The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All basiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herawv. Volume XXXVI... --No, 396 —== AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk B. I~ ‘womims oF HUMPTY Dorr ‘Matinee at a bess THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broa tway.—Co mus, NEOxO Acterae’ Matinee aE OOS VOOALe 8T. JAMES THEATRI b, Twen it ees y-eighth atreet and Broad: JBLIO--BACOHUB. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broad: - ROSEDALE. roadway and 13th street. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances afternoon and evening—BLAck Surer.” BOOTH'S THEATRE, 24 st, betweon oth and @h ave, — ‘Tax Viorime Solon” SHINGLE, - BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur PURNOMENON— SEARCHING THE Derriis, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Ovz AMERICAN COUSIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSK, corner of 8th av. ana 334 st ‘Tar Ticket or LEAVE Man. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No, 720 Broadway.—Orzza pourra La GuanDE ‘Duowtsa we . 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Paar, Advertisements, Advertisements. lexis Ashore: The Public Reception of the Russian Grand Duke; The Address of Wel- come; The Reply of His Imperial High- bess; Grand Military Pageant; The National -Guard and the Reception Com- Mittee in Their Glory; Windows and Roofs Along Broadwa\ ‘ors; Review at Union Square; th spec ike at the Greek Church; Sere- made at the Caren at the Clarendon. 4=—The Wrecked Whalers: Arrival of the Last argo of Shipwrecked Whalers; One of the iors Confesses He Was an Assassin; Sup- to be in the Nathan Murder Secret—A leartiess Murderer—News from Washington— ‘The Metropolitan Museum of Art—The Mor Mon Prosecutions—Alleged Fraudulent Im- eetese— Cuvier, at Halifax—Smailpox in inidad—The National Rifle Association— Sutcide of @ Merchant in Oswego —Literary Ohit-Chat—A Oomplete Stud of a n- Pees nunning Not Political and erai—Foreign Scientific Items—Views of the G—Uity Complexities: Filling up the Vacant Posl- sig Bane Sy cas tt e Gentlemen Noml- Dated; Judge Bedford's o to the Grand Jury in General Sessions—Rumors of Fight: M. Sweeny and “His Man Friday” Both Out of Town; Have They Gone to Europe ''—Professor Doremus’ Lecture— Amusements—Fiare-up in the Massachusetts Medical Society—Missionary Convention— Scvere Snow Storm in Coloradco—The town Man Trap”—An Extensive Fire at Kit Garson—Drunk with $2,100 in His Pocket— Fleetwood Park—Foreign Personal Gossip and Miscellaneous Items. @—Editorizis: Leading Article, “The New Coall- tion Movement—The Democrats and the Anti- Grant Republicans—What are fhey Gomg To Do About It’”—amusement Announcements, ‘9- Eduorisis (continued from Nintn Page)—im- portant from Mexico—European Cable Tele- ms—Personal Intelligence—The National cademy of Design—Committee of Seventy— The Weather—Tne Custom House: A Chat with Ex-Coliector Murphy—Business Notices. ator Conkling: His Views on the Situation ad the Prospects of the Republican Party— makic Hank Troubles—Procecdings ia the ourts—Tombs Police Court—Biack Friday: of further Inside View of the Cleatance House— Madison Square—¥oolish Frank OUchs—Bil- hards—City Kailroad Casualties, SSprooxiyn's jurdeps: The Election Frauds and the Obstacles m the Way of the Prosecution— Harbor Obstructions—The Susquenanna Val- ley Home—Yachting—Demise of a Disuin- uished Newark Sexagenarian—Not a Case of lurder—Inoendiarism at Fond du Lac, Wis.— Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic and European Markets—The Cotton Move- ment—Marriages and Deathe—Advertise- ments. 40—Tne National Finances—The Camp Grant Mas- sacre — Italian Oper —. iscellaneous Tele- grams — Shipping telligence — Advertise ments, Advertisements. avertisements, Tos AtaBaMa Crams Commission will assemble in Geneva on the 12th of December, gocording to information had from Versailles, It is said that its sittings will continue during the winter, and about five hundred cases be presented for arbitration. Plenty of time and plenty of work. Tue Trax oy Bricnam Youna has been postponed for the present by request of his counsel, who stated that Brigham had gone gouth, in conformity with his yearly custom, and that he did not propose to runaway. He would be ready for trial on any day the Court might name, but would like to have the day ned till after midwinter, as bis health would pot permit of his returning north until warmer weather set in. Agrratzp Brrore It Is Hourt.