The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1868, Page 6

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NEW YORK ENOE AND New York, Thureday, December 10, 1868. mvenuM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.~ a LE SHB NEWS. ‘THe oadle telegrams are dated December 9. It is oMctaliy announced that George J. Goschen wil be President of the Poor Law Board; the Mar- quis of Hartington, Postmaster General; A. H. @ayard, President of the Board of Trade, and Henry A. Bruce, Secretary of State (Home Departmeht), of tho new British Cabinet, The London Daily Zelegraph says that Mr. Glad- #tone’s Cabinet is now ready to consider any counter- proposaia made hy the United States government in the Alabama case. Farther particulars have been received regarding She loss of the steamship Hibernia, ‘The disaster was produced by the breaking of the screw shaft insiae the screw pipe, which damaged the stern post and caused an irremediabte leak, The editor, publisher and printers of the Paris Revue Politique newspaper have each heen fined for encouraging the Baudin subscriptions. ‘The armed manifestations by the repubitcans in Cadiz have not yet been suppressed. The maurgents were still in arma, but were attempting to make terins with the government. ‘The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria las issued & pacile manifesto to the araiy. Caba, Another battle is reported at Guantanamo fn which the rebels were defeated. Our Havana letter ts dated December 5. No news from the interior had been received since the goth ult, Provisions in Santiago were alarmingly dear, house rent was depreciated and the best slave was nor worth jars, owing to the close siege by the insurgents, Matters were quiet in Havana, but arrests were still made on the slightest pretext or uspicion, - “Oe, Sandwich Isiands, ** Advicoa from Honolutu are to the iti of Novem- ‘ber, Business was brisk, but there way no news of im portance. Cougress. ‘ tn the Senate yesterday Mr. Sumner introduced a ‘bill Lo carry ont the reconstruction acts in the State of Georgia. The bill removing the political dis- \adilities of Chief Justice Moses, of South Carolina, (was passed. During discussion upon it Mr. Davik a@id 4bat there was no fourteenth amendment to the ‘constitution, the proposition for such amendment mot having been ratified. In the afternoon session ‘gho President's Message was received. The reading fad progressed about the length of 8 colamn of it jn the Herat, when Mr. Conness moved that the peading of the rest of it be dispensed with, on the ground that tt was almply a rade = ageinst Congress. A long debate ‘ensued, in venich several prominent republicans op- (posed the motion on the ground that it was from the ‘President of the United States, whose poaition de- umanded that hia messages, however disrespectful or Giacourteous to Congress, should be received witly «ourtesy. Among these republicans were Senators Ugon, Drake, Morton and others. Mr, Edmonds Pips yroposed an adjournment, which wai aurreed t0 ii ihe Midst of the debate, and it will con- @equentiy be continued to-lay as andnished bust Dew. + tp the Honse the bil for the retief of Chief Inatice Moses, of South Carolina, was passed. A tall was ported from the Reconstruction Committees for the | iding of an clection on adopting the State Const}. | Aution in Virginia on the 20th of next January. It ‘waa discussed quite thoroughly, bat in the midst of ‘the discnssion it was laid aside to admit of the read. | Ang of the President's Message. After the reading Mr, Washburne moved that tt (the Message) be printed, vod took the opportunity. of de. | youncing certain terms in it as plain, undis. | ‘gulsed repndiation. Considerabie discussion engned, i» whieh the President’s remarks on the payment of Yue bonds were severely denounce nd the Mew | faze was finally Jald on the table aud ordered to be | brinted by a vote of 126 to 3. ‘The Virginta Riection bil was again taken up, and, being armended§so that | tie election shall take place on May 27 and tue Legis. Jsiuro ect on the 2d of Septomber, was pasgod Monts division, The Hovee thea adjourned, i ta Message, | the Navy Departinent, by secre | Gary Gideon Werle Miewelanoauns | Te tA undersiood at the State Department that | Spain and Chile, Perv and Holivia have accepted the proposed plan of selling the questions between them by @ plenipotentiary convention at Washington, » Deapatotes from Arkansas recount some outrages committed by the negro militia Chere, and state that @ republican sheriff in Conway county bad called upon the white citizens to assist Him tn putting Gown the negroes, He had petitioned Governor Clayton to disvand the militia, ‘Shere was great ex- eilement. “ie guly Which commenced oa Tuesday has been | the dark. | and construction of a sbip canal serosa the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 18638.