The New York Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1869, Page 8

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The Spanish Cortes yesterday voted the new Joan iequired by the provisional government. Hostility to the consertption law is manifested im the pro- vinces and new tronbles are feared. ‘The Greek Chambers have dissolved. The elec- tions will take place on the i¢th of May for the new Legislature, which will assemble on the Sth of June. The ‘Turkjsh Ambassador has presented his creden- tials to ihe King. Unlimited furloughs have been granted to thirty meno! each company belonging to the infantry rezt- ments of the Bavarian army, 3 to the Irish Church Question Conference ed yesterday in Dub.in. Cuba. The British maa-of-war Heron has gone to Catha- rien to inquire into the seizure Spanish trigate of the British schooner Jeff Davis. Five Cubans were capiured on the schooner trying to leave Cuba for Nassau, and on their return to Catbarien they were taken from the guard and murdered in the streets, The captain and crew of the Jef! Davis are still in prison. A British feet is expected, The two Feruvian tron-clads that leit Pensacola recently have taken service with the insurgents. They were in the United States service du the rebellion and were then known as the wba and Oneota, several filibustering expeditions are reported to have landed on the coast. Congress. In the Senate yesterday the House resoluti an adjournment on Tuesday next was called up and Mr. Sumuer in the debate that ensued led the oppo- sition to fis adoption, Mr. Hamlin proposed to umend by substitating Saturday, the 10th inst., and pending discussion upon it the morning hour ex- pired, The Committee of Conference on the bill to repeal the Tenure of Office act made a report which vas accepted by a vote of 42 to 8, Mr. Sprague aud seven democrats comprising the nays. The report is a further modification of the Senate amendments and its text will be found in our Congressional pro-* ceedings. The Senate in execative session discussed General Longstreet’s nomination and Mr. Brownlow made a speech strongly opposing his confirmation. In the House, the bili authorizing the prepayment of the interest on the public debt was reported back from the Committee (mn Ways and Means. The bill for the provisional goverament for Mississippi was ‘nen taken up, but was interrupted by the report of the conference committee on the Tenure of Office bill, which, eiter a lively discussion, tm which the democrats formally withdrew from Mr. Butler's eadersii it was agreed to by a vote of 10 i A bill for the removal of disabilities by the | ~tates Con «reported trom the Reconstruction Committee and ordered to be printed. The House then adjourned. The Legisiature. Billa were introduced in the State Senate yester- Jay confirming the titie of this city to certain pro- perty; equalizing the terms of ofice of all local | ndges in New York; ainending the School law of the State, and several others, Sevcral bilis of minor consequence were passed and ihen reported, Bis elating to the organization of savings banks and to he Board of Water and Sewerage Commissioners of Brooklyn were ordered to a third reading, after which the Senate adj« ed. In the Assembly the vill increasing the powers of the Commissioners of Excise was lost and a num- ver of others passed. A report was presented on he contested election case of McKeever agatusi Vhalen, of New York, and made the special wder for Friday mornmg next. The bill ‘or the construction of the Central Elevated Patent vatiroad in New York was reported adversely, and a number reported favorably, including those relating o the detention of witnesses in the Metropolitan volice district; increasing the salaries of judges; imending the charter of New York, 80 that the char- elections shail be held at the same time aa the yeneral election; submitting the new constitution to he people, and others, The Metropolitan Exeise bill vas under consideration in the evening session. Mixcellancous, ‘The heavy rains ana general thaw have produced fresheta in every direction. The railroads leading nto Albany are damaged and through trains are all ielayed, Much damage is reported at Buffalo and two men were drowned in Tonawanda creek. The United States Supreme Court yesteriay ranted an order allowing the counsel of George J, ‘rwil convicted of the murder of Mrs, Hill and sentenced to be hanged on the Sth inst., to file a mo- tion for @ writ of error, which will be argued to- morrow, An inquest was held at Sing Sing yesterday on tho body of the convict Dean, who died, tt was sup- posed, from the effects of a shower bath at the hands Buckingham, a keeper. The witnesses, al! officers of the prison, testified that the showering was very ght, and the jury returned @ verdict of death (rom | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1869.