The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1870, Page 6

ee -_ NEW YORK HERAL JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ; PROPRIETOR. despatches must be addressed New York ‘Herat. pointed secretaries, Each State delegation is Letters packages should to elect its own member of the national dele- a scaled. ee be properly gation within s week, when a caucus for the turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pudtished every day i the 3 wer, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIVE CENTS per copy. Annual subscription price:— the Senate. 3OB PRINTING of every desoreption, also Stereo. fuping and Engraving, neatly and prompily exe- Culed at the lowest rates: ers, printed speeches, public’ documents, let- ters, instructions, &¢.,; as the case In this State or the other may seem to require. It is in this business that the frank- ing privilege is particularly useful; for in POOMBRY THRATRE, Bowery—Lion oF NubiA—GooD theee campaigns, which involve the elections for a new Congress, hundreds of tons of elec- Wee aeten dooeethaes Aenea Cnt eh are tioneering letters and circulars and ‘‘Pub. Docs.,” including campaign party speeches and pamphlets, are sent through the mails with this inscription, for instance, over the address on the wrapper—‘‘Free—John Smith, M.C.” Hence, in view of these approaching Congressional elections, we apprehend that the House bill for the abolition of the tranking privilege will be in the list of the unfinished business of the Senate at the adjournment of the present session, and both parties in Con- gress are interested in so arranging it. Con- sidering the new political order of things, the old party issues that have died out and the new issues and old issues in new forms that are coming to the surface, there will bea vast amount of electioneering work to be done this summer by the Congressional National Committee of each party. Accordingly the pressure for the retention of the franking privilege till next winter will most probably prove too strong to be resisted. But what ig the prospect, looking toward these approaching elections for the next Con- gress? From the late elections in New Hamp- shire and Connecticut the two parties throuzh- out the country remain substantially as they were in 1868, Under Andy Johnson the republi- cans had to fight the combined forces of the administration and the democracy. Now they have the administration with them and the —————————————— AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tuz Drama oF Mos- Quito. Ww. KS T wee THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Pt! ia AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRov- FRENCH THEA! rh! Pip ad ‘TRE, Mth st. and 6th av.—Tux Lapy THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Gzanp VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, OLYMPIC Bi —' ane Baiy mtered ow Tue Fats ONS with 1D OPERA HOU! ot a ee WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, tor Thirtiih st Matings daily. Ferformasos every oy 6nlag. ¥. B. Ws -— XPS, 7,2, CONWAY'S PARE THEATRE, Brootiyo _— COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comio VooaL- Matinee at 234. THEATRE 18M, NEGRO Acts, ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowerr.—Comro Vooavism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, £0. Matinee at 234. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUS! ewe tae jE, Tammany Building, 14th KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, Ni Broadway.— Cue Cuow H1. oe Ke HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brook; STBELO—PANORAMA, PROGRESS OF —HOoLrr’s MIN- MERICA, £0. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th and ‘oth ats. —TaxoDoRE THOMAS’ POPULAR ConoRrTs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCINNOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Wednesday, May 18, 1870. — head of it as the embodiment and foreordained CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. candidate of the party for the Presidential suc- Pace. cession. They elected General Grant upon Advertisements. 