The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1869, Page 6

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A London journal thinks that the American reciprocity treaty with Canada will be modified by Congress through the in- fuence of Secretary Fisn. A leading London journal doubts that cotton from India will displace the American descriptions in the English markets. Ear! Grffrville approves of a more intimate relation- Bhip between Canada and the home government, but is opposed to Canadian independence. Secret so- Cleties are said to be plotting for an insurrectionary movement in Russia. The Duke of Genoa will, it is said, soon be proclaimed King of Spain. By steamship at this port we have our correspon- dence from Europe in detail of our cable telegrams to the 5th of December. Our special letters from Rome, Maarid and Paris embrace matter of vaned interest and importance. The tribute to the Pope from the South American republics is of the most valuable kind, that from Peru supplying a very interesting reminiscence of the personal missionary labor of bis Holiness in Lima an¢ other parte of the country as the plain Father Ferretti. China. English report. by the Atlantic cable state that @n emigration agent is about to transport large numbers of Chinese coolies through the Suez Canal for, New Orleans. Brazil. Advices by the ocean cable state that the Brazilian Ministry bad resignea on account of the continuance of the Paraguayan war, im opposition to their wishes. Congress. In the Senate yesterday several petitions were Presented for pensions and for relief from political disabilities; also a memorial from a convention of laboring men asking the apportiontment of the pub- lic lands in the Southern States among the colored laborers. The joint resolution providing for a recess of Congress from Wednesday, the 22d instant, to Wednesday, January 6, was taken up and passed. Senator Brownlow had read from the Secretary's desk ® personal explanation defending himself against the charge of endeavoring to secure the election of Andrew Johnson as Senator from Tennessee, Senator Carpenter called ap his resolution declaring that the Spanish gunboats in New York should not be permitted to leave that harbor, supporting his resolution in a speech of considerable length. Sena- tor Sumner briefly replied to Senator Carpenter, arguing against interference in Cuban affairs. Sen- ator Morrill, of Vermont, called up the bill providing against the reduction of wages of government arti- sans and laborers, which bill he opposed in a long speech. The Senate, alter a brief executive session, adjourned, In the House Mr. Jones, of Kentucky, offered a resolution declaring tne nation’s regard for the memory of George Peabody and authorizing the President to despatch a feet of war vessels to meet the European convoy with Mr. Peabody's remains and to make proper arrangements for thelr recep- tion. Hills were introduced for the resump- Uon of specie payments, to remove all dis- abilities imposed by the fourteenth amenda- ment, and to increase the taxes on national banks. Resolutions were offered declaring against the sale of Indian lands by treaty to corporations and speculators, and that no appropriations of money for carrying such treaties into effect will be made by the House; also to tvestigate into the cause of the Avondale mine disaster, and for Infor- mation concerning the disposition of the reward for the capture of Jefferson Davis. The Census bill was then considered in Committee of the Whole and perfected and reported to the House. ale: ich che House adjourned. Miscellancous. The President yesterday nominated Attorney Gen- eral E. RK. Hoar to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The name of Judge Strong, of Pennsylvania, 18 mentioned as his probable suc- cessor in the Attorney Generalsbip. Jason M. Joun- son was also nominated for Collector of Internal Revenue for the Ninth district of New York, and James A, Allaben for Assessor of the Second district, A bill to abolish the franking privilege is under consideration by the House Committee on Postal Affairs, but there is no probability of their bringing in @ bill to do more than suspeud the privilege dur- ing the recesses of Congress. General Ord reports to General Sherman, through General Thomas, commanding the Pacific Coast Tegion, that wanton murders afd robberies of harm- less Indians by the whites are very frequent in the Indian country, and suggests that such actions are @ fruitful cause of our Indian wars, and that stricter legislation giving the Indian @ right to testify or putting the matter in the hands of the military is necessary. General Thomas, General Sherman and Secretary Belknap all endorse the suggestion. A delegation of New Yorkers interested tn