The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADW AY AND ANN STREDT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVII...... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENINS, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston atreets.—Brack Choos,’ "eW0e" Prince and BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery—W. ri JACK SHEPPARD AND His Pat, Buursaix nth 8T. JAMES’ THEATR: way.—MONALDL wenty-elghth strect and Broad- OLYMPIC THEATRE, Froadway.—T1 Ll je ToMIME oF Hygirty Dourrys ATE Bauben Pan AIMEF'S OPE! UFFE, 73 a pAIMER'S OPERA BO 70 Broadway.—Le Pont BOOTH'S THEATRE, 1 a ¥ - ‘Sortve Omen ‘wenty-third st., corner Sixth ay. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Yo Tuoxoveurane, 4#IFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Tweaty-fourt’ - Tur New Drama o¥ Divonor, RE | ee corner of 8th ay. and 23a st— WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broaa Ry. ances afternoon and evening, nor 36th at. —Performs KE RED RIDING Hoop, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broa J a jon ee. £ Broadway and 13th street. — STADT THEATRE, Nos, d a ov TADT THEAT #, 45 and 47 Bowory.—Tur Orewa ACADEMY OF at 2i9—POILHALMOS Fourisenth street.—Matinee PTY KEARARSAL, MRS. F. B. CONW COMEDIES AND Fa ite City Hall, HEE Mast.g. Brooktyn.— THEATRE COMIQt 514 Browdway.—Comioa Vora Taus, NEGKO ACat, & W MIT UNION SQUARE Ti way.—lEuko ACTs— bt PRE, Fourteenth at, and Browt- Q BALLEY, &o. TONY PASTO! NraRo Lcoxnin: ERYAN' and 7th ay. HALL, 585 Bradway. — ‘Twentleth TaRiny's Wax ¥ oe NEW YORK © wax Ping, Ack NEW YORK M Gorknor AND A an areset, NOENKS IM ANATOMY, 618 ora lway.— SHEET. criday, Juouary 19, 1872. _ Pacer, Ja Aivertisements, 2—Adverusemenis. 3—Washington : Senat Clvit Service Ko Carpenter Sawing the 5 Sumner Host with His One-term Setar: 1¢ Race for the Vice Presi- dency; Collax First, Boutwell Second, Blaine & Bad Third, Wilson Withdraw: ‘obacco and Internal La. Woman Suftrage Worsted in the Senate and Siruggiing Beiore the Supreme Court—Woiuan’s Revenge: Josepnine McCarty Shooting lwo M in a Car at Utica; Another Fisk-Mansteid © Quarrel as to Free Love and the Purcuase of a House; an Innocent Man Killed; ict of the Coroner's Jury— Latest from Alvany—The State Temperance Convention—Matue Temperance Men in Coun- cul—Sliscellaneous Telegrains—Hydrophobia. 4—The State Capital; Coimpirolier Green's Bill Again Before the Senate; the Fight for te Dictatorship; l ners ta the nate Put- Ung the Repun'i on Record; No_ Investt- Gation of the bistrict. Attorney's OMce; Em- ployes of the Legislature and Their the Convrac.or’s Bill and What It Means; 0° Dono- van Rossa (i the seat of Boss Tweed: Senator Woo sesto Make @ Statement Betore the in ating Committee—Arraig: ment of Stokes: Frou the Prison to the Cou His Appearance and the Public Excitement; Indicted for tue Wilia) Murder of James Fisk! dr; He Declines to Plead; His Counsel Ask for a Postponement of the Piea; Wede: Next Fixed Upon for His Next A ance in Court—Brookiva Reform—Grand Army of the Kepublic—leeboat Race on the Hudson, $—Europe: The Work and Play of the International Telegraph Delegates In Rome; Cyrus We Field's Address; New Year's Day at Chisel- hurst; Napoleon's Secret Supporters in the French Aseem! the Warmest and Truest Alliance Englind lias Ever Seen; Russia and ree for Disobeying the auing inthe Park—New Coast Survey 6—Ectioriais: “The Proposed Syndica 3 Confession and Explan Duty and Oppor- tunity” elcnt Anoouncements, ‘Africa: ial Keport irom Karasko via London: De re of the Herald Expe- dition in Quest ¢ v Samuel Baker; Halt at Barasko; Preparing to Cross the Desert and Strike for the § Safe and Weil ¢ Engitsh Engin ment of the HERALD by the Viceroy; the t Undertaking Confident of success; De- tails of the reparations for the Passage of the Desert: the Gathering Together oft the Caravan; rus of the Future; Slave Traders apd ivory Dewlers Threatening and Hostile—Rome The Pope setzed with Sudden Lluess and Confiued to Bed—Cabile Telegrams trom England, France, Austria, Germany, Russia and Spain—india: The Looshias’ Kevolt Promptly Suppressed—The Revolution in Mexico—The Grand Duke's Progress: A Day Ww e Colorado Moun- tain — Misceii us Telegrams—the New Loan: A Card irom Jay Cooke—Lusiness otices. B—Congress : Carpenter's Onslanght on SIV Servic wu. Lively Debate on the Subject vy Tr /) | Morvon, Freylinghuysen, Kemuads aod Artificial Lirnbs; Sum- ner Accepts Fre ‘yeeu's Amendments to the Civil Kiy the Widow ‘iriumphant in the House ¢)- Postal and Pension Appro- pria\ious— I House Commutiee : What Surve teil Knows About bribery, Corruption vents and Political Strat egy; Asto: & Neve ations of Mr. Jelletson, @ lieavy It “ilove Newark Murderer ; Botts Beco.wes i i spliemous—More About Dr, Vernon—Cay tir toid River Thiev Charening of M1. Hey nteresting