2—Aavertisementa. the policy of Congress against the policy of 3—Washington: Red River Troubles Amicably Ad- justed; Rad ty Ad Johnson; now they will go into the campaign itter "Feud Sealeneacoreaaee TNion tal for the next Congress upon the Policy of Gen- ; Spirt'ed Debate Over the eyo Appr. eral Grant, and they will be supported by all — tec: | the party machinery of his administration. In 3 — Drambs i fare on Gublan ©. Vesplanck—The Crambs | short, the republicans in Grant and his admin- istration have a common rallying point which sonal Inteliigence—Obituary. : 4—Stanton-Richardson-McFariand: Mrs. Stanton gives them a vantage ground apparently quite as strong as that which the democratic party on the Free Love Agony Case} A Wild Prayer held under General Jackson. for Retribution—Musical Review—The Guar- diane of the Port: Meeting of the Commizsion- intine—The Winnipeg Rebe'lion— nrg Sten cnEsetee In his retrenchments, revenue reforms and savings, and reduction of the national debt, General Grant has already made for his ad- ministration a record which is much liked by the people. On the fifteenth amendment and the general questions of equal civil and political rights, regardless of race or color, or of sex, we may say, too, his course has been so bold, clear and emphatic that we may safely venture the opinion that he and the party which he re- presents will, at least for the present, secure almost en masse the new African voting element of the North and most likely the mass of this important political balance of power in the South. The Southern conservative party in Jersey—Jerey Courts at Work—Army and | movement in behalf of an affiliation with the Se ate ene Elections: Tamnany blacks, which was so suocessful in Virginia last Sweeps the State; The Total Vole In this City summer, appears to have been abandoned. In the little State of Delaware the leading demo- 104,000—1 Ni eoetettal ana Commercial Reports—advertise- an crats have been making some foolish efforts to get up a “white man’s party” against the ers of ald for the * Bond Sensation—New Yord City News—Sun- day Schoul Missiovary Union—Brooklyn City News—Real Estate Matters—Political Notes— Sealded to Death—Attemptea Great Land Haul—Chess Matters—News from Hayti—The New Régime—The Elevated Ratlway—Mar- Tiages and Deaths, @—Edltorials: Lealing Article on the Next Con- | ayy Preparations of the Republicans for the ‘all Campaign, the Prospect—Amusement An- nouncemexts. ¥—Telezraphic News From All Parts of the World: French Constitutional Solemnities and Par- Mamentary Independence; Paris Conservatism it Conspiracy and Industrial Combina- @—Advertisements. do-told Comfort: The Existing Ice Monopoly in Danger—Done to Death—Fatal Accident in Jersey Peg of Corporate Bodies—The | “blasted nigger;” and throughout the South Stevens ite in Hoboken—Shipping Intelli- st th; ee Advertisements. we find from our.exchanges that the democracy Pr Aiversisements, have turned their attention to denunciations of the fifteenth amendment, when, in considering Taz Brookiyy Ferrysoats may be called | how they are to deal with the fixed fact, they the Medina of prize fighters if New Orleans | should be cultivating the vote of Sambo. fis the Mecca. A regular ring arrangement The republicans in Congress are anything occurred on one of them on Monday between | but a unit on the tariff question, and this may a big Allen, who smoked in the Indies’ cabin, | give them some trouble in these approaching and a scientific Mace, who attempted to put | elections. The new movement of the labor him out. Thescientific Mace, unfortunately, | reformers, on the other hand, in the last New was “licked.” There were no policemen on | Hampsbire election, actually cut into the camp hand to.preserve order among the spectators. | of the democracy. So far, indeed, as CS re ca ae ae cohesion is considered, the . republicans in General Grant have the advantages of an official leader, a recognized candidate and a positive policy, while the democrats out- side of New York are without a recognized leader or candidate or anything as policy, except the policy, hit or miss, of oppo- sition to the party in power and General Grant’s administration. Such being the exist- ing conditions and positions of the two parties, the prospect is that the next Congress will be practically a continuation of the present Con- gress, and that the democrats in this year’s State elections will make little if any headway indicating a political revolution in 1872, In truth, they can do nothing short of a new Fea Ee eT departure, bold, daring, aggressive and com- Tovcenise Tax Iscome Tax.—Notwithstand- | prehensive, and for this they will not, we con- ing the odious income tax is virtually a dead | clude, be prepared until they have had still letter, and the constitutionality of its revival a | another round of democratic defeats. matter of serious question, the redoubtable a TTa Lt? T General Schenck, of Onto, has reincorporated | A Hurt Feom FRaNok To Grexox.