The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1872, Page 6

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Sons uno. ‘Lomomnen oa ent Aree. —SORNES IN “NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, ot vaye— MKNOE AND ART. bbs enh —_—— TRIPLE SU { New York, Friday, April 5, 1572. ——— = = { CONTENTS OF To-DAVS GERALD. som, panne Advertisements. Adveriisenents. Washington: Ihe Democrats and Cincionati; Van Trump's Last Card in tae Presidential Game; Piedmont and Potomac Rauroad sub- dy; Ooigressioual Tribute to the Memory of Morge—The French arms Muddie—The love- son Investigation—“straw he Na- Honal Banking Bill— Amusements—Cock Fighting—The Judiciary Committ The In- Vesugation of the Charges Against the Judges—A New Planet Discovered—Presenta- Uon to Captain Ulman—An Alleget Pick ocket in Trouble, 4—The Fast and tue West: General Sherman's Tour Over the Classic Ground of the Ortent—An In- terview With President Thiers—The V ton ‘Treaty: The Comments ot the Press on the be in the House of Concerning the Washingiou Treaty—A Melan- choly End: Sad Suicide of a Young New Yorker m Nice—The Ataiantas—The Laws of Boat Reciug—the Whiskey ads —Uditu- ary—A Journalist Killed by a Rail Car—Des- Stractive Fire in Jersey—Alieged Death from Vivience. G—Interestiug Proceedings in the New York and Krookiyn Couris—Atiempicd Abduction of ® Lite Girl—A Memeuto of the Rebellion — The Brussels Murder—Brick Vo: % ship and What Came of it rested—Another Delinquent Doci Deaths rringes anu 7 Disraeli at 6—Euitorial: Manciester—Engiand and the Uni The ‘irrepressible Coufliclv” P telilgence—Amusement Aunounceme YeThe War in Mexico: Despatch ol K 3 Cole lapse of the Revulution im Sinaloa; Mazatlan Regained for Juarez—Te tle Stealing by Mexican Marauders — T A Ciatms—Cable Telegrams from E France, Spain, Belgium, Holiand and The Earthquake in Calliornia—“Deseret:” Premature Organization of the state Legis- Jature—The Morse Funeral—s! sip Subsi- dies— Miscellaneous Telegrams—Tho Weather Report—The Republican Gencral Committee for Grant—Bustness Notices, S—Financial and Commerciai: Excessive Strin- genes In the Money Mark ‘ne Bank of Eng- fand Putting on the Screw: Advance in the Rate of Discount; Gossip About the New Clique in the Gold Room; Erratic Movements on the Stock Exchange—Municipal Asfatrs— Beeking Solace—florse Notes—Tne Metairie Races—Aimost a Murder—The boston Express Company—-Advertisements, dvertusements, @0—The State Capital: Extraordinary ana Exclt, ing Scene in the Senate; Implied Charges 0} Corruption; A Johnsonlan Argament in Favor f the Pro Rata Measure; Quibbilag in the jouse Over the Quarautine Expenditures— Action of the Assembly on the Death of Pro- fessor Morse—Brooklyn Affairs—Naval Intelll- nce—Fasting in Massachuseits—Accident- ity Ktlied—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. pid cAdworsisemnonts. Q—Advertisements. Tue Democratic LEApERS have a hard time trying to keep the hard shells qaiet uatil bfter the Cincinnati Convention. Judge Davis’ ptock is looking up in the latter market. Ler Us Have a CLEAN p, now that the street-cleaning contract is ont of unclean hands. All the cross sireets of the city are crying like the King in Hamlet, “O my Offence is rank, it smells to heaven.” Brooms and shovels to the rescue! GeneraL SuermMan on His Tra — e welcome greetings accorded to General erman in the different countries of Europe ewhich he has visited in his grand ramble must flattering alike to him and gratifying to us. ig progress from Spain through France and on to the Golden Gate of the Orient will @ memory to the old hero as lasting as famous march to the sea, The generous freceptions to distinguished Americans abroad how that our republicanism is no bar to hon- \prable recognition by the monarchies and fmonarchists of the Old World. When the pennant of brave old Admiral Farragut ‘eppeared in the waters of Europe all the jonors due to the gallant sailor were show- red upon him, and no less marked were the distinctions bestowed upoa Mr. Seward during his travels round the globe, The sailor and dhe statesman both filled important posts Auring the dark days of the rebellion, pnd from the terrible ordeal of those Rimes did they come forth to learn that Yheir work was universally acknowledged. Whe soldier, in the person of General Sher- fman, now meets with similar distinctions in Ristant lands, From Constantinople the cor- yespondent of the Hxraxy writes that the pre- parations made by the Sultan to recelve Gen- bral Sherman ara worthy of the host and the gaest whom he desires to honor, At peace with the world, the flag of the United States is honored in every clime, and the treatment