The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1869, Page 6

Vv 8 ee NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. yar etewantle. oatls 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorE RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. SraEae UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.— lorning and evening. BOND STREET, No. 61.—Mus. M.G. Brown. Evening. CHURCH OF THE RESUBRECTION.—Ray. Dz. Fiaea. Morning and afternoon. COOPER INSTITUTE.—Faes PREacuInG, Morning and evening. BLEECKER, 67 Rav. Dax K. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Ray. Dz. Knoray. ‘Morning and evening. CHURCH OF OUR Savoye. = Lda street.—REV. J. M. PULLMAN. Morning and CHRIST CHURCH, Fifth avenue and Thirty-ffth street.— Rav. Du. Ewan, Evening. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH,—Rrv. Morning and evening. Dz. Oscoop. EVERETT ROOMS.—SrrniTUALISTS. Mzs. BYRNRS. Morning, afternoon and evening. FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH.—Ruv. ©. E. BLAKE. ‘Morning and evening, FREE CHURCH OF THE’ HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. East. BURN BENJAMIN. Morning and evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Rav. Dk. Scorr. Morning and evening. LAMARTINE HALL.—Srizitvatists. Morning, after- noon and evening. MURRAY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rav. Dx. Siv- wey A. Corny. Morning and evening. — HALL.—Srigituaists. Afternoon and eveni: MEMORIAL CHURCH OF BI BISHOP WAINWRIGHT.— Bev. be bsseniacsa amr lest Evenin; UNIVERSITY, Afternoon. WESTMINSTER CHURCH.—Rav. Guo. M. MoECKEON. Morning and afternoon, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, January 24, 1869. Washington 04 square.—BisHorP SNOW. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Dairy Hgraup 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 Heraup at the same price it is furnished in the city. Europe. ‘The cable despatches are dated yesterday. ‘The abolition of the slave trade to the colonies is being agitated in Spain, and will probably be car- Fied. Rivero is to preside over the new constitu- tional Cortes. The transports are nearly ready to convey more reinforcements to Cuba. The troops ‘Will be tanded at Santiago de Cuba to save expense. Paraguay. Rear Admiral Davis reports the delivery to him ‘of Bliss and Masterman by President Lopez, and the fanding of General McMahon on the 12th to pre- Sent his credentials as United States Minister. Cuba. Our despatches by the Cuba cable state that a se- tious riot occurred on Friday night in Havana. In the audience in the Villanueva theatre seditious pries of “Viva Cespedes were raised, and many of the audience commenced singing $he revolutionary hymn. The result was that She troops fired upon the people, which-was returned by them. Many were wounded on both sides. The affair created intense excitement and was regretied by the sensible men of all parties, OMcial publi- ‘ation of the electoral decree for eighteen deputies from Cuba and eleven from Porto Rico had been made. On Friday night there was a riot at the town pf Rigla, opposite Havana; at the same shots were Dred at the two forts. A riot also took place at Ha- vana, yesterday, shots being exchanged before Quiet was restored. No business was done through- Outthe day. Four persons were killed and many ‘wounded at the theatre riot. The Banco del Comer- @io has resumed busines. Vv St. Domingo. The Cuba cable brings contradictory intelligence regarding the civil war in St. Domingo, the govern- ment and revolutionists both claiming victories. The country was generally unsettled. An English broker had arrived atthe capital for the purpose of con- <luding @ loan of $2,000,000 to President Baez. The choover Ophir had landed fifty men with arms and ammunition for the revolutionists on the south part of the island. General Adon is reported to bave obtained an advantage at Neyba. Advices regarding ‘the success of the protectorate movement at Wash- {ngton were anxiously iooked for. Two new agents ‘had been sent by President Baez to Washington. Congress. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Morgan introduced the resolutions of the New York Chamber of Com- merce protesting ns@he further extension of the Bankrupt law. ¢ joint resolution offered sev- ral days since by Mr. Stewart as an amend- ent to the constitution, was made the special ler for Thursday next, Mr. Dixon giving notice he would offer an amendment requiring ratification of the proposed amendment by con- yentions in three-fourths of the States, The amendment made by the House to the joint resolution respecting the provisional governments of Virginia and Texas was concurred in and the re- solution passed. The bill providing for a raliroad between the cities of New York and Washington was taken up and further discussed at length, Mr Sherman quoting the messages of Presidents Folk nd Monroe, and pointing to nearly five hundred precedents in reply tothe arguments