The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1869, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters ao ie should be properly sealed. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ++-No. 103 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tuk BURLESQUE Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE FORTY THIEVES. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- pue.—La Vik PARISIENNE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street.—La GRaNDE Ducursss. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Scuoor. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humerr Domprr, with NEW FEATURES. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and 23d atreet.—-THE TEMPEST. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tar Stvex Dwanrs; OB, HARLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS. BROADWAY THEATRE, Rino. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., between 5th and 6th avs.— OvuRLLo. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth atreet and Broadway.—Afiernoon and evening Performance. 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BrooxtyN CARRIERS AND Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Branca OFrFrice or THE New York Heratp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscerptions and all letters for the New York Hearaup will be received as above. bade BBN a ws. , a The cable despatches are dated April 12. The Italian government has appointment Signor Bertinatti, resident Minister at Constantinople, to the same capacity in Washington, and General Cadorna to be Minister to England. The elections in Hungary and Croatia have resulted in a considerable liberal majority. Cuba. Advices by telegraph from Havana state that the insurgents are rapidly increasing their numbers tn front of Santiago de Cuba. Numerous outrages at their hands are reported by the Spanish papers. The question of Cuba, it is understood, was dis- cussed in the Cabinet yesterday, Secretary Fish making an argument against the recognition of the insurgents. The rest of the Cabinet, it is believed, favor their recognition, It is sald that Vice Admiral Porter, on hearing of the outrage on the brig Lizzie Major, telegraphed Admiral Hoff to make a report immediately and adopt such measures as the national honor might demand, Paraguay. Intelligence by the Atlantic cable is to the effect that the allies were about sending an expedition out to discover Lopez's position. The United States Senate. ‘The Senate met in extra session yesterday, in ac- cordance with the President's proclamation, Mr. Anthony in the chair, and after the usual routine business, went into executive session. The natu- Falization treaties with various German States were discussed and also the Darien Canai treaty, and three of the naturalization treaties were rectified. No dominations were confirmed. A long list of nomipations were received from the President, includ reign ministers, marshals, associate justices of the Supreme Court, district at- torneys, assessors and collectors of internal revenue, surveyors and collectors of customs and postmasters. Among the most prominent of these are J. Lothrop Motley to be Minister to England, John Jay to Aus- tria, Andrew G. Curtin to Russia, General Pile to Venezuela, General 8. A. Huriburt to Colombia and three colored men respectively to Liberia, Guate- mala and Hayti. The Legislatnre. The Senate session yesterday was consumed in discussing the Claims bill in Committee of the Whole. In the Assembly @ resolution was adopted requesting the Senate to return the Two Tier Railroad bill to be amended 80 as to locate the line ‘west of Trinity and St. Peter's churches, Several bills were introduced. Biils were ordered to a third reading relative to the Hariem River and Portches- ter Railroad and relative to the construction of the Schoharie Valiey Railroad. Two unimportant bilis ‘were reported. The Speaker presented a report of whe new Capitol Commissioners, after the reading of Which the Assembly adjourned. Miscellaneous. Mr. Sumner is strongly in favor of having the Alabama claims treaty discussed in open session, aud it is probable that it will be. Senator Ross, of Kansas, called on President Grant yesterday to consult &bout the nominations for his State. On finding that the President did not intend to make the appointments he wanted, Ross became #0 Wrothy and iusuiting that the President had to order him from the room. In the Supreme Court yeetefday cntef Justice Chase delivered a decision in the famous Texas In- @emnity Bonds question, to the effect that the sale of a number of them by the State to assist the repel. lion was illegal. The opinion held that Texas, as f State in the Union, could not dissolve her connec- tion With that Union, but Justice Grier dissented and held that