ship- building 1s in Washington to give evidence before the Congressional Somme Telative to the decline of shipbuilding. The insurgenis in Winnipeg Territory are now reported to have placed Governor McTavish under guard and driven Captain Campbell, of McDou- gali’s party, Out of the territory to American soil, ‘They continue issuing the Hudson Bay Company's Fations. ‘Tue repost of tue Board of Managers of the Sol- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. Giers’ National Asylum shows that during the past year aid and support was rendered to nearly 4,000 Wounded and disabled soldiers at the several asylums in Ohio, Maine, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Of this number 112 died during the year, nearly one-half from consump- ton. No Senator has yet been electea by the Kentucky Legislature. Stevenson and McCreery are still ahead. Aman named Lane was arrested in Cinciunatt yesterday for drunkenness, and on his person was found sixty doliars in counterfeit money and a letter from Wogan & Co., Nassau street, New York, recom- mending their counterfeits as almost as good ae the genuine, The City. ‘The Spanish flotilla is expected to leave New York to-day. A bold plot for the destruction of the gun- boats was frustrated by their sudaen removal to the anchorage in the stream on Monday. It is reported that an attempt will be made by the Cubans to burn some of the vessels before their departure. ‘The associations of petroleum refiners closed their national convention with {ts second day’s session yesterday. A resolution was passed fixing the specific gravity of merchantable oil at forty-six, and deolaring that none above forty-eight speciflo gravity should be received by the purchaser, and also allow- ing ® graduated scale of prices for oll between forty-four and forty-eight gravity, A commitsee was appointed to procure ac- curate instruments for testing oils and declaring such instruments to be the standard tests for the trade. A warm debate followed on @ proposition of the Pittsburg Association to sell oil hereafter by Weight only, and not by measure. This met with much opposition from New York and Cleveland, and it was finally postponed, when the Convention ad- journed sine die, In the Board of Health yesterday Dr. Harris sub- mitted a report on illuminating oils, which shows that number of dealers continue to sell the most dangerous material. Ghe Board of Health yesterday petitioned Congress to take some legislation looking to the detention of emigrants from sailing from European ports until they present a certificate of vaccination to the com- mander of the vessel upon which they propose ta ‘embark. This action ig taken to prevent the intro- duction of smallpox into the Metropolitan district. In the Superior Court yesterday Colonet Rush C. Hawkins brought suit against George Bliss, Jr., to recover $45,000 for losses sustained in a stock spect ation into which he was induced to go by alleged false representations on the part of Mr, Bliss. The case was adjourned till this morning. A policeman of the Thirty-second precinct yester- day was detected in passing @ counterfeit twenty oliar bill of the National Commercial Bank on an nighth avenue tailor. A five at No. 43 Gold street last night destroyed about $4,000 worth of property. The North German Lioyds steamship Hansa, Cap- tuin Brickenstein, will leaye Hoboken at two P.M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The European mails will cloge at the Post OMice at twelve M. ‘The steamship Morro Castle, Captain R. Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana. The steamer Magnolia, Captain M. B. Crowell, of Leary’s line, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-aay for Charleston, 8. C. The stock market yesterday was heavy and weak. Gold declined to 12145. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General G. H. Martindale, of Washington, and Johu Hitz, Consul General to Switzerland, are at the Astor House. Colonel J. H. Beret and W. W. Corcoran, Washing- ton; Hey Winthrop Sargent, of Philadelphia, and Captain §. B, Stone, of Stonington, are at the New York Hotel. Ex-Congressmah T. M. Pomeroy, of New York; Governor J. E, English, of Connecticut; General Jotn T. Croxton, of Kentucky; General’ W. Logan Walker, of Mississippi, and R. M. Rogers, of the United States Army, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel 8. B, Seward, of New Haven, and Profes- sor W. H, Williamson, of Massachusetts, ure at the St. Charles Hotel. Horace Nied, of the United States Army; Judge Colt, of Connecticut, and General J. H. Ledlie, of New York, are at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Judge E. T. Eldridge, of Poughkeepste, and Sehor Lopez Roberts, Spanish Minister, are at the Albe- marie Hotel. Colonel