The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1870.-TRIPLE SHKET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. -Ne, 294 General Grant and the Kepublieau Party— |°‘‘ihe Boas’ from a chair ménder to @ million- | The Earthquake in Tammany—Nomioations Avether Term of Four Years, aud What Theut The ratification of the fifteenth amendment marks the opening of a new chapter ia Ameri- can politics, It puta an end to “the almighty nigger” as a political issue and brings again into the foreground ‘‘the almighty dollar,” Defeated on every point in their long struggle All businegs or news letter and telegraphio | for the old pro-slavery constitution, with its @espatches must be addressed New Yorx | distinctions of caste and color, the democratic Hirrap. Letters and packages should bo properly sealed. party at length submits to the new constitu- tion of universal liberty and the civil and political equality of all citizens of all colors. Successful in every point on this question to Rejected communications will not be re-{ the crowning enfranchisement of the black turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubiished every day t™ the race, the republican party has fufilled its appointed mission. Thus the issnes of the peer, Four cents per copy. Annual sabscription past have become dead issues, and upon the Price $12. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ea LYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tar = 7 a way. Pawromrms or BOWERY THEATRE, ‘Bowery.—Taxocau Br Day- L1geT—YBOMAN. FIFTH AVENUS THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—MAN ap Wire, BOOTHS THU ATRE, 23d st., betwoen Sth and — Barr Van Winkie are FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— ADBIENND LECOUVREUR. i » new issues of the day the democracy, with their old party shackles thrown off, have a fair fleld and an inviting prospect before us teeta The general issue now between the two parties is Grant's administration. In a new form it is the old conflict of the outside party against the party in power. Essentially the democratic party against General Grant's administration is fighting the old battio of the old whig party against General Jack- son. The same sweeping charges that WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana 15h stree.— | Were made against the corruptions, spolia- Swo Bosxs. tions, extravagances, abuses, despotic usur- Sea ee 70 Broadway.-Cinpex- | pations and blunders of ignorance of Jack- NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Carrary Caagiorrr— AnpY Biakr. son’s administration by the outside whigs are now made against Grant and his party by the NRW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Gnanp | Outside democrats, But-as the popularity of Geaman Orzxa—Luogrzia Bosata. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and Wd st.-La Grande DUCHESSB. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth st—SMAKGPRARR’S Puaowoy or Maosrrit. GLOBE THEATRE, 798 Broadway.—VARrtety ENTER- WAINMENT—LUORETIA BoRGIA, M. D, MRS. F. B. CONWAW'S PARK THEATR, Brooklya,— Boun TO Goov LUCK—MISCRIRVOUS ANNTR, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA RIKLY ENTERTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comio VoeaL- wm, NEGKO Avxs, &0. HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- BAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. 685 Broa ‘way.— Nxeuo MINGTRELSY, FARORS, BUYLESQUES, &o, KELLY 4 3 MINSTRELS. No. 296 Broadway.— Tur ONLY 7 tT oF WILLIAMS, ko. RA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—NRuno MIN- HOOLEY'S 0) FSQUES, erkensy, BU BROOKLYN » Aocuks & Ware's Minorners—Tar te. STEINWAY HALL, Fourieenth street.Lectors py Ma, Dr Coxpova. 3 MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- HOFY’S READINGS. HALL OF THE TION.—Gronue NEW YORK wie RING, AonobAT AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION,—Eurree Rong, Third avenue and Sixty-third street. 8, Fourteenth street.-ScENE® IN so, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BCIENOE AND Any. DR. KAUIN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 740 Broadway.-~ BemeNCE AND Aur. TRIPLE HEET. New York, Friday, October 21, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAVS RERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. aid Special Report of Afairs in the | Attack to be Made on the Besiegers; The Prussians Reported Retiring from the Loire; French Fears of Their Atming to Sur- ‘Yours; German Account of the Capture teaundun; Reply of Jules Favre to the r of Bismarck: Telegra‘n from Minister Motley on the Peace Rumors. 4—Eurojpe: Progress of the Siege of Paris; Re- orts from Prussian Headquarters; Prussian Politics in the War Crisis; Bismarck on Terri- toriai Compensation; Nap V8 Privave Cor- respondence; Incidents aud Facts of the Great —Naval Intellagence—Petticvat chting Noles—Department of ublican Fraternity. S~Australasia: Atfairs at the Antipodes; Direct Communication with San Francisco; Cou- n of American Manufactures; Affairs ney—General Lee—Rellgious Conven- ication of an Orphans’ Home—The timoniai—Gratitude for a Bountiful Sensation at Gien’s Falis—The Work- nen—Fatal Accident in Morrisania. s: Leading Article, General Grant and the Republican Party, Another Term of Four Years, nd What Then?