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"6 ee ©“ NEW YORK HKRALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEKT. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNE'T. PROPBIETOR All pee eee news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorE HeEratp. p-ainst Baez, St. Thomas. The project of annexation to the United States is anxiously watched by the people, The yacht Hen- Tietta arrived on the 24th of January and sailed again for St. Croix. Venezuela. ‘The vomito was still prevalent at Caracas. Ru- perto Monagas is the popular choice for President, + Congress. In the Senate yesterday it was agreed to hold even- ing sessions for tue disposal of the constitutional amendment, The resoiution to pay Southern Sena- torg from the first session was taken up, but pending debate upon it the morning hour expired, and the proposed constitutional amendment relative to suffrage came up a8 unfinished business, Mr. Sumner offered a@ substitute undér the same provisions as the proposed amend- men}, the difference being that Mr. Sumner proposes to make the measure an act of Congress instead of a tutional amendment to be accepted by tne States, He advocated his measure in a long speech and yas followed by Mr. Vickers in opposition, The debate was continued in the evening session until the Senate adjourned, In the House numerous private bills were reported fromthe Military Committee. A resolution for the discharge of Scannell, the New York witneas who is held for the payment of the costs of his arrest, waa offerai by Mr, Brooks, who madea somewhat lengthy speech on the subject, being interrupted frequently by facetious remarks from opposition members. ‘The resolution was finally laid on the table, by 118 to 43 votes, four republicans voting with the democrats. ‘The Atmy Appropriation bill waa discussed in Com- mitteeof the Whole, and after an evening session, devote to debate on financial matters, the House adjourned. The Legislature. In the State Senate yesterday a petition was pre- sented asking for increased salaries for judges of the Court of Appeals, Bills were introduced relative to the Young Men’s Christian Association of this city; for tae relief of a railruad company and reiative to the eppotntment of a Supreme,Court reporter. The Albany Basin bill was referred back, after which the Senate adjourned until Monday. In the Assembly a communication from the Super- intendent of the Bank Department was presented. Bills were passed relating to the Mohawk River Rail- road and to the collection of taxes. Bills were in- troduced authorizing the construction of railroads in Kings and Queens counties; appointing a com- mission of seven persons to take charge of the lands adjacent to the proposed new river; relative to appeals from judgments; incorporating street rall- road companies for this city, and regulating rail- road fares. The Assembly then adjourned until Mondsy evening. Miscellaneous. A personal difficulty is reported to have arisen in Washington between an aspirant for the speaker- ship of the House and two other members. A belli. cose lester was recetved by the former from one of the latter the other day, but so far no blood has been shed and probably peace will prevail. A news- Paper man is reported to have stirred up all the trouble. The jury in the Harrison-Vreeland breach of prom- ise case, in Hudson county, N. J., after being charged by Judge Bedle yesterday that a promise of mar- riage may be implied from intimate social relations between the parties, whether theJcontract was ex- pressly entered into or not, retired for fifteen min- utes and returned with a verdict for the plainti: of $5,000. The lady fixed her damages originally at $40,000, A lady in Baltimore lost ten $1,000 bills on Thurs day while going from Gay and Fayette to Giimor and Baltimore streets in a car. Judge Underwood, of Virginia, has acknowledged the service of the writ of prohibition issued by the Supreme Court, and Friday next bas been set for hearing the cause. A passenger train ran off the track at Beach Haven, Pa, yesterday, and many persons were seriously, although not fatally, injured. Galusha A. Grow was severely burned. No persons were killed by the falling of the roof of St. Patrick’s Hall in Montreal on Wednesday night, although thirty persons were injured. A violent snow storm has prevatled in Canada for two days past and the railroads leading to Montreal are blocked up. In the County Court at Trenton,'N. J., yesterday, Robert McCary, convicted of cruelly whipping his son, was sentenced to pay a fine of twenty dollars, The City. General Grant remained at his hotel very quietly yesterday until about noon, when he made a shop- ping tour through Broadway. He partook of