against the Fight of Congress to authorize the construction of the proposed road. The bili in relation to the Cen- rai Branch of the Union, Pacific Railroad was taken up and considered until half-past three o'clock, when eulogies upon Representative Hinds, of Arkansas, ‘were delivered, and at four o'clock the Senate ad- journed. In the House Mr. Boutwell called up and in a two hours’ speech thoroughly discussed the proposed amendment to the constitution and the bill forbid- Ging States from denying or abridging the right of any citizen to vote by reason of his race, color or previous condition. Mr. Brooks moved to amend the bill by striking out the word ‘citizen’ wherever it occurs and substituting the word “person,” so as to apply to women and foreigners above the age of twenty-one years. Mr. Van Wyck asked leave to offer a resolution calling on the President for his reasons for remitting $32,000 fines against two Ken- tuckians convicted for whiskey frauds. Mr. Brooks bjected to the resolution on the ground that it was ® Kentucky and not a New York question, Mr. Robmson presented petitions of New York citizens for the removal of the Hell Gate obstructions in the East river, and soon after the House adjourned. Miscellaneous. ‘We publish this morning the full text of the treaty ebncluded between Minister Johnson and Ear! Clar- endon with regard to the boundaries of the United tates and British America. The President of the Confederation is named as the referee in the » We also publish the text of the protocol @greed upon regulating tie citizenship of persons ‘who may emigrate to the United States or Great Britain. Secretary Seward has submitted to the Senate the correspondence in the negotiations fer the by the United States of the Danish ‘West India Islands, Mr. Seward shows that be made the proposition to purchase those ° . NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY JANUARY 24, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. islands with the approval and authority of | Christianity and the President Lincoln, The first sum named by tne Danish Minister as an equivalent for the islands was $25,000,000; but subsequently his government re- ceded considerably in their demands, and agreed to receive the amount stipulated in the treaty. At Baltimore yesterday the entire fire department of the city and several hundred of the police were Teceived by General Grant. Subsequent the General held a public reception, which was attended by a large number of citizens, including Governor Bowie, After the reception General Grant left for Washing- ton. The amount of fractional currency issued during the last week was $942,000. Of this sum $100,000 was sent to the Assistant Treasurer at Boston, @ like amount to the Assistant Treasurer at Philadelphia, and $190,833 were distributed to national , banks, During the week the amount of currency redeemed and destroyed was $582,428. About fifty members of the Missouri Legislacure have expressed their willingness to submit the ques- tion of female suffrage to the people of the State. Ex-Governor Fenton arrived at his home in James- town yesterday afternoon, and was cordially re- cetved by his friends. ‘The question of eligibility to office has been brought before the Georgia courts by the issuance of a writ of quo warranto against White, the colored clerk of the Cheatham county court. In the Quebec Legislative Assembly a number of petitions have been presented from French Cana- dians in various parts of the Unitea States express- ing a desire to return to their native country, and asking the Legislature to afford them the same ad- vantages as are allowed to European emigrants. Bogart, the defaulting clerk of the man-of-war Vermont, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has been re- arrested near Montreal. A deputation of Iroquois and Algonquin chiefs called upon the Governor General of Canada yester- day. They were decorated with Indian belts of great antiquity, one of them indicating the treaty of amity concluded with Great Britain when his na- tion crossed into Canada from the United States, At Ottawa, Canada, the thermometer was seven- teen degrees below zero on Friday night. The ferries at Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie are again closed by ice, and at Newburg the ferryboat is compelled to travel two miles out of her way to get across the river. The various ice companies are making the most of the ‘cold snap,” and have hun- dreds of ‘men at work gathering the ice crop of the Hudson. The City. About four o’clock yesterday morning Dr. Beach, residing at No. 35 Bond street, was awakened by the presence of a burglar in his bedroom. The burglar became alarmed and made his escape into the street, when he was seen and followed by officer Randall, and finally overtaken and secured. During his flight he turned and fired upon his pursuer, but without injuring him. The burglar and would-be murderer calls himself George Jones and