The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD |™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hexavp. Volume XXXYV........ AMWUSEMENTS TUS APTERMOON AND EVENING. WALLACK'S TRE, Beoadway and 18th atreet.— MEN AND AvRE we OL S—KOUGL DIAMOND, do OLYMPLG MACUETH. Matiace at |. FIFTH AVENUN THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.~FRou- Frou, Matinee at .. GRAND OPERA HOt SLU PWELVE Te vracr of Elghth avenue and TLONB. Woon's Ber Thirtieth si IM AYO MUNAGERIR, Nroadway, cor. jee daily. Persormades every evening, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. OF THE GOLD Minin. Pirin; on, Tak King BOWERY THHATKN. Mowery —New Youre in 1840 anp WW—Le QUAKE AWOUR Paine OF TUR OURAN, THY TAMMANY, Fourvouth strect,—Granp Vanrery ENTERTAINMEN'. BOOTHS THEATRE, YS A Wivow Hurr—loon.r TONY PASTOR'S oO" KI Vouarism, NEvLO Mingry #\., velween Sth and 6ta avs,— SOUSE, 201 Bowerv.—Couto 6Y, 0, Matinee at 25g. THEATRE COMIQ’E 214 Hrondway.—Comso Vooate 184, NRGKO Avis, Xo. ba Matinne at 235, BRYANT'S OPERA HoUsu, BL—URYASI'S Minbi Rie. SAN FRANCISCO MI PIAN MissPkkiohy, 0 KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRI Cuow-Hi. APOLLO HALL, corner Tuk New Hivserivor, Tammany Building, Mtb JST RELS, 685 Bros way.—Erato- LS, 720 Broadway.—Caina- street and Broadway.— Matinee at 2. STEINWAY TNALL, Fourcenth street,-HowaLpani's GRAND Conornr. PROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Ttallan Opera—' MaGio FLUTE. i “i aaa MRS. PF. B. CONWA\W'S PAGE TULATRE, Brookiya.— Runiev Dowy, Brooklyn. —HOOLRy's Ley’ MINGTRELY—SU VSIONS—HAMLET, treet~Proressor Ris NEW YORK M SEUM UF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— SCIENCE AND Aw. TRIPLE SHEE T New York, Wednesduy, April 20, 1870. CONTcALS OF 16-D.1S HiRSLD Pace. Aosta 1—Advertisements. Q—Advertis 3—The Me wut Ttols Interesting Testimony Relative to the Dow 2 Life o: the Prisoner; The A*duetion of Lottie Perey trom the House Oo! the Sincia rs 5 ‘wrland Draws $3,000, tue Aim unt of Poucy on Richardson's Lie—Arvil of tie Remains of Anson Bur- ir gai —O apis Educational Con- veuilor —) 4 Fenians; Assembling of the O ss Yo: terday—Woman’s Riguts —‘he National Game—News from rbuck Exchauge—West- chester 4— Proc v York City Courts—The Stup Curpente —Wind Up of the Peit Railroad Sinke—vrinity Churen Elections— Meeting of the Trustees of the College ot New York—Pinare 1 Commercial Reports— )—Adverlusements, ban 1 Dew ng Article on the Fifteenth Amendment, ¢ » Vote as a Polirical Balance ot Pow Yors Cuy Newsline Steamship Cuy of Bostou—Navai 1o(e\!geuce—Tue Newark Femi nine M. As eat Aunouncements, F—Teiegraptic Ne Parts of the World: Prauce, Sy nd im Revolutionary and Keaction avon; Fresca Warmiug ve; Count Destructive Tornado ve igrant Wave Fiew to Americu—The Capital: Py ae of ine New Yors Ta in the Assembiy—Yacht- tng: Tae Com on in Furope—Amuse- ments—The ya Eiection Frauds—Tne Suap-1 Democracy—the Newark Feu nine Mysvery— Business Nouces. B—Aadverusemenis. P—Advertisemenis. 10—Washing‘oa Senate; The Dit Gut; The State ‘gia Bill Passed in the Amendment Stricken ra Provisional Govern- ment; Danes ¢ Compheutions—Burt and Erie—“hipping lntelligeuce—Aavertisements. 11—Aavertisenenis. 12—Advertisemenis. Domes at Acoavy.--See our legislative reporis. Weare goiting near the end of the session, and both 1 23 will require close watehing to keep t rom coutraband jobs m end spoliations upon tle public treasury. TROUBLE IN A CoAt tiote.—The Tamaqua (Pa.) Anthracite ti Jutior heard an anxious coal operator e& » the other day:—‘* The backbone of tie Union is broke, because there is a prospect of Congress reducing the tax on coal.” He probably meant the back- bone of the f and millionaires, Pea ria coal monopolists AND THE HEraLp.— ks that, with a capital could make a better paper We should like to see him WeENvELL Puiu Wendell Puillips of ten millions, he than the Hgrarn. try it, and we shoud be glad to h raising ten millio: the experimer think the experiment would provy that other things besid-s money are essential to the build- ing up of a popular newspaper. np County Tax Lerves were passed in the Assembly last night. Of course they were not rea! through, the omission of that duty being a custom of at least five years standing, accordiig to Mr. Frear. There may be some minor amendments made in the Senate, but none were offzred in the House, and they passed justas they were printed sively fa the Heraxp of Saturday. Tue Emickant Wave Frow from Europe to the United States has not yet reached full tide, Ten sicamsbips will leave the port of Liver- pool during the next ensuing week for this country, taking out six thousand five hundred persons, They will be heartily welcome; there is plenty of room. ‘This is the only w tn which the peoples of the Old World can bumble the crowns and prove the infaltibility of democracy. FRANCE AND THY Prepisorie.