The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1869, Page 6

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P. for Dublin, has been anseated, The French Tament has prousised to pay oue Sostalment oF & jexican debt. ‘The draft of Ure new constitution to be presented to the Cortes of Spain abolishes slavery totally. The prelates recently elected to the Cortes are for- bidden by the Pope to take their seats, ‘The new Greek Ministry has proved a fatiure and the former Prime Minister is recalled. La Cuba, Uttle girl of fourteen, named Kilen Doyle, yesterday confessed w the weendiary attempt and aiso to hav- tug made several others withiu afshort time. ‘The publtc dept statement for the 1st of February has just deen issued, 1! shows an increase since the ‘lat of January, of $15,498,457. Several well known Fenians of Montreal are leay- sw YORK HERALD, was, however, i | empire and a new and richer era. We do not make the mistake which is too often made—we do not cut off the Reformation forces and thelr results from the history of one continuons cause. The Reformation was but an episode in the history of Western Christianity. Unlimited tug Canada for the United States, fearing, it is said, | Power is good ; but unlimited power is danger- despatches must be addressed New Yorw | the consequences of the revelations that may be made by Whelan. Another building has been crushed in by weight of snow on the roof in Montreal. The snow is now belng cieaned off the roofs in all directions, ous, Unlimited power had become the property of the Church, and was already, un- consciously to those who put it forth, working the Chureh’s ruin. The Reformation came in “4 Mr. Galushs A, Grow’s injuries by the railroad | time to save the Church, or’ rather to save Rejected communications will not be re- | accident in Pennaylyanis are not very serious, although he mude a narrow escape, being near the stove when it broke from its fastenings, setting the caron fire and barning the clothes oearly off his Christianity; for Christianity is, after all, « something separable from churches. The Reformation is generally supposed by good Catholics and good Protestants alike to have body. ‘The Missouri Legislature propose next week to dis- | peen 4 disturbing and, in some respects, de- cuss a bill submitting the question of woman suf- | {sage to the people as a State constitutional amend- ment. The Texas Constitutional Convention under the Reconstruction laws is still in session. On the éth | finitely better than tame uniformity. dust. they passed an ordinance providing for an elec- tion of Congressional and State oMeers on the Orst Monday in July, when the question of accepting the proposed constitution will be voted upon. A Chinaman recently sailed in the steamer Japan for Ching aftar victimizing Sam Francisco merchants Out of about $18,000, A telegraphic dispatch to se- cure ns arrest on landing has been telegraphed to Hong Koug by way of Ceylon. The City. The bark Anteriea, Captain Kasaer, arrived in this port yesterday from Bremen, after a peril- ous voyage, seventy-live days in duration. structive revolution. It broke up the idea of unity; but revolution is better than death, and vital difference of opinion is in- For well nigh ten centuries the world had been all but dead. The Reformation checked the progress of decay. To the force which has ever since been inseparable from Reformation principles and to the new life which reformers infused into Catholicism we owe all the prominent characteristics of modern Christiantty, or, rather, of modern civilization. We know uothing of isms. We wish only to speak of Christianity, After eighteen, well nigh nineteen, hundred years On tlie way she rescued ubout forty pas- | (hristianity—that same Christianity which sengers belonging to the wrecked bark Cuthbert, and sip Hibernia (not the steawsialp Hibernia, as reported by the London Shipping Gazette), and, wing short of provisions, tanded them | controlling force of modern civilization. at Fayal. The exantivation im the Pacific Ratlroad tfands was continued before Justice Dowling yesterday. Bail for three of the parties was fixed at $10,009 each, and for Goocall at $5,000, but in the absence of sure- tles they were again remanded, The Brooklyn jury tn the case of Camden C. Dike, who sues the Erie Railroad for damages sustamed in his person by the aceident at Can’s Rock, re- turned a verdict yesterday in his favor, placing the damages at $35,000. Eluathan L. Sanderson also re- ceived an award of $5,000 damages in his awit against the Sunday Mercury for libel. Joseph Roll and Frederick Kaden, convicted of arson in the third degrgo, were sentenced by itecord- et Hackett to ten years each in the State Prison, The stock market yesterday was again trregniar and excited in col uence of a “break” in Pacitic Mat!. Gold fuctuated between 135 and 13577, ana finally closed at 1553j. ~ made subject the will and the intellect of imperial Rome—not only lives, but lives as the The acorn has already become an oak; the little cloud, like a man’s hand, bas all but covered the heavens; the stone