The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK Ii] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ompeontnttete Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume xxXxV! AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THENTRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ~y.—Ricuarp III, VALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— QONDON ASSURANCE, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway'—Comic Vocar- isms, Neco Acts, &. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Taz Gowp Demon. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-Fourth street— Anricix 47, ST. JAMES THEATRE. Twenty-cighth street and Broadway.—MacEvor's New Hipgnxicox. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 80th st.—Per- formances afternoon and evening.—Frencu Sry. BOWERY THEATRE, BOWEREY—.Crazy Nan—Woop- Lara, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Taz Batiat Paw. touimk oy Humpty Durty. STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Grrman Orzra— ‘Tur Proraxr. MRS. F. Annicie 47. BROOKLYN THEATRE.— PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— On Hann. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—Tux Voxus Fawity—Bxiuxs or Tux Kircuxy, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Noro Eccentaicitigs, Burveseves, &c. SAN FRANCISCO HALL, 585 Broadway.—Vaniety Per- FORMANCES. PAVILION, No. 633 Broadway, near Fourth st—Gnrayp | Concent, \_ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science ayy Axt. “TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, May 10, 1872. CONTENTS OF T0-DAY'S HERALD. vertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Washington ; Great Naval Preparations; Our Coast Defences to be Heavily Armed; Dead- lock on the Alabama Treat; Connecticut Senatorship: The Republican Breach Widen- ing in the Caucus—Miscelianeous Political Matters, 4—Political: Pennsylvania Politicians Jealously Watching the Horizon; Virginia Endorses the TIERALD whe ‘Tarte t Ceugneastnegivtiaans | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1872.—-TRIPLE SHEET. for Special Interests and Net for the Whole Country. Day after day we have the same wearisome palaver and jumping about on the tariff ques- tion in Congress. The announcement is made one day that certain taxes are to be abolished or modified and that certain duties are to be taken off or reduced, and the next we learn that there has been another shuffle and all is changed. A majority of votes is recorded even in favor of some modification, and then, shortly after this action of one house or the other, is re- versed. A remarkable instance of this oc- curred on Tuesday, when Mr. Kelley, of Penn- sylvania, carried a motion in favor of the ex- treme protectionists, to strike out the enacting clause of Mr. Dawes’ Tariff Amendment bill, by a vote of 95 to 75, and then immediately afterwards the House refused to sustain Mr. Kelley and voted the other way—for the propo- sition of Mr. Dawes, the chairman of the Com- mittee of Ways and Means, Congress has been shuffling much in the same way on this matter throughout the session—sometimes in the same house and sometimes between the two houses. In fact, there is no fixed princi- ple or purpose in Congress with regard to tariff legislation, while at the same time there is great ignorance on this subject. We have little hope of any comprehensive and needful measure being passed, and, considering the session is so far advanced and the excitement of the Presidential campaign having com- menced, it would be as well, perhaps, to turn the matter of tariff and revenue reform over to the next session. % The “free breakfast table’ proposition, to use the popular slang of Congressmen, or, in other words, the proposal to abolish the duties on tea and coftee, has been bandied about like a base ball. This has been favored by the pro- tectionists, by those who wanted to keep up | high duties on iron and iron manufactures, coal and textile fabrics, because they knew the necessities of the government would require | pretty high duties on these articles for raising | sufficient revenue, if duties or taxation should be reduced considerably in some other way. Tea and coffee are not produced in the United States, and, therefore, no interest is pro- | tected by duties on them. Yet there is hardly anything on which twenty millions or more of revenue could be raised at less cost of collec- Cincinnati Ticket: Michigan for Adams or Grant; George W. Julian on the Political Situation—Proceedings in the Courts—Widen- ing Broadway—A Hungry Burglar—An Actor Charged with Larceny—Casting Bread on the Waters—Fatally Crushed by a Rail Car, 5S—The Anniversary Meetings—Methodist General Conference—Ascension Thursday—City and County Finances—New York City News—Ded- ication of a Brooklyn Chureh—The Poles— Newark Burglars Captured—The Dominion Pariiament—The Ox Giove Woods on Fire—A Mining Scandal—The American Medical Asso- clation—Fire in Front Street. 