The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1869, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD ee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR, NEW XORK MMRALD, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1862-QUADRUPLI SUMET. ee ee York, This grain will be shipped Vv‘ ‘aw Orieans and delivered in New Y: Alasky, ny the United States ateamer Saginaw in re- “ailgiion for the murdef of one or two soldiers, 5 Letters and packages should be prong 19 sealed, Allbusiness or news letter ang telegraphic despatches must be addressed New sil Hurato, Rejected communications will not be re- tureed, 24 Volume XXXE seeeeNoe £ AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hourry Dofery, with NEW FRATURES. GRAND OP arenue and Sta wtreet.—Ta) BOWERY THEA werg.—Tut SPIRIT OF TOR FOUNTAIN Soar F "3 THEATRE be ween Sth and 6th ave,— Boriusque Ex- TRE, F Bi ie aud Twenty- Dvcay sineg fourth street. WALLAOK'S THBATRS, Broatway ant Mb etree CastR. PRLEY THEATR HSQUK COMPANY. F --E Lr How's x, The JupemEyt. 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Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated May 3, A meeting, managed by membera of the tory party, was held in St. James’ Hail, London, last might, to protest against Mr, Gladstone's scheme of disestablishing the Irish Courch, The consideration of amendments to the Irish Church bili was resumed lu Parliament yesterday. The clause concerning (he Regium Cone was so amended as to ude com- pensation for ministers of all cohgregati A public meeting endorsing the recent speech of the Mayor of Cork was heid on Saturday nignt in Cork, Mr. Edward de Stoecrel, the Russian Minister to the United States, lias been recalled. Cada. Despatches dated Havana, April Sv, contain ad- vices from Nuevitas to the 26th, The Cuvan Con- ress was in session at Sihanicu, a village about eight Cespedes leagues from Puerto presided and Principe. General turty members were representing all parts of the island. declaring freedom from Spain and annexation to the United States the ends to be at- tuined by the war Were passed unanimously. Ques- ada was chosen Generalisstino, A determined spirit Was evinced by the members and they appeared to have a strong lope of success. Several of the Revo- lutionary Junta have been arrested in the Puerto Principe district, The insurgents have appeared in” Cinco Villas and the surrounding country, ‘The in-urgent government, it is reported from Wasi on, have negotiations in progress tor the purcha of the Peruvian monitors now at St. Th)- mas. The Logistatare. The f are the more timportant bila which passed the yesterday:—To organize the Brooklyn Fire Department; to incorporate the Han- Bem Ca so numerous claim bill, The Senate insisted upon its amendments to the Town Konding bill and appointed a committee of confer- ence. The bill relating to the fees of the Sherif of New York was amended, providing t the fees shall not in any case exceed five hundred dotiara, and the mil was then ordered to a third reading. The bill amending the State Excive Jaw was taken up, and alter refusing to amend by striking out the section exem the Metropolitan District, the bili was passed & Vote of 27 to 6, ‘Mr. Morgan offered a concurrent resolution—which ‘was tabled under the rule—that the Legistatare ad- dourn on Friday, the Tin inst. The bill amending the charter of the New York Underground Rail ‘Was taken up and consilered, and the Senate ad. jonrned, . In the Assemtiy the bill proviling for the con. siruction of a central elevated patented ratiway in Broadway and the bill to amend whe registry law ‘were ordered to a third reading. DI Increasing the salaries of the judges of the Court of Appeals and of tho Supreme Court was lost by a vote of 15 to 73 Twenty-three bilis were passed, inc juding bills to puniaa faad in canvassing and counting Votes at elections, providing for the transfer of cer. toin State arsonats and ormories, enlarging the state Joard of Charities, and to suppress lotteries and the fate of lottery tickets, Misecilaneous, Stanley, commanding at Vort Sully, on writes to Lieutenant General Shert- Gan that the peace negotiations with the Sioux have Proved on entire failure, A riot occurred in Brownsville, Teno., on Sunday hieht, in w one white man and two negroos Were killed, vere were no polities mixed up in the ) Of Hiteon, named Frank Cheney, shot him- Beit dead in Nort Andover, Mas#, yesterday, Cause his father hal required hum to apologize to his School teacher for trawney, A writ of habous corpus has heen igsned in the @ase of Thomas I toston, Who is im jail for refusing 10 testit @ committee Massachusetts Legivtatare, Tho Liquor Licens» law expired in Boston on Saturday, and