The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1869, Page 6

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The Dairy Hgraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month, ‘ The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangemént can receive the Heratp at the same price it is furnished in the city. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated January 25. It was ramored in Paris that Seville and Cadiz had proclaimed for the Duke of Montpensler for King of Spain. ont Mr, Reverdy Johnson has accepted an invitation to dine with the corporation of Manchester next February. ‘The contract to carry the mails between Sydney and Panama has been caucelled, Cuba, ‘The disturbances in Havana have assumed quite a 7 revolutionary aspect. Some citizens on the house- tops fred upon the volunteers in the streets on Sun- day and several volleys were interchanged. On Sunday night shots were also mterchanged near the Louvre coffee house and the Tacon theatre, where- upon a detachment of volunteers fired into =the lower hali of the Louvre, which 13 usually densely crowded on a Sunday evening, and killed a number of persons, some of whom were Spaniards, government employes and army ofMicors. General Duice, in view of the dis- turbances, has ordered the troops to keep within doors whale the Spanish marines patrol the portion of the town lying outside the walls. The American } achodiher ars Bas been seized and taken te Hg vana, on suspicion of carrying supplies to the revo- Jutionists. Mail advices state that Baracoa was attacked on the 8th inst. by the insurgents. A battle of four r hours’ duration ensued, with no decisive advantage on either side; but it was beli¢ve? that the city would surrender next dav '* “he attack was pressed. OT ae qe St. Domingo. 1 ‘ By Cuba cable despatches we learn that President Baez has sold the guano tsiand of Alta Vela toa French company. The American Consul has pro- tested against the gale as an infringement on the claims of American oWners, and has asked for a war vessel to be sent him. Baez has Intrenched himself in his capital and invited the revolutionists to re tarp, which they refuse to do unless he abdicates. Venezucla. Our Caracas letter is dated January 7. The mixed | commission for the gettlement of foreign os & tn seagion aid a large percentage (about $300,000) of ene revenue is to be set aside for their payment. The choice for the Presidency ts understood to lie be- | tween the nephew and the son of the late President Monaga®. Mariano Lopez, with 150 men, had revolted at Petare. The St. Thomas screw steamer Kstrella was wrecked on the 19th of December off the Rogues. The captain, crew and passengers were ali saved after enduring very great hardships. Congress. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on Retrenchinent, reported a bill to re- peal the Tenure of OMce act, with an amendment leaving the heads of departments (the Cabinet) subject to removal at the will of the President during a recess and authorizing him to suspend any other civil officers during a recess, Mr. Stewart, : from the Judiciary Committee, reported against the | admission of Joshua Hill as Senator from Georgia. A minority report was pre by Mr. Trumboll. Mr. Morton moved to take up t 11 for the relief of William McGarahap, which was inde finitely postponed last session. Ovjection was made Mr, Wilson reported from the Military Committee hils bill for thg yeduction and reorganization of the } oO ng Tor @ pen he Central e up on the e notion to post Sherman's Finance of twenty-one to thirty. Pend piration of th pone tt in r to take up Mr. Will Was lost by av Jug dlset m upon th eeJu thy Mouse a reso n of the Fortieth Arkaiisas delezn Congress. it e Committee on Re- construction. At the expiration of the morn- ing hour the constitutional amendment and the bil! relating to suffrage pr ad by Mr. Bout- well came up, but were pe day. The consideration of the way bill was then resumed. After an animated ve. ate a motion to lay the bill on the tavle was jost by 1 Wednes- w vote of 65 to 92, and it was then referred to the Committee on Public Lands by a vote of 88 to G A reso'ntion looking to the expediency of fur- watructiog Georgia was offered, but objec: Sion was made. The House then adjourned, sie ‘The Lesisintnres Tn the Biate Senate yestetday a number of bills relating 16 Now York city raiiroass were introduced. Mr. ¢ introduced a bill reiting to the making ‘of Wills by persons who sub ntly marry and Pave fa3n%, A bill was also introduced providing for the revision, codification and amen tinent of the Corial awa. The Senate then adjourned. In tho Assembly a petition for a market ouiiding fm the Ninth and Sixteenth wards of this city was presented; as) the revort of the Board of Heaith. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY JANUARY 26, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. Billa were introduced to close @ portion of Water street and the old Atlantic turnpike and part of Hunterfly road in Brooklyn; also in relation to trans- initting records gf crigumal cases to the Secretary of State, A rosotntion was carried requesting the New York Represestatives in Congress to use their influ- ence in obtaining such appropriation as may be necessary to remove the Hell Gate obstructions; also one requesting the Pilot Commissioners to report What amount of money they have received since their organization, Miscellancens. The President has directed that Generals J. B. Ricketts, Eli Long, Richard W, Johnson, James W. Ripley and Robert Anderson and a long array of colonels and oficers of lower rank, all retired, be re- lieved of their present assignments and permitted to go home if they wish. ‘There remain only 267 miles of the Pacifie Railroad to be built, and the line complete from New York to San Francisco, it is believed, will be opened early in the spring. Jay Gould and the Erie men are now reported to have purchased the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road, By means of this line and the new Ohio and Mississippi extension they propose to have a direct broad guage line trom New York to New Orleans. The New Orieans Picayune of the 21st inst, states that “a special man-of-war is said to be hovering around the harbor of Pensacola, keeping a watchful eye upon the movements of the Peruvian iron-clads now lying at the Pensacola Navy Yard.” This 1s, probably, in response toa request from the Spanish government that these iron-clads should be looked to in view of the probability their having hostile designs on Cuba. whine The English gunboat Gnat was wrecked Novembet 15, during a severe storm, onjone of the Philippine Islands, in the East Indies, No particulars have been received, We publish elsewhere this morning the text of the treaty between the United States and Belgium onthe subject of naturalization, and also the convention for a mixed commission for the settlement of the claims between the United States and Peru. The City. In the United States District Court yesterday Judge Blatchford sentenced Alvah Blaisdell to three years imprisonment in the State Prison at Sing Sing, and J. J. Eckel to three years’ imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary for illicit removal of spirits, and John McLaren, for alding and abet- ting in such removal, to four months’ imprison- ment. Mr. Knox, associate counsel for the prisoners, urged that sentence be postponed, on the ground that Mr. Fullerton had received valuable information from them relative to whiskey frauds, and by permission of the President had guaranteed them protection. Judge Blatchford, however, said hehad nothing to do with that; such guarantees Would no doubt be kept by those who made them. In the United States Circuit Court the case of Ful- Jerton, Birdsall and others was called on, but inthe absence of a material witness was again postponed, Inthe Supreme Court, Trial Term, yesterday, be- fore Judge Friedman, an action was brought on a Promissory note for $800, The Court directed @ verdict for the plaintiff,“ Three of the jury dissented, whereupon Judge Friedman informed the recalcitrant trio that the directions of the Court su- perseded their judgment and that the responsibility of the verdict rested with him, whereupon the ver- dict was made unanimous, - “Se Seton The seamen of this port ate on a atrike for higher Wages, and procession of about 1,200 of them | cept Ogaden et made. The strike is intended to operate against shipping Ihasters and boarding house keepers, who are demanding a heavier commission for shipping crews, eed Three burglars, with stolen property in their pos- session valued at $3,000, were arrested by Captain Jourdan yesterday, and on Sunday evening three others were captured by Sergeant Woodward and his assistants. All these parties, who are supposed to constitute regular burglarious gangs, were com- mitted to await trial. During Saturday night be- tween $2,000 and $3,000 worth of silks were stolen by burglars from a store in Chatham street, the thieves escaping with ‘heir plunder. In the Board of Health yesterday an ordinance forbidding the sale of kerosene oils and other burn- ing fuids uuless they shall take fire at 110 degrees Fahrenheit and not evolve explosive material at a temperature of 100 degrees was adopted. The ty- phoid fever was reported under thorough control Dr. Harris, the Sanitary Superin- tendent, submitted a report stating that a large quantity of nitro-glycerine had been carted through the city under the name of “gasoline,” and as it had been placed on shipboard for trans portation to New Haven there was no law for any further action in the matter except to have it taken out of range of the city as soon as possibie, The Board then adjourned until Monday. The statistics at Castle Garden show that 215,686 emigrants landed at this port during the year 1893, Of these 101,989 were Germans, 47,571 Irish, 29,602 English, 49 Chinese, 10 Africans, 3 Japanese and 1 Sardinian. Of the whole number 65,714 remained in New York State, 24,625 went to Iilinois, 3,115 to Utah and 5 to New Mexico, while all the lately rebel- lions states received an aggregate of only 2,311. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Hammonie, Captain Meler, will leave Hobokea at two P, M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg, ‘The mails for Europe will close at the Post ONice at twelve M. The steamer Cleopatra, Captain Phillips, will satl from pier 16 East river at three P, M. to-day for Savannah, i ‘The atock market yesterday was very Sudyani, but | the advance in prices induced salea, and the figures at the close were lower than during the middle of the day. Gold opened at 126% and closed at 1364. Trade in beef cattle yesterday was moderately active, and, with light arrivals, being 1,909 head, prices were steady at 170, @ 17¢c. for extra, 16%c. a 16\c. for prime, 15c. @ 6c. for far to good, and 10c. a 14)gc. for imfericr to common. Milch cows were moderately sought after, and prices were steady, particularly for good, which were in most demand. We quote:—Prime and extra, $90 a $125 each; fair to good, $75 a $35; common, $60 4 #70; inferior, $45. $55. Veal calves were steady, with a fair demand and light arriv: and extra selling at 12c. a 1%., fair 1014¢. @ 11);¢., and inferior to common O}<c. @ 10c, Sheep were in (air request, and prices were steady at Bic. @ 8igc. for extra, Tc, a 7'sc. for prime, bc. a 6c. for fair to good and Se. a 5)4c. for inferior to common. For swine the market was quiet, owing to the light arrivals. Prices were firm at 1%c. a 114¢, for common to prime. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General BE. F. Jones, of Binghamton, > Rev. C. D. W. Bridgeman, of Albany, are at Nicholas Hotel. General J. L. Taylor, of the United States Army; 8. Russel Childs, of Seyatoga, and N. B, Hatcher, of Minnesota, Ave at the St. Charles Hotel. José R. Aquirre, of Cuba, and Joha R. McBrite, of | Idaho, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General Magner and Captain Hosmer, of the and be St. Universal Suffrage—The Women Excepted— | cluding the white women of the country ; and The Pending Coustitutional Amendment. | then, with or without whiskers, just as they Universal suffrage is coming, or (leaving the women out in the cold) what is some- times called ‘‘manhood suffrage,” or suffrage to every male citizen of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, irrespec- tive of race, kink, color or previous condition of servitude, any law in any State to the con- trary notwithstanding. A proposed amend- ment to the constitution, covering this ground, from Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, has been made the special order in the Senate for Thursday next. When taken up the subject will proba- bly be debated for a week or more, and then the joint resolution by the required two-thirds of each house will doubtless be passed and submitted to the Legislatures of all the States; and then, with the ratification of the amend- ment by three-fourths of said Legislatures, it will become, ‘‘to all intents and purposes,” part and parcel of the supreme law of the land. Meantime the same amendment, substan- tially, has been up in the House of Representa- tives, together with a bill providing that ‘‘no State shall abridge or deny the right of any citizen of the United States to vote for the electors of President and Vice President of the United States, or for Representatives in, Con- gress, or for members of the Legislature of the State in which he may reside, by reason of race, color or previous condition of slavery; and any provisions in the law or constitution of any State incon- sistent with this section are hereby declared null and void.” The bill further provides for the enforcement of the first section, and fur- ther, ‘a penalty for the exercise of any office by any person whose disqualifications for office under the fourteenth amendment have not been removed ;” and the United States courts are to have exclusive jurisdiction over these matters. Mr. Boutwell, in support of this bill on Sat- urday last, made a very ingenious and plausi- ble argument. He claimed the right of Con- gress to legislate on the question of suffrage, independent of any action on the part of the States; that the government must have the constitutional means to provide for its own preservation; that if the doctrine that the States have exclusive jurisdiction of the sub- ject were true, then the States might refuse to choose electors of President and Vice Presi- dent, or to send members to Congress, and thus stop the action of the government, He further contended that in gudranteeing a re- publican form of government to each of the States Congress had the power to enforce this bill of suffrage, and ocean in efrac- az negro citizen éxcluding ake ee. fand, Delawa® and Kentucky; and that Con- gress had the power, moreover, in enforcing the equal rights of citizens of the United States in all the States, to pass this bill under the fourteenth amendment. But why this double dose of a constitutional amendment providing for universal or man- hood suffrage and an act of Congress to estab- lish the same thing? Mr. Boutwell explains :— “Our object is to secure universal suffrage to the adult male citizens of this country. The power is in our hands as a Congress first, but asa party responsible for what this Congress does. If we submit a constitutional amend- ment alone we in a certain sense admit that the power for which I have contended is want- ing. More than ihat, there are but twenty-five States to which we may look at the present time for the ratification of this amendment. We have, then, to secure three other States in support of this proposition, and we enter upon that work with a certain amount of prejadice of traditionary opposition to negro suffrage. Nine-tenths, I doubt not, of the republican party of the country favor manhood suffrage. One-tenth do not, and they area great ob- statle in the way of perfecting this benign