The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY. "AND an STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIPLO'R GARDEN, TIVE AN ORJEOE OF LNTERKHT. Broasway.—Tur Lirtte Derro- WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIR, Bro ner Thirtieth ot.—Mativee daiiy, Percormance BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—-Pact Cuirronp— Eveny [non a SAiL08. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broaiway and 18th atreet.— Tur Woxpen. FRENCH THEATRE, Mth at. and @th av.—LoNpoN; OX, LiGUTS AND SHADOWS OF THR GRRAT CITY. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Idth street.—lvaLian OPmRa— Witt TELL. THE TAMMANY, Four’ ov Bap Dickey, GRAND OPERA HOUS! fd street. —Enouisn Ore! fh atroet. —Tar BuRLEague corger ot Kighth avenue and —Tue Hoaurxors, BOOTI'R THRATRE, 29d at, bacweon Sth ana 6th avs Finst Fawr ov Kino Henny IV, OLYMPIC THEATRE, LiauT. Brosuway.—Unpen THE Gas- NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— Mairma PATHRLIN—LEs JURONS DE CADILLAC, FIFTH AVENCE TH rn as Tuxy Wee, anty-fourth @.—WivES ae MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— Tus SeevenT ON THE Heauce. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hovae, 201 Bowery.—Comio VoOaLIaM, NEGRO MINSTRE! THEATRE COMIQUE, 814 Broadway.—Comio Vooar- 19x, NRGKO ACTS, £0. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Butlding, 14th 8 —Baranis’ MiNeTRELS SAN FRANCISOO MINSTHELS, ue Broaiway —4rato- Fiaw MInsTRELSY, waae AO WAVERLEY THEA Piam MINSTRELSY, NEGRO AC 720 Broadway.—Etuto- ao. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strest. -Equastaiam AND OtMNaSTIC PERFORMAN to HOOLEY'S OPERA HOU! Brooklyn.—HooLEr's MixeTexLs—Nouovy's Davouten, &o. EMPIRE RINK, Sixt est and Third avenue — Exiuuition or Naw ® POULTHY SourRTY, SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, Fifth avenue and 14h wtreet.—EXHiBITION OF Tue NinB MUsBO. NRW YORK MUSKUM OF ANATOMY, 61) Broadway. BOIENOE AND Ant. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618}¢ -—-FRMALES ONLY (NM ATTENDANOR. THE NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated December 5. ‘The Empress of France has reached Paris. Paris femained tranquil, although supplementary Parlia- mentary elections were in progress. General Prim wtates that 40,000 troops and fourteen vessels of war had sailed from spain for Cuba since the commence- ment of the “rebellion.” All the Italian bishops, With the exception of five, have taken the oath of Clerical fidelity to the Pope. By steamship at this port wo have our special Correspondence and a mail report from Europe in detail of our cable telegrams to the 23d of November. Our special correspondence from Madrid, pub- lshed elsewhere, reports the progress of the Sickles- Cuba diplomacy with the members of the Spanish Cabinet to the 7th of November, Native- prejudices were being dissipated rapidly, and the question of the sale and wansfer of the island was “talked over" quietly during a series of very pleasant minis- terial fétea. Africa, = Atelegram by the Atlantic cable, dated at Suez yesterday, reports that the first mercantile vessel which navigated the Suez Canai with @ cargo has been wrecked in the Red Sea. Cuba. Tbe mail news from Cuba, published tu another column, is up to the 20th ult, Though the Havana papers are loud in their talk that order and peace are fast being established events will not justify the position they have taken. The Spanish journals have little, however, to say about the San Jose fight. ‘The engagement, it will be remembered, took place at San Jose, on the line of ratiroad between Nuevitas and Principe. The fight continued for over an hour, when @ flag of truce was hoisted by the insurgents, which was answered in @ similar manner by those in the garrison. A conference between the officers then took place, and during the conversation the men in the garrison fired on the party and killed two of the Cubans. This act, treacherous as it was, is applauded by tne Havana journals. A large ex- pedition ts fiting out tn New Orleans for Cuba; Miscellaneous, Congress reassembles to-day, and as both houses are already organized the I'resident’s Message, which was completed on Saturday, will doubtless be laid before the Senate and House this afternoon. ‘The session, it is sald, will be eminently practical and closely devoted to business, although leading men have marked out no course to be pursued. The principal legisiation proposed by Senators is funding the public debt and amending the tariff, In the House the foreign policy will form a prominent feature. The Cuban question will be early consi- dered, petitions for granting belligerent mghts to tne insurgents being already in tne hands of members, A monster petition over ® mite long and signed by over 20,000 of the most prominent citizens of Philadelphia, has been forwarded to Washington to be presented at once before the House