dinner at Mr. Moses H, Grinnell’s, At a general meeting of the New York Yacht Club last evening an election for oMicera took place and ‘the 10th of June was Axed as the day for the annual regatta. Several trial trips were made yesterday on the Elevated Railway on Greenwich street. The line is completed only from the Batsery to Cortlandt street, and that distance was run iy @ litue over three minutes time. So far tt is believed to be a practical success. The sacrament of confirmation was administered on Thursday to about 130 inmates of the Almshouse and hospttais on Blackwell’s Island by Archbishop McCloskey. In the Supreme Court, Chambers, Judge Ingraham rendered a decision yesterday in the Centrai Rail- road case, dissolving the injunction in the first and second orders and continuing the third, which re- strains the payment of dividends on the interest certificates issued by Commodore Vanderbilt. The latter's “new scrip,” as it is called, 1s declared vaiue- less by the Jadge in his opinion, whitch was given at length. The Pacific Railroad alleged embezzlement case came up again yesterday before Justice Dowling at the Tombs. The affidavit of Frederick A. Goodall, one of the parties implicated, was read. It con- fesses to his and the other defendants’ connection with the affair. For making the aMfdavit he stated he was promised immunity from arrest or prose- cution in the matter. Objections were made to receiving the affidavit, but Justice Dowling ordered it to be read, and then the case was adjourned until this morning. In the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, the case of Cam- den C. Pike against the Erie Railway Company, to recover $100,000 for damages received at the accident at Carr’s Rock m April last, was tried and given to the jury. Defendants sought to make a statute of Pennsylvania, limiting damages in such cases to $3,000, avail them in this, but the Court ruled it out. The stock market yesterday was irreguiar and ex- cited in consequence of the rendering of the opinion in the Jencks-Vanderbilt tnjunction suit. The street was greatly in the dark as to the etfect upon the price of New York Central stock. Gold finally closed at 138. Prominent Arrivals in the City, Rev. Dr. Peabody, President of Harvard College; W. H. Harrison and G. Middleton, of Philadelphia, and W. Trumbull, of Montana, are at the Hoffman House, Senator E. D. 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New York, Saturday, February 6, 1869. 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 esheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the HzeRatp establish- ment. Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the HERALD office, are requested to re- turn the same, with proof that they were obtained from here direct, and have their money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be sold to readers of the Hrra.p. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Dairy Heraup 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 Heraxp at the same price it is furnished in the city. THS NEWS. Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated February 5. ‘The Powers which took part in the conference of ‘the Turco-Greece dispute have resolved to give the Hellenic government a brief time to decide on the proposals submitted. King George is busy in form- ing a new Cabinet, and though he experiences great difficulty he hopes to be abie to accomplish his pur- pose. Large numbers of the Greek people were op- Posed to the conference. Marquis de Moustier, late Minister of French Foreign Affairs, died yesterday in Paris. De- spatches from Algeria announce that the insurrec- tion has been suppressed. Preparations for the opening of Parliament are nearly complete. The heaith of Lord Clarendon is in such a condition that it is expected he will shortly retire from the Foreign Office. There was a large meeting in London on Thursday in favor of granting an amnesty to Fenian prisoners. General Espartero refuses to accept the seat in the Spanish Cortes to which he was elected. A license has been granted for the erection of a Jewish syna- gogue in Madrid, Mexico. Intelligence from Mexico by the Cuva cable re- ports a rowin the Mexican Congress on the 15th ult. owing to a misunderstanding of 4pariiamentary rules. The H#RALD correspond ports that General Cauto, the murderer of General Patoni, had escaped from prison. A letter written by Sefior Altimirante, affecting American interests, has fallen into the hands of an American and wiil be made public, Benitez, the assassin, has been shot, Porfiro Diaz has been elected Governor of Michoacan. Colombia. Our Panama letter is dated January 28. The gov- ernment had accepted the proposal of the Panama merchants to