The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Tigray. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. SSS Volume XXXIV.......--ceeeeeeereeee see Noe 78 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street. Benoot. BROUGHAM’S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—PERFEC- TION—MUCH AvO AuOUT 4 MERCHANT OF VENIOB. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrrr DoMrrr, witu New FEATURES, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Seven Dwaxrs; 0%, HARLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS, RROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—SuaDOoW OF & Cuwwe-RICHELIRG AT SIXTEEN. BOOTITS THEATRE, 28d st., between 6th and 6th ava— ROMEO AND JULUBE. GARDEN, Broadway.—Tam BugLesqum Ex- zs OF TuB Foury THIEVES. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Aliernoon and evening Performance. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—E1izz Hout's Bue esque COMPANY. 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The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive’ the Hgrap at the same price it is iurnished in the city. The cabie telegrams are dated March 18. Celestino Olozaga, one of the members of the Spanish Constituent Cortes, was killed in a duel on the 17(h inst. A protest, numerousty signed by Irish noblemen and landowners against the disestablishment of the Irish Church, has just been published in England. The cotton spinners of Preston are on strike on account Of a proposed reduction of their wages. The bill proposing to disestablish the [rish Church. ‘was taken up in the British Parliament yesterday for a@second reading, A discussion took place in which Mr. Disraeli participated. The French and Belgian governments are organ- izing a conference for the discussion of mutual com- mercial relations. Africa. Protests against the consecration of Bishop Ma- crarie have been received in England from Cape Town. Cuba. It ts now stated that theSpanish column advanc- ing on Mayari was severely defeated by the insur- gents, with a loss of 300 killea, The Spanish troops under La Torre, at Villa Clara, were also defeated. ‘The insurgents have driven off the parties repair- ing the Villa Clara and Cienfuegos Railroad, and it 1s estimated that it will require a force of 10,000 men to re-estublish railroad communication between the two cities. Many women and childrep from Puerto Principe have gone to join their relatives among the insurgents, and General Lesca has issued ‘an order that they shall return or be liable to the penaities of military law if captured. It was ru- niored in Havana that Santiago had been captured by an insurgent expedition in concert with the Pe- Tuvian ironclads, The Captain General has issued a decree reducing the direct taxes on property, and the war tax fifty percent, and to compensate for reduction of revenue has increased the export duties. Seflor Morales Lemus, Minister of the provisional government of Quoa, arrived in this city yesterday, fully empowered to treat with the government for tue recognition of Cuban independence. Con .ress. In the Senate yesterday another bill was reported to encourage telegraphic communication with Eu- rope. A resolation was adopted directing the Com- mittee on Printing to inquire into the expediency of procuring the reports of proceedings in secret session taken down in his journal by the late Senator McClay, of Pennsylvania. . The debate on the repeal of the Tenure of Office act was resumed, Mr. Tram- bull announcing atthe close that he would press for a vote to-day. Senator Brownlow took part in the argument in opposition to the repeal, but being too feeble to make a speech his manuscript was read by the Clerk. The Senate then adjourned. In the House the Ways and Means Committee re- Ported a bill amending the law imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco. A resolution to extend the time for removing disqualified officers in the un- reconstructed States was presented by Mr. Farns- worth, of the Reconstruction Committee, and op- posed by Mr. Butler, chairman of the committee. Another interesting discussion ensued, and the House refusing to second the previous question the resolution was recommitted. The resolution reliev- ing the property of Blanton Duncan was amended and passea. The House soon after adjourned, Yesterday bills were reported in the State Senate to equalize the salaries of Superintendents of the Poor of Kings county; authorizing the construction of @ two-tier railroad in New York, and severai others, Bills were introduced relating to the pre. servation of wild deer, moose and fresh water fisn; for the reorganization of the Prospect Park Com- mission. A bill was passed supplying a deficiency in the State Prison appropriations, On motion, the Committee on Internal A(fairs was discharged trom the further consideration of the