The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1869, Page 6

a ae a 6 NEW YORK HERALD anne BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore HERALD. ‘ Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, XXXIV. «Ne. 15 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dow Casaz DB Ba- 24N—STREETS OF New YorK—Forty WINKS. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and 28d street.—La PERICHOLE. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—LEr Creve. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homery Domrrr. with NeW FEATURES. eo THEATRE, Broadway.—Tar EMERALD NG. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Taz FIx.p OF Tar CLOTH OF GOLD. WAULACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— MONEY. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—AFTEE DARK; 08, Lon- vON BY NIGHT. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afterooon aud evening Performance. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Les FoLuins— PaGr's REVEL—NICODEMUS, &C. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Lost in Lonvon. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ET@10- PiAN ENTERTAINMENTS, ), DANOING, de. BRYANTS’ OPERA c , Tammany Building, Mth atreet.—ETHIOPIAN MISSTRELBY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Com1o Voca.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIC ENTERTAINMENT. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street,—Pargra-Rosa’s ConoxEt. os, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklym.—HooLer's MINSTRELS—ScurnuERnoEN's Bor, &C. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsbarg.— HOOLEY's MINSTRELS—SHADOW PANTOMIME, 4c. NEW YORK M"SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.~ SCIENCE AND ALT. COOPER INSTITUTE, ‘TRALN. place.—GEORGE FRANCIS New York, Friday, January 15, 1569. — The Dairy Heratp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Hzrap at the same price it is furnished in the city. THE NOBWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated January 14. The press of London and Paris denounce the atti- tude of Greece in reference to the Paris Conference, By reason of their participation in the Turko- Greek Conference, the European Powers will not be held bound to enforce its conclusions. This is the pian agreed on. A tumult occarred yesterday in Tortoso, Spain, between the liberal and Carlist parties. The Spanish government is urged to send 10,000 additional troops to Cana. The steamship Great Eastern has commenced to take on board the Franco-American telegraph cable. It is thought she will start in June next from Brest to lay the cabie, The Prince of Wales theatre, Glasgow, was totally destroyed by fire last night. No lives were lost. Haytl. General Alexis is reported to have captured Forts St. Michael and Liberté. Salnave had been driven from his captured po-itions near Jacmel, and was at Petit Riviere with his Cabinet. The rebels were gaining strength, and were preparing to attack Port au Prince. Mexico. Our Mazatlan letter, dated December 15, will be found on our triple sheet. Lozada, the chief of Jalisco, against whom war upon the part of the gen- eral government 1s urged, 1s Known to be well pre- pared for mergency, having from 8,000 to 10,000 fighting Indians under him, who, in the mountainous passes, can defy a Mexican army six times their strength. Numerous robberies are perpetrated on the roads notwitostanding the stern measures used to suppress thew. Congress. In the Senate yesterday the Committee on Naval Affairs reported adversely on the memorial of Com- modore R. W. Meade, asking to be restored to the active list, and it was indefinitely postponed. Mr. Morten introduced 4 bill granting to Mrs. Lincoln a pension as the widow of the Commander-in-Chief of the army. Mr. Sumner sugyested that the an.ount be placed at $6,000 per annum, and, on motion of Mr. Sherman, the bill vas referred to the Committee on Pensions. A joint seso!4tion granting permission to foreign compantes to lar‘ cables on our shores was referred to the Committee on Sore! Relations, Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to aitéhid the Tenure of OMice act by giving the President Withority to suspend oMcers during a recess. The Canadian reciprocity resolution came up and Mr. Morrill spoke in adyocacy of the treaty. The con- sideration of the claims of Miss Murphy, of Alabama, was then resumed, and after general debate on the subject the Senate a ljourned. In the House Mr. Ashley, from the Committee on ‘Territopies, reported @ bill to extend the boundaries of certain States and Territories so that there would be very little territory left for Utah. It was post- poved for two weeks, The Niagara Ship Canal bill, being the special order, was then taken up, and Mr. Van Horn and Mr. Hamphrey had a liveiy debate over it. No action was taken upon it and the House adjourned. The Legisiatare, In the Senate yesterday two bills to amend the act passed last year for the constraction of @ ratiroad in avenue C were noticed. Bills