The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, RS ae ee NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1), 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT. oe eee 0 ‘The Freach Orisie—Tho Excitement in Paris’ | for the crime of pauperism with misfortane Our cable despatches are numerous to-day, | passed. England takes care, however, as is as they were yesterday, touching the situa- | known, to guard her people against fraudulent tion in Paris, The excitement consequent | debtors by punishments in another shape and upon the vote of the Chambers regarding the | adjudged by courts of higher jurisdiction than arraignment of Rochefort continued. The | those appertaining to the sheriff's office. mob, which had been strong during the day Rome was fervently pious and ecclesiastt- ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic | in the neighborhood of the legislative hall, | cally jubilant after the feasts of the Christmas despatches must be addressed New York assumed later in the evening immense propor- | season, notwithstanding the ominous ‘‘caucus- tions in the Boulevard Montmartre. HeERap. Rmecats cena will: not be ro- surged and swelled in spite of turned. the military. Numerous arrests were made, Letters and packages should be properly | but there was no fighting. At the above men- sealed. ‘ THE DAILY HERALD, pubdiishea every day in 18 military were in possession of the boulevard. Up until | ing” of the members of the Franco-German three in tho morning of the 18th the crowd | episcopate on matters appertaining to the the police and | Council. An Italian bishop, completely blind, harangued the fathers on matters of faith, himself presenting an affecting physical evi- tioned hour the crowd had dispersed and the | donce of the fact that man may believe yet not see. Peru gave a silver basin filled with The intensity of the excitement as well as the | gold to the Pope, with quite » number of wear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription | 77 1. ana eaution of the government is | valuable articles beside, and his Holiness re- Labi wie illustrated by the disposition which was made Volume XXXV.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, turned his blessing to the land of his early ...No. 19 | of the police at various points.’ M. Rochefort | missionary labors. Pio Nono celebrated mass is more than ever the idol of the mob. Our | in St. Stephen's church, and appears, on the opinion of the man remains unchanged, and whole, to have entered on the year 1870 under GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corcer of Eighin avenue and | we are glad to know that the sensible and | pretty encouraging circumstances. 33d sh —Davip Gankion—A PROTEAN EATHATAINMAN®, | O45 Ioving citizens of Paris are as much SPOURIE CARAT EMEP Deere Sth ana 6b ave | opposed to the man and his doings as is the OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—PaUL Pry—Rovert Macaime, Matives at 2. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth #.—Sver; | dred and twenty-six against thirty-four. M. ea Rees PON eae M, Ollivier and Gambetta were in acrimo- nious parliamentary conflict, and the neigh- boring cities of the empire were preparing to do honor to the memory of Raspail by numer- ous deputations in Paris. That the situation in Paris, and indeed throughout France, is critical we will not NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaway.—Granp RoMAN7i0 Duama oF Ruy Bias. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- Ber Thirticth-st.—Matines daily. Performance evory evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Howery.—Buox, Many Hons; 08, GOLD UP To 165. Buox, Row THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tar BURLESQUE or Bap Dickry, NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery~ Orgxa Burvo—Tux Granp DUCHESSE, even with the sympathy and encouragement of the twenty thousand republicans of Madrid, ' is able to defeat Napoleon or that by any chance, so long as the Emperor lives and retains his faculties, France can become ao republic. It is not at all impossible that the excitement may spread over the country and take even a firm hold of the large cities. If it does it will WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and ih street.- Ouns. MR&. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya,— Tux Lorreny oF Live. STEINWAY HALL, Fourtes AND INSTROMEN TAL CONOKET. UNION LEAGUE CLUB THEATRE, Madison ay. and 26th #t,—DRAMATIO RECITATIONS, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, %1 Rowery.