—TRIPLE SHEET. ew unasually severe, espeelally on Tong Taland | rested, but would also give satisfaction to all Sound. No wrecks are reported, but all the vessels arriving give the same story in regard to the danger and roughness of tho trip. other forsign natioas.’’ ‘This hint comes from the Secretary of State. Bolivia and Brazil. Our nows from Bolivia, published yester- day, is to the effect that there is some discon- Along the Atlantic coast the telegraph informs us Itis what we might have expected trom a head | tent existing among the opposers of the gov- 80 full of annexation projects; but still it | erament on account of the treaty lately there is a heavy gale blowing, and the fruits of tb in slnpwrecks and disasters will probably begin to reach us in a day or two. The challenge of the Kngliah yacht Cambria to comes upon as as a surprise. In fact, inas- concluded between that republic and Brazil, much a8 tho annexation of Hayti would in- | This treaty is of such great interest to several Tace for the possession of the Queen's Oup has been | VOlve the addition to the Union of a State Accepted by the New York Ciub, who have heid the } entirely made up of niggers, tame and wild, | diate parties and the trade of the valley of the cup for seventeen years. Several races are pro- | abouthalf and half, this idea of the State of | Amazon, that it is well for us to give it a little Posed in the chalienge, and the ocean race has been accepted by the Dauntless, Hayti as ® proposition from Mr. Johnson of an Another earthquake in California to-day or to- | Out-and-out experiment of negro supremacy is Morrow is predicted by Professor Delisser, of Ja- | & stunner. Maica, He ts entitled to some credit as the indi- vidual who so correctly predicted former earthquakes in Chile and Peru. An election of directors of the New York Central But upon the main question in our foreign relations, those Alabama claims, what has the President to say? After touching upon tho | of the Spanish-American States, to tho imme- attention. First, it should be stated that at the date of Spanish-American independence the boundary lines between the Portuguese and the Spanish possessions in the New World had never been determined in fact. The treaty of San Idefonso of 1777 gavo the demarcations Railroad was hold yesterday in Albany, There was | fisheries he says three other questions with | between all the possessions of crowns of no excitement, and the Vanderbilt ticket wasclected | England remain to be sottled--the mutual | Spain and Portugal, both in without opposition, In the Supreme Court at Ithaca yesterday Judge | Boardman dissolved the injunction granted by Jus- tice Cardozo restraining Receiver Davies from tak- ing possession of the Erie Railroad, rights of naturalized citizens, a boundary ques- tion on the Pacific coast, and the claims arising since the year 1853 of the citizens and subjects of the $wo countries against the gov- and South America. Spain appointed her commissioners to trace the line In the New World; but Por- tugal failed in. this, and, consequently, at the time that South America had cut aloof from the Sir John A. Macdonald proposes to recommend to | ernments of each other, and that be expects | peninsula the boundary question virtually the Canadian Parliament certain financial modiiica- tons in favor of Nova Scotia. ‘the repeg clamor in Halifax las not abated, ‘The City. General Grant was entertained by Marshall 0. Roberts at his residence last evening with a recep- ffon and a supper. Two thousand persons of emis nencé were present. ‘The General wili leave for Washington early this morning. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met ‘yesterday and appointed a committee of two to confer witn the Commissioners of Charities and Correction for the purpose of effecting a settlement of tie controversy between the two Boards regarding the money to be paid the latter for keeping lunatic emigrants in the Almshouse, The Watson & Crary whiskey case was con- tinued yesterday, and after hearing the testimony of Several witnesses was adjourned until this morning. Gold opened at 13534 yesterday morning in the Gold Room and closed at 13554 at three o'clock. Supsequentiy it advanced on the street to 125% a 136 on the reception-of news from Washington, ‘The Stock market was dull gnd heavy durum tho day, except in New York Central and one or two other stocks. New York Central closed at 12524 a 125%, Closing prices do not present very important changes from those of the previous night, She North German Lioyd’s steamship