of Representatives. Among the earliest resolutions introduced will be one call- ing upon the Secretary of State for information con- cerning the disposal of the large appropriation by Congress in aid of the American department of tho Paris Exposition, no satisfactory account of its ex- penditure having been made. ‘The snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad which were burned some months since have been entirely rebuilt. The aggregate length of snow sheds on the road is about thirty-five miles, ‘The returns received of the Texas election are 50 meagre that no opinion can be formed as to who has been elected Governor. Clark, radical, is proba- biy elected to Congress from the Third district, and Haynes, conservative, from the Fourth district, The City. The public who have watched the developments in the drawback frauds will ve interested in learning that Samuel T. Blatchford, Deputy Collector, who left the country, returned to the city yesterday to Buswer the charges against him. Colonel Whitey, of the Secret Service Division, proceeded to Mon-. troai, by order of Secretary Boutwell, to extradite Biatchford, who waived an extradition and returned voluntarily. It t# reported in Washington that the Spanish gunboate in this city will be finally given up to the Spanish authorities, General Sigel and Dantel D. Conover are disposed to dispute Deputy Marshal Harlow’s claim to the Marshaiship made vacant by the resignation of Mr. Bariow. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Jadge Hugh 8. Bond, of Baltimore; Colonel A. H. Rolson and J, W. MeCorkie, of San Francisco; Major BE. Lowell, of Engiand; Judge ©, H. Tickney, of Dover; Colonel J. A. York, of St. Louis; Judge A. McDowell, of Pennsylvania, and Dr, Vosvurgh, of Athaca, are at (oe Metropolitan Hotel. Professor W. Clark, of Geneva; Surgeon Weir, of the British Army, and Lieutenant Huntley, of the United States Army, are at the St. Charies Hotel. James Hogg, of China; Henry Murray, of Kong Kong; B. J. Cromwell, of the United States Navy, and Dr. Romand, of Canada, are at the Brevoort House, D, Chadwick, M. P., of London, Engiaud; Captafn T. M. Reilly, of the United Staves Army, and Thomas 8. Harrison, of Philadeipbia, are at the Bvorett pours. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. General Cox, of North Carotina; Colonel J. Curry, of San Francisco; Dobbins, of Buffalo; 0. A. Walker and A, Oo of England, and J. Maltby, of Northampton, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. D. Newhall, of Milwaukee; W. Dorshetmer, of Buffalo; George P. Smith, of Pennsylvania, and Henry E. Gregory, of Dacotah, are at the Hoffman House. General B. F. Butler, E. Chandier and 0. B. Schneider, of Boston; Raymond 0, Williams, of Havana, and John G. Saxe, of Vermont, arc at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. Surgeon General Baxter, for Washington; W. J. Gordon, for Cleveland; Addison Child, for Boston; Judge Bullock and ©, J. Kerr, for Pailadelphia, and Major Lewis, tor Wasbington. Cuba—The Position ef the Prosident and Probable Action of Congress. Our Washington correspondence published yesterday gives an account of a long inter- view which a delogation of Cubans, represent- ing the Junta and the Cuban government, had with President Grant. The President received this delegation very cordially, and listened, as the deapatch says, with profound attention to what the gentlemen comprising ft, headed by Mr. Fesser, had to state. The Cubans argued woll their claims to recognition as belligerents by the United States government, and when the President remarked that there waa thia important difference between Spain and Cuba, that the former was a recognized government and the latter was not, Mr. Fesser replied that it was this difference which he and his compatriots desired to see removed, and that was the object of their appeal to the gov- ernment. ‘‘The United States,” he said, “make use of the inewbus vitiosue in dealing with the question. They say we are no gov- ernment because we are not recognized, and that we are not recognized because we are no government. The United States tie one of our hands behind our back and allow Spain to have both hands free, and then expect us to fight on such unequal terms. Give us themost ordinary fair play, which is all we ask, and then let the strongest win.” Hoe argued that this great republic should not aid ao European power to crush out the aspira- tion of a noble people, struggling heroically to obtain their independence, ‘The course at present pursued by the United States govern- ment,” he said, ‘‘was entirely one-sided. The Spaniards were allowed every privilege; they were permitted to get everything here neces- sary to carry on the war, while poor, struggling Cuba was denied the same privilege. There was hardly an ounce of powder used on Cuban soil by the Spaniards that was not supplied through some port of the United