The New York Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1866, Page 4

EE amare nein enema ee ati a Oe mani ian Ail i ila ais iia thd ‘ £ NEW YORK HERALD. , #AMES GORDON BENYETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR #77108 N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broads near Broo Breet; Tas Pxorae's Lawren—Live fous. Matinee ot dg 0'Ul0CK=K4TURRINE AND Patryouto—Live INDIAN. a NEW YORK THEATRY, New abil Senonitiox. “aileeoat Tasos THEATRE F'RaNCals, Fourteenth pear Sith ze na Ffan ny Matinee at One o'Clock— SEMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 614 Brosdway.— STEINWAY HALL, East Fourteenth gtreet, Irving Plnce—Onano doipar Conouar. xe CLINTON HALL, Astor place.Waranrixs VOUSDEN, TER G@asar PournationaL Mimo. IRVING HALL, Irving plage.—Gnanp Vooat amp In- @rxoMENTAL Concert. DODWORTH'S HALL. 686 Brosdway.—Paormmon Hants wit Pearonw 81s. ‘Wtanoues Tus HeaD WW Tam AIR. ‘Matince at Bleven o'Cleok A. M. SAN FRANCT! INS TREGS. 585 Broadway, epposite dhe Metropeliian [—IN THSiR Brssoray Banepuus tanner, 8: ‘Daworwa avo Boa.esqvas—Fatuing Curips on Lovs's Raneuan. FTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West = s % pwoata’s MinstRels.—EratorPiaw URLEOOTRS, @c.—Gunat Expecra- lock. EBLLY & 1.£0N'S MINSTER! to the New York lotel.—In tm i Boruesques, &c.—B0 anu PRaNcais. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Coma Voosrrsx—-Necko, Minsteatsy, Bautwr Direarissemasr, &c.—Lirrex Tom Tucker. Matineo at 2}4 o'Clock. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, x 720 Broadway, oppo- jonas, Dances, Bcd en. wire a Y—Ict Lon Mech nics Hall, 472 Broadway—tw a Vagiery or Licar 4”. Livamanie Enrentainaeyts, Conrs pe B, aa Tus Gouven Axe. Matinee at 24g o'Clock. MRS. . B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Tux Forty Tuimves. HOOLEY'SOPERA HOSE, Grookiyn —Nentoriay Mine BrKKLsy, BALLADS, BuRLESQUes AND PaytoMinns. BROOKLYN ATHANEUM FRONA-THEO-A OF TRAVELS VovaGe Ackoss THR ATLANT ns &Co.'s Great Pan- AND AMKRICA, AND AN Ly FINE ARTS GALLERY, No. 625 Brosiway.—Exmimition oy Frunoa Pairings, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, corner of Grand and Crosby Btroots.—Gnreat Masonio Fark iy Aw or Tue Haul aNd Asyium Foxp, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Brondway.— Lecrones Site Tun OxY-Hrpmogen Micuoscore - twice a ano Ru mM ; 2m: win ee A cad br ence sapere Our news reports by the Atlentic cable have not yet come to band, By tho arrival of the steamstip Nova Scotian at Port- Jand yesterday we have mail despatches, in detail of our Cable reports, to the 14th of December. Popo Pius the Ninth has received fifty-three millions is francs, in the shape of Peter's pence, since September jaat., Queon Isabeli of Spain received a vory cordial recep- tion'in Portugal, The Cunard steamship Australasian was inside of Bandy Hook during yesterday, Our files and correspond. nce, dated \ the 15th December, are on board, but ould pot be Innded owing to the severity of the storm. THE ClTY. The gale of Thursday has already summed up alist of cashgition that attest its severity, Several houses in the city mia Harlem were unroofed, and the boats plying along the nd did not attempt to make their trips. oe akan apy lla, Soa Breezoand N. B. 'T, Thomp- @ on are ashore inside Rady Hook, aes Way uit Sually 1ow, and the fornes [apd Gonsiderable dimtoutty in ing their slips. Thé sleantor Commodore, ply- ran Quy po agd Bonington, Cénzecticat, was “Wrecked on the sands, Near Horton's Point, op Wednes- day night, Her passengers and crew, to the pumber of one hundred and thirty, with the exception of one man ‘who jumped overboard, were all saved, after undergoing severest kinds of privations and hardships The which is valued at $300,000, ia. mostly either lost royed, and the vessel herself is a total wreck. Valued at $200,000, and only insured for $60,000, the Av important meeting of the Board of Education took piace las The Finance Committee reported the total disbursements for the present year to be $2,330,111 52, A report was adopted in favor of raising Uho salarios of the view principals and assistant teachers In tho schools throughout the city. Votes of thanks Were passed to the Prosident and Clerk, and the Board adjourned. The attempted assessination of Mr. Emi! Just, on Thirty-fourth street, on last Monday evening, still re- mains enshronded in mystery. Mr, Jast is recovering rapidly, it 18 peliéver, and wit! no doubt be able to throw fAome light on the, strange occurrence, Notuing 1m tho Loves ts tolssing, and the doors und fastenings of the BYTE He yapempardt with. “Three thousand doliars worth of jewelry were lying loose abvont the room at » time of the shooting and were not touched. It is 1n, therofore, that, no thief committed the deed for nd no means of egress were used except pro- ablyin rin the bak yard, Tn the United Statos Commissioner's Court, yesterday, Defore Commissioaer Osborn, the hearing of tbe chargo nyo ast