relative to frauds in assessments for local improvements in New York and for other purposes were introduced. In the Assembly a message was received from the Governor transmitting the report of the Commis- sloners charged with we constraction of a quaran tine hospital and boarding station on the West Bank. Billa were introduced to repeal the law rela- tive to steam botlers; to amend the acts esiablishing fire limits im Brooklyn, and relating to courts in New York, and to increase the powers of the Excise Commissioners. A bili making appropriations for supplying deliciencies ia former appropriation for defraying the expenses of the government was passed. Miscellaneous. Mr, Martin, the individual who professes to be able to give fall information relative to the Alaska briberies, ts in Washington, but has mever appeared before the committee, aithough there is no obstacle to having him appear if the committees want him. ‘He boasts that he can prove that Secretary Seward urged Stoecki to oll the wheels of the machinery, ana that among the items of expenditare for the necessary oiling were. Toa near relative of Thad Stevens, $10,000; toa corres.) pondent of s New York radical morning paper, $5,000; to a Baltimore aud Chicago paper, $30,000; tv an Kastern Senator, $20,000; to an Eastern memb 1, Who engineered tie bill. $250,000°t another Vasc NEW YORK .HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Member who “smelt ont" the alleged corruption, $160,000; to the chief of Washington diplomatists, $200,000; and to the New York lobby king, $500,000. ‘Martin makes these charges and says he is willing to Prove them if ne ts called upon by the committee. ‘The steamer Gulf City, from Galveston to New York, went ashore off Point Lookout at ten o'clock Monday night and was dashed to pieces. Three of the crew, named Patrick McCabe, of Jersey City; Anthony Thomas and Henry McArdle, of New York, were picked up on Wednesday afternoon and taken to Wilmington, N.C. The remainder of those on board the steamer, twenty-two in number, are @up- posed to have been lost. A large fire occurred in Philadelphia yesterday morning by which a block of buildings on Chestnut street was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $800,000, Seven clerks sleeping in the buildings nar- rowly escaped with their lives, and itis probabie that two others have perished, ‘The Reconstruction Committee of Congress are favorable to the admission of Mississippi, as the evi- dence 30 far goes to show that a majority of the people are in favor of the constitution defeated at the recent elections, General Gillem testifies that there was considerable intimidation of the blacks on the part of the sheriffs and the planters, Among other nominations sent to the Senate by the President yesterday was that of Perry Fuller, to be Collector of Customs in New Orleans. ‘The track of the Lebanon Springs Railroad ts com- pleted to Chatham Four Corners, connecting with the Hariem Railroad. Trains will run through to Bennington, Vt., and Montreal in a few days. The trial of Josephine Brown, under indictment as an accessory before the murder of the child Angie Stewart, came up before the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at Hudson, N. Y., yesterday, and was postponed until the Aprii term, in order to give the public prosecutor an opportunity to procure the at- tendance of foreign witnesses, A convict named Henry Wilson alias George Cahill, escaped from the Sing Sing prison on Wed- nesday, by secreting himself in a wagon containing wood. Pursuit was made and Wilson was recap- tured at Pleasantville. This is his fifth attempt at escape and the third time he has been out of the Prison grounds. Anegro horse thief was taken from the jail at Murphysboro, I, on Wednesday night by a band of Ku Kluxes and carried off, since which time no trace of him has been found. The City. ‘Nn further development bas been made in the Rogers murder mystery. The Logans are still con- fined, and no communication with them is allowed. The most expert detectives in the city are detailed m the case and it is understood that the detective who captured and convicted Whelan of the murder of Darcy McGee, in Canada, is present for the pur- pose of exercising his wits in the matter. The drilling with Shelbourne’s apparatus on the rocks at Heil Gate was continued yesterday. A sec- ond bore, six feet in depth through the solid rock some thirty-five feet under the surface, was success- fully made and a buoy attached. - The ship Egmont is lying in the Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn, with five hundred miles of telegraph cable on board. This cable was intended to be laid acroas Bebring’s Straits, but being useless for that purpose, the, Western Union Telegraph Company are now trying to sell it to the gouernment. A grand cock fighting tournamept between New York and New Jersey took place on Wednesday night, and resulted in a victory for New York after eleven patties had been fought. John Marks was sentenced by Justice Kelly yester- day