The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1868, Page 4

EUR ‘The following correspondence from our spectal énts in Europe will be found interesting. Whe letter from Cadiz gives a vivid description of the where the present revolution that now agitates bad its birth, and the Parisian correspon- dence details a fall account of the difference which alienated, in 8 measure, the moat prolilic novelist of from one of the most gifted musicians of italy. The remainder of our budget of European news is worthy of atteation. SPAIN. Cadiz—The Appearance of the City on its ' Appreach from the Sea=Its Streets, Public Capiz, Nov. 23, 1868, There are few cities in the world that can rival Cadiz in stately and miagnificent beauty. Situated ‘on high ground, with but a narrow causeway con- ‘mecting it with the mainland, it has all the appear- ence of an island surrounded on all sides by blue water. The architectural style of its edifices and its position give it a queenly and Oriental appear- ance that is at once striking and delightful. The ‘view from the bay or from the Atlantic under a Dine sky and bright sunshine 1s worth many miles of travel to see, What can be more splenaid than ts brown, weather-beaten fortifications, encasing the white walls of the lofty edifices on the water front, the grand towers and gleaming cupolas, the green foliage and the quaint Moorish roofs, so ive of coolness and comfort, the whole set in ‘by the blue waters of the Atlantic and bay? From a distance it resembles a city of marble palaces gleam- dng brightly over the waves that nash and sparkle bout its base. Nothing could be more refreshing to she eye or delightful to the senses. The sun may pour down its rays with tropical fervor and the dark clouds may be driven over it by the flerce gale, but the city wears ay eternal look of comfort, beauty and peace. It gleams the brighter In the sunlight, but it is always attractive and seductive, even in its gloomiest hour. Its surroundings are in every way worthy of its imperial attitude. The broad, capacious bay, the white, gleaming towns that surround it, and the lofty mountains that seem to watch over it from afar are all beautiful and harmonious in their effects. Lisbon ts grand and striking. ‘The elty of St. Peters- ‘burg, with its golden domes float! in mid air, and the picturesque Swedish capital have each their peculiar charms, but none scem to vie with Cadiz viewed from a distance. ‘The myriad craft, from the immense frigate to the quaint fishing boat, give an air of life and activity to the bay that contrasts finely with the stately tone of the city itself. Cadiz must ‘beseen from afar. Then space softens many harsh ines and lends an air of enchantment to the scene, “which is speedily dispelled us your boat approacles the mole and brings you closer to the time worn and wane fortifications and dilapidated gates The bright sunlight or the softening shades of the storm cloud, together with distance, conspire to lead the senses astray, and to create 1mpressions almost ‘as baseless as the cloudy foundations of a chateau en Espagne. Alongside asmall mole, built of stone, Jie the lighters and small boats which transport pas- sengers and freight to and from the ships in the har- Dor, as there is not a single dock im the bay. a vessel umay lie alongside of and discharge ca A French company is Dow engaged in constructing a splendid wea wall and docks a couple of miles up the bay, where vessels may lie hereafter. Landing the mole and passing the Custom House omice, you pass through an ancient gate in the massive fortifications, and, escaping all examination on the part of the oMcers who iormeriy collected the octroi duties, you find yourself in a narrow street devoted to markets and shops for marimers, Vegetables, fruits of all kinds aud game are abundant and cheap. Immense piles of golden oranges, bunches of dates, baskets of lemons, grenadines, citrons, appies, pears and other fruit cucumber the sidewalks and till the stores, During the early hours of the day these places are thronged with buyers, who pick their way with no little trou- bie among the fruit, idiers, carriers and the donkeys— and these little, long-eared, loud-mouthed and amia- dle jackasses play a great part in the social economy of Spain. No poor familly 1s without one; and the ‘patient little creature that works #0 hard and bears 80 Many beatings at night has his place by the fireside, and works his ong ears meditatingly and blinks and winks with inexpressible satisfaction as he contem- plates his master and chews the tough buttof acab- bage. Itia only when he persists in giving vent to his joy by prolonged cries that he is led by the ear to the door of the hovel and sent into the open air, with a blessing in the shape of a blow from tne hea- viestclub athand. It is amusing tosee one of these funny little tellows, bearing their loaded panniers, and his master perched on lis rump, trotting along, up hill and down again, sure-footed and qutc! never caring how muny people he rans over or ushes to the wail. lie can do more work than a rse and requires much less food, What Spain would do without him it is not easy to conjecture, The streets of Cadiz, itke nearly all Spanish towns, are narrow and crooked, but always clean and tole- rably well paved. The houses are generally lofty, built of brick and stuccoed. Each window has its balcony, from which the seforita may look upon the passers by and make love in the evening to her iriend on the opposite sidewalk. ‘The streets, veing narrow and the houses high, are always cool in the summer, with a fine breeze passing throagh them. ‘The public squares are pieasant, and the Alameda one of the finest promenades in Europe. It ex- tends along the sea wall and fortifications, and resents a fine view of the ocean and bay. it is tolerably well shaded, contains some statuary in very bad taste, and is a very popular oo of resort in the summer evenings, when the beauty of the city throng its broad waiks. On the fortuhcations are a number of bronze mortars, as use- Jess as so many old hat boxes in case ofa naval attack and @ quantity of oid-fashionea long bronze guns, badly mounted. The heaviest and most eMfcient guns that I observed in position were short eight-inch guns, mounted on iron barbetie carriages, evidently not easily handled. An iron-clad squaaron could go in and take possession of the bay and city without serious difMcuity, though it would fiud In the Span- ish iron-clad fleet no upworthy foe. Cadiz 1s not, on the whoie, an attractive city inside. Spanish life at the best is a dull atfair, and here it is stupid. The cli- mate makes Cadiz popular with mvalida; bat for persons who like a gay life tt o/fers no inducements. The sherry wine trade has been large this year. ‘The crop of grapes ‘was heavy and the quality un- usually good. The e: 3 to the United Staves have been extensive, and the usual quality of pretty bad wine has been sentover to tickie the palates of the knowing wine drinkers of the United States. Ameri- cans, lam sorry to say, get very little good wine, though they pay enough for it. lam afraid their taste is bad, and that they have too much faith io the representations of the wine merciant who sells miserable trash for a first seed of wine, It is pos- sible that the very best brands of sherry are drank in New York, but it don’t come trom Jersey, that you may be sure of, uniess it crosses the ocean by some other than the ordinary means of conveyance. A great dea! of Malaga wino which costs pincty dollars @ batt, which holds about six hundred boities, ts ship- ed to Cadiz, branded and sent to America and Pogland as sherry. The great buik of sherry sent to the United States costs avout $160 in goid per butt, and 1s doubtless sold at @ pretty fair profit. ihe finer qualitiesof wine costin Cadiz Irom $500 to $1,000 per Dutt, but it is very rarely auy of this goes w America. Political excitement still runs high here. There have receutly beeu two tmmease democratic demon- strations, in one of which, notwithstanding a tre- Mmendous