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KK eS st—s 4 —_—_—$—$ rr NEW YORK HERALD * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_——— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, awe a Voltame XXXIX.. r. 17 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING )KLYN PARK THEATRE, te Cie tah Brooklyn —KiT; OR, THE ARRAN. ghpome VELEERT at SP. M ; closes at 1045 P, MF. S, Chauirau ov BOWERY THEATRE y. LIGHTNING BOB, a § closes at LLP. M. Bowery. LIGHTNING HOB 3 i Mr, Marius Turek, _THEATR BTR E bap Y_ENTERTAINMENT, at V Br qe at 10 M. Mucinee at 2:30 2. M. NIBI S., ine y, betwe ouston streets. — SPE ae TER P. M.; THE BELLES OF THE ALCHEN, at at 103u P.M. Vokes Family, Mr. Leffingwell. 1:30 P. WOOD'S MUSEUM, . . corner Thiruieth strect PERFECTION, at Brod loses at 4.3) ¥. M. BEN McCULLOUGH, ats P. Se oss at P.M. 0. D. Byron GRAND OPERA HOUSE, reet.—HUMPTY P.M.; closes at 1045 P. My pM Fifth avenue and DUMPTY ABROAD, at7 Mr, GL. Fox. Matinee a! UE THEATRE, i Twenty-sighth street and Broadway.—MAN AND WIFE, t3 P.M. closes at 1:30 P.M. Mr rkins, Miss Ada Dyas, SAMATOGA. Matinee at 1:3 P. M. FIFTH AVE GERMANIA THEATRE. Fourteenth street.—DIK JUURNALISTEN, at 8 P.M; ‘clowes at Li P.M. MRS, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washmuton sireet, Brooklyn.—LED ASTRAY, ats P.M; | Closes at iP. M. "Mr. Frank Roche, Mrs. f. B. Conway. WALLACK’ Broadway and Thirteenth stre closes at iL 2. M. Mr. te! Lewis, NEY, at 8 P.M; | . Mass Jeflreys | RE, vet. —LA FEMME DE M. Mrs. J. B. Booth. OLYMPIC THEATRE. between Houston and Bleecker streets. — ‘Broadway, ABRIL. GRUB, at8P. M.;closes at i ?. M. Majilton- ‘or Family. Matinee at 2 P. M CADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth esa TLHARMONIC CONCERT, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:15 P. M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA No. 1 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTA ‘M.; closes at Li P, M. Matinee at2 P.M. * BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, 's ner of Sixth avenue.—CINDER- RO MINSTRELSY, &c., at 8 P. |. Matinee P.M. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street.—THE PICCANINNIES, trom London. afternoon, at 3; evening, at3, BAIN HALL, street and Latayette place.—PILGRIM’S Great Jones PROGRE: closes at 9 P. M. 85, ats P.M. WIT “SUPPLEMENT. TH New York, jaturday, January 17, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the | Herald. “THE OHIEF JUSTICESHIP! SENATOR CONKLING THE PROBABLE MAN”—LEADING AR- TICLE—FourTH Pace. CONGLING CERTAIN OF CONFIRMATION! SENA- TOR SHERMAN’S GREAT EFFORT FOR | FINANCIAL HONESTY ! THE DEPARTMENT DRONES! SPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE FEDERAL CITY—FirTH PaGE. MR. ROSCOE CONKLING ON THE QUESTION OF THE UNITED STATES CHIEF JUSTICESHIP ! “BAILEY” ABROAD! CAUSE OF THE SENATOR’S NORTHERN JOURNEY! THE HERALD COMMENDED—Tuinp Pace. PAPAL CONSISTORY AND INSTALLATION OF THE NEW CARDINALS! THEIR RECORDS BISHOPS APPOINTED—Firrs Pace. & BITTER PARTIS. BATTLE IN IRELAND! THE RIOT SUPPRESSED BY THE POLICE! SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED—Firta Pace. | PRUSSIA AGAIN WARNS FRANCE! “THE PEACE OF EUROPE WILL BE COMPROMISED!” BISMARCK EXCITED—FirtH Pace. FRANCE THANKED BY SPAIN FOR THE CAP- TURE OF THE NUMANCIA—A TICHBORNE | RIOT—FirtH Pace. SENATOR SHERMAN DECLARES FOR SPECIE PAYMENTS! WHAT JS REQUIRED OF THE NATION IN GOOv FAITH—TuIRD PAGE. THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION IN THE LEGISLATURE! A CLERICAL ERROR! THE BROOKLYN CHARTER BILL—CENTRAL AMERICAN AF- FAIRS—SixtTH PaGE. CONGRESS AND THE RAILWAY INCUBUS—VICE PRESIDENT WILSON FAVORS WOMAN SUF- FRAGE—RiGHTS OF INVSNTORS—Tente Page. ANOTHER CONFLAGRATION IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES—Sévond Pac. COMPETITIVE ‘IRANSPORTATION AND IN- CREASED FACILITIES DEMANDED BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE! PORTANT DEBATES ON FINANCE AND THE REVENUB—THIRD Pace, QUSTICE SATISFIED! A DRUNKEN WHITE, HAVING KILLED A DRUNKEN BLACK IN NORTH CAROLINA, IS FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY OF WHITE MEN AND EXECUTED— Eients Pace. TRE DUTY OF CONGRESS AT THIS JUNCTURE, AS VIEWED BY THE SPECULATIVE WORLD OF WALL STREET! FINANCIAL OPERA- TIONS YESTERDAY—NiINTH PAGE. MOST HORRIBLE DEGRADATION OF A WHITE FAMILY IN PENNSYLVANIA! A BOY AND GIRL ALLOWED TO GROW UP AND ROAM THE WOODS ENTIRELY NUDE! MURDER- OU» DEEDS—SixtH Pace. LEGALITY OF AN EXPULSION FROM THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE! THE ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC RAILROAD AND OTHER SUITS— Esouts Pace. A PATRIOTIC CUBAN LADY—THE COOKES’ OREDITORS—FRANKLIN’'S MEMORY HON- Pace. THE VETERANS’ CONGRESS—PRIESTS IN IRE- LAND—THE CHARJTY CLEARING HOUSE— SUICIDE—Taimp