The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1870, Page 6

oTuw Lor: NEW YORK ‘CERCUS, ‘Rohteonth: a aoe aD. Granacrie PERFOMANCE & ota sted )p promt pig ap pei ee . 40—The Prodigaia:..The,Penitent “Dominie” and , of and discharged, © the radieal line-6n‘the ‘question ’of the adinis- * hadn’t been for that lucky stroke of business y<bably, tite lew é NEW YORK HERALD, Parte—Napoleon’s | Froe Love, Free Divorces Cenflicting State Tawe and General Demeralization. The Rev, Horace Cook is the latest free love sensation. A fine looking, dashing fellow, it appears that he has been a gay divine, a man of fashion, a ladies’ man, given to flirtations and addicted to opium. His wild and inco- herent letter on his late escapade, which we publish this morning, betrays a mind un- hinged, a brain disordered, a man driven to yemorse and desperation by the crime which he meditated, the folly of undertaking it and by the hue and cry which has hunted him down. He was not so far depraved as to carry NEW YORK HERALD j eke ‘uation tn Paris still remains serious, Doubt, Year, trembling are everywhere. Nupo- ‘Aeon, 4 stilt gautious, The Marseillaise, con- ‘trary « our former news, has not been sup- ‘piéaadd, Yiut\gptzed. License is still indulged, ssesaay Nee Aa ‘and ‘so’ far “newe can judge liberty is still sbused “Napoleon is still on the watch and ' || Rodhiefort fsistilfreckless. The city was deeply e and) (agitated, and one hundred thousand troops rested on their arms, The manifestamhich appeared in the Mar- seillaise on the 42th, and which we printed BROADWAY AND ANN “STREET. prSeiertie« ‘ROUGE /cokaer dty Bien Bad Cope ae Da aad ie Fp Boortt's THI cA E, 334 Prete aa ae Between Sth ana fun ave —! $8) ah t9h { OLYMPIC THEATRE,..Broaaway.—Tur Writtna on!) THe WALL. ‘yeltaFday, whows" on the one hand that Roche- | out his base design, and in resisting the temp- rons erie Hs RNUE STREETER, Feit foun” a. 8enr; | Tort has learned nothing, aind on the other hand | tation at the point when he had ruined himself, in order to rescue his deluded companion, he challenges something of respect for his appa- rent repentance, though passed beyond the pale of restoration to confidence, except through a long probation, This unfortunate affair, however, we cannot limit to the wicked blandishments of the Rev. Mr. Cook and the weakness of the silly girl in her encouraging flirtations. In the extremity of his distress and despair he writes to the New York Tribune a statement mainly in- tended to establish the innocence of the misguided young lady in his late ad- venture, and this little circumstance puts us on the track which leads to the sources of all these aggressions upon and departures from the laws of society touching the relations between the two sexes. In addressing his let- ter to the paper in question the happy thought doubtless occurred to the discriminating writer, in connection with the late Richardson- McFarland tragedy, that if sympathy could be expected in any quarter for his faux pas in the way of free love, he would get it at the Tribune office. And here we strike the vein of Fonrierism, passional attraction, spiritual affinities and free love in all their glaring manifestations. Here, too, we enter upon a broad highway of modern reform in morals and religion which leads to Plymouth church on the one hand and to Sing Sing on the other. The fascinations of the gospel of Plymouth church, where Mr. James Fisk, Jr., as one of that the. Emperor. is watchful and determined. pes nib RDER 7 Bronairay dua Romaxri0 Rochefort’ has :béen' sourrillous and abusive. : |-@he Emperor hasbeen quiet and dignified. In ? bE hse roy ioe maamrctet ore rere fang. | qhe.partionler Only’ has the news been ‘or ARo+Tom » BOWERY! THEATRE.» Bowery Jour of any significance. Faveille, who has had hed SEBRY—VUAAGE, Rgnaty 4 40, e time, “to “thin “ahd who has been well OR RTLAC SY THARHE, road Broadway a3 ms bert advised, sees “thas, ‘auch depends on the whether the..first blow was struck by the PringePierré‘or bythe defunct Noir. We " pat ‘have had: # the Prince’s version of the story and teres wy Ban Tein wore akg og we have’ commented ‘from that point of view. warty nati No. "0 Broadway: Muito, |The version of Faveiite is purely and unquali- ag ord fiédly ‘contradictory."