The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. dAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR 10 TAEATRE, Broatway.—fumprr Dowrrr, Vv PEATURES, Matinee at Ig. SATRE, Bowery.—FooTMaRks 1” THE TRALERS, VA) THEATRE. Broadway.—Faanca Srx— « cae Wise-pon-Wisn, U's THEATRE, Twenty-third st., between 6th and MEO AND JULU iARDEN, Broadway.—Tae BURLESQUE Ex- ANZA OF Tux Forty THIEVES, th street and Sixth ave- ‘M THEATRE, Fourtes po Marines at I—FLEUR Dz ‘3 THEAT! Broadway and 1th street.— our NoTHINe. IAMS THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Janny -HON-TAS. <n \Oul's MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Bioow. ..Asvernoon aad evealag Performance. Till) TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tae Horse Ma- ‘S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.~ Rustic PRtIwa Donna. 120 Broadway.—Luometta ‘ov BUSINESS, f Fourteenth street.—ITaLtan Y OF MUSIC, 4 Broadway.—CoMIc SERTORES 010. CISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETaio- ‘AINMENTS—SIEGE OF THE BLONDES. OPERA H>'SE, Tammany Building, Mth OPIAN MANSTRELBY, £0. ASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Com1o NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &. Matinee at 234. K CIRCUS, Fourteenth street—EQuesTRiam AstIO ENTERTAINMENT. Matines at 234. Y HALL, LUMENTAL CONCERT, OPERA Hi &, Brooklyn.—Hoo.er's THe TICKET TAKRR, eT TAKRE, &C. vo MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scizsen AND ART TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, March 3, 1869. Notice to Herald Carriers and News Dealers. ifmratp carriers and news dealers are in- formed that they can now procure the requisite nuinber of copies direct from this office without delay, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. Sion the bill relating to telegraphic communication — with foreign countries was amended and passed, The Legislative Appropnation bill was resumed and the ten per cent amendment was ruled out. Mr. Morton, as an amendment, moved the repeal of the Tenure of Ofice act, which, after some discussion, ‘Was rejected by a vote of 22 to 26, In the House, resolutions continuthg the contract for reporting the debates in Congress with the pro- ‘9 62 | prietors of the Glove and authorizing the construc- ton of the East river bridge were passed, The Mis- cellaneous Appropriation bill was then taken up, An appropriation of $200,000 for commencing work on the New York Post Ofice was agreed to, The bill, wath some other amendments, was then passed. ‘The Speaker stated that there were about 150 bills on his table to be acted upon, and, at Mr, Schenck’s suggestion, It was agreed to hold an all night session then, instead of waiting till the last day. The Speaker stated that he would present his resignation to the House to-day. The business on the Speaker's table was then taken up and humerous Senate amendments to House bills were acted upon. The Senate bill respecting the or- ganization of militia in the Southern States was passed. The Senate resolution of sympathy with the People of Spain was amended so as to express sym- Pathy also for Cuba, and to autnorize the President to recognize the independence of the latter when- ever she shall have established a de sucto govern- ment, and in this form the resolution was passed unanimously, The seaston in the evening was con- tinued up to a late hour, although no quorum was present. ‘The caucuases of party members of the House of Representatives were held during the recess last evening. James C. Blaine, of Maine, was nominated for Speaker. The caucus was adjourned until Fri- day. ‘The Incoming Administration. General Grant has been engaged for some time on his inaugural address, which will be short. He has Consulted no politicians in regard to it. General Grant and his family will not take posses- siou of the White House until several weeks after the inauguration, in order that it may receive a thorough renovation. General and Mrs. Sherman, in the meantime, will be the guests of General Grant at his present residence. The new President and his wife, however, will hold the usual reception at the White House on the evening after the inaugu- Fourteenth street.