The New-York Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1867, Page 4

4 L E A R T SR SRR = S Amnsements. ACADEMY OF MUSIC . THIS RYENING—GRAND INA UGURATION BAL D' [USUSIRR OPERA. Mr Edwta Booth, GARDEN IS RYENING-THE BLACK CROOK—Great Parisierve Balieh Teomps RIS BYENIN 5. W, Wallsek WROADWAY THRATER. . IS KVENING—THR FAIKY CIRCLE; Ot CON O'CAROLAN'S IRRAN OUSTOM OF THE COUNTRT. Mr. sad Mrs. Bar A lliame. THE. TH (Bu NEW-YOR! THIA RVENING - KENILWO! HORSK BREAKKR La! RR. rlesque) — THE PRETTY WOWRRY THEATER y IS RYRNING—MYSTERIES OF C ARROW ABBEY-YOUNG REKVEK-BLUNDKRING DUTCH AN NUREDM. MARTYRS—TWO R THOVIAND. €1 ANBURGH'S COLLEC TION OF WILD ANIM, 18P R SHOWER—ACRO THIS KYENING R STIOWER-— PRITE OF THE SILV BATIO AND EQUEST " THIA KVESING TROUPE n THIA AFTLENOON MATINKE, o x " DODWORTH 1A THIN RYENING M. HAK THE Floatiug Heal, ot ILLUSIONIST, Prot CLINTON HALL IR ARTRIENOON AND [EVENING LAR DECEURES ON THE LAWS OF THIA KVENING o wol Braates “VIFTICAVE. OPERA HO! AT OCRAN K THE G THIS KYKNING—-THE BLACK CROOK—TH § Yo RACK Griff & Christy's Miastrels. New Acte, Music. Sivg- 2 ing. ot Business Nolices. g MPHS FOR « PAaTRNT SAaPERS. AT WRLLSVILLE Mxknixe's SAFE AIKAD OF ALL OTHERS ux, N. Y., F Lnwiva, Fannrs & SHERMAN, ) nim the morning of the st of Februars our fown met aimty-—twenty-four buildings were burned to the ground. s frame bullding, three stories bigh—was cousnmed hy Fireproof Safes ls, All of which Mewra 1 [0 er liquors in close between these and the Your Champion Safe. o aaterrifie, and twiea the len owaed by York & Chamberlal dition than theirs. ted to a fire three times k re statement. ernigned, full con W Tovr & Luwis, Baskers. W.T. Banxss, PO R &J Doy Hxny L Joxe. Exvraare 15 Mosits. 0 BLOCKS BORNKIL saers, MmininG, FARKEL & SUbiuAN, New-York: Mosers, N Bewteks totally conumed by ‘wear'y & vhofe sguare of € of your 4 found it 100 b Guyrs: 3, store w . 9, wilch de e’ msuess P ©n Banda; ruins o cool wutil Moo coks, %1t ether conteits, were preserved overs of the Looks were daws by the st no_appearance of having been thr s Ut otile. st fres e, aud 1w s At Fins a7 Winu 3 Gueat Fak: or THE TORN DESTO WiLLyceusy, Ok o, Fanumr & Surraax c scnd me a No. T ‘Just went throngh & thirty Can you use the old ove at same jrice | es. Yours truly W. 1L Mrwiian Hoouusa's PATENT CRANPION Savrs, Tuy Mosv letiaBLe PROTECTION FROX Fiix Now KNOWN. Manarn 1oy New-York. Hrxnixe @ & Co.. Chicag wixe, Fannme & Susmway, New o Astirican (Wartnay) Warcies. T11% BEST IN THE WORLD. old Kverr “he Gornan M ANUFACTUR t. 1., fuform & tri 2 desigos. T uch thickne all ty, and frow beauty of desigu aud rom 1t refer with eouidence to the high St WINSLOW'S SOOTIING SYRUP alich it is designed, and would bave it We a0 invalas'ile for the allin our power to {Mesry A. Hitcheock, Iita price were double what it now is Starbridge, Mase It ielieves the child fom pain, softens the @ 4 sure to regalate the bowe! teduces (s ris the wotber. gives reat and boalth ta the ¢ B wurs aat call fur Mus. Wisstow's S0oTHING STRUP, e of Crirmis & PERKISS de wrapper Tuase tmitations Tue Euneka Brick MACHINE w and one pair makos 1,000 aplerdsd Lyick per howr, with only nis per howr by steam power. B machinery ¥ of order or breaking duien. plicity and asmand the approval of every M. the world to produce its equal. @ to all yurchasers. A, General Agent, No. 141 B: 1Tk, FRANKLIN DrICK MACHINE, Juatly_cetehratad £ Nelty, great strength. aod immense compressing poer oot Lommper the clay T Rexox, OriGinaL tams. asother aufactarel Damg Coght, okl MitLii& Co., Cana after May 1, Union- wqaare. Greots', Minse xR AXD BiTr0x Boors,all adpricos Batciy worid Ha bro the ye—black or calens ote. Geaaive sigued Wi A Pe clow, Keiiable, Inatantanes No disappetntment, no ridic I Drugg only perfect d SUSPENSORY adical Cure Truse onle at No. & Vener Cartes Viguette, § Al wegativne n..'f«_.:.x. }‘A " well the worst forms of Riiétuna e by METCALPN'S Gurar Rupes Horfut Modicive vecer falls, l::n:, AT & sours wre oustantls . York § g n are MinE ds who hav o P s who lave sufered excrociasing soon cared by 3 Tow dasee, S. M. Co.’s LocK-STiTeH SEWING- !.' .-.ln;: 343 ladway. Tlighest premiues Murylasd Tunktute, FLOKENCE s, Reversible Foed Locktitch Mxwino-Macuivue Bout founily wachise in the world Froxexcr 8. M. Co,, o No.30 Broaway. soN'S LoCK-StiTcH SEw- Grover & BAker's H o Macuinns, No. 45 Brosdway, N. * Machloe, el straight ¥ s for all H“fl-rl’n‘ o ;::;‘:.'.T‘ ';::.; wanted. ACHINE.~Improved Wheel, 5. D SELWI 90 D1 1p Ford.” Baiearoom, No. 613 Bros WiLLCoX & (1Rns Sk X WING-MAC —* wanie i Lcas labie o rip than the loek-stitch, ’u“.'f"f.i'.. utE Graw 11| end for samples of ‘ath s Broadw ‘S.'S'll'Ah'l)AnllS A satisfaction, Old Seals Beairs or saie Wiisky Fraus.