The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1870, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD _ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ~ All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York AMUSEMENTS THIS EVONING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—New Vexsiox oF BaMLEe. WOOD'S NUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, oor + ner tblstioihet-rMatines dally. Vestormeses rrecy arcatng GRAND OPRRA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and s.--TAE EWELVE TEMPTATIONS, OF TAB Gorp MINEB. OWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—THE AVALANCOR— Gtuwastic EXERcisEs, £0, Y bt NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Prerox; on, Tue King THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth sireet.—Geanp Vaniery ENTERTAUN ENT, TH'S THEATRE, 234 between Sih and 6t! _ Edwin Boot as Macokis hie Me Seg nad THEATRE, Broadway and ike atreet.~ ar Sra, MRS. F. D. 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Panay Sekonnetacn Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Religious: Prayer, Praiso and Preaching on Passion Sunday; Pulpit Folltics and few Morality; Broadbrim Beattnde and Wrathfal Reitgion; Dedication of New Temples of Wor- Ship for Saiuts aud Sinners; Discourses on the Fitteenth Amendment, the Infatiolilty of the Pope, the Successor of St. Peter, Obstacles tu the Christian Life and Sensation Preachers, 4—Religious (continued) ~The Brooklyn Meccanti'e Library—'the Colored Vote 10 Ohio, G—Brookiyn Navy Yard: The Project for Its Sale and Purchase of a Site Elsewhere; A Big Job @od Why the Brooklyn City Government Favor Ww—Cnla: The Reported Emancipation of Slaves by the Captain General a Frand—~Art Notes—Europe: Prince Pierre Bonaparte’s Triat at Tours; Napoleon’s Letter of Magna Charta for Frauce—U!d World Items—Suicide m St. Louis, _ G—Waitorials: Leading Article on Our Army and Navy—Amuscment Announcements. %—Telegrapbic News trom Ali Parts of the World; french Expectation of a Parliamentary and Cabinet Crisis; the English Universities' Boat Race Betting; Indian Treachery in Wyoming— Crippled at Sea: the City of Brussels Loses 4 Her Propeiler—Washingion: Views ‘of the # Dominican Commission on thie Domt- can ‘Treaty; Claims of a Fenian pri- @oner Against Great Britam; An Important Cotton Que-tion—Personal Intelil- gence—Musical and Theatrical—The Hildise Bund—Three Men Suifocated in a Lodging Honse~—Probable Murder in Brooklyn- Bust- ness Novices, B—New York wm Washington: The Congressional Soions Who Saw Daylight First in the Empire State—Mustcal Review—Unsafe Foundations— 5 The Fifteenth Ameniment—Real Estate Mat- ‘ ters—The Courts—Journalistic Noiey—Marine 3 HERILD, mh Trausters—Marriages and bests. O—Financial and Commercial Keports—Internai Revenue—Commissioner Delano ani the Par- mwers—Advertiasinents, s 2Q— The New Charter; Memorial of the Citizens’ Association to the Senaie Spproving of the Reforms Proposed by Mr. Frear’s Bili—The plial—New York City News--Political Notes and Obserrvatious—The New Tennessee Con- Btiiurion—Brooklyn Intelligence—Big Six’s Birthday—Fire im Exchange Place—Death Under Suspicious Circumstauces—The Winnt- peg Executton—New Jersey News—Shippiog Intelligence—Advertisements. 21 Advervisements, 19—Adveriisemonta. Tue Main Provosition up at Albany to- Gay, “up siaira and down stairs” and every- whore will be, ‘Take a seat; we want to have @ little talk with you.” 1 HEROES ERIS Ai Tux Pazk.—All the tal about the Park going to the dogs, or to the goats and geese, under (hé new Charter is gas and gammon, Mayor Hall will not disturb the present com- j missioners, and the radical Se:afora know it. Axornsr “Bonouition” Day,—Our colored fellow citizens «re making arrangements for a eneral celebration for the ratification of the Soon amendment. The day will no doubt be hercatter celebrated as an important anni- wersary in this age of progress in everything that pertains to negrodom, Nre@roxzs wv Connzoticur.—It is a sottled fact thai the negroes caunvt vote to-day in Oonnecticut, Congress should have passed the Texas~biil and allowed General Grant to proclaim the fifteenth amendment a few days @arlior. * SomeTaixe New in tne Srxacoauz.—It is stated that a number of Jewish ladies in this City have ostabiisied aa industrial home for poor Jewezses, the first of the kind organized fa the Jewish Charch. This is human pro- i gress of the right kind. It is a wonder our \ ack Blobrew population have not done something -L. ~~ pF the kine before this. Jost So.