The New York Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1870, Page 6

iC NEW YORK HERALD The Excitemout in Franpg>The Wegicido Plot. Our cable news this morning shows that Attributing Horrible Deeds to Providence. Conspicuous amidst the ton columns of chareh reports published in the Hxnatp of the excitement in France continues, and that | yesterday were the sermons devoted to 4 con- although no serious consequences have re- sideration of the recent calamity in Richmond. sulted things are not exacily according to the It is a weaknoss of clergymen to attribute to Emperor's liking. All over the country meet- | providential agency, as either directly or indi- No, 123 | ings have been held in the matter of the plebis- | rectly manifested, the most horrible of deeds. raat cite, In some cases the meetings have been quiet | In this particular: case we find the Rev. Mr. and orderly, In other cases they have been | Hepworth gravely asserting that ‘‘thero was & ENTERTAINMENT. turbulent and ominous of danger. Some of | God in it; it was no blind accident.” Rev. FRENCH THE ain lain. and Ot ‘Aiea Mawr them certainly have gone beyond the bounds of | Mr. Smyth, disooursing on the same subject, OF LYONS é propriety, and have, as was to be expected, held that homes were made desolate and hearts ato mn tee Eighth avenue and | been dissolved, The banishment of the Italian cruelly wrung because of political injustice, banker who was foolhardy enough to contri- } which was true enough; but he followed up bute to the anti-plebiscite fund has given birth | these ideas by indirectly exprossing the con- toa new opposition, and, according to our latest | viction that the accident was due toa special BROADWAY A JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ANN STREET. Volume XXX) AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Granp VARIETY WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERY - ner Thirtieth 4t.—BMatinee daily, oan penty oveing, NIBLC ae The Eurepean Militury Balance. At this moment, when all Europe seoms to be trembling on the verge of some great and general change, a consideration of the numeri- cal force of the different armies arrayed upon her goil is of high interest, All eyes are turned to France, and the great day of the plebiscitum is at hand, Some unforeseen collision, some comparatively trifling accident may precipitate events of universal importance. The peace of the Old World rests on very shaky foundations, which somo sudden act of Napoleon or Bismarck, or the desperate hand of some leading Rouge, in his extremity, might topple over, According to General Kummer, a distin- | foreseen by naval officers that this would be guished officer on the Prussian staff, the |-the case in time of war; for although we had NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1870.-TRIPLH SHEET. scanepnionentecersteuntogaeiinmmnaeetniae @ur Navy Yards Compared With Those of Other Nations. The power of # nation is not measured atone by the number of ships-of-war she can put afloat at short notice or the number she may have in commission, but also by her ability to replace losses in case her fleets are captured or destroyed. When we commenced the .war against rebellion we had a gmall navy of about one hundred vessels and seven navy yards—a much larger number of the latter than any other naval Power possessed—yet when it be- came necessary to build and equip a large number of vessela our yards were found totally inadequate for the purpose intended. It was nme i eO Congress Yesterday.' The Senate was decidedly uninteresting yesterday. The members devoted themsclves solely to the hard details of business, with as much diligence as if the session were near & close. This diligence, however, leaves us under the unploasant impression that they are recuperating for a long speechmaking onslaught on the first important bill that comes up. Among the private bills passed yesterday was one giving Mra, Rawlins, the widow of the late Secretary of War, the salary of the posi- tion for one year. In the House, as usual on Monday, a flood of bills was reported under tho call of States. Among them were bills to remove all legal and political disabilities and to authorize our citt- quero. D'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tig Dnama oF MOS | nows, a protest against the same, on the | visitation of Providence. In Washington the | effective war force of the North federal army | so many navy yards no system was pursued BOWERY THEATR! TION—THE MURDERED BOOTH’S THEATRE, ws A Wivow Hunt rechees. THEATRE COMIQU —C ln Pr ap $14 Broadway.