The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1869, Page 6

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The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Heraup at the same price it is furnished in the ci! i kegted NEWws. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated March 11. ‘The English Secretary of War made @ statement yesterday before the House of Commons, in which’ de says that the army estimates will be reduced 1,000,000 as compared with last year. The Amnesty Committee of Dublin, Ireland, has started a subscription to aid the Fenians aed Te- eased from prison. * Cuba, The tnsurgents are reported tn large force and Strongly intrenched at Sagua la Grand. On the 7th @ fight occurred at Macaca, in which the insurgents ‘were routed. A column of troops had gone from Bayamo to Mayari to drive out Cespedes and his forces. Five suspicious steamers have recently been sighted off unfrequented parts of the coast, Gad the Spanish mind 1s excited over the probability that they may be the Peruvian monitors. Jamalcn, ‘The steamer Mount Vernon, with Faubert ana other Haytuen rebels on board, had arrived and been Completely fitted out for service against President Sainave. a The Administration. Secretary Washburne yesterday presepted his let- er of resignation to President Grant, his {ll health preventing his further performance of the arduous duties of the State Department. The President ac- (cepted the resignation with many regrets. —~ The foliowing nominations were thereupon sent Bnto the Senate, where they were immediately con- g@irmed:—Hamilton Fish, of New York, to be Secre- of State; George 8S. Boutweil, of Massachusetts, be Secretary of the Treasury, and General Joun A. Rawlins to be Secretary of War. | Among other nominations sent to the Scnate were 4he names of James B. Longstreet, to be Surveyor of Customsat New Orleans; Edward V. Kingsley, to ‘De Secretary of Legation at Madrid; Frank Moore, ‘Secretary of Legauon at Paris, and James W. King ‘to be Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, in ‘Place of Isherwood, “whom | desire removed." { The aiplomatic corps, headed by Baron Gerait, Araited formally, upon Presvient Grant yesterday nd presented their respects. The President re- lied in @ neat’ speech of somewhat more than the wal iength. « Adetegation of Georgia republicans, headed py ‘oater Blodgett, waited upon the President yester- day, and after the usual greetings iaid the state of ‘@tairs in Georgia before him, and respectfully urged ® strict enforcement of the reconstruction laws. Whe President repited that he desired yery much to ee all classes of people in the South protected in their opinions. On inquiring what the Legislature of that State would do in relation to the fifteenth amendment, Mr. Blodgett said the democrats in- fen led to pass it, as they were anxious, as they gatd, Yo inflict negro suffrage on the d—d Yankees. Congress, In the Senate yesterday Mr. Grimes, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill for the Peorganization of the navy, with amendments. Seve- ¥al bills of minor importance were introduced and referred, and the bill to strengthen the public credit ‘was taken up. The #tcond section, legalizing con- tracts made payable in coin, was stricken out. ‘Without finally disposing of the bill the Senate ad- dourned until Monday next. ‘The House was not in session, The Legislature. In the Senate yesterday, bilia were reported Amending the act for the opening of Lafayette square an Brookiyn; retative to the tax commussioners in New York, and incorporating the Passengers’ Transit Company of New York. + Notice was given of inten- tion to introduce a bill to incorporate the Arcade Raiiroa®Company of New York. Bilis were intro- Guced reviving the charter of the New York Steatn ‘Tratiait Company; relative to the charges for freight ‘on the Erie, Central, Hudson and Hariem ratiroads, and authorizing the sale of a portion of Prospect Park. The committee investigating the charges of Amproper influence in the Senate last winter in refer. ence to railroad legisiation made g report and recom- mended the passage of Mr. DIM in regard to vrivery and corruption. An evening session was held mm which the bill abolishing the canal contracts ‘Was discussed, In the Assembly the bill authorizing workingmen Ao form societies for mutual protection was pasred. {ne bit exempting honorably discharged soldiers (1 sutiors from service in we National Guard was ‘leved to a third reading. Miscellaneous. Fx-President Johnson was received cordially in Baitimore yesterday and was entertained at @ ban- Quet last evening. Mr. J. M. Binckley, ex-Solicitor of Internal Rev- @nue, met ex-Commissioner Rollins on the street in ‘Washington yesterday and some worda ensued be- Gweeu thom, but no blows were struck. Afterwards’, cat, NEW YORK HKRALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Mr. Binckiey