Warren, of Troy; G. F. Tyler, of Philadel- phia; Colonel Snyder, of Lewis county; General J. F. Martindale, of Rochester, and F, King, of Vir- ginia, are at the Hoffman House. General T. Vodges, of the United States army; Major J. Berrett, of New Jersey, and E. F. Uager, of Philadelphia, are at the Coleman House. Prominent Departures. Juage W. A. Wright, for Washington; Captain Broomhead and Captain Crockett, for Boston; Geo. M. Pullman, for vhiladelphia; H. H. French, for Washington; and Professor Pierce, for Boston. The Bull Council. Papal ands the Ecumenical Thanks to journalistic enterprise and to the agents which such enterprise can now turn to account, the latest Papal Bull has been can- vassed in New York before it was properly known in Rome. No Pope ever had £0 large an audience as Pope Pius the Ninth, but, like many others not noted for wisdom or grati- tude, the good Pope spurns the ladder which gives him place and power. Our despatch of yesterday was a triumph of journalism and of modern progress, In itself considered we have not much to say in favor of the Bull. It more than justifies all our doubts and fears regarding the Council. That the Pope dreads the light of day to fall upon his plans and the doings of the Council no one henceforth can deny. Atl the membere of the Council are pledged to secrecy. Until the proceedings are ended and the decrees promulgated the outside world shall know nothing more of this Council than that so many bishops, with the Pope at their head, are in solemn session assembled, What they are doing no one is to know, So, at least, the Holy Father orders, and so it must be if the prelates are faithful. But we know what we know, and could tell if we would; but we will not. Enough that in our opinion the Council hall is a leaky vessel, and that in spite of the Ifoly Father and his bishops facts will come out. This, however, is not the main feature of the Bull. Like all other bulls, especially mad bulla, it is a little unreasoning and not a little stupid. The Holy Father exhorts.the bishops to live in the “practice of charity, humility, sobriety and pious contemplation during the seasion of the Council;” surely a very unnecessary piece of advice to men who have arrived from all the ends of the earth to attend to the interests of religion. Then it is conceded by the Holy Father that the bishops have a right to make propositions. But as propositions made in open Council might beget debate, and as de- bate, in spite of the bad Latin, might excite unholy wrath, the propositions are to be written ont and submitted privately to a com- mittee of bishops named by the Pope. To make obstruction more complete, and the more effecthally to preserve peace and good order, propositions are to be conformable to the spirit and traditions of the Catholic Church; to have for their object the general interests of the Church, not the Interests of a particular diocese, and, when presented to the committee, they are to be accompanied by a statement of the motives which have ledto their presenta- tion, Fathers who have a desire to harangue the assembly must obtain permission from the legate or presidents the day before. It may thus be taken for granted that, if itis found possible to adhere to these rules, the Council will be a tame enough affair. We sball hear nothing of it; for to tell tales out of school is forbidden, There will be no discussion; for subjects likely to provoke debate will not ob- tain the sanction of the primary committee. We are not surprised to learn that a majority of the bishops are dissatisfied with the Bull. Tt would be strange, indeed, if it were other- wise. A large, a very large section of the bishops are liberal and opposed to despotism in religion as much as they are opposed to des- potism in civil government. But this Bull breathes the very spirit of despotism. It is centralization with a vengeance. It is the Pope and nothing but the Pope. It is the Pope who names the committee, who appoints the presidents, who does all. Liberty is nowhere, When we read this Bull we seem to-be away back in the twelfth century. We cannot realize the fact that such sentiments have actually been transmitted by telegraph. It isthe fact, however, that this Papal Bull has appeared in the age of telegraphs and rail- roads and steamboats and printing preseea and newspapers, Well may the liberal bishops be angry; but what will they do? They will not be allowed to speak in the Council. They may not go home; for they are expressly prohibited from absenting them- selves from the sittings. Will they set up a rival council? It may not seem likely, but who shall say it is impossible? In all serious- ness it seems to us in the last degree humiliat- ing that so many distinguished and able churchmén and prelates