The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 4% 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Connestlost Bleoifon—Anvtber Kepulr- ohn lican Victory=Tho Probably Kenuiis to prospway ae ANN STRELT, the Cinoimnati Coavention and the Yemo- yy cratic Party, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Returas of the Connecticut election, sufi- PROPRIETOR, cient for all practical purposes, are before our . readers, ‘I'he results are the election of a re- No. 93 | publican Governor, State ticket and Logisla- = | ture, and the success of Jewell over the com- bined vote of ail (hp opposition elements, NEW YORK HERALD Volume XXX ATRUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, Pie at Plt rape met sin Dow vertorm | Phis victory, though confidently aaticipated Ree mcnaeng poms by the republicans, aad evidently feared hy D ry eo BAY SoManr—( 1 i oma . WEY RAMEN SHAEE—OUEOF | ing Gomocrata, will yet have great force in FIPTH AVENUE THEAVRE, fwenty-tourn sireot.— | Shaping the organization of the opposition SXTLOLE 4 US forees for tha impending residential LYMINC TE wage SHR BALLAT PAX | otrnggle, " are TD OT ee ee Pa truggle, ft strengrhens the great body — » republic adhering Gener put ANGEER Si Galina cocher Aish arc af the Ss pudlicans adhering to teneral Te WACK. Grant, it weakens the cepublican bolters Wan Broolway ant li see = f and maleoutents, and it must operate ~ to diminish the faith of transition dem- LINA EDWIN?S THTATEE, 720 Brow twas. THR PAL Aer ocrats in the saving virtues of the Cinein- vo tivar, anda she | Nati Convent! Tho defeat, on the Missouri - coalition platform, of Hubbard, one of the Brat gagcet Pence so4 ) ablogt and most popular of the teading demo- erats of Connectiont, anda man, wiibal, uni- ed, must have this effect; for oF Teva, GRAND OPERA HOT on. Larea Ry | NIBL Rongtun sts MRS. PF. 1, CONIVAY'S BROOKLYN THBATRIE,— DU. Frou é versally res THEATRE ON Broadwar.--oar Yous | if your anti-Graat republicans have proved Ss edictgiay sanih rnulaunpragy unequal to the task of giving him the few hundred votes outside of his own party ve- quired to elect him this anti-Grant republican faction can hardly be worth buying or selling BOTT Chaieissiat in the Presidential market, E18. a Under the same conditions of parties and issues as in 187! there would have been very little interes! awake ned in this Connecticut contest beyond the limits of the State ; but ja the interval since April last the political situation has beeu go greatly changed as to make this little local affair of a considerable degree of national importance, In the New Hampshire election of March, last year, ia consequence of the noise and confusion made by Mr, Sumaer and others in the Senate against General Grant, jn connection with his St. Domiogd aiiiexation scheme, doubts and apathy were created among the old hardshell abolition republicans, and 60, for the first time since poor Pierce was Presi- dent, New Hampshire went by default for the democrats, But they did not see and could not be made to see their unexpected victory in this light. They hailed it as the first gun of a continental reactionary revolution, The UNION SQUAR way. NKORO AOT 2 THEATRE, Fourteenth st. aat Brow URLESQUE, BALLEY, ko, YONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. DeGko LOORN sRICITIES, BYRIREQUMA, ae, 20 Bowery. Matinee, BRYANTS NEW OPERA How: and Tih avs.--BRyYaNT’s M VHIRTY-FOURTH STREE’ DUC VARIETY ENTERTAINME. REL HALL, 85 Broadwayve ‘e100 MANSTEKLS, Re, neve Third ave: Matinee at SAN bag oh 1scO MI due San F “NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fou fmm KING, ACkObATS, SugNee IN nti srest, =, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S “ney 1) Pac. ap ‘ oe fAvertisomonts, Jvertisements, am ihe Revenué Frana Tue Excitoient Over the Herald Exposure 0 Names of the Parties Indicted Wy. the United States Grand Jur Five or Six Hundred More ty on . ing Affidavits as to How the Committed; A History of the W hskey Ring; How Fraud Ran Riot Under Andrew Jolson $ Adininistration—Revenue Prands ia Bostoa— ci tt eevee Statement—Bank Kovbery mm New a- inna and Commercial: aL DE TI Ie oe ee eae me | conntry had become tired of the abominations Another Half Million; The “Beart Chi of the radieals and tired of ‘the man on Surring Themselves: A” Raid Upon (th fini horseback” and hig military despotism, and the pendulum of public opinion was swinging back to the old democratic pariy, including the Dred Seoit constitution, under which a negro had “no rights which a white man was bound to respect.” And so there was a uni- - | versal crowing of democratic roosters and