The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW + RK HE RALD BROADWAY AN JAMES 2 PROPRIETOR, Letters aud packages should be properly sealed. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, streeta, on & Wiuam Maho Who also took ties m the Felis y Bight, at tho bi Payid O'Day, who te in the brawl, was oue of (be par Three alle; cently opera arge exteut on the ine of the New Jersey € allroad, were arrested and committed t yesterday. The prsoners when arrest vily armed and had in their possession an extensive outfit of burglars’ tools, and particularly those required to break tato iron sales, Prominent Arrivals in the City, Colonel FP. L. Guenther, of Fort Adams; A. H. Gul- and Charles F, Field, of the United States d Ben. C. Freeman, of San Francisco; A. R. Meek, and J. L. Requa, of Florida, are at the Astor iiouse, Captain A. B, Fitch, and Major D. H. Folley, of the United States Army; Surgeon G, B. Adams, of the United States Navy, and Colonel L. W. Towel, of Chicago, are at the St. Charles Hotel. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Fairy CiBOLR. BOOTH'S 7! S8dst., botweon Sth and 6th ava.— OTHELLO. ~—Tar Buniesque Ex- ‘HIRVES. Fifth aveaue and Twenty- Broadway and 13th street. — TR) OLYMPIC THE Broadway.—Hurry Dowrry, wita NEw Frace corner ot Eighth avenue and GRAND OP) 8\ HO Md street. —Tue PhMty BOWERY THLATRE, Bowery.—Tan Sevex Dwanrs; WORLD oF WONDERS. OR, HARLEQUIN AND GERMAN STD? THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowory.— Dee KoENtG's LisuTRNANT, &0. Woon's M ND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—. and evening Performance. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Ev.1rm Hout's Busursque Comrany—Luoneria Borgia, D. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Ta Horse Ma- RIN RB, 40. THEATRE CONIQUE, 814 £Sroadway.—Oondo SKETOnES anv Living Seate 'STRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETH10- THREE STRINGS TO ONE Bow. 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The cable telegrams are dated April 18, The new gunboats at present being constructed in Spain for Cuban waters will, it is thought, be ready for service about the end of June. Cabinet differ. @nces have atisea which may possibly result in the Tesignawon of some of the present members, Prince Frederic Charles of Prussia and the Duke of Lux- @mbourg, wii! be brought forward as candidates for the Spanish crown. Bec s should be sent in before M., to insure proper classifi- Cuba. The Catalonia volunteers have arrived from Spain. ‘They were roceived with great enthusiasm, and two Regroes in the crowd, who shouted “Viva Cespedes,"” were killed. Preparations are still in active progress for the great Cuban ¢ dition at New Orleans, General Harry Hays, of tie Confederate army, nas declined the commauc d it is believed that ¢ ral Steed- man wiil be en leader. The Collector, Dis- trict Attorney « hal all show a disposition to Jet the expedition sail if the subject is uot brought too promincaliy velore them. Miscellaneous. ‘The Senate will probably adjoury on we inesday, members will go home growling » foreign appointments, about nm have been consulted and tn ‘instances none of them know or have ever “Vetore heard of ine appointees. Many of the noml- acoount will be rejecied, to be little doubt that the fleet of tron-clads ig fitted out by the Navy Depart- Ment are inteuded to back up Secretary Fish’s ae- mand on the immediate re) nt outrages. The princt nent ag: it the appointment of General the Madrid President (ir effect that it Keep out 0 sue will bo and in favor of ar. fon is said to bave mpered to 1 18 remarkabiy cool. of Hoboken suime time age ist and Swedenborgian congrega- Governor Clatin, of Massachusetts; Join Mere- dith Reid, Jr., of Albany, and M. P. Bemus, of May- Ville, are at the Fifth Aveaue Hotel. Surgeon Guinn, of the United Siates Navy, is at the Hoffman House. The Religious Teachings of the Day. We offer to our readers to-day a very full survey and report of the fields of religious in- struction opened yesterday in the churches of the metropolis and its vicinity. Nothing exe hibits in a more forcible point of view the catholic character of New York than the va- riety of the religious teachings which are con- stantly pouring their streams silently and with- out conflict into the ocean of metropolitan thought. Here the Roman Church stands side by side with all the modern seo- tarians, from the strictest Calvinist to the broad church of Dr. Bellows, while Spir- itualism and Mormonism contribute at the same time undisturbed, their petty rills to the general flow. It isa striking incident of the religious exercises of the day that music which has been so long cultivated as an important element in the service of the Roman Church is beginning to invade that of the sectarians, as the reader will perceive by the frequent mention and prominence given to the execu- tion of the choir, and even to the performance of sacred concert in the churches, as occurred in two instances last evening, one in the city and another in a neighboring town. The most remarkable indication of the present condition of religious thought, as pre- sented in