The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1869, Page 6

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The cable despatches are dated March 16, Orders nave been received at Toulon from Paris to discharge all sailors and soldiers that were recruited an 1862, The republican members in the Spanish Cortes spoke in favor of a bill legalizing civil marriages, and the government announced its intention of introducing @ bill to that effect. A later discussion on the military conscription gave rise 10 very violent cenes and speeches, during which several members were accused of exciting the people to op- pose the government. The Reiehsrath of Vienna proposes to place the Landwehr nuder the regular military authorities, A slight shock of earthquake was felt yesterday morning tn the county of Lancashire, England. The Mayor of Dublin, fn person, presented peti- ions to the House of Commons last evening, pray- forthe release of the Fenian prisoners and for establishment of religious equality in Ireland, “nder Secretary ot the Foreign: Office stated at the government intended to establish a perma- tment law of extradition. Cuba. Twelve hundred additional troops arrived in Ha- vana yesterday from Spain. An ox-Confederate is reported in command-of the insurgents at Sagna la Grand. A general advance of government troops in all directions is taking place. Some severe Oghting had occurred near Nuevitas, Porto Rico. We have advices from Ponce, Porto Rico, to the zath ult, There was a great deal of political excite- ment in the isiand, and the authorities have arrested several young men for using language favoring the revolution in Cuba. It had also been considered prudent to change the garrisons in those sections of the isiana where the soldiers have lived long among the natives and intermarried, for fear of their siding against the government in case of a rising. Mexico. Advices by steamer and the Gulf cable are to the Sth inst, from Mexico city. Negrete is still at large, ‘The cathedrai at Zacatecas was destroyed by a stroke of lightning On the 6th mst. and Dundreds of persons were buried iu the ruins, General Aureliano Rivera has been killed, Sefior Tiona has been appointed Minister to Washington, as at first reported. Vargas is reported to have been totaily de‘eated by Martines and Cortina in Tamaulipas, Central America. The yellow fever is reported in Gpatemaia and Costa Rica, Two engineers from England have ar- r in Honderas to commence the survey of the roposed Tailway. Colombia. ‘tter is dated March 8. The opposition al treaty continues at Bogota, the ming to be that the United States money down. The Mosquera liberals | with the conservatives 1m Congress, and Mosquera to power is not improbable: ouging to the Pacific Ratiroad Company were to have been formally handed over by the gov- nment-on the 10th instant. The smallpox had dis- ared from the State, but the Pre was starting out on @ tour through part. | uts for vaccinating purposes. An agent of a gas | Chile. letter fs dated February 17. The . plying between Valparaiso and a8 sunk in the Stratts of Magellan on the . Only three lives were lost, the rest » board being rescued by the English anc sau and taken to Montevideo. The lndian war ta the south of Chile was still progress. ing Pera. Our Lima letter is dated February 27. President | Baita has secured peace and’ prosperity all through | ¢ republic and ts devoting his attention io an ex- nded railway system. Henry Meiggs has been horiaed to survey several projected lines, and the | bility of raising $60,090,000 by a foreign loan, Grand Islands ana the | as security, ts being seriously con- The yellow fever is sili raging | tue southern ports, in some of which forty deaths a day are reported. Stringent eanitary lneasures have been instituted in Lima and Callao, A coolie In one of the northern provinces recently murdered bis master’s family fer some presumed slight, an@ on being arrested was seized by the citizens, covered with turpentine aud kerosene and thrown into a fire, where, after one futile effort to escape, he was roasted to death. Arequipe was ristied by another earthquake on the 14th of Peb- ruary and several houses were knocked down, Bolivia. Melgareyo has proclaimed himself Dictator, and abrogated the constitution of 1868, His, Cabinet Ministers had approved of his action, andthe people were not tuch exercised aboat it, as he had long ago assumed most of the powers claimed fore dic- tatorsiip. A diffictlty bad arisen with Buenos Ayres op account of the presence of the rebel gen- eral, Varela, in Bolivia, As he bas considerable force at his back @ heavy detachment of troops has voen ecat to drive him