an at | alarming resurrection of copperheads, and so aud Jealus-Advertise- | goueral was the enthusiasm of te old liners ip j that even Jef Davis aired himself in the sun Tihs | aud clapped bis hands for joy, and to various Au- | meetings of Southera admirers he prophesied, from the voice of New Hampshire, the uiti- mate triumph of the “Jost cause.” But this was too muck for the old Union pariy of the war, and so Connecticut in April Market and a Mex dred aud Thinty-live 1 for Loaua; The Stock d minents L The Paani valivoad F ad by the Pacific in the New York € + Details of ie ean Civil Wa ction: Review of the a! tion in irre domed fairs Vie © jomproll Markets—Mo More > Leads Hele, “Phe Connecti ection—Anol er ean Victory: Probable Lesulis to the Ciicniaalt Cols and the Democratic Party “—-Aeuieenicit sii Mitweg Hullo ynuectiont fv hy r Rejor' ther Gr the On nit ate; yes Column Labor « publican Secretary of Siate, T «E Complrolle red ox tr t j A Repuilican’ Tealalatore nother Re. | seatler a all these extravagant and foolish publican United States Senator—eabie Tele | democratic refoicings to the four winds, ‘The Spat | young men who had fonght and put down the -great rebellion, und the old men who had re- grams irom France, any, Maly, War iny ton—New — Miscollaneotis Srota Kiehan | isiness | Telegrims— the field, roused by the jeering v a | Davis, setiled if for the old line democracy in Conncetion, Then the great discovery was made by the democratic leaders that they would be fougit, if they wished ii, till utierly * and the demo- BAL at “aow departure,” ptanee of negro emane 0 sulfrage, adminisirg- THe lion) f attitude of the two great political yp publican and democratic—reyardiag th ginnati Convention, ‘ii to be the belief nec pation, negro as embodied a, the constiiution of placing the old constiin- that expr in view of the imposs!b that it will have any strong influence upon the | tion of necro slavery, Thus within one short Presidential campaign.” Che fizht is, theres | month the democratic party underwent the sur- fore, in te opinion of the 4 fewn, to be w | prising iransformation from the Deed Seott de- sqnare one Leiween the Uniou republicansand | cision to the fifteenth amendment. Bat upon the ts, | old pro-slavery thoronghbreds the shock was the national dermoc NfY has Tax ComMriime or Seve received , P a 4 ; and adopted the report of the epecial gommit. | file, were demoralized by the ignoble surren- lee teaant to -Albany, and. oMclally. declarcat dey to Sambo, The party, however, might its irresponatbility for the charier, should it | bave rallied, as their eyes became acous- pasa as amended in the Senate. Tie Three }tomed ta these new and strong lights of } Amevican liberiy, bul for the unearit the and Van Nort and the provi- sion for a second Board of score and eu do not like reies the greenback plac diamond mines of wrath ns, the wine yanlts and Messrs, Green T : Tammany Hall. Against en, They | : awakened onslider the plucking of their promising baut. | He Popular hy these dia- ling as “undemocratic, unrepublican and une | closures there was no remedy, and eo from wise,” Bitt they are not without hope, now- | Maine to ¢ atif and from San Francisco : ih ahows there ‘itn the | back to this metropolix, the tiundor of the on wu | State elections rolled along the sky, louder and | louder, it culminated in the grand crash ILWAUKER Sent ard tion), | of New York, which shook th round, rete the DENYS 1 Cy in| hon followed another and ay. y im- nia in the Interest fC Justice | portant demoer: diseovery—the discovery kes this very sugger | thot this party, asa national body, was in 8 “The svoner our public men lean to avoid | hopeless popular minority, and that the rather than seek the Magisiracy of t2e | elections of 1871, from Connecticut throug netion the better it w r the counrry and | had demonstrated the tact. The and the for thom, Iu the words of Jndve Dav ! course to be pursued in view of this. stubborn Tomn Jeff oer not Pmuch differs | uot, were widely discussed, until the brigit Bers re ee me SRE was thrown out hy General Blair, from piewuiee, avould: neither b nor de- | Missouri, of she passive policy, Behold, said clined wy any cilie Sul ii would seem | je, the way of the Missouri demoer vey, and that it is not the ofiiceit is only the moaning. ip it, for the way of sal tion—thai is sought for by many Presidential rate of soni waren hele Bapirants. 