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4 NEW YORK HERALD. nanntownenn, Mr. Johnson has made another nomination. His nomination of General Hancock, made some time ago, seemed a peculiar piece of po- litical strategy. Congress laughed at il, and in that laughter things were somewhat con- fused; the mass of the people, for instance, did not very clearly distinguish tho limit of ridJ- cule—did not quite mako out whether Con- gressmen were laughing at the futility of the BROADWAY AND ANN StfRERT. ‘ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Al business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hisnavp. President’s manceuyre, oF whether they were Letters and packages should be properly laughing at the gallant soldier. It can bardly eealed. be an advantage to the radicals to be caught ne seer laughing at the heroes of tho war. General Rejected communications will nok bo re- | Fenoock was one of the most brilliant of these. turned. Eats | ¥ifs fecord ts that of sterling and honest fighter through the whole course of terrible pounding that was given and taken in the THE DAILY HERALD, pudiisned every day in the year, Four canta per copy. Annual subscription price $14, that they might be more usefully employed. If tho revenues of Eo Nono are to bo ex- hausted in converting Nome into a huge bar- rack his cause is rather « hopefém one, and might a8 well be abandoned*at once. Important Naws Japau and China— the Mikado in Prison and the Shageon U; ww Foreign Protection. By special news letters from Japan and China, telegraphed by way of San Francisco yesterday, we have advices from the tw» em- pires, dated at Yokohama on the 27th of Jawu- ary, conveyiig intelligence of the utmoit ini Portance to the civillzed world, but of peculiar interest to the people of the United States, political, commercial, diplomatic and social. The great Daimios of Japan, headed by the nativist oligarch Satauma, have revolutionized the empire in opposition to the action of the many campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. In common with every other soldier with a similar record, he has done more for the good of the country than all the politicians together that have ever been crammed into the city of Washington. This the people know. Toward men of this stamp their hearts warm withs noble, natural impulse, and they feel their generous sympathies insulted, experience » sense scarcely less than that of personal injury, when they see politicians sneer st their heroes. Hero, then, was the success of Mr. Johnson’s mancuvre. It committed the radicals to an error; put themin sho wrong on a point in- volving the honorable sensibilities of the people. . THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturds at Five AMUSKMENTS THIS BVENINQ, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Lirtix Bageroor. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth streel—Lucia pi Lamaxnxoon. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—-Tax Waire Fawn, WALLACE’S THEABBE, Broadway and (3th street. — Pavsims, BROADWAY THRATRE, Brosdway.--P xx ov tus Pern- ooaTe—Famiiy Jans. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery. —Ovw Pawsin Ammnican Cousie—Tet Come The President has repeated this little experi- ment. He has thrown up the name of General Sherman to provoke the radicals Into develop- ing to the country their real instincts and pur- poses in showing what they would do with that name. They do not laugh this time. They push the gallant soldier aside, however, by re- ferring him to 4 committee, and the effect on the people is the same. From both cases flows an inference that cannot commend any party to the people—the inference that gallant services and patriotic devotion to the national cause sre of no value in the eyes of party men, and that rather than not put an indignity upon the President the majority in Congress will slight and scorn, as occasion serves, the men to whose genius and devotion the nation owes its safety. Some perception of this seems to have forced itself upon the minds of leading radicals, for in the case of Sherman an attempt is made to cover the flanks of the party in its action. We hear vague, indirect, unauthorized declara- tions that the Gencral rejecisin advance the honors that the President would bestow upon him in the name of the people. All this comes from the party tricksters, who, seeing the deli- WEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel— Sruuem or New Your. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- wry and Sth at —ToKer or Laavs Max. 