“According to the last yt ne ees eee Wand @ Bowery |) amod the first slap in the face, and indeed the only slap inthe face, was given by the infuriated ond inoantious Prince. Who gave the first blow we cannot tell; our difficulty is increased by. the fact that there is no chance , yes gomigta 814 Broadway,—Cowto Vooat- |’ of finding out the truth. untf! the trial of Prince Pierre comes ‘off, To-hig own story he will cling. To his story Faveille will also cling. No servant has yet given ‘his’ evidence, go far as we know. If no one saw the scrimmage there is but small chance that we shall ever know the truth. The Prince will continue his tale; M. Faveille. will, continue his tale. ‘Which of-the two tellsthe truth may never be ‘known. Aside from the particylar question, which, after all, is of comparatively small importance, the general question—that which concerns France and the Emperoris' full of sugges- tiveness, At the present moriént Napoleon tad THEATRE: 14th ‘ot and 1 »7~0rwe WBOUTSX Faw OpsyD PROURES. jy > Mie. ¥. F.B. aes "Pau THEATRE, Brooklyn. — TONY pore tigre OPERA House, ‘Wl Bowery. —Ooxto ‘Vous LisM, NEG RO- ‘menetamet, Pa aie ty 5 a geomet Building, -14:h SAN FRANC ISOO MINSTREI 535. Broatw ‘roams | RIAN MUYBTRELBY, NZOLO Aone Frama Wo HOOLEY'S. U3] I wiNQeRSE SMR Raat rete —sthete—teet —aee tat TRIPLE: SHEET. bial York, “Briddy, Fadeaty 14, 1870. sts ‘coureAas OE. TO-DAYS, HERALD, 6 BR Tae fanaa hinks litjle of his cousin, apdless.of Roche- the highest bidders fora pew, has learned the Soivenamene fort; but his mind is fall.of France and full of | °87 Way to salvation, are cheap at any price. The Rev. Mr. Frothingham, in the deathbed marriage of poor Richardson, has told us what these fascinations are in this, ‘‘We thank Thee for what these two have been to each other ;” and his Brother Beecher has endorsed it on proclaiming that by the authority of his Churvh ‘‘these two are husband and wife.” While from some of our fashionable churches the seeds of social demoralization are thus scattered abroad, we find under our con- venient State laws and courts of justice that divorees can and are procured in num- bers that ayg appalling, without publicity and without the Knowledge of the wife or husband who hag become an inconvenience to the other party. Here we have the degraded lawyer ready for the work, the convenient referee, the obscure newspaper for the required notice to the other side, and perjured witnesses who will swear to anything for money ; and through these agencies honest and trusting wives are disgraced and left desolate, often with helpless children upon their hands, and unsuspecting husbands are separated from their wives and outlawed before they have any knowledge of such proceedings. McFarland, when he killed his intolerable tormentor, had learned that there was a divorce in the case—an Indiana divorce—but it only exasperated him because of the secrecy through which it had been pro- secured, From all these instrumentalitles of social Misorganization free love elopements, free Joye copartnerships and free and easy divorces have become so common that the crimes in- syolyed have almost ceased to be regarded as crimes, or only criminal when so bunglingly Tiattaged as to be found out too soon. At the game time our sensational papers, in order to supply what they suppose to be a morbid public appetite for scan. mag., in order to give pungency to an elopement or divorce, resort to invention where the facts are deficient, a8 we “hive seen in this case of the Rev. ‘Mr; ‘Cook. What is to be the end of allthese causes and active agents of Bocifl’ disorder and destruction? They are leading the country rapidly to the old free Tove system of the Australian savages, where the wife was secured by capture and dismissed “at pleasure. As we are, docs the one wife law of, Chicago or New York exhibit to-day higher standard of practical morality than the “polygauly of Great Salt Lake City? And what'is the remedy for all this chain of evils, -sqrdestractive of peace of the family and so \Perilous t6 the very existence of society ? ‘A whole'chain of reforms is needed in our laws. relating to marriage and divorce, and first of,all,'we think, we want a new amend- mentto, the constitution of the United States whereby from Congress we may have a uni- ‘forth 4nd general law of marriage and divorce ‘operating over ‘all the length and breadth of ‘the dand-alike. It has come to this necessity ofa gencral law of Congress for the regulation of talltoads ‘and telegraphs, for which Congress ‘has the power, and it has come to this neces- sity of a general law touching marriage and afvorce, for which Congress ought to have the ower; for the day when conflicting State laws affecting the order of society might be tolerated has, with the introduction of railroads and tele- graphs, passed away. Therefore we want an amendment to the national constitution giving power to. Congress to make uniform laws regu- ‘lating the'fnetitution of