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

NEW YORK HERALD |® contro-tonorst rast and Presiden BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, iisdceeeiemess Volume XXNV.eee ccceeeee as ANUS AONTS TS eveMNa, NIBLO'S CAKDEN, Broaaway.—THR Lirrie tony. DeaMa or Woo0's MUSKUM AND MENAGERIE, Bi her Thirtieth o1.—Matines daily. Porformaice seery avsule, BOWERY THYATEK, owery.— ‘a Coerers any Taicon eyes —— Fae Rarhee WALLACK'S THEATRE, Bros i ib Saboes Gon Ganueats ees 84 Wh treet. THE TAMMANY, Foureooih te er Ban Dicken wurieoalh sirest.—Tur BorLesqur GRAND OPERA HOUSE. cornsr ot Kizhin avenuo and BBe street. —Laxcarn'y Bui.reger Compuxarion. BOOTH'S TAKATRE, hd 1, a Ob — aa 1, Bowooa O64 ana 6th ave, OLYMrIC THEATRE, ros — t n os Wan, a Brosoway.Tax Wnirtxa on FIFTH AVENUK TUKATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Tar Buvrpovy. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK TURATRE, Rrooklya.— MUCH APO ALOUT 4 Mrnonanr or Vaniox, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OF Vooatiaw, NBuwO ktD A MOUSE, 1 Bowery.—Cox to ARLOY, &O. THEATRE COMIQI'E, O14 Broadway.—Couro Vocat« yous Mauno Avra aa eT er ERYAND'S OPERA HOUSK, T og, RYANT'S OPERA HO smmany Building, 14th SAN PRANCISOO MI varael 18, 885 Broa (way. —Eruro- Tian MINSTRELSY, Nuono / vs, &0.—"iLaen.” NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strest.—EQuesTntan AND GYMNASTIO PERI URMANCES, 40. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.Hooury’s MINGTRELH—A Deiunnp Victim, a APOLLO HALL, corner 26th street and roadway.—Tar Canny Giase, NEW YORK MSEUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— BolmNOR AND Ani. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618!¢ ALKY UXLY IN ATTENDANCE, TRIPLE SHEET, Now York, Thursdny, Jaunary 6, 1870. COVEELLS OF TO-DAY’S NERALD, Pacz ae , 4~Advertisemenis, 2—Adve ments, B3—Ths Telogranh Operators’ Strike: Growing Mag- nitude of the Movement All Over the Countr Death in Cosmetics and Croton Pipes—Lhe Reign of Biood: Shooting of James L-gan No. 2 in Houston street—Journalistic Sharp Prac- tice: How the Copperhead Organ Obtains its News—The New York Geneaogical and Bio- graphical Society. @=—Europe: A Gloomy Prospect at New Year for England—Grand American Dinner at Rome— The Stapbing of Frank Besgen—Land and Ocean Telegraph Cabies3—Central and South America—News irom Cuba—Yachting and Pedesirianism. G—Proceedinzs of the Law Courts—New York City and Police Intelligence—Aunual Report of the Street Clean'ug Contractor—Personal Intelli- gence—Brooklyn and Suburban News—Siangh- tering the Dogs—Obituary Notice—Woman’s’ Rights In lowa—A Brown Wedaing—Spirit of ‘The Turf: Tae Sporting Paper Mon “Go for” Fach Other. G—Editorials: Leading Article on A Contrast, Generat Grant and President Grant—Amusc- ment Announcements, (J—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World: The Government Crisis in Spain—Wash- ington: Rumored Negotiation in Spain Jor the Sale of Cuba ; Arrivai of a Paraguayan Envoy—Army and Navy Intel! gence—Beaten, Ropbed and Gagged in Dutchess County— Amusements—Business Notices, S—Rome and Egypt: Paris Fashions in the Papal Councli—Avnual Report of the Metropolitan Police Comimissioners—Solar Eclipses—Israel- ite Miscegenation—Arizona: Interview yin Governor Stafford. 9—The Abdallah Raile: Vagaries of a Police 10—The State Capital: Repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment by the Legislature: the Epiphany at St. Alban’s Church—The Sleepy Hollow Butcbery—Suiciae by Hanging—Lecture on Old and New Theories—Bail of Mutual Lodge I. 0. of 0. F.—The Mace and Allen Fight—Labor in the South—Com- merce of the Erie Canal—Shippmg News— Advertisements. Roundsman—The Funeral of George Pea- body—Finaucial and Commercial Reports— Real Estate ‘Transfers—Our Foreign Policy— California Oranges—Marriages and Deaths, 21—Tne Kecent Auroral Display—The Peach Orchards of California— Advertisements, 12—Aavertisements. Tae Purowase or Cuna.—Our Washington correspondent has seen a private letter from Madrid, which says that Prim and Serrano are both inclined to favor a sale of Cuba to the United States, but are fearful of the effect on the Spanish people, who are bitterly op- posed to it. Spain needs money, and that fact would no doubt facilitate negotiations, Tue Crinzse Misston,—Ex-Governor Low Is'on his way to New York from Washington, and next Saturday will start by rail to San Francisco. On the first of next month he will sail for Shanghae to assume his duties as United States Minister in China, He has received full instructions to carry out faith- fully the provisions of the Burlingame treaty, and especially to be prompt and firm on the question of protecting American citizens and property in the Celestial empire. Tur Sreeer Creanina Conrract.