—Amusement An- noun 8. u ‘¥—Teiegraplic News from All Parts of the Worlad— News from Washington—Amusements—Shtp- ping Intel 1ce—Obituary— Business Notices. S—Procveaings m the New York and brookiyn Couris— Political Intelligen Fun—Atiempted Mur News—Court Martial ;at West Voint—News from Jamaica, W. 1.—Brooklyn City News— Base Bail Notes—Binghamton Races—Board of Heajth—A Policeman’s Punishment. 9—Personal Inteliigence—A Asylum for the Insane—Brandy and Beef—Terrible Acct i—An Affecting Sc Financial and Commercial Reports—Real tate Matters—Marriages and Deaths, : Shocks Felt from Lake Ene to tic Ocean; Its Course Along the At- sboard; Reports trom the Different Towns and Cities eneral Alarm of the In- babitan' Scenes in New York and Boston; Shaking of Houses and Apprehensions of the People; State of the Weather Throughout the Country—Advertisements, AL—Advertisements, WQ— Advertisements. Jantic A Goop OPENING FOR Youne Dr- mooraoy—Another earthquake on Manhattan Island. Tue QuesTion OF PEACE assumes some magnitude, through the telegram of Minister Motley to the Secretary of State. He says it is generally believed in London, although not officially announced. THE Joun Fox felt the earthquake yesterday, felt it too. Tar Earruquake Yesterpay.—We print on another page of the Heratp ihis morning interesting details of the earthquake which New York and other sections of the country experienced yesterday. The shock was felt in this city at a quarter past eleven in the morning and in other localities simul- taneously. It seems to have been con- fined to a triangular area bounded on the east by the Atlantic coast, on the west by lakes Erie and Ontario, and on the south by a line drawn along the parallel of latitude from Cleveland to New York. It was of short duration, and, so far as we have learned, did not result in any loss of life or any serious damage to property. A Honprep Toovsayp Dorrar Liper Suir KwNooxep IN THE Heapv.—The action for alleged libel, with damages laid at the medest sum of one hundred thousand dollars, brought by the Hon. D. S. Bennett against the editors of the Buffalo Commeroial Advertiser, bas been decided by the Supreme Court at Buffalo In favor of the defendants. The libellous mat- ter was alleged to have been contained in an article in the Commercial affecting the plain- tiff’s integrity as @ merchant. What a con- trast! Instead of pocketing 4 cool hundred thousand the aggrieved accusor has to pocket she affront ond whistle fox tho Gamaceh == Jackson and of his administration was equal to all emergencies, so, we think, will be the popu- larity of Grant and his policy. Jackson, beginning with Calhoun and his confederates, was kept very busy by mutineers and faction- ists in his party camp; but in his Cabinet, or out of his Cabinet, he cut them adrift, and by his rigid discipline and iron will he mado him- self the dictator and the idol of his party, Gragt, in another way, is doing the same thing. Jackson was resolute, but impulsive, imperious, excitable and boisterous. Grant is firm, but cool, deliberate, amiable and reti- eent. Jackson, in his squabbles with party malcontents and rebels, frequently had the whole country in a stew. Graut clips off the head of a Cabinet or Foreign Minister, and the whole country is puzzled for weeks in solving the mystery, We have soen enough, however, of General Grant in the Cabinet to satisfy us that, as in the field, tenacity to his fixed purpose is his great distinguishing quality. That strong common sense, that clear insight into the characters of men and into the weak points of the rebellion which marked his prosecution of the war are manifest in his conduct of the government. He has stilia great purpose to accomplish and his own plans for reaching it, and must have his own men about him. In this view of the removal of Minister Motley, the appointment of Mr. Murphy as Collector of this port and the removal of certain officials who were the followers of Carl Shurz in Mis- souri signify that as the head of the republi- can party General Grant does not intend to be the mere servant of Senator Sumner, Sena- tor Fenton, Senator Shurz or any other would- | be party dictator. In,a word, General Grant intends himself to be master of the situation, and as no republican competitor is thovght of to dispute his claims to the succession the party, to save itself, will stick to Grant and silence the factionists till his re-election is secured; but then will begin in earnest the plots and counterplots of the aspiring leaders of the party for the inside track. Against Generai Grant in 1872 the prospect of a democratic victory is very slim. In the chapter of accidents the chances may be im- proved; but from all the facts and signs before us Grant is good for another term against any democratic competitor. With New York to build upon, however, the demo- cracy have a foundation upon which they may raise the overtopping party in 