The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1869, Page 4

4 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND A STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Naw York Hrrarp. Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEAT Duke's Morro. ‘Twenty-fourth st—Toe RIBLO'S GARDEN, Broagway.—Tur DsaMa OF Liter En'ry, WOOD'S ML ner Lbirtic UM AND M > ‘ nm, Broxdway. cor Matinee daily. J no} every evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Macaine. Rowery.~MAcnrrH—RoLEnt WALLACK'S THEATRE, Br ax Wonvek. adway and 12th street.- THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth sireot.—Tut BURLESQUE o¥ Bap DiokkY GRAND 0) eRA Rich $80 street. —LinGarp’s B £SQue Cox lina 10 and BOOTH'S THEATRE, Met, borveen Oth ana 6th ave— Tux Murer WIVES oF Wixp OLYMPIC THEATRE, Erosaway,—UNpee tHE GaAs- Lieu. : MRS, F. B, CONWA RE, Brooklyn. A MipsumMerns Nignt’s D TONY PASTOR'S OPE! 201 Bowery.—Coio Youauisu, NEGRO MINe . THEATRE COMIQUE, 5M Broadway.—Comto Vooau 1s, NEGRO ACTS, & BRYANT'S OPERA } M.—BRYANI'S MINSTBE! BAN FRAN S Boon ‘way, ER MIO PlaN MINS! " +H AGB. Broadway.—-ErTut0- PIAN MINSTRELSY, . NEW YORK CIRC Fr street, ~EQURSTRIAN AND GYMNASTIC PERFORMANOES, £0. HOOLEY’S OPERA lyn, —Hooury's MINSTHELS—A TauP * APOLLO HALL, corne! Caxpiry GIANT. NEW YORK MUSZUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— BOLENOK AND ART street and Broadway.—Tue LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, sig Broxdway.—FRMALES ONLY iN ATITENDANOZ. New York, Friday, December 24, 1969. Cable telegrams are dated December 23. Messrs. Overend & Gurney, the bankers, have been acquitted after a trial m England. Napoleon has been personally complimeated by the savans of Germany. The French Legislature may adjourn its session to-day. The stock of oulilon io the banks of England and France increased Jargely during the weex. The actual work of the Ecumenical Council proceeds slowly. The Empress of Austria and the French Ambassa- dor in Rome received and entertained the Austrian and French bishons resp’ iy. The French gov- ernment has rearr “1 the postal schedule of charges between France and the United Statea, Tne Rasso-Polis Tey in the Council in Rome advocate aplan of © goverament reform. The Bishop of Havana bas “disap * from Madrid, and itis supposed he has gone to nee, with another bishop, in opposition to the Sp gency and re- volution, By steamship at this f in important detail of our cable te of December, we matl report ‘ais tothe Lith St. Domingo. The steamer Albany arrive possession of the peniusula States on tae Gta inst. States troops was lert th Mayti. tice of a blockade of all the | ed by the ram Atlanta (or at sea on her way to Haytl mana and toox r the Unitea jon of Unyed ris, to be € Triumph), which is no Miscellancons. Governor Bullock and a number of Senatora ap- prehend trouble in Geo in connection with the proposed ousting of ic Legislature, The majority of the members, itis said, will resist the proposed change, claiming that they can take the irou-clad oath, and that the only objection to them is their enmity to Governor Bullock, Senators Morton and ‘Thayer and Governor Bullock had an interview with the President yesterday and urged him to constiture Georgia a milnary district, like Mississippi and Texas, and it is thought probable that tie order will be issued soon, General Terry being placed in command with almost absolute control. Senator Wilson called upon the President recently and urged him io Withdraw Attorney General Hoar’s nomination to the Supreme ‘The Presiden t felt reluctant to do so unless requested by Mr. Hoar himself, and, it is Senator Wiison subsequently obtained Nr. He to ask that his name be withdrawn, The objection mamiy urged to his confirmation is the fact that he isa Northern man and the circuit is a Southern one, It is now claimed by those opposed to Hoar that he ought to resign his place in the Cabi The Post office Deg nt master in the United has ordered all post- ates to make accurate monthly accounts of all franked or free matter de- posited in their reepe e offices for mailing be- tween the Ist of January and te ist of July, 1870, including the amount of postage that would be chargeable thereon at the reg postage rates, and ieave pter 20 North river, at twelve Mf. to-morrow (Saturday) for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry. ‘The General Transatlantic Company's steamer Ville de Paris, Captain Surmont, will sail to-morrow morning for Brest and Havre, leaving pier 59 North river about eleven o’ciock, The French mails will close at the Post OMice at nine A, M., 26th inst. The steamship United States, Captain Smith, of the Merchants’ line, will leave pter No, 12 North river at three P. M, to-day, Friday, for New Orleans direct, | Tho stock market yesterday was extremely