The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1868, Page 7

NN — 6 NEW YORK HERALD “error” BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. dAMES GORDON BENNETT, , PROPRIETOR All business or news letter. and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New Your Hgeavv. Rejected communications will not be re- = ee RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rrv. W. Porz Yxa- Man, Morning and evening. CAURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.-Rev. Da. Fraca afternoon. Morning and EYBRETT ROOMS.—SrrmituaLists. Mrs. M. Wir que ‘Morning aud evening. #ORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN OU RCH.— rv. W. A. scort, D. D. ing and eveuing. (FREE CHURCH OF TH LY LIGHT. Rav. EAant- Buuy BYssaMin, Morning and evening. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE.—MoRNino Stan SUNDAY Bowoo.. Atiernoon, ‘TRINITY CHAPEL.—Rev. Perens iN BEMALY OF TAK MivNiGHT Mission, Evening. YNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bistor SNow. Afternopn. SS a Las TRIPLE SHEET. \New York, Sunday, December 27, 1868. £HB WEWS. Europe. ‘The cabie despatches are dated December 26, ‘The burliugsme mission has commenced its de- liberations, ‘The receit act of violence committed 4g the Chinese waters by an English war vessel is Fh ennea by Mr. Burlingame. It was unwarranted, he contends, to commit such an act previous to re- Yerring the circumstance which occasioned it to the filguest English authority in Pekin. The London mes takes a somewhat similar view of the matter. « Extraordinary levies of men and money, as pub- Tished yesterday, have been granted by the Greek Chambers. + ‘he Turkish government has placed ships of war seo? coast of Certigo to prevent Greek volunteers going to Crete. , «| Russia urges the United States to take part in the ‘Typrco-Grecian conference, ® The London Times of yesterday says that the un- of the people of England and america in rence tothe Alabama negotiations is to be at- ted" to the true state of the deliberations. It Secretary Seward of obstructing the negoti- ns and advises his removal. jase Johnson received a deputation of Eng- jh artisans on Christmas day, who are desirous of ig & colony in Nebraska. ‘ uke of Montpensier has issued a manifesto nonneing his liberal views. His son ts suggested the Spaish throne under a regency. Paraguay. Later advices from Rio Janeiro report that after the defeat of the allics at Villeta the Brazi!lan tron- clads attacked the Paraguayan stronghold, but were goon obliged to retire beyond the range of Lopez’ Datterics. Mexico. We have news from Mexico via Havana to the 14th ‘dust. Minister Rosecrans arrived at the capital on the 2d December and was received by President Suarez on the 10h. Mr. Plumb, late Secretary of gation, is to leave Mexico on the 1st of January. Raabe by the Treasury have been made re- nily with punctuality, Public meetings favor- guile to the revolution in (Cuba have been heid. General Escobedo was pushing his move- Tents in Tamaulipas, where Vargas had offered tosurrender on terms which were refused. A plan of conscription has been initiated by the Secretary of War. Kidnapping of travellers still continues. A wealthy citizen was lately caught by the ladrones, who demanded $100,000 ransom for him. The finan- @iai and commercial condition of the republic was eritical. At Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast, th (ative and municipal authorities were at logger- heads, and trouble was antictpated. Cuba, Great excitement prevaticd mas morning owing to the p nee of reports of ceases by the revolutionisis, These reports are tieved to have been started by revolutionisis io order to alarm the populace and ca an ontbreak { Havana on Christ. fu the city; but the attempt fated 1 'y reniained quiet and undisturbed. Mayti. Advices from Hayti state tha! Jacmei continued Closely besieged. On the vth the repulsed 92 attack, bot parties suifering »ev Te revo- Lutionists are cont jt of fortifying the interior, Whatever may be the termination of the contest on the coast. Miscellaneous, ‘The amount of fractional curreacy received ited States ‘Treasury during the last we pd Of this sum $100,000 was sent to Assistant Treasurer at New Orieans and a like mount to Philadelphia, and 39 distributed to be national banks. Daring i and destroyed. ¥ The opposition to the admission of the Georgia eeogeset seems confined to Governor Puliock and is personal aderents and the colored members jwho were expelled from the Georgia Legisiature on ‘Bccount of their color. General Meade and other promiuent republicans in Georgia advocate the claims of the Senators clect and urge their admis- ston. i Seats ir A rumor obtained cirentation in Washingtod yee @ervay that Mason, Slide, Breckinridge, Benjarit and Wigfali had sent despatches anxiously inquiring e exact nature of the protection which the Preai- dent's amnesty proclamation would afford them in eae of their return to this country. ~ Captain Forney, of the