The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY APRIL 8, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ‘ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Seven Dwanys; OB, HARLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23det., between Sth and 6th avs.— ROMEO anb JOLIFT. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirticth street and Broadway.—afiernoon and evening Performance. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur EMERALD Rina. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Raowte Buniesgue Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE Fi Tar FRENCH THEATRE. street and Sixth aye- pue.—La Vib PARISIENNE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street.—ORPHER AUX Bare EKG. WALLACK'S THEATRE, BouooL. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Man SucutT Ewen Exzieuex, roadway and 15h street.— jos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Homrry Domprr, wit New Fratcnes. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘23d street. —Tax TEMPEST. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—E.izm Ho's BuBLESQuk ComPpany—IVANuoK. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comtc SRETOURS AND LIVING STATURS—PLU10. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Taw Horse Ma- RINES, XC. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— AGEAU-NA-POGUE. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broatway.—ETa1o- PUAN ENTERTAINMENT8—SIRGE OF THE BLONDES. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Lar~ sad Building, street.—ETuiorian MINSTRELSY, Mth TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic Vocarism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQursTRIAM AND GYMNASTIC ENTRRTAINMENT. STECK’S HALL, No. 141 Eighth strect.—Bassroxp AND POZNANSKI'S SOIREB MUSICALE. AOOLEY’S OPEBA HOUS! Brooklyn.—Hoo.sY's McNeTRxLs—Tuk 4T TorkvEs, &c. NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. TRIPLE “SHEET. “New Yorks Thursday, chisel 8, 1869. TO. ADVERTISERS. sements should be sent in before voyage of the ship Hedwig from Bremen to clay’ complained to the Emigrant Castle Garden on Tuesday that his wife ni Fi outraged on the ship by the boatswain. The Com- nmussioners referred him to District Attorney Court- ney, who referred him to the North German Consul, who haa closed bis office for the day, and probably Mayrose will have a hearing before hum this morning. The North German Lioya’s steamship Deutchlana, Captain Neynaber, will sail from Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The inaila will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Ryder, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P, M. to-day for Charleston. The stock market yesterday was irregular, but generally firm. Gold was steady, closing 1514 a 1 pes Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont, is at the St, Nicho- las Hotel. Congressman C. C, Washburn, of Washington, is at the Brevoort House, Colonel Robert Lenox Banks and Mra. John T. Hofman, of Albany, are at the Clarendon Hotel. H. T. Jones, of Kentucky, is at the Maltby House. Captain F. W. Jones, of New Orleans, and Lieu- tenant W. W. Cushing, of the United States Army, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Nathaniel McKay, of Boston, and J. E. MeDona, of Philadelphta, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Dr. Okie, of Providence; Colonei J, A. Bridgeland, of New York, and Judge Cole, of New Hampshire, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Prominent Departures. Judge R. R. Sloan, for Sandusky; Colonel Gridley, for Troy; General Nevins, for Albany; Genera! Kil- patrick, for Morristown, N. J., and Governor Mar- shall, of Minnesota, for Bordentown, N. J.; and the following sailed yesterday in the steamship Scotia for Europe:—General W. F. Smith and Captain Mid- dletown, of Philadelphia. Cuba—Diplomatic Fallacies and National Hopes. The telegraph brings us some very contra- dictory assurances relative to the attitude held by the government at Washington towards the Cubans, who are now struggling for liberty and independence. We are told that Congress will authorize the recognition of belligerent rights on the part of the revolutionists; that Admiral Hoff is ordered to stop the departure of expeditions from the Mississippi river, and that ‘‘the representatives of the Cuban revo- lation in Washington have been given to un- derstand that the administration would not regard with favor, in the question of the Pe- ruvian monitors, any act likely to interfere with the commercial interests of any Power friendly to'the United States.” This last diplo- matic phrase, stripped of its verbiage, means eight k, P. M., to insure proper classifi- cation. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Gaceioas and Naweueulert: Brooxiyn CaRrrers anp Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Brancu Orrice or tHe New York Heraxp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. <tate ADVERTISEMENTS and Svescrrerioys and all lettera for the New Yonrs Herarp will be received as above. THD NEwWws. Cuba, | Hoff reports to the Navy Department that he was about to investigate the Mary Lowell affair when he was informed that the matter was in the hands of the British authorities, the Lowell having been seized in British waters. He forwards a list of American citizens living im the interior for wuom he had obtained safe conducts through the Spanish lines to Nuevitas from the Captain General. Congress. In the Senate, yesterday, the chaplain prayed for the success of the insurgents df Cuba. The bill to carry into effect the treaty with Russia relative to trade marks was reported from the Judiciary Com- mittee, and Mr. Sumner, trom the Committee on For- eign Relations, reported a bili to punish violations Of ita provisions. Mr. Wilson gave notice that he would oer a resolution authorizing the President to appoint a commission to devise means for building @ slip canal across the Isthmus of Darien. The De- ficiency Appropriation bill was then taken up and ‘was amended and passed. A message from the Presi- dent was received recommending steps for the early reconstruction of Virginia and Misstsstppt. In the House the Indian Appropriation bill was considered and the amendment placing $2,000,000 in the hands of the President to preserve peace with the Indians was agreed to. Mr. Butler's Georgia bill was taken up, but after a short discussion—in which it was stoutly opposed by Messrs. Bingham and Schenck and the democrats—it was lald aside, The President's message relative to Virgi Mississippi was recetved, and pending motio! its refer noe the House adjourned. The Legislatare. wore reported im the State Senate yesterday to loan certain $ » completion of quaran- ys on West Bank; for the support of the government and several others. Bitls were reported adversely relative to the Cemtrai Raliroad; for the construction of several street railroads in New York and otiers. The report was disagreed to and com- mitted to the Comunittee of the Whole. Bills were introduced to amend the banking laws; relative to an observatory in Central Park. The Canal Def. ciency bill was passed, and a bill rejative to pay- ment of bounties by the State reported. In the Assembly several railroad bills were report- ed. Mr, Bemus presented a report from the special commitiee in favor of legalizing the over-issue of stock of the Central Railroad, which was made the Spectai order for the evening. Bills were introdaced relative to liquer licenses in the Metropolitan dis trict; exempting Brooklyn flremen from taxation. A resolution to adjourn sine die on the 17th inst. was tabied, and another, relative to submitting the, re. vised constitution to the voters, was lost by not re- ceiving a twothird vote tn its favor. A message was received from the Governor relative to the over- crowding of State prisons. A number of railroad billa, including Swain'’s two-tier railroad for New York, were passed. At the evening session the Cen- tral Railroad Stock bill was discussed, and after several amendments had been offered and rejected the bill was ordered to a third reading by a vote of 79 to 35, Miscellaneous, The President sent another long list of nomina- tions to the Senate yesterday. P. B. 5. Pinchback, another colored man, was nominated for office in New Orieans—Register of the Land Office. A nam- ber of nominations were also confirmed by the Senate, among them several Territorial officers, con- suls, collectors and assessors. The Nineteenth Kansas volunteer cavairy regiment Spain. Now, we protest against this double-faced system of diplomatic lying and deception, and long for an administration bold and brave enough to tell the truth. There is not a man in Washington, whether in the government or out of it, nor a man, woman or child in the whole country, who does not know that the entire body of the American people would be glad to have Admiral Hoff not stop any expe- dition intended to aid the struggling people of Cuba, and that they (the men in administra- tion included) would hail with joy the fact of a transfer of the Peruvian iron-clads to the free government of General Cespedes. If the ob- ject of these double-tongued assurances is to deceive the Spanish government it fails miserably in that; for there are no statesmen better versed in the lies of diplomacy than those of Spain. Butif the object is to convey distrust and despair to a people struggling, unarmed and unaided, but hopefully, against an organ- ized and ruthless power, then is it a success ; for the heart of every freedom-loving man sinks within his bosom when told that the govern- ment of the great republic is