States; yet the Cubans were not allowed to send to their country ships, ammunition or provisions.” At the conclusion of the interview the President said he ‘‘could do nothing in his position as Chief Magistrate but to execute the laws; but that Congress would soon assemble and no doubt would take the matter into prompt con- sideration and adopt the best course that could be followed under the circumstances.” Although the President was very guarded in his expressions to the Cuban delegation, his reception of it and his cordial and long inter- view with ii must be regarded as significant, and especially 30 when we consider that just now he is very much occupied in the prepara- tion of his message and in other work con- nected with the assembling of Congress. But his expression that Congress would no doubt take the Cuban question into prompt consid- eration and adopt the best course that could be followed under the circumstances is full of meaning. It implies that the President expects Congress will act upon the matter very soon ; that he is already informed of the sentiments of members, and that he prefers to throw the responsibility upon that body. So far so good. But tho President has not shown in this Cuban business that moral courago which he had shown on former occasions dur- ing his public career, and which the country has given him credit for, The House of Representatives passed a resolution unani- mously last spring, expressing sympathy with the Cubans and assuring the President of the support of Congress in the official recognition of Cuba whenever he might think proper to take such action. Though this resolution was passed at the last hours of the session and when the Senate had not time to act upon it, there can be no doubt that the Senators agreed with the Representatives. Then the people of the country throughout every section con- curred with Congress in the sentiment and views expressed, The Republican State Con- vention of New York last September passed resolutions, unanimously, in favor of the Cubans and recommended their recognition by the administration. Other publio and repre- sentative bodies in the different States have acted similarly, The President, then, ought not to have had any hesitation in according belligerent rights, at least, to the Cubans on the ground of public opinion or authority from Congress, He has simply refused to act on his own responsibility and against the wish of both the people and of their representatives. And why has the President taken this strange and unpopular course? Itcould not be because the Cubans had not actually acquired the char- acter of belligerents, for all the world knows, and General Grant might have known, that the Cubans have carried on a most heroic struggle for more than a year; that they have been gaining ground from the beginning of the revolution; that Spain, with all her troops, ships of war and other resources, has been losing ground, and that the patriots have shown their ability and determination to sus- tain the war for independence. Has not the President, against his own feelings and con- victions, submitted to the timid ropresenta- tions, or misrepresentations, of members of his Cabinet? Indeed, we can hardly resist the conviction that misrepresentations have reached him through the influence of inter- ested parties—through Americans near his advisers who are Spanish agents, and one of whom, it is said, received a fee of forty thousand dollars from the Spanish govern- ment. If this be so, and there is reason to believe it, what @ blot upon the character of the administration, What a want of penetra- tion and judgment. The pro-Spanish policy of the government and almost persecution of the Cubans could hardly have sprung from rogard for Spain, for it is known that Spain joined the other European Powers in endeay- oring to break up the republic at the com- mencement of our civil war. On the 7th of June, 1861, less than two months after the confederates fired upon Susater, the Spanish government issued @ decree forbidding the United States to ft out or to obtain ships in Spanish ports, and our war vessels were pro- hibited from remaining in any such ports for more than twenty-four hours, except in stress of weather or from absolute necessity—the shortest time accorded to a belligerent Power in such cases—and arms or other supplies of war were also expressly forbidden. This was aimed directly against the United States, for the Confederates at that time had no ships, And it is well koown how the rebel blockade runners and cruisers afterwards found shelter and protec- tion in porta belonging to Spain. Our govern- ment, then, certainly did not owe Spain any favors in the present case of Cuba. But it is on higher ground than this the United States should have acted, and ought now to act, in recognizing the Cubans as belligerents, or their independence. This country is deeply interested in the establishment and develop- ment of republican institutions on this Conti- nent and over the islands pertaining to it, in the enlargement of our relations sad commerce with all the people of Amorica, and in exclud- ing the despotic rule of European nations from this hemisphere whenever a favorable and reasonable opportunity occurs, such as that which is now presented in the case of Cuba. We might speak of the noble and generous impulses of Americans for a people like the Cubans, struggling for their independence, but we put the question of recognition on the ground simply of a broad national policy. Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. We publish to-day the report of the Com- missioner of Internal Revenue. Mr. Delano makes a gratifying exhibit of the revenue {income through his office and shows a steady increase over that exhibited in previous reports. This increase, though due to some extent to the growth of the country in wealth and popu- lation, is to be attributed mainly to an improve- ment in the revenue laws and toa more faithful collection of the taxes. The total receipts from internal revenue sources, exclusive of the direct tax upon lands and the duty upon the circulation and deposits of national banks, were, for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1869, $160,039,844, The receipts for the ourrent year are esti- mated at $175,000,000, This estimate is based upon the revenue as now coming in. The amount received from all sources for the six months from the Ist of January, 1869, to the 30th of June, 1869, was $90,542,760. For the corresponding period of 1868 it was $64,479,948. This shows a gain of $26, 865, 544. General Grant's administration covers four months out of six of this perlod, and there- fore it is but just to give that administration tho credit of this improvement in the internal revenue receipts. This is the more evident when we look at the increased receipts from April to September of this year, during the whole of which time the present adminis- tration has been in power. There has been a gain of over twenty-two millions, eleven mil- lions of which has been on the tax collected from spirits and more than six millions and a half from the taxon tobacco. Evidently, then, the revenue laws are better administered. The Commissioner does not recommend the taking off any of the taxes, but soems desirous of keeping up the revenue from all the present sources. One thing is worthy of remark fere, and that is, the banks and bankers only pay about five millions a year to the government. When wo look at the stupendous wealth and business ofthe banks and bankers, at the vast profits they dorive from the people, and at the enor- mous gains they reap from a national circula- tion, which the government has been stupid enough to give them, this miserable contribu- tion to the revenue is a gross injustice to the rest of the community. Cannot Congress make these wealthy monopolists pay some- thing more to the support of the government? Mr. Delano does not recommend the repeal of the income tax; but there is no doubt the time has arrived when the tax should be either abolished altogether or modified so as to exempt people with a limited and fixed salary or income from this burden. In few other respects, perhaps, it will be wise not to disturb the internal revenue laws until the national debt be adjusted and placed on a solid founda- tion, with a reduction of the interest and establishment of a sure system of liquidation. Portor Justrozs.—The duty of the Police Justice is to take hold of accused criminals in the incipiency of each case and decide whether there be any cause to send the accused for trial before o higher court. He may, if he be evil disposed, or corrupt, or ® political partisan, let loose upon society some of its worst members; and if he be just and honest he can protect the community against the rufflans who feast upon honest people. We have had two or three cases of late where blood has been shed and where the vigor of an honest police magis- trate was all important. We shall have more of them, no doubt, as society is at present con- stituted in this olty, where the roughs in and out of office and seeking office appear to have & pretty full swing of their own way. In voting for Police Justices in the several districts, to-morrow none but men of integrity, firmness and experience should be chosen, wherever they can be found on the tickets. Gxygrat SugrmMan makes a Bappy sugges- tion to the government touching seals in his report as General of the army. It may be thought that seals have but little relation to the efficiency of the army orto our means of making war, but as the suggestion is a good one it matters little whence it comes, He proposes that we sell to those desiring to en- gage in the fishery of seals the islands bought with Alaska, and believes that we may get for them a price that will somewhat indemnify us for the outlay on Alaska, It ought to be tried. Merrersicu’s Trip To Vienna.