Alexandor Ross & Co. of having rendered fraud- roturas of their sales @8 mauufacturers of tobacco Collector of Internal Rovenuewas rerumed, but ‘Ng material was elicited, and a further adjournment Lill Tharsday took place. Three young mén, named Thormpaon, Henaessy and Smith, who bad been acoused of breatting into and stealing from a distillery, were dis- charved. James Goddington was accused, before Com- missioner Betis, of manufacturing a fraudulent bond and presenting it to the Collector of Thternal Revenue. After foie evidence bad been taken the mater was adjourned till the 4th of January. In the Suprome Court, Ciroult, yesterday a verdict was rondored for Miss Marian Hall im the sum of $44. © ‘Tne iady sued to recover $6,000 damages for alleged risonment, from her former em- ed on the trial, bad ordered ber thoir premises, in Brooklyn, and upon her refa- Bal caused her arrest by « police oiflcer. In tho Sapreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, before Mr, Justice Ingrabam, the argument on a motion to phow cause why peremptory mandamus should not issue to compet Thomas Stephens, President of the Croton Aqueduct Board, to surrender the offices, &., of the Gopartment to Joo. J, Bradley, the new appointee, was Dioard. The Court reserved ite decision. The annual statement of convictions and acquittals in the Courts of Oyor and Terminer snd General Scesions for the city and county of New York, for the year 1366, Bhows that there has been nine hundred and eighty- three convictions and one handred and sixty-three Roquittals, among which were one acquittal and eighteen convictions for murder and manslaughter in the various ogress. Two oxtonsive fires broke out in this city yesterday evening, one in Pine street and the other tn Chareh Breet. The first mentioned destroyed premises No. 66 fan injured Nos. 63 and 67 Pine street, The damago to @tock in these buildings was abont $21,600, and the Gamage to real property about $15,000, The fire in Church atroot broke out im aclothing and cloth establish. mont, No, 60, and damaged stock to the amount of $25,000, Tho building is damaged to the extent of 186,000. ' The Inman line steamship City of Boston, Captain Brooks, will sail at noon to-day for Queenstown~end Liverpool from pier 45 North river, The mails will close @t the Post Office for the United Kingdom and the Con- Sinent at half-past ton o'clock. ) Tho Anchor lime now steamship Columbia, Captain Car- aghan, will sall from pior 44 North river, at two P.M. to-day, for Glasgow and Liverpool, calling at London- \dorry to land passengers and mails } ‘The Hamburg American Packet Company's steamsh| \Allomannia, Captain Trautman, will sai) from Hobo! t twelve M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. ie mails will close at the Post Orifice at half-past ten clock ho iron steamship Virgials, ry “ah ‘elie a or 20 Bast river, in 6. 400s Tae, avo ber wharf this afternoon for Galveston, Toxas, sta namber of passongers for the Lone State. ‘Tue (ae stoamabip George Washington, in Gagor, dd Siam (0a. will loaye vier No, @ North river, | The Empire line sidewhoo! steamship, Gan Jacinto, | Ty al] great revolutions, rapidly developed, Wet, of Arthur Leary’s line, will sail at three o'clock this afternoon from pler 14 Kast river, foot of Wall street, for Charleston, 8. C., connecting at that place ‘with the steamer Dictator for the Florida ports. | he stock market was strong yesterday. Gold was firm and closed at 133, The markets generally ruled exceedingly quict and heavy, though im some cases there wasa slight degree of Grmpees perceptible. Cotton was quiet and irregular. Coffee was without decided change. On ‘Change flour advanced 60, a10c. per barrel. Wheat was a shade higher, while corn was fully 1c. lower, Pork opened firmer but closed heavy. Beef continued dull and heavy. Lard was more active, and firm at previous prices. Freights were quiet, Whiskey was dulland nominal. Naval stores were dull and generally lower. “etroleum dull and heavy. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Chihuahua, Mexico, correspondence i dated Mexico and the Mexican States. President Juares, in responding to a toast, said, speaking of the United States. “They do not desire more of our territory. ‘They will not insult us by asking forit.” The affair closed most happily early in the morning. The official pertodi- cal of the government says that the idea that the repub- lican government is disposed to cede territory to the United States is absolutely false. Our correspondent thinks that if General Sherman’s mission is intended to Propose a protectorate to Mexico, or offer the services of United States troops to the republicans, it will prove a Signal failure, No official information of the hanging of Escobedo has boon received at Sheridan’s headquarters in New Orleans. Our Havana correspondence is dated December 23. The money panic had considerably decreased, several of the banks having been able to stand the