Texas was not, In fact, a State in the Union, and cou’d not bring a suit in the Supreme Court ‘The famous McArdle case, wherein a Missis- sippi editor brought suit ag it General BE. 0. C. Ord, then commanding the Fourth Military district, for arbitrary imprisonment, was also disposed of, the Court dismissing the case for want of jurisdic. tion. ‘The [ndiana Legisiature reassembled in accord. pnce with the Governor's proaamation at ludian- NEW YURK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1869—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Spolis yesterday, The democratic members who had previously reaigned in order to prevent the ratifica: tion of the fifteenth amendment, had been re-elected and were sworn in. The consideration of the fifteenth amendment was postponed until May 11. Commissioner Delano has ordered that the com- missions of all Internal Revenue detectives shall ter- minate on or before the 30th inst. General Sickles has declined the mission to Mexico and will probably be sent to Spain. General Stoneman, with the Twenty-first infantry, left Richmond, Va., yesterday, en route for Cali- fornia. Warren Blanchard, keeper of a disorderly house in Binghamton, N. Y., was found dead, with his head in a brass kettle, and showing a wound from a pistol ball, in his house yeaterday morning. His wife and two girls, the only inmates, had disappeared, after’ clearing up all traces of blood and other indications of how the murder was committed. The affair re- mains in mystery. Miss Cairns, a young lady of Jarretaville, Md., rode up to the porch of the hotel in that village on Satur- day evening and shot and instantly killed a man named Nicholas McComas, who was sitting among twenty others. The alleged cause of the murder was seduction, and both parties are reported to have been highly respectable. John A. Coleman, at Boston, has been awarded $3,300 damages for being assaulted and ejected from a New York and New Haven Railroad car. Two places of amusement in Baltimore, where the “cancan” was exhibited, have been indicted. The City. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday a report was received from the Trustees of the Sailors’ Snug Har- bor showing the disbursements during the past year to have been $167,684, while the estimated income was $96,510. Donations were made to various churches to the aggregate of about $8,000, and a large amount of business relative , to paving streets was transacted. in the Board of Assistant Aldermen a resolution of sympathy with the Cubans was unanimously adopted. Donations to the aggregate amount of $5,875 were made for church assessments, damages to a horse and “extra services,” after which the Board adjourned. John Ahlboch, an aged German, committed suicide by hanging himself in his room, No. 22 Willett street, yesterday. It appears that a few months ago he quarrelied with his wife, and his grown-up son beat him with a large pistol so severely that he was con- fined in the hospital for several weeks. On his re- covery he found that his wife and son had removed most of his goods and household furniture to another part of the city. He had-his son arrested, but he was never tried, and the old man, Overcome by his accu- mulation of evils, ended them by hanging. Deputy Sheriff Moran, who is charged with con- niving at the escape of George King, a convict, while he had him in custody, pleaded guilty in the Court of General Sessions yesterday and was remanded for sentence. * Two alleged spirit photographers were yesterday arrested and brought betore Judge Dowling, at the Tombs, on a charge of practicing gross deception ‘upon the public and swindhog people out of their money dh false pretences. Their examination was set down for Friday, when some interesting devel- opments are anticipated. A mass meeting was held in Brooklyn last evening in the interests of free trade, at which Henry Ward Beecher presided and made a speech in strong de- nunciation of the protective system. Over eighty of the Second avenue car drivers aave stopped work and are on a strike, owing to an attempt to increase the number of their hours of labor. The Hamburg-American Packet Company’s steam- ship Hammonia, Captain E. Meyer, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Plymouth (Eng- land), Cherbourg and Hamburg. The matls will close at the Post Office at twelve M. to-day, The steamship Colorado, Captain Green, will sail from pier No. 46 Nerth river at eight o'clock to- morrow (Wednesday) morning for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The stock market yesterday was duil and heavy, except for a few ol the leading speculative railway shares, Gold was feverish, closing finally at 133 a 133%. ° Beef cattle were in fair supply yesterday, but the demand being tolerably active, about former prices Were prevalent, prime