The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1872, Page 6

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BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot 1 Houston street, East River. ,, ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d st. and 4th av.—Mrs, Waney's Wax Works. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third ay., between 634 and O4th streets. . . NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Science AND ART. "TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, Nov. 7, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Yo-Day’s Contents of the Merald. THE PRESIDENTIAL RESULE OF 1872 AS COM- PARED WITH OTHER REMARKABLE NA- TIONAL ELECTIONS!"—LEADING — EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—SIXTH PaGE. ELECTION NEWS AND RETURNS FROM THE ENTIRE UNION! THE GAINS AND LOSSES! THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE LARGELY REPUBLICAN! THE SUCCESSFUL CANDI- DATES—Tuirp Pace. PANDORA'S BOX! THE SPANISH ORGAN IN CUBA ON THE HERALD’S CUBAN NEWS EXPEDITION : THE DREADFUL THINGS IN STORE FOR AMERICA : ANXIOUS FOR THE TRUTH: THAT “ DETENTION "— SEVENTH PAGE. EUROPE! A TERRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE HURRI- CANE IN ITALY: GERMANS LEAVING FRANCE: AMERICAN THANKS TO MR. STAEMPFLI: ENGLISH VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN ELECTION—SEVENTH PaGE. AUSTRALASIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE SAND- WICH ISLANDS! WARLIKE ASPECT IN NEW ZEALAND: A TOWN STORMED AND DESTROYED—SEVENTH PaGE, AFTER THE GREAT STRUGGLE! POPULAR FEEL- ING: VIEWS OF THE NEW MAYOR AND OF A WOULD-BE MAYOR: “YE OLDEN TIME” PLANS AND RESULTS—Fourtu Pace. WASHINGTON! GRANT RECEIVING CONGRATU- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. Whe Presidential Result of 187% @5/ ashes Compared with Other Remarkable National Elections. The popular majorities by States and the electoral majority given to General Grant in the late national election are really amazing. From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean he carries not only all the Northern or free States, as contradistinguished from the late slave States, but, with few exceptions, by un- paralleled majorities, and in some cases by majorities surpassing the wildest dreams of the most sanguine republican prophets. And he carries the supposed impregnable little democratic State of Delaware and more of the Southern States beyond the Susquehanna than were expected by the Republican Con- gressional Committee; and his gains in the popular vote, though not so marked, appear to have been as general throughout the South as in the North. He has from twenty-eight to thirty States of the thisty-seven of the Union, including the most powerful and the weakest; most of the old ones and all the youngsters. He could spare well on to a hundred of the electoral votes he has secured, and still have a majority of the whole number of three hun- dred and sixty-six. His majority on tho popular vote of the Union will probably ex- ceed half a million, a majority without a pre- cedent in the history of the country. And how are we to account for these extra- ordinary and astounding results? The causes may be briefly summed up as follows:—Gen- eral Grant is strong in the affections and confi- dence of the country, and Mr. Greeley is com- paratively weak. The administration party was disciplined, united, compact, confident and harmonious in this great conflict, while the opposition alliance was discordant, dis- trustful, divided and demorclized. The ad- ministration of General Grant furnished a safe and substantial platform for his support- ers, while that of the opposition was a budget of flickering abstractions. And, lastly, touch- ing secession, reconstruction, the Southern Ku Klux and the blacks, there was safety with Grant and danger apprehended with Greeley; and the same consideration was as forcibly im- pressed upon the conservative body of the people in regard to the financial and business interests of the country, ‘with all thoir fluctuations and their vast concerns.’’ We have said that in many respects these Presidential results of 1872 are without a paral- lel in our political history ; but as 9 universal political carnival of bands of music and min- strels, and log cabins and hard cider, and vast multitudes in grotesque processions, clearing the way for a sweeping political revolution in the election, we have had no parallel, and probably never shall have, for the Presidential contest of 1840, In that election against the financial blunders and disasters and defalca- tions and embezzlements of Van Buren’s ad- ministration, and with the hurrah of “Tippe- canoe and Tyler, too,’’ of the twenty-six States of the Union, General Harrison (‘Old Tip’’) carried all except Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, New Hampshire and Virginia, which adhered to Van Buren; and the popular ma- jority of Harrison on less thana two and a half millions aggregate vote was 146,000. And yet in the next Presidential campaign (1844) James K. Polk, nominated at a venture by the democrats, beat—on the annexation of Texas and through a chapter of