4 ! when the republicans, under gloriot Tue Drenocracy—-Qviexene | old Graiz Brown and Carl Schurz, in thelr ING Srmm—The recent reports iq | indepe anti-Grant State Convention, set the stp ab the mierence of | Up for themselves, * Saw our oppor- democrativ Congressional und other rs | tunity; they saw it; we our of the pariy in Wuashingion forces, we carried the Siate by the effec! of quickening the Wile of thousand majority, and that ts national democracy ail over the coun Leame to take the plage of a radical fn Those democratic organs that were alw United States Sena Why not apply nations! and weve always in favor of Missouri plan of a Mt stock coalition be- straight democratic national ticket are more , tween democrats and anti-Grant republicans intensely & au heretofore, and those dem. | lo the whole Union? How else can ouv inili- 4 ocratic journals that were passive on national | tay dictator at Washington be thrown out? nominatious are weakening in their endeavors The democracy need reinforcements, and jiere \o inflience the democratic masses in that y are, Men and brethyey of the Caited Hirection, States, let og for the Presidency try the su And vow the Democratic Siate Committee | jolt sock passive policy of the democe Of New York publishes the following official j vuri, Gall, jus ' a takes root, it grows, it flourishes, | Aw 2 igth Mr. Brown is so far encouraged Gat. A ie ive ploneer in th ise that fi day, April 11, Wiissan Casstpy, sortetary, Chairman | le the Cincinnati The quickening of the | the national Presi Mpmigeracy should not be marroi 5 cold | ¢ of these liberals, ness sil of the DPD. ine ix oe to the knife. At Commitioe in thin Den J r ominate @ liberal repnb- the distin alias , i med, L um, and then the democrats are doings, and the coalition thus ening thyir apis he common cause, the defeat mained at home'to provide for their boys i in paralvzing, and the whole party, rank and | of | of Graat, will march on to victory. It was hoped that with the powerfiwl blows adminis- tered for the purpose by Sumner, Trumbull, Schurz and Tipton to Grant in the Senate, the New Hampshire republicans would be beaten more severely this year than they were last yoar; but baftliag win da and a low lide left the democratic gunboats hard agrouad at the end of the fight. Not much encouragement here for the Ciaciunati coalition, but we may do beiter in Connecticut, where only a few bun- dred votes are needed to turn the scale, Mr, ‘y takes the hint, and drums up a 3 dozen of republican soreheads, and joins them in ao “aftidavy” that the Em- pive State ia going to Cincinnati, Now, then, let (ue anti-Grant republicans of Con- necticut vote for Hubbard and elect him Gov- ernor, und the Cincin nati Conveution will be a thrilling suecess, The loss of Connecticut will destroy the prestige of Grant; thousands of saved republicans will become strong, ing us at Cincinnati, they will there then, was the issue in this Connecticut conlest—the streagth of the anti-Graut coali- tion against the adminisiration, The condi- tions of the fight weve, upon the whole, fayor- able to the democrats, for they were assisted by the temperance and labor reform bushe whackers, and by those invisible spirits of tnystery quad darkness in Connecticut, the anti-Grant republicans, Like those of the Venetian Council of Ten, though invisible, these ghostly men were supposed to turn up where and when least expected, and they might play the mischief with Jewell as the standard beaver of Grant, But the very fear of treachery thus inspired served as the long roll to the unflinching republicans and brought (hem out, and they have handsomely done their self-appointed work, It was the opinion of Mc. English lagt week that if the rapublicans under the present state of things Gatried Conaevtiout the’ Cincindati Convention would not Ainonnt to mach, and it was the opin- ion of other democrats that if they were suc- cessful iu this reconnoissance they would not need the Presidential services of Mr. Brown, Here we hive a riddls which will perplex the wisest republican liberal or old line dem- oeratic philoscphers. If the democratic party is unequal to the task of coping with General Grant for the suecession, it must, as General Blair says, cast about for reinforcements; but if these liberal republicans, with all their clamor tor civil service and revenue reform, are, when brought to the test outside of Mis- souri, discovered to be only a coryoral’s gnard of howling dervishes, what is the use to the great d-mocratic pariy of playing second fiddie io this Cineinnati Coayention? We begin to think, with Mr. English, that this affair will not amount to much, and that Mr. Bel- mont, dismissing Mr. Brown and his passive coalition policy, will find it expedient to call his Nationa! party Convention as usual, for the nomination of a democratic Presidential