—One of the organs of the rough Bnd tumble democracy of this city says that Back Morrissey never took a dollar out of the city treasury. Neither did Jack Reynolds nor fhe luminary’s pet, Mike Murphy. . Sr AR is ' Parsons Gorxa Abroap.—Western papers Bate that arrangements are being made to g've the parsons a grand jollifcation noxt sum- gnor by a trip from Chicago to San Francisco nd back. If a fey of thom could pe dropped on the way, and try their hands at evangeliz- _ Jog the savages, they would be dolng a good i » and then only be following in the foot- fe QOor Army and Navy. Eoonomy is no doubt now our most pressing national need, and our legislators at Washing- ton, prompt to catch the drift of public opin- fon, are making most praiseworthy and con- splouous efforts in that direction. A cynical observer might say, that thoir efforts wors too plainly conspicuous, too evidently made for an audience to be very sincere; but let us give these worthy gentlemen all pralso for thoir economical spasms; let us shut our eyes to all, railroad jobs, steamboat subsidies, land granta, private bilis and all that sort of thing, and shout i: admiration at the determined efforts Congress is making to cripplé our army and strangle our navy, A wise economy does not tear down what already is well established, knowing that some day it will have to build it allup again, knowing that the building up again must be done in turmoil and confusion, when the government is at the mercy of con- tractors and jubbers—dono, perhaps, when_ the Treasury is suffering from a rapidly depre- ciaiing «redit; done when time, not monoy, mast’be saved. Our bitter experience in the last war, when we had to go through this, ought to have taugat us a lesson. The mil- Yions of money wo wasted, tho shameful peculation and jobbery that made the name of a government contractor a by-word and @ reproach, should not make us desirous of repeating the operation of creating an army and # navy out of next to nothing. And yet this is what our sapient Congressmen in their new-found geal are driving us to. Siop a mo- ment, gentlemen; reflect for a few minutes what you are doing, and let those among you who rant and rour about the majesty of the American eagle refloct upon the outrage you are doing that glorious specimen of ornithololy in paring his claws and clipping his wings, Ifow is he to soar over and protect our com- merce, or whut you have left of it, if you take away the navy? How is he to keep order and protect our citizens from the savages among the Rocky Mountains, his traditional perch, if yon decimate the army? Is it wise, let alone the generosity and justice of the step, to. drive our carefully educated and de- voted officers from the service? Is it good policy to let enormously expensive ships rot for the want of money to repair them? Is this even economy, oh! saving sages? In some of your blustering speeches about the British lion, when you wax warm over the Ala- bama question, remember that our army is just about one-tenth of tho British; and when you grow pathetic over the woes of suf- fering Cuba, or when your indignation is aroused by acts of eppression and crusty to- ward Americans in Cuba, remember that even what you are pleased to call the effets, worn- out, distracted government of Spain has a larger naval force in Cuban waters than we possess throughout the glob», Not that we for a moment donbt the ability of tho great Yan- kee nation to bid defiance to all comers, with or without a navy. And can we not point with pride to the glorious deeds of arms of members of your own august body? Still, though we yet have a Logan and a Butler among us, don’t entirely destroy our army ; all men are not bora military goniusos, and do have some compassion on those unfortunates who have been obliged to spend years of care- ful training inorder to ovtain their present po- sition. And when, oh, sages! in convivial mo- meats—for unless you are sadly belied some of you do seek to enliven the routine of legis- lation by feasting and merrymaking—you toast “the army and navy forever,” think of the miserable remnant of an army and navy you would leave us to drink to, Be saving in your economy, and don’t ruin what has already been created; be merciful to the service that Perry and Lawrence, nll, Decatur, Stewart and mary others have made glorious; be more economical, ye sparing lawgivers, and don’t des‘roy, by niggardly withdrawal of supplies, our gallant ships, It is a mistaken and fallacious theory, how- ever galling it may be to admit it, that Yankee geuius is naturally universal. We succeed pretty well, it is true; but our efforts at intui- tive generalship have not been altogether sat- isfactory. In diplomacy and in politics we satisfy ourselves, at any rate; and we do very