The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1870, Page 7

6 . NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Berap. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly aealed. Volume XXXV.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. omghiack’s THEATRE, Broadway and 13:h street.— GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eizhth avenue and 88d at.—LINGARD's Buairsqur Coupination. Matinee, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23 st., becween Sth ano 6th ave Matinee at 1—Hamier. Kvening—Muu Meunines. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaw: SUR WALL. Matinee at 2 RIFTH AVENUE TH QR, SuMMER So“NES av NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Guanp Dama or Ruy Bia WOOD'S MUSEUM AY er Thirtieth st.—Matinee dail —Tnt WRittIna oN Matinee. RoMANTIO Hroadway, cor: Yerformaace every evening, BOWERY THEATRE, Row AND Jreny—ViLLAGE Bansre or Ano~Tom THE TAMMANY, Fourteonth eirect,—Tur BoxLrsque oy Bap Dicky. Matinee at 2. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 710 Broadway.—Musio, MIRTH AND Mworxny. Matinee at 2. NEW YORK STADT THEAT! 45.and 47 Bowery— Drxna Burro—Tus Gra YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HALL, 234 Breet and 4th ay —GEORGE VANDENHONF's KEADINGS, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— Pux Lorrery ov Lire. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOU: Rocavtsu, Nzcuo MINSTRELS: 201 Bowery.—O j. Matinee at THEATRE COMIQUE, $14 Broudway.—Comto Vooat- fism, Nroxo Acts, &c. "Matinee at 234. BRYANT'S OPERA HOU Wy baxani's MingTRELS. » Tammany Building, 14th + GAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 545 B [RIAN Minereeisy, NaGuo Aors, tc, " flaw york CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. —Faurstetan AND Grananzio PERFORMANCES, &C. Matinee at By, ron tway.—ETHTO- “HAH.” “ HOOLEY’S OPERA HOU: Brooklyn. —HooLRY's PTRELY—ILL RAGIO AFRICANO, &C. Matinee at js, bd teeter NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— MBNOE AND ART. mary 15, 1870. lew York, Saturday, Jam {* conreyrs oF T0-AY’s HERALD, ‘0X. Sri wesc (aaavertsemons i 2—Advertisements, 3—The New Nation: Condition of Afairs at Red River, with a Map Showing the Geographical Position or the Scene of the Revolution—Reclaimed: A Youthful Magdalen Saved from a Sea of Vice—Balls Last Night. 4@=Europe: Correspondence from Paris, London and Letterkeuny; Foreign Miscellaneous Items—Cuba: Address of the Captain General tothe Inhabitants of the Island; Arrival of the Gunboats at Havana—The Eric and Atlan- tio and Great Western Rallroads Difmcuity Settled—The Transfer of Judge Leawith, G—Proceedings tn the Courts—The Alleged Bond Swindle—New York City and Police News— Tne Bon-bon War—The Case of Dr. Schoeppe— A Raid on the Brokers by the Tax Gatherers— Smallpox and the Board of Health—The Proai- - Gals: The Clerical Scandal Yet a Mystery, G—Editoriais: Leading Article on Opposition to Further Annexation; Mr. Willard’s Absurd Resolution—Amusement Announcements, Y—Teiegraphic News From all Parts of the World : Paris Tranquil and the Army Reinforcements Removed—Army and Naval Intelligence— Yachting: Additional Correspondence Re- specting the America’s Cup—A Legal Reunlon--Brocklyn Academy of Music— Persona Intelligence—Literature: Criticlsms of New Books—Local Inteiigence—business Notices. B—the Latest Brooklyn Murder: Disagreement of the Jury in the-Case of Edwin Perry—Tne Brooklyn Election Frauds—New York Legisla- tive Proceedings—Defalcations in the Mer- chants} Exchange and Fourth National Banks—Suburban Intelligence—The Erie Rail- Toad and the Telegraphers’ Strikes—Navaral Sclence and Mental Philosophy—Archwology. Q9—Financial and Commercial Reports—The In- come Tax—Prison Reform: The Want of Better Penitentiary Management—Real Estate ‘Transfers—Marriages and Deaths, 10—Wasiington: Passage in ihe House of Repre- sentatives of Mr. Bingham’s Resolution for the Unconditional Admission of Virginia— Shipping Inteliigence—a dvertisementa, 4i1—Mexico: The Insurrection in Say Luis Potosi; Mr. Seward’s Speech at Cholula—Mormonism: The New System of Religious Bellef—Evils Attending Chinese Emigration—A Young Man * Horsewhipped by Two Ladies—Chile: Favor- able Progress of Internal Improvements; Destructive Fires—Another Kerosene Horror— Military Chit Chat—Foretgn Scientitic Notes, 12—The Business in Barrels: Uses and Abuses of the Traffic in Second-hand Barrels—The Fifth Avenue Catnedral and the Fenian Funds— Advertisements. Tar LeGistatvRE.—The Senate only was In session yesterday. Mr. Genet introduced 8 bill to repeal the act of last winter authoriz- ing the division of directors of the Erie, Cen- tral and Hudson River Railroads into classes, and also a bill to repeal the act authorizing a railroad in Twenty-third street. Tre Vinaixia Apmission Bict.