The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1869, Page 4

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The steady increase in the circulation of the ‘Heracp has forced us to bring into use all our ‘press facilities, which now enable us te throw off eighty-five thousand “copies of the Hrgatp per hour. Newsmen and carriers who have hereto- fore found delay in receiving their papers will in future have their orders executed at a much earlier hour. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Datty Hzraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quatter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Herap at the same price it is furnished in the city. THE NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated January 15. The Alabama treaty, on the basis of the original protocol, has been signed by.Mr. Johnson and Ear! Clarendon. It was thought that the Conference on the Eastern question would be brought to & close yesterday. The Grectan government will itis reported, reject the decision of the Conference if certain conditions of the Turkish witimatum are supported by that body. All the great Powers, Russia excepted, have united in a demand on Greece to withdraw her for- mal Objections to the Conference as at present con- stituted. The elections for members of the Spanish Constitu- tional Cortes have commenced. Another conspiracy has been detected in Spain. A number of prominent generals have been arrested. Paraguay. By Atlantic cable we learn that Lopez’s army at Villeta was utterly routed and destroyed by a ‘vigorous attack of the allies on his stronghold, 3,000 prisoners being captured, and Lopez himself, with about 200 followers, barely making his escape. Villeta being taken opened the way to Asuncion, whither the allied fieet was going. A Paraguayan account states that the allies lost 6,000 killed and wounded, General Argollo being among the killed, in @ fight on the 5th ult, General McMahon was in the Paraguayan camp and a good understanding existed beyween him and Lopez. 4 Mexico. We have telegraph advices from Mazatian to the “th inst. A revolution, to be leg either by Martinez or Placido Vega, is imminent since the departure of General Corona for the capital. Seflor Gonzales Ortega, aided by Negrete, Quiroga, Vargas and Canales, is reported rising to reassert his claims fo the Presidency. The aim of the revolutionists jer Martinez or Vega will be to establish a Pe! republic of the Occiaent, under the pro- tecylon of the United States. Cuba. ~ accounts of small skirmishes between the belligé- renta are received, but nothing decisive is reported. Japan. ‘The capture of the city of Hakodadi by the rebels is reported. St. Thomas. * Our dates are to January 2. The Murphy brothers have recommenced their efforts on the sunken pteamer Columbian, and are now confident of rais- ang her in a short time. The new St. Thomas Bank Duilding is completed, and the oficials have already dnstatied themselves in it, Busmess continues very dull, and there is great anxiety felt that the Ameri- cans should take possession of the tsland. Venezuela. A letter from St. Thomas, under date of the 2d, aays:—By the arrival of a schooner at this port we Jearn that matters still remain quiet at Laguayra and Porto Cabelio. There was more activity manifested in trade, and coffee is coming regularly into the Ca- racaa market. The prices were somewhat lower in consequence of favorable advices from Europe. Congress. In the Senate yesterday the Judiciary Commiitee reported adversely on the bill to enforce the constitu. tional amendment abolishing slavery, and also a number of bills relative to universal suffrage. Mr. Stewart, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a constitutional amendment declaring the right of colored citizens to vote and hold office in any State, and asked to have the committee discharged from * further consideration of it, The usnal debate occur- red on the claims of Miss Marphy, of Alabama, and the whole subject was recommitted to the Committee on Claims. After which the Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House a bill to incorporate a university for the blind tn the District of Columbia was latd on the table. The consideration of the Niagara Ship Canal bill was resumed, and, after general discussion, it ‘was referred to the Committee of the Whole bya vote of 81 to 60. The House then adjourned until if — In the Senate jay @ memorial from the New York City Ui jand Railway Company was pre- sented asking’an amendment to theircharter. The committee investigating the allege! over issue of stock by the New York Central and Mnd- son River Rallrosd coripanies made a re- port and asked for instructions, whereupon the whole subject was Isid om the table by a vote of 14to 18. Bills to rebuild Washington Market; to regulate fare on railrords, and to complete the quarantine buildings on the west bank were noticed. A resolution