well wherever generalties will pass current, wherever words will do for deeds, wherever mistakes are not almost fatal; but when pre- cise, positive results are called for intuitive genius has a hard time of it. We do far bet- than other nations, granted; but we have still modesty enough left to kaow that we mizht do better, Those economical members, who now and then, in some occasional fit, propose to abolish our national schools at West Point and Annapolis, would do well to study the glorioug record of the “regulars” in the last war and see what the results of careful training can be. To or- dinary observers thore is always much in pro- fessional learning that seems cumbersome, useless, and even at times absurd. Red tape, formality, they cry out. Very well, gentlemen; red tape and formality, like most other things, are very well in their place and in their proper degree. Do you trust your health or your affairs to quack doctors or lawyers, who boast of having cut loose from the trammels of precedent? Will you trust the honor and welfare of your country to quack generals and admjrals? We have had, porhaps, enough of such gentry already, It would be more economical, more fitting the high position you hold as rulers of this great country, to give usa noble navy; ona capable of making us respected abroad; one that willdo us honor, and one that will do honor to the heroes that have graced its rolls in the past and who adorn it in the present; o service of which we all may be proud; one which would reflect credit on its officers and on its generous supporters, Be careful how you retrench; give thought to the future; be watchful, that in your pruning you do not de- stroy the tree itself. The title of Treasury watch dog is a proud one, the need of economy is most urgent, the popular cry demands it, and a saving reputation is a good thing to re- turn to your coustituen‘s with for re-election ; but you have a national duty to perform, na- tional interests aud honor to look after, and the interests of the wholo country demand a strong and efficient navy. Be saving, but at the same time be provident, Let not your zeal outrun your discretion. Bo generous and be just, Waar a Piry rv is that the philosopher Greeley shonic fall omong such evil comoan- fons in his prlinost days! Whut will all ho ever know about farming or politioal oconomy avail him if he rung with Joba Morriasey and Jommy O'Brion and the young, uncouth domocracy? ' ‘The Vuton League Committee and tho “Pro- porty Owners”? Movement. Last Saturday night tho Union League Club held a meeting anf adopted a protost against the now Charter now pendiag in the Sanate, and proposing, not the fifteenth, but fifteen different amendmeuts as necessary to make thia Charter complete. They also appointed Horace Greeley, Joseph B, Varaum, Jr., Charles J. Folger, William Gullen Bryant, George Opdyke, William E, Dodge, John A, Weoks, Isaac H. Bailey, Le Grand B, Cannon, James H. Tiius, William Laimbeer, Jr., Sin- clair Tousey, William H, Bridgman, Saint J, Glaasey and William A, Dowling, ‘to proceed to Albany (and we presume they are there now, or most of thom) and roprosent to the republican mombors of the Logislature that we protest omphatically against the passage of the Charter now before the Senate, unless it is. essentially amended”’—that {a, according to the fifteen propositions laid down by the club, Secondly, on the eall of Mesgra. A, T. Stew- art, Goneral John A, Dix, Marshall O, Roberts, James Lenox, William T. Blodzett, A. A. Low, Jobu Jacob Astor, Daniel F, Tiemann and many othera, “in support of the present Central Pack Commissioners and in opposition to the measures pending at Albany to displace them,” there is to be at one o'clock a citizens’ meeting at Jit Broadway this day, from which itwill be seen that the Union League Club and theso distinguished citizeus making the call for this day's meeting have come in among Iaboreraia the vineyard at the eleventh hour. We sus pect that they are too late; but we shall see, It is apparent, at all events, thatthere will be & great commotion in the hive of every faction and clique of the politicians at AJbany to-day ; but as the thing is said to bo positively fixed, Greeley and Morrissey will be apt to find that their only way of retreat is through the little end of tho horn. Hayition Troubles. Hayti and the Haytiens are atill in hot water, That fact is apparent from our latest Port au Prince advices.» But, by the way, when, in the course of their comewhat diversified career, were these good people in any pleasanter con- dition? Ifwe cast a glance backward to the very incipienvy of their national existence in the days of