The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HE HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN <p ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXIV. ce AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taw BuBLEsqus Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE FORTY THIEVES. WoOOD's MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway. ecnoon aad eveniag Performance. WAVERLEY THEATER, 920 Broadway.—E.izz Hout's BunLesqok COMPANY, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 inponaerey. Comic SKRTONES AND LiVING STATUES—PLO1 WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 2th sreet.— Souoo1. a ace BROUGHAM'S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st. ion Muci ADO ALOUT A MEROHANT OF VENIOR. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humerr DoMrrr, with New FEatunEs. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tar SrvaN Dwanra; 0%, HARLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS. Broadway.—SUADOW OF A REN. BROADWAY THEATRE (CRIME--RIGHELIEU AT SL BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28d st., between 6th and 7th avs.— FOMEO AND JULIET, THE TAMMANY, Fourtoonth street—Tue Horse MA- RINES, &C. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ove! BT. Fourteenth street.—ITALIAN MRS. F. 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Herawp carriers"and news dealers are in- formed that they can now procure the requisite number of copies direct from this office without delay. ; All complaints of ‘short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the HeRatp establish- ment. Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the Hzratp office, are requested to re- turn the same, with proof that they were obtained from here direct, and have their money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be sold to readers of the Hzratp, Europe. The cabie telegrams are dated March 15. The Duke of Montpeasier says he does not want to occupy the throne of Spain, but if he be elected King he will accept the position. ‘The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, with a deputa- tion, waited upon Queen Victoria at Windsor Castie ye lay and preseated a petition praying for the Gisestablishment of the Irish Church, Cuba. The steamer fitted up by Dominican insurgents at ‘St. Thomas, it 1s now believed, is intended for run- ming the Cuban blockade. Generals Adon, Luperon ‘and Cabral, the leaders, are pledged to organize the liberated Cuban negroes into guerrilla bands 10 harass the Spaniards, Colonel Stockton, of Pennsylvania, has arrived at Bt, Marks, Fla., from the camp of the Cuban tnsur- gents, with an address from the Supreme Junta, signed by General Cespedes, asking for recognition and giving numerous reasons therefor. Congress. In the Senate yesterday bills were introduced to facilitate teleyraphic communication between the Hastern and Western Goutinents, and to guarantee the payment of certain bonds issued by Lousiana, Arkansas and Mississipp! for repairing the levees. Both were referred to the Committee on Commerce. ‘The Judiciary Committee reported the House bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Office act with an amend- ment suspending the act until the next session of Congress. The bill to strengthen the public credit Was passed as it came from the House by a vote of 42to 13, The Senate then went into executive ses- sion and soon after adjourned. The republican members of the Senate In caucus yesterday nominated A. M. Clapp, of Buffalo, as Congressional printer in place of Join D. Defrees; John R. French, of North Carolina as Sergeant-at- Arms in place of George T. Brown, and J. M. Norns as Executive Clerk in place of D. C, Clark. In the House, under the usual Monday call of Staves, bills were introduced and referred for a free system of 5 in Utah by ational banking; to discourage polygamy ving the suffrage to women; to encour- phic communication, and to prohibit the ase of the public debt. A resolution saneed under the same call instructing of State to inquire into the imprison- meral Steedman in Havana, The Speaker annovnced the standing committees, Garfleld w placed as Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency; Butieron reconstraction and Logan on military affairs, A resolution for the pro- tection of the interests of the United States in the Union Pacific Railroad Company, authorizing the removal of the general office from New York and endorsing the proceedings at tho fate meeting of stockhviders, was introduced and passed. The bili striking out the word “white” in the inws relating to the District of Columbia was algo passed, aud the House adjourned, The Lecisiatare, In the State Senate yesterday bills were intro- duced prolubiting the sale of unadulterated articies; for the repayment of money !egaily collected by the New York Health Commissioners; for the construc. tion of an elevated railway commencing