The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1871, Page 6

irene iar 6 ‘ NEW YORK HERALD. THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1871.- TRIPLE SHEET. . The City of New York, Tammany Hall NEW YORK HERALD Arca Caner d roe: BROADWAY AND ANN ‘N STREET, From the fascinating message of Mayor ~— Hall on our municipal affsirs, and from the | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, accompanying reports of the several city PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic | present municipal administration the city of @espatches must be addressed New York New York within the next twenty yoars will Heracp. surely become = most paeutial rite bes most attractive, in the general esiimation of man- Pacers ne pAPKAESA phox “be Properly kind, of al! the great cities oa the face of the sealed. globe. Let us sappose, for a moment, that Rejected communications will not be re- | the city improyoments entered upoo an pro- turned. jected have all beea completed, including our _, THE DAILY HERALD, puntsned every day tn the | parks and boulevards, the magnificent system of piers and bulkheads proposed by General ‘qear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription ae . - 7 McClellan, his broad water front avenue eacir- yrice 812, | chng the island, an two or three viaduct rail- THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at PIve Om pscription price ways running into Westchester, i y. a SCI ion pric Peed ‘ TS per copy. Annual subscription f wit Long {land by the Berooklya bridge—let One Copy... sd us imagine that all these things are co upicted, Ture? 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Twenty copies to one address, An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. ‘one year, An exira copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make ihe WEEKLY HERALD te cheapest pud- | Tication tn the countr: Postage five cents per copy for three months, The Evrorean © ITION, every Wednesday, at Six in relicious matters superseding Rome and Jerusalem and Mecca and ail the pagan cities of Caina and Hindostan. Such, we thirk, from the illuminated pizes of Mayor Hall's excellent message, is the man'fest destiny oft this imperial city within thon xt twenty or = = thirty years. But the immediate subject be- | AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, | fore us is this city, ia connection with Tam- Boorir’s THE. ATRE, 234 ‘et, between Oth and 6th avs. — } many Hall and the next Presidency. We are \ thus compelled to “switch off” the broad | gange of inanifest destiay to the comparatively narrow aad very slippery track of party poli- tics, Volume XXXVI WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner S0th st,—Perform- ances every aitervoon and even.be—TUGEE GLEN MLOg, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broatway and 1th street.— Rosepatr. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaiway.—Pavn Curt on, @uk Lost Sem,” se ici aca aa GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. ana 23d st— Tne Teure HuNoBAc BOWERY THEATRE, 0G. only challenges but makes | { tke | between the moneys drawn from the populi- Lowery.—Pomr—Tne Waren | - | federal goverament taxations, yRIETH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strect,— less ternal, and the moneys drawa from OLYMPIC THEATRE. | islind by its present municipal administration, PLAY or Bagi L¥xnr. | and from this comparison it appears that the Bac ional tax levy is nearly twice the city tax TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS nee. It wonld follow, Cau. Boy—fue Dow Touchstone, that the national government, under the administration of the place of Secretary Boutwell, would result in cutting down our present national budget of taxes nearly one-half. Bu: suppose we try this comparison on another tack. For the Broaiway.—Tur Emorionan | MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S AoxROss THE CoNTINEN CENTRAL PARK IMMER NiGHTS’ CONC: DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL Us EUM, 745 Broadway.— | IENCF AND AT T R Ip L =. Ls 33 * * | that, in round numbers, oar city tax New York, Thursday, Jane 13, 1971. | eV for tho yoar 1871 is or will be ae a a —. j tweaty-fve millions of dollars. Now, CONTENTS OF TODAY'S H2AL9, j by the singio rule of three, if one million of people under the government of yield the sum in taxes of twenty- millions of do'lars, foriy millions of PAGE. 1— Advertisements, 2—Advertiseweuis. 