The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAX AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXIV. -No. 86 Al USEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13h strect.— Bouoot, Matinee at 2 BROUGHAM'S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—PERFEO TioN—Muou ADO ABOUT RRCHANT OF VENIOE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosdway.—fUMPrY Domprr, wit NEW FEATURES, Matlace at Ly. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tne SkVFY DwARrs; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE WORLD oF WONDERS. Matinee. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—Matinee at 1}j— CAMILLE. Evening—HippEN HAND. een Sth and 6th ave.— ing—MARELE HEART. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Matinee—Kouko aNd JUL IBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur BurLesQor Ex- eee oF Tuk Forty THreves. Matince at 2. ERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nov. 45 and 47 Bowery. — pes KoEN1G's LIBUTENANT—EINE Pauvi® Piquer. Fourteenth strect,—TTALTAN ¢ SIC, ACADEMY OF MUSI ‘Eveniug—La PRorusre OreRA.—Matinee—Fra Diary WOOD'S MUSEUM AND Broadway.—Afiernoon and WAVERLEY THEAT! BUELESQUE COMPANY. 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Three persons were arrested for making Beditious speeches. Mexico. Reports from Mexico city state that Minister Rose- craus has recently had several private interviews with President Juarez, and is urging tie latter to acknowledge the Frenchglebt, Paraguay. Marshal Lopez is now reported at Pirabebi, a town Hifteen leagues from Asuncion, with an army of 5,000 men and 50,000 non-combatants, families who have abandoned their homes and followed him. General Mitre was marching with his troops to seize certain mountain passes, (uat would give him a great advan- tage over Lopez. Alaska. General Jefferson C. Davis has made an ofMciat re- Port of the late Indian troubles in our new posses- sions. He says thaton hearing ot the murders of traders by the Kake or Kekeon tribe, he sailed to their village and finding it deserted burned it. At tus prompt method of dealing with them the Indians became frigttened and promised to deliver up the murderers, whom General Davis says shall be promptly executed, He does not anticipave any serious trouble as he has already made himself master of the situation, Congress. In the Senate, yesterday, a bill was introduced Providing for the creation of a body corporate, con- sisting of A. T. Stewart, C, Vanderbilt and several other gentiemen, to devise means for the completion of the monument to Washington and the erection of a similar one to Lincoln. The Finance bil! was taken up as unfinished business and was discussed at length. The Senate then went into executive ses- sion and confirmed several appointments, among them Moses H, Grinnell to be Col or, A. B. Cor- nell to be Surveyor ana A. E. Merritt to be Naval Onicer of the port of New York. An adjournment was then had until Monday. In the House, Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a joint resolution expres- sive of sympathy with the Cuban insurgents, and declaring that Congress will give its constitutional support to the President whenever he may deem it expedient to recognize the sovereignty of the re- publican government in that island. The resolution was recommitted and ordered to be printed. Three reports were made by members of tue Committee on Elections relative to the conteste! case irom the Twenty-first district of Peunsyivania. Mr. Butler called up the motion to reconsider the vote referring the Tenure of Office Dill to the Judiciary Committee, and suggested that an additional section be added, requiring the Presi- dent to return his nominations to Congress within thirty days after their being made. A sharp debate ensued on this propesition, Messrs. Butier, Logan and Davis advocating, and Mesars. Garfield, Farns- worth, Bingham and other republicans opposing 1, The latter gentieman taunted Messrs. Butler and Logan with their new alliance with the democrats, but the democrats having favored the reference of the bill were loath to withdraw it, and on a motion for the previous question on Mr. Butler's resolution voted against him and with Messrs. Garfield and company, The vote was finally reconsidered, the motion of reference was withdrawn and the House Tgfused to concur in the Senate amendments to the Fepeal bill by a vote of 7010 99, So the bill goes back to the Senate as it originally came from the House, Providing simply for the repeal of the act. The House soon after adjourned until Monday. The Legisiature, Several bills were reported to the State Senate yesterday. The Committee on Internal Affairs, Mr. ‘Tweed dissenting, reported adversely to the Dill modifying the Excise law. On motion the report ‘was disagreed with and the bijl committed to the Committee of the Whole, Notice was given of a bill relative to fraudulent