pay $60,000, instead of $100,000, as a commercial tax. It is probable they will not be so lenient with the Aspinwall merchants. A riot oc- curred on the 22d be.ween some satlors of the United States ship Tallapoosa and about 200 Jamaica ne- groes, in which one of the sailors was pounded to death with an empty bottle. Bolivia. On the 17th of December @ serious revolution broke out in the capital of Bolivia, Me garejo, the President, being absent at the time with his army. ‘The cause of the revolt was the recent treaty limit with Brazil and the summary execution of one Santos, a prominent merchant of La Paz, who boldly denounced it. Melgarejo has already despatched troops against the revolutionists and declared all guarantees suspended. A fight between the hostile forces occurred at Potosi and anotherjat Torata, the government troops being successful in both in- stances. Melgarejo in person was marching against the combined rebel forces at Cochabamba, but the revolutionists were dally receiving reinforcements, and the result fs considered very doubtful. Chile. . Our Valparaiso letter is dated January 3. ‘ihe re- publis was quiet, with the exception of the Indian troubles, the savages in the south continuing to make their sudden raids upon isolated towns. and villages. ‘The accusation against the Supreme Court has dwindled to a matter of no importence. Cuba, Telegraphic despate! state that the Havana Diario claims that General Aranjo, the revolutionary chief, was assassinated by order of General Quesada. St. Domingo, Another revolution is reported. The town of Italy, are at the Astor House. Colonel J. Knox, of Washington; General T. 8, Fullerton, of St. Louis; Governor Burnside, of Rhode Island, and Marshal Jewell, of Hartford, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Clements, of the United States Army; Judge H. O. Goodrich, of St. Louis, and Dr. Camp- bell, of Buffalo, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Colonel G. Davis and Captain G. J. Burch, of Ala- bama; G. ©. Wilste, of the United States Navy; Colo- nei Ira Tripp, of Cincinnati, and Colonel J. N. Janes, of lilinols, are at the Westmoreland Hotel. Captain J. Ramsay and Liewtenant R. J. Stoneall, of the United States Navy, and E. R. Hamilton, of Ohio, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Due Process or Law, &0.—The authority of Congress over persons appears to be supreme, if we may judge by such cases as that of Scan- nel; and this authority must obviously be ex- ercised at the will of a political majority. What, then, becomes of all our guarantees of personal liberty ‘toe ‘a the province of the East, is in open revolt | The Politicians Trying to Stir Up Troubles im the South, In the midst of gratifying reports of return- ing prosperity to the South, covering the pro- gress of internal improvements, the increase of shipping in the maritime ports, the extent of land planted, the introduction of a valuable class of immigrants, together with the influx of capital from the North, the rise in the value of Southern securities and in the general development of the resources of the country, we begin to discern a speck of trouble of a political character making its appearance upon this otherwise peaceful horizon. The meddle- some politicians are again at work. The fire- eaters are again becoming troublesome and obstructing the onward tide of Southern pros- perity. In Virginia the ‘‘no surrender” imprac- ticables, led by such irrepressible spitfires as Henry A. Wise, are fighting the conservatives who are battling for a speedy restoration of the State to its former place in the Union, A “third party” movement in Alabama is arous- ing the old asperities of partisans, and the clangor of brazen political trumpets is heard throughout the State. In Georgia the muddle among the radicals themselves in regard to the proprietorship of the money bags, united with the rosy colored pictures given in the fire-eating papers about ‘‘cotton again king,” “cotton Wetter than gold,” the ‘North com- pelled to borrow from the South,” and so on to the end of the gasconading chapter, are tickling the vanity of the young cockspurs who have passed the ordeal of pan- talettes and entered the arena of active life since the surrender of Lee, and making them actually look upon another fight with the North as inevitable, if not desirable, with a result entirely different from that which followed the last struggle at arms. This is all nonsense—the height of absurdity. It is ridiculous for the Southern papers and orators to attempt to fire the Southern heart anew; and those who are guilty of committing these acts of rashness and folly should be treated as the South’s worst foes—the enemies of her future opulence and