The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY MARCH 22, 1869.-TRIPLE sAEET. NEW YORK HERALD Reuimens end debe Kad, of Teceeto, ato 96,0 eee BROADWAY AND ANN SPREET. panna JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ————————— Volume XXXIV...sssssseecssesseeseree NOs SL ————— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humery Dourry, wire New Fratoees. WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tn Save DWARrs; on Haneaguix AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS. a OADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Lronzss OF THE xiiQMiwe cas Plat at Tuat Gains BOOTHS THEATRE, 284 at, between 5th and 6th avs.— Rowno asp JOLIET. LOS GARDEN, shavaganza OF THR Broadway.—Tum BURLESQUE Ex- Four Turev Es. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — BeMouL. GUAM'S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—PERrEo- Ps & ADO AnouT a MERCHANT OF VENICE. 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New, Minister of War, in the French nm Saturday last advocated the complete reorganization of tne French army. He claimed that peace was any emetgeacy. One hundred soldiers are reported to have been Killed in the recent insurrection at Xeres de la Fron- tera, im Spain, The number of citizens killed has hot yet Leen ascertained. Cuba. The transport with the Stste prisoners on board satied trom Havana on Saturday for Fernando Po, comvoyed by the frigate Leaitad. The wharves, streets and roofs of the city were crowded with people, and several disturbances occurred. A thief, who was caught plying bis trade, was beaten by the crowd, and the Volice Commissary, havtng expressed some sympathy with him, was assaulted and killed. The Captain General, hoping to modify the populace, organized a court martial at the barracks, and the thief was tmmediately tried and sentenced to be shot, A Cuban hear the Governor's house cried out, “Vien OCopedes.” and was imetantly shot dead by a sentry on guard. The same cry was heard frequent- ly during the Gay, and fears were entertained of a riot. Mexico. Despatches by way of San Francisco state tnat General Losada bas resigned Gt command. A fracas had occurred between the garrisou and the police at Guadalajara, but fo serions consequences had resulted from tt Cepeda had assumed his new Guties as Governor of Lower California. Indian outrages are reported im Senora, Chihuahua and Reverdy Johnson as Minister to England @ at tributed to his desire to carefully sam up his policy In regard to the Alabama claims. Some people who profess to know claim that his policy will consist merely of a demand for payment. Caled Cushing Mentioned as likely to receive the nomination. Among the Seld oMvers retired by the recent order consolidating regiments are (Colonels 5. I. Helntzelman, Daniel Butterfield, Gordon Granger, Joseph J. Reynolds, Daniel —. Sickles, Wager Swayne, all lately acting as brigadier or major gene- rails, and others of jess note; Lieutenant Colonels Adam J. Slemmer (of Fort Pickens fame), Alfred Sully, James H, Wilson (the captor of Jem Davis), Maurice Maloney, Frederick T. Dent (a brother-in- law of the President), George A. Andrew and others. Several uf these latter have also ranked as brigadier or major generals of volunteers. A list of about twenty majors are also retired, among whom ts Major Thomas W. Sweeny, the famous Fenian. Seven hundred and sixty-four officers of all grades Will be retired, ‘One of the applicants for the Post Office at Cotam- bia, 5. C., bs jarkey, ana another n ex-federal captain, from New York, The Captain has the re- Commendation of the business men of Columbia; but the negro has the co-operation of a Senator from South Carolina, and wil probably get the place. A soldier 6 still walking bis beat as a guard be. fore the Louse Of ex-secretary Seward, where he ‘was placed immediately afler the assassination of Mr. Lincoln and the attempt on Mr. Seward’s tte. Mr. Seward is gone but the sentinel remains at bie post. A fight ocourred at Port Lyons, New Mexico, on Thuraday night, between white and colored soldiers, in which several men were killed and five or six wounded. A young German in Newark, being refused by the girl he loved, shot her at her residence on #un- day, killing her almost instantiy, and then, with the same pistol, put an end |o his own existence. Three young iadies, daughters of reepectable farmers in the neighborhood of Chambersvarg, Pa., were ravisbed by 4 young hegro of nineteen on Thursday afternoon. Tht negro wae arreeted on Friday, and an attempt was made to mob him, but Milder counsels prevatied aud the mob dispersed. The City. At Trinity church yesterday Dr. Vinton preached & sermon on the text “My yoke