—Comtc Vooar WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broad 413th 2 Tux BELLe's Sa mony en iki OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-New VERSION oF Macorrn. QYPE AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st—FuOD- 0. UNION LEAGUE CLUB THEATRE, Madison ay. and 86th wt.-GRAND COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya,— Tux DAvouTeR OF THE REGIMENT. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Ci VocALisa, NEGRO MINGTRRLBY, £0. SOS, BRYANT'’S OPERA HOUSE, T at.—BRYAN1T'S MINSTRELS. eee: Se Eos SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa iway.—Ernto- ground of its being unconstitutional, has been signed by some highly respectable names, and, pomers Pan Brooar's Perr (REMAN. son of the late philosopher Arago. It is not in any quarter questioned, ao far as the Emperor's life is a trick of the government ora folly and mistake of the malcontents, It does seem as if the opponents of the empire, or, if our readers will, the opponents of Napoleon, had lost their senses, and that in some sense, directly or indirectly, they have given countenance to this conspiracy against The Richmond accident was due to purely natural causes, or, rather, to the disobedience things as they are in France. On the other hand, there are grounds to suspect that the whole affair is a clever government dodge. That the discovery of such a conspiracy at this particular juncture is@ government gain all work of chance.” suffice for our purpose, Now, with all due respect to the clergymen, we must differ with them in their conclusions. of laws laid down by nature. We cannot see giving way of the floor. Ignorant architects, Rev. Mr. Barry, after declaring that ‘God i moved in a mysterious way,” applied this Detwoen ih ana 6in avs. | among others of almost equal weight, by a | quotation from the hymn to the disaster, by saying that “‘the Richmond catastrophe and similar calamities only illustrate the fact of facts have reached us, whether the plot against | God’s providence. Such things are not the We could quote from several other sermons to show that all the preachers were of one mind; but these will wherein the Lord had anything to do with the and not Providence, are responsible for the of Germany is 944,321 mon, or about three | from year to year to make them available in per cent of the population, and if to these the | time of war, and they were merely suitable for contingents of the Southern German States be | the equipment and repair of the dozen ships added we got a total of 1,127,000 soldiers for | annually fitted out to supply relief to our squad- the Teutonic body. Kummer, whose very | rous abroad, The yards were not efficiont from thorough pamphlet is made a text book of | the fact that they were created through the in- military facts for the passing year, claims that | fluence of polititians, and were made use of as North Germany could put 552,000 at once into | political adjuncts, to be filled with voters at the field without denuding her garrisons, and | election time, and for party employts when the South German States, exclusive of Austria, | elections were not going on. This syatem has could present 107,500. The French army, a6 | 80 prevailed for many years that up to the at present constituted, notwithstanding the | present time the navy yards are divided out pretensions of its new system, could hardly | among politicians, and members of Congress muster more, for instant work, than about claim almost entire jurisdiction in the appoint- 647,000 men, or, if all garrisons and | ment of foremen and other civil appointinents, depots should be excepted, not above The result is that the labor in our navy yards one-half of the active force of the | is not always of the best kind, and has Germanic Confederation. Austria has 300,000 | not been applied to objects that would men everywhere seem to be convinced. It killing and maiming of nearly two hundred convinces France that within her own borders | Persons. There was not, and is not, tho dangerous mon exist and dangerous games | Slightest evidence of the supernatural hav- are being played, It recalls to all thinking | ing been concerned in the disaster. Frenchmen the memory of the reiga of terror, | Certain pillars which had supported the floor and it frightens into a sense of propriety all had been injudiciously removed, thereby weak- = — .. | the men who under the empire have become | ening the power of the beam to support a SHEET./°™™ of property. The men who have made | heavy weight. For the first time probably os 4 “4 ~ * | the second empire are uot ignoraut of the con- since the alterations were made the court —= | dition of France. They know what the em- | T00m was densely crowded, As a natural pire has been and what the empire has done. | Consequence the laws of gravitation asserted They know