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

6 NEW YORK H IERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. seeeecerceeeeses- NOs 106 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘Bid stroet.—Tux TEMPFST. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tar Seven DWARFS; 8, HAKLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur EMERALD RING. BOOTH'’S THEATRE, 23d at., between Sth and 6th avs.— OTUELLO. Broadway.—Tak BURLESQUE Ex- EVES. NIBLO'S GARD) TRAVAGANZA OF FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Tweaty- fourth street.—LE8 BAVARDS, &c. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, l4th street.—German Drama— IPuIGFNIA, GERMAN STADT TH Dee Jupe Zen TRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— HENR KRUG. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Scuo0L. wo. Broadway.— UM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth atrest and on and evening Performanca. 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BrooxtyN CARRIERS Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Brancn Orrice or THE New Yor Heratp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS aud Svsscriptions and all Ietters for the New York Henaup will be received as above. AND Europe. The cable telegrams are dated April 15. The news is unimportant. Cuba. Seilor Aguilera, President of the revolutionary Junta at Holguin, has been captured and executed. The American brig Mary Lowell, seized in British Waters, has been declared a legal prize by the Span- ish naval court in Havana. Consul General Hall had notified the government at Washington. Venezuela. A revolution, headed by José Monagas and acosta, bas broken outand an army of 1,500 men has been sent against them. St. Domingo. Luperon and Cabral have been furnished with means to attack Baez by tne Haytien revoiutionist Saget, and the movement is reported to have ulready commenced. Hayti. Advices from St. Marc are to the 20th alt. A French war steamer had arrived, bringing news of the sinking of the Galatea, one of Sainave's biock- aders, by the insurgents, at Aux Cayes. Many of the Piconets are reported to have deserted Sairave, The Senate. Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, Vice Preaident pro tem., vacated the chair on the opening of the ses- sion yesterday, and made @ speech in defence of Brown & Ives, of Rhode Island, who had been de- nounced by Senator Sprague, and had read by the Clerk and spread upon the records the card of that firm, published on Wednesday in the Heratp. In executive session numerous appointments were confirmed, among them Joshua F. Bailey as Collector of Internal Revenue in the Thirty-second district of New York; Alfred Pleasanton in the Fourth, Gordon L. Ford in the Third and William A. Darling in the Ninth; Jonn F. Cleaveland, assessor in the Thirty- second district and Augustin Ford in the Eighth; Francis C. Barlow, Marshal of the Southern district of New York; Henry Van Aernam Commissioner of Pensions, and Samuel J. Fisher Commissioner of Patents. Another long list of nominations was received from the President, including Charles E. de Long, of Nevada, Minister to Japan; Adam Badeau, Assistant Secretary o1 Legation in London, and a number of foreign Consuls, The Legislature. Bills were passed in the State Senate yesterday prohibiting the sale of adulterated articles; fixing the salaries of police justices and clerks of the Brooklyn courts; authorizing the appointment of commissioners to locate a State Penitentiary; pun- ishing the issuing, procuring or use of fraudulent naturalization papers, and relative to the place and trial for certain offences, The Broadway Surface Ratiroad bill, being announced for a third reading, was on motion laid on the table, by 18 to 13. Bills were reported to amend the Quarantine laws; relative to the Central Under- ground Railroad; relative to the general tax of Buf- falo and New York; creating a new judicial district in this city; relative to the common schools of New York. Several bills were ordered to a third reading. By & vote of 17 to 7 the Senate acceded to the request of the Assembly for tue return of the Two Tier Rail- Foad bill, » In the Assembly reports were made as to what ‘vote is necessary to pass the claims bills, Bills ‘Were reported creating the New York Quarantine Company; regulating the stands and stalls in the pubiic markets of this city; for the safe care and custody of insane criminals; for the effectual suppression and punishment of bribery; to increase the salaries of jadges of the Appeals and Supreme Courts and of the clorks thereof. The bill for the purchase by the State of the Junction canal was ordered to a third reading. .t appropriates $500,000 for the purpose. Miscellaneous. Secretary Fish it appears has been convinced that @ decisive course must be pursued in matters relay tg outrages on (he American fag in Cuba, and