of pur distinguished men abroad is an acknowl- edgment of the estimation in which the great fopublic of the West is universally esteemed, NEw YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, Mr. Disraeli! at Manchester--England nod the United States=The “irrepressible Con- flict.” Her Majesty’s loyalists, or royalists, under the wing of Mr. Disraeli, on Wednesday even- ing last made a powerful demonstration at Manchester in behalf of the Throne and its feudal attachments—the lords, the landed aristocracy and the Church. An immense conservative meeting assembled in Free Trade Hall to hear from Disraeli his manifesto, as the leader of the opposition forces, against Glad- stone and his government policy aad priaci- ples. From our reports by cable‘of this mani- festo wo find that it embraces a resolution to uphold the constitution of the kingdom in a policy which will not despoil churches nor plunder landlords, but farther the interests of the great body of the people; a vindication of the aristocracy, a defence of the House of Lords and a consideration of the Gladstono government in reference to our Alabama claims. In bis defence of the Throne the hon- orable gentleman ascribed to it the blessings which Englishmen enjoy, and, among other thinzs, he commended it (‘angels and ministers of grace, defend us!”) to the admiration of his hearers on the score of economy. In this plea he graciously condescended to say that “the expense of the sovoreignty of the United States, which embrace Congress and the Siate Legislatures, as well as the Execu- tive, was between seven and eight hundred thousand pounds sterling, or double the total of the English civil list—an estimate on tho one side so extravagant that it is ludicrous, and on the other a begging of the question. On the Alabama claims the learned orator admitted that it was impossible for America (meaning the United States) to recede from her position, and while he thought that minis- terial incompetence would be led to the ultimate acknowl edgment of the principle of consequential damages, the results of this con- cession, he feared, must be fraught with the utwost dangers to England. He, in the place of Gladstone, would have had a friendly con- ference on this subject, and would have settted the difficulty in this way. . This, then, is the new programme of the conservative party of England against Glad- stone and his liberals in occupation of the gqverament, Itis a formidable indictment, too, uader the pressure of recent political events and revelations in both hemispheres, though weak at all poiats touching the “‘irre- pressible conflict” between feudal institutions and popular rights, Considering it first as a political campaign document from the outside party against the party in power, it is. appar- ent, from the marked enthusiasm of this Man- chester meeting and of all the other recent loyal demonstrations ia England, that Disraeli is riding triumphantly on the waves of a great political reaction, which promises with the settlement of the Alabama claims the restora- tion of the tories. They do not care to re- lieve Gladstone of this ‘Old Man of the Sea.” Charged with this business they would have to do as he will have to do, and they prefer that be should bear the political consequences of the inevitable adjustment, Out of power your conservative can be a radical when con- venient; in power your most advanced liberal becomes conservative. Hence, on the aggres- sive, the advantages of Disraeli on the deli- cate and dangerous but exceedingly simple question of our Alabama claims. Bat it is as the delegated champion of the Crown, the lords, the landed aristocracy and the Church, as embodied in tho British constitution, that recent events and develop- ments have given Disraeli the commanding voice which he evidently now holds over the British public mind. The events In Franco following the overthrow of the empire, such as the opéra bouffe republic of Gambetta and the terrible Paris Commune; the unsettled and uncertain tenure of office of the venerable Thiers and his Long Parliament, and the omuipresent spectre of the International, have operated throughout the civilized world more or less to the prejudice, not only of dangerous innovations, but of wholesome reforms in the interests of the people. And, again, these frightful disclosures of the millions of public money from year to year systematically appropriated and divided among the managers of the Tammany Ring, and tho enormous democratic maiorities rolled up in this city through the appliances of these stolen funds ; in the corruption of our elections, from the industrious repeater to his zealous confeder- ates