that while many have won not a themselves ; the girder geve way, and the mass few have lost. They know that the empire of human beings was precipitated to the floor PIAN MiNOTRELSEY, £0. pk ELEY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Fnow HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Hoonry' - GrRnLs—BINKS THE PEvian, &0. et® seis NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANA‘ als SXEW YORK msi NATOMY, 618 Broadway. New York, Tacsday, May 3, 1870. PRCGRESS OF THE HERALD, men on a war footing, or not more than enough to make up the deficiency of France, should the latter have Germany to confront. Russia could at once concentrate about make them as important as they should be. When the war broke oxt our private ship- yards wore at once filled with the vessels we had to buy and extemporize into men-of-war, 150,000 men on her Western frontier, in case and although it was pleasant to sce that our pri- of war, and as even that would cost a couple of months had she to start @b initio, she is already hurrying up her contingents in that direction, as though anticipating some early trouble. Italy's eflective force is about 200,000 men, and the armies of the Princi- palities would count 100,000, ‘The Scandina- vian Powers could hardly get together 100,000 vate establishments could find employment at a time when work was scarce, yet to professional men it was mortifying to witness our many yards go illy provided with appliances for fit- ting out ships. When the battle betwoon the Monitor and the Merrimac took place England stood in the pride of her strength, owner of a hundred During the last week the average daily mass has made many and bitter foes, while it has made many enthusiasiic friends, They kaow beneath to meet death or wounds. Here we have a clear, simple explanation of the affair. of advertisements in this journal of all descrip- that while the foes plot against things as they Nowhere in it can we see the hand of Provi- tions was about forty-three columns, or some- thing over seven compact pages in small type— a grealer average than that of any preceding week sinze the issue of our first number. Ina corresponding ratio our daily circula- tion bas been and continues to be steadily and rapidly increasing. In its advertisements and circulation, the Wenkatp having been for many years a recog- nized reflex and index of the prosperity and expansion of this great commercial and finen- cial metropolis and of its fluctuations in business affairs, we may submit our enlarging prosperity of this season a3 a fair indication of @ general revival of business here and through- out the country, From present appearances, looking at the growth of the city itself, aud of its surround- ing suburban cities and villages on Long Island, Staten Island, and in New Jersey, Westchester and Connecticut, and at tho increasing demands of our advertisers and snbecrivers within this radius, and from all parts of the Union, the Continent and the civil- ized world, we expect foon to be required to issuo 2 daily quadruple Izravp, and to meet ademand which we aro prepared to meet, rising from one hundred and fifty thousand to two huadred thousand copies every day in the year. Srarz Senarors are not made for a day, but for two years. Hence the billing and cooing among the successful Tammany leaders and the malcontens Senators. A Grim Joxe.—Two Bnglish pugilists, Jem Mace and Tom Allen, engaged in a prize fight in Louisiana for the charapionship of America. This beats George Francls Train as the Fenian candidate for President of Coney Island. Tox Onewa Disaster.—An Amerioan naval court at Yokohama hes rendered a decision on the Oneida case, clearing the officers of the {ill-fated ship from all charges of neglect or {rresolution at the moment of the collision, and charging the whole enormous guilt of the disaster on Captain Eyre. Lorp Drrny says that the American system of diplomacy is defective, for the reason that it employs men whoze public qualifications are ‘accidental, not professional.” This is easily remedied. We hive plenty of people in Wash- ington and New York who are quite ready to are the friends dread revolution. The ple- biscite gives a chance to the foes, but it frightens the friends. The best way to make the friends trustworthy is to identity their prosperity with the empire; and the best way to multiply the friends is to make the bugbear of revolution as hateful and as dreadful as pos- sible. If this assassination plot has accom- plished this work—has identified existing French prosperity with the empire and made revolution horrible to contemplate—the plot, from the government point of view, wil! prove an immense success, But we have no evidence that the