The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, stetrerenesesNOs 2B Volume XXXYV... THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. — FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth at. ; om, SUMMER SuzNew at Long et Haines aa AMUSEMENTS NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—G: DBAMA oy RUY BLas. en nine WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIK, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtioth a.—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Buox, Buox, Ho MANY HOMO; OR GOLD Ur 101 Satine ath THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth — or Bap Dickgy. Matinee at 2 eM ear ese WALLACK’S THEAT! RE, Br oad @ Out SAR ‘RE, Broadway and 13th street, FRENCH THEATRE, Wth st. and 6th av.—La Onave ‘DES FORGERON'S—Le Sueriiog p'un Hour, dc. GRAND OPERA HOUS&, cornor ot Fighth avenne and 28d wt.—Davip Ganmiok—A PRovean ENTERTAINMENT. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mii strect.—GRevAN Orgea— Dre Freisouvtz. ROOTI"S THEATRE, Matineo—Hawrer. Evenli ehetwoen 5th and 6th avs.— fine Mewuiacs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, y-—PAUL Pay-Rou' MAGA‘ts. Matinoo at & eran MARS. F. B. 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Paar. 1—Advertisementa, 2—Advertisements. 3—Wasnington: Intense Excitement in the Senate Chamber; Sumner Excoriated by Trumbull; Butler to Read Bingham Out of the Republican Party; Passage of the Virginia Bull—The De- moralized Police—A Chicago Beef Swindler. 4—Europe : Interesting Correspondence from Paris, Rome and berlin—Yachting: Mr. Douglas’ Challenge to the Yachtmen of Great Britain; Account of the Loas of the Meteor—Balusky Speaks at Last: the Circumstances Under Which He Was Shot—David vrawford to Be Banged, S—Important Proceedings in the New York and Broklyn Couris—Mrs. Utt and Her Baby—New York City and Poilce News-—Coliector Baiiey’s Whiskey Ratds—President Bergh Cannot be Frightened—Ben Wood’s Collision—The Chi cago Divorce Market. G—Editorials: Leading Article on the Paraguayan Struggle for Independeoce—Amusemeut An- nouncements. 7—Telegraphic News from World: Industrial Trade Strikes in oll Parts of the Reform Agitation and France; The Infallt bitty Question and its Consequences in Rome—Prince Arthur: His Journey from Montreal and “rrival in New York—Playing on Players—Oakley, the Alleged Defaulcer, in Jail—Obituary-—-Lager Beer Dealers in Con- clave—The A. D. Kichardson Estate—Business Notices, . S—Smallpox: The Epidemic as it is to-day in the City—A Woman’s Retaliation: The Cowhiding Atfair in Jersey City—A Sharper Snapped by Wholesale Dealers—A New Explosive Agent— Scientific Lectures by Professor Doremus and Dr. Gould—Thieves on the Warpath—The Cus- tom House Cartage System—Brooklyn City News—A Brigade of Burgiars—Tue Peabody Funeral Tram. @—Financial and Commercial Reports—Naval #Frauds—Soctal Wickedness: Another Lunatic Asylum Case—Cheap Transportation of Grain— Marriages and Deaths. 10—The State Capital: Sympathy with Cuba; Re- butiding of the City Piers; Proceedings of the Legislature—The Queens of Finance: A New Power in the Land—News from Domingo and Hayti—A Confidence Uperator—frotting on Ice—The Fat Men’s Convention—Shipping News—Advertisements, 11—South America: The War in Paraguay; State of Affairs in Brazil—army and Navy Intellt- gence—The Great Tornado: Graphic Descrip- tion of its Terrible Effec:s at Cave City, Ky.— Tobacco Frauds in the Indian Territory—How the Bank Bargiars Do Thetr Work—Phosphoric Showers in California—Old Barrels—Shooting Affray at Bristol, RK. 1.—Advertisements, 1—Advertisements. NOTICE TO HERALD SUBSCRIBERS, We will esteem it s favor if our readers will inform us, by letter addressed to this office, of any dereiiction on the part of the carriers of the Heravp, either in furnishing the paper late, gubstituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled eheets. Ayorner Epipemio.—Considering the va- rious cases of sneak thieving, robbery and “skinning” that we record to-day, we may safely say that the symptoms of an epedemic of knavery are alarming. Jay Goutn’s Exrz Reporr—It reads well enough as a defence of the managers, but to the stockholders ‘it is not worth shucks,” for it shows no dividends.» Watered stock, like blue milk, iso thin diet for the buyer, though the first scller may get as fat as butter. Jor Croakers.