NEW YORK. HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. ee has assnred Captain Campbell, of the brig Mary Lowell, that bis rights should be protected. If the facts in relation to the Lizzie Major are not ex- Aggerated, he has determined to demaad ample reparation, indemnity and apology. ‘The United States Supreme Court rendered a de- cision yesterday to the effect that judges are not to be held liable to suits by individuals for their jual- cial acts. ¥ A correspondent of the H&RALD recently had an interview with Seuator Sprague on the subject of his late startling speeches. The Senator says that he intends to keep at his work and not to fold his arms and see the country go to the devil, He con- fesses to being crazy in the sense that all great re- formers are crazy, He is not bidding for the Presi- dency, and would not take it unless he was per- mitted to appoint whom he chose to office. In a big bundle of letters asking for copies of his late speeches only two came from Rhode Island, where, he said, the truth about the great family monopoly was unpalatable, The Canadian Parliament was formally opened yesterday by a speech from the Governor General. A meteoric phenomenon was visible in Richmond, Va., last evening. A belt of white appeared across the sky, drifting northwest and crossing and par- tially obscuring the moon, after which it closed like a fan and disappeared, Fifteen buildings in the business part of the town of Ripon, Wis., were destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. Loss $40,000, Insurance $25,000. The City. The aurora dorealis was visible last nignt. Assessor Webster has received instructions from the Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue to the effect that the average of all money used by bankers in business, borrowed or otherwise, except deposits, is taxable as capital. The new drivers on the Second avenue railroad were licensed yesterday, although the officers of the road had previously objected to Marshal Tooker's demand that they be licensed, as contrary to the law of 1865. The strikers still hold out. Edwin Rogers, who committed suicide tn a station house on Tuesday might, was a spiritualist. Mr. Conklin, another spiritualist, testified before Coro- ner Keenan yesterday that on Tuesday Kogers called on him and left his own obituary notice, which he desired to have inserted im the papers. Mr. Conklin further sald that for the last year he has been writing letters for a weekly paper through the medium of Edgar A. Poe. Alawyer named Anderson, practising at the Tombs Police Court, was yesterday committed to prison by Judge Dowling on a charge of swindling a chent’s widow, under alleged aggravating circumstances. The fine new steamship City of Brooklyn, Captain S. Brooks, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river, at ten o’clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at the Post OMice at cight A. M. 1th instant. The National line steamship England, Captain Thompson, will leave pier 47 North river at nine A.M. to-morrow, 17th instant, tor Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The steamship Ville de Paris, Captain surmont, of the General Transatlantic line, will leave pier 50 North river at ten o'clock on Saturday morning for Brest and Havre. The mails for France will close at the Post Office at eight A. M. on the 17th instant. The Merchants’ line steamship United States, Captain Norton, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P.M. on Saturday, 17th instant, for New Orleans direct. Tne stock market yesterday was active and buoy- ant. Gold was heavy and settled to 132%. Prominent Arrivals In the City. Governor W. R. Marshall, of Minnesota; Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont; James Medill, of Chicago; Richard Smith, of Cincinnati; Judge N. Davis, of Albion; Judge George Green, of Iowa, and Alderman “E. A. White, of Boston, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Chief Justice Meredith, of Quebec; Captain Le Mesurier, of the steamship Java; Surgeon W. Grier and E. M. Mack, of the United States Navy; A. McKay, of Boston, and A. ©. Bradley, of Washing- ton, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel Oswald, Vaptain R. Rhea and Major J. H. Fullerton, of Norfolk, Va., are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Captain J. Lawless, of Massachusetts; A. F. Sco- field, of New York; George P. Folsom, of New Hamp- shire; N. J. Woodruff and Moses Spear, of Connecti- gut, are at the Astor House. Minister Sanchez, from Chile; Dr. Palmer and Dr. F. H. Clark, of Boston; if. M, Rid, of St, Paul; D. Thomas Vail, of Troy, and Wm. R. Maize, of the United States Army, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Judge J. Yule, of Rochester; W. C. Shearer, of Charleston, 8. C.