The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Velume XXXV... sereereeseesN@, 152 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH’S THEATRE, 98d at,, between Sth and 6th avs.— TAKING THE CHANOES. WALLACK’S THEATRE, - Marurep Live Mp, FARRAR, nd EB: etree FRENCH THEATRE, Ith st. and 6th av.—Tuw Corsi- ean Buorurns. VIFTH AVENUE THE. deep Natone Mawes ‘Twenty-fourth st.—THE THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street,—Geanp VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEAT! ee BLonvE Wid. 'RE, Broadway.—Tue Fain 0: WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, core ‘ner Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. RAND OPERA HOUSE, a ot Eighth avenue and 28d et.—Tux TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway--Tus Deana OF UR Forty Tuinves. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur INVASION OF CANADA—Tur SMUGGLER’S NEXT—Tuk TWO FATHERS. Mth street.—Afternoon—MIN- nz GOop ¥OR NOTING, ACADEMY OF MU STRELS. Eveniug—N. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tax Wow HuNr—Toov.es. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vocal ism, NRGRO Acts, Ko, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Com10 Vocaism, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, &0. BRYAN1’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth Bt—BRYANI'S MINSTRELS. is KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— In anv OvT. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoorry'’s MIN- STRELS—TUF TOURNAMENT AT PROSPECT PARK, &0. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th and 58th sts.—TuropoRE THOMAS’ Po! ‘2 CONCERTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Arr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, May 31, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HURALD. PAGE. 40 1—Advertisements. 2Q—Adveritsements, 3—The Nation’s Dead: Floral Tributes to Our Fallen Heroes; Decorating Soldiers’ Graves at Cypress Hil's Cemetery and Other Cemeteries Around the Metropolis; Grand Turnout of the Grand Army of the Republic; The Decorations in the East, West and South—Amusements—New Ye ‘ity News—Highway Kobbery—The : Bohemian Bummer. Regime : Workings of the Several De- s—The National Game—The Presby- Synod—Yachting: The New York and At- lantic Yacht Club Rega‘tas— from Secre- tary Robeson in Regard to t! resent Require ments of the Navy—Personal Intelligence— ‘Trotting at the Union Course, L. I.—The Police —Sale of Oil Patntings—Melancholy fa Frolic—A Child Killed by Pare- Narrow Escape from the Coils of a c ake—Love Powders. 6—Proceedings in the New York Courts—The Protestant Movement in Mexico—Marital Broisers—Political Notes—Decline of the Lon- don Newspapers—Japan: The Mikado Holding Court; National Progress--Brooklyn City News-— The Brooklyn Ring War—News from the West Indtes—Ked River: The Demands of the North ‘west; Important Speech by President Riel— News from © and Venezuela—Second Edition of the Nevada Case—Jealousy, Poison ‘ath—Obituary—A Sad Romance of ne Herring Fleet. als: Leading Article on Cuba, Congress, the President and His Secretary of State— Amusement Announcements, ‘y—Telegiaphic News from All Parts of the World: British War Reports from Canada; The trish Land Bill Passed in the English House ol Commons; General Prim to Expound the Spanish’ Situation—Washington: sum- ner on Cuban Belligerency: the Indian Delegation—American Joc ‘Pool Sel- ling on the Races To-Day ft New Books—Municipal Aifairs—New Jersey State Prison—Billiards—New York Judicial Elec- tion—Bu: Notices. 38 Not S=Financial and Commercial Reports—Remark- able Scene at a Murder Trial—Police Recrea- Real Estate Matter ro Troubles— ges and Deaths—Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. 10—Jhe Fentansy All the Warriors Returning to Their Homes; Canada Still Excited About Noth- ing—Oid World Items—A Misplaced Switch— ‘The Fight for the Bonds—A Mysterious Dis- / — uvpearance—Thi nnecticut Prize Fignte Important Arres Attempted Outrage—News from St. Domi Chapter of Distressing Acclaents—A Whole Family Poisoned—Gen- eral Notes—Queer Accident in Dudley, Mass.— Laborers’ Riot in. Newark—National Guard Chit” Chat—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- A QUESTION FOR GENERAL Banks’ Com- uirrex.—Why not call on the Secretary of State for the correspondence between Minister Sickles and the Spanish government relating to the case of the steamer Lloyd Aspinwall? Tar Greenwich Srreer Evevavep Ratt- roap.—The Grand Jury refuse to indict it. They perhaps think it has not had « fair trial. Very well. Let the company, then, iry again, and be sure as they go along that they are all right, and they may still succeed. The Irish Land {IRELAND Tenure Reform bill was p: d in the English House of Commons last night. Premier Glad- stone th the House for its ‘‘steadfast support” of his Cabinet measure The bill was sent immediately to the House of Lords. The Peers received itand read it. This is worse than the Fenian invasion of Canada. The law of primogeniture and of entailed estate is in danger here. Cottecron Grixneri.