cut from the mountain not ouly rolls, but isirresistible. The religion of Jesus has often suffered—suffered from foes without, suffered from would-be friends with- in—but all opposttion, all disturbance, all re- sistance has but contributed to one result, and that result, if it cannot now be called truumph, can certainly be called success. What is there in the modern world which is worth preserving which is not in some sense the product of Christianity ? What is there in the moderu world of which we have aay cause to b nroud which is not Christian in ita {ts main characteristics? Abso- orlgin or in There was but little activity in commercial circtes | lutely nothing. Speaking from a world-wide yesterday, though in a few articles a large business was consummated. Coffee was steady and firm. Cotton was in active demand, chiefly from specu- lators and exporters, and prices appreciated \c. per Ib,, closing strong at 30‘sc. for middling up- laud. On ‘Change flour was slow of sale but un- changed in value. Wheat, though quiet, was firm, while corn was quiet put steady. Oats were firmer under an improved demand. Pork was firm, with a fair demand, while beef and lard were point of view, Christians are yet in the minor- ity. Who can deny, however, that the world, in all its length and breadth, is virtually under Christian control? The steam engine is ours ; the railroad is ours; the telegraph 4s ours; the printing press is ours, All that these agents can do—and what can they not do?-- they are doing and they will do to propagate quiet, but quite steady in value. Naval stores were | the principles to which Christianity has given a trifle more active anda shade firmer. Petroleum | birth or which have been developed under her waa active, excited and }4c. a 1c. higher, the market closing at 38c. a 384c. for refined and 2c. for crade in bulk. Whiskey was quiet but firm, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Charles Feist Belmont, of Frankfort-on-the-Main; W. C. Perry, of Boston, and W. R. Robins, of Utica, N. Y., are at the Hoffman House. General Griffin, of the United States Army; H. G. Eastman, of Poughkeepsie; J. T. Stevenson, of Ken- tucky. and C. S. Bushnell, of New Hampshire, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel G. Chapin, of the United States Army; Con- gressman L. W. Ross, of Illinois, and Cote Saunders, | must perish. of Montana, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General E. G. Sandford and Major N. Hodgson, of the United States Army; Captain Tom Clifton, of the shadow. We march on to victory. Moham- medaniam, Buddhism, Brabminism and all other isms that anywhere way find place and power must yield aud bow the knee as we ad- vance, The car of Christian triumph rolls on. Those who will not male room for it and follow and woreflip must submit to be destroyed. In her conquering progress she offers but two alternatives—submission or death. Those who will not become Christian Ye see this truth illustrated now in our own country, in Australia, in Africa aud elsewhere ; and what is true now United States Navy, and Professor Thorpe, of St. will be more and wore true of the swift- Louls, are at the St. Charies Hotel, Colonel W. L. Trenholm, of Charleston, 3.C ; B. W. Woolman, of Philadelphia, and Colonel J. Foster, Jr., of New York, are at the St. Julien Hotel, Collector W. H. McCartney, of Bostou; John F. Seaman, Jr., of China, and George F, Houghton, of St. Albans, V!., are at the Westminster Hott. Colonel B.C, Butten, of Luzerne, and S. A, Groves, of Mystic Bridge, are at the Westinoreland ifotel, The Great Future Triumph of Christianity. marching times of the hastening future. ‘He shall have the heathen for His inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for His pos- seasion ;” ‘His dominion shall be from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.” Such is a specimen of the language in which the ancient Hebrew seers—men full of inspired genius—set forth the future glories of the higher and nobler dispensation. Why Christianity is the flowering of the theology will not Jews begin to leara that the triumph of the ages ; and Christianity is already and must more and more become a success. How rbscribers by this arrangement | much of the theology of the East had reached despised Nazarene, mi Egypt no one can answer; but that all that was best in the theology of the Egyptians was picked up by the Greeks and placed by them on record no one can deny. The civilization of Christianity, now so near, will be their triumph? Christianity, the religion of the ches on with rapid steps to antversal empire; but the eyes of its first opponents are still darkened and they cannot, or rather will got, ace. Waat Nexr?