The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1869, Page 6

/ NEW YORK HERALD, TOESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1869.—-TRIPLE SHERT. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIV. -No. 355 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Howe-A RravtaR Fix. THE TAMMANY, Four ov Bap DicKEy, GRAND) OPERA HOU street. —LINGARD'S B Broadway and 13th street.— nth street.—Tas BURLESQUE corner ot Bighih avenne and FSQUE COMBINATION, ROOTH'S THEATRE, 22 bevween Sth ana 6th art Tue Merny WIVES OF OR. FRENCH THEATRE. Lth et, and éth av.—RUSSIAN OPprka—ASvOLDOVA NOGILA OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bi Liga. away.—UNDER THE GAd- ACADEMY OF MUSIC, » Mth street—HERMANN, THE ‘ORRAT PRESTIDIGITATEUR FIFTH AVENUB THEATRE, fwenty-fourth s#.—Tux Duke's Morro. NIBLO'S GARDEN Livre Ei. Brosoway.—Tuk CowRpy oF WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, oor ‘nor Lbirtivth at,—Matinee daily. Performanus every eveulag,, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tae Deviu's Peax— Bkw Bout. if ee MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn,— 4 Mipsuunens NivuT’s Brea. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couro VOoaLIsM, NEGRO MINSTRLGY, &0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brondway.—Comio Vooarr 18M, NEGRO ACTS, 0. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Butlding, 1th @—BRYAN18' MINSTRELS. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa tway.—HtH10- PIAN MINSTERLBY, NEGRO AcTs, £0. WAVERLEY THEATRE, eIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGO 920 Broadway.—-Evato- % £0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth sireet.-Equesraias AND GIMNASTIC PERFORMANCES, 40" ) STEINWAY HALL. —Miss A wURE—“WHITRD BEPULCHEE HOOLEY'S | MINeTRELS—A E, Dickinson's Lro- QPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn, WooLry's RIP TO THE MOON, &0. . Margaret testified that there had been several dim. culties between her parents, ber father having fre- quently beat her mother, and on one occasion, when into the river and Roach rescued her. David Eckerson, Jr., convicted of murdering Peter Stokum, at Pascack, N. J., was sentenced at Hack- ensack, yosterday, to twenty years in the State Prison, The City. In the Board of Assistant Aldermen yesterday a Tesolution was adopted presenting forty-four clerks of committees with $600 each for extra services. three or four churches and charitable associations. ‘The motion for a new trial for Real was argued in We General Term of the Supreme Court yesterday. Counsel for the prisoner argued that the recent the Court of Oyer and Terminer, as well because Judge Bernard, who presided at Real’s first trial, also sat in review of the case and passed upon his own charge aid rulings, this proceeding, although previously legal, betng sp no longer, because the late election and went immediately into effect. Judge Clerke, who also sat in review of the case before, was on the bench yesterday, and announced the decision of the court denying the motion. Judge Vordozo yesterday rendered judgment for Witte in the case againgt Senator Mattoon for the recovery of baif of certain sums loat by speculations in stock and ordered a reference to fix the amount. The two policemen, Hannegan and Remsen, charged with stealing $300 frém a Kentuckian named Weils, were yeaterday found guilty. ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Cambria, Captain Haack, will leave her dock at Hoboken at two P, M. to-day, for Hamburg, call- The European mails will close at the Post Office at tweive M, The stock market yeaterday was extremely dull, but in the main steady and strong. Gold was fever- ish and weak, advancing to 121 /4, and closing finally at 120%, The market for beef cattle yesterday was pass. ably active, and with only moderate offerings prices were firm, especially for the better qualities, which were most sought after. Extra or Christmas cattle sold at 17%c. a 20c,, while prime (APOLLO HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.—Tar CaRpir® GIANT. , SOMBRVILLE ART GALLERY, Fifth avenue and Mth ‘etrest.—EXHIBITION OF Tak NINE MUSES. + NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 614 B: @orsNox AND Aut. NEW YORK M! —-FRMALES ONLY IPLE way. ECM OF ANATOMY, 616% ATEENDANOZ. TR Se iNew York, Taesday, December 21, 1869. =a —— ee, THE NOWS. Europe. By apecial cable telegram, dated in Parla yeaier- Gay, wo are informed that Major General 2anks had Just had an audience with Napoleon at the Tulleries, during which his Majesty expressed Nis desire fora ‘Stl more intimate unlon, in postal and oiher Inter- ‘mauonal matters, between France and the United States, and stated his regret that his Ministers had mot yet fulfilled his wishes in such direction, General Banks Was to leave Paris last eventng for Atnerica, Cardinal Mathien, Archbishop of Besancon, lett Rome for Paris on a mission trom the Pope to the Emperor Napoleon, and did not quit the Couneti, as fuitherto intimated. Quiet was restored in London- derry, Ireland, oy