employed in making up the returns, have been studied with pleasure and profit by Mr. Disraeli and his English conservatives; for is there not in these and in all the other horrible demoralizations of the great republic, from the whiskey rings to the Ku Klux Klans, a new bond of security to the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Westminster and the Arch- bishop of Canterbury? But, again, the emissaries of the disciples of the Paris Commune, of the droaded Interna- tional, of the red republic, in their most au- dacious pretensions, had in Hyde Park been preaching the advent of the republic, or the repetition of that terrible convulsion which ushered in the first French republic, as the next thing in order with the death or retire- ment of Queen Victoria, when the Prince of Wales was, by a violent sickness, brought to the verge of the grave. It was believed that he could not survive; that he must die, and then, with a little child to take his place as the heir to the Throne, the dangers of a re- geucy in dismal shadows settled over England. The Prince of Wales bad not mado himself a popular favorite, and the enemies of the Crown had deliberately pursued him; but the thought of the fearful disasters that might follow his death awakened the whole island—nay, the whole British emptre and the civilized world— to prayers for bis life, Ho recovered, and the London thanksgiving for his restoration de- monstrated the general popular reaction in favor of the Crown, And here we have the main secret of this resuscitation of Disraeli as the popular champion of this remarkable po- litical reaction, But we shall shortly hear from bis powerful adversary, Gladstone, and then we shall doubt- less learn that this adroit, skilful and unserupa- lous ex-Premier, in his zeal for the constitution and in hig programme which will further the interests of the great body of the people, with- out plundering churches or robbing landlords, assumes, insinuates and promises too much, We expect to hear that the safety of the crown doves not depend upon Mr, Disraeli, and that landlords aud ohurches aro in no peril of rob- bery or spoliation from the present liberal gov- eroment, Itisa party contest, and in such things, though slow to recognize it, our British cousins are rapidly learning the campaign Strategy and tactics of our democrats and re- publicans, But there is this reaction in favor of Her Majesty’s conservatives, and Glad- Stone, checked for the present in his pro- gramme of reforms, will be‘compellod to stand upon the defensive. He cannot advance yet for some time upon any scheme menacing even remotely the House of Lords, the Church or the landlords, His over- shadowing difficulty is the American case before the Geneva Tribunal, and as his tenure of office is to be determined by the settlement of these consequential damages, a settlement on his part may be indefinitely delayed. The inevitable settlement in the end, we think, has been pronounced, though somewhat roughly, by Mr. Disraell, Tho United States will not recede from their case, and Her Majesty’s government will ultimately ac- knowledgo the principle of indireet claims, be- cause it is so written in the protocol of the Joint High Commission. Nor will there be from this settlement any of those dreadful results fraught with the utmost dangers to England which are apprehended by the highly imagina- tive author of “Lothair.” The danger to England lies in the other direction. The set- tlement indicated will establish the bonds and blessings of peace between her and the United States. The rejection of the treaty in a final refusal to recognize the American case may resultin war, and war between the United States and England will open the gates of Windsor Castle to Mr. Bradlaugh and his re- publicans, and will make Sir Charles Dilke leader in the House of Commons. Toe Barl of Derby and other prominent conservatives at Manchester followed Mr, Disraeli in speeches of similar import. It was a mass meeting for the opening of the campaign against the Gladstone Ministry, and the meeting was a significant success. But the especially significant feature of the affair was the extraordinary comparison of Disraeli between the cheapness of Her Majesty’s gov- ernment and the enormous costs—running up to four thousand millions of dollars a year— of the complex republican system of the United States, This means that the compari- son between British and American institutions has entered iato the public mind of England ; that it is beooming a party question there, and that the aristocracy aro desperately grappling with itas the real danger which they have most to fear, The time is