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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY 4%0 ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic dogpatches riust be addressed New York Herat. Rejected communications will not be re- turned.. Volume XXXIV No. 121 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ifth avenue and Twenty- fourth atreet,—Matinee at 2—B. BE BLEUR. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street. — Sou00L. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Huurtr Dowrry, with New Fraturss. Matinee at Ly. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 6d sireet.—THE TEMPEST. Matinee at 1's. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur SEVEN DWARFS; Ok, HAKLEQUIN AND THE WORLD OF WONDERS. Matinee. 4th street.—LA BELLE HELENE— FENS—MONS, CHOUFLEURY. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Lr Magnrace aux La ROOTH’S THEATRE, st., between 5th and 6th avs.— Matinee—OTHELLO, Evening—MARDLE HEART. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tar Buriesque Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE FORTY THIEVES, Matinee at 2. 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TO ADVERTISERS. + All advertisements should be sent in before eicht o’clock, P. M., to insure proper classifi- cation. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. Brooxtyn Carriers aNnp Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Branco OFFICE or THe New York Hzxaxp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscriprions and all letters for the New York Weraup will be received as above. THE NOWS. Europe. ‘The cable despatches are dated April 30. By special telegram and mail from London we have a highly important report of the effect pro- duced in England by Senator Sumner’s speech on the Alabama claims question, as expressed by the press and Cabinct Ministers, The Spauish Cortes has rejected a proposal to adopt the Catholic as the religion of the State. ‘The International Conference for the promotion of the care of the wounded in time of war, in its recent session held in Berlin, adopted and forwarded an address of sympathy to the people of the United States. The Legislature. In the Senate yesterday bills were passed incor- porating the Grand Lodge of Good Templars of the State of New York; the town binding bill, author- izing towns and cities to ald in constructing rail- roads; the general appropriation bill; to authorize atax for extraordinary repairs of canals; extenda- ing Madison avenue; to widen Ninth avenue and Fitteenth street, Brooklyn; and forthe payment of certain certificates held by the soldiers of 1512, The bills to authorize the Comptroller of Brookiyn to issue bonds; to incorporate the Hansom Cab Com- pany; to reorganize the Fire Department of Brook- lyn; relative to the Court of Oyer and Terminer in New York; to amend the State Excise law; and for the erection of an almshouse in Brooklyn, were re- ported upon favorably. The resolution to amend the Coastitution so that the fiscal year shall com- mence on the first of December was called up and lost. . In the Assembly among the bills passed were the following:—To authorize the sale of certificates of sale of land for taxes held by the State; to amend the charter of the’New York and Long Island Bridge Company; to authorize the Highland Bridge Company to build a bridge over the Harlem river; and requiring ferry companies to place gates on their docks and boats. A message was received from the Governor vetoing the bill amending the charter of Oswego, giving that city five additional supervisors. The veto was tabled by a vote of 46 to 38. Miscellaneous. Many of the radical Senators and members, who remain in Washington, express the conviction pri- vately that unless the Cabinet is reconstructed the republican party will go to pieces, and the next House of Representatives will have @ democratic majority. General Grant denies the report that he intends to visit California during the summer. The dis- tance is teo great and he cannot spare the time. Old Ben Wade's triends accuse General Grant of having treated him very shabbily in the appointment of the Commisssioners to report on the Pacific Rail- road. A position as one of them was positively promised Mr. Wade by the President, according to Senator Chandler, and his name, it was stated, was to have been immediately sent to the Secretary of the Interior, but he was not appointed. and no ex- planation of the matter has yet been made, San Francisco also intends to velebrate the open- ing of the Pacific Ratiroad. The two locomotives fitended to go first over the entire lengtn of the road are now en route over