vill amending the Metropolitan Excise law. The Senate then ad- journed. In the Assembly a number of members de- sired that it be recorded how they would have voted on the question of ratifying the constitu- tonal amendment had they been present Wednes- Gay night, A number of petitions were presented. ills were reported for the improvement of Gowanus canal; amending the health law and several others. Bill weres introduced to discourage contesting for seats in the Legisiature by disallowing the expenses ‘of unsuccessful candidates; to repeal the regula- tions concerning brokers; giving the clerk and Geputy Of the Court of Over and Terminer of New NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. York each $2,000 salary, and several others. The Assembly then adjourned. Miscellanceus. In the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly yes- terday Mr. Cudlip, the member for St, John, gave notice of a resolution for the eppointment of a com- mittee to devise ways and means for securing the annexation of New Brunswick to the United States. The Attorney General objected that the resolution was treasonable,” and the Mouse refused to allow it togo onthe notice book. It is stated that resolu- tions favoring the union with Canada have been in- troduced into both houses of the Newfoundland Le- gislative Assembiy. The reports of General Custer’s capture by the Indians are denied. Trouble has occurred with the friendly Pawnees at Ellsworth, Kansas. Seven of them entered the town some time ago, and three of them were shot and scalped byroughs. Twenty-five of the tribe afterwards came in and demanded the surrender of the roughs under a threat of burning down the town. Soldiers from Fort Harker arrived, however, and the Indians escaped without their prisoners, Three men named Darnelis, passengers on the Mis- sissippi steamer Belle of Memphis, recently asked the captain to stop at Island No. 10, as three passengers would get on at that place. He did so, and when the three expected passengers appeared the Darnells shot and killed them all. They then disembarked, and left without being molested. General Kilpatrick is to return to Chile. General Sheridan and his staff left Washington for New York last evening. Ex-President Johnson and his family left Washing- ton yesterday for Greenville, Tenn. They will remain at Lynchburg, Va., to-day, where a recep- tion has been tendered Mr. Johnson. A revolt broke out among the convicts at the Sing Sing prison yesterday morning, during which two of the keepers were gaggea, one of whom was suf- focated. During the day a second attempt to revolt was made, when two of the convicts were shot. Five escaped; but in the afternoon three of them were recaptured, A keg of gunpowder exploded on a river steamer at San Francisco on Tuesaday night while a salute ‘was being fired by a military company and twenty Persons were injured. ‘The proposed constitutional amendment has been rejected by the Delaware Senate. The City. In the Board of Health yesterday testimony was taken in reference to a pig yard nuisance near West Thirty-ninth street and Eleventh avenue. All the Witnesses testified that they liked the smell of swine and considered the odor healthy, while one of them stated that he has frequently when fatigued walked among sheep and inhaled the odor arising from them and walked away invigorated and re- freshed. The resignation of Captain John 8. Young, of the Detective Police, was received by the Police Board yesterday but was not accepted, and the chief clerk was directed to make out charges against him. The removal of street obstructions 1s still going on and the Street Commissioner intends to prosecute all persons who impede the carriage way with build- ing materials, &c. Asmall boat, containing twelve boxes of nitro- glycerine, wag discovered under a wharf at the foot of Whitehall street yesterday—enough, it is said, to blow the lower portion of this city and Brooklyn to atoms, The stuif was taken beyond the city limits by the Harbor police, In the case of the ship Kate Dyer vs. the steamer Scotland, brought to recover the value of the Dyer and hercargo, amounting to $250,000, lost by collision with the Scotland in September, 1866, Juage Bene- dict, of the District Court of Brooklyn in Admiralty, rendered a decision yesterday for the libellants, with an order of reference to ascertain the amount of damages. A young man, named Edward Lingham, was brought before Justice Dodge yesterday by Piatt, the restaurateur, who charged him with refusing to pay for a pancake and a cup of coffee that he had called for and eaten on the plea that he was “broke.” Mr. Pfaf’s representative stated that a great number of persons, particularly those called “Bohemians,” come to his place and obtain their meals just as the prisoner did, and he wanted to have the thing stopped. The prisoner was