The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1869, Page 6

q YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMCSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tne Seven Dwanrs; OB, HARLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF Wonpaes. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway,—Lionnss oF THE Nota -Two Can PLaY¥ at Taat Gaur. BOOTH'S THEATRE, dat, between bb and 6th ave.— Romeo anv JULIBT, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadws ‘TRAVAGANZA OF TUR Foatt WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and ith street. — jOMOOL. .—Tam Bueisequs Ex- ‘HIEVES. BROUGHAM’S THEATRE, 1 fourth st.-PERPBO- t10N—MucH ADO AnovT A | ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ITaALtan Oregs.—Paoruprs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humety Domrry, wits New Fratuxse. sa) WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Toirtioth street and Broadway.—A\ ‘and evening Performance. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Et.ize Hout's Bupiesque Compant. THEATRE COMIQUE, $14 Broadway.—Cowrc SkRTOaeS AND LIVING StaTURe—P1.010. THE TAMMANY, Fourtesoth strest.—Taz Uorse Ma- RINE, 40. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Broottya.— Bouoon. SAN PRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadwa: PIAN ENTERTAISMENTO—SIEGE OF TUE BLONDSS. THO BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Buitding, lth street.—ETuIOPIAN MINGTRELBY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto VooaLism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth atreet.—EQuesTaian AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Tut Daveneoar BRorurns. : HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiya.—Hoo.er's MINGTRELS—TUE HAURTED WIG Maker, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, March 23, 1869. — THE NEW Europe. The cable telegrams are dated March 22. “The Chief Sect ry for Ireland announced in the House of Comm: yesterday that the government did not intend to extend pardons to any other Feni- ans now in prison. The debate on the Irish Church question was resumed. A demonstration in favor of free trade has taken Place in Barcelona, Spain. The Hungarian elections so far have resulted in the success of the Deak party. Phottadis Bey has gone to Athens to resume his duties as Turkish Minister. Paraguay. Senhor Paranhas, the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has gone to Asuncion to establish a pro- visional government. The war news is unim- Portant. Cuba. ‘The excitement in Havana was intense after the Fernando Po prisoners had sailed, and four or five Persons were shot. One Cuban, who cried “Viva Cespedes,” was court martiaited, sentenced to death nd shot at dusk. The Captain General had issued a conciliatory address to the peopie. Twenty-five in- Gurgents in Trinidad had been captured and shot, among them Mr. Schmidt, a late American consul. General Henningsen, of Nicaraguan fame, has landed with an expecttionary force from Charleston, compose’ mostly of former federal and rebel soldiers. Therepresentative of the Cuban provisional gov- ernment is expected to arrive in Washington to-day. Dr. Betances, an American citizen, was recently banished from the island of St. Thomas, at the re- quest of the Captain General of Porto Rico, on the plea that he was engaged in organizing expeditions against Spanish colonies. gPassports were furnished him, but he refused to leave, claiming hus right a8 &n American citizen to stay where he pleased, and the American Consul supported him in his action. Considerable excitement has grown out of the matter. Hayti. The dates from Hayti are to the 11th tnst. Sainave has been de eated, with a \oss of 100 men and eight pieces of artillery. His forces were besieging dJacmel while the insurgents were besieging Go- naives. Two bundred merchants and others had been arrested at Port-eu-Prince and sent to Gonaives ¢o reinforce the garrison. A convention has been a@greed upon with France for the payment of the money due her, and her vessels are to be allowed passage through the blockade after inspection at a loyal port. Venezuela. The republic is quiet, an unimportant rising at Coro having been promptly quelled. The yellow fever prevails at Caracas. Congress. In the Senate yesterday an election for oMcers was held, resulting as foreshadowed by the recent re- publican caucus:—John R. French, Sergeant-at- Arma; John M. Morris, Executive Clerk, and Almon M. Clapp, Congressional Printer. The resolution two cor- Fect a clerical omission in the Civil Appropriation bill Telative to storekeepers in bonded warehouses was called up and agreed to without much discussion. The bill to repeal the Tenure of Office act was cailed up and postponed. The bill to incorporate the Na- tional Junction Railway Company was passed. The bili to amend the judicial system was catled up, but without