favorable, too, for this line of action; but as com- parisons like these of Manchester will neither feed the starving nor shelter the houseless poor of England, nor stay the tide of emigration from her shores to ours, the idea will continue to spread among the Eng- lish masses at home that in our republican system is their only salvation. ‘Lhe State, Church and the landed aristocracy of England cannot much longer survive. The political reaction of 1871-72 in their favor may be fol- lowed by a retroversing tidal wave in 1873. We think it probable that the American case, on the Alabama claims, will be permitted to slumber or drift along until we shall have passed through the local egitations of this im- pending Presidential election; but that then, ia this American case, as in some other things in the budget of our unsettled foreign affairs, decisive measures will be adopted at Washing- ton. Then, on the issue of peace or war with the United States, the alternative will be pre- sented to the British aristocracy of a choice between their institutions and ours. Pushed to an ultimatum here, on these Alabama claims, lies the great danger to England, The Revolution in Mexico. Endless fighting is the old tune of the in- variable song from the land of anarchy, which we in Irony call ‘The Sister Republic.” The main facts remain always the same, though the details may differ. Indeed, we have come to consider fighting inseparable from Mexico. This time the special report of our Matamoros correspondent is gleaned from Juarist accounts, and coming from such a source it is not surprising that it should be full of government victories and cor- responding rebol disasters, Still, making a consilerable allowance for partisan exag- geration, it seems ceriainly an established fact that the struggle is going against the revolutionists, A tide of good fortune has set in for the forces of Juarez, while their adversaries are just now “bound on shallows and on miseries,” From our special despatch it appears that the government is making a supreme effort to crush ‘the revolu- tion. Reinforcements are flowing towards Rocha’s army. Indeed, the Juarez govern- ment appears to be engaged in a frantic effort to combine all the troops it can spare for a powerful blow at the maia forces of the revolutionists under Treviiio and Donato Guerra, The defeat of the rebels in the State of Sinaloa and the return to allegiance of the city of Mazatlan, as announced by Gen- eral Rocha himself, are, if true, great vic- tories forthe government. But for all these victories it would be premature to consider the revolutionists finally vanquished. They have lost the vantage ground, but so had the forces of Juarez a few weeks ago, when the government appeared to be on its last legs, A sudden tura in the fortune of war is not a surprising occurrence in Mexico, and by such an emergency the revolutionists may yet re- gain what they have lost, and the struggle go on until there are no more Mexicans left in Mexico. CommerciaL DrumMMeERs IN Vireinta,—The question of taxing non-resident traders in the “Chivalrous State” was defined yesterday by Judge Bond. The New York ‘drummer’ Bar- rett was discharged from custody on the ground that the municipal law calling for the payment of a license fee of one hundred dollars was illegal and against the constitution of the United States, The Supreme Court decided that six months ago, Tue Potrioa Fanon ix Urat.—Accord- ing to our despatch from Salt Lake the Mor- mon magnates yesterday formally convened a “State Legislature,” and to-day they will probably elect, in joint committee, Delegate Hooper and Tom Fitch as United States Sena- tors, What a scene there will be when the admission of Utah as a State is refused by Congress! The dry bones will be scattered and the electod Senators will call upon the rocks to hide and the hilly to gover them, Grants Campaign Against King—The Law Must Be Enforced and Its Infraction Punished. The excitement among the masters of the whiskey. ring since the publication of tho HERatp's exposures continues to increase. The sensations of these gentlemen may be compared to those of our friends in Cali- fornia tho other day when they heard the earthquake and saw the chasm opening for miles and miles, Their expedients and emotions and asseverations and invec- tives aro amusing. In the first place there were no indictments ; but the deputy marshals dispelled that illusion, Then there were only ten or fifteen. Now they admit that there were at least sixty, and when they come to read Marshal Sharpe’s return to Court they will probably find that, with the exception of a few errors in typography, the Heratn’s list was a