The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, =—=— Volume XXXV... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 Hauer. between Sth ang 6th avs OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur WritiNa oN tun Wau. * FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Suzr; OB, SUMMER SOENES AT LONG BRanou. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosaway.—Guanp RoMANtIO Dpama oF Buy Bias. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily, Performance every evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-Tom anp JERRY— Tniem OUTLAW—Rowxgt M. He WALLACK'S THEATR: adwey and 13th atreet.— ‘Tue BCHOOL FoR SCANDA! THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—THE BURLESQUE or Bap Dioxxy. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and Vd ot.—Langar's BURLESQUE COMBINATION, WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 120 Broadway.—Musio, ‘Miptu anp MysTEry. ‘MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — Tux Lorresy or Live. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Comro VouaLiem, NEGZO MINSTERLSY, 40. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Couto Voca.- tsm, Nuaxo Acts, £0. P°YANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Bullding, 1th WRYANT'S MINSTRELS. | FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broa iway.—ETH10- MINSTRELSY, Nzeno Acts, &0.—“Hasu.” W YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth atreet.—EQUESTRIAN Grunaszio PERFORMANCES, dC. OLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo.ry's JTRELS—ILL RAGIO AFRICANO, &0. iW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— INOR AND ART. w York, Thursday, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, 1” oe OS GAWN SEREOOS advertisements, 2—Aavertisements. S—Washington : The New York @old Panic Inves- tigation; Attempts to Defeat Minister Sickles’ Confirmation; Text of Senator Sumner’s Finance Bill; Exciting Debate on the Admis- sion of Virginia; Radical Injustice to tne Old Dominion; Virginians Protesting Against Reconstruction, @=—The Navy Department: Sharp Letter from Ex- Secretary Welles to Secretary Robeson—The Red River Rebellion—Cuba : Text of the Bogus Cuban Proclamation; the Campaign in the Eastern Department—St. Domingo : Protest of Luperon and Cabral Against the Sale of Sa- maua—Execution of Charles Humphreys at Columbus, Miss.—Spiritualistic Marriage. G=Proceedings in the Courts—The Public Healtnh— The Stumptail Cow Prospect—The New York Liveral Club—Atalanta Boat Club—New York City News—The Shipmasters’ Association and the Harbor Laws—Marine Transters—Meeting of the School Commissioners—A Christmas Tragedy. G@—Eiditorials: Leading Article on Irish Reform, John Bright’s speech at Birmingham—Amusement Announcement. Y—Telegraphic News From all Parts of the World: The Bonaparte-Noir Shooting Case; Rochefort’s Appeal to the Parisians; Faneral of M. Victor Noir and intense Excitement in Paris; One Hundred Thousand French People in the Streets—Turkey and Egypt Reconciled—The Latest Sensation: The “Wolf and the Lamb” Back in the Fold—Naval Intel- ligence—Amusements—Balis Last Night—Per- sonal Intelligence—Lecture on Benjamin Franklin by a Welshman—Meeting of the French Reds—Heavy Robbery in Spring Street —Business Notices, 8—Cable and Land Telegraphs: Efforts tw con- soliaate the French and Anglo-American Com- panies—Murder Trials in Brooklyn, West- chester and Orange Countles—The Norfolk Street Murder—The Lugan Tragedy—A Brutal Policeman—Arctic Exploration—The New TaruY Bill—Another Strike of the Erie Rail- road Men—The Telegraphers’ Strike—State- ment of the Cause of the Difficulty—Yachting. ®—Financial and Commercial Reports—The Na- tuonal Debt: Letter from Treasurer Spinner— Important Meeting of Cigar Manufacturers— Marriages and Deaths. 10—The State Capttal: Passage of the Conspiracy Repeal Bill in the Assembly; Plan to Restore Municipal Government to Cities; the Relief of Broadway—Polttical Troubles in Newark— Police Headquarters Stormed— ‘Mill’ at the San Francisco Minstrels—Shipping Intelll- gence—Advertisements. 21—The Fire at Bristol, R. 1.—Still Another Bank Robbery—Adverilsements, 19—Advertisements, January 13, 1870. = <= Tax Comine MILLENNIUM.—A temperance party in New Hampshire has nominated a preacher for Governor. The millennium will be on us when religion and temperance can carry a political election, even in staid and sober New Hampshire, Turkey anv Eayrr have been, it is said, Completely reconciled. This is good news, not only for the monarchs but for the peoples of Europe, who, already overburdened with taxes and State charges, do not care for the addi- tional cost of an ‘Eastern Question” war. Tae Winnirea REsELLION.