The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1869, Page 6

i 6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD pROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXIV r No. 35 ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tap PresuN Daventee. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae BURLESQUE Ex- yBAVAGANZA OF TUE Forry THIBVES. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dap HBART—SKELE- TON WITNESS—HIDE AND SERK, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 25d street.—La PRRICUOLE. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—FLEUR DE THE. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street.— Mucu Apo Azoor NoTHING, UGHAM'S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st,—Berrer eee NEVER DRAMATIO REVIEW FOR 1&8, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humpty Donrrr, with New Features. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadtway.—VicTIMs—SOLON SHINGLE. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third at., between 6th and th avs.—ROMEO AND JULIET. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. 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All complaints of “‘short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the superintendent in the counting-room of the Hrraxp establish- ment, MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Darty Herp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Hzrap at the same price it is furnished in the city. Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated February 3. A despatch from Athens last evening conveyed the ‘unexpected intelligence that the Greek Ministers had refused to sign the protocol of the Paris Conference and had tendered their resignations to their sov- ereign. The petition of the Irish bishops for the right of convocation has been rejected. The challenge of Mr. Douglas, owner of the yacht Sappho, has been accepted by Mr. Ashbury, proprietor of the yacht Cambria. The latter gentleman suggests a new route for the ocean races Five of the prisoners implicated in the assassina- tion of the Governor of Burgos, Spain, acknowledge their guilt. Algeria. A formidable revolt among the wild native tribes of Algeria is reported to have occurred. The insur- rection is distant from the French settlements. On receipt of the intelligence in Paris the Duke of Magenta was ordered to Algeria. A later despatch from Algiers states that the revolt has been sup- pressed. Cuba, Despatches of yesterday state that Havana con- tinues tranquil. More reinforcements of troops had arrived from Spain. A serious riot between Span- tards and Cubans had occurred in Bejucal. Congress, In the Senate yesterday Mr. Conkling introduced @ bill to enconrage the building of steamships in the United States. The bili to amena the Judiciary system was reported pack with amend- ments from the committee. The Consular Appropria tion bill was again considered, another debate en- suing between Messrs, Sumner and Patterson rela- tive to the reduction of the salaries of Judges under the slave trade treaty. The bill, with some amend- ments, was finally passed. Mr. Grimes asked when the bill to repeal the Tenure of Office act would be reported from the committee. The President, Mr. ‘Wade, ruled that that was no part of the present business. Mr. Grimes then gave notice that he would call it up at anearly day. The proposed constitutional amendment relative to negro suffrage in ali the States was considered until adjournment. In the House a joint resolution was reported from the Committee on Printing directing the Secretary of the Interior Department to withhold cer- tain payments to the stationery contractors, which, after considerable discussion, was passed. Florence Scammel and Henry Johason, of New York, were brought before the bar on a charge of contempt in refusing to testify in the New York election frauds investigation, Both having signified their willingness to answer were remanded until the committee was ready for them. The bill to construct an air line railroad between New York and Washington was reported back by the committee, aud pending Mr. Cook's remarks in support of it the morning hour expired. A bill for auniform system of naturalization was intro- duced. In the evening session the Internal Revenue bill was again considered, the income tax coming in for a fair share of ventilation, which resulted in striking out the section limiting the duration of the tax to 1870. Mr. Hooper moved to amend by taxing the interest on United States bonds ten per cent, bat on the vote no quorum was present. The bill ‘was completed with the exception of reserved sec. tions and the House adjourned, The Legisiatare. In the State Senate yesterday bills were introdneed reiative to grants