—The Superintendent of Street Cleaning has made his report to Mr. Brown, the contractor, for the past year. It was laid before the Common Council yesterday. The Snperintendent says the work has beea greater than usual, owing, among other thinzs, to the increase of popula- tion, and he has lost about ten thousand dol- lars by the unusual mixture of sand in the street manure which he carts off to sell. He thinks an appropriation of about one million dollars would keep the city clean for the present year. Procrepines m THR LEGISLATURE.—The fifteenth amendment resolntion, repealing the resolution of the previous Legislature, was passed in both houses of the Lezislature yes- terday. In the Assembly a debate of’ one hone’s duration ensued upon it, in which Mr. Marpby contended that the ratification by the previous Legislature had not been comple‘ed, In the two houses various measures of interest were introduced, among them bills repealing the Conspiracy laws, or the laws against working- men’s strikes; repealing the Excise law, amend- Ing the Metropolitan Police laws, declaring Mr, Heary Smith's appointment as Supervisor valid, providing for certain street railroads, and to compel the gas companies to report to the Comptroller. Both houses agreed to ad- lourn to-day until Tuesday, in order to give fhe prosiding officers time to form the regular Eommittees. Grant. General Grant throughout tho war and up to the timo of his election to the Presidency was jusily regarded as a thoroughly represen- tative American, On all quostions ia which the honor, glory and progross of his country wers involved he was American to the core. He had none of the contracted ideas of New Englaod of sectional politicians, no afflaity with Earopean or monarchical institu- tions, prejudices or habits of thought. Raised in the great West, he had tho broad and sturdy republican ideas of that section, Lis patriot- ism was elevated, and, like tho region of country where he had bis howe, was wide in its range and as comprehensive as its destiny. He had no narrow views of American policy or progress, and, like all true Western’ men, believed in the manifest destiny of this mighty republic, Such a man was General Grant when he re-entered the army at the commence- ment of the late war, and all through his glorious military career till he reached the Presidency. It will be remembered how truly this lofty American patriotism of Gsaeral Grant was shown in the case of the French occupation of Mexico, He regarded the invasion of that neighboring republic by the French and tho setting up a monarchy on our border by a European Power as a gross insult to the | Tnited States, as a blow at republican govera- meat on this Continent and as a violatioa of the Monroe doctrine. He said, in fact, it was a part of the war against the United States, and that the war would not be com- pletely finished till the French and their imperial system were driven from Mexican sol. Acting upon these views he boldly pro- posed to march an army to the Rio Grande to drive the French out of Mexico. At that time he had no fear of war with any European nation. He would have risked a war with France in defence of American republicanism and institutions; yes, to defend those in a neighboring country, though we had no diffi- cully with France ourselves apart from this question, he would have risked a war with the greatest Power in Europe to defend and protect American republicanism. A thrill of pride and admiration ran through the hearts of our people when the great captain of the war thus proclaimed his fearless and lofty Ameri- can patriotism, He knew that France could not measure swords with the United States, if even Napoleon had been foolish enough to try the experiment. He knew, in fact, that all Europe combined could not conquer this repub- lic, or even land any considerable force on its shores, But whatever the risk or cost, he was ready then to defend republican principles in America and the established policy of his country. What change has come over General Grant since he became President! Or rather what a change hag taken place since last spring or summer! In the case of Cuba he seems to have forgotten his high-toned American principles and policy. He seems to quail before an insignificant P ower like Spain, end to abandon the cause of republican liberty in America from fear of the least difficulty. How are the mighty fallen! Yet, when we speak of the President we would rather say his administration, for we cannot believe his nature is changed, and still think that in his heart he wishes the independence of Cuba. There is every reason to fear he has been and is influenced in his anti-Cuban and un-Ameri- can policy by certain members of his Cabinet