out, Ecuador. The Constitutional Convention Is to meet at Quito on the 171) of May. All the public schools except those under control of the Jesuits have been closed ie pledwing the Northern railways a. Way from Europe to light Panama | sic), NEW YORK HERALD, by oraer of the dictator, Moreno, The latter favors putting Ecuador entirely under contgol of the Jesuits, and has ordered the Archbishop of (Qutto and several priests to leave the country, Robinson, Robles and Pasty have been shot. t Congress, In the Senate yesterday the congurreat resolution === | passed by tho House for an adjournment on the dsth inst. was laid on the table. A bill to incorporate the United States Postal Telegraph Company was intro- duced by Mr. Ramsey and referred to the. Postal Committee. A authorizing the recogni- tion of the independence of Cuba was introduced by Mr. Sherman and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Pomeroy introduced ® Dill establishing woman suffrage in Utah, The bill to reorganize, the, navy was amended and passed. ‘The bill to repeal’ the Tenure of Office act was then taken fp and “gt great lengtir, but the Senate finaly held am executive session, and adjourned without a vote, ° ‘ ‘In the House a resolution appointing a select com- Mittee, to inquire into. the treatment of American Prigoners by the Paraguayan authorities, and also by ‘the officers of the South Atlantic squadron was introduced and referred to the Commitee on Foreign Affairs. The bill providing for the coinage of nickle copper pieces of five cents and ‘under, was taken up and Mr. Butler proposed an amendment that the purchase of all material re- quiged be made by public advertisement. Mr. May- ‘ard proposed an amendment abolishing ten’ cent Paper money, and after some debate the bili and amendments were referred beck to the Committee on Coinage, A resolution was introduced by Mr. Beaman dividing the State and Territory of Texas into several States and Territories. A message from the President relative to the Pacific Railroad was received and referred. The Speaker announced some unimportant changes in the cqmmittees and the House adjourned. } The Legislature. In the State Senate yesterday bilis were intro- duced, changing the name of the Homeopathic Col- lege of the State of New York, incorporating. the Harlem Yacht Club and repealing the law relative to the inspection of steam boilers. Two unimportant bilis were passed, A resoiution waa adopted for @ ‘special committee to Investigate the affairs of the State Lunatic Asylum.. The Senate soon after took a recess, At the evening session the Canal Contract, bill was discussed until the adjournment. In the Assembly several reports were submitted. Billig were passed amending the act altering the Commissioner’s map of Brookiyn; continuing Fifth avenue, Brooklyn; in reiation to the collection of ship news in New York harbor; to amend the charter of the East India Telegraph Company, and several others. A resolution was adopted requiring the Health OMcer of New York to show by what au- thority he has landed on Ward’s Island, direct from the ship James Foster, Jr., a large number of the passengers other than those suffer- ing from ship fever. Bills were introduced relative to stage routes in New York city, and rela- tive to the New York and Harlem Railroad. A recess was then taken , and at the evening session several bills were ordered toa third reading atter which the Assembly adjourned, ° Miscellaneous. ‘The Cabinet meeting yesterday was attended by all the members, Secretary Fish having been sworn in. The subject of discussion was the policy to be pursued in appointing to office. W. 1H. Taylor, @ prominent produce merchant of ‘Toronto, Canada, known on ’Change as the “Barley King,” is reported to have absconded, leaving heavy liabilities. benind him. Two firms in Montreal— Smythe & Edmonson, shoe dealers, and C. Dorwin & Co., brokers—have falled, the former with labili- ties estimated at $125,000. One of the partners in Dorwin & Co. is also reported to have absconded. Genera! Order No, 16, from the War Department, and General Order No. 17, from headquarters of the army, have been tssued, consolidating the infantry of thie army into twgntyifive regiments. The orders in full, giving the details, will be found in another column of the HeraLp this morning. Indian depredations are 80 numerous and outragce onus in Arezona that the settlers suggest among themselves a war of extermination, to commence With the massacre of all the Indians on the govern- ment reservations, The City. Captain John 8. Young, chief of the detective force, will tender his resignation to the Board of Police to-day, in consequence of @ certain resolution which the Coard passed last week implying censure upon him. He accompanies the resignation with a very interesting statement in regard to the capture of the New Windsor bank robbers. Two more victims of the fever ship, James Foster, Jr., died at the Seamen’s Retreat yesterday. A sale of autographs took place at the rooms of Leavitt, Strebeigh & Co. yesterday. The sale included letters ot Washington, Madison and Jackson, ‘The stock market yesterday weak, and de- clined Inthe afternoon. Gold was firmer and closed finally at 131%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, and Generai J. Hayden, of the United States Ariny, are at the st, Nicholas Hotet. Asa Packer, Robert H. Sayre, Dr. FB. F. Leeke ana B WW. Jencks, of Pennsylvania, are at the Astor House. Captain Hetmtzelman, of the United States Army; C. W. Converse, of Boston; Colonel W. A. James, of Dutchess county, and G. L. Steaiiman, of pibany, i are at the Holman House. Lientenant Beardsley, of the United States Ma- rine corps; Manuel Solo, of San Salvador; G, H. Mansfield, of Rutland, Vt; Theo. FP. Andreas, of Savannab, Ga, and Porter Sherman, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor Risiey, of Philadelphia; Major General Heintzeiman, of the United States army, and Major Paul C, Morton, of Georgia, are at the St. Charies Hotel, ™ Ex-Hovernor Gibbs, of Rhode Istand, and Mr. Kerr, of Canada, are‘at the New York Hotel. Dexter H. Foliett, of Boston; John F. Bossell, of | Ogdensburg; W. W. Tompkins and Ben Long Edea, of tne United States Navy, are at the Westminster Colonel J. B. Pintay, of Pennsylvania; BE. L. Plumb, of Washington; John King, Jr., of Baltimore; Oliver Ames, of Massachusetts, and Peter Payne, of Ci cago, are at the Pifth Avenue Hotel, Captain E. G. Kellogg, of Albany; Dr. R. Town- send, of Buffalo, and W. Prost, of Hampstead, N. H., are at the St. Juiten Hotei, Fears A Coup v'Etat.—The Georgia Con- stitutionatist, referring to the Cabinet, re- marks :—“‘Rawlins is said to hold the same infinence over Grant that the late Count de Morny held over Louis Napoleon. If matters do not work to sult the President-General, Rawlins has a good precedent for a coup Tat.” It would be a queer sight to see Raw- lins prowling aroand at midnight, with a cor- poral’s guard and a dark lantern, catching intractables and posting them off without & change of linen to the coast of Guinea. But our Georgia contemporary need have no‘fears. When Grant and Rawling set up late o’ nights it is for another and @ better purpose. Hz'tt Come Ovt witn tHe Birps.—Ex- President Pieree writes to a friend in Georgia that although quite weak he will “come out with the birds.” What sort of birds? Can- vas backs or dead ducks? Bap For Nova Scorta.—The advocates in Nova Sootia of annexation to the United States have enlisted the services of Robert J. Walker as a pamphleteer. Think of that, ye snow- capped hills, ye foggy strands, ye icy moun- tains, ye incessant torrents and ye twenty thousand dollars in gold! Oh! Alaska! What have ye done that ye should be deprived of the further services of the Methuselah of | lobbyists? \ | HAL ‘The Aduwinistration of General Grant— The Beginning. , The rush of hungry patriots to Washington on the wild hunt for office startles even the Managing politicians whose followerd these hungry patriots are. General Grant, however, accustomed to dealing with large bodies of men on a zhort notice, sustains the pressure with the coolness of an old campaigner, and takes his own time in parcelling out the loaves and fishes. Meantime our attention is called duties of his position. We expect under his administration, in the development of the incalculable resources of the United States, an epoch of progress, prosperity and power without an example in the records of any people on the face of the globe, .We have had reasons to fear a financial crisis and collapse from the mismanagement of the Treasury, and reasons, also, to fear, from these and other causes, such demoralizations and disor- ders.in our body. politic as might bring upon us political as well as financial bankraptey; but we look now for brighter days and better things. It is yet too soon to’ pass judgment upon the capacities of the new Cabinet in the work of retrenchment and reform; but there are two departments which have already gone vigor- ously to the task before them. We refer to the War and the Navy Departments, The ex- perienced and efficient men assigned to the pro- fessional business of these departments have commenced with the will of new householders preparing for a wedding in the’ family and a bridal reception. General and special orders affecting the reorganization