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6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIE Allbnsiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIV.. 139 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—1e SEoReT—Inisu Lion, &o. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Htocony D1ccoRy DooK, Matinee at 1s. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—PYGMALION— Tol ON PARLE FRaNoais. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Afieravon and eveniag Performance. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—ROuINSON CRUSOE AND Lis MAN FuIDAY, 40. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 OTHELLO. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tue® Buriesque Ex- THAVAGANZA OF TUE FORTY THIEVES. Matinee at 1). , between Sth and 6th avs.— FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street,—1HE HeRMit's BEL. 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HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoouer's MinsTRELs—Coco's FRoiic. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— T. New York, Wednesday, May 19, 1869. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. BrookLyN CaRgieRS AND NewsMeN will in future rec or THE New Yorx Heratp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svusscriptions and all letters for the New York Heratp will be Jeceived as above. ve their papers at the Brancu Orrice Europe. The cable telegrams are dated May 18. Reverdy Johnson declined the proposed banquet of the Southampton authorities in his honor. The English press still {ret over Sumner’s speech. The London Standard yesterday contained an editorial in which it was asserted that England is still pre- pared to submit tue question of wrongs and dam- ages to a proper tribunal. The Archbishop of Cashel, in a pastoral letter, de- Plores the recent outrages in the south of Ireland. He considers them, however, as the acts of a few desperadoes, and he denies the existence of an ‘agrarian conspiracy. The negotiations for the setulement of the railway diMiculty between France and Belgium have been completed. The opposition candidates in the vicinity of Paris, it is thougnt, will be successful in tne com- ing elec.ions. The financial budget of Spain was submitted to the Cortes yesterday. Egypt. The Viceroy sailed from Alexandria yesterday with the intention of making a tour through Europe. Cuba. Spanish reports state that the late fight at Las Mi- nas was nothing more than @ skirmish. The troops on both sides are suffering from fevers. Miscellaneous. General Carr, with seven companies of the Fifth cavalry, 18 reported to have encountered a village of puhes on the 1th tust., while moving to Fort McPherson, and a fight ensued, in which the Indians were defeated and fled with heavy loss, Carr had three men killed and one O‘licer and two privates wounded. The proceedings of the Dyer court martial, which acquit General Dyer of frauds in ordnance contracts, was approved aud promulgated by the President yesterday. Among the new and inexperienced employés of the Treasury Department several mistakes have oc- curred recently. It has been discovered that one clerk has been drawing three salaries, amounting in the aggregate to $4,000. Brigham Young broke the first ground for the Utah Central Railroad, below Ogden, on Monday. The road 1s to connect Salt Lake City with the Pacitic Railroad, and it is said wil: probably be finished in October. Velocipede rinks have been decided liable to taxa- tion as exhibitions, but tuition fees and receipts for incidental use of the veliicles are not returnes in the grods receipts. A Boston printer named Alvin P. Rollins com- mitted suicide yesterday by cutting his throat. He was under charges of unseemly crimes at the time, and in @ moment of dejection probably committea the deed, ‘The case of Connors, the Broadway policeman, was postponed by Judge Bediord yesterday until ‘Thursday, owing to the absence of the Assistant District Attorney. ‘The crevasse below New Orleans is stil unclosed, and the laborers have given up the task of closing it as hopeless. The water now sweeps uninterruptedly through to the lake, Another crevasse has occurred at Pointe Coupee parish, just below Red river, on the west side of the Miss! pi. The City. ‘The four Police Commissioners were at the Central Office yesterday, but no meeting was called, Itis Probable, if @ meeting had been held, that the bal- lots for President would have resulted as before. Alexander Lippman, a city marshal, was severely bruised by some parties on whom he was serving @ dispossess Warrant, in Orchard street, on the 2sth of April, and died from the effects of the