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

NEW YORK HERALD De ee aaa BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York , Hepatp. Wolume XXXV....cccrcerresesescerseererNO, 126 ne AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tux Drama or Mos- Quito. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Tne Got. NTER'B— Au, THE COLLEEN BaWN, £0. carer BOOTH’S TH} 1 “a ie ATs TRRATaS. we wt between Sin and tn ars, WALLAC! 13th street. — whe Loe Ga ZHMATER, Broadway and stree! Saterto THEABRE, Broadway.—Naw VaRsion OF FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FROU- Frou. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strest.—Guand VARIRTY ENTERTAINNENT. _ FRENCH THEATRE, Mth st, and 6th ay.-Don CasaR we Bazan. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner of Eighth avenue and ‘8d wt. —Tae TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Proadway, cor- nor Thirtieth st,—Matinee dally. Perforuaace cvery evening. MRS. ¥. B. CONWAY Oun AuERioaN Coost! PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— MB. AND Mus. WarrR. BROOKLYN ACAD: CuioKEt. THEATRE CORE $4 Broadway.—Coutc Vocate eM, NEGRO Acté, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couto Vooatism, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, £0. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth Qt.—BRYAN1°6 MINSTRELS. ¥ OF MUSIC.—FANCHON, THE GAN FRAXCISCO MINSTRELS, 685 Broa 'way.—ETHt0- PIAM MINSTRELSEY, &0. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broad pL, Bris LN. pascal HOOLEY's OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo.Er’s MIN- ‘STBELE—BINKS THE Pevt.aR, &c. 'SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, May 6, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HSBALD, Page. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Washington: Refusal of the Senate to Pension Mrs. Lincoln; Women’s Rights Ignored; Fight in Both Houses over Railroal Land Jobs; Washington Radicals Quarreiling Over the Spolis—The Cuban League—Tie National Game—Lecture on Rights of Children— Terrific Boller Explosion—Municipal Affairs— The Seventh at Drill—A Domestic Dog De- stroyer—The Death of Miss Chester—Brookiyn Board of Health—Atiempted Murder, 4—The McFarland Trial: The 7't une Philosopher Charge with More Blaspliemics than are Placed to His Account; the Questions of In- sanity aud Intoxication Revived; A Chapter of Love and Suffering—Pigeon Shooting Match Between Amateurs—Tragedy mm Louis- ville—Proceedings in the New York Courts— Personal Intelligence—Bills Signed by the Governor—Morris aud >X Railroad Trou- bles. 6—Red River: The British Expedition Against Fort Garry; Sketches of Its Commanding Oficers; the Route and Its Obstacles; the Fenians—Yacht- ing—Rowing—Lady Jane Franxlin—A Floating Palace: On the Way to Long Branch—The New Revime—Meeting of the Chauber of Com merce—Journalistic Notes. G—Editoriais: Leading Artic’e on The Broadway Arcade Swindle Exposed, How to Relieve the Cuiy—Amusement Advertisements. Y—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the world: Gustave Flourens’ “Scarlet” Letter to the Re- gicide Beaure; Napoleon’s Idea of Flourens’ Extradition from England; Female Suf- rage in England and Infallibiiity in Rome— New York City News—American Medical As- sociation—Board of Excise—Musical Review— Melaucholy Death—A New Jersey Miscreant— The Brooklyn Parka—Auburn Theological Seninary—Fire in Franklin Street—Mecting of the American Institute—Business Notices. S—Hell Gate: The Work Goes Bravely On; What Has Been Accomplished; The Dificuities in the Way; Views of an Expert—Financial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Sales—En- trles for the Fleetwood Trotting Park Purses— Suicide of a Watchman—The New York Post Oftico—Mrarlages and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 9—Advertisements, 10—City Politics: Preparing for the Spring Cam- paign—Politics in Cincinnati—Brooklyn City News—Oid World Items—Shipping Intelli- gence—Adyertisements, 11—Advertisements. ¢ 42—Adyvertisements. PROGRESS Hy HERALD. During the last week the average daily mass of advertisements in this journal of all descrip- tions was about forty-three columns, or some- thing over seven compact pages in small type— a greater average than that of any preceding week since the issue of our first number. Ina corresponding ratio our daily circula- tion has been and continues to be steadily and rapidly increasing. In its advertisements and circulation, the HeEratp having been for many years a recog- nized reflex and index of the prosperity and expansion of this great commercial and finan- cial metropolis and of its fluctuations in business affaira, we may submit our enlarging prosperity of this season as 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, and of its surround- ing suburban cities and villages on Long Island, Slaten Island, and in New Jersey, Westchester and Connecticut, and at tho increasing demands of our advertisers and subscribers within this radius, and from all parts of the Union, the Continent and the civil- ized world, we expect soon to be required to issue a daily quadruple Heratp, and to meet a@doemand which we are prepared to meet, rising from one hundred and fifty thousand to two hundred thousand copies every day in the year. Paivaperrata bas just got the relapsing fever. She was always a rather slow village, A Goop Work To BR Prompriy Pot Tanover.