-—Last week we bad a tre- of the East, if anything ever became a tact, | mendous nor'easter, striking in from the Guif became a fact under the empire of the Romans. | Stream as far down 48 Georgia, and spread- The Roman empire gathered into itself all that was best in all the previous sources of civil- izing influence. [tis a fact well deserving of | pritish dominions, ing over all the country between the Atlantic and the Rocky Mountains and far up into the The mata column passing attention thay the religion of Jesus Christ did | through the Atlantic States was charged from not make its ‘appearance until the Roman the Gulf with the elements of & beavy thunder republic beeame an empire, and until, through | storm which went flashing and rattling along, the force of individual will, the Roman empire became a unit. The advent the Messiah had not heen pro- mised before the fulness of the times, The fulness of the titnes of rnd ofdw'ta has broken out in the insurrectionary | Known world was at least a popular unit. citizens and betligerents on both districta amon ii Se of the Peace Commissioners, sides. Cespeded, haa sailed for the United States, disgusted with the state of affairs in Cuba, Wealthy Cuban families sympathizing with the revolution! sre emigrating wo New York or New Orleans. An utiempt (o blow up the powder magazine in Puerto Principe by Cubaas bad been frustrated. Hayti, The news by the Cuba cable indicates great suc- cesses for Sainave, He has bombarded and de- a@troyed (he towns of Torbeck and Port Salut, and had captured Aquip. The peopie of Aux Cayes are emigrating 'o Samal Congrems. Io the Seumie yesterday the bill for the re- peal of enure of Office act was taken up and generally discussed until the expi- ration of the morning hour. The proposed suffrage amendinent was then considered, Mr. Doo- little making @ long speech in opposition. Mr, Howard repreierd a dill to give aid to all the Pacific Raliroads by gaarantecing the interest on their bonds, ant the Sevete soon after adjourned. In the House, at the expiration of the morning hour, Mr. Hooper reported a bill from committee to preveut the further merease of the pubite debt, which was mitted, The Army Appropriation bill was con- sidered in Committee of the Whole, and a spirited dtxcnaston ensued relative to the purchase of Ford's tieatre in Washington by Secretary Stanton soon after the murder of Mr. Lincoln, The bill provides for a reduction of expenses by $10,000,000. An ists | Messiah appear ordered to be printed and recom- | Then, but not till then, was jt found that “all the world” phrase. Then, but not till then, did The birth empire marked the era of the birth of the Messiuh. The time was opportune. Not to speak of the inspired prophets, who saw and described scenes the realization of which stretched into the far and indefinite future; not to speak of the intensity and universality of feeling which marked the period and which pointed to a Messiah about to come; not to speak of the Roman roads, the railways and telegraph of of the Greek tongue, which made a scholar intelligible to any intelligeat audience ta voy part of the known world; not to make too much of any one or of all these facta, itis not to be denied that there was a peculiar fitness in the times for the birth of a new religion. | It is as little to be denied that that religion— | the religion of Jesus Christ—took an imme diate hold upon the world. Jia beginning was small, The acorn, the litthe cloud, the small stone from the mountain were but feeble illus- trations of the fact. As grows the acorn, aa was a popalar and well known | head the period, or of the almost universal diffusion | amidst rain, hail and snow, from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia. It was followed by the usual cold snap of a sharp nor'wester, and by a bril- liant display in these latitudes of the auroral did not come until the | tights of Alaska, the predominating color being green, Yesterday there was a genial soften- ing of the atmosphere and a thickening over- indicating the brewing of another nor'easter or sou'wester, with perhaps a touch of the Roma | of a hurricane or a general flood. After all i these oreteors, earthquakes, floods and torna- does of -the last two years we are prepared, or ought to be, for almost anything in the cata- logue on the shortest notice. In fact, since the annexation of Alaska and Seward’s treaty for St. Thomas the old rules and notions of the weather in this country have been completely upget, A Very Rivtovtovs Faroe—The farce in the Repr tatives over Scannel, | the obdurate New York democratic witness in reference election frauds, ple debate on the subject of Seannel’s to pay his fie by pawning his diamond nor by making a loan ona lien of his fost trotting horse was, perhaps, very amusing, and yet such ai vats are too expensive to he often repeated. But the peculiar merits of the farce as a farce belong to Mr, Brooks and his plea of poverty and martyrdom in behalf of Seannel. Think of Scannel as a martyr in being confined as a refractory witness on elec- House of to certain swells the cloud, as rolls the stone, so was it with this new theory which, in course of time, amendment proposing a great reduction of men and officers was offered by Mr. Garfleld, and the House adjoured. Miscellancous. The Governor of Nevada recently vetoed the Legis- lative Fund bill, which has since been passed in the Legisiatu® over the veto. An attempt is now being made by the Governor, assisted