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The Shagoon fled from Meako in face of the outbreak, and sought Protection from the representatives of the foreign governments, civil and naval, at Osaka. In this situation the Sha- goon refased to abdicate and was equally averse to fighting for his rights, Fighting had, however, taken place, a naval engagement having come off between the adherents of the contending partica in the harbor of Yokobama, while a military battle was being fought in the streets of Jeddo at the moment our news de- spatch left the first named city. The country, deprived of executive rule and left without an acknowledged head, was deeply agitated. Outrages of a very alarm- ing character had already taken place in some of the cities, a palace of the Shagoon having been destroyed by fire applied by his enemies, while his friends, in retaliation, immediately consumed a residence of equal splendor belonging to the Daimio Satsuma. The position of the foreign residents in Osaka and Hiogio was critical in the extreme ; for it was pretty evident that the tide of popular feeling ran strongly in favor of the exclusive policy of tho nobles. To the appeal of the Shagoon for protection end aid in his capacity of legal head of the goveroment the foreign ministers returned a neutral non-committal reply, as they had apparently determined to await instructions from tho home governments and also learn the result of a council of the nobles of the empire which was to assemblo in deliberation on the situahon. It is a plain matter of fact, however, that the day of civi- Now Yerk, Mo: y. February 17. 1868 cacy of refusing to act with the President in advancing the grade of a msn to whom the country owes so much as it does to Sher- JAPAN AND CHINA. Dy che arrival of the steamor Great Republic at San Francisco we have special telegraphic details of our dapaa and China vorrespondence, dated January 27, which @re of considerable importance. Admiral Bell, Yieg Lioutenant Reed and ten seamen of the flagship Hartford were drowned on the 1th of January while crossing Osaka bar. A serious outbreak had occurred metween the Sbagoon and the Daimios. Mikado had been seized by Matsuma, and one of the Shagoon’s paiaces had beem burned down at Jeddo, A severe fight had taken place betweem Satsuma ap@ the government troops, and the hostile forces, at the tim: of the sailiog of the vessel, were Righting im the streets of Jeddo, Terrible mortality oxiaiod among the foreigners. Yokohama teas and sp cos bad advauced two dollars per picul. ‘The Chinese imperia! troops had gained several vic- sories over the rebels, Mr. Burlingame bad received Iie appointment as Envoy to the United Statesata salary of $40,000, Aire occurred at Hong Kong in November, by which two bundred houses were destroyed. The report of the explesion of powder magazines at Unchong and the loss of one thousand ‘ives is conarmed. Silks at Shanghae were higher, EUROPE. ‘Yee cews report by the Ati ic enable is dated yeater- day evening. A most destr re fire was raging among ‘the shipping at Antwerp, baving originated among vee- avis loaded with petroleum Admiral Farragut was entertained at a Court banquet on thursday, and at a tegisiative banquet on Friday, (t waa Deleved tm England that Lord Stanley would sou succeed Earl Derby at the bead of the Ministry. The reports of contemplated changes in the French Mi@siry and conatitution are semi-officially denied. ABYSSINIA. Our special telegram from our correspondent with the He sh expedition in Abyssinia is dated Suez, Egypt, Wovruary 11, vie Loudon yesterday, King Theodorus is in camp near Magdala, whero the ‘english captives are confined He was in a bad strait ana military point of view, An engagement was im- minent at any moment, The advance of the British army had reached! nearly (@ Antalo, and the Egyptian contingent was very near ia, The English in the iuterior numbered 20,000, were eudering Considerably from heat, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Toe relizious services were very genoral yesterday and targoly attended, Rov. C. B. Smyth delivered a lecture to Buoyan Hall, comparing the “White Fawn’' and the panorama of the Pilgrim,’ At the Fifth avenue Pres- oytorian chures Rev. Mr. Stephenson preached to the (nandg of the American Tract Society, and was followed by Rev. G. L. Shaler,zef Richmond, Va, Rev, L. 8. Wood delivered a ire on “Evil Hi at the Allon woot Methodist church, A meeting of spiritualists at Podworth Hall was addressed by Men. Maynard. A new bill of complaint enjoining Generals Grant, Moaie and Ruger and Captain Rockwell has been dled ou the part of the State of Georgia in the Supreme Court The old bill, whiom was recent!y dismissed for waat of jurisdiction in the court, contsined no speciti- eationa of any but political grievances, The new bill vemodies this defect, whied was really the only objec- tion to the other one, and recites injuries to persons | ‘aod property. Aa American ship (name unkoown) wae seen burning oo the [2th inst, of Sable Island, by the steamship William Penn, which arrived at this port yesterday, It was supposed that her crew had taken to the boats and made for Sable laland, which was about uinety milor distant, Tne bark Maria, from Bromen, arrived at this port yeutorday after an eighty-four days’ passage, with eight of hor passengers down with ship fever, seven having died during the voyage. She ws doteined a Quarantine. Heriom river is frozor over. Ton Orst class ocean steamers iaft (his port on Aevurday for European and coastwive ports, To Canadian recruits for the Pontifical Zounves, whicd leave Montreal to-day, will pass through New man—seeing how such a persistent refusal to honor soldiers must affect the people—desire to shift the burden to other shoulders, and would even attribute it to the General’sself-ab- negation and modesty. But this is to ignore the General's character. General Sherman has great abilities and good qualities, but he has no self-abnegation so far as glory goes, and not a particle of