wound on Monday. Several of the persons alleged to have been connected with the aifray have been arresved, and Coroner Schirmer has commenced an inyesti- gation. George B, Davis was brought up before Judge Benedict yesterday for triai on @ charge of perjury room. While going out he drew a phial from bis Pocket and drank the contents, which he declared to be poison that would kill him in ten minutes. No ill effects resulted from it, however, and the trial ‘Was postponed until this morning. ‘The New York Sunday School Missionary Union, embracing 135 schools, celebrated its fifty-thira an- niversary yesterday with interesting exercises by the children at the various churches, In the evening the exercises were continued at the Reformed Dutch church on Fifth avenue ana Twenty-ninth street, when addresses were delivered by Revs. T. L. Cuy- ler, 8. H. Tyng, Jr., and others. ‘The discharged soldiers in this city who have been defrauded of their bounties have formed an associa- tion to redress their wrongs. Charles 8. Spencer is their counsel and they propose to prosecute Mr. Van Dyck, of the Sub-Treasury, for paying checks on 1n- proper endorsements, In the Hell Gate drowning casualty the Coroner's Jury yesterday returned a verdict of accidental drowning. The Cunard steamship Cuba, Captain Moodie, will sail to-day for Liverpool via Queenstown. The mails willclose at the Post Ofice at half-past eleven o’clock this morning. The National line steamship The Queen, Captain Grogan, will leave pier 47 North river at eleven A. M, to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The steamer Saragossa, Captain Ryder, will sail at three P, M. to-day from pier No, 8 North river for Charleston, S. C. The stock market yesterday was higher and buoy- ant in response to an improvement ‘in the general markets. New York Central advanced to 183%, the highest it has ever reached. Gold was variable, selling as high as 1423; and closing finally at 14254. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General Lewis Dent and Nat. Paige, of Washing- ton; Dr. S. C. Pratt, of Boston; Dr. Hunter, of Hon- duras; Major W. 0. Beardsley and E. P. Ross, of Auburn; Anthony Kennedy, of Baltimore, and B. H. Latrobe, of Maryland, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Samuel Gardiner, of Washington; Judge Huribut, of Saratoga; Judge Robert Cochrane, of New York, and Judge Landen, of Schenectady, are at the Me- tropolitan Hotel. Charles E. Perry, United States Consul to Aspin- wall; Dr. Y, Vade, of Mexico; V. Rensselaer, of An- napolis, and Jules A. Randle, of Texrs, are at the New York Hotel. Colonel Gorloff, of Hartford; Dr. Stillwell, of Sag Harbor; Cologel E. M. Madden, of Connecticut, and T. D. Roberts, of Middletown, are at the St. Denis Hotel. John Cadwallader, Jr., of Philadelphia, and George D. Fenno, of Boston, are at the Westminster Hotel. Commander McCrea, of the United States Navy, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Paymaster Thornton of the United States Navy; Dr. Carter, of New Hampshire; George 0. Jones, of Albany, and Rev. Dr. S.. C. Lathrop, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Colonel W. D. Farrand, United States Consul to Peru; Captain S, Doane, of steamship America; W. F. Wentworth, of Chicago, and C. F. Harris, of Providence, are at the Hoffman House. General Palmer, of the United States Army; Judge W. M. Converse, of Connecticut, and ex-Mayor Innes, of Poughkeepsie, are at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. Major Folger, for Baltimore; Dr. E. Kimball, for Boston; Dr. Earl, tor Niagara Fails; Colonel F. Libby, for New Orleans; United States Marshal Charles Eaton, for Minnesota; W. Cassidy, for Albany; Jacob Sharpe, for Rome, N. Y.; Senator Trumbull, of Iili- nois, for Albany; General Hagen and Captain A. H. Merrili, for Newport, and Robert Reiman, for Bal- timore. J, Lothrop Motley, United States Minister to the Court of St. James, with his family; Assistant Secre- tary of Legation, General Badeau, and Judge Rey- nolds and family, of Brooklyn, leave to-day on the steamship Cuba for Liverpool. Judge William W. Eaton, Major W. C. Barney, Louis Haase and Mrs, Judge J. A. Stemmler left this city yesterday in the steamer Westphalia for Ham- burg. A Storm Brewing—The Press of the Country and General Grant. The clouds are rising. The heavens are be- coming black. The rumbling of distant thunder is beginning to be heard. Evidently a storm is brewing. It is the storm of popular senti- ment in regard to General Grant. The press of the countrf is the barometer of public opinion. It fies whether the political atmosphere ist fair or foul, genial or tem- pestuous. That press is now either silently murmuring discontent or is flashing in fury. The radical press is typical of the one, the democratic press of the other. While the former either preserves a studied silence or utters unfriendly words in regard to the Presi- dent of its choice, the latter does not attempt to conceal its hostility to Grant and his admin- istration, and is using every effort in its power to make both unpopular. What is the meaning of all this? Does it mean that the affections of the people of the United States are becom- ing alienated from the man who but a few months since was their idol ?