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» 8 1 cemenieiiniin: NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be ro- turned, Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be. addressed New York HERALD. Volume XXXI BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-Tar SrvEN Dwanra; On, HANLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS, BROADWAY THEATRE, Brntupay—Mitky Wire. Broadway.—Oup = Puri's BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 Romero anv JULIET. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadwi TEAVAGANZA OF THE Forty between 5th and 6th avs,— ‘THR BURLESQUE Ex- VES, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. — SouooL. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—La VIE PARISIENNE. BROUGHAM’S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st,—His Last LeGs—Mucu Apo Aout 4 MEROMANT oF VENIoE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homerr Dourry, wit NEW FEatuRes. Matinee at Lig. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— DON CHSAR DE BAZAN, CADEMY OF MUSIC, OreRa—DRDoRAu. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and 28d street.—Tok TEMPEST. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtteth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance, Fourteenth street.—Grauan WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—E1ize Howt's BuRLesqur Comrany—IvaNuox, THEATRE COMIQUE, 51M Broadway.—Comic SKETCORS AND LIVING StaTUFS—P1.010, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Taz Uorsn Ma- BINES, &C. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Vocau anp Inetev- MENTAL Concent. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— Sonoon. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, §85 Broadway.—ETa1o- PIAN ENTEETALNMENTS—3IL OF THE BLONDES, BRYANTS’ OPERA A’ atreet.—ETMIOVIAN MiseTR! fanmany Building, Mth 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO ‘88, 201 Bowery.—Comto Voca1ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &. Matinee at 245. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Bauesteran AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT, Matinee at 234. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoouar's Mixereeis—Tor 41 Tarrves, &0, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOrkNOK AND ART. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, March 31, 1869. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. Brooxtyn Caxrigrs anp Newsmey will re- ceive their papers at the Brancu OFrice oF THE New York Henatp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brook- lyn, on and after Thursday morning, April 1. ‘: ADVERTISEMENTS and SvsscrirTions and all letters for the New York Heratp will be received as above. THE NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated March 30. The draft of the new Spanish constitution pro- vides that the King will reign for Ife, and not for eighteen years, as at first reported. The crowa will descend to his heir, whose majority is fixed at eighteen years of age. India. According to despatches received yesterday at the British War Ofice, Lord Mayo had received the na- tuve prince Shere Ali with great honors. Lord Mayo presented him with his own sword and assured him tuat the British would be friendly. Cuba, Mr. Coddington, the United States Consul at Gibara, who was arrested and taken in irons to Havana, on charge of aiding the revolutionista, has been released. The police system of Havana 1s being remodeited. The control of the police is to be placed entirely in the hands of the civil authorities, by which it isexpecied that a large saving will be made to the government. Two Cubans were arrested on board an Americap vessel in the bay of Matan- zas while attempting to make their escape to the United States. Congress. In the Senate yesterday namerous bills and reao- lutions of no particular imporiauce were introduced. Among them was one to distribute the rank ant number of government employés among the several States and Territories, The Supplementary Currency bill was then taken up and debated at length. In the Honse, under the call of committees for re- ports, the bill for the coinage of one, three and five cent nickel pieces Was reported and passed. A batch of bilis reported by the Committee on Patents was passed. One, extending the patent of Richard M. Hoe seven years for lis improvement on printing presses, provided that al! persons enjoying the law- ful use of the improvements may continue to do so without further payments, was re- ported by the committee, and Mr. Jenckes strongly advocated its passage but pending tis remarks the morning honr expired and the bill went over. The message from the Senate announe- ing @ committee of conference on the ‘tennre of Office bill was taken up, and Mr. Schenck moved to recede from the disagreement. This motion was toat and Mr. Butler's motion to appoint a comvuittee of conference on the part of the House was agreed to, The Speaker appointed