Tovssaint L'Ouverture and of Dessalines, their first ruler after their declara- tion of independence in 1804, and follow down tha long succession of intestinal feuds which elovated both Christophe and Pétion to rival Presidencies, until Boyer’s invasion tempora- rily reunited them and made bim supreme; if we then recall the fend after fead of Reviere, Guerrier, Pierrot and Rich¢é, until, in our times, Faustin, Solouque and Geffrard have re-enacted the old accustomed drama of slaughter, misrule and pillage, we find the same sad story of anarchy and ruia in a land intended to be one of the gardens of the world. We now have before us the accession of the new President Saget, who entera upon his perilous task in the very teeth of « ferecious rebellion. His programme ready well, and is, no doubt, sincerely meant. “Honest management of the public resources and observance of the laws,” it tells us, are the fundamental principles that will guide his administration, But at the very outset the United States consul at Jeremic, who, on Saget’s behalf, has bosne offers of amnesty and reconciliation to the insurgent General Jacquet, is seized by that worthy and held in durance vile. This act, while it affords small guarantee of a peaceful reconstruction in Hayti, may prove to be a timely hint of daty to our own administration, There is no help for it. The protectorate of some wise and stablo government strong enough to enforce and maintain the law will alone rescue HMayti from a relapse into barbarism. With Domini- oa, which covers three-fifths of tho island, coming under the United Siates flag already, the future cannot be doublful, and the sagacity of. General Grant will shorten tho period of delay that still excludes Hayti from a like promising destiny. A fair troaly oace con- cluded, a regiment or’ two of United States troops thrown into the colored republic to restore order and set the noisy disputants who now harass their country to work would soon enable commerce and industry to write the re- cord of Haytien affairs in other characters than blood and fire, Tue Covnom. AND THE CIviL PowERs,— Later news informs us that there is no likeli- hood of the Pope abandoning his ground. He is resolved to be infallible, and being able to count on the majorliy, he is determined to put it tothe vote. At the samo time we are told that Count Dara has given up the idea of sending a lay representative to Rome. The reason for this change of policy is said to be that he has not found sufficient encouragement from the governments of Vienna, Madrid and Florence. The Pope and the Council are thus to be allowed to take what course they please, This has all along been the idea of Von Beust, the Austrian Chancellor, We may now look for some action on the part of the Council in relation to tho Syllabus and infallibility. We may also look foro general tearing up of ex- isting concordats. The breach between Church aud State promises to widen more and more, Hert Gatz.—tt is given out that the com- mittee of Congress on the subject of improve- ments in the river and harbor, which they will shortly report to the House, have agreed upon an item of $100,000 for the removal of the obstructions in Hell Gate, This may, per- haps, be better than nothing; but it seems to us that the commerce and Custom House rev- enues from this port call for something more than these dribbles for the removal of these Hell Gate obstructions, Congress, in fact, should provide for the opening of this passage to the largest steamers at all conditions of the tide, or for a tide ship canal, as soon a8 prac- tivable, for peace purposes and for war pur- poses. We Wars tuz Mencers oy THe STATE Senare agatas Gresley, If he gets thom to throw over the new Charter as he proposes, it is just like him to go back to his sanctum and call thom all ‘blockheads,” especially the re- publican members, a8 he did the Union League wes, _ The Churches Yesterday. Passlon Sunday was observed yesterday with due solemnity in the Catholic and Epls- copal churches, Tho attendance was large 4ud the worshippers seemed, as wo trust they were, profoundly conscious of the great events in commemoration, Beginning with Grace church we find that tho congregation filled tho snored edifice, that the glare and glitter of fashion were not at all clouded by the sombro habiliments of the sorrowing sinner. and that the sermon delivered by Dr, Pottor was elo- quent, Tao reverend gentleman urged bis hearers to forgot those things that are behind: We hardly think they are inclined to romember thom. It they were it would not be necessary to remind them of the words of Paul and to adviso thom to pross onward through