the Hudson River Rail- road. They carry numerous tokens of regard from Eastern engineers to their brother artfsans in the far West. « Dr. Biank, one of the two New York physicians who were imprisoned in the Hudson county (N. J.) jail on Thursday night for alleged complicity in pro- curing an abortion on the person of Miss Ellen Car- lock, attempted to commit suicide in his cell yester- day morning by cutting his throat and both wrists with @razor. Assistance came soon, however, and he will probably recover. His companion, Dr. Voelker, asserts that Dr. Blank attenaed Miss Car- lock only once, and then treated her for pulmonary consumption. Senator Fessenden was present on Thuraday night fn the Canadian House of Commons during the debate on reciprocity. The directors of the East Pennsylvania Railroad have declared a stock dividend of 100 per cent and have leased the road to tire Readfng Railroad Com. pany for 999 years. Sam McKee, the radical ex-Congressman trom NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1869.—TRIPLE ” Secretary Boutwell in Wall Street. The Secretary of the Treasury has made his appearance among the bulls and bears of Wall street, and, as he said, this was the first time he had ever visited the Stock Exchange. What particular object he had in view is not known, except that as he came just at the time of the sale of government gold it is presumed he might have come to look after this business. Still this was not necessary, and we do not see what good his presence could do, Per- haps he came to educate himself in the mys- teries of finance and gold and stock gambling at this financial and commercial centre. Being ignorant of the subject, and skilled only in the quibbles of law and political schemes, he may have supposed he would get instruction from the sharp fellows who daily hover around and roar themselves hoarse about the Stock Ex- change. But whatever his object, he was brought into the noisy arena, and, of course, made a speech. A speech from such a public functionary, as, indeed, from all public functionaries in this country, is inevitable. The’ Wall street financiers and speculators wanted to know what the Secretary of the Treasury would say, not from any con- cern for the general welfare, but for the pur- pose of shaping their operations and twisting any expressions he might make to their own advantage. It is said they were pleased with his views, but we see nothing in what he uttered but glittering generalities. He repeated only what all Secretaries who have preceded him have said—that is, that he would perform his duty in collecting the revenue, in practising economy and in making his transactions known to the country. This is all very well, but we want proof of his capacity and a knowledge of his plans. He made but few remarks, and the only definite idea expressed was that with regard to using the surplus revenue of the country, beyond what is necessary for the working expenses of the government, for the reduction of the national debt. Still we do not know what he means by this or what his plans are for carrying it out. In short, Mr. Boutwell generalizes only and lays down no definite financial policy. But let us apply the Secretary’s theory to hia practice and see if he be consistent or knows what he is about. He sells eight millions of gold, and for what? With a view Kentucky, has been appotnted Pension Agent at | The Alabama Claims—Senator Sumner’s Louisville, Ky. Speech and England’s Position. Mr. John Russell Young has entered suit in Phila- deiphia against Forney's Press and the Avening | By special telegram through the Atlantic Bulletin for $100,000 each damages, accruing from | cable, dated in Lo: dour their republication of alleged libellous articles in . ape 5 enaped veNe the New York Sum. mail report of the 17th of April we have a oon See Sl reflex of the effect produced in Great Britain by Commissioner Delano has rendered a decision in th licati ie h the matter of bankers’ and brokers’ taxes which | the publication of Senator Sumner's speech on endorses Assessor Webster's course against Messrs. | the Alabama claims difficulty, as well as of the Clark, Dodge & Co. He decides that borrowed capi- . " tal 1s taxable, and that a banker who is also a broxer | ‘itiatory agitation commenced by the English is lable to the usual taxes on each branch of his | preas on the receipt of the intelligence of the business. * ‘The United States steamer Frolic, Commander | Teection by the United States Senate of the David B, Harmony, from Lisbon March 22, touching | Johnson-Stanley treaty or convention of set~ at Porto Grande, Cape de Verde, Barbados and St. Thomas, arrived at this