action upon it the Senate adjourned. In the House, unfer the usual Monday call of States, bills were introduced and referred to provide fora gradaal resumption of specie payment; to re- move obstructions from East river; for the election of @ delegate in Congress from the District of Columbia, and to divide the State of Texas. A resolution to rule out all contestants for seats without further action than the report of the ittee, in case such contestants are Qnable to take the test oath, was adopted under @ suspension of the rules. Another bill was intro- duced providing that in elections for Congressmen all votes cast for a candidate who cannot take the test oath shall bo held null and void, and the candt- Gate receiving the next highest number of votes shall be entitied to the seat. It was made a special order for Wednesday, Mr. Lawrence offered a reso- lution to recall the resolution now before Congress for an adjournment on Friday. Mr. Lawrence stated that there was much important legislation to be performed, and Mr. Butler argued that the, House ought to recail the resolution so that the Senate | Mr. Henry Bergh had up another turtle case tn the Jederson Market Potice Court yesterday, ond one Charies Smith, who was charged with cruelty to the “animals,” was held to answer tn the sum of $300. At the Essex Market Police Court an agent of Mr. Bergh's society brought up a man who was drag- ging along a bear by aring in the nose.” ‘The bear was in court, The msn was compelie. to give bail in $300 to answer. The Inman line steamship Kangaroo, Captain Aiicrow, will sail at one P. M. to-day from pier 45 North river for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Halifax, N. S., to land and receive mails and pas- sengers. @e malis by her will close at the Post Oftice at tweive M. ‘The Hamburg-American Packet Company's steam. ship Germania, Captain Schwensen, will leave Ho- boken at two P.M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The mails wilt olose at the Post Oftice at twelve M. ‘The United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Com- Pany’s steamer, Mississippi, Captain Siocum, will leave pier 43 th river at three P. M. to-day for St. Thomas, Para, Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio Janeiro. The steamer Charieston, Captain Berry, will sail at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 4 North river for Charleston, S. C. The stock market yesterday was excited overa further deciine in New York Central and Pacific Mail. Gold was firmer, closing finally at 1313. In beef cattle yesterday there was a tolerably active demand, and with only moderate offerings the market was steady, the sales being at 163;c. a 1134¢. for prime and extra, 1534c. 9 164¢c. for fair to 00d, and lic. a 15c. for inferior to ordinary. Milch @ows were quiet but uncManged in value, extras being quoted at $100 a $125 each, prime at $90 a $95, fair to good at $75 a $85, and inferior to com- mon a $45 a $70. Veal calves were moderately sought after at about former prices, prime and extra selling at 12c. a 13c., common to good at lic. a 11c., and inferior at 10c, a 10%c. Sheep were only in moderate supply, and the de- mand being fair prices were steady at 9c. a 9'c. for extra, 8c. a 83sc. for prime and 64¢c. a 7%c. for infe- rior to good. Swine were in slow demand, and with fair arrivals the market was heavy, at 10Xc. a 1144¢. for common to prime. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge H. A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, and Erastus Collins, of Hartford, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. J. Warren Grigsby, of Kentucky, and H. A. Weber, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. Governor Burnside, of Rhode Island; Thomas H. Clark, of Philadelphia; W. M. Carpenter, of New York, and Dr. H. Richards, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. W. M. Sledge, of Galveston, Texas; A. M. Peyton, of Virginia, and W. P. Becker, of Cincinnati, are at the Maltby House. Captain B. H. Chadbourne, of Chicago; Captain H. C. Mahurin, of San Francisco, and George Costello, of Wisconsin, are at the St, Charles Hotel. T. C. Jefferies, of Texas; Samuel D. Burlock, of Philadelphia; Paymaster Giraud, of the United States Navy, and George Higgins, of Montana, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. C. M. Pond, of Hartford; E. Thompson Gale. of Troy; W. W. Fulier and Henry Peters, of Halifax, aud Paymaster Watson, of the United States Navy, are at the Hoffman House. ; Captain James Ferris, of New York; Dr, Eldridge, of St. Louis; E. M. Young, of Baltimore, and Samuel G. Garfield, of Madison, Ohio, are at the St. Julien Hotel. the President—The Tenure of Ofice Law. They had yesterday at Washington a Sena- torial republican caucus on the Tenure of Office law. (See our despatches on the sub- ject.) The difficulty between Congress and the President