rainstorm, 7,000 or 8,000 persons marched throngh the sireets and gathered in the Plaza dela Constivucion to listen to encouraging 5} hes. The ni most perfect order was observed, a a great deai of enthusiasm was evolved in spite of the depress- fog influence of the weather. The demo- erats or republicaus—for the terms are nsed syoonymously in sSpain—have it all their own Way here. je monarchical party have not been abié to show any great strength. although 1 pro feases sone, All the inembers to the Constituent Cortes from Andalusia will doubtjes be in favor of a republic, formed like that of the United States, ’ is the drift now, and unless something occurs tw induce the people to resign all hopes of a repub- Lie the members from this pre 6 Will be jnstracted to support all tcasures | ng to the suppression of everything like monarchical forms in ive new constitution, Moutpensier has no hold ov tae people here. They do not detest him so heartily as the Sevil- Hans, who know him better, but they dictrust him, and would under no circumstances support bis claims to the throne. They would rather like Kepar- toro a8 President, bus don't care even for hun as King. In @ word, they do not want, and, if (hey can help it, will not have a king. FRANCE. ‘The Death of Berryer—A Sketch of His Life nad Services Roxsinl, Ristori, Dumas anda Dish of Macaroni, Pans, Dee, 1, 1868. ‘The principal topic of my late contrivutions has fatally been adeath, The frat subject of this must ‘ve again an announcement of the same kind. M. Berryer is no more. He expired on Sunday morning, and the papers are ful! of notices of lila life and po- Mtical career. They can all be recapitulated as fol- Jows:—The legiimist canse has lost In this greasy orator the only mighty piliar it had in France. When he ient his energies, talent and strong atiach- Ment Ww the Restoration under Charles X, the Bour- bom cause was lovt, He came forward in time to cover the retreat, and instead of contenting himself with warding off the biows of his adversaries be attacked them. The public applauded; but of what use was the pubiic to the rising orator of fifteen mortal years of inactivity, from 18K Ww i930, when Deputies were not admitted in the Assombly untess mand.” Some time after will, fn of man ‘one cannot fall o they were eighty yeara old. When at length the tri- bune was open to him, instead of saving a dynasty he had to pronounce tts funeral oration. It was née- less to Wave the white banner, recall the exploits of Henry IV., Leuia X{V., Richelieu, Tarenne, Condé ‘and Colbert; no one listened to them. France wes then'living on her glory—the battles of the empire nd of the republic. She was tired of priests and ex- tended her arms to the militia, Thus it is that Berryer would have become the greatest historical figure in modern France had he not been the cham- pion of traditions instead of facts. Doomed to opposition without hope, he was all through life a fettered gladiator; but his spirit soared, and in this broken into arduous labor by abstractions, and thus gained that power which, unto hia last hour, when is body lay prostrate, exercised a kind of dominion sketch of him by Mr. Cormenin ts taken to the life:— impoemng authority with which he spoke and acted premned, all who ap- roached him. At the Chamber he was remarked by ‘he most indifferent for the shape of his head, which was broad at the temples; he was bald, with'the exception of s tuft of cuny hair on each side ef high, nagnear really was. Age Weighed on his shoulders, but his head, which was always thrown back, added height to his stature, When he mounted the tribune he filled it ent tal Possession of it as if he were a despot; breast heaved, his bust spread and he would stand like 9 giant. But incomparable and truly mighty was the sound of his voice. His audience seemed to’ echo every syllable that feli ips down into their souls, and this for er, while he carried them along with d fascinated, as it FES under antique the columns of his speech.” 1 nothing more but that he was, according to an old definition, “more royalist than @ king and more liberal than liberty.” 1 gave in my last an acconnt of his return home to die. He lived five days longer, and would on aking Sos broken slumber every morning inquire, * it! Iam not dead yet? Then Jong live the King!” ‘The tilustra' papers have sent their designers and artists to sketch his chateau at Angerville. His has been embalmed and numerous admirers are organiz- As it always docs ing be itera for his funeral. and will oconr, of the strange anecdotes circulated after the death of great men few are authentic. 1, therefore, reserve for a future letter those which are told of Bel 's eccentricities, always confining my- self to wi 1 know to be true rather than to what is puey. imaginative. § will not, however, reject a good letter of Alexan- der Dumas’ on Rossini. ‘it is not only amusing, but man and of the composer in private jat it would be @ pity not to forward It in Eng: lsh to your readers, His communication 1s directed to the editor of the Petite Presse and begins, after a preliminary line or two, thus:— By letter ts going tobe all about'Iossin{ and a dish of ma- caroni, for which ¥ am supposed to have fallen out with him. In the first place, one cannot fall out with those one is not bound to by some tie or other; consequently not with those ue bas no sympathy for; and my situation with Rossin! was such through life that I never spoke to him more than three times in forty years. ‘Gur postion In the literary and sclentific world was. such, however, that we could not be absolute strangers to each other; no that, some of my “Monte Cristo” aubscribers hav- ing asked me ‘to give them @ good recipe for macaroni—a thing I do not like and do not know much of—I wrote to Ros- sini, having reasoned thus with myself :—There is an illus: trious man in this world who 3s @ reputed gastronomist and he igan Italian, Iwill get a first rate recipe from him for this macaroni, and my subscribers will thin it. The letter I wrote Barber” was 28 follow: DEAR GERAT MAN. & good deal of the composer of “Moses” and “Tho have, it appears, a splendid rectpa for macaroni. You who have done so much for the ears of your contemporaries should do something for thelr stomachs, and after having been blessed you will be adored. Yours, kc., A. DUMAS, The follo wing was Rorstni's answer: Thave indeed wmarvelious recipe formacaront, but I keep {t for myself and friends, Come and eat some ext Tues- day and you will comprehend that wheo a man has such a treasure he does not give it up to dilapidaiion. Yours, ‘ROSSINI. I answered immediately :— Dran Rosstnt—I shall dine with you on Tuesday, but not sense [ have leas, but I shall come 1 to see Olyinpe (Rosaini's wile) i have still a vivid remembrance of her nad of Ler Deauty. DUMAS. The following day T went to Rossini's. | Wo were about four or five together. He was an delighi{ul as ever, and the maca: ron! came on instead of soup. It hada splendid success, though Tate none, and Lwas privileged not to do so on the of ty second note. As to the reat of the dinner it frankly, very inferior indeed. On Rossini's re(nsat to ‘me the recipe I thought T would go and ty to get it from the Prince of Thout(ort: for I knew that évenif he refused it I should get !t from the Prince, who is s friend of mine. Ristori, who also assumed that her wacaron! recipe ts the bea:. She offered to give me it. it tomy Knew I could not say anything agalnst a man whose bread und Menawhtle, however, I met Madawe I accepted and I submitted ders with the above details, As soon as people had dined with Rossin! I was ansalied with questions: Teplied, “Rossin! 