life. Unfortunately too many of us make such rapid progress that we forget everything worlh remembering, excepting the one idea which animates, and that is too seldom of a religious nature, And even in religion we are seme- times too fast. When Dr, Potter tells us that thore is nothing incongruous in ‘the Gospel in tho ratpitof a Water street rumseller” we cannot aliogether agree wi'h him, However pure and pious may be the motives of the Water street missionaries there is but little of the sublime ia the spectacle of sinners being fed with the loaf of the divine spirit in one room while sianers aro feeding loalers with spirils anything but divine in the other. Turning to the Catholic churches we learn that all wera thronged, The sermons were, devoted to the subject of the passion of Curist, and, a9 usual, the faithful were exhorted to u true repentance, without which the perform- ance of the rvligious duties demanded by the Church during Passion week wiil not avail, At the Church of the Epiphany Bishop Connor somewhat varied the monotony of sermons by delivering a discourse defining the proposed dogma of Papal infallibility. Of course, the Bishop believes that the Pope is infallible, and he dogs not think that the proclamation of the Council declaring him so will do more than affirm what all Catholics believe. If this-be the case, why proclaim the dogma at all? At the churches of the several Protestant denominations the services were solemn and the sermons fairly good. Senzational preachers were severely handled at the Rose Hill Metho- dist church, the preacher declaring that their sermons had no effect upon the minds of their ‘congregations after these had left their churches, He thought that people were in ecstacies over their hopes for three months in the year, and served tho devil faithfully the remaining nine. There is much truth in this assertion, sovere as it is, and it is the result of a sad fendency of humanily to follow that business longest which yields the most imme- diate returns, At-the Church of the Divine Paternity Dr. Chapin took for his text the words ‘‘IIallowed be Thy name,” and preached eloquently on the subject of holding God's name holy; while, in sympathy with him, Rev. Mr. Danuer, at the Union Reformed church, explained the gentleness of God’s love, At Christ church Dr. Ewer informed his congre- gation that the Bible was the great seed book of tho Church, of which we have no doubt, seeing that its contents are intended for propa- gation. The reverend doctor took an oppor- tunity of giving the Pope an indirect slap, by declaring that St. Paal of England was calling St. Peter of Rome to account for his manifold errors, In all the other churches the servants of the Lord sowed the seed of religion, and if the soil be fruitful we may entertain hopes of a bounteous harvest. Evon at Plymouth church Brother Beecher was solemn and impressive, stating the obstacles to the Christian in the walk of life, and deploring that there was not more religious zeal at the present time, In Washington alone was Passion Sunday made the occasion for a political sermon, Dr. Newman declaring, in roference to the fif- tecnth amendment, that the immunities granted the negroes ‘‘is the grandest Protestant move- ment since the days of Luther.” We fear thatthis somewhat extravagant opinion was intended as a slight puif for the President, who was present. But there are some cler- gymen who firmly believe that in heaven the spirits of negroes sit in the high places, read- ing Mr. Lincolo’s emancipation proclamation. Let us have less of this sort of thing from the pulpit. We cannot perceive that the privilege of voting has any connection whatever with Christianity, which teaches not of things ter- restrial, but of things celestial. Faanog Unver tam Bonaparte Consirru TION. —The matis from Europe by the steam- ship Idaho yesterday supply the continuation of the report of the trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte to the evening of the 24th of March, Reports from Tours give the testimony for the prosecution, with the openiag of the case for the defence. An incident which oc- curred in the court was commented on exten- sively, as affording evidence of the ample license which is just now accorded to the French press. It transpired on the examina- tion of one of the witnesses that the Mureeil- laise had anuounced that, ‘convicted or ac- quitted, the Prince would be killed.” Yet, after publishing this atrocious sentiment, the Marseillaise continued in existence as a news- paper in Paris, Napoleon's letter of Magna Charia addressed to Premier Ollivier is pub-- lished in extenso in our columns, The docu- mentsin both cases give proof that France is being gradually advanced to a healthy system of democracy—the law vindicated, imperialism tolerant, the people educated and loyal. Tr 13 DePLoraBLe To CoNTEMPLATE THE Faor that Socrates Greeley has put himself under John Morrissey’s training—using dumb- bells, dieting on bran bread and squashes, awingiag the clubs and exercising in a tight shirt every morning in order to énter the “Ring” against the Frear Charter, It is within the limit of possibility that we will have him in a few days wearing his hat over hia left eye, curling his lower Mp, smoking his cigar at an angle and even sporting a broken nose. Exoounsdiwa.