Deutschland, shortly to lay the protocols before the Senate calculated to settle all these questions, This absolves Reverdy Johnson. He has been acting in England under Mr. Seward’s instructions. But we learn from the Message something that we had not suspected, that England’s offsets to our Alabama clafms are accepted, and that all these things are to be bundled up together in the treaty setiling the Alabama difficulty, Thfs looks very much like » sur- render of our case, with the vital issue of insurgont “‘belligerent rights” involved. If 80, however, these protocols when’ presented will be promplly rejected by the Senate, or we mistake the pressure of public opinion. Boasting and pleading the marvellous excel- Jencles of the constitution all the way through, Mr. Johnson eloses his Message with a propo- sition for four amendments. The atyle of the document is very good, and in its arguments and recommendations generally it is an able and seasonable State paper; but for all practi- cal purposes it might have been profitably re- duced to one-half or one-fourth the space it Chptain Wessels, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. occupies. In this matter, as in other things, to-day for Southampton and Bremen. ‘the mails by her will close at the Post Ofilce at twelve M. The steamship Virgo, Vaptain Bulkley, will leave pier No, 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charleston, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel H. Miller and Lieutenant Charles Barlow, of the United States Army; Major Warner, of Mipne- sota, and Capiain George W. Hall, of the United States Navy, arc at the St, Charles Hotel, Henry V. Saunders, of Louisville, and J, P. Alvery, of Texas, are at the Maltby House. Colonel M. Moeckera, of Cuba, and Colonel W. E. Holloway, gof Connecticut, are at the St. Julien Hotel. ’ ‘ Sir Charles Bright, of England, is at the West- minster Hotel. 2 Surgeon General Barnes and Major Milla, of the United States Armys Colonel W. Schaffer, of Wash- ington; Ben Field, of Albion, and 8. A. Tappan, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A. N. Ramsdell, of New London, and Lieutenant E. D. Wheeler, of the United States Arasy, are at the Hoffman House. we expect from President Grant a very desira- ble reform. Progress of tho Evvolution im Cuba. Tho retreat of the Spanish garrisons from the inland towns of Puerto Principe and Las ‘Tunas to the coast marks a definile change in the character of the war in the island of Cuba and indicates the military policy which the colonial government probably aims to pursue in the contest with the Cuban patriots or re- publicans, It is, in fact, an abandonment of the ol@ line of fnterior garrisons by which the island has been held and « concentration of the forces on the available points of coast, where they can always be in safe communica- tion with Havana, the centre of government and of supply. This concentration has its advantages, inasmuch as # aflords to the Spanish army great facilities for supply and movement and will enable It to concentrate for The Presidenv’s MessngeA Parting Brond- | action against any point that may beoomo vital aide at Congress. As the wrath of Achilles is the theme of Homer's “‘Iliad”— Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing— o is the wrath of Mr. Johnson the text of his farewell annual Message to Congress. His’ salutation is a parting broadside. ‘Upon the reassembling of Congress,” he says, “‘it again becomes my duty to call your attention to the State of the Union and to its continued dis- organized condition under the various laws which have been passed upon the subject of tecopstruction,” Last December he exaltingly called the attention of the two houses to the auspicious results of the fall elections of 1867, and it is therefore a very remarkable fact that he has entirely ignored the auspicious results of the fall elections of 1868. We are afraid that Mr, Johnson has learned only a one-sided estimate of tho voice of the peoplo; otherwise after this late final and decisive trial of ‘my policy” before the people he would have dropped it. Nevertheless, in the conseyuences recited of the reconstruction policy of Congress he tells some wholesome truths, and we cor- dially agree with him that if these reconstruc- tion laws canno®be conveniently abrogated they onght to be made to “conform to the genuine principles of republican government.” We also cancur in his suggestion that the Tenure of Office law and all other Jaws passed under his administration tying up the hands of the President and impairing the efficiency of the Executive Department ought to be re- pealed, and we are glad to find that General Butlor is of the same opinion. > The Message next is