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6 NEW YORK HERALD Sg chan anotemnee BROADWAY AND ANN STHEET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorE Herracp. the fishers tn jait. Pickets are stationed tn the suburbs by the white people and a reign of terror exists. The diMculties between Nova Scotia and the New Dominion of Canada, tt is reported, have been par- tially settled by a convention between Mr. Howe and Sir John A. McDonald. The money appropriation to the irate little province is to be increased, and the taruf is to remain the same. The arrangement is yet to be approved by Parliament, The Supreme Court has granted a writ of prohibl- tion against Judge Underwood, of Virginia, who has released several convicted murderers on the ground Letters and packages should be properly | that the judges before whom they were tried were sealed. ineligible under the fourteenth amendment. The “| writ is returnable next Friday. 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Spanish provisional government has issued a Prociamation to the nation with a view of restoring pubic tranquillity, It is announced that all religious questions will be Nnatly disposed of by the Constituent Cortes, which will shortly assemble. Petitions have been presented to the government asking that a decree be issued setting free all chil- orl in slavery since September, 1963. id that nearly all the members of the pro- loual government are in favor of the Duke Mont- sier for the Spanish throne. The Archbishop of Burgos has been arrested and is now in castody, A prociamation granting a general amnesty has eon issued (o the Porto Rican insurgents. mored that the Grecian Prime Minister has ed his portfolio, Grecian government has as yet taken no defi- on relative to the proceedings of the Paris renee. United States Minister Tuckerman, at a public din- ner in Athens on Tharsday, pledged the cordial sym- pathy of the United States to Greece in her present rae Prussian House of Depaties has passed the bill confiscating the property of the King of Hanover. Prince Napoieon receivel the Chinese Emoassy AEDT wm OF Cavle Compecy, ‘eis Paraguay. A telegram from London states that the allied vic- tory in Paraguay was complete. All the forts, artil- jery and baggage of the Parngaayans Were in the hands of the victors, Lopez was a fugitive In the forests surrounded by the allied forces. Cuba. Late despatches state that General Quesada’s march on Principe has been abandoned and he has returned to the vicinity of Nueviias, The peace ne- gotlations are making no hewiway. , Congress. tn the Senate yesterday the Mc(arrahan land claims again came up, and after afew flery words between Senators Fessenden and Conness were re- ferred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. ‘The resolution to grant a pension to Mrs. Lincoln was féported back unfa¥orably. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was reported back from the committee, the provision con- fRolidating the Central and South American missions being stricken out. Mr. Buckalew's proposed con- stitutional amendment relative to electoral colleges was reported favorably. The constitutional amend- inent relative to negro suffrage in all the States was then taken up and generally debated. Mr. Wilson's new Arny bill Was passed and the Senate adjourned. in the House the Post Oiice Appropriation bill, which appropriates $6,740,000 for deficiencies, was reported from the commitiee, A resolution asking for mformation relative to the dealré of Hay and St. Domingo for a protectorate was adopted. The constitutional amondment relative to sudrage was Kk has been elected Gbairman of the | Colonel Indiana Central Railway have refused to lease their road to the Erie men, and by a large majority have voted to lease it perpetually to the Pennsylvania Central and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis roads. The City. Among the trials of police officers before the Com- missioners yesterday was one of an oficerof the Twenty-seventh precinct, charged with complicity in the burglary at Hugh McKay's warehouse, 12 Ley street, on the 26th inst. Sergeant Woodward and several officers testified that the defendant had made an arrangement with the burglars and was to be out of the way when the job was going on. fhe Todees inquest. yesterday the widow and brother of the deceased testified ‘the occurrences just after Mr. Rogers was sta’ = Gloster, the negro boy, was brought up and identified Taliand as one of the two men he saw in the neighborhood at the time of the murder, and Seteodsy ee fled that he watehed the house im Pore7-fitain suicct where ». 2 lodged, and saw his and father go in, and afterwards saw Jamey come out, when he arrested him. The inquest was adjourned until Monday. A riot occurred in the neighborhood of Canton street.