The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1869, Page 6

% NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIE zo bal All eeerlly or news letter and telegraphic flespatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly realed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volame XXXIV.... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—FiGHTING BROTHERS OF Rome—VALENTINE AND ORSON. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and We street.—La PERICHOLE. FRENCH THEATRE, Fou tue —GENEVIEVE DE BRawas h street and Sixth ave- OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway. —Hompry Donrry. witu New FraTunrs, Blais THEATRE, Broadway.—THe EMERALD NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk FIRLD oF rae CLOTH OF GouD, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway gad 15:h street.— Money. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—AFTER DARK; 08, LOn- bon BY Nici. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirticth street and Broadway.—Alternoon and evening Performance, TIIE TAMMANY, Fourteenth PaGr's REVEL—NIOODEMUS, 0. street.—LEs FOLLIES— UNION LEAGUE CLUB THEATRE, corner Madison avenue and 9th strect.—VANDENHOFF's READINGS. STEINWAY HALL, GRanD Conorrt. MRS. F..B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— BrRious FaMILty—MAxuirp LIFE. Fourteenth street.—OLe BULL'S | KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. —Ermo- PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUB.—-GIN-NEVIRVE DE GRAw ! SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, —ETHTO- PAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &e. i BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Ralon srect. ETHIOPIAN hunernetey. &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery — —Comto VOCALI8M, NEGRO MINGTRELSY, &c. Mth \ HIBERNIAN MINSTRELS, Apollo Hall, corner of Broad- way and 28th st,—O'FLauangy’s DHRAM NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street —RQurerRian fag GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT, Matines as 24. ‘CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Taxo. Tuomas’ GRanp PROMENADE Concent. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, MinsTRELs—Tur Durouma Brooklyn.—HOOLRY's Frow, &0. HOOLEN'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsb Hoo.er's MimorEsis—Posares OF AMERIOA. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 mate BOILNOE AND A = =e = rua NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated January 3. The Couference on the Turko-Greek aiMiculty will commence tn Paris on the 9th. | Russta, it is reported, will demand a strict non-in- tervention in the quarrel between Turkey and Greece, should the deliberations of the Conference prove abortive. , Riots, arising out of the unpopularity of the mit tax, @re reported to have taken place th different parts of Italy. | Oficial statements of the Malaga insurrection set flown the loss of the rebels at four hundred killed. ; Several French tron-clads are preparing for sea. , The Chinese Embassy has arrived in Paris. ‘Napoleon has contributed the sum of 6,000 iranes: for the erection of a monument to the late Emperor Maximilian, Miscellaneous, * Albany fs filling op with politicians preparatory to the mecting of the Legislature. The contest for Senator between Morgan and Fenton, it i3 under- Wood, will be very bitter, The contest for Speaker hes between Messrs, Selkreg and Younglove, and for Clerk between Messrs. Underhill, Harlan and Weed. The State Senate will show a republican majority of two, and the Assembly a republican majority of iwenty-two. In another column we publish a list of the members of but Houses and of the other State ofloers. Our correspoadent from the Indian country gives a detailed and graphic desertptien of the scene of the recent battle of th ashita, The bodies of Major Elliott and fifteen soldiers were discovered and a proper burial was given them. The bodies had most of them been siamefully mutilated, The Indian Commissioner |as received aa address from delega- tions of the Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek Indians Asking on ization into the facts of the Washita battie. They ¢ n the pet opge Se Prove that Black “etule was friendly, ou oa Correspondent dikes gome start- hing « uta in reference to the railroad and Tand jc t work in Washington. He shows that an alic_ed spurious ratiroad company has obtained $6,000,000 and an enormous amount of land by grants from Congress, fre claimmg the subs 1 two distinet corporations granted to the Kastern Division of the t n Pacific Ratiroad, + General Sherma: as reported to the Adjntant General the ) of Satanta ond Lone Wolf by General Sher + He says that Sheridan and Hazen are together and can settle (he matter ag fecily. It is said that