The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1870, Page 6

. following figures, which 6) BROADWAY AND ANN STRERT. NAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Rejected communications will not be re~ AMUSEMENTS THIS WOOD'R MUSEUM AND M NAGERIB, Broadway, oor- wer Phistroth st.—Matines daily, Peri ormauce every evenly GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corser of By, ty £8¢ at. THE CWELVE TEMPSA1l0N8, sic ali LO'S GARDEN, Broadway.— ; a m8 CARDEN, Broadway. Prevex ; on, Tae Kx% BOWERY THEATKE, Bowery.—P: LL D Bxrgoisws—F awiny Jans, a gree nt THE TAMMANY, ae ‘ we ARY Fourteenth street,—GRanp VaRirry BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 st., vetwoen Sth and 660 ayt.— wim Booru as Macur ru. N or WALEACK'S TH "Broa Yt rm homcene KATRE, Broadway and 13h siree! OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broniway.-New Vzns10N or Barer, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth ot.—FROU MR&..F. B, CONWAY'S PAKK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Dnoww Tou's Cavin. " oT BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIO.—1 wRiL Conors2, arte rive TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comt Vouattm, Nuko MINBTRELGY, 40. Sig " TARATRE COMIQUE, 6H Bre a me eee pep Vl roadway.—CoMto Vooar- BRYANT'S OPERA Hous! » Tama stmbEYant's Mixuraxie emANY Balding, 24th SAN FRANCISCO MINSIRALS, 585 Broa !way.—l ~ PIAN MiSBTARLOY, £0,—THBATRIOAL ‘Aanox. erg KELLY & LEON'S M NSTREL' 720 Bae = - PIAN MINSTRELBEY, Neuko reed dc. sonecede nae 08 HOOLEY'S OPRRA HOUSE, ag iy Minuraiue—Faow Prowse Brooklmn.—Hoouny’a NEW YORK CIRCUS, Four! 4xD GYMNABTIO PERFORM. stfect,—EQuestatan dc, APOLLO WALL, corner Tax Naw tusenniwos. treet und Broadway.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF \NATOM yy _ SCIRNOR AND ART, on i bngensaiey: TRIPLE Now York, Thursday, April faeces = CONTENSS OF PO-DAY'S WeniLD. Paar. 2th 1—Advertisementa, Advertisements. 3~—Washington: Expeditions Mode of Settitng a Vexed Question; Butler's Resolutions for An- noxation of Dominica; Serious Cherges Pre- ferred Against General Howard; Puvii- canon of Income Returns Prohibited; Passage of the Defictency Bill by the Senate; ‘The National Bank Rings in Congress—Politi- cal: The Recent Elections tn Connecticut snd Bisewhero—The Metaire RB —Naval Tuteiligence—Sambo Snuaped—! jing of Colorado Emigranis. 4—The McFarland Trial: The Full Jury Obtained #nd the Trial to Begin This Morning—Love in ‘Three Lanzuages—Auction Sale of Unclaimed Property at Pohee Headcquarters—Excite- ment at Passaic, N, !,—Ine Methodist Epi-- copal Churcu Conierenres—Enush Divorce Court Proceedings—A Junaicial Deadlock on Stuten Istand—Meeting of the Board of Edu- cation~-Police Trial: ‘ne Board of Exelse— The Lodging Hout iorror—Poomed to Die: Governor Hotfman’s Faiul Messuge to Rey nolds; He 1 to bie on Friday—Movements of the Enviish Yechilag Squadron—Striking Qua: rymen—The Grecopoint Fire—A Jersey School- house Squabple, G~—Proceedings in the New York City and Brooklyn Courts— Meeting of ihe Board of Health—The Darien Ietumus Canal: British Opinion of the Work ond Its Keeults—Gid Word Itens— Vin neoial and Commercial Keporta—Marriages and Deatha—advertisementa, G—Adiorials : Leading Article on Our Kecon- giructod City Government, the New Election Law— nal Intolugence—Amusemenut An- nouncements, Y—Te egraphic News From Ai) Parts of the World: Spanish Reyolutiouism, Barricades and Fatat City Hots; Imperial sian Tour to the Provinces; A New Minister from Greece to Washington—The Euglish Universities Boat ty : Cambridge the Winner by a Length; Mxctting Scene on the Banks of the Thames— American Aquatics : ‘The Brown-Coulter Match for the Championship of America—The Dead Here: Arrival of the Remains of General ‘fhomas at Buffalo—Mormon Mass Meeting in Salt Lake City—Brooklyn City News—An Un- known New Yorker Drowned in Boston—Vigl- iancs Gommittfce in Maine—Scandal in @ Mixed Schoo! in Aibany—Business Notices. S—Advertisements, @—Advertisements. Au—The Siate Capital: Albany Deserted by the Young Democracy; ili Introduced in the Sena'e by Mw. Tweed to Abolisu the Board of supervigora; The Question of Appropriations for Sectarian Schoola—More Bloody Work City Inteuigence—Stipping Inteiligence—Ad- vertizements. 1i—Aovertisem: 3- Adverusemeo: Tus Paurvy Tat Passep THe New CHar- vER.—Tho copperhead organ of this city says that the new Charter is # republican measure, and could not bov aesed if the radicals fa the Logisiatur of given it their aup- port, ‘The extent of tho tr th of this asser- tion may be ascerimincd by & glance at the sw the party vote on the final passage of the bill in each house :—~ SENATE. For, Against. Democrats. Wy 1 Kepublicans . 13 1 Democrats, 63 6 Republicans. . is 12 Jony Dirricuttizs.