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. : causes unknown, and that no prison rules or prac- tice were violated. Mr. Halsey, who reluctantiy accepted the Regis- tership of the Treasury, has been ruled out by an opinion of* Attorney General Hoar, on the ground that he ig @ manufacturer, and eligible under the oid law of 1789, which debarred Mr, Stewart, Foster Blodgett, Postmaster of Augusta, Ga., who was suspended under President Johnson's adminis- tration for alleged perjury, has been reinstated, Colonel William Wilson, of New York, has been appoipted a revenue detective by Commissioner Delano, on the recommendation of Senator Cameron, The City. Mr. Grinne.t formally received possession of the Custom House yesterday irom the hands of Collector Smythe, He stated to the deputies that he would make no changes at present. ‘The Spiritualists, at Cooper Institute last evening, celebrated the twenty-Sist anniversary of the first spirit rappings heard py the Fox Sisters. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and higher for the general list. Money was very active. Gov- ernment ponds were steady, Gold was firm between 13144 and 13144, closing finally at 13144. The North German Lloyd’s steamship Union, Cap- tain Dreyer, will leave Hoboken at two P, M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post ofice at twelve M, ‘The steamship Arizona, Captain Maury, will leave pier 42 North river at twelve M. to-day for California, via Aspinwall, connecting at Panama with the steamship Montana. ‘The Atlantic Mail Steamship Company’s steamer Fagie, Captain M. R. Greene, will sail from pier No. 4 North river at three P, M. to-day for Havana, The sidewheel steamship Magnolia, Captain Crowell, will leave pier No, 8 North river a#three P. M, to-day for Charleston, 5. ©, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge B. R. Curtis, of Boston, and Theo, Swine- yard, of Hamiiton, C, W., are at the Brevoort House. Commander Livingston Breese, of the United States Navy, and Major J. B. Neal, of Norfolk, Va., are at the New York Hotel. Colonel Stewart, of the United States Army; Dr. George R. MeMichaels, of Philadelphia, and Captain J. Holman, of Indiana, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Dr. Charles A, Elliott, of London, England; John Memer, of Edinburg, Scotland, and Captain P. Eaton, of Boston, are at the St. Charles Hotel. General Tompkins, of the United States Army; Lyman Tremain, of Albany; E. K. Winship, of New- port, and J. B. Blake, of Council Bluffs, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. W. Williams and I. T. Hatch, of Buffalo; J. B. Gale, of Troy; T. D. Conyngham, of Pennsylvania, and General J. W. Schotleld, of the United States Army, are at che Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel George Fowler, of New Jersey; George K. Cramer, of Troy, and General Franklin, of Hartford, are at the Hoffman House, Colonel Jones, of Texas; Dr. Edward Bentiey, of Washington; 8. S- Sprague, of Providence, R. I., and W. H. Brookings, of Dacotan Territory, are at the Astor House. Judge R. R. Sloan, of Ohio; A. P. Edgarton, of In- . R. Betts, of Washington, and Larz Ander- son, of Cincinnati, ere at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Prominent Departures. General Hunter, Lieutenant Commander Fairfax, J. Kasson and Samuel Laird left yesterday for Wash- ington; Colonel J. Taylor Wood, for Nova Scotia; J. A. Poore, for Cincinnati; H. M. McComb, for Dela- ware; E. D. C. McKay, for Florida; Colonel Allea, for Richmond, Va., and W. S. Hobart, tor Kalamazoo, Grant as a Military and as a Political Leader. The commencement of General Grant's mili- tary career was not brilliant. Almost ander any other circumstances it would have ‘been pronounced a failure. His first affair at Bel- mont, which was intended as part of a grand movement for the protection of St. Louis and the suppression of the rebel sentiment in Mis- souri, although comparatively insignificant in itself, did the Union cause bnt little good and the enemy no harm. He was mistrusted by the commanding general, and even his subse- quent successes, the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, could not help a shadow being thrown upon his military reputation by the disastrous first day's fighting at Shiloh and Pittsburg Landing. He had to encounter the animosity ot his superior and the jealousy of his rival officers from that time even to the fall of Vicksburg. He refused to fight according to the preseribed