The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1869, Page 6

“ 6 NEW YORK HERALD |e reported nut appropriating $22.00 for | city is @ deadweight upon the party through- | The Completion of Southern Reconstruction. eS Saamnigl® Purposes, after which the Senate *4-| out the United States; that it has become a| Throwing aside the vaporings of a fow native BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic In the Assembly a large number of unimportant sort of Mumbo-jumbo, or raw head and bloody | fire-eaters and the spasmodic efforta of a hungry bills were passed. ‘The bill to facilitate the con- | bones, by which many honest democrats, far straction of the Oswego and Midland Kajiroad pro- [ and near, are frightened over to the radicals. crew of Northern and Western politicians to retain office, we may set down reconstruction hibits this city from taking stock in the road. A re- Unquestionably, when a judge from one of our | in the South as. completed, or if not entirely so, solution was adopted requesting the Senate to trans- mit the evidence in their possession relative to the ‘The overissue of stock by railroad corporations, despatches must be addressed New Yor« | assempiy then adjourned. Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. turned, Volome XXXIV. No. 50 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.Junny Linp—Jack Suvreany anv His Dow—-THE AVENGER. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and ‘2d sereet.—Onrake aux &: Ra. nih. street and Sixth ave- ABANT. FRENCH THEATRE. Fi Bue.—GENEVIEVE DE WALLACK'S THEATR roadway and Ih street. — Mucu Avo AnouT Now BROUGHAM'S THEATS: STEW—DRAMATIO REViL Twenty-fourth st.—An Isis ron I OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homrrr Domrrr, with New Fraruzes. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Nita; oz, Wo- MAN'S ConsTANOY. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twent, Th ava—RomzO axp JuutEr. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Souiucer's Tra- third st, between 6th and GUDY OF THE ROBBERS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur BuRLEsque Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE FORTY THIEVES. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thictioth etreet Broadway.—Aiternoon aud eveuing Performance. me THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street,— cuNmI- THe TAMMANY, Fo street.—CoustN ScHNRL Miscellaneous, criminal couris, after pronouncing sentence | yet in such a fair way of entire realization as upon a convicted murderer, finds it necessary | to excite no fears or apprehensions about « to accept the protection of an armed citizen | speedy and satisfactory result, Evidence of on his way home, something must be done or this is to be seen in the introduction of North- Mr, Loew, the Clerk of New York county, who is | the party goes to the pawnbroker. But this | ecn capital for tho purpose of investment in now in Washington, was toid by Mr. Lawrence, of | drama is not altogether a tragedy. It is a | manufacturing, in the construction of new and the House Comunittee on Election Frauds, that he Rejeeted communications will not be re- } Must produce the naturalization papers filed in his Mr. Loew has determined not to produce them, as he would otherwise violate his oath of office. Oftice, The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has | of decided to recommend the rejection of the Alabama claims treaty, The President yesterday nominated General Wil- liam F, Smith to be Consul General at Havana, The text of the Darien canal treaty recently con- cluded with Colombia is furnished this morning in our Washington correspondence. Add to Miscellaneous Gustave Hasmann, who killed a man named | be done to appease Passel at a ball im Hoboken, about Christnfas, was yesterday found guilty of manslaughter by the jury, who recommended him to mercy. Emil Hausmann, who was tried with him for the same crime, was acquitted, The City. The Chamber of Commerce held @ meeting yester- } basement, In this di day and received the report of the Committee on the “png erp bens ceed East River Bridge. The report states that the pro- Posed bridge will not interfere with navigation, and mixture of the gravity and fun of “Hamlet,” | the improvement of old lines of railroads, in “Shandy Maguire,” “New York by Gaslight,” | the cutting up of vast estates into small and ‘Humpty Dumpty,” “Der Freyschutz” and | convenient farms, in the introduction of a the ‘Chinese Tea Flower.” The plot, like that | hardy class of mechanics, artisans, agricultur- an opéra bouffe, is hard to make out, but | ists and all those industrious classes which we give it as we understand it. . unite in making prosperous communities, in The “big house” of the plantation is the | the gradual cessation of partisan strife, in the Manhattan Club, where they have champagne. | improvement of Southern State credit, in the Tammany Hall