ticket, and that it will occupy substantially the plat- form of the administration, And ‘the result? The result will probably be like that of 1852, that campaign in which the old whig party fought its last battle, Se Elections=Tue An The Heratp correspondens in Madrid, in a | letter whieb we publish on another page this morning, gives a clear and interesting review of the political situation in Spain, As on to- dwy the general elections for representatives to the Cortes will take place throughout the Peninsula, the communication will present ad- } ditional interest on account of ils affording an insight into the plans and combinations, the aims and aspirations of the parties which dis tract unfortunate Spain with their ploitings, Candidly considering the situation as pre- sented by our correspondent in Madrid, The Spanish Position ot udeus, the consequences likely to result from the ap- proaching elections, The activity of the | leaders of the different parties ever since the dissolution of the Cortes by the King has been vutiving. Radicals, republicans, Carlists, Mon(pensierisis and those who espouse the ise of the youtbful seion of the dethroned Isabella have been unceasing in thelr exer. { to advance the interests of those whom | respectively serve, In all their move- j meuis, too, there is an undisguised hostility [to the present government the boldness of whi seryes to shield them from The rumored coalition between is and republicans is a subject meern {10 the government, One evident fn all these move- However the Carlists may disagree with the radicals or the republicans disapprove of the y of the hostility of them to the goverment of Amadeus there can be doubt, And yet this young King has honestly, energelie\ly and faithfully labored liberal and constitue We fear very much it is love's labor ios', and that Amadeus may find he will have to retire to his own native land and give up the attempt of ‘wying to rule oyer the Spaniards, He may ped for a time in bridging over the present diMiculties which on all sides crowd around him, It is undeniable that his administration | of aflairs so far has been a and @ failure through no fault of his. He endeavors duties honesily, hut he has no intorfevence, the of deep thing is plainly ne y of the Montpensie and all of each | to gi tional governme at, » to Spain a good, in the end that failure, forin hi to per persons about him on whom he can | attenipis at conciliation have been froitless, Suevessiul coalitions are only advantageous so long as the leaders of them are satisfied, but ! when they weaken or become diseontentad it leaves those who depended upon them in a worse condition than before, "by reason of the demoralization which follows, Coalitions, and nish coalitions, are partnerships which litle reliance can be placed, ing at the subject fairly and candidly and ; without a partele of ill will to the young Kine, we fear that the days of Amadeus in mbored, and that the secret of the toward him resalis in a great measure foreign birth, Spaniards do not want an lialian to be their raler, Spain are ne from his lvwehe | Tim Memoms Ave passive demo- j eral) slutes thal “since the New Hampshire election the liberal movement has become re. ight have added, very ex- —a sort of “eminent avavity” concern which a few move elections like tat faethe Graaiie State could eatirely wow if is impossible to form any just estimate of ye His | | the execution of the revenue laws was practi- | | kow the sword arm of Justice was shrivelled Grant’s Campaign Against the Whiskey Ring—Finiering of the Volacinne—Let Justice Be Done. The sensation created in this city yesterday by the Heratn’s exposure of the frauds upon the revenue—the determination of the govern- ment to punish the authors, and the announce- ment that tru» bills had been found against one bundred citizens for criminal violations of the law—present amusing, a3 well as serious features, ‘The friends of the accused had beep busy for days “arranging” that the press should ignore ar disavow or misrepresent the facts, All kinds of mischievous stories have filled the air, It was untrae—it was a con- spiracy—it was au ‘April Day” joke—Tom Murphy was the author, and in some way that mysterious omnipresent ogre, General Butler, was the soul of the proceedings, One story followed another ia nervous succession for days, until the Heratp came out like a bolt from the blue, and the mine exploded, What do we see? Let us hold ourselves closely to the record and show how vainly we might say how wickedly—ihe friends of these accused pariies have conspired to stifle public opinion, On May 5, 1871, the