The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1869, Page 6

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Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the Heratp 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 HERALD. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Datzy Heraxp 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 Heraup at the same price it is furnished in the city. THE NEWS. Enrope. The cable despatches are dated February 9. ‘The new Ministry of Greece supports the King in adhering to the resolutions of the Conference. “ The Sultan has appointed a new Minister of War. *Espartero still refuses to take his seat in the Cortes, and it is proposed to abolish the Colonial Ministry as a distinct department. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has addressed Minister Jonnson, urging the adoption of the princi- pies of free trade in the United States. Cuba. Battalions of volunteers are being organized by the authorities for garrison duty and the regular troops are being sent to the front. Our Havana letter of the 2d inst. states that an early compromise between the belligerents is looked for and that the Captain General had already sent to Spain the basis of an amicable agreement. Quesada appears to be the onlyrebel chief determined to oppose a compromise. The Legislature. In the State Senate yesterday the Judiciary Com- mittee reported adversely to exempting from taxa- tion certain lands belonging to the trustees of the Satlors’ Snug Harbor. Bills were introduced relat- ‘ng to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church; to incorporate @ safe deposit eompany; to Provide for the appointment of Commissioners of Accounts; relating to taxes and assessments in New York. A nuthber of unimportant bills were passed. After debating the bill to submit the amended con- stitution to the electors the Senate r A number of bills of but littie importance were ordered toa third reading in the Assembly yester- day. A petition for the amendment of the Excise law was presented. The Judiciary Committee re- ported adversely to loaning certain moneys of the United Siates, after which the Assembly adjourned. . Congress. The Monday session of the Senate was adjourned at halfpast eleven o'clock on Tuesday, the time helng expended mainly ta debate ‘on the constita- tional amendment. Mr. Howard’s substitute for the report of the mittee Was rejected by @ vote of 16 to t elve o'clock Tuesday's session commenced, and after a short interval the debate on the amendment was resumed. Amendments re- moving disqualification from participants in the late rebellion, and excluding Chinamen and indians not taxed were rejected, and the bill was finally passed by @ vote of 40 to 16, The Senate ihen adjourned. In the House the Air Line Ratiroad pili was dis cussed and a motion to lay it on the table was lost by a vote of 60 to 103, It was then ordered to be engrossed and went to the Speaker's table. The Senate amendments to the Consu!ar an’ Diplomatic Appropriation bili were partly concurred in, among those not concurred in being the one to strike oat Mr. Butler's section for the solidation of the South American missions, Unanimous consent was given that the Committee on Banking and Currency report on certain propositions under their charge on next Saturday. The Army Appropriation bili was again considered in Committee of the Whole until the recess. In the evening session the sections of the Interna! Xevenue bill relating to distilled spirits &nd tobacco were discussed in committee, when a fair encounter of witensned between Mr. Schenck ond Mr. Wood relative to the former's military ex- perience, An amendment giving the power of ap- Pointing the twenty-five stpervisors wholly into the hands of tie Commissioner wae adopted, and the Jiouse soon after adjourned. Miseriinneous. In the Ur ‘tates Supreme Court yesterday peti- tions Ww ies cor the release on habeas corpus of Spangler and Arueid, now confined at Dry Tortugas for complicity in the inurder of Mr. Lincoln, Dr. Mndd's pardon bas already veen prepared and probably signed. Revenue officers are to be stationed on the islands NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. ———__—__ Alaska coast, to prevent the it of fur seal. They will be asmsted by pp force and @ steamer. Judge Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, present Judge Advocate General of the Army, is spoken of as the Probable Secretary of the Treasury under General Grant, Itis known that during the progress of the Impeachment trial General Grant recommended him to Ben Wade as @ most suitable person for the posi- tion. ‘The remains of Mrs, Surratt were disinterred on Monday and placed in a vault in Mount Olivet Ceme- tery at Washington, They were mn an excellent state of preservation, the face being perfect in feature and ithe whole body compact and solid. Even the dress and shoes were apparently unsoiled. Applicalion has been made to the President by a party of actors to secure the return of J, Wilkes Booth’s how into the hands of his friends, A bill was introduced in the Pennsylvania State Senate yesterday intended to prevent the Erie Railroad Company from electing @ new board of directors for the Fort Wayne Railroad by proxies from Europe. The Social Equality bill, which