—The Aus- trian Minister at Paris has gone to Vienna and this visit is naturally connected with the latest point of dispute between Prussia and Austria. In discussing with Prussia that point in the treaty of Prague that relates to Schleswig- Holstein Austria evidently intends to move with cautious regard to France, or perhaps it is France that keeps Austria keon to the in- dignity that Prussia puts upon her tn ber non- chalant neglect of the treaty. Report ef the Secretary of the Navy. We learn from Washington that Secretary Robeson’s report to the President of the condi- tion of our navy will contain several note- worthy and important recommendations. The Secretary thinks that our naval force in foreign waters is wholly inadequate to tho demands of American commerce. In March last but forty-three vessels were in active service in the various parts of the world, of which not more than eighteen were in good condition. Since then some fourteen have been added and all the squadrons made, to a great extent, efficient. Even this addition is not sufficiently great, and we agree with the Secre- tary in his recommendation to further increase thenumber, In the same waters that our equad- rons cruise Great Britain and France main- tain large naval forces, in every respect capa- ble of protecting their citizens and commerce and of defending their national flags. We have repeatedly urged the necessity of having large and efficient squadrons at the various naval stations, But for our paucity in numbers and strength the Spanish authorities in Cuba would not have dared to murder American citizons at Santiago de Cuba with tho cold- blooded impunity that they displayed. In this connection we are glad to learn that Secretary Robeson reports having ordered Admiral Poor, who succeeded Admiral Hoff, to prevent inter- ference with our commerce and to repel and punish any disrespect to or violation of our flag while preserving a strict neutrality towards the Spaniards and Cubans, In reference to the general condition of the navy we learn that the report characterizes it as being at a lowebb, It is urged that great disadvantages attend the possession of #0 many vessels dependent solely upon steam for motive power, which makes them liable to be easily disabled by reason of their complicated machinery. Steamers, the Secretary, we understand, thinks very poor schools of sea- manship for officers and mon. This is very true in a measure, but not: wholly so. It is, nevertheless, a necessity that all our war ves- sels shall be so constructed that they can use either sails or steam, as necessity demands. The good results arising from the alliance of the two motive powers are seen in the vessels recently repaired by the department and put into commission. For example, the Severn, Swatara, Juniata and Lancaster have, since they wero repaired, attained a high rate of speed under sail, The cost of repairing these vessels and of placing the navy on a more efficient footing has, we learn, been large, but by rigid economy the expense has been kept below the sum expended by the department during the same period last year. With regard to our iron-clads, Secretary Robeson does not think them in general fit for other than home service. His recom- mendation that the government construct ten sea-going iron-clads on the same principle that France and England have will be generally approved. We need such vessels in our navy for foreign service, Our monitors, while admirably adapted to home defence, cannot be depended upon for long cruises, They require too many convoys, and if their machinery becomes disarranged they are rendered per- fectly helpless. The Secretary refers in a eulogistic manner to the torpedoes, and urges attention to this branch of naval warfare. He alao thinks that the construction of awift and strong ocean steamers by American ship- builders should be encouraged by the govern- ment, they being in time of war powerful auxiliaries to the regalar navy. Additional navy yards the Secretary thinks desirable; those we have require repairs and enlargement. Our timber lands demand better protection than they have received for some years past. The Naval Academy is spoken well of. Referring to the personnel of the navy, Secretary Robeson thinks that the character and training of petty officers and seamen should receive closer attention. We trust, though, that our information is incorrect as to his remarks regarding the cosmopolitan character of the sailors. However preferable it might be to have as many native born Americans in our navy as possible, the fact of a large number of seamen being foreigners should not militate against discipline, good morale and efficiency to the slightest extent. Still, the recommenda- tion is a good one for the education of a class of warrant and petty officers, as