The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD |“ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. nanny JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘SEMENTS THIS EVENING. Al NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—AFTER Dark ; on, LON- pow BY NiGnT, OWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—BLack ‘ss ects PROLIOS GREEK SrecgeL® FOR Lipger aly OPERA HOUSE, cormer of Eighth avenue and LA PERICHOLE. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- aue.—LELL CREVE. UGHAN’S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.-BETTER Preeti NEVER—DRAMATIO REVIEW FOR 1868. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hompry Domprr. wit NEW FEATURES. Matiuee at 1}, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Vicrimus—SOLON SHINGLE. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tar Fieip oF ‘vue CLOTH OF GOLD, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 16th street.— BPRED THR PLOUGH. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thjrticth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street—Tar RISLEY JAPANESE TROUPE, &0. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. Artes Dang. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Era10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, 6. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, street. ETIMOPIAN MINSTRELBY, &C. Mth TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bower. —COMIO VoCALIsn, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 23<. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuEesTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT, STEINW. ‘ALL, Fourteenth street.—LEcTURE BY MR, W. HAWKINS, “REPTILES AND Brnps.” HOOLEY'S OPERA | HOUSE, Brocklyn.—Hoouer’s MixeTRELe—ArrER LicHT, &c. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— Hoo.sy's MinsyseLs—Dipy't 1 Move Him, ac. NEW YORK MU‘! ae OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. GorRNOE AxD AB TRI PLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, January ae, ‘1se9. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Dairy Heravp 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 Heratp at the same price it is furnished in the city. THES NEWS. Europe. The cablo telegrams are dated January 26. The Sublime Porte has issued a circular denying that Turkey is heavily arming. The Governor of Burgos, in Spain, was assassinated in that city on Monday. Several arrests ave been made, The London Times thinks that if the ideas of ‘Messrs. McCulloch, Wells and Washburne are adopted. United States bonds will be on a footing with those of Massachusetts. The steamship Pererle, from Havre for New York, returned to the former port on yesterday badly damaged. Six persons on board were killed and many injured, Cuba. The American Consul at Havana on Monday for- mally demanded the body of Cohner, the Ameri- can who was Killed in the streets by volunteers on Sunday, and intimated that unless General Dulce was able and willing to protect American citizens he would call on his own government to do tt. The Captain General delivered up the body and requested @ list of Americans in the town, expressing the nope that no further trouble would occur, The remains were buried quietly. A protest of Americans against the killing is being signed at the American Consulate, A wan was arrested on Sunday evening onacharge of attempting to assassinate Gencral Dutce. ‘The city remains quiei. Paraguay. A Accounts of the battle at Villeta, from Para- quayan sources, deny a total defeat for Lopez. Venezuela. Our Caracas letter of December 11 states that Mr. Talmadge, the American Commissioner in the con- vention for the settlement of American claims, has been accused of fraud, and the government, it is announced, will immediately demand the abroga- tion of the treaty. Mr. Talmadge is fully able to disprove any imputation against him, and the whole trouble is supposed to have been induced by a wish to avoid paying the heavy instalments already ad- judged the United States. Congress, In the Senate yesterday a resolution to appoint, at the beginning of Wie next session, a joiut committee to examine into the expediency of reorganizing the civil service in the departments was adopted. A bill for the reorganization of the navy was introduced by Mr, Grimes and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. The Pension Appropriation bill was re- ported back with amendments reducing the ap- Ppropriation about $4,000,000. Mr. Kellogg in- troduced a bill for a new Pacific Railway from New Orleans via the Rio Grande, with clauses providing for the usual subsidies and grants. The YeGarrahan Claim bill was again brought up, but it again went over at the expiration of the morning hour. The bill relative to the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad was again discussed, and the Senate adjourned without taking action upon it. A caucus of the republican Senators was held in the morning, Wherelp it was decided got to confirm any more nominations for important offices in executive