—In the Dnited States Senate yesterday the debate was continued on the Virginia bill until a late hour, and it was finally agreed to take a vote on Monday. In the House Mr. Bingham’s substitute for the bill reported by the Recon- struction Committee was carried amid the ap- Plause of the Democratic side. fitz Tria or Epwin Pz for the mur- der of Hayes was concluded in Brooklyn yesterday, the jury failing to agree. The Judge charged the jury, among other things, that there was no motive for the murder shown on the part of Perry, but that there was no necessity for the prosecution to prove B motive. Tue Tax oN Brokers’ Sates.—The liability of brokers to pay « tax on all sales transacted by them, whether on their own behalf or in the interest of others, has been affirmed by District Attorney Pierrepont and sustained by Commissioner Delano. The brokers who have peal contested suits against them for the collection of this tax sgnsequently Sng them selvés worsted Md gave up the fight yester= lay, all of them compromising the suits and pettling up or paying the penalty of the law. decision will add nearly ten millions of ® year to our revenues if the law is wenty-fourth st.—SoRr; NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. Mr. Willard, of Vermont, in the national House of Representatives the other day sub- mitted a series of resolutions on retrenchment, economy, reduction of taxes, &c., which were referred to the Committee of the Whole for consideration. These resolutions are all very good, except the last, which declares ‘‘that any acquisition of foreign territory by treaty, cession or annexation by the United States, for which a consideration in money or its equivalent in the assumption of any debt or obligation of the people of such territory is to be paid, increases at once the expenditures of the United States and entails a prospective annual increase of the same, and is at war with every measure of economy now pressed upon the attention of Congress; is a direct assault upon the public credit, and is not called for by any exigency of national affairs ;” which we pronounce a very absurd resolution in each apd all of its conclusions. The resolution is a shot aimed directly at the treaty for the annexation of the republic of Dominica, and indirectly at any negotia- tions initiated or likely to be initiated for the annexation of Hayti, which, with Dominica, will give us the whole of the splendid island of Hayti or St. Domingo, and at any proceed- ings looking to the purchase of the island of Cuba. Mr. Willard protests against any ex- penditure of money if necessary for any*one of these contemplated acquisitions, because such outlay, he thinks, will be a drain upon the Treasury and ‘‘an assault upon the public credit.” We say it will be no such thing. Similar objections were made to the purchase of Louisiana from France and the first Na- poleon in 1803, at the awful price of fifteen millions of dollars, for an empire embracing New Orleans and Louisiana, the west side of the Mississippi Valley from Missouri down to Texas and the Gulf, and the outlets of the river—a region worth more than a thousand millions to us to-day. Again, the same objections were made in 1820 to the purchase of Florida from Spain; but although, in addition to the purchase money of a few millions, the forty millions expended in Van Buren’s Seminole war must be added to the costs of Florida, it has repaid the government in its live oak timber and other naval materials, and is in- valuable asa military position in a foreign war, The same objections were raised against the annexation of Texas, in view of the costs and hazards of a war with Mexico; and against the acquisitions involved in the treaty of peace with Mexico and against the ten millions of purchase money embraced in the Gadsden treaty, ceding to us the southern portion of Arizona. But what were all the costs of Texas, the Mexican war, the Mexican peace and the Gadsden treaty compared with the wealth developed in these new acquisitions, and which has been pouring in upon us and has been yearly increasing in its returns from California, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona, to say nothing of Utah? In these acquisitions we have drawn from our invest- ments of money and costs of all kinds the most splendid dividends ever dreamed of, and the value of the property involved, with its people and improvements, is simply incal- culable. Now, suppose each and all of these acquisi- tions rejected, and all territorial eextensions avoided from 1803 down to this day, what would now be the position of this country? It would be in the position of a third rate Power among the nations, of about twenty millions of