marriage and the last resort. of divorce. Tar Lrortaroes ‘WEsTaRpAv.. —There was nothing of importance done in the Senate yes- ‘terday., Another ill was reported amending ‘the Excise law and notice was given of a bill to» rébafld Washington’ Market. In the Assembly several bills were introduced rela- “tive to affairs of local interest, among them bills to'preserve life on the East river ferries end regulating the use of hackney coaches. Owing. to the continued illness of Speaker Hitehiian both houses adjourned over until Wednesday next. ‘Peabie ested, We itkvo the cheerful hews of the restoration of peace between the Sultan of Turkey and the Viceroy of Egypt, whichi means that they both had their insiruc- tions from England and France. While Napo- Jeon holds the helm in France there will be peace on the Eastera question; but how long dwillhig.be? Who can tell? (© S—Waskinwten :Aorsign Ministers cp.cion of | the prospect of-his* dynasty: M. Rochefort, the American, Press; Force of the Contending | whom all the worl now despises, is doing his Armies in Ciipa;,BIl for Reducing the Army; | best to. make Napoleoniam, detestable. Napo- cal ager Ovgierictiatah Sevenr-Mn eben leon, by silence, has made Rochefort stand out *trawtbuit and Samnér—Amusements. before Frante-in' his” true character—that, _ &~Barape: ‘Tne.Emperor of France in Hie Solitary | Namely, of o mean, contemptible,’ ‘waspish Foes, and ragouesey rae! ry eontyere creature. el en. it ‘ort Bourse; wreck ci will ecw eatiecames cone = rae Crowds -have gathered on the streets of Peoples; ‘The Bull which “Excommunteates Paris, Rochefort‘has shown himself-and been Siveryubing. and.” Eyerybody'—Our State |‘the Mon: of the hour ;- but the crowds who Canals—ABoard: of Wreckers for the»Port of | have followed .to their last resting place the PPE il tebe Corhpfoiershtp, +, | remains of Victor Noir prove no more than 7 oa Petenat samen did the crowds who gathered in Hyde Park, gists—The Forloru Hope~New York city | London, two summers ago. All large cities News—Another Bank Fraud—Suburban Intel- | have the material-out'of which a mob may be cone, iene toe at eae made-up. Give the opportunity, and the mob Slavery, —The ‘man et Mu: " e der—The Tenia Reform Benevolent a Bo thibkays” Belt Bethy Hyde’ Ae crow aaa teciive Association. not make Great Britain a republic, the G—Ldnorials : Leading Article on The Excitement | thousands of. hungry men who crowded the » in Paris, Fiapelconis Troubles—Amusement | Champ Elysées will not make France rise eg against the man who knows how to rule and to bbe egies vs tram Se ane Wa whom France clings as the only pillar of order sand Troops Under Arms; M. Rochefort’s-Posi- |. #04 of strength. -tion.and «Cry for Vengeance’—Preparatiohs for We have not a word to say for the Em- vies ares! ee “3 seep Cen Peabody | peror’s cousin. - It is our- opinion that he is a jand—, lence of the ju - i era wibe Ante) anetnee toes fool, that he has made too’ much of his name, Captured—Criticisma of New Books—La Co. | 224:that, like many other. fools before him, he terte, of New York—The‘ Jersey “Babes in the }.has*brought serious trouble'to his family... We Wooa"'—Ovitiihry—Busindss Notices. believe we speak the truth when we say that niet Fact. less en iene End; The | no man is so angry with the Emperor's: cousin Paid bm ona Siedtibewed ane eis ta as the Emperor himself, “God save me from Strike—Opposition to-she Telegrayh Mono- | My friends” is‘an exclamation which Napoleon poly—Brookiyn” Intelligence—The Tyckahoo | may well endorse. All that the present race Homitide—The., Orange, County Murder— | of Bonapartes are they are through. the veges on he cme Sparel Emperor. He has saved them: He has made Banker—Mormodism: The Mormon, Question | them. But. for him. they would have. been in Congress—Now York State Poultry Society— | miserable beggars all over Europe and the Arlonistic Extrayagance—Cleveland and Pitte- world, They didnot help him to the throne'of burg Railroad—De.i@ Salle Catnolic: Associs- | France. They have never, been helpful. in |: tion. © 6 matntaining him on the high seat whith @—Financial, and... Com: relat Reports—Racin, Events: oot sR Mie 3 to be at he has won., The " Bmperor, cannot but During: the*Sammer of 1870—Horse Notes— | feel sorry that his name has been so but. «we protest Staten Istaria Raftroad--Marrtaged aid Deaths. |-draggled .in»,the.