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ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscriprions and all letters for the New Yorx Henatp will be received as above. —___. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Datuy Heratp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Hzraup at the same price it is furnished in the city. THE NIWS. Europe. fhe cable despatches are dated March 29. A g:and0 ceview of the volunteer troops of England took place at Dover yesterday. An immense con- course of spectators witnessed the evolutions of the volunteers. The French War Department has ordered all ofi- cers and privates at present absent from their regl- ments to rejoin them on the ist of April. Cuba. A battle is reported to have occurred in Trinidad, where a large body of insurgents were defeated. Troops are arriving at Olenfuggos. Twelve hundred men had arrived at Santa Cruz from Puerto Prin- cipe for supplies. They were to return immediately. The Spanish war steamer Warrior has captured the british vessel Jeff Davis, on her way to Nassau, and has stopped and searched the schooner Britannia. Congress. In the Senate yesterday Vice President Colfax pre- mded. After sume unimportant business the mes- ‘age from the House announcing its non-conourrence in the amendments to the Tenare of Office bill was received and taken up. Mr. Trumbull moved that the Senate insist upon its amendments and ask for a committee of conference, On this the debate of the last week, with slight variations, was renewed, but nally @ motion to recede was lost by a vote of 20 to 87, and the motion to insist was agreed to. Messrs, Tramball, Edmunds and Grimes were appointed the committee, - In the House, numerous bills of put little impor- tance were introduced under the Monday call of States. A resolution offered by Mr, Bingham was adopted, reciting that bonds to the amount of $2,400,000 were hastily issued by the last administra tion to the Central Pacific Railroad Company upon false representations, and directing that an investi- Gation be made into the matter. Mr. Morgan offered & resolution for the exemption of various necessi- tes from taxation, and imposing @ tax on the bonds, which was lost by s party vote of 104to 40, The Committee on the Judiciary reported @ substitute for the Senate bill to amend the judiciary system, and after general debate it was passed, Tye House then adjourned. The Legislature. Bilis were introduced tn the State Senate yester. day to prevent the use of fraudulent naturalization pepers; to prevent frauds in wetahts and measures ‘and the aduiteration of food; relative to the presen- tation and protesting of commercial paper. Two ‘UBIMpOrlant Lillis Were passed and several reported. A motion to order Wo & third reading the bili to in- crease the sa.aries of judges of the Court of Appeals Court was lost, The Senate then ad In the Assembly bills were ordered to « third read- ing relative to the leasing of stalls and stands in the public markets of New York; for the revef of certain homeopathic dispensaries in Brooiyn, and several Others of unimportance. Miscellaneous, President Grant i# ull sick and yesterday was un- avie to transact any business whatever. He denied access to ail visitors, even Cabinet members. George A. Halsey, of New dgreey, after earnest Solicitation, has declaed to sagept the position Register of the Treasury, r ‘The movement of troops in execution of the con- solidation of we army has already commenced. OMcial business 1s going on in the War Department Just as tt did before the advent of General Sherman to the chief command. Secretary Rawlings now performs the duties set aside heretofore for Secre- taries of War. General Stoneman, commanding in Virginia, yes terday issued an order continuing in omce the sheriffs and magistrates of that State untt) their successors qualify. In the State the whole number of offices ts 5,461, of Which 2,007 are yet to ve filed. The Erie and Niagara Extension Ratiroad Com. pany and the Erie and Niagara iiallroad Company wil apply to the Dominion Pafiament ty | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY MARCH 30, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. guthority to bridge or tunnel the Niagara river at Fort Erie, to co-operate with companies chartered in the United States. Six miles of the Union Pacigc Railroad were completed on Saturday. It is expected that the permanent tunnels through Echo Cafion will soon be finished. During Thursday night last @ female patient tn the Connecticut Insane Hospital wrenched an iron caster from her beadstead, and with it beat and gasheia fellow patient, named Jane Howe, so that she died on Friday morning. The City. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday a petition was received from tne Astor Library asking for a donation of $537to pay an assessment. A resolu- tion probibiting the use of the velocipede in the streets was introduced and laid over. Resolutions of respect for the memory of ex-Mayor Harper and providing that the members attend his funeral, and that the flags on the public buildings be half-masted, were unanimously adopied, Inthe Board of Assistant Aldermen resolutions providing for four additionat assistant clerks at $2,500 salary each, and donating about $11,000 to various churches, were adopted. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration yesterday con- cluded their examination into the horrors of the fever ship James Foster, Jr. The evidence corrobu- rated the previous testimony, and the commission ‘was dissolved. ‘The inquest on the body of the convict Lockwood was held yesterday by Coroner Flynn. During the day the Westchester county Coroner mades demand for the body, but without avail. The testimony showed that Lockwood surrendered in the barn to some one whom he called the captain, and while talking to him Sullivan advanced, and although he piteously begged for his life, shot him, and after he fell kicked him, The inquest was adjourned until to- day. . ‘The case of Real, condemned to execufion next Friday for the murder of officer Smedick, was brought up in the Superior Court yesterday ons motion for a stay of proceedings. After arguments by ex-Judge Stuart and District Attorney Ganin the Court took the papers and reserved its decision. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Westphalia, Captain Trautman, will sail from Hoboken at two o'clock P. M. to-day for Southamp- ton and Hamburg. The mails will close at the Post Office at 12 M. The steamship Minnesota, ° Captain Price, will leave Pier 46 North river, at eight o’clock to-morrow (Wednesday) morning for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, 4c. « The stock market yesterday was steady at the boards, but weak in subsequent street transactions. Gold was firmer, selling up to 131}, and closing 13134. Government bonds were lower. ‘Foreign ex- change was weaker and almost low enougk to induce the shipment of specie in this direction. Trade in beef cattle yesterday was slow, the de- mand being checked considerably by the inclement weather, and witn offerings amounting to about 2,400 head, the market was heavy, prime and extra cattle selling at 16%c. @ 1%c., fair to good at 153¢c. @ 16%c., and inferior to ordinary at lic. a15 cents. Milch cows were slow of sale and prices were rather in favor of the purchaser, extra being quoted at $100a $120each, fair to prime $75 8 $95 and common $45 a $70. Veal calves were selling moderately at the following prices:—Extra, 12Xc. # 15c.; prime, 12c. @ 123¢c., and inferior to good, 10c. a 12c, Sheep were only in moderate demand, but quite steady in value, prime and extra being quoted at 8c. @ 9%Xc., and inferior to good at 6c. a T3¢c. Swine were in fair supply and a trife lower, though in better demand; common to prime were quoted at 10%. @ 113¢¢. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor Michael hn, of Louisiana; Judge H. A. Nelion, of Pougbiceepsid; General J. H. Dodge, of Ohio; Dr. 0. M. Parker, of Darlington; A. Murdock, of Columbus, Miss., and C. A. Griggs, of Urbana, Ill, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major G. B. Eckert and Major McManus, of the United States Army; John G, Saxe, of Vermont; ex-Governor Pierpont, of West Virginia; G. A. Crow- foot, of Salt Lake Oity; Dr. G. B. Kemper, of Owa- tana, and J.C. Adams, of Philadelphia, are at the Astor House. Generai Buford, of Richmond, Va.; B. Phelps, of California; Colonel Sharp, of Rome; A. 0. McComb, of Owego, and Horace Williams, of lows, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. J. A. Hamplin and D. Swift, of Chicago, and Henry L. Stebbins, of Boston, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Captain A. Bennett, of Binghamton; W. A. Conant, of Albany; Dr. E. Pritchard, of Chicago; F. Thomson, of Cuba, and E. H. Winship, of the United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Prominent Departures. Judge Hadley left yesterday for Alpany, J. F. Ford for Baltimore, F. Stevens and family for Mississippi, L, Tuden for Chicago, George Costello for peti, Mr. Payton for Virginia, Henry for Aurora, Dr. Richardson for Boston, Miles for Troy, BE. H: Kellogg tor Pittsfield, and Colonel 0. Jones for Albany. J. W. Currier, Congul General of the Dominican Republic, recently left this city for St. Domingo. ~~ We Tendingt=—The Danger Before Us. All the free governments that ever flourished became tyrannies, and fell in exactly the same way. History is monotonous with the story of the ruin of nations by the same events in the same order. Always the motive. power is a mitnority of plotting politicians, They study first to secure to themselves the plunder and spoil of the national wealth. They can only succeed in this by getting power, and they cannot get power so long as those constitu- tional forms are intact by which power be- longs to the majority. Down goes the consti- tution, therefore, crippled at first by a restric- tion at one point, an addition at another, and overlaid by changes of every sort. But the most important change {s that the Executive is always reduced toa nullity, Ina free gov- ernment, especially a federal government, the Executive