The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BBOADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. * AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Lertur Ew’'Ly, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st,—Matines daily, Performance every evening. Brosdway.—Tuz Drama oF BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Buipor or Notre DAME—COBDLER AND TAILOR—N&W YORK FiteMan. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 12th street.— WILp Oars. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tax BURLESQUE or Bap Dickgy, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and ‘Wd street.—LINGARD'S BURLESQUE CONBLN ATION. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28dat., between Sth ana 6th avs.— Goy MANNERING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Tur, WritInG oN var Wau. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—THE Busynopy. MRS. F. B. 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NTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Paar. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. ea 3—Happy New Year: The Celebration in New York, Brooklyn and* etsewhere ;_ Brilliant Receptions by President Grant, Vice Presi- dent Colfax, Cabinet Secretaries and otuer Dignitaries at Washington—A Chinaman’s Opinion of his Countrymen. 4—Europe: Correspondence from London, Dublin Naples—Queen Isabella ana the Crown Jewels of Spain—An Interesting Letter on Inter- oceanic “Short Cuts.” The Grand Demonstration ip Honor of retary Seward—Religious Inteiligence— Visit to a Chinese Silk Factory—Li terature— Reviews of New Books. 6—Editorials: The Leading Article on Modern Pro- gress, Science and Religion—Mustcal and The- atrical Notes—Naval Inteliigence—Richmond Journalists in Washington—Amusement An- nouncements, ¥—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: The French Cabinet Crisis and Prospects of @ Ministry—Sketches of the French Liberal Ministry—Fashion and Life in Egypt—Personal Intelligence—The Ball Season—The Paleonto- logical Museum—Tragedy in a Connecticut Jatl—Stabbing and Shooting Aftray—Local Intelligence—Business Notices. 8—Mormonism: Growing Strength of the Recent Schism—Petticoat Goverment: Report of the Women’s Suffrage Convention in New Hamp- ehire—Woman’s Rights in Iiinots—Fashion Gossip: Parisian Absurdities Transplanted to ‘New York. *‘9—The Great Western and Erie War—Judge Smith’s Opinion in the Albany and Susque- hapna Railroad Case—Prospect of Further Litigation—New York Uity and Police Intelli- gence—Financial and Commercial Report— Neglect of the Marriage Rite in Europe and the Social Consequences—Marriages and Deaths. 10—Brooklyn City News: The New Municipal Gov- ernment—Suburban Intelligence—January Term of the Court of General Sessions —Ship- ping News—Advertisements, 11—British India: social and Political Disorganiza- tion and Wide-spread Disioyaity to England— Cuba: Spanisb Oficial Imprisoned tor Being Too Lenient; Executions: A Reign of Terror on the Island—Coal and Iron in Wyoming— Funny Bigamy Case im Counecticut—Bloody Riot at Moose Lake. 12—Red River: Canadian Views of the Insurrec- tion—Virginta ; Condition of the State Poltti- cally and Socially—The New Boston Post Office—A Southern Obituary of Edwin M. Stan- ton—A Leap for Death—Tne Probabie Error in the Sun’s Distance—Real Hstate Matters—Ad- vertisements, Tne Susquel ‘A Rattroap Scrr.—The frrepressible Fisk don’t know when he is defeated. It is said he intends to continue the Susquehanna fight, notwithstanding Judge Smith’s decision against him. It is to be hoped he will carry it on with legal weapons and not with butting locomotives. Governor Hoffman has not yet turned over the road to the Ramsey directors. Tue Rep River Reaion has hitherto been almost a terra incognita to the public in general, and the cause of the present dispute in that territory is almost unknown and its im- portance entirely unappreciated. Our corres- pondence on the subject recently has done much to inform the people in the matter, and to-day we publish a letter giving the views of the New Dominion authorities regarding the crigis. They evidently comprehend the im- portance of the situation and are considering how to buy up the insurgent leaders, and pro- pose already to lower their own dignity by withdrawing the obnoxious Governor McDou- gall. tragedy occurred yesterday at Sleepy Hollow. Aninsane or jealous husband named Buck- hout shot and killed his wife and & man named Alfred Randall, said to be a merchant of this city, and dangerously wounded a son of the latter. Buckhout gave himself up. It seems that when one tragedy of this kind startles the public mind with sudden yehemence a number of others fullow rapidly upon its heels. The jove of notoriety is