dull, butin the main steady. Gold was strong between the limits of 12094 and 121, closing fnally at 120%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel J. Tucker, of Boston; General Byron Ladin, of North Carolina, and A, H. Ladin, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General Leach, of Bermuda; W. H. Fessenden and 1, M. Morrill, of Matne, are at the Astor Flouse. eneral T. L. Clingman, of North Carolina; Gene- ral J, M. Brannon ana Major 1T. Edson, of the United States Army, are at thu St. Nicholas Hotel. James W. W: n, of China; Sefor Alvarez, of Cuba, and W. H. Fowler, of Tennessee, are at the St. Fimo Hotel. General Pitcher, of West Point, Captain Hay New- ton and E. G, Williams, of England, are at the Bre- voort House, General Estee, of Washington; General Ridley, of London; General Cliuton 8. Fisk, of St. Louis; Senator Conkling, of New York; ex-Governor Buck- ingham, of Connecticut; Congressman D, MeCar- thy, of New York, and L. A. Bigelow, of Boston, are at the Fifth avenue Hotel. : J. W. Currier arrived yesterday in the brig Monte Cristo, from San Domingo, and will resume the uues of Consul to that repudlic. He is stopping at the Evereit House, Prominent Departures. General Worthington, for Washington; Colonel Chickering, for Boston; Colonel 8. Pulling, for Chi- cago; Governor Jewell, for Connecticut; G. McCom- ber, for Saratoga; J. A. Poore, for Portiand, and W. Colburn, fer Detroit. The newly appointed Consul for Jamaica, J. W. Wheeler, sailed yesterday with his family, mn the bark Ponga, for Kingston, Mr, Wheeler goes out to supersede Mr. Aaron Gregg. The Claims—The Case As It Stands. The correapondence between the State De- partment and our Minister in London and with the British government on the Alabama claims, which was submitted to Congress, and which we published yesterday, shows that ro pro- gress has been made toward a settlement and that the case stands about in the same position it did when the late administration went out of power last March, The rejection of the con- vention made between Reverdy Johnson and Lord Clarendon by the Senate, and the speeches of Senators on that occasion, seem to have struck with such force that the subject was dropped fora time. However, Mr. Fish, the new Secretary of Siate under the new admin-' istration of General Grant, deemed it his duty in May last to address Mr. Motley, the suc- cessor of Mr. Reverdy Johnson at the Court of St. James, on the question. He says in this despatch, that the United States government in rejecting the recent convention abandons neither its own claims nor those of its citizens, nor the hope of an early, satisfactory and friendly settlement of the questions pending between the two governments, and Mr. Mot- ley is directed to call the attention of Lord Clarendon to these views. On the 28th of June Mr. Fish again writes to Mr. Motley, informing him that whenever negotiations or discussions on the subject of the Alabama claims shall be renewed the President wishes them to be carried on in Washington, and that the time will arrive for this whenever the British government shall propose a discussion or intimate a desire to reopen the negotiations, Mr, Fish writes again to Mr. Motley, Sep- tember 25, to the effect that time having been allowed for the “subsidence of any excitement or irritation growing out of recent events’— that is, of the rejection of the convention and the spegches in the Senate—the President thinks the discussion or negotiation might be re- opened, Upon this Mr. Fish writes a lengthy despatch, going over the whole ground again that Mr. “Seward and Mr. Reverdy Johnson had gone over before, stating the cause of our grievances against Great Britain and the foundation of our claims for reparation. It is the same history of the case as presented pre- viously, and which is known to our readers generally. In @ note of the same date to Mr. Motley the Secretary of State reiterates that should the British government be disposed to discuss the question the President hopes that government will be willing to conduct the dis- cussion at Washington. On the 6th of November Lord Clarendon writes to Mr. Thornton, the British Minister at Washington, reciting the substance of Mr. Fish’s communication of September 25, and, after expressing regret that the former pro- posed settlement was rejected, states that the initiation of fresh propositions should come Alubama the weight of such fatter pr than letters, No visitors will be rece at the White House | during the holidays. The Naval Committee of the House, investigating the alleged irregularity in the naval promotions, re- cently called lor the record of the proceedings of the Board of Admirals on the subject held some two or three years ago, After a thorough search for the documents it was discovered that they had been carried away