—that they are be- coming estranged from the hero, who, as the leader of their armies, saved this country from political annihilation? Unpalatable as the truth may be, we are obliged to confess that this does actually seem to be the case. Now, as we, out of pure friendship, and with a profound feeling of gratitude for his having triumphantly closed the rebellion, advocated General Grant’s election to the Presidency as a partial reward for his unpar- alleled services, so now we with equally as sincere a desire for his success as a statesman as that he achieved as a warrior, earnestly urge him to arouse himself from the lethargy that seems to have fallen upon him like a fu- neral pall, and to realize the dangers that menace not only himself as the Chief Execu- tive, but his administration and the country generally. Let him brush away the parasites who surround him, who poison his ear with false accusations against good and true men, who give him bad advice, and whose avarice and selfishness are bringing his administration into contempt all over the land and fast caus- ing the character of the government to lessen in the respect of nations abroad. The scene the other day between Senator Sumner and General Dent, the President’s usher, was most unfortunate. Had it been possible a report of it would not have appeared in our columns, But, unfortunate and humiliating as it was, it was important as affording an index of the manner in which business is transacted at the White House. As Mr. Sumner said, General that the President should be the mere crea- ture of Congress? Does not the country, does not his office require of him the initiative in great measures when the opportunity in- vites him to action? Is he not expected to assume the responsibility, like Jackson and Lincoln, in extraordinary cases, without ex- press authority of law? Is he not expected to give shape and direction to the legislation of Congress itself in shaping out the general policy of his administration? These ques- tions carry with them each its own answer. Nor can it be denied that in the Cabinet General Grant has had and has opportunities before him for distinction as enduring as Vicksburg, Chattanooga or the Wilderness among his achievements in the field. The President, like the general, who risks nothing, accomplishes nothing. General Grant may eclipse the popularity in bis office of Lincoln by resolute action, or he may sink into the inglorious record of Buchanan by masterly inactivity. For an active, decisive, pro- gressive policy we want a new Cabinet and a new departure ; but the policy indicated so far by General Grant signifies nothing, Under this policy there is no call for a change of the Cabinet. When nothing is to be done but the routine business of the peace es- tablishment one Cabinet is as good as another, and the Cabinet as it is may be even better than any other that could be substituted. Even in this matter, then, we see something of the military sagacity of General Grant, And why should he change his Cabinet, any how, in the absence of Congress? He is not going out of his way to offend the Senate. He wants peace. Let us, therefore, have peace; but let it be a peace in the true and proper acceptation of the word—peace, broad and comprehensive at home, and dignified before the world abroad. A peace of this character can scarcely be ex- pected by the nation at the hands of General Grant, who, no matter what his services in war, has proved that he does not completely embrace the large and varied interests of the country in his administrative views, evidently assuming that he has discharged his duty acceptably by the appointment of a negro as our representative in Guatemala. This is not the sort of peace which we require. The American people, in peaceful attitude, want an adjustment of pend- ing foreign questions. They want a settle- ment of the Alabama claims; they want full reparation and indemnification for the injury inflicted on our commerce through the jealousy of England in a moment of national peril; they want the reassertion of our com- mercial position on the ocean and the vindi- cation of the prestige of the country on the continent of Europe. Can General Grant insure such results? Will he do so? They cannot certainly be obtained by his pre- sent policy, if he hasa policy. They cannot be attained by doing nothing. Mere appoint- ments to place will not satisfy the people. General Grant will soon learn this important fact. Will he, then, do something and en- deavor to show to the world that itis not neces- sary that the leader of armies in the field should prove a failure when in the executive chair of a country? Tue SULTAN AND THE EUROPEAN Powers.