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The postage being only thirty-five cents @ quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Heraup at the same price it is furnished in the city. THB Naws. Europe. ‘Tne cabie telegrams are dated Feoruary 2. It is thought that Prim, Serrano and Rivero will constitute the proposed Spanish Directory. Five thousand additional troops have been de- fpatched to Havana, The Papal Nuncio de- parted from Madrid on Sunday last for Rome, but, owing to explanations having been made he was induced to return. The Cortes, it ts thought, will make reductions in Church en- dowments and aiso curtail the army expenditures, ‘The report of a battle having taken place between the Montenegrens and Turks was received in Lon- don yesterday. The conflict was said to have oc- curred near a village in Montenegro. ‘True bills of indictments have been found against the directors of Uverend, Gurney & Co., in London, England, for conspiracy to defraud the shareholders of the company. It is thought the Ministry, in its forthcoming bud- get will largely reduce the army and navy estimates. Another fierce storm has passed over England, and caused much damage. Mexico. Despatches by way of San Francisco state that a serious outbreak of the people was imminent in Mazaltan at any moment. A pronunciamiento was reported to have been issued in Durango and troops had been sent there, A new collector at Mazatlan had requested the merchants to pay up a deficit in last year’s customs amounting to $4,000, and they had complied. Three German captains of vessels had been tusulted by the Custom House officials, Several earthquake shocks had been felt. Alaska. Serious Indian troubies are reported in our Polar possessions. A flag of defiance against the soldiers was raised at their village recently, and General Davis compelled them to surrender only by threaten- ing to bombard the place. Another party of Indians tried to leave Sitka harbor in a canoe against orders aud were fired upon by seutries, who killed or wounded seven of them. * Congress. In the Senate yesterday the Consular Appropria- tion bill was again considered. The proposed amendment to reduce the salaries of judges under the Slave Trade treaty with Great Britain was dis- cussed with considerable warmth, especially between Mr. Sumner and Mr. Patterson, of New Hampshire. ‘the amendment was amended s0 as to leave the salaries as at present, provided the judges remain at their posts. Mr. Sumner, from the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations, reported a bill fixing certain stipulations under which telegraphic com- munications with foreign countries may be estab- lished. The Senate then adjourned. In the Mouse @ resolution calling for Rear Admirai Davis’ correspondence relative to the Paraguayan diMeulties was adopted. The Pension bill again came up and an amendment providing that no fe- male penstoner should forfeit her pension by mar- riage was o‘fered. The bill was then recommitted. ‘The bill to quthoriae the construction of a bridge over the Rast river Was passed after some discus- sion. The correspondence relative to the imprisoned Fenians tn England came up as the first business on the Speaker's table and Mr. Kobinson made a speech on the subject. An evening seasion was devoted to the consideration of the Internal Revenue bill, and the House adjourned, ‘The Legislature. No business of importance was transacted by the Senate yesterday, A number of bills were intro- duced, three by Mr. Murphy relating to improve. merits in Brooklyn and Kings county; also one by Mr. Hale in relation to the issue of stuck by banks, canal companies, railroad corporations and insurance companies, Two bills of local interest were passed and a resolution offered, afver which an adjournment took place. In the Assembly bills were introduced to equalize compensation of certain Judges of the Court of to incorporate the Slipowners’ Association of York; to protect consumers of iliuminating gas; rejating to the carrying of passengers in stages and street railroad cars, and to amend the laws re- lating to banking. Resolutions were introduced re- lating to soldiers’ bounties and the issue of arms end equipments to the Cornell University, A reso. lution was adopted appointing @ committee to in- vostigate the additions made to the stook of the Hudson River, Central, Erie and Buffalo and Erie ratiroads. The Assembly then adjourned, Miscellaneous. Full particulars of the disaster at Danbury, Conn., 4 are received. The upper reservoir, which was the first to give Way, ts situated 250 feet above the level of the river, which runs throngh the town, and is Gistant froma It about five miles, ‘The toss on prop- by the torrent is estimated at $100,000, Thirteen ves were lost, ‘The petition of Whalen, the murderer of D'Arcy NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. MoGee, to appeal to the Privy Council of Great Britain, has been refused, and his fate in all human Probability is settled. it is now thought that he will make a confession, The committee of the Georgia House of Repre- sentatives charged with the investigation of the re- cent Treasury frauds in that State have published a card requesting the public to suspend opinion a8 to the implication of high officials, as the investigation 80 far shows that Governo: Bullock acted with the strictest integrity. This committee