The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BRCADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, GLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Ta® BAtLeT Pan- Tome or Humrry DUmrrr. BT. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street and Broad- way.—Tak PET OF THE PUULIO--BaconUs. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and With strect.— Roerpa.r. Woop’s MUSEUM, , corner 30th st. —Perform- ances afternoon and evening -BLAGK SUBEF. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 284 et., between Sth and - ‘Tae Victivs—SOLON SHINGLE secur ars BOWERY iT ro! — an = RE, Bowery.—Tun PHENOMENON. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between ‘Houston streets —OUB AMERICAN COUSIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. ane 134 s— Tus Tioxet or Leave Max. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 13 Broatway.—Oraza Bourra—La Guanps Duonissr. “ Prince and FIFTH AVENUB THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strest.— ‘Tum New Drama or Divorce. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brookiyn.—Bor Detective, 40. MRA, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATER. Bown Boots as Ricue1! UNION SQUARE THEA’ Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—NzoRo Acrs—Bux1! SAN FRANCISCO MIN! Tur Bax Francisco MIX: BRYANTS NEW OPERA HOUSE, 33d ot, between Gh ena ith ave.—BRYant’s MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. Bowery.— Nreno Eoosnrxiorrixs, Sonscequas, re Matinea, Ph ala HALL, Fourteenth street,—Russtan Con- ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Pzorzsso! Dousuve’ Lecorore. om erties ST. PETER'S HALL, West Twentieth strect.— BruLtyou'™ Couto Licrune “7 Kae TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, November 21, 1871. = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, P 0%, : Sioned \vertisementa, eee a is: The in Squadron Anchored off the Battery; Sail of the Vessels of Both Nations up the gay; The Grand Duke Still Afloat; The Reception to Take Place at Noon To-day if the Weather is Fine; Mulltary Ordera for the ion—The HERALD and the Duke— Brookiyn Reiorm Committees—Miscellaneous rs ctlegrams. Our Savings Banks: The Situation Yesterday; the Ri to the Rescue; Figures and Facts forthe ple—Brookiyn’s Burdens: An Inves- tigation of the Records of Departments Granted; Cnarges of Fraud and Corraption— Metuodist vena Auniversaries—More Death on the Rail—Fereign Personal Gossip. S—City Reform: Appointment of Mr. Green as Comptroller and Mr. Stebbins as Park Com- missioner; Mr. James W. Gerard Dectines the Commissionership o1 the Hoard of Education—— ings im the Courts—A Desperado Sen- enced—That Black Friday—Yacnting Prizes— Yachting in England—News trom the Pacific pcos ned feo Hosieade—UaRRing rsonal and General--Foreign Scien- tine Notes @—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The Presidential ‘Question— a Secret Council of the State— it Republicans to Open the Way for the Democ Party"—Amusement Announce- Y—Editorials (Contmned trom Sixth Page)—fa- ome cones sNews from mexico lectorstiip: Mr, Mut igns. - lector of the Pore and Goueral cATthGr. “Ap Mcarthur A} pointed —it ‘xeie- Q—The Prophet's Bi Grand Descriptive Pa- ‘3 Harem: ade of Brigham's ‘Twenty-nine om A Few Sad Histories of Women ho Have Loved Not Wisely, but Too Well— Lynching in Indiana: Particulars of the Hunging Ne Murderers of the Schoow—Police Pecu- Highway Ropbery—A Pp. 9—Hooxer and ae ereast The General’s En- Car Al den of an Elizabeth City Father— Smalipox—Foreign Miscellaneous Jtems— Finapcial and Commercial Reports—The Cot- Yon Movement—Domestic Markets—Marriages and Deaths. 10—Victoria and Theodore: Lecture by Mrs. Wood- bull; Free Love, Passional Attraction and the Celestial AMnities—Civil Service Reform: Lecture by Cari Schurz in Newark—Shipping Intellagence—Advertisements. —Execution in Canada: Hanging of a Nor’ jan for the Murder of His Benefactress; tars of the Llomicide—Advertisements, 19—Advertiwements, Cortzctor Murray Resienep yesterday, and General Chester Arthur was appointed in his place as Collector of this port. Tur Cnicaco Granp Jury has ended its fabors by a strong commendation of the action of both Mayor Mason and of General Sheri- dan for their conduct during the great fire. This ought to be a sufficient answer to Gov- ernor Palmer's unseemly recommendation for Aho fodictment of “Little Puil.” Tas Lecrves or Mzs. Victonta C. Woop- ULL at Steinway Hall last night is a startling instance of the progress which the infamous @ocialistic notions of the Free Lovers is mak- ing in oar midst, For an audience of three thousand people to applaud, and even to listen patiently, to the sentiments expressed last night is a deplorable state of affairs. - Gotp 110§.