at South ferry and runoing up to Union square on the east- erly side of Broadway, from thence up Fourth ave- nue and along other streets; relating to the city charter of New York, and a few others of unim- portance. Two bills were reported, soon after which the Senate adjourned. Bilis were reported in the Assembly making ap- propriations for the support of the government, the annual Supply bill and a few others, The bill author- izing the election of Police Commissioners in the city of New York was reported adversely, but on motion the report was disagreed with and the bill committed to the Committee of the Whole, A num- per of bilis were introduced, among them one to amend the laws relating (o Commissioners of Emi. eit Misceilancous, General Sherman, assisted by Lieutenant General Sheridan, Adjutant General Townsend, General Scho- fold ani General Breck, 19 busy consolidating the NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, regiments of the reguiar army in accordance with the recent lew. General Horace Porter, of General Sherman’s staff, has been detailed for duty at the Executive Mansion, where he will continue to act as private secretary to the President. Robert M. Douglas, son of the late Senator Douglas, has been appointed assistant pri- vate secretary, General Stoneman, commanding in Virginia, has ordered all civil officers in the State who cannot take the test oath to. vacate by the 18th inst. This will leave many of the judgeshtps vacant, and no applications to Mill them have yet been made by per- sons who are eligible. A new City Council has been appointed for Richmond. A delegation of the prominent men of the Chero- kee, Choctaw, Creek and other civilized Indian tribes waited upon President Grant yesterday to pay their respects and congratulations. They urged @ peaceful civilizing policy towards the Indians and offered their hearty good will in the work. The President thanked them and said that he hoped peaceful measures would prevail and that the In- dians would ultimately become citizens of the United States. Commander Meade, stationed at Sitka, reports to the Navy Department that serious troubles have arisen between the military and the Indians, aud that recently, at the request of General Davis, he placed an armed cutter on picket near one of their villages to prevent the escape of Indians who nad just previously engaged in an affray with soldiers. Six canoes of Chilot Indians were driven off during one night, a volley being fired intothem, The In- dian villages are remote from the sea and the trives are numerous and warlike. Three thousand Indians in the neighborhood of General Hazen’s camp, in the Washita Mountains, have settled upon the reservations, and are being taught the use of farming implements under a prac- tical white farmer for each band. They receive in- struction very readily, Mr, Washburne, while Secretary of State, removed one Benedict, a clerk in the State Department, for oficiousness in urging the passage of the bill giving twenty pér cent extra compensation to clerks. Garrish, late Treasurer of the city of Lowell, Mass., surrendered the keys, books and papers of his office yesterday to the new incumbent, but said the money, — amounting to $32,929, was gone He was conse- quently arrested and committed in default of $40,000 bail. The First National Bank of Rockford, Ill., has been Teduced to a financial strait by the absconding of the cashier with the funds of depositors, and it is reported that it will probably fail. The case of Kimberly Bros., in Baltimore, against General Butler, has been ordered removed to the United States: Circuit Court of the Baltimore dis- trict, The Congregational church at Wilton, Me., was levelled yesterday by the weight of snow on the roof. ‘The library alone was saved from destruction. Allison Smith, while entering a church at Spencer- port, N. ¥., on Sunday, at the head of a funerat procession, was instantly killed by the trapdoor of the belfry being lifted by the wind and hurled on his head, The steamer Ruth, one of the largest on the Mis- sissippt river, was burned below Vicksburg last night. General J. B. Steedman, who has been imprisoned by the Spanish authorities in Havana for some time, has arrived in New Orleans. The Arkansas Legislature has ratified the constitu- tional amendment. ‘The City. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday donations to the amount of about $3,000 were made to certain churches. The Committee on Markets presented a report directing the Corporation Counsel to have the proprietors of a private market on Broadway and Forty-ninth street enjoined from pursuing their business. In the Board of Assistant Aldermen the resolution of the other Board directing that the city printing be given to a firm that will pay the prices demanded by the Typographical Union was concurred in. Do- nations to the amount of about $43,900 were made and the Board adjourned. The mvestigation into the alieged outrages com- mitted on the emigrant ship James Foster, Jr., was continued yesterday. The testimony taken was mainly a repetition of the old story. The inquest in the case of John 0. Southard, one of the victims of the fever ship James Foster, Jr., was concluded yesterday, the jury rendering a ver- dict that death was caused by sickness induced by ill treatment of deceased by James Murphy, and censuring the captain and first mate. In the examination of the parties charged with the drawback frauds had yesterday the government rested, and testimony was introduced in behalf of Laidlaw and Dickinson, two of the parties accused. About 250 hogs, already dressed, were seized at the Hudson River depo: on Saturday by the Sanitary Imspectors and sent to the rendering dock, an ex- aminationjhaving shown that they were all more or less diseased, Over 400 carcasses came in the same lot, and itis believed the rest ‘of them have been thrust on the market, A man named Sherlock was fearfully bitten by a Newfoundland dog in a saloon yard in Jersey City, on Saturday night, but the police refused to kill the dog because the biting had occurred in privaie premises, and not on the public streets. In the Brooklyn Court of Sessions, yesterday, Wes- ley Allen, who was charged with stealing $700 worth of furs, was sentenced (o four years and six months in the State Prison. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- slip Cimbria, Captain Haack, will leave Hoboken at two o'clock to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The mails will close at the Post Ofice at twelve o'clock to-day. The Cunard steamship Russia will sail to-morrow for Queenstown and Liverpool, the mails closing at the Post Office at seven o'clock A. M. on the 17th inst. The steamship Manhattan, Captain Forsyth, will leave pier 46 North riverat eight o'clock to-morrow (Wednesday) morning for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. ‘The stock market yesterday was animated and irreguiar, but generally strong. Gold became active in the afternoon, owing to a report that Senator Suraner would assume @ very defiant position in the matter of the Alabama claims, and advanced to 131 %—closing finally at 1313, Beef cattie were only moderately sought after yes- terday, the inclement weather checking the demand toa considerable extent, but with limited offerings the market was quite steady at former prices. Prime and extra steers were goid at 16)¢c. a 17c., fair to good at i5)sc, @ 16)<c. and inferior to common at llc, @ 16¢. Milch cows were qniet, but unchanged in value, extra being quoted at $100 a $120, prime at $90 @ $95, fair to good at $15 a $6 and common at $50 a $70, Veal calves were in fair request at steady prices, viz.:—Prime and extra 12340. a 13%e-, fair to good 1c, @ 12c, and inferior to common 10c. a 10\c. Sheep were in moderate supply, and with a fair de- mand prices were steady at 8c. a 9¢c. for prime and extras, 6340. @ 7340. for fair to good, and 6X0. a 63<¢. for inferior to common. Swine were slow of sale, but the market was firm at lic. a lise. for common to prime. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Admiral J. M. Goideborough, Commodore Emmona, Commander BE, K. Owen and Commander Thatcher, of the United States Navy; Wm. M. Evarta, of New York, and A. J. Cutherwood, of Philadeiphia, are at the Astor House. Senator J. B. Chaffee, of Colorado; Lansing Pruyn, of Albany; H. H. Emmons, of Detroit; Judge H. A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, and R. Washingion, of the United States Navy, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Seflor José N, Quidn, of Cardenas; J, T. Robertson and J. W. Fowler, of Abboville, 8. 0., end J, M. Hughes, of Kentucky, are at the Maltby House. General Albert Pike, of Memphis, Tenn.; M. Tobin, of Liverpool, and W. H. Murdaugh, of Virginia, are at the New York Hotel, General A. B. Garfield; Lean de Brackdeer, of Ba- den Baden; Captain J. A. Wright, of the United States Army, and Colonel D. F. Dey, of Philadelphia, are at the harles Hotel. Captain McGrorty, of Mexico; Colonel Gebhard, of Kinderhook, and John Henry, of New Orleans, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, General F. A. Starring, of Memphia; J, 0, Duane, of the United States Army; Captain &. 