—We learn that the new Park Com- missioners have decided to prosecute the improvements on the Grand Boulevard on the west alde, That is all right. It should have "pean done before, How to Relieve tho City. In tho full and instractive oxbibit which wo published yesterday in our report of the facts presented and arguments mado before Gover- nor Hoffman, at Albany, on Wednesday last, against the Broadway Arcade bill, the out- rageous character of that scheme as & swindle upon public rights and private rights is laid bare in all its details, The roasons thus pre- sented against the signing of this bill we hold to be so conclusive that we can hardly entertain a doubt as to the decision of the Governor. From these arguments it appears that when the proposed excavations get fairly under way there will be a complete state of chaos and confusion, rendering not only Broadway totally useless and impassable, but blocking up all the streets leading from one side of the city to the other; that the bill also proposes to turn over to the discretion of this Arcade Company the public parks along the line ; and that there are no safeguards to the private property along the route. Indeed, the Arcaders are authorized to appropriate the vaults the whole length of Broadway, to the house walls, with- out compensation. The vote provided for of a majority of the property owners along the route is a delusion, because the most valuable property of the city below Union square to the Battery may be voted away by property holders on the line up at Harlem river and thereabouts, The bill, on its face, makes provision for the sale of the franchise, thus leaving Broadway and the city at the mercy ofa pack of irre- sponsible and unknown speculators, without limit as to time. It invalidates the contracts entered into by the State with the Poeumatic Tunnel and Underground Railway Companies, and grants franchises already covered by these and other parties, Next as to the engineering dificulties and damages involved in this destructive scheme. At the estimated progress of the work it will take over fifty years to carry it from the Battery to Harlem river, and some twelve yeara from the Battery to Union equare. An excavation twenty-two fect deop is to be made from the house walls on one side of Broadway to the house walls on the other siae, clearing away carriage pavement, sidewalks, vaults, gas pipes, Croton water pipes and sewers, This work will involve the danger of unsettling the foundations and bringing down into a mass of ruins the front of every heavy building on the street. At the low level of Canal street, as we have already suggested, @ causeway elevating the street and cause- ways clevating the cross streets in that region some twenty feet will have to be built; or a system of underground and under-water tun- nelling will have tobe adopted, which will pro- bably of itself fix a blockade over all that low level of the city on and contiguous to Broad- way for ten years to come, rendering utterly useless all the property thereabouts for these ten years, except for the purposes of this Arcade ring. And yet again. Inthe public parks along the line of this proposed Arcade it is left to the discretion of the company whether they shall seize public property to the extent of ten mil- lions or fifty millions. The extent of their discretionary powers to seize and appropriate public and private property is without o parallel in the history of any legislation of any government of which we have any record, and the looseness of the terms in referenco to what the company are required to do is so very re~ mark able that the bill has the appearance of a daring scheme of a gang of blackmailers authorized by the Legislature, for ‘‘a share of the swag,” to levy their forced contributions to the extent of millions upon millions of spoils and plunder. But in all its infamous features of robbery and spoliation this bill, in the exposures of Messrs. Jaffray, Detmold, A. T. Stewart, Hillon, Chapman and Ogden, has been 60 fully explained to the Governor that we not only expect a veto, but a public proclamation from him against this atrocious scheme of plunder which will serve as a whole- some warning to our mercenary lawmakers at Albany for years to come. The question, then, recurs, cramped be- tween two broad and degp rivers as our city is, how can we be provided the ways and means of speedy egress and ingress for a mil- lion of people between Harlem bridge and the Battery? From the undulating surface of the city, with its several and extensive depressions to near the water level, underground railways are impracticable, and surface steam lines are out of the question beyond the half-way lines now tolerated inside the island, The only alternative, then, is the elevated or aerial rail- way system adopted by some of the London lines. On this plan, however, we may have two, three or half a dozen steam lines from the lower to the upper end of the island, pass- ing over the tops of the houses between any two of the parallel sireets from the East river to Harlem. On this plan a steam line could be constructed in connection with the proposed Brooklyn bridge, whereby passengers might come down from Albany to Brooklyn Heights without detention or change of cars. By these elevated roads, too, business men might leave the lower end of the city at half-past five and atill be at home in Westchester, or in the heart of Long Island, in time for their six o'clock dinner, In any evont, we fully share in the opinion of Mr. A. T. Stewart that Governor Hoffman, knowing as he knows and identified as he is with the interests of this groat city and the rights of its people, cannot sanction this abominable Arcade bill. Tug Kixpernoox Caspacz Business Re- vivED.