6—Editorial: Leading Article, “The Tariff in Con- ress—Legislating for Special Interests and Not for the Whole Country”"—Amusement An- nouncements. 7—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—Cable (Cary eas from Spain, France and England-— The Troubles in Mex! ‘The Racing Season— Amusements—Obituary—Miscellaneous Tele- Sco Notices, nancial and Commercial: Gold Up to 114%; Continued Depression in the Stock Market; Advance of the Rate of Interest by the Bank of England—Keal Estate Matters—Assesaor Anderson's Death—The Halloran Murder— Probable Murder—Fire in West Street—De- artment of Docks—A Valuable Servant— iied by a Raflroad Car—Marriages and Deaths. 9—The Anglo-American Boat Race—The Biglin Brothers—Pigeon Shooting in England—Ad- vertisements. 40—The State Capital: Continued Disagreement on the Palmer Charter; Keports on the Regis- ters’ and County Clerks offices; Comptroller Green on the Court House Job; The Appor- tionment Bill and the Charter Election Bill Vetoed; Disgraceful and Exciting Scene in the Assembly; Passage of the Apportionment Rill Over the Governor's Veto—The Mormon Missionaries—Yale Annual Nominations for the Corporation—Killed by the Cars—Japan- ese at Fortress Monroe—Shipping Intelli- gence—Advertisements. Ai—Advertisements. Ae—Advertisementi Tae Law or Corynicut.—A speedy settle- ment of the vexed question of the law of international copyright was advocated by an American before the members of the Royal | Literary Fund Association yesterday in Lon- don, on the occasion of the banquet in com. memoration of the ecighty-first anniversary | of the foundation of the organization. It was | & practical point, and made at a very suitable | moment, with charity guiding toward the perfection of a universal fraternity. Tue Vaxperpinr Uxpercrounp Rartnoap | tion, with less risk of smuggling or other frauds, and be as little felt by the people. The abolishment of the duty on these articles will be scarcely felt; but, then, the cry of a “free breakfast table’’ is a popular one, and very convenient for the protectionist politicians. Though the democrats and revenue reformers understand the tea and coffee dodge of the pro- tectionists, they have to go for abolishing the duty upon general principles. Reducing the burden of taxation in any way or to any extent must be their policy. If they cannot get what they want they must take what they can get. We suppose, therefore, that whatever hitches or difficulties there may be in reforming the tariff otherwise, or in reducing taxation, the people may expect that tea and coffee will remain as now placed by the House—on the free list. Mr. Dawes succeeded, after a great struggle, in carrying his proposition to reduce the tariff generally about ten percent. However, pig iron, coal, leather and salt remain unaltered, as reported in the bill originally. An effort was made to bring the reduction down twenty percent, but this was defeated by a vote of 110 to 79, thus showing that the high tariff party has stilla large majority in the House of Representatives. But, as we said before, there is such a muddle and so much uncer- tainty in Congress on this tariff question that no one can conjecture what shape it will take before leaving the House or what will be its fate in the Senate. Since the Cincinnati Convention and the embar- rassing situation in which that Convention has placed the administration party, the organs and leaders of that party begin to see the necessity of a larger revenue reform than they contemplated previously. Though silent before they now speak of doing some- thing to meet the demands of the people and to gain public favor. That much good, at least, comes out of the Cincinnati movement. ‘Buz has been rushed throngh the State Senate with the Assembly amendments. It is, of | course, no satisfactory scheme of rapid transit | in the interests of the people of New York, but | only on extension of the Vanderbilt through | lines, mainly for the transportation of freight. | If Governor Hoffman signs it he will sign it | with this knowledge and also with the cogni- vance of the fact that private consideration and not public considerations secured its passage through the Legislature. Tuz Disastrous Froops m Inpra.