The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1869, Page 6

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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 Datry Heraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. 2 The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this can receive the Heratp at th furnished in the city. arrangement Europe. ‘rhe cable telegrams are dated January 19. The Independance Belge of yesterday says that the protocol adopted by the Paris Conference for the set- tiement of the Eastern question will be submitted to the Greek government for signature, If it is signed Turkey will withdraw its ultimatum; {if not the great Powers will remain neutral and allow events to take their course. The Spanish elections just concluded show that ® monarchical form of government Is that which meets with most favor throughout the country. The republicans, however, have carried a number of the large cities. The London Times of yesterday analyzes the treaty between Great Britain and the United States for the settiement of the Alabama claims. The Pali Mall Gazette,on the same snbject, ex- presses the hope that the English Parliament will not ratify the treaty concluded by Lord Clarendon and Mr. Johnson if the question of the recognition of the Sonthernjconfederacy as belligerents is to be reopened. Napoleon’s latest speech is much applauded by Dearly ali the leading English journals. Congress. In the Senate yesterday the reply of the President to the amnesty resolution was presented, and Senator Ferry said that the inquiry was not an- swered as to the right of the Executive to granta general amnesty. The documents were referred to the Judiciary Committee. A resolution asking for information relative to the extent of the fishing grounds acquired by the purchase of Alaska was adopted. A bill to provide fora mail and emigrant line of steamships between New York and Europe was introduced and referred to the Post OMice Com- mitteer A resolution proposing negro suffrage throughout the Union as an amendment to the constitution was adopted. The consideratton of the Copper bill was then resumed, and, after general debate, was passed, only eleven Senators voting in the negative. An executive session was held. The Smythe and Cummings nominations were not con- sidered and the Engitsh treaties were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The Senate then adjourned. In the House Mr. Robinson tried to get in a resola- tion proffering the use of the hall to George Francis ‘Train, but the regular order of business was insisted upon. A resolution for the printing of 390,000 copies of the report of the Spectal Commissioner of the Revenue was reported, and Messrs. Kelley. Gartield, Jenckes and others argued the matter at conaiferable length. The resolution was adopted. ‘The bill regulating elections in the organized Terri- tories was passer after some debate by a vote of 61 to 6, The Senate bill granting lands to the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company was taken up and generally debated. Mr, Washburne made a strong speech in opposition to it, and at the conciu- sion the House adjournea, The Legistature. In the Sonate yesterday Mr. Pierce abdiilto authorize the Manhatiau © struct an anderground raliway im this ity. Several bills of a local charactér were introduced. Those of more than ordinary interest are to extend to the East India Telegraph Company the provisions of the general telegraph law. At noon the Senate proceeded to elect a United States Senator, the vote being—n. E. Fenton, 15; 11. C, Murphy, 10, and one vote caat for iH. 8. Randa! . Murphy. The proceedings in the House commenced with the election for Senator, Mr. Fenton receiving seventy-three votes and Mr. H. ©. Murphy forty-five. Numerous bills were introduced, among them one to inerease the ‘Df certain members of the Pokce Department ther relative to reports of the New York Court of Special Seasions; to reguiaie freights on milk on ‘ne Harlem Rallroad; reiative go news- paper advertisments and to authorize the consiruc- tion of a soldicrs’ monument in New York. Miscellaneous. ‘ General Grant waa visited yesterday by three deie- gations. ‘The Missiasippt Republican Committee called on matters connected with the reconatruc- tion of that State. and the General told thom, ashe ve notice of uy to con- previously told the Virginia delogates, that he Wanted & speedy settiement of the matter, The “Baltimore City Council delegation cate’ and ten- dered him the hospitalties of the city during his visit there to attend the meeting of the directors of the Peabody Educational Fund. and at their request he said he would probably accept & Feception on