1# not a real gour- met him at the + he hind heard my opinion of him and felt hurt, eaying, “I gave youn family dinner, not thinking I ought to'stand on ceremonies with you. had shared, so “True,” T ans I thonght that when Rossini dined alone he din Rossini.” This reply caused a wid h between as. Rossini was breac! Selfish, stingy and malicious—tbree faults Toan endure in my enemies, but which IT cannot bear tn my friends. He was, moreover, at least he used to say #0, very tay. Ido vot belleve in laziness, I think it lsonly an exeuse for incapacity; and, strange to say, Rossini nover was lazy before beer had #0 great @ success in “Kobert le Diabi that time bis seragale began—not a struggle, duel, in which Rossin! kept back. His f1 Achities, he kept under bis ten got under bis tent to reappear stronger than jevar- ie." From before, more vigorous aud more valiant; he reappeared to rout the Tro- jane, kil Hector and to drag'hitm, bound to his chariot, round walls of the city, If Rossini did withdraw under his tent ft was never to come forth agnin, to there makemacaroni, far from all, to write a ‘which be first gives to and then takes away from a. nd of fifty francs a month and some sold by him to a pedier gand lastly, he daily 0 in order to increase iis value on the day You soe, dear sir, that when a person has such an opinion with him, beeause one haw never been attached to bim. ALEXANDER DUMAS. At the end of this epistle comes Mime. Ristori’s re- cipe, which 1 reserve for a future gastronomic cor- Trespondence, AUSTRIA. Political Activity=The Meeting of and Hungarian Deputies—The B Austrian Navy as Compared with the Navics of Other Countricee—The Tenure of Office—A Hungarian Jewish Congress. Prati, Nov. 25, 1868, Of the two political centres of this empire the eastern one, Pesth, ia at the present moment enjoy- ing the largest share of political activity. The Court ts here, the Ministry for Common Affairs is here ina body, the two Parliamentary delegations are here, the Reichstag is in session, and, last of all, the Croatian politicians have pat in an appearance here, and they have come as friends and brothers for the first time since thirty years. The settlement with Croatia has already borne ts frst fruits. The Croatian Diet, at its recent shore special session, elected twenty-nine deputies to the Hungarian Diet, and these gentlemen took their seats yesterday. ‘They were received by the Hungarian members standing. The Croatian spokesman addressed the President In @ Croatic speech. The President an- swered in Hungarian, Another Croatian deputy then addressed the House tn Hungarian, in which address he expressed his joy at the re-establishment of the ancient connection between the two nations, and assured the Hungarians that the Croatian depu- ties would ever be fouud among the champions of the rights, order and unity of the lands represented by the Crownfot St. Sfephen. This speech was Greeted with lotid applause, Franz Deak thea moved that the Croatian deputies proceed immedi- ately to clect their representatives to sit in the Hun- garian delegation, in whien body five seats had been wely lef vacant for them. The motion was accepted un: nously and the sitting was sua- pended to Ww the Croat deputics to elect the wen of their choice. When this had been done the House reassembled, and 1% was observed that che whole of the new deputies took their seats on the right side of the Chamber and thereby proctaimed themselves supporters of Audrassy and Deak. ‘he Hungarian c6té droit feols itself strengthened by this accession and joy reigns ta their cam, The Ministry for Common Arta their estimates favorabiy through bot ‘Phe Reichsrath delegation bas cut nm Count Kechperg’s pension from 12,000 florins to 5.409 florins. 6 estimates for the army and navy de- mand 80,500,000 florins for the ordinary Budget and 6,503,000 florins for the extraordinary Cre in the extraordinary Bi it appears the sum of 961,000 ftorins for supplying the 7 Og breech-loaders, ‘The smatiness of th im shows that the army by the end of the current year will hove already been nearly all anpplied with this improvement. The written statement laid before the delegations by Admiral Tegethol?, as represent- ing the imperial navy, contains a survey of the tron- luted navies of the six en econ of Kurope. jireat Britain heads the list with 46 iron-plated shivs (including 16 frigates and 8 monitors), the whole carrying 620 guns. France comes second, with 46 iron-plated ships, catrying 606 guna, inclwling is frigates, Italy is third, with 22 iron-piated slips, catrying 403 guns, and including 14 frigates. Russia is fourth, with 24 iron-plated slips, carrying tov gans, and consisting of 6 frigates and 16 monitors. Austria and Hungary come fifa, with 9 lron-piated slups, carrying 106 and consisting of 7 frigates and 2 casema’ ships. Vrossia brings up the rear, with 6 fron-plated ships—namely, three frigates and two monitors. ‘The immperint Minister of Wir proposes to rawe the Austrian and Hungartan Iron-plated navy to fifteen iron-plated siip: balance ef the navy ts to consist of eight higi und sisteen tow deck ahips, with foar cou and some misxcelianeous Kindo: but this added, will take ten years to reach at the rate at the government, out of considerati State fianees, abd secondly, for capacity of native industry in the line of 9 ing, intends to proceed. 6 document goes on to Argue that, taking into consideration the steep and precipitous coasts of Dalmatia and Istria, deep draught plated ships will be more useful than light carrying Negations. | draught oating bettertes, which latter, i) is said, long and unequal combat his vast intelligence wae are better fitted for the waters and coasta of the north of Europe aod the United states of America. General Benedek has iurned up once more In pub- Me life, and this time as the mouthpiece of the Minis ter of War beiore tie Lungerian delevation. inas- much as the liupgarian de.erates make it a point of honor that everytuing transacied by or in their resence shail be transacted in their national ngue, and imasinuch as & complete knowled, he accomplishments of 1 ; thereof 18 not amo imperial ministers, the latter have to avai! them- selves of Hiungarian mouthpieces. The West Aus- trian Finance Minisier has been summoned tokesit i | | by the Reichsrath delegation, and has there j that the West Austrian defleit for 186B, if thi i vernment estimates are passed, will oe pry) sales ky Seupoes o anary a reform of the taxes gale of the wil of srounds, and of the Vienna ic) le and exercise 18 owned by the State. unction Railroad, whi . ‘The whig government of Great Britain in the time of George |. panee the septennial act with a view to lel en their tenure of powcr and postpone an 4} Peal to the yoore. The Hungarian government Possessed with the same idea—namely, that parlia- ments ought to last longer than three years—and have aapcellngly brought before the Deak Club & projet of a law for extending the present triennial period, for which the Hungarian ta are elected, to five years. The Deak Club has not yet come to a decision wy Congross of Hungarian Jews 1s about te held ongress o: in Pestle ‘The elections for the same have taken lace and have resulted in a lane arly for the fiberat party. I think that Firat Consul Bonaparte ‘Was the first to summon & Col of Jewish citi. zens in modern times. It has taken more than sixty years for this idea, which was first carried into effect on the Seine in the part of this century, to secure for itself acceptance on the Lower Danube. ENGLAND. Euglish Wonder at American Enterprise. {From the London Times, Nov. 30.) ‘The close of the civil war in the United States has been signalized by a feat of rat{lway enterprise un- aralleied, and indeed hardly admitting of parallel, any other country. Few empires contain even room enough for @ line of railway 3,000 miles long: fewer still would find the means of bridging such enormous é:siances with iron rails. The difficulty of the work, too, was much enhanced by the nature ofthe ground. If we suppose the territory of the Vaited States to be some 3,000 miles across from the Atlantic to the Pacific it may be roughly stated that about one-half of this represents settled country. modern town on the Missouri river called Omal City marks the limits of civilization towards the West. Towards the East this new city is already connected with the system of American railways, but