people, limited to the east side of the Mississippi river, excluded from its outlet, surrounded on three sides by foreign States, and still under the stifling grasp of a Southern slaveholding oligarchy. On the other hand, with all these territorial acquisitions and expansions since 1803 the area of the United States (excluding Alaska, itself a great empire in extent, ) has been more than doubled, and we have a population of forty millions, and universal liberty and equality under the law are fixed in ‘‘the supreme law of the land.” Putting all the costs in money, to the North and South, in one bill, of the terrible struggle which extin- guished American slavery at ten thousand mil- lions of dollars, we are still richer to-day, South and North, than we were on the momentous opening of the rebel fire on Fort Sumter. But what would have been the end of a war with slavery had our national boundaries remained as in 1803? It would have been the end of the United States. Perhaps, however, the ‘‘gentleman from Ver- mont” has been cured of the annexation policy y Mr. Seward’s purchase of the icebergs of ‘Alaska for $7,200,000, and his treaty for the earthquake island of St. Thomas, calling for $7,500,000 more. St. Thomas, we grant, if purchased, would be a sell. Alaska, on the other hand, will probably within ten years yield us at least ten millions of money in furs, seal oil, codfish and salmon, And what of the direct question of the annexation of Dominica, on the hasis of the assumption of the debt of the republic of a iniilion did a haif, and then the absorption of the Haytien end of the island, with its debt, say of threo millions, or four or five millions, as the case may be? It willbe but a bagatelle compared with the cash value aud the immediate cash profits of that magnificent island, And so with Cuba, even if necessary, upon an outlay of a hundred millions. In a commercial and military view no anit of nidfiey, however large, can repre- senf the value of those islands in the posses- sion of the United States, especially with an eye upon Mexico, Central America and tho Darien ship canal. Mr. Willard’s objections, then, to any ex- penditure of money for the annexations indi- cated, as” objections even on the score of economy, are simply absurd; nor can we be- lieve that he has anything more than a cor- poral’s guard of followers in his penny-wise and pound-foolish notions in either house of Congress, Tne Stanton Funp has reached one hun dred thousand dollars, and will probably soon reach twenty-five thousand more, The old idea that republics are ungrateful is an ex- pode hotion, The donations to Rawlins’ ily, to Generals Grant and Sherman before they were clothed with political patronage, and thia last gift to Stanton’s family place our republic out of the category if the old idea is true, And they teach another thing—that itis woll even ig political ifo to be honest, ‘The Western Union Monopoly=The Danger to Its Stockholders, Sooner or later the telegraph business of the country will be conducted under arrangements made by the government. In every ossential particular the present postal system will become simply a telegraph system upon an enlarged scale. All messages of a business, domestic or government nature will, in time not remote, be transmitted in magnetic flashes from one end of the country to the other, We have seen that momentous questions affecting even the peace of nations have been discussed thousands of miles across oceans through sub- marine cables, and not an error, even to the dotting of an “i” or the crossing of ‘‘t” has oceurred. In our own immediate localities messages from the suburban towns and vil- lages to the counting rooms of merchants, the offices of professionals, the workshops of artisans in the city, are transmitted, although sparsely at present in consequence of the high charges. In the city itself the local telegraph system scarcely meets the wants of our citizens, owing to excessive rates. Every- where, in fact, we see the telegraph system moving and acting as a handmaid to promote the interests of communities, except—and mark the exception—where an overshadowing monopoly crusbes private en- terprise and boldly defies government inter- ference or competition. Addressing the stockholders in the Western Union Company from a standpoint personal to themselves, we ask them to consider the present position of their investments. The company has fifty millions in the enterprise. It is asserted that it is now losing one thousand dollars per day. The government proposes to build lines that will cover more territory than that occupied by the Western Union for twelve millions, or, according to Mr. Washburn’s bill, buy up the existing lines at a fair appraisement, and making it unlaw- ful (to