The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1872, Page 6

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Q—Auvertisements. 3—The State Capital: Rapid Transit and the Charier Discussed tn the Legislature; a@ Day of Quibdles, Compromises and Arrangements; Commissioner Van Nort and Comptroller Green Retained in Omice; the Charter Likely to Pass the Senate as Amended; vigorous Debate on the Underground Humbug. Bill; Railroad Kills and the Charter to be Debated Again to-Day—Yachting: Meeting of the New York Yacht Clab—Navigation on the Hudson. 4—The French Arms Folly: Chambrun on the Stand—The Cuban Insurrection—Fitveenth Amendinent Celebration—tioly Week Ser- vices-—The Swamp Angels—An Outlaw!s Doom—systerious Poisoning In Brooklyn: A Family of Eleven Persons ‘Taken suddenly i; Death of one of the Suiferers—sensivie Volored Men—Defaication in Hoboken—Sad Shooting Accident in Newark—A Lad Fatally Shot in a Theatre—A Free Lover Borne to Griet—The Northeastern Snow Blockade—The Funeral of General Waterhouse. S—Interesting Proceedings in the United States, New York and Brookiyn Courts—Bankraptcy: Important Question Affecting the Selling or Disposing of Creditors’ Claims—The Hays- O'Donnel’ Homicide—The Bulls and Gears: Fxamiuatton at Jetferson Market Yesterday — Extensive Larceny of Jewelry—Victimuzing the Unwary—Obscene Literature Dealers Fined-—Wnhat Does This Mean?—New York City News. G—Editoriais: Leading Article, “Have We a a City?—No Reform Without Progress—How New York Can be Made a Keal Metropolis — Amusement Announcements. 7—The War in Mexico—Telegrams from England, France, Spain, Central Asia and Cuba—Con- necucut: What Governor Jewell, the Repub- lican Candidate, Toinks of the situation: Speech of Richard D, Hupbard—The Robeson Inquiry—The Cincinnati Convention—Miscel- laneous Telegrams—business Notices, 8—Financial and Commercial: Stocks Strong and Buoyant; Erte Qmet at 57 a 59; New York Cen- tral Wanted in Lonaon; Gymnastics in the Money Market—The Erie Stock Market—Mu- mcipal Matters—Shall We Have Cheap Milk? Meeling of Milk Producers—The Mechanics’ Society School—lron Mountain Rauroad, @-The Washington Treaty: ‘the Engiisn Defence of the ‘Ireaty; lts Meaning When Read in a Clear, Unviassed Light—Brooklyn Affairs— Destructive Fire in Williamsburg—An Elec- tion Row—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 20—Washington: Smashing the Tariff in the Sen- ate; Proposed $55,000,000 Revenue Reduction ; ‘The House Sull Filibustering; Mexican Out- rages: A Texan Delegation to the President; Prompt Action Promised—The Red Men as Ciuzens—The Judiciary Committee: Examtna- tion of Witnesses in Judge Barnard’s Case— The Scientitic Japanese—Shivping Intelll- gence—Acverusements. $1—Aavertusements. 12—Aavertiser Tnk ReVOLUTIONISTS IN MEXICO have achieved a great victory over the government troops under Rocha, if we are to believe the announcement of the rebel General Quiroga, communicated by our special despatch from Matamoros. Mexican victories and defeats are like Chinese puzzles. The fortune of war in Mexico appears to be more fickle than else- where, as i'lustrated in this and previous in- stances; but the happy faculty for fiction inher- ent in the Mexican nature may have something to do with the reported rapid changes from overwhelming success to dire disaster. Each side usually claims the victory, and neither will acknowledge defeat. Thus, despatches emanating from Juarist sources will probably represent the result of the battle as a brilliant victory for Rocha, and an utter collapse, if not capture, of the revolutionary army. It matters little, however, which side has the victory, for, either way, the poor country is the sufferer, and the prospects of peace are sendered as remote as ever, AN ADDITIONAL ApproprIaTION FOR THE Sienat Sxnvice.—We learn trom Washington that General Myer, Chief Signal Officer, has been called before the House Committee on Appropriations to give his views about the necessity of an increased allowance for the important service of which he has charge, The committee felt sufficient interest in the matter to visit the Signal Department at mid- night and to witness the operations. This Jooks favorable for an additional appropriation for the Signal Service. While we advocate retrenchment and economy in the government we must say there is no more useful way in which the public money can be expended than in General Meyer's department, The addi- tional amount required is a bagatelle, com- paratively, and i: is to be hoped Congress will make the appropriation. “Tae Tevz Pouicy or tas Democracy” is, according to the Mobile Register—auti- administration—‘‘to