is the headquarters of the over- | unexpectedly large supply of cotton and other seers, where they have whiskey. Orders have | staple productions at the Southern shipping been issued from the club that must | ports; but above all in the determination of fe wrath of the people. | the Southenm men to cease growling and of The big chiefs of Tammany proceed to consider | the Southern women to cease “pouting” and the question, and they say that henceforward | together put their energies to work—on the ope the roughs and the bummers ‘“‘must take back | hand to restore the physical prosperity of the seats,” and they announce in favor of a burnt | South, and, on the other, to revive those do- offering of one or two doubtful members of the | mestic joys aid comforts of which the homes of l the Southerners have been so fong deprived. Hall, the Governor and: others of the inner Among the pleasant indications of the prac- temple join. But O’Brien ‘smells the rat and | tical reconstruction of the South we are happy closes with @ resolution informing the United States | Will nip it in the bud,” and he threatens seces-.| to quote remarlfs like the following from a Senave that the Chamber has no objection to its erec- | sion, and a march upon the capital. Andwhere | Virginia paper, referring to the arrival of tion. Some debate ensued on adopting the resolu- tion, in which Congressman Barnes stated that Brooklyn in 1900 would have 5,200,000 inhabitants. The resolution was finally carried by an almost unanimous vote. ‘The Board of Health has been taking evidence as are Tweed, McLean and O'Gorman? They | @ number of gentlemen from New York, are in a fix; they are among the elbows of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New Hampshire Mincio, and they are mightily bothered. If | and Delaware, and also from Germany, for the the sheep are to be separated from the goats, | purpose of investing in lands :—“We hail the the goats may prove too strong for the advent of new settlers who will bring to our ACADEMY OF MUSII Fourteenth street.—] Oreva—Rowret LE Deas is pau WAVERLEY THEATRE, 730 Broadway. — Bowola-A PRETTY PinGr OF Busiwuass 7) COPETA MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— APTEE Dank. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comtc SKETCHES anv Living SratUEs—PLvi0. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 685 Broadway.—ErHio- TIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &c. BRYANTS' OPERA street.—ETHIOPIAN Mini TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Voca.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELS SE, Tammany Building, Mth C. ‘SE, 201 Bowery.—Comic c- NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourtee n street. EQUESTRIAN AND GTMNASTIO ENTERTAINME BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-.Lxe’ a Goverxoz Lows. ' poeta rn HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo.ey’ MINGTRELS—TaE DooTOR oF ALL CaNT AREAL. UM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— ET. NEW YORK BOmNOR AND TRIPLE SHE New York, Friday, cmuey Notice to Herald Carriers and News Dealers, HERALD carriers and news dealers are in- 9, 1869. formed that they can now procure the requisite | °*!!ing at Queenstown to lama passengers, number of copies direct from this office without delay. to the injurious effects of lime burning. It that there are four peda sand Peas and rule them out. Who knows? If Fer- | city and the surrounding counties their energy emit dally 88,000 barrels of carbon to be spread over | Bando Wood had not made his pile and his | and capital. The more we have of them the the city and inhaled with the air by the people. a | peace with Tammany, and had not retired from | better. They need not fear to come to a conn- eae of 200 parts carbon in 100,000 parts of air | the drudgery of Mozart Hall, here would be a | try in which every good citizen is welcomed, fine chance for him “to smash the machine.” |.no matter from what portion of the Union he The Independ i Es nang, Independent Board of Brokers met at No.6 | But Wood being pacified and reconstructed, | halls.” In a like epleit s Vicksburg’ paper, National Stock Exchange. Considerable excitement | the big chiefs of Tammany hold the vantage | hitherto one of the flercest in its demand for ensued in relation to @ portion of the report on or- | ground. There must, however, be no flinch- | Southern rights, observes “‘that the only policy ganization, which named members of the commit- | ing, If they flinch they fail, Don’t look back. | for a people striving to emerge from the com- tee 0 was meee ane. Ete evaaies hevae “Remember Lot's wife.” We have seen a frag- | plicated misfortunes of an adverse war is to resolve, over and above every circumstance to election of officers should take place on Saturday. ment of that pillar of salt. One thousand barrels of whiskey were selzed yes- We apprehend that this breach will widen— | the