easy and wy ber den & light.” Rev. John @ Adams at the Meduen streot Baptist church delivered a lecture to show that Baptists were the oniy true reformers. Dr, Chapin, at the Fifth avenue Universatet church, preached @ sermon appropriate to Palm Sunday, although he disclaimed the custom of converting the circulating year Into a rowary. He chose tor hu subject Jesus’ entrance mto Jerusaiem. Prince Louis Ferdinand de Bourbon, a fon of the | Count D*Agutiar, of Naples, was married to Senorta Hamel, of Havana, by Justice Dodge, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, on Saturday. The parties are both young and appeared tn a style that lett no doubt of their wealth. Ellen Flinn, an Irish girl, living #9 « servant a No. 19 East Fourth street, woke up in her bed about three o'clock yesterday morning and found two Diack burgiars in her room. She tmmediately clutched them, and notwithstanding (heir threats of choking her, she screamed for heip until (he house was aroused. Then the negroes knocked her down and escaped, but were alinost immediately captared oMgar Meschutt, They contessed to an attempt Osptain Kennedy, of steamship City of Paris; Caskle Harrison, of Liverpool; Robert 0. Page, of wi 3 A of New Orleans, and Gen- eral James , of Pensacola, are at the New York Hotel. Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, and Mr. Dessaulles, of Montreal, are at the Brevoort House, Judge Dunievy, of Ohio; Colonel J. Mason Brown, of Kentucky; W. Windom, of Minnesota; Duncan Bell, of Montreal; J. M. Van Buskirk, of Washing- ton, and E. Oppenheimer, of Paris, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, J. R. Putnam, of Saratoga Springs, and James Wilson, of Missouri, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Postal Telegraph. The signs are clear and positive that the postal telegraph is a coming thing. Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, has introduced a bill in Congress ‘‘to establish a postal telegraph system and to incorporate the United States Postal Telegraph Company,” which has been read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Its plan is a great advance on the proposition presented at the last session ot Congress, and shows how much the question has grown with Mr. Hubbard and his coadjutors. But it contains the germ of an immense evil, which we hope the gentlemen interested in the promotion of the plan will consent to modify in behalf of their own interests, those of the government and the preponderating interests of the public. England has preceded us in this movement, and has contracted to purchase all the tele- graph lines in Great Britain and make them adjuncts of its postal system. But it has now been discovered that the railway and telegraph companies there have contrived to convert this wise measure into an immense job and to saddle the government with obliga- tions to pay for the existing telegraph lines a sum far beyond their real value and what it would have cost to build new ones. It is against the perpetration of a similar evil in this country that we demand precaution shall be taken by the Senate Committee on Post Offices ; and we shall point out, before we close this article, how the interests of the people and the government can best be protected in this matter. But before taking up that point we will look at the bill as it now stands. To do this we must reverse the order of the bill, as in it the cart has been skilfully placed before the horse, for evident purposes. It is proposed to incorporate Gardner G. Hubbard and his associates by the name of the United States Postal Telegraph Company, with a capital of four hundred thousand dollars. This capital seems ridiculously small for the great purpose which it is proposed to achieve ; but we will refer to this again. This com- pany, it is proposed, will build itslines between Washington, New York, Boston and Chicago within six months; to Cincinnati, St. Louis and New Orleans within two years, and to every other city of five thousand or more in- habitants within three years from the execu- tion of the contract. The postal telegraph offices are to be in connection with the post office in every city, at railroad stations, and at such other places as the business of the country may demand. Messages are to be received at every postal telegraph office, post office, sub- office and street letter box, prepaid by stamps, and to be delivered free within the limits of free delivery of letters from any post office, or within one mile of every postal telegraph office, and to be transmitted by mail to or from the nearest postal telegraph office when received at or destined for any place not hav- ing such office, and postal money