met Depity Commissioner Hariand and assauited him, knocking him down and getting his own clothes and person somewhat damaged in the melée. Binckley then went before a justice of the peace and was held ior nis appearance in the sum of $300. . The terrific snow storm in Canada still continues and the railroads in every direction are covered over, Four New York trains are snowed up at St. John, but the passengers are well supplied with fuel and provisions, An avalanche at Point Levi crushed in @ house containing fifteen persons, three of whom perished. The new constitutional amendment was ratified Yesterday by the Legulatures of South Carolina, Georgia and Maine, The Navajo Indians, aided by white renegades, have commenced war upon the whites, They are weil armed and have whipped several small bands in South Colorado, A company has been organized in Utah for the purpose of building a branch railroad from Sait Lake City to the Pacific Railroad. Brigham Young is president of the company and Joseph A. Young superintendent. A fire broke out about seven o'clock yesterday morning tn Cannon place, Troy, which destroyed property to the amount of over $75,000, which was fally insured. A house tn White's court, near Broad atreet, Phila- delphia, occupied by a family named Kidd, fell yea- terday morning, trom bad construction, burying the entire family in the ruins. Mr. Kidd was taken oat alive, but his wife and two children were instantly killed. ‘The steamboat Swan, from Philadelphia for Salem, N. J., Was run into Wednesday afternoon by the steamer Fanita, from New York, and sunk imme- diately. All of the passengers were saved, several of them being scalded, one badly. A train containing 600 head of hogs Arrived at Buffalo ou Sunday last. Forty of the enimals soon died of hog cholera, and on Monday 400 of the re- mainder were forwarded by the Erle Railroad to tis city. The City. The alumni of Williams College held a meeting at the Astor House last evening, at which Mr. D.D. Fiela presided. Speeches were made by William Cullen Bryant, Colonel C. F. Dwight, Professor Car- ter, President Hopkins and others. Ladies were Invited to remain after the removal of the cloth. An investigation was commenced before Justice Taylor, on Staten Island, yesterday in regard to the cruelties practised on board the emigrant ship James Foster, Jr., during her voyage from Liverpool to this port, when some seven or eight seamen died. The testimony taken thus far discloses an almost incredible brutality on the part of the captain and his mates. Professor Arnold Guyot lectured last evening at the Madison square Presbyterian church, under the auspices of the Union Theological Seminary, on “Man Primeval.” Rey. Dr. Anderson lectured at the Church of St. Mary’s, Williamsburg, on “Ireland’s Place Among the Nations.’” ‘The new and splendid steamship City of Brooklyn, Captain Samuel Brooks, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow (Satur- day) for Queenstown and Liverpool, The maiis for Europe, which go by this steamer, will ciose at the Post Office at twelve M. on the 13th inst, The’ National lino steamship France, Captain Grace, will sail from pier 47 North river at three P. M, on Saturaay, 13th instant, for Liverpool, cail- 7 ing at Queenstown to land passengers, The Merchants’ line steamship Crescent City, Cap- tain Holmes, will leave pier No. 12 North river, at taree P. M. to-morrow (Saturday), for New Orleans direct, ‘The stock market yesterday was heavy and de- clined, but quiet, The new Board of Brokers, called the National stock Exchange, went into operation. Gold drooped with @ rise in bonds abroad and an impression that Secretary Boutwell is in favor of selling the government treasure. It settled as low a8 L31%y and closed finally at 131} a 1315. ~~ Promineut Arrivals in the City. Governor John Crane, of Colorado, and W. H. Hooper, of Utah, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Hamilton Harris, of Albany; Senator L. M. Morrill, of Maine; Tho. Whitridge, of Baltimore; M. Cort- right, of Pennsylvania; Henry Simmons, of London; Purser J. S. Clingham, of the United States Navy, and Dr, Whe, of New Haven, are at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel, 4. M. Kent, of Virginia; H. Winters, of Engiand, aud Samuet B, Keys, of Cincinnati, are at the Hort. man House, Admiral Boyle, of the United States Navy; W. Porter, of Washingtou; Captain Parriott and Major J. ¥. Grimes, of the United States Army; Congress- man Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts; Judge Balcom, of Binghamton, and Rey. Dr. Ely, of Long Island, are at the Astor House, Colonel D. A. Whitcomb, Major A. D. Pratt and Captain Henry Smith, of the United States Army, and Charles B. Waguer, of St. Paul, Mino., are at tne St. Charles Hotel. Captain J. 0. Green, of Kentucky; W. R. Bill, of Selma, Ala., and James Walsh, of Chicago, are