The New York Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1869, Page 6

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Furepe, * Oghle te: iches are dated May 14 asier apring meeting Was hent veaterory andiie batuug room stakes were won by Woue ral rota took piace vesier hich ome of the polwe vers 1eP serious Paria, during 6. ine on in the Bonk of France bee incre sed 2,000,900 fe since the last report. eueral Rousioi, late Danish Minieter a 940 ington, referred yesterday, at @ banguet vei in Copeahagen, to the treaty for the sale 0; jo« % isiands, and #xplained the cause of delay co ihe same by the Senate of ius vo a Chambers closed paideat TerGhy, 9a wow congratulated the ement in the sity recent taproy u Wavana «i Admba! Yom nment, wader date of tie oth, tinws nparatuvely gutet in ¢ 1s were at hand and but few wove w would be yiade by eith ents, Th vat of puttin vik the rebel Washingtou claim that the 4 ause of the patriots Y of Daniel o'Conn wer eho Jay aod reimterred with great powp im ine “ere of Glaspevin. Hiscollaneaus, fhe setoovoer Grap ft, which leit ini port on the th loaded with arma, and bound for Vale Mouth, Jamatea, has put into Beaufort. 4 ©. repatra. inate to detain fl » treasury mt refused int> . schooner having been regularly cleared. Go to» Jost, she was sitll at Beaufort. Measures use vou ” At several poris to prevent a violation ov neutralicy iawa, 1) i9 stated (nat President Grant hae « s10le ao pointed Geneyal Sickies Minister to Spain Mr. Howard, our new Minister to Chime. us+ sso Washington days, and has beso io awit the ident. He urges fle Railroad ano 4 rm mpleation of the fsetlities for tra at the misston to ” rasaed to the grad et oh Einvess aiden! agresd with ls views, and proms<« give tne subiaet »nsideration. A dgiet at the capital y Ney ine tween Uvionel Duncau and Colonel Capos os pirants for the oMice of Superintendent ferior Department, ta Winch the former was «5 A ais from all parts ith Caro! sont the cotton crop as ve ously twe recent ood Weather, Sea Isiaud coon, , ever, logks promising. The Wasitogton Typographical Union, « « «« psotad, will reject Appheation for me aiversiny by Dongiass, the colored printer, now « the government printing oftce. Should men in the oifca strike on account of t tendent’s satinning to employ him, tie <nyerin ftoudent says tie will Mi their placeg tp iwenry fon hours with competeut compositors, #0 » i) abject to work with a colored trpo. Henares Bozen, Superiutendent of © tribes of tha Sournera plains, WILL SOOM «4+ 1 West, Althoogu ali the Indians have nor cows in and fears are entertained of hostilities pewed, he thinks (be matter will be amicaiiy » fanged, Ho has been in constant conantisien iu President Grant aod General Sherman. The Washington Pos'masteranip que Pet settied. Mr. Alexandeys, the progep! iyoua yen refuses to resian. A portion of the walls of a bonded wWiicey # house ip Pitishurg, Pa., fell in yesterdas vuree meh, Two of them were rescued, «» jored. The third man was able to conver wary taken oul of the ruitis, but died svon afte: ‘The editor and proprietor of the Pittsburg po. were held to ball yesterday upon achore: » ° preferred hy a member of the Pennsy Ive bis t tare, whose vole, the Leader bad assered the Marke! dering (he session of Lhe Legit The € Of @ ingyling Of the Lqugh Righip Gon rarving | ‘fon Caba are presenting some new and t NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1369. —TRIPLE SHEET, “ght Kev. Henry Ward Beecher made an eloquent ‘Puesl for women's rights, and was followed by Veeck Yonglass, who made an apology for having seoken #0 frequently on the subject. lo’ .o United States District Court action was com- sueuced yesterday against (he steamers of the Atlan- 1 Steamship Company to recover penalties for violvlions of the revenue laws, tn landing goods yougai from Havana which were not on the ship's mannont © examination of the actor Ten Eyck yester- arged with obtaining money on forged pay- ors cheeks, George W. Bunnell, formerly 1 the Quartermaster General's office in Wash- 1, esttfied that it Was @ common practice in eoorcueal to give checks to outside parties to » van negottated, and instanced a case in which ) were sold to a prominent official in this city. tov ‘ceaeh frigate Semiramis, having on board ral Maguet, of the French West India rrive din this port yesterday. 