The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1872, Page 6

; 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, “JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR «No. 76 Volume XXXVII....++ AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WALDACK'S THEATRE, Broadway aat 1th strat, — Tak VErecan, NIRLO'S GARDEN, Broa Howsion t.—LA BELLe 3a » betwee Prince and . Matinee at 2. rh at. —Periorn- UN OF New Youw Woon'’s MUSEUM, Broat BOWERY TEPATRE, Howery—Don JUAN—BurrALo Haut, Matinee ut % 4 AVENUE ‘itt sw DRaMaor Di Twenty-fourth street. — OLYMIIO THEATRE, Broadwaj Rauber Pane TOMINE OF HUMPTY DUMery. Matinee at 2. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 By ' Witoves Ov New York. Matin: vw, HOVTHS THEATRE, Twraty-third st, corage Mach ay. Jueis Casan, Mattnes ACADEMY OF MUS Orr. Matinee at 1g euth street. Teanran Nic ¥, B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THRATHE, — Anu, . F THEATRE COMIQUE, G14 Broagway,—Com to Vouat JENS, NEGRO ACIB, AC. Mutinge al J, CMION SQUARE THEATRE, Poy ant Beowt Way. NEGO ACTS BURLESQUE, I o. Matinee, TONY PASTORS OPERA JIC No. 2)1 Bowe: PkeeO LOCRDTRICIINE, BURLTSQUES, #0. Matinee eS NeW OP RRA HO Va TVAN TS MINS TICE a SAN FRANCISCO MINSTR ‘ TALL, $8) Brvativar.o THE SAN FRANCISCO Mansi ar Fourth at. Grann NEW YORK CIROU. er ise, ACKOw ATE, NEW YORK Mush UENO AND A DR. KATIN’S AKNOK AND A TRIPLE SHELT, New York, Saturday, March 16, 0872. IM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broatway.— MICAL MUSEOM, 745 Broadway, ~ © PAYS WRALD. eiorm: Inferesting Testimony Couinitice in tue Case of r rible Temptatons of a Ne t “a Curse of itaving ood; TL Legistator; Reaay to Le Gould and apy DIVT Hends Money on the dump; How rked the Orac ud Why ations Of Legislauve fraud ation. dhe Finances; Speech on the ‘fi ishing State uxpendivures, ‘onsoikiatou Of ‘axe: evenne Raising; Tram. ; Chandler Calied to ry Language; val of ud Lobiy in the House, 5— Congress (Couthuued :rom Fourth Page’ Patrics's ay—Coliestor Artaur bnuors The Judiciary Comiuittee: The Charges Agains' dJudge barnard—volitical Movements and ne he Lowery ter News and r and iis | # fT lc—Tne Lx. . ol Napoleon and Eugenie of Day—The Westchester Powoutng Comptroiier’s Pay- Votlon Receipts. “The Mexican epredations—The Auusument An- 7—Ltlorial (Continue| from Sixth Page)—The In Mexteo-cavle ‘Teiwgrams trom trance, Many, Austria, Maly, Portugal, England, ireland and Cuva—Mace and O’uidwin— News from Washingion—Misceilaneous 'Tele- xtams—Cusliess Nolices, 8—Tie broken Ol Ring: The Pennsylvania Legis- fature Crippiing the Oll Interests of the State; Keie’a Slippery Manipulation; ‘the Rise, Pro- gress and Fall vi (he south Improvement Mo- nopoiy; King Scott's New Move; rhe Immense Ot Business of New York; Impoitant Inter- views and Statisitcs—fac Prospects— American Jockey Clup—Liorse Notes—Mayor Hall: Can Judge Daly Legally Further Extend | the Term of the © ne Deatn of M. ark; vase Unul Monday, 9—Financial and Commercial: A Buil Market at the Stock Excuange; brie Leads the Van with 8 Rige to 44%; Suspicions Advance im Gold— Domestic Markets—ihe Brusseis Murder—“A Young Man from the Vountry’—In a Gal The Sfeamanip Sau Francisco in Great Perti— Marriages and Deatns. £0—The Lash of Reform (Continued from ‘Third Page)—Erie’s Finances—Tie Stace Capital: Fiual Passage of the Erle Classification Re- peal Bul; Vomumissioner Van Nort on the Water Supply—suipping Intelligence—Adver- usements. 41-—The Courts: Interesting ergy in thee New York and Brockiyn Courts; Tue Summing Up in the gumei Case; Alleged Violation of the Revenue Law—A Militia Man and the yy Act; Collision on the North River; Tne Vouchers; ? Formal Evidence ot Postpouemeat of the tolen Discontinuance Jay Gould's Suit Against Frederick A. Vane; Alieged Malicious Prosecution; Action for False Iwprisonment—Kow in a Gambling Satoon—Advertisemeuts, 12—Aidivertisements. A Quietus To rhe Exe Rine.—The agony of the friends and admirers of the rasoals of bhe Erie Ring in the Legislature is over, and Senator O’Brien is triumphant, In the face of ® persistent and aunoying opposition the Erle Plassitication Repeal bill, drawn up by Mr. Boutimmayd, and presented early in the ses- sion by Senator O'Brien, has successfully passed both houses, and now awaiis the Governor's signature to become a law. A desperate effort was made tn the Assembly to recommit the bill, for the purpose of expunging the Senate amendment probibiting the election of any director of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad as a di- rector of the Erie company, but it was unsuc- Cessful. Toe argument urged by Mr. tiusted pod Mr. Alvor® that the bill, as passed, is un- gonstitutional, will not hold water, and we may, therefore, expect the Governor to make the bill a law immediately. ; Mazzini has been interred in Rome, the ob- tive point of bis earthly aspirations, in the resence of a large funeral assemblage. “My heart to Rome and my body to Lreland” were Bmong the latest words of the great modern frish agitator when he expired in Genoa, Lord Byron said of Rome:—‘“The orphans of the heart must turn to thee.” Remarkable boincidences of sentiment, if not of religious belief. 