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The New York herald., 1869-03-15

UNFAIR INTERFERENcR. the police au-
thorities do not intend to shut up the faro
banks altogether and stop the game we are Of
opinion that II Is unfair to interfere at all.
Here was a man went 10 the other night and
won fourteen hundred dollars Clearly the
bankers were entitled to their play en- re-
canche, and they insisted upon having 1t.
Now the police are called upon to interfere
on the plea that in the yDanche the players
used club, and that that Is not proper i'm
plement Of the game. What cognizance can
the courts take Of the implements Of game
forbidden by the laws?
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

Gas MoNoPoLY.-The investigation into
the affairs of the gas companies has shown,
first, the abuses and monstrous tyrannies
Of these corporations and, therefore, that
their charters must be so modified that
the consumers shall have some rights that
companies are bound to respect. Next, It has
been shown that gas can be made much
better than the companies make It and much
cheaper, too, and, therefore, that rule Of
charge must be imposed SO definite as to sup
ply in operation that conscience which such
corporations are notoriously without But
before considering what the Legislature will
do with the companies we ought Arst to know
how much the companies are prepared to give
for the Legislature.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15
The New Constitutional Amendments In ths
Georgia Legislature.

UcOF8ha Ao8hsauIurcs
The other day the Georgia Legislature, in
sudden fit Of enthusiasm, voted to adopt the fif.
teenth amendment. But on Saturday last reso-
luton was introduced In the State Senate, and
sustained by nineteen yeas to fifteen nays, to
reconsider that vote, and the adoption or rejec-
tion Of the amendment was made the special
order for Tuesday next. No action was taken
on the reconsideration in the House. Il Ia
predicted that the amendment will pass both
houses this week by the votes Of the conserva-
tive republicans and democrats. The exe
tremists of both parties are bent on the same
purpose-rule or ruin-and the conservatives,
IL is hoped, will unite in voting for the adop-
ton, with q firm determination to uphold
Grant and Congress. The positive recon-
mendation which President Grant In his in
augnral bestowed on the fifteenth amendment
should certainly have great weight with the
Georgia legislators. On their decision will
largely depend the course Of policy to be fol-
lowed by President Grant and by Congress in
relation to Georgia and the other States Of the
late Southern Confederacy. If Georgia frank
ly accepts the situation and endorses the
amendment, II will hasten materially the ap-
preaching full restoration Of the Southern
States to the Union. All those States will at
length wheel into line and march steadily and
rapidly in the path Of progress to higher
prosperity than they have ever before attained.
Security Of person, property and for religious
and political freedom Of opinion in every
part Of our common country, without regard
to local prejudice is Presidents
Grants platform The adoption Of the ar.
teenth amendment would be most important
step towards the complete rehabilitation Of the
ancient rights Of the South In the Union.
Moreover, IL would effectually enable the intel
ligent classes to counteract the influence Of the
"carpet-baggers" and control the negro vote.
The negroes, once convinced that they can ex-
pect both justice and generosity from their
former masters, might easily be taught that the
interests alike OF whites and blacks, born and
raised together ct the South, are identical.
They havo already learned that antlpathy ON
account OF difference In race Is rather Northern
than Southern, and they ere quick to disooves
The New York herald., 1869-03-15
The spring Trade.

In these days Of telegraphs and railways
the opening of the spring trade of our great
metropolis depends less than formerly upon
the opening of navigation on our canals, rivers
and lakes. Even goods that are to be sent q
few weeks later by water are now generally
ordered considerable time in advance by
letter or by telegram. Purchasers who come in
person from the Eastern and the Middle States,
from the remote West, from the South and
from the North. arrive conveniently by rail-
way at any date. This spring they are begin
ming to arrive earlier than usual. They
already crowd our hotels and are to be met
with on Change and in the counting rooms Of
their New York correspondents. Certain
branches of business are anticipating by q
fortnight the animation which the Easter
holidays inaugurate. Even during Lent the
ladies are tempted by the novelties that are
peeping forth, like early blossoms, at the show
windows. Stewards up town store is crowded
as much as if the churches were not daily open,
and new spring styles have been displayed
at almost all the matinees in our theatres. On
the wharves, at the Custom House, at the
bonded warehouses, in the stores, on the side
walks, blocked up with piles Of boxes the tokens
ofa brisk spring trade are plainly visible. OF
the activity which is soon going to reign, and
which already reigns in various departments
Of trade, both Wholesale and retail, no better
indication can. be found than in the crowded
advertising columns Of the New YORK HERALD.
Particularly the numerous advertisements OF
dry goods Of every description and of milli-
merry foreshadow heavy spring business. The
large cotton crop must have given the South
ern people wider margin than they have had
for many years for making purchases In New
York. The general prosperity Of the whole
Country, stimulated as it has been BY the
nationa. cc6nfdencs That President Grants
administration will prove benefcent and wise,
encourages us to expect lin New York an
unwonted revival of business. The spring
trade never opened with fairer promises, and
when the ice Of the Hudson shall have disap-
peared these promises win doubtless be hap
ply fulfilled. s
The New York herald., 1869-03-15
Cuba--rhe. Ins-raens. Abolish slavery.


