The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1871, Page 6

tW YORK HERALD HLOADWAY AND ANN STREET, N JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROVERIE TOR, Volume XXXVI Pein aa AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 7 SKrrours—Davy's LovE. 720 Broadway.—LinoaRp GRAND OPERA HOUSE, comer of Bh av. ana 2d st— NNES. Lee ux ou © THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur Ricae.rRv OF wart BOWERY THEATRE, Bowey.—Pour-Tar Crown Prior. FIFTH AVRNUS THEAT \ fwen'y-fourth street,— STADT THEATRE, 15 Bowery,—Dir ATRE, 123 roa tway.—VaRIEry ENTER ATER THE WAR. ai TAINNE ROOTH'S 284 st, DoWween Sih ant 6th ave,— MUOR Avo ING. woop’ orner 30th st,—Perform: ances eve MRS. F. AckOsS THE BAN FRA NEGuO AiNeTRE A HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Va- THEATRE COMIQUE, IMs, NFOKO ACIS, £0. ‘EW OPERA UO) Nrono MINSTREL 'S OPERA HOU Sts Niner’ Kure kL DR. KAUN’ ANavouIG ‘AL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SomnNey AND ART TRIPLE. New York, “SHEET. Pridys “Mare 10, 1871. risements, “ISemIENis. te Capital: The'Rapid Tran-it Question— iro.u Washington—The Jomt High Com. The rhe Coat Sirtke—The Lawy Weather— scellancous: ‘Tele- i es in Congres:—New Jersey Legisia- v / * NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 187L-TRIPLE Tho” Foreign Relations Committce of the Senate—Mr. Sumner, the President and the Republican Party. ° The quarrel between President Grant and Senator Sumner has been made a test question in the Sonate itself of party fidelity to the administration, The Genoral demands the removal of Mr. Sumner from the chairman- ship of the important Committee on Foreign Relations, and the republican majority of the Senate are required to act upon this questions The requisition places them in a delicate and dangerous dilemm», Mr. Sumner has been at the head of this committee for twelve years. Asa scholar, andas an Amorican statesman, and as an advanced radical republican, he has given great satisfaction to his party in this responsible position. In his famous speech in opposition to the Reverdy Johnson treaty on the Alabama claims he gave great satisfaction tothe American people; but ho has never given mach satisfaction to General Grant from the appointment of his first Cabinet down to this day. Mr, Sumner, in fact, in his sirong- hold in the Senate, has stood somewhat in the position of master over the adminis- tration, and General Grant has been made so to understand it. For the sake of peace he quietly submiited to this state of things until his pet measure, tho treaty for the annexation of the republic of Dominica, as the first step to the acquisition of fhe whole of the splendid island of St. Do- mingo, was defeated through the implacable opposition of Mr. Sumner, as chairman of the ce and the 1 e Nathan Mur- midi: Mu parations for tion of St. F y—The Lynn Mass.) Yacht Club—The French Relief Fund— | ‘he Congregational Churches—Killed on the ailroad, Judge Bedford’s Crusade Against ‘The Rea Suicide—A Threatened nine—Department of Docks—The Ipraciice Case—Real Estate Mat- ians on the War Path—Bilection n Minos. : Leading Article, “The Foreign Rela- mumittee of the Senate—Mr. Sumner, the President and tie Republican Party”— Amusement Announcements. 7—Editorials (Contpued from Paris—The French A: Geveral Reports from German Alllance—) he Spanish Crown—Gei rs—Business Netices, le—The Russian Loan— varlan Elections—Duty on Salt—Finan- nd Commercial Reports—African Dia- ra Times for Conn’ spony Arrest ying Dutchman;" jie in Har- —Buttalo Boat Club--aiarriages lis— Advertisement in Rumpus tn the ate Central Com- vilient of The Murderer as Nearing the Prectpice—The Tornado inols—Shipp:ng Intelligence —Advertise- isements. 12- Advertisements, Goop News or me Day—The Hudson river is open and the smallpox has ceased to ; be epidemic in New York. te advocates the ral Park at the national tion has long been a weak- ingtonians, TuE Wasatxeron Chr laying out of a Con! capital. Central: ness of the W ‘For New Loay.