—A fn @ Dill just introduced ii Congress to ‘‘re- | cable telegram informs us that the French @nbé” taxation a provision to retain the five | government has notified the government of “percent income feature, and obligingly add- | King George of Greece that if Greek brigands ing the paltry sum of five hundred dollars in | lay hands on Frenchmen Greece shall pay the addition t the thousand heretofore exempt in | ransom. This is a good hint to England. It order to make the whole abominable measure | is a still more emphatic hint to Greece, This Tittle more palatable to our overburdened | unhappy affair of the murder of English travel- taxpayers. © There is no use tinkering this in- | lers has aroused Europe from one end to the come tax. It cannot be made palatable to the | other and has called forth all kinds of com- American people in any shape. The only dis- | ment from the press. The foeling, almost uni- position that should be made of it is to let it lie | versal, seems to be that the Greek kingdom is forever in the grave in which it is now buried; | a failure—as much a failure under George of and Goneral Schenck will be doing a simple | Donmark as it was under Otho of Bavaria. act of public justice by wiping out even the This hint of France may yet beget big gmemory of the hateful imposition. reaults, It will give life to the tory party in An Amertoan Sarnt iN Prosprot.—A cable despatch from Rome bas it that it is in contemplation to canonize Christopher Colum- bus, We'can have no objection to the discov- erer of America being raised to saintly dignity. Whether it will give safety to his bones or peace to his spirit we have no means of know- ing. We don’t know that America as yet has any representative saint. France has her St. Louis, England her St. George, Spain her St. James, and so on all round. Why should not we, like the others, have our patron saint? If we can’t have St. Washington, or St. Jackson, or St. Lincoln, there is no good reason why we should not have St. Columbus. Better a good saint than a bad one or none. Thore was.a joint caucus of the republican mages ot Stee bene Omeren Os Capitol on Monday evening last to ry for a new Congressional National Committee. Senator Hamlin was called to the chair and Representatives Ferry and Cessna were ap- election of permanent officers will be held, All Rejected communications will not be re- | this means that the republicans of both houses are organizing for the Congressional elections of September, October and November next, the results of which will determine the political complexion of the next House of Representa- tives and, to some extent, the complexion of It is the business of the Congressional National Committee of each party to keep seve- ral of its most active and experienced men in party work on duty at Washington during the recess of Congress. They overlook the whole field of the United States, and supply their party in every State in which a political con- test is going on or coming on with such speak- merest tyro in engineering knows that materials should be tested before being used in construc- tion, especially in one so extraordinary as this; and therefore it cannot be possible that this concern was under the supervision of a competent engineer; and in the name of that profession, to which we owe so much, which has done so much in the development of this country and is to do so much more, protest scheme as this, which to destroy confidence in the stability of engineering constructions. the directors intend to continue their novel mode of ascertaining the weak points of this gimerack until all are found. the proper authorities to prevent this. Let the materials be removed to a proper place and tested in the proper manner, and thus avoid any more exposure of human life. ever, that the simultaneous failure of this road and of the Arcade scheme will cause imme- diate steps to be taken towards perfecting the plan of a substantial, well-built and commo~ dious elevated railway, such as the one pro- posed along the bulkhead line, or some other equally comprehensive and practicable. internal tax some thirty millions—a mere drop in the bucket, by the way—seems inclined to accomplish that purpose on the principle of “robbing Peter to pay Paul.” lic. readings—like those of Charles Dickens, for example—to go scot free, while Dickens pockets a hundred thousand or so, leaves our shores and snaps his fingers at our country, without leaving a dollar as a tax in the gov- ernment Treasury. Revenue bill just introduced piles on the tax on regular places of public amusement hundred per cent above what it was before. In other words, the license tax on first class places has heretofore been one hundred gol- lars, hundred. has heretofore been two per cent, proposed to raise it to three per cent, Now, it may be all very well to tax amusements a8 a luxury, which some people think may ba done away with altogether; but we question the propriety of augmenting the tax to such public entertainments entirely. It killing the goose that Isys the golden egg. Hogland, It will give force to parliamentary action all over Europe. It will annoy Russia. It will please