naturalization papers. A few ‘unimportant bills were introduced and passed. The Vice President of the Central Railroad having sub- mitted a report the resolution bringing him to the bar was reconsidered and another adopted discon. tipuing all proceedings against him. ‘The bili for the more effectual suppression of bribery was made the special order for Tuesday evening. The Senate soon after adjourned until Monday evening next. In the Assembly a communication was presented from the Metropolitan Board of Health relative to the ship James Foster, Jr, A large number of bilis ‘were reported, including one to amend the Quaran- tine laws, and another to confer additional powers ‘Upon the Metropolitan police. A resolution of com- plimentto Mr. Davis upon the departure of that gentieman from Aibany to fill the office of Assistant Secretary of State for the United States, was unani- mously adopted. Mr, Hitchman made a personal expianation in reply to an attack made upon him by @ weekly literary paper. A resolution was intro- duced to regulate fare on the Harlem and Hudson River ratiroads, The Asseinvly toen adjourned until Monday. Miscellaneous. Fx-President Johnson f& now reported much bet- ter and quite out of danger. Mr. Binckiey, who thrashed Deputy Commissioner Harland in Washington recently, was faed $100 and oem yeawrday by Judge Wylie in Wwe Orimina ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY MARCH 27, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. Court. The Judge said the letter written by Com- missioner Rollins urging the removal of Binckley was a very great provocation and should never have been written. Great dissatisfaction ia said to exist among the Indians on the Upper Missourt reservation at the manner in which the reservation is managed. Even Spotted Tail 1s complaining, and a general outbreak is predicted, The Indians in Utah are preparing for @ general raid on stock when the spring comes. Adam at Romney’s Bend, on tire Welland Canal, has given way and the proposed Lake Erie level is deferred in consequence for at least one year. The National Committee of the Colored Men’s As- sociation, in Washington, are discussing the pro- priety of urging the claims of colored men for ofice on the heads of bureaus. A general order from the President has been issued directing the discharge from service of avout 760 enlisted men in the various arsenals. The City. The carpenter, boatswain and third mate of the emigrant ship James Foster, Jr., were brought up before United States Commissioner Jones in Brook- lyn yesterday on a charge of murder. They had no counsel, and were held to await the action of the Grand Jury. The inquest tn the cases of the dead seamen was resumed at Staten Island, and last evening the jury rendered a verdict charging the carpenter, boatswain and third mate with the mur- der of the deceased seamen. John Real, the murderer of officer Smedick, has madea statement of the persecutions that Smeaick inflicted upon him for two years before the murder, He says that he could not remain in any situation in his ward, because Smedick was sure to find him out and tell his employers that he had been a thief. Real appears resigned to his fate. The body of Lockwood, one of the Sing Sing con- victs who escaped and was shot and killed by Sulli- van, one of the guards, 1s now lying at his brother’s residence in Chrystie street. The Board of Heaith have refused to permit it to be buried without an inquest, which will be held to-day. Mr. Scheu, the State Prison Inspector, and the State Prison Com- mittee of the Legislature have arrived at Sing Sing to investigate the origin of the late revolt. Commissioner Jones, of Brooklyn, rendered a de- cision yesterday in the alleged drawback frauds case. Laidlaw and Dickinson, two of the accusea parties, were discharged, and the others, Korn, Theriot, Whimster and Wilson, were held to await the action of the Grand Jury. The American sieamship Northern Light, Captain Timmerman, of Ruger’s line, will sail to-day from pier 42 North river at two o’clock P. M. for Bremen and Copenhagen, via Cowes. ‘The steamship Rapidan, Captain Mallory, will leave pier 36 North river at three o’clock P. M. to-day for Havana and New Orleans. The steamship Euterpe, Captain Gates, will leave pier 20 East river this afternoon for Galveston, Texas, touching at Key West. The sidewheei steamship Manhattan, Captain M. 8. Woodhull, will sail from pier No. 6 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charleston. The steamship Isaac Bell, Captain Bourne, will leave plier 37 North river at three P. M. to-day for Norfolk, City Point and Richmond. The stock boards and Gold Exchange were closed yesterday in observance of Good Friday. The banks and private bankers transacted business as usual. Some inconvenience was occastoned by the calling in of loans. A movement 1s on foot to have the day made a legal holiday. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Dr. Herrick, of Albany; H. A. Tilden, of New Leb- anon; D. C. Lindsley, of Vermont; F. ¥, Faxton, of Utica, and R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. George W. Chandler and Henry Whiten, of Phila- deiphia; Louis Blitz, of Detroit; R. 8. Hart, of St. Louis, and C. F. Mayer, of Baltimore, are at the Astor House, Genera! J. L. Goldsmith, of Chicago; 1. D. Jer- maine and Andrus Burnham, of Milwaukee, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Captain Howgrd, of Washington; R. W. Little, of China, and Dr. George Turrel, of Newport, are at the New York Hotel. Judge N. Harrison, of West Virginia, and Theo- dore Cozzens, of West Point, are ac the Clarendon Hotel. Dr. E. L. Sturtevant, of Boston; E. H. Kellogg, of Pittsfield, and J. S. Williams, of Massachusetts, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. Pancost, of Philadelphia; T. Boyle, of Baiti- more; T. Patton, of Detroit, and D. Woodruff, of the United States Army, are at the Hoffman House. Prominent Departures. Judge J. F. Comstock and E. B, Judson left yester- day for Syracuse; General Leavenworth, for Phila- deiph ; A. G. Pollard, for Boston; R. B. Benson, for beneral Palmer, for Ohio; J, Williams, for . B. Bristol, for Connecticut; £. M. Avery, for Norwich; Dr. A. Lawerance, for Buffalo, and E. R. Mendum, for Baltimore. Louls Leland leaves to-day by the City of Paris for the purpose of making a survey of the hotel sys- tem in Europe and seeing if any new ideas have been developed there. He will do well to give the Europeans a touch of the American metropolitan system he knows so weil. Progress of the Cuban Revolution. The news from Cuba is cheering for the in- surgent cause. Much defection exists among the Spanish officials, who have been in several instances charged with complicity with the rebels. Four companies of the fourth bat- talion of volunteers have declared for the patriot cause. Munitions of war are pouring in in abundance to arm the revolutionists, In New York an enthusiastic meeting was held on Thursday evening to sympathize with the Cubans and to assist them with all material aid possible. This and the general temper of the American people with reference to the Cuban question must convince Spain and Europe that we mean work—no light work, either, if necessity calls for something with a heavier accent to it. The Cuban revolution is the re- bound of Spanish action in the New World during the past six years. Mexico, the Pacific coast and the remembrances of Spanish domi- nation in Venezuela have kindled in Cuba the fagots of misrule and cruelty which Spain has cast freely over the island. Spain’ must un- derstand that it is all Spanish America that lights the revolutionary blaze in her last colo- nial stronghold, and that in New York two years ago the revolutionary leaders found aid and comfort. This was the more freely extended from the existing remembrances of the action of Spain with reference to our. selves when we were battling for national life against traitors from within and the combined monarchical interests from without. Spain gave us many a covert stroke, and Cuba in her hands became a keen lance which she did not fail to ply with that refinement of action which can alone proceed from the Spanish brain. Feeling as she did that the progress of the United States threatened to absorb Cuba, from the very inability of that island to maintain a different governing system from the mainland, she very naturally seconded England in her recognition of belligerent rights for the South almost before the echoes of the first guns at Sumter had crossed the Atlantic. The cowardly stroke of England at us was dated the 13th of May—one month from the bombardment of Sumter, Spain waited but a month longer, and on the 17th of June was signed the royal edict which, even in the preamble, virtually recognized the indepen- dence of the South. Let us translate a few sentences from it as published in the Gacela dela Habana of July 28, 1861 :— Orrigg OF THs MuNisieR OF StaTR—KoraL De CRBEE.—Co! the rises which exist be- tween Spain and tee United States of America, and the that there ane th rect feeling events wi have taken p have resolved to maintain o strictest neutrality in es le undertaken between the federal States ie Inion and the Confederate States of the South, &c, In the eight articles which follow this re- cognition of a Southern nationality the United States are immediately lowered to the level of the rebels, who had not, to the then knowledge of Spain, a single organized army in the field, had not fought a single battle or killed a single man. Even the little skirmish of Big Bethel was not then known on the other side of the Atlantic. We cannot look at this action of Spain in any other light than one of open hostility to the United States, and if up to the present time we have been too much occupied in the solu- tion of our reconstruction