The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1870, Page 6

IS Cc nn uELaEEEREIIERIE oe arene NEW YORK HERALD|™ ™" BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ‘All business or news letter and telegraphle despatches must be addressed New York HeERavp. Volume XXXV.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THE TAMMAN@, Fourteenth streot,—Granp VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 at., between Sth and 6th ays.— Lavy or Lyons. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th atreet.— MEN AND Acitrs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Nzw VERSION OF Baier. a AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRrov- ‘ROU. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘28d ot. THe TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. ‘ woop’s MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, oor- er Thirticth st.—Matines daily. Performance every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Pirrin ; on, THE King OF THE GOLD MINES, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ALt THAT GLITTERS I8 Nor Gotp—Sineine, Darcine, &0.—La JooniesE. ‘Tan Niguts iv A Barroom, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ffOUSR. 201 Bowery.—Com1o Yooauism, NEGRO MINGTRELSY, AO. MRS, F. B. CONWAY’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— i THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Couto VooaL- asm, Neano Acts, &0. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th BL.—BEYAN1'S MINSTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 68 Broa!way.—ETut0- BPIAN MINSTRELSEY, 40. an & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Cuina- APOLLO HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.— ‘Tus Naw nunsawioom . HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoouer’s MursTeELs—MasKs AND hy se NEW YORK CIROUS, Fourteenth streot.—EQuEsTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANCES, £0, HIPPODROME PARISIEN, corner $d av. and 64th st— EQUESTRIAN FETEs. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ScreNow any Agr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, April 15, 1870. fe CONTENTS OF TO-DAY?S HERALD, Pacz. Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. S—Washington: Secret Investigation of the Obarges Against General Howard; the Boston ‘and New York Post Offices; Ben Butler Venti- lates His Views of Pulitical Economy—Maundy Thuraday—New York City News—Edwin Perry Convicted of Murder in the Second Degree— The State Canal Legislation—A Dangerous Building—The Murder of Major Callahan. 4@=—The McFarland Trial: The Prisoner’s Nephew on the Stand; He Interviews Mrs, McFarland; She its “Too Proud a Woman’ to Return; Mrs, Calhoun and Her Backers; Spicy Passage of Arms between Counsel; the Excluded Irish- man—The Two Macgregors—The Perils of Matrimony—Drawn into the Web—Another Btroke of Lightning: A Shocking Crime and ita Retribution—Terrible Boller Explosion— The Sheltering Arms—The Latest Strike in Jersey—The Bloomingdale (N. J.) Murder—The Newark Negro Shooting Fracas. &—Europe: The British National March to Democ- racy; Irish Agitation Againat tho Euylish Sys- tem of Coercion; Religious evolutionism in Rassla and Turkey; British Court Style; Old World Items—Commerce and Navigation—The Jersey City Election—The Supposed Suicide in the Bowery. G—Editorials : Leading Article on the New City Government and Locomotion for the People— Personal Inteliigence~Amusement Announce- ments, Y—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: The French Cabinet Crisis and the Ministerial Reorganization; Rome Preparing for a De- claration of Infallibility; Spain Again in Riot; Greek Brigandage and Captures of Tourists; Arrest of the Red River Delegates at Ottawa; The Fenlan Scare~—Brooklyn City Intelligence—Children of the Sabbath—The Last Temptation—Belligerent Jersey Lawyers— Meeting of Expressmen—Uity Polities—New York Medical University—Spanish Treachery— Reviews of New Books—Business Nolices, S—Proceedings in tho New York City Courts—A Conscience Stricken Defaulter—Financial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Matters— Marriages, Birth and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 9—Advertisements. 