The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1868, Page 6

B NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fauauk Derecrive— BLAOKSMITH OF ANTWERP, . BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Our AMERICAN Cousin at Home-—-Tae Victim, FRENCH THEATRE.—La BELLE HELENE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Dumpry. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Wairr Fawn, WALLACK'S THEATRE, B in Pp oad E, Broadway and 18th street. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth oe far ene ke 8, street. GYMNASTICS, FP naassiein’ COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BAuLrr, FAROR, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonos, Eoornrmiorrins, &c,—GRaNp Duron “8.” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Erato- PIAN BNTRGTATSNENIE SINGING, DARGNGS AS TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ‘HOUSE, 201 Bowery. —Comto Vooauism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broad BAuLET, Farce, PANTOMIME, &c. STEINWAY HAUL.—GRranp Conornr. HALL, 9f4 and 956 Broadway.—PANORAMA OF THE WAN. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,-— DOMBEY AND SON—POCAHONTAS, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Exurorran MINSTRELSEY BURLESQUE CLncus, COLLEGE HALL, 600 Broadway.—THE PILout. NEW YOR! SOrmNOE ANT TRIPLE "SEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SHEET. 3 iNew York, Tuesday, April 7, “NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers d bear in mind that, in order to insure the proper classification of their bnainess announcements, all advertisements for insertion in the HERALD should be left at the counting room by half-past eight o'clock P. M. THE NEWS. CONGRESS. Tn the Senate yesterday a resolution directing (he payment of certain claims of the owners of the steamer Monitor for damages sustained by it inan attack from a Japancse fort, was passed. The com- mittee amendmenis to the Naval Appropriation bili were agreed to, and the bill was reported by the Com: inittee of the Whole. Pending discussion upon it the Senate adjourned. The House was not in seasion, having adjourned until Wednesday. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday a message was received from Governor Fenton vetoing the bill appropriating 000 for the completion of the Whitehall and ttaburg Railroad. He cites nine other bills mak- ing similar appropriations which are now before the Legislature, aggregating $2,325,000, as the result of the introduction of one of them, every district in the State being incited to make a demand upon the pub- lic treasury in case either of these bilis ts passes. ‘The message was laid on the table. In the Assembly bills to lay pneumatic tudes under the East river for the transmission of letters and packages, relative to cleaning and improving the strects of New York, and making appropriations to aid in the construction of four railroads, were all ordered to a third reading. In the democratic caucus of members of the Legis- lature last evening Abram B. Weaver was nominated for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Victor M. Rice was nominated for the same orice in the republican caucus. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday, / 6. The Bishops of the Irish Church are said to have requested Mr. Disraeli to sacrifice one-half the reve- niues of the esiablisiment in order to save the other. ‘The French troops are to evacuate Rome compictely atanearly day. Admira) Farragut is in Naples. stamp took to the road. They go Consols 9. Five-twenities 72%; in Londen and | the same __ spirit, and our institutions 754 in Fran! : Al Our European mail report 1s dated March 26. vary = nny igang ik saa canis Stephen J. Meany, convicted of Fenianism, was dis- | t© Fise. He who promises most rises best on charged from Woking prison, England, by royal war- rant, on condition that he should leave the country directly, Mr. Meany accepted it, and was to be placed on board the steainship William Penn at London for New York. ‘he anti-Army bill agitation, with riots, continued tn the cities of France. MISCELLANEOUS. Sur speciui telegrams from Mexico state that the British steamer Danube, which was engaged in stnuggling on her last trip, had arrived again off Vera Cruz, but did not enter the port, sending her mails ashore in a small boat, under a white flag. A British gunboat had arrived at the mouth of the Rio Grande and was making soundings, for the purpose, it was feared in Matamoros, of blockading that city. Our special telegrams from the West Indies include Jamaica, Hayti, St. Domingo and Martinique. In a race between wooden and iron-clad vessels at Kings- ton the latter made the best speed, leading a mile and @ half in six miles. A scheme is on foot in Hayti to make Salnave dictator. In St. Domingo, although Cabral and his Ministers are held responst- vle for the acts of nis administration, the persons and property of his friends are respected. ‘Two days later advices from the war in Paraguay deny former