these faithful reports of actual ser- mons, will be found in the contrast between what may be called the modern and the ancient school of religious instruction. While Beecher, Bellows and other Boanerges of the modern school, enforcing their teachings with illustra- tions drawn from actual daily life, lay aside the older style of sustaining dogma by dogma, as will be seen in the sermon by the first named, which presents Christianity as a re- former of the abolition and temperance school, and that of the latter, which gives @ new view of the doctrine of the last judg- ment, classing it as an ancient superstition, the Rev. Dr. Seward, an old-fashioned Con- gregationalist of Middletown, deprecates what he calls sensational preachiag, and insiate that ‘“‘preaching for the edification of the audience is not preaching the gospel.” On the other hand, Dr. Carter, at the Church of the Holy Saviour, maintains that the church is not on a voyage of scientific dis- covery to find a faith, and therefore the spirit of modern progress does no injury, inasmuch as the ordinances, creeds and sacraments remain immutable, and the liturgies, articles and offices only could be changed. We have space only to refer cursorily toa few other points made in the teachings of yes- terday. The coming General Council at Rome was the subject of a learned lecture by the Jesuit Father O'Connor, at the hall of St. Francis Xavier's College. He has great faith in the beneficial effect of this council upon society throughout Christendom, and believes that should it abrogate the temporal power of the Pope, the Church in its poverty will only be stronger to perform its high mission, in which idea, we doubt not, many Romanists and Protestants will agree with him. Mrs, C. Fannie Allyn, who discoursed to the Spiritualists assembled at the Everett Rooms, had little in the shape of doctrine to offer, but made a fair hit in the modera style, by insisting that the audiences who go to the theatres to see the show of the ballet girls were no better in morals and re- ligion than the girls who sought their living by making the show. In the whole field the Mormon teaching, as given forth in Williams- burg, makes the most insignificant exhibition of thought and argument, not even coming up to the low standard of the Spiritualists, Those who will peruse in the right spirit our graphic reports of yesterday's religious field will find much to interest them and to awaken thought. It is a noted fact that the largest concourse attends those teachers who preach the sublime truths of Christianity with accessories adequate to the culture and intelligence of modern times. In this prac- tice they have the example of our Lord and the Aposiles to sustain and encourage ‘ hes under @ legal process and took possession of the buildings themseives, Since thon both cl have been ruthlessly despoiied, tho fences and stoops carried away and even the Woaves of tac 6 strewn about the areas. The three ¢ buried under th lis of a s in Baltimore on Sa Vy night yesterday, one of them being dead and the oifer: terribly mangled. The butidiag was avery old one, and was said to have been ac oue time the head juarters of General Koscios.o. Several iajoous on the coast of Lower California are reported to be more shallow by six feet than iney ‘Wore last year --provably owing to the action of eart- quakes, The City. Rev, Hetry Wari Beecher preached at Plymouth ehurel, u terday, from a text from St. Paul. Re utnoy A. Corey lectured on the subject Of “Habits’’ to young meu at the Murray Hill Baptist @hurch last vowing. At St. James’ cathedral, in Jay Street, Proukiya, the Kev. Dr. Gardner preached a Sermon appropriate to the feast of St. Joseph. Ser- Vices peculiar to themseives were heid by the Mor- MON Missionaries in thelr church in Willamsburg. Mr. Dane has declined the Appraisership of this Prrt, to which ie was recently confirmed. Rey. Dr. Ogie, one of the sutferers from typhoid doa the ship James Foster, Jr., died Bt the Seamun’s Retreat, Staten Island, on Saturday, ‘The oxtension table manufactory Nos. 166, 163 and 270 Monroe street, belonging to Messrs. Brown & Biisa, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morn. ing, involving @ loss of $50,000. atesday released 10% prisoners , believing that most of them will dad ith the advancing spring. An aule ‘ <aiuination was held yesterday dm the co wacs Nelson, who les at hia home tn adanger Jivion from the effets of wounds re- Opel ise cool ea bortvom on West and Spring them. The discourses of the Saviour were illustrated with parables drawn from the every day life of his hearers, and the most touching teachings of tue Apostles are those _ilinstraded with bomely things. In this respect we incline to believe that those who are falsely styled sen- sational preachers, because they adapt their discourse to the forms of modern thought, are the most successful laborers in the harvest of the Church. That they are sensational in the sense that they awaken the attention of their hearers and carry them with thom through the whole course of their argument, is perhaps true; but in this very fact they attain the true object of religious labor. To those who insist upon clinging to the old-fashioned turning and churning of dogma and doctrine we would say, “Go thou and do likewise.” The generation that is excavating the foundations of the temple at Jerusalem to vorify the words of Holy Writ, and sending surveying parties to Mount Sinai, with photo- graphers, geologists archmologists and trans- lators of ancient inscriptions, will not be satis- fled with anything short of the latest intelli- gence in sacred and historical associations, Tne Porr’s Pi LOsPRCT. .