devoted to # vary in- teresting.arrey of facts, figures and arguments upon the great money question, embracing the condition of the Treasury, its receipts and ox- penditures, the @aifonal debt, taxes, bonds, banks, ‘e., based upon Mr. MeCulloch’s re- port. Ov this vital subject the President's views in teforqnoe (yg the steediest practicable payment “er the ba Well worth the thoughtful attention of Congress, whatever may be said of bis leanings to the greenback theory of * “Old Thad Stevens,” Butler and Pendleton. The exhibits presented of the working of the several executive departments during the past year are better than we bed expected; although in the matter of the whiskey frauds and late whiskey fraud inves tigations, and the genecal tmbroxlio among the whiskey rings and ravenue offictals, we acc sorty to say tha Message leaves us entirely in | Sorry we are, bul perhaps Mr. | Johnson conid not belp it. ann Upon our foreign refation§ the Presi forme us, among other things, that tions are pendiug with a view to the Isthmus of Darien, under the auspices of the United States,” and that the resulta of stress | / negotiations may soon be expected by fie Sonate. We have only to say, in view of the grand enterprise involved, that we hope these | negotiations may be egmpletely snecesstal. Next, while the St, Thomas purchase treaty still ha: fire in the Senate, the Massage, with a aly hint ot Cubs, broadly takes ground io favor of the annexation of the whole island of St. Domingo, including the black republic of Hayti, aneh as it is, and the yellow republic of Dominica. The Prosident says +—-"L am satisfied that the time has arrived when even #0 diroct a proceodiug as o propositian for the annexation’ of thease two republics ‘‘would mot only receive tho consent of the people inte to the new republic. _ On the other hand, it is an abandonment to the republicans of one-half of the territorial -extent of the island, with the oxception of a few fortified ports, and leaves under their con- trol approximately one-third of the population from which to organize the means of defence for the new order of things. The Hastern Dopartment, which has been given up to the revolution, from its mountainous character and sparse population and produc- tion, affords the least facilities for military operations und the greatest advantages for defence. ‘The island is there one hundred and fifty miles wide, and the length of the portion now occupied by the republicans is not less than three hundred miles. It is the great seat of the grazing industry of Cuba, which, no doubt, has contributed to the rapid spread of the revolt, The Western Department, which is as yet undisturbed, is the great seat of the slave population and agricultural wealth. | From Puerto Principe two highroads tra- verso the island westwardly—one on the northern and one on the southern side. Along these ft appears that two bodies of the patriots are marching westward upon the great seat of sugar caliure and wealth. At the last reports one of these was advanciog ander the Donnt of Villamar upon Santo Espiritu, aa in- land city of thirteen thousand inbabitants, while the other, pursuing the northera road, had appeared in the vicinity of Maron, « pork on the north coast, twenty-five leagnes east of Sagua Ia Grande. That the disposition of the native inhabitants of the Western “Department is favorable to the cause of independence ts well known to the colonial government ; but how far the republicans will venture to penetrate the populous districts with their ad- vaoce will in a great measure depend on their possession of arma and munitions, With these they are scantily supplied, and « still greater need is that of men skilled in military organi- sation and movementy. All tho anmes that have thus far appeared in the accounts of their | movements, with the exception of one or two Dominicams, are lawyers and planters, who have never before girt ov a aword, i] The slave population forms one of the most important elements fa this contest, and one } which has a3 yet been but little atfected. OF four hundred. thousand slaves in Cuba not over seventy-five thousand are held in the half of the sland that hag thus far been brought under tho influence of the movemont, while | of the qnarter of a million of the free colored population fully one hundred thousand reside nthe Raslern Deparimeat and are favorable | tothe revelation. Many of the Cuban plante® voonta ibe abolition of slavery, but desire its | r dean fis sudden extinetion. | of thom, however, lisposed to e sod orm their megroes, and « few are yrled to have done so already. This feel- nereaged by the fallin the valua { vy, which haa ber ibe sven by our ilavone letter | movement and comes