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The New York herald., 1869-03-26

A SUPPOSED TRAP.-The English and Eu-
ropean journals generally show that on the
other side of the Atlantic our doings in refe-
renee to Cuba are being closely watched. II
Is the general expectation that we are about to
fall into trap; in other words, that Cuba, un-
consciously to us, is about to settle the Ala
bama and all similar questions. Our English
and European friends make big mistake.
They forget that America is not Europe-that
Cuba is not Spain or Greece or Poland or Ire
land. We have some faith yet in the Monroe
doctrine. America for the Americans. When
they catch us mapping they will have perfect
right to say so.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

SPAIN-A KING AID INTERM.-A COM
mittee properly enough appointed has given
in its report to the Spanish Cortes on
new constitution. Some of the recon-
mendations are good enough, but all the good
recommendations are old. One recommends
ton at least is old-that king, or queen, or
emperor or empress should have . trial Of
eighteen years. Eighteen years is pretty
good term for the incumbent, but it might
prove very inconvenient for the people. Louis
Napoleon did not require so long period
to make himself Emperor Of the French. A
shorter period might prove a weaker man than
Louis Napoleon a bore or something worse.
1t does not appear from any present mani
festations that the Latin races are improving
in the art of selfgovernment. A king for
eighteen years is a king only ad interim, but
the interim is unconscionably long.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

To THE PACIFIC VIA vroKsBURa The Vicks-
burg Herald, commenting upon the statement
that the Pacific Railroad was showed up and
remained so for number of days because the
employees were too lazy to shovel their way
out, remarks :--"Why will not Congress-,
which has been SO lavish in It's expenditures
Of national capital for the building Of this
road, do something towards constructing q
Southern line from vicksburg to the Pacific,
where these annoying obstacles would be
obviated2" General Grant once laid siege to
vicksburg with successful issue; now lei
vicksburg lay siege to him for the attainment
of the above object.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH THE CUBANs.-
A very crowded meeting was held in Steinway
Hall last evening, with the view Of expressing
the sympathy Of the citizens Of New York
with the Cuban people in their struggle for
independence. Mayor Hall presided. The
assemblage was addressed in eloquent terms
by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher; strong
resolutions were passed urging on the Cabinet
in Washington the propriety of according bel.
ligerent rights to the Cubans, and Of other
wise aiding the movement Of the people Of the
island.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

How THEY HANDLE THE MoNEY.-As the
Board Of Education and Its doings are now up
for popular review it would be apropos to
have the full history Of that celebrated forged
check for seventeen thousand dollars, and we
are glad 10 see by the reports that the whole
story Is promised in an investigation soon to
take place. As II Is claimed on one hand that
the falsity Of the check is ridiculously palpa-
BILE, and on the other that the paper is genuine,
the details will doubtless be piquant.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

THE POSSIBILITIES OF CoMBTNATIoN.-H all
the railroads, banks, telegraph companies and
other large monopolies of the country acted
together for some common purpose they would
thus combine capital at least equal to the
whole national debt, and in addition to the
control Of such an immense money force could
control directly from half a million to million
votes. What could resist such "balance of
power?" What arrangement or division Of
parties could there ever be in the United States
where such combination could not always
and absolutely determine victory in favor of the
party II decided to act with Could not such
power, in forming the alliance that parties
would be so eager to make, dictate the party
policy? Is not our republic, then, at the point
where IL inevitably falls into tie hands of o
financial oligarchy?
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

SPANISH VICTORIES IN CUBA.-H the
Spaniards wish their accounts of victories
in Cuba to be believed they must kill a
few more Of their own side than they ac-
knowledge. One man killed and ono
wounded in q fight Of three hours where
two hundred insurgents are finished of is
not enough to cover the bill.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26
Encour.sensns Of American maritins In

encouragement Of American Maritime In.
tercsts.
The prompt action in the House Of Repre-
sentatives on the resolution of Mr. Lynch to
create select committee of nine to inquire
into and report upon American maritime in
terests shows that this important subject is
likely to receive at last some consideration.
The committee is to inquire into the causes of
the great reduction of American tonnage
engaged in the foreign carrying trade and the
great depression in the navigation interests Of
the country; also to report what measures are
necessary to increase our ocean tonnage,
revive maritime interests and to regain for our
country the relative position which it once held
among nations as o maritime Power. There
will be little difficulty in ascertaining the cause
OF the decline Of our tonnage; the war and
the Alabama and her fellow corsairs explain
that. But the question is how are we to get
back to the position we held before the war.
No country is more favorably situated than ours
for erecting and maintaining vast mercantile
marine. Our immense seaboard, numerous
harbors, the seafaring character of large
portion Of the American people, our skill in
shipbuilding and our vast forests Of fine timber
and exhaustless mines Of iron, all contributed
to make this country, few years ago, first In
maritime importance, and will do so again
under proper laws and encouragement.
Everything possible should be done to en-
courage shipbuilding; but until we are in q
situation to compete with foreign builders the
government should permit our citizens to reg
lister vessels built by and purchased of foreign
ers. If Americans can build or purchase
vessels abroad cheaper than at home let them
do so, and let their property become American
and under the American flag and protection.
If we cannot compete at present with foreign
shipbuildefs let US do, then, the next best
thing-get our ships elsewhere; and, at all
events and under any circumstances, let us
restore our lost maritime position among the
nations. We hope the committee will take this
broad and liberal view of the subject and
report accordingly.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26
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The New York herald., 1869-03-26

