The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1872, Page 6

NEW YUKK HS#KALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, — BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume KAKVIT........00.0000+ +-No. 723 ADMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corasr Sixth ay. = JULIUS CasaR WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h streat. ~ THE VErERan. NIBLO'8 GARDEN, Broadway, ‘Houston st.—La BRLLE SAVAGE, WOOD's MUSEUM, Bronaway, corner S0th st. ~Perforai ances afternoon and evening. ST, JAMES’ THEATRE, fwenty-eighth strost and Broad way. MARRIAGE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Burra.o BiL.—Cato, rue WHITE SLAVE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street. Tuk New Dana oF Divorce. between Prince and OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tu8 BALLET PANe TOMIME OF HUMPTY DuMPrY. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 730 Broadway.—WiT0HES Or New Yous. . STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.-GRanp Con- ornr. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— FERNANDE. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Coura VooaL- 16M8, NEGRO AC18, &C.—NEW YORK MECUANTOS. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—NEGRO ACT8—BUKLESQUE, BALLET, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. ~ NEGRO ECCENTRICITIES, BURLESQUES, 40. Matinee at 3, BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 981 8t., between 6th and 7thavs.—BRyant’s MINSTRELS, THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third ave- ‘Du VARIETY ENTRETAINMENT. Matinee at 2. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 58 Broadway.— ‘Tuk SAN FRANCIGCO MINSTRELS, PAVILION, No, 688 Broadw: OURSTRA. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteentn sirect.—SOZNRS IM THE Rusa, Acronats, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BOLENOR AND Aur. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, March 12, (872. = ——— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisements, 2—Adveriisements, 3—Enie Overthrown: Downfall of the Corrupt and Tafamous Erie Bing Jay Gould Meets his Fate; The ‘Classifiers’ Routed and an Honest Board of Directors Elecred; Major General Dix President of Erie; The Great Bubble Burst by a Masterly Coup d’Etat. 4—Congress; The $60,000 Civil Service Reform Appropriation Pussed in the Senate; Tram- bull and His Patronage; A Navy Department luvestigation Ordered by the Rouse; Save the Public Lauds—The Ten Million Doliar Ott Monopolists—The Methodist Preachers—Quar- antine Investigattion—The Atsoptea. Black- mall Case—Murder and Robbery: A Novleman Burned in Bed in Brussels—Tammany So- clety—The Patriotic Order of the Sons of America —The Smallpox Epiaemic in BYouk- lvyn—Fire in Franklin Street—Row in a Lager- beer Saioon—A Boarding House Thief. S—Mayor Uall: Sudden Iilncss of a Juror and Vonsequent Adjournment of the Trial; Mayor Hall and Bis Counsel Greatly Chagrined; Jarvey Sots Himself Right with Regard to lis Little Bill—Proceedings in the New York and Brookiyn Courts—Leet and Stocking: The New Custom House Régime; important Clause In the New Order—Municipal Affaire— City Finances—Boy Ruan Over ana Killed— Suicide by Taking Poison. 6—Editoriais : Leading Article, “7he Annihilation of the Erte Ring—The Work Tuat Remains To Be Done’’—Amusement Announcements, 7—The War tu Mexico—Cable Telegrams from France, Spain, Germany, England, Ireland and Rome—New Hampshire: The Great Final Pitened Battle in the Granite State To-Day— News from Washington—Miscellaneons Tele- grams—Business Notices, 8—#inaocial ynd Commercial: Erie and the Bold Stroke of the Ene Reformers; Singular De- clme ia the Stock; Wall Street Rejoices in the Triumph of the New Board, but Leta the Stock Alone; Continued Stringency in Money; Stocks Generally and Gold ang Goveraments er, Panama Shares Selling at 97—The Jer- Tin Vienna Lapy On- sey City Frauds: The Grand Jury Session Closed at Last—Almost a Railroad Accident— Robbing Adains’ Express—Marriages, Birth and Deaths, o—Advertisements, t Wo—Erie Overthrown (Continued from Third Page)—O’ Baldwin and Mace—The Lowery Bandits—Shipping —_Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 1—Adverlisements, |9—Advettisements, nnn rn, ot Ir Is Srarzp that some five or six certjfied phecks of the deposed President of the Erle road are in the pockets of legislatorg, If this Is so the sooner they are returned to the ‘treasury the better. ® nariedetiy RMS? Tox- Fate or War IN MeExioo, as else- where, is exceedingly fickle and fluctuating. Our special despatch this worning gives ina mon-committal manner a report of the recap- hure of Zacatecas by the government troops, nd with still greater reserve a rumor of the crushing defeat of the revolulionists under Treviiio. If this report or rumor be based on fact a strong tide of success has set in for Wuarez, and as it never rains but it pours, so in the case of the revolutionists reverses have lately followed so fast upon one another that their prospects are getting rather cloudy. But then who can foretell what the next day Way bring forth in Mexico? Now tuHar tHE Books and vouchers of the Erie Ring are in the possession of General Dix and his associates, the Attorney General of the State will find ample ammunition for a bombardment of the citadel of corruption. Will be order his artillery to the front and commence the attack at once? Brooktyn AugaD.