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Year: 1867

No one who watches the course Of political
events in Europe can fail to be struck with the
strong revolutionary tendency which it mani
tests. Even the so-called constitutional gov
enments are afflicted by it. The progress Of
education and the influence of newspapers,
the electric telegraph, railroads and steam
navigation are unsettling all the old political
ideas and originating new ones. The conflict
of universal suffrage with dynastic interests in
France, Italy and Germany, and the resistance
that will be made to 1t by the ruling classes in
England, win inevitably lead to disturbance
of the internal organization Of those countries
unless their rulers can find some counter check
to it. The most effectual would evidently be the
origination of some great scheme or enter
prise which would enlist the enthusiasm of the
various nationalities and draw of the restless
spirits who are always ready for revolution.
We know of none more likely to do this than
| crusade to emancipate the Christian subjects
| Of the Porte and to drive the Osmanlis out of
Europe. If the Pope, like q second Peter the
Hermit would put himself at the head Of
the movement, he would win the admiration
and esteem not only Of his own subjects but
| of Protestant Europe, and would perhaps save
to his successors "the patrimony of the Church"
TIE zeal which marked the first crusades
would bear no comparison to the wild enthu-
siasm which would characterize this modern
one. All that is extreme, visionary and fanati-
cal in religion and politics would be swept
into the tide, and for generation at least the
European governments would be rid of all
disturbing elements.


There is no ruler more interested in such q
diversion than Napoleon. He has arrived al
point where it will require all his wisdom
and energy to cope with the difficulties of hi;
position. If he were to take the lead in {
movement of this kind he would at ono,
emancipate himself from his embarrassment
and compel the other European Powers to fol
low in his wake. He made a great mistak
when he forced England to join him in tn
Crimean war. That was step back to bar
barism. This would be step forward an
would conduce more to the consolidation 0
his power than all the experimental conces
sions on which he is hazarding his characte
for sagacity and boldness.
Year: 1867

The Democratic National Committee and


Their Organs.


A meeting of the members of the Demo-
cratic National Committee was held on Tues
day last at the residence of the chairman, Mr..
August Belmont, and after splendid enter
tainment the condition and prospects Of the
party and thespolicy to be pursued in the
future were maturely considered. The views
OF the members in attendance were very freely
expressed, and with much unanimity it was
decided that any movement for democratic
convention at this time would be inexpedient
and injurious. 1t was the opinion of the most
experienced of the politicians present that no
good could result from any proclamation of a
democratic platform at this time, for the rea-
son that the republican party is broken and
divided within itself, with an evidently WIDEN
ing breach, and that the shrewd managers Of
that organization would gladly avail them
selves of any declaration Of principles on the
part OF the democracy to make issue against
them and reunite their own ranks in opposi-
ton to the common enemy. 1t was decided
however, to commence at once the labor of
State reorganization throughout the Union.


Tie democracy have promising future be-
fore them. if they can only be induced to act
with greater discretion and judgment than they
have exhibited for the past ten or twelve
years. The financial issues which must sue
ceed the settlement OF the question of recon.
struction will bring the better part of demo-
cratic principles into popular favor again, and
the members Of that party have il within their
reach to shape the future policy and wicld the
future power of the country. But they must
cast aside their old prejudiced and embitiered
leaders and put the work of reorganization
into new and young hands, 1t would be well,
il not necessary, for them to change their
name, as well as their old copperhead pro
clivities; for both have become offensive to the
people. The committee should have con-
sidcred and taken some action upon the
lamentable condition Of their party press
The recent reckless action of their principal
organ in this city, in eursing Washington, as
Job was advised by his wife to curse God, has
created great deal of trouble in the party,
and we understand that many Of the better
class Of democrats are casting about for new
organ. The iac! is the democracy needs every
thing new II IL desires success new press,
new Tammany Hall in place Of the old one,
which, according to Mayor Hoffman, "stinks
with it's own corruptiony new platform, new
leaders and probably new name. Thus
purified, If they wait patiently until President
johnson has reconstructed the Southern States
and opened the great financial questions Of the
country, they will have . good chance of
cuoroso A..s
Year: 1867