transcript from the minutes of the Grand Jury. Then came the averment that the whole affair was a conspiracy, a political measure inausurated by the President or Mr. Boutwell for political purposes, or by General Butler and his agents for personal spleen, and the HzRaxp had been used to per- petrate a “huge joke.” We have heard some of General Butler's critics compare him to Apol- lyon, and they certainly give him the Satanic quality of being at the bottom of all the mis- chief brewing in this wicked generation. Now it appears that even General Butler had nothing to do with these develop- ments, and that he first heard of the in- dictments when he read the report in the Herarp. So, what are the poor distrossed people to believe? Simply this, that this movement was directed by General Grant and the Secretary of the Treasury; that their duly appointed and commissioned agents made in- quiry and arranged the evidence; that upon this evidence a Grand Jury of respectable and high-toned citizens returned indictments against those who appeared to be guilty; that the government officials are still at work, and when the next Grand Jury assembles they will be asked to consider evidence affecting five or six hundred more people who are believed to have defrauded the Treasury of its just dues, This is a plain, prosaic statemeat, we con- fess. It would have been so much better to have had a conspiracy, the Satanic Butler or the diabolical Murphy at the head of it, and their attending imps conspicuous, busy and malignant in their efforts to punish good men and send them to jail, merely from reasons of personal spleen. It would have been a splen- did card for the democrats to be able to assure the country in the next canvass that the Presi- dent had siriven to send all of his enemies to prison. But, as if to add to the misfortunes of the situation, none of the indicted parties are politicians even, if we except one ex-member of Assembly and two ex-police justices, who might as well be dead for all the political im- portance they have assumed in the last few years. Aswe said in the beginning, these are the first fruits of Grant's resolution to in- vestigate the fearful frauds against the revenue, by which hundreds of mil- lions of dollars were diverted from the Treasury and consequent burdens added to the taxation of the people. As in his campaigns against Richmond, Grant bas found the work tedious, difficult, almost im- possible. Most of the frauds were committed under a former adminisiration. Many of the responsible and guilty parties have left the country, Some are dead. They were ingen- ious men, and the evidence of their crimes was carefully hidden. Those who remain are mainly rich, and have amassed great fortunes in their unlawful calling, They had vast power in politics, not only in the republican but the democratic party. Like the Erie Ring and the Tammany Ring they are strongly entrenched, As we are informed, many of them have earnestly supported the President’ and are willing again to pay their money in his cause, They certainly have money, and are liberal and would give largely for immu- nity, Then Time has been rolling on, that good old comforter and pacificator and media- tor Time, who will give immunity to the most guilty and compromise with the most sinful if we only wait long enough. Justice has been patient and silent so long that it was believed the revenue offences were barred by the statute of limitations. And we have doleful complaints as to the injustice of these accusations, and we are reminded that nothing is meaner than this war upon corpses, and General Grant is plaintively implored to turn his attention to matters more immediate than frauds that took place years and years ago. On the other hand, there is no one thing the President can do that deserves doing so thor- oughly as the investigation and punishment of the frauds upon the revenue, We are familiar with the Erie and the Tammany Ring, and we have been accustomed by the rhetoric of the press t) a complete knowledge of their enor- mities. But great as these rings became, and manifold as were their iniquities, the whiskey and tobacco rings surpassed them, The evils of Erie were limited to one railroad and to one State, We felt them more in the scandal © that came upon our credit abroad. The evils of Tammany were limited to New York, and were 80 largely political that It was the in- terest of one great party to war upon thei, But the conspiracy against the revétiue em- braced men of all parties, Republicans as well as democrats shared in the crimes, It reached the President and his Cabinet. It was strong enough to appoint Bailey Collector and confirm him. It