commit- tea. Charles A. Allen was up before Judge Dodge yes- terday on a charge of burglary, to which he pleaded guilty. He stated that he was very hard up at the time, had no money, was crippled with rheumatism and hungry, and was driven to commit the act. He ‘was held for trial in default of $2,500 bail. The stock market yesterday was dull and irregu- lar. Gold was weak, closing finally at 130%. Gov- ernment bonds were higher under large purchases by the foreign bankers. Foreign exchange was demoralized, with rates only nominal. The Inman line steamship City of Baltimore, Cap- tain Leitch, will leave pier No. 45 North river at eleven o’clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at nine A. M., 20th inst, The steamship Erin, Captain Webster, of the Na- tional line, will sail from pier 47 North river at nine A. M. on Saturday for Liverpool, calling at Queens- town to land passengers. ‘The Anchor line steamship Iowa, Captain Hedder- wick, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to- morrow for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry. The French steamship Pereire, Captain Duchesne, will leave pier 50 North river to-morrow morning for Brest and Havre. The mails for France will close at the Post Office at eight A. M. 20th inst. The Merchants’ line steamship General Grant, Captain Quick, will be despatched at three P. M. to- morrow (Saturday) from, pier No. 12 North river for New Orleans direct. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor R. M. Patton, of Alabama, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Rovert McKibbon, Captain W. E. Van Reed and D. H. Kenzie, of the United States Army; Thomas Sbarp, of Kansas; James Warner, of Mas- sachnsetts; Jonas Clark, of Vermont, ana ©. J. be Y, of San Francisco, are at the Metropolitan ote. Captain Baldwin, of Baltimore; Z. Allen, of Provi- dence; John M. Chapin, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Dessalies, of Montreal, are at the Brevoort House. Commodore W. Porter, of the United States Navy; ex-Postmaster General a. W. Randall, of Washing- ton; Governor Coney, of Maine; Captain G. B. Ray- mond, of Philadelphia, and Colonel Emerson, of the United States Army, are at the Astor House. James K. Duke, of Kentucky; ©. B. Wells, of Georgetown, Ky., and George H. Davis, of Obio, are at the Maltby House. B. Danzas, of the Russian Legation, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Captain Ramsay and Captain Ness, of the British Army, Bermuda; B. Buffum, of Rhode Isiand, and D. C. Littieiohn, of Buffalo, are et the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Charles H. Graham, of the United States Army; W. ©. Watson, of Philadelphia; G. A. Van Allen and W. Lee, Jr., of Albany, and Dr. Foster, of Burlington, Vt., are at the Hoffman House. Prominent Departures. Colonel Lee left yesterday for Boston, ex-Governor Gibbs for Newport, R. D. Starkweather for Troy, and G. B. Carson for Toledo. No Sop ror Conngoriovr until after the April election. Expensive Improvement.—General Sher man wants to get the officers out of Washing- ton, which is admirable; but when it is found that afew days’ longer stay of one is neces- sary to dispose of government property to the value of two hundred thousand dollars he says that the officer must go and the property “burn.” But is not this a kind of reform worse than no reform? What do we want of reform in the army but for economy, and what kind of economy is it to spend two hun- dred thousand dollars to get an officer out of Washington? Go ahead, General; keep your earnestness fresh against abuses; but if you cannot enforce your will more cheaply than thie, and with judicious reserves, you are not the strong man we thought vou Important from Cuba=—The Policy of the | to the United States the productive wealth United States. We have information of the arrival in this city of Seiior Morales Lemus as an ambassador from the provisional government in Cuba to the government of the United States. His object is to obtain the recognition by this gov- ernment of the revolutionary proceedings in Cuba. Whatever may be done in Washington regarding the reception of this Minister from Cespedes, it will not be uninteresting to our people to recall occurrences that have bearing upon a positive event like this. The Spantards and Spanish organs have all along proclaimed that the insurrection in Cuba was a trifling affair and would soon be sup- pressed, and, according to the accounts we have been receiving through Spanish sources at Havana, the Cubans have been defeated with terrible slaughter over and over again. Strange to say, during all this time the insurrection has been gaining strength and spreading further and wider. By the tele- gram from Havana which we publish to-day in another column it will be seen that the cap- ture of Mayari, recently reported on official authority