—The case of the 2 e United Btatoa agt. Thomas Rodgers, previously reported, was hmflt o 8 eonclusion before Commissioner Newton, g o yeuterduy, by a verdict of the Jury discharging tia prisoder. There was not sufficient evidence to prove scoused bad l\lk‘l';l'{ manufactured or ful brauded ne Unlted 5t ate, -4 g wus s concluld Lefore J ki Benedict: I the Em abasues, Statos District Court, yester th 1 7 returuiug a veidict for the Coverment - bedis vind Founp DROWNED IN Tur Easr Riven—Two oung won while clamming alo) » > i. ud it o et River, yesterdiy whocnor, Oty errians Lhio body of AN WNKNOWR Wak 1:1¢ On the 'Ly the fall- h.f'Mo, The body was dressed Jn sailo) u.&..w.‘ wiidrt, ts. The man wmwu bout 40 )t’m‘: S0 Teqenns e ! ke the Corouce New Dork Daily Ceibwne. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1667. TERMS OF THE TBIBUNE. Dary Trinvne, Mail Subsc ibors, $10 per annum. e WEFRKLY TrIBUNE, Mail Subseribers, $4 per an, WekkLy TrisuNe, Mail Subseribers, $2 per anmuon. Adyertising Rates. DatLy TRIBCNE, 20 conts per line. SEMi-WEEKLY TBIBUNE, 25 conts per line. WkekLY TRIBUNK, $1 50 per line, Torms, cash in advance. New-York. Address, Tar TrRnU 10 CORRESPONDENTS. Mo woties ran b taken of Anonymons Communications. Whatever 1o {uteuded for insertion must be authenticated by the ud address of the writer—aob uecessarlly for publication, but a4 & guaranty for b good faith, A1l basiness letters for this ofico abould be addrossed to “Tun Tare- uwn New-York retars tajected Communicat'ons We canaet uaderteks £ A Letter on Life in Washington from our special correspondent ; Meeting of the llnrl."m” Vomen's Protective Union ; the Kennedy-Con- nolly Diflienlty ; the Sun Tusurance Company ; Dramatic Notices ; City News ; the Civil Court Reports, and _the Money Avticle, will be Sound on the second page. New-Jersey News and the Markets appear on the third page. et In the question of Mr. Fernando Wood's leases” the Court has rendered an opinion, which will be found on our second page. On the second page will be found the second letter of the admirable “Life in Washington™ series. The bill to establish a Department of Educa tion passed yester n the Senate. Tho De- partment as established will be for the purpose of collecting edncational statistics and facts, and diffusing educational information, and will be managed by a Commissioner, assisted Ly three clerks. The resolutions of the Kentueky Union Con- vention, which we print in full, declare that treason should not enjoy immunity ; that loyal people must, of rizht, xo resettle the South that liberty shall be sure to all men ; that cducation should Le furthered in Kentucky; and, finally, pledge a cordial codperation with the Uuion .gistature of Illinois has done the State justi s well as eredit, by the virtual abolition of is too good, too n not to find imitators among all the & a or later. There can be no reason for perpetuating cruelty und Lorror in the law by continuing the ovil dis pensat ion of the gallows. Weare glad to se re is yet a chanes for the passage of the Bavkrpt bill. The House showed @ decided majority against lay ing it on the table, and appointed a Conference Committee. With a majority of both branches in its favor, we must hope it is destined to zo | through. Every just consideration calls for its passage. v, by a vote of 97 to 30, dis- The House, yesterday the Southern Homestead bill, of public lands in five of the | States, with an amendment which pre- ven those persons who have aided the | Rebellion from applying for the bene- fit of the act. Those who, having aided the Rebellion, afterward served in the Federal | army, are, how , not excluded. s | | { | | passed posing But few election returns from Germany have as yet reached us. In Frankfort and in the City of Hanover the anti-Prussian eandidates have been successful, as in Saxony. Frankfort sends | one of the Rothsch and Hanover Herr von | Munchhausen, the choice of the combined Tories | and the Democrats. Berlin, Magdeburg, Stettin, and Breslau, in Prossia, and Rostock, in Meck- lenburg, have elected the entire Liberal ticket ; but in Konigsberg, Gen, Falkenstien is reported to have been chosen. The amendment to the Appropriation bill, offered by the Finance Committee, and pro- viding for the payment of certain Assistant Assessors in the South, was passed in the Sen- ate yesterday, after debate. It was objected by Mr. Chandler that the Secretary of the Treasury made unfit appointments, and by Mr. Sumner that the Assessors had not taken | the oath and become officers of the United States, and were therefore private elaimants. The bill passed, by Yeas, 33; Nays, 13, The Tax bill was considered in the Senate yesterday, and the amendment to strike ont steam-engines, &e., from the free list was most rightfully sustained by Messrs. Sherman, Tloward, and Fessenden, and passed by 19 to 14. The section of the House bill pealing the tax on newspaper adve tisements was properly disagieed to, The debate brought out the important satement from Mr. Fessenden that recently the Internal Revenue had fallen off