and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Secretary of State, Attorney General Hoar and Mr. Sumner have misled him, no doubt, by a cunning and per- sistent system of misrepresentation, The position they bave assumed on the Cuban question and their outspoken hostility to the Cuban cause leave no doubt about that. Then, itis known that while the lamented General Rawlins lived and was a member of the Cabinet the President manifested great interest in the Cubans, and went so far even as to intimate last summer to the Spanish govern- ment, through our Minister at Madrid, that the United States would have to recognize the Cubans before long. With the death of his friend, the noble Rawlins, the President ap- pears to have fallen completely under the in- fluence of the pro-Spanish members of the Cabinet and Mr. Sumner. Hence was perpe- trated that outrage upon the feelings and sen- timent of the American people in letting loose the thirty gunboats from our shores to crush, if possible, the rising republic of Cuba; hence the overatrained and extraordioary efforts that have been made to prevent the Cuban patriots from getting any supplies from this country, and hence the deaf ear the administration has turned to the appeals of the American press and public and the Cubans, Now, the question is, will the President hereafter follow the promptings of his own heart, or those blind, narrow-minded and _pre- judiced men that surround him? The Cubans are entitled to recognition, for they have an organized government and have fought for up- wards of fifteen months, heroically and with remarkable success, the war for republican freedom. Onreasonable international grounds they are entitled to this; but the government ought to take bolder and higher ground than that. Itougbt to follow the sympathies and wisb of the American people, and aid, directly or indirectly, the cause of liberty in Cuba, A million and a half of people, American born, almost within sight of our ‘coast, who have never been allowed the smallest right of self- government, and who have been under the heel of the worst despotism in the world, cry to us for help, or at least for recognition. We can give this without danger or inconvenience. Ought we not to do it? But if we lay aside all sentiment—if we choose to say we care noth- ing for a brave and suffering people strug- gling for freedom, or for the progress of American republicanism—and look at this mat- terin a selfish point of view only, there are the strongest reasons for securing the inde- pendence and annexation of Cuba. It would bethe most valuable possession the United States could acquire, Its internal and natu- ral wealth is incalculable, its developed re- sources vast, its commerce very large, and in a naval and military point of view it is the key of the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the whole of the Antilles. Our interest ia every way,and on a large scale would be pro- moted by the independence and recognition of Cubs, Any other nation in the world simi- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, larly situated would not hesitate a moment to seize such an opportinity as Cuba presents to promote its interests and to increase its powor aml grandeur. If the President cannot com- prebend what is our national policy with re- gard to Cuba, it is to be hoped Congress will. The Democratic Oponing at Albany—The Good Timo Coming. “Oh! be joyful,” ye long-waiting and long- suffering democracy! A full swing at Albany, and the first full democratic swing for twenty odd years! Legislature, Governor, State officers, judiciary, all right, and Tammany master over everything, and Peter the ring- master of Tammany, The fashionable fall opening of our pretty milliners is lovely; the social opening of the New Year in Gotham is delightful; the spring opening of the St, Law- rence is magnificent, and the summer opening of the watering places is the opening of a glorious harvest to railways, steamboats, hotels, hack drivers and baggage smashers ; but all these openings are eclipsed in loveli- ness, deliciousness, magnificence and glory by the grand and glorious opening of the demo- cracy in full swing at Albany. It beats the vupening of Congress, for it covers a margin of five hundred millions of money in jobs and spoils; it casts into the shade the opening of the British Parliament or the French Cham- bers ; yea, it bangs out the opening of the Suez Canal. Mayor Hall has only modestly hinted at it, because he felt, in broaching the subject, that it was beyond his power of language to do it jus- tice ; Governor Hoffman, in his message, luxu- riates in the charming prospect; Lieutenant Governor Beach opens the State Senate in an unctuous thanksgiving, and Speaker Hitchman, in his congratulations to the