The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1870, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. eee adahncnmenths JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, mccipncnaSinphitnel ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. es. nie i Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. .s gett THE DAILY HERALD, puolistied every day tn he year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price 812. Volume XXXYV, =a AM Ts Tas TS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, ‘Broadway. Tae Waveee ON THR WALL, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, | ‘Twenty-fourth #t.—Tux Busruopy. NIBLO'S CARDEN, Brosqway.—GRanp ROMANTIC Daama OF Ruy BLAS. MUSEUM AND ee, ‘Broad rf, oor act Dointediat-Matinge dally, Performance everyeveniag. BOWERY THEATRE, Tusa al a i igh ws ones THEATRE, Broad Broadway and 13th street.— aie Te axp Jennr— |AOAIRE. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth streot—Tae BuxLEsque! or Bap Dioxey, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, oora at, —LINGARD's BuUMLFSQUE BOOTH'S TUBATRE, Wd st., be.woea 6th and 6th ave— Hamier. 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LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6184 Broadway, MALES ONLY IN ARTEND, New York, Monday, 1870. aos. 1S OF binlbesneds gaan con PacR, 1--Advertisements, 2— Advertisements, 3—Advertisements, 4—Eaitoriais: Leading Article on Important Ex- hibit of the Cuban Negouations, the Approach- ing ettlement—Jefferson Market Polece Amusement Announcements, S—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World: French Reform; Ministerial Crisis im Spain— cuban Affairs: Consut General Plamb’s Re- port; End of the Rebellion; Movements of Spanisn War Vessels—Sketches of the New Spanish Ministry—Sad Drowning Accidents— A Young Cannibaf—New York City News— kating=Suburban Inteiligence—Malls for Europe—Business Notices, @—Austria: Count Beust’s Spectal Report of the Condition of the Empire—Musicai Review— Selling the State of Mainc—Tne Postal Tele- grapa System—Court Calendar for To-day Memphis, E! Paso and Pacific Ratiroad. y—Young Delinquents: The Catholic Protectory and Juvenile Asylum—The Dignity of Pbhilan- thropy—Musical and Theatrical Notes—The Ball Season—suicide of a Female Secbooi ‘Teacher in Salem, Mass.—Financial and Com- mercial Reports—Real Estate Mattere—Mar- rages, Births and Deaths—Advertisements. 8—Washington : Inevitable Destiny of St."Domingo; Trouble in Prospect for Tennessee—Brooklyn City—(eorge Francis Train at Tammany Hall— Religions: Services in the Churches Yester- day —Skipping In velligen Advertisements, St, Domingo AND ANNEXATION, (ox. 0: ar news from Washington relative to the project for the annexation of St. Domingo to the United States is interesting. It contains the most im- portant stipulations in the treaty which will shortly be submitted to the Senate, Tae Errects oF Pusiio RevRENOHMENT.— President Grant, it is stated, proposes to re- commend to Congress an increase of the free list in the tariff and tax bills, Having paid off in the ten months of his sdministration eighty millions of the public debt, he now proposes to give the people some of the benefits of his economy. Tne REASSEMBLING oF Conoress.—The two houses of Congress, after their liberal Christmas and New Year holiday recess, re- assemble for business in their respective chambers today. From the accumuiation of the materials meantime we expect an un- usually heavy budget of bills and resolutions in both houses, and an active beginning of the work of the seasion, A Crisis In Tennesste.—The State Con- atitutional Convention of Tennessce meets to-day. It has a large conservative majority, and its intention is supposed by radical Con- gressmen to bo a complete overthrow of all legislation under the Brownlow rule, a with- drawal of the suffrage from the negroes and an annulling of the State ratification of the fourteenth amendment. The radical Con- gressmen from the State are prepared to resist this revolutionary movement by a move as revolutionary—to have the State remanded to military control, on the plea of having broken faith bith the federal government. “A New Name FOR Rospery,—-We pnb- lished yesterday an extract from a letter dated at Boniface, December 24, giving the state- ment that ‘‘on the 22d inst. the Winnipeg insurgents forced a loan of eight hundred and fifty pounds sterliag from the Hudson Bay Company uader protest.” But an additional statement by Governor McTavish, in a letter dated at Fort Garry, December 25, showed that with the Winnipeg revolutionists ‘forced loan” is but a new name for robbery. The Governor declares that the loan in question