Pach. THE AMERICAN AND THE ENGLISH CAVALRY ARM—TURF NOTES OF PKEPARATION— | Elcura Pager. Tar Recent Fmzs in Brooklyn have porné heavily upon public buildings. Commencing with the County Jail, which happily escaped with slight damage, the Historical Society rooms and offices of the Register of Arrears and United States Internal Revenue Collector were visited by fire and sad havoc was made among the records of those departments. De- fective flues seem to be the principal causes of the late fires in New York and Brooklyn, and in some cases no precautions were taken against this fruitful source of disaster, Baooxirn is already at Albany with amend. ments to the city charter. It is about time that the leading cities of the State obtained Charters good for more than one year. Ix. | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT, Chief Justiceship—Senator Conk- ling the Probable Man. Senater Conkling seems likely to be the next candidate for Chief Justice. He was the President's first choice for the office, and it has been commonly understood that the original intention to nominate him was relin- quished at his own instigation, and also that his reasons for this course were related to the subject of his consequent retirement from the Senate and the control of the succession to that position; but whether these or other causes induced the President to change his mind as to this nomination, the result has been painful and unpleasant; not without hu- miliation to the country, as it has exhibited so clearly the presence near to the highest places in our political system of corrapt practices; threatening to the republi- can party, as it has indicated how readily a rupture might come about between the Executive and a Congress not in sympathy with his motives, and full of chagrin to the President, who found himself censured and thwarted, without, perhaps, always seeing just how he was at fault. It is, therefore, not unnatural that General Grant should revert to his first purpose, with, perhaps, a sentiment of regret that he ever changed it; and in this spirit, in all likelihood, the nomination of Mr. Conkling will be made. In view of all that has occurred the country will doubtless be in- clined to accept this name as a good one, and to recognize that it is the best one possible in the circumstances. Our idea was higher, and the public conception, we believe, is scarcely filled by this name; but it seems in- evitable that we must have a Chief Justice from the circle that immediately surrounds the President, and above that mixed multitude the Senator towers intellec- tually and morally like another Saul. He is the best Chief Justice that can possibly come out of the chosen number of the President's especial, not to say personal, retainers, and as it seems we are restricted to that number, and there is no evident hope that the choice will be made outside the admiring circle, let us take gladly the best it can give us, Few men in any country would thoroughly meet the requirements that collectively form the ideal which the plain and honest people have of a Chief Justice—the high priest of the constitution; the head of that august tribunal which, in the last resort, is the guardian and keeper of those principles of our law for which the people have fought, and for the preservation of which the nation has made and is ever ready to make immeasurable sacrifices. High character, pure life, spotless integrity and | great and thorough knowledge of the law— | these are the broader features of the picture; | and three men have been named in connection with the vacant Chief Justiceship as to whom the strictest investigation would, probably, | find no flaw on these great points. One of these men is not a republican, and that is, perhaps, sufficient reason against him; for, however much we may deprecate political considerations in connection with such 'an office, there certainly is an ultimate | point in every exhaustive analysis, where legal right and wrong come so close together that political preoccupation might be sufficient to determine the matter one way or another. It is but fair for any party in filling such a position to choose a man whose views shall be in sympathy with its own in case so nice an ordeal should ever need to be | faced. But the other two are republicans, | though for some not clearly defined reason | their names seem not to be relished at head- | quarters. Only one reason is obvious why they should be coupled in a common dislike. One of them did yeoman’s service in de- feating General Butler’s aspirations to be | Governor of Massachusetts, and the other, in | his description before the Senate of ‘‘impeach- ; ment by concussion," withered the prose- | eating lawyers and their law with a scorn all | the more effective because it was but