govern- ment has lent itself to any such project. We have many reasons for coming to an opposite conclusion. Napoleon does not now think so much of himself as of his son and the per- petuation of the Bonaparte dynasty. In pro- portion as he forgets self so may we rest assured are his ways of working clear and unimpeachable. No man knows better than Napoleon the Third that facts cannot now be varied, and that truth will rise again and be its own avenger. Working as he does, less for immediate success than for future victory, conspiracy such as this does not—at . least ought not—to enter into his plans. If the over-much zeal of his friends and supporters has begotten this trouble the Emperor will not bo less willing than we to say that they have erred. ‘‘Above all things be not over zealous” was a favorite phrase with Talleyrand; and if this regicide plot has been begotten of friendship Napoleon will not be without good reason to study the sentiments ofthe best friend of his uncle. It is well for tie Emperor to know that the world looks on, questioning itself whether this thing is an im- perial dodge designed to baffle foes and win immediate success, or whether it is a fresh outburst of radical and republican folly. Of one thing we cannot allow ourselves to doubt: whatever the origin and object of this so- called conspiracy, it must result to the im- mediate advantage of Napoleon and his friends. If it ehould be found that the conspirators and the would-be assassin really meant to save France by murdering the Emperor, Na- poleon and those who believe in him will fall back on Providence, and give Providence all the glory and all the praise. the next edition of the ‘“‘Life of Julius Cesar” we shall expect to find some im- provements in the prefatorial paragraphs which rank Cwsar and Charlemagne and Napoleon with the Messiah and which pro- nounce the assassination of Cesar and the “gs'racism” of Napoleon as huge and unquali- fied blunders. We do not for a moment doubt learn if Prosideat Grant gives them onlya chance. Anorner Bra TIE Jardinal Cullen, of Ireland, is ou: wilh another maai- festo against the Feataas and Freemasons; but it does not appear that cither Freemasons or Fenians are thereby very much alarmed. In trath the troubles ot and call for other remedies than those of rvligious instruction, thoug’: Cardinal Cullen may not be able so to understand it. Lstahuk A Looat “3 A num- ber of State 3 wore in consultation with the Chief of the Board of Public Works yesterday, Among the umber was Harry Genet, to whom the might have said, In tho words of Ric “Thy gallant bearing, Harry, I could 'pleud, did not the that Napoleon ranks himself with the Messiahs of ihe past; nor do we fecl disposed at present { to question his right. We have as little doubi—-and we quote his own language—that he regards all his foes as “‘blind and culpable : blind, for they do not see the impotence of their effurts to suspend the definitive triumph of good; culpable, for they only retard pro- gress, by impeding its prompt and fruitful application.” If Frenchmen or any other sec- tion of mankind think differently we have only | (o say the affair is not ours. | i i Tue Broonp Sunpay or Free Rum was an active one in the circles in which the police move for the conservation of the public peace. The hours-between nigh fall on Saturday and daylight on Sunday were espécially fruitéul in such disorders as compel interference and re- dence. Nothing occurred which cannot bo accounted for on purely natural grounds, If we are to agree with the preachers that the Almighty deliberately cut off from earth some sixty persons, mangled the bodies of more than one hundred others, brought misery and penury to many domestic circles and plunged an entire community in mourning, why shall we not hold Him responsible for tho commission of every frightful act?’ Shall we hold that when one man murders another the hand. of Providence is apparent in the deed ? Are all the horrible and nameless crimes almoat daily committed the work of God? “If they are, then nothing is left for Satan to do, Certainly, when we reflect that the victims of the Richmond disaster were not more sinful than the majority of men, it seems very much as if the King of Evil had more to do with it than the God of mercy and righteousness. One's faith in the divine truths of Christianity would be much @haken if the belief could find lodgement in the mind that to the direct agency of Providence is due all, ora great part, of human woe and misery. No; mysterious as are God’s ways they do not manifest them- selves in such horrors as that which occurred at Richmond last week. The Infinite mind secks not thus to impress its power upon sinful humanity, and we