—Tie Wil- mington (N. C.) Star is agitated at the pros it of a moneyed man becoming President of United States. ‘The time may come,” it says, “‘and ill betide the country if ever it floes come, when money will elect our gov- ernors and presidents, and railroad kings be the real sovereigns of the country.” It has been a long time since money did not lect the chief officers of our government, and other people beside railroad kings had the handling of it, Tax Reception To Aexis yesterday was the most generous ovation that we have ever fendered to a acion of royalty. The greeting to the Prince of Wales, to young Arthur or to Japanese Tommy and his fellows, was as noth- ing to it. The procession, composed of our crack regiments, extended from the Battery to Canal street, and all along the route spectators lined the windows and were packed «o thick upon the sidewalks that many women and children fainted with the crush and the heat. Sanners and bunting, With the cross of Russia most prominently ed, fluttered from house fronts through- the whole length of the route, and as the Prince, in an open carriage with Minister Cat- acazy, passed along in the procession, fair bands waved handkerchiefs and clapped joy- ous welcome. In the evening he ‘was sere- neded at the Clarendon Hotel and made a courteous and Giting acknowledgment. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, The New Coalition Mevement—The Demo- orate and the Asti-Grant Republicans— What Are They Going De About nue “The proposed coalition of the democratic party with anti-administration and conserva- tive republicans,” says a Washington corre- spondent of the Baltimore Gazette, ‘is the principal topic among politicians” arriving in the national capital, and that “the newest phase of it is combination for the nomination of Mr. Sumner for President.” It further appears from the same authority that “the argument in his favor is that he would take from the re- publican ranks more of the positive voters— those who were pronounced anti-slavery men in their early days—than avy other candidate that could be named,” and that, in addition to this, “be would get all the support of con- servative republicans that any other nominee would command.” But, then, we are told, on the other hand, that ‘‘this Sumner movement seems to emanate from disaffected republicans, and does not meet with warm encouragement from the democrats, especially the old line men;” that for a new departure they prefer Trumbull or Judge Davis, and that many democrats prefer to stick to their old party flag under some such man as General Han- cock, . But on this question touching this proposed coalition we are informed that ‘‘it is probable that an informal meeting of members of Con- gress and other leading democrats will take place early next month at Washington, to con- sider the situation, and, in conjunction with the National Democratic Congressional Com- mittee, issue an address to the democracy on the subject.” Many leading democrats, who have been consulted, object to this new de- parture, and hold that, if it were proper in other views, it comes too late for 1872, We, also, rather incline to the opinion that the Democratic Congressional Committee, after considering the situation, will agree that it is too late for 1872 to sink their organization in & new party movement, and too early for 1876. They will discover that Mr. Sumner belongs to political epoch that has gone by; that the issues with which his name is most con- spicuously identified are dead issues, and that so it is with most of your disaffected repub- licans. Our democratic explorers for a new departure will also make the discovery that the masses of the republican party through- out the country are satisfied with General Grant, and that in a bolt from the administra- tion very few will be the followers of Sum- ner, Trumbull, Gratz Brown, Butler or Greeley to the democratic camp. With these discoveries the democratic managers will decline to disband their party for the doubtful reinforcements of the proposed coalition, and, consequently, as ‘‘the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.” But will these republican mal- contents go over to the democracy? Doubt- ful. We think they will rather try the experiments of an independent republican ticket, in the vain hope of carrying off the political balance of power, in the election, as third party in the fight. The history of our political parties and dis- appointed politicians is full of these experi- ments, and they have, since Jackson's time, frequently turned the scale in our Presidential contests. For instance, in 1844, in the con- test between Polk and Clay, when the issue depended upon the vote of New York, this vote was turned in favor of Polk by some five thousand plurality, in consequence of the de- fection of some fifteen thousand anti-slavery whigs in the western part of the State, who