is the only direct expression there is of the majority of the whole people. He re- presents the popular unity, while all other representation is of parts. He is the keystone of an arch. He is the will of the nation—its initiative. And if a nation is to be really vital among nations—to be respected, and strong and free—the only theory of government upon which it can stand is that the Execu- tite is the government, and all other parts are but safeguards to prevent tyranny. This is the reverse of what the oligarchs say—they holding that a Congress is the government and the Executive the functionary of Congress, Parsuing this idea, the ambitious minority always works upon the fears of the people by representing the Executive as siming at tyranny, and thus executive power is given into the hands of the legislature. Then fol- low im the conflict of schemes and counsels disorder, license, corruption, anarchy, the destruction of property, the loss of all public morality, till the nation becomes a banditti and is. blotted out, or till some fellow halts his guard in front of the legislative hall, strides in and declares himself first consul, king or emperor, and has the applause of the nation because at least he represents order and safety. One might write a formal history of republics on this outline of events, changing the names to suit occasion, and it would be always true. We are led to these reflections by the ap- pearance in the New York Sun of a proposi- tion that the American people shall now take one more step than they have hitherto taken in this career. The Sun is the organ, and in Whither Are great part, we believe, the property of a Sena- tor who takes an active part in the support of the Tenure of Office law, and therefore, in shadowing forth the programme of the men who mean to rule this country by Grant or without Grant, it may be supposed to have authority and to speak bythe card. We ought at least to be glad that the men) who propose those steps that must inevitably lead to ruin will let us know what they are at, Thus says the Sun :—‘‘The fact that Congress has been administoring this government these past three or four years, in substantial independence of the Executive, marks our course toward new methods of political development. This ten- dency to the limitation of executive authority is especially worthy of philosophic observation.” Yes, it has been worthy of philosophical obser- vation a long while, and there is some good philosophy on the subject in the debates of the body that formed our federal constitution. Therefore we scarcely assent that it points to any new methods in government. With this sort of stuff for preface we have laid before us the future programme of the anarchists in the Senate, which is that if Grant will not relin- quiah his present attitude, if he will not give way to the pressure of the plunderers in their eagerness for office, if he will no$ send to the right about ‘‘the inferior and unknown men” now in his Cabinet, and put in their places “distinguished representatives of influent{al political ational interests”—the “‘recog- nized of opinion and actién”—ahd will not give up to these politicians the whole run of government patronage and plunder, then they will regard him as having forced the “first step toward the constitutional change which shall finally extinguish his office, and will 20 order their measures that he shall be, if not the last President, at least the last with even a semblance of power, and the men of the future, with the Presidency blotted out, shall look only to the halls of legistation for the theatre of their anticipated renown.” Here isa plan. Here is finally the opep announce- ment of the intention to destroy the govern- ment if possible in the interest of the politi- cians if they cannot otherwise be satisfied in their demands. The politicians are more than the people! This is their declaration. Grant is elected by, the people; the direct representa- tives of the people are with him, and this Senate, a body of men holding places bought from venal Legislatures, fulminates its decree for his doom. ‘ The impudence is sublime and ridiculous too. In this programme is sketched the natural culmination of the radical policy. Whither could it lead but to this? Under our system the test of the power of parties before the people has been on the one grand point, the choice of an Executive. Radicalism could but our system the Executive is directly responsi- of governmenta Prom the first discov- ery of their power in Congress these men have purposed such a change in our government as would give them power, though the deluge came after; and in the enactment of the Tenure far can this go? What is the the President ig no longer bound & still? At what exact point does the nae Officer toward anarchy untie Ge bands of have sacrificed the whole. 7+ trae of the Executive, oF existence and integrity is ¥) Gest of its duties, and pee} pereey by ny der up its powers 48 good as théy d from an instinct of natural honesty. Altho the politicians have forced tight places and bothered av get y Srons and ballying, it may not be untimely.to remind them that when the element of force is intro- duced they will put him to a power with whose use he is more familiar. .