hostile to his cause. For him the lies of diplomacy are great but sad truths. The cause of free Cuba is a cause dear to every American heart. It ia a part of the march of American ideas on this Continent, and yet it has been resisted and counteracted by Cabinet after Cabinet at Washington, through a cowardly policy which has led every administration to belie its deepest convictions and to assist in defeating its own aspirations. The Jeffersonian policy, as evinced in Louisi- ana and practised by Jackson in Florida, is admitted to be the only possible policy for the United States to pursue. Yet John Quincy Adains in 1825, Millard Fillmore in 1850 and poor Pierce in 1854, each in his turn, stopped the advance of the American idea in Cuba and riveted anew the chains of despotic Spain on that unhappy island. Had either of them had the courage to avow his own convictions and o admit, in diplomatic parlance, the inevitable tmarch of this country, the result would have proved that page to be the brightest in the history of the administration. But while some Cabinet members were hoping and conniving with the march of freedom the Secretary of State would be industriously creating stum- bling blocks for its path, and with admitted lies defeating the hopes of himself and his companions. From the tenor of the despatches which emanate from Washington we very much fear that the Cabinet of General Grant is com- mitting the same gross mistakes with its pre- decessors and blurring the most promising record which can open for it. We now want a bolder and more trathfal policy from the administration, Spain has held Cuba only by the sufferance and aid of the United States sincethe year 1825, But for that aid Bolivar in that year, Lopez in 1850 and Quitman in 1854 would have driven the Spanish power from its last hold on the New World. To-day the Cabans, driven to des- peration by tyranny, have asserted their rights, and the Spanish cohorts hold only the towns where they can gather in mass or rely upon the guns of their fleet. They ask only for the common rights of belligerents— the right to purchase arms and ships, and the moral support which would flow from an open and frank expression on the part of those who favor their cause. The first should be accorded to them by Congress in is to be immediately mustered out. A can of nitro-giycerine exploded in Mudson City, esterday, Killing one man and injuring The ice in the Mississippi river as high up as St. Paul is breaking up. The City. A young Man was seen yesterday at noon, in an alleyway on East Twenty-sixth street, to a Dis tol to his head and shoot himself. A patroinan rushed to him and found that the bullet was pro. trading from his forehead, having been fattened on the frontal ‘man was alive api able to walk and talk. He stated that he Was Join Fay, naa escaped from Blackwell's Island on Tuesday, and had been directed by the spirit of Abraham Lincoin, the first ruler in Heaven, to take his own life. He ‘Was committed to the care of the Commissioners of Obarities and Corrections. William Mayrose, a German passenger on the last the immediate passage of the Banks resolu- tions, and the second will become the new administratign much better than diplomatic assurances in direct antagonism with the hopes of @very party in the country and orders to Admiral Hoff, which every member of the Cabinet hopes will not be executed. In our recent civil war Spain played a bolder part. She wished to see our country divided and our Union destroyed, and hardly had the echo from the first gun against Fort Sumter reached her shores when the Cabinet at Madrid issued the orders conceding bel- ligerent rights to the rebels and converting the harbors of Cuba into cradles and refages for a host of blockade ruguers, Let us, then, bave from Washington no more diplomatic efforts to Strangle the hopes of the struggling Cubana, and no more denials of our wish to see Cuba a free star in the galaxy of the American Union. aiocoeda Complications in Europe. In our telegraphic and ordinary news columns we have from day to day for some time past given intelligence which can only be explained on the principle that Europe is on the eve ofa great, a tremendous crisis. From the northern shores of the Baltic to the north- ern shores of the Mediterranean it is difficult to name a spot where war alarms do not exist, where war preparations are not going on. The fortress of Luxemburg, it fs true, which so nearly involved Europe in war in the spring of 1867, is being demolished; but fortresses are growing up all over Prussia. Russia strengthens herself in the Baltic, and in those waters so long under her control Prussia begins to be a dangerous rival. The Finns, completely under the heel of Russia since 1809, but attached to the Protestant faith, speaking the Swedish language and cherish- ing Swedish