reports. Humait/ is not captured, and the fleet has not reached Asuncion, A heavy bom- bardment of the fort is going on, however, and the Paraguayans are poorly supplied with provisions, ‘The Virginia Convention proposes to adjourn this week. ‘The appointment cf General Wells to be Governor of Virginia has called forth numerous protests from republicans, who have gone to Washington in con- nection with the subject. It was reported that a asage had been received from General Graat di- -ecting the postponement of the order appointing Wella, but on the other hand it Is stated despatches have been reectved from high authority in the national capital announcing that he would be imme- diately inaugurated Governor. The Indian Commissioners have arrived at the North Piatte. No treaty is to be made, however, «wotil the Commussioners return to Fort Laramie. General Meade has issied orders for the suppres- ston of the Ka Klux Klan and other incendiary or- ganizations in his military district. Newspaper pub- tishers who print the mystic warnings of the Klan are to be tried by military commissions, St. George's church, in Beekman street, an old jandmark originally erected in 1749, is to be torn down, the ground upon which it stands having been sold for $145,000. It was purchased originally for #800, ‘The centennial anniversary of the Chamber of Com- meroe of this city was held last night at Irving Hal. ‘The proceedings were exceedingly interesting. Many ladies were present. Two fiahing boats were wrecked outside of the har- vor, at Gooderich, Canada, on Saturday night, and five men were drowned. On Sunday morning, off Avondale fishing shore, on the Potomac river, twelve negroes were drowned. They were in a small boat and were endeavoring to reach the shore, when the boat was swamped in a gale. Hartigan, who killed one Friel during a fracas last eleotion, yesterday pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fourth degree and was fined six cents by Re- corder Hackett, who said the case was clearly one of justifiable homicide. The April statement of the national debt shows a decrease, since March 1, of $619.996. and since April 1, 1807, of $4,218,383. .NEW YORK HERALD, TUMSDAY, APRIL 7, 1868—TRIPLE ) SHEET. Well executed counterfelt two dollar national bank ‘The Electtons tn Counectiout and Mfichigna— | at Rome in ita worst days, at the lasoivious and ' city roads, except the Second avenue, that is notes on the Market National Bank of New York are in circulation. - - The Callicott whiskey case, which was set down for trial in the United States Circuit Court, Brookiyn, Yesterday, was postponed till Thursday next, when motion will be made to let it stand over till the May term of the court. Beef cattle were freely sought after at the National Drove Yards yesterday, where 1,000 head were on sale, and prices were about cent per Ib. higher, the market closing strong at the improvement. Prime and extra realized 19¢. a 20c., falr to good 173gc, @ 184¢e., ordinary 16c, a 17c., and inferior 140. a15}s¢, Mich cows were in improved demand, but without improvement in value, We quote common to extra at $50.a $10, Veal calves were in limited demand and lower, prime and extra selling at Llc. | @ 113sc. and inferior to common at Se. a 10%. Sucep and lambs were tolerably active, the demand being chiefly for good stock, Prices were generally firm. We quote extra at 10c. a 10Xc., prime 8%¢. & 9%c., common to good 7c, a 8c. and inferior 6140. & 6c. Swine were quiet and }gc. a Xc. lower, prime selling at 93,c. a 93<0., fair to good 8%c. a 9c. and common and rough 8c. a 8c. The total receipts for the week were 4,515 beeves, 142 milch cows, 1,907 veal calves, 16,315 sheep and lambs and 12,392 swine, The Progress of Republican Government— Whither Are We Tending t From one end of the land to the other the people are the prey of political harpies. Pro- perty, order, personal rights are mere names, and in all things in which a government should secure the governed, the people are at the mercy of an unscrupulous class, who, in virtue of universal suffrage, hold the offices and make the laws. Aggrieved at the injustice, the tyranny and the corruption of the government that ruled them under the British monarchy, our forefathers cast away that yoke and estab- lished a new system, in the interests of purity and economy, to be secured by the direct influ- ence of the people on their rulers, - Eighty years have gone by and we find that our expe- rience only results in showing the world how to secure the worst government the sun can shine on, how to organize the system most cer- tain to defeat all the good objects of govern- ment, and how to tie the people hand and foot and hand them over to the rogues and wretches of the community. We have made the way to distinction in the State so free that they who in other countries stumble into the prisons mid- way in a career in this country find their way inevitably to the legislative halls. It is an honor—not a shame—to lie, to swindle, to know and to practise