10—The State Capital : The Arcade Ratlway Black. mail Bill in the Senate; tne New York Tax Levy Presented in the Assembly; Report of the Committee on the Ward’s Island Riot; Elec- tion of a Regent of the University—The Roughs im Connecticut—A Proposed Crystal Palace— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements, Szoretary Fish has declined to receive Mr. Caldwell, an American citizen, who bears cre- dentials from Peru as Minister to this country. We don’t see why he may not make a very good Minister for Peru, even if he is an American. Perry, THE MurpERER oF Hayes, in Brooklyn, was convicted after three trials, yes- terday, of murder in the second degree. It is well enough to have even that much penalty meted out to him, but he was as fully éntitled to be hauged as Reynolds, A Year's Pax Eaon is to be given by Con- gress to the families of the victims of the Oneida disaster, That is right, It is also right to give similar testimonials to the family of Edwin M. Stanton and the family of John A. Rawlins, and it will be right to give a similar testimonial to the family of Abraham Lincoln. Will the last be done? Tug TROUBLES oF THE NEIGHBORING Do- Minion are lowering so thick upon her head that we see no hope for her unless she imme- diately comes under the sheltering cover of the Union, The Fenian alarm has now become so general that the government has suspended the writ of habeas corpus, and an early Fenian invasion is confidently expected. RexiGion in THE Propuce ExcuaNar.—A discussion ensued among the Puritans of the Stock Exchange yesterday on the question of keeping Good Friday. A strong disposition was shown to put down a movement in favor of closing the Exchange, but it was finally declared carried. This religious question appears to be permeating very generally through all our social systems, and when it causes an excitement among the strait-laced brokers of Wall street we may well consider it one of threatening proportions, So long as it did not affect their little operations we had an idea these gentlemen would not care a whit one way or another, | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. Oity Governinent and Locomo~ tlon for the People. One of the first things our now city govern- ment should turn its attention to {s to provide for convenient, rapid and cheap transit for the people of New York from one end of the island to the other. Tho present accommodation for getting up and down town or across town is insufficient and wretched in the extreme, The horse railroad cars are at different times of the day crowded go that there is hardly standing room, Frequently men and even delicate females have to stand up and hang on to the straps in the car for the whole distance—for two, three or four miles. Then these cara are slow at the best. It takes an hour to go from the City Hall to the Park and nearly two hours to Harlem, while there is no means of conveyance for the public whatever to the upper part of the island, Then the horse cars, for the most part, are filthy. There are not more than two or three lines on which refined people can ride withont disgust, and some of the lines frequently are not fit for decent people to travel on. The omnibuses that remain are very slow, go but short distances, compara- tively, are lumbering, inconvenient vehicles, are behind the age and wants of the commu- nity, in fact, and are only tolerated as a make- shift arrangement till some better mode of travelling can be established. Indeed, New York, though fast enough in some things, is altogether behind the times in the matter of travelling facilities for its citizens. As a consequence of not providing sufficient rapid and cheap transit from the lower to the upper part of the island, the city is bursting out on the sides and the population is forced over the Hudson to Jersey and over the East river to Long Island. Many people would prefer to live on this island who are compelled to live in Jersey, on Long Island or at other places over the water, if they could reach the busi- ness part of the city within a reasonable time and ata moderate charge. Besides, the un- pleasantness of crossing the rivers in winter and the advantages of a residence in the city for enjoying public amusements make New York more desirable to live in. Then it is manifestly to the benefit of the .property holders and business of the city that our population should not be crowded off the island, at least till the city is pretty well filled up. Inevery point of view, then—as a mer- citul regard for the suffering public, who are worse packed and worse treated on the cars and omnibuses than the dumb animals in carts or freight cars, for which Mr. Bergh has such tender care; as a moans of filling up and improving the city and increasing the value of property, and to give the people rapid locomo- tion, as well as an opportunity of enjoying the various and numerous amusements here, it is highly important to devise at once a compre- hensive system of railroad transit. ‘ The different projects that have been started show that the necessity of such a system is felt. Several, in fact, have been authorized by the Legislature. But none yet devised meet the wants of the public or the future greatness of the city. All those for burrow- ing under the ground—the Pnoumatic Tunnel, the Arcade Railroad or similar schemes are impracticable and will not answer the purpose. The advocates of these refer to the underground railroads in London as an argument