Saturday. A colored committee of the National Colored Men's Association also called, aud Mr. Langston, the chairman, congratulated him in the name of the freedmen on his election, and the General assured them that the colored people should have his efforts to secure them the protection of the laws. The Pennsylvania Legislature yesterday ejected John Scott to be United States Senator tn place of Buckalew, The Minnesota Legisiature re-elected Senator Ramsey, and the Maine Legislature elected Hannibal Hamlin in place of Senator Morrill. All the new Senators are republicans. ‘The National Woman’s Rights Convention as- sembled in Washington city yesterday and organized by the election of Mrs. Lucretia Mott as President. Among those present were the usua) feminine ce- lebrities, and, in addition, Senator Pomeroy, Me- nard, the colored Congressman elect from Lousiana, and Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker and Mrs, Harman, both dressed in male aitire. A prayer was offered by Dr, Gray, in which he spoke of woman as having been taken from the rib of man—a proposition from which Mrs. Mots and Mrs, Stanton strongly dis- sented. President Johnson held his first general reception of the season last night, It was the most brilliant, crowded and efective assemblage that has met at the White House for many years. The foreign diplo- matic cofps was largely represented, and an unusual number of distinguished personages, including most of the members of the Cabinet, were present. General Raagloft, Dayish Secretary of War, betn seriously iff at Washington for several die In the Georgia Legislature yesterday a committee, specially appointed, made a report that negroes were eligible to seats, but asked to be discharged from further consideration of the subject on the ground that no recommendation of theirs would fn- duce the rescinding of measures formerly enacted expelling the negro members, Governor Theodore F, Randolph, of New Jersey, was inaugurated at Taylor Hall, Trenton, yesterday, with an imposing military and civic display. The proposed Richmond Convention or mass meet- ing which was called for the tenth of February, to ratify the action of the committee of prominent men of Virginia looking to a modification of the terms of reconstruction, has been postponed until March 17 in order to await Congressional action in the matter. A Catholic prigat of Holyoke, Massachusetts, named Hawking, was flned ten dollars in that town yester- day for an assault and battery on qne, Cornelius O'Leary who had been publicly excommunicated on Sunday. noe Lewis Davis, convicted of the murder of David Skinner, in Independence, Ohio, was sentenced at Columbus yesterday to be executed on the 4th of February, The City. The State Military Association was in session yes- terday at Steinway Hall. Governor Hoffman, by re- solution, was admitted an honorary member. The New York Central Railroad case was up be- fore Judge Ingraham, in the Supreme Court, cham- bers, yesterday, and volumnious affidavits of Corne- lus Vanderbilt, Horace F. Clark and Mr. Schell were read, after which the matter was adjourned until Thursday morning. Margaret Brown, indicted for killing Upton Mur- Tay, her negro paramour, was arraigned in the Court | of General Sessions yesterday. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the third degree, and was sen- tenced by Judge Bedford to imprisonment for three years and six months in the State Prison. The Judge, in passing sentence, commented severely on the degradation of a white woman in living with a black man. In the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Benedict, James McLoughlin was put on trial on an ‘ndictment charging him with perjury in making a certain false affidavit and swearing and subscribing tothe same before a United States commissioner. ‘The trial wall be resumed this morning. ‘The Blaisdell! and Eckel whiskey case oecupted Judge Blatchford and a jury yesterday in the United States District Conrt. The prosecution rested its case and the defence will be opened this morning. A velocipede school has been opened in Brooklyn and the vehicles have invaded Clinton strert, A fire occurred last evening at the Derby Athe- neum No. 680 Broadway, and, although extinguished after very little delay, destroyed or damaged several! valuable works of art, among them Rothermei’s fine picture of “Lincoln’s Last Reception.” Tho loss is $50,000. The Cunard steamship Cuba will sail about eleven o'clock to-lay for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails will close at the Post OMce at half-past nine A.M. The Anchor line steamship Acadia, Captain Lees, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-day for Glasgow