all the arts of knavery. The legislative halls become market places, and there is not one of them in which laws are not bought and sold as freely as old clothes in Chatham street. In Washington, in Albany, in our own City Hall, whoever desires to have a law authorizing his encroachment on another man’s rights or giving him authority to seize another man’s property simply goes to the lawmakers with the money, and the law is made. Bribery carries with it no shame, though practised in view of all, defeating justice and laughing at her very name. Nay, if a man raises his voice for honesty, as Mr. Glenn has just done, he is laughed down—hooted out of hearing by party men of ; all stripes and by the party press, so that it has come to be that honesty is so much out of fashion that that is the thing of which men must be ashamed. Both the parties that divide the political notions of the nationare in the hands of men in whom the sense of social decency is rotted away. What are these men? Lawyers without briefs, Such is the material of the State in our system. Briefless lawyers grown tired of waiting for clients, they turn to politics and make it @ trade. They have studied enough law to know how to be free of its restraints, yet never incur its penalties. Having their fortunes to make and extravagant tastes to gratify, they take to this career as formerly reckless fellows of the same in the popular breath; and these fellows promise without limit, counting on the spoils of office and the price of law to make their promises good. At whose expense they pay may be seen by the dreadful condition of the national finances, the terrible state of corruption that prevails in the Revenue Department, the fear- ful necessity for more offices that drives the Congress of .the United States to remove the President, in defiance of law, and to fix the point that the President shall hold office only during the pleasure of Congress, so that they may control through fear the incoming function- ary. Another point in the illustration is seen in the fact that the Legislature at Albany is now practically proposing to confiscate all the property on Broadway. In all this the fact is seen that the whole wealth of the State and the property of the citi- zens are by our system simply set up as the reward of the winner in a race for office—it being certain, from our whole experience, that the winner will four times in five be a man who seeks position not for honor, but to make money out of it—a man with no good interest in the welfare of the community, but glorying in the utterly selfish and destructive use of a dan- gerous power. This is universal suffrage. Uni- versal suffrage was not contemplated by the men who made the national constitution. We have drifted into it. Originally the intelligence of the community controlled its action, and no man could even aspire to office who was not possessed of some moral worth or high charac- ter; but the degradation from that standard has been constant toward the worst form of democracy—the mere rule of the many, sure always to be the rule of the worst. Not con- tent with the position to which this has brought us, our fanatical politicians are only eager to push the principle further—to still more adul- terate and degrade the national life by giving the suffrage to the barbarous mil- lions of just emancipated slaves. Strangest of all the pictures of the age, just as we have shown the inevitable result of this so- called government of popular will, just as we have shown that government by the people is merely the government of a swindling oligarchy that accepts a trust from the people only to | betray it, England is making ready to follow in our footsteps. Compelled to relinquish the ancient exclusiveness of her system, she adopts the visionary liberality of ours, and will carry it further; for the Jew, Disracli, and the Christian, Gladstone, each endeavoring to out- bid the other in the promise of reforms, will push her to an ultimate result, and the two na- tions will go side by side in the search of some better basis for a political superstructure than the presumed energy and wisdom of the masses, | Defont of the Radicals, Contrary to the confident expectations éf the radicals, the election held in Connecticut yes- terday resulted in a decisive victory for the conservative party. Governor Jamos FE, Eng- lish and the remainder of the State ticket were elected by an increased majority. It is not yet known what party has carried the Legislature, which will elect a United , States Senator in place of Mr. Dixon. The vote was evidently the largest ever cast in the State, and, considering the apathy of the democrats during the campaign, the result is most gratifying to all true lovers of constitu- | tonal liberty. “By the election held yesterday { Connecticut has declared herself unalterably | opposed to the revoMtionary measures of Con- gress ; and as even the popular name of Gene- | ral Grant failed to aid the radicals we may regard the result as the ‘‘ beginning of