was obtained by the insurgents carrying off the company’s safe, which coniained the above mentioned amount. Now, in Mexico and in the revolutionary States of South America a forced loan is simply a levy to which the cii- s2ns are subjected by the leaders of the party that happens for the momeat to be in power. Tae Winnipeg half-breeds, however, borvow- ing a h'nt from the burglars and railway mana- gers in New York, have manifestly improved on the system of their belicbreed brethren in 6panish America. Isportant Exhibit of, the. Onde Nogotia- tloms—The Appronching Sortioment.”) We submit to our readers this morning, to our Washington despatches, 8. carefully pre- pared summing up of the negotiations between the United States and Spain.on the Cuban question since the appointment of General Sickles ‘as our Minister at Madrid, Although from a mistaken d8parture, as wo think, the initial and successive steps and incidents in the--=- suos@ NEZOUALONS, AB UewsuvY 14 tude dLaLeLUBLty make the whole case perfectly clear and con- sistent in reference to the course pursued by Mr. Secretary Fish and our Minister and in reference also to the embarrassments of the Spanish government. The preliminary. proposition of »General Sickles on the 3d of September last to the provisional government at Madrid, it thus appears, was simply the friendly offices of the United States in-behalf of an amicable settle- ment between Spain and the Cuban revolu- tionists. This offer being, favorably received, our Minister, pursuant to instructions, next submitted a basis of settlement, embracing four propositions:—First, Cuban independence; second, indemnity to Spain; third, the aboll- tion of slavery ; fourth, the cessation of hos- tillties, The proposed indemnity to Spain, to bo guaranteed by the United States, in plain English, was the payment ef one hundred mil- lions of dollars for the island. In answer to these propositions Sefior Silvela, the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, submitted as an indispensable condition precedent that the Cubans lay down their’ arms, and that next the question of a separation, from’ Spain. be submitted tothe people ofthe island in an election under the Spanish authorities, Mr. Fish could, not entertain these propositions, and thought that the election under the con- ditions suggested would be 9 ‘mockery. Finally, the propositions from Spain assumed this shape :—First, a disarming by the Cubans; second, indemnity to Spain for Spanish pro- perty destroyed, to be guaranteed by the United States; third, a free election to the Cubans on the question of separation from Spain; fourth, a general amnesty. These four propositions against the four submitted by General Sickles give us the con- dition in which the negotiations stand at this time. Nothing further has been done towards striking a balance between the high contract- ing parties. It seems to be understood, how- ever, that the internecine difficulties of Spain have compelled the. present government to deal with this Cuban question with extreme caution; that any definitive movement to relin- quish on any terms the “Ever Faithful Island” would be apt to fuse the republican party, the Church party (comprising the adhe- rents of Isabella), the Carlists and all the rival personal factions of the peninsula in a common cause against the de facto government; but that with a strong government established under Serrano or Prim, for instance, the trans- fer of the island from Spain to the United States may be readily accomplished. Mean- time, it appears from an impartial reconaois- sance of the island made by,our Consul Gen- eral Plumb in person, that tho rebellion is substantially at an end; that the insurgents are reduced toa few thousand bushwhackers scattered about in the mountains, incaperble of anything beyond petty guerrilla operations, which may be prolonged indefinitely to no pur- poze. We are, then, on the Cuban question reduced tothe alternative of awaiting the establish- ment of a strong government in Spain. When will that be? This is a question hard to answer; but as the Spanish government pro tem, has appareatly exhausted itself in its efforts to secure an outside volunteer for King or Regent, a coup d’état on the part of General Prim is hourly expected. After such coup @ tat, if » Napoleonic success, the necessities of Prim in the matter of cash will probably leave him no other resource than the sale of Cuba for the one hundred millions. awaiting him in the unrecalled offer of our government through General Sickles, Dealing with things as they are, the cause of the Cubans is lost as a basis of action and as a balance of power, and our only course now appears to