measure. I am in favor of taking the respon- sibility of the position which I occupy. We are responsible for universal suffrage as one of the great crowning measures of an administra- tion of eight years’ duration, and which, by judgment of the people, is continued for four years more. What the people expect of us is the consummation of this plan. If we submit the constitutional amendment alone we em- broil this country for two, three or five years, or a longer time, in the intricacies and dificul- ties of a contest against the prejudices of mang, Wo have at this iaoiieat boin right and power on our side.” This plan, then, is, by act of Con- gress, to enforce universal suffrage, ne- groes and all, upon all the States, for the present uses of the republican party, and to follow it up as fast as possible with a con- stitutional amendment for future security, in view of the fact that a mere law passed by the Congreas of to-day may be repealed by another Congress to-morrow, This plan, then, is a very shrewd one. We guess, however, that this suffrage bill will fail in view of the warn- ing voices on the subject from Ohio and New York in 1867 and from other Northern States. One-tenth of the republican party, Mr. Bout- well admits, is opposed to universal negro suffrage ; but probably he believes that if the thing can be started under a general law of Congress it will soon work iis way into popular favor. : The constitutional amendment proposed will most likely be passed by the present Congress, although its term of life is limited to the 4th of March, at noon. We have reason also to believe that the incoming President will inter- pose no Johnsonian difficulty or objection to the ratification of the amendment by the United States Army, and General 0. W. Tompkins, of Rhode Island, are at the Homan House. Colonel Thayer, of the United States Army; Sur- geon L. Davis, of the United States Na 1. BR. McKenzie, of Hamilton, ©, W., and Dr. R. G, Law- son, of Toronto, are at the St, Julien Hotel, General Maryip, of Albapy; ¢x-Mayor W. | McMichael, of Philadelphia; £, G, McDowell, of Bal- timore, and General Young, of Chicago, are at the Pith Avenue Hotel. 8. R. Applegate, of New Jersey, and George Os- born, of New South Wales, are at the Ciareudon Hotel, General P. Sherwood, of the United States Army, 18 at the Astor House, Tar Texene or Orrice Law,—The pros- pect of Butler's bill of repeal is getting more dubious from day to day. The radicals of the Senate having had a taste of the power which the Tenure of Office jaw gives them in the protection of their pet office-holders do not relish the idea of giving it up even to Presi- dent Grant. ‘‘A new broom sweeps clean,” and they are afraid of it, and the whiskey rings say hold on. States. Under the countenance of Grant's administration, in short, we may safely assume that the amendment, if submitted to the States, will be carried through. And why not? From the experiment of universal negro suffrage in the South we see that the power of the “carpet-baggers” over it is rapidly declining, and that the blacks, like the whites, keep a sharp eye upon their “hog and hominy” is casting their votes. The landholders of the South can have the votes of their negro laborers if they want them, and on very easy terms. The number of blacks in any Northern State is too small to frighten anybody. The disgusted democracy bave no right to be dis- guated after accepting the ‘‘nigger vote” with thanks wherever it has been offered them. Universal suffrage, at all events (the women, for the present, excepted), is bound to come, and if so, the sooner it is settled the better for all concerned. Then, the negro men being provided for, the republican party will be com- | polled to grant tre suffrage to tho women, in- please, Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Anna Dickinson, and all the women’s rights women, raised to a footing of political equality with Pompey, Cmsar and Uncle Tom, may pro- claim the triumph of women's rights and the dawn of the millennium. Brazit and the Paraguay War. Our South American advices entirely corro- borate our arguments for the past two months with reference to the troubles which have oc- curred between the United States and Para- guay. The fact that after the battle and evacuation of Villeta our Minister (McMahon) had to ride but five or six miles to visit the encampment of Lopez shows that the victory over which the allies are making so much ado amounts to nothing, and, as we have heretofore stated, simply indicates that the Paraguayans have retired their forces from the river bank to get out of reach of the iron-clads, Bliss and Masterman, who were taken from the side of our late Minister as he was leaving the country, were surrendered on demand. Not a hair of their revolutionary heads has been troubled. The Portuguese Consul, whose terrible death we were requested to lament by the enemies of Paraguay, is found in a most agreeable mood and enjoying such health as the magnificent climate of Paraguay confers, The murdered French Consul re- turns down the Plata river to Montevideo ‘‘and reports to the Admiral of the French fleet that he was at no time during his stay in Paraguay disquieted on account of his personal safety.” Thus all the long accounts which were swal- lowed by nearly the whole press of the United States