Messrs, Butier, Wash- burn and Bingham the committee. A concurrent resolution to adjourn finally on Tuesday, the 6th of April, was agreed to. The bill to amend an act im- posing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco was taken up ona motion to reconsider the vote by which it was referred a week or two ago to the Com. mittee on Ways and Means. A general discussion of the bill ensued, and the yision extending the ime for withdrawing whiskey from bonded ware- houses was stricken out. The bill was then passed. The Legislature. Bills were introduced in the State Senate yester- day incorporating the National Institute of Letters, Art and Sciences; relative to the courts of Brooklyn and afew others, The bill increasing the salaries of Judges was recommiited. The biil punishing bribery was progressed ond that amending the charter of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Company ordered 10 @ third reading. In the Assembly the bili for the better protection of mechanics was ordered to @ third reading as were also several others of unimporiance. The bill Incoiporating the New York Cab Company was lost. Several bills of minor interest were passed, At the evening session several bills were introduced and after some discussion of the Excise bil We Assembiy aa Miscellaneous, General Custer’s command, the Seventh regular and the Nineteenth Kansas volunteer cavalry, is on is return to Hays Jity. it was mot afew days ago by a sapply train with provisions, of which they were in great need, having subsisted for a week previous on horses and mules. Three hundred lodges of Chevennes had been surprised and whip- ped on a branch of Red river, and two white women had been rescuet, Big Head and Duli Knife, the head chiefs of the Dog soldiers, and sevoral Cheyenne warriors were captured and are retained as hostages for the promised appearance of the tribe to treat for peace, The correspondence between Lewis Cass and President Buchanan, when the former tendered his resignation as Secretary of State, was transmitted to the Senate yesterday. It discloses the fact that Mr, Cass was the only one of the Cabinet who urged the defence and reinforcement of the forts in Charles- ton harbor, Mr, Buchanan in his reply says, “We both concur in the opinion that Congress has not the power to coerce a State to remain in the Union.” ‘The President has recovered his health, and yes- teraay received numerous visitors and attended the Cabinet meeting. A HERALD correspondent recently had a conver- sation with Dr, Mudd, who has returned from his imprisonment in the Dry Tortugas. He gave an in- teresting account of his meeting with Booth, bis conviction, his services at the Tortugas during the fever epidemic and his pardon. ‘The body of the Sing Sing convict who was killed by a heavy deluging uader the shower bath has been disinterred by the Westchester county Coroner for the purpose of holding an inquest. The American Consul at Toronto, Canada, writes to the Secretary of State that he is receiving con- stant applications from Canadians who are anxious to emigrate to our Western States for information regarding government lands, 4% Commissioner Witson furnished nim with needed circulars, ‘The inauguration ball committee have determined to devote the surplus proceeds of the ball to the purchase of Clark Mills’ statue of President Lincoln, The testimony before the Pacific Railroad Commit- tee of the Senate goes to show that the bonds recently issued to the Central Pacific Company were issued in accordance with the law. The Union Pacific is far from being completed to Ogden and there are two tunnels still unfinished. Several miles of temporary track, almost useless, have been laid upon which the company received its full quota of bonds. Governor Wells, of Virginia, Judge Bond and others, of Richmond, charged with purloining a let- ter from the mails, were discharged by the United States Commissioner in that city yesterday. A conflict is threatened at Gettysburg, Pa,, be- tween the alleged proprietor of the Katalsyne spring and the New York company holding a contract for the sale of the water. The former drove out the latter and has an armed force guarding the springs, while the New York company is sald to be muster- ing another armed force to dispossess him. In the great conflagration of steamboats at St. Louis on Monday night seven boats were burned, valued, with their cargoes, at $337,500, on which there was an insurance of $96,000, An anti-confederation meeting in Picton county, Nova Scotia, recently passed resolutions favoring annexation, A train on the Toledo and Peorla Railway was thrown from the track on Monday night, near Eureka, IL, while 1¢ was crossing a trestle bridge, 300 feet long. Nine cars were slightly damage, but the engine jumped off the bridge and turned a com- plete somersault in its descent. The engineer alone was killed, and the fireman was wounded. y The lady and gentleman about whom H. Rives. Pollard wrote the article nm his Richmond (Va.) Southern