—Tuz RISLEY | street and Park avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday, in which two negro men were chased and worrted by a Party of about 100 white men and women for no con- ceivable offence so far as shown at present. One white man was stabbed, and about $100 wot me 5 troyed in battering fe es TE Tc bette and severa! of the white ringleaders were arrested. One of the negroes confesses to having inflicted the stab wound upon the white man Hopkins, which may prove fatal. The employing printers held a meeting at the Astor House yesterday. A scale of prices for job- work was read and adopted. Miss Susan B. An- thony addressed the meeting on the subject of teach- tug the printer’s art to girls. Aasessor Webster's effort to enforce the law impos- ing a tax of one twenty-fourth of one per cent on all capital employed by dealers in stocks and securi- M5 Broadway | ties, is creating considerable excitement in Wall stréet, that region being included in his district. It is claimed by Mr. Webster that there are 100 bankers in Wall, Broad and the contiguous streets who have made no returns whatever, and the instances are numerous where returns of lesa than -$100,000 are made by parties who confess to usipg a capital much Some of the seamen who recently succeeded in thelr strike for a retention of wages at the old stand- ard are now on a strike for an increase. The move- ment, however, is hot general. Judge fngraham yesterday decided that the in- junction restraining Manager Fisk from using the room in the Grand Opera House, heretofore leased to the Morning Star Sunday school, should not be con- Unued, and it was thereupon dissolved, On our triple Sheet this morning will be found an article on Interoceanic Transits, and their political histories. The steamship Santiago de Cuba, Captain McDiar- mid, will leave pier 26 North river at three P. M. to- day for Havana and New Orleans. The steamship General Sedgwick, Captain Gilder- dale, will sail this afternoon from pier 21 East river for Galveston, Texas, The steamer George Washington, Captain Gager, Will leave pier No. @ North river at three P. M. to- day for New Orleans. The steamship San Salvador, Captain Nickerson, will sail atthree P. M. to-day for Savannah from pier No. 8 North river. The steamship Isaac Bell, Captain Bourne, will leave pier No. 37 North river at three P. M. to-day for Norfolk, City Point and Richmond. The stock market yesterday was quite irregular, deing strong for the St. Paul and Northwestern stocks, depressed for the “Vanderbilt” and Erie stocks and barely steady for the rest of the railway list. Gold ‘was dull, closing at 13034. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Baron E. T. Falkenberg, of Sweden; W. W. Hegen- nan, of Albany; 0. W. Baldwin, of Ohio; J. W. Brit- ton, of San Francisco; Colonel 0. Reese, of Titus- ville, and 0, H. Baker, of Mississippi, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Robert F, Banks, of Baltimore; General Jonn M. Wise, of Chicago; Thomas Carney, of Leavenwortn; Colonel George P. Kane, of Maryland, and General J. M. Corst, of Chicago, are at the st. Nicholas Hotel. ~fr. James L, Thayer, of Pennsyivanta, and W. i. MgCaifrey, of Saratoga, are at the St. Charles Hotel. v. D, Farrand, of New York; A. Holly, of Troy, N. and General D. §, Steele, of Columbus, Ohio, are at the Westmoreland Hotel. Wayne McYigh, of Pennsylvania; Frank King, of Boston, and P. Motiey, of New Orieans, are at the Hoftr House. Ger i. L. Burnett, of Cincinnati; W. L. Scott, of Erie; C. N. Yeamans, of Masgachusetis; B, Bul- fum, of Providence, and H. Jewell, of Hartford, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotei. Dr. C. R. King, of Buffalo; C. R. Kingston, of Bai- timore, and BE. R. Davia, of Salem, Mass, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Incoming Administration — Trondio Among the Politicians. There is a growing uneasiness among the The party men with regard {o Grant, All those who would be in the Cabinot—all the cliques that would control the administration and manage the government like a party spoil— express through their organs a nervous rest- lessness as inauguration day approaches, and they find they are none the better for it, either in fact or in hope. Ostensibly the radicals laugh at the democrats for the notion that has got into the heads of these latter that Grant and the radicals will not get on together; but their laughter indicates that they are not at ail amused at the fanc They are extravagani with thé sort of “iangzhtér that makes us doubly serious shortly after.” It is a natural enough thought with the democrats that Grant then considered, but without material action upon it the House adjourned. The Legisinture, But Wte business of State