keep aloof trom the Cineinnat: Conventiou.” No doubt it is, for a Pons Asinorum to vietory is not included in the, as yet, uabora demycratic notional plat- form. Have We «a City@—No Reform without Progress—How New York Can Be Made a Real Metropolis, s The eminent and worthy gentlemen who have reformed New York, so far as to overthrow the great Tammany Ring and drive the thieves out of the Erie Opera House, have only done apart of their work, The Hzratp, in the judicious and generous support given to this great popular movement, has all along argued that reform meant something more than de- struction. If this were reform then we have paid a large price for it. The gentlemen who organized the Commune known as the Com- mittee of Seventy have interests in New York of too grave and important a natura to rest content with the dethronement of Tweed and the indictment of Mayor Hall. New York is a growing city. It has scarcely passed the period of dentition. Our Dutch ancestors built a wall from river to river across the Trinity church meadows, calmly conscious that there would be no city beyond their em- bankment, and that they at least were secure from the Indian depredations, Well, they mis- calculated the enterprise of their descendants, as any curious observer may see who cares to examine how much of New York has been built above Wall street. Two hundred years from now New York will be to the New York of to-day as the New York of to-day is to the little settlement of Stuyvesant and his friends, Our municipal statesmen will be traly statesmen if they keep this steadily in view! It is difficult to induce tegislators to think of to-morrow. The gay and fickle Pompadour was not the only human being whose philos- ophy was “After me the deluge!” That phi- losophy controls two-thirds of our legislation. Appropriation bills are voted, salaries are paid, mileage and so on duly provided, and everything else is political capital. Political capital is never more effectively mad» than by dealing frankly with the people. Politics is trickery, and yet how little bas ever been done by trickery! The ranting Cheap Jacks who shout reform, economy, reduction of tax- ation, and a general atrophy of improvement and enterprise and progress, are always rated at their true value. The people will always rise in mutiny against men like Tweed and Connolly, who served the city simply to plun- der it; but they will just as surely rise against the men who call for a cessation of all works of improvement. It was not the money that was spent by Tammany, but the money that was stolen, that vexed the popular heart. Ifthe Tammany leaders could have shown that every dollar they received had been honestly spent in the city ser- vice they would have been as strong as when the charter was passed. The leaders of re- form make a mistake when they suppose that the protest against Tammany was a protest against spending money. New York craves a large and wise expenditure of money. We noed a dock system that will make us the rival of Liverpool, The commerce of the seas is gradually flowing to our port, and we must give it welcome. In time we shall have steamers from all parts of the world. The opening of Hell Gate will shorten the route to Europe, and great steam packets will unload at Harlem. We could well afford to pay fifty millions of dollars to complete a dock system. And so with the boulevards, We want the finest, most picturesque and attractive drives that money can give us. No city is great without its suburbs being beautiful, and nature, in the way of hill and stream and valley, has done as much for New York as for any city in the world. So as to bridges. The East River should be spanned by as many bridges as cover the Thames and the Seine, and when this is done New York and Brook- lyn will no longer be two rival cities, but one great metropolis, A far greater evil, and what stands in the way of New York becoming a great city, is an evil that bears a resemblanco to absenteeism, as was seen in France before the Revolution and as is now seen in Ireland. The sorest grievance in the minds of the Jacquerie was that the lords of the great chateaus drained the peasantry of their means to spend lux- urious lives in Paris, As France became poor Paris became rich. Ireland groans under the absentee system, by which noble- men exhaust the resources of their Irish acres to support palaces in England. On the other hand, the English have their brief season in London, and hurry back to their country seats in Hants and Surrey and Devonshire to live like lords of the manor and spend their money on the manor, In New York we have a system like that of which the French and the Irish complained. All around New York we have towns and cities whose wealth has been earned here, only to be spent elsewhere. Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Hoboken, Jersey City, are only so many emanations from New York. The city is only occupied by paupers and millionnaires, No man with a family and earning a moderate, fixed income, can live in New York. Brooklyn has risen to be the third city in the Union, a city of wealth and taste and beauty, because of New York, Over in New Jersey a dozen towns have sprung up in the same way. The island is abandoned, because, while the suburbs have been traversed by railwaya and swift means of communication, travel in the city is as difficult as it was over our turnpikes before railways came. With New Yorkers time is money. Every hour has a value to the business man. So far as time is concerned a citizen might as well live in Trenton as in Peekskill or Irvington. Before he can begin his journey home there is a long, tedious, uncom- fortable, uncertain journey from the Hrratp office to the Grand Central depot. Then comes the slow progress to Harlem Bridge and the dangers of accidents from the exposed condition of the track, As consequence, while the tendency of growth would naturally be to- wards Westchester and the Hudson, the citizen is driven over to Long Island or down among the Jersey marshes, He must encounter the perils and discomforts of a winter trip across the Hudson or down the bay to Staten Island, which are sometimes as great as ina passage across the English Channel. Few people care to live across ariver at best, but notwith- standing this they are compelled to do go, Let us imagine a road so built that a citizen could go from the Heratp office to Harlem Bridge iu fifteen minutes. This would ne an | easy run, as it would not be at more than half the speed of English trains, The whole couatry from Fiftieth street to Yonkers and a Irvington would be pars of New York, A business man in Irvington could sit downto | The Fall ef the Tide—The. Quarrels Be- breakfast at eight and be in his office in Wall street at half-past nine or ten, the HeRaLp duly read, fresh and ready for business. None of the delays of the slow, noisy boats, or of the wearily-dragged street cars and omnibuses, the trouble of changing cars, the difficulty of finding seat, and the temper harried and fretted and the day begun badly. Simply a seat ina cosey, easy chair, and no care until the Heraxp station is reached, and from thence a quiet jaunt to the counting house. The laboring man, whose hard fate compels him to live here and to support a family on twelve or fifteen dollars a week, would not be driven to a tenement house, with typhus and smallpox and malaria all around, and moral associations even more deadly to carry the taint of vice to his children, A hundred thousand bomes could be built, the cunning, comfortable little houses for which Phila- delphia is famed, with small gardens anda patch of greenery und roses, sunshine and pure air, and rented with profit to the owoer for much less than is paid for a miserable tenement in Baxter street. Apart, therefore, from any question of aggrandizement or mu- nicipal pride or the desire for greatness, we come to a question of morality and health. There can neither be health nor virtue where the sun does not shine, and when we throw our poor, our worthy but helpless poor, back upon the swamps and the river banks, to grovel and stifle and have no free health- producing life, what can we expect but disease and vice, and all those sad social problems of social city life which have so long taxed the genius and benevolence of Christian men ? It has been said with derision and bitterness that this stupendous New York is the city which no one loves, Men who come bere speak of Boston ond Philadelphia and Balti- more, even that poor, pampered almshouse of a Washington, with affeciion and emotion and the tender voice with which we always speak of home. But who loves New York? People come to see its pleasures and earn money, and hurry back to the longed-for home, New York is their money market, their playground, their wharf, their store- house; but it is not their home. They do business, but do not live here. So in public esteem the city is regarded as hard, selfish, ambitious and great, uninviting and very wicked. And, instead of striving to destroy this sentiment and make our city worthy of the affection of its children, it has been made unin- habitable for all classes but the paupers and the millionnaires, We shout over reform because ‘Tweed is out of office and Connolly is a fugitive. But all this time it is