Assembly, looms up as terrific to his enemies as Goliath, the staff of whose spear was like a Weaver's beam, or like the jibboom of a three-masted schooner, and as the giant of the Philistines defied the armies of Israel so Hitchman defies the pow- ers of Congress. Wehave hada mighty re- volution in New York, in an election which went by default, and the first manifestations at Albany are very much like the preliminary outgivings of the French National Assembly against Louis Sixteenth and his dynasty. The first business motion in the Senate is from Mr. Tweed, inthe form of a resolution to repeal, rescind, annul,-upset, abolish and re- call the ratification of New York of the fifteenth amendment. Wherefore? Because it is ap- prehended that the power given to Congress in said amendment to enforce negro suffrage “by appropriate legislation” means the power to take the machinery of our elections out of the hands of Tammany Hall—an invasion of State and democratic rights which would re- verse the vote of the Empire State the first pop and every time, ina radical regulation of repeaters and in a republican counting of the ballots. The issue is thus fairly joined— Tweed against Grant. On this fifteenth amendment the balance of power seems to be with Grant; but Tweed’s is the voice of the “‘anterrified” New York democracy; and in this motion he is striking for New York, Hoff- man and the next Presidency, and peradven- ture for the Collector. But it is in Mr. Creamer’s first proposition in the Senate—the repeal of the Excise law— that we have the breaking of the ground towards the coming millennium of the faithful on this blessed democratic island. The repeal of the Excise law! A good beginning. We had supposed it would be the repeal of the bothersome Registry law; but that will come in good time. Mr. Creamer knows what's what. Time waswhen “‘free soil, free speech, free labor and free men” was the winning war cry. ‘‘Free love” is somewhat now the fashion, and is a powerful idea among strong- minded women and weak-minded men; but the legend of “free lager and free whiskey” overtops them all. The poetical excise officer, Burns, tells how ‘“‘the de’il”once came to town And ran away with the exciseman. And among the masses in every land, from that day to this, the exciseman has been a nuisance. Mr. Creamer knows how it is among the rank and file of his bailiwick, and that to them his bill vill be a second declara- tion of independence. No more spies or in- formers, no more stopping of licenses, no more slipping around the corner to the back door on Sunday, and no more fears of the police. This is the beginning; but mark the glo- rious programme. All the city boards and commissions, police and all, under the Mayor, and all the local legislation for them coming from the City Councils and the Mayor; and as there are henceforth to be no more bother- ing registrations of voters, and as everything is to be democratic, it will be absurd to keep up an opposition party. Therefore, all the men of this island, not employed by General Grant, will become democrats, and they will all be made rich from the spoils. The demo- cratic majority in this city next fall (as there will be a vigorous republican fight in the rural districts) will be about one hundred and fifty thousand, and the tax levy will be perfectly splendid. New York is to be made a splendid city, and it will take five hundred millions in improvements to give it a good start towards the splendors of Paris as it now stands from the work of Baron Haussmann. But these five hundred millions drawn from the property holders will go among the working masses, and the working masses are the democracy, barring the lucky ones of the ring. Such is the glorious prospect before us of this happy island, The city is to govern itself out and out; and as the city is democratic, and as democracy means the will of the peo- ple, and as it is tho will of this people to be released from all these despotic radical re- straints upon their liberty, even so shall it be, Some old fogies are afraid that the municipal government thus foreshadowed will largely increase the sale of pistols for personal security, but we think that it will only be in New York a democratic year of jubilee, Ovr Cexrran axp Sovrn AMERICAN Buport.