providing for action upon nominations of notaries public and for business in executive ses- sion was adopted. A motion declaring that the standing) committees as at present constituted act through the present session was adopted. A bill for the construction of certain 1ailroads across Harlem river and through New York city was presented, and also a bill amending the Excise law. The Senate then adjourned until Monday. In the Assembly a petition from citizens of New York for a central underground railway was pre- sented. Bills were introduced to appoint additional notaries public; to regulate the leasing of stalls the New York city markets; to amend the law cre- ating a Metropolitan Fire t; relative to the Marine Court of New York, and to amend the act reorganizing the Port Wardens’ office of New York. ‘The Assembly then adjourned until this morning. Miscellaneous. . Very few additional particulars have been ob- tained concerning the wreck of the steamship Gulf City. A list of the oMicers so far as known will be found elsewhere in our columns, but as the seamen were all shipped on board instead of by a shipping firm it is impossible to obtain an accurate list of them. It seems, however, that there were only three Passengers on board. A tubular boiler in a turning shop in Elizabeth, N. J., exploded yesterday, and was driven through the air 200 feet into a hardware store, falling upon the heads of two men, who were almost instantly killed. Three others were seriously and perhaps fatally injured, while several received severe contu- sions. a The Virginia Committee and the Judiciary Com- mittee have had several conferences upon the recon- struction of Virginia, and have apparently agreed upon a bill to admit the State on the adoption of the constitution with the obnoxious disfranchisement and test oath clauses stricken out. A general amnesty bill will probably follow the passage of the one thus agreed upon. ‘The gold medal ordered by Congress was present- ed to Captain Creighton, at Norfolk, on Wednesday. is, an offensive or defensive war unit—we are atill smaller, » But how does all this affect internal trade as It is evident that as regards great centres? the country becomes compact in its communi- cations there will be a resultant centralization towards certain points which must control com- merce. These points in the days of cart roads were necessarily very numerous and in size proportioned to trade facilities. Now the great centres are few in number, but stride onward to immense proportions, making them - in/| selves the great foci of exchanges and the clear- ing houses for a vast territory around them. As the emall towns and cities require central points of exchange, where they meet to regulate commerce, so do great cities require some im- mense commercial emporium, which they elect 4s a great central point for general interchange of commercial ideas and the more perfect gov- erning of trade. This point thus elected is New York ; but of the commerojal centres which are rising to be only second to our great city in exterior and interior trade, we have Portland, Philadelphia, Charleston and New Ori on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and San pence. on the Pi Portland is the natural outlet of nearly all Canada epd competes favorably with any seaport for our owp Northwest trade, while it is much nearer cipal port we possess. Ag r Charleston, when she learns that she is as near, if not nearer, the great West than New York, she will commence a rapid march to commercial great- ness. Ofthe interior small and great cities we need not speak. The same laws govern them. They pay tribute to the secondary cen- trea, and these to New York, which appears to be elected now, not only by the United States, It is said to have cost about $1,600. A little girl in Paterson, N. J., died on Thursday night from eating candy supposed to have been col- oréd with poisonous matter. The City. George Francis Train delivered a lecture at Cooper Institute last night on “Ireland’s Prospects for Lib- erty.”” Fred Douglass also delivered a lecture at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on ‘William the Silent.” Inspector Leonard, of the Metropolitan Poliée force, died very suddenly yesterday afternoon at his residence in West Twenty-second street. He had just left the table, where he had been dining with some of his intimate friends. An inquest will pro- babjy be held to-day. In the United States District Court yesterday, be- fore Judge Blatchford, the case of the United States vs. Blaisdell and others on a charge of violations of the Internal Revenue law was continued, and at the rising of the court at four o’clock was adjourned till eleven o’clock Monday morning. Inthe case of David Lichtenheim, charged with levying Diackmafl in his capacity of an internal revenue inspector, some further evidence was taken before Commissioner Owen, and the case was ad- Journed till Wednesday next. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, City Jadge Gunning S. Bedford, Jr., presiding, Garret Baldwin, who pleaded guilty to an assault to do bodily harm upon police officer William Robinson, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, was sentenced to the State Prison for five years. The Inman line steamship City of New York will sail from pier 45 North river at two P. M to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool}, and the mails will close atthe Post OMce at twelve M., instead of half-past six A. M., as’originally intended. The stock market yesterday was a repetition of the previous day in the features of opening strength suc- ceeded by large sales and a decline of prices. New York Central was again active on account of re- ports from Albany. Gold closed at five o’clock with the quotation 1361; a 136%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor James E. English, of Connecticut; H. C. Lord, of Cincinnati, and E. P, Ross, of Auburn, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Count Colobriano, of the Italian Legation, 1s at the Ciarendon Hotel. Count Joel Zabriskie, of Mexico, and L. E. Plumb, of Waterbury, Conn., are at the Westmoreland Hotel. General J. Kilpatrick, of the United States Army ; General W. H. Macartney, of Boston, and E. H. Caldwell, of Colorado, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. B. Buffum, of Proviaence; B. F. Hopkins, of Wisconsin, and W. B. Briscoll, of Connecticut, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. George Maynard, of Boston; Charles M. Folke, of Philadelphia ; B. M. Brockett, of Hartford, and N. E. Baker, of Pennsylvania, are at the Hoffman House. Old and New Methods of Centralizing Trade—Railroad vs. Cart Road. There are certain laws working in our trade development which, despite any opposi- tion to them, gain the mastery and shape our future. It is well that these governing trade principles should be well understood, as by a proper knowledge of their workings legislation may give them greater value and direct them in such a manner that we may make still greater progress under them. When the discovery was made that a rail- road could transport a ton of goods for one and a half cents per mile, while the cost by @ common cart road was and is about fifteen cents per ton per mile, it was fact Mitac gut he ge tpkide down and set the World In motion. It started looms into new action; it enhanced the value of land through- out the country ; it set the farmer to produc- ing; it created supplies which 4 led ex- changes ; it made people acquainted with each other and broke down old notions‘and jeal- ousies. Distance ceased to have effect upon commercial honesty, and exchanges became rapid and certain. Just in proportion to the cost of railway transportation to that upon a common road was our Continent compressed, so far as immediate cost is concerned; but in breaking down dis- tances the saving has been far greater. A ton of freight goes rapidly upon a cart road if it averages twenty miles per day. Upon a rail- road it may easily average four hundred miles per day—that is to say, twenty times the speed of the olden time, Tf, now, we apply these facts we find that in time and for freighting purposes our Continent is about eight days wide. Eight days of good cart road in old times was one hundred and sixty miles. Under the best circumstances the distance could not be greater. Here, there- fore, we demonstrate that our territory is much smaller in all the great and governing features of political stability and centralization than that of any first class Power which existed in Europe thirty years since, If to this we add the centralizing force of the telegraph we shall still more compact the mass and place our greatest territorial extreme within very easy reach. Taking the average width of our terri- tory now at eight days’ travel and the average length at three days, and comparing this with the year 1830, with twenty ‘miles per day ge «common road, we find that, 80 far as distance affects internal commerce, we have in the United States to-day but nine thousand six hundred square miles of territory— about one-half the territorial area of Denmark and but two-thirds that of the Swiss Confede- ration. In the transportation of a man—that but by Europe as the world’s commercial focus, Herein is a great lesson for consideration. The recognition of all this is an acknowledg- ment that legislation should be fitted to it and should be governed by it. Let not legislation suppose that laws should be shaped to govern these principles, but rather seek for the laws that exist in them and then adapt our own gov- ernment to them. This will show true states- manship, and this is what we now most need, else the laws will clash with material facts, and the latter, always the victor, will upset the government that interferes with them. Tre ALABAMA TREATY SiGNED.