the hap- | pier expression of the universal thought. But we have too good an opinion of the President's perceptions to believe that any consideration | of General Butler's likes or dislikes could in- | cline him to neglect the names of those great jurists. Certainly the country would repudi- | ate the choosing a Chief Justice by the stand- | ard of the approval of any single lawyer, how- ever distinguished, and General Grant is too | ; well informed and too intelligent not to | | know it. | But, as we have said, we evidently cannot | have men of the class of those hitherto named | by the Hzraxp and other independent journals, | that sought only to give palpable form to the | popular conception of what sort of man the | Chief Justice should be, because men of this | class are, to use the popular phrase, neces- sarily, ‘‘outsiders,” as viewed from the Presi- dential circle; and our only wise course, | | therefore, is to welcome with good grace the | best man we can get of those who are within | ; the circle. We may regret, of course, that there should be outsiders and insiders in such | a case; that the executive function should come to be regarded in any sense as the prop- erty of the holder of that office, and that purely personal notions should inspire its ex- ercise; but since the fact is obvious it would be folly not to recognize it and make the best | of the ground it leaves us. It is inevitable, perhaps, that a ruler practically sovereign for one important purpose—that is, for the dis- tribution of about one-half the official patron- age and the spoils of office of a great government—should become surrounded | by adhering coteries of designing per- sons, all scrambling for their own | advantage; at least it may be supposed to be inevitable, as it never happens that sueh | a ruler is without such adherents. In General | Grant's case one exceptional circumstance is | government of Castelar has vanished ; a pro- | can hope for a diplomatic reconstruction of | that these adherents are generally of a quality that makes it impossible for them ever to be in sympathy with fhe purer impulses of the people. Another exceptional circumstance is that these personal adherents have more in- fluenc@ over him than is common to such parasites-~s0 much influence, indeed, that no act of his is ever known to be completely with- out relation to their purposes. Much of this is due to an amiable goo@ nature, and to the fact that a military education and the life of a soldier tend always to the cultivation of a generous confidence in those about him and produce a simplicity of character admirable in itself, but utterly unfitting its possessor to cope with the designing intriguers that wriggle and squirm in every political atmosphere, It is tolerably clear that the larger number of those about the Prosident. who practise a sort of courtly cajolery and fawn for thrift, have at heart any other interest or success than his, and that they care little for the ruin of his reputation, provided they secure a good spoil for themselves. But Senator Conkling is not‘of that number, and we ought to congratulate the country that the circle could afford so good a name. Altogether, the reasons in favor of Senator Conkling are far stronger than any against him. Nothing, we believe, has ever been said to the prejudice of his integrity. His charac- ter is such as to give evidence of ao proper regard for the responsibilities of the high position, and if he has not that reputa- tion as a lawyer of the first order which is gained by appearance as a successful advo- cate in many great cases, it may, perhaps, be safely attributed to the circumstance that he has devoted his talents to politi- cal rather than to professional activities. As a lawyer he is favorably known in a limited sphere, and gome of the legal fraternity who were interviewed by Henatp correspondents some months ago on the sub- ject of the appointment of a Chief Justice spoke in enthusiastic terms of Mr. Conkling’s fitness for the position in virtue of his profes- sional qualifications. He may therefore be looked upon as, to say the least, an eminently respectable candidate. He possesses those more sterling qualities in which at least one of the candidates hitherto named was lamentably deficient, and for this reason alone his appointment would be a great gain. He could never, we are confident, fall into such legal drivelling as marked the opinion of Mr. Williams on the Virginius case, and, if he does not stand so high as Mr. Cushing for varied attainments, it is well to remember that the main product of widely varied attainments is sometimes a species of superficial brilliancy, Brilliancy of the better kind is not an attribute that the Senator lacks, and a good Chief Justice may be made with a very small proportion