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Notice to Herald Carriers and News ‘Dealers, HERALD carriers and news dealers are in- formed that they can now procure the requisite number of copies direct from this office without delay. All complaints of ‘‘short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the Heratp establish- ment. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Dairy Henaup 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 Hegatp at the same price it is furnished in the city. THE NEWS The cable telegrams are dated February 4. ‘The Carlist party has again occasioned a stir in Spain. Bands from the valley of Andorra have made their appearance in Catalonia. Troubles are expected and troops have been forwarded to the district. Reports from Athens state that it is nearly certsin that Greece will agree to the propositions of the Paris Conference. Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Henderson has been appointed to the position at the head of the London police, England, made vacant by the death of Sir * Ricaard Mayne, Parnguay. Despatches by the Atlantic cable state that a Bra- gilian force had gone to Asuncion to establish a pro- visional government. Mexico, Congress had adjourned, but the government was anxious for an extraordinary session. The Guaymas and Rio Grande Raflroad bill had been passed. Tne hewspaper press charge Minister Rosecrans and Presiden: Jounson with publicly favoring annexa- ton. Cuba. Telegraphic despatches of yesterday state that a rumor had prevailed that Cespedes and Aguilera had surrendered to Count Valmaseda, but it hud proved ‘untrue. General Orango, of the revolutionary forces, 1s reported to have been assassinated by his troops. Our Cuba letter Is dated January 30. {t contains details of the disturbances in Havana and the pro- test of the American citizens ag t the barbarous actions of the Spanish volunteers, Hayti. President Sainave, according to our Poet au Prince letter, dated January 14, was still In the South su- perintending the military operations. Jacmei, Jéeré. mie and Anse 4 Veau were expected to surrender into his hands at any moment. In the North, Sal- nave’s towns still hold out firmly against the insur- gents. It was reported that France was negotiating with the rebel leaders for the interest on the debt due her. St. Thomas. ‘The Haiifax steamer due in St. Thomas on the 10th Of January bad not arrived up to the 18th, and ap- prehensions for her safety were entertataed, Congress. In the Senate yesterday numerous bills of but Slight importance were introduced and referred, ‘The proposed constitutional amendment was taken up as unfinished business, and Messrs. Ferry and Dixon had an extended argument upon the subject. Mr. Williams introduced a new amendment provid- ing that Congress shall have power to restrict or modify the rignt to vote or hold office prescribed hy the laws of any State. After a brief evening session the Senate adjourned. In the House the recusant witness, Henry Jolnson, ‘was discharged, and the other one, Florence Scan- nel, was -heid to pay the cost of his arrest—about seventy dollars, The Indian Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and Mr. Garfield moved to recommit it, with instructions to report back an additional section transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department. Mr. Hol- brook, the delegate from Idaho, made a speech on the subject, in which he used very insuiting lan- guage, for which he was promptly called to order by the Speaker. He refased to retract ‘what he had said, however, and a resolution waé just as promptly adopted directing that he be cen- sured by the Speaker, which was done. Mr. Gar- field's motion was ruled out and the bill was passed. A resolution was adopted appointing James F. Wilson, of lowa, and Joon V. L. Pruyn, of New ‘York, tellers to count the eiéctoral vote. Mr. Logan introduced a bill providing for the payment of the national debt, which was-referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, notwithstanding Mr. Ward’s witty remark that he would like to have it passed at once. The Air Line Railroad biti was taken up, but went over en the $7pTation of the morning hour. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1869.