and reduction of the army-and the pruning down of useless ex- penses have already been sent out to every sec- tion of the country. It is contemplated within & short time to reduce the aggregate rank and file of the army in active service from forty- five to twenty-five regiments—or say from foxty-flve to twenty-five thousand men— and in this and other ways to cut down in a twelvemonth the expenditures of the War Office to one-half the last annual budget of the Secretary. This is good: And in the Navy Department we have evidences of similar activity. with the pruning knife. Indeed, it is said that Admiral Porter, in direct charge of the reform bureau, is turning the department upside down and inside out, and that Grand- father Welles would even now be shocked at the innovations made in the brushing away of the dust and cobwebs of many years’ accumula- tion and in the clearing out of old and useless lumber. At the same time Secretary Borie, off on a little journey, leaves posted about the walls for the information of place-hunting interlopers this facetious inscription :—‘“‘There are no vacancies in this department.” He has no time to waste upon office-beggars. We see, then, that in the War and Navy offices it is the purpose of the new managers to reduce personnel, machinery and expenses to the margin of a fair peace estab- lishment. Let it not be inferred, however, that this means peace under Grant's Paninistration, right or wrong. It means only that while peace prevails our army and navy may be razeed to the peace establishment of a mere police force on land and water. Why not, when, under Presi- dent Grant, from the men, materials, appli- ances and inventions of our late civil war, he could within six weeks muster the most for- midable army in the world and a navy that would be a terrorto any enemy? The inaugu- ral very clearly shows that while General Grant means to ask nothing that is not right of foreign Powers, he intends to submit to noth- ing that is wrong. So the War and Navy De- partments under him are to be organized for the exigency of war, while reduced as to the expenditures of an assured, enduring peace. But how is it with the other departments— the Treasury, the Interior and the Post Office ? Here a different order of things seems to pre- vail; here the politicians appear as if in full possession, and the wild hunt for office is in full blast, on Marcy’s debasing motto that ‘‘to the victors belong the spoils.” There are not in this demoralizing exhibition any very en- .couraging signs of ‘economy, retrenchment and reform.” But when this unseemly rush of spoilsmen and this degrading scramble for places at the public crib shall have somewhat abated we expect that General Grant will thke a look into the ” prac- tical working of these departments, and we expect that if they are found wanting upon the test of economy and retrenchment he will apply the rule of his address to‘ the Con- gressional Committee announcing his election— the rule of dismissing at once any member of his Cabinet when found incompetentor unsatis- factory. The Commissioner of Internal Reve- nue, an officer second only in his great respon- sibilities to the head of the Treasury, comes also within this category. The Post Office Department has been turned over to Mr. Cresswell deeply in debt or behind- hand; the Interior Department has been turned over to General Cox awfully mixed up with rings of Indian-cheating contractors and railway land speculating rings, and all sorts of Territorial schemes and jobs; the Treasury Department and its appendages of the internal revenue service have become a scandal to the government and a burden to.the people too heavy to be much longer. endured, and all in consequence of the thieving whiskey rings, tobacco rings, gold and stock gambling rings, and other rings of sharpers and plunderers too numerons here to specify. All these abuses, frauds and corraptions in all these departments it is the duty of the officers in charge to rectify, and General Grant says that reform is his fixed purpose, The heads of the departments, then, will do well not to forget this; for if found deficient they mast by the President be removed, and because even for their deficiencies he will be held responsible to the country. peace Losostreet Gers a Rav Over 1k KsvcKins.