--The Frencl Senate, as will be seen from the cable despatches of to-day, discusses the Pl) scite, end the French society of workingmen thet calls itself international has decided not to vote, fets, and all who prefer order and reasonable scivrm, stand by the Emperor and do honor to . Jxime Minister Ollivier, The vote of 1870 is Picely fo be quito as flattering to the Bona- pastes ag that of 1048 o7 (Lat of 1852, THRATIC’, Brosaway.—New VERsion OF Meanwhile the Legitimists and Orlean- | NEW YU Fifteemth Amendment—The Negro Vote as a Political Balance of Power, Before the adjourament of the present ses- sion of Congress a law will doubtiess be passed providing for the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment; that is, in order to secure the equal right to the black man to volo in ail our political elections in every State and Territory of the Union, Menntime, it is reported from Washington that the Executive Committee of the Union League of America, Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, and ex- Governor Newell, of Now Jersey, are engaged in organizing a plan of voting under the fif- tventh amendment, with a view of securing to the republican party the entire colored vote of the country, and that they have called upon the President and the heads of departments to aid them in their work. But how is it with the democracy? Under the present aspect of things, and from the results of numerons local elections in which this new voting element has been admitted since the proclamation of the fifteenth amend- ment, the bulk of the African vote of the North is good for General Grant and the republican party, Indeed, we think, that from the con- spicuous part which he has played in behalf of this amendment, and in behalf of political equality, regardless of color, in his official appolutments, that he is good a3 a Presi- de itial candidate against any opposing candidate for the colored vole of the North and South, almost en masse. From present appearances in the autumn elections of this year for the next Congress it is probable that the republican party (representing Grant as he represents the party) will, with the aid of the negro vote, carry New Jersey, make some important gains in New York (if they do not recover the State), increase their majority in Pennsylvania and bold their own in ail the other States of the North. Among the late border slave States they may, perhaps, revo- lutionize Delaware and Maryland, and go a Li HERALD, WEDNESD ngreme=Tho End of the Georgia Bill. ‘The Souate worked hard all day yesterday and pearly all night on the Georgia vill, Chendler, Hamilton, Schurz, Trumbull and nearly everybody but Garrett Davis, who, by 8 strange whim, for once yielded up bis desire to talk, made a speech of the usual tenor, notwithstanding the diversions made the day before in favor of a new line of argument. At about midnight the bill was passed, with the Bingham amendment stricken cut, and the Pomeroy amendment, declaring Georgia again the Third Military District, its present govern- ment provisional, and providing for an election in November next, was inserted. This is a defeat of the Bullock party, but at the same time itis a severe blow to the hopes of the nation that reconstruction had com) to an end. The House seems to engage in nothing but contested election and tariff discussious, Even these, however, are twined about with that element of fun that prevails wherever Butler and Cox are, and so the Honse proceedings are not always so heavy, even when dealing with pig iron, as the Senate when treating of Georgia. The contested election cases of course go one wey, The majority usually make @ great show of impartial justice in allowing the woenker side to discuss the matter, but they never go far commit themselves as to admit a demo- cratic contestant, no matter how the evidence tends, The case now under consid- eration is that of Sypher, of Louisiana, aga-nst St. Martin, The actual vote in the election resulted in 4,280 for Sypher, republi- can, and 18,679 for St. Martin, democrat ; but the Governor of Louisiana struck out four- teen thonsand of St, Martin’s votes and two thousand of Sypher’s, on the ground of fraud, leaving St. Martin still ahead by nearly two thousand votes, This is the insignificant dis- crepancy that republican ingenuity in Coa- gress is now called upon to obviate, and it is ingenious or shameless enough to do it, Sy- great way even to upset the forty thousand | pher himself is naught, but his politics is democratic majority which, on the white basis, is given by Kenwucky. The late Connecticut election has shown that the fifteeath amendment has caused no losses to the republican party of the while vote. The equal to even greater emergencies than this, The Tariff bill is the subject of a great deal of light and airy talk. The protectionists last night made a great effort to recover the duty they lost on pig iron the night before, but so republicans, in fact, are rather disposed to | far they have only suffered en additional de- court Sambo a3 an ally than to. repel | featin reductions on scrap iron. him as an enemy, -But the question still remains to be answered, how is it with the democracy? They proved last summer in Tncreased Political Excitement fn Austrin. The new Potocki Cabinet