port Inte last night, The | “ment, negotiated by these ministers Frolic has been in commission nearly four years, | when Minister Johnson first arrived in having been attached to the European squadron un- ‘ der Admirats Goldsborough and Farragut as tender London, The matter is of serious import and despatch vessel, and during that time has | and worthy the attentive consideration of our steamed over fifty thor a milk - ty-fve pape si ot ee miles and visited seven- | Freoutive and the people at large, as it The work of extending Church street is under full | Shadows forth a certain position likely to be headway. The whole front of the five story building No, 188 Fulton street has been demolished. adopteit by Mogiant in sep 1a-Aia, words of The trial of Judge Fullerton, on charges of comp:!- | her Cabinet ministers and the expression of influential writers of her press. The English journals yesterday commented extensively on the subject. The London Star, the organ of Mr. John Bright, and which as such exercises a very considerable influence over the minds of the people of England, asserts that Mr. Sum- ner’s demands are ‘‘new and startling” in their character, and must be regarded merely as “enormous,” and that if they only city in internal revenue frauds and conspiring against the prosecution of certain alleged criminals by the District Attorney, will be commenced on Monday, the 7th of June, instead of the 14th, as previously ordered. The examination in the case of the alleged forged checks, purporting to be given by Jay Cooke & Co. and upon which some $26,000 were paid by the Bank of the State of New York, was concluded before Justice Dowling yesterday. The prisoner, James Smith, identified as having presented one of the forged checks, was committed in default of $10,000 bail and the papers ordered to be sent to the Grand Jury. ‘The Anchor line steamship Iowa, Captain Hadder- | Shadow the instructions given by the Cabinet in Washington to Mr. Motley that gentleman will stand ina very different posi- tion in London from that occupied by Mr. Johnson, who is classed as ‘‘a genial diner out,” now about to bid adieu to the Court. President Grant's desire for the continuance of peace between the countries is, as alleged, of doubtful sincerity, and as he wants the natural ability of the late Mr. Lincoln, being neither a lawyer nor a politician, he is by nature ‘‘in- tensely American.” The Star, having thus induced the inference that General Grant may become dangerous, goes on to deplore the escape of the Alabama, perceiving, as is ac- wick, will leave pier 20 North river, at twelve o’clock noon to-day for Glasgow, calling at London- derry to land passengers. The steamship Guiding Star, Captain Howes, of Ruger’s American line, will sail to-day (Saturday), at two o’clock in the afternoon, from pier 46 North river, for Bremen and Copenhagen via Cowes, ‘The stock market yesterday was excited over a further advance in New York Central, Hudson River and Harlem. Gold advanced to 134%, closing at 134%. “prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor Robert B. Mitchell, of Santa Fé, New Mexico; H. C. Lord, of Cincinnati, and T. A. Scott, of Philadelphia, are-at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain J. G. Walker, of the United States Army; Captain @. B. Raymond, of Bordentown, N. J., and Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania, are at the Astor House. Paymaster Spaulding, of the United States Navy; Captain Watson, of steamer Elmira; Mr. Abrio, of Portugal; J. D. Burnside, of Dublin, Ireland, and R. W. H. Jarvis, of Hartford, are at the Hoffman House. | knowledged, that that fact established | to reduce the premium on it or to bring it jou Hevmiis scsescstoe had tor siccuci very dangerous precedent in the | dowa in the market? If so he has failed, for it went up immediately after the sale. Then what right has the Secretary to specu- late in this way? Upon what principle of financial policy does he act? Or how can the Treasury or finances of the government be promoted by such gold gambling operations ? event of the future occurrence of a national contingency similar to that which existed in America at that period. Mr. Motley’s rejection as American Minister to the Court is again threatened in case his instruc- tions should approach towards Mr. Sumner's expressions either in verbiage or tone. Such demands are utterly untenable, and her Majesty's ministers must be careful in enter- taining them. Suchis the sum and substance of Mr. Bright’s advice as conveyed in the London Star, and in it we can perceive a full measure of Quaker repentance, Manchester commercial caution and words of ministerial