The New York Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1870, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—JEw oO¥ SOUTHWARK— SINGING, Dancing, 40.-La Joonissr, THE TAMMANY, Fourtee! ENTERTAINMENT. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 284 at., be! E. Macerta. tween bth and 6th ave.. WALLACK'S THEATRI — aera tome iE. E, Bipadway and 13th atreat, OLYMPIC THEATER il BANuET, B, Bronaway.-New VEnsion oF street.—Guanp VARIETY Peay AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourts #t.—FRoo @RAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 28d wh TRE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, roadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st.—Matines daily. Performance every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Pirrin; ox, Tae King OF THE GOLD MINES. NEW YORK S8TADT THEA’ Orexa Burro--Granp Duo! ». 45.and 47 Bowery.— DBE GEKOLBTRIN, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Couto VooaLise, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, 40. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.--Co: 16M, NEOwO ACTS, &C. sh nna. Wate BRYANT’S OPERA Fi at.—Bkxan1'S MINSTRE! SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa way.—Ecuto- PIAN MINSTRELSEY, &C. KELLY & LEON’S MIN: Ci \- cee & LEO! STRELS, 720 Broadway. —CHing HOOLEY'S OPERA HO! MINGTRELG—MABKS AND Fas 8, Tammany Building, 14th Brooklyn.--HOOLEY's NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. —Eqoxs AND GYMNAGTIO PERFORMANCES, £0. bs Soa! ODROME PARIS! Ferre. aft |, corner Sd av. and 64th et,— d evening. Tuesday, April 12, 1870. New York, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Paos. 1—Aaveritsements, ‘2—Advertisements. S—Washington: A Congressional Muddie Over @ Negro Celebration; Hearing of thé Legal ‘ven- der Cases Postponed; Attorney General Hoar’s Resignation Determined Upon—Important Scientific Discovery—The State Capital: Public Sentiment Favorable to the New York Ap- pointments; A Number of Local Bills Passed by the Assembly—Bloody Affray in Hudson Oity—Fire in Canal Sireet—Telegraphic News tems. 4—The McFariand Trial: Continuation of Testi- mony for the Defence; Interviews and Conver- Ration with Richardson; The “Luscious Wo- man"? and the Intercepted Letter; McFarland ‘Tempted with a Consulsbip and Ten Thousand a Year to Forego His Marita! Rights; “Could Not be Tempted by a Consulship to the Court of Heaven’’—Continuation of the Examina- ‘tion of Teddy O'Ryan—Liquor Dealers in Coun- cul—Perry’s Third Trial: Desperate Efforts of Prisoner’s Counsel to Obtain Another Post- ponement—News from Japan—rooklyn lntel- ~ lgence. S—he Angloc-Erie War: The English Londholders Enter the Arena Against Gouid, Fisk and Lane—Proceedings in the Courts—Disasters in the Harbor—The Westchester Tax War—A Jersey Romance—Serious Machivery Accident in Newark—A Church Destroyed by Fire—A Man Injured on the Erie Katlway—Financial and Commercial Reports—The Metnodist Con- ferences—Shocking Suicide im Newark— Another Sample of Jersey Justice. 6—Editorials: Leading Article on the Situation in France, the New Government Expedition— Personal Intelligence—Special Poiltical No- tices—Ubituary—Amusement Announcements. Y=Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World: Papal Infallibility ana the Old Worla Lay Crowns; The Ecumenical Council About to Proclaim Infalubility Unanimously; The French Cabinet Crisis and Rumors of the Ministry; The Paraguayan War; Spanish Reports of Victories in Cuba—The New Régime: Organization of the Executive De- partments of the City Government; Full fist of Appointments; the Boards of Health and Police Organized—Amusements—Army snd Navy intelligonce—Collision on the New York Central Ratlroad—Business Notices. S—The Deadhead Canard: The Slanderers Nailea to the Deck—Marriages, Birth and Deaths— Advertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—The Fifteenth Amendment: Last Night's Revels at the Brooklyn Academy of Music—Tue Altar of Liberty: Enthusiastic Cuban Meeting at Irving Hall—New York City News—Domestic Desolation—Charter Elections at Trenton and Jersey City, N. J.—Arrival of the Yacht Heort- etta at Boston—Singular Case of Insanity— President Grant in Phil!adelphia—New Orleans Races—Shipping int.izence ~Advertigements 11—Advertisements. 3d—Advertisements. “From Grave TO GA The parties who went from the obsequies of General Thomas, in Troy, and attended the reunion of the So- ciety of the Army of the Potomac in Phila- delpbia on Saturday. Tae Firreznta AMENDM IN BRrooK- LYN.