The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. — JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. XXXII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rag Picken or Panis— Japa HarMagen—Jexwy Linn. . Siaxets or New Yous. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Lirrir B. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tox Waite NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite Now York Hotel. 007. Paws. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and lta astreet.— Ocus. FRENCH THRATRE.—Le Svrriice v'uxn Feuar—La Fue pa Domugue, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Litrim Neit anv Tas Maxcuioness, BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Bioad- ‘Wey aud Wid atveet.—Hippsn Hann, NEW YORK Equxsrnianisa, THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Hancox Comat NaTi0w Tuours anv Miniature Cixcus. SEROUR, Fourteenth street. —Grunagtica, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. ~Sonas, Danoxg, Kocentmcines, &c,—Graxo Dutcw "8." SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broad way.—Eraio- nian Exreuraivuents, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUES. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couw Vocatisa, Neoxo MinsTRELsY, 40. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Brondway.— Barizr, Farce, Partomime, Ac, BTEINWAY HALL.—Na. Jauss E. Murvocn’s Reavincs LYRIC HALL, No, 725 Sixth avenue.—Gnann Concent. BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteonth street.—Taw Puce. Matinee at 2. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Casta. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—La Traviata. HOOLFY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklya,—Eraiortax Mursrasisy, Baciaps axp Buatesqurs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— HOE AND ART. New York, Thursday, February 13. 1868S. EUROFE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yeator- day evening, February 12, The London journals generally approve of the late report of the American Congressional Committee on the Maturalization question and the action of Congress Vhereon. The shelter given by Austria to the Hanoverian exiles dwspieases Prussia, A Paris journal says Count Bismarck requested permission to resign the premier- whip of Prussia, Major General Napier, leading the British advance in Abyssiuia, was in closejproximity‘to tno King’s troops, Skirmisbing is said to have taken place between the contending forces, and oficial reporie are looked for with great anxiety in England, Consols, 95/4 293% in London, Five-twenties, 7174 in London and 753¢ iu Franktort. Rentes fat in Paria, Cotton firmer, but easier, with middiing uplands at 8%. Breadstufs and provisious without marked change, CONGRESS. Tu the Senate yeatorday a bill was reported to admit the Territory of Colorado, The resolution inquiring into the.ejectment of a colored woman from the Gvorge- town and Alexandria Railroad cars was called up aud after considerable debate was adopted. A bill declaring Alabama restored to the right of representation in Con- gress, in conformity with tho Ofth section of the bill for the more efficient government of the rebel Siatos, was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, Tho case of Senator Thomas, of Maryland, was made the special order for to-day. In the House a bill was introduced to pravent foreign convicts from entering the United Siates, The pre- ‘Vious. question was moved on the,dill to protect cilizens abroad, but the House refused to second it. Sevoral amendments were offered aud the bill weot over until to-day. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appro- Priation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole without a vote, the Department of Education doing @specially under consideration. THE L GISLATULE. In tho Sonate yesterday bills wore tntroduced to amend an act authorizing a raliroad from Brooklyn to Jamaica, and to create a harbor district and Board of Woarvos and Piors in New York. Soveral bills of o local or personal character w The Senate then nominated Ira Buckman Commissioner of Metro- politan Police, Jo the Assembly a bill to amend the charter of Brook- lyn was reported favorably. Maithew T. Urenpan was thon nominated for Commissioner of Metropolivan Poitce, The two houses met in joint convention and proceeded to the election by joint bailot of » Metropolitan Police Commissioner, and Matthew T, Brennan was elected by #4 votes to 60 for Ira Buckman Both houses then ad- Journed. - THE CIiY. . Judge Cardozo yesterday rendered a decision in the Chicago and Rick Istand cases on the motion to remove Shem to the United states Court. As regards Mesers, Fisk & Belden, Tracey and tho rajiroad company, the motion is denied, on the ground that the: , residents of,she State, but it is gramied in the case of Mr. Hatch, In the Supreme Court, Part 1, yesterday, before Judge Barbour, an action was instituted against the second Avonuo Railroad Company by the ‘relatives of a boy Bamed Prendill, for severe injuries sustained by him some time since, through the alleged negligence of the defendants’ servants. The case has not coi ded. Te the Superior Court, Part 2, yesterday, before Judge MeCana, Jacod