claims to be a book- keeper. There was excellent skating on all the ponds in the city and vicinity yesterday, and the attendance of skaters was immense. It is calculated that there ‘were over 20,000 persons on the Central Park lakes alone. The examination in the case of the United States vs. William Marsh, the appraiser in the Custom House who is charged with complicity with the Guiterman Brothers in smuggling large quantities of silk goods, was commenced before Commissioner Betts yesterday. The further hearing was post- Poned to the 28th Inst. Eugene Riley was taken before Justice Dowling yesterday upon @ charge of having won the sum of $2,200 from Joseph W. Wingate, at one sitting, in a gambling house on the southwest corner of Bleecker street and Broadway. Mary Anderson, with half a dozen altases, | a noto- rious shoplifter, was brough from Philadelphia yes- terday by an officer of that city and taken before Jus- tice Dowling, who committed her to answer a num- ber of charges which have been standing against her for some time. She has already served two terms in the State Prison. On motion of the District attorney Monday | morn- ing was fixed for passing the sentence of the Court on Blaisdell, Eckel and McLaren, convicted of charges of detraudfng the government through vio- lations of the Internal Revenue law. Judge Benedict has announced that on the ist Proximo all the parties convicted the present term of the United States Circuit Court will receive sentence. The Watson & Crary whiskey case was up for ar- gument before Judge Benedict on @ motion to quash & Bew indictment on the ground of a former acquit- tal. Counsel were yesterday heard on argument before Judge Blatchford on a motion to dissolve the attach- ment on the Stevenson property, claimed by the government, but which claim a jury set aside. District Attorney opposed. ‘The The stock market yesterday was strong and buoy- ant. Gold touched 136% and closed at 136%. ‘The markets, with but few exceptions, were ex- tremely quiet yesterday. Coffee was moderately sought after and held witn firmness. Cotton was in limited demand and lower, the market closing heavy at 282. for middling uplands. On 'Change flour was in moderate request, at about former prices. Wheat was firm, with a moderate demand. Corn was slow of sale, but unchanged in value, while oats were quiet, and a shade lower. Pork was firmly held, at former prices, with a fair de- mand. Beef was steady, while lard was in improved demand and higher. Freights were quiet, but rates were generally steady. Naval stores were in demand and held with firmness. Petroleum was firm at 23\c. a 24c. for crude (in bulk), and 36c. a 8%, for refined. Whiskey was inactive and heavy. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut; E. C. Bal- ley and T. W. Pierce, of Boston; Bradley T. Johnson, of Richmond, Va., and Colonel Osborn, of St. Louis, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General D. Vickar and John H. Kemper, of Phila- delphia; G. M. Coghill, of the United States Navy; Professor Ford, of Ann Arbor; Antonio Cintra, Lo- renzo Imenoz and Ricardo Pimentel, of South America, are stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel F. Doubleday, Captain Irwin and Captain Norton, of the Cnited Staves Army; Professor Thorpe, of St. Louis, and J. R. McDonald, of Montreal, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Professor Robertson, of Buffalo; Dr. White, of Montreal, and E. R. McArthur, of Toronto, C. W., are at the St. Julien Hotel. Congressman N. P. Banka, of Massachusetts; Mayor Solomon Turck, of Dubuque, and General James 3, +Whitney, of Boston, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Tar Preto Scnoors.—An “organ of the people” that cannot conceal its supercilious contempt of the people, in the course of recent onslaughts against free education, has brought to light the fact that one of our richest mer- chants sends his son to the people's college. This is an evidence, says the organ, that the college is for rich men’s sons, not poor men’s sons, But what is the truth? This :—Of two thousand pupils of the New York College thir- teen hundred are the sons of mechanics and laborers. Mr. Claflin’s son goes there; and what does that prove? It proves that Mr. Claflin believes the education to be had at the New York College is equal to any to be had elsewhere, and, moreover, that Mr. Claflin is @ man of good republican principles. We are sorry that the millionaires can teach republi- canism to journalists, Tae Porice.