The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1869, Page 9

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Notice to Carricrs and Newedenlers’ teks aNp Newsugn will in future receive their papers at the Branca Orrice or THE New York Heraup, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svnscrirtions and all fetters for the New You Hakan will be received as above. = 5 za ws Ved &. peavone: The cable telegrams are dated April 6. The Vortuguese Minister Resident tn Madrid has received instructions to inform the Spanish govern- ment that ex-K. Ferdinand poaitively dectines the Spanish crown. The Spanish government has granted permission for the introduction of Protestant books in a foreign fanguage. The Carlist: movements are again excit- tug fears, and it is thought another rising will be at- tempted. The period for the commencement of the French elections is set down for the sothn of May. The proposed change of the American Minister at present at the Court of St. James is attracting the Gttention of the English press. The expected ap- pomtment of Mr. Motley is ragarded as favorable. ‘Mr Archdall, an Irish member, in the British Par- liament yesterday proposed to extend the disestab- {isument of the Church to England. Cuba, The ay rities in Havana have received informa- ion fom Washington that two filtbustering expedi- tions heve sailed from New Oricans. Admiral Hott NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY APRIL 7, 1869.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ‘an amendment directing the Attorney General to investigate whether the franchises of the companies have not been forfeited, and to take legal proceed- ings accordingly, was agreed to. After an execu- tive session a recess was taken, and on reassembling in the evening the consideration of the bill was re- sumed without any final action being taken upon it. In the House, the bill for taking the ninth census was considered by sections, A motion to postpone it until December was lost, by a vote of sixty-five to cighty-eight, the democrats, generally, favoring its immediate commencement. An amendment pro- viding for a table of divorces was agreed to, and another striking out all after the fifth section, and ‘providing for a session of @ special committee’ during the recess to pre- Pare a complete bill, was also accepted. The bill as thus amended was passed. The Senate amend- wents tothe indian Appropriation bill were then considered in Committee of the Whole, during the rest of the afternoon aad all the evening session. * Asubstitute for all the Senate amendments was agreed to and the House adjourned, The Legislature. A couple of bills of minor importance were Intro- duced im the State Senate yesterday, Bills were passed lenfithening the terms of office of the Recorder, City Judge and Surrogate of New York; relative io the asylum in the Righth Judicial district; donating duplicate specimens to the American Museum of Natural History, and several others. A petition relative to the Metropolitan Excise law was pre- sented. Several bills were reported and ordered to a third readiag. In the Assembly bills were passed regulating the sale of leaf tobacco in New York; to partition lands between the St, Regis Protestant and Catholic In- diaus; relative toa street railroad in 126th street; relative to joint stock companies; to authorize the New York Produce Exchange to increase its capital stock, and a number of others. A large number of local bills were reported. At the evening session a message was received from the Governor vetoing two special bills, The bill dividing the Seventh Ju- dicial district of New York (Judge Connolly's) was ordered to a Uurd reading. Miseclaneous. Another long list of nominations for collectors, assessors, surveyors, postmasters, Indian and pen- sion agents and other oftices was sent tnto the Senate yesterday. Charles Dillingham is nominated for Naval OMicer at New Orleans, Mrs. Harriet Spen- cer, postmistress at Okolona, Miss; J. F. Rusling, pension agent in Jersey City, and General B. M. Prentiss pension agent at Quincy, Ill. A number of nominations were withdrawn, among them Edward V. Kingsley as Secretary of Legation at Madrid; Napoleon Underwoo4, assessor of internal revenue for the First district of Louisiana, and W. H. Barnes, collector of internal revenue for the First district of Pennsylvania. Among a number confirmed by the Senate were T. Imbert, colored, to be assessor of in- ternal revenue for the First district of Louisiana, to make room for whom, it would appear, the nomina- tion of Underwood was withdrawn; 0. T. B. Wall, colored, to be a justice of the peace in the District of Columbia, and Charles M. Wilder, also colored and a