The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1869, Page 6

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Mixer ‘TER Volume XXXIV, .. 0s spegeperstirereees-NOe BS street and Bixth ave- fourth st.—BRTTER pene bil aa Broadway.—HomPrr Dorr. 2 é i if ry i RE e3 i Int iontte tae the constructing ground railroad in this city, cothmencing from the Battery; relating to the University of the City of New York; to extend and widen certain city, and several other bills of . Anumber of appomntments were the use of certain wharves on the Eaét river; autho- rizing the instruction of boya in the duties of sea- men; providing punishment for forgers; relative to sayings banks, 4nd a number of unimportant bills. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Commis- stoners of the Metropolitan Police for information regarding the proposed tnerease of pay for police officers. Miscellaneous. ‘The Democratic State Convention of Connecticut met in Hartford yesterday. T, M. Waller, of New London, presided temporarily, made a strong speech in favor of paying the in gold. Mr. J. C. Loomis, of Bridgeport, was elected permanent chairman. Resolutions were adopted ignoring the Platform. Resolutions also were adopted in fespect to the memory of T. H, Seymour. A speech was made by J, F. Babcock in support of the latter resolutions. The old ticket was renominated. A permanent peace With the Indians seems to be generally conceded. The main body of General Sheridan's troops are soon to be withdrawn from the Plain’ and concentrated at Fort Leavenworth for distribution to other points, and nearly all the Indians are expected to go to their reservations. Detaware has appointed a commissioner to inauce the French cable company to land their submarine telegraph on the shores of that State. The Legisla- ture has adopted a joint resolution declaring that the State has sole jurisdiction in the matter. EY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOOL! OUSE, Williamsburg.— Hoorey’s MrxstRevs—Dipw’t Paove Him, £0, oan OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— rT. The Senate Committee on Pensions find themselves debarred by the laws from granting Mrs. Lincoln a pension of more than thirty dollars mouth. The Military Commitiee will have to subarit a special enactment, The report of the Congressional Committee in re- lation to the New York election frauds ts being printed as fast ag it can be written out, but will not be presented te Congress for some time. The New England Labor Reform Convention met in Boston yesterday. Speoches were made by Wen- dell Phillips, George Francts Train and others. The City. The Rogers marder inquest was continued yeater- day in the Councilmanic Chamber, City Hull, The three Logans and Tallant and Tracy were brought ja, but Tom’ was not present. William Robatille testified that the James Logan, who was arrested, NEW YORK BcIENOE AND TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, Jaguary 28, 1869. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Datny Herp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subs¢ribers by this arrangement ean receive the Heraxp at the same price it is furnished in the city. siept all night at a house on Greene’ street on New - Year's eve, and was there at the time of the murder. THA NEWS. The inquest was adjourned until this morning. ORGS ES “Tom” McGibney is to be returned to Sing Sing Europe. Prison. ‘ Our cable telegrams are dated January 27. : ‘The assassination of the Governor of Burgos, in Spain, canses intense excitement, Violent demon- Strations were made against the Papal Nuncio, and ‘the government refuses to further recognize his tic powers. Two of the Catholic prelates of have been arrested, It is believed that Greece has given in her adhe- sed the conclusions of the Paris Conference, but “ reservations, Ata dinner in Paris yesterday General Dix, our Minister to France, spoke in favor of Greece. The ‘American ship Alaska, with a cargo of colton trom Orleans, waa burned in Havre yesterday. Mr. Earnest Jones, the well known radical poll- Melan of England; aied on Tuesfay, The directors > bank of Overend, Gurney & Co. have heen agent of the line to which the steamship belongs is very reticent as to the accident hag met with. It Is stated, however, that no American passengers have been killed or injured. were adopted ata public teeting in paae tees night urging the government to pardon the Fedlan convicts. The Levant Tiines publishes 8 rumor that Senator ‘Wye is to be our Minister to Turkey after next March, Cuba. _ The important news is received that the city of Puerto Prineipg was taken by General Seas on the Toth inst., on which Count da entered Bay: eXcitement over this news ‘Was intense ip Havana, and the Spanish folunteers 3 ‘ Grwking deeply andacting withoud discipline LS te H | The Cuban insurrection exoites much interest and . sympathy in Mexico, and men and money