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SEW YORK. THUBSPAY, APRIL 9. 1S75.
From our reports Ihu morning the probabilities
are that the wealh*r to-day ttUl be c'ear and
?Barmer.
Wall Strict Yestebdat.?Stocks were
Inner. Foreign exchange was steady. Gold
was steady at 114 J. Money easy on call at 3
per cent.
The New Jebset Senate refuses to allow
dergymen of all denominations to instruct
th- inmates of prisons.
The New Yobe State Methodist Tonteb
BHce is in session in Poughkeepjia, but has
aa yet transacted only routine business.
The Htdsos may be said to be open at
last?nearly a month later than usual.
Generally have an open river by St
Patrick's Day, but this has been a hard
?eason.
Mattebs look lively in the Pennsylvania
?oil regions. It seems to be the yearly burn
ing out of a very smoky and dirty chimney.
This coal difficulty is a disgrace to the civil,
iaation of as great a State as Pennsylvania.
Ajn> Now coracs tho rumoT that Charley
Boss has been found in Nova Scotia, on the
Bay of Fnndy, in charge of a female fortune
taller. The rtinior does not appear to be well
??rifled, but wo trust it may provo well
founded.
The Sajutooa Regatta.?The Rowing As
sociation of our colleges met yesterday in
Springfield, M.v,s., and mado several impor
tant alterations in its constitution and rule.
Twelve colleges weft represented, and the
preliminary arrangements for the Saratoga
regatta were completed. *
The E*wr.oB of Austria is having a pleas
ant time in Italy. lie did not go to Borne,
probably to avoid any complications witn the
Pope, who would scarcely have welcomed a
guest of Victor Emmanuel, and who, on the
other hand, could not well be rude to an Km
pemr of Catholic Austria. So tho ceremonies
of the visit were interchanged at Venice.
Kaiser William is too old and too feeble to
risit Italy, and consequently the Crown
Prince and his wife will go in his stead.
TheSchooj- Qeektio:?.- It is a matter ct con
gratulation that the committer who are now
considering the school question on beLtdt of
the Board of Education and the managers of
the parochial schorl* arc approaching com
mon ground. The hope is that if this discus
non is harmonious and temperate and actuated
by the spirit of peice ncd lair play and proper
luo?it~n a vexed question may be solved
and an iaaua fall of grief, irritation and heul
fcwning ba removed from our politic*.
The STew Civil Salts Against the
Tammany Ring.
Things have suddenly grown very warm for
Tweed when he was least expecting it. His
counsel hare lately argued his claim to release
from imprisonment before the Court of Ap
peals, and have enoouraged him to expect a
iavorable decision. While he has lately been
looking forward from day to day for a restora
tion to personal liberty his vigilant and re
lentless pursuers have been engaged in secret
but energetic preparations for disappointing
his hopes and causing the iair fruit to turn to
dust and ashes in his mouth. If the Court of j
Appeals decides that he cannot be longer held I
under the criminal sentence he is destined to
find in his release a beginning of new trou
bles. A favorable decision by that tribunal ,
will not bifng hini even a temporary respite j
from confinement, but will merely result in i
his transfer from the Penitentiary on the
Island to the County Jail in the city. He will
remain in the firm clutches of the law and
grun a still more bitter experience that "the
way of the transgressor is hard."
This new stroke has fallen on him with the
suddenness of a thunderbolt. He probably
had no suspicion of it uutil the pardon of
Ingersoll was announced and its motive ex
plained. At the very time when his counsel
were arguing, with great force and ability,
before the Court of Appeals, that he has al- |
ready suffered the full measure of punishment
which the law allows, the Attorney General
of the State and his vigorous assistants were
silently weaving about bim a legal net from
which there is no chance of ?scnpe. The par
don of Ingersoll, which has at length brought
out the secret, was deferred until the legal
trap was fully set, into which Tweed will step
the moment he emerges from his prison doors,
it the Court of Appeals shotild throw them
open. The arrangements are fully completed,
and this great offender will not enjoy one
moment of freedom, let the court ot
last resort decide as it may in abridging
his term under the criminal sentence.