—Senator Revels, Henry Ward Beecher and the radical and colored element of our neighboring city had a grand jubilee in honor of the ‘day of jubilo” at the Academy last evening. Tue Tarep TRIAL oF Epwin Perry for the murder of Thomas Hayes, a night watchman ja Brooklyn, was commenced yesterday. As the testimony will probably be the same as on the other trials, it is merely a matter of juries, {n which heretofore Perry, to say the least, has been exceedingly lucky. A Sneewp Financigr—The financier fami- liarly known as Dick Schell. He gave, for instance a nice breakfast at the Union Club House the other morning to the delegation from Congress, on their return trip en route to Washington from the funeral of General Thomas at Troy. And why this breakfast? Perhaps it was contrived by Schell to learn something about the Funding bill, and perhaps he did learn something, Anyhow, that break- fast was a good idea. Tae Evousn Buporr or Nawoyau Fi- NaNOE was presented to Parliament yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [n this {important exhibit the Gladstone Ministry makes @ creditable show. The revenue re- ceipte of the fiscal year excoeded the estimates by £1,819,000. Taxes which press the most heavily on the masses of the people will be remitted and the ‘‘sinews of war” maintained for the Crown at the same time. This reault will render the home policy of Mr. Gladstone on other im- portant subjects more acceptable to the mil- Hons, John Bull will become tractable on the Irish Church and land subjects under the in- —The New Gove ernment Experiment. The Emperor's letter to Prime Minister Oni- vier has, as we expected, given l’rance a new sensation. France is again before the world as prominently as she has been any time this last half century, and France is, perhaps, more occupied with herself than she has been during the same period, No one in or out of France of any note has a thought for Prince Pierre Bonaparte or for Henri Rochefort, or, indeed, for any of the names so recently so prominent, Our minds are filled, not with thoughts of coups d'état or of centralization or of the one man form of government, but with thoughts of great changes, of large conces- sions, of peaceful revolutions, of mysterious self-abnegation and the probable results of the same. Fifteen, ten, even five years ago, who would have dreamed that Louis Napoleon, the worshipper, the historian, nay, the incarna- tion of Casarism, would one day by a single act proclaim that all his past had been a fail- ure, that he had been wrong, and that, after all, Casarism was not for France? Has Na- poleon done all this? Some say he has, Some say he has not. In any case it must be admitted that the reform which the Emperor has initiated is a big sensation for France and the world generally. Our news from day to day shows that in the Senate, in the Corps Législatif, and, indeed, among all ranks and classes of the French people, the proposed experiment of the Em- peror is occupying men’s minds to the exclu- sion of almost every other subject. It is so novel, so unexpected and so revolutionary that it is not much to be wondered at that the country should be divided between those who think it an imperial dodge and those who think it an imperial blessing. We are not of thoge who think that there is any insincerity in the Emperor’s conduct or that thero is any mischief in his designs. Tis language to Ollivier is plain and frank io the extreme. “Lay before me a Senatus Consultum,” he says, ‘‘which shall firmly fix the fundamental dispositions derived from the plebixcite of 1852, and which shall divide the legislative power between the two chambers and restore to the nation that portion of constitutional power which it had delegated to me.” In such terms he resigns the mighty power which he has wielded for eighteen years, His resignation is not more frank than his reasons for 40 doing are clear. The constitution of 1852 “had above all things to provide the government with the means of establishing authority and order. Now that successive changes have gradually created a constitutional system in harmony with the basis of the gleviscite, it is important to replace all that refers to the preservation of legislative order within the domain of law.” Therefore tt is that ‘“‘tuat grand body which contains so many brilliant men” is invited to lend an “‘efticacious concurrence” to the new order of things. We may question the wisdom of the course which the Emperor has resolved to follow; but we cannot discover in his language any evidence of insincerity or any indication of a dark after-purpose, The Emperor resigns his share of the constituent power; and if his expressed wishes are carried out the Senate will become a House of Life Peers, the legislative body will have the right, not only to discuss, but, in co-operation with the Senate, to change, the constitution, and the empire wil be transformed into a par- liamentary monarchy. The Emperor's pro- gramme carried out, he will be less powerful than his Prime Minister, nor will anything short of a coup @état restore to him the power which he has voluntarily resigned. At the same time, taking into consideration