are being Tatsed the insurgents, There are go neu- interfere with the forwarding of a8 Mexico has considered Paraguay. “Ste army of Lopes still oocuples the stronghold of Angostara, between Villeta and Asuncion. The de- hf feat at Villeta, although severe, was not a complete Brazil. ‘The damege by the recent burning of the Custom q House af Rio Janeiro was greatly over estimated. ; Haytl. . By way of Jamaica we have advices (rom Hayti to ‘the 4th of January. The aocounts are contradictory. One says that Sainavé had captured Miragoane and revolation is now a failure, while another states @ datile had been fought between Petit Riviere L’Anse a Venu, resuiting iv a triumphant victory flor thie aymy, and Sainave narrowly d being captured. New Zealand. ttle has taken plage at Poverty Bay between tisk troaps and Maori, in which the latter with great loss, Congress, Senate yesterday Mr. Howe presented a i asking that an able phrenologist ve ap- o,tent the capabilities of oficeseekers. Mr. Presented a bill to prevent the collection “$2X On passengers by S'ate authorities, which to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. tried again to call up the MoGarraban Claim I, and an exciting discussion tock place, but " hour expired before the subject De voted upon. The Central Pacific Branch ‘pill was Postponed in order to take up Mir, ya pill relative to the public debt and by a vote of 82 to36, Mf. Sherman made tt and was followed by Mr. MoCreery, of ‘The stock market yesterday was barely steady at the morning boards, but became strong late in the atternoon, with a reaction again just at nightfall, Gold opened at 13634 and closed finally at 1365¢. The Printers’ strike still continues, and a meeting of employers was held yesterday, at which it was de- termined to stand firm against the demand made upon them. The strike of the seamen has ended, the shipown- ers having virtually conceded the terms demanded. The case of Powelson, Blaisdell and Belknap, ine dicted for subornation of perjury, came up for hear- ing yesterday, but owing to the illness of one of the defendants was postponed till Monday. In the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday the ar- guments in the Merchant’s Union Express Company case Were resumed and occupied the entire day. pict.’ Superior Court yesterday, befor .zainst the Second Avenue Rallroad Company for injuries sustained through the alleged negligence of the de- fendants’ servants. Damages are laid at $20,000, The North German Lioyd’s steamship New Yors, Captain Nordenholt, will leave Hoboken at two P.M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails Will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, wlll leave pler No.4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana, vin Nassau, N. P. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Ryder, of Leary’s line, will sail from pier No, 8 North river at three P, M. to-day for Charleston, 8. C. Prominent Arrivals in the City. neral N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts; General J. @, Smith, of Vermont, and J. H. Devereaux, of Cleveland, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. B. Spencer, of Alabama; Colonel James Abbe, Massachusetts; Colonel W. S, Fish, of Con- panei Page v9 W. D. Mann, of Mobile; John B. Risley, Washington, and 8. By O'Nelll, of the United States Army, are at the Metropoilian Hotel. Colonel George Loan, of Missouri; Theo. 0. Han- ford, of Phiteddiphia; Captain Tompkins and Lieu- tenant E, R. Underwood, of the United States Army, are at the St. Charles Hotel. The Barlingame Mission and Its Conse- quences. Perhaps the most significant sign of the times, marking the conclusion of ono historic epoch and the beginning of another, is the late feception of the Chinese Embassy at the Court of France. Young America, all sinew and elasticity, takes the aged father of nations by the hand, and, leading him eastward, shows him first the United States, then England, then Trance. ‘These are the product of the world’s movement westward,” muses the old man. ‘I sent them on their journey to great- ness thousands of years ago, while I, full upon the eastern ¢onfine of the then known world, felt nothing from the constant impulse of Western civilization except its drainage power. Now it has.made the circuit of the earth and spurs Eastern Asia to new and extraordi- nary action.” A lm perception of all this must have fi upon the Emperor Napoleon as he re- ceived the Burlingame mission the other day— ashadow that told him that Asia and the United States were on the point of banding in- terests, and that for the future we are en- trusted with the commercial destinies of China and Japan. Heretofore France, England and the whole Atlantic sea coast of Europe have been the great centres of the India trade. They were made so by the voyages of Colum- bus, Vasco de Gama and Magellan. Before the pefiod of their commercial