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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN WTKKPT.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
VoIum XXXIII No. 98
AMl'SEMENTS THI8 EVEMIN!!.
BOWERY THKAlnBt ?hiwwj.-IMI?I.? WIIU nitBlaoumith
of Antwerp. ,
BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.-OCR American
('opsin at Home?This Victim.
FRENCH THEATRE.?La Bill! helens.
OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.?Humfty Dcmpty.
NIDLO'8 OARI'EN, Broadway.-THB White Fawn.
WALLACE'S THEATRE, Broadway and IStU street. ourn
Twist.
NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street QYMNASTIoft,
?<jubstklambm, Ac.
THEATRE COMIQl'E, 614 Broadway.-BvI.i.KT. Farce,
Ao.
KELLY A LEON'S MINSTRELS, 790 Broadway.-Sovus,
ecokntxioitiru, ac (.kami) dotoh "8."
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway.-KTHrofiah
Bmtkqtainme.nih, Stnoinu, Danuinu, Ac.
TONY PASTOR'S OPERA "HOUSE, 201 Bowery.-Com to
vooali8m, neuro minhtrelsy, ac.
BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 473 Broadway. Bau.it,
Faroe, pantomime, ,tc.
8TEINWAY HALL.?Crand Concert.
HALL, 964 and 956 Broadway.?panorama or the War..
MRS. P. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.?
Pomhey anj> Hon?Pocahontas.
HOOLKY'K OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn?ETHIOPIAN
MINBTUKLHEY?burlesque ClUOUB.
COIT.EOE II A I I I'je) Hrinulurav Tub Pii.OWIM
NEW VORK M "SEl'M OP ANATOMY, 61? Broadway.?
HoIKNOIt AND A2T.
TBI PLE SHEET.
(New York, Tuesday, April 7, ISftS.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISES.
Advertisers should bear In mind tint, in order
to insure the proper classification of their business
announcement", nil advertisements for insertion in
the Hkrai.d should tie left at the counting room by
half-past eight o'clock P. M.
TUB NEWS.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate yesterday a resolution directing the
payment of cert.tin claims of the owners of the
steamer Monitor for damages sustained by It in an
at tack from a Japanese fort, was passed. The committee
amendments to the Naval Appropriation bill
were agreed to, and the bill was reported by the Committee
of the Whole. Pending discussion upon it the
Donate adjourned.
The House was not in session, having adjourned
until Wcdno stay.
THE LEGISLATURE.
In the Senate yesterday a message was received
from Governor Kenton vetoing the bill appropriating
&J.V),000 for t.'ic completion of the Whitehall and
Piattsburg Railroad. lie cites nine other hills making
similar appropriations which are now before the
legislature, aggregating $2,325,000, as the result of
the Introduction of one of them, every district in the
Mate being incited to make a demand upon the public
treasury incase either of these bills Is passed.
The message was laid on the table.
In the Assembly bills to !ay pneumatic tu!<cs under
the East river for the transmission of letters and
packages, relative to cleaning and Improving the
streets of New York, and making appropriations to
aid In the construction of four railroads, were all
ordered to u third reading.
In the democratic caucus of members of the Legislature
last evening Abram B. Weaver was nominated
lor Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Victor
M. Rice was nominated fur the same oilice in tho
republican caucus.
EUROPE
The new? report by the Atlantic cubic is dated
yesterday. April 0.
The Bishops of the Irish Chnrch are said to have
requested Mr. Disraeli to sacrifice one-half the revenues
of the establishment in order to save the other.
The Krcnch troops are to evacuate Rome completely
at an early day. Admiral Farragut la iu Naples.
Consols 9.:^. Five-twenties 72.H in London and
?:> Si In Frankfort.
Our European mall report la dated March 2d.
Klepliyti J. Meuny, convicted of Kenlanistn. wan discharged
from \\ oking prison, Kngland, by royal warrant,
on condition that lie should leave the country
directly. Mr. Meany accepted It, and was to be placed
on bourd the steamship William Perm at London for
New York, 'ibc anti-Army bill agitation, with riots,
continued in the cities of France.
MISCELLANEOUS.
flur special telegrams from Mexico state that the
llritlali steamer Danube, which was engaged In
smuggling on her last trip, had arrived again off
Vera Cm/., but did not enter the port, sending her
mails ashore In n small boat, under a white flax. A
* Itrltish gunboat had arrived at the mouth of the Itio
t.randc and was making soundings, for the purpos",
it was feared In Matainoros, of blockading that city.