a morning’s journey from the Heratp office to where land and rents are cheap. We have docks that are a detri- ment to commerce, we have highways that would disgrace Cairo, and this narrow, easily- spanned East River, has been a barrier to our growth. Avreform which does not see this and generously provide for the comfort of the present and the future is simply cant and demagoguism. Reform is embraced in this, speedy transit over the island, That acqom- plished we want free ferries, free bridges and free highways. All of this will cost money, a great amount of money. This is precisely what we wish to pay. Let us have honest men in office, and we can well afford to spend two hundred millions upon the city. This is the reform we urge upon our reformers, and it is the only policy that will satisfy the peo- ple. Our friends have pulled down Tammany and Erie, the Gog and Magog of corraption ; now let them build up and beautify New York, to be, even in this generation, with her greatness, her splendor and her ambition, not only the Empire City of America, but the Imperial Metropolis of the world. General Trochu aud His Libel Suit. A very interesting trial is now going on in Paris. The Figaro, as some of oug readers will remember, made itself conspicuous some time ago by its merciless attacks on General Trochu. The General brought against the newspaper an action for libel. The trial has commenced, and it is now creating very con- siderable excitement in the French capital. The court room has been crowded, and among the witnesses examined already were Count Palikao, ex-Ministers Chevreau, Vuitry, Magne and Rouher, ex-President Schneider, M. Pietri and the Marquis of Andelarre, General Trochu has himself been examined, and in the course of his evidence he sought to prove that his honor had been attacked. M. Vitu, the author of the articles complained of, pleads good faith in writing what he wrote, We all remember how General Trochu was sent back by Napoleon to take charge of Paris, and how he found it convenient, if not necessary, to take part with the government of the 4th of September. The testimony given at the trial only proves this, The question uppermost in most minds no doubt is, What else could General Trochu do? There are many who will say that General Trochu would have acted more wisely if he had re- frained from taking any action in the matter. But the General has a right to take care of his owa honor; and it is the opinion of many not incompetent to judge that this trial is in- tended to bring about certain important po- litical results, The newspaper must not be denied the right to comment freely on the actions of public men. On the other band, however, public men must be allowed to judge when, under newspaper attacks, it is no longer safe for them to remain silent. France is now angry with the men who had power during the period of her recent disasters, With the exception of MacMahon all the great men of the empire are in disgrace. Some of them have been tried, and some of them have trials in prospect. The sooner France ceases to blame individuals for her trouble the bet- ter. The national disaster, which began at Woerth and Weissembourg and reached its climax at Sedan, was the result of some na- tional weakness, Let Frenchmen find out this weakness and strive to amend it, and it will do them and their nation more good than the petty and miserable persecution of unfortu- nate generals, France has suffered enough at the hands of the enemy without courting fur- ther suffering at her own, New Aspirants for the republican can- didacy for Vice President on the Grant ticket are continually sent to a political morgue. A coroner's ingquesi upon their remains will be held in Philadelphia on the 6th of June, + another, tween the Democrats aad erals.”” We hear a cry of wrath and recrimination in these watches of the political night! All the time we have heard sweet harmonies from Mr. Greeley and his followers, from Mr. Belmont and his followers, from Sumner aad Schurz and Trumbull, who, having no followers, follow one The stars were bright; all tokens were ausp'cious. MoClure was rising in Pennsylvania and Stallo ‘was doing noble work in Ohio. Ashley was tramping throngh Massachusetts to find a delegation for Sum- ner; Impeachment Ross was arming himself in Kansas, and Josbua F. Bailey, the default- ing Collector, was hurrying back from Monte- video to join in the gathering. The demo- crats were passive and dormant, hidden in the heather, like the clansmen of Roderick Dhu, waiting for the “‘liberals” to come and traternizs, Every day the party papers gloried over their’ strength, Mr. Greeley’s journal