4 Prsanoiat Rerarsation oF Pavssia ox ‘RANCE.—The Treasury budget of the Prus- lan government, embracing the estimates for je ensuing financial year, ha’ been approved the upper house of the Legislature. The tate papor shows a surplus of fourteen mil- jon thalers in the government vaults, and thia ables Bismarck to appropriate forty-four millions of thalers to be applied at staf@d in- hervais during a scrics of years to come to the reduction of the public debt. This means jat Prussia has her head high and dry and away above water with regard to her cur- ent expenditure, and that, standing on a solid old basis, she means to commence the grand periment of extinguishing her national debt tatim by cash payments. Germany will wa begome perfectly Irresistible in Eusove. e—Koreigu | Camp, causing damage and endangering the NEW YORK. HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET, The Mexicaa Civtt War, Anarchy Depredations=The Duty of the States, Our vigilant correspondents in Mextco, who Lave been specially detailed to gwatoh the progress of* the civil war in that country, keep the readers of the Hirao informed, through the telegraph, of ovenia they transpire from day today. Their despatches are an epitomized history of the struggle. Thongh the fate of the coatending factions still hangs in the balance, and-there is aa Little hope asever of a stable government or permanent peace in the aeighboring republic, the latest news is mors favorable to the Jaarista, Tho news by telegraiuns Matamoros ad Brownsville up to yesterday iavorms ua (lat an offivia! express messenger fad ved from the city of Mexico with deapatehe General Mejia, the Secretary of War, showing that the government troops bad completely defeated the combined ander Geoerals Trevifio, Guerra and Mariinez, and | bad retaken the city of Zacatecas, ‘The Suarist General Rocha hima he had captured all the infantry, munitions of the revolulionista, that the opposing génerals had onty exeaped with a small force of cavalry, There was great re- j over (he victory, and it is a United aa from av vevolutioniats announces that artitlery and 2 rded this success 1 blow to the insurrection, Looking, however, at the general disaffection in the | republic, and particrtarly ia the norihera States, ould not be surprised lo hear of 24 and stouter resisinace., Ibis er significant, if not ominons, that with reporicd deleats of (he insur, nothing of Creneral Diaz, wi i acknowledged ablest man in this revolutionary these 3 we hear movement, Admitting (hat it is possible for Juarez to suppress the present ingaresc ‘he can nover give permanent peace to tae country. “Tho disorders ave chronie aad emselyes, there cannot be cured by the Mexicans While this anarchy reigns in J are other evils resulting from it which directly affect the paace and properiy of citizens of the United Siatos. A few days ago we published an account of the iavasion of Texas by the Mexicana and of the cattle stealing, other robberies and depredations committed on the soil of this republic. These outrages | mines of Mexico, | and id is year had become so flagrant, daring and frequent, | that our citizens iu Texas were compelled to ; call a meeting to consider what was bes! to be | | done to protect themselves. The Mexican government, if there ba really anything | woetip of being so called, is powerless to prevent the invasion of our soil and outrages upon the person and property of our citizens, | Our own government appeared to be slow in giving the necessary protection, A border war seemed to be Imminent. Now we learn that in an encounter between the revolutionists aud Juarisis at Piedras Nezras shots were fired | across the river border Into the United States lives of American soldiers. Colonel Bliss, ; who commanded the station, remonstrated and threatened retaliation if the outrage were ; Tepeated. Of course each party blamed the | | Other, but it is of little consequence to kuow | | which fired the aliots. The fact is, neither the | revolutionists nor the Juarez government care about observing the duty of neighbors, and prevent the Mexicans from destroying each other and their country and to protect American Interesta, Of conrse it would be for the government to say which side it would esponse in the siruz- ule now going ov, if it should not deem it to be the best policy