—The gold market reflects the increasing exports of cofton, which is the great arbiter in settling our trade differences with Earope, and, being so plentiful at present, takes away the temporary competi- tion of gold. The peculiarity of the present crop is its excellence rather than its abund- ance, so that, while smaller than last year’s yield, it is going to be worth as much money to us. «2 A New Gas Company has been engaged for the past month or two in laying mains through our uptown avenues, and, after finish- ing the work of laying the gas pipes down, bas flung back the paving stones with no regard whatever to the smoothness or durability of the pavement, On Madison and Fourth avenues it has left the pavement as illy replaced as if it had been flinging earth on a pauper’s Grave. These gas companies are rich enough to do their work thoroughly, and should be made to relay the pavement as firmly apd smoothly as they found it, or else the city will s00n be called on to pay for their negligence, ——$——_—______. Tas Savince Banxs Excrrement.—The Guardian Savings Bank, in Chatham street, end the Bowling Green Savings Institution, moar the Battery, were yesterday besieged by large aumbers of poor people who Gepoaited their bard savings for fia these institutions, Much observable in the faces of these who thronged rodnd these places, patiently waiting in the vaig for some sign which would strengthea their fast waning hope in the security of these Institotions, The National Savings Bank, we believa, met all the demands made on it yes- terday. It is to be hoped that the other banks will be able to adopt « like course, and that the poor, industrious depositors, who had confidence in these depositories, may not be deprived of their savings, Open the Way fer the Democratic Party. We have a curious report from Washington, which we accept as substantially: true, and it is ta this effect :—That on the 30th of the pre- sent month, Thanksgiving Day, four days be- fore the reassembling of Congress, a secret council is to be held in Philadelphia, Balti- more or Harrisburg—most probably in the lat- ter place—which will be composed of General benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts; Sena- tor Carl Schurz, of Missouri; Jacob D. Cox, of Ohio; Senator Spencer, of Alabama; W. M. Evarts, Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley, C. A. Dana and George Wilkes, of New York; Sen- ator Trumbull, of Illinois, and some half dozen or more others of the anti-Grant repub- lican managers—that Senators Sumner and Wilson, of Massachusetts, will also each have a finger in the ple, but will not be present on the momentous occasion, and that the object of this extraordinary assemblage will be to arrange @ programme for the coming Congress to head off General Grant and to unite the republicans opposed to his nomination upon some general plan of eperations. . This is one of those desperate remedies which are required in desperate cases ; but it comes too late. The movement, howevér, is very interesting, and will be apt to result in some very curious political disclosures, alli- ances and complications. To begin with, we have in this forthcoming secret convention of disaffected republicans the solution of all these late mysterious arguments in leading demo- cratic journals in favor of @ passive policy by the democracy in 1872—the policy of keeping their party in the background and of letting the anti-Grant republicans come forward with their independent Presidential ticket, and then, by a flank movement, to bring up to its support the whole strength of the democracy, with all the loose materials of the country, and sweep the field. This plan has Svidently been agreed upon between some of the demo- cratic leaders and the managers of the anti- Grant republicans, and hence the arrange- ment for this secret council at Harrisburg. Carl Schurz has been the most active mission- ary in this work. He was in this city last week, and doubtless.he was here on this im- portant business of a new combination for the defeat of General Grant, The plan, then, having been agreed upon between the high contracting parties, we have only to consider the elements which {t em- braces and the prospects of the joint stock coalition, Who are these anti-Grant republi- can managers? Is not every man of thema disappointed office expectant or office-seeker? Every man of them would have been this day, most likely, crying up General Grant to the seventh heaven, had he only given them and each of them the office or offices asked for or expected. But they asked. or expected too aauoh ; for it is with office-seekers and expect- . ants as with a militia company—they cannot all be captains, ‘Many are called, but few ‘ere chosep.” How far, then, is the wrath of these disappointed men likely to affect the solid masses of the republican party? How far’ did the wrath of Calhoun and the muamerous democratic soreheads of General Jackson's first term, affect, in 1832, his second election? How far did the active electioneering of Mr. Chase, in 1864, for the Presidential succession, as ‘Father Green- backs,” with all his backers, including Mr. Greeley, affect the renomination and re-elec- tion of Abraham Lincoln? The opposition of Calhoun and of all the dismissed Cabinet and other officers of Jackson so far strengthened him in 1832 that he walked over the course, The efforts of Mr. Chase and his backers to supersede Lincoln increased the strength of “Honest Old Abe” in the republican nomi- nating convention and his majorities in the election, In both these cases the honest masses of the country, proud of their Presi- dent, and believing that he was unjustly as- sailed, rallied to his support; and so they will