The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1869, Page 6

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D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— Hoo.ey's MINSTRELS—SHADOW PANTOMIME, 40. Brooklyn.—Hoorzr's ore a NEW ee Mut ides OF ANATOMY, 618 adie: “SHEET. New York, Tuesday, January 12, 1569. TRIPLE MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. . The Day Heraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being enly thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Hnaup at the same price it is furnished in the ity. Europe. ‘ . ‘The cable tel: are dated January 11. It ts expected that the present dimculty between Turkey and Greece will be amicably settled in the Paris Conference. Another session, it ts thought, will complete its labor. The Sublime Porte has congratulated the people of the Danubian Principalities on their loyalty. The annual budget of the French Finance Miniater has been made public. It shows that the floating debt has been reduced two million fgancs during the past year. Additional troops are to be sent from Spain to Cuba. Preparations are being made for the formation of @ new Portugese Cabinet. The Italian riots are reported to have been my presse. Cuba, A committee of influential citizens of Havana, members of the liberal party, are on their way to Bayamo to bring about a compromise with the rebel leaders, Congress. In the Senate yesterday, after the presentation of numerous memorials and petitions on various sub- jects and the introduction and reference of several ills of no national importance, the bill for the relief of Mra. Sue Murphy, of Alabama, was taken up, and @ long argument ensued upon it, after wnich the Senate went into executive session, The nomina- tion of Coliector Smythe to the Russian mission was considered and motions to postpone and to jay on the table were both rejected. No further action was taken, however, and the Senate soon after ad- journed. In the House under the Monday call of States for bills and resojutions a long list was presented, read twice and referred. Among them were bills to im- prove New York harbor by removing obstructions and erecting piery for which it is proposed to appro- priate $6,000,000 per annum; aiding the administra- tign of justice in Virginia under Judge Under- wood's recent disqualification decision; relative to the use of disloyal text books in the public schools, and acknowledging the inde- pendence of Cuba and securing its annex- ation. At the expiration of the morning hour Mr. Washburne, of Indiana, introduced a bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Ofice act, and moved the previous question. Under this pressure without debate, the bill passed by a vote of 121 to 47. Farns- worth Garfield, Jenckes and Schenck are the most Prominent of those who voted nay. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill amended was then passed. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution was reported from the Judiciary Committee. It providesfor negro suffrage through- out all the States. The Naval Appropriation bill was discussed in Committee of the Whole and reported to the House, after which the House adjourned. Miscellaneous. A Correspondent of the Heraup recently had a conversation with General Frank Blair in Washing ton, The General still holds to his expressed opinion that General Grant will make a dictator or an em- peror of hfmself before he leaves the Waite House. His modest deportment is simply deep dissimula- tion and one of the measures always used by ambi- tious men since Julius Cesar thrice refused the crown. The country is already ruled by # minority. who demand the aid of bayonets, and it will be easy for Grant, with his military power, to make himself supreme. ‘The Supreme Court yesterday ordered a peremp- tory mandamus to be issued directing the Supreme Court of the District of Celumt™! to restore Joseph Hi, Bradiey, Sr., to his office of attorney. It will be remembered that Mr. Bradley was debarred by Judge Fisher for contempt about the close of the trial of Burratt. Peruvian fleet off the Southwest Pass, it ap- pears, are not yet Gut of trouble. Recently # fresh MJ detail of officers was made, which gave umbrage to the men, and thirteen of them have deserted. ‘Twitchell, the alieged murderer of Mrs. Hill, ap- peared again in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Phila- ) delphia, oo Saturday, when his counsel presented _ + ‘ \ Naw YORK HERALD, TURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET: diane tabimnaie anata The reasons number nineteen in all and are based report to-morrow. ‘The logs of the brig A. R. Dunlap near Halifax is confirmed. Thirteen lives were lost, and one body, that of a Miss Talbot, has floated ashore, Aband of the Ku Kiux had a conflict with ne- groed in Livingston, Tenn., on the 30th of December, ‘The ice broke up in the Hudson above Albany yes- terday, and a part of the lower portion of the city ‘Was fooded. Fivé houses were undermined and two of the walls caved in. The loss to property is eati- mated at $500,000, ‘The Boston underwriters have presented the cap- tain of @ Cunafder with a testimonial of $1,000 for his seamanship in bringing his vessel safe to that Port after its rudder was broken. Tho City. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, but ad- Journed for want of a quorum. In the Board of Assistant Aldermen s petition was presented asking the removal of the Loew Bridge to the junction of West and Cortlandt streets. A re- solution was received and referred, directing inquiry into existing contracts, and the moneys paid on them, for removing snow and ice from Broadway. The standing committees were announced for the year, ‘and deputies and other assistants of the Clerk. In the Board of Health yesterday a motion to change rules so that inspectors should be re- quired to’ work only four hours @ day was lost. Several of the inspectors have resigned, becanse they object to working eight hours per day. Super- intendent Dalton’s resignationwas read and laid on the table for future consideration. Operations were commenced yesterday for the re- moval of obstructions at Hell Gate, Everything was not in perfect order, however, and after trying the ground, as it were, the work was postponed uatil to- day. Frying Pan Rock is the first objective point. The Congressional Committee engaged in the in- vestigation of the alleged election frauds still con- tinues its sessions, being engaged altogether in ex- amining witnesses. The trouble between Sheriff O'Brien, and Marshal Murray and others United States officials remains in slatu quo. The committee claims that it has obtained overwhelming proof of the chi of repeatmg and using false certificates of nat im the late elections, which are made by the Union League against members of the democratic party. Itis now generally understood that Moses H. Grinnell will be appointed Collector of this port by General Grant. The copy of Houdon’s statue of Washington, which has been located in the Governor's Room at the City A so-called “Jewellers’ Union’ in this city pro- poses to distribute $5,000,000 worth of prizes at a grand drawing in March next. They publish in their prospectus an extract of what purports to be an editorial in the HERALD laudatory of their echeme. No such an editorial has ever appeared in the HERALD, and the whole scheme may be set down as a swindle. Anarticle in another column this morning will attract the attention of the numerous benevolent citizens of New York and will especially enlist their hearty sympathies in the good work of Miss Susan B. Anthony's workingwomen’s association. It is entitied “The Workingwomen of New York; How they Work, Live and Die.” ‘The case of the United States vs. Vernon K. Steven son (the great cotton case) was resumed yesterday morning before Judge Blatchford. Three witnesses were examined for the government, but other wit- nesses expected from Washington not hat ‘arrived, the further hearing of the case was al this morning. The Dupuy whiskey case occupied the Circuit Court during the day. The prosecution having closed, the defence examined several witnesses, but not concluding their case at the rising of the court, +} it stands adjourned till this morning. In the United States Commissioner's Court the case of the United States vs. the Messrs. Guiterman, charged with Custom House frauds, was further postponed till Wednesday next. The books and papers of J. B. Hixon, importer, Howard street,and of W. Hornberger, 351 Broad- way, were yesterday seized by Marshal Murray on an order issued by the United States District Court on an aMdavit alleging that the parties named had defrauded the Customs Department by undervalua- tion of goods consigned to them. The Inman line steamship Etna, Captain Bridg- man, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to- malls will close at the Post Office at haif-past eleven o'clock. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Allemannia, Captain Rardua, will sail from Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The stock market yesterday was steady st the opening, with large transactions. In the afternoon prices weakened and fell off about two per cent for the general list. Gold was stronger, advancing at one time to 135%, but closing on the atreet at 135%. The beef cattle market yesterday was only mode- Fately active, and prices were weak at the following quotations:—Prime and extra, 16c. 9 17%0.; fair to good, 150. @ 16c., and inferior to ordinary, 10. 