—Governor Mc- Dougall, of Winnipeg Territory, has returned to Ottawa and had a consultation with the Governor General and members of his Cabinet im regard to the Winnipeg rebellion. We shall probably soon learn the intentions of the New Dominion towards her disaffected province. Tae Leoistature Yesterpay.—The Con- spiracy Repeal bill was passed in the Assem- bly yesterday, but it was halted in the Senate and referred to Senator Murphy’s committee, Mr. Jacobs introduced a resolution in the Assembly directing the Committee on Cities to report a plan for restoring (o cities their local governments. Mr. Irving ‘introduced a bill to relieve Broadway, by extending Madison avenue from Twenty-third street to Union square. Senator SneRMAN’s Currency Bit.—Mr, Sherman, from the Finance Committee of the Senate, has introduced a bill as a substitute for all the various propositions referred to the committee relating to the national currency, to which he has given the imposing title of “‘A pillto provide 9 national currency of coin notes and to equalize the distribution of circulating notes.” The bill, however, hardly amounts to anything more than a bill to add forty-five mil- lions to the present circulation of three hun- dred millions of the national banks; and as it will doubtless undergo a vast amount of tinkering before it can assume any definite Blape we may safely postpone any farther gomarks upon the scheme, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. Irish §=Reform—John Brights Speech at Birmingham. John Bright, the great English reformer and now Cabinet Minister, delivered an important and suggestive speech at Birmingham on Tuesday night, A condensed but long report, embracing the chief points of this speech, was telegraphed instantly through the local tele- graph lines and Atlantic cable from Birming- ham to New York, and, as our readers are aware, was published yesterday morning, a few hours after the speech was delivered, in the Heratp. So much for the enterprise of the American press and the lightning speed of intelligence through the telegraph. The main topic of Mr. Bright’s speech was reform for Ireland, though he adverted to other subjects embraced in the resolutions of the public meeting to which he spoke, In referring to the resolution expressing confidence in the liberal policy of the government he said he believed that at the end of the next session of Parliament a similar vote would be earned and received. This shows that the Cabinet, of which he is a member, has laid out its work of comprehensive reform with the pur- pose of pushing it through against any obsta- clps; for we cannot suppose Mr. Bright would express views or hopes not entertained by his colleagues in the government, This is more apparent when we consider the language he used with regard to the House of Peers. Con- servative, and even obstinate, as the Lords were, he showed how they had yielded to public opinion in the case of the disestablish- ment of the Irish Church and on other occa- sions. The Lords, he said, admitted then that no institution, however ancient, grand and his- torical it might be, is safe if opposed to the convictions and voice of the people, thus broadly intimating that the House of Peers would hardly venture to oppose the reform measures the Cabinet contemplated, and that if it should that ancient and grand institution of the British government might be swept away. This was bold language for a Cabinet Minister, but quite characteristic of Mr. Bright, Judging from his remarks, the great question to be urged upon Parliament is land reform in Ireland. Tigh roprietorship, he asserted, is really confiscation, which is the result of con- quest, and is only justifiable by conquest. This was going to the root of the matter and a long way back in history; but he said what is true. Not long ago such an expression would have been denounced in England as rank agrarian- ism, and it only shows what remarkable pro- gress liberal ideas have made within the last few years in that country. From the time the landsof Ireland were seized and appropriated by the English conquerors the condition of the peasantry has been getting worse and worse. A large number of these proprietors have been absentees, and the money they have drawn from Ireland has been spent in England or in foreign countries, The lands were leased and sub-leased to such an extent that the landlords and middle- men took all the profits of the farmers and agricultural laborers, and these poor people had to live upon potatoes. The very hogs which they raised and fattened went to pay their rent, and they could not afford to taste meat themselves, But this was not the only evil, great as it was. They were constantly subject to ejectment when unable to