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Fears of agigantic Carlist insurrection are enter- tained and numerous political arrests have been made. Prince Girgente’s name has been struck from the army roll. Ex-Queen Isabella has issued another manifesto from Paris, crying down the Provisional government of Spain and asserting her right to the throne. Eight days have been granted to Greeee to decide on the proposals of the great Powers. It is thought that the pacific desires of King George will prevall over the present excitement of the Greeks, Venezucin, Our Caracas iette# {5 dated January 13. Don Efillfo de Las Casas has be’ appointed Consul to New York. Ile brings the crédéntiais of Don Man- uel Mufloz, a merchant of New York, as Chargé d’Afuires at Washington, with sSevja} instructions to secure, if possible, the abrogation of the figaty for the settlement of American claus against’ Yene- zuela. St. Domingo. ( Our St. Domingo lettey is dated January 20, The Alerican company continues in possession of Alta Vela, and the reported sale of it toa Frenchman by Baez amounts to nothing probably beyond a lien on the securities paid on the guano taken out by the company. The revolution in Seybo has occasioned great excitement in the capital, and Baez finds him- self unable to raise troops to quell it. The rece ipts from the custom houses} in July, August aud Sep- tember were $127,200. Miscellaneous, Attorney General Evarts stated recently, in reta- tion to the case of John C. Braine, the Chesapeake Pirate, now in,the King’s county jail, that he was in doubt as to whether bis case was reached by the President's amnesty proclamation of last Christmas, The Southern republicans in the Senate have recently been holding secret caucuses, in order to unite the republicans from that section on matters Of interest to them, and for the purpose, it 1s stated, of making a joint movement to secure fuil pay from the beginning of the Fortieth Congress. The Yale College Alumni In Congress held a meet- ing on Saturday night, preparatory to forming a Yale club. Judge Spalding, of Ohio, was chosen President, and a dinner at Attorney Generai Evarts’ 4s to mark the final organization. The proposed annexation of St. Domingo ts said in Washington to be a big joo, as most of the ter- ritory has become the property by grants and pur- Chase of parties in this country. A riot among fremen occurred in Philadelphia on Saturday, in which one man was mortally Wounded. ‘The citizens are moving in favor of a patd fire de- partment. Colonel Ayres, Inspector General of the Depart- ment of Louisiana, has submitiod a report on affairs ia Arkansas to the Adjutant General, He states that the reports of outrages by the militia are very much exaggerated, A religious revival is prevailing among the Method. ata along the Hudson, his litte daughter and mutilated her corpse. He | of popular struggle, The pressure of gave as a reason for the deed that he was offering her as a sacrifice to Christ, A barber in Pittsburg on Saturday evening shot a little boy and killed him for looking in his shop win- dow. The barber narrowly escaped lynching by be- ing hurried off to jail. The City. General Grant visited the St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church yesterday with General Badeau and heard Rev. Dr. Ridgeway’s sermon. In the af. ternoon he was closeted some time with Mr. Bonner, and afterwards took dinner with Mr. A. T. Stewart and his family, To-day he will receive the Central Republican Committee and will be the guest of 8S, B. Chittenden in Brooklyn in the evening. At mid- night he will start again for Washington. ‘The corporation of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor have applied to the Legislature to be exempted from pay- ing the tax of $10,000 on their property in this city. An article elsewhere in our columns this morning shows that the property referred to consists of that portion of the city bounded by Broadway, Uni- versity place, Ninth and Twelfth streets, The ground rents under old leases amount to about $300,000 a year, and as the leases will expire in.a few years the rents can be increased in proportion to the value of the property and will amount perhaps to $500,000, In addition to this the corporation owns 160 acres of land on Staten Island, which yield a large rental. AtAll Souls church, in Fourth avenue, yesterday Dr. Beliows delivered @ sermon on “The Nature and Attraction of Christ.”