to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars and serve twenty days in the City Prison for cruelty to animals in having started @ fire under his baulky horse and burned him fearfully in a futile effort to make him go. In the United States District Court yesterday, be- fore Judge Blatchford, the Biaisdell and Eckell whiskey case was on trial till the adjournment of the court. Only two witnesses were examined. On motion of District Attorney Courtney, the defend- ants, Blaisdell, Eckell and McLaren, were committed to the custody of the Marshal till the resumption of the trial tits morning. John Keir was convicted by a jury, in th? United States Circuit Court, before Judge Benedict, on a charge of passing United States fractional currency with intent to defraud the United States. He was remanded for sentence, ‘The Inman Line steamship City of New York, Cap- tain Tibbits, will leave pier 45 North river at eight o’clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning, for Queens- town and Liverpool. The mails will close at the Post OMce at half-past six o’clock in the morning. The National Line steamship Denmark, Captain ‘Thomson, will leave pier 47 North river at twelve M, on Saturday, 16th inst., for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The steamship Crescent City, Captain Weir, will sail on Saturday, 16th inst., at three P. M., from pier 12 North river, for New Orleans direct, The Black Star Line steamship Montgomery, Cap- tain Lyon, will leave pier 13 North river at three P. M. to-morrow for Savannah, Ga. The stock market yesterday was variable, but strong. Realizations at gh prices produced a tem- porary decline, trom which there was a sabsequent recovery. Further sales produced another decline at the close from the best figures of the day, Gold sold up to 138%. : Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel B. C. Duryea, of the United States Army; Major L. Tilden, of Delaware, and A. B. de Cour- celles, of Havana, are at the St. Charles Hotel. J. Buckingham, of Cleveland; N. P. Campbell, of Baltimore, and David Gibson, of Cincinnati, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. W. H. Webb, of the United States Navy; 8. B. Brown, of Washington; Colonel W. H. Freediey, of the United States Army, and A. N. Currier, of Massa- chnsetts, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Benjamin Starx, of New Lendon; G. KR. Phillips, of Providence, R. L, and W. H. Bradford, of Phila- delphia, are at the Hoffman House. As It Was and As It Is=The Changes in the Government and the Causes, “The people are ahead of the politicians.” This remark has been attributed to the philo- sophicai Lincoln in discussing the hearty reception of b.3 emancipation proclamation by the loyal Stated gud the army. In his first regular message to Congress he had proposed @ scheme whereby h2 thgughy the abolition of slavery might be consummated by the year 1900, A few months later, when utged by some religious deputation to proclaim the accursed thing abolished, hé had. answered that such an edict would be “the Pop's bull agairist the Gomet,” With the evidence bi*fore him, however, of the tremendous march o- ideas under the pressure of the bayonet Lin- coln was not the man to lag far behind, though still he aimed to follow rather than to lead the people, It was the enlightened march of the pablic mind of the mighty North that carried him, the army and the Union through the ordeal of the most gigantic and persistent re- bellion in human history. Here we come to the material forces operat- ing to shape the public mind to the inevitable drift of human events, The wise men origi- nally appointed to frama ® supreme constita- tion for the Union and the States did their work well under the ojrcumstances, They left the institution of African slavery to die ® natural death, and from what they had seen they had 00d reasons for the opinion that the {institu tion could not long survive the pressure of free labor and the general opinion of mankind at that day. But Whitney's invention of the cotton gin (1793) spoiled all their calculations. Before that the tedious process of separating the fibre from the seed made cotton culture an almost profitless experiment even in South Carolina; but Whitney's gin soon wrought its miracnlons changes. It made cot- ton at once a highly profitable product; it made slave labor in the cultivation of cotton 4 cash article. The annual supply of American cotton to the English mills rapidly increased. The demand increased with the supply. Negro slaves rose in price and continued to rise as the Southern cotton planters were enriched. The slaveholders of the Northern border slave States found the raising of slaves for the Southern market the most profitable staple from their wornout tobacco lands, until the slave trade with the cotton States from Rich- mond alone footed up twenty millions of dollars @ year, What next? The Southern slaveholding cotton oligarchy rising to the control of the government and firmly holding it for many years. Next we