3—News trom Washington: The © ored Uadet Settied at Last “She Boss” five poo ga aR EAiDOE bats gross revenue of a thousand millions of dol- | ‘durt—ito Nores—Obituary—Misceliaueous lars, as the taxation of the United States helegray) 2 he T ny > it wi @=New Hampshire: Inangeral Address of Goy- | Uader the Taminany ave Thus it will be ; ernor Wexion—Running Notes: Political aut | geen that if the Ma: comparison is Generai—Venaantepec Canal—The Tenement |” rf : diouse tery—stagular Stable Slauguter— | ingenious ours is conc and yetif the nyt Brae Mote Si ur Seas : zone Sepiiment OL bulic losttucdon—tas | one, a8 @ compurison between our national of Ue Sound. and our city tasty, a quirk, the other is a and the Dram aos f : —Forzy Versous Drowned: fhe quibb “{c1s a poor rale that will not work the bran Geen both y3," and yet we see that the rule Torn OU—Art working both ways in tois case siz ceived— 4 Wom eS Jubilee: Services and C } nothing. Henging a mmany Hall iis administration, invites aa e Roman Cathoile Churches in the City nrow—Proceedings in the Couris—1he tion! Game—rinaneial and Commercial ong shawl Pates—Long Lsiand Moxitmlan Mystery—A Lawyer | Tho Mayor, nevertheless, in ct financial comparison between T and General Gra Detective—Aaseting Prisoners to Escape ffl | attack which ho cannot very well parry in | G-E Liorias: | mg Article, “Tne City of New ' facts and figures, le at the same time he York, Tammany Hali aod tue Next Presi- | : ny Heep tae dency” —Amasemer ancemeu discloses the secret that Tammany is playing | FeEuitorials (Conte xt Page)—Per- | for the White House. What are her chaaves ? soma. lateliigeuce—-C'weed Jesuunonia —Ban- : : sg quet to Senator Norton—ihe Siiuation im | She holds tuis city and she hoids this State for —Proceesings im the ¢ paw” ‘ ¥ ‘ ont nnauin aed ‘Greece—Engiaud | 1872 against all probable coatinge With Washt gton Looked upe | her ilable resources in cash and wi uruph of Civinzadon--News fron, Cubatows | ber availa po RORUE Spars Serr cement are ee th Democratic Sie Couventiou—Business No- | her powerful railway afiliations, she luces, ae in reserve an i ay er fi le S—The Docks ; First Annual Report of the Depart- | holds ia reserve aa immense power for elec- ment of Docks for the Year Kuding April $% | tigueertng parposes in other States, She is recognized as the only solid and powerful nucleus of the democracy ii J Take | away the power of Tammany His all, and there | is no nucleus around which the while backed b, ort of the Com- nt of Taxes and , in New York N ion. democrac Ly the inetropo!itan appears to eral Grant. 1to its real esseace, what is this a y? I lies ia the demo- ic majority of this cit eby Tammany 23 come into p AS & political pawer ort sements 11—Advertoement=. 12—Adveriisemeuts. But, redue power of —The Albany Jour- i and buried Code, n from the Fieut nal, in pite: Tt was Moffmanized without a g mourners. ng into the de many repr the opposing Tne Bostc at Paris has | “three positive fals that “Paris ia late Southern speec 5 mmany aspires politic yio make own style, modified. The Zi-aveller does not in refereace to this ¢ y» And into a po 1 parailei revolutionary elements of York ¢: grave betweea the j and of New | ave i] | A | go for Greeley on the one term platform, nor | bere we mizht ent ‘upon any other. | j ted to excite on Fifi the fature; alcula Deaths by F @ From Fourrn Ste apprehensioas of Wixpows are becoming quite i : 3 frequent, Toe latest look } but “a t vor the day is the evil thereof. murder—the result of a drum 6 WT swe fad them in refer- honse debauch—bat the Coroner's pid heb proachiag political coutest tion failed to prove it more than an accident, | Ti" 0. cieen out and we have no rene Pri. Sneripan on true Eva N War.— | son to doubt it, that Mr. Vailandigham drew | We repriat a report of an interview held by | the n of his new departure from the the editor of a German newspaper out West | Sachems o many Hall, [ti ain that with General Sheridan, Th joct matter | they bad practically taken this new departure may be old, but the subjects introduced and | before its lamation from (he first Obio the manner in which they are discussed are | mecting under Vallandigham. Tammany, rather povel. of all the centres of the democracy, was the Tne New DeMooratio Governor of New | 8 adhe yield to bg ne abandoning Hampshire was maugurated at Concord yes- had roger ae! pipe ol pds tint ee gba terday. The democracy made a very