—Brooklyn, in propor- tion to its popaletion, beats any of all the other cities on the Continent in the number of {ts churches and illicit whiskey distilleries, and sow, from its reform Committee of Seventy-five, we find that Brooklyn is ahead in all the acis and tricks of fraudulent elec- tions. But what a strange mixture of pre- wiums! An Otv Joxe ry A New Prace.—When the new President of Erie was American Min- ister to the Tuileries Napoleon said to Rouber, *He was too much for me.” ‘‘How is that?” queried the courtier, ‘Zi est Dixd un.” We think now it is ten to one Dix will be too much for Gould. Both he and Napoleon have had their Sedan, ‘ ph eneeTTeT OE MET 5 Ir Is Saw that Gould relies on some Judge to grant him an injunction against the new Board of Directors of the Erie rogd. The Judge who did so would be a bad Judgef bis duty. Werk that Remains To Be Dene. Another startling scene has been enacted in the sensational drama of Erie; another bat- tle has been fought in the warof reform, and another victory gained over the forces of cor- raption, The men who have so long held lawless possession of the Erie Railroad, squan- dering its income, confiscating its property and defying its stockholders, have been stripped of their power and driven from their stronghold by a successful revolution in their own body. The story is graphically told in the Hzratp to-day. A majority of the direc- tors, shocked at the recent disclosures of the unscrupulous acts of their associates, and alarmed at the responsibility attaching to themselves as members of the board, at- tended a meeting called by Vice Presl- dent Archer, at the company’s offices, in the Grand Opera House building, yesterday, and after receiving and accepting the resignations of several of their body, one after another, filled the vacancies with citizens of character and worth, embracing the names of General John A, Dix, General George B. McClellan, General H. L. Lansing, Colonel Henry G. Stebbins, S. L. M. Barlow, W. R. Travers, Charles Day aod A. 8. Diven. Of the old directors Vice President O. H. P. Archer, who led the revolutionary forces, Homer Rams- dell, George O. Hall, Justin D. White and M. H. Simons remained in the new board, which organized by electing General Dix President, in place of Jay Gould, During these proceedings a strong police force was mustered in the halls and corridors, and a file of men was marched into the presence of the board and requested by the legal adviser of Gould to clear the room, The sergeant in charge of the line, when he saw the character of the citizens with whom he had to deal, hesitated to obey. The Superintendent of the force soon afterwards appeared on the scene, and, recognizing the authority of the new board, placed bis men under their instructions. After the adjournment an exciting incident ocourred through the arrival of the United States Marshal and his posse, who forced open the door of an apartment held by Gould and served him with a legal proccss on behalf of the stockholders of the road. The deposed and discomflied ex-President then fled from the principal offices to another part of the building; the General Superintendent and Auditor acknowledged in writing the authority of General Dix; the subordinate em- ployés, recognizing in discretion the better part of valor, forsook the fortunes of the fallen Ring; the books, vouchers, receipts and papera of the corporation, together with the treasury, were placed at the disposal of the new régime, and the revolution was com- plete. No coup @état has resulted in more entire success since the night of the famous 2d of December, when Paris suddenly found itself in a state of siege, with the Assembly dis- solved by decree, nearly two hundred of the representatives under arrest and the leaders transferred from their beds to prison cells, Now that the annihilation of the Erie Ring is complete, it is curious to see how little real strength there was ina power that has con- trolled our Courts, owned our Legislatures, and for some years set law and justice at de- fiance. When the blow fell upon the men who have been regarded as giants in strategy and boldness they dwindled instantly into the dimension of pigmies, After their abandon- ment of the contest it was a singular sight to survey the scene of their former triumphs and glories; tosee the officers of the law, who had so often done their bidding now holding their own magnificent building against them; to find a score of honest, reputable citizens, in quiet possession of the rooms where the staid aspect of business has been made to yield to the most sumptuous luxury and display; where the gaudy busts of men bloated with vice stare from the desks, and portraits that should grace the Mulberry street albums adorn the walls, But something further yet remains to be done. It is not probable that Gould will fefrain from attempts to recover his lost power. It is said that some of the acts of the board at yesterday's meeting are not strictly regular; but this is mere folly, The acts of Gould have been from the first illegal, and at the moment of his overthrow he was in anjust possession of other men’s property. Yet the ex-President will doubtless endeavor to obtaio orders and injunctions from the Courts under cover of which he may hope to again lay his clutches on the revenues of the Erle food. e Judges “wid have here- tofore stood bis friendg will hesitate before they sid him tn his present dilemma. This is not the time when they can afford to use the power of the Courts in behalf of such aman, They have now their own safety to regard, and while no —— History’ Rereats Iiseur.