supremacy they re- ceived thelr Indian trade from the Eastern Medi- terranean, across the immense deserts of Syria, Arabia and the Persian empire, Phoonicia grew dictatorial under the influence of this commerce, Carthage, Rome and Venice fol- lowed. But it was. commerce which clung to Asia through long lines of laden camels, The trade was in the rarest of Indian pro- ducts; and in Europe {t required the labor of many men to supply a single want of one fellow being. So the world slowly dragged along, and not until more than four thousand years after Syria launched her ships did Western Europe cut loose from its base and try to reach India by striking westward. A continent inter- three thousand five hundred miles in but Europe saw the Indian prize be- and set to the gigantic work of bridging poured in upon our soil, and ¢ and every modern appliance have trained to th tn 9 pevparng fr tla gent commerce. We press wostward; China, active under the coming storm of progtess, méves enstward to meet us, our soil Ireland, the most western people Europe, is advancing, spade in hand, towards tho Paoiflo Ocean; while eastward San Franoisco twenty thousand Chinese laborers are creeping up the slope of the Rocky Moun- tains to connect the Old with the New and complete for civilization the orbit necessary to make the population of the world homogeneous. Europe may well feel the pressure, but she must obey the impulse, Eng! great in the glory of her Indian odjigiests, gnriched by a Goimtiiérde Which At home has made het a vast manufactory and abroad has given her the control of the ocean, must bow to a progress which she herself set on foot, and which she must recognize as holding a power great in proportion to oun geographical position when compared to her own. France, whose sweep- ing intellect can almost compensate for lack of geographical advantage, must also bend to the fact that we are the centre of the world’s trade. France was the master mason at the laying of the corner stone of our nationality. We have never forgotten it, and our highways to Eastern Asia are her transits also. ‘Come and share with as what we have” is the key- note of our greatness; and it is for this we applaud the liberal treaties which China is making with maritime Europe. When we commenced the development of all our vast territory by our. railway system the efforts made were local and imperfect. The lines were affected by petty interasts, by rival- ries and jealousies, They had very little bear- ing upon the question of great through routes and comprehensive principles, Up to 1861 we went on with our systems, discovering that the greatest embarrassment proceeded from State boundary lines. Slowly we aro emerging from this narrowness of national development. Our railway kings now take the map of North America and draw bold lines across it. Eng- land does the same, and thereby compliments our future. We find that we cannot deal with this great palpitating progress without blotting out the narrow and the local to give place to plans proportioned to the demands of the age upon us. Short raflroad lines are fast disappearing, and great through lines, under a single and cheaper management, take their places. To-day 9 gréat mania exists to reach the Pacific, and West and Southwest our map is covered with projected routes to San Fran- cisco, to Guaymas, to Mazatian and San Blas. Irrespective of nationality we sweep across Mexico, and she, dead to modern progress, is of as little account as a feather in the track of a whirlwind, All this impulse receives more or less force from the growing cordial relations which exist between us and Eastern Asia. When the last rail is laid upon the Pacific Railroad. 1 the world will ngJep“we must own Pacific tele- graph lines; for we must talk daily with this great Chinese and Japanese people, with whom we are to be so intimately connected and upon whom depends so much of our future great- ness. Asia in this century is to receive an impulse from the two youngest of the great nations, Russia and the United States—the former steadily marching southeast and the lattter pressing already upon the shores of China and Japan, These are the signs of a new era in the world’s history—an era which will be marked by an extraordinary progress, to which the past has been but the preface. Turkey anp Greece.