on this question has thus been reduced to the alternative of a repeal or sus- Congress and | pension of the obnoxious statute, the suspen- sionists having the vantage ground from the caucus. General Grant says: “I can do nothing toward a thorough reorganization of the machinery of the government until this law is repealed.” The House of Representatives responds, ‘‘Very good,” and passes the bill of repeal; but the radical leaders of the Senate par excdlence say that the law is a wise and beneficent law, and should not be abolished, but rather modified or suspended for the ben- efit of the present administration and of the party office-seekers clamorous and impatient for a general division of the-spoils. But the simple truth is that the radical lead- ers of the Senate do not like to relinquish the power they hold under this law over the dis- tribution of the Executive pateonage. Repeal the law and the office-holder removed by the President is gone, while under the law the re- moval is subject to the concurrence of the Senate. The law was passed to head off Andy Johnson. In his no-quarter conflict with Con gress he had commenced ‘‘the slaughter of the innocents” of the radical party in office, and perhaps he would have made a clean jqb of it but for the effective check of this Tenure of Office law. At last, driven to desperation, he undertook, in the case of Stanton, to fight the law itself, but only to find himself caught in the trap of impeachment, and that the unsatis- factory Secretary he had ordered to leave was fastened upon him in spite of himself by the will of the Senate. General Grant, standing by the law, recog- nived the right of possession of the War Office as belonging to Stanton, and, still standing by the law, the General says he cannot undertake to any extent the removal of office-holders ap- pointed ‘‘by’and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” In short, the Senate must consent to the removal of this law before he can venture upon anything like a general sys- tem of removals from office. But the radical ‘would not be able to adjourn without passing the Dill to repeal the Tenure of Office act. After gene- ral debate the resoluffon was laid on the table and the House soon after adjourned. A caucus of republican Senators was held during | the day on the Tenure of Office law, which was some. what stormy. It resulted, however, in agreeing to refer the bili back to the Judiciary Committee, with the understanding that the first and second sections be stricken out and the third section be modified. The Legislature. Bilis were introduced in the Senate yesterday amending the Excise laws of the State and two others of unimportance. A bili was introduced rela- tive to the State Commissioners of Charities, The vill amending the Metropolitan Excise law was re- committed to the committee to which it was origi- nally referred. In the Assembly several bills of minor importance ‘were passed, The annual report on criminal statis- tics and the report of quarantine jurisdiction were presented. Resolutions relative to the price of sait end to the West Albany c attle yard were adopted. * The City. ‘The Police Commissioners yesterday tried Captain Voung, of the detective force, on the charges pre- ferred by the clerk, Mr. Hawley. Young was not jdeaders of the Senate say this is asking too | much. .If General Grant intends to act in | good faith as the grand almoner of the repub- lican party he must feel convinced that there will be no difficulty with the Senate in the matter of his removals from office. Why, | then, isthe so urgent in his demand for the | repeal of this law? It must be because he has | a policy of his own to play, like Johnson, and, | accordingly, wishes this impediment removed. | Shall the Senate, then, consent that the man | shall become the master? The answer of the Senate radical faction, thus reasoning, would be “No,” and very promptly, too, but for the pressire of the Honse and the Cabinet, and | the clamor of the office-seekers in their appeals | for the untying of the President's hands. Pushed to the wall, the anti-repealers pro- pose the legislative absurdity of a temporary suspension of the law, or a repeal for a limited number of months or years. In any event these champions of this office-holders’ protective law wish to hold it as a safety check against the next administration. Otherwise, if we have an opposition President in 1872 the massacre of the republicans in office in 1873 will be dreadful to behold, and unreconstructed rebels and copperbeads, fattening and rioting upon the Treasury, may raise the confusion of Babel and a reign of anarchy through the length and breadth of the land. This is begging the question on a remote contingency, and it isa contemptible plea for the baldest absurdity—the suspension of a law under the present administration to come into force again under the next. The two