Our special telegrams from the West Indies include
Jamaica, Hnytl, St. Domingo and Martinique. In a
raoe between wooden and Iron-clad vessels at Kingston
the latter made the treat speed, leading u tulle
and a hall In six miles. A scheme Is on foot in
llayti to make Kalnuve dictator. In St. Dom'ngo,
although Cabral and his Ministers are held responsible
for the arts of ins administration, the person- and
property of his friends are respected.
Two days later advices from Die war In Paraguay
deny former reports. Human-/ Is not captured, and
iIIP uevt nu u?k rswirev nnum;ivu> a ikhi i ,? on- |
bardmentof iho fort In going on, however, and the
Paraguayan* arc poorly supplied with provision*. |
The Virginia Convention proposes to adjourn this
week.
The appointmcut of General Wells lo he Governor
or Virginia hue called forth numerous protests from
republicans, who have gone to Washington in connection
Willi the subject. It was reported that a
message had lieen received from General Grant dlrecting
the postponement of tlie order appointing
W,-lis, but on the other hand It la stated despatches
have been received from high authority In the
national capital announcing that he would lie Immediately
inaugurated Governor.
The Indian Commissioners have arrived at the
North I'iaite. No treaty Is to be male, however,
until the Commissioner* return to Fort Laramie.
General Meade has Hailed orders for the suppression
of Itu* Ku Klux Klan and other Inren llury organisations
in his military district. Newspaper publishers
who print the mystic warnings of the Klun
are lo be tried by military commissions.
St. George's church, In Iieckman street, an old
Ijndmark originally erected In 1740, Is to be torn
down, the ground upon winch It stands liuving been
sold for $145,000. It was purchased originally for
*H00.
The centenril.il anniversary of the Chamber of Coinim-roe
of thla city was held hod night at Irviiitr Ha l.
The proceedings were exceedingly Interesting. Many
ladles were present.
Two fishing boats were wrecked outside of the barter,
at Oooderlch, Canada, on Saturday night, and
live men were droyrned.
on Sunday morning, off Avondale fishing shore, on
the Polom&e river, twelve negroes were drowned.
They were In a small boat and were endeavoring to
reach the shore, when the boat was swamped in a
gale.
Ilartlgan. who killed one Frlel during a fracas last
election, yesterday pleaded guilty to manslaughter
in the fourth degree and was fined six cents by Heorder
Markett, who said the case was clearly one ol
justifiable homicide.
The April statement of the national debt shows a
(increase, since March 1, of 1010.036. and since April
i, 1007. of M,*18.?8X
.NEW
Well executed counterfeit two dollar national ban*
notes on the Market National Bank of New York are
In clrcnlation.
The Callicott whiskey case, which was set down
for trial in the United States Circuit Court, Brooklyn,
yesterday, was postponed till Thursday next, when
motion will be made to let it stand over till the May
term of the court.
Beef cattle were freely sought after at ttie National
Drove Yards yesterday, where 1,000 head were on
sale, and prices were about cent per lb. htjher,
,mv lumaci) suuug at i>iic hu|?iw?v?mv?-.
Prime aud extra realized 19c. a 20e., fair to good
17>?c. a 18>;c., ordinary lfle. a 17c., and Inferior 14c.
a 15)ic. MUcli cows were In Improved demand, but
without Improvement lu value. We quote common
to extra at $60 u $110. Veal calvea were In limited
I demand and lower, prime utid extra selling at 11c.
a 11 ^c. and Inferior to common at sc. a lo>ic.
Sheep and lambs were tolerably active, the demand
being chiefly lor good stock. Prices were generally
llrm. We quote extra at 10c. a 10\c., prime 8?*c. a
9,"-4'c., common to good 7c. a 8>aC. and inferior 0!?c. a
6jjc. Swine were quiet and >?o. a l?c. lower, prime
selling at 9>,'c. a 9.t?c., fair to good 8^c. a 9c. and
common anil rough 8c, a 8>,'c. The total receipts for
the week were 4,015 beeves, 143 milch cows, 1,907
veal calves, 10,310 sheep and lambs and 13,393 swine.
The Progress of Republican Government?
Whither Are We Tending f
From one eml of the land to the other the
people are the prey of political harpies. Property,
order, personal rights are mere names,
and in all things in which a government should
secure the governed, the people are at the mercy
of an unscrupulous class, who, in virtue of
universal suffrage, hold the offices and make
the laws. Aggrieved at the irgustice, the
tyranny and the corruption of the government
that ruled them under the British monarchy,
our forefathers cast away that yoke and estab
lished a new system, in the interests of purity
and economy, to be secured by the direct influence
of the people on their rulers. Eighty
years have gone by and we find that our experience
only results in showing the world how
to secure the worst government the sun can
shine on, how to organize the system most certain
to defeat all the good objects of government,
anil how to tie the people hand and foot
and hand them over to the rogues and wretches
of the community. We have made the way to
distinction in the State so free that they who
in other countries stumble into the prisouB midway
in a career in this country And thoir way
inevitably to the legislative halls. It is an
honor?not a shame?to lie, to swindle, to
know and to practise ail the arts of knavery.