with good grace and 1 to be expe { rematued unsettled. The Portuguese colonists had, however, in the meantime, overrun much of the territory beyond the frontier fixed upon hy the treaty, and in tho earlier part of this century were occupying vast tracts of land upon which, through the neglect of their Spanish néighbors, they firmly established themselves. Therefore, in all tha treaties thus far made between Portuguese Brazil (now independent), and her republican neighbors the empire has firmly sustained the uti possi- detis tueory, and has thus far been very suc- cessful in its negotiations on this basis, So far as Uruguay was concerned Brazil forced her boundary line by military domination. She also endeavors to force off the northern third of Paraguay at the point of the bayonet. Peru, in & treaty of October 23, 1851, settled her boundary question on the basis of pos- session. Bolivia dollows, and in @ treaty of limits and navigation of March 27, 1867, draws the boundary line between republic and empire far withia the limits designated for her in1777. The San Ildefonso treaty gave hor some ninety thousand square milesemore of tervitory than sho now possesses. It was perhaps wise, however, for her to settle at once this vexed question of limits with Brazil, for i has for more than three centuries been # constant source of annoyance and s fertile cause of the backward condition of both Last- ern Bolivia and Western Brazil, The ninety thousand square miles above men- tioned are practically of no value to-day, although they may, in the development of the Amazon valley trade, become of vast impor- tance, as they are cut by the Purus, one of the finest of the Amazon affluents. Bolivia, under this late treaty, commences a new existence; and it is only « comparatively small party that can declaim against the wis- dom of the present government in settling a question which threatened war with a power- ful neighbor, who might at any moment absorb the magnificent and productive provinces of Santa Orta ahd Chiquitos Tying Upon” hor frontier. With reference to the internal condition of Bolivia there can be no question of an im- mense onward stride since the present power- ful government assumed control. General Melgarejo, the President, is probably the ablest soldier in South America, while le has had the rare good sense to solect a Secretary of State and of Foreign Affairs—Marianp Donato Mufioz—who is thoroughly American and one of the most progressive men to be found in any Spanish-American country. Under this rale Bolivin has for throes years past enjoyed a tranquillity unknown to any of her neighbora, and for the first time in her existence has given proofs of her desire for contact with the world by send- ing numerous foreign ministers to different countries, by encouraging the introduction of American enterprise, by cutting cart roads, conceding railway privileges and inviting the capital of the United States to transport upon her affluents of the Amazon her immense trafe—a trade which up to the decree of Brazil, September 7, 1867, giving her an ont- let to the Atlantic, Bolivia has been forced to carry on muleback across the Andes. This same trade has of late years been entirely con- trolled by Pern, as it has passed throuzh the Peruvian port of Arica.~ It is not, therefore, surprising that Peru should make a protest against a treaty which is the first step toward turning the Bolivian commerce from her con- trol and pouring it into the Amazon, to enrich that great vailey and help build an immense city at its mouth, Henceforth tho interests of Bolivia are more or Jess linked with those of Brazil, and upon the wisdom of both will depend whether their twelve millions of in- habitants march to » glorious future or re- main in a dormant condition in the occupation of three and a half millions of square miles of the most fertile part of our Continent. Berrer Taka m8 Bout By tie Horns, — General Butler has taken the first step in Con- gress for supporting sod strengthening the ad- ministration of President Grant. He has iv- troduced a bill to repeal the Tenure of Office act, with a view of relieving the new adminis- tration of the shackles with which Congress has boand Mr. Johuson, This is an excellent wmagnaoimity from the hero of Dutch Gap. That bottling up remark of Grant is forgiven, evidently, if not forgotten, and it fs clear Gen- eral Butler does not intend to be a cipber under the new order of things, He will probably be the leader of the House and the organ of Grant's administration. Ou Santa ANNa.