\mireys against any man-being compelled to bear'the of the and’Protegs to this City—Per- | Sins ‘of all his kinsmen, Prince. Pierre isin “sonal mchinens Nha State Capiat: Another | the bands of the law.: |'That he’ will have o bide! Mvhandl "Beibkinred Contention Serv fair trial we feel tasiege? dy If ae ee une 7 Bs he will suffer; but is sin.and his suffering pon [22 mrengenohiacoy beeing org IMal b iM “not,” at lenstought'not, to ddmage'the GicAbietbaa Cheptbates Nowe, on the Hiya. | man who: has given Wranee prosperity and +, dan—Maasgchusetta , Banks. for. Savings—The | pride, and who, badshown thé, world, wiat Oneida, Goad ter tuua Laborers—An- | there is stil a possthiljty, for & ‘Cresar, for a “tas Diba candal—Real Raters Maiters— }oay who means ‘well. and who rules wisely, t2—Advertisemertta, It is absolutely’ essential that we should aopa- Se rate’ Prince’ Pierre and'/his offences from the ‘Tue Ere-Sreme is-ended in: a way -to | man who hag’done go ‘much for France and astonish the atsikers..).The men were all paid | whom France evidently'éo much loves. “Say what men may, the real offender in'this Bree Burros,’ or-m2. ‘Mormons, is on neato ae akes nae mi oer s ‘$ trouble. He m tapital. out of it. But his wag. to Washington.te, lend a. forlorn bope | in4 capital is such, that no honest man'thinks for, Brigham, .Young,,againgt Congressional | ore highly of him than.all future generations legislation. must think of: the difty and. bloodthirsty ” “’Qdon Sten IN THE SEXATR—The bréak,in | Marat? Had- Napoleon been # younger man, had he hadno son,.or had the had only thoughts sion of Virginia.»..Against the remorseless for himself, ‘and, not for his ,family ‘snd Sumaet’.the donciliatory ‘policy of General | France, Rochefort would Have been nowhere, Grant, after all, will: probably carry-the day. Asit is. France must feehthat the evils of the 59 « one man power, are, insignificant when com- A Coon Pizoz or Btsrvess.—Mr. J. Ross pared with the reign ‘of terror ‘which such a Browne, late’ Minister to China, has sent in a | ‘name. as, Rochefort’s.. suggests. _ Some of our claim ‘for extra exponses-during his:brief term contemporaries, we" sée, ‘dream of reyolation. of office, to the amount of $12,000, Consider- | 7¢ ig a -vain and foolish dream,’.: ‘Thevman who “inz,that Browne nséd his diplomacy there in the | accomplished the Coup. dad, and .who.has interests of England rather than America, he governed France so Well'for''the last nineteen Would liave stiown ‘less impudence and more | years, and who visited the: barracks of Paris equity if te hadgent his bill to Lord Claren- | Yesterday, i not to be sétd bya foolish cousin don... or by wasp-like Henti Rochefort. In this sad Me. Baxousn’s'salary was raised to $20,000 | and serious crisis. our sympathies are with the by the members of Plymouth church last night, | Emperor, for the simple” reason that they are Mr. Shearman, the. ‘attorney of his new con- | with France and with ltherty. vert, Fisk, Jr., engineering the matter: If it His Youthtul Amunity; ‘Details’ of the Return SzNAton RAMSkY’s MissioN,—Tho Postmas- in the MeFarland-Richardson case the poverty- ter General sent ‘to’ the House yesterday a swricken pastor would probably have gone on | communication enclosing. letter from Senator for an Indefinite time starving. at the rate of | Ramsey in regard to'his late, mission to Paris $12,000 a year, to negotiate a postal treaty with France, t Senator Ramsey says that his. necessary ex- Poor Gronaa,—The Georgia Legislature | penses were seven hynitéd and twenty-four wasi ordered to take a recess yesterday until | dollars in gold, his clerk received one. thon- “Monday by General Terry, in order that the | sand dollars, and another person, who was eligibility of members of the lower house | interpreter during the negotiations, one hun- , might ‘be: inquired into: by a board of army | dred and fifty dollars», His actual outlay, he *Burély, poor, Georgia ia paying | says, was greater than that, but aa the. Post- hewwily for the’ crinie of ‘ousting negro mem- | master General had no’ express authority for bers from: her Legislature. The men whose | sending him, and his mission resulted in failure eligibility Ix.now't¢ be inquired into were pro- | and the abandonment of the last postal treaty “inquirer” into the eligi- | with France, we think the amount as he states ‘eit of the negroes, it. was enough. Constitutional Progress and Reform in Aus- trla—Ow —Speolal Correspondence from Vienna. We informed our readers yesterday, by cable telegram dated the day previous in Vienna, that the questions of territorial con- solidation and the healthy extension of liberal measures of franchise reform to the people engaged the earnest attention of the members of the Austrian Cabinet. The subjects gave rise, evidently, to warm ministerial debates, a few reactionary representatives of the effete