regular army, and a Hfother officer in Washington city yesterday at- Rempicd to heal (heir wounged honor vy shooting Pach other, Being shamefully bad merksmen hheither succeeded in killing the otheF: but After e& whanging several shots inestectually their novor ‘ecame satistled and the combatants separated, Mrs, Augustus Dickens, widow of Angustus N. Dickens, brother of Charies Dickens, the novelist, commitiod suicide in Chiengo, on Christmas day, ‘by taking an overdose of morphine. Since th ath Of hee husband Sire, Dickens had suffered all the Wa of poverty, being dependent upon her Chicago Srionds for the nece She was thirty Ave years of age and lea t A destructive fire occurred p day morning, destroying « week $291,034 In utilated currency Was redeem ange numdy ngs and a considerable amount of merchandise Among the edifices burned ¥ um Hall, occu Pied by the First Central No 1k and valued at $18,000; Frazier’s biock, vaiued at $70,000: Robin. fon's block, which cost $65, 1 Willa 4 Gale's shoe pufactory, on whi 000, Mr. Frazic contained in his stores 14 given at $100,000, he being @he greatest s ‘Ter by the conflagration. The total Bows ie estimated at over $300,000, which tie insur. os efected will not cover. About 1,000 persons Ve Lee, thrown out of employment by this digas. trons watagration. ‘The trial of young Twitche!! for the murder of his the loss is re 8 loss on ty NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1868,—TRIPLE SHEET. ard G. Howard, was destroyed by fire on Friday morning. Loss $60,000; fully insured, The residence of General George W. Deitzier, at Lawrence, Kansas, was fred by an incendiary yes- terday morning and totally destroyed, 1.083 $25,000; insured for $17,000, Perkins’ powder mill, at Westfield, Mass., was de- stroyed on Thursday night by fre and explosion, causing & 1038 of $15,000, Gabriel Martin apd his five maiden sisters, resid- ing in Columbia county, Ga., were murdered and robbed on Thursday night, their house set on fire and their bodies consumed. Some negroes residing in the neighborhood are suspected of having com- mitted this foul deed. ‘The City. Yesterday afternoon @ strong smell of gas was Roticed in the Olympic theatre and the adjoining building on Broadway, and about six o'clock last evening the gasman was sent into the vault to as- certain the cause, Bearing a torch such as is used to ligh: gas jets, he entered the vault, when an ex- plosion took place, knocking bim down and burning his face slightly. The street main gas pipe had proved defective, and the es7aping gas was ignited by the torch in the hands of the theatre employs. ‘The theatre was crowded at the time, but the audience were not ap, -1sed of what had transpired, and knew not of the danger which they had escaped until after they had left the building, No damage was done other than that caused by tearing up the pavement in order to repair the ieak in the gas pipe. ‘The Board of Aldermen convened yesterday, but there were not enough members present to trans- act any important business. Resolutions were adopied to return to the Board of Councilmen the resolution previding for the increasing of the salary of the reporter of the Board of Councilmen and also to return to the same Board all resolutions or ordi- nances now in possession of the Board of Aldermen purporting to have been adoptea by the Board of Cguncilmen of 1867 holding over as the Board of 1368, In the United States Circuit yesterday, Judge Blatchford presiding, the case of the United States vs, Alva Blaisdell and John J. Eckel and others, charged with frauds on the internal revenue by illicitly removing spirits from a distillery, was set down for trial. Also ih the case of the sawe plaintif va. Alvah Blaisdell, Abraham Powel- son, Abijah Richardson and Henry Jenniss, indicted for subornation of perjury in procuring false afl- davits to be made against the Collector of the Fourth istrict, the time fixed for the trial was immediately following the close of the Blaisdell and Eckel case. In the same court the great cotton (Stevenson) case was set down for trialon Monday. Martin Schaick, Daniel Coffee and Robert Boyd, indicted for counter- feiting, were arraigned and pleaded not guilty. In the Supreme Court, before Judge Cardozo, David Dudley Field made the elosing argument for the defendants in the Erie case, August Belmont va. the Erie Railway Company. The case was then fully submittea to the Court for decision, it being understood that counsel should hand in their briefs on Moniay. The letter carriers of this city will don their new uniforms to-morrow. The number of letter carriers 1s 308, who during the year ending October 31 de- livered 14,804,230 malled letters, 6,579,856 city letters and 2,589,663 newspapers. Inthe same period they collected from lamppost boxes 28,551,910 letters. Michael Reynolds, of 121 Mulberry street, under pretence that a row was in progress, inveigled ofi- cer Broughton into a house on Mott street, on Christmas day, and then, in company with several confederates, commenced a savage assault upon the officer, who, being reinforced, succeeded in atresting Reynolds. Yesterday the accused was arraigned before Alderman Cuddy and discharged. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and buoy- ant. Gold closed at 184%. The bank statement shows a decrease in loans of $1,091,650, and ‘a de- crease in legal tenders of $2,089,973. The markets, with but few exceptions, were cha- racterized by extreme quietude yesterday. Coffee was in moderate demand and firmly held. Cotton was in tolerably active demand, chiefly for export, and prices were a shade higher, closing at 25+¢c. for middling, upland. On ‘Change flour was dull, but unchanged in value. Wheat was dull, but firm for choice. Corn, though quiet was firm, while oats were slow of sale, but a shade higher. Pork was dull and lower. Beef was quict, but steady, while lard was in lim- ited request and lower. Petroleum was dull and heavy. Naval stores were generally dnli at about former prices, Whiskey was quiet and heavy. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel L. G. Custis, of North Carolina; J. Law- rence, of Chicago; J. G. Morriott, of St. Louts; Colo- nel Wyott, of West Point; G. Moran, of Mississippi, and Thomas J. Walker, of Toronto, are at the Metro- poiitan Hotel. c. K. Barnard, of Cuba; Major C. H. Dean, of New and C, M. Longstreet, of New York, are at Thomas Stevens, of New York, and T. T. Hender- son, of Baltimore, are at the St. Julien Hotel, Commander McCann, of the United States Navy; . Pemus, of Jamestown, Va., and Judge Jas, of Connecticut, are at the Fifth Avenue Attorney General 8, H. Hammond and E. D. Wor- coster, of Albany; General D. K. Jackman, of Phila- deiphia: R. Johnaon, of Quebec: Captain A. H. Mer- | ril, of the United States Army, and Thos. N. Dale, of New York, are st the Hofman House. The Eestern Question What gress Dot Our news from Europe regarding the East- ern question goes to show that, while the feel- ing between Turkey and Greece is as bad as it cau be, the desire of the various European Powers seems to be to prevent hostilities. It is instructive as to the state of feeling in the Greek kingdom to be informed that the Cham- bers have voted the war credit of one hundred million drachmas, and that the Committee of Action have addressed a petition to the gov- ernment praying for peace. A European conference to settle the question, as between Gregee e Turkey, seems to be in general favor. oak a PEP The one new and striking featute about thé conference is that Count Bismarck, who is the parent of the idea, and to whom must be ¢6n- ceded the honor which is justly due, has expressed the hope that the conference will be held ‘ Paris. This is a stroke of policy which will redound to the honor of the Qount and to the advantage of Prussia, Even if it had been proposed to hold it in Berlin Napoleoti could hardly have ob- jected. But now that Paris and Napoleon have been so handsomely complimented the conference may be considered a certainty in the early future. London had the honor of settling the Luxemburg question, the last general European trouble. Paris, it may now be considered certain, will have the opportu nity of trying to settle the Hastern question, the European trouble of the moment. It is well that it should be 80; for the statu guo in the Last was determined by the treaty of Paris, 1856, If,that treaty requires revision it is well that the revision should take place where the treaty was drawn tp. We have yet to learn that either Turkey or Greece has consented to abide by the decisions of the congress. It is competent to one or Will a Cone Mother-in-iaw, Mrs, 111i, still continues to be the all- absorbing topic of conversation among ali classes in Philadelphia. Yesterday the counsel for the defence shed bis opening and froceéded to examine wit- ses in regard to the character of the pfisoner and to the fact that be would profit nothing by the death Of Mra. Hill. ‘The first and second Mates of the ship Santee were Ou Thursday sentenced to the California State Prison 1 treatment of two appreysice boys dure i trom New York. ‘si E&P? wy es other or both to refuse to submit their differ ences to any arbitration. Both Powers, how- ever, are so dependent on the kindly consid- eration of Europe generally, that there is small chance of either the one or the other objecting to the conference as proposed. Taking it for granted, then, that Turkey and Greece will not object, that the conference will be held and that it will be held in Paris, the question beoomen of same importaagowerbat will the congress do? _ It ‘3 not at all impossi- | ble that an attempt may be made to widen the scope of the conference so as to allow a con- sideration of the general condition of Europe. We know that there are many unsettled and disturbing questions besides that of the Orient. Such a proposal, it will be remembered, came from Napoleon when the London Conference was first mentioned in