quote a provision in the bill), efter the 24th day of July, 1871, ‘for apy person to transmit by electric telegraph, or by any device equivalent thereto, any message, infor- mation or intelligence of whatever description for hire, or to receive any moncys or reward of any kind for such transmission, except as under the regulation of the Post Office Depart- ment.” Upon a capital of fifty millions the stockholders of the Western Union have realized comparatively slight, if any, dividends. If the government takes the field and builds its own lines, the same as it would its own post roads, and regulates the transmission of business over them as it now regulates its own postal business, by the utter prohibition of compe- tition, what becomes of the investments of the stockholders in the Western Union? They would be worth less than the paper upon which the stock is written. Again, we find arrayed against this op- pressive Western Union monopoly an army of the most expert telegraph operators in the world, They have struck, not for higher, but against an unreasonable reduction in the present rate of wages for their services. As business approaches a specie basis it is not unfit to anticipate an amelioration in the stand- ard of prices for everything. But the tyran- nical application of concentrated capital against the rights of intelligent labor can never be justly recognized in any civilized community. In such anevent it is eminently to be expected that the strength of the organized labor system of the country would be brought to the aid of the defenceless, and, unfortunately, dependent artisan classes. And here the stockholders in the Western Union may be astonished to learn that already the sum of two hundred thousand dollars has been subscribed by dif- ferent trade unions throughout the country tolend aid and comfort to the progressive movement of the telegraph operators; and these unions number six hundred thousand men, with means to carry out their purposes, Furthermore, we do not look over an ex- change not absolutely in the interests of the Western Union that does not cry alond against the operations of the monopoly, and appeal to Congress for a telegraph postal system, under the direction of the government, which will disenthral the press and the people from the tyranny and extortions of an unconscionable corporation. In view of these things are we not right in suggesting to those stockholders in the West- ern Union who are possessed of intelligence and sagacity, and are mindful of their pecu- niary interests and the action of Congress, to consider the situation, and, by encouraging the sale of the Western: Union lines to the govern- ment, save themselves from loss and the com- pany from ultimate repudiation and,bank- ruptcy? ai Tho Candy Question. Our suggestion last week, that a commission be appointed to test the quality of confectionery retailed in the city, meets the approbation of candy firms, not only on Broadway but on Wooster street. These practical experts also offer additional suggestions which the commis- sion would find of value. A simple mode of ba ie @ Who habitually adulterate ca y a le known. Ih soomg the juarblo slabs on which the ingredients for candles afd mixed have holes eaten into them by the poisonous adulterations, and a mannfacturer suggests that an inquiry at the marble estab- lishments will give a clue as to what candy establishments have their slabs replaned the oftenest, the inference being, of course, that such most frequently make use of adultera- tions, The suggestion is one that may be of service to the commission, and the fact that we ought to have a commission of the sort is without denial. established to guard the city against con- tagion coming from without or generated within the corporation limits. We have recently had the questions of adulterations in liquor and food and fluid oils inquired into by our sanitary boards, and the investigation of the swill milk abuses is still going on, The evil of adulterated liquor, food or milk for grown people is really no more crying an evil than the adulteration of candy for children, “The child is father to the man,” and, there- fore, requires our first care. If children are well taken care of as children they will be able to take care of themselves when grown, Let us legislate, then, for the little ones, Pure candy, it seems, can be made cheap, A part of the adulteration lies in the fancy coloring that is often given it to attract the child’s eye. In some cases the adulterations consist of the Gavoring, strepgthenlag apd We have a Board of Health }: probably the sweetening or acidifying; but the purest flavors are the most delicious and the least unhealthy, such as the vanilla bean and the juices of the strawberry and