could not exactly concur in Clay's moderate views on the Texas annexation question, and who, therefore, cast their votes for Birney, the abolition candidate, thus giving the State to Polk and electing him President. Again, in 1848, Martin Van Buren, who believed him- self outrageously cheated in the Democratic Baltimore Convention of that year, and who was bound to have his revenge, ran as the free soil or anti-slavery candidate, and, in carrying off the democratic balance of power in New York from General Cass, gave the State to General Taylor and so elected him President. And yet again, in 1856, Mr. Fillmore, elected as Vice President in 1848, and pro- moted to the Presidential office on the death of Taylor, and ever since that day ambitious of another term in his own right, resolved to try his hand in a new party movement. The main fight was between Buchanan and Fre- mont, and, had there been no third party in the way, Fremont would have heen unques- tlonably elected; but the Fillmore movement of the so-called American party, in cutting Fremont out of Pennsylvania in October, turned the scale in favor of Buchanan and elected him President in November. The splitting up of the democratic party in 1860, between Douglas, Breckenridge and Lane, was by heavier wedges than personal rivalries and jealousies, aud the result was one of the most decisive and remarkable political revo- lutions in the history of the world; but still personal rivalries and jealousies among the party leaders had much to do with the collapse of the Charleston Convention. But another remarkable, though a somewhat more ridiculous case of a convention of bolters was that of the soreheaded anti-Lincoln re- publicans of 1864. Mr. Ohase had been ac- tively and earnestly engineering to cut out Lincoln in the regular Republican Convention, and the leading organ of Mr. Chase in this movement was the New York Tribune. “Honest Old Abe,” with his practical jokes, bad given great offence to Mr. Greeley, and s0 the latter had resolved to apply the ‘‘one term principle” to tie practical joker. As the time drew near, however, in 1864, for the Repub- lican Convention, it was found out that some- thing must be done at once to head off Lin- coln or that he would surely be renominated. Accordingly a national convention of soreheads was burried up and called to- gether at Cleveland, and on o sort of new republican departure the independent Preal- dential ticket of General Fremont and Jobn Cochrane was nominated. But the ridiculous experiment had no more effect upon the regu- lar Republican Convention at Baltimore than the Man in the Moon, and soon after the renomination of Lincoln Fremont and Coch- rane retired from the field, and Mr. Chase resigned himsetf to the necessity of waiting for the chances of 1868. Here we way say that in 1868 Mr. Chase saw and seized his opportunity before the Democratic Tammany Convention, and it was the golden opportunity, too, for a new depar- tare by the democrats, with Mr, Chase as their candidate. He was fresh from the republican camp, with all his blushing honors of the war thick upon him as our great war financier. But tho democratic managers permitted their golden opportunity to pass by, and now, a8 a hardshell democrat, the Chief Justice is in the same category with all the other hold-over candidates from the Tammany Convention, But we are deal- ing with these anti-Grant republicans, and we fear there is no hope for them in the project of & fusion with the democrats so late in the day. In fact, we do not know that anything can be done for them in any conceivable coalition in opposition to General Grant, There are only a baker’s dozen of them who are making all this noise, and they are all of one mind in their grievanc:s against Grant. One would think, therefore, they might be quieted by another little Cleveland Convention like that of Fremont and Cochrane, Unfortunately, however, every man of this baker's dozen is a Presidential candidate, and the only way in which they can all be satisfied on the convention system Is to give each one a convention and a nomination. And why not? Is not this a free country ? Does the constitution call for these party con- ventions in the election of a President? No. Is the field open to all comers? It is; and the more the merrier. If the republican party, then, will insist upon another term for General Graot, and if the democrats will not disband their party orgnization for the accommodation of these anti-Grant reformers, and if they cannot agree among themselves, nor incur the expense of conventions, let each man strike out for him- self, like ‘Daniel Pratt, the great American traveller.” What else can they do, when it is evident