rales of war as laid down by the ved tape martinets in Washington, and worked out problems of his own, sometimes with partial and at others with complete s. He discarded the old rules and ta of European as well as our own regular armies as being entirely unadapied to the habits and nature of the newly developed American soldier; and hav- ing the instinct to discern the ability of his officers and the disposition of his troops he had the sagavity to use them to advantage and the genius to reap therefrom legitimate fruits, Being an even-tempered and unambitious man he reconciled differences which otherwise might have led to serious embarrassments and ripened into national disasters. All this time he was, for obvious reasons, encountering hos- tility in high official quarters, and it was not until his triumphant banners entered Rich- mond and the rebellion was pronounced ex- tinct that this hostility ceased. As General Grant commenced his military so has he commenced his political career. It is not brilliant. His first movement, like that at Belmont, was a comparative failure. His Cabinet hitched. Here was a bother, if not a Juoder. He had to make a retrograde move- ment and re-form his lines, He finally suc- ceeded in organizing his staff of official coun- Gencral succ ties | sellors and began the work of his political campaign, Here he was met by the odious Tenure of Office act; and here he finds that, asin bis military career he had to encounter the opposition of officials in high quarters in the War Department in Washington, he has now to be embarrassed with a similar hos- tility, through the ambitions designs of the oligarchy in the United States Sen- ate, The old politicians, too, are an- noying him by their endeavors to circum- vent his plans and to make him believe that party is superior to country and that public plunder is the proper reward of those trading partisans who helped to elevate him to the Presidency. We believe he has a harder fight now than he ever bad in the field, and that he | would any day rather face the blaze of an enes my’s battery than undergo the daily ordeal of meeting the battalions of office-seekers that invest the White House. But his day is com- | ing, just as surely as his standard rose above the capital city of the foe. He is abused now as he was on his partial successes during the war, and the abuse that is now bestowed upon him will in the end, as it was at the end of the war, bo turned to pmwans of praise. He will overcome obstacles that the envious, the fanatical, the ambitious or the treacherous may cast in his path, He will have a political Vicksburg as he hada military one; he will have political successes similar to those mili- tary successes which followed in regular train on the peninsula of Virginia, culminating in a grand and final political Appomattox. The vote on the Tenure of Office act shows that he has the House with him, and the temper of the Senate is exhibited in its action yester- day. He cannot be impeached, because the House would not originate the proceeding. Therefore he might as well go on, make his appointments, let the Senate slide, and, after demoralizing the radical party by a magnifi- cent strategic movement, erect a party of his own that will raity around him in any emer- gency, Thus will his political mission—begin- ning, like his military career, in a somewhat bungling manner—end as that did, in an efful- gent ray of glory, imparting alike union and harmony, confidence and prosperity all over the country. The Tenure of Office Law—The Compre- mise Adopted. The joint committee of conference on the late disagreement between the two houses on the Tenure of Office law came to a compro- mise yesterday, which was adopted by both houses, and needs only the President's signa- ture to make it the law in his removals and appointments. The Senate modification of the Johnson law struck out the section tying up the President in reference to his Cabinet, but made his suspensions from office during a re- cess of the Senate subject to the consent of that body at its next session—the suspended officer being reinstated in the event of the Senate’s disapproval of his suspension. The conference report adopted provides that when the Senate shall not concur in the nomination made to supply a suspension the President shall nominate another person as soon as prac- ticable for said office, which is a material change. Under the conference amendment the President’s removals are decisive, while asthe Senate had it they depended upon the will of the Senate, This is an important point gained by Gene- ral Butler; but still there is an important point surrendered to the Senate. It is in the