of that sort of meretricious culture that, in furnishing the kaleidoscopic intellect of some very distin- guished public men, has frittered away what character they ever had and blurred the clear lines of definite principles. Finally, Mr. Conkling is of an age that unites with mature thought the promise of many years of good service. For all the reasons given we hope that if Mr. Conkling’s name is sent to the Senate they will follow the ordinary usage in regard to the name of a member of that body so sent and confirm him immediately. Caleb Cushing and the Spanish Mis- sion. Since the recall of his nomination for Chief Justice Mr. Cushing, it appears, has been de- liberating upon the question of retaining or relinquishing the mission to Spain. With his nomination for the ‘‘highest judicial office in the government” we were informed from Washington that so high was the value attached by the administration to the appoint- ment of Mr. Cushing as Minister to Spain at | the time that even with his confirmation as Chief Justice it was not improbable that he would be persuaded still to undertake the deli- | cate and difficult diplomatic work designed for | him of a comprehensive’ treaty of reciprocities with Spain, particularly in reference to our relations with the island of Cuba. At that time (and it was only a few days ago) Mr. Secretary Fish had fixed his hopes of the Spanish Republic upon his faith in the government of Castelar. It was sup- posed at our State Department that Castelar | had overcome his greatest difficulties; that the | Republic in Spain was assured, and that, | as the representative of the ‘Great Republic” | of the United States at Madrid, such o master | of the fine arts of diplomacy as Cushing would serve first to strengthen and confirm the libe- ral government of Castelar, and next to secure for the United States commercial reciprocities with Cuba, which would be better for us than annexation, with the advantage to the Cubans of emancipation and self-government as far as possible with their continued allegiance to Spain. Some such beautiful calculations as these, we believe, were based upon Mr. Cushing's appointment for Madrid and upon the delu- sion of the stability of Castelar's Spanish Re- public. But these delightful theories were of that class of flitting day dreams known as “castles in Spain,” which before the first puff | of wind vanish like the ‘‘cloud capped | towers and gorgeous palaces” of the air. The visional nursery of the monarchy has taken its | place. There was the other day a revolu- tion at Madrid, and there may be another to-morrow. In any event there must be at least the appearance of an established government in Spain before we our present unsatisfactory relations with Cuba. Hence, the impression can hardly have escaped the mind of Mr. Cushing that, as his contem- plated mission to Spain at this time promises | to be fruitless, it will hardly compensate a | man of seventy-four winters for the hardships and hazards of the undertaking. But, again, the facts and circumstances of his withdrawal as a nominee for Chief Justice must inevita- bly suggest to Mr. Cushing the loss of much of that high prestige which, as the Minister to Spain elect, was his a week ago. Accord- ingly, while it is still the wish of the President that Mr. Cushing shall undertake the duties of the Spanish mission, it is not surprising that, as | he now stands, the veterin diplomate should pause to think over it before giving an answer in the affirmative. The probabilities, from the view of the subject we have sub- mitted, would appear to be in favor of his sur- render of an enterprise which has lost all ite recent attractions and which holds out no prospect of a compensating result. A Srxovrar Tazz of a terrible tragedy and its stern punishment is that related in the Henatp this morning of the execution of Joseph Baker, a white man, at Charlotte, N. C., for the murder of Newton Wilfong, a negro, The crime was altogether unpro- voked, Baker not even knowing Wilfong, and its only palliation was the beastly intoxication of the murderer. Recklessness in taking fiviman life has become a crime so common that punishment sternly administered, as in this cawé~gan alone stay the tide of crime, antonio: cee Raden A Nempex Ox Brits were introduced into the Assemhly yesterday, ag will be scen by the Henary’s Albany despatch, which may require looking after. The strvef railway and other jobbers are already preparing to begin the lobby work of the session. | The Texas Trowuble—Attorney Geacral Williams on the Duties of United States Marshals. The unfortanate action of the administra- tion in the Louisiana case is producing evi} results in Texas. Notwithstanding the sig- nificant suggestion offered to ex-Governor Davis by President Grant when