The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor Hrrarp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. . | Letters and packages should be properly scaled. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the wear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVERING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23dut., boiween Sth and 6th avs— Fauve. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broagway.—THe WetTIn@ om THE WALL, Matinee at 2. FIFTH AVENUB THEA iy Twenty-fourth st.—SoRr; 98, SUMMER SoENES at LONG BuaNon. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Gnand ROMANTIO Drama or Buy Bias. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Brondway, cor- ner Thirtioth st.—Matinee daily, Performance every evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-Tom anp JennY— Tuisa OurLaw-—Rowert Macaikx, WALLACK'S SHEATRE, Broad ry — oN! E, Broadway and 13th sireet. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tux BURLESQUE ov Bap Dicks. 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LADIES" Broad NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618}¢ FEMALES ONLY LN ATTENDANOR. SHEET. January 12, 1870. New York, Wednesda: CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. ‘Paor. 1— Advertisements, Q—Advertisoments. 3+Washington: New Features tn <tc £3. Dominga Question ; Proposed Increase of National Bank sues ; Prosident Grant's First Veto—A Wall Street Muddie: Rebeliion in the Gold Ex- ¢hange—Suburban and Local Intelligence— Cotton Culture in California, 4=—The Cuban Revolution: Diplomatic Corres- pondence between the Secretary of State and the Spanish Mintsier; The Fight for Freedom im Caba. G-—Proceedings in the Courts—The Pirates of the Port—New York City and Police Inteliigence— Mystertous Murder—The Fentan Brotherhood. 6—Eaditorials: Leading Article on the Latest Parie Sensation, tne Homicide, Napoleon’s Troubles on the Increase, Extensive Seizure of Whiskey Establishmerts—Amusement Announcements, F—Telegraphic News from ail Parts of the World; Prince Pi¢rre Bonaparte's Statement of the Noir Shooting Case; A Large Portion of the Spanish Gunboat Fleet Missing— The State Capttal:—Appointment of the Stand- ing Committees—Personal Intelligeuce—Busi- ness notices. S-—Paraguayan Affairs: A Talk with Emiliano Lopez, Son of the President of Paraguay—The ‘Telegraphers’ Strtke—Election of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company—Opening of the New Jersey Legisiature and Message of the Governor—Special Political Notes—A Wife's Steategy—Regulating Chinese tmmigration— Brooklyn City News—Marrtages and Deatns. ®@—Financial and Commercial Keporta—The Post OfMce and the Custom House—The Wilkes- Brace Libel Suit—Senator Browalow—A Sound Idea—Real Estate Matters—Unsucceasful ‘Whaliug—Advertisements, 10<Europe: Napoleon to MM. Oilivier and For- cade; The Murderer Traupmapn After his Return from Court—Cock Fighting— Social | Keonion—PBalls Last Night— Louisiana: The Governor and State Auditor Secking to Impeach Each Other; Advance Ex- ‘wacis ftom the Governor's Message—Interest- ang Wxplorations in Alaska~Snipping Iutelli- gence—Advertisements. 21—advertisements. * . 12--Advertisements. Sr. Dominco AND THE Losny.—-The bene- Gts accruing to St. Domingo by her proposed annexation with the United States are made particularly evident by the avidity with which the lobbyists are trying to lend her money. « Tus Spanisu Freet, that sailed from this port recently, is again in trouble. The gun- ‘boats became separated from their convoy on the 9th and have not been seen since. The Isabel is at Norfolk, where she will wait until she hears something of them, Mr. Jonn Buicut, in his capacity as a QGabinet Minister of England, sketches out the pew reform platform of Mr. Gladstone in his speech at Birmingham, which we report by cable, The plan is ample and substantial, par- ticularly as regards the policy towards Ireland, Proorepines oF THE Lxaistatorr.—The standing committees of the Senate were an- nounced yesterday, having been satisfactorily arranged by the Tammany leaders. Senator Murphy fs chalrman of the Judiclary and Senator Tweed of the Municipal Affairs Committee. The standing committees of the Assembly were also announced. Mr. Jacobs is chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, Patrick on Railroads and Frear on Oities. New York and Brooklyn have more than their usual representation among the chairmen of committees. A®large number of bills and resolutions were introduced, anda | long debate ensued on the bill to repeal the Con- spiracy law, which will have its third reading to-day and undoubtedly be passed. Among the bills noticed in the Senate was one by Mr. Creamer to prevent the carrying of deadly weapons. A law of this kind is much needed, especially in this city, where shooting and stabbing affrays are of almost hourly oceur- rence, But would it not be, like the present | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT. Tee Lurest Paris Sensation—Tho Homi clde—Napoleen’» Troubles em tho In- crease. In our telographic columns to-dsy will be found the details, so far as they have reached us, of what may be called the biggest sensa- tion which Paris has experienced In many years, A prince of the imperial family and first cousin of the Emperor, charged with murder, now les in a Paris prison, and awaits the action of the High Court of Justice. M. Rochefort bas at last been successful in accom- plishing a tragedy, and the Marseiliaise has been suppressed, ‘ Prince Pierre Napoleon has not had the advantage hitherto of being known to fame— a reproach which will no longer rest upon him—but a reference to the almanac teaches us that he is son by a second marriage of Lucien, Prince of Canino, that he is nephew of the First Napoleon and cousin of the Third; that he was born in 1815, and that he is President of the Council General of Corsica. Though not wholly unknown in Paris his repu- tation is not great. In the matter with which his name is now connected he has shown some pluck and not a little of the old Napoleonic fire, It was our opinion when ‘tho news first reached us that the Prince must have had severe provocation before he fired the shot which proved fatal. Later news has justified that opinion,. The provocation seems, indeed, to have been great. The Prince may have used unguarded language before he received the slap in the face from Noir ; but the slap io the face having been given it was certainly difficult for a man of spirit—a man especially in the Prince’s position, and writhing as he was under previous insults, and in the presence of two desperate men—to resist the temptation of using the pistol which he held in his hand. Most men, not cowards by instinct, would have acted precisely as he did. It is undeniable that with this crime M. Rochefort must primarily be associated. His conduct for the last two years, at least, has been disgraceful in the extreme. It has been his work, his worship, during that period to heap insult on the Bonaparte family, and espe- cially on the Emperor. The Emperor has been indulgent even to a fault. Again and again he could have arrested and punished him. All his Lanterne faults, however, were in a sense winked at, and the wasp—for he is no better ornobler than that creature—was granted a safe conduct across the frontiers, was per- mitted to come on to Paris, and even to take his seat in the Chamber, One would natu- rally have concluded that in gratitude for such magnanimity he would have sought by fair, honorable and constitutional means to accom- plish whatever good purpose he might have in his heart. But his mean, waspish nature, like his gratitude, finds no place; nor with such souls has nobility of purpose anything incommon. Not finding vent for his spleen in the Legislative Body he must needs resume his own pe@ and use up the venom of bis hire- lings; and his new paper, the Marseillaise, has been more offensive than was his miserable Lanterne. Acting in the name of liberty, he has proved himself to be liberty’s bitterest foe. He has done his best to kill a cause which was not only full'of promise, but which was bring- ing forth precious fruit. If the Emperor should now see fit to reimpose restrictions on the press it is our confident belief that France would stand by him and sanction the reaction. M. Ollivier indeed feels this, for he has warned Rochefort in the Legislative body in the words, “If you force us we will-be power,” The office of Rochefort’s paper was seized by the police. Well may Frenchmen say, ‘Save us from such friends as Henri Rochefort.” He is the Marat of the second empire. Napoleon must feel—he cannot but feel— sore about this matter. Ata time when most of all he wishes his house to stand well before France and the world, a Bonaparte, a cousin, rightly or wrongly, has stained bis hands’ with blood. That Rochefort has made an end of his opportunity he cannot be sorry; that France will feel itself compelled to fall back and lean upon him will give him no pain; but it must be to him a source of disquietude to think that these things were not brought about without the interference of any member of his family. This tragedy must be all the more annoying to him that France, mainly in conse- quence of the reforms which he has introduced for her benefit, is in a state of transition and not free from the uncertainties and dangers which a transition period implies, Desirous to please as far as is possible he had just yiclded to the clamor of one section of his people—he had agreed to make an end of one part of the Cobden treaty. After the 10th of May, according to the proclamation, “the privileged admission of cotton fabrics into France as temporary importations will cease.” This will no doubt give satisfaction to the cotton manufacturers and the cotton opera- tives, But it will give offence to other classes, and it will lead to fregh demands all over, ‘This, however, is not all. As if there was no limit to the Emperor's good nature, Ledru Rollin and Tibaldi and others are to be per- mitted to avail themselves of the amnesty recently granted for political offences, All this the Emperor knows is liable to bring trouble. But he is willing to give the people echance. He is anxious to test their feeling and to see what they can do. The action taken by the opposition in demanding the arraignment of Baron Haussmann is not a hopeful or encouraging sign. But with his hands still firm on the reins he can afford to wait and watch. He knows he can pull up when he chooses. What effect this fresh catastrophe may have on his general policy we must wait to know. All things considered, this at leastit is safe to say—in itself considered itis asad and lamentable occurrence, and as it relates to the Emperor and to France it is peculiarly unfortunate and painfully inoppor- une, Tue Promerrory Law in MassaciusetTs is evidently a failure, Two thousand liquor’ shops have been running in Boston alone in spite of it. WraltH ON 11 ~—In the town of Cheyenne, in Wyoming Territory, yesterday, a fire occurred which destroyed two blocks and involved the loss of nearly half a million dol- lara, That such a heavy loss could occur in a little town on the Plains is evidence of our great wealth, snd that the losera should imme- law to prevent the carrying of concealed weapona dead letter on our statute books? diately contract for new buildings ia evidence of astonishing grit and enterprise. The Diplomatio Cerrespondence Regurding | Seap the Cuban Revolution, We publish on another page the diplomatic correspondence between Secretary Fish sat the Spanish Minister, Soflor Roberts, together with some letters of the American Minister to Spain, and the opinion of Attorney General Hoar on the building of gunboats in this coun- try for the use of the Spaniards. The corres- pondence will be read with interest by all clusses, We are shown tho efforts made by the Spaniards to re-establish once more their power in Cuba, and we are also given to understand what offect the industriously circu- lated reports of the Cubans in relation to the progress of the revolution had in winning the sympathies of "the American people, A cor- rect idea of the high-handed measures of the volunteers may be had from the correspondence on the Speakman and Wyeth executions, and the impotency of Spanish officials may be ascertained to enforce the requirements of justice against the unbridled passions and ex- cesses of a brutal soldiery. Regarding the recognition of the Cubans as belligerents by the United States—a fear which was always upper- most in the minds of high Spanish officiuls—we find that Spain would have the American people believe that she was always a sincere well-wisher of the great republic. Unfortu- nately, however, for the land of Ferdinand and Isabel, memory recalls to mind the sincerity she exhibited during our late civil war. The reasons for the United States not interfering in the contest waged in Cuba cannot be attrib- uted to any desire to retain the good will of Spain at the expense of honor or be misled by such arguments as those adduced, but arises from a determination to be just and sincere in adhering to the traditional policy of the Ameri- can nation, We believe that the doy is fast approaching when Caba will come under tho protection of the American flag. The history of years goes to show that the ties which bound Cuba to the mother country are gradually being unloosed and will soon be completely severed. The revolution now progressing will hasten this event if it does not settle it. The con- cluding letter of the correspondence is from Attorney General Hoar on the building of the Spanish gunboats. The Paraguayan War—An Interview With Emiliano Lopez. - The readers of the Heraup are already informed of the arrival of Emiliano Lopez, son of the great Paraguayan chief, in Washington. The object of his mission to this country has already been stated, which is, as might be ex- pected, to endeavor to induce the United States government to do something for the cause of republican institutions in South America. Yesterday correspondent of the Herarp waited on Sefior Lopez for the purpose of con- versing on the Paraguayan war end ascertain- ing from one so well posted an idea of the prospects in Paraguay. The interview was most cordial, and young Lope» told the story of his father’s struggle in a frank, manly and intelligent manner. From the answers given in response to our correspondent’s inter- rogatories we can form a pretty accurate idea of the present condition of affairs in South ‘America. Sefior Lopez says, and with much truth, that the war against Paraguay is un- popular not only in the Argentine Confedera- tion, but also in Brazil, Of late prominent members of the liberal party in the Brazilian empire have expressed themselves unqualifiedly against the further continuance of the war. This feeling is likely to increase. The people complain of the burdens of taxation, which are yearly increasing. Not long since the Cabinet members resigned, and the Emperor was forced to form a new Ministry. The reasons given for such @ course had some connection with the war now carried on againat Lopez, Dom Pedro, in defiance of a large body of the Brazilian people, has determined to carry on the war as long as he can, The Argentine confederation is heartily sick of its unholy alliance with Brazil, and is eager to get decently out of the bargain. President Lopez knows all this, He is no doubt informed of the dissensions among the allies, Of one thing, however, we are assured, and that is that the war against Lopez has proven the most severe infliction that the Paraguayan people have ever suffered. The country is almost paralyzed by it, and the tyranny of Brazilian rule in Asuncjon is severely felt by the people of the warlike little republic. The non-appearance of Lopez amounts to nothing. He has disappeared so often that it excites no surprise, notwithstanding the desire of his ‘enemies to make capital out of it, Let the allied army withdraw from Paraguay, as it is proposed, and see how long he will remain in- active, A crisis is near, and the prospects for Lopez are not altogether gloomy. ExcrreMeNt IN WALL Srreet—A MEMBER oF THE Gotp Boarp Experyep.—The specu- lators in Wall street had a first class sensation yesterday in the trial and expulsion of a mem- ber of the Gold Board for alleged violation of the rules as to clearances. The whole affair is so technical and routine in its origin that ninety-nine people out of a hundred will doubtless fail to understand the dispute, but in financial circles it created a great deal of excitement. It will be sufficient to say that many brokers have shown considerable anti- pathy to the plan of clearing gold through the Gold Exchange Bank, which was so miserable @ failure in the late gold panic. Lately some of them have refused to deposit large checks owith the bank unless they received certified checks in return for the amount due them. The trouble culminated yesterday when a prominent broker refused to deposit bis gold— some nine hundred thousand dollars’ worth— unless the bank gave him back a certified check for the currency. This the bapk would notdo and the clearances were suspended, The Gold Board then met, and, after a long debate, expelled the broker. Tne Taxnxssex ConstirvTionar ConvEn- TION commences business in a way to disap- point the radicals. Amendments have already been submitted prohibiting slavery and pro- viding for negro suffrage. Suven Bartisu Piers, tocluding two dukes, attended a meeting in London yesterday to aid in arranging for a workingmen’s international exhibition to be held in that city. Premier Gladstone presided. The meeting itself was thus a fine national exhibition, and the work- ing democracy of Great Britain may congratu- late Itaelf on its new associates, Chinere Bill. A democratic member of Congress from Call- fornia, named Johnson, has introduced in the House ao bill providing that ‘‘any State suffer- ing from filthy habits, or degrading vices or customs practised by Chinese residents”— against whom the bill is especially directed— “may, if such habits, vices or customs become @ nuisance, protect itself by Stale legislation, notwithstanding the existence of any treaty between the United States and the Chinese government,” . ‘Now, there can be no question that every State should be permitted to protect itself against nuisances that may prove detrimental to good health, dangerous to the peace or order, or damaging to the sound morality of any com- munity. But suppose the member from Cali- fornia-—-whose instincts as a democrat well qualify him to judge on the subject—should take a broader view of the question, and nat confine his observations and olfactories to the poor Chinese alone, There are more extensive and more putrid fields for the opera- tions of a law against the accumulation of filthy and bad habits and other nuisances than exist in California. Therefore let Mr, Johnson give the law universal application, and see what he shall see. .For example, there is the noble Capitol of the nation in the great city of Washington, Why should it be obliged to endure the intolera- ble effluvia of the heaps of official corruption that are allowed to accumulate in fits lobbies, in its coramittee rooms, in its political caucuses, in its diplomatic cabals, ay, even upon the very floors: of Congress itself? Where were Mr. Johnson's moral olfactories when he pre- sented this bill to exterminate the Chinese—to exterminate them as if they were 80 many rata— while he knew so many viler and more vicious rats were gnawing at the public crib@ Then, there is the shocking social atmosphere of Washington, Why did he not bethink himself of some disinfecting agent—some patent puri- fier—to smoke out the bad habits that prevail to such a devouring extent in the well-styled “City of Magnificent Dead Beats?” We pause for an echo. Moreover, besides the sittings of Congress there are some fifteen State Legislatures now in full operation. Here is a domain upon which the Califorata member could exercise his nuisance exterminating ingenuity with marvellous effect. No doubt putrescent legis- lation was going on by wholesale in many of these Legislatures at the very moment he was fulminating his rattail wrath against the in- offensive pigtails in California, Then there are numberless nuisances that are permitted to exist in our own splendily commissioned city of New York. If the mem- ber from California don’t believe it let him ask Bergh, or Oakey Hall, or Horace Greeley. Bergh will give bim data on the swill milk business, our excellent and piquant Mayor on the Albany radical commissions nuisance, and Horace Greeley on the nuisance of soap and water in general, Then he can consult our worthy Street Commissioner upon the positive nuisance of keeping the streets clean, which Hercules would find a more laborious task than cleaning the Augean stables, Then there is the filthy tobacco chewing nuisance in the ladies’ cabins on our ferryboats, the cigar. smoking nuisance in our street cars, the tread- ing upon ladies’ trails in public places nuisance, the peddling on Broadway nuisance, the side- walk blockade nuisance, the degrading sham- religious nuisance, the bogus giant nuisance, the pnedmatic boring nuisance, and so on and so on, like the endless chain of the Greenwich street elevated railway nuisance, Nuisance, nuisance everywhere ! Briefly, let the gentleman from California, for the good of mankind, make his nuisance bill apply universally, and not confine its opera- tions to the miserable pigtails wallowing in the filth of the golden and glorious State he represents. Modification of the Income Tax. Should Congress not find it cpnvenient to reduce the income of the Treasury by abolish- ing the income tax altogether—though that, perbaps, would be the wisest course—the tax should certainly be modified so as not to bean upon those of small incomes and to mako it more equal upon individuals under different circumstances. A three per cent tax on incomes over ® thousand dollars and under two thousand would be enough. Estates, however, could very well pay five per cent, because the lax in such cases does not bear directly on individuals, Communities, too, should be made to pay on income in excess of a thousand dollars, after allowing five hun- dred dollars for the support of each mate artisan or laborer. A change that is most urgently needed is in the case of a man with a family, whose income is small, Under the law at present a man with a large famfly, having a small income over @ thousand dollars, has to pay as much asa single man with the same income. The single man can pay the tax without much inconvenience, while the man with a family finds it very difficult. To the thousand dollar exemption ought to be added five hundred dollars for each child under eighteen years of age, and for old or infirm persons dependent upon the taxpayer. The law now does not operate equally upon differ- ent classes of the community according to their means and demands upon them. Capi- talized wealth and large incomes from business can best bear the burden. We hope, if the income tax is to be continued, Congress will modify it in accordance with justice and the means of individuals, Tox Presents First Vero.—Tho first veto of President Grant was sent to the Senate yesterday. It was extremely un-John- son like, being very short and containing not a single allusion to the constjtution, It was based on his objections to a bill for the relief of Rollin While, the patentee of the repeating pistol. LN Suary Virainia Ba Apsnitren?-—Both houses of Congress are sorely perplexed with this question, But the case is very plain. The terms of restoration, including the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, having been fully complied with by the Virginians, the only question really is, shall Congress stick to its bargain? General Grant has recommended the admission of the State, and Grant is an honest man; but there is a hitch in Congress which does not wear an honest complexion. and Water Legisiatios—-A Curious | foreign Bankers and a Foureand-a-lI«lf Por Cent Loam. It is reported that reprosentatives of foreign bankers in London and Frankfort have come to this country with a view of proposing to our government 4 four-and-a-half per cent loan, in the event of tho national debt being reorgan- ized and funded, agreeably to the suggostions submitted by Secretary Boutwell in his: report to Congress. They state, it is said, that if the interest be made payable semi-annually in London, Paris and Frankfort they would be able to sell at least two hundred millions of new stock bearing four anda half per cent interest. There seems, however, to be some- thing of a job in the proposition ; for these foreign bankers want a commission, though they say it would be less than was paid for negoliating the sale of the five-twenties. We think it probable that not only two hundred millions of” four and a half per cents could be placed in Europe, but that a thousand millions or more could. Such is the credit of the United States abroad. But the question is, on what terms would the proposed new stock be Aken? Will these bankers or others take it at the pre- sent market price of five-twenties? If not, what premiumon that would they want? If we are to pay a high premium there would. be little or no advantage in transferring the debt. Perhaps long-term bonds or annuities could be negotiated at par, or nearly so, with the present market price of five-twenties. This is a nice question for the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress to consider, Mr. Boutwell has not much knowledge of such financial operations, and unless he should be very careful he would be overreaehed by the shrewd financiers of Europe and this country. Above all things let him beware of jobs. If a new stock is to be issued at a lower rato of interest let the government advertise it to the world and have its own agenta to do the busi- ness, The Wolf and the Lamb. One of the little domestic dramas of which there are thousands, perhaps, now in pro- gress in the community, has just reached the explosive denouement in the elopement from this city of a pastor with a daughter of one of the members of his church. The preacher of brilliant taleats, who is more showy in his rhetoric than sound in his moral principles, is a sufficiently familiar figure in our society, and isso much a power in the churches that un- doubtedly such occupants of pulpits are sought by congregations eager to realize the prosperity of crowded houses. He is, asa rule, also an idolized creature with the feminine members of the many family circles to which he gains admission in the favored character of a revered and trusted guide. Is it to be wondered at that this trust fs sometimes abused, and that families are desolated by the acts of clerical scoundrels who assume the livery of heaven only as a convenient and safe cover for loose conduct and libidinous appotites? All the cir- | cumstances of this Seventh street event indi- cate that it was @ heartless seduction of an innocent, simple child ; and they also indicate, that the scandal and crime might have been spared if the congregation had scratinized more closely the past history of tho eloquent divine, Tue ALABAMA CLAIMS.—Minister Thornton stated substantially on Monday that he thought England would offer no serious objection to the proposed exchange of British North Amer- ica for the Alabama claims. He seemed to think that any tangible bill of items would be preferable to the generalities that so far have alone been offered by our government, Tae Crry Comsussions.—The reports that there has as yet been any arrangement at Albany in regard to the otiy commissions we are credi- bly informed are without foundation in fact, Everything remains at present in an inchoate state. One section of the democratic majority favors a proposition to place the appointing and confirming power im the hands of the Mayor and Common Council ; another would make the Mayor the sole arbiter and dictator general in regard to appointments; till another would have # mixed commission to settle the claims of applicants, and we do not know how many more projects are on foot in the same connection. The leaders of the different divisions are rallying their forces and bringing them into line with a view to test the strength of each ggmmand, When that is done a com- promise satisfactory to all parties will be effected, and the New York democracy will again march along in solid phalanx to an anti- clpated victory in 1872. In the meantime the Herawp has an intelligent correspondent in Albany, who will not fail to keep its readers duly posted in all prominent movements, Fryanozs AND Porrrics IN JERSRY.— According to Governor Randolph’s message New Jersey is the luckiest State in the Union. Her principal revenue {s paid by a few corpo- rations, yet the receipts exceed the expendi- tres, and the assets on hand are sufficient to pay offthe entire State debt, provided any of her State bonds could be found for redemp- tion, This is a happy state of affairs—not only money enough to pay her debts, but actually her notes preferable to her money. The Governor thinks that the question of New York jurisdiction in Jersey waters has been broached by persons ‘to whom some sort of notoriety Is essential.” The subject of the fifteenth amendment is treated in an original manner. The Governor is not only opposed to the wholesale extension of the suffrage therein provided for, but he favors restricting and cutting down the present allowance of suffrage so that a Jerseyman who is not intel- ligent shall not vote. Tue Riewr of Wav ww East River.--A petition to the Legislature is being circulated by the East River Association asking that the Sound steanters be required to pass through East river morse slowly and carefully than they are in the habit of doing. They steam under full headway the entire length of East river through a crowd of sailing vessels and cross- ing the course of twenty-five or thirty ferry- boats, which at those hours are crowded with passengers. In the same connection it would be well to ask the right of way for ferryboate, so that they will not be obliged by law to drifé about in the river with hundreds of impatient passengers waiting until somo old barge or packet ship has been slowly towed past. Tho Great Yukon Miver of Alaska—Cap- tain Raymond’s Report. f Genoral Sheridan has submitted a report to the War Department’ from Captain Charles W. Raymond, of the Engineer corps, on tho great Yukon river of Alaska, giving the results of his reconnoissance. He was instructed to determine the geographical position of Fort Yukon, a post of the Hudson Bay Company, some two thousand miles, more or less, up the river from its mouth; to obtain as much information as practicable of the trade of the river and its resources and of the number and disposition of the native tribes of the valley, the amount of trade carricd on in Alaska by the Hudson Bay Company, &c. He found Fort Yukon to be within the limits of our new purchase, and so, in pursuance of instructions from the Treasury Department, the Hudson Bay Company were notified to leave, The trade of the country (the great main body of Alaska) is limited to furs, Agriculture is out of the question in those high and sunless lati- tudes, aud the timber of the Yukon is small and of poor quality, The native Indians, it further appears, are being rapidly killed off by the cold, in consequence, no doubt, of the whiskey introduced among them by the Hud- son Bay traders. The great Yukon river, however, fn length and breadth is described (the Amazon first and the’ Mississippi second) as the third largest fresh water stream in the world, and enor- mous quantities of fish are found in its lower portion and in all the inlets of the Alaskao seaboard, From the book of Captain Whimper (a British officer), published some time ago, of his explorations of the Yukon, from the far interior to the sea, it will be seen that Captain Raymond's report is sustained, both in regard to the length, breadth and volume of the river and the character of the country drained by it. But atill we.desire to know something more of that hitherto unknown Arctic stream, and we would therefore again submit to Gen- eral Grant the propriety and expediency of detailing in the spring a special steamer, with a corps of scientific men and some newspaper reporters on board, for a regular exploration of the Yukon to the head of navigation. As the river flows through the heart of Alaska, from the Rocky Mountains northwestward, all that is necessary to be known ef that vast Territory would be learned by this river expo- dition. Gladstone Mitres and Scarlet ssfats”—The Charch Crisis in England and Rome, By the death df the English State Church Bishop of Manchester another mitre of tho Establishment has been placed at the disposal of the British Premier, Mr. Gladstone, The right honorable gentleman has just appointed prelates to the sees of Winchester, Oxford, Exeter, Bath and Wells, Salisbury, and Car- lisle, and is no doubt again communing with the Spirit in the invpcation of an inspired guidance in the matter of finding a fit and proper person to preside over the work of the cure of souls in Manchester, As the canon- ical “‘plam” is worth the yearly sum of four thousand two hundred pounds sterling, the chief of the Cabinet, with the Lord Chan- eellor—who is ‘‘keeper of the conscience” of her Majesty the Queen, as the anointed Head of the Church—will have no trouble in obtain- {ng candidates for the holy office, his chief difficulty, as it appears to us, lying in the fact that he can select only one, in corroboration, we suppose, of the grand biblical truth that “many are called but few are chosen,” inter- preted according to the light of the Thirty- nine Articles, Premier Gladstone has been officially most fortunate in the duty of the dis- posat of chureh patronage, the moribund pre- lates of England ‘“‘holding on” bravely to the first fruits and tithings until after Disraeli had passed from office, fearing, perhaps, that at his hands there would be too sudden a return to the original routine plan of Abraham and Moses after their decease. If the spiritual affinities are permitted toe commune from the other world, the souls of Martin Luther, John Knoxand John Wesley will be likely to be very deeply troubled and afllicted by the “goings on” which will be observed before the Man- chester mitre question is settled. St. Augus~ tine himself will perhaps be astonished in his place of eternal reward, and again aspirate . the memorable Pontifical words which prompted his mission to unconverted Britain— “Non Angli sed Angeli si erant Christians.” Mr. Gladstone will no doubt tide over the difficulty ina secure and healthy manner. Hoe suffers in most venerable company, as will be seen by our special letters and telegrams from Rome, for the Holy Father, Pope Pius IX., has no less than thirteen cardinals’ ‘‘hats” to dispose ‘of, and the Christian world is so anxious to secure an ecclesiastical display of that color, famous from the time of the lady of Babylon, at so many different points—New York duly included—and all at the same time, that the good Pontiff must really be sorely perplexed, Mr. Gladstone can sympathize with him completely, and as the Premier has been in Rome lately it would perhaps bes very good plan if the Pope should return the visit in London and meet him in consultation on the great Church crisis which exists both in Great Britain and Ireland. The conference would perhaps be productive of. an era of fra- ternity, if not of liberty and equality. Mr. Gladstone could not lose anything, at all events, as he is, according to the rule of Pope, the poet, ‘Constant at Church and 'Change,” Grorce Prasopy’s landed property in England bas been seized by the Crown on the ground that he was an aliea, If the great banker did not “take out his papers,” he cer- tainly gave out quite a number of excellently good ones during his lifetime. WAM AND WHISKEY. Extensive Golzure of Whiskey Eatablishments by Collector Bailey. ; ‘There was a good deal of commotion yesterday in ihe Thirty-second district resulting from the sudden and wholesale seizure, by Collector Bailey, on the search warrant granted by the United States Com- missioner, of twenty illegitimately managed wats- key establishments. Going through the premises of one of tue fraudulent score the officers, anxious to unearth the current records of the busi- ness on tbe ledger, likewise, came across a barrel markea “ham.” Whether — the oddity of the discovery under the cireumstances or tue appetite of the. revenue oficiais prompted oloser investigation and acquaintance with the contents of tne package, certain tt 18 that ou breaking open the barrel, in place of ‘ham’ they foun the concern sandwiched between the books of lida, and one ) business uw thas duly explained, With the exception of the firm of Jonn Tracy, Jr. of Pearl street, they all quickly admitted the errors of thelr aicoholic war.