Opinion that was the cause of his murder, were married in that city on Thursday last. Aman named Biackstone, doing business at No. 112 Market street, Philadelphia, murdered his wile and twochildren by chopping them in pieces with an axe, on Monday morning. After committing this horrible crime Blackstone threw himself into the Delaware river and was drowned. The City. ‘The Board of Police Commissioners, in accordance ‘with the opinion of counsel, have directed a suit to be commenced against Captain Young, late of the detective force, to recover money received by him as gifts, presents or rewards while he was serving on the toree. Assessor Webster has returned from a consulta- tion with Commissioner Delano, and it is understood that he was fully sustained in his proposed taxation of funds used by brokers as banking capital, He announces, however, that he does not propose to tax margins as capital. The assessments against Messrs. Clark, Dodge & Co., are in tne hands ofa collector, and a test case is being prepared. A military commission, consisting of Brevet Major Generals H. G. Wright and John Newton and Major W. R. King, will assemble tn this city to-day to in- vestigate the subject of @ bridge over the East river. The inquest on the body of the convict Lockwood was concluded yesterday. The jury returned a ver- dict that he received his death at the hands of Charles Sullivan, the keeper, and that Joshua Manny, another keeper, was accessory. They re- commended that the District Attorney take imme- diate action in the matter. Coroner McEntee, of Westchester, had made an effidavit before Judge Gilbert, a Brooklyn, charging that the inquest was betng held in a wrong jurisdiction, and upon this the Judge issued an order, which was served upon Coroner Fiynn at the conclusion of the inquest, re- quiring him to answer on Monday next why all further proceedings in the matter should not be pro- hibited, The obsequies of the iate James Harper took place yesterday at the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-second sireet. The church was crowded to its utmost ca- pacity aud the services were of a highly impressive character. Among the pall-bearers were several of our oldest and ieading wealthy citizens, The re- matas will be taken this morning to Greenwood Cemetery sor interment, ‘The Easter festival of the Orphans’ Home, Forty- ninth street, was held yesterday and was weii at- tended. In the Union Pacific Ratiway litigation before the Supreme Court yesterday, Judge Barnard directed the receicer to break open the company’s safe. This le attempted to do, assisted by some laborers and othera; but Mr. Barlow, a member of the company, warned the whole party off as trespassers, and they went. The case was then adjourned until to-morrow. Virgil A. Kepps, the young man who attempted fo kill Miss Cassie King mm @ Brooklyn store in Feb- ruary, was sentenced in the Brooklyn Court of Ses- sions yesterday to eight years and seven months’ loprivonment In Sing Sing. ‘The Cunard steamship Siberia, Captain Martyn, wii sail to-day for Quesnstown and Liverpool. The niails will close at the Post Office at half-past eight o'clock this morning. ‘The stock market yesterday was active, with New York Central, Fort Wayne and Rock Island as the teatures, There was a further and a large decline in foreign exchange. Gold fiuctuated between 13134 and 101), closing finally at 131%, Prominent Arrivals in the City. General W. Raasiof, Danish Minister of War; Baron Schiozer,-Chargé d’Affaires of the Nortn German Union, of Mexico, and James Watt, of Paris, are at the Brevoort House, Marquis de Bourboi, ot England; A. D. White, of nse, and D. B, St. John, of Newburg, are at the Avenue Hotel. General Hunter, of the United States Army, and Captain Judkins, of the steamship Scotia, are at the New York Hotel, Colonei George R. Galloway, of Chicago, is at the St. Charles Hotel. Judge W. A. Cartor, of Fort Bridges; Charles W. Leggett, of West Point; Carios Varona, of Havana; Judge N, McKay, of Chariestong®. C.: ex-Congress. man Thomas Cornell, of New York; Jndge J. B, Whiting, of Philadelphia, and B, B. Brewer, of Kingston, Canada, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain Clinton B. Sayres, of the United States Army; Dr. Horace Enos, of Paris; Judge Birdsall and John Kasson, of New York, and Rev. Dr. Clark, of Troy, are at the Hoffman House, Commander Henry Wilson, of the United States Navy; James W. Cox, of San Francisco, and J. R. Osgood, of Boston, are at the Westminster Hotel. Prominent Departures. Judge Dunlevy and Colonel L. Thompson and lady left yesterday for Washington; Lieutenant Far. ragut, Commander Dickman and Kichard Hoffman for Philadelphia; B, G. Boardman, A. J. Clark and Colonel Van Reed, Jt,, for Boston; Judge Skinner and M. ©. Woodruff for Chicago; F. W. Kellogg and Sergeant-at-Arms Pearce for Albany; Colonel F. D, Curtis for Troy, and General Stannard for Buriing- ton, Vi. 8 Our Financial aud Political _ Pisadevere= ‘The United States