—We publish in another column the latest intelligence from the Central and South American republics. Generally speaking affairs are very quiet throughout. A most disastrous fire raged in Valparaiso and many buildings, among which was the British Con- sulate, were destroyed. The Paraguayan war still drags slowly along, and Lopez was etill at large, but where it is impossible to tell, JANUARY 6, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Parngasyan War—F'reeident Lopez’s Son in Washington. So variod and conflicting have beonthe ac- counts from time to time regarding the pro- gress of the war in Paraguay that it is next to an impossibility to form any correct es- t of tho real state of affairs, So.we time since we bad occasion to inquire into the progress of the war, and we were not a littlo surprised to find that, notwithstanding an enormous expendi- ture of men, money and timo by the allies, the only result accomplishod was the over- running of Paraguay by hostile armies in the fruitless attempt to subjugate its people and capture the acknoweledged head of its government, Driven from the capital, routed from the principal cities, forced to retreat from his strongholds and compelled to take refuge in the mountains, President Lopez has proven himself a soldier of great genius and one of the most remarka- ble men of modern timos. Tho army opposed to him has always been far superior in num- bers, equipments and supplies, He has suf- fered from every disadvantage, and his only reliance was a thorough knowledge of the country, the belief in the final triumph of his cause, and a conviction that the Paraguayan people were with him. As moral support this was all very woll; but in tho trying hour of battlo or whon disaster after disaster had over- taken him something more was needed, and this was supplied in his remarkable skill as a soldier and his ability to triumph even in defeat. When the war first broke out in Paraguay the United States had its accredited represen- tative in the republic, but during tite struggle the minister was withdrawn, and from that time to the present we have had no means of ascertaining correctly the real state of affairs within the Paraguayan republic. This is not asitehould be. The United States should have its representative at Asuncion, where Sefior Paraubos, a Brazilian lawyer, runs the provisional government, ostensibly under the supervision of the allies, but In reality in the interest of the Brazilian empire. It is time, therefore, that the American government should know the real condition of things in Paraguay, and we are pleased to hear that Sefior Emeleano Lopez, a son of the indomi- table South American hero, has arrived in Washington. He comes here prepared to make such representations to the American government as may tend to alter the opinions of many who were led away by Brazilian an- nouncements. Sefior Lopez laughs at the idea of the annihilation of his father, and he says significantly that events will soon prove who is the master of the situation. Possibly the latest reports from Rio were then not so very far out of the way. The Paraguayan war is ended and tho allied army is to return home, we are told; but the very vague statement that the whereabouts of Lopez was unknown looks strange enough, and may be interpreted differ- ently from what the enemies of Lopez desire. A little time will tell. In the interim we trust that from Washington we may learn something that will sustain the belief that, notwithstanding immense odds and serious disadvantages, a South American republican President fighting at the head of his people was more than a match for a powerful empire, supported by able and willing allies, Spain—Another Crisis. Spain is once again in what we might call agony. Fora year and a half nearly she has been before the world in a revolutionary character. During that time we have had no end of promise and failures abundant, There were those who hailed the revolution which sent Isabella adrift with high enthusiasm. There were others who regarded it as the beginning of trouble. Some hoped. and believed in Spain. Some pronounced Spain hopelessly incurable. It is not our habit to follow the prophet of evil tidings. We were willing to give Spain achance. Now, how- ever, that we have had this protracted experi- ence of Spanish incompetency ; now that we have seen Spain going about for a year all over Europe and vainly begging a king, and with the facts of the hour before us, we must admit that Buckle’s view of Spain is the correct one. Spain, according to that great writer, has been so long steeped in ignorance and misery that there is no hope of any immediate resurrection. Since the days of Charles the Fifth and Philip the Second Spain has been going backward year by year. The resurrection must be equally slow. It is now rumored that Serrano will be invested with the sovereign power. It is said also that the Cortes are unwilling to adopt this extreme course. Meanwhile it is a fact that Prim has failed. The refusal of Italy to allow the Duke of Genoa to become a candidate for the Spanish throne made Prim’s resignation a necessity. It is also a fact that the parlisans of Montpensier have become more active than If itbe true that Topete has expressed his willingness to take office the star of Montpensier is fairly in the ascendant. The real question now is whether Prim can do any- thing. The secondary question is, what will he do? The crisis is such that moments may work wondrous changes, and an extraordinary reaction be heard of at any moment from Madrid, Custom Hovsk Rerorms.