at this point the lines stop; and well they may, for the distance from New York to Omaha is in itself nearly as great as that from Cal- cutta to Peshawur—in other words, as the whole breadth of the Indian Empire. Nor would it, indeed, except for # certain condition, be necessary to extend these lines any further at present, ‘yond Omaha lies on immense desert. We use the term not as implying that the eptire tract ig a barren or unproductive waste, but simply to express a region not yet brought under the dominion of man. The object, therefore, of the present enterprise ts, in fact, to connect the State of California with the State of lowa, on the western border of which Omaha City is sitnated. At preseat an American wishing to go from New York to San Francisco would have to take ship, run down to the isthmus ef Panama, cross this neck of land, and then go up to Catifornia—a journcy of twenty days at least. ‘This is by no means satisfactory to a people of whom it was said by one of their own countrymen that any man would readily risk his life for the chance of arriving anywhere five minutes Yefore anybody else. So they have determined to carry a raiiroad across the great desert at once, and enable any traveller to book through frum one to another. The dls rsed is actually not etween the Old World length of Ine required ‘amerito, and thus bridge the continent, is nearly 2,000 mites. The engineers’ calculation gives just 1,721 miles as the breadth of the “gap,” and the country along the whole way is as wild and unienanted as Patayonia. It is not ex- actly uninhabited, but the population, such as it ts, only adds to the periis of the enterprise. The vast plains and mountain ranges over which the railway 1s to be carried are haunted by bands of flerce and treacherous Indians. These regions are the last resort of the red men in their retreat to the West before the ever-moving settlers, and we have re- peed reported more than one instance of their attacks upon the Irne and the workmen. General Sherman’s duty at this moment consists in protect- ing the track as far as possible with United States troops; but the distance to be guarded Is so enor- mous and the Indians are so wary that trains are “wrecked” In spite of all his efforts. The country itself, with the exception of some formidable moun- tain ranges, is in many parts not iil suited for ratl- way work. For some hundreds of miles the line can be carried along valleys and over piains without much dimcuity, and the expertness of the Americans is such that the progress made seems incredible, We should mention, perhaps, that the project itself was concetved long before the civil war and was, indeed, so favorite a scheme that the inevitable suspension of the works during the all-absorbing contest is occasionally spoken of as not the least among the evil consequences of the Tebellion. No sooner, however, waa peace restored than the enter- prise was vigorously resumed. A few months afier the surrendef of the Confede- rate armies—that ts to say, at the close of the year 1865—the *gap” of 1,721 miles between Sacramento and Omaha City existed almost entire, since only seventy-one miles of the intended railway had been jaid down—thirty-one on the Sacramento and forty on the Omaha side. At this moment these seventy- one miles have been proibaaen into 1,323, leaving only 400 to be added in completion of the whole work. From Omaha the line has been carried on for @ distance of nearly 1.000 miles, 80 as almost to reach that half-fabulous city in which the Mormons thonght to exclude themselves eternally trom the world. From Sacramento a length of nearly 400 more has been laid, and the engineers are confident that before the close of the year now approaching the entire line from one ocean to the other will be opened for tramic. When it is remembered that this line, besides being carried through desert regtons and over lofty hills, crosses the tremendous range of the Rocky Mountains some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the work and of the astonish- ing expedition with which it has been accomplished. Next year an American citizen may gratify hin by taking the longest raiiway journey tn the world, Sud crossing 4 Vast Continent in @ stretch reckoned by houra. to conn ITALY. Workiagmen’s Address to the Hereditary Prince of Italy. The Workingmen’s Association of Naples has pre- sented the following address to Prince Humbert:—~ Your Rovan Hic —When in 1866 the labor- ing population of this city joyfully saluted you, whet it to fiht for Italian independence, they wished you 4 prompt and victortous return, crowned With the laureis which the dynasty of Savoy has always gathered in the battle fleld of the nation. At this moment, when they see you in, with their hopes realized and hy the aide of & cess Whom ‘Uhey learned to love when she was still growing up, they are penetrated with such pleasure that, forget- ting your long absence from their city, they congratulate you and hope to see you remain among them. Accept, therefor your Royal itch. ness, ag well a5 your august wife, the homage and hearty welcome of the working classes in this city, and cause their wishes to be realized. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A number Of priests have beon arrested tn Palermo, Sicily, accused of distributing incendiary prociama- tions, The Minister of Marine of France has engaged a celebrated aeronvut iv make experiments on a aya- tem of aerial telegra) ig, off Cherbourg, on board of the iron-clad squadron. ‘The, Italia, of ae fos that two proclamations: have been sent to it by post, bearing for signature “The National Committee,” and both iv favor of a restoration of Fraucis ji, ‘The paris Charivari represents a Spaniard sitting ‘able looking Over a bili of fare aud waited upon by ee of the provisional government, Spaniard—“} do pot much like your bill of fare and I prefer arranging mine to my own hiking.” ‘The tive for the army in Prua- sia is cripta, Of Whom (80,092 are fo be furnished by Pruss(a id 10,390 by the rest of the confederation. ‘The federai navy, under the new organization, i to Consist of 25,090 sailors. The remains of the late Prince Consort were re contly removed to the sarcophagus in Windsor Park, and during the day the Queen and members of the royal family visited the tomb aad deposited wreaths of immortelles on it. Referring to the recent nomerons deaths of emi- nent persons, the Paris Chomivri, in a faraily scene, gives an excellent caricature:—Wife, fondly em- bracing her husband, “And all those great talents leaving us! What @ blessing, my dear, that you were never more than # nuility.” The Malia, of Naples, announces the important news that Scop) tiello, the chief of an important band, has been killed on the territory of Vigiano. This leader was one of the oldest brigands in the province of Potenza. This death may be #aid to pat an end to brigandage in (bat district, The Paria Charivartin a recent mumber gives @ cartoature representing « founding hospital, with rows of cradies, over Which are placed cards on Which are printed Spanish Question, Eastern Ques tlon, German Question, Roman Question, &c. Enter the nurse (Europe) bearing a new infant (China) in her arms, “Ah, Lord, well, here's another.” ‘The Fischielto of Tarin gives a caricature of Or Pheus (Napoleon) playing on a harp ce and dis- a@emament congress) to a number of howling wild aiinais (Prussia, Italy, Dunubian Principalitics, England, &c.), “The poor, unfortunate Orpheus tn- stewl of #outling lis audle cite Shem.” The Gazetia del’ Rmitia of Bologna, of the 24th t., sioyai—"Alter the funeral of the exdaribaidian er, Faccioll, a crowd started from the Pianze and passed through some streets raising the usual cries of ‘Long tive Garibaldi ‘Long live Mazzi |’ ee ad " en was the close of Sun- Jay's demonstra the people disversed without, jog any disturbance.” “g « appears rather to ex- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE ALASKA PURCHA82 MONEY. More About the Charges of Bribery Against the Washington Lebby and Newspaper