traditions, have no sympathy with their present masters and long to be re- united to the people with whom they bravely fought under the great Gustavus. The grow- ing power of Prussia begins to inspire them with hope, and, as our correspondent at St. Petersburg shows, encourages them to speak out. A collision on the Baltic between Russia and Prussia is no longer an impossibility. Spain as yet vainly seeks a king, and it now seems that Napoleon must submit to a fresh Bismarck victory in the ap- pointment of ‘Montpensier to the vacant throne. Meanwhile a Belgian question has turned up— a question which may yet assume dangerous proportions. Add to all this that Europe bristles with bayonets, that the material of war is being manufactured in fabulous quantities and that horses are being bought by govern- ment agents in every market. Actual war has not yet broken out; but the burdens, the un- certainties, the anxieties of war are every- where so experienced that actual war would be a relief. Wherefore, then, this state of things? Why is itthat war is so universally expected, so universally dreaded and so universally deemed unnecessary ? The 1¢ explanation js to to be found in the relations which bave for some time existed between France and Prussia. The French press, the French War Minister, the French Emperor, so far as we can know their thoughts, have given the world good reason to believe that the time has come when the French people must know once and for all , whether or not they are the controlling force in the Enropean body politic. It is not other- wise with Prussia. Since 1865 the Emperor of the French has known that there existed a@ power too weighty for even his genius and too strong to be crushed by any force at his command. No one questioned the right of France to choose her President, and, later, to choose her Emperor. France had the sympathy of the Western nations when she fought at a later day for the holy places and the integrity of the Turkish empire. At a date even later still, when Austria was humbled, and when Italy, through the forces at the command of the French Emperor, was made a unit, the European Powers not immediately concerned looked on and were silent. It was not until 1866 that the world generally began to question the policy and the infallible wisdom of the French Empe- ror. Since 1866, however, the fates have been rather against him. Prussia, mainly through the force of individual genius, has brought to the surface a new and controlling power in the European body politic. The mastery of Europe, for some time previous supposed to be in the hands of France, was then questioned. Prussia became more daring than France, and Bis- marck showed more immediately tell- ing genius than Napoleon. Since then the situation has been changed. The mastery of Europe has been an open question, claimed by two Powers. France claimed it and Prussia claimed it. Which is entitled to the proud position has yet to be proved. We state the whole European trouble when we say that France and Prussia, Napoleon and Bismarck, are jealous and fearful of each other. Whatever complications now exist— and the complications are numerous and serious—must be looked at, to be understood, from this particular standpoint. "Germany and France are now, althougl there is no actual war, struggling for the mastery of Europe. Which is to win? Which is to be master? France and Napoleon say they must win. North Germany and Bismarck say they must win. France arms berself to the teeth; so also does Prussia. We wait, however, for actual war; and while we wait the intending combatants look out for allies and the Euro- pean nations choose their sides. How do the Evropean nations stand in regard to the struggle? We have put a question which it is not so easy toanswer. In the approaching struggle, which our news columos and the irresistible logic of facts prove to be inevitable, what nations are to be the allies of France and what nations are to be the allies of Prussia? In such a struggle as that which is now im- pending France would, in ordinary circum- stances, command the sympathy and support of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria, But the circumstances are not ordinary, and herein lies the trouble. On the other hand Prussia willcommand the sympathy and gold of Eng- land, the sympathy and sinew of Holland, of Sweden and Norway, and even of injured Denmark. How Russia will go is one of the biggest questions of the hour, If she should throw her forces on the side of France the results will be fearful. Perhaps it might be safest to say that while Europe on an early day is likely to be arrayed in two hostile camps, Russia and England, knowing that their great contest is to take place on the fields of Central Asia, are willing for the pre- sent to stand aloof and be spectators of the fray. One thing we can no longer refuse to admit is that a great European war is inevi- table. Loox ror Laror Gas Bitis.