lucky accidents—the most popular man in the Union of that time— that greatest of American statesmen, Henry Clay. The whig party, sorely distressed at this defeat of their idol and embodiment, resolved to fall back upon a popular soldier, and in 1848 they did so in the nomination of General Taylor—“Old Zack,” ‘Old Rough and Ready,” the “Hero of Buena Vista’’—and he was elected, in consequence of a bolt of Van Buren against Cass, in which “little Van” was ran as the independent free soil candidate, thus carrying off half the democracy of this State and giving it to Taylor by nearly a hun- dred thousand plurality. And in that con- test, asin 1844, the vote of New York, and upon a side issue, settled the question. We come next to that very remarkable con- test of 1852, in which General Scott, ‘“‘the Hero of Mexico,"’ was the whig candidate, and General Pierce, a volunteer under Scott in his Mexican campaign, was the democratic candi- date, both parties occufiying the platform of LATIONS; THE DOOM OF FISH—A BOSTON HORROR—SEvENTH Pace, MISS KELLOGG IN ITALIAN OPERA—PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS—SEVENTO Pace. LEGAL NEWS! THE “FEMALE BROKERS” STILT v4 IN DURANCE VILE: VOTING A GASLIGHT COMPANY “A NUISANCE: THE LOTTERY BUSINESS: SHERIFFS’ AND MARSHALS’ DUTIES AND FEES: IMPORTANT LIFE INSURANCE DECISION—EteuTu Pace. THE WALL STREET EXCHANGES! FALL IN AMERICAN SECURITIES IN THE FOREIGN MARKETS: GOLD ADVANCED: THE MIS- CHIEVOUS CLIQUES—NinTH Pace. DEATH OF GENERAL GEORGE G. MEADE! HIS SERVICES AND EMOLUMENTS—MORMON PILGRIMS TO JERUSALEM—Fovurta Page. FRENCH NEWS AND GOSSIP! MARIE ANTOI- NETIE’S MEMORY: PLON-PLON: LOUIS BLANC: WASHBURNE’S MINISTRY—lirra PaGE. DECADENCE AND CONDITION OF THE NAVY OF THE UNION—DALY’S OLD COMEDY RE- VIVAL—THE SAN JUAN AWARD—Firru PAGE. RESUMPTION OF TRAFFIC IN THE CITY— DONOHOE'S FUNERAL—NEW STEAMSHIP— THE BELMONT ARI COLLECTION—E1cuTn PAGE. * THE EMIGRATION COMMISSIONERS AND MIS- MANAGED WARD'S ISLAND! AN UNFIT PHYSICIAN REMOVED—EiguTH Pace, Havemeren’s Evection as Mayor is now cer- fain, notwithstanding the fact that some clec- tion districts have not yet been reported. Lawrence has run very well, considering the split in the party ranks, and will stand about 8,000 behind the Mayor elect. O’Brien has been positively distanced. What ao hauling down of banners and drawing in of horns the next few days will witness! Tue Wau. Srnzer Mangers took the result wf the election very quietly, and the stock speculators seemed for the nonce more con- cerned about the chances of the candidates for Mayor than about the fluctuations of shores or gold. The latter advanced to 1128 on rumors that the Bank of England rate of discount would be advanced this morning. —_——_—______ Tae Univep Srates Fiac m Ausra now Bheiters under its fold thirty-five Israelite families, who have fled from persecution in Wallachia, This duty proves our people to be worthy of their mission amongst the nations Henry Clay's great compromise measures on the slavery question of 1850. The great body of the people, desiring peace on this question, were in favor of these compromises, while the abolition agitating elements of the whig party were dreaded as disturbers of this peace. So Pierce, the militiaman, defeated our greatest and most distinguished soldier of that day; and the defeat of Scott was so overwhelming as to be positively startling. Pierce carried all the States except Vermont and Massachusetts in the North, and Kentucky and Tennessee in the South, and his popular majority over Scott was, two hundred and fourteen thousand, in a total vote of two anda half millions. From this crush- ing defeat the whig party never rallied again, but was rapidly broken up and dissolved, and its fragments were gathered up a year or two later, with many democrats, in the new organi- zations of the Native American or Know Nothing party and the republican party. But the election of 1852 which promised twenty years of unbroken power to the democrats, turned out a Bull Run victory to them full of disasters to come. Pierce and his party in power violated their pledges in the repeal of the Missouri compromise, one of Clay’s measures of peace on slavery, when the republican party then came to the front and from that day down it was a rapid run for the Southern democracy into the rebellion on the slavery question. Is the fate which overtook the old whig party the destiny which now awaits the Gree- ley coalition, including as its only great ele- ment the democratic party? From the feels ing exhibited by the democratic and liberal organs there is no doubt they consider their defeat o crushing one. It is shown strongly in the general appeal ad misericordiam which they make to the victors in the fight of Tues- day. We are gratified to observe that in the manliest of them this appeal ignores the puling fear which pretends to discover a danger to the Republic in General Grant's re-election, It has not misplaced its reliance on the people backed by a patriotic and independent press. Despite the high belief of others in the per- petuation of their oft-defeated party, it will now become a question for the near future whether the