¢ F. E. Barnard, of Green, N. Y., and Colonel May, of #biiadetphia, are at the Maltby House, Captain R. Woolsey, of the United States Army; C. Davis, of Boston, and Dr. Wells, of buffalo, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Geo. M. Tibbitts, of Troy; Geo. A. Wood, of Phila- deipmia, and D. W. Endicott, of Chicago, are at the Hiotfman House. Prominent Departures. M. E. Benson, for California; H. Sydney Everett, for Boston; Benjamin Stark, for New London; B. Rumrill, for Springfeld, and Colonel Stewart, for Baltimore, Tae Griprron Ratroap.—The so-called Broadway Surface Railroad bill was yester- day laid on the table in the State Senate by a vote of eighteen to thirteen. We trust it will remain there. Greerey’s Sratistics aT A Discount.— When Greeley told the country republicans how many negro babies Southern slaveholders roasted for dinner and breakfast they opened their eyes with implicit belief. When Greeley told them last Saturday that Jimmy O'Brien makes two hundred thousand dollars a year out of his office they would not believe him, and will pass Jimmy’s bill. “Rieut Ox This is the motto of the Wisconsin Chief, @ smart moral reform paper published in Fort Atkinson by a lady. Go ahead, Chief. Give the bad people the toma- hawk. Scalp the wicked and unrighteous. You have an army of braves spread all over the land ready to sustain and help you. Was Ir tHe Smvcerrr?—One night last week, just after the arrival of a steamer from Havana, a small schooner was observed run- ning close in to the Long Island shore, appa- rently seeking to avoid observation. She showed no lights, and after two or three tacks she disappeared. There is no doubt it was the Quarantine smuggler, looking for a convenient place to land her ‘dead bodies” (cigars) in canvas sacks, Kino Minas first of these gentlemen prayed the gods that wish was answered and he found he could not i eat. Jimmy O’Brien is wiser than the pagan, and only asks the gods at Albany that all his official papers may turn into gold; he will eat and drink better than ever. also had ass’ ears; Jimmy has put them on the heads of the republican countrymen, Women as Orrtce-Saekers.—The Louis- ville Courier-Journal says office-secking seems likely to become very soon as prevalent ® vice among women as it has long been among men. The office modest and virtuous women seek is that of becoming angels of mercy and charity and bestowing good upon mission, and a sublime one it is, AND Jimmy O'Brien,—Thé | all he might touch should turn into gold; his | King Midas | | vineing proof of his guilt. , Many confessions ? Our Foreign Relations—Senator Sumner the Man and His Late Speech the Key- note for the Adminictration. Senator Sumner has rendered a service to the country and to the cause of truth and Justice of inosloulable yalue in his late clear, comprehensive and unanswerable exposition of our unsettled accounts against England. It is the very exposition desired and hoped for by the American people, and it is delivered to the world at the right time and from the right quarter, in view of a settlement of the stupen- dous bill of damages presented. Considering the temporizing imbecility of the late adminis- tration, it is hardly to be regretted that the degrading treaty contrived by Mr. Seward, through Reverdy Johnson, was required to bring forth this trenchant protest from the chairman on Foreign Relations as the voice and the verdict of the American Senate. But this decisive judgment is particularly gratify- ing in view of the impertinent pretexts and pretences of England touching her late out- rageous examples of neutrality and belligerent rights, and in view of the remarkable fact that down to this day, with all her professions of justice and liberality, England has made no acknowledgment of these great wrongs—‘‘not one word.” Mr. Sumner pnts the case of the United States in the right shape. It is the only official presentment of the case we have had which meets the public opinion of the country, and offers the only basis for a settlement which will be satisfactory to the American people. The reaction soon to follow in Eng- land the soft delusions and silly fancies created by the soft and silly Reverdy Johnson will be tremendous. The self-complacency with which her Majesty's Ministry and Parlia- ment have so far regarded this question of her portentous concessions to Jeff Davis will be rudely dispelled; for the startling indemnities suggested in the almost unanimous support of Mr. Sumner’s speech by the American Senate will have now in England to be se- riously considered. The rebel cotton loan bonds, which rose from nothing to ten per cent on the promises of Johnson's treaty, will henceforth be utterly worthless. We believe, moreover, that Senator Sumner’s timely and masterly argument is not only the voice of the Senate and the American people, but that it covers the policy of the present administration, as foreshadowed in General Grant’s inaugural. As the General-in-Chief of the Union armies