the former made his ill-advised request for federal troops to aid in setting aside the verdict of the people of Texas in the late election, it seems that the deposed Executive and his partisans have not abandoned the attempt to hold violent posses- sion of the State government. Governor Coke, the successor of Davis, was inaugurated on Thursday evening ; but a United States Marshal at Austin, emulating the example of Packard, of New Orleans notoriety, sends a telegraphic despatch to Attorney General Wil- liams, informing him that ‘armed men’’—we presume in the interest of Davis—guard the approaches to the Executive offices and to the Capitol ; that ‘other armed men’’ hold pos- session of the legislative halls, and that ‘a conflict seems inevitable.” This duplicate Packard appeals to the Attorney General to interfere as he interfered in Louisi- ana, ‘A message from you,’’ he says, “may save us from disaster.’ But Mr. Williams has learned by experience the danger of meddling in State quarrels, and, taking his cue from the response of President Grant to the ex-Gov- ernor, he wisely replies that he can do nothing except to advise a peaceable adjustment of the difficulty, cautioning the United States Mar- shal that he has no duty to perform in respect to the matter save to use such ‘‘moral in- fluence’ asa United States Marshal may be supposed to possess to avert acollision. In all this we have a gratifying change from the official action in the Louisiana case, in which the Attorney General acted the réles of judge, jury and dictator, and, after securing a prem- ature recognition of the usurping govern- ment, refused to allow the legally elected gov- ernment to be heard in its own behalf. The Texas question is simple enough. An election was held in that State for a Legisla- ture and State officers, under a law passed by the political friends of Governor Davis, and receiving his approval as Executive. Davis was a candidate for re-election, and was de- feated by a large majority, while his party was badly beaten for the Legislature. After their overthrow a decision of the Supreme Court of the State was obtained adverse to the constitutionality of some part of the elec- tion law. If Davis and his friends had been successful no such decision would have been rendered. On the flimsy pretext of this de- cision is based the attempt of the defeated politicians to overthrow the newly elected government and to retain possession of the offices. To uphold them in this usurpation they seek the aid of federal bayonets. But for the experience of Louisiana they would never have made so preposterous a request. It is to be hoped that the changed attitude of the President and the Attorney General will convince Davis and his friends that it will be ‘prudent, as well as right, to yield to the verdict of the people, expressed by their ballots.’’ Indeed, should they by their un- } lawful acts bring about ‘‘domestic violence’’ which the State authorities are unable to sup- press they may find the forces of the United States called into service against themselves, President Grant has already pronounced the election of the new State government to be “the verdict of the people, expressed by their ballots.’ As such he would be bound to recognize the application of Governor Coke or the new State Legislature for protection against domestic violence, if such an applica- tion should be made. "At the same time it is not likely that Congress, after the evidence that has been afforded of the unpopularity of the Louisiana policy, would be any better disposed than is the Presi- dent or the Attorney General to aid the Davis malecontents in Texas. So, on the whole, we are disposed to believe that the ex- Governor and his friends will hesitate to push their rebellion against the new government to extremes. Davis has already proposed, as a way out of the difficulty, an appeal to Congress and the President to settle ‘what body of men form the State Legislature and which is the proper State government.” The President has already decided the question, and Davis is at liberty to make such an appeal to Congress if he should see fit to do so. But in the meantime he must not make an armed resist- ance to a Legislature and a government duly elected and properly qualified. That is re- bellion, and he and his friends will justly be treated as rebels and incendiaries if they should madly provoke the conflict apprehended by the Austin Marshal. Senator Sherman on Finance. Senator Sherman made a long argument in the Senate yesterday on the finance resolution reported from the Committee on Finance. His views in the main are sound, and are evi- dence of returning reason in financial legisla- tion. He advocated a specie basis for our currency and insisted upon some step being taken toward