decrees that a negro may go anywhere and enjoy anything thata white man may, if his purse permits, has passed the Louisiana State Senate, Marray MeConneli, an Tllinow State Senator, was murdered in his office in Jacksonville, IIL, yester- day, the marks of five slupgsnot blows being found upon his head, ‘The Wisconsin Senate is favorable to the forma- tion of another State from its northern boundary and a portion of Michigan, New Orleans was given up to the carhivalistic gayeties of Mardigras yesterday. The Legislature was adjourned over on Monday in consequence. Whalen’s execution for the murder of D'Arcy McGee takes place to-morrow. ‘The charter election in Binghamton, N. Y., has gone republican by 158 majority, City. _ Thyee European steamships arrived in this port on Monday, each of them having experienced very heavy Weather and sustained more or less injury uring a gale on the 26th of January. The Europa brought the crew of the wrecked schooner Brilliant. ‘The Queen has her funnel stove in and eight of her crew disabled, and the City of Baltimore has lost her bowsprit and all her head gear, Mr. James T. Brady, the eminent lawyer, died at his residence in this a city at an carly arly hour yesterday aaa I the courts were Bdjourned in respect for the memory of the deceased, high eulogiums being pronounced at each of these by prominent members of the bar. Judge Bedford, at the Mayor’s solicitation, has commenced an investigation into the Rogers mur- der. Tallant, one of the prisoners, was examined at length yesterday and then released on his parole to appear as a witness when wanted. The Cunard steamer Russia, Captain Cook, will sail to-day for Liverpool via Queenstown. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past eleven o’clock A. M. ‘The steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, of the Black Star line, will leave pier 13 North river at thaee P, M. to-day for Savannah, Ga, The steamer Empire, Captain Price, will sail from pier 15 East river at four P. M. to-day for Washing- ton and Georgetown, D. C., and Alexandria. ‘The stock market yesterday was dull and prices for the generai list remained steady. Pacific Mall was firmer. Gold sold down to 134% and finally closed at 135, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman Thos. Cornell, of New York; E. Innis, of Tarrytown, and John D. Irwin, of Hamilton, C. W., are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General Alfred E. Meyer, of the United States Army; S. M. Johnson, of Washington; W. S. Strong, of Burlington, Vt., and J. P. Whitney, of Boston, are at the Hoffman House. Geo. R. Galloway, of Chicago; G. W. L. Crook, of Memphis, and Val. Love, of London, England, are at the St. Charles Hotel. J. H. Wright, of Louisville, Ky.; W. H. DeWolfe, of New Jersey, amd R. 8. Pegram, of Virginia, are at the Maltby House. John A. Griswold, of Troy, and Captain Chas. W. Wiley, of Baltimore, are at the New York Hotel. General Raaslof, Danish Minister of War, and Jos. M. Beebe, of Boston, are at the Brevoort House. Dr. Cabel, of Richmond, Va.; 8. B. Malloy, of Eng- land; Smith McCabe, of Newfoundland, and F. G. Norton, of Rome, N. Y., are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Grant and Ben Butler—The Twe Master Spirits of the Republic. On the whole historic canvas perhaps no figure has ever stood out in such singular, solitary and in some senses sublime grandeur as at this moment does that of General Grant. In a world too wide for the ambition of the First Napoleon in its wildest dreams to grasp, he sits simple, silent, strong ; and the thoughts, the aspirations, the ihterests, the hopes, the fears and, in some portions, the tears of a whole nation turn towards him. In vain we scan the page of history fora parallel. The internal condition of the country is not dis- similar to that of England when William of Orange assumed its sway. England had then been torn by a series of civil wars which left her whole system rent and broken. The char- acter of the contending parties was not dis- similar. In the chivalry, the gallantry, the devotion, the manly sentiment to the “lost cause” of the cavaliers who adhered to the house of Stuart the South finds a partial pro- totype ; while in the sturdy vigor, the unflinch- ing perseverance, the great unquenched courage in the darkest hour and the inflexible principle which distinguished the Parliament—we may almost call the republican party of that day— the Congress and the North find almost an exact parellel. General Grant, too, looms up «before the world ss a man possessing many of those great qualities with which Macaulay on his pictured page has surrounded William in such splendid pose. He has the same ab- sence of ostentation, the same calm confi- dence, the same unbending will, the same high sense of duty which Macaulay ascribes to William. Cromwell, even with his iron and relentless rule, was to William what Thaddens Stevens was to Grant—cnt many : \ifficulties from his path and created in its natura,' reaction an appetite for, if not less firm, milde, and more healing counsels. Let us hope that thy parallel may be fully carried out, and that as William, where necessary, by @ severe but beneficent moderation, succeeded in completely hevling those dissensions which divided and distracy 2d England