ait tiquor deaters in the city were directed to close their saioons. None of them com. plied, however, but in the evening they held a public meeting, Wherein they resolved not to resist the law #3 a body, but to orgs anew political party on anti-temperance principles. One denier was ao ex. cited over the order te close up that he went crazy and Wong himself. A cargo of wheat, 91,009 bushels, was made up at Bt. Louis, Mo. for the Grain Association of New of the The City, There not being a quorum of Assistant Aldermen present yesterday afternoon the President dectared the Board adjourned till Thursday next. In the Board of Excise yesterday a communication was received trom Thomas C, Acton announcing his regret at severing the oficial relations he had sus- tuined with the Board, A commitiee was appointed to prepare a suitable answer, ‘The spirit photograph case was brought to a close yesterday, After listening to nearly five hours summing up of opposing counsel Justice Dowling disinissed the complaint, A bevy of woimen, strong in the sptritualistic faith, giving Muimler con- gratulalory shakes of the hand, was the closing act of the drama, A detective who bad charge of the house of Kindt, on State strect, Brooklyn, one of the parties charged with ihe robbery of Wheeler's watch case manufuc- tory, identally displaced some woodpork on I aad discovered a nding place in which was, ne three nuggeis of gold, sixteen gola watch cases and two gold seal rings, the whole property being worth $6,000, Kindt on hearing of this dis- covery confessed Lo the crime. One of the Merehants? Un delivery pack n Express Company's containing numerous money s iron safe with from $389,000 to ,000 in if, Was standing at the corner of Broadway and Pearl street yesterday, in charge of a lad of eighteen, the driver being in a store deliveriag packages, wien three men teaped into it, seized the lad, held him “duwn to the floor and drove away at a slashing gait. A truck- inan, named Dyer, suw it all, and, jumping in front, caught the horses and stopped the robbery, The thieves broke away, and two of tuem mingled in the Broadway crowd and escaped, but the third was captured. the Guild of the Holy Cross,” a high church Episcopal society, was oiganized at Christ charch m Fifth avenue yosterday, with inteusely ritualistic services, the forms aud observances being nearly the kame as those which characcertze the Church of Rome, ‘rhe Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Germanta, Captain Kier, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for blymouth, Eng., Cherbourg and Hamburg. The mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The Inman line steamship City of Manchester, Captain Delamotte, wilt leave pier 45 North river at twelve M, to-( for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Halifax, N. S., w land and receive mails and passengers, The steamsbip Denmark, Captain Cato, of the National line, will leave pier 47 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Wednesitay) for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The new steamship Idaho, Captain Cutting, of Williams & Guion's tine, wiil sail from pier 46 North river at two P, to-morrow, 5th inst., for Queenstown and Liverpool, Tie stcamstup Fah-Kee, Captata Steele, will leave pier 13 North river at three P, M. we-day lor Bermuda, The stock market yesterday was heavy and du, except for Fort Wayne and the Lake Shore stocks, Goid was exctted, advancing from 135 to 1364, and closing finally at 1357. With a supply of 2,500 head on sale, aud a moder- ately active inquiry, the warket for beef cattle was quite aleady, extra steers selling at 16%c.a 17e¢, prime at 1c. a 16%c., fair to good at ic. @ ¢, and inferior to ordinary ai 10c.a isc. The averge quality of the offerings was fair, Mileh cows were dulijamd heavy for common, bat steady for ‘i. We quote:—Prime and extra $99 a §125 a, fair to good, $74 a $85, ond inferior © com- 5a $70, Veal calves were duit and heavy at lic, @ i2c. lor prune and extra, 34,c. a 16¢. com. mon, to gocd and 6c. Se. for inferior, Sheep were in fair request at quite stc.dy prices, the offerings being moderate, We quot Se. a SiyC.: prime, TC. a Thy) a inferior, 5c. a5',c. Unsborn—Prime ; common to good, 7'.c. a e., and toferior, 64¢c. a Te. Swine were quiet, at Ye. a loc. tor fair to prime and G30. a 9%.