The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1869, Page 6

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Heratp carriers and news dealers are in- formed that they can now procure the requisite number of copies direct from this office without delay. All complaints of “short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the Hzgratp establizh- ment. ' Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the Hzratp 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 Heratp. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Day Hxraxp 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 Heaaup at the same price it is furnished in the city. THE NEWS. Europe. ‘The cable teleyrams are dated February 22. ‘The English government proposes shortly to re- lease from imprisonment forty-five Fenian prisoners. Cestello and Warren have aiready been set at Uberty. Baron de Rothschild, a liberal, has been elected to Parliament from London, in place of a conservative. ‘The Spanish press advise the provisional goveru- ment to keep on good terms with the United States ‘The Sublime Porte has revoked ail orders and de- crees against the Greeks, and Turkish ports are now open to Greek shipping. It 18 announced that the Greek Chambers have dis- solved. The election for members of the new Legis- lature takes place in May. ‘ The North German bark Bienenkord bas sailed on @ Polar expedition from Bremerhaven. Paragaay. Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated Jannary 26. Angos- tura was surfendered on the 90th of December, the garrison marching out with the honors of war. Seventy-five guns were among the captures. On the ist Asuncion was occupted without resistance by troops sent forward on the gunboats. Lopez himself was intrenched in the mountains with 6,000 men and the Paraguayan gunboats were safe above Asuncion. McMahon still accompanied Lopez, and his attachment to him haa caused considerable feel- ing on the part of the Brazilians, who talk as if their government might at any mowent break off dipio- matic relations with the United States on account of it. In Lopez's will, leaving all his property to Mrs. Lynch, McMahon is named as execuior. Cuba. ‘The volunteers in Havana have been again making rotous demonstrations. On Sanday they sent a deputation to Captain General Dulce demanding that more rigorous measures be used against the rebels and that those Cubans who were {implicated in the recent riots be put to death. The Captain General replied that he would permit no interference with the plans or policy of the government, He counts on the endorsement and ald of Spain and on the sym- pathy and moral aid of the United States in queliing the rebellion. a8 he will act only in accordance with the law. 1,200 more troops had arrived from Spain. Business was completely paralyzed in apprehension of what may be done by ihe volunteers. Official re- ports state that the insurgents in the Central Depart- ment are disbanding. Seiior Udaeta, late Governor of Bayamo, 1# under arrest at Havana on charges of having surrendered his post. Porto Rico, An Arecibo correspondent calls attention to the fact that in Porto Rico foreign vessels are subject to thirty-seven and a haif cents tonnage dues, while American tonnage is subject to one dollar. Congress. The Senate met at noon yesterday and immedi- ately took arecess until evening. A caucus of repub- Hicans was held in the incantime, in which the billto repeal the Tenure of Omice act was discussed. ‘Twenty-two of those present, after general debate showing & divergenco of opinion on the voted t postpone the bill until Congress, and’ no one voted against rae protesie’ against this method of disposing of a subject now under discussion in open session, and left before the Vote was taken. The bill ‘was, however, postponed the Wrst thing on reassem- Diing im the evening. The bill to abolish the omco of t of Exporls and Drawbacks was called up and Mr, Ferry ofered an amendment seconded was passed by @ vote of 123 $0 40, Mr. Schenck called up his bill to strengthen the pub- lic credit and relating to contracts for the payment of coin, and made a long speech upon it, with the notice that he would move: the previous question at the conclosion. This intention, nowever, was de- feated by Mr. Butler, who moved that the House go into Committee of the Whole on the Post Oflice Ap- propriation bill, which was agreed to. An amend- Ment was adopted extending the letter carrier sys- tem to cities of 10,000 inhabitants; but on the tion bill was consideréd in Committee of the Whole, when a resolution was offered to increase the salary of the President to $40,000 per annum. Mr. Archer, @ democrat, favored making it $50,000, Both amend- ments were Tejected, Mr. Butler strongly opposing ‘their adoption, and only ten members voting for them. The committee then rose and the House adjourned. Miscellaneous, Elsewhere in our columns this morning will be found an abstract of the testimony taken before the Congressional Committee on the Election Frauds in New York. A young man was assaulted with stones and clubs on Sunday night, while crossing the