modesty in any respect. He is self-conscious in an eminent degree, and he has served the country so brilliantly that none can justly quarrel with the honorable vanity he feels in the contemplation of his own record, or with his thought that the country has been tardy to honor him as he deserves. Let there be no misunderstanding on this point then. It is not that General Sherman declines an honor, but that Congress refuses to give it, and refuses because it will not miss an occasion to cross the President. Mr. Johnson should keep up this particular fire. In compelliug Congress to take action on his various nominations he compels the majority to exhibit itself to the country divested of disguises. He forces Congress to make the demonstration of its own shortcom- ings. Ifbis nominstivns are confirmed he bas the credit of having made good appointmonts ; if rejected, the Senate has the odium of refusing to do right—of desiring to servo its party hates at the country’s cost. It is reported that the President will nominate General McClellan to represent the United States in England. He should cer- tainly do this. It would be a fresh and pecu- liar embarrassment to Congressional radical- ism and give ons more evidence of the Presi- dent’s desire to sympathive with the popular will in honoring soldiers. McClellan’s record is purity and gallantry itself. He created the finest of our armies, won the great battle that sent to the right about the first rebel invasion of the North and fell a victim only to Stanton’s machinations. He Is an accomplished gentle- man and a scholar. And if bis nomination be rejected, what then? Such ® rejection bas had great effects before thix. It war the Senate’s rejection of Martin Van Buren, when nomi- nated by General Jacksou for the same post, that finally carried Little Van to the White Howe. And who koows but the radical re- | jection of s gallant soldier may excite a popu- lar reaction that will give the opposition a practicable candidate and a real position ia the Presidential campaignf The people delight in nothing so much as in reversing (he verdicts misused authority. of hasty opinion or Generat Gran General Grant to join the impeachuent move- | ment, and the failure of the impeachment project accordingly, and bis published cor | reapondenve with Geveral Hancock, conclu- tively show that General Grant’s leanings are | decidedly conservative. More anit more does ; it become manifest that Grant is the man to | whom the country must look for salvation. We are not without reason for believing that the General is opposed to universal pegro suffrage, while he longs to see the Union re- stored in all its entirety. What we hold now and what we must have {s a conservative Con- | York, whore they will be joined by the Young Prince Viurbide, son of a lute Emperor of Mexico, Genorsl Sickles, while speak img in a ball at Van~ abeater, N. HL pobaif of the radical eaudidates on the State Lickel, hissed by some ladies in the crowd, who wore finally ejected by the police. Tae Tennessee Conservative State Convention metin Nashville on Saturday, with « view to reorganizing the arly, and adopted resolutions endoriug Andrew Jonson as the choice of the party for aext \’res. éont,*and offering warm co-operation with the Noriuern | democracy im their opposition to radicalism. Three Cathole pricste yesterday rocelved sypoint. moots from Cardinal Barnabo a) Rome to bishoprce in | the diocese fof Philadelphia, | day's Heraua. Osnads sends & batialion to A firo in Natick, Mags., on Seturday niyht, Rome to swoll the Papal army. Tha battlion gross. §=With » conservative Congress ana General Grant as President oll will go well with ua, Camava to THe Renoue.--The spirit which animated the Canadae of au earlier age has not yet died out. ‘The centre of attraction, however, bas changed. Formerly it was Jeru- salem, now it ie Rome. Formerly it was the sepulchra of Jusus, now it ia the sepulchre of Peter. The latest indication of tbe crussding spirit we chronicle in wnotier place in this destroyed lization has fully dawned on Japan. The great crisis of her history has arrived. No efforts of her powerful and united oligarchy can stay the tide of progress flowing to her shores from the United States and the Old World simultaneously, and the empire must be opened to trade either by peaceful negotiation or by force, red tape or iron-clads, rifled can- non and the bayonet. China appears to be moving in a direction exactly opposite to the course attempted by the aristocrats ot Japan. Having accepted the situation of reform, the Emperor in Pekin is about to place himself in complete diplomatic communication with the outside world. He has with his own band signed an imperial com- mission for Mr. Anson Burlingame, an Ameri- can, who was just on the point of setting out, at- tended bya numerous suite of natives, including two Mandarins of the Red Button, to inaugurate the new diplomacy and instruct his officiwl companions in the ways not only of courts, but those of the White House at Washington. The most important results are likely to flow from this mission, Material progress was observable on every side in the em- pire. An exploring expedition was about to endeavor to reach India by way of the Yangtre Kiang river, Hankow and the Bramapootrah. American fire