- - “Tae StAte oF Cvpa,” says the Ken- tuckian, is a fixed fact. It is ina very bad 1 stubbora fact. state. Tha‘ Tue Fuss Asour Frexton.—The poets of the Post have permitted their wrath against Fenton to outrun their discretion touching the appointment of General Merritt (Governor Fenton's cpief of staff) as Naval Omtiéer’ of this port. The Post would have us believe that Fenton has been bribed and corrupted and is a disgrace to the Senate, and that Metritt is a piece of ahoddy of the same pattern, Greeley, on the other hand, contends that these two men are living models of all the virtues, civil and military, and that the poets of the Post are laboring to smash the machine of the re- publican party. The truth is, no doubt, that the Fenton faction, in gaining the office in question, have put the nose out of joint of the wild goose poets of the Post, and hence their towerlng rage against Fenton and Merritt. The unpardonable crime of Fenton and his favorite lies in the simple fact that they have cut out the minstrels of the Post in their nice little game for a nice little sop in the fleshpots of the Treasury, This is what all their fuss about Fenton amounts to, “Only this and nothing more.” In Fixe Toxe—Stuart, the sweet Presby- terian psalm singer in Washington. An Appropriate Tittz.—‘‘The Bloody Junta, or the Escape of an Assassin,” from the pen of an Arkansasian, is on the title page of a new Southern publication. Peaceable people have often thought themselves fortunate in escaping from Arkansas toothpicks, but now that they have to be on their guard against the pens of Arkansas authors their condition is truly deplorable, This fertile subject of legislative debate and irritation was again under discussion in the United States Senate yesterday. The debate resulted in the appointment of Messrs. Trum- bull and Grimes as a committee of conference on the part of the Senate, and the disposition evoked seemed tobe in favor of a final and amicable arrangement with the lower house, and the bringing of the legislative ‘‘deadlock” existing on this measure to an end. The motion for a recession from the Senatorial position hitherto maintained was supported by only twelve republicans and received the votes of eight democrats—an amalgamated vote, the record of which created some surprise, as the vote against numbered thirty-seven members. Senators hitherto classed as repealers ot the measure voted for the conference committee—a movement which, to say the least, is hostile to repeal, After an animated discussion, in which Messrs. Davis, Trumbull, Sprague, Howe, Corbett and Pomeroy took part, the vote was taken, with the issue in favor of 8 conference, The final result will, we presume, be soon known, and may, perhaps, serve to allay the troublesome spirit of the Tenure of Office bill. From the day’s developments the will be « surrender of the House of the lent’s constitutional rights to the oll- ee ee If a0, we must not look Wjch tothe administration for the policy of pk, Ae hereafter as to the Senate. The President, it is said, has left the contro- versy to the two houses, and the Senate has thus become apparently master of the situa- tion, The question will be settled to-day, most likely, and the Senate will, we fear, come off the victor. Spanish Qutrages on Americans and the Amorican Flag. ‘The old saying that whom the gods would destroy they first make mad is being verified in the case of the Spaniards in Cuba and the Spanish naval officers on the waters of the An- tilles, In a letter published to-day in another column it will be seen that the Spanish war steamer Andalusia captured an American brig, the Mary Lowell, lying in British waters at Nassau, and with British pilot and sailors on board, hauled down the American flag and towed the brig away. In yesterday’s paper, too,. we published « despatch from Havana showing that the Spanish war steamer Mocte- zuma had arrived, with the consular agent of the United States at Gibara, Mr. Codrington, on board, and bound in irons. We know not which to be most astonished at—the temerity or the stupidity of the Spaniards. They seem to think they can. insult, imprison and put in irons American citizens and representa- tives of the American government with im- punity. They have the audacity to seize an American vessel and haul down the American flag in the harbor of a friendly Power. Such outrages to a great nation have hardly a parallel in history. “One outrage following another in this manner shows plainly that the Spaniards are acting upon a system, and by high authority. They either calculate upon the imbecility of the American government, or they are mad with revenge and disappoint- ment. We shall say nothing about the grave insult to the British in taking the vessel of a friendly nation from their harbor of Nassau, and when @ British pilot and crew were on board. That the English government must settle