The legislative halls become market places,
and there is not one of them in which laws are
not bought and sold as freoly as old clothes
in Chatham street. In Washington, in
Albany, in our own City Hall, whoever desires
to have a law authorizing his encroachment on
another man's rights or giving him authority
to seize another man's property simply goes to
the lawmakers with the money, and the law is
made. Bribery carries with it no shame,
though practised in view of all, defoating
justice and laughing at her very name.
Nay, if a man raises his voice for honesty,
as Mr. Glenn has just done, he is laughed |
down?hooted out of hearing by party men of
all stripes and by the party press, so that it
has come to be that honesty is so much out of
fashion that that is the thing of which men
must be ashamed. Both the parties that divide
the political notions of the nation are in tho
hands of men in whom the sense of social
decency i3 rotted away. What are these men ?
Lawyers without briefs. Such is the material
of the Slate in our system. Briefless lawyers
grown tired of waiting for clients, they turn to
politics and make it a trade. They have
studied enough law to know how to be free of
its restraints, yet never incur its penalties.
Having their fortunes to make an<? extravagant
tastes to gratify, they take to this career as
formerly reckless follows of the same
stamp took to the road. They go in
the same spirit, and our institutions
afford a dangerous facility for this class of men
to rise. He a ho promises most rises best on
the popular lirculli; anil uicse fellows promlso
without limit, counting on the spoils of office
and the price of law to make their promises
good. At whose expense they pay may be Been
by the dreadful condition of the national
finances, the terrible Btate of corruption that
prevails in the Revenue Department, the fearful
necessity for more offices that drives the
Congress of .the United States to remove tho
President, in defiance of law, and to fix the
point that the President shall hold office only
during the pleasure of Congress, so that they
may control through fear the incoming functionary.
Another point in the illustration is seen
in the fact that the Legislature at Albany is
now practically proposing to confiscate all the
property on Broadway.
In all this the fact is seen that the whole
wealth of the State and the property of the citizens
are by our system simply set up as the
reward of the winner in a race for office?it
being certain, from our whole experience, that
the winner will four times in five be a man
who seeks position not for honor, bat to make
money out of it?a man with no good interest
in the welfare of the community, but glorying in
the utterly selfish and destructive use of a dangerous
power. This is universal suffrage. Unitnmal
miffratfii u- iu nnt ?nnt?mnUt?it hv the men
who made tin- national constitution. Wc have
drifted into it. Originally the intelligence ol
the community controlled its action, and no
man could even aspire to office who was not
possessed of some moral worth or high character
; but the degradation from that standard
has been constant toward the worst form ol
democracy?the mere rule of the many, sure
always to be the rule of the worst. Not content
with the position to which this has brought
us, our fanatical politicians arc only eager to
push the principle further?to still more adulterate
and degrade the national life by
giving the suffrage to the barbarous millions
of just emancipated slaves. Strangest
of all the pictures of the age. just as wc
have shown the inevitable result of this socalled
government of popular will, just as wc
have shown that government by the people fc
, merely the government of a swindling oligarchy
| that accepts a trust from the people only tc
betray it, England is making ready to follow
In our footsteps. Compelled to relinquish the
ancient excluslveness of her system, she adopt!
the visionary liberality of ours, and will carry
it further; for the Jew, Disraeli, and th<
Christian, Gladstone, each endeavoring to out
bid the other in the promise of reforms, wil
push her to an ultimate result, and the two na
tions will go side by side in the search of som
better basis for a political superstructure thai
the presumed energy and wisdom of the masses
YORK HERALD, TUESDAY
The Elections In Counectlcot and Mirhlgnn? '
Detent of the ICadlcnln.
Contrary to tho confident expectations 6f tho
radicals, the election hold in Connecticut yesterday
resulted In a decisive victory for the
conservative party. Governor Jaiuos E. Eng- I
lish and the remainder of the State ticket \
were elected by an increased majority. It
is not yet known what party has carried
the Legislature, which will elect a United
Slates Senator in place of Mr. Dixon.
The rote was evidently the largest ever cast in
the State, and, considering the apathy of the
democrats during the campaign, the result is
most gratifying to all true lovers of constitutional
liberty. By the election held yesterday
i Connecticut has declared herself unalterably
, opposed to the revolutionary measures of Congress
; and as even the popular name of General
Grant failed to aid the radicals we may
regard the result as the "beginning of the end "
of radical misgovernment and despotism.