pay the enormous rents and taxes imposed upon them, Thousands upon thousands of families were thus thrown houseless upon the cold charities of the world. We saw the consequence of this fearful land system when two millions of people perished because of the failure of the potato crop some years ago. It is this gystem which Mr. Bright proposes to reform. The old cry ot proprietary and vested rights in the soil, of which the English government has been here- tofore so tenacious, will avail no longer. The well being of the mass of the community and cultivators of the soil has become the first con- sideration. The change proposed, as far as we can understand it from Mr, Bright's words, is the most sweeping and radical ever contem- plated by the British government. But it is necessary. ‘The reign of discord,” ex- claims Mr. Bright, ‘must be stopped. The eight hundred thousand policemen and soldiers must be withdrawn from Ireland.” In short, the plan suggested involves an extraordinary social and political revolution, which, if carried out, cannot fail to give peace to Ireland. One remarkable expression that Mr. Bright made deserves.some notice. Speaking of the power of the government over this matter of reform, he says, ‘‘A reform Parliament can do as much for Ireland as Ireland, if independent asan American State, could do for herself.” A voice in the meeting cried “No!” to this ex. pression, showing that theré ws some admirer of America or lover of Irish independence present, Mr. Bright added, “Ireland now has churches and schools and soon will have free lands and votes.” But why this allusion to America? Does Mr. Bright think there might be a possibility, if even remote, of Ireland be- coming an American State? To say the least it was a strange expression. We heard a very intelligent Englishman say lately that the time was coming when all the English speaking people and race on both sides of the Atlantic would be united in some way under a republican form of goy- ernment, Is such an idea os this fermenting in England? Has Mr. Bright become in any way indoctrinated with such a theory? At any rate, this allusion to America shows the source from which he draws his ideas of good government, and {s complimentary to our country. - By this mew programme of reform for Ire~ land Fenianism will be killed off—the occu- pation of the Fenian agitators in this country will be gone. These men, who have imposed upon the oredulity of our Irish citizens and immigrants, who have lived upon the hard earnings of the Irish laborers and servants, and who have strutted themselves into consequence by appeals to Irishmen’s love of the Old Qoun- try, will now have to subside and go to work for a living. Mr. Bright takes the wind out of their sails, It is curious to observe, too, how in France and other countries of Europe the spirit of reform has made progress lately. Governments everywhere in the civilized world begin to see the neces- sity of legislating for ond giving the suffrage to the masses, ‘his is the new revolution, which may supersede the necessity of armed revolutions, Spain seoms to be L about the last nation that remaing tyrannioal and cruelly oppressive to her dependencies. If the same spirit that is animating other parts of the civilized world had animated the Span- ish government toward Cuba there would have been no necessity for the ingurreetion in that island. But we must not forget, after all, that it isthe diffusion of intelligence among the people and their own efforts that have forced the British and other governments to grant reforms, It has been well said that those who would be free must themselves strike the blow, and that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. The masses of mankind are moving, and therefore the governments move. Mr. Bright fully recognizes this, and as a con- séquence has become the great leader of the people in the British empire. M. Victor Noir’s Funeral—Intenso Excite- ment in Paris—One Hundred Thousand Persons In the Streets. Paris has experienced a sensation from the occurrence of the tragedy which termi- nated in the death of M, Victor Noir— @ sensation of the deepest intensity and one which may terminate in the most serious results. {he funeral of the deceased journalist took place yesterday, and, as will be seen by our cable telegrams pub- lished elsewhere, the occasion gave rise to a demonstration in which all the elements of disorder and turbulence and the love of change appear to have beon aggregated in a seething mass ‘against the agents, instruments and power of the law and imperialism, as mus- tered and commanded by the civic authorities and Bonapartism. The house of the de- ceased was surrounded by a crowd, which commenced to