in support of their schemes, But this argument is not agoodone, London has a deep soil, easily cut through; but here we have the hardest rocks all through the island, The blasting of these would be not only a tedious, long and costly work, but would be very inconvenient andeven dangerous, As such underground roads, to be useful, must be central, the making of them would seriously interfere with busi- ness and would break in upon all our sewers, gas and water pipes, and produce a general derangement, ag well as an enormous cost, to the city. What we really want is a substantial ele- vated railroad or railroads, with two or four tracks,.on which locomotives can run from one end of the island tothe other. The Green- wich Railroad, which terminates at London Bridge, is such a one as weneed, This road for a great distance—four or five miles, pro- bably—goes over the streets and tops of the Houses, and is a solid work on arches. It is, in fact, a continuous bridge over the streets and houses, Very little injury is sustained by the residents, none really, except to the few that live under the arches, where the houses do not get quite as much light, The compen- sation for this damage would not amount to a@ very great sum. In other respects no injary or inconvenience is felt, The cost of such a structure would be great, of course, but we doubt if it would be more than an underground road, if aa much, Who can doubt as to such a road paying when the vast population of this city is considered ? It would be both pleasant and healthful to ride on such a road, which could not be said of underground roads. One with fopr tracks could be made to accommodate both the way and through travel, With such a road and steam power we could go from the Battery to the Park in fifteen imfautes End to Spuyten Duyvil creek in half an hour, Then, with a bridge to Brooklyn in connection with such a road and a continuation of the road through the populous portion of our sister city, the steam cars could sweep from one end of the metropolis to the other in a short time and thus consolidate every part. We could have, too, in time a similar solid built road round the island along the new piers and docks which we have recommended and which ought to be constructed. This great, solid and enduring improvement would be worthy of our city and the glorious future to which it is destined, Anything else will only be patchwork and will not meet the wants of the public. Will our new city government and the Legislature raise their thoughts above the petty makeshift pro- jects now before them and take a large view of this subject? There never has been a finer opportunity to start and carry out such a work as we have suggested, Let it not be lost. Let us have something worthy of the metropolis, its wants and future greatness, Ecorntrio New Jersey Lawyers seem to be an indigenous product of that eccentric little State. Two of them, in Newark, yesterday got excited over a fifty dollar case and assaulted and battered one another to their hearts’ content in the presence of the Court, another indigenous product, which, after the fight was all over, declared they should be committed for contempt if they did it again. The Farce of Contested Wlections. With all the important pubMc business pressing on the House of Representatives, that body has been spending two whole days in the Partisan work of voting to seats men whom their constituents had elected to remain at home. In vain did the chairman of the Com- mittee of Ways and Means object to this inter- ruption of ‘the consideration of the Tariff bill, which has been dragging its slow length in committee of the whole for the last fortnight, not counting the time occupfed in general dis- cussion. The dominant majority could not resist the demand of party, and the important business of the country had to give way to the petty interests of individuals. First came one of the Louisiana cases, in all of which the theory of the various republican claimants is that if the negroes had voted, and voted for them, they would have been elected; and then came a Pennsylvania case, where the sitting member, a democrat, had to give way to his opponent on equally plausible grounds. There are many other cases of like character that are to be called up before the session draws to a close—each of them to occupy time which might easily be applied to better purpose. There never was a greater farce in logisla- tive bodies than this one of contested elections. No matter what their several merits or demerits be, there is but one conclusion inevitably to be reached, and that is that the seat is to be given to the person who is of the politics of the majority, The unfortunate individual who trains with the minority might just as well ylold without a struggle. Now and then an unmanageable member will kick over the traces and vote