itself, We only éxpress the hope that no sympathy for Spain may prevent such timely and proper action as is due both to itself and the United States. But our government should act promptly and decisively in the matter. If England, France or any other great Power were in the position we are with regard to Cubs apd Spain and had been so grossly in- sulted—its flag torn down and its citizens and cigl representatives put in irons—it would short work with Spanish rule in Cuba. No false or sentimental apology, which would only be followed by other insults, would be accepted. Shall this great and proud republic submit? Will our government pocket the in, sult? What does General Grant say? What oge the Secretary of the Navy or that brave American sailor, Admiral Porter, say? It is tiife that a bold and decided policy should be with regard to Cuba and Ameri- there. As long as Cuba belongs to Spain we shall always be subject to insult and treuble, The shortest and best way to settle now and forever all difficulty relative to that island is to send » powerful fleet out there at once and to recognize the independ- ence of the Cubans. “hawks Monpay was a stormy day—a regu- lar nor'Easter—as a Western exchange would say. A Sucnr Dirrerence.—It was once a question down South about the right of officers to hold negroes; now the point is, have the negroes a right to hold offices? Joxixg on Sexiovs Matrers.—The Keokuk Gate says:—‘‘General Ben Prentiss wants the mission to Brazil. Since the Gen- eral bas learned so well the trade of the gal- lant soldier and the good speechmaker it would be well to try him as a—Prentiss in diplomacy.” Still another from the same source :—‘‘Gen- eral M. M. Bane, of Quincy, is an applicant for the Governorship of Wyoming Territory. That this isthe only Baneful appointment we can think of that would be an eminently good one.” “Bourier'’s Latest Move.”—To checkmate Schenck in short meter meter. “Tas BLARSTED anstap Couwtry.”—A gentleman from the rural districts had his carriage struck by a rock from @ blasting near the Park. He quietly remarked that he had heard English- men talk about this ‘‘blarsted country,” but he never realized it was one before. New Way or “‘Sretxina I1e,.”—General Stoneman’s method of sinking Wells in Vir- gina, Grant's Wasminaton Hovse—Wuo Bovent Ir ror Him ?—Our Washington correspondence gives us some interesting details upon this sub- ject. Itshows,that while many who particl- pated in the war in minor positions grew finan- cially fat, the General of our armies had not a cent at the close of the struggle and was indebted to the bounty of a few friends fore roof to cover his head Our latest news from China end Japan is more than ordinarily interesting. ‘ It is per- fectly manifest that in both of those Eastern nations a tremendous conflict is going on between a civiligation which is old and doomed and a civilization which is new and rapidly pushing its way to the ruin of the old. We have made treaties with China, and Mr. Burlingame is in Europe, pushing his princi- ples and inauguratiag a better era for China and the East generslly. Japan has accom- plished a great revélution; the Mikado, for centuries unseen by the vulgar eye, has been dragged from his obscurity into the light of common day; but & is extremely doubtful whether Japan has gained much by the change. Both China and Japas, in fact, are in the agony of revolution. The new civilization struggles against the old, and the old finds it hard in- deed to maintain its position. The struggle must go on, but it ought to go on fairly. We notice that Mr. Burlingame's mission has created quite a revdution in England. For- merly, if trouble ocowrred in the East, nothing was thonght of but the honor of the British name. All others might be wrong, but the question of wrong was not a question which gave England much concern, in comparison, at least, with England’s suppésed honor. A change, however, has taken place. The Eng- lish government, the Lords and Commons, the press and the people, have begun to ask why this is and why this is not. Great Britain is in fresh trouble with China, Missionaries, so called, at least, have been annoyed. British consuls have been appealed to. British gun- boats have gone to the rescue. Some six hundred and fifty pounds have been paid down by the Chinese for damages done. The British people, however, have to ask themselves whether to be allowed to per- petually plunge the country into war. The Abyssinian war, purely missionary in its ori- gin, and which was to cost no more than five millions sterling, has already cost some nine millions. Chinese wars have already proved ex- pensive enough. This fresh Chang-Tow affair has very much perplexed the Lords, and in the upper house it has been openly discussed whether through the follies of merchants on the one hand and of ‘missionaties on the other the nation is to be kept in a state of perpetual warfare. By the House of Lords and by the public press the Chang-Tow affair has been loudly condemned. This revolution is entirely due to Mr. Burlingame and the Chinese