by ex-Secretary Welles. On writing to him for them he returned answer soundly abusing Secretary Robeson, claiming that the papers were private property and refusing to surrender them. Governor Pease, of Texas, telegraphs in relation | to the recent election in his State tnat, excluding | the counties of Milan and Navarro, Davis, republican, js elected Governor by 400 majority. In conse. quence of informalities the votes in those counties were not counted, and wew elections have been or- dered by General Reynolds, The expenses of the Committee of Ways and Means for holding meetings, including investiga. tions in New York, Poston, San Francisco and other cities, as well as pay for clerks, stenographer, &c., Amount to $5,772, stead of $50,000, as has been reported. The Mexican Claims Commission have rescinded | their order regulating the taking of depositions anu authentication of claims to be presented before ‘hem, and have referred ihat matter to the govern. } ments of Mexico and the United States, ‘Yhere are still seven bodies remaining in the Stock- ton (Pa) mine, It 1# said that the entire ysurface of the mine 18 caving in. The Spanish gunboats which put into Nampton | Roads and anchored on Monday shorily afterwards Dut to sea again. A severe gale prevails at Buffalo and portions of the Niagara Falls branch of the New York Centrat from the United States. He says that it must be obvious ‘“‘her Majesty’s government cannot make any new proposition or run the risk of another unsuccessful negotiation until they have information more clearly than that which is contained in Mr. Fish’s despatch respecting the basis upon which the government would be disposed to negotiate.” He complains that Mr. Fish has not given any indication of the means or terms of adjustment, and that the United States should expect a proposition to come from that side after rejecting the conven- tion that had already been negotiated. This is as far as the correspondence goes, which has been brought up to within a few weeks of » present time, Whether the administra- tion has done anything since or any negotia- tion is now going on we are not informed, Of course there is a good deal of diplomatic subterfuge in these communications, and par- ticularly in that of Lord Clarendon; but we must say he makes a good point when he argues that the United States ought to state on what basis it is disposed to reopen nego- tiations. Why, after all the terrible and in- flated rhetoric of Mr. Sumner in the Senate on these Alabama claims, after all that has been said and written, and after this long delay, should not the United States government be ready to hand in its bill, or to state the terms on which it will accept a settlement? Do we roadg have been washed away by the high rise in the | lake. The water has not been #0 high before in thirty years, The City. The steamship City of London, Captain Mbbitts, of the Inman line, will leave pier 46 North river at eleven o'clock to-morrow morning for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at | the Post Office at nine A. M., 25th tnst, The National line steamship Pennsylvania, Cap- tain Webster, will sail at nine A, M. to-morrow, 26th inst, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. Tae steamship Cambria, Captain Varnaghan, will | what the amount should be or what com- want indemnity for actual losses to our citi- zens by the Anglo-rebel corsairs? If so, no Englishman is needed to tell us what the amount is, Wecancast it up and state the amount of the bill without admitting improper claims or dealing unfairly, Does the gov- ernment propose to go further than this, and to claim damages for the nation for the destruction of our mercantile and commercial interests? If so, lot us say pensation we require, Do we want an acknow- v leagment from Great Britain of its error or an apology for it? Then let us say so. What does all this diplomatic palaver amount to? It will never solve the question, and is only used as a political hobby by such men as Mr. Sum- ner and Mr, Fish to make a sensation or for the hope of gaining popularity, The govern- ment shows its weakness by hesitating and beating round the bush. Its conduct is un- worthy this powerful republic, Let us tell England exactly what we want—what we con- sider is due to us—in a dignified and friendly manner, and without making unreasonable claims, and rest the case there, If the British government should refuse to accept the terms wecan wait till some opportunity occurs to take payment or reparation ourselves. That is the only course, under the circumstances, for this great country to take, To take any other will show indecision and weakness and will be humiliating. One thing is particularly worthy of notice in Mr. Fish’s long despatch on the ground and nature of the Alabama claims, because it gives a