The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1869, Page 6

8 NEW YORK H HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NEW “YORK HERALD | BROADWAY ‘AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All buciness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, ne Serco Volume XXXIV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S CARDEN, B: pon BY NIGHT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bower: MAN COUNTRY Sonvot. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and 25d street.—La PRRICHOLE. + APTRR DARK; OR, LON+ —Tax Ticker ov LEAvE FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave nue.—LE1L. CREVE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. ours Doerr. wiru New Prarunes 1s. The-Rank of Montreal, at St. Catharines, Canana, was robbed by burglars on Monday night of $50,000. ‘The Peruvian moniters sailed from the mouth of the Mississippi yesterday for the Pacific. It is proposed in Georgia that the question of negro eligibility to office shall be brought before the Supreme Court. ‘The prize ight for the championship and $2,900 came off jbetween Tom Allen and Bill Davis on Cho- tean Island, in the Missourt river, yesterday, and was won by Allen in forty-three rounds. Judge Pelham, of Alabama, who was elected to omice when the Governor and Legislature were, has decided the Legislature to be an tilegal body and Governor Smith an unlawful oficer. The drafts for the payment of Wells, Fargo & Co, for the overland mail service were refused by the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury yesterday, but on ap, peal of the Postmaster General to the Secretary of the Treasury they were honored in part, $260,000 being paid on them and $50,000 being reserved until after the action of Congress concerning the over- land mail contract. Attorney General Evarts has issued a circdlar of instructions to the District Attorneys directing that allauits for the crime of (reason are to be discon- tinued. i A despatch states that a train on the Pan Handle route, near Pittsburg, ran off the track yesterday, but, as mak But! or says, away from the seaboard cities the average interest ia twelve per cent, while in the Southera 4.105 aad some other sections it rises to over twenty per cent, In order, thea, to have a cheap cur- rency it is proposed, first, that the government shall withdraw the present legal tenders, and, as they are withdrawn, to substitute for them the ‘‘certificates of value” as a circulat- ing medium and lawful money. These are to be based on taxes, which are catimated at about three hundred and fifty millions, the amount nearly of the outstanding legal tender notes. The ‘certificates of value” are to be received for all taxes, whether collected from internal revenue or external commerce, and, therefore, will be redeemed in that way every year. In fact, there will be but one kind of lawful money. General Butler thinks it strange that the government ever should have established two kinds, legal tenders and specie, in which to do its own business, and stranger still to enact at the same time one only for the people... He regards this anomaly as the principal cause and the rear sleeping car was thrown down an em- bankment, three persons being killed, A negro outraged & married woman and strangled her little daughter in Mississippi on Saturday night, and was hanged by the Ku Klux. The husband of the outraged woman, on coming home and hearing of the qflair,cut down the body and burned it, dancing around the fames in the meantime like a maniac. Mr. E, B, Washburne appeared before the House Committee on Post Offices yesterday and made a telling speech in favor of bis bili for erecting a new telegraph line from Washington to New York, and against the telegraph monopoly. Mr. Gambree, a negro from the North, has been elected reading clerk of the Florida State Senate, There is very little new regarding the freshet at Albany. The water was gradually receding yester- day, although the current was very strong. The buildings north of the railroad ferry cut still stand- ing were settling, and tt was feared they would be wholly lost. A meeting of the State Sportsman Asgociation was held at Albany yesterday. A: committee was ap- pointed to frame a bill, to be passed by the Legisla- ture, making materiai amendments in the existing game laws. Also a bill to incorporate the associa- tion, pa hetae THEATRE, Broadway. ING. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tar Fig.p OF Tux CLoru OF GoLp, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 2th street. — Carracn or THE WaTen—Woopcock's Lirree Game. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strect.—Les Fouums— PaGr's KEVEL—N1OODEMTS, £0. MRS. FB. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Loar is Lonpon. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, = Broadway.