—Alrendy the Pope's commit in preparing the programme for the Ecumenical Council have quarrelled about the nineteenth century, How can the Popo hope to reconcile all men on this tough sub- ject if he cannot his own creatures? MONDAY, Our telogray inform us that take a proper aud national view of the out- rages recently committed on the American flag in the case of the brig Mary Lowell and the boarding of the schooner Lizzie Majors on the high seas, The case of the first named vessel was an outrage of the most barefaced character, Itis not denied that this vessel was in possession of the customs officers of the British government, in British waters, and with the seal of the Crown upon her hatches. Yet she was taken possession of by a Spanish war steamer, carried to Havana, and there condemned as a legal prize. It is not asserted that she had infringed any law, nor was she engaged in any hostile act. Reparation is due to the British government for the disrespect to its territory and flag; but not the less should our government protect the rights and property of American citizens in this case. The affair of the Lizzie Majors is an equally palpable case of wrong on the part of the Spanish cruisers. She was boarded on the high seas and two passengers taken from her and carried back to Cuba, where, from aught we yet know, they may have been already shot, as were those taken from the British schooner Jeff Davis. No crime was alleged against them, and the utmost they could be charged with was that they were fleeing to this country to escape from the tyranny of the government and the murderous zeal of the mad Spanish volunteers. One of them was even a minor, & young lad, and the pretext for their seizure was that their names did not appear upon the ship’s manifest. It is due to our own honor and to the cause of humanity and civilization that we demand the immediate liberation of these persons, that they be safely placed again on their voyage to the United States, and that due reparation be made to our flag. We rejoice that Secretary Fish is beginning to awaken to the fact that fear is not the proper guardian of American honor. It is well that the government has taken steps to increase our naval force in Southern waters. The proclamation issued by General Dulce on the 24th of last month openly as- sumes the right to search and seize vessels on the high seas and to try and condemn them if it please his Excellency so todo. Had we assumed this right during our late civil war the Havana nest of blockade runners would have been broken up, and it is not impossible that the Spanish rule in Cuba might have been broken up with it. But we respected the freedom of the seas in one of the most flagrant cases which could be presented—that of Mason ‘ and Slidell—and shall not consent that Spain, in the defence of an unjust cause and an odious tyranny, shall do less, The fact that the persons seized may be private citizens and not public officers only makes such outrages the more flagrant. If Spain persists in them there is but one remedy—the annihilatlon of the remnant of Spanish power in the New World. ‘The Provpect of War in Europe. It has been evident for some time past to men of thought and foresight that a terrific conflict of arms in Europe is inevitable at no distant day. The words of pence that are constantly reiterated by the Emperor Napoleon and the other ruling statesmen of Europe amount to nothiug. They are in- tended to cover up warlike desigus. They only show the necessity for holding in check the universal apprehension of war, so as to enable the governments to complete their stupendous preparations. The thunderbolt of war is suspended by a slender thread and is ready to fall at any moment. The hollow pretence of keeping five millions or more of men under arms in Europe to preserve the peace—to call this state of things an armed peace—is absurd, and can deceive no thought- ful person. No; it means war, and war very soon. But the tone of the press of Europe is not less significant of the coming conflict. An in- fluential Austrian journal speaks of a triple alliance of France, Italy and Austria against Prussia. If so, of course Napoleon is the prime mover in this, and he holds out sufficient inducement to Italy and Austria for such a combination of the Latin and Catholic nations of Southern Europe against the Hohenzollern hegemony and its ambitious strides in Cen- tral and Northern Europe. We know that the extraordinary success of Prussia in her war with Austria, her rapid consolidation of a great German empire, and her vast military strength and prestige have excited the jea- lousy and hatred of France. The French