—Has it not occurred to Secretary Boutwell that the negotiation of the new loan would have been more effectually se- cured had it been placed in fewer hands? The delay in the preparation of the bonds has been a curious oversight, which inclines many to indifference with reference to the loan. It isrumored from London that Russia has with- drawn her Intest loan, and some suppose this act to be another Russian courtesy to the United States, Two Stpes ro tue Inia QUESTION IN Enetanp,—In the British House of Lords last night the act of Queen's clemency to the Fenian convicts was classed as having ‘‘most pernicious effects” by Earl Grey and ofber peers, while in the Honse of Commons the sum of nine thousand pounds was demanded by the government to complete the defences of Quebec. The memory of Genera! Montgomery and the Ivish question of to-day in different points of view. cle Genet’s Rartw Transit Brt—which pro- vides for a vinduct steam railroad through blocks, over the sireets and across parks— | was intreduced ia the State Senate yesterday. It is understood that the great chiefs who engineer (ic Legislature have had their heads together for some time eliminating the best points out of the mass of projects submitted to them, and that this bill is the result. Some means of quick transii is necessary, and the sooner we get at it the better. Bismarck ARRIVED IN Bern Yesrer- DAY, after an absence of nearly eight months. His reception, we presume, was most enthusi- astio. Success is a wonderful creator of popularity. Half a dozen years ago Bismarck, in spite of his great genius and devotion to Prussia, was probably the most ated public man in Berlin. To-day ' onty less popular than the Emperor m and, perhaps, General Von Molike. It must be admitted, too, that his services to Germany deserve the reward of popularity. Tue Vervict io “the arson case before Judge Woodruff finds Perdue, one of the prisoners, guilty, while in relation to the other two the jury were unable to agree. There were some very strange informalities at the close of the proceedings, the jury being re- quired to retire and deliberate again after their verdict against Perdue was recorded, bat on such a weak point itis hardly likely that Perdue will escape. The crime commit- ted was a strange and inexplicable one, by which uiliy men endangered thelr own lives equally with those of their shipmates ; but the strong motive of revenge for ill-treat- ment seems to have been the devil that prompted them. end it kuows neither reason nor meroy. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. This was that last package which breaks the camel's back. Nor can the result be wondered at, if, with Mr. Sumner’s denunciations of this aonoxation scheme, we recall his vindictive arraignment of the President himsolf as the head of a corrupt speculative coalition, At any rate, from that day of the Senator’s decla- ration of war the President resolved that it should be war until one or the other of the belligerents should bite the dust. So it is that General Grant has demanded the displace- ment of Mr. Sumner ag the head of the Foreigu Relations Committee in the reappointment of the Senate committees for this new Congress, And, inj “stification of this demand, it may be said that the chairman of the Senate Com- Iniitee on Foreign Relations, from his neces- sary confidential official relations with the Prosideat, ought to be a recognized friend and nota declared encty of the President. The Senate chairman in question may be con- sidered as de fuctoa member of the Cabinet, as the Secretary of State for the Senate on foreign affairs. Every foreign appointment and every treaty from the President is first referred to this Senate committee, and the re- port of its chairman on the nomination or the treaty is, as the rule, accepted as the judg- ment of the Sonate, Hence the influence of Mr. Sumner in the rejection of the St. Domingo annexation treaty—the ratification requiring a two-thirds vote. Hence the adoption by General Grant of the Texas annexation plan, in connection with this St. Domingo investigation expedi- tion. Again, it may be a matter of the high- est importance to the President to have a friend at the head of this Senate committee in view of the treaties expected from the Joint High Commission, and in view ofa treaty in reference to the Darlea canal, and in view of other treaties in other quarters, upon all of which he wiil desire occasifonaily to confer conGdentially with the Senate chairman on Foreign Relations. ‘This coofdential inter- change of opinions between the President and the Senate through its official representative is now arrested; and here is the difficulty of which the President, very naturally and pro- perly, too, desires to be relieved. As the recognized head and candidate of the republi- can party for the Presideutial succession, and as the head of the executive department of the government, he makes this request, and the republican special committee of the Senate and the party caucus on the subject have, as it appears, decided upon the question in the President's favor and against Mr. Sumner. The special Senate committee on the re- appointment of its regular committees, and the Senate caucus, we are informed, have agrecd upon General