in Havana, turns out to be a defeat of the Spanish troops, and that they were falling back on Santiago with their wounded commander. From Villa Clara, too, where we have been so repeatedly informed of the defeat of the insurgents, we now learn from a returned Spanish volunteer that Colonel La Torre was defeated on the 3d inst., and that the insurrection there was so strong that ten thousand men would be required to open the railroad to the coast. In connection with this fact we have the singular general order from Colonel Lasca, who had recently got into Puerto Principe, that all the women and chil- dren who had gone out to afford aid and com- fort to their friends in the field must return to that besieged and hungry city or be subject to military law if captured. The truth is, nearly all the first reports of events received from Cuba are manufactured or garbled by the Spaniards to bolster up their cause and declining power. We can- not rely upon them. We can only judge of the state of things on the island by general facts. Well, what are these? We see thata little cloud, no bigger than a man’s hand a few months ago, has developed into a general storm. From a few insurrectionists under the lead of Cespedes ina remote and sparsely settled corner of Cuba organized revolt has spread over the greater part of the island, The whole native population is profoundly moved, The rich and young men have staked their lives and fortunes in this struggle for independence. The horrors of execution, of Spanish cruelty or of penal exile to Fernando Podo not check the movement, but rather inflame and give impulse to it. The more the Spanish forces have been increased the wider has the insurrection spread and the stronger it has become. For every Cuban slain a dozen spring up in his place. The war resources of the insurgents are increasing daily. Arms, ammunition and artillery of the most effective kind are pouring into the island. The chances of success improve daily, and, from present appearances, the despotic rule of Spain over Cuba is doomed, the end thereof being only a question of time and circum- stances. The most important néws received is that the insurgent authorities in the Central Depart- ment have decreed the abolition of slavery. The freed negroes may either enter the patriot army or remain to cultivate the soil. Doubt- less many will take up arms; but in any case this act of the insurgents will strengthen their cause. Itisa wise measure; for, whatever might happen, slavery was doomed, and it will have the effect of rallying public opinion in the United States in favor of Cuban independence. But the best effect will be seen, undoubtedly, upon the negroes themselves. Their worst masters have been the Spaniards, and the negroes will remember that. They will join those who have giventhem freedom. Besides, however ignorant they may be, they have sense enough to know that their interests and future welfare are identified with those of the native Cubans, and not with those of the Spaniards. They must be aware that the Spaniards are foreigners, who, like leeches, fatten upon their industry and the wealth of‘the island—who have, in fact, no abiding interest in them or their country. It is probable we may soon hear of the negroes becoming an important element in this war for independence. Under these circumstances what should be the policy of our government with regard to Cuba? No people in the world struggling for independence from despotism have ever failed to meet with sympathy from this country. The Hungarians, the Poles, the Italians and all others have met with it. This country represents the liberal and republican ideas of the age and world, and all nations regard it as the hope of the oppressed everywhere, But Cuba has special claims upon us. The Cubans are our neighbors, are Americans, and belong to the American system. The colonial gov- ernments of Europe are exotics on this Conti- nent, and ought to be uprooted. The policy which favored and recognized the independence of the former colonies of Spain in America, and which laid down the Monroe doctrine of no more European conquests or colonization, now requires a fresh and extended application. The remaining European possessions on this Continent have always been a source of trouble to all, and have cramped our trade and made us second only where we ought to have been first in commercial intercourse. We owe nothing to Spain nor to any of the European Powers. In the Mexican affair and during our civil war Spain and some of the other Powers were hostile to this republic and hoped to see it destroyed. They claimed to have monarch- ical interests in America, and, acting upon that claim, they acted to our great detriment and without any regard to our position as a friendly Power. Our interest lies in the severance of all European and monarchical connections