The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HE! RALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. PRIS OE OION JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR a All bosiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected’ communications will not be re- turned. Ne, 22 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth sve- aue.—L'(21L CREVE, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Huarry Doxprr. with New PRATURES. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax ExmRALD RING. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tak Fieup oF tue CLori oF GOLD, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and ith street. — MONEY. EN, Broadway.—AFTRR DARE ; OR, LON- THEATRE, Bowerv.--Oriven TwisT— G MaN—IRISHMAN's Home, GRAND HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and S8d street. Woop's MUS Broadway.—A‘c M AND THEATRE, Tatetioth street and oon and oventag Ferformane THE TA Page's Rev: MRS. F. B. Apres Dark. MMANY, Fourteenth street.—Les FouLins— ICODEMUS, £C, NWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— TRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETH10- GING, DANOING, &C. fammany Building, Mth 0. AN MINST OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto MINBTRELSY, ac. IRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EquESTRIAN stlo ENTERTAINMENT. HOUSE, Brooklya.—Hooter’s HOOL Mixsraeis—Arrze Liowt, OPERA HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE. Willtsmaburg.— HooLey’s M!NSTREL8—TRIP TO THE Moon, &c. NEW YORK “ "SEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOIENOE aNd Ant TRIPLE | SHEET. New York, Friday, nae 22, “1860. Mon’ THLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Daiuy Hsraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement the Heraxp at the same price it is furnished in the city. can receive Europe. ‘The Atlantic cable telegrams are dated yesterday. It was reported in Constantinopie that the Greek ship Synotte had fired intoa French ship, killing several persons. ‘The reply of the Greek government to the action of the Conference is awaited. Minister Burlingame’s interview with the Marquis de la Vallette on Wednesday was a satisfactory one. It was apnounced that the Emperor would grant the Embassy an audience on Sunday next. Intelligence from Madeira on the 14th inst. states that the missing passengers and crew of the steam- ship Hibernia had not arrived there at that date. It is now believed that the story of ther rescue is false. Bullion in the Bank of England has tncreased £99,000, The yacht Cambria is to be considerably altered to prepare her for an ocean race with American yachts. China and Japan. r Japan arrived at San Francisco on wih with advices from Hong Kong 4 Yokohama to December 28, ae we learn that the Yang-Chow to December 15 4 From Shan, affair has been settled and the misstonaries invited to return. Buccessful, Mining operations in Chefoo had proved There had been @ number of disasters advices state that Yeddo was tranquil. was not quite at an end, but Prince sained great advantages over Toso and x-Tycoon had been invited to return to ladi had been captured by the fleet of ntatives had been ad Nyata would be opened to st inst. Tokugawa notified that J commerce on the New Zealand. There had been g frightfal massacre of whites by ‘the natives at Poverty Bay, New Zealand. Mexico. A formidable revolution against the general gov- ernment rted brewingin Oaxaca. Generals Pordrio i ete, Rivera, Allatorre and others, are concerned m it, as well as General Gonzales Ortega, who claims the Presidency. ‘The text of the treaty recently ratified at Mexico city for the adjustment of claims of cittzens of the United siates and Mexico will be found elsewhere in tbe HRAALD this morning. Cuba. A letier from one of the Peace Commissioners says that Cespeded, the insurgent, was in Guis Mountains and Q uesada was reorganizing his revolutionary forces at La Guanaja. An outbreak in the Central De- partment is reported from revolutionary sources. THayti. A battie is reported near Petit Riviere, in which the Cacos were victorious. The revolutionists are gaining ground, Congress. In the Senate yesterday the bill to punish the col- lection of illegal taxes on passengers was taken up and Mr. Morton made a speech denouncing the action of Maryland and New Jersey in requiring a tax on passenger travel on their principal railroads, which he claimed was an abridgment of the privileges and immunities of citizens, and, therefore, a viola- tion of the fourteenth article of the constitution. Mr. Conkling introduced a bill to prohibit secret sales or purchase of gold or bonds on account of the United States. Mr. Sherman, from the Finance Committee, reported @ bill to amend the National Currency act. At the expiration of the morning hour the Air Line Railroad bill was taken up, and pending discussion upon it and numerous proposed amendments the Senate adjourned, In the House a bill was introduced