system of the paat vainly endeavoring to oppose the tide of progress which has been evolved under the leadership of Count Beust, and on the flow of which he guides, with a steady hand and olear eye, the ship of state towards a calm and sccure haven, freighted as it is with the cosmopolftan interests of his adopted country—interests noble in the pre- sent and ennobling for the future. In thisinstance, as in many others recent and remarkable, the electricity of the telegraphs, over land and in deep sea, comes in brilliant, vivid confirmation of special written corre- spondence of the Hgratp. In our issue of Monday, the 10th instant, we published special letters from Vienna, under date of the 20th and 21st of December, in which we not only announced Count Beust’s patriotic intentions in advance, but submitted to the American people, and for the early use of our readers in foreign countries, his broad and comprehen- sive platform of modern governmental recon- struction in the empire, as well as the means by which he proposes to elaborate it for the pur- poses of popular fruition and citizen enjoy- ment. During a lengthy conversation with our representative Premier Beust made due note of the opposing agencies which stood in the way and were likely to impede his path. He also promulgated his creed and be- lief in the indestructibility of his idea, besides proclaiming his faith in the excellent effect of the powerful moral support which he would receive in the maturing of his work from the publication of his plan on this side of the ocean, by the placing it before the enlight~ ened millions of the American Continent in the columns of an independent press; un- trammelled in its expression, unsectarian in its feeling, logical in its argument and philo- sophical in its inferences as he is himself. The Premier, in truth, avowed himself an humble disciple of the doctrine of the coming equaliza- tion and extension of the economies of human- ity to all mankind by means of an unrestricted international communion, educated democracy without violence, and respect tor vested rights, with order and freedom. Count Beust does not halt in his mission. The cable telegram to which we refer in the outset intimates that the Austrian Cabinet will be remodelled. No doubt it will, Dead mat- ter cannot remain in union with the living and sentient for any considerable length of time without danger of gangrene; and as in the physical so in the social corporate body. Aus- tria cannot fluctuate on the confines of a very gloomy and fading horizon and the glowing streaks of the advancing sunshine of a new and other day. We do not believe that she would recede from her destiny even if she conld, or if its educated and firm exponent permitted her. This Von Beust will not do. Our telegram yesterday. attests the fact. But why did the telegram reach us yesterday? It is not too much to assume that the news which it brought of the coming Cabinet reform in Vienna was the sequence of official Austrian cable despatches from the United States informing Count Beust of the publication of our special letters from the imperial capital last Monday, and that he acted under the inspiration affurded by the intelligence that his executive course had been completely endorsed by this free nation, and thus being assured he was “sight” made sure ‘“‘to go ahead” in the spirit of that good old-fashioned American maxim which calls both on individuals and commu- nities to do likewise under similar circum- stances, but not otherwise. Austria thus remains hopeful under Premier Von Beusi, and Beust has faith in Austria as she will be with America as her moral ally, sustaining while we instru¢t and encourage her. Premier Von Beust is the man for the era, and the era in Austria required the man. British Colonial Independence. A London newspaper wiseacre of the editorial namby-pamby Dundreary class has just found out that the petition and agitation of the colonists in British Columbia for independence have been elicited and fomented by American politicians as ‘‘a set off” for the Alabama Claims bill. Considering that the memorial of the colonists was published months ago, it has taken Dundreary No. 2 pretty good time to ‘‘waggle” this idea through his brain and print it. We beg to assure him that he is mistaken. We do not want to pur- chase either British Colombists, Red River Indians, Hudson Bay Company trappers, Canadians or other border fringe populations, native or naturalized, or even to adopt them against their will. They will all come under the flag of the Union in good time. However, in pity to the Red River men, and as an act of friendship to the Canadians, we have no doubt that the Cabinet in Washington would be disposed to treat for a settlement of the Ala-~ bama claims on a basis of territorial valuation and exchange, provided the entire soil of the New Dominion, with its prospective crown, are placed first in the scales. Cash down or a solid equivalent. A Worpy Titt is THE SENATR.