—Collector Grin- nell has been unearthing a good many abuses in the Custom House—some of long standing— and has been and is working faithfully in the work of retrenchment and reform, for which he is entitled to credit. We think, however, that in doing justice to Mr. Grinnell we need not do injustice to the late Collector Smythe, He, too, was a faithful officer, and cut down a good many abuses, and he would doubtless have cut offa good many more had he been actively supported at Washington. But his President, Andy Johnson, was too much absorbed in ‘‘defending the constitution” to have any time to spare in defending the Trea- sury; ard go Collector Smythe was not properly encouraged in his efforts to save the public money. He did the best he could, and if Andy Johnson had supported him actively, and had devoted a little more attention else- where to the Treasury and a little less to his defence of the constitution, General Grant would have had a greatly reduced margin of rascalities to look after. As the facts will show, Mr. Smythe was one of the few of John- son’s collectors who made his own interests subordinate to the interests of the government. ever. The Great Day in Vanity Fair. Once » yeag they hold in Mr. Boocher's church, and in the full beam of that high- priced parson’s patronizing smile, a sort of fostival of pride of purse. For ono day the parson and tho people agree that they will lay asido tho Christian pretence and parade them- selves boldly, blatantly, with ostentatious dis- regard to the decencies of religious demeanor, as worshippers of Mammon, They indulge themselves with an orgic. Ono is elevated in their midst who goes through the formula of 9 huckstoring sale, varying what he has to say with pitiful ribaldry and blasphemous dulnoss. He is the pricst meanwhile, and his ribaldry is tho doctrino of tho hour. Around him thero is full play of vaiaglory, meanness, the spite of rivalry, all tho unchristian character- istics of human nature, and all exactly measured by a money standard, What is it that is bought and sold in this precious circle ? Is it the rickety old furniture of a bankrupt hotel? Or a ship load of rotten oranges just in? Or the cheating paper scraps of Wall street? Or anyother of the trumpery and despised lumber of the world? No! They buy and sell the places in church, They vie with one another in the eager manifestation of a piety that pays and that will have the better of its neighbor at any price. Is it forbidden to sell the Gospel? Is it for- bidden to desecrate the temple and to worship Mammon? Then is this spectacle indecent and this sale wrong; otherwise, and if 4 man may go to heaven a little faster or a little slower according to his standing in the money market, and if he may facilitate his progress by the devices that give success in tho trans- actions that have upon them the soil of com- mon life, then is this salo an excellent inven- tion, Christ said ‘‘Blessed aro the meck” and “Blessed are the poor in spirit;” and in these words is the very essence of the revolution by which Christianity overturned hoathendom and made the new world with a moral senso. But these words are not in the Gospel, accord- ing to the anciioneer ot Plymout) church. Standing though they do in the place of honor among all the words of Christ, they are tubooed as the delusion of an age that did not understand trade. In their placs they say “Blessed is the proud man who bids high,” and “Blessed is the heaviest purse, for it shall have the best place.” Suppose that one should at- tend this sale intent to act according to these words of Christ that these men all pretend to revere, would he not excite the same wonder that Christian and Hopeful did in Vanity Fair, when “‘somo said they were bedlams and geome they were outlandish men?” No matter. If the Plymouth sysiem is not admired by the world for its adherence to the spirit of what Christ taught it is evidently ad- mired for something it likes botter, and in the success of drawing to itself the attention of Fisk, of Erie, it can see the noble measure of its influence on the age; for Fisk is a specu- lator, He has the keenest nose of the kennel for what pays. He will buy whatever he can sell, and, of course, cares not whether it is this Plymouth ‘Gospel shop” or one more opéra bouffe company. Beecher, therefore, is to be congratulated, with all his saints, that speculation in the seats in his church has fallen into the hands of so ripe a master a3 the great gold muddler and operator in Erie and Great Western—the magnificent master of many and indiscriminate sensations, Tue SEQque. TO THE Rocers MurpER.