orders may be remitted by telegraph. The rate of toll ‘for this service to be one cent a word for each five hundred miles or less, and the minimum mes- sage to be twenty words. The advantages of this system to commerce and to every private interest in the country are obvious, It will quicken trade to an im- mense degree, while in a proportionate mea- sure it will diminish the capital requisite to transact the exchange of commodities, by enabling every dollar to do its work in much less time than is now required. The disad- vantages contained in the bill are per- tinent only to the manner of estab- lishing this immense reform, and not to its plan for the postal telegraph system. It is proposed that this shall be done by authorizing the Postmaster General to con- tract for the transmission of the messages with any telegraph company or companies now or that may be hereafter incorporated. Herein lies the same job that has fastened upon the British government a great debt for an incomplete and vicious system of tele- graphs, constructed by private companies, and which it is found necessary in a great measure to reconstruct. If the existing lines, or those to be constructed by any private company, are equal to the work that is to be required of them, we have no objection to their being purchased at « fair price; but we do insist ‘hat the country shall not be called upon to pay forty millions of dollars fora set of old and much worn lines, when better ones, covering the same extent of territory, can be constructed for ten millions of dollars, And it is in view of this fact that we referred to the small pro- posed capital of the new company—four hun- dred thousand dollars. There is a further proposition in the bill betore us, to the effect that the company may from time to time inerease its capital stock to an extent not exceeding two hundred dollars for each mile of wire owned and operated by it. We do not hesitate to characterize this proposition as an imunense swindle. An excelient and substan- tial two wire telegraph line can be constructed at « cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per mile, with stations furnished and complete at every twenty-five miles; and the same pots and construction will carry | eight wires, if necessary for the business. | These extra wires can be put up at a cost not | exoeeding thirty dollars per mile; and why the company should be allowed to increasé ke capital stock two bundred dollars for every thirty dollars expended is not clear to the mind of aay bonest man. We accept the plan of « postal telegraph as proposed in this bill, and will now point out the amendments which we call upon the Senate Committee on Post Offices to make to it before putting it upon ite passage. Drop the words Washington and New York in the twenty-first line of section three, and add to the bill the burglary and were comulited to answer without proposition made by Mr. Washburne last ses- = Arrivals in the Oniy- ahd James W. Piper, oF United Charles ©. Myers, of Zorn; Mt, Washington; W. crichton, of sion for the appropriation of sixty thousand dollars for the construction of an experimental telegraph between Washington and New | Fert, ged rot the Postennet Geveral advertise immediately for the construction of eid line in the best manner known to tele- graphic science and skill. The country will then have a practical test of the cost of tele- graph construction, which will serve as a type for the purchase of old existing lines or the construction of new and improved ones; and we shall be saved from committing the great blunder England has just committed, and while securing the new system we will avoid incur- ring an immense and needless debt. Tue News From Cvsa.—Our Havana cable despatch reports that the dep of the political prisoners for BP dtl day last gave rise to energetic political demou- strations on the part of the populace. A trea- sonable manifestation by a Cuban resulted in his death, which was in a manner revenged later in the day by the infuriated natives killing Police Commissary Romero, who was suspected of sympathy with an arrested thief. Captain General Dulce endeavored to pacify the people, but apparently with ill success, as the despatch reports the frequent hearing of seditious cries, and fears were entertained of @ collision between the Cubans and the au- thorities. ; Farsz Atarm.