The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-17

the Union according 70 Mayor H0hmans plan
and democratic peace adjustment embracing
the revival Of Southern slavery, the Reputation
Of the national debt compensation for the
losses Of slaves by the war, or their services,
and the re-establishment Of the old Southern
democratic ruling junts at Washington OF
Davis, Mason, Slidell, Benjamin, Toombs, Ste
phens, Cobb, Thompson and company, viii
become hopeful enterprise.
This view Of Mayor HoHiman's restoration
programme affords the true explanation Of the
otherwise astounding results Of the late cleo
tons. The great body Of the people Of the
North identified with the war for the Union
have no faith in the party organization which
justified the rebellion Of the South ON constitu-
tional grounds and sought to make peace on
any terms, Union or disunion, acceptable to
the leaders Of the rebellion. Nor have the
great Northern majorities any faith in the res
toration Of those rebel leaders TO Congress and
the Cabinet, as proposed in the confidence
policy Of Mayor Hoffman and his peace party
of the war. 1t IS nothing more and nothing
LEGS than the Chicago platform Of peace ct
any price and the recognition OF the war
against Southern democratic principles, South
ern slavery and Southern rights, ~ q failure.
The Northern people, we say, have accepted
the issue between the republican and demo-
cratic parties OF 1866 as substantially the issue
of 1864, and hence the overwhelming MAORI
ties OF Abraham Lincoln, In his reelection,
have been revived in these recent State cleo
tons from Maine to Iowa.
And this is tho issue between Fenton and
Hoffman, Invested, on Hoffmans side, Of
General McClellan's popularity as war
democrat and Union soldier of the war, and
divested, too, of General Slocum's popularity
as Union soldier. The patronage OF the ad-
ministratiOn is q two-edged sword, and the
firm Of Seward, Weed and Raymond, from
whichssuch large accessions were expected to
the Tammany ticket, is broken up, discovered
and reduced TO blank in the general esti-
mate. Even the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
who but the other day dilated on the policy Of
President johnson as the true policy Of the
gospel according to St John, has been COM
PEELED to tack ship and run with che wind Of
these October elections. He believes, with
the great Napoleon, that Providence is on the
side of the heaviest artillery. All these
things considered, we cannot resist the con-
cluson that between Governor Fcnton on the
platform Of the constitutional amendment and
Mayor Hoffman on the Chicago platform, Hoff-
mans inevitable defeat in November will be
the beginning of the end Of the democratic
rump and s.ring" Of Tammany Hall.
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Street Reforms an New York Have We
Ne Chcap Cabs
An intelligent foreigner landing in New York
is at once surprised to find no cheap cabs like
those Of Paris and London. II lowers his esti-
mate Of the intelligence Of our people to see
them compelled TO choose between crowded
omnibuses, 0vercrowded cars and dirty, ex-
pensive, numbering hackney coaches, when
they want to travel from one part Of the city
to another. He hears complaints that the
streets are jammed up with stages, and listens
to the mOurnful anecdotes of middle-aged gen.
tlemcn who are forced to hang on to the Car
straps and have their feet trodden upon by
rufianly conductors "a they come home from
business of an evening, and then he wonders
why we have no cabs. He boholds our young
men working their passage down town in
the morning by standing all the way and
passing up other peoples fares, and again he
wonders why We have no cabs. He falls in
with respectable people who are kept home
from the theatres, concerts or private parties
on rainy evenings because the cars are distant
and uncertain and carriages too costly, and
still he wonders why we have no cabs. Wish
ing 10 cross from one side Of the city to the
other he discovers that there are no transverse
lines of cars and stages, and that he must
either expend three dollars or walk, and there
upon he. asks, with augmented wonder, why
we have no cabs.
The question is very difficult to answer.
Everybody admits that II is perfectly prac-
ticable for this metropolis TO possess couple
Of thousand cabs, which will be equally fast
and comfortable, and which will carry passen-
gers for twenty cents or less per mile. The
system is in actual operation all over Europe,
and there can be no doubt a. to its advan-
tages. In pecuniary point OF view Il would
be immensely profitable, not only to the cab
owners, but to all the Interests Of this great
city. For instance, competent and careful
theatrical manager assures us that IL would
add at least thousand dollsrs week to his
receipts The employment 1t would give our
carriage builders, the pay Of couple Of thou
sand drivers, the feed and keeping OF ~ many
horses, the money It would put into tho
pockets Of harness makers, blacksmiths and
stable men, are by 40 means inconsidersble
items. Besides this IL would create
new business centres Localities now quite
ont Of the channel Of trade and in
accessible to buyers and shoppers would
be doubled in value. Building sites IN