collect at an early hour in the morning; the workingmen were out in force, friends of the deceased were in carriages, and at three o'clock in the afternoon there were one hundred thousand persons in tho streets in the immediate vieinity of the mortuary ceremonial, The remains were interred at Nouilly, and origg of “Vive la République” saluted the remains. M. Rochefort was present. After his re- turn he appeared in company with M. Raspail and claimed his privilege as a member of the Legislature in passing to the hall of the Chambers through a very large military force, The Champs Elysées was subsequently cleared by the troops and infantry, and artillery were in force in close proximity to the place of assemblage of the legislators. The crowd finally dis- persed, but so long as Paris remains Paris such congregations must ever be regarded as dangerous. The city remained tranquil at midnight, The Ocean Cables Consolidation Scheme. In the Hzratp of yesterday we printed a cable despatch from ‘London to the effect that negotiations for a consolidation of interests be- tween the Anglo-American and French cable companies were progressing favorably. It was added that according to arrangements already made the two companies could not fail to work harmoniously together, The aggregate receipts, it seems, are to be capitalized, and profits are to be divided upon an agreed basis if even the negotiations for closer arrange- ments should fail. In-another place in this day’s Hzratp we publish a letter from one of our London cor- respondents who is thoroughly posted on this whole subject. In that letter the true story is told, and to that letter we refer our readers, and particularly our readers who are men of business. It is.shown in our correspondent’s letter that the consolidation scheme is a swindle and a cheat. The Western Union has control of the English cable. But the Western Union Company has found the French cable to be somewhat in their way. Hence the visit to Europe of Field and his friend Orton. The Western Union Company see that the immense power which they now wield is in peril and that they must make of itall they can. Presi- dent Grant, not knowing, has been led into a snare. So, we are willing to believe, has been Secretary Fish. The truth is, the money of the Western Union has corrupted the minds of all our statesmen, The proprietors of the French cable have been deceived and misled, and now they are about to be coerced. Wa raise the note of alarm; we call the proposed arrangement a swindle; we predict for it an early death. For all this trouble there is but one cure—the government must take the whole telegraphic system of the country under its own care. The monopoly of the Western Union has become a public nuisance. Wo again refer to the letter of our correspondent, It cannot fail to have a powerful influence in bringing to an end the Western Union monopoly. Gyrus . Field has talked over the old women of finance long enough. His friend Orton may now be of some service to him. But Great Britain now knows Mr. Field. It is time that President Grant, Secretary Fish and the rest of them knew him and his companion as well, Weneed more cables, but we want no consolidation. Tue Viraisia ApMission Bitt.—The Vir- ginia bill reported from the joint Com- mittee on Reconstruction provides that the State shall be restored to Congress on the fol- lowing conditions, viz.:—That all civil and military officers of the State shall be held to the terms of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, in relation to certain rebel disabilities; that the State shall not go back on its citizens of African descent in the matter of the equal civil and political rights conceded them in the State constitution adopted last summer as the basis of admission, and that on these terms the two United States Senators elected by the new State Legislature last October shall be admitted. This bill, we presume, will be passed, and as it Is Hobson's choice with the Virginians they willno doubt gladly accept it. Moreover, as the fourteenth amendment declares that Congress shall have power to enforce its provisions “‘by appropriate legislation,” the Virginians will be apt to discover, between State rights as they were enforced by the South under the old constitution, and as they are limited under the new constitution, there is the difference which marks 9 mighty revolution, A Goop Ipza—To change the time for the annual meetings of Congress from December until after the Ist of January. All the busi- ness transacted prior to the holidays, over which Congress invariably takes a recess, amounts to nothing. The Westera Union Monopoly and the Telograph Strikers. Notwithstanding reports to the contrary, it appears that