comprises two democrats and one republican, ‘The remaias of young Captain Hamilton, of Pough- keepsie, who fell in the Indian battle of the Washita, Nave passed through St. Louis on the way to Pough- keepsie. Sir John Young was formally sworn in as Governor General of Canada at Montreal yesterday. Omaha has been made the capital of Nebraska, Aman named Shafler murdered his wife at her father’s house, in Merwin county, Iowa, on Satur- day, ana then gashed his own throat with a razor. He was discovered lying with his head upon his wife’s breast and his chiid in his arms, The House Committee on Post Offices have agreed to report adversely on Mr. Washburne’s Postal Tele- graph bill. Large numbers of refugees have arrived in Mem- phis from Arkansas, They recount terrible stories of outrages at the hands of negro militia. The City. In the inquest on the body of Phebe Lyon, & colored woman, who died mysteriously in the base- ment of Shiloh church a few weeks ago, the jury yesterday rendered a verdict of death by peritonitis; but whether superinduced through violent means or not isunknown. The Board of Health is censured for a lax system of granting permits for burial. A coroner’s jury in Brooklyn yesterday, in the case of John Hurley, a laborer, who was killed by the caving in of an embankment at which he was working, found a verdict of censure against Diedrich Seimann, the foreman, for not remaining at the place to watch the bank. Slemann was arrested and locked up. The Pacific Railroad case came up again before Justice Dowling, at the Tombs, yesterday, the four defendants being present. Considerable evidence for the prosecution was taken and the prisoners were again remanded, bail being refused. In the United States Court yesterday, before Juage Benedict, counsel presented special pleas in the case of the United States vs. Watson & Crary, distillers, charged with illicit removal of spirits from a distil- lery, and argued them at great length. The Court overruled the pleas and directed the jury to bring in & verdict for the government. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday Judge Barrett, by decision, confirmed the referee's report im the Stuyvesant divorce case—that the charges against ghe defendant, Mrs, Stuyvesant, were not proven. In the Brooklyn Court of Sessions yesterday James Wilson, a young man of twenty-five, was convicted of an aggravated assault on the person of Mary Carr and sentenced to seven years and six months in the ‘State Prison. The Cunard steamer Australasian, Captain Mc- Micken, will sail to-day for Queenstown and Liver- pool. The mails will close at the Post Office at half- past nine this morning. The steamship Manhattan, Captain Forsyth, will sail at eleven A. M. to-day for Liverpool and Queens- town. ‘The stock market yesterday was buoyant, under a revival of the speculative feeling for higher prices. New York Central advanced five per cent, while the improvement in the general list was from one to three per cent. Gold fluctuated between 1353; aad 13574 and closed at 135%. Prowinent Arrivals in the City. Captain B.S, Humphrey and Captain J. P. Colton, of the United States Army; Professor N. Hodgson,flof England, and Thomas Carroll, of Scotiand, are at the St. Charlies Hotel. Amasa J. Parker, of Albany; Charles L. Wilson, of Chicago; J. Morrison Harris, of Baltimore, and ex-Governor Wim. Dennison, of Ohio, are at the St. WWcholas Hotel. General Laflin, of North Carolina; Colonel Dan Rice, of Girard, Pa,; 0. H. Greenleaf, of Massa- chusetts; Dr. Thomas Terrill, of Rahway, and George E. Garhan, of California, are at the Metropo- litan Hotel. Judge 8. M. Johnson and General Duncap 8. Walker, of Washington, and John H. Randoiph, of Bayou Geula, La., are at the New York Hotel. « P. W. Bibb, of Kentucky, and W. ©. Lawrence, of Long Island, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Colonel Piper, of West Point; Lieutenant Scott, of the United States Army; General ©. B. Stewart, of Geneva, and H. W. Clifford, of Massachusetts, are stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Higbie, of the United States Navy, is at the Hoifman House. Dr. A. R. Morgan, of Columbus, 0., and William E. Moorhead, of Carbondale, Pa., are at the St. Julien Hotel. Dangerous Situation of Spain. The public advices from the Spanish penin- sula continue to teem with indications of dis- quiet on the part both of the provisional gov- ernment and the people, while private let- ters, come they from what source or parti- san they may or from whatever portion of the country, bear unanimous witness to the gene- rel expectation of an early carnival of strife and blood. The Spanish nation is indeed in a situation pregnant with danger not only to itself, but to the peace of Europe. Those who view only the surface of things have been astonished at the spectacle recently presented, in the rapid and successful attempt against the last of the Bourbon thrones and the peace which in the main has ruled in the peninsula since the flight of Isabella Second. But a deeper inspection of Spanish affairs and Span- ish development will show a growth of ideas which for years have been sapping the founda- tions of a dynasty ruled by a policy that has been nothing more than a Bourbon graft upon the trunk planted by the crafty and false Fer- dinand and Isabella during the closing years of the fifteenth century. The throne sank with the first touch, but