The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1869, Page 6

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In the Assembly, yesterday, bills were ordered to a third reading relative to the charter of the East India Telegraph Company; closing @ portion of Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn; in relation to prisoners sentenced in Kings county to less than five years’ imprisonment; tn relation to pilots at Hell Gate, and several others. Several unimportant bills were in- troduced. The resolution authorizing the Metro- potitan Board of Police to appoint one surgeon for each police precinct, during the summer months, was taken up and adopted. The resolution relating to the management of the State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica, was also adopted. The Assembly then ad- journed until Monday evening. Miscellaneous. ‘The President nas frequently of late expressed to Senators his objection to the Tenure of Omice law. Although he ts pressed by many of them to make a Glean sweep of democratic office holders he declines to do it, as he holds snch action to be in violation of ‘the obnoxious law. He proposes to have it repealed by executing it strictly. Some Senators recently urged upon President Grant the appointment of General Sanborn to be Com- missioner of Indian Affairs, but the President gave them to understand that he proposed some radical changes in the present method of treating the Indians. Secretary Borie, of the Navy Department. who was feported to know nothing of ships, seems to have @mtered with considerable ardor into the work re- quired of him. He has recently issued several im- portant orders, probibiting the covering of birth Gecks with shellac, and the erection of certain signs @ pavy yards; in relation to the stowage of boata, 6nd even in reference to uniforms, salutes and the @omparative grades of staif oMcers. He direets that the executive officers shall take precedence over stad oMoers, and only commanding officers of squad- fons, naval stations and vessels will be saluted by tossing or laying on of oars. ‘The applications of office seekers in the depart- ments at Washington is overwhelming, and tt is said ‘that only one applicant im five bundred can be satis- fed. Darden, who killed the editor of the Warrenton Clipper in Warrenton, Ga., on Friday, was taken | from the prison during the night by a disguised party and shot to death. General Butler introduced a New Orleans negro to Secretary Boutwell yesterday and recommended hia appointment as assessor of internal revenue in that ity. Noah L. Jeffries, Register of the Treasury, has re- ‘The Géorgia Senate, which passed the fifteenth @mendment on Friday, reconsidered its action yes- terday. The conservatives of both parties are in favor of ite adoption, to judge from the tenor of the Giscussion, and tt ts probable that with their aid it wil) finally pass. French Canadians are still leaving tho South St. Lawrence parishes of Canada for the United States, many families going without waiting to dispose of their farms. - It is proposed by a Canadian company to bridge or » tannel the Detroit river. A New York delegation addressed the Bumtaio “NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY Board of Trade yesterday on the grain elevating interest and the reputed canal frauds. Resolutions Were adopted endoraing the views of the delegation. ‘The show case robbers have commenced opera- Wons in Philadelphia. Two of them were captured yesterday who had broken in @ window with a paving stone and stolen furs therefrom. The City. The investigation into the gas monopolies was concluded yesterday. Considerable testimony was taken duuing the day, and in the evening the inveati- gation was resumed in Brookiyn. The Commissioners of Emigration yesterday con- tnued their investigation into the outrages on the emigrant ship James Foster, Jr. The oMvers of the vessel were not present, all of them-being sick abed. The previous story of ill-treatment and outrage was repeated by the various witnesses, ‘The Fullerton case was called yesterday and set down for trial at some time in April or May. Coroner Whitehill yesterday commenced an tn- vestigation into an alleged case of malpractice in Willlamsburg. in which {t appears that a German woran in Meserole street died recently while under treatment at the hands of one Schaick, who, it is stated, 1s not a doctor, but a cigar maker. The stock market yesterday was dull in the morn- ing but moderately animated in the afternoon. Gold was quiet between the quotations 13144 and 131%, closing finally at the former figure. ‘The