—ETuI0- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, DANOING, ae. BRYANTS’ OPERA HO Tammany Building, street ETHIOPIAN MANGTRELSY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Rowery.—Comto Vooatisa, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 23g. Mth NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteently street.. Sey) daa AND GraiNAaTic ENTERTALNMENT. Matines at 23g. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street—Lrorone py F. SveRuy HUNT, F. RS, oN “PRUIRVAL CHEMISTRY.” , HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoourr’s Mixwrexie—ScutanERuoRN’s Box, ko. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— HOOLEY's MINSTEELS—SHADOW PANTOMIME, &o. Tho City. The Congressional Committee investigating the election frauds in thia State were busy in secret ses- sion all day yesterday. They will probably adjourn to the rural districts in a few days. The Union League Committee state that they paid Larry Farrell thirty dollars on his representation that he had pald out $100 for the board of some witnesses, but on his Saying that the witnesses were willing to swear to anything the committee wanted, he and his witnesses were summarily dismissed. In the Board of Health yesterday the resignation of Superintendent Dalton was accepted, and Dr. Jones was assigned temporarily to the position. Professor Chandler submitted a report in which he stated that of eighty specimens of kerosene oil that YEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, as Broadway. - SorkNOk anv Ant. orator eee TRIPLE SHEET. New | ous Wednesday, Jamuary cans 1869. The Daity Herp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month, The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Henaip at the same price it is furnished in the city. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated January 12. For some reason, as yet unexplained, the Greek Ambassador was dented the privilege of partici- pating inthe Paris Conference yesterday. He has protested against the treatment and telegraphed to Athens for instructions. It was reported in London yesterday that the prin- cipal members of the Cretan provisional govern- ment were captured by the Turks. The Subttme Porte has authorized Sadik Pacha, now in Paris, to raise a loan for war purposes. Cuba. It ia reported in Havana on good authority that the Peace Commission has full power to offer pardon . &nd political rights under the fag of Spain to the insurgents. The siege of Nuevitas is being closely pressed. A detachment of troops sent by land to reinforve the garrison had been defeated. Famine ‘was apprehended by the planters of the surrounding country. About 400 persons attempted to leave Havana ina body on Sunday, but some of them ‘were detained. It was supposed that they intended to produce a revolt in Candelara. Captain General Daice has issued an amnesty proclamation to ail insurgents who lay down their arms within forty gaya. Fifteen hundred fresh troops have arrived Trou Cadiz. Mexico. Most of the promment citizens Colima were about leaving the State on account of tion imp: he heavy taxa- upon them by the Legisiature. Several land sh i occurred, and creeks had appeared where only barron deserts had been befory Jn Gau- Aaiajara a number of citizens had been rah polid- cas offences, and a revolution was imménent, Congress. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Frelinghuysen pre- sented a memorial from certain capitalists set- ting forth that the Pactiic Railroad subsidies ‘will amount to $750,000,000, and offering to construct the road for $16,000 per mile in addi- Vion to land grants, thus saving $75,000,000 to the Treasury. The bill fixing the time for finding indictments in the lately rebel States was taken up and passed. The Senate then resumed the consideration of the claims of Sue Murphy, of Alabama, and without taking action in tue matter ‘adjourned. In the House Mr. Butler introduced a bill to an- thorize & natioual currency and to reduce the inter- est on the national debt. He made a long speech in ‘support of it, which will be found on our fourth page. The cértificate of Mr. J. 8. Casement, as dele- gate from the Territory of Wyoming, he having been elected by a mass meeting, as the Territory has as et to officers, was referred to the Committee on Fieotions for a report. The Committee on Appro- priations reported the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, which was made a Special order for to-day. The bill to equalize Dounties was then considered, and postponed santil Tuesday, February 2 Mr. Banks from the Committee on Foreign Affairs a joint reso- lation proposing the protection of Hayt and St. Domingo by the United States. He said, in advocacy Of it, that it Was intended to send a war vessel there to prevent the frequent revolutions that heretofore occurted. The resolution went over until to-day and the House adjourned. Miscellancons, The contest for the Senatorial succession progreses warmly at Albany. Ov yesterday