In Michigan a vote was taken on the new
constitution, and the reports indicate that that
instrument has been rejected by a decided majority.
Excepting the olauBo giving tho negroes
the right to vote, this fundamental law
was an excellent one. And here the radicals
have again suffered a demoralizing defeat.
The people of Michigan, who gave the republican
ticket a majority of over twenty-nine
thousand in 18C6, will not accept the policy of
universal negro suffrage. It Cannot be asserted
that the "prohibition" clause operated against
the constitution, for it was submitted separately,
and tho vote in its favor runs ahead.
Altogether the elections yesterday were important
and suggestive.
Bohemian JJteratnre and Its Degeneracy.
We have lately had occasion to look at some
of the numerous specimens of magazine literature
which are now contending for public favor
as successors of the Port, Folio, the first
monthly magazine of any note in this country.
The Port Folio was origirtally started as a
weekly in Philadelphia in 1800, and was ably
edited by Dennio, the celebrated essayist and
"lay preacher." It counted among its contributors
Richard Rush, John Quincy Adams,
Nicholas Riddle, Robert Walsh, Charles
Brockden Brown, Francis Hopkinson, Thomas
Cadwallader, Gouverneur Morris and other
eminent men. Among the contributors to tho
Monthly Anthology, started in Boston In 1803,
were John Quincy Adams, J. S. Buckminster,
George Ticknor and William Tudor, who
founded the North American Review in 1815.
Another early American periodical was tho
Analectic Magazine, started in Philadelphia.
Tftt ntinriA nrua nfinnffo^ fn hv
AVO UMIUV WW WO VUMU^VM ?v .? vi'cvvi?/u
Washington Irving, who edited it for two years,
and J. K. Paulding and Gulian C. Vcrplanck
contributed to it. Without enumerating other
pioneers of the multitude of American magazines
and reviews which have since appeared,
and in nearly a hundred instances
have also disappeared, we must say that when
we compare those which flourished fifty or
sixty years ago with those which are flourishing
now the comparison is sadly unfavorable
to the latter.
In respect to two important particulars the
comparison becomes a contrast. The spirit of
the early American periodical literature was
pure and undefiled, and the most tonder religious
susceptibilities were never offended. But
nowadays?from the pompous North American
Review and its satellites, the Atlantic Monthly
and the Radical, and their rivals in New York
and New Jersey, Putnam'* Monthly and the
Northern Monthly, e to Hi quanti (their name
is Logion), down to The. Latt Sensation?our
quarterlies, monthlies and weeklies seem to
vie with each other in making open or covert
assaults upon religion and morality.
The whole mass of Bohemian literature is
leavened with the spirit of infidelity and licentiousness.
Periodicals published in the City of
me i uriians dwiuho no* 10 question mo personality
of God and tlie authenticity of the Scriptures
in which the Divine will is revealed, or
to rank the name of the late Theodore Parker
on the same level as that of the Saviour of the
world. In fact, the skeptical Parker is extolled
and adored by these blasphemous
Dostonlans as a sort of Yankee Jesus, inspired
with ultra modern ideas. Even the
professed apologia# for Christianity which are
occasionally put forth in deference to the
lingering prejudices of old fashioned orthodoxy
would nppear heterodox enough to the
early fathers of the Church.
Iu the same way the professed satires levelled
against licentiousness, and particularly against
the indecont exposures which are now so common
on the stage and in the fashionable ballroom,
arc less calculated to shock and alarm
than to compete as closely as possible with the
fatal fascinations which they pretend to condemn.
The Bohemian satirists fairly gloat over
the indecencies which they describe with a suspicious
affectation of holy horror. They
emulate in their descriptions the " prurient
pictorials ' which they denounce. They dilate
with peculiar satisfaction on the naked truth
as illustrated by the "salacious sprites" of the
ballet. They scatter "words that burn, even
when they aim at saying that music and scenery
' and effects "are merely the pretext for reprei
seating the unchaste convolutions of the goddesses
of impudicity at the fullest angle of
lewdness and through the rosy medium of
amorous suggestion."
' The "mob of gentlemen thnt write with
ease" is doubtless larger than in the
infancy of American periodical literature.
But we cannot admit that such contribui
tors to it as Dennie, Washington Irving,
Buckminster, Edward Everett, Alexander II.
Everett, George Ticknor, and others who
might be mentioned, have been surpassed as
s writers by those whose names now tlgure coni
spicuously in flaming lists of magnzinists and
reviewers. As we have already Intimated, our
i modern moralists in tlioir most elaborate disi
quisitions too often betray the corrupting influr
ence of the very evils against wliich they
> inveigh. Even wiien they displfly the charms
r of literary beauty their flowery pages exhale a
s poisonous odor; and like the fig leaves in the
i basket of the Egyptian queen (to borrow an
r illustration), are defiled by the asp's trail and
3 slime, while the sly worm lurks beneath.