by the Attorney Gen- eral of the State, to have the courts restrain the pay- mont of warrants authorized by the bill, and the ‘Legisiature in return threaten him with impeach- ment for an abuse of the veto power. An attempt was made on Friday night to burn the Children’s Home at Lancaster, Pa, which contains the world called Christianity. Paganism yielded before it, It became in a brief space of time the religion of the empire. The head- quarters of the empire were removed from Rome to Constantinople ; but the new govern- ing force in human society continued to work a8 before and was little affected by the change. Rome, in spite of Constantinople, became the centre of the world, The secular empire both at Rome and Constantinople died; but the spiritnal empire remained to give life pearly 900 children, by setting © fuse to a barrelor | and energy and outerprisa to » larger tion frauds in one of the committee rooms of the Capitol, on a regimen of champagne, stewed oysters, roast turkey, buttered toast and hot coffee ! Arraty oF tite Nown.—The editor of 4 Wall street paper (J. B. Keclesine) pab- lished the shortcomings of a life insurance company, and the company has appealed to the courts to shut him up. We are of opinion that the relations of the public to these insu- rance machines demand a better investigation than the law requires and justify every pub- lication whoae object is the ioformation of the pegple. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1869. The | Greeley and Train as Ovaterte Groeley and George Francis Train resemble each other very much as orators, and fn their mental qualities both are full of theories and crotchets, are radical in everything, vistonary, fussy, vain, and love to hear their own sweet voices. Iu their own estimation they are the greatest philosophers of. the age, and believe that the world could not move without them. It would be hard to tell which lets off the most gas‘or nonsense or which shows the most con- ceit; but there is no resemblance in personal appearance. Train rejoices in his Websterian look and thinks he honors the great Maniel by wearing @ similar blue coat, with brass but- tons, and in cultivating his nobby head of hair in the same style of his imaginary prototype. He is the lion in lion’s clothing and roars vociferonsly. Greeley is a lion (as he believes himself to be so) iif sheep’s clothing and affects & modest appearance, while he,is not a bit less fierce or presumptuous than Train. I[f* by chance he puts off his old white coat at any time for a dinner party he feels like a fish out of water or with its scales off. He is unhappy till he gets it on again, because he loses his | identity without it. Greeley would be nothing if he were not eccentric, and he is indebted to this very white coat for being dubbed a philosopher, When we consider that he owes all his fame and honor to this precious gar- ment we need not be surprised that he has a great affection for it and that he cherishes it as the apple of his eye. We say nothing about his boots or his hat or his general make- up—all in keeping with the coat and character- istic enough—lut simply make this reference to his dress to show the anomaly that, while Geeley and Train are alike as orators and in mental peculiarities, they are in the matter of wsthetics totally ttalike each other. Loss aNp Gain.—Maloney, the efficient policeman who captured the butcher cart ras- cal Boyle, loses $2,500. by Boyle's conviction in this State. Had Boyle been returned to Michigan Muloney would have been entitled to that sum in the reward for the capture. {t is to be hoped, however, that Maloney will gap some substantial advantage from bls sue- dis. Sich courage and acuteness as his are wanted in the police and would make the city an uncomfortable field of onerationg for the that now infest it. Let the Police Commission- ers see to it that Maloney is rewarded ina substantial way, by promotion for merit, and there will be an example for the force which will tend to develop in other members the sume good qualities. Tatk rr THroven.—On motion of Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, on Friday last, the Senate resolved to hold night sessions on the proposed impartial suffrage amendment to the constitution from the House, until they shall have talked it through. What time will thu be required to bring it to the vote it is impos- sible to tell; for the inexhaustible Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, is said to be booked for a speech of five days, by way of an opening on his part; and he is stillin reserve. We presume, however, that the amendment will be carried through before the 4th of March, inasmuch as it is feared that if passed over to the new Congress it may fall short of the re- quired two-thirds vote in the House. Prorection or Emicrants.