General Grant keeps “ieee from President Jonson, not from political motives, but because the President tn the Stanton imbroglio im- pugned bis vera The troubles bi en the whites and blacks near Savannal: still continue, White families from Bryan county are moving into Savannah, in dread of the troubles extending to their county. General Sibley, with two companies of the Sixteenth infantry, has arrived at Savannah and is in consultation with the etvil authorities. | Itis charged by certain Alabamians at present in Washington that Judge Basteod has $500,000 to his credit ina Movile bauk which of right belongs to tho United States government. ‘ The Wailapaic, Apache and Pinea Tndians, in Ari- zona, have been commitiing outrages on the whites in that Territory. The linea Lodians are very nn Inerons, and trouble with them was likely to lead to disastrons consequences, The people of Prescott and La Paz, Arizona, are Compelied at present to eat corn meal on ac- count of the soarctty of Moor, A vessel laden with supplics is reported to have been lost recently ina storm. Henry Jenkins, of New York, @ member of the Arizona Legistature, died recently at Tucson, Mr. J. W. Davia, the Boston broker who was re- having absconded a day or two since, has @ card stating that his efforts to avoid had ieft him physically and mentally on requiring rest, bat promising that on Monday he wiil be found at its office propared to ex- plain everything. George Buticr, President of the Tennessee National Bank at Memphis, waa again arrested tn that city on Sattrday night. te was released ona writ of habeas corpus, but witl be brought up for. trial to-day. Tho roof of the skating rink at Auburn fell on Saturday evoning, on account of tho weight of snow on it, and four children were injured, One of them died during the night. ‘It ta reported from Arkansas tha‘ (he militia at Marion had tried five prominent citizens by drum- head court martial and shot thom. ‘The opening of the Albany and Susquchanna Rall road will be celebrated at Binghamton on tie 19th instant. ‘The Chicago, Rock Isiand and Pacific Rativoad is now fiuishod Wo Atlanilo, eigity-two miles west of ‘. their bearings. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1869, “Tq | Deamoines. ‘The Valley allroad bridge over the Congressional Jobs. Yankee Ships-of-War and Their Pure Colombia and Panama. . i ey of shear lead; but his condition was dis. Desmoines river at Desmoines ts completed. ‘Tho City. Messrs, Bierwith & Rocholl, merchants, at No, 60 Pine street, were robbed on Saturday of a tin box containing $30,000 in bonds. Suspicion fails on three unknown young men who came into the office during the day to inquire about matters connected with Hamburg, Mr. Bierwith being @ foreign consul ‘at this port. Our newly elected city .and county officers enter upon their duties to-day. A lat of them will be found in another column this morning. Services were held at the Reformed church in Brooklyn last evening, in which the exercises re- ferred mainly to the Ceylon mission, three ladies of the congregation being about to depart for that island as missionaries. At Plymouth church Mr, Beecher preached on the duty Of man in the coming hour. Dr. Hopkins delivered a ser- mon before the Young Men’s Christian Association at the Reformed Dutch church in Fiftn avenue, Mra, Sarah A, Byrnes lectured to the Society of Spiritual- ists at the Everett Rooms on the lessons of the old year. Bishop Snow preached in his characteristic style at the University in Washington place, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Prince Uterbide, of Georgetown, D. ©., is at the New York Hotel. Senator D. T. Patterson, of Tennessee; 0. F, Saw- yer, of Savannah, Ga.; Lieutenant Commander Charles W. Tracey, of the United States Navy; W. P. Washburne, Galena, Mi.; General S. F. Pickett, of Washington, and (. S. Gordon, of Buffalo, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain J. R. Morgan and Lieutenant D. M. Little, of the United States Army, and Surgeon Reea, of Washington, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Dr. Carl Woermann, of Hamburg, Germany, and W. S. Eakin, of Tennessee, are at the Brevoort House, Postmaster General Randall, of Washington; W. P. Kellogg, of New Orleans, and Dr. Pepper, of Phila- delphia, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. Alfred Jones, of Richmond; J. T. Sanford, of Ohio; Thomas Collins, of Philadelphia, and Frederick J. Pratt, of Stockbridge, are at the Hoffman House. H, H. Starkweather and D. Lyman, of Connecti- cut; I. M. Hall, of New Orieans; D. W. Gooch and Hy. Wilson, of Massachusetts, are at the Astor House. ca The Modern Agents of Civilization—The Rail and the Telegraph. Among the questions most perplexing to statesmen, and most intimately connected with the vital