? Dr. Verren preached in the French Protestant church, in Twenty-second street, near Fifth avenue, on the prevailing mania for suicide. Rev. W. R. Alger, of Boston, preached at the Cooper Institute on the text “Out of the depths have I cried to thee, OLord!? At the Universalist church Dr, Chapin preached on “The Love of God and One’s Neighbor,” St. John’s chapel, on Varick street, was reopened. The new Catholic church of Our Lady of Mercy, in Brooklyn, was dedicated by Bishop Loughlin. - Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman D. McCarthy, of New York; E, J. Hamiin, of Buffalo, and H. T. Blow, of Missouri, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Jobn Young, of Montreal; 3. W. Britton, of New York, F. H. Laflin, of St. Louis, and Alexander Mor- rison, of Milwaukee, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel E. H. Brown, of South Carolina; Major Russell and Captain D. W. Hughes, of the United States Army, and Surgeon Luke Tilden, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Oharies Hotel. Colone! Stewart, of the United States Army; James Slocum, of Pennsylvania, and G. L. Walker, of Wash- ington, are at the St. Julien Hotel. W. M. Young, of Montreal, is at the Brevoort House. The New Phase of the Revolution in Cuba—A Question for the Incoming Administration. Every breath of tidings that comes to us from ‘‘the Gem of the Antilles” brings intelli- gence of multitudes fleeing from the island. Men of wealth are conveying their families and their fortunes to other lands; men of note in society and government are seeking safety out of the vortex of Cuban politics, and men of action are hurrying to and fro preparatory to the coming strife. The latest breathing of the telegraph is that Don José de Armas y Ces- pedes, the head of the peace commission ap- pointed by General Dulce, the confidant of his plans and powers, after long journeyings and conferences with the revolutionary leaders in the central and eastern districts of the island, has returned to Havana and departed thence for the United States, saying that he is dis- gusted with the state of affairs. These are not the indications of a return to peace; they are the mutterings of the coming tempest. What this is to be and what course it will take are subjects worthy of inquiry. Perhaps there may be found natural causes that will indicate the probable course of the storm. When Cespedes pronounced in October last at Yara in favor of absolute independence for Cuba he struck a living chord in every Cuban bosom. The idea spread with the rapidity of wildfire through the Eastern Department of the island, and in a very short time the petty Spanish garrisons were driven to the coast or huddled together in a few interior towns. The Central Department quickly followed the lead of the Eastern, and from Cape Maysi to Moron the island blazed with the fires of revolution. The hilltops around the Spanish cities of.refage were covered with insurgents and panic prevailed in every Spanish bosom. With these achievements one half of the island was in possession of the new order of things; but here the revolution, without any visible check, came toa halt. The Western Depart- ment, the great seat oF population and wealth, did not follow its sisters in the moye- ment. Disagreements on questions of greater or lesser vitality to the revolution sprang up between the leaders of the centre and the east. Inaction ensued among the’ insurgents, and asa natural consequence large numbers of the people, uncontrolled by discipline and wanting in the inspiration of a logically pro- claimed and common cause, returned to their homes, The Spanish population of the island took new heart and filled the ranks of the government forces with volunteers. General Dulce arrived, commissioned with extraordi- nary powers from the new government of Spain. Throwing ‘open the prison doors to large numbers of political détenus, he pro- claimed a general amnesty, freedom of press and speech and representation in the Cortes for the island as an integral portion of the Spanish monarchy. Before these ostensible | causes the revolution is seen to dwindle ; large numbers of men accept the amnesty, and yer the living exodus points to the fact that fears Ww the future, not the assurances of peace, p.tevail in the Cuban mind, There is,» then, an unavowed if not a secret cause for t] Us state of things, and it lies in the logic of even 4, which is ever stronger than the promise of wo Tds. In the first rapid march of revolution its p. tomoters took advantage of all the elements wh ‘ich presented themselves to their grasp, and no * * few slaves and contracted Chinese laborers er. ‘tossed the files of the insurgents, to the utte. * demoralization of pro- ductive labor. This » 78 the first great fact, and not any effort of the Spanish troops which prevented the extension of the revolution through the west. Follow ‘ag this came the proclamation of General Ce Wedes, giving a conditional freedom to the #.