—We learn by cable despatch from London, dated yes- terday, that the treaty between the United States and Great Britain relative to the Alabama claims has been signed by the American Minister and the British Foreign Secretary, on the basis of the original proto- col. This, we presume, refers to the appoint- ment of a commission on the part of both governments, whose duty it shall be to con- sider the merits of the different claims and adjudge accordingly. It does not appear that there are substantial grounds for the report that the claims are to be offset by those of British subjects against the United States, although it is not unlikely that that point may be pressed at some period during the progress of the deliberations of the commission. Tae News rrom Cusa.—Our correspond- ence from Havana, published to-day in another column, will be found very interest- ing. General Dulce had inaugurated the new policy of government, but sufficient time had not elapsed to indicate its effect upon the pub- lic mind. The revolutionary movements have made no progress westward since our last ad- vices, arid the only event of importance which we find in our chronicle from the seat of war isan order of Sefior Figueredo, the revolu- tionary Governor of the village of Cobre, which confirms the reported proclamation of emancipation by General Cespedes. In the new programme of General Dulce freedom of the press, the right of public meeting, with free speech, and representation in the Cortes, are the chief points of concession by Spain. Tue Fat or Paracvay.—It will be seen by our telegraphic despatches by cable that Lopez has been driven from his second strong- hold at Villeta, and is reported to have escaped to the mountains with only a few hundred followers, while the Brazilian iron-clads have gone to Asuncion. This may end the war, but we doubt it. Lopez has shown so much pluck in the contest that we incline to believe he will carry out his threat of making a guerilla war against the allies. Toe Bit ror tHe Rewer or Mrs. Lix- coun.—The bill introduced in the e by Mr. Morton, of Indiana, for the relief lary Lincoln, widow of the late President Lincoln, rests upon good foundation. It is presetited in the shape of a claim for s pension due to the widow the Commander- in-Chief of the army of the United States, slain by the enemy while acti capacity of the head of the Union fotces; and in this shape we presume there will be no objection to the pension proposed in either house. Mr. Sumner suggested that the annual allowance to the widow be fixed at five thou- sand dollars, and the committee to which the bill has been referred need have no fear that this will be too much. Considering the high prices of living during and since the war, the Progident’s salary of twenty-five thousand dol- lars is a pitiful sum; considering the fact that the untimely death of President Lincoln cut off his family from the benefits of nearly a whole term of four years; and considering the good name, honor and dignity of the govern- ment of the United States, this relief bill should be passed without chaffering and without delay. Agracefal thing loses half its merit if not gracefully done. Geren on VeLootrrves.—Velocipedes can goin the Park, it seems, only they cannot go on the drives, because there they would frighten the horses. They are permitted on the pro- menades because the worst they can do there is to run down women and children, Wouldn't it be nearer right the other way? Women and children are sure to be hurt by the velocipedes on the promenades, and itis only a notion that they would be hurt by the fright of the horses. SmasHine THe Winpows,—What millions of property are spread in view up Broadway, with no other protection than the panes of glass in front and the fear of the policeman round the corner, who, after all, is not always around the corner, One robber smashed the glass the other day, but was caught. It is a wonder the plan is not oftener tied. in the |, The Work at Hell Gate. The work at Héll Gate progresses as well as can reasonably be ted. The con- tractors are trying the Shelbourne diamond pointed drill. So far they have met with great success, having up to yesterday drilled two holes six feet in depth through very hard tock, The hole of yesterday was put down in an hour and twenty minutes, the drill work- ing in thirty-five feet of water. This marks quite an era in engineeringscience, In the |.celebrated Mont Cenis tunnel, now nearly fin- ished and piercing the Alps, drills worked by water power have been used with great suc- cess. Generally, however, machine drills, whether worked by hand or by steam, have been a failure, it having been found that the cost of working them has exceeded that of the ordinary hand drill. The machine now in use at Hell Gate, if it still continues to work well, will very quickly remove the obstructions there and prepare a new era in our commer- cial history as a great metropolis. Instead of our being jammed up in the lower part of the island our commertial interests will take a strong foothold op the eastern side, facing Long Island Sound. Through this sound, with one hundréd and twenty miles of safe peare rope, nearly a Ad ¥ are, more- ai ting a problém of worldwide ae in removing these rock obstructions, for if sdocessful it will lead to siniflar efforts in the en and within the harbors of different parts of thie world. ek ee Comme TrovsLe mf Mexico.