-TRIPLK SHEET. Senin ae ne LL. a wane Is the United States Bound to Protect held, and the House adjourned. The Legislature. Bills were introduced in the State Senate yester- day relative to cemetery lands, appropriating money for paying the expenses of State Assessors, and of local interest, a and two reports Pend- ing a discussion of thé Albany Pier bill the Senate adjourned. In the Assembly several billa were ordered to @ third reading, after which a recess was taken. At the evening session the Governor's Message was dis- cussed until adjournment, Miscellaneous. Mr. Broomall, of the House Committee on the Expenditure of the Public Funds, roundly de- nounced all Washington correspondents yesterday. A correspondent, whom Robert J. Walker and Fred- erick Stanton said was a black matler, appeared be- fore the committee in relation to the Alaska frauds and squarely denied everything that Walker and Stanton had said. The skating match for $500 between a New Bruns- wick and a Chicago lass took piace at Buffalo yester- day, It was won after a close contest by Miss Nellie Dean, the Chicagoan. A large dry goods house in Philadelphia has failed, with liabilities estimated at $500,000. The suffrage women of St. Louis are strongly urging the Legislature to admit them to the franchise. The roof of St. Patrick's Hall in Montreal fell im on Wednesday night while a concert and ball was in progress, Some premonition of its falling were given and most of the people present had time to rush out, but several who were behind were injured. The new steamship City of Brooklyn, the latest addition to the Inman line, arrived at Liverpool on the 3d inst., from the Clyde, where she was bulit, and will immediately take her place on the line be- tween Liverpool and New York. On her trial trip at tie measured mile she made thirteen and three- quarter knots in one hour, The City. General Grant, his wife and Generals Dent and Badean arrived in this city last evening and put up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. In the evening the dis- tinguished party paid a visit to Wallack’s and Niblo’s, The Chamber of Commerce yesterday adopted resolutions inimical to the project of @ bridge yer ba ite and reqicsting the Chied States Senate action in the matter until after the fur- rae sai of the Chamber, Assessor Webster continues to keep the Wall street brokers in a scare by hia preparations to tax their active capital. A delegation of brokers left for Washington yesterday in order to consult with Com- missioner Rollins on the subject. At a meeting of the Union Republican General Committee last night a committee was appointed to wait on General Grant to learn when and where he would receive the members of the above organiza- tion. A committee was also appointed to get the same information from Senator Fenton. Stephen Boyle, who was arraigned on several counts, one being an attempt to kill a police officer on the Bowery on the“Ist inst., and who has been recognized as one of the murderers of a Michigan sheriff, was sentenced by Recorder Hackett yester- day to twenty years in the State Prison on each one of two indictments, making forty years. A Michi- gan officer with a requisition countersigned by ex- Governor Fenton was in court, but as there is no capital punishment permitted in that State the Re- corder thought it was best to sentence him here. On Tuesday night, when Boyle, the Michigan mur- derer, was held for safe keeping in a roomfat Super- imtendent Kennedy's office, a large party of roughs congregated in the neighborhood for the purpose, it was ascertained, of overpowering the policeman on duty there, taking possession of the keys and re- Jeasing the murderer. A detective discovered their intentions and obtained strong reinforcements, whereupon the crowd dispersed. John Dobbs, charged with being concerned in the robbery of $150,000 from the office of Cambreleng & Pyne, 14 Wall street, on New Year’s Day, was ar- raigned before Justice Dowling, at the Tombs, yes- terday, for examination, Captain Jourdan testified that the prisoner had partially confessed to his com- plicity in the crime. Dobbs thereupon admitted the truth of the Captain's deposition and expressed his willingness to make any disclosure that may further the ends of justice. He formally pleaded not guilty, however, and was committed without bail. In the Watson ana Crary case yesterday, proof being adduced that Mrs. Crary was so ill that her husband could not leave her, District Attorney Courtney consented to & postponement until Mon- day. Sirailar proceedings were taken tn the case of Belknap for alleged subornation of perjury, Belknap being known to be sick and the case bemg further postponed until Monday. Similar proceedings were also taken in the case of Leipzinger, Beninger and Callaghan, another whiskey case, Mr. Beninger being the sick client, At this Mr. Courtney got out of patience, and urged the commencement of this trial, at least in order to stay what threatened to be a sweeping epidemic that was making the circle of the whiskey riag. The case was, however, post- poned. In the Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday the case of Elnathan L. Sanderson against the Sunday Mer- cury for libel was tried, but the verdict was not ren- dered, The seamen on a strike held a meeting yesterday and reduced the standard of wages that they had been demanding to from twenty to thirty-five doliars for sailing vessels and forty dollars for steamers. ‘The National jine steamship Pennsylvania, Captain Hall, wiil leave pier 47 North river at twelve M. to- morrow tor Liverpool, touching at Queenstown to land passengers. The steamship Columbia, Captain Carnaghan, of the Anchor line, will sail from pier 20 Norsh river at twelve M. to-morrow for Glasgow, calling at Lon- donderry. ‘The Merchants’ line steamship General Meade, Cap- tain Sampson, will be despatched on Saturday, 6th inst, at tree P. M., from pier 12 North river for New Orleans direct. The steamship Tillie, Captain Partridge, will leave pier 20 East river on Saturday afternoon for Galves- ton, Texas. The Black Star line steamship Huntsville, Captain Crowell, will sail from pier 13 North river at three P. M. on Saturday for Savannah, Ga. The steamer Virginia, Captain Drew, at pier 15 East river, will sail at four P.M. on Saturday for Washington and Georgetown, D. C., and Alexandria, Va. ‘The stock market yesterday was unsettled and depressed. The whole railway list declined from two to five per cent. Gold closed at 145). Prominent Arrivals in the City. General G. W. Schofleld, of Washington: General W. M. McPherson,-of St. Louis; General W. &. Ely, of Connecticut; George Peabody Russell, of Massac’ setts; General A. G. McGrath, of Charleston, and Colonel Knox, of the United States Army, are ay the Fifth avenne Hotel. Captain W. B. Hugles, of the United States Army, ig at the Brevoort House. Jndge F. D, Hughes, of Hartford; Darius W. Law- erance, of New York; Alex. Warwick, of Texas, and Captain J. N. Abbey, of Cleveland, Ohio, are at the Metropolitan. W. M. Groot, of Washington; George Innis, of Poughkeepsie; Z. H, Benton, of Jefferson county; Colonel M. Hoyt, of New York, and Isaac Jenks, Jr., of England, are at the Astor House. R. C, Spalding and H. A, Mitchell, of the United States Navy. and L. McLean, of Baltimore, are at the Hofman House. Colonel W. Taylor and Captain Ross, of the United States Army; Surgeon Davis, of the United States Navy and Captain Alex. McDonald, of the British Arty, TeeEm, are seth the St. Charles Hotel. Resezs008, | yer Compettep To Yiewv.— The Greek government has yielded to the re- commendations of the Conference. The Min- isters of King George, unable to swallow the pill, but willing to oblige their master, have resigned. All's well that ends well, and Greece could not, perhaps, do better. Letus hope that the Greeks will begin to learn to be wise. the world has seen. ment of our government and threw its shadow over every Congressional act. tering plea of reconstruction the people were in falling into their hands. Thieves? amaaanl sche There is no denial of thé truth that to-day the United States Senate is the focus of all the Tings which have combined for the @ plunder ofthe national wealth, We recognize this, however, as the very natural result of the gigantic struggle through which it has been our destiny to pass. Before the war Was sprung upon us we were the representa- tives of a single magnificent impulse of civili- gation working in a thoroughly legitimate direction. We scarcely had ® government and hardly needed one. Our people looked for position, for profits, for honors in the development of the country. If thers existed a few government contractors they were so few that they were lost upon the Indian frontier or in the din of commerce and manu- factures. The war came; our progress was turned back upon itself, or was, by the force of events, shaped into warlike channeb, Many of the keen brains that had aided in conduct- ing us to civilization became demoralized, and, losing sight of their former efforis, trained their powers upon the United States Treasury ; for it was in this Treasury that the whole wealth, the whole strength and sinew of the people was poured as the most potent force for the preservation of an intact nationality. The Treasury, therefore, repre- sented a vast contribution of the profits of civilization from those who had been laboring to produce it in the Northern States. From this almost inexhaustible storehouse vast sums were to be expended for national preser- vation. Those who have but one principle in business life, and that ‘“‘to go as near Sing Sing as possible and miss it,” immediately grasped at the splendid prize, and grasped it, too, through the United Statés Congress. Con- tracts for bole Munitions of war, ships and