‘#ves. Though carefully worded and very gu ‘#rded in its clauses, this was the torch of dis, Pd to the revolution, ‘The Eastern Departm ®t, with fow slaves, and but a limited number % these engaged in agricultural labor, embraced at once the new idea, The central portion ot’ the island, with greater interests at stake, divided’ upon it, and the western, where the slave in- vestments preponderate over all others, re- jected it altogether. Hercin lies the secret of the present condition of affairs in Cuba, Under the pressure of the slavery ques- tion the revolution has changed its charac- ter from war for independence to a ‘struggle for universal emancipation. events und ideas in Spain is preparing a new danger for General Dulce and the political and social system he seeks to establish in the pro- bable abolition by the Cortes of slavery throughout the Spanish dominions, The con- flict which portends is a purely American one, and among the great questions upon which Gen- eral Grant and his administration will be re- quired to take a new point of departure that of Cuba and its relations to the Union is one of the most important and most urgent, This island, with a population of a million and a half of souls, lying in close proximity to our shores and along the immediate line of our im- mense Atlantic coastwise commerce, is to-day the scene of a revolution which will inevitably sever the island from the dominion of Spain. We say that it will produce an inevitable sepa- ration, because Spain herself is on the eve of a civil war, which already precludes her from sending to Cuba the forces necessary to triumph over the present revolution, and will consume all the resources she can possibly command fora long period of time to come. Herein lies the true point of view for General Grant and his Cabinet to take. The principle of diplomatic intervention is every- where admitted in the school of European politics when a threatened conflagration in any State portends danger to the interests of its neighbors. It is a logical rule, and holds good in America as well asin Europe. The proximity of Cuba to our shores; the great material interests of our trade, which are affected by her weal or woe; the political combinations which have existed in the past, do now exist and will ever continue to exist, all call imperatively for action on our part. To show that this is not an imaginary call we need cite only the fact—which is prominent in the family traditions of Admiral Porter— that in 1825-80 the United-States was forced, in order to protect its own commerce, to fol- low the pirate fleets of that day into many of the inlets and bays of Cuba and to burn a pirate settlement where the city of Cardenas now stands. A policy of American interven- tion is, therefore, imperative to us, and all circumstances and conditfons combine to force it upon the immediate attention of the in- coming administration. The first step should be the unhesitating adoption of such a course of action as will at once impress upon Spain the conviction that she will not be permitted utterly to destroy a purely American commu- nity because it will not consent longer to be governed under her antiquated sixteenth cen- tury notions of public policy. In adopting this course General Grant has the opportunity to lay the corner stones of the coming great and American party in our na- tional politics on foundations as broad and as secure as were those laid by Jefferson and Jack- son. ‘The tone and temper of the people require such a new party organization, which shall ignore old party lines and be free from old party corruptions. The circumstances of our public affairs, both domestic and foreign, are favorable to it, and General Grant himself has the prestige necessary for its successful ac- complishment, President Tyler tried to do this thing, and he failed, because the people were not prepared for it. President Johnson also tried it, and he failed, because he had not the requisite personal prestige. The opportunity is now offered, by a concatenation of great events, to General Grant, and as he resolves or fails to accept his mission will he go down to history as a Jefferson or a Jackson or as a Tyler or an Andy Johnson. The initial step is involved in the Cuba question, and General Grant should be prepared to give it an early and a prompt recognition. Reta Prog of Coat.—The public gene- rally and coal dealers particularly are requested to examine the following table, which exhibits the present retail prices of the different sizes of coal that are used by families in order to keep themselves comfortable and make the pot boil, compared with the wholesale prices for two thousand pounds as exhibited at the last public auction sale ;— ; ‘ —Prices for 2,000 Pounds.— Sizes, Wholesale, i Retail, Grate. . $7 50 Egg. 8 50 8 50 6 60 jously turning to the co-operative movements? Tue Saitors’ Sxue Harsor—A Mopgst Request.