Cameron, a good and safe man, as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and, asa peace offering to Mr. Sumner, they have offered him the head of a new commitiee on elections, which he has declined. General Cameron himself is a peace offering ; but nothing, it appears, will satisfy Mr. Sumnér bat a defeat of the President. Tie proper course, on the part of the Senator, in resolving upon war with the President, would! haye been fp rei eaign his position on the foragn committee in order that the Senate, through its regular channel, might still be free to communicate with the President on our in- ternational affairs. Failing to adopt this aliernative Mr. Sumner will have no right to complain as a party man if he is supplanted in the place which he has so long filled, and with such credit to himself, to the Senate and the country. Men, it must be remembered, even great men, are compelled ofien to yield the wall when great measures are at stake, The Senate. however, in open session, has still to act upea this proposed removal of Mr. Sumner, and it is possible that the democrats, from their approval of his course on St. Domingo, may exert themselves for him and carry the balance of power in his favor. In any event, this quarrel between General Grant and the great Senatorlal radical thun- derer from Massachusetts means mischief to the republican party. The effect may be felt in the approaching New Hampshire and Coa- necticut elections; for there are many repub- licans in the New England States who hold Senator Sumner as the Magnus Apollo of their party, and General Grant as a young appren- tice, who needs still considerable Schooling to become a genuine radical. When Senator Douglas quarrejled with President Buchanan, or Buohanan with Douglas it was the rain not oaly of Douglas and Buchanan, but of the democratic party. When Horace Greeley broke up the political firm of Seward, Weed & Greeley, at Chicago, in 1860, he demolished Seward, but created such factions and dissen- sions in the New York republican camp as to result, in 1869 and 1870, in turning over this Slate absolutely into the hands of Tammany Hall asa solid base of operations for 1872, Millard Fillmore, though a very respectable President, was never avery great man; bat he was strong enough ag a third Presidential candidate in 1856 to out out Gsneral Fremont and to elect Buchanan. In the chapter of aco'dants such as these, which have decided so many of our Presi- dential elections, there are many poassibilitles against the administration, Sumner may be one of them, He seems to bein the mood for a scrub race against Goneral Grant; and Trumbull and Fenton and Schurz, and a host of other disaffected party leaders, are not far behind, Sumner, however, is the’ immediate danger, and what is to be done with him? Ho is dead against St. Domingo, he may spoil the work of the Joint High Com- mission on those Alabama claims, and he may defeat the great Darien canal scheme if retained in hia present position as head of the Senate Committeo on Foreign Relations, The President hag no faith in him, and he has no faith in the President, What, then, should be done? Mr, Sumner, if he will have it so, should be removed, as a simple act of justice toward the Executive Dapariment, a co-ordi- nate branch of the treaty-making power. As far as possible harmony should be sought beiween the President and that particular member of the Senate who represents it on our international affairs. The difficulty is clear, and the remedy is simple after all. Finally, upon this direct issue between Pre- sident and Senator, the republican party of the Senate must stick to the President. Other- wise the whole organization becomes demoral- ized, and ascrab race for the succession is inevitable. How else canit bo it the head of the party is snubbed and Sumner is supported asa mutineer? General Grant, educated as a soldier, is a disciplinarian even as a politi- cian. So was General Jackson. In this very thing, if the republicans only have the sense to understand it, General Grant has shown them that distinguishing quality of Old Hickory which was and which may be more than a match against all inside mutineers and all outside schemes and coalitions, The Now Russing Lonn—Impcrial Treasury Finance. By a cable telogram from London, pub- lished in the Heratp yesterday, we were informed that the Messrs, Rothschild issued a Russiaa loan, of the amount of twelve millions of pounds sterling (sixty millions of dollars), in the English capital, at eighty-one and one-half, As Russia stands forth the great colossal Power which may eventually arbitrate the situation both in Europe and