a private circular Was distributed among the republican members of the Legisiature denouncing Fenton. This is claimed to be a dodge of the friends of Morgan. Numeraus rumors are afloat, but nothing definite has been done, The democratic minority have not yet fixed a day for their caucus, although report says that com- plimentary votes will be cast either for Seymour, Church, Murphy or Shannon. The Susquehanna Ratiroad excarsion proved a failure. The President had # long consultation with his Cabinet yesterday, for the purpose, it is understood, Of deciding his authority for the issue of the last amnesty proclamation, in auswer to @ resolution of inquiry in the Senate, ‘Phe next Senate of the United States, from indica- tions presented by recent elections of new mem- ‘bers and the complexion of the State legislatures yet to Make clections, will stand politically just as the present one does. ‘he report of Isracl T. Hatch im relation to the Proposed reciprocity treaty with Canada will gbe found on another page. He shows that since the one When of the treaty the revenues received by ited States have heen largely increased. Georetary McCulloch recently issued an order dis- charging all negro messengers in the various de- ents of the Treasury. His intention was to supply their places with ex-soldiers, The heads of pureaus, however, waited upon him ina body and objected Mind bie vider. of the paper, doubt, as the platform of its author for a new departure in political affairs and intthe reor- ganization of parties. It has been apparent for some time past that General Butler meant so strongly vhat he was compelled to re. | | he had tested none reached the right standard, and no kerosene for sale in the city that he had seen was afe to use. In the great Stevenson cotton case yesterday Judge Blatchford directed the jury to find a verdict for Stevenson, the defendant, and against the United States. Thirty days’ stay of proceedings were granted for the government to prepare @ writ of error. The National line steamship Englana, Captain Thompson, will leave pier 47 North river at twelve M. to-day for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The Cunard steamship China, Captain Hockley, Will sail to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The Black Star line steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, will leave pier 13 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga. The stock market yesterday was verv dull. At the close there Was more animation and prices became active, owing to @ better supply of money. Gold was dull at 185% a 1353. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Senator E. W. Morgan, of New York; Henry Kipp, of Buffalo; Senator L. M. Morrill, of Maine, and T. J. York, of New Jersey, are gtopping at the Astor House. . J. M. Scoville, of New Jersey; Captain Parrott, of the United States Navy; A. J. Drexeil, of Philadel- phia, and J. Langdon, of Elmira, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major Thomas K. Gibbs, of the United States Army, and Rey. Clarence Buel, of Sing Sing, are at the Hofman House. General W. W. Averill, Consul General at Mon- treal; Major M. F. Bowes, of the United States Army, and Peter Monteith, of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Butler’s Bill and Speech on Finances and Carrency. General Butler introduced an important bill in Congress yesterday to authorize the issue of a national currency, to provide for its, stability and elasticity and to reduce the rate of inte- rest on the public debt. Upon this he made an able anda comprehensive speech. Both the bill and speech are published in another part This movement is intended, no the to make himself the leader in Congress on this subject of the currency and our national finances, which, with his usual sagacity, he saw must become the most important one before the country. In his speech he has fairly taken that position, He goes to the root of the mat- ter, and is more radical fn this than in politics. He cuts up the old systems of currency and finance by 4 powerful argument and'a thorough historical review of their inconsistencies and failure, and shows that this new and rich coun- try should have system of its own, adapted to its institutions and peculiar circumstances, He shows that our financial system has been an exaggerated offshoot of those of Europe, subject to the changes, the needs, the wars, famines and distresses of other countries, and that it wasin no sense an American system nor adapted to the institutions of a free, an enterprising and independent people. General Butler starts with the proposition that the currency of a highly commer- cial, expanding, industrious, productive and free people ghould be uniform, sound, cheap, stable and elastic, He considers that our present legal tender eurrency, or that which he proposes shall take its place In the form of government ‘‘cortifl- cates of value,” based