the peculiar condition of France, the past policy of the Emperor and the strange materials on which he has to depend for the carrying out of his reforms, it is not easy to regard the present movement in any other light than that of an experiment which may or may not be a success. It is not our opinion that much diffi- culty will be experienced by the Emperor at the hands of the Senate ; for, of all legislative bodies, the Freach upper chamber, since the days of the Council of the Ancients, downward, has been at once the least active and the most obsequious. In the meantime the Senate is a body of the Emperor's own creation ; there Is, therefore, but little likelihood that it will op- pose his plans, The real difficulty in the case is the reconciliation of the empire with uni- versal suffrage and with paid deputies. From the moment that the new constitution becomes law the lower house in the French Parliament will be all-powerful. The young blood of France—those who are swift with the pen and glib of tongue—will rush into it, Intellectu- ally France will find a new life, and the new life will develop itself in the Corps Législatif. It will be a necessity for the Prime Minister to belong to that body. No House of Lords, as in England, staid, sober, interested; no Senate, fired with ambition and patriotism, as in the United States, will check the ardor of the young democracy of France. Still, what- ever the result, no one can deny that French- men, if they can, have a perfect right to govern themselves, and that the Emperor has done well in yielding up to France what France originally gave him. We await the action of the Corps Législatif on the Senatus Consulium and the Emperor's proclamation with some interest. The immediate future is big with the fate of Napoleon and of France. Boo-Hoo!—The Atlantic cable conveys the startling news that a leading London news- paper urges the British government to de- spatch immediately a frigate to the fisheries near the North American colonies for the pur- pose of watching the American man-of-war ordered there. Of course this is intended to frighten the Yankees. We doubt if it will have that effect. By a little aid from our gov- ernment the American fishermen would be able to take possession of the fisheries, and, if necessary, to annex the colonies, the frigate and all that Great Britain claims in that part of the American Continent. John Bull would be wise to keep his frigate at home if he wants peace and to hold on to his North American possessions. Tae Risk 1x Gorp.—Another speculative combination seems to have been organized among the Wall street gamblers to put up the price of gold. country and the policy of the government are against any new disturbance of values, and fluence of choap soap, cheaper tea and plenty of newapaners. tho clique will find it a difficult undertaking to “bull” gold in the face of such obstagles. The whole sentiment of the’ NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, Religion and the Rich, We believe it a fortunate thing that there are no sects in heaven, A witty lecturer once pictured @ Methodist preacher standing on one of the battlements of the celestial abode argu- ing doctrinal points with a sturdy Presbyterian standing on another battlement. The idea of such a discussion, in such a place, is irresisti- bly comical; but, unfortunately, there are good grounds for it. Ifwe ignore or regret the picture, it must be admitted that, suppos- ing there are sects in the home beyond the grave, heaven must be a somewhat lugubrious place, although certainly not dull. But all religious denominations are united in declaring that in the divine land there are no sects, and how, in the face of this belief, they can insist upon theirs being the only true mode of worshipping God passes our compre- hension. Matters of ceremony and mode of worship do not, however, comprise the only differences. The ideas promulgated are so op- posed, the one to the other, that people are rather puzzled to know what is right and what is wrong. Not long ago we had Mr. Beecher declaring that it was proper to amass wealth; yesterday Mr. Hepworth discoursed so as to leave the impression that the possession of much money was the cause of much irreligio. We think that he colored his picture too highly. If “a poor man, paying honestly his small rent,” is “without respect,” then must the clergymen of our churches be directly responsible for his contemptuons treatment. Is Mr. Hepworth prepared to admit that his influence over his congregation is next to nothing? Why is wealth the idol before which all bow down and worship, while worthy poverty is igno- miniously thrust aside? Perhaps the ques- tion will be sufficiently answered by refer- ring to the fact that clergymen have a weak- ness for brown stone front houses not less than secular mortals. On the