The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1869, Page 6

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Notice to Herald carriers an Yews Dealers MgRaLp carriers and news dealers are in- formed that they can now procure the requisite number of copies direct from this office without delay. All complaints of “short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room'of the HeraLp establish- ment, Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the HeRap office, are requested to re- turn the same, with proof that they were obtained from here direct, and have their money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be sold to readers of the Heap, Tz bal Naw Ss. Earepe. " The cable telegrams are dated March 17. The Oxford and Cambridge boat race came off yes- terday on the river Thames. A large concourse of people witnessed the race, whi¢h resulted in a vic- tory for the Oxford crew. Meetings have been held in Dublin and Belfast, at which petitions to the Queen not to favor the dis- establishment of the Irish Church were adopted, ‘The monarchists, through General Prim, an. nounced to the Spanish Cortes on Monday that they had @ candidate for the throne. The new constitu- tion establishes complete civil and religious liberty Dnt retains Catholocism as the religion of the State. Jiots have taken place in the province of Andalusia in consequence of the conscription, Encounters between the troops and the people have occurred, ‘aud with fatal consequences. ‘The North German Parliament hag passed a bili seouriug freedom of speech in ali the German Diets. Paraguay. Gur Buenos Ayres letter is dated January 28. Lo- pez Ws steadily organizing his army from the rem- pant of Uts old force and the natives who have fled before the allies. At Cerro Leon né issued a pro- ciwmation urging his people not to give up or de- , and they believe implicitly in all he advises, a native isto be seen in the towns occapied by the allies, Asuncion was completely sacked, not even the houses’ Of foreignets belug spafed. The pretended conspiracy that Lopez claimed was gong on against him is said to have had its origin im the meeting of protinent citizens of Asuncion to consider the demand of the commander of the Hrazilian ‘rom-clad squadron for the surrender of the city. Every person who was present at the meeting was shot. Marsbal Caxias is on his Way to Rio Janeiro. Brazil. Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated Rebruary 6 Paran- box. the Hraziiian Minister for Foreiga Affairs, haa Deen sent to the allied camps on the Plate to prepare tne wag for peace, [tis believed that he is directed to Barmmonize the diMcutties prevailing among the alties. McMahon 1s still supposed tw be with Lopez, and he is consequently cordially hated by the Bra- villians. Financial matters are still ausatisfactory, fand the Montevidean Bank has suspended. Mexico, Negtete ta reported at terra. i The government forces in, pursuit of him are returning to the capital A general amnesty is demanded by the people, General Poririo Diaz remains stent on political mat- ters. The apposition make strong charges of mai- Teasauce agaiast Juarez’s adrinistravion. Cuba. General Dutce has issued a decree, to take effect next month, reducing the texes on exports. Paper currency has been issued by the insurgents in Villa Clara, payable after the recognition of Cuban mile. peurience. n the Senate yesterday the Judiciary Commitice reported an amendment to the dill to enforce the fourteenth amendment in Georgia, which provides for the revival of the militery government in that State, declares the present goverament provisional only, and restores the expetied members to their seats. The sathe Committee a)so. reported back the credentials of the Georgia Senators, with a recom- mendation that they belatd upon the-tabie for the prosent. Numerous pills were tmtrodaced, among them several \granting «aid to raliroads. The résoiution allowing “the New York, New. foundiand and London Telegraph Company to Jaud ‘cables upon our shores was called up ‘an¢ ah amendinent proposed by Mr. Stockton to make the provisions of the bill general produced a discussion that lasted watt tno morning hour, when the bill to repeal the Tenure of OmMce ww cam up as undnished business. Another long argitment cn bat po acwon Was tavern, am | the Senate, ecutive sessiol, adjourned tm the House the Committee on Appropriations reported a resolution to supply owisstons lit the en- We rolment of the general approprigtion Session; one requiring bonded warehouse keepers to reimburse to the government the salarics of storekeepers and another for lighting the President's