The revolutionists in Cuba have at length
hit the keynote to success in decreeing the
abolition of slavery. BY telegraph we learn
that this decree was issued in the Central De-
partment by the insurgent Assembly of Repre-
sentatives, and that the freedmen may either be-
come soldiers or remain cultivators of the soil.
The effect of this decree must be damaging to
the interests of the whole western end OF the
island, where, as yet, the patriot effort has
met with small success. 1t will cause great
commotion among the thickly settled districts,
and must act as it acted upon our own terri
tory when Mr.. Lincoln issued his emancipa-
tion proclamation and thus broke the backbone
of our rebellion. Il
The insurgents now propose to concentrate
their forces and establish the headquarters OF
their government near Santiago de Cuba, in
the southeastern part Of the island. Thus
the revolution is every day becoming more
consolidated and Of irmer texture. There is
now but one direction for it, and that is on
ward for every hatred that ever existed or
has been created In the Cubans by Spanish
misrule has full opportunity to vent itself 4d
find redress. The efforts of the Spanish troops
to suppress the movement are every day be-
coming more impotent. The rage Of the
volunteers wreckers of Cnba, as they
may very justly be termed-is venting itself in
wholesale slaughter that would disgrace even
the government Of England in its East India
massacres The Spanish troops are also COM
hitting great outrages upon the plantations,
and war Of desolation appears to already
exist. We have often stated that this would
be the policy Of Spain when she found that
there was no longer hope of cgnging to the
island. When she. leaves it Of her own accord
it will be when this rich treasure house has
been completely wrecked and given over 70
internal anarchy.
It becomes very serious matter for the
United States to consider our present and
future relations to the island of Cuba, and
act at once with reference to our interests.
Every day destroys what it will take time and
millions of dollars to build up again after the
island comes into our hands. 1t is not for the
interest of this Continent that we should per-
NIT any European Power to desolate any part
Of our territory. In the first place there is no
sense ip the idea that nation in this age has
right to possess colony. 1t is in opposi-
ton to every ruling and civilized principle Of
the nineteenth century. Much less right has
any Power to desolate forcibly held colonial
possession, when that colony desires to have
what we claim is due to all mankind-a gov
ernment of its own, where every section can
be represented in common with all the other
districts or provinces Of the government.
Cuba has never had this. The only privilege
she has received is that Of supporting old
Spain in her Incidence, ignorance and arro-
Uance
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

GENERAL BUTLER BRINGS IN HIS CoLoRRD
FmEND.-On Saturday last, 1t appears, Gene
raj Butler introduced to Secretary Boutwell, .
colored man, from New Orleans, named Jou-
bert, and recommended him for place as
Assessor Of Internal Revenue. Joubert said
he didn't care for the spoils, but wished to
test the administration on the question Of
equal rights to his race. That's mighty
nice question; but it will have to be met.
I'm for penny, in for pound" Who
comes next?
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