the presence of the Queen's troops. A French national lay delegation presented @n address to the Pope, in reply to whicn his Holi- ness delivered some very significant remarks on -“ pride as the author of revolution,” The Council appointed a committee of oishops to draft a plan for “checking the growth of intidellty.” Napoleon, At is said,adheres to his idea of a general European disarmament, The Spfinish refugees were extra- ditea from Franee for complicity with the French revolationisis, Military societies for mutual benefit and relief are to be encouraged in France. M. Rochefort proclaimed in the Legislature to-day that the Prencd republic was just “at hand.” South America. Our Rio Janeiro correspondence Is dated Novem- ber 24. The Emperor of Brazil had informed his Ministers, who demanded a cessation of the war with Paraguay, that be would not treat with Lopez, and war Would not cease as long as the latter was free in varaguay. The Brazilan army 1s still on scant rations, Lopez clears the country as he re. treats. . Congress. In the Senate yesterday M Mill to reform the civil ser Ir. Shura Introduced a . Which provides for gard to gXamine the the creation of a civil servi gualifications of applicants for appointments to omice, The term of ofice1s placed at five years, except for Presidential appointees, whose term as for three years. A joint resolution was reported from the Judiciary Commitvee de- claring ‘hat Virguwila is entitied wo repre. weatation in Congress. A bill was Introunced Xo charter an American-Holland Ocean Cable Com- pany, authorizing such company to land their cable An tho i States, the government guarantecing the payment of taterest on $10,090,000 of the bonds of the company. The Senate went into executive wession and confirmed the nomination of Edwin M. Stanton to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in place of Robert C. Grier, resigned, by a Vote of 49 to LL. Among the documents transmitted by the Presi- dent was correspondence relating to the revolution Ju Cuba. which will be found substantially repro- duced in another column of the He®aLp this morn- Ing. ‘The correspondence also touches upon Mr. Sickles’ note to the Spanish Minister relating to the execution of Americans in Cuba, In the House bills and resolutions were introduced to distribute the appointment of government em- ployés among the States and for the resumption ot specie payments. Aresolution was adopted instruct- lng the Post OMice Committee to tavestigate the rumor that the New York s'ost Ofice building is progressing in au Unsultable and silegal manner, at an expense largely in excess of the appropriation. A memorial was presented from the Tennessee delegation in Congress, asking federal interposition for the protection of loyal citi- zens in Tennessee and for the maintenance of a re- pudlican form of government in that Siate, At half- past two o'clock Mr. Butler moved to take up the Senate bill for perfecting reconstruction in Georgia, and, Without dilatory motions, to vote upon tt. This resolution was finally amended so as to have tne vote taken at three o’clock to-day, and the bill was taken up and discussed until near midnight, when the House adjourned. Miscellaneous. Governor Pollock and Mr. Tift, late member of Congress from Georgia, appeared before the House Reconstruction Committee yesterday and made arguments in regard to the political condition of Georgia. Mr. Tift commented severely upon the offictal conduct of Governor Bullock, saying that an {mapartial judiciary would transfer bim from the gubornatorial chair to the penitentiary. It was feared that a personal encounter would grow out of Mr. THUS remarks, ‘The Governor of Minnesota has spoken to General Hancock avout sending troops to quiet the settie- Monts at Pembina. General Hancock said that he would send none unless there waa an actual col- liston. The House Committee on Elections yesterday ex- amined the case of Van Wyck vs. Greene, of New York. Their decision has act been known, but Gen- oral Van Wyck feels confident that the seat will be awarded him. The directors of the Burtsio and Piusinrg Rall road yesterday elected M. 1, Bemis president, in piace of Jay Gould, Tesigged, and Horace F. Clark, brought 16c, @17c., fair to good, 15. & 15X0., and interior to ordinary, 10c. a 145;¢. Mitch cows were dull aud nominal at former prices, Veal calves were more active and prices were 3c. higher, prime and extra selling at 12c. 8 18c., common to good at Ue. 8 12c., and inferior at 10c, a 1034c. Sheep were io fair demand and firm at the following pricea:— Extra, 8c. 2 101;¢.; prime, 7c. a Tgc.; common to good, 5)3c. a 63g0,, and inferlor, 4c. @ 5c.; the re- ceipts were fair. Swine were moderately active at 104¢. a Lie, for common to prime, with arrivals of 3,482 bead, and a moderate demand, Prominent Arrivals in the City. General C, G. Huntley, of Montana; John H. sel- wyn, of Boston; Colonel J. C. Savery, of Des Moines, lowa; General James H. Heroy, of New Jersey; Colonel R. P, Noah, of Washington, D. C., and | With Cuba