The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1869, Page 6

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All complaints of ‘‘short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the Heraxp establish- ment. Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the Herratp 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 Darty Heap will be sent to subscribers for one dollar @ month. The postage Being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Henaxp at the same price it is furnished in the city. 7 abled The cable telegrams are dated February 25. By a vote in the Spanish Cortes yesterday of 180 against 62 Marshal Serrano was authorized to form anew Cabinet. Serrano made a speech on the an- nouncement of the vote. After the passage of the vote of thanks to the provisional ministry explanations were made, and the reasons given for the course adopted by the Ministry toward the clergy. Many of the Jesuits, it was charged, were engaged in con- spiracies against the government, The subject of a telegraph line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was yesterday brought up in the British Parliament. It was thought advisable, ac- cording to one of the members, not to make any s.atement as to the prospect of building the line un- til the negotiations now pending for a settlement between the Hudson Bay Company and the Domt- nion of Canada were satisfactorily closed, The gov- ernment, it was also siated, had received no authen- tic advices of the rejection of the Alabama and naturalization treaties by the United States. John Bright yesterday, at a banquet of the Chamber of Commerce, in a speech, urged the importance of a cheap ocean postage. The North German Parliament will meet on the 4h of next month., The Prussian Diet closes its sessions on the 6th. The Beigian government prohibits the granting of concessions to foreign railroad corporations without its s@uction. Cuba. The Spanish Chasseurs left Havana yesterday for Cienfuegos. The new British Consul has assumed the posivion toward the Captain General similar to that taken by the American Consul. The Captain General had not delgned to answer a communica- tion from the latter. Some excitement was created by the intelligence that Caballero de Roda was to supersede Duice. Congress, In the Senate yesterday a bill to exempt manufac- turers of naval machinery irom internal tax was passed by a vote of to25, The Army Appropria- tion bill was then t Up, and along discussion ensued on Mr. & er’s proposed amendment authorizing the payment of interest to Massachusetie on certuin sums advanced by her in the war of 1812, It was finaly decided to be out of order. A short evening session was held, in which @ number of private bilis were acted upon, and the Senate ad. journed, In the House the evidence taken by the Recon- struction Committee relative to Georgia was pre- sented. Mr. Kelley, from the Committee on Coinage, reported a bill for coining nickel copper pieces of five cevis and under. Mr. Woodward opposed the bill on the ground that the coppers were therein made a legal tender, which should only be goid or silver, The bill was passed. Mr. Butler presented the report of the Conference Committee on the Cow NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. the evpcing somda saa inns Tapmroprition bil <eo-~--——ww Te oh | GSE RAAAR EE Meee aaa EE GT. encase amen Laue wal Grant and ‘His CabineoThe Con- ‘Was considered in Committee of the Whole. ‘The Legislature. Bills were reported in the State Senate yesterday the organization of savings institutions; Providing for submitting the amended constitution to the voters at the next general election; in refer- ence to life insurance companies, and several others of importance. Bills were introduced relating to game; in reference to fines in the District Courts of ‘New York and for increasing the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Fire Department. Anumber of unimportant bills were passed. The resolution requesting the New York Senators in Congress to vote for the repeal of the Tenure of Office bill was called up and caused discussion, pending which the Senate adjourned. In the Assembly @ number of bills were ordered to a third reading and severai were passed. Bills were mtroduced chartering several savings banks, rela- tuve to justices of sessions in Kings county, enabling aliens to hold and devise real estate in this State and several others. The Senate resolution to ad- journ from this evening to March 8 Was concurred in. The resolution relating to the Tenure of Office bill was tabled. The Assembly then took a recess, and at the evening session a number of bills were reported and ordered to a tnird reading. The As- sembly then adjourned, Miscellaneous. Caucuses of members of the next Congress of both parties are to be held on Tuesday to take action relative to the election of officers, Mr. Dawes has written a note to Mr. Biaine stating that he is no longer & candidate for Speaker. ‘The trouble in the Catholic church at Auburn came toa trial before the courts in that city yeater- day. Bishop McQuaide and the Rev. Mr. Kavanagh, who were ejected from the church for superseding the old-pastor, Father Flaherty, entered a complaint against several of the leading