The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1869, Page 6

‘ / 6 NEW YORK HERALD; TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1869—TRIPLE SHEEY.~ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXIV... .scccsceerereeesereesNOe SAL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, oor- wer Thirtieth st.—Matines daily, Performance every evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Every [xom A SAiLor. WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broatway and Meh atreet.— CAaPTaLy OF THE WATCH—Woopoovd's Litre GAME. Bowery.—Paut CiirFoRD— FRENCH THEATRE. ldth st. and 6th av.—LoNDON; 08, LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE GRRAT CITY, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street—Tur BURLESQUE or Bap Dickey, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘98d street.—ENGLISH OPERA—Tuk HUGUENOTS. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 284 con Sth and 6th aFa— Fist Pant or King 1 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bi LIGHT. way.—UNDER THR GAS. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—WivEs a8 Tuky WeRk, Marps as Tury ARK NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.--BATAILLE DE DAMES—LA CONSIGNE EST DE RONFLEUR. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tuz Litt.e DETRo- TIVE—AN OBJECT OF INTEREST. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Tur SERPENT ON THE HEARTH. TONY PASTOR’S OPERA HOUSE, 91 Bowery.—Com1o VooaLism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, £0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooat- Wx, NEGKO Acts, &0. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOU! at. —BRYAN16' MINSTR: SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! Plan MINSTRELSY, NeGno 4 » Tammany Building, Mth , 585 Bros lway.-Eruto- Te, £0. WAVERLEY THEATR: PIAN MINGTRELSY, NEGRC Sy 20 Broadway.—Eruto-- 0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—BQuesTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANOTS, &0. HOOLEY'S_ OPERA HOU Brooklyn,—HOOLEY'’s MINSTRELS—Nowopy's Data Ko. EMPIRE RINK, Sixty-third strest and Third avenue.— Exmpition oF New Yous State POULTRY SOCIETY. DORE ART UNION, 587 Broadway.—EXuIbITION OF PAINTINGS. SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, Fitth avenue and Mth atrect,—UXHIBITION OF THE NINE MUSES. NEW YORK MSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broatway.— SCIENCE AND Aur LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, Broadway.—FRMALES ONLY CN ATTEXDANGE, 61835 New York, Tuesday, December 7, 1869. * THA NEWS. Europe. Cable despatches are Gated December 6. M. Emile Oiliviere is likely to organize the liberal parliamentary ministry In Frante. The opposition candidate was elected in one of the districts of Paris by alarge majority. Prussia denies having encour- aged or countenanced the Dalmatian tnsurrection. General Prim leans, it is said, towards the Spanish republican party. One of the correspondents of the London 7imes has been prohibited from entering the Papal States. The Cabinet crisis still exists in Italy. : By steamship, at this port, we have mail details of cable telegrams trom Europe to the 26th of Novem- ber. The result of the elections ts the leading subject of remark in the Paris journals, which nearly all declare that they had anticipated the resuit which bas taken place. Thanksgiving Day was duly observed by the Americans in Athens, Africa. Despatches dated in Lonaon yesterday, by the Atlantic cable, state that “several vessels” got aground in the Suez Canal, but were ‘towed off.” They also report that many vessels which had been engaged as blockade runners during the American War have peen chartered for the Suez Canal traiic. Brazil. An American merchant in Rio Janeiro, named David H. Sampson, formerly of Pennsylvania, has committed suicide, Venezuela. General Pulgar, the recently defeated revolution- ary chief, ia to be tried by Congress. Hayti. Advices to the 26th ult state that Vil Lubia ts at Port au Prince with 2,000 men. The steamer Arti- bonet, belonging to the revoiutionists, had been engaged and sunk by Salnave’s new man-of-war. Salnave has declared himself President for life. Cape Haytien was taken by the rebels on the 13th and gil Sainave’s adherents in the town took refuge ‘2 the American Consulate. The revolutionary fleet intends to blockade /’ort au Prince. Congress. d session of the Forty-first Congress was yesterday. The Seuate was ca'led to order by the Vice Prest- dent, fifty-five members being present. Mr. Morrill, successor of Mr. Fessenden, Was sworn in. The Speaker presented the resignation of Senator Grimes, of Iowa; also a communication from the Secretary of State enclosing the credentials of Messrs. Johnson and Lewis, Senators elect from Virgmia. After the usual committee to wait upon the President had been ap. pointed, Senator Cameron presented a pett-, tion from 80,000 citizens «of Philadelphia asking the recogaition of the independence of Cuba, Several blils were ordered printed, meluding those | introduced by Messrs. Drake and Sumner