—It is stated that strong efforts are being made to have Collector Grinnell ousted, and the name of a prominent gentleman in Westchester county is mentioned as his probable successor. We regret to see such an undesirable change dgitated. Under Mr. Grinnell’s management the business of the Custom House has been conducted in a man- ner perfectly satisfactory and with an improved result in revenues and reforms, and his place could not very well be filled. Tue Mranest Cowarpice or ALL.—And now the President is asked to intercede on be- half of the bold Fenians who went to capture Canada and got caught. This is pitiful. These terrible fellows who would hear of no remon- strance and yield to no moral restraint, who would have war and rapine and pillage, now cannot endure even the consequences of their own acts and must beg off. For the President to accede to the demand would certainly make such outrage marvellously cheap. Aw Untvoxy Brow.—The man who knocked another down in the street—the other being picked up dead—seems to get off very easily by the verdict that the man died from apo- plexy. This apoplexy was strangely coinci- dent, it would appear; yet, as there were no external marks of violence, it would be difi- cult in any way to attribute death to the blow given. Doubtless the drunkenness predisposed to apoplexy, and perhaps the fall had a share fn the result; but the death was more due to the rum than to the blow. It was another gage of Sunday rum. WA Ouba—Cengress, the President and His Sec- ‘retary of State. General Banks, of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, it is expected, will shortly in- troduce, perhaps to-day, some resolutions from the committee, suggesting to the President a bolder and more definite line of policy on the Cuban question than that which has been and still is pursued by our present easy-going, do- nothing and “‘waiting-for-something-to-turn- up” Secretary of State. The other day, in the House, when, on 9 motion to strike out from an appropriation bill the item for the consulate at Santiago de Cuba, Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, opened his batteries on the atrocities of the Spanish authorities of the island, and against the humiliating, shilly-shally and anti-Ameri- can course of our State Department in this business, his earnest denunciations so far awakened the genuine American sentiment of the House that if in the glow of the general excitement a resolution had been offered con- ceding belligerent rights to the Cubans it would doubtless have been adopted by accla- mation, We expect a report from General Banks and his committee to some extent representing this general Cuban sentiment of the House. At the tail end of the last session of Congress one of the last acts of the House was the passing, unanimously, a joint resolution (which went over in the Senate) authorizing the President to proclaim belligerent rights in behalf of the struggling Cubans, and assuring him in this proceeding of the support of Congress and the country, We may safely say, therefore, that if during the present session the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has made no report upon this Cuban question it is because General Banks, from a courteous respect for the representations and assurances ef Mr. Sec- retary Fish, and in deference to the wishes of the President, has been patiently waiting for “gomething to turn up” until the patience of the House is exhausigd. Several months ago, from an official or semi-official reconnoissance and report on the situation of the belligerents in Cuba, we were assured that the insurrection was substantially at an end; that all that was left of it was an insignificant gang or two of banditti in the mountains ; that these banditti were so hedged in that they could do nothing, and that, with some twenty thousand Spanish troops on the island and a Spanish fleet patrolling the coast, law and order would soon be re-established from one end tothe other. More recently some of the principal Cuban chiefs have left the island and come to this country—a fact, which, prima facie of itself, would seem to be conclusive against their cause. Yet, from the representations of General Jordan, it appears that in numbers the fighting Cubans still on hand could speedily finish the great work they haye undertaken if they were only one half supplied with arms, and that, even with the insufficient and inefficient weapons with which they have been and are fighting, they are competent to prolong the struggle indefinitely. At all events, the best news that the Spanish authorities at Havana can furnish us now embraces, with the daily surrender of squads of insurgents, executions of others by the half dozen at a time, and the burning of sugar plantations by the squads who still keep the field. x We have not been, however, so much dis- appointed in the assurances from Washington of the end of the Cuban insurrection as in our expectations of something from Spain in the way of a settlement through the diplomacy of Mr. Fish. It has been a long time since we have had even a hint of anything going on be- tween General Sickles and the government at Madrid. In short, from all that we see and hear, Mr.