clue to the weak, temporizing and contradic- tory course of the administration with regard to Cuba, The Secretary, in enumerating the many instances in which this government has fulfilled the obligations of neutrality io other nations by way of contrast to the conduct of England in the case of the Southern rebels, refers to its course with regard to the present insurrection in Cuba, Yet he admits in another part of this despatch that each nation must be the judge ‘for itself when it should or should not recognize the bellige- rency of any people, This allusion to Cuba shows plainly that in the view of Mr. Fish, and according to the views of Mr. Sumner, Hoar and others who have influence over him, the Alabama claims stand in the way of the recognition of the Cubans. Yet there would be no parallel between the recognition of the Cubans by the United States, fifteen months after that heroic people have waged successful war against a cruel and despotic Enropean government, and the hasty recog- nition of the Confederates by England at the very beginning of our war. The South was an integral portion of this free republic; Cuba isa fearfully oppressed and remote colony, Cuba is our near neighbor, belongs to our American system, and we are closely con- nected and interested with the commerce, political condition and future of that country. We have declared this to Spain and to the whole world. We have ever maintained the right of acolony to acquire independence ; we have reiterated the Monroe doctrine of America for the Americans ; and the sympathy as wellas the interests of our people is with the Cubans. None of these conditions applied to the case of the Southern rebels and Eng- land. We could recognize Cuba by every law of morality, national policy and right, without damaging our Alabama claims. We could recognize Cuba and still get the full amount of these claims if the government were wise, bold and firm, But Cuba is worth far more in a money point of view to the United States than the Alabama claims, and as a possession, geographically or politically considered, or in a naval or military sense, there is no com- parison in the value. It is humiliating to see this great republic sacrificing its principles, policy and sympathies fronr fear of raising a difficulty about the Alabama claims, and because a few vain and weak public men in Washington have made these claims a political hobby. Tar Pavan Covnotn—Tak INFaLLisiiiry Qvestion.—Opposition is too strong, it seems, for the Pope and the ultramontanists, The Council was convened for the purpose of pro- claiming the doctrine of papal infallibility, at least for this chiefly. It was a hard blow when the Fulda bishops spoke out against it. It was harder still when Von Janus came out thunderingly, It was discouraging to see the most popular preacher in Paris break off from the discharge of his duties for the reason that, he thought the Council was about to befool if not ruin the Church, The heaviest blow of all was dealt by M. Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, who is at once a favorite with the Pope and a powerful churchman. In our correspondent’s letter of yesterday it is made plain that Dupan- lonp has, as nearly as possible, killed infallibil- ity. If he has killed it, who will be sorry? Then again we find that the Russo-Polish clergy have instructed their delegates to vote against infallibility, against the union of Church and State, in favor of a more elevated order of education for the clergy, and against the organization of the College of Cardinals and its present exclusiveness, It looks like a “ood time coming” for both church and people, Taz Prospgors 1x Mexico.--The news from Mexico is not hopefal, Dissensions among the liberals are foreshadowed, and the ery of ‘Down with Juarez” may at any time ring through the streets of Mexican cities. A new trouble is now arising. The politicians are not going to have the fight all to them- selves. Of late the Protestants have been making an effort to gain a foothold in Mexico, and there is every reason to believe they are going to have a hard road to travel in their efforts to evangelize the country, as they term it, The Protestant place of worship in Puebla was recently attacked, and the preacher and a few of his friends had some difficulty in escaping with their lives, When will peace reign in Mexico? Vv News rrom Sr. Dominco,—From Havana we learn that much excitement prevails in St. Domingo among the people in relation to the leasing of the Bay of Samana to the United States. The revolutionists, we are told, are making great efforts to overthrow Baez before Congress can ratify the arrangement for the lease. As these reports have come to us through Spanish sources it is natural tbat they should be tinctured by Spanish influence, whether they be true or false. A Pretty Quarres.