the Sultan, It will not vex Bavaria, It may, considering tho present attitude of the Viceroy and the unsettled state of things all over Europe, give birth to some new, though ss yet undefined, Eastern ques- tion. For the present we must regard it as French feeler. The Oue-Leg Railway in Greenwich Street. A Grand Musical Festival The children: of Fatherland who have in recent years come among us in such force that their language is now spoken and many of thelr pleasant ways are adopted by a large ratio of our entire population, have introduced no pleasanter custom than the holding of fre- quent alnging jubilees or ‘‘saengerfests,” whieh bring together delegates from their musical societies residing in all parts of the country, and, amid innoceat mirth and joyous song, rivet and brighten the links of brotherhood that run through from State to State. This year the North American Saengerbund, or Singers’ Union, will celebrate its seventeenth general convocation at Cincinnati with especial splendor, The bund is made up of such aing- ing associations in all the length and breadth of the land as adhere to its regulations, and it now numbers no less than ninety five of these. Among them are many of great strength in numerical and artistic completeness and of high distinotion in social standing and musical achievement, New York State and city are represented by some of our finest societies. Cincinnati is a place especially well chosen for a celebration ao peculiarly characteristic of the German element. Its beautifal situation on the banks of one of our loveliest rivers, the Ohio, noted in the earliest explorations of the West, and the fact that it is so largely occupted by people of Teutonic race, whose vineyards and pleasure gardens crown nearly every sur- rounding height, .combine to make it just the spot for a jovial celebration of this kind. Cin- einnati and Milwaukee brewage of the malt is quite as famous in its way as the sparkling catawbas of Ohio or the wild scuppernong vintage of the Carolinas, and on more than one hillside. sloping down to the ‘Belle Ri- vitre” the clustering grapes yield juices of which the Rhine and the Moselle need not be ashamed. So, in the pleasant middle of the leafy month of June, viz., from the 15th to the 20th, the Teutonic songsters will gather in from every quarter to awaken the fauns and dryads of these sylvan haunts, if any have yet migrated thither, with the melodies of other days and distant lands. Their Cincinnati brethren have not been idle meanwhile, but have prepared for their recep- tion during the allotted hours of the regular musical exercises, a noble hall two hundred and fifty feetin length by one hundred and ten in breadth, with an inside area of twenty-seven thousand five hundred square feet, and sufficient accommodation for one thousand five hundred singers, three hundred and fifty instrumental musicians and two thou- sand of an audience, The hall is surrounded by spacious galleries and provided with every convenience, the stage for the orchestra and special singers alone being fifty-eight feet wide. One hundred and twenty windows admit ample light by day, and immense gas chandeliers will illuminate the scene a giorno by night, while surrounding gardens and refreshment saloons supply delightful and elegant retreats. The front of the building outside is imposing, with its two towers of one hundred and nineteen feet in height and twenty-four in breadth, one on either side of the main entrance; its rich adornment, its harmonious color, its fluttering banners, and the sparkling fountains that pre- cede the broad paths leading to the vestibule. But we merely hint at a description, concern- ing which our German home exchanges are full of cheerful comment. Our main thought is to express the satisfaction that the recur- rence of these truly pleasing and useful festi- vals of hearty enjoyment and melodious vocal- ism conveys. Whoever journeys westward from the Atlantic shore in the bright summer days at hand may trace the path of our German element as he goes, by the rich culti- vation of the fields it has tilled, the bloom of the orchards it has planted, and the graceful beauty of the-vines that it has taught to climb the mountain side of a land so recently the domain of the primitive forest. In some regions, especially should he journey through Pennsylvania and Ohio, he may hear the echo of the voices of Fatherland, from morning until evening, sounding in song from the road- side, nor will it leave him should he pursue his journey to the Paciflc border. The many charming and softening influences thus infused along with the spirit of sturdy honesty and well considered thrift, into the great sum total of our American life, find @ peculiar and appro- priate