house and the Capitol. Mr. Butler stated that tho the wnmuat riug by which the enrolling oftitied 1, On this a very. tively which was especially severe between. } and Butler, resolution to reinsert the clauses was finally passed by @ vote of 100 to 43, A resolu: tion to release the property of Blanton Duncan came up, and on motion to layason the table was nega- tived. Pendivg further discussion upon it the House adjourned, The Legislature. The Railroad Committee of the state Senate yea- terday submitted a report and the evidence taken in connection with the alleged over isaue of stock and scrip by railroad companies, Several amendments to the railroad law of the State were proposed, and the subject was made the, special order for next Tuesday, Several pills were introduced. A motion to discharge the Committee on Internal Aifairs from farther consideration of the Excise bill aud refer it to the Committee of the Whole was tabled, after which the Senate took,a recess, At the evening session a message was received from the Governor vetoing the bill passed on the Sth inst, to “authorize fe appointment of a President pro tem- pore of the Metropolitan. Board of Poliee.’? A bill was introduced in relation to the Central Railroad. Several other bills were introduced and a number reported. b Inthe Assembly several reports were submitted, among them the report of the governors of the New York Hospital in response +o a resolution calling forone, The fifteenth amendment to the constitu- tion, being the special order of, the day, was taken up and discuised,; Mr. Jacobs: offered a series of resolutions deferring action on the question until after the next general election. After a long debate the amendment was made the special order for the evening session, and the As- sembly took @ recess. In the evening the discussion on the amendment was continued at length; and; on the previous question being called, Mr. Jacobs’ reso- lutions were rejected and the measure ratified by a strict party vote, . Miscellaneous. In the Georgia Senate yesterday a vote on a Proposition to indefinitely postpone the considera- tion of the new constitutional amendment resulted in a tie—17 to 17—when the President of the Senate, who is said to bea republican, cast a vote in favor of the postponement, and thus defeated the ratifica- tion of the amendment. Asa large number of the members of both Houses have absented themselves Governor Bullock has directed that no per diem or mileage shall be paid them until an appropriation bill has been passed and approved. President Grant’s family commenced moving into the White House yesterday. The army officers in Washington are discontented with the late consolidation order and most of those who have had occasion to visit General «Sherman in order to have their assignments changed are heart- ily disgusted with his blu manners, 5 Among a list of nominations for postmasters sent to the Senate by President Grant yesterday were the names of three women, one of whom, Flizabeth Van Lew, is appointed postmistress at Richmond, Va., in acknowledgment of important services to the Union army during the war. ‘The Massachusetts Legislature 13 considering the proposed annexation of Boston and Charlestown. tout mere hag heh ie deigs ea Ebenezer ), Bassett, a colored man, principal of a school in Philadelphia, is an applicant for the office of Minister to Hayti, and ts strongly endorsed by the higher colored lights. The school bill passed by the Louisiana Legista- ture, which provides for mixed schools, has become a law, and the Governor has appointed two negroes on the commission to carry it into effect. o’Baldwin has again been arrested in Boston for breaking windows and the peace generally. A boy of sixteen committed suicide in Jamatca Plains, Mass., yesterday by hanging himseif. The City. The American and British Joint Commission to settle the differences in regard to the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound companies will meet in this city to-norrow. St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated with the ugnal grand parade of Irish societies in this city and Brooklyn yesterday. Many of the courts closed early in honor of the occasion. Captain Armstrong, of the emigrant ship James Foster, Jr., died of the fever at his residence, in Brooklyn, last evening. The steamship New York, Captain Nordenholt, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for South- ampton and Bremen, The mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. ‘The steamship; Cella, Captain Gleadell, will sail to-morrow (Friday) from pier No.3 North river ut mine A. M, for London direct. The steamship Morro Castle, Captain KR. Adams, will leave pier No, 4 North river at three P.M. to- day for Havana. The steamship Magnolia, Captain Crowell, will sail from pier No. 8 North river at three P. M, vo-day for Charleston, 8. U. The, stock market yesterday was steady and strong, except for Pacific Mail, which underwent a farther decline,and New York Central, which ad- vanced about two per cent, but experienced a re- action atthe close. Gold was drooping and closed finally at 13144. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General L. Lee and General W. 1. McMillan, of New Orleans; R. H. Pruyn, of Albany, and Potter Palmer, of Chicago, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Harry Wharton, of Phitadetphia, and ex-Mayor George Innis, of Poughkeepsie, are at the Hoffman House. W. Hf. Folger, of Albany; B. D, Washburne, of Bos- ton, and ti, Wright, of Ntagara Falls, are at the Astor Honse. Vaiter Bird, of London; B. C. Kerr and A. eas, of Hamilton, Canada, are at the New York aA Sefior R. Serfin and Sefior José Frujitto, of Cuba; J. H. Baggett and W. A. Courtney, of Charleston, 5. C., are at the St. Julien Hotel. Captain J. K. Schmerhorn, of the United States Army; Dr. E. E. Beaman, of Ohio, and Professor A. Allen, of Norwaik, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Dr. W. Yates, of Louisville, and J. H. Baldwin, of Indtanapolls, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Prominent Departures. Judge McCormick left yesterday for Philadelphia, Major General Heintzelman for Washington, Pay- master Spaulding for St. Paul, E. B. Dennison for Chicago, J. Henry for New Orieana and ex-Governor Washburae for Portland. Ex-Governor Bullock and family, of Massachusetts, sailed in the steam. ship Russia, for Burope, France—ReovcrioN 1% Tax AMY axp Navy.—-Lmnportant reductions, as we learn by cable telegraph, are taking place in the French army and navy. All the soldiers and sailors who were recruited in 1862 have been discharged. This, as we have said, is an im- portant and significant step. In view of the tremendous excitement which was got up by the French press about the Belgian rail- ways, and which has not yet completely sab- sided, it seems to say that the Emperor is not going to be dragged into war against his own better sense either by bellicose editors or by indignant p@jticians, Some will see in it another proof? that the empire is peace, We ate not convinced that Europe is not soon to have war; but war will not be forced upon Napoleon. He must be allowed to choose his owa time, War fs not to be now. | Is ene Senate.-—tn the Sadate, if in any | body in the country, there should be good | manners-and good -taorals,.and it is a viola- tion of both for man to talk of persons who | “go back on their party and the country,” The slang is bad, but the relative position of party and country is worse. AAT .008F Bt nO i biila of last { Semate Debate on the Tomure of Omce Act. The debate in the Senate on the bill to re- peal the Tenure of Office act has called out the best talents of that body. The speeches were more ang to the point and less en- cumbered oy unnecessary ry verbiage or political claptrap than any that had ered in the Senate for a long time This articularly {he with the speeches of Sai who were favor, of repealing the act. The question was whether the act should be repealed or the amendment reported by the Judiciary Committee, simply suspending its operation until the next oPtign of Seagrass | should be passed. Those who favored tho views and report of the Judiciary Committee, as Mr. Howard, of Michigan, and; Mr. Ed- munds, of Vermont, maintained that the law was.a good one and ought to remain on the statute book, ‘though the former gentleman, for the sake of being in harmony with hig brother Senators, was willing to vote to sus- pend it for a certain time; but he, felt that in doing so he did a great deal and he would not under any circumstances agree to its repeal. Of course the Senators who op- pose the repeal of the act expressed confidence in General Grant, and talked a great deal about his services to the country, but no one will be deceived by these expressions. These Senators care nothing for the President, They have got the Executive under their feet, and they intend to hold him there if they can. Out of compliment to General Grant, or rather for the sake of the offices which they want dis- tributed, they would suspend the operation of the law afew months; but they are resolved to keep’ the power, if possible, over General Grant and all succeeding Presidents. Something was said about the necessity of keeping the Executive power within limits and