session until President Johnson's term expires. In the House Mra. Lincoln's petition was presented to the Committee on Pensions. Mr. Perham reporied a bill from the committee reletive to the operations ofthe Pension laws, which, after a siight debate, ‘went over on the expiration of the morning hour. Motions to proceed to business on the Speaker's table and to go into Committee of the Whole on the Legislative Appropriation bill were negatived, and Mr. Lynch called up bis bill for the resumption of specie payment, and made a speech upon it, being followed by several otuer members. The House 8900 ater adjoursed. The Legirlature. But little of interest was done in the State Senate yesterday. Several bilis of local importance were introduced and 6 number passed. Among tie latier was one to incorporate the American and Foreign Commercial Company, and another amending acts relative to the New York Bridge Company. A reso- juuion was offered relating to contracts made for altering muskets belonging to the State, after which the Senate adjourned. In the Assembly bills were tutroduced relative to the treatment of prisoners in the Metropoiitan dis- trict; amending the Excise law; authorizing the construction of certain underground and other rail- roads in New York city; regulating the fares on fer- ries and regulating the fees of justices of the peace and constables. Miscellaneous. Chief Justice Cartter, of the Supreme Conrt of the Digtrict of Columbia, yesterday directed an order to be issued restoring Joseph H. Bradley, Sr., to the roll of attorneys in the Criminal Court in obedience to the peremptory mandatns issued by the Supreme Court of the United States, The order has the effect Of still debarring Mr. Bradley from practice ip the District and Circuit Courts, though all tye ares ‘unit under the law, and have but one gitrk, one seal and one roll of attorneys. Chief Jhstice Cartter in his Feinarks strongly protested Against the iogic of the Supreme Court in deciding that they were sep- arate tribunals, it is Publicly Announced thal eilizens of Washing. | the money -No. 27 them encouragement to hope that Dr. Mudd would be pardoned before the 4th of March. The New Jersey Legislature yesterday formally elected John P, Stockton United States Senator, to succeed Mr. Frelinghuysen. The United States Navy Register for 1869 shows that at the beginning of the year the navy consisted of 203 vessels in full commission, 1,525 commissioned officers (170 of whom are volunteers) and about 8,500 enlisted men. In the Alaska investigation yesterday Mr. Tasistro ‘was examined, although very unwilling, as he said, to testify. He stated that the Russian Minister told him that Russia only got $5,000,000 for the posses- sions, and he believed that Secretary Seward and Generals Banks and Butler got the rest, because Seward and Banks paid up some old debts soon after and Butier ceased agitating the claims of the Massachusetts arms manufacturers against the Russian government, General Raaslof, the Danish Minister, yesterday addressed the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs in advocacy of the proposed purchase of St. Thomas, A safe was opened by burglars in Wurtzboro, Sullivan county, N. Y., on Sunday night, and $10,000 in money belonging to the town of Mamakating were stolen, The safe was not broken open, but appa- rently opened with a key or a picklock. Mr. Morris, the banker who had charge of the funds, offers $1,000 reward for their recovery. An Indian delegation are in St, Louis on their way to Washington for the purpose of negotiating a treaty on behaif of the Kiowas, Comanches and other hostile tribes. They request that the military withdraw from its present threatening aspect and that the Indian agents be removed. The Missouri radical House of Representatives have expressed their opposition to @ repeal of the Tenure of Ofice law by Congress. ‘Ten thousand French Canadians now in the United States are reported anxious to return to Canada, and the newspapers are urging the Quebec Legis- lature not to give them free grants of land. The recent corner in Erie shares in New York ts said to have bled the Bank of Montreal tothe amount of $500,000, The Clty. “Tom” was captured in Paterson, N. J., yesterday by two detectives of that burg. He answers fully to descriptions of the mysterious individual who has so long defied the wits of our city police, and is be- leved to be the veritable ‘Tom McGibney.” The in- quest on the murder of Mr. Rogers will be resumed this morning. The 8éamen on a strike held another meeting in South street yesterday, at which it was determined to organize a society to deal directly with shipown- ers or their agents, Most of the large book firms have acceded to the de- mands of the printers, and there are now only about 500 of them on the strike. An investigation was held yesterday inthe case of Dr. Kennedy, wiose partner, Powers, is in custody on a charge of producing his death. It was shown that Powers was living under an assumed name and that a great portion of the property claimed by him was in Kennedy’s mame. The jury rendered a ver- dict to the effect that whiskey, supplied to the de- ceased by Powers with fraudalent intent, had accel- erated his death. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday a motion was argued before Judge Benedict to quash an indictment found against Watson & Crary, dis- tillers, for obstructing public justice, and on a second count conspiring to compass the same, on the ground that the indictment did not state specifically the ground of action. The motion was denied. In the Supreme Court, Chambers, the cases of Blatchford ys. The Merchants’ Union Express Com- pany came up yesterday ona motion before Judge Ingraham to show cause why the injunction pre- viously granted to restrain the consolidation of the Merchants’ Union and American Express Companies should not be continued. The arguments were ad- journed till to-day. The Cunard steamship Java, Captain Lott, will Sail to-day for Liverpool, cailiag at Queenstown, ‘The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past eleven A. M. The steamship Nebraska, Captain Guard, will sail at two P. M, to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The Black Star line steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, will leave pier 13 North river at three P. M, to-day for Savannah, Ga, The steamer Virginia, Captain Drew, will sail from pier 15 East river at four P. M. to-day for Washing- ton and Georgetown, D, C., and Alexandria, Va. The stock market y rday was depressed by heavy realizations and by a decline in Northwestern Ratiway shares, attributable to legislative action in the State of Minow, Gold was variable, opening at 1594, Selling up to 186% and closing at 1263,. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel H. L. Clark, of Providence, R. 1.; Seth Warner, Of Massachusetts; Theodore Cozzens, of West Point; Colonel A. J. Rodgera, of Georgia; J. Edwards, of the United States Army; E. 8. Wilkin- son, of Montana, and J. R. Gregg, of England, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General James McQuade, of Utica; ex-Mayor R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati; Homer A, Nelson, Secretary of Stat»; Captain Augustus McLanghiin, and A. Ss. Abie, of Baltimore; J. Landon, of Elmira, and R. R. Sloane, of Ohio, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Lyman L. Squires, of New Haven; Charles H. Mills, of Boston, and J. 8, Reese, of Albany, are at the Hoffman House, Admiral Radford, of the United States Navy; C. W. Wooley, of Onto; J. W. Schaeffer, of Illinois, and T. R. Bloom, of Georgia, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. N. Green, of Louisville, Ky., and R. P. Hark- ness, of Cincinnati, are at the Maltby House, Captain Albert Kline, of steamship Granada; B. Runnells, of Paris, France, and William Rutherford, of Hamilton, C. W., are at the St. Charles Hotel. Dr. James R. Ferry, of Waterbury, Conn.; George M. Dawes, of Salem, Mass., and -B. R. Cornell, of New York, are al @ St. Jalen jen Hotel, ANOTHER Barrie Won.—Gener —General Battle, of Alabama, has written a letter declaring that the ‘“‘controversy is settled,” and that “the constitution, with the late amendments, is as binding on all the citizens of the Union as it was when it came from the hands of Washington.” Perhaps a little more so, Itis pleasant to know, however, that General Battle has surrendered at last. It is another, and, we hope, the last battle the North will have to win over the South. But the General, it seems, has got himself into hot water with the Southern fire- eaters on the point, and they are boiling him down pretty smartly. Grant AND THE Rapioars.—It is amusing to see the parade the radicals make of Grant's views, Just now they publish his opinions on the Alabama claims in double-leaded para- graphs. We knew and published the same opinions three years ago. At that time the radical journals were denying that Grant had any opinions or any brains in which opinions worthy of printing could originate. They are now startled to find the intellectual calibre of the man they made President—when they couldn’s help it. Ler Watt Street Pay.—The Internal reve- nue officers assess ‘“‘all the onpital used in banking” in a most literal fashion, not reapeot- ing the dodges of the hankers to make part of thie capital coma under other designations, The brokers, relying on the excellence of their dodges, protest, and the question has gone to Washington for settlement. The amount in- volved is three million dollars per annum, If the point made by the assessor is not good under the law the ee ae to make it Here Congress tan ch ors in Sho of thelr dodees. Yo Grant t—and What Ie It to Bet Only five weeks remain of the term of Andy Johnson and the present Congress. The ides of March are coming on apace, and yet the all-important question still hangs fire in Con- gress whether General Grant, as the Presi- dent elect of the republican party, shall be admitted to the official status of Lincoln or be tied up by the Senate like Johnson, The Senate Committee on Retrenchment have been