be to await the upshot of events in Spain, General Grant, in other words, has per- mitted a golden opportunity to slip through his fingers, A little dash would have fixed it, We can see, in all the details of this business, no! cause of complaint against General Sickles. On the contrary, in obedience to his instruc- tions, he has acted throughout with remarka- ble fidelity and discretion, whatever may be said upon small technicalities, which signify nothing. The great mistake was made at Washington in the outset in utterly ignoring the resolution adopted by the unanimous vote of ihe House of Representatives at the close of the last session of Congress, a resolution which would have been seconded by the Senate had the session continued even one day longer. That resolution, in the absence of Congress, and by the unanimous voice of the representa- tives of the American people, gave the Presi- dent full authority to concede belligerent rights to the Cubans in his discretion. Had he assumed the responsibility to act accord- ingly he would have been supported by Con- gress and the American people, and the Cuban question would have been seitled within ninety days. But what of the Alabama claims? Would not the recognition of Cespedes have been the recognition of Admiral Semmes? Oh, ye of little faith! Ob, that ye knew the age we live in! That recognition of Semmes was the apprehension in the State Department, and, moreover, Mr. Senator Sumner professed to have his misgivings of the maintenance of slavery in the Cuban republic. Still, the whole Cuban problem resolves into this:—The island, which was fairly within our reach, without money and without price, we ehall probably be able to purchase for one hundred millions of dollars iu the event of the establishment of a strong government in Spain, It is only the difference between shaping and awaiting the drift of events, which was and is the difference between the Bonapartes aud the Bourbons, See free ee ate eee er ered PryMourn Cuvron New Year’s.—Mr. Beecher stated at Plymouth church yesterday that he would continue his New Year's calls next Wednesday, We would suggest to the reverend geatleman that he is extending his revels rather too far into the new year. Bye- rybody has fully recovered from the dissipa- tion of that day except himself, Health, Qmicor of, the,,.Perts (Wo trast, that no malatake will bo made at “Albany: in’ regard to the appointment of a Health Officer for this port. It is pretty plain what wo want, and of the several men whose ames havé boon montio.ied in this connection there is but one who can be accepted as meet- ing the requirements of the case.. Here is a clear issue for the Governor, and he should understand that when a proper and even emi- mantle At mon ia nandidate for position as havinaney sow onnsene,, it! ibelsn against half a dozen others’ who, by compari- 800, are so many impossibles, in such circum- stances it will not do to proffer to the public explanations and excuses in leu of the straight- forward act of appointment, — Nothing can be taken as an equivalent in sucha case. An inteiligént people cannot toleréte such an explanation as that 9 good appointment has falléd because the place was ‘bargained uway in a sense adveise to that appointment. The explanation isan additional offence. Bad appointments to important ‘places are bad enough, but when they ‘ate’ deliberately de- fended on grounds that aasume, the public offices to be the property of the politicians we have to face something worse than the worst appointment ever made. - rien » Some time ago we published a conversation with Mr. Peter B. Sweeny. Onoofhis remarks that was best founded in commion sense and acute political philosophy was criticism of General Grant, to the effect that he had entered. upon office not a8 a trustee, but as if the Presi- dency and its legitimate power for conferring honors.and emoluments were his private pro- perty. This covers the whole ground of the relations of the people to those who hold offices that have the prerogative, of appoint- ment to other offices, They hold’ as trustees ugdera moral obligation of the most sacred kind to fill such places from consideration of the public will, and it isan indefensible appro- priation for them to proceed on other grounds, We hope that Mr. Sweeny still holds to his own wholesome view of this case; and as he is supposed to be a man of some influence among those now in power at Albany, it may perhaps not be too much for the public to expect, and even require, at his hands that he will say a word in support.of his principle in its application to the very important post of Health Officer. Otherwise, and if in the dis- tribution of offices