—Comic VOoALism, NEGRO MINSTRELGY, 40. Matinee at 234. atreet—-Gnanp VOCAL THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comro Vocau- IM, NEGHO Acts, AO. "Matinee at 254. dividing the Emperor's forces; but the French BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th SL BRYANI'S MINSTR WAVERLEY THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—Musto, MinTa any MysTzxy. Matinee at 2. moment to make an end of revolution if any attempt at violence is made. It is almost safe, however, to conclude that the struggle, whatever form it may assume, will be confined to Paris, If the Emperor is forced to it, if the mob will not learn from the moderation of the government, to a dead certainty the streets of Paris will be swept with grapeshot, and Henri Rochefort, in addition to his other crimes, will have to answer for the blood of his fellow citizens, The author of the coup d'état is not the man to hesitate when he knows that de- cisive action is necessary. That indecision and maudlin sentimentality which has been characteristic of some great men in great crises, and which the First Napoleon was wont to call “‘mistaken humanity,” does not belong to the Bonaparte race. It certainly does not belong to Napoleon III. When to act was necessary we have never found him slow. It 1—Advertisements. is fearful, however, to contemplate that force @— Advertisements. fn action which established the one-man power 3—Washington : The Republican Party Becoming | 2nd which may again, not without the appro- Demoraiizea ; Startling Increase of Public | bation of France herself, re-establish it more Expenditures ; A Magnificent Job in the Phila- firmly than ever. Gciphia Navy Yard; Preparations for the ¥ ‘ Reception of Prince Artnur—The Albany and | _ + is not our belief at present that such ac- Susquehanna Railroad Sutt—An Effective | tion on the part of the government will be eae Picea Be eat necessary. Rochefort will be tried and, no Rp in | doubt, convicted. Locked up securely in a Se open neaste 10. onejand sine’ prison his Mareciliaise his Toned Whereabouts Still Doubtfal—Special Political | 204 himself will soon be forgotten. His trial SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Brontway.—Eraro- PLAN MinsTRELex, Negro Acts, £0,—“Hasu.” NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fou AND GYMNASTIC PERFORMA enth street. -EQuestntan 1c. Matinee at 25. MURRAY BILL BAPTIST CHAPEL, Lexington avenue, moar 87th st.—Gzann CHARITY Conornt. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.Hoo.Ry's Minerexis—Prter Piven Prere: Popes, &0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— ScrRNOX AND ART. LADIES' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF A. Broadway,—FeMALRS ONLY IN ATTENDA! SHEE’ ‘ATOMY, 618) vi 's 818)¢ TRIPLE New York, Weducsday, January 19, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pacs. Curtosities of the Councll—Hayti: Salnave’s have the effect of distracting attention and of this time? Tho Cuban Revolution Not Yet Ended. Recent telegrams and mail advices from legislative body, which agreed to his prose- | Oubg ostablish the fact that the Cuban revolu- cution by the overwhelming vote of two hun- tion is not yet terminated. Notwithstanding the recent boastful proclamations of the Spanish generals nothing worth recording has beon ac- complished. We hear less of Valmaseda and more of Puello of late. Both are said to be good generals, but so far their generalship has deen of little account. They have made a show of doing sometbing, and only a show. Armies have been marched into the interior deny; butit isnot our opinion that M. Rochefort, without doing much damage to tho insurgents and have returned to rest upon prospective laurels, Campaign after campaign has been planned, inaugurated and closed without ac- complishing the slightest victory of any moment over the rebels. The Cubans are forced to pursue a guerilla system of warfare. ‘Lhe reasons for this course are obyions. But what is the immense Spanish army doing all Over forty thousand regulars and about the same number of volun- army is under perfect contrgl and ready at any teers, with ® powerful naval force, have bopn gngaged in quelling “the Fovolution, and the gréatest &uSsésses that have been ac- | complished for the honor of Spain have boen in the way of flowery proclamations and brutal butcheries, If proclamations could crush the struggling Cubans they would have heen stamped out of existence long since. Seward’s sixty day proclamation cannot compare in the slightest degree with some of the effusions of De Rodag, Valmaseda and Puello. Only a short time ago we heard of “‘numerous engagements between the government troops and the insur- gents” near Puerto Principe and the Cinco Villas district, As the particulars of those engagements have only been summed in the killing of forty insurgents ft is safe to infer that things have not gone in a way to please the Spaniards. Only a few days ago General Carbo, at the head of a large body of troops, attacked the rebels near Cienfuegos, under Cavada, and was defeated. General Puello, who loudly proclaimed his intentions before entering on the campaign in the Central Department of ending the rebellion in his dis- trict, has not accomplished anything ag yet, In view of these facts it begins to look very much as if the Cuban revolution ts not yet ended. The Kconomy of the Administration. In the House of Representatives yesterday Notes—The City Postal Service—The Postal | and the trial of