people, always warlike and ambitious, chafe under the extraordinary growth of Prussian power, andthe Emperor Napoleon is under the necessity of yielding to national vanity and feeding public sentiment with the prospect of glory. His power and dynasty rest on this. A war with Prussia would suit his policy and the ambition and feelings of the French people if such a war could be rade by alliances or combinations that would promise success, Austria still smarts under the defeat of Kéniggriitz and her humiliation by Prussia, and would hail, doubiless, any good opportunity to retaliate upon her con- queror, and, above all, to check the growing power of a great adjoining empire. Then the German States, particularly those of the southern border, which were so mercilessly gobbled up or subjugated by Prussia, hate that Power, and Austria might hope to secure their aid ina war. With regard to Italy, it might be supposed she would not enter into an offensive allianco against Prussia, which was lately her ally, and which enabled her to drive the Austrians from Italian territory ; but nations are governed by self-interest and not by gratitude, Italy is far more andor the influence of the Emperor Napoleon than of Prussia, and undoubtedly he can secure the offensive alliance of Italy through operating upon the fears of the Italian government or by promised advantages to it. We see. therefore, that such a triple alliance ag is mentioned of these Latin and Catholic Powers of Southern Europe against Prussia is quite probable. The object of Napoleon and all his manwu- vres, at the same time ho may be strengthen- ing himself by alliances in the south, is to isolate Prussia at the north, and to keep Rus- sia neutral and England out of the quarrel, As to England, we suppose there would be no AP Ri V, 1869.-TRIPLK SHEET. e has finished her rile in the wars of Continental Hurope. She will no more attempt to regulate the balance of power there, and is not likely to fight except in self- defence. Russia, notwithstanding the rela- tions of the imperial family with the royal family of Prussia, or the past friendship be- tweon the two nations, has more reason to fear the growth of Prussia as a great German Power on her border than either France or Austria, Already Prussia is making rapid strides to acquire a strong naval position in the Baltic and to threaten the supremacy of Russia there. It is evidently not the interest of Russia to see Prussia too powerful, and while she might not wish to see Prussia much weakened—for a strong friendly German Power is an advantage to her—she would probably be neutral, at the first, at least, in such @ war as appears imminent, Prus- sia, in all probability, would have to fight France—or France and her allies—single handed. Is she ready for this? Would it not be forced upon her? These are questions that may be now revolvin, in the mind of Count Bismarck. if this astute statesman sees a war is inevitable he may, as he did with Austria, sioze the bull by the horns and precipitate the war before Napoleon perfects his plans. All the signs of the times indicate startling events in Europe. Five millions of men will not be kept armed to the tecth and in the highest state of efficiency for nothing. The ambition and bitterness of feeling among the great nations can only cul- minate in a terrible conflict, and, if we mistake not, the clouds of war are rapidly gathering and may burst over Europe at any day. An Expedition for Cuba. It will be seen by our special telegraphic report published to-day in another column that a formidable expedition for Cuba is on foot in New Orleans. There can be no doubt that the section of country selected for the movement offers many facilities for such an enterprise. The abundance of veterans there, both from the Union and Confederate armies, enables the leaders to take their pick of skilled soldiers; and, as money seems not to be lacking, we may soon expect to hear of operations on a scale that will materially change the aspect of the revolution in Cuba, It is gratifying to learn that while the Spaniards are openly sending arms and am- munition from this port to supply their army the officers of the government in the South are not disposed to scrutinize too closely the steps of the Cubans tn sending ~ plies to General Cespedes; but these shonld remember that the neutrality laws are upon the statute book. General Steadman did good service in our late war, and if he gets into Cuba will give the Spaniards no small trouble. In view of the sympathies which the people so largely entertain for the liberal cause and the bloody character which the war is taking in Cuba the government should at once take @ bold position on the question and at least place the contending parties on an equal footing. During the Carlist war in Spain both parties were permitted openly to recruit in England, and forces were sent from there to the assistance of Queen Isabella and Don Carlos alike. Too Much of the Nigger. It is reported that Clay, the aristo- cratic ‘‘gemmen of color” of New Orleans, appointed Minister to Liberia, and Pro- fessor Bassett (colored), of Philadelphia, appointed Minister to Hayti, have