Markson brought an action against Lov! Cabo and another for false imprisonmonk Piaintiit averred that he was maliciously arrested for a robbery of the defendant's premises in Naesau street im April Inst, lodged in prison and subsequently discharged. The defence was probabis cause, 9 complaint was dis- missed. In the Court of Common Pleas, Part 2, yoaterday, before Judge Barrett, the jury returned a vordict for $1,000 in the case in which Anna Hall claimed damages against (he Second Avenue Railroad Company, In the Court of Genera Sessions yesterday, before Kecorder Hackett, Thomas White and Charles W. Wilson pleaded guilty to am indictment charging thom With stealing two moersehaum pipes jh $85 from Freaoriok W. Kaldenberg. They were each sent to the State Prison for two years and six months, Thomas Jobason, charged with stealing fivo yards of cloth Valued at $60, pleaded guilty and was seut to the State Prisom for two yoars, Ignatiue Fox man pleaded guilty to assagit and tmanded for tence, The matter of paying the fae @f $250 each, which was imposed upon George W. Tins- dale and Arthur Taggett for cruel treatment of horses lo overcrowding @ Bieecker street car, was brought up, ~ Counsel for the defendants signified bis intention of apposling the case and the court granted him s week to Prepate te bill of exceptions The North German Lioyd’s steamship Union, Captain woken to-day (Thursday) about via Southampton, The Eurd- poan mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M, ‘The steamebip Eagie, Captain i. R. Greene, will leave pier No, 4 North river at.three o'cloek P. M. to- day for Havesa, The maiis for Cuba will close at the Post Office at two P, M. MISCELLANEOUS. Out special telegrams from Havana state that iho tovacee crop would probably be only baif the average on account of drought, Madame Ristori had received « atrong imritation from the Emperor of Brasil to visit Bio Jansiro, The news trom St. Domingo confirms the feport that Cabrel bad been overthrown. Huogria is Octing as President, Bees being expected every day. Secretary Seward dec! retura to the General , Amombly of Ohio 1 uments ratifying the four- Goonth article of the constitution, Ho anys there ia no law permitting the return of any papers oa fle im bis department, {nm the State Constitutional Convention yesterday the and her press co NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1868. articles on Ananee and banking, currency and insurance, wero referred to the Commitiee on Revision, without amendment The article om towns and counties was amended s0 as to provide that the Board of Supervisors of New York county shall have no other power or juris- diction except now or hereaiter conferred by the Legislature, subject to repeal or modification by the same body, The revised report on the “preamble and Bill of Rights was considered, but without action, In the Loutsiana Convention yesterday nothing of im- portance was done beyond the reference of a resolution to repeal the article on the judiciary, In the Georgia Convention yesterday the negro lawyer Bradley, who bas been on trial for some time, was expelied by a unanimous vote for gross insults to the Convention, A franchise ordmance was adopted. Mississippi Convention find it difficult to collect the taxes which thoy recently levied, and bave requested General Giilom to assist tpem. ‘The South Carolina Convention yesterday adopted ten more sections of the Bill of Rights. An explosion occurred in a paraMno oll factory in South Brooklyn last evening, by which two mon wore burned to death and one was fatally injured. Another car was burned by @ lato railroad accident near Marshall, Iowa, No lives were lost, but most of the passengers were injured. i The Alabama Claiws—England in Our Late Rebellion. The subject of tho “Alabama claims’ is now on both sides of tha water under- going ‘a vigorous discussion. Lord Hobart to the London Times in refor- ence to those claims and edvising thelr sottle- ment is as wise and judicious as anything which has appeared of late. Our own opinion has always been that England had better The letter of accept any form of arbitration, or, in fact, pay anything which our government might demand, ‘in order to bring the matter toa speody settle- ment. Still, there are other views upon this question, and as the matter has been so long delay 1 we are half inclined to adopt them. Yon slavery was.one of the compromises of our constitution, and when many loyal people in the free States felt obliged to give their support to that institution because the constl tution did sanction it, England’s emissaries were here to sow strife and the seeds of dis- union upon that question. Meeting after meet- ing was held in Exeter Hall, at which the nobility and fashion of England gave their names and their influence, having the same object in view. question and reflecting upon some of the best minds of our country were eagerly read and their contents heartily received by the press of that country; and whenever a traveller from our own land who had made himself obnoxious for his abolition views visited Eng- land his course here would be pretty sure to give him a passport to the best society there. We have only had one view of what was intended by all