— The Sultan of Turkey has addressed a circular to his Ministers at the chief foreign courts in St. Petersburg and Europe on the subject of the present settlement of the difficulties of the empire with Greece. His Majesty acknow- ledges the disinterestedness of the great Powers in the matter of a conference with the authorities in Athens. The Sultan glances at the exciting causes of his recent complications with Greece, recounts the accusations made against him by his enemies in that country, and shows pretty plainly that he places little faith in the national honor of the Greeks. Ovr ForgiGn REPRESENTATIVES.—T he story of our representatives abroad which we pub- lished on Monday ought to awaken the atten- tion of the administration to the necessity of exercising a good deal of circumspection in the appointment of men who are to take care of American interests abroad. We doubt not that our correspondent’s statemeni is free from prejudice or exaggeration; and what a sorry picture it presents of the representation of this republic at foreign courts! The truth is that for many years we have been represented abroad by a class of men wholly incompetent for their position, many of them ignorant of the language of the country to which they were accredited, and most of them entirely innocent of those questions of international polity essential to the diplomatic and consular service. One of the first duties of General Grant in the direction of reform should be to remodel our entire system of foreign repre- sentation. Someturse For Our New Postmaster.— The merchants of Yucatan appeal to the Herap, as will be seen in another column, to have the manner of making up their mails in the New York Post Office looked into and so ordered that their letters shall not be sent to Vera Cruz, to their great detriment. The whole matter of sending off and receiving and delivering these Spanish-American mails will bear looking into and putting on a more effec- tive footing. Will Postmaster Jones please look into the subject ? ‘ Distrxevisnep Letrer Wrirers.—We give to-day two letters which are worthy of notice as signs of the times, Our old friend Seward writes from Auburn announcing his return to private life after twenty years of absence, and that he knows nothing about the policy of the new administration and shall not take the trouble to inquire. Mr. Washburne, on the other hand, writes as though he were per- fectly satisfied, and opines that the Cabinet is Grant should remember that the Executive Mansion is not a military camp, and that we are living in a state of peace, not in a state of war; and furthermore, that when gentlemen call at the White House on official business they are entitled to be treated with the respect due an American citizen in his own household, and not with petty insolence and churlish vul- garity. Hence, in view of all these drawbacks and obstacles to his successful career in civil lite, we pray that General Grant will listen to the indications of the approaching storm, and by timely and sagacious reforms either pro- preferred by Collector Batley. As the case proceeded, Davis, who was sitting with his wife, became very Joud in his denunctations of the prosecuting lawyer fund the Court ordered him to be taken from the duce a reaction or prepare to protect himself from its direful effects when it bursts. But what is the true policy? Is it enough definitely constituted and will give satisfaction to the country. WALL Street is a curious place. On Mon- day there was a failure there for a million and a half of dollars. Inthe olden time such an event would have created a sensation all over the country, and probably have induced a financial panic. Modern Wall street, however, discussed it for one day only. Yesterday morn- ing those who were not hurt looked to see if their securities were all right, dismissed the subject, plunged into business just as usual, and the great failure vanished like a bubble on ‘astream of water. The “bulls” in gold made a faint effort to keep up the excitement, but without success. The News from Cuba. It will be seen from