at the Maltby House. Mr. George Evans, of Corpus Christi, Texas, ts at the New York Hotel. Judge Beal, of New Jersey; Colonel Charles Stew- art, of St. Joseph; Professor Eastman, of Columbia College; Judge Charles Miller, of Pluladelphia; Dr. Cole, of New Orleans; Colonel J. C. Pierce, Sergeant- at-Arme of the Senate, Albany; ex-Governor J. L. Gibbs, of Nebraska; Colonel J. R. Lewis, of the United States Army, and Colonel T. A. Lewis, of In- diana, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Prominent Departures. Commodore Taylor and Paymaster N. J. Wheally, United States Navy, and Dr. Eugene Crowell satied yesterday in the steamship Alaska for Aspinwall, The Cabinet Settlement. The Cabinet difficulty has been settled, and the Cabinet as reconstructed stands as fol- lows :— Secretary of State—Namiiton Fish, New York. Secretary of the Treasury—George 8, Boutwell, Massachusetts, Secretary of War. nota, Secretary of the Navy—Adoiph E. vania. Seoretary of the Interior—General Jacob D. Cox, General Joha A. Rawlins, [it- Borle, Pennsyl- master General—J, A.J, Cresswell, Maryland. Attorney General—Bbenezer K. Hower, Massachu- netta, Mr. Elihu B. Washburne, in giving up the State Departinent, gets the appointment which he has all along desired, of Minister to France. He bas had a taste of the beauties of Paris and the genial climate of Frauce, and he has found that this is the very change of air which his enfeebled constitution requires. He has, too, been qualifying himself for Paris in a vigorous study of the French language since his return from his late European tour, and has already, we understand, mastered some- thing more than the usual complimentary exchanges of a morning call, and bas caught the true Parisian accent. We had entertained a hope that Mr. Washburne would remain at his post in Congress, the right hand man Yor General Grant in the work of retrenchment and reform. For this importamt duty,’how- ever, we must now fall back on General Butler. Mr, Washburne is to be congratulated on securing the nicest berth in the gift of the government, He is a man of abilities, and though not a professional diplomat, his long career in Congress has qualified him for the bawiness and made him conversant with every- thing connected with our foreiga affairs. Moro- over, Olrpresent relations with France are of that amicable character which promise our Minister there season of rest, recreation and restoration of heath and strength for years to come. So we hope & may bo to Mr. Wash- burne, and that officially-be will maintaia the Jae + Oey... A good impression left upon the French Emperor, Empress, Court and people by Goneral Dix. But the Cabinet settlement is the question before us. Of Hamilton Fish as Secretary of State we need say nothing more than this: that from his education in the law, his experience in public affairs, his cool and sound judgment, ripened by study, time and observation, and from his intimate knowledge of the consequences to American commerce of English neutrality and belligerent rights, we may expect that he will prove an efficient in- strument in behalf of the foreign policy fore- shadowed in General Grant's inaugural—the policy of a settlement with England—not ac- cording to the instructions of Mr. Seward, or the protocols of Mr. Reverdy Johnson, but ac- cording to the American éxample of Andrew Jackson. We see, at all events, in this ap- pointment that there was something more than the courtesy of a private call on Mr. Fish in General Grant’s last visit to New York. > Massachusetts gets the most important and responsible position with the Treasury De- partment, and to make her cup of joy. run over she has the Attorney General to boot. We have passed through a great revolution. What South Carolina was, they say, Masss- chusetts is in the government, in Con- gress and in the Cabinet. The chivalry have gone down and the Puritans are in the ascendant, It seems to be under- stood, however, that Mr. Hoar will remain in the Cabinet only for a short time, in fulfilment of General Grant’s original idea that no State shall have more than one member. Meantime Mr. Boutwell for the Treasury, while satisfactory to the leading politicians, is regarded as a man qualified in ahigh degree for the practical duties of his department, He is represented as having no affiliations or sympathies with the whiskey rings or Wall street money changers, and as @ financier thoroughly drilled in the financial policy foreshadowed in the inaugural. Best of all, as he is not “engaged in trade or com- merce,” he does not fall under the ban of the Treasury law of 1789. General Rawlins (General Grant's favorite chief of staff) for the War Office means that there is yet a vast amount of work to be done in the reconstruction of the affairs and ma- chinery of the department and the army, and that a soldier possessing the fullest confidence of