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

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A resolution was adopted by the Spanish Cortes during last week that military conscriptions should be discontinued. Another insurrectionary attempt had been made m Andalus. ‘The steamship Hermann, from Bremen February 27, via Southampton March 2, which arrived here Saturday night, and the City of Baltimore, from Liverpooi March 3, via Queenstown the 4th, last night, bring interesting news, which will be found in another part of the paper. Cuba. The authorides at Havana have received oficial despatches confirming the report of the capture of Mayari. Mexico. Oar Mexico city letter 1s dated February 27.. The defeat of Negrete, it was believed, had effecmually queved his attempt ata revolution. Estevas, who had been charged with an attemptto assassinate President Juarez, Was one of Negrete’s chief officers. He was recaptured at the late fight, and with numer- ous others was condemned to death. The estimate of expenses presented to Congress calls for appropri- tions to the amount of $25,635,261, while Minister Romero's estimate of receipts shows the total reve- nue from all sources to be $15,363,353, Lozado, the chief of Jalisco, has abdicated in favor of Colonel Domingo Nava. Hayti and St. Domingo. The Haytien blockade at Jacmel ts not effective, and several vessels with provisions have recently arrived. The people of Aux Cayes were nearly starved. The steamer Telegraph had sailed from St, ‘Thomas under American colors, carrying on board several prominent Dominicans connected with the revolution against Baez. All parties laying claim to Alta Vela seem to have found it worthless, and the claims have been relinquished. Miscellaneous, President Grant and his family attenged divine service the Metropolitan Methodist ‘thurch, in Washington, yesterday, the sexton on this occasion being parucalar in having his’ pew reserved. The President «lways stands at prayers, although Metho- dists usualiy kneel. It is understood in Washington that Lieutenant Generw Steridan’s reappointment to the command in Louisiana is intended to be merely @ recognition of the justness of his former policy in the same po- Sitton, and that, as his present rank places him seo- cond in command in the army, he will be returned to the Milltary Division of the West, in order to con- tinue, if necessary, his operations against the Indians. The Lieutenant General is at present im Washington, and among those who visited him yesterday was General Longstreet, who has been appoluied Surveyor of Castoms in New Orleans. ‘The interview between them was sald to be very cordial. It is probable that Major General Schofield will be assigned to the command made vacant by Sheridan's promotion. General Ames, who takes command of the Fourth Military district, has been snstracted to act as Pro- visional Governor of Mississippi until Congress takes some action in the matter. A large number of nominations will probably be * sent into the Senate to-day. Those forwarded on Thursday will probably be acted upon in executive seasion. Some difference of opinion exists as to the propriety of confirming Longstreet, but the Com. mittee on Commerce, it is understood, will report in his favor and he will be confirmed. Speaker Blaine, of the Hguse, has finally arrangea the standing committees and will announce them to- day. Aimong other changes, Butler will probably be chairman of the Reconstruction Committee, and the chairmanstmp of the Military Committee rests be- tween Buvier, Garfield and Logan. ‘The army appropriation act which has just been Promulgated to the troops by General Sherman pro- vides that there shali be no more promotions or re- eruiting, and all the bands in the service, except the one at West Point, are to be mustered out of service. The report of the Agricultural Bureau for Febru- ary furnishes 4 number of valuable vital statistics of domestic animals, It appears that during the month the aumber of horses and mules has slowly in- creased, although not in proportion to the increase of human population, while oxen, milch cows, sheep and swine have decreased im on alarming ratio—in some instances and localities a8 much as fifteen per cont, ‘The new series of posiage stamps to be issued s00n bear designs that ignore all monarchical ten- Aencies to horaidry aud are intended to ve exclu sively American, \The'digerent series represent fn miniature the landing of Columbus, the signing the Declaration.of Independence, the faces of W, ington, Franklin and Lincoln, the eagle, the fag and’ the red, white and blue, The difficulty which resulted recently in the mur der of Wallace at Warrentown, Ga., and the lynch- ing of Darden, his murderer, grew out of no politi- cal ditferences, a8 both parties were democrats, but originated in the blackballing of Wallace by Dartien in a Masonic lodge, for which action Wallace de- nounced him in his paper. Dr. Gilmor, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Virginia, bolts the State nomi- nations at the late convention in Petersburg. The ice in the Hudson ited above New Hamburg has broken away. The chy. At the Church of St. John the Baptist yesterday Bishop Potter administered the rite of confirmation to sixteen persons. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the day being Passion Sunday, the images and pictures were veiled in mourning. The Rev. Dr. Starr, Vicar General, preached. Rev. Day K. Lee preached at the Bleecker street Universalist church on the “ Wonders of Lite” Dr, Bellows preached the first of a series of Sabbath evening lectures,at All Soul’s church on the “Use and Authority of the Church.” Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached at Plymouth church, Brook- lyn, on the “ Mirgcle of the Blind Man, Bartimeus.” Bishop Littlejohn officiated at St. Mary’s church, and advocated the system of an unpaid choir and free aeats, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel S, M. Randolph, of St. Louis; Judge W. C. Joy, of Penn Yan; W. H. Woodward, of Mexico; H. M. Atkinson, of Nebraska; J. H. Hazeltine, of South Carolina; W. T. Jones, of Montana; Jas. M. Dawley, of Austin, Nev., and W. W. Hegeman, of Poughkeep- Ste, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major M. Welsh and Colonel U. H. Collins, of the United States Army; T, M. Mason, of Boston, and ‘Captain J. McGregor, of the British Army, Canada, are at the St. Charles Hotel. H. ©. Wright and J. B. McEwen, of Tennessee; A. L. Symmes, of Philadelphia, and J. A. Van Winkle, of Augusta, Ga., are at the Maltby House. Dr. J.J. Moorman and W.H. Peyton, of White Sulphar Springs, Va., are at the New York Hotel. Colonel J. Knox and Captain E. Woodward, of the United States Army; Professor Thorpe, of St. Louis, and Captain Van Wyck, of Buifaio, are at the 8t. Julien Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel MacNeill, Governor's secre- tary; Mr. Stanley and Mr. Rose, of Montreal, Cana- aa, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Ezra Cornell, of Ithaca; Dr. Colston, of Pennsy!- vania, and Commander E. K. Owen, of the United States Navy, are at the Astor House. Congressman D. McCarthy, ot New York; General August Kautz, of the United States Army; George 0, Jones, of Albany, and Dr. 8. K. Latnrop, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The President—Congress—The Office-Seekers _ and the Tenure of Office Law. There is a fearful gathering of the faithful at Washington—a regular crusade of patriotic spoilsmen.. They have increased, are in- creasing, and will not for some time be diminished. They come as the winds come, from all points of the compass, in a gathering hurricane ; they like the vult: of the desert on the trail of a caravan: “they cole like an army of famished pilgrims to the tomb of the Prophet, and great is their clamor for the spoils. Thousands of snug places and good livings, they cry, are filled by the rene- gade followers of Andy Johnson, by rebels and by the copperhead democracy, and they must be turned adrift. Grant and Colfax clubs, from States and Territories; county and city delegations of Boys in Blue, with an oc- casional nigger; pompous committees of party managers, backed by squads of members of the two houses—a continuous stream of office- hunters—wait upon General Grant from day to day, with their claims, their papers and their applications, and they are all ina hurry to pocket their rewards. Time is precious, and Washington hotel bills are outrageous, The two houses, it appears, have entered into an agreement concerning the fleshpots; they are ready to assist in the working of the guillotine at the rate of five hundred heads per day; but the President, coolly puffing his cigar, declines to put the machine inio active operation. His reasons may be thus summed up:—“‘Gentlemen, there may be thousands of renegade Johnsonians, unreconstructed rebels and venomous copperheads in office, bat how am I to know them? They were nominated by Mr. Johnson and confirmed by the Senate; aud there are other office holders retained by Mr. Johnson because he could not remove them, since they were placed under the Tenure of Officelaw. Against one of my first appoint- ments, which I thought an excellent one and which was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, there was found the impediment of the Treasury law of 1789, and being found the Senate would listen to nocompromise. What, then, can I do, when, by the Tenure of Office law, every subordinate officer in every depart- ment is under the special protection of the Senate, and not one can be displaced but by the ‘advice and consent of the Senate?’” And so the sword is double edged, and the tables are turned upon the Senate. The Presi- dent is still master of the situation in holding. the initiative in this matter of dispensing the public plunder. Under the law in question he may appoint Tom in the place of Dick, but if the Senate desire Harry or prefer Dick to Tom a rejection of Tom leaves Dick in posses- sion. But the case of Stanton is the best illus- tration of the power held by the Senate over the President under this law. The law provides that in the absence of the Senate the President may suspend a subordinate civil officer, but must give his reasons for such sus- pension to the Senate at its next meeting. If voted satisfactory the suspension holds good; otherwise the suspended officer is reinstated, Stanton, as Secretary of War, was in this way suspended and