1876. Tamma- ny, with ‘the almighty dollar,” has secured and is sure of holding New York. Money con- quers everything. The coalition of the Tam- many ring and the Erie ring is irre- sistible in the State, and the democratic managers here have only to put their heads together and make a joint stock alliance of all the great railway and telegraph interests of the country in order to gain the White House. The New York Central and the Brie are in democratic hands, and they, together with Tammany, are masters of New York. The Pennsylvania Central and iis appendages are in republican hands, and Penn- sylvania is republican. The Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company are democratic, and | so goes Maryland, ‘he great Pacific road is under republican management, and it is build- ing up republican States and Territories from Nebraska and Kansas to the Pacific. But still, with New York as their base of opera- tions, Jay Gould and Vanderbilt may form of all our great railway and telegraph companies a democratic coalition for the Presidency which will be hard to beat in 1872, and completely victorious in 1876, If Congress does not assume the control of these railways this is the way whereby these railways may get the control of President and Congress. ‘The democratic party, it may be said, is opposed to all monopolies. Gammon, Mark how it has flourished in Jersey under Camden and Amboy, and how it now flourishes in New York under Tammany, Erie and the Central, Money is king. It was money even when it said ‘Cotton is king.” | The Southern cotton monopoly and oligarchy, } through their money, ruled the democratic party and the country, with only a break or two, from Jackson to Buchanan. Andy Johnson has declared that in the national bondholders a Northern has taken the place of the old Southern oligarchy. But the bondholders are, many of them, democrats, although “‘Old Buck” wouldn’t invest a dollar in our government securities. Still the national bondholders are a power in the land, but they are as nothing compared with the power of our great railway corporations. Here in New York the democrats have a nucleus and a base of operations from which they may secure # joint stock political coali- tion of all the great railway lines and tele- graphs in the United States and sweep the country. Tammany Hall understands the secret of her strongth—the eeoret which has raised naire and the Now York democracy from ‘‘the Slough of Despond” to the ‘Delectable Mountains” from which they can see the Promised Land, The samo system of demo- cratic management and power ‘will apply as well to other States as to New York. St is “the almighty dollar” that does the business. A general course of opposition to thé alleged abuses and the financial measures of the party in power is slow work, Tho democratic managers, in a great alliance of powerful corporations and monopolies, can fight the enemy with their own weapons, and upon this plan of operations their success in New York gives the key to success throughout the Union. Principles in the shape of abstractions are good in their way, but the seven demo- cratic principles of John Randolph, ‘‘the five loaves and two fishes,” or, in other words, the subsiantial principles of ‘the almighty dollar,” are the principles that will carry the demo- cracy 4o Washington. The Vestruction of St. Cloud. The telegraph, with that cold precision and terrible exactitude which distinguishes some of its revelations, has informed us of the destruction of the Chateau of St. Cloud, that lovely royal and imperial residence which for two hundred years, crowded with histeric glories, has been the pride of all the western euvirons of Paris. Moreover, we are informed that the work of rnin was accomplished by the French and not by the German batteries. We trust, for the sake of that illustration of history which has so much to do with the steady advance of refinement, that the news may not be true in its full extent; but if, un- fortunately, all particulars be exactly as narrated, the French capital sustains an almost irreparable loss. St. Cloud, the ancient Novigentum, derives its modern name from Clodoald, the grand- son of King Clovis. The young man escaped from the assassin hands of his uncle Clotaire to this spot, and after a life passed as a hermit in the neighboring forests was canonized by the title that the noble parks and the palace there erected in 1658 by the great capitalist, Jerome de Gondy, have since borne. The vast wealth and power of Louis Quatorze, which, daring his reign seemed to absorb everything splendid in France, gave him possession of St. Cloud, and the Grand Monarque bestowed this gem upon his brother, the Duc @’Orleans. Become a royal palace it extended its hospitality to Queen Henrietta of England, who died there ; andin succeeding years it witnessed the mur- der of Henry IL.; the plottings of the First Napoleon for imperial control; the royal folly of Charles X., who dated thence the reseripts that revolted France and precipitated the revolution of 1830; and, finally, the fétes of the hearty citizen-king Louis Philippe and the summer