of land; to aid in constructing tie railroad through the wilderness in this State; reia- tive to tife insurance policies; relative to witnesses in all legal proceedings, and granting certain powers to the Brookiyn Improvement Company. Bills were passed incorporating the German Ltederkranz of tits city; conferring additional powers on the Uni- versity of the City of New York, and several others of importance. After the confirmation of a notary public the Senate adjourned, Bills were introduced im the Assembly granting certain powers to street rafiroads; incorporating the ‘Wayside Industrial Home; allowing boats trom dally mewspapers publishea in New York to approach ves- wels bound in for news purposes; incorporating a jetreet railroad company for this city; relating to the ‘Croton Department; relative to wharfage and in- ‘surance on life, Mr, Gleason reported adversely to increasing the pay of certain members of the Metro- Politan police, which was agreed to. Adverse re- ports were also presented relative to the Brooklyn County Court House and to protect consumers of coal in this city and Brooklyn, Tue Assembly then adjourned, Miscellaneous. General Grant is now reported to have expressed Dimself in favor of impartial su@rage and the pro- posed amendment to that effect now pending in Congress. The weather yesterday changed from the snow of Tuesday night toa driving rai and thunder storm, which continued with great force up to an early hour this morning. In Maine and the extreme Northern States a severe snow storm prevailed. The Republican State Convention of Connecticut met at New Haven yesterday and nominated a State ticket, with Marshall Jewell as the candidate for Governor. Resolutions were adopted declaring confidence in General Grant, favoring impartial suffrage and payment of the national debt in gold, economy in administering the government and equality of taxation. ‘Mp. J. N. Norris, of Quincy, Il., is reported to have received a tender of the Interior Department from General Grant. ‘ In the Hudson County (N. J.) Court yesterday case came up in which Mary Harrison, a widow, forty-five years of age, sues George Vreeland, an old man of eighty-three, for breach of promise of mar- riage, damages being laid at $40,000. A mysterious system of frauds on the government has just been discovered and frustrated at Washing- ton by the Treagury officials. Forged instructions were sent to a receiver of public moneys at Bayfleld, Wisconsin, directing htm to send the money he had to Richard V. Clinton, banker, in Washington, through the maul, whenever the amount exceeded $1,000. Several amounts were sent; but the officials, betug notfied by thé receiver, took charge of them at the Post OMice. The City The annual report of the Metropelitan Police Board has been transmitted to the Governor. It shows that there were 68,451 arrests made during the past year, of which 21,667 were of females. Of these arrests 78 were for murder, 71 of the persons arrested for this crime being females, Of those arrested 12,349 ‘were laborers, 154 were lawyers, 41 were policemen, 66 were actors, 29 were editors and 17 were re- porters, the two last being the lowest numbers on the list. The total of lost and stolen property re- stored to the rightful owners during the year was $5,203,258. The number of lost children reported was 5,748 in this city and 1,5931m Brooklyn, The number of foundlings in this city was 162. Of tru- ant children, reported by the teachers in the public schools, there were 5,962, The various ferries over the North and East rivers carried 82,321,274 passen- gers, of which the Union ferry carried 40,000,000 and the Jersey City ferry 13,000,000. The smallest number carried, 125,000, was by the Hell Gate ferry. ‘The Board reports very strongly against the system of a house of detention for witnesses. There are at present at the Tombs twelve mur- derers, two of whom are women. Most of these prisoners were arrested during the past month, The City Chamberlain, Mr. Peter B. Sweeny, has written a letter to the President of the Board of Education urging him to make some official investi- gation in reference to the alleged forgery of a war- rant for $17,500 drawn against the appropriation credited to the Board of Education. The money on the warrant was drawn from the Broadway Bank as long ago as April, 1867, ‘A resident of Brooklyn recently, while laboring under the insane idea that some one was trying to rob him, took his watch and $400 out on the street and gave them to the first stranger he met. The stranger has not yet returned them, although the Brooxlynite has become sane again. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before Recorder Hackett, Francis B. Pintow, the Park Bank robber, was brought up and arraigned. His plea of guilty toan attempt at grand larceny, which he was anxious to make, would not be accepted by the prosecut officer, and he thereupon pleaded guilty to the indictment. The Recorder sentenced him to five years in the State Prison. The steamship Deutschiand, Captain Brickenstein, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southamp. ton and Bremen. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve M.* ‘The sidewhee! steamship Magnolia, Captain Crow- ell, of Leary’s line, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P, M. to-day for Charleston, 8. C. The steamship Hermann Livingston,Captain Cheese- man, Will sail at three P. M. to-day from pier 36 North river for Savannah. The stock market yesterday was dull. Gold closed at 13534. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge Ransom Balcom, of Binghamton; John B, Alley, of Boston, General T. Cadwallader and Gene- ral Littiefleld, of Philadelphia; G. H. Clemons, of Washington, and G. W. Swepson, of North Carolina, are at the Astor House. General James Craig, of Missouri, and A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. R. P. Harkness, of Cincinnati; J. R. Ricks, of Nor- folk, Va., and J. B. Docherty, of Savannah, are at the Maltby House. Dr. Fraser, of Prescott, and J. Lothrop Motley, of Boston, are at the Brevoort House. General D. S. Bell and J. C. Campbell, of St. Louis; Lieutenant Crocker King, of the Seventy-eighth Highlanders, British army, and J. S. Eldridge, of Boston, are at the Fitth Avenne Hotel. Major C. T. Plunkett, of Hartford; E. A. Buck, of Buffaio; W. V. Hutchings, of Boston. and J. W. Fawcett, of Cleveland, are at the Hoffman House. Captain Joyes, of the United States Army; A. G. Lippincott, of Philadelphia; Wm. Miller, of Bradford, C. W., and Colonel H. D, Mann, of Mobile, Ala., are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General Grant and the Senate—“The Co. hesive Power of the Public Plunder.” “The principles of the party, sir,” said Randolph, of Roanoke, in days long by, “‘the principles of the party are seven—the five loaves and the two fishes.” ‘The party of the administration,” said Calhoun, on a later occa- sion, “I am warned, is a cohesive party. So it is, Mr. President; for it is held together by the cohesive power of the public plunder.” This is the bond of all political parties, and never has the truth of Randolph’s pungent remark or Calhoun’s been so forcibly illus- trated as in the cohesive character of the party now in power; for never has the public plunder been so enormous, #0 lavishly used or so strong in binding diverse factions, cliques and rings as in the common cause of the spoils, It is only the old story from Holy Writ that ‘where the carcass is there will the vultures be gathered together.” Randolph's remark of the seven principles, if we are not mistaken, was applied to the ad- ministration of John Quincy Adams, the total expenditures of which—civil, judicial, diplo- matic, army and navy—were about thirteen nillions a year. Calhoun’s aphorism was ap- tlied to the democratic party, under Van Buren, when all the regular disbursements of the government and pickings and stealings pat together did not much exceed thirty- fve millions a year; and yet the financial disasters, with the official cor- ruptions and spoliations of Van Buren’s ad- ministration, resulted in the overwhelming democratic defeat of 1840; for the ‘cohesive power of the public plunder” among the democratic politicians produced a general revolt among the people, But what a baga- telle was the sum of the government expenses of thirty-five or forty millions a year, with no national debt and no direct national taxes, under Van Buren, compared with our present magnificent figures of national expenses and stealings of four or five hundred millions a year, with our national debt of twenty-five hundred millions and our direct nafonal taxes of two or three hundred millions} A sug- gestive contrast this to the taxpayers of the United States. | What a mine! What abounding placers of greenbacks, gold and diamonds, dlks, satins and laces, fine houses, fast womin and fast horses are here for the Treaswy rings of manipulators and gamblers in gold, bonds and stocks; for the whiskey rings, railroad rings, Custom House plundering rings Indian Bureau rings and for all the holy alliance of fast men and fast women, of law-makers, law-breakers, contractors and lobby jobbers! Hundreds of millions of money are still in these rich placers for the’ spoilsmen, though hundreds of millions have been taken out and divided among the confederate Treasury rob- bers, Here we meet the beast with seven heads and ten horns face to face. Here are the labors of Hercules awaiting the President elect. Here is Bunyan’s picture of Christian and Apollyon. Here lies