9 14c. The offerings amounted to 2,600 head. Milch cows were in moderate demand and steady in value, We quote:—Extra, $100 @ $125; prime, $90 a $95; fair to good, $75 4 $85; common, $60 a $70; inferior, $50 8 $55. Veal calves were dull and %c. lower, prime and extra seliing at 1134c. a 12:4c.; common to good, 10340. @ 11¢.; inferior, 9c. a9%c. For sheep andlambs the market was moderately active, and prices were quite steady at 7c. a 8c, for prime and extra, 640. @ 6)c. for common to good, and 4c. a be, for inferior. Swine were dull, owing to the light arrivals; prices were firm at 100. a 10\c. Prominent Arrivals in the City. 8. K. Williams and Robert Cochrane, of New York, and F, F. Stevens, of Massachusetts, are at the Me- tropolitan Hotel. General James McQuade, of Utica; Colonel J. Bruce, of Wiimington, and Dr. Daniel, of Delaware, Gre at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Major F. Taylor, Captain 8. R. Freley, of the United States Army, and Colonel D. E. McMillan, of ‘New York, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Dr. Benjamin W. Dadiey and Colonel L. B. Grige bly, of New York, are at the Maitiy House. General Webb, of Ohio; Coionel J. F. Cartis and omg Foster, Jt., of New York, are stopping at @ St. Julien Hotel. Four in Hany.—At intervals we see at- tempts made to introduce this style of driving. It does not generally find favor among our wealthiest citizens, although some few have adopted it. There is considerable variety in the style of these turnouts, some being quite the reverse of elegant, while others are more or less tastefully gotten up. The greatest ex- tremes are always gone to by parvenus, a The Tenure ef Office Law-Important Action im Congrese—The Extreme Radi- cals Nowhere. : General Butler, the man rejected by the ex- treme radicals of the Fifth Congressional dis- trict of Massachusetts, but re-elected for all that by an overwhelming majority, achieved yesterday, backed by the potential Wash- burae, a very important victory in the House of Representatives in behalf of a new de- parture of the republican party under General Grant. His bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Office law, under the whip‘and spur of the previous question, was brought to the de- cisive vote and passed—yeas 121, nays 47. The affirmative vote, as it will be seen, in- cluded all the democrats ; the negative vote is all republican, and embraces such radical ex- tremists a8 Schenck, Shellabarger and Gar- field, of Ohio; Jenckes, of the Civil Service bill; Maynard and Stokes, of Tennessee, and others to the number of forty-seven. Wash- burne, the right hand man of General Grant, of course took an active hand for the re- peal, and iis influence, no doubt, greatly strengthened Butler, inasmuch as it is gene-~ rally understood that in reference to the President elect Washburne speaks and acts as one having authority. The pase- age of the repeal by the heavy vote given indicates the beginning of a de- cline in the power of radicalism and the as- cendancy of more moderate and conciliatory counsels in Congress than those which have ruled the two houses in their long and des- perate conflict with President Johnson. it is possible that the radicals in the Senate, where they have no previous question, will en- deavor to prevent the passage of this bill by parliamentary evasions and delays; but the friends of the repeal, we understand, intend to push it through. The action of the House, at all events, marks the commencement of a new dispensation. It foreshadows not only the re- peal of the Tenure of Office law, but the fail- ure of Mr. Jenckes’ Civil Service bill and of the little bill of Mr. Edmunds in the Senate, excluding from civil offices officers of the army and navy. This Edmunds bill, it is conjec- tured, is aimed especially against General Schofield and Admiral Porter as prospective members of Grant’s Cabinet, the design being to head off Grant in reference to these appre- hended appointments; but from the develop- ments of yesterday we suapect the scheme will fail. Had the vote of the House yesterday been taken without a call to the record it is probable that Butler's bill would have failed; but the record, in bringing the members face to face with General Grant, cut down the Tenure of Office law party to forty-seven. These forty- seven, with their adherents in the Senate, headed by Sumner, may yet create some trouble in the party camp before thé final vic- tory is won; but from the unexpected success of the first move of Butler on his new tack we may look for s removal before the 4th of March of all the shackles which have been put upon the hands of the President, so that with the inauguration of President Grant the Office will be reatored to its status under Lincoln. The House of Representatives recognizes the President elect as a living power in the land, entitled to this degree of respect and confidence; the Senate will be constrained to concur; the new President will be invested with his constitutional functions, and thus, in the absence of’a two-thirds radical majority in the House, he will be in a position at once to proclaim his own policy, foreign and domes- tic, with the power to cause it to be respected, whatever may become of the intractable radi- cals of Congress and their followers. “Iprovements In New Yorx Harnor.