—Our latest news from Europe regarding the Eastern question is to the effect that Greece is not willing to fol- low the recommendations of the great Powers, and that Turkey is hopeful that peace will be the result of the Conference, Rumors for some days had been in circulation to the effect that Turkey was heavily arming herself, These rumors were, no doubt, largely encouraged by the announcement that, in the event of war breaking out between Turkey and Greece, the Viceroy of Egypt would furnish a contingent of fifty thousand men, The Sultan donfes that Turkey is doing anything beyond what is ab- solutely required by the circumstances. through this trouble the government of the Sultan has comported itself with dignity and propriety. It has been the reverse with Greece, Now that Europe has deliberated and given advice, the best thing that oan be done is to leave Greece to her fate. Turkey, by the course she has taken, has the sympathy of the nations. If Greece will not take advice let her learn the lesson of experience. A little whipping might do her good. “Tigtp ror Trrat,"—Some three months ago a man robbed a store in Canal street, was ¢aught and committed to prison—‘‘held for trial,” as they say—and on Saturday last the same rogue thus “‘held for trial” robbed the Park Bank, Evidently he was not held very well. He whs not tried nor bailed, yot he wag out and pursuing his vocation. How did this happen? Can the Tombs authorities tell? ASSASSINATIONS IN SPAtN.—Spain has got on pretty well throughout this revolution with’ out bloodletting. A little bloodletting there has been; but not much, all things considered, The assassination of the Governor of Burgos is a new feature, If assassination becomes at all common there is no saying how far it may go. Assassination is the last resort of the desperate. How much of this desperate feel- ing now exists in Spain we have no means of knowing. It is, perhaps, more general than we believe. Kerosexs Morpgr,—The Board of Health has taken vigorous action in regard to kerosene, and now the Fire Commissioners discover that they are the only ones who have authority in that matter. As they have only made this dis- covery since the Board of Health hag taken steps against an illegal and dangerous traffic are we to suppose that the traffickers opened their eyes? t Coat raters, Take Noticx.—There was another fall in the price of coal at the sales of the Lackawanna aud Deleware Company yesterday. The resolution of the republican caucus of the Senate on Tuesday last, to confirm no more nominations to office from President Johnson, except to All vacancies or to moet some prese- ing emergency, will thin out to some extent thé miscellaneous forces of the Washington lobby and the floating population of Pennsyl- vania avenue. A motion was made to except Mr. Collector Smythe, of New York, nomi- fisted for the mission to Russia, and Mr. Alex- ander Cummings, of Philadelphia, nominated for Internal Revenue Commissioner in place of Rollins, butit falled by a large majority, and go Smythe and Cummings are, in the general category of Mr. Johnson's ‘‘rejected ad- dresses.” Mr. Sniythe has made a vigorous fight for & confirmation against difficulties and drawbacks which would have deterred ninety-nine men of a hundred from any serious attempt to carry the Senate, But it seoms that he had some strong supporters among the republican members, and it is probable that if his case could have been brought to a direct vote in the outset he would have slipped through, from which we may conclude that our worthy Collector had convinced a majority of the Sen- ate that, notwithstanding his fidelity to John- son, which was perfectly natural, he pos- sessed in a high degree the requisite qualifications for St. Petersburg. But still Johnson was a drawback with the impeachment majority, and the time, so close to the expiration of Johnson’s term and the incoming of President Grant, as a simple matter of expediency and money, was dead against a confirmation to this mission in the interval, to say nothing of the possible aspirations under Grant in the Senate itself. So we have thought from the first, but as Mr. Smythe appeared to be sanguine of success we have said nothing upon the subject. Per- haps had Senator Morgan been re-elected— the Collector's best friend—the result would have been different; but Morgan’s defeat was fatal to his candidate. It left him without a recognized Senatorial backer from New York; for Conkling, it appears, was against him in this aforesaid decisive cauous. Cummings had a very powerful supporter, a perfect master of electioneering tactics and strategy, in Senator Cameron; but the ante- cedents of Cummings—his army straw hats and ginger pop, and such#éhings—and John- son's remarkable partiality settled him, In- deed, we suspect that the hitching together of Cummings and Smythe, without helping Cum- mings, was one of the serious drawbacks to Smythe.. At all events, the cases of these nominees, with a host of others of smaller calibre, are settled till the 4th of March. The door of the Senate is shut against them and Johnson, and from and after the 4th of March there will, doubtless, be a new shuffle, out and deal of the cards all round. Johnson, mean- time, though he may not retire in a blaze of glory, is evidently resolved to go out of the White House true to his friends and ‘‘the con- stitution as it was,” heads up and colors flying. Such is lite; such is the wheel of politics! So pass away the vain aspirings