from £40,000,000 to £50,000,000. Yet with such a fact as this before it it is proposed to exempt important branches of industry from certainty of a further de least ! ny tax, with the ase of §75,000,000 at we give a veport, is interesting testimony on the subject of the medical education of women. She shows that in England, France, and Ge many, women have been admitted to prac tice, and that in the two former countri Women's Medical Schools or Colleges have been opened. Throughout the world women are asking the powers that be to allow them to take care of themselves. It will be some time before this sensible request is fully granted; but here there ought to be no opposition; on the contrary, the most earnest encouragement to the effort of good women to redeem their sex. We hope for substantial aid to Dr. Blackwell's intelligent and philan- thropic effort in New-York. | I A Conference Committee is to settle the ques- tion of the issue of the three per cent legal- tenders to redeem the six per cent com- pounds. Couldn’t this Committec consent to harmonize by agreeing to piteh both bills overboard ? The Senate bill is a bill wholly in the interest of leading bankers, and, does not possess a feature which ought to commend its | Dassage. We know full well that Mr, } MeCulloch has suffered his good nature and ¢ desire of saving a little interest to overcome 1 his better judgment on this question. The true , way and the only true way to disposc of those ¢ six per cent legal-tenders is to keep them as ¢ they are and pay them when they are due, and t thus get them out of the way entirely. We 1 bope somebody in the House or Senate will find ¢ & way to kill the Dill if it should get back from y the Conforence Comuittee. Let us seo if it is NEW-YORK not possible (o keep on resumption. the straight road to 10K SLAUGHTER OF THE TARIFF. The Tariff bill is dead. Killed in the Honse of its friends. It would now seem to be but a reasonable supplement to this job to repeal the Internal Revenue bill; at least, go far as it operates on our manufacturing industry. We have taxed all sorts of manufactures to such a degree that we have placed them at a disadvantage with foreign manufactures. That is to say, onr manufacturers of many articles are worse off, as things now are, than they would be if the duty on foreign fabrics of tho same sort that they make were all taken off, and they were at liberty to compete with the forcign artiele freed from all internal taxation, It has been shown over and over again, on the recent investigations of the Tariff’ question, that the protection the manufacturer gets by the duty imposed on the foreign article is in many instances more than offset by the tax he is compelled to | Actual free trade would thus be better for him than the exist- ing mrangement of dnty on one side and tax on the other. One great object in the present Tariff bas been to restore the old equilibrium by removing this disability. That is to say, to advance duties sufficiently to give the manu- facturer the same protection that he had before isonable and necessary legiala- This most r tion to prevent the dectine of our Tuternal nue through the stoppage of our manufac- and keep our industry in motion, is now wed. And unless our manufactures thus defes situnted are not only able to compete "'f”' the foreign producer on equal terms, but with the advantage all on the side of tl rivals, then hey mast stop. As to their ability to do this, it is not difficult to judge. Not only are they unable to do it, but the manufacturers of no nation would be expected fo do it. No insano demand fto attempt it would be mads by any nation in the world of ity manufacturing industry. T s left to us to set the wise and statesmanlike example of a legislation contrived to extinguish the mechanical industry of the country. And now what is to be expected from it? You deliber- ately crush yonr manufactures. They fall, and with them departs the revenue tax imposed upon their products—a tax which now fills the Treasury, and without which it must lose’its ability to harge its obligations. What else? Why, the wide-spread generad ¢ ity which must follow such a stoppage is to o spread the country. You br 1k down inter ests with millions of capital inveated, you prostrate hard-working, industrious com- munities, you create distress, you scatier ruim on every hand, you arrest national progress and national development. 