and so laying the stable foundation o” her after greatness, 0 Grant may, by his wise and prudent administration, reconcile all oppos- ing elements among us. That he will doso may be with almost certainty prophesied; for the moderate temper of the man naturally inclines him towards conservatism; and should our prophecy be borne out by subsequent events General Grant will have hastened (for no one can prevent) the coming of thdt greater future which awaits our country. An oppor- tunity such as no other statesman ever had lies before him. The voice of passion and of party seems supernaturally hushed. The great masses of the North have a thorough faith in his will and his power to establish peace on a firm basis, and that is the calm, still current of opinion which runs underneath all the noisy babble and brawl which mere politicians raise on the Of St. George ana St, Paul, Venrings’ strait, on tne | surface, The South, though still in sorrow, * point his ultrg radical camp followers. took’ to ia with hope, if not gwithy thorough confidence, and are prepared to accept any policy which is laid out for them by their con- queror which is marked with a sense of benigant justice. The Senate and House of Congress are reposing on their arms, curious and anxious to know what the ides of March will re- veal, and we are filled with a deep trust- fulness that that truculent and irascible body will have at last found a President who will exact their respect by the silent grandeur: of his character. Evon the renowned chief, Gen- eral Butler, on whom, since the death of Stevens, the war mantle has descended, and who, without the overawing domination which experience and age gave to Pennsylvania's acrid statesman, possesses far more subtlety of thought, more statesmanlike adapta- bility, more readiness of resource, more superb audacity and more close and crush- ing vigor in its application, stands calmly leaning on his spear, unmindful of the small conflicts which rage ardund him, and watching, with a curiosity not untouched, with confidence the action of his former rival. It will require but a slight turn of the political kaleidoscope to throw Grant and Butler into combination. Both are strong men, powerful in themselves without the aid of party. Both are old demo- crats. Grant was forced upon the republican party by his enormous popularity with the masses, and Butler in his Congressional dis- trict routed the radical element which assailed him in every quarter, from the feeble yelping of Kilpatrick to the bolder barking of the Tribune. Both are men of the people, and on the vital question of finance, upon which the prosperity of the nation now depends, we look to see them standing shoulder to shoulder at the head of the new party which must inevitably be formed. Those who know Grant best predict that he will not prove himsel@#unequal to the responsi- bilities of his exalted position. He still ad- heres to that quality which Carlyle places in the gospel of greatness above all. others— silence. When he accepted a weightier re- sponsibility than this (the command of the Army of the Potomac) he issued no rotund Pope or McClellan small Napoleon pronun- ciamientos, but simply said to Mr. Lincoln, “Thope I shall not disappoint the confidence of the country.” He did not. We have every reason to believe it will be so now. We may describe him, as in full accordance with Hum- boldt’s theory, ‘‘asa great man, who, happening to find important business in life set before him to do, did it accordingly as a matter of the merest practical detail.” With all his appearance of soldierly simplicity and unaffected manners he is very exclusive and of less broad but far deeper mind than Lincoln. Hehasa scorching insight into human nature which makes him very friendly to those to whom he takes a fancy, but distant to those who are not con- genial tohim. He has a strong partiality for men of solid standing in society as well as in public affairs, and to that extent he may disap- While he will incline towards the best of those of the party which accepted him, he will probably map out humanity on the Biblical idea of the sheep and the goats, and cast aside with cool con- tempt the selfish dogmas of party. Letus, too, rest on our arms and await the ides of March. A Star Shedding Light on the Sun, This is a year for wonderful astronomical phenomena, There are to be four eclipses— two of the sun and two of the moon. There will be a total eclipse of the sun next summer, visible in North America, the West Indies and in Printing House square in this city. It will not require a smoked glass to witness the latter. It may be seen with the naked eye. The occultation may be said already to have commenced ; for it will be seen from an article we copy to-day that a single Star can shed light on the Sun, if it does not finally eclipse the latter altogether. All these extraordinary spectacles in celestial spaces are not, however, equal to others which seem to arise from an inexplicable mirage that sadly affects the brain of the editor of the Sun. He seems to have suddenly waked up, and, rubbing the obscura- tion from his discolored optics, to have wit- nessed the astounding miracle that the pub- lication of the list of letters remaining in the Post Office is » sign of newspaper prosperity ; that