and extra steers selling at 1644¢. @ 174¢., fair to good at 1éc. a 16\c. and infe- rior to ordinary at 10c. a 144;c. Milch cows were but little sought after, and+ prices were gen- erally in buyer's favor. Prime and extra were quoted $90 a $125 each, tair to good $75 a $85, common $65 a $70 and inferior $40 a $60. Veal calves were in moderate request at the follow- ing prices:—Prime and extra, 12c. a 13¢.; common to good, 103sc. a 1le3., and inferior, 10. a 10. Sheep were in fair request, and prices were quite steady, notwithstanding the free arrivals. We quote:— Sheared—Prime and extra, 724c. a 84g¢.; common to good, 6\c. &7c.; inferior, 64c. a64%c. Unshorn— Extra, 9\c. a9Xc.; prime, 8!sc. a 9¢.; fair to good, Tise. a Sye.; inferlor to common, 6c. a 7\c. Swine were firm at 10%c. @11}c. for common to prime, with a fair demand and moderate arrivals. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island; General G. W. Schofield, of the United States Army; William L. Scott, of Erie, Pa.; Colonel E. J. Curley, of Kentucky, and J. T. Warren, of Cincinnati, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Surgeon A. R. Smith, of the United States Navy; ex-Mayor Homer Ramsdell, of Newburg; R. L. Mott, of Georgia; H. Coulter, B. H. Jones and ©, E. Stevens, of Philadelphia, are at the Astor House. Mr. Fane, of the British Legation; John Bell and Alexander Wood, of England, are at the Clarendon Hotel. J. Hitz, Consul General to Switzerland, and W. G. Metzerott, of Washington, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Colonel J. 8. Barber, of Virginia; Colonel T. John- son, of Texas; General P. M. Lapice, 0. DeBuys and S. Schmidt, of Louisiania, are at the New York Hotei. FP. A. Nacholls, of Huntsville, Ala.; F. G. Gross and John G. McCall, of Pennsylvania, are at the Maltby House, Captain George D. Norton, of Saratoga; W. J. Smith, of Tennessee, and W. Blanchard, of Chicago, are at the St. Charles Hotel, Captain H. Sweetser and Dr. J. McCabe, of Indt- ana; Professor Samuel Gardner, of Washington; Colonel Jerome C. C. Davis, of California; Colonel W. T. Higgins, of San Francisco, and Dr. J. Davy, of Philadelphia, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Juage H. A. Nelson, Of Poughkeepsie; Ira Harris, of Albany; J. H. Carrington, of Virginia, and Judge Dorman, of Norfolk, Va., are at the St. Nicholas Hotet. Prominent Departures. General H. A. Barnum, for Syracuse; M. P. Bennia, S. T. Fairchild, R. 8, Burdick and 8, K. Williams, for Albany; E. A. Spaulding, Charles K. Hyde, Dr. J. R. Hentel and Colonel H. R. Coggeshall, for Phil phia; J. Fletcherand M. Fairchild, for Cambridge; Colonel Clark, for Boston; ex-Congressman Burt Van Horn, Clark E. Carr and George 8. Bangs, for Buffalo. Tcrvep Ur.—Marcus Otterbourg, of Mexican memory, has turned up in this town as an active man in the lager excise row. He was Mr. Seward’s man in the Mexican capital, and said to the citizens of the United States there, “For my vriends Lis all right; but for mine enemies I fight it out mit dis line.” Marcus now fights on the lager line. The reason he ives in favor of free lager is that ‘‘Mr. Du- ganne is convinced that lager is a harmless and cheering beverage.” Nobody can resist this but Greeley, who dislikes Duganne. It may be remembered that in the Constitutional Convention Greeley told Duganne never to address himagain, Perhaps Duganne’s opinion of lager had something to do with it. “Yours ResprotruL.y.”—An interior paper states that applications for office, at least those which receive the most attention at Washington, are the ones which are signed like occasional communications to news- papers—‘‘Youra respectfully, A Subscriber.” Te Cuban Question—Duty of the Adminis- tration. ‘Lue .» oiuuon passed by the House of Rep- resentatives on Saturday last by the large vote of 98 yeas to 24 nays is a clear and truthful exposition of the feeling entertained by the people of the United States in regard to the revolution now in progress in the Island of Cuba. Its words are these :— PR cconting hs see Bonne of ae Renmesnasasives. The ¢ people e Uni ates eympathix ze with the people. of Cuba in their a forts to secure heir independence and ee a Sepenne form of government guarantee! jiberty and the equal pt pouaicar Figs rights i people: and the House of Representatives will give its constitutional aupnoss et the President of the United States when- ever, in @ republican ppg shall have yr established and May deem it expedient to recognize the independence ‘and sove- reignty of an republican government, Had time permitted in the short session of Congress which has just closed that the reso- lution should have been offered in thf Senate it would no doubt have been passed by an equally large vote in that body. The passage of this resolution by the Senate would have strengthened its