The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1869, Page 7

6 NEW YORK HERALD rns BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIV. +No. 23 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coraer ot Eighth avenue and Mid sirect,—La PRRICHOLT. FRENCH THE. BATRE, Fourteenth stroct and Sixth aves nue. OLyM THEATRE, Broadway.—lewere Deere. wird New FRATURES. THEATRE, DADWAY Broadway.—-Tae EMERALD Ruy NEW YORK THE CLOTH OF GOLD, THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae Firip oF tway and 18h street. — cocks LITTLE GaME. ‘TRELS, 585 Broadway.—Etaro- NMENTO, SINGING, DaNoina, ae. ERA HOUSE, Tammany Buliding, Mth AN MINSTSELBY, TONY Ps ASTOR OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comzo NEGRO MINBIRELSY, Sc. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. —Eques7niax AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT, cADEeT oF MUBIC.— -OLE BULL'S SITUTE, ‘Antor piace. ~LECTURE BY GEO, Brooklyn.—Hooner’s 3 MinststiS—AFTER LIGHT, HOOLEY'S (E.D.) OPERA HOUSE. Witiamsbarg.— Hv0Lkt'S MINSTSELE—Teir TO THE MOON, dc, NATIONAL HALL, Harlem —Tie Hisxescox, A TOUR In [RRLAND. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. ary 21, 1869. vis York, Thursday, J ae Arrangements for Furnishing the Herald. The steady increase in the circulation of the Heraxp has forced us to bring ‘into use all our press facilities, which now enable us to throw off eighty-five thousand copies of the Herap per hour. fore found delay in receiving their papers will in future have their orders executed at a mach eailier hour. orga? SUBSCRIPTIONS. Newsmen and carriers who have hereto- The Daity wage 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 Heaxp at the same price it is furnished in the none 2 = aR wT. be w lade * Savane: The French Bine Book for 1863 has been published. ‘The correspondence with the government at Wash- ington snows continned cordial relations with this country. In reference to the Spanish revolution France preserves her friendship and a strict neutral- Uy, While sincerely wishing Spain safely through the crisis. All efforts to come to an arrangement with Italy for the evacuation of Rome proved fail- ures. Minister Anson Burlingame had en interview with the Marquis de la Vatette yesterday. ‘The newly electea Cortes of Spain will meet for business on the lith prox. The provisional govern- ment has issued a proclamation authorizing Cuba and Porto Rico to send eighteen and eleven deie- gates respectively to the Cortes. Additional rein forcements, including four generals, were veing ac- tively prepared for Cuba. Particulars of the earthquake which recently occurred on the shores of the Uay of Bengal have been received in London. The loss of life was very great. The Ministerial 8 in Portugal ts over. The m & new Cabinet, Ss that the Cretan Provi- ed, and intends coming to oze of negotiating a loan ads, When he will return and er effort to free Candia. rom Constantinople denies the report make that Mr. the American Minister to Turkey, has been rect Paraguay. An Atlantic cable despatch from Paris says that Jater a $s from Rio Janeiro coufirm the reported Tout of Lopez and his army. Caba. Count Vaimaseda, according to Spanish reportef ts advancing with bis whoje force upon the revolation- ists posted in the mountains. General Perez has Offered to surrender himself and the repel forces under his command, and he was expected to give himself up at any moment, as his terms, an uncon- ditional pardon, were accepted, The insurgents are reported to have sacked Bayamo before they burned it. The Banco del Comercio in Havana has not yet resumed yment and Snanctai avairs in tue city have an inauspicious appearance. Congress. Inthe Senate yesterday @ bill to extend the juris Giction of the O of Claims to claims of loyal Citizens In rebel States was introduced and referred wo the J ry Committee. Two bills for the reor- @enszation of the army were introduced by Mr. Wilson and referred to the Committee on Military rs. One of them proposes to abolish the rank Of brigadier general except in case of stalt officers and to have brigades in time of war commanded by At tion to take up the Air Line Railroad h, @nd Mr. Whyte, of gament against tt, as Of federal power. A an aiarming encroa the conclusion the ate Went into executive ses. @loa, where th a8 Homination was diecu without ection. The senate adon after adjoarne tm the House Mr. Schenck introduced a bill to atrengthen the pubii for the payment of cc creditand relating to contracts ain, Which Was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, from the Post Ofice Committes, rey restrict the franking privilege. The first section, Which was passed, makes It lawful for the privilege to be used only by @ written autograph signature: bat the second section, which was stricken out by a vote of 123 to 54, abolishes the right of any one en- titled to the frank to receive