this. Over and over again we have exposed the duplicity of that country in her general dealings with the world. England saw the enormous growth on this side of tho Atlantic, and knew very well that the question of slavery or abolition might be fanned into a flame which would disrupt us and thus tend to divide our power. the rebellion broke out all honest, consistent people here supposed, as a matter of course, that but thet she woukd, on the contrary, carry out her professions aud give a death blow at once to slavery. people were doomed to be disappointed when they saw her belie all her former principles, and when, contrary to all the uses of civilized governments, she hastily recognized the insur- gent government of the South as a belligerent, glving it by such recognition a flag upon the ocean, and giving it, moreover, an indirect moral aid and support which was {piluitely more effectual than direct action. Letters bearing upon this When, therefore, ‘outh would have no aid from England, We need not sty how much such The reason for this course can be stated In a gle word, Had England lent the weight of power and her influence to sustaining the government of tho United States the rebellion would have been sbortlived and of little account; on the contrary, siding with the South gave strength to the hope which has been the groundwork many long years. would bring about a permanent disruption of this government ; and when Lord John Russell announced to the world that the great American of her ploltings for She saw what she supposed Union w in reality broken up her aristocracy d berdly contain themselves for joy. We have had to go over those matters somewhat in detail to show what has been the real fecling of England towards us. She can ill disguise even now, with all her professions of good will, ber great disappointment at tho failure of the rebellion. Tho whole ground- work is now changed, and it is a serious qnes- tion with the thinking people of this country whether we ought not to so interest ourselves as to sid the great humanity of the world by lending our influence go to change the govern- ment of that country as to make it a pure republic upon the basis of our own, to do away with the whole doctrine and law of primogeniture and ontail, with its Established Chure), and thus, breaking down the monopoly of wealth and title, give her maases, who are now suffering slavery inflnitely lower than that evor exisiing in our Southern States, an opportunity for political freedom and the enjoyment of an existence which is at present a mere burden. We have taken occasion moro than once to suggest that Fenianism was not a mere remedy for Irish wrong, but rather the ideal ot what was wanted and demanded by the great work- ing classes of Great Britain, who are held in servilude by their lordly masters, and who thus give voice to their wishes. These reasons have their influence upon some of the best minds of our country in wishing delay in this Alabama business. They think, very truly, that all things are working for good, and the time is near at hand when we shall commend the poisoned chalice of precedents furnished by England herself to her own lips, and that our ruined commerce will once more revive and take tho place now wrongfully usurped by England through piracies com- mitted on ours by her own subjects; and in addition to ell this the raising up on the other side of the water a republic, speaking the same language, and the masses of which will see in their own deliverance from oppression another of the wonder-workings of Provigence, brought about by the rash action of their own govera- ment in giving aid to the attempted establish- ment of # pure slavoocracy here ai the expense and by the destruction of tho government of these United States. Buteven in this broad view of the subject there is no urgent necessity for pushing these Alabama claims. These claims, as a sort of mortgage on the New Do- minion, will keep, and while we bold them over England we have her under bonds to avoid any further “entangling alliances” in the do- meatic affairs of the independent States of this Continent. ‘ The Wostora Unien Telegraph Company as be shaped very much by the will of Congress, | part. We have thought over our great men In B's = News Pedier. The business of the newspaper press bas been the principal support of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and would alone have handsomely maintained a line econo- mically managed and representing no more capital than the legitimate cost of construc- tion, The regular reports of the Associated Press and the specials of enterprising journals all over the country have yielded » princely revenue in tolls, and have been tho more Profitable because usually transmitted over the wires out of business hours, when com- mercial messages are the least numerous and pressing. The newspapers have therefore been the best customers the telegraph has had, and have been mainly instrumental in building up the Western Union into a mono- poly. “Assure me the exclusive patronage of the daily press,” said one of our most experienced telegraph men a short time since, “and I will put up all over tho country and make profitable from the start the best lines ever constructed