to distribute the minor offices of the departments equally be- tween the District ana Territories. A btil in refer- ence to an early appointment of midshipmen to the Naval Academy from tne Southern States produced some discussion, on account of its being reported from the Reconstruction Committee that it was passed. The report of the Election Committee tn the Anderson-Switzler contested case was called up, and the resolution that Anderson, republican, was not entitied to the seat was negatived by vote of 65 to 89, end the resolution that Switzler, demo- erat, was so entitie’ was laid on the table. So An- Gerson is afirmed in uis seat, The Heuse then ad- A writ of habeascorpus was issued by Judge In- graham yesterday for the discharge of James Logan, No. 2, supposed to be implicated in the Rogers mur- Ger, and also 4 writ of certiorari for the discharge of Logan, his brother. James will appear be- fore Jadgé Ingraham in the Supreme Court, Cham- bers, this morning. The Legislature. In the Senate yesterday a number of bivis of local importance were introduced. Among those of gen- ‘eral interest are bills to amend the laws in relation @ voussle or property hat mas be cast avon any NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. island, lake or river shore of this State, and em- Powering the East Side Railroad to lay rails through certain streets in this city. Three unimportant bills Were also passed, A number of notaries public were confirmed in executive session. In the Assemhiy Speaker Younglove announced the different committees, He also made a number of appointments. Bills were introduced to amend the Metropolitan act, to amend the Excise law and relative to constructing piers on North river. Miscellaneous. A petition is being circulated in the House of Rep- resentatives asking the Senate not to confirm any more of President Johnson's nominations this ses- sion, It is said that this movement has the sanction of General Grant, and was started by his particular friends, the object being to prevent the incoming ad - ministration from being burdened or embarrassed with the appointments of President Johnson. ‘The Committee on Elections commenced yesterday ‘the investigation of the contested election case from Loutsiana, in which the negro, Menard, is interested, Menard {s to appear before the committee to-day and make an argument in his own behalf. The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs have ap- pointed half-past ten o'clock next Tuesday to hear the plea of General Raasloi, Danish Envoy Extraor- dinary, on the question of the sale of St. Thomas, The treaty, it is expected, will be favorably reported to the Senate. The National Women’s Rights Convention at Washington adjourned stne die yesterday, after adopting resolutions demanding suffrage and the privilege of holding oMfice for negroes and women; the right of the same to choose their own occupa- tions and receive men’s wages Tor men’s work, and that, in reconstruction, suffrage shall be based on loyalty and intelligence. A committee was ap- pointed to prepare an address to Congress and the people. Several of the Indy delegates have already determined on seats in Congress. The Inauguration Committee having found con- siderable difficulty in securing a hall of sufficient capacity in Washington city for holding the proposed ball, General Grant has relleved them of their dim- culty by suggesting that the ball is unnecessary, and, if the choice is left to him, might be dispensed with altogether, T. W. Tipton was on Wednesday re-elected United States Schator from Nebraska, The Indiana Legis- lature Is still balloting. Gumback has withdrawn. The Peabody Educational Fund ‘trustees held their second annual meeting in Baltimore yesterday and accepted the report of Mr. Sears, the general agent, who represents the cause of education in the South to have been greatly advanced by Mr. Peabody's do- nation. General Grant and Admiral Farragut were among the trustees present. The State Temperance Convention convened in Rochester on the 19th inst. Strong resolutions mak- ing temperance a political question were introduced and discussed, Gerrit Smith, among others, advo- cating their adoption in a speech of some length. The President yesterday nominated Mr. R. Cum- mings as Internal Revenue Assessor of the First district of New York. Tho City. In the Board of Health yesterday an appropriation of fifty dollars was granted to purchase apparatus for analyzing the air of theatres, public schools and churches. Dr. Harris, the Registrar of Vital Statis- tics, was elected Sanitary Superintendent anf Dr. Styles and Dr. Morris assistants. It is anticipated that John ©. Braine, of the rebel navy, who has been in confinement for two years in the Kings county jail in Brooklyn, will be released under the President’s amnesty; but the United States District Attorney in Brooklyn has as yet received no instructions in the matter trom the Attorney General. An explosion and fire occurrea yesterday