1t i8 the old story. You afab to the heart the growing inferests and influences which would give life, and ani- mation, and vigor, and prosperity to the whele comntry. Aud it is done at the instanco and under the inspiration of foreign capital and foreign free frade motions, imported for the benefit of foreigy What wretched folly, what iucomprehensible short-sightedness! The N ring under the load of unnumbered obligations, piled on its back by the War, needing every prop of support and every resource of supply ingennity can devise or develop. And yet, with its wants visible to every eye, witli its claims pressing npon the moral kense of every legislator, we find a sufficient number of the representatives of the people at Washington ready and even cager to inflict the low which brings it to th und The debate in the House, yesterd pot turm upon the provisions of the but upon the possibilty of passing ouy Wil this session. Mr. Morrill moved to dis charge the Committce of the Whole for the purpose of bringing the Vill to a vote, and in the disenssion which followed, Schenck intimated that the Preside veto if, while Mr. Allison alleged that he b 1 made no factious opposition to the bill, voted against the motion, On this test vole, ion 15 Kta; wol the motion, which 1equired two-thirds (o pass, was defeated by 103 Yean &0 64 Nays. M. Stevens then moved o discharge the Committ ¢ of the Whole, and to concur with the Senate, wil already passed by the House, and an addition ! concession to the wool interest, Thus all the amendments of the Committes on Ways and Means nol ac! upon would be ahandoned, The House refused to adopt this motion, by 102 Yeas to 69 Nuys, A joint resolntion was then offered by Mr, Mornll, imposing an additional duty of 20 per cent of the duty now paid upon all geods, with certain speeificd gx- ceptions, which was lost, by B¢ to 56, The Houso sl seted, by 90 Y to 64 Noys, n Joiut resolution offercd by Mr, Kassou in regard to wool. After these decisive votes no further effort will bo made in this Congress to pass the bill. It died in i arins of ity friends,w in quarrcling about the yaeans of cuic mented 1l they ki the patient. Lopen, and still more the covert of the bill, eaeape the retribution they deser It enemies wo do vol mean it shall be for want of ex- 11 have f credit for the posnre. They wl mischief they b Wi r the loss that is to fall upon the co by reason of their hostility or treachery; for the delay, every day of which takes the bread ont of the mouths of workingmen; for tho closed milly; for their ruined owners; for the arrestod development of manufactures; and for the Wow they have aimed at the 1ifo of American Tudunstry. Some of our Democratic cotemporaries are endeavoring to get up a new sensation respect- ing the present political organization of the Board of Commissioners of Emigration ; and the late Comnsel of the Board, John E. Develin, esq., in a letter recently published, gravely charges the Chief Magistrate of the State with having violated an honorable agreement made, a5 is alleged by him, some twenty years ago. The offense of the Governor, Mr. Develin as- serted, consisted in having made the Commis- sion partisan in its organization; and fearing !hnt‘u further “breach” is contemplated, he found it “impaossible for him longer to remain con- f' n?cusd with the Commission.” This burst of indignation makes it scem somewhat strange t!mt the learned Counselor should have con- tinued his relations as Counsel to the Be nearly a year after “the breach” complaived of liad been accomplished; and it is equaliy strange that when his resignation was received, its acceptance was moved by a Democratic Commissioner, and unanimously adopted. Wo think it will appear, however, that the alle- gations made in that communication are untrue, 'I.‘hiu Commission is composed of ten persons, six of whom are appointed by the Governor and Senate, and the remaining four are ex officio members. The Board as it now stands is made up as follows: Democrata—Gulian C. Verplanck, President; Wilson G. Huant, Vice- wmt | the amendments | DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MARCH f, 186%. officio. Republicans—Sam’l Booth, ex officio ; Frank 8. Winston, Cyrus H. Loutrel, Isaac T. Smith, and a vacancy which has not yet been filled. Thus the Board now stands five Demo- crats and four Republicans, and this was its political complexion when Mr. Develin wroto his letter. The truth is, the Board, is not now, and never has been, partisan in its workings, and is not likely to be under its present management. And, on the whole, we do not think the Board will dissolve and vanish into air simply because John E. Develin is not its counsel. OU'R CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Legislation is defined by the dictionaries as the making or enacting of laws. It is a ques- tion, then, if what has been doing at Albany gives the Legislature a right to its title. The (onstitutional Convention Vills were yes- terdny again the sport of the Semate and Assembly, the Senators resuming a debate which has ccased to have novelty or usefulness, while the Assembly bill was actu- ally postponed till to-day, without any action upon it. The Judiciary Committee reported the bill, a8 amended, with a resolution to have it printed, and to this the friends of the Con- vention, without demur, consented. This is the reddest kind of red tape. Is there no one