He will leave the Island in custody
of a Sheriff and pass at once from
the cell of a felon to the cell of a defrauder.
His case has something of the painful interest
of a tragedy; but "rigid law cries out 'tis !
just," and it is to be hoped that this example
of righteous retribution will serve as a warn
ing and a terror to evil-doers for generations
to come. The atmosphere of official life
needs purification, and the sound, moral feel
ing of the community will strongly indorse
the faithful zeal of Governor Tilden and his j
powerful coadjutor, Mr. O'Conor, in turning
the stream of justice into this lonl Augean ,
stable and performing a labor more worthy
of renown than any of the feats of Hercules. (
Nothing short of the full execution of the ;
law against the abusers of public trusts can 1
render official life in this country again whole
some and pure after the long debauch which
has tainted it with infamy. The unsparing
execution of justice upon men like Tweed has
become the most urgent of public necessities,
and the public conscience will indorse all the
security which the new law authorizes and re
quires.
The great mass of legal papers connected
with these new suits which we spread before
our readers this morning will put them in
possession of all the information needed for
forming a correct judgment ot the proceed
ings in their present stage. It will be seen by
the date of most of the affidavits (March 20)
that not a day was lost after the passage of
the Civd Remedies acts in making proper
preparation* for these new suits. A great
deal of time ami effort were necessary for get
ting the papers in a condition to bo sworn to,
and it is only by marvellous diligence and
energy that they could have been completed
at so early a date, which shows that the emi
nent movers of these prosecutions are thor
oughly in earn st. It w 11 bo perceived by a
perusal of tha documents that there is no loop
hole of escape lor Tweed, provided properly
can be found now for ?ati?lying the judgment
of the Court when it shall he rendered. In
this *icw we call particular attention
to the affidavit of Mr. Wheeler H.
Peckham, one of the lawyers employed
iu the lormer abortive civil suits.
Mr. Peckham states on oath that, so far us ho
know*, none of the defendants in the former
civil suits ever attempted to dispute in court
the truth ol tL< facts on wi.ich the suits were
founded. Neither Tweed nor Ingersoll took
the stand to testify in his own behalf, and not
a witness was summoned r.or a document
produced to prove that the alleged frauds
were notactually committed. The defendants
in the termer suits rested their whole case on
a pomt ol 1 :w. The point of law was that
suits for the recovery of the money could not
be brought by tt>e State, but only by the
counfv, the State a>- a suing party having no
standing in court. The defendants stood on
this lcjral technicality, and they w rc well ad
vised by th ir counsel, as the Court of Appeals
sustained this y lea and decided in th< ir favor
on this purely teclmieil ground. But the
Civil Remedies art.; struck away this prop,
aud it the tnembolB of the Ring cannot suc
cessfully controvert th< lacfs they have not an
inch of ground to stand upon.
Tho tacts are supported by imprcgnabie
evidence. On this point we advise renders
who would understand the strength of the
case against Tweed to examine the affidavits
of Governor Tildon and his elerk, A'ir. Spilth,
who assii ted him in conducting his investiga
tion of the R road way Bank account; in 18TL
If any evidence was ever abgolut d f conclusive
this if.. It admits of no answer, and no mem
ber of the Ring ever undertook to answ- r it.
either in court or out of court. So far as the
prrftt fact of the;t is con ? rn i, .ind *o
l'ar as the person >1 distribution of the plunder
is concerned, the evidence is simply crush
ing. Had the st tc of the law when the
former civil units were tried been wh.it it is
now since the Civil Remedies rn-ts were
passed the stolen MKicy would have been long
t^o recovered, so far as property could have
1?." i? foan J for ih* officers ot the- 1 iw to s< /, ?.