after- noon in the grocery store of John 8. Eden, North Fourth and Third streets, Williamsburg, and two children were suffocated. The upper stories were occupied as tenements and the rest of the inmates made a narrow escape. The fire is supposed to have been incendiary, and Eden has been arrested. A barrel of kerosene exploded with terrific effect dur- ing the fire. Tae'Fruit ‘rowers’ Club, with Mrs. Dr. Hallock in the chair, held a meeting at Agricultural Hall, Broadway, yesterday. The Fire Commissioners of Brooklyn on Wednes- day disbanded three engine companies, four hose cevmpanies and one hook and ladder company, re- presenting an aggregate of 276 volunteer firemen. In the United States District Court yesterday the trial of Biafsdell, Eckel and McLaren, charged with violation of the Internal Revenue law, progressed to the close of the summing up of counsel. Judge Blatchford wilt charge the jury at the opening of the court this morning. James McLaughlin, who has been on trial in the United States Circuit Court for the past three days, was yesterday convicted of the charge against him, perjury. Sentence was deferred. inthe Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, hear- ing of counsel in the New York Central Railroad im- brogiio was resumed. Mr. Vanderbilt made another affidavit, and the answer of defendants was put in. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Mary Anne Possing, allas Sharp, who pleaded guilty to a cherge of grand larceny, and who was dubbed by Judge Bedford as “one of the worst women in New York,” was sentenced by the Court to the State Prison for four years. Annie Wilson, a “pal of the other woman, Possing, con- victed of stealing a gold watch and chain from the person, was sentenced to the State Prison for two years. George Higgins and William Heischborg plead guilty to larceny, and were sentenced by Judge Bedford to the State Prison, each for two years and six montns, Alexander Davidson pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and was sentenced to the Peniten- tiary for one year. James Williams was convicted of burglary in the third degree, and was sentenced’ by Judge Bedford to five years’ imprisonment in the State Prison. James Reagan pleaded guilty to robbery in the first degree, and was sentenced by the same Judge to five years’ imprisonment in the State Prison. The steamship City of Antwerp, Captain Mire house, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river atone P. M. to-morrow for Queenstown and Liverpbol. The European matis will close at the Post Office at eleven A. M. 23d inst. The National line steamship Denmark, Captain Qytting, will sail from pter 47 Nortn river at twelve M. on Saturday, 23d inat., for Liverpool via Queens- The Anchor line steamship Towa, Captain Medder- Wick, will leave pier 90 North river at tweive o'clock noon to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool. The General Transatlantic Company's steamship Ville de Paris, Captain Surmont, wil leave pier 50 North river about one P. M. to-morrow Brest and Havre. The malls for France will close at the Post Office at eleven A. M. 234 inst, The Merchants’ line steamship Sherman, Captain Henry, will be despatched at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) from pier No. 12 North river, for New Orleans direct. The Black Star line steamship Huntsville, Captain Crowell, will sail from] pier No. 13 North river, at three P. M. on Saturday, 234 inst., for Savannah, Ga. The steamer General Sedgwick, Captain Gilderdale, will leave pier No. 21 East river, to-morrow (Satur- das) afternoon for Galveston, Texas. ‘The stock market yesterday was unsettled and irregular. Sides are taking for @ heavy contest be- tween the “bulla” and “bears.’’ Gold weakened and declined to 135%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Ex-Mayor R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati; General George M. Dodge, of Washington, and E. M. Leaven- worth, of Syracuse, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Dr. George P. Riswell, of Philadelphia; H. 8. Mo- Com) and Samuel H. Edgar,’ of ‘Delaware; Judge G. S. Munger, of Rochester; Dr. J. W. Wilkie, of Au- burn, and Benjamin Field, of Aibion, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Bullock, Of Massachusetts, is at the Brevoort House. Dr. Ford, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Paymaster Irving, of the United States Navy; J. J. Markland, of Provi- dence, and J. Austin Mcvonald, of Philadelphia, sre at the Metropolitan Hotel, Colonel J. W. Barlow, of the United States Army, and W. F. Boggs, of Halifax, N. 8., are at the Astor House. Colonel J. Buckland, 6f Ohio; Dr. W. Marshall, of Nitnote, and B. R. Hooper, of Lowell, Mass, are at the St. Julien Hotel ‘ rific defeat. counted upon has failed, for the eggs are addled. The regular Seward organ of this city was getting on hopefully, very hopefully, with a charming budget of offices and spoils in behalf of the so-called conservative