—In afdther part of this paper the reader will find a very interesting account, historical and financial, of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor, including the vast amount of valuable real estate in the heart of the city held by this lucky corporation, and the modest request of the managers to be exempted from the ten thousand dollars taxes collected from said valuable property by the State. This idea of holding property without paying taxes thereon is very pleasant to contemplate; still more de- lightful would it be if our government authori- ties, national, State and municipal, would only maintain law and order, protect life, and property and secure the weak against the aggressions of the strong free of all charges, But as this millennium will hardly begin to dawn upon us until we shall have paid off the national debt and the State debt, and shall have discovered @ mountain of pure gold on the public lands in Alaska, we submit to the Legislature that the wealthy corporation of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor are too early with their modest petition to have their property taken care of at the expense of their neighbors. Tue Ditzmma.—It will not pay the horse- car companies to put on more cars; and at certain hours those on must necessarily be overloaded or the people cannot ride. There- fore, the people must suffer or the horses must suffer, and the omnipotent Bergh says it shall not be the horses. Steam dummies would be a good solution, but the old grannies will not let us have them. Evidently we must hurry the completion of the Elevated Railway. Nore to A Merouant,— ‘Merchant,” in a declamatory style, demands that Boyle, of the butcher cart, be not merely confined in prison ‘or forty years, but be returned to Michigan to be ‘tied and executed for murder. Just the difficu."ty, dear Merchant. They are go civil- iaed out: Michigan that they do not hang men any more, Boyle can be put in here for forty years just as’ Well, and when the forty years, are up we will ,‘end him to Michigan—that ia, if we happen to.ve him, In forty years, though, he can escave from Sing Sing just #ntgsane Sian in Haunibal, Mo., recently kitted | Nor is the danger confined to the limits | forty hundred times, The Spring Trade. The HzRAxp presented yesterday a full and minute survey of the various branches of wholesale and retail trade in New York as affected by the influences of approaching spring. Taking time by the forelock, our en- terprising New York manufacturers and mer- chants are already anticipating the annual revival of business at the opening of spring navigation. Our spring trade, in many of its most important branches, virtually opens at the beginning or in the middle of February. New foreign goods, selected or expressly man- ufactured in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and other European countries, are beginning to arrive, creating a lively commotion at the wharves, the Custom House, the bonded warehouses and the mam- moth wholesale stores. The wholesale dealers in dry goods, silk goods, fancy goods and Yankee notions, laces and embroideries, mil- linery, ready made clothing, china and glass ware, crockery, boots and shoes, furnishing goods, groceries, India rubber goods, hats, books, stationery, watches, jewelry, silver ware, drugs, wines and liquors, furniture and upholstery, hardware and all varieties of iron goods, terra cotta, cutlery, carriages, pianos, agricultural implements, and the rest, are busily preparing for a vastly more extensive and profitable business than has been trans- acted since the year before the war. A grow- ing confidence in the new government soon to be inaugurated at Washington, in the prospect of reform and economy in the management of our political affairs, and in the happy conse- quences that must flow from a speedy restora- tion of all the Southern States to the Union, is one powerful source of the impetus which has been given to every department of our whole- sale trade. The city retail trade is likewise awakening to encouraging activity. On every side there is ‘‘a great clearing out of fall and winter goods to make room for new spring goods.” Buds and blossoms in the Park will be no surer indications of spring than those which are already visible on the shelves and counters and inthe splendid show windows of our retail stores, and in the crowded advertising columns of the New York HERALD. QureEn IsaBELLA As A CANDIDATE FOR THE Spanish Tnrone.—Queen Isabella, from her headquarters at Paris, has issued another pronunciamiento denouncing the Spanish re- volutionists and their present government at Madrid, and proclaiming her paramount rights to the Spanish throne. From the reported re- sults of the elections for the new Cortes it appears that she will have two members in that body elected in her name and devoted to her interests. It appears, further, that some clergymen have been elected to the Cortes, who would most probably support her pre- tensions if there were any prospect of success, But if it be true that the Pope has instructed these servants of the Church to have nothing to do with this Spanish revolutionary govern- ment, in giving it any countenance as church- men, then we may expect before long a direct and sanguinary issue between Church and State which may tempt the exiled Queen to some point nearer than Paris to her active party, which will be the still powerful party of the Church in Spain. Her proclamations against the revolution are doubtless designed to encourage this apparently inevitable con- flict. Createp DirFERENoxs.