first section of the new bill, retained from the Senate bill, which provides that all civil offi- cers appointed with the consent of the Senate shall hold their offices for the regular term of their appointment, unless sooner removed with the consent of the Senate*or by a new appointment approved by the Senate. It strikes us that this section still keeps in the Senate the whiphand over the President in reference to his removals, including the Cabi- net, during the sittings of Congress; while he can only reach objectionable subordinates, in the absence of the Senate, by the halfway remedy of suspension. General Grant ought to veto this bill and take his stand for a clean repeal of this Tenure of Office law. Now is his time to bring the two houses to his own terms, Under the yielding policy the more he yields the more they will demand; but by a simple veto of this bill, with his reasons tersely stated, he will at once become master of the situation. We ap- prehend, however, that his amiable disposition: will prevail in this case, and thus give upa fine opportunity to establish his position on the old ground for the sake of peace, The Freshet and Its Effects. Our telegrams from Buffalo, Schenectady, Albany and Poughkeepsie, in this State, dated to eleven o'clock last night, and newspaper reports from Indiana, furnish information that the freshet caused by the late heavy rains and general thaw in these sections has been ex- tensive, bringing serious consequences to the inhabitants. The Hudson, Connecticut and Genesee rivers were swoilen to overflowing, and two men were drowned in Tonawanda eveek. The water was ten feet deep on the piers and docks at Albany, and the Mohawk Valley was entirely submerged. The ice in the Hudson is damaged and has commenced to drift, doing injury to floating property, and travel has been much impeded on the line of the Hudson River Railroad. The water covers the Hudson River Railroad, and trains from Albany for New York and from New York for Albany were impeded last night, the one at Castleton and the other at Stuyvesant station. At Castleton the broken ice was running rapidly and the river still rising. Trains were being made up at Hudson to go south, and every precaution was being taken to meet the unexpected and rather alarming emergency. The rise in the Wabash river has produced disastrous consequences in Indiana, Rxconstrvction—Mr. Woop on Missis- siprt.—The two houses, from day to day, are reminded that Georgia, like Virginia, Missis- sippi and Texas, is in need of reconstruction, and from day to day this work is postponed, We think that the remarks a few days ago of the Hon. Fernando Wood on a Ifouse bill in reference to Mississippi embodied the right idea in regard to all these unrecognized States, Mr. Wood thinks it the part of wisdom to deal in a kindly way with the people of Missis- sippi—to invite rather than to coerce their co-operation in reconstruction ; and this is the keynote of General Grant's policy towards the Southern States and people. His policy may be decisive, but it is not vindictive; it is not exactly, we know, the policy of Mr. Wood, but the main idea is the same in both cases, that conciliation is better with a whole people disposed to obey the laws—much better than coercion. So we think that Congress may wisely postpone till December any further coercive bills of reconstruction, Aras! For Vinotta.—A patriotic Virginian notifies President Grant that there is not a man in his county in a position to take the iron-clad oath who is competent to perform the marriage ceremony. It is generally the case that when people marry they take all the iron-clad oaths necessary—even soms of them are known to have been broken in Virginia, as elsewhere. Therefore it is useless to shackle the marriage tie with any more oaths, The request of the gentleman from Lunenburg Court House should be granted by the man whom the English paper said it was always a sure thing to ask a favor from. Maxtx@ a Great Man of Hit.