0. Davia, of Philadelphia, and Marshall Parks, of Norfolk, Ve, ‘are at (he Hodman House. General Grants Administration, the Cov- perhead Press and the Democratic Party. The copperhead press has opened a lively fire upon General Grant. What for? What do they want? On this plan what is to be- come of the democratic party under Grant's administration? The prospect: is foggy. ‘The party entered into the late Presidential cam- paign strongly impressed with the idea that the cuntest to them was less a struggle for the spoils than for existence. The democratic leaders and managers, still wearing their Jef- fersonian green goggles of State rights and State sovereignty; still limited in their vision to “‘the constitution as it was,” proceeded upon this theory—that we must win this election at all hazards, in order to overthrow the radical policy or to prevent the fulfilment of their re- construction system, negro suffrage and negro equality included, and their financial system ; for otherwise all these things will be consum- mated, the government will be fixed on a new basis and we shall have not a democratic principle left to fight for or a plank to stand upon. Hence, with the encouraging election results of 1867, the tenacious and desperate struggle of the democracy under Seymour and Blair to carry the October State eléctions of 1868 in Pennsylvania, Ohio‘and Indiana; for they well knew that the fate of their national ticket and organization hung upon those elections. Fail- ing at every point in these decisive October trials they virtually gave up the contest, and prepared in New York to ‘cover their retreat so as to save their army from dispersion and their supply trains from capture. They had aimed at nothing less than the restoration of Johnson's policy of reconstruction and the ap- plication of Pendleton’s system of finance, niggers’ rights as defined in the Dred Scott decision, and the constitution as expounded by Calhoun. They fought, in short, under Seymour for ‘‘the Union as it was,” barring the abolition of slavery; and with the defeat of Seymour all was lost. They fought to re- cover their old Southern democratic balance of power on the issues settled by the war; and in every election since the war, and at the close of the battle they were an army adrift. The next great event affecting the interests and prospects of the drifting democracy is the incoming of the new administration. The leading copperhead organs of the party prick up their ears to catch the first sounds of the inaugural. They hear it but they do not like it. It means negro suffrage, Southern recon- struction as adopted by Congress, and gold to the bondholders, They wait next for the et, and with its announcement these fastidious copperhead journals out-Herod Herod in their denunciations of the appoint- ment of Mr. Washburne as Secretary of State and of Mr. Stewart as Secretary of the Trea- sury. The whole Cabinet they think absurd and outrageous; but A. T. Stewart for the Treasury, above all things, they contend, proves General Grant a thickheaded but con- ceited ignoramus in daring to put his will sbove the law of 1789. Next Mr. Stewart re- tires and Mr. Boutwell is appointed to the Treasury ; and yet these copperhead organs are not satisfied. A man of practical abilities, they say, is changed for a noisy, pretentious and shallow politician. Moreover, they have to lament the surrender of Grant to the radi- cal leaders. Worse than all, in stopping cer- tain whiskey ring pardons of Johnson Grant has violated the constitution, as it appears, and in everything that he does or attempts to do he illustrates the old story, they say, of the bull ins china shop. As presented by the copperhead organ of the Manhattan ring Gen- eral Grant is a blockhead and a blunderer, a sort of despot and yet a willing servant of the radical politicians, and an ignorant soldier, withal, whose only distinct idea of his position is that it was given him to enable him to pro- vide fat places for his family and his personal friends. What can be the meaning of all this copper- head fault-finding and balderdash? It means that the copperhead leaders and managers are sounding the alarm to the perplexed democracy to beware of the temptations of Grant's ad- ministration; that the party must prepare to fight Grant as a sworn enemy, and not to culti- vate him as a friend in disguise—another Andy Johnson. His inaugural and his Cabinet, they are told, proclaim his radicalism; the restora- tion of Sheridan to New Orleans fixed his sym- pathy with the carpet-baggers, and his removal of General Blair as a Pacific Railway Com- missioner proves the hostility of Grant to demo- cratic office-holders, and that they are to have not even a sop in the pots and pans of the kitchen. “To your tents, then, O, Israel!” Stick to your party, stick to your democratic principles, and let your war cry be, ‘Down with this radical administration.” Was there ever such stupidity? Is it impos- sible to teach these democratic Bourbons any- thing? In any event we must tell them that before the year 1872 Southern reconstruction will be settled and fixed, and negro suffrage will be fixed, and the payment ot the national debt will be provided for, and of the old democratic notions of State sovereignty not a scrap will be left. The Tammany platform of 1868 will be—yea, is now—as dead as the whig platform of 1852. We can tell thom, further, that democratic hostility to Grant's administration will only contribute to clear the field for his re-election in 1872; and that, with nothing but dead issues and dead men to fight for, the democratic politicians and cop- perhead organs cannot hold the party together till the next national campaign. If they are wise, meantime, they will give General Grant a free rein and prepare fora new departure and await their coming opportunity to cut in between his administration and the extreme radical faction. Wioxen.