direct. The steamship Empire, Captain Price, will leave Pier No. 15 East river at four P. M. to-day for Wash ington and Georgetown, D. C., and Alexandria, Va. The stock market yesterday was variable, and atthe close excited over a fallin New York Cen- tral, which at one time sold up to 166%, and waz forced down to 162 late in the day by a bear attack. Gold was weak, and declined to 135%. Prominent Arrivals ia the City. Governor Hoffman and staff, of Albany; General W. A. Brown, of New York; Congressman F. E. Wood- bridge, of Vermont; Ira Harris, of Albany; N. Thay- er, of Boston, and John H. Clifford, of Massachusetts, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General G. E. Danforth, of Middleburg; Genera! E. 8, Brown, of New York; Captain W. C. Bartlett and Lieutenant King, of the United States Army, are at the Hoffman House. General Sas. B. Almy, of Catskill; Lieutenant Com- mander Davis, of the United States Navy: W. C. Miller, of Ohto, and Colonel W. 8. Fish, of Canada, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Senator L. M. Morrill, of Maine, is at tile Astor louse. oe Geo, ‘A. Logan and Dr. A. Reed, of the United States Army; Dr. J. Dawson, of Toronto, C.W., and Albert V. Hochhetmer, of Frankfort-on-the- Main, are at the St. Charles Hotel. General L. H. Robinson, of Binghamton; General Kent Jarvis, of Ohio; Thos. A. Seott and J. Rdgar Thomson, of Philadelphia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Grant and the Jacobins—Senator Wilson's Scheme, There are six weeks yet remaining to the Fortieth Congress, There is a heavy calendar of bilis and resolutions awaiting the action of the two houses within this interval to the 4th of March; but from present indications little will be done beyond the passage of the annual appropriations. There is one measure, how- ever, depending upon the action of the Senate which the conservative supporters of the Pres- ident elect should insist upon bringing toa definite and decisive vote—yea or fay. We refer to the bill of General Butler from the House for the repeal of the Tenure of Office law, and as a simple matter of fair dealing with General Grant. The question im the Senate has been re- ferred to the Joint Committee on Retrench- ment, with a proposition from Mr. Wilson to amend the Tenure of Office law #o far as to ex- empt President Grant from the shackles which have tied up President Johnson in reference to his Cabinet and to relieve Grant of the rea- sons exacted of Johnson in the matter of sus- pensions from office. But it is still proposed by Wilson's bill to hold any suspensions from office which may be made by Grant in the absence of the Senate subject to the approval of that body at its next session. What docs this signify? Plainly that the radical faction in Congress distrust Grant and intend to hold him, if they can, in the distribution of his | 4 offices, as they have held Johnson, under tho thumb of the Senate. Now, this Tenure of Office law is a new thing in party strategy and tactics, Many other new things in the expansion of the powers of Congress have resulted from the late rebellion; but we have had none so broadly and deeply cutting away the authority exercised by every President from Washiag- ton down to Johnson over his executive subordinates as this Tenure of Office law. This law was passed, in the late demoralizing and costly struggle between ‘‘the King and the Commons,” as a measure of party safety against the terrible Johnson. With Grant in the place of Johnson, then, the question re- curs, What is the object of the Jacobins in the continuance of this law ? We may fairly assume that there are two purposes in view—the protection of the whis- key rings and other office-holding leagues of Treasury robbers, and the retention, to make all sure, of a wholesome party check in the Senate upon the President in the general division of the spoils. and plunder. The de- fence set up for President Johnson concerning the stupendous spoliations upon the Treagmty through frauds upon the revenue undep his ad- ministration is that the office-holding conspira- tors in these frauds could not ‘be reached by him, protected as they have heen and are by this Tenure of Office law. Nor can it be denied that there ig too much truth in this defence to snsfify the continuance of this law as proposed by Senator Wilson. Let the tree be judged by its fruits, But why, on the other hand, should there not be in the Senate a movement to retain this law, when it is backed by lobby rings whose pickings and _Perquisites from the leaks of the Treasury ron up to the handsome figure of one hundred millions a year upon the single item of whiskey? What hope, under this law, is there for General Grant’s