of Austria, although Virginla what they caa do with the colored welcomed and sustained by the views of all balance of power in the South if they try. The democracy of the South, embracing the land owners, planters, merchants, &c., upon whom the blacks must rely for employment, have the means in their bands for winning over the negro balance of power in every Southern Siate in their elections for the next Congress. Nor can we ir se that they will throw their alvantages uway in fighting such old Southern windmills as a war of races or negro dowination, We dare say thet the Southern whites have heretofore looked upon this ibing of ne ro suffrage as a temporary radical pun- ishment and nuisance, soon to be removed alier the restoration of each of the States concerned to the full control of its local affairs. But this fifteenth amendment extinguishes all such cal- culations, and so, with the fixed fact of negro suffrage before thom under the supervision of Coagress, we expect that the Southern denio- cracy will not be long in comprehending the advantages of a political alliance with the blacks, Throughout the North we have seen, in the colored celebrations of the fifteenth aimend- ment, that all parlies and all classes of the whites gracefully accept the situation, This is a very remarkable fact, considering the late widely prevailing and apparently incurable prejudices of even our Northern whites against negro political equality. Among the tirat acis in January last of our present democratic Legislature at Albany was the resolution rescinding this State's ratification of the fif- teenth amendment—a repeal which was passed by a strict party vole. The other day, how- ever, a resolution making the election laws of tue State conform to said amendment was passed | by the Senaie with but one dissenting voice, The amendment had become “ihe supreme law of the land,” and the democracy in our Legis- lature, afver fighting ib to the last ditch, bow to its anthority as the law. We have seen, from the recent action of the democrais in other places, that where a chance is offered for winning an election they are ready not only to cultivate the negro voter, but to vote for a negro candidate. From all these things we may wellexclaim, was there ever 80 great a difficuity so quietly settled as this late diil- culty of negro suffrage? The Northern democracy, thea, are alrendy ina fair way to win a good share of the negro subjects of the Emperor Francis Joseph who are averse to centralization, is likely to mect with stern opposition on the part of the thorough Gerianisis, who have been 80 long accusiomed to rule in the Reichsrath that the check involved in the dismissal of the Hassner- Giskra Ministry oxasperates them. At all the great centros througout the empire—Vienna, Prague, Pesth, Lemberg, &c,—there is extreme excitement and agitation, and the work to be done that confronts Count Potocki and his collengues is herculean; for he has not only the angered Germans, but the Poles, Bohemians, Czechs and Slavonian races to satisfy. To complete his embarrassment, the Priesthood, excited on the education question against the present civil régime, are in almost open rebellion to the goverament, To comply with all demands would be an attempt to achieve the impossible, The only safe thing that the now Ministry seems to have left to it, then, is to abide by the constitution of 1867 and try the soothing syrup of local concession to catm the political anguish of the excited Tohewians and Slaves, Brivisn [NteREst AND THE Darren CANAL.— Minister Thornton, it appears, has not, as re- ported, protested against the United States negotiating with Colombia for exclusive privi- leges in the Darien Ship Canal; but it seems highly probable that he may protest before long. It is claimed that Great Britain has strong grounds for such protest in the terms of the Clayton-Bulwer Convention of 1850, which was negotiated whoily for the purpose of set- tliog, in a friendly manner, any differences thea existing or likely to arise regarding ship canals aeross Central America or the Isthmus of Dorien, One of its provisions is that, while such projects should be protected by both nations ncithor one should treat for exclusive privileges against the other, While we do not hold that there is not some very satisfactory manner of surmounting this new difficulty, we must confema the criminal error of the ad- ministration in not discovering it and provid- ing against it long ago, Tax Onto Leaisiature is on an excursion to Washinglon, where it has about the most credituble representation among the high authorities of any State in the Union. Besides its Congressional delegation, which numbers vote, and as 9 political balanca of power they | gnuch prominent men as Senators Suerman and may neut it in many districts in the coming elections for the next Congress. But until the party shall have adopted a new platform, in accordance with the new order of things, they will hardly be able to shake the republican ascendancy North or to gain any Congress. Tammany Hall, after her late decisive and important victories in the recon- atruction of our city government, is ina good position to take the initiative for a national reorganization of the democratic party, look- ing to the next Congress and the next Presi- dency; and it would be a good stroke of policy on the part of Tammany to avail herself of an early opportunity to define hor position in abandoning the dead issues of the past and in accepting negro political equality with the new order of things, and in meeting fairly and equarely the living issues of the day. Srrrgz mv tz SuwyaRvs.