said to have urged on mea to the gallowa, and it is believed to have Tospired the wretch wio fired thé Ephosian dome; tut it Would almost sound like nonsense to say that it could in any way have induced so mon- atrous « tragedy a4 this of Sleepy Hollow. Modern co and Religion. The first Sunday of the now is gots bad day to talk abou! 08 years and our days are lan so far as they have any special meaning. Of the Christian year 1870 this is the first Sabbath, In millions of pulpits the worid over the new year this morning will be sung in, prayed in, preached in, and millions of congrogations will respond. It is a landmark in the journey of time which time’s voyagers cannot afford to despise, which we don’t despise, and of which we mean to take advantage. We think of progress. We have a right to think of it ; for if the world has not made progress in these eighteen hundred and sixty-nine years we had better give up or cease to talk of our Christianity, Progress really is the question. ‘ How is it then? Some eighteen hundred odd years ago they crucified—men crucified— the Christ, the Son of Man, the Son of God. He was the man of the period. He thought and spoke for Himself; and because He thought and spoke for Himself men laughed at Him, sought to stone Him, called Him a blasphemer, spat upon Him and ultimately killed Him, and killed Him cruelly, In those days in Jerusalem and among the Jews death was the penalty of free thought and speech. But free thought and speech had suffered often before. It was not a new spectacle that spectacle on that dark day on Calvary. Great men and bold had suffered before; but if history has a voice Jesus was the greatest. His death was the grandest sacrifice in the name and cause of religion, liberty and man- hood which the world had known, But that great sacrifice was notthe last. Other victims in other years followed, Stephen perished ; so did Paul and Peter; and since Peter's time who can tell the number of victims which tyranny has claimed from freedom, prejudice from truth! These last eighteen hundred odd years have been fruitful of effort, fruitful of saerifice, and all the effort and all the sacrifice has been iaside of Christianity; but the world has marched on and to-day liberal Christianity can boast of victory. The fight has been long aud severe, but on this first Sunday of the year 1870 liberal Christianity can truthfully say,* “I am master.” The world has made progress. We all share the blessing. Where is the man who now dreads or thinks of death for conscience sake ? We seek for him, but we cannot find him. The blood of the martyrs has proved the seed of the Church. The victims of free thought have now ample vengeance, for men by the bun- dreds of millions stand up and are willing to die for liberty as well as for righteousness and truth. It is now some centuries since (alileo made an important scientific discovery—since he quibbled and saved himself; but the world moves on in a far higher and nobler sense than the wise Galileo and his ghostly, priestly friends believed was possible. Look at the scientifié® triumphs of the day. Think of the present and think of the past, and then mea- sure the gifif. How we have been bounding forward! Where is there a chance now for martyrdom? We can have no second Socra- tes, no second Jesus Christ, no second Stephen or Paul or Peter, or Huss or Wick- liffe, or Latimer or Ridley. We may have some more Galileos, for Galileo was a kind of Henry Ward Beecher of his day, and the Beechers now flourish like green bay trees. But the steam engine, the printing press, the news- paper, the railroad, the telegraph—what shall we say of them? What can we say of them? Do they not comprise the great distinctive features of this glorious age? The Church grumbled and cursed because Galileo said the earth moves round the sun. What would the Church of that day have said to the great facts of modern science? We have made time disappear as a barrier. We have annihilated distance. Time and space, in fact, have be- come as very little things. We have raised a power in the newspaper which makes the churches, one and all, things of secondary importance. We can now boast of public opinion—not wise always, but always strong enough to put down tyranny or preten- sion or humbug, whether these appear in the Church or out of it. We can have no more crucifixions, no more Smithfields, no more witch burnings, not even on Boston Common. Even Lord Byron, thanks to the honegt and outspoken press, is now likely to have justice. Fair play all around is the order of the day. “Many shall ran to and fro and knowledge shall be increased;” ‘‘the crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places plain.” Ancient, time-honored words! But in these late days of the world