restricting the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States, The bill upon the same subject mtroauced last session Was made the special order for Wednesday. Senator Morton introduced a bill for the reconstruction of Georgia, which was laid over until Wednesday. Arecess was taken for half an hour, when the message or the President was re- ceived and read and the Senate adjourned. The House was called to order at twelve o'clock, 180 members belag present. Messrs. Brooks, of Massathusetts; Cox, of New York; Burchard, of Illi- nos, and Bink and Brinkly, of Alabama, presented their credentiais and were sworn in. vbjections having been made to Messrs, Sherrard and Dix, of Alabama, their credentials were referred to the Committee on Elections. A recess of the House was taken until half-past oue o'clock, a Which time vecelvél sd read and referred. The por- tion in regard to Georgia was received with applause by he republican mefbers and by the deindcrats With hisses, After transacting a small amount of unimportant business the House adjourned. Besides the President’s message, we publish this morning the reporta of the Secretary of the Trea- sury, the Secretary of War and General of the Army. MisceHaneous, The President desires to conclude a convention with the leading Powers of Europe in regard to ocean cables, to prevent their destruction in time of war and to regulate their control The subject has already been presentea to the nations interested, and a favorabie repiy received from the French Em- peror. In the National Board of Trade at Richmond yes terday a resolution asking Congressional aid to improve navigation on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and to improve the harbors of several South- ern cities was adopted. The Committee on Specie Payments reported resolutions favoring the partial withdrawal of greenbacks by the substitution of four per cent bonds and the establishment of more natlofal banks, The report was only partially adopted and the Board adjoiried. . It ig etated by a Fort Dodge (Ohlo) correspondent. that a block of gypsum, from which the Cara giant was cbiselled, was taken from the gypsum quarries in that neighborhood, in 1868, by @ couple of men, who said they wanted to take such a block to New York, where they could make & good thing out of it, They were subsequently joined by a man named Glass, from Syracuse, N. ¥., Who 1s believed to have been the “antediluvian artist.” A despatch received at Toronto says the insurrec- tion in Winnipeg Territory is dying ous, most of the Insurgents having disbanded ana gone on & buffalo hunt and probably Governor McDougal will be in- vited to assume his duties at the capital. Governor MoTavish is tli, without hope of recovery. * ‘The female suffrage bill has passed both houses of the Wyoming Legislature. Tho City. ‘The charter election for police and civil jgstices, aldermen aud assistant aldermen and school trustees of this city takes place to-day. On our Triple Sheet this morning will be found the list of polling places and the orders ef Supermtendent Kennedy in refer- ence to the maintenance of order at the polls. A severe show sform was experienced along a great portion of the eastern seaboard yesterday. It is reported to have been heavy in Washington and in Boston, while in this city and vicinity tt was almost enough to atop travel and business, Tue wind biew a perfect gale on the Hudson, and heavy rifts of snow were banked up on the railway lines. ‘The inquest in the case of Albert Richardson was concluded at the City Hall by Coroner Keenan yes- -terday. McFarland was present, looking quite cool. Jadge Dowling was among the spectators, and after a couversation with McFarland’s counsel shook hands with the prisoner. The jury returned a ver- ict that MeFatiand had caused Ricbardson’s death by shooting. The prisoner, on being cailea on, said, through his counsel, that he would trust his vindioa- tion to a jury of peers. Samuel T. Blatchford, alloged to be connected with the Custom House frauds, was brought into Commissioner Osborn’s office yesterday and sur- rendered, He was held under $10,000 to await ex- amimation on Saturday. Quite a number of complaints have been made against Bogart, the old man who was recently arrested on a charge of swindling people by repre- senting that he had brought proverty willed to them by relatives dying abroad. Three fresh victims appeared yesterday, and in each instance, it seems, they were told that the goods he had for them were smuggled. The Coroner’s jury in the case of J. E. A. West- brooke, who dled on Saturday from the effects of wounds recetved in an altercation with Albert Lewis, In Johnson street, Brooklyn, returned a ver- aict accordingly yesterday, and. Lewis was com- mitted, In the case of Edward Dusenbury, who was on trial for alleged false pretences im obtaining sub- scriptions to the “National Home for Widows and Orphans,” a charitable institution that is not be- Heved to be in existence, Recorder Hackett, although the fact was proven, charged the jury that he could not be convicted, and he was