The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY scented ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Al! basinees or news letter and telegraphic @espatches niust be addressed New York Herarp. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEXING, “Proaaway.—Tue Bauer Pan. roms oF Lusty DUMPTE, OLYMPIC THEATRE, THEATRE COMIQUE, a4 Broadway.—Couro Vooau me, NVGKO ACIE AO. S THEATRE, Twentv-eighth stree: and Broad- BT OF THR PUBLIO—Baconvs. WALLACK’S TILMATRE. Broadway and 13h strest.— RoexpaLe, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Brontway, corner 20th st. —erform ances afternoon and evening—BLACK SuBEP, petween Sth and sth INGLE BOWERY THIATRE, Bowery. Tar PaeNOMENON— SEARCHING THX DePTHs, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sireeis.—UUR AMERICAN COUBIN. GRAND opi RA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. ana $44 sta Tux Ticker oF .. LPAVE MAN. LINA EDWIN THEATRE, No, 720 Broaniw; Bourry—La Granpe DucHYssr. OPERA NUG sor D: FIFTA av! E, Twenty-four street.— Tex New D: PARK THEATRE, oppot Derecrive, & MRS. F. 5. HaMLer. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourtesnth et. and Broad- way.—NEGKO ACTS—BURLESQUR, BALLET, £0. City Hall, Prookign.—Bor “BROOKLYN THEATRE. — CONWAY'S ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth. street.—LucTURE on “Taz Narorr AND SouRor oF Liens. STEINWAY HAT, Pourieesth street. Couonrt. Jas. Fisk's, J8,'s, NinTH ROXIMENT Baxp Concert. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 68 Broadway.— THE SAN FuANcisoo MINSTRELS, BRYANT'S NiW OPERA HOUSR, 234 at, veiwesn 6th ane 7th ova.—BRvaNr’s MINGTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, a 202 Bowery.— RO EOOrNTRICITING, BURLESQUES, £0. NEW YORK crReus, Feurizenth etree —Souwne 1 TRE RING, ACKOLATS, TRIPLE SHE ET. PAGE, x 1—Advertisements, QeAdvertisements. 8—Alexis: Deparvors from New York for the Cap: mes by the Way; Arrival in ue Apartments at ihe Lussian 1.0n; the Presentation to the ‘0 3 Recoption at the Russiaa ; Feture Movements of the Grand i chai eaters Real Mission to the United ate: 4@—Vongress: Te Winter's Work; 9 General Sur- Vey of ibe ,smportant Measures Claiming At- tention—Municipal Reconstruction: The Ap- tment, Acceptance and Swearing In of lew City Commuusstoners—rooklyn's Bother— Relief for whe Fire Vicums—The Savings Bauks—An Unknown Man Killed—Another Probable Murder—Views o! the Past, G—Coniituo:: of tue City: Important Meeting of the Board Health Yesterday—The Cholera— Proceedings in the Courts—Judge Beaford’s | Tevec—' oinbs Police Court—Another Interest- ing Wi! Case—Brooklyn Moriality—The Via- duet Rati: ond—Shall We Fly Our Newark 3 lags ’—The ry Question, “The Republican in England — ‘Are We 10 Wiinvss the Downfall of the Monarchy ?’—Amusement Announcements, 9—Editorial (Continued from Sixt) Puge)—News from Keigium, England, Spain, ome, Bun- gary, Venezuela, Caba, West ladies, Haya and St. Thomas—Amuséments— Additional Particulars 01 the Burning cf the Steamship City of New Loudon—Business Notices. G—Enrope: Remarkable Speech of Bismarck in the G rhament; How Count Beust Feil from Power in Austria; A London Scandal; Aipister &chenck’s Speech at the Lord Mayor's Hanquet—bursting Bad Boilers: Trving the Surengtn of Iron With the Might of Steam— Fertis of the Peep: Total Deetruction of the Steamship city of New London; Losi Cargo, Severai Passengers and ro Crew: Wreck of the Prig C, H. Kennedy on the New Jersey Coast—Pubite Instruction— Rapid Transtt—Ravroading in New Jersoy— Suicide by Hangmg—A Good Grabber but a Bad Runner—City Government. O—Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Market—The Cotton Movement—Marriages and Deaths—Aivertisements, to—¥e Will Have Jc: The National Woman Suf- frage Convention at Phiadelpbia—rpe Anti- Grant Move Views of General Butler, Senaior Wilsun and Thurlow Weed—North Carolina Finances: Governor Caidweil’s Mes- sage 10 the Legisiature—shipping Lnteiligence —Advertisemeats, 11—Adveruuscimenis, 12—Aavertisements, Jcpez Beprorp’s Granp Jury have an opportunity of distinguishing themselves, So has District Attorney Garvin. Better to have the credit of bringing the city robbers to jus- tice than to possess the wealtii of Tweed and all his assoc! ciate. Tae Propner Hibbs Youna, according to his counsel, left Salt Lake City some time ago, not to avoid Lis trial for “lewd and lascivi- ‘ous conduct,” but in search of a more genial climate, on account of his failing bealth; and it is generally understood that his health will notimprove sufficiently to justify bie retura inside of twenty years. Tue Gaanp DvuxeE left the city yesterday and arrived in Washington last evening. All along the route he was cordially received by the people, who thronged the depots, except at Philadelphia, where his oming seemed to be known to very. few of the cillzens, and where he was consequently allowed te pass very quictly. On his arrival in Washington he was received without any display, and pro- ceeded at once to Minister Catacazy’s resi- dence, The President will receive him for- mally to-day at one o'clock. There will be very few persons admitted to witness the re- ception, which will be a very quiet and unos- tentatious ceremonial, Orrizen AGrration IN Brvssers.