the peace is simply that of the hour of preparation. The rail and the telegraph made their ad- vent in the peninsula about the same time with the discovery of gold in California, and their construction and extension therein made little progress until the tide of wealth from the fields of the Pacific had begun to fill and stimulate the channels of European wealth and industry. Although at that time the goy- ernment was nominally a constitutional monarchy, it was, in spirit and in fact, the flowering of the Hapsburg policy in the Spain of the sixteenth century, modified only by the family axioms of the Bourbons. Sessions of the Cortes were the exception, not the rule; and the kingdom was mainly governed by royal decree. The military and privileged classes thronged the court, while the people ate, wore and thought as did their forbears of three centuries before. With the rail, follow- ing and often preceding its advance, came an invasion of French cooks, tailors and milliners. New wants were created, industry and com- merce found a new life; and, while the court thought it was changing only the cut and color of its outward habits, the nation was changing its ideas. When the hour of ripe- ness came to the court corruption the people and even -the army were ready for a change, and the thin shell of loyalty was found as fragile as that of an egg. But, though Spain was all agreed to throw off its old forms, it was far from being agreed upon the new. In thig condition of things the provisional government was constituted of the three antag- onistic elements which it comprises. The monarchical party claimed and obtained the . first place in the person of General Serrano. The advocates of a radical change, which might become republican or monarchical, as circumstances should warrant, received the command of the army for General Prim, and the judiciary was assigned to the advocates of a still more liberal class of ideas. The gov- ernment is constituted of nine members, equally divided between the foregoing men- tioned theorists, Outside of government, which has not a majority for any policy, lie the advanced republicans, weak in organiza- tion but strong in propagandism, and the re- actionary or Church party, always well organ- ized for action, but unpopular in its political tendencies and proclivities. To these conflict- ing elements in Spanish politics of to-day must be added others, which are the personal interest of:the astute ruler of France, the rem- nant of the elder party of the house of Bour- bon, and the new partisans of the younger or Montpensier branch. Under the new law of a free press in the peninsula each of these has its journals and is at this moment actively engaged in the promulgation of its ideas. Surrounded by this state of intrigue and effervescence the Cortes is called to meet during the present month to determine the new constitution of government and to nomi- nate its head. From time to time it is stated, with an air of official sanction, that the pro- visional government is a unit on the question of monarchy, and even on'that of the candidate for the throne, though the name of this per- sonage is kept sedulously in the dark. But it is well known that new combinations are con- tinually showing themselves within the several parties represented in the provisional Cabinet, and new intrigues are put in play. In this condition of affairs, and in view of the sturdy temper of the people, harassed as they have long been by misgovernment, and pressed to- day by destitution and hunger, it is scarcely probable that any party which may obtain con- trol of the proposed new organization of govern- ment can be anything more than a fractional part of the nation at large. It will be sur- rounded by hostile elements, all interested in its early over.hrow, and the history of the Spanish nation shows that it has never been slow to listen to an appeal to arms. With this prospect in the early future, our government need be in no haste to make ne- gotiations in reference to Cuba, nor need the partisans of independence within the island fear that the opportunity will slip from their grasp. Spain will soon have her hands too full of her own affairs to be able to devote much blood or treasure to the defence of the “ever faithful isle;” and, like a ripe pear, it will fall of its own weight, through the natu- ral line of independence, into the system of the Union. If Europe escapes unscathed from the dangers which a general conflagration of ideas in Spain will bring to her, her monarchs and her Cabinets will be too happy in their own safety to care much which way Cuba falls or what be- comes of it. A Postat TsLecrapnio Line BrTween Wasuinetox, New York anp Boston.—The decision of the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads to report adversely upon Washburne’s bill to construct a postal tele- graphic line between Washington, New York and Boston seems to have rested mainly on the very positive assertion of its impractica- bility by the president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. It was of course to be expected that Mr. Orton would oppose the bill. But we cannot see why more weight should have been attached to his opinions than to those in which Mr. Burt, postmaster of Boston, and Mr. Stearns, president of the Franklin Telegraph Company, concurred, that the telegraphic postal system would work well, and that at Boston, at least, it could be carried out without any inconvenience to the depart- ment and with great benefit to the people. Tae SLAvER JUDGES AND ARBITRATORS.