— One year and four days ago Charles M. Rogers was killed at his own door, in broad daylight, by» ruffian whom circumstances at the timo and subsequently on the inquest pointed out to be one James Logan. Several James Logans were arrested at the time, and, for the purpose of convenience, they were classed as No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. The James Logan who was classed as No, 2 was shot and fatally wounded in anaffray on East Houston street, at an early hour yesterday morning, and now lies in a dying condition at Bellevue Hospital. With him, probably, lies the only hope of ever clear- ing up the Rogers mystery. He has made no statement yet, but it may be because he does not believe he is dying. It behooves the offi- cers of the hospital or those altending him to watch and take down carefully his last words, for they may be of more importance than his whole life has been. Conression or Buckuovr.—Buckhout, the murderer of his wife and Mr. Rendall, in West- chester, made a confession yesterday while partially under the influence of chloroform, administered to him to test the truth of his pretended insanity. He says he killed his wife because she was unfaithful to him, and he does not know why he killed Rendall. As so many cases of this kind occur in which a plea of insanity is entered, the success of this experi- ment by chloroform is a matter of congratula- tion, Hereafter, when a murderer pleads insanity, put him under the influence of cblo- roform, and if he proves his insanity in that way send him to the insane asylum. Tae CounTERFEIT SwINDLERS,—Judge Bed- ford has done ‘another good thing for which he deserves the thanks of the community. He yesterday sentenced David H. Smythe, one of the notorious counterfeit swindlers of the city who carry on business by tempting their cus- tomers to invest in what they claim to be excellent imitations of the genuine currency, and then to save themselves from the law hold back the counterfeits and palm off on their unwitting confederate a mass of waste paper. They are generally secure in their rascality, because their victim cannot com- plain without implicating himself. But yester- day Judge Bedford caught one of these sinners onthe hip and sent him up for five years, amid applause in all parts of the court room, Anizona.—Governor Stafford, of Arizona, who is on his way to Washington, gave our reporter yesterday his views in regard to the mode of dealing with the hostile Indians in that country. It seems the Apaches, who number twenty thousand, overrun the Territory, and are of the old treacherous stripe of savages who hold to the torturo and the stake ia dealing with their captives, and have not been demoralized into civilization and peacefulness by bad whiskey. The military force in the Territory is about one thousand five bundred men, and is, of course, wholly inadequate. Governor Stafford suggests that more cavalry be sent to the Territory, or that volunteers from among the miners and farms4 be allowed to take the field. Dress Fashions in Romo-A LBrillln . Scene, from the Cassock to the Crown, The persoas who havo been engazed ¢ prophesying that nothing gvod or useful er enduring would come from the Ecumenical Counell in Rome are likely to bo sorely dis- appointed. They receive, in truth, the shock of the first counterblast to their predictions to-day by the publication im our pages of letters from our special fashions corres- pondent, who writes from the centre of unity—the point of harmony as it wero of cosmopolitan, world-wide costumes—under date of the 18th of Docomber, Journeying from Egypt the writer was enabled, com. pelled it may bo said, to contrast in plour retrospect the simplicity, the garb and the mission of Joseph of old, as well ag the vast amount of trouble which came to him about one single cup, with the splendor of tho cassocks, the costliness of the robes, the blazo of the mitres and croziers, and of the gems which stud the chalices of those who have repaired to the land of Christian promise 80 a3 to garner a stock of food sufficient for the reliof of the spiritual famine of the hour. After passing the wayside tombs of men who were great in the time of Saladin, and chatting with Mademoisolle Imperia on the road, our correspondent journeyed by steam from Alexandria to Brindisi and thence ran up to the Vatican, In the cabins and on the deck of the vessel wero saints in petto, and carnal beauties in full bloom, with disci- plinary mortifications ia the way of the uso of food and vows to “live for forty days on ill dressed fishes” during the approaching Lentev