—People who follow the proceedings in the McFarland case and count the steps that seem necessary to precede the choice of a jury, will be api to wonder why any man should sit ona jury unless be abso- lutely wishes. None need sit on-a jury but those who wish to for some reason or another, and these are dangerous either for the Com- monwealth or the prisoner, The present state of the law with regard to jurors is such as to NEW YORK HERALD |" exclude all but ignoramuses. People who have not formed opinions on prominent topics do not live in this town. ne Two Mernopist ConrexvNoxs are at pre- Bent in session in this city, one of which will investigate the strange case of Rev. Horace Cook, who, it will be remembered, was un- pleasantly implicated in a iysterious escapade with a young lady some tins ago, Mr. Cook is at present acting as a good father and hus- band in the bosom of his family fo Williams- burg, and the young lady, it is said, is still suffering from a severe illncas engendered by the shock attending the publicity that was exolted on that unforiunnte occasion. Under these circumstances, although the investiga mougitto be made for the honor of the ch, it is unfortunate {hat it comes mp just G sho v ceseas ting, NEW YUKK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1870—TRIPLE. SHEET, ~—— Now Election Law. Asa party equivalent for the new Cily Charter, passed trough the co-operation of the republicans with the Tammany democracy, we have anew Election law for the city and county of New York. A preliy stringent law it is, too, and if properly enforced tt is a law well calculated to put an end to perjured voters and fraudulent elections, We have published the bill heretofore; but in order to fix its general provisions in the mind of the interested reader we here briefly reproduce them. | All our local eleotions, not otherwise pro- vided for, are to be held with our general November elvetions, ‘There are to be five soparate ballot boxes in our city and county elections, beginning with the box for ‘Presi- dent” as No. 1, and ending with the box for “Inspectors of Election” as No. 5. The polis are to be opened at six A. M. and closed at five P.M. On the third Tuesday in May, 1870, at the election for judges, and after: wards every year in November, including 1870, two inspectors of election in each election dis- trict in this city and county are to be elected, aud the Mayor is to appoint a third in the op- posing party candidate highest on that side, the law carefully providing in other respects - that one of tho three inspectors shall represent the minority party of the district. For the coming May election the old Registry law and its offlcers are to be applied. At all our local elections each party shall have the right of a challenger at evory voting place, and ho shall be protected by the police. Inspectors and registrars violating the law are to be deemed guilty of felony and the penalty of the State Prison, Voters are to be alphabetically and very carefully registered, number of house, &c., and, if in a tenement house, number of room, and any elector is to be free to inspect the registry of his district and mark such names as he thinks proper to be challenged. The duties of the inspectors and boards of inspectors are minutely defined, and the Board of Supervisors is required to estublish a bureau of elections, “Each district shall have two poll clerks, one of each party, and no out- siders are to assist these officers or the inspec- tors in counting and making up the returns. In the next pluce, the law specifically pro- vides against any false counting or doctoring of the votes cast in any district. The city is next, by the Common Council, or, if they noglect this duty, it is by the Mayor, to be so redistricted that each election district shall comprise as nearly as practicable about four hundred voters, and no poll is to be held at any place where liquor is sold. Fraudulent registering and voting, false swearing, &c., are made felonies, and other election: laws not inconsistent with this act are continued in force. It is made, in conclusion, the especial duty of the District Attorney_of the county to prosecute all complaints made under this act, and there are to be no suspensions of judg- ment in such cases by the courts. This law is the compensation given by Tam- many to the republicans for their assistance on the new Charter. Greeley does uot like the bargain. He says he ‘‘detests political dickering.” He does not believe ‘in voting for a bad bill that some one else shall help us topass a good one.” The copperhead organ says that, “stripped of its deceptive masks,” the new Charter “‘is a scheme for investing Sweeny, Tweed, Hall and their corrupt con- federates with the whole municipal authority ;” but still the ‘young democracy” are going to renew the fight against ‘the ring” in the May election. The poets of the Pest earnestly wish that the new Election law may purify the ballot box, but they are