church members, who were arraigned on the charge of disturbing divine service, The jury, after being out a few moments, returned a verdict of acquittal. The lower house of the Illinois Legislature has passed @ bill providing for a general system of rail- road corporations by dividing the directors into three classes. The members state that the bill is necessary to prevent Wall street speculators from gaining control of al: the Western roads. Mr. Senter was inaugurated Governor of Tennessee yesterday in place of Governor Brownlow, who re- signs to aceept the Senatorship. ‘The so-called Civil Equality bill passed by the Louisiana Legislatare has been signed gy the Gov- ernor and become a law. The lower House of the Arkansas Legislature nas passed the Ku Klux bill, which outiaws everybody belonging to.tne Ku Klux Klan. Bliss and Masterman, the recent Paraguayan pris- oners, have arrived in Washington. They say their treatment by the United States Navy was more hu- miliating than the cruelties of Lopez, and they ask an investigation into it. The Massachusetts Legislature, in the matter of jobbery, is claimed by a Massachusetts journal to be as corrupt as the one at Albany. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has refused to allow @ special allocation in the case of George 8. Twitchell, the allegea murderer of Mrs. Hill. A large produce commission house in Philadelphia is reported to have failed to the amount of $100,000. A negro girl in Louisville, in revenge for chastise- ment at her mistress’ hands, yesterday poured lye down the throat of the lady’s son, a child of two years of age, and caused his death. ‘The City. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday donations were mafle to churches and charitable associations tothe amount of about $60,000. A resolution to abrogate the contract for paving Fifth avenue was adopted, but subsequently referred to the Committee on Law. In the Board of Assistant Aldermen donations were made to the amount of about $11,000 tu churches and charities. ‘The report of the Labor Exchange in this city shows that the demand for labor during the past year was far greater than the supply. Two aship- loads of German girls could be readily disposed of if they were to be had, at from twelve dollars to four- teen dollars each per monta, Magaldo, the Italian who was sentenced to im- prisonment for life recently, cut his throat in the Tombe yesterday morning. He tied a handkerchief round the wound and in that manner proceeded with the officers to Youkers before they discovered hus situation. They tontinued to Sing Sing, where the convict was given in charge of the prison physi- cian, who pronounced his case very desperate, The steamship City of Antwerp, Captain Mire- house, of the Inman line, will leave pier No. 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queen- town and Liverpool. The European mails wiil close at the Post Office at twelve M. on the 27th inst. The National line steamship Virginia, Captain Forbes, will sail at three P. M. to morrow from pier No. 47 North river for Liverpool, calling at Queens- town to land passengers. ‘The steamship General Grant, Captain Qaick, of the Merchants’ line, will sail from pier No. 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 27th inst., for New Orleans direct. The Black Star itpe steamship Montgomery, Cap- tain Lyon, will leave pier No, 13 North river at three P. M. to-morrow for Savannah, Ga. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and buoy- ant, with fluctuations within narrow limits, pro- duced by light realizations. Pacific Mail was the feature and advanced to 103%, falling off about two per*cent at the close. Governments were excited ‘and advanced and gold weak over the rise of five- twenties in London to 814. Foreign exchange was demoralized, and gold sold down to 132%, closing at 13234. ee Prominent Arrivals in the City. Sir Charles Bright, of London, England; Professor Herman, of Brazil, and Pedro Fernandez Briado, of Havana, are at the Westminster Hotel, S. M. Johnson, of Washington, and Dr. J. B. El- lott, of Savannah, are at the New York Hotei. Geheral George P. Thrie, of the United States Army, ig at the St. Julien Hotel. Colonel 8. Schofield, of the United States Army; Captain H. T. Walbridge, of Saratoga, and A. B. Garfield, of Ohio, are at the St. Charles Hotel, Ex-Governor Pierpotnt, of Western Virginia, and Senator Richard Yates, of Illinois, are at the Astor House. Henry Whiting, of Boston; Signor Ascencis, of Havana, and John Meredith Reed, Jr., of Albany, are at the Hoffman House, General Wickham, of Virginia; Ben Field, of Albion; A. Vance Brown, of Richmond, Va.; Colonel T. M. Mathews, of Alabama; M. P. Bemus, of Mays- ville, and Judge A. M. Sherman, of Newburg, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge N. Davis, of Albion; H. Remington, of Fall River, and P. H. Smith, of Chicago, are at the st. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Robert Cochrane, of White Plains; General I. S. Paimer, of Milwaukee; D. J. Weich, of Montana, and C. H. Aiden, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ovr Bows IN Loxpow went up to 814 yesterday, the highest figure they have ever attained. This is the result of a growing con- fidence in our securities and a hopeful feeling as to the wisdom of General Grant's adminis- tration, stimulated more immediately by the passage of the bill declaring our bonds payable in gold. Five-twenties are thus at a discount of about eighteen per cent. If the item of exchange be taken into consideration they are sular Appropriation bill, It provides for commis- sioners to many of the Southern and Central Ameri can States instead of regular consuls, as heretofore. A somewhat acrimonious debate ensued between Mr. Butler on the one sice and Messrs, Banks and Chanier on the other. The conference report was finally disagreed to by a vote of 45 to 102, anda new committee asked for. The report of the Conference Commitvee on the constitutional amendment, in which the House agrees to the Senate amendment and recedes from its own, was presented and agreed to. The Legislative Appropriation bili was then ‘taken up and several amendments passed in Com- mittee of the Whole were adopted, among them one giving female clerks 99 good wages as males. In only twelve or thirteen per cent below par. Sions oF a Squatt.—In the reported con- versation yesterday between General A. K. McClure, of Pennsylvania, and General Grant, on Pennsylvania's member of Grant's Cabinet, McClure, as it is given out, suspects it is to be George H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, and says that Stuart will not do for the republican party. Grant says he does not say that Stuart is the man, but wishes it to be under- stood that he (Grant) is not a party man. Very important if true, flict im Congress. The politicians at Washington have been thrown into a high state of excitement over a few positive utterances of General Grant in reference to his Cabinet, He said the other day that Pennsylvania shall have » member, and straightway the visiting committee of Pennsylvanians were 80 elated thatthey jumped out of their boots, He told them that he had singled out his Pennsylvanian, a good man and a republican, but that he would be, per- haps, more surprised than anybody else at his appointment. But the name of this important personage the General cold not for the present disclose, A tub to the whale. How it amuses him! Guess the name of the lucky Pennsylvanian if you can; apd they are all guessing at a solution of the important conundrum, But the New Yorkers are not so much in- terested in this mysterious Pennsylvanian as in the New York man, or in the question whether New York, after voting Seymour, is or is not to have a man in the Cabinet. They sound the oracle, but the oracle does not respond. They say, “You have intimated, Gene- ral, that perhaps all of the Johnson Cabinet are to have a ticket of leave except Schofield, and that you want him awhile for some special army service, We thus understand that Mr. Seward retires to Auburn. But we have another New York man in Johnson's Cabinet— Evarts by name, What of him?” The Gene- ral is reticent. ‘Evarts, you know, Gene- ral, was appointed by Johnson for his services to Johnson. Is not Evarts, therefore, to be checked for the Tennessee train with the rest of Johnson’s baggage?” The General looks up to the ceiling and puffs his cigar. What does this mean? When the General looks down as he pufts his cigar he is in doubt; but when he looks up as he puffs a slow and lengthened discharge of smoke his mindis made up. The philosophy of the thing is transparent. But how are we to know whether it is yea or nay from an up or down puff when the smoker says nothing? Evarts belongs to the Seward-Weed-Morgan-Blatch- ford-Raymond-anti-Fenton-New York clique, and, as we come down town, their house is the half-way Johnson house between the Union League and Tammany Hall. Hence to the radical Fenton-Spencer clique this question of Evarts goes to the root of the matter. It is to be feared, however, that between Johnson and Morgan, as between two stools, Evarts will come to the ground, though the question is not settled. We only know, to a dead cer- tainty, by the peculiar puff from General Grant’s cigar, when cross-examined, that his mind is made up on Evarts, and that beyond this Evarts and New York are still in doubt, including the lawyers’ dinner to Evarts, which Grant attended. What else? The General has made it known that except Schofield, for a limited and special service, his Cabinet will be made up of civilians, Admiral Porter, therefore, will not be called upon to throw open his fine house in Washington for Cabinet receptions. General Sherman will doubtless require his big house in town for his receptions as the active head of the army. But this policy of General Grant of having a Cabinet of civilians entirely does not tally with General Blair's idea that Grant will give us a military des- potism, 2 la Cromwell or Napoleon, and that when he gets into the White House he will stay in as long as he lives. On the con- trary, in detaching his Cabinet from the army and navy he evidently desires to avoid the alightest shadow of a suspicion of a dictatorial administration. In this view a Cabinet of civilians is an admirable idea; while in any view such a Cabinet from a soldier whose whole public career has been identified with the army is a most remarkable fact and in- dicative of a mind that can readily adapt