Sesnte, When our war for the consolidation of the Union broke out government was a pleasure, not a burden, to the country. Everything flourished, and indefinite expansion invited in- ternal and external enterprise. Our com- ree, so absolutely essential to national greatness, was the boast of the nation, and in every port we waged a generous rivalry with the European maritime nations for the carry- ing trade of the world. Our foreign or regis- tered tonnage in 1857 was 2,463,967 tons. In 1867 it had decreased to 1,218,812 tons, allow- ing for the new system of measurement. These figure a decrease of over fifty per cent in ten years. It will be said that the English pirati- cal expeditions caused this, They certainly did not cause a decrease in our domestic in- land tonnage, which was, in 1864, 8,404,506 tons, and in 1867, 2,262,942 tons—a decrease of thirty-three per cent in three years, Our national debt in 1860 was less than sixty-five millions of dollars. It is to-day over two thousand five hundred millions. The ex- penses of administration were then estimated at sixty-two millions; now they have swollen to over three hundred millions. In 1860 the President, in his annual message, in speaking of the finances and comparing the government expenditures with those of previous years, said: ‘‘An overflowing Treasury had pro- duced habits of prodigality and extravagance which could only be gradually corrected.” If this was said of 1860 what should be said of 1869? Three hundred millions of dollars administrative expenses against about one-fifth that amount in 1860! And yet we have not grown five times as large, have not five times the population, commerce, internal trade and general national development we*had in 1860, It is true that one hundred and forty millions of our expendi- tures go for interest; but sixty millions go for civil service, the latter, an enormous amount for the purpose, is about equal to our whole expenses eight years ago. While all these financial and commercial evils have been openly accumulating there have been growing up in their shadow certain associations which, seeing how poorly guarded is the national wealth, have, with satanic wisdom, supposed that in the decline of all prosperity it is well to struggle for the spoils. These associations curse us more than our real national debt, and when we consider how they bleed us of our wealth we feel that our interest-bearing debt is something near ten thousand millions of dollars. So great is the influence of the associations emanating from the illicit manufacture of whiskey, from the building of railroads with the public plunder, and the thousand and one minor ‘‘jobs” that lance the veins of the nation, that they may be said to rule what honest, un- suspecting people are under the delusion is our republic. The “rings” have wormed into Congress until its principal branch stands like arotton login our pathway. They gathered from the debris of the war, from @he wreck of our commerce, from the national debt, and from the many evils that the last eight years have engrafted upon us all the elements ot financial and consequent political cor- ruption, and have rolled them under the wings of that august old hen, the Senate of ' the United States. There she sits in her wis- dom, mounted upon the hundreds of millions of annual spoils, clucking and clucking over the eggs, twisting them, turning them and try- ing to hatch something acceptable from them. The only product that marks the last four years of this Senatorial incubation is the Ten- ure of Office act, and to this bird of evil omen the Senate clings with such tenacity as any old hen ever clung to a single chicken, We have in a few bold dashes shown our financial and commercial condition. We pre- sent the picture to the Senate. Does it sup- pose that the nation will tolerate it much longer if it clings to and protects everything that threatens political dissolution and the ruin of our prosperity? It mistakes the temper of our people. We are not made of such r material. The refusal to repeal the Tenure of Office act efter the people, by elect- ing Grant, repealed it by their votes, shows to-day that the Senate isin conflict with the people, who fancy that they placed the Senators in their seats to make such laws as the States North and South desire, Instead of taking this view of it the Senate has become so cor- rupt that, in its blindness, it imagines that it is simply a party instrument placed in power to control the vast wealth of the nation and make such laws as the subtle brains of the men behind the scenes may suggest a3 neces- sary to increase the plunder, Death sometimes occurs because the remedy is applied too late. It is often so in the his- tory of nations. The people have too often waited until the wail of revolution was forced from them by the very weight of intolerable government. The people of the United States have the sense to profit by historical precedent and reason from it. They will not wait until the Senate, after