8 ineeting of the appointing board of jvm City Counci, held yesterday for the » ol agreeing upoy a Board of Commissioners » ve new Fire Department the following gentie- sre seleeted:—Hugh McLaughlin, Frederick vathony Campbell aud Rodney Tharsby— yess democrats and one republican. stove ‘the ist day of January last $1,000 immigrants oove beaded at dhs port from abroad. The number of svetyals since May 1 bs 27,057. Yoo soamahip City of London, Captain Leitch, of ys? Syovan line, wiil leave pler 45 North river at nine rebo ius morning for Queenstown and Liverpool, pean mails will close at the Post Onice at seven aM ‘ue Saflonal fine steamship Helvetia, Captalo will sai at hal!-past eight o'clock this 4, frown pier 47 North river, for Liverpool, call- wenstown to land passengers. » Sachor line steamship Earopa, Captain Mac- o” Glasgow via Londonderry, will leave pier Sova river at twelve M. to-day, ‘oe General Transatlantic Company's steamship 4 4eerre, Captain Roussan, will salt at nine o'clock as oraing, from pier 5 Norca river, for Brest and dove The matis for France will close at the Post omee arweven A.M, Yo sioamsahip United Siates, Gaptain Norton, of hants’ line, will sali from pier No. 12 North vec at chree P.M, to-day for New Orleans direct. !o seeamer George Cromwell, Captain Vail, will ‘ove ner No. 9 North river at three P, M. to-day for sow Oveans, tue stock market yesterday was dull, but gener- aly steady, The exceptions were Pacific Mail, voiced was strong, and Wabash, which was weak. sola say anoed to 1394, ?romiaent Arrivals in the City. overvor Hoffman, from Albany; Most Rev. Dr. » Oeva, Avenbishop of New Orieans; Right Rey. Dr. ‘0008, Bishop of Wilmington, N. ve. Ov. Dubois, Bishop of Galveston, Si ovplog at Sweeny'a Hotel. sl B. F. Edmonds, of Boston; L. Markbreit, ‘oster to Bolivia, and [ra Harris, of Albany, are at ve Mt. Stcholas Hotel. + slovel W. Stewart, of the United States Army, master Reed, of the United States Navy, are Jutien Hotel. udle, of Texas; J. H. Harris, of Mexico, ¥. Stockton, of Princeton, N. J., are at the sew York Hotel, sie Van O'Liada, of Chicago, and W. F. Jenks, 4 sew Orleans, are at the St. Charlies Hotel, '. » Snepard, United States Consul to Jeddo; »| 0. McKibbon, of the United States Army, 91 J. H. Grover, United States Consul to Italy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. O. Harris, of Philade!phia ; G. G. Fogg, of pahire, and N. A. Hatch, of Clucianati, ave stor House, a! Donaldson, of the United Staies Army, 0. Oxnard, of Masaachusetts, are at the Piruh fanned 3 | S-eone Hotel, ‘olonel Hawking and Lieutenant Anderson, of the veo Avuny, are at the Clarendon Hotel, Promiucat Departures. swapicoller Allen, for Albany; ex-Governor Den- wron. (or Ohio; W. HW. Seward, Jr, tor Auburn; J. fil, for Albany; City Chamberiam Peter B. Jadge Morgan and family, of New Orleans, Rochereau teave for Europe to-day on the Lafayette; Judge MoCormick, for Philadel- vfeasor Thorpe, for Baivimore, and Major >... Hoghes, for Boston. ‘Tee soanish Minister ia Washingion—Now Phases in the Cuban Que "be signs of the times from Washington and voresing phases in the Cuban question. " informed that Seitor Roberts, the yeu Minister, far from being on bis high vocse aod ready to demand his passports sua the Cubans have been allowed equal zea with thelr cousins the Spaniards in ») colog arma and assistance from our ports, * 04 ‘be best possible terms with the Secretary »' siete and the American people. He is essed with the sympathy we have expressed “forts of the Spanish people to estab- vetter government than the one they et torn down, and assures us that so far +s Sporn is concerned she has no disposition to re vaed by England or France against the Jnived Seilor Roberts is an accom- ieoet diplomatist, and this is a very nice vse A patting the question before Brother Jone 1, The fact of the case is, however, 4: sovia has been making strenuous efforts * what she calls the Great Powers diplomatic remoastrance to the on the Cuban qnestion, and has it. The Great Powers are as od 44 is Mr. Seoretary Fish, and they are «sting to see what General Grant will do. to the Presidency with the ing a very Saladia io war, and vee wait to see if he is as great in diplomacy. toberts knows this, and 1 ihe States, preeeol a United Stat Wed 0 obt with all other haroveaa diplomatists, waits for the President » show Sis hand, Sov:her curious phase with which the mild or) sofior Roberts may have some connec- yy is (he unexpected effect