according to his con- viction, as the irascible but unstable Bingham did the other day in the Louisiana case; but these eccentricities never affect the general result, And the extraordinary spectacle is presented, whenever one of these judicial questions is submitted to the House of Repre- sentatives, of the facts being interpreted in one way by the members of one party and in the opposite way by members” of the other party. What a high estimate of Congressional purity and independence this state of things is calculated to impress on the public mind ! There ig but one remedy for this abuse and for the systematic contempt of popular elec- tions which it brings with it, and that is for the House to renounce all interference with the matter, Whoever presents the proper credentials of election should be admitted to his seat, and if any person contests his right to it let him do it before the judiolal authorities of his State. If the Governor of @ State gives a certificate of election impro- perly that question should be tested there, not in Washington, The courts are the proper forum for the adjudication of the question, and to them it should be remitted. Tho present system is nothing but a gross partisan trampling on private and public right, What member will be honest enough to initiate a measure that will put an end to it and restore some little confidence in the finality of popular olections ? Dress Fashions at the British Court. We publish to-day a report taken from the London-Court Journal of the magnificent cos- tumes which were worn at Buckingham Palace, on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Drawing Room. The style is now—foreign, we may term it—to our free democracy, but really grand and very attractive notwithstand - ing. England has rarely witnessed a more gorgeous court reception scene, the people appearing as if happy to accord a fitting wel- come to their kind sovereign on her return to what is known among them as “‘society.” The dress display was truly grand. The cost- liest velvets and richest laces were seen in profusion, There wore violet velvets, cream- colored velvets, blue satins, amber satins, a blaze of jewels and the most elaborate head- dresses. A now color, the vert d'eau de Nil, suggested by the Empress of the French after her retura feom Egypt, and which was noticed in our pages almost immediately after its appear- ance at the Tuileries, was patronized by the most beautiful of the ladies of Britain, Some of the ladies who wore the most magnificent costumes are named in the report, which it is needless to commend to our readers, as it will be carefully perused by thousands of eyes spark- ling with a brilliancy imparted by good health -and innocence of mind, which would cause the sheen of the Old World’s diamonds to pale in the contrast. Tue Craims or NorFOLK FORA Navy Yarp.— Some of the enterprising citizens of Norfolk, Va., having heard that the Navy Yard is to be removed from Brooklyn, think that it could not be removed to a better place than Norfolk. We remember that some nine years ago there was avery fine Navy Yard at Norfolk, but that to prevent its falling into the hands of a certain Southern confederacy it wag destroyed, being partly burned down and partly blows up, together with the burning or scuttling of a powerful fleet of United States war ships, and we gre afraid that those unforjunate events are too fresh in the fending minds of Congress for the restoration at present of said Navy Yard. After a while, when time shall have wiped out all the asperities of the war and the South shall have become thoroughly Union in senti- ment, we doubt not the Norfolk Navy Yard will be restored; for the harbor there has so many advantages for a navy yard that they cannot be considered as wholly abandoned by the goveroment. The New York Navy Yard, however, must be retained near at hand for the defence of the all-important harbor of New York. Tue Ropext’s Layo Deteaares, Father Richart and Scott, have arrived in Ottawa and been arrested on a warrant charging them with complicity in the murder of Scott, who was executed as a spy at Fort Garry by Ricl. The examination as to the question of jurisdiction in the matter is now going on before a magistrate. The charge is evidently gotten up to further animate the loyal feel- ing among the-enlisting volunteers, and pro- bably to frighten Riel himself; but it is an un- worthy device, for both Richart and Scott had the guarantee of the English Commissioner at Fort Garry that they would be respectfully treated and listened to when they presented themselves even as delegates from the insur- gent Winnipegians before the Dominion autho- rities, They are no more concerned in the murder of Scott than any other inhabitant of Winnipeg, a se pe a a et etc le helioccmsn iS life a er en ea The Gentle Greek Brigands. Young Herbert, son of