river at Troy, on the ice, by a party of young yuffians, mere boys, and so severely injured that he died an hour after. Three of the youthful murderers were arrested. The Catholic church in Auburn, N. Y., was the scene of an éxciting affair on Sunday. The people of the parish gathered in force before the morning mass commenced, and being enraged at Bishop MeQuaid, who had direcied another priest to super- sede their old pastor, the Rev. Thomas O'Flaherty, who had officiated among them for twenty-three years, they passed resolutions denouncing the Bishop’s action, When the Bishop and the new in- cumbent, the Rev. Mr. Kavanagh, appeared at the altar they would not allow them to perform mass, and taking Mr. Kavanagh by the arm led him from the church, Another and a larger mecting was held later in the day, and it-was resolved to appeal to the ecclesiastical authorities, 4 ‘There 18 an Episcopal controversy of some note going on in Chicago. Bishop Cummings, of Ken- tucky, who ts of the Low Church denomination, preached in that cityon Sunday evening against the protest of Bishop Whitehouse, of the Chicago locese, who is of High Church principles. Bishop Cummings in his discourse denounced ritualism. An altercation at Southwick, Mass,, between two cigar makers, one belonging to the trade union and the other not, on Sunday, resulted in the killing of one of them by an officer who tried to arrest him. ‘The treasurer of the James Steam Mills at New- buryport, Mass, is reported to be a defaulter to the amount of $30,000, The directors, consequently, have accepted his resignation, and after some work now in progress is finished propose to stop the milis and investigate the report. . Two rear cars of an Eastern bound night express train on the Buffalo and krie Railroad ran off the track near Westfleid about three o'clock yesterday morning and rolled down are embankment eight feet high. Several passengess were injured, but no one was killed. The accident is attributed to loose mf The City. Assexor Webster hag returned to his post and to the raid upon the bankers and brokers, which he had temporarily suspended on account of illness, The brokers haw now determined to make a test case of his rignt to assess and tax the capital they use in business, Several cases of what is supposed to be hydro- phobia are reported m Queens county, L. 1, and within a momth thitty dogs, supposed to be rabid, have been kilied inthat section. A little child of a Mr. Kremenarcher, at Foster's meadows, died a day or two ago, and other persons who are known to have been bitten are in critical conditions, It is stated by Mr. Monford, who was present, that when Mr. Ludlam (who died some days ago) was~bitten, the dog had been running around ina circle and had bitten @ stable man and @ litle son of Mr. Lud- jams, ‘the mother, however, sucked the little fel- low's wound for a long time. George King, who was arrested in Cincinnati some days ago on a charge of robbing the office of Cambreling & Pine, in Wall street, of bonas to the amount of $150,000, was preduced at the Central office yesterday and committed by Recorder Hackett to the Tombs. ‘The trial of Donato Magaldo, who is charged with killing John Ryland in Baxter street on the 4th of July last, by stabbing him in the back, was com- menced in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yester- day. Magaido 1s an Itahan and does not understand a word of English, so that the proceedings that are of so mach importance to him are unintelligible. ‘ghe evidence for the prosecution, which went to show that the prisoner had followed and stabbed Ryland in the back after the two had had some quarreling, was all taken, and the taking of testi- moay for the defence was commenced. An adjourn- ment was had until this morning, and in the mean- time the jurors were directed vo go to their homes for the night, but to hold no conversation on the subject of the trial and to read no editorials upon it. ‘The Inman line steamship Etna, Captain Bridge- man, wili leave pier 45 North river, atone P. M. to- Gay, fr Queenstown and Liverpooi, calling at Hali- fax to land and receive and passengers. The mails for Nova Scotia” close at the Post Office at twelve o’lock. Tne Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- stip Allemannia, Captain Winzen, will sail at two P, M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The mails for Kurope will close at the Post Office at tweive M. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General C. Babcock, of Kansas; General F. D. Sewell, af Washingwon; Captain ©. H. Shepherd, of Cilicago; Judge F. L. Lafin, of New York, and Gen- eral Gideon, with twenty officers of the late Army of the Potomac, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Count T. 8. Von Swessmtich, of Dresden, Ger- many; General & P, Heintzelman, of Washington, and William Smith, of Boston, are at the St. Cuaries Hotel. General 3. R. Anderson, ot Virginia; Major General W. 8. Hancock, of the United States Army, and Gen- eral Duncan & Walker, of Washington, are at the New York fotel, General D. W. C. Baxter and General Henry Hi. Bingham, of Philadelphia, and Ira Harris, of Albany, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Cartell, of Bf&ighamton; General G. Ww. Bullock, H. M. Whittlesey and H. B. Titus, of Wash- ington, are at the Astor House, Major General French, Major General Humphreys and Colonel ©. W. Tompkins, of the United States Army, are at the Hoffman House. General W. McCandiess, Colonel Robert P. Deckert, Colonel S. Bounafer and Colonel T. 0. Tobias, of Philadelphia; Dr. Geo, A. Bright, of the United States Navy, and James M. Linnard, Captain and Assistant Adjotant- General of the United States Army, are at the Westminster Hotel. General 0. E. Babcock and General Horace Porter, of General Grnat’s staff; Colonel McDowell, of St. Louis; Colonel J. Mason Loomis, of Chicago; Hi, Prime and Engene Wells, of the United States Army, are at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Professor Thorve, of St. Louis; Dr. Robert Watson, of Toronto; Captain Stewart and Captain Midridge, ofthe United States Army, and E.R. McCullom, of Philadelphia, are at the St. Julien Hove. Prominemt Departures, Judge Bigelow, of Massachusetts, Important from Washingter—Signs of Revolt 7" Against the Jacobin Club. There are symptoms of mutiny in the repub- Iican camp at Washington’ and signs of a damaging revolt against the ruling ring of the Senate, the Jacobin clab, There was a caucus yesterday—a very remarkable caucus—of the republicans of the Senate on the repeal of the Tenure of Office law, and from the reports at hand of the'sayings and doings of this caucus | the first steps have been taken in the great movement of dethroning King Caucus with the Jacobin club, The advocates of a repeal of the obnoxious law, as a measure of simple jus- tice toward General Grant, pushed the doubt- ing radicals to the corner of asking a stispension of the repeal till the 4th of March. They want Grant to show his hand before they give him this vote of confidence. Twenty-two members, it appears, were in favor of the post- ponement—a majority of the caucus, bat not a majority of the republicans of the Senate. The minority of the caucus, it next appears, broadly intimated that they would not be bound by this decision; and if this be true we may say that the power of the Jacobins is broken and that a new political revolution is begun in the disintegration of the party in power over the spoils. The established party law is that every indi- vidual entering a party caucus ag a member must be bound by; its decisions. Some of the most outrageous judgments have thus been fastened by a minority upon the majority of the responsible members of the party involved in the judgment; and we have long wished to see this system of caucus dictation broken up. If the conservative republicans of the Senate have resolved upon a belt it is good; if, with the democrats, they have a majority of: the body, better still; but at all events let them push this repeal of the Tenure of Office law before the Senate, in open session, as « matter of confidence in General Grant, and they will get the victory, as Butler gained it in the House, by bringing every man to the record. The battle, of courses, is for. the spoils. With a new President comes a new division. This has been the rule since Jackson's time. Under Jackson and Van Buren only a few scattering office-holding whigs here and there escaped the guillotine, and when the whigs came into power with General Harrison they lost no time in.paying off the enemy in his own coin. Francis Granger, Harrison’s Post- master General, within a single month had chopped off the heads of several hundred democratic postmasters, and he said that if Harrison had lived a month longer the list of the beheaded in the mail service would have been swelled tothe extent of a few hundreds more.’ But Harrison had died, and Tyler coming in threw all this whig fat in the fire by Tylerizing the administration. And so with every rotation or change in the White House there has been a rotation, great or small, in the distribution of the spoils, down to Andy Johnson. Here we get a new law on the subject, and the Senate comes in for the lion’s share, From Washington to Jackson and from Jackson to Johnson the President’s appointments were subject to confirmation or rejection by the Senate, but his removals were decisive. He could discharge every member of his Cabinet, all our ministers abroad and every other execu- tive subordinate, from the New York Collector to the obscurest crossroads postmaster, and there was no power in the Senate to put any of these men back again. But Johnson in his conflict with Congress found that here was “a power in his hands which he might turn to some purpose, and as the quarrel went on he proceeded to act accordingly in making ‘‘dead ducks” of offending radical office-holders. But he had counted without his host. The radicals had him as no party in Congress ever, had an obnoxious opposition President before and as no party will probably ever have a President again. They’ had him by that two-thirds vote in each house which squelches the Executive veto, and so among other laws binding him hand or foot they