evasion, such as are used by all British minis- ters when seated in the council room in Down- ing street. The London Times publishes an article breathing forth a spirit of war in defence of the treasury cash, classing Mr. Sumner’s money estimate of the damages as ‘‘porten- tous” and ‘‘enormous,” and although his ad- dress is worthy of attentive consideration no contrition or humiliation should either be General Samuel Zulick and Robert E. Randall, of Philadelphia; Dr. Myer Morris, of Leavenworth; L. M. Blake, of the Indian Bureau; General E. L. Packer, of Washington, and Mrs, General Lander, or New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major Clinton Gurney, of San Francisco, and Dr, James Holly, of Michigan, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Seior de Castro and Sejior Villatte, of Cuba, and W. B. Scarth, of Toronto, are at the New York Hotel. N. Mitender, of Sweden, and Joseph Proctor, of Boston, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Genera! Ashley, of Montana, and George C. Gor- ham, Secretary of the United States Senate, arrived in this city yesterday. Henry C. Bader and C. D. Winslow, of Boston; G. F. Gardiner and Thomas H. Davis, of New Haven, and George S. Allen, of Newburg, are eat the West- minster Hotel, Prominent Departures. Oliver Ames, for Easton, Mass.; 8. H. Russell, Professor Lamaroux and Major Bigelow,Wor Boston; Lieutenant Commander Chew and M, Videli, for Washington; A. G. Hazard, for Providence; J. K. Hastings, for San Francisco; R. McMichael, for Saratoga; General J. Jackman, for Philadelphia, and Major W. C. Beardsley, for Auburn. E. B. Washburne, Minister to France; Fernando Wood and tamily; M. Berthemy, late French Mints- ter at Washington; Mrs. Charles G. Leland, W. H. Appleton, Mr. George P. Morgan, Mrs. Hunnicutt, Mrs, A. E. La Grave and S. Pell leave this port to-day on the French steamer Pereire for Brest and Havre. Mrs. John McAuliffe, Mr. F. A. Pike, Rev. L. Smith, revenue on hand would it not be better to buy up quietly and cancel a part of the interest- bearing debt? There has been lying in the Treasury all along for some time past between a hundred and two hundred millions of dollars, reckoned in currency, unemployed and un- productive. Generally there has been a hundred millions or thereabouts in gold. Ifthis could be used asthe specie in the vaults of the Bank of England is used, as a reserve to bring about or sustain specie basis for the currency, there would be some reason for keep- ing such a vast sum of unproductive money in the Treasury ; but it has not had that effect. It would be better, therefore, to use the and thereby save to the country from six to twelve millions a year. It is well understood by statesmen in financial affairs that the reve- nues ofa great country like this, which flow to the Treasury ina continual stream, accumulate If the Mr. P. Lennox, Sidney E. Morse, Jr., George Par- to a surplus. Treasury were Nbr sarigs bahtaaty = Pate Mrs. y = expressed or endured by England; for if such | empty to-day there would be, in nd dang! a . johns and wife i leave this port to-day on the steamer City of Paris | Were to happen the case would be prejudged ~ a “s peg aa for Queenstown and Liverpool. Mrs. Sarah Darsley, Miss Mary Passmore, Wm. F. Walrond and wife, Thomas Pyng, wife and daughter, Mrs. Mayrt and two children, Mr. George Perkins, George B, Doohttle, John Swift and Henry Van Tilborg leave to-day on the steamer Iowa for Glasgow. against her and any project of an equitable settlement defeated. The Senator's argu- ments are in this respect ‘‘feminine,” ‘‘unrea- sonable” and ‘“‘unstatesmanlike,” a description the accuracy of which the Lon- don Times will find it difficult to make Americans believe, and to which the English people evidently do not assent, as shown by the great pains which are being taken to divert their judgment from a con- sideration of the real points at issue by inflam- matory declamation. We are next told that England's having ‘thrown her sword” on the side of the Confederates during the war would have altered the issue asin favor of the Union—a statement which we may be permitted to more than doubt, and of the truth of which her rulers were certainly not convinced at the time, as shown by their hesitating policy towards both belligerents, the neutrality proclamation, blockade running and general game of “fast and loose” without action. The Lon- don Times takes a fling at American ‘‘jour- nalists,” the ‘‘vilifiers” of England, and makes way for the London Standard, a tory organ, which breathes forth a spirit of defiance to our people, and will resist a ‘“‘capitulation” by England to the