in the Assembly who will avoid debate, and push the bill to a decisive vote? Thus far, the minority have smeceeded in baffling nearly every offort of thé majority in favor of the Littlejohn bill. We shall not again insist on the immediate passage of the bill, for the Assembly s likely to “amend it again, and have it printed again, and then postponed again. Theso labors accomphished, both Houses should vote themselves another holiday, and rosume, after it is over, their neglect of the public busivess. The people who voted for the Convention, and who want it, will remember the way in which their wiglios have been tiifled with by their repre- sentatives, The Scuate is still debating over the method of electing delegates. We vo repeatedly said that the advantage of either plan is not worth debating, «! the speedy passage of somo bill i speratively demanded. Election by Assembly distric with one delegn each Senate distriet, seems from to us a good method, aud one which would provide for a large Convention fully repre- senting the people. Add to theso 160 dele- 5, 92 delegates at large, as Gov. fenton PrOpPOSEs, and the number world not be too great. Cannot the Legi « decide upon these points, having had the sulicet before it for months® Canvot it stop iing and act, and in passing some bill, even )t the best, yield to the demands of e FOR AND AG.AIY RESUMPTION. We have often tiie discover something in the shape of an argument for o continued suspension of spe payments. The Chiengo Tribune, which knows all about such things, bas ventured to advance one, It says that the reason rinst resumption that debtors would be wronged by it, becanse they would if i o the puopie i, have to pay in a better curre than they contracted to pay in. Exist- ing igations having been inereased in a depreciated eurrency, they should be paid in the sime. Might we be so bold as to inquire about what time it is proposed to pay up eversbody's debts in paper, in order | that there shall be none to be discharged in specie, when resumption comes round? The IMinois banks kad due to them in October last 7.000,000. A year ago they had less. A year pee how will it be? Snppose, in deference the peeuliar condition of the Tlinois debtors to these institutions, the country shall to say abont resnmption a year to come; ihe Chicago Tribune , to lint, to declare to © nothing for is to promise, to suggest | in ¢ one of its chaming tones, that that v 817,000,000 will be reduced to the extent of one thousaud dollars in & mil- lion during that period? We trow | {not. It knows the Iilinois debtors to | is banks do mot intend to reduce their indebtedness, voluntarily, to the extent of | one red cent. And it knows the banks don’'t mopose they shall. The debtors want at seventeen millions to teade and speculate upon, and just as much moro as they can bor- row s and the bonks want their interest and their shave on that same sum, and on just as mueh more as they sholl dare venture to lend. That is the preciso state of the borrowing and Tending business, of the banking business, of the irredcemable papar money business, of the State of Llli',‘ is and ni every other s that hugs | the pap wney delusion w the same fraternal embraee a4 do our “wild “ent” filends on the praivies, Doesn't The hicago Tribune know it? We don't ask for an ans That same far-gecing and noLly nneconscionsy al knows it just g well 15 an Mast have time to pay the | debts in paper that were contrs ch? uything of that parti sort of Losiness in the two years sinee th | ended Dou't propose to do anyihing of that particulir sort of business in the year to come, in the two years to come, in the nexi ten y to come, voluntarily, We know of old the le of that partienlar “wild eat.” Tt jumps ont of ey, Haven't done u Wil ted in paper, | of talk and meet the subject squarely and fairly and abovo board, and say they do not want to resume, and donot mean to resume. Why dodge about in the jungles of sophistry? But they cannot hide themselves so long as there is anybody left to smoke them ount and burn down their retreats. Abandon your Indian warfare, gentlemen, and meet the case openly. While you remain devotees to “wild cat” bank- ing and a shin-plaster cireulation, and favor bot- tomless specnlations, present insolvency, and future universal bankruptey, say o and have done with it. Admit your folly and your weak- ness. If you caunot defend your posi tion by argument you can by votes. We rely upon justice, and truth, and the eternal laws which man cannot alter. And we know they will triumph in the long run; and we mean they shall in the short run, if we can accom- plish it. MAYOR HOFFMAN AS REFORMER. Mr. Hoffman was chosen Mayor by help of a belief in his personal honesty, and by volunta- rily pledging himself to reform the City Gov- ernment, We think he thus became bound to appoint to office men not only of good charac- ter, but of the greatest fitness for