in the United States,” So long as the telegraph company attended to its legitimate business and regarded the press as it would any other customer there was no conflict or difficulty between the two, any more than between the telegraph and the stock- brokers of Wall street. But the Western Union company, under the absurd belief that it could control the press by taking tho whole details of telegraphic reporting into its own hands, stepped outside its proper sphere of action, and, as well as transmitting press messages over its wires, made reporters of its operators, obtained & contract for supplying the daily journals of this city with harbor news, undertook to get up and sell markets and commercial intelligence all over the country, and mixed up in e dozen other maitera with which it had no right to moddle, The objectionable features of this policy can be seen at w glance. A telegraph employ¢ is necessarily entrusted by private in- dividuals with important secrets, and the strictest confidence oan alone reconcile the public to the use of such ® means of communi- cation. But if telegraph operators aro also nows reporters, there can be but little proba- bility that seorecy will be observed or confl- dence respected when valuable information -gets into their possession. The press derives no advantage whatever from this prostitution of the Western Union Telegraph Company of its legitimate busi- ness and its grasping desire to meddle with news reporting. In the matter of harbor nows, for instance, tho reports of the company are notoriously unreliable and Snsufficient. The Western Union marino branch in the Exchango is valueless alike to the daily journals and to merchants, for vessels are constantly at anchor off the Battery or at the piers before their ar- rival has been announced by the company. So far as the Heratp is concerned, it pays no attention whatever to the Western Union ma- tino reports, but relies upon its own re- sources for the collection of all harbor news. The advantage of this to our commercial read- ers may be seen from tho following compara- tive table of the arrivals for the last month, as reported by albam yachts for the Hrraip and by the Western Union Telegraph Company re- spectively:— No. of Vessels — | No. of Vessels, Herald — Western Herald — Western Jan, Steam Union| Jan, “Steam Union 1863. Fachty Telegraps, | 1808. Yachts, Telegraph. 1 38 35 [17 4 18 2 é 4 5 6 7 8 9 Thus two hundred and thirty-four vessels reached this port in the month of January whose arrivals were not recorded at all by the Western Union Telegraph Company, but were reported to the Herato by the steam yachts, Buttho company clings to tho harbor news contract simply aa moans of making a fow dollars by ranniag off and selling to con- signees the intelligence of the arrival of such vessols agit docs happen to catch, just the same es it makes @ business of selling com- mercial newa all over tho pountry, thus inter- foring at once with the province of the news- paper press and the iuteres's of private indl- viduals, whos) maossages sent over the wires aro lett to the mercy and consolences of a string of news pediers and »: tors. In fact, tho illegitimate faterference of a telegraph company with news reporting is so clearly an abuse, destructive of individual rights and in- consisteat with tho idva of the aeoreey neces- sary to such @ basiness, that it seems to call for legislative action. A telegraph company may bo driven by necessity or impelled by avarice to use the wires under its caatrol for those purposes, but such o course is clearly inconsistont with the interests of the public and might well be prohibited by law. The officers and employs of our telegraph lines would then be enabied to give their full atten- tion to the proper working of their wires and the faithful transmission of mossages and re- ports, leaving the collection and the sale of nows to those to whom it legitimately beloags. ee Goneral Grant nod the Democracy. General Grant having completely taken the radical wind out of the anils of Mr. Chiet Justice Chase as the republican heir apparent for the Presidential succession, the main ques- tion suggested to the democracy is “What, under this sew position of affairs, le Our true course?” We think they are in no condition to fight Grant, simply because there is no available man witbin their reach who can defeat Grant. They seem to have given up MoClellan by gonerel consent; Horatio Sey- mour insists upon being counted out; the Western copperhends would not touch Sher- man with @ forty-foot pole; the White House nomination of Hancock was only anine days wonder; President Johnson biself fs out of the question ; and, ia short, the only man who seems to have any footing at ail for the Demo cratic National Conventton is Pendleton, the map who, with ‘his Chicago poaco platform in 1864, broke down McClellan, East and West. Against Pendleton Grant wil! walk over the course, and against any other man picked up at the eleventh hour Grant will win. What, then, is there left for the democracy to fight for? The next Congress. In Congress, after all, lie sovereign powers of the govern: ment, The rdministration under Great will Let tho democracy aud all the anti-radical elements of the country, after