—Ths capi- tal of Belgium was agitated to a dangerous extent yesterday evening. The people demon- strated against the appointment of M. Decker to the office of Governor of Limbourg. The populace was moved to such a degree that a crowd of persons marched to the gates of the King’s palace. Military preparations were made for the suppression of tomult by force, if necessary. M. Decker was formerly manager of the school system of the king- dom, and in this was found the objection to him, It is the same cause of trouble as that which prevails in some few other countries— secular or denominational education, or edu- cation under the supervision of the Catholic Jhurch alone. The frequent occurrence of spurts of agitation ov various public subjecis ‘n Belgium of date days is exceedingly detrl- mental to the well-being of a most industrious people, whose grand misfortune is to be found in the fact that they inbabii a territory which bas become a sort of geograplical incon- venience to the larger and more poweriul gations which surround it, particularly since the inal issue of the Franco-Prussian war, = NEW YOKK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Eepudlican Movement ta We to Witness the Downfall of archy @ Preparations are being made for a grand mags meeting in London next week, at which Sir Charles Dilke is to be the principal speaker, Sir Charles quite recently made a speech at Neweastle-on-Tyae—a speceh which, wo be- lieve, in its immediate results, has boon quite a8 surprising to himself as it has been start- ling to the world. On the occasion referred to Sir Charles summed up the expenses of the monarchy, piled thousands upoa thousands, and, apparently to the complete satisfaction of his audience, proved that the British mon- aroby, things being as they now are, fs a very expensive and a very useless toy. Lord By- ron tella us that he awoke one morning and, much to his own surprise, found him- self famous. Sir Charles Dilke is a gen- tleman and a man of culture; in the literary world he has acquired some reputation; bat, unless we greatly mistake, Sir Charles must have found himself on the morning after his } Newcastle speech very much as Lord Byron found himself on that famous morning when his name was on every I'p. Mr. Bradlaugh is de- throned, Mr. Odger is nowhere; but Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke is the acknowledged king of English radicals. That he is not pained by the reputation be has won, and that he takes somewhat kindly to his new friends, is evi- denced by the fact that he has consented to take the prominent place at the forthcoming demon- stration in London. Mirabeau, and after him the great Napoleon, were wont te say that a revolutionary movement could never be fruit- ful unless it found a great leader, hims-If the incarnation of the dominant sentiments, sym- pathies and forces et his time. Have the British radicals found their man in Sir Charles W. Ditke? We think it doubtful; but we are willing to leave it to time to test the experl- ment. At the same time it is Impossible to refuse to admit that the adhesion of sucha man to the revolutionary movement which notoriously exists, and which undisgnisedly advances in the direction of the republic, is to be regarded as one of the signs of the times. So long as the revolutionary movement was represented and advocated only by such men as Bradlaugh and Odger, existing interests bad little ground for apprehension; for the violence of the party leaders made suecessimpossible, It has always been so in Great Britain, It was so ia the years that immediately preceded the pass- ing of the first Reform bill. It was not until the cultivated and titled orders took the matier in hand that suocess began io be seen in the dim distance; and the Reform bill of 1882, whith has been £0 fruitful of blessings to the whole Britigh people, yas not so much & Popular victory as 8 iriumph ‘of the cultivated and liberal intellects of the time, seconded by the hereditary reformera, as represented by such men 4s Henry Brougham, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord John Russell and Earl Grey. It was the want of such support that made such a Jivsco of the Chartist movement in 1839. Nor would it be difficult to show that it was mainly by these same forces that Mr. Disraeli found it 80 easy tocarry his Reform bill in 1867. Sir Charles Dilke ig not the only man of his order who has revealed sympathy