the President and the largest knowledge of his military views and plans is required for this service. In the same view Admiral Porter is made the active general manager under Secretary Borie of the professional busi- ness of the Navy Department. General Grant has evidently labored in his appointments to secure competent and devoted assistants in his administration and to avoid at the same time a quarrel with Congress or its ruling politicians. He has certainly, in the reconstruction of his Cabinet, made to Mr. Sumner a fair bid for the repeal of the Tenure of Office law, and it is probable that the repeal will now be carried. The temptation on tho part of the Senate to retain this law is still very strong, as the law gives to the Senate the next thing to absolute power over the spoils. But the House has made this discovery, and, impatient for a voice in the distribution of the offices, is becoming anxious for the repeal. But whatever may be done with this obnoxious Ten- ure of Office law, we may be sure that when General Grant begins to get thoroughly into his retrenchments and reforms we shall have dis- cords and mutinies, and clashing cliques, and hostile factions breaking out in the republican camp in the general scramble for the spoils, The Case of Me. Soward—The Ingratitude of Politicians. It is a melancholy fact that we have to de- fend Mr, Seward in his old age. We were never his adherent, neither his supportor nor his admirer. We never shared in spoils of his winning nor fattened on the plunder gotten at the cost of his moral sense. And yet we, at the last, out of an enlarged humanity that we alone possess among journalists, must raise our voice in behalf of the aged statesman and against the treatment he is receiving at the hands of those who adhered to him in his days of pride and prosperity. Behold the Secretary on his way to Auburn. He isin the doldrums— @ place out of which Webster wili not help one. It is equivalent to saying that he is in the horse latitudes, with not the least breeze of hope for the future to waft a sluggish fancy to better places. He feels so badly that he does not want to make a speech. Because he has not heart for speech‘or that brisk converse and interchange of conceit that was his delight he will not dine. He refuses even the most delicate viands. Judge of the state of his stomach and of the intellectual condition that led to that state! “This is the state of man!” The “nipping frost” must come; “but when it comes (if we may mix our Wolsey with Macbeth) there ought to be “‘troops of friends” to cheer and shield against its discomforts. Where are the friends ih this emergency of the ancient Secre- tary? There is a voice from Rio, not so gene- rous in its aroma as the Rio coffee—the voice of James Watson Webb, to wit. This James Watson Webb is the creature of Mr. Seward’s clemency, and whereas he is now an ambas- sador, but for Mr. Seward he would have been merely a discharged convict. Seward’s par- don saved him from a prison cell and a dreary journey to Auburn; but he now sees Seward make a dreary journey to the same town, and adds what bitterness he can in his allegations against the Secretary's foreign policy. Ray- mond is no better than Webb. He, clinging to Seward’s skirts, has been dragged through or bounced over many a political puddle in which otherwise he would have perished making no sign, and now he feels that it would make him look very poor to give a good word to the man departed from power. From Greeley we could expect nothing else. Seward once refused to give him some little office in a country town-—a post office, per- haps—and he has been Seward’s sworn enemy ever since, and will never forgive him any more than he will now forgive Grant for not giving him another post office. His flings and jibes were therefore expected, and must give a8 little pain to the Secretary as did the stabs of the envious Casca to Cwsar; but the real pain is in the blow of this “little villain” of a protégé and this mahogany-stocked ambas- sador, a duplicate Brutus, contioning, Agura- tively, the great story of a glanghtered loader, ‘The Great Swindle. Three hundred and sixty thousand dollars is the sum total of the money of citizens held by the gas companies through outrage and extor- tion. Atleast they admit that they hold this much, though, as these companies do business on principles that defy all ordinary commercial usage, it is not safe to believe their statements, though sworn to. The probability is that they hold twice or thrice the sums they admit. One of the companies admits that three thousand dollars has been abandoned to it by the own- ers of the money—abundoned, of course, as watches and purses are abandoned to high- waymen, because the owners see not the re- motest chance for recovery. Another of the companies attenfpts to justify this seizure of money by saying that one hundred and