the correspondence and accounts from Spanish and insurgent sources which we publish in another column to-day that the Spanish government makes little or no progress in putting down the revolutionists, who continue to hold at least one-half of the territory of the island. Great exertions were made to concentrate forces under General Letona at Nuevitas for the purpose of opening the rail communication between that port and the large city of Puerto Principe, and the result of the campaign has been looked for with great interest by both Cubans and Spaniards, as it was supposed that this would exercise a marked influence on the course of the war. As all the lines of communication arein the hands of the Spaniards the slow and meagre driblets of intelligence from the scene of operations would seem to indicate that results are not so favorable to the Spaniards as they had hoped for. It seems that General Letona has committed a mistake in encumbering his operations with a supply train for the relief of the garrison of Puerto Principe. He thus has on hand at one time the triple operation of protecting the train, clearing the country of the enemy and reconstructing the railroad. If he had any hopes of opening the road it would seem to have been better to have left his supply train safe in Nuevitas until he had the road fairly in operation. As affairs now stand it looks very much as though he is only fight- ing his way through a region occupied by the enemy for the sole, purpose of relieving the garrison of the beleagured city from hunger, as did General Lesca two months ago. If this is the fact, the operations of the government exhibit a remarkable weakness. From other portions of the island the gen- eral tenor of advices is that the operations of insurgent bands continue unchecked in the country, and reinforcements are called for, with @ constant complaint of the inefficiency of local commanders. The enthusiasm of the Spanish volunteers in Havana does not seem to hold up at the fever heat it exhibited in the early days of the year, and the fact that the most wealthy among them are remitting their funds to Spain, and some even contemplate going in person to Madrid to induce the gen- eral government to modify General Dulce’s sequestration decrees in view of the possible retaliatory effect on Spanish property in Cuba, has a signification in it that all can see. The truth is, there is a great difference between the words and the deeds of the Spanish portion Affairs in Spain. Our latest cable despatches from Spain show 4 that the situation is yet very far from being free from difficulty. Good progress has been made in discussing the new constitution. There has been no lack of amendments; but the amendments have had small success. Such has been the strength of the government that the constitution, as originally framed, has, so far, passed into law without any serious modi- fication. The discussions on the 17th seem to have been interesting and lively. The repub- lican party did its best, but the government was completely successful. The thirty-second article of the constitution, which declares that “all power emanates from the nation,” was agreed to. Attempts were made by the oppo- sition, in the course of the debate, to have it declared that the king must be a native of Spain and that he be elected by a plebiscitum, but they were unsuccessful. It appears, how- ever, that the abnormal and almost unprece- dented state of things in Spain is beginning to be felt to be dangerous. Civil war is actually dreaded, and as no king has yet come to the rescue the majority of the Cortes have agreed to go infor a regency. A regency, however, will make but little difference in the actual situation. It will leave Serrano at the head of affairs and it will not deprive Prim of the command of the army. Of course Spain is to remain a monarchy, but the question has still to be answered who shall be king? GexeraL Grant's CaBinet.—A Western democratic paper thinks that General Grant would have hada more stable Cabinet if he had put Dexter in. He will exbibit more dexterity if he keeps the stable out. Marriep Women’s Rieuts iy Massacnv- seTrs.—The Massachusetts Legislature has passed a law to authorize any married woman to be an executrix, administratrix, guardian or trustee. This places a married woman in Massachusetts on a legal equality as regards property with her single sister. Having done thus much for the married women, why don’t the Legislature of Massachusetts attempt to do something for the benefit of the white men of the State? For instance, if they can’t take care of themselves let them increase the accommodations in the lunatic asylums of the State. Waars toe Marrer with Grary?