reinstated, General Grant, appointed Secretary ad interim, delivering him back the office in obedience to the law. Then, for attempting a peremptory removal of Stanton, Johnson was impeached and came within a single vote in the Senate ot an igno- minious expulsion from office, There never was before anything approaching this humilia- tion of the Presidential office, and it is to be hoped there never will be another such example of Senatorial dictation. Johnson, in attempting to fight this law, escaped the headsman’s axe as by « miracle, and in fighting various other laws he was reduced to a mere Jack-in-the box, at the pleasure of the Senate. Grant, thoroughly drilled in the regular soldier's obedience to the law, will faithfully observe the restrictions of this Tenure of Office act. He has no wild goose chase on hand—no policy of his own to set up against the laws of Congress; and if the shoe pinches the office seekers they must look to the Senate. General Grant simply says this act stands in my way; but it is the law. The two houses of Congress must remove it if they wish the Executive to acoom- ‘NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY MARGH 15, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. offices. The law as it stands is’a bar upon me, as it was upon my predecessor. If, I have to consult the Senate upon every removal my removals will be few and far between, and how, without a reference, am I to know whether it isthe pleasure of the Senate that this, that or the other man shall be removed? . This method of putting the question, it ap- pears, has convinced the whole. crusade of office seekers*that the President is right, and the pressure of the House upon the Senate for something like fair play is shaking the radical Senatorial junta of Sumner. Even Sumner himself, they say, begins to thaw under the benign rays from the new light of the Treas- ury Department, The Tenure of Office law will then, most probably, be repealed and the President, thus released by his flank move- ment from its restraints, will proceed to his work of clearing out the whiskey rings and all the other rings, cliques and coalitions of ‘Treasury robbers, We apprehend, too, that with a clear field before him General Grant will be very apt to break up those lobby afiilia- tions of the Senate which are supposed to be- in that body—one secret of the strength of this Tenure of Office law. The enormous power which this law gives to the Senate certainly involves a great sacrifice, but it is a sacrifice which is due to the President, for without it he is a mere automaton, like Johnson, moved and pulled by the wires of the Senate. Let the law be repealed, and let the grand army of office seekers meantime look to the Senate. Rumorep Dipromatio APPoINTMENTS.—It seems to be generally understood at Washing- ton that Mr. Motley, the historian, and Presi- dent Lincoln’s ambassador to Vienna, is to take the place of the English roast beef and plum pudding eating Reverdy Johnson, a change which will be very acceptable to the country. Among the more doubtful rumors afloat is one that General Sickles will be sent down to Mexico to relieve General Rosecrans. It is probable that General Rosecrans will be recalled, for it is said that among other things General Grant does not entertain a very high opinion of his White Sulphur negotiations with General Lee and company last gummer. Ex- sens Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has been entions bable man for Russia, Reltine’s ais * ia from which we may ee that Mr. Bancroft will be apt therg to 3 re- main, and also Mr. Marsh, our present repre- sentative at Florence. Harvey, at Lisbon, may at last expect to be relieved, salary or no salary, and the mess which Messrs. Hale and Perry, Minister and Secretary, have made of it in Spain calls for the removal of both. As for the Chevalier Webb, having shown that Brazil was entirely too small for his capacities, he is probably looking out for something larger. ry es ey, A Kov-Kivux Ipga.—An Ohio copperhead paper calls President Grant’s counsellors “a Ku-Klux Cabinet”—probably because it goes out nights. But it is not likely that, adopting the peculiarities of certain members of former Cabinets, they go home disguised. Genera Fraxk Bratz Goxe.—General Cox, the Secretary of the Interior, has made several changes in the Commissioners of the Union Pacific Railroad, including the appoint- ment of Isaac N. Morris, of Illinois, in the place of General Frank P. Blair, Jr., late democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency. It was the‘opinion of General Blair during the Presidential campaign that General Grant, if elected, would turn out s despot; and, so far as Blair is concerned, he will, doubtless, hold that his prophesy is fulfilled. ‘Hon. James F. Wilson, of Iowa, as @ Pacific Railway Com- missioner, takes the place of Cornelius Wen- dell, formerly of Albany, and a regular demo- cratic Johnsonian Thurlow Weed in the Wash- ington lobby. The name of Johnson has lost its charm, Proeress.