about the horrible murders committed by Lopez and his persecution of foreign repre- sentatives prove, as we have constantly main- tained, to be false. It is, and was, ridiculous to suppose that Paraguay, having taken upon her shoulders the defence of the republican integrity of Eastern South America, could wish in any way to insult either of the great Powers of the world and bring on additional warlike troubles, The allies, and especially Brazil, constantly misrepresent the condition of their enemy. We venture to assert that Brazil was never weaker and Paraguay never stronger as regards warlike endurance than to-day. We long ago had news that it was the intention of Lopez to evacuate Villeta. The reported victory of the allies at that point fa ike their honors won at Humaita—taking possession when the enemy choge to abandon it for the purpose of taking up a stronger posi- tign, The war now just commences, so far as concerns the Brazilians conquering the country. They have been three years, with sixteen iron-clads and sixty thousand men, driving the Paraguayans from the river bank. Their offensive force now numbers about thirty thousand men for duty. The sixteen iron-clads are eliminated from the problem for inland work. It is pertinent to ask what the empire expects to do in this stage of the prob- lem. We advise Brazil to make peace, that she may prepare for some changes in the Plata Valley which will force her to abandon her southwestern ideas of domination, or pre- pare for a struggle with the Argentine Re- public. PropaBLE Revowvtion in St.‘ Dominco.— Our telegraphic advices from Havana to- day indicate an early overthrow of the Baez government in the Dominican republic. Fail- ing in his attempted sale of Samand to Mr. Seward and in his hope of a protectorate in the shape of an American man-of-war, Presi- dent Baez had played his last card in the sale of the guano island of Alta Vela to a French company and invited ex-President Cabral and his followers to come in and pick up the leavings. The Alta Vela sale is likely to compromise matters for the little republic. It will be remembered that it was this guano island which caused a difficulty between Andy Johnson and Jerry Black in the impeachment squabble. Besides Jerry's American clients who claim Alta Vela there are one or two other claimants whose tights date anterior to those of President Baez's French company. We think Admiral Hoff had better send a ship-of-war to the ancient city of St. Domingo and teach these secesh {roi Huyti that if they will play at being a nation they must improve their man- ners. Taz Waiskry Rina Comino to Grier.—The authorities are at length doing some good work in bringing up the whiskey ring thieves with a round turn. Blaisdell has been sen- tenced to three years’ imprisonment at Sing Sing, Eckel to three years in the Albany Peni- tentiary and McLaren to four months in prison. This is only a commencement of the good work, however; for there are those in high position in society, and who count their wealth among the millions, who deserve to be dealt with in a similar manner. There is too much sickly sentimentalism existing among us for those who commit crime. Especially in this wholesale robbery of the government do we require quick and sharp dealing with the cul- prits, None but the brother pals of the men above sentenced can have any sympathy for them. aes eae - Sometuine Gainev.—The conviction of Blaisdell and Eckel for fraudulent practices in distilling whiskey shows that the punishment of whiskey thieves is not impossible where the roguesare of a character that prevents their having many friends. Nevertheless, as the small rogues are very numerous and the aggre- gate of their thievery is large, and as their conviction will furnish precedents and ex- amples, the public should rejoice at it, The big rogues may come to grief by and by. ——— A Case oF Conripence.—Greece rejects the proposed settlement of the great Powers, knowing that with it she casts aside their guarantee for het existence. What friend, then, does whe count upon who seems to her for the requirements of the case worth all the rest of Europe? Wat a Mistake!—Some burglars took the trouble to break into one of the ‘dollar stores,” evidenfly sharing with the country visitors in the delusion that where there is so much glitter there must be some good metal. Wantrp—A police captain who is willing to be promoted to the vacant inspectorship. Nearly all the captains have determined that they don’t want the place. Why? 3°" The Chineso Mission in Paris. The Chinese Mission'to America and Europe is one of the liveliest of the many lively ques- tions of the hour. When it became known that an American was to be the chief of that enibassy, not only to his own country, but to all the Courts of Europe, Europe and America were equally astonished. Why should it be 80? No one could answer. The European journals were tickled and tried to laugh. Some miserable American journals pooh- poohed the affair and called it a party move. Not a little dudgeon was called forth on both Continents. Mr. Burlingame and his Chinese friends came here and conquered. Mr. Bur- lingame and his friends went to London and conquered, The partisan journals on this side remained doubtful. The European journels were still stubborn and a little cold. The HERALD alone, seeing