The New York herald., 1870-03-23
Doiefui Day at Albany-Dreadiul
Slaughter Of sho lun0cents.
Now tell US all about the war,
And what they Killed each other for.

After long drought sit never rains but 1t
pours" 1t was dismal day among the faith
ful at Albany yesterday. 1t belongs to the
category Of such dreadful things as the
Charleston Convention and the first Bull Run.
The ''hayloft and cheesepress democracy"
have astonished the world. The upshot of
their strange doings is utterly Incompetent
sible, except to the sagacious Dutchman who
got down from his horse to get on better. The
latest new ring Is broken, the silk stockings are
rumpled, the jackknives are demoralized, and
the big Indians. of the wigwam, like Achilles
in his tent, are contemplating the field, and,
like the never despairing Micawber, in waiting
for something to turn up" they have got it
at last.
In brief, the gladiators from the rural dis
! trcts, like Forrest as the mighty Spartacus,
have 'made Rome howl" What paltry child's
| play appear the bushwhacking operations Of
| such light weights as Genet and Norton in the
| Senate compared with the grand charge by the
sturdy yeomanry yesterday along the whole
| line in the Assembly. 1t reminds us OF Sheri-
! dan at the battle of Cedar Creek, when, get
| ting his troops into position, he said to them,
pointing to the Johnny Rebs, ~ tell you,
boys, we have got twist on 'em that will put
us in our camps again by sunset" The days
proceedings in the Assembly, as an Irish orator
has described the First Napoleon, were indeed
'sgrand, gloomy and peculiar" or, as an en-
thusiastic Frenchmen said of Niagara Falls,
Che is grand, he is supaarb, he is magnifque; {;
by gar, tink he is pretty good" So we may
say Of yesterdays doings in the Assembly.
Behold the record Three bills--a city
police bill, supervisors bill, aud bill for
the local government Of the city and county
Of New York, all nicely cut and dried, and
sngar-coated, as compromises among our city
factions excepting Murphy, that is, Owen
Murphy, called for breyity O'Murphy), all
smoothly ordered to a third reading, and then
all cruelty knocked in the head, as were the
non-combatants found in the Castle of
Drogheda by Cromwell, who called this pro-
ceedng "a crowning mercy" In that famous
Irish song, ''The Groves Of Barney" there is
a pointed allusion to this affair
BAT oliver Cromwell.
He-tbad luck to the cropeared
scoundreI]-he did her pumnei.
Ana made preach IN ner ba,slemcut.
As the humane African women in their
shanty sang over poor Mungo Park, 'slet us
pity the poor white man" Kicrnan. ''Phansy
his pheelinks" in his sorrowful exclamation,
'Methinks the destroying angel passed over
the camp of Israel last night" Fancy the
wrath Of the Independent O'Murphy in his de-
nunciations Of the happy family Police bill as
thing for the benefit OF political tricksters,
az thing under which ''neither life nor pro-
perty will be SAFE" ''Strike out the enacting
clause, cries the fiery Burns, ''and down goes
the head of the bill in the basket" The be-
wildered Jacobs, like Marius among the rnns
Of Carthage, desires time to collect his scat
tered senses. But the corn-cutters are merci-
less, and the other two bills are heheaded, and
the scaffoid is sprinkled with sawdust, the
tumbrcls roll away and then the House ad :
journs.
The country democracy are guilty Of this ter
rible days slaughter. What do they want?
What do they mean? Do they want the lions
share of our city sp0ils? Do they mean to
upset the Governor and his posse comst0tus?
Is Seymour in this thing They say that
comprehensive City Charter is what they want,
and not this piecemeal jobbery, this tricky
patchwork. Very well. There is time yet for
the task, but no time to waste. Albeit
Whiie the lamp holds out 70 burn
The viiest sinner may return.
In what Milton says, likewise, Of the lost
fol- fhoro ic f>r
field be lost all is not lost" The unterrii ed
democracy still live. But they can't all be
captains. They must get over that trouble, or
Syracuse salt won't save them. Aud how
foolish Of Herman to call upon the republicans
in his distress 1t is their game to keep up
this democratic confusion. Fechter's melan-
choly Dane is an Angliczed French Teuton;
but this sort of thing will never do for the
democracy at Albany They must come to-
gether, old ring and new rings, '.jackkniyes,"
''silk stockings" ''rough-and-readies aud
''shadhellics," aud 20 to work, first for the
interest Of the people secondly, for the Iar-
mony Of the party, and lastly, for the division
of the spoils, if they would save the State and
the party. They may save both upon this plan,
and 50 fortify themselves in this metropolis as
10 secure the winning hand in their next Presi-
Dental convention. Otherwise this democratic
Legislature will bc failure, a ludicrous
failure. thing for mockery and laughter, q
''shoo, fy," and the party will pass from it to
be routed, ''horse, foot and dragoons,' in our
next November election.
OUR News FROM SOUTH AMERICA by
steamer is dated from Rio Janeiro. February
%. The long promised return of the
that is left Of it, has at length taken place.
The dreadful suferinps of the Rrazians