—Salnave, the Hay- tien President, informs the foreign consuls that on and afler the 6th of January the rebel ports will be blockaded, Saget, the revolu- tionary President, is out in a manifesto of the sanfe kind, and also informs the foreign repre- sentatives that vessels are now coaling prepar- atory to blockading Port au Prince—the only port in possession of Salnave, Looking at tho conflict as it at present existe, ‘’ Tis a mighty nice quarrel.” Salnave’s iron-cfads, howovor, may sottle the question, | Tho Postal Telegraph—Astonishing tho American Eagle. The words of Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin, on the postal telegraph are apt and excellent. They have in them a downright common sense and a respect for facts that will not commend them to the class of hifalutin patriots; but they will furnish an excellent basis for the practical legislation that is aimed to secure the welfare of the people and not to make the fortunes of jobbers, Mr. Washburn made these cogent statements:— “TI claim to have shown that the United States is the only enlightened nation on the globe that has not taken charge of the tele- graph system, and nearly all have made it an appendage to the Post Office; that in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland a despatch of twenty words can be sent at a uniform rate of one shilling to any part of the kingdom, a distance of over seven hun- dred miles; from one extreme of France to another, about six hundred miles, for one franc, or twenty cents; all over Belgium and Switzerland for half a franc, or ten cents; Denmark, twelve and a half cents; Prussia, from twelve and a half to thirty-seven and a half cents; Sweden and Norway, any distance for thirty cents for a message of twenty worda, and one cent for each additional word that ® message may be made to contain; from Marseilles, in the south of France, to the north of Scotland, a distance of fourteen hundred miles, traversing two kingdoms and crossing the Straits of Dover by submarine cable, for fifty-five cents. Yet in the face of these facts the Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads has told this House and the country, in a solemn report, that telegraphing in this country is the cheapest and most reli- able in the world. Yet he could not have failed to know that if he desired to send a despatch of twenty words to his home in Iili- nois, and was not favored with a ‘D. H.’ pass, he would have to pay $3; for a similar message to the home of the Missouri member of that committee $4 would be charged; the Michigan member, $2 80; the New Jersey member, $1 25; the Massachusetts member, $1 25; the Indiana member, $2 50; the Kentucky member, $2 50; the Nevada mem- ber, $9 28, and the Oregon member, $15 50, or $5 70 more than it would cost to send a message of ten words from Washington to Constantinople by the Atlantic Cable and Con- tinental lines.” Now, the worst of all this is that it is true. We are behind the age in the use of this great agency of modern civilization, at the very mo- ment that we are pluming ourselves on our progressive spirit and on the way in which we are leading the nations, as we suppose. We have hurrahed so much and so long over the political advantages of our American system that we have well nigh deafened ourselves to all monition and intimation that there may be something else important as well as a man’s inalienable right to vote for his alderman. This is a common consequence of preoccupa- tion—of the too great concentration of attention upon a point that, after all, may not be the vital point with regard to the happiness of the people. The result is that while here man is politically free he is socially the slave of every monopoly; and in such “downtrodden” countries as France, though individuals are politically of small account, they have a social freedom and importance of which our people do not dream, The use of the telegraph is one illustration of it, Telegraphs there are ope- rated with a view to public con- venience; here only with a view to ex- torting the largest amount of money for the smallest possible service, But it is the same in the whole circle of the arts of life—we are behind, and far behind, the nations over which we sometimes assume an imper- tinent superiority because of our political insti- tutions, which would be excellent if they were not rottenly corrupt, In their railroads, de- spite our flurry of magnificence in sleeping ~| cars; in their, hotels, in their markets, in the general administration of justice, in the gov- ernment of our cities, the people of Western Europe have everything to teach us, and little but chicanery and greedy extortion to learn from our example. We hope the facts that Mr. Washburn has so clearly set forth may awaken the attention of the country to this most important