—Mr. Sumner was very earnest the other day against the outrage of discrimination on account of color, and said we might as well rule men from the polls for the color of the eyes. Here is the trouble with these men. They cannot see that with color of the skin are associated other more in- superable differences of which that is only the sign. Mr. Sumner asked indignantly ‘‘whether any inherent quality planted in the human form by God can be made by any vote of man @ qualification for citizenship under our consti- tution.” Certainly it can. Comparative in- telligence is as much dependent upon inherent quality of brain as comparative color is de- pendent upon inherent quality of skin ; yet this is made a qualification even in Massachusetts. How ir 18 Dong.—There are some cases being heard just now on claims for seats in the State Legislature which show us how the public voice is taken in the choice of legis- lators, It is the old story of the falling out of those who keep honest men from their rights. Whalen and McKeever are both democrats, and Whalen had three hundred majority, which McKeever evidently thinks is small enough to to be set aside by hard swearing. In the course of the case one election inspector swears that he saw another drop ballots on the floor and substitute others to be put in the box. This light-fingered fellow was named McQuade. McKeever, therefore, ought to have bought McQuade, but perhaps could not borrow twenty CSRS Oe A Strver Erepaant.—Two millions of dol- lars in United States silver coin has accumu- lated in Montreal, and the Canadians do not know what to do with it. If they are wise they will trade it for United States gold-bear- ing bonds. Conertss.—The proceedings of the two houses of Congress to-day will probably reveal the programme of the short remnent left of the session. We conjecture that it will have to be limited mainly to the appropriation bills and the pending constitutional amendment, and that the great mass of the lobby jobs, from sheer necessity, will have to be indefinitely postponed. All hands are too much interested in the incoming administration to do much of anything this side the 4th of March except office-hunting, Tue Exp or Brapiey.—Joseph H. Brad- ley, of Washington city, says he will not apolo- gize to Judge Fisher. Judge Fisher says he will not permit him to practise in the Criminal Court until he does, and’the Supreme Court will not allow his name to be placed on the list of attorneys until he is restored in the Criminal Court. Thus ends Bradley. Tae Dent STatEMENT indicates the con- tinuance of the steady increase of the national debt. The increase since November, 1867, is sixty-five millions. Fifty-two millions of this is chargeable to the Pacific Railroad, leaving only thirteen at the door of administrative extravagance. This is too much, Proper economy, moreover, would have given us | constant decrease, The Texas Convention. This piebald body, which has been sitting for months hatching a constitution under fre- quent and questionable instructions from the Congressional oligarchy in Washington, and doing a big business in legislative enactments, railway charters, unbounded grants of the public domain and credit for the benefit of its own members and other birds of a feather, has at last screwed its courage up to the sticking point of submitting the new constitution to the people for ratification. It was long the intention of the ruling carpet-baggers in that body to make its action final and ran no risks in submitting anything to the popular vote. But a wholesome fear that President Grant would not stand any nonsense of that kind, even from so out-of-the-way and obscure a corner as Austin, Texas, has changed the original determination of that honorable body. We recommend them to submit to the people also the iniquitous railroad, land and bond grants and the many other charters which the members have got up for their individual benefit. This will be their only salvation; for unless the peoplegf Texas approve these frauds the new Congress, under the stimulant of Grant's honesty and fixed purpose to purify the government and the governing party of the country, will surely upset all their schemes. Under the coming régime it is not improbable that all this Texas work will have to be done over again. ‘The Montenegrins and the Tarks. The announcement by cable that a severe fight had taken place between the Turks and the Montenegrins may turn out to be a little sen- sational, There is a strong disposition in certain quarters to make as much as possible of every little trouble that arises in any part of the Turkish empire. Every row is magni- fied into a revolution and every skirmish, when reported, becomes a bloody battle. At the same time