Senate seste incorporate a city r bailing persons arre nors and re lative to insurance companies. A resoiutioa was ollered relating to the coutract for altering State musketa, after which the Senate adjourned unt: Monday evening. aportance was done in the introduced to In the Assembiy bilis were introduced relative to | in Kings county; | husvands who desert their fam relative to the Dry Dock Railway Com ny, and a number of others of unimportauce. A resolution commending certain parts of Governor MNoffman's Message was tabled, Two other resolutions were offered. ‘tho Lill relating to notaries public waa re- committed. The Assembly then adjourned, Miscelinmentias OMciul despatohes from Caieh Cashing, at Bogota, | Columbia, have been received by the Secretary of State, His mission, which 1s believed to be vo nego- tince relative toa slip canal throngh the istiinus of Pangtia, 14 said to be a complete saceess. Robert J, Walker testitied before the committee ta- veammating te Alaska bribes yesterday, to the cifect foe pra ee Of & Newspaper had threntened to call on, pa share of the spoll, but had beon by @ warming that he would receive only a ‘The negroos neer Kinston, W.. C., are bosteging ‘that town and throaten, tm thelr indignation er the taeitols 12 is not likely to be on the best of terms with | politicians who must inevitably be at war with all whom they cannot bully into the silent ond | placid adoption of their ideas; and the fact that the radicals have no better answer to | make than their uncomfortable acreeches of | artificial laughter shows that they perceive | this and are seeing . clearer and clearer day their true relations to the administration, They know that they—the whole tribe of cliquesmen and policy mongere—will be at war with Grant, not, as the democrats foolishly fancy, because | Grant, like some poor predecessors, will “‘quar- | rel with his party,” but because be will not recognize these swindling politicians and will not accept or suffer their dictation and control in matters entrusted to him by the American people. If ever the people could fairly hope that the Prealdeacy would be accepted in the right spirit surely they may hope this in the case of Grant. Hitherto the nation has seen men go into the Presidential office not to perform its duties, not accepting the onerous trust imposed, but merely to loll on the cushions of political life and give power into hands in which the uation would never have trusted it, By this | every means corruption has crept in and every pos- sible abuse. Where the nation has expected to find the will of the Chief Magistrate in the administration of the law it bas found the will of some clique, interested, perhapa, in the vio- lation of the law. Where it has expected to see a resolute hand placed on corruption it has found that the President had bartered away his power and that roguery was unassailable. This was one consequence of our system. Men went into the Presidency committed to a corrupt disposition of its powers by the bargains of their election. But this is not the case with Grant. He could never have become President in that way. He was made by the war, and owes his elevation only to the broad predominance of that great party that carried gn the war—the republican party in its simplest form of devotion to the national safety and glory. Hecan not only. afford to disregard the professional politicians, but he must do it or fail in his duty. He is made President for the benefit of the nation, and as he did not shirk the hard service of high place in the war we may trust that he will not now. Accepting a personal elevation from the peo- ple, he is of the kind of men who will feel i opehing of personal responsibility. _ He will be @ togl President—not the tel of cliques—not a chief magistrate who must do this thing in the Treasury Department becanse the Treas! ring mre sole th te Bub Department because the jobs of adme other ring require it; but things will be done by cause Grant is satisfied to fake the resj bility that they are right. Bi a This is what is wanted, this is the thing the people expect, and this it is that the politi- cians instinctively feel and mortally fear. Their fears betray them into all sorts of ridicu- lous antics, and they assume such a tone that one might suppose to neglect them could result in nothing less than a convulsion of nature. Nevertheless we believe that Grant will neglect them very handsomely. In the carly days of the war this clear-slghted soldier wrote a letter to somebody saying that all would be well ‘if no political appointments were made.” Probably the hard experience of the war and the startling results of the political appointments that were made have not erased from his mind the conviction in which that healthy idea grew. If he