—Our tele- graphic advices from Ma: indicate the of anew révolution in Mexico, with & design of establishing an independent re- public in the nérthwestern portion of: that country, to extend from Tepic to the United States'line. All our advices from Mexico for some time past have indicated a growing weakness in the federal government, and we shall not be surprised to see President Juarez soon surrounded with great complications. The increase of our Pacific empire is exercis- ing ah adverse influence on the power of Mex- ico in its western States, and the debility of the national government at this time is too great to resist it. THe GREEKS AND THE TuRKS.—Few things in modern times have occurred so completely convincing of the power of impudence as the course which Greece has taken in the Paris Conference on the Eastern question. Greece, which thinks she is as good as Italy any day, asks why she does not receive from the Ameri- can press the same encouragement which Italy received? The answer is obvious. Italy made out a case which Europe and America understood. Greece, which has had a chance since 1821, has failed to do the same. Greece since that date has been a European baby, and Europe and America have been walting to know why they should continue to nurse her, bui have failed tofind a good reason. We speak a good word for the Greeks when we say that they should think less of their pockets and more of their country. The Greeks know what this means, and this is enough. Let them think of it and act accordingly. Learn they must. OpENInG FOR A SpROIAL CONGRESSIONAL CommrrrEE.—The Detroit /ree Press remarks that “had Charles M. Rogers been murdered in the streets of a Southern city, in broad day- light, as he was in the city of New York, Con- gress would have appointed a committee to investigate the matter.” We have no objec- tion to a Congressional committee investigat- ing the mystery attending this murder. But the trouble is that such a committee, following precedents, would only make the mystery more «mysterious, the muddle muddler. Con- gressional investigating committees have damaged the interests of the government and the revenue in their investigations of the whiskey rings, the fraud rings and various other rings they have had in charge. It would be difficult to predict what they would realize from a murder ring. Wuat Arg Tuey Arraiw Or ?—It is said that the committee who called the republican cau- cus for the nomination of United States Sena- tor have decided to exclude the representa- tives of the press from the Assembly chamber during the cancus to-night. This is an un- usual proceeding. The caucus for Speaker was held with open doors, and there appears to be no fair and honest reason why that course should be deviated from in this case. No event of greater interest to the people of this State has ocourred for some time than the nomi- nation for United States Senator. The nomina- tion is made equal to an election by the constitu- tion of the two houses, a joint republican majori- ty existing. Can it bo possible that the oorrup- tion with which the republicans are openly charged in this matter of a Senator is be #o flagrantly practised on the floor that they are afraid to allow the reporters to see what members put their hands behind their backs ? Curious Corcipence.—The Grand Army of the Republic claims not to be a political but a purely benevolent and patriotic body, yet by a singular coincidence it holds its conven- tion in Albany just at the time when the strife for the United States Senatorship is at Its height. It is said, too, that many of its mem- bers give more attention to the rooms of the politicians than to the conventional hall of the Order. Why not call themselves the ‘Grand Army of the Republicans” at once? Mextoan Treaties Returnep.—Mr. Plumb, ex-Secretary of Legation in Mexico, has returned from there with the ratified copies of two of the Seward-Romero treaties. The treaties ratified are the one referring to claims against Mexico, and that on the subject of “naturalization,” &c. The third treaty stands no chance of consideration during the present session of the Mexican Congress. Caruressxess.—One of the sources of the Brooklyn water was permitted to be drained the other night, the water running to waste by the malice of some straggler. There is some- thing wrong when such an occurrence is pos- sible, Such points as the floodgate at Jamaica should be guarded night and day. Troma tx AvBANY.