—It is encouraging to witness the numbers of religious revivals now prevail- ing very generally all over the country, partic- ularly in tho West, Ifa few drops of tho same kind of grace could fall upon the Legis- “lature at Albany it would no doubt hayoa beneficent effect. Are there no praying men inthe Legislature? or aro they all preying ./ ‘mon of another kind? | NEW YURK HERALD, MUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT, . ‘The New Charter—A Memorial from the Citizens? Association, The corporation of influential property holders of the city known as the Citizons’ Association at a meeting on Saturday night adopted a memorial to the State Senate asking earnestly for the passage of tho new City Charter, which passed the House by an almost unanimons vote on Wednesday last and comes up in the Senate to-day. Phe memorial gives an unreserved approval to the main features of the Charter, and shows very clearly how acoept- able ‘it is to the prominent taxpayers of the city, who are oertsinly as anxious for good government outside of politics as the seediest ward politician oan pretend to be inside, The Protesiations of tho Iattor ought to be, and usually are, accepied wiih a great allowance of salt and a large margin for buncombe; but when an argument or an act appeals to the pockets it is safo to say that it will touch a chord that calls for truth without buncombe, whether the act or argumont is disagreeable or otherwise, The Citizens’ Association for six years has been aiming to doa good work in securing muni- cipal reforms, and it haa succeeded in many notable instances, It has made fearless war upon all the city offoers who were corrupt or negieotful, and upon the city commissions that it deemed derelict, without regard to poli- tica or power; and although we have at times foit cailed upon to rebuke or ridicule some of the idiosyncrasies in- which it indulged, like the humanitarian Bergh, we have never doubted. its devotion to a good work nor obstructed fits efforts to carry that good work to a successful issue. Now that it has come out in an unreserved approval of the new Charter, which realizes most of its efforts at reform, woe present its memorial in another column as tho best argument we can offer to the thinking mass of ‘the people for a good, hosest aud sound city government, The petition attached offera similar solid arguments in favor of the same Charter. Whea Moses Taylor, H. B. Claflin, James M. Consta- ble, Henry Ball, Richard Mortimer, ©. L. Tif- fany, Edward Cromwell, Peter Cooper and numbers of others, who are not identified with party politics, but who are interested by many hundreds of thousands of dollars with the re- form of the city government, petition for the passage of this new Charier in the Senate, it is a fair and safe deduction to make that they, as men of busines3, readily comprehend what willimprove, enrich and beautify the city in which their interests lie, even if we do not place the deduction on the higher basis of patriotism and pride. The inferonce, too, offers a fair logical contrast with the ravings of those other rich men—the silk stocking magnates of the débonnaire democracy—whose political ambitions so far oversiaugh their businoss interests that they have opposed the Charter and affiliated with the dosperadoes of the party in order to rule or ruin. The Savage Red Man, Those who, living comfortably and safely in civilized communities, have raised their voices in bitter denunciation of General Sheridan for his punishment of the Piegan Indians, may probably change their tone on reading .the despatch from Atlan- tic City, Wyoming, this morning, Six white men were killed there on the Sist ult., and a stage coach, in which Paymaster Gen- eral Alvord, Major Russell and four soldiers of the United States army and _ three other persons were passengers, is so long overdue that there is no reasonable conclusion except that all of them have been massacred, The Indians who perpetrated these outrages were not hostile bands with whom we were at open war, but they were peaceable Indians, in whom the white settlers had faith, and they were distributed about that vicinity by General Augur, when, on the ratification of peace treaties, he was looking abort for some reservation on which they could settle. No doubt they came to these peaceful pursuits at the beginning of winter with plenty of presents and guns and ammu- nition donated them by the confiding govern- ment, As soon as the grass grows their treacherous and murderous spirit exerts itself, and this is the result—the cruel butchery of the whites, who believed in their protestations of peace. Progress or THE New City Crarrer.