to ignore both, Aa armed forea of fifteen or twenty thousand mon, or whatever force is necessary, should be ordored to cross the border and assume a pro- teciorate. Then,our government could enter into ¢ rangement either wiih Juares or his opponents, whichever would prove est in carrying out the desired policy, 80 a3 to form an American party and to per- peluate American rule, Nothing short of an absolute protestorate and contest, with a view to annexiiion ultimately, should be thought of. Here is a great national ques- tion that appeals to the sympathy, pride, am bition and interests of the paople of all see- tions, Will tho President and Congress see what is required of (hem and the opportuuity within their grasp? | Having adverted to the duty and necessity of extending a protectorate over Mexico, let us look at what would’ be the results ina material and political point of view. Mexico, unquestionably, is the richest mineral country in the world, and there ‘is not, probably, any so beautiful, with move varied productions or capabilities, and possessing a more delicious climate, Tb st what this republic wants to “round off,” oot ouly its territory, but the variely acd amplitude of ils resources. This would go far to make the American republic independent of the vest of the world—to make it a world in itself, and to make other nations more dependent upon it. We need hardly advert to (he maay and wonderful rich gilver All have heard of these, ty possible to exaggerate their rs, disadvantages W wealth, » all (he civil of production and insecurity of property in Mexico, that country has chiefly supplied the world with silver. Yet uot a fifth haa ever been produced that would. be brought out of the mines under American enterprise if the strong government of the United States ruled Mexico, Nor is (ho country scarcely less rich in other valuable minerals, such as gold, cop- per, quicksilver and tho finest iron, The rich lands of the tropical region produce abun- dantly sugar, coffee and other things which would add greatly to our commerce and cheapen living, The six millions or so of laboring population would, through American eapilal and direction, be a vast sourco of wealth, while the condition of that population would be greatly improved. Nor is there little doubt that the mass of the Mexican peo- ple would svon appreciate the happy change which good government would bring, and would become industrious and orderly. The acquisition of Mexico, whether -by a permanent protectorate or annexation, would do more than anything else to revive our com- merce and to increase our shipping. A new and vast field of enterprise would be opened, and the harbors, both on the Gulf and Pacific, would, in a short time, be crowded with our vessels. It would tend greatly to stimulate that mighty trade across the Pacific Ocean , with Asia and Australia which our statesmen and people are already anticipating, and to which California has given the first impulse, \ have not the power, even if they did care, to do | | so. The parties accuse each other of firing | across the border into the American camp for the purpose of provoking the United States to interfere, and we think there is liltle doubt that many of these Mexicans would be glad to see the power of this country exercised to end their intestine troubles. Seeing, then, that there [s no way of obtain- ing protection for American citizens and their | property on the border from the Mexi- cans, from either the Juarez govern- ment or revolutionists, what is the duty of President Grant? The first duty of every government is to afford protec- tion to its citizeus. It does not matter whether they are five or five huadred thousand, the principle or obligation isthe same. The sparsely gettled territory along the Rio Grande is as much entitled to the protecting arm of our government as the densely populated At- lantic coast. In fact, all good governments deem it their duty especially to shield the weakest and those most exposed to danger. Shall we, then, it may be asked, maintain a large force at a great cost on this Mexican border, which extends for a thousand miles or ; more? Yes, if necessary to protect our citi- zens and American soil from invasion, if there be no other way of affording protection. But there Is another duty, and that is to compel our neighbors to behave themselves and to avoid the necessity of maintaining an expen- sive military force along the boundary. It | may be said that the Mexican government is Iu an exceptional situation, and that we should show some forbearance, This, perhaps, would, have the semblance of magnanimity, and = might be reasonable if there were any prospect of Mexico ever having a stable goverument or that she could ever grant | the United States