--Thia played-out old | veteran has reached St. Domingo, and the whole island is in exciterment to know what he Let them first ascertain how many | with him and how many if both 3 be bring: ouoced he bas in numerots they me; s carpet bag. rest in | poses. yace, suppos- | § Tho Indian Qzoestion—The House Bill. nt ‘Tho Proposed Telographio Eeform, The bill for the transfer of the Indian The Postmaster General promises us a eepa~ Bureau to the War Department, introduced in | rate report on the subject of the proposition the House of Representatives by Mr. Garfield, | to place the telegraph business of the country of Ohio, passed by an overwhelming majority, despite the opposition offered to. it by the friends of the present corrupt sysiom. It is to be hoped that the passage of the bill will not meet with any violent opposition in the Senate. It is dificult, indeed, to imagine such a result when we remember that the men bost acquainted with the Indian question, such as General Grant, Goneral Sherman and Gen- eral Sheridan, are unanimons in recommending the transfer to the War Department. For a year or more we have been urging in these columns this precise settlement of the Indian question as the only one that can bring peace fo the frontior towns of the West and secure a final arrangement of our much perplexed dealings with. those tribes of savages, who cannot be brought within the pale and in- fluence of our civilization. If Mr. Garfield's billshould pass the Senate and receive the President’s sanction there can be no doubt that our troubles with the hostile Indians will bé@ brought to a speedy conclusion by the army. But the next point to be arrived at is the fature disposal of these tribes, who have to be reduced by force to good behavior. It is evident that they must be compelled to ro tire upon distant reservations, and there be mada subject to our laws and converted, a8 far as possible, to our system of civilization, just as the Seminoles, the Osages, tha Poi- awatamies, Senecaa and other tribes have been, It may take time to accomplish this; but the preliminary step is very clearly to bring them to subjection, to impress upon them a practical knowledge of the superior power of the government and the capacity of the military arm to enforce the obligations of such treaties#and compacts as may be entered into with them. Believing that these results can be best obtained by the transfer of the In- dian Bureau to the War Department, where men like Sherman and Sheridan cau have a voice in its management, we trast that Mr. Garfield’s bill will become law. Spain, {t is now manifest that Spain is In great trouble, The revolutionary leaders are now soen in their true characters. Prim, Serrano and the others are now rather the men we thought them before the revolution than the men they seemed to be in the first flush of revolutionary success. g couple of months ago Spain hailed them aa fiberators. Now Spain re- garda them as traitors or as men who are mise- rably incompetent, Rumor has it that the elections which were fixed for the middle of this month are not to take place till towards the middle of January, and that in conse- quence the Cortes will not meet until Febru- ary is far advanced. It ia now difficult to resist the conviction that the revolutionary oaders arg hampered by plodges which they at ft impossible to med sier bade a good figure; wo no doubt did Napoleon; but the people, who seem resolved to have their way, and who know nothing of pledges, are a bar both to Mont- pensier and Napoleonic plans. Judging from late news the republican sentiment is grow- Ing. We know it is strong in the southern provinces, Such hesitation as is now mani- fested by the provisional government can have no other effect than to band the people to- gother and to Inspire them with ‘a common re- publican dentiment. The reyolutionary tide, if we are to judge from recorded facts, is too strong to be controlled, and it seems to be the determination of the government to save them- selves and to get rid of their pledges by allow- ing events to take their course. It will be seen by our Cuba despatches this morning, that this view of the state of affairs in Spain is essentially confirmed. Count Bismarck and the Pouce of Europe. Count Bismarck has returned to Berlin. One of our latest cable despatches informs ua that almost immediately after his return he took ogvasion to meet the Ambassadors of France, England and Russia, when he ex- pressed his conviction that there was no reason to apprehend a disruption of the friendly re- lations now subsisting among the different Huropean Powers. This is very well for Count Bismarck. All the world knows he does not want war, but all the world knows he is ready for war, and that the nation of which he is the real chief is armed to the teeth and ready for any emergency. The situation of Europe is far from satisfactory. No one knows