—The Heratp yesterday con- tained upwards of forty-four columns of new advertisements, the largest quantity that ever appeared in a Sunday edition. Gewerat Butter Bernas in His Cororep Farenp,—On Saturday last, it appears, Gene- ral Butler introduced to Secretary Boutwell a colored man, from New Orleans, named Jou- bert, and recommended him for a place as Assessor of Internal Revenue, Joubert said he didn’t care for the spoils, but wished to test the administration on the question of equal rights to his race. That's a mighty nice question; but it will have to be met. “In for a penny, in for a pound.” Who comes next? Tae Rusa ror Appoinrments.—Hon. Columbus Delano, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is besieged by applicants for office. In order to gratify them all, Mr. Delano will have to adopt the policy of his namesake, Christopher, and seek some other world, Gas Monoroty.—The investigation into the affairs of the gas companies has shown, first, the abuses and monstrous tyrannies of these corporations and, therefore, that their charters must be so modified that the consumers shall have some rights that companies are bound to respect. Next, it has been shown that gas can be made much better than the companies make it and mach cheaper, too, and, therefore, that a rule of charge must be imposed so definite as to sup- ply in operation that conscience which such corporations are notoriously without. Bat before considering what the jslature will do with the companies we ought to know how much the companies are prepared to give for the Legislature. Firry to One. ‘There are in Washington now fifty applications for evory single office that Grant has to fill, and he will not fill any that he can help till the Senate unties his hands. Thero ought to be a pretty large force in favor of repeal. A S10N ov Porutanrry.—During the July re of now when the mob, with fiendish ury were bent upon destroying ev: in their way, the residence and saaeae ry Hamilton Fish, the new Secretary of State, ya one the midst of the scene of vi ee, and alth affording many tempting ty rioters, was left entirely unmolested. This is an ipdi- cation of personal popularity of which we have bat few examples, é¢ven among the records of our old time-honored Knickerbocker families, © descendant from whom Mr, Fish { modate thom with new distribution of tho | has the distinguished honor to be, Tho Fever Ship. The case of the ship James.Voster, Jr., is one of the few which occasionally come into notice showing the brutality of management too often characterizing the packet ship. pas- sages on the North Atlantic. This ship left Liverpool on the 19th December and did not reach New York until the 7th of March, a passage of some seventy-eight days. When the ship arrived in port she had but three days’ provisions on board. This alone is a sufficient indication that the allowance to the immigrants, at all times small and of miserable quality, must have been fearfully reduced. . It is painful to contemplate what a horrible fate this floating pesthouse would have met had she been blown off the coast by one of our winter gales with but three days’ provisions on board. It is also evident that the crew em- ployed were, like most packet ship crews, unfit for service. The ship is of 1,427 tons burden, and it is represented that twenty-five men are acomplement for her. This number is very far from a complement for a ship of this size even in the summer season, much less the winter, on the North Atlantic. The captain said that he shipped ‘‘forty men for the pas- sage and out of the forty only seven had ever been to sea before that voyage.” ‘These men came on board with only the clothes they had on their backs.” In considering this case we are led to re- mark upon the general management of the packet and ‘emigrant ships which run between Europe and New York. They are, as a gen- eral thing, unwilling to employ good sailors, go shorthanded, expect to get considerable work out of the emigrants, and are officered by men who are expected to knock down, drag out and fight theiy way across the ocean. Most of the emigranté, where the number is large, are crowded into the ship’s hold in a worse manner than a first class breed of sheep. At the first sign of a gale of wind the hatches are put on, and the at all times inferior and insuffi- cient ventilation is almost completely cut off. The stench created is in a day or two intolera- ble, and can do nothing except breed pestilence This appears to be the way the ship fever was caused on the ship James Foster, Jr. The crews of such ships, with scarcely any cloth- ing when they come on board, make @ general raid_on the greenhorns and passengers and supply their wants. A protest from the {injured pafty calls down a shower of curg6iAnd blows. The men shipped as sailors, unable to do duty, receive the curses of the officers, and fre- quently a general fight follows, occasionally resulting in loss of life. Weare touching the facts very lightly here, but, lightly as we touch them, they are worse than anything that ever characterized the African slave trade, over which the philanthropists go into such denunciations, ese packet ships have such a reputation that # decent sailor will not ship on board of them, nor do the officers and owners care to ship first class sailors. All the real, sailor work is done upon the arrival of the ship in New York or Europe, and the men who are shipped to work the vessel during