and delnsiona The News from Cuba, Our special despatches from Havana to-day, received by way of Key West, throw a flood of light upon the recent news from Cuba and give us a cause for the intense excitement in Havana during the past few days. The insur- gents had captured the important city of Puerto Principe, the city of second rank in the island. Curiously enough this event occurred on the same day on which Count Valmaseda entered the abandoned town of Bayamo, which had hitherto been the headquarters of the insurgent government. The cunning in- surgenis led him on his march without serious resistance, he believing all the time that he was striking a fatal blow at the revolution, and when he was well within the toils they suddenly turn upon Puerto Ptincipé, and Colonel Mena, with his reported garrison of fifteen hundred troops, an equal number of volunteers and eighteen cannon fall into their hands. It is not strange that the excitable Cubans should be demonstrative and the Spaniards revengeful on the discovery of this intelligence. By mail we have our cor- fespondence from Havana to the 254 instant, which will be found in another column. It gives, among other important news, the fact that a committee of Cubans had presented to General Dulce the resolutions in favor of a free government in Cuba, and asked him to proclaim it. His reply was that he had not the power to do so and could only remit it to the home government, which he would do, Sovra AMERICAN Arrarrs—IONORANCE IN Ovr Stats Derarrment.—Mr. Seward opposes the plan of General Butler to consolidate the South American missions, under the plea that “our Commerce with South America is greater than that of any European Power.” It would be well to start a primary school in one wing of the State Department to teach it something of the affairs of the countries to the south of us. South America and Mexico have an annual commerce to-day of five hundred and two millions of dollars, exports and imports, of which the United States does not absorb one- fifth part. England absorbs a large part of the remainder, and carries the rich products of the countries to the south of us past our very doors, All this we might control with ordi- nary management and make the ignorant statement of the State Department a reality were our government decently managed in its foreign relations, Axngcpotges or Grant.—A_ correspondent of the Chicago 7ridune farnishes a number of anecdotes of General Grant, illustrative of his character as a military man, They differ from the jokes of the lamented Lincoln, for the reason that, while the latter would make one laugh from their ludicrous and yet pointed ap- plication to a serious subject, the anecdotes of the former impress one with the peculiarly sagacious and common sense mind of the man which united the power and grandour of real genius. Ayotner Tom,—The distinguished man who is supposed to have carried that letter is caught, We congratulate the police. Ie may not know anything of the murder, but his capture, as that was the point aimed at, is a success for the detective force. ‘The Bi to Wire Out the Mormons. Mp. Ashley's bill concerning te boundarles of the States of Nevada, and Nebraska, and the Territories of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, having beyn twice read on the 11th instant, referred to the Com- mittee on the Territories and ordered to be printed, was on the 14th instant reported back with amendments, and its further consideration ‘was postponed until the 28th instant. It was made the special order for to-day and will doubtless give occasion for @ most animated debate. It is, almost without disguise, a bill to wipe out the Mormons. By parcelling the region which, itis but just to say, was not long ago a» wilderness, thatthe Latter Day Saints by admirably organized and persistent industry have made to blossom like the rose, this bill proposes to divide the Mormon forces and thus them more tly than before under the control of the United States govern- ment, of the cofimon law and of the almost untvérsal sentiment of Christendom condemna- tory of polygamy s3 preached and practised by the disciples of Joé Smith. ~ We have here nothing to ény of the personal achemes of political ambition and. land specu- lations involved in this bill. It is of compara- tively little importance to the public at large whether the passage of the bill would help Mr. Ashley or anybody else to become Gov- ernor of Montana and future United States Senator, or cheaply enrich this or that specu- lator at the expense of the Mormons, who have already done so much to develop the resources of the distant regions to which they were driven by religious perseoution and from which it is presumed they will again be driven in consequence of the passage of Mr. Asbley’s bill. It is likely that this bill will meet with spirited opposition on the part of Mr. Hooper, delegate from Utah, and