not very hopeful of such a result. As for the new Charter, they pronounce it an ‘‘odious law,” passed by a combination of ‘‘corrupt men.” The old adage that ‘‘the proof of the pud- ding ia in the eating thereof” is the test that will settle the value of this new City Charter and this new Election law. Both pariies and both factions of the democracy, with an exceptional member or two, are committed to these acts, so that the responsibility is shared among them all, It will not surprise us, how- ever, if we shall next have a lively conflict in the democratic camp and in the republican camp over this Albany coalition—on the one side against the Election law, ‘the ring” and its favors to republican office-holders ; and on the other side against the perpetuation by re- publican votes of the power of Tammany Hall, We think that the new Charter is a good be- ginning in the shape of a consistent, harmo- nious and responsible city government, and that this new Election law will prove an excel- lent thing as a check upon fraudulent voters, repeaters, false counting and doctored returns, We think, too, that Tammany is now in a very good position to hold the city and the State, and to play the leading hand in the democratic game for the Presidential succession. Doororep To Dratn.—Recently a doctor up town gave his patient in the course of one day fourteen graias of the sulphate of mor- phine. This is equal to elghty-four graina of opium, It does not appear that the patient was in the habit of using opium, and if he was not this was an overwhelming quantity. It would kill a man whose brain was In all tho vigor of health unless be was stimulated by active inflammatory disease. But the man to whom the medicine was given had a brain weakened by the use of rum, and was then sleepless merely because of the loss of cerebral power. The practice was bad, therefore, and a jury of doctors would perhaps uso a stronger term in describing it. Added to this bad practice was another on the part of the same doctor of writing blind prescriptions, which rendered it impossible for another doctor, called in the emergency, to take any intelli- gent steps to relieve the victim. The two points of bad practice caused death, and the Coroner lays on the doctor and the apothecary the awful weight of its “‘censure.” Toe First 1n THE FizLp.—Senator Came- ron’s suggestion that the nation make some memorial recognition of the services of those Pennsylvania and Massachusetts volunteers that first went to Washington, ‘through Balti- azz 8 in April, 1861, can have no other effect than to open an unprofifable and unpleasant discussion ag fo who was first and bost in sup- port of the government. The breeze of rivalry that it started in the Senate was nothing com- pared to the gale it would make before tho country. % Se Reconstructed City Government=The | The English Universities Bont Race—Cam- bridge Victorious, The Oxford and Cambridge Univeralty olzht- oared boat race contest came off on the river Thames yesterday. The struggle commenced at five o'clock in tho afternoon. It was mado on the usual course, from Putney to Mortlake, 4 distance of about four and a quarter English miles, The trial was short, sharp and deoi- sive, the Cambridge crew wioning by one longth in twenty minutes aud thirty seconds. The Oxfords wore the favorites at odds in the morning. Cambridge, however, reversed the popular anticipation and dissipated the outside calculations by a viotory—the first which her sons have achieved over the boys of the light blue in ton years, The scene on the banks of the rivor, and on the water itaclf, under the police rules and guidance of the Thames Conservancy, was briliant and auimated as in former years, Londoa was “out” in holiday attire. The royalty, aristocracy and democracy of Great Britain were side by side for the momént, the aocial and legislative gulf which has hitherto separated them having been narrowed considerably within a few years past and being still in process of obliteration, or becoming at least’ more shal- low hourly, like as to-the condition of the river’ on the fringes of which they had vongregated. If permitted to indulge in speculation in mat- ters of science we should gay here that tho temporary reversal of the fame and glory of Oxford may be attributed, to a certain extent, to the working of the measures of university reform which have been applied gradu- ally of late by the English Parliament to the different seats of learning in that country, The colleges have received new blood. They have more muscle, more of the crasamentum. or fibre of humanity in the classes, and hence the new, as it were, and more powerful sweep of tho oar, the closer approach to an equality of power, the quick time, and the ‘4eetle ahead” only of the result. The shortest time previously made over the same course in the past tea yenrs was made in the year 1868—a year