bound him hand and foot with the Tenure of Office law. Under this law the President can remove no subordinate without the con- sent of the Senate. In the absence of the Senate a subordinate may be suspended, but within twenty days after the meeting of the Senate the reasons for such suspension must be sent in, and ff not voted satisfactory by the Senate'the suspended officer is reinstated. Thus Stanton was restored to the War Office, and then, for attempting his peremptory re- moval, poor Johnson was impeached and tried for “high crimes and misdemeanors” and came within a single vote of being himself removed. That was enough for Johnson. Since that narrow escape he has given this impeachment trap a wide margin, and the office-holders, good, bad or indifferent, so far as Johnson has been concerned, have been doing as they pleased. If he has attempted to call them to account they have snapped their fingers in his face and pointed to the Senate. Now the simple question is whether this office law, a radical measure of revenge and defence against Johnson, shall be held in terrorem over Grant. The House, by an overwHelming majority, has said, let this law be repealed; but the Jacobius of the Senate seek to evade the ques- tion and to put it off till the 4th of March as a measure for whipping in the new President, for they distrust him. In this situation of things the only course for the republicans of the Senate, who have more faith in Grant than they have in Sumner and his foowers, is to bring the bill of repeal to a direct vote in the Senate as the paramount question of the day. Sovrners Hyprornopia—Cotton madness. Ctanane ti Hoxor.—Warren and Cos- tello are froe, and the next question is, who secured this result, so important to the men themselves and 89 eatisfactory to the American eagle as his sentiments are declared in Fenian assemblies? ‘Train is so conscious that he did it all that he hardly deigns to put in his claim; but the Cabinvt-making organ of this city Asserts its claim with all its peculiar impa- dence. We warn the-editor of that organ not to enter the lists against rain, There are certain resemblances between them—certain and even many strikingly palpable regem- blances—but Train will have the better of any strife for supremacy. The editor in good ona velocipede ; but Train can ride a comet, That is about the measure of their respective capa- | bilities, A suit is in. progress in Cincinnatl wherein a journalist is sued by 9 public officer for alleged libel, because, in discussing matter of public concern, the officer was’ charged with abuses and corruption. The case is not’ yet decided, but from the tenor of the argu- ment it is Ukely to turn upon the point whether malice was’ intended on the part of the journalist, the burden of proof falling on the plaintiff, This trial is an important one to newspaper men as well as the people gene- rally outside the city in which it is being tried, Take away the right of the press to discuss public matters and it would be difficult to define into: what a hopeless condition the administration of public affairs would re- lapse. With all. the exposures of fraud arid corruption that now daily fill the columns of newspapers we find but little reform in the operations of government officials—high and low—and yet there is no doubt that the fear of such exposures has a wholesome effect upon those predisposed rascals who hawWe not the moral courage to face the odium that attacires to a newspaper ventilation of official derelic- tions. To assert that the owner of a news- paper has not the right of any other taxpay- ing citizen to show up the abuses and corruptions of any servant of the public is to assert an absurdity, no matter what legal twist the lawyers may give to the point. Deprived of such a sentinel to sound an alarm, of such a safeguard to protect the in- terests of the community, all the public sewers in the world would scarcely be sufficient to carry off the volumes of rank official corrap- tion that would surge up around almost every department of national and local governments. No, the vigilance of the press must not be re- laxed, especially in these days, when the national Treasury is besieged by grasping job- bers and the State and city coffers are but little less than resorts from which rogues may fill their pockets with the people’s money. The verdict in the Cincinnati case will be looked forward to with interest. Phe War in Paraguay. The intelligence from Paraguay confirms the views we have hitherto held that the fall of the river defences would not be the end of the war. So it turns out. Lopez is as deflant as ever, and has taken to the not distant moun- tains and called his obedient people around him. From one little fact we deduce that they will obey the call unhesitatingly, When the Brazilian troops marched into Asuncion the city was found intact—not a thing displaced or removed—and the remaining inhabitants pur- suing their usual vocation. Two hours had ‘not elapsed from the Brazilian entry when every house had been sacked and the plunder conveyed to the camp and ships of the allies, Had Marshal Caxias arranged