record before the people, but could have added nothing to the strength of the resolution nor to the duty incumbent upon the administration to recognize the wish ofthe country and to act in accordance with it. In all great questions of national polity the instinct of the people is always in advance of the politicians and place men; and these are successful in administration in proportion only as they recognize the ideas of their age and act in accordance with them. The Cuban question is the touchstone of President Grant’s administration. He will succeed or fail in proportion as he exhibits capacity or incapacity to grasp the problem now presented to him. If he fail to comprehend the true grandeur and power which attend the march of the American idea, and waste in diplomatic parley and inaction the precious moments, when “from the nettle danger” he should ‘pluck the flower safety,” he will forfeit the high con- fidence which the country has reposed in him and consign his administration from its very start to the distrust and doubt of the people of America and to the contempt of the statesmen of the world. The resolution offered yester- day by Assistant Alderman Stephen Roberts, and so promptly passed by ‘the Common Council of New York city, is the true echo of the popular voice to the House resolution we have quoted above, and we hope, and the whole country hopes, that the President will listen to the call of duty and prove himself equal to the task of its requirements. The first step for him to take is to lay down @ bold and national line of policy for his ad- ministration in this great question, and to re- quire every member of his Cabinet to live up to it. When the fires of civil war were lighted in this Union the cabinets of Western Europe did not hesitate to show their sympathy with the rebellion, and England, France and Spain in rapid succession proclaimed their neutral- ity between the contending parties, which was in fact a proclamation of their sympathy with the rebellion. Upon the heels of this announce- ment came the great fact that the harbors of England and Spain in the islands of the Ameri- can Mediterranean were converted into nests for blockade runners, while France undertook the still grander rile of establishing an empire in Mexico. From all these points war was ac- tively made upon us, and the conflict was greatly prolonged, and our sacrifices of trea- sure and of blood were enormously increased in consequence. When victory perched upon our banners our first step was to drive the French out of Mexico. This we did, not because the contending parties in Mexico had no right to invite French intervention there, but because France made that intervention a part of the war of Western Europe against the integrity of the American Union. The march of events leaves us no choice in taking the next step in this truly American policy. Spain converted Cuba into a picket post hostile to us during the late rebellion, and now, that the natural development of Ameri- can ideas and the love of freedom has led the Cubans to proclaim their independence, we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of humanity and civilization to throw the moral weight of our sympathy and favor in their behalf. The war which Spain is to-day waging in Cuba is much more a war against us than was French intervention in Mexico. Itis a war to per- petuate African slavery. It isa war to per- petuate a hostile position on our coast, from which to annoy and harass us whenever occa- sion shall offer. It is a war to stay the march of American preponderance in America. We should accord to the Cubans at once the bel- ligerent rights which Spain hastened to accord to the rebels. When the Sumter ran out from New Orleans to inaugurate the rebellion upon the sea had she run into Havana she would have been perfectly safe, and the lives of her crew secure under the proclamation of the Spanish government. It was the activity of our own cruisers in those waters only that closed the ports of Cuba to Semmes. When a few Cubans boldly captured a Spanish steamer on the high seas, a few days since, had they taken refuge in an American port they would have been subject to trial and execution as pirates ; and if the friends of free Cuba now buy a few arms from us to help the cause of freedom they subject themselves to fine and imprison- ment, while the agents of Spain are allowed free access to our workshops and private arsenals and are liberally availing themselves thereof to arm their troops and their mad volunteers, Let an end be put to this anomalous state of things, and let us confer upon the patriots of Cuba the rights of belligerents by proclama- tion, They have earned these rights by a successful prosecution of war for six months; by @ conquest of more than one half of the territory of the island; by