with this new but as yet ill-defined revolutionary move- ment. Mr. Fawcett, the learned member for Brighton, and Jobn Stuart Mill are both ndAre i advanced reformers, who by tongue and pcn have long and vigorously advocated sweeping and radical changes. It would not be difficult o mention scores of names among the young and rising statesmen who have openly advo- cated measures the adoption of which would be destructive o! all hereditary authority. Mr. Disraeli’s sympathies are well known; and it is not to be doubted that but for his unfortunate connection with a slow, interested and reactionary party, whom he finds it diffi- cult to educate, he would be the most advanced reformer of these times. His Reform bill was one proof of this; his late Hughenden speech was another. And what shall we say of Mr. Gladstone himself? It is his pride that in one section of Her Majesty's dominions he has abolished an ancient historic Church establishment and humbled the here- ditary lords of the soll by making an end of an old and iniquitous system of land tenure. It is equally his boast that he has recon- structed the British army on a basis which knows not Crown rights nor aristocratic privi- leges. Vigorous and ready for a new cam- paign, he has publicly announced his deter- mination to protect the conscientious voter by the ballot box and to reform the House of Lords, if need be. Most certainly there is no lack of reformers among the acknowledged statesmen of Great Britain. If anything were wanted to show how deep, intense and gen- eral is the reform sentiment, and how firmly it has taken hold of the highest as well as of the t classes, might point to the recent pa a oF Mir. 74 Base ii—a movemont which, though it failed, revealed the fact that some of the greatest names among the tory aristocracy of England were not unwilling, o1 a well defined platform, to meet, shake hands and co-operate with the workingmen. Every- where in the three kingdoms is heard the growl of discontent. Ireland demands home rule, and the Catholic clergy have gone back upon themselves by insisting on the abolition of the national schools and the establishment of a denominational system of education. Scotland is loudly indignant at the treatment she is experiencing in the Imperial Parlia- ment, and asks the question whethor she is to wait forever for the passing of her Education bill, Tho educational ques- tion is a cause of fresh discontent in England; and whereas the Irish demand denominationalisn, the English denounce it. In addition to all this there are cries for tho abolition of the law of entail, for the recon- struction of the House of Lords, for the abolition of the State Church and for the establishment of the republic. With demands so numerous, so radical and so sweepiug, and with fitting men in abundance willing to push them by tongue and pen, revolution in Great Britain caunot be far off. As we have hinted already, the one defect of this new revolutionary movement is that it is wanting in direct aim and purpose, Herein lies the weakness of the reformers. There is no lack of wants, but neither is there any bond of unity. The reform party is a house divided ; it is an army with many offloers, but without # qeneral-in-chief, Such being the ease, the Prince of Wales sloops soundly and the ‘eristooracy are but little, if at ail, die quieted, It has often been so before, The old monarehy lias often, to outward appear- anoe, ‘bean at tho mercy of the mob; but when the crisis came ths mob was found weak and the monarchy was found strong. The present movement is bound to grow and gather atrngth. It may yet assume. dan- gerous proportions and bring about a crisis uvparaHeled -in the history of the empire, But no one who has made himself familiar with the history of England will readily admit that the present generation will bo the ead of the monarchy, At the same time, it would be absurd to conclude that the present rovolu'ionary movement will come to naught, It will gradually take a more defi- nite shape. The demands will be reduced in number; the aim will become more direct, the purposo more deflaite, In the approach- ing struggle there may be more than one Min- isterial crisis, more than one general election, and not a little disturbance, As the result, some important reforms will be carried, the people willl rise nearer to the surface, and proportionately will be contented; and so, for at least another decade, things will soitle down {nto comparative quiet. The republic will not be yet; bat the republic must come, not in Great Britain alone, but in every nation in Europe. The government of the pcople, by the people and for the people, must more and more become the popular doctrine, and ultimately it must prevail. We in these United States should be grateful that whilo we are the youngest of the peoples our government