The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-07

slve glance NJ the licensing business since 1910,
with the city population compared
Year. Population Liccn s.s
1S45.. Observation-Disclosures. 81, 223 5000
loou. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 0l0o94 4,553
1854 estimated. 100000 1900
These statistics are as important as the
more vital ones which appear in the City In
spector's report. The mortality bills give the
effects-the excise statistics show us the cause.
1t is gratifying to know that there is better
prospect for the coming year. 1t is hoped that
the number of licenses will be reduced from
seven thousand to four thousand, and that the
law will be riyidly enforced against unlicensed
tipping shops The "agitation" has already
commenced, and mandamus has been issued
by the Superior Court, calling upon the Alder
man and Councilmen Of the Ninth ward to APP
pear and show cause why they refused to grant
licenses to certain indignant applicants. The
law says the Board of Excise may grant
licenses to such persons as they think fit. The
members of the Board of Excise of the Ninth
ward say that they did not fad any fit appl-
cants, and in consequence refused all Some
of the Councilmen from the upper part of the
city have also declined to act favorably upon
applications. Too many licenses were granted
in some of the lower wards, where rum is a
powerful agent in political affairs; and it is
probable that in the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
wa.ds, as much rum will be sold this year as
ever before, unless the law against unlicensed
shops is strictly enforced. If the licensing
system is kept from abuse, and the excise law is
strictly enforced, we shall have no occasion for
any prohibitory law. The .teetotal or Maine
Law party must be satisfied with regulation,
not prohibition. As this party has become an
important element in city politics, efforts are
now being made to conciliate its leaders. Let
them take advantage of this power, and look
sharply after the Board Of Excise.
THuRIow WEED ON CANADIAN ANNEXATION
We publish to-day, an article from the Albany
EUening Jouraal-the central organ Of Seward
Co.-urging commercial union with the
Canadas and the contiguous British provinces,
/" from the important influence" which such a
union would have "upon the question of the
ultimate annexation" of said provinces to this
country. 1t appears that the insuperable exist
ing obstacle to this annexation is the insttu-
ton Of Southern slavery, under the recognition
and protection of our federal constitution.
Thurlow Weed, therefore, comedies with Cas-
sius NJ. Clay in this, that as the acquisition of
the British Northern provinces would be full
equivalent for the loss of the South, /" freedom
should not again be sacrificed to prevent the
establishment of Southern republic" This
is coming to the mark All DISCUSSES will be
thrown off by and by, and the naked issue pre-
scented to the American people will be union or
disunion, taking into the Northern section as
make-weight for the loss Of the South, the
Canadas, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and
Newfoundland and annexing to the Southern
confederacy the West India islands, Mexico and
Central America as an equivalent for the loss
Of the North
The subject is one Of overwhelming mag
nitudc = the alternate issue is distinctly
foreshadowed in the new anti-slavery pro-
gramme; and yet the friends of the
Union, regardless of the danger, are
doing nothing, while the leading Congress
sonal politicians of the two old demoralized
parties are still plotting and sqrabbling for the
public plumber. In ls50-'5l we had Castle
Garden Union Safety Committee, liberal in its
subsidies to Wall street newspapers that were
weak in the back, and overlooking with zeal
and enthusiasm in behalf of the Union and the
cotton trade. Where is that committee now,
when loud-mouthed treason, with its brazen
front, is stalking abroad at noon day, and
urging, as good speculation, the dissolution
of the Union' Have the members of this
patriotic committee gone over to the enemy, or
was their late organization only n Wall street
humbug for pulling the wool over the eyes of
the cotton growers? Some Of the leading ora
tors of this identical committee figured con-
spicuously at the recent abolition anti-Ne-
brasla meeting at the Tabernacle, Where are
they now with Cassius NJ. Clay, Garrison,
Parker, Seward, Greeley, and Thurlow Weed
or with Judge Douglas, the Administration,
Captain Rynders, and Jobn Cochrane? We
should like to know.