itself to the broadest change of circumstances as a faithful public servant. So much we know. It next appears that in his recent gratifying conversation with the Pennsylvanians General Grant pretty broadly hinted that as under the Tenure of Office law he could remove no office-holders without ex- posing their characters to the ruin, perhaps, of their prospects in any other calling, he would probably make few or no changes while tied up by this law. This hint will be apt to bring the new Congress to the repeal or to some very material modifications of this law. We suspect that a very serious ob- jection among the orthodox radicals to the House bill of repeal lies in these facte— that it is Butler’s bill and that the radical junta are determined to clip the wings of Butler. Condemned as fishy on the money question, they are inclined to think him fishy on other questions, and that he meditates a conserva- tive bolt and a new party movement under the lead of Butler. They fear that his uncon- ditional surrender to Grant means mischief, and that too many republicans of the House are disposed to follow him. Butler, therefore, must be headed off. Hence one good rea- son for the snuffing out of his bill, It means that Butler is not to be understood as stand ing in Congress in the shoes of Old Thad Stevens. In this attitude the new Congress—mainly made up of the present Congress—will assem- ble on the 4th of March. On the Sth, accord- ing to usage (assuming that a Speaker will be elected on the 4th), @ joint committee from the two houses will be detailed to wait upon the new President and inform him that the two houses, being organized and in session, are ready to receive any communication he may have to make. The President, in response, will send his Cabinet appointments to the Sen- ate, and may also send up to both houses an outline of his general policy in the shape of a message. Inany event, from that day the crystallization of the different elements of the new Congress will begin, and the conflict among the several existing republican cliques for the ascendancy with the administration. General Grant doubtless desires to “have peace” with the radicals on a new departure; but they may push him to the wall. The ex- treme radical faction have a programme of their own which may be disclosed during the approaching session, but which cannot be delayed beyond the next, Meantime we expect a Cabinet from the new President which will somewhat disappoint the Oabi- net-making politicians, but which will, never- theless, give general satisfaction to the country, Congress and the Telegraph Monopoly. The House Committee on Post Offices has reported adversely to the several schemes be- fore Congress for the establishment of a postal telegraph. The propositions under considera- tion by the committee were three—first, that of Hon. E. B, Washburne for. the appropria- tion of seventy-five thousand dollars to build a four wire experimental postal telegraph be- tween New York and Washington, to be ope- rated in connection with the post offices by persons wholly inthe government employ, at a tariff of one cent per word for telegraph toll and five cents additional to each message for postage and delivery; second, a proposition of Mr. Hubbard, of Boston, to grant him a charter to build'a postal telegraph throughout the country, to be operated by the Post Office Department at a similar low rate’ of tolls; third, Mr, Hall’s proposal to construct a line between Boston and Washington, under direc- tion of the Post Office Department, for the transmission of messages at the same rate of one cent per word. It will be seen that all of these schemes are based on the business pro- posal to carry messages for the public at one cent per word, and all of them emanate from gentlemen long familiar with telegraphy and who have made it a study. Bunt the last two are schemes under which private parties look to obtain large contracts with the government. We shall, therefore, dismiss them from discus- sion and proceed to examine the adverse re- port of the House committee in its relation to Mr. Washburne’s simple, yet broad and com- prehensive, proposition. The scheme proposes that Congress shall appropriate the insignificant sum of seventy- five thousand dollars for the experiment of a postal telegraph at a low rate of toll, and the opposition of the Western Union Telegraph Company to the trial of the experiment has, without a doubt, been the moving cause of the adverse report of the committee. There is no claim that the amount to be expended is too large to bestow upon pure experiment, that the object of the great public good to be achieved is not worthy of the expenditure of so small a sum ; but the ob- jections of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany may bé classed under two heads, which do not seem logically to agree with each other. Their first point is that the thing can- not be done, and their second that in doing it the Western Union Telegraph Company will receive great injury. It would seem to us that if the telegraph company is right in its assertion of the first class of reasons the best course for it to have pursued would have been to encourage the government to'go on, make the asked-for appropriation and demonstrate