sweeping ideas of retranchment and reform, with such enormous resources of active capital against him? Next, in regard to the retention of the check upon the President for the protection of the office.holders in the absence of the Senate, the reason for it may lie in the fact that the Vice President (Colfax), who will be President of the Senate, will be a more reliable radical in this business of parcelling out the spoils than President Grant. Hence, no doubt, this shrewd device of Wilson of making Colfax in this business, as the head of the Senate and of the radical faction, the real master of the situ- ation. As one of the original supporters of Grant for the Presidency while Chase was still regarded as the embodiment of radicalism, Wilson, probably, has been put forward in the defence of this office-holders’ pro- tection law in order to deceive Grant. But whether considered in regard to faithless Treasury despoiling office-holders or in refer- ence to a safety check in the Senate upon General Grant, this scheme of Wilson involves an iasulting distrust of the President elect that has no precedent in the ups and downs of any party in this country from 1776 to this day. Looking from Wilson to the league of Jaco- bins behind him we apprehend that even the passage of the half-way bill which he proposes is not contemplated, but that it is merely designed as a decoy. We apprehend that the object is, by parliamentary tactics and delay, to carry the Tenure of Office law through to the 4th of March untouched, so that the radical managers on the incoming President's inaugural may be able to deal with him as he may show his hand. But has he not already shown his hand? The Chicago platform of May last is the latest official creed of the republican party. Among other things it approves and upholds the re- construction policy of Congress, deplores the death of Lincoln, denounces Johnson as a usurper, who has corruptly resisted the au- thority of Congress and perverted the public patronage into an engine of wholesale corrup- tion, and justifies his impeachment. These were the extreme tests of the party faith. Put to General Grant he approved the proceedings of the Convention, and said, in his letter of ac- ceptance:—‘‘ endorse their resolutions ” What more do they want? In the face of this endorsement of their paper is not this bit of humbug of Wilson, this development of a design to hold Grant bound hand and foot, as they have held Johnson, an outrageous insult to General Grant as a man and a soldier, whose word has been enough to the American people ? 4 We call upon the conservative men of both parties in Congress, who honestly desire retrenchment and reform, to apply themselves to the task of bringing this Tenure of Office law to a direct vote in the Senate during this Congress; for if it goes over to the next there is every reason to fear that the formid- able rings of Treasury robbers, under the wing of this law, will still levy their tolls on the taxpayers to the extent of at least a hundred millions a year. The Jacobins of the Senate are fighting to gain time. Bring them to the direct vote, as they were brought in the House, so-that their real position may be known. Tur New York Centrat Scrir Divipenp.— Some time ago the directors of the New York Central Railroad startled Wall street by sud- denly declaring a scrip dividend of eight per cent. The “shorts” in Central stock took ‘the matter into court and placed the veteran Commodore on the stand. His testimony has just been made public, the proceedings having been conducted quietly in chambers. The history of the secret meeting at which the dividend was declared, together with the reasons which induced the Commodore to sug- gest such @ step to the directors, as well as his original ideas of railways, stockholders, stock gamblers and Wall street, as narrated in his affidavit, are interesting reading. Ove Procress.—As things goon we may in from ten to fifty years reach the proud emi- nence of being the most corrupt people on earth, We may even outdo the ancient models, Jugurtha and others found in Rome that every senator had his fixed price, and we are up to that already. Seeing everywhere how Senators buy their places, can we doubt that they will reimburse themselves? What a man buys he will not regard in any light that will prevent his selling it. It is thought that there was a spasmodic virtue in Albany in throwing over Morgan, who would pay, and choosing Fenton, who could not; but this is because people do not exactly understand all the ways Jn which payment is mada. Cockadoodte-D: We have ,published a report of a cock fight extraordinary. The fight came off in disputed territory—Jersey. It was a contest