freedman, to be postmaster at Columbia, S. C, A Baltemore delegation is urging upon President Grant the appointment of ex-Mayor Chapman to be Collector of the Port in that city, ‘The republicans eleoted thelr entire tickets at the municipal elections in St. Louis, Mo., and Lawrence, Kansas, yesterday. Arnold and Spangler have arrived tn Baltimore from the Dry Tortugas. The Common Council of Chicago ts preparing for a grand festival in that city on the opening of the Pacific Railway. It 1s proposed to invite every oficial in California, Nevada, Oregon and all the Ter- ritories west of the Missouri river and afew of the most prominent oMicials. on this side of it. Mrs. Grant held her first afternoon reception at the White House yesterday, and tt was largely at tended. Governor Geary gives no indication of interfering with the exccution of- fwitchell and Eaton to-mor- row. Horace R. Plumley has been sentenced to be hanged, Zeba Plumiey to the State prison for life, and Frederick Plumley to imprisonment for twenty years, for killing John Gitman at Shrewsbury, Vt., in Au- gust last, The parties are father and sons. Lake Erie ts clear of ice and navigation has opened. Wendell Phillips addreased a committee of -the Masaackusetts Legislature tn Boston yesterday on the labor question, He strongly deprecated the growing tendency towards legisiating for the rich and the poor as independent Classes, The City. Judge Blatchford, in the United States Circuit Court yesterday, rendered a decision im the Fisk- Pacific Railroad litigation, to the effect that the case can only be properly tried in a United States court, and therefore all the proceedings and orders in the suit before the State courts are null and void, Deputy Sheruf Moran, who is charged with letting the convict King escape, states that he and his pris- oner, White on the way to the Hudson river depot, visited King's brother, afterwards stopped at a liquor store and had several drinks, and finally went up stairs and to bed. When he awoke King was gone. The stock market yesterday was irregular, but closed strong. Governments underwent a sharp decline, but rallied a little late i the afternoon, Gold was firmer, closing finally at 131% a 121%, has rec ived instructions to prevent their landing, Prominent Arrivals in the City. and th toocook had sailed for the mouth of the | Gonnt (i, d’ Neisehot, Secretary of the Belgian Le - Misaiss: pi to intercept them. The Admiral has 4180 | pation at Washington, ty at the Brovoort House. ‘been ins acted to watch the course of the Peruvian Colonel J. B. Grigsby, and N. Row, of Kentucky. monitor, now in the neighborhood of Cuba. The | ang Janes B. Sheldon, of Paraguay, are"at the Mait- prisoners recaptured on the Comanditarto are bemg tried by naval court martial and will probably be summarily executed. The authorities at Washington do not credit the xeport that the Peruvian monitors have been sold to the Cubans, and it is stated that such a sale will not be permitted by the government of the United States Representatives of the Cuban cause in Washington have, however, been assured of the hearty sympathy of our government, and there is reason to believe that belligerent rights will be accorded the insur- gents in a few days. Mrs. Villaverde and Miss Yzquierdo, of New York, daughters of the patriot Casanova, who was recently arrested by the Spanish authorities at Havana, ‘were in attendance at Mra, Grant's reception yester- day and were shown unusual courtesies by that lady. Each of them wore the Cuban flag on her breast. At their request Mrs. Grant interceded with the President in their behalf, and he had a conversation ‘with them, in which heassured them of his personal interest in their father’s case, and that he, as weil as sll other American citizens, should be protected. Porto Rico. The following export duty has been established tn Porto Rico:—Sugar, per hogshead, three doilars. equivalent to from twenty to thirty-five cents per Molasses, per hogshead, sixty-five hundred weight. cents. Coffee, forty centa per quintal. twenty centa per quintal. Mexico, Tobacco, Late despatches from Mexico city state that the government was about sending 4 commission to Washington to demand the recatl of Mintaver Kose- crans. It was thought that General Cauto would be discharged from custody. General Meyer has been released. Governor Vega had released the po- Jitical prisoners in Culiacan and joined Palacios, ‘Who was in rebellion, Governor Palacios, of Durango, is to relieve Romero as Minister of Finance. The Cuban belligerents will be recognized as soon as practicavle by Congress, Paraguay, By the Atiantic cable we learn that Paranhas, the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had arrived at Asuncion and had made propositions for peace, the independence of Paraguay to remain unim- paired, the navigation of Paraguay and Piate rivers to be guaranteed and Lopes to renounce his caima tw the Chacos and Matto Grosse. Congress, In the Senate yesterday Mr. Cragin, from a special committee, made @ report on the compensation of employ(s of the House. The report states that the Oifictal expenses of Senators, per capita, 18 three tines as much as members of the House. The bili to protect the interests of the United Statea in the Pacific Laiiroad again came up, and Mr, Davis offered by House. James ¥. Davis, of Washington; Charles Du Pont Breck and 1). 