—The mechanics in several of the shipbuilding trades are now on strike, and they give odd reasons to justify their course. The main reason seems to be } siand a reduction of wages, What is the rea- | son they have been out of work all winter? Because, certainly, there was 0 little to do— trade was se dnl. And now that it ecems to | have a litle returning vitality what will their sirike aecomplish but to keep it dull, in thie si least? Work will have to be done, $e to points where, because wages are lower, strike docs not lool like » wisely cai movement, calculated to further the true in- teresta of tho men. adventage South of any practical valuo in | Jugior Thurman, and Representatives Bingham, Gur- fleld, Schenck aud Lawrence, not to mention Muangen and Joba Smith, it cinims President Grant, Chie? Justice Chase, General Sherman, Secretary Coxand Commissioner Delano, the representative chiefs of the Executive and ry departments of the nation, the army, the Interior Department and the Internal Reve- nue Bureau. Quite oa brilliant record for a State that was almost a wilderaess overrun by Indians sixty years ago. Tax Trxtivte Youna Demooracy.—The vote of the opposition elements in the election of officers for the Tammany Socicty ciphers down very finely when well looked into. It Was just twenty-three against two hundred and forty two. And of these twenty-three twelve j were the votes of men whose names were on the new ticket, Twelve voted for themselves, leaving the enormous figure of eleven inde- pendent votes in favor of the young and caliow democracy, Carvarny. — The SovTsenn Tuscaloosa \ that they have been out of work all winter and | (Ala.) Jadependent Monitor, referring to the now waut to make up, and, therefore, cannot } demise of General George H. Thomas, beads ita article—‘'Death of a Renegade.” If Southerners are to be led by monitors as in- @epandout and chivalric as this Tuscaloosan— it makes one’s lect rattle to write the word— thoy will have s fine field of peace and glory to vegetate upon in the future, But the most useful and effective “‘ monitors” in the late re- beliion, we believe, were those employed on the it can be done more cheaply. This Union side, If a man ts to be stigmatized ly canstdered | as_a ‘renegade ” because he sticks to the flag he was horn and educated under, then the more af them wo have the botter. AY, APRIL 20, 1870,—TRIP Count Bismarck Sick. A cable despatch which we publish this morning, informsus that Count Bismarck is sick at his country seat in Pomerania, That his sick- ness is serious is evidenced by the fact that a consultation of physicians has been ordered. It is well known that the Count has not been well for some months, and that he has In con- sequence been more and more reliring from public life, although, from the necessities of the situation, not letting go the reins, Since the passing away of Cavour in Italy, and Palmerston in Euzland, Bismarck has been un- questionably the most prominent statesman in Europe, He has had a great work to do, and he has done it well, That ho has on more than one occasion revealed the cunning of the trickster is on all hands admitted ; but as he has had to fight with cun- ning foes the future generations of statesmen are but little likely to judge him mercilessly, He has played ina great game, and he has won; and success is the best passport to en- during fame. Germany regenerated will in all time to come bless his memory. Bismarck is yet comparatively a young man. Born in 1814, the same year with Prim, he is five years younger than Von Beust and Gladstone, and six years younger than Napoleon, his greatest rival. At the ago of fifty-six Bis- marck ought not to be sick of life. If he is called hence now by the stern decrees of fate, posterity will have no choice but say that he laid the foundations of a glorious edi- fice, although he was not permitted to crown it. That his life may be spared, and that he may be permitted to finish the good work he has commenced, is, as it ought to be, the earnest prayer of every man who thinks well ot the present and wishes well for the future, Mr, Washburn’s Telegraph Bill. There seems tobe a lull in Congress on Mr. Washburn’s government telegraph project. Why is this? His bill is before us, and an exce}lent, well considered one itis, We are satisfied he will not let tho matter sleep; for it is too important, and wil give him such lasting fame that he cannot permit his bill to be smothered or passed over. There is reason to believe, indeed, that this measure is