seven- teen thousand dollars which it holds is all that it has to secure one hundred and seventy thou- sand dollars owing to it. Was ever anything more preposterous than this put forth? There are several points in this statement worthy public consideration. First, by this the com- pany claims as a business principle that if one of its customers has defrauded it it has the right to provide against loss by robbing any other customer of an equivalent sum. Here is a commercial morality that regards the mass of customers as the common enemy. Is this a mercantile view? Second, the company ad- mits by this plea that its atrocious system has not even the poor recommendation of pre- venting loss. Third, the point most worthy public consideration is that the statement is in all probability an impudent falsification. If the company does not mean that the one hun- dred and seventy thousand dollars is a loss, what right has it to any security above other dealers? And if it means that itis a loss, how is its statement credible? All the gas is paid for in advance—that is, the company requires a deposit from every consumer before it will supply him. The sum thus required Is, on the average of all the bills, equal to the price of a month’s supply. At the end of the month the consumer pays, and then his deposit stands as an advance on the next month. Where is the room for loss? Again, the company requires one man to pay the bills for gas that may have been left unpaid by the one who preceded him in the same house, and, however scandalons and atrocious this security against loss, it is effective. The Rogers Murder—More Developments. The remarkable statement which we pub- lished yesterday from a prisoner at the White Plains jail is one of the most extraordinary yet given relative to the mysterious murder which so startled New York-in December last. The plot is so well woven and so real that it is certainly well worth a thorough examination by the authorities who may have this murder casein hand. It can be readily ascertained if the man making this statement {sa ‘‘pal” of the “Nineteenth street gang,” and if he is a ‘‘par- ticular friend” of Logan. If Mr. Rogers was the cause of having Logan twice convicted of burglary and theft the records will show it. If the woman mentioned as Logan's paramour is arrested the truth of much of the story may be ascertained. The contract verified between the parties for the obtaining of the coveted articles from Miss -~ may, perhaps, be found if sought. If the White Plains prisoner was married to Logan's mistress the clergyman may be readily found who performed the ceremony. In fact, no chain of evidence can be more readily followed than this, providing it be found that the first link is true. It certainly warrants a thorough investigation; for by this time the authorities are anxious to have another murderer to pardon, and should not be denied the gratification if it can be so readily obtained. Mysterious Mesirions or War vor Cuna.—lIt is reported that four steamers loaded with all kinds of war supplies have landed their cargoes upon the northeast side of Cuba, not far distant from the principal insurgent headquar- ters. This will give the revolutionists a good start and enable them to advance westward and fight a battle for the possession of Puerto Principe. Tok Waorgsare Bringey is Ove Last Srate Leow.atcns.—We publish elsewhere to-day extracts from the report of the commit- tee which has been engaged in the investiga- tion of the reports of fraud and bribery which have been so common at Albany. The devel- opments are astounding, especially in the account of the Erie war. Immense sums of money have been poured out like water to grease the fingers Of the men who, sent to legislate for the public good, sell deliberately their influence and their votes, Justice no longer can be obtained against such malign influences as are brought to bear by the vast corporations like Erie and New York Central _when they enter the ring for a legislative battle. Stockholders are swindled to pay the bills and the State is swindled by the bribery of the men to whom are entrusted the making of our laws. CANCELLING Parpons.