accoraingly acquitted, in the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen yesterday a resolution offering $1,000 for the a) prehension of the persons who tampered with the election returns caused some discussion, Dut was dnaily vovled down by 13 to 7. The bark Edith Rose and the brig Camilla are at Quarantine with yellow fever on board. ‘The Hamburg-American Packet Company's steam- snip Hoisatia, Captain Ehlers, will leave her aock at Hoboken at two P. M, to-day for Hamburg, touch- ing at Plymouth, England, and Cherbourg, France. ‘The malls for Europe wili close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. < «he stock market yesterday was irregular, open- ing strong, going off with the gold market and rallying at the close. Gold advanced w 123%, de- clined to 122% after the Washington reports and closed finally at 123. The market for beef cattle yesterday was only moderately active, the demand being checked to some extent by the inclement weather, but full prices wore realized for almost all grades. The offerings, which were air, were generally common in quality. Prime and extra steers were quoted 150. a 16%c., fair to good l4c, @ 16c. and inferior to ordinary 9c. 14c., the bulk of the sales being at from 13c. to 153¢0. and the average price being about 14c. Milch cowa were quiet, but beld for firmer prices. Veal calves were dull, and prices were weak at 11340, 8 12};c. for the Presideny’s Message was | prime and extra, llc. a 11}4¢c. for common to good and 10c. a llc. for infertor to common, Sheep were moderately Qealt in at the following prices:—Prime and extra, 6c. a 7c.; common to g004, 5c. a 634¢., and Inferior, 4c. a 43gc. For swine the marget was quiet, but prices were quite steady at 1030. a tic, for common to prime. The arrivals were 6,907 head. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel W. Dick, of Scotland; Colonel J. R. Thar- ston, of the United States Army; Professor Samuel Gardiner, of Washington; Judge George Filler, of Hartford, Conn., and Colonel A. B. Paynter, of Kingston, N. Y., are at the Metropolitan Hotet, Captain vixon, of England, and a. J. Drexel, of Phiiadeiphia, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. General H, A. Barnum, of Syracuse, is at the Hoff man House. Judge J. B, Simpson, of Boston, and H. Arm- strong, of Liverpool, are at tue Coleman House, Colonel H. G. Rogers, of Binghamton; Captain E. R, Promhead, of the British Army; Samuel Lori, of Paris; Alfred Davis, of England, and Captain Crockette, of the British Army, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain C. S. Newlin, of tue United States Army, is at the Astor House, Prominent Departares. Colonel 8. L. Ellsworth, for Penn Yan; George McGee, for Watkins; Lieutenant U. 4, Babcock, for Washington; Colonel John Wanless, for Colorado; Colonel T. Ewing, for Chicago; Colonel Van Winkle, for Boston, and Generai Cavender, tor Boston. Tus Drawsack Fravps—Comine anv Gorne.—Fresh light ia likely to be thrown upon the drawback frauds by the voluntary return from Canada of the ex-Deputy Col- lector, Samuel T. Blatchford, who was alleged }to be the principal in the business, Mr, Blatchford denies that he was anything but a scapegoat for other parties. It is fuir to the returning geputy to say that his friends have all along claimed this position for him. What- | ever he knows about the frauds he will pro- answer any charges preferred against him. In the meantime It is said that Blatchford’s | coming back will result in the sudden going away of a good many officials, who feel a little ticklish about his probable revelations; so that the Marshal may have to fall back upon the extradition treaty after all. Spomixa THz GAMg.—Rochefort was the anti-climax of the revolution that started with such promise in Paris only a few months ago. | He has put it down more effectively than the ; Emperor could have done with fifty thousand | soldiers, His very nomination asa Depujy, his presence a3 a foremost figure in the agita- tion, warned away the agitators and revolu- tionists by whom something might have heen done. They could not train in-such com- pany without loss of prestige. If any of our own agitators, respectable by their talents, should originate ® movement and should then see it fall into the hands of George Francis Train they would have to give itup. So in Paris, Rochefort is their George Francis. Two GIANTS IN THE Frenp,—Cardiff is certainly fertile in giants, as two of her tre- mendous sons are now contesting the admira- tion of the public. By the Albany papers of yesterday we see that the Cardiff giant is on exhibition in that town and will remain there for several days, By the Hrrarp of yester- day we soe that he ig also on exhibition in this = and ae goon f a fimfted period. We forbear to distinguish between these giants or | to decide which is the greater of two humbugs, bably state frankly, as he has given bonds to. The Presidents Mossage—Goneral Graat as | Tho Repoy of a Statesmen. The President’s Message is before our readers. Marking a new departure in the government it is a message of surpassing