—Granp Vocat | ration. The President elect has been presented with a broome to sweep out the Augean stable by a thrifty advertiser, and a gold headed cane from a tree on Shiloh fleld. A Bible, in most beautiful style, is being gotten up by Mr. Stuart, of Philadelphia, and several other Christian gentlemen for presentation to him. A Texas delegation, wlio called upon General Grant yesterday, were informed that General Reynolds would be restored to his command in that State. In conversation with General Reynolds yesterday General Grant is understood to have said that re- construction could take care of itself, and that Cuban independence and the Alabama claims woula require attention first. The Outgoing Administration. The last reception of President Johnson at the White House last evening was the most brilliant of All compiaints of ‘short counts” and spoiled | all. The crowd was so great that several ladles sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the Heraxp establish- ment, Newamen who have received spoiled papers | and his family will leave for Auburn on Friday. from the HERALD office, are requested to re- turn the same, with proof that they were President Johnson’s Cabinet held its last meeting obtained from -here direct, and have their | °sterday. All the members were present. money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be sold to readers of the HERALp. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Dairy Hzrap will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscriLers by this arrangement can receive the Hmratp at the same price it is | recorded in San Francisco. furnished in the city. THB NAWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated March 2. Mr. Gladstone yesterday, in the English House of Commons, moved to introduce a bill for the disestab- Mshment of the Irish Church. He made a lengthy address in support of the proposed measure. The bill passed its first reading, and the 18th inst. is the day sct apart for t*s secona. Central Asia. Two cities in Turkistan have been taken possession of by the son of the dethroned Ameer of Cabool. The dcspatch which states this announcement also states The Legislative Committee investigating the city that the garrison of Kolat, a town in Cabool, has | gas works yesterday examined Mr. Wakeman, presi- been surprised by the natives, and that the British | dent of the Harlem Gaslight Company, and Mr. lost 360 men killed, wounded and missing, Cuba, Revolutionary outbreaks are reported at Consola cion del Sar and Coliseo, small towsn in theWestern @ay from Lt Department. Troops have been despatched to quell them. Suuto Espiritu is being fortified by General Poello’s troops. ae Pt iCNhe Our Kingston letter is dated February 17. The refugees [rom Santiago de Cuba have been placed in quarantine on account of the cholera prevailing 0 | 144 purgiar, that city. An abundant supply of coolie labor is ex- pected trom Calcutta, and agricultaral interests were reviving in consequence. Perto Rico dates are to the 13th from the capital and the sth from Ponce, The political situation remains un- changed, sale of 500 hogsheads of fine grocery sugar at $4 121, which is very moderate compared with other ports | mitted them. on the island, where prices raie $4 50 and upward for best qualities. About 1,200 hogsheads are re- ported ready in the Ponce district. but the crop ad- vances slowly owing to tne rainy weather, which | was rejected by the Court on the ground that it was interferes with the sugar making. San Domingo. Baez still remains shut up in his capital. Large out ack quantities of goods have recently been shipped from Reade, here to Port Plata and St. Jago de los Caballeros. Venezuela. Letters received from Venezuela report nothing new in politica, though there is reason to believe that the revolution commenced in Maturin 1s gain- } ing for Liverpool. calling at Queenstown to land pas- in Maracaibo produce is coming in | sengers. ing ground. more freely, but no orders for charters has, as yet been made, Congress. In the Senate yesterday the Army Appropriation | 0’clock this morning. Dill was taken up, but after a short discussion on Mr. Sumner’s amendment relative to an old war claim of Massachusetis it was postponed and the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Dill was considered. Ap interesting discussion en- From the latter place there is reported a | down a flight of steps with a bludgeon. He finally were crushed. Lieutenant General Sherman and Admiral Farragut were among the distinguished visitors present. President Johnson’s family will quit the Executive * Mansion on Thursday morning. Secretary Seward The chiefs of bureaus will tender their resignations on the formation of the new Cabinet. The committee of the New York Common Council called on President Johnson yesterday, but he could not receive them formally owing to a press of busi- ness, The pardons of Arnold and Spangler are being made out at the Attorney General’s office and will probably be signed to-day. Miscellaneous. The United States Coast Survey, in order to ascer- tai the difference in mean time between Boston and San Francisco, have attached a chronometer to the wire at Cambridge University, so that each tick is The lottery schemes in St. Louis are coming to grief, The Paschall House scheme is before the courts, and an indignation meeting of ticket holders in the Garner real estate distribution affair has been held, at which a committee was appointed to wait on the managers and inquire if they propose to have @ drawing. Afire in Hartford, Conn., yesterday morning de- stroyed the building occupied by the Times as a publishing office. The paper for the present is being Printed at the Courant office. The Missouri Legislature has ratified the new amendment. i Masked bails are to be prohibited in Boston after the 4ta instant. The City. Zollikoffer, president of the Metropolitan Gaslight Company, a8 to the cost and dividends of their com- panies. The steamship Denmark arrived at this port yester- verpoo!l on the 10th ult., after a very rough voyage. Captain Cutting, her commander, was dashed overboard and lost, and another officer had his leg broken. Enos Lathrop appeared before Justice Dodge yes- terday, aud stated that he was present at the Court of Sessions on Monlay as a witness against Gaffney and on leaving the Court he was as- saulted by ruflaas, who seriously injured him. He escaped from them only tobe knocked down by a sister of his wife, who has left him and is living with Gaffney. Officer Cole, who saw the last as- sault, followed the woman to her home, where he was opposed by Lathrop’s wife, who knocked him secured both the women, and Justice Dodge com- The proscution tn the Griffith Gaunt libel uit was closed yesterday. For the defence, offers to prove that Mr. Reacte had taken his story from other works customary for authors to borrow their plots from other, authors and that plagiarism was the taking, bodiiy, portions of another person’s writings with- nowiedgment, The defence claimed that Mr. hot being @ citizen, had no rights as an @uthor in this country. The case was then postponed until Wednesday. The steamship Colorado, Captain Cutting, will sail from plier 46 North river at nine o'clock this morn. The Cunard steamer Samaria, Captain Lott, wili sail to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The matis will close at the Post office at haif-past nine Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge A. S. Merriman and Nat. McKay, of Boston; Captain Abbily, of the United States Army; Jonn Parkhurst, Warden of Clinton Prison, and John Kendrick, of Connecticut, are at the Metropolitan sued on @ proposition to strike out the clause giving Hotet. female clerks a8 much pay for the same work as males. Mr. Howe said that ander the existing organi- zation of society femaies could not command as high pay as males, and equalizing the pay in Washington would not remedy the dimicuity. Mr. Morrill thought the increase of pay would create a little aristocracy in Washington and excite the envy of worse paid ladies elsewhere. Mr, Pomeroy said if tt was in his power he would fill the places of every able bodied male clerk in the department with women. The clause was not stricken out. The clause appropriating $5,000 to fulfil the contract with Miss Vinnie Ream for ® statue of President Lincoin was discussed at some length. Mr. Sumner thought the statue would never be allowed in the Japitoh ana hoped there was some means of get- ting rid of the contract. He confessed that had never seen the model which was then exhibition in the Capitol building. Mr. Howard sege competent to jadge thought its sunccas. The clause was accepted, An amend- imereasing the pay of employsé in Washington Bit t, per cent. was Signor de Mutti Antonio and G. Vignala, of Mexico, and A. Andris, of Belgium, are at the Maitby ase, Captain Balfour, of the British army; R. A. Rich- ards, of Boston, and E. A. Hitchcock, of St. Louis, are at the Brevoort House. General Ely, of Connecticut; Dr. EB. L. Sturtevant, of Massachusetts; W. fH. Merriman, of Albany, and General King, of Springfield, Mass., are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. 1, R. Whitehead, of London; John R. Lyrer, of England, and J. 8. Burnside, of Dublio, Ireland, are at the Hoffman House, Herr Frederick Haase, the German actor, is at the Belvidere House. Brcomixe Jorvrvt.—The anti-Brownlow men in Tennessee are becoming cheerful now that the statue was o failure. Mr. Trambull said | Parson Brownlow ceases to reign over them. They are actually regarding the advent of his successor, who is of the same political stripe, introduced, In the evening ses- | a6 0 blessing. ‘The Gathering at Wasbington—The Contrast Between 1861 and 1869. There will be a gathering unprecedented— “a multitude which no man can number”—in Washington to-morrow to assist in General Grant's inauguration. The city is already full of strangers, and every train from every point of the compass increases the number by hun- dreds and by thousands. The hotels, board- ing houses, shopkeepers, restaurants, faro banks, &c., are already reaping their harvest from the pilgrims and dreaming of the millen- nium. The general cash account of Washing- ton for the first week of this merry month of March will be enlarged to the extent of two or three millions in net receipts, The volunteer followers of General Grant