between the North and the South. The North won. It fs a conscientious pleasure to know that. The Southern birds came from the pines of North Carolina, and are commonly known as the old stone fence breed. They are all fine, stout birds, and fight rapidly, cunningly and gamely. They probably are as good cocks as those from the North—that is, Long Island— but the latter have better training, can endure more punishment and stay longer than the Southern fowls. The Long Island cocks are principally of the English Derby strain of blood, with judicious admixtures from the best strains of fighting blood in this coup*ry. What gives them the advantage oye: other birds is the careful breeding ang patient and watchful training. - Here we find another Northern vigeory. But it is a victory of science x89 endurance, not over pluck. When Sam Purdy, in 1923, rode the Northern horse Eclipse against Sir Henry and beat the Southerners on the turf he gave the toast “Southern pluck and Northern bottom.” That was té be the point—an old time point. Again has the North proven its prowess over the South, The game of horse flesh was succeeded by the game of hu- man flesh. The North sent their best young men to battle to vindicate the authority of the Union. Puritanical missionaries and Puritanical money put the gaffs on, and a good and victorious fight wag fought against |” the Southern cockspurs, The New England men accomplished great things. measure represented the North. In this cock fight between the North and the South we see another evidence of the necessity of a cemented union between the two sections of the country. George Washington, representing Virginia, was a cock-fighter. He bullied John Bull, but wanted another ‘main in his conflict with the French gamecock. All great men were cock- fighters. And it amazes us to find that the recent cock battle in Jersey, which attractéd the attention and received the patronage of a number of our mogt respectable merchants, opulent bankers and pious citizens, did not re- ceive a moment's attention from the humane and mundane Bergh—the Bergh who is only happy in rendering service to the victims of horse railroad teranled ‘a devpgtione of the ratpits. a Seriously, there is a psod. “deal of cock- fighting going on ‘about these days. It is not confined to the cockpits nor to the salons of cock fanciers. Thousands of dollars may be invested in the result of ,® gamecock conflict; but the amount does not approach that which is invested in the lobbies of the various State Legislatures, now in session. Maine has a cock fight between Hamlin and Morrill. But Morrill caves, and Hamlin, the golden-feathered cock, is pro- claimed the victor. New York has had its gamecock fight, and Fenjon, a slovenly chicken from the interior, is the victor. New Jersey, notwithstanding the late cock fight contest’ within its borders, has sent to the United States Senate a thorough- bred democratic gamecock named Stockton. The fight in Indiana for the Senatorship exhibits game on all sides. Indiana should have a cockpit, located in Seymour, where obnoxious personages are disposed of without the benefit of the cockpit, or any other pit, including the bottomless. Missouri has settled its Senatorial fight by electing a game chicken of the German breed. Michigan has accepted a chanticleer called Chandler, a dunghill fowl, of no especial importance anywhere, since he determined to let blood flow from the bosoms of his own constituents. And so on. The game fought in New Jersey on Monday, giving another victory to the North, ‘was simply typical, as old Purdy said, of ‘Southern pluck and Northern bottom.” Let the South and North go ahead. Gamecocks both, they need fear no danger from any foreign Power. Our gaffs are sharpened. Cockadoodle-doo-o! FENTON As Sexator—THE Morean Rina Broxen.—Fenton was elected Senator yester- day in the place of Morgan, in pursuance of the caucus decision of Saturday last. There have been some lamentable weepings and wail- ings and gnashings of teeth among the Morgan organs hereabouts over this direful result. Thurlow Weed’s evening mouthpiece and Seward’s special morning advocate and Roscoe Conkling and Morgan’s lesser luminary have all joined in the chorus of bribery, trickery, corruption and cheating at Albany, and are all very blue. Why? There are good reasons why. The close lobby corporation ot Seward, Morgan, Conkling, Weed, Raymond, Dana and their colleagues, insiders and outsiders, is dis- jointed and broken by this election of Fenton over Morgan. Fenton in the Senate will de- mand at least half the spoils which this Morgan coalition have monopolized under Johnson, and Conkling must agree to divide, or there will be trouble in the happy