* Secretary Fish is satisfied with things as they are going on, because he thinks they are tending to the restoration of the full authority of Spain over Cuba, and because he is opposed to the acquisition of the island. We apprehend that this is the secret of his unsatisfactory Cuban policy—opposition to the annexation of the island—and he opposes it, no doubt, because it involves a programme of annexation and expansion entirely too large for his conservative notions of our foreign policy. Mr. Secretary Fish, then, is behind the age, and too far behind the public sentiment of the country for the State Department. We have seen enough of his feeble statesmanship in the matter of the permit to the Canadian steamer Chicora to pass through the Sault Ste, Marie canal to satisfy us upon this point. He is a most amiable, pleasant and excellent man; but he is not the man for the State Department in these progressive times. The House of Representatives, we have rea- son to think, is of the same opinion, and if, from its approaching action on the Cuban ques- tion we .are favored with a change or two in the Cabinet, we shall hail it as an event upon which to congratulate the President, Congress and the country. PoLitios AND RELIGION.—An attempt was made in the Presbyterian General Assembly to endorse a particular policy of President Grant. The effort was unsuccessful, the Assembly declaring that the Church had nothing to do with politics, If the determina- tion of our Presbyterian friends be followed out it may deprive political parsons of their stock in trade, and‘even seriously affect their income returns; but their flocks will be greatly benefited thereby, and thousands who have been driven from under the droppings of the sanctuary by these false teachers will return to the fold. It is fully time that political preachers were ‘‘played ont,” and no denomi- nation could better inaugurate the good work than the Presbyterians. Tur News rrom tae Wesr Inpizs.—The steamer which arrived here yesterday from Havana brings us encouraging news regarding the prospects of the early laying of the West Indies and Panama cable, which, when com- pleted, will unite Central and South America with Europe. Sir Charles Bright has already arrived at St. Thomas to superintend the laying of the cable, the greater portion of which has been received. Everything looks favorable, and by the time the summer is over we may expect to have to record another achievement of science. The Haytiens are greatly per- plexed over the discovery of a large quantity of counterfeit money, and loud cries are being made for a national banking system. If’ even this will improve Haytien finances we hope the people will succeed in their desires. ‘ Decoration Day. ‘The custom of decorating the graves of the dead is as old as human affection, and it is as beautiful as it is ancient. How many thousands day by day, in the privacy of their great sorrow, visit the cemeteries throughout the country, and there, quietly and unseen of men, lay upon the graves of the departed those tributes—which most resemble life in the proximity of death—bright flowers that woo the sunshine, and evergreen shrubs, emblematic of that enduring life which the grave cannot extinguish! But it is on such public occasions as that of yesterday that we see how the sympathy of the people is expressed for those whose memory has become public property by dying in the cause of country. The celebration—tho details of which we publish in our columns to-day—was grand in all its features, and exhibited o sorrowful sublimity that. was not equalled in the years which have passed gince the war. With sounds of martial music, with solemn hymns chanted above the graves, with religious discourses befitting the ceremony, the living comrades of those who sleep in a hundred cemeteries, almost from one end of the land to the other, paid that homage which shows that the dead soldier, though passed away, is not forgotten. The people generally participated in the feeling by abandonigg business to a great extent. In this city the Custom House, the banks and the public buildings were closed. Even Wall street was affected with a touch of human sympathy, and, although the day was not a legal holiday, the money changers ceased to clink their