—The act of President Grant in directing the Marshal to withhold from certain men the pardons that President Johnson had signed is roundly assailed, espe- cially by the democrats, who pretend to be great lawyers and who declare it illegal. Do these wonderful scholars not know that it has beon decided in the Supreme Court that a par- don, when particular, is a private, though official act, and as such does require delivery and acceptance to make it perfect? Suppose these “pardoned” men move for a discharge, and, being brought into court, they plead their pardon, Very well; but where Is it? Have they ever had it? Has their counsel had it? Has it ever passed from the hands of the authorities? If not then it has no existence of which a court can take cognizance. A Reset Geverat Rewanvav—-General James Longstreet in a good fat office in ‘New Orleans from General Grant. It was General Longstreet who in the terrible battle of the Wilderness came so near doubling up the right wing of General Grant. But Longstreet, hav- ing in good faith surrendered and accepted the situation and advocated submission to the laws of the land and the powers that be, finds ia ‘General Grant the chivalric soldier who is glad to meet ia a late rebel adversary a loyal man, worthy a special recognition of the gov- ernment. This is a new and important mr ment ia Southern reconayuctton, “ The Singular Situation of ingtoa. The situation of things at Washington is singular and complicated, and from present appearances the Senate is about to make a dangerous plunge that may lead to the disrup- tion and reorganization of parties, and, a8 4 consequence, to a desperate fight between the Senatorial oligarchy and the administration. The war has already commenced in an insidi- ous manner on the part of the dominant fac- tion in the Senate, though unavowed and though words of peace and harmony are ut- tered to the ear. The case of Mr. Stewart has been made the pretext of opposition or hos- tility; but if it had not been that some other might have been seized upon for the same pur- pose. Indeed, the refusal to repeal the Tenure of Office law is sufficient proof that Senators intend either to hold General Grant in leading strings or to fight his administration. Sumner and other Senators who are active in this hostile movement are Presiden- tial aspirants for 1872, and want to hold Grant so crippled that he would have no chance of renomination. It is the old political game ovér again, and has been tried with almost every President from the foundation of the government. It is a game, too, which Presidential aspirants and plotters generally commence early and follow up to the end of a President's term. Some- times, however, they overreach themselves, when the people, seeing through their schemes and purpose, take the side of the President and re-elect him. There isa notable example of this in the case of General Jackson, and Grant’s position is not unlike his, Jackson got into a muddle with the politicians about his Cabinet and had to remodel it. . Then the bank question split his Cabinet again and the party, which was divided into the Calhoun faction on one side and that of Van Buren on the other. The latter adhered to the President, and the former, powerful in talent and num- bers, particularly in Congress, made desperate war on him. There never was, perhaps, in the history of this country a fiercer political contest, > But for this, probably, Jackson would not have been President a second term. It was this that rallied the people to him and re-elected him, Grant occupies a similar posi- tion, and, if we mistake not, has the same sort of stuff in him that Jackson had. So these Presidential aspirants of the Senate— this oligarchy and political ring—may over- reach themselves and by their hostility to Grant may re-elect him in 1872. _ But, besides this political view of the situa- tion, there is another one which affects the very constitution and practice of the govern- ment. The difficulty about Mr. Stewart, as we intimated, was a mere accident and side issue. It served, however, to show the disposition of the Senate, and afforded an opportunity to manifest the disapprobstion of that body to General Grant’s independent course. He had not taken his Cabinet from their political ring and had not consulted them ‘even as to whom he should select. This was a terrible blow to the old system of political management. It seriously offended them. But the real issue is on the Tenure of Office law and involves a struggle between the*Executive and the Senate for the power and patronage of the govern- ment. On this issue the popular branch of Congress goes with the President, as we have seen in the overwhelming vote by which it passed the resolution to repeal the Tenure of Office act. The reason fur the action of the House is apparent. That body, in the bitter fight with President Johnson and for the pur- pose of tying his hands, passed the act in question, and thus surrendered, unthinkingly, perhaps, the whole patronage of the govern- ment to the Senate. Before this law was made, and throughout all the previous his- tory, the members of the House had a good deal to sayin the distribution of offices. Every President had deemed it proper to consult their wishes anf to appoint to office their con- stituents. Now, however, Senators have ab- sorbed the power over government patronage, more even than the President himself pos- sessea; for he cannot remove from office with- out the consent of the Senate. The House has reason to repent of its action and to be almost unanimous for the repeal of the obnoxious