the difficulty at the threshold between General Grant and the Senate on the Tenure of Office law in any shape you please. But there is no fear that he will fly off at a tangent from the republi- can (Chicago) platform; no fear that he will try the game of Captain Tyler against the financial bills of Congress, or the “policy” of Andy Johnson against the recon- struction laws or negro suffrage. There is no fear that if relieved from the restrictions of the Tenure of Office law he will turn honest men out of office in’order to put rogues in their places. Nor do we suppose that General Blair himself, though he sticks to it, really enter- tains the absurd tomfoolery that our greatest danger is that General Grant will establish a protectorate or an empire on the ruins of the republic by following the example of Cromwell, or that of Napoleon the First or Napoleon the Third. No such fears or doubts as these are enter- tained among the radical managers of the Senate, But still they are afraid of General Grant. They are afraid that he really means retrenchment and reform; that he will not un- derstand that all such notions are claptrap and humbugs and are thrown out only as the tub to amuse the whale. And so they intend to hold his removals from office subject to the consent of the Senate. Otherwise, if he were restored to the Executive status of Lincoln he might reduce in a few months scores of thieving radi- cal office-holders, with the hundreds of their outside friends and confederates, to bank- ruptcy, in breaking up their speculations. We dare say, for instance, that an intelligent and honest Secretary of the Treasury, of Grant’s own way of thinking, and free to act, could in six months bring gold down as low, perhaps, as fifteen per cent premium, and thus save millions upon millions, hundreds of millions, to the Treasury of the people, by simply breaking up the Treasury manipulators and pet brokers amd gold gamblers of Wall street. But how many Senators, with their cousins, and ne- phews, and favorites, and sharers of the spoils, would be among the losers? Who can tell? Here, then, the continuance of the Tentté of Office law has a practical meaning; for it may serve to restrain even an honest Secre- tary of the Treasury in the use of the guillo- tine, for fear of a rumpus with the Senate. But, again, look at the whiskey rings—he dealers in contraband whiskey. They hav? a lobby fund far exceeding the capital of theold United States Bank, which turned the couztry upside down in its death struggle with Gme- ral Jackson. A bold, faithful and fearkss Internal Revenue Commissioner, in Geneal Grant's way of doing business, within a bw weeks in overhauling his revenue subosli- nates might astonish the country with his un- earthing of lawless whiskey officials, whistey stills and whiskey dealers. But under the Tenure of Office law the President must jub- mit his removals to the Senate, and if Senitor John Doe or Richard Roe has a friend thw in danger he may say to other Senators, ‘‘Save my man and I will assist in saving yours ;” for has not this plan of operations become a conmon practice under Andy Johnson in confirmaions and rejections? Is the Senate honest? Ask Collector Smythe. What, then, can General Grant do wder this Tenure of Office law? Let him de his duty and turn out the rogues wherover he inds them, submitting his reasons to the Setate, and let the responsible majority of that body play him false if they dare. The countrywill sustain him ; the, people expect him to do his duty, no matter where the blow may fall. We are satisfied, too, that he will meet the vork before him without flinching, and that heein lie the doubts, fears and misgivings that shake the faith of the radical camp. Drawixe A Pnrizz.—Policeman Malotey, in his achievement against ‘‘the butcher cat” scoundrel the other day, “builded better fran he knew.” He captured a rascal of so many crimes that he must be regarded as a veritible nugget; for we suppose there are at least half 4 dozen rewards on his head. Ratroaps aNp Tete Derots.—The Jew Haven Railroad has made a purchase of a tery valuable square of land above the tunnel, vith a view to a depot by and by, though i is said they will not build their depot, havingbe- fore their eyes the fear of a future law keeging steam travel above the Harlem river. It might be a good idea to keep locomotivesput of our streets, but what shall we ever do ifthe Hudson River Company has to stop its steam- ing at Spuyten Duyvil? If the railroids would act in concert on the matter they might do just here a grand thing for themselves ind the city. They might make, not higher Po Fortieth street, one grand common depotfor all the Northern and Eastern lines, cjn- verging these lines at some given point on he Harlem river and bringing them into the depot by a tunnel, Omsinvses AND Titt, Tarpers.