quieting Vallan- digham, concentrate their efforis for the elec- tion of a conservative House of Representa- tives for the Forty-first Congress, and from and after the 4th of March, 1871, even under Gen- eral Grant as republican President, we ebal! have a conservative administration. History repeats itself. Diedrich Knicker» bocker himself could only ring the changes in his famous description of the war between the adventurous Peter Stuyvesant and his bands against the crafty Governor, Jan Risingh, if called upon to recount the war which is now impending®-nay, which yesterday evening began with the first big gun from the intrepid Max Strakosch at the Academy of Music— between the great rival opera houses of Man- hattan. Diedrich the historian would have again to imitate hia illustrious model, the immortal Thucydides, who, having arrived at the breaking out of the Peloponnestan war, “sounds tho charge,” as one of his commen- tators observes, “In all the disposition and spirit of Homer. He catalogues the allies on both sides, He awakens our expectations and fast engages our attention, All mankind are concerned in the important point now going to he decided. Enieavors are made to disclose futurity. Heaven itself is interested in the dispute, The earth totters and nature seoms to labor with the great event, This is his solemn, sublime manner of setting out. Thus he magnifies a war between two—as Rapin styles them—petty States; and thus arifully he supports a little subject by treating it in a great and noblo method.” In like manner Diedrich Knicker- bocker would lead his readers into the very teeth of peril and cry out as the present combat opens, “Stand by for broken heads and bloody noses!” His pen would a second time record a fiercer fight than either Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Polybiua or any other historian ever described. He would revive the bustle and stir in the city of New Amsterdam om that memorable day when the host of warriors encamped in the Bowling Green were striking their. tents, when the drums beat and the standards of the Manhattoes, of Hell Gate and of Michael Paw waved proudly in the air. He would cause the brazen trumpet of doughty Antony Van Corlear Kingsland to make the welkin resound with portentous clangor. The sturdy Van Corlear Kingsland would marshal all his forces and commence his warlike opera- tions. “Distending his cheeks like a very Boreas, be kept up a most horrific twanging of his trumpet; the lusty choristers of Sing Sing broke forth into a hideous song of battle ; the warriors of Brenckelon and the Wallabout blew a potent and astonishing blast upon their conch shells—altogether forming as outrageous a concerto as though five thousand French fiddlers were displaying their skill in a modern overture.” Thus prophetically hath the Illustrious Diedrich already portrayed the scenes about to be witnessed in tho battle between grim Governor Jan Risingh Pike and the intrepid Peter Stuyvesant Strakosch. Stout Risingh Pike stands firm es a thou- sand rocks, The intrepid Peter Stuyvesant Strakosch comes on, “ his brows knit, his teeth sot, his fists clenched, almost breathing forth yolimes of smoke, so flerce is the fire that rages in his bosom. His faithful squire, Van Corlear Kingsland, , tradges faithially at his heels, with his irumpet gorgeously bedecked with red and yellow rib- bons.” Then comes waddilng on the sturdy chivalry of the stockholders. For their names—the Van Wycks and the Van Dycks and the Ten Eycks and the rest of the two hundred and fifty—we must refer to the chronicles of Diedrich Knickerbocker, who has duly set them all down upon Van Corlear’s roll-call. . Jn sober earnest, the island of Manhattan has seldom been so greatly excited since the day when Van Corlear summoned Governor Risingh to instant surrender, and, turning aside, “took his nuso between his thumb and fingers and bleWa tremendous blast, not un- like tho flourish of a trumpet of defiance.” Managers, stockholders, ladies (espousing separate sides and wearing tho colors of one or the other competitor iu this new War of the Roses), chorus singers, livery stable keepers (who have never before received so many orders in advance), ticket speculators (forgely ful of the bitter lesson which they learaed at the Dickens readings)—in ® Word, as the prophetic Diedrich says, “the entire popu- lation of the city, man, woman and child,” are awailing with breathless interest the im- pending operatic war. The keen competition it will excile must, at all events, revive the flagging fortunes of tho opera, which we bave been compelled to lament for several years past. With Pike and Grover and Max Maretzck, aided by Italian, Teutonic and Bourbon, and wo know not what other potent agencies as yot unrevealed, of transatlantic or cisatlaniic origin, on the one hand, and with Max Strakosch, La Grange, Brignoli and the stockuolders, with gallant trumpeter on the other, the contest will be as flerce and lively as the political war which conservatives and radicals are waging with each other, On whatever banoor victory may ultimately perch this “tremendous battle” will doubtless result in the triumphant issue of Italian opera out of all the dificuitics which {¢ has hitherto