5. P. Reed, of Pennsylvania; and R. G. Hazard, of Providence; are at the St. Dennis Hotel. Congressman John A, Griswold, and Mra, Howard Hart, of T P. T. Homer, of Boston; Williaa Pink- ney Wh of Raltimore, and General &. B. Grubb, of New Jersey, are at the New York Hotel. Dr. Page, of Philadelphia, and J. ©. Pugh, of Wash- ington, are at the Clarendon Hotel, E Congressman D. McCarthy, of New York; J. B. Brownlow, of Tennessee; Dr. Morrill Wyman, of Cambridge, Masa., J. Rice, of Boston, and G. M. At water, of Springfield, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Jettery Hazard, and Colon ams, ol Providence, are at the Hofman House. Major Frank Taylor, of the United States Army, and Colonel MeCullongh, of Philadelphia, are at the St. Charles Hotel, A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia; G. ©. Walker, of Nor and I, B, Norton, of Norwich, are at the st, Captain @: t. Holman, of the United States Army; Paymaster Reed, of the United States Navy; Dr. M. Male, of Saco, Me., and A. Farnsworth, of Chicago, are at the St. Julien Hotel, Dr. D, 5. Evans, of Washington; ex-Congressman Thomas Cornell, of New York; Montgomery Mant, of Chicago; George 11. Bigelow, of Burlington, Vt.; R. M. Copeland, of Boston, and Walter F. Smith, of the United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Prominent Departures, Judge NR. S. McCormick left yesterday for Prank. lin, ¢ Moore and Professor Thorpe, for St. Louis; General Duncan 8. Walker, for Washington, and General N, H. Robertson, for Binghampton, Vt. 8. M. Barlow and family will leave this port to- day, in the steamer Ruasia, for Burops. Mr. George Douglas, N. UH. Grant and Antonio Gon- zalez will leave in the City of Cork for Liverpool. Basisnep rrom Mrxtco.—Our Mexican deapatches inform us that Colonel Edelmiro Mayer, formerly a licutenart colonel of colored troops in our war, is to be banished from Mexico. Colonel Mayer is a Buenos Ayrean, of a somewhat adventurous disposition and some little military capacity, which has enabled him to find employment in the cause of republicanism here and in Mexico, A re- Leeder attempt to sid a bit of a pronounciamionto his banishment, He may now say with ine, “What's banished but sot free from daily contact of things I loathe?” If there is any spot on.’ th from which @ man should be thank/ul for being bauisied it is from Mexico, i Will General Grant’s Administration Be & Success or a Failure? Everything in the machinery of the new ad- ministration seems to be running smoothly. The guillotine, at the rate of about one hun- dred per day, is taking off the heads of the Johnson office-holders, and the active republi- can politicians are coming in for a fair share of the spoils. General Grant has shown his disposition in many things to cultivate har- mony with the Senate, and especially in his approval of the equivocal modification between the two houses of the Tenure of Office law. In his inaugural and in his appointments, includ- ing soldiers and civilians, patriotic female Union spies in the war, repentant rebels, and citizens of African descent, vulgarly called niggers, he has done something in behalf of all the cliques and factions of the dominant party, and has particularly tickled the fancy of Wendell Phillips on his latest ultimatuin of the equal rights of the black man touching the offices. In a corresponding degree the de- mocracy, rank and file, red hot and lukewarm, have become disgusted with the doings at Washington ; so that General Grant now marks the dividing lines between the two parties even more distinctly than he did as the republican candidate on the Chicago platform. From the results of the recent Connecticut election it would likewise appear that in advo- cating the proposed fifteenth amendment to the constitution giving equal suffrage to male citizens throughout the United States of all races and colors—white, yellow, red and black—General Grant has given a new popular impulse to this movement; for heretofore in Connecticut the republican party, whenever it has distinctly broached