of university reform—when the Oxfords won in twenty minutes exactly. The young men of Oxford and Cambridge universities have now contended in this manly aquatic sport twenty-seventimes, In the yoar 1846 the firstrace was pulled over the course— four and a half miles then—in outrigged eights, and the distance made in twenty-one minutes and five seconds. Of the whole num- ber of contests Oxford has now won sixteen and Cambridge eleven. In addition to the regular struggles just mentioned the universi- ties mon have contended together five times atthe Henley regattas in the sane heat for the grand challenge cup. Of these races—to the year 1855—Oxford won three and Cam- bridge two. At the Thames National Regatta, June 22, 1844, Oxford beat Cambridge ina smart, exciting race. We sympathize with the young men of Britain in their steady pursuit and patronage of a civilizing, healthy sport. Its yearly progress marks the refining advance of a nation, Manly as free-born men, cosmo- politan and generons in spirit, and with a happy comminglement of the best blood and most healthy material of the Old World lands in their veins, hands and arms, the youth of America have taken to aquatic sports, as if naturally, from the earliest dawn of the his- tory of the country. Broad and expansive in their views as ia the land of their birth in territory and resource, they multi- plied rowing clubs rapidly, the history of these American organizations filling a good sized portly manual to-day. Joyous on the rivers, many of them have taken to the “wide, wide sea.” They have ‘gone down” to the ocean in fleet yachts, under canvas and by steam, and, crossing over the Atlantic, have surprised—we cannot say intimidated to Englishmen—the parent stock by the exhibi- tion of their personal elasticity, skill and cour- age as is known by the history of the yacht America victory to the present moment, John Bull has stared considerably; he has even growled; but we must recollect that John is, for the moat part, more a practical than an educated personage, and one who can fight a battle or run a race without troubling himself in the slightest degree about either the bal- ances or retributions of humanity, Oxford and Cambridge have done well on the river. America will coax their men to the ocean. Here they may do better. It willbe a vast change. Orsin Pinnint, ‘‘the keeper of her Majesty’s bear gardens,” memorialized Queen Elizabeth against ‘‘one idle Will Shakspearo,” as demoralizing the ‘‘manlie sporte of bull- pbating.” Yet the bull fight has disappeared as an English sport. The logic of progress is inevitable, as the science medal men of both Oxford and Cambridge know. As proof we need only mention that the universities race commenced yesterday at five o’clock in the evening, London time, but the result was reported at the Hxratp Building at two o'clock in the afternoon, New York time. Electricity and the prophecy of Puck. The Proposed New Expedition to the North Pole. It appears from our Washington news that the Senate Committee on Foreign Affaire, which has charge of the matter of a new ex- pedition to the North Pole, has sent for Dr. Hayes, the well known Arctic explorer, to con- sult with him as to the propriety of such an expedition and an appropriation for the object. This is a deserved compliment to Dr. Hayes, for no man living is better able to give the de-~ sired information, The subject of another ex- pedition to the Arctic, with a view of reach- ing the North Pole, has been urged upon Congress by Captain Hall, that intrepid and daring traveller, who spent a long time about the Arctic region and among the Esquimaux, The credit is due to him, therefore, for re- viving and urging this matter. There seems to be @ liberal disposition in Con- gress, too, to favor and to make an appropriation for another expedition. This is right. The American government should be first in exploring the Arctic circle and in developing the scientific facts which may result from gugh an exploration, Our territory now borders on that part of the world, and at no very distant day the whole Continent must belong to us, But whatever the government may do let it be done well, Let tho expedi. tion be worthy of this great country a 3. Of this age of science, There are many ipportant faota in eatronomy, geology, mofeorology, the der at the Montpensier-Bourbon duel, nor magnetic forces and currents of the globe, botany, grography and other things, as well as the mere fact of reaching the North Pole, to be determined. Tho expedition should be, consequently, in the hands of the ablest men and of those who have had valuable expe- vience, There shouldbe a corps of the most competent gentlemen in every department of acieace in connection with hardy, experienced and practical navigators, An expedition so organized will redound to the honor of the country, and the people will never begrudge