destroying the executive power, usurp aiso that of the judiciary and en- thrones itself upon the ruins of our constitu- tion, They will at once decide that it is better for the nation to overturn the Senate than to have the Senate go on in its usurpations until it overturns the nation, Both these measures would be revolutionary; but a lesser revolu- tion at once is better than a great revolution in the future. The former would be effected while the people have yet some religious, political and financial morals which the ruinous Senatofial legislation has not yet touched. By waiting a few years longer there may be but little of this left, and the way may be well Prepared for a revolution out of which we might only hope to emerge by a desperate struggle of years, and by the retracing after- wards of the retrograde step with which the Senate now threatens us. We say the people in preference to the Senate, and down with tha Senate rather than down with the people! A CLAsstoaL AND Appropriate Frovrt.— A Southern paper says ‘the democratic party will still live to be the Nemesis of outraged liberty.” Nemesis was the daughter of Ere- bus—a very dark subject. Tue Latest Lanp Soreme—The bill intro- duced into Congress by General Butler to incorporate a national land company for pro- viding lands for immigrants and freedmen in the Inte slaveholding States. Butler sticks to his “contrabands,” and he means business, War Probabilities in Europe. A cable despatch from Paris says that French officers and privates on leave of absence have been ordered to rejoin their regiments on the 1st of April. A few days ago we had a cable despatch quite as startling as this one, being that the Emperor of the French had formally asked an explanation from the government of King William of Prus- sia regarding the mobilization of Prussian troops close to the French frontier. This, however, is not all. It is only a few weeks ago since the French press, official and semi- official, went wild because the Belgian Legis- lature refused to sanction a fusion of the Great Luxemburg and the Eastern of France Rail- way, denouncing Belgium, making all manner of threats quite unworthy of a big boy when speaking to a small one, and more than insinu- ating that all this Belgian stubbornness was the result of Prussian, or rather, to speak more particularly, of Bismarck dictation. In ordinary circumstances all this might be allowed to pass as of comparatively trifling im- portance. We have been so used to the cry of “wolf” in this particular direction when there was no wolf that we have ceased to be alarmed by the cry. The circumstances, however, are not ordinary. The condition of Europe at the present moment, and indeed for some time past, in spite of the manifest dread of open war, is of the most combustible character pos- sible, The mine is ready, the powder is abun- dant, the train is laid, and it only requires the application of the match to produce a confla- gration such as Europe never saw before. It is not the war spirit which is doubted; itis the match which is dreaded. Such is the situation, Europe was never so armed, was never so convinced that war was coming, and was never so fearful that war should come. The expenses for war purposes on the part of the European nations, one and all, larger and smaller, have been for many years past 80 heavy that it is universally felt that actual war, if it would only take the place of possible or rather probable war, would be a positive relief. The situation is aggravated by the fact that Napoleon, who has for so many years been the virtual arbiter of Europe, is beginning to be convinced that something must be done if he would retain his proud position—a position which, more than anything else, has recon- ciled the French people to his arbitrary rule. Napoleon has not had for some years any great success, Since his tamous campaign against Austria facts have been rather against him. The Mexican blunder, the Luxemburg defeat, the steady and determined policy of Bismarck, have all been against him. Nor has this Spanish revolution made matters better. It now begins to be patent to all the world that English gold, as in ‘days gone by, is more powerful than French diplomacy. The probable election of Montpensier to the throne of Spain is, as matters now stand, a heavy blow to Napoleonic pretensions. The independent attitude of Belgium in this rail- way matter, is scarcely less irritating. This last has made him feel how easy it might be to unite Prussia and Great Britain against him, All these things taken into account only encourage the belief entertained by many that a vigorous dash against Prussian and German pretensions generally would be popular all over France. The French army is in fine condition. It is mag- nificently equipped. It pants for trial. It is impatient to measure its strength with the proud army of Prussia. There is, we observe, a disposition in some quarters to believe that a collision is impending between Russia and Prussia. No existing rumor has less founda- tion in fact. Prussia and Austria are as yet natural enemies. It is not to the interest of Prussia that she should fling Russia as well as Austria into the arms of France; and Count Bismarck is not the man to make so ‘egre- gious a blunder. The war cloud hovers over the banks of the Rhine. The shock of arms may not be immediate, but the shock of arms is more than possible in the early future, and a war between France and Prussia might be a blessing to Europe and the world. Wastep—A Hingham bucket to catch the tears that drop from the eyes of those who are writing dolefal obituaries of Andy Johnson, Important w Trve.