mat! matter through the Post Oaice free of postage, The Reconstruction Committee réported a biil for the removal of disati- Sties from a large nuraber of persons in the Southern States, which was passed by the requisite two-thirds Majority. A resolution taking preliminary steps for the ninth census was adopted. The consideration of ‘the Senate bill granting lands and right of way to the Denver Pacific Railway was resumed, but without faction upon tt the Mouse adjourned, The Legislature, In the Senate yesterday bills were introduced to amond the act for supplying vacancies among jus- tices of the pence, to submit the amended constita- tion for the election of judges to the peopie, and re- juiring the completion of the East river bridge by ue, 1874, in executive session nuMerous nomina- NEW Y¢ YORK HERALD, THURSDAY JANUARY ..21, 1869. —TRIPLE SHEET. of tions by the Governor. were confirmed. ans the ae aan Bee adjourned. In the Assembly bitis were introduce? to amend the Act relative to the Brooktya (re Nuits; to pro- vide for an additional metropolitan fire commis- Stoner; for the regulation of convict labor, and to protect consumers of coal in New York city. ‘The resolution to investigate the affairs of the Merchants’ Union Express Company was referred to the Com- mittee on the Judittary. ‘The two houses met in joint session and Reuben B, Fenton was formally declared elected United States Senator for six years in place of 2. D. Morgan. Miscellaneous. The Presi@ent yesterday nominated Robert ©. Buchanan to be Brigadier General in place of L. H, Rousseau, deceased, and A, C. Gillem in place of Joseph Hooker, retired. Also W. U, Welsner to be Collector of Customs at New Orleans, in place of Perry Fuller, whose nomination has been with-, drawn. In the National Woman's Rights Convention at Wasnington yesterday quite a lively debate ensued on a resolution favoring educational qualtfications for suffrage. Mrs, Stanton and Miss Anthony spoke | strongly in favor of the resolution, the former de- 1ag that she wanted no outside barbarians from China or Africa or the Indian country to be over the educated woman of America, and Misa Anthony de- nouncing any man or Wornan Who contd not learn to readl and write in this age asa fool or anidiote Mra, Dr. Mary Walker spoke in favor of a regolution securidg higher rights to married women, which was adopted. Full partteulars of the wreck of the steamship Gulf City of the North Carolina coast, which we pub- lish elsewhere, show that twenty-one satlors and one passenger were lost. Thesufferings among the three who were saved was intense. Eight persons took to araft, but during forty-eight hours of bunger and thirst five of them fell into the sea and were drowned, the remaining three being finally picked up and saved, . General Kilpatrick’s leave of absence has been ex- tended until March, The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia yesterday denied Mr, Joseph Hl. Bradley's motion to have the order @ebarring him from practice in the courts of the District modified. Mr. Bradley, how- ever, is armed with a peremptory mandamus from the United States Supteme Court ordering his resto- ration to the roll of attorneys in the District, and he will probably soon serve it on the Court. General Mower has been assigned to the comm *#nd of Lowstana, and the headquarters of the Thirty- ninth ‘infantry (Mower'’s regiment) has been trans- ferred to New Orleans, General Buchanan, who temporarily succeeged jo ne commang of the dis- trict pon the death of General Rondsead has ad- dressed a letter to Senator Kellogg in reply to the letter of Governor Warmoth assailing General Buchanan as being unfriendly to the State. The General shows that, so far Trom being unfriendly, it was wholly owing to his. interference that the lives of Governor Warmoth and the republican State oi- cers were not sacrificed by the populace during the first days of the meeting of the present session of the Legislature, A republican meeting at Richmond, Va., last might adopted resolutions protesting against Congress granting what is asked for by the Virginia Conserva- tive Committee now in Washington. The trial of Mrs. Twitchell, of Philadetphia, charged with assisting her husband in the murder of her mother, commenced yesterday. A full jury was obtained and the taking of testimony was com- menced. The United States Grand Jury in San Francisco, at its present session, found over three hundred indict- ments for naturalization frauds, In the Georgia House of Assembly yesterday a resolution was introduced Inquiring into the ap- potntment of @ negro as clerk of the court in Chatham county, and to institute proceedings against him, the case to be carried to the Supreme Court if necessary, A resolution was also intro- duced into the same body declaring that Georgia was fully reconstructed, and therefore Congress has no right to interfere in regard to