The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIV........+.000++ seeeseeseessN@e SS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING BR a vg THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- ‘Vim PABIGIENNE, BROUGHAM’S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Hie Last MUCH ADO ABOUT A MERCHANT OF VENIOR. OLYMPIC THBATRE, Broadway.—Huurrr Dompry, with NEw FEATURES, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ta® Seven DWARFS; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS. BROADWAX THEATRE, Broadway.—OLp PuIL's Bintupay—NILKY WHITR. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28d at., between Sth and 6th avs.— ROMEO AND JULIBT. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tuk BURLESQUE Ex- WRAVAGANZA OF THE Forty TUEVES. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Lomsxervaum UND Berre.srac. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— ‘BOHOL. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—ITALIAN OpsRa.—Matinee—Fua Diavoto. 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MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. ~ The Dairy Heraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. iThe postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Henatp at the same price it is furnished in the city. Notice to Herald Carriers and News Dealers. HeRatp 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 he 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. THE NBWS. Cuba. E. R. Codrington, consular agent of the United Btates at Ginara, was brought to Havana yesterday as a prisoner in irons. He is suspected of com- Plicity with the insurgents. Japan, The steamship Herman was wrecked on the 13th of February on an unknown reef outside the harbor of Yokohama. Two hundred and seventy lives were lost. We have the account of the burning of the ship Zelandy at sea, The passengers and crew were all saved. The Mikado of Japan was married on the oth of February, at Kiolo. Shortly after the ceremonies he was forced to leave for Osaka, on ac- count of an attempt being made to destroy his Palace by setting fire to several of the streets. It ‘was the work of incendiary rebeis. Admiral Enno- fatta, @ supporter of the Tycoon, has taken posses- ‘Biou of the island of Yeaso. He has already notified all the foreign consuls of the formation of a provi- sional government, Uh ‘The Washington treaty of last year has been re- cetved at Shanglae. Ithas not yet been presented to the Chinese government. The arrangement be- tween Minister Burlingame and Lord Clarendon, hat hereafter all negotiations are to be conducted ‘with the central government before active war is Anpugurated, gives great patistaction to the Hong ong journals. The rebels areyreported in strong force on the road to Pekin. Another missionary ‘dimMoulty has occurred at Foo Chow. Two villages are reported to have been destroyed by three English ” Miscellaneous, The action of the Senate to-day upon the House ‘Fesolution rojecting the proposed amendments to ‘the Tenure of UMice act is awaited with interest. (The Senators entertain widely divergent opinions as ,{0 the best course to pursue in the matier, Two ‘partiamentary questions of importagce have arison—does a recession of the Senate from its @mendment operate as a final passage of the bill ‘without another vote? and, does the action of the late republican caucus bind the republicans to Ansist upon the amendment? Vice President Aolfax will return in time to preside. It is stated that President Grant last evening advised his friends in the House to recede from the position they have taken in opposition to the Senate. He says that he is heartily tired of the present war of Houses and has been worried by office seekers so severely that he would not go through the troubie he has had since the 4th of March for $100,000. Considerable excitement exists in Washington ver the charges of corruption against Governor Fenton, set forth in the testimony taken by the Leaisiative investigating committee. The ante-Pen- tonites declare they will have an investigation ineti- tuted, and if Fenton is guilty will have him ex- pelied. President Grant, as usual, attended the Metropoll- tan Methodist Episcopal church in Washington yes- terday, A number of office seekers have lately taken to attending there also, and yesterday, judging from the number of handshakings the President had to endure on his withdrawal, some of them seem bent ‘pon enlisting his religious views in their favor. ‘The rescinding of