—The allegation in the House resolution adopted on Monday last that, “on the 3d of March, 1869, a few hours before the dissolution of the late administration, bonds to the amount of two million four hundred thousand dollars were, by order of President Johnson, prepared for issue, and one million four hundred thousand dollars were actually issued to the Central Pacific Railroad of Cali- fornia, on account of the alleged construction of certain sections of said railroad,” and that from certain proofs in the Treasury Depart- ment it appears that the value of this work done does not excced ten thousand dollars per mile, though certified to be worth twenty thou- sand dollars, Mr. Huntington, Vice President of this road, in a high state of virtuous wrath demands an immediate investigation by the House committee on the subject; but if ten thousand dollars or twenty thousand dollars be the real value of the work, what does it signify? A mere difference of opinion, and the House resolution is only the old story of locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen. Tae Moses who was to lead the colored people, like the children of Israel, out of bondage is not the Moses of the Custom House, He's in Greenville, Tenn, Creanixa THe Streets.—Now that there have been two accidents and loss of life by obstraction of the streets the authorities begin to clear them up—divining that they are not the private property of contractors and build- ers, This is very well, though somewhat tardy. We hope the lesson will not wear out of the official memory before the work is com- pletely done. If ® man is mutilated on ac- count of a condition of tho streets that the authorities ough’ to haveprevented he gan recover damages. Onght not the damaged in such case to come out of the pocket of the official who had neglected his duty ? No Dovnt oF It.—A Washington corres. pondeut says that the President would like to have the two houses of Congress adjourn and 0 home as soon as possible, And why not? He wants to have peace. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1869.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. sy he RU > ree Sener Pea aes Se Ree eee ‘The Herald’s ProgreseA Quadruple Sheet. We issue the Herarp this morning in 5 quadruple sheet form—an absolute necessity, necessary for the complete fulfilment of our journalistic mission in the reporting of news from all parts of the world, civilized and un- civilized, and the making known the wants, requirements, commercial progress, financial speculations, marine arrangements, real estate operations, with the supply and demands of and for artisans and servants, to the immense population of New York and the surrounding cities at an early hour every morning in the year, and, radiating from the great metro- politan centre, hence all over the Union, with the rapidity of steam conveyance. By in- dustry and enterprise we have come to produce in the Heratp a reflection of the advance of the solid interests of New York, of the subur- ban towns, and we may claim of the country at large. Our special correspondents cover every point of interest in the home territory and Canada, are to be found in all the European capitals, in Asia and at the antipodes; so that the American people have been convinced years since that the columns of the Hxratp, so varied and interesting, supplied the most profitable medium for their advertising patronage. Convinced and inter- ested, they acted, and with effect. Influenced by their continuous advertising patronage the HERALD was advanced from a single sheet issue to a double sheet form, printed at first occasionally, but soon afterwards permanently; an increasing pressure from without produced a triple sheet Hzgatp two or three times a week; more advertisements and a forced cur- tailment of our news space, and the triple HERAxp appeared daily ; and to-day, going on in the like ratio and with similar effect from similar causes, we produce a quadruple sheet Heratp—a work which we entertain not the slightest doubt we will soon have to repeat daily also at our new building, corner of Ann street and Broadway. Why should it not be so? Wa have just shown how the Hzratp has grown with the growth of the city of New York and its sur- roundings and that of the country at large. The civic and national advance and develop- ments cannot halt or be limited, so