the strike among the telegraph operators is not at allatan end. Late infor- mation from the West, including Pittsburg, Chicago and St. Louis, and from the South and Southwest, including Memphis, Louisville, New Orleans, Texas and other points, is to the effect that the strike still continues, with no prospect of surrender or compromise. In Philadelphia it is affirmed that “‘the strike is not so near an end as previously stated in some quarters.” A Philadelphia paper of yesterday says the strike ‘‘not only continues, but grows stronger every day.” In New York the strikers remain firm, with no indications of surronder- ing, their vacancies being imperfectly supplied by women and ‘‘pirates”—incompetent ope- rators, who have been dismissed for incompe- tency or for improper practices. The situa- tion here may be comprehended at a glance by reading the following despatch from the super- intendent of the Western Union Company in this city :— ‘TO ALL Orricks Iw THe Orry:— Refuse business for ail points south of Richmond. J. 0, HINCHMAN, Superintendent. This is conclusive evidence that the trouble south of Richmond still exists, and no doubt the same may be said in regard to other points—a matter which the company, of course, does not care to have ventilated. It is important here to state that the labor unions in this city unanimously sustain the strikers, and have already voted them supplics of the sinews of strikes as well as of war to enable them to hold out. It is expected that the same action will be taken by the labor unions throughout the country, and in the end it may be found that the telegraph operators’ progressive movement of to-flay will assume a degree of importance which will make itself both felt and respected, gute at hg Now, what fs the gav%o of all this commotion and all this disruption in one of the most im- portant elements of our business and social re- lations? It may be explained in a few words. It is the result of the grasping rapacity and unbridled tyranny of ono of the most gigantic monopolies that ever overshadowed e nterprise in the civilized world—the Western Union Telegraph Company. Let us for a moment look at the extent of this ponderous machine—a machine moved and manipulated by the hands of a few greedy capitalists and millionnaires. From the official records we find that of the 4,014 public tele- graph offices in the United States the Western Union numbers 3,469, and all the rest, including the Franklin, Atlantia and Pacific, Pacific and Atlantic, and Bankers’ and Brokers’ lines, the balance, or only five hundred and forty-five offices, The number of miles of line in active use is as follows:— Western Union Company, 52,099; all the others, including connections, 17,500, giving the Western Union the enormous prepon- derance of 34,599 miles of telegraph wire in operation in the United States. And, not content with this huge Titan-like monopoly, it is now shuffling around the lobbies of Congress, in the committee rooms, in the cosey private quarters of members, for a new deal with its already stocked cards for another little game of exclusive telegraph privileges, even to the absorption of all the Atlantic cables reaching our shores. In short, having checkered the territory of the United States with its telegraph poles and wires, it now secks to girdle the earth with its galvanic withes. We ask, in all earnestness, is it not time Congress interposed its authority to check the growth of this mammoth monopoly? We have seen that it does not hesitate to throw into confusion the entire business of the country by an obstinate adhesion to an arbitrary determi- nation to reduce the salaries of a few poorly paid operators. If it does not stop to do these arbitrary things in its present wealth of money and influence, what may we not expect when its powers shall be still further augmented, when it locks not only the land, but oceans within its embrace? Our readers have remarked that great care has been taken by the company to keep the Washington offices well supplied with operators pending the present difficulties. This dodge is transparent. Itis toimpress members of Congress with the idea that its affairs are not in disorder, that it is not tyrannical to its em- ployés, that its usefulness to the community is not impaired, and that everything connected with bs inteppel mecbinery is moving like cloc! fe admonish members of Con- gress to keep their eyes open, and not allow themselves to be hoodwinked by this or any other subterfuge of the company’s lobbyists in ‘Washington or elsewhere. We urge them to go straight forward in the work of establishing a cheap and comprehensive postal telegraph system under the direction of the government, thereby relieving the