power. What the South has to do now is to study how to de- velop Her own resources, how to improve her reputation in the minds of the people of the Old World and of the North, and to assure those who choose to go and settle upon her soil, till her fields, work her mines, put her immense water power into successful use, that they will be cordially welcomed and protected in their persons and property. All the vaporing of old party hacks like Toombs, Wise, Marma- duke Johnson, John Forsyth and the-rest will scarcely affect the political status of the South an iota at this time. On the contrary, all they attempt will work to the damage of the very ends they, with an eye to immediate pop- ularity, affect to aim at. When General Grant assumes the reins of government the South will soon understand that he does not mean to “make confusion worse confounded” by essay- ing the task of reconstructing reconstruction. The work of the past three years will not be gone over again, with the prospect that it may continue four years longer and end nowhere. Grant will not seize the helm of the ship of State with the con- stitutional scruples of Andy Johnson. He will grasp it with a firm hand. He will not have among his crew troublesome spirits who are disposed to mutiny at every unfavorable tide or unpropitious gale. In the course of his political voyage Grant will circumnavigate the sea of troubles that have so long disturbed the South, and smooth it by pouring oil where oil is needed, and so disposing of the rocks and quicksands as to make them harmless for the true navigator ever after. All Southern fire- eating buccaneers must stand aside. In some important particulars we believe the South will be agreeably disappointed in Grant, and it should not inaugurate his ad- ministration by kicking up a fuss in advance. Nor will Grant get into an unnecessary fight with Congress upon the question of Southern reconstruction. Unconditional negro suffrage is what the white population of the South are apprehending. General Grant may not be called upon either to oppose or approve it. It may be taken out of his hands alto- gether. There is ample reason to doubt whether the proposed amendment to the constitution called the fifteenth article, providing for indis- criminate suffrage—niggers, Chinese, coolies, digger Indians and all the rest of the ballot- forsaken portion of creation—will be adopted by the required constitutional majority—three- fourths of all the States, The West does not seem disposed to bow down to it. Witness the fiasco of the Inauguration Ball, where, be- cause it was placarded by Western men, “No niggers admitted,” some Eastern nigger worshippers split off and would have nothing to do with the affair. The West has ineffaee- able prejudices against negro equality. United with the South and such of the Northern States as are opposed to negro equality the majority necessary to adopt the fifteenth amendment cannot be secured. And upon question of negro equality or no negro equality placed distinctly before the whole people we are firm in our convic- tion that the affirmative would be voted down by an overwhelming majority. The sentiment of our population is undoubtedly in favor of still reserving to the several States those rights affecting social and domestic rela- tions which but few despotic Powers on earth have succeeded in usurping and controlling against the will of the people. Therefore let the South stick to its proper vocation at this time—work hard, raise good crops, be eco- nomical, save money, maintain law and order, and let the mischief-making politicians ali go to—where they belong. Sr. Louts Jzatous or New York Justice.— The St. Louis Democrat, commenting upon the conviction and sentence of Blaisdell and Eckel in this city for whiskey frauds, says:—‘How on earth it happened that these persons were convicted we cannot guess. Here, in St. Louis, not long ago, we had cases of the same character, presented and argued with great ability by General Noble, and sustained by a mass of evidence which, to a reader, seemed about as strong as that in the New York cases. But nobody was surprised that the prosecu- tion failed in St, Louis, The wonder is that it succeeded in New York.” Our Western friends will still, we hope, have further cause to won- der at similar examples yet to be made in this city. Justice is moving in New York, and is on the high road after crime with velocipede speed. Spain—The Carlist Rising in Catalonia. Tho Relew of GuimecOer Jomenl Av] Muiter Weseans ta notin o—What is Acable telegram informs us that the Car- lists have risen in Catalonia. We do not im- agine that there is any very strong feeling in Spain in favor of restoring the elder branch of the Spanish