acts upon it all will be well now also. Appointments made for political reasons are what the people do not expect from their President. Only the politi- cians expect these. The nation can afford to rely on the good taste of Grant that appoint- ments offensive to the patriotic sense will not be made. Beyond this it only cares to have in each office the man who is most fit to per- form its duties honestly. Grant, if he will act on such a view in his appointments, can well afford to scorn the snivelling impudence of the fellows who pretend that they made him the Chief Magistrate of the American people. The Telegraph Monopoly and Congress. The effort made by the telegraph rings to prove that the national government can only make a failure if it interferes with the tele- graphic system can be of little avail in pre- venting the downfall of the monopoly. The people of the United States have determined to take possession of the telegraph business, attach it to the postal system and reduce the cost of sending our wishes and thoughts throughout the country to the lowest possible figure. This over the wires should not bo more than ten cents per méssage to any part of the country, and we are certain that very shortly we shall see this cheap rate established, The telegraph and Post Office properly belong together, and it is simply ridiculous to sup- pose that the government can manage one-haif the business and a private corporation the other. The two branches are inseparable, so far as public interests are concerned. Finan- cially there can be no question but it is for the general good to be master, owner and manager of that which affects directly every citizen in | the country. Telegraphs and railroads must come under the control of government; for they have growa to such gigantic proportions that they are used to subvert the legitimate interests of commerce and communication, and have become the sport of rings organized for no other purpose but to swindle the different communities, unsettle values and destroy trade. , Srantoy’s GvUILLoTINRE was applied to Grant also, but did not operate well. The people want to know the history, and we can’ fruarantee a good fat office to any one of the dozen telegraph operators through whose hands the order went from Washington to Vicksburg if he can tell the very words of the order. STANTON ON Banks AND Grant.—Stanton ordered Banks to relieve Grant. The man who wrote the order remembers it, and the order is filed in the War Department. Who ean find it? Who will produce it? The Case of Collector Smythe. This is the case of a man who has been, badly sold on confidence. It is a case of deception and disappointment which shows the necessity of doing everything in business in writing, date and contract, in white and black. It is well known that Collector Smythe did not depend upon President Johnson to carry his nomination for Russia through the Senate. It is well known that while Johnson is pulled by one set of wires the Senate is pulled by another. Collector Smythe, to use a familiar | phrase, “had seen” the Senate. Rumor says that he had bonght it and paid for it in advance. He had counted noses and was all right. We shouldn't wonder if he had con- tracted for his court costume, gold lace dnd all, go as to be off with his confirmation, Senator Morgan was his right hand man, and Morgan, it was thought, could not fail, But he did fail, and his failure at Albany, it appeara, was the same as the failure of his protégé at Washing- ton, The Senator and his man were both humbugged and cheated. While Morgan, however, was cheated point blank, Smythe was cheated by a flank movement of hedging and dodging. But a bargain broken ‘on the one side ceases to be binding on tho other side, and as Collector Smythe has no more favors to ask or expect from his friends in the Senate he can at least give them a Roland for an Oliver. He has his Senatorial list. Let him publish it for the information of others in the same line to come after him. In this way by and by wo may get at the Senatorial key to the whiskey tings, Who ‘eaqs? \ ered up by Lopez. Much Ade Abort Nothing. ‘ There has been a misunderstanding between the United States Minister at Brazil, James Watson Webb, and Rear Admiral Davis, of our Soith Atlantic squadron, which has resulted in adding to the archives of the State Depart- ment another heavy volume of correspond- ence. The Minister last fall, as @ matter of paramount public duty, urged the Admiral to go with his whole squadron to the rescue of two members of our late Minister Wasb- burn’s legation in Paraguay, held under arrest by Lopez after Washburn’s release, which was due to Webb's persistent demands, Webb had a talk with Davis on the Subject of the two detained officials by Lopez and then wrote Davis (October 6, 1868) a long letter, enclos- ing a still longer one from Washburn, on the state of things in Paraguay. Davis’ responds (October 8):—‘‘Since your opinion is formed without a knowledge of all the circumstances of the case, 1 may mot possibly attach so much value to it as you seem to expect ;” and that’s’ all he has to eay. Webb is fired up by this, and (October 9) writes to Davis's regular lec- ture, hot and sharp, but full of dignity, at the ome, os mip te says:—‘‘On returning fro the United States Consulate yesterday afternoon, when pagsing a Portuguese corner grocery known as ‘ Portuguese Joe's,’ the pro- prietor stopped my carriage and placed in my hands your official letter dated yesterday.” The lecture closes i" ie Our privaté con. On tence—that 1s by ‘boat from ita" Guerelers airéay ww. “2° deeetes. OF B. ses Jetters auf aiotie race Ee cert It is not seem! an. ence between U1 ‘States a4 naval officer in command of a cpap, matter how exalted ote his rank, hae Pte $ corner groce! forwarded when 0} of such iprocery finds it conventent to send. lard and groceries to the Minister’s kitchen. One p! of that nature is quite sufficient to indicate tempt for the snhiect even if not to be perecaally ur Minister. Admiral Davis replies (October 13) that the style, language and imputations of the Min- ister’s letter forbid, to the Admiral, the con- tinuance of the correspondence. Minister Webb then, after another letter to Davis, trans- mits the whole correspondence to Secre- tary Seward, with a long letter reciting the facts and circumstances, and suggest- ing that either the Admiral or the Minister should be censured or recalled. So far as the subsequent facts appear, however, Webb’s ad- vice was not followed; but a new minister (General McMahon) was sent up to Paraguay, with the squadron of Davis to back him, and on his appearance the way was opened by the Brazilians, andthe two members of Washburn’s legation left by him under arrest were deliv- Meantime Webb, having made a visit to Washington, has probably left a rod in pickle for Davis. In the Webb-Davis correspondence it ap- pears that the British Minister at Brazil, G. Buckley Matthew, was very active in pushing Webb up to his work. For instance (October 9), Matthew writes to Webb :—‘‘ Is your fleet going down to the river (La Plata) and up? I hope so. I declare to you I think we should have a general raid upon the wretch (Lopez), who, with such a foe as Caxias (the Brazilian com- mander), will go on for months.” Wobb gives two or three other notes from Matthew, show- ing that the lives of those two secretaries of Washburn (Bliss and Masterman) were in great danger, that Bliss had been writing as if under torture, and that there was no time to be lost. Now, this Matthew (formerly H. B. M. Consul at Charleston) is a diplomat of the same school as Webb, He is fond of a good dinner, lively company, gay dresses, pomp and ceremony and “fuss and feathers.” He stands to the ninth point of a hair on his official dignity, and ur con- tended NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1869,-TRIPLE | SHEET. | will be their choice. instead of seeking to avoid an entanglement has a decided liking for diplomatic hot water. It shows that he is wide awake and doing something. With two such heads together against Admiral Davis his only resource was to stop the correspondence. Otherwise they might have kept it up to this day and swelled their Brazilian budget in the State Department to the magnitude of that of Seward himself on the Mexican question. We all know the peculiar weakness of Webb on a point of honor, and his readiness in get- ting into a scrape, even though it be the scrape of other parties. The Daff Green mahogany stocked pistol affair, the tragical Graves- Cilley affair, the ‘‘serio-comico” Tom Mar- shall Hoboken affair, winding up with Gov- ernor Seward's pardon, were only sharper illustrations of this cropping out in Brazil. In one of his letters to Davis Webb refers to still another case. He says (October 10) :— General Quitman, a Northern man and @ clase. of why brought me a chalienge from Brooks after his brutal assault upon Sumner and my ac- count of that infamous ,.affair; and, in justification of his bringing the challenge, he informed me that no ‘Northern man could live quietly in the South unless he proclaimed himself more uitra uy the question of slavery than the slavehoiders ‘ives. May not this be the condition of our countrymen in the employ of Brazil? Be this as it may, the only pur- for whtch the United States adron 1s sta- Fidned on this const, at enormous to oar Trea- gury, is to give protection to American commerce and ‘Aineriean cl zens and to defend and vindicate the national nonor, no matter by whom assailed. Here, with Brooks, was an opportunity