a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand dollars for the purpose. Deficiency Appropriation bill, agroed to in- crease the appropriation for tho New York Post Office from four hundred thousand to eight buadred thousand dollars, ‘The pro- position is timely, and as the fine weather is at band wo hope that it will be hurried up, in order that the work may bs centinued with the same energy that it was commenced last sum- mer. We dou’t want the new Pos! Office to fall, for lack of funds, into the slough that seems to have almost engulfed the County Court House, The Sonate seems to be impressed with the necessity of an early settlement of this mat- ter, for it passed over the Georgia bill in order to continue discussion on the appropria- tions, which indicates great self-denial oa the part of tho speech-making members. Mr, Fernando Wood, in the House, ia reply to a letter from General Howard, reiterated his charges that tho Genoral had improporly used the Freedmen’s Burea: fund, and thereby enriched himself, He made several spscifica- tions to the effect that the Howard University Hospital was built by thesa improper sppro- priations from the fund, and that the General bad a “Job” in the patent brick used in the building, which, it will be remembered, partly fell down soveral yours ago, Mr. Wood's charges were referred to a committee. The Freedmen’s Bureau, although in itself an organization at ono time of great good, has always been used for corrupt pur- poses by some of the subordinate officers in it; and as it is upon the vergo of discon- tinuance we do not doubt that a peep into lis financial arrangement will effect good, though it is not vory likely to injure Ganeral Howard, who has borne the vory highest character all through the war and since as « hizh-toned, honorable, Christian soldier. After Mr. Wood's proposition, during the discussion of which an enlivening spirit of talk was manilosted, the House manfully braced itaelf to undergo the dry details of the Tarif bill and forgot its pleasant garralonsness of s moment before in the busy consideration of the duiies on mineral water and cigars. The Cullom Polygamy bill, it will be seen, has been etringently amended by the Senate Committee, and will be reported to the Senate in a shape more severe and harsh than that ia which it passed the House, Although some remedy is required for the eyils existing in Uiah a groat doal of leniency should be shown the Mormons, They have the most thrifty and enterprising colony anywhore on the Plaina, and we cannot tell how far the system of polygamy may be a religious Spain—The Conscription Excitement, Tho revolutionary excilomont in Spain has lasted so long and ‘0 little has come of It that, despite the fact that Spain stands on the very verge of the wildest kind of anarchy, Spanish news all the world over ia read with absolute indifference, It deserves again to be noted that the situa- tion in Spain is really critical. Soveral recent events have added to the gravity of the crisis, The Montpénsier-Bourbon duel, Prim's miser- able attempt to strike out Montpensier from the list of reyal candidates in consequence thereof, the opposition of the unionista’ to M. Figuerola’s budget, Prim'’s wild language in the Chambers in.regard to the attempt made upon his life, and the inconsistent but tem- porarily successful appeal he made to the radicals to come to the resoue against the unionists—these and other oiroumstances have prepared us for violence; and although the violence has been postponed it has been difficult for any one who was watching the situation not to feol convinced that a violent and bloody crisis was at hand. Our news of yesterday and to-day shows that it has come at last. The conscription has been unpopular from the outset, and the unpopularity of the measure has rested mainly on Prim, On Monday last the conscription law came into operaiion, In Madrid, it seems, things were quiet, but up- risings were reported in various parts of tho country, particularly in Barcelona, Barricades were erected by the insurgents; there were col- lision and bloodshed, and as many as ten men were reported killed. From @ dezpatch which wo print to-day it appears that order has been restored at Burcelona, but not with- out a struggle and considerable loss of.life. It is adeeply suggestive fact that the whole pro- vince of Barcelona has been proclaimed in a state of siege. The demoralized state of things in Spain is strikingly illustrated by Prim’s language in the Cortes, when alluding to the person who struck him, “df [had seen him,” said Prim, | theory with them, which it would “I would have killed him, In the times | p9 impolitic and unjust for us to through which we are passing let it bo known wage crucl war against. The Mormoa Iam always prepared to kill on the spot him who lays his hand on me.” Such language in such a place and from a