—The cable informs us of most terrible floods in the | southern part of British India, One thousand | lives are Feported lost, and the destruction of property a6 something unprecedented. Amid | the multitude of disasters which are of fre- | quent occurrence lately on the Continent that | may be regarded as the birthplace of the hu- man race this is the saddest. The sympathies of the entire world and, we trust, something | more substantial, will be tendered to the suf- terers, An Oxp Swinpte Has Mave Its Apprar- ANcE at Albany in the last hours of the session. The Commissioners of Emigration want an increase in the head money for emigrants. The Commission has now, or ought to have, a large amount of money on hand, and instead of an increase in the tax, which would serve to | injure the port and the State of New York, it | should be supplied with an expert to examine js accounts for the last ten years. the Spanish Cortes was a bold, manly, open declaration. It savored of the traditional courage of the house from whence he sprung. Yrom the tone of his speech he is evidently determined to ‘‘stick.”” _ If Oarlist risings Agighten him he does not show it, and in ‘the fnoe of all the difficulties surrounding he shows a bold front. This we judge from his Speech, the text of which was received by the inst mail. Ag we have more than oneé before said, Amadeus has shown excellent qualifica- fions for a ruler, but we fear his difficulties are by no means ended with tho crushing of the Carlists, There is a hostility to the for- eigner among the people which cannot be eradicated, and this prejudice cannot be de- With all the disinclination to cut down the revenue much, the friends of the administra- tion in Congress may, under the exigencies of the political situation, go farther in revenue reform than they would under other circum- stances. Still, there is the old difficulty of | rival or antagonistic local interests, and of the insatiable clamor of the cotton and woollen manufacturers, the wool growers, the coal and salt producers, the iron miners ‘and manufacturéfs and others for protection, ' to overcome. In such a war of interests and sections, and with no fixed policy on the part of the administration, it is hard to speculate reasonably on the result of tariff legislation in Congress. If our public men, and particularly those who hold the reins of power, could raise their minds above local politics and little schemes of temporary political expediency, they would see their interest and the interest of their party to lie in broad and comprehensive meas- ures of reform. A ray of light, as we have intimated, of this fact seems to have fallen upon some of them at the eleventh hour, and in consequence of the Cincinnati movement; but we doubt if they can struggle out of the old rut. General Grant has not understood the proper financial policy of the country and the wants of the people. His intentions have been good and patriotie, undoubtedly; but he has trusted to the judgment of others. Mr. | Boutwell, either from interested motives or a mistaken policy, has urged all along the rais- ing of an enormous unnecessary revenue. His | argument has been that this was necessary to establish the credit of the government and to enable him to fund the debt at a lower rate of | jnterest. At one time he argued that this would bring us soon to specie payments. ‘There was, however, we believe, a latent and | unexpressed thought in this policy. He is a protectionist of the New England school, and saw that in continuing to raise a revenuo of four hundred millions a year or thereabout he afforded the greatest protection to his own section of country, as well as to manufacturers generally. The Secretary of the Treasury has failed in his policy. A vastsurplus rovenue and a hundred millions lying idle in his vaults all the time, ato loss of six millions a year in interest, have not brought specie payments ptroyed, The army may triumph over an in- eons but it cannot alter the current of | and have not enabled him to fund the debt at lower interest, except a small portion of it at tional banks and manipulated at considerable cost by his favored Syndicate, Then the pro- tectionists in Congress and all those who had grand schemes of subsidies and other schemes upon the Treasury have supported the Sccre- tary in his policy of keeping up taxation to the extreme point of forbearance and of raising an enormous revenue. The political capital which he expected to make from paying off a hundred millions a year of the debt has not been realized. The necessity for reduced taxation and revenue reform far outweighs with the public the assumed credit of liquidating the debt so rapidly. The President, we think, begins to perceive the fallacy of Mr. Bout- well’s policy, as he does that of Mr. Fish in the management of the Alabama claims. The country needs now a thorough reform in our revenue system, Instead of conceding merely a-reduction of taxation to the amount of forty or fifty millions Congress should reduce the tariff and take off taxes so as to bring the revenue down to three hundred mil- lions or less. ‘Two hundred and fifty millions really would be sufficient with a strictly econ- omical administration. The interest on the debt is less than a hundred and ten millions. The current expenditures, independent of this, including pensions, ought not to exceed a hundred and twenty or a hundred and thirty millions. Twenty to thirty millions a year would be ample at the prosent time to apply to the liquidation of the principal of the debt. At tho utmost two hundred and seventy millions ought to satisfy even Mr. Boutwell. Yet the rev- enue for the current fiscal year will fall little | short of four hundred