that fresh demands on our space continue, and will con- tinue, to pour in every day. The perfection of plans for the immediate and complete sup- ply of these demands has received our most anxious attention. Our mechanical appliances are of the most superior order, ample in force and always in complete working trim. In every department of the building, from our com- posing rooms to the pressroom, active brains and busy hands are ever at work employed in giving form and shape to our news matter, so that it may be said the New York Heratp is ever in motion, ever active, ever alive, and “sleepeth- not.” This state of facts is fully appreciated by our fellow citizens; hence our quadruple issue, with the prospect of its-fre- quent repetition and ultimate permanency. Cramor or Corruption.—That section of the republican party that opposed the election of Fenton is making great parade in the press at its command of charges and declara- tions of the venality of Mr. Fenton, but these republicans are careful to make no effort to present proof or to do aught but declaim. People will know exactly how much weight to attach to what is thus said when they under- stand its origin. It comes from Senator Conk- ling. Fenton, it seems, has some influence with Grant, as the city appointments indicate. Conkling, we know, has none, as we see him leading the hunt in opposition to the repeal of the Tenure of Office law. Conkling, thus com- pletely in the wrong in regard to the office, has his organs vent his spleen in uttering against Fenton the same old charges that have been made against every public man from time im- memorial. A Bap Pass.—Imagine an Englishman talk- ing to ex-President Johnson about the bonds of the 'El Paso road. Tux Jersey City Mystery.—Can we not have more light in regard to that abduction of a lady from a street car by a ruffian in Jersey City? What are the police authorities in the neighboring city doing? Apparently they would never have heard of the outrage if it had not been given to the world in the Heratp. It isa bad eminence the little city across the river is attaining. This act is, if possible, worse than the Rogers murder. Rogers, killed at daylight, with no witnesses, is not such an appalling fact as the abduction from a car of @ young lady, with three men near—the driver, conductor and the other passenger. Ox a War Footina.—It is stated that Spain, in view of the Cuban troubles, is put- ting her army on a war footing. The best footing she could put it on would be one to enable her to foot. it out of Cuba as quick as possible. ’ Toe Sixe Sina Murprr.—The Coroner's inquest on the body of O'Neil, alias Lockwood, killed by the keeper, Sullivan, makes the matter worse than it seemed. This convict was wantonly killed—murdered as deliberately as possible. For the shot that killed him there was no provocation whatever, and no danger to the keeper justified it. The testimony of Storms is clear and complete, and the indica- tion is that there was some secret hate between the keeper and prisoner that led directly to the crime, If the keeper, Sullivan, is not hanged we may as well burn our laws for capital punishment. Poor Man!—A letter writer says the father of the present Secretary of the Navy built one of the first cotton mills at Manayunk. On the other hand a Western paper avers that he never made a mill! A Story ror tHe Marines.—That Gree- ley's earnest advocacy of the claims of Hiram Walbridge for Collector is port satisfied the administration that Tribune philoso- pher does not possess tho diplomatic capaci- ties required for the mission to England or the mission to Spain. But how is it with Master Dana? Has he not likewise drawn a blank? A Onanoe ror Tar Wutskey Rina.—The writer of an obituary of a certain distinguished lady in France wrote that her husband was the “Achilles” of Napoleon’s Cabinet, The printer put it that he was the “distiller” of the Cabinet. The compositor was probably think- | ing of Mumm’s- Fisk, Jr, and the Railroad Schemes. Our lively friend, Fisk, Jr., in his troubles with other railroad schemers and their schemes, evidently appreciates the advice of President Lincoln to General Gillmore, at Charleston, to “keep pegging away,” and he sticks to the Union Pacific Railroad, Crédit Mobilier and broad gauge to Chicago with a pluck that must have something behind it to keep it up. The trouble in these little matters is that the other plotters and jobbers do not appreciate Fisk, Jr., as he appreciates himself. He thinks, with Tommy Dodd, “I'm bound to win when I goin;” and so they will not let him in. The inquiry which he consequently urges into the affairs of the Union Pacific and Crédit Mo- bilier jobs is a very good thing, although it does not spring from a very good motive, The broad gauge through route to Chicago is another good thing, especially for New York city. Weneed more channels for trade with the prolific West and greater competition, and it is our hope that Fisk, Jr., will keep pegging away at the Union Pacific Railroad Company until the cancers which afflict it are brought to light and cured, before they shall have con- sumed the whole work, and a broad gauge opened to Chicago for through travel. A Cuatcaco Daintxy—Five young negroes half roasted in a cell, or on the half shell, to suit, VELOOIPEDES ‘IN THE STREETS.