General Sherman's order, direct- ing staff oMeors and heads of army bureaus to re. to film instead of to the Secretary of War, was made by the President at the tation of Secre- tary Rawlings, who said he 4 rather resign than serve only as an ornamental figure head. The system instituted by General Sherman, it was found, 41d not work very harmoniously. Rev, Granville Moody, colonel of an Ohio regiment Guring the wak, preached in the First Congregational church tn Washington yesterday, He styled the ph tox."" ‘ Several commissions of persons appointed to office by President Johnaon and confirmed by the Senate in the closing hours of the laat session have been ee ae ce erection, The matter ia in the hand of the Attorney General. 1g not now probable that Congress will adjourn before the middie of April. ‘The spocial commission tnapecting the Central Pacific Railroad have.telegraphed from Salt Lake to the Secretary of the Interior thatthe work on that Toad 13 as incomplete as on the Union Pacific. The United States steamer Galena, now lying at the Portamouth Navy Yard, ts to be fitted for sea. She will probably join the squadron in Cuba, The City. No despatches were received over the Attantic cable yesterday. The religfous festival of Easter was celebrated yesterday with more than usual zest in the Catholic and Episcopai churches. At St. Patrick's Cathedral Pontifical high mass was performed, the Most Kev. Archbishop offictating as celebrant, the Very Rev. Dr. Starrs, Vicar General, assisting priest. The choir consisted of over sixty voices. At St. Peter's Roman Catholic church mass was performed by the Rev. Father Farrel! as celebrant, assisted by Rev. Fathers Speliman and John aad William Quinn. At Trinity Episcopal church the music was of the fnest and most appropriate character. The Rev. Dr. Vin- ton oMciated, assisted by Rev. Messrs. Oberly and Herrick, At Grace church Rev. Dr. Potter conducted the services, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Bruce, At the Universalist church on Fifth avenue Rev. Dr. Chapin preached a most effective discourse. We publish elsewhere this morning 4 list of the premiums awarded at the late poultry exhibition. ‘The exhibition also included rabbits, dogs, cats and ponies. An attempt was made on Saturday night to set fire to the building No. 22 Pell street, part of the Trinity church property. Some persons pulled the laths and clapboards of the walls out and intro- duced a quantity of kerosene, matches, &c., and then set them on fire. The servant girl detected them, and they fled. A similar attempt was made on Friday night. The Fire Marshal now has the matter under consideration. Prominent Arrivals in the City. C. A, Ven Benthuysen, of Albany; B. H. Smith, of Chicago; H. Bliss, of Maine; E. P. Thayer, of Boston, and E. P. Cole, of Tennessee, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Joseph Rodgers, of Montreal; J. Garley, of Paris; J. Pratt, of Santa Fé; James Clarke, of California, and ©. W. Burt, of Omaha, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Dr. M. J. Rosell, T. B. McEwen, G. Stratton, W. H. Brown and A. R, Davis, of Tennessee, are at the Maltby House. - Judge A. B. Lyman, of Vermont; Wm. Albert Jackson, of England, and George W. Riggs, of Mon- treal, are at the Brevoort House. J. 8, Kimball and J, H. Pickett, of Boston, are at the Westminster. Marshall Jewell, of Hartford; Hamilton Harris, of Albany; A. B. Cornell, of New York; E. B. Cornell, of Ithaca; Judge J. C. Dunlevy, of Dayton; Geurge B. McCaute, of Washington; ©. 0. Gage and Samuel T. Dana, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A. Van Vechten, of Albany; W. J. Hamilton, of the United States Army, and W. F. Hardiog, of Savan- nab, Ga., are at the Hoffman House. Prominent Departures. Governor Bullock, of Georgia, and E. T. Tweedy left yesterday for Washington; Colonei Ames for Bos- ton and Colonel F. Miller for Philadelphia. The New Aduwinistration—What Prospects? On the 4th of March the people made up their political balance sheet. They analyzed it, and found in it four years of war invested for the purpose of preserving our territory intact and for the avoidance of all those ills incident to petty nationalities, boundary lines and their attendant evils of troops, of customs duties and of restrictions to free communication. They poured out their treasure like water, and there was not a dollar spent but bore its drop of blood. In common with us the people of the South wére fighting to rid the country of certain evils which had grown up