the Emperor’s cousin will be | Mr. Dawes, chairman of the Committee on Boat er Rrvok ts Orter tt focny’-nad of | Sammy, (0, eee © larne, amount ‘o-day—End of i ea Eee ee ee a un vil be ape soumates and both @ Peight: ragedy im Pennsylvania-- Divorces in Indtana. will receive justice. Order will be main- S—Important Proceedings in the New York and | tained; caution on the part of the government Brooklyn Courts—Custom House Cartage— Young Beginners in Crime—Workmen Dis- charged in New Haven—New York City News— A Twenty Thousand Dollar Sneak Robbery— will provoke the authorities to shed blood. of | Appropriations, took occasion to charge the But the | present administration with failing to keep the promise of economy and retrenchment which it made on going into office. He said that the estimates for appropriations for the will be exercised, and nothing but the most | present year exceed those of the last year of wanton foolhardiness on the part of the people | Andy Johnson’s administration by at least forty-nine millions of dollars, and he The Commissioners of the Sinxing Fund—Pro- | Those who exaggerate the danger of the crisia | held in his hand the official estimates posed Reduction of Brooklyn Ferriage—Official Report on Alaska—The Proctor Defaication in Philadelphia. e forget that Paria is not the mob. They over-| and called ous the figures, dollars and look the fact that with almost all classes in | cents, toproveit. He showed that Grandfather @—Faitorials: Leading Article on the Frencn | Paris above the very lowest Napoleon is | Welles was more stving than Robeson and Crisis, the Excitement in Paris—Meeting of | immensely popular. He has made the shop- | Randall less extravagant in his estimates than tne Universal Suffrage Association in Wash- | keepers rich; he has increased the value of | Croswell,' There is not a single Cabinet ington—Naval Intelligence—Amusement An- nouncements. ‘Y—Teiegraphic News from All Parts of the World: property; he has made Paris more than ever | officer, he claims, except Attorney Geueral the fashionable capital of the world. Paris | Hoar, who does not send in an exorbitant Radical Excitement and Parliamentary Agita- | 90w dreads revolution as imuch as London or | demand for money for expenses during the tion in Paris; Traupmann to be Guillotinea | New York. to-day; Prince Arthur to Leave Montreal for New-York to-morrow—New York Legislature— The Lovers’ Vendetta; Examination of the Ac- To all except the lowest and | next fiscal year. The fact still remains, not- meanest and idlest of the people revolution | withstanding Mr. Dawes’ speech, that the would be ruin. It is not too much to say that | public debt has been reduced nearly eighty cused at the Tombs—Obituary—Personal Intel- | there are hundreds of thousands of respect- | millions of dollars during President Grant's ligenoe—Meeting of the Board of Managers of | able citizens who would turn out to preserve | administration, although the amount may have the American Colonization Society at Wasn- ington—The Richard B. Connolly Association Reception—A Pickpocket Nicely Caught—Fire in Canal Street—Business Notices. S—Fuburban Intelligence—Law and Order in Jer- sey—Now Jersey Legisiature—Brooklyn City | crisis will result in bloodshed or revolution. News—Brutal Dog Fight—Cruelty to Animals— ii Ramariitie ‘Wile; heitanes | Case <Seanty: What is true of Paris is more or less true of three Thousand Dollars Missing—An Impena- mg Seourge: The Spread of the Smallpox— The Boylston Bank Robbery—Shocking Demor- alization—MMail Irregularities of the South. 9—Finansial and Commercial Reporis—Real Es- tate Matters — Remarkable Meteorological Phenomenon—Marriages and Deaths—Adver- tizements. 10—The Darien Survey: Preparations of the Expe- dition for Departare from this Port—The Port Jervis Murder—A Williamsburg Calamity; Fall of a Row of New Buildings—The Williamsburg Homicide—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 11—Advertisementa, 12—Adyvertisements. great centres, not France, not the army, that is opposed to the Emperor. This crisis, which is not, after all, unnatural in the circumstances, which the Emperor cer- tainly was not unprepared for, will pass by like others we had to chronicle and comment upon. The Emperor, with his hand still firm on the reins, will go on with his reforms. If one minister or one seé of ministers do not succeed others will be tried with better results. The people will be humored, but taught to obey the laws. One reform will succeed another, = and ‘ the good work will go on until the There seems to be an | French people qujetly settle down to the full Intention on the part of the administration to | CMoyment of constitutional government, It go right at work in the Darien Canal matter, | Will not be long cytil France is as much The surveying expedition, escorted by nearly | #shamed of teckel and his confrircs as she three hundred troops, will leave here next | }8n0w of Marat, of Ro,hespierre and the other woek on the steamers Nipsic and Guard for the | 34 men of the first revo.ution. “Ti ths isthmus. Tne Virors1a Bre in THR Sgnate.