—The British [gltizen should be shut out from his legal people who assembled in mags meetin, ig in Hyde Park on Sunday buried a copy of Pre« mier Gladstone's Parks Regulation bill, under the provisions of which the rough-handed democracy are excluded from recreation in | | righty a Judge will be a bold or 9 desperate man who goes not so carefully guard any process he may issue in favor of Tay Gould as to prevent bim from summarily resuming their owa domain. Thus did Martin Luther | Power inthe Erie direction, He should be burn the copy of the Pope’s bull which excom- municated him from the pale of the Church, A tremendous revolution in the way of reform ensued from the completion of the last-named act, and so the charter of human liberty may be further revised and extended in the light whioh baa just shone forth from Hyde Pyrk, required to clearly establish his right to any remedy he may seek by proceedings in the Courts, and should not be suffered to disturb the possession of the present directors. The duty of the Legislature is clear. A Jaw should be Upmedintely oaseed. without e day's unnecessary delay, confirming and legalizing every act of ‘the board of directors’ yesterday, and establishing the new board in power beyond a peradventure. This is duo to the character of the Legislature and to the stockholders of the Erie road, who have already suffered enough loss and injury, and should be protected against litiga- tion. The bill already before the Senate should also be passed, notwithstanding the change in the Erie direction. The present directors are anxious for its enactment in order that a fair expression of the wishes of the stockholders may be had in an honest election. But yesterday's good work must be at once confirmed and secured. The fight is one of honor against dishonor—of integrity against unscrupulousness—of honest men against plunderers. The Legislature can now hope for no further favors, pe- cuniary or political, from Jay Gould. He will soon be ranked among the members of the Tammany Ring, many of whom have left their country for their coun- try’s good. The possession of the books and papers of the company will enable the new board to trace every dollar of the stockholders’ money that has been misappropriated, and it will be singular if something more than a civil suit does not follow the discoveries they will make. There are “law expenses” to be accounted for covering seasons when the State Legislature was in session, and amounting to hundreds of thousands of dol- lars. The twenty millions derived from the new issue of stock has to be traced to its desti- nation, and other yrork bag fo ho done by the new board which will not be evaded or slighted. by its members. The present Legis- lature will do wisely if they stop litigation and free the present directors from embarrass- ment and obstruction in the labor they have undertaken. The news ‘of the overthrow of the Erie Ring will be received everywhere with satis- faction, It will restore our credit abroad and our self-respect at home. The verdjt of the people at the last election was rendered as emphatically against Erie as against Tam- many rascality, and the destruction of the one without the annibilation of the other would have left the work of reform incom- plete. Now let the Legislature of the State secure to the people the fruits of yesterday's victory by prompt legislation, and let our judges refuse to again make a mockery of jus- tice by arming dishonest men with the wea- pons of the law to enable them to resume their lawless acts. A few days will dis- close a history of profligacy and crime that will astonish even those who have properly appreciated the character of the men forming the Erie Ring. The books are in possession of the new board, and the attempt made last night by Gould or his employés to abstract them from the safe shows the desperate straits to which the con- spirators are driven. An effort to aid them, either at the State capital or in the courts, would only involve others in a common destruction. Let those who would escape such a fate be warned in time. The New Hampshire Electiou. Great day, this, in New Hampshire; for it is the day of her annual election, and thia election is the first gun of the Presidential campaign. Parties are strangely mixed in this fight in being strangely divided; and be- tween the two main parties the State is close, and the clerk of the weather may wield the balance of power. A fair day helps the re- publicans, but a rainy