millions, Why, then, not take off at one sweep a hundred millions of taxation? The country would feel that sensibly and at once, and would bound for- ward in unexampled prosperity. It would do more than anything else to check the corrup- tion that reigns at Washington, and tend greatly to purify the morals and extravagant habits of the people. A ‘‘free breakfast table,"’ as far as tea and coffee go, is well enough, but we want something more. The odious income tax should be abolished, the tariff should be greatly reduced, and numberless little and vexatious taxes that hardly pay for the collec- tion should be removed. Apart from the relief this would afford to the people, millions a year would be saved in dispensing with reve- nue officials, A simple system of raising reve- nue from a comparatively few articles, and a reduction of the government income, is the urgent necessity of the time, and we hope Congress will take this view of the matter: Our Summer Resorts. The suddenness and fierceness with which the heated term has been precipitated upon us lead every one to think of the annual hegira from the city and of the myriad cool resorts by the seaside and on the mountain top. The hotel proprietors of theso places are actively at work preparing for the reception of the dusty and overworked denizens of the metrop- olis, who seek refuge for a month or two from the cares of business and inhale ‘a breath of pure air far away from the baleful influ- ence of the street’contractor. In the count- less cosey little nooks that cluster on the Sound and Bay and inlets on the Atlantic coast, that are scattered broadcast over the valleys of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, that greet the wayfarer at every station on the railroads of the Empire State, that hide under the shadow of the mountains of New England and that dot the vast region of the West, the hum of preparation is heard, and ere long we may expect to hear the grave announcement in fashionable quarters, ‘‘Out of town for the season.”’ This annual flight from the haunts of business and the hurly-burly of the metrop- olis is a cheerful phase in American life. The prodigious energy and untiring atten- tion to business displayed by our people, which seem incredible to our transatlantic friends, find a mecessary safety valve in the summer time, when the merchant, the broker, the manager, the speculator, the editor, et id omne genus, meet together in some cool, pleasant spot, to lose the cares and trials of a busy life in the lethe of a watering place, a mountain eyrie or a quiet rural cottage. A word of warning to hotel proprietors at what are known as the fashionable summer resorts may prove season- able. The people of New York who patronize those places are gradually becoming convinced of the fact that there has been a great deal of extortion and discomfort connected with fash- ionable summer resorts. Hence a very large number of our representative citizens are this summer on the lookout for places which may be called obscure, but which present induce- ments in the shape of comfort, enjoyment, economy and rest far superior to their more ambitiotls and better known neighbors. This is the era of reform, and no places require a more thorough reconstruction in every sense of the word than the hotels at the summer resorts. A little more attention and liberality toward the visitors by the magnates of these out-of-town places will prove in the end far more profitable and more sensible than the grasping, usurious spirit hitherto displayed by these gentry. It is a suggestion which will prove interesting and useful, and will, if attended to, save many of those time-honored haunts of fashion from the fate which has overtaken many of their predecessors. Toe Mempens or THE Rerorm Leoista- Ture are eager to draw from the State, for the whole session, the three dollars a day which, under the constitution, they are only allowed for one hundred days. The subterfuge is that impeachment proceedings against the New York Judges were contemplated and initiated before the ono hundred days had expired, and hence they are entitled to per diem as they would be if in session on a bona fide impeach- ment. The Attorney General backs the de- | mand of the Legislature, but the Comptroller hesitates to pay ont the money. If he should be brought round it will be interesting to in- quire how much this precious Legislature will have cost the people of the State, Firtzen Inoy-Craps 10 Be Pur IN Sragorna Onver is the latest flat of the United States government. Some of them are to be sent to private yards, and work carried on night and day. Cuban advices ot Washington state that Morro Castle, which commands the en- trance to Havana, is being mounted with fifteen-inch guns, trained seaward. The withdrawal of the United States Minister at Madrid and the Houard case point towards Spain as the object of our sudden naval pre- parations, and tho word “war may lurk ‘five ugx cent yhich way