the East, and as money is very generally regarded both as ‘‘ihe sinews of war” and the soothing medium of siatesmen’s slumbers, we proceed to specially illustrate the financial condition of the empire of the Czar by the publication of statistical facts which set forth the loans which have been contracted by the St. Petersburg Executive within thirty years past, and the income and expenditures of the government, so far as the information has been accessible at official sources, Weare the more anxious to place this exhibit before our readers asa cable re- port of a still later date announces, on the faith of a curreat rumor prevalent on ’Change and in financial circles generally in England yesterday, that the undertaking has been withdrawn by the eminent house to which its negotiation was entrusted. Two reasons are assigned for this alleged default of comple- tion. The first, and more general, is that the transaction could not be accomplished because the European Conference is still sitting. This may be, perhaps is, true, Turkey remains exceedingly neryous on the subject of the guarantees of the Treaty of Paris of 1856, and the Sultan may think that the realization of a wholesome condition of exchequer poverty will render his Northern neighbor more moral and less aggressive, and so the British bullionists may have received a gentle remonstrance from the Golden Horn which has induced them to. permit the Musco- vite to enjoy the bonofits of this penitential beatitude until Easter Monday at least. Another statement, and the more particular one, leaves it to be inferred that the project has been retired, for the reason that the Czar could not obtain the money. We can scarcely credit the idea of a movement such as this—a nolens volens exclamation of Mr. John Bull to the effect that ‘‘you may kill the other man’s family and I will brook it; but keep your hands from out my breeches pocket.” The European situation remains in @ very ticklish condition—diplomatic, in the treasuries, and military. vA St. Domingo. The news we receive by telegram from the Herap’s special correspondent at Havana relative to affairs in St. Domingo does not promise well for the ultimate success of the annexation party. The population, on hearing that the Commissioners had sent a report favor- able to the project, armed themselves and com- menced setting fire to buildings and threaten- ing to burn the towns, at the same time utter- ing cries of “‘No annexation!” Luperon, the Dominican general, had arrived in the north- ern part of the island with some of his follow- ers, and would act in conjunction with Cabral against Baez and the annexation party. Tho Haytiens, although professing strict neutrality, were secretly aiding the Dominican insurgents, and they have been warned against it by the United States officials. Take it altogether the picture is not a promising one at present, and there is a chance that Baez may be over- thrown before annexation can be carried out, which would spoil the programme entirely, Spanish American republics are bard cus- tomers, and their governments precarious to commence negotiations with. You have to work quick and strike while the iron is hot, for the probabilities are that the Power with whom you would make a treaty will be turned out of office by revolution before it can be completed, and others take their places who may be opposed to the project. It looks now asif this might be the case with the Domini- can republic; hence it would be better for the Commission to make all possible haste to con- clude matters before Baez is overthrown, Tue ALEXANDRIA (Va.) Gazette thinks there isno objection to dining and feasting the Joint High Commission in Washington, on the ground that these hospitalities make men kind and courteous, At the same time it wants to know why Reverdy Johnson should be blamed for accepting English hospitalities while he wag our Ambassador to Great Britain, It is only @ aueation of taste, after all, The Joint High Commission—Tie Herald as tho Organ of tho People. The New York Times has beon in a chronic ill humor for many months of late, venting its spleen on everybody, high and low, from the Astors to the corner politicians, and has been very lavish indeed of little flings at the Naw York HeRAD, which, being harmless to us, and evidently very soothing to the Z'imes, we allowed to pass unnoticed. It took occasion to intimate yesterday that the outcry set up by the Heratp in regard to the withdrawal of the English flag from this Continent having been taken up and disoussed very warmly by the London Times was likely to excite angry feel- ing, and gives it as one instance of the harm