whole it is our opinion that the rich are neither so selfish nor so influential as Mr. Hepworth would have us believe. At the same time we admit the force of his argument against an absorbing greed of gain. It is not, however, that men desire to amass riches so much as that they aim to possess enough money to spend freely. And the temptation to spend as the evil one dictates, the in- dulgence in frivolities which occupy the mind to the neglect of God, and the gradual ex- tinction of religious sentiment which s0 frequently follows a life of luxury, are the great dangers which beset them. Wealth is by no means inconsistent with Christianity. Indeed, without it many souls would have been lost which have been saved. There is hardly a religious mission which is not mainly supported by the wealthy. True, it was different in the early ages. St. Patrick received no salary for converting the heathen Irish, and we do not remember read- ing that, at an earlier period, St. Paul was supported by a board of missions. But times have changed since the Christian Fathers spread the truths of the Gospel throughout the world. A Christian hotel keeper exacts pay for the bed and board furnished the missionary, which the pagan gave gratis, and, to do them justice, the wealthy contribute their quota towards de- fraying expenses. There is no more favorite subject than that of money, its use and abuse, with our clergymen, excepting the prolific topic of the Papacy. And it is noteworthy that those who declaim most against riches are the very ministers whose congregations comprise the wealth of the country. Are we to conclude from this that they speak by authority? Are their ser- mons founded on personal experience with their flocks? If they be, then we have nothing more to say. We can only lament widespread infidelity in high places, and pray, for the sake of Christianity, that there may be many more cases in the bankrupt courts than there now are, Cuarcrs Wuicn SHoutp Nor Have Been Mapg.—We understand that the remains of Gen- eral Thomas, over all the roads from San Fran- cisco to Buffalo, were brought, not only free of charge, but with special honors from the seve- ral railway companies along the line, in view of the great services and glorious name of the dead hero; but we further understand that from Buffalo to Albany those honored remains were charged by the railroad company as for so much freight, and the attendants as so many everyday passengers. The same rule, it is said, was applied to General Grant and his official attendants for their fare over the Hudson River road, en route to the funeral at Troy. It strikes us that in both these cases agreat mistake was made, and that a special train for the remains of General Thomas and the compauy attending them, over the Central road, and a special train from New York to Troy for the President and company, free of charge, would have been the proper thing, even as a stroke of business, and we say this from some practical experience in business affairs, Lorez Tornep Up Acain,—That brave Paraguayan dictator, General Lopez, is irre- pressible. According to Brazilian accounts he has been defeated, crushed or driven from the country twenty times. But he always turns up again, The news just received from South America, by way of Lisbon, shows that he is alive and active. The despatch says ‘‘Presi- dent Lopez had suddenly turned upon and sur- prised his pursuers, winning quite a victory. It was thought at Rio Janeiro that this advan- tage would result in the indefinite prolongation of the war.” The mendacious reports we have received generally about Lopez through Bra- zilian sources are like those Spanish de- spatches we receive from Havana relative to Cuban affairs—utterly unreliable and cooked up for effect abroad. Tue Brivisx Bonpnovers hare entered ‘fiercely into the war against Erie. They have commenced suit against Fisk and Gould in the United States Circuit Court, and demand that a receiver be appointed. The battle so fiercely begun does not appear, however, to frighten the bold Fisk. He seems rather to like it. It may be that he has already tired of the militia and proposes taking to law suits for amuse- ment. Tae New Reoivx.