which the seques- retion decrees of General Dulce are productag * Spanish mind in Cuba, It bas hegua to the fact that two may play at ne, and should Ceapedes issue » decree yoiecation against all Spanish property ia tute serious complications may arise, [o ory already begin to show themselves, \eeperal Dulee has given to hie decrees a ve oifect, and is laying hands on Isrge amounts of property which have been pe aunjvct of bona fide sales months ago to swevicon ettizens fn this city. From this ymplications must result, and Sefor Roberts knows it, But the most pointed indi stiow of the drift of Spanish opiuion in Cuba i + tact that a private meeting of « namber of wewlloy Spaniards was held recently in Herons 0 consider the question of sending a namieeion to New York to coufer with Seiior Lemns, the representative in this of the republican government in in regard to the sequestration decrees sod ‘o# vepriaals that mast naturally follow, ja view of recent events these are weighty It is evident from the tenor of s-ovole from Spanish sources that the revo- oa being suppressed. Not wily ace Sperations carried on on an active wile iv the vicinity of Nuevitag aad Puerto Peiucipa, where the Spanigh ernment is >moonwaling ig efforta but the lagurrea- Morales conoury voside: ations, Wilco ts very far tion has not been suppressed in any ove district where a body of insurgents have ever appeared. The journals of Havana come to us filled with repeated accounts of victories over and dispersions of bodies of insurgents ; but these very repetitions give a palpable con- tradiction to their previous songs of victory. Villa Clara, Trinidad, Cienfuegos, Remedios, Santi Espiritu, Clego de Avila, Puerto Prin- cipe, Santa Cruz, Las Tuias, Manzanillo, Bayamo, Gibara, Holguin and Santiago de Cuba are all harassed by insurgent bands in their neighborhood, and their local command- ers are continually asking for reinforcements from Havana, On the other hand, every letter and every message that comes from the in- surgent camps to this country brings the same ory, ‘‘Send us arms, arms, We have men ino abundance, but we want arms!” These things all prove that the revolution isa living element in the hearts of the people, and its triumph is merely a question of sacrifices and time, What, then, should be our course in this tur- moil of events and breaking up of old political ties? There can be but one answer, The people of Cuba look hopefully to the American Union as their great ark of refuge from a long and destructive war and prolonged desolation. Their geographical position, their political affinities, the exchanges of industry and trade, all lead them to union with us; and the strategio position of their territory, with its fine harbors and excellent capabilities for aggressive or defensive purposes, make its ad- mission to the Union a necessity now and forever, The administration must hold these great and weighty reasons in view and 809 shape its policy that this favorable juncture shall not be lost to the nation, Spain must and will lose Cuba. She may make the strug- gle so long and so destructive that it will be but a desert when she is driven forth if we rofuse to throw our moral weight in the scale. In the interests of the Union we have shed so much blood and so many millions of treasure to preserve, in the lnterests of humanity and civilization, we must exercise our legitimate in- fluence in the struggle. Let the administration announce to Spain that we cannot permit de- struction to be prosecuted to no purpose, and that so soon as itis evident to the world that she cannot restore peaceful authority in Cuba by reasonable and humane practices of war we shall assume the right to protect our own in- terest and those of civilization. Such a step would be worthy the Saladin-like fame of Gen- eral Grant, and would meet the hearty con- currence of the whole civilized world. Tue Daves AGainst THe Ex-Prestpent.— The late Minister of Denmark in Washington asserted yesterday in Copenhagen tbat the delay in the ratification of the treaty of sale of the Danish Weat india islands to the United States was “entirely owing” to the differences which existed betwaen ex-President Johnson and Congress. Very unfortunate for the Danish treasury ! Parepa-Rosa has very gracefully accepted an invitation to join io the Boaton Peace Jubi- lee next month, She leaves the terms entirely to the committee, as no fesling, she says, “except the pleasure of joining in so great an undertaking can actuate any artiste.” She will probably be among the most brilliant at- tractions of the monster occasion. Paris 31 DircrsEep.