redress for the injuries com- mitied, No one expects this. Mexico is | | utterly demoralized and incapable of preserv- ing order at home or performing its duties to | a neighboring republic. The history of the coustry all through shows that, It is the opinion of the civilized world, The United States having interposed to prevent European nations from curing the disorders of anarchical Mexico, and being more directly interested in that country, the world now holds this repub- | lic responsible for its present conditton and future, | We may, from a short-sighted and mis- taken policy, put off the duty incumbent upon | us, but the control of Mexico by this republic, Sooner or later, is inevitable, Why, then, } Wait till millions of the people are slaughtered and the country is turued into a wilder- ness? Had such an anarchical country existed in the midst of or ordering any of the great Huropean nations its na- tionality would have been extinguished long since, Anarchy and barbarism always have succumbed to progressive and civilized nations, aud always must. There are reasons enough for armed interference and a protec. torate over Mexico, Even the protection of our own citizens and territory is sufficient, But there is @ profound and far-seeing polloy \ | pageants of modern | the souls of the assembled multitude, In every poiut of view the acquisition of Mexico would be of great advantage to the United States, as well as to the Mexican peo- ple, and would prove a benefit to all commer- cial nations. The fate of that country depends upon this republic, and our govern- ment has to say whether it shall be redeemed and made prosperous or be doomed to de- struciion, General Grant bas in this Mexican question @ betler opportunity than any of his predeces- sors ever had of aggrandizing and enriching his country, of advancing the cause of civill- zation and humanity and of sending his name down to posterity in connection with a grand statesmanlike movement. If he would now take it up earnestly and make it the policy of his administration he would become most popular and his re-election would be certain. To add the rich and vast country of Mexico to the American republic would give greater lustre to his name than his success in our war gave. Will the President sce his opportunity ? Will he seize’ it while within his reach? Or must the acquisition of Mexico, which is in- evitable, be left to some bolder man and another political party than the one he repre. sents? The British People’s Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving celebration in London on the 27th ult. was perhaps one of the grandest times. The strects through which the procession passed, from Buckingham palace to St. Paul's cathedral and back again to the palace, were thronged with the loyal subjects of Her British Majesty. All that could give effect to the demonstration of a people’s thanke for the recovery of a beloved prince was forthcoming: on the occa- sion, London put on ite holiday attire, the bells of the many churc'es tolled merry peals, gay banners floated from ihe houses slong the route, and the bands of the military thrilled With a commendable spirit of enterprise our contem- poraries yesterday gave long mail accounts of this grand demonstration. Columns of leaded type described the scenes of this British jubi- lee a couple of weeks after the event took place. Had these letters been published the day after the celebration they no doubt would have been read with that degree of interest with which the Hzratp’s special despatches were received by its numerous readers almost | before the sound of rejoicing had died away in the British metropolis, Our contemporaries have done well, Their mail account of the English people's thankegiving is very interest- ing reading. Regarded as news, however, it | is somewhat stale, as the HeRaLp's special telegrams from London the day of the procese sion, which were published next morning, told the whole story, Srorerary Fisn's Despaton Brrore THe British Capinet iN Covnott.—Secretary Fish's reply to the Granville note on the Ala- bama claims case is to be considered ina special Cabinet council held in London to-day. Premier Gladstone announced this fact to the Parliament last night in reply to a question in such a course, General Grant was ready to send Sheridan with ap army ‘to drive the Freach out of Mexioo at the close of our war. There ls mora sensva now pnd e force ta of Disraeli, The people of England are ovi- dently excited, if not alarmed, at the orisis, ad temain oxceedingly anxtous for Minis- be Gssurangor with regard to the cxaci Of the case, The Lobby Attack on ‘he Treasury—One Job Dofeated—Anotier Infamy Pounding Ao Opportunity for President Grant, That the lobbies in Congresa cannot