resumption. This, he declared, had been neglected, and showed that the money expended in paying the national debt not due would have gone far toward accom- plishing that result if the system of redeeming the depreciated paper money in coin had been adopted instead. Mr. Sherman pretty thor- oughly exploded the favorite theory of the Treasury Department in regard to paying the national debt, and made the strongest argu- | ment which has yet been heard in Congress against the financial policy of the government. Coming from an administration Senator and | the chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate, his speech will have more weight than if it had fallen from opposition lips. In the act of 1866, which deprived holders of our paper money from turning it into interest bearing bonds at par, Mr. Sherman found more evil than in anything else in our finan- cial system, ‘The Senator, while he vigorously opposed farther inflation and insisted upon the redemption by the government of its promises to pay its notes in coin, at the same time showing that the volidme of currency had been increased eighty-two million dollars above the commonly accepted seven hundred million dollars, had no special plan of his own to press before Congress; but the plan he favored most was taking some bond of the United States, which in ordinary times is worth par in gold, and authorizing the con- version of all notes into this kind of bond. This he believed would work a not too rapid notes much nearer a specie standard. The Senator's speech will meet with oe hearty response from the country, and, coming as it does from the financial leader of the Senate, it can scarcely fail to have a wholesome in- fluence upon Congress, notwithstanding Morton and some others may oppose its logic. Senator Conkling ’ prise. To find a nominee for the position of Chief Justice in a happy humor at the present period of stillborn nominations is surely an enjoyable thing for gods and men. Yesterday o Henatp reporter so found Senator Conkling, and to-day we spread the result of our attaché’s observations and experiences before a world which will hasten to thank us therefor. There is a breeziness about the whole interview which shows “how the wind blows’’ in that quarter. It is 3 steady, genial trade wind that may be relied on to carry him to port. Had Mr. Conkling not felt that the horizon was inno- cent of a storm cloud he might not have glided so cheerfully into an eloquent disquisi- tion on the enterprise of the Hmnaup. He was earnest, if not impassioned, and few moments of his career would be more worthy of the painter's skill than that wherein from the hearth-rug he dilated on what might have been had the Haratp been founded five hun- dred instead of some nine and thirty years ago. A Herap man, said the Senator, would then have anticipated Columbus by discover- ing the New World long before the time of Herald Enter- . the great Genoese. But ‘the Senator omilted to notice that if the Herarp existed A. D. 1492 Columbus would doubtless have been a Hagarp man himself. The great navigator would never have been allowed to wear his heart out hawking his mighty project from: court to court while the Hezpatp could fit out an expedi- tion. Had there been a New York Henatp at that time one of its sagacious correspondents would have dis- covered Europe and saved Christopher a world of trouble. He might at the same time have discovered the ancestors of Senator Conkling and informed them prophetically of the great fortune in store for their descendant. We have no doubt the Hzratp man would make it as gleeful an occasion for the old people as pos- sible, At that distance of time they would never be able to imagine the muddiness, in- tricacies and complexities of the ways.of party polities in our days, and they would have thought the man and the country blessed in the promised event, Viewed from to-day the picture may not be so roseate; but there is one substantial virtue which an indulgent Senate will count in his fayor—he admires the Heratp and glories in its enterprise. This promises well for him; let him go on to his reward. The first thing which greeted his ears yesterday morning on awaken- ing were the magic words, “The Hzraup!”’ In hoc signo, &c., he doubtless murmured as he rung for a copy of the paper. The day was thus well begun, and the glowing tribute to this journal poured into the enraptured ear of our reporter was only a symptom of the natural result produced upon a powerful mind which had absorbed the contents of yes- terday’s Heraup. The Approaching Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh. On Monday next the marriage of the second son of Queen Victoria, the Duke of Edin- burgh, with the Grand Duchess Marie, the only daughter of the Czar of all the Russias, will be formally solemnized in the Russian capital. The Prince and Princess of Wales have already arrived. All the news we have received regarding the approaching nuptials eneourages the belief that the affair will be the grandest thing of the kind which this century has witnessed. The marriage of the Prince of Wales was a grand affair, and Lon- don that day did its best. In St. Petersburg the presumption is the Duke of Edinburgh will receive even a grander ovation than Lon- don gave his brother. We wish the young couple well. As things go in high places we suppose it is a right and proper alliance. From our special standpoint we look on with comparative indifference. Monday in St. Petersburg, not to speak of the smaller de- monstrations throughout two great empires, will furnish another illustration of the truth, which is too painfully patent, that the world has not yet given up its false gods. A monarchical alliance which includes Great Britain, Russia and Germany bodes no great good to the popular cause, Boox Learninc anp Inriation.—When Senator Morton decries ‘‘book-learning”’ in political economy he evidently does so be- cause the accumulated experience of all nations fails to strengthen his own position in favor of inflation. Inflation is the panacca of demagogues for every financial ill. Not having any book learning upon questions of the highest importance, the mere politician endeavors to tide over every epoch of hard times by printing promises to pay and calling them money. When labor is scarce and busi- ness prostrate, it is, in his eyes, owing toa stringency in the money market which can be readily cured by the issue of more irre- deemable currency. The experiment has been tried in this country so often in the last few years that we are rapidly rushing upon de- struction, and unless Senator Morton and others like him get a little book learning, or show some common sense in financial legisla- tion, the most disastrous consequences will ensue. The country cannot endure any fur- ther inflation of its irredeemable currency, and sneers at book learning are a poor substi- tute for wise statesmanship, BrsManck ND THE GERMAN Uxtrasoy- tanxs.—Prince Bismarck became considerably excited during the progress of a debate which took place in the Prussian Parliament yester- day. An ultramontane member quoted a passage from a work written by General La Marmora alleging that Bismarck, in 1866, discussed the cession to France of a portion of the Rhenish territory. ‘The Premier rose in reply, and pronounced the statement ‘“‘an audacious and malicious false- hood.” This is quite emphatic, particularly so coming from the lips of an accomplished speaker, who has accustomed himself to balance his sentences with the utmost care. Does the denial apply against the veracity of the Italian Marqnis in 1866, or that of the German legislative speaker of to-day? The contraction. and at the same time bring our | question ia interesting either wave ~~ iliiteneniitepeitemceaaesameneetietartipeenerteannioninnttsceitngniprierilalitett en mala cs riiceomeenrt Sater fomnri thE RCN The Muddle Uver the Amendmen to the State Constitution, ‘The State Assembly and a portion of the Press seem to be getting into a muddle ove: the constitutional amendments passed by the last Legislature and now before the present Te for its action. Opinions differ as the wisdom of the proposed amendments, which wero ordored to @ third reading in the Assembly yester- day. Some. of them are decidedly good, while others may be of more questionable expediency. The appointment of certain State officers by the Governor would be likely .to give usa stronger State government than we generally have under the elective system. It is desirable that the Executive should have the power to veto portions of a bill and approve other portions. Many a really .bene- ficial law is now lost because of some objec- tionable feature which could be removed with. out damage to the measure. In that monstrous. engine of swindling, the Supply bill, an honest Governor, in- vested with such power, might protect the State effectually against robbery. But the proposed amendments have already been fully discussed, and the present trouble has nothing to do with their merits. There seems to be doubt as to whether they are mot already vitiated, and as to what power the -present Legislature possesses over them. One democratic Assemblyman makes the discovery that the amendments were not ‘published for three months previous to the time’’ of holding the last election for Senators, as the first gec- tion of article thirteen of the State constitution requires. Another claims that the present Legislature has the right to amend the pro- posed amendments or to alter them’ from the shape in which they were passed by the pre- vious Legislature. One