of the Senate representing the people in doing this. Why, the President represents the peo- ple more directly than the Senators. They are not chosen by the people, but by the Legis- latures of the States; he is elected by popular vote and for a shorter term, There is far less danger to liberty and good government from power being invested in him than in a political oligarchy composed of a few men elected by politicians and not by the people. Then the machinery of our government all through its history has acted smoothly and hap- pily enough without this Tenure of Office act. Indeed, it is since that act was passed that we have had more trouble, more corruption, more conflicts etween the dif- ferent branches of the government, and more danger to our institutions than ever before. The attack of Mr. Edmunds on the democrats in Congress for voting solidly for the repeal of the act was mean and unjust. Towever foolish and narrow-minded they may have acted on other occasions, they have undoubt- edly acted from conviction and principle on this; foras a political party they would gain more by the conflict and trouble this act would cause among the republicans and to the repub- lican administration than by its repeal. Mr. Fessenden made a most able speech in favor of the repeal of the act. He had opposed the law from the first and had fore- seen and foretold that its operations would do more evil than good. His vote would not be given for repeal on the ground that to vote otherwise would indicate want of confidence in the President. He did not think it neces- sary or dignified to be continually announcing the confidence of tlie people and of Congress in the President. The people had but recently elected him, and it was to be presumed they had confidence in him. He would vote for the repeal of the law because it was a bad one, and not with regard to its effect upon any person or persons. Mr. Morton, of Indiana, took much the same ground, and was in favor’ of the unconditional repeal of the act. He admitted the law had been passed to meet an extraordinary occasion, and that had it not existed no Senator or Representative would think of proposing such a law at this time. He believed that its immediate repeal was de- manded by the best interests of the country, because the government could not be carried on successlully under it, He would go fur- ther, and say that the country had gained nothing by the law, even during the adminis- tration of President Johnson, and that the-re- publican party had gained nothing. It had been a mistake from the beginning. The President should-be left free to inaugurate and carry out the great reforms demanded and @x- pected of him, Mr, Thurman, the democratic Senator from Ohio, urged the repeal of the act, and argued that to suspend it only would be to diregard the constitution, and the people would naturally conclude that Congress inter- preted the constitution to mean one thing when one man was President and another thing when another man was President. Mr. Yates, of Illinois, made some telling remarks in the same point of view, and declared that the act was an ob- stacle fn the way of the President doing his duty and an encumbrance upon him in reform- ing the public service, Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, took’ similur broad and liberal views of the evil effects of the act gnd the necessity of re- pealing it. . These argaments, as we said, were very much to the point; but the Senators might have gone further, and have shown that the corrupt rings in the revenue service and other departments of the government, which have robbed the country and despoiled the Treasury tothe extent of a hundred millions a year or more, have been sustained by this Tenure of Office act and the Senate ring which passed and upheld it. . Half the evils it has produced have not been mentioned, There can be no honest government or successful 'administra- tion if it remains on the statute book, The President would be @ mere cipher; the House of Representatives, as far as the offices and patronage go, would be powerless, and the Senate would be an all-powerful oligarchy. The immediate repeal of the act, as Mr, Morton said, is demanded by the best interests of the country and because thé goternment cannot be carried’ dn 6 ‘dh sudowsafally under It. Kerrtxa THe ‘Narsowan Basks Srratour.— Mr. Hulvurd, the Comptroller of | the Our- rency, has issued @ cireular to the na banks calling attention to the act approved March 4, 4569, regulating the reports of. these institutions, and informing them that they are hereafler to make the reports of their con- dition on such past day as he may designate, instead ef making quarterly reports and NEW YORK. HERALD, THURSDAY, MAROH ‘18, 1869.