family. The fight appears to be settled. Weed is done for, any how; but still we fear the worst is yet to come of this ‘‘rrepressible conflict’ between the Fenton radicals and the Seward-Morgan ‘‘arf- and-arf” coalition. aby, @ The Government and the Telegruph. One of the newspapers whose proprietors are interested financially in the old telegraph trash that the government is urged to buy puts forth some quaint reasons against the propositions we have lately made in regard to the telegraph. It argues that the telegraph in the hands of the government would become party machinery. Is carrying the letters party machinery? Is the national currency party machinery? If one party is favored more than another in the personnel of these administrations, is that a reason against these things being done by the government? That cannot be maintained. Corruption was never so great and oppression never so terrible as in those cases where governments delegated their powers, as where they farmed the revenue, Neither, then, can this argument be held against the telegraph if itis not good in the case of the currency. But the same organ argues that if the gov- ernment does take the telegraph it must pay forty million dollars to the Western Union Com- pany for its old trash. How, then, is the thing wrong in one light and right in another? Is it right for the government to take the telegraph for forty millions and wrong if yt takes it at anv other figure? Truly They in a to sell for forty millions. We would take a contract even to supply at the former sum more miles of wire and better wire, and,better working machinery altogether, than that on which the jobbers have fixed their corrupt price. The history of the wire now on the ship Egmont is an illustration of what sort of material the govergmpent b Sag buy from the jobbers, s ‘The Technicalities of Tonnage. Apparently everything in measuring the tonnage of a ship is fictitious. Measurements of tonnage have the least possible relation to the number of tons that a boat can actually carry. The yacht Dauntless measures some- thing over three hundred “tons, according to what is called ‘‘Thames measurement ;” she is rated in the record of the Yacht Club at two hundred and sixty-two tons, and her latest Custom House measurement is one hundred and eight tons. Whence is the difference? The size put down in the Yacht Club record is by “carpenter's measurement.” This Kind of measurement is an invention of the builders. Yachts are paid for by thé ton, and this mea- surement, ‘being the one on which the carpenter is to base his bill, represents the effort to ex- tort from the figures of a ship's dimensions the highest possible result innominal tons. Hence the great ep ee Sit Be vay ar 2 meegurentent K+ Sale a c's thetho of and iffe Custom Hike ément, which is an approximation a the real power of the ship. Tonnage measurement is of some interest just now, in view of the mooted international ocean yacht race. Mr. Ashbury, the owner of the yacht Cambria, made a challenge for an ocean race, which was immediately taken up by the owner of the Dauntless; whereupon the chal- lenger claimed that the Dauntless was ruled out by the terms of the chaHenge, which declared a limit in size. He furthermore de- clared that the Dauntless was very nearly twice as large as the Cambria. Here arises, then, the question, how do you ascertain the size of a ship? In our Custom House the Dauntless is recorded as a vessel of one hun- dred and eight tons, and in the record else- where given of the races of the Cambria she is rated as a vessel of one hundred and elghty- eight tons; and one or the other of these is ridiculous if the Dauntless is twice as large as the Cambria. On deck the Dauntless is nine- teen feet longer than the Cambria and five feet wider. These differences certainly do not account for such a discrepancy as the English challenger would figure out, especially as in at least one dimension (depth) the Cambria is the larger boat of the two. We are inclined to believe that the Dauntless is nothing like so much larger than the Cam- bria as the owner of the latter boat supposes, and we deem it quite possible that on any fair principle of measurement the Dauntless would be within the terms as to size. Mr. Ashbury, however, has opposed a bar to this in specify- ing that the size of the yachts shall be found by “‘Thames measurement.” Thames measure- ment, is in its way, a thing analagous to those ancient canons of Egyptian art to which we owe the airy, though angular, grace of the figures on the Pyramids, An artist of Egypt, ages and ages ago, happened on exactly that kind of grace in his figures that Wilkinson has made familiar, An Egyptian king