The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1870, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. eee se cnnanaponnetn JAMES GORDON SENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youk Herarp. ‘ Rejected communications will not be turned. Letters an@ packages shou.d be properly sealed. Bi he) THE DAILY HERALD, published every day i the yea”, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price S12. jiume XXXV.. AMUSEMENTS THiS EVENING, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ver Thirteth st,—Matines daily, Performatice every evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—BvoK, Bow Many Hoss; 02, GOLD Up To 185, &c. Boox, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strect.—Taz Bugiesqua ve BAD Dickey, Anaces THEATRE, Broadway and lah stree!.-- URS. FRENCH THEATRE, léth at. and 6th avy.—La GzanvE UCHESSE DE GEROLSTEIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coryer of Eighth avenue and Wd st.—JOCKISSE, THE JUGGLKR—COOL a8 4 CUCUMBER. 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Advertisements, 3—Advertisements. 4—Fditorial: Leading Article on Earope, Austria and the Nationalities, Beast and His Policy— Obituary Notices—Interesting from Nova Seotia—Burgiars im Wesichester county— Amusement Announcements. 3—Telegraphic News from all Prrts of the World—The Free ‘trade Question and Press Laws in France—Council Debaies in Rome—Wash- ington; The President's Views of Mr. Dawes’ Speech; Serious Charge against Supervising Architect Mullett—Prince Arthur: His First Day 1a Wasbington—Comus’ Comic Congress—George Francis Train at Tammany Hall—Businees Notices. B—Religious: Interesting Discourses by Revs. Henry Ward Beecher, Chauncey Giles, Drs. Hepworth, Ewer and Everett—Jewisa Re- form—Mexico: Progress of the Revolution— Financial and Commercial Reports, y—The Fejee Islanas : Progress of the Annexation Iaea at the Antipodes—Internal Revenue Re- turns of City Railroads, Ferries, Gas Com- panies, Stages and Theatres—Real Estate Matters—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ments. §—New York City News—Court Calendars for To- day—The Excise Law in Brooklyn—The Right Woman’s Rights—Suburban Intelligence—Sad Case of Suicide in Newark—The Siate Capital Cuba—Yachting: The Dougias Challenge, &c.— Quarterly Statement of Post Office Busmness— Musica) and Theatrical Notes—Snipping lutel- ligence—Advertisements. NOTICE TO HERALD SU’ We will esteem it s favor if our readers will nform us, by letter addressed to this office, of iny dereliction on the part of the carriers of the Heraxp, cither in furnishing the paper late, substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled shects. Coat.—The unseasonable temperature of the weather may be fun for consumers, but t is death to coal dealers, MISDEMEANORS IN PitTsBuRG.—An alder- man in the city of soot and smoke has actually been sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment tor misdemeanors in office. This is certainly unconstitutional, for it is an unusual, if not a cruel, punishment, Tar BuruseamMk Treaty.—J, McLeary Grown, Secretary of the Burlingame Mission, has arrived at San Francisco from Hong Kong. He is probably on his way to rejoin his embassy, and, no doubt, as our Hong Kong correspondent stated some time ago, is charged with placing the imperial ratification of our treaty with China in the hands of the govern- ment at Washington. Farmers a8 Propucers AND SELLERS.— Commissioner Delano holds that a farmer's occupation is to raise produce and selling is only an incident of the production, There- fore the decision that farmers who sell their produce are to be taxed as produce brokers should be liberally construed. If it is true that Farmer Greeley’s watermelons cost him two dollars apiece in the raising and sell for only seventy-five cents in the market, it is well for him that selling is only an incident, and it is extremely hard on him that he should be taxed at all as a seller. Tur RzconstRucTION OF GzoRGIA—GeEN- s2aL TERRY TO BE SUSTAINED.—It appears that the President has resolved that General ‘Terry, military commander in Georgia, shall be sustained in counting out those members of the Georgia Legislature elected in disregard of the disabilities of the fourteenth amendment, on the ground that such elections, being un- sonstitutional, are void; and that, therefore, the opponents of such members, though re- seiving only a minority of the popular vote, are legally elected. Under this rule, accord- ingly, we may expect that very soon the Georgia Legislature will be regulated and that the fifteenth am2ndment will next be ratified. The constitution as it is, we are thus beginning to see, is considerably tighter than ‘the con- stitution as it was.” NKW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1870. Gould | Herald Correspondents and Foreign States- BurepeAnstrin and Her Nationalities We live in an age of experiment. All old things are passing away. All things are be- coming new. But the period is transitional. We know what the world has been, We know how men have been governed, what govern- ments have done and how much we owe thom. Tt is easy to croak and despise the past. It would not be much more difficult to find in the past much to admire, We neither blame nor praise. The ‘simple fact which commands our attention is this—we live under new conditions. Steam power, th? railroad, telegraphs and the newspaper have created if not a new heavens at lenst a new earth; and the whole thing is s0 new that we know not what to do with it. Experiment is everywhere. We feel the test- ing process here, But in Europe, where the old atill holds its place, this struggle is not felt. Europe, in fact, ia the field of experi- ment. All the nations uf that Continent are more or less in the crucible. True as this is of all the nations, larger und smaller, it is specially true of Austria. Europe in all her borders has telt the force of modern agencies. Iv one form or other every nation has yielded to it. Look at Great Britain, at Prussia, at Italy, at Spain, at Russia, at Turkey, evea. Austria, however, is the grandest example. Since Sadowa what changes have taken place in that empire! That awful day convinced the world and, what was more to the point, it convinced Francis Joseph that the old Austrian policy had no longer any chance. Prussia, so lang so much her inferior, had beeome her mistreas. By a northern and by a southern