—Consumers should not be surprised at extraordinarily large gas bills about these days. The companies are now buay “seeing” the members of the lobby at Albany, sud their customers wust make good the outlay, nn Negroes in Office. A negro man, or as described by one of the red-hot democracy, ‘‘an undiluted nigger, black as the ace of spades,” has been nomi- nated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as an internal revenue assessor for New Orleans; another, in like manner, has become a justice of the peace in Washington ; another, late a slave (perhaps one of Wade Hampton’s field hands), has become postmaster of the aristocratic ‘State capital of South Carolina, late the official headquarters of the Palmetto chivalry, the very city from which came (December 20, 1860), the first proclama- tion of secession. We are speaking of the pretty little city of Columbia, where the first note of the rebellion was sounded and the last note (Confederate scrip) of the rebellion was uttered—the city which was mostly de- stroyed by fire during Sherman's occupation, and which has since been mainly under the discipline of the Freedmen’s Bureau. But what were all these past sufferings to this present crowning misfortune of a negro post- master? Of all places why is this first Southern negro postmaster fixed upon Colum- bia? Has General Sherman had a voice in this thing, or is it simply a bold experiment from General Grant in Southern reconstruc- tion? or what does it mean? No doubt General Grant was influenced by certain special reasons in this appointment; but at the same time we think that in this and in the other negro appointments mentioned he has shown that he intends to hold the republican party to their own doc- trines, He appears to have blossomed very rapidly into a fullblown negro equality radi- cal, to the surprise of most people and to the special admiration of Wendell Phillips. But in all this he may still have his own pro- gramme in the background. When Louis Napoleon was made President of the second French republic he was a model radical, a favorite with the radicals—so quietly disposed to follow them that they were deluded with the idea that he had no will or policy of his own and that they could use him as long as they wanted him and then drop him. We know (hat followed. ‘The tan has become the master, and, if not the very first in some things, one of the very first in all great ings of European statesmen and rulers of modern times. General Grant in good season may in the same way show that he has made conces- sions to secure a desired position, and that having secured it he will next show that he has a fixed policy of his own to bring into the foreground. Hence it may be that for the present he is cultivating by his concessions the confidence of the radical leaders and har- mony in the republican camp, negroes and all. Litrte Spracve anp Litrte Ruopy.—A Western German paper says that Senator Sprague inherited one-half ,of the State of Rhode Island from his father and the other half he has acquired since. Street Osstrrucrions.—Since we opened the eyes of the authorities to the state of the streets and gave them every day with their coffee the formidable list of obstructions there has been amendment, and some streets are more free than they were. Fifth avenue is clear; but we hope the powers that be will not stop, in the delusion that they have done their whole duty. Keep at it, gentlemen. Toe Cnurou Question IN ENGLAN! “Coming events cast their shadows before” — so says the poet. Behold the shadow! An Irish member proposes to disestablish the Churches in England and in Scotland. The event will soon follow. It is fair that justice should be done to Englishmen and Scotchmen as well as Irishmen. The Established Church is as much an iviquity in England and in Scot- land as in Ireland. The Connecticat Election—A Simple and Con- clusive Explanation. The results of the late Connecticut election are somewhat remarkable. Firstly, heretofore whenever the question of negro suffrage has been put to the people of Connecticut negro suffrage has been signally swamped, the pub- lic mind in that State being influenced more by the city of New York than by the State of Massachusetts. Butin this late election the republicans have recovered the State on the direct proposition of equal rights to niggers in the right of suffrage throughout the United States, in an amendment of the federal consti- tution, leaving the several States no option in the matter. Against this amendment the dem- ocrats fought their fight, and they have lost it, State ticket, Legislature and Congress. The results involve the ratification of said amend- ment by Connecticut. Secondly, the democrats, to ‘‘make