pointed phrase In the midst of emancipated
Europe you would fain be minister OF Marcus
Aurelius or of Trajan; for my part demand to
be citizen of free country" The response
of M. Rouher, as we have seen, satisfied the
majority of the Legislature; but, Ike the
French people, we must wait to see how well
the imperial promises of which he is the
mouthpiece shall be fulfilled
Year: 1867

CABLE ToIIs.-In another column will be
the extravagant tolls Of the Atlantic Telegraph
are not to be reduced as the public was
promised they would be. Now is the time,
therefore, for the American and French gov
ernments to push forward the enterprise Of .
new cable, which with less tolls than those
now charged would do good business, and
cut the English line out of its monopoly.
Year: 1867

the point to which tits reform movement really
tends. Nothing less will satisfy the English
people. They have examples before them cal
culated to stimulate their desires in this direc-
ton In this country, in France, in Italy and
even in Spain, the people enjoy the right of the
franchise, and If the government Of England
expects to maintain itself it surely cannot be
by resisting the appeal to the precedents OF
other nations and Withholding the privilege
from its own people. This question has inevi-
tablyto to be solved, and the insurrectionary
movements in Ireland, with cooperative action
in England, may hasten the solution and bring
about not only an extension of the franchise
and fair representation in Parliament, but
lead to the redress Of those grievances which
keep Ireland in perpetual ferment Of discon-
tent These grievances can be found chiefly in
the existence Of the Established Church and the
insecurity of the land tenure, which reduce tho
majority Of the people Of that island to a con-
dition bordering ON pauperism. This, we
think, is the drift Of the Fenian movement in
Ireland, whatever may be hoped for by the
men who conduct it. IF the inchoate revolu-
ton in England and the actual insurrection in
Ireland can accomplish these results much
good will come out Of them.
Year: 1867

THE PROGRESS OF reform IN ENGLAND
There has been compromise on the suffrage
bill, in the English House Of Commons.
Gladstone and his friends would not consent
that the householder who compounds his
rate with his landlord should be On foot
ing Of equality with the householder who
paid his rate directly and with bis own hand
But by mutual agreement of parties it has
been agreed that by paying his rate to the
collector with his own hand, and dedueting
the same afterwards from the rent, the COM
: pounding householder shall be enabled to
become voter.


County franchise is settled as follows
Year: 1867

d As Appeal IN BEHALF OF THE DESTITUTE COL
oRED CHILDREN THE CITY NEw-YoRK.-Ths Mis-
ponary Commission the Sabbath School attached to the
a. NJ. L. T. Church. West Tenth and Bleeckersts,
roud most respectfully ask the assistance OF the friends


f the poor In their efforts to relieve their suferings
The members Of this Commission actuated by the most
humane feelings toward those that are need have found
bany children who for the want Of proper clothing
are unable to attend day Sabbath schools. Some


~ar who are now broken down by disease produced


while In discharge OF their duty unable TO perform
knala labor This School being anxious TO alleviate "a
Var as possible the wants Of the needy we respectfully
esk Tor donations OF clothing fold money 10
Year: 1867

THE REPORT OF the operations Of the Bank.
rupt law will not be ready before February.
1t viii be made up of reports from Registers
in Bankruptcy throughout the country, and
only about one third OF them have been heard
from Reports received thus tar Indicate that
the law will have to receive some amendment.
In order TO make it fully meet the wants Of the
community Tor whose benefit it was made
Year: 1867