gold out of respect for the solemnities which were being performed at Greenwood and Cypress Hill. The flags on the public buildings floated at half staff, and guns from the forts in the harbor announced that honors were being’ paid to the heroes who had died that the nation might live. Similar scenes occurred in Washington, in Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Providence, Lowell and many other cities, as described in our numerous despatches, Con- gress on Saturday adjourned over until Tues- day in honor of the day, and the government departments were all closed, while thousands of soldiers and citizens proceeded to the Cemetery of Oak Grove, and the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Arlington, to pay the annual tribute of this floral month to the fallen brave. This is just as it should be. We hope that the custom will be continued and become more honored in the observance as years roll on. Let the dead soldiers be honored while the memory of their services remains with us, and that will be as long as we value a united coun- try. Bright be the flowers above them! Requiescatin pace! Progress in the Roman Council. Our cable despatches within the last two days relative to the great Council at Rome have been more than ordinarily numerous. From these we learn that the Schema de Romano Pontifice, which has in its first chapter the infallibility dogma, is now under discus- sion. It is said that the infallibilists are active and hopeful. Absentees have been summoned to Rome, and the friends of the dogma are now in the Holy City in large numbers. Some time since it did seem as if the Curia would halt in what we have more than once called their mad career, and as if the fear of dividing the Church were more potent than the desire to be governed by an infal- liblé head. The aspect of things is now changed. The Curia can count on a majority, and time only is required to make their purpose godd. In spite of the retire- ment from Rome in indignation and disgust of certain Eastern churchmen, and in spite of the protests of the great Catholic Powers, the Pope and his friends go on; and Cardinal Antonelli tells Bavaria, as he has already told France and Austria, to mind its proper busi- ness and to leave the Church alone. In the course which he is pursuing the Pope is encouraged by a present of one hundred thou- sand francs, conveyed through M. Veuillot, the Ultramontane editor of ? Univers. Not- withstanding the increasingly hot weather the Council still sits, and is likely to sit through all summer. It will not do to allow the bishops to depart from Rome until the dogma of infallibility is proclaimed. That done they ‘may go where they may, In a few weeks at most the vexed question of Papal infallibility will in all likelihood be set at rest. May it do the Church and the world much good. Barparous SrzoTAcLEs.—Two more acci- dents have just resulted at places of public amusement in this city from the extra hazard- ous exhibitions relied upon to take the popular fancy. In one case it was the old story of a man perilling life and limp by a leap through mid air from rope to rope, and breaking his shoulder blade by a fall to the floor. The peril which made the other exhi- bition piquant, however, was to the life of a young woman, who was down in the pill to go at a certain hour into the cage of some wild beasts of the panther tribe. She went in, and the panther tore her, and the public was indulged in an excitement that always lies behind these shows as an im- minent possibility. It is a natural curiosity for people to desire to observe the various sorts of wild animals, and few exhibitions are more agreeable or instructive than a well ordered menagerie, but it does not add to any proper pleasure people can take in such a show to have a clap-trap exhibition of lion tamers in connection with it. This pan- ders only to a brutal and barbarous taste, and should be forbidden by law. Forey Viororious.—Mr. Foley has made a splendid fight, which must have secured for him, we are sure, the sympathy and admira- tion of all, who have watched his plucky pertinacity. He was a candidate for Super- visor, and claimed the office under the law that gives places to the candidate that gets the greatest number of votes and to the one also that gets the next greatest number, Mr, Henry Smith got in reality the next to the greatest number ; but Foley claimed that Smiths candidacy did not count, because he was by law ineligible for the office. Everybody was against Foley. The canvassers, in violation of law, counted Smith in, and the Mayor, in violation of law, certified to his election; but Foley fought his case before the courts, and won. To any constituency looking around for a can- didate whom it will be troublesome to count out we commend Mr. Foley. NEW YUKK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEKT. I