ulterance in the vocal festival, its gay artistic decorations and its social merry- making. Tbe countrymen of Goethe and Schiller; of Haydn, Beethoven and Men- delssohn; of Wieland, Uhland, Koerner and Freiligrath singing their choruses hogide the Ohio, will freshen the springs of good feeling around them here and gladden many a yearn- ing heart beyond the seas with hope of hap- pier days in the free land of the West. We have watched the progress of this singular and costly experiment in railway locomotion from its incipient stages to the present time with no little degree of interest, since every effort to secure rapid transit through the city is deeply interesting to every one. But we have been particularly desirous of learning how far credulity would go in fos- tering a scheme so full of crudities and un- tried conceits. It is no new thing for people to attempt to defy the laws of gravity, although the result is always the same, Yet it is re- markable that men can be found willing to expend a million dollars in a project the very elements of which sre a violation of the great law of nature. The most casual observer must see that the slightest deviation from a perpendicular of any of the posts upon which this aerial structure is erected must be fatal to its atability, and that a heavy weight balanced on # pole must inevitably cause a vertical do- flection is known to every child.. Therefore we are not surprised to find in our reporter's account of the accident that “the dwellers in the neighborhood say that every time the train passes the pillars shake, showing unmistak- able signs of a heavy strain. It was stated that the column on the south side was in an unsafe condition, and had to be taken down two or three times.” The immediate cause, however, of the accident which occurred on Monday was the breaking of a girder about eighty feet in length, at the crossing of Hous- ton street, while a car loaded with ten tons of pig iron was passing over it, and this weight, it is said, was intended as a test of the strength of the road. Here is the point at which we enter our protest. The originators of this scheme or its promoters have a right to waste their money if they choose, even to the extent of a million dollars; but they have no right to experiment upon the strength of materials in a public highway, over the heads of people who are passing along unconscious of danger. The we such chimerical can only tend against every It is stated that We call upon We hope, how- Rather Rough on the Theatres. Mr. Schenck, in his ambition to reduce the He allows pub- On the other hand, the It is proposed now to make it two The present tax on gross receipts It is now to prohibit first class is like a degree as Seward on Manifest Destiny. The distinguished Sago of Auburn on Mon- day mado the first speech since his return from his Arctic and tropical tour that may be construed in any way to reflect the views he now entertains on the possibilities of the nation he was so long and so ably engaged in engi- neering through its greatest crisis. He espe- cially dwelt upon the mission of the United States to harmonize all the civilizations on this Continent and to advance steadily to higher notions, carrying our neighbors with us, of the social and political rights of man. It may be afeather in the cap of the woman suffrage advocates to know that this speech was delivered on the occasion of the visit of a ladies’ college; but, owing tothe barbarous and medisval notions that prevail in our pro- vinces, these same ladies were all turned out of the dining hall when the cloth was removed and, therefore, before the speech was made. A number of male visitors, by reason of being physically better fitted to drink wine and smoke, alone composed the audience to whom he addressed his words. Mr. Seward has always had great, broad ideas of the future of the nation, and we are glad to see that his sixty-ninth birthday finds him fully as broad and grand in his ideas as ever. He says that the Continent is becoming every day more American; that the practices and opinions of the people of the United States are becoming the common practices and opin- ions of the other States, and that the Christian religion and the influence of republican government are destined ere long to blend all the governments of the American Continent into.one. Mr, Seward is the very best author- ity from whom these sentiments could ema- Atax on gross receipts when the manager may not have realized a dollar upon a per- formance—and the higher the class. of enter- tainment the more expense is there attending its production—seems unjust and unwise. It were better to tax the net income above ex- penses threefold than to tax gross receipts from which the manager does not