—The French papers are assailing the Emperor terribly over our shoulders for having waked up the American giant by the expedition to Mexico, and taught the said giant, thitherto peaceably disposed, that his strength would justify him in flouting the combined power of Europe. All this is apropos to a mistaken translation of a passage in Grant's address. Grant spoke of our “commanding influence among nations.” The French made this ‘‘influence prépondé¢rante,” and saw in it ‘the germ of future wars.” There are many shades of meaning to every word, and in certain places ‘‘commanding” might properly be rendered preponderant, but not as used above. The true translation would be ‘‘nfluence imposante.” An ARKANSAS TRAVELLER.—Some of the trouble of reconstruction is seen in the decla- ration of the Arkansas Assembly which has declared its Speaker ineligible to the place he holds because he is a non-resident. Have We a Bourson Amone Us?—This question, which was so much agitated during the lifetime of the late Eleazar Williams, Indian missionary, and, according to his own belief, Dauphin of France, and which was never settled to the satisfaction of all who took an interest in it, must, at length, appar- ently be answered in the affirmative. In sup- port of this statement we refer to the account in another column of the marriage, by Justice Dodge, on Saturday afternoon, at Jefférson Market Police Court, ot a scion of the house of Bourbon, Prince Louis Ferdinand de Bour- bon, and a daughter of the ‘‘Queen of the Antilles,” Sefiorita Amelia Hamel, of Havana. In Trove oF Peace Prepare ror War.— Marshal Neil, the French Minister of War, evi- dently adheres to the old adage, “In time of peace prepare for war.” In the Corps Légis- latif, on Saturday, the Marshal urged the com- pletion of the reorganization of the army. Peace, he said, was secure; but France would not tolerate a government which was not fully prepared to avenge insult if offered. The famous assertion of the Emperor of*the French, ‘“UEmpire, c'est la Paix,” may still be pro- nounced as if it read ‘‘’Hmpire, c'est 0 Pic.” Bap Omens.—The New Orleans Picayune sees bad omens in the conduct of the new ad- ministration already. Suppose the Southern press brush the mistsand cobwebs that have accumulated upon their spectacles for the last dozen years, and witness the new lights of prosperity that surround them? It is about time for them to begin to talk about good omens; they have had enough of the bad reality. Taz Poucy or Generat Grant.—He might address Congress thus :—‘‘If I pick you up, I fall; if I fall, you will not pick me up; therefore I leave you.” The people will respond, ‘“‘Amen !” Ir Cannov Bz Done.—Dr. Harris is not a practical Superintendent for the Board of Health. His proposition to have an inspec- tion made of every house in the city by seven- teen inspectors between this and September proves it. In the first place the work cannot be done in the time by that force, and in the next place there would be no advantage to the public in doing it. It would be wasted labor. Leave alone the thirty thousand better class houses, Mr. Superintendent, and devote any superfluous energy you may have to the twenty thousand tenements. That is your field. Tue Next Governor or Texas.—The Austin (Texas) Republican of the 10th inst, states that from indications from all parts of the country it is fully assured that General A. J. Hamilton, ‘‘who forgives untold injuries,” will be the next Governor almost by acclamation. It would be fortunate for any State to have a Governor possessing such an unbounded spirit of forgivness, for Hamil- ton has been the best abused man in or out of Texas for many years; and that is saying a good deal. Ovt ror Sport.—The Sing Sing Prison au- thorities, by whose negligence and inefficiency the convicts were able to escape, seem to have started for the capture of these men in the true spirit of hunters out for big sport. If, as reported, the convict O'Neil had quietly sur- rendered himself into the hands of citizens before he was shot by a pursuing keeper, we do not see how the action of the latter can escape the attention of a jury. If an escaped convict is an outlaw in such a sense that any man may kill him the law needs changing. Fine Insvrance AND LAND INSURANCE.— The article which we publish to-day on fire insurance and land insurance is at once so fall and so minnte and accurate in its details that it will suffice to call special attention to it, The evils which are pointed out in the manage- ment of the immense interests involved in each of these important branches of insurance loudly call for additional legislation. Fast DAY 1% Massacnuserrs.