man who holds the position of Prim fg a sad commentary on things as they are in Spain. We can no longer won- colony js the most defenceless people under the sua. They have no force of soldiery, no military leaders, no military education, They are surrounded and permeated with the Ger- tiie element, and the great United States mili- tary railroad passes by their very doors, Two regiments of United States troops transported from the West would reach their midst ia three days, and, welcomed and assisted by the Gentiles, would crush the defenccless coloay atthe first engagement. We do not need to make a desolate wreck of Deseret, nor to turn these unarmed zealota over to the harsh tréat- meat of the soldisry. “The Senate, we believe, has too fair a comprehension of the situation to pass the bil as the committee has amonded it, or, for that matter, in so harsh a form ag it passed the House. Reconstructing the Supervisors. By our Albany reports it will be seea thai Mr. Tweed yesterday offered in the Scnate a bill to abolish tho Board of Supervisors for this county as now constituted, and to orzanize a new board, to consist of the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen, to be chosen under the new Charter. Thisis a good proposition. Much of the clamor made against the new Charier was because it did not abolish a board so univer- sally supposed to be corrupt. And we believe that all the suggestions were to the effect that the Aldermen should perform the duties of the Supervisors. But 9 board of supervisors as county officials is a necessary part of govern- ment machine:y under the State constitution, and therefore had to be treated in a sopa- rate bill from one simply organizing a city government. The present bill merely gives a double function to the same men, and thus doos away with the cumbersome machiuery. of separate county and city governments for the game machinery. Should this bill pasa, and one part of the county government of the city be thus simplified, our legislators should reflect whotker the other strongholds of tounty gov- ernment in the city—the office of Sheriff espe- cially—may not be modified to public advan- tage. 2 A Cuarrer For THE Stock ExoHaNez.-— The members of the Stock Exchange have ill- advisedly, and doubtless in emulation of cer- tain politicians, sought a charter at Aibany, where a bill has been introduced “to incorpo- rate the New York Stock Exchange.” Should it become a law it will subject them to a raid from the lobby every year to their everlasting torment, The gas companies, ferry companies and like corporations are only poor game in comparison to such plucking as will be af- forded by an incorporated Stock Exchange. No Honor Amone Taigves,—There is now on hia way to one of the State prisons of New Jersey a tall and athletic policeman who is the victim of ingratitude, He permitted the escape of a prisoner. The prisoner months afterward was a witness against him, and for that fact he goes up. Thia is as it ought to be, May all the prisoners who are assisted in their escape by policemen testify as this pris- | oner did. It will do much for pojice discipline. Now all you policemen take warning hereby. Mr. Dgrano’s Taxks.—Tuhe income tax lists hereafter, at the desire of Mr. Delano, will bo be kept out of the newspapers. Young bache- lors looking for an eligible match will then be prevented from finding out how much the fathers of eligible young ladies aro worth, and young spinsters engaged in the same laudable purault will find similar difficulties thrown in their way. And those individuals who lived on the prestigé of a huge fignc in tho list opposito their names, and prid heavy taxes for the privilege of being ‘nonght rich, will flad themselves deprived 6f that decept!4 glory. For all these reasons, ad Sthers more important, the desire Of Mr, olano is a very commendable one, would it greatly surprise us if the rumor proved to be true that a duel is possible between Serrano and Prim, although it is our belief that Serrano has more sense. The temporary alliance between the radicals and the progressistas has no doubt prolonged the life of the present government. But when we remember that Prim is at tho hoad of the progressistas, and that Serrano is the undis- puted chief of the unionists, and that the two are no longer on good terms, it is extremely difficult to see how the present anomalous government oan last. Serrano, in virtue of his office, can dlamfSa Prim; but Prim counts on the army, and therefore Serrano hesitates. If matters get worse we shall hear of the re- call from Cuba of De Rodas, who {sa untonist, and perhaps the only man who could divide the Spanish army with Prim. What with Carlists, who know what they want; with re- publicans, who know what they want; with unionists and progressists nominally in unison, but really at daggers drawn; with a people almost universally