Cor- respondents, {From the Worcester Spy, editorial (Hon. Mr. Bald- win's organ), Dec. 15.) Our Washington correspondent by his statement in @ recent letter of the rumors current in that city in rd to the manner in which some of the Alaska ur money Was appropriated bas made some- hing of a stir among the newspapers, Tho New York Eoentng Post considers Mr, lwin the author of these stories and demands a Congressional inves- tigation, at which he shali be called upon to disclose the sources of iis information. It ls somewhat sin- ge that the Spy sionid have all the credit of put- | ng sees reports in circulation, when they or very similar ones, perhaps a little less definite, had ap- peared in several DeWnrarars and been a common subject of conversation for more than @ week before our ent, “Observer,” thought it best to Batata rite eal nately pol mors, vow 1301 knowledge as to their truth or falsity. ° ‘in ‘There were reasons sufficiently obvious for believ- ing that the reports, as he gave them, were incorrect, among which is the improbability of transactions being conducted with so little secrecy as would ap- ‘pear from these rumors to nave been the case. The iin Sa atedant cy aaa on the 0 lepartment, an allow the whole affair to be ‘tisclosed. on the most cursory examination. It would be diMcuit also to convince people that Mr. McCulloch, Treasurer Spinper paz J Biggs, ee DANS had combined gan: sigan’ ern ment and Sian upon our own gov whole story probably grew out of the fact that & remittance of & million pounds sterling ($5,000,000) was made from London to Bt Petersburg spine ‘ime ago. It bel assumed, not unnaturally, that this large amount was a part of the Alaska purchase money, it is not strange that some seeker after know- ledge should be curtous to know what had become of the rest of it. There are p! ‘of men tu Wash! nD whose long practice at int tions into every! knowabie pqualiiet them to answer any question at sight, and of course an Joauiey of this kind could not be allowed to go about asking in vain for a response, The temptation to make a sensational Stor Tall of Pepcid scandal was too great, and the nuity req was really very little. it was gar necessary to think of somebody who would be willing to accept a handsome sum of money, if ofered without returning an equivalent, and persons of that character, we suppose, are not more rare in Washington than elsewhere. As soon ag one name was mentioned in connection with the affair others would be suggested with equal probebuty, and the story rapidly assumed its present definite and com- plete proportions. We do not mean to attribute to our correspondent share in inventing these reports, He probabiy heard them, as others did, and when they-had assumed form and substance and become a general subject of conversation in the city he transmitted them to us, as other correspond- ents had previously done to the papers they repre- sent. The House of Representatives have, it seems, so far acted upon the Evening Post's suggestion as to adopt a resolution, on motton of Fernando Wood, for @ committee o1 investigation on these statements which appeared in our columns, This is not the first time that the Spy has in Congressional proceedings, and on the last occasion of the kind 1t was shown, on explanation, to have rendered the country a substantial service. We have no fears that we shall not emerge from the present investi- gation without discredit, The New York Ties of yesterday has an article on the subject, in which, after desigauting Mr. Bala- win as the writer of the letter in question, it pro- ceeds to make some statements which, if true, as they probabiy are, since the writer speaks as if he had personal knowledge of the facts, put an entirely different face upon the matter by removing the foun- dation of all the sensational rumors which bave been in circulation tn reference to the Alaska money. The Temes says that the $5,000,000 remittance to Petersburg had nothing to do with the Alaska se, Dut related to recent Russian railway nego! ions in London. Jt further says that the $2,000,000 were advanced by the Barings to the Rus- sian government last spring, on the faith of the Alaska negotiation, when it was supposed that the ap- propriation might not be voted in Congress until the present session; and that early in August the war- rant of the Treasury for the whole sui of $7,200,000 was drawn to Baron Stoeckl, the Russian Minister at Washington, on the New York Sub-Treasury, and the whole amount paid over 1a gold on his order to S. G. and G. C. Ward, the New York ageutsof the Barings. This statement, by proving the incorrectness of the starting point of the obnoxious rumors, will, we presume, be fatal to the whole story, and the Con- Spon Investigation will probably elicit nothing O sustain the anonymous charges against journalists or members of Congress. At any rate, it will not be likely to obtain any valuable information on the sub- ject from Mr. Baldwin, who, it is unnecessary to say to our readers, did not write the letter in question, and ts less in the way of knowing about jobs of the kind supposed than Mr. Wood himself, whose virtu- ous indignation at the bare suggeslion that any member of Congress could be thought liable to be influenced by pecuniary considerations Is very graul- fying if genuine. Has the Money Gone Out of the Country? {From the Hartford Times, Dec. 15.} As to the purchase money for Alaska (a pretty dear whistie at any price), that has long since been all paid over. Early last August the warrant of the ‘treasury for the wholé sum of hineny was drawo to Baron Stoekl, the Russian Minister at Washiug- ton, on the New York Sub-Treasury, and the whole amount paid over, in gold, on his order, to Messrs. S. G. & G, C, Ward, the New York agents of the Bar- ings. If tthas been taken out of the country (and we do not know that it has), it must have been done against the frst intention of the Russian govei ment, Which was, as we have reason for beileving, to permit the expenditure of the whole amount in thls country in th ase of tirearms, &c. WHOLESALE ASSASSINATIONS IN. MuSSOUAt. {From the Kansas City (Mo.) Times, December 10.) Mr. Turner, of Ciay or Clinton county, Mo., pur- chased a jot of cattle some months ago at Dallas, in Texas, from Colonel J. C. MeCoy, a prominent law- yerand citizen of Dallas, and some other persons. ‘The cattle were to be A fe t Baxter Springs. ‘The parties who soid tie cattle each sent an agent up with the beeves to recelye the money. McCoy sent his nephew, quite @ young man, to receive his por- tion—adout $1,500. After considerable delay, ooca- sioned by having to send to Clay county for the money, young McCoy, a young man named Jones and three others of the same party started back on their way to Texas on the Zist of Uctober, and camped at Buckhart’s prairie, in Jasper county, Mo, While sitting around their camp fire about daylight next morning they were fired upon by five men, all of whom are known and who lived in that neignbor- hood. Two of the young men were killed aid one mor- tally wounded, McCoy and one other escaped and made their way to a farmhouse tn the neighborhood. Soon after their arrival at the farmhouse the dive men who had shot their comrades, accompanied by three others, made their appearance, called them out and demanded thelr money. Young McUoy told them he had left it in the house with the old man who lived there. They then ordered him to go in and get it, which he did, and gave itto them. The party. then took young McCoy and his comnauion to an oid school house and put & guard over them and held them ua prisoners for the balance of the day, the next night and all the next day. After nigat of the second day tue same men, but increased to iiftcent or twenty, staried with the young fhen, a4 they said, to go and bury the dead, = ‘3 i got aes one aa ee After ing on party o' eth searched the youn te and found on the person of the companion of sixty-five dollars, which he had received as wages for driving the cat- tle. After taking it they commenced firing on him, but he broke a and effected his escape. “Whether he was wounded is not known, as he has not been heard & rom since, ‘They then commenced fring Ps soy, and, a8 they supposed, despatched left'him for dead. Some time after théy had left he recovered consciousness, and, although territhy wounded In half a dozen places, had strength enough left to call for help. His shoute were heard by many ‘nm the victuty util late in the might, when they became fainter and fainter, uatil they wy? ceased from exhaustion. Parties who had heard his eries for heip were afraid to go near fim, fearing vhat they might be fired upon by a gang of cutthroate. In tite morning parties went to him and found him barely able to articulate. He was taken to tue honse of a settler, where he now fics, still alive, but with little or no hope of recovery, When those who went to bary the three wyo were killed restie® i. phe? searched a og pd oe found on enc! oir pers me sixty or eighiy doll and one & much haredt Amount, TX regular ‘eh kept up during 5 apes ortion of the dey about a division of the spoils. ¢ Doctor, however, or one who claimed tiat title, obtatned the lion's share for his services, in relieving the one that was founded. The party of banditt! who took young McCoy and his surviving companion out and attempted to murder them were fifteen to eighteen in number, residents othe immediate neighborhood and all well known. ree of the victims had already been despatched, and their object, doubtiess, was to destroy all evi- dence ogni themsel vt espatching the au ing wit i\ crime, Finding, how- 2 |, and the other re- covered sufficiently to tell Bis tale of crucity and wrong, they have since, itis said (very doubifully, however), left the money taken from young MoVoy with the Posunasier at Baxter's Springs, deposited anonymousiy. I have given the above detalis ef this cold-biooded robbery sud murder as received from the lipa of five different men, who say tuey were at the time cam within hearing of ihe guns of these murderers, but who, a8 traveilers and strangers, knew atthe time nothing of what was transpiring, and would not have dared to interfere if they had known tt, The St. Louis Repuhtican of the 14th that. re- marks upon the above:—‘The motive inducing this cowardly slaughter is not mentioned, but from what TY ind our knowledge of other circumstances ‘we have 00 doubt the driving of Texas cattic sarocee that region of country had something to do with it. It te well Known tiat soine of the citizens of that #ec- tion declared thetr intention long ago to put a stop to Texas cattle passing through southwest Missouri, ‘Two years ago, when the bill to regulate the en- trance of these cattle into this State was before the Legialatare, a member of that body from one of the nities adjacent ro Jasper declared that the people of his section intended to put « stop to the Texas cattle business by law if they could, but if that would eo LY would kili the cattle, and if that falied they would kill the mea engaged tm the busi. nese. ‘TRANSFER OF INDIAN AFFA'RS T) New Yous, Dec. 11, 186s, To THe EvrT0R oF THE HxRALD:— Inoticed to-day in your columns an articte ander the head of “The Transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department,” and will state ® Low facts ‘pearing upon the dudject which your cerrespoudent has omitted, and whicn may not be uninteresting to some of your readers, Starting upon the premises of the writer of the abovementioned article, that the experience of the past is the criterion by which to judge the future, I will endeavor to prove/that tt is that experience which should teach our legislators the importance of transferring the indian Bureau to the'War Department, First—According to the statement of your corre- spondent, the correctness of which [ will admit for the sake of argument, the Indian Bureau for the period of ten years from 1835, while administered by the War Department, cost the government $15,000,000, on what your correspondent terms a * footing’ — that ta, during the Seminole war, which was prose- pee at an expense of haere For the last enty years and under the administration of the Department of the Interior the cost was $45,000,000; War expenses, 000, 000—1 a total of $346,000,000 for twenty years under the administra- tion of the Department of the Interior, against $65,000,000 for the ten years previous, under tlie ad- ministration of the War artment. I am indebted for my information to the agures of your correspond- ent. With this enormous increase in the adminis- tration of Indian affairs wara have not been averted. On the contrary, the most costly and disastrous In- dian wars have been w: Many valuable lives sacrificed and little or What does this prove? Manifestly the utter failure of the De- partment of the Interior to administer Indian affairs with profit to the government. Second—The causa delli—a very important matter to be taken into consideration connection with the subject. Your correspondont overlooks the ‘re- mote” causes of Indian wars and 1s satisfied to base his argument on ‘“proximate’’ causes. I will tell you in afew words what these “remote” causes are. Treaties are made on the part of the gov- ernment in good faith; but are the stipulations contained in these treaties complied with? I unhesitatingly assert that they are not, ‘The gov- ernment does all that it promises to do; but do the agents of the government carry out their instructions to the letter? No one who knows anything about these matters will deny what I now assert, viz.:— That the Indian does not get the benefit of treaties, but the Indian agentdoes. The Indian in his un- tutored state cannot discriminate. His presents are not delivered promptly, and when weary with watt- ing for his agents at last they come, with but a of what his Great Father has promised him. Kept from his hunting grounds in expectation of re- ceiving at least what he considers himself entitled to, disgusted, en and rendered desperate by starvation, a horse is stolen, @ cow kilied and an In- dian war inat Third.—The army is the natural enemy of the Indian, and why? he has none other except an occasional emigrant or remote frontier settler on whom to wreak his savage vengeance, and because he is led to believe by civilized (?) men who learn his language and give him bad advice that the army is his enemy. Now for the remedy. Let Indians understand and belleve, by a tg and equitable administration of their atfairs, that the army is their best and only friend, and you subjugate them. This can only be done by wise legislation. The transfer of the Indian Bureau tothe War Department wou!d place Indian affairs under the exclusive control of the army. Officers of the army cannot be corrupt if they want to, and an honcst adininistration of Indian affairs would at once be inaugurated. This would be pay- ing the way to an easy understanding between the army and the Indians, Break up and abolish all trading monopolies, and drive the trade from their country; distribute their annuities Peele and justly; estublish @ fixed vatue on indian articles of trade, and give them in return the necessaries of life at coat. | army Officers be their agents and traders; they know the wants of the Indian, because they are with him. The agent makes his semt-annual visit, oftentimes by proxy, and knows nothing of the real necessities of the people to whose wants he pre- tends to administer, Withhold all these advantages irom hostile Indians until they make treaties which inust be forced upon them by war if necessary. It will not be long before every Indian on the Plains will know the trae value of a cup of sugar and will discriminate between the friends who teach him and the enemles who call ita dollar and fix the value of a robe at four dollars. The Interior Department has made an unsuccessfal attempt to avert Indian wars ; now let Congress give the War Department a trial. It cannot make matters worse than they already are, SINGULAR CASE OF BOYISH ATTACHMENT, Piot From Real Life for a Novel or Play of the “Fanchon” Sort. {From the Milwaukee Wisconsin, Dec. 12.) Some time ago @ poorly dressed boy made his ap- pearance at the farm of Mr. Join Thomas, living in the town of Lake, and asked for work, Mr. Thomas had nothing for the boy to do, gnd was about send- ing him away when @ daughter of the farmer en- treated that he might be employed in doing some- thing about the farm, she taking pity on the boy’s frieudiess look and destitute condition. Mr. Thomas told the boy he might stay with bim until he could got another piace. The boy. between fourteen and ifteen years of age, immediately went to work, and in @ few days it was found that he was so useful about the farm that he was employed and taken at once into the family. The boy said he lived m New York: he thought his parents were dead, but did pot know, and that he had beea sent West with some other boys, erent et to work on afarm, The man he was with treated him so unkindly that he ran away, and coming to Milwaukee he walked out to the farm, and, fortubately for him, succeeded in tnding a home. The action of the farmer's daughter !n appeal- aug for the boy appeared to awaken a feeling of gratitude In the little waif's heart, and hecould not svow his thankfainess or attachment for The young lady in too great a degree. A few weeks ago Mr.. ‘Thomas’ daughter was married and with her bus- band went to Chicago to live. The boy appeared to take the absence of his mistress very much at heart and to mourn over it. Last week he went to Chica- o, and eta her entreated that he might live with her and her husband; but this being impossibie money was given him to pay his fare home. a num- ber of presents were made him aud he was sent back. He came home, but tha loss seemed to upset his mind, He tried to work, but could not, and finaly cried and mourned himself into a Ot of sick- ness. He was kindly taken care of by Mr. Tho- mas’ family, and on Wednesday morning appeared im much better spirits; but wuile the attention of the family was directed from him the voy got up kis bed and, fastening an old comforter about his neck, attempted to hang himself to the bedpost, Some noise made attracted the uttention of Mrs. Tho- mas, Who went to the room to nd nim hanging and struggling. He was taken down and by careful at- tention soon recovered consciousness. boy said he did not want to live if Miss Mary, as he called the youug lady, was taken from him, and that be feit so wad when she was away be did not care what be came of him. the lady, im answer to a despatch, came up from Chicago, when the boy ex- hibited bie joy in every possible manner, giviug her his promise that he would make mo more such at- teinpts upon his life. Itis one of the most singular cases of ment that have ever come within our notice. = rE Dm ~- ROASTED TO DEATH IN AN IRON FOUNDRY. A Shockivg and Mysterious Affair. {rom the Baltimore American, Dec. 16.) Aman named John Britt came to his death on Satarday night, at Wilmington, Del., under the most horrible cironmstances, having been literally roasted alive. He was # workman at J. V. Rice & Co.'s Phenix tron Foundry, where he has been em- ed seven or eight years fe has been , industrious man and not much addicted except that he wouid vecasionally go on ree on. Saturday nights. De bad charge and of the foundry, carrying the Keys. On Saturday night a number of men were employed about the foundry later than avani, gettin off some work that had to be iinished that night A about a quarter bofore ten o’clock Britt started with the wagon to take some castitigs down to the [ia- mond State Rolling Mill. He had been drinking some, and § man Who went wita him testified that they took a drink together there. That was the last those about the foundry saw of deceased; but he must have returned and put the team away, as it was found all — next —— At about quarier hefore eleven deceased went to Robinson's restau rant, near the foundry, where he vomething to eat. He stayed there until ait quarter after cieven, ANd thep went out with ® man to whom he stood talking until twelve o'clock. He remarked that he thought be Lh 4 im the foandry and Would go and seo what ti Wa3, That was the last that yee geen of bim until his children wens into the foiindry on Sanday morning to hunt tum and found Kila burnmg body. They ran for the foreman, Mr. Harvey, who went down to tue foundry iramediateiy and found Britt's body lying in the trench and against a red hot casting, the body in a blaze and one leg partly burned of, 80 that there was no sign whatever of the lower part of it, except the sole of bis boot, This trench had been dug the night before around the rim of a large fywheel just cast, so as to expone it to the air and let it cool fast. Deceased knew the Wheel was there, and saw the trench being dug, and how he ever got into the trench with oue side eee Up against the red hot iron is a mystery. Thongh he had been drinking, he does not appear to have been so drunk as toxbe unable to contro! hisown Inovements, while he was so familar with the foun- dry that he could fe bout it at night without o lanp. The affair as mysterious as it is horrible. The body, burned of all sembiance to humanity, almost, was taken to the deceased's residence. The coroner heid om a on it, but elicited no facts beyond those st |. Britt was # native of ireland, has lived In this country several years, and leaves a wife and a number of smati children, who were de- pendent on him for support. HOOsAC TUNNRI.—1t 18 announced that the Hoosac tunnel contract has been disposed of, #0 far ax ab- Stract propositions are concerned, and that the ex- ecutive counoll are now at work upon the details, Messrs, Shanly ag of Canada, are the sucvess- Mi parties, and their bid is stated to be $4,760,000, ‘The terms of security e been so far modified as to allow the parties contracting to Mmish work on the tunnel to the amount of $500,000 before drawing from the treasury in Heu of ‘ishing the like amount Mm bonds, Shanly, Sr., is an English engineer of large experionce,—duston Advertiser, December V6. 5 THE WAG DEPARTMENT. | PROPOSED REFORM OF THE TELECRIPS. sence —_——. To rie Fprror OF THR HenaLp:— A privately printed tetier addressed to the Post master General by Gardiner G. Hubbard, of Cam Maas., contains suggestions for the improve Of our teiegtaph aystem Which deserve the as tention of the pubitc. * seen No other country, unless it may be Russia at somé future day, possesses 40 great natural advantager for the development of the telegraph as the Unites States. In mo other country in which an equa amount of business is done is the extent of territory or the distance from one great commercial city to another so great. By comparing our system with those of other countries it appears, however, that we have by no means made the best use oF these advantages, In Belgium, where the telegraph is managed by the government, the need for its ust is but trifing, owing to the small extent of the country, Of the four chief cities, Antwerp, the furthest from the capital, can be reached by rail in fifty minutes, while the transition and delivery of & inessage usually takes half an hour. Nevertheless, tn Belgium the telegraph 1s used forall kinds of business, social as well as commercial, and by all kinds of people. The ratio of telegraphic messages to letters is aa high as one to thirty-seven—being in Englana, for instance, no higher than one to one hundred and twenty-one. This extensive ase of the telegraph is due to the admirable system upon which it is conducted. The telegraph is connected . with both the railway and the post. A large number of the offices are at railway stations, but “Every post office is an office of deposit from which messages are despatched at once, free of charge, te the nearest telegraph office when in the same dis- trict, othermise by the first messenger or by special carrier on the payment of an extra rate tor de. livery.” By this union of the telegraph and postal systems the for clerks, operators, rent, oifice expenses, &c., are reduced. The rates of tariff are also low, and it