At pri nt the law is adsquat' and tha lucts
atebvond dispute, so that th. re can be no
P' sti'ble doubt as to lot termination of the-o
suits ii. the e. uris. The only difficulty to bo
apprehended r- la: < to tl> ? sufficiency of
tho prcperty for satisfying the judg
ments which the courts will remh r.
It is.in tho highest degree improbable
that the full six millions will ever be reeov< red,
because that amount ot property cnnn .t be
got hold of. But, so far as property be
longing to the deiendanU can be found, it
?will promptly be taken possession of beforo
the trial ot the suits. It will be seen by the
document* that Judge Davis has already
issued a warrant of attachment against all the
property of Tweed, which will retain it in the
control cf the Court until the suit against
him is decided. A warrant has also been
issue! for his arrest under the new law,
wnich will be executed the moment the decis
ion of the Court of Appeals is announced, if
it should release him from the criminal sen
tence. No offender was ever more inextri
cably in the toils of the law than Tweed is at
this moment Those members of the Iliug
who have fled to parts unknown are in no
personal danger, but if thsy bavo left
any property in this city which can be
traced and identified it will pretty certainly
go toward satisfying judgments against the
owners. But no warrant ot attachment has
yet been issued except against the property
of Tweed, the arch-leader of the infamous
King. >
True Political Criticism. , |
The decision of Connecticut upon the ques
tion of the third term illustrates the value of
judgment and sincerity in political crit
icism. When, two years ago, President
Grant ran against Greeley for the Pres
idency, he was elected by an extraor
dinary majority. Yet those who remem
ber that canvass will recall the bitterness
which marked it and the extraordinary
number of stories and accusations invented
about the President, the charges against him
of nepotism, idleness, gift-taking, incompe
tency. There never was a canvass for the
Presidency in which the successful candidate
was more thoroughly denounced. The demo
cratic press and the other opposition journals
united in their efforts and assailed the character
ot the President. And General Grant himself
was so mofed by these assaults and so grati
fied by their futility that, with questionable
taste, he returned his thanks to the people of
the country in his inaugural address for
having "vindicated" him.
The question may be asked why a canvass
like that for the Presidency failed, while re
cent canvasses, especially in the November
elections in the Middle States and in the
spring elections in New England, have proved
so marked a success. We will give the rea
sons. The canvass for the Presidency was
based upon insincerity, tolly and meanness.
The recent canvass was animated by a great
overbaDging national idea. 'Ihe American
people, when they were told that Grant got
drunk and appointed his relatives to office,
and sailed around in a revenue cutter, and
liked jacketing, and took presents, suid
to themselves: "this is simply ihc malice and
envy of impotent newspapers, and so long as
the President attends to the business of the
country well hemay drink what he pleases.
Let him appoint his relatives to office ! It is j
his privilege, and probably we would do
the same thin^." So that these stories fell
upon the canvas as purposeless as the
leaves of autumn tall upon the ground.
They were bio " n a ft ay by the first gust. But
when the people were told that the thin term
idea was gradually assuming importance;
when they saw the President surrounding
himself by men who cared for nothing but
their personal advantage; when they saw the
growth of that spirit of Cassarism which bad
destroyed the republics in France and Spain,
and threatened sure destruction to America,
they recognized hat the time had come for
imperative and prompt action. Consequently,
when the campaign gave expression to their
feelings it wrote the condemnation of Grant
The lesson from this is that in our politics, as
in cur business and social lite, the Americans
are a generous people. They do not believe
in meanness and injustice either in criticism or
in business. A President is sure of support so
long as he is a reasonably good officer and
supports the constitution and the traditions of
the Republic. It was only when General
Grant cast away his duty in this respect that
he brought upon himself and his party the
condemnation of the people.
The Centennial.