—An unu- sual scene occurred in the United States Senate yesterday. Mr. Porter, the Represen- tative elect from the Richmond (Va.) district, - put himself unceremoniously in Senator Nye’s seat, thus displacing Nye, whereupon Senator Trumbull took umbrage and objected to Mr. Porter being allowed on the figor. Senator Sumner took up the cudgels for Porter, and a wordy war ensued, which Porter seemed to enjoy very much, until Senator Trumbull exploded him by reading the record of his dis- missal from the army for being drunk nine days and speaking disrespecifully of the government. Then Mr. Porter gave up Mr. Nye’s seat and hid himself on a sofa, Bufthe two Senators continued their heated discus- sion. If this is the stuff carpet-bag Congress-~ men are made of, certainly they are not worth hard words between two such potent, grave and reverend seigaiors as Trumbull and Sumner. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Mr, Sumnerfe Financial Scheme, Mr. Sumner is ambitious of figuring as @ financial statesman, but it is evident he has much to learn, The bill he introduced in the Senate and the speech he made on it on Wednesday for funding the public debt and other purposes show that the Senator is as theoretic and impracticable on this subject as on most others, Apparently the main object of Mr, Sumner is to bring about a speedy re- sumption of specie payments, Indeed, he says that. But the real object is to increase the monopoly and profits of the national bank sys- tem. A short time ago he introduced the sub- ject of increasing the national bank circula- tion to five hundred millions and to withdraw the legal tender currency. Seeing, probably, that this naked proposition to give the national banks the profits on two hundred millions more of circulation, in addition to those on the three hundred millions they now have, was not likely to be entertained by Congress or approved by the country, he covers up that scheme in a gene- ral funding bill, The profits of a national currency belong to the people gpd government. Even the Bank of England, with all the service it renders the British government in managing the finances and debt, pays to that government a percentage on its Circulation in excess of the specie re- serve in its vaults. Yet we make a clean gift of twenty millions or more a year to these private corporations called national banks in the profits on their circulation. And now Mr. Sumner proposes to increase this gratuity twelve millions or more a year. He proposes, in fact, to give these private corporations upwards of thirty millions a year which ought to be and could be saved to the Treasury. Five hundred millions of greenback currency in place of’ national bank currency would buy up nearly that amount in six per cent gold interest bonds, almost one-fourth of the inte- rest bearing debt, and would save nearly thirty millions in gold a year to the people and country. And who would not rather have legal tenders than national bank notes? As to specie payments, if the whole circulation of the country be given to the national banks, that is out of the question. We should be further off specie payments than ever, for it would not be to the interest of the banks to have any other than a paper currency, and they would have power enough to do as they might please. It is unnecessary to discuss Mr. Sumner’s crude and impracticable theory of funding the debt, for, as was said, the object of his bill is to increase the national bank monopoly, and all the rest is only to cover up that scheme. Grandfather Welles Wide Awake. We advise Mr. Secretary of the Navy Robe- son to leave Grandfather Welles alone. He has awakened that worthy old gentleman lately by some disagreeable allusions in his report, and, as the public has doubtless ob- served, the old gentleman has answered the allusions in a letter that takes the form of a criticism of the report. Welles examines par- ticularly three points in which Robeson glorifies himself at the expense of his prede- cessor. One is as to the economy in coal, Robeson says that by the use of sails in the navy the amount saved in the price of coal is two million dollars a year. Welles says that under his management, in time of peace, the whole amount spent for coal in a single year was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If Welles is right Robeson must be bewilder- ingly ignorant of the naval expenditure. Another point of Robeson’s glorification is that he is putting the navy in 9 splendid state of.efficiency; and Welles thereupon reminds him that he is: spending money without Con- gressional warrant. The third point is that Robeson is ‘‘doing justice to meritorious officers ;” and Welles shows that this “‘justice” is summed up in the advancement of two officers whose merit is not so obvious as it might be, and whom a board of their fellow officers in his time was in favor of reducing in rank. Tae Warp's Istanp INEBRIATE ASYLUM.