forced ypop the ua-t pullenly Lohind thom vass—The Scurrilousness of Political Partisanship, It is scarcely a week to-day since the first nomination in the Presidential campaign was placed before the people by the Cincinnati Convention, and already the pioneer candi- date has been assailed by the opposition press with a personal vindictiveness that we had hoped might be excluded from the present canvass. There is nothing in the public or private record of Horace Greeley’s life to warrant the scurrilous attacks that are daily made upon him by the partisan organs whose hot wrath is excited by the honor that has been conferred upon him. Commencing life as a compositor he worked his way upward until he became the head of the leading political journal of the country; and the purity. of his life, the kindness of his heart and the sim- plicity of his manners have been as honorable to him as his business success. Yet, now that he is a candidate for the highest office in the gift of the American people, his virtues have suddenly become vices in the eyes of his enemies. If his assailants confined their abuse to his ‘eccentricities and peculiarities their personalities would not be so offensive and reprehensible; but their malignity induces them to bedaub him with the foulest colors they can select. A city journal, edited by an alien Englishman, who misunderstands the American people and has but a superficial knowledge of American institutions, takes the lead in this style of warfare, and denounces Horace Greeley as a traitor to the Union, a secret conspirator with the Southern rebels and an associate of Tammany thieves. A Cockney British subject, yho worships the reigning monarch and is overawed in the awful pres- ence of the Lord Mayor, cannot be supposed to comprehend or to appreciate the honorable ambition of every American to attain to the proud office of President of the republic, and hence his sneers at Greeley on this ground are natural enough; but the citizens of the United States who have watched ‘Uncle Horace’s’’ career since their boyhood will scarcely en- dorse the English New. York editor’s judgment when he declares that Greeley, in his laborious, well fought and truly American “career, has “schemed and plotted, slandered good men and screened rascals, outraged every principle of political consistency and spurned every obli- gation of public virtue.”’ It has been said, and truly said, that the English people do not understand the people of the United States. This has been strikingly shown in the course of England on the Ala- bama question. Our cousins on tho other side of the Atlantic believed from the commence- ment of the differences in regard to the Wash- ington Treaty that they had only to fume and bluster and declare their determination to withdraw from the Geneva Conference to in- duce the Americans to abandon their case. Discovering their error, they straightway altered their tone, and expressed their willing- ness to allow the proceedings of the Confer- ence to continue, although reserving to them- selves the right to withdraw should the Ameri- can claims be pressed. Since the commence- ment.of theJobby efforts of the persons inter- ested in the settlement of direct damages and the deplorable vacillations of Secretary Fish, they have again gathered boldness, and they now declare that General Grant must certainly abandon the American case or be defeated by the people in the Presidential election. These stupid blunders and erroneous judgments of the sentiments of the American people are in a great degree attributable to the course of our own party organs and to the scurrilous personal attacks they are accustomed to make upon administrations and individuals of the opposite party. Copperhead organs, four years ago, teemed with personal abuse of Grant and with reflections upon his personal habits, and Englishmen read these slanders and were too willing to accept them as truths. We have reached another Presidential canvass, | and the first candidate in the field is ridiculed, caricatured, reviled and denounced; now laughed at as little better than a fool, and again branded as an associate of thieves who has spurned every obligation of public virtue. It is no wonder that foreigners totally misun- dérstand the character of our people when they view us in the light we cast upon each other. We protest at this early stage of the cam- paign against the introduction of these per- sonalities and scurrilities into the pending can- vass. They cannot be indulged in by one party without recoiling upon its own candi- dates; and for the honor of the nation we call upon Americans, at least, to discountenance such o mode of political warfare, however well it may suit the taste or answer the purposes of foreigners who can have no real sympathy with the republic. Horace Greeley is a true type of American life—a self-made, honest-hearted, energetic man, having his peculiarities and eccentric notions, but all the more American on that