—The police on the upper end of the island are particularly efficient. Their conduct in the recent riotous demonstration at the High Bridge fire is worthy of all praise for brave resolution in the performance of dif- ficult and dangerous duty. Cur anv Cvm(sack) AGatn—Theo late Sena- torial contest in Indiana, But it seems that Cumback won't cut again. He has lost not only his cut, but his deal. ———— Agents of Modern Civilization. In another place in this day's Herat» we publish quite a mass of religious intelligence. The religious columns, as usual, are full of varied and interesting matter. To know what is doing among the Churches there is now no better channel to which to have recourse than the columns of the Heratp. The intelligence is not selected on any narrow, sectarian prin- tt development. of the convinced, besides, that Christianity, while it shall be permanent, is destined to drop many of its earthly ele- ments and to reveal more and more the divinity of its origin, it is our object to do justice to all the past and all the present and to point with hope to the better future. In a recent article in these columns we stated that the religion of Jesus, although not yet universally accepted, although, in fact, the acknowledged religion of only a section of the human family, was virtually already the gov- erning religion of the world—was the parent of all the great forces of modern times, and was, by the aid of these forces, all of which are devoted to her service, rapidly marching to universal empire, In making the statement we did not mean to convey the idea that any/| one of the many forms under which Chris- tianity now exists would triumph over all th others, but that as time rolled on it woul t approach more nearly the divine pattern ;; would recover somewhat of its original sim- plicity ; would benefit by contact with other systems; would adapt itself to every new and improved condition of things, and would thus, by giving point and purpose to all the forces of modern civilization, not only command universal obedience, but call forth uni- versal love and reverence. We cannot however, compliment the Churches for their | tact and discernment. It is true that Chris- tianity has triumphed, and triumphed glo-' riously. Itis trae that the future is bright! with promise, But it is not true that its past/ success and its present hopefulness are due to} the skill and good sense of the Churches. ! The Churches have more often been a drag to progress than an aid to it. The success of Christianity has been the result rather of its own inherent vitality and aggressiveness than of any help it has received from its so-called friends and followers. We know that there have been some brilliant exceptions, that Christianity has not been without its heroes; but these men shine out of the general dark- ness rather because of the resistance-they en- countered than because of the success they achieved. It will be well if in the times to come the Churches and their leaders pay more attention to the spirit and less to the letter and the form. Our hope, however, of the final triumph of, the religion of Jesus is based less on the pi bable doings of so-called religious associations than upon agencies to which the religious) associations will be compelled to yiela— / such agencies as the steam engine, the, electric telegraph, the printing press and the other mechanical forces of the grow- ing future. These will be the great preach- ers of the coming* times. These will be the new heralds of the old Gospel. Witha mightier force, with a more aggressive energy, with a more persuasive utterance, will they proclaim those truths which, though old, are ever new. They are proclaiming those truths already, and proclaiming them with more power and greater success than all the preach- ers. It is an incontestable fact that these are the controlling forces of modern civilization. It ia just as incontestable that modern ci tion, if it has aright to be named by any name, has a right to be called Christian. All that it represents is limited and controlled by Christianity. Wherever the railroad, the tele- graph, the steamboat, the steam plough appear, | they are felt to be destructive of ancient and venerated opinions; but they are felt; also to be Christian. In Turkey, in Egypt, in India the railroad and the telegraph are managed by the native Nazarene. Much, however, as the Nazarene is hated, his power is confessed and submitted to. Fifty yeard ago! How great is the change which has passed over the world since then! Fifty years hence! How different will be the world of that day from the world of the present! We stand on the confines of the great past and of & greater future. The world is on the eve of 8 great crisis. Science is disclosing new won- ders every day. Forces are being discovered, chained and made subservient to human neces- sities and wants. The old forces are being reduced to more perfect obedience. The me- chanical appliances of modern civilization, in fact, are multiplying with a rapidity which makes calculation impossible. What new things are in store for us we can but dimly = We know only for certain that m civilization will rush to dniversal do- minion and that Christianity will continue to give to it its tone and character. The preachers have long and to but little purpose talked of the millennium. It is doubtful, indeed, if they will know the mil!