aggregate amount of business consummated in commercial circles yesterday was small, almost all of the markets being extremely quiet. Prices generally ruled in favor of the buyer. Coffee was quiet, but held at full prices, Ootton was more sought after, and prices advanced %c., closing at 28%c. for middling uplands, Sugar was in fair re- quest at full prices. On ’Change, flour was dull and heavy, and some sales were made at prices 25c. below those current yesterday. Wheat was irregular, Spring being more steady ander a moderate demand, while winter was dull, unsettied and easier. Corn was slow of sale and 20. a 30. lower, while oats were dul and heavy. Pork was in better demand, but at rather lower prices. Beef was steady and lard was tn good demand, and closed atrong. Petroleum— crude in bulk was dull and declined to 17. a 17%c., while refined was duli and 2c. lower, closing at 300. Naval ad and whiskey were dull and heavy. Hain oSS Comptroller W. F. Allen and J. H. Ramsay, of Albany; Colonel R. M. Hagaman, of Montana; H. C. Lord, of Cincinnati, and H, A. Tilden, of New Leba- non, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Charles J. Folger, of albany; Henry Roas, of Phila- delphia, and Charles Schaler, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts; J. 0. Davis, of Newburg; Major Hales Wilkie, of London, England, and Mark Skinner, of Chicago, are at the Brevoort House, Commander James W. Shirk, of the United States Navy, and Edwin Shippen, of Philadelphia, are at ‘the New York Hotel. Governor Underwood, of Vermont; Colonel J. H. French, of Boston; A. L. Farrell, of Havana, and ex- Governor Gardiner, of Massachussetts, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘ John Kasson, of Iowa, is at the Hoffman House, Judge McCormick, of Pennsylvania; Colonel R. Reed and Captain James Fairbanks, of the United States Army, and Professor Moodie, of Massachu- setta, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Prominent Departures. Governor Burnside left yesterday for Rhode Isiand; Morris Lopez Roberts, Spanish Minister, for Wash- ington; Oliver Ames and John B. Alley for Massa- chuéetts; H. Fesseden for Boston; D. Newhall and E. Sanderson for Milwaukee, and A. Altman for Buffalo. 8. Harrington, United States Minister to Switzer- land, sailed for Burope. Crowding the Mormons—A Subject for the Special Attention of General Grant. The Gentiles are crowding hard upon the Mormons. The iron horse of the Pacific Rail- road from Omaha, on the Missouri, has reached the Great Salt Lake station, one thousand miles westward, on the east side of the lake, some twelve miles north of Great Salt Lake City—the city of Zion or the New Jerusalem of the Latter Day Saints. The road from said station winds round the north end of the lake for a passage westward, the city at the south end thus escaping the immediate dangers of a direct contact with the enormous through pas- senger traffic of the great continental line. Within a month or two the junction of the road from Omaha west and the road from San Francisco east will be made, and then the tide of emigration from the East and the West into the new mining mountain States and Territo- ries tapped by the locomotive will be marvel- lous and overwhelming. What, then, will become of the Mormons? This is the text we have chosen for the Sabbath day’s opening discourse to our readers. We half suspect that Brigham Young, a religious potentate with more money in the bank than the Pope, has had a voice in the diversion of the Pacific Railroad round the north end of Great Salt Lake, leaving his chosen city at the nearest point twelve difficult miles of mountain and morass to the southward. Thus the great stream of the Gentiles passing east and west by the railway, instead of halting in town (as they would do with the road going through it) to inspect the outside walls and doors and gates of the Prophet's harem, and to look around for some pretext for quarrels and fights with the saints generally, will be compelled to pass on. But the railway station at the lake is doubtless by this time a bustling pioneer city of grocers’ tents, grog shanties, dancing sheds and gambling booths, and within & few months this half-way station among the mountains may have a larger population than Salt Lake City itself. Whatthen? The fringe of border ruffianism, which may be compared to the rubbish along the surf line of the sea coast—the advancing overland front of Anglo- American civilization—will be diffused along the line of the Pacific road in the mining re- gions. Then, as these rough and warlike ele- ments proceed to the work of