against the late rebellion, we are assured that General Grant holds exactly the views of Sumner concerning the costs to the United States of England’s unholy alliance with the enemy. But we apprehend that the present Secretary of State is too much a disciple of Mr. Seward to grasp the diffi- culty. ‘‘There is nothing,” says Senator Sprague, ‘‘so shrinking and conservative as half a million of dollars, unless it be a million of dollars ;” and Mr. Fish belongs to this con- sorvative school. In ordinary times, and in the quiet routine of a settled peace establish- ment, Mr. Fish, in the programme of diplo- matic courtesies, dignity and decorum, would make a model premier. But this English diffi- culty calls now for a different character, and Charles Sumner is the man to fill it, His appointment to the State Department upon the strength of tnis speech on the Alabama claims would be a masterly movement. It would at once bring the British government to face the main question upon its real merits; it would be half the battle for a settlement. With Sum- ner as Secretary of State and Motley as our representative at London a hint from the President would suffice, It is said that Gene- ral Grant dog’ fot read the newspaper an Soe wis is not much a reader of Booics, pamp! lets or speeches. We are sure, however, that he has found time to read this powerful and instruc tive speech of the Senate's chairman on Foreign Relations, and will find time to fix in his mind its essential facts, testimony and conclusions in the line of international law. In any event we think we may safely assure General Grant that he could do nothing at this crisis that would give a more general or larger satisfac- tion to the people than the appointment of the author of this speech to the State Department. It may be said that Massachusetts has already more than her share in her two mem- bers of the Cabinet, and that it would be in- expedient to give her three. But there need be no difficulty upon this question. Mr. Bout- well could be very conveniently spared from the Treasury Department (in fact, he is not the man for the position), and for the loss of Mr. Fish New York could be given the Trea- sury, the position to which she is best entitled. In Henry G. Stebbins, William B. Duncan, Moses Taylor, or some such practical and ca- pable financier, the right man could readily be found. We feel perfectly free in throwing out these suggestions, from the President's assurances that he will not hesitate at any time to change or reconstruct his Cabinet if satisfied that he can so improve it. That he can improve it in the changes we have indi- cated will hardly admit of a doubt. Upon two or three other points we may speak as de- cisively, We may say, first, that of all our public men Charles Sumner has most ably, thoronghly and to the highest satisfaction pre- sented the case of the United States against England. Secondly, that, perfect master as he is of this question and the law and an- thorities, facts and testimony affecting it, he is of all men at this time the man to take charge of this great business in the State Depart- ment. Thirdly, that the settlement of the Alabama clairps suggested in his late most ad- mirable specch is the true keynote for the for- eign policy of the administration. In its broadest latitude the issue presented is simply the question of England or the United States ; and Sumner is right and on the side to win. The Twitchell Case, If the statement of Mrs. Twitchell and the letters of her husband, in which he urges her to admit her guilt and save him, are to be re- lied upon as genuine there ought to be but one | opinion, and that is that Mrs, Twitchell fs a much injured woman. Pity that she should be branded forever if innocent. In the opinion of many the confessions which Twitchell got up for his wife to commit and make are con- If his wife know- ingly to him was the guilty party why make so Why not simply ask her to tell what she knew? Insincerity, cunning, sufforing humanity. That is woman's proper | cowardice are stimped on all these documents, Mrs. Twitcholl has, or ought to have %o originals of those letters given to her in the prison or addressed to her from the prison. The handwriting of George S. Twitchell can- not but be known to many in Philadelphia. Let the letters be produced. Let them be submitted to those who know the handwriting of dasaaged, e wrote 5 ad let guilt be buried in the murderer's and suiclde’s grave, and let this horrid burden be lifted from the head of an innocent woman. Mrs, Twitchell has never varied in her statements. Her husband systematically lied from the moment the deed of blood was committed. Let the letters be examined. The Spanish Mission—A Nomination Not Fit te Be Made. Sandford is not the man for Spain—not the man to represent the government of the United States at any place where other qualities are needed than