on national securities, which shall be lawful money for all purposes, would be both uniform and sound. As toa cheap currency, be argues that all financial writers agree that paper money is the cheapest medium of circulation, But while our present currency is cheap enough as re- gards the cost of its supply, and because it suffers no loss of interest as capital while in circulation, he maintains that {t fails to be so in another sense—in the sense of the enor- mous price at which it, as money or capital, is furnished to those who use it, ‘When called into use a8 a representative of capital our money is enormously dear.” Wo all know how high the rate of interest ordinarily iw in New York and other commercial contra; of keeping the currency depreciated. He proposes next to take from the national banks all power to issue notes to circulate as money, leaving them banks of deposit, loans and discounts, Of course in psing the gov- ernment certificates a3 circulation they would be subject to no tax onit. Then, as it is evi- dent that three hundred and fifty millions of “certificates of value” would not be a suf- ficient amount of currency for the business purposes of the country, he proposes to throw open the privilegs which the banks have of obtaining money from the government to every man or association of men who can furnish the same security the banks do now for the money so received—that is, any one owning govern- ment six per cent bonds may go to any public depository in the United States, and, lodging them there as security, shall receive ‘‘certifi- cates of value” to the amount of ninety per cent of,the par thereof, to be at his pleasure reconverted into his bonds at any time after thirty days, he paying to the Treasurer inte- rest for the money received at the rate of three dollars sixty-five cents per annum. This is his proposition in brief for a cheap and uni- form currency. General Butler argues that this would not make the currency too redundant, though that might appear to many to be the result; ‘‘for no one will pledge this species of capital in gov- ernment bonds for three sixty-five per cent, on ninety per cent of its value, unless that money could be safely and profitably invested as pro- ductive capital, or, in other words, unless the business needs of the country actually re- quired it.” The rate of interest, he holds, would act as a certain regulator of or a govern- ing power over the amount of the circulating medium. It will be seen, of course, that this involves General Butler’s other proposition of an elastic currency ; that is to say, the amount in circulation would be more or less, according to the demands of business and the rate of in- terest. He maintains that this would be a stable currency nevertheless—stable in ite value and relative to other values, though it may change in quantity at times or in certain localities, just as the currents of trade change the volume now in certain parts of the conn- try at different seasons of the year to accom- modate the demands of business. Referring to the resumption theorists and their impracticable projects, he shows some of his characteristic satire. He’ remarks:— “One says the way to resume specie payments is to resume. Suppose the physician shonld say to the sick man, the way not to be sick is to be well, might not the patient ask his doc- tor, howam I toget well? So, afew years ago, one may remomber that the way proposed for the Union armies to get to Richmond was ‘On to Richmond,’ and I ttust I may not be con- sidered malicious in calling to mind that our armies found some difficulties in carrying out that suggestion, which resulted in such dis- aster that it was to be hoped those who blindly advocated it would never again dogmatize upon any subject the difficulties of which they neither appreciated nor understood.” He is opposed also to what he terms the other ‘‘im- possible” schemes for forcing specie pay~ meats by a slower process, and genteelly cuts up Mr. Morton's plan. He concludes that if a return to specie values be the only remedy for our financial evils, then there is but one plan by which it can be accomplished—‘‘We must wait’and grow to it.” After taking a very interesting historical re- view of the commercial and financial history of this and other countries, showing the frequent fluctuations in value, suspensions of specie payments, financial crises every few years, general bankruptcies and ruin and widespread distress caused by these, he asks, is it desira- ble for this country voluntarily to return to the old system after we are partially emancipated from it? Altogether, General Butler has taken a bold step in advance of the views of financiers and many of his colleagues in Con- gress. His speech will cteate a flutter among the bondholders, national hanks and capital- ista, and will open the door for great discus- sion, However much his views may be queasy tioned or opposed by thé old school financiers and political economists, there ig no doubt he has strack the chord of popular sentiment, and that he will be recognized as the leader in this new movement for an American system of cur- rency aud finance, Vetoctrepes in THE Park.