subject of bringing our telegraphic system up to the spirit of the age; the more especially that just now the great monopoly, whose hold on the telegraph must be loosened, is manou- vring in the purlieus of Congress for a con- tinuance and extension of its power. Indeed great care is necessary to prevent the legisla- tion now in progress touching Atlantic cables from resulting in that way. Mr. Sumner’s bill, though satisfactory in its general spirit, is open to the charge of being aimed especially at the case of the French cable, and when it becomes a law it may be found some day that while it binds very closely the French com- pany yet that it is carefully worded with rela- tion to correlative legislation to except from its position the other cables, If Congressional action thus discriminates against the French cable it is because the French company has not yet surrendered to the Western Union Company. The only legislation in regard to the telegraph that is safe is such as apparently Mr. Washburn is ready to propose, involving the proposition that the general government shall assume the control of the telegraph under the postal power, and construct new lines, Tne Government SALB oF GoLD.—Secre- tary Boutwell cut short the agony of “bulls” and “bears” yesterday by promptly aunthor- izing the sale of the million of gold to the highest bidders. The average price realized was about 120}, Ovn Copan CorresponpDENce.—We publish in this morning’s HeraLp an interesting budget of letters from our correspondents in Cuba. The Mogate affair still occupies the minds of people in the island—particularly those of the strong Spanish party—who can never see how the Spaniards can be defeated. In the way of proclamations General Puello has made a hit. For the hundred and first time the insurgents are going to be crushed, The army which undertakes this‘accomplish- ment is ‘‘to go out with the flag of Castile gal- lantly flying, as becomes it, from the glories which it has acquired in all parts of the world.” The Cubane have never been more active, and the Spaniards—well, they aro pre- paring for the qappalga. NEW YORK HERALD, 21:DAY, DECEMBER 24, 1869. F The Unst of Bad Dickey. We are having at one of our Metropolitan places of amusement a travestio upon the Plantagenet Richard the Third—the alleged murderer of his two nephews in the Tower— under the title of “Bad Dickey.” We havo just enacted in the rural prison of Hackensack, N. J., the tragedy of another ‘Bad Dickey,” the convicted murderer of the man Colquhun and his (Dickey's) wife, and whose trial under the head of Bad Dickey, or the ‘Bombay Hook Tragedy,” has engrossed so much of public attention for the last week. This unfortunate namesake of the travestied King Richard on Wednesday evening, an hour or two after his conviction of the double murder, hanged himself in his cell by means of a handkerchief which the jailer improperly, after searching him, left in bis possession, In the same cell with him at the time was the convict Eckerson, under sen- tence of twenty years’ imprisonment for man- slaughter. This man pretended to be asleep while Dickey was taking his quietus by means of a handkerchief. When discovered by the jailer life was extinct, and this Bad Dickey, by his own act, did one act more than the law allowed—took his own life, already forfeited to the law. Thus ends the tragedy of Bad Dickey and the Bombay Hook tragedy. Dow. Tres om Warn Srreer.—The brokers have seldom experienced so dull a market as just now exists in Wall streot. Transactions are just frequent enough to make up a list of quotations, It is significant that some of the brokers are advertising for situations to do the Stock Exchange business for other brokers, Prays For Divipinc tue Spross.—The dissatisfaction of office-seekers is making itself felt in various Congressional propositions ex- tending more or less the principles of the Tenure of Office bill for putting appointments to office elsewhere than in the President. In the House it has been proposed to make a law requiring the offices to bo equitably distributed among the citizens of the different States. This is to do away with the influential Con- gressman who blusters in and gets an immense share of patronage for his constituents, to the disgust of the man who cannot get any. An- other plan is proposed by Carl Schurz, in the well known guise of a Civil Service bill. He wants to give to an examining board the power now vested in the President, and the reason is that the President does not properly exercise his discretion in appointing good men, but gives way to the pressure of the politi- cians, How shall we be assured that the examining board will be any more superior to political pressure? This great legislator ought to see that his plan does not kill the evil, but only changes its place, Evarts is suggested for Attorney General to succeed Hoar. But it is thought this will not do, Reason—he was brilliantly identifled with the wrong side in the impeachment trial, The war has served as our great touchstone for atime. No matter what a man was, if he was not right there the decree went forth against him, And a man’s standing on the impeachment trial is to be an additional test of the same nature, Tue PosTvastER GENERAL AND THE Girt Enrkerrisk SwinpLers.