—PRIPLE SHEET. at any time the exact condition of eir affairs on aday which bas passed; 60 that these institutions, if the law be faithfully pratt ad Mr. wot declares that Heme gg ceibdacuaon the law. We hope he will; |: for’ those gigantic and powerful monopolies need to be watched and kept whine limits prescribed, ' Who Backed Napoleon Out of Mexico t— Jack-in-the-Box Webb Shut Dowsa W die Wikomt, * Who backed Louis Napoleon out of Mexico? We have had a brochure from the Chevalier James Watson Webb, our Minister at Brazil, in which he claims that he is the great man; that he arranged between the Emperor Napo- leon and the President of the United States the French evacuation, and that the Secretary of State (Mr, Seward) had nothing whatever to do with it. Knowing very well, however, “with all the world and the rest of mankin as honest, old Zack Taylor would express it, that the Chevalier Webb has been a diplomatic highflyer and a peacock with a very long tail of the most brilliant plumage, we could not accept this.claim on his part that to him exclu- sively belongs all the honor and power and glory of backing Napoleon out of Mexico. Having, too, a vague recollection that the vol- unteer voyage of the Chevalier Wikoff across the Atlantic in the fall of 1865 was in some way connected with, this Mexican question, we called upon him for the facts connected with that mission to Napoleon, and now, as rebutting testimony against the Chevalier Webb, we have those facts, Gracefully responding to our request, the letter from the Chevalier Wikoff, which we publish to-day, like a well-directed shot from a heavy colum- biad, not only strikes the Chevalier Webb between wind and water, but shivers his tim- bers and sinks him. To change the figure, the Jack-in-the-Box Webb having jumped up full length on this Mexican question, the Che- valier Wikoff has modestly stepped forward and shut him down again, and fastened the lid over him, and there he is. It {is neatly done. The letter of Wikoff, in every sense an admirable letter, is in one view a very valu- able one, and that is as a contribution to the inside history of Napoleon's abandonment of his grand Mexican idea. The conferences in the summer of 1865 between Wikoff and M. Montholon, the French Minister at Washing- ton, and the conversations of Wikoff with Pre- sident Johnson and General Grant, for the information of Montholon—the Secretary of State at that time lying still prostrate from the wounds of the assassin Payne—and the whole chain of circumstances which resulted in Wikoff’s volunteer mission to Napoleon, though only briefly sketched by the writer, are exceedingly interesting as parts of the hitherto unpublished inside history of the Mexican set- tlement with Napoleon. We now know dis- tinctly the impression made upon the govern- ment and the French Minister at Washington, by the public opinion through the public press of this country, with the collapse of our South- ern rebellion. We see that the views of Gen- eral Grant and General Sheridan at that time concerning the French occupation of Mexico alarmed the French Minister, and that in detailing Wikoff to impress all these facts upon the mind of Napoleon the French Minister acted wisely. We say wisely, because in September, 1865, Napoleon, at Biarritz, was absorbed in European affairs, and especially in the grand designs entered into with the great,Bismarck. Hence the fears of Montho- lon that his despatches on the Mexican dafiger had escaped, and might escape, that serious attention from the Emperor which the crisis demanded, and hence the wisdom of a special mesenger from Washington to the Emperor on this Mexican difficulty. What was the result? On the 18th of October, 1865, by special appointment the day before at the Tuileries, Napoleon gave an audience at St. Cloud to Wikoff, and a free conversation followed, embracing the political situation at Washington, the dangers of the French-Mexican entanglement and the Emperor's views and purposes concerning it. The first visit of the Chevalier Webb to Napo- leon on the subject was on the 10th of Novem- ber, some three weeks behind Wikoff; so that, as Wikoff tersely puts it, “when Mr, Webb called on the Emperor he had not only decided to abandon Mexico, but had settled upon the plan of evacuation.” This settles Webb. THis claim rests on another man’s pre-emption—his Mexican patent is an infringement on another man’s patent right. In this case he is not the peacock flourishing his own glorious plumage in the sun, but the jackdaw airing himself in the peacock’s feathers. Wikoff considers it a matter of no consequence, but we consider his letter of very gréat consequence in settling Webb, and from the light which it throws on the direct influences behind the scenes operat- ing on Napoleon in behalf of a timely retreat from Mexico. Sweet on Tur GarMans.