—The new city commis- sions organized yesterday. We publish else- where a full list of the additional appointments. Superintendent Kennedy's resignation has been accepted and Captain Joba Jourdan suc- ceeds him, comedies, and thus enliven the dulness of their official existence. Butler generally conducts the ceremonies on the other side; but yester- day he was left entirely ont of the play, for the use of the hall to celebrate the fif- teenth amendment of the arrangements to participate in the jollid- cation with the negroes. ridge. saying he liked the niggers pretty well but he did not like some white men in the arrange- ment, and Eldridge giving no better reason than that he did not consider it a Congressional duty. The House, however, declined to accept their excuses, and thus the whole demo- cratic party, in the persons of these two representative democrats, had the fifteenth amendment andthe “nigger” himself rubbed into them. The full committee immediately on appointment “whole boundless continent” of Africa so far as Wasbington could represent it in a com- APRIL 12, 1870—TRIPLE Congress—Philanthropy tu the Senate and a Sad Joke ea the Democrats in tho House, The Senate yesterday fell into a philan- thropic notion, and, being short of wards and beneficiaries since the passage of the fifteenth amendment, commenced legislating for the better treatment of the four-footed animals. It will make Mr. Berzh’s heart leap with joy, no doubt, to hear that the great champion of the rights of man—by whom we mean Sum- ner—has turned his powerful hand in favor of the rights of quadrupeds. Yet such is the case, and his first effort at legislation in that direction yesterday—a motion in reference to the more comfortable transportation of cat- tle—proved a success. Another instance of the philanthropic spirit of the Senate was evinced in an attempt to give land to the Northern Pacific railroads—a species of philan- thropy which is so much of a jobbing charac- ter that we cannot commend it, It appears from Mr. Thurman’s statement that four hun- dred million acres of the public lands are liable to be given away by the bills now pending be- fore the Senate. If this is the case we may in a few years find ourselves entirely deprived of our landed property. The whole West could be easily disposed of if we give away this much almost without knowing it, and in time we will have no cheap lands to tempt foreign immigration or to form separate States. The House seldom fails to get up something racy or amusing. The democrats, who are in too great a minority to think of serious business, usually take a leading part in these although his friend “Shoo, fly” Cox, who sadly missed him, bore a leading part, and asked fora little minstrelsy from the longed-for Butler. It happened that the negroes asked in, and a committee House was appointed to make On this committee the Speaker solemnly placed Cox and Eld- Both of them declined to serve, Cox went off and met the benefit of commerce which have so remark~- ably distinguished our day and generation has just been revived. tical writer, Hansen, demonstrated, in a very able and convincing pampblet, the pressing necessity of a direct passage for trading ves- sels from the Baltic Sea to the German Ocean. His facts and figures made a decided impres- sion on the Danish government, and measures were initiated to survey and open the route of the proposed canal, but the increasing difficulties of the Schleswig-Holstein question intervened to prevent a further prosecution of the enterprise. valuable statistics and among them the official reports of the commerce passing through the Sound and the Eider until the year 1856, But subsequently the abrogation of the old Danish contro! of the Sound tolls at Elsinore rendered exact data impracticable. estimate the number of craft, great and small, passing annually between the Baltic and the North Sea at fully forty thousand, as we learn by the German and Danish commercial papers. Copenhagen puts the computation still higher, and Hansen gives the list of vessels cast away on the Jutland coast in 1859 at one hundred and seventeen, of which seventy- three were totally lost. casualties occur at all seasons of the year, and the navigation of the Belts and the Sound, involving the passage around the Skaw or northernmost spit of Jutland is regarded as so dangerous that the insurance rates in England for vessels bound to the Baltic ports are much higher than for Hamburg. ° SIEET, | Tho Groat Baltic Ship Canal. Another of the imposing projects for the msanem In 1860 the Danish statis- Mr. Hansen gave a mass of However, experts The Berlingske Tidende of Moreover, these With these facts in view the Boards of Trade of the Baltic and North Sea mari- time cities attention of the Prussian government to the so prominent at Berlin that the Austrian Cabinet, then considered to be in joint occu- pancy of the duchies, were consulted about it as early as 1866. The matter is, therefore, likely to come into the foreground again at once, and will work a revolution in the whole northeastern maritime trade of Europe. line of the canal that seems to win most favor isfrom the flourishing port of Kiel directly across to Tonningen, at the head of the inlet of the Eider, on the North Sea side. have the important town of Rendsburg for a half-way station, and thus attract the trade of both Schleswig and Holstein, which partly concentres there. less than seventy miles, through a easy, and the first cost of the work not above