Em- bassy. After all, however, when we look at China and Japan it is impossible to resist the convic- tion that forces of an outside and a foreign character are so busily working against them that there is no power within themselves strong enough to resist the encroaching tide of revolution. The Americans do not object to revolution, but we insist upon fair play. China and Japan must yield themselves up to the new civilization, but the coercion must be as just and as gentle as possible. The Theatres. During the Easter holidays the theatres, which have all been subject to the depressing influences of Lent, promise a revival of claims upon the public attention. The admirers of the “legitimate drama” will be gratified, not only by the- continuance of ‘Romeo and Juliet,” which for eight weeks, in spite of ad- verse criticism, has attracted intelligent and enthusiastic audiences to Booth’s superb theatre, at the corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street, but by the representa- tion at Fisk’s Grand Opera House, on the corner of the same street and Eighth avenue, of “The Tempest,” perhaps the last produs- tion of Shakspeare’s fully matured genius, and by the first appearance of Miss Marriott, at Wood's Museum, in the character of Hamlet—a character .to which it is not impossible that a woman may do more entire justice, in some of its subtler shades, than any living actor of the masculine gender. At Brougham’s theatre “the genial John” will be ‘On His Last Legs” during the week, and on Saturday will make his final appearance previous to his departure for the Pacific coast. Opéra bouffe, which, under the direction of Madame Irma, will then occupy the cosey little Fifth Avenue theatre, will meantime resume its sway at the Fourteenth street French theatre, with one of Offenbach’s sprightliest operettas, “La Vie Parisienne.” Wallack’s will be crowded with ‘delighted admirers of Rob- ertson’s charming dialogue in ‘‘School.” At the Broadway Couldock will justify the enthusiasm of his old friends, At the Olympic “Humpty Dumpty” Fox will keep open his perennial source of laughter and fun. At the Tammany the Gregorios will add the perilous charm of their neck-breaking feats to the skil- fal velocipedestrianism of Miss Alice Harrh son. At the Bowery the “Seven Dwarfs” will show to what extent the spectacular drama may be carried. At Niblo’s Garden Miss Lydia Thompson and her troupe will con- tinue to sing Mother Goose's melodies, and to relieve as much as they can the dreariness of Farnie’s indescribable dulness, The New York Circus will exhibit even more than its usual display of equestrian and acrobatic ex- ploits, At the Waverley, after the withdrawal of “Lucretia Borgia, M. D.,” which, it must be confessed, has lost its principal charm since the deplorable illness of Miss Elise Holt, Byron's burlesque of “Ivanhoe” will be brought out. The Bryants—Neil and Dan+-will perse- vere in giving os admirable illustrations as ever of negro minstrelsy, seasoned amusingly with a spicy dash of the Irish brogue, And at all the other minstrel halls and minor theatres an ample programme of entertain- ments is proffered to the theatre-going popula- tion of New York, swollen as it will be during this week by the expected influx of Western and Southern merchants, There is but little doubt that the receipts of the New York theatres for the ensuing month will largely exceed even the high figure which they reached during the past month, . How to Suspug tar INpians—Use Quaker guns, Paws. —The St. Augustine (Fla.) Hzami- ner mentions thata large lot of palms were sent from that port to New York for use in the churches on Palm Sunday. Such an exporta- tion to Washington would be needless. Presi- dent Grant bas shaken more palms within the last six weeks than would supply the market for any number of years, ted ed The Spollemen—Is General Grant wetusg Tired?—A Simple Remedy. The White House is a thankless office, and happy is the candidate for it who is elected to stay at home. General Grant, with the con- stitution of a horse, begins already to show signs of exhaustion. The tortures of the office-seekers, which finished poor old General Harrison in @ month, and tough old Zack Taylor in a year or so, are telling even upon the wiry frame of the hero of Vicksburg. Proof against the vomito of the tierras calientes and the dysentery of the Mexican tablelands, hearty as a buck after months of exposure in the poisonous swamps of the lower Mississippi, and passing unscathed from the malaria of the Chickahominy, the James river and the lower Appomattox, through all the seasons, regard- less of the elements, whether pinched by the frost, roasted in the sun or drenched in rain, fighting by day and planning by night, General Grant, thoroughly tried and seasoned in two great wars, one would think capable of any ordeal within the limits of human endurance. But there is a political pestilence about the White House more deadly than the missma of the Yazoo, and, baffled by a mixed commis- sion of authorities and by clashing counsels, General Grant finds it