is simply ridiculous. terday, for the murder of his wife, his daughter | or of ing to the countries of America. Its peddling, Lopes. Notwithstanding the glowing announcements the two were boating, ner mother fell or was thrown | narrow-minded and timid course is enough to | which we have received from time to time of make every American citizen feel ashamod of | the successes of the allies against Lopez, our his government. lateat accounts make an exhibit of a far diffe- The most curions and significant thing about | rent nature than what we might be led to anti- this Samana business fs that the administra- cipate from previous statements. Lopez is not tion, or rather the Secretary of State, appears | used up. It is even stated that at the close of very desirous of making a great fuss about it September he had ten thousand men under his just now, and of representing that leased pos- | command. His soldiers, however, are poorly given of tbe Bay of Samana and the official Mr Laurence Lanergan was presented with g1,500 | 8¢8#lon as more important than the island of | equipped, and this may explain his tactics in for tho samme services, and $4,000 was donated to | Cuba. If we relied upon the glowing accounts | fighting, whon opposed to well supplied troops, on the defensive. Had he an army half as action so far concerning it, we might suppose | well equipped as that of the allies there is it the most valuable possession in the Antilles. be of more advantage to the United States very little doubt but he would bring the war decision made by the court afirming the fuding in | Indeed, it has been stated that this bay would | to a speedy termination. As it is he fights in a manner which secures to him the best result than the annexation of Cuba. Is this absurd | under the circumstances in which he is placed. statement another dodge to cover up the | One of the advantages he possesses over the woakness and miserable people by any such wretched subterfuge ? y Of the adminis- | allies is his thorough knowledge of the ooun- Judiciary amendment to the State constitution for- | tration relative to Cuba?” Does the govern- | try, and this he makes the most of. The Bra- bidding t& bad been accepted by the people at the | ment suppose it can blind the American | zilian commander, with remarkable tenacity, follows on, and in bis hunt after Lopez he Yes, let us have the Bay of Samana; but let | may yet discover that he was led by an ignis us get it ina proper way; let us buy it, andj fatuua. The rapid movements and sudden not pay tribute to a few negroes or mulattoes for permission to use it. Yes, let us have the changes of location of the Paraguayan chief have so bewildered the pursulng army that the whole island if that suits our polity and it can | truth of the matter is they do not know where be made useful. We go as far as the farthest in our destre to extend tho area and usefulness of our country, But let it be remembered that St. Domingo is sparsely settled by little more than a hundred thousand negroes and mulat- inhabitants, and out of that number seven or eight hundred thousand of the white European race. Let it be remembered that the island of St. Domingo is doesolated and produces Ifitle, while Cuba is one of the most, if not the most, productive country on the globe. The Bay of Samana may be a fine harbor, and may prove of value to us; but it lies on the eastern and outer verge of the whole of the West Indies, and is almost fifteen hundred miles from the nearest point of the United States. Cuba has many as fine or finer harbors, and some of them are almost within sight of the United States. The whole island stretches along and faces our border. It commands the entrance to the Gulf of | that the United States should not push things Mexico; {it dominates the channel of Yuca- tan, which connects the gulf with the Carib- bean Sea, and it controls the windward pas- | sition beforo the country. Knowing this, he sage at the east end, and consequently nearly | would naturally desire to put the Cuban ques- all the navigation of the West Indian group. | tlon aside for a while, and to that end might The idea of comparing the value of Samana | endeavor to secure the present silence of our Cuba, for its Colonel W. McGrorty, of the United States Army, are | productions and trade, and from ita important at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mrs, Scoti-Siddons is at the Clarendon Hotel. Richard Lindon, of Japan, and Goumand Leuba, of Paris, are at the Breevort House, Ex-Governor Stanley, of California, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel J. F. Atkinson, of Albany, and Major A. R. Campbell, of Winchester, are at the St, Charies Hote! Liea'enaut Commander S. H. Baker and Ensign J. T. Wood, of the United States steamsnip Benicia, and 1. Perkins, of the Sandwich Islands, are at the Astor House. General L. 8. Leavenworth, of Syracuse, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Marquise de Cantssy, of Philadelphia, is at the Albewarle Hotel. Prominent Departures, Selior Lopez