Ser- vices at Piymeuth ¢ ‘he Westchester ‘The Revival of Our Com- Repeal of the O14 Recipro- ies; Meeting of the Cham- ine Smallpox in hecord—the ber of Con ner rages ina Massactu- setts—Financial Reports— Domestic \arkets— WEEKLY HERALD Nouce— Marriages and 10—=Mrs. Wharton: | ¢ Mobs to Witness the Last Act; Legal | p Haguer aud Why the Ac r Ketchum—Ti Art— en ts—Miscella- yplug Intelugence—Ade Art Saie—Art neous Te egram: veruisements, 41—Thue Courts: Intere: York and brookiy ofthe Internal + ie Law; the Ye Police Justicestip; Acton to Re Sale of Ot; wi ck Comission ton; Decision Burke-Gardner Case; Business in the G essious— The Charter gud the Courts, Tu it Alarm About the Jurisdiction of tie art of Oyer aud Termi- ner The Murderer & He ts Deciared Hopelessly Insane Bank that Has Not Brokep—The Lawsuit of the Period: A Widow of Forty-eight sues an Old Mau for Breach of Promise--Departinent of locks—supposed Polsoning—iobbery i A Man Killed on the iiarie . Mary's Hospital, Brooxkiy e Uld of te Hudson—Navigation of Long Island Sound— Pugtusm. 12—Advertisements, x Proceedings in th rts; Alleged Vi liv The Brrtisn Vicrory Near tie Loosmats 1x Ivpu.—A_ Britieb force in India has just made a rapid march from different points of headquarters to the territory of the Looshais, in rebellion, They did not halt until they were at the headquarters af the insurgents, Then NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Proposed Syndicate—Mr. Jay Cooke's | as a money market that a half century will Confession and Explanation—Mr. wells Dety id Opportunity. Mr. Jay Cooke makes a contribution to the Syndicate literature of the day in a card which we print in another column, The ex- planation and exposure made by the Hratp Bout. 19 | of the celebrated Syndicate despatch, which was originally circulated through the Associ- ated Press as an advertisement by some of Mr. Cooke's ingenious London agents, seem to have annoyed him. So he makes his own appeal to the public and asks us to pass judg- ment. Let us repeat the history of this transaction and see if anybody is (o blame in the prem- ises but Mr. Cooke or his ingenious London agents. Some days.avo « cable despatch was sent here and printed in the newspapers parading the statement that Mr. Cooke, through his London partners and the famous house of Rothschilds, had made a proposition to take the whole of the six hundred millions of the new loan. The despatch was curiously worded, 80 as to produce this impression without exactly saying so. A proposition “has been made,” so it ran, ‘‘looking to” the purchase of the whole loan. Now, the words “looking to” saved the despatch from being absolutely false, althongh they did not prevent its being false by inference. Any Wall street ourbstone broker, for instance, might go into the Sub-Treasury and offer to buy a thousand dollar bond at a certain rate and then print in the newspapers that he had made a proposi- tion to Mr. Hillhouse ‘looking to” the pur- chase of a hundred millions, In fact he would tell what would be tree, but what would be in realily no less an untruth, There is falsehood by suggestion as well aa falsehood by expression, as Mr. Cooke may Jearn from the fathers; and what the Hrratp not overcome. Every six months we must send our stream of goldto London. This may be an advantage to Mr. Cooke's English house—for we presume that commissions are commissions to this astute banker, whether be pockets them in London or New York—but he can hardly ask the nation to make the addi- tional sacrifice for the purpose of adding to his London income. Let us pay our interest at our own Treasury, and those who have our bonds will find a way to receive it. Furthermore, there must be no more Syndi- cate schemes like the present. Mr. Cooke himself, not being, we presume, an adept at “cards,” shows himself how weak itis, In the first part of his letter he desires to take $50,000,000 this year—perhaps, in all, $100,000,000. Then, if we change our law to suit his business interests, he will take 500,000,000 in 1873. This is intelligible. But at the end he goes on to say, ‘the whole $600,000,000, in my opinion, can be funded into four and a half and five per cents during the present year.” Now, if Mr. Cooke thinks he can finish this work in 1872, why does he desire special legislation and the right to wait until the close of 1873? Is there any more in- terest to be gained from the Treasury—any hidden scheme for holding and using a vast amount of capital fora term of mouths with- out security? The whole thing k.oks lke what the traders calla ‘‘dicker,” aud is un- sound, There were classes in the enrlier times who made money by “‘clipping” the coins of the realm. Mr. Cooke and his friends seem anxious to make money by a financial process that is little more than ‘“‘clipping” the bonds and coupons of the republic. The