The movement in favor of the Centennial
gathers force lrom hour to hour and rapidly
becomes a question affecting tte whole na
tion. One State after another rolls into line,
and even laggard New York begins to show
t ie name interest that is Keen in States like
Nevada and Delaware. There is a proposi
tion to bring to Philadelphia selections of all
the beverages not intoxicating used by dif
ferent countries. This would ba of value to
| the cause of temperance, and wo allude to it
as one of the unique advantages of the Cen
tennial display. This is a minor point com
pared to the stimulus that must be given in
various ways to scientific investigations,
which, lrom their magnitude, require
the co-operation of the civilized na
tions. An instance of such international
observations was afforded by the various ex
peditions which our own government and sev
eral of those of Europe sent lust year to ob
serve the transit of Venus. It now seems
probable that, in addition to the objects
directly obtained by the astronomers, these
expeditions may bo made to conduce to the
1 organization of a system of international
scientific research.
It has been proposed by eminent European
astronomers that there should assemble next
j year at Philadelphia represmtatives of all
the expedition.* which observed the transit of
Venus, and that they should arrange their in- ,
strnraenis and portable observatories ou the '
Exhibition grounds in the same relative po
sitions which they occupied on the sur face of !
the globe on December 9, 1874. 1 he advan
tages of comparing the different methods and !
appaiatns used by the several nations, and of
discussing the results obtained, are obvious.
The practical benefits that would result would
also be very great. For ini.tanee, (here might
be arranged, much more satisfactorily
than by correspondence, tho basis of tho
work to be done at tin next transit of
Venus in 18H2. Again, sack ?n attraction
| would undoubtedly assemble astronomers
I from all parts of the world, and from their
meeting a new departure in that science mi:;ht
I probably be dated. One such convention
would generate others. Tiio astronomical
congress might be succeeded by ?uo on mete*
orology, which might bring about that uni
formity of instruments and observations
which are essential to the development of the
science.
The occasion is a grand one that cannot
rocur for rem. if ever: and the Centenni&l
| ought to ba utilized as much for the adv&nce
i meat of science ns for that of commerce and
industry. The meeting at Boston yesterday
aud tho news from Fiance indicate how the
Centennial is progressing ht home and abroad.
Our Embassy from Rome.
There was something exceedingly pleasant
, and gracious in the courtesies extended to
the embassy which arrived from Rome on
Tuesday bearing the appointment of Cardinal
McCloskey. These ceremonials *re so many
expressions of civilization, and, although we
may question the taste of Bome things done>
' the exact propriety of the speeches of men
in a high etato of hospitality and religious
enthusiasm, the spirit which animated the
transaction was noble. We have looked with
interest and favor upon the growing tendency
of the Roman Church toward America and
liberal institutions. Now, although America
is a Protestant country and strongly governed
by the traditions of the Protestant Church,
tho influence of the Roman Church upon the
world is so prodigious that wo cannot but
regard with favor every manifestation of a
growing disposition toward liberal institutions
upon the part of its rulers. In this sense the
ceremonies attending tho presentation to the
Cardinal of the insignia of his new rank,
which aro elsewhero described, will bo read
with deep attention by tho people without
regard to their faith.
It is this view, and the belief that the ap
pointment of the Cardinal will be received in
this truly catholic spirit, that makes us ques
tion the wisdom of a speech made by Major
Keiley in welcoming Mgr. Roncqtti. What
was the use of denouncing Italy as ruled by
"impious" men, and Germany as "the infidel
German Empire ?" Italy, whatever its pres
ent form of government, is a country almost
universally Catholic, and it is not the best
taste for citizens of a Protestant nation like
America to insult a Catholic nation like
Italy with the phrase "impious." And it
should not be forgotten that the German Em
pire, "infidel'' as it is, has under its do
minion Catholic nations like Bavaria, whose
devotion to the principles of the Church is as
steadfast as that of Major Keiley. If Protes
tant Germany can be cilled "infidel" what
shall wo call Protestant America, which the
Popo now honors? How is Germany any
moro "infidel" than the United States? This
wild method of talking, this utilizing of a
simple religious ceremony to give expression
to political antipathies, is a misfortune which
threatens all public speakers whilo in a state
of religious enthusiasm. The danger of dem
onstrations of this kind is that they will make
tho Cardinalate misunderstood. So far as
America is concerned, the appointment of a
distinguished citizen to the highest honor in
the gift of the Pope is a courtesy so unu-ual
that every citizen will look upon it with
respect, no matter what his religion may be.