republi- cans, until the preposterous fizzle of the attempt to fuse them with the democracy in the steaming chowder pot of the Philadelphia Johnson Convention. ended the funny career of the orator of the day in Congress, but resulted in the necessity for a new departure and a new organ in New York for the firm of Seward, Weed, Morgan, Conkling and Andy Johnson. The impeach- ment to the contrary, they were all in it; for while Morgan and Conkling were voting to convict their factotum was raising money from the whiskey rings to buy up two or three Senators at ten thousand apiece for the acquit- tal of Johnson. concern, by joint stock contributions. we are not mistaken, ten thousand cash, Mr. Conkling ten thou- sand, Mr. more or less, from different parties, until enough was secured to float a nominal capital of three hundred thousand dollars. What then? The programme was to save all ob- tained and to get all that could be got out of Johnson in spoils, while working to secure the inside track in the Senate, the Cabinet, the Custom House, &c., under Grant. was set back on probation, Weed was required to keep in the shade and Dana was brought into the foreground. rand in diplomacy. He hit upon the idea that & man who won't be bullied may be hum- bugged, and hence the brilliant conceit of Greeley for the mission to England as the proper successor for Reverdy Johnson. distinction, it was supposed, would serve two purposes—one in satisfying the fighting philo- sopher, and one in getting him out of the way. Tho Victory ef Fenton—Terrible Defeat of the Morgau Faction, Thurlow Weed came into political life on the dead body of one Morgan, and goes out’ with the dead body of another Morgan. The first Morgan, though bogus, was “a good enough Morgan till after the election ;” but the last Morgan, though genuine, was ‘‘a good enough Morgan” only till the election came on. Weed came in under the wing of Seward and goes out under the wing of Hugh Hastings. The dethroned king of the lobby jobbers has re- tired tothe more genial climate of South Caro- lina, there to ruminate over the ruins of Charleston, like Marius, on a small scale, over the ruins of Carthage, while the managers and the trumpeters of his faction, left behind, “make Rome howl” with their impotent rage. The election of Fenton to the Senate in the place of Morgan is a terrible defeat to the Seward-Weed-Morgan faction. Down to 1860 it was the political firm of ‘‘Seward, Weed and Greeley.” But then, although Seward and Weed were fattening on the spoils, Greeley, on bran bread and dry promises, was getting rather thin in the legs. while Seward was thrown upon his beam ends Weed set up the war whoop and the war dance, and has been fighting on that line ever since till finally knocked off his pins and laid out stiff and cold with Morgan. things to all men; perfect in his r4le of Oliver le Dain, the king’s barber; taking everything as fish that came into his net, and fishing for everything; denouncing to-day Tom, Dick and Harry as thieves and traitors, and sharing with them on the morrow the profits of a lobby | job, Weed has conciliated old‘ enemies or made new friends with an opening on free wool, a shoddy contract, a steamboat, a guano venture or a whiskey ring ; but though flexible in everything else, his wrath against Greeley and all his tribe has been stronger than. free wool, shoddy or whiskey. Upon this one idea of a rival to be put down at any cost, large as have been the lobby pickings and perquisites of Weed, we dare say that much has been saved to the treasury—city, State and fede- ral—from the war between these implacable factions. So he bolted, and All The decisive split has come in Morgan's ter- An immense brood of chickens That fiasco not only The new organ was set up, a joint stock If Mr. Morgan put in Roberts ten thousand, and so on, Raymond Dana is a sort of Talley- This This was the programme. The first essential in carrying it out was the defeat of Fenton as candidate for the nomination to the Vice Presi- dency on the ticket with Grant, and he was defeated. The next thing was to secure the re-election of Morgan to the Senate, and in this view, it appears, Morgan and his political ring contributed very liberally the sinews of war in many doubtful districts. Indeed, we are told that Morgan’s money car- ried the Legislature for the republican party ; that he has reason to think he had carried the Senatorial caucus, and that he has become so completely acclimated to high life in Washing- ton, to say nothing of its honors and emolu- ments, that the matter of money was to him @ small matter in view of another term of six years there equal to that of the first Bull Run. liant progrdmme we have outlined, with its mission to England and all its beautiful cas- tles in Spain, has vanished like the delusive pictures of the mirage in the desert. Morgan and his men, with their own money and their own guns turned against them, are done for, and Fenton and his faction have secured the the Senate. Byt