Curtosities of the Plebiscltary Vote in Hoffman for Next Goveraor. France. Ifever there was a politician who sat in The 8th-of May, as the archivists of the | the executive chair of the State who has Paris press remind us, has not always been | earned for himself the good will of the people, favorable to ruling ministrjes. It was on that | without regard to mere party fealty or preju- date, in 1821, that Roger d’Argenson died; | dice, it is John T. Hoffman. Although de- on that date, in 1785, the Duc de Choiseul, | voted to the interests of the democratic party, another French Minister, expired, and the | and never, perhaps, for a moment losing sight famous Marquis de Pombal, of Portugal, then | of what he owes to that party for its recogni- in power, gave up the ghost on that day in | tion of his talents and the rewards it has con- 1782, The ministry of Louis Philippe re- | ferred upon him, the interests of the people of ceived a fatal blow from the crisis that super- | the State at large have never been Overlooked vened on the 8th of May, 1847. Within a| by the Governor, The steadfastness with year the King was in exile. The 8th of May | which he has opposed his authority to all the has been otherwise remarkable in French his- | jobs and coalitions which have been crowded tory. On that day, in 1816, the old liberty of | upon “him during the last two sessions of the divorce was abolished, and only the right of | Legislature, including the Arcade scheme for separation from bed and board retained. It | the destruction of Broadway, entitles him to has its revolutionary prestige, running back | the highest consideration as 9 wise’and honest to the Reign of Terror. Fouquier de Tinville, | public official, No chief executive of the State the public accuser, alleged in the Red tribunal | has done so much to break up the paltry sys- of 1794 that the public farmers general | tem of special legislation upon which the lobby cheated the people, and on the 8th of May | hag been growing fat for years past and to they were beheaded; but on that very day, | demoralize the Albany lobby itself as Gov- one year later, he too felt tho edge of the guil- | ernor Hoffman; and what greater boon could lotine. Great accidents also have marked the | be conferred upon the State? date; for on May 8, 1842, occurred the terri- The Governor's vetoes of the jobs and ble accident on the Versailles Railway, near | swindles which, by various influences, crept Paris, that cost the Admiral D'Urville his life, through the Legislature will be long remem- after he had made two or three voyages around | beredas models of good judgment, legal acumen the world in safety. The opposition party in and sound logic. He has never consigned a France will think the 8th of May, 1870, the | bill to oblivion, however small its object, with- worst episode of all, for it brought to them a | out giving good reasons for his action—reasons fearful overthrow. Although in the depart- | so clearly put that the friends of the rejected ment of the Seine alone there were about | bills could not demur to the decision of the 100,000 votes not cast, the Emperor's policy Executive Chamber. Then, Governor Hoff- received 140,000, while in the Presidential } man is a gentleman of fine parts and presence ; election of December 10, 1848, he, as Prince | one who adorns physically and mentally the Louis Napoleon, got of 438,632 votes regis- | highest office in the State. For these reasons tered a total of only 198,500, while Cavaignac | we think that Hoffman is the man for Gov- had 95,571 and 47,758 were scattering, with | ernor in 1871. No more popular candidate 91,803 not cast. Yet this was in the very | can be nominated by the party of the majority, flush of the first popularity of his nomination. | and few men, if any, we presume, would be In the district of M. Thiers, strange to say, | moreacceptable to the people at large. Itis an the government had a sweeping majority in the | excellent rule that when we get hold of a good late election, while, quite as curiously, in that | and faithful public officer we should not part of M. Ollivier, the commercial heart of Paris, :| with him if we can help it. things went the other way, with 6,316 votes withheld, This result arose from reasons | Southern Objections to Chinese Immigration— depending rather upon the Ollivier Ministry e A Case in Point. than upon the Emperor, and had to do with | The following are the conclusions arrived at mercantile dissatisfaction at certain special | by a Mr. John McCrady, of South Carolina, measures. Marseilles seems, with its excit- | in a discussion upon the question ‘whether able and turbulent population, to have been | Chinese immigration should be encouraged at well worked by the Reds, for it gave thirty | this time in the South.” They are contained thousand nays against fourteen thousand