on ac- count of the Carlist batteries indicates an insurgent strength which the would be slow to admit. A Sap Srory of the cruelty of a ship’s offi- cer is that sworn to before Commissioner Osborn yesterday against the captain of the brig Sibley. If the alleged brutality is proved it ought to be severely punished. Tae Scnoonrr Jurrerson Borpew is an unfortunate craft. Not long ago she was the scene of one of the most terrible mutinies ever known on board ship, and now the cable reports that she has just been towed into Aberdeen disabled and with the crew ina famishing condition, having been sixty-seven days at sea. Paesipest Lenpo, it is reported, is to make a visit to the Rio Grande. We trust his influence will have beneficial results, and that the outrages upon the American frontier will ceaso in consequence. Sooner or later trouble with Mexico will spring from the depredations on the Rio Grande, and it must prove best for both sides if Mexican influence is ablo to prevent their recurrence, Aris Nor East for French republicans to dJearn that the first principle of republican. | ‘ism is to leave the electors and the elections muntrammelied. In imitation of the imperial wégime the government publishes a list of the | candidates who are officially favored. It | ‘will bea long time, we fear, before French- amen learn that such interference with the choice of the people is an impertine would not be submitted to in weally republican. “, dupom Wesrpnoox’s Orrston in the case of | Spaniards | } it } to | meet their local wants. of the Hudson River, New York Central and | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY,<JANUARY 8, 1876. Charter Reform at Albany, ‘We are glad to see that there is no disposi- tion in the Legislature to await the slow action of Governor Tilden’s tardily appointed commission before taking up the question of municipal reform for this city. There are few things in recent politics so absurd as the asking by the Governor and the grant- ing by the Legislature of authority to appoint a commission for devising a uni- form plan of local government for all the | cities of the State. Onur cities differ so | widely in their wants and circumstances | that the idea of a uniform charter for them all is supremely ridiculous. The grotesque- | ness of such a project is enhanced by its coming from a democratic Governor. It is a cardinal tenet of the democratic faith that every separate community has its peculiar | wants, of which its own citizens are the only competent judges. A cast iron system of municipal government, applicable to all the cities of the State, such as Governor Tilden proposes, contradicts the fundamental ideas of the democratic party. What is the prin- ciple which underlies the democratic doc- trine of “home rule?” It is that every sep- arate community has peculiar interests which cannot be brought under any stiff, uniform regulation such as Governor Tilden seeks to impose on the cities of this State. There would be as much sense and propriety in an attempt by the federal government to dictate a uniform constitution for all the States of the Union as there is in Governor Tilden's effort to devise a uniform cast iron charter for all the cities in the State of New York. Itis one of the best features of our American system of govern- ment that each State is left at full liberty to make its local constitution, When valuable improvements are introduced in the consti- tution of a particular State the other thirty-six States can watch their operation, and if they are found to be salutary other States can gradually adopt them, so far as they are suited to their loeal circumstances, when they hold con- ventions for revising their State constitu- tions. The great advantage of leaving each State to frame its own constitution consists in the fact that doubtful experiments are tried only in some one State, the thirty-six others looking on and watching, prepared to adopt or repudiate the experiment, accord- ing to its success. Most of the improve- ments in our State constitutions have come by the adoption in other States of changes found to work well in the particular State which first tried them. This is one of the most important advantages of State inde- pendence. When an experiment is tried only | one State has astake in its consequences until the result is known, when other States can adopt or reject the change in accordance with their local wants. If such experiments | fail it is better that only one State should | suffer instead of the whole thirty-seven, as would be the case if changes in the State constitutions were dictated by a central | authority and all the States were compelled to test them at the same time. The same important principle applies to the charters of the various cities in the State | of New York. The first requisite is to get a | good working charter for some one city. | When a few years’ trial demonstrates its ex- cellence