should put themselves to all the inconvenience of journeying thou- sands of miles to Rome for the good of the Church, and that they should find that there was no higher réle for them than that of dumb dogs daring not to bark for fear. If the bishops submit and abide by the will of the Pope there can be no difficulty experi- enced in dogmatically affirming the Syllabus and proclaiming the bodily assumption and the personal infallibility of the Pope. If these things are attempted by the Council, as it is now considered certain that they will, we shall expect an outcry outside the Council but inside the Church, which will be both loud and emphatic. In France, in Germany and in Italy liberal Catholics are on the watch. It is stated on good authority that Father Hyacinthe has returned to Paris at the request of his numerous friends to speak from time to time on the questions raised by the Council, The father's words will be echoed by thou- sands in all lands, and it is quite as reasonable to presume that the Council will bring to the Church a sword as that it will bring peace. Another German reformation or the breaking off of the Gallican Church from Rome are not imposeibilities, A New Stock Exchange. If the brokers are serious in their discontent with their present quarters it may lead to an important translation of the money centre of the city. New York has been undergoing such changea for many years, but the hovering feet of business must soon light permanently some- where. Our metropolitan island has only a certain extent, and its real centres will be dis- covered ere long. The Royal Exchange of London and the Bourse of Paris have seem- ingly found solid resting places. Our Stock Exchange has moved about in Hanover, Bea- ver, William and Wall streets, to settle, as it was thought, in its present situation. The brokers ure quarrelling with their landlords, however, about exorbitant rent. Their build- ing does not belong to them, as it should. With over three-quarters of a million in their treasury, they are able to erect and pay for a stock exchange of their own. The opportunity is favorable to such a move. With the extinc- tion of dwelling hbuses in the lower wards we have often wondered what use St. Paul's could be put to. Here is an exact one for its site. The block on Broadway between Fulton and Vesey is the real centre of the metropolis, Here concentrate all the railway lines from up town and all the streets that conduct from Brooklyn, Jersey City and Staten Island. The new Stock Exchange would then confront the Post Office, the Astor House, the Park Bank, the Heratp Building, and, with the City Hall, complete a picturesque group of architectural adornments of the Empire City, Tue New Post Orrice.—We hope there will be no delay in the operations on the new Post Office from the want of money. All those engaged in the labor show a commend- able zeal in making the most of all their opportunities to economize time, and it would be inexcusable if their foresight and ingenuity in this particular should come to naught through the failure of Congress to make an appropriation forthwith. This Post Office has a claim upon the attention of Congress above any other labor now in the hands of the general government, Thongh nominally the New York Post Office, it is in fact a -national Post Office; for as this metropolis is the great receiving and distributing centre of the country in commercial and financial matters, 80 its Post Office is one in which every busi- ness man in the United States has a direct personal interest. This consideration alone should prevent any delay that might arise from sectional opposition to the appropriation, A Siantricant Vorg—That in the House of Representatives the other day—one hundred and twenty-nine to forty-two—on the question of endorsing the Pregjdent’s opinion “that a renewal of a treaty of reciprocity in trade with the British provinces (the New Dominion) would be wholly in favor of the British pro- vinces, and should not in our present condi- tion be favorably considered.” With this beginning the prospect for a dividend to the Canadian lobby at Washington this session looks rather blue. Corps WANTED AGAIN at Wasttinaron,— The Committee on Banking and Currency of the lower house of Congress have been in- structed ‘‘to investigate the causes that led to the unusual and extraordinary fluctuations in the gold market of the city of New York from the 21st to the 27th of September last, with power to. send for persons and papers,” Fisk, Gould, Corbin and others of the bull ring may therefore expect shortly to be called upon for a pleasure trip to Washington at the expense of the Secretary of the Treagury, The Fing of Despotism and Blood Flaunting io Our Harbor. ” ‘Never since the United States became a