connection with the Luxemburg difficulty. The manner in which that proposal was received by the other Powers may prevent Napoleon from re- peating it now; and if it emanates not from this source it is little likely to emanate from any other. The presumption, th re, is that the conference will be convene# for a special purpose, and that the attentiog of the representatives will be confined to the (lifficul- ties.in the East. Since the proposal come from the Prussian government, not im bly at the suggestion of Russia, it will b¢ curious to learn what Bismarck has to asa solution of the difficulties. We kyow that there is trouble in the north of Turkey almost as serious as that in the south, Crete is im- patient of Turkish domination and flemands annexation to the kingdom of Greec¢, Ron- mania is impatient of Turkish supremacy and demands independence. With the|Cretans and with the Roumanians Russia is te sym- pathy. The Prince of Roumania is ascion of the house of Hohenzollern, and it maybe taken for granted that the sympathies of the Prussian government are with him and his peogle. The probability is that Russia and Prgssia are pretty much agreed. Will they jolatly pro- pose the annexation of Crete to Greece? Will they insist on the independence of, Rouma- nia? It is well known that when the crown of Greece was offered, in 1830, to "4 King of the Belgians, then Prince Leopold of Saxe- Coburg, one of his principal reasogs for re- fusing it was his dissatisfaction with the boun- daries of the kingdom. It was hi opinion then—and to this opinion, we believe) he clung to the last—that Crete shonld belong fo Greece. The Roumanian difficulty is not so ¢ld as that of Crete, although it has already more than once engaged the attention of Europtan diplo- matists. That some dich proposals will be made there can be little doubt. That, if they are made, they will come from Russia or Prus- sia, or both, is certain. How will the other Powers entertain such proposals? The great difficulty is that the annexation of Crete to Greece and the cutting of the connection be- tween Prince Charles and the Sultan would establish precedents which could not fail com- pletely to break up Turkish rule in Europe. Annex Crete? Then why not the other islands? Why not Thessaly and Macedonia and the other Greek provinces on the main- land? Give Roumania independence? Then why not grant the same favor to Bulgaria, Servia and the other Slavic provinces? The disintegration of the Turkish empire will thus be fairly commenced. Where or how will it end? This it is which will constitute the real difficulty of the congress. It remains to be seen how the difficulty will be met. Race and religion, fortunately or unfortunately, are both opposed to the continuance of Mohammedan rule in Europe. The Burlingame Mission—Important from England. By our last night's cable advices we have some important news on the Chinese question. The Burlingame mission opened its delibera- tions the day before yesterday in London under favorable auspices. It is understood that Mr. Burlingame put in a remonstrance against the late warlike proceedings of the British fleet in China, in the reparation of cer- tain ontrages upon Brilish missions Yangt-Chow, and contended that bey immediate necessity of the protection of life and property the subject belonged to the field of diplomacy ; and it is further reported that this view of the subject meets the approval of the British government. doubt that said government is beginning to There can be no have a pretty clear perception of the importance of the Burlingame mission in its bearings upon the fature relations on the Chinese question between England and the United States; for the 7'imes broadly intimates that the question of peace hereafter between England and the United States may depend more upon the relations of the two countries with China than upon the Alabama claims, When such ideas as this begin to be ventilated in England we may safely predict the success of the Burlingame mission in Lon- don and next in Paris. As for Russia, her occupation of the northern front of Europe and Asia, and our ocenpation of the breadth of the American Continent and the Aleutian islands across the Northern Pacijic, bind the interests of the two countries together. Ac- cordingly we may anticipate from the Bur- lingame mission a new departure and a new epoch in the relations of Uastern Asia with the outside world, under the initiative of the United States! | the Alabama Clatme=What the Senate ~ will Reauled? ™ An evening contemporary gives what it sup- poses will be the ultimatum of the Senate in the settlement of the Alabama clains. But ft says nothing of the belligerent righis conceded by England to Jeff Davis at the beginning of the rebellion as the head of an independent Power when he was only the heal of an in- surrection—a proceeding wiiich involves a | question of some moment and a question which | must be settled, We think, however, that | Andrew Johnson and Mr. Seward and Reverdy Johnson have made such’ a boteh of shis busi- ness that the best ultimatum which the Senate can give is this--that they will have rothing to do with the subject under the present adminis- tration, but will wait to give the President elect a chance in reference to the indemnities required for the course of England «# an ac- tive ally of Jef Davis under the filae pre- tences of a scrupulous neutrality. We ave sure that General Grant has a very tlear an- derstanding of the casts to ns of thot British neutrality and of the bill of damages due, and we think, therefore, that the whole ‘sub- ject ought to go over to President Grant, | f | Monrvesster Purs ts His Bio.