contrary, to indulge alone in cheerfulness prvi cd plies pagers Re its iia in | that we shall have a war of the roughs and | and industry.” A Georgia paper gives the as required by Ci os eae fey eeiuiy oe the smooths, as we once had‘of the hards and | particulars of a large gathering of people to usual stamps, : the softs—but that in this case very great attend an important railroad convention. An ‘Two individuals named Cole and Marshall were ar- | results will follow. Possession is nine points | Alabama journal announces the arrival of a saat Feiragrie on renpicton ae a Seas of the law, and there is something, too, in the | number of New York capitalists with a view y A epescus platform of law and order. The cauldron is | to develop the resources of the country. A eae ie rash oarageant tae eed ney beginning to bubble; let its contents be | New Orleans paper chronicles the fact that six committed. caiheminat thoroughly stirred up, and let the dregs and | hundred thousand bales of cotton have reached ‘The Inman line steamship City of New York, Cap- ] we scum be skimmed off in the boiling. | that port already this season—an amount more tain Tibbitts, wili leave pier 45 North river at twelve | That's the way to get a kettle of good soft | than covering the receipts for the whole season M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liver- soap. Soap is good—soap is the article—for | last year, which ended onthe Ist of September. pool. The mails for Europe * OMice at eleven re" eet baty seat ao sg ea the purlieus of Tammany need « thorough |*This, of course, does not include the receipts of The steamship Engiand, Captain Thompson, of the | Scrubbing and washing. Meantime General | sugar, molasses, &e. At Mobile thirty thou- National line, will sail from Pier 47 North river, at | Grant is coming in. After the P pageens sand tons of shipping are in port loading and eleven A. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool, | fourth” of March we may expect a new | awaiting cotton cargoes. At Savannah there shuffle, cut and deal of the cards of the In- | are forty thousand tons of shipping loading The Anchor line steamship United Kin Cap- * tain Campbell, will sail it pier 20 io pra nf ternal Revenue offices, the Custom Honse, | With cotton, rice, &c. The port of Charleston twelve M. to-morrow for Glasgow, touching at Lon. | Post Office and all the spoils of the national | is also carrying on a fair trade with foreign All complaints of “short counts” and spoiled | ‘The General Transatlantic Compang’s steamer St. sheets must be made to the Superintendent in | Laurent, Captain Lemarie, will leave pier 50 North the counting-room of the Hrratp establish- EM te oe ment. eight A. M. 20th inst, donderry to land passengers, government—a deal which will break up the political combinations of Andy Johnson here- abouts. Thus a new party may spring up in for France will close at the Post Office at halt-past | this city which before next Christmas may hold the winning band. As this democratic ports and gradually recovering from the severe depréssion that has attended its commerce since the war. In the interior (of Georgia par- ticularly) traffic is so brisk that people for the time forget even their own relations and home Newsmen who have received spoiled papers ‘The new steamer City of Mexico wilk leave pier 17 East river to-morrow morning at ten o'clock for from the Hzrap office, are requested to re- | Havana, Sisal and Vera Cruz. turn the same, with proof that they were obtained from here direct, and have their | at three o'clock P, M. to-morrow (Saturday) for New | g new and hungry swarm. money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be Sold to readers of the Heratp. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. ‘The Dairy Herax will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month, ‘The Merchants’ line steamship United States, Cap- | Tammany. tain Norton, will sail from pier No. 12 North river Orleans direct. The Black Star line steamship Huntsville, Captain Crowell, will leave pier 13 North river at three P.M, | Bave @ new suit, a gold watch, chain and on Saturday for Savannah, Ga. The sidewheel steamer Isaac Bell, Captain Bourne, | ring?” ‘Yer, sir.” ‘‘And yome greenbacks?” ‘Will sail at three P. M. to-morrow from pier 37 North river for Norfolk, City Point and Richmond. ‘The stock market yesterday experienced a reac- tion and prices advanced under large purchases. | Saved to the till.” “The postage being only thirty-five cents a | 9! was very weak, and finally closed at 1341;. qu + 3 airy subscribers by this arrangement can Feceive the Heratp at the same price it is furnished in the city. ~ THE NAW §. = ree The cable telegrams are dated February 18. Prime Minister Serrano has been requesied by the Spanish Cortes to rearrange the Cabinet, ‘The French Minister of the Interlor, M. Forcade, bas announced his intention to repress all abuses of the right to assemble in public meeting. Caba, The Captain General has deereed the closing of all ports where there are no custom houses, Cholera prevails in the Eastern Department aud measures are being taken to Two thous ent its spreading to Havana. 