considering the matter for a week or two, and have reported in favor of slackening & little the cords and straps of the Tenure of Office law; but nothing more. Grant at a venture, they think, may be allowed a little more line than Johnson; but the Senate must still hold him well in hand, so as to bring him up with ‘‘a round turn” at the first attempt to fly the track. Brought directly to face the question in the House there were only forty-seven of the members who had the moral courage to stick to the radical text and pro- nounce against Butler’s bill of repeal; but in the Senate, as it appears, the Jacobins have the game completely in their hands, and are playing it with General Grant as the ad- miring cat plays with the mouse. We suspect that by adroit delays and evasions the obnoxious law in question will go over untouched to the 4th of March, and that then the new radical Congress will shape its action as the tone of Grant’s inaugural and the com- position of his Cabinet may require, gauged by the radical programme. In this view the po- sition of General Grant in Congress is any- thing but flattering to the honest soldier. The whiskey rings, no doubt, understand the mys- tery and hold the key to its solution. Grant, if allowed full swing, might turn them all adrift and break up their machinery; but a Ighby power of a hundred millions a year is a tremendous leyer, even in the Senate. Calli- cott and company, Blaisdell and Eckel and such small fry must take their chances, The larger fish, who can only be reached by a gene- ral clearing out of the internal revente pools, are only aftaid of Grant. If they ean head him off in the Senate they are gbod for four years more of their whiskey profits. Butler is evidently an ignoramus on the whiskey question, Meantime the radical and semi-radical organs are amusing their readers with a variety of pretty things about General Grant. Greeley is delighted with him and all his speeches, and in regard to the Tenure of Office law contends that it isa most excellent thing; that instead of obstructing the new President it will mate- rially assist him in the matter of the offices and lighten his labors and responsibilities. Dana, having recovered a little from the stun- ning concussion of Morgan’s defeat for the Senate and Fenton’s election, has resumed the pleasant occupation of Cabinet making. He has already provided half a dozen Cabinets for Grant, and before the eventful day of March may give him a dozen more from which to pick and choose. Raymond, famous for sitting on the fence and for riding two or three horses at a time, is_ now, with Andy Johnson lifted from his shoulders, comparatively clear and ortho- dox asa half-way radical on probation; but still, upon these issues between Grant and Congress he is like the man who, entangled among “‘the elbows of the Mincio,” could find his way out only through the fortifications of Paris. He has learned to tread lightly over boggy ground; but with Johnson abandoned, with Seward on the retiring list, with Morgan cut off and Weed among the dead men, the junior member of the firm is perplexed with the difi- calties of a new departure. Radical or semi-radical, none of the repub- lican organs here or elsewhere have under- taken to give an earnest, helping hand to But- ler in pushing on this bill repealing the Tenure of Ofice law. They would like to sorve Grant, perbaps, but they are afraid of the Senate. They may have some axes of their own to grind there; they may have a weakness for some whiskey ring, or railway lobby job, or telegraph monopoly, or Treasury clique of brokers and stockjobbers; and all such inte- rests may be killed or saved by the Senate. In this emergency General Grant may catch a glimpse of the difficulties that lie before him, The Congressional Joint Commitiee of Public Safety intend to keep him subject to their bidding. They will, we apprehend, await his inaugural and his Cabinet before they decide upon his case. They regard his unparalleled silence meanwhile with doubts and misgivings, and, in default of anything bette?, in reading and believing all sorts of newspaper rumors and sensational inventions they are as sorely puzzled as the frogs in the fable what to make of the new king that Jupiter has given them. The real trouble will begin with the distri- bution of the spoils. We have had an inkling of this in the fearful squabblings .at Albany over Morgan and Fenton. When the contest comes to the Cabinet, the foreign missions, the fat custom houses, post “offices, inter- nal revenue districts, &c., there will be disaffec- tions, desertions and factious wranglings and quarrellings on every side. The Tenure of Office law is for the protection of the office-holders, Its repeal will be to the advantage of the office- seekers. The Jacobins of the Senate desire to do the weeding, and the whiskey rings and all the rings of the lobby look to the Senate to save them. But far beyond all these mere inciden- tals of spoils and plunder the idea of tying up President Grant as they tied up Johnson may cover designs and schemes of a despotic Direc- tory little dreamed of by the outside spoils politicians or by the American n people. NaPoLgoN AND THE Porn. .