Roverts, Spanish Minister, ana Sefor P. Diez de Rivera, of the Spanish Legation, left yes- terday for Washington. Vv Policy of the Administration fn the West Indies. We published yesterday a glowing account of the reported lease of the Bay of Samana, island of St. Domingo, by the United States government, which was communicated to us, and also a letter from Washington of the same tenor, announcing the arrival at New York of General Babcock and the Dominican Commis- sion on board the United States steamer Albany, for the purpose of negotiating a fifty years’ lease with our government for the Bay of Samana, ‘There is some discrepancy between the two siatements. One has it that the bar- gain bas been completed, and that the United States flag now fluats over that portion of the Dominican territory; while the other says the Commission has arrived for the purpose of ne- gotiating a lease. Then, again, it is stated the territory embraces an area of two thousand five hundred squere miles; when it appears from a reliable communication from our cor- respondent at Samana that it is only estimated at two hundred and twenty-five to two hun- dred and forty square miles—that is, the length is about thirty miles and the breadth eight miles, including the islands along the coast. It is particularly worthy of notice, too, that in the same paper in which these statements appear, that is, in our issue of yesterday, was published the news of St, Domingo having negotiated a loan with British capitalists, for seven hundred and fifty-seven thousand pounds sterling, on the condition that St. Domingo hypothecates the entire proceeds of receipts from imports and exports at the porte of St. Domingo and Puerto Plata, as well as the royalties from the working and export of guano from the island of Alta Vela, and in addition to the revenues arising from coal and other the peninsula of Samana. If this be true the cunning Dominicans are playing # nice game with both the United States and the British, andall on this strip of territory called Samana, with its bays, harbors and islands, If they would only sellout some other, or some of the same privileges to France, Spain and other European countries, it would make as nico a muddle in the future as any one could wish to see, This Samana business has all the appear- ance of a big job or, may be, a number of jobs. But why lease the Bay of Samana at all? Why give a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold a year for fifty or a hundred years for a lease? It may be said, and indeed it is said, this is only an entering wedge for the ultimate acquisition of Samana or the whole island, Whata miserable policy for a mighty republic like this to enter upon! What wretched peddling! It is utterly unworthy any great nation, and particularly the United States, which is the dominating Power of this hemisphere. If we want Samana, or any part of the island of St, Domingo, let os buy it and have no further trouble abont the matter, or any possible dispute hereafter. Our govern- ment appeara to be the tool of any insignificant Augusins Schell, Samuel F, Barger, of ‘and anocher, directors to succeed Fisk, Li and Davia. ruler or country or clique of speculators, It seems incapable of @ comprehensive policy, of position, geographically considered, is worth far more to the United States than the whole of the rest of the West Indies put together, So much, then, for the speculative and glow- to locate either him or his army. In this way he evidently intends to conduct his side of the war, and after a few more weary years, the loss of fifty or one hundred thousand men and the exhaustion of the Brazilian treasury, Ing at Plymouth, England, and Cherbourg, France. | toes, while Cuba has a million and a half | the allies may possibly arrive at the conclu- sion that it is time to make terms with this Paraguayan guerilla, and so end the war, in case other elements now at work do not bring it to a close before. Prim Bismarcking Uncle Sam. Is the present course of the United States with regard to Cuba any part of a diplomatic bargain with the goverament of Spain? Prim has displayed in his rise to the commanding attitude he now holds a peculiar capability in the devious ways of statecraft, and it is just possible he is practising some of these ways through the medium of our Minister at Madrid. It is certainly vital to the ambitious grandee in the Cuban difficulty just now, since it is a matter that might serlously complicate his po- government by very liberal promises as to what he will do in the future. Such games are sometimes made, The result is generally that whén the party ina dilemma feels more at ease the promises are all forgotten. If such an understanding has been had with Prim we ing accounts of Samana and the supremely | may be sure that when he has had his part of absurd comparison of it with the rich and highly important island of Cuba. In connection with this subject it will not be out of place to notice the peculiar position the administration occupies at present on the Cuban