The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1872, Page 6

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Pace, 1—Advertisoments, 2—Adveriisements, 3—Comptrolier Hulbura: Investigation Before the Banking and Currency Comuittee; Rueful Rutter’s Story ;The afairs of the Tennessee National Bank of Memphis; Reported Kesig- nation of Mr. Hulourd—Obituary : Death of Professor Morse—The French Aris Foolery— ‘The Ballot Box Outraged, *. 4—Fipancial and Commercial: verststent Strin gency iu Money; The Stock Market Yields and ‘alls; Erie Shares Up to 63 and Down to 61; Governments Higher in London and @ Trifle Lower Here; Gold Steady at 110—The Real Estate Market: Dull but Firm; Tne Indifer- ence of the.Legisiature Checking the Enter- rive Of the Peoples The Prospect for the pring—Shooting in a Lager Keer Saloon—The Comptroller's Paymeut—A Police Comuils- sioner Robbed, Geeiteal Estate Markets (Continued from Fourth Page)—Proceedings in the New York Courte— Another Malpractice Case: A Poor German Girl the Victim—The Whiskey Frauds—Art Saies— Closing Exercises of the New York Female High School—Boston Revenue Frauds—Insurance in Olio—Historical So- en dara ana Deaths—Aavertise- ments, G—Eadltorials: Leading Article, “The Rapid Tran- git Question—Shall It Be Decided for the Lobby or for the People’—Amusement An- nouncements, 7--Eciterlais (Continued from Sixth Ce gy he ‘Telegrams from England, Scotland, treland, France, Germany and Holland—News from Waslimgton- ‘Tho State Capital: A Poor Pros- ae for the Passage of the Seventy’s Charter; esignation of nator O’Brien—The Wea- ther—Persenal Inteliigence—The Mellier Pat- ont Paper—Miscellaneous Telegrams—business Notices. S—Advertusements, 9—Adverusements, 10—The Metairie Races: Meeting; Three Grand Events—The Robeson Tnvestigation—The Soier’s Burial: The Last Second Day of the Spring NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL v, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEER, The Rapld Trausit Question—Shall It Be Decided for the Lobby or for tho People? The Herarp has advocated for several years the construction of a steam railroad in New York, in order to afford quick transit from the Battery to Westchester county, so that the upper part of the island, now almost inacces- sible to business men, may be brought into use for residences. The description of road to be built is a matter of very little conse- quence so long as the great want of the city is supplied without unnecessary delay, and at an outlay so reagonable, considering the mag- nitude of the work, as to insure to the people moderate rates of fare, As a general rule passengers would rather travel above ground than under ground, and on sanitary consider- ations, as well as for the comfort of travellers, a viaduct or surface road is preferable to a close, dark and damp tunnel, The Metropoli- tan Underground Railway of London was found to be so injurious to the health of pas- sengers accustomed to use {it constantly as well as to its employés that the company was compelled to open a number of outs and ventilating shafts about two years ago, at a heavy expense, while even with these improvements the atmosphere is still so objec- tionable that no person who can as well use the viaduct thinks of travelling steadily by the underground line, In New York, espe- cially on the line of Broadway, the narrowness of the street and the unbroken rows of build- ings would render a tunnel more difficult of ventilation than is the London Metropolitan Underground, while the cost of construction would be largely increased through tho pecu- liar obstacles to be overcome. Hence it has appeared certain that the underground plan is not the one best calculated for this olty—first, because it would be almost impossible to pro vide sufficient ventilation, and next, because the engineering difficulties In the way. The nécessity of entirely relaying the sewers and pipes now occupying the ground and the cer- tain damage to buildings would swallow up 80 vast an amount of capital, even supposing every dollar of debt to be honestly incurred, that the heavy cost of the road would necessi- tate the imposition of rates of fare so high as to deprive the great bulk of the people of the real advantage of rapid transit. But for these undeniable facts the Heratp would just as soon favor the construction of an under- ground road as the building of a viaduct rail- way. Itis only because a viaduct presents none of the diflculties of the tunnel scheme; because all the obstacles to be overcome in the former are visible to the eye; because the expenditure necessary can be oalculated toa dollar; because no property is injured by its construction; because the convenience of the citizens is not interfered with, and because its total cost would admit of reasonably low rates of fare, that the Hzratp advocates the viaduct plan in preference to any other. Apart from these practical considerations wo care nothing what project may succeed, pro- vided that the people secure the boon of rapid transportation at cheap fares. The railroad franchises belong to the people, and they are entitled to enjoy the advantages to be derived from them. In like manner the Hzratp has advocated the building of two great viaduct railways along the river lines by the city, because it has become evident that if left in the hands of private adventurers and speculators no road Tribute of Kespect to the Hero of Fort Sum- ter—The Government Stouecutters—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Advertisoments, 12—Aaveriisements, Tost Brave AND Usrervn MEN, THE Pitots, won a substantial victory in the House of Representatives yesterday in the adoption of an amendment to the Steamboat Passen- gers’ Safety bill, declaring that no provision of the bill shall be construed to interfere with the laws of the various States on pilots and pilotage. This is right, Messrs. Cox and Townsend, of New York, and Butler, of Massachusetts, made a stout fight for those bardy guides over the trackless deep. Mr, Brapiaven IN Giascow.