how literally true! Science and religion! Are they friends or foes? Do they differ? Are they one and the same? A Council now sits in Rome and it has gravely set itself to answer the question whether philosophy is heterodox. Is the cable despatch a joke? We don’t think itis. Reli- gion is philosophy. Philosophy is religion. They are not two but one, The Church, how- ever, calls itself religious and the Church—we ought to have said the churches—hates philogo- phy. Philosophy, in the true sense, is the love of knowledge. If the love of knowfedge be heterodox in tho eyes of the Church, and partioularly in the eyes of the Ecumenical Council, we ought to rejoice that the railroad, the telegraph, the newspaper, and the public opinion which these feed and maintain, render crneifixions and inquisitions henceforward impossible. Science and religion! No Ecumenical Council, no Deiatical Council, can divorce them. They are on¢, All the world now sees and feels that they are one. We are not uawilling to be religious; butthe priests and the parsons must know that we cannot dispense with the physi- cian and that on no account will we give up the steam engine, the telegraph or the news- paper. Sclence and religion! We like the church, the chapel, the meeting house, or what you choose to call it, But we cannot go back. If we cannot have a sermon from the pulpit we shall at least have our Sunday Heratp. The Heratp never goes back on Snez Canals and Pacific Railroads. Our motto isthe motto of Galileo—“And still it moves.” | is dated in London. The writer points out the rapid progress which is being Made in inter- lacing the hands and hearts of the peoples by INTEROCEANIO Suort Curs is the heading | which we give toa valuable special contribu- | tion from Europe which we publish to-day. It | | out, “Strike higher.” such works as the Sue# Canal, steam and elec- tricity. Maaufactared Cuban News. The insurrection in Cuba has been crushed, or has been on the eve of being crushed, a hundred times within the last fifteen months, according to the news received from Havana and through Spanish sources in this country and Spain. The slaughter of Cubans by the heroic troops of Spain has been going on all the time, and the number slaughtered in the aggregate," according to these wonderful accounts, were never exceeded in the wars of modern times, Then the large quantities of munitions of war and provisions that are con- stantly being captured by the Spaniards are surprising. And, of course, the insurrection becomes weaker every day, as it has been getting fromthe first. The very latest sensa- tion is that the Cuban Junta in New York have ordered the insurgents to lay down their arms, owing to the fuilure of all negotiations in the United States; and that one thousand five hundred insurgents have already surren- dered at Tunas, The wonder is that: under these circumstances Spain should continue to send out so many troops and should have, felt it necessary to build a fleet of thirty gunboats in the United States, in addition to the large naval force already around Cuba, for the purpose of sup- pressing an insurrection that was already dead or dying. Nowit must be apparent to every one that these repeated accounts from public and private sources of Spanish successes and of the decline of the insurrection are manu- tured to deceive the American government and people and have no foundation in fact. Why, if we take these statements of the Cubans killed and captured and of the munitions of war and provisions that have fallen into the hands of the Spaniards, the insurrection must have been a most formidable one. The Span- iards, by their own statements, prove that all they have said about the insurrection was false. Tho truth is the Spaniards, despairing of putting down the Cubans by arms, resort to the Quixotic expedient of accomplishing their object by the most glaring mendacity. They hope to deceive the American govern- ment and people by this ruse. They cannot, however, delude our people by such palpable falsehoods, if they can the weak men of General Grant's Cabinet. The most lamentable thing about. all this is that the government at Washington and such men as Mr. Sumner pretend to believe these mendacious reports for the purpose of cover- ing up their own pro-Spanish policy and:to decfive the American people. But the truth will come out, and will overwhelm Mr. Secre- tary Fish, Mr. Hoar, Mr. Sumner and others with disgrace. The Cubans are making a noble fight for independence, and in spite of statements to the contrary all the evidence goes to show they are stronger than ever. This great republic, which has heretofore loudly proclaimed its sympathy with the Poles, Hun- garians, Italians and all other peoples strug- gling for freedom, now