The ceremonies attending the elevation of
Cardinal McCloskey to his new dignity promise
to bo ol'the most interesting character?inter
esting not alone to his own Church, but
to ail Americans. We have seen no disposition
to regard the appointment with any other feel
ings than those of kindness and appreciation.
Therefore, what good end is to bo gained by
enthusiasts, by p'oplo who might be called
prolessional Catholics?just as we havo in
this city professional Irishmen and profes
sional Germane, men who live upon their
religion and nationality?flaunting in the face
of the Protestant sentiment of tho country
offensive speeches, and giving a tone to the
whole ceremony that must offend all but ex
treme believers in the Cath lie faith ?
It is singular also that while the Iloly
Father should be leaning toward republican
bin and democratic forms of government in
the temporal policy of his Church, here in
New York his faithful follower* should bresk
into unstemly and uncontrolled admiration of
the ro\al power once wielded by Puia IX.
He has given a Cardinal to New York, and
now proposes to Rive the same dignity to
Baltimore. The Catholics of New York should
j learn what tho Holy Father teaches them, that
henceforlh Catholicism meaus republicanism.
They should see that His Holiness looks above
the insincere support given to him by selfish
kings ami princes to the aid of the people.
They should study the policy of Rome and
learn that the effect of tho pending controversy
in Germany, Italy and Spain is to gradually
drive the Church into the arms of the demoo
racy. It they would pause for a moment and
think they tfould see that there could be no
event in our modern civilization more fraught
with important conscquences to the jjeace of
the world than such a union. Onco let the
Church of Home, its chief speaking as the
infallible successor of St, Peter, say that the
! papacy henceforward believes in tho people,
and not in princes, and there is not a crown
i in Europe wnfth more than its valie as crude
| metal on a pawnbroker's counter. There
; fore, if our Catholic friends in New York
' were wise they would accept this embassy,
j not as the representative of a dethroned mon
j archy, hut as the ambassadors of a new and
I growing power in the Roman Church?the
| power ol democracy allied to the Holy See.
How to Hernre Honesty In Olflrr.
Mr. Charlr?3 O'Conor states very succinctly
? he theory that the test way to make corrup
tion in government impossible is to reduce
the sphere of government, or, in the words
given by our reporter ns tho great lawyer's
own, "to reduce the action of government to
tho narrow limits of absolute necessity."
Perhaps half tne thought of political phi
losophy has been given to the solution of tho
problem thus dealt with. An incrediblo
amount of ingenuity has been exercised in
the continuance of administrative systems
that should muke the administrators honest in
spite of certain human tendencies to tho con
trary, and it has been found easier to srenro
nearly every other point in politics than this.
Indeed, tho general despair nt the results of
this effort is summed up in the declaration that
system* themselves are of no consequence,
1 ut "that which is best administered is best."
Our whole theory of government has been to
reduce the danger to a minimum by the pro
cess indicated by Mr. O'Conor; but that is
not a ivtnedv for the evil. Indeed, Mr.
O'Coiior's r< ;pouKO avoids the problem; it
begs ihc qui sf ;? n. Governments must exist;
aud in n.unieipd communities, such as
ours, the extent of the governing ma
chinery must be very great when
restricted to the narrowest possible
limits, while, taking the country together,
with ad its citics and all the S atea and
the general government, the aggregate of its
operations, it reduced to a mere police basis,
would still be enormous; and certainly ol
such extent that the possible corruption might
contiuue to appall the honest mind. It is,
moreover, doubtful if the corruption is even
lessened by the process indicated. No doubt
tho State is enormously robbed in the opera
tion of tho canals; but the railroads are
built and operated by private interests, and
yet it would need no great ingenuity to show
that the corruption in public office which is
the direct result of the expenditure of railway
capital is quite as great as that which has
rotted away the vitality ol the canal administra
tion. States must have certain things, as court
houses, capitols, jails and great lines of com
munication, aod it must either operate the
latter or define the relations to tho people of
those who do operate them, and whether the
servants of the people betray their trust in
paying the labor to make these things, or in
paying for the things when made, or in de
fining tno privileges of groat monopolies, the
result is the same. Your pocket will be
picked if you get in bad company, and if it
is to be picked it matters little whether the
money be taken from your vest pockct or your
pantaloons pocket or your coat pocket, and
the only rule in such a case is not to got in
bad company. So tho only hope of safety
against corruption is in publio morality and
a higher standard of official life.