—The Emperor of France intends to give the Jewish and Pro- testant Churches a logal standing and a voice in France by making the Grand Rabb! and the President of the Protestant Consistory Senatora of theempire. This is a notice to the Pope that his Church is no longer omnipotent. If the Pope feels bad about this we can afford bim conso- lation by making him Senator in @ greater country than that the Emperor rules, He oan have a place in our Senate for half the price that Morgan offered, —— Say Waat Witt Taser Do wirn Ir?—The Vicksburg Jerald states that a worthy clti- zen of that place has presented a horse for the benefit of the orphans fn Natchez, What will wey So with tt? The poor orphags fnight as well have been presented with an elephant ; for they may ride to the other hes the horse, while on the elephant jx might, be diigult to equovse ia, NOW YORK HRRALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1800—TRIPLE SHWE. What Is the Hoa! Position of Genera | Tho Revolution tm Cube—Now Complicas | 90. The time will come, and is not far off, tons and New Resslts. The news from Cuba is of a grave charac- ter. Fifteen days have elapsed since General Dulce removed the repressive measuros which kept down the expression of public opinion in Havana, and we are now receiving its first distinct utterances. In another column we give a review of the free press of Cuba and the main points of the platform of one of its most intelligent representatives. Its arguments are logical and its statements bold. ‘It is not enough,” says La Verdad, ‘to proclaim to the country forgetfulness of the past. It is not the government which has offences to forgive ; itis the country. This does not ask for par- don; it asks for justice; and it asks not with humility, but it demands.” The popular voice, on the other hand, does not wait to clothe itself in well turned phrases, It will be con- tent with nothing short of ‘‘ Viva Cespedes!” This is the cry in the theatre and on the streets, and at tho gates of the cemetery when the bodies of the Cuban dead are brought to interment. And Cespedes represents violent and complete separation from Spain. This development of public opinion has pro- duced the natural result in a community where, as in Havana to-day, the reliance of the government is on bayonets in the hands of a volunteer partisan organization of the purely Spanish population, A conflict with the people has occurred, A detachment assailed from the housetop deliberately fired into the crowded lower rooms of a coffee house, killing indiscriminately citizens, officers of the govern- ment and foreign merchants, and at a later hour shots were fired into an audience while leaving a theatre, killing two ladies and several children. To make the partisan operation more marked an American photographer is attacked and killed in the streets by patties supposed to belong to the game volunteer force, and his body is delivered on the demand of the Ameri- ean Consul. In thus proclaiming war upon the name and persons of American citizens the Spanish element in Havana has revealed itself in its true colors as markedly as the Cuban element has shown its determined aspiration for. independence, The inquiry of the United States Consul yesterday to be informed whether the government of General Dulce is able to protect American citizens was a necessary one in the known tendency of the native Spaniards in Cuba; and in the present state of affairs a plain and prompt communi- cation from Washington will no doubt save much blood. These events mark a turning point in the revolution in Cuba. But one step can enable General Dulce to remain master of the situa- tion, and that we doubt his authority or his readiness to take, An immediate proclama- tion of Cuban nationality under the protec- tion of the Spanish government, with the convocation of a Guban Congress at Havana, might restrain the coming revolution in the Western Department and preserve the connection of the island with Spain. Every other step will be futile. Cespedes has drawn the sting of the Spanish wasp, which proclaimed that Cuba must continue Spanish or become African by proclaiming the emanci- pation of the slaves. The people of Cuba are far in advance of the colonial government in accepting the ruling ideas of the age; and the watchword of “Free Cuba for all freemen, without distinction of nationality or race,” now openly proclaimed in Havana, binds a hundred thousand strong arms to the revolution. The sudden recall of Count Val- maseda’s column from the Eastern Department leaves one-half of the island in possession of Cespedes, and coming events are already casting a large shadow, thanks to the volun- teer organization in Havana, over the populous western portion of Cuba. Nor or tHe Same Way or TarsKina.