the end” of radical misgovernment and despotism. In Michigan 9 vote was taken on the new constitution, and the reports indicate that that instrument has been rejected by a decided ma- jority. Excepting the clause giving the ne- groes the right to vote, this fundamental law was an excellent one. And here the radicals have again suffered a demoralizing defeat. The people of Michigan, who gave the republi- can ticket a majority of over twenty-nine thousand in 1866, will not accept the policy of universal negro suffrage. It cannot be asserted that the “prohibition” clause operated against the constitution, for it was submitted sepa- rately, and the vote in its favor runs ahead. Altogether the elections yesterday were impor- tant and suggestive. Bohemian Literature and Its Degenerncy. We have lately had occasion to look at some of the numerous specimens of magazine litera- ture which are now contending for public favor as successors of the Port Folio, the first monthly magazine of any note in this country. The Port Folio was originally started as a weekly in Philadelphia in 1800, and was ably edited by Dennie, the celebrated essayist and ‘day preacher.” It counted among its con- tributors Richard Rush, John Quincy Adams, Nicholas Biddle, Robert Walsh, Charles Brockden Brown, Francis Hopkinson, Thomas Cadwallader, Gouverneur Morris and other eminent men. Among the contributors to the Monthly Anthology, started in Boston in 1803, were John Quincy Adams, J. S. Buckminster, George Ticknor and William Tudor, who founded the North American Review in 1815, Another early American periodical was tho Analectic Magazine, started in Philadelphia. Itsname was changed to Select Reviews by Washington Irving, who edited it for two years, and J. K. Paulding and Gulian C. Verplanck contributed to it. Without enumerating other pioneers of the multitude of American maga- zines and reviews which have since ap- peared, and in nearly a hundred instances have also disappeared, we must say that when we compare those which flourished fifty or sixty years ago with those which are flourish- ing now the comparison is sadly unfavorable to the latter. In respect to two important particulars the comparison becomes a contrast. The spirit of the early American periodical literature was pure and undefiled, and the most tender reli- gious susceptibilities were never offended. But nowadays—from the pompous North American Review and its satellites, the Adantic Monthly and the Radical, and their rivals in New York and New Jersey, Putnam's Monthly and the Northern Monthly, ¢ tutti quanti (their name is Legion), down to Z'he Last Sensation—our quarterlies, monthlies and weeklies seem to vie with each other in making open or covert assaults upon religion and morality. The whole mass of Bohemian literature is leavened with the spirit of infidelity and licen- tiousness. Periodicals published in the City of the Puritans hesitate not to question the per- sonality of God and the authenticity of the Serip- tures in which the Divine will is revealed, or to rank the name of the late Theodore Parker on the same level as that of the Saviour of the world, In fact, the skeptical Parker is ex- tolled and adored by these blasphemous Bostonians as a sort of Yankee Jesus, in- spired with ultra modern ideas. Even the professed apologies for Christianity which are occasionally put forth in deference to the lingering prejudices of old fashioned ortho- doxy would appear heterodox enough to the early fathers of the Church. In the same way the professed satires levelled against licentiousness, and particularly against the indecent exposures which are now so com- mon on the stage and in the fashionable ball- room, are less calculated to shock and alarm than to compete as closely as possible with the fatal fascinations which they pretend to con- demn. The Bohemian satirists fairly gloat over the indecencies which they describe with a sus- picious affectation of holy horror, They emulate in their descriptions the ‘ prurient pictorials” which they denounce. They dilate with peculiar satisfaction on the naked truth as illustrated by the ‘“‘salacions sprites” of the ballet. They scatter “‘words that burn,” even when they aim at saying that music and scenery and effects ‘‘are merely the pretext for repre- senting the unchaste convolutions of the god- desses of impudicity at the fullest angle of lewdness and through the rosy medium of amorous suggestion.” The ‘‘mob of gentlemen that write with ease” is doubtless larger than in the infancy of American periodical literature. But we cannot admit that such contribu- tors to it as Dennie, Washington Irving, Buckminster, Edward Everett, Alexander H. Everett, George Ticknor, and others who might be mentioned, have been surpassed as writers by those whose names now figure con- spicuously in flaming lists of magnzinists and reviewers. As we have already intimated, our modern moralists in their most elaborate dis- quisitions too often betray the corrupting influ- ence of the very evils against which