the passage are picked up generally drunk along the docks and bundled on board without clothing. Woe to the poor greenhorn who has more ‘‘traps” than he stands in, for the old “‘packetarian” will agon despoil him of his property. These are the class of men who are employed to take care of the lives of immigrants and the rich cargoes of freight that pass between here and Europe. Good sailors and enough of them, good food and good treatment, reason- able pay and good, officer-like discipline, not brutality, would tell quite a different story in our sailing ship service. We should have a thorough overhauling of the whole system. The laws made should be sternly executed, be they against the officers of a ship for bad management of their vessel or bad treatment of passengers, or against shipowners for insuf- ficient and bad food and general neglect of the interests of the public and of those who trust life and i property to their keeping. AN Acoouxr SmrriEp.—We told how in Augusta, Ga., Darden voted against Wallace ; how Wallace published him as a liar, and then how Darden shot Wallace, firing at him out of window as Grant did in Richmond and Charles the Ninth in Paris. We ought to have written “to be continued” at the end of that story. Darden having been consigned to jail was forcibly taken out the same night, carried a little way to quiet place in the woods and “shot and killed” by a party of unknown men, Land is pretty cheap cll around Auguste and there are fine chances for settlers, , A Girt Ewrenrrise.—It is said that not one in five hundred of the office-seekers at Washington will draw Will Gener anything” but o blank. News FROM M Borm.—The new v Secretary of the Navy has set out with a tremendous batch of orders against abuses and new-fangled fancies and various oddities in the navy and the navy yards and everywhere else, provid- ing, among other thing, that the masts of men- of-war shall not for all time to come be painted yellow. Thiwis better than Welles, who never gave us reason to guess that he knew men-of- war had masts. The orders of the new Secro- tary are of a character to inake people believe that he actually knows something about the navy. We believe, however, that to be free from any false pretence he makes no secret of the fact that Porter is near him. Usrare Inrerrerence.—If the police au- thorities do not intend to shut up the faro banks altogether and stop the game we are of ‘opinion that it is unfair to interfere nt all. Here was a man went in thé other night and won fourteen hundred dollars. Clearly the bankers were entitled to their play on re- vanche, and they insisted upon having it. Now the police are called upon to interfere on the plea that in the revanche the players used a club, and that that is not a proper im- plement of the game. What cognizance can the courts take of the imploments of a game forbidden by the laws? Porywives.—The Sali Lake Telegraph, in defending the peculiar institution of Mormon- ism, remarks:—‘'The fact, is polygamy has existed about as long os human nature has, and still only © small part of mankind are really and truly monogamists, for most of those who are not polywived are polywo- mened,” Those who are not either, it is tobe presumed, are pollywogs, or, as they would say down South, sonlly wags, The revolutio: in Guba have at length hit the keynote ‘to success in decreeing the abolition of slavery. By telegraph we learn that this decree was issued. in the Central De- partment by the insurgent Assembly of Repre- sentatives, and that the freedmen may either be- come soldiers or remain cultivators of the soil. The effect of this decrea must be damaging to the interests of the whole western end of the island, where, as* yet, the patriot effort has met with small sticcess. It will cause a great commotion among the thickly settled districts, and must act as. it acted upon our own terri- tory when Mr. Lincoln issued his emancipa- tion proclamation and thus broke the Hane of our rebellion, The insurgents now propose to Pai their forces and establish the headquarters of their government near Santiago de Cuba, in the southeastern part of the island. Thus the revolution is every day becoming more consolidated and of firmer texture. There is now but one direction for it, and that is on- ward; for every hatred that ever existed or has been created in the Cubans by Spanish misrule has full opportunity to vent itself apd find redress. The efforts of the Spanish troops to suppress the movement are’ every day be- coming more impotent. The rage of the “volunteers”—the wreckers of Cuba, as they may very justly be termed—is venting itself in wholesale slaughter that would disgrace even the government of England in its East India massacres, The Spanish troops are also com- mitting great outrages upon the plantations, and a war of desolation appears to already exist. We have often stated that this would be the policy of Spain when she found that there was no longer a hope of clinging to the island. When she.leaves it of her own accord it will be -when this rich treasure house has been completely wrecked and given over to internal anarchy. It becomes a very serious matter for the United States to consider our present and future relations to the