—It appears by our Washington news that there is a project for a convention between the United States and the North German Union for the better protection of emigrants, and that Baron Gerolt and others are active in the matter. It is to provide for the health, comfort and morals of emigrants passing from Germany to the United States. A very good idea, and the sooner it is carried ont the better. Emigrants have not been provided for and treated on the passage as they should have been, and much disease and many deaths have been the result. Let the protecting arm of government be thrown around them in the future through this pro- posed convention, Ta Horeors or Sr. Domiao.—That stereotyped phrase—-the horrors of St. Do- mingo—is ns appropriate now as ever. At the latest dates Salnave was raging with even more than his wonted fury. He has attacked and destroyed the town of Torheck. He has also bombarded and destroyed Port Salut, and bombarded and captured Aquin. The inhabi- {unis of Aux Cayes and the other towns in that vicinity are panic stricken, and emigration to Janwica is the order of the day, AN Imvorraxt BILL was reported in Con- gress yesterday by the Ways and Means Com- mittee, It is to prevent the increase of the na- tional debt by repealing all laws authorizing the issue of gold-bearing bonds and all bonds except those which are due to the different Pacific Railway lines. It forbids the payment of commissions for the negotiations of govern- ment securities, and directs that all sales of bonds and coin shall take place by public auction. Tux Bummer Case.—It is evidently thought that somebody must be punished for the Rogers murder—just for example—and this is what stimulates the efforts of the police to make # case against the atation louse bum- mer. But surely he is not the sort of fellow to throw bis white overcoat to a confederate to keep it out of the damage pf a fight. it is said that he can prove his whole ward- robe for weeks before and since the murder, and that, of course, will kill the case, Tie ELevaruy Raiway.—The trials of this enterprise prove it a great snecess, and we hope its completion will now be hurried up. It is nothing that some property owners on the line protest. The good of the whole city re- quires easy communication by steam between ita extremities, and this is our only hope w have it. As Useraterct Feinow—Creoley, in throwing ® wet blanket over the amiable Dana, after all the assurances of Mr. Stanton’s right hand man that the venerable Fourierite shall have the English mission. Jay Gourn says the recent extravagance in the management of Erie was intended to pre- vent the company going into bankruptey. The company owed more than it could pay, and fixed things up by spending ten times more than it had. -TRIPLE SHERT. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, on the Cou- . dition of the Country. Mr. Kelley, ina speech in Congress, com- menting upon the report of Mr. Wells, Special Commissioner of Internal Revenue, end In reply to the hard money theorists relative to their croaking misstatements about the condi- tion of the country, gives some interesting facts to show that trade and the people gene- rally were never more prosperous. He said that the statement that the working people of this country were better off in 1860, the year before the war, than in 1867 was preposter- ous—and he might have added than at the present time, had he not been confining his argument to Commissioner Wells’ remarks on the year 1867. He stated that the Com- missioner’s figures had been so marshalled as to present results that could not be sustained, and proved the fallacy of them, Among other things he noticed in support of his argument was the condition of the savings banks through- out the country. The deposits im these insti- tutions Inst year amounted to millions upon millions more than iu 1860, before the war and in hard money times. He argued that this could not have been so if the condition of the masses of the people had not been better in 1868 than in 1860. Taking his owu city (Philadelphia) as an example, he showed that sheriffs’ writs for the sale of real estate had each year fallen off, that litigation had greatly diminished, and that the number of buildings erected in 1867 were more than double those erected in 1860. With a few exceptions a similar state of things may be found in other parts of the country, and throughout the eoun- try generally. What, then, becomes of the groundless arguments, or rather the unfounded statements, of those who pretend that the coun- try is suffering because of our paper currency and because we do not hurry on to specie pay- ments? A few facts like these of Judge Kelley, drawn from actual experience, with a little common sense, will scatter to the winds the fllmsy structure of Mr, Wells’ figures and the stereotyped fallacies of the resumptiouists, THe Feretes—The “expansion of the city is such that no means of transit keeps pace with the growth. ‘The ferry communication over the East river is particularly hehind the time. | fame ee the ferrigg gre just what they were ny 7am a6, aud in the meantime the need for sccommod ee Dog faTEAAL. St a. The Williamsburg ferries w1 inadequate, ever the best one—that from Roosevelt street—and the Greenpoint ferry is a reproach to the city. Srrikina aN AvkRAGE.