— An interesting conversation has been re- ported by which we find that the principal of this establishment regards it as absolutely worthless for the purpose for which it is kept up. From hia view it would appear that all such establishments are ultimately useless, because they never accomplish what they are intended to, and what is done with them can be done nearly if not quite as well without them. He holds that few persons or none are ever permanently cured of ‘‘the passion for whiskey,” and that no person can be cured unless he ‘‘has the will” to relinquish his bad habit. Ifa man “thas the will” it is easy enough to see that he needs no asylum. From this conversation appears the important fact that the authorities have placed in charge of a hospital established for the treatment of a particular disease a man who does not believe in the existence of that disease—for Dr, Fisher’s words point distinctly to the idea that he has no proper conception of dipsomania as based upon a pathological condition and amena- ble to remedies, Mr. Brient on THE Iris Question.—Mr, Jobn Bright delivered a speech in Birmingham, the centre of British democracy, last Wednes- day, in which he took occasion to place the subject and tendency of American Fenianism ina proper light and estimate before the frienda of Ireland, his hearers, The right honorable gentleman pledged himself in conclusion to “co-operate” for the obtainment of the release of the Fenian convicts by the issue of a royal amnesty. This action will be likely to cut the ground completely from under the feet of the agitators, and thus enable the Gladstone Cabi- net to do complete justite to the Irish land question in the interests both of the tenants and landlords, A Su@ar Prom ror Pourina Canapa,—It is stated in a despatch from Toronto that more stringent legislation for the protection of the Canadian fisheries is proposed by the New Dominion Parliament, on account of the re- fusal of the United States to make another reciprocity treaty with her. Every now and then Canada threatens us with these little re- taliations, but we can afford to be generous. Rather than have her pout we will give her something better than reciprocity. She shall have annexation. The Tennessee Constitutional Convention a Little Too Fast. The Convention now in session at Nashville on the business of remodelling the State con- stitution is a conservative body evidently bent on clearing out if possible every vestige of rad- icalism from the constitution as reconstructed under Andy Johnson and Parson Brown- low. Among other motions in this revising Convention the other day was a motion to re- strict the suffrage to white men, and a motion to provide for the election of United States Senators by the people. Now,'it is such pro- ceedings as these, in this Convention and in the late conservative Legislature of Tennessee, that have operated to tighten the reins in Con- gress on Georgia and Virginia. With regard to the election of United States Senators by the people, we would refer the mover of this proposition to the constitution of the United States, article first, third section, which opens in these words :—‘‘The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six years,” and to the first paragraph of section four, same article, touching the power of Congress to regulate these Senatorial eleo- tions. State constitution makers and menders ought to know something of the constitution of the United States, and that it is ‘‘the su- preme law of the land.” Santo Domingo. A certain confusion is caused in the publio mind by the fact that the same name—Santo Domingo—is borne by the richest, most beauti- ful and, next to Cuba, the largest of the West India islands, and by the capital of the Domini- can republic, The name of Hayti is likewise applied both to the entire island and to the republic on the western end of it. The Do- minican republic occupies in the eastern por- tion of the island nearly three-fifths of the