—Mr. Brad. laugh lectured in Glasgow on Monday night. His speech was violent and revolutionary. The crown was In the gift of the Parliament. It had given it to William and Mary and sanc- tioned the Hanoverlan succession, What it could give it could takeaway. The audience, however, would not listen to such talk, and the meeting became tumultuous. It is quite manifest that the British people are in one of their loyal moods, and that for the present there is smali chance for the republic. Tar Brivisa Review or tHE VOLUNTEER Foroz came off on Easter Monday near Brighton in the presence of an Immense con- course of spectators. The display was, speaking generally, satisfactory, and the field manceuvres rendered more than usually in- teresting by an army rehearsal of the ‘Battle of Dorking.” Great Britain is coming to learn, after her foreign contingents subsidy experiences, the truth of the assertion that “in native swords and native ranks the only hope of freedom dwells.” Dweantt i Manongsrer.—Mr. Disraeli paid his long deferred visit to the men of Manchester on Easter Monday. The leader of the English Parliamentary opposition enjoyed @ very enthusiastic recep'ion from the con- servatives of the great cotton centre, His friends expressed the hope that he may soon come into power again, His political move- ment in Lancashire jist at this moment may tend very materially toward the realization of this result, as will be seea by the facts which we append specially to our news telegram from London, and in view of Gladstone's treat- ment of the American question. Tae New Governor GENgrar or OANADA.— Lord Dufferin, as will be seen from one of our cable despatches this morning, is about to suc- ceed Lord Lisgard as Governor General of Canada, His Lordship’s name was mentioned in connection with the Governor Generalship of India, Lord Northbrooke, however, was Preferred, It would seem as if the govern- ment found itnecessary to make aome suitable provision for His Lordship, Lord Dufferin is @ comparatively young man, having been born in 1826, He is by his mother’s side a grand- son of the distinguished Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the friend of George the Fourth, As anauthor he is well known thr ugh his “Letters from High Latitudes.” Me is now Chaneellor of the Daohy of Lincaster, is likely to be built at all for many years to come, Men of capital appear to desire more rapid profit for their money than is offered by investment in a railway that must take at least two or three years to construct. Hence the schemes are taken hold of, not by bona fide investors, but by men who only seek the franchises to make money Illegitimately out, ofthem, They are lobbied through at Albany by giving away large interests to Senators, Assemblymen, lobbyists and Bohemians. In some instances bogus names are crowded in among the Incorporators; in other cases money is ralsed and paid out to procure the passage of the bills, and charged to the cor- poration ; or, if cash cannot be procured, the original stock is partitioned among these legislative sharks, and the company comes into existence hampered with five or six mil- lion dollars of bogus debt. This is the case with the Underground schemes now before the State Legislature, and hence the passage of the pending bills, or of any oae of them, does not promise to forward the construction of a rail- road for the use of the people. If the city should build the road, under the management of an honest commission, such as has always from first to last controlled the Central Park, the whole amount of money necessary for its con- struction and equipment would be raised as rapidly as required, and would be honestly ex- pended; the work could be completed in two years, the interest on the debt would be paid out of the earnings after the second year, no heavy dividends would be required for stock- holders, and the people would enjoy the ad- vantage of the lowest rates of fare consletent with the actual cost and running expenses of the road. If we believed that the work could and would be done by a private corporation as speedily, as well and with similar benefit to the people, we should advocate the bestowal of the franchise upon a responsible company just as strongly as we now urge the construc- tion of the roads by the city, What the Herarp demands is that the rep- resentatives of the people in the Legislature and in the city government shall act intelli- gently and honestly in a matter that Is of such vital interest to every citizen of New York, The future destiny of the metropolis is certain, Its natyral advantages, its magnificent bays and rivers, its