pouring out their blood and treasure freely in behalf of free- dom; and by their indomitable resolution in burning their towns and the seat of their free government, when the tide of war has swept adversely to them. Let the administration be bold and courageous enough to proclaim to the world that it will not hold every man who chooses to risk his life in freedom’s battle to be a robber and a pirate and entitled. to none of the rights of honorable warfare. Let it be true to the instincts and aspirations of the American people, 48 80 well announced by the resolution of the House of Representatives, and be it not afraid to let the whole world know that it loves liberty and will bail with satisfaction the triumph of American ideas end ot freedom The Foreign Appointments. The President sent up to the Senate yes- terday an important budget of foreign appoint- ments, in which, it will be first observed in a general review, he reaffirms his policy on the negro question to be, equal political as well as civil rights to the black man with the white man—a new departure. Separately considered, we are gratified to find at the head of this list the name of J. Lothrop Motley, the historian, for the mis- sion to England. Mr. Motley, it will be re- membered (appointed by President Lincoln), was our Minister to Austria under the late administration, but being called to account by Secretary Seward for certain conversational remarks charged upon him by one McCracken, to the prejudice of President Johnson, Mr. Motley indignantly resigned. This affair has not been to the disadvantage of Mr. Motley with General Grant. Upon the solid qualifica- tions, however, of Mr. Motley for the English mission his nomination. will be universally approved, and if we are not greatly mistaken his diplomacy on the Alabama claims will be widely different from, and more to the purpose than, the English dinings and winings of Reverdy Johnson. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, for Russia, is a selection doubtless mainly due to the active services to the Union cause of this The Ocean Telegraph Monopoly. | It is a matter of congratulation to the whole country that the iniquitous scheme for grant- ing to the New York, Newfoundland and Lon- don Telegraph Company by act of Congress the exclusive privilege to land ocean tele- graph cables on the shores of the United States was defeated. That company has ob- tained the exclusive right to land the Euro- pean end of an Atlantic cable in Great Britain, and if it could only obtain the same exclusive privilege in the United States ‘we might bid adieu forever to all hope of having another cable to Europe, and satisfy ourselves as best we might with being taxed by a soulless monopoly in telegraphic transmission to Europe. The attempt was made to establish this monopoly through the action of Congress, but the exhaustive and conclusive speech of Senator Stockton, delivered in the Senate on the 5th inst., laid the scheme out cold. He has demonstrated clearly that no further legislation is needed to enable any telegraph company to land its cable on our shores, pro- vided it obtains a charter from a State to do so, and, furthermore, that Congress has not the power to take from the States the right to grant such charters. and clear to the French Cable Company to go on with their much needed labors and multiply our facilities for telegraphic communication The way is now open with Europe. If New York is hostile to them, Governor during the war, and in every respect he will, we dare say, be an improvement upon the Minister he succeeds. John Jay, of New York, for Austria, is a good appointment, and there will be no divided opinion concern- ing it. John §S. Carlisle, of West | hospitable reception at Long Branch or any Virginia, for Stockholm, is a man | Other point of her shore they may choose to ‘of recognized abilities, but we sup- | Select. Letus have more Atlantic cables, by pose that he owes his appointment mainly | 4ll means, and thanks to Senator Stockton for to his services in the outset of the war, in the movement which detached West Virginia from old Virginia and the rebellion and made of her @ new and stanch and steadfast Union State. J. R. Clay, of Louisiana (an aristocratic darky of New Orleans), for Liberia, is said to be a man of high accomplishments; but graphy. Foreign Relations needs confirmation. this was the very place for Fred- ST LEANN EES B erick Douglass (colored), provided he A Raproat Criticism oN ONE oF GRANT'S would consent to exile himself in | AP?POINTMENTS.