the Duke of Manches- ter and Seoretary of the British Legation at Athens (Greece), and Secretary Boylen, of the Italian Legation, in a late reconnoissance of the field of the great battle of Marathon, wore taken prisoners by the brigands infesting those mountains, who, at last accounts, having found out the quality of their prisoners, had put ina demand for two thousand pounds ran- som. Meanwhile, in order to allay any ap- prehensions which the friends of the prisoners may feel regarding the treatment they may be subjected to by said brigands, a correspondent of the London Zimes, who knows them from experience as a prisoner himself, speaks of the gentle and respectful treatment he received attheir hands, Tho Greek brigands, it would thus appear, are a great improvement upon the Italian brigands, who, if the money for the release of a prisoner is not forthcoming, have an ugly habit of sending first one of his ears, and then the other, and then a finger or a thumb, and so on, until the prisoner is rescued by his friends or dies from his torture, We are glad to hear that the Greek brigands are gentle and respectful to their prisoners; but In these two aforesaid captures we fear they will find out in the end that they have made a very great mistake. The ransom money, we pre- sume, will have to be advanced by the Greek government, nolens volens, and after that we predict those gentle and respectful freebooters of the Greek mountains will be hunted down, CongreseAuother Dose of Georgia—The Asiatic Cable. The question of the policy of further debat- ing the Georgla bill was discussed in the Sen- ate yesterday, Mr. Chandler stating very truly and pointedly that everybody was sick of so much Georgia “hash,” It was deemed impos- sible, however, under the rules to prevent the rehashing tendencies of windy members, and the historical talk of the last few years about outrages and constitutions and loyalty and re- construction and the noble fighting qualities of the negroes ‘was begun again, with no early prospect of a satisfactory ending of it, In thé House a sort of guerilla warfare was maintained all day, a number of little sub- jeots being touched upon and nothing more important than the tariff being discussed at length. Mr, Cyrus Field’s, memorial for aid in the construction of the American and Asiatic telegraph cable was referred to the Commit- tee on Public Lands, as it asks only for a land grant, Inthe committee we hope it will be promptly considered, and that the legislature of the country will not throw the obstacles either of delay or parsimony in the way of putting a girdle round the earth. Holy Week to Jows and Gentiles, Among Christians this is Holy Week, in commemoration of the awful events in the mission of our Saviour which culminated in His crucifixion; while in the mother Church of the Hebrews it is, in part, their holy week of the Passover, which began last night, in commemoration of one of the greatest events in Jewish history—viz.: On the night before the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt the destroying angel who visited the Egyptians, putting to death their first born, passed over the houses of the Hebrews, becquse their doors were marked with the blood of the lamb killed the evening before, and called the paschal lamb. This festival, thus instituted three thousand three hundred and sixty years ago, was the foreshadowing of the solemn Christian festival of ‘‘the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world.” And here on this island, unknown to Christians or Jews till sixteen hundred years after the cruci- fixion, a larger freedom is enjoyed by both Jews and Christians than was ever known in Egypt or Jerusalem; and this again is but the foreshadowing to all the world of the better time still to come, of which even now we seo the daybreak. Tug Frarg-Up 1n tie Romany Covnor,— Some days ago wo took occasion to compare a scene in the Roman Council to scenes not uncommon in our Sixth ward primaries, In so writing we felt justified by the facts then before us. It appears, however, that we did not know one-half, We reproduced the scene in the Hrraxp of yesterday in an extract from the Cologne Gazette. Strossmayer, of Hun- gary, had uttered some plain, wholesome truths, which it was good for him to say and good for the Council to hear. Allof a sudden, when he touched a sore point, he was greeted with the cries ‘‘Heretic! Heretic! We con- demn him.” One solitary voice was raised in the Bishop's favor—‘‘I do not condemn him,” On this the shout became general, ‘‘Damna- mus—we do condema him.” ‘You are a Protestant. Shut up! Come down from the tribune,” From the tribune he descended, and, protected by the flaming sword of his military sétvant, he escaped from the Council. Yet this is the holy assembly whidh is about io proclaim the Pope infallible. This in the nine- teenth