—The Boston Post atates that Albany is afflicted with trichioa. It is @ mistake. Albany is only troubled just now with the tricks of politicians on the Sena- tesial question. NEW YOKK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1869. ‘The =evors which we published on Friday of day evening at the annual meeting of the Bos- ton Social Science Association shows that our which are at work to raise the price of food— &@ question of social science in which every- exorbitant freight tariffs which, people shall take some action them, will increase to such a rate as ® famine in New England. “To- day,” he said, ‘‘a few men like Fisk, Vander- bilt and Drew hold the keys to the great West- em granary, and we can get supplies only at their bidding.” He showed how forty-four millions in Western railroad stock had been issued by the railroad corporation, and that the consumers at the East were obliged to pay the additional tariff necessary to meet the dividend declared on the fictitious stock. He cited the action of the Massachusetts Legislature for- bidding the issue by the Boston and Albany Railroad of additional stock unless the cash therefor was actually paid in, and stated that alike action by the Legislature of New York and a few other States would materially cheapen the necessaries of life. We agree with Mr. Quincy in denouncing railway mono- polies, telegraph monopolies and all other monopolies prejudicial to the individual and social rights of the people. s Runaway Horszs.—Is it true that horses are more addicted to running away here than elsewhere? The other day a correspondent stated in the Heraxp that horses in London and in Paris did not run away, and that this was an equine vice almost peculiar to the horse ‘on this side the ocean. Do the horses also get an American disposition to ‘‘take the respon- sibility,” and that eagerness to “‘go it on their own hook” that characterizes even the tender- est age of humanity among us? Or is it that they merely abuse that confidence which perhaps an American more than any other reposes in their intelligence and docility? We believe that horses are seldom lefi to stand alone in the streets elsewhere so much as here, and this is the origin of three out of four of these accidents. More TiokEy Sprgcuration.—Plymouth church keeps itself before the speculative pub- lic. ‘‘Sittings in the evening at Plymouth church are advertised at sixteen dollars each the year.” This, we suppose, is the market report of the retail trade in piety. The heavy dealers, the moneyed men, went to the auction the other day and bought the pews by the year, as the grocers go to the coalyard and buy coal by the ton; and now they advertise the sale of single seats for a single service‘‘ to realize,” just as the same grocers distribute their ton of coal by the peck and the pailful. Rient at Last.—Recently it was ordered that the cavalry of the First division should be dismounted—no one knew why. It now turns out that the horses are given the go-by as obso- lete animals,and this order was only a prelimi- nary to mounting the whole First division—on velocipedes. Velocipede drills by company and regiment are to begin at once, and the first velocipede parade down Broadway will take place on Washington's birthday. Tune— “The American Boy.” i A Sare Tuina—The monstrous safe, six feet by six, which was rolled into the Delavan House, at Albany, just preceding the arrival of Marshall O. Roberts. The crowd of politi- cians obsequiously bowed the monster through their lines in the hall and no doubt measured at a glance its exact capacity. The significance of its arrival just in advance of the great “third man” was noted by many a nod and wink and nudge of the elbow. It looked like business. Bouyixe Votes ror Unitep Stares Sena- tor.—A Michigan paper states that buying members of the New York Legislature, in con- nection with the Senatorial contest, is called “‘mercantile negotiations for votes.” In this view we are not surprised at the number of commercial travellers now on their way to Albany. Ove Rossine Jos Squetcurp.—The Niagara Ship Canal bill has been virtually defeated in the House of Representatives by its reference to the Committee of the Whole by a vote of eighty- one to sixty. Thisisa good beginning. Now let Congress go to work and smash up other thieving lobby rings that infest the capital. Taz Most Imporrant DgraRTMENT IN THe SgnatortaL Campaign—The Paymas- ter’s Department. Frye Fert ann Fantastic Tors.—The beauty of the city is in the air these nights, whirling on fantastic toes that keep the deli- rious measure of dance masic. There are pub- lic balls in every hall of every society and private balls in every other house. So many exquisitely beautifal feet as are making the mazes on ballroom floors in Gotham any of these nights cannot be seen elsewhere in the world. Too Snorr.