—Some of the radical papers in Connecticut are fierce on the democratic candidate for Congress from the Second district. ‘‘Babcock has denied”— “The report that Babcock”—‘‘At Naugatuck, Babcock"—‘Babcock boasted,” and so on, are the phrases in only a single issue of a paper in the district. If they keep on this way they will probably have to report finally “Babcock elected,” Fisk, Jr, and His Railroad Litigations. The Railway magnates are quarrelling. Fisk, Jr., opens his batteries upon the Union Pacific, and, careless of those who furnish his ammunition, fires away in all directions to the edification of sharpers and the disgust of honest men. The great apparent object at the present moment is to discover whether the law case now commenced is before the Supreme Court of New York or the United States Cir- cuit Court. In this contest we have shown to us the condition of law in the United States; for here it comes to a quarrel between two in- struments of justice to find which is the true and which the false. Aside from law techni- calities it appears reasonable that the govern- ment—having assumed the construction of the Pacific Railroad, having furnished money and lands, and having been prodigal in all that could be given to urge the road to rapid com- pletion—should have any legal matters with reference to its great national highway decided by the courts of the general government. The effort is, however, not a question of courts but a question of where Fisk, Jr., is most likely to make his point. He virtually pits the power of Erie against the power of the Pacific Rail- road, and, forcing into a nine days’ wonder a struggle of two great corporations, gains a little unenviable notoriety. Ftsk, Jr., is the natural product of Erie corruptions and bad management—simply an overissue of stock. He will float the loftier in proportion to his lightness. His head is dizzy from being sud- denly called upon to represent a concern whose stockholders are, in lieu of dividends on the immense earnings of the road, called upon to accept magnificent ideas of broad gauges to Chigago and third rails for the accommo- dation of a vast traffic. They are tickled with quotations of ‘Erie preferred” or ‘‘Erie common” as the stock is withdrawn from or floods the market. For the accommodation of country stockholders a first class opera house is purchased, and upon the stage Fisk, Jr., makes an effort to put the Erie Railroad Com- pany upon its legs. A few smaller and less important operatic and theatrical establish- ments dazzle the public by their gilded dis- plays, their fanciful ‘‘cancans” and their lack of drapery. The whole‘of this drama is now in the phase where the manager wishes to get possession of the Pacific Railroad, and, failing to do it, through the Crédit Mobilier tries to drive the entering wedgo through the inter- ference of the law. The Erie stock and un- paid dividends have shown themselves power- ful; but they have not heretofore had heavy guns to oppose them defensively. The Pacific road is not in the condition in which Van- derbilt found himself when he tried to buy the controlling stock of Erie and discovered that the corporation could manufacture it faster than he could purchase. The operations of Fisk, Jr., have a very bad effect upon our railway securities and tend to unsettle the public confidence even in solid corporations. Ourrailway system, upon which we count so largely for national pro- -greas, is made the sport of unscrupulous men, who, regardless of legitimate stockholders, toss the stock about in the Wall street vortex and make use of its power in such a manner as we see Erie now used. There is certainly no commercial prosperity that can grow out of this, and instead of the law being invoked to aid in the unsettling of valuable enterprises it should place itself immediately on record as the-earnest protector of our national interests. Orrro1aL SprcuLation.—On the face of it the proposition to sell a part of the great Brooklyn Park looks like corruption. If the Commissioners have taken in more land than is needed the only just course would be to return it to the former owners at the price paid them for it; otherwise there will be great injustice. The land was taken fora park and a nominal price paid, owaers perhaps feeling easier under this hardship by the improvement the park would be to the land they had left. If now the park is not to be near this remain- ing land, and the land taken from them at a very low price is to be sold to some other persons at a very high one, they are very badly used. Sexator Spracus’s Caazer.—On Tuesday Mr. Sprague said in the Senate that he ‘‘knew himself of a legislator, a member of a commit- tee, who had been asked to report upon a certain matter in a certain way, and the temp- tation held out. before him was one hundred thousand dollars.” Now, if Mr. Sprague knows this and does not expose the whole matter he is an accessory. Public morality requires the exposure. It will be no answer to say that the man did not take the money. The offer was a crime. Who made it? Mr. Sprague’s duty is plain. Will he do it, and set an example that may be effective against corrupting influences ? Taxina a Mercaxtite View or It.