—Man’s own feet or crutches and a wheeled vehicle with a horse in front—these, it seems, must be the Alpha and Omega of locomotion in the city streets. A wheeled vehicle without a horse is a thing so preposterous to the eyes of aldermen that it must be forbidden altogether. Such is the experience of several cities, and our city promises to follow suit. Now, though the horse is favored by pogular prejudice, a man may move his wagon with a mule, or jackass, or a goat, or a dog; but he is not per- mitted to move it without one of these in front, or he will be fined twenty-five dollars. We recommend the sports to tie their tan terriers in front of the machine with a piece of pink ribbon, and go it on the same dodge adopted for the dummies, where an old blind horse trots in front of the locomotive within city limits, Althongh the aldermanic abdomen is a guarane tee against any experiment of the Fathers on the velocipede, can not some juvenile of alder- manic lineage convince the old fellows how ridiculous they are in endeavoring to prohibit what only needs regulation? Amustye—To hear the Albany Zvening Journal talk of the “‘kid gloves” of a radical Parnassus organ in this city, when, while dis- cussing the subject of public plunder, neither of them can show clean hands! A New Reapine.—One of the new Sena- tors went into a tavern in Washington lately, after an Indian jobbing executive session, in company with a colleague who was in the ring. Observing a shingle upon a tubular glass vessel with a throat, bearing the initials “8.0. P.,” he asked what they meant. He was told. ‘I rather think,” he remarked, “arter what we have just been going through in the way of robbing Uncle Sam, that the proper interpretation would be, ‘Stop Olt Taz New Corigctor.—The now Collector has been sworn in, and the Custom House will not hold the friends who are anxious to serve him. Still, we understand that he will not for the present rent another building to shelter them. Jersey City Wakine Up.—A petition has been presented in Congress praying that Jem sey City and Hoboken be made a port of entry. Jersey City must be annexed. She is getting too big for Jersey. Trvixa Trem Haxp at ALnANy.—The republicans in Congress having no time to spare to amend the naturalization laws for the benefit of their party in New York, the subject has been taken up by our law-makers at Albany; but as there is not much money in this job it will probably fall through at Albany likewise. Legislation that does not pay gets on slowly. The love of moncy is tho root of all activity. . Tae Spanish Monanrciy.—The new conati- tution of Spain provides that the King shall reign for life, and that his heir shall attain a legal majority when eighteen years old. This explains the obscure wording of a late cablé telegram on this subject, ‘The Connecticut Election. The first State election in which the adop- tion or rejection of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution has been made an element of the campaign will be that in Connecticut, which occurs on Monday next. The State has repeatedly voted down negro suffrage on a naked issue, although the Legislature has voted differently. Looking over the politios of the State for several years past we finda democratic Governor and a republican Legis- lature elected and re-elected, as if there had been a bargain somewhere to give democratic votes for republigan members of the Logisla~ ture in exchange for republican votes for the democratic candidate for Governor. But this year the issue of negro suffrage comes before the people of Connecticut upon the question of the adoption by the Legislature of the fif- teenth amendment almost with as much force as if the direct question were put. Hence we ought to ascertain, by the complexion of the coming Legislature, the exact sentiment of the people upon the subject. The campaign has been quite animated upon this point, but other- wise it has been rather tame, except in the Second Congressional district, where Colonel James F, Babcock, Collector of the port of New Haven and formerly an active republi-+ can, is the democratic candidate. Here there is a little spice—just enough to give a dash of pepper into an otherwise insipid plate of soup. The following is 4 list of the several candl- dates for prominent State offices and Con- gress :— Repoican, Maraliail Jewe' CONG RRS. ative La Strong, tephen W. Koila ; 1, M. Starke wenth Converse. Haney B. Beardsley. Wiliam H. Barnum, Governor English was elected last April by 1,764 majority, In the fall, howevey General Grant carried the Stato by 8,041, The Inst Congress was represented by three democrats

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