other cities will wish to copy | so far as it may be suited their circumstances. It would be | absurd to involve all the cities of the Stato | in the result of a doubtful experiment, as | Governor Tilden proposes. Let the experi- | ment be tried in one city, and when it is | found to work well in one the others will be | eager to adopt it, so far as it may seem to | A farmer who uses | twenty ploughs would act like a fool if he | should suddenly change them all for some | new invention. If he be a man of sense he | will make a thorough trial of one, awaiting | the result of the experiment before stocking | his farm with the new invention. The same cautious prudence forbids a general experi- ment in municipal government in all the | cities of the State before the principle is | found to work well in some one city. Ifa | new printing press were brought to the | attention of a great newspaper it might sub- | stitute it for one of its many presses, in order to test its merits, but printers would de- | serve to be branded as idiots if they changed | all their presses for the new pattern before | testing its value. Governor Tilden flies in | the face of common sense in trying to devise | @ universal charter for all tho cities of the | State when no charter has yet been tried | which gives good government to any one city. An excellent and sucessful charter for | the city of New York would serve as a model | for the other cities of the State, but it is | preposterous to suppose that a good gen- | eral system can be found s0 long | as the Legislature proves incompetent to | give good government to onecity. Governor Tilden’s commission is a humbug. The | other cities of the State are getting on tolerably well, and they can afford to await the result of a successful experiment in New | As things stand now the heads of depart- ments hold from four to six years, and the election of a new Mayor makes no real change in the city government, because his subordi- nates, by their longer tenures, are quite in- dependent of him. We approve of Senator Bixby’s bill so far as it makes all the heads of departments come in and go out with the Mayor under whom they serve. Until their terms begin and end with that of the Mayor this officer has no real power, and isa mere figurehead in the municipal government. It may be deemed trivial to have a Mayor without power, but to have a people without power is a very grave matter. When irremovable heads of departments hold their offices for four or six years, while the Mayor is elected for but two, it is evident that the Mayor has no efficient authority, and the people of the city none at all. Senator Bixby's bill is an improvement not only in prescribing spring elections, but in enabling the people of the city to make a complete change of their rulers as often as they go to the polls to vote on municipal affairs. There is another excellent point in Senator Bixby's charter, as sketched by our Albany correspondent. We refer to its attempt to simplify the city government by consoli- dating departments, reducing the number of commissioners, and giving more symmetry to the municipal administration, He may have erred in details, but the general idea of reducing the number of departments and officers is excellent. This subject will be worth discussing in detail when Senator Bixby shall have matured and presented his bill. We doubt whether he is right in the divis- ion of responsibility contemplated by his plan of a charter. He would have the Comptroller and Corporation Counsel elected by the people, and independent of the Mayor. Such a division of respon- sibility is against the recent tendency of public sentiment, which inclines to make the Mayor responsible for every part of the city administration, and to clothe him with corresponding power. As the President ap- points the members of his Cabinet and is held responsible for their conduct in office, so itis believed that the Mayor of a great city should appoint his subordinates and be responsible for their official fidelity. We forbear extended comment on this part of Senator Bixby’s bill until we have an oppor- tunity to see it in its finished shape. If it be not a good bill it has good points. We in- cline to regard it with favor because it recog- nizes the importance of early action, without awaiting the report of Governor Tilden's pro- crastinating commission. The Sublime Porte of a Sovereign in Distress. From Constantinople we learn that the Grand Vizier, having received the project for reform in Turkey agreed upon by the great Powers, informed the messenger that his | | Majesty the Sultan did not care to have his kingdom reformed by his neighbors just now, and wonld undertake for himself all the reform he cared to have. Such is the calm reply of his Asiatic Majesty to the grand inquest at Vienna. This is very much as if one of the gentlemen at the Morgue | should give his compliments to the Coroner