down Pennsyl- vania avenue to-morrow, in and out of line, will probably exceed in numbers the combined armies of Grant and Sherman, bummers and all, which, returning from the war, marched up that avenue in the spring of 1865, occu- pying two days, twenty men abreast, in the passage of the mighty host. What a contrast will be the spectacle in Washington to-morrow to that of Lincoln’s in- auguration of 1861! A civil war, the most gigantic and sanguinary in the annals of man- kind, and a political revolution the most re- markable, decisive and comprehensive since the great upheaval and reconstruction of France are the grand historical events whic! fill up the interval from 1861 to i869, In 186 the President elect, in a convenient disguise, reached Washington in safety, though waited for en route by an organized band of assassins, and in the city of Wilkes Booth. So much had been gained. Buta Southern confederacy had been organized and was preparing for war, and thousands of men in Washington, Maryland and Virginia were deeply involved in the great conspiracy. General Scott had information from which he feared an armed attempt to take the life of Lincoln and to cap- ture the national capital on inauguration day. His means and forces of defence against the apprehended raid of some ten thousand men were ridiculously small, but Scott’s arrange- ments for the crisis were admirable. He had his little squads of troops here and there, scat- tered judiciously about the city and on the line of the inaugural procession; he-had his sentries posted from point to point on the housetops, while his scouts were stationed at all the approaches from the suburbs. He had, too, his couriers and the telegraph to carry his orders and bring himinformation: He had the Treasury barricaded. On the route from the White House to the Capitol—called a mile—the President elect, with the outgoing President Buchanan by his side in the same barouche, and surrounded by a squadron of dragoons, was comparatively safe; but at that time after descending from his carriage Lin- coln would have to walk within the Capitol enclosure a hundred yards or go to reach the door assigned him. General Scott, however, had provided for his safety here a covered way, so that after leaving the carriage the next that was seen of Lincoln and Buchanan by the outside crowd was on the raised plat- form on the eastern portico, twenty feet above the ground. There, as safe from the surging multitude below as if in a fortress, and in the midst of a party of distinguished men and beautiful women, the inauguration ceremonies were performed and-the great danger was over. That was a day of mystery, danger, doubt and fear in Washington. But .it was also a day of law and order; for the precautions of General Scott covered all contingencies of alarm, and, with his handful of troops, it was seen at sunrise that he held the city. Only a few weeks before Iverson, of Georgia, on the floor of the Senate, in dilating on the glories of his Southern confederacy, had said, sub- stantially :—‘‘As for our Confederate capital, sir, this will serve our purposes; for this Dis- trict, with Maryland and Virginia, must go with the South.” Henry A. Wise had made a similar threat in 1856 and was supposed to be actively involved in the conspiracy for the capture in 1861. General Scott got his specific information concerning it mainly from the loyal Maryland Governor, Hicks. That was eight years ago. Cotton then was king and negro slavery was his prime minis- ter. Lincoln, established in the White House, was so enveloped by enemies that he had to temporize before he could strike. What a change! Slavery abolished, the cotton oli- garchy demolished, negro suffrage established on the ruins of Iverson's confederacy and a “carpet-bagger” in his place in the Senate ! Nay, more. The retired soldier, who was quietly, in March, 1861, at his tanyard at Ga- lena, listening to the rumbling of the coming tempest, will to-morrow, as the successor to unfinished work handed down from Lincoln, be the hero of an ovation such as never, 80 far, has been known on this Continent. Grant has said “let us have peace,” and all sections and parties feel that peace it is to be, and all recognize his authority and his strength as the nation’s choice. All feel, too, that his advent marks a new era in American history anda new age of progress, prosperity and power to the United States. And so it is that the in- auguration of General Grant will be the most glorious to the American people of any Presi- dent since the first inauguration of Washington. But with all this we have not fully accounted for the gathering multitude of Pennsylvania avenue. It is, after all, mainly the gathering of the clans—the Grand Army of the Republic, the Boys in Blue, the Grant and Colfax Clubs, the Tanners and all the other clans on the scent of the spoils, We have grown in eight years, as from the debt and expenses of Swit- zerland, to the debt, taxes and expenditures of the British empire, and the spoils of the gov- ernment have correspondingly increased. The multiplied facilities of railroads, meantime, have brought Washington nearer and nearer to the centre and extremities of the Union. And then there is the inauguration ball. All these things considered, we may safely pre- dict that the gathering at Grant's inauguration will of itself proclaim an advance of a hundred years of humdrum peace in the stupendous facts accomplished since 1861, Suxpay Work.