see this powerful oligarchy undertaking to cut loose from the Union by force of arms and to set up an independent confederacy on the basis of African slavery and cotton, In Jefferson’s time the coming wealth and power of this oligarchy were not distinctly foreseen. His ideas and dogmas of popular rights and State sovereignty were sub- stantially those of the infidel philosophers of the first French revolution. The Jeffersonian republican party was founded upon those ideas, in .which sympathy for republican France against the British monarchy had a powerful influence over the American people, still full of their War of Independence. Thus, under Jefferson, the constitution as it was under Washington was greatly changed. The checks and balances were diverted from the centre to the extremities, This was the beginning of that Southern State sovereignty construction of the constitution which, under the democratic party, served the purposes of the cotton oli- garchy down to 1860. The first direct conflict of the North with the South on slavery was that of 1819-20, re- sulting in the Missouri compromise. The next (1882-33) was on the side issue of South Carolina nullification, in which Calhoun was upset by Jackson. The next (1844) was on the annexation of Texas, an issue upon which Van Buren was thrown out by the Southern oligarchy, and upon which Clay was defeated by the abolition balance of power in New York, the first decisive movement of the aboli- tion party; and the second was in 1848, when Van Buren turned this party to the defeat of Cass. In the same year, with the acquisition of California, New Mexico, &c., from the Mexican war, came another sectional battle on slavery in Congress, resulting (1850) in the second great compromise adjustment of Heary Clay. But in 1854 the Missouri line retained in this adjustment under the demand of the Southern oligarchy was wiped out, poor Pierce in the White House and Douglas in the Senate becoming active instruments in this fatal ex- periment to slavery. In 1854 the republican party against this pro-slavery aggression took the field on the: bold ultimatum of ‘“‘no farther extension of slavery.” In 1856 it would have carried the Presidency but for the third party Northern diversion‘made by Fillmore. In 1860 Lincoln was elected on this ultimatum of arresting the march of slavery. Through all this long period of sixty years the constitution, as in- terpreted by Jefferson and his satellites, was practically enforced, with a lucid interval only here and there, and enforced, too, by suc- cessive Southern demands, down to the Dred Scott decision of 1856, in which, under the constitution, it was affirmed a negro had ‘“‘no rights which a white man was bound to re- spect.” From that revolting decision the whole poli- tical superstructure raised on slavery and cotton was soon undermined. And yet but for the new material forces introduced in the world after Jefferson his fundamental idea of State sovereignty against a central national sovereignty would have prevailed. Powerful as was Whitney’s cotton gin in giving a new life to slavery, which threatened at last an independent slaveholding Southern confed- eracy, the sfeam engine and the telegraph have been a hundred times more powerful in behalf of the subordination of the States and the sovereignty of the United States, not asa loose confederacy, but as a compact nation. Leaving out these modern material forces of steam and electricity, the plans and calculations of the Southern oligarchy were not extravagant ; but in the face of these for- midable appliances of the North the war for a Southern confederacy was suicidal insanity. Here, then, we stand on the firm founda- tion of national sovereignty, established by our railroads, steamboats and telegraphs, and fixed in the constitution. After a sixty years’ struggle the Southern slaveholding oligarchy and the theories of Jefferson have gone down together, and the wisdom of Washington and Hamilton is fully confirmed with the triumph of their grand idea of national sovereignty. The all-powerful, cénsolidating forces of this day, of which those great’ men never dreamed, have fixed their grand idea as the future law of both hemispheres—the absorp- tion of quasi State sovereignties and petty States under great and expanding national governments. Upon this firm foundation we can stand, and so under President Grant the Unton may be extended to the North Pole, on the one hand, and to Panama, on the other, with perfect safety. * Ath a somewhat superfluous flourish of trum- he contradiction by General Grant of the Less “A reports of conversations with him ‘ned in a copperhead organ of this Hesatp had already published fabricate. lately put,tis. city, The General Grant’ coxxtendiction of these reporta. Greeley, however, ‘the forty-seven Jaco repealing the Tenure o sought to put General Gran, Andy Johnson. Dopoma rie Question.