and inform that functionary that he did not care to be ‘sot on” just it present, and would like to be left to the tranquil enjoy- ment of his marble tabla Between the Powers interested in the future of that por- tion of Europe now included within the lim- its of the Ottoman Empire it was agreed that the Austrian Ministry should draw up the programme of reforms to be required of the Turkish government in the interest of the Christian subjects of the Sul- tan. This programme demands the aboli- tion of serfdom; the equality before the law of all religious denominations; provincial and communal self-government, including local authority over taxation. Before it was sent to Vienna, this programme was sub- mitted to the St. Petersburg governmentand approved. It therefore has behind it the combined authority of the Anstrian and Russian governments. It is submitted to | the Sultan as a diplomatic intervention, the acceptance of which will prevent the armed | occupation of his territory by Austrian troops. That he has treated it therefore in the way | indicated in the telegram from Constanti- nople seems scarcely credible. Either the despatch is erroneous in the important point, or the Sultan has concluded that he would | prefer the occupation of his border land by | foreign troops toa quasi abdication of his sovereignty for the whole Empire. Pllotage. Mr. Hale, of Maine, has introduced a bill in the House ‘‘to relieve certain ships and vessels from compulsory pilot fees.” This apparently is not the battle against pilotage in this harbor that has been waged from time to time, with more or less spirit, in the in- terest of the foreign steamship companies, York before a radical change in all the | but the somewhat different battle in the in- present charters. Governor Tilden'’s commission is a trans- parent political dodge. Its sole purpose is to | put off and postpone municipal reform in this | terest of New England captains and owners in the coasting trade. It is to be hoped that this bill will not get through without the at- tentive consideration of some member from city until after the New York delegates are | this city. Our harbor is a very important chosen to the Democratic National Conven- | tion. He knows that Tammany is opposed to any real reform in the city government, and, | as the support of Tammany is indispensable to his success in the New York Convention for choosing delegates, he has recourse to | subterfuges for postponing legislative action | on city affairs, His preposterous commis- , sion, which he neglected to appoint until this Legislature was about to assemble, is | finessing manwuvre. As to Senator Bixby's bill we must roserve Thomas ©. Fields is one which will be com. | our Judgment until we are able to seo itin | mended by every honest man. The action | its completed form. The outline which we nas brought to recover moneys belonging to printed on Thursday hassome points which we mutual council which is to determine the the city fraudulently obtained by Fields | approve and others on which we are in doubt. | standing of Mrs. Moulton as a member of the Whrough collusion with the city officials. It | We, of course, indorse the spring elec- would, indeed, be a startling proposition if, ps Judge Westbrook observes, an official tion, which is one of its prominent features. @We also approve of its shortening | possession and must not become the sport of reckless or over-confident captains ‘willing to take the chances” rather than pay the fees. Such navigators may risk their ships ; but the risk that they may fill up the chan- nel with their sunken ships is our concern, not theirs. On the other hand, our harbor should not be given over as & farm even to the pilots, for this point of heavy charges | often becomes a serious burden on commerce. | @ transparent device for postponing action. | Will the captains who wish to be relieved of noe which | y_ ig satisfactory to sce that the Legislature | compulsory pilotage give bonds to remove ® country | ig not likely to pay any regard to his | the their ships within forty-eight hours by blast- ing or otherwise if they get them aground at | pect that a spring election will be a complete | to the sea in his yacht?” | carried away, sails rent and rigging parted— the edge of the channel? Prrmovra Onvncn is getting ready for the fold. It is to be regretted, however, that the scandal will keep coming to the surface even after there is nothing more to be said about might plunder the people at will, there being | the terms of all heads of city departments to , it. no remedy at law. In defining and up- | two years, making them come in and go out | folding the act of 1875 allowing the com- | with the Mayor, and putting it in the power Tur Execution of the negao Frank Scott to be so amended that accountability | of our citizens to change their whole city at Memphis yesterday was one of the most to the city shall expressly