—In the House of Representatives yesterday Mr. Robinson, of New York, introduced a bill appro- priating five million dollars for the improvement of the harbor of New York. Every improve- ment made in this harbor is beneficial to the commerce of the whole country. The removal of the obstructions at Hell Gate, the erection of substantial docks and piers on the water line of New York and Brooklyn, and every- thing else that facilitates the operations of the shipping that enter and depart from this port, effect a common good to our common pros- perity as ® commercial nation and help to swell the wealth of the West as well as the East, the South as well as the North. Let us see how far Congress is disposed to go in the performance of a national duty and in accom- plishing @ practical and substantial good by its legislation upon this proposition for the im- provement of the harbor of the metropolis. Ih’s an Itt Wisp, &0.—There does seem to be a time when the thieves of this city are in danger trom the officers of justice—the Sheriff especially. This time is when they are teatl- fying before Congressional committees to the prejudice of the democracy. At all other times their immunity from the officers of the law seems to be complete. The Sheriff says there were warrants out for some of the witnesses. If that was so how is it the committee ceuld “find the rogues and the holders of the warrants could not? ateelllinttinne Benon’s Position.—There are enough men in this city who sympathize with the humane efforts of Mr. Borgh to make it easy to find witnesses for such a notorious fact as the over- taxing of car horses, and if Mr. Bergh, with these witnesses, would Progecute a company he would do more for the horses than by stop- ping twelve cars in the street allday, More- over, he woald not then expose twelve pairs of overheated horses to stand and cool in the stormy air, and he would not make twelve car loads of passengers sworn enemies to his hu- mane endeavors, Bohemian Raids em the GrecereThe Be- ginning and the End. Some two or three years ago the radical organs in this city and throughout the State, incensed at the stubborn democracy of New York, started out on @ crusade against the Irish saloon keepers and German lager beer dealers, who were regarded as the bone and sinew of the democratic party, and determined to legislate them into good. republicans. Our lawmakers at Albany, impressed with the necessity of breaking down the democratic majorities at this end of the State, which wero growing steadily larger year after yaar with the increasing population, entered vigorously into the policy of coercion, and statute after statute was enacted having fur its object the punishment of the unwashed and un- terrified masses of the metropolis. On the principle that people who obstinately re- fused to elect republicans to office were unfit to govern themselves, the various departments of the city government were placed under the control of commissioners by the Governor or elected by the State Legtslature, then in the hands of the radicals, snd as a special mark of reprobation the Excise law for the Metropolitan District laid its grasp upon the venders of whiskey and lager, who were regarded as the head and front of democratic offenders. The impression had become general among republicans that men who sold and men who consumed liquor and beer were naturally democratic in their pro- clivities, and the cold water fanatics held to the belief that it was only necessary to cripple the trade in intoxicating beverages to convert the rosy-faced Dutchman, who consumes his forty or fifty ‘‘schoppens” daily, into the coun- terpart of a sallow-visaged Yankee, who sab- sists upon cider and apple sauce. A license fee of two hundred and fifty dollars was there- fore extorted from the saloon keeper as well as from the landlord of the first class hotel; no liquor was allowed to be sold before five o’clock in the morning or after twelve o'clock at night ; the violator of any provision of the Excise law was treated as a felon, and his arrest was authorized without warrant; the police force was converted into an army of spies and informers, and, worst of all, the innocent Sun- day amusements of the Germans, with whom the Sabbath has been for centuries a day of recreation as well as of rest, were forbidden under penalties as severe as those meted out to pickpockets. The effect of all this sump- tuary legislation was scarcely such as its originators had anticipated. The demo- cratic majorities at this end of the State, instead of creeping up by slow degrees, took a sudden leap of twenty or thirty thou- sand ata time, and the State of New York, which had one year elected the republican candidates by twenty thousand majority, turned over to the democracy and gave them a majority of fifty thousand votes. The radi- cal organs, undeterred by this experience, became more rabid than ever in their abuse of democrats, threatened still further pains and penalties to the wicked and rebel- lious people of New York, and for the second time the consequence was the loss of the State to the radicals in the Presidential fight and a democratic majority without precedent in the Metropolitan District. The losing game thus played by the great republican party has more