is the model government for all the future. Judge Bedford’s Raid on the Peculatorse— The Duty of District Attorsey Garvin. Judge Bedford has done his part towards redeeming the character of the city from the stigma of condoning felony and towards bring- ing to justice the knavish contractors and dis- honest municipal officers who have been con- cerned in defrauding and plundering the pub- lio treasury. After waiting until the. election was over, andit became evident that nothing was to be done by the volunteer committees in the way of punishing the guilty parties, Judgo Bedford convened the Grand Jury and charged them on the subject of the city frauds, remind- ing them that their duty called upon them to investigate the matter and to present those concerned in the peculation, whoever they might be. But here his power ends and the responsibility of another officer—the District Attoraey of the city and county of New York— commences. It is now Mr: Garvin's duty to prepare the casos for investigation by the Grand Jury, and the people will insist that he shall no longer evade or delay its perform- ance. There have not been wanting sugges- tions that District Attorney Garvin's office is not so much a terror to evildoers as it ought to be, and, while we hold that no such insinuations should be made against the character of a publio officer unsubstantiated by clear proof, it is yet incumbent upon Mr. Garvin at this time to disprove by his acts the charges of his partisan assailants. Up to the present moment the whole machinery of the city government has been out of gear, and the proper officers have been, as it were, pushed aside by semi-Communistic bodies, who have taken upon themselves the privilege of ‘“‘run- ning the machine.” When a city official bas indicated his inteation of performing his func- tions, or has commenced an official act, he has been told that he need not trouble himself in the matter, that the business he was elected or appointed to do has been undertaken by others, and his motives have been called in question. Probably this may have been the reason why we have heard nothing of District Attorney Garvin in connection with prosecu- tions for the city frauds. But the election has changed all this. The politicians have accom- plished their object and are quite willing to suffer the municipal excitement to die out as soon as they shall have secured to themselves the fruits of victory. Indeed, with a view to the profits of an incoming administration, they would be very glad if all further trouble in regard to official peculation could be hushed up. This, however, is not the people's idea of areform movement, The politicians have proved too much; they have shown that the grossest plundering has existed in the city government, and the people who have been robbed insist that punishment shall be meted out to the guilty parties as a lesson and a warning to future municipal officers. We intend now to hold District Attorney Garvin up to his duty. The Hzratp has in- sisted from the firat that the criminals should be hunted down, whoever they might be. While the partisan press has been screening this offender, or covering up the tracks of that suspected officer, we have demanded thorough scrutiny and stern justice, on what head so- ever the blow might fall. We have not scolded like a common drab, or branded honorable men as thieves and toadies for political eff:ct ; but we have declared our determination to perse- vere in the attempt to fix the criminality whe: it belongs, without fear or favor, and we intend to adhere to this resolution, We sball now insist that District Attorney Garvin per- form his duty promptly, boldly and efficiently, The secrecy of the Grand Jury room cannot screen him if he should neglect or refuse to make a searching and impartial investigation of the whole matter of the city frauds from first to last, including the forged warrants and vouchers of Keyser & Co. He must trace out the present abode of Lynes, the Assistant County Auditor, and of all witnesses whose testimony will assist the cause of justice, He must track the remainder of the plunder, ® portion of which only was found by Mr. Tilden. Judge Bedford has pointed out to the District Attorney the path of duty, and thut officer must follow it in good faith, or we shall demand that he be called to account. Now that the game of the politicians is “played out,” let the people have justice and let felony be properly punished, Disrrior ATTORNEYS who neglect or refuse to perform their duties can be removed by the Governor, District Attorney Garvin's duty is now to bring to justice the men who have robbed the city treasury, Hagerty and Bavton can be merely paid tools if guilty of the voucher robbery with which they stand charged, Why does not the District Attornoy use ono or both of them as State's evidence, and