turns its back upon our near neighbors—upon an American born peo- ple—who are heroically fighting for liberty from a foreign yoke and the worst despotism on the face of the earth. Nay, worse than that, our government aids this very despotism to crush a people struggling for republican freedom. How humiliating is this! How has the great representative country of republican liberty fallen! The conduct of the American government toward Cuba is the greatest blot upon the history of the country, and those who are responsible for it will have a serious account to settle hereafter with the American people. Mormonism—Our Correspondence from Salt Lake City. Our correspondence from Salt Lake City published in another part of the paper will be found highly interesting on the subject of that other ‘twin relic of barbarism” which the radical republican party in their platform promised to uproot. One—that of slavery— was effectually destroyed by the war; but the other—Mormonism—continues to flourish, and the party in power, which pronounced against itin 1864, seems contented to let it alone. The graphic and very temperate description of our correspondent shows the condition of society in Utah; the despotism, spiritual and tempo- ral, of Brigham Young; the slavery and sup- pressed anguish of the poor women, and the new schismatic movement in the Mormon Church, The schism has taken a bold and almost defiant position, and the principal feature in it is hostility to the des- potic rule of Brigham Young, who claims and exercises @ power in spiritual mat- ters greater than that exercised by the Pope of Rome, and in temporal matters more arbi- trary than that of the Czar of Russia. The schismatics denounce, too, the demoralizing influence of polygamy as practised at Utah. Of course they have been read out of the Church and will be persecuted unrelentingly. The women, poor creatures, are undoubtedly with the reformers; but the men generally are not likely to give up their lascivious privileges and power over the women for this higher morality and spiritual standard which the leaders of the schism preach. Nor will it be easy to carry this reform movement while Brigham Young lives or remains at the head of the Mormon Church in Utah. It is a curious problem as to what will be the end of Mormonism, though it will probably be broken up by the progress of settlement and civiliza- tion across the Continent. In the meantime it will be the-duty of the government to pro- tect the anti-Mormon citizens or Mormon reformers in the Territory from violence and in their rights. A firm policy in this respect may be the best way to uproot this other “twin relic of barbarism.” Harp To Prease.—The heavy, turgid and stilted weeklies of the London press continue to write about the Alabama claims. They have now come to discuss the style of our written official demands. Mr. Seward wrote “puncombe” in “flourishes.” Mr. Fish is “undignified” and “sentimental,” and does not understand the law points. A British soldier was once being flogged, as many British sol- diers have been, The drummer who operated the “‘cats” was an Irishman, After receiving the first few strokes of the lash the culprit cried Ina couple of minutes more he begged to “strike lower.” On this the drummer observed, ‘Faith, an’ strike you where I will I can’t plaze you.” How shall we please the international privateersman ? NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1870.-TRIPLE § A The Event at cho Manhattan Ofub. Once more Lord Bateman, the great opera bouffer, has startlod the metropolitan public by @ magnificent cowp de thédtre. He has slapped a face. The face belongs to Hiram Cranston, one of the functionaries of the Manhattan Club, of which club Bateman is a member. Lord Bateman proposed to give a diuner to several of his friends. Giving a dinner at a club is a very complicated process. In our happy country every organization has a consti- tution and by-laws nearly as long as the Tal- mud, so that a gentleman cannot invite a friend to partake of a chop without having previously studied as much constitutional law as would make one famous in Congress. Bateman never thought of this, but only invited his friends to dine, Cranston, however, had studied the constitution of the club—nay, he stood there as a Cerberus especially charged to guard against the violation of its provisions, Cranston used to keep a hotel, and knows exactly how these things are done. That is doubtless why they have him to take charge of the dining room at the Manhattan. He could direct one hundred and forty waiters in white aprons how to march down the sides of a table two miles long, when to flourish popper boxes, when to seize celery glasses, and when to come down as one man with one hundred and forty pump- kin