—A strong opposition to the renomination of Gov- ernor Geary has been started among the Penn- sylvania republicans. Again, Wiat’s the matter with Geary ? How It Works.—The operation of the Ten- ure of Office law is seen in the case of the Washington Postmaster. General Grant wishes to remove one man and appoint another, and believes that he has ample reason, but he can- not do it. He can only suspend theincumbent. Public affairs are thus embarrassed. because some President might remove a man for im- proper reason. Is it wise thus to provide for remote possibilities, when, in doing so, we put a standing indignity on the Chief Magistrate ? ExcrreMENT AT THE Hvup,—‘‘Jubilee hats,” “Jubilee neckties,” ‘Jubilee collars,” “Jubilee juleps,” “Jubilee cobblers,” “* Jubilee cock- tails,” and so on, are already beginning to be the rage in Boston. We shall expect next to hear of ‘Jubilee flirtations,” ‘Jubilee elope- ments,” ‘Jubilee marriages,” with a few ‘“Ju- bilee homicides,” ‘Jubilee rows,” ‘Jubilee robberies” and ‘Jubilee drunks” thrown in. Brown Ur.—Occasionally an accident comes toremind us thatin the familiar iron tubes that are in all our houses we keep shut a dan- gerous agent, Just now @ house has been blown to pieces by the explosion of gas. It had been escaping in a closed room for several hours and was ignited, not bya light carried in, but by simply opening the door so that the gas came in contact with lights in another room. Take oare of the fixtures in closed | rooms. Generul Sickles’ Mission. Major General Daniel E. Sickles was, a8 we have been informed, appointed United States Minister near the government in Madrid on Monday, President Grant having signed his commission that day. There has been an immense amount of backing and filling with Executive assertion and telegraph denial in and from Washington re- lative to this important mission—so much 80, indeed, that it has appeared to us as if Mr. Grant has not for months made up his mind as to the absolute necessity of action in the case, and that the members of his Cabinet—at least the majority of them—are unable to comprehend it and thus counsels him wisely. We do not know even now, of certain knowledge, if General Sickles has been appointed. There is not the slightest necessity for fuss or prolonged delay. General Sickles’ record as a law- yer, a diplomatic agent and Union soldier is spread before the American people and has obtained the endorsement of the nation. That he is a brave man is attested by his timely organization of the well known Sickles brigade, the gallant and decisive action of its members under his inspiration, with the loss of his limb when foremost in battle--facts which show that although he ranks under Mr. Grant, he is not inferior to him for the display of courage as an officer in the field. Of Gene- ral Sickles’ domestic trials and his means of re- dress it becomes no man to speak. Let by- gones be bygones—his peers in the jury box, with the representative of the majesty of the law onthe bench, having long since pronounced on the facts, General Sickles, in Madrid, should he be sent there, will be able to report intelligently as to the exciting causes which have produced the present govern- mental chaos of Spain, remarking, no doubt, how far the personal ambition of some military leaders, or leader, adds to its prolongation. His appointment would, consequently, be both agreeable and beneficial to the nation. Let us hope that, if made, it will tend to neutralize, in some degree, the sense of the insult just offered to the country at large from Washington by the commission- ing of a negro to represent us in the republic of Guatemala. In this last named case, as in some others, Mr. Grant is playing with edged tools, which, as he knows, is always dan- gerous. He had better consider the position and change his Cabinet. Spanish FINANCE.—The government of Spain submitted the revolutionary budget of the nation to the Cortes yesterday. The charges for the retention of Cuba will form very curious items in the account. The island could, we apprehend, be ruled much more cheaply. Toe ALABAMA CLatms.—The tories of Eng- land are again on a high horse on this subject. The London Stundard, the organ of the party, asserts that if the American govern- ment will not go before an arbitration court— arbitrate a right—the question cannot be re- opened on ‘preposterous grounds.” What does General Grant say? He knows what the people think and demand. Pusnine ToEM Down.