thus unravel easily the whole compiloated wab of the oltw frauda? Proposed Alliance Between Russia and the United StateeThe |’ Mission of | Duke Alexts, : The Heap apscial despatches from Wash- ington last night bring us the information, said to have been derived from reliable sources, that the rep] mission of the Grand Duke Alexis to this country is to propose to our government an ailiance, offensive and defensive, between the two nations, with a view not only to present anticipated complica- tions in Europe, but also to future operations on a gigantic scale in Asia, We aro told that Russia desires our active ald in the event of a European war, or at least that we shall go oover the eoas with privateers sailing under Russian letters of marque—of course all treatios and laws to the contrary notwi:h- sfanding—as to paralyze the already gouty arm of Old England on the seas, This accom- plished, the Emperor Alexander believes be can defy all Europe; and we have no doubt that in this respect at least, in the language of New York politicians, the Rogers: Alex- ander's head is level, °°" "Sy" So, then, this interesting, fair-hatred and blue-eyed Prince, with his modest manners and his placid countenance, is, after all, a Machiavelli in disguise, and as ‘davilish sly” as Joe Bagstook himself. While everybody has been led to believe that he came here bent only on touching the susceptiblo hearts of our American beanties, the real object of his visit appears to be to penetrate through the thick smoke of the Presidential cigar and to take captive the oast-iron old Hero of the Wilderness. A committee of our most respect- able and corpulent citizens have been fussing for two or three weeks over the fitting up of reception rooms and chambers at the Claren- don with flowers and frescoes, mirrors and musl{us, paintings and perfumes to gratify the refined taste of the ‘“‘sweet young Prince,” and lo! their guest, immediately after his arrival, washes the dust of the procession from his hands and face, rans a comb through his fair locks, throws a chan;e of linen and half a dozen shirt collars inio a valise, jumps ona train and steams off to Washington to commence his diplomatic labors with the taciturn occupant of the White House. Our militia regiments put on their finest of fineries, bring out their best and biggest bands, give anextra polish to their bright bayonets and an additional roll of padding to their swelling chests, to do honor to the royal sailor-soldier or warrior of all trades; but as they march in review before him his eye passes with profane indifference over the perfect get-up of the Colonel of the Ninth and rests with a kindling beam of gratification on the oné-armed leader of the Veteran Reserves, and on the dusky uniforms and tattered flag, that tell how faith- fally in days gone by the brave men who now follow him so quietly on parade, dashed with him into the hot smoke of the enemy’s guns. Our ladies and nice yousg men keep them- selves in a flurry of bustle and excitement over the preparations for the grand ball, at which the handsome Duke is expected to dance, while the royal youth, measuring six feet one in his stockings, is dreaming of noth- ing softer than cannon balls and of no other galops than the galloping of Russian hussars. Well, the policy of the United States has hitherto—and wiscly—been ‘‘no entangling alliances with foreign nations.” But, in tho wonderful growth of our power, influence and wealth, and in the astounding revolutions yet to be made throughout the globe through the agencies of steam and electricity, who can say how soon this theory may be scattered to the winds to keep company with negro slavery, State rights, the democratic party and the charter of the Tammany Society? It may ere long become necessary for us to stretch our magnetic arm from Alaska, along the islands of the Aleutian Archipelago, across the Sea of Japan, to grasp bands with Russia in the Corea, not to speak of Governor Gilpin’s grand idea of linking ourselves with iron rails to St. Petersburg over the insignifi- cant little ditch of Behring Strait. In view of the magnificent political victory recently won by General Jemmy O’Brien, we may even bave to throw down the gauntlet to perfidious Albion on behalf of the republic of Hibernia, and in that contingency Russia would as- suredly be a valuable military ally. At all events the government of the United Slates has always found its warmest friend in the latitude of fifty-nine degrees fifty-six minutes North, and probably the young republic of the West has not a single enemy between the Arctic Ocean and the Caspian Sea. President Grant and his advisers will give a friendly ear and a full consideration to the propositions of the royal diplomat, whatever may be their final determination. In the event of a Euro- pean war Russia may safely