hearty | ‘ ian cane ab cht demonstration 02 the occasion, for which they eparture signily? It signifies the en arse may weil be pardoned, as it iz a litte mat- picid gs ate: sathadlt ter of some sixteen since they hada ; ‘ ‘tytn wel ie a ” similar op portt n ity 4 vic, “Ay tes ies eae Tue Traxsrer of Minister Rangebé from | departur ugtiens the policy Washington to Paris ws Grovk Ambassador to | Grant's administration, ft i France is worthy of remars. either } wise in itsell, looking fi plies that the Minister is in very 872, it will hardly ft favor with the goverament of Greece or that | reinforcements from tue repub: the French mission is no longer the first, nor | will hardly serve—lukewarm a even the second, in importance in Europe, | ) he democrats, North and § Datil the recent war none but the most dis- Yammany may be able to rule the Demo next summer with diMiculty in the dictal platforin i Athe cooddaw, She bas evidenjly made up hed of diplomatists were sent to Paris, | Netional Convention ince ihe empire toppled over poor France bas fallen in phe diplomatic scale. a of the and conoecting | llis greater than Napoleon, Bagcuie | andas the great centre of the world | The Mayor, in ais admirable message, not a comparison | tion of this heavily assessed island by the | internal and , the | by the logic of | ““he Boss,” in | sake of convesience we will assume the popu- | I E E | latioa of this island to be one million, and | People, taxed at the same rate, will yield a | rig the | Pa a | her mind that such impracticable Southern fire- eaters as General Wade Hampton shall no ; longer spoil the zit in advance by their South- ern confederacy resolutions thrust into the na- | tional platform of the party, In otaer words, | departments, we are irresistibly drawn to the i the Northera democracy have resolved to be | conclasioa tvat under the programme of our ; No longer badgered and beaten by the South- | ern fire-caters, But what say those fire- eaters? Their late democratic enthusiasm is gone. Jeff Davis has developed their real po- | litical position, The prospects of General | Grant are thus enlarged in the South, from the disgust or indifference of the confederacy d mocrats touching this now depariure of the ! democracy Nort), It is not the entertainment to which they of the South expected to be in- i vited, and if there is any jugyling about it it wili only make the matter worse, North and South, The old federal party, which ail along had opposed the republican party of its day mafaly on the ground of opposition to the | war of 1812, cam», in 1820, to the wise resolu- tion, after many deleais, of giving up the fight, and so the old federal pariy was dis- ; Solved. The present democratic party, after / many defeats from its opposition to the repub- lican war policy irom 186i, comes in 1871 to the resolacion of giving up the fight on the | issues of the war; and if history repeats itsel! may not the same result follow aa that of 1820? Lf not in 1872, we may sarely expect a reconsiructioa of parties for 1876; but no mao Cai conjecture what this reconstruction my be, for it will ba shaped by iutervening events, Meantime this new @epariare, while | operating to demoralizs the democracy, is | } consolidating the r-publicans around General | Grant and his administration, So manifest | are these facts tiat the feeble one-term wail- ings of such chap-lallen place-huntera and | spoilamen as Gratz Brown, Carl Schurz, Fenton and Greeley, have become simply rdicaious, There is yet another thing which cannot be } overlooked, The terrible lessons of the Paris ie Commune have awakened throughout the civil- | ized world 4 general distrust of political trans- | fers of a power of a revolutionary character; and this universal appresension is strengthen- ing General Grant's administration and his cause as a candidate fur the succession, Let Tammany Hall, then, aim more to give us j a ood city government than to control the coming Presidential campaign, and she will be on the rivht road to ultimate success in national affirs, There is so much of the sulphur of the Paris Commune in the air that on this ground alone the American people | will hardly ran the hazard of the election of a democratic President in 1872, The Marquis of Ripoo and the Treaty of Washington. In our telegrapsic columns this morning will be found a despatch to the effect that | Earl de Grey and Ripon is to be created Mar- quis of Ripon in consequence