the question of negro suffrage, has been signally deteated. We might, then, plausibly conclude from all these facts and from the general demoralization of the forlorn democracy, that the prospect for General Grant's administration is all that could be desired, and that, after dispensing his rewards to the faithful till the offices are all filled, he has only to sit down and smoke the pipe of peace with Vice President Colfax as President of the Senate, in order to settle the question of the succession. But all such estimates as these are shallow and fallacious, Every one of our Presidents so far who has had nothing better upon which to build than the spoils has been a failure. Tyler, Fillmore and Andy Johnson are the most notable examples. Poor Pierce and Buchanan failed—the one because he laid violent hands upon those great compromise measures on slavery which had given peace to the country, and the other because he lacked the moral courage to grapple with secession after the manner of Jackson. Since the time of Monroe we have had but two Presidents elected for a second term—Jackson and Lin- coln, The re-election of Jackson resulted from his war against the old United States Bank as a financial monster and monopoly, absorbing the liberties of the people. The re-election of Lincoln resulted from his war with a great rebellion. The States and people adhering to the Union cause were satisfied with his efforts during his first ‘ four years in the prosecution of this war, and so they re-elected him as the surest and shortest way to finish it. With these two exceptions we have not had for forty-five years a President who has raised an issue sufficient to supplant his rivals and to give him a second term, and to all of them, after John Quincy Adams, the spoils have been a stum- -bling block, a delusion and a snare, It is evident, then, that we can form no judgment of the issue of General Grant's admiuistration from present appearances. All the advantages of the situation are his; but there are dangers ahead of fearful magnitude. For example, during his present term he must check the swelling tide of political corruptions and demoralizations resulting from the moral pestilence of the war, and we must have a financial system established from which the people shall experience a great relief from their present burdens of taxation, and foresee the removal, too, within the present generation of the incubus of the national debt, or the national election of 1872 may give us a touch of the decisive financial settlements of the great French revolution. It is folly to shut our eyes to the drift of public sentiment on this question, The masses of the people, looking at our present financial sysiem of debt, taxes, national banks and bondholders, feel only the pressure of a financial oligarchy, “making the rich richer and the poor poorer,” compared with which the old United States Bank was a farce, a humbug and a bagateile. But can we hope for the removal of these mountains of debt and taxation and spoliations and corruptions under General Grant within the four years to 1872? No. He may cut them down to a great extent ; but if he cannot utterly remove thera he must do something else for a popular diversion in his favor. Here are Cuba, St. Domingo, Mexico and the Cen- tral American States down to Darien. They are the locks and keya of the Gulf and of the American Isthmus passages from ocean to ocean, A decisive American policy on the part of General Grant will absorb all these outlying islands aad States and add so largely to our material revenues as to reduce the na- tional debt toa mere trifle. Then there are the Alabama claims, a proper basis upon which to negotiate the coasion to the United States of her Britannic Majesty's North American pro- vinces of the New Dominion, from Halifax to Vancouver's Island ; for this thing, too, is in the order of “manifest destiny.” Hiere we have scope and verge enough for the most brilliant, imposing and powerful ad- ministrations in American history. Cuba at this moment presenta a golden opportunity for a coup d'ctat that will electrty the country and open the way for the whole programme suggested. It is morally certain, too, that un- leas the public mind shall be diverted to these external attractions, it will recoil on our inter- nal burdens of taxes and debt and culminate in « political revolution more astounding to the world at large than this last upheaval re- sulting in the abolition of slavery, negro suf- frage and equal civil and political rights. Territorial expansion, thea, means the success, and what is cailed masterly inactivity means the failure of Grant's administration, “Wet Dons, Conxroricvr!" exclaims the Washington