especially, which we read for agriculture and_ historical statistics about Henry Clay, assuring us that the movement was growing beyond concep- tion. When the Hiaraup, in the interest of peace, suggested that as the meeting in Cin- cinnati was a “‘conferenc2,” while that in Philadelphia was a convention, and that both being republican, Grant's friends should go to Cincinnati, Tom Murphy leading a delegation from New York, and ‘‘confer,” Mr, Greeley became angry, and bis democratic coadjutor warned us that the halls would be enga zed, and that if Tom Murphy and his friends ap- peared at the head ofa ‘‘conferring” delegation they would be turned away. The alliance had made. The “‘liberals” and the ‘‘democrats” had coalesced. The ‘‘liberals” would name their ticket upon a succotash principle—half beans and half corn—and the democrats would endorse it, Now, all this time we have been cruelly de- ceived! We have believed Greeley and Stallo and Sumner, but here comes a sound of dis- cord, The leading democratic organ (yes, brethren, there is even such an instrument io existence, and it may be seen at the Manhattan Club!) announces that it has been cheated. And we confess there is logic as well as pas- sion in thelamentations, The “liberals” have that ‘‘fatal weakness, an infirm will.” They did not ‘‘strike at the moment the iron comes out of the forge, soft almost as wax.” They lack those two great qualities ‘ready insight and unflinching courage.” They have be- haved very badly in Connecticut, even as they did in New Hampshire, We beg pardon for using this harsh language, but the truth must be told: “If Jewell is elected” we are assured that the “liberals” ‘‘will show themselves more pusillanimous (if that be possible) than they have already and skulk back into the Grant camp.” They have ‘forfeited & proud commanding position by sheer political cowardice, and,” horror of horrors! ‘‘the Cincinnati Convention will be of as little consequence as the Cleve- land Convention in 1864,” Furthermore, the names are given us, and here they are :—“‘If,” says this screaming, angry editor, ‘Messrs. Sumner, Schurz, Greeley and Bowles” had done their duty; if ‘Sumner, Schurz and Greeley” (we presume Bowles does not talk) “had each delivered one bold, ringing speech,” the whole ‘Grant party would have trembled in their shoes and the State carried.” As it is, this editor sees no further use of ‘‘any further billing and cooing with the leaders,” and the “‘liberals” ‘‘will go to Cincinnati without any authentic badge, of popular en- dorsement and support.” We confess there is much reason in thesa exclamations. The rhetoric is somewhat clumsy and imperfect, but, then, it was written inanger. These “‘liberals” have, undoubtedly, treated the democrats very badly. They have abused Grant certainly, and contributed Weir share of libels against the President, but they have contributed nothing else. Mr. Greeley is a candidate for the Presi- dency. It was essential to his success that New Hampshire and Connecticut should go democratic. Yet woe venture the assertion that he did not give the democrats one dollar to carry Connecticut, and we have no doubt he charged full rates for such of his papers as were used for campaign documents. The same will hold true of ‘Sumner, Schurz and Bowles.” Not one speech have these men made, not one dollar have they spent. They koew very well that money was needed, and that this was a dismal year, financially, to the unterrified nutmeg manufacturers. The old prioces, the Tweeds and Ingersolls and Wood- wards and Garvcys, whose homes were in that State, and who spent their money so freely, have been absorbed by other engagements, mainly with the deputy sheriffs, and have permitted the election to go by default. In a time like this, if these “liberals” had not been “Jacking in ready insight and unflinching courage,” they would have risen to the occa- sion, they would have raised a million dollars if necessary. But, ‘‘pusillanimous” creatures as they were, they never gave a dollar, they never made a speech. They stood by and looked on. If it turned out to be cheese they would take it; if only skimmed milk they did not want it. If Hubbard succeeded they would claim all the glory; if defeated they would, to use the unbecoming language of our hysterical contemporary, ‘‘skulk back into the Grant camp.” As it is, we can well under- stand why this vexed fellow citizen should decline any more ‘‘billing and cooing.” Words are words, and kisses are kisses, and amatory rhymes are simply rhymes, What this insen- sate journalist wanted were deeds, facts, legal tender. No wonder he razes and denounces the “liberal,” reformed, anti-Grant