island of Cuba, and act at once with reference to our interests. Every day destroys what it will take time an@ millions of dollars to build up again after the island comes into our hands. It is not for the interest of this Continent that we should per- mit any European Power to desolate any part of our territory. In the first place there is no ‘etide ig the idea that gnation in this, age has aright to possess a colony. It is in opposi- tion to every ruling and civilized principle of the nineteenth: century. Much less right has any Power to desolate a forcibly held colonial possession, when that colony desires to have what we claim is due to all mankind—a gov- ernment of its own, where every section can be represented in common with all the other districts or Provinces of the government. Cuba has never had this. The only privilege ae received is that of supporting old Spain in Her indolence, ignorance and arro- gance. American Horses. We publish to-day an interesting article which conclusively shows that among the great industrial interests of this country the horse may be considered as standing in the first rank of animal productions. Statistics reveal the fact that for many years past, and notwithstanding the interruption of breeding at the South during the war, the horse has been constantly increasing in numbers and value so rapidly as to bring the aggregate of horses now-in the United States to little less than eight millions, representing in money the enormous sum of $2,600,000,000, nearly equal to the whole amount of our national indebted- ness and exceeding the gross product of the gold mines of California. The history of the progress which has led to this result is fully detailed, and tables, elaborately prepared, are offered in illustration. The facts which are exhibited have been drawn with care from the best sources of information, and may be implicitly relied upon, however surprising they may seem to persons who have not given special attention to the subject. It appears that Ohio, Minois, Indians, New York and Pennsylvania retain the lead which they took in 1850 and in 1860 as horse raising States, and Missouri, Kentucky and Texas come next in order, Much of the best blood was captured in the South during the war by the Union troops, and many of the finest horses have thus found their way into the Western and Middlb States, where they have been turned to profitable account in improving the local or sectional stock, And California, with its increase since 1860 from one hundred and sixty thousand six hundred and ten horses to five hundred thou- sand, not hay ffered from the effects of the war on Bg,.promises to become one of the leading horse ing States in the Uniom Movine on THe Enemy's Works.—It would appear that the first objective point in Grant's Presidential campaign is the repeal of the Tenure of Office law; and he’ has seemingly made such progress already as to have con- vinced many Senators that they are more in- terested in the repeal than he is. No Respgor ror Anpy.—Grant and his Secretary of the Navy have forgiven a delin- quent who was under punishment for using “‘disrespectfal language of the President of the United States.” That President has gone to Tennessee, and is no longer of any account. We presume this pardon originated in a thought similar to that of the judge who would not punish a man for getting drunk on apple whiskey because the Court sometimes indulged a taste of its own for that beverage. Nicasr, Nicorr, Never Dir.—Sambo is not off the carpet yet, it seems, since Mr. But- ler introduced colored citizen to the Secre- tary of the Treasury the other day for appoint- ment, Said citizen indulged in a tremendous piece of buncombe and political claptrap in ‘saying that he only wanted his appointment on behalt of the party in power, that it might show what it was willing to do for ® man and 4 brother. Carnovensn.—This is not a very common name and is apt to attract attention when it oceurs in connection with two or three uncom- mon cases, Carrougher is a policeman, and he must be one fanatically inclined .to virtue, He appears last in an Excise case, where ho seems to have incited complaint against a liquor dealer by offering to give the ecomplain- ant five dollars, He is the samo one who arrested the children pitching buttons as “gamblers.” The Spring Trade. In these days of telegraphs and railways the opening of the spring trade of our great metropolis depends less than formerly upon the opening of navigation on our canals, rivers and lakes, Even goods that are to be sent a few weeks later by water are now generally ordered a considerable time in advance: by letter or by telegram. Purchasers who come in person from the Eastern and the Middle States, from the remote West, from the South and from the North, arrive conveniently by rail- way at any daie, ‘This spring they are begin- ning to arrive earlier than usual. They already crowd our hotels and are to be met with on ’Change and in the counting rooms of their New York correspondents, Cortain branches of business are anticipating by a a fortnight the animation which the Easter holidays inaugurate. Even during Lent the ladies are tempted by the novelties that are peeping forth, like early blossoms, at'the