The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. panne JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIV. — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— BoNocL, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrrr Domrrr, with New Frarunss. OF MUSIC, 4th street,—Lovm anp In- Be Oan.os—EMILia GALOTTI—ComE HERE. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘28d street.—THx TEMPEST. Y THEAT! Bowery.—Tam Srven DwARrs; om Wanueauus ikp ruin WontD ov WonDuas. . BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Born 70 GooD Luok—Oustom or Tas CouNTRY, &0. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23dst., between Sth and 6th avs.— OTHELLO. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taw BURLESQUE Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE Forty THIgyES. AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- Page aah Cuanson — FoRTuNIO, £0. ty VERLEY THEATRE. 720 Broadway.—E1.izm HOLT's PRL Shea he ‘Bonvia, MD. 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EEE New York, Friday, April 23, 1869. ~ “6 ADVERTISERS. ww Klnrmnennrrrnnnnne All advertisements should be sent in before ‘eight o'clock, P. M., to insure proper classifi- cation. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers, BrooxtyN CaRrigns aND NewsMen will in future receive titir papers at the Brancn OFrice Or THE New Yorx Hera.p, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svusscriprions and all letters for the New Yorx Hekaup will be Teceived as above. Europe. The cable despatches are dated April 22. ‘The London Post of yesterday has an editorial on the Cuban complications, in which it asserts that General Grant is inclined to enter upon a foreign ‘war, especially in reierence to acquisitions of terri- tory in the West Indies, to the detriment of Euro- pean Powers who have possessions there, Spain being the weakest it is but natural that he would commence by taking Cuba. Jamaica and Martinique to follow in due course. ‘The same question has been mooted in Paris and a special agent sent to London with despatches on the subject. Meanwhile the new Spanish loan has been Very successful on the London market. The Oxford crew have accepted the American challenge for an international boat race. The new constitution was discussed in the Spanish Cortes on the 2ist, which resulted in some contra- @ictory arguments respecting the throne. Sejior Zorrilla assured the Cortes that the majority would succeed in eventually finding a King. Universa: Suffrage was almost unanimously carried in the Cortes. Paraguay. Despatches have been received from Rear Admiral Davis, commanding the South Atlantic squadron, dated Montevideo, March 13, confirming the accounts published in our correspondence yesterday relative ‘to the refusal of the Brazilian commander to permit despatches to be forwarded with an escort through his lines to Minister McMahon. The Brazilian com- Mander, it appears, alleged that the location of McMahon was unknown and the escort would be in @anger, and aiso that the operations about being made required that no communication should be held with the Paraguayan camp. Despatches that bad been entrusted to Caxias for transmission to McMahon were returned to our naval autnori- ties, who have reason to believe that McMahon's location is well known to the allies, It is well known that the American Legation at Asuncion was broken open by the Brazilians when they sacked that city and the books and papers were destroyed Or scattered. Japan. Rear Admiral Rowan, commanding our Asiatic Squadron, reports to the Navy Departmerit, under date of February 18, that the civil war in Japan is at an end and that the reign of the Mikado, who isa youth of seventeen, gives promise of peace, In January the Mikado gave an audience to all the foreign legations, including the American Minister. Admiral Rowan gives an interesting account of it, the first audience ever granted to an American by the Mikado, from the report of Commander Carter, ‘who was present accompanying the Minister. Advices to March 13 are received from Yokohama by way of San Francisco. Anotuer outbreak against the Mikado was imminent. The Senate. After some discussion yesterday Mr. Nye, of Ne- vada, made a personal explanation m reply to the Sttacks of Mr. Sprague on the legal profession, in Which Mr. Nye was denominated “the chariatan of the Senate.”’ His speech, however, partook largely Of eulogy of General Burnside, and on this strain he ‘Was followed by Morton and several others. Mr. Sprague finally obtained the floor and made another Sweeping assault on Mr. Anthony, who was presid- ‘ing at the time. In executive session the nominations of San- ford to be Minister to Spain and J. Russell Jones to be Minister te Belgium were discussed and finally laid on the table. Pile to be Minister to Brazil was ejected and J. 8. Carlisle Minister to Sweden Was confirmed. Several of the Quaker Indian Agents Were also rejected, owing, it is sald, to a Scheme projected by Messrs, Pomeroy, Harlan and others in the interest of an Indian Ring. The San Tuan treaty was postponed untti next December. ‘The Legislature. In the Senate yesterday bills relative to the Society for the Reformation of Juventie Deitnquenta in New ‘York, and for the erection of @ soldiers and satlors’ Monument, under the direction of the Park Com- ‘Missloners, were passed. Bills discontinuing a por- Won Of 12ist street; providing for the election of a treasurer in Brookiyn every three years; to revise the school government of New York, and fo) qther Dusposes were ordered to a third reading. the New York county tax in Committee Of the Whole, werked Hai cetcrea to a thira NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, .1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Recorder, City Judge and Surrogate of New York six years was reported and passed. In the Assembly bills were passed increasing the Metropolitan Police force; submitting,the new eonstl- tution at the next general election, and allowing hackney coaches and other hired vehicles to pass in all public places in New York under certain regula- tions, The bill to purchase the junction canal was called up again on a motion to reconsider, and the subject was again tabled. Miscellaneous. Te 18 understood in Washington |that no trouble is likely to arise from Secretary Fish’s demand for explanations regarding the seizure of the Mary Lowell from England. On the contrary, Eng- land will promptly demand explanations and reparation from Spain, It is rumored, however, notwithstanding this, that England and France both side with Spain in her quarrel with the Cubans, and the project is broached on their part of sending an allied fleet to Cuban waters to intercept supplies for the insurgents, Secretary Boutwell will receive sealed proposals for the purchase of gold every Thursday hereafter until he orders otherwise. United States notes or three per cent certificates will be taken for sums Of not less than $5,000, the successful bidder being required to deposit five percent of the amount of the purchase on the day of sale. Ek A meeting of the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad was held in Boston yesterday, at which Mr. Oakes Ames presided. Resolutions were adopted providing for removing the ofMice from New York to Boaton, approving the acts of the board of directors, and cancelling the sealof the company. Mr. James Brooks and others addressed the meeting at some Accounts continue to come in from all directions relative to the prevailing heavy freshets. Eleven persons in Granby, Canada, were precipitated into the swollen river by the of a bridge and all of them were drowned. aeed In the Canada House of Commons on Wednesday night Mr. Galt gave notice that on Friday he would call up the papers relative to the Fenian damage in 1866 and the cost arising from the defence of the frontier as a claim against the United States. His object was to give members an opportunity of ex- preasing their views upon Senator Chandler's recent speech. The government announced that it was not the intention to commute the sentence of Father McMahon and other prisoners, The bill amending the extradition treaty with the United States was introduced. Three Washington correspondents were smmoned before a select committee of the Senate yesterday and interrogated as to the source whence they ob- tained the Hale-Perry correspondence. They re- spectfully declined to answer, as the communication was confidential, and they cot not in honor violate the confidencd, Ths somites afterwards Teported the result to the Senate. General Robert E. Lee is on a visit to Baltimore, 5 chairman of a deputation of Virginians who are urging co-operation in the extension Of the Virginia Valley Ratiroad. ec Bin ate ae Charles E. Mix, for nearly thirty years chief clerk of the Indian Bureau, was dismissed by Commis- sioner Parker yesterday, S The City. Four more individuals were arrested by Captain Mills’ detectives on Wednesday night on suspicion of being thieves or vagrants, An examination yes- terday disclosea the fact that one of the prisoners, at least, was better dressed than the officer who arrested him, had five dollars about his person and had never been guilty of anything more heinous than taking his leisure. The parties were all dis- missed. - James Johnson was arrested yesterday for picking @ lady’s pocket, and when taken to the Tombs Police Court attempted to cut his throat, but was prevented, by the officers in attendance. He has been out of the State Prison only a short time, having served out a term for a similar offence. Patrick McCormick, who was dangerously stabbed in a saloon in Mulberry street