is also that in favor of increased pay, a system of furloughs, pensions, honors and, at times, bounties. These last are not only incentives to greater efficiency, but they also attract a desirable class of seamen to the navy. We learn with pleasure that the Secretary urges the prompt action of the government in the matter of constructing a canal across the Isthmus of Darien, Explorations and surveys should be commenced at once, as it would be most mortifying for the United States to be anticipated in the work. The important ques- tion of the relative ranks of naval officers the Secretary declines to give an opinion about at present, preferring to wait until the board of officers having it under consideration shall make a report. He, however, thinks the ques- tion should be regulated by law. Such, in brief, are the salient points in the report, as our information from Washington gives them. The most noticeable feature is the plain statement that our navy is in a very inefficient condition. That the necessity exists for thus officially reporting it is to be regretted ; but if the report should effect a change for the better its making will undoubtedly prove a source of congratulation. Scnoo. Trustexs.—There is a school trus- tee to be elected in each ward to-morrow, The care of the children who are to become our tuture citizens will be to a great extent in the hands of these men. Voters should therefore exercise great judgment in selecting from the candidates before them for these offices, such as they are, There must be some men of intel- ligence and capacity among them, even if they are not entirely qualified for the position, At all events the capacity to read and write should be a sine gua non. We have had ex- amples of the violation of this rule before now. Let us not have them this time. Whites Captives with THE INDIANs.—The very painful intelligence from the Plains that the Cheyenne Indians hold captive more than twenty white boys and girls, if it is true, sug- gests the question as to what our troops are doing out there, We have a considerable force at all the forts on the frontier from Fort Leavepworth to New Mexico, Is it possible that these children cannot be delivered from the hands of these fiends? Ono of the cap- tives is said to be a young Boston girl of sixteen, whose brothers wore murdered by the Indians in Texas. The fate of this poor girl {s horrible to think of and unnecessary to speculate upon. Is it only cattle and mules that are to be rescued from the Indians? General Sherman should look after this affair. The Churches and Sermons. The city and suburban churches were not so crowded yesterday as they usually are on tho Sabbath, owing to the disagreeable state of the weather. We report the sermons which were dolivered after service this morning. Some of the clergymen found a sad text for exhorta- tion—one for recrimination and argument—in the subject of the Richardson tragedy. The Rev. O. B. Frothingham, whose name figures so conspieuously on the record in connection with the case, officiated and preached in the lecture room of Lyric Hall. About half the members of the congregation attend- ed. The reverend gentleman held forth on “Aspiration and Perfection,” advising his hearers against the cherishing of an un- due ambition in the ‘‘aspiration after virtue and the perfection of holiness.” From this he passed on, not to an illustration of the consol- ing social fact that the first miracle wrought by tho Saviour of the world was accomplished atthe marriage feast which He sanctified by His presence in Galilee, but to a sort of pulpit defiance of the public opinion in sustainment of the holy bond by classing it as a “‘clamor about the outrago against social laws and the blow levelled at the sacred marriage relation,” winding up with a considerable deal of a Stiggins-like—as Sam Weller would call it—‘“‘soft sawder” about ‘‘charity” and “genius,” and “‘talent” and “love,” and “culture” and ‘‘forgiveness” all round. In the Universalist church Rev. Mr. Pullman treated of ‘‘the libertine as worse than the assassin.” Rev, Henry Ward Beecher had an exceedingly crowded house in Plymouth church, Brooklyn. He did not, however, refer to the Richardson case, so that many devotees returned home disappointed. The churches of other different denominations were well attended, the pastors and clergymen dis- charging tho duties of their commission to preach and teach, to admonish and to reprove, faithfully. The Postmaster General’s Report. We publish elsewhere the report of Post- master General Creswell. From it we learn that the ordinary revenues of the department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, wore $18,344,510 and the expenditures $23,698,131, showing a@ deficiency of $5,353,621, Mr. Creswell holds that this deficiency is duo to three causes—namely, the depreciation of the paper currency, unpaid postage on printed matter and the