pleasures of Napoleon IIIf. St. Cloud rivals Versailles in its memories of the lovely but unfortunate Marie Antoinette and the gayeties of Queen Victoria’s sojourn in France in 1855. Some of the most imposing scenes of the reign of the First Napoleon oc- curred at this celebrated residence, and the shades of the gentle Josephine and of her suc- cessor the fair Austrian Marie Louise for Congressmen. The. Tammany Congressional Conventions mot last night and nominated the following candidates for the several districts within the city :— Fourth district—Morgan Jones, formerly member of Congress, President of the Board of Aldermen and a very popular man, vice John Fox. The district gave Mr. Fox, at the last election, and as the Tammany candidate, over sixteen thousand majority. Fifth district—William R. Roberts, Fenian advocate and agitator, vice John Morrissey. This district gave Mr. Morrissey, Tammany candidate, nearly nine thousand majority. In the Sixth district S. S, Cox has been re- nominated. Mr. Cox has established his reputation as one of the brightest statesmen of the day, and received over two thousand six hundred majority at the election in 1868. In the Seventh district Smith Ely has been nominated, vice Hervey C. Calkin, who was elected as the Tammany candidate in 1868 by over twelve thousand majority. In the Eighth district James Brooks has re- ceived a renomination, and as he received something near twelve thousand majority at the last election we suppose his re-election may be set down as settled, In the Ninth district Fernando Wood, who received something. near four thousand ma- jority in 1868, has been honored with a re- nomination; aud as Fernando has behaved pretty well he will no doubt be re-elected by an increased majority. In all these nominations the observer can detect the master hand of the leader of the Tammany Regency; and as there is no doubt about the election of every candidate named supplicants for office may govern themselves accordingly. The physical earthquake yes- terday was not without its political effects, Let the discomfiled look at their barometers. Perjury in Divorce Cases. The method of obtaining divorces is easy and infamous enough. ‘The facility which Indiana law affords for the final separation of man and wife, the destruction of family ties, the shield it throws over the violation of mar- riage vows, and the demoralization of house- holds, of which children are alike the jewels and the victims, one would suppose ought to suffice for the wants of the restless and dis- contented who cannot brook the chains of matrimony. The moral sense of the whole community revolis at the idea of the divorce laws of Indiana. They are a blot upon the statute books of that State, and stand forth as a great reproach to the civilization of the country. Utah, with ils brazen defiance of Christian law and the decencies of society, takes a bold stand against the purity of mar- riage, justifying its system by Scripture and tradition; but’ Indiana, by her laws, sneaks, as it were, inio the domestic circle, and, with secret inducements of easy methods of divorce, leads the weak to ruin and encourages the vicious to cowardly crime. A new feature in divorce cases has just been developed—that is, the false personation of the husband by a party who is produced by seemed, even in or day, to haunt the apart- ments the crowned dames once occupied, and on the wails of which theic portraits smiled in the bloom of pride and beanty as limned by master hands. None who have ever visited this delight- ful abode with a tourist’s elegant curiosity or by imperial invitation will forget its parks stocked with rare growth and ranged by herds of English deer, its enchanting gar- dens, its lakes, its fountains and its cascades, the delight of the Paris Sunday throng who went a Maying in its lawns and woods. Its September festivals for this year have been replaced by a more magnificent but disastrous October. The beauteous domains are deso- lated by the bivouac of a heedless foreign soldiery, and its superb saloons and galleries, with all their wondrous wealth of canvas and carving, have sunk into ruin beneath the avenging shot and shell of the great city be- leaguered through the folly of its latest impe- rial occupant. The fearful war now raging “in the heart of Europe” is full of startling lessons illustrated by what seems more than the cuprice of mere chance in the scourge that it brings upon the o¥len seats of refined but arrogant pomp and power. None of these is more instructive, even while we must histori- cally mourn it, than the obliteration of St. Cloud, How to Prevent Loxa Sermons Nexr | Sappatu— Another earthquake Tae Situation IN FRANcE.