— This evening the new Charter will be submitted tothe Senate, and without much debate will be made the special order for the morning ses- sion to-morrow, and to-morrow it will be brought up in Committee of the Whole, when a few weak passes will be made at it by Genet & Co., but under the operation of the previous question it will be put through on the railroad plan, and before the sun goes down it will pro- bably be in the hands of the Governor for his signature. On Wednesday it will be alaw and the Corporation of the city of New York will be reconstructed. Morz Earrmnquaxes at San Franoisoo,— On Saturday last, at noon, they lad ‘‘a short, wicked shock of an earthquake” at San Fran- cisco, of six seconds duration, the direction being from the southeast (the Sierra Nevada chain of mountains) to the northwest.. There was great excitement, but no damage to life or limb. It was raining at the time, and prior to the shock the barometer was observed to fall very rapidly. These frequent earthquakes at San Francisco are warnings which should not be disregarded by the inhabitants of the city in the matter of house building. They should put up no more six, five or four story houses; and houses of wood, well braced, as if for rolling in a heavy ses, are the best for guch a shaky foundation as that of San Francisco. There is no safety ina region, of earthquakes, except in all practicable precautions to meet them, Tar Rapioat PaitosopHeR must be care- ful of his tongue while he is in alliance with Morrissey and the shoulder-hitters. He can- not fling the terms “Mar” and “villain” around ais promisctiously as uanal at them, for they strike back straight from the shoulder, aud they are in better training than he is. Tza aNp Correr.—The House of Repre- sentatives, in Committee of the Whole, has fixed the duty on tea at twenty cents and on coffee at four cents. This, perhaps, is the bast we can hope for now, in view of the debt; but as we get on with the reduction of the debt we shall expect even a cheapeniag by Con- gress of tea and coffee, ‘ ‘The Urenzot Labor Ricts, Rloting seems to have become ohronie among the miners and other workmon at Creusot, in France. It has again and again been neces- sary to call in the military, Qu Saturday the disturbance seems to have been quite serious. It was reported in Paris atmoon that the dis- orders had been suppressed and that peace reigned. Later in the evening it was announced that the disturbance. had increased and that additional troops had been sont thither, It was added that the troubles were kept alive by contributions of money from other countries, Creuzot is one of the great centres of the iron trade in France, The district abounds with coal and iron, and the great factory owned by the Schneiders employs not fewer than ton thousand men, It would not bo wonderful if it proved true that foreiga workmen, especially those of Great Britaln, were helping to keep up the strike at Creuzot by contributions of money. Living is cheaper in France than in England, Men cau be got to work for lower wages. French iron and steel can therefore be sold cheaper than those of Great Britain. If it be true that the strike at Crenzot is the result of a Europoan combination, it will only confirm what we fave often repeated in these columns, tat the railroad ‘and telegraph have placed the workmen under entirely new conditions—conditions which render probable at no distant day the complete revolution of European society. Year by year it becomes more dificult for the monarchies and the cligarchies to keep down the fierce demooracy, A European trade combination shows the pos sibility of a European political combination, The Connecticut Election. The Connecticut election comes off to-day for Governor and other State officers, Legisla~ ture, &c. It is purety a local election, but the Slate is so closely divided between the two pariies that it makes even a purely local con- test lively andexciting. The result, of course, is doubtful; but the democrats are