appear a victory | government in every municipal election. This alone would be a great imnrovement. | been witnessed in many years, is gained far law and iustice. painful exhibitions of the kind which has The Objections to a Spring Election, Readers of the multitudinous interviews with Senators and Assemblymen, which we have been publishing by instalments dur- ing the week, will find it difficult to recall any objection made by any member of the Legislature to the contemplated change. It may, indeed, be said that as nearly all the gentlemen interviewed expressed themselves in favor of a spring election it would be absurd to seek for the objections to the measure in the reports of their conversa- tions. But it is because there are strong reasons for the change and none of any force against it that the expressions of opinion have been so entirely one-sided. There are, nevertheless, two objections which have been made to the change, and we will attempt to state them fairly. One is founded on the alleged convenience of the people. It is as- serted that citizens will be put to ad- ditional and needless trouble if they are re- quired to attend two elections in the same year instead of one. This argument will not beag examination, Ifit can be supposed to have any weight it applies with tenfold force to the rural towns, where the supervisors and town officers are chosen at a separate election. In the country citizens have to travel several miles to reach the polling places, over roads which are converted into mud by heavy rains. In this city all the voters in an election precinct reside within a block or two of the polls, and bad weather has little effect on the stone sidewalks. The inconvenience to city voters bears no comparison to that experienced in the country, and yet the rural voters are firmly attached to the system which separates their local elections from the general election. But how trivial are their local concerns compared with those of a great city like New York! If the advan- tage of a separate election in their small af- fairs is more than sufficient to counterbal- ance their greater inconvenience, how idle is the argument founded on that point when applied to this city! The other objection is founded on the in- terest of politicians, and, from their point of view, it has more substance. It is alleged, and alleged truly, that a choice of municipal officers in the spring would increase the elec- tion expenses of candidates, if a full vote is brought out in either the municipal or the general election. _ It is the usual practice, in our mode of conducting elections, to levy a contribution on each candidate in propor- tion to the value of the office for which he is running, and when the two elections are blended a larger fund can be raised with less expense to each contribu- tor. Hence it is for the interest of the whole tribe of politicians and office-seekers to strengthen each other's canvass by having both elections held at the same time. But the voters brought to the polls by the ex- penditure of money are the lowest, most unin- telligent and least public spirited class, who | are led to the polls like cattle, and vote as they are bidden by their owners. If they belong to the supporters of an Alderman he pledges them to vote for a particular Assem- blyman, and vice versa. The candidates for State and county offices procure the nomina- tion of such city candidates as will bring | them the greatest strength, with little regard | to their fitness for the local offices. The consequence is that city candidates are nomi- nated to serve the ends of State politics and | elected by corrupt influences. We do not ex- remedy for political corruption, but it will be easier to fight a divided than a consoli- dated army of politicians and corruption- ists. ‘Divide and conquer” is a sensible motto, The Pro and Con of Yachting. Although many people ‘‘go down to the sea in ships,” most people do not ; fewer still ‘go down to the sea in yachts.” Yet Mrs. Grundy, with a wild idea that a yachtsman is constituted of equal proportions of leisure and lucre, cries out, ‘Why don't he go down There are reasons why he shouldn't and there are reasons why he should, and we propose to steer our course awhile on each of these tacks, discoursing as | we sail, We have acquired a yacht and ship our grew—a sailing master, two mates, four | seamen, a cook and a steward. Drawing dif- | ferent rates of pay, we find ourselves at the very start under an expense of some three hundred and sixty dollars per month for live stock alone—live stock that from the very | alpha of our voyage must be uniformed and | ever after fed upon three ‘“‘square” meals a | day. As for stores, you, Mrs. Grandy, as an | old housekeeper, are quite as capable of cast- ing up their cost as we are, giving, as a point of departure, say four persons in the cabin or parlor, and nine in the fore- | castle, or kitchen, if you