—Opera Fisk, in a card to the Boston 7'raveller, claims to be one of the originators of the Sunday express between New York and Boston. If no, why couldn't he permit the little “Morning Star” Sunday school to run its express line direct to heaven through bis Grand Opera House ? General Grant’s Inaugural. The Washington correspondents are all upon the anxious seat about General Grant’s in- augural. It is not necessary to possess the faculty of prescience to predict what its main points will be, and we may as weil give them, to wit:—1. In favor of the suffrage amend- ment, economy, retrenchment, reform, and strict accountability in the collection of reve- nue. 2. In favor of Congressional recon- struction in the South. 8, In favor of law and order in the South—peaceably if he can, forcibly if he must. 4. In favor of admitting the outstanding Southern States with all proper speed. 5. In favor of a ‘new consulta- tion with England in regard to the Alabama claims, or possibly the enunciation of a new, vigorous and unmistakable national policy in that regard. 6. In favor of the independence of Cuba. 7. In favor of a fresh and invigorat- ing treatment of the Mexican question. 8. In favor of the gradual absorption of the entire North American Continent, from the North Pole to the Equator, under the United States flag, in order to avoid future perplexities and complications with foreign and little local Powers when we have determined to construct railroads, canals or telegraph lines across the Continent at any point—and especially when we have concluded to construct the grand Longitudinal or Continental railroad, bisecting the J ik ag from Alaska through the parks of Mexico to Tehuantepec. This platform, with a dash of spice about our marvellous prosperity as a nation, his personal desire for everlasting peace with all nations, and par- ticularly among ourselves, will, altogether, make a magnificent inaugural, for the utter- ance of which the nation, from one end to the other, will joyfully return thanks. Grab-All Massachusetts. In 1859 Massachusetts received the princi- pal of the debt due her by the United States for money advanced during the war of 1812-15. She was glad enough to get that, for her debtor refrained from bringing in a counter bill for damages occasioned by the use of blue lights by Massachusetts citizens for the benefit of the enemy during the war. The principal of this debt was obtained through the influence of that ‘“‘arch fiend” Jeff Davis, and even after paying the lobby bills a handsome bonus was left for the treasury of the State, the receipt of which was acknowledged in full liquidation of the claim, principal and interest. Now, after a lapse of forty-seven years, Mr. Sumner, in the Senate, puts in a bill for the interest on the debt, which he claims to amount to the snug little plum of five milliondollars. Besides all this it appears that the claim has been transferred to some railroad corporation in Massachusetts, and, in short, is but another of those swindling railroad schemes and jobs to rob the public treasury which confer inef- fable disgrace upon legislation in Washington. If the claim be persisted in the following would be a good way to draft the bill:— UNcLE SaM—To the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts—Dr.:— To interest on money advanced for herown efence 10 1812-15..........-+.eeeeeee eee Pex ContRa—Commonweaith of Massachu- man to Uncle Sam—Dk. :. done American prestige and credit by the use of Massachusetts bine lights to assist the enemy, and obstacles thrown in the way of a successful prose- cution of the war by the Hartford Con- vention, in which movement Massachu- setts cordially sympa 000,000 ++ $15,000,000 which the aforesaid Commonwealth is ex- pected to fork over to General Grant's Secre- tary of the Treasury, when that functionary shall be appointed. Uxrorvtar—Martial law in Tennessee, espe- cially among the Ku Kluxes. Reat Estats.