qualification of members of the Legislature and State oicers. ‘The Democratic State Convention of New Hamp- shire yesterday nominated General John Bedell for Governor. The City. The Street Cleaning Commission met yesterday, bat before paying the nsual semi-monthiy bill of the contractor the question as to whether frost, snow or ice has prevented the cleaning of the streets during the first half of the month was, at the suggestion of Bail, referred to the Board of Health tor in- gation and report. ‘The Platsdell and Eckel case, which has been on trial in the United States District Court for four days, was further adjourned till this morning, the Prospects being that it will occupy the court a couple of days longer. The case of the United States vs. James McLough- lin, indicted on a charge of perjury, continued from Tuesday, occupied the whole of yesterday and was adjourned till this morning. The North German Lioyd’s steamship Union, Cap- tain Dreyer, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The European mails will close at the Post OMce a ive M. The steamship Columbia, Captain Van Sice, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana. The steamship Fah-Kee, Captain’ Steele, will leave pier No. 2 East river at three P. M. to-day for Ber- muda. The steamship Herman Livingston, Captain Cheese- man, will sail from pier 96 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah. ‘The fine stlewhec! steamshtp Magnolia, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s line, will leave pler No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charieston, 8. 0. ‘The stock market yesterday was irregular and feverish. Gold closed on the street at 135%, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge L. 8. Trimble and Colonel J. P. Jackson, of Kentucky, are at the St. Nicholas Motel. General Olmstead, of Oregon; Alexander Molsom and P, Daldy, of Montreal, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. eral F. Hf. Smith, of Virginia, and Charles R. Cornwall, of New Jersey, are at the New York Hotel. James Thomson, of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Rev. J, H. Cole, of Montreal, are at the Brevoort House. Fred, W. Stoddard, of Scotland, is at the Weat- minster Hotel. James Trainor, of Cairo, I., and ©. Oakes, of Rut- land, Vt., are at the Westmoreland Hotel. General H. G. Gibson, of the United States Army, and John Kirk, of Belfast, Ireland, are at the Claren- don Hotel, Colonel N. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania: R. A. A. Jones, R. A. KR, Young and W. H. Young, of Mon- treal, and George Peabody Russell, of Massachusetts, at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. eH. Norman, of Newport, and F. , of France, are at the Hoffman House. W. For. reat A Strong Bid for a Pince in the Cabinet. 1. Grant would never have been heard of again ifhe-had lost his command before he took Vicksburg. 2, He would have lost that command if Banks had not refused to obey the order direct- ing bim to supersede Grant in his command in front of the besieged city. 2, Therefore Grant would not have been the successful soldier of the war—-the great con- queror—and the actually elected President but for the forbearance toward him of Banks, Supposed consequenceGrant id to be “grateful ” * Banks. Beron ann tae Coox Franrers.—Mr, Henry Bergh is out ina communication denouncing as lite better than Penitentiary birds those gentlemen who participated in the late game- cock contest between the North and the South in Jersey. Bergh is wanting in knowledge of the fine and fashionable art of cock fighting. There is no game in him. He is no cook fighter. He is merely ® cock chaffer, and has yet to win his spure. Mr, Washbarne on Rallroud Jobs and a “Pestiferous” Telegraph Monopoly. There is some hope for. the Treasury, for the taxpayers of the country, for the redemption of the national bonds and for the general re- Itef of the people in the fact that, in the tren¢hant Washburne, of Ilinois, the right hand man of General Grant, we have in Con- gress an earnest and vigilant e mizer. His speech in the House on Wed y last in opposition to a certain railroad job—the Denver Pacific and Telegraph Company—pre- sents a schedule of subsidies and land grants to different railroads during the last eighteen yeara which cannot be too widely circulated. The constituents of every member df Congress ought to know something of these facts and figares, end in this view we here reproduce some of them, Mr. Washburne sets down the grand aggre- gate of railroad land grants from Co> >43 during the period indicated at 185.0 - 10 acres, which, at the lowest price of the public lands, is equal to $231,000,000, But the real value of these lands when given away was not leas than $590,000,000. The area of the lands thus squandered is equal to that of all the States east of the Alleghanies from Maine to Virginia, inclusive—a great empire in itself. The lands granted to the Pacific railroads alone are nearly equal to the area of France. Next, in the item ofs government subsidies in bonds, it appears that the Union Pacific Railroad, 1,110 miles, which termi- nates, going west, somewhere in the neighbor- hood of Great Salt Lake, will be paid the sum of $56,000,000, or $51,034 per mile, exceeding by $16,000 per mile the cost of construction and equipment, As to the subsidies in bonds (in addition to the empire of lands) so far actually granted, the Secretary of the Treasury reports them :— Total subsidies in bonds.. Mp oo ed ‘To the Union Pacific Ra!lroad, $20 miles... 