papers only of the largest circalation enjoy this special privilege. This notorious untruth he parades before the public as official evidence that his paper has the leading circulation in thecity. When we see an assertion like this emanate from a paper punctilious of its reputation for truth and candor—a paper that makes and unmakes Cabinets, sends abroad foreign’ ambassadors, creates and smashes State and Custom House slates at will and roots up and drags out all the secret movements of the great Powers of the earth, from Kamtschatka to Concy Island—we confess serious alarm for the fate of the author of sich fabrications. ‘There is a lake of fire seven times hotter,” &c., which is reserved for the punishment of the mendacious. Satan seems to have been lately raking over Printing House square and is stirring up “red-hot corner” with a vengeance. Seriously, the statement that the publication of the list of letters indicates the superior circulation of any newspaper in this city is a sham anda swindle, Its publication has been peremp- torily refused time and again by the Herawp, because the sum allowed by the Post Office was insufficient to cover the setting up of the type; to say nothing of the valuable space it would occupy in our columns; and it is only rarely that papers in the city have been found with advertising columns so barren and poverty-stricken os to publish it at all, xnuch leas to have the despicable meanness to ens eavor to make the publication of the list a vehi.’ of falsehood through which to {mpose upon tie credulity of the public. The Star shines brighter than*the Sun, Upon the latter there are some dark and very dirty spots which it will require the exertions of the shining lighi's of that concern for some time to come to remove. Pst Vicrorv ov tue ‘Am Line Ratt- RoAD—The vote fry which, in the House yes- terday, the bill for art air line road ber ween the political and the commercial metropolis’ of the Union was ordered’ to a third reading. (See our Congressional reports.) We dike this idea of the supremacy of Congres’ over railroads and telegraphs, instead of a close corporation and grinding monopoly in that the: constitutional: power of Congreas; to regulate commerce between the States and to establish post offices and post roads will prevail, and that the first victory of this new bill foreshadows a new order of progress and reform in our railroads and telegraphs over. allthe Union, Truly, we are still in the midst of a great revolution, General Grant, the Politicians and the Office Hunters. How time flies? It seems but yesterday that General Grant was expected in New York, but in reality he was yesterday in Philadelphia, expected at wedding, having spent several days here and departed en route to Washing- ton. It was supposed that he came here to cast about for a Secretary of the Treasury or something of that sort; we know that the interested politicians were on the gui vive for some important revelations concerning his Cabinet and his policy ; and we have seen that the office hunters, to say nothing of tuft hun- tera, have headed him off and brought him to bay in squads, companies and battalions in all his goings out and comings in, walking or riding, by day or by night. They have dined him, wined him, shaken hands with him, made speeches at him and buttonholed him wherever they could catch him— Up stairs and down stairs And in my lady’s chamver; and yet it does not appear that the politi- cians, Cabinet makers or place hunters are any wiser to-day in reference to the General’s intentions than they were this day last week. He talked horse, the Central Park, the weather and all the usual conversational topics of the day except politics. Verily he played here the play of “‘Hamlet” with Hamlet left out. All this looks very like a camel, a weasel or a whale ; but we can't say which. Among the office eoekers most pointedly coming to the point was the editor of an Irish republican news- paper, who gave the General the astounding information that there are seven millions of the sons of the old sod in the United States; that a hundred thousand of them, more or ess, had voted for Grant; that accordingly they wanted a first rate appointment under his administra- tion, and that Michael Scanlan, of Chicago, was their man and his man. Michael must, therefore, be set down for the Cabinet or the mission to England, or A hundred thousand Irishmen, more or less, Will Know the reason wily. They This is a good hint for the Germans. have so far been too modest. Three or four hundred thousand of them, more or less, voted for Grant. Upon the rule laid down for Scan- lan, they ought to have two or three members of the Cabinet or two or three foreign mis- sions, and a few fat consulates to balance the books. But again: Our fellow citizens of African descent down South, known among the red hot democracy as the ‘damned nig- gers,” voted for General Grant to the number of half a million, more or less. Are they to have nothing under the rule laid down for Scanlan? Here we get into deep water. As for the brave ‘‘boys in blue” of the “Grand Army of the Republic,” we have seen, from their late demonstrations here around Grant, that they can take care of themselves, and intend to do it. We hardly know what to make of the case of Charley Spencer. He