supplies Ware nerously dealt out in true litical style io he constituents of those mem bers of Congress who depended for position more upon financial influence or personal cor- ruption than upon native genius. And so the war continued. Every day the corruption in- creased, until ring after ring was formed, each circling about a hundred minor rings and all enclosed within the one great circle, the United States Congress, and especially its Senatorial branch. At length the war closed, but it left behind it the most gigantic fabric of swindling that It pervaded every depart- Under the glit- entertained four years, while the leeches upon the public purse clung not only to the Trea- sury, but to the Congress through which they thrived. The power has now changed. Formerly the Congress controlled the rings; but these have grown to magnificent proportions, and now in turn show their power over those who gave them being. How far this ring influence ex- tends is nowclearly marked. Under the lash of the Hon. Ben Butler the line has been drawn, and the Tenure of Office bill marks the division. The House of Representatives has placed itself in opposition to the existing ring system, and by its vote has shown to the people who is and who is not in favor of supporting the corrup- tions of war. We have now to deal with the Senate—the great ring which is described about all the othera; the ring which has conferred all ap- pointments and keeps them confirmed; the ring that has almost roined the country by trying to absorb the whole power of the gov- ernment, and the ring which now shows an unbroken front, and apparently stands pledged to sustain with all its resistive force the attack which it foresees the coming adminis- tration will make upon it. the issue is boldly drawn, and we may at once prepare for an encounter between the public plunderers through the United States Senate and the Executive branch of the government. represent the amount of plunder which has been gathered in the last seven years, while General Grant will represent the wish of the people for a return to economical and careful administration of the public property, treasure and civil positions. make a very desperate struggle, but the people, suffering to the last extreme to maintain the host of thieves who now fatten upon the na- tional misery, will support Grant. There is but one way for the Senate to set itself right before the country, and that is by following the Here, then, The Senate in the contest will The former will doubtless lead of the House of Representatives in the revocation of the Tenure of Office law. The United States Senate is not bound to protect thieves, no matter how unfortunate it bas been Better break loose from them at once, or the people, under the coming administration, will tumble the whole Senatorial fabric to the ground and reorganize that body after the model set by the founders of the government. ———— Oxstevctine THE StreETs.—An interesting decision involving this subject was given in the Supreme Court a few days since. The Court said:—‘‘Whoever without special au- thority obstructs or renders the use of the streets hazardous by-doing anything thereon, above or below the surface, is guilty of a nuisance, and any one sastaining special dam- age from it without any want of due care to avold injury, has a remedy against the person continuing that nuisarce. The act is wrong- fal and does not involv? the question of mere negligence.” Here, then, is a clear declara~ tion from the bench that half the builders in New York, and half themerchants, too, in down town streets, are wrengdoers, and as such liable to restraint at tie hands of the public authorities, and to danages at the suit of pri- vate parties who may »hance to suffer, Tue Frencn tx AverrtA—Waat Ane Tary Dotna?—Napoleon bis a splendid army. It wastes for want of ocmpation, Why can’t he push his conqnests nto Central Africa and utilize the wealth of the Continent? What is France doing to exend civilization? Com- pared with England, ‘he United States, Russia and even Germany almost nothing. The thoughts of Frenchmyn are, perhaps, a little too’much directed to France. Unsvertrranie Cranrry.