20,238,000 Central Pacific from California, 390 mile: e8.. 14,764,000 Union Pacific, Eastern division, 394 miles. 8,303,000 Sioux City and Pacific, 69 miles..........++ 11,11 —And so on till the aggregate, exceeding forty- four millions, is reached. But the Union Pa- diftc itaiirond, in its gubsidies of lants ax bonds, granted and to ie, bangs them a out—its government sops enlarging to the splendid figure of $89,615 per mile, or nearly $24,000,000 clear profit on the cost of build- ing and equipping the road. Mr. Washburne says, too, that the road is badly located and poorly built, and he thinks it might be, well to inquire whether the company that is lobbying the bill through is not in reality a bogus concern. This startling exhibit ought certainly to suggest the question, how long can the Trea- sury survive such drains as these? These sta- tistics flatly demand retrenchment and warn us of bankruptcy and repudiation. Hence Mr. Washburne puts his foot down upon this Denver Railroad and. Telegraph bill, the pioneer land and bond"¥job of this sesaion. Open the door again, he says, and other jobs lying in wait, to the extent of $200,000,000, will walk in—two hundred millions, for the benefit of speculators, lobbyists and adventur- era. Now, granting that the advantages to the trade of the country, internal and external, and to the new States and Territories in their development, and to the Treasury eventually, will amply pay for the lands and bonds granted for the main Continental Pacific Railroad line, the facts stil! appear that the legislation upon this subject has been exceedingly loose and manifestly corrupt, and that in conse- quence millions of acres of land have been aquandered, and nearly fifty. millions of dollars added to the national debt. Hence we stand by the retrencher, Washburne, and insist that the door shall not be opened to the additional two hundred millions in these railway jobs lyingln wait in the lobby. We agree with the vigilant member from Tilinois in another thing, to wit—that the per- petuation of the Western Union Telegraph Company, “‘a pestiferous monopoly,” will be robbing the public of at least ten millions a year asa beginning. What the end will be with the continuance of this monopoly we cannot tell, but it is apparent that, with the power in its hands, this company. will in another. year or two be able to control not only the merchants end financiers within its rasp, but the farming interests and the prices of produce in the market fromday today. They will be able, moreover, through their purchased newspapers, East and West, to control, to a mis- chievons extent, the political parties of the country, and our political elections—a charge which was the death #*Biddle's United States Bank. The experience and the examples of all the States of Continental Europe, and especially the late example of England, in turning over the whole telegraph system of the kingdom to the Post Office Department, cannot be safely disregarded. The evil to be remedied will have to be met, and the sooner the better it will be for the Treasury, for the industrial interests of the country, and for a free press as the exponent of the public interests. A newspaper subsidized by this aforesaid ‘ pes- tiferous monopoly” is not and cannot be a free press, It is a slave, and must do the bid- ding of its master. Nor can any man of busi- ness, in the presence of such a monopoly, hope to prosper without paying his tribute to Cesar. This is what this ‘‘pestiferous mono- poly” will come to if continued. Eventually, from its excesses, it will be cut down, but it ought to be abolished at once ; and in view of the revenues thus open to the Treasury, and the immense savings which will accrue to the public, and in view of the freedom of the public press, the whole telegraph system should be attached to the Post Office Department, where _it properly belongs. We hope Mr. Washburne will keep up his fire on this aforesaid ‘* pes- tiferous monopoly ;” for while we are sure that its abolition is but a question of time we be- lieve that now is the golden opportunity. A Lrarstatives Ixnovanion. —It is an un- anal thing for an ex-Governor to send a mes- sage to the Legislature, but Senator Fenton has deviated from the ancient custom by favor- ing the House with a message which will be presented to-day. It contains the list of standing committees to be appointed by Speaker Younglove. “Only this and nothing more ;" yet it took three weeks of precious time to prepare the message. Not For Joseriu.