Rapid Transit ma a Duly.
From our information it looks as if there is
a railroad Ring in Albany as powerful as the
Canal Ring, and combining to paralyze rapid
transit. This Ring is striving to make any
legislation looking toward a steam railway
over Manhattan Island impossible. There is
a bill before the House in reference to a tun
nel under the Hudson River, so as to enable
trains from the South and West to como to
New York Island, and thus avoid the irrita
tions and the delays of ferry travel, especially
in winter. Although there is an evident and
natural feeling in favor of such a tunnel, thus
far the question has been buried. The the
ory that this is the work of Mr. Vanderbilt,
who desires to keep all trains from the island
unless they come to his depot, is incredible,
especially when we remember that the city
bears so large a part of the expense of his
Fourth avenue improvement. The argument
in favor of this generous action on the part of
tho city toward Mr. Vanderbilt was that
there was a great advantage to the people
ia the building of this line from
Forty-second street to the rivor. The samo
argument applies to the tunnel. The great
lines that connect New York with the South
and West should come directly to the island.
Every improvement that does away with the
river travel is an advantage to the city. For
this reason, in discussing this question of
rapid transit, wo have always supported it
upon the highest grounds?not in the interest
of New Jersey, Long Island or Westchester?
but for ttie good of New York. Rapid transit
will be attained, not when we have a steam
line from the Battery to the Harlem River,
but when wo have a tunnel to New Jersey, a
suspension bridge to Brooklyn, and a steam
road to Westchester Tho people should have
constant and uninterrupted access to all the
couutry surrounding tho city. Newark and
Flushing are as much our suburbs as Yonkers
and New Rochelle. And the statesmen who
now control the destinic3 of New York will
seenre rapid transit in its largest and most
necessaty sense when they enable us to cross
the rivers in winter and summer weather.
This being the duty of the party in power,
the Governor should begin by making a war
upon the railway King th it now holds Albany
in the severe grip of an unreasoning monopoly.
We are willing to do what we can to strengthen
the railways, so long as they are a benefit to
the people. They cease to be so when they
insist upon stifling all legislation that it not
directly in their interest. The surest way of
developing a "granger" and "anti-monopoly"
spirit so powerful that it will abolish all the
railway privileges granted by the Legislature
is to persist in this attempt to prevent rapid
transit. The necessity of securing rapid
transit is as great as that which inspired the
Erie Canal. The Erie Canal became necessary
to the development of the State. Its comple
tion was the beginning of the career of great
ness which for a half century has attended
this Commonwealth. De Witt Clinton was
statesmaa enongh to see this, and j
politician enough to seenra it. The ;
time has come for tho performance of a
duty an imperative?the duty of lifting the j
metropolis out of tho slough of despoud into i
which it has fallen. It is intolerable that j
this should bo prevented by any selfish rail- |
way Ring in the Legislature. Our hope is
that the Governor will take courage from the
success which has attended his war upon the
Tammany and Canal rings, and teach the
railway men that they cannot under any cir
cumstances be permitted to interfere with a
policy that is necessary to the grandeur of the
metropolis. L.'t us hope that the new meas
ure introduced in the Assembly yesterday
by Mr. Konneddy will help to remove a por- '
tion of the affliction of New York by giving
ua a railroad, a.4 well as a scheme to build one.