their offices. He has had several opportunities to gratify the expectations which he kindled; the latest being in the nomination for the City Chamberlainship vacant by the death of Daniel Devlin. The City Chamberlain is an officer who has the custody of the city funds—of the many millions disbursed yearly out of the pinched pockets of faintly protesting tax-payers, It needs no high degree of virtue in the appointing power to understand that such an officer should be honest. But it must be equally plain that he should be more than honest—that he should be conspicuously honest, should be a man whose mere name isa guaranty that the office shallbe in- corruptibly administered. His character should be his sole recommendation for the place; and in this, as in all matters where money is concerned, politics should be let alone, and only the public security considered. To this purcly financial and fiduciary office of Chamberlain, Mayor Hoffman has nominated Mr., Peter B. Sweeney, and the Board of Alde: men D confirmed him. Mr. Sweeney widely known as an active and able partisan Teader, not unfamiliar with city railr and not ill-versed in the methods by which charters for those corporations are wout to be obtained. Our eriticism on his appointment is based upon the very merits which proeured him the In a partisan and political is undonbtedly entitled to Mr. Hoffman mizht have made a mudi worse selection among the men out of whom he felt himsclf compelled to elinose. But the fact that he was compelled to choose among these few is the finul answer to all his professions of re- nomination, sense, he it, and form. Mr. HofGuaan's friends urge that he cannot eseapo from the obligations which he owes to many and its magic cirele, e eannot choose the best man in New- York to take ecare of the people’s money ; he can only choose one of half a dozen or less to whom, for political reasons, his selection is re- Could there be a better argument for of municipal affairs from partisan politics? Could there be a more perfect demonstration of the unsonndness of the pretenses of Mr. Hoffm: to be the champion of Cit) orm? His fet- ters are too strong to b and the city must stricted. an emancipation be content with what he can do under their weight, and be thankful that instead of Mr. Sweeney we are not obliged to take a much worse man for Chamberlain. — A NEW ATLANTIC TEL RAPH. There is a bill before the Legislature at Al- bany, which has already sed the Senate B the izcorporation of a new Atlantic Telegraph Company. It is hung up in the House, we believe, on the ground of a monopoly feature, But we hope some means will be found to remove this obstruction. The public is deeply interested in having greater telegraphic faeilic between this country and Europe ; and, above all, we are interested in having a telegraphic line the two ends of which do mnot khnd in British territory, and are thus under the con- trol of the English Government. The existing Atlantic Cable had to contend with a strong opposition when the subsidy of 70,000 per an- num was secured for it in Congress, many years ago; on the ground that we were pay for a privilege that we could not use at the time when its use would be of the great- est value to us. Time and events have demonstrated the soundness of these views. If the Cable had got into working order before the Rebellion, the time when it might have been of the most scrvice to us was when the Trent difficnlty was on the carpet. But with both ends of the Cable in the hands of the English, of what earthly use wroild it lave been? And all through the war the Government could not have sent a m iy fime, that would not been first subject fo seeret inspection. Wo shat our eyes to théze contingent eveuts when we granted the original subsidy, although the exposition of the subject fn the Senate was pointed, and even masterly. One of the most entertaining and effeetive speeches ever delivered in that body was pronounced ve age any wher debt two feet and fulls back thive. The Chi- cago Tribune knows that, too. Very well, then, what does your argument amount to 1 You want to get out of debt, do you, before you resume? And yet yon have not the slightest idea of getting out of debt. The loans of the banks of the country are larger this year than they were last by millions. They were greater last year than they were the year before, They will be greater next year than they ave this, if the in- flationists like The Chicago Tribune have their way; and what is more, the in-| flationists ~ know it. And yet they have the brass to say that they do not want to rvesume until they have had an opportunity to [pay the debts in paper that | were ineurred in paper. And this is the only argument they have to offer against taking | measures leading to a resumption of specie payments. It is frank, isn't it 7 It is transparentlysin- and honest, isn't it 7 Who would think of asking such innocent