ripen- ing, and that the members of both houses .of Congress are becoming more favorable to it every day. The powerful telegraph com- panies appear to be giving up the contest, seeing that a governmental telegraph system is inevitable. Besides, the provisions of the bill are so liberal to them that they have no ground of hostility left. Their property is to be appraised by two appraisers appointed by the government, two by themselves, and one to be chosen by these four, and the government proposes to take their lines at. the valuation of these appraisers. What could be fairer? Of course these monopolists would like to get the par value of their watered stock, and thus make the government pay two-thirds more than tho market value of it; but such a claim would be preposterous, They would do well to get a fair valuation of their property as it now exists—of the actual materials, buildings and so forth—without requiring more. The stock of the Western Union is now at thirty- two to thirty-three, and the valuation of the appraisers, as proposed by Mr. Washburn’s bill, would give the company, probably, that amount for its property. That is all that onght to be expected. At all events, the time has come when the government should take control of the telegraph system of the country in connection with the Post Office. The wel- fare of the public and progress of the country require this. If the telegraph companies will not voluntarily acquiesce in a measure go fair to them Congress should compel them to yivld for the public interests. Mr. Washburn should press his bill through without delay. A Wanrnine rrom Franoz.—Viscount de 1. Gueronnitre, Senator and Councillor of State of France, has declared in the Senate that “Europe is tranquil because France is satis- fied,” ond in order “that France may be con- tent each Power must be in its proper place.” Remarkable, rather alarming words. A few remarks of this“sort made to Baron Hiibner at the Tuileries heralded the Austro-Italian war. What Power is out of line just now? Can it be Germany ? Ovr Demooratio Leeistaturg, which bit- terly opposed the fifteenth amendment, seems inclined at present to accept it gracefully. In the State Senate yesterday a bill removing disabilities from colored voters was passed by a vote of twenty-five to one, although it was afterwards recousided and laid on the table, in order to amend it by proposing the repeal of the Registry law. The shrewd democratic managers thus show their full comprehension of the importance of the new voting element. They, too, like the republicans, intend to bid for the negro vote, and between the two, Sambo is likely to have @ perpetual ‘‘Jubilo,” Tue Coors Trav AND OrneR Matrers,— Very little is heard nowadays about coolie emigration to the South. In fact, the whole thing seems to be treated by all par- ties very coolly since the ratification of the fifteenth amendment. Where's Koofsmanchillakoof — or _what’s-his-name— the coolie trader? But in conjunction with the decadence of the coolio trade we have information of frightful mortality among the blacks in the South, averaging in one place, it is stated, a hundred per cent more than that of the whites, in a population in which the latter have an excess of three thousand. Another thing is remarkable about the colored popula- tion in the South—namely, the scarcity of negro children under five years of age. The inference is obvious—the lack of maternal Gare for the offspring and proper medical at- tendance. In the meantime European emi- graiion is rapidly filling up the Southern “*waste places,” and in not many years it will not be surprising to find Anglo-Saxon blood preponderating there over that of the African, as that does ut present over the Mongolian. MILK INsvectons.—The Legislature now has before it the proposition to make milk inspectors—perhaps to keep company with the Meat Inspector, It is good to have such officers, but bad to give special laws to such 4 subject. The inspection of all articles sold for food in this city should be assigned to a bureau in the Health Department, and it will be found | that there is slroady plenty of law on the books bo juatily such @ performance of the duty. L& SHEET, General Butlers Proposed Now System of Interaal Taxation. The proposed measure for raising revenue from interoul taxation, which General Butler contemplates brioging before Consress, und an outline of which was publisied in the Herarp yesterday, is a sweeping one and would change tho whole eysiom, It is pro- posed by this to abolish the present incom» tax, and instvad thereof to tax invested capi- tal, bonds of all descriptions, loans, divid: nds of joint stock companies, mortgages, legacies or bequests, and so forth, aud to raiss revenue from stamps and upon liquors and tobacco, The whole scope of the measure is to tix wealth and the proceeds of wealth, as well as luxuries which are not neeeasary, but wieh 4 aro rather injurious to health, Iv is to relieve the poor and industrious classes as much a8 possible from the burdens of government and to make the rich bear more of them, There is the stamp of broad and comprehensive statesmanship in Genvral Butler's new project of texution and for raising revenue, It would certainly bo popular one, It would no doubt raise a targe revenue at much less cost and with a great redictioa of the present revenue service. General Butler has got hold of a subject worthy of his talents, and it is to be hoped 4e will press it vigorously upon Con- grees. SJeking the Most of the Time. Our ro‘fring municipal government thought it would like one more chance to improve the pavement of Fifth avenue, It th rofore recently authorizsd the laying down of the Stafford wood pavemen’ in place of the Be!