- —Some of the life insurance companies pay their head men salaries greater than that received by the President of the United States, Who furnishes the money ? | ————_———————————————————————————E————————————_ OC Reign of Terror in Havana. Our full and complete advices by mail from Havana give a aad picture of the state of aairs in that city caused by the recent excesses of sats ha aE ly lane eno beginning of an exodus which, if continued, will leave General Dulce but little prospect of a restoration of » feeling of loyalty to Spain in the homes and hearts of the Cuban people. The uncalled-for slaughter of one American citizen, Mr. Cohner, and the shooting at seve- ral others by volunteer patrols, simply because in reply to the military challenge they stated they were Americans, is not calculated to help the Spanish cause much in this country. The acts of these volunteers on the 22d and 24th of January last remind us of the occurrences on the 16th of August, 1851, on the occasion of the shooting of Crittenden and his fifty com- panions by General Concha, after their surren- der in good faith on a promise of being sent to the United States, These sanguinary feelings demonstrate that the revolution, far from being put down, is making rapid progress in Cuba, which will be- fore long culminate in further trouble and dis- aster to the colonial government. In the state of incapacity and weakness attending the pre- sent provisional government of Spain, with the prospect of a very serious letting of blood there, it would have seemed the part of wisdom for the Spanish volunteers to have refrained from making up so bloody a record against themselves. Now their doom is sealed. Sooner or later the revolution will overwhelm them with its tide of passion and blood. At this moment there seems to be a tacit truce between the combatants in the centre and east of Cuba, pending the interviews of the Peace Commission from Havana with the leaders in Puerto Principe and General Cespedes in the viginit iD. reste — best accounts wecan obtain from the interior of the island the insurgent forces are becoming better organized, better armed and in every respect more formidable, as they learn by practice the artof war. They still cling to the Fabian policy in their opera- tions, and the fall of Bayamo, instead of hav- ing a depressing effect, seems to have offered an example in the burning of his own home by Cespedes which every Cuban is disposed to imitate. These things augur success to the revolution, and we advise Mr. Seward to re- member that now is the time to return in kind the many favors which the Captain General of Cuba, under orders from Madrid, extended to the rebel Commissioner Helm in Havana. For three years he was enabled to obtain there on favorable terms, and even from gov- ernment depots, if not to be procured elsewhere, munitions of war and supplies of all kinds, The harbors of Cuba were con- verted into refuges for blockade runners, and belligerent rights were, from an early period of the rebellion, conceded to the bars and stars, much to the disgust of Consul General Shu- feldt. We are told that an authorized commis- sioner from Sefior Cespedes, the Commander- in-Chief of the Cuban patriots and the recog- nized head of the new government, has reached this city and will soon present his credentials at Washington. Let him be received with the honor and respect due to the representative of @ people who for four months have maintained a contest for liberty with bare swords against breach-loading rifles and rifled artillery ; and if he needs any little utensils in the hardware line let him pay his money and take his choice. An early communication will also be not amiss from the ready pen of our Secretary of State to our Vice Consul General in Havana ap- proving the prompt and proper stand he has recently taken in behalf of our citizens resi- dent in Cuba. We do not care to see them shot down by Spanish volunteers because they doubt the propriety of shouting ‘‘ Viva Espana |” Exgction Fraups 1 Tuts State.—The re- publicans are making a great hue and ory about election frauds in this State. The evi- dence shows that there have been frauds on both sides. Possibly there have been more on the side of the democrats than the republi- cans in this city, but that may arise from the tact that the democrats largely outnumber the republicans here, and hence they have the larger field to cover, the more thieves and rascals to subsidize, the more English cut- throats and highwaymen to import—all of which is very expensive. It is a question, however, whether the republicans would not do the same had they the chance. In short, both parties live in glass houses, and when they begin to throw stones at each other honest citizens and taxpayers look on and don’t care a groat which concern gets the most essentially smashed up. Crry Sitver.