-n- nium when it comes. Have they ar vod reason to conclude that the millennium is not already entered upon? ‘Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased.” Such, says the Book, will be one of the earlier indi- cations of its advent. There is certainly no lack of running to and fro; and, what with the newspaper and the telegraph, knowledge is surely being increased. Such are the facili- ties for acquiring information that even he who runs may read and understand. There are many points of resemblance between the times that now are and the times that wit- nessed the first triumphs of Christianity. But for the Roman law, which gave unity to the empire; but for the Roman roads, which made travelling easy and safe; but for the general knowledge of the Greck tongue, which facilitated the communication of thought, the success of the first preachers of Christianity would neither have been so immediate nor #0 complete. These advantages were great, but they are not for @ moment to be compared with the adeaatages now enjoyed. Christian civilization, in spite of its national divisions, marks the limits of an empire compared with which the empire of the Cwsars sinks into insignificance. The Roman road has been superseded by, the rail- road and the steamboat. The facilities of the printing press and the telegraph are some- thing more important than the mere general diffusion of any tongue. The civilized nations will become more and more a unit ; intercourse will become more general; thought will be, quickened, and in proportion as this ad-| vance is made so will Christianity advance ta, the consummation of her power. One ot ality, one language, one religion—and that religion Christianity—such is no longer an impossibility. If such a consummation will not constitute the millennium what will consti- tute it? Let the preachers look out. It may be closer at hand than they imagine. Our INFLUENCE ON THE EastgEN NaTIONS.— In Japan the Northerners have beaten the Southerners to powder, and are flooding the country with an illimitable quantity of paper money. uD Tue INAUGURATION BALLS THAT GENERAL Grant Likes—The iron balls that inaugu- rated the downfall of Vicksburg. Bap SKATING FoR MILLINERS AND DREss- MAKERS.—The ball down in Washington. The Herald Advertisements. Mrs. Frances Trollope some thirty odd years ago published a book entitled ‘‘The Domestic Manners of the Americans,” compared with which the loose, slipshod, catchpenny ‘‘Ameri- can Notes” of Dickens and his cockney criti- cisms were mere milk and water. The lamented old lady found everything in this country ina crude and semi-barbaric condi- tion, and after travelling all over it she said that the only place in the Union which had any- thing in it of the elements of a cosmopolitan city was New York, but that even New York was only a few removes from barbarism. If the disgusted Madame had only survived to make another trip to America and a profitable course of readings after a lapse of. twenty-five years or so, like Dickens, and had been dined and wined and blarneyed like Mr. Chuzzlewit by the Bohemians, she would likewise, no doubt, have protested that the Americans are not only a progressive but a very delightful peo- ple, especially in New York. The truth is, however, that from the New York of Madame Trollope’s day to the New York of 1869 we have advanced from a primi- tive settlement in a corner of Manhattan Island to an imperial metropolis, numbering, with its suburbs, a million and a half of people. When Madame _ Trollope was here the New York HERALD was not in existence. Now, in our new estab- lishment at the central point, to and from which all the great arteries of the city radiate, we command as well all the great arteries of communication with every quarter and corner of the globe. We have advanced to this estate from beginnings quite as unpromising as the original Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. But the founder of the Hzraup, like Old Peter Stuyvesant, saw that this was the place for him. He saw, too, what Old Peter the First did not see—that here there was an opening fora new public journal on new principles and new ideas, in reference to its editorial policy, its news columns and ad- vertisements. The editorial policy adopted was not neutrality in politics, but perfect inde- pendence in reference to religious sects or political parties; its news policy was that of the earliest possible publication of intelligence from every quarter, regardless of cost; its system of advertising was that of a renewal every day, dispensing with the aids of adver- tising agents or middlemen entirely. Under this general system, though plain as daylight, the success of the HEgratp is re- garded as one of the wonders of this age of wonderful things. Our advertising columns from day to day represent the currents of trade and the progress and prosperity of the city. The recapitulation in the matter of advertisements in another part of this paper will afford