—Martin Van Buren obtained a great reputation, before and after he became the eighth President of the United States, on ac- count of the assiduity and attention he be- stowed upon raising cabbages in his home- stead grounds—viz., Kinderhook, In ourday we find that Wash McLean, having been out- flanked by the Jackson of the period, Field Marshal Tweed, has ploughed up forty acres of good land in Westchester county and planted it in cabbage sprouts, upon a subsoil plough invention, perfected by Horace Greeley when he was President of the American Institute, McLean sells the sprouts at fifty cents per hundred, and is doing a splendid business, This is much better than attending to the labor of cleaning our dirty streets—a matter in which ruffled shirts and siik stockings aro at a dis- count. Tho Dreadway Arcade Swindle Exposed— Revolutionary Progress in Englaud—The Womans Suffrage BL tn Parliament. The first thought on receiving the tele- graphic news from London of the passage of tho Woman's Suffrage bill on the second read- ing in the House of Commons was that the action of that body could hardly bave been serious, The extraordinary character of the meagure, and such a revolutionary step in con- servative Old England, soemed almost incredi- ble, But the question was discussed and the bill passed ina serious mznner. It should be remembered, too, that the contest is made in the House of Commons on tho second reading of a bill, The firat and third readings are more of a formality. The number of members present to vote on the bill was small, it is true, which might indicate that no deep inte- rest was taken in it, but there was @ pretty large majority, The vote stood 124 yeas to 91 nays. It appears that it was not a ministerial measure, though from the brief telegram announcing the passage of tho bill we donot see that it was opposed by the Ministry. What tho fate of the bill would have been in a full or large House ia doubtful, It is probable the Ministry has been comparatively passive, out of regard tothe radical Bright party, which isa power both in Parllamont and the Cabinet, and which, it is known, is in favor of female suffrage. Whether the bill should pass the third read- ing or not, or should not go through the House of Lords, the important fact romains that England is making rapid strides in the broadest democratic principles. It is a sig- nificant sign of the times and of tho wonderful future that is just opening to the world, Such a proposition as this would have been considered a joke a short time ago. And England, which has been 80 conservative and so opposed to innovations, astonishes us by this proposition of the House of Commons to give the suffrage to womes. In this matter England is in advance of the United States. But the action of Parliament will give strength and impetus to the women’s rights and suffrage movement here, It will not be long, probably, before the qaéstion wil! be seriously considered by Congress, We cer- tainly think the intelligent white women of this country are as much entitled to the suf- frage as tho mass of ignorant negroes, and cre sure they would use it more intelligently. It may be a question whether giving women the suffrage would tend to their owa wolfare and the benefit of society, but in this revolutionary and progressive age the concassion, probably, will be made and the experiment tried. It would give the women of this coun- try great power. Their influence at preeent is much greater than is generally supposed. The women of America have more influence over men than those of most other countries have. There is a defer- ence and chivalric devotion to women here not found elsewhere. Add to the social and moral influence thus given tho same political power that men have and we should see, probably, the men become inferior in position to the women. The weaker sex, as it has been called, and as nature has made it physically, might becomo the strongest socially and politically. It has been maintained that men have a stronger in- tellect than women generally; but if the latter obtain political equality, in addition to their superior social advantages and influence, the whole order of socicty may be reversed, and men may take the back seat everywhere and in all affairs. The world is certainly passing through an extraordinary revolution, We have seon an inferior race of mankind elevated to an equality with the highest, and in the South practically placed over it. Under the claim of equality and political rights women are about to become more powerful than men. The next step will be to emancipate children from the control of parents and guardians. Truly the “last shall be first,” under the pro- grossive ideas of this revolutionary age. Sidewalk Obstructions. Everybody is gratifled at the evidence visi- ble