—The debate on the House bill for the admission of Virginia was continued in the Senate yester- day without coming to a vote. The question hae divided the radical members in such a manner that with the democrats in favor of Toe Darmn Canat. Programme our sympathy, i common with that of intelligent men everyw'tere, is with the Emperor. Our Special European Correspondena’ Our special correspondence from Europe) published elsewhere, embraces letters from the peace of the city if the Emperor saw fit to | been slightly increased on paper by Mr. Bout- make # call upon them. No such call will be | well’s peculiar mode of making out his state- mado; but when these things are considered | ments. there is the less reason to fear that the present | there ara deficiencies to make up, for the last Besides, it must be remembered that Congress cat down the appropriations closely, in order to make at least a show of keeping all the large cities. It is the scum of the | that word of promise to the ear which Mr. Dawes claims the administration has not kept to the hope. Proposep Rerorm wy Our Postat Sys- TEM.—The postmasters of the leading cities of the country, who were recently in convention in Washington, have addressed a letter to the Postmaster General, setting forth a number of reforms which they propose in the postal system. They propose # reduction of the fee for registering letters and for money orders, that an agent of the Dead Letter Office be located in each large city, that the postage on unsealed circulars and authors’ manuscript be reduced, that the franking privilege be abolished, and that the aarrier system be cx- tended. abet, ihe ba Suvex BuarourorD on tne Wuiskey Dear- eat | BL —Judge Bjatgpford has made a declaration crisis and in the carrying’ out of his efor" | ‘* otight in fatare to simplify the operations Rel roi d to make it very difficult Srey eer to evade the law. ‘mself required to keep a ““ the points required by *e imposition of the this power. Ho a bookkeeper for whiskéy mam. Every maker is ty, book and enter into) the law for facilitating ty tax, He cannot delegate . ‘Tho Late “Thunder All Round the Sky”— The Kentucky Tornado. The late extraordinary “heated term” for midwinter has culminated west of the Alle- ghanies in » great storm or conneoted chain of storms of hurricane winds, lightning and thunder, rain and hail, such as in the region involved are not expected till the month of June, From our telegraphic advices it appears that on the night of the 16th (Sunday) a heavy thunder storm passed over St. Louis, doing considerable damage to chimneys, signs, awn- ings, trees, fences; that on the same evening @ similar storm prevailed at Nashville and thereabouts, doing considerable damage’ to buildings; that through Central and Southern Ohio there was at the same time a heavy rain fall, flooding the smaller streams and creating a freshet in the Ohio river itself; that the focus or central point of this extensive commo-~ tion among the elements appears to have been the Mammoth Cave, at Cave City, and in that neighborhood, where the storm appeared a full-blown West Indian tornado, sweeping fences, trees, houses, everything, before it, and involving # lamentable destruction of human life, to the number of twenty-five or thirty per- sone or more, in that sparsely settled district. .A day later they had a thunder storm as far east as the Hudson river, and as far north ag Poughkeepsie, while in this city and along the Atlantic coast, eastward and southward, two or three days of clouds and fogs and rain, with some snow “away down East,” have marked this most extraordinary visitation of the warm and heavily charged exhalations from the Gulf Stream, Reducing, then, all these rains, snows, hail storms and hurricanes of the inter- val between the 15th and 19th days of this month to the differing phases of one great storm, extending from the cotton region of the South to the New Dominion, and from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains, the question recurs, what caused it? If we look for the remote causes we must apply our explanation to the recent heavy storms passing over the British islands, which, we think, may involve some extraordinary perturbations in the atmosphere around the entire circuit of the globe withia the gorth temperate zone. It is sufficient for our Bresont purpose, however, that since du® openi win- ter snow storm of the middle of December we have had the wind from the east, the south- east and the south, to anextent never perhaps known within the same period before. These winds have brought from the warm ocean cur- rent of the Gulf Stream an unusual amount of vapor, heat and electricity. The atmosphere over the land thus becoming overcharged with these elements, a reaction has followed which has given us this unprecedented chapter of rains, floods, hurricanes, hail, thunder and lightning. Nor do wethink that the reaction is over, but that we may expect now as the next thing in order & cold snap, and then a heavy fall of snow. Indeed, we are somewhat apprehensive that in proportion to the late unusual spell of warm weather we shall yet have a spell of snow and ice in the establishment of the season’s equilibrium, Tug Woman's Rranrs Women at Wasninc- tTon.