THE ROOSEVELT HosPrTAL.--Mr. James II.
Roosevelt left very large property In the
hands Of trustees for the purpose Of founding
hospital in this city. Some Of the provisions
Of the will making It possil Q that II was not
valid, and that the executor applied any por-
tion Of the funds to building a hospital he
might be liable in his own fortune to the claim
ants who should come In In case the will was
not sustained, the points in question were
brought up lcfitiously for judicial revision,
and the will is pronounced good one. Tho
court decides that the bequest did not lapse
because Of being left to an institution not in
existence at the time Of the testator's death,
but that property can be left In trust for On
institution TO be founded as well as in trust for
a child to he born.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26
Tho Bohemians as Dinner.

Sometimes at the theatres we are called
upon to observe as special wonder" that
"a woman keeps secret" Perhaps that is
a wonder, unless, of course, the secret chance
to be some peculiar bit of the dear creatures
personal history; then it is not SO rare thing
for her to keep it, perhaps. But that old won
der having served long time, the comedians
Of city journalism have paraded a new one
that seems to us less startling. They call
upon us to be astonished that the women of
their acquaintance can dine, can pay for their
own dinners and can make the occasion agreea-
BILE with entertaining chatter. We never
doubted the appetite Of even literary ladies',
and certainly no one can question the ability
and readiness Of the sex to pay when he re-
fleets that fully two-thirds Of the money spent
in this extravagant town is put in motion from
hand to hand solely to decorate the persons
and crafty the vanities of women. Neither
have we ever had any misgivings as to that
cheapest defence of her rights, woman's
tongue defence, indeed, so cheap that she
is never economical with it. Man has recog-
nized the wealth OF woman in all the moods
and lenses from the time that Socrates was SO
patient with his spouse. What then, was the
wonderp Only the Bohemians themselves, AZ
we can see it. There they sat, thirty or forty
dreary creatures, and ''munched, and
munched, and munched," like the rump fed
runnion Of the play, and never an idea shot
forth from any one of the number. Safer in
their dulness than st. Anthony in his virtue,
they sat and fed, and woman was charming
and brilliant in vain. How could so many
men so prose and drool in the very face Of all
that temptation Of feminine wit and beauty
and that provoking play Of piquant fancy2
Here Is the true wonder.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

PnING UP THE AGoNY.-Victor Hugo's
well known cumulative style of working up a
certain effect by the progressive addition of
epithets went far in Lies Miserables," but
goes further in the forthcoming novel, if we
may Judge from an extract given out wherein
matter is called an ''unfathomable amalgation
of immeasurable energies wherein one some
times recognizes an imperceptible amount Of
horrifying intention" 1t isnot easy generally
to recognize the ''imperceptible, but perhaps
this is better than describing storm as "a
fall from an epileptic ct into the infinite "
Hugo has here reached SO far for the sublime
as to lose his balance. : Like Mrs. Lirriper, he
has gone on and gone over.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

SPECIE PAYMENT REsToRED.-The driver
Of Third avenue car swore the other day that
policeman paid his fare of six cents in small
silver, and that he, the said driver, heard the
said silver jngle
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

AN IMPORTANT QUEsTToN.-The Police
Commissioners request their legal advisers to
say whether the commission is entitled to re-
cover from Captain Young that sixteen thou
sand dollars that under the police rules ought
to 60 into the Police Life Insurance Fund. In
case the commission is not so entitled to recover
the next question will be whether policemen
who have previously and no doubt unwillingly
paid their rewards into that fund are not en-
titled to return of the money.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

NIBLos GARDEN. Broadway.-THn BuRLrsoUE Ex-
rRAyAGANzA OF TIE FORTY THIEvxs.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26
Prominent Departures.

Lieutenant Governor Gardiner and Colonel Slbey
left yesterday for Burlington, vt; Judge r. r..
Sloane Dr. Demscomf andE. Giddings, for Washing
ton; J. w. Pierce, for Boston; Lieutenant Com
mander woodroe, for Philadelphia; W. 8. Church,
for Albany; J. s. Ranney, for Canada; Lieutenant
Commander Kellogg, for Ohio; II. d. Chaplin, for
Boston; Thomas Cornell, for Albany; J. C.
Smethurst, for Philadelphia, and Mr. J. W. Fapens,
for washington.
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

In the Senate yesterday bills were introduced TO
lay out an avenue from Prospect Park TO Fort
Hamilton and for an additional almshouse in Brook
iyn. Bills incorporating the Passenger Transit Com
pany; prohibiting the use OF steam In the Second
avenue; TO confer citizenship on Indians desiring II;
Increasing the penalty for the procurement OF abor
tions and relative to opening public streets in New
gork were reported. Another veto message reIa-
The New York herald., 1869-03-26

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