This degeneracy of Dohenilan literature is
1 not unaccountable, however, If we remember
that it mirrors and reflects here, and in the
e midst of the nineteenth century, such scenes as
n are represented with impunity upon the stage?
i. scenes for which no parallel can be found save
, APRIL 7, 1868?TRIPLE S
at Rome in it* worst days, at the laaoirioua and i
effeminate court of Byaantium, at Hercuia- 1 i
neum, at Pompeii, or at Sodom and Gomorrah, j
----- | (
Tlie Oauxnr of Jeff* Davie?An Immediate |
Plight His Only Safety. | i
Jeff' Davis Is bound to make his appearance i
again for trial at Richmond on the 2d of May j 1
next. Groeley, Gerrit Smith, John Minor ,1
Notts and others stand as sureties for his ap[
pearunce in the sum of one hundred thousand ,
' dollars. He will doubtless be on hand to show '
that their confidence in him has not been misplaced
; but we can tell him that so far as their
| bail bonds are concerned he need not be apprehensive
of any loss from his failure to putin
his appearance. Let him be off to parts unknown,
and this aforesaid bail will be made all
right in the release of Groeley, Smith and Company
from payment. But why be off? Let the
accused give us his attention fl|r a moment,
and we will tell him why.
By the 2d of May Andrew Johnson will be
out of the White House and " Old Ben Wade "
will be in. From that hour radicalism will be
rampant in the Executive Department. The '
removal of Johnson, at the same time, for the <
"high crimes and misdemeanors" of attempt- >
! ing to remove Stanton from the War Depart- '
ment and to put Thomas in bis place, and of a
few Presidential stump speeches of the Ten- i
nossee pattern, will cause these inquiries among
the people:?"While Andrew Johnson is be- I
headed for these petty offences, how is it that ]
Jeff Davis, the very head and front of 1
the late rebollion, from boginning to 1
end, goes uuwnippea 01 justice r ia u
because Greeley stands at bis back?
| Is this .justice?this sacrifice to radicalism of
the only Southern man in Congress who stood
out manfully against the rebellion and this
mockery of a prosecution against Jeff Davis,
the head chief of the rebel confederacy, for
whose capture Johnson proclaimed a reward of
one hundred thousand dollars?" To guard
against such damaging commentaries, to keop up
a show of consistency and of equal justice, the
removal of Johnson will require the hanging of
Davis. And " Old Ben Wade," as President,
is the man who will Bee it done. Davis has
been a sort of white elephant to Johnson and 1
to Chief Justice Chase. They have had no 1
desire to keep him, they have been puzzled
how and where to try him, and they have boon
afraid to let him go. But President Wade will 1
nnt stand noon technicalities or trifles. His
first groat card, In order to strike terror among
the unreconstructed rebels in the South and to
revive the Old John Brown war spirit in the
North, will be the hanging of Jeff Davis.
The new indictment against him, with its
numerous specifications of tho overt acts of 1
levying war against the United States, looks 1
like business. It is an indiotment framed to 1
convict and not to reloase the prisoner. The 1
removal of Johnson, too, will revive among 1
the radicals a thirst for blood, as the execution
of CharleB tho First of England inflamed
the Roundheads to bloody settlements
with other parties, and as the beheading of
poor Louis the Sixteenth gave a now
impulse to the Jacobin reign -of terror
and blood in France. The accidents of
Anglo-American civilization and its refining
influences have so fur, in the penalties against
the treason and traitors of this late Southern
rebellion, made the government of tho Unitod
States a model of clemency and humanity.
Nevertheless, the sutne spirit exists here that
marked the bloody vengeance of the Mexican
liberals against Maximilian and his devoted
followers. There is a powerful faction at
Washington and throughout tho country which
will not be satisfied with anything less than
the hangman's rope for Jeff Davis. This faction,
within a few weeks, will come into complete
possession of the government with Johnson's
removal, und then the unfortunato Davis,
in coming to trial, will do well to prepare for
the scaffold, for he will surely be hanged. It
will be held necessary as a warning to traitors
to hang Davis, and there is one man at Washington
who will remember that proclamation of
Davis of outlawry on the head of General B.
F. Butler, and that man is Butler himself, the
acting head manager of Johnson's impeachment.
We would therefore advise Davis to be off,
and off at once, to Canada, Cuba, Mexico,
Brazil, or anywhere outside the jurisdiction of
the United States, and to stay outside, at least
till after our coining Presidential election.