last. This position is denied by the Liverpool Post, which says that Eng- land cannot afford a quarrel, large or small, with America. So much for the outdoor expression. in Cabinet Council the subject was debated by Mr. Bright, Mr. Gladstone and Lord Clarendon, Mr. Bright refuses to entertain Mr. Sumner’s claims, Lord Clarendon deprecates extreme views, while Mr. Gladstone intimates that he has had assurances of a friendly settlement at an early date, It will thus be seen, both from our complete report by cable telegram and news advices, that the Alabama claims diffi- culty mist soon come to an issue—an issue either by peaceful arbitration and the footing up and prompt payment of our bill!of damages, or war. To England we tender the choice. Which will she accept? Our people are aggrieved, but prepared to settle the dispute either way. ditures over the income, because the revenue intervals. In this country there is no neces- in sity to keep, as we have been keeping all along, FLoops iN Mississippi—Tug Corron aNnp THE Corn Cror.—Large portions of the best cotton lands of Mississippi have been flooded by the recent heavy rains in that quarter, de- stroying the cotton planted and making a re- planting necessary. But if the planters are quick about it they may still, by replanting, secure a fair crop. But if the subsidence of- the overflow will make it too late for the cot- ton it will not be too late for the corn, and the South cannot raise too much corn. Witha rousing crop of Indian corn, though every- thing else may fail, the Southern people will be rich. They have heretofore too much neglected this life-sustaining staple. The les- sons which they learned in the late confederacy, however, of the vital importance of a good crop of Indian corn, they have since turned to good accéunt ; for their corn crop of last year, if we are not mistaken, made their cotton crop clear cash, or very near it, on the costs of the two crops. Let the planters of the cotton States, then, remember that where it may be too late to replant a swamped cotton field, they may still be in season for a good field of corn, said, we are losing from six to twelve millions a year by doing so. the burdens of the people have been augmented, for use instead of the national bank currency, should have had a reduction of the debt-bear- ing interest of five hundred millions of dollars, or about a fourth of the whole. Thirty mil- lions a year would have been saved. We should have had -a greater surplus revenue than we have now, with a uniform and truly national currency. With the debt wasting away in such a manner gold would have de- clined and the credit of the government stood higher. But, alas! we have no statesmen. We have only pettifogging lawyers and small politicians at the head of affairs. Mr. Bout- well, it is to be feared, is about of the same calibre as the rest, and is following in the same beaten track and ruinous policy of Mr. McCul- loch and his predecessors. Such fair words and glittering generalities as Mr. Boutwell uttered to the stockbrokers and gold gamblers amount to nothing. We want a well defined, practical and comprehensive financial policy, which has in view, not the interests of a few capitalists, bondholders and national bankers, but the interests of the great body of the American people. Seeing Spirits. One fact in the natural history of ghosts has been brought out by the Mumler investigation. It is that they are not visible to anybody but those who see them. Judge Edmonds says he can see them. Here is an experience of his :— “The other day I was in the court in Brook- lyn. Iwas present at the trial of a case in which was an action on a policy of insurance. I saw standing up behind the jury the spirit of a man who told me that he was the one whose life and death were involved inthe policy. He had died; he had been killed, and a suit was Tae ARTILLERY Sonoor at Fortress Mon- rokr.—A few days sinee the examination of the scholars at the artillery school took place. It is reported to have been very severe. The studies have been in practical and theo- retical artillery science, engineering, ordnance and gunnery, military and civil law. The importance of such a school can hardly be overrated, and in time of war its ‘graduates will be invaluable to our military arm. It is as easy to educate a young man in a military school as in the ordinary colleges of the coun- try, and the graduates of the former will be far better fitted for ordinary business pursuits than the latter. West Point may look to its laurels if the Fortress Monroe school is sus- tained as it should be. Spomine Sport—Cowper’s declaration that he would not make the man bis friend who would wantonly tread upon a fly goes a little too far for the rough-and-tumble of life; yet it is evidently the motto on which Mr. Bergh executes the law for the prevention of cruelty, &e. If this gentleman would restrict his activity to that sphere in which it is eminently called for he would find fewer disappointments there, we believe ; but he makes capital against himself and the law by indiscriminate action. He cannot make Pythagoreans of all New York- ers, but he can have their sympathy in » war against brutality. told me he had committed suicide. He de- How To Carry a Bit..