pressure. The Board of Health contemplate removing the quarantine on vessels Coming from Jamaica and St. Thomas, Quar- antive is still served on vessels from Philadelphia. ‘The passengers who left New York on tho last trip of the steamer San Francisco for San Juan del Norte, Nica- rauga, en rowe for San Francisco, wore transferred to the Santiago de Cuba at Fortress Monroe on account of the disabling of the former vessel, They arrived at Grey- town onthe 6th of December, but were delayed nine days before they could land, owing to the prevalence of anorther, When they finally crossed the Isthmus they found that the Moses Taylor, with which they were to connect, bad sailed ton days before for San Francisco, and so they are compelied to await the next steamer, the America, which is due at San Francisco on the 20th of January. Among the passengers thus dolayed are three hundred United States troops, Tho United States steamer Gettysburg feft Annapolis, Md., on Ohristmas night, with all possible secresy and with persons on board who are said to be prominent men in the councils of the nation. She is believed to have intended visiting Mexico or the West Indies for Political purposes, and it is said that Admiral Porter and Froderick Seward were on board. On her way out, how. ever, sho ran aground at Horn Point and has not been got off ince. Hor passengers were landed, and the ex- Pedition, Whatever it was, has beon abandoned for the Present, . In the Fenian trials at Sweotsburg yesterday Crawford was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for lar. ceny. Michael Crowley was senteaced to be hanged on the 16th of February. The military have been ordered to remain at Sweetsburg and the water polico at that Point will probably bo increased. A petition asking the discharge of Grifln and Koapp, who were arrested for robbing the Royal Insurance Company, of New York, of $250,000; was flict in the Montreal courts. ‘The snow iy ceutral New York and along tho tina of the Central railroad, fell to the depth of two fect ‘The train bound east on Thursday afternoon ran into a snow arift and could not be extricated until yesterday morp- ing. On the Troy and Boston road two trains lay em- bedded in the snow all night, and similar cases bave oc- curred on nearly all the Northern roads. Railroading, in consequence, has been almost eatirely suspended, Two freig nt trains collided on the Niagara Falls and Baffulo Railroad yesterday. The two tocomotives were smashed up, and sixteon cars were badly damaged. A despatch from Holmes’ Hole says the stern of a vos. sol was drifted ashore yesterday on the northern side of the Vineyard, with the name “Boston” on it. The securities recently stolen from C. P. Bayard's office in Philadelphia wero found in the tin box in the strect yesterday and Festored to the owner. The gov- crament coupon bonds are still missing. Governor Flewher, of Missouri, bas agreed, im con- sideration of fair promises on the part of the citizens, to witodraw most of his militia from Lafayette county, jeay wg fifty men there and a larger body within easy distance, / The steamboat Fashion, plying between Vicksburg and New Orleans, was burned above Baton Rouge, La, on the S7th, two thourand six hundred bales of cotton were con- subied. sixty lives are said to bave been lost, and The exeorsion party of Congressmen reached Now Orleans on Thursday uight, and were ontertained by tho citizous yesterday. They will leave on thoir return to- day. The Congressional Investigating Committeo at Now Orleans heard the evideace of Mayor Monroe, Jacob Bar Ker and Judge Roselias yesterday. They testified that a Union taan’s fife was just as eafo there as tt i& in Boston. 4 named Perkins murdered his wife in Louisville , and afterwards attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat, Two men, ammed Campbell and Liscomb, killed « man named Sptaaer daring on altercation in New Uim on Christmas day, and were seized by a mob and hanged. ‘Their bodies were mutilated in a most shocking manner and left hanging ail night, being frozen stiff in the morning. Joun G. Robinson, the murderer of the Limorick family, was banged at Stafford Court House, Va, yester- day. He confessed his guilt and met his fate coolly. Two boys, residents of New Brunswick, N. J,, wore drowned on Wednesday at ® millpond in Middletown Point, and another, also of Now Brunswick, at Three Mile Rua. Tux Srreet Commissiongr’s Coxrarvrtions.