with America. No opportunity should be lost of bringing that about. All the sympathy and aid we can fairly give the Cubans should be given, and the government should lose no time in authorizing the President to recognize their belligergnt rights whenever in his judgment it may be proper to do #0, and, as soon as ® regulsr government is established, their independence. Such ® course is demanded by sound policy and the highest statesman- ship. With Cuba independent or annoxed and our trade with that island would be immense. Then we ought to save that beautiful and rich country from the horrors and devastation which now threaten it. To permit the scenes and fate of another St. Domingo on our border would be an eternal disgrace to the United States. In every point of view, ton—on high political grounds, for the interest of our commerce, and for the sake of humanity, the government and people of this republic should favor by every means the independence of Cuba, and we are glad to learn that by the arrival of an ambassador preliminary from the Cuban ‘provisional gov- ernment the objects above expressed are likely to be realized. The James Foster, Jr. The ill-fated ship James Foster, Jr., now lies on the New York side, close to Fulton ferry, so close that thousands who, during the last few days, have had occasion to cross have seen the hated name. The James Foster, Jr., cannot too soon cease to exist. The name can never again be mentioned with respect. The atrocities with which her name must be last- ingly associated can never be either forgotten or forgiven. When no public press existed, when the tyranny which pirates took pleasure in exercising was common, the James Foster, Jr., might have got along well enough ; but we are now too far advanced in the nineteenth century to have any patience with tyranny and brutality and murder, even on board ship, where a captain is supposed to be above all law. Weare sorry to learn that Captain Arm- strong is no more. We never take any pleasure in pursuing the dead. It is always our wish to say of the dead, ‘‘Let them rest in peace.” Sometimes, however, public interests are so strong that individual interests must be held subordinate. The case of the James Foster, Jr., is just such a case. Mr. Charles H. Marshall has issued a circular, in which he uses the old argument that because a man is gone and therefore unable to speak for him- self we ought to be silent. Weare willing to be reasonable. We shall pronounce no more harsh judgments until we have further evi- dence. But further evidence we must have. The captain’s death must not be allowed to affect the course of justice. The investigation must go on as if nothing of the kind had hap- pened. Ifthe officers are found guiltless, by all means let them be acquitted. Let them have the full benefit. If, however, they are found to have been guilty, let no maudlin senti- mentality be allowed to come in the way. On Wedneaday next we shall expect to learn that the investigation has gone on, nothing affected by the death of Captain Armstrong. South American Diplomacy. There is considerable excitement in South America over the Paraguayan question. Brazil has seized upon Asuncion, has sacked it and now holds it probably as a base of operations -for future warlike work in the direction of the Lopez, with a small * interior of Paraguay. army, is still defiant. It appears, however, that there is trouble brewing between the allies themselves, and that the Brazilian Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs has been sent to Buenos Ayres with a view of arranging a peace. In the meantime Chile is anxious over this ques- tion and has appealed through the press to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador to assist in putting an end to a war which threatens to overthrow one of the American republics. What the empire will do now, that it has the river line of western Paraguay, is very uncer- tain. Dom Pedro desires to prosecute the war until its objects are accomplished ; but the em- pire is sadly exhausted by the struggle, and the threatened complications on the Plata with the Argentine Republic bode no good to the imperial desire to control the great valley to the southwest of them. Tae Ten Cxurcn DisesTaBLisoMENT Brrt.—By cable telegram from London, dated March 18, we learn that the Irish Church Dis- establishment bill came up yesterday in Par- liament on its second reading. Mr. Disraeli delivered a speech, taking, of course, the opposition view. He was fllowed by the member from Galway (Mr. Gregory), who taxed Disraeli with inconsistency. It seems to have been. a smart debate; but no final vote was reached. Tus Great Questions Amona Ovr New York Sporsmey.