Jntelligencer. Yea, Connecticut is done—for the democracy; for the prosent ot leas, Enlargement of the Canals. The canals have been in State politics what the Pacific railways are in national politicse— & fruitful source of corruption. They have generated a class of dishonest men, pilferers of the public money, whose doings are little comprehended by the community in general, because the details of canal. management are a sealed book to nine out of every ten citizens. Year after year has passed without a reforma- tion of the evils so long practised. The Legislature has been frequently appealed to; but the influence of competing railway lines has stifled every effort to modify the system. A movement is now on foot, espoused by the Corn Exchanges of this city and Buffalo, to procure an enlargement of the Erie Canal, which is the great water highway between the lakes and the ocean. It would be more proper to say the movement has been revived; for the project is no new one. Several prominent citizens have thrown themselves into it, and among them Mr. Israel T. Hatch. The rapidly increasing traffic between the West and East necessitates a change which will remove from this route the impediments to a free trans- fer of the produce of the West to the markets of the metropolis, Measures for the enlargement of the canal have been de- feated in the Legislature by the combination of railway interests opposed to it. The ills which commerce has to bear, even in the pres- ent condition of the canal, are outrageous. The tolls, the contracts and the jobs connected with it have put a tax on the price of every bushel of grain and barrel of flour consumed west of Rochester and south of Albany. Its management has been prolific of all sorts of political chicanery and swindling. The move- ment is rather late to be effective with the present session of the Legislature, but it will gather strength with the increasing clamor of those who demand the change. Our city rep- resentatives at Albany have generally suffered the country members to fight out the canal quarrel among themselves, the subject being one which they were too ignorant of or too in- different about to enter into, contenting them- selves with exchanging votes upon it in return for like favors as regards their municipal schemes of streeé railroads and other fran- chises. Were they awake to the fact that the commerce of New York would be enriched millions annually by the canal enlargement there is doubtless metropolitan pride enough left among them to secure the adoption of so desirable a measure. The British Mission. Our Washington despatches name General Banks as prominent for the post of Minister to London. We believe his appointment would give us an American policy in that mission. It would not exactly agree with Mr. Sumner’s slate; and this is important, as Mr. Sumner “uns” the Foreign Office altogether just now. Mr. Sumner has demanded certain appoint- ments, and in view of the executive power the Senate possesses by the Tenure of Office law his demand must be received with certain respect. Indeed, he must have all respect, and the Cabinet, dwindled into a collection of clerks, must merely act the will of such mag- nates. It is important, therefore, as against Banks, that Motley is Sumner’s man. Motley isa fine scholar, and will represent us very well if we are sending to the British philoso- phers. But if our business in England is on matters of practical life, and with the govern- ment and the people, Banks will be altogether the better man. He has the vigorous vim of the people in him, all the scholarship we want, and will not be sneered out of the asser- tion of our view of any case by the Cockneys calling it ‘‘Americanism.” Tne Ruope Istanp Exxcrion occurs to-day. It will follow in the wake of Connecticut and go republican. The following is a list of can- didates :— Republican, Democratic, GOVEPNOP os veces Set Padeliord,.Lyman Pierce. Lieut. Governor ..P. W. Stevens... William H. Allen, Secretary of S.ateJoun it. Bartiett. William J. Maller, Attorney General, Willard Sayles. ..George N. Bliss, TEASUPEY ...6 00.80, A, Parker. Philip Rider, With six thousand and a half republican majority last November, it may be safely sur- mised that Little Rhody will go the same way to-day. Tne Spanisn Cgown Gorxa a Broarna,— This ancient symbol of royalty, in the defence of whioh 60 much blood has been spilled during many centuries, is literally going a begging for the want of a candidate willing to wear it and able to maintain it on his brow. As we anticipated, Dom Fernando has telegraphed from Lisbon to Madrid that he “positively” refuses to accept the offer of the Cortes in- viting him to supreme rule in Spain. Who comes next, or will the Spaniards organize a republic? Can the union of the Iberian penin- sula be completed? Important TO Lapipanits—The remark- able Jewell just discovered in Connecticut. Bunny SwinpurNgk AND THE Heatrn.