in our na- tional system, and which could only be eradi- cated bya bloody war. It required war to cleanse our territory, and nothing but wat would open the eyes of our people, North and South, to that which, in our constitution and in our political rule, had been a mockery to our republicanism, a curse to our hopes of ever becoming homogeneous anda barrier to our true progress. In the struggle both sides showed certain elements which are at the foundation of all national vigor—courage, en- durance, perseverance and patriotism. It only require the clearing of the dross from around these to throw them to the front in all their compactness and beauty and build around them with our magnificent elements of progress the mightiest nationality the world has seen. Four years of desperate conflict cleared the. arena and left the nation, North and South, master of its foes. Now comes four years, from 1865 to 1869, of gathering again in hand the elements of na- tional prosperity. Congress undertake what they call reconstruction, but itis the recon- struction of a section, not the reconstruction of the nation. The worn out questions decided by the sabre strokes of both sides are brought to the front by the débris of both political fac- tions, and the soldiers who faced the bullets, the people who poured out their treasure, are treated to a quarrel between a hot- headed President gn one side the war- tates edad fen tt tke hath a the other. In the struggle every ma terial interest of the couniry is neglected ; commerce languishes, manufactories lie dor- mant, trade rests on uncertain foundations, the revenues remain uncollected and the brains of the country appear to feel that but one source of wealth is left open, and that source the public Treasury. While the execn- tive and legislative departments quarrel and, snake-like, are blinded by their own venom, the country, North and South, resting on its own broad resources of head and heart, pa- tiently awaits for the signal when all the States shall again take up their national march. For four years the nation halts to ascertain whether the section which has been knocked of its feet shall be dragged along, or whether, in the same uniform that the other States wear, it shall be allowed to march with us, help itself, and thus relieve all, Four years pass, and the problem, tangled by too much law, descends in a still worse condition to the electors of 1868, The nation, sick at heart with what it saw in this retrospective examination, elected General Grant to replace the ‘‘my policy” man of one idea, We, the people, thought, with this election, that the Senate would then restore to the Executive the power which it had usurped. No such result has followed. The Tenure of Office act, instead of being re- voked, is turned into an instrument of inault, not only to the executive branch of the gov- ernment, but to the whole people of the coun- try, who by their votes revoked the obnoxious act when they elected President Grant to fnlfill the duties imposed upoa him by the coustitu- Are Its riat over death thé “moral Appomat- | tion. The people knew that nond of the minor functions of the government could operate in harmony while the ruling force itself was working badly. Since th» 4th of March the country has, therefore, watched with great anxiety the at- tempt at Washington to balance the govern- mental tripod, The Executive selected a har- monious Cabinet of marked talent and vigor- ous brain. The Senate, drunk with power, could not help testing its strength by breaking up the Cabinet in the unearthing of the obso- lete law of 1789. They were testing the mettle of the man they had to deal with. He, anxious to conciliate, and seeing that harmony within was the only hope of harmony without, yielded in the tilt and allowed the Senate to substitute Mr. Boutwell for Mr. Stewart in the Treasury Department. Mr. Boutwell may be aman of genius, but he has not yet shown it; and itis very doubtful if he is able to handle the vast machinery now under his control, with the same ability which we have good evidence would have marked the administra- tion of the office by Mr. Stewart. Now the House of Representatives has re- jected the delusive amendment which the Senate ironically throws to the people, The Tenure of Office act remains, in all the glory of its despotism, an insult to that idea with which the nation tickles its vanity—a republi- can form of government, At this point the people naturally turn to the man whom they have placed in the chair to correct govern- mental evils. The House of Representatives is with him, the nation, outside of the Senate~ chamber, is with him; North and South are with him, He has a political army at his back large enough to get him out of this Wil- derness if he has the brains to handle the force offered to him. The prospects are that, with these, he may wrest the usurped power from the Senate. Should he fail to avail him- self of this opportunity and give the Senate more vantage ground they will conquer, and the next four years will give us political changes such as we have shown ourselves powerless to resist. Taz Tarp Hovse.