Presi- dent, through the Department of Justice, issued an order calling attention to the fact that jus- tice had virtually ceased its office so far as frauds upon the revenue were concerned ; that over one thousand suits were ponding before the United States Courts and were going by default, and that large sums of money had been lost to the government by reason (f the apathy or criminality of the officers of justice, At the same time an order was issued by the Treasury directing further investigations into all cases of defrauding the revenue that had not been outlawed by the statute of limitations. These investigations have been carried on patiently, quietly, thoroughly, and the evidence submit- ted to the United States Grand Jury, Themen who composed this Grand Fury, whose i hames \ we published ‘yoster: lay, are ainong our best cliizens, They were men like Charles A, Macy and Joseph Stewart, the bankers; William H, Taylor and Chauncey Vibbard, Importers and merchants—all men of probity and standing. This Grand Jury et indictments to the number of one hundred and soven, The names of the parties thus indicted are pub- lished elsewhere. The work has been effec- tually and patiently done, and the results pub- lished to-day are simply the documentary evidence of tho truth of the Heratp’s ex- posure, And as for the hysterical stories of the uninformed and misinformed newapapers, it is only necessary to add certain other tacts, These indictments have no connection directly or indirectly with Custom House frauds, as the order to proceed with them was given by Mr, Boutwell in October, before the Custem House inquiry took place, It is not true that tho time of this Grand Jury wai taken up with these cases, to the exclusion of any Custom House cases, as the investigations of the revenue frauds only took up five days of the session, Nor is it true, as we are credibly in- formed, that the witnesses upon whose testi- mony these indictments were found were ad- venturers who desired moieties, and convicts who had served in State Prison. They were men who had no concern in the imatter except to atiend and give evidence whea compeled by the process of subpoena, While the Hrrarp, as we said yesterday, lends a promp! and joyful aid to General Grant in this great campaign against corrup- tion, the exposure gives us no gratification, It is not pleasant to Know that one hundred and sixty millions of dollars have been defrauded from the Treasury—that a Grand Sury of respectable citizens in five days found one hundred and seven indictments against men believed to have shared in these frauds, aud that indictmenis to the namber of six or seven hundred are ready for presentation to the Grand Jary about to sit for the April term, We could willingly wish it were other- wise. Nor is it pleasant to see such a man as Mr. Courtney under any suspicion. We believe him to be an honorable and true man, and we ure confident he will be able to show his entire innocence and that he wasa faithful servant of the government when District Atlorney, We take it that Mr. Courtney is brave enough to meet these charges; that | he will welcome every investigation and aid the government in punishing the guilty, And so with other names who are accused, and who, unlike Mr, Court- ney, have been unfortunate enough to undergo indictment. We have no war with these gen- tlemen, no desire to do them injury, and if we have unwittingly caused any one the least pain, our columns are open for remedy. Bui the fact stands ont as clear as the noonday sun, that during the administration of Mr, Johnson cally a ddad letler so far as the taxes upon | whiskey or tobacco were concerned, We re- member the fetid and offensive scandals that filled the air at the time; how corruption ran riot; how men became suddenly rich with illicit gain; how whiskey, which should have paid a tax of two dollars a gallon, was sold in open market fora little more than half the tax; how an accomplished and persistent scoundrel like Bailey was enabled to run an audacious and despotic career; how commit+ tees of Congress were blindfolded and hood- winked into connivance at the frauds; and paralyzed; how even the press was ma- neuvred into a suppori of the conspirators | against the revenne; how mon lived a shame- less and wanton life, Iving riotously upon | the plunder of the Treasur, We re- | member how the moral sense of the | people wags dendened by the conscious. ness of these facts and the utter inability or unwillingness of the government to prevent | them and punish the antbors, We remember | well how the revolting public sense of [the nation contributed to the overthrow