houses, with as much right and reason a8 in this case, might pass a law providing that in the event of an opposition President next time no republican in office shall be removed except with the concurrence of the Senate by a two-thirds vote, As we believe it, the object of General Grant in the repeal of this office-holdere’ law is to be free to carry out in his removals the work of “retrenchment and reform.” Under the law he is not certain whether the removal of this or that man will be consented to by the Senate, and he may entertain reasonable doubts of his power, through the consent of the Senate, to reach the whiskey rings or any other rings of experts in the lucrative profes- sion of Treasury plunderers. As to the clamor of the office-seekera, it is only the howl- ing of a pack of wolves on the trail of their prey. Their hunger has nothing to do with the real merits of the question, The law which General Grant desires repealed is an unjust and outrageous law—a law which invades the admitted rights and usages of his office from Washington down to Johnson, and it was a mean proceed@™g even as a check upon John- son. It ought to be repealed absolutely; for it has operated only to protect rogues in office, while reducing the President to a mere auto- maton, powerless to do anything without the advice and consent of the Senate. The law is full of mischiefs, squabbles, complications and dangers, but while it remains in force the policy of enforcing it to,the letter is the true policy for General Grant. Our Legation in Spain. The great importance of the questions grow- ing out of the present struggle in Cuba makes it urgent upon the new administration to see that our interests in Spain are competently handled and looked after, and our legation to Madrid should, therefore, be put in the best possible condition, with a live and bold repre- sentative of the ideas of the President at the head of it. At the moment when least ex- pected some question may be sprung by the course of events which will require immediate but judicious handling, and Minister Hale, who has been now for some years in Europe, can hardly be in such thorough rapport with the administration as our needs require, Be- sides, the quarrel which has so long existed between himself and the Secretary of Lega- tion has ina large degree diminished the moral power of the mission and created the neces- sity for the infusion of new blood into it. A new secretary has been recently appointed, but it cannot be claimed that he shall inspire the head of the legation with the new ideas which have germinated here in the past six months, and which the fires of the Cuba revo- lution are ripening in the minds of the Ameri- can people. The importance of the questions pressing upon us require a first class man in Madrid, and we hope President Grant will soon give the matter his personal attention. Burtpers Onsrrvotinae THE PouBii0 Srreets.—The complaint which we else- where publish, under this heading, is equally strong and reasonable. It might be urged against the builders along many other thorough- fares, as well as against those along Fifth avenue, between Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth streets. But within the limits designated by the complainant the nuisance is patent to all passengers, on foot or on wheels, through the most popular avenue of the city. The atten- tion of the Mayor, the District Attorney and the Street Commissioner may well be called to this growing evil. There is no authority that can grant permission to a citizen to encumber with building material and débris the public streets, which are exclusively devoted by law to the use of the travelling pablic. The pro- visions expressly made againet these disagree- able and dangerous obstructions should be rigidly enforced. They should be removed as summarily ae ‘‘the little temple at the foot of the park.” An effectual raid upon them would bea more honorable triumph than any that could be won by upsetting the stands of all the poor apple women in town. 6 Gerrine Usty.—The South. Dott make a row about a few cabbages. Toe Isternationan Yacur Raog.—In another column we give, in a letter from Cowes, some further intimation of what yachtmen in England are doing to improve the sport of the season. We hail with pecu- liar pleasure the movement for a grand inter- national race. Englishmen in this movement present shemselves as disposed to meet the yachtmen of the world on good, manly terms, and to put their reputation and their claims ae builders and sailors up to that best of all settle- ments—a practical test. Judging from the circular of the Royal Albert Club, our cousins across thé sea mean to do the honors right handsomely; and of all places in the world British waters will be the place for yachtmen this year. Generar Acest ov tHe New York Asso- cutep Press.