—The election agi- tation increases in Paris. Riots ocourred in several instances in the city yesterday, and a number of policemen were wounded when at- tempting to restore order, Disagreeable, no doubt, to Napoleon, as his former plan of pacification may aot succeed icin de Tut Nearo Men ov tue Sovrw Tyran- NwAL.—Mra, Pauline Davis (white woman), in the Woman's Rights Conventioa on Thurs- day last, sald, in the course of ‘a few remarks” on the everlasting nigger, that she had been living down South, and that from her observa- tions she had to say that down there “the negro mea were exceedingly tyrannical and abusive—much more so since they obtained their freedom ;" that “they thought that mar- riage had given them complete control over theic families,” and that ‘they not only whipped thelr wives, but often robbed them of their young children.” Mrs. Davis, therefore, was opposed to giving the ballot to these negro men until it was given to the negro women, eapecially as those much-abnsed women were much more inielligent than those tyrannical negro men. There is too much truth in this for the credit of those Southern negro men. They are only yet a few removes from bar- barism, and will need yet u great deal of re- construction to get the notion into their thick heads that emaavipation dovs not mean liberty todo as they please, and that suftrage is not a aubstitute for the free rations of the Freed - men’s Bureau. Bap ror tHe Pore. —The Bavarian Cabinet has addressed a circular to the continental Powers, great and small, inviting a diplomatic conference in Munich charged to devise means for the preservation of the State against the Church, Bavaria ranked as ever-faithful to Rome a few years ogo. Her people must be sorely pressed whon they appeal to-day, even to Prussia, for protection from the Papacy, As tHe Twice Is, &o.—It is given ont in Was fon that a new reading of the old saw “As the twig is bent the tree's inclined” is now current there, to wit:--"*As the twig is | Dent the chief's inclined,” Tuk Lavest Cask or Coyscrenon is that of an old soldier who haa returned to ihe Secre- tury of State of Llnoia a pictorial unabridged copy of “Webster's Dictionary,” which, it seotas, lie “‘confisented” from the post library when the rendezvous at Camp Butler broke up. The Secretary is in a dilemma as to whom the work belongs according to the Chicago the library, the post, the camp, and everything, in fact, but Butler, have passed away, Sond it to Butler, then; for he may therein find some definitions in regard to inosmuch as, Tribune, habeas corpus, impoact , confiscation, ine ternational law, State and #0 on which may be of service to hin i 4 flove political career Give Us tie Levrers Lucy Stone, tn the Woman's Rights Convention, has begun to read the letters, We commend to the women Sprague’s example, Let them all print all their letters, wiih (he namo, fo that way thow may make a seusation, ‘The eas jug Hleection mm Vireinis. By order of President Grant a proclamation will be Issued in Washington to-day fixing the 6th of July next as the day for holding the election in Virginia. The State paper pro- vides that the new constitution shall be sub- mitted to the electors, Separate votes will be received as to the issue, by approval or rejection, of the citizen disabilities and test-oath clauses, but oa no other spe- cial points of the instrument. According to appearances it is estimated that the white vote under the new registration may be in- creased twenty thousand. At the former registration it exceeded the black vote by about fifteen thousand, and presuming that the latter registration will not reach the ratio of the white, it is calculated that the white con- servatives will have thirty thousand prepon- derance in the State if they bring forth thelr whole strength. We notice from the local cor- respondence of Richmond papers that while in the eastern, southwestern and middle portions of the State the greatest enthusiasm exists in the cause of the conservative candidate for Gov- ernor, Colonel Walker, in the Valley there is an apathy among a portion of the people which is pronounced deplorable. One writer from the Valley says :—‘‘I do not mean that Walker is not the choice here, but that numbers