importance. As the first full and deliberate exposition of the views of General Grant, broadly defining the landmarks of his adminis- tration on our domestic and foreign affairs, we think it foreshadows in our great soldier our first statesman of his day. It is the message of an honest, earnest, clear-headed, practical man, fully inspired with the grandeur and glorious destiny of the country ; but fully alive also to the necessities and precautions sug- gested from the present conditions of our domestic and foreign relations. His opening on the abounding prosperity, the comprehensive resources and immeasu- rable capabilities of the United States, is a magnificent picture, and well calculated to inspire universal confidence in the glorious future of the ‘‘great republic.” His specifica- tions and suggestions cover a great number of subjects, which in detail it is needless here to reproduce. On the leading questions of the day, however, his opinions and propositions to Congress are of such importance as to chal- lenge our immediate attention, First, with regard to Southern reconsiruc- tion, while advocating the admission of Vir- ginia and hoping that Mississippi and Texas will come out all right, he recommends that Georgia be required to say her lesson over again, inasmuch as she has not conformed to the terms laid down by Congress and the four- teenth amendment. .He recommends a bill providing for the meeting of the original re- construction State Legislature of 1868, includ- ing the negro members turned out by a majority of the whites of the two houses, and that they all be held to the oaths enjoined in the terms of reconstruction, &c. The bill already introduced in the Senate will doubtless be passed without unnecessary loss of time, and in the interval Georgia may be considered an outside Slate. In this business General Grant simply looks to the execution of the laws. # On the national finances, pleading for the funding of the debt at four and a half per cent: interest, and a gradual return to specie pay- ments and a steady extinction of the debt, the judicious and carefully considered opinions of the Message will, we doubt not, command the general approbation of the country. As they are the views, however, of the Secretary of the Treasury, to which we have devoted a separate article, we need not enlarge upon them here, It is gratifying to see from the Message that of all questions that to which General Graat has given the most thoughtful attention, and that in which he is most deeply interested, is the money question and its earliest practicable settlement, without disturbance, upon a broad and solid foundation. In connection with the funding of the debt he suggests the postpone- ment till next session of any general modifica- tions of the tariff or internal tax laws, except @ reduction of the tax om incomes to three per cent—a concession to the taxpayers whish we expect will be granted. On Cuba the Message is non-committal, except in the matter of our international obli- gations, on which it is very clear. It is pro- bable, however, that on this subject the Presi- dent prefers to leave the initiative to Congress, with which department the question of peace or war, in all its phases, properly belongs, Let Congress act, then, and the President will execute the law. On the Alabama claims the Message holds substantially to the argument of Senator Sumner’s great speech ; but in consequence of the terrible commotion excited in both coun- tries by that speech, with the indignant rejec- tion by the Senate of the Johnson treaty, nego- tiations have not yet been resumed. The President is waiting for the opportunity, which he thinks is coming, for a satisfictory and comprehensive sottlement. The Message disapproves the project of Canadian reciprocity as a scheme for the benefit of the Canadians at the expense of our own people and public treasury, which is the correct view. The Quaker Indian policy, with Tndian. reservations for those unfortunate people, is warmly detended ; the repeal of the Tenure of Office law is urged, and we suspect it will have to be repealed; the movements entered upon for the survey of the Isthmus of Darien, in view of an interoceanic canal, are referred to; the reporis of the several execu- tive departments are drawn upon to show their operations respectively and their condition; the monopoly of the French cable is opposed, and all ocean cable monopolies; an increase of salaries to certain public servants, including Justices of the Supreme Court, is recom- mended, and properly, tvo, and finally, while relying largely as to their measures of legisla- tion upon the patriotism and wisdom of the two houses, the President promises an adher - ence to the laws and their enforcement. To sum up, on our financial affairs the policy recommended in the Message is good and sound; 6a redonstruction it is éohsisteat with the policy of a uniform application of the laws; on our foreign relations it is carefully conservative, perhaps a little too much so on the Cuban question, But from first to last there is nothing in the Message, excepting the Tenure of Office law, calculated to disturb the harmony promised between the President and Congress, unless there may be some trouble created in the Sevate touching the division of the spoils. Ina word, it is a good business Message, and indicates a good administration and peace and prosperity to the country under President Grant, without panics and with a steady reduction of the debt and a quiet return to specie payments, Seeixa Mores.