—The Albany Kvening Journal, radical organ, has jast dis- covered that the Germans have a weekly holi- day that does not exactly agree with Puritan- ical ideas, and throws out @ bait for the Germans to bite at in the shape of a proposed amendment to the Excise law which will allow the Teutonic element to enjoy its Sun- day rambles, music and lager on Sunday. This is an attempt to head off Mynheer Hoff- man, who is supposed to carry all New York Germany in his breeches pockets, and a repub- lican bid for the German vote in this city in opposition to. that of the democrats for the vote of our Irish fellow citizens. Ovaxtxo A Mixe.—The money awarded to property owners for land to be taken for the Church street extension and for houses to be torn down for the same is to be paid presently, but the owners, as the courts decide, will be entitled to collect rents on the same -property till it is formally accepted by the city. This ig the best yet—a man is paid for his property, but hae the benefit and income of it still, Now, let these owners statt a big job to put off sindefinitely the acceptance by the cily, and they will have the municipal bull by the horns. We expect to hear directly of a great many propositions for opening atreoia, aad not to see the streets for a great while wy fasted eulgrasig set Naekt Moaserement, © * Our strictures on. the system of yachts kpown as the ee ee , ment have turned the attention of | Gt Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's fostival was duly celebrated yesterday in New York, as it always is aod always ought to be in a which numbers ‘among its citizens so many t ee and. here, to this interesting descent. ‘The glorious weath A ject, have excited a great deal of dis- fas da larger and ee iisppier le lined’ the side- alan | justly taken. Io walks, filled the windows and crowded the ie from the ; tudog Pic, showing the drift of the argu- | ment in England, Naturally we cannot quite agree with all they say, but this subject, like every other, has many aspects; some more or less serious, and others only to be viowed with such an attitude as the poet gives to ‘laughter holding both his'sides.” There, for instance, is the merchant skipper's way of looking at it. ‘This old salt is one of your boisterous worthica who has a way of advocating things that showa their merits. His notion of Thames measure- ‘ment is‘that with a fifty ton English boat en- tering American races on Thames measure- ment he could win all the races'by getting time allowance from boats that really ought not to give it. With this Englishman we could make an Alabama treaty if he only would re- frain from calling the Atlantic Ocean a herritig pond. H. L. has evidently but one difficulty ia life—he cannot get the American rule of measurement. We Americans know tho English rule and criticise it; but H. L. cannot get hold of ours, for no one will send it to him. He writes for it regu- larly, but gets no reply. He has no doubt it isa bad rule and ridiculous, and is ready to show this, but has not the rule. He is s mea- surer himself. He ‘deeply regrets” that the New York Yacht Club has not sent him its ‘rule, that Mr. Haswell has not sent him the rule, that no one else ins sent it. G. A. L. isa gal of rational speech, and utters plain truth in the declaration that “‘the Thames rule of measurement is an arbitrary, unscientificrule,” and deals ‘‘with fictitious elements.” To open | the eyes of Englishmen to this single fact was the whole object of our original article. societies that wwabehed in this Sotonise a conspicuous and honorable' place was accorded to some twenty Father Mathew societies—a fact which encouragingly attests the progress of temperance in our Irish population. It may be reasonably inferred, also, from the absence of Fenian manifestations yesterday that the failure of certain committees to account satisfactorily for ‘the vast contribu- tions levied upon toiling Irishmen and Irish women in America ,within a few years past has led to the indefinite postponement of the invasion of England by vessels fitted-out and manned in American ports. No celebration of St. Patrick’s Day has been more generally observed in New York than that of yesterday. The Irish themselves abstained to an uansual degree from exhibiting anything but good will, even towards thelr old enemy, John Bull. They seemed tobe