—We protest against the action of the General Agent of the Associated Press when he steps out of his line of duty and endeavors to manage affairs in the interest of any of the members of the association which may be detrimental to some of the other mem- bers. His duty is to work for the interest of all, and not for one or two of the associates. He has en®ugh to attend to without interfering with matters which do not concern the Asso- ciated Press as a body. Wart Untit, He Dors.—The Mobile Register says it is all very well for President Grant to offer political position to General Long- street, but ‘we would like to see him offer the same to General Lee,” or General some- body elxe, Just 80. As the old maid in a New England village said to « gallant who had been rejected by the belle of the place— “T'd like to see him make such an offer to me, that 1 wow!” MARCH 23, 1869/—-TRIPLE SHEBT. The Unien Pacific Railroad Ring. di: | The Railread Lebby in the Mate Legisda- It is & fact—tameatable, perhaps, bat no less a fact—that the pioneers of civilization, the advance guard, are usually a set of robbers. Rough riding and stealing are their vocation. Perhaps it is one of those immutable laws which the philosophers say exist in the es- sence of things, and therefore the civilized world accepts the’ fact and becomes recon- ciled to it. In the main, possibly, it turns out to be a good investment, paying well in the end through the comfgts and advantages of civilized life, the increased facilities for travel and trade and the augmented value of every man’s possessions, The Union Pacific Rail- road managers are among the pioneers of civi- lization, They are rushing a railroad march across a thousand miles of mountain and desert, and, if we may believe recent revela- tions before the courts, they are doing it with all the privileges and perquisites of pioneers. We have endeavored to fathom the testi- mony in the recent case of Fisk against the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and to com- prehend where the money advanced by the public on the government and first mortgage bonds goes to; but for the life of us we cannot compass it, Not that there are so many peo- ple in the ring, but they assume such protean forms. Sometimes it is the Raflroad Board that is befoge us, then it is the Orédit Mo- bilier, and then again each is trustee for some thing or body that does not appear, and they change so rapidly that we become exceed- ingly puzzled. When there is any money to be distributed all of the corporations and every board is there; but when the Court wishes to ask a few questions straightway some one of them disappears—the Crédit Mobilier, for instance—and yet no person has moved, It is pretty evident, however, that the man- agers of the company and the ring engaged in building the road are one and the same set. This appears from the testimony of Mr. Durant, and we have one piece of advice to give the gentlemen interested. The country expects from you a good, practicable railroad to the Pacific, which will carry passengers and trade safely and expeditiously, and which will be as durable as the usual constructions for railroad purposes. For this large sums of money are entrusted to you, and not for the purpose of building a sham road and putting the money in your own pockets. It is estimated that you receive very nearly sixty thousand dollars a mile and vast tracts of land; yet to-day come to us the most lamentable complaints from the California passengersjn regard to the condi- tion of the roadway and cars, and the deport- ment of your employés and those of the tele- graph line. We hope Fisk, Jr., will continue his efforts to bring to the public view the rights and the wrongs of this railroad ring, that justice may be done. * Army Changes. An attempt is on foot to make some political capital out of certain phases of General Sherman's vigorous army adminis- tration. We hear of astonishing sympathy for this officer who is sent to “‘exile” on the Plains, or for that one who is mustered out, and altogether that the movement of regi- ments from one place to another is a very suspicious and expensive piece of tyranny. It was acknowledged on all hands that our army was too large for a time of peace, and in cutting down an army we suppose some- body must be cut out of it. Is there an officer left in who is not a faithful and good soldier? We doubt it. If, then, any that are in had been mustered out in the change there would have been the same cause of clamor from their direction as there is now on behalf of the many gallant men left without places. Other- wise Sherman is doing with the army just what Porter justly does with the navy. In both services there are posts that are pleasant and posts that are not pleasant. Shall one set of officers always have the rough and another, always the smooth? Porter changes men from the Mediterranean to the West Indies and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to