here we see flagrant viola- tions of this rule, the public may suppose that in the event of our metropolis ever furnishing a Prosident to the country he may not do bet- ter than others have done. ., We do not believe it possible to. name for the Health Officer of this port « man more fit than Dr. Carnochan, while we are sure that all others yet named are entirely his interiors in every qualification for tie piace, He is a man of national repuistion, aad as the welfare of our commerce is 2 national concern, only such @ one should be entrusted with the great power over our trade that the Health Officer must necessarily wield, He has been for twenty yeara surgeon-in-chief of the State Emigrant Hospital here, ander the presidency of Mr. Gulian C. Verplanck, and while this fact is an eloquent testimonial to his satisfactory reln- tions with some of the best men of the com- munity, it also implies a special experience of the greatest value. Into bis general quali- fications as a man of science and large and general culture it would be superfluous to enter. Itis an additional praise ‘to any man to say that his nomination to an honorable place meets. with opposition, But it has been in- quired why the profession here are compara- tively silent on this subject, It is character- istic of the profession’ that itis always silent on such subjects unless especially called out, and we believe that this‘very inquiry has already drawn forth in Dr. Carnochan’s favor the warmest expressions from a large number of the most eminent men in the profession. If the expression is not universal it is doubtless because the Doctor was never a member of that secret medical society whose existence in this city was publicly reprobated so long ago as 1830, and which, being organized especially to secure to its members a monopoly of the honors and advantages open to professional men, naturally looks with no favor oa such an appointment as the one propos. Tho French Magna Charta, French reform progresses rapidly and in a very enlightened direction under the Ollivier Ministry. The newspaper press is rendered healthily free, permission having been given for the sale of all joursals in the streets of the cities, so that the people will really have the censorship in their own hands, as they need not patronize immoral or insignificant newspapers, Algeria is to bo represented in the Legislature. The magistracy is exhorted to “maintain its dignity and above all keep justice clear from politics,” a judicial motto which might bo more generally adopted with honorable advantage in countries hitherto supposed to be far more advanced in the path of free progress than France. Financial jolot stock speculations and combinations are con- demned by the Executive. The army is to be reduced and its internal disciplinary system remodelled. Ministers will submit a statement of the internal and external me ondition of the é “ay, so that it wz bo hépel:!ty anticipated that the great Frepoh revolution has been worked very nearly ‘‘to its legitimate conclusion,” and that the “edifice” of national liberty is almost “crowned” for the French people, Tut “Grortovs Eranta or Janvary.”— In the good old democratic times, when a silver dollar was as big as a cart wheel and Old Hickory’s ‘‘Battle of New Orleans” was a great thing in our annals of war, the anniversary of that -glorious day was a sort of Fourth of July to the rejoic- ing democracy from Tammany Hall to Texas, But it has almost died gut as 6 democratic day of jubileo, Last Saturday, for instance, instead of a grand assemblage in the Tammany Wigwam, we had the cheap display of the hanging out of the flags over the City Hall. The day elsowhere was recog- nized bythe Kentucky Legislature, by the Indiana democracy in their State Convention, by the old soldiers of 1812 at St. Louis, and by Madam Edward A. Pollard (late of the Southera Confederacy) at Wasbington, and that is about all, ‘Times change, and men change with them,” and ‘so pass away all the glories of this world.” | Special Correspondence from Vienna. Tho, most marked and remarkable attesta- tion of the power of the independent newspa- per press, as well'as the most graceful tribute which has ever como from abroad as the reward of freo American journalistic entorprise, ap- pearsin our columns to-day. It is embraced in ourspecial le(ters from Vienna, dated the 20th and 2lat of December, in which the writer resp he the Austrian dlates- ‘mau, Count Beust,' aetuils the conversation which ensuod, and proceeds to illustrate ‘the actual present condition of the empire in the words of his Excellency the Chancellor as they fell from his lips. We class this event as the “most remarkable attestation of the power of the independent. press.”