— The lively discussion in the Senate with reter- ence to the appropriation to carry into effect the treaty of 1862 between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave trade ended yesterday in the rejection of Mr. Patterson’s amendment proposing to reduce that appropriation, and the adoption of Mr. Morton’s amendment, leaving the salaries of the judges and arbitra- tors unchanged, but very justly requiring their residence at their respective posts as a condition of payment. Mr. Morton contended that it is owing to the presence of the fleets on the coast of Africa and to the existence of the courts in question that there are no cases to adjudicate. Until the treaty itself shall be abrogated we are as much bound by its stipu- lations to pay the expenses of the courts as of the fleets. But to carry out the treaty stipu- lations in regard to the courts the judges must reside at the places where the courts are established. Proposep New Department or Home Arrairs.—Mr. Henderson's bill to establish a Department of Home Affairs, to have charge of the General Land Office, mines and mining interests, [ndiay affairs, the Bureaus of Freed- men and Abandonéd Lands and the Bureau of Education would materially and, in some respects advantageously, simplify our present complicated system. But we persist in our opinion—an opinion endorsed by General Grant—that Indian affairs would be most properly confided to the War Department. Onstrvctine THE Streets.—We have fre- quently called attention to the nuisance and inconvenience occasioned to the public wher- ever houses are in the progress of construc- tion, by the fact that more of the street is taken up with material than builders have a right to use in thi« way. Nothing has been done, however, and we shall in future in these cases publish the names of the owners of the property and the names of the builders or con- tractors, that the authorities may have as little trouble as possible in enforcing the ordinances, TRLEGRAPHIO COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE Usrrep States AND A Fornian Courrry.— The stipulations of the bill reported yesterday by Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on For- eign Relations, concerning telegraphic com- munication between the United States and a foreign country are reasonable and in con- English and American Jouraaliam. Fraud on @ Gigantic Scalo—Overend, Gurney Nothing demonstrates more truthfully the condition and activity of the public mind of a nation in the paths of progress than the plan and scheme of administration of its leading journals, They are the reflex of the daily demands of its active intelligence, and in pro- portion as this is limited or catholic in its view so will be the labors of the journalists who cater for its supply. Taking the London Times as the leading exponent of British journalism, a brief summary of the: contents of any one number will illustrate the point of our argument, and the issue of any day will serve our purpose; for they are all so much alike one might suppose they were run in one mould. We have before us the 7imes of January 15, taken at random and without selection, It is atwelve page paper, like the Hraup, and the four pages of the outside sheet are crowded with advertisements. Opening at the editorial page we find the usual four leaded editorial articles, each occupying its prescribed space of about one column, whether the subject mat- ter be of greater or lesser interest, Then come the court circular and university intelli- ligence, followed by its entire matter received by telegraph, which amounts to one and a half leaded columns, embracing all of Europe and America, the west coast of Africa, Inflia and Japan, three- quarters of a column of military and naval intelligence and three of those widely known letters to the Zimes, which constitutes John Bull’s balm for every ill. These matters com- prise the entire list of the two main pages of England’s leading newspaper. On the suc- ceeding page we find foreign intelligence eked out with a three-quarter column letter from Paris, another letter or two to the Times and four columns of law reports. The next page presents nearly five columns of police and criminal court reports, given with a minute- ness of disgusting detail that would be admitted only in a professed police gazette in this country. Another page has a three column essay on the armies of the Continent, with another letter to the Times, and a column of election intelligence in three long paragraphs to fillup. Anadvertising page follows, with a column closely packed of names of donors of sums varying from two and six pence to twenty- five pounds to charitable institutions, and a few more letters to the Times. The city page contains the money article, state of trade, share and other markets, with another letter to the Times; and the eighth page gives a col- umn and a half letter from Dublin on Irish affairs, a couple of columns of election peti- tions, five more letters to the Times, and then with a quarter of a column of ship news and a half column weather report the bill is closed. We submit that this faithful exhibit of Britain’s leading newspaper, published in a city of more than three millions of inhabitants and capital