have their vile way when honesty is at the front to oppose them was oever mora strikingly in- stanced than in the annihilation yesterday in the House of the Bayfield and St, Croix land job. Tho miserable beings, like vampire bata, cannot move in the face of day. The Haaco's shaft of sunlight pierced them through, and ia the triumphal adoption of General Kotcham's sub- stitute we mark the success of our policy, ‘The situation had changed wonderfully from the day before. On that day the vermin of the lobby seemed to crawl over the House of Represeniatives. In the gal- levies, the” corridora, tha ante-cham- hers, the Speaker's room, the rooms of the commiltees the lobbyists were in aggressive and urgeut strength, They seemed to infest the very dome and swarm around the tawny statue of Freedom that decorates the summit of the Capitol. A few days since we called attention to the bigh carnival which the demagogues, hoaded by Schurz, ‘'rumbull and Tipton, were holding in the: Senate, arresting all public business and striving to bring dishonor upon the coustey and embavraas our relations with foreign Powers, simply to make capital againat President Grant. That was a dishonorable and ounmanly experiment, We have now to call aiceation to the — fact that the House has been surrendered toa combination of plunderers and adven- turers, who ura scheming to take tho money and property of the people from the Treasury, Nearly twenty years ago a bill was passed giviag a land grant to a company which pre- pared to build a railway in Wisconsin, The company agreed to finish the road within ten years, The time passed and not a rail was laid. The projectors returned to Congress and found the members ia generous humor, They seemed to bave a land grant fa. It was about the time when principalities were voted to endow the Pacific Railway, The grant was renewed, with the provision that unless the road was built within five years the subsidy would cease and the lands revert to the government, This term expired and aot a rail was laid, although the number of acres grauted when the bill first passed had beea increased. Ii was pro= posed to renew the subsidy. The company had done nothing. The purpose for which the bill was passed had not been accomplished. In the meantime the lands have advanced in value. A subsidy which would have been worth two or three millions when first granted, is now valued at from ten to Afteen millions, The net cost of the road shoud not be more than ono-third of this sum, but the projectors of a road which bas never been built have seen tho liberality of Congress to the Pacific raitways—the granting of subsidies two or three times more than was required, and they naturaily follow the profitable precedent. So we had the lobby swarming over Congress, and professionally honest newspapers endors- ing the scheme, All this did not save the scheme from defeat, Anotuer scheme which excites the lobby is wit is called the Yerba Buena grant. This may be briefly explained. ‘There is an island near San Francisco owned by the government ; it is enormously valuable, The Central Pa- cific Railway is anxious to have this island asa Pacific terminus so its representatives ask Congress to grant it. As we have said, this island is of great value. The road which craves it was one of the first endowed by the government, and lands enough to have built it twiee over, They became very rich out of the construction, gradually absorbed the railway system of California and are now a powerful corporation, Having fed upon the bounty of the government in the begioning, they renew their solicitations and ask for-an island which stands to San Francisco as Governor's Island to New York. No reason is advanced in favor of this grant. The owners of the road are men of large resources, ‘hey are rich with money given to them by the United States. They have money enough to buy all the land required for their depots, They have as much right to this island as Commodore Vanderbilt has to Goveraor’s Island. Instead of buying it in a fair, prompt, honest way, they propose that Congress shall give it to them. Not satisfied with the millions—the unnecessary millions—bestowed upon them by the government, they summon the lobby, and insist that millions more shall be added to their wealth, We cite these two measures as an evidence of that shameless spirit of corruption which reigns over Washington, We have been ac- customed to dwell upon the crimes of Tam- many and the astounding frauds upon the city treasury. We have had investigation after investigation upon trivial matters in Washing- ton and Albany, but here is a lobby strong enough and a Congress corrupt enough to seriously consider for days the pro- priety of bestowing millions of the public property upon