assurance doubly sure” in this election tor Congressmen, set up in the First district a Johnsonized re- publican democrat, ex-Senator Dixon, person- ally a man of considerable influence, but po- litically a dead cock in the pit, being one of the late Johnson firm in the Senate of Cowan, Doolittle and Dixon, all laid up in lavender. In the Second district another Johnsonized radical, one Babcock by name, was made the democratic candidate, and both Dixon and Babcock have been laid ont stiff and cold. Thus the Congressional delegation from Con- necticut is completely reversed. It was three democrats to one republican ; itis three repab- licans to one democrat. Thirdly, in New Haven, where, in proportion to the size of the town, the democrats are almost as strong as they are in this city, their candidate for Mayor, James Gallagher, has been defeated by the neat contrivance of a re- publican running at the head of the citizens’ ticket—a mixed commission, This is a hard knock, for James Gallagher is the chief regu- lator, the Peter B. Sweeny, in short, of the New Haven democracy. But such are the facts—English is gone with the rest of his State ticket, the Legislature is gone, and all that the democrats have left them is one mem- ber of Congress—Barnum—the iron Barnum, the Heratp candidate, who two years ago, with our assistance, so handsomely laid out Barnum the showman, Now the question recurs, how are we to account for these results? General apathy, says one philosopher; but the general apathy was on both sides, so that this answer will not do. Charley Spencer's “repeaters,” says another; but Charley's late electioneering efforts have been in Washington, and not in Connecticut, and besides his funds for -‘‘re- peaters," #6 anv. were used yo last November, George Francis Train knocked the bottom out of the democratic tub in Connecticut in rally- ing the Fenians against English and company as bloated bondholders, English aristocrats and Tammany Hall tricksters. But this explanation will do only for the marines. Greeley thinks that the democrats recoiled in disgust from those republican Johnsonized renegades, Dixon and Babcock, and that this Johnson leaven leavened the whole lump and upset English; but this is a shallow solu- tion. Yet, again, while we are told by Brick Pomeroy that it was the joint stock coalition against the New Haven democratic “ring” that settled their hash, another expounder says it was the temperance people rallying against the grogshops; and qpother that Jewell, the re- publican candidate for Governor, being a jewel to the liquor people, they rallied round him and carried him in. Finally, we are informed that Father Carmody, a Catholic priest of New Haven, shocked at the democratic perjuries coming to his knowledge last November, de- nounced this immorality in the late canvass, and thus turned the tide against the party. None of these explanations, nor all of them together, meet the case. They are only the straws in the current. The democracy of Con- necticut, with the party generally elsewhere, were knocked in the head by the Tammany Convention of last July. The Tammany ticket of Seymour and Blair and the Tammany plat- form, against General Grant, did the business for Connecticut last November, and these late results are but a reaffirmation of that popular verdict, negro question and all. In a word, the democratic party, on its old issues and old party dogmas, is defunct, and it needs some new and powerful galvanic batteries to bring it into life again. English has only been the last to go out with the ebb tide. : No Hanaine ror Murper.—The Chicago Times says a man shot down another a day or two since in cool t biood, and then comforted himself with the remark that there was no hanging for murder in Illinois. This simple remark addresses itself to the attention of | F legislators, a - MATTOON oN ‘Timer. “State Si Senator Mat- toon, it appears, is not satisfied witht the shot at Greeley that he had in his resolution in fa- vor of the great diplomatist, and so, proposes to sue him for libel. It has been stated pretty freely in print that Mattoon was a consenting and benefited party in some very large pieces of legislative bribery, and this suit, we sup- pose, will give a real history of the transactions. If it does it will be a public service. The Yacht, Metcor. We may congratulate the lovers of yachting upon the addition to the number of presuma- ble first rates of a craft so handsome as the Meteor. This schooner, launched on Tuesday, is the property of Mr. George Lorillard, a lover of salt water, and who, as the representa- tive of his brother, crossed the ocean in the Vesta in the memorable race of 1866. In such hands she will lose no point of her possibilities for want of a true sailor spirit to assert them. As to what her possibilities may prove to be there