of Johne | son and the election of General Grant. No cry was more potent in the campaign of 1868 than the cry that Johiuson could net execute the laws, and that with Grant in the White bey they would surely be enforced, No history is clearer than this, this clamor against these Whiy, then, | the administration and | feeble preiexis against this | or) foolish, gation as ® political measure? course it is a political measure, Gen. | eral Grant made a solemn pledge that as President he would answer the people's hopes and enforce their laws, Has he | Bedford's Grand Jury ot redeemed that pledge? Not yet, althongh he tas sbivea to redeem it, The Uenaty ex- posures are simply the first fratts of the work, Never, since Hercules began to clean the Augean stables, has a President had 4 sorer task. The influences surrounding and pro- tecting these men were most powerful. Wealth, social position, political prestige, are all combined against the President, and we can well see how it.is a tusk calculated to | We were told that appal the bravest heart, Bailey had done all the stealing and that he had carried his tillions to Montevideo. But we know well that Bailey was one of the reck- less, unthrifty creatures who made very little money, aud whose name became a scapegoat as soon as he left our shores, The heads of the Whiskey and Tobacco rings are still in America, They have had two or of immunity, but justice is slowly and surely advanciag upon them, and Grant’s solemn pledges are about to be fulfiled, Our prayer is that justice may be done, though the heavens fall, and we trust that the President will, in the spirit of the adage, hew to (he line, let ihe chips fall where they will, theee years Nor are the American people in any humor to be trifled with in thls matter of reform. ‘This is a season of regeneration and reforma- tion, We have overthrown the mighty power of Tammany; we have shattered the stupen- dous Erie Ring; we have ripped open the veins of corruption that have so long pereo- lated the Custom louse; we are scrutinizing with eager and angry eyes the administration of affairs in the army, the navy, the postal sys- tem and thg Treasury. Is it probable, Is it for one moment to be believed, that a fraudue lent conspiracy more appalling in its results and more disastrous fo the Treasary than Erie or Tammany, or any speci- fied violations of law-—that this Whiskey Ring, whose masters reigned for years in de- fiance of the government, is to be overlooked or its offences condoned? President Grant could not carry a Stata in the Unjon if it were supposed that he had in ‘any ¥ way held Volt f from this great, solemn, painful task. He must not be deterred from bis duty by the clamors that these indictments have excited. He must not show mercy to men who seek indemnity on the ground that they are “‘triends of the adminis- tration” or because they threaten, as they have threatened, to punish him by opposing his administration, These meu, no matter how rich, or great, or powerful, or futrenched behind moneyed and political influence, are thieves, after all, and the ‘‘riends” of no ad- ministration, Let every one be brought to trial, and if found guilty be punished, ~» This is another battle in the campaign of honesty against crime. We are glad that the President leads it. We saw his heavy hand in the war upon Tammany aud Erie, We have seen with pleasure the siernness with which he has punished every infraction of the law— men like Hodge, who embezzled the public funds, We do not know what will come of this battle with the Whiskey Ring, but we honor him for his courage in waging it; we shall support him to the end with alacrity, and we are profoundly convinced that the result will show him that he has earned a new tiile to the respect and affection of the American people, The Court of General Sessiouxs—The City Judge _— the Kecorder, A brief retrospeot of the criminal business disposed of in the Court of General Sessions, presided over by City Judge Bedford and Re- corder John K, Hackett, if such could be fairly entered upon for any one or two terms, would be most refreshing and encoyraging to the law-abiding citizens of our metropolis. But ag reference may only be mud: to the general result, this in ilself will be sufficient to demon- sirate to what an extent the dangerous classes have been kept under restraint and control, and their numbers and consequent power for evil curtailed and shorn by the adminis- tration of justice in the Court of General Ses. sions, Emigrant swindlers, the vilest of onr criminals, have had their occupation wrested from them by conviction and sentence of their most prominent