country has been generous and trustful to the Secretary of the Treasury, We ask him to take lessons from his own” complained of in this despatch was that it suggested a falsehood and suppressed an es- sential part of the truth, The street believed the untruth thus conveyed, especially when a few days after it was also telegraphed to New York that the President and Secretary Bout- well were in Philadelphia and ‘‘in consulta- tioa” with Mr. Jay Cooke himself as to the terms of this new loan. This was another misstatement; but it came in time, and served to strengthen the impression made by the cable despatch, The ingenious advertising agent in London was answered back by an- osher advertising agent in Philadelphia, and the expedient susceeded. Now, eo far as we can learn, there was no ‘‘congsultation” be- tween Mr. Cooke and the President and Secretary Boutwell in Philadelphia. The tone of Mr. Cooke's letter confirms thie, The work planned in London was done. There was the story in circulation that Mr. Uooke and the famous and mighty house of Rothschild (mark the adroit combination) wore about to take six hundred millions of the new loan; tbat the offer was so important that the Secretary of the Treasury and even the President had hurried to Philadelphia to “consult” with Mr. Cooke, and that we were to have a financial triumph of unparalleled splen- dor. For forty-cight hours the street ac- cepted this and marvelled at it. At last the HERALD, searching ont the truth, as in duty bound to the public, quietly exploded the bubble by announcing that no such proposi- tion had been made as telegraphed from Lon- don; that the cable despatch was far enough from the truth as practically to be false, and that the “consultation” in Philadelphia was an exaggeration of a call of courtesy, The next day the complaisant Washington cor- respondent of the Associated Press, being also in the advertising frame of mind shown in London and Philadelphia, denied the Hzratp's news and repeated the old story re garding it again, under the convenient phrase, “Jooking to.” The HEraxp again affirmed its news. The Zribune came into line and ad- mitted its trath, Mr. Boutwell himself con- firmed it; and now comes Mr. Cooke with a card confessing that his agents, or people in- spired by his agents, succeeded in making Wall street believe one thing about the pro- posed Syndicate until the Heratp showed that quite another thing was true. As we said at the time, it was an ‘“‘advertising expe- dient,” and this Mr. Cooke does not deny. Nor is it fair for Mr. Cooke to complain of Mr. Boutwell for not ‘‘stating to the reporters what had occurred.” It was not Mr. Bout- well’s business to hunt up reporters and cor- rect Mr. Cooke's advertisements. Mr, Bout- well did not send the first despatch from Lon- don, with its sugzestion of falsehood. Mr. Boutwell did not telegraph from Philadelphia that he was there in ‘‘congultation” with Mr. Cooke; nor did Mr. Boutwell contribute to the deception by any despatch from Washing- ton, Mr. Boutwell is a man of honor, singu- larly truthful and discreet. We regard Mr. Jay Cooke as a man of honor and integrity, But he has been badly served. He should teach his agents that bonds cannot be made popular by the tricks of a dealer in patent medicines, In financial matters people do not simply want the truth, but the most careful, painstaking and elaborate rendering of the truth. This was not done. A false impression was made. It was steadily kept alive. The Associated Press was made to contribute to i's existence. The whole country was placed under one impression while quite another was true, And now, when the Herat establishes the truth, Mr. Cooke admits that we were correct, The proposition, then, really is this; thatthe new Syndicate shall take $50,000,000 of the new five per cont loan beiore February i, with the option of taking $50,000,000 more during this year. And that upon making the interest payable in London $200,000,000 of the five per cents and $00,000,000 of the four anda half per cents would be taken before the end of 187%. The terms of this negotiation are to be the same as those of the present Syndicate—the same vivlations of law; the same temporary increase of the public debt and interest, the same abandoament of so much capital to the use of private houses—for aterm of months to use it as they please— without a dollar of security, with the they engaged and defeated them with severe loss. That's the way the English do things in India, and so, generally speaking, do rebels fare out there at their hands, The expedition was in force, promptly organized and directed by orders from Lord Napier of Magdala and the Viceroy of India, as will be seen by the military history which we append to our news telegram to-day, additional and to us ignominious concession of paying interest on Amorican bonds