do In the case of General Grant, These republican malcontents, singly or combined, can only muster a corporal’s guard of followers against General Grant, and they know it. Hence their first efforts have been to engineer him out of the Republican Nomi- nating Convention. They have discovered that they do not carry guns enough for this purpose, and now they are ready for a bolt and a fusion with the democracy on tbe plan suggested. But these fusion tickets are never adopted except in cases of confessed weakness, and they bave never amounted to anything in our Presidential contests. For example: with all the fusions and junketings between the national republicans, so called, with Henry Clay as their candidate, and the anti-Masons, with William Wirt as their can- didate, in 1832, against Jackson, they gained nothing and accomplished nothing. And so it was with the fusions and combinations tried against Van Buren in 1886; and so it was with the fusion tickets tried against Lin- coln ia 1860, In a word, no man has ever been elected President of the United States since Washington except as the candidate of a well defined and homogetédud party organt- gation, and the attempt to elect a no-party mano in 1872 will signally fail. But they say that Carl Schurz proposes, in this anti-Graot republican and democratic coalition, a new party on a new platform acceptable to both sides—viz., universal amnesty, civil service reform and free trade. This will not do; for it will split up and scatter the aoti-Grant republicans from the start, Conspicuous among the bolters, Mr. Greeley will ‘‘spit upon such a platform;” for he is famoun for spitting upon platforms that don’t suit him, and free trade don't sult him. This secret anti-Grant republican cop- ference will be » failure in reference to a com- bined plan of operations for the defeat of General Grant; but it will doubtless be a suc- coas in disclosing the weakness of these aati- Grant republican managers es Presidential pipe-layers on the new departure of Carl Schurz. This Harrisburg conference, if at- tempted, will be a ficele, compared with which the Philadelphia Andy Johnson Convention of 1866 will appear as a mountain to « molehill; and the project of heading off General Grant fo Congress appears to us more ridiculous than was the declaration of Botts, of Virginia, in his day, egainst Captain Tyler, that ‘‘we will head him or die.” But the democratic journals, East and West, are rapidly becoming .fascinated with the Missouri fusion policy of Mr. Schurz. The Freeman's Journal of Cooperstown, N. Y., chants this new democratic departure with refreshing enthusiasm. It says that “itisa humiliating statement to make, but one de- manded by truth and fairness”—‘‘that the democratic party as a national organization is to-day in a hopeless minority in the country.” This is true, according to_ the results of this year’s State elections, including New York, the democratic citadel and base of operations. What, then, istobe done? General Grant, says our rural contemporary, ‘‘has proved himself a far better politician than President ;” that “the next republican convention will be packed with his creatures,” and that he will be renominated against all remonstrances from his party. What, then? Why, then, says our Cooperstown philosopher, let the demo- cratic party abandon {ts National Convention, unite with the anti-Grant republicans, and “Yet us defeat Grant with any good and able statesman available for that purpose, and break down this weak and corrupt adminis- tration.” i ‘This means the disbanding of the democracy asa national party and the fusion of its forces upon Sumier, Trambull, Gratz Brown, Gen- eral Butler or Groeley, if either of these men should be chosen as the opposition republican ‘candidate; and they all are candidates for the honor. The Richmond Znguirer goes for -Sumper, in ylew of she Southern blag ; sy Pn a Sout fa. hack, vate answer perhaps as well. But how would the masses of the Northern democracy regard such a candidate? Ten to one the majority would drop it and go for General Grant. At all events, at this crisis the suspension of the democratic party as a national organization means its dissolution and dispersion, and that there will be little or no organized opposition against General Grant's re-election. We have contended over and over again that the demo- cratic party has ran its carger, with its dead issues and dead men, and 8 new party organization must follow. But this new organization can do nothing in 1872, We expect, then, that General Grant next fall, like Monroe in 1820, with the dissolution of the old anti-war party of his day, will be over- whelmingly re-elected, and that in 1876, as in 1824, we shall bave a beautiful scrub race for the succession, and that out of it will fol- low a new organization of parties. Meantime, there never was a clearer case in advance than the re-election of General Grant. The Comptrellor of New Yerk—Appoint- ment ef Andrew H. Green. The reformers have rid themselves of Richard B. Connolly, who has at last resigned the office, from the active duties of which he has been for some time deposed, and the Mayor has appointed Andrew H. Green Comptroller of the city. In this selection the Mayor has evinced