—The stealing has begun very early in the history of the Tax Commissioner's bill, as the bill itself has been pocketed and carried away. nobody else saw it. I then drew a diagram If the Secretary has a surplus of gold or / money in reducing the interest-bearing debt provided there be no extraordinary expen- is constantly coming in and is only paid out at a large surplus in the Treasury, and, as was We have only to glance at the wretched financial policy of the government to see how when they might have been considerably re- duced. For example, suppose the two hun- dred millions, or thereabouts, always lying idle in the Treasury, had been applied to the liquidation of the national debt, and three hun- dred millions of legal tenders had been issued and so much more of the interest-bearing debt had been bought up by these and cancelled, we brought to recover the insurance money. He scribed to me the positions and places con- nected with his death. While I saw the spirit SHEET. Ee ee! the place at which his death occurred, I Indian Troubles—More War. showed the diagram to the counsel and asked | Tho Westera frontiers of Kansas and the them if it was anything like the place, and | Indian Territory and the whole northwest of they said it was it exactly. I had never heard | Texas appear to be again threatened by the of the man or his place before. The appear- | savages. They received a short time ago ance of the spirit was shadowy and transpa- | their payment for keeping the peace for a rent and I could see material objects through | time, and are now again lacking in arms, am it.” Now, there is a little contradiction in the | munition and blankets. In consequence they words, ‘He had died; he had been killed; he | are disposed to go into the wholesale murder had committed suicide;” but that’s a mere | business once more and show our authorities bagatelle to a ghost, and spirit logic is not our | the necessity of buying them off through un- logic. We must take the ghost’s word for it | principled Indian agencies. It is proposed totry as tothe manner of his death, and on his own | the Penn Quaker dodge on them the next time. word we maintain that he was guilty of un- | It will be found that the Indian of to-day and handsome conduct. If he committed suicide | the one of the time of Penn is quite a different the company was not liable for the policy, and | man. The latter could sell a tract of land the thus his interference was against those de- | size of Pennsylvania and not miss it. Game pendent upon him—against his wife and chil- | was plenty everywhere, ‘fire water” scarce, dren. If spirits cannot return to earth for | and nobody felt disposed to philanthropically any better purpose than this they had better | scrape the dirt and vermin off the savage to stay away. study his color or his capacity for civilization. Now, however, the former lands of the Indians are cut by rail- roads, the game is scarce, the hunting grounds barren, “fire water” abundant and plenty of ruffians to sell it, and everybody dis- posed to scrape the Indian down to the bone to see what kind of material he is made of and how he shall be classified in the scale of hu- manity. ¢ The Indian of to-day is a lazy, brutal cut- throat. To deal with him upon any othee supposition is to make him worse. The method of governmental management in out Indian affairs is an evil as bad as any that exists in the country. There are some com missioners enjoying salaries for superintend- ing tribes of Indians that long ago ceased ta exist. There. is but one method of managing this question successfully, and that is to make each Territorial government responsible fos the good behavior of the tribes within its bor- der. The frontier men will keep the savages quiet, only give them an opportunity. Gold—More Gold in Alaska, We have late reports, by way of San Fran- cisco, of new discoveries of gold at various places among the seaboard mountains of Alaska—gold in the dust and gold in the ore, loose gold and quartz gold; but there is no rush of diggers to those mines, To tell the truth, Alaska