equal- ize what there may be of hardship and what there may be of the agreeable in duty. It is the same in the army. Some officers would desire to be always in the luxury of the Crescent City, or to enjoy the edible and other delights of Baltimore, or to forget all else in the varied dissipations of our city; but for this others must live the neighbor of the Indians, share his fare practically, lead a miserable life of frontier, with even an exceedingly small chance for glory. That would be unjust, and to prevent such injustice Sherman moves the army to and fro between all the points; and generous men who have been having a good time on the pleasanter posts feel that it would be ill-natured to grumble now at harder ones. that the radicals have taken Grant down to the gater, but he woa’t drink. It was differ- cat ot Vicksburg and Appomattor. Marryine A Prixog.—That is a very pretty little story of romance and love that comes to us from so unlikely a place as the Jefferson Market Police Court. We hope the romance and fidelity will hold out to the end; but these princes are slippery fellows, and it is not to be forgotten that this marriage, very good in this country, is no marriage at all in the country in which the prince is at home. Miss Patter- son found the misery of that. Her husband, however, was a Bonaparte, and we suppose he forgot bis early ardor. This prince is a Bourbon, and as the Bourbons ‘forget noth- ing” there may be more hope. “Tue Present Orver or Taxes” is a favorite topic of discussion in our Southern exchanges. ‘‘A new order of dances,” ‘‘a new shuffle,” ‘‘a new deal” will be next in order. ane Tux Unxiwpgst Cor or Att.—A paper called the American Rescue—more properly Russ-cue—published in Shelbyville, Tenn., says, speaking of General Grant, the unkind- est cut of all was ‘that stick cut from the bat- tle field of Shiloh and presented to General Grant by an office-seeker. If General Buell is considered good authority, Grant ‘cut a stick’ on that memorable occasion that needs nothing to refresh his memory.” He probably cut a better one from a sour apple tree in an orchard near Appomattox, Tur Two Envoys.—Sefior Roberta has ar- rived in Washington as special envoy from Spain. Now, a8 the French might say in | Now Yose vernacular, “Look out for te muss,” cure. The Legislature at Albany and the lobby in and about it have become so notorious for corruption that the people are apt to pass with little notice the most astounding revela- tions. This seems to be the case with the developments made by the select committee to investigate the charges of improper in- fluence in the Senate last year regarding rail- road legislation, when what is known as the “Erie bill” was up, and when an act was passed relating to the Erie, New York Central, Hudson River and Harlem Railway companies. People shrug their shoulders with despair, if not with indifference, whenever corruption at Albany is mentioned, regarding it as a thing of such ordinary occurrence, as a matter of course, about which it is useless to trouble themselves. To such a pass have we come; to such a frightful state of demoralization have our legislators, under the influence of the lobby, arrived. But if all public virtue be not lost it may be useful to call attention to the action of this investigating committee and the facts it developed. There ie no doubt that half million of dol- lars or more was used corruptly in the great contest last session between the friends and opponents of the ‘‘Erie bill” referred to. The committee, in summing up the evidence, says, ‘4arge sums of money were expended for cor- rupt purposes by parties interested in legisla- tion regarding railways during the session of 1868." And, again, ‘lobbyists were thus en- riched, and in some cases received money on the false pretences that the votes of Sena- tors were thereby to be influenced.” Mr. Drew, the treasurer of the Erie Railroad, tes- tified that Mr. Eldridge, the president, drew five hundred thousand dollars out of the trea- sury before the session of the Legislature, which was charged on the books of the com- pany to Mr. Eldridge individually, and which had not been accounted for when he retired from the office of treasurer. This money was drawa ostensibly for purposes of litigation, which litigation, meant, no doubt, influencing the lobby and members of the Legistature. It is clear, as the committee says, that large sums of money did come from the treasury of the Erie Railway Company, which were ex- pended for some purpose in Albany for which no vouchers seem to have been filed in the office of the company. The objects of the ex- penditures cannot be learned from the books ofthe company. Mr. Eldridge could not be got before the committee to testify on this in- teresting point, and though invited by letter to. appear he took no notice of the invitation. The lobby evidently got a farge