people of exorbitant tele- graph tolls and a worthy class of the commu- nity from the oppreasions of a tyrannical and unscrupulous monopoly, Meanwhile, as every- thing now seems to indicate, the strikers’ movement will continue to progress, and even- tually, we repeat, make itself both felt and respected. GENERAL Grant's First Vero, we think, is well putin, It is the veto of an act for the relief of Rollin White, the relief being the ex- tension of a pistol patent upon which White and others concerned have made over million of money. It is always the case with these parties enriched from patent rights. If they have made millions they want a few more mil- lions, and they are too often successful in another extension of their right of a special tax upon the public. General Grant, in this veto, therefore, very properly has acted upon the idea that when the individuals directly concerned in the profits of a patent right have been handsomely paid for their invention it belongs to the public, who also have some rights which are entitled to respect. Tne FRANKING PRIVILEGE AND THE PosTaL Tetseraru.—It is stated by our Washington correspondent that the Postal Committee of the House are opposed to Senator Stewart's pill for the building of a postal telegraph out of the funds to be saved by the abolishment of the franking privilege, mainly because the members of the committee dislike to inter- fere with the Western Union monopoly. This one little item will show the extent of the power that the giant monopoly has, and which “it uses like a giant.” It seems ablo even to intimidate or overawe or do something worse a committoe of Congress, In the United States Senate yesterday Senator Sumner introduced a Dill to issue five hundred million dollars in bonds bearing interest at five per cent, and to provide for two hundred million dollars more of bank cir- culation, and when gold falls to five per cent premium the United States notes to be re- ceived at par for customs. Senator Sumner is eminently a scholar and a theorist, and of course he has a gnawing desire to dabble in finances, of which he knows nothing. He rises to a great height in discussing the rights of man, and falls far below the average intel- lect in discussing finance. His plan is vision- ary and impracticable, and could only have been conceived by a mind filled with meta- physics and abstractions. His idea of issuing five hundred millions in bonds at five per cent is nonsense ; for we can fund the debt that he would buy up with this new issue at four and a half per cent, and, if the redemption of our bonds in gold were settled, probably at four per cent. The best plan is to fund the debt at a lower rate of interest and let the currency take care of itself. It will grow up to par in time, and specio payments will be resumed without any violent disturbance of commercial values. Another Chance at the Spanish Gunbonts. Twelve of the Spanish gunboats which sailed from this port recently put into Delaware Breakwater on Saturday. One of them went on the beach, but was got off without dificulty. The fleet sailed again soon after, and ap- peared in Hampton Roads yesterday. We shall now have another chance to decide where the question of violation of the neutral- ity laws ends—where a case of the kipd becomes res adjudicata, The Qubss pre vatecr Hornet, the schooner Anna and a num- ber of other vessels, we believe, which have sailed from Northern ports after searching in- vestigations into their character by the Spanish authorities, have usually been caught in a Southern port by a storm and tried over again. Sometimes, as in the case of the Hornet, the last trial has resulted very differently from the first, and a ship which was declared innocent ofthe crime in one port is found guilty and condemned for the same crime and on the same evidence in another, Perhaps it is a matter of geography after all, and if the Cubans are shrewd enough to bring suit against the Spanish gunboats at Norfolk they may get the satisfaction denied them in New York. Ovr Cuan CorresPonpENcg.—Our iatter from Havana contains the text of the sensa- tion proclamation calling on the Cubans to lay down their arms, give up the struggle and return to their allegiance. The proclamation was said to have been issued by the Cuban Junta in this city, but even in Havana few per- sons were found who believed that the docu- ment emanated from Cuban sources, It has by this time been pronounced a weak device of the enemy, and a clumsy one at that, The genetal news fs unimportant. The campaign on both sides lacks energy. Only from the Eastern Department, in the neighborhood of Manzanillo, is there any news of interest, and judging from the intelligence, meagre as it is, things do not seem tohave gone well with the Spaniards, AnotneR Enz Srrike.