Mr. Burleigh, delegate from Dacotah, which also is wiped out by its provisions. Others are pledged to protest in Congress against the in- expediency, if not the injustice, of such a mu- tilation of the map of the United States as Mr. Ashley proposes. Unquestionably Congress, as composed of representatives of the people of the United States, has a perfect right to legislate with réference to all Territorial ques- tions, It has the right to sanction the par- tition of the State of Texas or that of the State of Michigan, so earnestly desired by the in- habitants of the Upper Peninsula, who would like to have it ceded to the general govern- ment for the purpose of organizing the Terri- tory of Superior, and who offered at the recent Territorial Convention at Houghton very strong arguments in favor of this purpose. But the question of the proposed partition of Utah and the abolition of its Territorial government presents a peculiarly difficult problem. It would be undignified for the government of the United States to try to cut the Gordian knot of this problem by anything like a Yankee trick. Without discussing whether Salt Lake City polygamy is or 1s not worse than unrecog- nized polygamy in Boston, New York, Phila- delphia, Washington, London, Paris, Vienna, or any other city in Christendom—without comparing it even with what we consider th in Gonstantinopie—we must siy that in our opinion the question before Congress to-day is mainly one of expediency. Oongress has now to decide whether it is more politic by obnoxious, or only apparently obnoxious, legislation, to afford the Mormons the immense advantages which every religious sect derives from persecution, or to leave to the Pacific Railroad, with all its irresistible civilizing in- fluences, the task of speedily effacing in Mor- mondom whatever is inconsistent with modern ideas of progress. It is not improbable that Mr. Ashley’s bill, which would cut Utah to pieces and give the fragments to the adjoining States and Territories, which also divides Minnesota and Nebraska, and which despoils Idaho by giving half her Territory to Mon- tana, will be defeated, Ratuer Stow.—In another column we give an interesting article on the subject of the ton- nage of vessels, by which it appears that the Thames Yacht Club measurement finds the ton- nage of a vessel according to rules that were adapted to the model of ships built in the time of Geotge III.—‘‘In our young gaya, when George the Third was King.” This indicates that the Thames Club is rather behind time. The shape of ships has changed since the Georges went to heaven. It was supposed that the contest with the America had opened the eyes of Englishmen to this fact, but it appears this is not so. Our correspondent shoWs that the America, rated in England as larger than her competitor, the Titania, was in reality much smaller, and also that the Dauntless is within the terms of Mr. Ashbury’s challenge. REDISTRIBUTION oF NationaAL Bank Crr- OULATION.—It appears that the Comptroller of the Currency has been called before the Con- gresssional Committee on Banking and Cur- renoy for evidence relative to a redistribution of nationgl bank circulation. We should think little evidence is needed on this subject ; for everybody knows that the South has scarcely any currency, while the Eastern States are flooded with it. In fact, there is no equality at allin the banking privileges and circulation among the different sections of country. A remedy for this evil is necessary, and Congress ought to provide one at once by law. Let each séction have a fair proportion of circulation, according to its poprlation and business wants. Attocreturr Too Hongst.—Old Glen, of the State Legislature, appears to be a fool of honesty, He voted against his convictions lest men should suspect him of having been bribed to vote as he thought was right. Rogues are as good as honest men of that stamp. Rogues have mostly ‘‘convictions,” too; but they do not insist upon them, They will vote the other way for a reason; s0 will Old Glen, itseems. The difference in the reason makes no difference inthe result, Pottase Cars in Wasntnaton.—The irre- pressible Mrs, Swisshelm is out in a poppery letter in answer to what a Washington corre- spondent has stated to be her conduct toward Minnie Ream, the Congressional soulptress. ‘The bones of Old Thad Stevens are made to rattle {n the controversy. The whole affair is a characteriatic illustration of the spice and pungency that will attend ring In Wash- ington when female guffrage fa thd lew of the land. hatch not legs than three hundred n eggs, so that even if only one in three fi mesh, so that none but mature fish can be taken, and that one day in seven—from Saturday night until Monday morning—bo allowed the breeders to reach their spawning grounds, during which time netting would f have to stop, the least intelligent and cone sclentious of the fish dealers are