REDUCTION OF FORCE IN THE PENSION Oy
PIcs 1t is reported thai one hundred clerks
viii be dismissed rom The Pension Once on
The 3lst instant, but no notice has been re-
eeiyed oy any yet. OF course there Is great
uneasiness among the clerks in that ONCE
Secretary Browning and Commissioner Bar
refi are both well known as being favorable TO
retaining men in Office W no are able to dschare,
the duties, and will not dismiss q faithful
clerk or appoint an incompetent one ON Do
ntiesl grounds alone. There are now en-
ployec IN the Office about two hundred and
Nifty clerks, being more than allowed by law,
and Il 10 very probable thar the force Will be
reduced al an early day.
Year: 1867

TIE NKTo.-It is understood that the Presi-
dent will not hold for the constitutional ten
Gays The District bill to strike out the word
"woite, but will send 70 Congress within a
week bis message disapproving the bill This
viii enable Congress to adjourn from the 18th
over The holidays.
Year: 1867

THAT BLACK CAT.-lt is learned that the
Judiciary Committee, At their next meeting,
will proceed to investigate, and endeayor to
solve the enigma, "a TO how the Presidents
Message leaked out before its presentation TO
Congress. Most OF the correspondents here
will be summoned before the committee 10
testify what they do and what they do not
know on the subject.
Year: 1867

TIE WHITE HoUsR.-The usual crowd o


visitors were al the Executive Mansion to-
day, nearly all OF whom had an interview
with the President. Attorney General Stau.
berry, Secretary Browning and Secretary
Welles were with the Executive this forenoon
Year: 1867

The news received yesterday from the South
American Republics is again of a gloomy char
octor. The United States of Colombia and
Peru are both again in the throes of civil war
II is crcditable to the people of Colombia that
they have promptly and vigorously organized a
general resistance to the high-handed violation
of the Constitution by President Mosqucra.
All the States have not yet been heard from,
but We already know that the Presidents oil
five of the nine States of the Confederation
namely, Panama, Cundinamarca, Antioquia, Mag
dalena, and Santander-have declared against
Mosquera The President of the State OF Mag
dalena has, according to the provisions OF the
Federal Constitution, temporarily assumed the
Office of President of the Confederation, ana
called on all the Colombians to rally for the
defense of their Constitution In Panama, the
President of the State and the Legislature were
preparing to ropel the troops which 1t was
supposed Mosqucra would send into the State
to vindicate his authority, and they had great
ly offended the foreign merchants by imposing
q new tax.


In PERU the old Gen. Castillo has again
raised the standard OF revolt, and, as he is ex-
trcmely popular with the army, it is feared
that the troops sent against him may join the
rebellion. This entirely causeless rebellion is
another sad proof of tho great instability oil
the South American Governments.
Year: 1867

We see that Surrogate Tucker has again called
upon the Board of Supervisors to give him
an increased clerical force. Docs the Surro-
gate make this request in ignorance of the
provision of the County Tax Levy Act of 1867
TO the effect that the Board of Supervisors is
prohibited from creating any new Office or de-
pa'tment i'll the administration of County af-
farsi Or does Mr. Tucker, having full knowl-
edge in the premises, ask the Board Of Super
visors TO violate the law 1t may be that
some of his records are not copied up, but if
this be so, the remedy is for Mr.. Tucker TO
set his present clerical force at work. If he
will do this, and attend to his own duties, the
records Of his Office will not suffer from the
want of score or more of sinecure incOmpe-
tent clerks. 80 rr--r


Now let us call the Sunogate's attention to
another matter which he himself can easily
remedy by going to work. 1t is this: there
are volumes in his Office, embracing the records
of wills and their proof, upon the proper record
Of which may depend millions of property.
These wills have been admitted to probate.
They have all been copied up In the books by
his clerical force. and everything needed has
been done except that Mr.. Surrogate Tucker
has not signed the record. The statute requires
him to do this; why does he not do it? This
is the only record of these wills the public
have, and it is shameful that it should be al
lowed to 90 50 long without the Surrogates
Year: 1867