the fallacy of the scheme by its failure. Sucha course on its part would save the Union Tele- graph Company from its present anxiety, much writing gf ‘pamphle and newspaper articles in its defenée and the expenditure of large amounts of money in getting up testimony and argument to save the country from trying what the compeny insists is a futile and foolish ex- periment. If they are right in the position they assume, that the thing cannot be done, they need be under no fear of injury to their interests by its doing. We claim that the opposition to Mr. Wash- burne’s proposition comes wholly from the Western Union Telegraph Company, because the question of a postal telegraph has been only recently mooted in this country and has not been fully discussed before the people. and, farther, because no other great interest has as yet moved in the matter. Whenever the question shall have been fairly examined by our merchants and the people at large we are convinced that they will demand a postal telegraph, and it is this result which is the true cause of fear to the Western Union Tele- graph Company. The fair trial df Mr. Wash- burne’s proposed experiment would convince the whole country without need of discussion, But let us look at the real points of the House committee's adverse report. The first point advanced is that the refusal of Congress to accept the proposition of Professor Morse twenty-five years ago to make his inven- tion of the telegraph a part of the postal service, and a similar rejection by Postmaster General Dennison in 1845, have set at rest the question of telegraph control. This is not only an error, but is a proof that a few wise men, with the inventor of the telegraph at their head, saw the question even thea in its true bearings, and the refasal of government at that time to take the new invention in hand was simply an act of ignorance. The next point made by the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany is that the past action of Congress: in legislation on the telegraph amounts to 8 com- pact with the existing monopoly that govern- ment shall do nothing to injure its interests. This ig not only o fallacy, but a most impudent one. The past legislation of Congress was taken in compliance with the demand of the public for some relief from telegraph oppression, and so far from being a compact to save the monopoly it is a binding promise that if the legislation failed in its hope, as it has failed, that further action would be taken to relieve the people. Every person at all acquainted with the con- straction and cost of telegraph lines must have been amused at the citation of the cost of the Bankers and Brokers’ line as the type of the expense of telegraph construction. It is stated that the capital stock of the said company is one million of dollars and that three-quarters of this sum have been expended in building a four wire line between New York and Washington, which is substan- tially the experimental line proposed by Mr. Washburne. Hence, says the report, the appropriation for it is inadequate, and the plan is not inadequate to success. Now, the dis- tance between New York and Washington is approximately two hundred and forty miles, and we will guarantee that if the government will advertise for proposals the contract for the required construction wil! be taken by respon- sible parties at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollara per mile, or the entire distance for sixty thousand dollars. If the Bankers and Brokers’ tine cost them seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, all we have to say is that somebody made a very good thing out of it. By « skilful use of aggregates a curious showing is made of the statistics of the Swiss and Belgian lines, to lend an appa- rent support to the present tariff of the Western Union Telegraph Company. If we had the space we could easily show the | fallacy of these estimates, But it is not neces- sary. If the Agures given by the Western Union Company prove what it asserts they do, let the appropriation pags and the ex,eriment of the cheap postal telegraph be tried here. Our objections to taking the Swiss or Belgian lines as an exponent of what a cheap postal telegraph would be in this country stand on higher grounds... Those are small patches of territory over which mails can be and are carried: between rise and set of sun. Ours is avast empire, where letters take weeks for transmission between the extremes. We claim that a postal telegraph shall give to the trade and interests of our whole country mail com- munication between morn and eve from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Rio Grande. ‘This is what Mr. Wash- burne’s proposed experiment will prove can be done, and that it can be done cheaply and well, All calculations based on European prece- dents for American development are fal- lacious, The.great agents of modern civiliza- tion—steam and electricity—are annihilating Space, so far as concerns the distributions of trade and intelligence, We wish to give an example in the postal telegraph which shall be American in its grandeur and in its results, continental in its embrace and worthy of imi- tation by Europe, not by such petty territories as Switzerland and Belgium. The proposed experiment of Mr. Washburne foreshadows such an enterprise and with successful result. We hope he will at once bring the proposition before the new Honse, and in its behalf we appeal from Congress ignorant to the country well informed and enlightened. TaE Proposep STATUE OF GENERAL GRANT.