of our citizens, with a headstrong obstinacy, persist in the old fogy ‘do-nothing’ policy that will be productive of political suicide, if they do not wake up to the vital issues now before us.” It is also stated that the places of registration are so remote and difficult of access that many conservatives will not spare the time nor take the trouble to register, and hence they will lose their vote. This feeling of indifference should not be permitted to continue. If native Vir- ginians wish to be restored to former political rights and position under the government they should arouse themselves to the importance of instant and co-operative action, and realize the maxim that ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Commenting upon this point the Richmond Whig remarks :—‘‘The Virginian or Northern or foreign citizen and settler who fails to acquire by registration the right to vote will subject himself to the suspicion of being desirous to do indirectly what he has not the mantiness to do directly—that is, to aid in the election of Wells and in fixing disfranchise- ments and disabilities upon those who are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.” Therefore it will be made to appear when election day comes how far and how deeply the white citi- zen in Virginia appreciates the political situa- tion ia that State. The Fivo LIncorraptibles. It was once said that if five upright men could be found in Sodom that unhappy city might have been spared the direful fate which befell it. It is reported that one of the master spirits of the Albany lobby has stated that there were only five members of the late Senate who could not be purchased; but it appears that the presence of these five incor- ruptibles couid not save the Senate chamber from the obloquy attaching to charges of very mysterious tergiversation, if not of gross cor- ruption, The public would probably like to know who these five grave and reverend seignors were. Ata random guess the names of Tweed, Creamer, Bradley, Norton and Pierce might be suggested without much danger of mistake. It is pretty certain that in their general action in the Senate these gen- tlemen exhibited a stralghtforwardness and consistency to party measures and obligations that their republican opponents on the other side of the house did not manifest, greatly to the chagrin of some members of their party. Perhaps the number of those who could not be influenced by the omnipotence of the lobby might be increased to seven in the persons of Senators H. C. Murphy and Genet. That cor- ruption and intimidation kept the majority in alternate hope of reward and fear of political punishment upon many important questions, and that these agencies combined were instru- mental in deciding some of those questions, is undeniable ; so that it is evident that five or even seven men could not save the Senatorial Sodom, How. Bex “Wapz, of Ohio, it appears, has heen appointed by President Grant a govern- ment director of the Pacific Railway. About as good an office pecuniarily as that of Presi- dent, without its responsibilities, Cukare Coat.—Wo have no doubt that the price of coal before we reach the autumn months will range considerably under the figures now prevailing. Thore is a large stock on band, much larger than any previous year exhibited; and the last dodge of the dealers, called “ihe miners’ strike,” is too transparent to produce any effect on the minds of con- summers. Progeress.—The Equal Rights women now want to be free in everything but love. They want to be free of all the restraints that have kept women from the polls and politics, They want the struggle of life to be generally a free fight; but they piously affirm and passionately declare that they do not want ‘free love,” When they began their agitation the great op- pression was the tyranny of marriage. Svamprsa Our aie Nationa, Denr.