vot- | in an address to ex-Mayor Macbeth, president ing yea. But, on the other hand, there were | of an association to encourage foreign immi- thirty thousand other votes not cast. There was | gration:— an evident fear of revolutionary outbreak and To sum up the results of this discussion we con- clnde that the introduction of Chinese labor at the vengeance. In Paris the aspect of things was | present time is unwise. peculiar. Several noted opposition leaders reer we have no certainty of our being able were denied admission to the inner rooms at the polls, and at the military barracks were bi a ié gt all. warned off at the point of the bayonet. Hencg 2m te eis ft pal shi ctaph len 2. Because it will put new power into the hands of those whose purpose it is to control us. wie abort Hae Poneto laborer comes first, the Suypay—BreoneEr’s InzA.—Whatever may be said of Brother Beecher’s jolly mode of storming heaven, there can be no doubt that his idea of Sunday, as set forth in his sermon last Sabbath, is the genuine Christian idea, He says that it isa day for rest and recrea- tion, for walking out with the children, for excursions to the country, for bright merri- ment and social intercourse, for all that is pleasant and not ungodly. He, himself, was raised as a child with the gloomy old Puritanic idea’ of Sunday—reminded of his sins if he laughed and threatened with the pangs of eternal punishment if he giggled aloud—he, that now sets Plymouth Church in one wreathed smile every Sunday. He has learned enough since arriving at man’s estate to feel that his Sunday teaching in youth was wrong, and he has the nerve and independence to preach against such. principles, even of thte late Lyman Beecher, as, he thinks wrong. And his idea of Sunday is far prefer- able to his father’s idea of Sunday. When we consider what mistaken Sunday training the Plymouth pastor received in his youth, it almost bewllders us to think what a teacher he might have become had he been trained in the principles he now advocates. dous scare started by the story that a cask of | will reap the benefits of neither kind of labor. teachings of our own experience. been repairing the gas pipes. All sorts of dis- to seek rather than to shun contact with heathen- tion deputies and editors, the placing of Paris | jinent are in danger of being swallowed up in- was left of insurgent hopes. . Hereafter the sorbed by blackamoors or pagans. Wherever ous indeed, but shadowy in their remoteness, | to the colored orto the “plain.” So far as fear- made, indeed, a French lake, and one of these during the high old Know Nothing times it sional shindy in remembrance of Donnybrook honored and influential, ewners of blocks of Aldermen, where the natives of the Emerald Court House is no nearer completion than it religion and the negro’s rights are respected ; therefore, has come of encouraging Irish immi- Lonpon as A Journatistio Centre.—In don journalism. We commend the article | coming among them to do their hard work. it recognizes the merits of the New York | eventually scare lazy Sambo into something their clamors about the “stuffing” of ballot | cninese laborer can be brought afterwards with the boxes, During the day there was a tremen- | 043 otto. it ihe chinece inbirer comes frst, we gunpowder had been found under the barracks intredution” ¢ Eninese bor befre tat of wate ¥ : bor wl & practical re} tion ol at the Chateau @’Eau ; but upon investigation it ms ee, ply ry wilfal dueeae a ry peaking was discovered to be only a harmless barrel of tar left there by some workmen who had | eyvrgthing, and vo get Chinese iuinigration Nest ito me Goose, thou; h Christian religion teache: quieting reports were put in motion, but with- 8 thane " fone out effect. The Emperor's sudden death, the one ey Selynipens ris So epapete | bd flight of Eugénie, the defection of the Paris This is all fiddle-faddle—miserable clap- garrison, the general arrest of all the opposi- trap. The idea that the whites on this Con- under martial law, and an organized, premedi- | continentally or excontinentally by the Mongo- tated massacre of citizens by the troops, were | Jian and African races is positively absurd. among the canards started during the voting | The Anglo-Saxon, Celtic-American and Anglo- hours; but the day rolled by, and with it what | american races were never born to be ab- 8th of May will be marked with a white stone | their blood mingles the white man’s will pre- in the imperial Napoleonic annals; for it ren- | gominate, until eventually, like the case lately dered quite possible within areasonable period | pefore a Cincinnati judge, one cannot discover what before seemed but distant visions, glori- | 4. which race a person really belongs—whether to wit: Bonaparte sceptres in Rome, in Flor- | ing political or religious predominance from ence and in Madrid; the eénsolidation