—It is folly to expect that the a distant negro republic with nothing around him but niggers. We think he would not, and Clay may, refuse to go. But in this colored Clay, and in Ebenezer D. Bassett, of Penn- sylvania (colored), for Minister and Consul General at Hayti, the claims of our fellow give universal satisfaction. or if Massachusetts requires a submission to connection with the Western Union Telegraph Company, let them run the cable a little south of Sandy Hook, and New Jersey will give them his able defence of freedom in ocean tele- ForgigN ReELatTions.—The report from Washington that Grant was so partial to family relations that he was about to submit all his appointments to the Senate Committee on appointments of any new administration will Where one appli- cant is successful a hundred are disappointed, and, with their friends, the latter go about growling like bears with sore heads, until they learn to appreciate the fact that the pursuit of citizens of African descent are flatter- ingly recognized, and they onght to | Spectable people ever engaged in, and are be happy. When the late James Bu- content to engage in some legitimate and chanan was our Minjster at London he was brought in contact at a court reception with a strapping negro in gold lace repre- senting the empire of Hayti. ‘What do you think of him?” some one asked the Minister of the United States. ‘I think,” said Buchanan, ‘“‘that that fellow in New Orleans We have had a wonderful revolution since that would sell for fifteen hundred dollars.” day, and its wondersare just beginning to be revealed. A Frarz-vp in toe Wire Hovse—SEnator Ross RaMpant.—We refer the reader to our Washington despatches for the details of a funny flare-up in the White House yesterday on the part of the rampant Senator Ross, of Kansas, and all about his imaginary share of the spoils. He was like the sheep that He came back shorn. As one of the immortal seven who saved Andy Johnson on the he was a big man, and had the right of Father to speak his mind But he lost his went up to the goat's house for wool. impeachment, he perhaps thought a Conscript freely to Johnson's successor. balance, swelled up into a towering passion, used some profane expressions, as they say, lost his case, and left ina rage. it appears, Ross, in attempting to play boss, has met with a loss, and has found that he Should occasion require, we hope that the President will repeat the prescription to every other Senator who may approach him after the can't play the bully with Grant. alleged dictatorial style of Ross. Treaties Berork THE SkNaTE.—The United States Senate reassembled yesterday under Members went into executive session and ratified . sev- eral treaties, and concluded with the minor States of Germany for the protection of natu- ralized American citizens returning to the The provisions are the President's proclamation. Continent of Europe. similar to those of the original measure on this subject concluded with Prussia. port of the Cushing treaty relative to the Darien ship canal, pointing out the great ad- vantages which would ensue to our commerce on two oceans from its ratification and an agreement with the United States of Colombia. The subject remains for consideration and action. Traian Diptomatio Misstons.—King Victor Emanuel has made changes in two of the most important foreign missions in the gift of the Italian crown—those to Washington and Lon- don, By telegram from Florence we are in- formed that Signor Bertinatti has been com- missioned to the United States, relieving Signor Marcello Cerruti, and that Signor Cador- na, who made himself so active in the sup- pression of the home mill tax riots, is to be despatched to London, to take the position now held by the Marquis d’Azzelio. It is not likely, however, that Italy will undertake any marked change in her plan of diplomacy to- wards either government. Ovr Devt to Cuna.—Years and years ago the good and pious people of the island of Cuba contributed through Father O'Brien, first pastor of St. Peter's church in this city, to build that church. Thereby the church was put under perpetual obligation to say masses for the peo- ple of Cuba. Just now that people is in par- ticular need of masses, especially masses of fighting filibusters, and we should pay our debts, St. Peter ought to give them a lift, Yacuttxe iN EXNGLaNd.—In another column we give & letter from Cowes detailing the open- ing events of the yachting season the other side the water. Nearly all the fixtures thus far are the river matches, which have but little interest for us. , It is noteworthy, however, that among English yachtmen the coming of American boats is not regarded with that spirit of refreshing confidence that Britons commonly feel in their own suveriority In brief, as Senator Sumner delivered a lengthy address in sup- honest employment. however, about state of real public feeling here on the subject dence in the men who represent them.” O'Brien. Assembly have been whetting his teeth, and, York. will step forth and despatch him ? Senators Folger, Palmer, Hale and Crowley? says Grant has done well, “relatively,” so far. Tne Princk oF WALEs AND hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum, The republican Legislature justly considers New York State a greater country than the British empire, and is touchy about that first subject, Albert Edward, receiving a greater civil revenue than Jimmy O’Brien, the first citizen of New York, who only gets two hun- It therefore passes a bill giving him over @ million of dollars per dred thousand dollars. annum, Maximum VEOTIGAL Est ParstMonta.