could at any time call the roll of its membership in the Senate and the House. It controlled legislation, was powerful in the press, Nay, even now, when iis influence may be supposed to have become deadened by time, it is strong enough to so affect our press that the Haran is virtually alone in demanding this investigation and in sustaining the President in his resolution to enforce the laws. Public sentiment became unsettled and lost its moral tone, It was known that men could wantonly defy the law and amass fortunes out of the Treasary, and that there was no law, no executive power, ‘no swiftly-falling sword of justice to interfere with them, We remember, and the remem- brance is not without an amusing feature now, that Mr. Greeley in despair publicly called on the President to appoint General Butler Com- missioner of Internal Revenue, as the only man who, in his judgment, could collect the tax upon whiskey, It would not he too the Whiskey” | Tammany and Erie rings were the natural sclecessors of the whiskey ring, With it begas that leprous distilment which poisoned the fountaias of the public credit and the public honor: With these events patent, so patent that not to know them is to be’ ignorant of one of the most striking and shameful chapters in our recent history, what course has the President but to pursue the frauds and punish their au- thors? We are not desirous of seeing our citi- zens in trouble. We have no pleasure in knowing that a hundred indictments have been found against residents of New York, and that four or five hundred more will most probably be found atthe next session of the Grand Jury, It is no pleasure for us to seo men of wealth and standing summoned to the bar of jastice, But we insist that justice be done, and that the President be sustained in doing it, and if men have wealth by reason of their frauds upon the revenue, and standing only because the circumstances under which they amassed wealth are not known, let them be indicted with their bumbler partners in guilt, President Grant is not a man to fail in any- thing he undertakes, He fouzht the rebel ring when it was strong enough to almost overturn the government, and he will fight this whiskey ring by every means in his power until he has shown its members, whether re- publican or democratic, friends of the admin- istration or foes, that so long as he is Presi- dent he means that every law shall be enforced and the violation of law punished, no matter how powerful the offenders may be. The Kailrond Jobs at Albany—The Dis honesty or Incompetency of the Stnte Legislature. The fight over the New York Broadway Underground job continues at Albany, and Senator Madden, who is the champion of the Beach Pneumatic bill, already passed by the Senate, yesterday made an attempt to strangle the rival project—the Central Underground, which is the favored of the Assembly, Tho motion to agree with the adverse report of the Railroad Committee failed by a tie vote, and the matter was thereupon laid on the table, to be called up as soon as the lobby jobbers, who, as Assemblyman Alvord states, are passing the bills, have agreed upon some plan for a division of the plunder they hope to secure at the expensy of the citizens of New York. No more disgraceful exhibition has been presented in any of our former notorious Legislatures than is made in the present session over the scramble for this railroad franchise. Two persistent and im- pudent lobby gangs have been in Albany since the first days of the organization, quarrelling, squabbling, bullying and brib- ing, in order to induce the Legislature to bestow on one or the other of them the privilege of tearing up Broadway and destroy- ing the property on that strect, under pre- tence of constructing an underground rail- road. There is no intention on the part of these persons to bulld a railroad; they desire to secure the franchise only to make money Sat of it, either by eelling the privilege, by trading on the sbares, or probably by black- mailing the property owners, They are not the men who would be entrusted with the work of building a road by the people of New York, and they have not tue first claim to demand such a franchise, either from position, wealth, character or ability; but they hope to secure it through giving away interests in the stock to the representatives at Albany or through buying votes for other consideration. The best prospect of their defeat lies in the fact that one set of lobbyists has bought up the Sonate, while the rival gang has purchased the Assembly. But if the attempt to con- ciliate these conflicting interests should suoc- ceed we are quite confident that Governor Hoffman would