those that fit one to shine as a scandalmonger and a toady—especially not the man to-represent us at the capital of a country now in a grand and critical phase of national existence. Sandford has been twenty years a diplomat in the service of this country. Here certainly ought to be diplomatic experience enough; but this experience has been of no better use than to teach the gentleman how to keep himself in favor with those who are potent in appointments. It is not an experi- ence by which the government can profit in any good sense. No doubt it is admirable that Senators, or even that. the State Department, should be kept aw fait in the run of European tattle; that these worthies should have detailed minutely all that is piquant and pithy in the high life of the capitals; and as all this dribbles into Brussels, why, if Senators and others must have it, let them keep Mr. Sand- ford at Brussels. Let him not have the chance to belittle us anywhere else. Above all, let him not go to Madrid, which has suddenly be- come a place of first rate importance and requires a man equal to any emergency in force of character, boldness, knowledge and sagacity. With Cuba in the balance we cannot afford to send to the Spanish capital a drivel- ling tattler who, in twenty years of diplomatic life, has never been publicly mentioned for anything but a visit to Garibaldi. From the concurrence of all the Washing- ton despatches on the point we had supposed it was understood everywhere that General Sickles was to go to Spain; and we believe the universal opinion was that he was exactly the man for the place. We have no doubt that our despatch of yesterday stated the truth in saying that General Grant had promised this appointment and General Sickles signified his satisfaction with it; and this being true Grant should never have been either bullied or wheedled into nominating Sandford. To thrust aside a gallant soldier and an able and earnest political supporter is bad enough ; but to thrust him aside for the preferment of a man like Sandford is a peculiarly unhandsome act. We sincerely trust that the nomination as made may fail of confirmation in the Senate. It it be the diplomatic slate of the State Depart- ment that Sandford’s place at Brussels is wanted for some one else, and that he must be pushed to Madrid merely to keep him in Europe as a reporter of gossip, and if Grant assents to such pitiful arrangements, we hope the Senate will exhibit another temper. We want a man of first rate qualities in Spain, and we trust that the Senate will resolutely require such; and we fancy that Grant may very likely be grateful for a Senatorial opposi- tion that will prove the solution of his em- barrassments with Sandford’s friends in the State De; ni Sa te Deparigent VoTarg AND Jimmy O’Briey.—Voltatre said it was good to tell a lie, because some- thing would always come out of it. He might have said a good deal would gome out of it; for Jimmy O'Brien tells the republican coyatty- men that his revenue is only three thousand five hundred, and straightway they make it a million. A Jeatous YanKer.—A Connecticut editor has become envious of the inventor of an improvement on some of his patent crochets, and discourses as follows :—‘‘After all, how very human this weakness of small jealousy is!| Almost everybody has it, more or less. That's what ailed Cain; it disturbed Jacob; put Joseph into a pit; harried the patriarchs and kept letting down the prophets; it crops out frequently in politics, more often, perhaps, in the army ; infects the festive fire company ; disturbs the rural militia; creeps occasionally into the pulpit, and always blossoms in the choir.” Our contemporary should beware of jealousy. It was by that sin, more than by ambition, angels fell. He may, however, get over the difficulty by showing that there are no fallen angels in Connecticut. In Arkansas they fight their quarrels out with bowie knives. In Rhode Island by paper cards from Brown an’ Knives! Smatt Favors, &0.—There was once a man who wanted a place in the Cabinet—under General Jackson, maybe. Jackson told him the Cabinet was made up. Well, he would take any good place—collector of a port. All the collectorships were full. Well, he would like to be a doorkeeper. General Jackson was very sorry, bnt all the door- keepers were appointed. Finally the per- sistent seeker hesitatingly inquired if the Pre- sident could not spare him an old coat, Many will be reminded of this personage as they reflect on the politician who wanted to be Min- ister to France, then Collector of the Port of New York, then Surveyor of the same port, and whose young ambition is finally cooled with the old clothes and cold victuals of an appraiser's place, Divorces IN GeoraiA any Crtcaco.—A Western paper says when a Georgia negro wants a divorce from his wife he poisons her sweet potatoes. In Chicago divorces are secured by poisoning the minds of judges and jurors, shine A Carrer Kyicnr.