must, therefore, dissent from the views of those clergymen who argue that it does, And more; in leaving this sub- ject we must give expression to the profound conviction that one of the great reasons for the widespread scepticism of the age is to be found in clergymen preaching from the pulpit the doctrine of providential agenoy in the most repulsive occurrences, By this teaching Christianity is divested of its most beautiful features, and God himself is represented as the very incarnation of cruelty and revenge. * Quick Time from Europe. The French Transatlantic mail steamship Pereire arrived at this port from Brest yester- day afternoon. The Pereire performed one of those extraordinarily rapid passages for which the vessels of this line have become noted, and by this means bas again rendered a valuable service to the mercantile community and our newspaper enterprise at one and the same moment. Captain Duchesne left Brest on the 23d of April in the afternoon, and reached New York yesterday afternoon, the 2d of May, having run from port to port in the short space of nine days and four hours. The Pereire landed quite a number of passengers and has a valuable cargo. The delivery of her mails enables us to publish in the Hxratp to-day the interest- ing debate which took place in the French Senate on the subject of the Senatus Con- sultum, during the progress of which it was claimed by his friends that Napoleon has a “mission” from God and is an ‘‘instrument in the hand of Providence.” Many news items in detail of our cable telegram reports are also given in our columns in advance of the European mails which are on board the Inman and Cunard steamships from Queenstown on the 22d and 24th of Aprilrespectively. France progresses and comes in still closer communion with the Am A Dentar From SENATOR SumNER.—Senator Sumner wriies to the Chicago Itepublican de- nying the truth of a statement that he (Sum- ner), in speaking of Americans in Europe, said the United States ‘* was disgraced by such men as Ministers Washburne at Paris and jan democracy. all combined. three-deckers, an equal number of saventy- Thus we find the great antagonists on tho | foars, more than that number of swift steam board who are most nearly matched to be | frigates and two or three hundred smaller France and Germany. French homogeneity | vessels. As soon as the news of the engage- and intensy warlike enthusiasm would make | mentreached England the Lords of the Admi- up for deficiency of number when arrayed | realty saw that the British navy was annihi- against the mixed and half averse German | lated so far as contending with iron-plated nationalities. But were France hampered by | ships was concerned, Like true sailors they a revolution, or even a coup état, at home, | at once set to work to repair damages after an the solid German masses, with their terrible | action which was as disastrous to themselves ziindnadelgewehr, or needle guns, might give | a3 to the rebels, The English had provided some serious trouble on her Rhine frontier. | their naval dockyards with all the appliances As it is, however, in contemplating these | of war. They at once commenced to demolish tremendous masses thus piled up, and ready | the great structures of which their navy was to fall at any moment, the cautious statesman | composed, aud went to work building iron-clads has a feeling akin to that of the uneasy travel- | as fast.as the capacity of their dockyards ler in some Alpine gorge, who looks up, from | wouldallow: France did the same thing; #0 side to side, at the poised glaciers overhead | did all the European Powers; and nowa which an exclamation or a heavy footfall may | three-decker is one of the things that were. call down in an avalanche upon him. Those stupendons and beantiful fabrics which once attested the power of England and Spring Sports and Summer Recreations. “ § France now serve no aseful purpose except ‘ie bide sonnel of horse racing andthe |, receiving and school ships, or as specimens anniversaries is upon us, and in both these of the folly of putting togther such huge departments of modern reform a good 608800 | masses of wood which one little Monitor is expected, The great approaching “mill” | would gond to the bottom in @ short tims. down South between Tom Allen andJem Mace, | Now the navies of the world teem with itis expected, will give a new impulse all over powerful iron-clads, the mechanics’ hammers the land, excepting Connecticut, to the 60- | arg going night and day, and England aud called ‘manly art” of the professional nose France seem to be engaged ina race to ace breakers. Then comes the gay summer sea- | which can build the groatest oumber of these son of the fashionable world, which