season, provided the company or individuals got safe to the objective point of their journey, vows uttered almost in unison, or, speaking. more properly, in a discordance of aspiratiqr with resolutions of making ‘a good time” v@ it, and in the easy and luxurious effeminacy of silk wrappers, costly dressing gowns, with boots and chigaons—the first of great elegance and the latter of the Paris standird of magni- tude, Next we have clerical vestments, and the train of Pius the Ninth as it was worn and borne up when the Pontiff moved on towards the high aliar of the church of the Vatican, Ex-royalty was ablaze in the galleries, con- soled, no doubt, and encouraged by the reflec tion that all this grandeur had ensued from tho courageous self-abnegation of Peter in throw- ing away his net—his only visible means of support—and boldly relying on the promise that he should become a “fisher of men.” Tho lay aristocracy of Europe and America were filly and worthily represonted, and art and science and romance had their delegates and faithful votaries. A crown of Protestanism was there in the person of the Queea of Wur- temberg, and Spain and Parma and Naples had their scions of monarchy. There was a brilliant medley of knights and nobles, and reli- gious fervor was at its height, excited, but perhaps much more effervescent a21 evanss- cent thaa in the days of ‘‘conviction” in North Britain, when ‘“‘ye saintes were to prelates surly.” The medley realities were really grav notwithstanding, and receiv full jus.ico in o columns, % Is SALNAvE Dgap or AtiveE?—We publis - elsewhere two statements regarding the fate oi Salnave. One accouat says that he destroyed himself, together with his fourteen sons; 9 second report says that he fled to St. Domiago. Of the two announcements we are inclined to favor the latter, notwithstanding the fact that tye former read3 very thrilling, Tue Tziecrapurrs’ Sraixe—The stiri of the telegraph operators is spreading in alt directions. Both sides make statements regard to the cause of the strike, which diff. so materially that o harmonizing of views «u the subject seems impossible. The matter js at any time of interest to the general public, but it becomes painfully so whoa the result may be a stoppage of telegraphic communication with Europe and Cuba. The latest reports show that the strike is becoming general among the operators in the South, and along the Newfoundland lines, where it will directly affect our Gulf and Atlantic cables, When matters come to such a crisis as this it is time the government should run the telegraph for a while, if only as an experiment. t Our Lerrers FRom Evrope.—By special written correspondence from Europe we have avery interesting elaboration of our cablo telegrams to the 25th of December. Tho homo prospect for the new year in Great Britian was discouraging, as our writer in London has to: speak of heavy taxation, depression of trade,, political discontent, pauperism and crime Outside the Basilica, in Rome, there was a military review, the Papal army mustering in force, but it must be acknowledged not with anything like the coherent esprit which distin- guishes the ranks of the clerical le :ionaries of the Holy See. North Germany i3 about to make solid and powerful additioas to the navy of the confederation. Austria was agitated by trades unionists and attempts at industrial rectification by tho people. Generally speak- ing the elements for further consolidation or awider separation both of classes and pcople were very active. . IRELAND AND THE Brivis GOVERNMENT.— Our news by cable regarding the result of the election which has just taken place in the county of Longford, Ireland, is instructive. Mr John Martin was once a political convict, He is known to be wedded to his erly anti-English opinions, although not a Fenian. He was suffi- ciently Fenian in sympathy, however, to be a popular Fenian candidate. Mr. Martin in the British Parliament would, we think, have become a very tamo old lion. Hi however, bya acion of one of the oldes families is an instructive lesson. It. imply that there is more noise than Irish reformers. Ireland may gre will, but it is Mr. Gladstone's inte. remove all cause of complaint that the growl, wherever heard, will provoke contempt, not sympathy. ¥ Tae MerropoutraN Pouce Reronr.—Tho annual report of the Police Commissioners is published in fullin another column. It is in the main a somewhat satisfactory exhibit, The force, it states, is insufficient for the work, there being only one officer to every five hundred inhabitants in this city, and to every thousand in Brooklyn. arrests during the year in this city was 72,984, the Sunday clause of the Excise iaw exercis- ing a salutary influcnco in the matter of drunkenness on Sunday. Tho total number of ©