—if Minister Malo smuggled carpets into Spain, would it be proper to dab him a carpet knight? But his New Hampshire friends will take care of that on his return, Loox Ovt ror tHe Revenve.—The Cus- tom House authorities would do well to detail a couple of detectives to the Keyport dock to watch the Quarantine smuggler. She is an old band at smuggling, and can easily evade the ordinary customs officer, Spanish Outrages on the American Flag, We can find but one explanation for the notoriously unwarranted proceedings of the Spanish cruisers in the neighboring waters of the island of Cuba. Tho seizure of the American brig Mary Lowell, while lying at Ragged Island in charge of the English customs officers; the landing of an armed force on the British territory of Stirrup Key in pursuit of the crew of the steamer Comandi- tario; the capture of the British schooner Jeff Davis while at sea, and the shooting of two of her passengers ; the seizing of two passengers on board the American schooner Lizzie Major, while many leagues from shore, and taking them as prisoners to Caibarien, perhaps to be executed without trial ; and the final decision of the Spanish Admiralty Court in Havana, reported to-day in our telegraphic columns, that the brig Mary Lowell is a legal prize, are all such flagrant violations of the law of nations that they can have but one interpreta- tion, and that is that they are parts of a medi- tated design, the object of which has not been made apparent. The Spanish naval officers are, in general, well educated men, and are far from being so ignorant of military and naval law as the commission of these acts would seem to indi- cate. But even if those holding subordinate grades are not versed in international law, their superior officers are not only well read and apt in the use of its dusty tomes, but in the organization of the military and naval bureaus in Cuba ample provision is made for the constant intervention of competent legal skill in thelr proceedings. The plea of ignorance is therefore inadmis- sible, and some other reason for these flagrant outrages must be found. To our mind this exists in the conviction on the part of the Spanish authorities that they are incompetent to put down the existing revolution in Cuba, and that the best solution for their difficulties is to so complicate the matter with neighbor- ing Powers asto bring forcible intervention and thus save the honor of Spain. It would be dishonor to be whipped by Cuba unaided ; but to give up Cuba under a complicated pressure from the United States and England would not incur that stigma and would leave open the claim for remuneration, as intimated recently by our Madrid correspondent. But whatever may be the motive of the Spanish officers in committing these outrages, the safety and integrity of the American flag upon the high seas and in the ports of a friendly nation must be secured. Mr. Fish may entertain grave fears that a course of proper self-respect on our part will involve us in unpleasant relations with England, France and Spain; but the American people entertain no such tremors. They, on the other hand, have a pretty thorough conviction that it is time our government did something effective towards making the Stars and Stripes a safe flag upon the ocean, as it wasin the days of yore. No principles of maritime law: are more clear or more universally admitted than that of the national jurisdiction extending to the distance of one marine league from the shore, and that when a ship is at sea beyond the marine league from shore she forms a part of the territory of the nation whose flag she bears. These uudoubted prin- ciples of maritime law cover all the cases we have cited above, and leave no doubt as to the course that should be pursned. Action, and not discussion, is the only safe course for President Grant and his administra- tion. Admiral Porter will give him much better advice than Mr, Hamilton Fish, with hfs admitted fears; and as the facts of the case of the Mary Lowell have been already placed before the government we look for no delay. She is an American vessel, was seized in British waters, had not been near Cuba, and there can be no possible claim that she is sub- ject to Spanish jurisdiction. Events are ‘crowding on the administration of General Grant, and he must meet them with vigor or be overwhelited. By all means let these ques- tions be submitted {ot negotiation to the Navy Department, and let .* dmiral Porter : es direcicd to give the reasons if tua.’ T° W8Svea. im = *, A New Capivet.—Professor Agassiz '8 getting up a new cabinet containing some rare specimens of antediluvian fossils. Tae Soexe at THE Ware Hovse.