it deserves to be borne in mind that the Montenegrins have long been a source of trouble to the Turks. They are a small people, estimated at about one hundred and ninety- six thousand, and occupying a country not more than one thousand five hundred square miles in area. The people, however, are brave and the country is mountainous. They belong to the non-united Greek Church, are largely in sympathy with Russia and detest Turks and all Mohammedans, Fired some- what with the spirit of the old Crusaders, and resembling in many respects the Highland Scots of the Rob Roy period, they have always been dangerous neighbors or trouble- some subjects of the Porte. The mountain- eers at one time formed part of the great kingdom of Servia. Overcome, like the rest of the southeast of Europe, by the conquer- ing Mussulmans in the fifteenth century, they have never accepted the tenets of Mohammed or submissively bowed the knee to their Turkish masters. In 1796, in a collision with the Turks, the latter are said to have lost some thirty thousand men. Montenegro has always been a pet of Russia, and for many years has received from that Power an annual subsidy of eight thousand ducats, or nearly four thou- sand pounds sterling. Since 1862, after a war in which they were completely worsted, they have been compelled to recognize the suze- rainty of the Porte. This trouble in Montene- gro, if it prove to be correct, will show that the old spirit still remains and that Christians everywhere are unwilling subjects of the Porte. THEATRICAL MaNNERS.—Mr. Tholer, ‘‘one of the quietest and most gentlemanly actors” in the Fisk opera troupe, has puiiched the head of Bergfeld, the pastoral and mild-man- nered director. Bergfeld’s face was bruised and his teeth broken, and by the end of his interview with the gentlemanly actor he was insensible. ‘‘ C'est wn sort exigeant” to bea director. If these are the manners of “‘the quietest and most gentlemanly actor in the troupe,” what kind of manners have the less amiable members? GeneraL Grant's MOvVEMENTS.—General Grant was mainly among the church people yesterday. See our reporters’ reports. To- day he will resume again his receptions of the politicians, including Spencer’s republican committee, which claims to be the Simon Pure article. We fear, however, that a few days’ study will hardly enable even General Grant to geta clear understanding of the mysteries of our New York republican cliques and fac- tions. Toe Tenure or Orrick Bit. IN THE Senate.—This bill was before the Senate on Saturday, but nothing was done with it. Senator Morton declared himself ‘satisfied that the law had been used to put thieves in office.” This evidently alarmed the Senate, and the bill was thrust aside as if its repeal might result in ousting the thieves. Is not the Senate deeply interested in the thieves holding their places? So it would appear. Taxes AND SurFRraGE.—‘‘Whoever is taxed,” says Wendell Phillips, “has a right to vote.” Will they never get over this unrepublican property qualification notion? If taxation has anything to do with suffrage it ought to be proportlonal. We have the true republican system in this city. Here a fellow who is taxed fifty cents indirectly votes a great deal more than a man who is taxed fifty thousand dollars, be MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL GRANT, A Quiet Day—The President Elect Goes to “ Church. Yesterday was spent in comparative quiet by Gene- ral Grant and his party, at any rate when contrasted with the rash and excitement of Saturday, The President elect and Mrs. Grant remained in their apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel during the early part of the morning, and they were not dis- turbed by visitors. About eleven o'clock General Grant accompanied by General Badeau entered a carriage and was driven to the St, Paul's Methodist Episcopal ¢hurch, on avenue, corner of Twenty-second street, Shere ths arrived while the service was in pro- gress, and remained until the close. ‘Ihe sermon ‘was preached by the Rey. Dr. Hidgoway. The Gen- eral Was soon recognized by & large portion of the congregation, and much more altention was paid to him by those who could see him than to the preach: ing of the reverend pastor. General Grant rewurned tothe Fifth Avenue Hotel about half-past tweive o'clock and at once proeeeded to his apartments, Among the few gentlemen who paid him visits yes. terday were General Cochrane, Mr. Paddock, of Omata, and Mr. Bonner, Who spent some time in friendly conversation with the President le Mrs, Grant remained at home all the m ing, but although a large number of cards were sent up to her, she did not see any of the ladies who called. About two o'clock the General and his lady started for the residence of Mr, A. 