upon this vital issue beon & dead failure—nay, o disaster The bril- magic lamp, at the rubbing of which a Cabinet portfolio, or a post office, or a custom hens, or a palace across the sea rises into vi. with a beckoning hand at the door. Well, such is the whirligig of politics, and if Mr, Morgan has been beaten by his own money he must remember that the love of money is the root of allevil. But with Conk- ling still in reserve against the radical ring, Fenton, keen, cunning and unscrupulous as he may be in party tactics, may still have a hard fight before him. In any event, we have here a split in the republican camp over which the New York democracy may rub their hands and chuckle with some satisfaction at the inviting prospect of Detter things to come. een Witere Tarre’s a Witt Tagre’s A War— But fn the present Senatorial imbroglio in Indiana there seem to be two Wills in the way—Will Cumback and Will Holloway, The lie is out between them, and they both bear the reputation of being fighting men, having been colonels of Indiana regiments during the war. The Cincinnati Commercial thinks there is @ wey out of the trouble without blogdahed. A Bogus Plea for the Telegraph Monopo- lists. The telegraph ring, in their extremity, have put forth in one of their organs an elaborate statement designed to show by figures the great advantage to the public in general and to the press in particular of leaving the tele- graph business of the country in the hands of a grasping and ‘‘pestiferous” monopoly, and the injury they would suffer by allowing the government to become the transmitter of tele- graphic messages, as it now is of mail corre- spondence. The object is to make it appear ‘| that the people enjoy better accommodation, cheaper rates and more liberality and courtesy from a private company in the telegraph busi- ness than they would if the lines were under control of government employs. ‘‘Might your name be Smith?” asked a stranger of a passenger in the street. ‘Well, it might’be,” was thereply ; “but it’s not Smith, by a darned sight.” The case made out by the telegraph ring might be a good one but for the difficulty that all the figures are bogus and all the pre- tended facts the merest fiction, The truth is that the acquisition of the tele- graph by the government in every instance wherever it has been tried has led to three results—the extension of facilities to the pub- lic, the cheapening of rates and the increase in the number of messages sent over the wires. In Belgium the adoption of the gov- ernment system was followed by a reduction of thirty-three per cent in the rates, which immediately occasioned an increase of eighty per cent in the number of messages. A further reduction of fifty per cent in the rate in the same country in 1866 produced an additional increase of eighty-five per cent in the messages. In Prussia in 1867 9 reduction of thirty-three per cent in the rate was fol- lowed by an increase in the very first month after the change of seventy per cent in the messages. In France in 1862 a reduction of thirty-five per cent in the rate was followed by an increase of sixty-four per cent in the messages. In Switzerland, in January, 1868, the inland rate of telegraphing was reduced fifty per cent, and in the first three months there was an increase of ninety per cent in the number of inland messages over the cor- responding three months of the previous year. These facts were established before the committee of the British Parliament, from official reports of the several. governments, and they show, first, that the reduction of the rates of telegraphing is a uniform result of the government system, and that such reduction immediately draws into the use of electric cor- respondence a large number of additional per- sons, and thus increases and extends the use- fulness of this important means of communi- cation. Equally clear from statistical state- ments is the fact that the rate of telegraphing in countries where the lines are owned by the government and worked in the interest of the people is from fifty to seventy-five per cent lower than in countries where the business is in the hands of private corporations. What- ever fraudulent statements and bogus figures may be paraded to deceive the unintormed and to aid the lobby in their’ efforts to defeat the proposed telegraphic reform, it is clearly established that the vernment system secures cheap rates, increases the facilities for telegraphing and largely extends the use of the electric wires among the people as a means of communication. The character of this fraudulent plea for the Western Union monopoly is shown in the statement which purports to prove the advan- tages derived by the press where the tele- graph is in private hands by a pretended com- parison of the rates in Continental Europe and the United States. A table is made out of the gross receipts and average cost of tele- grams in Continental Europe for the year 1866, showing the latter to be eighty-one cents