. We use the, words intelligently and knowingly. In their exproz- sion we do not lose sight of the fact that we have already in a special correspondence from Berlin formally introduced consolidated Ger- many to the people of the United States, Count Bismarck appearing in our pages'as the apokes- man of the redeemed and reconstructed nationality. Free ‘hos been placed before our readera, ina commonication from Florence, as she fame by her Preniler, ! General, Count Menebrea, who spoke without reserve to our represandative of her‘hopes and’ ‘her distractions, her past and present, herindus-. trial resources and debts, her politics, diplo- macy and religion, her movement forward and the agencies which impede it, her democracy and ‘royal dynasty, her friends and. her ene- mies, both imperialistic and clerical. Such’ communications, coming from ‘such sources, were pleasing as honorable rewards of our enterprise, but did not at all surprise us. Germany stands before the world a living, breathing monument ‘of tho indestractibility of free thought and free speech. She is cos- mopolitan in her associations and universal in her ideas. She renows and perpetuates her- self in her public schools ‘and’ utilizes her mind by steam and electricity. She is at home eyerywhere, and peculiarly so as o colonist and citizen on the American Con- tinent. Speaking to the Heranp Count Bis- marck was epeaking to Young Germany abroad, and to a great extent perfecting the Panslavism of a race by tho universalism of our communion taken from the fountain head. Italy has not forgotten the glories. of ancient Venice. Premier Menebrea looked back to the era of the Doges, its independence, simplicity. anil love of justice, Passing the gloom of the Middle Ages, he camo at once to the time of Cavour, standing forth himself as the repre- sentative of the national have ensued from Solferino'and Villafranca, as well as from a temporary negloct of the cardinal national maxim that “who would be free themselves must strike’ the blow.” His report was, consequently, tinctured slightly with a patriotic melancholy, but stil! apoken in hopeful words, and in the fall conviction that: good mustensue ‘from: its publication in’ America. Germany-and Italy, consequently, approved at once of our newspaper plan for the obliteration of the executive ‘‘red tape” system of government routine despatches, and hus endorsed the attempts which wo had made for placing the natioas in an every day, correspondeiics, and thus annihilating bound- ary lines and oceans, ° bosides obliterating Pexecutive platforms and. party political. com- binations. To-day we restoré Austria to herself, and enable Count Beust to set her right before the world. Her imperialism, which has hitherto frowned on many peoples and strode over many a battle field in haughty triumph, lowers ita ensign in acknowledgment of the spirit of material progress. The Power which would scarcely retire from the Quadrilateral sheathes, as it were, its sword and comes down to the practical work of making itself better understood by the peoples through our columns, Count Beust, himself a stranger amid her variegated nationalities, appreciates the force and effect of a candid statement to the Amor!- can people, and, as will be seen in the corres- pondence, casts away his official cares com- pletely and eaters on tho conversation with a peculiar donhomic. He acknowledges a national reason for his explanation, and scarcely conceals his conviction that Count Bismarck, of Prussia, had got a little ahead of him in the recuperative work—the publication of a first international plea in oar pages, Chancellor Beust takes occasion also to declare his personal fecling towards Bismarck— a most interesting episode, the first attempt perbaps which has been made from either side towards the complete reconciliation of twp of the greatest minds of the Old World. It would be useless to attempt to recapitulate the points of Count Beust’s conversation, The dialogue in its completeness makes the presont history of a mighty empire, and will therefore command the attention of our readers in jts entirety, The populations of the Aust rian empire, their divergent interests and mani fold demands, the mode of government, the condi- tion of the press, the army, the Chureh, the Concordat, the relations with Rome, the atti- tude observed towards the Ecumenical Council and the insurrection in Bulgaria were all dis- cussed with equal ee Count Beust a Be LiL > ee was made fully aware that hts words and opin- jons would be reproduced in the Heratp, and really summed up the situation in his democratic reply :—‘‘You are free to do it, sir; as free aa I auin the habit of speaking my mind on all 7 #2 foundation fount occasions, I feel pleasure at the attention of the leading American journal.” Such is Austria in her reform, with her Pro- testant Premier and acknowledging the aposto- licity of the people, Tux Cuvronzs Yestgrpay.