— Boutwell’s plan to buy up government securi- “ties and “stamp” every one bought as the pro- perty of the United States is a good common sense way to reduco the debt and carry out the law. If he will only persevere in using the nation’s superfluous cash in that way Jnele Sam's bonds will increase in value. Peter B. Our City Chamberlain leaves to-day for Europe, with the intention of making an ex- tended tour on that Continent, the southern limits of which will probably be the Eternal City. The labors of Tammany and that por- tion of the city government which his official station imposed upon him must have warned Mr. Sweeny that some relaxation from his constant duties was necossary in order that he might be able to work in the harness which it seems the people have determined to place upon him tn some capacity or another, It is fortunate for the Tammany Institution that it claims in its ranks a mau like Potor B, Sweeny, whose honesty of purpose has had a practical demonstration in the fact that he has returned regularly to the City Treasury the interest on the deposits placed in his keeping —amounting to a princely fortyno—which, according to the pracedents established by his prodecossors, he Sweeny. \ ‘alah boo bold ap bis owa porquisite, Ta this regard the Otd World will perhaps hail in Mr, Sweeny a lusus nafura, an honest New York politician, Tammany will have to look sharp after its business in his absence; for, although the head remains here, in the person of its Grand Sachem, Supervisor Tweed, who is quite competent to run the machine and keop all the rings in order, Tammany loses its heart and a great portion of its vitality, tem- porarily, while Peter B, Sweeny’s well tried Sagacity is wanting. We wish the honest, ge- nial and good-hearted Chamberlain bon voyuge, and hope he will bring back the blessing of Pio Nono, with power to dispense it to all the members of the city government on his safe return, The Brooklyn Tragedy. The detailed account which we gave in our columns yesterday of the terrible tragedy in real life which has just been enacted in the neighboring city of Brooklyn will be carried by telegraph and mail not only over the length and breadth of this Continent, but everywhere, all over the world, where the English lan- guage is spoken and where English or Ameri- can newspapers are read. So far as we know no event of a precisely similar kind has, in recent years, occurred In any part of Christen- dom. We have had, certainly, shootings and poisonings enough. The use of the knife and the pistol is a thing of daily occurrence in the midst of us; but the facts and surroundings of this case are so peculiar as to invest it with the character of novelty, Sympathy with the young woman, who has already suffered so much and whose life may yet be considered in danger, and regard for the feelings of the respectable family in whose house the horrible tragedy was enacted, prevent us from dwelling on the shocking details. The picture already described in the columns of the HERaxp is one which no reader will ever forget while memory lasts. We see the miserable Talbot, his heart already black with crime, the de- structive drug in bis pocket, wending his way to this house of peace and quietness, this home of honor, order and respectability. We see him as he has just entered—the house quiet and the inmates all retired for the night— calmly and deliberately preparing himself for the execution of his foul purpose, minutely calculating every chance and carefully pro- viding for every contingenoy. We see him soak the handkerchief with chloroform. We see him laying it aside asif not yet quite equal to the work before him. We see him with stealthy step, cat-like, wandering from room to room until he has found the loaded pistol. We. see him, chloroform-soaked handkerchief in hand, enter the bedroom of his innocent and unoffending victim, now fast asleep and dreaming ot no danger. We see tho handkerchief applied to the sleeper’s face. We hear the shriek, see the struggle and rejoice in the fortunate escape. demon retiring to his room, his intended vic- tim trembling from fear and shrieking for help in another part of the house. The loaded revolver is now in his hand, and we see him rush from his room down stairs in the direc- tion whence the shrieks and sobs proceed. Having failed in his first purpose he is deter- mined to carry out his second. The poor trembling girl in an agony of grief and excite- ment is again before him. He fires, but fails to Pursuing his bleeding victim and approachlag so close as almost to be able to touch her, he, In spite accomplish his murderous purpose. of shrieks and screams and lteons cries for help, fires agaln, Believing that his victim had received her death wound he retires to bis chamber. Another shot resounds through the dwelling, increasing the alarm of the inmates, who are yet ignorant of the cause of all this commotion, and Samnel D. Talbot, the would-be murderer, has perished by his own