—The second annual convention of the Universal (Woman) Suffrage Association assembled in Washington yesterday, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the chair, There was a large attendance of the woman's rights women and men—Senator Pomerdy, of Kan- sas, being among the speakers of the day. The grand object of the convention is the six- teenth amendment, or woman suffrage; but to carry it through Congress there is a shorter method than this system of never ending and still beginuing conventions. Let these woman's rights people pick out, say one hundred hand- some, intelligent, sharp and persuasive young women devoted to the cause, to act as lobby members for this sixteenth amendment, and this will soon carry it through both Houses, The same instrumentalities next will carry it through the required three-fourths of the State Legislatures, and then women will be equal to men under the supreme law of the land. Handsome women are found irresistible to running the lobby for men; why, then, should they not organize to run it for their own great cause of woman's rights? That's the question, Tor Ferry Frasonists—A Parranre H1r.—The Union Ferry Gompany on Monday laid a formal petition before the Commission- ers of the Sinking Fund, asking that a new lease of the ferry privileges be granted them for ten years from May, 1871, when their pre- sent lease expires. They state that a portion of their premises at Fulton ferry, in Brook- lyn, is to be surrendered to the East River Bridge Company, and a new slip and landing ought to be constructed to take the place of these premises, but they cannot afford to expend the sum necessary—from $100,000 to $160,000—unless the lease is extended, espe- cially as they ‘“‘are not running the ferries to make money.” This petition was referred to Mayor Hall and Comptroller Connolly by the Commissioners, and those two officials make a palpable hit in their reply. They propose to the ferry corporation, ‘‘as they are not run- ning the ferries to make money,” that the fares be reduced to one cent a foot passenger and fifty per cent for vehicles. Woman’s Covrace.—The temerity with which women marry, the hardihood and despe- rate daring with which they will venture to take husbands, have not been sufficiently insisted upon by the persons who maintain the equality of woman. Man certainly has no such courage. The last murder has brought to light a remark- able instance of this feminine boldness. Mr. Mills, who has just stabbed his wife, killed a former wife, and on his trial for that killing the principal witness against him was the woman who afterwards married him and who the bill the vote will probably be very close, and a sharp fight is going on, Tae LeatstaturE YEsTERpAY.—In the Siate Senate yesterday notice was given of w bill to extend Madison avenue to Union square, Bills were introduced to amend the act relative to encroachments and obstructions in the harbor of New York; to enable workingmen to adopt rules for their further mutual protection, and fo revise the statutes of New York. Mr. Genet proposed that the Committee on Com- January. The communications are of an interesting character, the most important | Perhaps, being afforded by our letter from tains matter of much moment both to the gen- friends of humanity everywhere. merce and Navigation be directed to investi- gate charges of illegal exactions made against | the Health Officer gud other Quarantine | QMclals of this porte _ cipated insolvents set free, last remaining relics of England and Rome. It ig dated to the 3d of | *04 then hide himself behind tha bi London, which, although brief in words, con- felsificution, eral state of society in England and the | fire companies, The writer | procession at Harris) announces that the Jaw of imprisonment for | because of the pro: | debt was abolished in Britain on New Year's | regiment. Day, the jails thrown open and the eman- | an occasional street cur ta One of the | People Allowed to Rido in 4y i barbarous | is just the point whore thoy | system of legislation was thas obliterated, and | sylvania white fire oo, the day of maa's persecution of his fellow | to-day, cannot give the duty over to “errors” in a cage of emergency, maXe the entries with bis own hand, am , becouve personally and directly responsible BEmwy tax AG 2~The Peansylvania white which left the gubernatorial ing yesterday in disguat Presence in the ling of a black Betore the war we had in this city belled, ‘Colored his Car ;” and that 0 fastidious Pena- “panies appear to be ookkeeper’s Ue must ‘ 1 thus for ig now lying In a precarious condition from a wound received at his hands, Fussy Burpives m WitiiaMspure.