—The prohibi- tion of velocipedes in the Park by Mr. Green or the Park Commissioners is one of those questionable measures that will hardly be sanctioned by pablic opinion. As a healthful recreation the use of the velocipede is quite a8 beneficial as any outdoor exercise that we are acquainted with, and may be enjoyed at the time of year when other amusements are either out of season or cannot be availed The Commissioners seem to think that the veloci- pede is a terror to horseflesh; byt in our opinion it {s no more so than many other sights of daily occurrence. Horses soon be- come accustomed to the sight of strange ob- jects, and they will soon become so familiar with the velocipede as to exhibit no alarm at ite presence in the Park. When the drives are made wider, particularly on the east side of the Park, there will be ample space for every description of carriage and velocipede without coming in contact with each other. Velocipedes must be allowed to traverse the Park. Why fot? The Park was made for a pleasure ground. Let the peoplo enjoy them- welves thore in their own way. JANUARY 13, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. President Grants First Victory iu Con General Butler's bill (a bombshell ‘in the extreme radical camp) for the repeal of the Tenure of Office law passed the House of Representatives—yeas 121, nays 47—and here follows the list of this reduced out-andeout radical phalanx of 47:— Ames, Maasachusctta. McCarthy, New York. 4 Moron, Kentucky. A Moore Pennayl ivanie. Vania. Benton, New Hampshire. Mullins, Tennessee. Bolea, ss ere Louisiana. Bromwell, Lilinois, Perham, Maine. d, 0) Pike, Maine. Churchill, New York. poland, Vermont. Delano, Ohio. hee ee West Virginia. Ela, New ge ee ponies —_ York. Farnsworth, Illinois, Schenck, Ohi Now Xe York, Shanks, ‘ndiaga. French, ‘orth Carolina, —Sheilaparger, Ohio, Ohio. Stokes, Tennessee, Hard Thinois. ‘Tatte, Nebraska. , Higby, fornia, Trimble, Tennessee, denon node Island, Lae Michigan, ard, New ORK Welker, 0 w fittatnore, 8. Carolina. ce Re York, Kitchen, West Virginia, Latin, New York. These are the forty-seven radicals who had the courage to ‘face the music” of the yeas and nays—that is, to put'their names upon the record in opposition to this repeal, It will be observed (leaving out West Virginia) that in proportion to the whole State delegation of any State Tennessee turns out the largest vote against this repeal; but the Tennessee radicals are of the Brownlow stripe, and cherish such a deadly hostility against Andy Johngon that they would deny him the pleasure of signing this repeal even for the benefit of Grant. New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, from their heavy delegations, furnish, of course, a good share of this negative vote; but their proportion each is less than that of Ohio or Illinois. Strangely enough, Grant's own State, Illinois, from her eleven republican members, furnishes four of the forty-seven, while Massa- chusetis, from her ten republican members, furnishes only one of said forty-seven. From this it would appear that radicalism, bit or miss, is stronger in the West than in the East, and that, excepting the State of Andy Johnson and Parson Brownlow, it is very weak in the South. All the democrats present and voting voted for the repeal in question, and their number is thirty-two. Had they voted with the forty- seven in the negative, however, the repeal would still have been carried by the republi- cans voting in the affirmative, and by ten majority. This first victory of President Grant in Congress, then, gives him the present House without the aid of the democratic guerillas, and in the new House which meets on the 4th of March, though largely made up of the ma- terials of the present, he will be still stronger. At the beginning of Johnson’s administration had the democrats stuck to the republican con- servatives they would have given Johnson the victory ; but they played into the hands of Old Thad Stevens, and this disgusted the mode- rate republicans and drove them over to Ste- vens en masse, But Grant will be too strong for any such democratic bushwhacking, and so the best course for the democrats, we guess, will be to follow the lead of Butler ; for, though not very successful in the art of war, Butler is a first rate general of the old democratic school in the strategy and tactics of the politician. The extreme radicals arg afraid of Butler, They tried their utmost to shelve him in the late faction fight in his district, but he was too much for them. Now they have reason to fread more than ever. We may be sure that he has some grand pro} chalked out for the turning of the re Fopiblican ‘patty by a short cut into a new channel—some grand idea like that of turning the James river by his Dutch Gap canal. That Dutch Gap canal was a grand idea, and though not yet quite finished, it will be, and when finished it will last to the end of time. In short, Butler is a man of grand political ide: and comprehensive schemes on a short pen Se has shown himself in Congress the very man, on a new tack, to take the place of Old Thad. Stevens. There will, we suspect, be a desperatedetruggle by the faithful to head him off; but Butler, in plant- ing himself by the side of President Grant, has shown that already the game Is in his hands, Tn Rogers Murper.