that the proposed coalition will fail, and that a Cleveland Convention will do no good where there are thirteen men, more or less, not one of whom will be satisfied with anything less than the White House, or a custom house, foreign mission, or a country post office? The Cabinct of Spain and the Cortes. The adverse vote which the Spanish Cortes re- corded the other day against the Ministers of the Crown has induced the Cabiaet to the hazardous experiment of an executive retaliation against the Parliament, A cable telegram from Madrid informs us tbat the legislative session has been prorogued until the month of Febra- ary, 1872, by royal authority. A state of quasi unconstitutional interregnum must prevail in the kingdom in the mean- time. The Premier Maleampo will re- main master of the situation with the King. Power will be centralized in the palace; the people rendered dumb in their citizen capacity. Questions of great national importance will remain unsettled until the moment for their profitable realiza- tion has passed. The Malcampo administra- tion has postponed the consideration of its project for taxing the interest of the natfonal bonds. This is a timely concession to an angry voice from London. It i# ‘quite appa- rent that the profits of place and power form mostprominent items in the consideration of the rulers of Spain to-day, and that the cause of constitutionalism suffers in the balance. The present coup against the Parkament is dangerous in any and every aspect notwith- standing. ‘The King of Italy in Rome. From cable despatches which we print this morning we learn that Victor Emmanuel and his President of Council, Signor Ferrari, arrived in Rome yesterday. Prince Humbert met his father at the city gates. The Prince was attended by the Ministers of the Crown. A force of the National Guard of the city was on duty as a royal escort, The populace tarned out in immense numbers and greeted the sovereign with the most enthusiastic demonstrations of loyalty and respect, The King proceeded to the Quirinal, where he has taken up his residence for the present, A curious coincidence in the history of the hour is to be found in the fact that on the same day when the citizens of young New York turned out to salute a Prince of the House of Romanoff the people of ancient Rome should stand forth to profess allegiance to the sovereign ruler of the House of Savoy, and that the voice of united Italy should proclaim that the temporal power of the Popes has passed away. It is not said whether the King intends to remain in Rome, The presumption is that it is only a visit—proba- bly for the purpose of inspecting and com- pleting the arrangements which are being made for the transference of the entire ma- chinery of government towards the close of this month from Florence, The finale ap- proaches. It remains to be seen whether Pope and King will not yet shake hands, and the Pontiff become reconciled to the change. Beust, the New Austrian Minister te the Court of St. James. Von Beust, lately Chancellor of the Austrian empire, and, beyond all question, one of the very ablest statesmen of his day, has accepted the appointment of Ambassador to England, and he is expected to arrive in London in the course of the present week, Von Beust, although from accidental circumstances his career has been less brilliant, is almost as well known, the wide world over, as Bismarck, The leading stateaman of Saxony for some years previous to the battle of Sa- dows, he transferred his services from that date to the Emperor of Austria; and it is on all hands admitted that to him more than to any other must be credited those reforms which baye pacified Hungary and maintained the integrity of the empire. Von Beust's latest achievement is the reconcillation of Aus- tris and Germany—a reconciliation which, it is generally understood, has taken the shape of a treaty offensive and defensive, It is rea- sonable, we think, to take it for granted that in accepting the appointment to the Court of St. James he has been influenced quite as much by patriotic as by selfish motives, If Austriaand Germany have agreed upon any policy regard- ing the valley of the Danube, it is of all things desirable that Great Britain should be induced to share their views, Von Beust is no stranger in London, for so far back as 1846 he was the Saxon Chargé d’Affaires in that city. Vou NOVEMBER 22, 187.