The Green-Hunted Sensation.
Since Comptroller Green's official life was
Raved by the defeat of the Costigan bill in tho
Ktate Senate that functionary has sought the
further humiliation of Mayor Wickliarn by
stripping him of a great ] art of his official
authority. The nature of Green's intrigue
was divulged by the trap so suddenly sprung
npon the democratic members of the Assem
bly on Tuesday evening under the leadership
ol ex-Speaker Hnsted. Ilnsted is a repul>
lican, and he would have spoiled his game if
he had offered the bill himself. So, with the I
aid of Groen's lobbyists, he made a tool of
a democratic member, Mr. Miller, of
Orango, who smuggled in the bill without
exciting suspicions of its character. "Foi
ways that, nre dark and tricks that nro vain''
Messrs. Green and Husted are as peculiar
as the heathen Chinee. Their trick of get
ting this bill off. red by a rural democratic
member would havu bceu "a flash in the pan''
if by "ways that nre dark" they had not
secured that portion ol tho democrats who
voted against tho Costigan bill, and are
known in Albany by tbe nickname of "The
black horse cavalry." There wero twenty
democrats who voted with Husted and the
republicans to put this new bill on the first
steps toward its passage. Tho purpose of tho
bill, as devcribed in our Albany despatches
yesterday, wm to alter the city charter by
stripping Mayor Wickham of a great part of bis
authority and transferring it to Comptroller
Green. It abolishes the Department of Pub
lic Works, degrades General Porter into a
mere street commissioner, and vests tin
appointment of various city officers in tlui
Comptroller instead of the Mayor.
Mr. Green has overshot the mark. His
scheme cannot succeed unless the publio has
formed a mistaken estimate of Governor Til*
den, who, we are confident, will never sanction
so barefaced a trick. But the Green-Dusted
plan of operations is evident enough. Thej
built their hopes upon those democratic mem
bers of Assembly who votqd against the Cos
tignnbill, hoping to recruit the black horso
cavalry by a few more recreant democrats.
If, by such a manoeuvre, they could get through
the Assembly the bill for transferring a greal
part of the Mayor's powers to the Comptroller
they had no doubt of its passage by tha
republican Senate, and they relied on Gover
nor Tilden's friendship for Green to secure hia
approval. The Governor can never sign such
a bill. In the first place it would be un
worthy o??his chsracter to indorse such a
trick ; and in the next place he cannot afi'ord
to disrupt the democratic party of the State,
as his approval of this bill would inevitably
do. We are confident he will wash his hand*
of so disreputable a juggle.
The surprising part of this affair is the
ability of Green and Husted to capture and
control twenty democratic members. Thig
recreancy is probably a consequence of the
unfaithfulness of the democratic organs to
the principle of homo rule, which they ad
vocated with noisy zeal in the canvass and
abandoned as soon ns the Legislature met.
The black horse cavalry, who voted against
the Costigan bill without a word of rebuke or
censure from the home rule organs, thought
it would be safe to go still further in support
of Green. Tho apology of the home rule
organs for deserting their principles when
the Legislature met is lame enough. The
substance of this defence is that the Senata
being republican there was no chance of pass
ing the Costigan bill, and that it would hava
been a waste ot ink and effort to support it By
the same rule hard money and free trade, the
other capital articles of the democratic creed,
must be as coolly abandoned when Congresa
meets. The plea lor no longer keeping up a
bowing acquaintance with these old fripnde
will be doubly strong, becauso instead of
merely an adverse Senate, which obstructed
home rule at Albany, there will be in Wash
ington both a hostile Senate and a hostile
Executive. The same apology which wm
offered for hiding in the rear while the home
rule battle was fought in Albany will serv?
even better to excuse the dumb silence of th?
same organs on the great questions off hard
money and free trade when these come up in
Congress during tho next two years. "Call
you this backing your friends?" It is safe to
assume that there cannot be many admirers
of the practice of raising a great cry for cer
tain principles while an election is pending,
and then inventing excuses for showing them
"a fair pair ot heels" when they come to be
pressed as practical measures in a legislative
body.