infinitely harder to cope with the petty raids of office-hunters than it was to shape his combinations and the details of all his movements against the armies of the rebellion. It was a reasonable theory on his part to suppose that, having endorsed the republican Chicago platform, and having reaffirmed its leading dogmas and doctrines in his inaugural, and having reconstructed his Cabinet to the satisfaction of Congress, he would, in the gene- ral distribution of the spoils, get on quietly. He had only to divide the day, so as to give himself the necessary hours for recreation and sleep, after giving so much time to his Cabinet, go much to members of Congress, and ao much to the general crowd of patriotic spoilemen, and so on from day to day, he would become accustomed to the day’s routine. The theory was excellent, but in practice it has failed. Between the members of Congress and their gangs of office-beggars, from Monday to Friday last, General Grant, as it appears, was cut down to an average allowance for himself of five or six hours of the twenty-four for rest and recuperation, and so he found himself om Saturday morning physically ‘used up” and mentally bewildered and wearied with the cares of State. What is he to do? He has doubtless been pon- dering over this question since Saturday morn- ing; yet we think it may be readily answered. He must exact his rights from Congress and the office-beggars, and enforce the rule of reserv- ing to himself the necessary time to keep soul and body together and in good condition. He must close his doors at an appointed hour against all comers till the appointed hour for reopening them next morning, and if this rule cannot be enforced in the White House let it be tried ona gunboat on a little holi-, day excursion trip to Fortress Monroe, or to Cuba and St. Domingo on a reconnoissance with the Secretary of State. If General Grant is getting tired of the incessant persecutions of the spoilamen his only remedy is to shut them out or leave them for a while, like Sir Joha Moore, “alone in their glory.” No Law.—A Cincinnati paper wants to know why a certain candidate for a judgeship is like necessity, and replies by saying, ‘‘Be- cause he knows no law.” That is a good reason for his election, as law as well as jus- tice is suspended nowadays. Admiral P on Our Mercantile Marine and mship Interests. We publish in another part of the paper some valuable remarks, communicated to a monthly publication in this city by Admiral D. D. Porter, on the navigation interests of our country and how to promote them. He advo- cates free trade in the tuilding and purchase of steamships, and shows that this is the only way under the present conditions of things and cost of materials and labor here to restore the merchant marine, and particularly the steamship part of it, to anything like what it was or ought to be. Let Americans buy steamships or any other vessels wherever they can get them best and cheapest, on the Clyde or elsewhere, and give them an American register. It is an absurd and narrow policy to prohibit this, and prevents the United States from ac ing that maritime importance it once had and is entitled to, The first thing is to increase our mercantile marine, and parti- cularly in ocean steamship lines, By and by we may be able to compete with foreigners in shipbuilding, but for the present let us go to the best market and by all means increase our tonnage and navigation interests. Ad- miral Porter's excellent arguments speak for themselves, and they are the same that we have urged over and over again. We advise him, however, whenever he has anything more to say so good and to the point not to hide his light under a bushel, but to communi- cate his ideas to some daily live newspaper. He is a man of large and comprehensive views, and notwithstanding the mistake he made in writing to an obscure monthly pub- lication, we give him in this case the benefit of the Heratp circulation. Notnrsa Wonprrrct.—Much ado is made about the ticks of a clock passing over a thou- sand miles of wire, That's nothing wonderful. The supercargo of a Boston ship once went round the world on tick and brought up at Long Wharf with a cargo of cassia, Manila hemp and West India molasses. Judicial Reform. The bill Iately passed by the United States Senate with the view of amending our judi- ciary system was before the House yesterday and adopted in a substitute form, the chief points of which are @ provision for the retire» ment of judges after they have attained the age of seventy years, and the empowering the President to appoint an assistant associate to such funetionary, provided he should not re- tire. A member moved to fix the retiring age at seventy-five years, which was defeated on a division. The billeappeurs in our columns to-day, and our readers will see from it that the associate justice com- missioned by the Exeoutive is to succeed his senior when he is removed either by retire- ment or death. We regard this as a wise and prudent measure on the part of our legis- lators although it may appear a little hard om