early yesterday morn- ing, made an ante-mortem statement to Coroner Schirmer during the day. It appears he and the prisoner, William Nicholson, were playing cards, and the latter, in anger ata successful ‘bluff,’ com- menced a quarrel with him, and in the course of it stabbed him. The jury found accordingly and Nicholson was committed. A meeting of the Southern Emigration Society was held in Park place yesterday. General Imboden, formerly of the rebel army, who is the Virginia State agent for emigration, addressed the meeting. The Inman Mne steamship City of Antwerp, Captain Mirehouse, will leave pier 45 Northriver at one P, M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Queenstown and Liverpool. The European maiis will close at the Post office at twelve M., 24th inst. The steamship Virginia, Captain Forbes, of the National line, will sail at twelve M. to-morrow, 24th inst,, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. ‘The Anchor line steamship Dacian, Captain Laird, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to- morrow (Saturday) for Glasgow, touching at Lon- donderry to land passengers. The steamship Merrimack, Captain Weir, will leave pier 43 North river at three P. M. to-day for St, Thomas, Para, Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio Janeiro. The steamship Sherman, Captain Henry, of the Merchants’ line, will sail from pier 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 24th inst., for New Orleans direct. The stock market yesterday was weak and de- clined. Gold was excited in consequence of expected government sales, declined to 133% and closed finally at 13355. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Miguel Satlendo, of Spain; Thomas Tinsley, of England; W. UG. Pailo, of Paris, and Samuel Laird, of Long Branch, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General E, C. Wilson, of Pennsylvania; General E. F. Jones, of Binghamton, and G. F, T. Reed, of Paris, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Breed, of Baltimore; Rev. P. Power, of Halifax, N. 8.; J.T. Ames, of Massachusetts, and Captain G, B. Raymond, of Bordentown, N. J., are at the Astor House Professor Pierce, of Yale College, and Captain & Doane, of steamer America, are at the Hoffman House. Major L. W. Paul, of Chicago; Dr. Chas. A. Elliott, of England, and Walter Brown, of Boston, are at the ‘St. Charies Hotel. Prominent Departures, Governor Page left yesterday for Vermont; Comp- troller W. F. Alien for Albany; General Bartlett and Colonel Pomeroy for Pittsfeld, Toe Comprrotterk or tae Currency Catune vor Nationar BANK STaTEMENTS.— It will be remembered that Congress passed an act on the 3d of March requiring the national banks to make a report of their con- dition at some past date, and not, as formerly, at the time of the call or on some future day. The object of this is to get a correct state- ment of the condition and working of the banks from their books and to prevent these institutions from cooking up one to hide their operations or real condition. The Comptrol- ler of the Currency, acting upon this law, has Just issued a call for such reports as shown by the books of the banks at the close of their business on the 17th of this month. We hope there will be no possible way of evading or dodging this law, and that the country may get a true statement of the condition of these national banking institutions, Ix Press—‘‘Pile on the agony” of office- seeking. Finep ror Swearine.—A man has been fined in New Hampshire for “damning” a neighbor. If all the fines for oaths of a simi- lar character uttered in New Hampshire during poor Pierce’s administration could be collected the national debt would be easily liquidated and a surplus left for the expenses of the “next FeAding. The bill making the term of oMce of the | war,” France and Burepe—War Possibilities. consent of his Cabinet, has despatched « It is only a few days since we gave it as our opinion that the Franoo-Belgian trouble might result in some such complication as should prove dangerous to the peace of Europe. We have not had long to wait with- out receiving encouragement to our view of the situation, Prussia, we said, was so deeply concerned in the settlement of this Belgian railway question that Prussia could not be in- different, and that a hitch in the proceedings was not only possible but probable, The hitch has come. The negotiations had so far satisfactorily proceeded, A few days ago we learned that M. Frére-Orban had returned from Paris to Brussels very much dissatisfied with the result of his mission. Now we learn from a cable despatch that the negotiations for a commercial conference between France and Belgium have been suspended. What does it mean? It is hard to think that it can mean anything else than this—that the two Powers have differed as to the questions to be