free country have our citizens bebeld such a humili- ating spectacle as that now seen in the harbor of New York. The flag of Old Spain—of a European despotism—is flauntingly and tri- umphantly thrown to the breeze in the face of our people on board a number of gunboats that have been built here to make war upon an American people heroically struggling for their freedom. These gunboats are simply bloodhounds, going on a terrible, bloody mis- sion in the service of a cruel and tyrannical European Power and against a native-born American people, who are our near neighbors, and who, as our own forefathers did, have struck the blow for republican liberty. These gunboats have been furnished by the United States and have been let loose by our govern- ment to crush the brave Cubans, to dofeat a people fighting against worse tyranny than exists in any other civilized portion of the globe, to break down the efforts of native-born Americans to establish republican liberty after the example and upon the model of the United States and to perpetuate both white and negro slavery, under European and monarchical rule, within sight almost of this country. Yes, this bloody flag, on such an atrociou: mission, is flaunted in the face of our citizens-— of a community that warmly sympathizes with the Cubans—and that under the egis and pro- tection of their own government. It is enough to make every American heart revolt with indignation and shame, to make us all feel humiliated at the cowardly position our coun- try has been placed in. It is doubtful if a similar case of the triumph of red tape diplomacy or of weakness on the part of a great government can be found in history. There certainly cannot in the history of the United States. Every motive of humanity, of self interest, and of a high national policy should have prevented the release of these gunboats. Yet we see the government has ignored all these. We see the astounding anomaly of a government which is born of the people and deriving all its power from the popular voice defying popular sentiment and taking a course in direct hostility to popular will, And this has been done under the shallow pretext of maintaining the national honor and the obligations we owe to Spain, Is there no national honor, then, in acting impartially toward a neighboring and an American people who have proved them- selves worthy of the status of a belligerent Power? Is there no honor in according equal privileges and rights to this brave people with their European enemies? The honor of the American republic lies more in sustaining the cause of republican freedom under such circumstances than in this unne-* cessary and overstrained regard for a foreign and an exotic Power. The honor of the Ameri- can nation is tarnished, in fact, in thus favor- ing a most cruel European despotism in this hemisphere, There might be some prudence in such a course had the Cubans proved them- selves incapable of sustaining the war for liberty; but what excuse can there be when they have successfully defied the power of Spain, and have been steadily gaining ground for more than. a year, even against the forty thousand Spanish troops which General Prim says have been sent to crush the insurrection, and against all the war vessels and other war resources of the old country? In truth it is disgraceful to our government and humiliating to the people that we have not thrown aside all such puerile pretexts of international obligations to Spain and have not followed a broad and comprehensive American policy with a view to secure the independence or annexation of Cuba, to stop the frightful effu- sion of blood and the work of devastation, and to reassert the principle of excluding Euro- pean domination from this hemisphere when- ever a fair and reasonable opportunity occurs, In, every point of view, then, the United States should refuse to aid the enemy of the Cubans and should resolve that Cuba must be free. Genoral Butler on Reconstruction. The letter in which General Butler replies to the invitation of the editor of the Tribune, to make a full, public expression of his opin- ions on the momentous question of reconstruc- tion, not only abounds with ingenious exam- ples of the argumentum ad hominem directly applicable to the author of the ‘On to Rich- mond” cry and ‘sponsor and main prize of the arch traitor of Richmond,” but also forcibly presents many facts in illustration and support of his own views of the reconstruction question in its actual phase. General Butler explains why he is careful to advocate only such mea- sures as he believes will secure the enforce- ment of the fifteenth amendment as well as its passage. He earnestly disclaims being identi- . fled with a policy which “prolongs indefinitely the proscription and disfranchisement of a large portion of the men of the South for their part in the late rebellion.” He repels the assumption of Greeley and others that because, for party purposes, he has been the object of vituperative attack, slander and calumny on the part of some Southern men, therefore he must of necessity retaliate that wrong upon the communities which they disgrace. But he advocates a policy which he deems the only one effectnal for making reconstruction perma- nent. Custom Hovse Asvsks.