interests of the community, few ex- ceed in importance those embracing the juris- diction of those great agents of modern civili- zation, electricity and the rail. The era of their introduction is so recent, the relations attending their development have been so rapid and so novel, and the interests affected thereby are so widely ramified that time has hardly sufficed to weigh them duly and adjust In America our needs have been so urgent and our progress so rapid that we have not even taken consideration of the subject, The governments of Europe, accus- tomed to slower concessions to popular need, have been more cautious and have cast re- strictions around the grants of charters and retained a stronger control over them than we have. Thus Sir Robert Peel, with a prevision which the community has not yet arrived at, stipulated in the railway grants that govern- ment should have the right of purchase after the lapse of a certain time; and a subsequent administration prohibited the amalgamation of competing lines of telegraph, in order to prevent the evil that has been developed in this country—the construction of a monster movopoly, which should be able to defy competitive construction and establish ex- tortionate rates of toll.” On the Continent of Europe ‘the several governments have retained a still more effective control than exists in Great Britain over vhe railway and the telegraph, and with evident advan- tage to the public. We do not witness there what we have seen in this country, where a few gentlemen meeting in a private parlor, years ago, divided the field of telegraphy in the territory of the United States into several independent and allied organizations, under what was long known as ‘‘the Six Nations Contract,” and which has been so often re- peated since to the public prejudice in railway, express and telegraph combinations, There is great and growing evil to the public in this neglect of the general principles of legislation applicable to the great agents of modern civilization, and it is time that steps be taken to prevent the access of even greater evils than those which now afflict us. We do not ask for any hasty and ill considered legis- lation on the manifold points which these evils embrace; but there is one particular which can and should be covered by an act of the present Congress, aa the corner stone of future legislative developments. This particular is the evil of conflicting State legislation grow- ing out of the assumed sovereignty of the States. As an instance of the extent to which abuse of authority may lead on this point we will cite only the case’ where a State assumes the right to grant an exclusive privi- lege for a long series of years to a private company to land an electric cable on its shores. This involves vast questions and in- terests in our future, and not distant, develop- ment, all of which will spring from and be founded on the right of domain. Tt is this right which should be at once placed by Congress on a stable and well de- fined footing. There can be no doubt that in the national government resides the right of eminent domain, and an act of Congress declaratory of that fact should be the founda- tion for future legislation. This will be called for in the natural development of these great- est of modern agents, to save the community from the conversion of each State into a New Jersey, taxing travel and intelligence passing through its borders and creating future Camdensand Amboy monopolists, which may everywhere, as these have dono, becomo really possessors of sovereign rights through venal control of petty legislators. The sub- ject is worthy of the deepest study of our legislators, and while they are considering the subject of Mr. Washburne’s Telegraph bill it will be well to ventilate the general principles which must control the relations between the public and the greatest agonte of modern civi- lization. Taz Inptax War.—For the first time in many years we are able to feel a little satisfac- tion at the progress of our United States troops {n keeping the Indians quiet. The winter cam- paign of General Sheridan is teaching the red- skins a salutary lesson, Sheridan writes to General Sherman :—‘‘ The Indians now recog- nizo for the first timo that winter will not com- pel us to make a truce with them.” Everything indicates that when this campaign is finished | there will be @ permanent Indian peace, The Fortieth Congress has but two months more existence, and looking at its past history and at the vast budget of jobs before it and those in process of incubation, we fear the Treasury and the taxpayers will be made to sweat before it expires. The railroad, tariff, bondholders, bank and numerous other rings ‘are preparing for a grand onslaught upon Con- gress and the Treasury. Since the war com- menced