appeared before Gen- eral Grant on Monday with all his républican committee, the Simon Pure article, en grande tenue, and Spencer, in the radiant glory of the night-blooming cereus, made a little speech at “the coming man,” but all that Grant had to say in reply was ‘‘Good day.” So away went Spencer and his committee smiling and happy, but still in the dark. But they have seen the General, and he will perhaps know them from ‘the Twenty-third street concern” when they call at the White House. There is some- thing in being identified when you call again, and there will be such a rush and crush at Washington from and after the 4th of March. For every man appointed, too, there will be ten disappointed, and then there will be trouble in the happy family. Meantime Dana halts in his Cabinet making. Grant has come and gone, but he has thrown no light on the subject. To-day the electoral votes for President are to be counted in a joint meeting of the two houses, ‘Old Ben Wade” presiding, and the result will be officially declared. So that from and after to-morrow, being officially informed of his election, Gen- eral Grant may begin to nominate his Cabinet. The Senate is waiting to hear from him before releasing him from’ the Tenure of Office law. They think that he may turn out all right; but they fear that he may run off and upset the radical wagon and its precious contents, whiskey and all, if they give him a free rein. A few days more, and with the lifting of the curtain a little we may see some of the actors on the stage who are to lead off under Presi- dent Grant in the new national drama. “Hints rrom Horacg.”—The Tribune says, with that moderation so notoriously character- istic of that judicious journal, that if black men were good enough to vote for the repub- lican party in North Carolina they are good enough to attend an inauguration ball in Washington. If the 7viwne meant that as a fling at inauguration balls it is not so far wrong, but, as serious argument, it is more puerile than the chronic puerility of Mr. Greeley's utterances. As well say that if an ignorant bog trotter, fresh from the ‘‘ould sod,” is good enongh to grow cabbages in Mr. Greeley’s garden he is good enough to sit at the table and eat them in company with his philosophic but inconsistent employer. Tae BroapwaY Rowngny—Inow vs. Gass asp Diamonps.—Between seven and eight o'clock on Monday evening certain bold rob- bers smashed with iron the window and glass case of-a Broadway jeweller, and seizing a tray of diamonds, valued at eighteen hundred dol- lars, escaped with their ‘eae This daring robbery, at an hour when Broa#Wway is crowded and brilliantly illuminated, should warn our jewellers to adopt a precaution which only one of their number has already taken—the placing of an iron screen in front @ their show windows. It indicates, moreover, the growing contempt of law, to which the excise regula- tiona, almost universally more honored in the breach than in the observance, have gradually habituated the public consience. It also forei- bly suggests to our detective police the duty of increased vigilance. If the suspicion is grell founded that this, like more than one every State or in any State, We guess, too, | ot'ier outrage of a similar kind, was the work rw, ‘wot English “experts,” why not our New York detectives hastep to put emptied in such reélations with their London brethren as shall enable them to ‘‘spot” these thieves directly they arrive in this city and to thwart effectually their nefatious pro- jects? ‘ ‘Two Now Constitutional Amendments from the Senate, After a vigorous struggle of endurance against the project day and night, for a day or two past, the democratic minority of the Sen- ate, driven from every point of defence and delay, have had to succumb, and the radical Proposition for two new amendments of the constitution has been passed—yeas forty, nays sixteen—being the two-thirds vote required to pass & constitutional amendment in either house and a considerable margin over. The first amendment thus passed by the Senate, article fifteen, is more specific than that of the House, and more comprehensive. It provides that in the matter of voting and the right to hold office no discrimination among citizens of the United States shall be made by any State ‘on account of race, color, nativity, property, education or creed.” This is uni- versal or “‘manhood” suffrage, cutting off all fstrictions except for crime, &c., while the House amendment provides rather for impar- tial than universal suffrage. The second amendmeyg proposed, article sixteen, so changes the second clause of the first section of the second article of the con- stitution that instead of leaving the mode or manner of choosing the Presidential electors to the Legislatures of the several States they shall be chosen by the people as Congress may direct. What doesthis mean? We will explain. New York, for instance, has twenty republi- can members of the eves td | two Fepublican Senators in Congress, against eleven dem- ocratic members of the House, or twenty-two in all against eleven. Now, at the late Presi- dential election, all the electors being chosen in the lump by the popular vote of the State, Seymour gets our whole thirty-three electoral votes. But suppose this sixteenth amendment in