Bourbons. Cabrera, we know, still lives, and in spite of the hopelessness of the cause still hopes and works in the interest of the heir of Don Carlos. Cabrera, however, is little likely ever to see the legitimist cause triumphant. In itself it is not strong, and it is doubtful if the leadership of Cabrera can in any material sense contribute to its prosperity. Its main hope consists in an alliance with the Church; but the Church for the present is in alliance with the democrats, or liberal mo- narchists, The liberal monarchists, or demo- cratic royalists, as they are sometimes named, are the masters of the situation. They are largely in sympathy with the provisional gov- ernment. Who is to be the future King of Spain is a question which few would like to answer positively, There are four probable candidates—the Prince of the Asturias, Don Ferdinand of Portugal, the Duke de Montpen- sier, and Prince Amadeus, Duke of Aosta, the second son of Victor Emanuel. The one popular cry of the revolution has been “Down with the Bourbons.” This cry, in our opinion, is fatal at once to the hopes of the Count de Montemolin, she Prince of the Asturias and the Duke de Montpensier. That the son and heir of Isabella has friends no one can doubt; but the provisional govern- ment will not nominate him, and the Spanish people can have no desire for another re- gency. The Duke de Montpensier is not with- out a chance; but he is the one candidate whom Napoleon would least willingly see on the Spanish throne; and it is doubtful if Spain, although in a matter of this sort she is a little impatient of dictation, will be so bold as to oppose the Emperor’s wishes. Don Ferdinand would, perhaps, be the best man that could be selected. He is an able ruler. His next heir is sovereign of Portugnl, and the reunion of the peninsula would be a natural consequence in time. It is extremely doubt- ful, however, whether Don Ferdinand would again trouble himself with the cares of State; and it is quite certain that he is not a man to the taste of the members of the provisional government. The last candidate we named was the Duke of Aosta. Public opinion is gradually settling down on him. He is a young man of twenty- five years, of fair ability, has the passionate will of his family, is a good Catholic, but of liberal sentiment, and has already a son and heir. He is generally supposed to be the can- didate of Napoleon; and it is strange to observe that he is the legal heir under the treaty which finally gave the Spanish throne to the Bourbons. According to that treaty, failing the Bourbons, the throne of Spain should go to the house of Savoy. Thé Bour- bons, of course, have not failed in the sense intended by the treaty; but the fact will have some influence with a people who are not without historic pride. Time will soon settle the question. Mave Happy Taeresy—The office-holders, office-seekers and all the lion worshippers and tuft-hunters at Washington, together with the speculators, concerned in the joint stock enter- prise of getting up in the new wing of the Treasury building a grand inauguration ball. They have been made happy with the intima- tion that General Grant has signified his inten- tion to be present. We hear nothing of a ball in honor of the retiring Andy Johnson. Nor is it the custom in Washington to pay much attention to the outgoing President. John Tyler, on his departure from the White House, was too late for the steamboat. His time was out, and the captain left him whipping down to the dock, At Washington, as elsewhere, they worship not the setting but the rising sun. Important Disovsston,—The Fruit Growers’ Club, which we suspect is one of the many forms “‘the Farmers’ Club” can assume at will, argued the other day the great question whether pumpkins and squashes are vegeta- bles or berries. If they are berries they are fruit, and belong to the Fruit Growers’ Club; but if vegetables they belong to the Farmers’ Club, and these bodies, each anxious to mind its own business caanot move till the question is determined. Hirt Tae as Harp as You Like, Taey Have No Frienvs.—There is, then, some chance for justice against the gas companies, They may do what they please in some respects, give us gas or not and make their bills as big as double-barrelled arithmetics will permit ; but if they set fire to our houses we can make them pay. Thus a gas man went into the cellar to view the meter, lighted a match, then threw the match down and so set fire to the house. Verdict against the com- pany for $480. The companies, therefore, do not own all our houses nor all our courts, Srrmine Att Rounp THE Crrote.