—The Rev. Mr. Frothing- ham turns as savagely as a pastor may on those who accuse him of tampering with the right interests of society, He says that the greatest enemies of social order are his assailants, and that the true crimo against society is to ‘judge in advance of justice” the assassin, seducer, &c. Now in this very argument he admits the whole case agaiust him. He is the one who judged in advance of justice; for by gloss- ing over the act of Richardson he magnified the crime of McFarland. And when one “judges in advance of justice” does it make fy difference whether he is for or against a criminal? Is not the evil regult the same? The simple question is, then, Who began it? the Secretary of the Trea- - eury. Secretary Boutwell, in his communication to Congress, takes pride in the large reduction of the national debt, the details of which have been already given to the publio in the debt statement of the 1st inst. “ The feature of this Portion of the document is the testimony it bears to the fidelity with which General Grant in assuming the administration of the govern- ment has carried out his promises in the mat- ter of the revenue and expenditures of the nation. During the fiscal’ year ending June 80, 1869, the excess of receipts over expenditures was in round num- bers fifty millions of dollars, three- fourths of which accumulated during the first four months of his term of office. That is, General Grant, in one-third of the year, saved three times as much as the previous adminis- tration did in two-thirds of the year. In other words, the present administration of the gov- ernment is nine times as efficient as the pre- vious administration. The receipts for the first quarter of she current fiscal year are already over twenty-three millions in excess of the expenditures, and it is estimated that tho excess for the three remaining quarters will be over seventy millions—making a total saving of ninety-three millions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870. An estimate for 1870-71, based upon the continued operation of the present laws; promises an excess of one hundred and two millions. In the matter of a resumption of specie payments Secretary Boutwell’s position is wise and conservative. He points out the condi- tions prerequisite to the restoration of our paper currency to a specie standard. In the first place he remarks that the ability of the country to resume will not be due to any spe- cial legislation upon the subject, but to the condition of its industries and to its financial relations to other countries, We must sd develop these industries that our exports shall be substantially equal to our imports. In the next place the diffusion of the currency over the South in the progress of its recuperation from the prostration of the war, and to the Western States and to California, where paper is likely to take the place of gold, will tend to diminish the difference between paper and coin. He favors a mild policy of contraction, but touches.the subject with an evident desire that it may not be done with any risk of com- mercial disaster. He confesses that the exact wants of the nation as to the amount of paper currency are a problem, the solution of which he leaves tobe determined when prior and more important issues have been settled. He only favors contraction because he inclines to the belief that the volume of the cur- rency, with a restoration of specie pay- ments, is more than sufficient for the business requirements of the country. He also deems it’ unwise to resume while so large a portion of the national debt is held abroad by European merchants and bankers, whose investment in our national securities has been speculative and temporary and not permanent. Any sudden appreciation in the value of government securities would only induce their reshipment to secure the profits of the rise. On the other hand, a steady pro- gress to specie payments, while rendering the foundation of the national credit more stable, would tend to render these foreign invest- ments permanent and prevent the danger of a panic such as occurred in Europe in 1866, when upon the outbreak of the Austro-Prus- sian war there was a general sending home of the different national bonds. He desires that when the country does resume there shall be no backsliding into suspension. In fine, in the language of his report, the practical ques- tion is not merely the resumption of specie payment as a measure by itself, but the pro- blem is to resume under such circumstances that the position can be maintained, not only in times of tranquillity, but also in periods of excitement and