disaffected, with trade para- lyzed, with debt already oppressive and in- crcasing at a rate ofspeed that almost baffles cal- culation, the prospect in Spain cannot be called promising. <A coup d'état by Prim or by Ser- rano may happen at any moment. Poor Spaint Is it not time that some foreign Power were taking her by the hand and giving her peace? Tucreased Pay for the Now York Custom House Inspectors. Senator Fonton, according to a Washington’ telegram, has presented memorial to Con- gress for increase of pay to the inspectors of the New York Custom House. As the Secre- tary of the Treasury has the power to Increase the pay the whole matter has been referred to him, The compensation to these employcs of the Custom House does not amount to the wages of good mechanics, and yet no work- ingmen have harder labor to perform, Four dollars @ day is small pay for those who have to be on duty from sunrise to sunset and often during the night. They are exposed to the most inclement weather at times. The duty of clerksin the Custom House is much easler and not so responsible, yet the clerks are better paid. The faithful collection of mil- lions upon millions of revenue depends upon the inspectors, anditis a mistaken economy to give them such poor salaries. Mon of edu- ention, probity and vigilance are required to perform the duties properly, and it can hardly be expected that many such can be found at four dollaraa day. Mr. Boutwell is no doubt intent on economy, and we commend him for it; but nothing is saved by poorly paying those in responsible offices; beaides, there are other ways in which he could better practice economy, An Unsvoorssru. Lossyist.—When Mr. Greeley went to Albany to lobby against the passage of the new Charter for this city there were three Senators who were pledged to vote against it. When Mr. Greeley left Albany the number of Senators opposed to the bill was reduced to two. SxorartaN Sonoors.—The State Senate yesterday tabled a resolution repealing the clauge of the tax levy for 1869 making appro- priations for sectarian schools by a vote or sixteen to thirteen, The question is ono that capnot be smothered. It must bo ventilated, Yike ail other questions of where the people's money goes to; and, unless the Legislature | takes hold of it and settles it, it may come into the political canvass next Newember, The Préceediags tn Congress [= Crowatng of the Eatace fn Frantes Tho Sonate yesterday, ta disousalng thé Liberty aad the Irrecouctinblese France is on the eve of another grand excite- ment, 2d Napoleon is on the eve of another great victory. Since 1852—in other words, aince the coup dia‘, of which, in our judg- ment, the less said the better—Napoleon the Third has been ateadily leading the French people upward and onward jp the full enjoy- ment of political rights and privjleges. During these eighteen years he has governed France wisely and well. He has given her peace and prosperity at home; he has adda fe the glory of her arms; he has made Nei mighty among the nations, Forty millions of people have trusted him, nor bas he betrayed that trust. Looking forward to tho time when he could no longer be with them, and seeing himself the dangers of personal government in incompe- tent hands, he has gradually been yielding up to France what France enirusted to his care. He has restored to her with limited power her two houses of Parliament, Ia proportion as the people and the Deputies gave evidence that they were becoming used to self-govern- ment he extended the area of parliamentary privilege. Recently he felt encouraged to take another and most important step forward, With a Senate and a lower house, and with discussjon more or less free in both houses, he had still remained his own Prime Minister. In other words, he had not given up the supreme authority which France had placed in his hands. Believing that the tims had come _ when he could safely share the burdens of State with responsible Ministers he yielded toa popu- lar demand and appointed Ministera who should rule Franca, sudjact to the will of the major- ity. That these rapidly succeeding concesslons have worked ill no one who is fumiliar with French affairs dare affirm. It has all along been manifest, however, tiat responsible Min- istry {a France could not be a success, unless the logislative privileges of the lower aad the upper house were more nearly equalized. As it was, the Senate had too much power, the Corps Législatif too litile, It is now the Em- peror’s intention to remove this defect from the parliamentary machine, and to make the Parliament of France more like the Parlia- ment of Great Britain or the United States Congress than it now is, From the very oa- ture of things it cannot be made absolutely like either; but it is not impossible to ap~ proximate it to the exeellences of both. It is necessary, however, that there “should be some