—They have their high life even in the rings, and venture on magnificence more or less dazzling. Ata grand wedding the other day in the family of one of the mu- nicipal magnates it is reported that the several members of the Common Council came up in a row like Ali Baba’s men and deposited each his piece of silver, for the price of which, of course, the city had suffered. Telegraph Charters at Albany. The Legislature at Albany is busy appoint- ing commissions to investigate alleged abuses on the part of the Erie and other railroad companies affecting their charters and other matters of corruption. This is all right and proper. Now, while the Legislature has its hand in, let it examine into the abuses and corruptions involved in the matter of charters geanted to telelegraph companies. The West- ern Union Telegraph Company has a charter conferred by the Legislature of the State con- veying certain rights and privileges, This charter was obtained some years ago. Since then the company has doubled and tripled its operations under this charter, doubled and tripled its stock, doubled and tripled its lines all over the country and doubled ‘and tripled its tariff of prices. The Legislature exercises its right of investigating the matter of watering railroad stock, and it should exercise the same right in regard to the watering of telegraph stock. That the latter has been done to an enormous extent by the Western Union Company is notorious. This, as well as other abuses on the part of this company, demands legislative scrutiny and dissection, and the sooner our representatives at Albany set about the work the better, Am Ocean Yacht Race. By the cablé we had from London yeater- day a somewhat contradictory despatch in re- gard to the receft note of Mr. Douglass, the owner of the Sappho. The Lendom Aespatch is evidently given on the authority of Mr. Ash- bury, the owner of the Cambria. It informs us that Mr. Ashbury has recsived Mr. Doug- lass’ note ‘‘proposing an ocesa yackt race be- tween their respective vessels,” and that he “accepts the challenge.” ‘This is direct and ‘lear, ‘but the next sentence indicates a little confusion of ideas. Therein Mr. Ashbury sug- gests the course best fitted to test fairly ‘‘the seagoing qualities” of the yachts, His course is 4s follows :—‘‘From Cowes eastwardly through Spithead, around the Isle of Wight; thence westwardly to and around the Eddystone Lighthouse; thence southeasterly to Cher- bourg, France; thence northerly to Cowes, the place of beginning, through the Solent.” Now, we venture to wonder whether Mr. Ash- bury has an idea that this would be an ocean yacht race. By what stretch of land-loving fancy does he see an otean in the English Channel? And how does he propose to himself that ‘‘seagoing qualities” shall be tested in that land-locked water that never had even the name of sea from any one but the musty old writers on maritimelaw? Anocean yacht race between Cowes, the Bddystone and Cher- bourg! In what rivulets, then, do they stretch their races that they do not call ocean races? We take Mr. Ashbury, of course, according to what he says. He expressly accepts the challenge of Mr. Douglass as a challenge for “an ocean yacht race;” and he no doubt understood Mr, Douglass as proposing such a race. Wo understood the note in the same way, althongh in going over it we see that the proposition is not made in those very words. Mr. Douglass mentions that his yacht is “tigged for ocean ai cruising,” and Beg that, not eed to change her rig, he would like a race to suit her in that respect. Thie is a clear call to the ocean, with an implication of the owner's * thought that the Sappho will, perhaps, do better there than in such waters as those in which she was formerly beaten by the Cambria—the waters, namely, of that same English Channel. Mr. Douglase only says in regard to a course that he would like “an open one” and one ‘‘free from the influence of light land breezes, cur- rents,” &c.; yet in view of these expressions, which it seems to up ou bs to make very clear what the owner of the Sappho means, Mr. Ashbury accepts the challenge for a course to suit himself—a course all in the English Channel, and one on which the yachtmen will hardly be for an hour where they cannot hear the cocks crow from the shore. Is that a course free from the influence of land breezes ? Again, Mr. Ashbury in calling this an ocean race puts himself in an odd attitude with regard to the Dauntless. He refused an ocean race with the Dauntless because of her size— she was too big according to the Thames measurement for his boat. But the Sapphois bigger than the Dauntless, and before the sport- ing world Mr. Ashbury had estopped himself from accepting a challenge for the ocean from a boat of her tons—for, of course, we cannot for a moment suppose that Ke was influenced by the unsportsmanlike thought that, having once beaten the Sappho and knowing what she could do, he would not let size rule her out. Or can it be that English yaehtmen like to make what are called ‘‘soft matches,” and