encountered in striving to acquire a permanent foothold in America. Our Differeaco with tho Britikh Lies. England gives is up, Yes, that proud Power finally sees the propriety of abating her impudent pretensions, and agrees to settle the Alabama cisims fairly, We have rocelved the proposition for settlement from « oliizen of Manchester, who, of course, speaks in the interest of bis countrymen and by authority. Here are his very words :— Tat three men of known pesition be vo! y the Avserican Congress to ‘three men similariy voted ny tuthe ‘Alubeme question, ond leh tneit decision (op ont al ie qu er ‘oe (| themesiven be Saal died 4 resi ag SIReetapapcenr pore RE IS SEER SE EES OES DASE SE SS ea i een Bes Ee OE EE I A Es oll lines, but, concluding that the throe Britains and the ihree Americans will certainly fight before they gt through, we conclude to shape it with a view to that event, and consequently nominate for the service the Hon. John Mor- rissey, Mike McCoole ant Dooney Harris. Secession and the New Dominion. The debate which is now going on in the local Parliament of Nova Scotia shows bow thoroughly bent the people aro on breaking up the New Dominion, The Legislature is but giving voice to the sentiments universally prevalent over the colony. Repeal of the Union act is the great question of the hour ; and it is belag vigorously discussed not only in Halifax, but wherever Nova Scotians are in the habit of congregating. The delegation charged wilh the prosecution of the repeal question in London is expected to sail imme- diately. Itisa pretty little diMloulty as it stands. Tt was only in June of last year that the Do- minion wag ushered into existence by the Queen’s proclamation and a general flourish of trumpets. Tho confederation was to be the foundation of a mighty empire, and was to occupy, in course of time, on the American Continent the proud position which,Russia now occupies on the Continent of Europe. So spake Lord Caraarvon on the eve of the Queen’s pro- clamation, These brilliant hopes are not much encouraged by the state of things now ex'sting in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, we have been led to believe, is quite as dissatisfied as Nova Scotia, and Lower C.nada, it is said, is wore dissatisfied than either. Tho Parlia- ment at Ottawa has hard work before it, and it remains to be seen whether it shall prove itself equal to the task. ‘The experiment of the confederation or dominion is a grand one. It will be watched with interest. ApurraL Farragut anp THE AMERICAN Squap- Ron.—Some people are at a loss to know what means this Kuropoan cruise of Admiral Farragut. The same people reckon our naval expenses as so much waste of money. Ono answer is perhaps sufficient for the question and the objection, It is right that America, in the matter of hor navy, should be worthily repre- sented. We need a large and efficient naval force; it is economical that we should have it, and it is proper that the world should know something of it, Our great and growing com- mercial interests require that our navy should be adequate to all possible demands. The bost training next to actual fighting is life at eea and experience in all waters. , While the inhabitants of European countries are privi- leged through our ships to behold somewhat of the glory of the great republic, we may rest assured that Admiral Farragut {s possessed of too much good sense to compromise our inte- rests by an unnecessary display of aympathy either for Italians orGroeks, It is well that the world should know something of our greatneas, and it is proper that we should have faith in our public servants. Caventna A TartaR.—A copporbead journal of tho East, founded upon religion, army con- tracts, straw hats, linen army overcoats and Philadelphia porter, has caught a Tartar in catching Vallandigham, This “viper,” this “renegade,” this “iraitor to the party,” it is commanded by this indignant organ of the faithful, must be excommunicated and left out in the cold, “Ho has worried the lambs of the flock long enough; let him be turned out of the fold with a brand upon his brow and a kick to start him.” Vallandigham, however, does not see the matter in this light. “Suppose you try it,” he answers; “bore I am, and, what is more, I am going to proach the demo- cratic gospel to the brethren in New Hamp- shire. Whit have you got to say about it?” And from various democratic organs out West comes up the echo, “What have you got to say about it?” This is what may be called catch- Ing a Tartar. It is too late now for any Eastern copperhead to read out Vallandigham in the West. Coon Bismarck on THe Sick List.—How much depends oa tho life of a single individual! Tho loss of Napoloon to Franco or of Bismarck to Prussia woull, ia present circumstances, prove, perhaps, quite as serious to France aud Prussla respectively ag did the loss of Cavour to Italy. Men rather than measures are necessary in great crisos in countries where constitutional government is but im- perfectly known, Count Cavour has had no successor in Iluly; hence much of Italy’s mis- fortune, Wo seo no man fitted to take the place of cithor Napoleon or Bismarck; thero- fore we say the loss of either would be a loss to the cause of human progress. Cloopatra’s nose had to «io with the fate of nations; so it must be admitted, though ina different sense, {s it with Napoleoa’s imperial and Bismarck’s mustache. A Neepiess Exrexse.