—In the reports of the Custom House abuses that Mr. Grinnell proposes to remedy it is stated that systematic extortion is practised upon the clerks by persons pretending to have power to get them removed unless they will pay a blackmail of fifty or a hundred dollars, or even more, We suppose there is no doubt that in many cases where clerks have refused to pay the money the blackmailers, have been able to show their power by promptly securing the threatened removal. It will be good news, there- fore, to persons in the Custom House that the Collector’s attention has been directly drawn to this subject. But while he is about it we trust he will go a little further, and give some thought to an evil not different in its nature or effect. This is that semi-oflicial party extor- tion, practised at election times, when the subordinate finds the ‘‘striker” side by side with the paymaster, waiting to take his per- centage on every salary for ‘‘party expenses.” No man would ever pay this striker a cent if he did not fear the loss of his place as a con- sequence. Here is an abuse that Mr. Grinnell may quite eradicate, Counted Out Candidates. The Board of Aldermen, sitting as the Board of City Canvassers to count the votes polled at the late charter election, and which has been in session for several days past, brought their duties to an end last evening, so far as the counting of the returns is concerned. The greatest excitement prevailed throughout the whole of the sittings, The Board room was each day crowded by the friends and adher- ents of the candidates who had appealed to the action or non-action of the canvassers. That is to say, candidates whose prospects looked gloomy claimed in some instances to have cer- tain returns counted in their favor, and, again, protested against other returns being counted for their adversaries, One circumstance which caused considerable, in fact almost the only, trouble to the canvassers was that the contest- ants were all members of the great democratic family, and, therefore, no matter how they struck out, their blows must fall not on party opponents, but on the heads of members of their own political household. As all intes- tine broils and family feuds are the most em- bittered, so was the excitement over the can- vass of the extromest kind, wild and threaten- ing. Had it been democratic versus repub- lican candidates the former would have taken the matter easy, well knowing how the total would come out. But here it was Greek meet~ ing Greek, with the usual result. How- ever the natural concomitant to sucha meet- ing—‘‘the tug of war’—may end as between the parties, one thing iscertain—that a feeling of intense ire has been engendered that bodes no good to the party or to individuals. The Scannel faction, politically speaking, have been defeated, but the spirit which animated them to make the raid upon the Nesbit faction is unconquered, and already threats have gone forth that bode no good to the “‘suspects” among the canvassers. Florence Scannel claims that he not only won the day by votes, but, like a true democrat and worthy aspirant for aldermanic honors, as knight of old winning his spurs, he had earned a place among the worthiest of the city fathers by his brave conduct and gallant bear- ing in his attack upon Nesbit in Donohoe’s liquor store, and in the wound he there received and his subsequent suffering there- from. And to be discarded after such a proof of his fitness, to be ‘“‘counted out” by those who ought most to have gloried in his achieve- ment and hailed him joyfully, not only as a brother in arms, but as a city father worthy of spoils, is a reflection which naturally galls, irritates and maddens the said Scannel and all who would have profited by his election. Protests innumerable have been sent in to the Board and referred. These protests will come up for argument to-day, when it is expected that some ‘* big talking,” if not worse, will mark the proceedings, It is to be hoped, however, that there will be no occasion for the official services of the ‘‘big Coroner” over the way, or for those of his ‘‘ man,” who, it seems, is better fitted to take part in a mélée than after it to inquire into the cause of the casu- alties. Taking the result of the charter elec- tion ‘‘all in all,” Tammany is no doubt ready to exclaim, ‘May we never see its like again.” Mr. Hoar tHe Lucky Man.