is much controversy. She was modelled by Mr. Robert Fish, the anthor—we believe the word is correct here—of the Eva and other fast boats, and is a peculiar expression of his genius, Her peculiarities are the points in con- troversy, as her very original model, while it is against her with those less ready to accept new ideas, is counted upon by the more sanguine for startling results. The Meteor is very hea vily sparred and will show an immense spread of canvas, and we doubt not will do honor to all the names associated in her. She is one of the three yachts that will go to Europe this summer, and perhaps will prove the fastest of the number. There seems at present no like- lihood that more than three will go. Is there any magic in this number for yachts crossing the ocean? Three went before. In the coinci- dence of number, however, similarity ends ; for there are bigger boats and another season now. All were two hundred ton boats on that trip, and all are three hundred ton boats for this one. We need otherwise hardly point to the difference between that crossing of the Atlan- tic in the stormy depth of midwinter and this holiday trip in the summer sunshine, when Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyrs blow, And gayly riding onthe azure reali, In gallant trim the gilded vessels go, Youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm. Tue Snerrr’s Orrice.—Probably nobody had an idea how far from right is the manage- ment of the Sheriff’s office till Moran's excuse for the escape of King was made public. Here are two deputy sheriffs who start from the Tombs at six in the morning to take a prisoner toSing Sing. Their first stage is the house of the prisoner's brother. In that house they remain allday. Atsixin the evening the prisoner and the two deputies start again. The next stage isa rum shop near the Thirtieth street depot. The officer of theglaw is too good a democrat to assert any superiority over the convict, and they take several drinks together. After this indulgence the officer ‘‘ wasn't very drunk” and the party went on. The next stage is ‘‘a room up stairs.” Here the brother comes on the stage again and has conversation with the prisoner. The keeper has them under his eye, but does not hear what they say. It is night, and everybody goes to‘bed, and at three o’clock in the morning the deputy wakes up to find that the prisoner is gone. Now, what is the Governor's opinion of a sheriff who has:this kind of deputies? Not long since a sheriff was overhauled out West because a prisoner had chloroform on the scaffold, Is there not equal necessity for betes. here? Two Nor Deap Yer.—The Senate Railroad Committee yesterday reported against a goodly batch of railroad projects for the city; but the Senate, while adopting the report for the larger number, refused to adopt it for two— the Broadway Surface road and the East Side road. These are still alive, therefore, and legislators need not yet omit from their prayers the daily “Lead us not into tempta- tion.” AN Ibo Hour at me Capttor. —Worship- ping Senators. Presipentia, Homor.—The Toledo Blade remarks that the President is said to he very indignant at the Tenure of Office act as it is, and adds that Senator Nye says he knows nothing in the constitution that requires the President to be in good humor when he signs any bilh $$ The facetious Dana inclines to the idea that ‘New View of the Monree Dectrine. Since our government is going into the busi+ ness of protecting and preserving for Spain ber possessions in this hemisphere it ought to go in handsomely, Catching filibusters is a busi- ness hardly worth beginning unless you do it thoroughly, and to do it thoroughly will not add more than twenty millions to our navak expenditures. This is nothing to a nation ia debt—especially when done for a government that has no navy of its own, Our theory ia that European governments ought to be crowded to their own side of the water; but this need not prevent us saving them when others put them in danger. We hope, there- fore, our government will surround Cuba with a line of men-of-war. Who cares for expense ? Spain, it ia,true, is at war with Peru and Chile and refused to make peace lest she would thereby lose the chance to bombard some of their cities in the future; but this is no reason why we should let Peru or Chile take a mean advantage of her now in a crack at Cuba. Never mind, therefore, though ships claim to bear flags of nations at war with Cuba; cail them all filibusters and stop them. We can afford it. That is the way to have a foreign policy. Taz Ruopk Istanp Exxorion.—The vote cast in Rhode Island yesterday was not over half that given last year. The republicar candidate for Governor was elected by about four thousand majority, and the Legislature ia, of course, overwhelmingly republican. Tak New York Cenrrat Ratrroap.