settling down for life, as the more substantial materials of society begin to gather about them, building up cities and developing mines and farming lands, then will the “irresistible conflict” be- tween Gentiles and Mormons begin. All those vast regions of the West between the Rocky Mountains and the great chain flanking the Pacific coast are mostly desert in their character, Fremont’s Great Basin, of five or six hundred miles square, has that system of drainage peculiar to all those regions in both hemispheres, cut off from the ocean by encircling mountains, or desert wastes, or by both—that system where we find the rivers sinking in the sands or emptying into inland lakes which are kept down by evaporation. In all such regions the arable lands are confined to the borders of the streams and to little green patches in the desert, and even these arable lands require more or less of artificial irrigation. So it is in Utah, where all the lands, we may say, susceptible of cultivation are held by the Mormons, with the life-giving streams from the mountains, But apart from these lands the surrounding mountains and even the deserts abound in their precious min- erals of silver and gold, coal, tron and salt. With the completion of this Pacific road the Gentiles will swarm into these deposits, crowd- $$ rg ing the Mormons at every settlement until they are crowded out, Nor is it by any means certain that this re- moval or absorption of Mormonism, involving the wiping out of Mormon polygamy, will be effected without bloodshed, The lessons of the bloody Mormon expulsions from Missouri and Nauvoo warn us of the danger of a bloodier expulsion from Utah. The Mormons, through their admirable system of industry, have made their settlements in Utah sufficiently attractive in their substantial elements of com- fort and wealth to tempt the cupidity of the frontier Goths and Vandals to organize raids upon Mormon polygamy as upon an intolerable abomination. In truth, we apprehend that from and after July next there will be no safety to the Mormon saints except in the im- mainte. nesennen, st: 5: Saecinens. af fie United States army. Thisis cinaitae Woh Ga dectccacioniadeen: tion of General Grant. Various schemes have been proposed in Congress for the removal of this unsightly excreacence of Mormon poly- gamy. One member proposes the division of the Territory of Utah among the neighboring Territories, so that the Gentiles may outvote and vote out the saints in their local govern- ment. Another member proposes a military government, another—the Mormon delegate— the admission of Utah asa State. This last would be a disastrous experiment to the saints and cannot be entertained in Congress. Nor can we safely wait till the anti-Mormon popula- tion of Utah shall be strong enough to outvote the Mormon population of a hundred thousand. Nor, if it could be done, would it be the wisest course to buy out the Prophet and his followers, and buy an island for them in the Pacific and settle them on it;. for the skilled industry of these Mormons is too valuable to be lost. We know of no better plan than that of a sort of military government over Utah, for the protection of the Mormons and the suppres- sion of polygamy at the same time, A law imposing s heavy internal revenue tax or upon the Mormon for his second wife—with two on hand—and with a heavier tax the luxury of a third, and ao on, still increasing the tax up to the Prophet's maximum of thirty-nine wives, would be apt to have a good effect. But it would be vastly improved with a premium to every single man marrying a surplug wife of a saint and ‘adopting | her children. After what has been done for the Southern blacks in the name of the Freedmen’s Bureau, extending to the marriage relation, we do not see why the Territorial system here suggested might not be adopted for Utah. At all events, in view of the coming dangers we have indicated, we commend the subject to the earnest considera- tion of General Grant. TrovsLe ApourT THE TENURE OF OFFICE Aor.—It appears from our Washington ad- vices that the Senate is very much troubled with the egg of its own hatching—the Tenure of Office act. President Grant is little dispozed to make many new appointments until the act is repealed. Therefore the Senate finds that, instead of its friends being placed in fat offices, ‘the old occupants appointed by Johnson, and who were most thoroughly won over to “my policy,” will continue, to the disgust of the conscript fathers, to enjoy the spoils. It is therefore supposed that the next time a vote is taken to repeal the law it will be passed by a large majority. Passage oF Tak Bia. To STRENGTHEN Tag Posiio Crepit.