—The ‘dead beats” or “gift enterprise swindlers” are about to be hoisted on their own petards, The game is up with them, The Postmaster General has issued instructions that all letters ad- dressed to the swindling concerns in the city, well known to the employes of the office, shall be sent to the Dead Letter office at Washing- ton, This blocks the gift enterprise swind- lers. A good job, Let us have a few more of the kind, A First Rate Brit.—It is proposed in Con- gress to amend the internal revenue law by repealing the clause that permits railway and gas companies to assess the tax on their cus- tomers, Itis under this clause, it will be remembered, that the street car companies add the obnoxious cent to their fare. As the repeal will do away with that cenfand reduce a litile the exorbitant gas rates its passage, will be a benefit to the people. PoLtcEMEN SgNtTeNokD.—In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Recorder Hackett called up for judgment the two policemen, Remsen and Hannegan, convicted last week of robbery fromm tho person, They were each sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. A few more lessons of the sort will prove very salutary. They are much needed at the present time. Bring on the next, Wnaere ano How Do Trey Live ?—More thorough scrutiny by the police authorities of the men 6n the police force is a natural con- sequence of some recent developments. In pursuing this scrutiny the order has been given that a report of every policeman’s residence and domestic condition shall be sent up by the captains. In thus making themselves thor- oughly acquainted with the social character and status of the men the authorities com- pel the men to decent lives, so far as appear- ance ig concerned, and that is a great deal. Party TsNpeNcies.—From Tennessee also there comes an appeal to the general govern- ment for troops to “sustain law and order” in that State. This means that the radicals are ina minority there, This call in similar circumstances has been now repeated from so many different quarters that it begins to look as if we were to have the usage in future that whenever ® party has been beaten in State elections it will call upon the general govern- ment for troops to reverse the result, when the Congressional majority is the right way. A Snamerct Ovrraae.—The Turkish girl who stood at the door of the man in Brook- lyn who had deluded her from her native country and abandoned her in this shows the use that may be made of our laws. Simply to rid this man of the presence of the girl and of her natural and proper importunities a conve- nient justice is found ready to commit her to prison without any offence alleged or crime proved, Strut, on THR Move.—About two thousand darkies left Old Virginia in November for warmer countries further south, and they are still leaving in the same proportion, They wil} all be ia Vlocide by epg by. ee The Red River Insurrection. In another column of the Heratp will be found an exceedingly interesting historical and geographical sketch of the Red river country or Winnipeg territory. There is not much in 9 name when a people are going through the baptism of fire that is to decide what name they and their posterity after them shall bear forever. Not, only will the hame of a people be changed by a triumph over hereditary rulers, but often the very designation of the country they inhabit will undergo a similar sponsorial transformation more appropriate to the dignity of the new position and destiny such a people may have achieved. Despatches in yesterday's HERALD from the new seat of war in the Red river ter- ritory announced simultaneously the breaking out of hostilities and the first triumph of the insurrectionists, An inaugural success in arms is generally taken as a criterion of final triumph for the victors, and in this case with more than the usual applicability, judging from the relative positions of the contending parties. The article referred to will post our readers fully with regard to tho situation of affairs on the Red river—the origin of tho war, the present status of the combatants, the resources of the insurrectionists, and the anomalous position in which the parties of the second part—the British government, tho New Dominion and the Hudson Bay Company— occupy in regard to the outbreak. The circumstances, briefly reviewed, aro these:—After