—{t- seems | that the Duke de Montpensier has put in his bid for the kingdom of “spain aaa liberal; but being a Bourbon, alliough of the Louis Phi- lippe or Orleans branch, he and bis von will, Wo auspeds, We voted as ‘tuo late.” Speatser Colfax at Springfeld. From the reporta which we give elsewhere in these columns of the Christmas reception of Speaker Colfax, the Vice President elect, at Springfield, Mass., it was a handsome affair— including the reception arranged by the Spring- field club, the ladies, the serenade from the workmen of the armory and the complimen- tary speech of the Speaker. In one respect Mr. Colfax is like Mr. Andy Johnson—he likes to hear himself talk; but while Johnson delights most in saying unpleasant things of his enemies Colfax most delights in saying pleasant things of his friends, But ‘‘circum- stances alter cases,” and if Speaker Colfax had been worried and badgered and impeached by Ashley, and tried by Butler before the Sen- ate, on account of Stanton, and cheated on every side, and bothered out of his seven senses by office-seekers and the whiskey rings, like Johnson, we dare say that the amiable Colfax would cut and. slash, right and left, as vigorously as poor Johnson. But as everything has been smooth and prosperous with the Vice President elect, and ag he is still wearing the garland of roses of a happy honeymoon, he naturally sees everything around him and before him through a rose-co- lored medium, and can afford to laugh with his friend and fellow traveller, Bowles, ovér his one night’s experience in our Ludlow street jail, through the kindness of Mr. Fisk. Mn pas- sant, the fellowship between Colfax and Bowles, in connection with all these late Erie Railroad transactions, may possibly operate in behalf of a law of Congress for the -general regulation of ail the railroads and telegraphs of the country, under the power of Congress to “regulate commerce” and to ‘‘establish post offices and post roads.” In this view Fisk may find that he has made a serious mistake in reference to Bowles. It will suffice for the present, however, that Speaker Colfax is happy, that General Grant is happy, and that every loyal citizen in and out of the United States ia happy, in view of fhe good time com- ing. A “Happy New Year” to the Speaker and his Buckeye bride, and, to vary a little a pretty chorus from the ‘‘Enchantress,” we conclude, Mr. Speaker, Ever be happy and light as thou art, Pride of thy Buckeye’s heart. City Postal Service. On Monday, if we are correctly informed, the corps of letter carriers of this city go into uniform, and begin what we hope will bea new era in our city postal service. Reforma- tion, or something better, perhaps, is needed in that department to enable it to fulfil the hopes of the public and the promises that have been officially held out in regard to the benefits it was to confer. The following table shows the number of letters and newspapers deliv- ered by 308 carriers in New York, and of the number of letters collected from lamppost boxes from November 1, 1867, to October 31, 1868 :— - Delivered, Collected Mail city News- rom Letters, Letters, Bores, August, September Octover. . In view of the efforts that have been made by Postmaster Kelly to diminish the glass box system in the city Post Office this table ex- hibits some remarkable results. While the use of the lamppost boxes for conveyance of letfers to the Post Office increased to the ex- tent of one-half, nearly a million more of let- ters being deposited in them in October, 1868, than was the case in November, 1567, the de- livery of mail letters by the carriers exhibits but a small increase in the same period of time, and that of city letters shows an actual decrease of the service. This tells the whole tory of the estimate the public has made of 1 of city postal service as at present ing letters to the Post Office it is good; for the delivery of mail let- ters arriving it is very little betier than the old plan of every one going to the Post Office for himself; and for purposes of urban com- munication it is not 30 good as the old methods. In fact, some of the private organizations for city delivery of letters not oualy live, but thrive under the opposition of our cily carriers’ department. There must be a cause for this state of things, and we