to be shot at which was wisely avoided; and stice to our Minister requires us to say that all this correspondence with Davis he speaks more in sorrow than in anger. We presume, too, that there would have been no serious difficulty between Webb and Davis had not the Admiral left that letter to his Minister for delivery at ‘‘Portuguese Joe's” corner gro- cery. As it is, let us hope that this tempest ina teapot between Webb and Davis is all over, and that his Excellency will be never again insulted by the delivery of a letter to him in his carriage from “Portuguese Joe's’ corner grocery. the American Madrid. It will be seen by a sharp letter published in another part of the paper from our Minister at Madrid, John P. Hale, to a member of Con- gress from New Hampshire, that a disgraceful state of things has existed in the American Legation for some time past, and that Mr. Legation at Trouble i that the Secretary of Legation, Mr. Perry, has been behaving badly both toward the Minister and in entering into jobs and contracts in Spain, contrary to the rales and digaity of the diplomatic service, and that he sheltered him- self behind the Secretary of State. Mr. Sew- ard, in fact, protected Mr. Perry in his miscon- duct, and went so far sven as to demand the resignation of Mr. Hale. This conduct on the nart of the Secretary of State is contrary to Proper discipline in the public service and is calculated to bring the American name and legation into contempt: How can the diplomatic service of the country be efficient or even re- spected under such circumstances? But when we look at the motive which appears to have influenced Mr. Seward in taking the side of the Secretary of Legation and against the Minister his conduct is simply scandalous. There was, as might have been expected, a job atthe bottom. In the telegraph contract and other contracts which Perry was making with the Spanish government contrary to the rules of the service and instructions the name of Seward appears among Perry’s associates. Which one of the family of Seward was con- neoted with these jobs we are not informed, but this was enough to make the Secretary of State the friend and protector of Perry and the enemy of Mr. Hale. It will be remem- bered that the name of Seward was mixed up with similar jobs in Mexico, and that the State Department was used to promote and protect them. The family seem to be ambitious of taking up the grandest schemes all over the world—of railroad, canal, ocean telegraph and land jobs to any extent and everywhere, and all under the mgig of thS head of the house, the proses ReGretary of State, Bos ig pet a lisgrace to our country and a ace to the ent that Mr. Seward uses his high Saas eeak waceful purposes? We hope thie male at Madrid will be thoroughly venti- fated ‘Sid that” Gongréss Will Tavediigais the conduct of Mr. Seward, ; Spain: and the General Situation in Europe. All our latest new frgm Europe regarding ES altuation in goes to colivince us that a crisis is 2Poroaching. The disturbance at Burgos, the rupiur? of the relations of the provisional government aid the Papal Nuncio and the decree which has followed establishing religious equality throughout the kingdom, all point to the fact that the party of progress and the party of reaction—which is mainly ecclesiastical—are working together less har- moniously as time advances. The announce- ment which we publish to-day that the pro- visional government are unanimously in favor of the Duke de Montpensier as the future King of Spain, even if it prove correct, does not in any material sense improve the situation. The Cortes are likely soon to meet. We have no reason to believe that they will be agreed among themselves. We have even less reason to take it for granted that the choice of the government There are many who will not be taken by surprise if before the Cortes meet a coup is effected by the govern- ment in favor of their man. In such a case we shall have either a despotism with Prim at its head, acting, however, in the name of a nominal sovereign, or anarchy complete. Spain, in fact, is in a most critical condition ; and so much does her future depend on acci- dental and unforeseen circumstances that it is much safer to await the issue of events than to indulge in doubtful predictions. Her destiny is very much in her own hands, It will be well if she is allowed to work it out alone as best she can. The events now taking place in Spain are the result of forces which are acting not upon that country only, but upon Europe and the world. It is impossible any longer for any government to shutout from the people the light of the nineteenth century. Fifteenth and sixteenth century civilization is no longer compatible with modern existence., The world has en- tered upon a new era, All