recently been tried on a small scale by a dissatisfied, needy, sore- headed democratic organ, and has been at- tended by a like disastrous result. The Bo- hemian editor of:the concern, irritated at the want of confidence exhibited towards him by the democratic leaders, and incensed against Tammany for its refusal to nominate him for Mayor of the city or to bestéw upon him any other office, swelled himself into the proportions of political Don Quixote, and with his high paper cap upon hishead and his goose quill poised in air ran tilt against the grocers, hotel proprietors and saloon keepers, who are sup- ‘posed to form the main body of the democratic army. Regardless of the long business career and irreproachable character of many of those against whom its wrath was directed, this un- happy organ assailed the reputation and honesty of some of our most sterling business men—the solid bourgeoisie of the city, who stand as a connecting link in society between the hard-fisted democracy and the soft-fisted aristocracy. Not only were our corner gro- cersand saloon keepers branded as thieves and swindlers, but the most respectable of our hotels and wholesale houses were pronounced to be so many dens for the robbery and poison- ing of their customers, This rascally assault upon the credit and character of the city that has furnished the® Bohemian strikers with their board, lodging, lager, cheese and such washing as they indulge in for five or six years past, has naturally excited the indigna- ‘tion of the democracy and of all reputable citizens, and the consequence has been the dwindling down of the sore-headed organ, day by day, until it has become as weak and sickly asthe radical vote in New York. The Bo- hemians are now in great tribulation at the re- sult of their unjustifiable raid upon the business men of the city, and if some rich capitalist does not soon come to their aid with a few hundred thousand dollars to throw away they will go overboard, as the radical party has gone, and be lost. The merchants of New York have resolved that reputable business men shall no longer be sub- jected to blackmail raids and unjust abuse, and the respectable portion of the press have very properly denounced the practices of these Bohemians as a disgrace to the profession. It is only retributive justice that such scamps should be brought to grief. Tae American Jooxey Crus have issued thelt programme for next summer's racing. Nineteen races will be run; but we notice that only two of them will be heat races, from which we infer that the members of the club are the owners of very few first class horses, Heats and distance alone are the tests of a race horse. Probably the Club will endeavor to make up in quantity what they lose in the quality of the racers. Tae Dirrerrnok iN Wiiskey.—Delmoni- co's whiskey was analyzed by the Bohemian chemists and found to be a dreadful article, and now Delmonico has had some analyzed for his own satisfaction by Professor Draper, with very different results, We cannot venture to account for the difference, but there are those who fancy that Delmonico knows his ous- tomers. Fhe Chinese Mission in Paris. Mr. Burlingame and his Chinese friends are, it appears, receiving every attention in the French capital, According to an official journal Mr. Burlingame’s position as chief of the Embassy is entirely satisfactory to the Emperor. The Ambassadors have not yet been received by him, but @ formal audience is to be granted them on an early day. As we have said on more than one occasion already, the most cordial reception awaits the Ambassa- dors at all the courts of Europe. The mission, in truth, is destined to be a great suecess; its fruit is already revealing itself. The old bully- ing policy which has been followed by most of the European Powers towards the nations of the East is played out. England has been greatly to blame in this matter. At the present moment Chinamen are indignant because of a fresh outrage’committed by British officials at Yangtchow. So outrageous has been this pro- ceeding that Englishmen resident in China have raised their indignant protest against a policy which, while it is unjust, is also suicidal. One policy for Europe and another for Asis is no longer safe. It begins to be seen that un- less a change takes place and the Asiatic nations are treated like other civilized States China may arise and surprise the world by her strength. China has now warm friends in the United States, and in the event of another war with England or with France and England combined she might be backed by the strength of the United States on the one hand and that of Russia on the other. Such a combination would be certain to revolutionize India, and might prove destructive of French and British power on the. Asiatic Continent. There is but one course which can now be followed with safety, and that is to admit China into the family of civilized nations and treat her accord- ingly. This is the great aim of the Burlingame mission. The times are ripe for it; its