4 Spanish chasseurs are expected Several severe fights had occurred mo between Cespedes and the Spaniards. column of Spanish troops had re- lio, having beea harassed by the along the route Sellor Mauricio Roberts, Mini from Spain to the United States, had arrived at Havana from Cadiz, on his way to Washington. A despatch from Key West states that the city is overrua With Caban refugees. Congress. te yesterday the bili to establish an ine of steamships to Europe was reported "owt OMce Committee, with amendments. tion to print the memorial of Duif Green in jon to the national finances was adopted, but ayer moved to reconsider the vote, as Green had been a notorious rebel, and the whole subject The Trouble Among Our Local Demo- cracy=A Reconstruction Movement. When’ a political party has run to seed it | pers” comes up in an interesting shape apropos falls to pieces. This is the universal law of | to the investigation of the election frauds and nature, The democratic party of this city has | the contumacy of Mr. Loew, the Clerk of this fix to seed, and, as now organized, is bound | county. Mr. Loew is called upon to produce to fall imto pieces. It must be reformed or it muddle now appears we incline to the big | @uties in transacting business. Ask a man chiefs and to the ins against the outs of how his family is, and ten to one he will answer Like the fox in the fable, we | You, “Twenty-nine cents a ponud” (referring think the flies that are gorged are better than | t0 the price of cotton). Said the oyster- Briefly, we declare that reconstruction is house man to an applicant for the bar: ‘You | completed in the Soath, or so nearly that it cannot longer be made a bugbear to frighten trinkets?” ‘Yes, sir.” “A diamond pin and old women with; that all trouble is over, and that all the South has to do is to raise good crops, make money, be economical, carry out the laws of Congress, pitch the goblins of con- stitutional amendments to the dogs or the radi- cals—it does not make much difference which, forthe amendments now in Congressi onal throes about negro equality will never be incorporated in the constitution—place their trust in Grant and “let the nigger slide.” ® fact, the country is practically relieved of its concern about the negro, and it is time it was. For upwards of thirty years twenty-four millions of whites havg before the committee “all the naturalization | been wasting time, talent, blood and treasure “Yes, sir.” ‘Then, sir, you are my man; for in engaging you these things are so much Congress and the Clerk of This County. The question of the power of Congress to have before its committees “persons and pa- will be displaced. Of late years, under the | applications in his custody that were made on | to free and elevate four millions of blacks. rule of the big Indians of Tammany, it has waxed fat and kicked. The big Indians have risen to the grandeur of millionaires, and the little Indians have learned to dabble in stocks | from his office “‘any of the court records with- and real estate, while the Cossacks, drummers | out authority from the judges.” the 21st and 28d days of October last,” and he | What has it all amounted to? They are, of refuses to do go, alleging a law of the State as | course, free, as @ery human being should be his reason. This law forbids him to remove | who has judgment aad intelligence enough to appreciate a state of freedom ; but it is a grave As the com- | question whether the mass of the blackies are and bummers of the party upon their pickings | mittee refuses to take copies or to make | any better off, or even as comfortable, as well and perquisites of one charter election manage | application to judges who could give to subsist till another comes on. The election reserves of the grogshop primaries have learned that they hold a balance of power, and at, the ballot box the vagrant, the rough, the highway robber, the burglar, the incendiary and the assassin have extorted not only funds and pe ce to crime, but fat places and official authority to their confederates, until the question has arisen whether the legal au- thorities or the lawless party elements behind them are masters of the city. If we are not mistaken there was, in July, 1861, a volunteer New York soldier of the name of Lynch, who, with a considerable number of others whose three months’ term of enlistment had just expired, by the almanac and the clock, turned his back upon the Union was thereupon laid on the table. The House bill | providing fo on in Virginia was reported from tire Ju Committee, with amendments, | ‘The resolution to pay the Southern Senators for the | e term of tie Fortieth Congress was taken