submit- ted to the proposed conference. We know that France had been making heavy demands ; and the presumption now is that France has asked so much that Belgium has been compelled to stand upon her dignity and refuse, If such be the fact, then we may rest as- sured that, in spite of the undignified Afivice given by the London Times, Belgium has known her duty, and that she has good reason to conclude that beyond a certain point she can count on the sympathy and support of both Great Britain and Prussia. Another telegram of the samé date, informing } us that the Prussian Ambassador at Paris had been instructed to thank the French Foreign Minister for the pacific sentiments recently expressed by him in the French Chamber, does not in the smallest degree affect this view of the case. It means wise and cunning diplo- macy—a little bit of the Jesuit; that is all. What with this and other important foreign questions demanding attention; what with the restless condition of the French people, and the municipal elections in immediate pros- pect, the French Emperor has cer- tainly trouble enough on hand. Napo- leon, in fact, is now in 9 critical, perhaps the most critical, condition in which he has found himself for many years. Interests. ‘apparent or real, pull in different dire~tions, How to yieid, or rather now to act, it is not so oasy to decide. Ti is now some yéars since Decem- ber 2, 1851, and Frenchmen have had a fair chance of coming to a conclusion as to the merits or demerits of Napoleonism. That Napoleon the Third has done great things for France no one can deny. Prosperous at home and respected abroad are old phrases which have often been used in very absurd connec- tions, but during the reign of the third Napo- leon they have not been wholly meaningless. With all the drawbacks that may be made France is a Power with which no other Power feels it safe to go to war. There have been many and even serious Napoleonic blunders; but while France under this man’s rule has sus- tained some diplomatic defeats, she has sus- tained no defeat on the field of battle. This, however, does not fully state the case. France under Napoleon has gained some of the most splendid field victories of modern times. It is undeniable, too, that since 1851 France has gained somewhat in political liberty. It is at the same time true that France is not satisfied. Republicans aro still in op- position and Orleanists are still dissatis- fied, while the legitimatists are as stubborn as ever, This is true of the different sections, but it does not cover the whole dif- ference between Napoleon and the French people. Much as they have prospered at home and much as they are respected abroad, the French people think that they are not what they ought to be—not what they once were, not what they believe they ever should be. There is grumbling all over France because in some important respects they are the least free of all the European nations, and there is grum- bling because the name of France abroad is not sufficient to compensate for this disadvan- tage at home. France is not a big enough terror abroad— not contented enough at home, This is Napo- leon’s trouble. This is the difficulty which confronts the government at the forthcoming elections. No man knows the situation half so well as Napoleon himself, He knows he has made the best of many and serious difficulties. He knows he has made some mistakes. But he knows also that in the circumstances it was difficult to do other than he did. He is convinced that the bulk of the French people are satisfied that, all things considered, their destinies are safer in his hands than in the hands of any other, The abolition of the Livret system gives us a key to Napeleon’s present thoughts. The working- men on his side, he knows he can control the elections. By this last move he has secured the workingmen, and, unless we greatly mis- take, the elections will result in a grand Ministerial triumph. We can have no war until after the elections. If the result of the elections is to the Emperor's mind it will not be wonderful if the empire again means peace. If, however, the elections do not result to the Emperor's entire satisfaction it is not at all impossible that a bold effort will be made, by means of a foreign war, to destroy all opposi- tion inside the empire. The Emperor has a magniticent army, which is spoiling for a fight. He is not the man to refuse to use it, if to use it will serve his purpose, The Cuban Revolution—Brition Sympathy with Spain. The London Fost, an influential organ of the Russell-Palmerston whigs, in its issue yester- day reiterated the arguments’ already pub- lished in the British metropolis in favor of English interference in behalf of Spain in Cuba. President Grant is again accused of longing for the acquisition of the island in order to divert public