engines were being freely imported and used. Trade was looking up. ‘The imperial arms were vic: torious at many points, notwithstanding rébel outrages. An American gentleman witnessed the fine meteoric display of the 5th of Novem- ber while standing near the Great Wall and duly reported the scientific phenomenon to Pekin, ao that Professor Loomis is again com- pletely headed off “even in the tar East,” and fully anticipated as an astronomer in the eyes of the Red Buttons, who will land with Mr. Burlingame. China moves, and is likely to move rapidly under American Influence. Our special news letters convey the mourn- ful intelligence that Admiral Bell, of the United States Navy, and teu seamen belonging to the war ship Harttord, were drowned by the cap- sizing of a boat in the waters of Osaka, Jupan, and that their bodies were buried on shore in the river bank. Admiral Bell had been on duty in the waters of China and Japan for some time past, and upheld the credit of eur flag in a worthy, honorable manner. The G t Steinway Hall. Our citizens will have an opportunity to- night of hearing from the philosopher Du Chailla how near they are akin to the gorilla, and what the chances are for this extraordinary animal becoming, in tbe course of time, a negro | ora whites man They may have their minds quieted, too, aa to the question of the future condition of the Caucasian race—whether in ages hereafter wo shall rise to be angels or gods or fall back to negroes and apes. Ac- cording to the views of Mr. Du Chaillu and other explorera and savans in ethnological ! science, the negro race iy the oldest of the human family, as Africa is believed to be the | oldest continent ; and, therefore, admitting the erigioal unity of mankind and the favorite evelopment theory of ibe age, we may have all sprung from the negro, the negro from the gorilla ond the gorilla from something else. Lndeod, wo do not know but that we may-havo all come from a coral insect | or a sponge, and this would appear more likely when we consider how sponge-like many mea are. Mr. Du Choillu belongs to a class of phi- losophers, such as Agassiv, Lyell, Owen and others, who, by their discoveries in natural his- tory, geology and science generally, are throw- ing » flood of light on the races of men and other animale and upon their affinities and dif ferences, His discovery of the gorilla and other apes approaching nearest to man in Bquatorial Africa, and his study of their babite aud organization, will make his lectures highiy Janch’s bigok, (ovolriog @ loss of 000. isto ba accompaniet by a» son of Iturbide, ame House of the Missouri Legislature o% ) at one time Emperor of Mexico, Wo wish the Aatagday & bill was Introduced ceding ton miles square south of St, Louis to the government for » retiuns! battalion a trip to Roms; but thera are Sapita’, | many who will agree witd us when we gay interesting both to men of science and the pab- lic, His experience with and study of the negro tribes of the iuterior of Africa will enable him t cnlighten owt asgro worshippers and NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 47 1868. negro haters as to the primitive character and intellectual and moral capacity of the race. Nothing could be more opportune than these lectures just at this time, when the negro in OUT Country has suddenly attained great promi- nence, But, in addition to these subjects, Mr. Du Chaillu’s extraordinary adventures, with his graphic way of deacribing them, will afford great amusement as well a instruction, After he has delivered his course of lectures in New York be should go to Washington, and Congress should invite him to enlighten them on the negro ia the Hall of Representatives. The Wontera Union Telestaph Company— Its Last Keport to Its Stockholders. In December Iaat, at » meeting of the board of direotors of the Western Union Telegraph Company, resolution was adopted calling upon the Executive Committee for “a concise but full statement” of the affairs of the com- pany, to bo printed and distributed to the stockholders. In pursuance of this resolution & report was some time afterwards prepared and published by the treasurer; but whether it hes been circulated freely among the stock- holders we do not know. if it bas been, it will neither enlighten them as to the ectual con- dition of the company’s affairs nor encourage them in regard to its prospects. Although it is the first printed statement that bas oma- nated from the management since October, 1865, or nearly two years and a half ago, it is nothing more than a brief summary of the results of the business for the last eighteen A truthfal financial exhibit o/! '0 show all these facts, But the report is clesigned to cover up instead of exhibiting the rex | Comdi- tion of the company, and to escape th? e2 posure of its gross mismanagement, rottenn, 83 and bankruptcy to the innocent stockholders’ and the public, els of Our Harbor—Tugbont Legis- lation, We observe that number of shipowners, and among them tho representatives of some prominent steamship lines, are about to pro- test to the Legislature against sundry small grievances, regarded as “unjust and oppres- sive,” in connection with the laws governing pilotage and tughoats in the East river. It may be very well to remodel these regulations if, in their present