in an English capital, as though we were some starviog Spain or bankrupt Turkey, and could only borrow money by paying tribute to the monarchs of the Englist) money market, Let us make this concession alone—thigs igno- minious and humiliating concession—and we experience. Let him throw aside any timid, make-shift corner-grocery policy. We desire his success, and the way to success ‘invites him, As Mr. Cooke says, in his second thought, he can fund this whole loan in 1872, Todo so he must make a broad, open and generous Syndicate. He must permit no sus- picion of jobbery. He must allow no one house to farm out the government business to other houses, reserving all the honor of the undertaking and a percentage on every bond sold. Neither Mr. Cooke nor the Rothschilds nor any house in the world has the right to ask this pre-eminence from the government of the United States, And when next time Mr. Jay Cooke or ‘‘my brother, Governor Cooke,” has, to use the Court Journal rhetoric of this Philadelphia banker, ‘taudience with the Sec- retary,” let Mr. Boutwell say, ‘I shall have no more jobs, no more bargains made ina night, no more exclusive privileges, no more increase of the debt and interest, no more handling of public money by private houses without security, no more bending of this nation’s credit to serve one house or any Syn- dicate of houses. On the contrary, here is the law and my construction of the law. I throw this loan open to the world, to American The Herald’s Nile Expedition—Good News of Sir Samuel Baker—Africa. From the Grand Duke's splendid bu‘fulo hunt in Nebraska to our expedition up the Nile we have now the honor to invite our read- ers, A special cable despatch brings us some’ very agreeable intelligence in reference to the Heratp's Nile expedition, organized for the express purpose of settling all doubts as to the fate of the great Egyptian annexation ex- pedition of Sir Samuel Baker, from which for many months no tidings had been received, except reports of a fatal disaster. We now hear that Sir Samuel is well, and that our ex- ploring party, on January 16, had reached Karasko, from six to seven hundred miles from Cairo, up the river, between the First and Second Cataract—the cataracts being counted from below. Between Karasko and Abu Ahmed (or Moorabus Hammed, as our reporter gives it), the river makes a great semicircle of several hundred miles; and to shorten the distance and to avoid the rough, rocky ridges along the river, the usual route of travel is by the chord between the two peints named, which is a terrible journey across the burning and waterless desert of Nubia. Abu Abmed is near the Fifth Cataract, which sufficiently indicates the rugged and impassa- ble character of the country between it and the First Cataract by the line of the river, The desert journey between the two points occupies some eight days, and as there is no water on the route that which is needed by a caravan must be carried along with it. Hence our commissioner had provided for his party on this desert trip four drome- dries ani fifiy camels, which, doubtless, would cav.y him through. This is the route pursue? by Sir Samuel Baker in his famous xpedition into Abyssinia, in which, by actual observation, he solved the problem of the an- bual invudation of Egypt. He saw that this inundaiion, drawn from the Indian Ocean, comes from the enormous spring rain fall on the Isfty tablelands and mountains of Abys- sinia, pcured dcwn by the Blue Nile and the Atbara into the main river, For instance, he and “is party one night had pitched their tents on the dry bed of the Atbara, because it was inc..e solid and comfortable than the hot, dusty soil on the river banks. But in the middle of the night some of his Arabs gave the alarm, ‘The river!” ‘The river!” which, like the ery of “Fire!” **Fire!” roused the whole camp and started them, with their tents and hammocks, at full speed up the river bank ; and then came rolling down in the river bed a wall of water like a tidal wave—the begin- ning of the spring flood from Abyssinia, Next morning that which was a dry excavation had become a mighty river, five hundred yards wide and forty feet deep, and with the rush- ing current of the Missouri with its spring freshets from the Rocky Mountains. In his next important Nile expedition, that up the main river to its great equatorial lakes, Baker solved the mystery of the exhaustless volume of the main stream all the year round houses and foreign houses, to Rothschilds and Baring. I expect every banker to sustain the credit of the government and to share in any gain therefrom. If you will come with the rest, welcome! If not, you know your business. But no more reserve® high places in the synagogue of the Treasury.” Congress Yesterday—A Dull and Unevente ful Day, The proceedings in either House yesterday were unmarked by any features deserving of special notice. In the Senate Mr. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, made a speech against the pro- posed method of reforming the civil service. He ragarded it as a mistaken and dangerous policy, and expressed his regret that the President had given it his sanction and approval. The petition of the woman suffra- gists was reported back adversely from the Judiciary Committee, and the committee was discharged from its further consideration. Undaunted by repeated failures, an effort is now made to give to women in the Territories the right to vote and hold office, and Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill yesterday to that effect. We are not aware that there is anything in existing laws to prohibit women in the Terrritories or elsewhere holding any offices which they may be fortunate or unfortunate enough to get; but as to their taking part in political strife and chicanery there or anywhere else, we know of no man who would propose such degradation for his own wife, sister or daugh- ter, and the sooner this unwholesome fungus of agitation is covered up from public attention the more creditable it will be to American society. The thing is a stench in the nostrils of all respectable, right-minded people. The House, in the absence of the Speaker, caused by the serious illness of one of his children, appeared to lack somewhat of its usual life and vigor. It dawdled for a couple of hours over bills granting pensions to invalid soldiers and widows, and then adjourned for want of anything better todo. The Pension and Post Office Appropriation bills for the next fiscal year were reported and made special orders for next week. Tue Street Car Tracepy i Urica.—We publish to-day a full account of this terrible affair, Josephine McCarty, a woman whose character, according to her own admission, was anything but spotless, entered a street car at about ten o'clock on Wednesday morn- ing, and, after speaking to a man whom she alleges had ruined her prospects for life, deliberately drew a revolver and afier shooting him | through the face, the ball passed into the heart of hia friend, instantly killing him, The story promises to be a sensational one, and, coming immediately after the recent assassina- | tion in this city and having for its basis simi- lar characteristics, it will be read with addi- tional interest. Tue Porn Taken [Lt Svppeyty.—A HERALD special telegram from Rome reports that His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth was seized with illness, suddenly, on Wednesday, and compelled to retire to bed. He is troubled with @ cough, but it is thought that he is not seriously indisposed, A Pontifical reception which was to have been held at the Vatican the same day was postponed, The Pope Is in the eightieth year of his age. He will complete the period sbould hig life be give London an ascendancy over New York | spared to the 13th of May. for fifteen hundred miles through the name- less and roasting deserts of Nubia and Egypt. He found that the main river's inexhaustible stream comes from the abounding rains with which those equatorial lakes are supplied; and thus to Baker belongs the credit of settling the causes of the never-failing stream of the Nile and the annual inundation of Egypt. From those expeditions, moreover, he brought such reports of the fertility of the regions around those great lakes and below them, that the Khedive of Egypt resolved to annex them and his glorious river to its sources, Hence this great army expedition under Baker from the Egyptian government. Our despatch reports him at Khartoum, which lies in the fork at the junction of the Blue and the White Nile, or main river, some fifteen hundred miles or more up the stream from Cairo. Khartoum, therefore, will be the next point aimed at by the Herarp'’s Nile expedition; and as it is greatly favored by the generous assistance of the enlightened and enterprising Ismail Pacha and his officials, we feel secure of its success in joining Sir Samuel Baker. And for this generous assistance and for his hospitalities to all Americans we hereby ten- der our hearty thanks to the Khedive, and, in view of his great enterprises and of his wise and energetic efforts to keep pace with the progressive spirit of the age, we wish him many years of peace, health and prosperity. The special despatch which we have been discussing mentions, also, as a fact worthy of notice, that the English railway survey of Soudan is nearly completed. Soudan is an immense region of different peoples and tribes in Central Africa, extending from the Upper Nile in the East across the Continent to the Niger and the Senegal, near the Atlantic coast, We believe this projected railway has for its object the bringing down to Sierra Leone the traffic of the fertile valley of the Niger, including