object to size only as against yachts of whose powers they know nothing? Ifthe race in question is accepted in this spirit there will be a great disappointment, for the Sappho will, to an absolute certainty, beat the Cambria in the very course proposed. She is a splendid sailer and will be a better one when this race occurs. We are glad that there is finally a chance for a race to come outof all this chatter, though, of course, we cannot assent that it is worthy the name of an ocean race. It may bea good piece of sport, nevertheless, and is sure to score for us an- other victory. Bad GaBig Prices—Bald Frauds. The gas companies in this city are growing worse and worse every day. They not only charge enormously for gas, but furnish a miser- able article. It was only the other night that the gaslights in our immense establishment came near going out altogether, obliging us to scour the city—and a Sunday night at that—for candles and other means of enabling our em- ployés to continue their vocations. An ap- plication at the office of the company afforded no satisfaction. It being Sunday night, nobody was there, or whoever was gave some stupid explanation about a breakage in the Croton water pipes necessitating the cutting off of the gas down town. These gas companies have also a practice of requiring the new occu- pants of buildings to liquidate arrearages due by their predecessors, or shutting off the gas. A monopoly makes the demand, and there is no redress. This and other practices of these companies are sheer frauds. The Legis- lature, now in session, should overhaul these companies, examine their charters, ascertain where they have overcharged or furnished an inferior article, where their works have created nuisances and otherwise forfeited their cor- porate privileges, and, unless ample security be given for better conduct in the future, annul their charters | altogether. E Tur ALABAMA CLAIMS AND Hk Fess Anovr Tnem.—Some of the newspapers are publish- ing thirty column articles or thereabouts of trash on the Alabama claims. Mr. Seward has filled volumes of despatches and Reverdy Johnson has expended the greatest amount of words and time on them, and all fo no purpose. The Senate will not, probably, and ought not to ratify the mixed up and unsatisfactory treaty made by Reverdy Johnson. The treaty is like the two Johnsons, Reverdy and Andy, a fail- ure, The Alabama claims presented a simple question of damage. The only way, to settle them was to keep them unmixed with anything else, to present the bill and to have it paid. ‘That is all there is in it. If England will not agree to this let the matter stand over. We can wait. The time will come when we can pay ourselves by taking Canada or by reprisals on the sea, and when we can enforce the British view of belligerent rights against Eng- land. All this fuss in the press and by Mr. Seward and Reverdy Johnson is labor in vain. The American people will never consent to any other settlement than the straightforward | one we mention, . parties, each with its last year’s State ticket, ———$—— The People’s Poste.’ Teleraph. | We publish to-day » coupte f #tticles show- ing the growing feeling in the w'% in, the very strongholds of the Western Unt.” mone poly, in favor of the government "8 P| cheap system of postal telegraphing. One ’ these articles is from a leading religious | in the West—the Christian Freeman—and in- dicates that the benefits expected to be de~ 4 rived from the proposed new system are not 4 to be confined to the commercial or to any other particular class of people, but that they will be conferred alike upon all—religious, financial, agricultural, mining, mercantile and social—both local and national. Another arti- cle is from the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, the re- publican organ in Representative Ashley’s 4 district. These expressions of popular opin- ‘ fon in the West, especially among . that { class recognized as influential in alk well governed communities—the reli- gious class—should warn Western members who cling to the skirts of the ‘‘pestiferous” Western Union monopolizing concern that if they wish to represent the views of their con- stituents faithfully they must abandon the ex- isting telegraphic close and grasping corpo- . ration and come out plumply and squarely for ] the people’s plan, under government authority and, for the present, under government assist- ance. If the bill be not passed at the present session it will assuredly be pressed at the next. If it fail then it will still be urged for- ward, gathering strength with every repulse, until finally the movement will become so pow- erful that its friends will demand from Congress