— A suit has been commenced in the Supreme Court by Messrs Pullman’ and Varnum, mem- bers of the Common Council, against ex-Street Commissioner Cornell, for the recovery of the moneys said to have been improperly ob- tained and appropriated by him while in pos- seasion of that office. This is a civil suit and covers the charges made before the Governor, the investigation of which was prevented by Cornell’s sudden resignation, This is all very well so far as it goes; but a lawsuit is a tardy piece of business, and if an official has man- ‘aged to pooket four or five hundred thousand dollars of the people’s money, he is sharp enough and rich enough to evade restitution. The proper way to reach the matter is by « criminal prosecution. This will settle the question more speedily and more satisfactorily. If Mr. Cornell is innocent of the serious charges made against him an indictment by the Grand Jury will enable him to cstablish the fact; and ft is due to him that he should enjoy the opportunity to do so. If, on the other hand, the grave accusations are well founded, an adequate punishment of the guilty party would deter others from similar offences, Be- sides, Comptroller Brennan is eqnally inter- ested with Cornell in such an investigation. If Cornell has indeed drawn hundreds of thou- sands of dollars out of the city treasary for work that has never been done it can only have been by connivance of the Comp- Mabie arse 8 id be ap 4 jarity” for which the Iai y be held accountable. Justice to all partias demands 9 criminal prosecution in this matter in order that the truth mav apoear next to the dangers of a direct defeat are the dangers of success. The confusion which fol- lows a violent overthrow of an old and long continued political system necessarily results in'a violent: clashing of parties and factions, ideas and theories of reconstruction, against which the only remedy lies in a fixed purpose with the party in power and in steadily work- ing for its accomplishment. The opposite course, of too much haste and too much of bloody repression, diverted the first Freneh Revolution from a republic of “liberty, equali- ty and fraternity” to the stringent military despotiam of Napoleon. Our danger, however, in pursuing the same methods of recefstruction is not so much the despotism of France as the anarchy of Mexico; but still, as with France, our peril is in the Jacobins. The advanced pioneer of our Jacobin re- formers is Wendell Phillips. He belongs to the progreasive school of Danton, Marat and Robespierre. He believes in the short cut of the guillotine. He can see no way to the success of the republic but that which leads over the politically dead body of Presi- ;dent Johnson. He must be brought to the guillotine of impeachment, or the liberties of the country are gone, Here we have some- thing of the rabid fanaticism and savage per- sonal animosities which marked the recon- struction policy of the French Jacobins. Nor is Phillips without a considerable body of sup- porters at his back. His programme is echoed by an extensive faction and has its advocates among the leaders of our national assembly. Such, too, is the conflict between Northern fanatics and Southern fire and brimstone agi- tators of the old secession tribe that it is diff- cult to conjecture when we shall reach the end of all this clamor and confusion. ‘The late Seuthern rebellion was the result of a thirty years’ agitation of the slavery question between Southern propagandists and Northern abolitionists—between the State rights South- ern confederacy leaders of South Qaroling and Virginia on the one side, and of the Northern emancipation and disunion agitators of Mas- Sachusetts and New England on the other. If Barnwell Rhett and Heary A. Wiso preached disunion to maintain slavery, Lloyd Garrison and Phillips denounced the constitution as “a league with death and a covenant with hell,” in their crusade against slavery. If, ufider the lata ef South Carolina, free colored citizens of Massichngetts, in violation of the constitu- tion, were clapped in jail on touching, at Charleston to keep them from contact with the slaves of the city, Southefn masters in pursuit ot their fugitive alaves were,in violation of the constitution, arrested in the North by personal liberty bills ; if suspected Yankee commercial travellers were tarred and feathered in Vicks- burg, Southera slave hunters wore hooted through the streets of Boston. All this cul- minated in the late rebellion. The aggressive blow came trom slavery, and slavery has been destroyed as the armed enemy of the Union. A third party—the great Union party of the war, the party of Lincoln, Grant and Farragut, has stepped in and settled this disunion agita- tion on the slavery question. We have had enough from the Puritan fanatics of Massa- chusetts and enough from the State rights and secession anarchists of South Carolina. The intermediate ideas of the great Northern Cen- tral States, from the Hudson to the Mississippi, and the great dominant party wirich they com- mand, must now shape our national policy and the destinies of the country. Sowth Curolina and = Virginia’ tmve had their day of power, Massachusetts and New Eng- land have had their day, and Mew York, Penasylvania, Obio, Indiana and Ifinois must now speak the voice of the government. THe’ wac has given a new interpretation to the constitution;. it is embodied in the pending amendments, and it will surely be carried throngh. ‘If the republican party follow ‘the lend of Phillips