—The workmen in the Erle Railroad shops in Jersey City struck yesterday, and probably the strike will extend along the line to-day. The cause of complaint is the old one of a failure of the managers to pay them their wages. This is the third time such a strike has occurred on Erie for the same cause within a short time. The managers of Erie certainly ought to make money enough to pay their employés, notwithstanding the lawsuits they carry on. If, however, they cannot afford to pay them we advise them to sell out to some one who can. Tairty THovsaND ReEPuBLIOCANS “‘ALL IN BucsraM."—A correspondent of the Buffalo xpress says there are thirty thousand true republicans in the city of New York, and asks if this large power in the State shall be ignored ‘‘hecause a few wolves in sheep’s clothing from tho Tammany den are found in the republican ranks?” The writer adds :—~— “Men who are found connected with the re- publican party in the city of New York, for the sake of bargain and sale, should receive no countenance from any republican in any other part of our State.” Now, who are these New York republicans who don’t deserve the countenance of the republicans in the rural districts? Can ‘‘arm-in-arm” Charley Spon- cer or Rufus Andrews, or the puissant Union League explain? Perhaps General Cochrane or Commissioner Smith can show them up. TREASON IN THE RapioaL RanKs.—The Buffalo Hepress (republican) seriously asks the question, ‘Whether the party in the State of’ New York would not make votes and popu- lar strength by entirely ignoring the existence of any republican organization in the city of New York?” That ‘Cochrane salve,” which healed the breach in the Union Republican Committee in this city the other night, does not yet seem to have had a similar soothing effect in the interior of the State. But such isthe whirligig of politics—the radicals all in o muddle and the democrats all crotchety. Speaker Hiromman’s Commirrers.—The Albany Argus (democratic organ) says Speaker Hitchman’s standing committees give good satisfaction, and ‘“‘that there is less than the customary amount of complaint among members” on this score. The greatest amount of grumbling about the committees is to be found in the columns of radical prints, Tne Mysterious ArraiR or Rev. Mar. Coox.—We give full details this morning of the strange dénouement to the elopement of Rev. Mr. Cook and Miss Johnson, It scems the two went to Philadelphia, where Mr, Cook attended the young lady to a hotel, and there left her. She has not seen him since, but both of them have got back to the city, Miss Johnson returning to her father and Mr. Cook to his family. Last night Mr. Cook was arrested for an attempted breach of the peace and carried off to the station house. The most logical and charitable conclusion, in view of all the premises, is that the Rey. Mr. Cook is more fitted for the lunatic asylum than for‘a prison ora pulpit. Ii is certainly a most unfortunsie affair for all parties concerned. ——————— Senator Sumner and the Finances. More Whiskey Frauds—Activity of Revoe auo Officials. On Tuesday Collector Bailey made a suddoa and successful raid upon illicit whiskey estab- lishments in the Thirty-second district, seizing no less than twenty of them. At one estab- lishment the books of the concern were dis- covered packed away in a barrel marked “ham”—an incident which reveals a now mystery in the fraudulent whiskey business. The whiskey swindlers can hardly hope to save their bacon by resorting to this or any other expedient. The raid of Collector Bailey is but part of the general campaign against thom so vigorously opened a little while ago wh Brooklyn with the seizure of thirty distilleries, by the aid of United States troops. Every- where the vigilance and activity of the reve- nue officials have been displayed siace this righteous war began—in Brooklyn, New York city, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans and San Francisco, Even tho in- numerable stills hidden away in the mountains of Tennessee and: in Southwestern Virginia have been unearthed. Not a whiskey swindler of high or low degree feels safe at present. All honest men rejoice in seeing in the deter- mined readiness of the administration to sus- tain and stimulate the revenue officials in the discharge of their duty a sign that Andy Johnson is no longer President of the United States. While Andy was President he was so busy trying to set afloat again the old Noah's Ark of a stranded constitution that he could not bother himself about whiskey frauds. But times have changed. since then, and whiskey swindlers begin to reglize the fact, Qurezr Lxaistation.