per message, and of the gross receipts and average cost of press telegrams in the United States for the same year, showing the latter to be three and a half cents per mes- sage. But the European statement is based upon individual telegrams, while the latter is for press telegrams, there being no fair com- parison between the two. Nor is this all. The bogus figures pretend to show that the gross receipts of the Western Union Company for messages furnished to all the newspapers in the United States in 1866 were only five hundred thousand dollars. The Hracp itself paid to the Western Union Company in 1866 more than one-fifth of that amount, exclusive of cable special despatches. Thus, either the statement is false or the Heraup pays for its telegraphic news more than one-fifth of the whole amount paid by all the rest of the American press from Madawaska to San Diego. But the fact is that the press, even more than the general business community, is benefited by the government telegraphic system; for the decrease in press rates has uniformly been even greater than that in general rates. Dr. Cameron, the pro- ptietor of the Glasgow North British Mait, testified before the Parliamentary committee that the Scottish newspapers paid to the pri- vate telegraph companies seven hundred and fifty pounds a year for the exclusive use of a ‘special wire for eight hours, while under the Post Office system they were to have a special wire for twelve hours every night for five hun- dred pounds a year. In twelve hours twenty- four thousand words could be transmitted over a wire, and the cost of this under the best terms ever accorded to the press by the Western Union would be nearer two hundred thousand dollars a year than two thousand five hundred dollars. The American jour- nalists aro interested more deeply than any other class in destroying the present ‘‘pestife- rous” telegraphic monopoly, and we need no clearer proof of this fact than the fraudulent and bogus statement made up out of false figures which is put forth in a reputable paper at the behest of the men who are at present in the Washington lobby endeavoring to block the wheels of telegraphic progress and reform. Munster BurtincaMe IN Paris.—We have few additional particulars by cable of the reception of Minister Burlingame and his Chinese coadjutors in Paris. It will be seen that they are soon to be presented to the Emperor, and that they are everywhere received with true ich politeness and cor- diality. This forms a striking contrast with the brusque and uncigil reception they met Dr. Alvah Blaisdell and Mr. J. J. Eckel. In a great and growing city like New York the most startling murder is but'a nine days’ wonder, No more striking illustration of this ean be found than in the fact that scarcely any one remembers how intimately two names which are now daily conspicuous in the reports of an important whiskey case in the Uhited States District Court—the case of the United States vs. Alvah Blaisdell, John J, Eckel and John McLaren—were connected with the Bond street murder case in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Davies, in May, 1857. Tho Bond street murder trial was one of the most remarkable causes céldbres, To this day it is enveloped in mystery. Mrs. Cunningham was charged with the murder of Dr, Burdell, and her friend, Mr. J. J. Eckel, who was also charged with the same crime, was separately indicted and was to have been separately tried, but the indictment against him was quashed when Mrs. Cunningham was acquitted. Dr. Alvah Blaisdell, who had an appointment with Dr. Burdcll on the very evening of the murder, and whose note of hand for a considerable sum of money due to the deceased was found in the latter's pocket, wag so strangely mixed up with the affair that the counsel for the defence, complaining of the course of the prosecution in withholding evi- dence which might be important to show where Dr. Burdell passed that evening, did not hesitate to say, “Why was not Dr, Blaisdell produced? Why was not Demis Hubbard, who was with him that evening, called upon the stand? Ah! she might have been asked if she knew Alvah Blaisdell, and if she answered in the affirmative, then might the jury, with as good reason as any theory of the prosecution could be urged, take this more probable theory—that Demis Hubbard, this kept mis- tress of Dr. Burdell, having been with him that afternoon, and learning that he was married to Mrs. Cunningham, burning with jealousy and a desire of revenge, have en- gaged Alvah Blaisdell to assist her in taking deadly vengeance upon her paramour. It was not for him, as counsel for the defendant, to throw out suspicion on any party, nor did he do so; but he would ask if such a theory as this, taken in connection with the medical proof that the blow was given by a tall and muscular man, and not by a weak woman, was not as probable, to say the least, as any which the public prosecutor had urged with reference to the defendant.” One of the city