—The printers are at it; so are the sailors; so are the tailors, and now the plasterers threaten to strike, too, The plasterers earn six dollars a day—eight hours’ labor—and they think that six isa bad number in that relation. They fancy the statement would be better if it were eight dollars for eight hours. They have an eye to symmetry. Truly, these mechanical occupations are not bad in the year of grace 1869! An Exauisn Inga or AN Oozan Race.— Mr. Ashbury’s proposition for ‘‘an ocean race” astonishes everybody. We might as well make a race up the Sound to Montauk Point or Cape Cod and call it anocean race. If we call these ocean races what shall we call the race across the Atlantic ? OrriciaL Reooenrrion oF THe Virtvrs.— Sometimes a pretty good idea is put forth in the Courts. Thus Judge Sutherland refused to hear a case that was based on the purchase of an official position, and refused it for the reason that such purchase was contrary to pub- lic morality. If there is not much else good in the courts there are good traditions, WAntep For THE Portok—A Man Wituna To Be INSPECTOR AND Fit ror THR PLAace.— We recommend the authorities to apply to Sing Sing. The prisoners there seem to know more about the police business than anybody else, and if the Commissioners will take a man for five or ten years’ apprenticeship in that insti- tution it may be a great helo to them, thoriticeeSeme Wholesome Examples. * The reign of crime and criminals in this city of all kinds and degrees, the alarm which prevails among our peaceable citizens touch- ing the insecurity of their lives and property, the rumors of movements afoot looking to the last resort of a vigilance committee, we are glad to hear have at length made some impres- sion upon our responsible city authorities. We are pleased to hear that Mayor Hall and the District Attorney have resolved that something. shall be done to bring down these law-defying elements of ruffianiam under the terrors of the law, and are still ‘more pleased to see, in behalf of law and order, that our criminal courts are beginning to act promptly and decisively in making some wholesome examples of con- victed felons. Judge Barnard on Thursday last, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, made a number of such examples, The first was the case of George Jones, ‘‘the belligerent burglar,” con- victed in reference to his unlucky Bond street adventure, She Judge, in passing sentence, acquitted the prisoner of the charge of attempting to shoot the officer, but said it had become “necessary for the courts to deal rigorously and promptly with those convicted of crime in this city, in order to insure protection greater than at present exists for good citizens.” And. so Jones was sent up to Sing Sing for twenty years, The next case was that of James McNamee, convicted of robbery in the first degree ; sent up for ten years. Next camea trio of safe blowers, convicted and sent up for two years and six months each. Next came two house robbers, pleading guilty of grand larceny ; sentenced for five years. These, we say, are good and wholesome examples of justice, and we have some more. Next, before Recorder Hackett, we have the ' case of the alleged Michigan murderer, Boyle, alias Francis, alias Peyton, a very desperate and daring ruffian, convicted on two indictments here, and sentenced upon each for twenty years, making for him a term of forty years in Sing Sing. The Recorder next ticketed for the same destination three bonded warehouse burglars for five years each, and another burglar for ten years. All these cases in both courts were on Thursday last disposed of as above detailed, and other cases have followed. This is the way to clear the docket and to clear the streets and station houses of these murderers, burglars and highway robbers. We have had frequent occasions heretofore to commend the promptitude and decisive action of Judge Barnard in these matters. There is a prospect now that bis example will be more generally adopted than in times past by our various other criminal judges. If we could get the same rule systematically enforced by all our police magistrates we should soon have a new order of things. Our police courts, however, are too much inclined to deal tenderly with rogues and rowdies; and there have been heretofore too many slips between the indict- ment and the trial, and between the sentence and Sing Sing, and too many benevolent inter- positions in the way of executive pardons. We want offenders against life and property not only caught, tried, convicted and sen- tenced, but punished as the law directs, The responsible democratic party of this city must look to this or they will be displaced. Life and property in New York ought to be as safe as in London or Paris, but the existing state of things here is becoming the scandal of the civilized world. Postal TELEGRAPH OPERATIONS IN ENG- LAND.