accessibility at all seasons and {n all weathers, its vast water front, the opening of the fron high- ways across the Continent from ocean to ocean, the increasing wealth of all the States, the rapid development of the great West, the inevitable liberal tendency of our national policy, insure to New York eventual supremacy over all the cities of the world, But the rapidity with which this destiny is to be fulfilled and the benefits the living genera- tion is to derive from these splendid advan- tages depend In @ great measure upon the | capacity, intelligence and honesty of our rulers, ‘Three immense strides can be made in our on- ward progress within the next three yeare— the removal of the obstructions at Hell Gate, the carrying out of the comprehensive plan of the present dock commission by which we suall secure tho moss extondive sad valuable system of dockage in the world, and the con- | @ cause of constant apprehension, watchful- struction of railroads for the use of steam for city travel. The first is in a fair way of accomplishment under competent supervision ; the second 1s likely to be delayed by the po- litical scheming which threatens to destroy our present efficient dock management and to transfer those important interests to the poli- tioians; the third is being tampered with by the trading representatives and unscrupulous lobby at Albany, and is in danger of being thrown over for another year. Yet the last evil can be easily av oided if the State Legisla- ture will only passa sim ple law authorizing the | city to build the required rail roads, provided that the electors of New York shall at the next charter election vote in favor of such a policy. To this no bonest objection can be made, and no Senator or Assemblyman could justify himself before an intelligent constitu- ency for a vote vast against such a proposi- tion, Indeed, there is but one point to be urged against the policy of allowing the city to construct our railroads, and that is the goneral plea of the corruption of the municipal government and the usual carelessness of the citizens in the election of thelr public officers. As the Heratp has frequently shown, the ex- perience of the Croton Water Works and the Central Park are sufficient to prove that great public trusts can be honestly administered; but it may not have occurred to many of our citizens that the speedy construction of ample railroad accommodation within our own city would be the most effectual remedy for munt- cipal corruption, At present the high rents extorted from tenants in those portions of New York available for residences to business men, and the absence of all means of rapid and comfortable locomotion, compel many thou- sands of our most active, useful and intelligent citizens—those forming, as it were, the middle class of soclety—to seek homes elsewhere. They flock to Jersey, Staten Island and Brooklyn, and spread along the several railroad lines outside the city, in localities easier to reach, although thirty miles away, than are the uptown streets above Fortieth street; and thus, while they transact their business or follow their pursuits here, they are not voters, If they remained resi- dents of New York, as they would prefer to do, they would rank among our most faithful and useful electors, The wealthier oitizens live In the cliy because they can afford to do so, and unfortunately they frequently neglect to vote. The poorer classes do not leave the city because they cannot afford to do so, and they generally vote as often as they can, But the sterling men of the middle class who are driven away seldom, if ever, neglect the most important duty of the citizen, and always use the privilege of the elective franchise honestly and intelligently. * We now once more urge the State Legisla- ture to give us some practical law by which we can secure the speedy construction of the railroads we so much need, The disgraceful admission of the leader of tho House of Assembly, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, that the Albany lobby is passing the underground jobs now before that body, and that the success or failure of the bills depends not upon the independent judgment of the Legislature, not upon the merits of the schemes, not upon considerations of public good, but upon the consummation or defeat of @ bargain and trade among the rival lobbyists and jobbers, will not take by surprise any person who is famillar with the character of our present reform legislators. But it will confirm: the general impression that tle bestowal of these franchises upon the men who are now seeking to secure them will not be likely to promote the desired end. It is in this belief that the HERALD opposes these schemes and demands of the State Legislature a law not in the service of a corrupt lobby, but in the interests of the people, After Mr. Alvord’s naive admission, no name can be re- corded in favor of any of these lobby jobs without being tainted with suspicion, and we have yet hope that they may all be defeated by the veto of the Governor, if through no other agency, and o law enacted authorizing the construction by the city of two viaduct roads along the river lives for the use and benefit of the people. Tho Mextcan Border War-Sheridan and Augur to Movo on the Rio Grande. The people of the United States, from the Penobscot to