—A | Southwestern paper says Wash- ington is overflowing with people, many of them sleeping in tents. Aro’ their in-tents wicked or charitable ? UNABLE TO Aaree.—The trial of Noble, the bond robber, must be gone over again, because the jury could not see all the facts in the same light. In these days of stupendous robbery and liberal expenditure of money we suppose the big rogues must find that slow old institu- tion, the jury, about the easiest thing they have to manage. When men buy up law- making bodies and judges and magnates of | joven what oan be easier than to make a jury disagroo? MARCH 16, 1869,-TRIPLE The Herald Advertisements, Last Sunday the New York HgRaup con- tained forty-four columns of ailvertisements, Ata corresponding date in 1859. it contained twenty-two, and in 1849 only two, Thus the number of advertising columns in our Sunday edition exceeded by forty-two what it was twenty years ago, and within ten years it has exactly doubled. Advertisers have foun@@hat the Sunday Heratp. is not only a convenience but a necessity. Many an eye that can but glance hurriedly over the newspaper amid the pressure of week day occupations reads it ‘‘all through, advertisements and all,” on Sunday. The reader, discovering in his leisurely explo- rations of this wilderness of type an announce- ment of just the very something which he may have been wanting for a long time, or which he for the first time is conscious of wanting, now that he knows how and where it may be ob- tained, becomes in his turn an advertiser. Buyers and sellers, employers and persons seeking employment, anxious parents and prodigal sons, and waywurd daughters and long-lost brothers; Ccelebs in search of a wife, as well as husbands and wives eager to be divorced; landlords and tenants—in fine, all sorts of parties of the first part and parties of the second part are brought into direct com- munication by the advertising columns of a newspaper. No middleman will henceforth be needed by those who are wise enough to avail themselves of these columns. Business transactions, on the largest or on the smallest scale, may be conducted by their aid with the least possible waste of time and trouble and money. Let any one advertise horses for sale, or houses to let, or a stray dog, or lodgings wanted, with or without board—no matter what may be the object of the advertiser, he will be surprised at the multi- plicity of responses which a single advertise- ment in the Sunday Heraxp will infallibly bring. He will be convinced that this has become the favorite medium of communication between all who are aware how immense the circulation of our Sunday edition has become. Ten years ago—long before we ever published triple sheets on a Sunday—our advertising columns had already risen to twenty-two. Now their number has so much increased and the pressure upon them is so great that we are compelled not only to continue the triple sheets, which have now become indispensable, but also frequently to publish a quadruple sheet, in order at once to accommodate our advertisers and to make room for the full cur- rent of daily news from all parts of the world. The New York Heratp is emphatically an outgrowth of the city of New York, and as this metropolis grows so the Heratp must grow with it, One of the eloquent preachers whose sermons of last Sunday we printed yesterday—the Rev. Dr. Brown, of St. Paul's, in Trenton—spoke truly when he said :—“‘The mind is overwhelmed with the vastness of our country. In thirty years we shall have a population of one hundred millions of inhabi- tants. Our railways and telegraphs will be multiplied and the press will be more mam- moth-like than evennow. The promise of a bright and happy future is before us.” In His Favor.—It is said that the Chevalier Webb is a candidate for a fatter place under the present administration than the mission to Brazil. Unfortunately the administration cannot utilize his immense influence with the Emperor Napoleon, as Mr. Washburne is in the way; so we commend to it the only other noteworthy feature in Webb’s latest brochure. This feature exhibits his gratitude and shows us what they may effect who give him office. SiasiF1cant.—The Living Present is the name of a new paper in Warrenton, N.C. To judge from its advertising columns, which are headed by a huge cut of a death’s head and croasbohes, it might be mistaken for an organ of the ‘dead past.” Tuk Hovse Commirrens.