day tells to the advan- tage of the democrats. The republicans, like chickens, are fair weather birds; the demo- crats, like ducks, are happiest in a soaking rain. The philosophy of this distinction is very interesting; but we have no room for it to-day. The republicans have a man named Straw as their candidate for Governor, and the democrats say that he is onlya man of straw; but we shall see. He has to fight the democrats, the labor reformers, the temper- ance party, and the liberal, reform, anti-Grant or “‘sorehead” republicans, and, among them all, they will keep him busy from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. We expect to glve the actual general results of the elec- tion to-morrow, and so, for the present, we drop the subject, with the single remark that this election will probably determine the ques- tion whether the democrats, in the Presiden- tial fight, shall go o¥ér to the anti-Grant re. publicans, or vice versa. We await the an. swer from New Hampshire, Our Shipping Taterests—A Good Movement. Areport comes from Washington that the Sub-Committee on Commerce of the Senate, after a full discussion on the question of American shipping, has decided to recom- mend the admission of foreign built vessels of not less than a thousand tons, when pur- chased or owned by our citizens, to Sahes registration, The sub-committee proposes aiso, tt {fs sald, to xpcommend giving permis- sion to re-register Amerloan-bullt vessels that have been transferred to foreigners, if pur- chased again by American citizens within two years; also to admit free of duty materials for the construction of steamships, as well as ship supplies, and coal to be withdrawn from bond duty free, It is proven tos, to Impose & tonnage 6n foreign shipping. This latter proposition may be questionable; but no one ought to objectito free trade in ships Sistas Fobhaia. tion again of vessels that were constructed in this country and which were transferred to foreigners during the war. The admission of shipbuilding materials and supplies duty free would at the same time stimulate the con- struction of vessels at home. The important consideration is to restore our tonnage ; for that is national to ite bearing and must in the 4 rove gdvantegegus to gli iatereste, There will be opposition, probably, to this measure from certain short-sighted protection- | ists and local interests; but this should be ignored in view of the great national object of restoring American shipping. The Commitiee on Commerce ought to report a bill at once in accordance with the reported views of the sub-committee, and Congress should lose no time in acting favorably upon it. Violent Scene in the Freuch Assembly— Parliamentary Tumult, with the Prince of Wales Present. The session of the French Legislative Assembly at Versailles yesterday was made the occasion of a violent scene of tumult, the excitement which prevailed among the mem- bers being, apparently, for the time more intense than any which has preceded it during the parliamentary debates of the modern republic of France. A motion was made for the censure and legal prosecution of two of the Deputies under an indictment charging them with having libelled the representative body. This was met by an amendment which declared that the Assembly should pass to the consideration of the order of the day. The promovants of the motion met this by demonstrations of noisy agitation, The reply was, according to the same tact, conducted in a similar strain and with like emphasis. The motion to lay on the table was carried. A member of the Right characterized the decision asnot being “an amnesty of impunity, but of disdain.” The acme of confusion was reached immediately, and men of the Right and Left handled each other ‘‘without gloves” almost as flercely, and not near so completely within the rule of ‘“‘corner” and ‘‘sponge” as have the respective champions of England and America in the fistic arena. It was a pro- tracted fight—one painful to witness; for the repeated blows on the cheek of the brother which were there inflicted by these represen- tatives of France were in reality so many assaults, personal and political, on the cause of constituted self-government in Europe and against that of enfranchised democracy in the land of Danton, and on a soil which is mois- tened with the blood of self-sacrificing mar- tyrs to the cause of liberty, The accused Deputies refused to accept of a House pardon conveyed under cover of a legislative technicality. Their effort for an exhibition of honest disinterestedness was, seemingly, not understood by their fellows, or if understood it was disregarded. They were driven to thelr seqts by the utterance of a storm of groans, M. Jules Favre endeavored to speak. His voice was inaudible amid the clamor. The Prince of Wales happened to visit the Assembly Hall at the commencement of the debate and witnessed the entire pro- ceedings to the close. France is evidently fevered, exacerbated, and restless for a change. The French people are in a diteomma, political and national. They have voluntarily pledged themselves to the cause of rad- ical democracy and proclaimed their capacity for conducting the ceremo- nial