—The third house at Albany has been the lobby; but from the dic- tatorial action of the Union League of this city on various matters pending before the Legis- lature the League has become the third house and the lobby may retire, Suiantty Premature.—The Chicago 7ri- bune has a long editorial obituary of ex-Presi- dent Johnson, based on the premature report of his death. It is, however, rather an ante- mortem affair, if not entirely written with a view to meet the eye of the living subject. Tre ConaressionaL Cooxprt.—It is said that Schenck is ‘‘gaffing” himself for a fresh “fly” at the Essex gamecock in the Con- gressional cockpit. His ‘‘heelers” have come on from the West breathing vengeance, and after properly soaping and blowing # ‘9 the heak of their champion “a phn old. ne. nolia” whiskey, will throw him out for a grand battle royal. Butler has the ‘‘ring” on the de- fensive already, however, and if he and General Grant will smoke the calumet of peace all the swindling rings in the country—whis- key, Indian, Erie and Union Pacific—will vanish, like the festival tobacco of the peace pipe, in smoke. A Warm Rzosrrion.—The Handsboro (Miss.) Democrat says:—‘‘We iusert, in our stove, quite a batch of Northern advertise- ments this week.” Hundreds of advertise- ments of a disreputable character are rejected by respectable Northern papers every day. Gruwoiixés Apour Orrtor.—The Cincin- nati Chronicle (1 republican) is grumbling about the number of appointments New York has under the federal government as compared with Ohio—the fofiner being a democratic and the latter a republican State. Before complaining would it not be well to wait and see what sort of administration this will be— republican or democratic—and upon which party the Executive will have finally to rely for support ? Parts tx Vinatnta.—The Charlottesville Chronicle insists that there are but two par- ties in Virginia. ‘‘Which of the two to choose—slavery or death ?” Qurry.—If a general bill be introduced to remove disabilities trom all classes of South- evners, how will that affect their liabilities ? Quire ComrortaBLk.—A religious contem- porary states that one of our fashionable cler- gymen, who recently went abroad for the benefit of his health, was able to eat four meals a day on board the steamer on the passage out, This is getting along comfortably for a start, Graxt ANb THE BLACKs.—A despatch from Wash states that General Grant was too tinwell even to ‘‘take » canter on his favorite black.” Grant has never had the credit of having any favorites of that color. Cantstorner Corumpus.—It has been all arranged that the splendid statue of Columbus by Emma Stebbins shall be one of the orna- ments of our Park. Now for Hendrik Hud- son and old Peter Stuyvesant, What say the old Knickerbockers ? AmusemEnts--ANotnEr RevivaL.—The re- ligious journals have been reporting hopeful revivals of religion throughout the country. Now, the Lenten season having passed, we shall have from Easter Monday a revival in our amusements, See our advertisements for the budget of this evening's performances, beginning with Grau’s ‘‘Vie Parisienne,” said to be the liveliest of the whole repertoire of the opéra bouffe, or French opera, a sparkling French epitome of French life in the French capital. Loomine Ur Isto Boro Reimr—The Broadway surface railway job in the Legisla- ture, We have always suspected that all these underground, overground and side street schemes were mere decoys, and that the Broadway surface job would swallow them all. Loxo May It Wave!