debtors, who expect so soon to pay up, and not owe the Ilinois banks a paper dime of their present dobt of seven- teen millions, to strain a point in the way of helping resumption along ? Just as soon as they are out of debt they ave going to resume. They owe but seventeen millions now. They owed but sixteen millions last year, but fifteen millions the year before that ; and they expect to owe not more than cightoen millions next. Does n't everybody but a natural | born fool see that they will be ready directly 7! And does not The Chicago Tribune say they ’ ought not to be hurried, in view of this rapid | progress; and doesn't that paper know all 1 President ; John 1. Hoffman, ex officio; Rich- ard O'Gorman, ex officio; Philip Bissinger, ox about such things 1 Supposo, uow, the inflationists stop tis kind b | at Albany was | upa on (he oceasion of the vote on that subsidy. Still the opposition was ineffectual. But now, | after all our experience, it will be doubly sur- prising if we are to be so blind and perverse to the perception of our own interests, as to allow the proprietors of the existing Cables to thwart the plans to get a new line or lines that are not open to the objections suggested. It is proposed to lay a cable direet from Brest, in France, to our coast, and such is the object of the bill before the Legislature. As we have observed, it is said to be opposed on a princi- ple, but we suspeet that principle to be chiefly the interests of the stockholders in the Eng- Tisly cables, We have been hoping, if this plan defeated, whether by fair means or foul, that we were stil to have the DBelrings Strait line to fall back But it was annomnced in yes- terday’s papers, to our surprise, that the laying of that ine is indciinitely suspended, be- canse of the suceessful working of the two British cables, This means, we suppose, that the Rus- sian cable people have been bought off. If the project at Albany fi we are then to be left entirely to the tender mercies of the ex- isting company, as to prices, and to all the con- tingent embarrassments and dangers in the future of having it under British control. We are a smart people, but we are sometimes prone to indulge omselves in the amusemcnt of looking through leather spectacles. The Toronto Globe prints at length, in its issue of the 25th inst., the bill now before the Tmperinl Parlizment for the confederation of the Bridish Nerth American Provinees of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Seol and New- Srupswick, We published last Monday a state- | ment giving the principal features of the scheme, and yesterday a telegraphic dispateh from Canada, supplying additional details, and informing us that the new Confederation is to be called the Kingdom of Canada. Doubta have been expressed as to the correctness of the latter picce of news, but the bill itself sets the question at rest, for it is therein provided that “ within six months next after the passing “of the act” the aforesaid Provinces “shall “form and be one united dominion, under the “name of the Kingdom of Canada.” Whether this is a step toward the establishment, if pos- sible, of an independent monarehy in this part of the world is yet to be seen. To begin with, the Confederation is to be ruled by a Governor- General, THE CAR NUISANCE. The other day the floor of a Bowery car fell through, happily without injury to the fifty or sixty persons crowded thereon, inside and ount. Bowery cars are necessarily of strong build, and the pressure needed to force the bottom out of one of them is to be imagined. A con- stant average of from thirty to forty persons on these cars at certain periods of the day— a crowd of pushers and elbowers, hnddled or jammed, as the “case may be—ought to break down the strongest car. Ft is humbling to the publie sense to think that each passenger on one of our city lines is condemned to pay six cents for the precious privilege of getting his toes trodden on and of breathing a bad atmos- phere. It is at last impossible for an invalid to ride in our city cars, and even a well person must run risk, more or less, in so doing. Thus, they are a questionable comfort and a bad ae- commodation, which nearly a million of people, rich enough to fare better, and paying roundly for the petty miseries we have mentioned, suf- fer as meekly as dromedaries, day by day. We cannot help thinking that while the ecar companies carry their passengers in this fashion, the passengers themselves have a camel’s load to bear in tolerating the abuses of the cheap system of car-riding. Nothing can be more vulgar and unwholesome than the social jam in the cars on Third-ave,, for in- stance. There is no place where pockets can be more readily picked, and where thieves more naturally swarm, as every townsman well knows. But human kind endure only a fraction of the evils resultant from overcrowding— the rest are visited upon the poor brute, Wa