bis readiness to thoroughly reform the municipal government and to study in his new appointments the wishes of the supporters of the reform movement, The termination of the disorganization that has recently existed in the Financial Department is a good thing for the city. Hitherto Mr. Green has held power only on an uncertain ten- ure, and the resignation of Connolly has been feared by the reformers, lest the Mayor, who has absolute authority in the matter, should have taken advantage of it to supplant the Act. ing Comptroller. These apprehensions appear to have been groundless. Connolly has resigned, as he ovght to have done long ago, and the Mayor has at once conferred the important office upon Mr. Green. This pro- motion will strengthen the hands of the latter gentleman, and he will now be enabled to set to work in earnest to rascue the city finances from their present embarrassed condition. We are already assured against any further misap- plication of the public funds, and now it is to be hoped that we shall hear no more of neces- sary works suspended and of clerks and laborers unpaid in consequence of an empty treasury. Mayor Hall should now complete the good work he has commenced by the appointment of McClellan or Stewart as Commissioner of Public Works, and by reorganizing the De- partment of Public Parks. Judge Hilton and Peter B. Sweeny insist on resigning. Tom Fields will no doubt see the discretion of re- tiring from the Board. Comptroller Green cannot, of course, serve any longer on the Commission, first, because bis present duties will occupy all his time, and next, because the spirit of the reform movement is in opposi- tion to double office-holding. Mr. Dillon has, we believe, seldom if ever acted with the Board, and does not desire to retain the position of Commissioner. Here, then, is an opportunity to entirely reor- ganize the Park Department, which may be well done by -the appointment of Horace Greeley, Henry G. Stebbins, James M. Brown and citizens of that stamp on the Commission, With such an administration secured the work of municipal reform will be already practically accomplished, and the Legislature and the people can devote their attention solely to the task of framing such a charter as will secure to us a strong, responsible and honest govern- ment in the future. Tae Herary's Smprua News.—In addi- tion to the report of the arrival of the Svetlana with the Grand Duke Alexis twenty-four hours in advance of any other New York jour- nal, the Heratp steam yachts, during the month ending November 18, have specially re- ported fifty vessels from foreign ports, via Sandy Hook, one day in advance of all our contemporaries, Among these was the bark Rachel, which had picked up the crew of a wrecked vessel on ber passage. We were thus enabled to telegrayh to the owner at Portland the loss of his vessel and the safety of the crew nearly forty-eight hours sooner than he would have learned the news from any other source. t Tas Pors’s UrrueaTom.—It is now ea- thoritatively stated that the Pope will leave Rome so soon as a bill ie presented to the Italian Parliament convening that body tn session in the Holy City. So, it is said, the Doo de Harcourt bas telegraphed to the Count de Remusat, The Pope's mind is made up. What he wants is some quiet retreat where he can, undisturbed, attend to the wants of his large spiritual empire. Surely some such re- treat can be found. ey The Ministerial Crisis in Spain. The latest news from Spain leaves us in no doubt as to the fact that the Ministerial crisis continues, and that it is quite as serious as at first we were led to regard it. Great agita- tion prevails in Madrid and generally through- out the provinces. What adds to the gravity of the situation 4s that the labor strikes have not yet been concluded. The demonstrations of the strikers have in some instances been 80 threatening—in Valencia particularly—that re- fnforcements have been sent to the garrison. The republican deputies, it seems, are con- ducting themselves with much caution. They refuse to take any undue advantage of the present troubles, and, with this end in view, they have issued a circular advising their supporters throughout the country to keep quiet and to do their best to maintain public order. The debate in the Cortes on Friday last seems.to have been more than usually keen, and turbulent to an extent which {is common only in Spain. The Cortes have been engaged for some time past in the discussion of a gov- ernment proposition for the maintenance of the clergy. The Charch has been somewhat severely dealt with since 1868. The treas- ures of her shrines have been seized and taken in charge by the ciyil authorities. Civil marriages have been made legal. The pay- ment of the clergy has been stopped. The new measure of the goyerament provides only for the payment of one-third of the whole duo to the Charch, leaving the other two-thirds to be raised by the Provincial Assemblies and the Town -Councils, The Ultramontanes, of course, are furious; but so are many others, who are neither Ultramon- tanes nor Carlists, and the new measure of the government 1s freely denounced ass breach of faith, A breach of faith it mo doubt is, if govern- ments can be spoken of at any