tens and hundreds of millions have been appropriated and squandered in the most reckless manner. Even in the fourth year of peace the expenditures of the government have been kept up to an ordinary war figure. Congress has been so accustomed to lavishly appropriate vast sums for everything that it seems incapable of understanding the word economy or of returning to anything like the economical expenditure of former times. In fact it has become utterly demoralized in the matterofexpenditure. Without reckoning the in- terest on the public debt the sums appropriated for the current expenses of government amount to four times what was expended nine years ago. Does any one believe this is necessary ? Do we not all know that this is most reckless and monstrous extravagance? The rings and the lobby, which are bent upon thrusting their hands deep into the Treasury, know by experi- ence how demoralized Congress is, and will make hay while the sun shines. We may expect, therefore, at the heel of the session, amidst the theconfusion of business, a rush of bills for all sorts of jobs and under evéry conceivable dis- guise. All the buncombe speeches about economy amount to nothing, and will be used, probably, to deceive the people while mem- bers and tho rings are putting thtough their plundering schemes. There may be some few broad national pro- jects for which government aid may be lent, but it should and can be done in such a way as not to be a burden on the Treasury. The Pa- cific Railroad was one of them. Every citizen is interested in the great work. The whole country will be commonly benefited. But that is no reason why the numerous other railroad schemes now before Congress-should be con- structed by government aid. Nor is there any reason why the government should not take the most stringent measures to have the aid to the Pacific Railroad refunded. Another at work may be mentioned, perhaps, as justifying similar aid under proper security for repayment—that is a telegraph line to con- nect Asia with and America. The vast and rich trade of China and Asia generally could be turned to and across this Continent by that means. In fact, such telegraphic communi- cation is necessary asa complement to the Pacific Railroad and our steam navigation across the Pacific Ocean. The advantages to this country and to every citizen init would be incalculable. Besides these two great works there is hardly anything else to which Con- greas should lend its aid in the present state of the finances and of the coun- try. The numerous bills for railroads and other local jobs ought to be unceremoniously kicked out. Retrenchment and economy in every department of government should be demanded, and the current expenses ought to be cut down fully one-half before the Fortieth Congress expires. Should Congress be dis- posed to continue its reckless extravagance and rush the jobs through which are before it at the heel of the session, Mr. Johnson could not end his Presidential term with more glory than to put his foot down on such legislation, Knowing that General Grant is for reform, the rings will make extraordinary efforts this ses- sion, and therefore it behooves the present Executive to watch and frustrate their schemes as far as he has the power. It is to be hoped there may be a better state of things under the new administration and new Congress. Napoteon AND Sparx.—One of our items of cable intelligence from Paris is to the effect that Napoleon at the reception on New Year's. Day paid particular attention to Sejior Olozaga, the Spanish Ambassador, assuring him of his friend- ship for Spain, and requesting him to convey the good wishes of himself personally and of the French people for the happiness and pros- perity of that country. We have no reason to doubt that Napoleon has friendly feelings for Spain. It may well be questioned, however, whether in the event of an attempt being made to place Montpensier on the throne his friendly feelings will prevent him from intertering. The friendship of the Emperor nevor runs counter to his own interests, It is not his interest that a son of Louis Philippe should rule in Spain, A Lipgrat Movement iv VeyezvELa.— Venezuela has made 4 large deduction in her import duties. This indicates, more than any internal revolution, that she has statesmen at the headof the government. The magnificent territory which she possesses is but little known to our people. Her trade has heretofore been monopolized by England and France in com- mon with most of the South American trade. The reduction on imports to which we refer is an invitation to our merchants and mannfac- turers to examine into the wealth of a country which offers such a fine field for enterprise. Japay.