—No important changes are noted. At Paris General Trochu issues an order stating that he has a surprise in store for the enemy in the shape of an attack all round the line, which he will announce more fully ina sbort time. This is the most extraordinary general order that we have heard of yet, and is pretty much of a piece with Jules Favre’s persistent grandilo- quence. ‘‘Let not him who puiteth on his armor boast as him who taketh it off.” It is still claimed that the sorties on the south of | Paris resulted in heavy losses for the Prussians. The movement on Tours appears to have been | abandoned. It is doubtful if the Prussian General ever intended to do more than intimi- date the new armies of the Loire, It seems probable that he never proposed to go much further south than Orleans, and that his army is holding that city, Chateaudun and the line south of Paris merely as the rear defences of the investing army against the army of relief. Woutp Lxss GospEL, as promulgated by the Unitarians, now in session in this city, in these earthquake times make more Quakers? Bavarta has despatched the three leading men of her Cabinet from Munich to Versailles in order that they may ‘‘confer” with King William of Prussia. Is South Germany becoming tired of the war? Some of her noblest sons have been slain in the battles. Are the Ministers to urge the question of peace? Bane <i ect Tax. Evropean Ma of the 8th inst. sup- the lawyers to swear that he is the person suing for a divorce, while the husband is, per- haps, far away, or entirely Ignorant of any legal proceedings being entered upon in his name. Two such cases have just come up in the courts, and we are happy to say that in each case the perjurer has been convicted and sentenced to the State prison for nine years. One is the famous Dalzell case, where a scoun- drel named Archibald personated Mr. Dalzell ina suit for divorce from his wife at a time when Dalzell was at sea and was wholly un- conscious that he was a plaintiff in the case, The other was the case of John M. Holt, in- dicted for perjury in falsely personating Ben- jamin Kare ina similar suit. Both these ruf- fians were convicted in the Brooklyn Court of Oyer and Terminer and sent to the State Prison for the term above mentioned, for which the public should be grateful to judge roheate pel Raya te id en a achat Tus 1s Nor Exacriy the season for the an- nual visit of our good friends the Quakers ; but would they not have felt at home yester- day during the earthquake ? Tue Peace Prospect.—Rumor still has it that peace is possible before the Prussian guns open fire upon Paris. It is, of course, as yet, only rumor. It is undeniable, however, that all the Powers are more or less busy in endea- voring to bring about peace. France, of course, is still bold and defiant. But France every day becomes weaker and weaker. It does not seem as if Prussia were unwilling to make a peace arrangement. Approaching winter frightens both belligerents. Meanwhile Russia and Austria find some consolation in the thought that France is no longer the ter- ror of Europe and that Prussia is so exhaust- | ing herself that if the war lasts over the winter she will no longer be formidable. Great Britain sincerely desires to see the war ended. So is it with the citizens of the United States. Humanity is sick of a war which has ceased | to have a purpose. It will not surprise us if {so many forces combined should have the effect of bringing the belligerents to reason and | of inducing anarmistice. ‘A cession of territory | France must ultimately consent to. As well consent now as later. The world will r€joice to learn that the war is ended and that Paris is still safe. Fun on THE Eartuquakk—Some of the fifteen men and transported two mandarios for complicity in the recent murderous out- rages on the Christians. This is excellent. Beheaded for ‘‘complicity” in murders and the “bailing” magistrates, the ‘friends on the bench,” transported. Our criminal jurists must take a few lessons from or in Pekin. Raope Istaxp PouiticaL SQuABBLES.— There seems to be a bother in Jenckes’ district in Rhode Island. The State has two repre- sentatives in Congress, and even with that diminutive, number and with an overwhelming republican majority, the dominant power can- not cohese. Jenckes as a member of Con- plies our special correspondence from the Old World in detail of our cable news telegrams to that day. The progress of the siege of Paris is noted from King William's headquarters, An interesting review of the state of public feeling then existing in Prussia on the subject of the war apnears also in eur columns. gress attempted some reforms in our civil service. Jenckes means well, but Jenckes, like the irrepressible ‘‘Jenkins,” sometimes comes in in places where he is not wanted. Senator Sprague, perhaps, has a word to say in regard ta Rhede Island politics. Iumprevemests in New York—The Future of Our Metropetia. In going over the different parts of Man- hattan Island, the present limits of New York city proper, any one mast be strack with tho number of great improvements going oa and the rapid progress made in them. We mean particularly public improvements, though the hundreds of beautiful residences as well as fae churches and extensive buildings for diferent institutions under process of construction show, in a not less remarkable manner, how rapidly New York is becoming one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Whichever way we turn, east or west, up or down town, we see hundreds of workmen