—The man who wrote the letter to “James Logan, by the hand of Tom,” knows what James Logan he meant it for, and if he meant it for the James Logan in custody the next question will be did James Logan ever receive it? for this will help to de- termine whether the pocket ip which the letter was found was. 's pocket or the pocket of the bearer of the letter. The writer of the letter may be able to help us here also; for he may have received some answer to {fi ~ Have the police made a satisfactory hunt at Logan's home for the letter itself? Only the envelope was ee Where is the letter? Tae Lao ASD ‘ALL STREET.— pinay gmp Rex Dona Prsscay i The ent of Legislature poste pones action with reference to Erie and New York Central, Wall street oper like to see the rubbish of the Senatorial contest clearéd away, so that there may be a clear field for the great railwag fight. Mr, Robigeon’s Me Mr. Robinson, of Brooklyn, well known as ‘Richelieu Robinson, “s honored two years ago by being elected to Congress, having changed from « whig to a democrat. Regarded as an important accession to the democratic party, great things were expected of him. But he soon go fat overshot the mark by unfolding the wildest and most visionary projects that it was deemed wise to replace him by a more practical if less sanguine successor. It is natural enough that before retiring to private life ‘“Richeljeu Robinson” ehould concoct some scheme, however impracticable, which should serve to identify his name with the interests of New York and Brooklyn, This suffices to account for the bill introduced by him on Monday in the House of Representa- tives, read twice and referred, Tho bill pro- vides for the improvement of the harbor of New York by removing obstructions there- from and for the erection of substantial plers and docks on the water front of New York and Brooklyn, appropriating to these purposes five million dollars per annum from January 1, 1869, Now it would be right for Congress to assist in securing the removal of the obstructions at Hell Gate and in other improvements of New York harbor, inasmuch as the commerce of the whole country would ius be benefited, But desirable as the erection of substantial piera and dooks on the water front of New York and Brooklyn would be—and we have often demonstrated the necessity, which is daily becoming more urgent, for such an important improvement—this is altogether within the pro- vince of the State and of the cities immediately sin in it, Congress has no more juris- iction over these piers and docks than over the improvement of the streets leading to them. We must therefore look upon Mr. Robinson's bill, which he must have known to be imprac- ticablo because it contemplates objects beyond the province of Congress, as merely “‘a bid for buncombe,” A Goop Sian rrom tHe Sovrn.—The Albany (Ga.) News congratulates itself upon the decided falling off in the number of vagrant freedmen in the streets, most of them having contracted and gone home to commence the year’s work. This can be ascribed to one particular cause above ‘all others; there is ‘no material political agitation in the interior of the South at this time, and the negroes, being freed from the craft and tricks of rascally politicians, naturally yearn for the comforts of the ‘‘snug little cabin on the old plantation.” Let the blackies alone and they will come out all right. Ben Borier ano THE Gory GAMBLERS.— The redoubtable General and Congressman created a flurry in Wall street by his bill and speech. On the expectation of the latter gold jumped up a clean half per cent, which isa good deal for these times, but settled a little when the full tenor of his plans was made known, Matrimony iv InpiaNa.