question. Looking at the refusal of the Secretary of State to give Congress the information asked for about Cuba, we are com- pelled to infer that negotiations are still going onor have been revived with Spain for the cession of the island. The conduct of Mr. Fish cannot be accounted for on any other ground. We hope it may be so, and that the terrible, bloody drama and work of dovastation now going on in Cuba may be soon stopped. Of course our government is honest in the matter, shonld we be right in this supposition, But is Spain honest? Are not Prim and his associates bumbugging our Minister at Madrid and our weak Secretary of State? Do they not still cling to the hope of crushing the Cubana, and that by temporizing with the United States? And then, if successful, would they not tell their faithful ally that, the trouble being over, Spanish honor and pride would forbid any further negotiation for the cession of Cuba? Jn short, would they not laugh at us for our folly, and should we not have to coolly pocket the insult? Mr. Fish may bave confidence in his Spanish friends, but we have not.eWe hope Congress, therefore, will stand no nonsense or unnecessary palaver, but will bring this ques- tion toa practical issue at once, and that in favor of Cuban independence and annexation. Tae Srate DeparrmMenr AND THE SPANISH- Cupan Quzestion.—In our Washington despatches will be found in chronological order the leading points of interest embodied in -Secretary Fish’s communications and despatches in reference to the Spanish-Cuban imbroglio with Minister Sickles at the Court of Madrid and Consul Plumb at Havana, The main questions touched upon relate to tho inviolability from search of United States ves- selg, and to the inhuman proclamation of Count Valmaseda’s of April 4, that “every man found away from home shall be shot,” &c. General Sickles’ replies and those of Consul Plumb are given in the same condensed form, imparting, however, important information, and supplying whatever was needed to a full understanding of the diplomacy that rules at the State Department. The cost of combatting the insurrection, the cause of Dulce’s resigna- but lucidly set forth; and the whole cor- respondence will be read with great interest. SquatLy For Franoz.—The cable reports indicate a somewhat squally prospect for France, if not by Cardinal Mathieu's special mission from Pius 1X. to Napoleon III, at least by the declaration of the Pope to a dele- gation of six bundred laymen, “natives of France,” including, probably, prominent legiti- mists and Orleanists, that “pride is the enemy of mankind and the author of revolution ;” and also by the announcement by M. Rochefort that “the republic is near at hand and will avenge the wrongs of Frenchmen and Spaniards." On the other hand, our special telegram from Paris describes a prolonged interview of General Banks with Napoleon yesterday, in which the Emperor showed an earnest disposition to strengthen the friendly relations between the French empire and the republic of the United States, Finst IvstaLmest ov Cxusese py Rat.— Three hundred Chinamen are now en route from San Francisco to New Orleans by Pacific Railroad, contracted as laborers for threo years, Thus the transportation of cheap Asiatic | labor to our Southern States has become a fact of the times; and if the experiment bo fully tried it must-have momentous results as @ fact ip the iiai of John Dickey, at Rombay Hook, yea. | acting with foresight with rogard to the future | correlative to the abolition of slavery. the bargain we shall hear very little of ours, This is a leaf out of Bismarck’s book. The German kept Napoleon out of the Prusso-Aus- trian war by tempting him with the Rhine provinces, and never gave the provinces after all. ‘We shall be shrewdly cheated if we are thus induced to stand still with relation to Cuba until our opportunity is gone. Canrner Rumors.—Rumors are afloat again of impending obangos in the Cabinet, including the retirement of Mr. Fisb. The wish in re- gard to Mr. Fish is, perhaps, father to the thonght; but still it may be contended that after the departure of those Spanish gunboats from New York to make war upon the Cubans nothing could be more appropriate than the departure of Mr. Fisk from General Grant's Cabinet. Tux Mosquiro Frxet.—The first chapter of neutrality according to Fish is now complete, with tho sailing at ono o'clock yesterday morning—despite torpedoes, nitro-glycerine and Greek fire, breech-loading carbines and revolvers, with which certain Cuban sym- pathizers sought to prevent their safe de- parture—of the gunboats built for Spain to make war on Cuba. What is the sécret of the helpless attitude the United States assumes in this case? What answer will be made by such advocates of Spain as Mr. Sumner every one knows. International law forbids us to do for Cuba what we may do for Spain; but a refer- ence to this farce of international law is not the answer the people want. International law, the people understand well enongh, is a thing that nations use to justify them in doing the things they want to do and to excuse them for not doing the things they do not want to do. What the country would like to know is why the government is induced to make this excuse rather than to strike out ina line of policy agreeable to the interests of the nation, the sympathies of the people and the whole history and tradition of this republic, i Epwix M. Stanton For tHe Supreme Covrr.