time as breaking faith, for itis ‘violation of pledges made after the revolution of 1868, which sent Isabella into exile. On Friday evening the discussion arose on a proposition to censure the govérament. This was strangely met with a counter motiod to grant entire liberty to religious sovieties throughout Spain, and to suppress the decrees relative to the Church made by the provisional government, of which Zorilla, the present leader of the opposition, was a member. Another motion from the opposition benches was offered—to declare the sittings of the Cortes permanent. This the government resisted; and when it was carried against it bya vote cf 173 to 118, Malcampo, the present Premier, at once mounted the tribune and read a royal decree proroguing the Cortes sine die. So for the present matters stand, Rightly or wrongly, the government has acted with vigor and decision. Whether the government can afford to take so bold a stand against the will of the popular assembly is the question which, for the present, is important above all others, but which it must be left to time to answer. Vigor and decision on the part of the government are what Spain above all things needs; and it is not to be denied that Amadeo, as a constitutional sovereign, has, in proroguing the Assembly, acted within the limits of the royal prerogative. It would be Mr. Gladstone's privilege, were the Houses in session, under an adverse vote, to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament until the Cabinet was reconstructed; and, in the event of its being found impossible to organize a new Cabinet, it would be the privilege of Her Majesty to dissolve Parliament’ and send the members of the House of Commons back to their constituents. It is quite possible that something serious may grow out of this bold and decisive action of King Ama- deo and his present Ministers; but in acting as they have done they have not violated the new Spanish constitution. It is pitiful to see Spain at this day, with all her fine opportuni- ties, so completely s prey to the irreconcilable hatreds of party politicians. In addition to Carlists and Alfonsists and republicans and progresistas, who have gathered around and been the main support of the Prince of Savoy, Spain now beholds the progresistas divided, the one section following the lead of Sagasta and the other the lead of Zorilla. The condi- tlom of Spain and of Mexico at the present moment—not to make mention of France or Icaly—ts not encouraging as to the fature pros- pects of the Latin races. They are, one and all, in a state of chronic revolution, The Reform Movement aad Personal Abuse. It bas been the misfortune of the reform movement in this city that it has—necessarily, perhaps—given prominence to politicians and partisans who have used it as a means of advancing their own interests and of indulg- ing in indiscreet and indiscriminate abuse of all who were supposed to stand in their way. A good cause is never strengthened by violence and vindictiveness, and a wise advo- cate will never be found to make rash, whole- sale charges in his address to a jury when he has no legal evidence to back up his statemen: The New York Times has done g service for reform by: the exposure of the frauds committed upon the city treasury, and it is needless, therefore, to inquire into the character of the motives that incited its crusade against the city officials and the Tammany party. At the same time its coarse and reckless abuse of prominent citizens whose characters stand unsullied before the community during long lives of ing as James W. Gerard, and the charge that he is a dishonest public officer can only ema- nate from political enmity or personal malice. Indisoriminate abuse of this description is cal- culated to excite serious suspicions as to the motives of those who are most clamorous for tmunicloal reorganization. The Young Duke and the The dismal weather yesterday to Postpone the procession and reception pro- posed for the Grand Duke Alexis, and he, order that the hearty reception promised bim might lose none of its realistic features. Unless he was out last night sighting the city tncognito, his first advent upon our shores will be hailed by the civic and military parade and the hearfy greeting of the citizens to-day at noon, It is pretty hard to confine him to the ship upon which he has spent so many stormy days and nights at sea and of which he must be heartily tired, to withhold from him the privilege so cherished by every Jack Tar of liberty ashore as soon as the anchor is let go and the ship made taut in port; bat be has been generous enough to accede to such a proposition, and doubtless the Russian: Minister and the Reception Commit- tee have managed to make him as comfortable for the one night more as it is possible to be under the circumstances—with the beautiful city, bright with its’ lights and inviting with ite bustling hum, stretching out before him, while he impatiently keeps his narrow watch only the toss of a biscuit away. To-day, however, at noon, the reception and procession will take place, as appointed, and the foung Russian will be released from his voluntary imprisonment. Mexice Brenking Up—Tho Daty of the United States. Torkey has been called “the Sick