party to oppose tho republican in the next four years will stand under the olden Jacksonian banner, plucked out of the of twelve years’ disaster, or the new one which flaunted its deceptive folds at Cincinnati this year, or whether it will not find its elements among the very victors of to-day in some such question as the tariff or the labor question, both of which are biding their time as national issues, to break down old party lines as the issue of the war broke them down at the North. It was by tho merest evasion on both sides that the first of these was postponed in this can- vass; the second may have to wait longer, but it is always in reserve. As Pierce and his party forgot their promises in the magnitude of their victory, so the republicans, blinded by their success, may forget theirs with a like result. They ore now doubly responsible for a mag- nanimous policy to the South as well as fora genuine civil service reform. A people fully alive to the work of their elected rulers will watch this with keenness, because if the les- son of New York last year means anything, it is that the broad honesty of the people, thorgh often slow to act, feels its power, and will scat- ter at need the plans of the politicians to the winds, The Situation in Cuba—Our Commii- sion and the Island Press. While the Hzrarp Commissioner to the Island of Cuba is proceeding into the interior from Puerto Principe, on his dangerous task of learning the actual state of the insurrection from the rebel chiefs themselves and his own observation, the Spanish press in Havana, led by the Diario de la Marina, discusses in the midst of a popular excitement the question why the Henan troubled itself to send a com- missioner there at all. This is not strange. A press unused to looking at matters Cuban from any other but the government side; a press afraid, even if it so desired, to publish a word against the wishes of the Spanish police; ® press to whose dictionary enterprise is a foreign word; and, above all, a press which does not know the country in which it is published, must be excused for this wonder or indignation, if you will, at the Herarp’s temerity. We have simply to say that the entire world is the oys- ter of the enlightened press. We open the thick shells of misrepresentation and igno- rance which lie closed up on either side of the truth, and our readers devour the nutritious and luscious contents. Sometimes we meet with a pearl of beautiful shape and exquisite lustre, and then the world applauds our work. 'To the Diario and its yoke-fellows we recom- mend this without prejudice. Ouba, after all, is only a very small portion of the habitable globe, although a fertile and lovely place when the yellow fever is not abundant, and we now interest ourselves in a knowledge of its condi- tion because those most interested in the mat- ter fail to furnish such knowledge. If, as says the Diario, Spain will be the gainer by the truthful report of our commissioner, why bother itself farther about what is so far from its own conception? We can say all this se- riously; but when in the next paragraph we encounter the Knight of La Mancha, with his pasteboard visor down, and mounted on a vicious Spapish mule, charging full tilt upon the United States and threatening all sorts of horrid things on behalf of his posterity, we burst like the gods in the meta- morphoses into inextinguishable luughter. As the blue blood of Castille ‘‘warmed” tho Moors just five centuries ago, no doubt it fired the original Don Quixote to most of his deeds of high emprise; but we think his Cuban descendant might look a little nearer to his time for something to frighten us withal. The tenacity with which she held her South Ameri- can colonies (on paper) would be an admir- able instance to swear by and much nearer the truth of what we would have to expect. When we thanked the Captain General and his subordinates for their courtesy to our corre- spondent we were doing a simple act of jus- tice, something we shall ever be proud to per- form, It was on his part a recognition of the good faith in which we sent our representa- tive. The fact is that the news from Cuba has been so strangely contradictory regarding the insurrection that, to the outside world, it was a source of mystery how two accounts, often of the same occurrence, could be s0 strangely at variance. We could not presume to say without investigation whether the in- surrection on the island was a myth or a real- ity. This is what our commission means and nothing more. When it seemed from the arrest of our correspondent that the authori- ties had resolved to thwart this rational in- quiry—if not to take our commissioner's life, either directly by the garrote or indirectly by pointing him out for private Spanish ven- geance—we felt naturally indignant. When, however, the authorities, in a gentlemanly manner, made the amende honorable, we has- tened to thank them for an exhibition of good sense, creditable to their government and themselves, Let the Diario send out a rep- resentative on the same mission and learn for itself. The African Slave Trade and ley’s Mission. Among the fruits of the Henatp Livingstone