republican member believes that while the Committee of the Whole cannot alter the amendments the Legislature may, while a democrat declares that if any single amendment should be stricken out the whole would fall to the ground. The truth is that the proposed amendments cannot be altered in any manner by the present Legislature. Each amendment must. be accepted as passed, or rejected altogether. Upon this point a very interesting question arises, it having been discovered that, by a clerical error, the Black River Canal is in- cluded among those which the seventh article | declares shall remain the property of the State forever. The Attorney General is to be asked for his opinion whether this Legislature can correct the clerical error of the other. The intent of the constitution is that two Legislatures shall pass on all proposed amend- ments to that instrument, and thatthe people shall then vote upon them before they can become engrafted on the fundamental law of the State. If the second Legislature to which they are referred should have the power to alter them it might change their character altogether, and the object of the constitutional provision would be defeated. At the same time, any one or more of the proposed amend- ments may be rejected by the second or ap- proving Legislature without vitiating the re- mainder. The Legislature has, indeed, the power to submit to the popnlar vote each separate amendment as an indepen- dent question, 80 as to afford the people the opportunity to accept some and discard others. The only point which seema to have any force is that in relation to the alleged failure of the Secretary of State to have the proposed amendments published three months before the last election for Stata Senators. We cannot, however, regard this ad fatal. The quibble that a publication doea not mean & newspaper publication is absurd ; but we question whether the requirement in the constitution is obligatory upon any authority or whether its neglect would destroy the amendments if properly passed by the Legislatures and adopted by the people. If such neglect should in reality be fatal then there is no provision in the constitution which more urgently requires revision than this one ; for the carelessness or wilful act of a State officer, or probably of a subordinate, might at any time defeat the most important constitutional amendments. Tue Conststory anv THE New CarDINnaLs.— From Rome we learn that the Holy Father held a Consistory at which the new cardinals were duly installed and a number of bishops appoined. With the appointment of foreign bishops we have really no concern. The time, however, has come when the United States should have a live cardinal in the midst of them. If, according to the rules of the Roman Church, there are objections to the appointment of an American cardinal, the wisdom of Rome should find the ways and means for removing those objections. So far as Rome is to this people an ecclesiastical centre it must be ad- mitted that it receives an honest and hearty homage. To the Holy Father the Catholics of the United States are faithful and true. Six millions of faithful adherents, in a new and growing country like this, ought not to be without a representative in the conclave on whom devolves the duty of electing the next Pope. Nationa Convention oF THE Mexican ARMY Vererans.—A National Convention of the vet- erans of the Mexican war has been held in Wash- ington during a few days past, General J. W. | Denver presiding, and General James S. Neg- | ley, member of Congress from Pennsylvania, delivering an oration and the venerable Albert Pikea poem. Among the interesting cere- | monies was a formal visit to the President of , the United States at the Executive Mansion, ; where some happy reminiscences of bygone | days, when a “revel in the halls of the Monte- | gumas” was the objective point of many of | those present, were congenially revived. The | Convention was held for the purpose of or- | ganization for mutual benefit, and especially | for the relief of those soldiers of the Mexican | war who are now in indigent circumstances, There is every indication that the objects of the Convention have been crowned with suc- cess, and that the reunion was eminently a happy one. ‘Tue Nationan Boarp or Traps, at Balti- more, yesterday passed resolutions asking for legislation by the different States compelling railway companies carrying grain in bulk to deliver the same quantity they receive; oppos- ing national aid to artificial means of trans- . portation; against legislative enactments fixing rates of transportion, and bewailing the abuses growing out of special freight lines upon our railroads and the absence of any Latnortuaite for comuetitions

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