statesmen with felicity and ferocity of epithet. So there is an end of the billing and cooing ! “To be wroth with those we love,” says Cole- ridge, ‘‘doth work like madness in the brain,” and madness is natural and excusable. At lovers’ perjuries we are told that Jove laughs, while the vows of the scurvy politicians are as false as dicers’ oaths. So we might ton- tinue our authorities to show thatit was human nature after all, and that this disappointed democratic leader is not the only Strephon who came wooing only to find his Chloe accepting the homage of arival. The whole liberal re- publican movement is an intrigue. We showed from the beginning its falsity, its selfishness, its utter dishonesty, Mr. Greeley courting free traders; Mr, Sumner dallying with the old slave hunters: Mr, Trumbull, as a Pharisee, the “Lib. NEW YUKK H#HKALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. abusing the poor Jews who climbed to high places in the synagogue; Mr, Fenton as a reformer; Mr. Wilkes as the ally of the ene- mies of impeachment; the Rev. Theodore Tilton dallying with the conservative old “saviours of society”’—could any- thing be more unnatural, more impos- sible, more scandalous in politics? It was well they kept away from Connecticut. Mr. Greeley exhorting a free trade audience and Mr. Sumner thrilling an assembly that would bave tarred and feathered him ten years ago would not be calculated to strengthen the moral sense of the people or win the votes. of shrewd, clear-headed Yankees ; for, men and brethren, believe us, the citizens of these free and independent States are not generally fools, or to be handled like dumb, driven cattle. They know what is false and what is true, what is honest and what is fair, even without the example of Mr. Sumner or the tuition of Mr. Greeley, And they see that there is no reason why republicans should not support Grant that does not spring from vanity, ambition or disappointed expectations, So the tide has fallen, and this pretentious, gaudy liberal repnblican veasel, that was sail- ing only yesterday with music and cheering and colors flying and prosperous breezes, has struck a snag and is going to pieces. Fare- well to thea, with thy bunting and thy libels and thy cargo of unseemly and dishonoring calumnies! As to the passengers, let them “sieulk back” to Grant’s camp or go where they will. Neither party cares to have them. When Arnold joined the British they gave him a commission and a command and sent him to burn dwellings and steal cattle. But he was Arnold after all, and while one party would have hanged him, the other despised him. There are two parties in this contest, the democrats and the republicans. Any third party is an intrigue. Grant is the chosen leader of one; some good democrat will be the chosen leader of the other. And our advice to those “liberals” who have behaved so badly in New England is to stow themselves away in the baggage wagons until the fray is over. They have not the genius to lead or the courage to follow, and for reasons of sheer humanity they had better be kept out of the way. Railway Land Jobs and Steamship Sud- sidies—The Senate Sustaining Them. We apprehend that we were the other day too hasty in our congratulations of the honest taxpayers of the United States on the defeat in the House of Representatives of the public land grab embraced in the Wisconsin, St. Croix and Bayfield Railroad bill, and in the rejec- tion of the proposed subsidy of a million pro- posed in lieu of the present half million allowed to the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany. The House amendments to the afore- said railway bill, including the amendment striking out the land stealing section, and providing that the public lands involved shall be subject to occupation by actual settlers, have been rejected by the Senate—yeas 16, nays 30; and it appears that the Senate Com- mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads have agreed to move an amendment to the Post Office Appropriation bill when it comes up, authorizing a semi-monthly mail service be- tween California and China, and increasing the subsidy of this mail line from half a mil- lion to a million of dollars a year, which is the very proposition that was the other day rejected in the House. The Senate thus appears as the champion of the railway land stealers and the steamship subsidy system. With the rejection of the House amendment, which took away from these Wisconsin land jobbers the public lands they had set apart to enrich themselves, and which turned these lands over to actual settlers under the Homestead law, Senator Casserly moved an amendment