—We give an extract from a London magazine showing the gradual absorption of the matériel of the various private telegraph companies in England by the government, and predicting that by the middle of the year the telegraph will have passed into the hands of the Postmaster General for the carrying out from that time the telegraphic service of the country by the Post Office Department. While England is thus pressing forward in the march of telegraphic reform it is folly for this country to remain idle. Let us try, at least, the experiment of postal telegraphing at the earliest practicable moment. The people expect this of the present Congress. Lyp1a THompson’s Hain.—Lydia says her hair is yellow and that she will die with it so. There is nothing like standing by one’s colors in every extremity; but we hope that Lydia will change her mind in regard todying. Why does she propose to die? Why, Lydia, why, Art so resolved thus suddenly to die? Horace had some Roman sweethearts that are not dead yet, and they owe their immortality to their yellow hair. Why, then, should not Lydia be immortal, too, and be asked in ages to come, like Pyrrha, Cut fiavam rel Stuplex mundittis? Lire Insurance ComPantes.—In another column will be found a communication from Mr. Sheppard Homans, Actuary of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of this city. We agree with Mr. Homans that there are compa- nies whose stability is unquestioned and which could stand any reasonable amount of mortality, Our purpose has simply been to warn the people against bogus concerns of small calibre, whose only object seems to be to fatten upon the public credulity. Menpiva Tem Manners.—On Thursday the House asserted its dignity in calling before it for rebuke a member who had offended by indecorous words, We are glad to see the House thus sensitive as to good manners, We hope the improvement is real, and that the Territorial member was not put down because of his comparative insignificance. We shall watch to see if the same rule applies to big and little. Boxum Nomex, Bonum Omen.—On Thurs- day the Aldermen became indignant about the filthy state of the streets and authorized an inquiry, committing this inquiry to persons bearing the names of Cuddy, O’Brien and McGrath. The streets will be cleaned now. Goop Eygrs.—Some of the police function- aries at the headquarters in Mulberry street saw the other night some movements looking to a general assault on their citadel and the rescue of a murderer. We wish those function- aries had always equally good eyes for the movements of rownes phen's, St. Colimba'sy a St. Lawrence, Yorkville; Nicholas, St. Rose, He Doing? There are all kinds of rumors about the movements of Rosecrans in Mexico. He ap- pears to be getting up another White Sulphur Springs excitement. First, we hear of certain railroad jobs which he is eupposed to be pushing through the Mexican Congress; next, an effort or two towards the restoration of the old Church party to power; next, the Mexican papers denounce him for hinting at annexation to the United States, and accuse President Johnson of backing him up. We can assure the Mexicans that they need have no fear about annexation for a few months yet, and that Rosecrans is simply making himself ridicu- lous in agitating the question. He is not the man for United States Minister to that country, and his follies there prove this. Mexico isa problem which General Grant will settle at the proper moment and in the most efficacious manner; for Mexico is full of a future too closely connected with the United States—or rather that grand, progressive march of civil- ization called the United States—for us to let her go on in the track of revolution and jeopard our Southwestern interests. Let Rose- crans be patient for a time, for there is soon to be a complete overturning of all the foreign and home appointments, wherein men will come to the front representing the new party of reform, economy and public good, which has General Grant at its head. Riwiovtzep Ovr oF A MargiaGE.—The Toledo Blade states that an old farmer of seventy in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, with a family of grown up children, became smitten with a damsel of sixteen and wanted to marry her. His children put him into a lunatic asylum as insane, from which he was glad to emerge upon giving a promise to an Ohio judge that he ‘‘didn’t want to marry anybody, any how.” He was fairly ridiculed and lunacied out of his passion. Such cases are managed differently in New Jersey. There a suit for breach of promise, with damages laid at forty thousand dollars, would have been immediately com- menced by the disconsolate fair one and the world of gossip set on tiptoe of excitement at the developments as the case progressed. Tue New York Centrar'Sorw Drvipenp.