up, | {ter postponed; and the Indian appropria- | was taken up. An executive session was | heid, in which several unimportant nomination were confirmed. Jn the evening session the House hil! to regulate the franking privilege was taken up and passe : In the House the Committee on Elections reported natn the right of Tuomas A. Hamilton, of Tennes- | the table on Weduesday, then came up on a motion | present Sheriff O'Brien. When things come to such a pass a reaction is sure to follow. When see, toaseat. The Banking bill, which was lad on to reconsider ‘ote laying it on the table, The vote was reconsidered, and the bill, with several amendments, was passed by @ vote of 100 to 77, Mr. Houtwell, from the Reconstruction Coumitiee, stated that the commrttee had determined to postpone pre- a bill establishing @ provisional government ippl until after the 4th of March. In the session the Army Appropriation bill was agi discussed, without coming to any action ve- yond the adoption of the amendments proposed by Messrs. Hutler and Dodge. The Legisiature. Bitia were introduced in the State Senate yesterday topr » for the care and safety of insane criminals; ty suppress intemperance; authorizing Brookiyn to vorrow money for the construction of sewers. A tamer of billa were reported upon by their respec- live nittees, A resolution was carried for the appolatment of @ spectal committee to investigate she working of public scbools ip this city and to re- port wyiat additional legisiation is necessary to im. prove the educational system. The Finance Com- army in the battle of the firet Bull ran, the field to the anf “left sound of the enemy's cannon.” So says General McDowell. This soldier, Lynch, #0 re- turning from battle, was nominated and | elected Sheriff of this city. How? Because | order froma judge, for such an order he can | he had the boys at his back who controlled | get at any moment. | the democratic machine, and because here anything bearing the democratic label could are indebted to the same influences for our | the Union army was surprised at Cedar Creek, of spoile. We know what followed. | weeding out, beat out of sight anything opposed to it. We | and its camp and camp stores and half its ar- tillery were captured and the army itself was | put to flight, a large portion of the rebel army of Early, thinking that, with the field in their | possession, they could doas they pleased, pro- | ceeded toa grand carowsal over their harvest Sheridan came up; the tide was turned, and the rebel army, utterly demoralized, was utterly routed and dispersed. Noni Manhattan Club, it is given out, inspired with some such sense of danger to their partf here, have had « council of war on the subject, and have resolved upon some Perhaps they have heard that the demoralization of the democracy of this | and so Greeley has been raising a false aati, the | fed, clothed, sheltered, doctored and otherwise cared for in their present condition as they were when in a state of servitude. A few order, the dispute, we suppose, will go to extremities. Mr. Loew bases his refasal on ingnficient | instances exist where negroes have shown un- grounds. Naturalization is by the constitution | usual intelligence and adapted themselves to conditions in life which reflect honor upon and that body has complete control by right of-| their race; but these are isolated cases—the all papers that relate to any act of naturaliza- | exceptions to the general rule—and it will re- tion. State courts are beyond their sphere in | quire ages of freedom, surrounded with, all assuming authority over this subject, and | the appliances of learning and knowledze, to courts beyond their sphere are simply not | elevate the pure black man to an intellectual | courts at State. Neither can the State Legis- standard with the white. The negro question lature control this matter, and so far as the | being definitely settled, and reconstruction in law relied upon relates to papers of « national | effect accomplished, the South has nothing character, it is unconstitutional and yoid. | now to do but to advance forward in its career Naturalization, perhaps, ought to be dove only | of prosperity, civilization and progress. in United States courts; but though for the lin ‘mess te convenience of society the act be done in State courts, it is none the less a function of the | national anthority proper, and all the power is | with Congress, Loew had better produce his | papers, and if he is afraid of the State law he | may cover bimself by procuring beforehand an a subject entirely in the hands of Congress, Tue Teaties with Ex@Lanp.—The Sena- torial Committee on Foreign Relations has taken decided action on the three proposed treaties with England. The committee favor- ably recommends to the Senate the naturali- zation treaty. It is equally in favor of the plan proposed for the settlement of the San Juan dispute. The committee, however, unanimously recommends the rejection of the ther | Alabama claims treaty. The recommendations of the committee are quite certain to he fol- |. GENERAL Grant ror 1872.