all and more than they now respectfully . solicit. The experiment of cheap postal tele- d graphing must at least be tried. The people will never be quiet on the subject until it is. It is fortunate for the present Congress that it still has power to retrace some of its steps on this question and come forwardin favor of Mr. Washburne’s bill. The opportunity: should not be lost. de ‘A VaLuaste Hint To Gok Let them go and price a barrel of first rate flour, or flour of any brand, at any 43 one of the flour mills, wire 7 are aay art ae | flour, in this city or Brooklyn, it 2 with the prices at the retail stores and with the prices of bread charged by the bakers. Al . saving may thus be made by a combination of even a few consumers of five or six dollars, and even more, on a single barrel of flour, and in the bread which it will yield the value may be doubled, as compared with bakers’ prices. We like all our tradesmen to live; but fair play is a jewel, and extortion is bad. Co- operation, citizens, is the thing for cheap bread, cheap coal and all ‘the esséntials of life in this metropolitan district. “After the Mormons.” The Salt Lake Daily Telegraph of the 28th ult.—seven days from Salt Lake to New York !—treats the whole subject of the proposed, dispersion of the Mormons by Congressional action in a vein of pleasantry. It says :—~ “Grant is for peace. So are we. Wher Grant and the Mormons are for peace, why should not peace flow asa river? Grant is for peace. The Mormons are for peace.' England is for peace. Napoleon is for peace,! Bismarck is foe peace. The Paris Conference is for peace.” Peace, therefore, being the rule all over the world, the Telegraph invites strangers to visit Utah, eat strawberries and apples, and adds :—‘‘You need not have more than one wife, if you don’t want to. There's no compulsion about it.” Brigham Young, evidently does not seem disposed to get out of temper with the Washington Gentiles. He and his people are making too good a thing out of the Pacific Railroad and scientific ex~ plorations on government account to discuss the question of plurality of wives or any othet trifling domestic matter at this juncture. The fact is, the Mormons are a necessary elemen# in the successful progress westward of oun’ commercial empire, and if they are disposed to: laugh at the tricks of Washington politicians, pray let them do so to their hearts’ content. VINNig REAM, THE Soutrrress. —We can- not imagine why anybody but Mrs. Swisshelm should oppose the appropriation voted by Con- gress to Miss Vinnie Ream for a statue of the late President Lincoln. Mrs. Swisshelm may enviously complain that Senators are sweet upon Miss Vinnie; but if they are charmed by this fascinating young lady is it notan evi- dence of good taste on their part and of an en- cotraging interest in the fine arts? Why not cease abusing Miss Vinnie Ream for being the object of a complimentary vote for which Con< gress alone is responsible? Why not let this promising artist peacefully enjoy the opportu- nity extended to her for studying art at Rome and for developing the genius which she is said to possess ? ‘Tne Contest iy Connzotiout.—The two are now in the field in Connecticut on their principles for 1869 and the coming April elec- tion. The only sharply defined issue between them is that on suffrage, the republicans favoring the constitutional amendment for establishing impartial suffrage under the power of Congress, and the democrats stand- ing out in favor of State sovereignty over this question. Upon this issue in Connecticut we may expect a lively contest and a close vote. Generosity or Lire Insurance Com- PaNtEs.—Who will tell us how the life insn- rance companies can afford to pay twenty-five per cent commission to agents and drummers ? Fair Play for Erie. On Monday last the brokers struck Erie Rails way stocks from the list which is daily called at the Exchange. The offence is the refusal of the directors to register the stock at some banking house or trust company. The direct- ors maintain their right to transact their busi- ness without the supervision which the brokera would impose, and for their refusal the dealers in Erie are thrust out upon the sidewalk. Whatever the brokers may think of their action the public will regard it as groat inconsistency and injustice. There are a dozen other stocks on the list which déserve ostracism a great deal more than Brie, which, after furnishing the brokers with hundreds of thousands of dollars in the way of commissions, is thus un~ gratefully turned adrift, There are worse men in Wall street than Mr. James Fisk, Jr., and Mr, Jay Gould, ‘The latter isa railway ge- nius and comprehends the magnificent future