expedition was the revelation that Dr. Living- stone imputed blame to Dr. Kirk, the British Consul at Zanzibar, for the manner in which supplies were forwarded. A fuller under- standing on both sides has led to a withdrawal of everything like an imputation on Dr. Kirk, and it is agreed that the fault for the failure of the supply expeditions rests with the Banians and Arabs. Buta more important result than this even is the suppression of the African slave trade which is certain to follow, as one of the results of the Hxratp correspondent’s visit to Dr. Livingstone. The London Daily News says :— Ifwe are correctly informed, it hasbeen deter- mined to despatch Sir Bartle Frere to Zanzibar as @ Special Commissioner to inquire into the whole subject of the African slave trade. Dr. Livingstone’s representations-on this subject were too startling to be passed by, and one of the results of Mr. Staniey’s courage and enterprise appears to be that the English government, having been, thanks to him, made aware of atrocities. which were not even suspected, are now taking the most judicious course for their suppression, Our government has already despatched Captain Wilson, of the Yantic, to make repre- sentations on behalf of the United States, to the Imaum of Muscat, against these atrocities, and the British government is also alive to the necessities of the occasion. Sir Bartle Frere is an old friend of Dr. Livingstone and peculiarly fitted for the work entrusted to him. He and Captain Wilson ought to be able to suppress this terrible traffic in all its forms, and ye cannot doubt that the mission of each will be successful Mr. Stan- The Herald’s Cireulation Yesterday. two European Powers well entrenched in No more striking example of the progress of Asia. The one has a connection by land, independent journalism in this country has | the other has s- connection by sea, and it been shown than in the circulation of the Hera yesterday. Our regular circulation is ahundred thousand copies, but yesterday it reached a hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred. This solid and extraordinary issue did not supply the demand even, and we have no doubt that if we could have struck off two hundred thousand copies all would have been sold. Being determined to give the latest and fullest returns of the elections we were unable to go to press till five o’clock in the morning, and for want of press room and other facilities we could not issue more papers than we did. Even with this drawback the hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred impres- sions were ready for distribution by eight o'clock, and were immediately afterwards absorbed by an eager public. The only time when the Hxraxp had previously approached this circulation was at the sur- render of Loe at Appomattox, which was the end of the war, it reaching then upwards of a hundred and forty thousand. On all excit- ing occasions the circulation runs up as a matter of course, and at the close of. the elec- tion in this city and State last year, following the excitement over the Tammany Ring frauds, there was a great demand for the paper; but, as was said, yosterday’s issue exceeded any before. Nor is this in consequence of the unusual interest taken in the elections of Tues- day only, but results from the constantly growing appreciation of the Herarp as an in- dependent journal, and the increasing demand of the public for it, The people become bewildered by the partial and one-sided statements of the partisan news- papers and seek reliable information from the independent press. They have seen that throughout the political campaign which ter- minated on Tuesday evening, as, indeed, on all like occasions, our correspondents go to all parts of the country, interview the leading politicians of every stripe and talk with the farmers in the country and business men of the cities everywhere. In their investigations our correspondents have been impartial, and have so fairly represented the current of public opinion that it was not difficult to foresee the result of last Tuesday. Such a fair, impartial and comprehensive view of the political situa- tion could not be obtained from the partisan press. The democratic and liberal republican newspapers on one side, and the administra- tion republican journals on the other side, colored their statements and representations for party effect and for the purpose of influencing the elections. Even up to the last hour, when there was little doubt of the result, the partisan papers could not forego the chronic habit of misstating the situation or of giving a party color to facts, Hence it is that the American people eagerly seek in- formation from the independent press both before and immediately after a Presidential or any other exciting election. Here, in fact, is found the explanation of the extraordinary demand for the Hznaup yesterday morning. We regard it asone of the most favorable signs of the times and as promising much in the future that the mass of the people are thus throwing off party trammels and projudices, That they are doing so is not only seen in their appreciation of the independent press, but