—We begin to hear the croak, *‘What shall we do next summer for ice?”’ but it will be time enough to begin that croak at the end of February. We have noticed that, bard winter or mild winter, it does not much affect the price of ice. RerreNonMent AS Derinep AT ALBANY— An increase of offices, an increase of salaries, and an increase of jobs all round. At this rate of retrenchment our next tax levy will be increased from twenty to thirty or forty mil- lions; but the fiddlers, for all that, must bo paid. Tar Heratv’s CosmoporiTaNism.—The New York Hxrarp, like the Bible, is read nd appreciated in all parts of the world. In our mails of yesterday we received subscrip- tions from England, Ireland, Austria, Aus- tralia and various parts of South America. Of course this is of quite frequent occurrence ; NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1870.—I1RIPLE SHERT. ‘The Paraguayan Strugale for Indepondence. From the late reports in relation to the Paraguayan war it appears that the allied gov- ernments have at length arrived at correct conclusions in regard to the hopelessness of the struggle and have withdrawn their armies from the scene of operations. Such with- drawal was made absolutely n@essary by the popular clamor in Brazil and by the bank- ruptcy to which the empire was reduced. The failure to overthrow Lopez while he remained within easy reach of the allied armies, the reckless extravagance of expenditure upon the part of the Brazilian agents, the fears of the Argentine people awakened by the over- bearing attitude of their imperial ally, to- gether with other and lesser causes, have con- tributed to the popular dissatisfaction in all the allied countries, and have atlength broken down the dogged resolution of the Emperor to continue the war until the accomplishment of tho main object proposed by the treaty of alli- ance. This object, which the three nations solemnly but most unwisely bound themselves to attain before laying down their arms, was to destroy Lopez or force him into exile. This object has in no manner been attained, Lopez, it appears, is still in Paraguay, within twenty leagues of the direct geographi- cal centre of the republic, with an organized force, holding tho Cordilleras of Catiguazu, having a fertile country in his rear, and so intrenched as to render hopeless any attempt to dislodge him by such force as his enemies were capable of combiaing for a further move- ment. With an army of but twenty thousand men, and without hope of reinforcements, the allied generals saw the absurdity of attempt- ing hostile operations against such a position, two hundred miles in the interior of a hostile country and against a people who seemed to have revived and improved upon the warlike virtues of the Spartan times, With true imperial firmness Dom Pedro refused to believe. But there is a logic in events to which even emperors must sometimes yield; and when at last his trusted counsellor Parhaiios, pro- consul of the conquered capital (Asuncion), confirmed the reports of the ‘Prince Com- mander of all the forces of Brazil,” heir appa- rent, &c., &c., as to the absolute impossibility of carrying on another campaign, the Emperor sadly yielded to the popular demand and resolved to declare the war atanend. But there was a difficuliy—the fatal provision in the treaty of alliance in regard to the destruc- tion or driving out of the intractable Lopez, who would not be destroyed nor driven outside his country. It was decided to adopt the expedient of our popular assemblages and resolve him out. He was declared, therefore, to be a fugitive in Bolivia. But people who had considered that story on several previous occasions received it with distrust. Moreover, the Bolivians made search and did not find him. In this dilemma there came a happy inspiration to the great’ Parhafios, the Mephis- topheles of the alliance. By the treaty of alli- ance the fature boundaries of Paraguay were to be arranged so as to give to Brazil all the northeastern portion of Paraguay down to within a short distance of Lopez's actual head- quarters in the cordilleras, This arrangement was of course contingent upon the annihila- tion of Lopez. Now, pushing these proposed boundaries a little further to the south, we have Lopez in Brazil—being in Brazil, out of Paraguay—and therefore the war is at an end, the object of the alliance attained. This being the case, taere can manifestly be no impropriety in the little matter of the boundary, or if there is the provisional government will make it right, This is Brazilian logic—ingenious, but not wholly honest, Nevertheless upon the strength of this proposition comes the inevita- ble Lisbon telegram that ‘‘Lopez is wandering in the Brazilian deserts with a few followers,” and soon after, of course, the Paris contradic- tion, accompanied by