—Yesterday Speaker Blaine announced the House standing committees for the Forty-first Congress. It will be seen that General Butler takes the place of Secretary Boutwell as chairman of the Reconstruction Committee, The Com- mittee of Ways and Means remains as before, with General -Schenck at the head and Mr. Hooper, of Massachusetts, second. General Banks is still at the head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Wheeler, of New York, takes the head of the Committee on the Pacifi Railroad, and Mr. Dixon, of Rhode Island, 01 Commerce. Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, takes the place of Mr. E. B. Washburne ‘as chief of the Committee on Appropriations, There are no material changes in the heads of the othe? committees. Among the chairman- ships of the principal committees Ohio has three, last year two; Illinois three, last year one; New York two, Inst your three; Massa- chusetts two, last year the same. Maine, the Speaker's State, is out, and North Carolina comes in. On the whole the positions may be said to have been fairly distributed. Nieoes as Proverty.—A Chicago paper is discussing this proposition. Whether they are or not it is pretty certain many of them have been sold when they married. A Crear Foaa.—Mr. Fogg, formerly Minister to Switzerland, specifically declares that the Secretary of Legation at Madrid was kept in place, although Mr. Seward knew him to be a jobber, and hints that the reason of such improper retention was that a member of Mr. Seward’s family was interested in some of the same jobs that were profitable to the man in Madrid. Alas! that the utterances of Fogg and Webb are all that the public siould hear of a statesman retiring from office alter eight years of arduous and in many respects splendid service. Frosty.—An Omaha sheet says Grant's ad- ministration is not likely tobe very warmly received by the people, because there is a Hoar frost continually in its vicinity. Leowative Doverno.—Can the Congress of the United States never stand up to do straightforwardly what the occasion requires ? When it the Tenure of Office law that was dodging its duty. If a man in the Presi- dent's office was not to be trusted with the President's powers the thing to do was to turn him out; but party expediency was in the way, and this subterfuze was patched up. Now an equally lamo subterfuge Is to be tried again in the suspension of the law when its ropeal is what the country wants. SHEET. The Spanish and Mexican Missions. It is reported that Generals Butterfield and Sickles are to be tendered respectively the missions to Spain and Mexico, and should such appointments be made by the President there is every reason to suppose that they will be favorably considered by the people generally. Butterfield and'Sickles are both officers who have distinguighed themselves by their past records and have attained their present envi- able stations by individual merit. Itis reason- able, therefore, to presume that their abilities are appreciated by their late commander-in- chief, and that his estimation of their fitness for the positions to which it is rumored they will be assigned is the prime motive for such flattering consideration, The relations of Spain with our own govern- ment are such as require the most concise and equitable maintenance and conduct, especially in view of the present aspect of Cuban affairs ; while the Mexican problem, which must event- ually be solved by American diplomacy and influence aléne, forms a most intricate knot which it is expected the present administration will untie. ‘ General Butterfield has had considerable experience in military affairs, having served throughout the late rebellion with distinction, in the course of which service he was called upon to exercise administrative as well as executive powers in various branches of the military organization, and would in all probability devote his best energies and talent to the faithful and dignified representation of the government at the court of Madrid. General Sickles, also a tried and accom- plished soldier of the late war, in addition to his eminent military abilities has had consid- erable experience as a commander in the mili- tary district of South Carolina, and also in former years as Secretary of Legation at London under Buchanan’s administration, all of which would be invaluable to him in the position to which rumor says he will succeed. A Good Thing To Be Just Now. The character in which the politician should appear in these days is that of ‘“‘an old and intimate friend of General Grant”—that is, if he is eager for a fat place and can prove his claim to the character. There probably never was a man so rich in friends as Grant has become since the idea has spread abroad that more would be given for personal than for party considerations. We are not inclined to regard it as an abuse that a man should stick to his friends. Old men will remember the persistency with which General Jackson nominated a certain Gwin for a good office. The Senate regularly refused to confirm Gwin, and Jackson always sent his name in again. Finally Jackson had his way and Gwin had his place. Some one asked the General the meaning of his persistency, and he said, “When my mother and her little ones, of whom I was one, were struggling in the wil- derness, she found a good friend in an old Baptist minister named Gwin, This man is that old Gwin’s son, and by the Eternal the ad- ministration shall go down rather than that man shall suffer.” He who has not this virtue of sticking to his friends generally has no other; and he who has it, and with it has Grant's discretion, will pares let it carry him into abuses. r A Srrton ws Trve, &0.