—It fe te- ported that little till tappers get into the omni- buses, and putting their arms through the hole behind the driver, rob his money box. Well, we hope they do; and if they do we are glad of it. This will induce the companies to get rid of the sleepy and deaf drivers, Some- times it takes an illimitable amount of ringing to get one of these fellows to understand that you want to pay your fare, and these are the fellows, no doubt, the little thievos single out, So the thieves have their uses, A Nice Little Job in the African Slave ‘Trade. A lively discussion in the Senate on Tuesday showed how ridiculously we expend public money. By our treaty with England of 1862 we were obliged to keep a fleet and three judges upon the coast of Africa for the pur- pose of intercepting and trying those engaged in the slave trade. The fleet has done its duty and been upon its station. The judges have, however, never been subjected to the chances of being turned into niggers by the cooking process of an African sunshine, They have enjoyed the twelve thousand five hundred dollars paid annually by Congress, and have been looking for slavers in London, Paris and Wall street. The qualifications required for a good African judge are best set forth by Mr. Sumner and Mr. Davis, The former attests about one of them that he has “ately seen him and found him as genial, as intelligent and of as sound judgment as ever.” The latter said he had lately met the same judge, who had, ‘‘at not a very remote period, become the father of two children at one birth.” It is no wonder, then, that, after this evidence, the Senate should adopt the amendment of Mr. Morton to the appropriation bill to pay the African judges for the time they were on duty et their posts. Tae Raproats aT Loacrrnzaps ABOvT THE Niager.—The Albany Hoening Journal, radi- cal organ, administers a rebuke to Governor Boutwell for introducing his universal sufrage amendment to the constitution which has been adopted by the House, and, fearful that i; will not be accepted by the requisite number of State Legislatures, proposing to supplenent the amendment with a billintended to curry out the same purposes. The Journal remirks that “the wisdom of this step would hve been exceedingly questionable, even if the right to take it should be admitted.” The Chi- cago Post, also radical, denounces the attenpt of Boutwell to force negro suffrage upon Staes that have a repugnance to it as ‘ ill-timid, unnecessary and almost revolutionary.” ‘lhe radicals, no doubt, begin to fear the effect of this negro suffrage coercive policy upon elec- tions to be held in the spring, particularly in Connecticut, where negro suffrage is unpopr- lar, and has been repeatedly voted down, and where members of Congress are to be chosen. The fear of Graat is already beginning to have its effect upon radical newspapers and radical politicians. Svusrarnine Taz House or Rervuce.—The Supreme Court has rendered a decision that sustains the confinement of delinquent guiter snipes in the House of Refuge. Attempts have been frequently made to get small rascals out of this institution on the plea that there was no authority in law for their confinement. Sometimes this has been successful. Nowa positive decision furnishes good ground fer future cases. If there were no authority for the House of Refuge some of the little rascals would be sent to prison at once and fare worse, and others, after a few days on Blackwell’s Island, would be at large again and the tills of sity would ke the worse, So ft is better a8 it is, ii pee. Generat Lez IN Favor or tHE New Move- MENT IN Vinain1A.—The Richmond Wiig quotes approvingly and conspicuously the fol- lowing:—‘‘The editor of the Petersburg Jndez, writing from Washington, says:—‘I see that the Huxpress, Norfolk Virginian, Examiner and Fredericksburg evs are still exercising themselves about the honor of the Old State and its good people.’” The writer adds, by authority, that “‘General Lee not only heartily agreed with the new movement, but was among the first to suggest the ideas which control it.” The fact is, all sensible people in Virginia and elsewhere in the South are prepared for peace, and expect it under Grant's administration, and those old politicians who cast obstacles in the way of a consummation so devoutly to be wished should be shelved forever. Tne Senate CoMMITTER ON THE PaciFIo Ratrroaps.