show windows. Stewart's up town storeis crowded as much asifthe churches were not daily open, and new spring styles have been displayed at almost all the matinées in our theatres. On the wharves, at the Custom House, at the bonded warehouses, in the stores, on the side- walks, blocked up with piles of boxes, the tokens ofa brisk spring trade are plainly visible. Of the activity which is soon going to reign, and which already reigns in various departments of trade, both wholesale and retail, no better indication can, be found than in the crowded advertising columns of the New York HEeRatp. Particularly the numerous advertisements of dry goods of every description and of milli- nery foreshadow a heavy spring business, The large cotton crop must have given the South- ern people'a wider margin than they have had for many years for making purchases in New York, The — prosperity. of the whole Sountry, as it Bhat dsp at iationat sess tait Bresidedt™ administration will prove beneficent and pe encourages us to expect,in New York ad unwonted revival of business. The spring trade never opened with fairer promises, and when the ice of the Hudson shall haye disape peared these promises will doubtless be hap- pily fulfilled. DELINQUENOY IN THE Boarp oF HEALTH.— It is one of the duties of the Board of Health’ to act on physicians’ certificates of death and issue the papers permitting burial. Propet discrimination.in the performance of this di is almost the only security the community sesses Wainst general murder it would seem that this daty performed, at least in the Brooklyn branch the Board of Health, It is reported ‘that woman done to death by the malpractice of cigar maker who attended her as ph; was buried on the certificate of this maker, Was this man’s name on the record that the Board keeps of Brooklyn or id if a cigar maker's certificate is good for klyn what's the use of a Board in ii An Unwgcessary Regugsr.—The Sacra- mento Union cries out—‘‘A General Policy Wanted.” We have had a pretty fair amount of General policy already. There are Genes rafGrant, General Sherman, General S! General Meade, General Canby, General Sickd les, General Hancock, General Butler and 4 host of others. If the copperheads had suc+ ceeded we might have had a General Repudiag tion, and if the extreme radicals a General Smash-up. NeporisM.—Some of the partisan papers are grumbling because President Grant has thought fit to appoint some family relatives to office. Why shouldn't he? There is high aud thority for stating that a man who does nol provide for his own family is no better than he should be. NioxxaMes.—A Western paper suggests .that as the Secretary of the Treasury is called “Hole-in-the-Sky,” General Sherman ‘‘Walk« a-Heep,” somebody else ‘Hole-in-the-Day,* “Hole-in-the-Wall,” and so on, that General Butler ought to be called ‘‘All-in-my-Eye,3 as the millionnaire said when he went to thé cock fight. The New Constitutional Amendment tm the Georgia Legislature. The other day the Georgia Legislature, in a sudden fit of enthusiasm, voted to adopt the fif- teenth amendment. But on Saturday last a reso< lution was introduced in the State Senate, and sustained by nineteen yeas to fifteen nays, to reconsider that vote, and the adoption or rejec- tion of the amendment was made the special order for Tuesday next. No action was taken on the reconsideration in the House. It is predicted that the amendment will pass both houses this week by the votes of the conserva tive republicans and democrats. The ex+ tremists of both parties are bent on the sama or ruin—and the conservatives, it is hoped, will unite in voting for the adop- tion, with a firm determination to uphold Grant and Congress. The positive recom- mendation which President Grant in his in- augural bestowed on the fifteenth amendment should certainly have great weight with the Georgia legislators. On their decision will largely depend the course of policy to be fol- lowed by President Grant and by Congress in relation to Georgia and the other States of the late Southern Confederacy.. If Georgia frank ly accepts the situation and endorses the amendment, it will hasten materially'the ap- proaching full restoration of the Southern States to the Union. All those States will at length wheel into line and march steadily and rapidly in the path of progress to a higher prosperity than they have ever before attained, “Security of person, property and for religious and political freedom of opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to ‘local prejudice’—such is President's Grant’s platform. The adoption of the fi teenth amendment would be a most important step towards the complete rehabilitation of the ancient rights of the South in the Union, Moreover, it would effectually enable the intel- ligent classes to counteract the influence of the “carpet-baggers” and control the nagro vote. The negroes, once convinced that they can ex- om both justice and generosity from theig former masters, might easily be taught that the interests alike of whites and blacks, born and. taised together at the South, are identical, They havo already learned that antipathy on eccount of difference in race is rather Northern than Southern, and they are quick to discover ————