Cleanliness being next to godliness. tho av
eragc New York tenement house must be con
sidercd about rs near perdition as it is pos
sibIe for earthly things to be. To the unac-
customcd inspector of these dwelling places
along orr rivers and in the cross streets, some
of which arc described in our columns to-day,
filth is the most apparent characteristic but
closer inspection will show that where dirt
abOunds there do disease, ignorance, and crime
abound much more. Our City missionaries and
religious visitors accomplish good when they
arc enabled to accompany their counsels with
bread and their tracts with cotton but if they
would advance the morality of the tenement
quarters, their proper subjects for exhortation
and reproof are to be found in the household
ers who sit by their side in the prayer meeting,
and discuss with them the wickedncss of this
modern SOdom. 1t is with them that the re-
sponsibility lies, not with the poor tenants,
who would gladly be cleaner and better if they
could


There is hope for our tenement population,
but it comes not from those who should have
been first in the reform. The Metropolitan
Board of Health has ut length secured authority
to enforce sanitary measures in tenement
houses, and to make the property pay for its
own renovation. Already our tcnements, as o
whole, are z far better condition than they
were last year; and in one year from the time
the new law goes into effect, we may hope to
abate the fever pens which disgrace so many
of our streets at this time. Pestience is O
stern teacher; the cholera last year gave our
citizens few admonitory hints, and, unless
these are well needed, the further chastisemcnt
may be fearful scourging. In nineteen cities
and towns Of Great Britain sanitary improve
ments reduced the rate of mortality from 2S in
1000 to 81 in 1000 and in Liverpool the de-
crease was 30 per cent. The death-rate in this
city during the first week of June-the
healthiest of the year, thus fal--was 249s per
1000, and in Brooklyn 2l.4s per 1000. Those
having in charge or in ownership the abOmi-
nations of New-York may, if they WILL take
these facts as an index of what they, too, can
accomplish.
Year: 1867

signature. We had occasion to look at the
record of a will in his Office some time ago,
and. although the will WAS recorded III full
and the record profcssed to be signed and at-
tested by the Surrogate's signature, yet that
signature was wanting to that and the other
records in the book IL the Surrogate has
time to spend Winters at Albany as Member
of Assembly, while Surrogate OF this County
be can certainly attend to the little work we
demand of him, aud thus in some small way
endcayor to earn his salary. We trast tho
Board of Supervisors will suggest to Surro-
gate Tucker the cxpedicncy Of at once dcvotng
two hours of his Time to signing these records
Year: 1867

Ex-MayOr Monroe has gone back TO New
Orleans with a long tale, which is compensa-
ton for the cropping of his ears. He uttered
what is vulgarly called whopper, when he
said at public meeting that he had not met
single man in the North who indorses
the course of Gen. Sheridan. Where
could he have been7 He found that
Radcalism was virtually dead, and
that the people of the North were trembling
lest they should be put under military rule.
Monroe told great many other whoppers, and
might have told many more, had not some
body turned off the gas, and thus fttingly put
a stop to the ex-Mayors inventions.
Year: 1867

poltic statesman gt have been, but he has done wha
he could 10 save country and stay the hand OF faction
With hen Wa.e ~ Acting President chaos would como
again, and would be handed over again TO an un'
reasoning and mObguard Rad!calsm"


- We trust Mr. Wade will not take this back
handed compliment to heart. The World does
not natter him, certainly but then it is moth
ing like rs hard on him rs it was on Mr. John
son whom he was only Nice-Presdent.
Year: 1867

The question whether the jury in the Sur
ratt trial had been legally impanneled was
argued at great length yesterday by The coun-
sci for the prosecution and defense, with CON
siderable ingenuity and ability. Judge Fisher
will give his decision this morning.
Year: 1867