with Lopez a deep and consummate plan to give new life to the waning cause a better one could not have been devised than the sacking of Asuncign, The vandalism of the Brazilians will create its impression in every hamlet and cause every Paraguayan heart to turn with renewed hope to Lopez. From this moment we date the de- cline of the war in Paraguay and the march of events to an early rupture of the triple al- liance for its destruction. The allied efforts depend for success on the co-operation of their fleet. This can act no longer on the offensive, as Lopez has withdrawn from the river, and may now assume a desultory war, which must keep the allied army and fleet ever on the alert for defence, Among the allies a spirit of distrust and even enmity to Brazil already shows itself. At Buenos Ayres President Sarmiento objects to the military dispositions of the Brazilian com- mander-in-chief, while in Montevideo the popular feeling exhibits a stronger develop- ment in mobs and stones. Meanwhile Brazil begins to see that she is paying the whole cost of extending Argentine sway over the Gran Chaco and Parana, and that Uruguay is as de- termined as ever to resist imperial encroach- ment. These are but the premonitions of the coming rupture which the weakness of the Brazilian treasury tends to hasten, and thus, inthe moment of its seeming triumph, Brazil exhibits the indications of greatest weakness. Tue Spanish TEMPERAMENT.—The quiet, orderly, self-governing character of the Span- ish race is seen ona grand scale just now in Spain, Cuba, Mexico and all South America. Split in the Republican Party South. A Georgia democratic paper declares that the reptblican party of that State is now “hopelessly split in twain.” One faction is headed by Governor Bullock, who wants the State again kicked out of the Union, and the other is headed by the Atlanta ra, The Bullock wing had a meeting at Atlanta on the night of the 15th and resolved ‘‘that reconstrac- tion was not complete in Georgia,” whereupon the Za avers that ‘‘the meeting did not repre- sent the sentiments of the republican party in Georgia,” and protests against the proceedings of all such meetings. Now, whatis the policy, under such circumstances, of the conservatives and all others who desire to see the South relieved of all disabilities and restored at once to her proper position in the Union? It is to let these turbulent radical factions fight it out among themselves and the true men of the South keep on raising good crops, making money, becoming economical and developing the resources of the country. The radicals in the South—in fact, all over the country—are in a state of ferment about who shall retain and who shall obtain office under the incoming administration. This will keep them busy for some time to come, and in the midst of their quarrels the South will do well to remember that when “rogues fall out honest men come by their own.” How to Detay Your Case 1x Covrt.— Whoever is interested in the delay of trial must get his case into district court and then demand the “‘trial by jury.” There can be no dental of justice, thanks to Magna Charta for that; but the district courts are not able to give » “trial by jury,” se that institution has been known and understood time out of mind. ‘The district courts are made by statute, and the statute prescribes that they shall try cases with six jurors, and these courts have no power to iry cases in any other way; but a man has a right to demand twelve, and if he demands it the court, as it cannot refuse that mas ee stand atin. Our Latest News from Japan. A saliont and point in our latest news from Japan is {he fact thet the Mikado’s government has its independence of English and influence in the conduct of ite internal by retaining ex-Lieuten- ant Grinnell, of the| United States Navy, a3 Ohief of the Japanése Naval Bureau, and by appointing General Paul Frank, formerly of the United States Army and lately American Consul or agent at Hiogo, as General-in-Chief of the Japanese ry forces, at a salary of twelve thousand lars per annum. The Mikado’s Foreign Minister stoutly defends this independent line of policy in his protest against the absurd remonstrances of the repre- sentatives of England and France. It is mani- fest. that Japan, like China in the selection of Mr. Burlingame as’ its Envoy to the great Powers of America and Europe, is determined to avail itself of American. intelligence and enérgy. The recent purchase by the Japanese of another American steamer, the Asbueldt, formerly employed in our revenue service, is an additional proof of the increasing readiness of the East to open the door to American inno- vations, the results of which are now incalcula- ble. Steam, electricity, the printing press and all the other agencies of modern civilization must eventually work a prodigious revolution in China and Japan. The people of the United States, having been the first to make an effectual introduction of such agencies into those distant countries, will be among the first to profit by the vast commerce which China and Japan must ere long send to our shores, Weare already