they inveigh. Even when they displity the charms of literary beauty their flowery pages exhale a poisonous odor; and like the fig leaves in the basket of the Egyptian queen (to borrow an illustration), are defiled by the asp’s trail and slime, while the sly worm lurks beneath. This degeneracy of Bohemian literature is not unaccountable, however, if we remember that it mirrors and reflects here, and in the midst of the nineteenth century, such scenes as are represented with impunity upon the stage— scenes for which no parallel can be found save | effeminate court of Byzantium, at Heroula- | neum, at Pompeii, or at Sodom and Gomorrah, ‘The Dauger of Jef! Davie~An Immediate Flight His Ouly Safety. Jeff Davis is bound to make his appearance | again for trial at Richmond on the 2d of May next. Groeley, Gerrit Smith, John Minor | Botts and others stand as sureties for his ap- pearance in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, He will doubtless be on hand to show that their confidence in him has not been mis- placed; but we can tell him that so far as their bail bonds are concerned he need not be ap- prehensive of any loss from his failure to put in his appearance. Let him be off to parts un- known, and this aforesaid bail will be made all right in the release of Greeley, Smith and Com- pany from payment. But why be off? Let the accused give us his attention fer a moment, and we will tell him why. By the 2d of May Andrew Johnson will be out of the White House and ‘‘ Old Ben Wade” will be in, From that hour radicalism will be rampant in the Executive Department. The removal of Johnson, at the same time, for the ‘high crimes and misdemeanors” of attempt- ing to remove Stanton from the War Depart- ment and to put Thomas in his place, and of a few Presidential stump speeches of the Ten- nessee pattern, will cause these inquiries among the people:—‘‘ While Andrew Johnson is be- headed for these petty offences, how is it that Jeff Davis, the very head and front of the late rebollion, from beginning to end, goes unwhipped of justice? Is it because Greeley stands at his back? Is this justice—this sacrifice to radicalism of the only Southern man in Congress who stood out manfully against the rebellion and this mockery of a prosecution against Jeff Davis, the head chief of the rebel confederacy, for whose capture Johnson proclaimed a reward of one hundred thousand dollars?” To guard against such damaging commentaries, to keep up a show of consistency and of equal justice, the removal of Johnson will require the hanging of Davis. And ‘Old Ben Wade,” as President, is the man who will see it done. Davis has been a sort of white elephant to Johnson and to Chief Justice Chase. They have had no desire to keep him, they have been puzzled how and where to try him, and they have been afraid to let him go. But President Wade will not stand upon technicalities or trifles, His first great card, in order to strike terror among the unreconstructed rebels in the South and to revive the Old John Brown war spirit in the North, will be the hanging of Jeff Davis. The new indictment against him, with its numerous specifications of the overt acts of levying war against the United States, looks like business. It is an indictment framed to convict and not to reloase the prisoner. The removal of Johnson, too, will revive among the radicals a thirst for blood, as the ex- ecution of Charles the First of England in- flamed the Roundheads to bloody settlements with other parties, and as the beheading of poor Louis the Sixteenth gave a new impulse to the Jacobin reign -of ter- ror and blood in France. The accidents of Anglo-American civilization and its refining influences have so far, in the penalties against the treason and traitors of this late Southern rebellion, made the government of the United States a model of clemency and humanity. Nevertheless, the same spirit exists here that marked the bloody vengeance of the Mexican liberals against Maximilian and his devoted followers. There is a powerful faction at Washington and throughout the country which will not be satisfied with anything less than the hangman's rope for Jeff Davis. This fac- tion, within a few weeks, will come into com- plete possession of the government with John- son’s removal, and then the unfortunate Davis, in coming to trial, will do well to prepare for the scaffold, for he will surely be hanged. It will be held necessary as a warning to traitors to hang Davis, and there is one man at Wash- ington who will remember that proclamation of Davis of outlawry on the head of General B. F. Butler, and that man is Butler himself, the acting head manager of Johnson's impeach- ment. We would therefore advise Davis to be off, and off at once, to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, or anywhere outside the jurisdiction of the United States, and to stay outside, at least till after our coming Presidential election. Never mind about that straw bail. It will be no loss to anybody. Greeley does not like hanging, anyhow; but