of the United Kingdom, whose in- terests ramify to every quarter of the world, shows a professional inertness or incapacity which is only equalled by the most poverty- stricken journals of the smaller cities of the United States. Every page exhibits matter the only apparent object of which is to fill space. ‘There is nothing of the world-wide system of correspondence which is found in the columns of all the principal journals of New York; nothing of that long grasp which seizes news in every quarter of the world; nothing of the labor which collects, sifts and condenses the occurrences of the day in the vast city of which it is the great expositor; nothing of that journalistic acumen and ability which rapidly assigns a subject its merited space of a column in discussion, or dismisses it with a paragraph. We will not compare it to the HERALD, for the comparison woull be an unfair one to the 7imes, inasmuch as the HeERAp was the leader in the system of mod- ern live journalism, which has grown into greatness after the Times attained all the ad- vantages of mature and prosperous existence, but we may say that a comparison of the Lon- don 7imes with any of the principal non-me- tropolitan newspapers of America will show great inertia in the public mind of England, or vast activity and progress in that of America. We know it will be said that the Zimes is not now the journal of greatest circulation in England; that younger and more active rivals excel it in ability and professional tact. But they are all built after the same model and all travel with the same gait. Not one of them is a reflex of the daily news of Great Britain, telling what is of interest and keeping silent when their is nothing to be told. They all have their stereotyped occupants of space, and their efforts at editorial comment resem- ble what might be the capers of an elephant bringing down a ponderous foot to hold a wild bull or to crusha fly. As for enterprise, even in matters that concern them nearly, it will be sufficient comment to cite the fact that our special reports of their army operations in Abyssinia were looked to in London as the | sourées of earliest news from that quarter. These facts prove one of two things—either the British mind is stagnant and inactive amid the march of events or the journalists of Great Britain are behind their age. In either case it needs a reformer in its system of journalism ; in the first, to wake the public mind from its inertia, or in the second, to meet its present requirements. A true journalist, with brains and industry combined, could easily make his mark among the newspapers of London; but he must have the ability to adapt his com- ments to the merit of their subject, and, above all, industry. Resxts.—Will somebody open a school to teach the hardfisted democrats of our city, who feel so terribly the burden of rent, that they are the very men who are to blame for the weight of this burden? Enormous taxation is what most runs up the rent; and for this sort of taxation we'have to thank our corrupt city Officials; while for city officials of this sort None are so much to blame as the hardfisted democracy who vote the robbers into office so handsomely year after year. Ticntstasis.—This disease is reported to have broken out in New York State. It is the penalty that the lovers of raw pork pay for the indulgence of their appetites; hence it is almost exclusively a disease of the Germans, as few others are fond of uncooked swine. Cooking the pork destroys in it the germ that formity with the dignity of the United States | if not thus destroyed becomes developed in government. the human system as a minute parasite. Life Insurance Companies. People often ask how it is that the life in- surance companies can afford to pay agents twenty-five or more per cent for drumming up people to insure, besides building most costly places of business, maintaining expensive es- tablishments and dividing enormous profits. It is simple enough and easily understood. In the first place money is coming in all the time from those who insure, while none or scarcely any goes out for a number of years and until the insurers, who must be healthy people, begin to die off. Thus they have a vast capital accumulated from other people’s money. This they may use profitably or not. At all events they have plenty of money drawn from the pockets of the people. When those taking out insurance begin to die off the companies may or may not have the capital to pay de- mands upon them, If they should have speculated or a great financial crisis should come they might not have capital enough, and their institutions would be swamped and the poor insurance holders cheated. It is possi- ble the life insurance companies may be flour- ishing upon a sound basis; bat it is necessary to know where and on what they stand apd to throw every safeguard round an unsuspecting public. DommsioaN ANNEXATION TABLED.