and Butler in the impeachment of the President the party will be broken up; if the Northera democsacy continue. to follow the teachings of Southern fire-vating revolu- tionists they will never rise again from the dismal swamp tn which they now lie founder- ing. Order is on the side of the amendment against anarchy, and the Union, law and order will prevait.' The President’s poliey is de- feated, his impeachment iv‘not demanded, and, asa needless outrage, it would only result in mischief. The policy of the amendment must be carried out, because it is the will of the loyal States and the great Union paxty of the war. It is their decree, and it mast be- obeyed. What Is the Union Democracy Going to Do? The old political hacks of the democratic organization are busily engaged all over the conntry, striving to do something to retain their standing in the party and set. it again en its feet. Mayor Hoffman, after bis failure in the State, sets himself to work to draw back all the ‘iguerillas” into the Tammany camp, and at the same time indiscreetly exposes the. filth and mud of the broken down concern to public view. It is time for the Miles O'Reilly democracy—the only live organization in the city—to be up and doing. Everywhere the old democracy is utterly routed and demoral- ized, except in this city. Here they have still a sweeping majority of forty or fifty thousand, such as it is, and here alone can be started an effective movement for the reorganization of the party. Outside of New York the State gives a republican majority of some sixty thousand, which is nearly neutralized by the heavy demo- cratic vote of the city. This is quite sufficient to show that the party must take its foundation tor a new departure here, in New York. The Miles O'Reilly Union democracy is, a8 we have said, the only live democratic organi- zation in thecity. It has carried its candidates in the elections and is now in possession of all the important departments of the municipal government. Next fall it will dictate the State ticket, and in the charter election it will elect its candidate for Mayor, whether Mike Con- nolly or some other, over the head of the Baron Von Hoffman. This living, active organization ought to come out at once with o programme for the future. Let tho leaders perfect their general committee and call a convention with- out delay, with the object of an entire reorgaa- ization of the democracy of the State. They must cast aside the errors which have destroyed the old organization and take broad ground in favor of the tional amendment as the basis of the restoration of the ex-rebél States. They must declare in favor of reading the constitution by the light of the rebellion, insioad of with the spectacles of old fogrlem, the same old copperheads and blunderheads who have been sleeping the sleep of Rip Van Winkle for the past seven years, and eracy without a single State at its back and with only a miserable handfal of representa- tives at Washington. They must take the lead, prepare for their local struggle, put for- ward some strong candidate for the Presi- the State and of the nation to rally to their standard and build the party up again under new and, vigorous leaders and upon living, practical issues. ‘Tho Proposed Change in the Tarif_More Tax- ation Asked For. A formidable lobby is concentrating in Wash- ington for the purpose of influencing Congress to increase the tariff on certain things, for the sake of protection, as it is urged, to home pro- ductions. This means, in fact, more taxation upon s heavily taxed people for the benefit of avery limited nimber of overgrown capitalists, The most powerfal interests represented in this lobby are those of the iron manufacturers of Pennsylvania and eome other parts, and the wool growers, They want heavier duties on iron and wool, and will move heaven and earth to obtain them. There is also a considerable lobby for other special interests, but the first named is the most powerful. While the vast agricultural interests of the country, and espe- cially the impoverished cotton planters, are heavily and directly burdened with taxes, these others, which are already woll protected, clamor for more protection. It is believed that Congress soon after tho holidays will enter upon the work of revising the tariff, and that the quostion of Southern restoration and other political matters will be laid aside for some time for the purpose of accomplishing that work. Indeed, itis sup- posed that will occupy Congress the greater part of the remaining short session. Hence we see the activity and lobby préparations ot the parties interested. The protectionists and their newspaper organs talk in the most ridiculous manner of the languishing business of the country, meaning the business of cer- tain classes of the community. But this is not true. Everybody knows that these classes, forming a very small part of the great public, have been for some time past and still are making immense