—A radic®l cont ‘The Debt and the Currency” in an elaborate anu'cle organ of this city gives us its views om on Mr. Ewing’s letter, but ignores the few views propounded by General Butler, which now occupy the field of public thought on this subject, It is simply dodging the quesy.ton tll ft ean obtain a semi-inspiration from «%™* where, Fryrsa Norru.—The Albany Argus says flocks of wild geese have been flying north- ward for some days. Only politicians and lobbyists going to Albany to attend the pluek- ing of the Senatorial conse. the height of Greeuey AND GRANT.—Greeley announces ig stvangely silent about bins Who voted against ¢ Ofice bill and thus ‘upon o level with _ The Government ‘Telegraph. A radical organ in this city comes to the aid of the telegraph monopoly and furnishes five reasons why the telegraph business should not controlled by the government and form a of the postal system. These reasons, stripped of their verbiage, are in substance as follows :— I. The public markets in New York are for the most part public nuisances, while if left to private enterprise our supply of food would be better and cheaper than it is, Ergo, the telegraph business can be better done by pri- vate companies than by the government. II. The Post Office Department shows 4 deficit of six million dollars in the business of carrying letters and should not undertake to extend its sphere of operations until it can produce a better balance sheet. IIL That while the government telegraph would cheapen the cost of messages the clamor for lower rates would prevent any profits to the Treasury, and might even necessitate an out- lay which might be more profitably spent in cheapening the price of potatoes by establish- ing government potato-growing farms on a gigantic scale. IV. That as President Jackson and Post- master Kendal rifled the mails and burned abolition documents, and as General Jackson and Governor Maroy recommended that the circulation of such documents through the Post Office should be prohibited by law, it would be unsafe to entrust the telegraph to the. con- trol of the government, wuich must always be in the hands of the dominant political party. V. That as our government is in debt and is hounded by lobbyists for railroad subsidies it had better build railroads than construct tele- graphs ‘“‘where they are not wanted.” It is difficult to resist the impression that these arguments are cunningly devised to damage the cause they affect to espouse. Book farmers and bran bread philosophers. may regard public markets and potato patches as of more importance than the increase of fa- cilities and the cheapening of rates in the tele- graph business. But the people know that the telegraph is the great agent of civilization and progress in the present age; that in the hands of a private monopoly and with its use con- fined to the large capitalists of the country it must become an instrument of oppression and ‘injustice instead of a public benefit, and that in America, with its extensive territory, it is essentially necessary that a low and uniform tariff should prevail. A telegram is only a condensed letter, and the telegraph lines are nothing more than a quicker post than the rail- road trains. The telegraph and the postal or both be in the hands of private enterprise. There is not one business man in the country: out of ten thousand who would be willing to abolish the gov- ernment Post Office and to entrust the delivery of letters to private companies. No one doubts that if the transportation of the mails was left to corporations managed by rings and bound to earn dividends for the stock- holders the rates of postage to distant points would amount almost to a prohibition of cor- respondence. The fact that the revenues of the Post Office are now materially less than the receipts is in a great measure due to the encroachments of the telegraph upon that department. It is well known that telegraph lines, honestly constructed and honestly managed, could make a fair profit upon mes- sages at a tariff but little higher than the present rates of postage, and hence the two means of cémmunication, working together, could be made self-supporting. We have the experience of all Earopean countries that have tried the experiment in support of this pro- position against the bare assertion of those who oppose the government plan. ‘It is scarcely worth while to refute the ab- surd argument that it would be dangerous to entrust the control of the telegraph in the hands of the government during a Presiden- tial campaign, The same reasoning would hold good in a far greater degree in regard to the Post Office; for persons confide secrets to the mail which they never, under any circum- stances, would place upon the telegraph wires. So far as outlay is concerned, the main argu- ment in favor of a government telegraph is based upon the experience that the lines can be made to pay; and thus, instead of becom- ing a charge upon the Treasury, the business would yield a fair profit, and by its amalgama- tion with the Post Office would more than cover the present deficit in that department. Tae Franco-American ATLANTIO CABLE.