the result at a far dis- tance, never doubted. Whenall the American journals were cold and unkindly the HeraLp predicted European success. We did so be- cause we knew that a new era had come—an era in love with truth and justice. The London success did not convince doubters, The Heratp said that Mr. Burlingame’s success in London implied success all over Europe, and that the Courts of Paris, of Vienna, of Berlin, of St. Petersburg, would follow the example of the Court of St. James. The result has proved that we were right. Mr. Burlingame and his friends have gone to Paris, and the kindness shown them by the Emperor and his Minister has been quite equal to the kindness shown them in America and in London. So will it be until the end. All over Europe the new diplomacy will be ac- knowledged and encouraged. The Emperor Napoleon, who knows the modern world better than most men now living—pity he cannot live always—could not deny himself the little joke that it was funny to find the youngest nation pleading for the oldest; but the allusion seems to have been so delicate that we can only say it was pregnant with compliment rather than with jealousy, It is pleasant to think that China is to be admitted to the family of civilized nations, but the pleasure is in- creased by a knowledge of the fact that the initiation of this great reform is due to the United States. The Burlingame mission at Washington, in London, in Paris, only proves that the era is new and that a new policy is necessary. Smasnine Grass.—So long as there is only a pane of glass protecting a hundred thousand dollars theré will always be abundance of rogues bold enough to smash it and make a des- perate attempt for plunder. It is evident, moreover, that the robbery in the Park Bank did not fail from any essential difficulty in the case, but only from want of proper precaution on the part of the thieves. If they had gone stronger handed, as the possible amount of booty would have justified, they might have succeeded. Two or three or even half a dozen athletic ruffians inside the doorway to knock down those who pursued would have given all that was needed—five minutes for escape. Tae Greeks Stiri Srupporn.—A cable telegram informs us that the Greek govern- ment has refused to abide by the decision of the Paris Conference. Another telegram in- forms us that the Viceroy of Egypt has offered to aid the Sultan with an army of fifty thou- sand men in the event of war, and a fleet besides. This indicates life on both sides. It does not convince us, however, that Greece is foolish enough to ruin all her hopes. Greece can loge but she cannot gain by war; for tho Christianity of Europe is quite as willing to be hired in the interest of the Turks as in the in- terest of the Greeks. Wecan have no more crusades after the old fashion. « Tne Grant-Banxs Supgrsepure.— The Lawrence (Mass.) American—General Banks’ district—of the 23d instant, referring to the controversy about General Banks having been ordered to supersede General Grant, says :— “We happen personally to know the official autographic orders are now in the hands of General Grant.” That fact being settled, we suppose there is no objection on the part of those most concerned in the controversy to shake hands with General Grant and let the matter drop, New Yor« Styves tx St. Lovis.—A recent inveatigation of the financial affairs of St. Louis shows that the proceeds of the sale of city bonds were often withheld from the treasury, thousands of coupons were abstracted, money was taken by forgery, fraud, larceny and false pretences, forced balances made good false statements of accounts, pay rolls altered, straw men in the receipt of large salaries and & general system of steall Stised all around. St. Louis will 16h &. motropolis of the Weat, see ATTEMPTED SELF-MURDER, Another instance of attempted self-murder, impel- led by a pressure of pecuniary embarrassments and domestic infelicity, occurred last evening at No. 143 Hester street. The individual who wished to exchange the cortainty of incessant trouble for the uncertainties of an eventful fature is Oud Albert Strauss, a German, twenty-seven years of age. dist ‘vance, or family quarrel, with his wife Corde! tirat drove iim to the acme of frenzied despair, and “being out of work,” experiencing the jitter pangs of poverty and destitution filled the cup of his misfortune too full. But Albert did not resort to the pistol, nor chemical means to insure self-decease, as he ted the homely old method of trying to'* atretch his neck” from a bed- post by means of a handkerchief, Before he could succeed his wife detected hit tn the effort, and giv- ing the alarm oMcer Randall, of the Fourteenth pre- cinct, hastened to the place and cut him down. He was then removed to the station bouse, where he had ample time to reflect upon his foolishness. THE PENNSYLVANIA QUTCH. Lecture by George Alfred Townsend, of Washington. This was the subject of a lecture, humorous and ht torical, ered in the Presbyterian church at 156th street, Washington Heights, last night, by George Alfred Townsend, of Washington, D.C, It described the Gorman Pilgrim Fathers, who took advantage of the opportunities afforded them to colonize the Mid- ale States, and from whose stock a large percentage of the American people are descended. It sketched the condition of Germany at the period of their emi. gration, and ascribed the stolid and unchanged cou- dition of the people of the old eastern colonies of Pennsylvania to thete obstinate adherence to the dia- lect, sects and customs of the seventeenth centu' when there wasa reaction against learning. The lec- turer spoke In a pictnresque and vivid way, characs teristic of his writings ment, scenes common in the Dutch country—hog killing, beer making, “pundiing,” &¢.