The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-20

The POPE AND FRANCIS JOSEPH.-lt Is stated
from Vienna, that the Pope has recommended
the monks in Austria to lend the Emperor a
million of forms to help carry on the war
against Louis Napoleon. The Pope does this out
son Francis Joseph, who, alone of all the sover.
egns in Europe, has refused to reduce or seize
the possessions Of the clergy. This sentiment
does honor to the heart of Pho Mono; but, unfor
tunately, his gratitude places his beloved son
Francis Joseph in the worst light before the
world. 1t holds him up as the supporter of
those very ecclesiastical privileges and accumu-
lations which all the rest of mankind detest. He
proves that the present contest in Europe is pre-
cisely the same as the conflict now going on in
Mexico-a conflict between the ideas of the age
and tho privileges of the priesthood. Both
Francis Joseph and Miramon are fighting losing
fight. The intelligence of the world has long
since Slapped the foundations of ecclesiastical
tyranny, and its time-worn battlements must fall.
MORE JoBBNG AND SpEcULATING.-Al kinds
of jobbing and specializing are rn"ieais~iiy going
Guy, WIN regard to widening this street
and that, on the pretext of relieving Broadway
and there are plenty of spectators who are al.
ways willing to disturb whole neighborhood if
they can make a few hundred thousand dollars
by it. The last project is to widen Nassau street,
on the east side, from Pine street to Beekman
street. As far as the relief of Broadway is con-
cerned, this is an impudent sham. Broadway is
relieving itself The trade which had been con.
fined to that portion of the city below Wall street
10 distributing itself up town. Twenty-Five years
sgoall the wholesale grocery, dry goods and hard
ware business was done below Wall street but
tsoon extended, in the natural course of events,
up to Fulton street, and now it is diffused all
over, as far up as Canal street. We understand
that this scheme originated with few specula-
tors who have purchased property on Ann, Beck
man and Spruce streets, and they want, by widen
ing Nassau street, to cut down the property on
the east side to few feet, so that the owners
will be compelled to sell the residue to them for
almost nothing, and they expect by this means
to make couple of hundred thousand dollars
out of the operation. This is the secret of the
job to open Nassau street, and it may be said
that the owners of the property in the street
sought to be disturbed have protested against
the project almost to man. As far as we are
concerned it would be no injury to us-possibly
the contrary-but the public welfare is beyond
all other considerations. Nassau street does not
require to be widened, either for the relief of
Broadway or any other street.
The whole thing is job of some impudent
spectators to make money, and they calculate
upon success through the aid and assistance of
the Corporation for they know by the develop
ments OF the past two or three years, and the
degradation to which our political classes have
fallen, that aldermen can be bought as cheap as
donkeys. They know well that you can buy an
alderman in New York to-day cheaper than you
can good donkey.