some ideas to the uninitiated reader of the scope and value of an advertisement in this journal. Our advertisers understand it. They know from our heavy circulation in all the business channels of city and country that an advertisement in the Hzratp is cheaper and better than one in each and all the other journals of the city, in view of quick returns and good profits. Our superior circulation gave the first momentum to our advertisers, but now our advertisements to a great body of our readers are the most valuable feature of the paper, and to all of them are one of the great commanding advantages of the Heratp. The reason lies in the simple fact that, from our Personals to our Miscellaneous classification, there is always @ great variety of interesting things in our advertisements, and things of importance in the practical affairs of life not to be found in any other journal nor in any other department even of the Heratp. Appreciating none the less the main secret of the Hzratp’s commanding circulation, we propose no slackening in our efforts in this age of steam and telegraphs for the earliest and fullest news from every point of the compass. If we expended the sum of over half a million of money to secure the first and fullest reports of the movements and events connected with our late civil war, the investment has paid us handsomely ; if in our reports of the Abys- sinian expedition, to the crowning success of the skilful Napier, wo were often ahead of the British government itself, we have for the heavy cost incurred been handsomely indem- nified. It is from such enterprises that we have to a great extent built up our advertising columns, Another of the secrets of our suc- cess lies in our independent expositions on political affairs, and religious and reform move- ments of all sorta, and this line of policy we have no thought of changing. The advertiser in the Heratp for the first time tries it under the impression that all sects, all parties and all classes read it, and that the Herato will carry his notice to every hole and corner on the face of the earth where the English lan- guage is spoken or understood. Then he re- peats his advertisement because he has sub- stantial reasons for believing his first impres- sion to be correct. Finally, if Madame Trol- lope were now living, she would ask no better evidence of the cosmopolitan character of New York city than tho advertising columns of the Haran, The Tonnage ef Yachts and the Proposed ; Ocean Yacht Race. We have hitherto shown that any measure- ment of ships to find their tonnage save such as gave the actual displacement of the ship was based on a ridiculous fiction, a piece of technical nonsense, and we are glad to see that the subject is attracting in other quarters also the attention it deserves. We gave yes- terday the statement of Mr. Kennard that his steam yacht, the Octavia, measured by dif- ferent systems in use, varied from 840 to 650 tons, and this fact alone sufficiently exposes the falsity of what is thus called measurement. In another column of this paper we give an article from Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, in which this point is discussed with full know- ledge of the several systems in use, From the article in question we learn—what we had supposed might possibly be true—that the Dauntless is within the terms of Mr. Ashbury’s challenge, supposing that challenge to be simply intended. That is to say, if Mr. Ash- bury meant that he was willing to race with a boat not more than ten per cent larger than his own boat, by a fair and actual measure- ment of each boat, then the Dauntless is the craft for the occasion, since this boat is not ten per cent, but only four per cent, larger than the Cambria, But Mr. Ashbury says that he will race with a yacht not more than ten per cent larger than the Cambria “by Thames Yacht Club measurement.” This is quite another thing; for this is a measurement by which yachts of a model different from the Cambria are made to appear on paper larger than that boat, though they may be really smaller. The question then arises, did Mr. Ashbury know that the measurement he imposes gave him this advantage, and did he impose that mea- surement in the full knowledge that by it he might secure a race with a vessel really smaller than his own, though nominally larger— that he might have the credit of a generous spirit in seeming to give an advantage in size, yet really have the advantage of size in his own favor? Which will he choose? He lies under the implication, on the one hand, of hav- ing made a disingenuous proposition, or, on the other, of not knowing the full effect of the system of measurement he requires the race to be made on. Watt Srreer.