—A Richmond paper states that wheat in Virginia is as “high asa pitcher.” Long may Virginia rejoice in its friend and pitcher! Sat. Tie Le@is,ature ne Anonisnen? asks the Philadelphia Por, Better try to abolish the corruptions first. If you cannot succeed, smash her up—but look out for your owa head Exciting Nows from Cuba. The telegraph brings us the important in- telligence that a Spanish war steamer arrived at Havana, with Mr. E. R. Codrington, the Consular Agent of the United States at Gibara, & prisoner on board and in irons. The cause of his arrest is said to be that he was suspected of complicity with the rebellion. We trust there is some mistake in the statement that a consular officer of the United States has been arrested and placed in irons ‘“‘upon suspicion of compli- city.” The present bitter hatred of the Span- ish volunteers in Cuba for everything that looks like a liberal view of the revolution now going on there, and particularly their vindic- tiveness towards everything American, which they look upon as the exciting cause of thei: present troubles, are not likely to make them the best judges as to what constitutes reason-- able grounds for ‘‘suspicion of complicity.” In their violent anger at seeing Cuba slip- ping from the grasp they have so long held upon the island,, the Spanish volunteers, who now control the policy of the government, are blind to everything like reason and justice. Their course towards the Cubans who have been arrested merely on suspicion in Havana has done their cause immense harm in the es- timation of the civilized world; and the arrest of a consular officer of the United States, unless most conclusively sustained by facts other than their own angry denunciations, deprives them of all consideration in an international point of view. If they will not respect the obligations of international comity they are not entitled to claim protection from them, and place themselves in the position of an insane neighbor who insists upon burning his own house to the imminent prejudice of his neighbor's. Such insanity must bo re- strained by force. Admiral Hoff is upon the ground, armed with the diplomatic authority of the Navy De- partment, which is the only diplomatic authority the Captain General of Cuba will respect, and we trust he has taken immediate cognizance of the case. A reference of the case to the sovereign power at Madrid, three thousand miles away, would be simply a denial of justice. Mr. Codrington’s case must have an immediate and fair examination, and if wrong has been done the reparation must be made at once by the power which committed the wrong. Consignment of the case to the slough of diplomatic correspondence would be practically conceding permission to the Span- ish volunteers in Cuba to do whatever their blind anger may dictate against American con- suls and American citizens. In the meantime, Congress should take up and pass the resolution offered by General Banks authorizing the President to do the needful in the matter of recognizing the bel- ligerent rights of the patriot Cubans, Delay in this matter can only add to our subsequent aucapieg ip. tle Geld, ond we call upon Gen- eral Butler to put ‘Wis shoulder also to the wheel and push the Cuban resolutions through. We must protect our consuls and our citizena in Cuba in all their rights, military commis- sions and suborned testimony to the contrary notwithstanding. While Congress is doing -this we confide in the naval diplomacy of Ad- mical Porter. The Situation in China. By way of San Francisco we have telegrams from China dated ut Hong Kong on the 19th of February, embracing a concise yet interesting report of the situation of affairs, executive, political and social, in the Central Flowery Kingdom. Modern civilization continues to press on the hoary traditions of the country at all points and makes progress in the struggle. The Burlingame American treaty, a symbol and rallying point for future reforms, had been received at Shanghai from Washington, but awaited delivery to Prince Kung, at Pekin, to have full force. Mr. Burlingame’s arrange- ment with Lord Clarendon to the effect that all disputes with the Chinese shall be referred to the home governments previous to the undertaking of hostilities was displeas- ing to many British specalators who have fat- tened on what may be termed the war-making power. Rebellion prevailed in the North, the Mohammedan insurgents blocked the way to Pekin, and Catholic missionaries venture the prediction that the empire will fall within twelve months, Mining operations and other sources of material progress were at an end for the present, and the popular disorganization was wide-spread in the inte- rior. The English, according to their usual missionary fashion in the East, had destroyed two villages by the fire of their gunboats; and it is easy to be seen that China must be revolutionized by some high-toned Christian Power, or else the country will perish from internal decay. Can the United States under- take the mission ? Tae Cantxet Aquagium.