—There is a fine excitement, a delicious activity, in real estate. In fact the world scarcely goes round so fast as those little parts of it called city lots go up—all of which we are glad to see. We shall be happy to know that lots are worth as much as the speculators say they are; but if they should happen not to be, then let buyers stand from under, Let those who are paying fancy prices look to themselves. Many men in many parts of this great city have bought and held for the growth of neighborhoods; but it takes a great while for neighborhoods to grow, and they do not always grow just right. Lots in the thickest part of the city have been held at ten times what they can be bought for now. Wuirewasnine.—The term ‘‘legislaturized” is substituted for whitewashing in Tennessee. A “Bia Tarxe”"—One man holding the fat office of Register and the responsible one of Police Justice at the same time. Why not gobble up the Mayor and Common Council, Board of Supervisors, Excise, Police, Sani- tary, Charity and Corrections Commissions, New Court Honse jobs and so on? Yea, verily! He hath stomach for them all. PrestpeNnt JoHNsON IN A New Rote.—The Nashville Republican Banner reports that President Johnson is to become President of the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company. If 80, the best locomotive on the road should be called ‘‘Veto.” Hooray !—The democrats have carried Port- land. What effect will this have on the New Hampshire and Connecticut elections, to say nothing of the payment of the national debt ? DISESTABLISHMENT OF THE IntsH CauroH.— It will be seen by our Atlantic cable telegrams received last night that Mr. Gladstone has introduced a bill in the House of Commons to disestablish the Irish Church, to make pro- vision for its temporalities and to disendow the Royal College of St. Patrick, at Maynooth. The Premier delivered an elaborate speech upon the bill, which was read a first time |- and the second reading appointed for the 18th of March. The Times advocates the bill, says it fairly accomplishes the task aimed at and that the government deserves the support of Parliament. The subject excites great inte- rest in England and Ireland and will attract especial attention in this country. SinoutaR CoincipeNok.—The question of ‘missing bonds” is raised immediately after Parson Brownlow leaves Tennessee for Wash- ington. CrtestiaL Work ror Potttiotans.—The Chinese in California number sixty-two thou- sand, Here will be a fine field for the poli- ticians to work upon when the fifteenth amend- ment passes- The Whiskey Ring and Internal Revenue Officials. Every investigation or publication about the whiskey ring and its connection with or war upon the internal revenue officials only makes things worse confounded, We have before us 8 pamphlet entitled ‘‘Conspiracy of the Whis- key Ring Against Collector J. F. Bailey,” which shows clearly enough the villany of the distillers, perjurers, bogus bond makers and other rascals confederated together; but amid such an amount of false swearing all round, of contradictory statements even among high gov- ernment officers, how are we to get at the truth? How is the public to know where there is any honesty—if, indeed, there be any at all? The only way to remedy the fearful evils that exist is for the new administration to make a clean sweep of all in the internal revenue ser- vice, from the highest to the lowest} and if, by chance, an innocent man should suffer he must bear with it for the public good. There is no way of getting at the truth and of discriminat- ing between one and the other. Nothing re- mains to be done but a thorough reorganization of the service from beginning to end and from the highest to the lowest official. . How ro “Take Car, oF” IMPORTUNATE Orriox-skEKERs—Lay them quietly on the shelf, Congress Yesrerpay.—The proceedings of the Fortieth Congreas yesterday were not marked by any unusual excitement, although the session is so near its close. Business was hurried along with commendable rapidity. A proposition to ring in the repeal of the Tenure of Office bill in the Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill in the Senate was defeated by a vote of twenty-two to twenty-six. This leaves the bill where it stood before, and its repeal by the present Congress is now al- together problematical. SPEAKER OF THE Forry-First ConcREss.— It will be seen by our Washington despatches that Mr. Blaine, of Maine, has been nomi- nated in the republican caucus for Speaker of the Forty-first Congress, and of course he will be elected. Ordway, of New Hampshire, is to remain Sergeant-at-Arms and O. S. Buxton, of New York, Doorkeeper. Tae East River Baiver.—It will be seen by reference to our report of Congressional proceedings yesterday that the bill granting the authority of Congress to construct a bridge over the East river from New York to Brook- lyn has passed the House, as amended by the Senate, and is now in the hands of the Presi- dent for his signature. The provisions of the bill are intended to protect the corporation constructing the bridge from injunctions and other vexatious suits in the State courts pend- ing its erection. Now let the work go ahead as rapidly as possible. Too Muon ror tag JupGEs.