of his distin- | | guished services in connection with the Treaty of Washington. We have no doubt that this | report is substantially correct. Mr. Glad- stone never revealed his sound judgment more { unmistakably than when he selected Earl de Grey and Ripon to act as chief representative ofthe British government in the late Joint High Commission at Washington. The result ‘ of the Commission has justified the judgment of Mr. Gladstone. No such diplomatic sue- ! cess has been won in many years. Earl de | Grey is a student of the times; he knows his | own conniry and countrymen well; he knows | ! and admits that the growth and prosperity of | * the United States have to be taken into ac- | couat in all future considerations regarding | | the balance of power; he knows that in the | | future Great Britain's best ally ought to be | found, vot in Hurope, but in America; and the | Washington Troaty, while it does ionios to all | concerned—to President Grant and Queen Vicioria, to the Commissioners, one and all, ! on boti sides—will remain a monument of the good sense, cool judgment and far-seeing wis- dom of Earl de Grey and Ripon. We con- graiulate the Marquis upon his fresh honors, No title was ever more honorably won, We shall not be sorry if the Queen makes the Commissioners marquises all. On our side we have no such titles to give, and, happily, we can do without them. But the United States will not forcet her owa sons who took part in the Washington Treaty and thus | formed a fresh bond of union between the j grand old mother and the mightiest of her | many children. We know of no great treaty | which has ever commanded approbation so | general and so sincere. The London Zimes | has applanded not more warmly than the | New York Heranp. The prompt action of | the United States Senate has been imitated in Hl { } i | | | boili Houses of the British Parliament, Tories have heen almost more approving than whigs, The power of the United States and the need of her sympathy and co-operation were in both houses, as they had already been by the pres, undisguisedly admitted. | The geumblers are now confined to the New | Dominion; buat the New Dominionites wiil have to admit! that they have not been coerced and that they have uot been wronged. In the | settlement of great international questions { there must be compromise. In this case con- | cessioas have been made on both sides— | made fr made magnanimousiy—and the | Dominionites must submit. If they hava lost but the gain has been greator than the loss, The iwo great Anglo-~ families are one, and more than ever fature of the world and the hopes of ivilization are entrusted to their care, It | argues well for Great Britain that such men as the Marquis of Ripon, the Earl of Derby and the Duke of Argyl! ave iascribed oa the list of her future Premiers, they heve gained; Tux Cororep Caper Swrrn, who was court wartialled sometime ago for ungentle- maniy conduct in telling a falsehood, has been found guilty and sentenced to divin from the Academy, but the Secretary al War has seen fit to commute his sentence to redie tion one year in his academic standing. He proposes to give the rather erratic young another chanee, which is all right darky but the proceedings of the court vrtial uoder these circumstances should never have been made public. Dismissal is a twit and disgrace that will cling to a soldier all his life, no matter how it has, been con- doned or commuted, and its publicity in this | case is quite likely to destroy all the useful- + ness Smith was eapable of, | such a multitnde of sins, The City’s Police and thes, Among the most interesting and important reports called forth by the Mayor's circular are the reports of the Policy Commissioners and the Commissioners of Charities and Cor- rection, which were published ia the Hrratp yesterday. The Metropolitan Polics have long been a highly creditable organization, not oaly as re:ards discipline, attentioa to duties, neataess and fire phySique, but as re- gards personal intelligence. Under all régimes, whether of Albany or Tammany, tho City’s Caari« since the days of Mayor Wood, they have re- | taised a strictly noa-politicl character; and this fact is strongly attested in the hearty en- comiuim waica the Police Board, a democratic | body, passes upon the character of the former Superintendent, John A. Keaaedy, wao was personally a violent radical, i | ! ‘American Jockey Club Races. _ This is the Ladies’ Day at