peril. In discussing the details which are to assist in paving the way for resumption he dwells upon the necessity for taking steps to revive and develop our commercial marine, and ingeniously proves the important part which the extent of our shipping interests play in modi- fying the balance of our foreign trade. The voyage of every American vessel is a bill of exchange in our favor, In funding the national debt Secretary Boutwell thinks it will be necessary to deal with the five-twenties only, and with $1, 200,000,000 only of tie whole loan afloat of this class. He recommends that the new bonds be divided into three loans of $400,000,000 each, the first redeemable in fifteen to twenty years, the second in twenty to twenty- five years and the third in twenty-five to thirty years; that the principal and interest be made payable in coin expressly; that the tive- twenties shall be received in exchange for them; that the rate of interest shall not exceed four and one-half per cent; that the interest shall be payable in European cities ag the subscribers to the loan may elect, and finally that the new bonds shall be exempt from all taxation, St is doubtful whether the last ~~ condition Wis moet _ with popular sanction, inasmuch as the public tendency is to exact an equal distribution of the burden of taxation. In alluding to the evils of the national banking eystem it points out the unjust discrimination which those insti- tutions make in lending their funds on pledge of stocks in preference to accommodating the merchants, thus fostering speculation at the expense of legitimate business, and suggests the remedy. The report is otherwise full and detailed in recommendations tributary to the main features above sketched. A Cupax Pruter ror CoNaress.—An excel- lent idea of the Cuban Junta is that of laying on the desk of every member of Congress a miniature map of the island of Cuba, contain- ing on its margin the length, breadth, square miles and number of acres in the island; its exports, imports, population, and so forth, With this primer in his hand every member can “speak by the book” about Cuba, many of whom probably have never studied the geog- raphy or resources of the island, This will save time in the discussion of the important question, and may cut many long speechos short, as every man will be his own instructor. If this plan of edacation for members of Con- gress were adopted in other cases it would gave a gteat deal of time, It is an excellent short cut to knowledge, The Oharter Election To-Day. The great and protracted excitement which marked the entire charter election campaign of 1869 will have its culmination and its close to-night. There are many interests and con- siderations involved in the Aldermanic con- test that have been either overlooked by the majority of the citizens or else have not attracted the amount of attention which they deserved. With the change in the political supremacy of the city and State, the result of the November election, a new era of restored power dawns upon the Councilmanic Board. This body will again be called upon to act in concert with the Mayor in all municipal appointments to the heads of such bureaus and commissions, the creation of republican legislation, as may for another year be per- mitted to stand. But at all events, with the chartered rights of the city so long wrested from it restored, the Councilmanic body will be once more clothed with its old prerogatives as @ power in the city government. It must be a matter of regret that the thorough defeat of the republican party in the late State elec- tion seems to have been accepted as a coup de grace from which it could not even rally to contest a single Aldermanic ward in the city with the slightest prospect of success. Con- sequently the citizens have but ‘Hobson's choice” in the election to-day—to take the Tammany candidates as they come—a rather disagreeable alternative, no doubt, but still the only one. In the contest for Civil and Police Justices there has been a wider field for selection open. The Tammany candidates, whether those renominated or those nominated for the first time for either Civil or Police Justice, possess all the necessary qualifications for the office. The election is not entirely confined to those nominees, however, as there are in two or three districts independent democratic candi- dates running. In only one, the Ninth (a new district), the candidate is one not seeking re-election, but comes for the firat time before the residents of his district as.a candidate for the office. Captain Wiley, however, is so popular with all classes that he enters with perfect confidence into the struggle, and, with an honest canvass of the votes polled, he has no fears for the result to-night. The candidates for School Trustees are, as in the case of the Aldermanic candidates, almost all Tammany men. It is, therefore, needless ‘now to reiterate our oft repeated warning to the citizens to be up and doing in the election so'far as the candidacy for School Trustees was concerned. The general apathy that prevailed as to party