—The woman's petition to Con- gress for suffrage in the District of Columbia was only four yards long. Disgraceful brevity! They should have had Sumner to write it. A Vinrve or Necessity.—Henri de Bour- bon has come out in favor of a republican form of government in Spain. Gir rom THe Raptoat Nessvs—Carl Schurz. YACHTING. The yacht Henrietta, Which left this porton the 90th of December, with General Van Allen and party on board, bound on an extended pleasure cruise to the West Indies, arrived at Hamilton, Bermuda, on the 6th inst,, after an ordinary passage of elght days. On New Year's day, while in lat, 87 16 and long. 70 75, she experienced a severe gale from the southeast, during which she was struck by a heavy sea, which carried away her jibvoom, but fortunately did no other damage. After having this slight mishap re- patred at Hamilton the Henrietta will proceed upon her cruise to the southward, touching at Barbados and the more prominent keys and islands in the Ca- ribbean Sea and the Guif of Mexico. Itis the inten- tion of General Van Allen to drop into Vera Crus, New Orleans, Key West, Charleston, and other large cities on the Atlantic seaboard, after he has com- | pleted tie cruise in the West ladies, Last evening a lecture was delivered by Mr. Fred Douglass in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the sub- ject being “William the Silent.” The attendance was very limited. The lecturer on coming forward was warmly received. After a few preliminary ‘Dbservations he observed that among the great wars of nations waged to secure liberty, or to defend, protect and maintain the liberty already acquired, there was perhaps no history more important, certainly none more re- markable and thrilling in its details, than that of the Netherlands. During the last half of tne six- teenth century, within the narrow limits of that country, a mere dot upon the map of Europe, 8 country more fitted apparently by nature for am- phibious creatures than for man, and which was now a glorious country, abounding in grand cities and fertile fields, won from the waves of a turbulent sea by the perseverance of the Dutch people, a War was undertaken and carried on for more than seventy years. Before setting sail ‘upon th h of that reli Ean the Nethonandy no doubt leapnie those of political wisdom which they transmitted to their posterity organized into law. The lecturer roceeded to explain the condition of affairs in ot haries V-of Spain, and subsequently wider Fh ip. Ike. He’ described “the ymproms of te land. He ad that cones, refe) to the inquisit! the arrival of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands, contending that his commission e: ts he pict their final Tesistance. They rebelled, but when did so they demonstrated a truth ich tyrants in al) strong to fight. He considered the war between the Netherlands and Spain and that between Engiand and America snsiceots tosome extent, with the ex- ception that in the former independence was not de- clared sae the straggle had terminated. He pic- tured glowing terms the religious per: secutions to which, he en a the goon of the Netherlands had been subjected. Nations were in- variably driven to great cl wh truths presented themselves. one error was followed by the renunciation of another. Those who upheld the principle of aboli- tion were cally right, and the inference ought to be that a black man, being a human being, was a freeman; if a freeman, he ought to have the right to vote, and if so he may go to Congress, and when he to Col there was no telling where he might not go. ye ieee e Netherlanders were disposed to fight Philip without Sghting Philip, as the Union army was disposed to ee slavery without fighting slavery. The last groan of the rebel republic was, ‘Help, Pompey, or I sink.’ (Laughter.) Nothing opened the eyes of nations like war. It was a stern teacher, but an excellent one, and when the eyes of a nation were once really opened it was very difficult to close them, no matter how great the mesmerizer— whether it be a Seymour, Blair or a Johnson. (Laughter.) Mr. Douglass then proceeded to draw a comparison between the forces as they stood ready for - the contest, the great power of Spain, vasty, compact, and alae and the Netherlands weak in force an: divided. Having described the inequality of the contending armies, he pictured the carnage the Netherlands of the people themselves as frightful. The extemporized armies fell eapeay, before the well disciplined forces of Spain. The battle continued, however, and excited not only ad- miration but wonder of t who read the events. With regard to Philip WU. it did not appear that he was by any means bad at heart. On the contrary, he was said to have been an amiable man and very kind to all who ed with him. He only became fierce when his religion was touched. Indeed, a whole congregation might have thelr sensibilities aroused by the appearance of @ single black face at the communion table. (Laughter.) The Netherlands triumphed. After @ struggle of nearly