hand. Such is the story, and, considering the characters of the individuals more or less im- mediately concerned and the society in which they lived and moved, we feel warranted to repeat what we said at the outaet—that it is a story almost, if not entirely, unexampled, It is In some respects a consolation that the man who could concefve and attempt to exe- cute such a deed of darkness and of blood has passed away from the scenes of the living and that society can receive no more hurt from his brain or hand. It is a consolation also to know that, though he has plunged a family in misery and permanently injured a young, virtuous and beautiful woman, he failed in all his purposes, except so far as his own life entered into the calculation. Mr. Flint and family ought to be assured of public sym- pathy. Miss Scribner is an object of general consideration and tender regard. Her safety and future welfare will be rejoiced in by thou- sands who have never seen or known her. It is earnestly to be hoped that the ordeal through which she has passed may not prove fatal, That such an event can occur in such society is a subject for serious study and re- flection. Our dangerous classes! Who are our dangerous classes? We fear that public opinion is very much at fault on this subject. Our dangerous classes are not to be sought only in the lower strata of our social life, They exist and they are to be found as well in palatial mansions and cushioned splendor and luxurious ease as among the filth and squalor of our lanes and alleys, The passions which prompted and the principles which guided Talbot ara not so uncommon as some Imagine, Our age, in spite of all ita advance- ment, is irreligious. In the absence of tho restraints which religion alone imposes is to be found the seoret of this and all similar crime a. Paganism has much to do with our Christian civilization, Asotner Act ix Tat Drama or Rur- ture.—One of our clty republican contempo- raries relates the fact that an accomplished man, master of several languages, faithful to his duties, trustworthy and accurate, has beon removed by Secretary Boutwell from « position in the Treasury Department. Crime—opposi- tion to impeachment, It appears that this case of ostracism has been traced to an officer in the department who is among the meanest of the mean small potato representativesof the most vindictive radical clique in New Hamp- shire. If President Grant allows his adminis- tration to be run on this grade it will bec amere radical maching and pretiy soon into the ground. This ta, however, bab Kaother act in the drama of the domolitiga of the ra~ publican party. SS ARASTEI te a RMN ISN SAS REDS a CER with the We see the baffled Grant Ahead of Lincota.. On Thursday last the National Executive Committee of the Colored Men of the United States waited upon the President to pay him their respects and to present to him an address! signed by George ©. Downing, of Rhode Island, President (oysters in every style); Fy G. Barbadoes, of Massachusetts; Sella Martin, of New York, and others. address was a share of the spoils to some o} the black folks in the North, in order to sho that this recognition by the administration of equal rights to the black man is not to bé limited to the South, but is to be made pracs tically to apply as well to the North; which ig not a bad idea on the score of i dw The object of the conclusion the committee thought it due to to President Grant that in behalf of our co! Americans he had gone far beyond the lamented President Lincoln, ‘for while under the neces sities of the war he made the nation ours calling on us (the black race) to its defence, you (General Grant), under the calm influence’ of peace, have given us to the nation by lifting our race into the enjoyment of its immunities.” General Grant kindly responded, promising to give the subject a careful consideration. But the historical fact presented in reference’ to Linooln and Grant deserves a passing re- mark. Lincoln did adopt emancipation only. a8 @ war measure, and did not believe in negro equality. Andy Johnson, after all, was a fair representative of the ideas and policy of, _ Lincoln in regard to the blacks. General Grant, on the other hand, supposed to be | Illinois democrat on the negro question ti 4 1868, tarns out in 1869 far abead of Lincolg and up to Wendell Phillips himself in the prace tical application of the doctrine of equal politi cal rights to all