—There is wonderful una- nimity among the operators in Wall street nowadays. The return of easy money, the approaching completion of the Pacific Railroad and the prospects of a heavy spring trade stimulate speculation, particularly in the rail- way stocks, which, it is thought, will be the first property of the country to feel the effect of the busy era on which we are entering. The speculators all think alike. It used to be the lying down together of the lion and the lamb that was to forerun the happy time of peace, but now it is the lying (particularly the lying) down together of the bulls and bears that presages the felicitous era, Western Uston ann Watt StreEt.—There is a “movement” in Western Union in Wall street. Is it founded upon an intimation from the committee room in Congress that “things are fixed” for the sale of the line to govern- ment at an extravagant figure? Or is it, like most “‘movements” .in that locality, a strata- gem to enable the present holders of the stock to ‘“‘unload” upon the public against the ex- pected building of an independent line by the Postal Department? InpiA Rusper ADVEETISING—Reports of Grant's visits to tobacco, iron, copper and oys- ter-packing establishments in Baltimore. A CHANcE For DAMAGES For Fatse IM- PRISONMENT—Mrs. Twitchell’s case in Phila- delphia. Fenton To a New York Epiror—‘“Thou art a little villain.” Answer—‘‘You are—a Senator.” Our Paris Fashion Letter. Our sparkling Paris fashions correspondent gives in another column an interesting re- view or summing up of the fashions for the expired year, 1868. Fashion is arraigned be- fore the bar of public opinion and taste for her vagaries, caprices and doings generally. On the whole she claims to have been a bonne Sie the past year. The only mistake she ad- mits having made has been in “‘panniers, red stockings and heels,” She does not regret the Venetian slashing nor medieval styles, for they are chivalric ; nor short pants and calves, and only mourns that the latter are stuffed. She confesses no more sins than these. Will the ladies—will our American fashionable ladies admit as much? Are they against the panniers, red stockings (which, by the by, have never taken much here), the heels, short pants and the calves that arq natural? We rather think the verdict will be in favor of heels, which give a beautifal, arched appear- ance to the dainty feet of our American belles, and to the panniers, which give substance to their delicate forms, We do not understand that these are going out in Paris, and doubt- less they will be kept up here, The tendency, however, is to a modification of both, and in that there is good taste. But what Fashion glories in most—what really she is jubilant about—is the revival of Flora’skingdom. What more beautiful, she exclaims, than girls in azure gauze, looking like placid lakes on which float the white water lily or yellow runéphar; than mothers in their new cigar-shaped tulle, entwined with ivy ; than the budding brunette, in pearl mauve, with flowers eo intricately en- tangled under the folds of plaited skirts as to look like a bank of violets; than the showers of roses or blue bells, the red poison berries straggling in the hair, or the other thousand imitations of nature’s flora? But the dress she loved best at s fancy ball was the ‘ragged thorn bush,” on a girl whose skiris were green tattered gauze, covered with the fleece of stray sheep. The fashions of 1869 have come in with an exaggeration of floral display, if possible ; for there appeared at the Tuileries on the even~ ing of the 4th a thick, round wreath, in which each flower was as big as a turnip, At this rate of progress we should not be surprised to see before long still more formidable bunches ‘and columns of flowers worn, such as the gi- gantic tulip or lily of Australia, the immense blossom of the night-blooming cereus, a string of cocoanuts or a bunch of bananas. As to our own beautiful ladies, they have not y& learned to take the initiative in the fashions, and are waiting to follow those fgr the new year from Paris. This is to be regretted, for there is no lack of taste here, and New York is rich enough, extravagant enough and big enough to set the fashions for America. The ladies cannot do better, under all the circumstances, than to read our fashions correspondence. They can do this quietly after leaving church and laying aside their prayer-books, or, if they fear the eye of the preacher or of pious relatives, they can carefully put the Hezatp away till Monday morning. Tae Unrrep States anp Denmark.