on all sides of reviving business; but the name of those who object to having their clothes torn and their tibia fractured by boxes, bales, jugs, cans, kettles, barrels and the tail- boards of trucks and drays is Legion. The amount of involuntary profanity alone forced from the lips of the multitude who have to hop, skip and jump along some of the trottoirs of our side strects on these busy May morn- ings is fearful to contemplate. As for the real damage inflicted upon the clothing of the passers-by collectors of statistics might find it acuridus topic for a chapter. The ground and lofty tumbling witnessed daily in the thoroughfares sloping down to either of our great rivers might drive ordinary gymnasts to despair, for the terror of mayhem will impart almost supernatural agility to the most vener- able limbs, As for the ladies, poor things! their groans—once in a while something more emphatic, too—might move even the heart of a drug store porter to pity, In Vesey street we have tea chests and dry goods boxes; in Nassau an interminable throng of hand wa- gons—big and little, new and old; in the receases of Ann street ‘*’tis grease, but living grease no more.” Even Broadway—great, martyred, arcade-doomed Broadway—has its unsafeness rendered inovitable by problems on the wheel and pulley, lever and fulcrum, hourly wrought out by the most muscular of safe men. May commerce and industry thrive ; but do, good gentlemen, spare the shins and garments of the people. A Pottoz Cast.—A ‘‘roundsmgn” on the police, whose duty it was to visit the different beats to see that the patrolmen were at their places, found two not where they should be, but at a dancing hall, He reported the fact, as his duty required; but one of the delin- quents is the brother of an Assemblyman, and this dignitary has publicly threatened that the policeman shall lose his place for reporting the shortcomings of his brother. Shall the whole discipline and efficiency of the Police Depart- ment be set aside in favor of an Assembly- man’s brother? The police used to be managed that way here. Can it be managed so now? Goop ror Firry Years.—In the bill for the Arcade Railway the company is given authority to occupy Broadway five years for the construction of its line, There will, apparently,be ten extensious of this time ; for, counting by the time the company’s own engineers allot for a given distance, it will take them fifty years to finiah tho labor, Our Wharves and Piers. The Commisioners of Docks have, by thelr prompt organization, given evidence that they foel an aotive interest in the important matters entrusted to them, and we look with confidence for an early result of their labors. No sub- ject connected with metropolitan improve- mets is second to this one. We are, in fact, & century behind the necesaities of commerce, and the wonder is, that, with the wretched ac- commodations afforded to it, we have any commerce at all. For years our merchants and shippers have been forced to submit to annoyances, delays and expenses calculated to destroy any trade or occupation in the world. Certainly no clty which, like New York, owes ita existence and prosperity to commerce, ought to hesitate to provide that commerce with all necessary and decent facilities, As it is now, with hardly a solitary exception, our wharves and plers are the most offensive, most dilapidated and most unhealthy portion of the city. The slips are filled with mud, and re- quire constant dredging. The wharf construc- tions aro olther cribs made of logs and filled with stone, or wooden piles driven into the beds of the rivers with platforms built upon them. These piles decay above the water line, and are roplaced by new ones alongside of the old, No arrangement could possibly be devised which would be better calculated to check the tidal ourrents, to collect the refuse which is thrown into the rivers and to aid sedimental deposits, The consequence is that the vilest refuse matter, including dead ani- mals of almost every description, can be seen at all times floating backwards and forwards with the ebbing and flowing tides. Vico and filth seem to rovel in theso precincts. Ragged, thieving boys and debauched men and wo- men, rubbish and old lumber, rickety shan- ties, grogshops and all manner of low dens meet the eye in every direction. Such is a picture of the wharyos of the first commercial city of the Western Continent—instead of being solid orna- ments to the city, spacious in their pro- portions, permanent in their construction, affording ample room for shipping and for the delivery of merchandise. What a contrast is afforded hy the enterprise and fore- sight of the leading commercial cities of Europe !