—Licy Stone has presented a problem to the women’s rights arithmeticians. She wants them to tell her how many tons of gold the votes of the women of the United States are worth at five thousand dollars apiece. She puts them at this price on an estimate made by Richard H. Dana, Jr., of his own vote. We hope Lucy does not mean to delude the ladies into eageracss for the suffrage by this estimate. Itis ridicilously high. The ladies could not sell their votes Tue Hetont or Portrteness—An ex-mem- ber of Congress writing toa Doctor of Divinity apologizing for not sending him a copy of his speeches. Nataralization Legislation. Senator Folger has introduced into the State Senate a bill to prevent naturalization frauds, which, like a great many other reinadial acts on the statute book, bristles with chevaus de frise of rhetoric, It provides dreadful pains and penalties for judges, clerks and witnesses who do all the naughty things about election time that each party charges against the other, We have enough of penalty law on this subject already, We want something more practical to reach naturalization frauds than the new bill contemplates, No judge ia going to send his fellow judge to State prison, nor his court clerks, nor any political witnesses, in this age of “ring-a-ring-a-rosy, with bottles full of political posy.” Pebtie opinion is the best pillory with which to frighten politicians who wish to commit naturalmation frauds. Sena- tor Folger must make the processes of naturalization slower and with distinct publicity to each case, and then he will have corrected the mischief. For instance, as it is the fashion to employ stenographers—and a very good fashion it is—to take down all the proceedings in courts of justice, let Senator Folger provide that stenographers shall take down and write out for record preservation all that is said and done in naturalization matters, Let his bill provide that the clerk shall publish within ten days preceding every election an alphabetical list of all the persons naturalized, with thelr places of residence and the names and places of residence also of their witnesses. Let Senator Folger’s bill oblige the judges to sign their full name in attestation of every certificate. Nor would it be, although an amusing idea, an impracticable one, to employ political photégraphers, as well as phono- graphers, and have each certificate of citizen- ship accompanied by a sun picture of the son of Erin, or the son of any other country, who received his great baptismal certificate into the church of American nationality. Grant and the Two Houses. Grant, as President, has encountered despe- rate opposition from the squad of outside politi- cians—the multitude of office-seekers who have no other reasons to give in support of their claims tor places than that they hurrahed for “the party” before election and hoped it would win. He would not recognize these as rea- sons; hence the hostility of this element. He has also encountered a desperate but ineffec- tive opposition in the House of Representa- tives and a stronger one inthe Senate. These inside oppositions are inspired by the plunder rings, and that of the Senate is the stronger be- cause the Senate is more in the hands of the men who buy and sell votes. Fresh from the people, the members of the House yet act on those thoughts and sympathies that provail among the people. They have not yet been sufficiently long under the hands of the job- bers, But the Senate has another character. Its members stay longer at Washington and are more under the influences that prevail there. Wherever there is a new Senator, as we see in several cases—notably that of Fen- ton—his sympathies also are with the Presi- dent in his fight for the purity of the govern- ment. Grant seems to act on this view of the elements in organizing his friends in the two houses. Judging by the clamor we hear against Fenton from the more corrupt parts of the republican press, oux new Senator must stand high in Grant’s confidence. We believe he will prove a valuable support to the Executive where he just now needs support most. Fenton is a man who has been long in political life, has had experience in Washington, and, what is more, has gone to the top of that Jacob's ladder of experience that is found in New York politics. Grant's best friend in the House is a man, if possible, even better suited to the work before him, Butler is the strongest man in parlia- mentary tactics, in political sagacity, in the rough and tumble of discussion, or in a fair stand up debate, that has made his appearance in the House in a long while. Grant's measures in Batler’s hands are sure to carry everything before them in one house, and in Fenton they have a strong help in the other house, It is an omen of good promise for Grant that he shows his old perception in securing the right sort of help. Doctor Mupp.