franking privilege. The first he regards as a temporary evil, which cannot now be remedied; the second can be regu- lated by a stringent law, the passage of which he recommends, and the third should be abolished. By these means he believes the department can be made self-supporting. The practical operations of the department during the year were of a satisfactory nature. Its business increased materially, proving a more extensive correspondence, superinduced, doubt- less, by greater efficiency in the transmission and delivery of the mails. All that remains of the overland mail, by reason of the comple- tion of the Pacific Railroad, is a route of one hundred and two miles from Cheyenne City to Denver, which would doubtless be superseded in @ few months by railroad facilities, A careful revision and readjustment of pay on railroad routes is recommended. Referring to the foreign mail service, which shows an increase in the number of lettera transmitted and received and a small decrease in the postage receipts, by reason of the reduction in postage rates, Mr. Creswell urges “the necessity of some legislation to encourage the re-establishment of American lines of transatlantic steamers.” He declares that “it is humiliating to our national pride to find not only that our vast commerce with Europe is monopolized by foreign steamship lines, but that even the mails we send abroad have to be transported under the protection of foreign governments.” During the fiscal year the number of money orders increased to 1,468 and the receipts to $176,247, of which there was a surplus over expenditures of $65,553. A further extension of the system is recommended, its steady suc- cess having proved {ts utility and the confi- dence of the people in its safety. On June 80, 1869, there were 27,106 post offices in opera- tion. Mr. Creswell recommends the adoption of numerous measures calculated to increase the efficiency of the department, all of which are worthy of earnest consideration. Tue Heatta Orricer.—We have not heard that the Governor has made any change yet in the Health Officer's department. The public of all classes, and the merchants especially, are very anxious on this subject. They desire to see the place filled by a competent physi- cian who knows something more than a mere village practitioner's experience, and, above all, they desire that politics and politicians should be kept out of a position to which the public health and a good deal of the commer- cial Interests of the city are entrusted. Per- haps the Governor is waiting for the assembling of the Legislature in order to have his appointee confirmed, With such a name as that of Dr. Carnochan before them the Senate could not hesitate a moment. Tae Cory Aut Riant.—Just after the great gold uproar and tho installation of a new Sub- Treasurer here it was directed that the coin in the Sub-Treasury vaults should be counted, This tedious job is now completed and the coin is found to be all right, having suffered no unauthorized diminution in the hands of the late Assistant Treasurer, Civ Jvstiogs.—Althongh the Civil Justice has but # comparatively limited jurisdiction in commercial cases, still there are a thousand litigations coming before him which are of considerable importance to the parties con- cerned, the fair adjustment of which renders much vexatious legal proceedings unneces- sary. The Civil Justices to be elected to-mor- row should be men of probity and good stand- ing in the community. It ia essential alse that they should know gf least « little law. Tho Assembling of Congress. The second session of the Forty-first Con- gress begins at twelve o'clock to-day. There is no doubt of » quorum, although the mem- bers of the House of Representatives, have been unusually elow in arriving at Washington. No time will be lost im organizing both Houses of Congress, and committees will duly notify the President that it is ready to receive his Message and its accompanying documents, which will, of course, materially aid in giving shape and action to its deliberations and decisions. It is probable that Senator Wilson does not err in predicting that this will be a strictly busi- ness session. The leaders of all shades of political complexion appear, however, to be undetermined as to the course which they will respectively follow. They are disposed to await the President's Message before deciding definitively upon that course. Most of the measures to be proposed and considered will be previously discussed in caucus. It scems likely that a principal feature of the session will be the action of Congress as to the funding of the national debt. Nor will the tinkering of the revenue and tariff laws be neglected. The prospect with reference to questions of foreign policy is at present altogether indefinite, although it may become clearer if the message of the President shall throw more light than is now anticipated upon the