— We see that a few sycophantic office-hunters are desirous of propitiating the powers that be by getting the public to erect a statue of Grant, proposed to be cast from the guns cap- tured by him during the war. We have no doubt that Grant is thoroughly disgusted with the effort. He is far too sensible a man to receive # other than as an insult. He cer- tainly will not show himself less sensible on this point than that brave old soldier, General Thomas, who refused such adulation in his own department. It is far better to wait until the administration of the President elect is fin- ished before talking of statues; far better still to wait until death renders it impossible for a man to do anything to stain his record before his virtues are held up in a statue as a model forthe ambition of coming generations. AvotueR Murperer Scot FRke oN THE Insanity Dopa@z.—A laborer on a farm near Chicago was lately sharply spoken to by the wife of the farmer, when he procured a pistol, shot the farmer dead, threatened to shoot his wife and then went off very conveniently into | an epileptic fit. The jury acquitted him of the charge of murder on the ground of insan- ity. Strange enough—no, it is not precisely strange, for we have had a parallel case in this State—the murderer was pronounced sane enough immediately after the perpetration of the homicide. It is time the limits of this con- venient plea of insanity in cases of murder were more clearly defined by statute. These epileptic fits and all other fits that shield a mur- derer from the lawful expiatiqn of his crime are becoming too common, and the safety of the community demands legislative action thereon. Now is the time for our Legislature at Albany to take steps to effect the needed reform or abolish the gallows altogether. Asovut Drvorcz.—The Chicago Tridune says a wife of thirteen has been divorced in New York. There would be no difficulty in Chicago in getting a divorce of a husband of thirteen—wives. Pretty Wett Done For.—It is reported that the body of the detective Barmore, who mysteriously disappeared from a railroad train near Nashville some sjx or seven weeks ago, has been discovered in Duck river with a big hole punched in the top of the head and a rope round the neck. It appears, therefore, that the deceased had three chances for his life, or death—by the bludgeon or pistol, the rope and by being pitched into the river. If the faggot had been added it would have made a com- plete case of a Tennessee nigger roast. The mystery now is, by whom was the deed done? By the Ku Kluxes or by persons with whom the victim had business transactions in the detective line? Here's a matter for Parson Brownlow’s militia to work up. Mors Westen Questions.—“‘After wheat, what?” Whiskey. ‘‘After whiskey, who?” Our noble Senators. “Tae West on THe Rattroap.—Illinois is beginning to legislate against the Eastern rail- way monopolies. This is only the beginning. The end will be, and will have to be, a general supervision over all the railroads and tele- graphs of the country by Congress in the regulation of commerce between the States and the postal service. The first’ skirmish in Congress on telegraphs does not end the fight. It is only the beginning. Bruxa ann Coomwe.—The Louisville Courier-Journal announces that a Mr. Billing has mysteriously disappeared from that place, and from appearances it would seem probable that he has gone a-cooing. RemarKaBie Conresston.—One of our metropolitan policemen has confessed that, although he has been fifteen years in the ser- vice, he has still a heart. The Police Com- missioners should, and probably will, fine or dismiss that officer at once. Tur Proposep ConstitvTIONAL AMENpD- MENT.—The report of the committee of con- ference upon the new constitutional amend- ment was agreed to in the House yesterday. As it accepts the amendments proposed by the Senate and recedes from that proposed by the House there is every probability that the report will be immediately accepted by the Senate. It will therefore soon be ready to go to the State Legislatures for ratification, Grant's Rapioatigm.—The Stoubenville (Ohio) Herald thus defines Grant's radical- ism: “Radical economy, radical retrench- ment, radical reform in the collection of revenues.” Up anv Down.—Government securities are gradually creeping up. Gold is gradually going down, Such are the workings of public confidence in the incoming adminiatration, Reser Guverars In ayp Our or Luox.— A would-be facetious contemporary got up (on paper) an entertainment to John C. Breckin- ridge the other day, and in its report of the doings makes Breckinridge say that Judah P. Benjamin was coining money at the English bar. Mr. Benjamin is in good luck, then, with his British friends if this be true, but we doubt it, It is not so easy for any lawyer, and par- ticularly for a foreigner, to jump all at once. into a lucrative practice in England. How the crowd of poor rebel generals who came to New York to practice law and who can scarcely earn office rent must envy their ex- Secretary of State if they believe the state- ment! They are out of luck here, and per- haps the best thing they can do is to become circumcised and emigrate to London. A Nor ror THe Partisan PouiriciaNs To Craox.