it is ex- | now engines of war. pected will be marked by an extraordinary run Napoleon L, who saw the necessity of a of travel to the Rocky Mountains, the Great navy for France, planned and built large dock- Salt Lake, and all the wonderful regions yards at Cherbourg, Brest and Toulon. The beyond to the Pacific coast. The summer former, on the open ocean, he enclosed with a migrations to Europe, on the other hand, will great sea wall, that makes it the mos’ secure probably be less than those of last year, while | ja:por in the world and capable of holding the the rash from Europe to this side will be in- entire French navy. It is filled with arsenals, oreased, in consoqasnoe.oG tho unsetied con dry docks and every description of war mate- dition of things in France, Spain, Germany | Jig) When a change of war machines became mao o 2 i necessary France was ready to begin the work New York city, we think, will have @ pros | of reconstruction; and although England nad | Perous summer, because they had in the South | tn, advantage of her in the possession of so last year'@ good cotion crop, | @ geod. tobacco many private machine shops and such private crop, @ profitable sugar and rice and corn | dookyards as those of the Lairds, she has crop; and thousands of those people, well sup- | hola her owa manfully. Great attention has plied with greenbacks, will be coming North | poon paid by both these powerful nations for their summer recreations. In short, we | 1. the building of dry docks, there being have many reasons to anticipate a lively spring seven or eight in each of their yards, season and the gayest summer hero and else- | while we can boast of but three in all our ube hrqog haps the country ever known. |.,.v0n establishments, We are only willing to Long Branch, with:General Grant and family spend money to perpetuate political supremacy, permanently established in their snug new | and cage but little for the actual necessities of cottage down there, and with the new race | the navy. It is to these necessities that the course and the new and splendid steam- | aitention of some clever man in Congress boats from the city, will be unusually gay, aud | should be directed. There are few members 80 will be all the regions round about; so will | o¢ Congress now making capital out of the the crowds of strangers in our great and beau- | various subjocts before the country, and any tiful Park be more numerons than in any one of moderate ability can make a name for season since this island was lifted out of the | himself «that will be remembered as long as stan ja abd oi aindchendy those of Senators Southard, of New Jersey, and A Practtoa, Women’s Movement.—The | Grimes, of lowa. These were the oaly two Women’s Rights Movement bas been put in a | men in Congress who ever raally comprehended practical shape by the action of such ladies as | the wants of the navy and lent their utmost the Postmistress of Richmond, Va., Miss Van | exertions to build it up. They stood, like bul- Lew. She writes about the late Richmond | warks of iron, resisting the attacks of men calamity to the Mayor of Boston as follows:— | who desire to break it down; who talk of de- Post Orrick, RicnMONnD, Va., April 28, 1870, pending on a mercantile marine: as a means of TO THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BosTON:— . ty thing | £ Duan Stk—-You have heard of the awful calamity | national defence, while they do nothing in which has befatten our city. I could write, it able, | reality to advance the interests of that marine details which would be heartrending, but pen and " 5 heart both fail in steep e a description. We | which ought now to be the foremost in the world. have great necd of aid. If your authorities will help These hints, it is to be hoped, will not be us I pledge myself that the money shalt be used only for tie needy and destitute sufferers from this aflliction, without regard to political views. We are % all Skene in common calamlte, poe art i lost on those who have control of naval affairs may be the means of burying ail feeling. Thi : at i money, if sent, shall be strictly accounted tor. You | ! Congress. There are good men on the com: are ab liverty to publish this totter, Very respect | mittees who only need to use their abilities fully, your obedient servant, E. J. VAN LEW, Postinistress. Why is not some action taken by the autho- rilies of the city of New York in this connec- tion? Suffering is suffering, and calamity is calamity, no matter whether they happen to occur North or South of Mason and Dixon’s in tho right direction to build up our navy in ashort time and place it on an equality with those that when the fight of the Monitor and Merzimac took place were not exen our equ ils. Jones at Brussels.” He pronounces it *‘a pure invention, witheut foundation in fact.” Mr. Sumner has taken unnecessary pains to make an explanation about a matter which would, perhaps, never have been generally noticed but for his own ventilation of the same, Saurrnia Down oN Spots SgeKkers.