—Our advices from Japan indicate that the power of the Mikado is in part restored. This is due to the assumption of thé office by the young Mikado, who has now attained his majority, He has commenced his rule by quieting many of tho civil war ele- ments which for some time past have been struggling for the mastery throughout the country, Still this is now a period when Japan, fecling the effects of contact with the modern world, requires a strong heart and well- balanced head to guide its people in the best track. If the Mikado recognizes the now era of progress and closely allies himself with the United States and the European Atlantic na- tions he may make the most brilliant mark in the history of his line. Norice to Grant.—Some time ago a law- yer of this city announced himself as one who desired to have a hand in the whiskey revenue business, and now we have one more an- noancement of a candidate for office. Brown- low, of Tennessee, desires to be. counted in. He will not join in the scramble for place while Johnson holds on; but as soon as Grant is inaugurated he will scramble as desperately, swear as hard, and tear, scratch and fight fot office with as mach vim ae any of the kennel, Grant, therefore, knows what to expect. chasers, : The sale of the monitors Oneots and Catawba to the Peruvian government appears to have entailed upon that Power 9 long train of misfortunes with reference to them. As yet the difficulties are not over; the monitors are found in bad condition and require repairs “before they can reach their destination. It would be a wise movement on the part of the Peruvian government to ascertain how many agents have drawn.a percentage on the first cost of the vessels; how much money was really paid down for them; in fact, whether the numerous commissions have amounted to five, ten or fifty per cent of the bills thus far cashed. .-. This Peruvian monitor affair brings us to some general remarks with reference to the way the most éf such purchases are made. The fault, in the first instance, lies generally with the govergment which appoints an agent or a commission to make the purchase. The men, like many of our own political hangers- on, are not only totally unfitted for the pur- pose, but in many cases notoriously dishonest, and from the very start take the best means possible to make a bad bargain. The primary question they ask is, “‘How much commis- sion am I to receive if I buy of you?” The result is they fall into the hands of. a set of sharpers, who take good care to manipulate them to the best ad- vantage, actually, in most cases, forcing the government represented by the agents to in- directly pay the sum stipulated as the agent’s commission. Besides this the opportunity is thus offered to the seller to foist upon the buyers the worst class of vessels at double their value. This is not only the case with reference to vessels, but applies equally to firearms and munitions of war in general. Old muskets worth three dollars are sold for eight—five dollars of this being absorbed by commissions. Cuba and Spain can probably to-day foot up bills to a large amount for expenditures made in this manner. Every Spanish Ameri- can government has, both in Europe and the United States, been more or less bled to meet the rapacious demands of those men into whose hands their dishonest agents have fallen. All this throws great dishonor upon the United States. Bad vessels and bad material of war sold to Europe, to Japan, to Peru, to Brazil and to other countries are not likely to enhance our credit or bring us more orders. There is enough of evil in all countries. It is natural that if dishonesty is commissioned to transact business it will, in its course, seck a dishonest element, and the result will baa swiadle in the ratio of the funds handled. Tarif and Taxation. There is a most pernicious system prevailing in Congress, and that is the tendency to special legislation on the tar'ff question. There is a gross incongruity and a flagrant wrong in im- posing duties upon certain articles—such as copper, iron, salt, silks, woollen and cotton goods and a hundred other materials—for the purpose of serving mere sectional or local interests. The common good of the whole country should be the first consideration of the government, But instead of that we find a disposition in Congress to regulate tho tariff and taxation to suit special interests in differ- ent parts of the country. The people have to pay every year between four and five hundred millions in taxes. This is the inevitable fate of the country. It is the legacy of the war. But taxation should be equalized upon all classes and no favor shown to particular sec- tions or interests. Congress and the cliques that govefn it are, unfortunately, disposed to tinker the tariff laws for the benefit of individ- uals integested in certain branches of manufac- ture, regardless of the