the old nations are feeling the new impulses and yielding to them. The go-ahead activity of the United States is shaking them out of their Old World opinions. Italy caught the new impulse and bounded at once into a respectable place in the front rank of the nations, Prussia caught the impulse, and Prussia, the controller of Ger- many, has no longer a superior in Europe. It has infused new life into Austria; it threatens Tarkey with ruin; it is now convulsing Spain. The new ideas must put down the old. A ruler suited to the ago—a man after the type of Julias Cosar or the first Napoleon, who could seize and control the railroad and the telegraph, and who could act as the exponent “ — Intereceanie Transita- The news reaches us that the mission of Mr. Cushing to Bogota has been a success— that we have had conceded to us tho right to cut:a canal across “the Isthmus of Darien. We therefore take the op- portunity to publish elsewhere an interest- ing résumé of the political history of inter- oceanic routes by Dr. G. D. Abbott. The moment has arrived when our statesmen should consider in all its broad significance the geo- graphical position which we occupy. The im- portant fact that we stand squarely in the track: of the world’s commerce Is now recognized by every great nation. The European Powers, on one side, and China, on the other, clasp hands on the Western Continent and form their true trade union. The first nation to see the advantage of a di- rect communication with the Indies by the nar- row strip of land connecting us with South America was Spain; but this was in the days of her conquestsand commercial glory. Then she exported the silvér products of Mexico from Acapulco to China, and, landing ‘ne retura cargoes at the same port, made “ne transit of Mexicoto Vera Cruz, shipping the rich goods from the latter point direc¢ to Spain. It was this which gave them 4 practical demonstration of the value of an interoos-*2- ~~" Zag caused tha terto~ 3" “anie route aaa | --~ sssuing of the decree of 1814, to The | ewan o panel pnw ‘} crema verge goraae Tehuantepec, mentioned in the paper fo which 2 eter fhe enterprise which set Europe to inking of the great po-, litical and Seas ale aie ihe was that of William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, who established a colony at Caledonia Bay in 1698, and made Scotland and England ring with the solid ideas which he forced into notice relative to the Isthmus tran- sits and the advantages which the world would derive by breaking down the barrier. In this, however, as in everything else great in any direction, it was necessary to get the popular intellect to subscribe to the idea. It has taken nearly three hundred years to reach this result, and finally we are on the point of seeing something accomplished. It is of vital interest how this something shall be effected. If we are narrow in our policy we shall meet with stumbling blocks at every step. If broad, and grasping in ono glance the interests of the whole world, the wish almost will create the canal. To bring it- down to the idea of making it pay, it is unques- tionable that it must be used on terms of the most perlect equality by all nations which may choose to send a ship through it. We cannot monopolize it and at the same moment lead the world in civilization, as is our bonat and desire. Where, then, is the objection to asking other nations to help us cut it? Let us see what the practical benefit is to ourselves alone. It is fair to take our com- merce on its footing of 1861, At that date we had gained our highest figure in tonnage, which was, foreign and local, 5,539,818 tons. For practical calculations this was about equally divided between domestic and foreign vessels. Of the foreign tonnage we may safely estimate that two million tons would use an isthmus canal if it existed, In ships alone this would represent a value of one hundret million dollars, gold. Let us suppose that the saving in time for passage to each vessel was, roughly estimated, ninety days per year in iis accustomed voyages. This would represent a saving of interest, at seven per cent, of $1,750,000, gold, annually, and here we do not include the valuable cargoes. The Hon. Elijah Ward, in a speech on the Atrato canal qvostionia 1859, estimated, from very reliable data, that the total yearly value of a canal to the United States would be $35,995,930. This included interest, insur- ance, wear and tear on ships, saving of freight money by time and saving of wages and pro- vistons for crews. The total saving to France he estimated at $2,183,980; to England, $9,950,348; to other countries, $1,400,000, Yotal saving to the world, $49,530,203. These were the same figures afterwards en- dorsed by Admiral Davis in his report upon the canal question in 1866, It