problem, we have not forgotten what we owe to Spain. The day is at hand for settlement, and, therefore, despite the vaunted ‘‘liberal” exhibition now going on in Spain, of down with one king and up with another, we are little disposed to look on and see any part of this Continent forced to pay for such a raree show. Cuba has been bled enough. The reaction is a revolutionary fever which the Spanish doctors, following the system of Dr, Sangrado, think can only be cured by more bleeding. There are in Cuba to-day, perhaps, seventeen thousand regular Spanish troops and twenty- five thousand volunteers under arms in sup- port of colonial domination. To these are opposed at least fifty thousand badly armed patriots, whose numbers are alone limited by their ability to obtain ammunition and muskets. The people of Cuba are evidently determined to have their liberty. They mean work. Up to this moment, however, they have shown very little good sense in the organization ot their cause. The Eastern division of the island does not appear to work in unison with the Central Department. The elements are scattered. They want binding together. If they have effected so much by desultory effort what can resist them once they have a central and respected government? The moment they have this government and an- nounce a financial plan their cause is won; for they wifl place themselves in a position in which we can recognizo their belligerent rights and feel that their certain success in the future will be the best proof of the justice of such a recognition. Let them immediately call a meeting of deputies from the various departments under their control, declare their independence, elect a president, form a cabi- net, raise money by effecting a loan or issuing legal bonds. All this may be done in sixty , days, and the moment it Is done we guaran- tee them full recognition as an independent belligerent Power, copying, if need be, the preamble we have translated above. Cuba must try to be self-reliant, notwithstand- ing the little opportunity it has had for such an education under Spanish rule, Success is even more certain from efforts coming from within than from without. It is for this we say to Cuba, Organize, Let no petty ambitions and jealousies among leaders retard or ruin the organization. Such has often been the history of movements in the Spanish-American countries which have struck for independence. It is better to oc- cupy a second class position in a great country than to be a petty and poverty-stricken com- mander in some desolated division of the island. Let Cuba listen to what we tell her— organize, and independence is won. The News from Mexico. Our correspondence from Mexica, published to-day in another column, gives a graphic pic- ture of the condition there. An attempt at revolution put down is followed by a general feeling of dissatisfaction and want of confi- dence with the,present government; the Cabi- net accused of sending their hoarded thousands to foreign parts for safety ; robbers holding the roads everywhere; a satiety of blood from military executions until the cry went up, even from that bloodthirsty race, for a pause; com- munication with the northern frontier so dif- cult that to-day Tamaulipas is practically further from the capital than New Mexico was a few years ago; commerce decaying, the revenue declining, and President Juarez hold- ing secret conferences with the United States Minister till the suspicion was rife that he was about to declare his inability to govern the country without the assistance of the United States, as a preliminary step to bring- ing in American troops. Mexico is in the last stage of decay and thoroughly rotten. Thirty years of constantly repeated revolutions have created more officers with high military grade than would suffice to keep the peace if they were in the ranks, while their habits of luxurious command insure their adhesion to any plan for public disturbance that offers « chance for pay. If General Rosecrans and President Juarez can devise a scheme whereby a firm and just rule can be established through the intervention of the United States, the great movements such a scheme would entail, would give a new life to trade, both in and out of Mexico, that would exercise a favorable influence upon industry and commerce throughout the Continent, Gtap to Hear It.—That the Committee having charge, in the House of Representa- tives, of the batch of railroad, land and bond grabbing bills submitted from time to time, have concluded to postpohe their consideration till the next session of Congress. Avotner Sonoo. Bitt.—The last sugges- tion proposes to make every public school chargeable upon the county it stands in. As New York city pays for its own schools and a pretty heavy figure on State tax towards schools not in the city we can agree to this, Generar Br. Atn’s Cask ON Tuk RIGHT oF SvrrraGe.