The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1869, Page 4

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Dav th street.—GRaND CONCERT RVOLEME SOCIETY, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENOR AND AZT. New York, Monday, January 18, 1869. New Arrangements for Furnishing the Herald, The steady increase in the circulation of the Herap has forced us to bring into use all our pressefacilities, which now enable us to throw off eighty-five thousand capies of the HEeraup per hour. Newsmen and carriers who have hereto- fore found delay in receiving their papers will in have their orders executed at a much earlier hour. future MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS The Dairy Hsraxp 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 Hexatp at the same price it is furnished in the city. THE NIWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated January 17. ‘The Turkish Minister has agreed to the main points for the settlement of the Eastern question proposed by the Conference now sitting in Paris. Troubles have broken out on the eastern frontier of Asiatic Turkey with the Persians. Additional troops will shortly be despatched from Spain to Cuba. Cuba, Telegraphic advices from Nuevitas state that the insurgents were concentrating a force of 10,000 men for an assault on Puerto Principe. The Spanish force Inside numbers sbout 8,500 men and is actively engaged in fortifying. The Peace Commission had arrived at Nuevitas and had sent out a messenger to the insurgents to propose a compromise. Advices received in Cuba state that General Grant and President Johnson are both in favor of Cuban independence, and that General Grant will aid in securing that object. Haytl. News from Port aa Prince to the 25th ult. is re- ceived. L’Anse Veau had been captured by the Cacos, who sacked the towo, leaving it almost in ruins. ‘The American Consu! at Aux Cafes had been severe- ly beaten by the local authorities, and Minister Hol- lister, at Port au Prince, was about investigating the matter. The Picquels were threatening Jacmel and Aux Cayes, The revolutionists under Nissage Saget were again investing Port au Prince. Jamaica, Advices from Jamaica etate that at a party given to some exiled Cabans recently the American Con- sul, Gregg, made a speech strongly favoring the annexation of Cuba (o the United States, a proposi- tion which was loud)y applauded. It happened that there were three Spanish spies present, Miscellaueous. ‘The protocol relative to the Alabama claims, as it has been sent to the Senate, and as it is understood to have been agreed to by the English Ministry, is somewhat different from that originally agreed on. It is known that President Johnson's changes in the original have been accepted. Four com- missioners are to be appointed, .two by each government, and they are to sit in Wash- ington. The claims pending between the two coun- tries since 1853 are to be adjusted, a majority of the commissioners deciding each question, and in event of atiean arbitrator is to be agreed upon and con- firmed by the Senate. ‘The Naturalization treaty and the San Juan Bound- ary treaty, according to the text submitted to the Senate, concede all that bas been claimed by the United States. Some of Senator Morrill’s advocates in the Maine Legislature have signified their conviction that Hamlin is entitled to the nomination. A Dr. Howard, of West Farley, Vt., had his pocket picked of $22,600 at New Maven on Friday evening, ‘The thieves escaped, Tho Gity, Fisewhere this morning we publish a comprehen- sive abstract of the third annual report of the Board of Health recently supmitted to the Legislature. During the past year 25,450 deaths ocourred in New York and 9,015 in Brooklyn, a large proportion being of infant children. The mortality shows only a slight incrbase in the aggregate of the two cities, although the summer season was the hottest and most un- healthy that we have had for forty years, # Tom, who carried the James Logan letter, it was rumored yesterday, has written to the authorities of- fering to surrender himself, provided they would guarantee him against going back to the State Prison to serve out the remaining two months of his time. Rev. Day K. Leo preached in the Bleecker street Universalist church yesterday on “Ihe Coming American.” Rev. Dr. MoSweeny officiated af St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and Dr. Carl Janssen Preached at 8t, ohuroh, in Jersey City, on the “ of the Church.” The Positivists held a meeting at Metropolitan Hall, and Bishop Snow preached at the University on “The Great Trumpet.” Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge Busteed, of Alabama, is at the aetropolitan Hotel, . Captain E, 8. Engrioy, of the Italtan army, and A. H. Polk, of North Carolina, are at the New York Hotel. General 8. Chowler and George W. Thompson, of Boston, and John H. Chowler, of the United States steamer Portsmouth, are at the Westminster Hotel. Henri de Gudennes, of Cuba, and J. D. Lawrence, of Baton Rouge, La., are at the Westmoreland Hotel. Captain Ward, of the British Legation, and J. S. Ropes, of Boston, are at the Clarendon Hotel. ‘A. B, Cornell, of Ithaca; C. W. Wooley, of Cincin- pati, and A. S. Cooledge, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, W. G. Bently, of Richmond, Va., ts at the Astor House. ‘The New Leader in Congrese—General But- ler and His Streng Points. - General Kilpatriek last fall, in the service of a radical clique, went, down East and into the Fifth Congressional district of Massachu- setts to unhorse General Butler. But the knight of Jersey signally failed, and the next thing we hear is that Butler in Congress has unhorsed Kilpatrick. * This develops in But- ler one of the strong points of General Jack- son. With the first opportunity he settled his outstanding accounts. Secondly of all the enemies of Andy Johnson the merciless im- peacher, Butler, was considered the most im- placable till last New Year's Day, when he went up to the White House and smoked the pipe of peace with Johnson and drank the toast of Rip Van Winkle :—‘‘Hero’s to you and your family, and may you all live long and prosper.” Here, in the courteous gallantry of Butler, is another strong point of character, challenging the admiration of the South Caro- lina chivalry. General Quattlebum has preached it, but Butler has practised it. “Let us have peace” is the motto of General Grant; and of all the mottoes of the days of chivalry there is none to surpass these four little words in simplicity and grandeur. It was supposed, however, that after the bottling up of Butler by Grant there could be no peace between these men. But a horse fancier, who knew the strong and the weak points of Grant and Butler as he knows the point of a horse, found no difficulty in uncorking the bottle and in effecting a reconciliation. Behold the re- sult! builders rejected, accepted by Grant, has be- come the head of the corner. the figure, Butler, as by common consent in Congress, steps into the high-quartered shoes of “‘Old Thad” and lays down the law to the republican party. repeal forty-seven bewildered radicals fly off Butler, the stone which the radical Thus, to change On the Tenure of Office atatangent; but they are out in the cold. The promised land, flowing with milk and honey, lies in the other direction. On Butler's grand financial theory Congress, Wall street and Chatham street are all bewildered; but Rome was not built ina day. Andy Johnson holds, they say, that the public mind in two years will grow up to his simple and effective policy of taking the interest of the national debt to pay off the principal. And why, then, should not public opinion expand to the flex- ible system of Butler? Make paper the basis of values ‘and gold will soon come down. This is better than the plan of the editor of the radical organ of resuming specie payments without the specie, though the flexible paper system may puzzle the ‘‘bloated bondholders.” At all events, assuming -that this financial system of Butler will take some time to ripen, we may say thatas a man of great political ideas and of great tact and energy in fighting them he will still hold his ground in, the coming Congress. In the Charleston Convention of 1860 he voted fifty-seven times for Jeff ‘Davis, and kept up the fight on that line till the dem- ocratic party was broken to pieces. But what then? He.cut loose from the whole concern, and at Baltimore, as the Union gen- eral in command, to the disgust of Davis, very soon settled the right of way to Washington. Next at Newport News, on the James, he first opened the eyes of Presi- dent Lincoln and Secretary Seward to the grand idea that negro slaves captured or fagitives ftom the enemy were ‘‘contrabands.” Before that, very absurdly, such property had been returned in obedience to the Fugitive Slave law. We had been shooting white men and delivering up their negroes according to the constitution. Butler introduced the laws of war. But it was in his military-civil gov- ernment of New Orleans that he most dis- tinguished himself. Here his skill as a lawyer and politician, and his resolute and energetic character as a dictator, proved him to be the very man to bring law and order out of chaos and to make the laziest, filthiest and most pestilential, the busiest, cleanliest and healthi- est city of the South. We say nothing of Big Bethel, Bermuda Hundreds and Fort Fisher. They were not in General Butler's line. But the force of charac- ter and the peculiar qualities displayed by him in the civil affairs of Baltimore and New Orleans during the war are the very qualities required in the leader of the House of Repre- sentatives. Hence we think that Butler is the man to take the place of Stevens. We think, too, that having assumed the position, he is the man to hold it; but we dare say that among the wrangling factions he will have something like his New Orleans experience over again from and after the 4th of March, Prstto Epvoation,—A quasi organ of the people that is not an organ of the people, but only makes believe, as the wolf made believe he was a shepherd, and does it very badly, is engaged in writing down the public schools because they teach too much, and in writing down the Free Academy because it interferes with some institutions that are not free. Read- ing, writing and arithmetic are very good things in their way, but it iss great advantage to society if boys and girls can be carried a little farther in an educational course, and it is 8 public economy to spend money for the pur- pose of so carrying them. The State should carry them as far as it can get them to go, and let old Columbia and the University take care of themselves, as they are well able to do. Instead of giving up the free college we have we are infavor of having another exclusively for girls, #0 that the girls who have gone throngh the public schools may have the same chance the boys have. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1869. A Flask Movement of the Jacobins. Ocean Telegraph Andy Johnson for the last three years has been under the care of a Congressional Com- mittee of Safety—the joint Committee on Reconstruction. On motion of Mr. Wilson, in the Senate, the case of General Grant has been referred to the joint Committee on Re- trenchment. This is a grim joke, The sans- culottes of the great French Revolution were fond of such jokes. They began with poor Louis XVI. by making him wear the cap of Liberty, and they finished him at the guillo- tine. The House passes a bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Office law by an overwhelm- ing vote. The repeal is known to be desired by General Grant, although recommended by Johnson and introduced by Butler. Hence, on being ‘‘called to the scratch” there are only forty-seven radicals in the House who have the moral courage to risk the suspicion of suspecting Grant. We like their pluck, but we fear it means mischief in the party camp. The bill of repeal goes over to the Senate, where it is referred to a smothering com- mittee, together with a substitute in the way of @ compromise, They cannot venture upon a blind presumption to give the incoming President a full vote of confidence, but they will go half way. They will release him from the shackles of this officeholders’ protection law in reference to his Cabinet, and they will not require him to give his reasons for the suspension of any officeholder in the ab- sence of the Senate, but that is all, If any such suspension, when laid before the Senate, shall not be approved it shall not hold good. There is some comfort in this to the whiskey rings. President Grant may turn their chief engineers out, but the Senate, with the assistance of the lobby, can turn them in again. The retention of this check upon ‘the man at the other end of the avenue” is urged by the editor of the radical organ upon the plea that in 1872 Robert E. Lee or some other ‘‘old line demo- crat” may come into the White House, in which event the only security of the office- holding radicals and carpet-baggers against a general clearing out will be this needed ‘‘con- sent” of the Senate. A poor excuse, they say, is better than none; but the Jacobins are apprehensive not so much of the election of General Lee in 1872 as they are of the defec- tion of General Grant in the interval. This half-way repeal of the Tenure of Office law proposed in the Senate is, therefore, only an adroit flank movement against Grant. The real design, no doubt, is to smother the bill in the committee and to let this Congress expire without any definite action upon it. The Jaco- bins want General Grant to show his hand. If Johnson protested too much in advance Grant has protested too little, and that was the game of Captain Tyler. To be sure, Grant has been the salvation of the republican party. Upon any other candidate, even against Sey- mour, they would have been swamped last November—President, Congress and all. But while Grant as the democratic candidate would have beaten Chase as the republican, Chase as the democratic candidate would pro- bably have beaten even Grant. ‘At all events, the republicans are indebted to General Grant for their success in gaining the Presidential succession and the next House of Representa- tives. He did not seek the Chicago nomina- tion; he did not want it. As General-in-Chief of the Army he had the best office in the country. Moreover, to the radical leaders he was Hobson's choice. The editor of the radi- cal organ, for instance, gave sigus of following Chase even inte Tammany Hall. ‘The devil is fond of fishing in muddy waters.” So.says the Rev. Father Weems in his ‘‘Life of Marion ;” and his Satanic Majesty, we fear, has discovered the weak points among the Jacobins at Washington—whiskey, to- bacco, petroleum, gold gambling, railroad jobs and spoils and plunder in every shape. Like Jack the Giant Killer, Grant is coming in to cut them down. But if they can save this Tenure of Office law they can hold him. Here, then, is the chance for the democrats in Con- gress to do something. They made a sad botch of it under Johnson in playing into the hands of “Old Thad Stevens.” They were scuttling their own ship in that precious trick of stupidity. And where were Messrs. James Brooks, Fernando Wood and John Morrissey when the vote was taken on Butler's re bill in the House? Finessing, perhaps. They could have saved Johnson in the beginning, and in saving him could have gained the .suc- cession; but they'preferred the fool's experi- ment of dancing to the fiddle of Stevens. Now ifthey have any sense or sagacity they will assist the republican conservatives, without hedging or dodging, to give President Grant a free course and a fair trial. Little things make the beginnings of great revolutions. Lotrery Swinpies.