—A Western editor de- | clines an invitation to pay a visit to a small- pox hospital. [ pasts, The al “st” eStats | eiahen” Zale mamma Bene ot Nextt Now that the revolution in Cuba exhibits tindeniable signs of mongers abound with assurances of the new phase which the Cuban question is taking. One assures us that the people will never sub- mit, ‘when in fact the greater part of them have never rebelled; another tells us that a movement is on foot in Madrid favoring the sale of the island to the United States, when such an idea would suffice to insure the over- throw of any Spanish Cabinet; and a third, more hopeful still, insists that the revolution is to obtain few life from some undefinable cause and mount in triumph on the wings of glory. .But there stand the hard facts to contradict all these. The telegraphic advices from Havana which we have recently published must put an end to the hopes many had entertained of an early severance of the “Gem of the AntiNes” from the Spanish crown. Count Valmaseda officially informs General Dulce that on the 16th instant he took possession of Bayamo, which was the headquarters of the revolution- ary government. This is the Richmond of the revolution. Whether, pursping the parallel, General Cespedes will, like General Lee, find an Appomattox and accept an honorable sur- render, or Valmaseda, like General Grant, offer terms which, by inducing a capitulation, shall free the country from the horrible evils of a guerilla warfare from disbanded insur- gents, remains to be seen. One thing is clear: the movement which has been for the last three months on foot in the eastern portion of Cuba, with all the honors of a revolution, now subsides into mere local disorders, It is not our intention to review the causes which have produced this result. They are many, and have been faithfully presented to our readers by our correspondents and our own frequent comments on events as they occurred. But there are certain facts which it will be well for General Dulce and the purely Spanish population of Cuba to bear in ming ip their present triumoh. if they wish for me stirrectisa Was the Sr purely Cuban movement of any extent against the government which has taken place in the island. It has taught thousands of the native population two great'facts—first, that it is not a difficult task to drive the small, isolated Spanish garrisons out of the interior of the country ; and, ‘second, that it is very far from being every Spanish bullet that kills. In gain- ing possession of these two facts the popular mind of Cuba has made an immense stride towards the independence of the island, and whatever fate may attend Cespedes, Aguilera, Perdomo and the other prominent leaders, they will be looked upon by the people as re- presentative men. No act of the Spanish gov- ernment can tear them from that position. There is but one course, therefore, that wis- dom will counsel to the Spanish authorities in Cuba. The government must abandon the pol- icy of intense Hspanolismo which it has hitherto pursued, and permit, in the coming election of deputies to the Cortes, that native and representative Cubans be sent to that body. Cuba bas wrongs which Spain should re- dress; and she can never do this until the true voice of Cuba can be heard in her legisla- tive halls. It,is not enongh to send Span- iards resident in the island to the Cortes, and much less is it wise to send there any of the few Cubans who have become thoroughly Span- ish in their views and are for that reason hated by their countrymen. If the government per- sists in ignoring the people of Cuba and in sending only its own partisans as deputies to the Cortes it will prepare the ground for a new revolution in the island. But both Spain and Cuba have made great progress in the rightful condemnation of the sixteenth century policy which still rules the Spanish colonies. The scheme which we pub- lished some days since on the authority of SeZor Ascarate, one of the Cuban deputies now in Madrid, as being the plan of General Serrano, chief of the provisional government of Spain to-day, embraces all the points which the telegraph announces as being the policy adhered to at a recent meeting of the leading liberals of Havana—a separate nationality for Cuba, with an insular Assembly, division of the Cuban budget from that of Spain, and a Captain General appointed by the Crown from the civil or military list, as may be best. We have good reason to believe that agitation for this plan is the shape which the Cuban question in the island and in Spain will take at an early day, and all other forms of agitation must give way to the new idea. As rr Ovent To Br.