—It appears that the call of the Presi- dent and Vice President on Saturday last upon Edwin M. Stanton, inviting him to accept the vacancy on the Supreme Bench, resulting from the resignation of Judge Grier, was a call which the late decisive War Secretary could not resist, Very good. He will be pro- vided with a comfortable berth for the rest of minerals, and mahogany and other woods, from | tion and other questions of interest are bricfly | his days, and the reconstruction policy of Con- gress will gain a strong champion in the Su- preme Court. Treasvey Po1cy.—Secretary Boutwell has decided to reduce his gold sales, for this week atleast. Inferentlally, he ought also to reduce his bond purchases, in order that he may have something ia the Treasury to swear by after he has paid out the January interest on the public debt and redeemed his gold certificates, Query—Can we not have too much of a good thing {n this mania of Mr, Boutwell for cancel- ling the debt and taking every spare penny out of the national pocket? Might it not be better to reduce the taxes a little and pay off the debt more gradually, especially after it has been funded at a lower rate of interest? If the national debt is such a blessing we shouldn't be in such a hurry to get rid of it, and, moreover, wa shouldn't be so mean as not to let our posterity enjoy some of it. jnriiNa Oor or THe Way.—Congressmen in Washington find themselves oppressed with honor—such honor as consists in the admira- tion and attention of their constituents in search of office, They are 80 oppressed with this sort of honor that they are disposed to dodgo it, and the latest humor of Washington life is the anxiety of members to hide thom- selves away in obscure nelghborhgods. Truly the world changes. : appreciating the commanding position | Paraguny—Mysierious Disappearance ef | The Democratic Logislatare and the fte- this republic holds over all questions pertain- The probable action of the Legislature, when assembled in Albany during the conting sea- son, gives rise in advance to a great of speculation among the masses of our citizens, and to » vast amount of predictions among the politicians and the ‘knowing ones," who think they can read the signs of the times, and that sald signs give them the assurance of a “good time coming,” That some special, if not radical, change is imperatively demanded towards restoring to the citizens of New York the right—for a term of republican ascendancy in the State usurped from them—of self- government, is admitted by republicans, as it is insisted upon by democrats, There is a wide field for change and for reform; but it often requires the wisest policy and the sound- est statesmanship to make the required changes and reforms, so that they shall be as little at variance as possible with the altered state of affairs which the first innovation has brought about, and with which a people may have to a certain extent become habituated and familiar. This is the work which the Tammany Regency has before it. There is always danger of a Party succeeding to power after s long strug- gle to attain it going to extremes in repealing or nullifying what may be considered the ob- noxious laws of their predecessors. This is one of the ‘‘amiablo weaknesses” to which political power is liable, whenever repoal or nullification presents a fleld of patronage to the hands of a party with which to reward all who most contributed to its success and triumph, This is just the great temptation which bosets the leadera of the democratic party on the threshold of their late victory. The republican party which, through a partisan Legislature, do lately controlled all political matters in city and State, may well, in this hour of their humiliation and defeat, cry out to their democratic victors :—‘‘We have done those things which we ought not to have done, and we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and there is no health in us.” The Regency will no doubt accept the “goft impeachment” and begin at once to undo all the republicans did do, and to do those things which that party omitted to do, and in that way serve themselves and absolve the others, But the question stil! arises, what will really be the action of the democratic party in Legis- lature assembled? There ia little doubt but a political programme has been decided upon in the conferences lately held in the Execu- tive Mansion at Albany. Whatever that pro- gramme may be one thing can be fairly counted upon—that is, that all the republican boards to whom late legislation has appor- tioned special municipal duties will not be immediately abolished. The executive officers