realize a dime. Even the present rate of taxation on theatres encourages the production of sensa- tional and immoral pieces, calculated to de- moralize the old and pollute the young. But the managers have to resort to this mode of attracting audiences in order that their re- ceipts may so far overcome their expenses that they may be able to pay the government tax without encroaching upon the returns for their actual outlay. There are many sensa- tional performances in lecture rooms that should be held liable to government taxation as well as theatres, and Congress would be doing a good thing if it should impose a tax upon these lecturing harlequins and travelling knights of gabble, and esse up a little on the now overtaxed first class places of public amusement, Sonznox AND Dawes, it is said, had hard, words about the Tariff bill, and « rumor actually prevailed in Washington that a hos- tile meeting was arranged between them. We always thought it was rather a ferocious sub- ject, and we felt afraid all through the dis- cussion upon it that such quick, fiery spirits as Schenck and Dawes, and Butler and Cox, would let their angry passions rise and that a scene of fearful bloodshed would ensue. As itis, fortunately Mr. Schenck has been called away to Ohio, and the heat of passion may subside on both sides before he returas, - NEW. YORK. HERALD WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1870.~TRIPL&s/ SHEET. The Next Congrese-Preparations of the nate, He demonstrsted years ago his trast {0 our mealfest destiny, and much later has helped along the desirable consummation by the purchase of Alaska and the treaty for the purchase of St, Thomas. It is pleasant to note that the present administration share tr the grand old statcaman’s ideas of » united continent. Yachting tm EuropesThe Internationat Channel Race. The latest yachting contest worthy to be called international is certainly a substantial and very handsome victory for the American yacht, and the gallant owner of the Sappho is to be congratulated upon a triumph as absolute as he could have hoped for. There is, of course, a great deal yet to be said on Mr, Ashbury’s side; for we cannot expect that | @ gentleman whose facility in explanatory cor- respondenoe has been so wonderfully shown in the history of all his matches will endure ion silence the construction that the world will certainly put upon his remarkable conduct in the recent race. No doubt the owner of the Cambria will put the case before the world, as it appears to him, with sufficient fulness; and until he shall have done so some points in the contest will seem more or less obscure ; but we cannot see how anything he may say can weaken the right of Mr. Douglas to claim the victory and a “fifty guinea cup.” The challenge for this contest was given by Mr. Ashbury in a letter dated February 22. It may be remembered that this gentleman published his challenges in series, In the letter referred to he put forth for the choice of Mr. Douglas six series. of challenges, each series including several races, His ‘‘series four” was for ‘‘three races sixty miles dead to windward and back in the Ohan- nel, without time allowance.” This chal- lenge was accepted by the owner of the Sappho. It was supposed that all the proba- bilities of such race were in favor of the Cambria; and, indeed, # was considered at the time that Mr. Douglas was under the neceasity of making a disadvantageous race, since he was eager for a contest, while Mr. Ashbury was not, Mr. Ashbury, in such a position, would naturally offer only such races as would be eminently satisfactory to himself, because they gave opportunity for the better points of his own yacht. It appears now to be claimed by Mr. Ashbury’s friends that he did too much in agreeing to sail the Sappho without time allow- ance; but if in such a race there was any ad- vantage for the greater. size of the American yacht, that was certainly more than balanced by the fact that the Cambria had an infinitely greater advantage in having the wind on her best point of sailing. Indeed, in this special point of the race, that the wind was to be a first rate one for the Cambria and a rather bad one for the Sappho, the owner of the latter ves- sel seemed to be taking great odds. But the very decided success of the Sappho in the first race, in regard to which we have not heard it pretended that the wind was not to a nicety what the conditions called for, tells that the attempt to secure victory by the terms of a race may meet with strange mis- haps. As to the second contest, and the brusque retirement of Mr. Ashbury from the course, opinions in the light of our present knowledge can scarcely differ upon the points that, while he had the semblance of a reason, he