ringleaders, despite the fact that these chief criminals had heen iu the en- Joyment of political and police immunity almost up to the moment of sentence and pun- ishment. » Burglars, garroters, panel thieves, highwaymen and bond robbers, the rear guard being closed up by Dutch Heinrich the other day, who, by sentence of Recorder Hackett, took line for ten years, have all been rapidly going the way of all criminal flesh—to Slog Sing, The term of the Court just closed was one of the heaviest for years ; but so thors oughly was the calendar cleared off by Recorder Hackett that the City Judge, who presides during the April term, did not deem it neces- sary to pul the couniy to the expense of em. anelling a fresh grand jury to pass upon the w and unimportant cases remaining for trial, But the javisdiction and efiicieney of ral Sessions and the action of its two Judges has taken a much wider range and embraced a more imporiant field, and has conterred incalculably greater immediate and prospec. tive benefits upon the communily than could possibly result from the trial, conviction and punishment of even the gr and the worst and most fe: the law. rless contemners of The crowning act of the jurisdiction of the General Sessions was the indicting by Judge the the heads of Tammany Ring and their commitment and all for trial, It was a judicial sy hip and thigh—uo man eseaping (hrousk fear, favor, affection or hope of reward, ‘The gene. ral condemnation invoked upon the delingnent Ring was but the reverberaitng echo of the judgment passed upon it by Judge Bedlord’s | Grand Jury, and whieh promptly led to the and the reformation in | overihrow of the Rin our municipal affairs consequent upon tt The City Judge and Recorder deserve well of their fellow citizens, and, indeed, well of the citizens of the entire State, as whatever tends to suppress and deler evildoer: in the | cities must have its effect om thelr criminal brethren in the country, just as, on the other hand, immuniiy from punishment always leads to excesses In lawlessness and crime, And yet, through a mistaken Interpretat oe niere technical reading of the low, tI powers that at present hold the city purse sirings deny and withhold from these officials ! their legal pecuniary remuneration. ‘Chis is the more annoying and humiliating from the fact that it was in reeognition of their public services that the Board of Supervisors, em- vowered by two quggessive acts of *' Levige atest desperadoes | lature, dtantad 0 ceectaiian! in 1869-70, in- creasing respectively their salaries to fifteew thousand dollars per annum, Subsequently, but, however, as was surmised at the time, | With doubtful authority, the Supervisors also by resolution increased the salaries of the ; Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courtag: and Couris of Common. Pleas to fifteea thousand dotlars, which resolution, for the reason stated—donbt of ita legality—wag contirmed by « special act of the Legislature, not deemed, and, in fact, not necessary in tha cage of the City Judge and Recorder. The present Comptrotler, tuking a different view of the case, has from September last refused to pay them the aged paid to alt the Judges of the higher Conrts, thas puttiag the highest criminal Judges of the elty and county ona par with the Police and Distries Justices, It is to be hoped that the present Legislative will remedy this palpable and ad~ mitted injustice, and, by an act confirmatory of the resolution of the Board of Supervisors, place from a fegislative, judicial and popular point of view, the City Judge and Recorder ia their proper status among the higher Judgoa of our Courts, ine rate ‘the Opera Last Night at the Academy. The 1st of April, 1872, will be long remem- bered by the operatic public of New York aa one of the most remarkable occasiong tn tha history of Italian opera in this country—tha alrongest combination of lyric taleht that has appeared siuge the famous Havana troupe drew within the walls of the Academy of Musia an andleace of overwhelming proportions, and the receipts were considerably over nine thou- sand dollars, ‘The apathetic nature of an Academy audience is well known, and nothing short of an extraordinary event could cal} forth the wild enthusiasm with which the prinoipal were greeted last night, Madame, Parepa- -Rosa, Miss Adelaide Phillips, Hert Wachtel and Mr, Santley appeared ig the. well-worn “Trovatore” with a magnificeat™ chorns and orchestra, one hundred and tweaty. strong, and the performance in general waa of such @ nature that the old, familiar musi¢é seemed as fresh and novel as ifit had heen givea for the firat time, ‘The