—The Gov- ernor of Massachnsetts has appointed a fast day. In view of the number of official posi- tions natives of the State occupy in the Cabinet, at the head of standing committees, foreign ambassadorships and #0 on, would it not be well for the Governor of the Bay State, and he is to appoint a hold-fag day? A The discussion in the Senate on Friday over the Tenure of Office act was the occasion for a very lively of ideas: The whole affair was a warm one, but had the usual pet- tifogging characteristics until Mr. Sprague, with more blunt common sense than polish, opened bis batteries and gave Congress a few solid ideas and unpalatable truths, which oc- casioned sdme commotion, Said he: ‘The great evil in both houses of Congress is that too many of the members are lawyers—men educated only in one line, in one range of ideas and experience, and, therefore, incom- petent to represent faithfully the diverse in- terests and necessities of the great mass of the people.” This was a shot in the right direc- tion, and told with tremendous effect. It is something that the different States will do well to think of. The petty wranglers, who become noted ward-room politicians, finally work them- selves into power, and are then sent to Congress to befog every question that arises and to study how best they can get a fee from the different rings that have certain jobs to shove through our legislative halls, Therefore, when Mr. Sprague states that “‘of sixty-six mem- bers of the Senate forty-five are lawyers, and of the twenty-one remaining five have received a legal education, and most of the few remain- ing members are governed by lawyers and their teachings,” he states a fact that accounts in a great measure for the miserable theoreti- oal legislation that has been given to us for the past four years, How little this organization is disposed to forward the true interests of the United States is well shown in the further true statement that “the politicians have never been willing to let the people know the true state of the country.” * * * ‘The object of the majority in Congress appears to be rather to perpetuate the existence of a party than to promote the welfare of the people.” Here is sound logic from a man who can, through his own vast business interests, feel the palpitating desires of the masses, and, being 80 closely linked to them, can also feel strong in the bold words that he enunhciates. Still denouncing the Senate: ‘‘In the Tenure of Office act they expend all their ingenuity to befog the question at issue, to seize addi- tional power under the disguise of secur- ing the equipoise of the government.” ‘All sham in substance.” ‘The House of Lords, nor any other legislative body has half the power possessed by the Senate of the United States; and yet the Senate clamors for more, and for why? Why, to build up an aristocracy of power, an oligarchy’of tyrants and mono- poly of legislation.” He said that he ‘‘pre- ferred the tyranny of one man with some humanity in him and occupying a responsible position to that of an irresponsible body like the Senate,” and he therefore earnestly pressed the repeal of the Tenure of Office act. A speech like this does the country good, It is a long time since one of equal outspoken and clear sense has been heard in Congress. Mr. Sprague echoes the voice of the people when he derides the lawyers. How little their legal knowledge availed them is shown in their complete ignorance of the law of 1789, which prevented Mr. Stewart from occupying the Treasury Department. We require other men in addition to Mr. Sprague in our Con- gress who feel the effects of their own legisle- tion; and until we have them this terrible muddle into which the lawyers have thrown the country will not give place to good government, The New Spanish Minister. The newly accredited Minister of the pro- visional government of Spain enters upon the discharge of his duties at Washington at a critical period and under difficulties that will require the greatest skill and tact on his -part to preserve friendly relations between the two nations. Complications of no ordinary kind must follow from the efforts of the Cuban people to establish their right of self-govern- ment and the sympathy which the American people entertain for every movement in behalf of populat freedom. But in addition to all this Seftor Roberts will find that the history of his own government under the traditional policy of Count Aranda, who strongly opposed the American Revolution in 1777, presents an extraordinary record of antagonism to the United States, culminating in the recogni- tion of the belligerent rights of our Southern rebels at an early period after the firing on Fort Sumter, and the persistent supply of the rebellion with arms, ammunition and war ma terial from the port of Havana. In addition to these great difficulties he will find himself isolated by the political theories he must necessarily defend among those of the diplomatic corps in Washington of similar lan- guage and religion. No one of the accredited ministers and representatives of