twenty-three millions of dollars—a sum which the saving in time, risk, &c., would reimburse have conjointly invited the subject, which had already been The It will The distance will be the construction level country comparatively from Havana. highest degree. in the most eulogistic terms of the Spaniards. The Spanish troops fought nobly, numbers of the rebels are reported to have been captured; vast quantities are also said to have given themselves up trustingly to the well known clemency of the Spaniards; nearly all the prominent insurgent leaders have volun- tarily surrendered; General Jordan has left the country ; Cespedes is preparing to follow his ex- ample ; dissensions have broken out among the insurgents and the greatest anarchy and con- fusion prevail. the most prominent points of the latest tole- gram received from Puerto Havana, and from the latter city forwarded here. garded as official.” capabilities of the Spaniards to magnify mole- hills to the proportions of mountains, but in this instance we think they protest too much, mittee room, settled. reason or other, regcinded the resolution alto- gether, even while the committee was at work, and thus left the unconscious Eldridge and Cox being dosed essence of negro equality, while they might just as conscientiously have been enjoying their rose-tinted white democracy in the exclu- sive halls of the House. Butler's ‘Shoo, Eldridge awfully mad. Canada is unduly excited over the prospects of a Fenian raid, and has more volunteers and regulars under arms. Riel’s delegates, Scott and Richart, are on their way along our northern frontier to Ottawa, and such indignation is expressed in Canads at the murder of Scott by the Fort Garry insurgents has been called upon them, man has charged them before a police magis- trate with being accomplices in the killing. In the Nova Scotia Assembly numerous petitions were read asking for release from the Con- federation, and _, debate ensued in which the tariff policy of4iie New Dominion and an fully within the first ten, perhaps in the first five years, The subject is a most suggestive one, and we have merely to consider for a moment the value of the immense trade that pours from England, Scandinavia, Russia, Northern Germany, Holland, Belgium and the Hanseatic cities upon those historic water highways that stretch between the British Channel and the Gulf of Finland in order to see how important to the common progress of mankind is this new enterprise. A score of ancient maritime cities and half a dozen trad- ing nations are directly interested in its com- pletion, where the whole matter was In the meantime the House, for somé the involuntarily with It was worse than fly,” on Cox and made Tax Wors or taz New Dominion.— Ay Ominovs Dzmooratio Brzax.—There was an election the other day in the Tenth Ohio district to fill a vacancy in Congress, The district at the last preceding election gave some nine hundred democratic majority; but in this last election the republican candidate was chosen by two thousand seven hundred majority. How? The democratic delegation from Williams county insisted, in the district party convention, on @ resolution flatly repudi- ating the bonded national debt; and the reso- lution being lost by one or two votes the Wil- liams county democracy refused to support their party candidate, and hence the heavy and unexpected majority for the republican. And what does this signify? It signifies that there is a repudiation taction in the democratic In the meantime that the government not to receive while a brother of the murdered American market for Nova Scotia were urged. that is annexation. Can we present a stronger argument than simply to present these facts as they reach us? Papal infullibility question is approaching an issue rapidly. French and English advices by the cable state that the Council in Rome will adopt the dogma of infallibility by accta- mation on Easter Catholic churchmen it will be a proper occasion indeed for such a work— the resurrection of the tiara. crowns of Europe it most eventful, moment. We are not surprised, therefore, to hear that the representatives of keys and sword be reconciled asin the time of Peter? We shall soon see, For all these evils there is one remedy, and Tur Tiara AND Tug Lay Crowns. —The To Roman very Monday. To the lay will be a serious, the different thrones now serving in Rome have resolved not to be present at the public session of the Council on that day. Can the The issue is quite momentous. Tor Lawyers ar THe Caarrer.