attention from the inter- nal condition of affairs in the United States by foreign war. The writer adds that the issue of @ contest between our government and Spain cannot be doubtful unless ‘England and France interfere.” An American blow aimed at Cuba would threaten every island in the West India waters from Jamaica to Marti- nique, After this adroit introduction of dan- ger to Martinique, the Post says:—‘France and England will doubtless determine whether these designs against Cuba will be tolerated.” { This English prompting has set the Paris press special envoy to Queen Victoria's Court, bear- ing despatches setting forth the French views of the ‘‘complication.” For some reason or other Great Britain appears very anxious to renew the entente cordiale with France; although one would imagine that she had quite enough of the fruits of such an alliance in her experiences in the Crimea, when the “Union Jack” went down in the ditch of the Redan at the moment the French eagles were planted on the Malakoff. Let there be a reunion, however. Let them come along. Why Sanford Was Nominated for Spain. One report says that Sanford was transferred from Belgium to Spain because he knew how to make influential friends on this side the water with nice little diplomatic remem- brances of wines, bijouterie, kickshaws and fancy bagatelles. Another newsmonger says that Sanford has made himself a great man at Washington in establishing certain general rules for our ministers abroad in the way of court costumes, combining royal finery with republican simplicity, Lastly, we are in- formed that when the Spanish General Prim was an exile in Belgium Sanford saved him from being delivered up to Queen Isabella, and Prim, in return, promised that if he (Prim) should get up in the world in Spain he would sell Cuba to the United States, and that herein lies the reason for the transfer of Sanford to Madrid. He ig chosen in order to hold Prim to his bargain. Meantime the important question is still unsettled whether Cuba belongs to the revolutionists of Spain or to the revolutionists of the island, and so it may be wisely con- sidered inexpedient to pay roundly to-day for a piece of property which to-morrow we may get for nothing, Sanford or no Sanford. Broadbrims to the Front. We published yesterday a long batch of ap- pointments as Indian agents from among that highly respected class of citizens known as Friends—vulgarly styled Quakers, ~ Quak~~. guns answered a certain purpose orcing the re- bellion, a% we snzpose live Quakers will do for targets for indian arrows nowadays, It would Seem #- tho administration had been recently impressed with the schoolbook pictures illus- trating that venerable old Quaker, William Penn, making treaties with the aborigines of Pennsylvania, and thinks that the selection of these worthy men will result in the peace- ful solution of all our Indian troubles, Per- hapsso. Wehope so. But in this connec- tion we are reminded, as the lamented Lincoln would say, of a little story. On a certain occasion a Western Baptist preacher consulted @ well known Quaker philanthropist on the pro- priety of the former undertaking a -missionary journey among the Indians of the Northwest. “Thee may go, friend Harkness, and I bid thee good speed. I only hope thou wilt come back with all the ha’r on the top of thy head.” Crosina ScENES OF THE SENATORIAL Sxs- sION.—The excitement and personal accusa- tions and reclamations which usually mark the closing of the Congressional session were indulged in to a very considerable extent in the Senate Chamber yesterday evening, Sena- tors Nye, Sprague and Abbott taking the leading parts in the personalities, Senator Nye said Sprague had classed him asa “charlatan,” a ‘‘quack,” or a ‘‘mounte- bank.” Sprague replied by placing his two “gssailants” before the Senators, the one as a ‘‘mastiff,” the other as a “mongrel puppy dog.” Senator Abbott retorted with the advice that ‘Little Spraguey be spanked and put to bed.” Very dignified; exceedingly edifying. Women iN Orrice.—The war has com- menced. Western women have tasted the apple of office. They cry for more, and are determined to have it or perish in the attempt. Miss Angie King wants. the Post Office of Janesville, Wis., and is determined to oust the present incumbent, a poor old fellow of the masculine gender. She writes to her “dear Mrs. Livermore,” of the Chicago Agitator, as follows :— JANESVILLE, Wis., April 12, 1869. My Dear Mrs. LIVERMORE:— At present I do not feel at liberty to expose all the “wirepulling’’ of the politicians in the case of the Janesville Post OMice. But I assure you that “there- by hangs a tale’’ that I intend to narrate if they do not “come down handsomely’? with the “s plums.’ Truly, yours, ANGIE KING, Disgraceful as it is to see men scrambling for office and backbiting, slandering and lying about their competitors, how mortifying it is to see women dragging themselves into such a mire and talking glibly, like dance house hadi- tués, about So-and-So ‘‘coming down hand- somely with the sugar plums” or suffering the effects of some mysterious exposé/ If this is to be the natural result of the women’s rights movement the sooner sensible people set their faces against it the better for the cause of mo- rality and the sanctity and purity of the American domestic fireside. New Reapine or an O1p Quoratioy.— Grant—‘‘Black Cesar dead and turned to Clay (of Louisiana) may stop a crack to keep the rads away.” MOVEMENTS OF AN Ex-PostmMasTerR Genr- RAL.—Ex-Postmaster General Randall passed up Broadway the other day and was button- holed by no one. That’s the difference between public and private life. The Whitewater (Wisconsin) Jtegister states that Mr. Randall is to reside in his mansion in Elmira, in this State, and wants to know whether he will not donate his Wiscon- sin property to the poor. The suggestion is either pertinent or impertinent, according to fancy. A Smart Navat Opzration—To send the old wooden hulk Sabine down to Cuba to keep an eye on the Spanish iron-clads, The Sabine earned undying fame on the occasion of her magnificent achievement in the bombardment .of Greytown, during the Mosquito war, and should be placed upon the retired list, with all her laurels, SeNerwie Massacnusetts WoRKINGWoMEN.— At « Workingwomen’s Convention in Massa- chusetts on Wednesday a potition to the Legis- lature was read, asking that a tract of land within easy distance of the city of Boston be Inid out in house lots, to be sold cheap or given to poor laboring women, and to be inalienable, exempt from taxation, and not liable for debt. This is much more sensible and practical idea than any of our Now York Sorosistera and women’s rights revolutionists have agog on the subject, and Napoleon, with the } broached at their nice little Delmonico lunches, The Spirtt Photograph Case. This extraordinary case has been adjourned until to-day. On Wednesday Marshal Tooker’s evidence was given, comprising all the testi- mony offered by the prosecution. The two photographers who were examined for the de- fence admitted that they did not know how the pictures were taken, although they had inves- tigated the process. Ex-Judge Edmonds and Mr. Paul Bremond testified that they believed the pictures were produced by spiritual agency. Mr. Bremond had never seen a spirit. ‘I am not blessed,” he said, ‘‘with the gift of seeing ; I wish I was.” Buthe had heard spirit voices. The learned ex-Judge is, or believes he is, more fortunate. He has seen spirits ‘‘as in lifetime, also in their grave dress,” but, he added, “I don’t know that I ever saw a spirit without clothes.” The other day at a court in Brooklyn, at the trial of a case in which was an action in a policy of insurance, he saw “standing up behind the jury the spirit of a man who told me he was the one whose life and death were involved in the policy. * * * The appearance of the spirit was shadowy and transparent, and I could see material objects through it; the first spirit I ever saw was that of Judge Talmadge, of the Supreme Court; I saw through it.” The ex-Judge is manifestly indisposed to cry ‘‘ humbug,” as Scrooge cried in Dickens’ ‘‘Christmas Carol,” when he saw the ghost of old Marley, who ‘‘was dead as a door nail.” Judge Edmonds is not incredu- lous, like Scrooge, who fought against his senses, even while “‘he looked the phantom throug and through, and saw it standing be- fore him.” The counsel for the defence of Mumler ought to engage Mr. Vandenhoff ta read Dickens’ description of the thrilling 80”;ne witnessed by Scrooge, and cleverly illus’rated by Sol Eytinge. How could a jury rosist evi- dence go strongly confirmatory of Judo- - ee aude monds’ testimony ? “The ‘same face; the Very same, Mar'<y in his pigtail, usual waist- Cost, tights and boots; the tassels on the lat- +e2 brigtling, like his pigtail, abd his coat=skirts and the halr poh hishead, * * * His body was transparont; so that Scrooge, observing him, and looking through his waistcoat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind.” Scrooge and Judge Edmonds might supply Carlyle with a new chapter for Sartor Resartus, to be entitled ‘‘ Spirit Clothes.” Herr Teufelsdrich himself would read such a chapter with de- light, and we should all like to know if spirit tailors and spirit mantuamakers are in the habit of dunning their customers, THe WESTERN TRANSPORTATION QUESTION. — The Chicago 7’ribune puts the whole matter of Western grain transportation in a nutshell when it says ‘‘the question is simply a matter of expense. If grain can be brought to Chicago from St. Louis and delivered in New York for less money than it can be by way of New Orleans and the ocean, not a bushel