pies. He being a man thus accomplished saw Bateman there in violation of the rnles— actually having two men with him im one room, when according to the constitution he ought to have had them in another room, Cranston looked upon them, and felt as he did in the days of yore, when, looking into the dining room of his hotel, he sometimes saw three fellows sitting down to table who had not paid the last week’s board. He proceeded just as in those ancient days, forgetting, may be, that this was not altogether his hotel. He instructed the waitera not to serve dinner, What was the result? The dreadful consequence was that when Bateman had unravelled the matter and learned who was responsible he walked up to the impertinent functionary and slapped his face. That, apparently, is what such faces are for. The further law for such cases was well laid down by the Prince Regent. When they informed him that the waiter he had thrown out of the window was dead he told them to put him in the bill. Let the Manhattan Clubbers do the same with Cranston’s dig- nity—put it in the bill. The Sultan’s Temper Up. It appears from a telegram from Constan- tinople that the Sultan is getting angry at Ismail Pacha because the Khedive does not abandon his iron-clad fleet and had not answered the communication of the Sultan demanding that. The telegram referred to says the Sublime Porte had forwarded a vio- lent message to Ismail Pacha on Friday last to the same effect regarding the fleet. It is evi- dent the Suez Canal has both stimulated the ambition of the Khedive and alarmed the Sultan as to the future of Egypt. There is the germ of trouble in that part of the world arising out of the successful completion of the Suez Canal, and it may lead to war before long unless the great Powers interpose. While the Sultan remains nominally master of the situa- tion the Khedive carries away all the glory. The Suez Canal still remains, however, a cause of trouble. The Khedive has spent too much money. His debts, it is said, amount to some six millions sterling. His expenses connected with the Suez Canal have been enormous. He is in the market for more money. It will not be wonderful if, Ismail Pacha becomes bankrupt. It will be as little wonderful if the bogus bonds of the Suez Canal should be universally despised. What will follow? Will France seize the canal, or will France and Great Britain become joint proprietors of Egypt, or shall we have a war for the posses- sion of this new key to the treasures of the East? In any case Ismail Pacha has written his name on the pageof history. Through the Suez Canal the world has taken an onward and upward step. It cannot go back. Ismail Pacha may suffer, the Sultan his master may suffer, others may suffer, but the canal will remain and the world will be the gainer, If the worst should come to the worst it will only be.a repetition of the old story—perfec- tion through suffering. New Year's Day ar rug Tuieries.—New Year's Day passed off quietly at the Tuileries. Napoleon received all the foreign Ministers serving in Paris, and in reply to the diplo- matic address congratulated himself and Europe on the ‘friendly relations” existing between the different governments and France, No case of solitary exception or sudden explo- sion, ason New Year’s Day 1859, when Baron Hubner, the Austrian ambassador of that day, was astounded and the Old World electrified and astonished by the Emperor’s use of the following words in reply to the ministerial greeting of Francis Joseph:—‘‘I regret that our relations with your government are not so good as they were, but I request you to tell the Emperor that my personal feelings for him have not changed.” Solferino was then close athand. Sadowa may not have been antici- pated. So as peace résults it does not matter, Youna Bioop in Virem1a.—The infusion of a little young blood into the old rebel democracy of the South is rapidly working a revolution of sentiment among them. Gov- ernor Walker, of Virginia, addressed an assemblage of negroes who were celebrating Emancipation Day in Richmond yesterday and told them that they were peers with him before the law and vested with the same rights and privileges, and he as Governor would see that they were secured to them. General Imboden followed in the same. strain. When the old fogies accept this doctrine they will find out that they are merely furthering their own interests. ACoESsORY TO MurDER.