Jerome Park. One of the five races that will be run is the Mr. Greeley as Trathfal James—His Childe Mke and Bland Explanations. Mr, Greeley is 9 melancholy example of Ladies’ Stakes, 9 sweepstakes for fillies three | the evil effects of too much talk. Ho is con- years old—a very similar one to the English | Oaks, which is a very popular race with the ladies of England, who go out in great numbers to witness it, and hence the day on , which the Ouks is ran is known all over the realm as Ladies’ Day. To-day will be Ladies’ Day at Jerome Park; and, no doubt, there , will be a more grand display of beauty and , ' fashion than bas been arrayed on any previous — | day of the meeting, Tue first race t> bo run | | will be mile heats, which will have four — | 1 With the un- | starters. The second race will be the Jockey Club Handicap, for a!l ages, two miles, which will have five starters, The above will be followed by the Ladics’ S.akes, a dash of a mile and five furlongs, limited political power taat might be seized | which had fifty nominations, the very best of by any man or commission coatrolling the | Metropolitan Police, it is a very fortunate thiag that politics have been so seduloasly | Tha | force at present consists of an aggregate of O'Donnell, men, the Superiateadent, three inspec- | Within | kepi apart from its working materialy, 2, tors and thirty-five captains included, the past year thera were 75, rrests made, $1,277, worth of siolea properiy bas been recover d and returned to the owaers, 5,933 lost chiliren have been found aud resiored to their homes, and 141,780 persons, des'itute 2 | ‘which will start. Eight subscribers have ! notified the Secretary of the club that they will j positively bring their flilies to the post. These are Miles Kelly, M. H. Sanford, Mr. | Mr. Dosweil, Mr. Littell, Mr, Wolsey, Messrs. Bowie & Hail, and Mr. Bab- cock, A fine race may be anticipated. | The fourth raco wil bo o selling sweep- ‘ stakes for all ages, one mile and three-quar- and homeless, have received shelter in the | ‘handicap sweepstakes, for which Mr, Shea’s station houses, These figures show more fully than any comments we may make how efficient has been the service of the city police, But besides these sre many instances never reported where the in- terposition of these almost ubiquitous guar- dias has saved many poor fellows from dena of robbery and murder, many poor gitls from rain and suicide, many strangers from the be- wildering maze of tortuous streets where they lose tueir way and their money, and many weak and crippled oxes from being crushed ia crowded Brosdway. These sialwirt men in blue are, indeod, the gallant kaizhts-errant of our day, doing goodiy battle not only against the windmills of keno and faro, but against other and stronger adversaries, and wielding many a good lance for the weak and untortu- nate, The charities, to use a homely phrase, aro New York’s strongest suit. Sha excels espe- cially ia charity. The report of the Com sioners of Char'ties and Correction shows that forty-six thousand six hundred and forty- | eight persons were treated in the various hos- pitals under their charg» during the year; that thirty-three thousand received aid and relief in the various almshouses and asylums and at their own homes; that 71,849 were provided for in the reformatories and workhouses; that | 34,804 were given employmént bz the Labor Burean, and that 1,741 were taught in the nautical and industrial schols. In all 188,000 indizent, houseless or sick peoplo were attended to and relieved by the public chari- ties of the city last year. Surely a record like this takes New York out of the Sodom and Gomorrah list that our rural friends so delight to place us in. Whatever may be the short- comings of Wail street, the dreadfal follies of our fashionables, the squalid vice of our intractable miserables, a charity so broad and so unrestrained as this ouzht to cover even Tne Comine Review IN THE CHAMP DE Mars.—On Sunday next one hundred thou- sand French soldiers are to assemble in the Champ de Mars, and to pass in review before President Thiers and the other dignitaries of the present republican government. What is the object of the review? To rejoice because of victory? What victory? Is it not, rather, that the sentiment of the French army may be found out? President Thiers desires to know the wishes of France befora he takes any decided course, The voice of the army on Sunday next will go far to reveal the na- tional sentiment, and it may finally determine the policy of the Versailles government. The first Napoleon congulted France through his soldiers. So did the second Napoleon. In having this grand review President Thiers acts not uawisely. Paris AND VERSAILLES.