—Swinburne does not mean to be put down. What is the Board of Health, that it should call him to aoc- count—a mighty fellow that has no peer, no limit to his power, and acknowledges no restraint, not even that of good manners? When a man makes up his mind that he is go sure of his place that no misconduct can re- move him, no violation of law or decency is any disparagement to him, it seems to sim- plify his conduct wonderfully, He just goes ahoad and doos what he likes. If people criticise his conduct he informs them that they lie. If they denounce this he invites them to help themselves. We suppose that Swin- burne’s demeanor before the Board of Health and his insulting defiance of its authority means that the Governor has been seen in re- gard to the Health Office and that noses have been counted in the Senate. Swinburne evi- dently feels very safe. Boarp or Exit Trroven tH Sauer’ 8 OFrriorn.— Another convicted criminal on his way to prison has gone out of sight through the Sheriff's office, We suppose the public cannot be aston- iehed at any event of this sort since it knows what sort of men are chosen for the Sheriff's assistants, The only question to be considered by the friends of any criminal on his way to prison in charge of a deputy sheriff is how much the friends can pay. Since public atten- tion has been turned to the subject the friends must pay enough to indemnify the deputy for the lows of hia place, The President and the Pross, The public has already once before been Docs Grant read the newspapers or does, shocked by the introduction of a bill to in- crease the enormous patronage and revenue of the Sheriff's office. These attempts have hith- erto failed through the mere shamelessness of their character, as they always must when the attention of honest legislators is turned to them. We see that the House Committee on Municipal Affairs has just reported another bill of this kind, giving to the Sheriff all the judicial sales in foreclosure and partition, and increasing his fees on execution, attachment and other process to an enormous and onerous extent. The management of the office has grown to be such an annoyance respecting this very matter of Sheriff's fees, so called, that many members of the profession avoid having anything to do with the office, as far as possi- ble. The class of deputies under the present Sheriff is far below that of anything hitherto known, all the previous incumbents having been compelled to make way for the fa- vorites of Sheriff O'Brien; and instead of affording an extended field to these individuals, by increasing their fees, and handing over to them and taking away from officers directly appointed by the courts of equity, according to immemorial custom, the sale and charge of infauts’ estates, it is time that something should be done to decrease the exorbitant revenue of that office and re- lieve the public, who is compelled to contri- bute to it. It is enough for a person who is denied his rights to be obliged to part with a portion of his claim for necessary counsel fees, not to be compelled afterwards to give the greater portion of what remains to a Sheriff and his deputies. The present revenue of the Sheriff's office cannot be less than one hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars a year, though of course they would set it down at about seventy-five thousand dollars. Yet here is an individual who gets full six times the yearly salary from a public office that the President of the United States receives, and more than all our admirals and major generals put together, who wants his salary increased by means that will carry it up to half a million or seven hundred thousand dollars. The mere proposition is an outrage on pub- lic decency; and now that the grasping ex- cesses of these people haye called public attention to them we earnestly recommend to those members of the Senate and Assem- bly who realize that their duty is to serve their fellow citizens, and who understand the high obligations of their station, to introduce a bill reducing the present fees, providing that they shall be paid into the Treasury, and giving to the Sheriff a yearly salary of ten thousand dollars and to each deputy three thousand dollars per year, which would be a very liberal compensation for the duties of the office. And to prevent the extortions which can follow, by a low class of deputies exacting special bonuses from suitors tor the performance of their duty, it should be provided that within one month of the passage of the