of the consecration of an era of popular and cheap government in the Old World. They have built the altar, lighted the tapers, robed the assistants and slain the victims—a bolocaust—but they still want the high priest and the incense. The temple is open, the congregation aspirant, but not fer- vent and devoted. This state of national enthusiasm is not likely. to endure. The incarnation of the principle of freedom must be completed. The question is, Who will accomplish the work? It may be that the Prince of Wales has already formed an opinion on the subject. His Royal Highness may even go so far as to point tothe pages of English history which are black with regard to Oliver Oromwell, but connect over the chasm which was made in the constitution between the moment of the decapitation of a king and the period of royal restoration under General Monck. The Custom House—Abolition of the Gene eral Order Monopoly. The Custom House order issued by Collector Arthur and published in yesterday's Hzratp inaugurates an important reform in the gene- ral order business, The monopoly of Leet and Stocking is abolished and a new system of general order stores takes its place. The city of New York is divided into nine dis- tricts, in each of which a bonded warehouse or a set of warehouses is designated for the re- ception of unclaimed goods brought into port, There are four of these districts on the North River side and five on the East River side, as well as five for Brooklyn ; and separate depots are designated for the storage of petroleum and other dangerous combustibles, and for marble. Steamsbip companies are authorized from the list designated to select their own warehouses, but no company can select a warehouse which it, hag proprietary in. This is an immense improvement for the benefit of our merchants upon the two gene- ral order ptores of Leet and Stocking, with thelr harddsing Aelays and excessive charges for cartage, &c. Nor is this all, for with these largely increased facilities for the storage of unclaimed goods a néw Scale of warehquge charges will go into effect on Monday Aéxt, the scale being that agreed upon by a joint committee of the Chamber of Commerce, the Custom Houze and the warehousemen, Fur- thermore, ‘‘the Collector invites written com- plaints of any alleged overcharges or undue delays on the pt of any of the, proprietors of thé Warehotisés Toi tincialmed goods,” which is an excellent provision for the protection of oD i Me el aR ad This is General Grant's work, and here we have another of the many examples he has given us of bis fixed purpose and policy of retrenching expenses and correcting abuses whenever and wherever extravagance od abuses are shown to exist. hen lie wed! into the White | ose ® bad everything to deat of the mio \nery of the goverment in its varlous departments pod of the manifold abuses and corruptions which had crept into almost every department, But he has been an apt scholar, and has learned ntuch and done much in the great work of retrenchment and reform; and it is in this practical knowl- edge of public affairs gained, and in the good use to which General Grant applies it, that we find his strongest recommendations for euother term. a Pivouso Jax—Qould. s A cable despatch from Paris, published this morning, gives us to understand that in that city yesterday a telegram was received from Pisa announcing the death .of Joseph Mazzini. This death will produce very different effects on different minds. There are those who will grieve for the taking. away before his work was done of a great national patriot and true friend as well as active helper of the human family in its broadest sense. There are others who will not be slow to say the world has been happily rid of a pest, of a man whose chief business it was, uader the sacred shadow and in the holy name of liberty, to keep the world, or as much of it as was possible, in hot water. Itis probable that one party and the other misestimated the man; and for our part we feel satisfied that when the life and the work of Mazzini are fairly estimated it will be found that he was neither so great as his friends maintained nor so bad as his enemies believed. In either case the arch-agitator of the last thirty years, if the cable speaks truth, is no'more, and his name and fame are left to the charge of posterity. In another place in these columns will be found a full and fairly exhaustive sketch of the man and his life work. To this sketch we recommend the reader. Here we wish only to call attention to a few of the more impor- tant points in his life and note our opinion of the same. Mazzini was born in the year 1808, the same year in which was born Louis Napo- leon Bonaparte, the man whom he regarded during the best part of his life as his natural enemy. It is not impossible that it was some satisfaction to Mazzini on his deathbed to know that the man who killed the Roman re- public and afterwards killed that of France was an exile in England, and that his chances of again sitting on the throne of France were hourly diminishing. Mazzini was born and educated in Genoa, which in 1815, on the oc- casion of the downfall of Napoleon, was an- nexed to the