—The Indianapolis Journal states that no marriage licenses were issued on a certain day. Number of divorces not given. Trade with Canada—The Reciprocity . Humbug. We publish to-day a report on the commer- cial relations of the United States and Canada, made by Israel T, Hatch, the commissioner of the American government in the reciprocity matter, in response toa resolution of Congress. It contains some interesting and important facts in relation to the reciprocity question, now invested with new interest by the strong lobby movement on foot to secure the restoration of the old treaty, and makes an elaborate com- parison between the value of the route from the northwest, via the St. Lawrence, through Canada, and that by way of the lakes, the Erie Canal and the Hudson river to the sea- coast at New York. The old Reciprocity treaty was a swindle upon our government. It was all turkey for the Canadians and none for our own people. While it was in existence the Canadians stuck to their exclusive or referential system of com- merce on all points not covered by the treaty. ‘They compelled manufacturers on this side who depended on Canada as a market for their wares to remove to the province, and they dis- criminated against our boats on their canals, They have discriminating laws in fevor of a railroad through our own territory, but made subservient to their commercial ambition and exclusive profit, to the prejudice of other lines through the United States and to the great injury of the merchants of this and our other Atlantic cities, The report shows that while the so-called Reciprocity treaty was io existence we col- lected only seventy-five thousand dollars annually in duties—a sum less than the expense of collecting it and guarding an inland frontier some six thousandemiles in extent. On the other hand, Canada during that period col- lected annually between one million and a half and two million dollars on the products of American labor. For the two fiscal years since the abrogation of the treaty we have collected fourteen mil- lion dollars, or seven millions annually, in duties, and the trade with Canada has in- creased rather than diminished. These facts place the renewal of the treaty out of the question as a practical measure, and will ren- der all the efforts and expenditure of the Canadian government and their hired lobby at Washington useless. All our representatives are required to do is to let the British pro- vinces alone and treat them as we treat all other foreign nations. When.they come to us as an independent republic fur free trade, or when they become part and parcel of our gov- erpment the question will be different. At present we should have just the same com- mercial relations with Canada as we have with the home government, The report presents some sound and sen- sible views on the question of inland com- merce, and elucidates the true State and national policy, that “the right of way is the right of the million,” and that no part of the Union can justly levy tolls or tribute gn the products of other States passiog yrs it. The conclusion is thet as soon as the Erie canal debt shall be paid navigation from th radical organ of thie great city! It complains that Butler's repeal “sprang” on Congress and “rushed it debate.” It strikes tis that people ought to be familiar with that process by this time. This “springing” and “roshing” legislation was the only kind we had during all the radical domination under the lead of Old Thad, and the radical organs did not object toit then. We congratulate the radical organ upon having again got into its natural plage with the minority of forty- seven. For some years it has been with the majority, which is the only place in the world where fanatics are completely and absolutely out of their element. It has accordingly been uncomfortable and dull. Now it is at home again, and we expect some amusement from it. Ir Mave Toe Sick.—The Bohemians who “analyzed” and otherwise tried Delmonico's whiskey complained that it made them sick, No doubt of it. Their stomachs were used to another gort of article, Men who train on the red eye of the Bohemian taps are always upset by good whiskey. Fam Stock Axp Overa Bovrre.—The latest enterprise of the Erie clique is an investment in opéra bouffe, which entertain- mont is to be afforded by way of variety to the ‘fittle game” in Wall treet, ‘The Advantage to Murderers. Hanging, if successful—that is, if it break man’s neck—is the most sudden death he can die, It ruptures the spine in the imme- diate neighborhood of the medulla oblongata, and thus breaks up the communication :of the , nerve force or vital power to the organs that carry on the human machinery. If the man's neck is not broken the first action of the cord is to close the trachea, or windpipe, and thus stop the supply of air. It also compresses the large veins in'the neck which returh blood to the heart—the jugulars—but does not en- tirely compress the large arteries that carry blood to the brain, for these lie deeper. The immediate physiological effect is a congestion of the brain—a congestion not dissimilar in ita commencement from the congestion of drunk- enness, which is generally regarded as agree- able, and the consequence of this congestion— ® consequence that perhaps follows.in throe . minutes after the pressure of the cord is folt— , is the total abolition of conscious sensation. The man may struggle and writhe in way. terrible. to see, but these struggles are like those of convulsions