like the | word better. When fairly out at sea it | comes on to blow. Spars are sprung or | small matters in themselves, but all item- | ized in the bill for repairs which must be | encountered and paid for at the first port we touch at. Arrived at our winter cruising ground (the West Indies, if you will), fresh pecuniary dangers rise up before us. It is a | duty to ourselves and society not to try to | resist the attractions which invite us to the shore. We drive, we dine and we dance with the black-eyed daughters of the isles. Next day comes reciprocation, The ‘‘fair women and brave men” flock on board the yacht, with tastes that seem to have suddenly been refined | by contact with a superior civilization. Potent | punch yields the pas to imperial champagne, and the pie of Perigord supplants the in- / digenous pepper-pot. So at port after | port the high-jinks go on, to the deplor- | able depletion of our wine locker and the diminution of our delicacies, until, wearied | out with paying to the right of us and pay- | ing to the left of us, we hoist anchor for the last time, homeward bound. ‘Thus we have recited some of the reasons why people as a rule do not care to “go down to the sea” in yachts, But putting our helm | hard down, let us get about on the other | tack, and inquire if there are not certain pleasures to be enjoyed and benefits gained by an extended yacht voyage, To find our- selves speeding over the dark blue waves with a fair wind and a rolling sea is to drink in great draughts of health, sparkling with excitement, Jo tha overwroughk man of business, with his dulf, daily grind at the bread mill—to the man with nerves and the hypochondriac—a let up of this kind is of inestimable benefit. A life of perfect ease to mind and body, and a thorough freedom from the cankering care of shore existence, are the rule rather than the exception of the passing days. Charm- ing scenery, balmy breezes and moonlight seas lend repose to mind and body, while an acquaintance with new faces and strange customs affords a gentle stimulant that is as enjoyable as it is beneficial. The foregoing, then, are some of the reasons why people should ‘‘go down to the sea” in yachts. We have been led to the above remarks by a reperusal of those charming works, Lord Dufferin's ‘Letters from High Latitudes” and “South Sea Bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor,” and, later still, of Mr. W. P. Talboys’ little volume, which he has chosen to christen ‘‘West India Pickles.” Steeplechase Racing. Late English papers show that there is a growing love for steeplechasing in Great Britain, as the entries for the various stakes that are being run for about this time and will continue to be until early spring fully attest. For one race over timber there are no less than ninety-one subscribers. Men who formerly would not look at a jumper except in a hunt are now training and run- ning steeplechasers and own large numbers of them. Captain Machell is the last con- vert in that direction, and he has lately pur- chased several that are very good at the busi- ness, two of them being winners of impor- tant races during last month. The steeplechase races of England are generally sweepstakes with added money, and that is the manner they should be ar- ranged in this country. Should the Amer- ican Jockey Club and other racing associa- tions throughout the land open a few stakes with liberal additions for steeplechasers we have no doubt that a hundred horses could be found within the centennial year that would be respectable enough for cross country purposes. There never wasa sound thoroughbred horse that could not jump, and all they need is to be taught that they have to do it. Some horses can carry weight better than others, and there are horses of all degrees of speed ; but with a handicap- per of judgment all can be brought to an equality by the adjustment of weight. Colts and fillies are foaled every year that are dis- carded in their infancy because of some pe- culiarity in their conformation that does not please the eye of the breeder that might make capital weight-carrying steeplechasers when matured and taught the business prop- erly, and become stars in cross country events. The training and running of steeplechase horses more frequently would give employ- ment to many good jockeys who have grown | too heavy for flat racing mounts and are now idle. The fact of having something to fall back on when overgrown would lead many light weight lads to make riding a profession when by good behavior they could command a profitable business for life. The large crowds that attend racecourses | on steeplechase days at all the meetings in the United States prove conclusively the popularity of that style of race with the masses of the people and should urge the ne- cessity of giving more sport of that kind by every jockey club. Instead of one steeple- chase at a meeting the hurdle race and