—A Western paper states that it is strange Grant should take Fish in his Cabinet when he had Adolph-in there already! ee Breakers Angap.—Schenck sits growling and sore-headed since the playful Butler poked him up with a pointed pole the other day on the whiskey frauds. He doesn’t say much, to be sure. In the language of the psalmist, “The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.” If the fight comes let us have it on the real question and no side issue. General Butler has excited the curiosity of the country. Let him gratify it to the extent of his information. Give us those high priced despatches for which ten thousand dollars were offered, and let us know who owns the Tice meter? VALUABLE Lirerature.—Those confiscated despatches for which the whiskey ring offered ten thousand dollars. Appty tae Rute.—Some of our Southern exchanges are complaining about the Confede- rate General Longstreet turning against his old friends and accepting a federal office. Our Southern friends should remember the old adage, “It's a long lane that has no turning.” Why should not the same rule apply to « long street? vrata Movrsixa for LoGAN.—The St. Louis e- publican says:—‘‘An enthusiastic lady cor- respondent, writing from the capital, speaks of General Logan’s complexion as a ‘brilliant olive.’ For pity’s sake, do not let him come to be known as Olive Logan.” He has long beon known ta [llinois 29 a-live Logaat NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Churchee Yesterday and tho Easter ‘The Union League on Election Frauds: Festival. Nature and religion harmoniously united yesterday in making Easter a day of joy. The poet's welcome to this queen of festivals was never more appropriate than at early sun- rise :— stands pea ih ATTN ee ot angel ‘Tho eastern skies are briliant with food of orim- ‘Tee mere rats Criumphant from the fetters of And aul Ys anthem joins the chorus from “Christ has rizen—He is risen (”’ ‘tis the festal song of love, All the churches were thronged. Many of them were gayly decorated with flowers. Scattered rays of the splendor which filled St. Peter's, at Rome, illuminated even the bare walls of meeting houses of those denominations which have most completely discarded the im- posing ritual of the Catholic Church. The full and minute account which we elsewhere pub- lish of the services and discourses of yester- day shows how universally the ancient festival of Easter is now celebrated in this country. According to Bede its English name is derived from a goddess called Eostre, whose feast was celebrated carly in spring. But more proba- bly the word may, says Dr. Eadie, be traced, like the corresponding German -Ostern, to the old Teutonic form of ‘‘Auferstehi,” ‘‘Aufer- stehung,” ¢. ¢., resurrection, The Greek term Pascha, from the Hebrew word for Pass- over, has been used as synonymous with Easter. Here in New York, in this latter half of the nineteenth century, the Jews, with their Passover, and the Christians, with their Easter, are simultaneously commemorating, although from different points of view, essen- tially the same religious idea. The hard- boiled and fanoifully-colored eggs with which boys in both the Old World and New will hold their cracking contests to-day illustrate the tenacity and unanimity with which generation after generation, dating, moreover, far back of the Christian era, cling toa custom growing out of the natural tendency of the human mind towards symbolism. The egg at Easter, the festival of our Lord’s resurrection, is an em- blem of the rising up out of the grave, as the chick, entombed as it were in the egg, is in due time brought to life. As an emblem of the universe, the work of the Supreme Divinity, Cosmos- rising up out of chaos, the egg had a place in the theology and philosophy of the Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and Gauls. Among the early Christians it was the cus- tom of the neophytes, or newly baptized, to wear for several days the new white garments which were given them at their baptism on Easter day, or on the evening before it. Hence perhaps the custom alluded to in poor Robin :— At Gaster let your clothos be new, Or else be sure you will it rue, And the Dorset poet, Barnes, has it in mind when he says :— Easter, Easter, 1 put on my blue Frock cuoat, the vust time, vier now; ‘Wi’ yellow buttons aal o’ brass, Th Ae eapht in the zun like giass: Bel ‘twer Zunday. That