—Mr. Schenck’s bill to strengthen the public credit, which passed both houses of Congress just before the Fortieth Congress expired, and which failed to become law through not receiving President Johnson’s signature, has been brought up again, and will become law, no doubt. It passed the House of Representatives on Fri- day somewhat modified, that is, by striking out the section legalizing gold contracts as unnecessary, since the decision of the Supreme Court settles that, but in all other respects the same bill. The vote was yeas 97, nays 47. As the President will undoubtedly sign the bill, the bulls on the government five-twenties may now lead off again ; for the Forty-first Congress stands just where the Fortieth did on the finan- cial question. This prompt action will have the effect, probably, to appreciate these securi- ties abroad and cause a gorresponding rise here. Re-EsTasusnine THe Sounp Dugs.—The pilots of this port had once a sort of lien on our commerce in the shape of Sound dues. Vessels coming or going by way of the Sound and through Hell Gate had to pay the pilots, though they did not need pilots and did not always employ pilots. Ships had to purchase of these worthies the privilege of coming into New York, though there is a common notion abroad that we possess our freedom. The im- position of the pilots was abrogated by law, and now they are before the Legislature seek- ing to have the old abuse renewed and claim- ing that its correction has robbed them of their bread and butter. Keep the law and send the men who have no bread and butter to the alms- house. Parts Fasnions.—Our Paris fashions letter to-day is no less lively and interesting than usual, But ‘after minute descriptions of the Empress of the French as “one blaze of gems” at the last Tuilertes concert, and of the latest extraordinary toilet of the Empress of Austria, which tempted Eugénie to such a display of jewels everywhere except in her miraculous profusion of “esprit” curls, and of | the coiffures of the Princess of Metternich and of Mme. de Gallifet, and of Mme. de Chabanne’s bridal costumes, and of those worn by the Princesses Gabrielli and Primeli, Mme. Niel, Mme. de Malakoff, Mme. Canrobert and the Comtesse Welles de la Valette at the first concert of the Minister of the Navy, and of the latest styles of Indian cashmeres and crépe de chine shawls, our correspondent, manifestly at wit's end, makes @ servant announce ‘two ladies without any costume.” And here we loave the Paris fashions for the present, Amona BANKEns, —We are glad that the financiers in faro indulged their natural in- stincts on that little occasion when the man who won from the bank was beaten and robbed by the bankers, That is all as it ought to be. But where were the police when this little piece of gambling waa in progress? Were they too busy in their pursuit of babies in Brooklyn pitching buttons to attend to (hls little game on Broadway? MAROM 14, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. Mr, Barlingame in Paris. ies According to our European correspondence Mr. Burlingame, the Yankee-Chinese Ambas- sador, is carrying everything before him and has become the lion of the day. The Princess Clothilde has taken him especially under her wing, tosay nothing of all the other princesses— imperial, royal and otherwise—who are smiling upon him, or of the gracious and flattering attentions of the Empress Eugénie herself. Then the Emperor has been unusually polite and free, and Prince Napoleon is so much captivated that he contemplates, it is said, taking @ trip to China. All the court and the ton of Paris are in a fever of admiration, and there are continued banquets and recep- tions in honor of the Ambassador. All this reminds us of the extraordinary ovations to Dr. Franklio before the brilliant court of Louis the Sixteenth and the gay society of Paris at that day. There is something similar, too, in the position of the two distinguished men. Franklin proclaimed and represented the birth of new nation and a republic at a time when the ideas of the world were passing through a aurprising revolution, when the principles of liberty and equality were fashionable as well as popular, and when the mighty impulses of a new age had reached even the proudest monarchy and aristocracy on the earth. Mr. Burlingame, if he does not represent the birth of China as a nation, is the representative of its regeneration and of its admission into the family of nations. He pro- claims a new order of things—the progress of modern civilization in that vast and populous