—A row of three unfinished three story brick build- ~g in Division avenue, Williamsburg, fell ‘ing, ‘ay while the workmen were engaged yp ssteran, ‘illing one than, injuring several upén them, - the lives of many others, ‘ ~ 1 accident from the fall ““iamsburg within a aro usually in *k, and the *» build- and jeopardizing This is the second fate. of flimsy buildings in Wa. fow months. The contractors too great a hurry to finish their won. laws in rogard to the erection of unsate logs require @ wore rigid enforcement. ‘The Resources of Alasku. Mr, Seward and Mr, Sumner seem to have exhausted the resources of Alaska as well as the resources of rhetoric in their lavish desorip- tions of the newly purchased Territory. At all events they must have drawn very largely upon imagination for their statements. The facts in the case are at length in a fair way to be made known, The Secretary of the Trea- sury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, has transmitted to that body the report of Mr. H, H. McIntyre, the late special agent of the Treasury Department for Alaska. This report describes in detail the general features of the Territory, including its climate, its inhabitants and its resources of all kinds. The climate, notwithstanding the glowing and poetical accounts of Mr. Seward and Mr. Sumner, is not altogether tropical. Nor, on the other hand, will it be safe for the Atlantic States to count upon Alaska for their next summer's supply of ice, which the mild winter here has thus far failed to promise. The inhabitants number no more than about threo hundred whites and between twenty- four thousand and thirty thousand Indians. The latter, by tho bye, are mostly of a su- perior type, and not a few of the tribes are undoubtedly of Asiatic descent—an futeresting fact for ethnologists. As for the resources of Alaska, they appear to be limited at present chiefly to seal fisheries and fur. Mr. McIntyre calculates that we may derive from the seal fisheries, if properly conducted, from seventy-five thousand to one hundred thousand dollars, and from customs five or ten thousand dollars annually. Nor does he en- courage us to look for any material increase of revenue for many years, unless some extraor- dinary disclosure of mineral wealth, like the discovery of gold in California, or, better still, perhaps, the realization of promised dis- coveries of iron, should occasion a sudden and great influx of immigration. As it ia the question ‘What shall be done with Alaska ?” might almost be answered by saying that in a financial, if not in a political, point of view the wisest policy would be to abandon it for the presepg. Thoro is manifestly but a poor prospect of any immediately adequate return for the vast amount which, according to the special agent of the Treasury Department, Alaska must cost the United States, The purchase money— seven million two hundred thousand dollars— is counted by Mr. McIntyre as only a small item in the total cost of the Territory. Adding to twenty-foyr million dollars the interest for twenty-five years on the public debt, all the expenses of the military and naval establish- ments during that period, the grand total cost of Alaska cannot be less than forty-three mil- lion dollars. It remains to be seen whether the undeveloped resources of Alaska will yield during the next quarter of a century returns commensurate with so vast an expen- diture, End of tho Telegraph Operators’ Strike. It will be seen by a note of the grand chief operator of the Telegraphers' Protective League, published in another part of to-day’s Heratp, that the strike of the operators has cometoan end, The chief addresses all the circuits, and tells them that he believes it is useless to continue the strike, that all the mem- bers of the League are absolved from their oaths, and that he advises them to return to their work. Perhaps this is the best course the workmen could take, though they might have held out some time longer. The fight has been @ very unequal one, and would have proved probably still more disastrous had it been continued. Tho telegraph monopoly is very powerful and has an enormous capital to sustain it against opposition of any kind. It has assumed to control the press even, and imagines it can control the action of govern- ment where its own interests are in- volved. There is not a more presumptuous and dangerous monopoly in the country. It is no wonder, therefore, that the poor operators have been compelled to succumb. But this cannot last leng. The government will be under the necessity of taking possession of the telegraph system ig order to protect the public from exorbitant charges for telegraphing and to bring this great agent ef modern civilization into general use. I¢ would, be absurd to sup- pose this mighty and universal agent of com- munication can be left lomg in the hands of a private corporation or under thé control of a fow individuals, (he Post Office is not more important and harvily loss used than the tele- graph, and the time is approaching when the telegraph will be mare generally used. The whole community is daeply interested in hav- ing a cheap and reliable system of telegraph- ing established under the management of tho government and in conm7ction with the Post Office. Such a system can a ever be established under the present monopoly or any private corporation, This reform is yone of the neces- sities of the age and country, and must be carried out. We advise the ta graph opera- tors, therefore, to do the bait they can under the circumstances forced py? them, and to wait patiently for the good time coming. Tug SMALLPOX IN THE City.