—We publish this morning « full report of the cor- respondence between the Secretary of State and the Danish envoy in regard to the pur- chase of the island of St. Thomas. It seems likely that the question will not be dismissed in an off-hand or flippant manner. It is for Congress to decide whether the bargain for the purchase was legitimately made, as it is in the power only of Congress to appropriate the purchase money. The correspondence is interesting, although the topic discussed has become hackneyed. Largest Broapway Fasnions For JANU- arny—Panama hata and white pantaloons. The style is an importation from Cuba. InTERESsTING To Urioa—Watermelons are ripe in Florida. The Telegraphic Harpion and Their Hang- i ers On. Heretofore the telegraphic monopolists have had their system well propped up by throwing out an occasional sop to their supporters. Some of our city journals, which maintain a precarious existence through the Western Union Telegraph Company, are naturally very prompt to come to its defence when they hear the goose which lays their golden egg give its last quack. Yesterday we had another plain- tive plea presented by one of our contempora- ries. The day previous Miss Nancy’s organ blew a blast in its best style to maintain the monopoly. The latter sheet appears lately to be entirely under telegraphic influences. This,’ however, is owing tothe fact that the ablest and most influential of its associates, he who most largely directs its fortunes and shapes its politics and policy, is extensively interested in directing the fortunes of the Western Union Company. We feel a pang of sorrow at the misery wath threatens tens the ‘ohemians when the tele- ic badgers are riven to their holes. As the Western Union dictates to the city press of New York, so does it dictate to all the country papers of the interior. But the dictation in the latter case is almost unbearable in com- parison to that of New York. Threatened as they have been to have all news cut off from them unless they accede to the harsh terma submitted, they have not dared to protest against this domineering power. Fortunately the New York Herarp is in a posi- tion to lead the cause of breaking down the monopoly and preparing the way to a cheaper and more equitable ar- rangement for obtaining news for all parties concerned, We know of instances where it may be said the news monopolists hold such a lash over the daily journals that they can dictate to them what shall and what shall not be pub- lished—what news the public shall have and what they shall not have. Mow, we do not propose to bow to the dictates of a small ring which actually proposes to govern the amount and transmission of thought in the United States. This is something which, above all others, appertains to the people as a mass and can alone be entrusted to them for safety. Nor yet are we disposed to see the nation hum- bugged in the purchase of the existing tele- graphic lines, What these lines are worth is exactly what it will cost to build them, and no more. We notice that an attempt is made by the monopolists to show that their lines are worth about five hundred dollars per mile. Any one who can make a simple addition of figures will take a contract to put up a similar telegraphic system for two hundred dollars per mile. In a report we have before us the Western Union Company endeavors to show the cost of European lines in comparison to our own. They, however, compare the Euro- pean mile of line with the Western Union mile of wire, forgetting that the European lines have frequently from four to six wires upon them, while the Western Union does not average two. The comparison is, therefore, very unfair and tells against any company which thus misreprents the true conditions of the question. This telegraphic monopoly must disappear ; the interests of the entire country demand it. But it must disappear without having it end in a gigantic Congressional job, through which the monopolists wish to bleed the Treasury by selling to the nation a set of inferior, badly constructed and badly worked lines. The News from Paraguay. It will be seen by our news columns to-day that advices have been received at the State Department from Rear Admiral Davis an- nouncing the surrender of Bliss and Master- man by President Lopez and the landing of our Minister, General MoMahon, to present his credentials. The surrender of these two persons we never had any doubt of. They had been known to Lopez as portions of the American legation in Paraguay, and whether Mr. Washburn did wrong or not, President Lopez was not his superior officer and judge in the matter, and should not have so consti- tuted himself by laying hands on the legation. His resource is differently provided for in the code of international law. There is a point in the report of Admiral Davis which strikes us somewhat forcibly in view of the recent Brazilian reports of news from Paraguay. It will be remembered that those stated that at the assault of Villeta, on the 11th of December, Lopez escaped with only two hundred men. Admiral Davis reports that the fighting on that day prevented the landing of General McMahon, but on the next day he landed, was received by a portion of Lopez's staff and rode at once to his head- quarters, From this it would seem that.Lopes did not find it necessary to escape very far from Brazilian ire. MEXICAN ' Sunsipigs To THR AMERICAN Press.—Our city of Mexico correspondent has turned up @ very interesting relic of the imperial age in that republic, which we publish to-day in another column. It is a list from the imperial statistios of the subsidies paid by