—The Crescent, commenting upon the supposition that General Longstreet had been appointed Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans, states that it prefers to say nothing of him, ‘‘simply because bis history as a gallant Confederate officer is so well knowh that repetition would be superfluous, while his history a8 4 republican politician would he neither agreeable to the public nor creditable to himself,” ‘The best way to secure Long- street's confirmation by the Senate is for the rabid Southern papers to denounce him, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, } Ch Aj iE ‘Our Steam Navy. In connection with our meagre peace allow- ance for the navy it is certainly very desirable + spe Positive reformation) that economy in consumption of coal should take place. For the past eight years it has not been reached or even approached by ‘the Steam Bureau in the plans of engines built for the navy. Great anwieldy four-bladed have had to be dragged far below the surface of the water, and in every instance have proved almost a positive hindrance to the progress of the ves- sel when the attempt to sail them has been made, They will not steer, tack or wear under sail, and in order to proceed from portto port steam has to be used. Our vessels should both sail and steam with favorable results, and any other vessels for cruising purposes in the United States Navy should not be allowed commission. The news from Washington indicates many changes in the chiefs of the naval bureaus, which will bring about, we hope, this desired result, The officers of the navy are keenly alive to the necessity, and now urge the pas- gage of some law which will place the con- struction and equipment of our vessels of war in the hands of our practical naval officers. We hear Admiral Porter spoken of on all hands as the officer most eminently qualified to, be placed upon this duty. He appears to have the confidence of the President and the honor- able Secretary of the Navy, and much good may come out of it. From evidences before us of the steam blunders of the past eight years it would seem good to have an engineer-in-chief flow called from civil life to adapt our steam navy as best he can to the wants of the nation, giving us simplicity and durability of engines, with no unnecessary weight or space occu- pied, and based upon practical principles, all of which in the engines of our navy for the past five years appears to us to have been ignored to carry out the peculiar ideas of the non-expanding chief of the bureau of our steam navy. We do not want any more steam failures; they are inexcusable in the advance- ment of this great motor. Mr. Isherwood’s plans are all failures, We have certainly spent unnecessary millions and sadly {injured our navy. He has certainly eliminated the value of that unknown quantity (X) of his, and we cannot well afford to continue the search, as the results thus far are néz for the nation and the navy. So give us a healthy, active civil steam man, to repair, if possible, the damage done the navy. We do not want any naval engineer duly inoculated with Isherwoodisms, Greeley’s Place Abroad. There is a ridiculous proposition to send Mr. Greeley as Minister to Spain, supported by some ridiculous argument of his fitness for that place. He is not fitted for that place and should not go there; but he is admirably fitted to represent us in England, and that is where we should send him, Going to England asthe American Minister he would have the greatest influence upon the international.rela- tions of the two countries that any Minister has ever had, inasmuch as he would put the Ameri- can and the English people ina more direct communication one with another. No man could more readily throw himself, outside of all that routine and conventionality that less original men require to bolster up their re- spectability, and the effect with which Grefley would thus ‘throw himself” would be startling. He should of course go in his original Ameri- can costume, and should abate no, jot of those peculiarities. of person and manner that so wonderfully stamp him as a true growth of this soil, torn out by the roots, in the grasp of the American eagle. He should talk to every assembly he can get at and on all his subjects, including mileage, vegetable diet, protection, Jeff Davis, woman’s rights, and cold water, taken inwardly. American Rights in Cuba—Reinforcement of Our West India Squadron. It will be seen from our Washington despatches received last night that, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, an additional United States naval force is to proceed to the West Indies, under direction of Vice Admiral Porter. This, as we are led to understand from our despatches, is not intended as a menace to Spain, but as a precaution to pro- tect American citizens in their rights to person and property on the island of Cuba during existing disturbances. It is well that our government has taken this step. It may be regarded as a peace Measure or measure preservative of peace. There has for too long a time been a dillydallying policy on our part in regard to the vindication of American pre- rogatives in foreign colonial possessions on this Continent, and our citizens will hail with gratification, the inauguration of a more vigorous American policy in this respect than ‘has hitherto prevailed in the Cabinet at Washington. Os Drt.