that settlers along the line of the road shall be entitled, at their option, either to receive back from the United States the moneys paid on or for their lands or receive eighty acres free, in addition to the amount now held by them; but this amend- ment was rejected, The bill has gone to a joint committee of conference on the disagree- ments between the two houses, and from the decisive vote of the Senate in favor of this impudent railway land grab—30 to 16, nearly a two-thirds vote—the prospect is thata few days hence the agents of the railway company and their confederates of the lobby will have ® supper of oysters and champagne over the success of their scheme. This is probable, inasmuch as the House vote by which this land grab was thrown out was too close to be reliable against a strong pressure from the Senate, and because these conference com- mittees on jobs generally go for the jobs, and the house opposing it generally gives way. Still, it is to be hoped that those members of the lower house who so bravely and effec- tively opposed this land job in the outset will not surrender now without atleast a full ex- position of the outrageous character of this scheme, involving, as it does, not the protec- tion, but the dispossession, of actual settlers, and the turning over of their homesteads, with their improvements, to the mercy of this rail- way monopoly, Nor do we think that the House is called upon to back down from its position on this steamship subsidy, should the Senate insist upon making it a milliona year. It would be a wiser course to stand out against it, even to the failure of the Post Office bill; for this subsidy business must come to an end some day, and we could ask no more favorable time than this for a de- cisive check against it. On both these ques- tions the votes of the House will be canvassed in the approaching election for the next Con- gress, and the members who may become candidates for a re-election, with few excep- tions, willbe apt to discover, in their appeals to the people, that railway land jobs and steamship subsidies by the million are bad in- vestments for Congressional popularity, “Tnosk ARE My ALLEGATIONS and I am the alligator,” are words put into the mouth of Senator Schurz by a Westorn paper in one of his attacks upon the administration. Where- upon, 20 doubt, Senators Sumoer and Trum- bull and all the rest of the republican malcon- tents shed crocodile tears, Tue Movie Register—anti-administration— speaks of the Philadelphia Republican Na- tional Convention as the “Grant Nominating Committee.” His re-election, we suppose, will then be referred to the ‘Committee of the Whole on the State of the Mnion.” ‘The Usderground Hallroad Jobs at Ale bany—The Disgrace of the Reform Leg- islatare. Two rival gangs of lobbyists are striving to Secure from the State Legislature franchises for a New York underground railroad along Broadway. One is known as the Beach pneumatic scheme, and the manner in which its projectors seek to push it through the Leg- islature is told in the letter of a correspond- ent from Albany published in the HgRaLp to-day. The company, purporting to have been organized under a general law of the State, is said to have already issued ‘five mil- lion dollars of its stock without consideration, and to have incurred besides three hundred and seventy thousand dollars debt. However this may be it is certain that the project, like all of its kind, is simply a lobby scheme to make money other than by the legitimate con- struction of a railroad for the accommodation and benefit of the people of New York, and can only be carried through by the lavish dis- tribution of bogus stock among legislators, lobbyists, Bohemians and strikers of every de- scription, The other job is known as the central underground ¢cheme, is precisely of the same character, and seeks to beat its rival only by a more liberal dis- tribution of the spoils supposed to be embraced in it among the members of the reform Legislature and the’ leaders of the Albany lobby. Both are noto- riously corrupt jobs, and in both instances the most valuable Loe and the most impor- tant interests of the city are proposed to be placed in the hands of a gang of unknown speculators, who have no right to make the impudent demand and who would not be vol- untarily invested by the people of New York with any public trust. A State Legislature that would thus outrage the rights and disregard the interests of the people of the metropolis would be worthy of the worst days of Tammany rule, Every bona fide property owner on Broadway pro- tests against the tunnelling of that street. The citizens at large demand