—The de- cisive vote of 110 to 63 by which waa tabled the joint resolution admitting the republic of St. Domingo to the Union as a Territory, preliminary to the establishment of a State government and the attainment of complete representation, will surprise those who have believed that the American Eagle is hungry for prey at all hours and of all kinds. We suspect that when timg shall sift the now close proceedings which have attended this and its kindred measure, the late protectorate’ flasco, it will be found that both of them cov- ered a big job in which speculation in land grants and the public debt of the would-be Ter- ritory was mixed up with steamship contracts, a Senatorship or two, Saman4 bay privileges, Alta Vela guano and a host of minor inciden- tals for the profit of a few unscrupulous ad/ venturers. Whenever a question of such im- portance shall have received the previous discussion it merits here and in St. Domingo, and a proper application be made, there will be no difficulty in obtaining a favorable solu- tion, - But pure lobby jobs like this with nothing to redeem them can only be laid under the table. and Company. ‘The readers of the Heratp have seen from time to time accounts from the English news- papers of the alleged frauds of the famous banking house of Overend, Gurney & Co. and of the proceedings in the courts against its members. A short time since six of the prin- cipal directors were summoned before the Lord Mayor of London to answer a criminal charge of conspiring by various false and fraud- ulent pretences and representations to induce Rersons to become shareholders in their com- pany, with intent to cheat and defraud them of certain valuable securities, bankers’ checks and sums of money, and by which they were, in fact, defrauded to the amount of fifteen mil- lions of dollars. Up to that time and for several years past the affairs of this banking company had been a matter of commercial liti- gation and of a protracted suit in chancery. Now, however, it is considered the ends of justice cannot be satisfied short of a criminal prosecution, and the Grand Jury, as we are informed by a cable despatch, have indicted the directors for conspiring to defraud the stockholders, It is yet to be seen how the matter will terminate. No house stood higher than that of Overend, Gurney & Co. previous to the transactions on which the criminal accu- sation is based. ‘The Gurneys, an old Quaker family, had been for a long ‘period among the first, if not the very first, bankers in the United Kingdom or the world. No names stood higher. There was scarcely a large banking house throughout the eastern counties of England with which the Gurneys were not connected. So high did those of the family stand connected with the alleged frauds—namely, John Henry Gurney and Henry Edmund Gurney—that such men as Baron Rothschild, Mr. Kirkman Hodg- son and Sir Fowell Buxton were willing to be- come bail for them, with the rest of the accused directors. But with all this, should they be found guilty of fraud under the criminal charge we have noticed, their former high standing, wealth and power will not save them from punishment. With all the faults of Eng- land the judiciary is independent and the laws are executed upon rich as well as poor. It will be remembered that some time ago the London West End bankers, Sir John Dean Paul and his partner, Mr. Strahan, were convicted and sent toa penal settlement for fraud. There are many other similar cases of justice being administered to prominent and wealthy crimi- nals in England. It is not the way, unfortunately, we treat distinguished rogues. Here they would be considered a sort of kings and lionized exten- sively. The endowment of a chapel at his own expense and doing other such munificent pious acts did not save Sir John Dean Paul; but here building a church, opening Sun- day schools or managing opera houses would probably cover up any amount of rascality. Our police authorities, judges and, in fact, a large portion of the community, are ready to excuse a grand rascal if he only swindles or defrands on a magnificent scale. There is no lack of sich men as Sir John Dean Paul or the directors of the house of Overend, Gurney & Co, in Wall street and among our heavy railroad stock operators ; but the meshes of the law do not catch or hold them. We might in such cases learn something from England. There is great need of such an administration of justice here as will reach the high and rich as well as the poor. Tue Prospect tn Conaress—Bap ror THE Lonsy.—There are some four weeks remaining of the term of the present Congress, when (4th of March) it goes out of existence. Meantime the two houses have discovered that it will be necessary to do considerable night work to get through the regular appropriation bills. This is a bad prospect for the lobby—the railway lobby, the tariff lobby and the lobby con- cerned in miscellaneous claims and jobs. It is probable that they will all go by the board,’ because, while ‘the eyes of Delaware” and all the other States are fixed upon Congress, the confederates therein of the lobby are getting shy, and Washburne can frighten them. But let ‘‘the gentleman from Illinois” keep his eye upon the amendments offered or slipped into the annual appropriation bills; for nice little jobs of hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars have heretofore been smuggled in and smuggled through in the favoring hurry and confusion of the last night of the session. Two THEATRES FoR SHAKSPEARE.—To-night Booth opens his magnificent theatre as a pal- ace-home for the legitimate in the city, and begins, of course, with Shakspeare; and for a few nights past Wallack also has served us handsomely with the same author. Truly we are richer than we were. Keerrsa Up tae Morariry.