that may be done by ‘‘reckless” newspapers in dealing with international affairs. The Times, in its paragraph pays uaa very accept- able compliment, We are highly gratified that a New York paper of the prominence of the New York T'imes 30 candidly acknowledges what has long been self-evident, that the Hzra.p Is to the people of Amorica what the London Z'imes is to the people of England—the organ not of rings, or parties, or governments, that may fade and change, or be overthrown—not the mouthpiece of one little faction against another, advocating Tammany against Grant, or liberal- ism against the tories, but the spokesman of public opinion, directing it for or against kings, nations, legislatures and armies, advising and leading it, training and control- ling it, and bringing it to” useful- ness, as Franklin brought the lightning into harness. The London Times gives the people of England the cue as to the real merits and demerits of every sabject that comes under discussion; and as pubiic opinion in the enlightenment of the nineteenth century has become a more powerful weapon than the sword thename of the Times is word of grand import, whether it is invoked in the court circles to settle the question of swords at a levee, or in the caves of the Greek brigand to save an unhappy cockney from destruction. We therefore thank the New York Times for its candid acknowledgment of the analogy between the Heratp and the London thun- derer, We shall not cease our efforts to deserve such hearty praise. Our enterprise will continue on as grand a scale as ever. We shall continue to furnish to the people for whom we speak the opinions of their great special leaders—Bismarck, Disraeli, Sumner, the Pope, Changarnier, Napoleon; we shall con- tinue to hold up before the people for whom We speak the evils of jobs in Congress and the Legislature, of misgovernment in the city and State; we shall continue to give the people and the governments the earliest and most reliable news from the four quarters of the globe, whether from St. Domingo, Abyssinia, Paris or Bombay ; and we shall continue to speak for the people and to the people upon this question, which the New York Times fears we may complicate—the Joint High Commission and its negotiations. The New York Zimes errs, however, when itasserts that the blasts and counoterblasts going on betwean the New York Hrrarp and the London Times are likely, or are intended, to excite angry feelings or to promote war betwoen the two countries. On the contrary, by fair and square dealing and outspoken words of candor, we propose to prevent war, The Joint High Commission is sitting in secret session fa Washington, and when not in session the members are dining and wining and toasting one another, as if the im- portant questions pending between us and Great Britain were to be settled on the basis ofeach member’s stomackic capacity, The people want to know what sort of a settlement this Commission is to make. It must bea frank and full one. There is to be no hedg- ing. The people’s demands must be known, and they must be met, They want cash, hard money, pald down on the nail, for the Ala- bama losses, and we tell the High Joint Com- mission and the English people so. The Lon- don Times says England will give no territory, and it tells America so. That is the point at which the negotiations of the two Commission- ers of the two peoples have arrived at pre- sent, and it is cortaiuly satisfactory. The American people want a cash settlement of the Alabama accounts, which England seems fairly disposed to give. England is opposed to giving any territory in settlement, and America seems fairly disposed to ask none. This is the ultimatum of an honest public opinion on both sides of the water, freely expressed through the organs of the people, unhampered and unmystified by the intricate devices of diplomacy. It behooves the Joint High Commission at Wash- ington to weigh and carefully consider the ultimatum thus set forth, and doubtless they will. Let them be honest as men to men. Let them avoid the aimless meander- ings of diplomacy, and deliberate upon the important questions before them as the Lon- don Times and the HeRatp deliberate upon them—fairly, candidly, bluntly, Telegraphs and printing presses have already made mo- mentous innovations on the old routine cir- cumlocution of diplomacy. The Atlantic cable has cut away red tape even from the deliberations of the Joint Commission itself, and, with the steady march of enlightenment and republicantsm to the front, the whole sys- tem of missions and commissions will fail, and the adjudication and settlement of interna- tional questions