Never mind about that straw bail. It will be
no loss to anybody. Greeley does not like
hanging, anyhow; but if Davis should be
handed, habeas corpus, over to the tender
mercies of President Wade, Greeley's intercession
for his friend Jeff will be all moonshine.
Honce we say to Davis, as the best advice we
can give him:?Skedaddle, depart, be ofT to a
healthier political atmosphere, save yourself,
and "stand not upon the order of your going,
but go at once."
Ttip City Itnllroad* and the Pitwrnirr
Tax.
Seven days ago the law imposing a tax on
the city railroads or one-eighth of a cent for
each passenger went out of operation. It is
pretty well known that the railroad companies,
on the pretext of having to pay this tax,
charged every passenger an extra cent upon
the fare which they were entitled to charge by
law, thus pocketing seven-eighths of a cent
upon each fare, which was a plain swindle
upon the public. We have not heard that tho
fare has been reduced to five cents since the
tax was removed, nor do we expect it will bo
until the public resist the extortion and try the
question in the courts. How much longer we
are to submit to the grievances imposed upon
us in various forms by the railroad companies
it is hard to tell; but there is a very palpable
mode of relief, and that is by the Legislature
empowering the Corporation to impose upon
the companies a tax or one cent lor every passenger
carried. This would give a large sum
annually to the city treasury, and in this way
would Indirectly relieve the travelling public.
The Legislature should do this at once, and
then the companies might retain the charge of
six cents, if they please, for the balance would
go to the people. But even then the rate of
fare would be too high. There can be no
doubt that if the city government had the
management of the street railroads in their
hands they could carry passengers for three
i cents and make it pay. The Fourth, Sixth
and Eighth avenue roads now pay very large
dividends, and there is, perhaps, not one of the
SHEET.
.!< a M a ilt a 4 ta
Jiijr roaas, except tne ?eoona avenue, ?u?. ?
lot a very profitable concern.
By levying such a tax as we suggest the city
)f Baltimore raised funds enough to oouatruct
ihe fine Druid's Hill Park. Why should not we
aise a fund sufficient at least to keep our
itreets clean and give us one or two good
joulevards ? The city railroad companies can
veil afford to pay the tax and make plenty of
noney besides. We hope, therefore, that the
Legislature will pass an act authorising the
;ity government to collect one cent from these
-oads for every passenger they carry.
[Irani and Bufler?A Trace, bnt No Peace.
It is reported that Grant and Butler have
lettled their old difficulties, shaken hands and
igreed to be good friends and comrades in the
'uture. This statement requires to be taken
vith many grains of allowance; for the differences
between the hero of the Appomattox and
;he hero of Big Bethel are too wide to be pcrnanently
bridged over. That a temporary
)essation of hostilities has been agreed upon,
iovr that they are both hunting on the same
;rail, Is very probable; but their reconciliation
is like that effected between two shrewish fonaales
when one of them lay seriously ill:?"I
Forgive you, Mary Jane," said the invalid,
" because I am in a dangerous condition; but
if I recover, mind, the old grudge holds good."
In the radical policy of impeachment Butler
has made himself a prominent leader and is a
power in Israel. It is necessary that bh influence
should be recognized by the candidate
of the republican party, whose chances of success
aro by no moans enhanced by the revolutionary
course of the radicals, and who needs
all the aid that can be afforded him through
the boldness and unscrupulousness of the
Jacobin faction. But the election safely over,
the old grudge will hold good. Grant has said
too many hard and true things of Butler, who
managed to " bottle up" his troops at Bermuda
Hundred, and Butler has retortod with too
many severe reflections upon a different sort
of "bottling up" on the part of the General of
the Army to admit of a permanent peace between
them.
isestaes, Grant is an nonest man, naiuruuy
opposed to trickery of all kinds, and with certain
strict soldierly notions as to the laws of
meum and tuum. Butler, on the other hand,
is a bitter hator, who never forgets or forgives
an injury, and Grant has burned into him a
brand which he can never efface. The removal
of Johnson is gratifying to Butlor mainly
as a means of crippling and punishing Grant,
whose nomination is beyond the power of the
radicals to dofeat. A truce between such
men must necessarily be of short duration,
and will be succeeded by yet fiercer hostilities.
Grant must be careful and watchful, however,
or before he gets rid of Butlor again and expols
him from his household ho may find all
the most valuable spoons and forks of the
Presidential office missing.