employed, and hear the sound of the stonecutter’s hammer every- where. Solid blocks of superb houses spring up as by magic in places where but a few months before we saw unsightly rocks or clus- ters of wretched shanties. {n every direction are such evidences of the vast and increasing wealth of the metropolis and its future great- ness. Here the wealth of « continent and mighty nation is concentrated. Here the vast network of fifty or sixty thousand miles of railroads converges and radiates to connect with the commerce to and from all parts of the globe, Yet this is only the begianing—only the dawn of the near future, when Now York will be the first city of the world, as it is now of the American Continent, The commencement of all the great public improvements was our beautiful Central Park. It is, too, the nucleus of nearly all. On this account, therefore, it was wise to place the control of the improvements at the upper end of the island under the Central Park Commis- stoners. The work now being prosecoted vigorously on the Grand Boulevard, 8. Nicholas avenue, Eighth avenue aad other avenues and streets, as well as that on the Central Boulevard, starting from One Hun- dred and Tenth street and ruaniag in a straight line for twenty miles or so into Weat- chester county, shows the determination of the men in power to use all their means to improve the city. Thousands of workmen are* employed and at every turn we see a hive of industry. The city authorities ure performing the promise they made. A few opposing party politicians and narrow-minded men may carp at the expenditure and may talk of the riches which some of the men in power may make, but they lose sight of the advantage of these works to the city and of the increase of value to property. The city authorities are following the ex- ample of Baron Haussmann in Paris in the great works they have undertaken and are carrying on so vigorously. But it is not fair to accuse them with pocketing the public money, as he is reported to have done. Ia fact, they could not do that. They are the ser- vants of the people and not of an imperial despot. They are accountable to the public and hold their offices for a short term only by public favor. With us, too, everything is ex- posed through the vigilance of the press and people. They may make money by speculat- ing in real estate through the advantage they possess of knowing when and where improve- ments will be carried out or completed, but that is a different thing from defrauding the city treasury. There are few men of any party that would not do the same. Nor would we make a point of this if they fulfil their duty faithfully in carrying on improvements and in the use of the public money. The taxes that may be imposed for the payment of these werks will be a bagatelle compared to the benefit to the city, to the increased value of real estate, and to the wealth that will be poured into New York as the consequence. Who com- plains of the cost of the Central Park? This large territory in the centre of the island was a wilderness a few years ago, and the property all round it of comparatively little value. Now see what has been done in raising the value of property, as well asin improving the health, pleasures and taste of the people. Go on, we say, then, to the city authorities, with the projected improvements and still greater ones. Make New York the admiration of the world; for that will bring trade, com- merce, population, wealth, health and refine- ment. The increased taxes will be insignifi- cant in comparison with the gains. There remains much to be done. Our piers, wharves and markets are in a wretched condition and are a disgrace to this great commercial metro- polis. We want a new and substantial system of piers, wharves, docks and bulkheads, like that which General Viele submitted in the columns of the Heratp a short time since, or something similar. They should be extended round the island as far as the requirements of the shipping go, with provisions for railroads in connection with them. Then we greatly need substantial elevated railroads for loco- motives from the lower to the upper end of the city, by which people could go to and from their business in a short time. The horse cars are far too slow; they are as much behind the times and the necessities of the people as the old omnibuses. And what is to hinder these necessary and additional improvements? The city can raise all the money it needs. A hun- dred millions of dollars, or twice that sum, can be readily obtained in Europe. Such a loan for New York at six per cent would be instantly taken by capitalists above par. Then these improvements would be made to pay a handsome income on the cost if properly car- ried out. What say our city rulers? Will they comprehend their opportunity and what is expected from them? They have the power. It remains to be seen if they have the judg- ment, public spirit and taste. Tur EarTHquake yesterday brought forth Fernando Wood again as a candidate for Con- gress. What's the next upheaval from the in- fernal regions ? CHAMPAGNE CHARLEY.