believe it to lie im the ab- sence of a proper energy in the General Post Office. As for the city delivery of foreign mails, we know that letters by the same steam- ship often go straggling to their addresses, some four, some six and some iwelve hours after a portion of the same mail has been delivered. Postmaster Kelly will do well to look into this matter in his own immediate office, and follow the suggestions we gave him some time since about the city letter carrier department. And as we are on the subject of improvement of the city postal service, we will urge upon the Postmaster to let us have AB g50n ws vossible the lamppost recentacl PTS fora é euler” Oa Sieh sot Ute epupers 4s srall es Dein ee the march of improvement, Mr. nally, Opern Boutte in New Yor ke Aside from ordinary comment, risk, judg- ment and success have characterized the in- | troduction of opéra boujfe in this city, the fact being that New York wae just prepared | lialian opera, wretchedly produced, of | for it course, proved a failare (for a time only, itis to be hoped), and the result bas already demon- strated what managerial stupidity and niggard- liness can effect. The wide gap opened by apparent imposture was ably taken advantage of by Bateman, whose inauguration of opéra boufe has been crowned with the unmistak- able approval of the American people. Beyond question opéra bouffe has been the leading entertainment during the past two seasons. It will doubtless continue so until something of a more aspiring character supersedes it, Award- ing credit where it ia duc, however, Bateman o ight afterndon recess “‘one of the women y remonatrate with him sdine [igi eoaonae iN Bp ong has displayed an amount of skill, enterprise | by substantial approbation, has obtained for Offenbach a notoriety in this country which under ordinary management he could not probably have won. Bateman is decidedly one of the most successful caterers of his time. It is needless to advert to the success which has | toned” belligerents, marked “La Grande Duchesse | and liberality which, besides being recognized | at Niblo’s, when the thermometer indicated a temperature that would have been sudden death to a Laplander. through the Canadas and the West Bateman, | tive, itis true, but still interesting. no doubt anxious to be foremost in the fleld, The Indians. We published yesterday a very full budget After a successful tour | of news from the Indian country, retrospec- Of late there have not come to hand any new rumors entered into an exceedingly advantageous | of wars. The energy of General Sheridan arrangement at Pike's Opera House, where | seems to have repressed the ardor of the the success of ‘Barbe Bleue,” “Les Bavards” | savages in their haunts south of the Arkansas and, though last not least, ‘La Chanson de | by the capture of some of their lodges and a Fortunio” requires no recapitulatory comment. goodly number of their squaws. General Still more eager to keep the public in a state | Custer’s battle with Black Kettle’s band has of Offenbachian glow, Bateman announces | had a wholesome effect, and although some “La Périchole,” the present reigning attraction | doubts were expressed as to the hostile char- in Paris. One thing is certain, that in his | acter of the .Indians who were made to suffer managerial capacity he has done his utmost to | on that occasion, there has been proof enough supply novelty in its most enticing form. After | furnished since to show. that they were on the the Erie Railroad shall have laid its ruthless | warpath and deserved all the chastisemont clutches upon the Opera House Bateman in- tends torinitiate the Bostonians into the mys- they received. The winter is the Indian's dis- astrous season. It is just the time that he teries of Offenbach, and, a short tour in the | never wants to fight, and that is precisely the Eastern States having been completed, he will | reason why we should force him either inte return tothe scene of his first triumphs (the campaign or into submission. This is the city of New York), which will ever welcome | course which General Sheridan is pursuing, talent, variety and judicious discrimination. The Latest Burglary on Broadway. Christmas eve was signalized by one of those daring and successful burglaries which have lately become so frequent in this city. A gang of burglars, between the honrs of ten and eleven, undeterred by the fuct that even a larger crowd than usual filled the street and thronged a large adjoining eating house, en- tered No. 646 Broadway, blew open a huge safe in an office on the first floor in the rear part of the building, abstracted about ten thousand dollars’ worth of diamond jewelry, and safely escaped, leaving behind them a complete outfit of burglars’ implements, such as jimmies, chisels, wedges and saws. Among the articles which they stole are enumerated one diamond necklace, one diamond bracelet with a watch enclosed, one opal diamond set of pin and earrings, one enamelled diamond set, five gold