—By the operation of natural causes the nigger was gradually pushed out from State after State of the Eastern and Middle States years ago. The movement was stayed when he was about half pushed out of Maryland and his hold a little weakened on Virginia, Then came the abolition and pro- slavery excitement, which strengthened his hold on the border States. Now, slavery being out of the way and the commercial interest in the nigger gone, natural causes operate again and he is disappearing from Virginia. Small farms and white labor are sure to accomplish the regeneration of that grand old State. Wovtp it be a very great outrage upon the republican simplicity if the heads of depart- ments in Washington, regarding the dignity of atation, should adopt rules that would shut out from ‘‘interviews” such a common scold and perambulating nuisance as Mrs. Dr. Walker? Tur New Dretve.—A petition numerously signed by gentlemen of wealth and position in this city relative to the opening of Sixth avenue, from 110th street to the Harlem river, as a dirt road for the convenience of the driving public, was presented to the Park Commis- sioners yesterday for their consideration. The result of their deliberations on the subject will no doubt be favorable, as they are aware that the road is much needed by the community. The lack of a good driving road is now felt to be a serious inconvenience by the owners of horses in this city, and every effort on the part of the Commissioners in the direction of that improvement will meet with the approbation of an influential and wealthy class of citizens. Sevr-DeNtAL.—Ex-Minister Reverdy John- son has declined a public dinner in Southamp- ton, England. It was tendered to him by the Corporation, too, and would have been excel- lent in the line of aldermanic eating and wining. Does his refusal result from self- abnegation or dyspepsia ? Goop News From TENNESSEE.—They have got rid of Parson Brownlow in Tennessee, and thus they have discovered that there is no longer any war, and are disbanding the mili- tia. How inconceivably better it might have been for the country if a great many of the Tennessee ‘‘statesmen” had been hanged in early life instead of being sent to the Legis- lature. Hoe Brokers’ Taxes.—‘Brokers must pay.” There is at least one point in the evil of taxa- tion for which the country may be grateful, if the tax laid on brokers’ operations shall very greatly reduce the number of those fictitious bargains that are made on a margin. Weare very glad, therefore, that the revenue officials insist on their case against the brokers. AN Opp Present.—General Grant has been presented by a Boston policeman with a policeman’s baton, silver mounted. A Port- land paper asks, “What will he do with it?” The present of a baton in some cases might indicate that the recipient had been in the habit of getting on bats occasionally. Om. xp Gotp.—It was considered a great thing in the Pennsylvania oil regions when oil was produced by the barrel. What will be said of the’ same regions now when it is alleged that gold has been found there in quartz? Ostraciam of the Male Sex by the Sorosis— “Principles; uot Men,” Their Policy. We publish to-day a very curious correspon- dence between Mr. Robert B. Roosevelt, of this city, and Mrs. Jennie June Croly, Presi- dent of the Sorosis. The correspondence is curious in several particulars, and shows that there is more liberality on the part of the mem- bers of clubs composed of gentlemen than those composed of ladies. It appears that Mr. Roosevelt, who is a wealthy and genial gentle- man and & most pleasing and vivid writer, ap- plied for admission to the Sorosis in a letter clothed in the most respectful and appropriate language, offering, if his application were accepted, to propose the ladies of the Sorosis to any of the many gen- tlemen’s clubs to which he himself be- longs, including the New York Yacht Club, the Sportsmen’s Club, cricket clubs, boxing clubs and many others. The reply, covering & rejection of his application, is piquant and noteworthy. The Sorosis say they have re- strictions for membership as to sex. ‘‘Per- sonally Mr, Roosevelt” (he is worth a million and a half, and one of the best looking and best natured men in the city,) ‘‘is agreeable to several members of the Sorosis ;” his ‘‘reputa- tion and position are alike unexceptiona- ble;” but “the unfortunate fact ‘of his being a ‘man’ outweighs these and all other claims to membership.” They admit that ‘‘the accident of sex is his misfortune, not his fault,” and, acknowledging “sympathy with the entire male creation,” de- clare that in the present youthful state of their existence their answer to all suitors must be, “Principles, not men.” Here is the whole woman’s rights question presented ina nutshell. We here find all about the milk in the cocoanut, so far as the Sorosis are concerned, and