stee- plechase should be alternated, so that one or the other should be given every day of the races. But the jumps should be altered from what they are at present, and instead of being only fit for Polo ponies to go over they should be brought up to the European standard—four feet anda half high—when a much greater degree of interest would be added to the event. The present height of our hurdles, fences and stone walls is per- fectly ridiculous. We are reminded of an incident connected with them that was quite amusing at the time. It occurred during the first race meeting at Monmouth Park. A steeplechase had been run and the crowds | were making their way to the cars, when a large black fellow, belonging to one of the | Kentucky stables, to show his contempt for that style of racing, put a little darky jockey on his back and, going into the field, actually ‘ran and jumped the hedge and water in front of the stand as clean and clear as any | | of the horses had done, The fellow then put down the boy and, walking away, sneer- | ingly remarked, ‘‘Dat's a wonderful jump | | for a horse, dat is.” Time is not the test for any kind of horse- racing in Europe; but, although we think it the best in America, it could well be dis- | pensed with in across country events. A steeplechase of about four miles recently at Croydon, England, was timed by a Benson | chronograph, and the winner was nine min- utes and forty-seven seconds in going the distance, which was quite satisfactory to the spectators there; but if such a race had taken place at Jerome Park and the time board had been put out indicating such a re- sult the people would have been simply dis- gusted. The only way is to drop the timing | altogether when the fences are made higher. Wendell Phillips as a “Cop.” Mr. Phillips once wanted to appoint all the federal generals, and thereby put down the late rebellion. The country, however, refused to set Mr. Phillips up as an elocu- tionary West Point. Now he wishes to be Boston’s Chief of Police, so that he may close the grogshops within twenty-four hours, We hope that Boston, which loves to erect monuments and statues, will clothe Mr. Phillips with peripatetic blue, streak his pigeon breast with two rows of brass buttons, and, cocking the straight peak of his cap over his left eye, send him, elub in hand, to spill —-* which, like a little learning, makes the Athenians mad. The late Humpty Dumpty made a good policeman, and Mile. Dejazet in breeches personated Napoleon. Shall Mr. Phillips not be a “cop” for a short twenty-four hours? If he succeed he may be able to find Charley Ross, Boss Tweed and the author of ‘Beautiful Snow.” If he fails | he might be brought to New York, where failure is essential for the police. In time, no doubt, he might wear white cotton gloves, strut Broadway and hand gentle ladies over the mud. He would soon become a living statue, like the razor strop man, or the street astronomer, who, in emulation of Mr. Pbil-, lips. neddles moonshine at Jang canaes. Bismatek and the “Red Spee **” It is tolerably certain the German Imps Ti! Chancellor will never be found wanting 1.7 the proper word for every occasion. In the moment of victory he folds his arms, laughs and says :—**I told you so;” in the moment of defeat he says to the victors :—‘Beware !" There isso much earnestness and so much ruse, so much firmness and so little scruple about him, that people have come to judge him in bulk rather than in de- tail, Henee when we find him, fresh from his defeat at the hands of the liberals in the Reichstag, up the spectre rouge to frighten them back into propriety, we are in doubt whether to be- lieve his story or to look on it as that of one who cries ‘‘Wolf! wolf!” to make the liberal shepherds keep a sharper watch. The strong repressive measures which he wanted the Reichstag to place in his hand by passing his Revised Penal Code bill were rejected by the vote of the liberals, who have glways acted with him since the proclamation of the Empire, and now he whispers in the ear of a liberal Deputy that the social democracy has of late made enormous progress in Ger- many; that the next general election will startle the upholders of law and order and that the respectsble classes will ina few years on their knees beg a sterner legislation than that which he had recommended and the liberals had defeated. We know that a tart word of unmoved faith in the hour of defeat often has the effect of making the victor pause in momentary doubt, and it satisfies self-esteem, in any case; for have we not seen President Grant morosely confident in his St. Domingo scheme when it had been defeated by the Senate amid the scorn of the whole people? But if Socialism or Commun- ism is the rising danger to the German Em- pire—and the relaxation of the persecution of the usually conservative Catholic clergy shows that some new shadow is looming up—does it not preach another les- son