if Davis should be handed, habeas corpus, over to the tender mercies of President Wade, Greeley's interces- sion for his friend Jeff will be all moonshine. Hence we say to Davis, as the best advice we can give him:—Skedaddle, depart, be off to a healthier political atmosphere, save yourself, and ‘‘stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once.” The City Rnilroads ‘Tax. Seven days ago the law imposing a tax ‘on the city railroads of one-eighth of a cent for each passenger went out of operation. It is pretty well known that the railroad companies, on the pretext of having to pay this tax, charged every passenger an extra cent upon the fare which they were entitled to charge by law, thus pocketing seven-eighths of a cent upon each fare, which was a plain swindle upon the public. We have not heard that the fare has been reduced to five cents since the tax was removed, nor do we expect it will be until the public resist the extortion and try the question in the courts. How much longer we are to submit to the grievances imposed upon us in various forms by the railroad companies it is hard to tell; but there is a very palpable mode of relief, and that is by the Legislature empowering the Corporation to impose upon the companies a'tax of one cent for every pas- senger carried. This would give a large sum annually to the city treasury, and in this way would indirectly relieve the travelling public. The Legislature should. do this at once, and then the companies might retain the charge of six cents, if they please, for the balance would go to the people. Buteven then the rate of fare would be too high. There can be no doubt that if the city government had the management of the street railroads in their hands they could carry passengers for three cents and make it pay. The Fourth, Sixth and Eighth avenue roads now pay very large id the Passenger not a very profitable concern. By levying such » tax as we suggest the city of Baltimore raised funds enongh to construct the fine Druid’s Hill Park, Why should not we raise a fund sufficient at least to keep our streets clean and give us one or two good boulevards? The city railroad companies can well afford to pay the tax and make plenty of money besides. We hope, therefore, that the Legislature will pass an act authorizing the’ city government to collect one cent from these roads for every passenger they carry. Grant and Butler—A Truce, but Ne Peace. It is reported that Grant and Butler have settled their old difficulties, shaken hands and agreed to be good friends and comrades in the future. This statement requires to be taken with many grains of allowance; for the differ- ences between the hero of the Appomattox and the hero of Big Bethel are too wide to be per- manently bridged over. That a temporary cessation of hostilities has been agreed upon, now that they are both hunting on the same trail, is very probable; but their reconciliation is like that effected between two shrewish fo- males when one of them lay seriously ill :—‘‘I forgive you, Mary Jane,” said the invalid, “because I am in a dangerous condition; but if I recover, mind, the old grudge holds good.” In the radical policy of impeachment Butler has made himself a prominent leader and is a power in Israel. Itis necessary that uis ia- fluence should be recognized by the candidate of the republican party, whose chances of suc- cess are by no means enhanced by the revolu- tionary course of the radicals, and who needs all the aid that can be afforded him through the boldness and unscrupulousness of the Jacobin faction. But the election safely over, the old grudge will hold good. Grant has said too many hard and true things of Butler, who managed to ‘‘ bottle up” his troops at Bermuda Hundred, and Butler has retorted with too many severe reflections upon a different sort of ‘‘ bottling up” on tho part of the General of the Army to admit of a permanent peace be- tween them. Besides, Grant is an honest man, naturally opposed to trickery of all kinds, and with cer- tain strict soldierly notions as to the laws of meum and tuum. Butler, on the other hand, is a bitter hater, who never forgets or forgives an injury, and Grant has burned into him a brand which he oan never efface. The remo- yal of Johnson is gratifying to Butler mainly asa means of crippling and punishing Grant, whose nomination is beyond the power of the radicals to dofeat. A truce between such men must necessarily be of short duration, and will be succeeded by yet flercer hostilities. Grant must be careful and watchful, however, or before he gets rid of Butler again and ex- pels him from his household he may find all the most valuable spoons and forks of the Presidential office missing. A General Pardon—A Chance for Featon. The papors are making a great amount of fuss just now over Governor Fenton's pardons and refusals to pardon, and the people are getting at some very curious facts in regard to the manner in which this power is whelded by the Executive of the State. The difliculty has its origin