—The Senate Committee on the Pacific Railroads is about to prepare a general bill, it is said, to aid these roads by grants of public lands and under some new plan and regulations ; but it appears the Southern line, by way of the thirty-second parallel of latitude, is to be excluded. Why is this? That route has been considered by the ablest engineers the best. Is there no one in Congress to plead for this superior route? Is the whole lobby bought up by the other lines ? Nothing more should be done at present for any of these railroads; enough has been done already ; but if there are to be any more lavish grants or aid afforded by Congress let the Southern route, the best of all, not be excluded. A Great Many Prorte Wovtp Like To Kxow which one of the life insurance com- panies of this city could stand the strain of an epidemic. If the cholera should ever again visit New York they would all go overboard. The money that had been entrusted to them for the benefit of widows and orphans would be found to have been absorbed by princely salaries. Bap ror Lerrers anp Letrer Carrirs.— It has just been decided in one of the State courts that a letter carrier is not a mail car- rier. So that any rogue may knock down one of these functionaries and steal his budget and he does not rob the United States mail. Letters, therefore, that require the supposed greater sanctity of the ‘‘mail” must not be trusted to the boxes in the street. Womex axp Tae Battot.—The Nashville Union believes there ‘‘are ten millions, more or less, of women in the United States, and about five hundred of them want to vote. A true woman—one fit in every respect to boa wife or a mother—would as soon touch a ta- rantula a8 a ballot.” Here is a subject for the Soroses in this city and Chicago to discuss, Tne Tree Kinp or Racirrocitry ror Canapa.—Active efforts are again being made-in Congress for the restoration of the Reciprocity treaty with Canada, This is all a humbug, in which we pay the Canadians for remaining out of the Union. If the benefits of free trade are so great with us it is the beat proof that the two countries should be ander one government. We propose, therefore, that the true kind of reciprocity is to annex this country to Canada and call the whole nation the Caited States, Defeat in Committee of the Postal Tele- eraph Bill. We are advised from Washington that the House committee to which was referred Mr. Washburne’s bill to appropriate seventy-five thousand dollars for the establishment of a test postal telegraph between New York and Washington has decided to report adversely to the same. The question has yet to come up in the House, and we trust that in that body it will receive the favorable consideration which it merits, Enormous efforts are being made by the Western Union Telegraph Company to defeat the trial of the proposed experiment, on the ground that it is a fallacy to assert that government can conduct the telegraphic transmission of the country, as an adjunct to the postal service, more economically and with greater efficiency than is now done by private hands, The question is one between the whole country and the telegraph monopoly, and the experiment is proposed to be tried at a cost of the paltry sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. If the telegraph company is so morally certain of the facts it alleges we should suppose it would advocate the imme- diate trial of the experiment as the most con- clusive manner of proving the rightfulness of its position and the logic of its argument. But the telegraph company knows very well that its position is nota rightful and logical one, and hence it wishes to defeat the proposed experiment. The astute speculators who con- trol that powerful corporation know that it is futile to resist the increasing conviction in the popular mind that the telegraph should be an adjunct of the postal system of the country ; and their policy is addressed, not to the defeat of an idea which they are already convinced will prevail, but to the making of the best terms they can with the government for the sale of their entire apparatus. Hence it is important to them to defeat Mr. Washburne’s proposition; for if the experiment be tried it may reveal too much in regard to the actual cost of construction and working of effective lines of telegraph, and materially affect the terms of the bargain in their contemplated sale to the government. Hercin lies the wis- dom of Mr. Washburne’s proposed experiment and the reason why the House should at once pass the proposed bill and appropriation. Every interest in the country is goncerned in the trial of the experiment; but there are two great class interests which are more im- mediately affected by the question, and which should take early action in regard to it. These are the press and the merchants, No one com- prehends more fully than we do the private reasons which impel many publishers to pre- sent a seeming opposition to the plan of a pos- tal telegraph when they are well convinced that if it can be established it will accrue im- mediately to their own personal benefit, It behooves