the Spanish- American republics can sympathize with him in his public labors; for the great contest which his government is carrying on in Cuba is in direct antagonism with every impulse and feel- ing of the Latin communities on this Continent. To add to his trouble Cuba is coming in as the member of the diplomatic corps at Washington, and will receive the honors usually conceded to that member in every family. In the emergency that attends Sefior Roberts’ new mission we advise him to strike out‘a new line of policy in Spanish affairs on this Continent. Let him arrange with Presi- dent Grant for an effective support in the way of money, credit, and American sympathy for the new constitutional throne the provisional government is erecting in Spain, and turn over to us in return what the Spanish government now holds in Cuba and Porto Rico. The .greatest proof of statesmanship is to recognize coming events and to prepare for them; and the coming event on this Continent is the close of Spanish rule in America, Tar Last Recurrion.—The ex-President was to have had a public reception yesterday at his home in Greenville, Tennessee, and a brass band was engaged for the occasion. Has he not already had enough of the clangor of brazen trumpets? Srrest Law.—Marshal Tooker, of the Mayor's office, is actively engaged in proving that the laws are made for the government of people who keep carts and drive hacks as well as for others. His action ip revoking oarmen’s licenses held by Jerseymen shows to citizens the disposition to protect them in thelr rights, not unprepared to show that a carman has 4 well 06 rights, In discussing the national debt and our means and resources for its payment, and in reminding the young men of the country of the importance of maintaining the national honor intact, General Grant in his inaugural says: “A moment's reflection upon what will Be our commanding influence among the nations of the earth in their day” (the day of our young men) ‘‘should inspire them with national pride.” The French press has seized upon this hint of ‘“‘our commanding influence among the nations” as a figure of speech sig- nifying war. The Débats sees in it “the germ of many future wars.” The Moniteur is fearful thag “‘the future preponderance of which General Grant speaks may be big with storms.” The Pudlic thinks that ‘apart from the pretensions about preponderance” the inaugural is harmless, These French jour- nals are barking up the wrong tree. They translate ‘commanding influence” as ‘‘pre- ponderating influence,” in. the European sense, and as involving the European balance of power. General Grant speaks of the glory of paying off, fairly and fully, every dollar of our national debt in his reference to our “commanding influence among the nations,” and in uttering the words was not dreaming of a war with France. Napoleon made it all right with usin backing out of Mexico; but if there is a hint in the inaugural touching British neutrality, which may possibly mean gunpowder, that is all. ‘Tammany and Legislation. The Bohemian correspondents at Albany have made a great “‘pother” about passing or | stopping city bills in the Legislature. But we advise them to cork their inkhorns, because the constitutional amendment has settled the pas- sage of them all and put the radical party into liquidation. The Governor has already with his veto key locked the door of special legislation and spoiled every rural job. Having the Governor, with plenty of city pro- jects on hand, the Tammany chaps are thus masters of the situation. Upon the top of negro suffrage they will manage to pile up all the legislation they want, whether about tax bills, assessment measures, education reforms, election acts and excise repeals, or anything else. The fifteenth amendment exhausted the power of the legislative radicals, and leaves them completely demoralized and at Hoffman's mercy. So, while croupier Tweed sits at the table, “Make up your little games, Messieurs radicals,” and win your money on the Tam- many red spot. The Opening Performance of Carl Schurz. The new Senator from Missouri—the pro- nounced radical in everything—the German red republican and American black republican, Carl Schutz, made an opening performance in the Senate on Friday on the Tenure of Office act. He tried the circus feat of riding several horses at once, and proved him- self to be in this first performance a failure. He might have voted for the repeal of the Tenure of Office act had it been presented sim- ply on its merits; still he would vote against repeal because he hoped Congress at some other time would take up the. subject. He might be willing to vote for repeal if he be- lieved the majority of the Senate was in favor of keeping the law on the statute book, but he would vote against it, as Congress next session might modify the law. Then he would not yote to suspend the law. In fact, he was on all sides gad on 00 particular side. Such was the opening performatice of the much lauded Teuton orator and red republican German mis- sionary to the United States. A stump orator is not necessarily a statesman. Ir Dogs Not Loox Wet1.