—For the ‘ultima Thule of the woman's rights movement,” in the Chicagoan, read the ‘ultimate thimble.” - More Ovrrages at Sza.—A_ morning contemporary gives the details of another hor- rible list of outrages perpetrated upon the passengers of the ship American Union, in a late passage from London to New York. They exceed in cold-blooded horror anything that has yet been placed before the public, and how the officers, the crew and the owners of the ship can escape punishment is alone known to his Satanic Majesty, who has evidently interfered in their behalf. In the slavers, where the negroes were packed closely between decks, there was a motive to take good care of the human freight, that it might sell well when it reached its des- tination; but in an emigrant packet ship the opposite is true, and human skill appears to be taxed to find new methods of practising cruelty. We have laws enough, but no one with sufficient brains or firmness to execute them. The case of the James Foster, Jr., and the American Union demand immediate attention from our authorities, so called. Will they have it? Porsvine A Prantom.—A woman in Min- nesota lately leaped down a well sixty feet deep in pursuit of Truth, which she had heard lay at the bottom of it. Atlast accounts she was pursuing a Cheyenne editor with the same object. seni Deposits witt tHe Gas Compantes.—One of the gas officials before the investigating committee said that interest was paid on the deposits required. Who ever saw any of this interest, and what man of the thousands outraged by the extortion of these deposits ever received any? One of the Brooklyn companies has an ingenious way of getting round this deposit system. It makes a charge for putting in the meters. The charge is quite out of proportion to the labor done, and is nearly equal to the deposit the New York companies require ; but by this dodge no man has a claim to repayment. A Frovrisimixe Svpves.—It ‘ts estimated that the aggregate cost of the houses now actually in course of erection at Greenpoint is about four hundred thousand dollars, Up- ward of sixty houses are in progress. Tax Reason Way.—It must be tolerably clear to our readers why the murderer of Mr. Rogers has not been caught. The truth is we have no detectives here who can be tempted to activity by any such small game. There are only two or three thousand dollars offered for this scoundrel. Why should a detective waste himeelf on such @ case when he gets from six- teen to fifty thousand dollars in a case like the Windsor Bank robbery, or any of the innu- merable bond robberies? A Bravrivor Quarne. ss Ir Staxns— The muddle among the Pennsylvania republi- cans about the » spoils. ida. Faepie.—The Dotroit it Post says Grant's Cabinet seems to be physivally feeble. The Secretary of State retired on account of health and the Secretary of the Treasury is only « Bout-well. ‘The Missions to Spain, Mexico and Brazil. At the present moment there are three mis- sions within the gift of the government which will require very especial talent to fill in such a manner that their selected occupants will do honor to themselves and to the people whom they represent. These are the missions to Spain, Mexico and Brazil. The first will re- quire a man thoroughly competent to deal with the very delicate questions which are about to arise between us and Spain with re- ference to the Cuban question. He should be well versed in the history of the Spanish penin- sula, and, above all, should speak the lan- guage of the country, There is no diplomatic position in the world requiring to-day so much clear brain, quiet and determined poise of mind, far-reaching management and gen- tlemanly deportment as the Spanish mission. Spaniard or Spanish American will, in a di- plomatic contest, generally outgeneral the diplomats of any other people, if, perhaps, we except the Portuguese and Brazilians. Spain to-day hangs delicately between a republican anda monarchical form of government, She is keenly sensitive’ to the sympathy which our press, our people and our govern- ment have shown to the patriotic revo- lution now going on in Cuba. In view of these facts the man who represents us at that polite court may very readily make a fool of himself, as most of our representatives do in Spain and Spanish America, even under ordinary circum- stances, At Madrid we have hadfor