would ever go down the river; while if grain can be taken more cheaply from Chicago to New York via St. Louis and New Orleans, it will go that way.” This is a practical way of stating the case. The result remains in the hands of the railroads and transportation com- panies, the commission merchants and ware- house men iaterested in having the grain shipments of the West reach the seaboard at New York via Buffalo or via St. Louis. It is entirely a questien of cheap rates, and those interested should govern themselves accord- ingly. Toe New Amepioan Tite or Nopiniry— “Friend.” As Eneusa Bitt or ‘Set-Orr,”—In the Canadian House of Commons yesterday ex- Premier Galt gave notice that he would to- day move that the papers exhibiting the amount of expenses incurred by the colonial and imperial governments in defending the frontier in the years 1863 and 1864, with the subsequent cost of arming against a Fenian invasion, be submitted and aggregated so as to constitute a claim against the United States, This may be intended asa sort of legal ‘‘set- off” against the Alabama claims. In making it Mr. Galt has demonstrated that Canada can furnish froth and bombast just as abundantly as Senators Sumner and Chandler. The remedy for her grief is to come at once under the Union flag and receive our government protection in payment of what Mr. Galt regards as a debt, Revivat or Enotsa Orzra.—There is every reason to hope that Mme. Parepa-Rosa’s scheme for organizing a first class English opera company will meet with popular favor. The late William Vincent Wallace used to be fond of quoting Aaron Hill’s famous letter to Handel, exhorting him ‘‘to be resolute enongh to deliver us from our Italian bondage and to demonstrate that English is soft enough for opera when composed by poets who know how to distinguish the sweetness of our tongue from the strength of it, where the last is less necessa- ry.” Itis a seriously mooted question whether the idea that the Italian is best adapted to music has not been pernicious, It is certain that Mme. Parepa-Rosa, Mme. Sainton-Dolby, Miss Louisa Pyne, Mme. Lemmens-Sherrington, Mr. Sims Reeves and Mr. Sautley chiefly owe the high reputation which they enjoy to their performances in their own language. It is, moreover, probable that one of these days American and English audiences will not deem it unfashionable to confess honestly that they derive more pleasure from hearing words sung which they understand than from any foreign libretti. A Mission That Ought Not to Fall. That of the Rabbi Sneersohn from the ancient city of Jerusalem for some appointment in behalf of the Israclites in the Holy Land, in the name and under the authority of the United States, The Rabbi, in his interesting interview with the President the other day, said, that ‘‘the Israelites in Palestine possess no political or civil rights whatever, and often deprived of protection by the representatives of the civilized nations which the Christians enjoy, are exposed to violence and arbitrary rule;” and'that ‘the only shelter the Israel- {tes occasionally find is in the courts of the dif- ferent European consulates, where one of their coreligionists is employed as interpreter or deputy consul, who conveys the grievances to the proper channel.” The Rabbi therefore prays, in view of the great American prin- ciples of equality, toleration and liberty of conscience, that ‘your Excelloncy may show mo that mark of favor which would enable my brethren in the Holy Jand, in the hour of need, to geek refuge under the Stars aud Stripes, that this free country and its exalted chief should be blest on the sacred soil of out common ancestors,” The President, after some inquiries as to the condition and the circumstances of the Jews in Jerusalem, re- plied that ‘I shall look into this matter with care.” We think, too, that this promise means something.. It is not much that this Rabbi has come all the way from Jerusalem to ask ia behalf of his people, and his mission, as a matter of humanity, ought not to fail, to say nothing of the political claims of that great body of worthy American citizens known as Jews. On broader grounds the time has come when the good offices of the United States may be wisely exercised at Constantinople and else- where, a8 well as at Jerusalem, in behalf of religious toleration, Domes at ALBANY.—They have killed the Broadway Railroad bill for this session, and the bill to widen a section of upper Broad- way, the “‘bill to provide for the purchase of the Junction canal of the State,” and various ether bills, including a bill for the collec- tion of ship news, which, though ‘a bill for the public benefit and free from all party consi- derations, was yet made in the Senate a paltry party question, The Assembly has passed a bill to regulate the appointment of a Police Commissioner in the place of Mr. Acton, awaiting a decision on the succession, and this bill, it is said, will make %% all right, The amendatory Excise bill ig probably swamped by the opposition of the rural districts to metropol!