—Liverpool, for instance, which might still have romained a poor fishing village but for its convenient docks, which not only pro- duce to the town and corporation a large re- venue, but insure to the merchant every pos- sible facility in refitting, loading and discharg- ing his ships, whatever their burden or cargo may be. The number and magnificence of these docks correspond with the extent of the vast commerce attracted by them. Over one hundred and twenty million dollars has been expended by the city of Liverpool to secure the most perfect port accommodation ever formed by the skill of man, and experience has proved itto be the best investment that could have beea meade. A portion of this large sum was re- quired to improve the harbor and the anchorage for shipping; whereas we have been blessed with tho finest natural harbor in the world, which does not require tho expenditure of o single dollar; hence our neglect to provide suitable wharf facilities is the more culpable and short sighted. Let the Commissioners, therefore, proceed to business at once, and devise as speedily as pos- sible a complete and comprehensive plan which shall embrace all that experience has proved tobe usefuland all that skill can devise, to give us solid, permanent and capacious wharves. A New Irish Question. If we are to judge from all our recent intelli- gence from Great Britain regarding the Glad- stone policy towards Ireland, we have no hesi- tation in saying that it has not been a success, at least such a success as Mr. Gladstone looked for. The Church Disestablishment bill was good—the present Land bill is good—but, true to her ancient character, Ireland still cries “Give!” The latest demand is not new; but it reveals a spirit which we fear is too strong to be quieted by any sedative. Ireland now raises afresh the cry for a repeal of the Union; or, to put it more mildly, she demands an Irish Parliament. It will not surprise us if it should come to this, There is no good reason why Ireland should not obtain from England what Hungary has obtained from Austria. It is curious and not uninstructive fact that while in this country we have done much to kill State rights, State rights have loomed up as a big question in Europe. Is there any good reason why Great Britain should not have a number of local legislatures as well as an imperial Parliament? We have our Congress, but we do not find the unity of the republic incompatible with State Legislatures. The British Parliament has already too much on hand. A subordinate Parliament in Dublin, another in Edinburg, another in York might make the work of the imperial Parliameat at once more easy and more satisfactory. At any rate the revival of this ancient cry is deserving of some attention. Ovr Parxs—Tue ReEsIGNATION oF Mr. Ditton Wirnprawy.—It is pleasant to know -that a fellow citizen so dis- tinguished in the work of establishing our Park as Mr. Robert J. Dillon has withdrawn his resignation as one of the Park Commissionors, and has consented to go on with the ornamentation of the metropolis— congenial labor he so well inaugurated several years since, Mr. Dillon’s thorough acquaintance with the attractions in the way of improvements in places of public recreation, learned from personal experience in the capitals of Europe, especially in Paris and London, eminently befits him for the post of Commissioner in our Department of Public Parks, which has so efficient a head as Peter B, Sweeny. . ANoTHER Case or JersEY Justice. —Ona more scoundrel has found that killing is an expensive pastime in Jersey State. Nixon, who has just been sentenced to twenty years ig State Prison for causing the death of an associate in a drunken fight, would have gone free from trial for the same offence in this city, where drunkards’ fights seem to be looked upon with special favor by juries, A Warrs Man’s Party Coxvenrion is being held in Delaware, The ridiculously small delogation present seems to indicate that there are not many white men in the State, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET, Gustave Flourens’ “Scarley” Lettor—Amerl- can Newspaper Complication in the Fronch Regicide Plot. The cable telegrams from Paris of yester- day’s date, reporting the official action which fs being taken in the case of the alleged regicide conspiracy against Napoleon, brings to light a modern “‘soarlet” letter, which may, in due season, become just as celebrated in history as the original one of the universal democracy, including the Ostend Conference men, ‘The imperial prosecuting ofMfcer of France ‘has a letter which, it ls alleged, was addressed by M, Flourens, from London, to the conspirator Beauri, in Paris, just previous to the discovery of the bombs and other destruc- tive weapons and the unearthing of the plot. In this communication M. Flourens uses very general terms, but at the same time words which go to show that there existed a perfect understanding between the two men. Indeed, our keen jurists will be very apt to interpret many of tha sentences as pointing out to him how to avenge himself and his abettore, and how to use the weapons of death in this con- nection, We are surprised, more than sur- prised, to be told by cable telegram that Flourens, in this ‘“ecarlet” letter, directed Beauri to forward his reply to him in England addressed, under cover, to the London special correspondent of one of the leading daily newspapers of New York, Indeed, it appears as if Beauri had been in communication with Flourens through this same channel already. A very strange detail—one which requires explanation on one side or the other, perhaps on both. , Women at Hospital Clinics. There is some pother in the world just now on the question whether women shall be per- mitted to attend hospital clinics. It is an unfortunate fact that all professors are not gentlemen, and if they take any notice of the presence of women ad students they take an offensive or brutal notice. It is