them, therefore, to use every legiti- mate influence they may possess with indivi- dual members of Congress, by letter and by personal influence, in favor of the Washburne bill. The merchants can and should take imme- diate and open action in the question; for they- cannot be Feached by strangulary measures, as many of the minor journals can be, through the resentment of the telegraph monopolists. To show how immediately their interests are affected we need only to cite the fact stated by Mr. Gardner Hubbard before the House committee that he proposed to transmit mes- sages from New York to Chicago and St. Louis for forty-five cents, to New Orleans and Mobile for sixty-five cents and to San Francisco for one dollar and twenty-five cents. Now, if each merchant will direct his bookkeeper to report to him what saving these rates would have effected in the actual cost of the telegraph mes- sages he has sent during the last three months he will have a practical proof of how and to what extent the experiment interests him. But there is a step which as a class our merchants should at once take. Every Chamber of Com- merce and Board of Trade in the country should immediately adopt resolutions in favor of the passage of Mr. Washburne’s bill and the trial by the government of the postal tele- graph experiment between New York and Washington, and transmit copies for presenta- tion to Congress. We trust that this great class will look at this matter earnestly and lend their immediate assistance to the passage of the bill. Aw Immense Srorm.—The storm which came upon us yesterday morning, it appears by the telegraph, covered all the country from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadas, and from the Atlantic seaboard to the great plains be- yond the Mississippi. The amount of water that has fallen from this extensive storm would be equal, perhaps, to the drainage of Lake Erie, cutting off all supplies. Such are the incalculable atmospheric forces of evaporation and condensation. Atas! Poor Erie.—The members of the stock boards are insatiable in their revenge upon Erie, which has been driven to the street at last, and is now a mendicant upon the side- walk in Broad street. Mr. James Fisk, Jr., sought to buy the room of the Mining Board for reconstruction into an “Erie Board,” but an examination of the terms of the lease showed that the conversion was impossible. A repetition of the Morning Star tactics was not attempted. Now that Erie is stricken from the stock list some one compares the Stock Exchange to the play of “Hamlet” with the part of Hamlet left out. Necro Svrrrace iN Gonnegoticut.—The New Haven Register (democrat) states that “if a direct vote were taken negro suffrage would be defeated in this State by not less than ten thousand majority, The votes of the opponents of negro suffrage would elect an overwhelming majority of our State Legisla- ture. campaign and the most important question with which our State Legislature will have to deal.” The Connecticut democrats always make some declaration of this sort before an election, but never carry their point unless opposition to negro suffrage is made a distinct issue. Harry Tnovent.—Would it not be a good idea for the policemen to arrest wherever they see them all persons known as criminals? They might catch one, a8 Maloney did, whose value would make hima great prize. They might chance on the murderer of Mr, Rogers, and that would be @ grand pull, Recorder Hackett’s Charge. “Delays in trial are inimical to public safety,” says the Recorder, and just now this sentiment is better music than was ever given by ‘‘the flutes and soft Recorders” of ancient concerts. We may expect therefore a short story with the heavy accumulation of crimi- nals on hand, and some good examples to help cut short the riot of crime that prevails. Our merchants, says the Recorder, are careless with their money and tempt thievery, which may be true; our housekeepers accept ser- vants on light recommendations, and thus give burglars their first chance, which is certainly true; and men expose themselves to highway robbery by unseasonable hours, which, un- fortunately, is often necessary. All these are good suggestions, however, and better still is the suggestion of this same authority as to the insufficiency of the police in point of numbers for the duty they have to perform. But what hasthe Superintendent to say to the declara- tion that “‘we have not initiated any police im- provements in fifieen years?” And what up the captains to say to the charge that ‘“‘the city is cut up into little police principalities, each jealous of the other and none of them having confidence in their sovereign head?” The people are much interested in the police just now, and would like to know if thisis all true. The Recorder's complaint that citizens neglect their daty in regard to jury service and then find fault with defective administra- tion of justice is an old one and alltrue, Will the Recorder himself apply the remedy, so far as it is in his power? Tue Lanp Grappers.