—The fresh-minded statesmen from the rural districts believe Cicero a fool for saying that ecomony is the greatest revenue. ‘He might as well have said twice four make two,” argue they ; “for it stands to reason that the more money we let Jimmy squeeze out of the citizens of New York the greater will be his revenue; in fact, it will be a million instead of two hun- dred thousand, Cicero lived a good many years ago.” Tms Prorure any Toat.—A_ republican Congress would not raise Grant’s salary be- yond twenty-five thousand dollars. But Grant was only the chief of soldiers who shot rebels, A republican Assembly raises Jimmy O'Brien's revenue from two hundred thousand to one million dollars per annum. But Jimmy's deputies shoot citizens and policemen. Cnrecks. anil Western paper wants to know where General Lee comes in under the dis- tribution of good things, and adds that he gave General Grant several checks in 1864, Tak ANNEXATION OF CANADA.—Under our old reciprocity treaty with Canada we col- lected, in 1865, $8,387 duties on something over thirty-six millions of imports. Upon twenty-eight and a half millions of imports we last year collected three and a fourth millions of dollars duties without any reciprocity treaty. These are solid arguments for the ad- vocates of Canadian annexation, They indi- cate what an immense benefit Canada would derive by being linked to us, The trade of 1865 would, however, be but a small figure in comparison to what would be rapidly devel- oped in that event. Canadian, English and American interests all point to the question of annexation as one which must occupy the at- tention of the interested governments at avery early day. Mextco.—The news that General Sickles accepts the Mexican mission follows close upon the news of his conference with Grant on the subject, and we suppose this acceptance is a sign that the administration has # positive office is one of the meanest occupations re- There is some point, the following paragraph, which we find in the Harrisburg (Pa.) State Guard, a radical paper :—‘‘We can say to the head of the nation that if he sends an impar- tial gentleman to Harrisburg to: ascertain the of the Post Office appointment, he will find that the man appointed is the most obnoxious in all respects in Harrisburg, and that the manner in which he was forced into office over the heads of a soldier's widow and a surviving hero of the war is regarded as one of those high-handed acts of tyranny which disgust an intelligent people and weaken their confi- Sr. Gzorak AND THE Dracon.—There is a dragon in Albany by the name of Jimmy The republican members of the if not subdued, he will soon be ravaging New We have had enough of him and his already. Have the people no champion who Where are Wert Dong.—The Plattsburg Republican Suerire O'Brrey.—The Prince of Wales receives two The Wild Hunt for Oftice, Although some thousands of the faithful have been rewarded and most of the first clase places inside the United State® have been dis- posed of, the wild hunt for office still continues. The vast and hungry swarm of expectants which filled the Washington hotels and board- ing houses for the first week or two after the inauguration has melted away; but numerous little gangs of clamorous and hopeful office-beg- gars still hang around the great charity hospi- tals at both ends ofthe avenue. There were con- siderable gatherings yesterday at the Treasury, the Interior and the Post Office Departments, and quite a crowd of hopeful pilgrims at the White House, Greeley being “the most conspicuous figure in the procession. The unsettled foreign missions and internal revenue offices of this city were the marrow bones of contention, and. with from six to a dozen applicants with their papers and backers for every place, and with Greeley in the foreground and Dana bringing up the rear, it may well be imagined that General Grant had a hard day’s work. But they say he takes it all with wonderful patience, except when his cigar goes out and he has not another conveniently at hand. We begin to feel interested in the misfor- tunes of Greeley and Dana. It has been said that General Grant is not a student over books nor a reader of newspapers. We fear, how- ever, that he has learned that Chief Justice Chase was, even down to Tammany Hall, the first choice