shape, they aro of the oner- ous description complained of; but it occurs to us that this is a very trivial business for se large an interest as the shipowners represent to fritter itself away upon, in view of the fact that the channels approaching the city are in such s miserable condition. This is a matter of anfisient importance, both in « local and national sonse, to demand all the attention and energy of the Shipowners’ Association. The national water highway to the metropolis throngh the East river is blocked up by ob- The Chi structions at Holl Gate, while tie other chan- nel by the Narrows is getting choked up more and more every year by the earthy and vege- table deposits washed off with every tide from the marsh lands that surround the harbor on the shores of Staten Island, Long Island and New months, or since the executive office of the company was transferred from Rochester to New York, and an aggregation of figures that Jersey. Wecan assure these gentlemen that topographical examinations show that the prin- are all Greek to the unlearned in the mys- teries of Western Union joba, but whichy like the mantle of obarity, cover + multitude of sins, The report starts out with the statement that the capital stock of the company in October, 1865, was, in round numbers, twenty-two mil- lion dollars, and proceeds to show how it has been subsequently increased to forty-one mil- lions; but it singularly omits to notice the fact that two years prior to that time, in 1863, the capital stock was only three million dol- lars, or to set forth the process by which it was first watered from three millions up to twenty-(wo millions, before it took its final leap to forty-one millions, We will supply the deficiency :— fo January, 186%, the capital stock was... On March 2, 1863, it was increased by tho issue of an additions $3,000,000 3,000,000 Making the capital stock then. On May 28, 1864, it was again issue Of an add ‘tional 11,000,000 Making the capital atook at the date of the dase statement... 6... cece cece eee + +++ «822,000,000 The report is deficient in another particular. cipal channel from the lower bay has lost balf {ts depth within the past filly years, The whole quantity of earth, decomposed sedge and woods, thus captured by each tide and washed in and out until it deposits (for very little of it finds ita way to the ocean) would, it is calculated, form within one year, if gathered in a mass, an island of twelve foet in depth, a quarter of a mile wide and four miles long. Lodge these accumulations of a hundred thousand acres of waste, land in the harbor for half'a century and what would become of the channel? Yet this process of filling in has been going on for more than that time, and is going on still, for the waste lands have not gained any perceivable addition to their aur- face by the ordinary decay of vegetation, so that it is no mystery where all this matter goo s or why the obstructions in the harbor are in- creasing, Tae owners ot these lands are thus innocent encroachers on the public rights. If the shipowners and merchants of the city would take these matters in hand it would be of vastly more importance to the interests of the community than all the tugboat legislation they can effect Let them appeal-to the federal government and the State Legislature It fails to explain the advantages to. the com- pany in telegraph and other property of its several purciases and consolidations, or to give any details of the facts connected with the Russian exteasion eaterprise, by which the bonded debt of 1375 has been increased some three million dollars, Tho stockholdors ought to know exactly how it was that they were saddled with this amount of loss on that ex- ploded enterprise ; whether the action of the board of directors in authorizing the conver- sion of the Russian extension stock was legal and binding, and for whose especial benefit the whole body of atookholders of the Westorn Union were made the sufferers by ® project in which the majority of them had no interest. Neither doos the report remove any of tho mystification that now hangs about the pur- cbase of the Pacifle lines, the United States, the American and the California Stato lines, which, withia the period covered by the report, have enlarged’ the capital of the Western Union twenty million dollars. Tho stock- holders are especially interested in knowing the actual stock and value of these lines before consolidation and the terms upon which they were consolidated, ‘The most remarkable feature of this singular report is the statement of assets and liabilities. In this the telegraph lines and equipments are set down as worth forty-seven million dollars, which forms all their assots, with the exception of six hundred thousand dollars of their own stock, owned by the company, and about eight bundred thousand dollars in real estate, debts and cash. Now, let us see what this forty-seven million dollars is really worth. The company pretends to own some ninety thousand miles of wire. To make up an aaseb of forty-seven million dollars this must be worth over five hundrod dollars a mile. But a line can be put up and thoroughly equipped to-day for two hundred apd ¢wenty-fire dollarsa mile. This alone would reduce the value of the wholo Western Union lines to litle over twenty million