—We give our usual record of the church services of yes- terday in another column, In Plymouth church, Mr, Beecher having first heard an announcement from a pillar of his church that it was proposed to increase his salary $5,000, firged the pew holders to pay up their first instalments promptly, and then preached with renewed vigor @ sermon on “Increase of Faith.” Rev. Bishop Potter preached at the dedication of the Floating Church of our Sa- viour for Seamen, at the foot of Pike street. The Rev. N. H. Schenck dedicated the Seventh Mn Methodist Episcopal church in Brook- ya. pists. fats Mr. Hoar’s Nomination ag Aasociate Justice is not to be withdrawn, but is to be left to the disposition of the Senate. The disposition of the Senate is to reiect him. | NEWYORK HURALD, MONDAN, JANUARY 10, 1870. ‘The State Blecilons “ef 1870—The ‘Two Parties and ‘Their’ Platforms. Both parties in New Hampshire have de- clared their platforms: for 1870. The demo- crats, leading off, express their faith. in ‘their biding party: principles; they oppose centralization and stlck to State rights; thoy’ denounce the ‘action of Congress in . relation to Georgia; they pro- test against the ‘burdeas of the Internal Revenue and Tarlff laws; they denounce Monopolies; thew ga tui taxis at Contracts, \ bondg and. secutities, nationsl bonds and se- curities with the rest, and they go for paying the national debt, not otherwise specified, in currency. This is the New Hampshire demo- eratic platform, and we presume it will be the ground’ ocoupied ‘by the democracy in nearly all the States for this year’s elections, The republicans of New Hampshire have declared their» hearty» approval of General Grant's administration. They. congratulate the country on the reduction of the debt; they danounee the currenoy device of the demo- erate for the debt.as a form of re- pudtation ; ‘they Sav6oate the taxing of luxu- riés and the of the franking privilege; dorse the second recon- atruction “of Ge they. denounce ‘the | orgia action of the wanes Legislature of New ‘York upon the fifteenth: amoendmout as a blow aimed at universal, suffrage; they harp upon the participation, of the. demooracy in, the rebellion’; they hail thé revival of temperance dn the State, and they declare that railroad.and other corporations should be managed in tlie <intevest of ‘the public ay well as in the interest of the-stocklolders.. « ’ The Indiana democracy, with a somewhat ‘atronger democratic accent on national banks, bonds and greenbacks, held their State con- vention and declared thelr. ptinciples.on ‘tthe glorious 8th of January,” and they stick to the text of, General Wade Hampton and General Frank Blair of 1868 in denoureing “‘the infa- mous and revolutionary character of the recon- struction, measures of Congress, and as an invasion of the sovereign and sacred rights of the people.and all the States.” The sovereign rights of the ‘States?’ Wiy, that cartles us back againto the’ secession of South Carolina and to Buchgnan’s opinion that the United Siates has no power to coerce a seceding State. The, general issues here’ presented, ‘upon which the republicans will fight throughout the country, are those whiolr mark the policy of Congress and’ of Grant's administration, for they now have both Congress and the ad- ministration to back them.” For the last three years ef Andy Jobnaon’s administration tiey had to fight the Presideat and the democracy, And so, with the: acquisition of Grant in the place of Johnson, the par'y in power is strongly entrenched. The democracy, there- fore, will have up-hill work on their old issues to; turn’ thé” tables upon their adversaries in ‘this year’s elections for the next Congress. General Grant andthe Grand Tour. Time was when no English or American gentlemen could consider his education ‘com- pleted until he hadsmade the grand tour—that is, seen life not induondon. only, but in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, Madria’ Rome; and Venice. It, was, necessary. for: the ‘accomplished man of the world to witness the flats of Holland, to sail up'the Rhine, to cross the Alps and the Appénines, to sail over thé }/ blue waters of the Mediterrancan, to gaze upon the stones of Venice, and, if he could not see the Grand Turk, at least to visit the land of the Pharaohs and to climb the Pyramids, The requirement is now less insisted upon because the accomplishment is moro