—Really it seemed as if in one of the courts the judges and the jury might be enjoying a charming variety from the humdrum of justice when it was pub- lished that the professors of elocution were reading a novel by Charles Reade to the jury. It was not so atall. The novel was a bore, and by the time the elocutionists got to the twentieth chapter the judges in self-defence shut off the stream of twaddle. Dulness and claptrap will tell even in court. One might suppose that men trained on briefs could stand anything. Tue Crmiat Copge.—Judge Bedford has told the people plainly that the reason why we have not a better criminal code is that the cheap lawyers are strong enough in the Legis- lature to prevent a beneficial change. Often the remedy against an evil is its exposure, and we should fancy that lawyers in the Legisla- ture could now scarcely be so shameless as to further oppose the proper modifications of law in this respect, Tae NiaGErs aT THE Batt.—‘‘Sassy Sal, the nigger gal,” promises to “squall” her finest note in that great parade of cheap finery that the Washington people call the inauguration ball. The latest cry is that the democrats are pushing on the men and brethren and that the radicals will keep them out. We should like to catch those fellows discriminating against color or previous condition. Toe Swzets or Lire are becoming sour to the souls of the economical through high prices. Sugar is up, now that the Cubans will not down at Spanish bidding, and revolu- tion comes home to us in our coffee cups. Present high prices for this necessity are a great burden on the people, and it is to be hoped it may stimulate all sorts of domestic production—sorghum sugar, maple sugar and even beet root sugar. la-¥rance they depend on beet root sugar altogetly ~ an it be pos- sible that we cannot make it? We have seen sugar made of linen rags. A Pretry Preck or Business.—By the testimony taken before the Police Commis- sioners it appears that a policeman, in the name of the health authorities, forced his way into a citizen's house at three o'clock in the morning by breaking the door and then pounded the citizen. People would like to know if this is the process by which the Board proposes to take care of the public health, and if officers with the same ‘‘orders” are coming round to all the houses at thréé o’clock in the morning. By Wat Avutuoriry?—We hear that a medical student has been sent to the lunatic asylum because he pursued his physiological studies on dogs by vivisection. If that is the only reason for his committal they who signed the certificate of lunacy are more fit for the asylum than the student is. Tae City WALKs.—Yesterday it looked as though the great business of cleaning off the city sidewalks would have to be gone through once more. It would be an odd item in the aggregate of money spent to keep our streets passable if we knew what housekeepers paid altogether to boys and men for shovelling the snow from before the houses. From fifty cents to a dollar and a dollar and a half is paid for each service, and perhaps not less than a hundred thousand dollars change hands in this way each snow storm. Curap Literature.—The Western people are enjoying the bounty of the mail carriers, who have, gratis, distributed the contents of the mail bags all through Utah. The Mormons can read up. The Coming Prima Donna. Fisk, Jr., it must be conceded, is ambitious. Not content with emulating the haughtiest railway kings in Wall street, he aspires to be the rival of the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of all the Russias as a patron of art. He has engaged, it is said, Christina Nilsson, the Swedish queen of song, for an operatic tour throughout the United States, having failed to engage for the same purpose Adelina Patti, her only living compeer, inasmuch as the latter is monopolized for the present by the imperial court at St. Petersburg. The British and continental journals have made the Old World familiar with the name and history and marvellous gifts and accom- plishments of Christina Nilsson, Everybody in Europe knows how, from being a peasant girl at Wederslofs, where she was born on the. 20th of August, 1843, and a wanderer with her violin, her flute and her voice, already full of promise, in the streets of Wexjo and. at country fairs in Kronoberg’s Lan, she has atlength been crowned the successor of her celebrated compatriot, Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale. At the June fair at Ljangby, in 1858, her clear and powerful voice attracted the attention of Mr. Frederick Tornerbjelm, whose offer to rescue her from her wander- ing life and to pay for her education she rejected, in order to aid her parents by “concertizing” in company with a ventrilo- quist, who tempted her by promising gold and ‘‘green woods,” as Fisk, Jr., now promises her ‘“greenbacks” and Erie bonds. Tor- nerhjelm, however, afterwards persuaded her to accept his offer, and she began her educa- tion at Halmstad, where she also received gratuitous lessons in music and singing from Mile. Adelaide Walerius, now Baroness Lea- husen, who predicted for her young pupil a brilliant future. After a year at Gothenburg she became at Stockholm a boarder with M. F. Bervald, the concert director, under whose tuition she acquired such proficiency that when, in 1860, she appeared in a concert at which the royal family were present, she mado 60 favorable an impression as to be invited to perform before them in private. Subsequently she received musical instruction in Paris from Professors Wartel and Masset, and in 1864 she made a successful début at a theatre in that metropolis. Her first appearance was not at the Italian Opera, which is jealously guarded against all but Italian singers of the highest order, and is at first almost inacces- sible to singers of French or of any other nationality, whatever may be their qualifica- tions: But her claims as ‘‘a musical pheno- menon” were speedily discovered and recog- nized at the Theatre Lyrique. The patronage of the Emperor Napoleon, one of the earliest to appreciate her extraordinary talent, sufficed to level all obstacles to her obtaining more favorable engagements. During the past year her portrait has figured in all the European illustrated journals, and her triumphs at Lon- don and Paris have been duly telegraphed to the New World by the Atlantic cable. We have learned that young, fair haired, taller and handsomer than Jenny Lind, she is endowed with superior genius. The rapid recent development of her genius may be expected to continue during her visit to this country, and she will probably, like many of her predecessors, return to Europe with a more perfect voice as well asa wider reputa- tion and a heavier purse. Bat to this end Fisk, Jr., must at once sct about preparing the way for the American triumphs of this eminent vocalist. Let hin not fail to consult Barnum on the subject. Barnum can show him how to profit by his own experience in manipulating and managing the unprecedented success of Jeuny Lind. Bar- num would delight in telling him the whole story over again—how he gradually woke the public to a general expectation of Jeany Lind’s arrival; how he contrived to excite the most enthusiastic competition among the purchasers of tickets, from Genin, the hatter, who paid two hundred and fifty dollars, to Oasian E. Dodge, the Yankee songster,. who paid six hundred and fifty doilars, each for a single ticket; how he kept up the excitement until— Jenny prematurely left him,jand how Fisk, Jr., may escape all danger of similar treat- ment on the part of Christina. Let Fisk, Jr., sit humbly at the feet of Gamaliel Barnum and learn all the tricks of the showman’s trade. Without this precaution Fisk, Jr., may yet find that, however easy it may be to run a railway, it fs notso easy (with or without a newspaper in Springfield or any other village) to runa prima donna. Atrempt To Cueat Satan or His Dous— The attempt to shoot Parson Brownlow. Siientty INcorrecr.—Io a biography of Lamartine in a contemporary we find this sen- tence :—‘‘Chateaubriand said of one poem in the collection, the ‘Ode to Byron,’ ‘It is worth more than the whole of my ‘‘Genius of Christianity.’” But in the same article “Le Génie du Christianisme” is catalogued as one of the works of Lamartine, Waxe Ur!—The name of Philadelphia should be changed to ‘‘Sleepy Hollow.” The papers there are giving long obituaries of John Ericsson, the famous monitor inventor, as if he had died of hydrophobia lately. It was altogether another man. Captain John will never die of hydrophobia, for nothing that he ever had anything to do with was afraid of water. Indeed, one of his creations was so attached to the clement that it fairly perished in ite embrace. Anotuer Decision or THe SupREME Courr on Coin Contracts.—The Supreme Court of the United States has made another decision affirming the validity of coin contracts, The case was that of Thomas ©. Butler vs. Benja-~ min F. Horwitz, and had some peculiar fea- tures in it; but both the case and decision were essentially the same in principle as in that of Bronson vs. Rodes, which we noticed some days ago. Contracte calling in terma for payment in coin, whenever made, whether before or since the Legal Tender act was passed, can be enforced. The Chief Justice said:—“A contract to pay a certain sum in gold and silver coin is, in substance and legal effect, a contract to deliver a certain weight of gold and silver of a certain fineness, to be ascertnined by count.” The court did not go into the question of the constitutionality of the Legal Tender act, but assumed for the Present that it is constitutional, and finds therefore two descriptions of lawful money