had but little more, and that he did not act in the spirit that makes this sport a noble rivalry among generous fellows, He quib- bled that the wind was not dead ahead. The terms certainly called for a race ‘‘dead to windward.” The umpires decided that the wind was sufficiently near that to make it a race, and we must assume, therefore, that it was as near to the specified point as a racing party is ever likely to findit. The fact that the wind was half a point on the beam gave it to the Sappho on a better point for her than it would have beon otherwise ; but this could not excuse the unsportsmanlike loss of temper in which, from the English reports, Mr. Ashbury seems to have withdrawn. Mexican Ingratitude—Wihat Shall We Do with Mexico? It is reported that the joint select Committee of Congress on Retrenchmeut have discovered extensive smuggling frauds on the part of the President of Mexico and others along the border of this country ; that these frauds were carried on at the very time our government and people were driving the foreign invader from Mexican soil, and that they are still continued to a great extent. It is said that evidence has been pro- duced to show a regular organized system of smuggling and other unfriendly acts to the United States. It goes to show, in fact, that while we were saving Mexico from French domination and European imperialism, Presi- dent Juarez and his friends in high official po- sition were smuggling cotton into Mexico and trading for it by supplying the Confederates with arms and munitions of war. Thisis a serious charge, and for the credit of Mexico we should be glad to know that it is not as bad agit appears. Still the evidence seems to be direct, and from our long experience we know how capable the Mexicans are of such treachery and ingratitude. We have madea great mistake in our policy toward Mexico, We have had several opportunities of annex- ing the territory of that country, of placing the population under strong law and of extending * our republican civilization over them. We ought to have done so, and thus have ended the con- tinuual anarchy that has and will exist there and have made that rich country a blessing to the world and to the people themselves. Mexico is the sick man of this hemisphere, and there is no way of curing him but by extend- ing the power of the United States over the country. Kindness is lost upon such a people, and a policy looking to uphold their separate existence as a nation is weak and useless. The time is now at hand when our government will be required to act in the matter of Mexico, and we advise the administration and Congress to be preparing for that event. Tax Troveixs with Winnipeg having been amicably settled the government has granted perniission for the transfer of supplies through the Sault St. Marie Canal, at the request of Minister Thornton. But if there is to be no war why should supplies be sent there? The citizens of Winnipeg do not require them, Can it be that the immense expedition is to Se sent on from Canada notwithstanding the amicable settlement ? The Result of the Blection Yesterday. Without much exclement, aotse or confu- sion, the election of yexterday resulted, as every one supposed it world, in the success of the Tammany democratic ticket, Tadeod, there was so ntuch tranquillity Prevailing, even about the voting places, that few would imagine that an eleotion was\gotug on at all, The fact is that nearly all interest in tho matter ceased when the Tammany leaders flung out their standard, emblazoned with'the names of the men who were pretty certain te be elected, and when the young domocracy and.the terrible coalition of those whose tenis are cast outside the big Wigwam: lowered their lances, put their jackknives into: the scabbards and bowed their unscalped headsia. submission to the great power which seems:to tule the city. The excitement, therefore, was very small indeed, because a race with one horse running over the course or one yacht tracking the sea without a competitor is a very” flat thing. In the State, outside the limits of Spuyten Duyvil, the judiclary ticket*for new Judges of the Court of Appeals, which were to be voted for under the judiciary article of the proposed new constitution, contained so many excellent names that there could not be much mistake in voting for any of them. But the election had its funny slde, and, strange to say, that was the dark side, . The enfranchised negroes came to the polls timidly—shall we say blushingly?