satisfied at their innumerable. banquets, public and private, with drioking in good old Irish whiskey a to bould St. Patrick's feat, le Was @ saint go clever: He inane. the snakes and toads @ twist, And banished them forever. And as St, Patrick Is traditionally declared to have been a Scotchman no small amount of Scotch whiskey was emptied in his honor, not to speak of the French and Spanish wines which were swallowed by those who claim, by tradition also, some that he waaa Frenchman, and some that he was a Spaniard. But what- ever may have been his original nationality he was universally honored in this cosmopolitan city as the favorite saint of Ireland. -In the sympathizing crowd that thronged Broadway yesterday’ we noticed Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Chinese, Indians, and even Englishmen and ex-members of the Know Nothing party, together with a fair sprinkling of “‘Americans of African descent,” who seemed to have no fear of lampposts and no recollection of the fearful riots of 1863. The cruel war is over. General Grant is Presi- dent. ‘Let us have peace.” Progress of Liberal Ideas in Spain. Tn the Constituent Cortes on Tuesday a mo- tion was made by a republican member that the Cortes take action in favor of legalizing - civil marriages. At the conclusion of the de- bate it was formally announced that the gov- ernment intended to introduce a bill on the subject. We ask our readers to remember that we are writing of Spain—Catholic Spain, the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella, of Charles the Fifth and Philip the Second. Civil marriages legalized in Spain! Who could have dreamed of the possibility of such a thing a couple of years ago? It is thus that the new religion gains its conquests. It has been slow to find its way into Spain. It caught Italy first, then Austria, and now Spain feels its force and yields, Steam, elec- tricity, the printing press, railroads are too strong for Mother Church or any of the old fogy ideas of a dead past. There is certainly great need for an Ecumenical Council; for the Church must, without delay, place herself more in harmony with the new conditions of the nineteenth century. Tue Doa@ in THE MancER.—That dog was never looked upon as having a character that any one would desire toimitate. He was never envied his fame, and we thought never would be. We thought this till we understood the position of the city government in regard to markets. Our authorities persistently keep up the infliction of several disgraceful nuisances, which they call markets, retuse to give decent markets, and then interpose their authority to prevent any one else giving them, striving to show that itis a crime to accommodate. the people in this necessity. Srace Rovrgs.—The Legislature is asked to annul the license to run stages on any route on which they have not run for five years. We do not object to the abolition of stage lines where there are no stages, and we believe that the friends of those lines where there are stages are growing daily less. Cars have done much, and cabs, if Fisk succeeds, will do more, to killthe omnibus. The Fifth avenue line is a good one, but there are few of that character. “The Squabble for the Spoils. The newsmen at Washington have but little to report except. the movements, expectations and prospects of this man and that man, this clique, that clique and the other, in the general squabble for the spoils. General Grant, how- ever, holds them to the Tenure of Office law, with a few favored exceptions here and thetc, and so this law returns to plague the inventor. The hungry spoilsmen will doubtless be too much for the Senate; but while waiting for the grass to grow the horse starves. The New York budget of fat places and pickings is the subject of a lively contest, involving half a dozen rings, cliques and coteries,"and great’ is the prevailing excitement and uncertainty among them all; for they are all sore afraid that General Grant has filled a slate of his own, which will supersede every other slate made up. Greeley is reported among the office-seekers as floundering about like a stur- geon among the small fry, and Raymond is represented among the faithful as a fish out of water. Dana, they say, sees that his splendid castles in the clouds are vanishing, and the free trade posts of the Post cannot sing the musio of Boutwell, and so they remain for the present in the background. But still the gen- eral scramble goes on, and in the midst of it the President is reduced to the position of su- perintendent of a national almshouse, sur- rounded by a still increasing swarm of hungry and thirsty followers, clamorous