sanguine of a handsome success. Last April their popular candidate, English, was beaten four hundred votes for Governor by the popular republican, Sewell, while in November, 1868, when the democrats were demoralized, General Grant carried the State by three thousand. The repub- licans, for the present fight, which is batween Jewell-and English again, had been counting upon the acquisition of the negro vote—about fourteen hundred in the State—but the proola- mation of the Afteenth amendment came too late to enable them to make the necessary local , arrangements for the admission of this new element, whereby the democracy have been greatly encouraged. The campaign has been mainly fought by the republicans on the merits of General Grant's administration, Congress and the repub- lican party; and on the other side in the usual democratic denunciations of Grant, Congress and all concerned. The result, then, though not amounting practically to much any way, will be an endorsement or disapproval of Grant and Congress by Connecticut; but still a vic- tory to the democracy even in Connecticut, at this juncture, will be of great value to them as indicating not only that the party still lives but that it is actually gaining ground, Stavery mw Cusa.—We publish in another part of the Hrratp to-day an interesting com- munication from a citizen of Havana, which throws considerable light on the recent order of the Captain General in relation to certain negro slaves. The writer bases his letter on @ late despatch from Havana which was pub- lished in the American newspapors, and which is calculated. to mislead the people of the United States by Indicating that the Spanish government contemplates the abolition of negro slavery on the island, Tho despatch in ques- tion, which was transmitted by the Associated Presa agent in Havana, is widely different from Captain General de Rodas’ decroe, of which the telegram furnished pretended to be an explanation. A New Musrary Post.—The St. Paul Daily Press states that General Hancock has received orders from Washington to establish « new military post at Pembina, on the borders of Winnipeg. There may yet be serious trouble growing out of the resistance of tho Red Riverites to the dictation of the Hudson Bay Company, the British home governmentand the Dominion of Canada. If any people’ are “governed too much” they are certainly tho people of Winnipeg; and it is wise for the United States government to establish military posts at points where they are so signally needed as they are at the present time on the northwestern boundaries of the country. Marrp Women on tHe Wine,—The Rondout (N. Y.) Courier states that a heart- less woman in that town, sixty-five years old, recently deserted her husband, stealing the hard earnings and savings of many years, and went to live with another man in the aame place. They were Germans, sho the danghter of a clergyman, and had lived together four- teen years in Fatherland, Another case has just occurred out West, according to the Lawrence Tribuze, where the wife of a hotel koeper in Kansas City ran off with “another man,” stealing consideruble property belonging to ber husband. She was suffered to go after disgorging her plunder. Here are evidences that ‘‘mon have no rights that women are bound to respect.” State Logislatures should enact some sort of laws giving the husband a chance for maintaining his marital rights, If not men—married ones—will soon become the wooker instead of the stronger vessels. “Dust Tarowine” ror THE Next Prest- pENcY.—The Albany Wapress announces per authority that Senator Fenton is not ® oandi- date for the republi ination forthe next Presidency, and int that all assertions to that effect are but cruel jokes. The Mopresy should remember that ‘‘many a jest’ is spoken in earnest.” In this connection the Rochester Chronicle (republican) revives the followlag little bit of political history: — It may possibly occur to some prople that Gov- + ernor Fenton wasn’t a candidate for Senator last year until tne very Jast moment, aicer the suspicions of his enemios were ailayed and set atrest, Then, ~ in spite of his pledgea to Judge Davis, he suddenly appeared at Albany with an immense lobby, tail both Davis and Morgan by surpriso, and laying tiem + both as flat ag a fiounder. It 1s wierably evident » that Fenton has alroady begun to set his underatrap- pers at work laying pipe for the republican Prosi, dential nomination in 1872, < Toe Sprina Carter Exkorioy.—Will the vongh and ready democracy try their strongth under ihe new Charter of the municipal elec- | tlon which is provided for by that law ou the 17th of May? It poems to be doubtful,