—The republican members of the French National Assembly are evidently not satisfied with the course pur- sued by the monarchist deputies, whom they charge with not having kept their pledges, by engaging in partisan politics. They, moreover, perceive a disposition on the part of the mon- archists to iatrigue for the restoration of the monarchy and for intervention in favor of the Holy Father. The Duc d’Aumale and the Prince de Joinville have had a very pleasant interview with M. Thiers, in which the latter reflected honor on himself by his bearing in the presence of his distinguished guests, Bos Toomps, or Goria, who says what he thinks much more boldly than Jeff Davis, is to be called before the Congressional anti- Ku Klux commiitee to give his testimony as to the condition of the South. We hope Toombs will respond, for he may be enabled to let us kaow what is his ground for the faith that is in him that the Southern people want another war. He talked war enouzh to revolu- tionize the Western Hemisphere to our corre- spondent recently, and we are curious to see what he will say to the Congressional com- mittee on that head. Tar SMattpox is increasing in Brooklyn, according to the report of the Board of Health of that city. There are some very filthy streets there that need the early attention of the sanitary squad. Some portions of the city are more foul and noxious with the refuse of tenement houses than the old Five Points used to be. Tre Coytesr BETWEEN Ben Wade and General Noyes for the gubernatorial nomioa- tion in Ohio is waxing warm. The difficulty is to determine whether it is better to take a swearing man thao a fighting one—Wade being the one and Noyes the other, We think it will be difficult to shelve Old Ben if he makes up his mind to stand the fire. Tue Terrors of A Lee Snore in a storm are impressively depicted in the account we give elsewhere of the wreck of the schooner Little Belle, in Conception Bay, N. F., when forty persons. includiug two women, were drowned, . RS | Finesse. ters, the horses to be weighted according to the price asked for them, as tie winner of the race has to be sold at its termination, ] The fifth race will be the Members’ Cup, a Climax, by Balrowaie, dam Jewel, with 15: lbs. up; Galfaey & Tully’s bay gelding Vesu- vius, by Vandyke, dam Lizzy Berry, with 135 Tbs., and A, B, Purdy’s chestnut colt Docior, by Second Albion, dim by Omeara, with 133 lbs., will start. This wili be an int. resting affuir and will be much criticised by the ladies. The foliowinz is a list of the pool sales last nizht by Underwood & McGowan, show- ing the favorites and the estimation tiat is placed oa the other horses in the various races to be run :— THE MILE HEAT RACE. Jnage Curtis. Chillievtae. Hamburg Judge Dui Ecuptie. Quintard WD 260 49 205 so 100 LADIES? STAKE. 05 Miles Kelty's. stan 100 jou 750 700 1,100 | M. HM. Saniord’s staph a 500 625 605 S00 | Jou O'vonnell $ staple 135275 Mr. Doswei'’s stab! 9 1) 155 Mr, Littell’s stable 70 75 (30 Mr, Woisey's stavie. | Bowle & Hal's stv 5 100 = 100 Air. Babcocs’s sia) TH Climax, $100, tT Belmont, $55. BS. Lalarla, $15. The Fire Department Report, The first annual statement of the city Fire Depariment makes an exhibit fully as creditable as any of the other reporis calied forth by the | Mayor’scirculur. The force cousists of one chief engineer and nine assistant eagineers, and five bundred and eighty-four company officers and | men. The apparatus in actual use consists of thirty-seven steamers, with tenders and hose complete, and ficteen hook and ladder trucks, fully equipped. The number of fires occur- ring during the period between April, 1870, and April, 1871, were one thousand one hun- dred and five, and the aggregate losses thereby amounted to two millions three hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars. This is a more | encouraging exhibit than we have had from the Fire Department for many years, the ave- rage losses during the old tiues, when the vol- unteer ‘‘fire laddies” were tbe city’s sole dependence, amouating to about eight or nine millions a year, and in previous years, even with the paid department, the aggregate has never been so small as it is now. The incom- | parable superiority of the steamer system , over the old hand engine mode, and of the j paid over the volunteer department, of course, H reveal the main causes of this great improve- ment. But it would be unjust not to commend highty the admirable discipline that pervades the force at present, and which is seen by the remarkable promptaess with which the men “turn out,” armed and equipped, at the first alarm, Tae Treaty oF WasuIncton as A Mxra- surE OF Pgack.