Timbuctoo, and of the industrious tribes around Lake Tchad. This interior trade, from time immemorial, has mainly gone to the Mediterranean by caravans of camels across the Great Desert; but, with a British railway opening through the Atlantic coast mountains and forests, it will find an outlet which will greatly increase the African equatorial com- merce of Great Britain. In conclusion, Af- rica, from these Nile expeditions, and these Livingstone expeditions, and those lately dis- covered diamond fields, and all these British colonial and railway enterprises, is becoming a very interesting quarter of the globe, and is destined to be more and more interesting and useful to the civilized world from year to year henceforward for ages to come. A Wanrninc.—James Curry, the policeman who arrested a gentleman a week or two since and lodged him in the station house for driv- ing a little faster than suited the representa- tive of the locust brigade, was summarily dismissed from the Police Department yes- terday by the Board of Commissioners. This should be a warning to other officious creatures now belonging to the police force, as many of them have not the slightest idea of their position, Like Bergh’s deputies, they seem to think it their bounden duty to annoy respectable people whenever an occasion preseats itself, Stopping ladies’ carriages and altering check reins, and arresting gentle- men while driving along our streets, without reason, must be stopped; and the sooner these ignorant officials are taught their duty the better it will be for the character of the me. teopolis. The Temporary Goverrgg-at of New York= Monsieur Tonson Come Again, The struggle now going on in the State Capi- tal for the temporary control of the government of New York, from the present time up to the first of May next, may appear to be of little interest to the people of the city; but the earnestness with which the politicians enter into it shows how much importance they attach to the result. It is desirable that the citizens of New York and the members of the Legislature from the rural districts should learn the real meaning of the movements now going on, in order that the former may know exactly in what direction they are drifting, ‘and that the latter may be enabled to vote understandingly on the questions that are coming before them. The present fight at Albany goes beyond the mere temporary enjoyment of power in the city government; it reaches to the control of the next charter election through the weight of the municipal patronage and funds, Who- ever can holdin his grasp the various city departments will be enabled, it is believed, to make such combinations and to wield such influence as to give him and his friends a great advantage in the charter cam- paign. There can be no other explanation of the efforts now being made in Albany to drive through the Legislature unnecessary laws making complete revolutions in the New York city and county government, that sball last only for three or four months, or just beyond the time when it is expected the new charter will come into operation and an election will be held under its provisions, Comptroller Green is at the head of the Finance Department, to which position he was appointed by Mayor Hall, Both before his appointment as Acting Comptroller and sub- sequently he has discharged his duties faith- fully and won the approval of his fellow citizens, By virtue of his office he bolds a check upon all the public expenditures, and can resist the payment of any improper or fraudulent accounts against the city or county. He now asks the Legislature to increase his power to an unlimited extent; to invest him with supreme executive and judicial authority, and to make bim, in fact, an autocrat over every city depart- ment and every city and county office. If the people of New York desire that he should have such power, and if the Legislature choose to give it to him, let it be done openly and above board, and not by indirect means, Two bills have been reported in the Senate— one placing in the Comp‘roller’s hands supreme power over all street openings, gradings, paving, sewering and every descrip- tion of public improvements, and making his certificate the sole and exclusive evidence of all amounts due for any work that may be done on tbe streets, avenues and public places of the city, This bill is probably the most extreme in its provisions of any ever intro- duced into the State Legislature. The other bill reported by the committee is called by its title “‘An act regarding the apportionment of appropriations and the auditing and payment of certain claims in the city and county of New York.” In its provisions it creates a seeming temporary Board of Audit and Apportionment, consisting of the Comptroller, the President of the Board of Public Works and the President of the