The Question of woman's rights has been
considered in the House of Commons upon a
bill to enable unmarried women to vote toa
members of Parliament. One of the argn.
ments against the measure was ihat the "agj.
tation emanated from turbulent women in
America." Another was that it would enlrau
chise ?'immoral women." Why immoral
men should have rights that are denied to
immoral women is a question that did not
come into the debate. On the division 152
members voted in favor of the measure, and
among them Mr. Disraeli. This is a very
strong vote, especially in the tory Parliament
of conservative England.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Mayor Samuel C. Cobb, of Boston, Is reglstero4
at the Windsor Hotel.
Vice President nenry Wilson left this city last
evening lor Washington.
Congressman W. If. Barnum, or Connecticut, it
staying at me Futli Avenue Motel.
General S. C. Armstrong, of Virginia, is amonfl
tbe late arrives at Bantam's Ilorel. *
T!ie Marquis <ie Chatnbrun, oi Washington, hal
apartment.* at tbe Union Square Hotel.
Bishop Thomas F. Hcndrir.ken, of Providence
arrived last evening at tne (irand Cm rat Hotel.
(Jeneral John C. Rooin-oti, of Ringhamtoq. has
taken tip his residence at tne Metropolitan Hotei.
Inspector General Randolph B. Marc*. United
States Army, Is quartered at the New York Hotel.
Mr. Edmund D. Tuck-r has been appointed Vic?
Consul at Halifax, N. S., lor Norway ard Sweden.
*Uentenant Commander Henry II. Gorrinzo,
United states Navy, is stopping at the Hoffnua
House.
KtnddfraiSatscfi says the only way horses can go
out of Germany into France la with Ublans oa
them.
Mr. De Peatel, the newly appointed Dutch Mini*
ter at Washington, is sojourning at the Hotel
Brunswick.
Mr. Franklin Haven, Jr., United States Assistant .
Treasurer at Boston, tas arrived at til* KUtft
Ave duo Hotel.
Mr. Allan Rutherford, Third Auditor of th?
Treasury, arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last
evening from Washington.
Belgium is apparently tne little lamb who dl*?
turbs the water oi tne stream irotn which tno
Prussian wolf says he wmnea to drink.
General Adam Badcau, Untied states Consal
General at London. arrived from Llverpbol in ttt
steamship China and is at the Brevoort IIon<e.
Senator Newton Boo;h, ot California, who haa
been visiting iriends in New England, arrived
irom Boston l?S? evening at the Sturtevant House
Even as Peter B. nscd to catci the country re
publicans oi the Legislature, so have the players
of the republican game nnw caught the countrf
democrat-s.
Judge Boring, of Massachusetts, who has been ?
member of the United States Court of Claims loi
many years, has signified his intention of resign
Ing next summer.
The first part of the sale of the racing stad of
Mr. A. Fould took place at Paris March 13, and
realized 79,000 irancs. The highest price paid for
a single ittilmal was $3,ooo.
London's ne west entertainment Is a "soiree oi
hairdres^ing," in which a professor of the art per
formed on chosen heads be ore the public with tin
skill and artistic sense with which Pagamni per*
lor tne d on tbe ilddle.
Tne dethronement of isabeilo, the flower girl of
the Paris Jockey Ciut>, is a sensation in the gar
city. This "girl" Is lorty years old, stout, very
dart, somewaat rich and mean enouzh not <,?
support her mother. Tnere are lonr or Ave other
flower girls in Paris. They all get rich and wear
diamonds In their ears.
Serjeant I;iliantyne, who defended "the claim
ant'' In his first trial, has now got another queer
client. He lias gone all the way to India t?
defend the Gulcowar of Baroda, charged with at
tempting to poison the Butish Resident in hit
| dominions. Bailantyne waa receive! with great
I entbnaiaam by the natlvea.