Sardinian States. In the year 1830, when the first vigorous reaction took place against the Vienna treaties, and when France for the second time shook off the two- fold burden of legitimacy and divine right, Mazzini, then little over twenty years of age, had become an active agitator for Italian lib- erty and independence. The French Revolu- tion inspired him and his friends with hope; but he soon found it necessary to retire from Italy, and so in the year 1831 we find him at Marseilles editing o -paper called Young Tialy, and recognized as a power among the numerous refugees who then lived in that city. By this time he had tried and abandoned the Carbonart, and he was success- ful in forming a new organization, to which was given the same name which had been given tothe paper. The fundamental idea of this association was that ‘“‘the freedom of Italy, both from domestic and from foreign tyranny, could only be attained by a union of all the separate States into one nation—Romans, Piedmontese, Tuscans, Nefpolitans, Lom- bards, Venotians and the rest—all merging their separate interests in the one common name of Italians, and under this name forming a single powerful European nation.” Mazzini’s preference was for a republic; bat it was part of the creed of “Young Italy” that the form of government should be determined by events, Such a union as ‘Young Italy” sighed and was not unwilling to fight for Maz- zini lived to see; but, strange to say, Italy united he liked as little as Italy torn into shreds and patches. During the interval between 1830 and 1848, the second period of convulsion since 1815, Mazinni was not idle, but the events of 1848-9 brought him his opportunity. After the battle of Oustoza (July 24, 1848), which left Lombardy as before, under the heel of Austria, we find Mazzini wandering about as a volunteer with Garibaldi. Soon, however, took place In Rome events which brought him prominently to the surface, The Pope had fled to Gaeta; Rome was declared a republic, and on the 30th of March Mazzini—who had previously and in his absence been elected to the Assembly—and Saffi and Urmellini were appointed a triumvirate and charged with full powers for the defence of the republic against the coalition which the Pope at Gaeta was forming against it. The opposition came from France, whence it was least to be expected. Louis Napoleon had become President of the French republic, and General Oudinot, at the head of a powerful expedition, landed at Civita Vecchia on the 24th ot April, 1849, For two months the garrison of Rome resisted the power of France with great gallantry and with a heroism which as much astonished Europe as it recalled the memory of better times; and it has never been denied that of this defence Mazzini was the soul. It is not impossible but that for the interference of France, which was asuncalled for as it was unjust, and which united and independent republic as far back as 1850, As the fates would have it, however, the republic fell, Mazzint left, and the Pope returned, ue After the fall of Rome Mazzini found a home in England, where, with the exception of certain brief visits he made to the Qonti- ae te Matlaidunly Fotded “ortho Brito capital he made many friends, some of whom stood by him {n shade and in sunshine alike, His attempt to revolutionize Naples in 1857, which proved abortive, is not forgoited. Most 1 of our readers remember the Orsini conspiracy in 1864. One of the conspirators when under trial declared that Mazzini supplied him with money and bombs, Aig, ggnnection with this aifalr has never been satisfactorily explained; but that he was in some way implicated wag atthe time so generally helloved that ‘ir, Stansfeld, then Secretary of the Admiralty and a fast friend of Mazzint, found it necessary to resign his position Tn govern- mei 2! ay pie ovis It is notorious, as we have said before; that Mazajni was a cold observer of the events which at laat gave Italy unity, and which bore Victor Emmanuel to supreme power in the State. According (o the programme of “Young Italy,” Italy arrived at anity and in- $$ re nn aang of his old friends throughout the Tiallae States he had long been estranged, and frou once the man of his right hand, he actor. History may not refuse to admit that Joseph Mazzini was good and great, and that he did the cause of liberty some but it will find it necessary to state that he lived an impracticable and died a vain and disap- pointed man. Tho Rapid Transit Which New York Wants The Broadway Pneumatic Tunnel job is still banging Gre before the Legislature at Albany. Let us say from the outset that our objection to this scheme, apart from the corruptios which it entails in the irresponsible distribu- tion of millions of dollars among the interested Parties, is its destructiveness to the property along the great artery of our city. There is no other great city in the world which would tolerate foran hour such an interruption to the business of the community as this would threaten to hang around New York’ for years. The impracticability of ever pushing the un- dertaking (the tunnel) to a completion is doubtless one of the reasons why the ‘‘com- pany” would secretly wish to