are content to put our objections in the form of a question. If a crowd of fifty passen- s are enongh at last to knoek the bottom out of a Third-ave, car, how much of a load, dragged daily up Lill and down Lill, is neces- sary to break down a horse? We commend thix problem to onr legislators, and beg them to cipher it ont with the help of some of our passenger compavies” statistics, Especially wo ask them to do this in view of the bill lately drawn by the philanthiropic Mr. Bergh—a not more for the prevention of eruclty to ani- mals than to pazsengers, We heartily commend the suhstance of this humane and reformatory measiae, It provides that, as cars cannot accommodate more than twenty-five, and ommibuses no more than twelve passengers, so they shall not be allowed | to become crowded to twice their capacity, and that at certain grades an additional horse shall be attached to cach car. These provisions are dictated by the best rezard for the public economy and well-being. There is not a shadow of doubt that under its operation—and such operation should be immediate — companies earn as much as ever, and passen- gers will fare better. There ean be mno doubt of this, and it remains a stand- i wonder that corporations inexhaustible in purse, and a public powerful for any reform affecting their familiar interests, can tolerato senseless, notorious cruelties to man and beast. If this good-natured public of ours is to bo treated as a beast of burden—if its respectablo numbers are to be thrown together as if they were so many lo; ud paupers (and an emi- grant ship now-a-days is not more pestilently packed than ar)—let no one be sur- prised if it kicks in the traces upon sixpenny worth of provocation. We are long enough used to the odious discomforts of our car system to in- vent or manage something better. To pay the tax of a cent for every mill that the cars pay the Government, and this in order to perpetu- ate and enrich miserly monopolies, cruel and un- comfortable to man and animal, will seem to many a traveler both absurd and shameful. The publie, which is thus made a beast of burden, ought to make up its mind to drive the corpora- tions a little. Any set of men, even a Board of Councilmen, can manage our city lines as well as they are managed now. The tendencies to an oppressive and arrogant mismanagement of can | ground plan of raily all means of transportation that are now com- monly over-crowded and as commonly prosper- ous, must be apparvent to all who travel by rail, whether the ears are the hives on wheels that belong to Camden and Amboy, or the movable pens that run up the Bowery. Now, we protest, once for all, against this too much ning—this shockingly eheap committal of public to its own discomfort. There is no compromise of opinions or of sures we ean offer or entertain on this sub- m jeet of the street railway nuisance. The city should be relieved, and the surest and most comprehensive way to this relief will be gained doption of the best under- by the spee Manisox S The Senate has just passed an act placing t dilapidated Park under the control of the Commissioners of the Central Park, and au- therizing the removal back of the fenco on the west side, 50 as to allow more space for the great number of footmen from Twenty-third-st., Broadway and Fifth-ave., who pass on the west sidewalk. It scoms nnfortunate that the contrctors for the new fenco shonkl sclect the west side first for building the foursdation for their fence. Why do they not build the ether portion first, so that before reaching the west side the Park Commissioners may make the proper arrangement with the contractors for this much necded addition to an overcrowded sidewalk s i Al skl MexicaN Boxps.—The Mexican Legation n Washington, on Jan. 26, had published a statement that Mr. Daniel Woodhouse, President of the United States, European, and West Viagi Land and Mining Company, had frandulently offered spurious Mexican bonds. They also gave warning tothe public not to purchase them. Mr. Woodhowse, in behalf of the public, has laid before Congress a full yeply to this charge, in which he affirms that the bonds are genmuine, and were is- sued by authority of the Republic of Mexico, giving the names of yespectable and well- known persons as witnesses of the comtract between the Company and Gen. Carvajal, the lawful representative of the Republic of Mexico, with a copy of the contract, and other evidence of the validity ot the contract and the gennineness of the bonds. Mr. Romero is also charged by Mr. Woodhouse with at- tewpting to injure the credit of the bonds for his own advantage. S —— CLERICAL—The Rov. Charles Oakley,who has been the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Millvillo for the past saveral years, has resigned his charge and n eall from the Cl b at nsett. The Rev. EA Bhopherd of Jol County, has rocolv: wunanimous call trow tie Reiormed Dutch Churel o4 Nowto wu.