— Judge Ingraham yesterday rendered a very elaborate decision in the injunction suit of Jencks vs. Vanderbilt, forbidding the pay- ment of a cash dividend upon the scrip. Wall street is perfectly puzzled about it, and don’t know whether to ‘‘go long” of Central or sell it “short.” The right place to take the diffi- culty to is Albany. The ‘‘railroad ring” there will adjust it at once. Only those who go “long” of cash to the capital will be very likely to return ‘‘short” of it. Nor Satisrrep.—The editor of the Zanes- ville'(Ohio) Reporter says his ‘last paper was not printed to his satisfaction.” It is so with a good many papers that don’t pay. But the Zanesville editor is not so badly off asa contemporary further West, who upona holiday announced ‘‘no paper will be issued from this office to-morrow, nor any other day.” “A Croup No Biager Tuan a Man’s Hanp.”"—The Cincinnati Commercial thinks Grant’s second visit to New York, within a month of his inauguration, portentous of evil to the radical party. It regards his presence here as ‘fa cloud no bigger than a man’s hand.” Don’t be alarmed. It is only a litile Western lightning, to be followed by peals of New York thunder. Tre Rapioat Conotvsron.—“‘His obliga- tions as a man of honor to the republican party.” This is the point to which the radicals have whittled down Grant and the Cabinet question. Very well. Grant will no doubt keep his obligations as a man of honor; but he may have his own idea as to the power to whom obligation is due, and he may think that duty to the country stands quite as high as party fealty. ANOTHER OPERATION OF THE Rinc.—There is to be an annular eclipse of the sun this month, Even our sunlight is not safe, and the very heavens, as seen from tiis city on Thursday night, have taken to wearing the green. Waat Witt, Tary Do wirn Hin ?—It is on oath before a Congressional committee that a Bohemian who is at once a Congressional functionary and a correspondent for two pa- pers made a direct proposition to exercise an influence on Congressional action in the Alaska business fora sum of money. Congress has thus apparently caught one fellow. What then? THE SEASON OF LENT. On Wednesday next the penitential season of Lent will commence, and from present appearances it is safe to assert that, notwithstanding the extensive reign of festivity during the past month or two in the metropoila, the divine mysteries commemorated by the forty days of lent will be honored with more fervor this year than they have in years past. Arch- bishop McCloskey, through his chaplain, the Rey, Father McInerny, has issued for the Archdiocese of New fork the following:— 1. All.the week days of Lent, from Ash W. 5 3 of Leni sh Wednesday till Raster Sunday, are fast di meal, with allowance ofa moderase toltat on tn ‘the evening. 2. The precept of fasting implies also that of absti- nence from the use of flesh meat. But, by dispensa- the use of flesh meat is allowed in this dhovese at the erg meal on Mondays, Tuesd and Taaeas Lent, with the exception of Holy 3. There is neither fast nor abstinence to be ob- served on Sundays of Lent. 4. It is not allowed to use fish with flesh meat at the same meai on week days of Lent. 6, There is De Ngo on to use eggs, butter or vided the rules of quantity prescribed by complied with. A. Lard mey be used in preparing fish, vegetables, 0 7. The Church excuses from the obligation of fasting but not of abstinence from flesh meat, except in special cases of sickness or the like) the following cl Sie aeaan the Infirm; second, those whose aut are of an exhausting or laborious character; third, persons who are attaining their growth; fourth, women in pregnancy or nursing in- t4; fifth, those who are enfeedled by old age. eins, Bult regione Keren during Lent {n the e cl commence each evening at half-past seven o’cl HM bes 5) On Monday, in the Church of the Nativity, of the Assumption (German), St. Michael's, and ‘St. An- ). On Tuesday, in St. James’, St, Josoph’s, St. Vin- cent de Paul's (French), St. John’ the. kvangeilsua Holy Cross, Si bel and Immaculate Concep- “se by tn Ad : wa, Inesdays, in St. Peter's, Most toly Re- deemer (German), St. Francis Assisiam (Germany, St. Francis Xavier's, St, Ann's, Anuunelation, Man- hattanville; St. Paul's, Ninth avenue and Fifty-ninth a resa’s and st. John Lg (German), On Thurgd: in Cathedral, St. Andrew’s, St, Ste- St avin 7 St. Alphonsus oly Innocents, Transfiguration, St, Paul's, On Friday, in St, Mary’ Harlem; St. Bontface’s (derman), St. Vi | se i: me! ), incent Ferrer, the Bpiphany, Holy Name of

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