—and the audience were gratified by these as well as by @ amber of original poems Mustrative of the @ubject. Arrangements have been made to have Mr, Townsend repeat his lecture, which waa givon, by the way, for the benefit of the Washington fleiguts Library and Reading Room, ARMY INTELLIGENCE. nee Remission of Sentences of Courts Martini Attoracy General Evarts Opinion—Ufticera Restored to Raunk—Orders by General Graut and tho President, WASHINGTON, Jan, 25, 1869, The following opinion of the Attorney Genera! on the remission of sentences of courts martial in the case of army officers has just beeu submitted to the President:— ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFIce, Jan. 23, 1859. ‘To THE PRESIDENT:— Sin—The question submitted for my opinion by your direction, under date of the 30th ultimo, I un. derstand to be this:—Whether, where a captain in the army has been sentenced by & court martial to reduc- tion tn rank, by having his name placed lower down on the list of oMicers of the same grade, a remission of the penalty by the President, in the exercise of the pardoning ee, will have the effect of restor- ing the officer to luis former relative rank and posi- tion on the roll? By the rules prescribed for the government of the military service, the relative ran‘ of oMcers of tho same grade in the army is ascer- tained and fixed by date of commission or appoint- qent (Ar Regulations, article 2); and as all va- cancies to the rank of colonel are required to be filled by promotion according to sentority, cases of disability or inopmneten cy excepted—(ibid article 4)—the order in which officers under that rank siand in thelr several grades on the army roila is important, in connection with points of ency and command, but as determ! their ‘respective rights to advancement upon the peppentng ot vacancies in es above thelr own, and tt is hence called tho ine of promotion, Regularly, then, the law of ser- vice petizns to each officer a rank in his grade aut in the line of promotion corresponding with tho date of his commission, and where this order of disposition is interrupted, as in the case under con- sideration, through the intervention of a court mar- tal aap » itcan only remain so by the con- tinuing ope ion of the penalty imposed, which bry be to act as a punishment from day to day go long as the officer affected is excluded from the enjoyment of his previous status. Taking this view of ‘the nature of such a penalty, I am led to the conclusion that a remission of tho same by pardon necessarily carries with it the ro- storation of the officer to his pre-existing capacity and rights under the law of the service to occupy & place on the list of his grade app?opriate to the date of his commission, the oficer losing, of course, such opportunities for promotion as may in the meantime have occu ‘The case of an officer who haa thus been reduced in rank differs essentially from that of an officer who has been dismissed from the service by sentence of a military court. After the latter is duly confirmed and executed the dismissed officer cannot be reinst by means of a pardon, or in any other manner than by a new appointment and confirmation by the Senate. (11 Opinions, p. 22.) ‘This is because the execution of the jue ent in effect abrogates the officer’s commis- sion and entirely dissolves his connection with the service, placing him in exactly the same situation relatively thereto which he occupied previous to his original appointment, and, moreover, a pardon, it has been sald, does not operate to restore an office forfeited (4 Wallace, p. 381). But no such conse- juences ensue upon execution of sentence in the former case; the officer’s relation to the service are not thereby dissolved, so that, when released from Regek ine there ts BS oscesing: eae Aa ere! @ appointing power place » Ale reecy aes ‘with a commission, he 1s clearly en- titled to the rank which it bestows. In connection with this matter I have examined the opinions of several of active list, their transfer from one regiment to Sea” dit dae, Od, P. 8565 259; 5 20, aud 10s (id, glory, which have. beet thought to throw some light upon the question pre- gented, but in none of them have I been able to dis- cover anyth! that supported a different conclusion from the one ve expressed. But without pursu- ing the subject further I may state it as my opinion that a pardon by the President, in the case pro- aoe will have the effect of restoring the oMcer to is former relative rank according to the date of his commission, I have the honor be, with highest respect, WILLIAM M. EVAR’ Attorney General. This opinion by the Attorney General has already caused the restoration to thelr former rank of the following officers in the army:—Captains J. B. W. Neill, Thirty-sixth infantry; G.S. Pierce, Twenty- eighth infantry; R. P. McKibben, Fourth infantry, and Lieutenant