century ! Tog GRanpgur oF He Nation,—By tele- gram from Washington we learn that some three or four million dollars have been appro- priated for the completion of the new Post Offices in this city and in Boston, The erection of public buildings is among the most important movements tending toward establishing the grandeur of a great nation, The buildings of the Post Office Department should be among the first recognized. Our Congress has just appropriated three millions for the completion of the New York Post Office. From the foundations of the building we judge that the structure will be such as can command, when completed, the admira- tion of not only this but the coming genera- tion. We suppose the Boston new Post Office business will be arranged as satisfactorily as that of the same character in New York, and that both structures will become at once orna- ments to the cities named and an Xenor to the nation. PostPoNEMENT OF TAE GENERAL AM- Nesty.—According to the statement given our readers from one of our Washington corre- spondents on the subject the President had iatended, with the restoration of Texas, send- ing up @ message to Congress proposing a universal amnesty; but in consequence of the renewed disturbances in North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern States, result- ing from the foolish courses of unreconstructed rebels, General Grant has concluded to wait @ little longer. He does not think that the Southern people are in the proper frame of mind for universal absolution just yet, and that when they are they will show their faith by their deeds, ‘ The leading spirits among the Southern people, therefore, will do well to turn their attention to the restoration of law and order, The Situation in France-Old World Sy mp- toms of Change. The situation in France, as it is reported in the European cable telegrams of yesterday, published elsewhere in our columns, appears really serious, It may be said, indeed, that it is becoming critical, The Cabinet crisis con- tinues, with imperial attempts at a quasi ministerial reorganization in the Tuileries, There is a parliamentary agitation and an out- side political excitement, The trade strike movement is extending from Paris and being initiated in the more distant provincial de- partments. Troops are in motion and being marched to the more inflam- mable centres of popular excitement, There are indications that the taking of the national vote on the subject of an endorsement or veto of the Senatus Consultum will not be completed without trouble, Gustave Flourens addresses the radical ‘‘reds” from London— ® secure shelter and centre for the purposes of revolutionary continenta) propagandism, as in times past, The minds of the people are deeply influenced by the religious question. Rome presses on towards a declaration of infallibility, and from that centre of Christian unity appears to radiate an undefined, mysterious it may be, influence, which seems to us, at this distance and living under a free democracy, to incline towards the crowns by divine right and against the purple as resuscitated from Water- loo, Such is the reflex produced by our Old World despatches through the cable. “It indicates change, change for better or worse, and no one can say what a day, an hour even, may bring torth in Europe. Peoples and monarchs must wait and pray. Italian Finance and the Revival of Medil- terranean Trade. Emerging from a period of political vassal- age and intestine subdivision, Italy engages the attention and sympathy of all who favor honest progress. ‘‘L'Italia troppo bella” had, age after age, beon the coveted prize of her powerful neighbors, who for centuries re- duced her by their heartless invasions and oppressions to a condition that fully warranted the haughty words of the Austrian states- man who, no more than twenty years ago, sneeringly said:—‘‘Italy! that is but a geo- grapdical expression!” When at length the Italian nation was partially restored to its autonomy, under the sceptre of its soldier king, Victor Emanuel, after the most exhaust-" ing struggles and sacrifices, it came into an inheritance of debt and difficulty which was the natural legacy of its preceding misfortunes. Since then a manly effort has vastly im- proved the social condition of the new king- dom. Commerce, science, the arts, public education and internal improvement have greatly advanced. Railroads have infused fresh life and quickened the pulses of Italian industry. The seaports that once covered the Adriatic, the Mediterranean and the Levant with warlike fleets and trading argo- sies have revived, and constitutional govern- ment has displaced arbitrary power—a result, by the way, which is due not merely to the improved political status of the Peninsula, but very largely to the diversion of the old Asiatic trade which once crossed Arabia by