—One of the evening journals has made a discovery in the constitution which leads to what it calls “a nice question for the courts” as to the ineli- gibility of some of the Mayor’s appointees under the new Charter. The State constitu- tion forbids members of the Legislature receiv- ing “‘any civil appointment within this State or to the Senate of the United States” at the hands of ‘‘the Governor, the Governor and Senate or the Legislature.” Therefore it argues that members of the Legislature can- not be appointed to office by the Mayor. Toe Rev. Horack Coors resigned his ministry in the Methodist Churct yesierday, and the New York East Conference, now in session, accepted it at once and without much debate, in order to disappoint the crowd that was assembled to hear all the scandal. That Conference shows a spirit of charity that ought to be an example to Christians gene- rally. ‘It covereth a multitude of sins,” ParrisaN MEANNESS.—The latest specimen of partisan meanness was that exhibited by twenty-one democrats in Ohio who voted against a resolution of respect to the memory of the late General George H. Thomas. But this was not much worse than the hissing at the dinner of the Society of the Army of the Potomac in Philadelphia at the mention of the name of General McClellaa, Ulric de Fonvielle, who escaped from being shot by. Prince Pierre Bonaparte at the moment when Victor Noir met his death, has been a candidate for a seat in the French Legislature for the city of Lyous. gini, the nominee of the Left Centre. M. Mangini obtained 15,848 votes and M. de Fon- vielle 7,827—a radical defeat by about two to one. on the old Irish issue of ‘‘I'm the man who dida't get kilt.” Washington that some changes in the Cabinet, including Attorney General Hoar and Secre- tary Fish, are impending; we have rumors that no changes are thought of for the present, tell which of these rumors are true; but we do most truly believe that the time has come camp which has resolved to make repudiation hereafter a plank in the party platform or to bolt against the party nominations. ominous movement this; fur it will probably re- sult, first, in breaking up the democracy, and next, in reuniting them on the platform of re- pudiation. A very A Frenoa Evgororat Two to ONE.—M. He opposed M. Man- M. de Fonvielle did very well, however, Caninet Rumors.—We have rumors from and that none are likely to occur, We cannot when a reconstruction of the Cabinet, em- bracing two or three, or even half a dozen, of the members, would be very acceptable to the country, and simply upon the principle that when the government seems to be doing nothing when there is so much to do any- thing would be acceptable as a change. Tur New Cirxy GovERNMENT appears to give very general satisfaction. The great body of the democr re satisfied with it, so far the republicans are satisfied, the people generally are satisfied, and only the unfor- tunate leaders of the defeated faction are dis- satisfied with the situation of things and the prospect before them. It is believed, how- ever, that the machine can be run without them; but we shall see. Apri, SHowgrs.—This year they seem to have been enlarged to regular nor'easters of one, two or three days’ duration; but they will probably operate in preparing the fields, woods and gardens for an extra quantity and a supe- rior quality of May flowers. Moreover, abun- dant spring rains lay a good foundation for abundant summer harvests, and an let them come. RUERSE TAL Sr alae, coast Official Spanish Nows from Cuba We publish to-day a sensation despatch It is characteristic in the The news furnished speaks Immense The foregoing are some of Principe in It may, we are told, be “justly ro- We are well aware of the It fairly takes away our breath. From time to time during the present revolution in Cuba we have heard glowing accounts of Spanish victories which subsequently proved igno- minious failures, The names of nearly a dozen Spanish generals might be mentioned whose wordy proclamations nearly frightened tho isle from its propriety in descriptive particulars of what they were going to accomplish, and yet they accomplished nothing and for their pains were rewarded by being removed from their commands. General Puello is the latest example. It is well known that grievous dis- sensions exist among the Spanish leaders, Valmaseda is ambitious to fill De Rodas’ place. The Captain General recognizes the necessities of his situation and wants to mako a show. The winter campaign has turned out a failure. Something must be done to counteract its effects. The Captain General knows this and possibly adopts this mode of buoying up tho drooping spirits of those in the island who yet desire to perpetuate Spanish power in the “Gem of the Antilles.” A New “Yankee Notion.”—A disease called the ‘‘clam cholera” has made its appear- ance with fatal effect in Connecticut. The matter is very properly to be officially investi- gated. The result of the examination may prove interesting and important to our new Board of Health. The ‘‘clam question” would prove a very curious element in some muai- cipal campaign. A Smart Porato TREATY—General Butler's proposed reciprocity treaty with Prince Edward Island, the exports of which are principally small potatoes. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday, General Humphries, General Parke and Colonel Crosby, of the United States Army, are at the Hor- man House. General Sheridan and General Forsyth, of the United States Army; Colonel J. B. Kades and J. H. Brivtain, of St. Louis; Judge Scoville, of Buffalo; Gen- eral L. T. Smith, of Kansas; E. M. Dennie and A. A- Rannay, of Boston; Judge Nelsou, of Poughkeepsie; Samuel Bates, of Boston, and General Burnside, of Rhode Island, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. S. T. Cozzens, of West Point, and J. J. Fellows, of St. Johns, N. B., are at the Everett House. Uolonel J, G. Callahan, of Wisconsin; Professor W. Sharp, of Danbury, and Professor Risely, of Wash- ington, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Professor waaseler, of Paris; J. D. Sturtevant, of Boston, and Captain Alexander Wilson, of the Brit- ish Army, are at the St. Elmo Hotel. \ volonel B. Lee and Dr. E. L. Sweet, of Chicago; Judge J. Somerville, of Iimois; Judge B. Thackery, of Philadelphia; Captain 8. B. Thomson, of Boaton, and M. E. Parrott, of New York, are at the Metro- tropoiltan Hotel. General H. J. Hurch, of the United States Army; General G. R. R. Wilson, Secretary G. S. Boutwell, F, M. Boutwell, James M. Caritle, and C. E. Cook, of Washington; Colonel W. H. Schock, of Baltimore; Colonel T. A. Tomlinson, of Keyavilie; Governor H. Austin, of Minnesota; H. A. Maury and R. A. Maury, of Virgiuia, and Senator ‘'hayer, of Ne- braska, are at the Astor House. General Jackson, of Savannah, Ga. ; E. Kelsey, of Toledo; General Webb, of Cleveland, and W. Bii- land, of New Orleans, are at the Coleman House. Prominent Departures. General Martindale, for Rochester; Colonel Brad+ ley, for Syracuse; S, H. Hammond, for Albany; Sen- ator Wiison, General Logan, Senator Trumbull, Gene erai Starring, Senator Fenton and Sergeant-at-Arma Ordway, for Washington; C. O. Chapin, for Spring~ field; Cadet Sim. Leland and Cadet Fred. Leland, for Wooster, Mass.; Colonel R. McCarty, for Syra- cuse; Dr. Haigis, for Texas; Colonel K, K. Moses and Major Noah, for Cyarleston, S. C. SPECIL POLITICAL NOTES. A fab man’s ticket was “tried” in Ohio taiely, bus it fizzled out. ‘The colored Senator Revel 1s bound to become tm- mortalized. The following 19 one of tho latest epigrams about bim:— Revel, but lately born to fame, He ls his race's great retriever, Reverse the letters of his nai And "gainst oppression he's the lever. 3. H. Lowry, of Todd, 18 announced as the repuh- lican candidate for Congress from the Third Kou- tucky district. The Louisville Commercial auggexts thas bis friends give @ “strong pull aud a pull alto- gether” for old Todd. The invitation is scarcely necessary, for itis very rarely you sce a true K tuckian—a real Bourbon—who is not ready to take ® pull at his ‘‘tod.”” ih The German and negro voters are having a rough- gud-tamble fight of It In Cincinnati, growing ous of the Bible question, The negroes go for the Bible in schools; the Germans oppose its introduction. T. A. R. Nelson ts a candidate for the Supreme bench tn Tennessee. The Knoxville Whig inteada to atick to him. OBITUARY. Edward J. Kuntze. ‘This well-known sculptor died on Sunday evening Jast at his residence in this city, after a few Gaya’ ill- ness. He was born in Germany in 1826, but came to this country many years ago. Asan artist he possesse®, considerable ability, and had won repusation in his profession. Besides many statuettes and portraits of prominent men Mr. Kuntze executed a number of works which have been favorably received by the press and pubito. His life size “Statne of Psyche,” “Puck on His War Horse” and numerois other wores bear the impress of true genius. Mr. Kuntze was a member of the Century Club and an associate of the National Academy of Design. He was much esteemed py all who knew him, and especially by bis prother artists, who yesterday neia o pee iz aud adopted resolut! leat! ons of regret at hie ‘The cause of his death was inflammation of the nim ‘The funeral will take place this gay at two o'clock in the afternoon, from the hall tha Young Men’s Ubristian Association. Mrs. Bliza V. Porter. ‘The death 1s announced of this lady, at an ade vanced age. She was a native of this city and was descended from one of our oldest Knickerbocker families—tne Vredenburghs. Mrs. Porter was the wife of the late Mr. James Porter, member of Couns | dey from this State tn 1817-19, and subsequenti egister of the Court of Chancery at Albany, whic! oilice he held at the time of his death. His widow ‘was & most estimabie lady, whose many accompilah- ments and amiable traits of character had gained fo! her a large circle of warm friends, upon whom he! saking away from thelr midst bas cast a doop joan ae