private corporations. We look in vain through the debate for one argument addressed to the public good in tavor of the measure, Wisconsin is a prosperous, populous and wealthy State, Its people have enterprise and nerve, They can build rail- ways quickly and as well as the people of New York or Ohio, with their own money or with the money their credit will enable them to borrow. They do not need a government sub- sidy to build a railway any more than we do in'New York, The arguments in favor of en- dowing railways in Dakota and Arizona~ arguments that may be well considered—can- not hold good in Wisconsin, This proposed road is not necessary to the development of Wisconsin, The railway system of that State is strong enough to protect itself, and any grant of government lands for the purpose indicated would, simply bave been an outrage upon the people. Even in a stronger degree the same is true in reference to this claim for the island in Oalifornia, No public interest will be served by the grant, It is to add to the value of the property of a private corpora- tion—of a property given to the corporation by the government, The great railway, which is rich enough to buy the island, simply foels that it is strong enough to command Congress to do its bidding, and this it proposes to do, The time has come for the people to step In ond esrest thie jofamove legislation, if -Smith, Barber, Its projector received money | Congress is to be commanded by a Lobb: whose members are paid by railway com- panies and tand grant speculators; ff the halls of legislation gre to be overrua and con- tolled by these brokers ia public virtue and political morality; if private corporations can by the use of lobby appliances step up to the Treasury and take the people's money, then the sooner Congress dissolves and our government is abandoned and the repubiic is turaed over to Jay Gould or some other railroad free lance under a nine bundred aad ninety years’ lease, the better it will be for the country, We should be more content to voindoa our government to the abao- tute control of some shrewd railroad man than to submit to the mastery of the influences which now surround Washington. This lobby 14 an irresponsible body, 1ts members are the Hessians of legistasion, They fight a measure to-day and support it to- morrow, aa they find profit in their cours’, Their business is to make money. They make it by robbing the Treasury, and this they do #7 making combinations in Wash- ington, buying and selling Congressmen, tam- pering with the records in the Land Oitice, and acting together in such force that they can override the will of the honest members and the expressed desire of the people, We have uo doubt that ithe recorda of legislation could be tora open and brought to light there would be found frands 80 stupendous and manifest that they would dwarf the wild- est Wlumphs of Tamminy. This whole cail- way business las beea tainted with fraud. Millions have been stolea or diverted from their proper uses, and not one word do we hear of investizati Many of the men who passed these bills ave still in public life, aud we are bound to suppose that there will bo no investigation that shall begia 30 near at home, In this extremity our vetiance is wholly upon President Grant, He has the power to sup- press this ieg‘siation, He cantiot permit the masters of the lobby to contiaue their forays upon the Treasury and the Land Odice. He should not approve a singie land grant bill until the whole policy of subsidies is revised and establisied upon a wise aad econoinical basis, Ag it is now there is no subsidy policy that is not apt to bscomo the means of fraud upon the Treasury, There wast be an ead to this immunity, and the country will be dis- posed to hold the President to a grave respon- sibility uuless he falls back upon his constitu. tional prerogative, and puts his veto upon the whole business. As it is we thank the honest members of the House for defeating the Bay- field steal. [t is a good case to mark the opening of the crusade, Lessons for from Legislative Senator Wood. We publizh to-day a synopsis of the evi- dence given before the investigating commit- tee in the case.of Seaator Wood. There is much matter for serious study in these pages of carefully guarded admissions by the mas- ters of the brokea ‘“‘rings”—Tweed, Gould, the lobbyist, and others. These chapters of conspiracy against the very safeguards of the nation are not- to be carelessly scanned for the over- throw of Tammany~ in November and the tumbling of the Erie beuse of cards but yesterday will have lost nine-tenths of their usefulness to the public credit if the flagrant immorality which built up and sup- ported thes2 Babet towers of rascality fail to produce its lesson of