no doubt if the matter were pressed home we should find that the same aggravating spirit of hostility to the male sex exists in all those societies in which calico is the predominating element. “Sympathy with the entire male creation!” Bless their dear souls! Man has had sympa~ thy for unprotected woman ever since the world began. It was not left until the nineteenth: century (as the Sorosis have before they an~ nounced their sympathy with the “‘other sex”) for man to proclaim his devotion to the de scendants of the fair and gentle bud and blos< som tenderly reared in Paradise under the hand of that master gardener, Adam, until sho had some ugly offshoots which required her and Adam to suddenly emigrate westward, without waiting for the completion of the Pa- cific Railroad. No, ma’am! But from the earli- est period of time man’s sympathy for woman has existed, coeval and contemporaneous with his ability to buy her clothes and pay her board bill, And we submit that in thus rejecting the suit of a gentleman like Mr. Roosevelt the Soro~ sis have set themselves back half a century im the way of progress toward the assumption of the prerogatives of masculinity. There can be no compromise here. Calico and corduroy are henceforth at pin and needle points. Not until the day when the principle is acknowledged that “‘what is sauce for the goose shall be sauce for the gander” will this contest cease. “Principles, not men,” indeed! Suppose the men should raise the banner of ‘Principles, not women,” what then? But we must not forget, out of respect for the gentle sex—when they are gentle—that there are very few pure women who are without principle. Seriously, Mr. Roosevelt, who takes great interest as a scientific and considerate sporis- man in the preservation of game, should apply to the next Legislature for an amendment to the game laws to prohibit the Sorosis from poaching on men’s manors. That would be some revenge. MERCANTILE AGENOIES.—It is of no use for the advocates of those secret inquisitions to endeavor to shield them from public obloquy, when the fact is notorious that in this city before the war merchants had to fee them to prevent their names being sent South as aboli- tionists. But this is only one among the many evils which these inquisitions foster. They are little less than blackmail concerns all around. Future Pusisiment.—An ancient Spanish writer asserts that one of the severest torments of authors in a future state is to be compelled to read over their own compositions to an audience of demons. What is this compared to the torment in store for the American read- ing public when a veteran philosopher of our day announces his intention of commencing a series of essays on the subject of political economy and other threadbare topics of a similar character in a daily paper? Jolin Bright and Land Tenure in Ireland. One of the most perplexing questions of the hour is why Ireland refuses to be contented under the conciliatory treatment she is receiv~ ing at the hands of the Gladstone government. The removal of the Irish Church grievance, which was expected to prove so powerful a sedative, has failed so far. Why? It is difi- cult to arrive at any other answer than this, that the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church is so mach a settled ques tion that the Irish people have suddenly come to the conclusion that, after all, the dominant and favored Church. was comparatively a trifling grievance as compared with the present system of land tenure. Land tenure is a big subject so far as Treland is concerned. It so happens that a select committee, composed of men having the ability and experience of Lords Clarendon, Westbury, Kimberley, Clan< ricarde, Athlumney, Dufferin and Gray, has been sitting on this question for the greater part of two sessions, and that the result of the deliberations of this committee has been em- bodied in a bill introduced into the House of Lords by Lord Clanricarde. We cannot now go into the particulars of this bill. Suilice it to say that the bill admits the exist« ence of defects in the existing sys~ tem; that it recommends certain important alterations which in the future will be beno~ ficial to the lessees of farms, and encourages and indirectly enforves the substitution of written for parole contracts, and of leases for fixed terms in liew of tenancies from year to year, but thatit is not, in the estimation of the Irish peasantry, sufficiently retrospective. Recommended by a committee of landlords and introduced in the shape of a bill into the House of Lords by a landlord, it is naturally enough looked upon as a landlord's measure. Thia feeling on the part of the Irish people