pine- apple. These, of course, are expensive and increase the prices, and the result is that cheap-and vile poisons are too often used to lessen the expense, and for these the remedy is required. The commission, with the power to sample and analyze the confections of all our candy stores, is what is wanted. Coming Yachting Events=The America’s Cup. The season of 1870 promises to be one of unusual interest to yachtmen and to the lovers generally of aquatic sport, in view of engage- ments already made and of others of which there is promise through the recent challenge to all England of Mr. Douglass, ‘of this city, owner of the Sappho. Mr. Douglass’ letter to the London Z'émes has its value on points of yachting history. He corrects, first, the state- ment of Mr, Ashbury, made some time ago, to the effect that the Cambria during last sum- mer had “engagements” with the Sappho. He declares positively that there were no en- gagements, and that it was not his fault, since he had vainly endeavored to secure for his yacht, against the Cambria, anything that might be considered a fair race, This opens an issue as to accuracy of statement on the part of Mr. Ashbury. Mr. Douglass’ challenge to the Cambria for June may not have the practical result he would desire; but we do not see how his chal- lenge to any schooner in England can fail of a response. Even if the Cambria should bo re- fused because of preparations for her race In July, there are the Guinevere, Egeria, Alarm and Aline, all splendid yachts, and to beat any one of which would be an honor well worth the winning. It seems scarcely possible that a challenge so fitted to stir the spirit of Bri- tish gentlemen should fail of response from one of these or similar vessels. Should the defiance thus result in adding another match race across the Aflantic to thé one how on the record for July, it may give great variety of sport. In addition to the excitement of two ocean races for which the vessels may start within a few days of each other we shall then, perhaps, have races in smooth water as well—races in the bay, races up the Sound, races everywhere and in every style—and tne respective merits of English and American bouts will be tested in the most complete and satisfactory manner, and we shall know which is best in theland-locked bay and which on the broad Atlantic. With such varied occasions to try her powers we shall probably find that the Sappho will redeem all that she lost in other hands. Such season of brilliant triale will also especially intensify the regret for the loss of the Meteor and the splendid possibili- ties that seemed to be in her. But shall we in this promising season have also.a race for the cup won by the America? This point is still in doubt. Only Mr. Ash- bury has yet expressed any purpose to contegt our possession of this -trophy, and his unfor- tunate proclivity for loading his challenges with conditions has brought his correspondence with the New York club to a somewhat abrupt termination. We give his latest letter and the reply of a committee of the club in another column. Mr. Ashbury, we suspect, must re- linquish all thought of a contest for thé America’s cup. His notion that such a race should be sailed under any restrictions of his proposing, and more especially restrictions drawn from the rules of an English club, is merely ridiculous. No boat can enter for that cup here except as the America entered for it in British waters. It was then the America against the world. The America sailed against seventeen yachts and beat them all. Shall her trophy be staked on a race requiring less clear evidence of ‘superiority? Mr. Ashbury has awakened the memories of the brilliant achievement of the America mainly to give éclat to his declared purpose to win again what British yachtmen lost in her triumph. He has constituted himself the champion, and what does his championship amount to? Simply this—he will win the America’s cup—with an ‘‘f.” If we will rule out of the race all boats that are exceptional to him then he will win the cup. Make the thing easy and he will doit. Hotspur said he would “plock bright honor from the pale-faced moon.” So will Mr. Ashbury, if anybody will furnish him with a ladder. The first condition of competition for such a trophy as this cup is to enter for it on any conditions on which it is held; and Mr. Ash- bury must enter against keel or centreboard boats or not enter at all. Indeed, the very mention on his part of any restriction or con- dition is a withdrawal of his challenge. There- fore we venture the thought that the race as it must be sailed will not meet his views; but if he seeks a trial of speed in our waters with keeled boats alone, to the exclusion of centre- board boats, he can only have such trial by private matches; and it will not be difficult for him to arrange such a match—with the Fleet- wing, for instance. Yet we are not without hope that when the owner of the Cambria understands the posi- tive nature of the conditions On which the America’s #tp is held he will see the pro- priety of yielding his point. He has shown in the recent making of a match for an Atlan- tic race that he knows how to yield gracefully, since after much discussion he has finally accepted 9 race on the terms that were open to him from the beginning. He may likely act with similar spirit in his desire to contest the possession of our national trophy. MormonisM.