also in the way in which they voted at the elections of TuNsday, irrespective of party combinations, bargains or aftiliations. Inde- pendent journalism and such independent ac- tion of the people will grow together to pro- duce the best effects for the country. As a consequence the enormous circulation which this paper reached yesterday morning we ex- pect to be increased on similar occasions in the future, and we shall therefore increase our means for supplying the public demand. The number of copies we print never exceed the demand. We issue none on speculation or for effect, nor take any back. Everything in this office is conducted on a strict business principle. But we intend to prepare for what- ever the public requires, whether that bea hundred and fifty thousand or two hundred thousand circulation. Russia in Central Asia—The Halt. A despatch from St. Petersburg gives us to understand that His Majesty the Ozar Alex- ander, acting under the advice of the Minister of War, has, by special order, checked the Russian march on Khiva. What does this counter order mean? is the question which thousands and hundreds of thousands are ask- ing. It is well known that Russia has o grudge against Khiva, for the reason that the Khan of that country insists on being master within the limits of his own dominions, and that in the exercise of what he thinks and calls his right he has been pleased to imprison certain ovoer-officious Russian agents. Any man who is pleased to look at the map of Asia will see at a glance that by pushing her rights or. by en- couraging her enmities Russia would be bring- ing herself a little too near the confines of the British Empire in India. Sooner or later the fight must come, and the question must be answered whether Russia or Great Britain is to be the recognized authority in Central Asia. Two weeks ago the British press, echo- ing the sentiments of the British people, ex- pressed fears regarding the Russian advance on Khiva, because it was felt that Russia had a fair chance to win. The determination of the government of the Czar seems to imply that Russia for the pres- ent has no desire to provoke war. An advance on Khiva would have made England tremble, and it is not at all improbable that the threat- ened advance has made England protest. A correspondent of the London Times, a few weeks ago, used these words: —‘‘ The utility of Central Asin to the Court of St. Petersburg is that it constitutes the starting point of a powerful diversion in case there is another war of giants for possession of Asia Minor and the Bosphorus, The Times adds that ‘in such circumstances Great Britain could never draw a single European from India.” It is not, we think, unreasonable to conclude that as thero is for the present on tho part of the great European Powers a good understanding and « strong desire for the continuance of peace, Russia has wisely concluded to stay the advance of her troops and to trust to diplo- macy. The advance on Khiva could hardly fail to beget war; but war might be to Russia more ® loss thana gain. Russia halts, and for the present peace is preserved. In the early future, however, the old ques- tion must be revived and settled. There aro remains for the future to decide which is to win. Things being as they are, the Russian “halt” is strikingly significant, r The English Press on the Presiden- tial Election. The interest felt in England as to the result of the Presidential contest was almost as keen as that felt in America. For some days the leading organs of English opinion were en- Gaged in foreshadowing the result of the Presi- dential contest. So faras we can judge from the short summaries of the articles which come to us by telegraph, it would seem that the English papers have secured the services of men somewhat conversant with American affairs. The Times in a leading article pub- lished on the morning of the 5th inst., expressed an opinion that General Grant would be re- elected, at the same time stating that, while the American people were averse to a change in the personnel of the administration, which would necossarily involve a reversal of the financial as well as the political policy of the government, they were by no means satis- fied with the way in which the supporters of Grant had used their power. The Telegraph thinks that General Grant has deserved re- election, and that the verdict of the Ameri- can people disproves the worn-out super- stition that republics are ungrate- ful. The organ of the conservatives is more outspoken, and boldly charges the republican party with having committed nationally the same crimes as Tammany did locally. It further expresses an opinion that neither Grant nor Greeley is fit for the posi- tion of President, but thinks that of two evils we have chosen the least. This short resumé of English opinion as re- flected in the leading journals shows that the people whom we somewhat maliciously call “our cousins’’ are beginning to study some- what more closely the affairs of this Republic. We have no doubt that to the telegraph is due the credit of working the remarkable change in the comprehension of our internal affairs which these