— @ last snow that fell in Broadway was swept up with brooms and carted away—a simple process and effective in the prevention of the great winter ouisance. Can it not be done always ” Yaoutixne,—Elsewhere we print the commu- nication of “‘ A British Yachtman,” who sup- poses that the Fleetwing is one-fourth larger than the Cambria. He probably means by “Thames measurement. \ “Wn, Tus ‘Peoria or ENGLAN! said the three tailors of Tooley street. ‘‘ In the name of 4,000,000 American citizens,” said the half dozen darkies who called on Grant.” The Spanish Elections. Our cable despatches regarding the result of the Spanish elections are somewhat contra- dictory, but they leave no doubt upon our mind as to the fact that the decision is in favor of @ monarchy. Itis now pretty generally understood that the Duke of Aosta, the second son of King Victor Emanuel of Italy, is the government candidate for the vacant throne. If this be the deliberate choice of the Spanish people—and we have av reason to say that it is not—we have no occasion to find fault. In present circumstances a well-defined constitu- tional monarchy is, perhaps, the best thing pos- sible for Spain. Europe is not yet sufficiently republican to make a republic a safe experi- ment for a people like the Spaniards. Prince Amadeus is a young man of some twenty-four years of age, and from what we have heard of him we have little doubt that he will makea good enough royalfigurehead, If Spain under her new ruler sueceeds in putting down the priest somewhat and setfing up the school- master her future may bé more successful than some are now willing to bélievo possible,. In the settlement of this Spanish question the able hand of Napoleon has again been made manifort. subsidence quackery- sian | than Washington or Albany to find lobbyists | discovery of a remarkable cave somewhere in | Connectiont. The greatest cave in that State the Rings in Congress, Senators Harlan, Pomeroy and Couness are excited in view of the shape in which the preas puts its exposures of Congressional jobbery. So long as the papers denounce Congressional rings organized in railroad and other interests the gentlemen can stand it; but so soon a3 the papers tell the composition of the rings and print the names of the Senators who manage the jobbery the Senators become unéasy, indignant and abusive. But we do not see that their uneasiness or indignation takes any practical shape, If a Senator is maligned and can denouncé the man by name who has maligned him, can he not make this fact a point of privilege before the Senate and require the man to show his reasons or bear a penalty? This would be better than abuse; and when this is not done what reason can there be but the fact that the Senator is con- scious the correspondent cap show a good foundation for his stories? Senator Harlan adopts the very ancient plan of endeavoring to throw diScredit on the wit- ness against him—the newspaper press. He would have the country to understand that what is said against him in the papers is a sort of tax he pays for his greatness; but we fancy the people know pretty well by this time that the jobbing Congressman is a commoner article than a purchased press. Mr. Harlan’s wrath takes the form‘ of a classification of journalists. He says there are three classes— first, are the men whose talents give the press dignity; second, are the mediocre men, who eke out its respectability; third, are the" laz- zaronl, or scavengers, who are responsible for all the rascality. Well, this amounts to saying that there are rogues on the press as in other places— especially Congress. So there are three classes of Senators. There are the very few whose character and probity keep the name of Senator honorable; there are the intermediate nobodies, who are kept respectable by asso- ciation with the former class, and there are tha rogues, who are steened to the lips in jobbars— a 3 Read + erg favorite filth is filthy lucre. If there is anything in this sort of abusivo classification there is nothing affords ampler field for it than the material in Congress. Successrv~. Tanners.—John Scott, United States Senator elect from Pennsylvania, was once a poor tanner boy; Younglove, Speaker of the New York Assembly, was also once a tanner boy, whether poor or not does not appear in the record; and General Grant, the President elect—about whom some malicious parties in Washington have just divulged the fact that an official order for his removal from command while he was operating against Vicksburg was in the pocket of General Banks, who was directed to supersede him, but who declined to present the order, and who, by the way, was once a poor bobbin boy, which early condition of life may be regarded aa the next best lucky thing to having been a poor tanner boy—the same General Grant was likewise once a tanner—a boss tanner. The purity of this stock of