slice, and one man, it is said, took a hundred thousand dollars from the Erie party and seventy thou- sand from the opposing Vanderbilt party for the purpose ostensibly of influencing legisla- tion, This is much the same game as was played in the Morgan and Fenton Senatorial contest—taking money from one and voting for the other. Of course this gentleman found it inconvenient to answer the questions of the committee and made his way to a more con- genial climate in the South. It was said that @ portion of this money was for use among the newspaper lobby men, bat the committee could not get at the facts; nor could it trace any of it to the hands of Senators. In fact, the com- mittee complains of ite inability to get evi- dence or to find out what became of the money. Some of the members of the press made a great noise about the corruption going on, but muddled the matter so much that when brought to the test they could prove nothing. This was the case with Greeley particularly. He had made direct charges of corrupt practices, but fizzled out completely when brought on the stand to testify. While there is no doubt of the fact that vast sums of money were cor- ruptly used the committee failed to fix the guilt upon parties or to bring any one to justice. Vice and corruption seem to be un- avoidable in the construction and management of railroads. It is the price the country has to pay for these great improvements. But it is to be hoped we have reached the limit and that something will be done by the national and State Legislatures to prevent the further growth of the evil. Tho Veuality of the Ring Conspirators at Albany. We publish elsewhere some asiounding developments concerning the jobbing operations of the Board of Education in this city. It will be seen that even the institutions of learning, so necessary for the cultivation of virtue and intelligence and for preservation of law and order, have not escaped the rapacity of those infamous rings of jobbing porterhouse poli- ticians who have infested and cursed every department of the city government for many years past. During the past six years the enormous sum of fourteen millions of dollars has been expended by the Board upon pre- tence of educating the youth in this city. This year the sum asked for from the Legislature for the same purpose is the modest one of three million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars—or in the aggregate for the next six years, calculating that the amount shall be augmented from year to year in the same pro- portion as it has been for the last six years, we have the vast sum of twenty-five or thirty millions, for which our citizens are to be taxed, for educational purposes alone, The state- ment to which we refer gives a few of the items in detail embraced in this enormous expen- diture, and the moral sense of the community must be intensely shocked at the amount of corruption and private jobbing it develops. Now, how are these outrageous robberies to be prevented? We' believe we echo the pub- lic sentiment—the sentiment of honest men, of property holders and taxpayers—when we de- clare that even this extraordinary expenditure for educational purposes would be cheerfully submitted to were it applied properly and righteously, But it is notorious that it is not; and the assertion is capable of substantiation that of the sum yearly appropriated at least one-half goes into the pockets of jobbers and hangers-on and thieving politicians. But it is not upon the Educational fund alone that these harpies prey. There is not an appro- priation before the Legislature for any public nor for many private objects upon which these leeches do not fasten their greedy jaws. The Tammany ring is the great mammoth leech of all. It is never satiated, It might be glutted to bursting, but can never be made to dis- gorge, It wields supreme power at Albany, schemes, the Tax Levy, the Metropolitan police and all other matters in which there is money. At the moment it sees the Almighty Dollar it stops not at the means, however venal and vicious, necessary to clutch it. It corrupts the weak, demoralizes the strong, tampers with the wary, flatters the vain and humbugs the ambitious. It is a great moral leprosy that has become a nuisance too intolerable to be borne. Its touch contami- nates and its breath is death. With ita power to whip in, to bribe, cajole and humbug, it has the Legislature under its knuckles, and a pliant tool to execute its bidding in the person of the Chief Magistrate of the State. To veto, to sign, to pass a jobbing plundering scheme, ita influence isirresistible. Therefore the good people of the Empire State need not be aston- ished at the demoralization which prevails at Albany, although there is a republican majority in both branches of the Legislature and a demo- oratin the Executive chair. The venality of the ring conspirators at Albany, with rotten old Tammany at their head, is a scandal and disgrace to the whole country. Watt Srreer Dornas.