—Who is to be our Col- lector? Who is ahead? What does General Grant say? What does Boutwell think? Is Greeley for Dana and Dana for Greeley, or is each fooling the other? Has Walbridge any chgnce? What wire is Fenton pulling? Has he made up 4 slate with Conkling or without him? Is Morgan of any account, or how? And where is Thurlow Weed ? A Revort 1s Sine Sine Strate Prisoxn.— We publish full accounts of a revolt yesterday in Sing Sing State Prison. It appears that certain prisoners concocted a plan to escape and executed it at the expense of the life of a faithful officer. Several of the escaped con- victs were rearrested and are now properly cared for. How did this revolt occur? By what laxity of discipline were these prisoners permitted to escape? These are questions which must be answered by the State Prison Inspectors themselves, and the Legislature should bring them personally to account. The names of the Inspectors are David B. McNeil, Solomon Scheu and John Hammond, Women’s Rionts nv A Practica, Foru— In giving them a share of the spoils. General Grant has already appointed two or three post- mistresses. A Miss Elizabeth Van Lew, “for important services rendered the Union army during the rebellion,” is handsomely rewarded with the snug berth of the Post Office of Rich- mond, Va. This is an important recog- nition of women’s services and women’s rights from the new administration. Tho ballot for the women is myth; but a good fat office is substantial bread and butter, and silk dreases, and rings and bracelets, and, peradventure, a good husband. Inthe matter of suffrage the niggers (males above the age of twenty-one) are ahead of the women; but in the matter of the federal spoils the women have those cash- paying rights which the niggers so far have vainly aspired to reach. The revolutionary junta of women and the Sorosis of this city, in behalf of women’s rights, ought to be satis- fied to “fight it out on this line” upon the ea- tablished maxim that © fat office is better than 6 lean ballot, The Georgia Difficulty im Congrose—Ne- groes’ Rights im the States. . Mr. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, has reported a bill with a pre- amble to the effect. that whereas the Georgia Legislature, in disregard of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution, has refused to purge itself of members (rebels) ineligible under said amendment ; and whereas a majority of said Legislature has expelled a number of members legally qualified, upon the sole ground that they were persons of African blood ; and whereas the local authorities of said State are wholly unwilling or unable to pro- tect the lives, liberties and property of lawful and unoffending citizens from violence, there- fore, ‘‘be it enacted,” &c., that so much of the act of July 25, 1868, as restores Georgia to the rights and dignities of a State be re- pealed, and that the late military government over Georgia be revived; that meantime the present State government shall be considered as provisional only; that the expulsion of the negro members from the Legislature is null and void, and that they shall be restored; and that it shall be the duty of the President to use such of the land and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary to carry out this act. Now, it has been supposed that with the restoration of a rebel State to Congress noth- ing further could be done with it by Congress in reference to its local affairs—that Georgia, for instance, in being restored is all right again, like New York or New Jersey. It now appears, however, that this is alla mistake. The four- teenth amendment of the constitution, among other things, provides for equal civil rights to citizens of all colors, and that certain political disabilities shall fall upon certain classes of men guilty of rebellion. The amendment fur- ther provides that Congress shall have power toenforce all these provisions by appropriate legislation. Hence this bill from the Senate Judiciary Committee in reference to Georgia. But is this proposed legislation appropriate ? The answer rests with Congress. Nor is this power and discretion limited to the late rebel States; for, as the constitution applies to all the States and Territories, &c., the law may be applied to New York or New Jersey, as well as to Georgia or Louisiana, fora disregard of amendment fourteen. For example, the Senate Judiciary Committee report a bill declaring that, under said amend- ment the expulsion of the negro members from the Georgia Legislature is null and void and that those expelled blacks must be restored to their seats. Let this bill become a law for Georgia and we shall have a rule established for New York and all-the other States—the rule of 7 equal rights to hold office to citizens regardless of color. This is the Georgia question now before the Senate. Tue DANGER OF THE StRERTS.