—In the Senate debate of Saturday last on the Tenure of Office law Mr. Drake, of Missouri, thought the pro- position of the Judiciary Committee to sus- pend the law was only a way of saying to the President, ‘* We will try you until the next ses- sion of Congress and see what use you make of this power. If you use it to suit us the re- peal may stand ; but if you do not use it to suit’ us the law shall go into force again.” And Mr. Drake was of the opinion that the President did not deserve to be so addressed by the Sen- ate. And the Senator.is right. Turn it and twist it as you may, this proposition is an insult to the President, and if presented to him to sign he should give it his veto; and we believe he will. TENNESSEE.—It seems that Governor Senter has relaxed the rigor of the martial law in Tennessee so far as to allow the civil courts to be held. What a boon for American citizens! Tennessecans, like the Fenians, are fortunate in having so benignant a head Senter. A Cortostry From ArKansas.—A despatch from Arkansas announces a list of railroads to which State aid has been afforded. The public have been so accustomed to hear stories of Ku Klux butcheries, militia outrages and all sorts of horribles from that region, that it will regard as wonderful anything that refers to local improvements. Revivat or Srortoxat Presvpices.—The Wilmington (N. C.) Journal is alarmed at the manner in which President Grant has in- angurated his administration by his military assignments, The Journal has no good reason for disquiet, mach less for the exhibition of malevolence. As for reviving sectional preju- dices, no Southern paper should encourage such an idea for a moment, The South is getting along very well without trying to make another row at this juncture. Tae Sup American Unton.—The state- ments which have been made charging Captain Gfant, of the packet ship American Union, with the exercise of brutality towards his passengers and crew, we have been assured by those who have sailed with him, are entirely unfounded. Ixrormation Wanxtep—On the following points:—Who is Senator Fenton's man for Collector of the port of New York? We know Senator Conkling’s man. Is Greeley after the mission to London or the city Post Office? How many generals desire the place of Sur- veyor of this port? Is Marshal Murray all right? What is ‘‘the Little Villain” after in Washington? Who represents the poets of the Post among the New York patriots hovering about the White House? And what do they all think of the Tenure of Oftice law ? Public Sales of Gold—Secretary Boutwoll’s Views. z There seems to be a determined purpose both in Congress and with the Secretary of the Treasury to stop the corrupt and gambling Practice of secret sales of government gold. Mr, Fenton introduced a bill in the Senate on Saturday with this view, and Secretary Bout- well, in a conference the day before with the Committee on Ways and Means, declared his purpose to sell gold publicly and never pri- vately. Here is the prospect of reform in a matter which produced corruption, demoraliza- tion and loss to the government. It is an em- phatic condemnation of Mr. McCulloch's con- duct, But Mr. Boutwell went further, and said he believed he had the power to invest the sur- plus gold in the Treasury in bonds, and thought he would do so. The income from customs, he said, was increasing. This would enable him to buy up bonds at the present market value and reduce the interest-bearing debt. We hope the new Secretary will carry out his pur- pose ; for it is absurd to let a handred millions or 80 of gold lie idle in the Treasury, when by applying it to the purchase and cancelling of the jnterest-bearing debt six or eight millions @ year could be saved. Besides, the bonds can be purchased now at a much lower-rate than in the course of a few years, when currency and specie shall be at par. Mr. McCulloch al- ways began at the wrong end, in a way toin- . crease the weight of the debt and burdens of the people. Mr. Boutwell appears to have a different view and purpose. If the Secretary will stick to the policy announced we shall soon see the debt diminished and the publio credit strengthened, Clear Our Water Highways. We. are blowing away—although very slowly—the stony obstructions which block up