each de- clined the honor. This is so very curious that most people will ask why have these blacks declined these high official distinctions, We suspect that the true reasons are that they prefer to stay among white people ; that they recoil from the idea of living in a community where there is nothing but niggers; that for Clay there is too mach of the nigger in Libe- ria, and for Bassett too much of the nigger in Hayti. Even in the old slavery times, between slavery with all its drawbacks in the United States, and freedom with all its advantages in Liberia, there were many blacks who declined Liberia for this simple reason :—‘‘Don’t want to go, massa, where dere’s nuffin but niggers.” Besides, in sending the black man Clay, for instance, to the black government of Liberia, Clay may think, after all “‘it is only putting me on a level with the nigger.” The mission to England would be a different thing. The United States nigger is as good as a white man, and must not, therefore, be picked out as a nigger for Hayti or Liberia. Grant's Cuanor.—Never was pestered ruler so fortunate in his opportunity as Grant is in Cuba. Cuba is his chance—a clear, clean case, acting on which he could put all the poli- ticians under his feet and so unite the senti- ment of the country that there would be no party heard of but Grant's party. His luck does not fail yet. Will he fail for want of seiz- ing his occasion with his old resolution? A Puiz-toat Dirrioutty.—A Sunday school engaged an engraver to make a missionary cer- tificate with the parson’s faco onit. He was to make the parson pretty. Instead of that he made him like the Bonicia Boy, and the Sunday school refused its money; but the court made it pay up. Engraver might have done worse than make the parson look like the Benicia Boy. He might have made him look like Parson Brownlow or Martin Luther. Grant has been bullied and put down by the politicians on small points, Cuba offers him a chance to put them down on a great one that will more than balance all, TAPPED ON THE Heap. —James Haggerty was found in the street in a “state of gross intoxication,” as the officer thought. Said officer found it troublesome to take him to the station house, because he would fall down, Officer ‘lost his temper and tapped Hag- gerty on the head two or threo times to wake him up.” Next morning Hag- gerty was found dead in his cell, with wounds on his head, ‘‘inflicted by some blunt instru- ment.” They look upon his death as a mystery. EN MIA Ea IO InptAN Fasuion.—A Western exchange, giving something important to its lady readers interested in the prevailing fashions, states that ata frontier ball recently a noted Indian belle appeared in a boop skirt, ornamented with fox tails, and waist of yellow flannel, slashed with stripes of buffalo bide, How would this fashion do for Broadway or Fifth avenue? Will some wiite bolic start ib? | Tie Crops of 1859—Brilliant Prospects for an Abundant Yield. We publish to-day copious extracts from our exchanges giving accounts of the prospects of the coming orops in all parts of the coun- try. It will be seen that the farmers in New England have not yet been able to commence their spring business on account of the back- wardness of the season, the snow in some places in New Hampshire being still three feet on a level. In Connecticut some farmers have commenced ploughing, but no planting has been done. But, fortunately, it is not to New England that the people of this country, and, indeed, a large proportion of “‘the rest of mankind,” are accustomed to look for material wherewith to sustain animal life. If left to herself New England could scarcely raise sufficient breadstuffs to sustain her own teeming population. It is to the broad and gigantic West, the fertile Middle States, the ever luxuriant South, that our people look, both for the production of the staple from which is fabricated the raiment that in a great measure covers them and a Jarge fart of foreign “humanity, as well as for the supplies of breadstuffs, provisions, fruits, and nearly everything else that comes in the way of human con- sumption. Therefore it is with the high- est satisfaction that we refer to the cheer- ing record given in the published reports of the coming orops in the sections named. Throughout the West, the States of Ohio, Indiana, IWinois, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, &c., a larger breadth of land than usual has been sown in wheat. In all respects the winter sown ‘promises well, while a considerable space of new ground has been broken up and sown with spring wheat. In Missouri there are a few complaints, while from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee the reports are most encouraging. In some parts of North Carolina, as well as in Virginia, a large share of attention is being bestowed upon the raising of early garden truck for the Northern market, but not to an extent to in- terfere with the great staples of those States— corn, cotton and tobacco, From the interior of New York, as well as from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, we have satisfactory accounts. The planters in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas aro recuperating their energies, and from every section, with the exception of a part of Texas, where the grasshopper pest is again dis- turbing the corn and cotton fields, and a part of Alabama, whence complaints of damage by unexpected frosts reach us, we have cheering accounts, But it would seem from all reports that Georgia gives promise of being more fortunate the com- ing than in the past year. The accounts of the growing wheat in that State are glowing in the extreme—one field of a thousand acres in fine condition being among the pleasant sights re- cently witnessed by a Georgia contemporary. Larger quantities of land than usual have been planted in corn and oata, while the cotton breadth will be fully up to the standard. It is estimated that in Georgia fifty per cent of the land will be planted in cotton, forty per cent in corn and ten per cent in oats. Tennessee will have a larger breadth of land in cotton than ever before, Louisiana is rejoicing in a promising and much augmented crop of sugar cane, and a generally revived condition of agriculture within her borders, which may be said with truth of every other Southern State. Even South Carolina begins to express herself contented with the new order of things in re- gard to labor, and her fields are showing their wonted fertility. In Florida a number of Northerners have commenced the cultivation of frait on an extensive scale, but Florida is naturally o great cotton-growing State, and as such is destined to become one of the richest in the cotton- growing galaxy. In regard to fruit pros- pects accounts are somewhat conflicting, and hear and there we hear the note of a croaker. It is stated that in some sections of Kansas, and even as far south as Alabama, late ‘*freezes” have destroyed most of the peach and apricot blossoms, But while this is the case only in limited sections, from the vast area of land devoted to fruit culture we hear no complaints, but, on the contrary, tidings both cheering and welcome. Thus is our country, from one end to the other, blessed by a benign Providence with the elements of internal wealth and national prosperity and plenty. Fzeuna tHe Pressvre.—The butchers complain that they have to pay forty-five dol- lara for those stalls in the market that they used to get for twenty-five, Well, have not the butchers done their full share in electing to the city government the men whose plunder- ing thus reacts? Mysrerious—Tuk Jay Cooke Forcrrins.— What is the mystery about the alleged for- gerios on Jay Cooke & Co. and the borrowing of drafts to the tune of over twenty-six thou- sand dollars by the Bank of the State of New York? There seems to be no doubt about the facts, but nobody will prosecate. Every one appears to be afraid to touch the case. Why is this? What is there behind? What is the mystery? Franor anv Spain.—In 1865 the Emperor of France stood on the favor and forbearance of tho American people, and Grant uttered some positive words inimical to the continu- ance of French dominion near us. Spain stands now as France did thea, Where are Grant's words ? Not A Fastton to Fotrow.—Some Jersey Congressmen could not agree who to support for postmaster at Trenton, and got up an elec- tion by the people. Now they know who to support, and the President will scarcely ap- point the other man. As this plan has some advantages for the people and rather damages a Congrossman’s influence it is not likely to spread. Cutting Down tho Tax Levies. Peter Cooper's Cilizen Association in their eagerness to make a big show of the aggregate reduction of the tax levies seem to have slashed right and left without any reason or regard to necessary requirements. Their operations remind us forcibly of the advice given to a broth of a boy of the Emerald Isle who was about to visit for the first time the Donnybrook fair, It waa, ‘Wherever you see a head hit it,” The item of repairs to our dilapidated, broken dowa, rojien and unsafe wharves was put down He the Comp; troller at three hundred thousand dol- lars, which the Citizens’ Association by a stroke of the pen reduced to one- sixth that amount. They certainly could have given that item no _ serious consideration, or they would have in- creased the amount asked for to half a million. The cost of rebuilding an ordinary pler is about forty thousand dollars, and four out of five of the piers on both rivers require to be rebuilt to render them serviceable, and the longer they remain in their present con- dition the more money it will cost to restore them. The trite saying of ‘‘a penny wise and pound foolish” is often quoted, but we think never more aptly than in this con- nection, Tho Unreconstructed Statee—Tho Duty of the President, Congress at the heel of the session passed bills for the reconstruction and with a view of the early restoration of the three Southern States still unrestored to political rights in the Union, These acts are in some respects clumsy, “complicated od and | partisan in character, like almost everything emanating from our incompetent Congress; but this isan evil that cannot be cured just now. The true policy is to lose sight of that and to make the restora- tion