CARRoUeHER.- is not very common
name and Is apt 10 attract attention when Il
occurs In connection with two or three uncom-
mon cases. Carrougher is q policeman, and
he must be one fanatically inclined to virtue
He appears last In an Excise case, where no
seems TO have melted complaint against q
liquor dealer BY offering 70 give The complain
ant Ave dollars He is the same one who
arrested the children pitching buttons a.
''gamblers."
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

siveiy American. The different series represent m
miniature the landing Of Columbus, the signing 81
the Declaration of Independence the faces OF wash
ngton. Franklin and Lincoln, the eagle the nag and
the red, white and blue M Esn utu#sN
The difficulty which resulted recently In the muir
der OF Wallace at warrenIown, Ca, and the lynch
ing OF Darden, his murderer grew out OF no poht-
cal differences, both parties were democrats, but
originated in the backballing Of Wallace by Darden
in Masonic lodge, for which action Wallace de-
nounced him In his paper
Dr. Gimor, chairman OF the Republican State
Central Committee OF Virginia. bolts the State nomi
nations at the late convention In Petersburg.
The ice in the Hudson river above New Hamburg
has broken away
The City.
At the Church Of St John the Baptist yesterday
Bishop Potter administered the rite OF confirmation
to sixteen persons At st. Patrick's Cathedral the
day being Passion Sunday, the images and pictures
were veiled In mourning. The Rev. DR.. Starr, Vicar
General preached. Rev. Day X. Lee preached at the
Beecker street Unfversalst church on the Wonders
of Life.n DR.. Bellows preached the first OF q series
o. Sabbath evening lectures at All Souls church on
the use and Authority Of the Church." Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher preached at Plymouth church, Brook
lyn, on the Miracle Of the Blind Man, Bartimeus."
Bishop Littlejohn oiclated at St. Mary's church. and
advocated the system OF an unpaid choir and free
seats
Prominent Arrivals In the City.
Colonel s. NJ. Randolph, Of St. Louis; Judge W. G.
Joy, OF Penn Yam; w. H. Woodward, Of Mexico; H.
M. Atkinson, OF Nebraska; J. H. Hazetne, Of South
Carolina; W. T. JONES' OF Montana; Jas. M. Dawley
OF Austin, New, and W. W. Hegeman, OF Poughkecp-
ste, are at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Major M. Welsh and Colonel q. H. Collins, Of the
United States Army; T. NJ Mason, OF Boston, and
Captain J. McGregor, OF the British Army, Canada,
are at the St. Charles Hotel
H. c. Wright and J. B. McEwen, Of Tennessee; A.
L. Symmes, of Philadelphia, and J. A. Van winkle
OF Augusta, Ga, are at the Maltby House.
DR.. J. J. Moorman and w. H. Peyton, OF White
Sulphur Springs, Va. are at the New York Hotel
Colonel J. Knox and Captain e. Woodward, Of the
United States Army; Professor Thorpe, Of ST. Louis,
and Captain Van Wyck Of Buffalo, are at the 81.
Julien Hotel
Lieutenant Colonel MacNeill, Governors secre-
tary; Mr.. Stanley and Mr. Rose OF Montreal, Cana
"a, are at the Clarendon Hotel.
Ezra Cornell, OF Ithaca; DR.. Colston. OF Pennsyi-
vania, and Commander E. X. owen, Of the United
States Navy, are at the Astor House.
Congressman D. Mccarthy, OF New York; General
August Kautz Of the United States Army; George o.
Jones, Of Albany. and DR.. 8. X Latnrop Of Boston,
are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

Augusta, Ga, Darden voted against Wallace
how Wallace published him as liar, and then
how Darden shot Wallace, firing at him out of
window as Grant did in Richmond and
Charles the Ninth in Paris. We ought to have
written ito be continued" at the end Of that
story. Darden having been consigned to jail
was forcibly taken out the same night, carried
a little way to quiet place in the woods and
''shot and killed. by party Of unknown men.
Land is pretty cheap ell around Augusta and
there are fine chances for settlers.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

A Sion OF POPULARITY. During the July
riots OF 1863, when the mob, with fendish
fury were bent upon destroying everything in
their way, the residence and estate Of Hon.
Hamilton Fish, the new Secretary Of State,
although situated In the midst Of the scene Of
disorder and violence, and although afYording
many tempting Inducements to the rioters,
was left entirely unmolested. This is an ipdi-
cation Of personal popularity Of which we
have but few examples, even among the
records Of our old time-honored Knickerbocker
families, descendant from whom Mr.. Fish
hes the distinguished honor 10 b,
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