't. Stewart, where a din- ner party was given in their honor. The company invited to meot General Grant Wasa very scicct one, last arrested, with a view of sending the case to District Attorney Garvin today for his action. While the exact nature of yesterday’s inquiry was not ascertained, enough has leaked out to justify the statement that every day adds to the tery surrounding the murder, and the Superin' ent and others who have from the first given it their careful attention are drifting about in a sea of per- Plexity and doubt as to who the guilt can be traced to, y¥ and Maher were separately questioned a3 to the dress worn by Maher before and after the murder and his movemenis on the m«¢ cli of Be . aa bot ascertain ed jaher did obtain at present worn by him at the Five Points Mission some days after the mur- der and that he sold the old jacket that he had discarded for five cents to a junk dealer, has also been discovered that on the morning of the murder, about ten o'clock, he went to Eighth street, and was employed by a Mrs. Taper ee shovel snow from the sidewalk, at the conclusion of which he re- his remuneration and agreed to return next morning for more em loyment. ‘These circum- stances, coupled with others, 1s considered strongly favorable to the prisoner; but these are counteracted by the recognition of the coat and hat given him by De Lanoy and other very strong circumstances that have not been divulged. Mater is vehement in his denial of ever having received a coat and hat from De Lanoy, and declares that the representations of pe Lanoy are the result of a conspiracy against im. The Superintendent of Police declares that this ig the most remarkable and difficult case to straighten out that nas ever occurred, and whiie ne claims indefatigable exertion, taithiul and patient perseverance and remarkable acuteness for hia Officers, he frankly admits that they have most signally failed to epen gney what vor populi and the law officers demand of them—the arrest of the murderer. ‘ As the matter is 80 soon to go into the hands of the District Atiorney itis likely that within afew hours the entire circumstances and incidents attend- ing the search for the assassin will be given to the public, who can then form a better opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoners now in custody. A day or two ago Tallant’s little sister called at the Fi mth precinct station house, and, modestly approaching the desk, asked to see her brother. Her Tequest was refused. She then requested the ser- 6 to tell him that his mother had been turned into the s*reet with her family, who were now out- casts and unable to provide food and shelter without his assistance. When the message was communi- cated to Tallant the picture of his aged mother and little sisters turned into the street was too much for him, and he gave way to lus grief in a copious flow of tears. A Few Questions for the Detectives, by a Citizen. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— When reading as | have done the various accounts given from day to day of this mysterious crime and the comments which have been made upon the evi- dence adduced for and against the different parties arrested, I have often wished that Edgar A. Poe were alive. 1 think his keen mina would have taken up some scents which the police have allowed to escape them; and although I do not expect to sup- ply the place of Poe I yet wish here, a3 one of the public, to make a few comments upon some points which are so far very unsatisfactory to me, And first as to the time of the murder. The coroner’s jury put it at about half-past six o’clock, while the evidence from Mr. Rogers’ family place it nearer seven. ‘The colored boy’s evi- dence, if good for anything, puts the time near seven, else he could not even pretend to be able to identify @ man seen at the distance at which he saw the two men. Second, as to the size of the murderer, it seems to have been accepted by every one that he was asmall man, because Mr. Kogers spoke of him as the smaller man of the two. Now, it 1s obvious that a man engaged in a death struggle with another who had come suddenly upon him might very easily get a wrong linpression as to his size, and he might even be mistaken as to the relative size the two men, for in an uncertain light it is well known that an object a litte way off frequently seems larger than it really is. I thére- fore hold that the murderer was not hecessarily a small man, or even the smaller of the two. Now my comment upoa those two points of time and size is that they are quoted as going far to establish the in- nocence of Logan, the and I think they are of little weight as op tothe strong presumptive suspicion against him. if the part of the coat in the hands of the police wih not go on Logan the large that wor seem to decide the matter in his favor; but if itis @ good fit it would show clear! that he and the murderer were nearly ol a size; even if it were nota fit, bat simply went > that wi jot excl] him, as such men wear all kinds of fitt garments. ie pu have never been informed as to how Logau’s stood