- gian pavement, and passed a measure giving such authority over the veto of the Mayor. There occurs, however, in the Tax Levy this clanse:— No street, avenue or public place tn the city of New York, Which has oeea ouce paved and tue expense thereof paid for by the owners of Lhe adjoining property by assessment, Slit lerealler ve paved with aay patent or special pavemens ubiess petitioned for vy @ majority of Lhe Owners vi the pro- perty Ob the line of ue pro) osea improvement, oor Uniess the resuviution Or o1dmunce of the COMMON Council authorizing the sume stall ve appioved Ly tue Mayor, wud aay ordinance or 1€30:Ub.08 bee o- fore passea Lor any patent or special puvement, wuich has DOL beeu approved vy Lae Mayor or ine work petilioned tor by u usajority of Une Owners Of tne adjommne property to be adecied wud tor Whicd no Contract has been wade, 18 Hereby declared tv be inopera ive aut Vola. Now this will head off the municipal jobbers very handsomeiy, unless, indecd, the contract for the new pavement shall have been defini- tively closed whea the Tax Levy becomes a law. A Worp or Goop Counset To THE Gov- ERNOR.—Should the enormous and outrageous job known as the Broadway Arcade Railway bill come before him for his si:na‘ure, let him give it his veto. We regard the scheme as wholly visionary, and we are convinced that, if attempted to be put into practice, it will result in the destruction of our finest business thoroughfare or in blockading it, meanwhile, for an indefinite time, to the great embarrass- ment of all tie business operations of the cily Not only, therefore, in behalf of the prope:ty holders on Broadway, but in behalf of ail the business interests of the city, we earnestly call upon the Governor to veto this Broadway Arcade bill should it come to him for his sig- nature; for in this righteous veto we are suro that he will be sustained, “Tryina Upon New York.”—The Lewis- burg (Pa.) Chronicle thinks the stringent Polygamy law proposed to be passed by the Senate will be ‘‘very trying upon Salt Lake City—and New York.” Tiere is not a city in the world where the marriaze tie is held more sacred by the ma3s of the commuuity than in New York. And, taken asa whole, Now York is freer from crime, in proportion to ils popu- lation, than most of the prominent cities in Europe. Try your hand again. A Trvery Hint From tag Park Coxmis- sIoNERS,—The Park Commissioners give notice to the Logislatura of a way in which, by modi- fication of the tax levy, they may save foriy thousand dollars to the city and wrong no one. The levy authorizes the payment of a certain sum to ‘‘the person who has acted as Sccre- tary of the Board of Park Commissioners,” and the Board reports that the office of secre- tary has been merely a nominal one with tho holder, and that its duties have been per- formed by a clerk, who las received a salary for his fulltime. Why pay more, then? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Governor George Saalsbury, of Delaware; ex- Governor J. G. Swnith, of Vermout; General John M. Corse, of Chicago; Major Swaine, of the United states Army, and J. B, McCullough, of Cin- cinnati, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Lieutenant Commander Tate, ot the United States Savy; F. L. Lafin, State Prison Inspector, and 0. L, Palmer, of Washington, are at the Meiropolitan Hotel. W. 0. Reynolds, of West Point; George A. Mead, of Boston, aud J. W. Thomas, of England, are at the St. Charles Hotel, Captain E. R. Moodie, of steamship Cuba; R. W. Smith, of Mobile, and Henry Cummius, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. General Burnside, of Rhode Island; Governor Bul- lock, of Massachusetts; V. Spaulding, of Wnite Pine; Marquis ae Chambrane, of Wasuington; S. K. Spauiding, of Boston; Judge Ward Hunt, of New York; J. Jeffery, of Kirkalay, Scotiand; Joseph Mac- kay, of Montreal, and ex-Governor Murshall Jeweil, of Connecticut, ere at the Fifth Avenue Hot. J.K. Riggs and George W. Riggs, of Wasaington, and A. G, Lathrop, of Paris, are at the Alvemarie Hotel. Viscount Lombard and T. Odier, of Geneva, are at the Hoffman House, General W. 8. Chapin, of Providence, and H. A. Harrison, of Chicago, are at the Coleman House. Lieutenant (. Porver, of the United States Army; E. H, Laing, of New Orleans; S. 8. Hiliott, of Cati- fornia, and H. A, Morgaa, of Aurora, are at the Astor House. THE NEWARK FE 2 MYSTERY. ‘The cage of the mysterious woman, Ann Black- bura nce Stewart, whose