further unfor- tunate that among medical gtudents coarse vulgarity of manne? gnd thought is more com- mon than refined intelligence, These facts compel women to make a veritable sacrifice of themselves in their efforts to pursue their studies in this profession; but the remedy is still in the hands of the women, and may be applied in this city. Let the women of wealth who are anxious in these days to be known for charitable, generous and philanthropic natures establish in connection with the Woman’s Col- lege a woman’s hospital. There is plenty of room for it, and the State will help it, as it helps all similar institutions, Here the women would be present by right of original posses- sion, as students, or practitioners, or in any capacity; and the best surgeons or physicians would not refuse their services for operations or cases illustrating all the possibilities of surgery and medicine. Mad Dog! A startling cry to be heard by com- fortable citizens or daintily dressed dames in some thronged thoroughfare at the hour of high noon, and not a pleasant lullaby at any time. The note of alarm, however, has rung out already in the neighborhood, and our good people who must have Towser for a family inmate may as well keep an eye to the look of his mouth and the style of his gait in these days of sudden heats and chills. Oflate years, whether through pampering and lazy indul- gence, or owing to some organic change indi- cating that its time has come to pass away, the canine race has been peculiarly afflicted with rabies, and this frightful disease is not by any means of one variety alone, but of many. Among the most insidious and treacherous of its forms is the mute madness, which is spocially marked by the half-open mouth, copious drooling, a constant shuddering and the singular silence or muteness of the animal. The muscles of the neck and head are rigid, the swallowing process is impeded, and the voice, when heard, is changed, as in the ordinary form. The animal does not manifest any flerce disposition to bite, but will do so with horrible effect when disturbed, Death intervenes in from two to six days. We mention this unusual form of the mania because, within a year, it has attracted great attention by its frequency in France, Germany and England, and, although a silent dog is botter than a barking one, a mad dog is an uncanny neighbor, be he mute or noisy. fne Juprorary Commitree InveszicA- Tion.—Among the latest and, with but few exceptions, the most important acts of the late Legislature was the one which gave authority to the Judiciary Committee to investigate charges of corruption against judges on the bench and members of the bar. This commit- tee consists of Messrs. Fields, of New York; Lyons, of Orange; Cullen, of Kings; Roman, of Albany; Nelson, of Rockland; Kiernan, of New York; Patrick, of Chemung; Alvord, of Onondaga, and Gleason, of St. Lawrence. This isa strong committee and it has momentous duties to pertorm, When and where does it propose to commence operations? Where {8 the chairman, Tom Fields? Let the work of purification of the bar and the bench be com- menced at once, not only in the First Judicial district, but all over the State. Perrectty Ovrraceovs.—The gentlemen recently appointed to. examine into the quali- fications of candidates for admission to the bar decided against several of the would-be law- yers, and they justify their cruelty on the ground that gentlemen who are to be admitted to practice law should have a satisfactory knowledge in that science, This is startling. Will they only tell us how we can have such a rule put into permanent operation in regard to law students, and also how a rule of similar force can be extended to the medical schools? Tue Oxp Foaies of THE CHAMBER oF Commerce met yesterday and amended their bylaws to suit the present century. They scraped up quite a lively time over the various propositions, some of the young bloods of the concern taking advantage of the unparliamen- tary rulings to make fun enough to frighten the rest of the Chamber out of its propriety. Now ror A Srampepr.—There will be presently o tremendous run on the ticket | officos where passage is taken for England. The law to give the suffrage to women will go through Parliament, and half the stroag-minded damsels will hasten away to the land in which they can really have all their rights, Alas! for the future quiet of John Bull, Congress Yostorday—Mrs, Lincoln's Pension Defeated. 5 In the Senate yesterday the bill to grant Mre. Lincoln a pension was reported, witb a recommendation that it be indefinitely post- poned. It would have been far better in this case never to have touched the subject, A Senate that virtually rejects so obviously proper @ measure as this, and wastes the time and money of the country in debating for hours a proposition to remain in useless ses- sion until July, simply advertises its own inability to serve the uses of a Congress, The Osage Land bill was discussed and laid over, and then the Franking Privilege—coming up 88 a special order—was served the same way. In the House the debate on the Civil Service bill was continued. Mr. Jenckes made an able argument in favor of it, and he was weakly seconded by one or two others, but there was too much of the old leaven among the members—who clearly saw what patronage