—In one even- ing three persons were run over and killed by the street cars in this city and in Brooklyn. Two were killed by Lorse cars and one by a dummy. So that steam in the streets is clearly not worse than horses. In Brooklyn the car ran over a boy, cut him in two and went on. The body was found some time after, and the number of the car is not known. Some pas- senger must remember that peculiar jolt and the scream of that boy. Popvutar De.usions.—People have a notion that things happen—that murders are com- mitted, for instance; that a shipload of pas- sengers are cruelly treated; that rogues thrive in office, &c. Alla mistake; not so at all! The “friends of the accused” publish a statement, and we perceive at once that there is no reality in the charges against any one, and that nothing happens. In short, that there is some ingenious person who invents everything and deludes all the reporters. Who is this fellow ? How the Laws Are Made. Butler is the most useful man in Congress. He rips up queer topics every now and then, and his utter indifference as to whether there is a row or not prevents his holding his tongue for fearof the consequences. He hasjust let the light in on a little known phase of legislation. It would appear that when a bill has gone through the hands of Senate and House it is a rather defaced document, with interlineations, and blots and what not. In this somewhat illegible condition it goes to an engrossing clerk, who copies it out to the best of his ability, ‘‘making sense” as he can, poor fellow! Some clauses it would appear he may possibly drop, and there seems a certain likelihood that if it were to the interest of the whiskey ring— about a hundred thousand dollars—that he should not see a certain clause, he might be blind as to that clause—yea, though it were underlined to make it conspicuous. Of course the senses are fallible. By this process it ap- pears that there has been dropped somewhere aclause that modifies a certain law #0 as to rob the government of one million and a half dollars and give it to the whiskey men. It is ® startling fact that when Butler opened this subject, not mentioned before in public, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee seemed to be in possession of all the points of argument against him. He knew all about it. A Mopern Lavy Macnera.—We find in the Easton (Pa.) Argus—a reliable paper—a re- port of an interview which the editor, in com- pany with the spiritual adviser of the con- demned Twitchell, had with the latter in his cellin Moyamensing Prison. It is a remark- able statement, and, bearing as it does upon its face the impress of truth, it would not be strange if it had some effect upon the final catastrophe. The remark of Mrs. Twitchell to the clergyman—‘“‘By the way, when you see George (her condemned husband) please ask him where he would like to be buried after he is hanged”—ia without parallel for nonchalance in the speeches of Shakspeare’s most sanguin- ary heroines. Dsav.—The captain of the James Foster, Jr., we cannot but believe, has paid the heavy penalty of his life for his own dereliction of duty. He has died of the fever he caught from the passengers—that dreadful “‘ship fever,” that is never found on well managed vessels where the emigrants are treated with fair humanity and where there are proper hygienic regula- tions, and that infallibly is found on ships where there is a default of these, and where privation and barbarity combine to make the passage of the emigrant to our shoros the most dreadful ordeal that human creatures go throngh, $e Proposed Amendment te the State Railroad Law. There seems to be a decided movement in the Legislature at Albany to amend the rail- road law of the State, with a view to prevent the improper issue of stock and scrip by rail- road companies, to protect Jona Jide stock- holders and to secure better and more honest management of railroads. The committee to which was referred this matter has presented a report, and several members have proposed amendments to the law. These amendments differ in some respects, but all aim at the same object. One, offered by Mr. Parker, prohibits the issue of any stock with the intent, directly or indirectly, to affect the market price of the bonds or stock of a company for speculative purposes. Another, proposed by Messrs. Gra- ham and Genet, forbids the issue of scrip or stock without the consent of the Legislature. Still another, by Messrs. Campbell and Mor- gan, proposes to limit the power of the presidents and directors of railroad com- panies; to prevent the issue of stock beyond the amount authorized’ by the charter and to make the action of the stockholders necessary in all cases where the stock is in- creased. There is no subject on which the Legislature can be better employed, and we hope it will be well considered and such amendments made to the railroad law as to prevent stockholders and the public being swindled in the way they have been by un- scrupulous directors and stock