—A lady correspondent of the Washington Chroni- cle states that, although Senators Pomeroy, Wade and Wilson attended the Women’s Rights Convention in that city, their wives are all opposed to the movement. This is nothing extraordinary, Itis not the first time wives and husbands have had different ways of thinking—the one leading the former, like angels, heavenward; the other plunging the ore anything but angels, Vother- ward. A Wat From THE West.—The Cincinnati Gazette exclaims, ‘‘Our city is full of thieves.” That complaint is universal, Its ravages are worse and more general than the influenza or cholera in season. It is time a quarantine were established upon the introduction of thieves from abroad, having plenty of our own native growth, and when an infectious individual arrives from foreign parts either send him back whence he came or place him in @ plague houge at once. Raliroad Progress and Rallrond Kings. Railroad progress in the way of projects for new roads, new connections and extensions is allthe rage. Congress has numberless bills before it to promote and aid railroad enter- prises, and there is not a State Legislature, probably, that is not more crowded with this business than any other, All this is a gratifying sign of the surprising progress of the country and shows that the prospective early completion of the Pacific Railroad—that great artery of commerce across the Continent—has thrown all the railroad kings and companies into a state of excitement. The effort made now is to consolidate and connect the different lines, north, east, west and south, with the Pacific iron way. The New York Central Railroad king (Vanderbilt) is straining all his energy to consolidate hia lines from New York with the Western roads, to tap the Paciflo Railroad, and for this purpose is fastening his grip onthe Michigan Southern, While Vanderbilt is work- jug for consolidation in the West and Northwest another railroad king, Jay Gould, is projecting a through broad gauge route, in connection with fue Erie and fuatie and Great Westera, ile, and froth thence to Nashville +44 ig alae These are gigantic PY jects, and there are gany others just n0¥, scarcely less bold and far-reaching. They ex» enters prises independent of governmen,, a, and in the bands of men capable of do t thi » ag great things, Nor are they in cpg of time, perhaps, for the growth of the * vountry is surprising, But many of the *’rojects before Congress are a tittle BS ature, and consequently call for ‘ament aid. Thoy are, in fact, jobs, The vernment is not in a position to lavish any money on railroads, and ought not to do when these railroad project can be carried out by private enterprise ani without govern- ment assistance. The propetors must wait till that time arrives, Then «ur railroad kings, such as Vanderbilt and Jay Gould, will take hold of them in a regular bysiness way. For the last few years Congress has been rushing -at an extravagant rate into all sorts of rail- road schemes and jobs, but ve hope the brakes will be put down on them, and, if we may judge from the vote on Monday on the Denver Pacific Railroad bill, a check has been put to such frightful extravagance, OFFIOg-SEEKERS TO THE Rear.—The Senate acted very sensibly in passing a resolution yesterday toconfirm nomore appointments to office during the transit of President Johnson from notoriety to oblivion. No more foreign representatives to disgrace us; no more clerks in foreign countries for Mr. Seward; no more dishonest revenue officers to plunder the peo- ple and increase taxes} no more official addi- tions to the whiskey ring; no more official jobbers; no more official rats to nibble at the public cheese. Poor Andy-Andy! His only hope now is to show his good will.to his friends by sending in to the Senate a defiant list of appointments as a parting shot of grape and canister. Earnings of the Theatres—The Public Taste. Opéra bouffe is the favored theatrical enter- tainment of the metropolis, as we find by the returns of the Internal Revenue Department, and “Genevitve de Brabant” is the most favored of the bouffes, During the run of this piece in the month of November, 1868, the French theatre took in thirty-five thousand dollars—the largest return of any theatre for any month of the half year. Not only does the French theatre showthe best receipts fora single month, but it shows, also, the best succession for three months ; 89 that the gupremacy of opéra bouffe at that establishmentis In no sends accidental or casual, but is evidently the result 6fa deliberate judgment of the public, At Pike's this entertainment, with all the grace of Irma and the magnetism of Tostée to help, proved to have fess attraction by seventeen thousand dollars’ worth on the three montha. Nevertheless, though Tostée and company proved less attractive than Rose-Bell and the French theatre, their establishment, holds a good place in point of success among city theatres generally. Grau made in the three months ninety-five thousand dollars and Bate- man seventy-eight thousand; and if we couple these sums we find that the aggregate paid for one sort of entertainment—one hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars in three months—dwarfs the sums