of some of those boards deserve the thanks of the community at large for the efficient and faithful manner in which they have, up to the present time, discharged their duties, Among these may be enumerated the Central Park Commission, the Comptroller and Superin- tendent of which, Mr. Greene, has rendered invaluable services to the citizens at large in the adornment of the Park; the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correction and the Fire Department. Other boards, such as the Board of Police Commissioners, Croton Aque- duct Board, Boards of Excise, Health, &c., while they may be permitted to stand as monuments of republican rule, will, however, like some ancient churches, be reconsecrated -to democratic uses, The Tammany Regency, while they have the power, ought to reconstruct the whole city government. And in this work, should they un- dertake it in the right spirit, they will have the encouragement and support of all good citizens, Centralize the municipal government, give the right to the Chief Magistrate—the Mayor of the ,city—to appoint to all offices under him not directly elective by the people, make the incumbents of these offices responsible to him for an efficient and honest discharge of their duties, and he himself—the Chief Magistrate— responsible to the citizens at large. This is the only way to: insuré an efficient and faithful discharge of municipal government, and just to the extent an honest purpose in this regard is carried out will the people believe in the efficacy and benefit of a change in party rule. There should be one departure consented to, and no doubt it will be, from the old demo+ cratic usage in regard to municipal affairs— that is, withholding from the Board of Alder- men all participation with the Mayor in the power of appointment. Enough relating to the composition of the Boards of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen is known, and moro than enough of the way in which they have been elected and of the manner in which they have already entered upon their duties, to deter the citizens from entrusting any of the rights which they can withhold to the hands of these men. In the good days coming of restored self-government, and when the people shall have recovered from the efforts of shaking off the incubus of partisan rule under which they so long groaned, they will be better pre- pared to assist the leaders of parties in purify- ing the official rank and file and eradicating therefrom the political fungi that to-day so largely predominate in holding places of profit and honor. This must be, however, the work of the citizens, without whose aid the leaders are powerless in the premises. Sewarp’s TriumPHaL Progress 1x Mr. Mrxico,—Republics are not ungrateful. The Mexieans are not ungrateful. The Empress Engénie, in her late imperial journey to Con- stantinople and thence to Suez and Cairo, was not honored with a more enthusiastic and hearty welcome, from point to point, than the generous and abounding welcome of Mr. Sew- ard in Mexico, The government, the local authorities and the people, from city to city, have showered upon him their finest displays, in public receptions, balls, processions, din- ners and fetes of all sorta, and in the Mexican capital he has proved the greatest [lon of the nineteenth century, But at the same time revolutionary factions, pronunciamicz.tos and military risings are more the order ¢f the day in Mexico than at any period since ‘he French evacuation, Thus, while Mr. Soward is glo- rifled ag a liberator from goint to point, and is glorifying the doctrizie of self-govern- ment, the Mexicans are y,roving that so far as they are concerned y ‘ww still the old story of ‘anarchy and revgliiion, It ig a curious state of things, \ Bixteon Red Hate-Heads Wautedt By the death of Cardinal Pentini, in Rome, which occurred the day before yesterday, Pie Nono has sixteen cardinals’ red hate, sixteen cardinals’ commissions and thirty-two red stockings at his disposal. It is not often that @ sovereign has so many important places to give away at the same time. The Pope may find some difficulty in filling the vacancies; but he has a wide field to select from, extend- ing to members of all the ecclesiastical orders from pole to pole—north and south from the equator—from Siberia to Australia, over which vast extent of territory his spiritual dominion commands obedience and respect. I¢ is said that his Holiness shares the old predilection of his predecessors for eardinals of Itallan birth, and is especially anxious that his successor in the Papal Chair should be an Italian, The Pope, however, has the reputation of being e man of large mind and broad comprehension, Tt can hardly be possible, therefore, that he does not perceive how much the world, and even the Catholic world, has progressed in his time all over the globe, and that the limits of Italy are no longer the boundaries of the pro- gress of the Church. Without varying in faith, doctrine or discipline, the Church has been everywhere invested with new ideas, and