the Rio Grande, will rejoice at one item of intelligence conveyed in our Washington correspondence to-day, At the Cabinet meeting yesterday it was resolved to thoroughly protect the Texan frontier from the ravages of Mexican robbers, and instructions were forwarded to Geveral Sheridan, command- ing the Military Division of the Missouri, and to General Augur, commanding the Depart- ment of Texas, to be specially vigilant in arrest- ing raiders from over the border, and all per- sons engaged in the violation of the customs revenue laws. Both General Sheridan and General Augur are officers who are not likely to slight these orders, or to show any lack of energy In putting a stop to the disgraceful state of affairs that has too long existed on the Texan frontier on the Rio Grande. Hitherto they have been restrained from taking such active measures as they will now promptly adopt to preserve order and enforce the law within our own bordeis, and hence wo may hear less in the futare of the bold lawlessness of our uneasy neighbors and of some of onr own oltizens on this side of the line, But is this all that our government should do? Are we to rest satisfied with chasing and capturing a few cattle stealers and smugglers when they venture on the soil of the Uniled States, or are we to take a broader view of our duty a8 a powerful nation and extend a protecting arm over the people of Mexico, whose prosperity and peace are of such vital moment to our own citizens? The action of the administration is good enongh for a beginning. Sheridan and his troopers watching the border and moving constantly along the line as a brigade of obser- vation will no doubt have a healthy moral effect upon Cortina’s brigands, and may con- vince Juarez of the policy of depriving that leader of the Mexican moss troopers of his command, The lives and property of Amerl- can citizons, which are said to have been held cheaply by these free lances, will probably be safer now that an efficient force of United States cavalry will be on the spot to avenge murder and punish freebooting, But the dis- orawniged condition of Moxlog will still exist, ness and expense to our own government and a direct injury to a large body of our own citizens. No person would urge upon General Grant an invasion of the prerogatives of the Mexican government or an infringement of the rights of the Mexi- can people. But many will look eagerly for yet further movement of the President in the direction of the pacification of that country. If the government of Juarez be the choice of Mexico we can extend to it the aid of a friendly nation in establishing peace and in insuring the happiness and progress of a sis- ter republic. To do this effectually an armed protectorate inside Mexico, as well as a cav- alry force on its borders, may be needed, and under such a brilliant and prudent leader as General Sheridan a sufficient number of our troops would soon restore order to that dis- tracted country and start !t forward on the brilliant career that is in store for it in the future. The Late Professor Morse=Tho Lesson of a Lifetime. The name of Morse has been so long among the great names of America that it has had a historical significance. And yet, -now that we know the great inventor lies dead, we feel as if there was a wide gap in our national life. The event we chronicle this morning makes the day an anniversary. All the com- forts and blessings that an earthly existence can give to the poor breathing body seem to have fallen to Morse. He lived long after the appointed time, His years were crowned with reverence and honor and fortune. He breathed the incense of that fame that so rarely comes to men in their own time. We are told that the sunshine of fame is always followed by the shadows of envy. It was the happy fortune of Morse to live into that calm, reverential, heaven-tinted twilight of old age, when even envy departs, and we fecl at peace with our generation and with God. We can realize how long Morse remained with us when we look over his life and the events with which he was contemporaneous. We speak of Shelley and Byron as wo speak of Pope and Switt, as men who belonged to a far distant past. Yet Morse was an older man than Shelley and but three years younger than Byron, He wasa child when the Robesplerres reigned; a lad at school before Napoleon won Marengo; ® man in the flush and eagerness of life before he lost Waterloo. We are about to celebrate the centennial anniversary of our republic, and had Morse lived four years longer he could have taken part in the re- joicings as one who had lived under all of the Presidents, With his own eyes he has seen the republic grow from four millions to forty millions; from being an obscure, strag- gling nationality, to be one of the recognized Powers of the globe. In our own country he saw the rise of slavery, its triumph, its struggle and its fall, One after another he has seen America grapple with the social and political problems generated in this age of progress, and solve them and pass triumphantly on to- wards a splendid destiny. While America hag slowly, surely, patiently, grandly moved on to this destiny, to a brightly opening future, full of duties and opportunities, he has seen revolution and change upturning the thrones and traditions of Europe. If he had any sense of what might be called