has been found that the reduction of the rates has immensely mcreased the amount of business transacted by telegraph. In 1862 the inland messages, at one and one-half francs message of twenty words, numbered 106,274. Tn 1865, at one franc, the number was 332,718. t In 1867, at one-half a franc, the number was 819,668, In Switzerland the facts’ are equally instructive. The genera features of the teiegraph system there are ilar to those of Belgium. In January, 1968, the rates were reduced from one to helf a franc with the following result:—Number of inland messages from January to April, 1867, 76,746; number of inland messages from Januazy to April, 1863, 145,207—being an increase of ninety per cent. ‘The general merits of the government system of Solegrap! therefore, are, that the rates ofcharge are low and uniform, the business is most profitable, the telegraph is easy of access and brought into close cotinection with the affairs of all classes of people. ' - In England, an act passed on the last day of July, 868, enables the Postinaster General to ire an work electric telegraphs. It 1s proviced:. it, that the rates shall be unijorm, not exceeding one shilling for the first twenty words of each message, and nos exceeding threepence for each additional five words; 2d, that the address and signature shall not bo counted in as part of the message to be paid for; 3d, that there shall be no extra charge for delivery by special foot messenger within one mile of terminal office, or within the limit ‘of the town postal delivery; 4th, that beyond that distance the delivery shall be made by special foo: messenger when desired, and the charge for delivery shall not exceed sixpence per double mile beyond such limits; Sth, that when such special delivery is not desired the message shall be delivered free of extra charge by the usual postal delivery. Finally, any person connected with the Post Ofice who shall disclose the contents of a message entrusted to him shall be sub- ject to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. It is estimated that as the result of these im- provements the number of messages will be at once increased from 1,500,000 to 11,650,000 and that the profits will be such as to authorize an early reduc- tion of the rates to sixpence. In the United States, under the present system it, is claimed that the telegraph {3 not pediclently accessibic, that the rates are too high and are need- jessly lacking tu uniformity. They are freauenily Jess to a remote station than to an intermediate one on the same line. Nor do the rates increase in fatr proportion to the increase of distance, but generaily in 8 much more rapid ratio, The rates for messages vf teu words at. distances not exceeding 500 miles being averaged at forty-one cents, the following schedule will show the proportional and the actual increase for greater distances:— —— Miles. -. — 100 600 1,000 1,500 to to to to 500, 1,000, 1,500, 000, Proportional rates..$0 41 gu 82 $1 AL $l 6 Actual rates. . 0 41 143246 3.36 ‘There is, ho’ , no reason why the rate should increase 4s rapidiy as the distance. On a through lune without much local business it is estimated that Jess than one-fourth of the operating expenses de- pend on distance. The instruments, operators, cle! ms, rent, oflice expenses, salaries, messengers and stationery are independent of dis- tance. Only afew minor {tems of expense, besides depreciation and repairs, are increased by distance. ‘The cost, therefore, does not, as is assumed, increase as the distance, and the exient of our territory is no reason why our average rates should be several times higher than the average European rates. The rates in. this country have fluctuated ex- tremely since the telegraph’ was first introduced. In 1850 the rates between New York and Boston were fifty cents; im 1862 they were twenty cents; since then they have been as low as fifteen and as jugh as sixty-ve cents, and Onally, in 1866 they were reduced to thirty cents. These excessive fluc- tuations are, of course, due to the alternation of perivds of sharp competition, during which rates fall, with periods of monopoly, when one competing company buys out its rivals and is thus enabi again tu raise the rates. Mr. Hubbard’s statistics appear to show further that increase in the rates has been attended with diminished increase, or even with actual decrease, in the amount of telegraphic business done in the country. ‘According to the returns made to the Commissioner of the Internal Kevenue the receipts from all the companies were for the— Year ending June 30, 1865... Year ending June 40, 1896, Year ending June 30, 1867. Year ending June 30, 186s. se+ 7,166,630 In other countries the rates are reduced with the growth of business and are never raised. In this country they are reduced by competition, followed by consolidation of the peting companie:, and it Incrcase of without regard te the froth of tae tunines, The rates are never pub- and are without aniformity or system. The consequence is that the public are universaily igno- rant of the rates. and many do not for that reason make use of the telegraph.” ‘The only efficient a ak for these evils is by the adoption of a bgp as prevails in Kurope, stmuaigamating the postal and telegraphic adminis. trations and placing both under the control of the verninent. Pitre en proved to be a Oplé a it to the government been and ail other lous are mere subterfuges to pervert its consuumation in this country and to aid in perpetuating the pres ent monopoly and enriching individuals at the ex- peuse of the masses, -% a TWE HANGING OF THE EXPRESS aongEas. Lyack Law and the Extradition Treaty with Great Briain. (From the Toronto Telegraph, Dec. 15. it is said that before these indians th &c.), Were ordered for extcadition, en by the American Minister that shey a fair trial, This we can hardly sup pose to be trae, Our government has no right wo assume that extradited fugitives, whether Amert- cans or cliizens or subjects of any other countey, would not have a fair trial, no matter what may the circumstances attending their extradition. And it would seem to us to be gross impersinence | in a Dominion oficial even to hint to tue American authorities at the possibility of an inefficient administration of justice, or a refusal thereof, under their free and enlightened sysvem. ‘ Besides, What we have to do when c: such as those of the express robberies come before the courts is to interpret the exfating treaty between the coun- trica in its spirit and meaning—not to interpret it as it should be, but as it is. {From the Toronto Globe, Dec. 15.) ‘The recent hanging of the supposed express rob- bers is a disgrace to the authorities of that state, and, in fact, to all its inhabitants, It gives one at & distance the idea that the people, if they are not al ready ee ri are fast drifting in that direction. We have nee to say a5 to what these men were, They were untried H and tncondemned; and for number of men to attempt to forestall the decision of law, and to be suecesstul in the attempt is simply disgraceful. It does not follow from all this, however, because: two of these men were lately extradited from Can: da that thenceforth we should be more careful abou fulfilling our part of the extradition treaty, should ask questions before we let suspected out of our lands, Such s proposal has absurdity ot the very face of it. The very object of the treaty to prevent the territory of the contracting parti ne a rel of the Jaworenkcte fait foun ieir respective juriadictions, be for she invert both those Ww ave either comm: there i# sufficient to give a prima facie likelih Of thetr guilt, should not scape without being put on trial simply by the boundary which sepa’ Fates the one country. the other. The very” erms of the treaty im to the laws wi tradited shall be and the country called upon & bas nothing whatever to do iment of te law of the other 0OO- have been broken; surrender @ oxi with the enfe tracting party. (From ee Montreal Ls nf be mn our governm most earnest nt o \m from efforts