of the ae Talatgation praeneeh people is con- Napoleon dynasty; the leadership and direct cerned, that is mere balderdash. We have a control of the Latin race; the Mediterranean | 0,46 in point, It may be remembered that days the orifiamme or the tri-color fluttering | wa, predicted that the terrible Irish would from Mount Ziom, overrun our country and play the very mis- chief with our political institutions. What is the result? Although indulging in an occa- and increasing the demand for ‘‘whuskey”— some of the ‘“raal onld — stock”—our Trish immigrants have become some of our best citizéns, sober, industrious, wealthy, brown stone front houses and any amount of first class lots on our newly laid out avenues and boulevards. And as for political power, look at our newly elected Board of Assistant Isle are almost unanimously in the ascend- ant, And yet Manhattan Island don’t rock to its foundations; the City Hall is no dirtier than it was in Mike Walsh's time; the new was many years ago; the omnibuses clog as usual; business thrives; the city prospers; a new and liberal Charter has been wrung from rural rulers without the use of the bayonet ; the arcade abomination has been squelched; gin and milk swillers age tabooed ; virtue is its own reward, and morality and Tammany Hall are triumphant everywhere. If any harm, gration to this city it is difficult to be dis- cerned. Hence we advise our Southern friends another place in this day’s Heratp will be | not to be dismayed because a few thousand found an able and suggestive article on Lon- | almond-eyed, pig-tailed sons of Joss are to all who take any interest in journalistic | Bid them come—‘‘come in their beauty, those enterprise, in modern progress, and in the | marvels of duty’—welcome them to your revolutions which su¢h progress works. We | Southern cotton fields, to your rice marshes, commend the article not the less heartily that | to your household labor; and then you may Herat. Its something to find so respect- | like an idea that he has either to “root, hog, able an organ of public opinion as the | or die.” Economist admitting that as compared with the Heratp the best London dailies are slow. Watt Srreet aNd Decoration Day.—The brokers who struck gold from the list during the war lest their patriotism should be in the of a late Alderman was arrested the other | least impugned came near forgetting what was day for threatening to take the life of aciti- | due to yesterday, but made amends by ad- zen, and before the magistrate made such | journing at the close of the morning boards, declarations of a revengeful spirit and a mur- | so that Decoration Day was made a half holi- dering nature as to leave no doubt that he will | day in Wall street. some day Commit murder when rather more rum than usual shall give him the necessary frenzy. He ‘‘could not rest for five months | English House of Commons and read a first with the thought of his brother in the hos- } time in the House of Lords. Did the Fenian pital.” No doubt when he kills his man the campaign in Canada hasten its progress? If jury will find that the idea of his brother in | 80, perhaps the Fenians had method in their the hospital worked his insanity. , | madaess. Tue Soannet Fantry.—One of the brothers Tox Irtso LANp Brit is passed in the , The Real Reliof of che City, A rapid and convenient mode of transit from the lower end of Manhattan Island to Harlem river—taking in, of course, the Park in its track—has become a matter of absolute necessity. island, nor is there one among those involun- tary exiles who is compelled to migrate every evening to Long Island or Jersey towards his homestead, that is not equally convinced of this fact. ficulty, thanks to Governor Hoffman's sense of the duty which he owed to the city. underground plans are buried deeper than those who designed them ever expected to see their pet projects, vated concern in Greenwich street, ten tons of pig iron settled all the scientific questions in- volved in that scheme, greatly to the relief of the foot pas- sengers, wagoners, expressmen and others who had to cross the transverse streets and to this sword of Damocles above their heads. monstrosity is allowed to stand it will serve to remind our classic readers and Oriental travel- lers of the famous ruins, of Balbec, with its line of gaunt pillars, telling the story of what once was but is not any more. There is not a resident upon the But how to accomplish it is the dif- The Arcade Railway is defunct, ‘The other As for the one-legged ele- It has to come down, must have looked up _ tremblingly suspended Tf any portion of this aerial But, considering the facts that the arcade plan and the pneumatic bore and the rickety concern in Greenwich street are all vanisned, is there no plan by which the two ends of the island can be reached with speed, with safety and with comfort? We