gamblers. At present the managers and directors of rail- roads can inflate their stock with impunity and thus tax the public by high rates for pas- sage and freight to pay dividends on a ficti- tious capital. It is a tax on the whole com- munity. The people are made to pay rates corresponding to a capital of sixty millions when the actual cost of a railroad has not been more than twenty millions. Besides, the .majority of the stockholders or the purchasers of the stock are often swindled to enrich a fow of the directors or the managers. We have had recent examples of this. Every man, woman and child in the community is affected directly or indirectly by such a railroad tax. No tax is more general. The time has come when the public must be protected against un- scrupulous railroad . managers and stock gamblers. The Legislature should pass at once a stringent and comprehensive law on the subject. The Darien Canal Treaty. The Senate of the United States has now under consideration the treaty recently nego- tiated by Mr. Cushing, in Bogota, with the republic of Colombia for the protection of any company that may undertake the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien. The subject is one of immediate and permanent interest to the commerce of the world, and particularly so to that of the United States. With the immense empire and trade which we are rapidly building up on the Pacific shore and ocean we require a shorter water route from the Atlantic than that offered by Cape Horn, and this is to be obtained only by cut- ting the isthmus. Unfortunately this bar to the marriage of the coasting trade between our Atlantic and Pacific ports lies within the terri- tory of a foreign Power, and hence the neces- sity of a treaty which shall offer protection to the great sums which are requisite for the con- struction of the work and the vast commerce which will seck its facilities when completed. Inasmuch as fully nine-tenths of the trade which will seek this line of water transit between the two oceans will be the domestic trade of the United States it behooves the Senate to guard against the concession to a foreiga Power of a permanent and irredeema- ble tax upon our commerce for all time to come. There is no claim so repugnant to the common sense of justice which pervades man- kind as the old feudal claim of the right to exact payment for transit on the ground. of territorial sovereignty, This claim should be and has been rejected by the great mass of modern publicists, though it was un- fortunately recognized by ourselves, in the case of the concession by the New Granadan government, for the construction of the Panama Railroad. No wise jurist will advo- cate such a claim, and no true statesman will concede it. This principle has been conceded in the recent treaty with Colombia, and a permanent tax consented to in behalf of that government equal to an increase of one-third of the tolls which the capitalists constructing the canal may find it necessary to exact to reimburse them for their outlay. In return for this gra- tuity the government of Colombia neither ex- pends one dollar towards the work nor offers it the slighest protection when constructed. It does not even give a map or survey of any kind of that portion of its territory which the canal is to cover. The survey is to be under- taken at our cost; we are to fight the native savages whom the Colombian government has not been able to subdue; our citizens are to find the money to construct the canal, and our government is to provide troops and ships to protect it while building and ever afterwards. In view of these facts we claim that, in com- mon justice to ourselves, the Senate should strike out of the Darien Canal treaty every clause which gives to the Colombian govern- ment any interest in the benefits of the work except such as may accrue to it from the alternate sections of land along the line of the canal, Poor Man’s Piastgr—Schenck’s strength- ening bill. Tue Dirrerknor.—A city paper criticises the wearers of the green on their taste, say- ing :—‘‘The highest notion of decoration that our Irish fellow citizens have attained to thus far would seem to be a green velvet shoulder belt, with gold fringe, over a black broadcloth coat, both coat and shoulder belt considerably the worse for wear.” Just so. But when fifty thousand men at length find themselves at home in a city where they can get broad- cloth coats and wear green belts whad is more natural than that they should indulge » long repressed fancy for such attire, and even deem it the most beautiful ever seen. ‘Sure, a Tue Littte Arrain in New Bronswiox.— Our despatches from New Brunswick, British territory, inform us that a motion made in the Legislature of that province in favor of annex- ation to the United States was denounced aa | treason, Dén’t be in @ hurry. Wait a little white. ince