bill all the present deputies should be divested of their office, and the new appointments should take effect only on confirmation by the Metropolitan Board of Police Commissioners or by a majority of the Supreme Court Judges in the district. We should not then have our city disgraced by deputy sheriffs of the .class of John Real, to whom the job bill proposes to commit the sale and custody of infants’ estates, or by such outrages as occurred last winter at the Broad- way theatre, where several citizens were shot down by deputy sheriffs in the service of civil process; nor would parties be embarrassed and blood-sweated by the very office which is established to carry into effect tho decrees of justice. There can be no honest motive to vote for this job bill, and the public will look to the division upon it—if division there can be on such a bill—for its opinion of the mem- bers who constitute the present Legislature. AcoumuLaTinG.—It is said the President is a good deal troubled about the affair of the American legation in | Spain. Down wirn Your Dusr.—Because within the memory of man there has not been a time when the streets of this city were thoroughly well cleaned gusty days are a terror. The same subsiance that wéu slushed up with the fresh spring rain impedes all travel under the name of mud has another phase of existence, in which it is still less endurable. This is when dried by two or three days of sunshine it takes the wings of morning and makes a dead set at your eyes, stuffs up your nostrils and rushes with dreadful familiarity into your larynx—moving you by turns to coughs and tears and pocket handkerchiefs. There is, of course, no remedy. We must merely endure; for omnibus wheels will grind’down every sort of substance to this impalpable powder— even humanity itself; and thus ground down, the wind, blowing whither it listoth, discrimi- nates not between a human eye and a knot hole. The attempt to sprinklo down the dust is failure, Yesterday the very heavens tried and gave it up, If the authorities did it, every gallon of water would add fifty dollars to the tax list. Ir 18 sary that Train carried Connecticut for the republicans. It was the New Haven train, bound from New York, armed with Spencer's repeaters. Tar Great Ipea.—Nations may be judged by the objects they have in view, the subjects they discuss, the great points they try to settle. Since the 4th of March the whole activity of intellect in the United States has been devoted to the framing of a law that had in it nothing but—the office. “How Trky Niox Him."—Says the Wheel- ing (West Virginian) Intelligencer, republi- oan :—“‘One Mr. Winans, of Clermont county, Ohio, who is so fortunate as to have married a niece of the President, has been nominated for postmaster at Newport, Ky.” Can't the President have relations as well as the chair- man of the Senate Committee on Foreign Re- lations ? A Stan Omtsston.—The Cleveland Ierala states that the Oswego (N. Y.) papers gave notice that a ceriain gentleman would, on a night specified, lecture in Oswego. The an- dience gathered, but no lecturer came, and the discovery was made that Oweso was the place where the lecture was to ocour, The mistake did not amount to much, Tt was not only an “‘s," but probably an ass out, he neglect this indication of the national pulse ?: Johnson read the newspapers—too many of them, maybe. He had two or three secreta-' ries who studied all the organs, classified their strictures and laudations of Johnson and gave him the result. Itis said that he gave two hours every evening to this subject and had the more important articles read to him in extenso, People will wonder how it was that Johnson, if he thus listened to all the guides, made so many mistakes. It was because ho listened to all the guides. His grand error was that he could see nothing in the newspa- pers but Johnson, while Johnson was in fact the least thing there, We hope that Grant reads the newspapers, but not merely to find out what they say about Grant. Within cer- tain lines the President's duty has certainly little or no relation to popular impulses, wishea or thoughts, but goes by the law. But in a larger scope the newspapers ought to be as much his law as the constitution itself—that is, so far as the newspapers are true to their own destiny and indicate, not personal spleen or party spite, but the movement of the national mind. ‘The will of the people is the law of the land,” and the press is the only guide that can point out to any President the direction the will of the people takes. More Territory IN Prosrecr.