its congregations have followed in the track of science, art, discovery, as developed by the electric telegraph, steam, the railroad and the newspaper press. And nowbere so much as in this country have men’s minds kept pace with these elements of progress ; yet it is said that the Amerloan bishops in the Roman Council are the most devoted of any to the peoullar views of the Pope upon the subject of personal infallibility and the other dogmas to be discussed. No doubt his Holiness knows all this and will not overlook the United States in the dis- posal of Pontifical patronage. We might claim at least four out of the sixteen red hats for this country. We can supply able and worthy heads for them in the Archbishop of Baltimore, the Archbishop of New York, the Archbishop of Cincinnati and the Archbishop of St. Louis. If there is one to spare It could be well placed on a head somewhere on our glorious, rising Pacific coast-—say California, Oregon or Alaska. A Chance for Jeremy Diddlers. 4 * Revenue officers—or persons reputed to be such—it appears, are poking around in the offices und counting rooms of merchants and others, demanding to see thelr receipt books and bills, in order to ascertain whether, by accident or negligence, the Treasury stamp has been omitted to be affixed. This is but a part of the whole small, mean and annoying system of collecting the internal revenue. Our busi- ness men have the patience of a thousand Jobs combined to stand it at all. But what a chance this plan of examining receipts offers to Jeremy Diddlers and out-at-elbow blaok~ mailers! Many.of these fellows may be reve- nue officers, it is true, and may bo legally au- thorized to poke their noses, into every man's affairs ; but this is the fault of the law, not of the official. But who knows whether half of them are not bogus officers, to whom a small douceur would be an equivalent for the bother which they threaten to inflict upon the busi- ness man probably when his time is most occu- pled? The system certainly opens the road to temptation in this respect, and even the reve- nue officers themselves might not find it inconvenient to accept a consideration for leaving the merchant's receipt books alone. At all events people who are approached in this way should not aubmit their books and papers to inspection until they are satisfied that the inspector has legal authority to de- mand it. If this course were pursued in all cases it would soon use up the Jeremy Did- dlers. Toe Grorcia Reooxsrrvction Bo.i.—DEm OoRATIC INDIGNATION.—-The democrats, in and out of Congress, are very indignant at the “despotic measure” before Congress for the reinstatement of the negro members ruled out of the Georgia reconstruction Legislature. This indignation is perfectly natural; but it will do no good. Qe party in power have the game of reconstruction in their hands, and to throw it up now, when they are so near the end of it, would be an act of stupidity which they have not the remotest idea of committing. The bill will be passed, and Georgia will have to yield to the authority of Congress in this matter. Preparations FoR Cmristmas.—This is carnival time for the shopkeepers and the gay~ est season of the year in the streets. Every night there is an illumination of all the tho- roughfares lined with stores, and all day long there is a constant jostle and throng of busy buyers, All the elegance and refined splendor of this Christmas trade is on Broadway, of course—Tiffany’s, Ball & Black's, Stewart's and similar great centres of traffic taking the lead ; yet if one wants to appreciate the hearty oxa- berance of the thing among the people he must see it in the Bowery, blooming with tha enthusiasm of the German spirit. Forgan Lanor Emigration To Tax Souta- wen States, it seems, has decreased in a re-~ markable ratio during the present year, over twelve thousand emigrants going there from Castle Garden in 1868 and buts few over seven thousand consenting to take employment in those States the present year. Somo of the causes for it are detailed in another column; but {tis very probable that the un- settled condition of the political status of the South, which, between the clashing of political parties, is becoming more unsettled every day, has had a good deal to do with it, AN Important Oristox,—One Alexender McDonald has come all the way across the Atlantic to assure us that we ought not to let John Chinaman get » foothold in this happy: land and free, for if we do we shall only bull& up another system of slavery, o., to. Mr. McDonald is one of those men who get @om- selves sent hither and thither by workingmon’s unions; who are eloquent as to tho interests of labor, not so.much for love of the working- mon as for love of their sweet voices on clec tion day. He decides against the Ohinaman from « view of the way the Ghinamaa lives. It is singular that his account of tho way tho Chinamen huddle in their hovela sounds strikingly like Mayhew's account of the way the poor live in that groat centre of light and civilization, tbe oily of Landon.