—The account given in the Heap of a visit to Dr. Mudd adds something to our knowledge of the story of Booth’s flight— a story that must always be one of the in- tensely interesting recitals of the war. We get the light more clearly than we have hitherto done on this point in Booth'’s despe- rate run, Mudd says that his so-called con- fession was a sham. Who made it? Justice.—It must be true that Justico is blind ; otherwise the lawyers could not have forced her to such a stumble as that in the Sing Sing murder case.” Coroner Flynn's jury found such a verdict as ought to have been followed by the immediate arrest of the two keepers; when, behold! the Coroner's hands are held by an injunction gotten up in the interest of these men. Here is something almost as good as an alidi. In future, when coroners flad that men have been killed, the persons who did the killing must clap on an injunction and extinguish the coroner. Tae Morpers 1x Pawapetrata.—Horrible as is the story given to-day of the murders in Philadelphia, it would be worse if there were not at every step the conviction that it was an act of insanity. In the midst of this heart- rending horror there is absolute relief in the thought that the man who thus batchered his wife and two children could not have been pos- sessed of human reason. The mania to kill is as well recognized in medical science as any other, bunt it is not common for its first mani- festation to be so terribly effective as it was in this case. Newsparer Starvre.—A radical in the Pennsylvania Legislature has given notice that he would introduce a bill providing that no man—in the State, we suppose—shall publish a newspaper until he has proved that ‘‘he is honest and of good repute and veracity.” Some member on the other side should now introduce a bill providing that no man shall be a member of the Legislature until he has proved he has not robbed a henroost or an apple orchard. In that case there would pro- bably be but few radical members from the rural districts among the congregated plun- derers in the State House at Harrisburg. Coverine Up tie Issurs.—The Hartford Times talks about an attempt on the part of the Courant to cover up the issues of the cam- paign in Connecticut. Both these papers have respectable issues. If they were all covered up what would become of the Land of Steady Habits ?—or, as a Connecticut lady exclaimed when she heard that little Rosa had married the magnificent Parepa, ‘What will become of him!” Votiva axp TALKine.—“No one denies that woman is competent to express an opinion,” says Wendell Phillips; and on the strength of her competency in speech—gabble, some call it—the garrulous Wendell bases his argument in favor of women’s voting. If voting and talking go together why is the suiirage withheld till men are twenty-one? Founp at Last—The place where “igno- rance is bliss.” It is in Connecticut, where the fact of having belonged toa Know Nothing lodge is a sure passport to Coventry. —— Municipal Anarchy. President Grant, as a big fish in great waters, withheld the usual message to the Congress which first assembled under a new administration. Mayor Hall, as a litile fish in little waters, did not send a message, either, to his little coterie of Common Councilmen, Doubtless Grant is waiting to find out all about the congregation that he must preach his first sermon to, And it is said that the Mayor withholds his message not because he don’t know his congregation, but because he has nothing to write about in a practical way. To be sure, he is required by the charter to communicate his views on police, health, security, government, finances, ornament and improvement. But that direction was oon- tained in the old fossil charter of thirteen years ago. Since that time the Mayor and Common Council have had practically as little to do about ‘police, health, security; finances, ornament and improvement of the city” as the fantastic Fisk, Jr., who rampages with railroad, judicial and theatrical flats. The Mayor will do well, therefore, to wait until the Legisla- ture adjourns and see if it will give him any aid toward helping chaos into order; for the city government is really in a state of anarchy, The commissions are all well enough, perhaps, but each is independent of the other. There is no common head over them, and no homogeneity between them. The Police Board and the Superintendent are at variance. A great fight is going on between the Croton Board and the Common Council. The Croton Commissioners were legislated into office six years ago, and have since claimed to be inde- pendent. The Common Council tried to ap- point others, who are litigating for