this notion of the duty of every person to have at loast some portion of the dress new on Easter Sunday is by no means extinct at present was abundantly manifest in every New York con; tion yesterday. The lady de- Wha d fast a ocked fo the churches to make a very mundane display of the latest styles which have tempted them at the recent “opening days” of our milliners and dress- makers. They cannot have remembered that “wearing new clothes” at Easter originated in the fresh white robes of neophytes in early Christian days, or they would have hardly wandered go very far from the original sim- plioity of the fashions of that period. As it was, they exhibited chignons of which Du Chaillu’s African princesses would have been proud; court plasters, or “beauty spots,” which a belle in the reign of Louis XV. might have unfortunately been obliged to wear; ‘‘French heels” that promote alike corns, bunions and the Grecian bend; poisonous dyed hair, such as blondes of the burlesque stage have brought into vogue, and we know not what other fash- fonable abomination, By way of compensa- tion, it must be conceded that our New York church-going belles have a quick sense of har- mony as well as variety in colors, and their vario-colored dresses on Easter Sunday made every church bloom like a flower garden. Sri ANorrer Inptan Pottoy.—A West- ern paper states that General Grant is reported to have said, concerning the prospects of an Indian war in Alaska, that if one breaks out there he ‘‘will withdraw the troops, and then there won't be anything there for the Indians to fight.” The same policy would operate very well in other places beside Alaska if plundering Indian traders and land specula- tors were withdrawn at the same time. A Crusnine Ipza.—The Louisville Courier. Journal, commenting~upon the remark that the mantle of Thad Stevens had fallen upon Ben Butler, wishes it had been Thad’s mantel- piece. Whata crushing idea? How long will it be ere the democratic Courier-Journal itself “speaks a good piece” in behalf of Butler? In Brossom.—Georgia papers state that peas are in blossom in that State. Soon the North will again echo the cry ‘‘Let us have Qvotine Wessrer.—‘‘I still live,”"—Andy Johnson. SMEs Tae Latin Race.—The Lake City (Fla.) Presa eays:—“That red-headed cuss, Judge Barker, of Alachua county, has never seen or heard of such a man as De Bonis Non in his county.” This is the same Judge, probably, who declared he was not present when Nihil ful “From Ooran to Oo#ay.”—This is the ad- vertisement of some of the Western railroads, “Q, shun,” would not be an inappropriate caution to travellers on some of these routes, Western Cry of tHe Temperance Lro- Turers—“Under which king—Benzineian, dry up, or die!” Ain Dentep.—The report that a negro was killed in Tennessee by a hailstone falling upon his head is denied by a Memphis paper, which says there was neither rain, hailstorm nor a ‘‘dead nigger” at the time and place mentioned. A hailstone that could kill a Southern negro by striking him on the skull must have been a monster, That oan’t be denied, at any rate. The two houses of Congross having sp- parently forgotten everything else in the general scramble for the public plunder aud the contest over the Tenure of Office law, the Union League Club of this city on Saturday evening last adopted certain resolutions for the information of our national law makers touching the New York election frauds of last November. After a long and comprehensive preamble on the subject the club appeal to Congress to ordain at the present session soma scheme of naturalization which, while offering all proper facilities for the naturalization of aliens, ‘‘will preserve unimpaired the high dignity of American citizenship,” and “‘at tha same time wipe out the fraudulent and coun- terfeit certificates of naturalization with which this State and the country at large have beea flooded from this city.” It is probable thaé Congress, being now absorbed ia the division of the spoils, will consider this thing of the purity of the ballot box as a sort of humbug, ora secondary question that may be wisely postponed to a more convenient season. AmertoaN Briarney Stong.—They have a paper called the Z'rue Plymouth Rock in Ply mouth, Mass. What! have the Yankees beea passing off a bogus Plymouth rock—the, blar- ney stone of America-—for the past century or two? : ComMEnorAL CoNVENTION IN THE SouTa.