—At the meeting of the | Oey. Mogufacturerg’ Asagciation held yester- de> afternoon a very significant revelation was made as to how important laws are often passed in Congress. When in July, i868, the Internal Revenue bill was up some unknown hand, as the secretary of the clgar manufac- turers states it, slipped a proviso into tho eighty-seventh section of the act reducing the import duty on cigars from three dollars per pound and fifty per cent ad valorem to two dollars and a half per pound and twenty- five per cent ad valorem, and, the vote being a tie, the section was passed by the casting vote of Speaker Colfax, The old rate of duty not being repealed, and this new rate being stuck into the Internal Revenue law having no reference to the impor- tation of foreign goods, it is now claimed that the tariff duty before July, 1868, is atill ia force. It is this very reduction of which the manufacturers complain as ruining their trade, since with the fall of the gold premium they cannot compete with Havana and Key West, Evipentty 4 Goop Notioz.—The Sedalia (Mo.) Times, referring to a late political editorial in the Hzratp, says:—‘‘The New York HeErarp deserves the patronage of every true American, No better paper is pub- lished, and perhaps none equal to it for enter- prise, thrift, general news and honest expres- sion of opinion.” The Times is published in one of the most luxuriant regions in the rich State of Missouri. Priorat AND IntEREST.—The Selma (Ala.) Messenger approves of Mungen’s repudiation notion. It rejoices that ‘‘there is at least one member of Congress claiming to be a demo- crat who is a democrat on principle.” The Messenger does not seem to have a favorable opinion of those democrats who are democrats only on “‘interest.” Rochefort a Failure. A donkey in a rage or a mad bull in a china shop is an impressive exhibition of reckless and senseless fury; but the blind excitement of the combustible French radical Rochefort over the late homicide in Paris is an exhi- bition of stupidity on the rampage which sur- passes even that of a mad bull among the crockery. Two of citizen Rochefort’s friends wait on Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte at his house, upon the business of a duel. They evidently come prepared, as will be seen by our cable telegrams to-day and the statement of one of the actors, to provoke him to a fight and to shoot him on the spot. They in- sult him; but he is too quick for them with hig revolver. He kills one, and after a cowardly shot from the other puts him to flight; where- upon the infuriated Rochefort, in his newspaper, denounces the Bonapartes as assassins, given habitually to waylaying and murdering, and foolishly rants of ‘‘the blood-stained hands of those cutthroats,” and of “‘the ruffian Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte,” and of “‘grape-shotting republicans in the streets” and ‘‘alluring them into baited traps for the purpose of slaughter- ing them at home.” The ruffianism here is with the accuser; and the worst of it is that this Billingsgate of Rochefort must inevitably react against himself and his party. His con- duct in this business is certainly calculated to convince his partisans that such 4 reckless agi- tator is capable of nothing but mischief, and is only a firebrand that ought to be put out. ExeSecretary Welles on the Annual Report of Secretary Robeson. We publish elsewhere this morning a very sharp and pungent letter addressed by ex- Secretary Welles to Mr. Robeson, the present Secretary of the Navy, whose recent report to Congress contained statements which Mr. Welles regards as reflections upon his official career. In this letter reference is made to a paragraph furnished by our corres- pondent and published in the Hxratp, the contents of which are pronounced ‘‘gross, pal- pable and intentional misstatements.” Whether this be so or not is a question of veracity be- tween Mr. Welles and Mr. Robeson with which we are but little concerned, Our corres- pondent obtained his information from sources deemed trustworthy and reliable; he for- warded it to us and it was published as an item of news. Thus if it prove incorrect we cannot be charged with wilfully giving pub- licity te statements injurious to the political reputation of Mr. Welles, who, we are glad to note, impliedly absolves us from all responsi- bility. With regard to the charges of Mr. Robeson which have brought forth this letter we can say but little, The subject is one so badly muddled that itis difficult to decide who is right and who is wrong. For many years the question of promotions in the navy has been the source and cause of jealousy, founded on real or apparent partiality. It is therefore quite pos~ | sible for Mr, Welles to haye been actuated by