paid for any other one class for the same period: Next best is the establishment some time famous for the glories of naturalism in the ballet—the grand headquarters in the metropolis of sensation— the sort of sensation especially that has nothing behind it. Opéra bouffe is sensa- tional, but behind the sensation there is music, wit and exquisite ridicule. Behind Black Crookism there is nothing, unless we recog- nize beastliness as counting for something in theatrical art. We are glad to see that this establishment is not, as it has hitherto been, first on the list. Wallack’s theatre, in the three months that closed the year, averaged twenty thousand a month, which is a tolerably fair indication, yet not a very good one either. That the French theatre, so near to Wal- lack’s and so little larger, should earn over a third more a month points how decidedly the people prefer the new and startling to the best of old comedies played in a manner well nigh faultless. Maxine up A DEFICIENOY IN THE Reve- NvE.—Some citizens are just now astonished by being called upon to pay again the revenue tax they paid in 1863. It seems there is a de- ficiency found in the accounts of a collec- tor; and as all the collectors are 60 honest there is no explanation of the difficulty save in the idea that the tax conld not have been paid at the time. This is an excellent precedent. Whenever there is a de- ficiency in future it will only be necessary to collect the tax once more, but there ought to be a limit, How many times will the people be liable? Viewancs Comitrees.—The vigilance committee has grown to be a sort of understood but uncertain quantity behind the laws in our republican system—recognized as the definite shape that public wrath takes when it cannot accomplish its objects of punishment by more ordinary methods. It has proved effective in some places, but its limits are as yet only dimly seen, We are told that vigilance com- mittees are to take hold of things in this city. We doubt if this institution will succeed here, The trouble is that the rogues will be smart enough to be on the committee. The commit- tee will be a ring, in fact. The Situation in Spain. One of our latest cable despatches informs us that the cities of Seville and Cadiz have proclaimed in favor of the Duke de Mont- pensier as King of Spain. The Duke de Mont- pensier on the Spanish throne would be a com- pliment to M. Guizot which M. Guizot himself and the older diplomatists of the day have long since ceased to believe possible. The Spanish marriages of 1846—that of the Queen to the Duke of Cadiz, and that of the Infanta to the Duke of Montpensier—have always been regarded as at once the most daring and the most skilful act of French diplomacy during the reign of Louis Philippe, By that act M. Guizot hoodwinked land partieu- larly and Europe generally. It was the object of M. Guizot and his royg) master LY thése marriages to undo the sixth article of the treaty of Utreok’; and thus éreate a possibility of the vrion of the French ayd Spanish beable The birth of the royal children soon ®’.de an end of the schemes of the diplomat- ists, It now turns out, in 4 yery unexpected way, that the original plan is fot, after all, without a chance of success. Isabella and her family have been discarded. The Duke Ne jontpensier and his son are two of several ae Their chances, 60 far as we oan yet judge, are very nearly as good as those of Don Carlos or the ) Duke of Aosta or the others, ‘The truth is the “situation in Spain is very much muddled. Much will depend on the ny tion of the Cortes, If they agree upon ¢ “ay one candidate his chances will, of Sourr’s, be supe- rior to those of all the others. "cannot, how- over, bo said to be pe Imp yesibility that the friends of the other candidatesmay make an ap- peal to arms. In euch a case it will be found that the troubles of Spain are only beginning. The Prevalence ef Crime—Where is tho Remedy? The recent fearful increase of crime has startled the whole community. Almost every law for the protection of person and pro- perty has been so frequently violated of late that certain parties in this city with more haste than reflection have determined, it is said, to organize vigilance committees like those which saved California in its early days. It is even asserted that in two of the wards vigilance committees have actually been or- ganized. Some of the journals which an- nounce this extraordinary movement seem in- clined to endorse and encourage it. But they forget how very dangerous @ business Lynch law would prove to be in a city where, as in Sodom and in Gomorrah, the rogues outnum- ber the righteous. Where there are more wolves than all the sheep and watchdogs together the wolves themselves might snap at this idea of organizing and directing vigilance committees. In that case the astute Dana and the philanthropic Greeley would be liable to be the first victims hanged. It would then be too late for them to bleat forth plaintively their old protests against hanging, Ys Strangely enough, murders seem to be more numerous than