Gen Jo Lane says The Oregonda, still lives. He
is making q dash In politics. How he will come out
with the Greeks at his doors uncertain Unquestona
bly he deserves success In every undertaking No


in oregon has suffered more for Democrats principles
than he Again repeat Cat 10 Is gratifying news To
hear of the heroic General and the distinguished Col
Onel" They are men who show what Democrats ought


10 bo, Ono of them fought In the Rebel army and tho
other approved Of his acons what better title TO honor
at tao HANDS OF their party Ought Democrats require
Year: 1867

Escobcdo has issued an address to tho
Mexican soldiers in culogy of their bravery
and congratulation of their success and pledg-
ing himself to restore peace and order to the
country.
Year: 1867

At the Paris exhibition is a sprig Of
lilac, all in diamonds, that waves and
trembles, every flower bedding on its
stalk rs in nature. Its price is Gl720.
The ladies and initiated gentlemen who
look at il, and delight in its sparkle, says
a correspondent, have no idea Of the diff
ficulties which had to be surmouuted
before this perfect ornament could be
finished for lady's hair. In order to
give the stalks which hold the diamond
flowers the necessary pliability, or rather
the exact pliabiiity desired the jeweier
found it indispensable to have a fiat geld
wire drawn and twisted into g spring.
BY this plan the real strength is COM
bined with seeming fragility. The spring
can be taken TO pieces by the turn Of a
little button, and worn as separate sprigs
| in the hair,
Year: 1867

A writer in the Scientific american tells how
the mosquito looks what he does for living, and
how he is produced It is an interesting sketch,
but by no means compensation for a mosquito
bite, or the 'small horror of his bugle horn" The
writer says: "


1T is unscientifc to say that mosquitoes bite,
for they have no teeth and they have no need OF
teeth to seize upon or prepare their food for they
are dainty, and take food only in the liquid form
spoon victuals They are chiyalric race, and
attack their enemies with sort ofsword or lance
no doubt they consider biting and gougng quite
vulgar. The lance of the mosquito is very beau
tifu and perfect piece of work. it is smoother than
Furnished STEEL and its point is 80 fine and perfect
that the most powerful miscroscope does not dis
cover flaw in it. As the most delicate cambria
needle is to a crowbar, so is the mosquitoes lance
to the best Damascus blade. The lance is worn in
scabbard or sheath, which in every respect is
worthy of it; it is often ornamented with plumes
Man carries his sword at his side, and the mos
quito on his head The latter arrangement has
manifest and wonderful advantages weapon IS
always en- garde, and does not impede locomotlon
by getting entangled with the legs.


The lance and its sheath being on the head and
being somewhat flexible is often called probes
cis This view of the case is strengthened by the
fact, that the scabbard is a suction pipe through
which the mosquito drinks its food. As Moses
struck the rock with his staff so the mosquito with
thrust of his lance pierces the Fountain and the
nectar, gushing into the scabbard finds its way to
the more sensitive and vital parts. But is not
this calling the lance and scabbard proboscis,
thus Gkening the delicate mosquito to the mon
strous elephant, little far fetched2


The mosquito is the most musical Of all animals
There is no bird which sings so much. He never
tires of his simple song. Linnaus, out Of COM
plimeut to the musical powers Of the mosquito,
named it Culex Pipiens. But there are those who
say that the mosquito has no vocal organs, and
that his notes are not music but the sounds pro
duced by the Tapping ofhis wings, or by some
other similar and purely mechanical movement
Have these detractors music in their souls?
Year: 1867

who was descending from the third story, was alst
shown us as was door, now permanently closed
through which jackson intended to escape if he
had not been prevented by Sergeant Brownell. In
this room large pieces of plaistering andwood have
also been carried off. Oflate there have pot been
30 many visitors, and Mr. Gheen is in hopes that
he will be left to enjoy whatever profit he can reap
in keeping irst-class loyal hotel, without the
constant intrusion of sight-seers and rec-hunters.
We took the hint and did not stay long, nor did
we whittle away any portion of the stairway