recognized by the people of the East as their nearest neighbors. Our Abyssinian Correspondence. / The long and interesting letter which we published yesterday trom our special Abys- sinian correspondent—the same correspondent whose despatches to the New York HERatp from the front of Lord Napier’s army during the late fierce campaign’ at Magdala startled the slow British press from its lethargy and furnished to the English’ War Minister himself the earliest information of Napier’s success— gives a graphic account of the present state of Abyssinia. It is a noteworthy characteristic of our Abyssinian correspondent that, respect- ing and sharing the common sense of this pro- saic age, he describes the lands and the people visited by him just as he sees them and just as they are. He does not indulge, like too many romantic travellers “‘coming from Turkey and Egypt with the ailks of Stamboul, cime- | ters from Damascus and the chibouques and nargiles from Cairo,” in florid descriptions of the land of Latakia tobacco, perfumed remi- niscences of Damascug, bewildering tales of Palestine and the grand, mysterious sublimity of the Pyramids and Mother Nile. He says that Bayard Taylor’s travels, and Warburton’s, and Kingslake’s ‘‘Eothen” teeméd with rosy fibs. One requires rose-colored or blue spec- tacles to perceive the charms with which they 80 lavishly bedaubed those countries; but he wears no such spectacles, and while he vividly reproduces whatever there may be picturesque in the scenery, he depicts the people as they appear to the every-day traveller—‘‘the filthiest and most degraded specimens of the human race.” The photographic fidelity of his descriptions may be relied upon. For or Acainst.—People naturally like to know whether the men who represent this State in the United States Senate are with Grant or against him in the efforts he will make to purify the government—that is, whether they favor retaining the Tenure of Office law or repealing it. The radical organ of this city’ that shines for all sides says that Mr. Conkling is “prominent in the movement” for the re- peal; also that the said Conklingis ‘‘rapidly gaining a position of great influence and use- fulness among his fellow Senators.” If the latter part of this account of Conkling is not more true than the other that gentleman will long continue the nobody he now appears in the national council. . The declaration that he is in favor of the repeal is simply untrue. When the bill was upin the Senate on Satur- day Conkling spoke against the repeal and in favor of retaining the bill in the form reported from the Judiciary Committee by Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts. He declared his views, moreover, with true Pecksniffian humbug— Grant was a man to be trusted ; constraint was not necessary, as against him, &c., &c.; but, nevertheless, Senator Conkling ‘‘preferred to retain the law.” ~ Prorection—Suies atp Commerce.—Pro- tection and the taxes generally make ma- terial so dear, that ships cannot be built in the United States save at prices much higher than they can be built for elsewhere. Then our merchants perhaps buy their ships else- where? No, the law absolutely prevents ‘‘the importation of ships,” so as to protect the home builder. By this fine piece of legisla- tion, then, we are prevented encouraging foreign shipbuilders while our own stand idle?! Not at all; we are merely prevented from owning ships. We are not permitted to own those built in foreign countries; and we can- not afford to own those that cost twice as much as the ships that foreign merchants own. Thus we hand over our trade to the foreign merchants, Thanks to ‘‘protection,” the peo- ple of other countries have the shipbuilding and the trade also, and there is a little con- fusion in the public mind as to who is ‘‘pro- tected.” ConGRrEsstonaL INVESTIGATION OF Exno- tion Fravps 1s New Yorx.—We publish to- day in another part of the paper a synopsis of the testimony taken before the Con- gressiohal invodtigating committee on the election frauds in New York. A remark- able feature in this testimony, as, in fact, is generally the case in such election fraud in- vestigations, is the hard swearing on both sides | the statements in direct contradiction to . Of course a great deal of ras- been Iaid bare, but one political as guilty as the other. There and minority reports, and both in buticombe, and that will be of it till other elections take place, © rascality probably will bo re~ The trath is, all parties, not only in 4 in England and other coun- resort to all sorts of tricks and nnscrupu- lous practices to carry elections. If, however, rascals could be reached and severely punished that might havo a good effect, nnd if A E PEGEEE z°F = & ‘The Latest Is the Best. : almost in despair, He had tried the names of the prominent men of the country in so many different relations-had tried as many times to put incongruous material in plausible shape as a boy tries to match the pieces of a puzzle, but all to no purpose, and was at last tearing his hair for a new Cabinet, when suddenly ‘the miscellaneous news in an obscure corner of a Boston paper” saved his over-labored brain, Here, from such a source, is his last Cabi- net:— jowa. Nany—bavia'b. porter, United States Navy.” aun vi Tne og vow He does not know who made it, and is altogether dim as to its past history; but, nevertheless, it is so very like a whale, or a weasel, or a camel's back, that he is quite ready to believe that the end it will be found to approach the more nearly than any other of the ‘projects that have been made.” Was there ever a boy yet blow- ing soap bubbles but thought the last was the prettiest of all? i Heap Money.