force, with a law of Congress providing that the electors shall be chosen by single Congres- sional districts, each district choosing its own elector, leaving only the’ two Senatorial elec- tors to be chosen by the State at large; then, though the State may go democratic by a heavy majority, the republicans may have twenty of the electors Against thirteen dem- ocrats. In other States the advantage will be reversed under this rule, but we presume that this new amendment was mainly intended to cover the State of New York, and to neutralize the heavy democratic vote of this city. Both these amendments go to the House, and from the compact party vote by which they have passed the Senate we infer they will pass the House and be submitted to the State Legislatures for their ratification. How the prescription will work among the States time will soon disclose. Under Which Queen, Blonde or Brunette? From the morning of the world when the provoking apple tree vexed the mind of the first gentlewoman, Eve, down to the practical present, great questions have periodically arisen to agitate the public mind. Passing over those minor matters of material and intellec- tual philosophy which were finally set at rest by Galileo, Harvey, Sir Isaac Newton and the Cock lane ghost, we come to the mooted social questions of later days—Who killed Cock Robin? Who struck Mr. Patterson? Who is “Jim?” Who first nominated Grant? and what was the original color of Miss Lydia Thompson’s hair?. These queries have become matters of grave import, and espe- cially the latter. From the time when that blonde queen of burlesque burst upon our stage, wrapt in loveliness and crowned with the tawny splendor of her burning tresses, the abashed brunettes have looked on and wondered. Envy, with her hundred tongues, whispered ‘“‘L'Aurellene,” which Fashion tells us is the name of the liquid gold in which the bewitching Cora Pearl bathed her dark locks when she descended on Paris, to renew her empire, ina golden mist. Miss Thompson, however, like the indomitable lady of legend- ary fame who went down beneath the dark waters crying “Scissors!” will not be ranked among the counterfeits who assume a virtue nature gave them not. Possessing a ready and restless pen, she has now twice, like Pope's Belinda, drawn her deadly bodkin to avenge even a word that threatened to insult her golden locks. Her hair is not, as she gently insinuates of her professional sisters, @ rosy fiction, but worn from the cradle, and to the grave will she bear it. Her last pro- nunciamiento is tinged with anger which time might have tempered, but the light in the eyes of woman is lovely in all its moods. We accept the correction, and ten- derly salute the hand which leads us on to— dye. However, let us mix this all ‘with admonition due.” To those bewitching actresses who are in the early blossom of their youth we would commend a wise reticence and @ non-committal platform on the subject of their hair. In Paris, the capital of art, brunettes are catching now the bravas ot the Boulevards, and Mr. Barney Williams, deter- mined to be behind none in any branch of art, brown, black or blue, is said to have already instructed his Italian agent to ship a cargo of those sun-scarred beauties to our shores. Our people are versatile and fickle, and the hour may not be far distant when the artists who have blegched their nut brown tresses will nash their teeth at the fickleness of Fashion. Greece SurrenpERs.—The King of Greece and his Cabinet, on ‘‘the sober second thought,” it appears, have reached the con- clusion that it is best to concur in the resolu- tions of the Paris Conference. They have had a hint from the Great Bear, pérhaps, that the time has not yet come. So the Eastern question is quieted for the present, but only for the present. It is an armistice and not a treaty of perpetual,peace between the Cossack and the Greek and others, on the one side, and the Tork and his Christian friends, on the other side. Aut Riewr—The report of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate at Albany against the application of the wealthy corporation of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor to be released from the | ten thousand dollars State taxes collected from their valuable real estate in this city. | made it worth Pat's while to give it, Clearing the Record im the Rogers Cnse. Some good action was had before City Judge Bedford yesterday in getting rid of the rubbish with which the Rogers murder case has been too long-embarrassed. The full re- port of these proceedings will be found on another page of this morning's Hxraup. The case came before Judge Bedford on the affidavit of Mayor Hall, representing the people, and an opportunity ‘was thus afforded to promptly apply a.legal test to the charges made against several persons and the evi- dence accumulated, to see whether there was good ground for longer holding in cus- tody any of these persons. Thus all that could be presented in court against Tallant and against Logan No. 1—the Logan who surren- dered himself—was sifted, and it being found there was no case these men were promptly dis- charged. Such action takes the first step in pointing inquiries in a mors profitable direc- tion, and prevents the great injustice of con- fining men who are evidently not