newspapers which favored this theory of the counsel for the defence was threatened by Dr. Blaisdell with a prosecution for libel, but the case was never brought to trial. Certain friends of Dr. Blaisdell also published cards testifying to an alibi—Sam Weller's father’s favorite legal weapon of defence. Mrs. Cun- ningham’s “bogus baby” revived a temporary interest in the Bardell murder ; but how com- pletely its details have been forgotten by the public is shown, as we have intimated, by the oblivion in which the names of Dr. Alvah Blaisdell and Mr. J. J. Eckel have been buried, until these two men reappear before the courts as partners in alleged extensive whiskey frauds. Once in a while an item goes the rounds of the papers to the effect that Mrs, Cunningham-Burdell has been lately seen somewhere in Central America or in California, But nobody knows what has become of that callow youth Snodgrass, or of his banjo. Will it ever be discovered who murdered Dr. Burdell ? PREPARING FOR THE OCEAN YACHT RACE.— It will be seen by an Atlantic cable despatch received last night that the gallant yachtmen across the water are making preparations for the contemplated great international ocean yacht race. The Cambria is to be altered to fit her for the encounter and make her better able to resist a heavy sea. Her hollow bows are to be filled out, her masts lengthened and her keel weighted. This is going into the busi- ness in true yachtman style. These prepara- tions indicate that when the race comes off our American yachts may expect a stubborn contest. Important Comstnation.—The various ring leaders, land jobbers and subsidy seekers in Washington have consolidated, and from this time out will work harmoniously together, and will assist each other in carrying through Con- gress their respective schemes. The combina- tion is made up of the following parts :— The Western Union Telegraph monopoly ring. The Treasury ring. The railroad subsidy ring. The steamship subsidy ring. The Canadian reciprocity ring. The high tariff league. The Indian agents’ ring. The whiskey ring. The Internal Revenue ring. The Freedmen’s Bureau ring. If the country is not freely bled it will not be for the want of proper application of the sucking powers of the above named leeches. A Fosstt Ivstrrvtion.—The respectable old fogies who manage that antediluvian institu- tion, the American Colonization Society, have given us their annual figures. Receipts, $51,260; expenditures, $64,423; deficit, $13,163. And that is not the worst of it. During the three years since the close of the war the society has gone behind hand $60,000, An examination of their expenditures gives us the following facts:—They have exported to Liberia four hundred and fifty-three darkies at ® cost of $31,766 for transportation and vic- tualling, and $17,657 salaries and rent, and have repaired their ship with the balance, which is $15,000. We recommend these old gentlemen to sell their ship, now they have got her in good repair, and place the money they get for her in the salary fund. She is getting old as well as they, and by this means they may keep up their pay as long as they will probably want it. When the present officers die off we shall have no further use for the fossil institution. Tue CReTANS AND THe AMBRICANS.—A cable despatch informs us, on the authority of an able but eccentric Paris journal, that the President of the Cretan provisional govern- ment has not been captured; that, on the contrary, he is on his way to the United States to raise money and buy fron-clads. Very like awhale, Monsieur De Girardin. M. Le Prési- with in England—at least at the hands of the ; dent had better not givo himself so much leading London journals, trouble, We have had of hia sort, Proposed Amendments to the National Bank Acts Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Fi- nance, introduced in the Senate yesterday a bill proposing to amend the National Bank act in several particulars. It provides that national banks shall make reports whenever required by the Comptroller, which is a good idea, because it will have a tendency to bring rotten concerns up with a round turn when they least expect it; it provides that no national bank shall hold deposits for more than ninety per cent of the bonds it has deposited with the Treasurer, and imposes fine or imprisonment upon bank officers for using corrupt influences to secure government deposits, which will probably be as effective as the laws against bribery and corruption are in Washington or Albany; and goes on to provide for the wind- ing up of banks, the compensation of receivers. and other matters. Congress is already flooded with bills bearing upon financial questions, arld another added to the number will scarcely be noticed. It will require a great deal of Congressional tinkering to make the National Bank act perfect, or approaching perfection. But Mr. Sherman’s amendments are calculated to produce some good, although they meet the subject of reform in the national banking system scarcely half way. Yaorts anp Custom Houst Re@utations.