watches and chains, one emerald and cluster diamond ring, one opal and diamond ring, five cluster diamond pins, two fine stone diamond rings and three solitaire diamond rings. Manifestly the motto of the bold per- petrators of this robbery is, ‘Every burglar must be his own Santa Claus.” But they can- not venture to distribute among their friends and it is directly the reverse of the policy of the Peace Commission, which was to make treaties of peace with our treacherous adver- saries and supply them with breech-loading carbines, powder and lead at the same time. Now that the army in the Indian country has done so well, and promises to break up the hostile organizations before the spring- time, it ig to be hoped that the new schome of an Indian Bureau introduced in Congress will not be successful. The army under Sheridan has proved its competency to deal with the Indians, and we have no guarantee that any new Indian Bureau which Congress can create will inaugurate anything better than the present bungling system, which has kept us in hot water so long on the whole Western fron- tier. It is, in fact, only under the manage- ment of the War Department and by the untrammelled action of our gallant officers that we can expect to sep this Indian pest removed. Christmas at St. Alban’s. Notwithstanding the cold weather on Chriat- mas day all the churches were thronged. But none was more fully crowded than the pretty little church of St. Alban, in Forty- seventh street. We published yesterday @ the Christmas and New Year gifts which they | glowing account of the ceremonies at this have appropriated, tor full descriptions of the stolen articles have been left at the detective Police office, and po effort will be spare cover them. Just before eleven o'cloc! re- | Protest ho mig on | tow, little building in which they were cole- stronghold of ‘‘ritualism” in America. They were such as to bewilder either Catholic or t, who might have entered the long, Thursday evening an officer of the Fifteenth | brated, without knowing to what denomination precinct tried the door of the building in which | of Christians it belonged. Everything was the burglary was committed, and, finding it | nice and pretty, and the “fathers,” crucifers, unfastened, entered the basement, which was | chorus boys, and all acted their parts to perteo- full of smoke and the smell of powder, went up stairs and discovered the mis- chief which had been done. But the tion. Music, intoning, incense and flowers were plentiful. Among the inscriptions in old English letter on the walls, “No smoking burglars had already fled. The profusion of | allowed” was not to be seen. The reverend elegant and costly articles with which at this season of the year so many of our principal stores are enriched offers peculiar temptations, not only to professional burglars, but to ama- teur klopemaniacs. On the very evening of the audacious burglary to which we have al- luded our curiosity was excited by the immo- bility of one of the partners of a fashionable uptown holiday gift store, who told us that he had been standing for hours at the same spot “playing detective.” He had learned by ex- perience, he said, how many respectably dressed individuals of both sexes might be de- tected in the act of gecreting some of the beautiful objects that adorned his shelves and counters. Hence his vigilance. It might well be imitated by all officials of high and low degree whose special duty it is to prevent, if possible, such great burglaries as the one which a gang of diamond jewelry thieves were guilty of on Christmas eve. Women’s Rights in New Hampsitire=— Daniel Pratt to the Rescue. According to our reporter's reports the wo- men's richts people have had a good time at their two days lovefeast at Concord, N. H. The old set were present, men and women, who have grown gray in the ser- vic but there were several new lights introduced, of both the primary colors, whi contributed to give some freshness and variety to the proceedings. Conspicuous among these new lights was the ancient Daniel Pratt, ‘the great American Traveller,” who has travelled all the way from Boston to Washington and back, and from Boston to Buffalo and back, and from Boston to Concord, Pratt, like a Eee? = good many other prophetic philosophers, believes that he was born to rule and save the country ; and his grand idea is that ‘the clock- work of government and society is regulated by the donble-back action of the reciprocal pendulum of magnetic attraction,” whatever that may be. Pratt, however, seems to have discovered his true vocation to be that of regulator of these women’s rights conventicles, and at this Concord reunion he distinguished himself. > Equipped in a new suit of clothes and walk- ing into the convention, he proceeded without ceremony to take a leading band in the de- bates. But, says our correspondent, during IE 0 ON ee Ts TE himself so frequentiy and persiaccn SR yrbere- upon “Daniel told her loudly and foretbly Saat pha Was Qn