better than Count Bismarck that war is a possibility which might become a reality at any moment. Who can day thata war, European in its di- mensions, may not yet spring from this Spanish cevolution? Who does aot know that at the present moment the question of peace or war, as between Turkey and Greece, is hanging in the balance? Who does not know that the Schleswig-Holstein question is still unsettled, and that provocation is only wanted on either side to make this a casus belli between Prussia and France? ff anybody else is ‘ignorant, Count Bismarck is uot, that Prince Charles of | Roumania bas been forced, much against his will, to maintain peaceful relations with the Ottoman Porte. With all these questfons stil) unsetiled, with all these facts before us, we have a perfect right to treat with levity Coot Bismarck’s assurances of peace. Wer might, but it might not, be» gain to Prassia. Poa will be # gaia beyond all chance of question. ing. South Germany requires but time to gravitate towards the great German centre. Time will accowplish Couat Biswarck’s pur War might de i, but t might net. The Count, like a wise man, prefers the certain to the uncertain. He is not wnwilling to fight, if to fight be necessary; but he prefers to wait and allow peace and time to settle the question, Coxanrss any ‘ce Mussacn.—It will be on by one Congressional report that the Senate yesterday prematurely choked off the in the hands of tho government as @ purt of the postal systam, and we have no doubt that his argument in support of tho reform and the statistical information he will produce will decide the question and induce the favorable and prompt action of Congress. ‘Tho practical working of the new system, howover, as already developed in Europe, is worth volumes of theoretical discussion. By acable despatch published in yesterday’s Hrratp it will be seen that the several important lines under the control of the different governments are to be virtually consolidated for business pur- poses, and that the rates are to be materially reduced, equalized and rendered uniform, much to the convenience and advantage of the people. A convention has been recently held at Vienna, at which nearly all the countries where the telegraph, lines are now controlled by the government authorities were represented, and very satisfactory arrangements for the in-- crease of facilities were made. The practical benefit pf the system is sufficiently shown in the fact that twenty words in the body of a despatch, exclusive of addresses and signa~ tures, have been agreed upon as tho minimum length of a message, and that tho rate from London to Calcutta bas been fixed st about twelve and a half dollars of our currency. Such a message goes mainly by cables, The route is from England fo Malta; thence by deep sea cable to Alexandria; thence to Suez via Cairo; from Suez to Bombay by the Red Sea cablo and overland to Calcutta. Yet the cost of such a telegram is about the same as would be a message of the same length sent over the Western Union lino from New York to San Francisco. There are other practical advantages grow- ing out of the control of the telegraph by the government to which it will be well for the Postmaster General to allude. Not the least important of these is the coast line, now a part of the British system, and which woul@ of .| course be adopted here. By means of such @ Jine information of the weather and of the loss of vessels can be instantly transmitted to the main seaports of the country, and much property can thus be saved from destruction by the speedy arrival of assistance. Indeed, so marked and numerous are the public bene- fits secured by the proposed reform that the opposition to it in the United States is likely to be limited, as it was in Europe, to the pri- vate corporations and monopolies interested pecuniarily in keeping up high tariffs and affording to the public only limited facilitios for doing business. Mr. Junoxes’ Orv, Sxrvick Bu1.—Mr. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, is one of those few Congressmen who seriously appreciate and undertake the duties of a legislator. With tho enpse of purpose whigh he displayed as author of the bill he has peraisted iw elaborating and urging his Civil Service bill. This latter bill stands fourth on the Speaker's table, and it is not unlikely that it may be passed early during the prosent session of Congress. We are glad to learn that this is so, inasmuch as this bill, with tho details of which the readers of the Heraro’ have already been made familiar, may proves cure for that terrible disease of office-secking on the part of incompetent aspirants, by which our body politic has so long and so danger- ously been afilicted. By the passage of this bill General Grant, as our next President, will enjoy unprecedented opportunities for carrying into execution the system of economy and honesty to which men of all parties feel that he is pledged in advance. Tine Lesson or tHe Late Onto River Dra- AsTEn.