—A correspondent of a Western paper confirms the account our Washington correspondent gave of a turbulent interview between President Grant and Senator Ross, of Kansas. It seems the honorable Senator actually told the President of the United States to go to the other place. Why didn’t he tell him to go to Kansas and chalk his hat? The Game Law. The new law for the protection of game in the State of New York has just been passed in the Assembly. There are several clauses which have been so changed as to produce much dissatisfaction among sportsmen. The most prominent of these is the insertion of the provision forbidding quail shooting on Long Island for two years by all persons who have not contributed towards restocking that lo- cality. This ridiculous enactment gives a monopoly of the quail shooting on the island to afew men who happen to have imported quail from the South or West, although per- haps not more than a single pair. It creates an invidious and unjust distinction between wealthy sportsmen who have the means for such enterprises and the poor men who trust mainly to their guns for their living. More- over, quail are never so much reduced by shooting as by severe weather, and if our representatives of logislative wisdom at Albany would only pass an act pro- hibiting heavy snows and intense cold, and could enforce their enactment, they would be doing a wiser thing. Such a clause is thoroughly unsportsmanlike, and is resisted as strongly by those who would be benefited by it as by those who would not. The South- side Club has imported hundreds of quail, but the members are unanimous against such a prohibition. Our legislators had better follow the advice of the committees sent to them by our various clubs than endeavor to evolve such legislation out of their inner conscious- ness. Sporting is an art of which men like Recorder Hackett, of the Southside Club, and Charles E, Whitehead ond Robert B. Roosevelt, of the New York Sportsmen's Club, are experts, and in relation to which the advice of these gentlemen should be conolu- PEP 5 SE EI a So ee a ES SL LN OE EASELS LYE, AD A TOT SE ct canta eos: sive. An enactment Ifke the one in question would be rendered utterly futile by a severe winter at the end of the second season, for the birds saved from the gun during the first year would then perish from cold and exposure. The Senate. should see that this clause ia stricken out. It would prove a matter of serious annoyance to sportsmen who are in the habit of resorting to the locality to which it applies. Judge Dowling, Bergh and the Horocs, We have no doubt that Judge Dowling is learned in the law, but we respectfully submit that he is not learned in all the law. He especially is not learned in the law of this city; and, as this is the place where he sits to admin - ister justice, this is a reproach to him. Ia ruling Mr. Bergh out of court.the other day on a horse case his Honor said:— “Nor is there any law or Corpora- tion ordinance prescribing what is to be deemed a load.” His Honor had better read the Corporation ordinances. He will find in them the exact specification of the charges that may be made by carmen for certain weights, and other interesting facts of that nature. Bergh was right in this Roose- velt street case, and the decision against him was not based on law or justice, but on emall jokes. His Honor very stupidly asked if the man could prevent its being low tide. Not at all; but, as he drives for a sugar house on the other side and uses the ferry constantly, he knows when the tide will be low, and should not be permitted to carry at those times such a load as may be carried at others, Pack AND RETRENCHMENT.—The republi- cans are pledged to peace and retrenchment, Grant said, ‘‘Let us have peace,” and the re- publicans made him President. Jimmy O’Brien says, ‘Let me be rich,” and the re- publicans retrench a million per year from the citizens of New York and give it to Jimmy. CanapIAN CoNsoLIDATION.—The Governor General of Canada, in his address to the Parliament in Ottawa, yesterday, lauded the | plan of colonial confederation inaugurated by his predecessor, and recommended that mea- sures be taken to bring Newfoundland into the compact, as ‘‘a nursery of hardy seamen and inexhaustible in its wealth of fisheries.” It is all right. The richer Canada becomes the more valuable will it be when its inhabitanta seek shelter under the flag of the United States. Ne Exeat.