rights of the whole community. This is all wrong, and, moreover, is 4 grievous injustice to the country. The present system of imposing duties on foreign goods is also most erroaeous. There should be an equal tax, an ad valvirem duty, upon all importations. Congress, instead of dabbling in tariff laws got up in the interest of Pennsylvania, or Michigan, @ New England, or any othor sec- tion of the country, should give its attention to the general welfare in the distribution of taxes, which are now onerous enough, but all the more oppressive because they are most un- equally divided, Congress, as soon as it assembles after the holiday recess, should revise the whole blundering system of tariff and taxation—not by adopting the mero patch- work bills, resolutions, amendments and all that presented by members, but by enacting a broad and comprehensive law such as the couniry demands. Above all, that most odious of all the forms of taxation to which we are subject—the income tax—should be obliterated from the statute book at once. It has been the source of more annoyance to the public; it has farnished the opportanity for more offen- sive prying into the relations of private lite by a class of low and vulgar officials; it has caused more fraud, deceit and gross corrap- tion, and it has, after doing all this mischief, probably returned less to the government than any other mode of taxation, if we except the whiskey tax alone. Congress has a good deal of work before it to put our system of taxation into proper shape ; but in dealing with this question it must not be governed by cliques nor corrupted by lobbyists. In the first*place the taxation is entirely too high for times of peace like these, The government neither requires, nor does it receive the amount of taxes levied; and, in the next place, it is unequally and unfairly dis- tributed. The whole system, therefore, stands in need of a thorough revision, and we think that nothing less than tho amendments which ‘we have here suggested will prove acceptable to the public, Wravom tx Vinotnta.—There are solid men in Virginia also, as there are in Boston; and for some days past some of the heaviest of them have ‘“‘sot,” like a coroner’s jury, all in a row onthe body of the poor Old Commop- wealth to determine what should be done, They have determined to accept the submis- gion of the United States and make tefmg, The niggers may vole; they will consent to that if théro shall be general amnesty, As everybody had reached about this concluston before the solid mon waked up wouldn't it have been just as well if they had slept on? Complaints constantly resch us of the in- ability of Colombia to control her isthmus pro- vinces. Revolutions of greater or less impor- tance are constantly breaking out there, occasioning great damage to interoceanic inter- course, and in general keeping the whole Population of Panama and Aspinwall in cease- less agitation. As we stated recently, Panama @ppears to be under the government of a few hundred negroes, who, with their rusty muskets and half clad forms, keep up a bur- lesque military display, to the great annoyance of the few educated and peaceably dispoged residents, native and foreign, of the country. The absolute lack of power in the general government of Colombia is here very ob- servable. If power sufficient exists, then why is it not exercised to the maintenance of peace? Chiriqui rebels and sets up for itself; the dignity of some three or four hundred snuff-and-butter colored indi- viduals at Panama is therefore very much hurt, and forthwith they are organized into a corps darmée. The plazas are devoted to the teaching of skirmish drill. ~All indi- viduals who are sufficiently unfortunate to be natives are invited, at the point of a rusty bayonet, to become honorary members of the military club, and finally are persuaded to “volunteer” in the glorious cause of ‘la Patria,” Independencia,” or ‘‘Dios y Libertad.” Little and big men, tall niggers and short white boys, red shirts, blue shirts and no shirts are gathered in line to present a most dignified and imposing military spectacle. Lot not any one suppose that we intend this as a burlesque, for there is a deep method in this combina- tion. It is tropical, variegated, and the mili- tary line is thus arranged in much the same way as nature revela in her prodigal distribu- tions under @ tropical sun. These are the people who control the world’s highway, shape laws for its commerce, dictate to Earope and North America. How much longer will the world permit it? . < Consut To Hunaary.