any other crimes. The killing of Pollard in Richmond was followed by a swift and terrible succession of murders, North and South, ending on the day before New Year’s with the fatal stabbing of Rogers in open daylight, in front of his own house, in New York city. Nota single day has passed since the new year began without its record of a murder or of more than one murder. * The instantaneous and wide publicity given by newspapers and the telegraph is not what makes murders appear more numerous than at another period; murders actually eee: more. attnerdnd ti than they were during a 1 corteapond- ing period in the year preceding the war, The extraordinary increase of crime in general, and of murder in particular, may be largely ac- counted for by the storm of violent passions excited by the war—a storm which swept over the land and which has not yet spent all its fury. Moreover, a morbid sympathy with the worst criminals on the part of certain modern reformers, go called, has generated so great an aversion to inflicting capital punishment even for murder in thé first degree that juries almost everywhere, except in New Jersey and in Philadelphia, fail to convict in any case. The would-be murderer is thus encouraged to the unrestrained indulgence of passion by the probability that he may get off scot free even though he kill his victim. This possibility becomes a certainty if the criminal happens to be a murderesé. - In compaasion for the criminal, whether murderer or murderess, American juries too often lose not only all pity for the victim, but all sense of responsibility for the security of society and all sense of justice. The time has surely come when a remedy must be found for the deplorable and alarming prevalence of crime. To the question, where shall this remedy be found? there can be but one answer—in the unflinching execution of the laws. If during these six months every ease of clearly proved crime were to be followed inexorably by the full penalty of the law the prospective criminal calendar of the last half of 1869 would be surprisingly dimin- ished, Sales of Government Gold and Securities, The expression ‘better late than never" may be well applied to Senator Conkling’s bill, which has just been introduced in the Senate, to prohibit secret sales of bonds and gold on account of the United States. It ap- pears from the letter or report of the Secretary of the Treasury of last April to the House of Representatives, in answer to a resolution call- ing for a statement of the commissions paid for manipulating bonds and selling gold, that over seven millions of dollars had been paid to government brokers up to that date, By Mr. McCulloch’s own statement over throe thousand millions of securities and gold had been thus manipulated, but it is believed that hardly less than six thousand millions in all, up tothe present time, have been thus ma+ nipulated. That is, the debt of the United States, through the action and recommenda- tions of the Secretary and the folly of Congress, has been put in the market ‘and changed and twisted about several times from one form to another till the total amount reaches that sum, Probably not less than ten millions have been paid directly for broker- age to a few individuals up to the present time, A great number of names are set down in Mr. MeCulloch’s report as purchasers of gold and bonds; but this appears to be only for throwing dust in the eyes of the people, for they did not receive the commissions, It was only to a favored few of the Treasury ring, as Jay Cooke & Co. and Meyers & Co., that tho seven to ten millions of commissions were paid. The manipulation of government securi- ties and money through the favoritism of the Secretary has been a rich mine for these agents. How many more millions have been made by this Treasury ring through the secret information given to them and through the power they held of controlling the market is not known, bat the amount must be enormous. All the sales of gold and changing of securitioa could have been done by the Treasury Depax¥-" ment itself, Ten millions have been thrown away and the publle have been cheated through the manipulation of our national sien, rities by these stock brokers, Mr, Conkli bill comes none too soon, and ought to passed immediately, That is not all, feds ever; for Congress ought to stop this “as practice of changlag, transferring and Ge" “abling in the public debt. Let the debt 67) the curs rency remain as they are till aD“ thor Congress shall meet and have time "4 place the whole system of our finanoe# 0”, 4 sound and enduring basis, ENGLAND AS", Rvesta,—The British Ambas- sador at St. “votersburg has opened with Rus- sia the gr.eotion of her advahees toward the Tndiap Sebntier, with the intimation that Eng- 1a", intends to know what Russia means. “Russia menos just this—to hold such « position in Asia that if England joins in any more alliances in Europe against the Czar of Mus- covy the Czar of Muscovy will give her a pun- ishing hitin India, Thisis what Russia moans, What is England going to do about it?