reault of such a daring experiment on the part of the management—«+ daring in view of the enormous expense cone sequent on bringing such a,combination tor gether—proved the correctness of our Con- stant assertion that the New York public will support first class opera, no matter what it costa, An impresario need not feel! apprehension of failure if he only secure tha best talent, and we are of opinion that a coms pany like that which is heard in the summer at either of the London opera houses, groat though the cos! may be, can be presented af our Academy for an entire season with the best financial results, Parsimony in manages meut has been ever the bane of opera here, A prima donna or a tenor of fame has beew thought, heretofore, a suffleient attraction, and the ensemble has had to took ait for itself, We trust that the ‘example which Mr. Rosa has shown in presenting an oper complete in every sense of the word will a be lost upon future managers of Italian opera, Certainly the public have shown a desire to assist the lyric drama when thus presented, and any failures in the future, asin the past, must necessarily be placed to the account ot the management, : Personal Intelligence. Admiral Polo de Barnahe, the new Spaalsh Mints ter, left the Churendon Hotel ior Washington at noon yesterday. General Charles Bird, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel B. Gebhard, of tue Uuited Stated Army, ta at the Gisey Honse, Lieutenant C. Thomas, of the United States Navy, has arrived at tie Si. Nicholas Hotel General 1. B. Slouchouse, of Albauy, is stopptug at the Astor House, 2 J. H, Ramsey, of Albany, President of the Alvang | and Susquehanna Railroad, ts at tie St. Nicholag Hotel. Ex-State Senator W. C. Alexander, of New Jer- sey, 1 at the St, James Hotels General George W. Morgan, member of Oongress from Ohio, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, : Judge Carter, of Utah, is scjourming at the Metros politan (fotel, H Jjewenant G. A. Thurstow, of the Unired States Army, fies taken quarters at Earie’s Hotel, Mr. Jaimes W, Tucker, banker, of Paris, is in the city, stopping at the Caign League Ciuy House, General Sinieoa B, Buckaet, of Kentueky, ts @mong the lacest arvivals a (he St. Nicholas Hotet, Senor Manuel Aspirotz, of Mexico, lias arrived at the Grand Central Hotel, This gentleman, Who ta an eminent jurist, has been accredited as a special | agent to Washington by the Juareg government, bot the purport of his mission is as yes unknown. } Sefor Julian Mello; who, with a party of friends, | fs en vole to Spain from Mexico, yesterday reached | the Grand Centval Motel, Senor Metlo is one of (he dtrectors of the company Working (ue Pachuca gold mine, one of the richest in Mexico, Atan clection held at the armory last evoning Captain & Osear Ryder was chosen Treatenant | Colonel of the Seventh regiment, The new Lieute. | nant Colonel has been for years & member of the | sqaliant Sevetit,? and has greatiy atied to briag ent np to and Keep it at its igh standing, Should he continue to do as Well im hits present asim is old pusition there can bein the future no good + grounds for desire Witt Ue result of last evening's election had been different. A Spanish paper pudiished a few days since an hiterentially spiteful obiimary notice of General A, Varoua, the Cuban patriot, The Generat js not dead, and does not Intend to ate by the hands punish, if he can tieip tt He Is peaceruily ag the profession of law mn this Clty, ant in Cava need not entertain appreheu ning Nie ‘The Yaroua reported dead t Atoltion rome sion Is Jose, WEATHER, Derar THE | War | DrrICE OF ane cmEy StGN OPN einen D.C, ATL Synopsis ‘or the Last Treen The lowest barometer has mov , since Sanday night, northeastward front Ne n New York } own the SG Lawrence Valley, Brisk and high westerly Winds have prevatied front the lower Jakes fo the Middie and Kast Atlantic coast, but have diminished tn force, Clear qwoatner (8 very gencrally reporied [rom the stations cust of the Mowutains, The barometer ww lowest over Nebr si Dakota, Lrovavititess Tie barometer Will Contiune rising over the Mide New Bugbind States and Cie winds dinite Cicar Weather will generally prevail om the Mississippl eastward to the ‘the bavometer will continue — falte anil tirowghout the Mississinpt Vate waging easterly to southery winds and cloudiness, An of loW avoueter is appar. ently adva i towards Towa, auc threatening weather ts probable for the Northwest on Tuesdar, tg West © » WAIT itt which will gradually exicad over the upper lake semion and fothe Ohio Vaiey, ia vous wiads aro now anticipated Jor tie Atkuae aad Galt GUISE 2.