empire of Asia, which has for thousands of years been isolated from the rest of the world and the brotherhood of all the families of man- kind. The establishment of the American republic and the philosophy of France made Franklin and his mission popular in Paris in his day, and Mr. Burlingame has become the same through the extraordinary liberal move- ments of this age, stimulated by the telegraph and steam power, and through the prestige and influence of his native country. It is said that there is not an order in Europe Mr. Burlingame could not obtain—not a ribbon, cross or decoration but awaits his acceptance ; but he is prouder of being a citizen of the American republic, and shows everywhere his republican integrity. He looks forward to the time, after having accomplished his great mis- sion, when he can return to America and resume his privileges as one of ita citizens. For him there is more glory and honor in this than in the gilded honors of European courts and society. Whether his republicanism will pro- duce anything like the effect at Paris that Franklin’s did remains to be seen. The bril- liant ladies and courtiers at Versailles were enraptured with Franklin's republican princi- ples, his simplicity of manner and the plain Quaker cut and quality of his dress, which formed a striking contrast with their own. They could not refrain from kissing the phi- losopher and representative of the new era. Will the enthusiasm over Burlingame, which appears to be increasing, proceed as far as this? Will the beauties of Napoleon’s court bestow the same favors on him? He is a fine looking fellow, still young, courtly, and yet free in manner, politic and very agreeable to ladies. But Mrs. Burlingame is with him, and we believe there was no* Mrs. Franklin. That makes a difference, Still, if the court or Paris belles dare work up enough enthusi- asm, after the manner of the ladies of Ver- sailles in Franklin's day, they might embrace him for the sake of the principles he repre- sents, However, that might look revolu- tionary, and the Emperor Napoleon, remem- bering the effect of such demonstrations in the time of Louis the Sixteenth, would probably keep a sharp eye on the ladies around his court. But, apart from all this, it is gratifying to seo the success of Mr. Burlingame and his mission at Paris and in Europe. We need not discuss the object of that mission or the con- sequences likely to flow from it, for that has already been done in the columns of the Heratp. The success which has attended it in Europe is the result in a great measure of Mr. Burlingame’s first coming to the United States and making the first treaty here. England was hardly prepared to abandon her old policy and to adopt a new and more liberal one, and would not, probably, had the Embassy gone first to London. The sneering and hos- tile tone of the British press showed this while Mr. Burlingame and his associates were in the United States. But, our government having made a treaty and established a more liberal policy with China, England was com- pelled either to follow or suffer the conse- quences of isolation, a hostile attitude and injury to her trade. In this dilemma England mades similar treaty to ours, and now the mission and all connected with it pre- sents to Englishmen a beautiful and rosy appearance. The French government, as we see, has regarded the Chinese mission from the start with favor, and was more ready to do so, probably, because of the attitude of England before and when the Embassy first arrived in that country. France will, undoubtedly, make a liberal treaty with China. So, too, no doubt will Russia, Prussia and the other Powers of Europe. The further the Embassy goes the more favor it meets with. The ovation in Paris is the prelude to other ovations at St. Petersburg,’ Berlin and elsewhere. Mr. Burlingame wisely made his own country—the United States—the point d’appui of his opera- tions, and the greatest success has followed this policy. The happy results to both Chins and the world at large cannot yet be fully seen, but there is no doubt they will bo in the end more extraordinary than we can imagine. Watt Srreet.