opposition in regard to the other offices has had its influence here, where even all political feel- ings should have been thrown aside, and none but reliable and competent men put forward, It may be said that the charter. election for 1869 goes to the winning men by default, arising from the supposed uselessness on the part of the republicans and outside organi- zations to contest it, and through apathy on the part of the people themselves, who seem, for the present at all events, to have confided their whole political existence to the hands of the Tammany leaders. The Richardson-McFarland Tragedy—Pablic Opinion. Public opinion is sometimes rash, often mer- ciless, but in the long run it is almost always just. In this case it has taken its usual course. It was rash; it was somewhat merciless in its first outburst; but it is now settling down, and as it settles down we feel that it is coming nearer and nearer to truth and justice. From all quarters and among all ranks and classes of the people the sentiment which is loudly and emphatically expressed isthe same. We are forgetting Richardson, ignoring his female friend, and willingly leaving McFarland in the hands of the law. Our attention is being more and more concentrated on principles, and on that class of principles to which mainly this crime is to be traced. In public estimation this marriage is as much to be condemned as the murder. Mr. Beecher and Mr. Frothing- ham have both been heard in explanation of their conduct in the matter; but it is only truth to say that their explanations have been 80 feeble that public opinion is down upon them more than ever. It is our confident opinion that before this affair is finally settled the Beechers, the Frothinghams, the Greeleys, the Calhouns and the rest will be heartily ashamed of themselves, From the clergymen, particularly if they have been deceived, we shall expect an open, honest and full confes- sion. We shall not be the laa} to forgive, but for the present we hold them largely to blame. It is time that the dangerous “isms” of New England were put down, This sad affair may tend to open some dark eyes. . Tue Work at Hert Gatz.—Professor Maillefert reports fair progress on his portion of the work in clearing the Hell Gate channel, He has been laboring with nitro-glycerine, and gunpowder, and divera, and scow grapplers since last August on Tray’s Reef, Shelldrake and Pot rocks, with the following regults :—When he commenced operations there Was only a depth of twelve and a half feet of water at lowtide on Tray's Reef. a is an average depth of twenty fect. On Shelldrake rock the channel Las beon increased froma depth of sixteon to twenty-nine feet. From the dvbria of rock blown up by four hundred discharges of nitro-glycerine it appears that forty scowloads, containing forty- five cubic yards each, have been successfully grappled and carried off to be appropriated to building docks and piers. This is not a bad show for less than five months’ work. If the other operations progress in the same ratio we need not despair of seeing Hell Gate clear one of these days. Toe Scranton Coa, Uompany in tor Way.—The last auction sale of Scranton coal put the price down a little. Large orders received at the mines in Pennsylvania pre- vious to that sale were countermanded imme- diately after it, and the organ of the miners cries out for some ‘power under the laws” to stop such sales, so that the price may be kept up. Was ever the power of law invoked moro crookedly than thia? The great combination to keep up the price of coal wants to punish those who stand in its way. This is av if the thieves and rogue: fall sorts should appeal to the law to preveat the police and honest mon interfering with thend in their vooations. Second Session of the Forty-first Congress. Yesterday the Forty-firat Congress met, organized, listened to the reading of the Presi- dent’s Message, and entered promptly and vigorously on the labors of its second session. In the Senate the pressure of public sentiment in regard to certain urgent questions of import- ance was indicated by the character of the bills, joint resolutions and petitions which were offered at this early date. Prominent among these wero the petition from thirty thousand citizens of Philadelphia praying Congress to recognize the independence of the republic of Cuba and to accord to it the rights of a bel- ligerent Power ; the bills of Mr. Drake and of Mr. Sumner with reference to the further defin- ing and regulating the jurisdiction and powers of the courts of the United States; the bills of Mr. Williams for the improvement of Oregon, the establishment of a telegraph line from the Columbia river to Great Salt Lake, and the regulation of Chinese immigration; the bill to relieve and remove the political disabilities of certain persons in Alabama; the joint resolu- tion for the relief of persons engaged in the late rebellion, and, particularly, the bill of Mr. Morton to provide for the reconstruction of the State of Georgia by convening the old State Legislature, with the conditions that no person shall be