dollars ; but this isnot all. The ninety thousand miles of wire are not ninety thousand milos of route; several wires being put up on the same poles between the samo places, all of which are counted separately over and over again to make up the total number of miles of wire. For instance, from New York to Wash- ington, say two hundred and fifty miles, the Westera Union has six wires, which it counts as fifteen hundred milos. The estimate of two hundred and tweaty-five dollars mile is for a single wire, on a new route, with all the instru- ments and batteries and including the work of construction. When a second wire ia put up along the same route and on the same poles the additional cost is only the price of tho wire, the insulators and the labor, or about one hundred dollars a milo. This plain statement will serve to show the utterly un- substantial and bogus character of the so-called assets of the company, the whole of the forty- seven million dollars capital being, in fact, not wortb over fliteon million dollars, and leaving the company bankrupt in tho sum of thirty million dollars. There is one fact set forth in the report, to biow up the rocks at Hell Gate and to wall in the marsh lands around the lower channel, for a fow years at least, until they can grow above tide level by natural accumulation. When the channels are clear and the water approaches comparatively safe there will be leas trouble and less expense in piloting vessels. Ifthe Jupiter at Washington or the Jupiter at Albany will not heed their prayer, thon let the shipowners and merchants put their own shoulders to the wagon wheel and clear the tracks on our marine highways. They bare means enough to do it, and surely self-interest most strongly prompts them to that course. Perhaps it would be the best way, after all; for Congress is too busy over- riding and crushing out the life of one section of the country to attend to the interests of the other, and it would cost so much for lobbying and jobbing at Albany that it might be a very dear bargain. Here, therefore, is an enter- prise worthy of the great merchant class of this great city, and which towers sltogether above mere tugboat legislation. Tar Hsrap anp irs Sprown TeueGRams.— On the 30th of January we printed a special cable despatch dated Naples, January 29, con- cerning an alarming catastrophe which had taken place at Mount Vesuvius. The despatch was discredited by our siow-going contem- poraries, of course. This is their habit and they are perfectly welcome to all the honor and all the praise resulting therefrom. -By our latest arrived London files we find that the same item of news was printed in all the lead- ing English journals on the same day that it appeared in the Hexaup. We subjoin the de- spatch of the London Times :—~ MOUNT VaInvICg Navies, Jan, 29, 1968, Last aight the site of Mount Vesuvius, opposite the ate of aateilo Nuovo, gave way, burying the adjacent houses and shops, A passing omnibus and carriage wore also buried. The road is fillod with masses of rock. The extent of the lows of lite bas not yet been ascor- tained, Excavations bave commenced. TwreviepuM any TWSEDLEDEE IS Pouirics.— In the controversy between General Grant and the Prosident there is about ag much difference as between tweedledum and tweedledee. A great deal of unnecessary fuss is made by the partisans on each side for political effect ;. bat the different statements of General Grant and Mr, Johnson were made from the impression or understanding of the matter by each one, and, doubtless, both are coascientious. It is very common for two men to take different views of tho same circumstance in conversation and for both to believe they are right. Even the mem- bers of the Cabinet, while leaning to the Presi- dent's side of the case, do not agree exactly as to what occurred. General Grant says and believes one thing—that is tweedledum ; the President says and believes anothor—that is tweediedee ; and this is about all there is in the controversy. SKATING AT THE PARK. Fully S{teen thousand persons visted the Park yes. torday, (ho majority of whom were talent upon another day af bilartty and healthful enjoyment, to be derived which is that, in view of the Gnancial condition of the company, the board of directors regarded it as inexpediont to declare a dividend in January last. The stockholders were probably in possession of this intelligence before; but although the report purports to give a full financial statement it makes no mention of the fact that the three previous dividends—in July, 1866, end January and July, 1867—-were paid in part with borrowed money. In July, 1967, the board paid a dividend of eight hundred thousand dollars and borrowed nearly five bundred thousand dollars of the money. In January, 1867, of eight hundred thousan! dol- lars dividend paid the sum of three handred and filly thousand dollars was raised by loan ; and to pay the dividend of the previous July about the samo amount had to vo borrowed, from tho sxbtiarating pastime of whirling, skimming and twistiog over the congealed surface of the lakes, The moderate character of the weather had seriously impaired the crisp, smooth condition of the ros, but this 4id not seemingly ‘aifect the mirth and jollity that ruied the aawormbiags during the brief ours, Dan- eer