was about to slip from thelr hands—and the bill was recommitted, or virtually killed. Tho Northern Pacific Raflroad bill, which grants nearly three million acres of land for the con- struction of the road, was disoussed and laid over till Monday. It appears on the face of it to be an immense combination job between the incorporators and the protectionists, a clause of the bill providing specially that only Amerl- can rails shall be used in the construction, and another permitting the bonds to be sold whether the road is built or not. The post- ponement of the bill was effected only by the woat determined filibustering on the part of the minority. z a The Agi fa France. Tho decree is published in Paris convoking the High Court of Justice for the trial of the persons accused in the plot against the Em- peror’s life, so that the government means to present to the worjd at once its whole case on this charge. In England the journals begin to whisper @ suspicion that this plot isan inven- | tion of the authorjties, worked up to put the opposition flagrantly in the wrong before the country. Here this was the first interpreta- tion put upon the statement of the facts, but we see no reason why an attempt on the Em- peror’s life should be so incredible a thing as this idea would suppose. The revolutionary elements that ferment in Paris have always held assassinations of this sort not only jus- tifiable but praiseworthy, and have at- tempted them frequently. Nobody supposes the Orsini attempt wasa government fiction, and the excitement of the time in France is as likely as excitement ever was to provoke suck anendeavor. The situation in France to-day is, indeed, not altogether unlike that in which originated the second empire. Ollivier has just satisfactorily shown that the basis of op- position is a party that proposes a republic on extreme democratic ideas, and against such a party the empire appeals to the people. It was just the same in 1852, when the Emperor appealed to the nation to sustain the stroke by which he rescued the country from a party of political philosophers, who also had extreme democraticideas. The certainty that the result will be the same now as it was then already frenzies the republicans and puts them to des~ perate enterprises. Snfoty in Public Buildings. The frightful catastrophe at Richmond that has plunged so many familles into mourning and sent a thrill of horror through the whole nation revives a subject which it is the duty of the press to keep before the people. The construction of too many of our public build- ings, especially those dedicated to popular amusement, is criminally faulty. The ‘‘job” spirit has been allowed to pervade our whole social system, until human life has come to be looked upon es a commodity of much less value than the raw material used for tem- porary profit. One is particularly struck with this impression while sitting in some of our theatres when they are crowded. He feels by the quiver of the floor beneath him that there is danger below, above and around hin—on all sides—and as he glances towards the doors his heart sinks at the thought that hundreds could find no egress in case of fire, the giving way of beam or rafter, or any other sudden alarm. A statistician computes that since the begin- ning of the present century one thousand per- sons have perished from fires in European theatres alone—the number of such being now one thousand four hundred and eighty on the Continent. The United States, with their less carofully built establishments, must have had a far larger ratio, and we will venture to say that a thorough scrutiny of our State houses, halls, theatres, concert rooms, courts, &c., would now revoal the lurking death that pounced so cruelly upon three score victims the other day at Richmond, only awaiting tho extra strain of a few hundred pounds, or the careless sweep of a gasburner to slay another holocaust. We contend that those who know- ingly build insecure structures or neglect the conditions of thelr safety afterward are morally accountable for all the woe that their heartless cupidity or sluggish inattention may induce. Here isa matter in which the most rigid inspection is merciful kindness to’ the public. A Crean Pigce oF Work.—The remaining brigands concerned in the late capture and murder of several members of the British and Italian legations at Athens, it appears, have been hunted down and killed, and the King of Greeco has promised to clear out the whole breed of banditti from his dominions, So much for a government which pursues the policy of a swift and decisive avenger of any wrongs against its people. The United States should have, but has not yet, established throughout the world, in this matter, the respect which England commands; and upon this hint we would call the attention of Gen~ eral Grant to this important question of the rights of our citizens abroad. It is a great question, and it has been neglected at Wash- ington too long. Tne Rep River Exrepitiax,—We publish in another columa an interesting account of the British expedition now rganizing in Mon-~ treal to march against Ril and the insurgents in Winnipeg. Our ¢orrespondent intimates that supplies for the expedition may even now be passing unnotiged through Ste Marie Canal, & fact that oux government should look to at onee,