fortunes. Instead of lan- guishing they have been doing a much larger and far more profitable business than they ever did before. They are like the miser who pleads poverty and appeals for sympathy while his coffers are full of gold. [tis bigh time that Congress should take note of the fulse cries of these selfish and hypocritical pro- tectionists, There are other greater and more general interests te be considered than those of this small class. The whole country should no longer be taxed Ser their special benefit. As to laying on heavior duties for revenue, and therefore, as it is said, incidentally pro- tecting the iron, wool and otber interests, that is not needed, and is altogether out of the question. The revenue is much too large now, at least a third larger than it ought to be, and instead of imposing additional duties the present duties should be greatly reduced. Looking at the present revenue and that waich wsay be fairly estimated for the next year, tax- ation might be reduced two to three hundred waillions. Let this reduction be made upon everything that comes into general and neces- sary use, and let i® reach to eur direct taxes; then there will be no fear of business lan- geishing in the ceantry. Take off these bur- dens, and the people will have more means with which to purchase. Them as @ natural coasequence, there: will be a greater eonsump- tion of everything and a demand for larger preduction, In theé way all, andi mot merely » few, will be benefited. We hope Congress will not listen to the lobby of selfish protec- tioaists in revising the tariff, but take broad, stntesmaniike action: upon the subject, for the welfare of the public in general. The Candian Insurrection. The poetical temperament of Vietor Hugo of Lamartine has unfitted both for pmctical statesmansbip, but it has in- spired these men of genius to express revolutionary seutimenia with wonderful eloquence. ‘The recent appeal of Victor Hugo to the Candiotes, for example, with due sllowance for its characteristic egotism and attitudinizing,isa teeeible and thrilling expres- sion of the indigaation which long years of torture, first under Egyptian and afterwards under Turkish tyranny, have excited in the breasts of that straggling people, and also of the sympathy which is felt and should be manifested in their behalf throughout Christen- dom. Notwithstanding Reuter’s false despatches, at the dictation of the Turkish goverament, there are good reasons for believing that even tho atrocious measures adopted by that govern- ment, in order to suppress the insurrection, have signally failed. The Candiotes have by no means given up the contest with their oppressors. Naturally enough the Greeks have been foremost in sympatbtaing with their Cretan brethren, and, it is alleged, to lend them material aid aad comfort, by sending reinforcements of men, provisions and munitions of war. From selfish consid- erations the great Western Powers of Europe, which should at once have interfered to protect the Oretans, have seemed to hold back with indifference, or even to favor the shallow Turkish pretext of “wishing to main- tain order.” Bat at length « conference of these Powers is in prospect with a special view to reconsider the question of Candian resist- ance to Turkish misrule and oppression. This question begins to assume larger proportions, and we should not be surprised if it were to lead to a revival of the grand and momentous question d’Orient, the same old Eastern ques- tion which involved the great European Powers in the Crimean war. The Oandian Insurregtion ghows that fre epough was left smouldering in the ashes of that war to kindle another and still more furious conflagration, un- loss the flames which now appear to be epread- ing are imfhediately extinguished. Ithas been surmised that Russia, taking advantage of the tecent Baropean war, has old game of fomenting discontent among the Obristian subjects of the Porte, aot only io Candie vut throughout the Turkish ompire. and of recognising the full power of the national government as developed by the war. | Candis have long endured an Unless they make such a movement:as this | at once they will find the ground occupied by whose blunders and bile have left the demo- | dency and then call upon the demooracy of However this may be, the Greek sufficient Western Powers to prevent his deriving tem- poral advantages from this fact, and at the same time to check’ the tyranny of the Sultan by prompt and judicious intervention in the case of the Candiotes. If Candia Were rean- nexed to Greece Athens might become the'seat ofa strong government, that would .prove @ bulwark alike against. Turkish cruelty and Rassian ambition. Here, perhaps, isan oppor- tunity for Western Europe, by a single decisive blow, to end the encroachments of both Sultan and Czar. The Whiskey Distillory Frauds.’ The latest discovery of an oxtensive frand in the distillation. of whiskey, by which the government has been cheated, came to light by the seizure of a distillery near the North river on Thirty-ninth street, with a capacity for the manufacture of five thousand gallons a day, which, at the rate of duty imposed, would amount to just ten thousand dollars per diem stolen from the gov- ernment, This is but a drop in the bucket of distillery frauds which have been for some time brought before the courts and the public. The earliest startling developments were made in Brooklyn, partly through the vigilance of the Assessor of the Second Internal Revenue dis trict and hisdeputies, Taosd cada die stillin precess of investigation, but evideace enough has been elicited to show that illicit distilleries were at work in all quarters, and under all forms of manufacture, Burning fluid, so-called, which was simply whiskey with a slight addi- tion of turpentine, was made to an immense extent, and sold without paying duty, the ostensible article being exempt from tax. Then it has been proved that this iNegal distil- lation, 80 extensively ca 1 on, was connived at by the inspectors ot distillories, who, thoug! employed by th» government, are paid by the, distillers; and bow many other officials must have been in complivity with them may be sug- gested by the tacility with which the whiskey was transferred from tho secre! places of itz manufacture to innumerable depots where i: was readily sold by contract at a dollar and’ twenty-five cents a gallon, the daty alon being two dollars a gallon, ‘The law inrposing this duty has aow been in force for more than eighteen months, and as these immense frend. have only beem discovered within a few wecks, we can imagine what colossal fortunes bar been made at the expense of the Internal Rev- enne, since July, 1865. It has been estimated that in some establishmonts forty thousand dol lars a month profit was realized; but this was in the more ambitious concerns, running five or aix thousand gallons a day. [No one knows what has been accomplished in the thousands of ‘less pretentious manufactories which are scattered all over the city and its vicinity and have as yetevaded detection. Private dis- tilleries, with more or less capacity to run off #pirits, are said to be-attached to various places of basiness not at alli liable to suspicion, such as Mvery stables and other apparently inno- cent establishments. That these things cannot be done without the connivance of a “ring” we think is manifest. The examinations now in progress in Brooklyn will probably reveal the extent to which the subordinate officials of the Internal Revenue Department are implicated in these transactions, as some of them are being tried under serious chargos. But there can be very little difficulty in trac- ing these stupendous frauds to their proper searce. They are the natural result of the onerous and unnecessary taxation imposed wpon everything. It is notorious that exor- bitant dutics always effor an inducement to smuggling. The facts now being developed in oar midst form no exception. Out community is not free from the weakness which belongs to baman nature everywhere, nor does if possess any talisman against temptation. No vigilance on the part of the government, therefore, can stem the tide of frand and perjury which ex- cessive taxation has let loose upon society. The people are pretty well convinced that with an abundantly supplied Treasury, showing in the financial returns of the Secretary an ex- cess of two hundred millions per annum above the wants of the government, with no necessity existing for the payment of the entire national debt in this generation, the present rates of tax- ation are most oppressive. This is the substan- tial reason why public morals have been so seriously affected of late, as we see by the fre- quent conflicts between the collectors of inter- nal revenue and the taxpayers, leading to liti- gation which will probably in the end amount to nothing, so interwoven are the cases before the courts with intrigues and conspiracies extensively ramified and as yet shrouded in the deepest mystery. The only way to get rid of this demoraligation is for Congress to modify the laws so as to reduce taxation within a pro- per limit and abolish the income tax in foto, They will thus remove both the temptation and, we might almost say, the necessity which appears to exist in the minds of many to com- mit frauds upon the government through the agency of the Internal Revenue laws. Ivpian Massacees iy Tus Teertrortes.