trying to prevent this-action. Nothing is more clear than that the course advised by the commissioners must eventually benefit the fishermen more than any other olase of the community; for the demand miust ad» vance with increasing population fully as fast as thé supply is increaded. But some of them have hit upon an ingenious dodge by which they hope both to draw off public attention from the proper measures and to fill their nots and pockets at the same time. They have hired a Bohemian writer, who is urging upon the commisal loners and the publig the advisability of putting salmon {a the Hudson river fei of shad. To bd sure, they and he well know that there never was but one salmon seen in that river, to the knowledge of any living mad, and that the traditions about that respectable navigator, Hendrik Hudson, having seen ‘“‘great storeg of salmon” on his voyage up the river ate all fol-de-rol. But they want salmon to sell af a dollar a pound, and they would much profei having the State bring these in the shape spawn or fish and raise them, and let then} catch them, to paying the Canadians for theni, Their spokesman is hard at work, and if knowledge of Billingsgate and the language it vogue at that famous fish market is an evidencd of acquaintance with fish culture his abuse ot the commissioners proves that he is an expert, He ignores entirely the suggestions of tho: gentlemen, and says nothing of the number 0! nets, amounting at least to a thousand, whicls line both banks of the Hudson from New York t Albany, and which would surely catch salmory as fast as the government could hatch themy But he will have salmon, and if he cannot hav@ those he insists upon it that nothing shall done for the poor, who are contented to J less expensive fish. He tried in the first ane to get on the commission himself, where h could effectually have blocked any attempt at improvement of the fisheries; but failing that, from being notorious for his defence poachers for infractions of the game laws, hq is taking his present course. He is not like! to succeed, and fortunately for his clients ow reg Mud OOMD wud UUSMIBDIE OF UNSea: sonable fish, which {t is said he prefers any other kind; so they will not be much oué of pocket by his failure, Toe LrerAt MoveMENT IN SpatN AND Cuvuron.—There are signs that the provisio: government of Spain is coming to open bl with the clergy. The news to-day showit the claims of the government to ll archives, libraries and contents of the churches is sure to kindle the spark of revolution in zealous defenders of church prerogatives, is evident that Spain will never emerge from her present troubles until she fully overturng the domination of the clergy, and the quicker she sets herself to the task the better for het liberties, Ke Wuen Is a May a Paurer?—There is a trial in progress in Connecticut the point of which is the inquiry whether of nota man is 9 par per. He says he ig not a pauper; some! else says he is, and meantime he is kept iq. prison in the almshouse, Who éays poverty is not a crime? ateapecensitnpdonngpeclanibinin’s Who Victimized the Frenchmen? We publish elsewhere a card from Presid Orton, of the Western Union Telograph pany, in regard to the = telegraphic job iq connection with the French cable which ventilated in the HeRaup a day or two President Orton says that, so far ag he {8 oo} cerned in that singular piece of telegraphic Yan keeism, our references were ‘based upon whi erroneous qssumptions.” Docttments em ing from the Westerh Union minagement seldom clear in their meaning, and wo are at § loss to understand to what “assumptions” president of that boardrefers. We “assumed” that an act of the State Legislature grant to William Orton, Charles ©. Leigh ‘ol eanal Harvard certain pretended privileges mean¢ what it said, and that William Orton, Oh: ©. Leigh and Charles Harvard werd parties in interost. We are now told fi William Orton was ignorant that his na was in tho bill in question; but as We kno! that President Orton has a sharp nosd for the lobby and reads the papers very thoroughly, had the assertion of hly innga cence of all knowledge of this particular bi come from a less reliable source we shor have ‘‘assumed” it to be all gammon. We do not know nor care how-the few dollars made out of the French cable coms pany for a worthless grant was divided among the partics, If William Orton, one of the corporators, assigned his share to anothoe party, as he claims to have done, wé presuni¢ the assignee was duly thankful. The ‘ai signment” dodge is a very old lobby ttick od sometimes makes very little real difference the distribution of the spoils; but as Witla Orton states that he received no prem present or prospective, for his share of particularly mean job, wo prosuthd #9 bound to take his word, When, however, president of the Westerd Union Tel Company disclaims all knowledge of Y ton lobby proceedings, wé cannot forget thi