—The House Committee on Foreign Affairs agreed to report a resolution in favor of the annexation of St. Domingo to the Union, and recommending that Congress and the government take measures to secure such result, The Dominicans have shown themselves to be an exceedingly uneasy population under every form of home rule which they have tried, but perhaps they would become more staid and peaceful if in the enjoyment of a really constitutional govern- ment. Sovunp.—Despatches state that Secretary Boutwell is satisfied with Longstreet’s sound- ness. Was he ever leaky? Tar Pacirio Rawroap WAR—CHANGE OF Soeng.—The decision of Judge Blatchford, de- livered in the United States Circuit Court yes- terday morning, in the now celebrated case of Fisk, Jr., vs. The Pacific Railrond Company and others, will, it may be presumed, put an end to further proceedings in that ao- tion in the State court before Judge Barnard. Judge Blatchford decides that the suit is wholly transferred from the State court to the Circuit Court of the United States as to all of the defendants, and has been since August last, and that proceed- ings since that date in the State court are abso- lutely void. As the case now stands this de- cision puts Prince Erie in a rather unpleasant position, and has thrown a bombshell among the lawyers, as its effect will be to have these suils tried in a court where procrastination and all the law’s delays that can be intervened to enrich the counsel engaged in such a legal Eldorado as this and the Erie suits will not be permitted. It was no wonder, therefore, that counsel went out from the court room with longer faces than when they entered it. ATLANTIO CABLEs.—A proposition is before Congress about the landing of the cable of the London, Newfoundland and New York Com- pany on American shores. Let it land. The more the merrier. Crurt.—Says a Western paper :—“‘The re- ligious society known as Quakers will prosper the present year as never before. Oonverls will be very numerous and very earnest, Grant has determined to take his agents wholly from the Society of Friends.” A number oi his friends say he has deserted them. More Bonp Rosneriks.—Bond robberies seem again to be the order of the day. The one hundred thousand dollars’ worth of booty secured by burglars in South street, in this city, some time between six o'clock on Satur- day evening and eight o'clock on Monday morning, consisted chiefly of securities and negotiable funds. The sum stolen at perhaps the very same hour from the Safety Fund Society building in Philadelphia was ted times as large, and, as it belonged to about three thousand depositors of a humble class, the loss of this million’s worth of } greenbacks is a pecuilarly grievous misfor- tune, Both these great burglaries must tend to impair the trust of the public in safes and savings banks, in watchmen and detectives, More vigilance and energy will be needed tc protect us in person and property against ow “dangerous classes.” Here in New York the dismissal of the late chief of the detective force appears to have been the signal for a re- vival of barglary and bond robbery. Gan no efficient successor to John S. Young be found ? The Sanction of the Central and Union Pacific Ronds. So fat are the spoils found in the manage- ment of the two divisions of the Pacific Rail- road that the directors of both enterprises are now opening a logal battle to see where the junction of the two roads shall take place. At the present tioment the roads threaten to overlap each other, The Central, instead oj aiming to join the Eastern division, appesta to be feeling for the Atlantic Ocean, and thé Union Pacitic is also fecling for the ocean, with the apparent determination to continue on until it finds it, providing our corrupt gov- ernment is willing to continue the paymest of the subsidy granted by the acts of 1862 and 1864, It was supposed by the country when the route for the Pacific road was decided upon that there could not be more than one straight line drawn between two given points; but it is evident that our goometry is as much at fault as our legislative morals. The question of the junction of the two divisions only shows how little sense the law-makers had when the con- cessions were granted and how little they were fitted to handle the subject. ‘Too many law- yers.” No doubt we shall get our fill of thoir stupidity and arrogance before wo are through with them. On Monday Mr. Sherman offered an amendment to the resolution upon this pending question, to the effect that a board of eminent citisens should be selected to fix the point of junction of the roads, also the amount of money required to make thom first class, The first part of the amendment is a recog- nition of very bad engineering, and indicates that the chief engineers of both divisions have been very neglizont in their duties in not long