AN UNNEcEssARY REQUEsr.-The Sacra-
mento Union cries out-''A General Policy
Wanted" We have had pretty fair amount
Of General policy already. There are GeneS
rafGrant, General Sherman, General Sheridan,
General Meade, General Candy, General Sicka
les, General Hancock, General Butler and d
host of others. If the copperheads had sucA
ceeded we might have had General Repudias
tion, and if the extreme radicals General
Smash-up. fAN
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

PoLYwIvEs. The Salt Lake Telegraph, in
defending the peculiar institution Of Mormon
ism, remarks :--"The fact. is polygamy has
existed about as long as human nature has,
and still only small part of mankind are
really and truly monogamists, for most Of
those who are not polywivcd arc polywo-
mened." Those who are not either, 1t is 70 be
presumed, are pollywogs, or, a. they would
say down South, soallywags.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15
SHEET
New York, Monday, March 10, 1868.
EONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS

The DAILY HERALD will be sent to subscribers
fer one dollar month.
The postage being only thirty-fve cents q
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished in the city.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

NroKNAMEs.-A Western paper suggests
that as the Secretary Of the Treasury is called
''Hole-in-the-Sky, General Sherman 'swalk.
a-Heep," somebody else ''Hole-in-the-Day,'
''Hole-in-the-Wall," and so on, that General
Butler ought to be called "All-in-my-Eye,J
cock fight.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

NroeRR, NraaER, NEVER DIE.-Sambo Is
not off the carpet yet, itseems, since Mr.. But
ler introduced a colored citizen to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury the other day for appoint
ment Said citizen indulged in tremendous
piece Of buncombo and political claptrap in
saying that he only wanted his appointment
on behalf Of the party in power, that II might
show what II was willing to do for man and
a brother.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

NRPoTIsM.-Some Of the partisan papers
are grumbling because President Grant has
thought ft to appoint some family relatives to
Office. Why shouldn't hep There is high au@
thority for stating that q man who does noa
provide for his own family is no better than he
should he ..ns
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

THE RUSH FOR APPoINTMRNTs.-Ho
Columbus Delano, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, ia besieged by applicants for Office.
In order to crafty them all, Mr.. Delano will
have to adopt the policy Of bis namesake,
Christopher, and seek some other world.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

No RESPECT FOR ANDY.-Grant and his
Secretary Of the Navy have forgiven delin-
quent who was under punishment for using
''disrespectful language Of the President Of the
United States" That President has gone to
Tennessee, and is no longer Of any account
We presume this pardon originated In q
thought similar TO that Of the judge who
would not punish man for getting drunk on
apple whiskey because the Court sometimes
indulred a taste of It's own for that beverage.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

GENERAL FRANK BLAIR GoNE.-General
Cox, the Secretary Of the Interior, has made
several changes in the Commissioners Of the
Union Pacific Railroad, including the appoint
ment of Isaac N. Morris, Of Illinois, in the
place Of General Frank p. Blair, Jr., late
democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency.
1t was the opinion of General Blair during the
Presidential campaign that General Grant, IL
elected, would turn out despot; and, 80 far
as Blair is concerned, he will, doubtless, hold
that his prophesy is fulfilled. Hon. James F.
Wilson, Of Iowa, as Pacific Railway Com
missioner, takes the place Of Cornelius Wen
dell, formerly Of Albany, and q regular demo-
cratic Johnsonian Thurlow Weed in the WASH
ington lobby. The name Of Johnson has lost
its charm.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

FIFTY TO OSE.-There are in Washington
now fifty applications for every single Office
that Grant has TO fill, and he will not fll any
that he can help till the Senate unties his
hands. There ought to be a pretty large force
in favor Of repeal.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

A GIFT ENTRRPRIsE.-It is said that not
one in five hundred Of the ofice-seekers at
Washington will draw anything but blank.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

MovrNa ON THE ENEMY's WoRKs.-It would
appear that the first objective point in Grants
Presidential campaign is the repeal Of the
Tenure Of Office law and he has seemingly
made such progress already as to have con-
vinced many Senators that they are more in
terested in the repeal than he IL.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

PRoeREss. The HERALD yesterday con-
tanned upwards Of forty-four columns Of new
advertisements, the largest quantity that ever
appeared in Sunday edition.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15
American Horses.