A General Pardon?A Chance for Fenlon,
The papors are making a great amount o
fuss just now over Governor Fenton's pardon?
and refusals to pardon, and the people an
getting at some very curious facts in regard U
the manner in which this power is wieldec
by tho Executive or the State. The difficult}
has its origin in the case of young Kctohum
whose friends, having up to this time failed t<
procure a remission of his sentence, are over
hauling the prison rooords in order to shov
that tho constitutional privilege of tho Gover
nor has not always bcon as cautiously exer
cised as in this particular instance. We heai
on one side of combinations of tho Wall street
aristocracy which have boen unablo to move
the heart of the Executive, and on tho other o
combinations of burglars, swindlers, highwaymen
and ruffians of various grades, which hav<
been remarkably successful in opening tin
prison doors and letting loose tho worst classei
of convicts to renew their depredations ant
outrages on society.
The developments that have been made shov
a very bad state of affairs and a deplorabli
ecoentrioily in the exercise of Executive clem
ency for the past two or three years. Indeed, i
is questionable whether, under the circum
stances, it is worth while to^ squander tin
people's monoy any longer in the salaries o
judges, the pay of officers and the general ex
penses of criminal courts in order to convict th<
violators of law. Tho best policy that can be pur
sued is to go back to the original condition o
society as more in harmony with the spirit o
the age, to throw open nil the prisons in th<
State and suffer their inmates to go forth an<
onjoy litmrty and license. Governor Fentoi
should issue a general pardon to all offender!
ami a full inilullitii tr for nil primM. whl'tlii'
those committing them have been brought t<
so-called justice or have succeeded in gettlnj
clear of the troublesome meshes of the law
He should signalize the closing months of hi
term of oflUce by the release of all convicte<
thieves and the indemnification of all uncon
vlcted thieves, so that their former crimes cai
never again be brought up in judgment agains
them. His net of oblivion might extend to al
cases of fraud, corruption and bribery in ttr
Legislature or in auy other public body o
department, which would cover a quantity o
plunder larger in amount than all that ha
been stolen by the whole crowd of forgers
burglars, highwaymen, swindlers and pick
pockets now confined in the several prison
and jails throughout the State, and wonld pu
a stop to all unpleasant rumors and insinua
tions in regard to the considerations that ar
alleged to have influenced special pardons
Such a broad, liberal and Impartial cours
would satisfy the people, and the proposltloi
cannot fail to commend itself to the acknow
ledged charitable and sympathizing nature c
Governor Fenton.
Revolution Begin in England.?If th
flrat blow was not struck when the house
holder suffrage entered aa an Integral pat
-?- it. TJ-f kill ik. a ? kl,.? I,..
into tut? nuiuiui inn, uiu inn* wivn u?n wi
tainlj been struck now. If not to Disraeli
then to Gladstone the honor or dishonor t
having dealt the first blow must be attributed
This, however, must be said?that no such blow
for vigor and effect, has hitherto been given t
the ancient and much revered British const!
tntion as that which has just been dealt by Mi
Gladstone. It has stunned the nation, an
the government stands aghast. The su
stands still as in Glbeon, and the moon as I
the valley of Aijalon, but which party is 1
come victorious out of^he conflict we mui
wait to see,
New f?fniti
The prolongation of winter weather prolong#
the "reading season," which Mrs. Yelvertonc
inaugurated some months ago. Mrs. Fannie
M. Carter, whose readings and recitations at
the Jerome theatre for the relief of the South'
were so muoh admired, gives her first public*
reading to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at
De Garmo's Hall in Fifth avenue. The lady
| is of high social position, great personal
attractions and reported as an excellent reader.
Mr. Dickens will resume his readings next
Monday evening at Steinway Hall. His final
reading, the fifth in his farewell course, will be
given a week from Monday evening, and his
passage 1b engaged in the steamer which is to
leave for Liverpool on the following Saturday.'
Mrs. Fanny Kemble will commence next Monday
evening a series of four readings from
Shakspeare at the Brooklyn Institute. Mr.
George Vandenhoif begins his new series of
readings at Dodworth Hall on Wednesday
nvantno Anrll ft Miflfl T rftftdinfffl
from Shakapcare and Milton and the Bible at
De Garmo'a Hall, the readings of Mr. Augustus
Watora at the Cooper Institute, the "people's
readings " at Steinway Hall, and we know
not how many other "readings," also appeal
strongly to public interest. The whole army
of readers seem to have joined forces in order
to resist the overwhelming influences of tho
" Black Crooks" and " Devil's Auctions," and
"White Fawns" and "Humpty Dumptys,"
which havo almost swept the legitimate drama
from the stage. Praiseworthy as the efforts of
the readers are to purify and sublimate tho
popular taBte for dramatic entertainments, those
efforts will, we fear, prove unavailing against
the dazzling spectacular attractions whioh are
now ali the rage, and seem likely to continue
to bo all tho rage until the dog days are over
and the autumn harvests arc ended and winter
1 shall have come again.