—General Bu has nominated General Grant for 1872. Butler is evidently of the opinion that the measures and lowed. me — the general policy of Grant's administration Tne Corcoran Ixquiry—A Lesson 10 will make him the people's choice for another | gexatons.—An incident occurred in the re- term, whatever may become of the political | ported proceedings on Wednesday of the parties of the day; and from present appear- | senate Committee on the District of Columbia ances Butler is right. The country is satisfed | which, while it reflects honor on the brave old that things will work well under President | steward of the Russian Minister, who refused Grant. to retail the chit chat of guests at the Ambas- sador’s table, and told the impertinent Sena- tors that he “‘had never ed the spy, and did not intend to do so in Wis old age,” covers with disgrace a committee of the highest repre- A Faisr AtanM.—Greeley is afraid that if | sentative body of the Aimerican people, and, they do not hurry up in Congress the projected | from the relations of the parties, makes us all constitutional amendments the resolution, if | an object of not very complimentary remark passed, may come within President Johnson's | elsewhere than at home. It is quite time for last ten days, and so be pocketed and killed off, | the Senate to remember thas these disgraceful But the fact is that the President's Yee exhibitions by its own members reflect on the of @ constitutional amendment is not nedessary, | entire body, and that every true American cheek reddons when reproots so just aa that Taiok AS THE Leaves IN VALLAMBROSA— Pardons and appointments by President John- , son. Will they stick ? | brains and blocked civilization. * NEW YORK HMRALD, FRIDAY, WeBKUARY 19,1869 TKLPLY SHEE. administered by the Rusdlag steward to Sena- tor Nye are brought to light, We sincerely hope the time ia rapidly approaching when Senators will have more self-respect than to permit the filth of partisanship and private hate to soil the good name and fame of the United States Senate. : : The Coming Revolutionary War in Eurepe. Modern progress in Europe indicates a coming revolutionary storm—a contest be- tween the remnants of feudalism on the one side and the growth of liberalism on the other. The present enormous national debts of the different European Powers have nearly all been created in the interests of retro- gradism. Whenever any great upward move- ment of the masses has taken place armies have been marshalled, loans levied and all the national force brought to bear for the purpose of crushing the movement and giving the monarchical, aristocratic, feudal element a longer lease of power. In Europe the people pay taxes on a debt created to crush them. It is quite the opposite in the United States. We pay taxes on a debt qreated in the in- terests and inthe defe of f civilization, The consequence naturally follows that in Europe the people feel the taxes to be an in- supportable burden, while on this side the water they are freely met asa payment for the privilege of having our progress uninter- rupted. Europe is beginning to make this comparison. The result is naturally very un- favorable to monarchical institutions, and consequently these {institutions are desirous by every possible method to force the public mind along the wornout feudal channel, with the hope that some retrograde step in civiliza- tion, some second “middle age” period may give opportunity to reform monarchical power and extend to it another lease of life. For this we see all Continental Europe strained to the last sinew and pro- gress bled of the last dollar to hold great armies in the leash ready to be launched forward in defence of boundary lines which do not belong to the telegraphic and railway era of the nineteenth century, but to the days of old roads, old communications and darkness, ‘Peace establishments,” as they are sarcastically called—in the aggregate some five millions of men, splendidly equipped— stand facing each other to-day in Europe. These men are paid by the governments to support the governments; but the people, the masses which are struggling upward, are sus- taining all this tremendous load upon their shoulders—sustaining it for the simple reason that boundary lines in Europe are too numer- ous and for the reason that no monarchical element will recognize that government is a movable thing; advancing or receding with the civilization or the barbarism of the peziod, and that unless a country remains perfectly sta- tionary no system, be it monarchical or republican, cen frame a constitutional code which will fit the country during a ingle century. if Europe has well illustrated our arguments within a few years past, and without going back to the earlier periods of her