tanners cannot be ques- tioned, unless, asin Younglove’s and in Banks’ cases, there may be a stripe of: black and tan mingled with it, The Circumlocution Office at Home. We receive occasionally letters expressing surprise that the boilies of dead horses are suffered to lie in the streets of the city for two or three days before removal; but it is just to the authorities to say that the greatest despatch is used in getting rid of such obstruc- tions consistent with the requirements of the Jaw. This will be readily conceded when the process necessary to be observed is properly understood. When a horse drops dead in the street it is the duty of the policeman on the beaf to observe the same in the course of his rounds and to examine the carcass. If ho finds life extinct he is required to report the fatt to the roundsman as soon as he encoun- ters him. The roundsman, having convinced himself of the truth of the statement, reports to the sergeant on duty when he returns to the station, The sergeant on duty enters the fact onthe blotter. The captain copies it from the blotter and reports to the superintendent. The superintendent, through’ the inspector, refers the case to the Board of Health. The Board of Health, through their secretary, com- municate the intelligence to the Sanitary Committee. The Sanitary Committee refer the matter to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, The Bureau of Vital Statistics thereupon issue instructions to a contractor, who keeps a windlass, two men and a dead-horse truck, and the contractor thereupon proceeds at his leisure to remove the body. Where Bergh comes in does not occur to us, but it ia proba- bly somewhere between the windlass, the two men and the dead- horse truck. Correprios as AN Evipence or Business Taor.—The Chicago Times, remarking upon the petition to 'Congress of George Opdyke and other capitalists in this city in regard to railroad subsidies, says:—“‘It is undoubtedly true that there never has been a time in this country in which official corruption in all departments of the government prevailed to a4 great an extent as now, and was as defiant of the penalties of the law and of public opinion. Indged, it threatens to so debauch public opinion that betrayal of offictal trust will be regarded as an evidence of business tact rather than a crime.” That is not a bad idea, Colleges of instruction in the science of corrup- tion might be established in all our principal cities, like colleges for imparting commercial knowledge, It would cot require to go further amuply competent for professorships, Remarkante Cave ix Conngotiout,—Tho papers are publishing an India rubber joint stockjobbing advertisement about the recent was the eave in of the democratic party when the electoral vote was given for Grant agninst the familiar and once talismanic name of Seymour, Tne Trrmorara ror tak Prorie.—We copy to-day from the Philadelphia Post an able article on the subject of the government postal telegraph. . The views expressed are sound to the gore, and should have weight with the Senate committee which has now the subject under consideration. PEESGHUISTGE7E, ESEISPISUGHEIEHTIELE. 80", EE EEQE]EREET, ©2834582 59 FP, ELEUGLLEFLEGS2E42>¢ FEEL], GPLUPEEL* PEE, e We publish to-day an interesting article on the subject of tenement houses in this city and vicinity. It has been long known that a plan of tenement houses which would give better ac- commodations to the poorer classes of oug fellow citizens has been much needed. But built upon the system at present in vogue, tenement build- ings are simply dens for theaccumulation of fam- ilies of needy people and for the breeding and spread of infectious diseases. Every epidemic that scourges the city finds its food in such places. Every conflagration that burns up human beings finds fuel in these houses, The fire escapes are worse than nuisances, hecause a nuisance can be abated, but a fire éscapo from a tenement house, as at present con- structed, is simply a road that leads to de- struction. The whole system of our tenement buildings is erroneous, The late Abbott Law- rence, of Massachusetts, one of the most princely-minded and philanthropic men who existed in his time—the compeer of George Peabody at a later day—gave much of his time and money to the matter of tenement build- ings. It was a pleasure to converse with him upon the subject, he went so heartily into it, The-plan of Mr. Lawrence, if it had heen generally adopted, would have relieved the present tenement house system from many of its existing, and unnecessarily so, odious fea- tures. We hope that the statement made in the article we publish ‘to-day will be instru- mental in accomplishing .a reform where reformation is much needed in a matter that materially concerns a very large proportion of our city population. What a sublime act it would be for Mr. Peabody or any philanthropic millionnairo to buy