We publish to-day an interesting article
which conclusively shows that among the
great industrial interests Of this country the
horse may be considered as standing in the
first rank Of animal productions. Statistics
reveal the fact that for many years past, and
Notwithstanding the interruption Of breeding
at the South during the war, the horse has
been constantly increasing in numbers and
value so rapidly as to bring the aggregate of
horses now in the United States to little less
than eight millions, representing in money the
enormous sum Of 81, 600, OOO, 900, nearly equal
to the whole amount of our national indebted
ness and exceeding the gross product Of the gold
mines Of California. The history Of the progress
which has led to this result is fully detailed
and tables, elaborately prepared, are offered
in illustration. The facts which are exhibited
have been drawn with care from the best
sources of information, and may be implicitly
relied upon, however surprising they may
seem to persons who have not given special
attention to the subject. It appears that Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, New York aud Pennsylvania
retain the lead which they took in 1850 and In
1860 as horse raising States, and Missouri,
Kentucky and Texas come next in order.
Much Of the best blood was captured in the
South during the war by the Union troops,
and many Of the finest horses have thus found
their way into the Western and Middle States,
where they have been turned to profitable
account in improving the local or sectional
stock. And California, with its increase since
1860 from one hundred and sixty thousand six
hundred and ten horses to five hundred thou
sand, not having suffered from the effects Of the
war on breeding, promises to become one Of the
leading horse reoducing States in the Union.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

A KU-KLUx IDRA.-An Ohio copperhead
paper calls President Grants counsellors "a
Ku-Klux Cabinet" probably because it goes
out nights. But it is not likely that, adopting
the peculiarities Of certain members Of former
Cabinets, they 60 home disguised.
The New York herald., 1869-03-15

offices. The law as it stands Is . bar upon
me, as IL was upon my predecessor. If have
to consult the Senate upon every removal
my removals viii be few and far between, and
how, without reference, am I to know
whether it is the pleasure of the Senate that
this, that or the other man shall be removed?
\. This method Of putting the question, 1t ap-
Office seekers-that the President is right, and
the pressure Of the House upon the Senate for
something like fair play is shaking the radical
Senatorial junta of Sumner. Even Sumner
himself, they say, begins to thaw under the
benign rays from the new light of the Treas
ury Department. The Tenure of Office law
will then, most probably, be repealed and the
President, thus released by his flank move
ment from its restraints, will proceed to his
work of clearing out the whiskey rings and
all the other rings, cliques and coalitions of
Treasury robbers. We apprehend, too, that
with clear field before him General Grant
win be very apt to break up those lobby afilia-
tions Of the Senate which are supposed to be
in that body-one secret of the strength of this
Tenure of Office law. The enormous power
which this law gives to the Senate certainly
involves great sacrifice, but it is sacrifice
which is due to the President for without it
he is a mere automaton, like Johnson, moved
and pulled by the wires Of the Senate Let
the law be repealed, and let the grand army of
Office seekers meantime look to the Senate.
- - -
RUMoRED DIPLOMATIC Appo1NrslENrs.-It
seems to be generally understood at Washing
ton that Mr.. Motley, the historian, and Presi-
dent Lincoln's ambassador to Vienna, is to
take the place Of the English roast beef and
plum pudding eating Reverdy Johnson, q
change which will be very acceptable to the
country. Among the more doubtful rumors
afoat is one that General Sickles will be sent
down to Mexico to relieve General Rosecrans.
1t is probable that General Rosecrans will be
recalled, for it is said that among other things
General Grant does not entertain very high
opinion Of his White Sulphur negotiations with
General Lee and company last summer. Ex-
Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has been
mentioned ag the probable man for Russia.
Nothing is said Of Prussia, from which we may
infer that Mr.. Bancroft will be apt there to re-
main, and also Mr.. Marsh, our present repre-
sentative at Florence. Harvey, at Lisbon,
may at last expect to be relieved, salary or no
salary, and the mess which Messrs. Hale and
Perry, Minister and Secretary, have made Of
it in Spain calls for the removal of both Az
for the Chevalier Webb, having shown that
Brazil was entirely too small for his capacities,
he is probably looking out for something
larger. =