of these States, under any circumstances, the paramount object. The evil will cure itself in time and much better and quicker when the States are restored to the equality and privileges of the other States. With all the defects of the acts of reconstruction Con- gress has Prepared the way for the restoration of Virginia, Texas and Mississippi, and has left large discretionary powers with the Presi- dent. This prolonged dismemberment ot the Union is a disgrace to the government and injurious to all. Itisa remnant of the war, and yet four years after the last gun was fired the Union is not fully restored. Let us hope General Grant will use the discretionary power invested in him wisely and have the unreconstructed or unrepresented States ready to be restored immediately on the reassembling of Congress. Let him ignore the partisan politicians in these States who are bitterly fighting each other and who are working more for their own interests and ambition than for the good of the people there or of the country. He understands this question of reconstruc- tion very well and should devote himself to that during the recess of Congress, In this, at least, he can be successful, and it will be some glory to his administration to finish the work of restoration during the first year of his government, Now Candidates for the Throne of Spain. The Atlantic cable reports that Prince Fred- eric Charles of Prussia and the Duke of Luxembourg have entered the field as candi- dates for the reconstructed throne of Spain. In our opinion the King of Prussia should have sufficient experience, were it obtained merely from the tate of Maximilian of Aus- tria, in Mexioo, not to permit a prominent member of the House of Hohenzollern to accept a foreign crown, particularly one which had been worn by a Bourbon. The German and Spaniard would never amal- gamate except after flerce internal war, whem the Teuton would no doubt remain master of the field, but lording it alone, the effete Latina having disappeared. Then we have the Duke of Luxembourg, and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg; but as the despatch names the Duke of Luxembourg, we presume it is Prince Charles Sigismond, of the Catholic House of Montmorency, who would, perhaps, prove acceptable in Madrid should the vote securing his election be permitted to remain in force until ho arrived in that city, What becomes of Prim, Serrano, Olozaga and the new constitution ? The Russian Navy. The Journal of St. Petersburg gives eome details of the strength of the Russian navy. It comprises two hundred and sixty-seven ves- sels, of which two hundred and thirty are steam. These include four iron-clad frigates, three iron-clad batteries and thirteen monitors. More than one-half of this immense naval force is in the Baltic, where it is frozen up about one-third of the year. Thirty-two steam and nine sailing vessels are on the Black Sea, and twenty-nine steam and two sailing vessele on the Siberian coast, in the North Pacific. The whole force appears to be well balanced, well in hand and very efficient. The Baltic fleet is ready for any Prussian complications. Prus- sia has nothing which can hope to contend against it, The Black Sea fleet is sufficiently strong to make a dash against Turkey when the moment arrives for opening the road te the Mediterranean. The Siberian fleet is well posted to protect the aggressive movements of Russia upon the Chinese empire and the northern island possessions of Japan. While the rest of Europe quarrels and wasies ite strength in silent warfare Russia progresses and swells her boundary lines. Free anp Easy.—Our prisons aro so loose that the majority of those who ought to be on the inside are on the outside, having slipped through some crevice. The police never arrest a party of rogues but one or more of them is recognized as an escaped convict, Toe New York Appraisersnir.—Mr. Charles A. Dana writes to Secretary Boutwell a letter, which we publish this morning, de- clining the office of Appraiser of Merchandise in New York, to which he was appointed by President Grant. Mr. Boutwell in his letter of official announcement is very complimen- tary to Mr. Dana personally, but conveys the conjecture—a sort of forlorn hope—that the position ‘‘is one for which probably you have neither taste nor inclination.” Some persona understand a hint very readily. So Mr, Dana declines on the ground that he cannot abandon a “superior duty for one of much less import- ance.” A professional tribute to the power of the press. ~ PROGAALE_WOENDARISM, Shortly before eight o'clock Inst night fire wae dis. covered on the upper floor of the tenement house No. 615 Hast Fourteenth street, in the apartments of Jonn Bolt, OMcer MeSivigan, of the Bighteenth precinct, was notified, when he burst open the door Peacing ¢ to the rooms and found the fireboard and mantel in flames, which ho quickly extinguished, As the occupants were absent, no fire in the above nor the lamp burping, and they paving an insaren upon their furnigire and housshoid f $000, the matter was 1 garded aA Be plcions, Callinut for the Fire Marshal’) action, Wig was duly apprised gt. Hho OCOUTLOND®, } oo