—TRIPLE SHEET. Ap Earnest Raid on the City Plunderers at Last—Judge Bedford’s Charge. At the commencement of the labors of the famous Committee of Seventy, the Hmrarp warned its members that by following the counsels of political wirepullers, and suffering themselves to be led by the nose by adventur- ers who used the agitation for city reform to advance their own personal schemes they would fail in the main object of the good work they had undertaken—the punishment of the unfaithful pablic officers who had plundered the people of millions of dollars, We foresaw that a crusade against the guilty parties, only for the sake of ‘upsetting Tammany” and “having a new deal” in the distribution of the municipal spoils, could not satisfy the ends of justice or afford a useful lesson to those who might hereafter be called to positions of trast in the city government. The result justifies our predictions, The Commit- tee of Seventy and all its subdivisions ex- pended their time in keeping up a running fire of startling disclosures, the whole of which were only variations of the first developments that had been made, and ended in the one fact already known to all our citizens—that the city treasury had been shamefully plundered by corrupt contractors and conniving officials. They made no serious attempt to place the real culprits at the bar of a criminal court. Their organs denounced plenty of public officers as thieves, and alleged time and again that proof sufficient to send them to a felon’s cell was in the hands of the committee; but if the Seventy really had such evidence they certainly never put it to its proper use, In- deed, one of the earliest acts of the Com- mittee—the friendly alliance formed with one of the principal offenders—fettered the hands of Justice and made an empty farce of the pre- tence that an earnest prosecution for the sake of justice alone was contemplated. One of the leading reformers, it is true, performed a valuable service in tracing into Tweed’s pos- session about a one-third share of the stolen money distributed by the receiver, Woodward ; but he stopped short at that, and although the discovery of the disposition made of the re- mainder ofthe plunder must have been just as easy as was the tracking of Tweed’s dividend, the people have up to this time received no information on the subject. These half meagares of retribution, these political expe- diency evasions and concealments, have ended, as we foresaw they would, in the escape of all the guilty parties, so far as the Committee of Seventy is concerned. The election is over ; and the people, by their own independent and determined action, without reference to the Committee of Seventy or any other body, have overthrown the political ring and the organization by which official dishonesty was tolerated, if not endorsed, But absolutely nothing bas been done in the cause of justice. A civil suit has been commenced against a portion only of the detected plunderers ; but even this is of doubt- ful standing in the Courts, and may probably fall through on a legal point. One of the leading peculators still boldly holds on to office, Another retires with a high-sounding letter of resignation, and amid a shower of praise from the political reformers. Others have gone to Europe to enjoy their ill-gotten wealth. One witadss is dead, another is abroad, @ third has fled from a felon’s fate, a fourth is “it and out of town,” but although holding the important position of Assistant Auditor in the Comptroller's Department nobody seems to be able to discover his whereabouts. And so ends the chapter of the prosecutions of the Committee of Seventy. Another and a different power is now at work to bring home to the guilty parties the crimes of robbery and forgery supposed to have been committed by somebody, and to punish them if convicted. Judge Bedford has charged the Grand Jury on the subject of the city frauds, and has reminded. them that it is their sworn duty to institute a rigid investigation. independent of anything that may have been done by other bodies, and to present all who may be believed guilty. The Grand Jury are told by the Judge, “Your body is omnipotent; you are responsible to nobody; you can send for witnesses and for papers, and can command the strong arm of the law to compel obedience to your sum- mons.” This is true, and it will be singular if the present inquest does not succeed in fixing the criminality where it belongs and in vindicating the cause of justice, Judge Bedford is independent of all political associa- tions and personal friendships when he pre- sides over his Court, and he administers justice sternly and fearlessly, but with an even hand. He enters upon this duty on- trammelled by bargains and alliances with any of the suspected parties, and hence will not be fettered, as was the Committee of Seventy. The Grand Jury have it in their power to call before them ex-Mayor Have- meyer, Samuel J. Tilden, Andrew H, Green and any others they may please, in order to ascertain whether any