that the city shall build their railroads, and that the fran- chises shall not be placed in the hands of ir- responsible and obscure men, whose only object is to make money out of them without regard to the public interests, Every com- petent engineer in the city admits that an underground road could only be built under” Broadway at the risk of the serious damage of all the property and at the certainty of the destruction of a large number of the most valuable buildings on the street, and that the capital required for such a work, even supposing it to be practicable at all, would be so latge as to deprive the great mass of the people of the real benefit of rapid transit through necessitating a high rate of fare. Yet the so-called reform Legislature is fighting and scrambling within its own body over these two shameful schemes of plunder and destruction, and the only question is, Which corrupt scheme can manage to buy up the greatest number of votes? ' We now call upon the authorities of the city, as well as the property owners on Broad- way, to protest against this guerilla action of the Albany legislative plunderers, so that the men who now infest the State Capitol may have no excuse for their venal votes. Let the Mayor of the city, the President of the Board of Aldermen and the Comptroller protest, in® the name of the city, against this violation of its rights. Let Mr. Stewart and other large owners on Broadway declare their opposition to the destraction of their property by any gang of irresponsible speculators and lobbyists. We are ‘aware that there is a general reliance on the Governor to veto the bills should they be passed, and that it is regarded as more agreeable and profitable to appeal to the Executive than to mix up in the dirty pool of Albany corruption. But the mask should be stripped from the venal men who sit in the State Capitol. and assume the character of honest reform legislators. Not one of them but knows that these city railroad bills are foul and rotten with corruption, and that they are passed, not in the interests of the people of New York, but of a set of greedy adventurers. If there were a spark of genuine honesty and integrity in the Legislature a bill would be passed, without regard to the lobby, author- izing the city to build two great viaduct rail- roads, one on the North River side and one on the East River side; but in this there would be no pickings and stealings for the members and their friends. We call upon some of the sincere reform representatives at least to make the attempt to pass a law allowing the people of New York to decide by a popular vote at the next charter election whether such roads shall or shall not be constructed as public works by the city. By this means we shall get upon record the names of the Senators and Assemblymen who in a reform Legislature dare to vote in favor of notorious corruption- ists and lobby adventurers and against the free expression of the wishes ofthe people. Toe Crnoinnatt ConveNtion.—The Chi- cago Tribune—gquasi administration—holds that “‘it is perfectly proper for any republican who chooses to do so to attend the Cincinnati Convention,” and continues:— hose who go will stand in no danger of being read out of the party, jor they will be too numerous to be spared, Every Congressional disirict in tae West ought to be, and we presume will be, repre- sented tnere. ‘Tne State of Iliimois ought to have @ hundred of its leading repuviicans at peer | for they can exercise an iniluence far more potel upon the next Presidential election there than they can hope to exercise at Philadelphia, The inference is obvious, Send all the best republican Illinoians who can be spared to swell the ranks of the Convention. The Inter-Ocean, née Republican—a Chi- cago paper that seems to connect a little news- paper enterprise with some amount of political sagacity—announces that ‘Mr. Greeley will have more force in the Cincinnati Convention than any other man, and that he can either con- struct the platform or name the candidate for j the first position on the ticket,” And his name / is Greeley. Tats f Tne Des Morves (Lowa) Itegister—adminise tration—announces that ex-Congressmam James F. Wilson, of that State, is rapidly gaining strength as a candidate for Vice Presi- dent on the ticket with Grant. But there ig another Wilson, whose Christian name ig Henry, who 1s being urzed for the same posi- tion by wise men in the East. Meanwhile what are the friends of Colfax about? He had better have concluded to take a seat at the republican love feast when first invited than to | have lunched oa cold should ofiar all the hot ! meats had been disposed of, C