protect the people of New York by his veto, In refusing to pass an honest, practical rail- road bill for this city, the reform Logislature has shown its indifference to the wishes of the people and its willingness to sacrifice public duty to self-interest. The want of rapid transit fs seriously felt in New York. Every year's delay in the construction of a railroad by which our citizens can travel from the Battery to Harlem Bridge in twenty minutes is a serious injury to the metropolis, Our most useful business men are being driven from the city and from the State to find homes at reasonable rents and convenient of access, ‘and their money and their healthful political influence are both lost to us. This drainage of the best portion of our population is increasing year after year. To-day, from the Hrratp office, we can see the tempting Orange hills of New Jersey, across the Hudson River, and we know that they can be reached in forty minutes in comfortable trains, running from thirty-five to forty times a day. Looking on our own side we find comfortless, slow, dirty horse cars, over-crowded and inconvenient, taking nearly an bour to reach Fiftieth street, three miles distant. If we had two viaduct railroads running along the river lines on each side of the city, into Westchester county, we conld reach a country more beautiful than New Jersey, and our best citizens could secure handsome residences, healthful alr and fine grounds on our own soil, instead of seeking homes in another State, Now, ai inieiiigent and honest Legislature, knowing these facts, Would promptly supply us with such railroads, by authorizing their construction by the city, Yet we find the Senate and Assembly making a football of rapid transit between gangs of rival, squab- bling lobbyists, and entirely ignoring the wishes and the interests of the people. If any honest legislator will introduce a bill authorizing the construction of these roads by the elty government, naming an unexception- able railroad commission to control the work, and providing for a vote of the people at the next charter election to confirm the law, there may even now be time to secure its passage this session, At all events it would enable us to place the Senators and Assemblymen on record, and to point out to the people those Representatives who have sold themselves to the lobby on this measure. No objection can be made to such a law as we propose, for it leaves the final decision of the question to the voters of New York, where ft justly belongs. It is, moreover, the only chance of obtaining a genuine rapid transit bill this session, for tho schemes of the lobbyists are all bogus. Lot na see whether any Representative at the State capital in either house has tho sense ourious @ consideration to show that the | aud the honeaty to introduce such & measure, Ree lh ~~ ef tho Hedson—1u08 spony ‘Trade, The gratifying news tt the pioneer steamer Connecticut had reachy’d Albany on Wednesday and was making her w.c¥ through the ice to Troy will be hailed by our a“itizens as the opening of the spring trade, Althoc'st the great Hudson has remained fce-lockea, nearly a month later this year than last) thas is every prospect that the delay will result in a regular freshet of business, now that the channel has been opened for the accumula- tion of the life-giving watera of commerce. When we recollect the six weeks’ snow block- ade on the Pacific railroads and the conspleta interruption caused thereby to our young trans-continental trade, Albany and Troy and all the river towns may be thankful that peal way of the iron horse was clear for them to delve into the rich marts of New York, But while the railroad kept the door open for light luxuries and stern necessities in the way of human sustenance and comfortable covering, and while the magic wires kept their intellle gences au courcant of the latest New York sen- sations, tho riparian towns still looked wistfully at the solid ice in their stately river, Iceboat racing may be very pleasant as a pastime, but Haverstraw would rather see one healthy load of bricks, bound Gothamward, than all the ice-flyers in the world, doing sixty miles an hour in a sliff nor’easter. Now that the ice is broken, let the Albanians and Trojans, and all the farmers and manufac- turers rejoice who want to send thelr goods down by the cheaper water travel, or wha look for the heavy trading schooner or the trim-built river steamer to bring the product of our city toil to their doors. It may here- upon be noted that, great though our progress may have been, the mighty forces of natare still control the current of our domestic come merce, Long accustomed as New York has