—We print another of our series of letters from Mormondom this morning. In a late ‘testimony” meeting of the schismatics Mr. Kelsey stated that a higher appreciation | of woman was one of the objects of the mis- sion, No nation could prosper, he claimed, where woman was held simply as a conve- nience. A number of converts to the new faith stated their experience, among them a Mr. Chislett, who had at one time been emi- nent as @ Mormon misssionary. All of them testified to the inspiration of Godbe add Har- rison. SmatLpox.—Dr. Harris made 4 report to the Board of Health yesterday to the affect that this loathsome disease has been kept within close boundaries by the vaccination of the school children, and tho fact that it has not been altogether extinguished is owing to the difficulty of vaccinating all the adults, The Hed River Country. We publish this morning » very full and in- teresting description of the Red River country and of its inhabitants, together with an account of the progress of the revolution in the territory against the Canadian govern- ment. The map accompanying the article will enable the reader to perceive at a glance the geographical situation of the country and its importance to the United States, should it be, a8 now seems more than probable, annexed to this republic, Our correspondent reports that the agents of the’ Hudson Bay Company are busily engaged misrepresenting the insurgents and attributing their present belligerent atti- tude to difficulties arising from church mat- ters. The falsity of these reports must be apparent to all who are familiar with the causes which have brought about the insurrection in the Red River territory. It is not improbable that Governor McDougall’s policy was a conciliatory one; and if the statement be correct that he is an advooate of the annexation of British America to the United States it is evident that he is a man of sound judgment in some respects. But neither conciliation nor advocacy of political union between our government and the Canadian Dominion can do away with the merits of the revolutionists’ cause. Their interests impera- tively demanded that some steps be taken to avert the ruin that the rule of Canada would entail upon them. With a vast amount of pluck they resorted to force rather than sub- mit to the Canadians. Their ardent desire to become citizens of this republic, and the efforts they are making to this end, fully attest their sincerity and earnestness. That the end of this popular revolutionary movement on our northwestern trontier must be the absorption of the territory by us any person conversant with our history will not deny. It therefore becomes a matter of more than ordinary interest to the American people to know that the climate and agricul- tural and mining resources of Rupert’s Land, which includes the Red River or Winnipeg country, are admirably adapted to the wants of man. It may be true that a great portion of the territory ‘“‘is occupied by lakes, forests and impassable tracts of snow. and ice;” but there are three hundred and fifty thousand square miles of “prairie or natural meadow land” of the richest character, and capable of yielding larger crops than the land of many of our States does. The difficulties attendant upon transportation are the present great draw- back to the comfort and prosperity of settlers, There are no railroads there, and even the ordinary highways are of the most rugged description. These disadvantages are inherent to all countries sparsely populated. Many persons are living now who remember when Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and most of our other Western States were vast tracts of territory uninhabited save by nomadic Indians and adventuresome hunters. The present population of the Red River territory is small innumbers and somewhat motley in nationality. It comprises mainly Americans, English, Scotch and French, the ‘‘half-breeds,” or the offspring of the Caucasian and Indian, pre- dominating. Of these people our correspond- ent writes at length, and his account of them will be found specially entertaining. The trade of the territory