account. If he wears cowhide boots, destitute of polish, they have carried him bravely through an- honorable career, marked out by enterprise and ending in success. If his coat hangs loosely on his shoulders and drags at his heels it buttons over a heart that is proud of the land of his birth and full of kindly feelings for his fellow men. If his old white hat lacks the fashionable curve in the brim, and looks like a venerable and not well preserved family relic, it covers a brain full of genius, ever ready to labor in the cause of freedom and for the advancement of the human race. Ridi- cule and abuse are harmless weapons against such a man, for the people of the United States know him and honor him, and every eye has a kindly look and every hand a friendly grasp for ‘Uncle Horace.’ General Grant is a patriot and a soldier; a manly, honest, true-hearted Ameri- can, who has placed the people of the United States under a lasting debt of gratitude by his valuable services and devotion in the hour of the nation’s peril. The soldiers of the Union army won our battles over the rebels, as the men of the Revolution scattered the British redcoata and won our liberties; but to Wash- ington and Grant the country is none the less indebted for the genius that planned and the courage that gained our victories. As a civil ruler, notwithstanding the minor blunders of the administration, General Grant has proved himself a conservative, prudent, honest and safe Excoutive, and as such the people are will- ing to trust him with another term of power. Partisan and personal assaults can do no more injury to him than they could to the memory of Washington. With two such nominees as Grapt_apd Gresley ja the ‘fold the camiape Personalities in the Presidential Oan-| should pe conducted in a fair, courteous, Inviting an Eptde honorable manner, without any of the scur- rilous abuse that has already disfigured the opening of the camfaign, and it is to be hoped that every personal assault made upon either of the candidates will only have the effect of swelling the list of his supporters. The New York Charter at Albany—The Tricks of the Legislators. There has again been a disagreement on the last New York charter bill, this timo the Assembly refusing to accept the compromise arrived at by the Conference Committee and asking the appointment of a new committee. The disputed point is the amendment inserted by the Assembly, prohibiting any sectarian ap- propriations. If this clause should remain in the bill it is felt certain that the measure will not receive the Executive signature; if it should be stricken out or modified by the Committee of Conference the report will be rejected by the Assembly. It seems tolerably certain, there- fore, that we shall have no new charter this year and no spring election; but that the muni- cipal struggle will take place in. November, when the Presidential and State candidates are chosen. This has been, from the first, the object of a majority of the Assemblymen, if not of the Senators also, and the proceedings between the two houses on the subject of the charter have been nothing more than a broad farce. When the hodge-podgo experiment of the Seventy was before the Assembly it found an unexpected number of" warm friends, who were so thoroughly satis- fied with its provisions that they refused to alter a word in any one of them. The bill passed in its original shape, and the Seventy were enraptured with their triumph. But when launched in the Senate it found itself in more troubled waters, and was tossed about from one wave of amendments to another until it finally reached port in a very dilapidated condition. Placed on the dry dock of a confer- ence committee it underwent repairs and was restored to its original shape, and was thus passed, in the full knowledge and conviction that it must necessarily receive the Executive veto. When the veto came it was sustained by the Legislature, and so the charter of the Seventy foundered. The same trick is now being played with the substituted charter, and the same result will follow. Tho Assembly inserted a clause pro- hibiting sectarian appropriations because they knew it would defeat the bill through the medium of an Executive veto, should the Senate concur inthe amendment. The Senate refused toconcur; a conference took place; an* agreement was arrived ‘at; the Assembly rejected the compromise, and another com- mittee is appointed. If they agree to retain the sectarian clause, and if the Senate and Assembly accept the report of the committee, jo—The Filthy Streets Must Be Cleansod—A New Contract Wanted. In calling attention repeatedly to the highly dangerous state of filth of the New York streets, we can assure all concerned that we are thoroughly in solemn earnest. Our efforts to cause a remedy of the evil have already met with partial success, but we shall continue our calls and our vigilance until the city is safe from the present imminent dangers to its health and