—United States Attorney General Hoar has been appointed to the vacancy in the Supreme Court, and we expect that our United States District Attorney Pierrepont will next take the place vacated by Mr. Hoar. Tue Srxreenra Srrezr Market.—The stalls in this new edifice are soon to be sold, and the market will doubtless be in full operation early in the new year. Properly managed this may become one of the best markets in the city. It is the natural entrepét for all the produce coming by boat from the Sound and all the rivers that empty into it. Everything from Connecticut and from the Long Island shores of the S§und that comes to this city on’ sale should be found at that market, and will be, if proper accommodation is made for it. Although immediately sur- rounded by a class of people not likely to be a very satisfactory support to a market, it is within easy reach of an immense population that is not by any means the least affluent in the city. It is, moreover, nearer to every populous part of the city than Washington Market is, and if the farmers up the Sound see their own interest and concentrate their traffic here they may successfully rival the Jersey farmers, whose trade is concentrated in the shanties at the foot of Fulton street, North river. THE Counrenrerrens, —The secret service agents of the government are doing good work in their active campaigning against the counterfeiters. In all their recent discoveries there is none in which they have uncovered so much of a curiosity of crime as in their descent on the establishment of Conrad Fautzer. This man appears to have carried on an extensive and legitimate business as an engraver and printer of bank checks. He was so reputed for a good workman that he had plenty of trade. One would have sup- posed that with the sure returns and ultimate fortune of such a pursuit he would have been content. Butno. He risks his whole trade, his capital, even his liberty, on the hazards of a very pitiful die. He counterfeited two cent’s worth on every check, and that two cents leads him to bis ruin, Surely this is an avaricious rogue. Tumry Trousany Dottars DaMaGEs,—An excellent example and a good warning to rail- road companies was the verdict of that jury in the Supreme Court at Buffalo, who awarded thirty thousand dollars damages to a man injured by the Erie Railroad Company at the terrible Mast Hope accident, some time ago. This is the way to bring railroad companies to their senses, A few more verdicts of this kind will have nearly as much effect as the remedy against railroad accidents once hnmor- ously suggested—to put two or three of the directors on the locomotive. We hope that the lucky plaintiff in this suit will accept no compromise, but will demand from the coms pany the last farthing that is written down in the bond. Wonpers Wits Never Crass.—The Cam- den and Amboy Railway Company, over a social dinner on Tuesday evening last, surren- dered their dominion over New Jersey. Wo suspect, however, that it is but the old story ‘of the Dutchman who got down off his horge to Get on better, a tll $$ = Tee Franking fiivilege—A Swindle on Gie ‘Treasury. It is well that Postmaster General Cres- well has addressed a communication to the chairmen of the House and Senate committees on Post Offices recommending the abolishment of the franking privilege. We hope that these committees will take up the recommendation seriously. The franking privilege is an abuse and a nuisance as it has been used heretofore. We know by the reports of the General Post Office, year after year, that there is always & deficit in the receipts to pay expenses when the balance sheet is made out, Of all i, il ments of the government the Post Office De- partment is the most unprofitable, and, in fact, the most expensive, because it does not pay its own way. The cost of transporting the mails over our vast Territories is no doubt very large, and we cannot expect that every mail route will pay for itself, But there is no deny- ing the fact that under the franking system tons of mail matter are transported free for every hundred letters that pay postage. Members of Congress deluge the country with political pamphlets, reports of their speeches and printed stuff of all kinds, circulated for their own personal advantage. We have known instances when several tons of this free mail matter—more than a baggage car could carry—have accumulated at mail stations in the West, even as far out as Kansas, while -there were not probably a hundred letters on. the same route paying three cents postage each. It is against this abuse that the Postmaster General protests. The department is bur- dened by this system, and we cannot expect it to pay expenses