Spots wero here and there notwed upon tho uppor inke, which the, dowterous, ‘aetoroge- Beous crowd regarded distance, aad kept as a respectful Old and young, rich and poor, “mg, tag and Dobtaii,”’ ait bad them representatives, nyixiag in the rl of thp skating caraival wit evorgy aod ) that partook of the charactor 'v.at the days ot # picaaure, at least (or A souKuG, Y.oukt soon be a morance only. Im tus they Wore right, as the ing’s reign —ome Of uMexampied jwnvti I Lhin winter=tugt Soom be usurped Fy " of approaching apring. everywhere visible im 4 being Altus ADKIO Cay, Ny pedestriaolam any? ain, gained, and the gtistv'aiog Die teat, roamed to obliters’.9 tho wnpiexRantagss Of Lio Journey taithorward. Ae usdai, shore werd aracoful skal ad awkward akaters, and many of both classes were compelled to ua- dergo the experience of abrupt and heavy falls, that, wader the circumstance of (he large numbers on the Takes, could not be avoided, Fancy skuters were also Present, and around them were appreciative tbrengs commenting, in pure skatorial language, upon the grace of ‘their respective performances It was ® mcrry crowd, animation and pleasure beaming from and ‘as handsome forms swept over the face, presenting 4 pioturosque scene not easily forgotten, a feeling of am ‘ness daried through the brain, more than once tind- ing Suitable expression among the surrounding admirers, that , "2/8 pleasure, like all eise in nature, must have am ead, a “4 thet soon. The brilliant scenes of the day were ko, “UP bY the skating devetees until the merry twinkle’ te bright lamps above warned them that night wou ‘ #902 shut in and the hour of departure bed arrived o BITUARY. dmiral H. H. Bel By PL. ge San Francisco the death ie announced of Rear Admh *! Heary H, Boll, commanding the United States Asian © Sduadron, The telegram states that he, together wit bh a boat's crew of the men of the Hartford, fagsbip f ‘he squadron, was drowned while crossing the AF at the mouth of the Oaks, Japan, on the 11th ef ,Tanvsry las Admiral Bell was born in the State of Nortf Garglina, from which State he was appoinyed to thé pavy on the 4th of August, 1823, \fler becoming # midshipman he was promoted by alo\Y degrees umtli he bad attained the rank of commander, w, dich he held af, the tinfe of the breaking out of the wt. When the. services of the navy were brought into full, play, be way ia 1861, acting mspeotor of ordnance, and #8 Tell from his position as inspector to take am acth’® part is several naval engagements that were fought & uring the Farragut, at the wakiay vat ‘New. Oranas, ead 68 5 jug jew v » reward for his faithful services during his connection with the navy and the vonspicuoy ® part he bore on the occasion of the New Orleaus trum) 1 B® was made commodore the 16th of July, 1862. Da the latter part of 1862 and 1863 he was temporarily command of the West Gulf blockading squadron, by bis watchfuiness and exertions did much to fruatras the attempts made by the rebela to run the gauntlys with their cotton, sent out in,exchange for anticipate \' supplies to be received by the few blockade runne which now and then succeeded in making their way the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where ke tem of employing discharged s0l- yard io preference to all! others, 80 Jong as they were good workmen. While 1n command at this post he issued an order forbidding the payment by the employés of the yard of any money for political Purposes, which fora timo raised quite a storm about hig head from partisan journals, In 1866 he wae pisocd io command of the Asiatic squadron, aud a short time after his arrival at his post he toyk very strong measures to suppress the piracy on the Chinese seas By hia command in April, 1867, Commander Fobiger waa sent with the steamer Ashuelot to the Formosa Islands to rescue the officers and men of the American bark Rover, which had been wrecked off the coast. This officer loarned that the officers and men in qu a hak been murdered by the natives, and Admiral Bell, after taking such peaceful measures as he thought would induce the leading men of the islands to ve some definite information as to the outrage, that tho perpetrators might be brougnt to punishment, was forced to make a descent upon one of the istands with a strong force. A severe Aight om lang with tho pirates was the consequence, in which Commander McKeuzie lost his life. It is supposed thatas the port of Osaka was to be made an open port for foreiga trade on the Ist of fast month, according to treary, the unfortunate Admiral was with his command lookiug to tho interests of this country at the time of his death, Admiral Bell wasa gonial, waria hearted gentiomen, and admired by all who knew him for his masy good qualities of mind and heart. As an officer he had ac- the reputation of a strict disofplinarian, and was popular with bis command. He had, up to his taking command of the Astattc squadron, been im the gorvice forty-three years, twonsy-tnree of which he had speut at sea, Surgeon C. H. Page, he Hartford. Asmistant Surgeon Charles H. age, of the flagship Hartford, Asiatic squadron, died aboard ship in the Japanese waters December 24, 1867. Surgeon Page was a oative of New Hampshire, but was aj inted from Massacht where his family resided. en- tored the service in February, 