Park Commission; but, as it requires that their action shall be concurrent or unani- mous on any claim or apportionment, it in truth places the whole power as much in the hands of the Comptroller as if his name stood alone in the bill. Practically such an act might become a dead letter in case of any con- flict of views between the members of the Board. It should in this respect be amended by substituting the President of the Board of Aldermen for the President of the Park Com- mission and making the voice of the major- ity rule. The Board is to have the power to make appropriations for the various city de- partments, and, as Mr. Green is a Commis- sioner of Parks as well as Comptroller, that Department would have two representatives on the Board of Apportionment as the bill is now drawn. It is desirable that this should be avoided, and it is also desirable, if not impera- tive, that the Board of Aldermen, an elective body and the legislative branch of the munici- pal government, should be represented ona Board of Audit and Apportionment, The third section of the bill goes outside the title, and, although it seeks to accomplish its purpose in an indirect manner, it actually re- vives Comptroller Green’s original proposition to enable him to practically abolish or create any department or office in the city of New York, by withholding or giving bis written con- sent to the payment of its expenses or salary. All payments for work done, services per- formed, supplies and materials furnished for the city or county, are, under this clause, to be made ‘‘in all cases in which the said Comp- troller shall so order in writing.” If the Comptroller should desire to ‘‘order in writ- ing” the payment of the expenses or the salary of a new bureau or office, between the time of the passage of the bill and the first day of May next, he has the power to do so. Should he wish to abolish any existing bureau or office he can do so by withholding such “order in writing” for the payment of its ex- penses or employés. Now we insist that if such power is to be given into the Comptrol- ler's hands it should be done openly and directly, and not in an indirect manner. So far as the squabblings and bickerings of political factions or individuals are concerned the Hrrawp has no part or interest in them. We care nothing whether Comptroller Green or Commissioner Van Nort, Conkling or Fen- ton, Greeley or Murphy, Hawkins or Hank Smith obtains the inside track ina local organi- zation or the whiphand in the next charter election. Whatever political and per- sonal intrigues may be going on, or whatever clique may obtain a majority for its schemes at the State capitol, the people of New York will take care that none but men of known worth, integrity and capacity shall be elected to power in the municipal govern- ment under any new charter that may be en- acted. All we insist upon is that the city government—which has already suffered enough at the hands of political intriguers— shall not be made the football of scheming politicians or ambitious men at Albany even for the next three months, After that we have full confidence that the people of New York will take care of their own affairs and will elect substantial, practical reformers to office, in spite of all the tradings, bargainings, com- binations and coalitions that may be made by the several cliques and factions by which the metropolis is infested, Our European Correspondence. In another page of this morning's issug w8 print a most interesting budget of letters Nom the Heraxp’s correspondents abroad, From Italy we have an account of the grand recep- tions and entertainments which the Romans accorded to the delegates of the International Telegraphio Conference. The visit to the Roman Forum and the ruins of the Palace of the Cwsars, the grand banquets, the kindly welcomes and the enthusiastic greetings which’ on every side and from all classes hailed the delegates, speak, more than words can ex- plain, the appreciation of the Romans and of the honor paid to their ancient oity in its being selected for the conference of the Inter- national Telegraphers. Well, indeed, may Cyrus W. Field, in his speech, refer to the fact that it was a “Genoese who forged a link between Italy and America which can never be broken;” and now, after a lapse of cen- turies, we find in the ancient capital of the world a representative of the youngest nation of the universe cementing in peaceful union with the representatives of various other nationalities a bond which will draw still closer to each other the numer- ous branches of the human family, The little iron wire which spans continents and erosses oceans will eventually prove a bond of peace and good will to all the human race. Leaving fair Italy's classic grounds, and turning northward towards the rugged Russian Bear, we discover in the