Hell Gate—an operation set on foot by the na- tional government, and which should have been undertaken years ago. This is one of the water highways which connects us with the ocean. It is a mint for the Hell Gate pilots, and, at the same time, a terror to all the ves- sels that navigate the Sound in carrying on ous passenger and freight trade with Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island and many of the ports of Massachusetts. But there are othes water highways over which a large portion of the trade coming to and going from the city passes which require some attention. For instance, the Passaic and Hackensack ‘rivera tap the eastern end of New Jersey and bring us into connection with the manufacturing districts of that portion of the State which embraces: Newark and Paterson, and which after all are really no morethan suburb of New York, sharing with us, as we do wil them, the mutual benefits of our manufacturing prosperity. The Legislature of New Jersey, it appears, has now in consideration the fact that the channels of these two rivers are getting gradually blocked, and that navigation is likely to be impeded by the washings of the marshes in the vicinity of Newark, for which this tidewater portion of the State ia famous. A proposition to drain these swamps and make dry land out of an unhealthy nui- sance is, we observe, seriously attracting the attention of the New Jersey legislators at thia time. Why not the Legislature solve the muddy question at once by accepting the propositioa made to them to kill off miasmatic diseases generated by these swamps, preserve the nav- igation of these rivers, which are of some value, and give us an additional quantity of good, sound land in our suburbs upon which to spread ourselves, as we are growing too big for our present daily increasing wants, espe- cially for manufacturing purposes? We have an interest, aa ¥ Gall os our erenaly tale, in seeing those abominable swamps converted tosome useful purpose, and if the Jersey folks are benefited by it we have no objection. All petty local influences and the operations of jobbers and speculators should be dis- regarded where a general good is to be accom- plished. If the opening of Hell Gate, or the preservation of navigation in the Passaic, ot the redemption of the swamps on the other side of the North river should serve our neighbors in Connecticut, Rhode Island, or New Jersey, we may be snre that the largest proportion of the advantage derived there- from will fall to this metropglis. Let all these improvements, then, progress by all means. The Reconstruction of Texas. Last among the “erring sisters” to return ta the Union, Texas is now upon the carpet for reconstruction. After two sessions of approxi- mately three months each the convention at Austin closed its labors upon a new consti- tution, and passed an act submitting it to the people for ratification, the vote to be taken on the Sth of July next, At the same time an election for Governor and otlter officers will take place, and the formal application for readmission to the Union “will be made to Congress. But the seeds of difficulty in this matter have already been -planted, and arq now germinating in this wise: During the discussions in the convention at Austin the large republican majority in that body expe+ rienced a division, and a small number, behold- ing their chances for office to diminish fear- fully as time ran on, raised the cry for a division of the State into three or more States, and arrogating fo themselves the claim of being the a initio republicans and loyal Texans, demanded that all legislation subse. quent to 1860 and preceding themselves, should be declared ab initio null and void. When the convention closed its labors and the president declared the body adjourned and had left the ehair, the hungry minority organs ized again, and for a few hours carried on a scandalous debate and squabble, until General Canby, in honor of common sense and decency, sent an officer to bring away the records and close the hall. The new constitution contains all the points that any honest and non-office-seeking repub- liean can ask for; and it is supported by Gov- ernor Hamilton, Mr. Lincoln's appointee to that office, and the great majority of the republican delegates to the convention. Moreover, nearly every republican Newspaper in the State advocates its acceptance by the people, while the old democratic and secest, journals neither accept nor condemn it, Re- cent developments indicate that the people of the State are willing to ratify the new constl- tution, and go very far to show that thoy wilt Permit Governor Hamilton to be elected with, out opposition, Hence the anxiety of the ah