con- ceived that this was perfection, and fearing that other artists in their efforts to do better would do lamentably worse, and that thus this taultless style would be lost to the world, he decreed that no painter should ever dare to invent, or conceive, or put forth, or pretend any new style, manner, method, fashion or way of presenting the human figure to the eye, and thus he perpetuated those angular and inevitable profiles. , Thames measurement is the application of a similar theory to boats. It is conceived that the present British model is the point at which shipbuilding genius must stop, and this model is assumed as the starting point of measure- ment. Then they take aship’s length and her width and find her tons. They do not take her depth. Why not? Because the other dimensions give that; for, according to the exi- gencies of ‘‘Thames measurement,” if a ship is of a certain width and length she must be of another certain depth. She cannot venture to differ in this respect, for she would then violate the lines of the British model—that most per- fect of human marine things. This Thames measurement takes the width of the Dauntless, and gives her arbitrarily a depth which Eng- lishmen fancy proper to that width, and on these imaginary figures finds the size of the yacht. The requiring this plan of measuring assumes in favor of the Cambria the whole dif- ference between American and English yachts, and makes the American enter the race paying forfeit for her model. Tne Kina or [rary axp THE Pope oF Romg.—If the unfortunate prisoners Ajani and Luzzi, who are now .under sentence of death by the Pontifical government, expected any good to result from the intercession of King Victor Emanuel with his Holiness they were doomed to disappointment. Pio Nono is avery amiable old gentleman and, no doubt, disposed to temper justice with mercy ; but he does not like unfriendly neighbors to meddle with his business. From present indications the prisoners will not be executed; but this clemency will in no way be flue to the inter- ference of the King of Italy. Tie Duke or Aosta.—A tilegram informs us that the Duke of Aosta, tle second son of Victor Emanuel, renounces the right of succes- sion to the Italian throne in favor of his sister. the Princess Clotilde, the wifp of Plonplon. What does this mean? If it means anything it means this—that Napoleon) plays a bold game, and that if his game sucopeds the Bona- partes will yet rule France, Italy, Spain, and, of course, Portugal. Theidea of Italian unity is yet a power. . Very Cngar.—It appeared pn the trial of the conspirators against Collectér Bailey that the men, who swore to the affidatits of the Col- lector’s corrupt practices were ptid only fifteen dollars an oath. If perjury is\as cheap as that how can any collector hold 1p against the whiskey ring? Pefhaps a good pentence just here will help the country very much th the whiskey troubl= Fisk the Great—More Worlds to Conquer. Alexander the Great, wept for more worlds to conquer. So Fisk the Great, having added to his domain as railway king the fantastic, airy realm of opéra bouffe, and, finding the sceptre of the latter infinitely less heavy than that with which he sways tho destinies of the former, is ambitious of extending his conquests. “More worlds to conquer” is hia motto, Boldly rushing in where angels might fear to’ tyend, he aspires to nothing less than the em- pire of that vast, complicated, vagne and misty sphere popularly known ag “the religious world,” Aware of the immense aggregate of the sums contributed by the faithful of every name towards the support of all s ade church universal, he shrewdly enough presu oI that it will pay ta control the sinews of war against the world, the flesh and the devil. This first step in this new direction seemed— but only seemed—to be a false one. Barring out a Sunday school, and provoking a street mass meeting of Sunday school scholars and teachers, who vociferously applauded a series of red-hot resolutions against hi alleged outrage of their rights to a three years’ lease of a ball memorable for solemn religious gatherings &3 well as for Bateman’s jolly birthday dinner, at first sight looked highly impolitic, to say the least. All the elements of opposition to the theatre in general and to the. gpéra pouffe ia particular, it might be ey ~od, ‘would thus be stirred a high pitob Of excitement. But the, fetfer of Mr. Fisk's lawyer, who professes the deepest interest in Sunday schools and exulta in having himself been a Sunday school teacher, gives an entirely different aspect to thé gase. The compliments bestowed by this pious. [a upon Mr, Pike ) for the liberal terms on which, although an “Taraelite, he had leased the