-—The case of police- man Heelan is one of the worst the Commis- sioners have had before them. He had given into his hands a man who had done all that lay in his power to commit murder. He walked down the street a short distance with his prisoner and then set him at liberty. This | stands on incontestable. evidence. As the | victim of the policeman’s friend is likely to | die, this policeman, as an ‘‘accessory after the fact,” is one more member of the force whose 4 trying cannot merely end with dismissal. caveat ea a ARE s SERSRA ENO enn , Republican Coat at Washington. | Britich Indig—fte Disloyalttoy Free Love The spectacle of grandeur and magol-| and *Bolision—Tho Russian Advance, ficence presented at Washington yesterday | By special correspondence and gewspaper hss not often been seen within the modest | mail reports, dated at Bombay on the 18th and precincts of the White House. The President | Culcutta the 16th of November, we picture to and Mrs. Grant held their New Year's recep- | our readers the condition of British India as it tion, and amid the crashing music of the | exists to-day. The exhibit is not of a very Marine Band, the foreign diplomats in gold | pleasing character. It is not encouraging to and embroidery and glittering with orders, | the cause of humanity, revealing, as it does, and the army and navy officers, rich in Miue | that the vast empire of Hindostan has not yet and gilt and bullion, and the ladies bristling in | recovered from the effects of the immoralities silk and satins and bright colors, crowded the | which flowed gmore immediately from the Blue Parlor ofethe White House, while the | sword wounds of Warren Hastings and wero Cabinet members, Supreme Court Judges and perpetuated by a consequent military and placo- citizens appeared in their more modest uniform. | man rule. It is not consoling to the interests All paid their respects to the nation’s Executive. | of religion from the fact that it tells of a rapid Such grandeur may have been contrary to | social decay, idolaury and a free love sexual Ben Franklin's notions of republican simpli- | miscegenation, both native and foreign. It is city, but in these days of our wealth and | not comforting by any means to the classmen power grand display is fully as much a part of | of monarchism, as our writers are foreod to true diplomacy as Secretary Fish’s dinners or | speak of the existence of a widespread disloy- Minister Washburne’s dances, One unfortu- | alty to England, mutiny, conspiracies and nate feature of the occasion was owing to | treason, secret and in hatch, and active and the fact that the megroes got the | avowed. The morality and amonities of the impression that they would be kept | old Hindoo civilization are being obliterated back from the reception room until the whites | and neglected, so that it really appears as if had retired, and becoming indignant they | this portion of Asia required a new master, pushed through the police, entered the Blue | more modern plan of treatment and a vast Parlor eh masse and offered a stunning contrast | army of well trained school teachers and odu- to the glitter there assembled. So far from | cated missionaries, “going back” on his black friends, however, We must not, however, omit to observe that the President was more than usually cordial | John Bull struggles bravely, if not gallantly, to General Tate, the colored representative | and with his tenacious, persistent pluck from Hayti, against these discouraging and adverse facts. If he has not hitherto given to the Anglo- Asiatics very much of the spiritualities he is now determined to afford them plenty of the materialistic solidities of the age, so that we find him engaged in roadmaking, bridge build- ing, running the locomotive over mountains and through mountain gorges, looking to river canalization and extending the electric tele- graph. By such means he will eventually, if per- mitted, accomplish the first grand idea which was entertained by the true and really enlight- ened friends of the peoples of Hindostan in Great Britain. We use the words if permitted advisedly, as it will be seen from our special ‘correspondence that Russia continues her slow yet decided and certain advance to India, and Our Special European Correspondence. By special correspondence from Europe we have an interestingly instructive elaboration of our cable news telegrams to the 20th of December. The instalment which we publish to-day places before our readers many points of first information relative to the progress of the radical agitation in Great Britain, and the probable results of the united agitation which is being carried on in Ireland and England proper, for land reform and the attainment of a still more extended measure of democratic franchise. The fact of the march of British troops to Ireland, with the description of the means by which the Irish revolutionary treasury exchequer is replenished from London, come in curious contrast, illus- trative of the new system of popular peaceful agitation and the antiquated European one of military repression. Lord Granville announces England's present Cabinet position towards her colonies, From Italy we have a special report of the platform and progress of the members of the Anti-Papal or Deistical Council. Madrid furnishes an enumeration of the crown jewels once owned by the ex-Queen of Spain. The catalogue is so glowing and glittering as to articles and value that Superintendent Ken- nedy will be very apt to wonder on reading it that the lady did not lose ‘the articles long before, Tue Mississiprt GovERNORSHIP.