—The Supreme Court have just decided that the writ of ne eveat is not abol- ished. This is good, because Jimmy O'Brien threatens to retura to Ireland unless the Legis- lature pass a bill giving him a million of dol- lars of fees per annum. Let the Citizens’ As- sociation sue out at once a writ of ne exeat. HORSE NOTES. ‘We would not be surprised to see some of the old fogies of the American Jockey Club throwing out spiints, curbs and spavins at the next meeting of theclub. There will be @ general breakdown of their exclusive policy. Young, fresh and liberal ideas must prevail. Intelligence first; stupidity nowhere. That is the way to place them. In addition to the horses declared out of the Ford- ham stakes heretofore published the names of Lo cust Post and Kitty Free have been received by the secretary by mail, There are twenty remaining to this race and fifteen in the Jockey Club handicap. Mr. Sanford’s mare Erin dropped a colt to King Lear last week, which ts the first that has been foalod at Preakness. The colt resembles his sire very much, being a chestnut with white points, Mr. Barry has put together a beautiful and speedy team of bay mares. They go well together on the road. Mr. Rogers has lately purchased a very fast gray mare. Del Leadbetter was showing up a very showy bay horse yesterday. The horse is a recent purchase. He secms to have more style than speed, however, Brown Dick is trotting again as fast as ever. Blood will tell. It is said that the managers of the Narraganset Park have uecided not to have a running meeting this year. How is that? The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman says:—A. J. Alex- ander, of Woodburn stock farm, on Tuesday last, sold to Mr. Alexander Patterson, of New York, his trotting horse Tattler for $17,000, This is the largest price ever realized in this State from a trotting horse and is $2,000 more #yan the Price fait or to ington. Tattler ts five years old, by Pilot, Jr., ont of a Medoc mare, and trotted at Louisville last fall a mile in 2:26, DEMOCRATIC UNION COMM TTEE. The Py “Uc Schoois and the Broadway Rall- rend Bill, Last evening th4 Genera! Committee of the Demo- cratic Union held a “eeting gt Masonic Hall, Thir. teenth street. The cha‘tman In opening the pro- ceedings said that the meting haa a ohieny called to sustain the Governor.“ veto in rere.renee to the Public School biil recent ."¢/ore tne Leg 3! ture. Bsr Mr, Hatch stated that certain changes’ {n the law at present regulating the Public Sch ols were now contemplated, He submitted tha” such changes were merely actuated bj mo- tives, chiefly to remove the com! loners 1.0W having control of the Board of Education, wi’ were elected by the people of the several districts in” which they resided and to substitute in their places @ board under the sway of the Tammany “ring.” Another of the objects desired was to disburse school fund ,000,000 without reference to the local residence and fitness of the candidates for such tions, Having alluded to the favor with which he system as it now stood was generally received he moved @ resolution to the effect that the Democratic Union organization of this city was in favor of the pwn law, and that any change could only be pro- luctive of great evil in the mani ent of the schools, and that the proposed law should meet with determined opposition, He further moved that the Board of Education in this city, as now constituted, nd confidence, ana that the Legisia- juested to allow the law governing suc board, and under which its members were selected, to remain unchanged. The resolution, having been seconded, passed unanimously, Mr. Kiernan Introduced a resolution to the effect that a bill was now pending before tne Legisiatui entitled “An act to authorize the cunstruction of certain ratiroads in the city of New York and across Harlem river, knowa as the two tier length ratlk road;” that such a bill, if passed, would destroy, not only some of the finest commercial houses, but also three of the oldest Christian churches in the city and State of New York, vi ‘St. Peter's, St. Paul's and Trinity churches; tha’ bill was urged in its sage by o ring of unscrupulous jobbers who would not hesitate to rob the sanctuary, the cradie and the Fare, Under such circumstances he moved that the Union democracy of this city protest against the passage of such an act of vandalism; that the committee also protest against the passage of the Broadway Rallroad bill and also such acts of special jation which tend ate pad Vd be g votaatip ore . Sony ve roe jutions conclu yy request to the Governor of the , the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the oe Tho resolutions were by acclamation, and there being no farther business to be trausacved tae meeting adjourned. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE, Ron Over.—An @xpress wagon yesterday aftor- noon, at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker streets, run down a boy named Henry Haggerty, living on the corner of Grand and Mulberry streets, and injured him so badly that he may not revover. ASSAULT UPON A SRAMAN.—A sailor named John Street, aged twenty-eight years, living at No. 11 Hamilton street, pie | presented himself at the Fourth precinct station house ina fearful plight, His hy hat been badly cut, ana blood fowed copiously from his wounds, He stated that he nad been Aasaulted and beaten in the ampping office No. 157 South street, by James Keyan and other parties, Who made their escape, Strect was taken vo Kelle vue Hospital,