The Cretan Refugees in Greece?Official
Correspondence of the Greek Minister.
' We publish in another part of the paper the
official correspondence of the government of
Greece with regard to tho charges of the Turkish
government that the refugee Cretans were
hindered from returning to Crete by tho Grooks.
' It will be remembered that we published
recently certain Turkish official documents
> with reference to the flight of Cretans to
Greece and containing the charges referred
to against the Greek government. It was said
that the refugee Cretans in Greece were anxious
to return to Crete, but were prevented by
i the Greek government. The direot and official
i denial now published that either the Cretans
desired to return or were in any wsy hindered
from doing so by the Greok government sets
this matter at rest. The truth is, the Turkish
officials are over sensitive about Greek sympathy
for the Cretans and look at everything relat
i ing to Greece and tbe uretans wun a distorted
vision. Mohummedan rule over the Christians
of Eastern Europe is one of the greatost anom'
alies of this enlightened and progressive age, and
^ would have terminated some time ago had not
the supposed political necessity of maintaining
the integrity of the Ottoman empire prevented,'
or had the great European Powers been able to
agree upon a partition of the effects of the
(<sick man." Considering this gross anomaly
and the natural sympathy of the Greeks for
their oo-religionists, the Cretans, it seems from
tbo correspondence referred to that the Greek
government has acted with considerable moderation.
The Proponed Meteorological Barena.
It has long been felt that the system of storm
signals whioh has proved of such service in
England, and for which tbe mercantile world
are so largely indebted to tbo scientific ability
and persevering industry of the late Admiral
Fitzroy, ought at once, with whatever im,
provements might be deemed necessary, to be
I adopted in this country. It is notorious that
in this particular, as compared with England,
T we are grievously behind. If we are to take
a our place as a great mercantile nation some
. such system as that to which we have roferred
I must be adopted without delay. In this day's
. Herald we publish some suggestions offered
3 by a correspondent on the subject, and having
f special regard to the Meteorological Bureau
. which he and others wish to seo established in .
3 New York. We commend the letter to the
. scientific fraternity. The suggestions, some of
f them at least, are original and entitled to conf
sideration. We invite attention to the whole
p, subject, believing thut the free discussion of
1 the merits of any proposed plan is the most
3 likely way to arrive at perfection. Our cor9
respondent offers suggestions as to the stations,
r the instruments, the means and modoof trana3
mission, the management of the central offico
j, and the means of utilizing as much as possible
the information thus acquired. His sug?
gestions may not in every case be the best
I possible, but they are valuable for what they
are'
> Tiik Cklkhbatkd CTainkh Lawsuit Srrt
Tim.?After ni.mv vears of litigation the
' celebrated lawsuit of Mm. Gaines has been
c settled. The Supremo Court of the United
r Slates delivered an opinion yesterday which
f reversed the decision of the Circuit Court of
" Louisiana, reaffirmed the legitimacy of Mrs.
i? Gaines, and confirmed her in all her rights of
- property in the State. Thhs, after a steady
ft prosecution of her claims, this lady has at
it length come into possession of an estate worth
- several millions of dollars. The case is the
e more remarknble from the persistence with
' which each party fought the other from court
? to court.
n
MURDER IN THE FOURTEENTH WARD.
if Shortly before twelve o'clock last, night Lewis
Gatilner, a German, twenty-one yenrsof age, and a
member of the Ninety-sixth regiment, National
9 Guard, while In a liquor store at No. loo Mow street
became Involved In a quarrel with a lad, apparently
not more than fifteen years of age, who suddenly
turned upon him, stabbed him In the left breast
directly over the heart, and then tied. Gardner cried
, out, "I'm stabbed," and fell forward on his face. Ilia
<i I'oinnanioiis raised him from the lloor Immediately
>f and'found that he was dead, in the conrusion
created by the suddenness of the murderous aaaaoit
I. and Its fatal result the lad, who Is at present unknown,
escaped. The laxly of (iardner was con?
re red to the fourteenth precinct station house, and
o Captain flarland, with the meagre clue that the boy
was dressed In dark clothes, Instantly started a sharp
I- examination of the ward In the hope of capturing
r the youug desperado. j
d Rricin*.?fieorgn Hpollett, a native of Maine, who
0 was sojonrnlng temporarily at No. as Pike street,
n committed sulcldo yesterday afternoon by hanging
himself, lis wss missed for s time by the Inmates at
10 the house, and as he bed been suffering from dspres.*
si on of spirits It was feared he might hurt himself.
He was discovered after* while in the attic hanging,
as stated, and was mute dead.