——The New Jersey jury that was asked to damage old Vreeland forty thousand dollara for the benefit of the woman who was not able to marry him gave her only five thousand. They did not com- pute her value in this, but his. Her affections may be beyond price; but they thought that five thousand ought to remunerate her for the loas of a husband of eighty. South American Aflairn, We yesterday published a number of letters from Colombia, Bolivia, Chile and Pern. The infrmation contained in them is simply a new dreas for old grievances. They tell us only of the normal condition of Spanish America. As to Colombia, its Panama pro- vince is in a most miserable condition, and sees no hope of bettering itself except in inde- pendence or annexation to the United States. A few hundred miserable human beings now control the great future centre of the world’s commercial enterprise, and make it, perhaps, the most disgusting spot on this Continent. From Bolivia we are advised of some trouble on account of the treaty of limits with Brazil, lately signed, by which some seventy thousand miles of formerly re- cognized Bolivian territory have been ceded to Brazil. Some revolutionary move- ments had broken out, but were quickly sup- pressed, and the party opposing the treaty stands but little chance of making headway against the strong government of Melgarejo, which is a blessing to that country. Peru, it will be remembered, made a strong protest against the above mentioned treaty, but it was from fear that she might lose the great trade which now crosses through Peruvian territory across the Andes to the Amazon valley, and which Brazil, under the treaty, hopes to see pass down the Amazon, As regards Peru, her finances are represented to be in a most deplorable condition; but, strange to say, she pushes aboad with public works, and very large amounts of English and American capital are constantly flowing into the country to develop ita vast resonrees. The government has given six hundred thou- sand dollars to a company to extend telegraphic lines throughout the interior, and Ecuador is also making a telegraphic effort. Altogether, Western South America, despite its normal revolutionary condition, is advanc- ing, as is shown by the progress of its public works and the vast increase in its imports and exports. We want it connected with na by telegraph, and then our people, learning more of its wonderful riches, will see that itis for their interest to draw their trade relations closer and cut off some of the vast products which are now freighted past our doors for Europe. A Swat. Busines—-The doubts and delays and constitutional scruples and fol-de-rol made manifest in Congress in regard to the bill pro- posing a pension of five thousand 9 year to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln; likewise in reference to Miss Vinnie Ream’s statue of the martyred | Prosident. Gan it be that the progressive radicals of the two houses flatter themaclves that they have no farther ase for the aame or the memory of Lincoln, and can therefore alford to drop him and cast his widow's claim into the waste basket? One would think so, iv Has Come--The Broadway Railroad bill, though in a somewhat questionable shape, Mr. Cauldwell yesterday introduced it in the State Senate, It is an elevated road, to be called the Empire City Railroad. The next move will be to got it down on the pavement in the shape of a double track horse railroad. Thero is a mint of money in this job, and the lobby is not idle. MaAKind tHe Most ov Hr Hontoay—Gene- ral Grant in Now York. We expect him to plunge into ‘the Wilderness” again on the 4th of March in a crushing campaign against the Treasury robbers and all their confedorates. Congress and the France-American Telow araph Cablo. Mr. Samner reported a bill to the Senate on Tuesday last, from the Committee on Foreiga . Relations, relative to telegraphic communica- tlon between the United States and a foreiga country, and on the same day Mr. Charles C. Leigh made a powerful argument before the same Committee on Foreign Relations against any contracted and illiberal legislation on the subject and the monopoly which Mr. Sumnor's bill is eatculated to perpetuate. The bill is artfully framed in such a way as to have the appesrance of being fair and just, while it is evidently in the interest of the existing Atlan- tic telegraph monopoly aud the other monopo- lies bound up with that; for the introduction of such a bill, whether it*passes or not, is cal- culated to delay the work of the Franco-Ameri- can Company fa laying the cable which is now ready to be lald. The‘hand and influence of the monopolists, thongh not seen by the gen- eral public, and perhaps not by Mr. Sumner, in this specious legislation have evidently operated upon the committee. The effect may be to prevent the laying of the Franco-American cable the approaching season, when it is only safo to attempt such a work. ‘This, of course, would give the Atlantic Cable Company the monopoly for another year, would embarrass the Franco-American Company, and might de- feat the project entirely. This would answer the purpose of the monopolists for the