and what arrangements have been made to screen any persons implicated in the city frauds. They can assuredly suc- ceed in discovering the present residence of Lynes, the Deputy Auditor, who is said to be able to afford information of a valuable char- acter in relation to the fraudalent warrants, In fact, they have their hands free, and can prosecute the inquiry without fear or favor. In his determination not to suffer the city to rest under the stigma of being unable or un- willing to bring public robbers to justice, and in his fearless vindication of the law, Judge Bedford has added to his already high reputa- tion as an upright judge, When the time for a charter election arrives, whether in the spring or 8 year later, popular sentiment will demond just such a man for the Chief Magis- trate of the city. Srioxs To His Demooratio CoLors.—Dan Voorhees (ex-Member of Congress), in the Terre Haute (Ind.) Journal, is decidedly op- posed alike to the passive doctrine of the St. Louis Repudtican and the railroad Scottism of the Cincinnat! Znguirer, “Defeat,” ho thinks, “‘is by no means thé worst of ills to honest men, A base surrender of measures and of men, and then defeat besides, which would be inevitable, is an infinitely more in- tolerable picture to look upon.” By the time the Democratic National Convention meots, if it ever does meet, the leaders of the party will be in the mont delectable muddle imeginable, Our Special Despatches from Mexico, The Henaxp special telegrams from Mexico which are published in our columns to-day detail the history of events occurring in the repablio as it was reported in the capital on the. 11th, and at Matamoras and on the line of the Rio Grande on the 20th instant. The narrative is almost uniform in its expres- sion, It speaks of revolution, of civil war and tumult, of public doubt and alarm, of want of confidence in the State authorities and of an almost general absence of loyalty towards the national Executive. General Rocha was marching to the relief of Saltillo, The place was severely pressed by the revolutionista, so that a speedy issus of the contest at that point wasimmiuent, General Alatorre was engaged in constant observation ot the movements at Oaxaca, and Diaz was equally busy in his conduct of the work of fortifying the place. It is needless to recapitulate the movements and counter movements of the different com- manders. Suffice it to say that the revolu- tionary undertaking is becoming general in Mexico, and that the most im- portant changes, governmental and social, are Likely to ensue from its completion, Juarez repeated his request to Congress for a parliamentary vote of extraordinary powers to the “President. Mexican citizens subscribed money for the relief of Chicago and for aid of the sufferers by fire in Wisconsin, The neigh- boring republic will most assuredly experience the effects of a new and remarkable crisis in its history, and that at a very early moment, The Mails frem the West Indies-Our Special Letters. Our special correspondence from the West Indies reached us by mail yesterday. The let- ters supply details of the telegraph cable news reports which have already appeared in the HREALD, accompauied by an elaboration of some of the tacts which were embraced in our advices from South America, Indeed, it may be said, speaking generally, that the intelli- gence possesses an almost entirely local inter- est, and we should perhaps say so were it not for our conviction of the grand national fact that it is well for the North American re- public to keep posted with regard to all the events which transpire in its more immediate surroundings. Hayti remained agitated by the affair of the seizure of the steamship Hor- net, and a number of Spanish ships-of-war were expected at Port au Prince. President Saget enjoyed a pleasing reception at Aux Cayes, The country had a lull from the po- litical agitation of the hour. Seventeen houses were consumed by the late fire in Port au Prince. No cause had been assigned for the conflagration when our despatches were forwarded, In Venezuela the military were employed to keep order at Caracas, the city agitation produced by the revolutionary move- ment having become of an exceedingly threat- ening character. The Brazilian Envoy had, it was said, suspended relations with President Blanco, charging that his official papers were opened by the Venezuelan officials, Governor Bille was very popular in St. Thomas, and the subject of annexation to the United States was not spoken of. St. Domingo is represented as being in avery favorable condition, President Baez continued his tour of visitation. He was received outside of Santiago by a procession numbering over four thousand