\an Suaday evening lager beer; and the ‘new Erie Railroad bill of Gould and Fisk, “they say, calls for a littlp more of the sinews of war. Upon the whole the ways and the doings of our Solons at Albany are stich that the people will bé glad when they shut up chop and go home. = Inrortant Di\(oVery—That of the Rich: mond Whig just proclaimed to the world, that the Northern democracy of the copperhead sehool are bad advisers for the South. Awarmina InstRvotions.—Mr. Motley, our newly appointed Minister’ to England, is at Washington awaiting his instruc- tions. What will they be? is the mo- mentous question. If according to Senator Sumner’s exposition of the Alabama claims they will be in perfect harmony with the public sentiment of this country, and they will bring about a satisfactory settlement. If, on the other hand, it is true that Mr. Fish’s paramount idea is peace with England, this idea may be the leading point of the instruc- tions to our Minister on the Alabama question, and in this event Mr. Motley’s ‘mission, like that of Andy Johnson’s man, Reverdy John- son, will be a fiasco, Sumner’s speech on the Johnson Alabama claims treaty is the only proper programme for General Grant's ad- ministration. Srvok iv tHE Mup—Pile! Taz Gop Marxet.—There has been a financial see-saw in the Gold Room the present week. The ‘‘bulls” were in the ascendant the greater part of the time, but the “bears” got the upper hand yesterday and are exulting over their opponents. Secretary Boutwell’s proposition to sell gold next Thurs- day, two days before the May interest comes on the market, isa very sapient step for tha beginning of his administration. Isn’t it very much like locking the stable door after the horse is stolon? Enawish Gotp For Spain.—The new Span- ish loan, voted since the retirement of Queen Isabella, was placed on the London 'Change with great success yesterday. Any guarantee in Cuba? “You Pars Your Money anp You TAKes Your Cuorog.”—The poor Spaniards are really objects of pity. Within a few hours yesterday three distinct plans of future government were presented to them by the persons who manage affairs in Madrid. Sefior Figueras proposed to the Cortes either to restore the Bourbons or inaugurate the republic. Sefior Zorilla re< garded the restoration of the Bourbons as an impossibility and a republic a ‘national calamity.” He is certain to find a king. Where is the difference ? High Art. . The theory of amusements at the Tammany temple of high art ranges just now with be- wildering variation from pitch and toss to manslaughter, with a decided tendency lat- terly to manslaughter, It has always been an interesting question, and has become even more so by the peculiar condition of our stage, as to how far a manager may go in catering to the whims and caprices of the public, Offenbach grew broader and broader in his musical improprieties until a climax was reached in the startling story of ‘‘Gene- vitve de Brabant,” the plot of which, it is pleasant to record, no newspaper published in the English language has yet ventured ta faithfully translate. A natural weakness in the American male bosom for shapely ankles and blue boots has been considerately indulged by pandering managers until the little which remains undeveloped of the female form divine can be amply draped in a yard of silk and a handful of glittering spangles. In Paris, that voluptuous and esthetic city of luxury, one lovely creature blazoned her name high in the annals of the naked drama by floating in sylph-like languor on the stage enveloped only in a haloof electric light. It would have been a curious contretemps, and one doubt« loss highly gratifying to such an audience as witnessed this prostitution of science, had the apparatus ceased to work during the exhibi- tion and left the actress nude and appealingly beautiful, even as Phryne stood before the judges. The provailing rage just now, however, is neither the indelicacies of Offenbach nor the Audity of burlesque Indios, but the nightly, perilling of life and limb by children and wo« men; and at the Tammany: resort this is card ried to an extreme which makes it in one sense’ essentially high art. The posstbility of a fall of less than forty feet incurs for the performer only the neglect or coutempt of the audience, which hangs with breathless suspense on the thrilling feats of boys or women, perehed high in air, from whenoe a fall would certainly dash, them to pieces or crush thom into hopeless, cripples, Admitting the existence of such a savage thirat for excitement in the breasta of Tammany audiences, ia it right for the mane agement to humor it? We think not; and on