—That Silver Gray Fish will prove tobe a Gold Fish. . Bav.—A Western paper states that a great deal has been said about the miserable close of Andy Johnson's administration, and that this is the reason why Grant had to make several shifts in his Cabinet the very first week of his. Tne Germans Movine Our West.—The German citizens of Cincinnati—and there are not a few of them—are moving toward the assertion of their political rights and to head off the politicians. This is following in the wake of the Germans of New York, and is « movement which will accummulate strength and volume as it rolls onward, Our German ‘citizens as a class are industrious, thrifty and , and their numbers—say nearly ten pr sala them to respect and con- sideration at the hands of politicians. If their rights be not conoed ed they are in a position to demand them. As counterbalancing their political power, Carl Schurz's election to the United States Senate is merely a drachm in the scale, — Uros tHe Cnme. or Dereorives’ Resiana- tron, Wino Snovtp Take His Prace ?—Hid ‘Guoretag Extuacts—From late Georgia papers, all about the fifteenth amendment :— “Let Congress fill its sloptub with abomina- tions, the Georgia Legislature can guzzle them without blinking.” ‘‘A wretched majority of the Georgia House of Representatives crawl down from their high porch, and, at the bidding of Bullock and Congress, acknowledge negro equality.” aHOY Win 1869.—-TRIPLE SHEET. ‘Tho OMice-Seckets at Washingtos- In the rush for office at Washiagtom there spplicants for diplomatic believes himself pro co ag a full mission, and specially competent to conduct the coming negotiations with England or Spain, which are looked upon as the most important of our diplomatic labora.. Under their able direction the Alabama claims’ would soon melt in lly liquidation, or the Cuba question con- te into the most tangible of satisfactory realities. With the many-sidedness that is our national characteristic each is ready to accept the next hest thing to that which he. cannot get, from a first class mission to ‘‘any old coat to spare.” . As to. competency, whoever saw a full-blooded office-secker that was not ready to accept and equal to the occasion? He will undertake any work that promises pay, and’ learn how to do it afterwards. The missions to England and Spain are the ones there is most fuss over and the most applicants for. ‘They are supposed to include the live questions of the day. We can recommend to the Prosident as the best ,manner to settle these conflicting applications to put the whole ten thousand into a big pepper-box, give them a good shake, and then take the one that comes first to band. When he has obtained the ideas of the gov- ernment as to what should be done send him onhis mission with the intimation that the rea- sons for our action will be given by the War and Navy Departments. In this manner we shall have no more trouble from the appli- cants for foreign missions, nor with the ques- tions they may be called upon to settle. The Teuure of Office Act. The Senate, persistently refusing to relin- quish that control of the President which it holds in the law on the tenure of office, now pro- poses a half measure in satisfaction of the demand for the repeal of that law. Senators begin to see that the law operates to their prejudice—that it ties the President a little too tightly ; a fact, that it serves him as an ample shield against the importunities of all those, even Senators, who urge the filling of all the offices with new men. Therefore they pro- pose to put the law out of the way just long enough to prevent the President covering him- self with its provisions, and then to let it come into operation again to secure their places to the friends of Senators whom they expect to install meanwhile. This is the whole signifi- cance of the proposition to suspend the obnox- ious act until the next session of Congress, This proposition should meet with no favor in any quarter. We feel confident that the House, representing truly and strongly the wishes of the country, will refuse to comply with this mean haggling—this ‘‘beating down” on its own proposal to repeal the law. But should the House accept it Grant ought to refuse any such truce. And he could occupy before the country no more advantageous posi- tion than that in which he would stand in vetoing a law that while it would relieve him of a temporary embarrassment would do this at too great cost to the safety of our institu- tions, Nor Lrkery to Make A Catirorney Ovr or Grant—John W. Forney. Tak Pustio Goop.