the irony of events he must have had his own thoughts of France, for instance, with its panorama of governments— imperial, royal, gwasi royal, republican, and provisional; of those extraordinary changes of public opinion which fell from Napoleon the Great to Napoleon the Little, from Lamartine and Barras to Gambetta. And with these instructive memories he must have had strange fears for England, with its Dilke commotions and Bradlaugh demonstra- tions, and the premonitory rumblings of that political earthquake which Hawthorne’s exqui- sitely poetical sense fancied he heard in Eng- land, and which even now is loud enough to fill the world, Morse was, perbaps, the most illustrious American of his age. When we come to measure true greatness how readily we pass from the confusing, barren echoes of what we call glory to what we might call usefulness! Looking over the expanse of the ages we think more earnestly and lovingly of Cadmus, who gave us the alphabet ; of Archimedes, who in- vented the lever; of Euclid, with his demon- sirations in geo metry ; of Galileo, who solved the mysteries of the stars; of Faust, who taught us how to print; of Watt, with his de- velopment of steam, than of the resonant ora- tors who inflamad the passions of mankind and the gallant chieftains who led mankind to war. We decorate history with our Napoleons and Wellingtons, But it was better for the world that steam was demonstrated to be an active, manageable force, than that a French Emperor and his army should win the battle of Auster- litz, Wehave felt kindly to that philosophy which saw the consummation of human effort in the growing of two vines where one had grown before. For if war is valor and passion reduced to mathematics, bow much better is peace, which gives valor and passion the exactness of algebra and the wide, embracing scope of love and reason! ‘‘Peace,” says Milton, ‘hath her victo- ries no less renowned than war,” and when a Napoleon of peace, like the dead Morse, has passed away, and we come to sum up his life we gladly see that the world is better, society more generous and enlarged, and man- kind nearer the ultimate fulfilment of its earthly mission, because he lived and did the work that was in bim, A man like Morse is creation of that philosophy by which Bacon has so long gov- erned the intellect of the world. In the same rank of heroes of peace we place Franklin, Ful- ton and Stephenson. The newer inventions by no means dim the lustre of the old ones. Steam the natural precursor of the tele- graph. We had an agent which had shown how space could be controlled. Morse gave us an agency by which time was destroyed, If General Washington had beon informed that mau of the present time would sit in his seat while the words of an inaugural address were read on the Pacific long before the President had ceased to deliver it on the Atlantic; if he could havo seen the United States and England united by a tie so subtle and so immediate in fts effect that no war could sever it, he would have felt that the wother country and ber proud, imperial dnugater were upited by a tie which no war and no revolution could sever, We have seen science nullify war. We-nre nearer Great Britain to-day in all that constitutes a nation’s happiness, more closely concerned with the politics, the literature, the social joys and pleasures of her people, than before the Revolution. War divides nations; sclence unites them and carries out in silence and cer- tainty the Divine decree, which seems to will that the nations shall come more closely to- gether, and that the children of men shall become as it were of the same family. If these achlevements are the fulfilment of the higher destinies of mankind, then Frank- lin and Fulton and Stephenson belong to the highest rank of heroes. They are the masters after all, How much more truly may the same be said of the illustrious American who was gathered to his fathers yesterday evening! The story of his life is told else- where. The results of his life are known to all men. The leseon we gather from it is as old almost as buman genius and human ambition, Effort, disappointment, derision, detraction, envy, strife, that deferred hope that maketh the heart sick, weariness, fainting by the way, almost despair—is it not written again and again in the history of men who are called upon their fellow men? Do we envy those who win the fame and glory of Morse? Let us think of the others who had perhaps this heaven- inspired and far-reaching spirit and who failed in their struggles, When wo see the argosy, laden with the stuffs and gems and spices of the East, and think of her angry voyage and the safe arrival fn port, should we not think of those who sailed amid breezes as auspicious only to shiver and rend and sink? We honor Morse because he succeeded. We are told that the worship of success 1s selfishness, and that generous appreciation would honor as highly the men who dared nobly only to fail. When men who succeed as Morse, suifer as he did, we can feel that their triumphs were fully earncd. We see in this man’s life what can be done by patient, resolute endea- vor, courage, cheerfulness, belief in his mission, Let others sing the glory of his achievements and descant upon his services to the world—his honors, his possessions, bis ripe and reverend years—the rare blessings that crowned and capped his life. We see in his career the success that patient merit will always win when sustained by honor and courage. The life of Morse is full of lessons ; but this, if wo learn it truly, is the most precious of them all, The Case of the Comptroller of the Cur rency=Vhe Purification of tbo Public Offices by General Grant. The evidence given recently before the Congressional Committee on Banking and Cur- rency is published in to-day’s Heratp and will be found to possess some curious features, The testimony of the principal witness, George R. Rutter, will not be likely to create an im- pression favorable to that individual, yet the charges he brings against Mr. Hulburd, the Comptroller of the Currency, coupled with the developments already made in regard to Cal- lender and others, will convince every person that there has been great looseness and impru- dence, if not actual dishonesty, in tho manage- ment of that important bureau. Indeed, the fact of Mr. Hulburd’s prompt tender of bis resignation and of bis release from duty—a mild word for suspension—for thirty days seems to justify the belief that he bas been guilty of official misconduct. But we are told, nevertheless, that his defence has been prepared and placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury, and in view of the character of his accuser it will be nothing more than right to await its publication before adjudging him culpable to the degree that Rutter’s testimony would imply. It seems scarcely oredible that a gen- tleman occupying a responsible and lucrative position under the government of the United States should descend to such paltry corrup- tions as are alleged by Rutter against Hul- burd; yet few will be disposed to doubt that there is quite sufflolent ground to warrant the acceptance of the latter officer’s resignation and the purification of the bureau over which he has presided. These repeated evidences of official venality are humiliating to our national pride; yet their persistent exposure by the administra- tion and its friends, and the prompt remedy applied by President Grant whenever a case of corruption is established against a public officer, are encouraging and hopeful signs of a better condition of affairs in the future, The demoralizing effect of the war, and the moral looseness consequent upon the sud- den accession of a new and hungry party to office at the commencement of an era of extraordinary and lavish expendi- ture, left official corruption behind them as their natural fruit, The administration of Andrew Johnson, with its Tenure of Office law and its entire destruction of responsi- bility, only served to aggravate the evils en- gendered by the war, and left to General Grant @ government permeated by dishonesty, It has been the task of the President to ferret out crime and to purify every department of the public service. The labor has been her- culean, and the devotion with which General Grant has persevered in it shows alike his honesty of purpose and his great strength of will. His political opponents, who pretend that he has commenced the work of a reform at a late day, fail to show a single instance in which the government has not been more honestly administered under him than it was prior to the commencement of his term of office. The enormous revenue frauds, now being prosecuted to final judgment, ceased almost immediately after his accession to power, and from his first year of office up to the present moment official corruption has been rooted out av soon as its existence has been satisfac~ torily shown. There may be more left for General Grant to do; but we have confidence that he will not disappoint the trust reposed in him by the people of New Hampshire and Connecticut, and soon to be expressed by the people of all the States in the Union, At Washinglon and elsewhere he will continue the work of purification regardless of personal considerations, It ia in this belief that the two pioneer States have taken their positions under bis standard for the Presidential cam- paign, and it is in this belief that his re-elec- tion for another term will be made alaiost unapimor in the Bleotoral Colleges, to serve. ‘The Party Press on the Results of th Connecticut Election, The comments of our olty contemporaries of the party pross on the results of the Con- necticut election are certainly very amusing. Heretofore g republican victory like this would have been hailed by Mr, Greeley some- what In this enthusiastic fashion :—‘‘Glorious Old Connecticut—The Republicans Sweep the State—A Waterloo Defeat to the Sham De- mocracy,” and 80 oa; but now, was there ever such a collapse? Ail the glory, all the fire, all the republican enthusiasm of our venerable philosopher on the virtues of sub-soiling, all the trumpeting spirit of this old campaigner la gone, His review of this Connecticut elec. tion reads as if appropriated from some Nova Scotia newspaper, or, like the adaptation of an extract from some ancient political gazet- teer. It has something of the look of a re- publican congratulation, but it has a moelan- choly sound in the reading and is dismally neutral, We doubt not that Mr. Greeley, with his weather eye upon Cincinnati, would have been happier, as a republican on the half shell, with a democratic victory in Connecti+ cut. Among the wisest sayings of ‘Honest Old Abe” is the saying charged to his account, that ‘‘when a man gets the bazzing hee of the Presidency in his ear he can hear nothing, see nothing and think of nothing but the White House and how he is to get there.” ~ The facetious logician of our democratic contemporary, the World, of course expected nothing but a republican success in Connecti- cut; but his apology for the non-appearance of the anti-Grant republicans for Hubbard in this fight is very droll. If they had gone over to Hubbard they would have been counted as democrats, don’t you see? whereas they intend to go to Cincinnati and act there aa republicans, They are shedder crabs, their old shell is broken, but they still wear it, At Cincinnati they will cast it off, and then you will see the soft shell crab in all his loveliness, ready for the frying pan of the democratic party. The Zimes (administration) devotes its brief review of Connecticut mainly to the scoring of Mr. Greeley, which is a very cone tracted view of the subject. The results-in Connecticut would, doubtless, have beon the same had any one or all of these New York party journals collapsed with the collapse of the Tammany Ring. The Standard and the Commercial (administration) hit the nail on the head in pronouncing the result in Oon- necticut another popular endorsement of Gen- eral Grant, The poets of the Post, leaning on freo trade towards Cincinnati, say that General Grant was not in the fight, and that the result simply means that ‘Connecticut once more rejects the democratic organization and bids it go into its grave.” This brings up again the perplexing conundrum, Why should the great democratic party be merged in the Jack-o’- lantern adventure of the Cincinnati Conven- tion? There is a month yet for the discussion of this question among our democratic contem- poraries, and by the end of the month it is probable that Cincinnati and the passive policy will be dropped by the party, and that Messrs. Chase, Davis, Trumbull, Logan, Brown, Gree- ley, McClure, Tipton and all the other aspirants for the Cincinnati joint stock nomination will in May find themselves the victims of a mise- rable delusion, Connecticut establishes the fact that the lines of the republican party remain unbroken around the administration, and that the bolters will be as powerless. against the re-election of Grant in 1872 sa were the bolters of 1832 against Jackson, or as were the malcontents of 1864 against the re-election of Lincoln. Your disappointed politician is an old customer, and the Amer- ican people have learned his tricks and know how to deal with him, whatever the fancy cos- tume in which he may appear. President Thiers to the French Legisla- tlee Representatives—Democratic Warning of the Great Crownu The French Legislative Assembly, previous to its adjournment for the Easter recess, dele- gated the duty of parliamentary representa- tion towards the Executive to a committee of the members duly commissioned to remain in session. President Thiers addressed this committee yesierday—the Chief of State in France being evidently on the gui vive for op- portunities of government expression to the people, During the course of his remarks he referred to the situation of the country in its commercial, colonial and treaty observance aspects, supplying, in a moment, points of subject for serious international comment and the material for a score of royal speeches such as reach us from London, Vienna and Berlin after the monarchs of Great Britain, Austria and Germany have spoken to the Par- liaments, Belgium has been notified of the termination by France of the treaty of com- merce with that country at the period of the lapse of the instrument under its own provi- stons, France requires full liberty to remodel her commercial system “‘in accordance with her altered circumstances.” President Thiers has go declared to the government in Brasséls. The Cabinet of St. James may take warning, for, almost certainly, the Cobden-Bonaparte treaty of commerce will not be found appli- cable to the advantage of French interests by renewal in 1872, as the revenue income cir- cumstances of the republic will not have changed very materially in the interval. The existence of colonial difficulties in Algeria afforded occasion to the French government to treat directly with the Bey of Tunis, and thus, as M, Thiers reasons, indeed inflict a great discouragement to the imperial claim of the Sultan of Turkey for suzerainty over His Highness, the hitherto subordinate power, qhe leader of the French democracy next delivers a sort of Parliamentary hot shot to the Czar Alexander of Russia. He assured the French committeo that Russia is engaged in restoring her fortifications in the Black Sea, and, also, that England is responsible for this infraction of the Treaty of Paris. Whether President Thiers has become bilious after his Easter Day dinner or not, ho certainly appearey to have become still more democratic, ond/ consequently, “less nice” towards the neigg,. boring imperialisms. He {s in the humor,ffor “slashing around” and “hitting” a croy-ned head wherever he sees it, His present’ effort is pretty well for one day. Belvium, “\urkey, England, Germany even, and Ry ysig tad better mak» a note of the dicty, of the eom popus in France. The observance of this caution becomes really the vyoro necessarK