success, therefore, is certain. The initiation of this just policy will redound to -the lasting honor of the United States. The Paris Conference. It appears now that the alarming difficulty in the East will be got over without the neces- sity of going to war. The parties who signed the treaty of Paris, 1856, are too much inte- rested in the preservation of peace to allow Turkey and Greece to go to war just yet. The time may come when the Eastern question will take anew shape and when war will be less connected with future alarming possibilities. In the meantime war in the East must be avoided, because it would inevitably create complications the issue of which no one can foresee. It will ba well if the Conference shall teach Greece to strive to improve her internal affairs, and so to strive that she shall command the respect of the nations. This point certainly she has not yet reached. It will also be well if the Italian government shall yield herself more completely up to the influence of modern civilization. What Turkey needs is a little more of the steam engine, of the electric tele- graph, of the printing press. Let Turkey only do this, and religious differences will bo less a disturbing element than they have been. The Eastern question is virtually settled for the present, and it may well be doubted whether it will ever be revived in the same shape again. Unless the Turkish government is careful the real danger of the future will be less in the interference of Greece or in the intrigues of Russia than in the rising of the Greek provinces of the empire. When Turkey begins to fall of her own weight it will not be possible for any conference to save her. Government Fands in Private Hands. It appears there is a report current in Wash- ington that the Treasury Department is in the habit of leaving large government balances in the hands of favorite bankers. Something like fifteen millions, reported as the currency balance in the Treasury every month, has been deposited fora long .time past, it is stated, with a certain banking firm. The use of and interest on such a sum, or even on a third of it, would make any bank rich. We know that one banker at least in Washington has made an immense fortune within a few years by handling government money, and through the favoritism of the Treasury Department. No- where else in the world could such a fortune have been made in so short a time, and it shows how recklessly extravagant has been the manage- mentof our finances. No doubt there are other friends of the Secretary of the Treasury who have amassed wealth through similar favors or by valuable information afforded as to the gold and other operations of the department, The sooner the Treasury is divorced from all con- nection with private parties the better; for such transactions as reported are full of cor- ruption and dangerous. There ought to be a searching investigation made by Congress into these rumors, and into all the secret ma- chinery of the Treasury operations. Tae Rogers Morper—WorkING AT THE Wrona Exp.—Our city detectives had a two weeks’ hunt for a well known criminal, of whom they had the State Prison description, and who was not hidden at all, but just coming and going on the surface of city life. They did not find him, and no other evidence is needed of the worth- lessness of such “detectives.” But may we be Permitted to wonder why they were so keen for this man? He is not the man that is wanted in the clue. The letter was written to him, and he might well know nothing of it and never have received it. Justice wants the man who wrote the letter, and he can proba- bly tell who “Tom” is, Rogers heard the con- federate of his murderer call the murderer “Jim.” But these fellows have plenty of names. It ought to be easy to find the man who sent the letter to ‘James Logan, by the hand of Tom”—easy, we mean, by a reward, not by the detectives. In tre Riout Dirrorion—The keroseno investigation. This investigation may save the lives of one hundred children every year, and that, perliaps, is as praiseworthy an endeavor in these times as Bergh’s heroic struggle to save the wind of fifty old horses. Pure kerosene is notexplosive, and every quart of kerosene that explodes is sold in defiance of the law. To purify the kerosene, to extract from it the substance that renders it explosive, makes the article a little dearer, and the people, not under- standing this, try f buy the cheapest. The law made to protect them fails for want of enforcement. It is to be hoped a @rong oxam- ple will be made in the case now before one of the coroners, The Proposed Protecterate Over St. Dod aalngo. There is a resolution pending in the House of Representatives which provides for a protec- torate over St. Domingo. This is all well enough so far as it extends; but the proposi- tion is too narrow. It lacks breadth. «It is quite. useless for our statesmen to take up a portion of @ question, unless, perhaps, this be the entering wedge to a more extensive survey of the field to the south of us. We have