is here seen what immense advantages aro to accrue immediately in a material view by of the advanced thought of the day—such a man could now have no difficulty in making Europe a unit and thus put an end to all this prate and nonsense about boundary lines, na- tionalities and religions, Such a man might prove more a blessing than a scourge. The Suicide Manin—Love and Poverty. Several years since the French government found it necessary to station sentries on the bridges over the Seine to prevent a constant succession of suicides by drowning, and in like manner the English government caused an iron cage to be placed upon the summit of the monument on Fish Hill, London, to put a ter- mination to a singular mania for self-destruc- tion, of which that column was the theatre. Now we find ourselves called upon to devise some means of suppressing a suicidal mania which has seized upon our people, who, how- ever, have generally resorted to chemic&l means and the pistol to insure self-déstruction, At the present moment we can hardly open the Heratp without meeting a record of this startling crime, which is not confined to our city, but pervades every section of the country. Within a short time a little city of Now Jersey was the scene of two self-murders, almost identical in character, origisating from similar motives, but differing in the means taken for the consummation of thedeed. Both victims, if we remember correctly, were young girls, who slew themselves from cxcess of love, which, being unretarned by their former admirers, urged them to the acme of frenzied despair, And this misfortune seems to be the ruling cause for the commission of suicides among females. In the cases of the males, a majority of whom are inhabitants of cities, they appear to be impelled to self-murder from the pressure of pecuniary embarrassment, or a firm conviction that the battles of life, waen Seward is chiefly to blame for it. It appears | aggravated by the pains of ceaseless and ill- requited labor, were too desperate for a float triumph, and thus exchanged the earo and certainty of incessant toil for the uncertaintles of an eventful future. A lorge majority ‘of our auicides—and this is a sad reilecdon—nre foreigners, who, uncheered by ‘the kind caresses of friends or relatives, experience more keenly the bitter pangs of poverty and of destitution. What remedies oan be en- noted to atop Ib? the piercing of the isthmus. The results are incalculable. The modern world will gather untold fruits from that great Chinese and Jap- anese garden tilled by five hundred millions of intelligent and industrious people. Commer- cial contact, simplified by nearer, easier and cheaper trausits, will make us acquainted with each other, and {it is not impossible that wo may find upon the eastern Asiatic shore somo hints about government which may make Europe and the United States a little more stable politically. Paracuay.—The news from the allied army is very important. Lopez is a fugitive in the interior of the country he has been so bravely defending, and Brazil is now master ofthe position. All this, however, must be taken with the usual amount of allowance we. have had to give to the allied reports during the war. If the news be confirmed we may expect in the next year to see some extraor- dinary political combinations on the La Plata river. oO lean, huntry politicians who want places ought to see Smythe now. Te has beon cheated by the Senate and willat once chop off all the heads of the cousins, sons, uncles, nephews and grandchildren of Senators with whom ho has filled np the Custom House in the past year, There will be plenty of fat places ompty very goon. Titat Messace.—Who saw the mossage that Stanton telegraphed to Banks to relieve Grant before Vicksburg? Who handled it at the telegraph office? Where is the operator wia sent it over the wires? Who knows anything about it? ORGANIZATION GF THE KINGS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC. GENEL COMMITTEE, ‘This committee met inst Right al (heir roo as, No, 9 Court street, James B. Craig in the coaly aud George A. Herinan officiating ag secretary, ‘The ora dentials of deiogates from each werd Gnd county town, e'ected on Thureday evening, Were received and accepted, with the exception Of a lew which were contested, and tinese latter ‘were referred ia ‘ollowing committee:—Fredevok Massey, vd ; James Duily, Seoond vera; John beim ar, ith wards P. Dolan, Twentasth ward, and Thos, ) Sixteenth ward. Tae committees were tus structed bo report at the meeing to be helt on Tica day, Febriary % 2. Dolan was elected sergean!-ate armé for the ensuing year Tho subject of tno ad Thisston of the Lwo appointees fiom each increasing the representation lo five) Waa roferce A special GOMES, tH report at Lue HOt Megiude