altogether? Does it not show that this mighty iron war machine which grinds the people in taxes on purse and life is crushing out patriotism by a process of reac- tion? Repressive legislation to hold the people down within the Empire, while they pay in blood and money for the great armies that awe its foes without, will not stand the test of the nineteenth century for long. These measures may be necessary to pre- serve the Empire as Bismarck has shaped it, but it will be happy for Germany if this great power is perfected on another plan, one which will be cheaper to carry on, and with greater liberty instead of less to the people. Tween’s Lawyrns invoke the law, and, as counsel for Charles Devlin, seek to compel Keyser, Garvey, Connolly, Ingersoll and the Watson estate to make restitution of all the moneys fraudulently obtained from the city. Itisa flank movement, intended to break the force of the attack upon Tweed ; but if it should result in restoring to the people a part of their own and yet fail in its real pur- pose it will be all the better. Sr. Nicnoras Avenve, owing to the heavy assessments for opening and grading, is just now the source of great grief to the tax- payers. Numerous protests were made yes- terday before the Board of Revision and Cor- rection of Assessments, the principal ground of complaint being the inequality of the assessments and the benefits and the fagt that the work was done by days’ labor in- stead of by contract. Tue Warskey Rix Exposures continue, and there seems a prospect that war against the dealers in ‘‘crooked” highwines will be brought as far East as Philadelphia, New York and Brooklyn. Already a leading house of this city is implicated by an informer. Without prejudging any of these new cases wo may till hope, with the President, that no guilty man shall be allowed to escape. PERSONAL, INTELLIGENCE, Twelve feet of snow in Utah. Charles Francis Adams 18 worth $860,000. , Russians and Americans are foremost ia liking cham- pagne. Toe Cevtenmal Exhibition will be open for stx months, John Morris, of Georgia, laughed himself to death, and is thin now, Mipnesota liquor dealers are taxed to support the State inebriate asylum. “More water and lvss whiskey’ {s Murat Halstead’s moito—for other people. Parson Brownlow advises East Tennessee to raise tobacco in place of cotton. Tilton talks of settling in Chicago, Just as we thought he was going to be better instead of worse. They no longer say that a granger politician has hay- seed in his hair, but only that he has milk on his shoes. General Richard Taylor, son of Zachary Taylor, is negotiating for a compromise on the foreign debt of Virginia. Twenty-five hundred Japanese books in the Yale Wbrary, and yet people complaim that Yale fellows can’t write good English. ‘The army overcoats which the fastidious sufferers of | Virginia City rejected are boing distributed to worthy members of the Piate community, Judge W. G. Riley, of Virginia, United States Consul at Zanzibar, sails to-day for his post of duty in the steamer Helvetia Ze Moody, Cumming and many other adventiats insist | that this isthe year when the “millennium” is to come, | Putl accounts of it will appear in the Herman. On the 24th of December, the Marchioness of Bute was safely delivered of a daughter, at twenty minutes | to five o'clock, at Mount Stuart House, Rothesay. Lieutenant General Sheridan, in company with » number of Chicago gentlemen, left Chicago yesterday jor Indian Territory, to inspect several of the posts, including Forts Sill and Cheyenne. Accabie telegram from Berlin, ander date of the 7th fnst., reports that Dr. Gerlich bas been appointed German Vice Consul at New York, tn place of Here Feigei, who has been appointed Consul at Havana WastinGrox, Dec, 26, 1364. To General Sn 2 fen You were about leaving Atlanta for the Atlan cotescing. belug s succesa, the honor iv al Now the undertaking being rr tees fy & LINUOLX. , Senator Sargent, of California, has put forward a resolution of mmquiry into the public affairs of the Pacific railroads, which looks very much as if it wasa mistake to say that be was the Senatorial attorney ot the Central Pacific. Sargent is really one of the bravest mon in the Senate. . ‘Turse wow peers will be entitied to tale their soa on the assembiing of the British Parliament in Pobra- sry. Francis Theophilus Hastings, twelfth Earl o Huntingdon, died shortly after the prorogation, and is succeeded by his son, who becomes the thirteenth ear On the 29th of August Lord Grantley died, and is suc” ceeded by his nephew, the second son of the late Hon” George Norton, formerly one of the magistrates at Lambeth Police Court, and of Mrs. Caroline Norton, the accomplished writer, Lord Dorchester diced on the 20 of December. In default of male issue the peerage do volves on his cousin, Colonel Dudley Wilmot Carleton, eldgat son of the Hou, and Bow. Richard Carleton, yous for none of us went further *'*