comfort. The hot weather has come suddenly upon us, and very decided ac- tion must at once be taken to make it other- wise than too late. The criminal rapacity, sheltered and protected by a loose contract, has shown signs of a desire to make an appear- ance of returning conscience. To prove that it is the veriest sham of activity, we need only point to the report of the city Sanitary In- spector, published in yesterday's Hxnanp. Streets are being swept carelessly, the dirt being gathered into heaps; these dirt heaps are then as carelessly removod, or, rather, are any partially removed, scarcely lessening ing the evil. A week ago our reporters collected the re- sult of a street to street inspection of the city, which we published. This had the effect of arousing the Board of Health to action, but instead of at once taking measures to correct the glaring evils therein graphically enumer- ated they thought a week's delay necessary in order that the city Sanitary Inspector might go over the same ground, This piece of red tapism, worthy of the Circumlocution Office, simply corroborates the testimony of our repor- torial staff. We are willing to admit that the Board of Health feels acutely the deplorable state of affairs, and are anxious to do all in their power to remedy it. We can even find some excuse for the childish proposition of Commissioner Manniere, that the citizens be requested to subscribe, according to their ability, for having a thorough cleansing of the streets. Outside of such a proposition they admit their utter powerlessness to take care of the public health in this vital respect. They accordingly shift the responsibility on to the shoulders of the Street Cleaning Commission, which body consists of the Mayor, the Re- corder, the Comptroller, the President of the Board of Health and the Corporation Counsel. These gentlemen, in turn, think that they are locked as in a vise with regard to the subject of Brown’s contract, and can only negative it by process of law. Is it possible, then, that they hesitate to adopt the only course they believe to be left tothem. The contract, as we understand it, means that the streets be kept clean, and the Henap’s reports on the matter, supplemented by that of the City Sanitary Inspector, show conclusively that this has not been done. It is understood that the defence will be the let- the Governor will not sign the bill. If they strike out or modify the sectarian clause the Assembly will reject the report, and either way the bill will be killed. There is a ditference, all may see, ‘Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee. So far as the interests of New York are con- cerned the loss of a charter from the present Legislature may be the gain of the people. The government is now going on well enough, and any interference with the Dock Commis- sion would do more injury to the city than could be atoned for by the election of a new Mayor, however honest and ent:rprising. An election to take place within eighteen or twenty days of the passage of a bill could scarcely be expected to represent the sober judgment and true wishes of the people, and in less than six months the municipal election under the existing charter will take place. Our finances are in safe hands, and our system of dock improvements—the most important to the interests of the city—is likely to be pushed forward with vigor during the summer and fall. The defeat of a charter has been nothing more than a deliberate, well-planned trick of those legislators who were eager to hold the municipal | offices for bargain- ing and trading in the Presidential election, and who were interested in retaining the present status of affairs in the city, but who feared to accept the gresponsibility of an open opposition to the scheme of the Commit- tee of Seventy or to the present bill. At the same time we find nothing to regret in the fact that a hurried, unsatisfactory election will be avoided, and the enactment of a charter for the metropolis left to more honest and capable amen than are now congregated at the State capital. Our Imports anp Exports.—It appears by the report just published by the Bureau of Statistics that our imports for the seven months ending January 31, 1872, amounted in value to $332,173,905, and our domestic ex- ports to $245,641,595. The specie exports were for the same time $28,371,957, and im- ports $6,764,254. The balance, consequently, was largely against us. Seventy-one per cent of our foreign trade was carried in foreign vessels, whereas for the corresponding period of the previous year it was sixty-eight per cent, showing that our tonnage in this trade is rela- tively declining.