—The terrible story of the massacre of a United States garrison at Fort Philip Kearny, in Dakota Territory, by the Indians, appears to be substantially confirmed. In addition to this disaster it is further stated that a hostile force of eleven thousand Indians is organized to make war upon the whites in the distant Western Territories. While we have always regarded reports of Indian atrocities on the frontier as exaggerated and oftentimes in- vented for the purpose of getting United States troops sent out there for the benefit of sutlers and others, still it seems that there is good reason to fear for the safety of the settlers in Dakota at the present time. We presume that if the cavaenment ie dniy advised of the frets spiritual head, it would not be difficult for the | { i version, and we. prefer the former. t Because crime in Néw York is an institution. Not orimés done ex-kingdom of Naples and in the Abruzzi well as among the thugs of Hindostan, it is a business handed down in the family. We look with mingled pity and horror on those benighted, brutal people, and we send them missionaries; but ae a rule few of us . have the nerve to trust our- selves among them ; for there no man’s life is safe. Now, where is the difference betweena trip from Vera Cruz to Mexico City and a ride from the Astor House, say to Fortieth street, op a street railroad? Let any man or woman of sense think e® moment and it will be found that (here is none whatever. One may escape; but is there anything known as law, order or authority which can guarantee one a safe tran- sit through New York city any more than through Mexico? Put this question to your- self, O respectable citizen of New York! Is it not notorious that the strect railroad cars are infested at all hours by gangs of desperate men, who rob you in the car or waylay you when you descend at your own door? Happy, thrice happy, the victims who have their ;pockets picked quietly while riding up town, ibus. aveiding the cruel fate of those destined io be knocked on the head first, as they turn & corner in sight of their homes. Who in New York is astonished at such things? No ose whose -fortune it has been to live here three months. A week, a day, without o daring highway robbery, accompanied by brutal vio- lence, ending, it may be in murder, would be a litue remarkable; but our remarkable events sre not of that character. And in regard to discovering the perpetrators of these oat- rages, it sometimes happens that they are never found. Neither is that anything remark- able. But what is remarkable is the patience of the public. Thirty years ago the island of Oubs was so infested by raffians that in the city of Havana no one dared go out after sunset. General Taeon, then Captain General, resolved io put a stop to the brigandage, and he did it. He told the police that for every delinquent not caught and delivered into the jailor’s bands some individual policeman from the dis- wict in which the outrage had been committed should suffer the penalty affixed to the crime. ‘The result was that in a very short space of time the island was swept clean, and has re- mained so more or less to this day. One thorough scourging did the business, But thea Genera! Tacon was a man who kept his word and discharged his duty conscientiously. The cily of Havana blesses bis memory to this hour. Is there any one among us, helpless, unpro- tected citizens of New ¥ork, who, occupying an office of profit and trast, will do his duty in like manner? He need not be ufraid; the people will back him. He need not hang the police- man—we do not expect such an exercise of clyie | virtue from bim; but he can get good men to © do their duty, We must find some one equal te | the emergeacy and give New York a cleaning that rogues and ruffians shall remember. The shame to think and to know that some suck desperate remedy is sbsolutely necessary ia ibis splendid and wealthy city, the first in America, is too much to be borne forever. Tae Artantic Casim—The Atlantic cable since Monday last has been dumb--dumb as an oyster. What is the matter? The Over. land Newfoundland lines are reported broken, but sarely not so much as to require five days to repair them. Has tho cable given out or become so weak as to be no longer able to speak intelligibly? or have we an explanation ot its silence in our letter published yesterday from Dublin, of the 12th, by a late steamer, that the yachts im the Atlantic race on reach- ing Cowes “will receive startling news about Ireland.” In a word, has “a rising” in Ire- land resulted in the cutting the cable by England or by the Fenians? or has the cable given up the ghost? We wait for on answer from the cable or from Newfoundland. M08 LAW IN MINNESOTA. Two Mea tu New Ulm Seized by « Mob and Hanged for Murder—Shocking Atreeities at the Execution—The Bedies Allewed to Hang Until Frozen. St. Pact, Minn., Dec. 28, 1868, ‘We learn of a terrible tragedy at New Ulm on Christ mas day. Two men named Campbell and Liscomb had come in from a trapping expedition. {Daring an alterca- tion in a raloon one of them stabbed » resident of New Ulm named Jobn Spinner, severing @ main artory and causing death. ‘The Sheriff arrested Liscomb and Campbell, and while on their way (o jail handcuffed, they were set upon by ® mob, beaten with stones and sticks of cord wood and thon rescued from the Sherif and hung. Even while hanging the mod cut and hacked their bodies in * shoek - ing manner. Their bodies were stifl hanging, aad frosen