nearly two hundred years’ monopoly of the valuable fur trade of British Columbia—enjoyed under royal charter from Charles the Second, of ‘‘blessed memory”—tho Hudson Bay Company lately found their chief settlement on the Red river encroached upon by settlers from the United States, These encroachments threatened the extinction of all the profits of the fur trade, and, what was equally bad and distasteful, the birth of o revolutionary spirit among ,the settlers dangerous to the peace and prosperity and well being of said company. On the estab- lishment of the New Dominion the company was but too glad for a _ considera- tion to surrender the charter and tho territory to tho Canadian government. The transfer was made, but the Canadian goy- ernment, being impecunious, failed to give the sine quit non therefor—the sum of three hun- dred thousand pounds sterling, besides certain rights and privileges reserved by the company. No difficulty was, however, expected on this score, and the Canadian authorities sent a Gov- ernor to take possession of the territory, with instructions to appoint a council to assist him in the government thereof. To this summary disposal of themselves and their country the settlers demurred, and the result is the conflict, the particulars of which have been already laid before the readers of the Heratp. McDougall, the embryo Governor, has been driven out of the territory and his followers captured and held by the insurgents, Governor McTavish, by later accounts, is also in their hands, and thus another band of ‘‘six hundred” covers itself with glory and victory. The perplexity of the situation appears in this, that Canada demands, a peaceful transfer of the territory, and this the company cannot now effect; the bargain, therefore, becomes null and void, and neither - party isin a position to carry on hostilities; and the settlers, as a consequence, have the field all to themselves. But what is the grand result awaiting the fruition of this movement? The annexation, not only of the Red river territory, but of all British Columbia to the United States. Uncle Sam is just in the mood for speculation, Ho has been casting his eyes abroad for choice lots. Hero he has one at his very door. Tho Red river settlers cannot easily be invaded except over the American border. They are to that extent safe, and their independence is consequently surely guaranteed. What will they do with it? Merge it in that of the peo- ple of the great republic, and, discarding tho name of “Red river men,” or ‘‘Winnipegoes,” adopt that of Americans. This will assuredly be the result of the ac- tion of the gallant six hundred that captured Fort Garry, and will, no doubt, ere long lead to the annexation of the whole of the British territories on the American Continent to the United States. To this complexion it must come at last, Krenon SympaToy with Spanisn Repun- LicANs.—A_ subscription has been opened in Paris for the relief of those Spanish republi- cans who were recently expelled from France. This is handsome. How oddly it contrasis with our conduct towards the Cubans! In both cases, however, the government is wrong, but the people are right. In League wir Taikves.—An officer from the Mayor's squad was sent the other day with a victim to compel some ticket swindlers to disgorge their plunder, He found the swin- dlers, but did not compel them to disgorge. On the contrary, he persuaded the victim to accept a small sum and “‘settle’—having, no doubt, his own good reasons for desiring that the thieves should retain the larger portion of the man’s funds. The thieves, doubtless, would give hima larger proportion of the plun- der than the honest man would of the restored money. This officer is likely to lose his poai- tion on the police, The fact that a man is to be dismissed for such practices leads us to suppose that the police authorities are not aware that this very principle is the basis of our detective system, Switt MiK.—Once more the horrible evil of the sale of diseased and poisoned milk is up for public reprobation, but we trust the public will not in any spirit of petulant impa- tience get tired of these exposures. The evil is a terrible one, and it is the fault of our Board of Health that the public continue to hear of it; for this feeble organization is so very timid in the use of its power to protect the people that it will not abate this grand nuisance. Tur Emperor Naro.eon has received a diploma as member of the Archwological So- ciety of the Prusso-Rhenish provinces of Ger- many. This is all very well—a very fine com- pliment, and may turn out to have an excel- lent effect, provided the youthful associate is not too ardent and persevering in the pursuit of sclence, and may thus find out and an- nounce that France has a claim on the very torcitgry in whieh the saveus moot,