—We have often won- dered why our legislators did not try to make ‘their political fortunes by the introduction of laws beneficial to the people. Some one of them seems to have this idea in his noddle, as we hear of ‘a law to punish adulterations in food and drinks. Doubtless this would be here within the powers of the Board of Health, but such a law would be good everywhere, We believe it practicable. Such a law can be enforced. Witness the destruction just now by the Board of Health of large quantities of diseased pork. The same supervision is capa- ble of further extension, Danone Jousezt—Ben Butler, with a jet black John Diamond, before the Secretary of the Treasury. INFLUENCES OF PuBLIC SoHooLs.—Secretary Boutwell, General Banks and Senator Wilson were educated in the public schools of Massa- chusetts, and, with General Butler, were the q of coslitionists. who broke down the old whig party and ‘eventually rose to dis- tinction upon its ruins. Whatever their edu- cation may have amounted to, it is pretty cer- tain they are well acquainted with one branch of New England classics, namely—how to take care of No. 1, Bares 18 Witttn’.—The - Duke of Montpen- sier will consent to be King of Spain if the country requires it; but he is not so eager that anybody need plunge the country into @ tumult on his account, Fitonrenep Ovr or It.—The printers, when the man who did the city printing would not pay the prices, went to the Aldermen about it. The Aldermen told the printers to get out, as the city printing was a job that did not count the journeymen in. Then the journeymen threatened to remember the Alder- men at the polls, and this brought them. They all agree now that the printing must be given to soulebody who will meet the demands of the printers. Here are the beauties of suffrage. Why should not every man vote himself a fortune? A Disrtsctio WITH A Dirrenexox—Negro suffrage and negro equality, Successor To BoutweLt.—Governer Claf- lin, of Massachussetts, is proposed as repre- sentative to Congress from Secretary Bout- well's’ district, Some of the Massachusetts papers declare that Claflin cannot be spared from his Gubernatorial chair~that there is some prohibition about it. Boutwell may as well appoint his own successor. ——<—$————— Tae Gamroook STaTE oF tHe Sovrn,.— South Catolina having surrendered this post- tion, Georgia is putting on the gaffs, flapping its wings and crowing for the distinction., Cock-¢-doodle-doo! Ose ov ti Bupeies or WALL Srreer.— Straws show which way the wind blows, A bubble causes agitation in financial waters, On the mere strength of @ rumor that Senator Sumner would deliver # bellicose speech on the subject of the Alabama claims our securi-' ties in London, begin to decline, How would our English cousins like to have war actually declared? j , The Fever Ghip James Fester, Jr. It is seldom that we are compelled to chroni- cle such a tale of brutality at sea as that which will ever be associated with the James Fostar, Jr. It was difficult at first to believe that the reports were not greatly exaggerated and even ifispired by malice. In proportion, however, as evidence has multiplied it has become apparent that the worst has not been told. The tale of brutality has almost no parallel. Exculpatory sviderice will no doubt yet be presented ; but it will be impossible to adduce any evidence which will change public sentiment on the subject. Throughout the, whole voyage thé carpenter seems to have conducted himself like a fiend, The conduct of the boatswain and the third mate was no better. How the captain and chief, officer can be held guiltless we canhot see. The verdict of the coroner's jury in the case of John O. Southard is good so far, but it-does not fall with sufficient weight on the captain and the first mate. It is to be hoped that the investi- gation will be complete, that justice will be meted out to the guilty, and that as @ result something will be done to prevent the recur- rence of such atrocities in the future. Tho suggestion thrown out by one of our corre- spondents that every emigrant ship coming to” this country should have on board a commis- sioned officer, whose special duty it shouldbe #0 attend tothe interests of the passengers, and to report on the ship’s arrival, is well worth consideration. Important Commercta MoveMent.