a long time past a petty quarrel between Minister and Secretary for the edification of those Euro- peans who stoop sufficiently low to take notice of the ordinary representatives who, as a mass, disgrace us in foreign countries. Let it be remembered that even the first Bonaparte, in both a military and diplomatic campaign, was whipped out of Spain, and that the present one has met with as little success in handling Spanish affairs as his uncle, Even that mon- grel Mexican race, with one-eighth mixture of bad Spanish to seven-eighths Indian blood, out-diplomatized the French generals at the very start, as witness the treaty of La Soledad at the moment of the French invasion of Mexico. It appears, therefore, of no light moment that the selection for the Spanish post should be very carefully made. If Spain requires brains and solid ability, eo does Mexico. Here we find a nation suffering from a revolutionary dry rot that is incurable from any application that the patient possesses orhas the powerto apply. Our Minister to that unfortunate country will be obliged to act as asurgeon, who will simply be required to take his diplomatic scalpel and immediately lop off the healthy limbs and leave the balance to be dealt with a little later by the military colo- nial system we propose to establish in all the thickly settled Spanish American territory, from Panama north. It will, therefore, be seen what a strong, firm, ministerial hand we require for the operation. It has to be repre- sented to Mexico that she stands in our way, in the way of the civilized world, and that nothing but a very radical change, which can scarcely, come from any internal force, will save her as a separate nationality. Americans aad American interests huve to be as rigidly and carefully protected there as England pro- tects Englishmen and English interests in all parts of the world. England never spent four millions sterling to greater advantage than in her Abyssinian expedition. It has already returned to her a hundredfold in the protection it has afforded to her citizens and their in- terests wherever she floats her flag. We should profit by the lesson and give similar ones in certain directions. There is another country, with an area but little inferior to our own, and a population one-third that of the United States, which de- serves greater diplomatic and commercial at- tention than we have heretofore extended to it, and thatis Brazil. It representsthe monar- Chical as opposed to the republican interests of the southern half of this Continent. It is, from its geographical position, the dominant South American Power; for, in its control of the Amazon valley—twice the size of the Mis- sissippi valley—and in its aims to dominate the Plata basin, it will be seen that the whole Atlantic front of South America is under im- perial hands. The Pacific front is but a nar- row, sterile and mountainous strip in compari- son to the broad Atlantic slope, and will in the future play but a minor réle to what the two great valleys of the world—ihe Amazon and Piata—are destined to play. Our govern- ment should appreciate what we here present, and send to that country a representative who thoroughly understands the whole South American people; who has travelled and lived among them; knows their political hopes and commercial wants, and who is familiar with their language. No man shouid be sent simply for the political work he may have done. Our interests in South America have long gone to ruin uoder the old method of making appointments. We have here presented a few of our thoughts with reference to Spain, Mexico and Brazil; but in part they apply to almost every coun- try with which we hold diplomatic relations. Heretofore in a foreign country, and espe- cially on this Continent, the instances have been rare where an American gentleman, travelling, would disgrace himself by calling upon or associating with the man who thero might misrepresent the United States, We recommend this to the consideration of the administration. A Hort Istervirw ix Prospzct.—The Nash- ville Republican Banner is looking every day for some Washington Jenkins to “interview” Brownlow. Another sort of Jenkins, with a forked tail and a hot and sulphurous breath, is likely to do that interview. Wis Tury Come Down?—The republican spoils seekers in six of the Congressional dis- tricts in Pennsylvania, now represented by democrats, are casting about for a representas tive man on whom they can rely for a fair share of public plunder, in case the proposed policy of giving the power to Congressmen from the several districts to distribute it should prevail. They have, therefore, turned their eyes toward the new Senator, Hon. John Scott, who is represented to be pledged to no particular faction, But the question is whether these place seekers will ‘‘come down” to the Senator as the coon did when his famous name- sake, Captain Scott, drew a bead on tha animal.