1863, and with the excep- tion of six months bas been on sea service since, William M. Swain. William M, Swain, one of the founders of thé Phils delphia Public Ledger, died in that elty yostorday mora- ing, after a long illness, a the ago of fifty-nine years, ‘Mr. Swain was a native of Onondaga coanty, N. Y., and was also one of the founders of the Baltimore Sun. He was one of the most thorough masters of the primt- img busimess and ono of the most successful newspaper publishers eg country. a ba the first Ve rpc to recognize the great value @ Hoe rotary prio’ machine, and the first preas of that tia end sused by him and his partners in the Philadelphia Ledger office. For eight years he was President of the Magnetic Telegraph Company and many years a director in the American Telexi Compasy, He wae largely instrumental ia organizing, perfecting aad tm- Proving the telegraphic system of the United He was @ man of groat intellectual ability aud force of character. Philip R. Fendalh Philip R. Fendall, one of the most distinguished mem- bera of the Washingtoa bar, died yesterday afternoon, aged seventy-three yoars, BOOK NOTICE. Workmen anv Wages; on, Tux Errecrs or Srrixes, ComsinaTions anpD Tapes Untons. By J. Ward, author of “The World in Its Work- she ”’ “The History of Flax,’’ ‘The History \d,"’ &c. London: Longmans, Green &. lation of notable facts, illustrating the relations of labot to capital, and prerents material for arriving at mght conclusions as to the laws which govern the two powers rather than an effort to declare what those laws are. I¢ dotaila the history and the points of difference between employers and employed in the strikes that are most famous in the history of mechanical industry in Eng- land, giving in some detail and from a practical point of view the money loss involved without gain in any sense to the strikers, to their trade and to the district in which the industry bad.its sons ‘Thus ia 1810 there was @ strike of cotton sproners in: towas in the vicinity of Manchester, by which thirty thousand persons were thrown out-of employment and kopt out four months—families being dependent upon the trade si jes, and finally before all was over falling to pauperwm —and this strike was to secure an object that if secured would have killed’ the trade in the district There was enly one point gained to the manufacturer by carrying on bis trade iu the country districts ratuer than im Manchester, aud this was that |abor was s trifle cheaper. The fact, therefore, that labor was cheaper in the coun- try parts caused the spinning to be done there; but she laborers then turned out on a demand to be paid the game rate that mon wore paid in Manchester, They Killed the goose that taid the golden egg, crippling the trade in their neighborhood to auch # degree that at the ond of four months they wore glad to get employment at less than half the wages they bad bese receiving | when thoy turned out foram advance, } 1 case Jo an epitome of labor strikes im general / ‘Wages go up or down, as « rule, enced by causemu that are quite beyond the wor 's control, and in the attempt to better bis cond: by withdrawing bum y labor he always makes it warse, Wages are seldom de { pendent upon uncertain causes or captos, They bes a fixed relation to two definite points. One of these. points ts (he wage-fund of an industry, the osher is tum) Bumber of workers in it. If the fund be large and om | workora few, wages must be bigh; if the contrary, low. Bus tuis rvintion may be sometimes disturbed by at tempts of capital to ger more than its share of the in-» crease, Labor and capitul acting together in mechaniont art ivoreawo the value of eertain products. Vart of this increase belongs to th 1 and recalled progt, part of it belongs to labor and is called wages. Thore mva@at boa fair relation betwoon these two, and thai relaiwn must be based upon the necensity 0: each to tho olémr, If capital is ecarce and labor pleasy, profit overbalsmmes wagos, Ii shor is scarce and capital pleat, at the expoue of i. Aud here point as which 1 may he mid that 3 ry or j 1 capi relntions to tabar, abould 3 unjastly ancat the expense of wa, increase strike would be labor's remedy, Capital seldom or never does this, for ithasa too | ot own interosts, and in all tbis volume these remarks mo simgle strike ts recur im this clase ‘Ou the eontrary, Inbor, being mostly the prevention of the unvetlectiug, acts Often wilh Une greabeet tyranny towards capital, as all futile strikes are ds attempts to proportion of the incremsa, Jabor has power to tyrantize, and capital hee or capital Ganoot compet labor to activ an compe; capital to staad Tis wachemery. purpose ts the “trades union,” the combination tl for (his ot afl tho men of a trade to dictate terms to capiial aad to entoree theae verme-by terra » POYSICal Oumrage, yorminet® murder, Mr. Ward® evolting parviculngs of the | a im Eng (wand and & bh pracdcally show tbat i Abe fe. te cood rule ane goot ofr of Great | capital \ to the oob tn gang trader, te work bas heey ina eiate oF tusurreviion and di of lee tone Wun trod fhe peovle at Florida aco hop inwing to turn ther ation Luo growing of Fruit and fegoravion which there wish to partecuon, Greem paw had tn alsa nin Ral + RAL KOS, Loituce, Straw barsios | Trut antl June. Wage onae yan oe are