— There is no valid reason why pleasure yachta in the United States, as in England, should not be exempted, like government vessels, from the Custom House regulations applicable to trading vessels. The objection that if yachts were thus exempted filibusters would avail themselves of the opportunity to con- ceal their expeditions under the guise of pleasure excursions might easily be obviated. The exemption should be accorded only to the members of regularly chartered yacht clubs. American yachtmen, whose motive is plea- sure and not pecuniary gain, and whose lib- eral expenditure has already proved a source of national advantage by securing the improve- ment of models and by encouraging a com- mendable taste for marine adventure, ought not to be inconvenienced by restrictions which are necessary only for trading vessels. TROUBLE For Jonn Burt in New ZEa- LAND.—It will be seen by our cable despatches that a frightful massacre of the whites by the natives has occurred at Poverty Bay, New Zealand, We are without particulars, but there is no doubt that the sacrifice of lives has been great, as the native New Zealanders are a warlike race and very bitter in their hostility to the British. It is not long since a similar massacre occurred on the island, and, taken altogether, there is a strong probability that John Bull will rave a busy and a bloody time in putting down the savage malcontents, The French Blue Book. Of the internal condition and the foreign relations of no country under the sun have we had so much information voluntarily commue nicated, since this year commenced, as we have had of those of France. The Emperor delivered his usual address to the foreign am- bassadors on New Year's Day ; M. de la Valette, a few days after, looking down from the serene heights of the imperial eyrie, addressed the representatives of France at foreign courts ; Napoleon has since addressed the Chambers, and now the world is asked to read the French Blue Book. The two addresses of the Emperor, the circular of M. de la Valette and the Blue Book are all bugdened with the one message, which is, that France is well, that she is on good terms with herself and with her Emperor, that her relations with the outside world are satisfactory, that she desires peace, and that she is strong enough to command respect. All this is very well and not wholly untrue. Pity that the same oracles cannot assure us of the perpetuity of the empire and of the eternal reign of Bonapartes. In spite of all this pa- rade and show of words there are many who, though they have no ill will to Napoleon, can< not see the empire after him. Personal gov- ernment has done much for France, but it has not reconciled France to perpetual despotism. ANSWERING THE APPETITE OF IMMI~ GRrants.—The New Orleans Picayune is apprehensive that Southern immigration will be circumscribed on account of the natural disposition of Americans to disregard and to ridicule the appetites of foreigners who come to settle among them. ‘To expect men,” remarks the Picayune, ‘‘who come from regions where the bread of the humblest ia mado from wheaten flour to be happy on corn bread is almost as unreasonable as it would be to expect one of our people to go into ecstacies over an Esquimaux’s moal of blubber or a Chinese rat ple.” Almost as unreasonable as it would be to expect a Louisianian from the interior bayous to be justified if, on a European tour, he should complain of being deprived of his alligator steaks and “sugar cane green.” If foreigners cannot at first admire American diet they will in a short time come round to it. In the words of the old lady when skinning the eels, “They 'll get used to it.” Tne Grant-Banxs Exposr.—A Washington correspondent states that the papers show that Secretary Stanton issued the order for the superseding of General Grant shortly before the fall of Vicksburg. There are no doubt ® great many parts of the private history of the war bearing upon the conduct of the high contracting departments, scandal about leading generals, and so on, that would constitute very curious reading about these days. Now the ball has been opened we suppose the public may prepare for further developments. Strate Temperance Convention.—We pub- lish a report of the proceedings at « meeting of what is called the New York State Tem- perance Society, held in Rochester on the 19th and 20th instant. As foreshadowing an Intention on the part of certain temperance fanatics to throw their influence in the scale of politics and to agitate tho subject of a pro- hibitive liquor law in this State the proceed- ings are significant. A New Paase or raz Turkey Question. — The Cleveland Herald calls Fisk the railroad gobbler. FIRE AT HIGH BRIDGE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY. A disastrous fire occurred on the west side of High Bridge, Westchester ceunty, at six o'clock last night. M y & defective fi a i $11,000 in the a