articles evidence. In the views put forward by the different organs of English opinion we find a strong reflex of the opinions of parties in this country. But, strangely enough, the views of the extreme democracy are taken up and supported warmly by the organs of the English aristocracy, while the liberals of different shades are almost wholly ranged on the side of the American republican party. A moment’s reflection will, however, reconcile the appa- rent contradiction, No matter how much politicians may have endeavored to evade the true issues of the campaign which has just closed, the ‘imajority of the people insisted on looking at the issue as a continuation of the struggle of the rebel- lion. The masses of the North looked with apprehension on any change that might en- danger the issues settled by the surrender of Lee, and though on many points they differed from the administration, and wished especially to see a more generous policy adopted towards the South, yet they sacrificed every minor issue to the safety of the Union. Rightly or wrongly, the election of Greeley was looked upon by the masses in the North as a practical consent to a reversal of the issue of the war, anf sooner than expose the coun- try to the danger of any such experiment the people resolved to maintain the administra- tion of General Grant. They did so in the hope that as soon as his lease of power was secured he would hasten to get rid of the party advisers whose counsels had brought his government into contempt and raised up enemies to the administration, who regretted the mecessity of arraying themselves against the soldier who had led the Union armies to victory. As the tories in England were found aiding and abetting the rebellion of the South, as far as they dared, so they ara to-day the friends of the party in whose triumph they imagined they saw a means of checking the progress and development of the American Republic. We believe that they altogether misapprehend the aim of the party of which Greeley was thé standard bearer. Tho bitterness of the war has quite disappeared from the minds of the people, and only exists in the brains of cer- tain Bourbons who are incapable of appre- ciating the change which has taken place in the interests of the Southern people. There are men in America foolish enough to hope for the restoration of the Confederate States a an independent power, just as there aro fossils in France who believe in ‘divine right,”” or some benighted Scottish Highlanders who still cherish a reverence for the house of Stuart. But the views of the Highlander are not more visionary than those of the men who look forward to the revival of the Confederate States. The raison d’étre of a sentimental connection between English aristocrats and American “democrats, has therefore, ceased, and we think ‘our cousins” are wasting their time and their rhetoric in attempting to fan old ani- mosities and to belittle the men who re- present the rival American parties. Neither the home nor the foreign policy of Great Britain has been marked by such re- markable ability as would justify English publicists in instituting unfavorable compari- sons between the government of England and that of the United States. We have a habit of exaggerating the shortcomings of our govern- ment of which self-complacent Britons are apt to take advantage and lecture us from their high moral standpoint. As this little conceit does not do us much harm and serves to amuse us, we do not object unless it is carried to an offensive extent. But looking back for the last ten years on the tremendous dangers from which American statesmen have known how to rescue their country, and comparing the record with history of the snubbings which England and her very clever statesmen have received during the same period, we feel reason to congratulate ourselves on the supe- rior wisdom and ability displayed by our rulers, We commend the study to the con- sideration of those scribes in England who attempt to cast ridicule on the men whom the American people have honored by confer- ring on them the chief trusts of the Republic. Guy Fawxus’ Day Rror 1% Exoranp.—There was an attempt made to celebrate the anniver- sary of Guy Fawkes’ Day, 5th of November, in Exeter, England. The sympathizers with the memory of the famous conspirator werd which prevailed in the time of Guy, makes the baffled conspirator to run off and hide im Mr. Brunel's tunnel, but then adds that he would have done so, but ‘In the time of James the Thames had neither tunnel mor Brunel.” Had Guy lived to-day he would have run behind the barrels of a barroom tap. The Necessity of Cabinet Reconstruc- tion. The announcement in our Washington de spatches that Mr. Fish is to retire from the Cabinet on the 4th of next March is not by any means a piece of startling information. The country is fully prepared for that event, and Mr. Fish has so often expressed a desira to be relieved from the cares of the State Department as to show that he is prepared for italso. The only thing to prevent his retire- ment is the announcement that he is going out of the Cabinet, and we hope that on this occa- sion a consummation