persons. They were joyous, loyal and apparently united— very unexpected features in the political world of Dominica, The United States steamers Nipsic and Shawmut were in the ports of the republic, The news detail from St. Thomas relates to the affair of the steamer Florida, an old subject, and one which should be permit- ted to rest as between Spain and the United States, The inferences which ate to be de- duced from our special news budget from the West Indies and South America point to the conclusion that the days of revolutions made to order are passing away, and that North American influences are being felt more di- rectly in the West Indian territory daily. The She Herculesii of the Age. Andrew Hercules Green bas made a crevasse in the municipal business of the city of New York, Andrew Hercules Green has swept the Augean stable of Tammany eorruption, An- drew Hercules Green is the biggest man among the great political reformers of the age. He is at last the Comptroller of the city and county of New York, and no deputy humbug about it. ? And now, having accomplished thus much for our political regeneration, what has An- drew Hercules Green to do toward the moral reformation of some of our erring people? What can he do toward the reformation of those lovely beings who are bowiog at the enchanting shrine of those Wall street Pytho- nesses, Olaflin and Woodhull? Nebuchadnezzar was sent out to grass, Mrs. Victoria Woodhull went to Chicago, and, like Mrs. Nezzar, was sent out a grass widow. And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchad- nezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, where- ‘with his spirit was troubled and sleep brake from him,—Danitel, t., 21. Mrs. Nebuchadnezzar-Woodhull has been dreaming dreams, and what is the catastro- phe? She dreams that marital relations are not worth a straw—not worth so much asa whiff of the salt meadow grass on a Jersey flat. She says sho ‘knows too well the mise- ries of married life.” Undoubtedly; but why did she not continue, in the words of Job :— Suffer me that 1 may speak; and after that I have mock on.—Job, xxi, 1 Therefore let no one push the Wall street apostle of the she Herculesil against the wall, Mrs, Nebuchadnezzar-Woodhull is among the brazen images that should have been ground in the dust—gold dust, perhaps— ® long time ago. Yet, as she is bent upon purifying the moral stable of humanity, would it not be well for her to join hands with Andrew Hercules Green and help him in his noble vocation of purging the Augean politi- cal stables of our present municipal govern- ment? Olean them out according to Scrip- ture—ay, according to statute. Mrs, Wood- hull may thereupon become one of the she Herculesii of the age. Tae Lovisvirte Courier-Journal ex- claims:—"Up with schoolhouses and down with the Ku Klox is the word; and if it be spoken in time, and with proper spirit and emphasis, it will prove a word of enchant- ment,” This is the right kind of talk, Much better than in hiring negro desperadoes to leave the South to pecome the poate of Northern communities, a co mmc apc \probably, than any regard for maintaining the . General Sheridan Vindicated, A Grand Jury of Chicago has just come to, the conclusion, with regard to General Sheri- | dan’s conduct during and immediately after ) the great fire, which a jury of the whole American people had come to previously, . Not only has the General been exonerated | from the charges of Governor Palmer by the Grand Jury, but it commends the action of Mayor Mason in calling to his ald the services of General Sheridan at that crisis, and de~ clares that the thanks of the commanity were due to the General for the efficient aid i dered by him to the regular police pos that trying emergency, It is lamentable that a high public officer cannot do a noblé and necessary actin remarkable exoeptional. cases, where the only law to guide him is the law of necessity, without being attacked and even an effort being made to drag him before the courts of law. The politicians inimical te General Grant, and who are endeavoring to set him aside, carry their hostility even to hia friends and outside of politics. The friendship’ between the President and Sheridan had more to do with the attempt to prosecute the latter, strict letter of the law. However, as wo said, @ Chicago Grand Jury has rendered a verdict ~ that the whole American people approve. CHorzrA Has Broxen Our m Harirax, N.5S., and a cook of the steamer Frauklin—the vessel now held in quarantine here with that disease on board—is charged with bringing it onshore, This should warn us that continued ~ and unwearied vigilance is required to avert the pestilence. Let our Quarantine officials be