‘ Our imports have been much greater in the seven months ending January 31, 1872, than in the same period of the pre- vious year, the difference being within a frac- tion of $59,000,000, while our domestic exports exceeded those of the former period only a little over a million of dollars. The specie ex- port up to January 31, 1871, was also much greater than for the corresponding period end- ing January 31, 1872, the former being $46,186,329 and the latter $28,371,957. Thus making the total balance against us over $76,000,000. It is interesting to inquire how this was made up. Taz Spranisa lLysurrection is being “stamped out’? by Serrano. General Mo- riones has been rewarded for his timely and efficient action against the Carlists by promo- tion to the rank of Lieutenant’ General. The embers of disaffection smoulder still at certain points in the provinces, and a detachment of regular troops has been despatched by sea to Bilbao for the defence of that place against a threatened movement of the insurgents in Biscay: Order will no doubt be restored in the name of Amadeus. Tue Conorgsstonal Apportionment Brut, was vetoed by the Governor yesterday, but was passed by the Senate notwithstanding his objections, and, later in the evening, by the Assembly. Thescene in the Lower House was highly exciting, the minority claiming that the bill was passed unfairly. Tho reformers aro adopting Tammany tactiog at the cleventh tha soagivn. ter of the contract, which for criminal loose- ness of wording, stands perhaps unrivalled; but we believe that even this can be shown to have been violated. Rocked into security by the public indifference, and grasping at every cent which could be saved by avoiding expendi- ture, even the easy terms of the contract, we have no doubt, can be proved to have been shamefully disregarded. But we do not see why the Street Cleaning Commission should trifle with the public health by placing the question where they have. They are, doubtless, competent, under the circumstances, to annul the contract ; and if the contractor and those public robbers behind thescenes, with whom, itis alleged, he is obliged to share the enormous profits wrung from the public health, have any grievance, let tho onus of a trial in the law courts be left upon them. The voice of public opinion would sus- tain the commission in this course, and the citizens would accept the responsibility of the act. This would put an end to the evil at once, and if the contractor could by any legal sophism or technicality secure a verdict for damages against the city, the citizens would be glad to get rid of such a smalipox and cholera protector at the price, whatever it might be. There is, however, very little fear of such a result. New York has shown what it can do when thoroughly aroused to a sense of injury, and where the defence would be a matter touching the city’s purse we are sure that enough evidence of neglect could be brought forward to smother the contractor's case as effectually as if he himself had all the filth in his dumping grounds heaped on his head. The public will watch with consider- able attention the action of the Street Clean- ing Commission. At a mecting of this body yesterday a quorum was not present, and no business was transacted. It is understood that they have resolved to await the action of the Legislature on a bill now before it, relieving them of their powers in the premises and transferring them to the Police Department. We cannot thoroughly see how these gentle- men can guarantee the action of the Legisl- ture or make any future decision of that body a ground for shirking a pressing responsibility at present. With the present hot weather prevailing for a week, in the present frightful condition of the streets, there is every fear that the present: pestilence of smallpox among us may spread with terrible effect. An increase of smallpox cases from sixty-eight to ninety-one was the record of the week ending May 4 over the pre- ceding week; and scarlet fever increased from ninety to one hundred and six cases. We are thankful to record that the frightful scourge of cholera has not appeared; but what guarantee have we that we shall be so fortunate through the ensuing heated term? There is little doubt that the Board of Aldermen and the Depart- ment of Public Works can aid materially in improving the hygienic condition of the city. The gaping ruts in the pavements should be filled up and the gutters made more perfect. It is a matter on which there is so much divided responsibility that it is often difficult to decide who is actually to blame. But the one fact remains, that the condition of the streets is excessively dangeroug to health and a special invitation to a horrible epidemic; and until the last vestige of this danger is removed the Hxraxp will continue to hold up the fact before the people so sinned against by those they placed in the position of guardians of thei interests. Tur Connzcricur Srxatonsirr Fronr beyins to develop the fact of a possible fusion between the democrats and liberal republicans. Gen- eral Hawley, who seems to be the administra- tion nominee, received the endorsement of the republican caucus; but Ferry, the outgoing Senator, still cherishes hopos of re-election, although ouly receiving twelve vols qut of )