up lots in the vicinity of this city, erect upon them suitable and commo- dious buildings, in which convenience, health and comfort could be combined, and rent them to worthy people upon moderate terms. A million or two of money expended in this way would confer greater benefits upon a greater number than if bestowed in a general way Mom Prwwes ov Wace upon public charities. * $ts 2 es eee spirit whicn was maisteated in the const tor United States Senator between Morgan the defeated and Fenton the victor has cost a loss of nearly three weeks’ time to the public service in the Legislature. The result will be that important business will be ruzhed through with more than the usual unseemly haste at the close of the session. While this will be very bad for the public it will, no doubt, be raost acceptable to the lobby jobbers. It is just what they want. Speed, like darkness, covers up iniquity. A MatnematioaL Misraxe.—A ring is sup- posed to be something that, like all perfeo} cir- cles, has neither beginning nor end. This is evidently a mathematical error. The ‘‘whis- key ring” had 9 most flourishing beginning and has come toa sudden end by the defeat of Morgan. Commissioner Welly Report in Congress. A lively debate sprung up in the House of Representatives on Tuesday on the proposition of Mr. Ela, of New Hampshire, to print two hundred thousand copies of Commissioner of the House, and a hundred thousand bound copies for the Treasury Department. The debate was chiefly on the merits of the report, and was opened in opposition to’ printing by Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania. Now the truth is, there are some good things in this document, particularly in the array of statistics, and there are some things not good or truthful, as in the argument that the country is suffering and not prosperous. It is a notorious fact that the country generally was never more prosperous and its materia! interests and wealth were never being developed so rapidly. Mr. Wells makes a mistake in this through looking at a few sfecial cases or. interests” and not looking at the great farming interest and at indusiry in general. But why print such a vast number of the report at an enormous expense to the government ? * There'is no necessity for such extravagance. It is a job. The Treasury is in no condition to squander money away in such a manner. The press of the country gives more valuable information in a more con- cisg and readable form than Mr. Commissioner Wells. It would be a shameful waste of money to publish such a vast number of this report. Tue Reposrz0aN Sprit ww Inptana.—It will be seen by a despatch from Indianapolis that the republicans have split upon the nomina- tion of Cumback for United States Senator, and that it is likely a Judge Frazer, hitherto unknown to fame, will be the candidate of the republican bolters and the @mocrats, who, united, have a controlling majority in the Legislature. Here is a tangible evidence of the rift in the radical party which is calen- lated to become wider and wider as the asperi- ties of the canvass become more intense and bitter. Tron Frey ‘Spoxes—By Mr. Washburne in Congress when he said, on Tuesday, that the Western Union Telegraph Company is a pestiferous monopoly, robbing the public of ten millions a year. ANOTHER Sui (O08 LAST NiGuT, At ten minutos to elowes o'clock last night a Ger- man, named Join Fritz, thirty years of age, com- mitted suicide on Astor place, near the corner of Lafayette place, by shooting himself through ‘the forehead with a pistol bullet. It is surmised that his death wes instantaneous, a4 officer Edwards, of the Fifteenth precinct, who was patrolling his post in the immediate vicinity of the occurrence, on hearing the ror rushed to the apos and found him lifeless, His ly Was removed to the station house and thence to the Morgue. He was dressed tn a manner that denoted his condition to be an easy one, pecuninrily considered, walch ts con- firmed by a ietter found aj him addressed to his pone Gem Fritz, Who is in the employ of fesare, Strasi pow é& Nahn, No. 604 Broadway. ‘The motive for this rash deed is not Apoyo in the letter, but it is hardiy to be, suicides of fore cners the result of being um cheered by the kind caresses of friends or relatives, who experience more keenly than otvers the bitter pangs of poverty and destitution, OBITUARY. Corned C. Quick. Gerard (, Quick, the Well known cirens manager and showman, died at his residence in this city om ‘Tuesday last. Ho Waa a native of North Salem, in bora State, and was born in 1812. In ian akon engaged in mecha ppt thirty-two. years ago he sanleat in the the sno ness. He was for eg yer = of Sanda, Nathan and has been Peruri ots ate Sy 10 Visited the Exposition, taking to years ao Aly the great Al otros, sat which Ne ¢ feck rit ni dinonne (paralysis witot isisage are Suni i i Wells’ report, with the appendix, for the use’