don’t draw. The numerous inlets and rivers along that iron-bound coast swarm with salmon, codfish, fur seals and walruses. The boundless interior is said to be full of sables, wolves, reindeer, silver foxes and musk oxen; the seaboard islands bristle with timber and white bears, and those multitudinous mountains are reported to be cracking open with their weight of precious metals; yea, so plentiful is the yellow stuff up there that the Splitskull Indians use golden tomahawks against the ‘‘Mellikens;” and yet, with all these attractions and plenty of room, the ‘‘Mellikens” don’t go in. We must call, therefore, upon Secretary Boutwell, in view of more gold for the Treasury, and upon Secretary Borie, in view of a full supply of smoked salmon and dried codfish for the navy, to equip and despatch an explor- ing expedition to Alaska forthwith. It is a stupendous country, and there must be some- thing in it worth finding out. Some people talk of making it a penal colony, like Siberia ; but a land so overflowing with gold mines, bear’s grease and fish oil may be turned to a better purpose, with alittle help from the gov- ernment. As the headquarters of old Boreas we commend Alaska to the special attention of Mr. Borie. Cupnan Buronery.—If the proclamation that comes from Cuba as Valmaseda’s be au- thentic it is a good thing for Cuba. It will rally in her favor the generous humanity of the whole American people, and this will render it impossible for Spain to keep a foothold in this hemisphere. Valmaseda has sounded the knell of Spanish dominion this side of the Atlantic if he has really issued this proclama- tion. General Burnside on Sprague at Bull Rus. Read the interesting letter in another part of this paper from our correspondent at the com: fortable little city of Providence, in the war- like little State of Rhode Island. The testi- mony of General Burnside in reference to the substantial services of the First Rhode Island regiment, as contrasted with the extraordinary style of fighting practised on the bloody field of the first Bull run by the then Governor Sprague, turns the tables against Sprague completely ; for it thus appears that while the regiment was hard at work on ‘‘the perilous edge of the battle” the Governor, though he fonght like a lion, it wag “like a scared lion, - racing out at tremendous speed on a horse to the line of fire, then as suddenly wheeling round and racing back to get a drink; then racing out to another point and racing back just as fast to get another drink,” until finally, after his last drink on the field, when things began to look blue, he slipped off to Centreville and got there in advance of the regiment, which was the rear guard of the re- treating army. This is the testimony of Gen- eral Burnside, and to rebut it Senator Sprague must bring forward something more to the purpose than his forty-six columns of letters in the Congressional Globe. We fear, indeed, that, as at Bull run, the Senator has been again riding his high horse up and down a little too fast. Promistnc.—Mr. Boutwell's speech to the brokers on ’Change was a model of good promising for the country if not for those wlio heard it. If he performs half he promises he will make a hole in the debt that the country will like a great deal better than his hole in the sky. Ta Preswent’s Trp To Mount VERNON.— General Grant, they say, enjoyed his trip the other day to Mount Vernon, and remarked that it did him good, notwithstanding thé serious drawbacks of the rain and the mud. It may be understood from this that the head of the great republic has rather a hard time of it, when a holiday in the rain and mud isa refreshing recreation. Horatio Seymour ought to be thankful that he is left at home. Tne Progress oF CnuroH REFORM IN ENGLAND.—Mr. Gladstone has gained another victory. The divisions have not been so grandly liberal, but three divisions in one night, resulting in an unmistakable liberal success, indicate beyond even a chance of mistake the popular current. Mr. Gladstone has a House of Commons under him that is marvellously obedient, and since the glebe lands question and the private endowment question have been so successful it may be taken for granted that the Irish Church Re- form bill is safe in the House of Commons. The real struggle must be reserved for the Lords; but the Life Peerage bill and Mr. Gladstone’s reserve of power to create as many peers as may be necessary to carry his measure make it doubtful whether or not it is possible to hinder the Irish Church Disestab- lishment bill from passing into law. The presumption is that the bill is safe in both houses. DiscouraGina To REcEIVERS.