— In the State Assembly yesterday a bill legalizing the issue of interest certificates made by the New York Central Railroad Company last winter, to the amount of eighty per cent on its capital stock,.was submitted with the report of a committee. The subject excited but little discussion and the bill passed a third reading, so that it is likely the railroad corporation will attai n its object. PrestpeNt GRANT ON REOONSTRUOCTION.— a President sent qmeseage to. to “aes Congress yesterday recommen ing that’ legislative action be taken previous to the ad! journment, so as to effect the complete restora-’ tion of the States of Virginia and Mississippi. The President states that provision should bd made for the holding of elections in* both’ States, and calls attention to the efforls which the local Legislatures have already made to atone for the crime of rebellion. The message is firm yet tempered with mercy. Both houses adjourned without taking action on it. Lacsr or No Lacer.—The pious men are coming out strongly against making lager free on Sundays, and give the republicans notice that if they make such an amendment to get the German vote they shall lose the Sunday school vote. As the republicans know which! vote is strongest the Germans will perhaps get their free lager. Another sacrifice of prin- ciple to power from the party of moral ideas. ag Tuatr Sare.—Judge Blatchford says that all the preceedings hitherto taken in the State courts on the Pacific Railroad case are ‘null and void.” This being true, was not the forvi« ble entry of that safe a burglary ? English and American Reein. Discussion as to the deterioration of the race horse in Great Britain will never cease so long as the present system of racing pre- vails in that country. There is but one light in which to view the subject, and that is that racing in Great Britain is not calculated to improve the race horse, but simply affords an extensive field for gambling. . The inclina- tions of the British public, from the peer to the peasant, run strongly in favor of gambling in horseflesh, and bookmakers are to be found in every corner of the realm among the richy while what are called ‘‘sweeps” find a place in every gin shop and ale house in the land. Ancther class of philosophers also exists ia that country, men who thrive on the credulity of bookmakers and others by professing \o have a certain means of ascertaining in ad- vance which is to be the winning horse in any great event to take place, very much in the style of the fortune tellers of our own city, who pretend to foretell “‘the past, the present and the future.” The bookmakers are a powerful class of themselves, many of them owning, large estates and numerous race horses; while those who indulge in “sweeps” are composed of such enterprising individuals as are willing to invest from a penny up to a pound, but who, however, are just as deeply interested as those who have thousands at stake, and make up the large attendance that we hear of at all the great race meetings of England; and yet few of them really see much of the races that they attend. All they remember about the running is that they-have “‘been t’ races”—because the English race courses are so peculiarly formed that the horses can only be seen at intervala while punning on most of them, particularly those at long distances . It is this general gambling interest that makes short dashes and handicap racing so popular in Great Britain; for the more numer- ous the races the greater the chances of win- ning. ‘They care nothing for the horse, whether he be a two year old or aged, so long as he serves their purposes; and the greater number they can mass together in a race the greater the opportunity for gambling. The handicap system had its origin in like motives, It was simply by overweighting a good horse that they hoped to reduce him to the level of a poor one, and 80 to add another link to the chain of ingenious con- trivances for speculation. There was no at~ tempt at the improvement of the horse in all this, but the reverse. This is the system at- tempted to be inaugurated in this country by gentlemen who have been abroad and imbibed the delusion that the English style of racing was a proper thing to be introduced here, where the improvement of the horse, and not encouragement to gambling, is the ostensible object of all racing and haw been so for nearly a century, This Englisty system has been in .partial operation here for the past ten years, and is still persisted in by the few who claim for it superior ad- vantages in opposition to the popular senti+ ment of the American people. It is evi- dent that nothing but mischief has growa out of this system, and its ultimate ten< dency here, as in Great Britain, is to foster gambling and deteriorate the status of the running horse. All attamnia at books,