—They have a stringent radical test oath in Missouri touching loyalty to the State, against which General Frank Blair, an indignant democrat, has brought his own case before the Supreme Court of the United States. After several days devoted to the pleadings on both sides the argument was closed on Thurs- day last, and the subject left with the learned judges for their decision. As a majority of the Court are of the good old conservative State rights school this oase of the citizens’ rights against State rights will be apt to bother them, and may require 4 moath or two of nice con- . bideration, Indian Treaty Jobs and Swindles. A Fort Smith (Ark.) paper undertakes to make an elaborate denial of the charges made in our Washington correspondence in regard to the enormous swindles that are ocourring under the pretext of making treaties with so-called Indian “nations.” Now, we not only reiterate the charges, but to-day give addi- tional evidence in support of our allegations. There is now before the Senate, as our Wash- ington correspondent affirms, a single Indian treaty which will, if ratified, call from the Treasury of the people the large sum of thir- teen millions of dollars in a single year. It also appears that since the formation of the government no less than four hundred millions of the people's money has been expended in satisfaction of alleged treaty stipulations with Indian agents. The whole system is rotten and corrupt from beginning to end. In the first place, the Senate has no right or au- thority to make “treaties” with any class of American citizens, and no special Indian or any other kind of nationality can be recog- nized inside of that established by the sove- reign will of the people. Moreover, it seems that these treaties are ratified, if not nego- tiated, in secret session, when but two or three members are present, and that the Indian ring in the Senate are actually contemplating the second purchase of the Territory of Alaska from the native Indian tribes, under the pretence that Russia gave only a quit claim to the Territory when she disposed of it to the United States. It can scarcely be credited that these corrupt jobs can be carried on with- out arousing the indignation of the people all over the land. We repeat that the Indian is no more entitled to special legislation or to the power of treaty- making than Sambo and Dinah on their Southern plantation, or the Chinese in California. He has no national rights beyond those enjoyed by the negro, and all the talk about this or that Indian nation, this or that treaty with this or that Indian tribe, are merely schemes gotten up by Indian jobbers and land sharks to rob tho national Treasury. If land buyers or specula- tors have any rights in the transfer of Indian titles they are questions of law to be decided by the Supreme Court. Let us hear no more about such nonsense as Indian treaties or special treaties with any class of people located within the limits of the United States. It is as much beneath the dignity of the national government to recognize the existence of a treaty-making power among any of its own people as it would be for a sovereign in Europe to do the same with his own subjects. All the denials or explanations made by the Indian ring organs cannot wipe out the fact that our Indian system is utterly wrong and that a radical reform is urgently demanded. We invite attention to the fresh developments on this subject given elsewhere in to-day's HeRatp. The New Dor m and the Hadson’s Bay Company. A cable telegram from London informs us that the late Colonial Secretary of Great Britain, Sir Stafford Northcote, who had been in correspondence with the government of the New Dominion and also with the Hudson's Bay Company, advises the company to come to terms with the government of the Dominion. It appears that Eari Granville, the new Colonial Secretary, has made a proposal to the company that they should cede their territorial rights to the Dominion for three hundred thou- sand pounds sterling. It is a small sum, con- sidering the extent of territory and the im- mense wealth, developed and undeveloped, which this territory covers. Sir Stafford, looking at the inevitable future, is of opinion, and says 80, that it is the best thing the com- pany can do, From this we infer that at an early day the entire North American Continent south of Alaska and north of the United States will be under the control of the government of the New Dominion. This arrangement gives our northern neighbors command of immense wealth, if only they know how and where to find it. When we remember the immense plains as yet almost untrod except by the Indian and the occasional trap- per; the magnificent lakes and rivers, of which we know nearly as little as we do of the Inkes and rivers of Alaska, but of which we know enough to understand that they repre- sent a large section of the grandeur and wealth of the North American Continent; when we remember