— Our cable despatches from London, received last night, inform us that the steamship Great Eastern has commenced taking on board the submarine cable of the Franco-American Atlantic Telegraph Company. It is expected the Great Eastern will sail in June to lay the cable from Brest to the American coast. Axotner Rep River Camparan—Banks’ fizzle on the proposed Hayti protectorate. Wasnisaton Pasrry—Sevep and forty blackbirds in a radical pie. The Forty-seven Jacobins in Congress. We presented yesterday the silhoucttes of the forty-seven Jacobins in the House of Rep- resentatives ‘“‘who virtually voted a want of confidence in the incoming administration” by voting against repealing the Tenure of Office bill. We stuck a pin through each of these curious specimens of the swarm of Liliputian ‘‘politicasters” who have been buzzing in the Fortieth Congress. Political entomologists will thank us for this queer collection. There is something odd and comical about the very names of these Schenckses and Jenckeses, and Shankses and Shellabargers, and Stokeses and Paffes; the McCarthys, McKees, Trimbles, Higbys, Beattys, Upsons and Welkers; the Laflins, Moores, Moorheads and Mullinses ; the Newshams, Perhams and Elas ;*the Columbus Delanoe, Delos Ashleys, Jehu Bakers, Bethnel Kitchens af Ulyssus Mercurs; the Pikes, Pol Polsleys, Boicses and the rest—names ‘whosd Blifées chance fof {mortality depends upon the unenviable dlstinotion “t having op- posed the popular will to restore to itis office of President of the United States its original ‘forty-seven Jacobins in Congress, who have won a transient notoriety by trying to organize system are therefore practically identical and long as the forty thieves of the Arabian story should both be managed by the government, ( our forty-seven Jacobins may be pretty sure —__ asss,-- Squabbles Over the Election of Senator, The Legislatures of fifteen States—Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Indiana, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, West Virginia, Nebraska and Nevada—are to-day intensely agitated with the election of their respective Senator to the Congress of the United States. Not only is the public busi- ness laid aside for this, which is considered a contest for the spolia magna (the,big spoils) of politics, but the most unseemly personal quar- rels and the most disgusting practices of cor- raption are openly resorted to, without reserve and without shame. Men who claim to hold repectable positions in society, to be members in good standing in our churches and entitled to admission as equals among gentlemen, do not hesitate to avail themselves of arts and to com- mit acts for their own personal advantage which should be looked for only from a collec- tion of thieves and vagabonds or @ public gathering at the Five Points. It is these things which are undermining the confidence of the people in our practice of government and leading them to doubt the wisdom of some of our ‘forms. The election of Senator was placed by the founders of the republic in the hands of the State Legislatures for the purpose of freeing it from those arts which might be supposed to influence the pop- ular vote and to secure the election of # higher order of men tothe Senate. The pot- house politicians who now exercise #0 layge acontrol in public affairs have defeated this wise aim by carrying their own instincts into the Legislature and making the Senatorial prize the object of their own venal ambition. The squabbles and the corruption which we are compelled to witness among them are fast creating an impression in the public mind that it would be better to change our form of elec- tion and confide it tothe popular vote. Legis- lative squabbles and legislative corruption are beginning to stink in the nostrils of the people. nanan protest against investing the Presidency with ite ancient and honorable prerogatives wili be but of small account. More than half of them are lawyers. HK is, perhaps, not surprising that pettifoggers should be in- capable of appreciating the straightforward, manly character of General Grant. We can- not expect to find such folks hero worship- pers. Fifteen of these Jacobins are natives of New England, although, having left their country for their country's good, several of them represent other States than those in which they were born. One is a native of Lower Canada. Another, whose birthplace no biographer has discovered, is designated as ‘Mr, Newsham, of somewhere, represent- ing Louisiana,” and his constituents have consigned him to political oblivion after next March, Another is described as ‘‘Mr. Whitte- more, of Massachusetts, representing South Carolina.” This genuine carpet-bagger is the only preacher of the Gospel in the motley crowd. Another carpet-bagzer, ‘Mr. French, of New Hampshire and Ohio, who repre- sents North Carolina,” used to be a journal- ist, like two others in the list—Mr. Brom- well, of Illinois, a son of ‘My Maryland,” and Mr. Ela, of New Hampshire. Mr. Moor- head, of Pennsylvania, like the President elect, was a tanner in his