think that there is skill enough and engineering power enough in this community to devise such a plan without destroying our principal highway and endan- gering millions of property. evident that neither a sub-surface nor a sur- face railroad, run by steam, is acceptable, even if practicable. stantially built, is manifestly what is required. Whether it is constructed on double pillars of corrugated iron, spanning the centre of such streets as Chatham, the Bowery and Third avenue, as has been proposed, well braced, built on solid foundations, with such appliances on the track as would render it impossible for the cars to overturn, or whether the road should be built on arches of solid masonry running over the houses, and through the blocks, when necessary, as they do in Lon- don and other cities, is a question which does not perhaps affect the main fact that the only way to obtain true relief for the city in the matter of intermural travel is by means of an elevated railroad. would be no interference with sewers, or old underlying water courses, or water mains, or gas pipes. juriously no interest in the city, nor would it inconvenience anybody. It seems pretty An elevated railway, sub- By such a modo there A road of this kind would affect in- The property taken for the purposes of the road would, of course, be paid for. Of the two modes of travel we think there can be no doubt about the advan- tages of,a road run through the blocks built on arches of substantial masonry. It might be costly at the outset, it is true, because the pro- ject would necessitate the purchase of a large amount of property, and considerable outlay in building stone arches, but in the end it would prove economical, because it would be permanent and free from danger. They had the, same difficulties to contend with in Lon- don, yet they have made their elevated masonry railroads a great success and an enduring comfort to the population. We need such a means of speedy transit hera quite ag much as they do in any city in the world, to relieve our overcrowded streets and give the increasing traffic of the city a fair chance on the limited upper crust of Manhattan Island. The real relief to be obtained for the city, then, ahead of all other schemes and pro- jects, is the construction of an elevated rail- road, running over the houses, securely built on solid masonry, susceptible of bearing any weight, and capable of carrying passengers with both speed and safety from the Battery to Harlem river: ‘ A “Rale Ould” Fighting Stock—Napier and O'Neill. General George Napier, of the British army, telegraphs from Canada ‘“‘exultingly” to the English government ‘‘of the prompti- tude and prowess” displayed by the Canadian volunteers in their ‘late engagements” with the Fenians. This looks as if there had been a series of battles on the Dominion soil. It also accounts for the fact of how one of the contending armies had to give way quickly. The men followed the banners of great soldier names in each instance. General O'Neill comes, of course, straight down from the. Irish warrior Hugh O'Neill, or “Hugh of the Red Hand,” and the great Con O'Neill (Baccah, or “Lame Con”), the mortal enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her successors. General Napier displays the banner of the Napierg; men of mighty war deeds on land and on the ocean, from the fields of Hindostan to the sea before Cronstadt, where Admiral Sir Charles Napier hovered for a time between the outside of that vast ‘fortress and the inaide of a very hot place—which is much more easily reached— during the Crimean war. General Napier, in Canada, if he is of the ‘‘ould stock,” is exactly matched by General O'Neill in that respect at least. Tue Latest Murpgr.—If inquiry substan- tiates the story of the man Wilson, who killed Gilligan, his offence must be set down as a homicide fairly justified by the necessities of selflefence. When a drunkard pursues to his own home one who will not join his cgrouse, and knocks him about and assumes an atti- tude generally ‘that his superior strength makes dangerous, society cannot punish the man who defends himself, and cannot inquire over closely as to how much force he may apply to his defence. Our Distinevisnep Inpran Visitors, hav- ing tired of the Washington sights, are to be taken to Mount Vernon to-day, in order to have their sated curiosity ouce more aroused. Doubtless the emotions that wjll arise in their bosoms at the, contemplation of Wasbiugton’s last resting place will have the desired effect. For making a truly wild Indian of the forest appreciate the power and glory of civilized institutions and the insignificance of barbarous redskins there is probably nothing better than Washington’s tomb, Red Cloud has not yet arrived in Washington, but is on his way, and the two chiefs will be presented to the Presi- dent at the same time. ‘