recent visit of the German warriors to celebrate the festival of the Order of St. George a still further desire to establish more firmly the good understand- ing between the people of the great Russian and German empires. May it long continue to exist! In Old England and in that great commeccial mart, Liverpool, one of her most respected merchants takes the platform to pro- claim aloud to his hearers that by the settle. ment of the difficulties existing between the United States and England, the English govern- ment “would have one of the warmest and truest alliances that she ever possessed.” Thus we see the spread of friendsbip and of peace. With France before the mind’s eye the strain must be altered. Unsettled, unhappy and un- decided as to its future course, the destiny of the republic is uncertain, At Chiselburst the Man of Sedan conspires—secretly, it is true, but no less energeticly and effectively for that— for tue restoration of his house. Gambetta, in the French provinces, acts his revolutionary sentiments, but speaksthem not. Indecision marks the course of the Bourbon Princes for the re-establishment of the monarchy, and President Thiers, amid all these contentions, intrigues and plottings, labors hard to keep the republican ship of state afloat in the storms which threaten to engulf her, A Grand Chance for the Rothschilds and for France. The French Cabinet entertains a plan, as we are told by telegram from Paris, of. ceding the national monopoly for the sale of tobacco to the Rothschilds and some other bankers for a period of thirty years, on condition that they will supply sufficient funds to enable the gov- ernment to pay off at once the war indem- nity to Germany. The very mention of such a project affords conclusive evidence of the galling sense of irritation with which the French bear the burden of their indebtedness to the Prussians, particularly after defeat in the field, The great banking house of Rothschilds may, possibly, accept the offer, having some few other firms tributary or adjunct to them in the management of the transaction—a speculation the realization of which would bring them a new and vast power in France. It would in truth give to the bankers the power of war or peace over the French government in office during the time. If France were about to go to war, and the Rothschilds did not approve of the idea, they would only have to ‘‘move” the tobacco market firmly ‘‘upward,” so that the French soldier could not purchase the weed, and what French soldier will fight without it? If a revolution were threatened in Paris, let the price of tobacco go “down” easily, and the citizen discontent at the ‘‘ills of life” and of the government would either disappear com- pletely or be seen only through the soothing influence of a cheap domestic fireside puff and whiff, The English King made a mis- calculation in bis estimate of the tenden- cies of humanity when he published his “Counterblast to Tobacco.” Tne Civ. Servicg Rerorm Humeve is receiving general denunciation, especially from the press of the West. The idea that a backwoodsman or a frontieraman or persons residing in sparsely settled districts, where school-houses are few and far between, should be posted in “book larnin’” and understand all the live and dead languages, in order to be qualified for the office of postmaster or any other position under the government, is too absurd to be seriously entertained anywhere, especially in such a heterogenous body as that of the Congress of the United States, Be- sides, is it fair that a soldier who has been maimed for life in the service of the country should be debarred the privilege of holding some minor office because he cannot solve all the problems of Euclid? To be sure, there are certain branches of the public service to which none but cultivated and learned men should be called—the Supreme Bench, im- portant missions and consulships abroad, Cabinet Ministers, &c.; but there are thou- sands of lesser positions for which the qualifi- cations of honesty and integrity and sound common sense are quite as essential as erudi- tion. The bill ought to be defeated, Pass'visM TRIUMPHANT.—To judge from the complete flatness that characterizes the edito- rial columns of the democratic papers nowa- days it might safely be declared that the passive policy is actually triumphant. The discussion of political matters seems to be utterly ignored by even some of the once most rampant democratic journals in the country. The want of the long pole of Tammany tq stir up the animals is plainly observable in the columns of the democratic pregs. Everything seems to be at sea, drifting wherever the changing tide may direct. Cannot the demo- cratic Congressional delegations do something to cheer up the spirils of the party? But. perhaps the party leaders are only “playing i possum,” after all,