the places, as we see by the report from the Albany Ap- peals, Then the Common Council pass ordi- nances requiring contracts to be made for sewering and paving; but the Croton Board can do as they please about making them, Stalwart men are taking up and putting down pavement in Broadway, piling up big stonas and turning the omnibuses opt, all by virtue of the exclusive legislative authority. And when a city officer or a policeman calls upon their bosses for an account they defiantly laugh and talismanically whisper ‘‘Albany.” The Mayor's Marshal, or the Common Council or the Street Department grants all kinds of conflicting permits about the streets and side- walks. While it is the duty of the police to remove obstructions, yet they have no money with which to remove them nor any place in which to put them. However much money there may be in the city treasury to an account that has been closed, none of it can be appro- priated to an account that wants money, be- cause of some dog-in-the-manger legislation at Albany. The Harlem Commissioners, Harbor Masters and Street Commissioner fight about the piers and wharves. Thus the hydra-headed government of New York is eating up the taxpayers with a dozen mouths, If there is any statesmanship left at Albany since an Assistant Secretary of State wad taken away from the Legislature and trans« planted to Washington we hope some of it will be exhibited in regard to this chaoti¢ matter; for, whether the Mayor issues messaged or not, we shall continue to put them forth from time to time, and insist upon there being provided a responsible head somewhere, Crowners’ ’Quest Law.—It seems that ¢ man named McEntee has suddenly made the discovery that he is a coroner in Westchester county. He has opened his eyes to this fact because a coroner in this county is holding an inquest on.a man killed in Westchester, and in his new zeal he not only claims this dead man, but has dug up another who was unac< countably buried at Sing Sing some days ago, What kept this coroner's eyes shut so long? Curtovs Rivatry Berween Western Crrtms.—The Chicago Tribune says :—-‘‘Clove+ land is proud of a citizen woman who has had seven husbands within eight years. One was killed in the army and another in a street fight. The other five survive, she having been divorced from four of them. Her daughter bids fair to rival her mother's connubial ex- ploits, having been already twice morried and divorced, and ia now ready to snap up a third man, though but in her seventeenth year.” These citizen women should found a colony on the Brigham Young plan—with the sexes re~ versed—and locate it midway belween Chicago and Cleveland. A Goop Swattow.—The editor of a Down East paper, noticing the statement,that the supercargo of a Boston ship had ‘gone round the world on tick and brought up at Long Wharf with a cargo of cassia, Manila hemp and West Indian molasses,” says he can “swallow the whole story except the mo- lasses.” Probably he would that if it wi made into New Eagland ram. . Our Industrial Classes—Their Domestic Cone dition and the Rates of Wages. The Hon. William D, Kelley, M. C., of Pennsylvania, delivered a speech in the House of Representatives, in Washington, on the 4th of February last, on this all-important sub- ject, than which, as is known to persons at all read in political economy, none has & more direct bearing or a more universal influence on the peace, prosperity, present stability and future happiness or misery of the nation, Ill paid or unemployed labor, pining in garret or cellar, constitutes a social cancer which, althongh it may be for a time untelt by the more fortunate classes, continues to extend until the whole body politic is affected and the entire population of the kingdom, empire or republic emaciated, as has been experienced in Europe from the period of the great French revolution to the present hour in the mills and workshops of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and the other manufacturing centres of Eng- land, Mr. Kelley, in his apeech to his fellow members in Congress, claimed that, notwith- standing the many changes, monetary and commercial, which the United States have exe perienced since the year 1825, the situa- tion of the working cinsses has not been sensibly impaired. To this Mr. David A. Wha, United States Special Commissioner of Revenue, who, from his official position, may be regarded as an excellent authority on the subject, takes exception in a letter addressed to Mr. Kelley, the production boing at once remarkable for its arrangement, logic and array of statistical facts, ; Commissioner Wells, referring to the remus neration for labor and the prices of the necet