old fool, and that if she did not believe ip fie he did not believe in Jesus Christ, and that she ought to he sent to a lunatic asylum.” Wy this opinion Daniel hit the nail apon the hetdy * attempted to expostulate with him, but Daniel, squaring Limself according to tie manly art @ la the Hon, John Morrissey, told the aston- ished doctor of women’s rights divinity to keep his distance, for that he (the prophet Daniel) could oui-talk and ont-fight the best of them. And so he held his ground, We think, too, he is just the leader these women's rights | lunatics want; and as he knows the turnpike to Washington, and has time enough to walk it, | we hope he will not fail to be present at the great Women's Rights National Conven- tion, which is to assemble in the nationat capi- tal on the 19th of next month, As ‘‘the great Panjandrum” of that occasion he would be an immense improvement upon Wendell or “La Belle | Phillips. Wasitnetos—A_ blood- Tue Seysation lesa affair of honor at Washington, and the | restor shots without bi rdshed, between the Are the daya of Sout ivalry ‘coming back again? See our Waste Mdlene,” or to tho brilliant close of his sea son | ington doapatches, Next a clergyman | tion of peace after a few exchanges of fathers made believe going through several of the most solemn rites of the Church of Rome, as if they were actually in earnest, It is only just to them ,to coptradlet the wicked report that they mean to but- lesque these rites and to make St. Alban’s become to St. Peter's what the opéra bouffy is to the Grand Opera. No doubt they are conscientious as many of their most deter- mined opponents. Now that the English Church, of which the Episcopal Church in this country is a branch, has had the question of “vitualism” legally decided upon, the adverse decision, although of no legal force here, can~ not fail to produce a certain moral effect. It must, in the United States, as well as in Great Britain, result in constraining the more con- scientious and consistent of the “‘ritualists,” if not to accept the invitation of the Holy Father to return to the bosom of ‘“‘the Church,” at least to dissolve their connection with a Church which is, historically and indis- putably, a Protestant Church. The “fathers” at St. Alban’s vehemently disclaim being Protestants, but nevertheless cling to what+ ever advantages they may derive from having been ordained as ministers of the American “Protestant Episcopal Church.” It will remain for the authorities of this Church to de- cide whether their present strange position is | tenable. Tux Fiyst Niacer is Concress—A Bab Eximerr.—Mr. Hunt (white man), the con- | testant of the seat in Congress from Louisiana for which Mr. Menard (black man) has the Governor's certificate, says that he (Hunt) and Menard were both candidates to fill the va- after Mann's death the Legislature redistricted the State, and that so it happened that in Mann’s district Menard got only 91 votes, whi Hunt received 1,153, and that for informalf ties Menard’s 91 votes were thrown out; 80 that he claims to represent a district in which he did not receive a single vote. This is a bad exhibit for the black man; but we dare say that he will be considered the proper successor of Mann, though elected from another district ; for it will be a dangerous experiment to trifle with the first nigger claiming a seat in Con- gress, A New Evxentsn View oF Tar ALABAMA Question.—See our cable despatches. Gen aral Grant is yzdoubtedly the man to settle this Gugatien, ‘but 1 To folly to suppose that he ust be guides »¥ thy programme se poate = ‘a «tan is to let th v Joungod: The shortest pe iol inte rl ter drop’ General Grant comes .. White House and then open a new set of | books, ‘ ——— THE PERUVIAN IRON-CLAQS. ‘The two Peruvian iron-clad monitors, formerly | belonging to the United States Na-y, are still at Southwest Pasa, below New Orleans, and consider- able speculation te induiged in regarding their dea- tination, Many persons are inclined to the opinion | that they will be the avant courriers of a grand exe Pedition against Cuba, while others assert that they | Will most certainly sail direct for Peru. The recent troubles with the w of the transport Havana havo | delayed their departure, an event which 1s not re- to any exte § the time lost in leaving amply nade up in drilling and otherwise Tective the crews of both momtora, These 5 latier are said to bea fine body of m The mie jority are veterans of the Con: my, and alt ort y all of the force server wo art 1 navies of our resent lion. we of the officers attached to the two lads Commorore-—R, Mariateqia. Stoff—Engineer, C, R. Ingrahan; Ensign, 0. Placia. On hoard the monttor Atahaulpa. erptain » Joitaar —I. B. Dubots, O. Thorne. | lier. Morrison ry Manco Capac. i cuptain=t. 1. More. Inentenant-—W. J, arm DD. Meiny mnaineri's— Latimer, F “ "0 f the oMlcers of ese Irom-cia during the rebelitoa aa perience “1 States Navy ere, men of ex- cancy caused by the death of Mr. Mann; that |