caravans, to the grand channel of the Suez Canal, In fine, the old land of glorious memories has pre- sented a noble and gratifying spectacle to the world in her rapid recovery of prestige and wealth combined with national liberty. But, under the fatal pressure of heavy armaments, necessary to protect her from jealous friends outside and plotting foes at home, Italy still groans beneath financial burdens, Her Finance Minister, Signor Quintino Sella, is compelled to admit in his latest exhibit of the national budget a deficiency of thirty millions of dollars, with a total national debt of one thousand three hundred millions of dollars, calling for an inte- rest of some one hundred millions of dollars, In 1861 the debt was only four hundred and twenty millions of dollars, We cannot wonder, then, that the friends of the struggling king- dom feel some alarm at this comparison, or that its enemies make this the text of exulting comment. But a closer view and deeper study will, we think, dispel the gloomy view that hasty observers may take of the case. It is not, hOwever, from Signor Sella’s statement that the revenue has increased forty-seven per cent while expenditure has decreased thirty-six, thus making a change of eighty-three per cent in the progress of affairs from 1862 to 1867, that we glean our chief encouragement; for in the oppressive mill ee ee es oe ee domestic disturbance, and the expenditures of the year ahead must still be -heavy. Itis {o the evident intent to out off sliecures, popularize the goverhmeat still more, to facili- tate internal communteatiod &hd vs {mportantly reduce the nayal and military establishnidiits, that we find the promise of a brighter future. The axiom ‘Fear to swim is lead to sink” involves a thought more practical ‘than poetical, and if the sincere patriots of Italy will but boldly follow out the ideas of reform embodied in the representations of those who recommend reduction of what may be termed mere show expenditure, and the alleviation of tax burdens by a proper management of the State domain and the continued encourage- ment of industry and commerce, along with an equable and honest collection of the imposts necessarily retained, Italy will steadily rise superior to all her trials, and, we shall con- tinue to belfeve, bo requited by a brilliant future for her terrible probation in the past. Our Spzoran Evrorgan Corresponp- ENox.—Our special correspondents in Eng- land, Ireland, Russia and Turkey, writing by the latest European mail, supply a very ample and important exhibit of the condition of affairs then existing in these several coun- tries, The tendency of the peoples is evidently towards democracy. The influencing causes are various—industrial, political and religious. Taken as a whole the efforts of our special wrilers will prepare the mind of the people of the New World for an intelligent understand- ing and calm reception of any news of any Old World change which may be flashed to us by electricity trom Burope. _ a gti The LogislaturomAn Arcade Railway Won- der, The most astonishing stroke of Yusiness that we have yet had an example of in the State Senate occurred yesterday, when the hill to cut the boitom out of Broadway, milaly harmoniously designated the Arcade Railwa; bill, came up on a motion to order it to its third reading. It was evident on the first vote that the destroying angel had commenced ope- rations on s new field. The leading city Sona- tors—Tweed, Bradley, Norton and Creamer— of course opposed its passage, and showed in their speeches that if carried it would be the ruin of our greatest thoroughfare, while Genet, like a courtly Lucifer of the Senate, stood aloof from his delegation and advocated the ruin of the city that his faction failed to rule. He did it, too, in his courtly style, ex- pressing himself proud and pleased at the talent of his city brothers and confident of the good judgment of the Mayor and the Gov- ernor, and thus presented an argument, which was of little force in itself, with a fascinat- ing manner that made it formidable, At least it must have appeared formidable to the country members, for they voted almost solidly for the third reading. We would not intimate that corruption is rampant among them, or anything else that is unparliamentary, and so we can attribute their vote against the lately triumphant leaders of the Senate ona city matter, in which it is natural to suppose the city men were best posted, only to the per- suasive manner of Genet. The question will come up again to-day in the Senate; after that it must come before the lower house, and after that it must come before the Governor, and it ought surely to be stopped and killed at some of these points. No one knows what the destroying angel will put his mind to next. But as for those country members, like nigger property during the war, they are “mighty