the assurance that he is still ‘in the Cordilleras, with eight thou- sand men,” and later the ansouncement that he is marching against the allies with twenty thousand men, This force, there is little doubt, will rapidly increase the moment the pressure of the allied troops ceases to be felt on that portion of the population now within their lines. The provisional govern- ment will scarcely venture to remain in Para- guay, if, indeed, it does not surrender its func- tions at once in favor of the legally elected ruler. The principal member of this government fought for four years as an officer in Lopez's army. During this period he was threo times taken prisoner by the allies, and as many times escaped from his captors and rejoined his chief. On being taken a fourth time, how- ever, he consented to remain with the enemy, and was made a member of the ornamental triumvirate known as the provisional govern- ment, It is not likely that he would make any strenuous effort to perpetuate the power ot Brazil in Paraguay. We are ready to accept, therefore, the an- nouncement of the allied governments that the war is atan end. We have no sympathy for them in their defeat, and but little respect for the puerilé device with which they seck to cover it and persuade the world that the prin- cipal object of the alliance has been accom- plished. We do not expect that President Lopez will move immediately on the capital. To do so would be manifestly unwise; for the reluctance of the Emperor of Brazil to confess to the failure of war will no doubt delay to the last moment the final withdrawal and dis- bandment of his army. Meanwhile Lopez can afford to wait, and at the pro- per moment resume his own. We have no doubt that he will recognize the wisdom of the proverb, and ‘‘build a bridge of gold for a flying enemy.” Upon his resump- tion of power in Asuncion we trust he will justify the confidence which the HrraLp has always reposed in him, and refute by the moderation and magnanimity of his course the silly calumnies with which his enemies have sought to array against him the sympathies of the world. The official announcement recently made to our government that the war is at at end will open the river to Yankee enterprise, and he will soon be able to supply himself with our improved breech-loaders and with munitions of war sufficient to render improb- able any future invasion. Of course Lopez must anticipate a con- tinuance of hostility upon the part ‘of but it is worthy of record as showing with what favor the Herazp is regarded throughout tho worl. Mr. Fish, who has been as good a friend to Brazil in the Paraguayan war as to Spain in the Caban business, But fortunately Mr, Fish does not control nor represent the public opinions of this country, and the same arguments he made use of to justify the discharge of the Spanish gunboats are sufficient to condemn the false position he has maintained and still continues toward Paraguay. The gencral result, as we have sketched it, is eminently satisfactory to the American people, and the melancholy fact that the administration is at this moment arrayed against the only two people on the face of the earth who are engaged in a contest for republican independence has in nowise tended to alienate or deaden the popular sympathy for Cuba and Paraguay. Tho Arrival of Prince Arthur. Prince Arthur arrived yesterday in Now York, by the Albany express, at a quarter to one P. M., and was received by Mr. Thornton, the British Minister. No noisy demonstrations were made by the comparatively small crowds assembled near the Thirtieth street platform and in front of the Brevoort House, on Fifth avenue, A lunch at tho hotel, a drive in the Park, « brief interval of repose, dinner and a visit to Wallack’s completed the programme of his first day in this city. Undisturbed by calls, and delighted at the contrast between wintry weather in Montreal and springlike weather in New York, Prince Arthur must have been agreeably disappointed by his first impressions of our metropolis, The good- natured smile which on occasion lights up his healthy and intelligent English face indicates a happy fucility for enjoying the pleasures and ignoring the annoyances of fureign travel. Notwithstanding his light side whiskers and his greater height, Prince Arthur bears a strik- ing resemblance to the Prince of Wales as the latter appeared when in this country ten years ago. . Although but nineteen years of age, his manly air makes him look somewhat older. It is likely that the seclusion he prefers until he shall have personally delivered the message which he brings from his royal mother to the President of the United States will not be intruded upon. But he will doubtless be gratified by the courtesies which, both in Washington and, after his return, in New York, as well as in other cities that may be visited by him, will be freely extended to the third son of Queen Victoria, Yachtiag Upon the Ocean—The Scason of 1870. We publish to-day a challenge from Mr, William Douglas, Rear Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and owner of the American yacht Sappho, for an international ocean race with any schooner yacht in Great Britain or Ireland to sail against the Sappho from Old Head of Kinsale to Sandy Hook. Mr. Douglas prefers to start on the 4th of July, the day on which the Cambria and Dauntless leave on their contest across the ocean; but he states that he is prepared to sailon any day during the month of July the acceptor of his challenge may choose. Mr, Douglas also challenges any schooner yacht in Great Britain to sail a race from the Nab Light to Cherbourg Breakwater and back any day during the first week in June. These challenges were published in the London Ziimes of the 8th inst. We also publish a note from an amateur nautical member of Parliament to the editor of the Loadon Shigping and Mer- cantile Gazette, recommending that all yacht- men, captains, sailing masters or others feeling any interest in the forthcoming race (between the Cambria and Dauntless), to offer sugges- tions as to preparations, on the prevailing winds and currents, at that period, to Mr. Ashbury, the owner of the Cambria. All these movements indicate that the spirit of ocean yachting has received a renewed im- pulse among the yachtmen of England and America, Justiozk AND Munoy.—Judge Bedford has characterized his administration of justice since he has been in his present position with a rigid exaction that has called forth the charge on the part of some of the city papers that he has been too severe. When dealing with rogues severity is an excellent fault and deserves to be called a virtue. But a perusal of Judge Bedford’s seatence on Ellen Utt, which he delivered yesterday, will disclose the fact that when the case requires it he can temper justice with mercy. Ellen Utt has three children, the oldest only four years of age, and the Judge sentenced her, for the man- slaughter of Thomas Barrett, to only one year’s imprisonment, in order that she might come out and commence a new life before her children were old enough to know of her as a convicted felon. Ellen was not naturally a bad woman. She had been led away by bad associations and degraded by the brutality of a bad husband; but she cherished a mother’s love for her children, and Judge Bedford’s humane sentence will touch the kindly chords of every mother’s heart. Tut Track Crear Turovan ro San Fray- o1sco.—This is the report from the Pacific Railroad for the 20th of January. No snow on the great Plains, nor in the Black Hills, nor in the passes of the Rocky Mountains, nor in the lofty chain of the Sierra Nevada, to ob- struct the trains; but a clear track from ocean toocean, At the same time the record shows the Hudson open to Albany; and the same is reported of all the European rivers emptying into the North Sea and the Lower Baltic, which are usually fast locked in ice in mid- winter. Surely some wonderful things in the heavens and the earth, in the sun and his satel- lites are going on of momentous import to our little planet, but of which we know nothing. Ba.asky's STATEMENT.—Elsewhere we pub- lish the statement of George Balasky, who was shot by Mr. Biddle several days ago, as nade to our reporter yesterday. He charges that Afnie Raymond gave notice of his entering the house to Biddle, who rushed from a room and shot him; that he had never quarrelled with either, and was ignorant of the cause of the assault, which is to him still a mystery. Such, in brief, is his story, and we give it without comment. Squatty—The weather among the demo- cratic spoilsmen at Albany. The harvest is rich and glorious; but the reapers are clamor- ous and their name is Legion, and many of them distrust the Wigwam, and the “‘great tribu- lation” is threatened. In a sudden change from a long drought ‘‘it never rains but it pours.” Universal Negro Suffrage. The fifteenth amendment requires now only he vote of Georgia or Texas in order to bo proclaimed an article of the federal constitu- tion, ‘the supreme law of the land.” Within a week or two we expect this proclamation will be made. What then? The amendment de- clares that neither tho United States nor any State shall make any abridgment of the right of suffrage on account of race, color or pre- vious condition of servitude; and it further provides that Congress shall have the power to enforce this thing by appropriate legislation, The States of Delaware, Maryland and Ken- tucky, therefore, in their next elections will have to admit the right of the negro to vote, which they have heretofore denied him; and if they fail todo it Congress will interpose. And so with any one of the States. The democrats have resisted this amendment othe last ditch, and on the ground that it gives to Congress the power to regulate the machinery of our elections in all the States. We hold that it simply gives Congress the power to enforce the equal rights of the colored race in any case where a State may refuse to grant or fail to enforce them. This, of course, may involve in certain cases an overhauling by Congress of the State election machinery ; but we do not suppose that the amendment will be construed, for instance, as turning over to Congress the management of the polls of this city from the sachems of Tammany Hall, unless they exclude Pompey from the ballot box. It follows that the policy adopted by the old line democrats of Virginia and elsewhere down South—the policy of recognizing the negro and cultivating him as a political ally—is the only course now left for the democrats in all the other States, and the sooner the Tammany Regency act upon this idea the better it will be for them and their candidate for the next Presidency; for negro suffrage is fixed, and there will be no getting round it, Tur Cororep SENATOR FROM MIssIssIPPI.— W. H. Revels, the negro who was elected by the Mississippi Legislature to fill the unex- pired term to which Judge Sharkey was elected, isa carpet-bagger from Ohio. He has only a year to serve, and as he must of course wait uniil the State is admitted he will hardly have an opportunity to shine very brilliantly among his distinguished confrdres, unless it is by his glossy complexion. But he will present himself under excellent auspices. He: will come representing in himself not only a trium- phant issue of republican policy, but he will take with him a strong tenet of the democratic creed—a memorial for the relief of political disabilities, He ought to teach a lesson in moderation and justice to Sumner and Butler. Senator Ramsxy’s Postan TELEGRAPH Brit.—We call upon all men in Congress in favor of an impar.ial and uniform telegraph system in connection with the Post Office Department, and upon all in favor of cheap despatches, to give a helping hand to Senator Ramsey's Postal Telegraph bill. We call upon our contemporaries of the newspaper press throughout the land to ventilate this subject, so that we may know who are for a private corporation monopoly and who are for fair play and equal rights to the people. We want to know, and we want Congress to know how the land lies. Panios IN TueatREs.—Another bill has been introduced in the State Senate to provide against panics in theatres. Every session something is started in this direction, but we do not see that anything decisive has yet be- come a law on the subject. It is well enough to advise people at an alarm of fire in a theatre to keep their seats, but if everybody followed the suggestion strictly the fearful consequences are obvious in case the alarm proved true. The only right way is to make stringent laws providing for numerous places of egress in all theatres and forbidding the cumbering of pas- sage ways with chairs and stools, and then en- forcing the law. Cottector Baitey’s WusKey Raw.—Col- lector Bailey has made a move that he may find will not be to his advantage. In seizing the books, papers and stock of twenty important and responsible dealers in spirits in his district, and thus putting a temporary stop to the business of these establishments, the energetic official will probably discover that he has overstepped his duty. The fact of Mr. Bailey being an agent of the government does not warrant him in pursuing a line of policy which, although vigilance may suggest, justice cannot sustain. Peasopy’s Memory.—In the Assembly yes- terday the resolutions passed the day pre- viously to send a committee to attend the funeral of George Peabody were reconsidered and laid on the table. It has usually been the case that the evil that men do is forgotton afier their death, notwithstanding Mark Antony’s suggestion to the contrary, and it happened lately even among the radical Con- gressmen that they found kindness enough to speak well of poor Fessenden. But in the case of Mr. Peabody, of whom nothing but laudation was admissible in life, all sorts of slights are being shown his memory and dark slurs cast even upon his munificent bequests. Eriz Lecistation.—It seems to be neces- sary whenever the Legislature meets that some legislation is required on account of Erie. The latest is in regard to the late strike, and is a bill to provide for paying wages to rail- road employés within a special time. It would save the State time, money and trouble if Erie had a legislature of her owa as well as an opera house. SMattpox.—The announcement is made that from the first ot January up to the present time there have been over two hundred cases of smallpox below Fourteenth street and east of Firstavenue. This is the largest number known for years in the city, but a diminution of deaths is noticeable within the past few days. Itisa pretty well established fact by this time that the introduction of the foul disease was principally by emigrants from European countries. Very StTRANGZ For Bostoy—A refusal by the City Councils to give a pudlic reception to Prince Arthur. ‘The Hub” evidently wants greasing, or it would whirl round with great rapidity at the very mention of the Prince. But there is no accounting for the vagaries of } these provinaial towns. « Wall Street—A Seusatton tn Rock land Shares. A year ago, when the overissus of Erle fore ¢4 the Stock Exchange into defensive measures, a‘ rule was incorporated in the bylaws requiring the registration of all shares deatt in at the Board as well as thirty days’ preliminary notice of any intended new issue. Yesterday considerable excitement pravailed in Wall street owing to the enforcement of this rale in the case of the stock of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, which was, by direction of the Board, dropped from the list of stocks. It appears from the admis- sion of one of the officers of the company that twenty thousand shares of the par value of two million dollars were issued last June, This new stock was not registered in tho form prescribed by the brokers, and hence its exclusion. The dealings wore banished to the street, where a busy group continued to buy and sell the stock despite tho action of the Exchange. When it was found, however, that a great ado was making about a matter which had been already well known to the public, the excitement subsided, and though Rock Island was temporarily off the stock list it soon resumed the even tenor of its way with the other shares, The secret of the whole affair lies in the speculative strategy of tho “bulls” and “bears.” The latter have sold immense quantities of the stock for future de- livery, and iis obstinate fiamness exasperated them into magnifying a breach of the discipline of the Stock Exvhange. The new issue was formally authorized in a meeting of the direc- tors last June, public notice of which was given at the time. It is not to be understood that we look with favor upon such over issues, But the effort to bring odium upon the road is only for speculative purposes. The stock- jobbing cliques are only fighting among them- selyes, and if they overreach each other by any device it is their Lusiness and not that of the public. The Virginia Bill in the Senate. President Grant has been wounded in the house of his friends. The Senate passed the Virginia bill at a late hour yesterday afternoon, but so loaded down with radical amendments, conditions precedent to the admission of the State, that it must go back to the House, where the terrible Butter is pre- pared to drive through the amendments against the opposition of his dearest enemy, Bingham, or perish in the attempt. The bill, howegr, will not probably come up until Monday, and in the meantime the terrible Butler will use all his efforis to win over opposing members to his side. If the Dill» is passed as the Senate has amended it President Grant’s pol- icy of moderation, as shown in his proclamation ordering the election in Virginia and providing for a separate vote on the obnoxious clauses of the constitution, is virtually trampled upon and disregarded, and the split among the republicans becomes wider than before. It is a fight between the wise and judicious coun- sels of the President and the bitter end fanat- icism of the extreme radicals. It is in fact a discordance between President Grant and the leaders of the party that elected him. His more radical friends in the Senate have ven- tured heretofore to show a disregard for his policy in minor matters, such as rejecting some of his nominations, but in the present case they have flung down the gauntlet directly at his feet. GENTLEMEN IN CoNGREss.—Some of the gentlemen from Massachussets, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, in Congress, have been indulging in ungentlemanly observations and insinuations towards each other. Be- tween Messrs. Dawes, Slocum, Kelley, Garfield and others, on Wednesday and Thursday last, there werd ideas exchanged which would have been enough for two or three duels in the good old slavery times. Now it appears to be all bark and no bite, and the Southern Hotspurs have disappeared. Lastly, it is a remarkable fact that, late a regular fighting man by profes- sion, the Hon. John Morrissey should turn out one of the most exemplary gentlemen in Congress. Tue Storm In THE West.—We publish in another column full and interesting accounts of the great storm which visited the Western States and caused so great a loss of human life and destruction of property. The telegraphic accounts, meagre as they were, prepared us in a meagure for @ serious story; but the newspaper accounts are full of the particulars of the dreadful effects of the cyclone, and from these it will be seen that the late tornado was one of the most terrible visitations to the sec- tion of the country where it raged that had occurred in years, INDUSTRIAL AND POLITICAL AGITATION IN Francz.—Our cable telegrams from France, dated at midnight yesterday, report that the trades “strike” industrial provincial agitation at Le Creuzot had subsided, through the efforts of the proprietor of the works and in the presence of two thousand six hundred troops of the line. The appearances were threatening at one moment, and, when taken in connection with the political aspect as reflected from Paris, rather serious. The radical press of the French metropolis had indeed at once seized the opportunity afforded by the action of the workmen to swell the current of popular dis- content as much as possible. The govern-- ment remained, however, firm and the authori- ties healthily on the gui vive, so that it is pretty certain that the cause of “law and order” will be maintained in France, as it ever has been under constitutional governments, against iilezal combinati Caprat Sportna For A Frant.—Cabral, the determined and open enemy of President Baez, of St. Domingo, does not approve of the idea of the United States throwing its strong arms round the little Dominican republic, thus insuring it a peaceful and prosperous future, Cabral has sense enough, however, to see that once the American power is established in the island thet he and the rest of the turbulent spirits of which he is a type will have to keep quiet and turn their attention to other and more civilized practices than those of robbery and revolution. Ff he must fight and cannot live without excitement, why not emigrate to Mexico? In that congenial clime the bellige- rent Dominican might possibly be accommo- dated vi Women in Wall Street—A New Phase of the Woman Question. A few days since our financial writer, whosa observation is only equalled by his gallantry, recorded the fact that a couple of fashionably ‘ressed Indies made their appearance upon tho bm VY frottoira of Wall stroet and were conspic- pee for extensive purchases and sales of stocks, the transactions in which they con- dicted wi ‘th a savoir faire of the routine of the Stock Exon “208° that could have been derived only fom # ° intimate familiarity with the in- teloaoles-of ops. ‘cations in that moneyed region, We have been % the pains since to learn further of these s and have fallen upon * the astounding discovery that woman in ¢ Xtending hor carver of usefulnese under «‘2® teachings of the modern school of female Progressionists has entered upon the novel p Tofession of stock brokerage. Here is somethi ° for the con- sideration of Susan B, Anthony ° 42d her sister apostles of woman’s rights. Wit.) What com- placency must she and they rego, d the suc- cess which has so far attended thet efforts, If finesse is woman's gift, why not financy also 7 We all know the skill with which she aumia- isters the domestic: exchequer. Why may net her abilities take a wider range? Woman has made no mean mark in poetry and sculpture. Why should she not distingnish herself in al branches of the artsand sciences? If women can regulate the expenditures of a hovseholé and audit a grocer’s bill, why may she not man- age a bank account? If she can keep a shop, why may she not sell bills of exchange? Why should she be compelled to restrict her talents to certain departments of business and be de- nied their exercise in all? And as to Wall atreet, she would be quite in her element, The nursing of a ‘‘corner” would enjoy her maternal skill, ‘‘Calls” would be her delight. The capacity of woman for this new sphero of business being conceded, some little difficulty arises as to the specific nomenclature it would be her duty to assume. HH ia the experience of Wall stroet that ail who go there, no matter how unbiased at: first, gradually take sides with either of the respective opposing elements of tho Stock Exchange. Now our politeness prevents ua- from conjecturing that she would become a “bear.” We are aware, of course, that there’ are such things as female ursines, but they are confined to the kingdom of the lower animals, On the other hand, we are loath to think that she could be so Hibernian as to become a “‘bull.” But this difficulty is ono which may be easily obviated. The question of her status will settle itself in some way when woman regularly takes her place in the stock board. Meantime we congratulate ihe brokers that their labors are to be shared by the fair sex. How refreshing the time when the bass and baritone of ‘seller sixty” shall harmonize with the tenor and soprano of “buyer thirty,” and the halls of the Stock Exchange shall exhibit a variety of costume ag diverse as the floors of a ballroom. Vive la Sfrou-frou Vv Tur New Hayrien GoveRNMENT.—Sal- nave’s enemies are masters of the situation, and, of course, are desirous of proving that they occupy that position. Among their first acts were decrees outlawing Salnave and a number of his adherents. A prise has been set upon the head of the ex-President. Tha new government has also undertaken to regu- late the financial affairs of the couatry—a rather difficult task, by the way. Salnave hag not yet been captured, and the chances o! escape from his enemies are good. When he gets out of danger will he keep quict? We think not. In Baf Opor—The Senators in Congress, Pomeroy and Ross, and the Representative of Kansas, at home among their radical brethren. Resolutions have been introduced in the Kansas Legislature asking these three wor- thies to resign, because they were somewhat fishy on Andy Johnson's impeachment, and. because in the way of jobs they have had too ‘many {rons in the fire. Ross, for saving John- son, has had a hard time of it, and his case looks bad; buat Pomeroy will probably escapa as a champion of woman suffrage. Kansas is getting virtuous. True as Gosre1—The report of Dr. Harria - that about sixty miles of the streets south of the Park, or Fifty-ninth street, are very dirty and unbealthy, and that. the dirt ought to be scraped up and carted off. But it ia the old story, and we shall probably have to wait for the scraping till just a day or two before our next election. Law anp Lunacy.—The necessity for some more clearly defined processes of law to pre- vent abuses in the matier of confining persons in lunatic asylums has been forcibly illustrated heretofore by incidents in real life, and to-day we have another case. The persistency of the criminals, if the story as told ‘is true, in trying fo deprive the victim of his liberty, would most probably have deprived him ere long of his senses. Mr. Husted. proposes to intro- duce a bill in the Assembly which will cover the whole ground, Tu DripLomats IN WASHINGTON are excited over the question of precedence at the dinners to be given Prince Arthur by Minister Thorn- ton, and General Grant has laid himself open to severe criticism by excusing himself from attending the first one. Between the Presi- dent's want of diplomacy and the diplomatia sticklers for etiquette we stand ona volcano which any little South American representative may set in eruption at a moment's notice, Woman’s Wayts.—At the late women's rights gathering at Washington the Hon, James M. Scovel spoke for the cause in behalf of Jersey, and on asking ‘What does woman want?” he answered, ‘She wants wark, she wants bread, she wants; clothes.” But the learned Jexseyman forget her greatest want in, | forgetting that she wants the latest fashions. Tae Aspurtion og PonyGamy.—The bit introduced by Mr. Cullom in the House for the abolition of polygamy is being considered by a committee, and it was shown by a wii- ness that if the bill was passed the Mor- moas would resist its execution, Tn that case the question arises as to which side the Mor- mon wives would ty! for or against their husbands ; whethes they desire such emancipa tion as the bill would give them or whether, on the principle that half a loat is better than no bread, they prefer part of a husband to none at all. reculative daughters of Eve, - ;