in the case of young Ketchum, whose friends, having up to this time failed to procure a remission of his sentence, are over- hauling the prison records in order to show that the constitutional privilege of the Gover- nor has not always been as cautiously exer- cised as in this particular instance. We hear on one side of combinations of the Wall street aristocracy which have been unable to move the heart of the Executive, and on the other of combinations of burglars, swindlers,; highway- men and ruffians of various grades, which have been remarkably successful in opening the prison doors and letting loose the worst classes of convicts to renew their depredations and outrages on society. The developments that have been made show a very bad state of affairs and a deplorable eccentricity in the exercise of Executive clem- ency for the past two or three years. Indeed, it is questionable whether, under the circum- stances, it is worth while to squander the people’s money any longer {in the salaries of judges, the pay of officers and the general ex- penses of criminal courts in order to convict the violators of law. The best policy that can be pur- sued is to go back to the original condition of society as more in harmony with the spirit of the age, to throw open all the prisons in the State and suffer their inmates to go forth and enjoy liberty and license. Governor Fenton should issue a general pardon to all offenders anda full indemnity for all crimes, whether those committing them have been brought to so-called justice or have succeeded in getting clear of the troublesome meshes of the law. He should signalize the closing months of his term of office by the release of all convicted thieves and the indemnification of all uncon- victed thieves, so that their former crimes can never again be brought up in judgment against them. His act of oblivion might extend to all cases of fraud, corruption and bribery in the Legislature or in any other public body or department, which would cover a quantity of plunder larger in amount than all that has been stolen by the whole crowd of forgers, burglars, highwaymen, swindlers and pick- pockets now confined in the several prisons and jails throughout the State, and would put stop to all unpleasant rumors and insinua- tions in regard to the considerations that are alleged to have influenced special pardons. Such a broad, liberal and impartial course would satisfy the people, and the proposition cannot fail to commend itself to the acknow- ledged charitable and sympathizing nature of Governor Fenton. Revorvtios Braun in EnoLaxp.—If the first blow was not struck when the house- holder suffrage entered as an integral part into the Reform bill, the first blow has cer- tainly been struck now. If not to Disraeli, then to Gladstone the honor or dishonor of having dealt the first blow must be attributed. This, however, must be said—that no such blow, for vigor and effect, has hitherto been given to the ancient and much revered British consti- tution as that which has just been dealt by Mr. Gladstone. It has stunned the nation, and the government stands aghast. The sun stands still as in Gibeon, and the moon as in the valley of Aijalon, but which party is to come victorious out ofthe conflict we must dividends, and there is, perhaps, not one of the | wait to see, Now Readings. . The prolongation of winter weather prolongs the ‘‘reading season,” which Mrs. Yelvertow inaugurated some months ago. Mrs. Fannie M. Carter, whose readings and recitations at the Jerome theatre for the relief of the South’ were so much admired, gives her first public! reading to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at! De Garmo's Hall in Fifth avenue, The lady is of high social position, great personal attractions and reported as an excellent reader.’ Mr. Dickens will resume his readings next Monday evening at Steinway Hall. His final - reading, the fifth in his farewell course, will be given a week from Monday evening, and his passage is engaged in the steamer which is to leave for Liverpool on the following Saturday.! Mrs. Fanny Kemble will commence next Mon- day evening a series of four readings from Shakespeare at the Brooklyn Institute. Mr. George Vandenhoff begins his new series of readings at Dodworth Hall on Wednesday evening, April 8. Miss Lacoste’s readings from Shakspeare and Milton and the Bible at De Garmo’s Hall, the readings of Mr. Augus- tus Waters at the Cooper Institute, the ‘‘peo- ple’s readings” at Steinway Hall, and we know not how many other “readings,” also appeal strongly to public interest. The whole army of readers seem to have joined forces in order to resist the overwhelming influences of the “Black Crooks” and ‘ Devil's Auctions,” and “White Fawns” and “Humpty Dumptya,” which have almost swept the legitimate drama from the stage. Praiseworthy as the efforts of the readers are to purify and sublimate the popular taste for dramatic entertainments, those efforts will, we fear, prove unavailing against the dazzling spectacular