—We have been peg- ging away at the land jobs in Washington for the past four months. We are glad to see that the radical organ in this city has finally waked up and discovered thet twenty-seven millions of acres of the public domain are to be given away to land grabbers. “Herp For TriaL”—The latest and moat fashionable verdict against criminals of all grades, It would be curious to know how many rogues in New York are now suffering under the above verdict, The East River Bridge. The law to commit the United States to the erection of this structure passed the House on Tuesday, Without such a law it might at any time be moved that the State law incor. porating the bridge was void, because uncon- stitutional, inasmuch as in pretending to au- thorize such a structure the State was tran- scending its powers and trenching on those of the general government, With authority from both governments the company is secure. Mr. Woodward, of Pennsylvania, raised his voice against the bill, but did not insist. His objec- tion was that it was an attempt to decide by legislation what was in facta judicial ques- tion—in other words, that the House was itself trenching on the province of the courts. However glad we may be to hear such a point Wade ig Congress—to hear it recognized there that therd fra Any cot fe point was badly made in this case; for the legislation was not an attempt to decide anything, but, quite the contrary, it was due to an effort to leave the question open. The company want to be right, and so seek authority from all parties, not caring to decide exactly who justly has it, In THE Moxtirupe or Worps Taree WANt- ETH Not Wisbom.—The contractor for clean- ing the streets was paid for the firat half of January for Broadway, although the Board of Hgalth says it was not cleaned. The Board says the street was so frozen that it could not be cleaned, and that the contractor is therefore entitled to his money. But the contractor says the street was cleaned, and therefore not frozen. Who is right? Any Onze oF Tueex.—We are sometimes informed by the moralists that the age is de- ficient in the virtues that gave all their color to one side of the chivalric character; yet here we find to our hands a most striking instance that our very rogues are as true to one another and as stanch in mistaken devo- tion as ever was the hero of romance. Three men can cast a flood of light on the Rogers murder with perfect safety to themselves, and even with advantage, yet the certainty of a price and a pardon proves no temptation. The companion of the murderer can tell us who he is. If the murder was committed by ‘James Logan” the ‘‘Tom” who carried the letter can tell us which James Logan of the thousand we want; and if it was committed by Tom before the letter was delivered James Logan can certainly tell us who this Tom is. We may feel sure of one or the other of these, and the third man who can help is the writer of the letter, Can nothing tempt any one of the three? A Western Sentiment.—The Winona (Min- nesota) Republican remarks that ‘the most forlorn ancient maiden that ever wore the wil- low for a recreant lover is happy and contented compared with the matron who has taken a husband for better and found him worse.” This is unfortunately too true of the West; but the facility with which divorces ate ob- tained there mitigates the evils which women suffer from their ‘‘worser halves.” Misorerxatine Corres ix Kentucky.— The Louisville Democrat asserts that Berea College, in Kentucky—about which such @ fuss was made in Cooper Institute, in this city, lately—is simply a miscegenating institution, at which male whites and blacks are promis- cnously educated, with a prospective opening for females, ‘colored and plain.” Countine Cmckess Berore Trey Arg Hatonsy.—The Philadelphia Press reckons up twenty-five States that are sure to go for This will be the leading issue of they the fifteenth amendment, with the prospect of getting in addition the votes of Virginia, Mis- sissippi and Texas—whon those States are re~ constructed—making twenty-eight, or the three-fourths requisite to adopt the amend- ment, allowing the whole number of States to be thirty-seven, This is a good deal like counting chickens before they are hatched. But enumerating ‘‘dead ducks” may be a dif- ferent thing. Our Rooves.—The crimes that have startled the community of late are not euch offences as they commit who make robbery a business, Regularly trained rogues always | teave themaelyea aome chance, Thew count i |: : :