history we may take the last ten years and trace some- thing of the results of the printing press, the steam engine, the railroad and the telegraph. These have made sad havoc with the little and petty German principalities which, by the very binding force of the times, have rubbed out the dirty boundary lines that shut up Italy, ham- pered by the retrograde element, the clergy, has bent to the modern forces and dragged after it the chair of St. Peter, despite its occu- pant. Russia has bowed to the serf and, with ever far-seeing statesmanship, cemented the parts of its territory more firmly together. Europe wonders why we sympathize so much with Russia. She is territorially great, and being thus she has the opportunity to become allelse that is great as rapidly as progress can push her onward. There is an inborn American principle, the birth of our Western civilization, that we love vast boundary lines, and we shall respect Europe in proportion as we see narrow boundary lines disappear. We want to-see Europe, to the west and south of Russia, under a single government. Euro- pean Russia, in its population, its present and future interests, belongs to Asia and now moves in that direetion. That our wishes will be gratified we have no doubt, and quickly. The times demonstrate it, and the five millions of troops feeding upon those whose interest it is to disband them also show it, When will thestruggle commence? Whowilllead it? It may be that Spain has started the fire, first for the unity of Latin Europe, and then for the struggle of the Latin against the banded Ger- man element. The great cry of France for some years past has been the unity of the Latin race. It was this cry that supported the Mex- ican invasion which resulted in the death of Maximilian, and it is a principle which all Latin Europe feels to-day to be its only hope. The Mont Cenis tunnel will leave the Alps for the admiration of poarists and will break one boundary line and strike out one govern- ment. The railroad that links Paris with Ma- drid and Lisbon is wearing rapidly upon the boundary line between France and Spain, which threatens to disappear with two more governments, Numerous telegraphs and zail- roads are binding Germany together beyond all power of future division, Secession is as impossible in the East as in the West, for it means secession from the movement of the age. In the approaching European revolu- tionary war for the destruction of boundary lines it ia, perhaps, doubtful which of the two great clements, the German or the Letia, will dominate for the moment. It is, perhaps, more to the point to say that the feudal ele- ment in both of them will give way before the onward mftrch of Buropean civilization, and that in the blotting out of debts, armics: and boundary lines all at the same time the people of Europe may prepare the way for such pros perity and happiness aa are now only found in the Western World. _ Work ron tae New Conaress—A consid- erable budget of the unfinished bugingss of the present Congress, It is dou' ‘whether in the short interval to the 4th of March the an- nual appropriation bills can be squeezed through, to say nothing of the House bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Office law, which hangs fire in the Senate. pisonnteniiaeaaeeemenenee Opps Wanrap—~On the New Market races. Philosophical Balderdash. One of our New York journals has just pub- lished four or five closely printed columns of philosophical balderdash, consisting of a lec- ture. by Professor T. H. Huxley, who an- nounces what he claims as his discovery of the vital principle. As nearly as we can make out from his somewhat Sibylline and oracular revelations, a nucleated mass of protoplasm (whatever that may be) turns out to be the structural unit of the human body. As a mat- ter of fact, according to the erudite Huxley, the body in its earliest #tate is a more multiple of such units variously modified. And he does not hesitate to add that the formula which expresses the essential structural char- acter of the highest animals “very nearly” covers all the rest, as the statement of its powers and faculties covered that of all the others. ‘Beast and fowl, rep- tile and fish, mollusk, worm and polype are all composed of the same character—namely, masses of protoplasm with a nucleus.” What our “new philosopher” asserts of the animal world he declares to be no less true of plants. And he forthwith enters into an elaborate de- monstration of the analogy—nay, the identity— between the nettle and man, ‘Traced back to its earliest state, the nettle arises as the man does, in a particle of nucle- ated protoplasm.” Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, he affirms to be the formal basis of; all life. Without entering at present into the discussion of the assertions of Professor Hurley that all protoplasm is proteinaceous, and that we may say that all living matter is more or less albuminoid, and notwithstanding his eloquent eulogy of David Hume as the predecessor of Auguste Comte, we must re- gard his prelections on the universal vital principle, on the possible conversion of dead protoplasm into living protoplasm, and the transubstantiation of sheep into man and man into lobster, together with his frank admission that he himself “shares this catholicity of ass-imilation with other animals,” and his re- production of Hartley’s old theory of ‘‘brain waves” as the veriest philosophical balder- dash. It reminds us of ‘a memorable retort of Daniel O’Connell in the House of Com- mons to an opponent whose father, said the great agitator, he had known as the author of a theory that the motive power of the brain _consisted of a fine, invisible, intangible attenua- tion of lead. ‘I must admit, at least,” said O'Connell, ‘‘that this theory is confirmed by the son, althongh in his case the lead is neither invisible nor intangible,” A Mortzy Grovr.—New England offers Adams, Sumner, Wilson, Boutwell, Banks, Butler, Hawley, and sq on, for a seat in Grant’s Cabinet. It is indeed a Motley group. It would not be surprising if Motley won. Comptroller Green’s Report to the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park. The interesting and important report of Comptroller Green to the Board of Commis- sioners discusses the practical questions rela- tive to intercommmnication between the north- ern part of the island, which is now being laid out for a ‘future city, and that to which it is tied by indissoluble connections, and incident- ally examines several cognate subjects. It demonstrates that the lower part of Westches- ter county, lying adjacent to the city of New York and separated from it only by a river of a width easily bridged or tunnelled, is so inti- mately conmected with and dependent upon this city as to render unity of plan for improve- ments on both sides of the river essential, not only for the future convenience of the inhabit- ants, but in order to avoid the expensive pro- cess of changing the plan of the coming city after it shall be built up. Mr. Green is un- questionably right in contending that the lay- ing out of roads and bridges and the appor- tioning of expenditures for great works built in the interest of both the county of New York and the county of Westchester and of the whole public should be taken out of the petty squab- bles of small jurisdictions end left to the de- termination of some body with comprehensive powers capable of dealing with these subjects, not in: the interest of New York alone or of Westchester alone, but in that of both and of the whole public convenience. In the enu- meration of such works as the water supply, the sewerage, the navigation of the interjacent waters, the means of crossing those waters and the land ways thatshall be laid on each side so as to furnish the best facilities to both, nothing is included that will not, as Mr. Green says, bo more wisely and better planned and executed by a single authority, and nothing that pro- poses any present change in political jurisdic- tion or thet is calculated to disturb the func- tions or privileges of any existing officer or officers. The report of Mr. Green shows how neces- sary and how practicable is the improvement of the navigation of Harlem river and Spuyten Duyvil creek, which form the boundary line between the two counties. They are really but one river, or rather they are an estuary connecting the tide waters of the East river and the Sound with those of the north side of the city. ‘Ata small cost, in comparison with the accruing benefit, a channel can be made from the North river to Long Island Sound, through the Harlem river, with greater depth of water than the North river affords at some points between this city and Albany and of width sufficient for all practical purposes of the commerce that will seek to use it. Such a channel ‘‘will shorten the distance of travel between the North river and the Sound and of a large portion of the city of Brooklyn lying on the East river, and between the North river and the Eastern States by more than twenty miles around the Battery of the tedi- ous, expensive and unsafe navigation of the crowded waters that skirt the city, and, in connection with the improvement proposed at Holl Gate, will increase the facilities of foreign traffic by the Sound,” In order to give some idea of the extent of bridge and tunnel communication that will ultimately be required between New York and Westchester Mr. Green refers to the ex- perience of the cities of London and Paris. He adds that whenever the population of New York and Westchester shall assume the density on the shores of the Harlem river and of Spuyten Duyvil creek which that of London has on the Thames and Paris on the Seine the means of communication must be fully equal to those afforded across the Thamos and the Seine, and it must be borne in mind that the