—From the Hunga- rians resident hore there is an appeal for the establishment of consular relations between this government and the capital of Hungary. There are more Hungarians in this country than there are of any other country in the world of which our people at large know so little, and the reason is the same that has driven so many Irish to our sho res—bad gov- ernment and oppression at home, and a spirit that cannot submit. Doubtless the establish- ment ofa consulate in Pesth looks to putting within reach of the Hungarians information in regard to this country that would facilitate emigration, and in this view the step would be a good one, LreraL.—The outgoing Board of Council- men, at its last session, gave away twenty thousand dollars of the public money to “churches and schools.” Churches’ and schools are good things in thelr way; but as this city already pays three million for local education and half million of State tax for schools, isn’t that enough without odd drib- bles? How far, moreover, are we to go in foisting the expenses of churches on the tax list ? Progress or tHe Suz Canat.—Tho Suez Canalis being pushed forward with an ac- tivity scarcely exceeded by the rapidity with which we urge westward our Pacific Railroad. In one month over two millions of cubic me- tres of earth have been removed. The total amount of earth originally required to-be re- moved was seventy-five million metres. Twenty million metres yet remain, or about one-fourth of the whole. At the present rate, and allowing for detentions, the canal should be finished by January 1, 1870. Political as well as commercial considerations are pushing this canal forward. Latin Europe is preparing for the enjoyment of its benefits. Two mil- lions of dollars have lately been appropriated to improve the commercial facilities of the port of Venice; and other ports of the Medi- terranean are also feeling the general move- ment, THE SUSCIDE MANIA. A Friendless German Shoots Himvelf—An- other Case of Unrequited Love; and Pov- erty. ‘ Hardly a day passes that does not mark some re- markable case of suicide in ourcity. The sudden taking away of life by one’s own hand has bec$me #0 frequent of late that it has aroused to some de- gree of reflection the more fortunate of our citzens regarding the friendiess and hometoss hundreds to every square milejof the metropolis. It is this class of persons, strangers to our people, our Institutions and the mode of our doing business, who, when the little savings brought with them have been expended, become despondent, and, as life seems too burden- some, shuMie off this mortal coil for tie other they know not of. Again, other cases mark this mourn- ful record, where members of both sexes, “crossed m love,” where attection is misplaced, forget that life with ail its ills is still worth living for, and pK the bullet or some subtie poison ends thelr ex- ne i last case of this character cognizant to the fag. where: unrequited love sua Sty ar “rup- ing, Where w jove a Vv are sup- poren 20 to be the causes wi wrrence uitman,n | 3 himseif t omg Bengt we - I h the head, dying almost instantly thereafter. e cit pi ‘80 far as arenes, are that the unfortu- nate man came to this coaut ome pin Be A, him his —in with & paramour he has until recently been living in oe Aa ee | while this country presented to them and for weeks thelr existence was a “pleasant, per for whom But pA! forsaken and native he land, final uel init, Lett him, tod then Whitman's congenial sit ti 4 Shortly after a reconciliation was ‘erected na tne) and they lived together again; but trouble came in: at thelr door a second time and functionary py bees ene the body to where an inquest will be held to-morrow at one o'clock. It is narrated that his first es- trangement from the girl jueation, Whitman was arrested on Ancther Casom' At half-past eleven Inet at No, 63 Mulberry streot, also tired of this life, at- tempted to commit suicide by taking « large quaa- im the Attempt. it Jolin Coffeo, residing covered in emetic, owners of horses and sleighs and led large oumberg of them to predict that there would be no good sleighing yesterday. But their predictions were doomed to a happy disappointment and their gloomy expectations were not verified. Yesterday was in © every respect better for the enjoyment of sleighing than was Saturday. The rain which fell had the effect of improving the snow and binding its loose particles more closely together, and the more pleasant state of the weather enabled the . lovers of this popular sport to enjoy its pleasures without any drawback in the shape of blinding storm. Asaresult the day was made the second of the sleighing carnival; and, although it was Sunday, the turn out was, if possible, more general than upon the first day of the season. Not only did more persons, who were fortunate enough io be the pos sessora of slelghs, take advantage of the opportu- nity for using them, but scores of business men, who did not possess any vehicle upon ranners, bey took themselves to the various livery stabled