Guba, Jamaica, St. Domingo, Porto Rico and the the midst of a revolution which looks as if it might culminate in an overthrow of the Spanish © Power. Whether such a success will be of z demanded. A revolution follows ; it is a revo- lution against what many are pleased to call the moral force of the United States; which, is. insulted, and a few thousand troops are shipped to the focus of the insult. Does any one suppose that these troops will ever return ? Does any one imagine that a foreign army called in tg settle civil war difficulties existing within any separate nationality will ever lower ita flag once it enters the country? We are too great a people to resort to subterfuge in our dealings with those around us. If it be judged for our interests to take possession of St. Domingo, let it be done immediately. It is an undoubted truth that we require a good in the West Indies. Our interests are the interests of civilization, and therefore no little volutionary body of mongrels should be lowed to stand in the way of those interests. it is all very well for the European. Powers to cry morality and attempt to defeat every effort we make at the establishment Of commercial centres of support. Foreign nations have them, and have them, foo, pt the sa- crifice of blood and honor in almost every instance. These little islands like St. Domingo are of no use to any one at present, They should be looked upon simply as aids to commercial intercourse, and, despite them- selves, should be forced to play their parts-by those nations which can make best use of them for such a purpose, There is a problem for us lying north of Panama and the Caribbean Sea. That problem is Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. With reference to Mexico, she stands in our way; she drags on us, watches our pro- gress with jealousy and refuses to march along . with us. For this refusal it is as inevitable as fate that she must go down before us, We may include Panama and Central America in the same remak. The West Indies, however, are rather a necessity to the harmony of the North Americam half of the Continent. All these Spanish American countries’ north of Panama stand squarely in the track of the world’s greatest trade lines, and are more or less an impediment to the commerce of the globe. These things are worth consideration ; but they should be balanced in a broad sense. Congress should issue its pronunciamiento to them, saying, ‘Prepare to become a part of the United States, to enjoy its benefits, to share its greatness and to yield to the general civilization of the world all the advantages possessed by your geographical positions and your products. We cannot regch the highest point in progress until all the territorial forces on this half of the Continent work together for a given purpose.” After such an edict these countries would begin to prepare them- selves, and if not disposed to enter the fotd peaceably, then—the bayonet. Tar Vi AND THE Panrk.—The velocipede is an institution already. It affords a graceful and splendid means of get- ting over the ground for all who have good muscles, quick eyes and tolerably hard heads. Its cultivation promises to become a first rate sport also. Buta training ground better than the streets is wanted. Well, there is the Park, every one says at once. Who would believe, however, that this institution is ruled out of the Park ? Who would guess that the Com- missioners are so slow as that? They say it frightens the horses. Does it frighten them more than the snow plough or more than s locomotive? Nonsense. Horses have sense enough to get used to everything. The veloci- pede is entitled to admission in the Park, and the Park is big enough even to give the oulti- vators of this sport a course to themselves. Govern the velocipedes in the Park by what rules you choose, restrict them to a certain speed or a certain quarter, but de not exclude them. Untversat Surrracr.—It will be seen by our Congressional report that in the House yesterday Mr. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, in- troduced a bill providing for universal (or colored) suffrage-in all the States for President and Vice President, members of Congress and members of the State Legislatures. The bill will come up for consideration at a future day. Thus is the radical ball rollfng on. Tne ATLANTIO TeteGRaPn IN Conaress.— Mr. Laflin, of this State, has introduced a bill — the House to authorize the New York, New- London Telegraph Company to onelioe ite submarine cableon the shores of the United States. Thé bill has been referred to the Committee on Commerce. A Pretty Kerrie or Fise—The investi- gation of the Congressional Committee into the alleged election frauds in New York. The whole affair is simply disgraceful squabble among political shysters and adventurers who are unworthy the attention of Congress. From the developments that have been made it seems that neither party hesitates to use the vilest characters In the country—imported thieves, { burglars end counterfelters—io subserve their