calculate upon she hearty sympathy, at least, of the United States, and it would be singular if the stand- ard of the double-headed eagle did not draw to it considerable material aid as well. The extent of our coast, too, would render the ‘escape of privateers for Russian service very probable, even if the government at Washing- ton should occupy a neutral position between the belligerents. Such accidents have hap- pened in the best regulated nations, and may occur again, At all events it is now clear that this innocent young sprig of royalty, whose coming has been looked for as a sort of holi- day jubilee, is destined to set politicians and diplomats crazy, as well as to turn the heads of our republican belles. The British Minis- terial Bureau in Wasbington must keep a sharp lookout, or the promising treaty cooked up by the Joint High Commission may yet be blown sky high; or rather ground into powder under the powerful paw of the Russian bear. ANotaER Important CaBLe has been com- pleted, by which Australie is brought into connection with the existing lines. The link referred to is between Batavia, the principal city on the Island of Java, and Port Darwin, ou the northern extremity of Australia, From the point of landing there are land lines—one directly south across the island to the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney; and one along the eastern coast touching Barkton, Cardwell, Rockhampton, Brisbane and Syd- ney. There is also a cable connection from Melbourne to Tasmania, These lines com. plete the belt of telegraphic communication throughout the Australian eolonies and con- nect them laterally with the great girdle that the nineteenth century is so rapidly putting acound the world, —$—$—<——$—$_$ ‘The Ferty-socond Congrese—Iis. Mon and Mayer Hall Before the Grand Jary. Moeusures. We print in the Hxrarp this morning « general survey of the work now beforo Con- gress, with some estimate of what will be sccomplished in the way of legislation this winter. Never before in the history of our national legislative body bas it beon so weak in instraments by which great measures are to be perfected, and never before has so much of the perfection of wisdom in legislation been required, The credit of the country is exoel- lent, in epite of blundering financial manage- ment; but a wise, comprehensive, statesman- like measure is needed to make that credit tell in favor of our industries at home and our commerce on the seas. As a financier Mr. Boutweil is a failure; but, unfortunately, the administration and Congress are dependent upon him for financial ideas and guidance. Mr. Samner is neither friendly to the party in power, though he is himself of that party, nor is he the man to put the country on a solid, gold-paying basis, Mr. Sherman, the Chair- man of the Finance Committee of the Senate, fs a tariff tinker—only this and nothing more, Mr. Morton, who, if anybody, Is the oracle of the administration, is too much of @ polHician ever to become @ statesman. Mr. Trumbull ranks very high in a certain school of politics, but he is positive only in bis lack of every positive quality, This makes up all of the Senate who can be looked to, however remotely, for legislative relief in the present crisis; and they are the men upon whom depends, in a great measure, the hope of the immediate future, In the House, Dawes, Garfield, Kelley and Shellabarger are the leading lights of the re- publican party, General Butler is kicking around on the outside of the party pond, try- ing to teach in various ways the party ducks how to improve their swimming ground. But there is no more to be hoped for from the five Representatives than from the five Senators. Neither of them can be compared to the five wise and the five foolish virgins, for they are all without ofl in their lamps. And yet im- portant measures affecting taxation and tho interesis of industry and commerce force them- selves upon the country and Congress, though the abilily to deal with thes> questions is wanting. Americans complain that they can- not build ships or compete with other nations in tho trade of the world; and Congress re- sponds that it docs not know how itis. The Americau merchant fiuds, in spite of steam and the electric intercourse of the cables, that exchange in London tells f+arfully against him year after year with millions of gold lying idle in the Treasury or doled out in Wall street as an Eighth avenue grocer doles out eggs to his customers in a scarce season. But Congress, busy as it is with taxation and the tariff, the duty on coal and the duty on iron, can find no way to make greenbacks as good as gad ‘ond an Awerican seen in London equal to a a British acceptaace In Ne lew Tie Mr. Bout. well does not want specie payments any more than a country storekeeper desires a fall in the price of prints, Congress cannot