law. Thus, then, the principle, theory and prac- tice of the government have been changed. The President is reduced to a cipher and the mere instrument of the Senate, and the direct representatives of the people have neither directly nor indirectly any control over the offices or patronage, The government has become an oligarchy composed of a few poli- ticians or ring in the Senate Chamber. This is a singular and grave state of things. Nor does there appear to be any way of reaching the evil. We see that Senators cling tena- ciously to the power and privileges they have acquired. It will be hard to wrest these from them, They form a close body and hold their position for a long term. While they endeavor to make it appear that they are not opposing the President or the will of the people they can, by parliamentary tactics, stave off any action on the Tenure of Office act; and this, probably, they will do. What is President Grant to do under the circumstances? If he should yield to the usurpations of the Sena- torial ring he will be lost. His only chance is to be firm, use all the power he possesses to break up the political oligarchy, rally all the conservative elements of the country to his support and lay the foundation of a great party for the future, That appears to be the only solution, and he has strength enongh, if he knows it, to carry it out, Goop News From Coma. —The best de- spatch from Cuba lately is the one to the effect that there have been large shipments of sugar and molasses from the sEver Faithful Isle. It may seem « horrible materialism that we should care more for this commodity of coffee to be sweetened than we care for the sacred boon of freedom; but then the coffee is ours—the free- dom somebody else's. ae Ea Bwowerr Isnerwoov,—The removal is re- ported of Isherwood as chief of the bureau of steam engineering in the Navy Department and the appointment of Engineer James W. King in bis place. If half that has been said of Engingor Isherwood’s steam engines be true ho hag heen as much of a deadweight upon navy as old Mr. Wolles, It is probable that Admiral Porter has had some experience bearing on this question, ‘That Colored Cabin Passenger. By the Judge's charge the whole point in the case of the sult against the steamship company for ejecting a colored person from the cabin is made to turn on the point whether or not the daughter used a deception in purchasing the ticket. Judge Daly has put the merits of these cases inaclear light. Common carriers are re- quired to take passengers, but can impose their own rules, and may properly separate persons of different color, so that no colored person has a right or claim to travel in a cabin set apart for whites. Nevertheless if the com- pany makes a fair contract to carry a colored person in the cabin of the whites it must exe- cute this contract. The question is, then, whether the company sold the tickets knowing they were for colored persons, or whether tho tickets were when sold believed to be for whites. The company claims that the tickets were sold for whites, as the daughter who bought them could not be distinguished from a white person, and that this daughter de- ceived the “company as to the color of her mother, who ia black. This fact is what the jury is to determine. If there was deception the plaintiff cannot recover damages; but if the company knew, or for any reason were bound to know, that the plaintiff's mother was a black woman it must pay. Inrecat, Unavrnorizep, Sturm anp In- CONVENIENT.—Thege words are used in a doou- ment emanating from the Mayor's office to describe an act of ill-timed zeal committed by the police. The words are accurate. . It seems often as if those whose duty it is to enforce and uphold law were in league with the scoundrels, from the pains they take to make the law seem offensive and oppressive to the people. The police know no other way to compel the drivers of cars to take out licenses save inflicting a punishment on every passen- ger who rides with an unlicensed driver. Can there be a more ingenious way contrived to set the people in league against the law? Taz New Srock Boarp.—The National Stock Exchange, as the new stock board is known, formally commenced business ‘Yester- day morning. : The ‘‘call” took place at noon, and embraced sales of several thousand shares of Erie. It has begun business at the wrong time. It might have been a certain success in the war times, when speculation was at fever heat; but statistics will show that there has been a gradual diminution in operations ever since. There is not legitimate business enough for two boards, much less three. Gxoraia aNp Sourn CaRouinA Pass THe ConsrirvrioNAL AMENDMENT.