— The Daily Kentuckian advocates the proposed Commercial Convention to be held in Memphis on the 19th proximo, and says ‘‘the condition of the South is different now than before the war, when commercial conventions were aa much politicalas otherwise.” [t adds :—“‘If the South understands her true interests she wilt engage extensively in manufacturing, and an extended system of commerce will necessarily follow. This means commercial independence, and once establish that ona firm. basis, dnd political independence is a necessary conse- quence.” The idea is a sound one, and if fol- lowed will, no doubt, result beneficially to the South. It is said that ex-President Johnson and ex-Secretary McCulloch will be present at the convention. It were better new men should be connected with the movement. There is alwaysa tomb-like odor about de- funct politicians. A Famous Viorory.—The Louisville Cou- rier-Journal is crowing over the late election in Indiana, when the democratic members of the Legislature threw themselves back on their constituency. But it seems that the consti« tuency of one of them went back on him—re- fusing to re-clect him. If this be a victory it would puzzle one, to define on which side of the line it was. Some Grit.—It is announced that ex-Pro- sident Johnson is to take the stump imme- diately in Tennessee, This shows he has some grit, and no migt ~ Qozee ComwowENoz—That Shanks should be obliged to explain some remarks he mada in the House about Foote. Perhaps Shanks was afraid Foote might oblige him to toe the mark, <p Anp Tov, T00, Oxp Broapsrin?—Is the proposition of the five Philadelphia Quakers to run the Indian question by special commission on the receipt from Congress of three millions in cash anything more than another Indian job in a new shape? Come, honest Old Broad- brim, tell the whole story. Take care of thy morals and the top of thy head too, friend. Tae Great TrimuLtation—Butler and the House repealers of the Tenure of Office law to the anti-repealers of the Senate, Wat Comes or Not Payina Groorrs’ Buis.—The Elmira Gazette says:—‘‘The en- tire gift of Ezra Cornell to the Cornell Univer- sity will amount to about two million two hun- dred thousand dollars. Twenty years or so ago Ezra could not pay his grocer’s bill.” Upon which the Ovid Bee remarks:—‘Those who can’t pay grocers’ bills can therefore tako courage, and grocers who trust may look for their reward twenty years hence.” Tors Our!—The Dunkirk (N. Y.) Adver=- liser states that the Cornell Institute, named after its founder, the father of the nominee for the office of Surveyor of the Port of New York, has a class in dancing and deportment. Toes out and head erect! Namevess Joxes,—The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman says the New England papers are poking fun at New York for furnishing a Secre- tary of State with such a name. Well, it adda, it’s true he’s not from Cape Cod, but then he's no sardine, Neeps A Puystoian.—The Cincinnati Com- mercial says the young Senator from Rhode Island needs a physician, Not the Senator, but the radical party. It is that which is ruptured, pet A Gattows Parent.—The sheriff of Dela- ware county, having occasion soon to use an instrument to hang a man with, has visited Hudson to examine the scaffold used at the execution of a child murderer. A gallows patent is suggested. It would make a capital suspender, Still Waters Ran Deep. Time, which is a great discloser of secrets, reveals that when General Butler took the trail in pursuit of President Johnson di the tempestuous days of impeachment a seized the books of the telegraph office he brought down different game from . what he anticipated, He stirred up, in short, a for- midable nest of the “worms of the still,” a species of insatiate reptile which fattens on the intestines of the country, and for which it isto be hoped Congress may find a prompt and potent remedy, In the books which were confiscated by General Batler, as chairman of the committee, are said to have been de- spatches from various leaders of the whiskey ring to the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Their exact tenor is not yot made public, but they were probably instruc- tive and suggestive as to the best means of collecting the revenue tax on whiskey, At lonst we hope that it will prove so, although it seoms @ little singular that thé celebrated ims peachment witness, Wooléy, who was 4 whole week telling all hé knew to Butler's comhit. tee, should have offered ten thopsand dollars to get only two of these out of the: inflexible grip of But What are thosd de.’ spatohea? Who owns te Tico meter? And why is it that all the friends of the