for their ro- wards, The “Te the Right About Face—March!” The order of General Sherman breaking up the Military Department of Washington and awaking certain shoulder-strapped gentlemen from a bed of roses and consigning them to one of soldierly hardship has created an in- tense flutter among military feathers at the national capital. The General even thought it were better to burn up two hundred thou- sand dollars’ worth of public property in the shape of barracks than to retain the present military organization at the seat of govern- ment, surrounded and tempted as it was with all sorts of corrupting influences, Sherman is right, There are a great many military heroes who plume themselves upon having bled for their country—and, no doubt, truly— who are too much inclined to bleed it to ex- haustion in return. Under the present mili- tary régime we are likely to have a reduced, but a consolidated, an economical and an ex- traordinarily efficient United States army, which, in connection with a splendid national militia organization, will answer all practical purposes until the next war, no matter with what Power that may be. Therefore, we say to those officers who have for so long a time been enjoying luxurious ease, ‘‘To the right about face—march !” GuBERNATORIAL VETOES AND REPUBLICAN Speciat Leotstation.—Governor Hoffman yesterday vetoed another scheme of the ma- jority in the Legislature, It was one for special legislation in regard to the Board of Metropolitan Police. The Governor's reasdhs for the veto are given in full in his message. These efforts at special legislation on the part of the republicans are awakening some mis- givings among the republican organs them- selves. The Albany Hoéning Journal of last evening sagely remarks that “the day may come when we shall have 9 democratic Legis- lature as well as a democratic Governor; and then, perhaps, we will find to our cost that in carrying out a scheme of special legislation a precedent has been furnished for dangerous and annoying interference with municipal rights in republican districts.” Tar Battie or 118 Kxos,—The sharp en- counter io the House yesterday between Gene- ral Schenck and General Butler might rightly be termed the ‘Battle of the Kegs.” It was all about the whiskey tax. What a magnifi- cent spectacle the debate presented! Butler standing up for the Treasury of the United States, and Schenck, as Butler alleged, for the whiskey ring. The former stated ‘‘in the face of the country” that ‘‘a million and a half of dollars a year” was interested in having a certain provision in the whiskey bill fail. The ‘face of the country” ought*to blush at such a statement, But its face has become calloused against charges of this kind, and it can only be brought to relax itg rigidness by further developments of the same sort. Let the “Battle of the Kegs” wage. The country can lose nothing by its Oonsinaaace. SMALL Cons. There iso propealtion to go further in the coinage of nickel es for five cents, Why not give us @ tea cent piece of the same, and thus put ont of sight one more denomination of the stamps? Copperhead Preas on the Adminis. tration. The copperhead press at the presont tio- ment reminds us of « pack of snarling curs driven from « bone, They set up an impotent howl over everything done by the party which is master of the situation. They tell their ragged, hungry followers that they must open the battle against the administration, no matter under what plea, If no reason can be found for it, never mind—open the battle, Without principles that will give them a foothold they rave away, and, instead of » sensible fighi, they remind us of a lot of ‘Oolestials,” With their gongs, lanterns and antlos, giving va 4 burlesque representation of war. When Grant first oame tanto office they charged him with desiring to dictate entirely Faesn Ovrpreaks IN Spaty.—Gur cable despatches recetyed last evening from Madrid, dated March 17, inform us that fresh revo- lutionary outbreaks have ocourred in Anda- lusia. In the ‘towns of Xeres, about six- teen miles from Cadiz, and in Montero: bar- ricades had been constructed and fight- ing was going on between the govern- ment troops and the revolutionists, with some logs to the latter. Cadid was quict, The dis- turbances arose from an attempt to enforce the conseription law of the Cortes, the mom- era of which, it seems, without distinction of party, have agreed to sustain the government at any cost, although Minister Sagasta opposed the enforcement of conscription. Here in a new eource of domestic trouble for the home government from which the revolutioniats in Caba can, if properly used, roap advantage,