—‘‘They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare.” So says Paul, and, as the wife of Bath assures us, “Paul's a sound divine.” We suppose it is the desire of every man to be suddenly rich that keeps life into these never ending gift enterprises and dollar shops; but what folly can be greater than the folly these swindlers trade upon? Dear, good people of the metropo- lis, cannot you reach to the conclusion that the man is evidently fooling you who sells you a ticket for one dollar and positively declares that every ticket holder shall get a prize.worth two dollars, and that a dozen holders of favorite numbers shall get from one to ten thousand dollars each ? Will you inslst that there is certainly some mystery init? Well, the whole mystery is this: the seller of the ticket is a knave and the buyer is a fool. A ConoressMan’s Statement or Govern- went Fravps.—Mr, Jenckes is one of those sober, cool and talented men of the House of Representatives who does not make exag- gerated statements. Well, he said in his lec- ture on Saturday night, at the University building, that from his ‘“‘own careful examina~ tion during the last four years” the govern- ment had been defrauded in the public service @ hundred millions of dollars a year, and that Commissioner Wells makes the sum atill greater. Was there ever such stupendous fraud and robbery before? A hundred mil- lions or more a year stolen from the govern- ment and people! Is it not time that the Tenure of Office act should be repealed and the responsibility of a faithful execution of | the laws bo placed in the President? and the Lebby. The impudence and dodges of the telegraph monopolists and their lobby agents in Wash- ington are astounding. Just es a new Atlan- tic cable is about to be laid from Europe direct to New York; just as the Franco-American Company is putting that cable on board, ready to lay it at the only time of the year when the operation is likely to be successful, the unscrupulous and overgorged monopolists rush to Washington to throw obstacles in the way—on the ples, forsooth, that a foreign com- pany has no right to land a cable on American soil. For narrow-mindedness, illiberality and presumption this beats anything ever heard of before. Here is an important project that will be a vast benefit to the whole American people, and to this great commercial metropo- lis in particular—that, in fact, must prove a benefit to the world—and yet it is to be stopped for the sake of afew monopolists and specu- lators. A bill has actually been introduced in Congress, under the influence of these monopolists and their lobby agents, prohibiting the landing of cables along the coast of the United States. The proposition is a disgrace to this country and the age. Congress is disgraced by admitting such a proposition. It ought to have been kicked out unceremoniously the moment it was intro- duced. It would not have been tolerated in the dark ages; it is worse than the Chinese policy of exclusion of former times. The attempt to stop the progress of telegraphic communication, and thereby to prevent this great agent of civilization from becoming cheap and in general use by the people is in- famous. It is like shutting out, the light of the sun, for the one has become as necessary in the moral and material progress of the world as the other is to the world of nature, In this surprising opposition to telegraphic progress, worthy only ot a barbaric age, there is reason to believe the Western Union Telegraph Company has taken the most active part. This monstrous monopoly does not scruple to place itself in hostility to the interests of the whole community and to invade Congress with its impudent pretensions. We do not know what the law is on the sub- ject, or whether there be any law, local, national or international, relative to land- ing cables on our soil, but we do know that if any obstacle exists it ought to be swept away at once. We notice that the bill prohibiting the landing of cables has been referred by the Congressional committee hav- ing it in hand to the Attorney General for his opinion on the subject. It is to be hoped Mr. Evarts will take a broad and liberal view of the matter and report upon it without delay. We see, too, that Mr. Doolittle offered a joint resolution in the Senate to authorize the Presi- dent to consent to the laying of cables from the shores of any foreign country to the United States by a foreign company, provided that foreign governments concede the same privi- lege to American companies or citizens. This isa good measure and should be passed at once; but, as it will take time to carry out the necessary diplomatic arrangements, and the cable now ready to be laid from France might be delayed in its work for another year in con- sequence, something should be done imme- diately to assure the company that no obstacle will be placed in its way. The monopolists would gain their point in part, at least, if the work can be suspended. For this they are working with all their power and by the use of a large lobby fund. If Congress has any sense or patriotism it will defeat their infamous schemes and proclaim at once the broad and liberal policy that as many ocean telegraph cables as either natives or foreigners choose to lay may be landed on American soil. Senator Wilson on the Tenure of Office Act. One extreme radical Senator, at least, has become alarmed at the prompt passage in the House of Representatives by an overwhelm- ing vote of General Butler's resolution repeal- ing the Tenure of Office act. Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, was not willing to wait till General Butler’s House bill reached the Sen- ate before making an effort to squelch it. He did not want this question to come up squarely and fairly before the’ Sen- ate, and, therefore, endeavors to head it off by introducing a bill to amend the Tenure of Office act. It is unnecessary to gointo the details of this proposed amend- ment, for it is simply a Jacobin subterfuge to perpetuate Congressional control over the Executive, and amounts to a declaration of want of confidence in General Grant. There is no middle course in this matter. Either repeal the act and place the Executive in the same position he occupied through the whole history of the government up to March, 1867, or let the radicals openly and honestly say they will not trust the President elect and keep the law as it now stands. The question should not be dodged in the sneaking manner proposed by Mr. Wilson. General Grant may say, those who are not for me in this matter are against me. Those who may vote for this proposition must be regarded as against the new administration and as determined to govern the country by a Congressional oli- garchy. It is folly to talk of peace or of harmony in the government if this Jacobin assumption of power is to be perpetuated and the President be made a mere automaton in the hands of a Congressional faction, contrary to the spirit of the constitution and the former practice of the government, There would be nothing but dis- cord and inefficiency in the administration, the laws unexecuted and worse corruption and disorganization than we have seen for the last two years, Who is responsible now for the stupendous revenue frauds and all the other evils that have afflicted the country? The President says Congress is, and Congress lays the blame onthe Prefident. It will bé the same under General Grant’s administration if the Tenure of Office act be not repealed, for while that is in existence there is no responsi- bility anywhere. We know not whether Mr. Wilson has moved inthe matter to head off General Butler's bill on his own hook, or is the mouthpiece of the Jacobin faction in the Senate; but if sustained by the Senate his ac- tion will split the dominagt party, be the com- mencement of a war upon General Grant's administration, and lead to complications and changes both in the government and political parties. Thia, perhaps, after all, is the ob- ject of the Jacobins, and if we mey judge froja the language of the chief radical organ in this city, in endorsing Mr. Wilson's action and in condemning General Butler's, it would be rea- sonable to conclude so. There is, as we have said, no middle course. Those Senators who are for the new administration will oppose Mr. Wilson's proposition and go for the repeal of the Tenure of Office bill, and those against it will act otherwise. We regard this as the en- tering wedge of a conflict between the extreme radical faction and the incoming administra- tion, Tho result will be looked for with deep interest. The Workingwomen of New York. We published recently a long, graphic and in- structive account of the condition of the work- ingwomen of New York. We have read nothing in recent years which has so convinced us that among our many social questions, all of which are important and all of which demand study and reflection, there is a woman's question which can hardly be over-estimated, but the full im- portance of which is as yet only dimly per- ceived. The sorrows of the seamstress is an old story, much older than Hood’s ‘Song of the Shirt’—older, in fact, than large cjties, older than London, or Rome, or Nineveh, or Baby- lon—a story, however, in which large cities are specially interested. It is a painful fact that vice is bred of poverty, and that one of the worst forms of vice grows out of the hard- ships of well meaning but helpless and needy females. There is no greater blot on our modern civilization than this, that in all qur great cities—in the New World quite as much as in the Old—there are thousands of virtuous and high-spirited women who have no choice but to starveor sin, ‘That such is the fact it is impossible to deny. That it should be a fact is certainly not in harmony with the genius and spirit of Christianity. Why, then, in this nineteenth century, have we to lament that such a state of things exists? Why is it that unprotected womanhood in New York, in London, in Paris, in the very centres and sources of Christian light and power, should be exposed to perils which would have put doomed Pompeii to shame and which would have brought the blush to the cheek of pagan Rome? . Why? If it is not the fault of Christianity