is also referred to, enabling us to form some idea of the business transactions of that tremendous monopoly, the Hudson Bay Company, Before many months can pass away we hope to see the ardent desire of the people gratified and to welcome another star in the galaxy of States. Meantime a careful perusal of the article referred to and study of the map will amply repay the reader for all the time expended thereon. Cuba—More Proclamations. Our Cuban correspondence, which will be found on another page, contains another of those bombastic proclamations for which Spanish generals are famous. The present one is issued by the Captain General, and indulges in the usual laudations of Spanish successes and rejoicings over the reverses of the Cuban revolutionists. According to De Rodas the Spaniards are all that is valiant, chivalrous’ and humane, while the Cubans are mean, cowardly and brutal. In fact, the present proclamation differs very little from previous ones. The Captain Gen- eral’s example is followed by his subordinates, as may be seen by the decree issued by the commanding general of Santi Espiritu. If the example set is followed out we may shortly ascertain that the reason of the present inactivity of the Spanish army in Cuba is for the purpose of enabling leading officers to post themselves sufficienly well in rhetoric to be able to issue good, telling proclamations for effect at home as well as abroad. Now, as there are eighty thousand troops in Cuba and a naval fleet of over fifty war vessels surrounding the island, we think it is time that these Spaniards should get to work and put down the rebellion, if they can, instead of wasting their time over pronunciamientos, Let there be something decisive done one way or the other. Proclamations are good enough in their way, but really those Spanish decrees amount to very little. Our speatal “Budopial Correspondence. The correspondence by mail from Europe which we publish to-day embraces letters from our special writers in Paris, London, Letterkenny (Ireland) and Constantinople. It comes in varied and lucid detail of the narra- tive of events transpiring in the Old World to the 30th of December, illustrating the many causes which impelled to the consequences which were already patent, as well as towards the results which were expected in the train of logical inference. The exhibit as a whole speaks of crime in its most revolting form, of religious fervor in the shape of an excited and blinding intolerance, of social disorganization flowing from a long continued class oppression, and of dynastic intrigue and political complica- tions tending towards a general diplomatic imbroglio, likely to eventuate in another “Eastern question” difficulty—it may be a war in the East. . ‘Traupmann, the murderer of the Kinck family, was on trial in Paris. It was made a celebrated occasion, and the chief actor in the scene found that he was already cele- brated. Twenty thousand persons made appli- cation for seats in the court—a room in which there is accommodation for two hundred. The murderer, who is only twenty years old, and “violent, ambitious and sombre in character, with an insatiate craving for money,” felt, as will be seen, that he is a ‘‘man of mark,” but in his system of demoralized physiology he does not seem to care whether it is the mark of public attention or that of the guillotine, England maintains her war with Rome, a London spécial newspaper man reviving a dead cardinal as if to spiritualize the combat. The description which is given of the management of the extensive estates of a noble earl in the north of Ireland will tend to remove any sur- prise which may have been hitherto felt at the extent of the Gladstone and Bright plans of land tenure reform for the island. Our advices from Constantinople will com- mand particular attention per se, as they show forth the points of the different combinations which are tending to complicate the interests of the great Powers in the East, as well as the Influence which the Suez Canal project exer- cises over the diplomacy and its bearings. Paris Tranquil—Amnesty. Our cable telegrams from Europe report that Paris remained tranquil yesterday even- ing. ‘The agitation which ensued after the death and funeral of Victor Noir had sub- sided. The government authorities were, apparently, satisfied with the situation, for the troops which had been mustered in the city from the neighboring garrisons ‘were ordered back to their quarters. Prince Pierre Bonaparte appears to have maintained his honor, the Emperor to have vindicated the law. Napoleon III. is a man who seems to like to present strange contrasts to his people, for we read in the same despatches that M, Grego, with other conspirators against the life of his Majesty, who were