C. H. Conrad, Thirty-fifth infantry. An order has been issued from the headquarters of the army, at Washington, which directs that a contract made with a private physician by the sur- geon general or medical director of a department will be annulled only by the direction of those oMcers or by that of the commanding general of the military division or 4 ment. By direction of the President the following named retired officers of the United States Army are re- leved from their nt snare. ‘and, should Go| #o desire, will proceed to their homes:— fajor Generals James B. Ricketts, Eli Long and Richard W. Johnson; Brevet Major Generals and Brigadier Generals James W. Ripley and Robert An- derson; Brevet Brigadier Generals and Colonel Wash- 7» Piter Albemarle Cady; John J. Abercrombie, Kelisha G. Marshall and Madin Bunker; Brevet Major Gen- eral and Colonel Harvey Brown; Colonel Moses E. Walker; Lieutenant Colonels Enoch Steen, L. T. Al- exander, David R. Whiting George W. Patten, Brevet Colonels Liewell Jones and Walcott, Majors Frank H. Larned and William E. Prince, and First Lieuten- ante F. E, Brownell and Brevet Captain Patrick H. Mooney. The Toulow! oficers have been assigned to duty according to their brevet rank:—Brevet Gen- eral Buchanan, Colonel of the First infantry, and Gillem, Colonel of the Twenty -fourth infantry. Lieutenant Colonel Taggart, Paymaster, has been relieved from duty at St. Louis, and ordered to the pay district of Omaha. Order Relieving the Officers on Duty with the Artillery School. FORTRESS MoNKOR, Va., Jan. 23, 1969. There was quite an excitement here yesterday morning, caused by the receipt of the order from the War Department which relieves nearly every oMicer now on duty with the Artillery School, and assign- ing others in their places. The change will not take place until the 1st of May next, but when it does it wiil scatter the officers of the school from Maine to Florida, not forgettingjour newly acquired territorial fe possession of Al Of the officers now here, General Barry is in com- mand, and the entire staff will remain une 5 with the exception of General who, it is under- stood, ghas been ordered to other du and whose sit be filled by some other eld omeer of ar- Of the captains on duty two will remain— J, B, Shinn, of the Third, and J.B Campbel of the ‘artiliery, 1s ordered to Kodiac Island, Captain Second Al mand will be 1 Lieutenant Col Benjamin, Cap’ Secon Breve Colonel Guy V. Hei is ordered to New will ‘be succeeded York hare bor and Brevet Lieutenant Colonels Samuel 8. Elder ofthe First llery. Brevet B, F. kittenh Fifth értillery, 14 ordered while Captain James W. Piper him. first and Neyfenants are scatterod abou! some ae Maine, some to the Pir gar and others to Callforgig 9nd the Paciic b «walt. (ea gis Ss = Another evidence that the fuilans of the city are growing worse and worse in their fighting propensi- ties, that they insult and beat innocent men witha freedom that has assumed a startling aspect, was brought to light last night, about eleven o'clock, on the Bowery. The circumstances of this, the latest, attempt to fall upon those who were attend- ing to their business with murderous imtent were told at the Fifteenth precinct station house, after the assaulting and assaulted parties were ar- rested. Itappears that two strangers in that por- tion of the city, Cornelius Mahoney, a Custom House oMcer and Dennis O'Day, captain of an eastwise ing vessel, entered the restaurant, corner of tha jowery and Sixth street, for the purpose of obtain- ing “a drink.” While they were imbibing their ale and conversing about matters of business, two ruMans, sitting at a table near by commenced to insult them, erying out, with an admixture of profanity, “You're jibing,” referring to thei conversation. The insulted men turned to these scoundrels and asked them what they meant, when they rushed upon the strany with forks in their hands, uttering the most murderous threats. Anticipating that they were to be badly beaten the men fled from the saloon, followed by the scoundrels and some half dozen of their “pais”? standing on the corner. Down the street they rushed after Mahoney and O'Day, when the former, becoming afraid that his hfe would be taken, turned upon the foremost, and drawing @ pistol, shot at him twice, but without effect, unfortunately. When these ro- ports were heard, OMcer Bullis rushed to the on and taking to the situation at lance, laid hotd o! Mati who had fallen on the sidewalk exiausted @ was assisting Nim, the leading aptrit ot their pursuers, rushed upon him and kicked him about the head and body in a@ frightful man ner. The entire party were thea taken to the station house, where the scoundrel who had assaulted Mahoney gave his name as William Jobnaon, aud said he was a carrii painter and twenty-five years of age. The fgit was of thas extent that the oMecer could recognize any of the others Who assauited the injured man, 40 that, un- fortunately, but one of theo rascals wilt stand ang chance of punishment. Mahoney's wounds were dressed and he was detaiued at the stati during the night, and this morning the pa of the fracas will be heard and acted upo Jefferson Market Police Court by Justice Suan ‘Tho Detroit Advertiser states that Viotor Kmannet ccm rn aera aa aah wy or it on! beirue the 4on Se gouadunue able to do bisown abductlaw.”