—We havegiven a brief report of the proceedings at a recent meeting of the Buffalo Board of Trade, at which s committee of New York merchants attended and gave their views in regard to in- creasing the facilities of transportation between the two points. Anything calculated to pro- mote so desirable an end should be encour- aged; for the trade between the West and New York city, its natural Atlantic outlet, is grow- ing to such gigantic dimensions that the means of tr@hsit cannot readily be too extensively augmented. Progress of THE UNirorm MoVEMENT.—« The Binghamton Democrat suggests the ‘‘uni- forming” of the inmates of the Inebriate Asylum, so that the liquor dealers may not be imposed upon, Whereupon the Elmira Adver- tiser suggests that ‘‘it would look better and read better if put the other way. Let the liquor sellers be uniformed, so that the inmates of the Asylum may not be imposed upon.” The better way would be to have some uni- form and wise legislation in Albany in regard to this Asylum, as well as to all other public institutions in the State. It may be argued that the Inebriate Asylum at Binghamton is not one of our public institutions ; but it is certain inebriety is, and, therefore, it becomes a fit 6ubject for judicious but not fanatical legislation. Grant AND Conarzss.—Southern papers do not seem disposed ‘to accept the idea that Pre- sident Grant should be adopted by the democ- racy, even if he made overtures to that effect. The Memphis Avalanche says Grant is ‘‘thor- oughly sustained by the party which elected him, and to break with it would be to tie his own hands and make his administration a failure.” A Marten or Tastx.—One of the reasons urged for the adoption of the fifteenth amend- ment by the Legislature of Georgia was that the North had forced negro suffrage on the South, and it was but fair to help the North to blister its mouth with its own porridge. Potyeamy.—The United States Congress proposes to “discourage polygamy.” Is not this a rather mild treatment for the relic of barbarism that was once classed with slavery ? Bap vor Joz.—An exchange says Brigham Young's son Joe ‘‘smokes cigars, drinks liquor, gets tipsy, plays poker, licks his wives and preaches the gospel.” Whereat the Leba- non (Ohio) Patriot remarks that Joe ought to remove to some Northern State, where the radicals have a majority, or, with carpet-bag in hand, migrate to Dixie and become a radical member of Congress ; for he has all the requisite qualifications, No, no, Joe evidently has sins enough already to answer for without adding a heavier burden than all. The New Era of Progress and Commerce. We are entering upon a new period in our national existence, and the line drawn between this date and the past is eight years wide; it is from 1861 té 1869. In this eight years of a great national throe, this transition period from the old to the new, we have a complete change in every political ct at mercial feature of the country. Eighteen hundred and sixty-one found us, virtually, a people divided in interests by two im- mense, and powerful” systems of progress which had been gradually growing into antag- onism since the foundation of our government. We had much of that disintegrating principle of State rights in our composition in both sec- tions of thé countty, and we had the flourish- ing and curious anomaly, the slave system, which was dodged in our constitution by article one, section nine, The terrific struggle during our rebellion overturned slavery, the State rights theory, the sectionalisms, the narrow . existing jealousies and many of our constltu- tional theories, We emerged from the war with a gigantic national debt of nearly three thousand millions of dollars and our old ideas about government all knocked to pieces. It has taken us some four years to gather up our. scattered senses. That we have been succdss- ful in the effort is proven by the fact that we have elected General, Grant to the Presi- dency. During the four years past we havo, however, blundered about most sadly in every political and financial direction. How sadly is best shown by the very sonsible speech just made in the Senate by Mr, Sprague, of Rhode Island, He says : “It is within my own experience that the capital required to do the same business in this country beyond that required by the man doing a similar bust- ness if Great Britain is more than three and stulf timeses much; the English manufac- turer plies his spindle at eighty cents, and does his business upon a» capital to em- ploy that spindle at eighty cents; the Ameri- can manufacturer is compelled to employ Capital of two dollars and seventy-five cenis for that capital. This {s but one {llastration, but it illustrates the whole business of the country.” Again, Mr. Sprague mentions the great number of bankruptcies in 1967 end