-—-The Mayor has wisely hung out his shinglo contain- ing thelegend, ‘‘No applications for otiice re- ceived here.” This will disappoint a great many eager aspirants for place, but it will prove a huge relief to his Honor. straint—so much so that a much greater num- ber of urrests were made in that time than ever before for a period of similar length. It is timely, therefore, to hear the declaration of the Excise Commissioners that the Sunday clause of the Liquor law must be ‘‘faithfully and rigidly observed.” spotted r-r-r-ongl aud r-ri-eady taint the soldier.” Bramina 48 Be the bright and « Mey sunshine, it was noieworthy that the enances of the slaughtered young democracy were among the most benignaui upon the gay thoroughfare | as well as in that time-honorel and re- cently splendidly renovated headquarters of | the politicians of the locality and the period, Chambers street Delmonico’s. It looked as if the tomahawk had beea buried, the scalping knife laid upon the shelf, and, as the genial Senator Creamer remarked at his serenade on Saturday night, the democracy, young and old, were still ready to stand shoulder to ; shoulder in 4 common cause against the com- moncamy, 3 yesterday in con. Tie Riowwono Horror.—The Richmond | papers are discussing whether the old State Capitol shall be rebuilt or an entirely new one constructed. Build a new one, by all means, whatever Revolutionary or patriotic memories may cluster arownd the old edifice; they have been sadly atid touchingly marred by the blood that flowed at the recent dreadful catas- trophe. Save the trophies, but build a new and substantial capitol, with all the moderna ( improvements, Doxs Mr, Tweev, head of the Board of Public Works, think this Broadway Arcade job a good thing in the way of a city improve- ment? or haa Mr, Tweed nothing to say upon this subject? We expect him to stand by the interests of this community, Where ia he? line, and relief should be extended accord- ingly by the philanthropic and benevolent everywhere. last few days the Governor has been tn this city, because here he will have learned some thing of the outrageous encroachments upon citizens’ rights and municipal rights conceded to a railway monopoly in the Arcade Railway job. Wo hope, however, that our citizens whose interests are most directly affected by this iniquitous job wilt cail upon the Governor to-morrow—whether here or at Albany—in strong force and with a strong array of facts and arguments against the signing of the bill, in order to convince him of the wisdom and sound policy of an immediate proclamation of his yeto—and we think they can do it, | tifwlly be ‘Tux Governor.—We are glad that for the | May Day.—Fortunately for the people, the. day on which this household festival ef topsy- \ tuevyness was celebrated this year was beau~ ht, clear and warm. Nobody slopt on mattresses soaked with rain, por in firmess | rooms made infinitely wretched by the roar aad rustle of the storm without. Such a day erday for angi an occasion was a public sssing, aud mowing day wili not swell! the mortality list as it has in ome years. Rosa For Tur Sporws.—The Department a? Public Works is besieged with applicants for place. Every dyy the halis and stairways leading to the quarters of “Boss Tweed” are lined with expestants, not one in ten of whom, perhaps, ‘is likely to be gratified with zens to accept diplomatic appointments from foreign governments. A bill to place Mrs. Lincoln on a roll of pensionera and to allow her three thousand dollars a year was passed by a vote of 72 to5i. A resolution to pay Sypher one year's salary, or five thou- sand dollars aud mileage, for his trouble in trying to get a seat that the: House decided he had no right to, was very properly snubbed, and went to the Committoe on Elections, An attempt tocall up the Alabama claims and urge @ settlement was defeated, the House evidently holding to Secretary Vish’s notion that it was better to let things work quioctly. -A‘resolu- tion declaring the 30th of Muy a public holiday, being the day for decorating soldiers’ graves, was passed without a division. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the Tariff bill, and for the rest of the day discussed the everlasting subject of iron. It is worthy of note that John Morrissey was in bis seat yesterday for the first time since December, his leave of absence being one of the indefinite leaves that were recently re- called. He signalized hia return by casting & vote for Mrs. Lincoln's pension. The Cuban Revolution. The news from Cuba by mail which we publish on another page of the Heraup pre- sents few features of importance. The revo- lution continues about the same, As usual the Spanish authorities are loud in praise of their successes over the insurgents, yet the truth must be admitted that there is little difference between the state of affairs now and what it was six months’ back. The breach between the Captain General and Count Val- maseda still remains unhealsd. The result of this may yet lead to more unpleasant and unsatisfactory consequences than a mere difference between two such important actors in the Cuban drama. The volunteers are warmly attached to the Count, and would will- ingly welcome the day that would place him at the head .of affairs. A disagreement such as that now existing between two-such promi- nent officials as De Rodas and Valmaseda must necessarily tend to: influence those occupying subordinate positions under them: If not to lax discpline, to what can the easy retirement from the island of such prominent Cuban leaders as Quesada, Goicouria, Jordan and othors be at- tributed? There is no doubt that the in- fluonce of Spain in suppressing the rebellion is not shown to be as powerful as. the boast- ings of Spanish agents, both in Cuba and ia this country, would lead the world to supposes The Indian War Impending. It scoms that the Indian tribes are exceed- ingly resttess because of the non-falilment of treaties made with them by the Peace Com- mission two years ago. Widespread hostili- ties aro feared, and the War Department, it is said, has ordered all the available military force to the Plains, where there is already an army that aggregates nearly thirty thousand men. The cause of the trouble is more likely tobe the plain fact thatthe grasa is growing and the Indians want to fight, but it may he the disregard of treaties. We have such cir- cumlocutory modes of dealing with treaties in our governmental departments that the Senate may have paid no more attention to this Indian treaty than to the San Domingo treaty, or it may have rejected It after the Indians had commenced to live under its operations, as in the case of Si. Thomas. / These are little exigen- cies that the untutored, savage evidently does not understand, and a¢ Generals Sherman and Terry and Harney and the other great chiofs of the Peice Commission had smoked the pipe with them and promised. them provender for. two years and a reservation. to live on, and as such things were not forthcoming, they natu- raily think the great. chiefs have told them false, and they intend to go to. war about it, instead of resigning, as General: Raasloff, the Danish Minister, did on the failure of the St, Thomas treaty. As they do not understand our way of making treaties, and. are liable to force difti- culties: on us thvough their ignorance of the. red tape measures required in such matters, and aa they are not independent nations at all, but only dopendent wards, we think. thera should be some other solution of the Indian problem than that of making treaties with, them. There-is one thing certain: the Pacific Railroad 1s not to. be closed by @ handful of murdering savages, When they attempt to butt the locomotive off the: track they must. expect. the fate of the bull who tried the same thing. Tus New Dan.x.—John Ruasell Young's. new two cent.duily,, he Standard, the mission of which seems to.be to cut in between: the, Sun. and Brick Pomeroy’s Deroerat, axhibita: considerable industry and newspaper: experi= ence in its budget of news. Duna, onthe spot, issues a declaration of war, and war to. the: knife, while Young pretty broadly hints that. it is bis purpose to carry tle war into Aftiea. It is pcobable, therefore, that Daua will have. his hauds.too. full of business nearer hore: to devote much of his time: hereaften-to General Grant, Secretary Robeson, Adwixal Porter or Coliector Grinnell. Bat if this war betweem the rival twopennies. shall prove as. flat avd drivelling as the contrgversy betyvoen. the Ur bune and Times on free lave neither party will make much out of it in money or- glory, Mean- time, aa Uncle Toy substantially said of the fly, wo may say af this new adventure and of ail other new adventures in journalism, “Go thy way; thero is room enouga in the world, for thee aud ta.” Aww FOR tHE RromtMonn SorPKeers.—The Chamber of Commerce held a meeting yeaters day and appointed a committee of leading merchants of the city lo receive subscriptions an appointment, Be easy, gentlemen. Let the Bogs tab his time. in aid of tho safferers by the Richmond @s- aster, It has been the impression that most