—General Grant, according to a despatch from Washington, said that although he was elected by a political party he was not & representative of any political party. How do the partisan politicians interpret this? The more General Grant develops himself the more they get bewildered. Can’r Strat ENoucn.—The members of the Pennsylvania Legislature want their pay increased from one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars, If they cannot make up the difference out of the lobby they are a poor set of legis- lators and ought to emigrate to this State and be sent to Albany; or, if they have influence enough, go to Washington, where greenbacka are so plenty that Members of Congress paper their walls with them and Pacific Railroad bonds. Caanerne Tuer Oprnions.—Eastern papers that denounced General: Butler for the course he pursued in interposing objections to count- ing the vote of Georgia acknowledge that “public opinion has undergone an essential change since the simple facts came to be understood.” What a wonderful faculty this Ben Butler has of always falling on his feet when apparently tossed skyhigh by his oppo- nents! Conngctiour Potitics.—A shrewd but unen- lightened school director, away out West, used to say, on examining a candidate for the post of teacher, ‘‘We all know that a, b, c is vowels, but we want to know why they is vowels.” It is so with the democratic candi- dates for Congress in three of the Connecticut districts—Babcock, Converse and Dixon—not the a, b, c, but the b, c, d branch of the ques- tion. The democracy know ‘‘they is candi- dates; but why is they candidates ?” they ask. That is the plain English of it. A New Name For It.—The Albany Jour- nal refers to the Governor of New York as “the gentleman who occupies Hon. John A. Griswold’s seat in the executive chamber.” If Governor Hoffman chose to respond he might speak of Mr. Griswold as ‘‘the gentleman who ‘was not fond of sour grapes.” SHovutp Be Generat.—The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a law abolishing the usual spring elections in one of the counties in the State and permitting the officers then chosen to be elected in October. This is a saving,of time, trouble and money, and could be made general in the Keystone as well as in other States where the spring town meeting system prevails, with benefit to the country people and the respective county treasuries. Querr Request.—New Orleans wants Con- gress to give it the property occupied by the United States branch mint, What for? A gallows site? Butler will object. - Frppiestick !—Chicago wants to Anglicize the name of its boulevard by changing it to bulwark. Why not call it bull-bait, bull-head or bull-fiddle-faddle? Boulevard is good enough, euphonious enough and well under- stood the world over. But if Chicago really wants a bulwark let her erect one against the enormous torrent of profligacy, immorality and licentiousness that almost overwhelms the city. Tae ‘“Barnacte Movement” is the title given by a Western journal to the intention expressed by General Grant to remove the army of barnacles which have from time to time found a haven of rest on the ship of State. Then let him-remove the rotten planks, get om board a good crew, trim ship, square the yards and sail in, with ‘economy, retrench- ment and reform” inscribed upon his flying colors. All the old party hulks will then have to get out of the way smartly. Women’s Riants Down East.—A Women's Rights Convention has been held in Maine. From the reports it appears that the best speaker was a Mrs. Gustin, of Saccarappa, of whom a dark lady in attendance remar! “T’ve heerd many good talkers, but dis suits me de best.” justin Was Hannmat a Neoro? is a question under digcussion out West. We are not sure about Hannibal, but there is plenty of evi- dence showing that colored gentlemen bearing such heroic names as Pompey and Cesar have from time immemorial been residents of the South. TRANSPLANTED.—The remains of Captain Wirz, of Andersonville infamy, have been re- moved from their original burial place. No matter what may now turn up, it is not to be supposed that the bitterest radical will here- after feel inclined to mangle Wirz-el! Asotnen Batcu Sext Up.—See our re- ports of the cases disposed of in the Court of General Sessions yesterday before Recorder Hackett. TWE OCEAN STEQMSHIP RACE. ‘The Inte ocean race from this port to Queenstown and Liverpool, between the Cunard sieamer Russia and the Inman steamer City of Paris, appears from recent advices to have been a pretty evenly contested baal be seen from the annexed statement: — hig 4 of Paris lett a at fi one P. M., Fet 10, and passed Battery the marting point) at two P. M.; arrived off Crook. ven at five A. M., and at Queenstown at fifty-eight eight A. M., yanin 4 19, and at Liver- -fAve minutes past A. M. on the ‘The Russia the Battery eleven A. M. on the worn and at Liverpert ny the Above lh appears rare hat the of Paris boas the Russia to howe minutes; but on