--The fifteenth amendment to the constitution was passed yes- terday by the General Assembly of South Carolina. In the Georgia House of Repre- sentatives it was also passed, but by a very small majority. The principal objections urged were the old ones of State rights, but they were of no use. The old State rights principle is fast becoming limited to its proper sphere, and the general government is profiting in a greater centralization and consequent greater credit as a nation. Someraive UNexprcrep.—It appears that Grant as a President suits Wendell Phillips better than he does Mr. Sumner. Is the Sena- tor from Massachusetts less practical than the great visionary of the he age? MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL ‘NOTES, nna “Hampty Dumpty” was just one year old on Wednesday evening, and the anniversary of tie birth waa upon that occasion celebrated at the Olympic in a very pleasant manner. The theatro was well filled and those present were kept ina continual roar of unrestrained laughter during the entire performance, by the clownish pranks and ludicrous escapades of the veteran pale faced pet of the public. The front of the house was decorated with fags and the windows were illuminated, and after the performance the manager entertained the attaches of Lhe theatre and a number of friends, tn & friendly way, in honor of the event. ‘The new pantomime of the ‘Seven Dwarfs” at the Rowery is attracting large audiences. It surpasses anything of the kind ever before attempted on the east side, and, as for that matter, even on Broadway. The choruses, however, in the first part of the piece are the most distressing ever head upon the boaras in this city and should be remedied imme- diately. There 1s also much room for improve ment in the ballet, The pantomime of “Nicodemus” continues to de- light large audiences at the Tammany. The great wigwam, as reconstructed under Manager Grover, is quite an institution, New York city now sup; mimes, five screaming burlesques, besides two burnt cork operas, a horse opera, two Shaksperian revivais and sensational dramas without number. Rather a lively city this. “Much Ado About Nothing” has enjoyed a spien- did ran of over six weeks at Wallack’s, and ls atiil drawing full houses. It 5 however, be with. drawn from the boards after to-mor “4 e ing to make rootn for the new comedy of “s wine wiil be produced for the first time ‘- this city on Monday evening next at this estaviishment. It is whispered on the east side of town that three large panto- “Tony,” the popular Pastor of the house in the Bowery, has succeeded in capturing a bevy of six genuine biondes, each one of whom 8 OF BiL abundant head of utifal hair, It is ex- pected when they appear—wh! will be shortly. Prat the whole town will be fairly captivated and dazzled, We shall see. Blondes hold possension of the boarda at Nibio’s. Wood's, Theatre Comique and the Waverley. Bryanta? and the San Francisco Minstrels have also intro- duced the Ii ae beauties to their patrona, bat. with black faces. How cruel of Bryant, Birct, Ber- nard and oo thus to burlesque the beautiful, blush ritish burlesquers. : ra fie "8 0) bouffers, through the tndefat Ne exertions of ~ little bee, Starr Morrissey, ee bag Roy 4 an ey te remaining performances week are already sola and crow houses have greeted the a every evening since they opened in that city, The Baltimoreans evidently relish opera house and they should have more of it, because they knew how to appreciate it. The troupe opens in Washington on next Monday evening. Fanny Jan: ek will favor the Philadelphians on Monday evening next with her great impersonm tion of Marie Stuart. A burlesque company trom = to open in the same city on the same ie ‘Snaan Galton, he ak her Bn oon’ optra houge troupe, has already rece! réity severe cute from the sooty critics of ymony Pi Ho “ where she . Jad laying a brief e was weil the press both in this vont and in Phila. aeipnts, 6 mie, hh never be even for her own good, contemplates an early visit to Cuiong where “ue will probably fare even worse than in a > A large udlonce assisted at Mr. Charies Heydt- man’s testimonial concert, given at Steck’s Music Hall on Wednesday evening. The entertainment consisted of an excellent vocal and instrumental programme, including “La Stella Confidente,” which was exquisitely sung by Miss Fannie Schwav, tha only amateur who took part in the entertainment. “school,” the new English comedy which is to oe roduced on Monday evening at Watiack’s, is now awing good houses at Selwyn’s, Boston, and at Dearborn theatre and Wood's Museum, Chicago. ‘ihe piece ts divided into three acts aud only oue soene, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, By direction of the President Brevet Brigadier Gen- erai George P. Thrie, paymaster, is relieved from duty in the pay district of New York and assigned - duty to the district of San Francisco and ordered to report withont detay to _ e rarfenseh he eo t ‘net aiaeick. tomdent of te. er ‘in apuovn, ape ite "Ge “| haa been assigned to the comman’ ot of Arizona, With headquarters at