—S& me time ago the officers of the Board of Heai'th pub- lished a statement showing that smalka oX was kept in close limits by their efforts, and , that if they could vaccinate all the adult population the scourge would be extinguished. Later de- velopments dhow that persons already broken out with the disease walk or ride in the stret cars to the sanitary rooms for treatment, mid that others who have been taken to the hoa- pital have escaped and gone home. Beren on 4 Goop Lixg.—Bergh’s activity in the swill milk business is the best thing we have had from him yet. Here is o case in which every step taken in a spirit of humanity to the cows proves doubly humane in its re- sults to a community in which tho lacteal poison is sold. He will do more real good in breaking up one swill milk stable than he would in saving the lives of all the pigeons ever shot from traps. Murper Aways on HHanp,—There is plenty of fresh stabbing, pounding, poisoning andshooting. Five new cases are now under investigation involving the crime of murder. One isa wife murder by stabbing; another a common whiskey murder, death resulting from injuries received in a drunken row; and the third is a case of free love shooting, dc. All the kinds of irregular life have their pensil- ties. a) ‘Tho New Post OMice—City Imprevomonts. The new Post Office has apparently gottea through one great danger of its nonage— its escape from the hungry army of jobbers whose disappointment and rapagity threatened it through a Congressional committee. The report of that committee justified the faith of the public in the persons who have the great labor in charge. It was pretty well concluded in this city that the new Post Office was in the right hands, and this impression was mainly derived from the practical, straightforward and complete way in which the work was carried on from the time it was fairly taken in hand. Such an earnest business spirit pervades all that has been done—with such admirable system and economy of time is the labor pushed—that we should scarcely bo surprised to see this Post Office completely finished, with the last pane of glass in and the last nail driven, while our lingering and eternal Court House will yet look like a quarryman’s head~ quarters. This Post Office, moreover, whem done, will be a beautiful edifice—a magnificent architectural ornament to this part of the city. What is the reason that we cannot have the city improved in the same spirit in which this Post Office is made? Are officials of the general government necessarily more honest and competent than State officials? Here is a city wonderfully developed in its wealth and commerce and in the liberal spirit of its people; but otherwise it is in the shanty stage of its existence. Its public buildiags, with little exception, ara nuisances. Its markets are foul ulcers. Tho streets, nine in ten of them, are filthy, ill paved alleys, and the means of transit from one part of the city to the other are wonders of inefficiency and discomfort. Yct the city is taxed as if many millions were spent every year in beautifying and improving it, This is something that the people would like to seo changed while the men at Albany are making changes. Sror I7,—In the general reorganization of the city and the city government that is to be | completed at Albany this winter we hope some economical genius will contrive to slip ina law that will forbid or otherwise effectually prevent the Common Council from indulging its liberal disposition in donations of public money. There is hardly a session but we see the record of donations for all sorts of estab- lishmenta, generally in the guise of charities. It is a flagrant abuse of discretion with the public purse. Revormine Puase or Low Lirs.—The trial of Ellen Utt for the murder of Thomas Barrett, at No. 170 West Broadway, in September last, was concluded at the Court of General Ses- sions yesterday, and a verdict of manslaughter in the third degree was rendered. The evi- dence details a shocking phase of life that is hardly credible, and Judge Bedford, with his usual good sense and sound judgment, adverted to it ins telling manner in his charge to the jury. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Aa Convention of the Universal Suffrage Asso- ciation In Washington—Speeckes of Susna B. Anthony, Senator Pomeroy and Othors— Congress Called Upon to Add an Amende ment to tho Constitution Enfrauchising Women, WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 1870, The second annual Vonvention of the Universal Suffrage Association met in thiscity this morning at Lincoln Hall, and was called to order by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, president of the associa- tion. The proceedings opened with prayer by the Rev. Samuel J. May, of New Jersey, after which Mrs. Stanton addressed the audience, stating the objecta of the convention, which, she said, bad assembied to discass the queries eeepar to women the right of franchise. already enfranchised ail i cue in tl country, vie ioe hing, Alaska or any ol fore! country, and it was fitti that the women should assemble and perfect their arrange- ments to ask ® sixteenth amenament be added to the constitution of the United States. Stanton continued at some jb. She pre- dicted that woman suffrage wi be the great ques- tion st isaue in 1872, and if the republican members of Congress did not hurry up and endorse it the Gemocratic party would step in and deprive them of all the glory by proposing the desired sixteenth amendment. Mrs, Stanton said sne Dad seen a letice from Governor Campbell, of Wyoming, in waich he said that the enfranchisement of women there was the result of careful and serious considera’ Mra, Stanton was followed by Miss Phebe Cousins, of St. Louis, who asserted that the West had set tae ball of surfrage in motion and would not rest until the East had come into the line. Senator Pomeroy then made a short speech, taking the ground that as woman was amenavie before the law she was therefore fully qualiiied to vote, ‘Misa Susan B. Anthony said the Convention had not assembied to discuss the inalienable rights of the human race, but for business. Its object was to Jmproas wy) Congress the necessity of aid to those females who wans the right of suffrage. Letters were read endorsing the movement, from John Stuart Mill, of England; Rovert Purvis, of Philadelphia; Sinclair Tousey, of New Yerk, and James M. Scovel, of New Jersey. The Convention then took & recess until two o’clock this afternoon. Among the prominent mem- bers of the female suffrage movement present are Mrs. Henry R. Schoolcraft, Mra. Martha Wright, who brought a letter from Lucretia Mott, urging them to continue in the work until the passage of the “atxteenth amendment.” Mrs, Paulina W. Davia aud others, Mra. Brigga, of the Philadelphia Press, and Mrs. Hutchison, of the New York Trtoune, were present and engaged in taking notes of the proe ceedings. Afternoon Session. at the afternoon session Mrs, Paullua Wrignt Davis, of Rhode Island, read @ history of the Na- tional Women’s Rights Convention. In conclusion she said the next Convention would be neld at Syracuse. Miss Susan B, ADthony submitted the following resolutions:— Resolved, That this National Women's Suffrage Conven- Hon respectfully ask the Forty-tirat Congress of the Uutted Brates, Fird—To submit to the legislatures of the several States auizteonth amendment to the federal constittition, probibit- ing tho disfranghisement of any of their citizens on account of sex, Second—To strike the word “male” from the laws govera- ing the District of Columbia, ‘Third—To enfranchise the women of Utah as the one safe, sure and awit means to abolish polygamy in that Territory: Fourth—To amend the jaws of tne United States so that women shal receive the same pay a8 men for services ren- dered the government. Miss Anthony advocated the adoption of the reso- lution, and said the sixteenth amendment would give the woman all her rights. Addresses were delivered by Mrs. Gage, of New York, and Mrs. Edson, of the District of Columbia, In advocacy of the enfranchisement of the women of the conntry. Professor Wilcox presented o message from Miss Clxra Barton, now in Europe for the benefit of her bea:th, asking her soldier triends to ald her now in ati'ng the ballot for herself and sister women, she ving stood by them in the hour of need. ‘Yhis evening James M. Scovel, of New Jersey, and Mrs, Wiliur, of New York, delivered addresses, the former saying he was @ convert to the cause of woman suffrage, which he considered essential to the reconstrncuon of the country, and, the latter considered, the political equality of the sexes. Professor Wilcox read @ letter from Mrs. O’Dono- van Rossa, expressive of regret at her inability to be preseut and hearty sympathy with the move- ment and admiration for its conductors. Mr. A. Ge. Riddle delivered an addreas on the “Legal Position of Women.” Miss Phebe Cozzens spoke on the genera! subject. ‘Although an admission fee of fifty cents was charged there was a large attendance of auditors. WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, A letter from Rome. dated December 27, 1869, reports the vessels comprising the United States European squadron at the following points:—The Franklin and Sabina were at Nice, the Juanita was at Marseilles and the Richmoud at Barcelona, the latter, however, ander orders to proceed to Lisbon. ‘The Piymoutn was engaged as escort to the Briush tron-clad frigate Monarch, conveying the remains OL Mr, Pew 30 Portland, Malye