will be left altogether to free newspaper discussion and the elestrio wires, Tho French National Assembly. The government of France is about to for- sake Bordeaux and take up its quarters either at Fontainebleau or at Versailles—probably Versailles, as M. Thiers is in favor of the transfer of the Assembly to that place, Whether the National Assembly holds its ges- sions in Bordeaux or in Versailles, Fontaine- | bleau or in Paris is a matter of little considera- tion so long as the business for which it was called together is performed. The duty of the members in the present state of the country is grave and important, and it is melancholy to witness the course pursued by men who poast foudest of thetr repub- licanism, Victor Hugo, a very fair book- fnaker by the way, proves himself a very poor legislator. He resigns his position in the National Assembly and leaves the Chamber in disgust because he could not be heard in praise of Garibaldi, It really seems to us, at this distance, that in the present condition ‘of the country there are other subjocts for Con- gideration by the Eronch National Assamhiy SHEET, of greater moment than oulogies on Garibaldi, and by a gentleman who, if the length of his speeches is to be judged by the length of his books, would engage the atten- tion of the members for a week at least, Now that Hugo is gone, who comes next? France can very well spare all the impracticables of which Mr. Hugo is a type, Their absence from the Assembly would be a positive benefit to Franco, -_ Napoleon’s Chatlenge to His Opponents. Tho ex-Emperor Napoleon has again broken his silence. In a communication addressed to M. Grévy, President of the French National Assembly, he protesis against the vote by which that body declared that his dynasty had forfeited the throne, pronouncing it ‘unjust and illegal.” Continuing, he says that “the Assembly was created only to make peace, and has exceeded its powers ;” and he concludes with the declaration that “the foundation of all public right is the plébiscite ; to that he is ready t» bow, and to that alone.” Meagre as is tho synopsis of the ex-Empe- ror’s communication, enough of it is given to satisfy us thatas a political document it is superior to his address to the French people just prior to the elections, His action in stig- matizing the vote of the Assembly as unjust and illegal, and his charge that it has exceeded its powers, may not be worth muob. But when Napoleon appeals to the plédiscite as the foundation of all right he offers a direct chal- longe to his opponents, He tells the Orleanists and republicans alike that be Is ready to} ow to the will of the people. If ona direct vote they pronounce his deposition he will retire to private life and join the circle of dethroned monarchs—rather a large circle at present, by tho way. It is a fair challengo which he makes, and it is consistent with the sentiments he has always given utterance to. What the upshot will bo it is difficult to foresee. M. Thiers’ protection” declarations and the riotous demonstrations of the reds in Paris may drive the peasantry from the ranks of the Orleanists and so strengthen the Bonapartists, But what- ever tho desire of the masses may be, provi- sion ought to be made for its expression, If they wish the empire, the kingdom, or the republic, the form of government should be decided by a vote of the majority of the peo- ple, so that the minority may be deprived of any excuse for insurrection, This is rendered all the more necessary by the conclusion of Napoleon’s communication, wherein he says that to the plébiscite he is ready to bow. ‘‘aud to that alone.” The threat contained in the words quoted may be only the impotent ut- terances of a helpless man, but it may also mean trouble, the means of preventing which is pointed out in the challenge to go before the people which the ex-Emperor clearly and un- mistakably offers. Tho Iberian Peninsula Secthing Toward Re- volution=Reactionary Couspiracy Against Amadeus tn Spain, We have a cable despatch, with a special correspondence by mail, from Madrid, which makes patent the fact that the Iberian peninsula is deeply, silently and dangerously agitated toward a change of government by revolution. King Amadeus’ crown is in danger. His Ma- jesty proclaims the existenco of the crisis him- self by wielding the sceptre and the sword of the law for the preservation of the monarchy. He prosecutes for political opinion, and has commenced to exile the members of the opposition. Our cable telegram states that the Duke de Montpensier has been ordered to ‘‘proceed” to the island of Minorca for the reason that he refuses to take the oath