push the bill through, in order that, while dazzling the eyes of moonshine theorists in the Legislature, they may take crafty advantage of some of its “provisions” to achieve what has beem steadily refused hitherto—namely, the running of a horse car line on Broadway. Now, while, steadily condemning any scheme in- jurious to Broadway property or a deface- ment of the street which, in all America, is the one we mst take pride in, we say that the means of rapid transit from one end of the island to the other are ample without inter- fering with one or the other. The reason why the greedy lobbies so persistently assail Broadway is similar to that which actuated the Tammany Ring in the Broadway widening Scheme—namely, the stupendous sums which would change hands, giving the unscrupulous a wider field of operations. The object is not rapid transit of passengers, but rapid transit of money. Sikes ‘ Bestia oe vate Wha Yee Thecliy of London possesses two Thnes of urban railroads which are models of their kind, and neither interferes or did interfere with the great vital lines of traffic. The one—the North London—a viaduct road built on brick arches, with girder bridges over the thorough- fares, makes a semicircle of the northwestern suburbs and has its terminus in the eastern side of the city proper. It brings daily, by a pleasant ride, to the homes of commerce, tens of thousands of cilizens who reside in the suburbs, The other is the Metropolitan (or underground) Railway. This was constructed at immense cost about ten years ago, For some five miles of its length it runs through a tunnel, which all the ventilative appliances hitherto used have not entirely prevented from being filled with noxious gases. Its line of construction under the streets is principally beneath the Euston road, a very wide, outlying thoroughfare, where the con- tinued interruption of traffic during its con- struction was not of great moment, because the houses along it are almost entirely private. Tf, instead, it had been proposed to tunnel Cheapside or Oxford street, we would have heard very little of the project after the in- dignant business men bad commenced “writing to the Zimes.” The topography of Manhattan Island makes: the preservation of Broadway even more a matter of public duty. The object of rapid transit is to reach distances ; to bring the free country air within reach of city-toiling lungs ; to give our artisans, our clerks and our small business men cheap, healthy homes for them- selves and families. To make this plan work the fares on such a line must be cheap. While your tunnel swindle would be blasting its one- horse way up town at enormous cost, two via- duct railways could be constructed—one on the west, the other on the east side of the island—from the Battery to the Harlem River, at less than the price it would take to build a tunnel half the way. We tell the tunnellers and their underground and overground workers at Albany to spare'their efforts. The fate of the Broadway widening plotters awaits all who make Broadway tbe objective point of their subterranean plans.. We want rapid transit with daylight and free air. If some- thing practicable is to be tested, let plans be put forward for two such viaduct lines as here proposed, or one to start with, and then we may imagine that ‘‘projectors” are in earnest, wept Congress i Administration To Be Investigated. The House of Reprasentatives yesterday went iGroiign ine azual Nondny perioeaenes. a dey way of introducing bills for reference, and of voting to suspend the rules on all soris of propositions, The ec! bill of publig interest, that was Introduced under the call of States was one for a postal telegraph. It was but a modification, however, of a like bill pending in the Senate, and which is ouly to abolish the existing tele caph moaopolles by creating ane other oue to absorh all the others for the beu- efit of Mr. Hubbard and his assdciates. The newspapers tliat hava been maligoing the Secretary of thy, Navy, and charging all Ate of corrupt practices against him Dg the administration of his dopattinent, “will how have an opportanlty of proving their state menis or confessing that they were ‘ibel- ious end untrue, for the House yesterday, on motion pf Mr, Blatr, of Michigan, and with the expraaed jesire of Secretary Robeson, appointed a select committee of five to inves. tigate the matter. Mr, Brooks’ Mexican protectorate propos‘ sition failed to get the necessary support of » two-thirds majority, and the like fate befell a bill of Mr. Butler’s to hasten the retura to dependence; but Mazzini was not satisfled. United Italy waa not are public; therefore he stood aloof, To the young kingdom he gave no help; he lent no encouragement, Even the crowning of the Italian edifice by the destruction of the temporal power and the oc- oupation- of Rome asthe capital’ clty seemed to Gil bim with-enve-rather than with oride. Fram specie payments by directing the receipt of one-third portion of customs duties in United States Troasury notes after the 1st of April next, The Senate, after listening to a speech fram Mr. Trumbull on civil service reform, went te work at the Legislative Avoropriation bill, ia