—The persons likely to lose most by the operations of the industrious diamond stealer recently caught are those who bought the diamonds. All the owners are recovering the property and the receivers are out of pocket the money they paid. If robbery often has this result receiv- ers will become scarce. Tue New Post Orrice.—The Legislature has authorized the city authorities to make the change desired by the government for the site of the new Post Office, and we trust that all concerned will push the matter to a practi- cal result. Let us have a Post Office worthy the city as soon as possible. STEAM IN THE SrreETs.—The Legislature leaves room for hope to residents on the upper end of the island by refusing to pass a law to prohibit the use of steam on the streets. An attempt made in the horse car interest was defeated by that refusal, and there is yota hope that a locomotive may hustle a weary man from Wall street to Harlem in fifteen minutes, and thus save him an hour anda quarter in a horse car. The Barbarities in Cuba and Their Effect. The acts of the Spanish officials in Cuba come constantly to disprove their wordy announcements that the revolution is nearly suppressed. If such is the case what neces- sity is there for such barbarous proclamations as that of General Valmaseda, which appeared in our telegraphic columns yesterday, or for the bitter persecution with which the mad volun- teers of Havana harass the people of that city? The provisions of General Valmaseda’s proclamation at Bayamo are so perfectly in accordance with the policy which rules ia Cuba, and with the spirit of Spanish power in America that we are fain to give it cre- dence, notwithstanding the suspicious chan- nel through which it has reached us. Many of the Southern journals are now publishing let- ters purporting to come from Cuba which bear upon their face unmistakable signs of impos- ture. But the proclamation published as coming from General Valmaseda has the true Spanish ring in it. Every male over fifteen years of age found away from his home to suffer death ; every woman found under like circumstances must come within the Spanish lines, and every house without a white flag upon it to be burned. The object of such a sweeping pro- clamation can only be to give unlimited license for murder, plunder and destruction to the bands of ‘troops which from time to time are sent into the country by the commanders of Spanish garrisoned places. The policy behind that object is terror, and that we know to be the policy animating those now ruling in Cuba, From all sides for months past we have been receiving from that island reports of the shoot- ing of men, women and children in the streeta and inthe open fields; the burning of homes and plantations, arrests without accusation, deportation and banishment without trial, oon- viotions without testimony and executions with- out mercy, It is the knowledge of those fags more Toe Tax on Brokers’ Capirar.—The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de- cided adversely to the brokers in the case made up and submitted to him on appeal from the Assessor in this city. Under this decision the latter official is authorized to carry out the construction of the law, which subjects the capital of brokers to a tax of one-twenty- fourth of one per cent per month upon the average amount employed for that period, and in ascertaining the aggregate the brokers are required to take account not only of their indi- vidual or personal capital, but of such sums as they may borrow from day to day, known in the street by the technical term of call or demand loans. This is hardly the end of the controversy ; for the brokers are determined to have the opinion of the United States Courts upon the disputed interpretation of the law. Hens’ Rionts.—There is a movement in high chicken quarters, started since the poultry show, to have the hens assert themselves before the world in a series of resolutions pointing out that the roosters do all the crowing and fighting and roost on the highest perches, and yet lay no eggs, and that this is oppressive and unjust to the hens. Ix te New Commissioner's Ear.—We hope that the new Police Commissioner will take notice that the following words occur in the verdict of a Coroner's jury rendefed in Brooklyn a few days since :—‘‘The jury, how- ever, in conclusion, regret to be compelled to say that the evidence establishes the fact that prisoners are frequently treated with the greatest brutality and inhumanity, while in the station house, without the slightest excuse of necessity.” Indeed, the Commissioner could not well find more profitable reading than the whole verdict, ospecially the reference to clubs.