—The ‘“‘bulls” and “bears” have been quiet for several days, and the brokers in the ‘Long Room” have been s0 “short” of “orders” that they frequently in- dulged in metrical praises of Thomas Dodd, Faq. Even the gold market is quiet, the settlement of the Cabinet difficulties restoring steadiness to the premium, Onrvareto 1 Usaoe. —The chivalry is not even yet all taken out of the warm-blooded sons of the South, Instance the event at Augusta, Ga. Wallace was voted for as member of an association; Darden, a member of the associa- tion, voted against him; Wallace thereupon declared in print that Darden was a liar, and Datden retorted with bis rifle, putting one bullet into Wallace's brain ‘The Aunexation of Nova Scotia—The First Step Northward. . It was represented in Washington on Friday by some prominent Nova Scotia citizens that the feeling in that province is almost unanimous in favor of joining thelr interests with ours and forming one of the stars upon our flag. There is no doubt but Nova Scotia, in opposi- tion to her interests and opportunity for pros- perity, is held as an integral part of the Do- minion of Canada, The protest of the people in 1866 against the virtually forcible entrance of their province into the Canadian confedera- tion was neither listened to by the colonial nor the English home government; and when the question of uniting themselves to the Dominion was submitted to the Nova Scotia Assembly it was strongly demounced as in opposition tothe wishes of the province. An old dodge’ was resorted to by the Canadian gov- ernment, and the Great Western Railroad of Canada and other financially fat concerns were bled td supply a bribery fund for the Nova Scotia Parliament. All to no purpose, how- ever. Failing in their bribery plan, the gen- eral government dissolved the Parliament and afterwards forced the province into the moth- erly fold. It is now stated that the people will apply for srelease from the confederation, and, failing to obtain this, will make an earnest appeal to England to be relieved from their political position. At the same time a request will be submitted to the United States Congress pray- ing for admission to the United States as a State. The effort of Nova Scotia to form a part of our Union is very natural, and that she is the first of all the British territory to the north of us to apply earnestly for this is due to her geo- graphical position, which is peculiar with re- ference to ourselves and Europe. New Bruns- wick and Nova Scotia extend to the northeast from our territory like a great bastion, point- ing towards Europe and reaching far off in that direction. A continuous railroad connec- tion between New York and the eastern ex- tremity of Nova Scotia, with a line of steamers to the Irish coast, would put our mail and passen- ger communications one and a half days nearer Europe than we are now. There is no doubt that the day for the completion of this connec- tion is very near at hand. In this alone it is seen how very closely allied are the interests of Nova Scotia with the United States. Nearly all their trade on this Continent is or should be directly with us, They have scarcely a single sympathy or bond in common with their forced Canadian countrymen. Even Prince Edward Island, lying to the north of Nova Scotia, feels that she has more in common with the United States than with Canada. This is the reason that she also has steadfastly refused to enter the Canadian confederacy. Nova Scotia has an area, including Cape Breton Island, of 18,746 square miles, and a population of about 350,000 of industrious, hardy, energetic and intelligent people. As a State in the United States we should be proud of them, for they would undoubtedly do us honor. Fratrery on Detusion.—On Friday there was a meeting of a clan of men interested in opposition to the passage of a certain bad law now before the Legislature. They met to take steps to defeat the law, and very remarkable are the steps they propose. They held that money was not “necessary.” Here is a new thing. Money not necessary to people apply- ing to the Legislature! How, then, do they think legislators are to live? Are these men, who seem to have faith that there is honesty and intelligence in the Legislature, merely flat- tering that body, or are they deluded, or is there really a change in the character of the Albany magnates? Insatiats New Enatanp.—Reports are current on State street, Boston, that ex-Gov- ernor John H. Clifford, of Massachusetts, is to be appointed Collector of the Port of New York. Insatiate New England! Will not two suffice? Momiorpat Tyranny AND Harpsatp.—All the respectable old ladies and gentlemen from Ireland who keep peanut stands and candy stands and occupy all the odd nooks of the sidewalk are to be turned out of those com- fortable franchises by the authorities. We predict that this will cause a revolution. These privileges have been especially extended to the aunts of our Aldermen since the days when “the Irish vote” became a big thing among us, and the old ladies are tenacious of privi- leges. i sebiieetele been ck Tuat’s Wagee tas Letrers Go.