—The three little jokers of Wall street are New York Central, Erie and Pacific Mail. Within the past three months Central has gone up forty per cent and Pacific declined forty per cent. Erie has been an invalid’ ever since the great cliques played shuttlecock and battledoor with it last fam. Sides were taken yesterday fora grand fight on Central, the disappointed Albany lobbyists of last winter being determined to punish the “old man” for ‘‘going back on them.” A Goopo Prace For Poor Prortx.-t The Toronto Telegraph speaks of a place in Canada called Seaforth, where flour is only four dollara a barrel. The trouble for a poor man in that place would be after he had earned his one dollar to see a fourth—like Patrick, with his sixpence in Ireland, “Potatees can be bought for sixpince a bushel in the ould country, but the divil ov it is‘to git the sixpince.” “Our Movsters ABroap.”"—The Westera papers, with an eye to some foreign position for each of their editors, are looking into the conduct of our ministers abroad. It would be well at the same time to look after the conduct of our ministers at home, especially in Chicago. “Froatine Ir Our on Tas Ling.”—The New Orleans Crescent of the 18th instant accuses President Grant of all kinds of uo- steadiness, changeability, vacillation, and, in the same breath, accords him the merit of plasticity. A man who may be moulded is not unlikely to be skullptured: DISENTANGLEMENT.—The Lynchburg Vir- ginian says the respectable and magnanimous element of the republican party is fast disen- tangling itself from the hot, selfish, ruinous, black radicalism, and the effort recently inau- gurated in Virginia against Wells and the pro- scriptionists is the forerunner of a like move-~ ment throughout the Union. Board of Aldermen. Pursuant to adjournment this Board met yester- day afternoon, with the President, Alderman Coman, in the chair. After the usual preliminaries had beea disposed of a large number of petitions for doma- tions, resolutions for public work and various other papers were handed in and laid over or referred to the appropriate committees. A preambie and resolution were adopted in which it was set forth that the Harlem Na’ tion Ci y by pps their boats at Astoria, L. }., and ing to and from there passengers and freight, had virtu- ally established there a ferry without any benefit to to the city treasury, and without having been dis- fey of as a (erry franchise at anction, and author- izing the Committee on Ferries to inquire into the subject ana ascertain whether the Harlem Naviga- tion Company Lave committed a violation of the franchise. A resolution was introduced by Alderman O’Brien directing the Street Commissioner to remove the liberty pole at the intersection of West Broadway and ‘Klin street, Alderman Norron stated that last year @ similiar di- rection was given the Street Commissioner, but there in le at of ted Boson street, and that the expense of the 4 from eat S priate account.'? rer to an it to find any fault witha vehicle which the lawful inspector might pass was too much. A resolution was inat the of a bill now pending before re for & of route of the t stage line. ‘The preamble to the resolution that granting THE LABOR QUESTION, Tho Printers’ Strike—Meeting of Conference Committees, ‘There are indications that the strike of the jour. neymen printers is about to terminate. On yester- day Messrs. Trow, Smith and Wynkoop, representing the employers, and Sti Eagan and others the journeyman printer a private at the Astor House, and, after long deliberation, ad- journed until to-day. A spirit of mutual concession prevailed, and it is expected that an arrangement satisfactory to both sides. Laborers Strike in Yorkville. ‘The rock men engaged on the sewers and founda. tions for new buildings to be built im Yorkvitie struck for an advance of wages yesterday morning. In several cases they attempted to Interfere with those who were wills to continue at work, and tried to drive them their labor, but in ever; instance the police of the Nineteenth and Twenty. be precincts put a stop to all riotous ons, {¥rom the Memphis ‘Avalanche, March 19.) Our New York ex report a bia apring x to assume muc! tepoetions as navigation fully reope tnd tas Kas ir holidays draw near. Youdy the Hotels a ded from all sections of 1 conmtry, andthe elty dal resents’ & scone of country, and the sur. Boning animation, ‘tne Nt ‘Yor« Heway of last junday contains wy new, solid adve matter. ng that business men of world, They appreciate its value; and, what is better, they Know just when and how to sdvertiae, an, well an whi journals to patronize #8 prom a. lence the H&RALD, though ita cl are doubie thone of other journals, does as mi advertiaing b at highor rates, as all tue ower com. bined. It has the larzost circulaumn.