of allegiance to the King and swear fidelity to the new conalitu- tion, Our special letter from Madrid con firms the allegation of his recusancy. The Herarp writer goes on to show that the Duke de Montpensier was not alone in this act of disloyalty. Spanish generals, venerable for thelr years and services, and Spanish statesmen hitherto distingnished for their patriotism and zeal in the cause of the country, have given their adhe- sion to his platform. This platform contemplates, as it appears from our corre- spondence, neither more nor less than the sub- version of the Spanish Crown as it has been restored on the brow of the Italian. The King himself reads the omens of the moment in this light. He is represented as being dejected in appearance, gloomy and moody in his demeanor and manner. The Crown is in a serious position, If the King banishes his political opponents he will s!rengthen the hands of his enemies; should he fail to exe- cute the law he will embolden a treason against the constitulion. He remembers Prim. He finds before him Montpensier and thinks, per- haps, of the downfall of O'Donnel, of Gonzales Bravo, of Narvaez, and of Isabella herself. With this new agitation permeating tho cities the King remains debating with him- self whether the Balearic Islands or the Canary Islands can the more securely hold political convictgj—a most illogical employ- ment, which denotes, we must say, & retroac- tive and non-progressive mind, Then there is a discontented Church, a sullen army and a demoralized people. We regret to have to say that the crown of Spain is in danger. It is an unfortunate crown. As ablazing diadem it has in the olden time lighted royal oppressors to the plunder’ and subjugation of many people’. Its tinsel of to-day was the imme- diate cause of the Franco-Prussian war, and in the more immediate past-— Not afl the blood at Talavera shed, Not all the laurels of Barossa’s height, Not Alvuera lavish of its dead could restore its equilibrium in Europe or maintain tho equilibrium of Europe coexistent with it, Whatcan be done? What can the Montpensierists accomplish beyond reopening the scarcely cicatrized wounds of the Spanish nation? Will the Spaniards reanimate in the breath of French demoersey and become really inspired by the genius of the Old World peoples, so that the garland of liberty of the United States of Europe may have twiaed in it, ag a second offering, “‘ihe olive of Spain?” Tau Nixsreenra Waro Gana bas shown its head again. An attempt was made by tho rowdies who compose it to reseue the mut. derers of young Schmidt yesterday, but the police assemblod in force ead kept them down. Tur Bawtiora Sua, ‘refers to the “Coul Duty Delusion.” The, ‘payment of fifteen to twenty doliara per ton for coal by poor pe ‘avle ia. unfortunately, ho delusiom Tho First Spring Hurricane. A despatch from St, Louis, which we published yesterday, obronicled the passage over East St. Louis of a terrific tornado which came on Wednesday afternoon with a fury and force never before witnessed there, The winds which freely sweep over the vast western plains often meet with a violence tha¢ is tremendous, But on this occasion the eff cls of the concussion were unusually destructive, A brisk shower praceded the first blow, whioh came from the southeast; but the wind, suddenly veering round to the southwest, struck the elevator on the river bank, tearing off part of the roof, and passing in a due northeast direction totally demolished the freight depot of the St. Louis and Van- dalia Railroad, eight hundred feet long by one hundred feet wide; the freight and passeugor depot of the Norihwestern Railroad; two freight depots, a portion of the passenger depot and ticket office, and the large round house of the Chicago and Alton Railroad; the car house, scale office, freight office and part of one of the freight depots of the Ohio and Mississipp! road; the freight and passenger depots of the Toledo and Wabash road, and @ number of the dwelling houses in the vicinity. A portion of the Terre Haute and Indianapolt# depot was blown off, and nearly all the derricks and other app!fances for the construction of the bridge were torn away and blown into the river, A train of cars, including a thirty ton locomotive, was blowa from the track and hurled forty feet down into a slough. Another train of thirteen cars, ladon with grain, was overturned and smashed and one of the cara was blown into the river. A train coming in on the Terre Haute road, when at Brook; three miles north of East St. Louis, was blown from tho track and about forty cara on a side track of the Toledo and Wabash and Chicago and Alton road, about