hall to the apparently somewhat Jesuitical Mr. Perry, warrant us in the char- itable inference that only the highest Christian motives could have impelled Mr. Fisk to dis- perse the Morning Star Sunday School. May it not be surmised that Mr. Fisk, who, for aught we know, may have formerly been a Sunday school teacher in Vermont or in Massa chusetts, has decided to run the Morning Star Sunday Sohool and all other Sunday schoolg himself? May we not conjecture also that thig new enterprise is but preliminary to a stil grander scheme of running all the churches this metropolis and throughout the Uni States? The name of another financial magy nate, Daniel Drew—the very initials of which, (D. D.) have an ecclesiastical significance are already inscribed in granite letters upoy the front of the ‘‘Dafiel Drew Methodist Epis- copal Church.” But when the name of James Fisk, Jr., shall be inscribed on the front of every other church edifice, may we not hopa that,.under the Episcopal supervision of the railway and opera king, innumerable ecclesi+ astical abuses will be abated? Country par- sons will no longer have to rely upon “donas tion parties” for subsistence. Their salaried will approximate more fairly than at present to the princely incomes of fashionable cit preachers. The malicious old proverb aboug the proclivity of ‘‘ministers’ sons” and ‘deacons’, daughters” to go astray in consequence of the limited means of their parents to start thei aright in life will become obsolete ; and, to ad no other prospective advantage from the acc sion of Mr. Fisk to the pontificate of the Ameri- can churches, surely we may expect that the impious custom of selling pews at auction and crowding the Lord’s temple with money- changers—a custom which even Brother Beecher must admit would be more honest ia the breach than in the observance—will be utterly done away with. So mote it be! Jobs and Subsidies. The resolution passed in the House of Representatives on Monday, by a vote of -90 yeas to 67 nays, against any fur- ther subsidies being given by Congress to railroad or other corporations, or to promote local enterprises, under the present condition ofthe national finances, isa very good one. Congress and the country have become since the war fearfully demoralized with regard to the reckless manner in which government money and lands have been lavished on all sorts of jobs. We have cut loose from the old system of economy and limited expenditures, and ought to return to it again forthwith. Thd number of railroad, telegraph and oth schemes to increase the burdens of the gov: ernment are frightful to contemplate. Let us hope this resolution of the House will not prove merely an unnecessary declaration. It is easy enough to pass such general and glittering ‘resolutions and to make fine promises; but will these very members who voted against any further subsidies or jobs cease to press as exceptional cases the Various schemes they may have in hand? There wilk be the practical test of their sincerity. People should keep the names of the patriotic ninety: by them for reference whenever any jobs come up or are voted on in Congress. It is a good, beginning. We shall see what the efd will be.’ Senator Sherman’s Finance Bill. The subject of our national finances has been fairly launched in Congress by the intro- duction of Mr. Sherman's bill, which , was reported from the Senate Finance Committee. This bill we published oh Tuesday, but the fea- tures of it had been given before in an elabo- rate speech by Mr. Sherman, and have been discussed in the columns of the Herap. The leading thought throughout and object seema to be to get rid of the greenback currency, as {f that were the sum of all our financial evils and trouble. In fact, it may be said Senator, Sherman has but this one idea, While there is no objection to legalizing gold contracts, ag he proposes, such a law is hardly necessary ; for persons can now make contracts to pay in’ specie, without additional legislation. In other’ respects the bill aims at what would probably prove impracticable, or, if practicable, wha¢ would only increase the burdens of the people and the power and profits of the national banks. {t would take away our cheap legal tender currency and increase that of the banks. It would give them all \the profits of a national circulation, which would be taken from the people and no equivalent returned. Of course Mr. Sherman contemplates the national banks paying specie for their circulation; but they would not be likely to do #0, nor to have the gold for doing it. What then? Why, the national banks, finding they had not specie to meet the demand, would go to Congres for relief, and we shquid have perpetuated an