so generally desired wilt not be balked by any such insuflicient reason. If the President is fully alive to his‘ duty to the country—and we believe he has its best interests at heart—Mr. Fish will not be alone in his retirement. Mr. Boutwell evidently desires to exchange the ‘Treasury for the Senate, but whether his wishes in this respect are gratified the country will demand a new Secretary for that department. A clean sweep of all the heads of departments is the true key- note to Grant’s new policy, and by this alone can the President fully meet the wishes of tha people. With a new Cabinet we may expect a bettur and more earnest policy from the admin- istration, for by this means alone can General Grant realize the expectations he has formed of his second and last four years of the Presi- dential office. The Peers of Prussia. Emperor William is fighting feudalism in Prussia. He presents the extraordinary spec- tacle of exercising the prerogative of sover- eignty against the hereditary aristocracy of the Kingdom in favor of popular rights. During the session of the Chamber of Deputies last year a bill was passed providing for local self- government in the rural districts. At the opening of the Diet this year it came up in the House of Lords, where it met a determined opposition. In spite of the earnest support it togoived from the Crown, and of a threat that the Diet ad dissolved unless the measure’ gained the sanction of the Upper House, it was defeated on the 31st ultimo by a vote of one hundred and forty-five against eighteen. As good as his word, the Emperor terminated the session on the following day. Now he has cre- ated some sixty new Peers, who, of course, may be expected, on the reassembling of the Diet, to add their votes to the score of those who upheld the popular enfranchisement against the superannuated claims of the old feudal Lords. As His Majesty is not apt to do things by halves, it is obvious he intends that this popular measure shall become law, and in case the old Peers remain stubborn he will make enough new appoint- ments to outvote them. Such a method of giving the people their rights would seema little strange to republicans accustomed to the constitutional supremacy of the majority, but under the Old World idea, that the few should rule the many, it may be accounted lucky when arbitrary power is wielded for, and not against, the popular interests. Sev- eral notable precedents are found in European history where similar tactics have beon resorted to for carrying out the will of the sovereign against a majority of the aristocratic Upper House. In that way the union of Ireland with Great Britain was secured in 1799. Probably when the Prussian Diet reassembles the stiff- necked Lords will prefer adopting the law giving freedom to their rustic fellow sub- jects rather than to constrain the Emperor to add still more members to the House for the purpose of carrying his point and enlarging the legal rights of the rural population. Swere or a Hurricane mw Irary, wre Movryrvnty Fata Consequences. —The cable brings again sad news from Italy. The sweep of a hurricane has followed the visita- tion of the Po River inundations, producing sadly fatal and very mournful consequences. The telegram tells us tceday that the town of Palazzuolo, in the neighborhood of the city of Brescia, experienced a violent storm of wind on the 5th instant. One-half of the buildings in the place were destroyed, thirty-two persons killed, and one thousand families rendered houseless. This is another severe blow to the industry of the consolidated nation. It comes ata moment when the people are mourning for their brethren who have just been dis- tressed by the Po River floods, these again following almost before the ashes which were poured out from Vesuvius during its latest erruption had time to cool. We sympathize with the Italians in their present domestic gricfs just as we have rejoiced with them on the completion of the measure of their national beatitude. The Sunday Liquor Law in Chicagn- The attempt to enforce the Sunday Liquor law in Chicago has awakened the ire of the votarfes of lager, who swear by the beard of Gambrinus that they will have their beer, Sabbath or no Sabbath. To their philosophic minds the right to lagar is coexistent with the right to live, and as the constitution declares that every man is entitled to pursue health and happiness in his own way there can be no doubt that any attempt to stop the drinking of lager is a clear infraction of individual right. The children of Deutschland cannot be happy if they have no beer, and it is evidently an un- paralleled tyranny to deprive so large a class of the community of o soventh part of their possible enjoyment by telling them they shall not be allowed to drink lager on Sanday. The authors of the measure are de- nounced as Puritan fanatics, who never felt the soothing influence of the German beverage, and who endeavor to im- pose their own long-faced principles om others without any respect for personal liberty. However, this is only one side of the question, as the temperance society have rallied ta the support of the authorities and profem