repulsiveness in the pub- lic mind. The case of Senator Wood is one in point, and should be studled by every citizen to the most minute ofits details of cold-blooded corruption. It is not enough to bury a scoundrel in the oblivion of his shame, From his case and that of every other immoral influence in our midst the people must inform themselves on how to choose their rulers in the future. The importunate beggar of place, no matter how respectable his appearance or how canting his professions, must have his record searched and his character weighed before a single citi- zen casts his vote for him, The Machiavellis at Albany, aided by their suborned satellites, hung a glittering Mokanna’s veil over their fes- tering features, and the deluded voters were too apathetic or too much dazzled to tear the sbam away. It has now been done, and we* arein no hurry to cover up the rottennegs laid bare. Itis one of the deliberate misstatements of the party press to say that all this plunder system was organized on one side alone, and that none but the weak among their particular side suc- cumbed to the designing thieves. This is un- true, If there had not existed a malignant fountain of corruption, ceaselessly irrigating the ground around the legislative halls in days gone by, the audacity of Tweed and his co- plotters could never have taken root as it did. ‘There was an active, deadly contamination in the soil, whence the upas tree of Tammany sprung in a single session and spread its shameless branches over the entire State. On reading the testimony before this Senate committee in the case of Wood it will be seen at what price and how the legislative iniquities were concocted and carried through, Wood was elected in 1870 in opposition to the Erie candidate, With a well studied knowledge of his man Jay Gould approached this pattern of the legislative tool, whom he had lately spent five thousand dollars to defeat, and “lent” him ten thousand dollars, We find that Tweed had need of him, too, and hastened to ‘‘end” him fifteen thousand dollars also, Was ever crime more ironical in its terms? Wood voted as Tweed wished, and, according to Tweed, paid him the interest on his note, As the money was invested in the Bowling Green Savings Bank, this taking the money from one pocket and putting it into the other will point once more the thin sham of “keeping appear- ances” which they indulged in. The commit- tee go far, indeed, inside the whole truth when they say it pointed to actions ‘of an im- proper character.” But this case of Wood's is only a pin point among the square miles of corruption which these wretches brought about, Look at the case of the Bighth ward rowdy, happily defeated last November, and scan his record from the time when he acted as shoulder-hitter around the dens of in- famy to the time when a gang of three thou- sand of the scum of the city went up tho Hudson River to meet the spoil-laden, be- Jewelled Senator coming back to his olden fel- lows, like Attila in the midst of his barba- cianst Look again at the lextalator who be- tho People Corruption—The Case of Oomes indignant now over ‘en-dollar brihes, and who thought a quarter of a million a small Percentage upon firemen’s claims! Look at the Prosident of the wildcat savings bank, sheltered under the wing of one of the fac- tons that clamor about reform! These are Specimens of the pipes through which the tide of rottenness flowed from the fountaia robbers, We shall turn from the tools io the mastors. One of them is dead, the reat are living. We know that in the heyday of their dishonest thriving no- bargain was too corrupt for theix united support if it but promised robbery of the people and profit to themselves. How their interests became complicated aud inter. laced we are beginning to see, It can be seen in no more glaring instance than in the twe vultures, Gould and Tweed, sweeping down on the carcass of Wood. They knew instinct ively it was carrion, and oui of its corruption fattening to the “Ring.” Let every fitmay pretence of highwayman sentimentality be stripped from these public enemies—ouemiea to all that is warm, pure and uoble’ in the human heart, in their chicanery, treachery, cold cunning and high-handed detiuace of hon- eaty aud jusiice, Terrible, traly, are the lea- sons these examples of unmasked dishonor preach, Lot the peaple take them deeply ta heart. As Samson found honey in the carcasa of the lion he slew in the vineyards of Tim- nath, so may the people who have alaia the wild beast of Tammany find wholesome trutha within the very abhorrent remains. Let the first be the men and characters to be avoided in a choice of raters. of the Stovms, . The study of our late weather, viewed by the Iuminous and accurate reports of the Signal Office, presents