¢, or common, with fair arriva's, 5 Promincat Arrivals in the City. J. Lothrop Motley, United States Minister to Eng- jand, and Adam Badoau, Assistant Secretary of Legation; Count D'Aersenot, secretary of the Bet gian Legation; Rustew Bey and Mr, Wyatt, of the ‘Turkish Legation: Congressman Samuel Hooper, of Massachusetts, and George Villiers, of England, are at the Brevoort House, Miss Clara Louse Kellogg; Archer Cheay and Charles F. Wood, of Boston, and Francis A. Fisher, of Rutland, Vt., are at the Westmister Hotel. Judge Thorn, of New York; Gideon J. Tuck Paris; Colonel C. B. Butler, of Luzerne, aud V . Freeman, of North Adains, are al the Westmorcland Hotel. Captain D. W, Storrer, of Bengal; Major /. Pitney, of toga, and L. D. Binkerkom, of Philadciphia, are at the St, Charles Hotel. General H. K. Adams, of Canada; Congressman B, F. Hopkins, of Wisconsin; G. D, Coleman, of Leva. non; Dr. BE. Eldridge, of Elwira, and W. L. Scott, cf Erie, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, J, tiurd, W. L, Dexter and P, L. Everett, of Boa- ton, aud K. Rieman, of Baltimore, are at ihe How man House, Dr. C. W. Brink, United States Consul to Mexico; F.P. Cuppy and A. McKee, of Washiagton; L kK. Clark, of Canada; W. G. Fargo, of Bailalo; James Cruikshank, of sgow, Scotland; M. M. Price, Consul to Marseitles, and FP. Watkyns, of England are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Major L. B. Scott, for Montreal; 1. W. Powell, for Chicago; F. A, Alberger, for Ruffalo; Dr. Patwer, for Philadelphia, and 1. & Huntington, for Montreal, General Sherman was in this city yesterday, and visited a few friends, He made his headquarters at the Astor House, He left tor Washington iast night, wagons, and an if Reyvs in Parts anp ix New York.—One of our Paris correspondeats meations, in a letier which we published yesterday, the fact that the exorbitant prices for rent occasioned by the “Haussmannizing” of the Frencu capi- taland by the tomense influx of foreign vis- itors during the great Exposition are at length beginaing to diminish. So many edifices have heen erected, says our correspondent, so many palatial houses built, that Paris landiorda are lowering their charges for fifth and sixth story flats. No less than nine thousand locations have remained vacant since last year on ace count of their egregious pretensions and gro- tesque prices for rent, The number of lodg- ings which still remain vacant in New York since the fatal Ist of May is relatively as large, and we are glad to learn that New York landlords are beginning to follow the example of Paris Inadlords, Not even the extraordi- nary annual increase of our city population ean justify the prices for rent which certain land- lords seem disposed to exact, Tuk Brooktyn Fire Derarrwest.—The bill authorizing the organization of a paid fire department, controlled by commissioners, in the city of Brooklyn haa passed both branches of the State Legislature, and requires only the signature of the Governor to be of legal force. The excellent working of the system in New York rendered the morale of the Brooklyn fire- men, particularly those of the Eastern Dia- trict, of a not very enviable character—it may be by contrast. The Brooklyn force can be rendered just as efficient as our own by a gen- eral weeding out, discipline and a well-regu- lated command, at "ge, iower rates than Wheat forwarded by any “ape, poute. Rear Admiral Crav on sports to the Navy Depart- ment the destreseicn of many Indian villages and settlement: ¢aimon fisheries, canoes and forts in We publish to-day some very curious extracts from prominent republican organs in the West and East, together with a few comments from democratic papers. It will be seen that the Chicago 7'ridtine, speaking for ita Weatern fac- tion of republicans, declares war, open and unmistakable, against General Grant, and that while some of tho*small fry Western papers attempt to put in disclaimers in favor of Grant they cannot stand against the torrent, and are likely to be swept away in the revolutionary whirlpool set in motion by the Z'ribune, More- over, it will be observed that a powerful New England republican organ, the Boston Daily Advertiser, takes up the movement inaugurated by its Westera republican colleague and pushes it forward with the energy and ingenuity which usually distinguish the manoeuvres of politi- cians from its section. Influential republican organs: in this city like the Zeening Post, as well as others in diferent places, have taken up the hue and ery against the President, and if voice and volume could be givea to their utterances they would be heard proclaiining alowl, after the manner of the revolutionists of the Old World, “Down with Grant! Loag live the Senatorial oligarchy!” It is, furthermore, a significant fact that both the Eastern and Western joar- nals above mentioned are the organs of prominent*Senators, and no doubi the ariicles they publish against General Grant are in- aspired by theinselves—those in the West by Senator 'frumbull, of Minois, and those ia the East by Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts. In addition to these facts we have the ing assurance of a zealous republican paper in Kentucky—the Lexington Statesman—that nominations made by General Grant have been surreptitiously aud criminally tampered with after they left the hands of the Ex tive, aud that after undergoing Senatorial or some other manipulation have come forth with feaiures so transformed as to be entirely ua- recognizable by the power that created them. Now, what is the tendency of al! these things? What will be the resuit of those r. lutionary proceediags on the part of tho radi- eal republicans? We will say that we cannot conceal our apprehensions that they portend the most serious coasequences to the cou unless, by a speedy effort, General Grant to the exigencies of the occasion and the magnitude of the iss volved. It is not the consideration of the distribution of a few paltry offices that impels hese revoluti in and out of the Senate to attempt to down General Grant's administration, know that the President is not all to blar the disturbs: that has been created | among republican politi@ins and — their greedy followers by the — appoinunents | he has made or recommeaded. Tio republicans passed the Teaure of Oltice bill, which shackled his power in selecting the right men for the right places. They refused to repeal that offsive m therefore they are justly held respoasible for whatever injudicious appointmen's may have been made. We have seen where his nomina- tious have been ignored and others substi: They » for sure, and | 1 | Cuba but to do so she will subj and no doubt the © a isyot lo be raised upon instances of corrapiion that will ai the moral sense of our people from one end of the country to tie oth The fact has beco: lican pariy is the most douridasd, Daring i! upon the national (reasury and the pubs credit like 60 maay ravenous woives, T jobs and robberies in the way of army con- tracts, in the sale of rotten old huiks for transports, in the building of new war veksels that proved shells or abortions, and in every- teat thai the repub- corrupt that h heir thing connected with supplies, including pro- | assumed lony since. forage, hospical sto the end of the cata- visions, clothing, and so on to logue, tor the use were enough to appal any other than the American, These depraved and hun- gry leaders, with appetites for the spoils of office still lingering in thelr insatiable mawa, have now fastened upon the Senate of the United States, and, with an avaricionsness that spuras all compromise, reason and control, demand that no appointinent shail be made without their having a finger in the selection, In the homely phrase of a Western Senator, they are porsist- ently “dingdonging” every member of that body; and, it is mortifying to acknowledge, they have ia that body friends and confréres as corrupt aa themselves, who are ready and are employed to do their bidding in making Indian treaties, allowing enormous grants of land fot private purposes and engaging in other scandalous practices, besides encour- azing fraudulent appointments to office. These Senators seem to think that they have a life tenure to their seats. The eighteen year old settlers are as fresh and blooming when the subject of spuils comes up as when they made their maiden speeches, They want to control everything, and with their outside millionnaire backers they manage to do so, Thoy treat Grant as if he were a renegade, and they would let the goverament go to ruin rather than have their schemes of personal aggran- dizemeat or their objects ofa purely political character thwarted. They wouid let our diplo- matic system yo to wreck rather than not have foreign ministers of their own choosing. They would let our finances go to the dogs rather than have them controlled by any others than those of their own set, They are always Grasping for more, and when there is no more to grasp they would cre- ate public offices and public plunder jobs for the benefit of those interested in theie Gigantic Senatorial jobbing rings. Their pleas of retrenchment and reform are all fol-de-rol. What they save to the government ina year by the removal of hundreds of office-holders would not cover the public robberies they sanction in the way of land grants and aubsi- dies to private corporations in » single ses- sion, or by a single job in a single session. General Grant, unfortunately, seems to let them have their own way. This should not be, He uo take hold of the helm with an iron hand, give them, ina political sense, those hearty blows and ceaseless knocks whish brought Vicksburg to his fect. If bis Cabinot does not please him, let him change it at once and keep on changing it—not in obedience to the dictation of Western or Kaatern revolutionary republican papers, but in compliance with his own best judgment and his own conscientious will—until he is satisfied and the machinery of the government again works smoothly ; x } : "oF | fore, and in t war its leaders | oF the Cabam vi the army and navy, | aottling this 8 peonte | President Gi: Party, | thereby, “if thore remain any virtue in the =r 1" ¢ Grant and the Republicas Party ” oe oo Yt is evident that the men composing the} Tho Treasury Department and its agents Senate, the truly honorable there him and, in smashing up the corrupt old repub- lican party, erect a bulwark around his admin- istration against which the blasts of radicalism will beat in vain, The people expect this of him, and the tone of the press opposed to him has given him an excuse not only to telk, but to act. _ A Cuban Congress—Annexatien to the United States the Declared Object of the Revolue tlon. While the Spanish authoritios in Havana are loudly assuring the world that the Cuban insurrection is very nearly extin- guished, and that sixty days more will see the end of the revolution, we are startled with a telegram—suppressed in Havana, but sent to us via Key West--announcing that the Cuban Congress has assembled at Sibanicii under the Presidency of General Cespedes, and calmly declared the objects of the revolution and its confidence in the success of the cause. Freedom and annexation to the United Siates are the unanimous vote of the assembled patriots, General Quesada is appointed Com- mander-in-Chief of the forces, and the most determined spirit animated the members of the assembly, This is an announcement that will ring through America and Enrope. It will be re- membered that monihs ago these Cuban patriots decreed the liberation of the slaves In the faland as being a logical sequence and part of their effort for their own freedom; and now comes the unhesitatixg proclamation of their confidence in the great republic and their aim to be admitted to its union and defence. It is a novel and bold principle of civil war, and will complicate the position of our people and our government very much, Whatever view the administration may take of the contest now going oa in Cuba, it cannot reject such a frank avowal of confidence in its wisdom and integrity; for to do so would be a demerit to its own character and self-respect. That this bold step will awaken a aitill greater sympathy among our people in behalf of the patriot exuse in Cuba no man can doubt. What-attiiude Spaia will or can take in this strange juncture can be merely a matter of conjecture, She has not yet proclaimed war as existing in @cr American colonial posses- sioas, thouga her officers made the mistake of assuming to exercise rights on the sea peenliar toa state of war, from wiich they have natu- rally been compelied to recede. Spain may demand of our government a dis- avowal of sympathy with the revolution in vet herself to the dilemma of either receiving the rebuff of a refusal .or of admitting a disavowal which neither she aor the world can believe. Yet if she dogs not do so she will permit the tacit ac- captance by our government and people of the aim of the revolution to force in the contest an exercise its fall d its natural inf icnce in The intervention in the dinla h journals have oly to be brought 2 the question still discussion, which the Spa tre ly intty Las hi about, would oaly complica more, Z tep taken by the Cubans clevates their dom slic ira to the full dignity of an American qr 1, and Baropoan meddling ean only intensify tts character and its influen p in diploma ‘a of government, th very shrewd one, and shows a skill and proficiency which does them bivh honor as beginners, lidate on gress Oo Relutioas wit -Baglaaa, The Alabama claims qnestion appeara to be assuming an importance which it should have It is the sad poli cal condition in whieh the ‘reconstruction radicals have kept as that has prevented our Hish Mair, Lo the conyorea- toa beiween Air, Sumuer and our correspond- ent, published yesterday, Mr. Sumner ly saya:—“We have defined our position now, and there witi b> no yielding. We ask nothing but what is fair, and our people mean to have justice at least.” Wedo not apprehend that war will reault from the attitudes we bave assumed; but the result, on the contrary, wiil be « closer and better understanding between the two nations, Such menas Re ¥ Jonson only help to bury the real issue under mountains of roast beef, plum pudding, ‘af and ‘af” and champagne. The action of the United States Senate was necessary to sweep away the deébria and get at the question, We made clear work of it, and with a smooth floor before us we are ready to opéa a lively commercial cancan with John Bull, or, as he has the largest fumily of she ships on the ocean, we will launch a few Ala- bamas and commence coquetting, if that be required, But English good sense and love of fair play will no doubt settle all this war flurry to our entire satisfaction, We are now ex- aclly where we thoroughly undérstand each other, and that is the first broad step towards 9 settlement. Frionioa Srorvs—Alligator ng. No alligator over four feet tong is admitted on the track. The Jacksonville Union thinks the sport will become popular, provided the alli- gator tamers are not eaten up by their crusty pets. - New Sorwrunan Reaviwa,—“An eye for an eye, @ tooth for a tooth, anda Blow for"— our representative to Brazil. A Western paper thinks that this appointment disposes of Carlisle's latest hope. He'd Met with neon But never uch « Hows S1asir10ANt.—Miohigan democratic journals quoting the editorials in such radical organs as the Detroit Advertiser, BonumantsM.—The Wheeling Register ang- gests this term as illustrative of the European plan upon which the organ of Senator Bore- man, the Znéelligencer, is conducted—he calls for what he wants and pays for what he gets, Some journals conducted on this principle fre- quently give moro than is wanted, VALLANDIONAM indignantly denies that he defeated the nomination of Chase and over- threw the democratic party at the last Presi- dential election. We suppose we shall next have 9 disoussion as to whether Brutus killed Owsar or whethor Cwsar died of cramps in the Benate House, Both subjects are about equally ancient. President Grant apd His Cabinet, President's Cabinet are ill-suited to their posi- tions. None of thom take hold of the great questiogs appertaining to their departments in a manner that indicates grasp of mind and originglity in execution. We speak of these things for the benefit of the President himself. He requires mea around him who have suffi- ctent brains to administer the laws in all ex- cept extraordinary cases, which may require Consultation and olose executive attention. General Grant has made a mistake in suppos- ing that civil government can be directed by military forms, The civil power is the reverse of the military, The former proceeds from the people to the centre--the mass governs and directs through its mouthpiece, the Presi- dent; the military power is the centre, creating all action and shaping everything. It is with the military idea predominant and in keeping with his education and habits that General Grant came into office. The Cabinet was selected under this principle, and not having been accustomed or fitted to work in sucha direction they already show signs of im- becility. The Secretary of the Treasury finds the financial problem too ponderous for the keeper of a country store or for solution in accordance with the old European book theories, He finds it impossible to run the American treasure box on European wieels, The letter from Washington, which we pub- lish elsewhere to-day, says traly that ‘‘Mr. Borie was called from the most complete retirement,” much to the astonishment of himself as well as the country, Ad- miral Porter is to-day virtually filling the office of Svcretary of the ~ Navy. The Secretary of State, worse than all the rest, is ag un-American as it is possible for an oficer to be. His tam foreign policy is in ill-keeping with the bold attitude of the people and the Senate. The country does not expect him to think for it, but simply to watch itstemper and obey its mandates: . When he fails in this he ceases to be the representative of the United States in the position where the President has unfortunately placed him. We are little disposed to have a Secretary amuse the people with ideas of a bold policy on any foreign question while he has a private and opposite understanding with the Power to which it relates. This ia too uch in the track of the last cight years. We speak of the nevessity of remodelling the Cubinet that President Grant may have around him good working men, who live with the times and uaderstand the animating forces of our political existence. We know that the President enjoys himself in looking upon his fast horses rather than in the analysis of ab- struse governmeatal questions, This and good assisiants will enable him to last out his term of office, General Grant is a man of very solid sease, sad will readily see the necessity for abler Cabinet brains, not ouly for the reasons we have indicated, but for those which he himsvif gave in his inaugaral address, ~The Poor Overworked A Western exchange feelingly asserts that an “overworked woman is alwaya a sad sight, sadder a great deal than an overworked man, us? she is 80 much more fertile in capa- cities of suffering than a man. She has so many varieties of headache, sometimes as if Jaol were driving the nail which killed Sisera into her tomplesa, soinstimoa a tightening around the brow, as if her capband were Luke's iroa crowa; and thea her neuralgias and backaches and her fits of depression and many more trials linked to her fine and noble stcucture entitle to pity when she is placed in conditions which develop her nervous ten- dencies.” How much belter would it be for the sirong-minded of the sex who are hissing around club houses, in public hotels and other public places about woman's right to vate and to ren the mescatine {machine generally, t# take note of the -poor overworked women and endeavor to alloviate their sufferings by kind and tender ministrations of love. As to the question of woman's right to vote, it really does not make much difference whether she does or not, con- sidering the way elections have gone in this country for the last few years, Women. Tut Dayton (Ohio) Ledger avers that “what the democratic party wants are brains and pluck.” Here's a chance for vendors of calves’ brains and sheep's pluck, Tur Riss 1x Gorp.—The gold gamblers are in cestasy. Aflera rather long and monoto- nous siege the “pulls” are again suocessful, causing a rise yesterday of over one per cent. The heavy imports this yeur--the total being nearly one hundred and ten millions against exports of less than aixty millions—-afford the “bulls” a great vantage ground in conducting their side of the campaign, ‘The uneasiness produced in England by the mail reports of the Senatorial speeches on the Alabama claims question led to 9 decline in our bonds. Hence the “beara” are anxious, because the foreign demand for our securities, which induced a fall in gold, is likely to halt watil more is seon of the future of the dispute, Tue Detroit Post states that Chicago jour- nals naturally dislike exposures of journalistic corruption, The Chicagoans are continually mixed up with such » variety of corruptions and vices that it is not astonishing impure journalism should be included in the category. A Westen paper thinks that when General Grant congratulated Sprague on his escape from the danger which had been threatening him the hero of Appomattox perpetrated a — equal to any uttered by the lamented Lin- Srorxtary Borts has beon ordering com- mandors of United States vessels in the Asiatic seas to prepare to receive and accommodate the scientific parties selected by Congress to take observations of the eclipse of the aun in August next from aome point in Alaska or Siberia. Had he not better be looking after an eclipse nearer home? Taxtxa to Warse in Hts OLv Aox.—The Macon (Ga.) Telagraph states that Thurlow Weed has presented the Baptist chureh in Aiken, S. ©., with @ handsome communion service, This venerable lobbyist has been for 80 many years immersed in politios and pri- vate jobs that it was acarcely to be aupposed that he would over endure the Baptist rite of inmorsion wad take to water at last, = ee The National Debt and Taxation, cs and organs are making a great flourish over the reduction of the national debt of six mil- lions the last month, and the friends of Mr. Boutwell are making the most of the fact in hia favor, Doubtless this is a gratifying exhibié to the country, as far as it goes, and particus larly when we look at the past extravagance and increasing indebtedness of the government, We only hope that the next month and the month after, and a along in the future, we may -have similar flattering statements. Bul let us not deceive ourselves. Let us look squarely at our financial situation and eq what prospect there is before us. One month's statement will not give reliable data as to thé condition of the finances, because the revenue income or expenditures may, from special causes, be extraordinary or unusually small for that short period. We must take a longed’ period—the average of several months or a year—to ascertain whether the debt is diminishing or increasing. Nor has Mr. Boutwell been in the Treasury Department long enough to produce any perceptible effect upon the debt. Whatever result has been pro- duced the last month must be attributed ta causes over which he had little or no control. The country has yet to learn if he has the ability to reduce the debt by a skilful manage- ment of the finances independent of the legis- lation of Congress and through his own official acts. It has yet to learn if he has the atatea- manship to devise and lay before Congress such a system of finance as we need, But, to go back to the debt statement, wo find that the national indebtedness has beon increased during the last year—that is, from May 1, 1868, to May 1, 1869—nearly twenty- nine millions of dollars, and during the last two years over eight millions. To get an idea of the reckless extravagance and miserable financial management of the government it must be understood that the debt has been thus augmenting long after the war closed and war expenses ceased, and at a time when the revenues brought in four to five hundred millions 9 year—at a time, in fact, when the people have been taxed enormously and to the utmost limit of forbearance. If the debt has increased so with such a stupendous income, what are we to expett, unless there be a radical change in the management of tha Treasury, when the inéome is much less? Bué the actual weight or burden of.the debt has been augmented_much more than the figures represent, through the transformation of that portion of the debt which bore no interest and that bearing currency interest into the debt bearing gold interest. Through Mr. McCul- loch’s mismanagement and wretched financial policy the annual burden has been increased pro- bably not less than twenty millions—that is, the people have to pay twenty millions a yoar more taxes than they need have paid had there been a capable Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary arranges the figures 60 as lo make it appear that the fifty-six millions of bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad are sepa- rate from the debt; but that is not 30. These. form a part of the debt as much as the five- twenties, and, no doubt, if ever paid will have to be paid by the government. Nor do the enormous revenues of the gov- ernment show by along way the amount ot taxation; for the Treasury has been defraudcd through the whiskey ring and other rings and dishonest officials a hundred millions a year. Of course the amount of these frauds come out of the honest taxpayers, Tho govern- ment must supply the vast sum thus abslen, and the people have to make it good. Thea our expensive, cumbrous and complicated revenue system requires an army of office-hold- ers to carry it on. They eat up a large amount of what is collected. Now’ everything is taxed—everything we eat, drink, woar, use or look upon, We are the worst taxed people in the world, and with fess results 2 show for it. In England a large revenue is raised,.but itis not as burdensome as ours, nor by any means as costly to collect. The revenue should be raised chiefly from a few articles of luxury in general use. As muclr could be obtained in this way a3 by our pro sent abominable system of taxing everything. The cost of collection to the governmont would be far less, three-fourths at least of the preseat army of office-holders could be dis- pensed with, there would be little temptation, comparatively, to corruption, and the whole revenue machinery would be much easior watched and controlled by the Treasury De- partment. Can Mr. Boutwell comprehend these much-needed reforms? Can he deviso a aystem of revenue more simple and effective, by which the people will be relieved of their numerous and burdensome taxes, and by which, at the same time, the debt would be steadily diminished? If he can he is just the man for Secretary of tho Treasury; -if not the the President should search the -country through tillhe finds such a one. The subject of our national finances is the most important one, and of all the Cabinet officers the Sec- retary of the Treasury ought to bo a atates- man of the highest capacily. “A Lirree Mord” Cpe ston Post asserts that there is ovidence that Maa- sachusetts children go to school drunk on cider, Is that 60, or is it only ‘a little more older for Miss Dinwh” that prompts the accusa- tion? ' New York Posinl City Delivery. Now that our new Postmaster has got fairly into his place we would call his attention to the necessity of instituting an inquiry into the practice of our free delivery aystem, Notwithstanding the efforts made by the lato inéumbent to induce our citizene, and particn- larly our merchants, to adapt themselves to the new plan, there is a very general belief in the public mind that free delivery of letters means frequent delay of letters. The expe- rience of owe merchants is that ander the old- fashioned box aystem they could get the main bulk of their correspondence by nine o'clock in the morning, but with the free delivery plan it comes straggling to thom at all hours of tho day, though the mails do not reach the city in any such straggling order. We know that the argument is that the city froe delivery must be made self-supporting before there will be funds to increnso its ofi- ciency, But to us it is equally evident that our citizens, and particularly our morchants, can- hot be induded voluntarily to abandon the old plan if the new one does not work satintnos