general. News- paper correspondents are now* more highly favored than in times gone by were the ecions of noble and even of royal houses. The passion for foreign travel is stronger in this age than it ever has been, Royal per- sonages whose persons, like those of the Grank Linma of Thibet and of the Mikado of Japan, were deemed sacred and could be seen by no vulgar eye, have caught the contagion, and princes on foreign tours have of late been as common as daisies on the meadow in the sunny sky of June. The Grand Turk has made the European tour, The princes of the blood royal of England have been showing themselves all the world over. But a few days ago quite a galaxy of crowncd heads shone brilliantly on the banks of the Nile, Even now a galaxy scarcely less brilliant gives éclat to the Ecumenical Council in Rome. Rumor has it that Prince Arthur is about to make’a visit to our national capital. It is well known that Eugénie, who so recently shone as the star of the East, has a desire to make a visit to this country, and see with her own eyes the wonders of this new Western world. It is rumored, too, that her Majesty Queen Victoria, of England, intends to visit the New Dominion, when, of course, she will see the independent, but still loyal, people of the United States. All of them, we need hardly say, will be made truly welcome, From’ such friendly intercourse good must flow. We are never too old to learn. We are never 80 young or s0 ignorant that we cannot give a neg I is possible that this rumor hice ? President Grant may have ation In fact. Sad we like the ded, Such s Such # rer Would fd be: Tae popular with the American people. The President would be the lion of the hour where- ever ho might chance to be, The Europeans are fond of soldiers. In President Grant they would see a true military hero, In this great republic of the West princes are made, not born, and we are quite willing that the courts and cabinets and peoples of Europe should accept President Grant as 4 fair specimen of an American prince, Tha President would be the better for the tour and for the wider expe- rience it would give him, Henceforward. he would from a ‘lofticr standpoint and with a clearer vision be able to look upon men and things. It would, in addition to all this, teach the nations of the world that the Presi- dent ‘of the United States is the equal of emperors and kings. We shall welcome Prince Arthur as years ago we welcomed his elder brother. We shall welcome his excel- lont mother, We shall welcome Bugénie, But we shall rejoice at the same time to seo Prosident Grant set out on the grand tour. Cuigr Justice Cuase has written to the Ohio Legislature in favor of the fifteenth amendment. He takes a broad, comprehen- sive view of the rights of.man, and thereia makes an excelleat democrat. ‘The. Cy, Programme int, AlbeTy > |Tete » conceded fact that the Albany Legis- lature ia, to.remodel our entire city govern- ment during the:present session, and {tis not improbable that the plan agreed upon.to effect this purpose will meet with the general con- sont of the governed, inasmuch as they know that the majority of the people, not only in the. city, but inthe State, have created the present Legislature by their ballots at the. polla, .and therefore must sccept the action of that body as thoirown 7 ig fale to jo “tint the” people would not have elected the members who comprise the present Senate and Assem- bly unless they wanted an entire change in the mode of State government which has pre- yailed for many years past. That. the, Legis- lature lias the confidence of tho voters of the State is therefore to be taken for granted/ The democrats have a majority of sixteen in the Assembly and a, majority of four in the Senate, ‘They have the Exeentive, whom they accept asa fair and honest representas” tive of the party, and, indeed; upon whose name they are possibly willing at the timo to stake their chances for tlie Presiden-)! ~ tial succession. They hold the entire State” government in’their hands, ‘and with the’ con- trol thereof they-must shoulder the responsi-~ bility. The: management of the ‘canals, ‘chp; | jbanks, the insurance companies, the railroads, «: ‘the State prisons, the publio institutions and all the money that may be, appropriated and expended for their departmen's—all ‘these the democrats hold in their hands. ©’ Bat our inte- rests in. the metropolis’ are ¢éntrod. more especially in our own local goverhment. It is here ttiat'the shoe pinches’ us, an‘l it is there- fore just upon this point that we are most anxious: to isce things’ put upon'a sound and economical 1 footing. We have, been groaning under a;hideous nightmareof bad government for along time. Caa we hope that the day of redemption is dawning with the advent. of the new power at Albany?’ If that power’ pro- mises much, much’ will ba expected of it, That the innumerable Albany commissions established in our ‘Met ropolitan district” are to be so changed and modified as to be no | longer recoznizable as foreign invasions upon municipal rights is a part of what wa call the city programme'at Albany. It is decided that all thess commissions, including the Metro- politan Police Commission, tho Croton Board, the Board of Health, the Fire Department, the Excise Boayd; and all others which owe their creation to country legislation at Albany during the ascendancy of the ropnblican party, are to bo transmi:ted (o'the people of the inetropolis, as represented “hy the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, the direct elected representatives of the voters of the, city, If in their hands the performance of. the :duties of these. offices fluds disfavor. the voters: have the remedy in their own hands,’ and they need not go to Albany for redress. The ballot box at the next election will. settle the question between the faithful servant and the wrongdder, and their rewards will bo meted out to them, This is the germ and the fruit of municipal government. If evil has come out’ ‘of this system in former times, as:we know it has, it:is because it was worked out in cor- ruption and used for baso ends; but is it not safer to have the-control of our affairs in our jown bands than to entrust. {i to parties who have no knowledge of our wants or no sympa- thy with onr afflictions? It is in’ this view, wo guppose, that ‘the democratic leaders, with their splendid work- , ing majority in Albany, mean "to revise ‘our whole municipal system, They argue that by delegating authority to-officials elected by the voters of the city the voters know exactly where responsibility rests and can demand ‘a strict account of the stewardship. This might seem to be a very complicated scheme, con- sidering the multitudit.ous commissions to be dealt with, and looks as though it might in- volve a vast amount of legislation; but it appears that the whole revolution is to be compressed into the pages of a new city char- ter, the leading points of which are probably already agresd upon. This is a very easy way of simplifying the matter; and as such a meastre, if introduced, is sure to pass both houses, it may save a great deakof valuable time and give the Legislature an opportunity to look into other important State matters. British Cuban Policy at Sea. Great Britain appears to have got her eye open to infringements upon international law. She sent a war ship from Nassau the other day to play the detective upon two vessels supposed. to be carrying men and arms to Cuba, The British war ship Lapwing, we are told, cap- tured them both and took them back to the British port of Nassau. If the English vessels at that port had been so active in the enforcement of interaational law during our war the ‘‘Alabama claims” might rate at a lower figure than they do now. No delicate sensibilities disturbed the consciences of the British auihorities when Confederate privateers wererecsiving supplies of provisions, arms and ammunition for four years at this port of Nassau to be used against the government ~ of the United States,” This very port was the stronghold upon ‘the sea on which the con- federation ai for its stpplies from abroad, and a relied wi ‘® Confidence which we know was not abuses, ft appedts that Sparta enjoys the same privileges in the British colony of New Providence which the Southern con- federation of Jo Davis enjoyed in the days of peril to our government. An Anre Dirromat—General Tato, the colored ambassador at Washington from Hayti. His general views, as given the other day toa Heratp correspondent, regarding the future relations between that island and the United States, are those of a clear-headed and practi- cal statesman, fully up to the measure of General Grant’s~high opinion. Such a repre- sentative, in this new age of the world, is cal- culated to do much In the moral and material elevatioa of Beis race at home and abroad, Ovr Caanirms.—There are a number of institutions in this vicinity for the care of young delinquents. ‘Iwo of the worthiest of these are the Catholic Protectory, in Westchester gounty, and the New York Juvenilo Asylum, near High Bridge. A ‘more extended account of them will be ur news columns, A2FFER 5 LICE COURT. Justice Shandiey will preside at this court during the present week. He and bia clerk, Mr. Michael Shandiey, both state that tt has never been their in- tention to restrict whe privileges of the reporters for he press.