convicted and transported from France in 1864, have been included in the imperial amnesty. So that if a Bonaparte has been compelled, in self-defence, to snatch a life from France, the head of the Bonapartes restores to France the would-be regicides who compassed his own— a pretty.equitable squaring of citizen eco- nomics. One of the London journals declares that the crisis in France is of the most extreme importance. It may be, however, that the political atmosphere of England is not favorable to a candid judgment of the case. 5 The Western Union Telograph Monopoly and the New Invention. The public have but a very imperfect idea of the various steps taken by the Western Union Telegraph Company to bind or bend the organs of public opinion to their insane ambition to become the great monopoly ofthe country, Thelr first attempt to control the press was made some years ago, when, on the plea of extending to the whole press of the country increased news facilities at largely reduced rates, they undertook to organize a news company, of which the executive officers of the telegraph company were to hold a majority of the stock and so control its policy. The well-known object of this conspiracy on the part of the telegraph managers was to put in their own hands the power of life or death to individual newspaper interests in the control of the news of the world. Foiled in their ate tempted coup d'état against the press by the premature exposure of their designs, managers of the company resorted to and ac= complished by diplomacy that control of the press of the country, with the single exception of the New YokxK Heraxp, which they had so signally failed to accomplish in a mora dishonorable way. In the absence of effective action on the part of Congress, the press and the public will soon find relief in the various movements now going on for the introduction of improvements in the rapidity and cost of sending telegraphic messages, one of which is the automatic tele- graph invention of Mr. Little, which we are informed is capable of transmitiing two hun- dred to four hundred words per minute over a single wire, which is ten to twenty times faster than can be transmitted by the system used by the Western Union Company. The new system of telegraphy, we understand, will be put in operation between this city and Washington within afew wecks. Another is the inauguration of a new company, called the Metropolitan Telegraph Company, which pro- poses to send messages for one cent per word, and, if required, to put a private wite in the office of every business house in the city. This company will have subterranean cables, con- sisting of copper conductors, perfectly insu- lated and carried in galleries or tubes beneath the surface of the streets, which will insure reliable communication at all times and under all atmospheric conditions. Whon these pro- posed improvements are brought into practical operation the public will be able to judge of their merits and to reap benefit by the adop- tion of those which prove the most expeditious and least expensive in their workings. Legislation at Albany—Steam Up: In ordinary cases the first few days of the sittings of our Legislature may be compared. to the organization of a new volunteer mili- tary company. The first thing the members do is to get up a target excursion, go to some out of the way place and blaze away—all aim- ing to hit the bull’s eye, Of course where tne hits many shoot wide of the mark, if they hit the target at all. So in the incipient stages of legislative proceedings it is common for young members to jump up upon every opportunity and blaze away at some proposition which they vainly imagine will be the bull’s eye of the session. Some of these representative goslings propose the appointment of com- mittees of investigation into alleged fraudu- lent practices of gas companies, insurance and trust companies, horse railroad companies, and abuses of all gorts and violations of charters in all manner of corporations, Then see how it all works. The managers of a corporation observe in the papers a ‘“‘notice of a bili” affecting their concern, introduced by a mem- ber from some rusal district. It is immedi- ately settled that the fellow must be ‘‘seen,’” and an agent ofgthe menaced company is despatched forthwith, to Albany to clap a greenback plaster over the mouth of the virtuous and indignant member, who—although he may have missed the bull's eye of a sensa~_ tion and the chance of becoming the,hero of the session—finds in lieu thereof a comfort- able wad of Uncle Sam’s promises in his breeches pockef. Thus is one legislative sproutling smothered. Afterward come others, among them, perhaps, a few ‘‘strikers,” who, if they discover they have no chance of hitting the. —_