been te mark the opening of her spring trade by the unlocking of the Hudson, it will have to go back many years to see a more auspicious oute look than the trade of the present season promises, Like Hercules resting from hig labors, New York bas watched for the dawn of spring to recommence, and though the night of winter has been long, the refreshed giant will soon make up for lost time. The Augean stables of “corrupt politics were satisfactorily cleansed before he lay down to his winter sleep; tho Stymphalian birds that fed on the people’s vitals, in the shape of the jobbers, politicians, sinecurists and contractors, had flown in various directions, mostly to St, Catharines and Florida, and now, as the ancient demigod went ont beyoud the pillara of Hercules to capture tho red oxen of Geryones, New York goes forth be- tween the cliffs of the Hudson peacefully and commercially to capture the spoils of the farms and towns of the Empire State. Another infallible barometer of the rising trade prospects for the spring will bo found in the advertising columns of the Hgraxp, with from thirty-five to fifty-three columns of adver- tisements daily, testifyin, the activity in, every branch of trade. fo the student of hia country’s greatness, as well to the sturdy busi- ness man seeking new fields for enterprise or enlargement of the old, these armies of adver~ tisements will be a surer indication of pros perity than the serried columns of the greatest, army of gorgeously liveried cutthroats that ever cried “havoc and let slip the dogs of war” at the bidding of a crowned tyrant, With the Heratp at the head of all peaceful enterprises, with New York preparing for the battle of commerce, with the ice barriors of the Hudson ‘‘melted like snow in the glance of the Lord,” we can promise such a goodly tima as will make the thrifty old Knicker- bockers turn in their graves with envy of our good fortune. Lonpon Newsparer CoMMENTS ON THR Wasuinaton Treaty.—On another page of to-day’s issue we publish the comments of the London press on the debate in the House of Lords, on the 22d ult., concerning the Wash- ington Treaty, Tbe pith of the debate, it will be rémembered, was published in the Heratp the day after its delivery. The Burl of Derby, on the occasion referred to, rose and desired to know how the government intended to pror ceed in the treatment of the treaty. Earl Granville replied on the part of the adminis- tration, and the sum and substance may be summed up in a courteous refusal on his part to say what the government was going to do about it. What course the Ministry meant to pursue with regard to the presentation of the counter case at Geneva was not even referred to. The press is undecided In its opinions, of the reserve, or secrecy, of the government in the matter. Endorsed by some as wise and by others as lacking decision, the course of Mr, Gladstone and his Cabinet is the subject of much adverse and but little favorable criticism, Personal Intelligence. United States Senator Jonn Sherman, of Ohto, at rived yesterday, fro Washlagton, at the St. Nich~ olas Hotel. Judge H. C. Whitman, of Clacimuatt, ts at the Metropoiitan Hotel. Captain Conner, of the steamship Rising Star, is at the Sturtevant House, United States Senator, J, R. West, of Louisiana, ig at the Gilsey House. Aasemblymay L. Bradford Prince, Chairman of the Judictary Committee of the Assemply, is at tne nith Avenue Horel, State Senator Horrobin, of Vermont, 19 at the stminster Hotel, veel J. A. Robinson, of the United states Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Captain F, EH. Stott, ‘ the United States Navy, is York Hotel yee James McQuade, of Utica, has quarters vy House. General 20a R, Gray, of St. Louts, 1s stopping at the St, Nicholas Hotel. General Hi. W. Birge, of Georgia, 13 among the most recent arrivals at the Hoffman House, Colonel Wiliam 8. Jacksoa, of Colorado, 13 stay- ing at the Now York Hote!. px-Congressman R. D, Havbard, the late candt- date of the democracy for Governor of Conueciicat, ia at the Hoffman House. Ex-Governor R. M. Price, of New Jersey, bas ar- rivea at the Astor House, Commander Scott, of the Untied States Navy, nas taken quarters at the Astor House. Dr. Brown-Sequard, of Paris, France, 13 at the St. James’ Hove, The reputation of this gentie~ man fn medical science 13 world-wide, and his lee, tures are attended by the eminent members of nig profession. Ie has been for some weeks travelling in this country. Governor Hoifman {3 at the Clarendon Hotel, have ing come from Albany to be present at the funeral services of Professor Morse to-day, Sir Alexander Gait, of Canada, i4 in the Olty, tae guest of Mr. Dagiel Torrange