youth; but this did not prevent him from voting against the repeal of the Tenure of Office bill. Mr. Ulysses Mercur, of Pennsylvania, hardened himself against all sympathy with his dis- tinguished namesake, and also voted against the repeal of the bill. Five of the eight members from Tennessee voted the same way, probably on the presumption that Gen- eral Grant would need the restraining influ- ence of the bill as much as President Johnson needed it. They know, or think they know, Andy Johnson, and they can’t see any difference between him and Grant. Four members from New York—Mr. Kelsey and Mr. Pomeroy, both lawyers; Mr. Laflin, a paper manufacturer, and Mr. McCarthy, a manufac- turer of salt—voted against repealing the bill. Without recapitulating any more names of the Prize Fientina wn Inprana.—The Gov- ernor of Indiana, in his late message to the Legislature, states that the penal code of the State contains no adequate provisions, either preventive or punitive, applicable to prize fight- ing, and recommends the immediate passage of lawsapplicable to such cases. The brutal practice having been pretty well suppressed in the Eastern States by summary punishment, it is a good sign to see the example follewed in the West; and no Western State can lead off in the contemplated reform with more grace than Indiana, where Lynch law and lawlessness are so notoriously rampant. in advance a party of opposition to the: next President of the United States, let us rejoice that their votes were outnumbered by those of thé sensible conservative members of the House of Representatives. The Jacobins can boast of no victory in their attempted on- slanght upon General Grant, even if they parody Miles O’Reilly’s lines and exclaim, Our bayonets were a thousand And our swords were forty-seven, If they may not hope to be remembered 80 Se . Bap For Susan.—Sne Murphy's house was hurt in the war, and she wants to be paid for it, which is quite natural on her part. But it has been wisely determined that claims of this sort cannot be paid. They are too numerous, and the debt would be piled upon us to an almost incalculable figure. Looking at Susan’s case, or any other isolated case, it seems hard, but it cannot be helped. Susan must suffer for the country, There were other women—as good Union women as Susan, too—who lost more than houses. They lost their husbands and their sons. There is no help for them and no comfort save the patriotic thought that their treasures went for the country. It must be the same with Susan. How can you taxa woman who lost her husband for money to give to Susan, who only lost her house? that they will be ‘‘bottled up” no less effec- tually at the next Congressional elections. The Railronds and the Albauy Legislature. Of the many evils which, if left unchecked, threaten the ruin of this republic, not the least formidable are the swindling operations of the managers and directors of our great railroads, Erie and the New York Central have acquired an unenviable notoriety. Never has the water- ing of stock been so audaciously..and unscru- pulously practised. By the issue of imperfect securities the managers and directors of these companies have during the past year flooded the market with stock of uncertain and demoralizing values. Much of this evil is to be traced to the privilege enjoyed by such com- panies of making by-laws suited to their own convenience. So long as this privilege remains unchecked there is no iniquity of which corpo- rate bodies may be guilty which by-laws may not be made to cover. It is bad, certainly, that stockholders should be so much at the mercy of a class of unprincipled mon. It will be worse if the unprincipled conduct of these men continues to receive sanction and encourage- ment from our State Legislatures. This, how- ever, is the very thing which the Albany Leg- islature is now’ asked to do. It will not be wonderful if the companies get what they want. Money is all-powerful in Albany; the railroad companies have plenty of it, and we may rest assured that the directors will not be sparing of it if by that means they can accom- plish their ends. If the bills now before the Legislature are passed it will be the duty of the Governor to veto them. If they are passed in spite of the veto by the requisite two-thirds vote it will be the privilege of As.emblymen and Senators to bleed the railway rings as freely as they can. We shall thus have another illustration that in our halls of legislation cor- P. S. anp THE P. R.—Political scienco and the prize ring are nearer neighbors than we fancy. Here is ‘all the world standing agape to see the solution of that great problem in political science as to the capacity of peoples to govern themselves. At the very foundation of our efforts in. this solution lie what we call the “primary elections,” the first of the steps by which we choose our rulers ; and up town at this moment the bruisers are settling the result in the primaries, so that pepular government begins just where des- potism does—in the application of might to make things right. mi Ayxiovs TO BE OrcANs.