passing strange story was Getailea in yesteraay’s HERALD, scill contiuues o source of perplexity to the Newark authorities, Sho ‘Was visited tn her cell yesterday afternoon by Mayor Record and Chief of Polics Pickweil. Toough sab- jected to a severe course of stoning, she Varied scarcely @N ola in ver statement as made on the preceding eveving to the HERALD reporter. She ap- pears to be coutinually ta dread of being taken back to Blackweli’s Isiaud, and every new face she secs induces ter to trembtingly mquti “Are you going to .ake me back /” Detective Hay. gerty was despatcnea to New York yésierduy by the Chief of olive to see if there was any tutu im per story, but Was uuable tv reava the isiaud. He, how. ever, Called at tie office of the Commissioners of Charities aud Correction, and was informed that a woinan of her vaime and avswering her description had been confued on Blackwell's isiand. Proper iuqairy is to be made to-day and luformation for- warded to toe Newark auguorities. | 1 ives of geveral crazy women ia New York, cercetving the “girunge story” in tu@ HERALD, proceeded to New- ack yGsterday, but Aum WaS dot the person they wanted. It waa Nr. William 8. Caldeetl, not Courtier, taat rescued the poor womau iron wor Tudivoly perwoquiors on Sunday. | NEW YORK CITY. Local and Police Paragraphs and Minor Items of Metropolitan Nows, ‘The following record will show the changes m the temperature of the weather for tho past uwenty-four hours in comparison wiih the corresponding day of last year, as Invicated by tne theraoimeter at tude puts pharmacy, Ueratp Building, Broadway, cor+ ber of Aun slrect:— 1869, 1870. a 56 dood, 1870, 2AM. -6) 4 8 56 47 OOP 67 bo OF 72 55 (l2P ratnre yester tay Avciuge Lemperaiure ler cur fast yeu ‘The sale of tho balance of the patntings of My. J. 1, Beaumont will be held this evening ut Leeds? Art Gallery, 017 Broadway. Last evening Mr, James Parton read a very aple Paper before tac New Yor Historieal society on the Ife of the famous Beawnarcuans, Taore wasa very large aud apprectauive vudieuce present, who, ad s000 us Vir. Pariou had fintsaed lus paper, tenucred hun & ULAMitbuUs Vole O1 LbaDKS. ‘The testimonial dinner to Superintendent Ran dali, tendered by @ numper of iriends at the Metro pollian Liotel to-nwrrow evening, is expected to ba a very unique alain, James W. Gerard will proside, and Goveraor Thoitin @x-Attorney Generar i.vurt: General ix and other distinguished geuticanen wll @luust cerwiuiy be present Yesterday morning @ large bolier in Toby & Boots tat melting escablisnment, fool of West ihircy-niuth strect, exploded, The botier was carried up through the shed and deposed in Porvecn street, intheung #0 injury pol tires men wo Were siuaudiug Uy if at ibe Uline Of Lue CXp0si0D. ‘The daiuage is avout $500. Mr. John Conkin, employed as foreman in the sto/e of A, $. Barnes & Co., in Dutch street, termine ated hig existence yesterday at ndon, Ly stooung hunself through the heart. Deceased bore au excel- lene characier, und uo domesuc or pecnuury troubks ure thought to bave impelled bua to ve dreadiut deed. Coroner Fivan held an tiquest oa tue vouy, which ~was afierwacds couveyed to tie howe Oi the decaased 10 Wiluauisburg. Mr. Charies F. Spoerry, of Pine street, an account of whore domestic inielicity appeared tu the iERALD a few days since, as developed in the proceedings be.ore wustice Mauptman’s court at Morrisinia, does HOt appear ty ve sy much ty blame as Lie ex- parte evideuce then taken suuwed. Air. opoerry 1s du possessiva of tacts wien, i proveu, will Wace tue case ina very duferens light aud will create & rave case Of scandal and sensuuon, At the Yorkville Yolce Court, yosterday, Michael Schieifer, of No, 783 Ninth avenue, preierred 3 eharge of felonious assault aud batecry agaist Jacob Reviers and John Arca, two butcher, residing @t No. (sT avenue. Oa Monday bigal, ab a late nour, he us abtacned in Lig Haliway Ov his resideuce by te prisoners, WA» siruck him first a blow wita soiue heavy instrument, ueary Knocking fim down se: less, UNA thea Sabo WLM Wita a Kaite iM SLX sev ral places. 4he reason was, AY had a quarcel wii tavm tuo day previous, ‘Tie peisvuees Were led Lut @xauuuativs Jor exaultnauion, Ameeung of the Twelfvi and Nineteenth Ward Citl- Zens Association Was leid last eyeing ab Masonic Hall, in Eughty-sixth steeet, for the purpose of ur, Ing the Mediate resumplion Of the Work on Madl- sun avenue, av order to lactate radroad travel from Sixiy-'hird to Liguty-siath street. ‘Tue presi+ aout, Mr, Jouu Foley, occupied the chat aud Buse gested (ne appolutweut Of & COMusttce 1O Wall On mr. Vauaerviit, Jr, and reguesi bun lo resume Operations 8 SpeCullY us Possivle. A comiuttuee of tweive Wud apvolied Lo Curry Gul buds UUjeCs, Blier winch tug mestag udjouued. The Sheltering Arms Bazaar opened vesierday ajlernoon ut two ocivck. The appearance of the rooim Was superd, a3 insumerable fancy articies im bewildering varicty of shave and color docked tne tavies aud canopies, Delta Witicu Soue OF Lue Love~ lest oL New York's Desauliiul Gaugavers smiled eu. titugly, and, Of