admitted to membership who is disqualified under the fourteenth amendment, or excluded therefrom on account of race or color, and then that if the Legislature thus organized shall ratify the fifteenth amendment the State shalf be ad- mitted to representation to Congress—a bi'l which corresponds so nearly to similar recom- mendations in the President's Message that it very probably will be passed; the bill providing for the execution of the laws against the crime of polygamy in the Territory of Utah; the bill for establishing an ocean mail service between the United States, Mexico and Central America, and the resolu- tion requesting the President for information about the presence of Governor William McDougall at Pembina in Dacotah Territory, and the opposition of the inhabitants of the Selkirk settlement to his assuming the Gov- ernorship of the Northwest Territory, said to have been lately transferred by the Tludson Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada, The bill of Mr. Sumner in reference to the appellate jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court, in causes or proceed- ings commenced by the writ of habeas corpus, is manifestly designed to meet such special case as that of Yerger; but the bill proposed by Mr. Drake is of a far more sweeping character, aud is so generally regarded as a direct attempt to break down the judiciary that it will doubtless meet with strenuous opposition. Among the bills and resolutions offered in the House of Representatives the most note- worthy were a bill providing for taking the ninth census; for fixing the number of the mem- bers of the House and for their future apportionment among the several States, and a joiot resolution declaring Virginia enti- tled to representation in Congress. Notice was also given of a bill to prevent the appoint- ment of members of Congress to any place of trust and profit under government. On the whole the first day of the second session of the Forty-first Congress was a very busy day, and a wide field for work was laid out for the legislative plough. A CAVALRY GENERAL ON A Wuiskey Rarp.— There has been no better arranged or more effective movement for enforcing the revenue laws than the sudden onslaught on the group of illicit stills at Irishtown, in Brooklyn—a move that owes its origin and discreet conduct to General Pleasanton, now of the revenug service and formerly commander of the cavalry in the Army of the Potomac. The way in which a man performs his duty, whatever be his post, is the best testimony to his qualities, and in the secrecy, the suddenness, the good temper and complete results of this operation we recognize in civil office the same acuteness, vim and dash that distinguished the General as @ sommander of cavalry. A “Butt Run” m Earnest.—One of the correspondents of the London Zimes has been prohibited from entering the Papal States. We presume he was commissioned to write about the Ecumenical Council, This action of the Pope throws ‘Bull Run” Russell com- pletely in the shade, for the gentleman now aggrieved fs run off by an original, genuine Bull of the real old stock, whereas Mr. Russell, in the moments of his very highest elevation, only ran before the Black Horse cavalry of Virginia, “Bull Run” Russell loses his tonsure and consecration. He had them merely from the hands of the late President Lincoln. The “other man” of the London Times is ordained by Pius thé Ninth. BrronerR AND PiymMourn Onuron.—For the sake of the exchequer of Plymouth church it is the greatest of pities that the seats are not for sale just now. If this were the time for selling the choice places in that temple of the Gospel they would no doubt fetch double the ordinary price, for no sensation that Beecher has dabbled in was ever more offec- tive than this Richardson-McFarland flurry. ' ont Peonlo whg say thas seocher haw blundered,” that he has ‘pus =! foof into it,” &e., do not understand that clerical tumbler. It is tho greatest success of his life, the most piquant of all his ventures on the desperate edge of ministerial propriety. Ove Van Dusen will give fifty thousand dollars towards the organization of a vigilance committee, and this proves that the desperate- minded citizen is blind as a mole to the real cause of all our trouble, Oh, Van Dusen! all the mischief is due to money. It is because the plunder of the city isso stupendous that corruption and misgovernment are so great, and now you want to add your little fifty thou- sand dollars to the dificulty. Do you not know that the rogues of this town will organize a vigilance committee merely to get the money you offer and hang you as the first rogue with a rope purchased at your own expense ? m BALL, ‘The second annual reception and ball of the Man- hattan Chapter, No. 184, R, A, M., took place last evening at the Apollo Rooms, vorner of Twenty- eighth street and Broadway. The affair was a very enjoyable one, and notwithstanding the snow storm there was @ large attendance of ladies and gontie- men. Dancing was begun about nine o'clock and ‘was kept up until the wee hours of the morning.