—Since the Sergeant-at-Arms is allowed three dollars and twenty cents a man with mileage for every member he brings to the House of Representatives, we want to know how it is that bringing up the members has not become a grand job. By proper under- standing with the members the Sergeant might have the bringing them in twenty times a day—at least a hundred of them. Six thousand dollars a day would be worth taking, even in Washington. We have no doubt, too, that it could be shown to the satisfaction of the disbursing officer that the members were brought from California, every time. The mileage would then come & something hand- some, “Roaves Must Hane.”"—The municipal authorities proper on the one hand, and the police on the other, are each sure that the mur- derer of Mr. Rogers is in custody, only they differ as to the person. That, however, is of little consequence. What is important is that such a heinous offence, committed so boldly in the streets, should not go unpunished. If two murderers hang for it will not justice be all the better served? Besides, how does any one know the man was not killed twice? Logan No. 2, therefore, need not feel the easier because the police are sure that Maher is the murderer. Neither need Maher rejoice that others are confident they can prove the guilt of Logan. Is Powon Heattay?—The gas men say it is, The Board of ‘Health, endeavoring te abate the dreadful nuisance of noisome smella with which the Metropolitan Company mekes a part of the city scarcely habitable, is met by the company with absolute refusal and with s theory that the horrible odors set free are con- ducive to health, If anybody is ill let him turn on the gas in his room, without lighting it, and try this new remedy; for as the gas is only about half purified the same substances that make the nuisance are also in the pipes. It seems, then, that the company feels rich enough to insult common sense as well as to violate the law. A Verto rroM THE Presmpent.—The Presi- dent has returned to Congress, with his veto, the bill for regulating the duties on imported copper and copper ores. Whatever may be said of Mr. Johnson's proclivity for, vetoes, there is no doubt he has done right in vetoing this bill, which was entirely a protective one for a class interest, and that, too, for a very limited class of the community, while the ship- ping and other interests were to suffer and be taxed for its benefit. The arguments or rea- sons of the President are conclusive and are based on sound policy. It is to be hoped Con- gress will see this, however hostile it may be to Mr. Johnson, and let the bill dle under the blow received. ‘ Tonnace Dvzs 1x Porto Rrco.—We publish to-day in another colamn a complaint that the tonnage dues exacted from American shipping in Porto Rico have not been reduced as they have been to ships of other nationalities. The trne cause of this exclusive taxation of Ameri- can shipping in the Spanish ports of America lies in the old retaliatory act of 1832-38. This remnant of the long since exploded Crom- wellian theory for the protection of ships and commerce is a blot upon our statute book and a standing injury to our trade, and should be repealed. We do not hope for much from Congress now, as the prevailing temper seems to be to do all that can be done against ships and the shipping interest. Taxine THE Buttock By tHe Horns— The branch of republicans in Georgia who have pronounced that State fully recon- structed. GESCENT ON A DISORDERLY HOUSE. Last night Sergeant Dilks and oMcers Crosby, Bus- teed, Hemming and Robinson, acting on a warrant. iasued by Justice Connolly, of the Fourth District Police Court, made a descent upon the house kept by Caroline Barmore, alias “Laura,” at No. 12 Greene street. The sergeant and his men, all members of the court squad, managed matters so cleverly that no idea of the object of their visit entered the minds of the inmates or visitors until they were in- formed that they would have to accompany the oMcers to the Eighth precinct police station. As soon as this intelli was given the women residing in the house quietly procecded up stairs to cover up their “lack Crook’? ‘The aS was searched from top with the yee of a blind FN es Sergeant Dilks justly allowed to wi of the persous within it ‘were marc! Captain Miils’ station t the parties gave thelr names jouse, as Wm. Smith (the ag? Gratam, Anna ampball Maly hards, alias “Billy Butt na John ‘m. Ric! f 01 john Ross mi ‘Thomas All of were locked or the pope ‘Laura,’ proprivtress, escaped line DT piacere premises, and 80 ar