—The London Times is inexhaustive on the subject of the Washington treaty. In an article of which we give a telegraphic synopsis to- day it complacently alludes to the fact that the concessions were not all on the Eng- lish side; that the American Commissioners yielded several points in controversy, which, suys the Z'imes, rendered the success of the negotiations possible. Our London contempo- rary looks on the peaceable settlement of such grave difficulties as the Alabama claims as unprecedented in the annals of diplomacy. Both sides naturally sacrificed importast points to the desire of restoring amity between the two great nations. To the nations of Europe, who rush into war on the most frivolous pre- texts, the peaceable adjustment of our difi- culties may serve as an example worthy of imitation, It will teach them to give peace- able means @ fair trial before appealing to force. Tie ViApvor Rarway directors must not forget that the best place for their southera terminus is at the Battery rather than at City Hall. Itseems to have been accepied as a fact that they will run their track no further south than Park row, but they will cut off from communication a large portion of the city by this means and leave avery long and tedious waik for business men from Wail street, and for Brooklyn and Statea Island people from the Battery to their chief depot. During the busy hours of the day a viaduct railroad would be more of a boon to ecruslied and jostled humanity below Aan strest than at any point above it, Let the communication be perfect the whole leagth of the island, GRerLeEY AND THE PeesipeNcy.—The Rochester Denocrat, sprakiag of Horace Greeley and the Presidency, says:— John ‘Tyler, Jerson Davis and Antrew Jonson have been Fresidenis, and Wuere vow ure tiey ? dan M ley adlord LO appear ta such Company ¢ Can he sail Dh Hbpression Cy oPevads buat te would like Wo be th eucA Company? A bhodsaud t He might wetter nave ut New York 7 bute and buried lusts ta Le Don’t be wo sure about that. The ‘one term principle” may create o tremendous revolution in polities, and Greeley may turn up all right and tight, like a barrel of crude petroleum, before the Republican Natioaal Convention meets 3 | thirty an: | ptantly doing or saying things which he seems to believe require an explanation, and his explanations always leave him in much worse plight than before. We deplore this, for if he is to be @ candidate against Grant for the republican nomination for the Presidency a little of tie reticeace for which the President is so distinguished would not bur} the philoso- | pher’s chances, Mr. Greeley has explained for the eighty- eighth tim> how he came to bail Jeff Davis, That the explanation haa not been satisfactory to the people is evident from iis having beer made so ofiea, But wo are not disposed at this late day to discuss the wisdom of that ac’. Greeley and his Zrombone have both suffered very seriously on account of it, thoush eishty-sizht exolynitions ought to have mitigated somewhat the rigors of his punishment. Mr, Greeley has explained for the fortieth time the exact way in which ho culled tho members of the Uaion League Cub ‘“block- heads.” As nearly as we can get at his explanatiog it amounts to about thi That he called by this opprobious namo oaly such members of the club as had be were then or at any time might be, in hostility to bim, Tae explanation st be very consoling to the members of that organization, especially in any caso whers a suspicion of the fact remains in the miad at the same time with the remembrance of the insult. Mr. Greeley has explained many other points in his career twenty times; a few mat- tera he has deigned to explain only sevon times; but so far his remarkable reference to Lee and Stonewall Jacksoa in his Vicksbarg speech has received but a single antotation, This was in his speech at the Lincoln Clab reception the other nicht. Now, we under- stand him to say that the South will soon be as proud of