Man” among the Old World nations, but that term is far more applicable to Mexico in its condition and relations to the republics of America, In fact, Mexiog Je in the throes of dissolution, Our special despatches trom that country, pub- lished yesterday and to-day, show that the Juarez government is powerless and bank- ropt, and that the different States and sec- tions are in successful rebellion under various and rival leaders. Nor does it appear that the rival factions and chiefs who defy the Juares government Dave soy Sxed purpose or policy except to over- throw that government. Each State is for itself and each chief for himself, Chaos reigns everywhere; and even at the capital the President is without power, as is seen by the fact that he was anxious to protect one of his sons-in-law from popular odium and to save another from imprisonment and was not able, A moat bitter war of factions'is spreading like & contagious disease, and national disintegra- tion seems inevitable. : None of the American republics have had better opportunities to establish a stable re- publican government than Mexico, None have had a fairer trial, Yet the Mexicans have failed, and have proved to the world that they are incapable of governing themselves. ‘They have had the example of the United States— of srepublic that joins their own fore dis- tance of over a thousand miles; their republi- can government has been’ protected and up- held‘by the friendship and moral power of the United States against internal disorders and suc- cessful foreign invasion, and they have had all the advantages of a very rich country anda docile peon population ; yet nothing can help or teach the military chieftains and leading politicians to submit to the law or regular gov- ernment. Mexico is a disgrace to the civiliza- tion of the age and a stain upon American republicanism. 1 Has not the time come for the United States to remove the evil, to take possession of Mex- ico, to give the unhappy people good govern- ment and to develop the untold wealth of the country? After our war with Mexico we gave back to the people their country, even after wo had conquered it, with the exception of Cali- fornia and New Mexico. For this territory even we paid, though we held it by conquest. In truth, we did everything a magnanimous and neighboring nation could do to maintain a sister republic, After the French had con- quered the Mexicans and established a foreign imperial ruler over them the United States forced the invader away and broke up the exotic empire. We have borne the insults, ingratitude and injuries of the Mexicans be- cause we wished to give them every chance to consolidate and perpetuate their republic and nationality, We have submitted in pa- tience to the contagious disorders on our bor- der, to the injury of our commerce, and to evils that no other great Power would, out of kindness to the people and with the hope that they might learn to goyern themselves. Had Mexico been surrounded or bordered by Eu- ropean monarchical Powers her. nationality would have been extinguished long ago. Have we not upheld that disorganized repub- lic long enough? The cause of civilization, peace, order, and the interests of both the Mexicans and of the world at large call now for our interposition. Mexico is, probably, the richest country on the globe in national re sources—oertainly in mineral wealth—and yet her riches are lost to the world through mismanagement, or, rather, from the want of government, We think it is the plain duty of the United States now to take possession of Mexico and end at once and forever her politi. cal troubles. Noone can imagine the aston- ishing development that would be given to that country if annexed to the United States. See what California, which was a wilderness fifteen years ago, has become, and then try to realize what would be the destiny of Mexico if it were a part of this great republic, What says General Grant to the project of annex- who act in his name, Have they got « “Ring” in the Golden Hora? ‘The Vinduct Raliway—The Cause of the People Agaiust the Schomes of the Poll- Ciclans. The vast importance of the Viaduct Railway to the people of New York renders the suo- cessful carrying out of that Project a matter of necessity, No public improvement now in Progress or ever contemplated is so essential as this, Rapid transit through the island, from end to end of the city, is the first and foremost want of the population, and can no longer be delayed. Hitherto the idea of a steam car road has been cherished -by those who have redognised in such an enterprise a probable means of rapidly realizing large for- tunes, and attempts have been made from time to time by the lobby politicians and their friends to secure a charter for some such scheme from the State Legislature. But as the object of such men was sim- ply money making, and not the pub- lio good, thelr plans have been crude and impracticable, and by one means or another all their efforts to obtain the valuable grant have been happily defeated. The law passed by the last Legislature was the pro- duction of practical men who had studied the railway systems in European cities, and whe were anxious to accomplish the work, not for the sake of immediate profit, but