eighty years the Spanish power was weakened, the Spanish rule and determination wavered, flagged and fell, and the pillars of the Dutch republic rose out as a consequence of the failure of the Spanish govern- ment. The contest was one of the marvels of his- tory, considering the odds against which they fought. Among the many actors in the protracted ha gle one great character towered above it his contemporaries, one of the great brothers of mankind upon whom men _ relied and in whose counsel they instinctively trusted. A man as the warrior was only su! by the states- man, the statesman by the philosopher, the phtloso- her by the dauntiess, courageous, persevering Willam of Orange, or William the Silent. The crisis demanded such a man as he proved to be. There was no one element of his character, no one physical accomplishment which he possessed, that could have been spared from the leader of so forlorn a hope. It demanded a man of dignified reticence, and he possessed this ina remarkable degree. He was the statesman that silenced the angry waves of religious contention of the Lutherans, Calvinists and Anal tists. He brought those bodies together to strike down the persecuting hand of Spain. What George Washington was to the thirteen colonies in their tre- mendous struggle against British power, what Tous. saint L’Ouverture was to his people when he freed the beloved isle from Napoleon, and what Abraham Lincoln was to us, William was to the peopie of the Netherlands. Of the three men he had likened William of Orange to he most resembled Abraham Lincoln. (Applause.) He was pre-emi- nently a leader, for it was he who led on the forlorn hope of the Reformation. The speaker dwelt at length bey! the career of William, upon whom he passed the highest eulogy for the part he took in the struggle against the power of Spain. Lincoln stood at the head of a divided people; for it was all the while the united South against the divided North, and it was united Spain against divided Netherlands. Both men had foes in their own household. William had a foe in his; wife she tampered with the traitors and cheered them on. He hardly thought tt wae quite 80, although it was so considered by some. He had a higher opinion of Mrs. Lincoln than most other le. He wished to say of that good woman that dui the early part of the war, notwithstand- t the papers said she was [<4 fetters people loved both men, of an assasin—a wretch to whom on! vious he had irchased the heir together while liberty had a piace on earth. lived to see their work nearly completed. por gene on both men, their attainmenta an — , the lecturer concluded amid applause, IRELAND'S PROSPECTS FOR LIBERTY. George Francis Train delivered the first of a series of lectures on “Ireland's Prospects for Liberty,” at Cooper Institute last evening, before a moderately fairaudience, His remarks were of a rather rambling order, being chiefly confined to greenbacks va. gold, jpeaker Ive of tion of act pay ants ‘tdiaguised inethod of rept: diation; tha’ Ben Butler's recent speech wasa theft of Miss Anthony's programme, but that he adhered to but one plank of it and spotled the whole. He ‘was particularly severe upon the leading American papers, and recommended the Fentan Brotherhood to buy none but the penny papers. He thought the Ame} revolution a failure; that we had gained pollt aration, but we had forgotten to haul down the British fag; that tt stil practically floated. He claims to have introduced the system, and intended to speak one hundred nights and force greenbacks upon boot ge nt ‘That in 1872, with the ald of one miltion Irish yoters, he would contest this country, and that then the women should vote. He concluded by making an exceedingly bitter and amusing eptgram on the British press. . onnemefiacttnneticballitonnne ALLEGED GRAND LARCENY. James Palmer, residing at No. 310 West Twelfth street, was arrested last night by oMcers of the Fit- teenth precinct, charged by Messrs. O'Sullivan & Gray, No, 771 Broadway, with grand larceny and embezzlement. It appears that the accused, who is a carman, and in the empioy of the above firm, had been in the habit, as alleged, of stealing from them articles of ladies apparel, such as cloaks and dresses, for a long time past; but they have only, recently been enabled to obtain facta sufficient to; cause his arrest, Property to the value of $00 wag only recovered from the large quantittes stolen. Palmer will be arraigned befsre Man Shandley at the Jefferson Market Police Court t! morning to answer the charge. “THE WORKINGMEN’S UNION, A reguiar meeting of the Workingmen'’s Union ‘was held at their headquarters, No, 267 Bowery, laat, evening. The President, Mr. W. Jessup, occupied! the chair, The minutes of the read and approved. Some d to the necessity of amendin; it up at a previous m was arrived at, and the matter consideration, The meeting then . ose a ann wR ae 10 WIlte 18 A, S, 5, ASAD AQQOn AAvOT TET