all this, we can only re- joice that there is a probability that the wealth of those magnificent valleys, lakes and rivers will no longer be abandoned to the fur-bear- ing animals, The Hudson's Bay Company as a pioneer agency has done well enough; but new times have come, and the new times have new and higher requirements. The company stands in the way of the consolidation of the New Dominion, and the consolidation of the New Dominion {s an absolute necessity, pre- liminary to another and grander consolida- tion—a consolidation which will give unity to that immense territory which stretches from the Gulf of Mexico to the Northern Sea. To the prosperity of the New Dontinion we ought to have no objection. Its prosperity will in- crease the wealth of the Continent and hasten the inevitable day when the Anglo-Saxon family of North America will be one and indi- visible, The transfer of the rights of the Hudson's Bay Company isin every sense de- sirable, A Consort Generar ror Copa.—We notice the appointment of Mr. Edward L. Plumb as Consul General to Cuba, Mr. Plumb has just returned from Mexico, where for more than a year, a8 Chargé d’Affaires, he has ably fulfilled the duties of his post to the great satisfaction of both governments, Well versed in the Spanish language, and thoroughly posted upon Cuban affairs, he will undoubt- edly be of great service to us in the delicate position which he is now called upon to fill, Siva Siva.—If the story told in all the papers of the death of the convict Dean be true the keeper committed as atrocious a mur- der as a man was ever hanged for. Tne Gas Bit.—The result of all the gas investigation of the city is a bill that will compel the companies to apply some of their superfluous cash to the regular examination of their own gas—the examination to be made under the direction of a board to be appointed by the Mayor. This will be the first gas bill ever known aot made to sult the companies, for a text. He proposes to operate by awak- ening sensibilities as to the national honor. Studying the case out he discovers that it would be very shabby on our part not to pay. He is satisfied that morally we have bought the islands, and shall be wanting in mercantile probity if we do not come down with the dust. This is a pretty argument for the Danes and is presented with ingenious circumstances. Somebody has been clumsy enough, however, to say that these are not Parton’s own opinions and that he is in the Danish pay. This has given Parton a chance to annihilate the slanderer by a flat denial of the charge. He says he is not in the Danish-pay, and we believe it. We may say that we are con- vinced of it. These things are never done in that vulgar, utterly indelicate way. It is quite otherwise. Parton holds these opinions and urges them at his utmost force—just as the Bohemians did under Walker. They hold any opinions that pay; but if his argumenta have an effect—if the sale is completed and the money is paid—the Minister will naturally wonder what it was that changed the Ameri- can mind. He will thus have brought to his notice Parton’s pamphlet and Parton's name, and in the ardor of gratitude and the warmth of his admiration for Parton’s style he will at once send to that incorruptible writer a gold certificate for twenty-five thousand dollars, begging him not to be insulted by the pittance, Parton, who will at the time be writing an article for the North American Review in abuse of New York city at two dollars a page, will thrust temptation aside by locking the certificate in his strong box. Another Job for the Treasury Rings Massachusetts seems intent on regulating the national finances, debt and currency in its own way, and to suit particularly its own supposed interests. The appointment of a Secretary of the Treasury, besides another Cabinet officer, from that State may have inflated the natural assumption of the Massachusetts men, A Mr. Amasa Walker of that State has thought proper to ventilate his ideas upon a plan to meet our financial difficulties and to make everything smooth. Of course this plan, like all the rest, is predicated upon the necessity of forcing specie payments, though the writer pro- fesses to be careful not to disturb the business relations and values of the country. The aim of Mr. Walker and of all such financial doctors is to get rid of the greenback currency. This, in his opinion, is the source of. all mischief and the obstacle to resumption. He proposes, therefore, that Congress shall authorize the issue of compound interest notes, like the old ones, to an extent equal to the legal ndera—, that is, three hundred and fifty millions of dollars, or so many as may be necessary to re- deem the greenbacks. This is the principle of his proposition; the rest is only an outline for carrying it out. This is gimply another job for the Treasury ring to make money, to enrich the bondhold- ers (of which Massachusetts has a