time, and next year they could go to Washington again and lobby through some other piece of specious Jegislation to head off still longer the Franco-Amerioan Company or any other rival. Besides the whiskey lobby, the Western Union Telegraph lobby and other lobby cliques at Washington, there is now a powerful British lobby to perpetuate the telegraph monopoly of the Atlantic Ocean, Mr. Sumner’s bill provides that the United States government shall be entitled to the same or similar privileges with regard to the control or use of any telegraph or cable lines between this conntry and any foreign country as may be exercised or enjoyed by any toreign * government from, the territory of which such cables may be laid. This is all very well and fair enough in principle. There are other provisions, too, in it that may not be improper, sash. 6 giciag $e government priority in pond lng massages, the sending of messages for the public in the order in which they may be re- ceived and the power of regulating the tariff of charges by the ‘goverament, if all cable companies, with the land lines connecting, can be put ander the same conditions. But to ites pose these terms upon the Franco-American Company or any other, while the Atlantic Cable Company operates of British soil at both ends and over which our government could hava no control, is virtually to legis- late against all cables being landed on American territory and im favor of the British monopoly. Then, the provision in the ‘bill to prevent cables being laid till foreign governments can be negotiated with and their consent obtained to grant reciprocal privileges to American citizens or companies, as those that may be accorded to foreigners, will, as was said, tend to delay or prevent the laying of the Franco-American cable or any other cable for some tine, and thus accomplish the object of the present telegraph monopolists. Fair as the bill seems, it is an insidious attempt to perpet- ‘ uate a foreign monopoly to the injary of the American public. It is, as Mr. Leigh said in his argument, an attempt to chain thought and ideas toa single channel and to compel out citizens and the press to pay ten times aa mach for conveying their thoughts and messages acrosa the Atlantic as would be the cost with a rival company established and @ cable direct toour shores. Whatever legislation may be deemed necessary hereafter to regulate or control the telegraph, this is not the time to throw obstacles in the way of rival ocean lines. Congress should at once give the broadest and fullest permission, as far as its authority goes, to the Franco-American company to carry through its project, now that the cable is ready to be lald. There can be no doubt that the French government or any other European government will be ready to negotiate for re- ciprocal privileges in and over telegraphs be- tween ita shores and those of the United States. To delay the laying of any cable on that account would be mere pretence for the pur- pose of favoring an existing monopoly. Let Jongress pay no heed to the monopolists or the lobby, but act in this matter upon broad aud liberal views for the benefit of the public aod in the interests of civilization. Andrew Jounson in Tennessee. If we may rely upon the Tennessee news- papers and certain intimations from Wash- ingtou, Andrew Johnson is not going to give up the ghost nor political life after he leaves the White House. Like John Quincy Adams, he will probably die with the harness on in some public position or other. It is said he will be a candidate for Governor of Tennes- see, and, considering his power on the stump and over the people, and his great energy, we should not be surprised to see him elected. But this is only a stepping stone to get back to the United States Senate. Perhaps his ambition govs still further. Be that as it may, Mr. Jobnson would be a very useful man in the Senate. He would be a thorn in the side of thé corrupt rings in Congress and the lobby. Like Butler, te is not a man to be put down, Then, what a glorious chance he would have of exposing the trickery, double-dealing and schemes of Senators during his administration t What an opportunity to take revenge upon some. of them! Mr, Johnson is not an old man yet, aod he bas a vigorous constitution. By all means let him ran for Governor again aud get back into the Senate. TH Port AND THE Sranisn Cortes.—Tho Pope forbids the recently elected prelates to take seats in the Cortes, This would seem to indicate that his Holiness bas not yet aban- doned the Bourbons, notwithstanding the willingness of the army and tho people of Spain to let them remain in exile, ARTY AND NAVY INTELLIGENCE. Captain W. A. Parker, United States Navy, tas been detached from duty on the receiving ship Inde- pendence and placed on waiting orders, ‘The supertntendent of the mounted recruiting ser Vico at Carlisio Barracks, Penuaylvania, has been ‘directed to forward without delay all disposable Teeruita at that post to Omaha, whore they will re- port ty the commanding general of that department for assignment to the Second United States cavalry.