Grant and Saerman as the North is of Lee and Jackson, I. this was not wiat he said we must beg of Mr. Greeley to explain his meaning a little more clearly. It is impor- tant that the couatry should understand his exact position oa this important question. Having explained the Jeff Davis bail bond | business eighty and eight times and the Union Le gue Ciub “blockhead” ploasantry at least ine times, he can certainly afford to give us one more explanation of his Vicks- burg speech. Greeley’s explanations are always pleasant readinz, so we kaow he can- not resist this appeal. Besides, if he should be a candidate for the Presidency the North will be asking him to explain his Vicksburg speech and the South will demand explana- tions of bis Union sqiire speech so often that he may as woll get his hand in by b ginniag now. It is well for Presidential candidates to | be reticent, but we are afraid Mr. Greeley has lost his opportunity and must talk. Chenp Cal New York. We are not disposed to utter a word which would operata azainst the introduction of cheap cabs into th's city. Tie want of some vehicle in a measure private, while being in the highest dezree a public convenience, is a necessity too lon felt to warrant anythiag but a kind reception for any plan wiich prom- ises, however remotely, to supply the de- ficiency in our city travelling accommodations, for | Other cities, even in this kemisphere, are well supplied with cheap cabs, Havana, with a population, permanent and transient, not one- fifi as great as the population of New York, has a cab system which enables pas- sengers to rde from one end of the city ta the other at a cost of only twenty cen's. ‘Two or three persons may ride at a time ia one of these cheap carriiges, so that the cost is often not much greater than the fare for the sama number of persons in ove of our street cars. One doilar an hour is the rate for travelliog other thas from one point to ‘another. ‘The same features, we understand, aro to be intro. duced here; but we have not yet heard what the charges are to be for single drives from poiat to point. We hope some seale of prices may be fixed upon that will be remunerative to the company and yet not too severe a tax upon the commanity. If this can be done the enterprise ought to succeed, and we believs in its success, with the necessary foresig and under proper safeguards, As maticrs now stand it is almost impozsi- ble to get from river to river, and croystowa journeys are even more dreaded than uptowa trips on the street cars, One cannot inko a carriage in Broadway to go even a limited dis- tance except at an exorbitaut charse, Fora drive from a downtowa hotel theourh tho Cvotral Park it is enstomary to demand eigat and ten dollars; for shorter journeys, almozt anything which hackmen choose to ask, Tais state of things has lasted so lony that w began to despair of any better mode of public conveya.ce tian the street cars; bat a ehoap cab system in a great city like Naw York is so feasible that its saccess ought never to have been a maiter of doubi. There are some things in the cabs it is purposed to introduce in’ this city which at first Linch do not commend the vehicles, Four-seated carriages for general and publi uge are ouly too likely to prove a geueral and public nuisance. They must be fowrd too large and too unwieldy for our crowded streets. If they are intuided to carry other than single passengers or to ex ct more than one fare from the passeng-rs—i1 other words, if strangers are to be ecrowled into them and one carried here and on» there—Sarith being compelled to accompany Jones home before he can go home himself, while a third pas- senger has an opportunity to pick both the'r pockets in the meantimo—most people wil! prefer to remain oul of them. A cheap cab system means that the cab ts to be at the absolute disposal of the person ordering it for the journey, or for the time daring which he engages it, On this basis only can any system suceced, and in consequence the Izhter the velicles aro made, so far as thoir construction is concerned, the more likely they wil be to meet the lonz-felt pablic want, Vounovism IN JAMAL The horrible crime ia Jamaica of a nogro aod woman drinking the blood and roasting and eating the flesh of @ little boy, a3 reported in our telegrapric nows yesterday from Kingston, shows that the negroos, whea uot kept under the restraint of civiised w ite people, willretarn to Afrienn bariarism. This man nN