—The merchants who pay tue Western Union Telegraph for reports of the arrival of their vessels at this port put themselves to a very needless expense, We will furnish them with the same information, much more full and reliable, without cost, if they will apply at our office. DELINQUENT TLNEMENT HOUSE OWNERS, Superintendent McGrogor's orders rolating to the erection of propor fire and other escapes in tenement houses Laving been disregarded by many owners or necessary to present them defore the Supreme Court, as the law prescribes, and Judge Beroard bas returned him sotioces in the follow. y yrecedil jo. 161 Rast Twenty-afih atgeet, owned by Alfred MeCord; same wor! No, 102 Kast T some four b red and teu persons. Willian Miles, President of tne majority ai on may both ‘sations, ‘be meeting ought to be ia ‘Atuerien rst wd His agent, Mr, Sebaffer, is Vice and afterwards in England to beer beth evidence. es ut House Atvociation, organized for the purpose It will be seon trom this how much England | “(SP (ts provements in tenement Bouse, is excited on the great topic. Hore is a Man- satisfactory from the allidavit of James ‘eperintendeat of Build) chester man whose head is evidently swimming sadly in the national bewilderment. As for the proposition, we accept it in ita main point. We shall not consent, however, to the commission sittiog ia England. Webad enough of that when Heenan went to reitle a little d!spute with Sayers, The case must be neitied here. We aro sadly puazled as to how the commission should be mado up on our i et 3 1t is ordered #1 - invendest of Buvidings, eal dro. with & ereot, on the butid- costs, disburse. ig thie order iato , MeG bas alread) it the ids of eotmpeten eters meshanica For speea: iy The Washingion,"’ “The Presi ef the United Salen,” "The Congress," |The Judiciary. = Shue’ Biate ot New ‘ id Na a ee To-morrow will be St. Valentine's Da.’ mie begia- Bing of the season—for it le supposed to last sroughoud the month—devoted to the exchange of por'tical decista- tions of love and Adelity between those wh.19e hearts have been pierced by the arrows of tho naive litt! 64, Of course there will be @ host of sentimental verses, 0 bowered in all styles of dainty design, sent and re- ceived, and u etill greater number of comic allusions to the foibles and frailties of the recipients will be de- spatched through the mails, The custom of sending valentines is very old, St, Valeutimus flourished in the third century (beheaded in Rome under the reign of the Emperor Claudivs, A. D. 270), acd was, according to Wheatley, ‘90 famousfor his low a custom of chousing vaicntives om its rise from thence,” Others tom from birds being supposed $0 select their matos on this day; others again {rom tue practice prevalent ia ancient Rome at the festival of tue Supercatia, heid during @e month of February, whea, among other ceremonies, the na tf young Women were placed ia « box and taken thea oupng méo a8 chance directed, It is claimed for St, Vaiewt:ue that finding it imposmble to extirpate tbis custom ho changed its fora, among the Christian men and maidens of Rome, substituting the transmission botween lovers of scriptural exserps and roligious motets, tor the usual declarations of passion. The custom has greatly changed ‘since the days of the Rood Old saint, aud none provably ever think of the idea Which animated him, much tess of carrylog It out prac- Ucal y. Of late years the sending of valentines bas been gradually fylling into disuse; though on the reour- Fence of this season, With its altondaut devices of love end se) mic sentiment, tue fauey stores and toy shops giv deuce that 1% 18 not outirely extinct, aubs of hue are for saie, as usual, and costly valenti be purchased, if de-ired. ‘The advent of St. Vaientiue’s Day brings to mind what 49 said by old Burton, the anatomist of metancholy :—*1b is worth the trouble to inquire of love whether : god or a devil or rt passion oa the, ke ed rtly god, partly devil ai rtly passion, " judg ‘rom the devices 4 the V. anal prints on oxbibition, however, the purchaser, like the voy in the menagerie, “pays lis money and takes his cho.ce."” Every style description may be had, from the costly ombossed and gilt missive that carrios on its face the gentlest breath. ings of the universal passion to tho commonest most comical ha'penny affair that ean be imagined, Latterly the bizarreries incident to the former celobra~ tion of the carnivat of St, Valentine have been greatly modified, Alchough there is ® muse of trash among the versicular mottoes which make their appearance this season, sometimes a gem may be found, as for instance:— Though memory's fair record fades, Though house and kindred be forgot, Thgieh friendships pass like fleetog shades, et still forges me not. Sone of the attempts becants posticaily aes tow: je objects of on jon are 8j 1 Joy where Tovelis eooused ot age, in which latter e an avial wet nurve:— Ob, thon, it is—it must be love ‘That robs my soul of rest; Go forth, I speed the trembling dove, A pilgtim to thy breast, Or the following, which tinapa