it must be. the fault of so-called Christian men and women. We have no lack of churches; we have priests and parsons and preachers in sufficient abundance; but what are they all doing? So far as the helpless and forlorn woman is concerned, might not the churches and their well-fed, well-clothed and well-housed officials as well be in Alaska or the moon? What is needed is not so much choirs, nor incense nor sermonizing—all of which are good enough for the good and those not yet ‘‘out of the way”—as a going down among the people and practically grappling with the social evils of the day. A little more of such work than the world is now familiar with, and the millions annually spent in the name of Christianity would show a better result, As we haye but small hope of the churches, we are glad to know that the work is likely to be undertaken by others. Politically we have not much sympathy with women’s rights women ; but if Susan B, Anthony and her able coadjutors prove’ themselves of real benefit to the unfortunate seamstress and grapple at all successfully with one of the greatest social evils of the age they will be entitled to the thanks, or, what is better still, to the sympathy and co-operation, of every well-meaning man and woman in the commu- nity. This is their true and legitimate sphere. In that sphere we heartily wish them success. Toe Eastern Question—Pvusiio Sxnti- MENT.—It now begins to appear that the Paris Conference has little, if any, sympathy for Greece, so far at least as the question how stands between her and Turkey. Greece is to be taught to behave herself better for the future and Turkey is to be asked, on such promise given to withdraw her ultimatum. Since the time when Greece fought for and won her independence what a change has taken place in public sentiment! Then the world went mad against Turks. Philhellenism was a universal passion. Now there is none 80 poor as to do Greece reverence. Why it should be so is a proper question for Greeks to study. In their love for Greece and so- called Christianity Europe and America can- not afford to be unreasonable and unjust. Burns Natat Festrvar.—This year the ad- mirers of Burns, under the presidency of David Dudley Field, are determined to outdo all previous efforts in celebrating his natal day. It appears that the ladies are now to rush to the shrine, and, at the Metropolitan Hotel, make the evening glow with a brilliancy of dress and an array of beauty rarely equalled. They are determined not to let the gentlemen have all the enjoyment in these celebrations; and they are right. It is related that when Benjamin Franklin was on the eve of leaving Paris for the United States he received a little note from Madame Helvetius inviting him to dine. Although it prevented his departure he courteously answered that he would willingly postpone a visit to Paradise for such a plea- sure. We have no doubt but the spirit of Burns will, for one evening, forego the pleasures of Paradise to pay court to the ladies of New York who assemble to honor his natal day, InTerestixe From CuBA—PRosPECT OF A Srrtovs ENGAGEMENT,—Cable despatches from Havana received last night furnish us with some interesting intelligence relative to the progress of the insurrection in Cuba. It seems that a desperate struggle is imminent at Puerto Principe, and that extensive preparations were being made on both sides for the conflict. The peace commission, composed of prominent Cubans, had arrived at the theatre of war, and were endeavoring to effect a compromise be- tween the belligerents. It wasdoubtful, how- ever, whether they would succeed. The fact is the insurrectionists are bent upon having a good fight and will not bo satisfied without one. We shall probably soon receive intelli- gence of a serious engagement at Puerto Prin- cipe, and perhaps at other points on the island, ‘Tne Suppression or tx Evonisn P. R.— The English authorities evidently seem bent on breaking up the prize ring. Two buffers were recently fined in London for engaging in a pugilistic encounter. Let us hope that this decision on the part of the gnardians of the peace in England will have the desired effect, and that pugilism, so long a disgrace to the age, will be offectually suppressed, General Grant and Heary Wilson, to the repeal of the Tenure of Office law. He is the man who wants to save the country from Grant. He is the one sleepless guardian of the national welfare who still appreciates our danger, All other men in the nation—we might say all other powers, for of course Wil- son is 8 power—have considered the danger © that there might be in Grant having the full Presidential authority, and have concluded that it isa chimera. Wilson knows they are wrong. Here is the whole mass of the nation—the people from Maine to Missouri, and Alaska to Louisiana nearly—they have all considered this thing and voted their abso- lute trust in Grant; have declared in the most unequivocal terms their confidence and faith in the honesty, the upright purpose, the resolute integrity of this man. Wilson alone cannot trust him. Surely Wilson, if not the people, is a little better than the people, and wisdom will die with him. Here also are the representatives of the people, and