—On Fri- day the police picked up in the street, at the corner of Walker street and Broadway, a mail bag that ought to have been in the Post Office, Nators’s Justicz.—It was supposed that the ancient horrors of the emigrant passage could not be ‘repeated at this time, but the story of the ship James Foster, Jr., proves the contrary; and yet this ship is the property of merchants whose fair disposition and humanity noone can doubt. It seems but a simple piece of retributive justice that the captain ‘and mate are down with the fever that broke out in the ship through their barbarous treat- ment of the passengers. Caba fa Congress, It is evident the Cubans have both the sym- pathy of the American people and best wishes of Congress in their heroic struggle for inde- pendence. Several resolutions in favor of the Cubans were submitted to the last Congress, and on Friday again Mr. Banka, of Massachu- setts, introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to recognize the independence of Cuba whenever, in his opinion, a republican form of government shall have been in fact established. Tho resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, but, no doubt, will be reported favorably and passed, The Cubans need and deserve all the aid we can fairly give them ; for they are engaged ina desperate struggle. They are Americans and more closely identified in feeling and trade with the United States than with Spain, It is high time, too, that the colonial system of European Powers be driven from the Ameri- can Continent. It is an exotic and inimical to our interests and republican institations, Ouba ought to be free. Our government should lose no time in recognizing the bellige- rent rights of the Cubans, and, in the Ian- guage of Mr, Banks’ resolution, should recog. nlse their Iadeneqdende as soon aa the Pyesi- dent is satisfied that they have established a de facto government. The Cubans should pre- pare for this without delay by organizing a regular government in place of the provisional one, and send a representative to Washington asaregular minister. The insurrection has acquired sufficient strength and covers ground enough for such gecided action. Of course the United States must have somo facts to act upon, but will not be slow to recognize the belligerent rights or the idde- pendence of Cuba as soon as the facts are pre- sented in » proper manner, In the meantime our government should send a commissioner to ascertain the true state of affairs on the island, for it cannot depend upon the news that comes from Havana. Both sound policy and humanity demand an active interest og the part of the United States in the Gubaa struggle for independence. MUSICAL REVIEW. Louis Dachauer & Co. publish the following:— “Bortini’s Exercises,” opus 100, and “Duvernoy'’s Studies,” opus 120, for the piano, Splendid editions of standard works. For technique and scquiring equality of touch they will be found of great benefit to ail pianists. Boosey & Co. publish the following:—~ “La Périchole Quadrille” and “La Périohole Waltz,” for cornet & piston, by Charles Coote. Got up in splendid style, but not. even Coote can make such themes as those of “‘Périchole” popular. **Hit and Miss Quadrille.” Founded on airs from “L)Gil Crevé.” Arranged by Strauss. There is not in the entire range of opéra bouge a work which possesses more attractive gems than this opera by Hervé, Strauss has made a beautiful bouquet of them in this set of quadrilies, “Hit and Miss Galop.” From the same opera, ine troducing the galop in the second act, but avery clumsy arrangement. “Chapin’s Waltzes.” One of the best collections of standard music for fifty cents which we have ever seen. These waltzes are true poems for the plane such as no other composer has ever imagined, and this edition is a gem of music publishing. Ditson & Oo. publish the following:— “Ohrist, Our Passover.” Easter anthem. J. R, Thomas. An ambitious work, very neatly and ate tractively constructed, with a good distribution off yocal parts. Each voice has some pleasing measures and the counterpoint is varied and good. It will be found an excellent work for cholra during the Eas- | ter time. “Clarke's New Method tor Reed Organs.’ A clear, comprehensive method of instru ction for parior organs. The principles of music are laid down in @ manner intelligible to every one, and the method will be found an excellent aid to teachers. The voluntaries are well selected and — easy form; but some of the other set whee e think, sulted for reed instruments. Waltzem, ‘ag and some of Offenbach’s spneeag Ae nonsense tannot be made effective on such Son publish the followt Mdenevibve a e Brabant Gal Galop.” Paul Stet Introducing Br ne song. ‘Je me sens hard, and the song of e best part of the fors be isco ing C0 Nast dove ane chorus, oes ‘Shattuck, On a famillar theme, un- | eae ding in character. Cannot do any harm, wever. eceatnn Park Galop.” Paul Steinhagen. A very with untnte: themes. In the frat em Sa the first cata error occurs making G naturai follow double sharp as ie tales rules of mi bas cite ertameatent oC it of th riot jal ali frou Onee. ent of the pal airs bach's opera. ment ofthe pti are very bad, however. in aerate a had a thankless task in trying te out of them. meohine » ye Bells.” A. W. Hawthorne. very peaut tiful ballad, in which the melody is wedd to verses by Arthur Mathison, which are superior te moat of such songs. Letter from the Owner of the Yacht Oambria, | BriauTon, February, 1869. To Tax Eprror or THE H&RALD:— 4 Consequent upon the distance I reside from New York I labor under some disadvantage in replying to articles which appeared in several numbera of yout paper and in other newspapers of your city, but £ am anxious, as briefly as possible, to place my views clearly before your readers, so that there may be no misunderstanding about the arrangements [ think necessary for fairly testing the merits of English an@ American yachts during the approaching season. I'may, in the first place, state that several gentie- men, members of your yacht club, have had the ade vantage of inspecting my yacht Cambria, while, om the other hand, [have no knowledge whatever of your yacht Dauntless except what I glean from the “New York Yacht Club Book” for 1868, by compare ing the area of her in square feet and ber tonnage with the corresponding figures against the Sappho, which vessel I have been on board of. From this data I have come to the conclusion thas the Dauntless ts nearly double the size of my yacht, and therefore no fair competitor in an ocean race, where in rough seas size and power are known to be essential to success. Ihave by this mail written to the New York Yacht Club, asking them to be good enough to furnish me with their rule for the measurement of yachts for racing, which I cannot procure in England. This will enable me to determine whether or not I oughe to accept the Dauntless. I have at the same time sent them the registered tonnage and the dimens sions of the Cambria, as ascertained by the mea sufers of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, whose rule has been adopted by all the clubs in this country aince its establishment in 1823 a the only rule foung 1m practice to meet all the objections that have for so many years embarrassed this dificult question im your country and my own. It is the only rule wits which we are acquainted that works out fairly wit ali the different forms of yachts to which it is used, and which at the same time offers no induce- ment to the constructors of a useless class of vesael— infact, mere racing machines. The yachts of this cruise all the world over, and as much speed as our skill can produce is then given, subject to this ime portant requirement. In ordering the Cambria f made ita sine quad non that any tall man with his should be Fe gg ye) for my friends in travel about world. I said to the builder, Mr. “ee poet give’ fa much speed as possible will and its estuary one or more to wre, Cherbourg, extended distance, wo Bern Havre, }. &c., and to them the term ocean match has been ted; and i readily accepting the chall from an ocean match | supposed her owner in' astinilar course and distance, and therefore him a choice of three, two of them being quite and he must accordance with his # 5 quite aware that shoud deciine to sail his ous tn the a for the reason that I have not y to sall th untleas, believing that both vese bein are nearly oF quite dou le as large as my ow the owner of a9 must be aware the Reoeh engagements e Cambria in our clube all ots within @ few days house— digtance and course be from land winds and currents sufficient to oe prove the superiority of any two vesacis, T remain, sir, yours trul; % JaMes asupury, THE SUOCESSON OF WR, BOUTWELL. {From the Springfield Republican, March 12, We trust that Governor Cladia will not oni the idea of taking Mr. Boutwell's ee tn Con, a8 some Of his friends, = more of Dr. urging him todo. He ts Lee 5 Want him in that place oy Bi at ts 'roprocenai ai guided and cimaron Ther Cowes 240 " further than round the Typ ene bey the ae rv at for ths "rat eta an Hea a our Kenn ote core are the name di “My ow Middlesex,” a6 Mr, Bverott used to aa