course, many purchases wero wie The savy vaud eaaveaed the scene wile itary stcuius, and woat, wiih the gay. laught ig proug, reeher ch! articies aud floral decorauods, tha Sceus Was pleasiug wud tie Lime spent there passed very ugrecaviy. ihe crowd was excessive 1 Line evening, aid vile gasitzat lent wew vrilliaucy Lo tie auuir. besiues iesure hours brougit more genie. meu to ve begu led oY DeWLGNi ig suilles WUt0) Ltdas lug purchases ol exaciiy uke arlicies not Recded, Last evening Mr, Brooke deiivercd his lectura in Steriway Hall, enitded, “Irish Bards and Ballads,’ belore as large, fashionable, In eiligent aud appre- ciauive audience as has congregated 1 that bal, tor Maay moutis, Lue lecture Was all that could be desired, uad tu0se who Were so uuforiunate as hot Vo bear It uussed a beat such as they may nol vave azaia, As a jecturer wir. Brooke ts almost Withoul & rival. Hs Wou roualel po to 4s, ats 2 ace aad ease of manner, and iis Clear, distact prouUne'auON Ove Speak at olive and uninistakably tue polisied oraor, 6 sv0ke last eveuing jor about an nour and a batt, during wiih tune he reviewea ie tis- tory aad procress Of Irish music and yave & Mose mveresting wc vuvt Of Lie ancient Larus. The Ice ture Was repiele Witt Musiraiiou wud wueedute wad Was Warmly aypiaudedt tirou shoul, ‘The Humanitarian Pioucers’ Association, a society for vhe ameliora ion of the worktug classes by co- operation of labor, without community, beld @ weeting last evening at Cv-operaitve Haili, No. 214 lbuwery, Lae president, Dr, Seegar. said we were very rapiaiy vendyug tu the state of pauperism and vice of tne Vid World ico tie unequal distribusio® of weaiih, aud thereiore emigration to the less civil~ zed West Was desirable. Tuey proposed, be said, vo iocate in Wwe south wesiero Terriories, where a proper and sulle ent arca is to be selecicd as soon us one jundred active members or Cv unI3s Bre se- curea. ‘es ace desirous of assisting one thousand fauihes lo em grate bext June woere they wu ba Irse (o enjoy Chet OWE hones aud Lhe fruity Of their own ia.or8 ‘The meeting Luci udjourned to reas- scuiuie next Tuesuay @yeuing. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction have despatched from this port the wrecking steamer Keiiet to ihe assistance of the scuovisiip Mercury, ashore seven miles south of Cape Henry. Great auxicty 19 manifested by the Commissioners im rofard to the coudsuon of the vessel, ailnough buey ule In possession of iutelligeace waich assures them ol tie safety of the 2°0 boys and Odivers om board. Tae Mercury ieft Hart isaud on tie Tk isan’, With Geveral Bowed On voard, oD a prac. tical cruise. It Was the iutention of the oulve:s to ve aWay w00ut LWo Months, ‘Tue wieckiig steamer Keitel had Oa board a corps of divers, aud was Hed with all Uie uecessary materials to aid tie Mercury, whatever her oonditioa, A telegram ree ceived Mist night Says General Bowen and ail hands Ou Goard Lie Mercury urrived al Noriolk yesterday and would icave tor New York this morning. Tie Mercury Has received but litte lajury, aad may be floated ou alter vetug liguteued. THE STEAMSAP CITY OF BOSTON, A boy named George W. Doty, Bay, Staten Island, waile playing aloug ihe . 1 at that piace yesterday, in company with two omer boys, picked up an ordinary soda water bottie, tightly corked, The Ixds vroke the bottie and ¢ covered io it @ piece of Burd, coarse brown pay such as 13 OrdiDarliy uscd for wrappiog hardwa aud culierv, and upon it were Written in lead peacit the following word: 8 i] caught Dre trou the en,ine room this morning, anl is tame driving the passesgers to ihe dow of the buat. ‘They have just allempted to Taunch the Invevoat, but 1 pot swamped With about forty persons, mu and female, | The captain is id " ud tts. God beip ws doing his best. 1 must aurry a Se Ts oe It 18 almost vain to entertain for ® momen the idea tuat the letter is genie, or, fact, wnytbing but a senseless aud mean atic Oi the part of somebody fo Cresie a #i tion, The iact that the mgnaturs 18 nob pi wiitten, aod that the three letiers given above of the surpaine are somewhat mdistiact, looks aubious; but there 18 still another aur stromger faci tending to brand it aga fraud, Wich Conse@ts i the fact that (he vessel at the above dale iwust have beew afloat tuirty-tive ui at least, as sve sated ta Jun- wary, scarcely be possible that she was aftivat tha length of time and yet faded einer to make agport or bi vy Some Other Vessel WAVAL JWTELLIGENGE, The United States sieaiwer Portsmouth, A, A. Semmes Commander, arrived at Table Bay on the 19h of Februaty from Kio, pound cruising. 4 % y officers and men were tn good sptritsand Portsmouth lett the Cape on the bst of Pant de Loando, where she will remain a lew days, after waich sae will proceed to Sv. Helena and now at Phiiadelayla, Which bas just re the Asiatic Ages Alter three years’ crats charged, Suelr tecins of menk fay This Wal necesaltate the tho ‘avy to ihe extent of | We paves of those. diyguirged, Whose ser Desaied, Lieuteaant Eugene W. Watson, Army, bas be@a aidered Lo the Froite, + és € United Siates