they have expressed the popular thought with an almost unqualified voice, only forty-seven echoes of radical frenzy and chagrin saying nay; but Wilson knows that the representatives of the people are deceived; that their eyes are blinded to what they ought to see; that they are sleepy guardians of right, and smooth, good natured fellows, who have given way to cajolery. He alone cannot be deceived— cannot be blinded. He alone continues | sternly resolute to guard the nation from the danger it would be in if Grant should pos- sess the same power held by every preceding President—the power to perform in his own way the acts for which he is held responsible, Perhaps people may fancy from the fact that Wilson is the head and front of the opposition to the repeal of this law, that then the opposi- tion is intellectually a feeble one, that it has not behind it any considerable authority in knowledge of the law; or, in a logical view of the political results of a given act, that it is the mere opposition of routine and stupidity, and a man who wants to stand forward as oppos- ing something, no matter what. Strictly speaking they might be right, but it might be hardly just to argue in that way. - Wilson, it ig true, is nota great lawyer, in fact no lawyer at all; nor a great statesman, nor a particu- larly clear thinker. But what then? You cannot expect everything of one man. He is the friend of the country, the man who stands ready to guard it though all others have given it up. This resolute virtue must be accepted in lieweof great abilities. Grant is the man who has done the country greater services than any man living, and Wilson is the man who has done it less service than any other man living; nevertheless he possesses a patriotism so much superior to Grant’s that he can ven- ture to suspect the sinister designs of that soldier, and is ready to fight him in the cause of the country. Grant has performed his services. Wilson's turn has evidently come, Spain's Next Dirrtoutty.—The elections, so far as they have gone, show that Spain is still to be a monarchy. Who is to be the monarch? The candidates are so numerous that it will not be wonderful if the difficulty of the provisional government be greater after the elections than before. I¢ is difficult to discover good reason why the government candidate, if they have any, should not be more prominently set before the people. Ifa surprise is intended, a surprise may be dan- gerous. ‘ If a candidate is still to be decided upon, the future. cannot be said to be pro- mising. Tae Drives in tHe Park.—Probably no park in the world can boast of better roadway than our Park. When the roads were made it was supposed by the Commissioners that they were sufficiently wide to meet the wants of the community. Experience, however, has shown that they are entirely too narrow as thorough- fares for the numerous and daily increasing vehicles that throng that fashionable place of resort. We see no good reason why they should not be widened at the first convenient opportunity, as the space that might be de- voted to that purpose is almost unlimited. At present the roads are more or less dangerous, Trovniz BeTwkEN ToRKEY AND Penrsta.— It will be seen by our Atlantic cable despatches, received last night, that trouble has arisen be- tween Turkey and Persia, and that the Ambas- sador of the Porte had left Teheran. This will, no doubt, add to the difficulties which surround the Eastern question and may result in grave consequences to the Turkish govern- ment. A Western SENATORIAL SENsATION.—The St. Louis Despatch announces the contest lately going on in regard to the United States Senatorship from Missouri in the following startling displayed heading:—‘‘Kilkenny Cat Fight,” “Dog Eat Dog,” ‘The Great Radical Row,” “Drake and Schurz in the Ring, ‘First Blood and First Knock Down for Schurz,’’ “Drake Returning to his Know Nothing Vomit,” ‘He Denounces the Germans,” and adds edi- torially:—‘‘The controversy between the Puritan and the infidel, the Know Nothing and the German, is growing flercer and bitterer every moment. Here is an authentic account of the set-to between Drake and Schurz last night:—Go it, husband! go it, bear. Allen mind your eye, Davis put in your duke.” All of which translated means that the German element in Missouri has signally triumphed over Know Nothingism in the nomination of Carl Schura by the re- publican caucus, Mrs. Grant AND THE Lapigs OF THE Sourn.—A Georgia lady, writing from the Metropolitan in this city to the Atlanta New Era, denies a statement that Mrs, Grant had been guilty of harshness and ingratitude towards the people of the South while on a visit to her husband when he was on military duty in Georgia, The writer says she was in the South at the time Mrs, Grant was there, and, with many others, experienced from that lady “‘the most marked kindness and gentle treatment,” These are pleasant lines falling in pleasant places, Tae Mute in Conargss.—The mule was. on the carpet in Congress, if he did not have the floor, inst Friday, It was moved to authorize the distribution in the Quarter. master's department of a volume of instruc~ tion on the management of the mule, A fing brotherly spirit this!