—aend in many cases cast their votes for the democratic candidates; but, unfortunately for unsophisticated Sambo, he sometimes voted too often; he became, in fact, an unconscious repeater, and in some cases was grabbed up, taken to the station house and locked up in default of bail. Among the very funny incidents which occurred in connection with the unhappy locked-up voters was the appearance of the wife of one of them, who presented her marriage certificate, duly authenticated in ‘‘old Virginia,” asa bail-bond, upon which she demanded the release of her Hege lord; but, to her bitter disappointment, she found that it had no legal effect, and pro- bably thereupon did not realize the value of the fifteenth amendment. Upon the whole the first spring election under the new Charter passed off very quietly, and probably to the general satisfaction of the city and the State. The democracy, purified, as it is assumed to be, having now been fairly installed in power, the people whose interest lies in the reduction of taxes, the protection of life and property and a good government generally for this metropolis, will naturally hold that party respoasible for the future results of yesterday’s work and the Charter under which that work was done. The Lady Brokers of Wall Street. While the two hostile divisions of woman’e righters, under the belligerent lead respeo- tively of Henry Ward Beecher and Theo- dore Tilton, are passing all their time in refusing to coalesce with each other and in flooding the country with regolu- tions and chatter, there are, at least, two advocates of the woman movement that en- deavor to show by example and precept that their sex, with ordinary fair play and industry, can take care of itself. We refer to the lady brokers who recently created a stir among tho bulls and bears of Wall street by setting up, so to speak, a China shop right. in the midst of that disorderly locality, and who have more recently opened the eyes of the slow old fogies who think woman not fit for much, by starting an excellent weekly newspaper, under the business-like title of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, right in the midst of the periodicals of Park row. The paper itself, of which the first number only has been issued, already gives evidence of talent and aptness in that most difficult of all arts, the art of journalism. It isa neat six- teen page paper, about the size and shape of the usual literary hebdomadal; but, in addi- tion to the stories, essays and poetry insepar- able from these papers, it launches boldly into politics, finances, outdoor sports and fashions, and even thus early rejoices in 9 cheoring amount of advertisements. The Weekly, bear- ing for its motto “Upward and onward,” strongly advocates woman’s righta, and even nominates and supports a woman for the next Presidency. There can, therefore, be no rea~ sonable doubt of its devotion to the woman cause, and we would suggest to the female agitators who waste their breath and their hearers’ patience at conventions and masa meetings that, while the press is not so noisy an organ as the tongue, it is heard much farther. The example of Messrs. Woodhull & Claflin, if we can prefix that title to the firm name, is therefore a highly commendable one, as they do more and talk less than the two divisions of female agitators put together. Toe Heatra Boarp AND THE Hearre Orriczr.—Dr. Carnochan has entered upon his duties as Health Officer with an energy highly commendable, while, on the other hand, the Health Board has already demon- strated an indifference to its duties and the public interest that is almost alarming. Ships with yellow fever on board have been arriv- ing in the, lower bay for-several days, and the weather hasbeen 80 varlable'and at times so unseasonably: warm that ‘there is every proba- bility of @ large indrease, {o..the number of fever slip atrivals ; “aiid yet, tio gultablo hos- pital ships iave been sent. +o: Quarantine, and. the only one which.the Board.seems inclined to sond is*the Mglcom, a? rotten hulk which, in case of a severe gale eo far down the bay, would go to pieces. Dr. Carnochan, at the meeting of the Board yesterday, called attention to these matters, and, receiving little satisfaction, distinctly intimated that he would not be held responsible if the yellow: fover scourged the city unless the request for more hospital accommodations wus soon com~ plied with. are Srnator Ferry came near being read out. ¢ of the republican party yesterday, and even } Senator Revels, whose complexion is, as it! were, mortgaged by that party, narrowly escaped being closed up. “the Senate on the bill to enforce the fifteenth. amendment Mr. Ferry ventured to suggest amnesty, whereupon Mr. Morton wanted immediately to read him out. An argument ensuod, and when Revels, the forlorn hope of the anti-amnestyites, wont back on thom in an apparently unprepared speech the abject was, dropped like hot potato, aad Mr. Forry semained a republican, In the debate im ~ ens —=