of Greeley for the succession to Andy Johnson, and that the hero of Vicks- burg was only vigorously taken up at last by **Qld Whitey” as Hobson’s choice, and that consequently this hesitating Hobson has only the claims upon this administration of an eleventh hour man in the vineyard. We fear that General Grant remembers the services of Dana in the Army of the Southwest rather as those of Stanton’s overseer than in any other light, and that accordingly the General has no very grateful recollections of Dana in the tented field. We fear, too, in this military view of the subject, that Dana’s volunteer efforts in behalf of Greeley’s promotion to the Court of St. James have been rather a dead weight than a benefit to Greeloy, and that the unfor- tunate philosopher, aware of this, has been not less anxious all this time to get rid of his superfluous friend than was poor Sinbad the Sailor to be relieved of ‘‘the Old Man of the Sea.” Well, patience is a great virtue ; and as we cannot discover any special comfort in the grist of nominations sent in yesterday for either Greeley or Dana, the best we can do for them is still to recommend patience, and to re- mind them that w not all be captains. A Va.uaB_e Rine.—A Southwestern paper states that there are scores of political rings of every character, but that the greatest of all rings is Grant's family circle. RAMmROADING IN THE Sanorvary.—St. Peter's church, which stands on the corner of Barclay and Church streets, is in the line of © one of the big railroad jobs, and if the bill passes the jobbers will have authority to de- molish the church and pay some ridiculously incommensurate price for it. This fact has brought out the pastor, who denounced the job from fis pulpit on Sunday. The Down East parsons have thought politics fit for the pulpit, and there is more reason for denouno- ing from the same place this pest of our city 80 intimately allied with public immorality, ALL SmoxE. —The Louisville Courier-Jour- nal says’ it is very evident the ‘‘coming man” is not the man with a cigar in his mouth, D'ye smoke? TRIED IN THE Fire.—We must be a choice party in this town—the mass of people making ap the decency of city life. One of our par- sons produced on Sunday the argument that of every hundred young men who start from the country to endeavor city life ninety-seven goto the devil or perish at some station on that line, and only three succeed in their original object and become respectable citi- zens. At this rate we area well winnowed selection and represent a higher average of morality and virtue than can be found else- where. Our three hundred thousand decent people are chosen from nine millions of coun- trymen. What a weak and wicked set they are—those fellows in the rural districts! Sorosis INoorPoratEp.—The Chicago Sorosis have been created a body corporate by the Illinois Legislature. Will the political maxim, that “‘corporations have no souls,” apply to the ladies composing this association ? “Ix tHe Nick or Tiwg.”"—An Ohio paper states that a citizen of Covington, Ky., wanted to be collector of the Covington dis- trict. He was not so fortunate as to belong to the Grant family, but his wife had a baby in the nick of time, and he called the little one Jesse R. Grant, the name of the President's father. He got the collectorship. Office- seekers who have unnamed babies, having due notice of this fact, will govern themselves accordingly. Swinaine Arounp THE SovTHERN CrroLe.— A correspondent of the Louisville Courier. Journal states that ex-President Johnson is said to have disctosed his intention of visiting every Southern State, to talk to the people and say to them and show to them that he has been the friend of the South. It is evident that adage about the burnt child has no weight with Mr. Johnson. Tux CoNTRraBaNd Trave IN THE LowgR Bay.—The smuggler schooner Grapeshot has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired and is now ready to resume her contraband busi- ness. Sugar, coffee, cigars, or any other com- modity from foreign ports upon which a high rate of duty is exacted, can be safely landed at Keyport by the Grapeshot without the knowledge or interference of Custom House officers, The MecCardie Imprisonment Case, In this important suit, involving the two great constitutional questions of individual citizen right and the authority of the executive government by martial law the Supreme Court of the United States delivered judg- ment yesterday. William H. McCardle, as will be remembered, was an editor in the State of Mississippi when its people went into rebellion. He was subsequently arrested and imprisoned by the military Governor commissioned from policy in regard to the neighboring chaos of ; Washington to administer the affairs of the State, nationality, under charges of seditious writing and publi-