some startling and novel meteorologic discoveries, Without supposing any anomaly to exist in the atmospheric Phenomena, of which tue Huratp has lately given full accounts, it is certain that we now begin to read in unmislakable lines the mag- nificent movements of the aerial oceans, The long-accredited notion, which still prevails, that our violent spells of winter cold are pro- pagated eastward across the Continent from the Rocky Mountains was exploded in tha Herarp editorial on “The Great March Froat” a few days ago, and. we have since had the strongest confirmation of: our reasoning then from the records and reported observa: tions of the Signal Service, These observa- tions afford a beautiful view of the entira surface meteorology and upper currents of the Continent, and so graphically portray the battle of the elements that we are forcibly reminded of the Homeric description of Hector’s attack on the Grecian walls:— As when two scales are charged with doubtful Prim nae to side the trembling balance nods. The Saturday snow storm of tle 2d inst, as clearly revealed the exterior or western margin of a vast upper and moist equatorial air current, which oversweeps the eastera side of our Continent from the Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland, as if a line of aeronautic explorers could have been witnessing it aloft. The snow fall, occasioned by the imping- ing of cold bodies of air on the warm moving mass, was observed on the westera slope of the Alleghanies with great distinct. ness, forming for the time a natural chart of the upper atmospheric strata. Oa the 8d inst. the Pacific reports show the increased force of the great movement of warm south- westerly winds which perennially sweep over Oregon and Washington by the rapid mount ing up of the mercury in the thermometer, which reached the more than semi-tropical figure of fifty-one and sixty degrees in the Upper Missouri valley. ~It was evidently the agency of this southwesterly band of warm and vapor-burdened air, now daily augmented by the influence of the sun in his northward march, that pressed the Arctic winds over on our side of the Continent and gave them to us In last week's furious northwester, with ite intense cold and thermometers in this State nearly forty degrees below zero, Geogra: phers have located the pole of greatest cold in America, corresponding to Yakutsk, in Asia, in about latitude seventy-five degrees north and longitude one hundred degrees west, and we may safely conclude that this is the cave of polar winds which, at this season, is ever open, deluging the northern part of British America with an immense stream of polar air, The late observations to which we allude prove that this is the source of all our cold snaps and severe snow storms, and that; except when beaten back and dammed up by southerly currents, the northerly stream is ever ready to overflow the United States, The facts brought to light are of great value to meteorology, _as showing the movements of the long-disputed and undefined upper air currents, and also the whole system which connects the weather on our Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The origin of storms and cyclones is-one of the most diffi- cult of scientific and- practical problems yet unsolved, and it may be that the information lately brought to light by the Signal Service from these March storms will confirm the theory that they are mainly the result of the lateral interference of opposing currents of air, having different temperatures, There would be thus formed a region of condensation, and hence of rarefaction of the air and a depressed barometer, while, at the same time, the mechanical conflict of the opposing cur- rents would give the rotatory character to the storm, The United states is as yet a new world, whose climatology is to be studled, and such phenomena as we have mentioned are of the utmost importance, Our government has set on foot the only system of synchronous observations, we believe, ever attempted in the world. For while in Europe the old weather offices have been long established, they have been making daily observation, each by the time of its'own capital city, and hence they furnish no reliable charts of the actual move. ments and pulsations of the aerial ocean for a single moment of time, This vital defect, which vitiates all their work, was first seen and avoided by General Myer, in the organi. zation of the American Signal Service, which is indebted to him for its success, based as it must be upon correct synchronous observa. tions, At present the country north of Virginta and Tennessee is the battle ground of the two opposing polar and cqiatorial forces, ‘Till the latter gaina the asoondauay we shall have, Late Marct Meteorologic Stu: