The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1870, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. a ORES a 1—Adyertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Washington: A Whiskey War in South Caro- Itna; Armed Resistance to the Revenue Laws; Military Interference in Georgia; Senate Amendment to the Virginia Bill; Fernando Wood's Review of Boutwell’s Financial Policy—The Proposed International Exhibl- tion—Proceedings in the United States Su- premo Court. 4—Tve Guilotme: Execution of Jean Baptiste ‘Traupmann in Paris ; History of the Life and Crimes of the Murderer—The Latest Tragedy in Maine—Fine Arts—Health OMcer—New Line of Steamers between New York and Augusta, Me. 3—Cuba: Determined Struggles on the Road to Las Tunas—The Public Health: The Smallpox in New York and Brookiyn—Proceedings in the City and Brooklyn Courts Yesterday—New York City Intelligence—Episcopal Theological Seminary—A Suspicion Dispelled—Alleged Wile Murder in New Jersey. 6—Editortals; Leading Article on the Republican Party and the Presidential Succession—amuse- ment Announcements. ‘¥—Telegraphic News from All Paris of the World: Paris Perfectly Tranquli; the Princes Pierre Bonaparte and Murat Making Ready for Trial; Provincis' "‘oting in Spain; a New Russian Loan —Amut ‘ments—Ovituary—Per- sonal Intelligence—Arm, and Navy Intelii- gence—The Bail Season—The Liberal Clubp— Fatal Railroad Accident—Business Upportuni- tes. S—The Effect of the Great Storm at St. Louls—Sec- retary Stanton’s Politicai Position in 1860— Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools—The Logan Tragedy—vock- Fighting in Brooklyn—A Newark Scare—Mur- derous Affray at Paterson—New Jersey Legis- lature—A Pair of Desperate Young Scoun- drela—Whiskey Seizures in Newburg—A Young Giri Cowhides Her Seducer. @—Financial and Commercial Reports—Custom House Cartage: Appointments Under the New System—The Strike on Erie: The Men and the Company Still at Issue—Meeting of the Com- missioners of Emigration—The North Adams (Mass.) Bank ,Rebbery—The Cumberland Coal ‘Trade—Marriages ‘and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 10—The State Capital: Dr. Carnochan Appointed Health Officer of the Port; Rapid Progress of of Legisiation—The Port Jervis Murder; Close of the Trial of Warren Fellows—The Cause of Cuba: Mass Meeting at Cooper Institute—The Williamsburg Whiskey Homicide—Tne Wil- hhamsburg Bmilding Calamity—The Bleecker Street Shooting Affray—The Albany and Sus- quehanna Rallroad—A Trot on the ice—Ship- ping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements, For tHe Fourra Time this season the Hudson river is open to Albany. This is, we believe, a fact without precedent in the history of our winters. Often the river has been open very late ; but we believe the record has never varied so many times in one year. AmonG THE Bits reported in the State Senate yesterday was one by Mr. Tweed pro- viding for the government of New York city, In the Assembly a bill was introduced author- izing an underground railway in New York city. Rawsxy vs. Fisx.—Erie has received fin- other offset. Judge Murray, at Cooperstown, yesterday vacated all stays upon Ramsey's proceedings and allowed him to go on with any other proceedings he may like. Consider- ing the number of fish Fisk has to fry it would be a wonder if some of them were not scorched occasionally. Tar INTERNATIONAL Exnimrrion at Wasa- maton.—A committee of citizens of Washing- ton waited of a number of Senators yesterday to ask the sanction of Cengress for the pro- posed International Exhibition, and it was finally determined that efforts would be made to pass a bill to that effect, provided two mil- lion five hundred thousand dollars were sub- acribed by the citizens to the scheme. Ovr Oogan Postar, Senvice.—An addi- tional weekly despatch of mails from New York to Great Britain has been secured by the Postmaster General, thus making the service tri-weekly, The new mail steamers willingly jaccept the compensation which the other lines @eemed insufficient, and agree to carry the mails direct to Cherbourg, ‘vance, for the Gene raics, = SHEET.. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, The Republican Party and the Presiden- tla) Succession, ‘The great republican party is very far from being united on important questions of public policy, In fact there are two woll defined parties and several little factions or rings under the same political organization making war upon one another. Even the administra- tion of General Grant, which all combined to bring into power and which has held the reins of government less than a year, fails to unite or control the party, While there is a desire to hold the party together and to make the ad- ministration the bond of union there are really no cohesion and no general principles of public policy upon which the factions and cliques can unite, Thisis seen on the very important question—the greatest political question of the day—the restoration of tho Southern States. The debate and votes in both houses of Congress on the question of restoring Virginia show that the prominent leaders as well as the republican members generally ere widely divided. There is a fierce struggle between those who advocate a’ moderate and conservative policy—who would admit Virginia as she presents herself for admission, and who wish to see reconstruction promptly com- pleted—and those who are for imposing more disabilities and restrictions upon the Southern States. It is a fight between the extreme radi- cals, of which Sumner in the Senate and Butler in the House are leaders, and the con- servative republicans, This difference is exag- gerated, too, no doubt, by the personal rivalry and feeling of leading members. The adminis- tration is with the conservatives on the question of restoring Virginia and the other Southern States. In fact the President proclaimed this | policy in his message to Congress, and thus laid it down as the platform of the party. Yet we see the radical division of the party ignor- ing the views or wish of the President, and showing a strength in Congress which the ad- ministration and conservative republicans com- bined may find it hard to overcome. Then, again, we see one of the most promi- nent republicans in Congress, aud the chair- man of the Committee on Appropriations, Mr. Dawes, attacking the administration for its extravagance and for breaking its promises to to the country in the matter of economy. His speech in the House on Tuesday on this sub- ject was most damaging. He was fearless enough to say the truth, however much it might hurt the administration or the party to which he belongs. He denounced all ‘the members of the Cabinet for violating pledges to the people and for reckless extravagance, except Attorney General Hoar. This excep- tion of Mr. Hoar, howéyer, amounts to nothing, as the Attorney General's office has little to do with the expenditure of the public money, and does not require much to carry on its operations. Mr. Dawes paid particular attention to the large and reckless estimates of the Secretary of the Navy and of the Post- master General, and his censures were well sustained by figures. The book-of estimates, he said, for the next fiscal year contained appro- priations for public works of $24,625,173, against appropriations for the same objects last year of $5,493,000, He showed that the republican party had come into power by its assaults upon the profligate expenditures of Andrew Johnson's administration and upon its professions of reform and economy; yet, he said, the estimate to carry on the government for the next year was an increase of $28,000,000 over the amount required by Andrew Johnson, and of $49,628,537 over the amount appropriated for the present year. All this shows that the professions of economy by the republican party in Congress and republican administration wore insincere, and were only used as political capital to get the votes of a credulous and victimized public, Looking at the division in the dominant party on vital questions of public policy, at its violated promises and shortcomings, at its reckless extravagance, at its want of defined principles in the management of public affairs and at its indifference with regard to support- ing the administration it has chosen, we are naturally led to inquire what prospect there is for perpetuating its power, and what chance there may be for the opposition party. There was & positive issue on the slavery question—. the one, in fact, which brought the republicans into power—as there was, too, in the prosecu- tion of the war; but neither exists any longer. The republicans, however, have used the slavery agitation and the war for political capital long after the questions were settled and until they are worn out. The people are tired of them, and look for other questions or issues that bear upon the present and future. In this respect the dominant party does not meet the wants and expecta- tions of the country; for, as was said, it has no positive policy, no platform of principles, and no unity or cobesiveness beyond that which the spoils of office give. Who, then, is to govern this great country? What party can take the place of the one in power? Are we to drift along in this negative way withont principles and statesmen, or shall we have a party with a defined policy, that will represent issues of the day? The democrats have a good prospect before them if they know how to use their opportu- nity—if they will leave the dead past and take a new departure in accordance with estab- lished facts and the spirit of the times. They may elect the next President, though General Grant may be again the candidate of the repub- licans. Even his popularity and glorious war record would hardly overweigh the failures of his administration, the shortcomings of the republican party and the desire of the people for achange. The great State of New York has taken the lead already in a political revolution favorable to the democrats. In the last election for members of Congress they gained considerably, and in many local elections they have shown signs of returning life. Although the radicals have made extraordinary efforts to establish their power in the Southern States they have evi- dently overreached themselves, and there ig little doubt that these States will be demo- cratic. A large part of the negroes will go with the white people on political questions, for they will see that their interests are iden- tical, and it requires no prophet to tell us what party the Southerners will affiliate with. Judg- ing from all the signs of the times the demo- the sentiment of the country and the living | orats have a good chance for the Presidential succession three years hence. But they will lose that if they adhore to their old, exploded dogmas and attempt to undo what has been accomplished by and in consequence of the war, Our Northern democrats must accept the plat- form and policy of the Southerners, with all the concessions to the negroes and the amend- ments to the constitution, They cannot go back and succeed, for tho mass of the people are opposed to a counter revolution, How- ever much opposed before to some of the changes that have been made they accept them now and want peace. Let the democrats, then, drop the dead past; let them be progressive and broadly national; and let them adopt a policy suited to the present and looking to the future, and they may secure the Presidential succession and a long lease of power. The Latest from France—Napoloon’s Trou- bles. Our latest news from France is even more reassuring than it has been for some days. A telegram dated in Paris at ten o'clock last night, represents the city as being per- fectly tranquil at that hour and all ap- pearance of agitation subsided. On the occasion of: the execution of Traupmana there were great crowds in the streets; but the manifestation of feeling was directed against the culprit exclusively. The scene of execution was well guarded. It appears from further despatches that the trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte will take place at Versailles, and that at the same place the High Court will take cognizance of the offence of Prince Murat. Itis a most unfortunate thing for the Emperor that he should have two such cousins on hand, But as we have said before, the Emperor is not to be held responsible for the sins of all of his relatives. If the army remains faithful there can be no doubt that Napoleon will re- main master of the ‘situation, The French army is a dangerous power. It is not unused to changing masters. The Bourbons of both branches know this to their sorrow; and even the first and greatest of the Bortapartes had a taste of this bitter experience. There will be the less danger of the army proving unfaithful if the crowds are kept off the streets. Prince Arthar Coming. Prince Arthur may be expected to arrive in New York Friday, on his way to Washington, in compliance with the wish of Queen Victoria’ that he should testify to General Grant her personal regard for the President and people of the United States. The visit of the Prince will be so brief that he will happily escape in a measure the profusion of attentions, officious if flattering, which American cousins of more numerous British snobs are always eager to lavish upon scions of royalty. In Washington ample preparations have been made by the British Minister for a splendid reception of Prince Arthur, who will doubtless also be welcomed by our own citizens at the national capital and in this commercial metropolis of the Union with all the honors due to the son of the sovereign of a great empire, and a lady whose estimable character is no less highly appreciated here thanat home. For- eign travel is wisely accounted an essential part of the education of modern princes, and brief as the American tour of Prince Arthur may be it cannot but aid in enlightening him as to the extent, resources and characteristics of this great republic. Hereafter its lessons may prove useful to him, whether he shall be- come king of the New Dominion or president of a British republic on the other side of the Canadian frontier. TRAUPMANN, ‘THE MURDERER, GUILLO- TINED.—Jean Baptiste Traupmann, the mur- derer of the Kinck family, was guillotined in Paris yesterday morning. We publish a full history of his life, associations, motives and crime to-day. The excitant, impelling cause appears to have been an insatiate greed for money gain, urged to direct action, as the tes- timony of the scientific men assures us, by the working of a cerebral organization and physl- cal structural formation which made him a “born murderer.” The knife of the guillotine was as unerring and decisive in severing the connection of,the monster with the world as it was on its first application to the neck of a mouse by the hands of Danton in his garret, while he was engaged in perfecting the instru- ment, before the first great French revolution. Iuportant APPOINTMENTS BY THE Gov- ERNOR.—The Governor yesterday sent to the State Senate the names of Dr. Carnochan, as Health Officer of this port; Wilson G. Hunt and Agrippa A. Bell, as Commissioners of Quarantine, and s number of others as ap- pointees to, the various State offices under his control. The appointment of Dr. Carnochan is one which we can especially hail with pleasure, as that of a competent and able gen- tleman to a position which needs him a great deal more than he needs it. Our Mau. News rrom Cusa.—The Cuban news published elsewhere in our columns shows that the Cubans are up and doing. The con- voy which started from Manzanillo. for Las Tunas recently with thirty thousand rations and material for twenty thousand more has had a rough time of it. Colonel Velasco, who waa in charge of the convoy, had a considera- ble force under his command; yet, notwith- standing the display of troops, the insurgents opposed his march at various points. In many instances the soldiers and insurgents met with fixed bayonets, ‘Some losses are re- ported on both sifles. The boastful Puello is still missing. In Nuevitas fears are enter- tained that disaster has befallen him. Valma- seda thinks the war is ended in the Hastern Department, while others think differently, Yet, notwithstanding these doubts and the evidence of facts, he is preparing « proclama- tion to suit his own views. tsbetiied Anotner Jon.—General Slocum, democratic member from the city of Brooklyn, hag intro- duced into Congress a bill authorizing the sale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard property, and the purchase of a new site for a navy yard at some other point ‘‘of easy access to the port of New York.” Here is the scheme of a magnificent jobin two parts. The first part will be the sale of the present property, and the second part the purchase of the new site. Willa navy yard at New London be “‘of easy access to the port of New York?” Exactly what relation does this Brooklyn proposition bear to tho League Island job and the sale of the Phila- delphia Navy Yard? JANUARY 20, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Hon, Jorry Binck om the Late Edwin M.' Stapton—Buchanun’s Imbocoility Laid Bare. - The statement which we publish this morn- ing from the Hon, Jerry Black, touching the political opinions and position of the late Edwin M, Stanton, as a member of Buchanan's Cabinet, on the Southern secession move- ments from December, 1860, to March, 1861, will be found by the politiciaus of both the great parties of the day very interesting. Mr. Black, first as Buchanan's Attorney General, and next as his Secretary of State, is good authority upon the subject, and his testimony of Stanton’s views and services as one of the official advisers of Buchanan we are not dis- posed to question, It appears, then, that under Buchanan's administration Stanton was not only a democrat but a State rights democrat, and that to the last chance he was in favor of compromising with the Southern secessionists, but that upon the question of surrendering Fort Sumter he supported Black and some other members of the Cabinet against the shameful alternative of ‘a surrender, which the President had resolved upen; that thus the trembling imbecility of Buchanan was over- come and his proposed answer to South Caro- lina essentially changed, for “‘it was agreed that Fort Sumter should have men and provisions.” General Cass, Secretary of State, had before this withdrawn from the Cabinet in disgust on learning that an order to strengthen the forts of Charleston harbor had been “‘unaccountably put off,” and that ‘‘the delay was‘ acquiesced in by the President.” What an exhibit is this of Buchanan's drivel- ling imbecility! Mr. Black says that Stanton, while ‘always true, did not turnish one atom of the influence which brought the President round on the answer to South Carolina.” In short, we are left to the inference, from Mr. Black’s statement, that it was himself that pre- vented a surrender by Buchanan of the United States to South Carolina. Mr. Black's testi- mony in the premises, then, may be ‘thus summed up :—First, Stanton, as a momber of Buchanan's Cabiget, was the righthand man of Black, and though a man of no influonce, he was sound on the main question; secondly, that Buchanan would have surrendered the United States to South Carolina but for the resolute resistance of the Northern members of his Cabinet, including Black and Stanton, and thirdly, that Black is not half so black as he has been painted by the radicals, but really is the man who saved the government from Buchanan's contemplated disgraceful capitu- lation. ( Somernine Asout Lopgz.—The Paraguayan chief, Lopez, is not dead, as has been reported a dozen times and contradicted as many more. He atill lives, and expresses as much determi- nation as ever to live. Latest accounts from Rio Janeiro via Lisbon state that he is at a place called Panadera, and not without fol- lowers, It is also announced that he intends to fight; but, for certain reasons, he will pur- sue a guerilla system of warfare. This looks as if the Paraguayan war is not yet ended, notwithstanding that the allies proclaim the termination of the war and announce the return of the Brazilian and Argentine armies, which are to be reduced toa peace footing. If this news proves true we may expect to see Lopez before Ascuncion ere long. Even the hasty retreat of the provisional government from that capital would not be so very surpris- ing. From present appearances a movement of some kind is in contemplation by the man whom the Brazilian empire endeavored to sub- due, but could not, Exrepitien,—From the details which we have given our readers of the composi- tion and plan of operations of the Darien Isthmus exploring expedition, soon to leave this port, under command of Lieutenant Selfridge, U. S. N., we are oonfident that if there is a practicable ship canal route across that isthmus anywhere it will be found, Yhe expedition will go thoroughly prepared for the exploration against the savage Indians, the tropical climate and the tropical jungle through which our men will have to cut their way, and we hope their labors will be crowned with the discovery of a route along which, from sea to sea, @ ship canal may be opened without a lock or a tunnel. From the reports of partial explorations made from time to time we think, too, that such a route will be found, and that thus the grandest com- mercial problem of the age will be solved, Tae Sratz CANAL ConveNntI0N.—The Canal Convention at Rochester was opened in grand style. ‘The great speech of the day was from Horatio Seymour, who advocated the abolition of the contract system, the placing of the canals absolutely under the Canal Commis- sioners, with the Canal Board as an advisory body ; the reduction of the tolls, and even the total abolition of tolls if necessary, to secure the trade of the West. From the applause with which the ex-(iovernor’s views wore re- ceived they doubtless were the programme of the Convention. We apprehend, too, as the Western States are beginning to run their grain down the Mississippi, and are looking with a wistful eye upon the St. Lawrence, that our Erie Canal tolls will have soon to be reduced to a.very low figure, or that this Western trade will be lost tous. We fear, again, that our scheming and plundering politicians will only, as usual, make a party job of it. Women’s Riguts at Wasitnaroy—Sen- ATOR Pomeroy aT THE HELM.—From the pro- ceedings of the Women’s Rights Convention at Washington yesterday it will be seen that Senator Pomeroy is working like s beaver in the cause, and that in proposing to establish it by Congress in the District of Columbia and in the Territories, including Utah, he means business. Who knows but that he may turn up as the women’s rights candidate for the next Presidency ? Certainly he is in a position to head off all competitors, and he is going the right way to do it. : A Coriovs Crrmixat Coyrrast.—Prince Pierre Bonaparte and Prince Murat are’ to be placed on trial at Versailles, France, the one for a fatal shooting and the other for assault and battery on 4 magistrate. When Napoleon Bonaparte the First and Joachim Murat swept into Russia the latter was wont to address the retreating Cossacks in the words, ‘Get out my way, you vermin!” The “lower orders” of Paris have been just now ‘in the way” both of a Bonaparte and a Murat. The Postal Convention. Tho Convention of Postmasters assombled at Washington included functionaries from Now York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Balti- more and Indianapolis. It has sent to the Postmaster Genoral the result of its delibera- tions in a serles of recommendations for postal reforms. These are nearly all ‘excellent. They recommend a great deal better box than that now in use at the street corners. They also, in speaking a good word for the new stamps, recommend that the department secure “‘s afer and better article of gum.” Better than all, they favor a reduction if newspaper postage, They are men of sense, perception and progress, In what they say of the registration of letters they seem to be penetrated with the notion that the system is thoroughly ridiculous, and wish to hint deli- cately that it is possible to make it less so. They recommend that the fee forthe registra- tion of letters be reduced from fifteen centa to six cents, and that the people be persuaded to abandon the registration system in favor of the money order system. Although the gov- ernment accepts a fee for registration, this does not make {t responsible for the loss of registered letters. The registration fee only guarantees that more care will be taken of the registered letter. This is an admission that the government takes less care than it might of other letters; and such an admission is itself a piece of official impudence. The Brooklyn Ferry. The people who sleep in Brooklyn will be delighted to hear that the Union Ferry Com- pany does not run its boats for the sake of making money. This is, perhaps, the most refreshing thing that has come to their notice this long while, and their gratitude to the unselfish capitalists who run five ferries with- out a mercenary thought ought to express itself in monumental brass. They must rejoice to know that the company wants to do this thing for ten years longer, and therefore seeks a renewal of ite ruinous lease. This company wants a new lease just now for this reason :— The Bridge Company take ground that en- croaches on their present position, and this will compel them to build a new slip. But their lease runs out in a year, and it will not pay to build a new slip for a year’s use; hence they want a new lease to justify the extrava- gance of a new slip. They will have to have it, no doubt, for it is sich a bad investment, this ferry business, that perhaps no one else would apply for the lease, and the people might be left without the means to get to Brooklyn, How could the Mayor have the heart to ask these self-sacrificing persons to lower the rate of fare to one cent? Tae Vinarnia Bitt.—Mr. Edmund's amend- ment, providing for a test oath for members of the Virginia Legislature, was adopted in the Senate yesterday and engrafted on the House bill. This will make it necessary, even if the bill is passed as amended, to send itdack to the House for concurrence in the amendment, and consequently renders the early admission of Virginia and an endorsement of President Grant's policy very doubtful questions, The vote in the House was so largely in favor of Mr. Bingham’s original bill that even the tac- tics of the terrible Butler may not prevail to force a concurrence on*the obnoxious amend- ment; but he may by superior strategy tack some additional device to it which will send it back again to the Senate and probably keep it bouncing between the two ends of the Capitol until Grant and Virginia, out of patience, will ory with Mercutio, ‘‘A plague o’ both your houses !” Rosgson’s Bia IpgAs.—Mr. Dawes, in his assault on the extravagant expenditures with which the administration threatens us, comes trémendously to the support of those allega- tions against Mr. Robeson that were made the other day by Neptune’s first cousin, our keen old grandfather, Gideon Welles. Welles re- minded Robeson that he was making a great splurge with the navy, but making it on money he was not authorized to spend. Behold his estimates. He wants three million and a half for a year, and Gideon did with half a million. New Views oF Swinsurne.—Some time ago we exposed very freely certain enormous abuses that had crept into the administration of the Quarantine at this port. At that time the Health Officer found champions in nearly all the city papers. They were ready to sus- tain him on every possible account against our charges. Now they give us another tune. By the despatches of the Z’ribune and Times we are happy to see that, though late, the other papers fully sustain all we alleged. They assent that the enormities of the Quarantine abuses are scarcely fit'to publish. Better late than never. Tue Frrexp or Loaan.—Logan also has a friend. This friend thinks that Logan was a victim. He has his theory that the shooting of Logan was « ruse of the detectives; that the bullet was a feeler—a thing thrown out to bring Logan to the confessing point, so that he might tell all about the Rogers murder, This theory is. ingenious. Logan’s friend wants to ‘know why there is not as much noise made over the murder of Logan as there was over the murder of Rogers. This, O friend of Logan, is because the community feels that there are some men it can spare very well and others that it must regret. ‘One man is as good as another” in most respects; but there is a little prejudice in favor of an honest man yet. ‘Tus Boarp or Int Heatru.—A startling instance of the incapacity of the Board of Health to extinguish the smallpox has been brought to light by one of its inspectors. It seems a young lady, while sick with the small- pox, attended a ball recently. Other instances of carelessness or oversight not quite so bad on the part of the Board are reported. They propose now, however, to do the next best thing—prosecute the doctors who attended | these cases and failed to report them. Tne Orstrvotions at Hert Gate.—A letter from General Newton relating to the feasibility of cutting a canal through Hallett’s Point, in Hell Gate, has been communicated to the House by, the Secretary of War. The General does not favor the idea of a canal, but prefers to go on with the work of removing the rocks in the passage. He says that millions are saved to the government by prosecuting the work itself instead of letting it to a contractor. Imprisoumont for Debt Abolished tm Enge land. : Few of those reforms which are slowly but surely made in England can have relieved a heavier pressure of accumulated distress and agony than the abolishment, on New Year's Day, of the law of imprisonment for debt. Important modifications had already been gradually made in the English laws relating to debts, mollifying materially the barbarous legislation which reproduced in a degree the cruelty exhibited towards debtors in the early laws of the Athenians and in the Roman law of the Twelve Tables, The history of debtors’ prisons in London slone would reveal an unwritten and almost incredible sum of human wretchedness. It has supplied biography with startling anecdotes and romance with some of its most thrilling pages. What a scene must have been pre- sented at midnight in the White Cross street prigon on the opening of the new year, when the governor of the prison having notified the inmates that they were at liberty to depart, thirty-one of the ninety-four prisoners were welvomed by the crowd of relatives and friends anxiously awaiting them outside, and sixty- three begged to be allowed to remain till the next day because they had no homes to go to! The injustice and inexpediency of the old laws relating to debt have at length been acknow- ledged in England, as they previously had been in the United States and in France. Butthere is atill room for further reform, inasmuch as the new law does not cover judgments obtained in county courts, and does not reach the poorer class of debtors, Even here in the United States, and particularly in New York city, there is also room for additional protection of unfortunate debtors against merciless creditors. The Legislature at Albany might well provide that imprisonment for debt ghould no longer be practically possible here, as it is at present. Ludlow Street Jail, into which any poor debtor is now liable to be thrown, without warning, on the complaint, founded or unfounded, of an unscrupulous, creditor, that he or she is about to leave the country, and where his or her tor- ture may be indefinitely prolonged, is a blot upon our civilization. Joux Post ox His Rieats.—John Post is ready td strike for his rights. He is evidently a patient, long-enduring, much- exasperated man. He says he is a humane man. Nay, he is very fond of his horse. He is sofond of him that though he has only owned him two years he values him five times more than his real worth. What could give the horse this quintuple value to Post but love for him. This is true affection. Yet Post, thus loving his horse, is accused of cru- elty to animals in the person of that equine treasure. Could there be a more poignant in- sult toa man of gentle instincts? Is it any wonder that Post is ready to shoot? We do not believe that the abuse of which John Post complains is of such rare occurrence as it ought to be. Mr. Bergh’s subordinates are often so-extra vigilant that they see cruelty to animals where none is committed. We have heard, on the best authority, of a case in which an attempt was made to arrest a driver because he had some difficulty in the street with a balky horse. A less ardent zeal in the enforcement of the law would better accom- plish its humane purposes. , Tue CuBaN MEETING last night proved a lamentable fizzle, owing to the insane desire of Cassius M. Clay, who was the first great gun, to talk more about Clay than Cuba. The crowd got impatient and demanded more Cuba ; but Clay refused to be moulded to their will like clay in the potter's hands. An uproar ensued, which even the philosopher Greeley failed to calm, and the meeting ended with no satisiaction to the Cuban patriots. Tug AMERICAN BisHors AND INFALLI- BiLiry.—It is reported from London that the American bishops are oppoged to infallibility. We do not lay too much stress on this report ; nor do we care much whether it is true or false. What we do know is that the American people properly so-called will have nothing to do with Roman Catholicism if Roman Catholi- cism identifies itself with eo absurd a dogma as the personal infallibility of the Pope. Tar Connectiour Statz TEMPERANCE Con- VENTION, in session at Hartford, yesterday boldly took hold of a question which has for a long time been a stumper to the advocates of total abstinence. They discussed the fact that intoxication is almost unknown in European countries where beer drinking is common, and finally came to the conclusion that it was the result of race or temperament, and that it might be so in Europe, but it would not do here. Tue Income Tax.—The Committee on Ways and Means of the House reported a resolution, which was passed, declaring the intent of the Income Tax law to be that the tax is payable up to 1871. The law says that it shall con- tinue in force until 1870,-but probably the law makers are better able to define the true intent of it than ordinary people. Tox Dawes ManirEsto.—A number of the members of Congress favorable to the transfer of the Philadelphia Navy Yard to League Island took up the time of the House yester- day in retpting as far as they could the state- ment of Mr. Dawes relative to the cost of the transfer. They did not prove much except their own disgust at having the huge job set out for “Dawes to peck at.” Tar Gotp Panto.—The House committee examined a number of Wall street brokers yes- terday, all of whom confessed to having been actively engaged in the gold business at the time of the panic, but none of whom knew anything of the origin of the movement. If this is the style of testimony the committee is to rakeup algogether, they will have to render a report that there was no conspiracy at all, but that the thing just happened. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. SINGHAMTON, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1870, The Grana Encampment of the Department of New York, Grand Army of the Republic, began tts annual session in this city to-day. More than 150 delegates from 101 of the 116 posts in the State were in attendance. Agting Grand Commander Edward B, Langing, of Auburn, was chosen Grand Com- mander, in the place of General Sickles, whose term has expired. The body will undertake at this session to provide for the establanment of a Soldiers’ Home in this State,