ever on the alert, The Reform Movement Down South. The reform thunder is reverberating all over: the land, and its lightning is striking in the most hidden places. The Augusta (Ga.) Con- atitutionalist (democratic), after recalling the corruptions of the democracy in this city, pro- ceeds to assert that while democratic corrup-, tion was local and concentrated, ‘‘republicad corruption, having better opportunities, was widespread and universal. Grant is the ex- ponent and model of the party in power. It will be for that party to decide whether it will present him, and the party’s record through him, for the popular endorsement. If it does,” continues the Constitutionalist, with consider- able force, ‘‘we look for a reform movement in the body of that party itself, liko the refornz movement which overtorew Tammany, that will appeal to the honest sentiment of the country 4 against the spoilers, An independent organi- zation” (mark the prophecy!) ‘‘will spring up inside of that party which will raise the banner of reform and will inscribe on it, ‘Let us have peace and honesty!’” The Constitutionaliet_ further declares that in this uprising move- ment for reform the State of Georgia should not be content to speak in a low voice, “The robberies perpetrated by her absconded Gov- ernor and his co-conspirators rival the atroci- ties of Tammany.” The great reform tidal / wave is moving on slowly but irresistibly, ' Nor is it likely to end until every vestige of corruption and spoliation is swept from high official places, ; Tae Watersury (Conn.) American (rev publican) thinks that Grant has made a good President, but gives place to a communication from a Hartford correspondent who looks for @ new republican anti-Grant departure, with the watchword of “Hawley and victory.” Proposrp REMOVAL OF THE Frenon Gov- ERNMENT From VERSAILLES TO Paris.—It is now stated that the goveroment of M. Thiers has consented to support a motion which is to be made so soon as the Assembly meets to re- store to Paris her ancient privilege and to remove thither the headquarters of the na- tional government, It is not to be denied that Paris, if she is ever to become what she once was—the pride of France and the eye of Eu- rope—must be made the capital city. In Paris to-day all property is at a discount, and the shopkeepers are clamorous and discontented. It is a question, however, whether it is wise, after the experience of the last fifteen months, again to place the government at the mercy of the Paris mob. Public opinion seems to en- courage the idea that national governments should not be located in large and populous centres. Frenchmen, however, are so proud of Paris that it is to be feared Paris will once more regain her proud place as the national capital. Tax Provipenor Journal (republican) says there are other “rings” than in New York, and remarks that its own State furnishes lamentable witness of the power of money cor- ruptly applied at elections, So the wave of reform is sweeping over even Little Rhody. Let it keep on sweeping. A Muddle About the State Comptrollership. The Albany Argus is agitating the question whether a State Comptroller is to be eletted in 1872 based upon the tenure of the Comp- troller elected in 1870. Against the positive language of the constitution of 1846, remarks the Argus, the argument is offered that the scheme of the present constitution was to alternate the election in different years of the Governor and State officers.. The Argus im- sists that there is nothing in the constitution to show such a purpose, except that the first election under it was made to fall, first, for the choice of Governor and next for the choice of the State officers. While this matter suspends unsettled over the office in question, in the opinion of the Argus the Democratic Conven- tion will nominate In 1872 » candidate for the office, or, if it should not, some outside or ganization will do so, or some self-nominated candidate will take his chances and appeal te the Courts to sustain him. Our contemporary thinks the question had better be settled now, while the publio mind is calm, and before any complications arise with the County Treas- urers, the Boards of Supervisors, &e., owing to any confilot of understanding as to the rightfal administrator of the office. On the other hand, the Albany Journal, the republt. can organ, treats the suggestions of the Argue very lightly, and apprehends that no obstagtes will be cast in the way of the administration.of the office by the republican Comptroller eect when he enters upon his duties, But there has been so much muddling and troubliag, and twisting and turning, and backing and filling, and lying ond cheating and stealipg about