the test of the fit o1 the coat, In to the time of the murder, it was simply near seven, and at about that same hour this Logan was confessedly ushered out of a house of ill fame not very far distant ir the Place of the murder. He was 80 closé % tha that very strong evidence of his absence ought to be required to free him from suspicion, And what is the evidence in his favor? The testimony of his poor guilty mistress aud his boon ee who may have been his com- panion at the murder. And those two are allowea gravely to guess him into another location by ten to twenty minutes, and m doing this they do not agree, although testifying of the same events. ‘That they guessea at the time is obvious; or, rather, it is obvious that they put it to suit the requirements of the case, for neither had an exact test of the time. And the story of the whistie sounding, re- membered many days after, is too transparently a trumped up matter to impose upon any one but the greenest. As opposed to this slight exculpatory evidence there are these very strongly suspicious facts:—He left a disreputable house near enough the scene of the murder, as to time and place, to admit of tne pean, of his being the murderer. He was ac- nowledged a “ dangerous” character. He had on a light overcoat and a@ soft hat—answering thus far the description of the murderer. He had a com- panion with him asthe murderer had. He brings forth no evidence of his whereabouts immediately after the murder and during the day, but at night he joins his mistress again, but witn a different overcoat on and with a bandaged hand, and he does not undress that night but les down on the top of the bed. Was he mg oe | himself ready to run? ‘Then, too, his brother testified that he slept with him that same night he was in Greene street, Why did his brother think if best to come out with this false evidence? Did James go from the murder to Michael’s house? Loth were skuiking when arrested. There are several points that, 90 far as the public know, the police have uever iuvesti- ited. If they have investigated them, then the pub- fie ought to have been informed of tne result. Had Logan the large a knife when le was arrested? Was ita new one, and if so has any effort beon made to find out where and when it was bought? What does he state that he did with the white coat which he wore on the mornii of the murder, and did not wear that night? Where did he _s, over fences to escape the police, and what do the police of that dis- trict Know of such a chase? In what manner was his band hurt/ Was tt praised or cut? Have the po- lice tried if they could find any dealer who could identify the coat In their possession as one he probably sold? If so have that dealer and Logan been conironted? Can Michael Logan bring any evi- dence to show what he was dolug between seven and nine o'clock on the morning of the murder? Does Rebatai lle resemble Taliant in any respect? Has the colored boy been asked if Robataille looks like one of the two men? Have the police investigated thoroughly the roe whether there is any house hear the scene of the murder where the murderer could suddenly have taken refa, It ts strange if a man excited as he must have been, and without & hat, could have walked far through the streets and not been seen and remembered by sume one. In this connection there comes oP a curt. ous question for speculation, Why did the inurderer take off his overcoat when he was about to aesail Mr. Rogers? And there is another question which f think it right to ask, although itis not ta accordance with my theory of the murder. Have the police ascertained if there was any one who had agtudge against Mr, Rogers—any waiter formeriy under his charge, for example Of course, the police are on their guard not to be thrown off a real scent by some false ones ee under their noses on murpose to decelve them, but, as one of the public, claim that the police ought to satisfy us on such points as the above aud others of the same kind, Be THE MAINZER CARNIVAL SOCIETY. To conclude the season of carnival festivities which this society has arranged during the winter, they held their last session last night at Geib’s Wal- hatla, on Orchard street, President Sauer, assisted by @ number of vice presidents and secretaries, con- ducted the proceedings, Dr. Dupuis took charge or all the Invited guests, and th embers themselves, their wives and clildren and nds, amused them selves hugely, Witty and humorous compositions were recited, fll of allasions to: local afairs, and the police, Kennedy, Bergh, the City Council, Andy Jobnaon, ‘the several prominent members of 4 society and the follies of the day were the most La tractive allusions of thefevening. The great mio id 4 ance of the evening was by Mr. George Arnol 1. lady's dress, with extravagant Grecian ny geet in Very goodjvoice a soprano solo from “Fra ange io and a duet with Mr. Saaer. ‘The large hal was by a very large assembly.