oy onsartin’, The Workingmen’s Agitation in France. We publish to-day a couple of cable despatches which reveal a bad state of things among the workmen in France. It appears that some days ago a congratulatory address from the workmen of Lyons, who were them- selves on strike, to the strikera at Le Creuzot was published in the columns of the Marseit- laise, The result is a fresh prosecution of the Marseillaise, If the Marseillaise can con- tinue to live in spite of these ever-recurring prosecutions and consequent fines it has more vitality than we give it credit for, It appears, further, that a society of workmen, called international and having headquarters in Paris, has resolved to issue a circular advising all French workmen who are in favor of a republic to vote blank tickets on the occasion of the Plebiscitum. We see in these things the old levelling spirit of the workingmen, We discover in them the reason for the strike, which is almost universal, The combination is, at least, European in its range. But we do not see that any great or good result can flow from workmen's combinations, The price of labor is determined by causes which are a3 natural as sunlight. The Dover Railway Ferry. Our time is so prolific of daring new schemes for facilitating commercial inter- course that it is only an argus-eyed intelli- gence like the public press that can keep them all in view. In these days, when even the stormy Atlantic is regarded as merely a broader kind of ferry passage, it is not surprising to learn that a bill entitled the International Communication bill has been brought before the British Parliament, which proposes to establish a regular railway steam ferriage between Dover and some point directly oppo- site on the French coast, the boats to be con- structed four hundred and fifty feet in length by eighty feet beam over all, and capable of receiving railway trains lowered upon them at tide level by hydraulic apparatus. Special harbors and peculiar facilities will, of course, be required on both sides of the Channel; but the British and French companies likely to ba thus conjoined are favorable to the scheme, and the capital will not be wanting. This bold work accomplished—and who can venture to say that it cannot be done within the next five years ?—passengers and freight could pass direct from Scotland to the extremity of the Italian Peninsula without transfer if need be. One subtle feature of the onward march of. modern invention is that each new thing imme- diately suggests and prepares the way for another, Fill up the ranks, then, and press on the column! Tue Ways AND Means CoMMITTEE ON THE Income Tax.—We are pleased to hear that this committee of the House have agreed to recommend a non-concurrence in the Senate resolution extending the ingomg tax another year, This income tax can be dispensed with, and it ought to be stonne It ts a source of great pabee ahd dise intent, and if longer sae in will be felt as a losing experimont y the party in power. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, k peat eae et Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Captain ne P+ Dyer, of Baltimore; E. G. Angell, of Rhode Isiand; ."rofessor E, H. Sawyer, of Connecti- cut; Henry Kip, of Buffalo; George Innis, of Pough- keepsie; E. A. Rolling, 0f New Hampshire, and J, Be Baldwin, of Virginia, are .t tlie Astor House, Major J. N. Knapp, of Aubin; J. Blackburn, Jr., of Philadelphia; Henry Keyes, of Vermont, and 0. B, Raymond, of Boston, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. te Colonel A. W. Bradley, of Ilinois; Colonel A. J. Townsend, of St. Louis; Judge Campbell, of Ohtor Colonel Chadwick, of Washington; 0. W. Tracey, o. the Unitea States Navy; General J. T. Mitchell, of Washington; Commodore Thomson, of the United States Navy, and General A. H. Hosmer, of Washing- ton, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor W. Stockwell, of Ohio; Colonel G. H. Stevenson of the United States Army, and Major A. D. Pratt, of Massachusetts, are at the St. Charles Hotel. W. T. Walters, of Baltimore; J. M. Robbins, of Boston, and Captain McDougall, of Copenhagen, are at the Brevoort House, G. D. Clark, of Boston; C. E. Leland, of Albany; F. Kernal, of Utica, and . Bretton, of San Fran- cisco, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. . Sefior Lopez Roberts, Spanish Minister to Wash- ington; Mr. Estrada and Mr. Valles, Secretariés of the Spanish Legation, and G. Peabody Russell, of Saiem, Mass., are at the Albemarle Hotel. General Parkes and General Humphreys, of the United States army, are at the Hoffman House. Horace V. Edson, of Georgia; W. H. Mills, of Florida, and James Carlyle, of London, are at the Coleman House. Professor Mayheim, of West Point; W. A. Haines, of Irvington; G. W. Tattle, of New York, and W. F. Whittier, of Sag Franglaco, are at the Grand Hotele