—It is publicly an- nounced by the wine manufacturers of the champagne country of France that so far from their business being overrun, ruined and de- stroyed by the Prussians, as reported, on the contrary the Prussian troops afforded them every facility for carrying on the manufacture of champagne, and did not interfere with them at all beyond carrying off a few bottles. It would be strange indeed if the Prussians should impede the manufacture of this beverage, which is known as a matter of history to be the chief and crowning consolation of the Prus- sian royal family in their festive moments. This statement from the wine growers will ahow how absurd it is for eneculators here to accept this recommendation ? It is absurd to suppose that respectable re- publicans will consent to be dragged at the tail of a faction led by John Morrissey and John Fox—a faction created almost for the especial elevation of Jimmy O'Brien, who ie now not leading the ranks only becanse he wae disappointed im getting the nomination foe Mayor, Assuredly they will do no suck thing. The absence of a republican ticket will probably reduce the vote of that party foe clty aod county officers to a very small figues on election day. Nothing else can be ox pected. But a more humiliating proposiioa— a sugcestion more offensive to the self-respect of every gentleman professing republicaa opinions—than to vole for the ticket of the tag, rag and bobiail of the dewoersoy, with all its rongh and vicious antecedents, was cor- tainly never made to any respectable party before. Naval Discipline. Secretary Robeson is evidently awake to the exigencies of the naval servicer, as far as the maintenance of strict discipline is concerned ; and without that what woald the navy be? The case referred to is that of Commander Trax ton, an old and jaithful officer, who has jaa been cashiered by order of the Seeretary of the Navy, on the finding of a court martial, The circumstances of this affair are rather curious, Commander Truxton, who is in command of the sloop-of-war Jamesiowa at Honolulu, upon hearing of the death of the Queen Dow- ager of the Sandwich Islands, landed « party of armed marines, took possession of the United States Cousulate and hoisted the American flag at half staff—because the Conaul refused to do so—out of respect to the memory of the royal lady, who, it will be remembered, was always the warm and steadfast friend of this country and our interests in the Sandwich Islands, If the Consul (Adamson) was too slow in paying this honor, Truxton was decidedly too fast. That he violated the rules of the service by landing an armed force upon foreign soil, as well as by interfer- ing with the privileges of the consulate, is undoubted. The punishment, then, cannot be esteemed unjust or too severe, Our naval officers often get into scrapes abroad; but if is a remarkable fact, and ercditable to onr gallant tars, that they are always instigated by a manly and truthful impulse. They are sometimes impetuous, as in this case, but they generally act upon dictates that they conceive to be right, and in a spirit of chiv ry which is characteristic of the sailor. It seems to be a pity that they should suffer for it; but, then, we must not forget that discipline is the guiden rule in the naval and military service. Our Evening Schools and the Question. The City Superintendent's report on the evening schools was read at a meeting of the Board of Education on Wednesday afternoon. According to this report the attendance on the opening evening numbered 10,688 pupils, of whom 7,144 were boys, 3,427 girls and 117 colored children. The evening high school ie attended by about one thousand papils. The whole number of registered pupils in thene schools is 16,497. Children and parents alike are learning to appreciate the great advan- tages offered by the evening schools to those whose avocations prevent their going to the day schools, and who are unwilling to waste precious time in idleness or vice. At the same meeting of the Board of Educa- tion a committee report was read advising that a proposition to restore corporal panish- ments be rejected. After a lively discussion between the respective advocates and uppe- nents of flogging the modern, merciful, jast and philosophical view of the flogging ques- tion was finally adopted. If any school can- not be well governed and taught without the aid of the lash its teachers must lack that magnetism of personal authority whieh is ao indispensable qualification for a good schoo) teacher. eke ay Tom Fietps has advertised. for another earthquake to help him accomplish what he fs bound to secure—that is, a re-election to the next Legislature, and the opening of the natural water courses in the neglected dis tricts of the Twelfth ward. Jures Favre publishes another grandifo- quent address against entertaining any aver- tures for peace which look to a cession of ter- ritory. He’seems to be whistling to keep hia courage up. Hlogetne Tue EArTnquake YESTERDAY wae sensibly felt on Brooklyn Heights. It ia qbout time some of those ‘‘heights” were tambled down, especially in “Calamity” place. Furmaa street,