—The radical organ and the read-out organ of republican proclivities announce with great pomposity the fact that General Grant denies the Bohemian twaddle of conversation attributed to him several days since. They make a special point that General Grant has ‘‘authorized” them to deny these fabrications, and give the denial the importance of double leads, Alas for this crumb of comfort to the organs ! The denial they make with such flourish of authority was published by the Heratp four or five days ago as a simple matter of news, though based on the same authority. Revier ror Mrs. Lincotn.—A bill for the relief of the widow of the late President Lin- coln has been introduced in the Senate. It is proposed to appropriate a few thousand dollars to meet the case. Congress, rising patrioti- cally to the exigency of such cases, might pass a law allowing rations to the President as SrergotyPep Spanish ANNOUNCEMENTS.— “Another candidate for the Spanish throne.” “Additional troops for Cuba required.” “More disturbances in the provinces!” Commander-in-Chief of the Army and PUBLIC_EOUCATION. Navy. Under cover of such a law grants Graduating ca in Grammar School ja. . might be made to the widow Lincoln, and at the same time increase the salary of the President without involving the necessity of special appropriation, Mrs. Lincoln might, under such a law, receive a handsome amount of back pay due her lamented husband, and precedent be established whereby the President elect may have his salary increased without make Specleh ete een Tue Texure or Orrick Act.—In the Sen- ate of the United States yesterday Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill to amend the Tenure of Office act. Its provisions will be found in our Congressional report. The idea of Mr. Wilson in introducing this amendment fore- shadows an intention on the part of the Senate to oppose the passage of General Butler's bill to repeal the act altogether. As the proposed amendment has been referred to the Joint Committee on Retrenchment it may rest there until the subject of the repeal of the act comes before the Senate in due course of legislative proceedings. JuRYMEN.—These magnates are scarce, and that “charter of our rights,” the trial jury, promises-to come to grief for want of the jury. How splendidly tho trial by jury a fair trial is seen in the fact that (hare are professional jurymen near all the ig Sho can be secured by the party in ‘The first class which has graduated from the Nine- teenth ward was that which yesterday bade fare- well to Grammar School No. 27, the youngest school in the ward, The school, which is situated in Enst Forty-second street, is among the neatest in the city, and owing to the rapid increase of the popula- tuon im that district the school is crowded, there being in attendance in the female department, in which the exercises pwning 4 took place, some 250 pupils on the rolls. “Before the time set for the commencement of the exercises the assembly room was crowded with the friends of the schoiars and of popular education generally, while on the platform were President Larremore and the schoot officers of the district. A very pleasing and not too ate Se peci eepeie Sin. a er sin 5 a ing, recitation and caltsthenten ‘Anone. those por- tions particularly worth mention was the recitation of Mrs. Heman’s “Polish Boy” and aiso a well writ- ten and logi duet, “The Saviour's Angels; “Throngh the Wood, i ai jomas were nted to the graduates, Misses J. F, gd Allce Prender- eS dia A, Reynolds, Ei M. Cremin, Mary LA i Kate Galli Isabe!la rE ca nna 'M. bet Louelta J. Loyd, Julia J. M sh, Mary J. elly and Annie M, Kelly, and certificates tor merit in the supplementary grades were awarded to a number of others. A number of very a) priate prizes had been awarded by the trustees of tie ward, and they were distributed as follows:—First prize for ees excellence, a handsome set of ens’ work: y's jes of Wasttington La Fayotte, ag Women of the Bible and Mary Queen of Scots, to Miss Klien M. Cremin; third, for next highest percentage, Shake- ron and Moore, to Miss Mary J. Kelly; rth, for the beat compo-ition, two volumes—se- Jections from the British and American Miss ey cdl ge FMF for, Toa nady 4 tory, mes of Tennyson’ Annie M. Kelly. Hesides che above. Miss Drew, vico 4 presented in the graduating class, for ox- in his. Misa principal, cellence in certain branches, sopra teat ve mo. ry J. Reilly and dignity and power, Mullins and Company will rts w te remembered a while for having put on record danger for ‘air price, If » man will give a badd en Mary ¥. Tiassott, the, T distenst of Géneral Grant. Nearly half | gi, price of course ‘he will have o fair trial. ag 1@ little men of little faith will cease to nn It is reported that Marshall ©. Roberta Is on his Of the ars of Congress at the expiration of | Cuna’s Arrzat TO srattm “Let tas have | 7ry to tue ty ot moor tibany Ktening. Sournal, mem. pi y | ene tore next Marcb- @ shat their formal , troops.” dan. Te Coan