great many) and to give the national banks all the advan- tages and profits of a national circulation. It isa most atrocious attempt of the Treasury jobbers again to fleece the government and people. Congress is asked to convert the only sound currency of the country, the legal tenders, which pay no interest, into interest- bearing debt, and thus to increase the annual burdens of the people about twenty millions a year. One would suppose the interest on the debt and the taxation necessary to meet it were heavy enough already, without increas- ing these twenty millions a year. What ne- cessity is there for such a change? Green- backs, as was said, are the soundest and most acceptable currency we have. The national bank circulation even has to be redeemed in this currency, and the banks are required to hold a reserve of it as security for their business and safety to the public. Greenbacks are the people’s money, are based directly on the promise and credit of the government and are as sound as the fabric of the republic. Why, then, change them for any other? Why especially change them for in- terest-bearing notes to add twenty millions to the annual burden of the debt? It is simply a monstrous proposition. It could only be con- ceived of for the benefit of the Treasury ring anda few large capitalists. This is the com- mencement of jobs and raids on the Treasury under Mr. Boutwell. He organized the inter- nal revenue system, which has proved #80 cor- rupt and oppressive, and the country will be fortunate if greater corruption, incapacity and mismanagement of the finances be not seen under his administration than even under that of Mr. McCulloch. Mr. Boutwell is not fit for the Treasury; he does not understand the great questions of national finance, is local and con-— tracted in his ideas and views, is merely a, politician and one of those narrow-minded. lawyers of which Mr. Sprague spoke as #0: damaging to our government. It is high time that the vast affairs of the republic, and especially the finances, should be taken out of the hands of theorists and politicians of the Massachusetts school. Let us hope Congress will not listen to the schemes of Treasury job- bers, but will let the legal tender currency alone; for under it the country is doing very well, and in due time will arrive at a specie basis by the laws of nature and trade. Du Cnaitty Cavant.—The explorer, some time famous for his captures of the African gorilla, has finally fallen into the hands of the Cuban guerilla, Tur Fat Orrices or New York—Statee Broken.—The fat offices of Collector of this port, Surveyor, and Naval Officer, have been awarded to Moses H. Grinnell, Alonzo B. Cor nell, and General Merritt, much, we fear, to the disgust of the loyal leaguers and the orthodox republican clubs and cliques of this city. Their slates are broken—their candi- dates are left out in the cold; and Greeley, Dana, Spencer, Hutchins, and others of their school too numerous to mention, are filtting about like lost chickens, We fear that to Greeley and Dana the glory of Grant's admin- istration is gone, or is fast fading away, A Five Taerrronat Jos Spowezp—In the indefinite postponement, by the Territorial ‘Committee of the House of Representatives, of the proposition for a Territorial government for Alaska, Here isa loss to the place hun- ters of half a million a year or more, bute saving of so much to the Treasury. A military governor, with a squad of marines anda steamboat, will answer for Alaska for a year or two. te Concur. General Butler achieved yesterday an im- portant victory in the House, in the vote of seventy to ninety-nine whereby that body refused to concur in the Senate's halfway sub- stitute for the House bill absolutely repealing the Tenure of Office law. General Butler with the submission of the Senate bill attacked it as a deception, contending that it did not meet the case, that the modification is substantially the law as it stands, and that this unconstitutional act, having served ‘its purpose, should be utterly abolished—that it was incompatible with the rights of the House and a usurpation of the powers of the Presi- dent. In these general views of the measure General Butler was promptly and effectually supported by General Logan, and when the House adjourned on Thursday it was mani- fest that the Senate substitute for Butler's repeal would be rejected. Yesterday when the subject camo up in its regular order a desultory fight was at once commenced between Butler and his supporters on the one side and the radical anti-repealers on the other, and this skirmishing was con- tinued down to five o'clock, when the original motion to refer the Senate bill to the Judiciary Committee was withdrawn and the direct question of concurrence was reached. The result is the victory of Butler and the re- pealers, including the democrats of the House, who wielded the balance of power. The subject now goes back