—General Alcorn, the radical Governor elect of Missis- sippi, itis stated, has refused to be Provisional Governor under the order of General Ames. Toe French GOVERNMENT AND THE Casiz.—The article given from the Paris Journal Offciel must go far to disarm that opposition to the French cable that rests upon the charges made as to the government censor- ship. All the statements to the detriment of the French cable originate in the enmity of the rival cable, while the present statement in vindication has a source that entitles it to respect. It is thus shown that the supervision ‘exercised by the French authorities is in the interest of the public as against the company, and in the interest of the government for purposes of revenue. The first object is to be certain that messages are sent in the order of their reception, the next that a correct return of them is made for the tax officers. It will not be denied that the government in case of war would scrutinize every despatch ; neither can it be denied that our own govern- ment would do exactly the same thing. Russian AND TurKisH Batos.—Apropos to the recent Russian bath discovery, the Board of Health proposes to inspect all the estab- lishments of that sort in the city. Our query as to whether the practices exposed in one establishment were common in others has brought to us the proprietors of several estab- lishments ready to make any number of affida- vits that their places are all right. We are disposed to believe these gentlemen, and we are glad that the investigation of the Board will afford them an opportunity of giving pub- lic evidence that their places are managed properly. Tuerk is, it appears, one subject on which Greeley has no opinions. This is the Richard- son marriage. He had no hand in it, was not present at it, knows nothing about it and does not want to answer any questions in relation toit. Now for Greeley to declare as to any subject that he knows nothing about it is the most stupendous piece of modesty of modern times. Is it not astonishing altogether how little any of the persons concerned in that event know about it? Joxes BY BatLor.—At the New Hamp- shire Woman Suffrage Convention the other day the Rev. Mrs. Hanaford said one ingica- tion that the woman's suffrage cause was pro- gressing lay in the fact that Lucy Stone had received several votes in Boston for Alder- man and she herself had received one vote for Governor of Massachusetts. If this is any consolation we can remind the suffrage seek- ers that two English blondes recently received votes for city offices in Chicago. New Year’s Day was celebrated all over the country yesterday. We give a full account of it elsewhere in our columns this morning. The rain came on about noon, but did not seem to interfere with the masculine duty of visiting. Many young ladies complained that visitors were getting fewer and they feared the custom was going out, but the remark was probably only a little maidenly self-depreciation, for the facts hardly seemed to warrant it. Mr. Sgwarp iN Mextoo.—Our Mexican correspondent, under date of December 19, gives m account of the honors heaped upon our former Secretary of State by Juarez and the Mexican government, and the speeches in full of Sefior Romero and Mr. Seward at a dinner given by the former. is even now fixing with great skill and topo- graphical exactness the points and lines which will subserve her most usefully when the mo- ment arrives for that final clash of arms which will regult either in the destruction of the British power in the country or the actual demonstration of the scientific ethnological assertion that the Muscovite cannot endure in the effeminacies of a tropical climate and does not possess the qualities necessary for a per- manent propagandism of race or the beneficial amalgamation of peoples. Ovr Eeyprian CogrEspoNpENos.—From Egypt we have our special, correspondence dated at Alexandria on the Ist of December. It speaks of modern fashion and the revivifica- tion of the elegances of life in the land of the Pharaohs. The writer describes horse racing and turf—on sand—scenes in the Desert, evening fétes, the brilliancy of the sunset and arunto the Pyramids with a degree of ac- curacy and in language which render a refor- ence almost superfluous, as the communication will command attentive perusal in its entirety. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. Sam is Chanfrauing in St. Louis. Edwin Adams is Hamleting In Pittsburg. Maggie Mitchell is still #anchoning in Chicago. Edwin Forrest is doing heavy tragedy in Indians apolis. Mrs. Scott-Siddons varies comedy with tragedy in New Orleans. Mrs. Lander is playing Elizabeth tn Mra. Joho Wood's theatre in London. Lotta is playing ‘‘Root, Hog, or Die’’ on her banjo in the Porkopolis, Lucille Western is exhibiting “The Child Stealer” to the terrified Hubites, Andrew Halliday has written a new play, ‘“Mar- riage.” He calls it a comedy. “The Forty Thieves’? of the Thompsontan blonde brigade are astonishing the natives of New Oricans. The Worrell Sisters, minus Jennie, are showing -| up the pranks of “fxion’ to the moral Chicagoans. ‘The Panitheopticonicon, whatever that may ve, is the popular amusement in Savannah, Charles Fecnter, the tritinguat ian and “pictorial actor,” 18 now in this city. He makes his first bow before an American audience at Niblo’s, on the 10th inst., as Ruy Blas. Mrs, Bowers last Sunday evening personated ueen Elizabeth atthe New Orleans Academy of usic, When in Rome one must do as the Romans do, we suppose. Bonianti is dancing ina “Shower of Gola” ($500 er week) in Sau Francisco, ‘The light fantastic Morlacchi continues to receive the hion’s share of applause at Seiwyn’s theatre, Boston, by her terpsichorean evolutions in “A Mid- summer Nigit’s Dream.” In @ forthcoming revue av the Chatelet, Paris, g real locomotive engine willissue, propelled by sveam, from a tunnel, and will drag a train, containing torty individuals, seventy metres acrogs the ange. Humpty Dumpty Fox aud the limoer Ktralty bal- let troupe have returned to town from their panio- mimic rambles through the provinces. At tne matt- nee on Christmas day, at the National theatre, Ciu- cinnuti, Mr. Fox performed “Humpty Dumpty” be- fore an audience of 3,085 persons, the largest au- dience ever before assembled within the walls of that establishment, and cousiderably over the num- ber present at the wakiyg up of ‘Rip Van Winkle” on two former Christmases. Humpty Dumpty Fox has beaten Rip Vau Winkle Jefferson and should have amedal—a leather one would be in keeping with the character which he personated, Patti slugs in Cincinnati to-morrow night,. Brignoli 1s still eperatizing the San Franelscans. The Susan Galton troupe ure giving English opera 10 Charleston. The Richings-Bernard troupe closed their season at Butfalo last night. Parepa-ltosa operates in the game iown to-morrow might, with “Norma,” Elise Holt, the blonde burlesquer, has taken a good “holt” on the gn es of the Crescent City. Romeo Leffingwell shows the vast propor cue of nis “Gushing Clorinda”’ to the citizens of Houston, ‘Texas, to-morrow night. Marietta Ravel pantomimes in Albany to-morrow night if the Khedive is too straitened in his resources to go to war with the Padisnah, he at ull evens has money enough to pay good salaries at the Cairo cirque, ‘The artists engaged there have nothing to complain of on that score. For example, Mile. Marguerite Joly, who plays the SctMeiderian drama, receives for her term of s1X months 36,000 francs, Each periormance brings her im eighty pounas. ‘This 1s a8 large an income as that of an English comic singer, and beats M. Herve’s terms hollow. He, poor man. 1s only to get forty pounds a night during his English engagement, and has to sing, dance, pray, conduct the orchestra and furnish the music and jibretto; wulie Alle. Joly has but to—ao as Schneider does, WAVAL INTELLIGENSE, The Monitor Miantonomah, Commander Shufetdt, left this port yesterday, for Portiand, for the purpose of receiving the remains of the late Mr, veaboay, ‘the Miantonomah was convoyed by the Untied States Steamers Catalpa, Captain Hill, and Maria, Captain Duvall. he United States Steamer Alaska saiicd from Boston yesterday vo join the Eagt India squadron. en as ea EOE OR RICHMOND JOURWALISTS IN WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON, Jan. 1, 1870. ‘A number of gentlemen connected with the news- paper press of Richmond and Petersburg, Va., ar- rived in this city this moraing at the invitations of the journalists of Washington. The visit has been 1m contemplation tor several wecks, and every pre- paration was made for extending to them @ cordial reception. The visitors upon their arrival were ea- corted by a committee of gentlemen belonging to the press of the city to the Arlington Hotel. At nine o’clock they were met a the entire umber of their ests in one of ythe parlors of the otel, when Mr. Sonn W. For , on behalf of the Washington press, delivered jh of welcome, which was re. & speco! sponded to by Mr. Gilman of toe Richmond Whig.