—Tnere are some newspapers, as there are many men, that are too good for this world. One of them is the ponderous radical organ that used to preach us such bewhiskeyed sermons on the drama. It now devotes its days and nights to saving the town from the ruin that the wicked- ness of opéra bouffe must cause if left alone. Here, for instance, is a poor devil of a funny man, who must marry or be impaled—such is the exigency of the story. He has one wife already; but no matter, he will save his life on any terms; and even this poor little joke may’ not be indulged to a comic author, but behold! the guardian of the public morality “cannot too severely reprobate” the ‘‘levity” with which our funny man prefers ‘‘bigamy” to the stake. With such monitors we ought to be a very proper people, Taat Burongr Cart.—With all the tumult of crime that seems coming down on us we are at least developing some keen-eyed guar- dians of the public peace. The other day a policeman in the Bowery nipped in the bud a “startling robbery in broad daylight,” and in- stead of being compelled to chronicle another daring crime against property we had the more agreeable duty of telling the gallant story of a policeman on foot pursuing the fugitive ruf- fians in a butcher's cart till a collision enabled him to catch the main rogae and even secure the pistol with which this fellow had tried to stop the policeman. Will this fellow be “held for trial” as the Park Bank robber was? Nor Mvon or a Trivmpn.—It is said that the Superintendent of Police and the Coroner: are at cross purposes on the Rogers case, bo- cause of the arrest some time ago of the Super- intendent on the Coroner’s warrant; itis, more-' over, said that it wag this ill feeling that pre- vented the Superintendent communicating to the Coroner the latest arrest before the verdict. We prophesy that this police triumph will not absolutely crush thé Coroner. Derecrivk DEesPERATION.—It cannot be leas than desperation that has driven the police to the last sensation in the Rogers murder hunt. Fancy a policeman and a boatman going among the sleeping wretches of the station house and passing from one to another of the sleepers, and finally picking out two—one for the murderer and one for his accomplice. By a mistaken activity the police authorities are trampling out the few distinct tracks that the murderer left. In tae Riewr Dreecrion.—The Board of Health, in looking after the grocery shops that are under tenement houses, does well. It is hardly guessed by the public how many of the tenement house fires originate in the first story—and in a grocery where all sorts of in- flammable fluids are stored, perhaps within three feet of a stove kept red hot for the com- fort of tippling loungers. Will the intimation given hurry up the Fire Commissioners? Taz Ory Women oF THE CrrizENs’ Asso- CIATION.—We publish to-day a communication from Mr. Peter Cooper, who speaks for the Citizens’ Association, or who is the Citizens’ Association, on the subject of the currency. There is nothing new or important in it except the new dodge put forth in behalf of the national banks for making the whole paper circulation of the country, and, therefore, national bank notes, a legal tender. The old women of the Citizens’ Association have mis- taken their réle, They know nothing about the currency or national finance. If they want to be useful and not merely to make an exhibition of their vanity there are plenty of opportunities in New York. Look, for in- stance, at the daily catalogue of dreadful crimes. The questions they should consider are:—What can be done to check the fearful increase of crime in the city? Where shall we look for relief? Who is responsible for such a state of things? Let the Citizens’ As- sociation, drop their nonsense about the cur- rency and give serious attention to the evils at our doors. Bw mt 4 Axpy Jonnsox—A New Devarture.—It appears to be pretty well ascertained that on retiring from the White House Mr. Johnson will return at once to Tennessee and take a new departure as the conservative candidate for Governor, with the purpose of securing as his next move the first Tennessee vacancy in the United States Senate. His prospects are said to be very good, and if succesful he will before long be back again at the point where the rebellion found him in 1861, Next it will go hard with him if he does not im- press his claims for the succession npon the Southern democracy in 1872. He was cheated in Tammany Hall; but they may hear from | him again. More TINKERING oF THE ConstITUTION.— Mr. Wilson has introduced into the Senate a joint resolution to submit to the Legislatures of the several States for ratification a fresh batch of articles of amendment to the constitution. These articles aim at providing for universal male guffrage (leaving the women's rights women still out in the cold) and universa office-holding, without discrimination against faith, color or previous condition of servitude. Gexerat Grant.—It is understood that on his visit to this city within a day or two General Grant will put up, as usual, at a hotel, whgre he will be perfectly free to come and go as he pleases, His impending visit is sup- posed to be none the less “big with the fate of Owsar and of Rome,” in the matter of a Cabinet selection or two. Ovr Bonps tx Lonpon went up to 76} yes terday afternoon; but the news did not reach Wall street until the brokers were shutting up shop. Quory—How much did the Western Union make by the delay?