Cuban question, It may likewise be affected by the numerous petitions which are to be presented in favor of the recognition of the belligerent rights of the Cuban revolutionists, and of the annexation of Cuba. One of these petitions is from Philadelphia and measures, it is said, amiloanda half in length. Many of the Western members will undoubtedly resume the agitation of the question of the removal of the capital, but other and more imme- diately urgent questions will probably engross the attention of Congressmen during the pre. sent session. The Forman Street Man Trap Again. Yesterday afternoon the residents of Brooklyn south of the Fulton ferry were startled by a heavy concussion, which proved to emanate from the fall of a couple of ware- houses in course of construction on the ever fatal Furman street. Fortunately it was Sunday and the buildings as well as the neigh- borhood were deserted, or the loss of life might have been appalling. The buildings fell out- wardly from the hillside in which they were burrowing, and, toppling over, left a frightful chasm extending to the atreet on the heights above. By a rare chance there were no cars on the street below, although two lines aro constantly bearing passengers to and fro along its railway tracks, or, Sunday as it was, there might have heen a sudden inhumation of human beings beneath the masa of bricks and rafters. Is it not time that the corporative authorities of Brooklyn took steps to prevent a recurrence of these disasters? Either the line of Furman street should be abandoned as a system of dwellings and store- houses, or the crest of the hill shonld be deprived of its superincumbent weight of buildings. Originally it was proposed to lay out a river side park on the west side of Columbia street, which is the thoroughfare running along the Heights, and thus afford a drive commanding a view of our picturesque bay and harbor. Better a consummation of this plan, which would add a beautiful feature to Brooklyn geography, than the continuance of the present dangerous system of houses whose gardens overlie the roofs of the houses below. Tae Ere Suir of Ramsey against Gould and others seems to have dwindled for some days past to a game of ruses and stratagems in the attempted service of papers. The affi- davits of the many men who have been in pursuit of Gould and Lane, who have watched them through their windows and waited for them on many corners, present the lives of three railroad magnates in a new and not enviable light. How, after all, is a railroad president any better than a street beggar if he is not a little more the master of his own destiny? And what is the value of riches if they do not. enable one to hold up his head in independence of spirit? For men to be seen thus dodging in and out of their houses and offices and afraid of every shadow, lest it might bea man ‘with papers,” is @ mean spectacle, and we are glad that Judge Murray, in view of the evasions of his order, has directed that the papers may be served through the Post Offloe or by being affixed to the front doors of the dodgers’ houses. Tae Western Mempers OF CONGRESS: OW THE REMOVAL OF THE Carrrat.—It is. sald that General Logan and several other Western members of Congress have determined to make the question of the removal of the cap- ital from Washington to. some point in the West a prominent feature of the present ses- sion. We hope they do not mean by this to distract the attention of Congress from more important measures, such as the independence of Cubs, the finances of the country, the inter- nal revenue laws, and many other questions of vastly more importance, or to fritter away its time, with lengthy discussions, The removal of the capital can afford to wait. It will come in its own good time. Tar Use or Guizot.—M. Guizot has writ- ten a letter in support of ‘‘the parliamentary empire.” That is evidently what he was un- earthed for. Some days ago we were informed that the ancient adviser of Louis Philippe had been closcted with the Emperor, and it was a little puzzle what that might mean. The letter on the parliamentary empire explains that riddle, but presents a new one. Doos Louis Napoleon deem his case 80 poor that he, 1s not above the assistance that Guizot's,coun~ tenance and support may give? A Vioranoe ComaitTe® has baen.organ- ized in tho Twenty-first Aldermanio district, it appears, with a view to overthrow what their circular calls ‘a despotism more detestable than that of Louis IV., Marat, Loais Nnpoleon or Soulouque.” The vigilants mean Tammany’; but we are afraid they aro @ little too lete in the field, and they might as well keep cool, pene Sent Tog Nn THE CANALS,—It is not likely from present appearances that we must chronicle just now the close of canal navigation, The two inches of ica at Canajoharie will melt and the boats at Fors Plain bound to Chittenango with ooal mey got thore eater than nox} Maya