nine miles out, were overs thrown, The roundhouse of the Chicago and Alton road, after being blown down, canghé fire from an engine ineide and was burned, The engineer of the locomotive was burned to death, Six other persons were kiiled and at least forty were seriously wounded by this tere rible hurricane. The sicamboats lying on the east side of the river wore grievously damaged, The pecuniary losses, so fur as ascertained, amount to nine hundred and thirty thousand dollara, This great tornado is the firat of the season, It is not unlikely that from now to July we shail have to record many more similar hurrie canes, together with deluging rains, How important, then, is it that negotiations may be speedily comploted with the telograph com- panies that shall guarantee the prompt trang. mission of the signal service reports of the weather in order that all adequate precautiong may be taken against the destruction of lifq and property by the approaching storms from every direction, a Too Daring Logisiation. There is such a thing as carrying measures with too high a hand, There is such a thing as trying public patience to a point which passes endurance, even when the public willing to be pleased and are complacené under circumstauces whe submissioa to small evils for the general good may cease to bea virtue. Of this character is the kind of Logisd lation introduced into the State Senate by Mr, Tweed under the title of a bill “incorporating the New York Advertising Company, whd shall have the privilege to erect coiuaine upon which to post bills and pay five per cent of the net earnings tothecity.” This bill occurs to ad as involving the most dangerous piece of logias lation which has been attempted for many a dayy Itatrikes directly at the whole advertising syz« tem of the newspaper press. It interferes with the advertising business of the theatres. It ia, in fact,a measure of such complete absorpe tion of all advertising interests that the despote ism of an individual cannot go much farther in this direction without calling forth publid condemnation in very strong terms. If thi “advertising company” should be establish by law, with the control of the whole city ad its medium of communication by the free us@ of columns, walls, fences and even, perhaps,’ lampposts, what shall become of all the smalk but enterprising papers, the very stamina of whose existence depends upon their legitimate resources from advertising? Is one association. to be a legalized monopoly? As for the dona-} tion of five per cent to the city for the privi«' lege asked for in this bill, itis too old ang stale a sham to deceive anybody. ‘ Although the spirit developed. in this billé seemingly affects only local interests, it is significant in view of the prospects and ambilions of the democratic party as the governing party of the nation in the future, If such legislation can prevail in. the State: oft New York, people will ask whether the party: which fathers and sanctions if can be trusted, with the management of the national govern | ment. In other words, if the democracy,’ abuses its power to this extent in small matters? / ‘ of State and city legislation, is it eal dangerous party to entrust with the inter ? of the whole republic? The publio wilt: } certainly ponder over this question, Theyg; will demand, as we demand, from the control ling minds of the city government—thoug’ men, men wise in council, menhaving and social reputations to maintain—whether they will permit Mr. Tweed, with his boundiess and his indiscreet ambition to do as he please » with the city, and, what is of far move iy ~ portance, to trifle away the grand future, of the democratic party. We appeal tor au ch men as Peter 3, Sweeny, Mayor Hall, R! B, Connolly and.the other leaders. of Tammy iny, io Senators Genet and Creamer to-crush thiz “vaulting ambition which o'crleaps i-self,* While’ “we are satisfied with. the Aenipad conduct of tha city authorities, the Park (Com missioners, especially, i improving the/cit; in turning: its waste ‘places into gems, of beauty and evjoyable breathing places, for, our ctowded population—there is a point, ‘be which we cannot go. We, shall be foraol oppose any policy which imposes {eporsas, jan imperial despotisr Ie statues are “to ba erected in every park and plaza ang ‘ot érery street corner represeatisg Mr. Tweed, ‘as he seems to desire, let us have them crowned with the laure wreaths of a Cosar or adorned with the bat of a Gessler, 80 that we ma: know how high and ‘mighly a digtator we Are doing homage aod But, seriously, politicians cangot play “his hi glsbandod Garae witt impunity, “Acd wo warn tha ‘¢tatuecque