step in with a grand and comprehensive scheme which will bring the precious ores out of their hid- den vaults to revivify every branch of indusiry and trade, because Congress knows only the law of small expedients, Nothing comes of it al!, and nothing can come of it till a dollar is a dollar in fact as well as in name, and till the poyment of the national debt becomes a possi- bility, not by being taken out of the mouths of the people at the expense of sweat and toil, which leaves the nation poorer at the end of the year than at the beginning, but by the overflowing and redundant wealth of an ener- getic and prosperous nationality. It is not the statesman who can perceive this who will prove himself great, but he who can sweep away the necessity for such measures of small- minded succor ag the repeal of that grand achievement of American statesmanship known as maritime reciprocity, or smaller attempts to make the volume of the currency self-ad- justing, according to the wanis of the people, bya policy which shall make golden eagles flow in the same channels as golden sove- reigns, will make for himself everlasting fame, and of his countrymen happy and prospsrous people. This is the great thing for Congress to ac. complish. All other schemes are only a part of this, Tinkerings at the tariff may lead to warm discussions between ardent but superfi- cial protectionists, and not loss ardeut and su- perficial revenue reformers. The repeal of maritime reciprocity may inspire the hope that the golden age of American commerce, when American sails whitened every sea and the American flag gladdened every port, is about to return onco more. Efforts to make the volume of the currency self-adjusting, ac- cording to the wants of the people, may provoke a smile among men who know that paper is paper, whether it is called one dollar or a hundred; but they can only give us new loan bills, with fresh syndicates and fresh failures, And yet, in spite of bulls and bears and Boutwell and blundering Con- gressmen, a greenback is worth in gold nearly the face of the figures printed upon it, be- cause it represents the energy and wealth and credit of the nation. It is only a step from the depreciated currency of to-day to the gold values of to-morrow; but it is a step which, if taken, wil make the draft of the New York merchant equal to the draft of the merchant in London and Liverpool, and lift the American people out of the slough of despond. To take this step is the mission of the Forty-second Congress; but without this there is no necessity whatever for a Foriy- second Congress. -It would be a humiliating spectacle to see Congressmen busy themselves for a whole winter, as they have often done before, with political intrigues for the Presidential nomina- tion and embassies to the White House for political patronage in the custom houses and post offices, It would bea more humiliating spectacle to see Congress spend its time on land grabs and other jobs for wasting the people’s money. The letter in this day's Heratp shows that there is to be much of this kind of war; but, unfortunately, it fails to show in the men and measures of the Forty- second Congress a hope for that which the people most need and most earnestly desire. Super Bsprorp has done his part towards securing the punishment of fraudulent con- tractors and dishonest public officers, Now lat Miatrict Attorney Garvin do his, before whom the complaint preferred against. Mayor Hall was recently investigated, have published all the evidence taken in reference tothe charge. This unusual course was, ne doubt, decided upon in view of the indis- criminate assaults of the partisan press upoa’ all who refused to lend themselves to « blind Political prosecution of the reform movement, without regard to truth or justice, The Grand Jury foresaw that they would be denounced as a parcel of packed perjurers if they dismissed the charge against Mayor Hall, and so they determined to lay before the people a full report of the testimony of the several witnesses who appeared in the jury room, in order that it might be seen upon what a flimsy pretext they wore asked to bring in a bill against the Ohief Magistrate of the city. While the jury believed that Mayor Hall was to blame for carelessness and negligence in affixing his signature to warrants without examining and criticising the vouchers upon which they were based—a task which Mayor Hall bas shown would haye occupied all his time, and which he deemed unnecessary, stiie he did not then doubt the honesty of the Comp trolier—they found not a particle of evidence to criminally implicate him in the city frauds, .and the result they reached was “nearly. unanimous.” The testimony fully justifies their finding, Deputy Comptroller Green swore that he did not know of any act of Mayor Hall's in support of the