fearfuily In Ita meteiont JRA sccay asad gold azo fiir sarees : auty and gold are But ‘ge metho girl with a heart for mo; You are the ove, My dart ms ee ‘ Aod I will your Valentine be. Of courso every one has momorized the foralised Vatentine;— ‘The rose Is red, ‘The violet's diue, ‘The pink ts protiy, And go are you. The following is associated with the carliest momertes of nearly every one:— The ring ts ro It bath ao So is my lor For you, my friend. If the decadence of the custom continues It wilt mot be many years bofore it dies out altogether. _ POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. A Texas paper gives an account of a ‘‘risiag’’ among the negroes in Wood county, During tho coldest days the heads of families “‘ris’’ ia the morning, proceeded to certain places and made contracts with the whites, irreapective of politics, for the coming yoar, - The white majority in Fayette covaty, Toxas, will be over 300, diany whites in the county who can do so have not registered. The Galveston (Texas) Bulictin (Fobruary 2) ohargea that Governor Hamilton, the groat Texas ‘adical high cook-a-loram, ‘did, ‘on Gaturday night, Jaouary 25, lo the market bouse at Galveston, publicly advise the ae- {groes not to run for office; and on the Friday night Cole lowing, January 31, in the Loyal League, did privately approve and encourage the negroes in so doing.” This statement has created quite a sensation among the negro secret leagues, aud Governor Hamilton seoms to have suddenly itamorsed himself into a cauldron of political hot water, A democratic paper out Wort nominates a distin- gulshed local politician as a candidate for the Preal. dency, with this singular proviso :— “Subject to the ‘de. raion’ of @ Domocratic National Convention." The Governor of Koutucky bas sent to the Legislature | mossage, accompanying which is a copy of the pre- amble aod resolution of the Obio Legislature withdraw. ing Its assent from the proposed fourjeonth amendment to the federal constitution, The Governor, in transmit. ting the document, says:—'‘Such action by our sistor Stato is the occasion for renowed hope by the lovers of Pesca pipers government for its perpetual m, aud will doubtioss receive such consideration by 1 Assemoly of Kentucky as its importance At the olection in the town of Corning, on Tuesday, John Vischer, republican, was olectod by 33 majoruy— @ gain Of 155 since last year, A New Political Party—General Dix. (Washington correspondence (Feb, 11) Boston Adver- tiser. Information ip conservative circles is to the effect that cousiderable progress las t quietly mado throughout the couotry by those prominent in the Philadelphia Convontion of August, 1860, towards the ynaugeration of 4 combiaed movement looking to the formation of a third party upon the former plan of thab convention, Hostility to General Grant and such demo. crats as Peolieton and Seymour will mark the action taken, aud the name of Geseral Dix, which is consianuy used by these moa, indr tuo kindof purty organiza. tion contemplated. Tn us private meetings gf sub-cormmit f tie Coun- try, and it is expected mittee Ap pointed at i’ai.aduiphia will soou assemble hore, THE LINCOLN BANQUET IN JERSEY CITY, Yestorday, being tho birthday of thd tate Prosident Lincoln, was celebrated in an appropriate mannor by the Lincola Association of Jersey City, who gave a grand banquet in the evening at Taylor's Hotel, About one bundred and Ofty persons sat down to supper, The room, which was tastefully decorated, bore on its walla splendid oi! portraits of Washington, Lincolo, Generals Scott aud Grant, besides a Jarge ongraving of the frst reading of the emancipation proclamation by Liacola te hia Cabinet, The following inscriptions were also con- spicnous:—“Though & * pation abi jacder God, hat governinents of the peo people shall not perish “Wite malice towards none, with charity for all, with irmness io the right as God gives us to see the right.” Prayer baving been offe by the Rev. sir, Cordo, the wo ME pened to the good things set , @ brass band meanwhile playing some Boies Immediately vefore the clown was rei every oj @ , Jr., sang ‘God bless cous” Gi mas Carol, after which ¢ chair was taken by David W. Weiss, President of the Association. The following letter was then read by Mr, W. B Dua. ‘ping, Secretary :— Cr bee 8 Pa es 10490, Jan. 27, 1068, Daan Sin—I acknowledge with great Fecerpt of your invitation to be on Great respect, your Heat ROBERT ®, LINCOLN, Letters of for non-attendance were received from ‘Senuyiee fax, General Sherman, nton, Senator Wileos, ry Haieey, 3 C,; Gone john A. j¢, Governor Ward, nor Fenton, of How York; tise: Si Se aqan'ef tng it ae an ani ry us applause, Tye fires toast offered was ‘ihe momery of 7 Lincoln,” which was rene to by Major 2K. A in an bw er 4 effective speech, which was a applau other toasts were — “The memory ident Jereoy,” “The Army and Ni the Catted States," Ho rid Progiamati jon of Emandi; 16 Prose’ and ‘Wor of its citizens, morning. iven by the Young Assoointion, of the city of New York, enue, corner of Twenty-secsnd sir: number of lates and mn] ry ly were hearty Admirers of the Present The entertainment was on. 7 excellent ‘4, and @ aumber of ee ‘wore oxbibited for 140 gratification of the ors,