whole, It is with the Dominican government that the so-called St. Domingo treaty now under consideration at Washington has re- cently been negotiated. According to a letter from our Washington correspondent, published yesterday, a prominent member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has objected to this treaty as having been injudiciously drawn up. Referring to a provision that in case the obligations to be assumed by the United States shall exceed the sum of one million five hundred thousand dol- lars the public lands of St. Domingo are pledged to the security of the excess, the Senator, although avowing himself in favor of the purchase, opposed this provision as allow- ing too much latitude for private speculation. But a similar objection might be urged against the Pacific Railroad or any other great national undertaking. That individuals may profit largely by a measure of vast and incal- culable importance and value to the commu- nity is surely no valid argument against it. Phe Senator also expressed a doubt as to whether the Dominican government owned any public lands. It is true that long before annexation to the United States was contem- plated a liberal concession was made by Baez to a surveying company, which undertook, at the solicitation of the Dominican government, and is now carrying on, a complete topographi- caland geological survey of the territory. Do- minica comprises twenty-two thousand square - miles. Its population is less than two hun- dred thousand—scareely enough to remain a perceptible element in the flood of emigra- tion which must pour into the island so soon as its acquisition by the United States shall have disclosed and developed its marvellous sources of vegetable and mineral wealth. The unoccupied public lands of Dominica, after all deductions on the score of concessions, will offer ample security for a far larger sum than fifteen hundred thousand dollars, As for the prospective political and commercial value of the acquisition, all agree that it cannot be overestimated. Brigham Young’s Last Spike. The head saint of Salt Lake has given us the most glowing instance in modern times of Spartan calmness. He has kept a bold front in the face of railroads approaching and schisms inside as long as there was hope. But they have proven too much for him. The railroad iron has entered his soul. Death on the iron horse has overcome him. He has no wish tolive. His earth has lost its Salt Lake for him, and wherewith shall it be savored? But he is a hero to the last, and determines to die, like Cesar, decently. With the firmness of Regulus he himself drives the last spike into the Utah Railroad, and, figuratively speak- ing, the last nail into his'own coffin, What a train of sad reflections must have come to him with the first train over that rail- road—a sadder train even than George Francis! He must have pictured himself as he will.be in the future, no longer the multi- farious head of his whole family—an 1 Pluri- bus Unum, as it were, among husbands. His relicts will be crushed out like his twin relic, His lot of wives will no longer be pillars of Salt Lake. By the rivers of Jordan they will sit down and weep, and the salt water from their eyes will materially swell the waters of Salt Lake, while he, despoiled of his numerous hearths, will wander a comparatively homeless and lonely man, with his privileges limited to one “pent up Utica” of a wife and a single layer of children—a giant monu- ment of divorce, a voluminous, manifold grass widower. He will see his oasis in the desert given over to the ungentle Gentile, his Deseret deserted by the faithful, his apostles forced apostates, his temple overthrown, and even the ballet girls of his theatre dancing on their last legs. ‘‘O tempora, O Mormons!” was his ery in the anguish of his heart as he struck that last apike its hardest blow and said forthe multitude to hear, ‘‘Now we desire to be ad- mitted to the Union!” How will the numbertess kinks in this skein ever be unravelled? Who will fish out the relationships existing between the members of one, family? Who will husband the wives thns divorced by the barbarous influence of the locomotive? Who will distribute fatiers to the crowded regiments of infantry thus drafted into orphanage? There are several remedies, but they all lie with Brigham Young himself. Hecan go with his whole family to Chicago, where a man who has reached such an extromity of divorce will beahero. He can go to Wyoming or Colorado Territory, where female suffrago is permissible, and his wives—if hecan command their votes, which evory well regulated husband should—will put