——It is something like locking the stable door after the horse is stolen, but we are glad to learn that # bill will soon bo introduced in Congress prohibiting the transportation of po- troleum and otber combustible materials on in- land passenger vessels. This is the lesson tangktt by the sacrifice of nearly a hundrod lives by the Sate disaster on the Obio; forit appears that barrels of petroleum were piled up on board the United States in such & posi- tion that whem the America ran into her the inflammable staff was hurled into the furnaces, and, of course, instantaneous combustion en- sued. The fact is the Inws regulating the transportation and safe storage of potroleum und all dangerous explosive articles teil to meot the case, as we daily or nightly witness, in -terrible conflagrations on abip- board, in warehouses, and even at the fountain heads of petroleum. themselvyes—the oil wells. Here is a topic for Congress to show its intelli- gence in practically legistating upon tho mutter at the’presont session. Gena Asiaze.—By special cable de- spatch this morning it will be seen that Mount Etna has burst forth im a fresh and terriblé eruption, shaking the earth with its detonations and carrying the ashes from the crater even into the streets of Messina. ‘The sight is represented as a most gorgeous one, the lurid blaze of the volcano being seen » distanee of one hundred and twenty milos. Thus is Sicily entering the field of pbysical convulsiona while the neighboring nations aro trembling upon the crust of political volow- noes. <onatont Meyer's “Good Words” Constant Meyer bas jusé Mnisheda new pletnce, which he baptized “Good Words" aad exbibiied lagt evening at “private view” to-a number of in- vited guests and eonnoisseurs. The subject choson is ascene Ip a Sunday schoul, whore # young lady of refinement reads and explains the “gnod words” of the Bible to some children of the poor: In concep- Uon and design th possesses ali the well knawn ex- called characieristics of the artists ‘tho lady, a® { the teacher, is seated, and against her loans a litho whorn she presses to ber side with her right around. the shoulder, while the lets partinhy wl gives wecent tothe “good words’ just bnoi apparenily the subject of explanation. These two form the centre group. ‘the poor pupil iv np- published in another conan. a ee in presals oF his favorite winuae- | ronding of the Presklunt's Message beenuse | {°extreded: wit remarkable trahainees Doversy Further advices from the seene of operations | Me" by sh aie eg 4 layin cise | home of ite sentiments were distasteful to hon-|| 8nd susfering, and that carciessnons and aliaruton. H . + os any , for, Mexican-like, he only espouses a 7d « usual atnony ihe youug of her class, and M will be Looked for with interest, as the revolas I it * | srable ears. The tlonse also behaved with | awakening picty aud dovotion aroused by et von i chin el ere tt wil) | ese to betray t. Bebe - . 1 ing to the soothing words of Seripture, The wwe | tion ismow approaching « fleld bk ve it will " ‘ : | unseemly ooarteness and alga ty 9 rR ie oe oe oe eee ee whore an: sorionaly affect our commercial inferesis, Tun -Kussaoe-ov Avereia Ovonaded Fok | mentaty Dedy in. temode of dispoamg of the | bong are also well conceived sad @hoiravir Macwo Haste Stowny—-Gladstons, fa the } Peace.—-Vraneis Joseph hos issued o ma | Executive State paper, Proceedings like Walid ass aT TA. Résera, to eves! formation of his Cabinei. A few namos were | testo to hig army declaring that “the country | theae would fosrecly bo tolersiod nt § on? + | eee tho principal living eompescrs-—Merca.iants furnished by cable despateh fast night au hay- | wants peace and that ft must be maintained.” | nor’s inquest when the Last dying affidavit OF) y) thoie noad—anowid onite tn we i hf i fane der considerdtion. Con- | be performed on the first and alt ing been officially gazetted for places, John | If the Augtriin monarch fares no better in| the defun 4 was under iP aS hard | Versacics of Kossini’s Meaty Bright's does not Appear among them —or | maintaintn ¢peate thao he did in maintaining | gress haa let down Andy Johnson very eh b . tana never pablla . a . 41 A " 5 a that of any other very peowlaent man, for that | war against Prossia (ho tranquilliy of Karope | indeed, and ia ® mannor pot at all cradivable priot to. postority of the approsinom his Cont oe| matter, is by no means seours. to itself. poraried bad of bao Groat macsiry,