until the system is abolished. We will not allude to the fact, often alleged, that members of Congress have used the franking privilege to cover the transportatign of their linen to and from the hands of the laundress. We believe this contemptible thing has been established as a fact, and therefore we let it go. It is enough to know that the privilege has been grossly abused in many ways, and that even if it had not been so abused it is radically wrong, because it only serves as a means of political propagandism and is a swindle on the Treasury. Poor people have to pay postage on their letters. Why, then, should members of Congress be exempt? The deficit in the Post Office Department has to be paid by the people in taxes, therefore the franking privilege is not only a fraud upon that department, but it is a grievance tothe public. In England the system was abolished some time ago, upon these very grounds, The Queen pays her own postage, or her chamberlain pays for her; so do the heads and officials of the government and the members of Parliament. We think, there- fore, that Postmaster’ General Creswell’s pro- test against the ‘‘deadhead” system in the Post Office Department is commendable and ought to be entertained by Congress. The Nogro Exodus from Virginian. * The negroes appear to be leaving Virginia in shoals for the cotton plantations of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, where they are sure of better wages and a warmer climate than they have in the “Old Dominion.” In Rich- mond, for instance, a labor agent advertises for negroes by thousands to go South at from fifteen dollars to twenty-two dollars fifty cents per month. Before the war the sales of ‘‘Vir- ginny niggers” for the cotton States amounted in Richmond to about twenty millions of dol- lars a year. The present demand from the cotton planters for these Virginian field hands is but the revival of the old one in a new shape. Under the old slavery demand the Virginia master sold to the trader ‘‘a few nig- gers” from year to year to make both ends meet, Under the new voluntary freedman and free labor system whole families and colonies of these Virginia plantation blacks are moving South. The end will probably be the disap- pearance of the black population from the State and its replacement by whitelabor. This will involve the cutting up of the large planta- tions into small farms for German, Danish, Norwegian, English, Welsh, Irish and Yankee settlers—a transformation which will double the value of every acre of land in the State within the next ten or fifteen years, Ou and Benzine—The Refiners’ Convention. A thief, unless caught and sent to prison, will continue to steal; a cheat, unless exposed and punished, will ply on his trade. And it is not to be expected that men who sell to their customers a compound more dangerous than gunpowder for illuminating oil will stop the traffic nnless made to do so by a power stronger than their self-interest can overcome. That there are ‘tricks of trade” everybody knows, and everybody's grandfather knew it before him. But when these ‘‘tricks of trade” result in wholesale murder it is about time that some corrective be applied, and if the “tricks” cannot be stopped without the trader, let him be weeded out also. The revelations made yesterday in the Petroleum Refiners’ Convention, by a member from Pitts - burg, are astonishing enough in this respect. He intimated that if oil be sold by weight-- that is, ifa gallon of oil was to weigh a cer- tain number of pounds and ounces, the lighter oils, those adulterated by the dangerous addition of’ naphtha or benzine would be detected by the purchaser and their sale lessened to such an extent that one-half of the small refiners in the country wquid be bankrupt. This, from a man who ought to know whereof he affirms, is suggestive. The murderous adulteration of the lamp oil of the poor must indeed .be practised as a regular trade in an enormous measure if to decrease its sale only par- tially is to make half of the smaller refiners throughout the whole country bankrupts. Whether the remedy proposed by him, of selling oil by weight only, instead of by measure, would prove effective, is question- able. That it would affect large dealers and create a healthier trade among them may be true. But before the fluid reaches the con- sumer in pints or quarts or half gallons it passes through the hands of too many middle- men, all of whom are tempted by the in- creased profit which rascality yields to @ko their chances of becoming, murderers, Qu columns give evidence from day to day of the work wrought through the influence of these men and of the many lives sacrificed to their agreed, which stops at nothing to filch an addi- tional penny from the public, The enactment, National