attractions which are now all the rage, and seem likely to continue to be all the rage until the dog days are over and the autumn harvests are ended and winter shall have come again. The Oretan Refagees in Greece—Ofiicial Correspondence of the Greek Minister. We publish in another part of the paper the official correspondence of the government of Greece with regard to the charges of the Turk- ish government that the refugee Cretans were hindered from returning to Crete by the Greoks. It will be remembered that we published recently certain Turkish official documents with reference to the flight of Cretans to Greece and containing the charges referred to against the Greek government. It was said that the refugee Cretans in Greece were anx- ious to return to Créte, but were prevented by the Greek government. The direct and official denial now published that either the Cretans desired to return or were in any way hindered from doing so by the Greek government sets this matter at rest. The truth is, the Turkish officials are over sensitive about Greek sympa- thy for the Cretans and look at everything relat- ing to Greece and the Cretans with a distorted vision, Mohammedan rule over the Christians of Eastern Europe is one of the greatest anom- alies of this enlightened and progressive age, and would have terminated some time ago had not the supposed political necessity of maintaining the integrity of the Ottoman empire prevented,’ or had the great European Powers been able to agree upon 9 partition of the effects of the “sick man.” Considering this gross anomaly and the natural sympathy of the Greeks for their co-religionists, the Cretans, it seems from ~ the correspondence referred to that the Greek government has acted with considerable mode- ration, The Proposed Meteorological Bureau. It has long’been felt that the system of storm signals which has proved of such service in England, and for which the mercantile world are so largely indebted to the scientific ability and persevering industry of the late Admiral Fitzroy, ought at once, with whatever im- provements might be deemed necessary, to be adopted in this country. It is notorious that in this particular, as compared with England, we are grievously behind. If we are to take our place as a great mercantile nation some such system as that to which we have referred must be adopted without delay. In this day’s Herap we publish some suggestions offered by a correspondent on the subject, and having special regard to the Meteorological Bureau which he and others wish to see established in New York. We commend the letter to the scientific fraternity. The suggestions, some of them at least, are original and entitled to con- sideration. We invite attention to the whole subject, believing that the free discussion of the merits of any proposed plan is the most likely way to arrive at perfection. Our cor- respondent offers suggestions as to the stations, the instruments, the means and mode of trans- mission, the management of the central office and the means of utilizing as much as pos- sible the information thus acquired. His sug- gestions may not in every case be the best possible, but they are valuable for what they are. ; Tux Cxvenrateo Gates Lawsuit Ser- tLep.—After many years of litigation the celebrated lawanit of Mrs. Gaines has been settled. The Supreme Court of the United States delivered an opinion yesterday which reversed the decision of the Cirouit Court of Louisiana, reaffirmed the legitimacy of Mrs. Gaines, and confirmed her in all her rights of property in the State. Thhs, after a steady prosecution of her claims, this lady has at length come into possession of an estate worth several millions of dollars. The case is the more remarkable from the persistence with which each party fought the other from court to court. MURDER IN THE FOURTEENTH WARD. Shortly before twelve o'clock last night Lewis Gardner, a German, twenty-one years of age, anda member of the Ninety-sixth regiment, National Guard, while in a liquor store at No. 100 Mott street became involved in a quarrel with a lad, apparently not more than fifteen years of age, who suddeniy turned upon him, stabbed him ‘at venienl breast heart, then I. ner cried oun nvstabve sand fol forward on his face, Hie companions raised him from the floor immediately and found that he was dead. In the confusion cers Raahsaualtietag ote" a poset fbown, oon ea. The body of Gardner was con- veyed to the Fourteenth precinct station house, and Captain Garland, with the m clue that the boy reased in dark Cog og: tly started a shi Seaminstion of the ward in the hope of capturing the young desperado. | SvIctpR.—George Spollett, a native of Maine, who was sojourning temporarily at No, 38 Pike streot, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by hanging himself, He was missed for a time by the inmates of he house, and as he had been suffering from the owes ira twas foured he taighe hurt hisseote He was di red after a while in the attic hanging, ag stated, and waa auite dead.