citizens, whites, yellows, road and blacks. Thus even on the question colored men’s rights the glory of Lincoln completely eclipsed by the glory of Grant Downing, the oysterman, very neatly pute th distinction, and he and all his people ought have an oyster jubilee, a chowder feast or 4 clam bake on the subject. General Grant, all the great men of the time, is the Joshus‘ who has brought this peculiar people into the Promised Land, while Lincoln was only theip, Moses in delivering them from the bondage of Egypt. Why not have, then, this colored jubilee? for Ic must be now de kingdom am a comin’, And de year of jubuot Tue Boston Traveller chroniclos the suicide of a liquor dealer In that city on account of “depression of spirits.” It was not on account of the low price of the ardent, GeNerat Hanoook anp THE Norrawest.— One of the St. Paul papers having endeavored, to excite local prejudice against General Hi cock, alleging that he had protested to te President against being assigned to the De: ment of the Northwest, with headquarters af St. Paul, the Pioneer of that city pronounce the statement, upon the best authority, as bo! entirely gratuitous. General Hancock is noé the man to protest against legal orders from superior officers. He has always been ready to go where duty called, and sometimes little in advance of it, to his personal and Is not likely at this day to adopt any we rule of military di discipline, pe oti ts BEES Wien one belligerent tells another he “doubly lies, and he knows it,” he hardly ape proaches in the vigor of his charge of a dacity the fable of the “triple alliance” al leged to have been formed between England, France and Spain in asin CJ the United States. A MAINE paper states that salmon are very large up the Penobscot this year. Salmon and P's are very large in Virginia since the sweeplag out of the underbrush. Tae Provipgnce Etgotton.—It secins, after all, that the recent election in Providence should not be regarded as a Sprague defeat, The successful candidate for Mayor, Mr, Clark: in a speech on the night of the election, said hg was “bound to no man, pledged to no clique, embarrassed by no promises.” Therefore election cannot be fairly claimed as an ant! Sprague victory. It is asserted that the pend ing controversy between Sprague, Brown & Ives, General Burnside and the rest did not enier into the capvass. Tary had quite a fine horse-whipping match between two ‘“‘honorable” gentlemen at Cound cil Bluff, Iowa, a few days ago. These West era people are great fellows. When they have no enemy to flog thef proceed to thrash one another, Pestitent Traps.—We are glad that the Mayor's Marshal is at least willing to help vice timized countrymen or others recover thel# money from the proprietors of bogus {ntelli» gence offices; but how long will it be before a metropolitan executive will have the force n to be content with such a remedy, but shut up the places and punish the keepers aq swindlers? There are no worse scoundrels iq the city than these sharpers, who play upon the credulity and honesty of the poor to rol them of their pittance, Nort an Ivrerreexum.—Chief Justice Chase consirues the statutes very liberally in Vire ginia. He has just decided that United Stated officials who at the beginning of the wat turned government funds over to the rebellion are anvod by the statute of limitation, Thig decides onco more that there was no legal separation, The Chivairic Ja the Women’s Rights Convention the other day Fred Douglass—biack man— offered the following resolution of his ultie matum on equal rights, to wit:—‘That until the constitution of the United States shail know neither black nor white, neither ge | nor female, but only the equal rights of al classes, we renew our solemn indictment against that instrument as defective, unworthy and an oppressive charter for the self-governs ment of a free people.” Very well, But ia this donghty black Douglass aware of the fact that the constitution knows neither white nor black, and that neliher the word white not black oan be found in the instrument; and that no such word as slave, slaveholdet, or slave trade was pormitted to go into th constitution in the outset, and that until the incorporation of tho thirteenth amondment abolishing slavery not even the word “slavery” itself could be found in it? But the pondin, fifteenth amendment distinctly limite the uth { fcage to mon, though it Includos malo citizens ‘