qualifications, Hence the presumption that the Emperor will issue a proclamation embodying his new reform, and that immedistely thereafter he will dissolve the Chambers and make a fresh and perhaps fiual appeal to the French people. That the proclamation will beget excitement, and that the excitement will become intense during the elections, no one can doubt; bub that France will be jubilant at the actual crowning of the edifice, and that the response will come up to the Emperor's high expectations, are already foregone conclusions. The ‘“‘irreconcilables” are indignant that the copestone is to be added to the building rather in spite of them than with their help. Their indignation, we may rest assured, wilinos be a grain in the balance, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, and Mark Hamtiton, of Toronto, are at the Brevoort House, Colonel George E. Latham, of Albany; Colonet Henry Ruggies, of Norwich, Qonn.; Judge 0. J, Townsend, of Kingston; Judge T. Hale, of South Carolina; Major P. B. ‘tyler, of New Haven; Colonel W. 8. Fish, of Boston; Colonel G. W. Bradley and Colonel H. Krum, of the United States Army, and Dr. T. F. Cornell, of Baltimore, are at the Metropolitan Ilotel. Colonel W. G. Welch, of Greene, N. Y.; Captain Lawless, of Rnode Island; Bradley Barlow, of Ver- mont; Commander L. A. Beardsiee and Captain Charlies Adams, of Washington; Paymaster R. W. Alien gad F. 1, Stearins, of the United Staies Navy, are at the Astor House. Judge L. 8, Trimble, and General John T, Uroxton, of Kentucky; J. Tillinghast, of Albany; H. E. Sar. geut and c. M, Gray, of Onicago; 8. Doullard, of Buftaio; General George Purdy, of Bangor; Juage A. L. Roach, of Indiana; Z. Pratt, of Pratteville; General George Mages, of Fort Schuyler, N. Y.; J. Medill, of tie Cutcago 7rtoune, and Surgeon E, Bailey, of the United States Army, aroat the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel F, W. Latham, of Texas; Unptain Mo- Micken, of steamship Calabria; Colonel H. A. V. Post, of Cimcinnatl; Arthur Schaaf, of Washington, and Ajfred Dobell, of Liverpool, are at the Now Yors. Hotel. Coptain H. M. Soilth, of the United States army Charles B. Pratt, of Worcester, Maas., and 8. Lovi+ son, of St. Lows, ate at the Jeving House, ’ Colonel G. U. Crane, Of California, and George Gilbert, of Carthage, are at the St. Caaries Hotel. P. L, Robinson, of Binghamton, N. Y.}.A. Bishap, of Uhicago; ©. W. Swift, of Philadelphia, ana EB. Baker, Jr., of Boston, are at the St. Denis xotel, 5. B, Babcock, of the United States Armys rgent, of Bosion, and HL. A. Perktus, of fiartiord, are at the Everett House, A. N. Kamadell, of New London; W. T. Slidell, of Newport; General Armstrong, Of Hampton, and 0. G. Campbell, of Providence, are at the Albomaria Hotel, Colonel S. Chamberlain, of Cleveland; A. May. nard, of Boston; Uriah Gilbert, of Troy; W. Cheney, of Connecticut; 8, W, Chittenden, of Syracuse, aud J. A. Broadhead, of Boston, are at the Wifth Avenue Hotel, General Tibbetts, of Troy; I’. W. Kussell, of Con- uecticut, and General Franklin, of Hartford, aro at the Hoffman House. Peiaye Pedemonte, of the Spanisn Navy; W. Baker, of Baltimore; H. Sinclair, of Providence, and H. EB. Cook, of Haltimore, are at the Coleman House, Prominent Departures, Colonel Stark, for Connecticut; A. McDowe!l, for Baltimore; A. 0, Mattoon, for Albany; Colonel J. McCarthy, for Philadelphin; Judge Woodruff, ior Washington; Dr. Shetdon, for Troy; Judge sidney Bartlett, for Washington; Str Henry Becher and James L. Oglivey, per steamer Java for Europe. Personal Notes. Captain Edward H, Savage has bean appotaied Chief of the Boston police, and Captaia James Quinn deputy. Captain Savage 1a one cf the aldcst and most experienced officora of the Boston police, Captain Quitin was for many years a very éiticient Oflicer In the Boston Fire Department. A Washington despatch to the Boston Post saye:— While Prince Arthur Waa here lie 1s said to have left his suite unceremoniously one morning, ant allied forth funattenaéd and without permission ta he Aritagton, to Zail on a charming lady, who had chanced to Come from Montreal when the Priace did, and who, it is sald, departed about tue sao time be 4: ror New Yor. He enjoyed the visit co much ‘ge forgot to observe tho time, and was late tin fualiing is engagement at tho President's. tor Which ho was taken to task by hia governor, Colonel Eiputnstone. Long betgre lat Jennie C. Claflin or her partner and sister, Mra. Woodhull, were licard of there was in Elinira @ woman insurance broker or ageut, who hay beep and still 1s plying ber business With enerev 254 patience, and with satisiaction to her par” ig She takes no aplurge nor outcry, a8 thour™ soos stepping outaide of her ee riotne “obs 88 on with her pusiness like & man, io favor aad faking no brad anak bes ne 8 & br as She lon’t Wan . 2a get vread | and putter, ond is In 8 IBM *ay to do so.