to the Senate, and the question is, ‘‘Shall the Senate recede from its amendment?” Assuming that it will not, @ committee of conference on the dis- agreement between the two houses will be the next proceeding, and then we shall discover whether the republicans of the House sap- porting Butler will stand firm or yield to the pressure of the Senate or a party caucus of the House. Both houses having adjourned over to Monday we may expect some caucus manipu- lations in the interval; but if the House repealers would gain the front rank with the administration in bringing the Senate to the ultimatum of Butler's bill they will avoid any party caucus on the subject. In the beginning of Johnson’s administration the republican conservatives, with the demo- crats, had, as they now have, possession of the House. The policy of Congress and the administration was in-their hands, and had they acted with anything like sagacity they could have shaped the measures of Congress and the issues of the Presidential succession. But the democrats, when brought to the pinch, deserted the republican conservatives dnd bolted over to ‘‘Old Thad Stevens,” and hence all the disastrous consequences that followed to Johnson's administration, to the conserva- tive republicans and to the demvcratic party, with the triumph of the radical programme. All that was left undond by the democrats to give success to the schemes of Stévens was ac- complished through the radical caucus system of whipping in. Now, if the conservative or out-and-out administration republicans of the House wish to hold their ground and become masters of thé situation they know what to do; and they must know, on the other hand, that if they consent to be inveigled into a party caucus their fate will be the melancholy expe- rience of Raymond and his followers of,the sessions of 1865 and 1866. Power or dis- grace is thus the alternative now presented to the supporters of Butler in the House on this Tenure of Office law. Their only course of safety is to stick to the repeal. The State of Public Sentiment in England. We publish in another column a communi- cation referring to the present state of public opinion in England. The letter regards the variable changes of public sentiment in a most unfavorable light for the mother country, and not at all calculated to sustain that degree of prestige with which John Bull desires to be regarded throughout the world. Economy, now the order of the day under the liberal Ministry, may not be the most judicious course to pursue, if by that economy England is to be reduced to the condition ofa third rate Power, as our correspondent contends she will be event- ually by the curtailment of the navy estimates which is now being inaugurated. In refer- ence to the Alabama question, it is argued that it will be settled on such terms as the United States may think fit to propose, for the simple reasdh that England will prefer to suffer humiliation rather than assume that inde- pendence which formerly characterized her. Another subject also seems to be a source of not a little uneasiness, and that is the gradual advances of Russia in the East. The Russian press has sounded the alarm, and the Moscow Gasette, in the shape of a semi-official sug- gestion, believes that negotiations between the Russian and English governments should be opened regarding the future relations of the two countries in the East. From a pernsal of the communication it will be readily perceived that there is some cause for that unsettled state of public sentiment referred to by our correspondent. Mr. Parton and Farties “Bound in Honor tf Pay” Mr. Parton, the biographer of Horace Greeley and Ben Butler, has taken in re- gard to the Danish sale of some West India islands the same position that was taken by the Bohemians unér Robert J. Walker in the Russian sale of Alaska. ‘Seven millions in gold” is s sounding phrase, and one that startles and awalens the Bohemian every- where, till he priiketh up his oars like the charger that ‘“‘sniffeth the battle afar off.” Seven millions in gold is so much money that the Bohemian knovs that whenever it changes hands there must ts droppings, and he makes it his business toe near that he may gather them up. Under Robert J. Walker the busi- ness of the Bohemhn in the neighborhood was to make public qinion, which he did by praising the climde, the productions and tha mineral wealth of Alaska, making it a sort of Arctic Eden. When accounts were sottled it ‘was discovered tha’ the grateful Russians had remembered the ernest service of the Bohe- mians, and Walker tho leader, alone received the sum of twentyfive thousand dollars—tho tenderest remembnnce of which the Russian Bear Is capable. In the Danish lusiness there is the same story and tho sate amount of money, and Parton, never orignal, comes in on the old idea and sets abat making public opinion; hut this time it is tot the climate that is taken