for the fature ; advantages it promises to olty property, and Devause of the gréat {mpatus it would cers talnly give to the growth, business and wealth of New York, in all of which they are materi- ally interested. Hence their proposition is feasible, and their charter is framed with a view to the ona fide construction of the road as ® permanent investment. They have not been idle since the law passed. Already an amount of over one million dollars has been actually agbiirlbed and ton por oont of the, amount paid up, and the company is entitled by the terms of the charter to the five millions to be subscrib2d by the people in thelr corporate capacity. Surveys have been made of the routes, plans prepared and the prepara- tory groundwork of the business laid down. It only remains for the directors to commence the actual construction of the road, which they are required to do before April of. next year, in order to obtain a vested right in the charter, and to render them secure against the corrupt schemes of the political lobbyists and advem- turers who are plotting to get the grant inte their own hands, The city of London has greater facilities of transit than any metropolis in the world, There are admirable roads to travel over, ~ street cabs, open or closed, single or double, at insignificant rates of fare; cheap omai- bus lines in every direction; fast pas- senger boats running all along the river line on both sides at the trifling charge of one penny . from Westminster to London Bridge; and yet all the city rail- roads, underground and viaduct, carry their. hundreds of thousands daily and pay large dividends to the fortunate shareholders. The :tannel ros@ is of course out of ‘sight and greatly relieves the traffic on the surface; but the viadaot road is the greater success of the two, and equally unobjectionable so far as street travel is concerned. It runs between blocks and crosses the streets at a height which, with the addition of a low wall on each side of the track, prevents the horses below from catching sight of the passing trains and removes the danger of accidents, Upon this plan the directors propose to construct our own road, and when it is completed the people will won- der at their own folly fn denying themselves 80 great @ public benefit for eo many years, After it has been in operation twelve months we venture to predict that our citizens would as speodily think of abolishing gaslight as of dispensing with their railroad. It is a boon of which they cannot properly estimate the value until its benefits have been tested by actual enjoyment, It ie, in fact, a truly popular improvement, and the voice of the people should be unanimously raised against the attempt of a few political strikers to embarrass and defeat it for their own corrupt and selfish purposes. As we have already stated, the company has raised over one million dollars in actual sub- scriptions, with ten per cent paid up, and is entitled to claim five millions more from the city—an investment of which every sensible taxpayer will heartily approve, It is thus in “command of six million dollars, and bas only to break ground on the work and to show its determination and ability to push it through to completion in prder to secure as much of the stipulated capital of twenty-five millions as it may re- quire. We have no donbt that there are ten thousand people in tifls city who would gladly take one share of one hundred dollars each, with the sole object of securing such facilities of travel as would enable them to obtain for their families comfortable homes in healthy, clean neighborhoods, at reasonable rents, within reach of their daily occupation. These are, of course, outside the large number who would seek for shares in the enterprise asa solid, profitable investment, But the property ewners themselves should be farsighted enough to see the immense advantage the con- templated road is certain to be to them, Real estate in the upper part of the city, which now seems likely to remain unproductive for years, would be immediately brought into the market, while downtown property would be benefited by being improved for business pur- If every city lot within the iufluence of the road should pay five dollars towards ite construction it could be built without further aid, and the subscriptions would be returned # bundred-fc re Se ere ed property, independent of the the oud itself, Steam transit to Harlem bridge sod Kingsbridge on « viaduct railway would enable our business men of moderate means to remein in this olty, where they pre- fer to live, while in our present primitive coa- dition they'ate‘ driven over to Jersey, where spend, atnong « semi-civilized population, 4 State that still persists in electing demo- crate to office, the money they make in New York, Indeed, the edvantages of the pro- posed Viaduct Railway to all classes of our peopleare s0 numerous and apparent that it Is needless to enlarge upon them, The citizens of New York need aud demand the road; all they desire is that a work in whieh they are so deeply interested shall be confided, to honest and competent hands to camry through to completion, This is assured ta them already by the character of the direc- tora of the company, wha will henceforth ~