amenable on this charge. It has hitherto been too much the cage that routine has rendered it impossible to take just this kind of action, while, on the other hand, routine could never stand in the way of any action that made things easy for roguery. Evidently our new Mayor and qur pew City Judge mean to show how law can,be used to further the right. Brady’s ‘Gallery of the War. Mr. Brady, the well known photographer, is now in Washington, endeavoring f' secu fag, passage of a bill to authorize the piirch “| his Gallery of the War by the United States government. Surely this is a purchase which the government ought to make. This un- rivalled collection df photographic views® of battle fields, mountain passes, valleys, streams, prisons, cities, villages, camps and other memorable scenes of the war, taken at the time and on the spot, possesses an inestimable value. It offers a bird’s eye view of the whole eventful period. Such a pictorial chronicle of the war must prove infinitely useful to the historian and the historical painter. If any- thing like it had illustrated the wars of the Greeks and Romans how much more familiar should we be with the customs, costumes and life of antiquity. Xenophon’s ‘‘Anabasis” and Cesar's ‘‘Commentaries” would have been rendered far more intelligible and interesting. * The collection of Mr. Brady comprises new and rich treasures as a contribution to the history ofa war which forms an epoch not only in thé Afingls of this nation, but in the affairs of mankind. The information supplied by it could be replaced from no other source. We are glad to' learn that Senator Cameron, Mr> Lincoln's first Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, his successor, and General Schofield, the present Secretary of War, unite in enthusiastic recommendations of the proposal to make Mr. Brady’s gallery the property of the nation. We are sure that General Grant and all the other officers of the army would heartily favor the purchase of this invaluable collection. Every citizen of the United States would take pride in seeing it permanently placed at the Capitol. The price at which it can be secured is but a trifle in comparison with its importance as a desirable national acquisition. Detays aT THE Custom Hovsz.—Some of our merchants declare that they can get their shipments of European goods earlier by way of some Eastern port than through our own Custom House. This, if true, can be remedied with but little trouble. Let the Custom House here cease to be a political machine, let none but capable persons be employed in the Cus- toms, abolish the disgraceful system of bribery which a merchant must submit to before he can get his goods through, and the reform demanded will be accomplished. National Extravagance. The minority report against what is called the Pacific Railroad Omnibus bill is very strong, It puts ina clear light the mischiev~ ous propositions of this bill to squander public money on visionary schemes in order that we may secure some inadequate advantages. These words give the true point :—‘‘The unit- ing together in one bill of measures having no relation to each other for the too apparent pur- pose of combining strength for the whole that might not be obtained for the separate parts has never been deemed by the people the proper mode of legislation, and has never, at least in our country, added fame to legislative bodies, Our history furnishes dishonorable examples of that kind of legislation in Con- gress and in the State Legislatures. This mode of legislation is corrupting in its tenden- cies. The combination of these several rail- way companies in this bill will carry to the country, upon the face of it, the impression that it is a measure of more than doubtful propriety. Such legislation as is proposed by this bill cannot but subject Congress to the distrust and severe criticism of the people of the United States.” Congress cannot, in view of this report, pass the measure without be’ convicted before the country of wilful misuse of the public money. All these railroads will be good in time, but they are only visiond now. Let us keep on firm ground, and, above all, grapple first with this great burden, the national debt, before we build numberless rail~ roads. Pat has had his own way with this town a great while. He’ was a power and has be- come an aristocracy among us. For ten years « brogue has been better than all eloquence in asserting a claim to office, If a man could only show that he came from the parish of Ballymahoo, in the county of Tipperary, that was enough, and his right to the best place on the ticket was admitted on all hands; #0 he went into office, and his cousins went into office, and the man that he only said he knew and who came from the neighboring townland went into office. From those who went into office all the others got contracts, and the descendants of all grew up in the Sixth ward and the First ward and the Fourth ward to look upon the city government as their inheritance; and in these times Pat's daughters go to the ballof the Americus Olub and wear the diamonds for the display of which the ball is famous, But there is a change coming. AN that richness fell to Pat because he was a balance of power. Th® democracy saw that it could hold power if it had the Irish vote, and so The