generally—painful only to the beholder. Therefore, if « man is hanged. successfully he feels only the one sickening sensation of the plunge before he gets to the end of the rope—three seconds of horror. if he is hanged unsuccessfully, by strangulation, he feels the same three seconds, and in addition, between the pressure of the cord and deep congestion of the brain, three minutes of swimming, drowsy, uncertain uneasiness—at the worst, three minutes and three seconds; and this is all we give of misery to murderers, Compare with this the pain that man suffers before he dies from any ordinary illness, the drawn out wretchedness of his three weeks of fever, the days of agony with rheumatism and the bent forward, restless nights before thia rheumatism finally brings his damaged heart to a standstill, the months of slow death en- tailed by a cancerous stomach; {a fine, com- pare the history of any fatal disease with the short shrift of hanging, and then reflect that our humanity now obliterates the murderer's three minutes and three seconds by the use of chloroform. Really it is a fine age, and if a man is tired of this world and wants to get out of it on easy terms the thing for him to dq is to cut his neighbor's throat and be hanged— under chloroform. Inrerestine From Cusa.—Our cable de- spatches from Havana this morning will be found interesting. General Dulce has issued, an amnesty proclamation, which releases all) political prisoners, terminates all trials fot. political offences now in progress and holdg out unconditional pardon to all insurgents who lay down their arms within forty days. In thi meantime we learn that the insurrecti were closely pressing the siege of Neuvil and that the garrison had turned one of the churches into a fortress. A detachment, sent by land for the relief of the garrison, was de- feated by the insurgents, who, it seems, have no artillery, but are well supplied with Spen? cer rifles. It thus appears that Ge Dulce’s path in the “ever faithful isle” is strewn with roses, however amiable pacificatory he may personally be. The ish may be ‘‘ever faithful"—but to whom? Th is a question the future will solve, Pier, Parr, Pourr! Bim, Bam, Boum!— General Bateman ‘has sold out upon “very advantageous terms” all his opéra bouffe com4 pany, wardrobe, music and properties (ani+ mate and inanimate) prime donne, secondéd donne, tenor, bassi, ballet, coryphees, supes, spangles, leggings and tights—‘‘hook and line, bob and sinker”—to Mr James Fisk, Jr. Hrit—~ General Bateman. nter—Major General Fisk. Forty-stvgn.—Johneon started in his Presi, dcfitial career with forty-seven savage radicals to fight, and by his own stupidity drove all Congress over to the side of the forty-seven, Grant will start with the same number against him—start the same as Johnson did; but woe doubt if he will reinforce the forty-seven by similar blunders. Grocers and the Bokewlan Poko- noses. ‘The prompt and effective measures adopted by the slandered grocers and traders in this city to bring to account their Bohémian maligners are having their proper effect. Tha organ of these Ubellers has suddenly ceased its attacks, just as the radical did somo time ago, after their wholesale onslaught upom the corner groceries and feed beer aed when they found they ¢ould not Germah The Irish or eda hh wp aad the radical ticket, is more than {insinuated that these @ the were inspired by similar motives, either pai ry ahaa {nto the of certain Political preferment or in revenge for mee bE Aarne ever was the miotive, be good or bad, sound ithe il or alan Ge andtbe acl jpon private business and dom habits! which these Bohemian « pam pares trams hen Ke int tome eg pcg possible to conceive mote and ¢ontemptible business than that whi these Bohemian libellers have been en; in. It i@ sneak-thieving in its shabbiest phase. They enter @ man’s storé, and uw false pretences first secure his goods afd th attempt to rob him of his reputation, coffe cluding the despfeable campnign by a black+ mail raid all round, For example, upon false representations they obtain samples of a deal- er's goods—whether flour, sugar, tea, coffee, liquors, or anything else, it is all the same—it will answer their purpose. They go to some sas pient chemist and have these samples analyzed; they gloat and revel over the result; they rush or stagger to the printing office, and the type is not large enough wherewith to display their appalling discoveries, Every man, woman and child in the city is drugged, poisoned, enten up internally with devouring worms. Fiery- headed and copper-headed animaloulm, sugar scorpions, whiskey rattlesnakes, brandy toads: and lizards, stinging centipedes, wriggling velocipedes touched up with adulterated pepper on their jury radders, and horned frogs, owls, bats, bugs and spidera are in everything. ‘The population shriek for antidotes. ‘These devil’s-broth Bohemians yell Pickles! The worm-eaten community