and expended their greenbacks for the pury pose of joining in the general turn out It was harvest day with the stable proprietors. Everything which could possibly be classified under the term of ‘sleigh’? was brought out from its hide ing place, and any. sort of animal that was able to keep its feet was carefully brushed down in order to provide “establishments” for the numbers who werd anxious to travel upon runners over the snowy sur- face of Mother Earth. Exorbitant prices were paid by many young clerks or would-be “sports” for rickety sleighs, and mavy a broken down vehicle waa hastily patched up to meet the demand for any kind ofa carriage that could be put upon runners. © +. The consequence of all this was that a great va riety was observable in the gliding cavalcade. Not only was there the aristocratic cutter, with tts valua, ble horse and elegant blankets, but also the w out box, with its sorry hack and still more robes; the substantial double sleigh, painted with the brightest colors and drawn dy prancing steeds,’ and the worn out machine, all woo heavy for the steaming quadrupeds who vainly tried, in answer the oft-plied whip, to improve upon their iowa gait. There were parties of ladies and gentlemen; quietly moving along at a respectable pace; n roughs, who made the thoroughfares hideous wi their oft-repeated shoutings; dashing sports, favorite trotters rushed past their slower breth scattering snow on all sides with theit m feet; solid old gentlemen, bape elm cove! with robes, kept on oe prancll our-f-haas wach pon by, ing four. all, and @ host one others 0} ai clasee all olning the 6 Procession and all ‘olowing th ce ideas to which was the best way eee Creer he EN HO All over the city the erty manuislé of aleigh bells could be heard, and most every street thé gidin vehicles hurri wat the corners of thé own town thoroughfares knots of bo:'s had 001 , Who found their val ana in_ peltiny py riders with, — anda lucky mi en he who escaped recei yf these gen- ane of the ex! itonce of youn; upon some portion of his anal in spite of snowballs aw: the! juers ahot past the down town street w ‘he quiet stores, nine bgt Leg car prank Se away for the grand ral New York’s ie pomp ioe the oft "Yonsea Pitth avenue. rosy gi twinkle of enjoyment in their mérry eyes. and re) ae | id he —_ were fast horses, ‘draws ing vel d handsome enough to ae the place of pina furniture ; here cones of dark bays driven by Mr. Pike, of Opera louse fame, come dang” ‘along and pass us like an arrow froma bow, their handsome harness flashing across our eyes, The music of treir bells ig stilt ringing im our ears, whea they are Be by that of Sheridan Shook’s team, a magni of pacers, one dark brown and the other brizht which seem to pass the wind as they rush cee Heed fl locomotive speed. But on we go; the pt ers ar the pleasure. faroes el skaters tolling thetr way to the b. = eee ae a a savalonde} e som! policemen rei x ihm Deas aud atratn thet even in Looking teain; and now and again 4 constant stream set 8 and it was no longer light aya et inguin parteg aa they @ alr continued allve wii music of ae ae ee ‘To notteo all the fust teatus that were Uj yesterday would be aa Ses the great number of owriers advan’ to eg far heres ee ee 1h, bog ne dea d who to leighing ange double |. Wi Barker sis wr Herrin: atie, and oa trim; Old Silvertall sowed some good ta also did Honest, Alle son with Ball Run; Joseph Reed wi Theo. age witli a bay and sorrel Casuman with a big tears Jenkins om with Lad; Frosty zepder aint, Tn Bee ee 0 aker; Thomas E. Broadway with @ fast pacer, and soa a to as. & fast 5 x n Mace ariving roan geld Fas a — ie, B. Weeks a en eeiding 108 King mare, and on. Finkle @ sis ‘double on bay and Join Hurd sng his black mare Tilly, Mr. Dean hie sorret Hovbs Ed cling iia litte Bastarn, mare Poliy ine mare Ones. Gatman his sorrel 1 mare Katie, aod A- ma! bares : Maprays ree drove a pair of Ld in # ham i we T. Lockwood stu yay y hse ‘leigh drawn by a lo! jong ia a wad out With @ Lawton bi Ay four pound sleigh. Ba J rg, pa mi is eran Me Phyte drove’ Nis fast % oat Norgaa, ©'n ge | excellent time horse, Captain W: r on grag. schoolmaker a likely bay leers Lair f horse Irisn Pet, Mr, vy mare Fanny Gray, J. W. Steinfeldt, Jr., bis tail bay Lynch Sam Webster, Mr, Stype his tast Mr. Helmbold’s four-in-hand team was in the Park, the and was the most noticeable estab- and the erness was tabet" elegantly mounted: Mie ou! . fe Hi, Hamilton drove a very stylish tandem team. oy Although the additional stimuins of five hundred dollars reward has been offered for the apprehension of the murderer of Mr. Charles M. Rogers, the detectives who have been searching for jew with ae beget, va saaee sent sat an oo no gave phot io the a Ft oto te 3S aes pose an station. Bee nes rast farther see one