acouse- tion, A. S. Cady, a clerk in the Comp- troller’s office for nineteen years, testified that warrante are always signed first by the Comptroller, after examination and approval by tho Auditor, and afterwards by the Mayor, and that vouchers have not always been sent with warrants tg the Mayor’s office, Honry F. Spaulding, tho chairman of one of the Seventy’s sub-committees, swore that he made the complaint against Mayor Hall on “‘lafor- mation and belief” only, and that he had ao knowledge that the Mayor had been guilty of misdemeanor or had connived at fraud. Cop- land, a dismissed elerk in the ComptroHers office, who made the affidavit upon which the complaint was based, did all he could to sug port bis case, but could say nothing: of his own knowledge, and only judged that Mayor Hall must have kuown of the frauds by placing himself in the Mayor's position and imagining that he should have been sharp enough to find out that something was wrong, But as Oop. land also swore that he had been installed in 8 clerkship in the Comptroller's office by James O'Brien; that he had employed himself for eighteen months in making copies of fraudulent and exorbitant warrants; that he kept the information he had acquired to himself unsi, he wag dismissed from his position and then pea it to James O’Brien, the Geass Ja “o ge: thought that Gop- faad wad too rR & customer to accept as the criterion of a Mayor's shrewdness, Ex, Mayor Havemeyer appeared as a witness, but he knew no facts that would throw light upem the case, and could only testify as to the man- ner in which he used to conduct the business, of the Mayor's office twenty-six years ago, when the whole expenses of the city govern ment were about two million dollars. Richard A. Storrs, gave evidence similar to that given hy Mr. Cady. Commodore Stebbins, the ohair- man of the Committee of Seventy, testified that the complaint against Mayor Hall was never submitted to that body for approval, and he knew nothing that could substanilaté the charges. Jackson S. Schultz gave similar testimony. Samuel J, Tilden knew nothing of the charges, and had no evidence that Mr. Hall ever received any of the money received on the fraudulent warrants. Judge Ledwith could state no fact to substantiate the charge. - Ditto with James O’Brien. George Jones had called Mayor Hall a thief in his paper, but that was an impersonality, and George Jones, as an individual, knew no facts that would prove the charge. Augustus L. Brown, of the frm of Brown, Vanderpoel & Hall, disposed of the false reports in regard to Mayor Hall’s wealth by proving that he was worth about sixty thousand dollars only, and that his bank balauce had never averaged more than four or flve thousand dollars. Wik liam A. Booth and others gave evidence simi- lar to the above, and the jury naturally came to @ nearly unanimous conclusion to dismiss the complaint. We need add no comments to the above. It tells the whole story, and shows the inde- corous character of the assaults that have been made upon Mayor Hall. That the Mayor has been careless in the discharge of his official duties no person will deny. That he has been corrupt and 9 sharer in plunder no honest man can now pretend to believe, Jupe@z Breprorp’s CHarez to the Grand Jusy puts District Attorney Garvin on trial, The people are waiting to see whetlier he will faithfully perform his duty and bring to pua ishment the plunderers of the people. The Popularity of ltalian Opera. The success of the Nilsson season of opera at the Academy of Music, which reached a culminating point last night in the first repre- sentation of ‘‘Mignon,” is a strong evidence of the desire of the American public to sup- port the lyric drama, With such artists as Nilsson and Capoul an opera troupe may be certain of attracting crowded houses every night; but two artists cannot be expected to bear on their shoulders the entire weight of the season. No onc has more need of proper rest than an opera singer, and balf tho broken- down voices that sometimes afflict the ears of the public may date their rain from over-ox- ertion and injudicious treatment. Therefore we advise the present management to engage for the spring season of Italian opera Mise Kellogg and Herr Wachtel, to alternaie as attractions with Mlle, Nilsson and M, Oa poul, These last mentioned artists would thereby be considerably relieved from the great burden of singing every night and there would never be occasion givon for disappoint- ment. Then the secondary artists might be im- proved upon 60 as to produce an ensemble oale culated to give sailsfaction, and a very dosira- ble article should be introduced upon the stage, in the shapo of even tolerable mise en soine The popularity of Italian opera has been demonstrated this season in such an emphatle manner that an imoresaria need have formerly Deputy Comptroller, ~