neighbor Austria had been pressed. No longer the mistress of Italy, no longer an integral part in the Ger- man Diet, which was formerly subject to her will, Austria made up her mind to bow to fate and to make the most of her chances. In the old direction chances there were none. It was all up. The Kaiser was a mame, but it was not much more. Bismarck, to Austria, had proved a more destructive foe than either Napoleon the First or Napoleon the Second. The first Napoleon destroyed the Holy Romany empire. The second Napoleon drove Austria out of Italy, But Bismarck drove Aus- tria out ofGermany. After Sadowa the ques- tion was whether Austria ad a chance for her life. Panting, bleeding and dying she lay, whon a friend took her by the hand, bade her be of good cheer and try once more. Who was this friend? He was not an Aus- trian. He had not been a friend of Francis Joseph. He was a Saxon, a hater of Bis- -marck and a man whom Bismarck had most terribly humbled. His name was Beust. Baron Beust no longer finding a sphere for his activity in Saxony had looked around, and, seeing such a field only in Austria, like a true and brave man he volunteered his ser- vices to the humbled and sorrowing descendant of Rudolph of Hapsburg. He saw a chance for Austria. Francis Joseph heard and lis- tened. Bismarck and his master were both angry; but they could not help it. What was Beust’s policy? Austria was a congeries of States and nationalities. Every State, every nationality was strong. The central government was weak. A little more of the old system and Austria was lost to herself. Each of the nationalities would be independent, and Austria proper, including the elegant Vienna, would be a part of the Prussian or German empire. There was but one way of escape. Hungary was clamorous for autonomy. Bohemia and the numerous other provinces were scarcely more contented. Hungary must be pacified, and so, too, must the other provinces. ‘‘Preserve the central authority,” said Beust, ‘but yield to the nationali- ties.” Since that moment Francis Joseph has yielded, and just in proportion as he has yielded Austria has recuperated. Hungary is now an indépendent kingdom, enjoying her own langnage and her own lands and Francis Joseph is her king. Concessions have been made to the Italians, to the Poles and to the Slaves. Seven universities in the em- pire were German when Sadowa was fought. The universities remain, more prosperous, perhaps, than ever, but in two only is German the language of the professors. Amore heterogeneous and babel-like empire never existed. A more retrograde policy was never practised. But in spite of the nation- alities, in spite of the Babylonish tongues, in spite of the seemingly retrograde policy Austria goes on and prospers. All over the empire it is felt that justice prevails, and con- tentment is universal. Beust has saved Austria. The hazard- ous experiment has so far brought forth good fruit, But the problem which Beust took in hand is not yet solved. At the present moment Beust is one of the greatest states- men in the world, He has deserved suc- cess. But trouble brews around him. A Pro- testant, he has brought a great Catholic State out of the death chamber. For his final triumph we hope and pray. But the experi- ment is so novel and unprecedented that we must wait for further results before we can decide. Meanwhile, facts justify the policy of the great Austro-Hungarian chancellor. Had it not been for the religious difficulties, it is our opinion that his success would have been com- plete. Caixa aND Japan.—We have despatches, by way of San Francisco, from Hong Kong and Yokohama. They report no extraordinary changes in the political aspects of either China or Japan, The revised treaty between Great Britain and China is severely condemned by the British merchants in China, as they claim it increases the duties on opium and substen- tially guarantees no additional safety or privi- leges to foreigners. The term of Mr. Bur- lingame'’s mission has been extended two years. ConerEss.—We expect that after the morn- ing hour the special questionin the House of Representatives to-day will be the bill for the admission of Virginia as amended by the Senate, and that the terrible.Butler will show his hand, and that Bingham will be deserted by some of his late supporters. The prospect of a lively debate, with a good deal of backing and filling, and explaining and protesting, is, with the taking up of the bill, very fair. SxatiNe.—The owners of rinks and skatiny pond proprictors are sad and dejected over the prospects for @ paying season. There has not as yet been a single day's skating im the metropolitan rinks. Mr. Douglas, of this olty, owner of the yacht Sappho, has just published in London two chal- lenges that we suppose English yachtmen will find it equally difficult to misunderstand or to ignore. He challenges, first, ‘‘any schooner yacht in Great Britain or Ireland to sail against the Sappho from Cape Clear to Sandy Hook, to sail on any day during the month of July the acceptor of the chaHenge may choose.” This challenge is to remain open for one month. The second challenge is *‘to sail any schooner yacht in Great Britain or Ireland trom the Nab Light to Cherbourg breakwater and back, any day during the first week in June,” and this contest may be de- cided ‘“‘either by one or three races over the same course,” Here, then, is a plain defiance at once for a fair trial of yachts on the Atlan- tic and in the channel. Our readers are already acquainted with the theory on which English yachtmen claim for their boats that they are fitter for the open sea than ours are, and they are equally familiar with the convic- tion broadly entertained beyond the Atlantic that American yachts have no chance to win’ against Englishmen in a channel race, They will watch with the more interest, therefore, to see how sincere English yachtmen are in their two opinions when they have so clzar an oc- casion to test ths correctneas of their views in two races against the same boat. We cannot praise too highly the spirit and the style of Mr. Douglas’ challenges. They are, we believe, the only important challenges recently issued for yachting contests, except the several series of challenges issued by Mr. Ashbury, We may let our national reputation for good taste and manly bearing stand by the way in which the owner of the Sappho proposes a contest without pitiful limitations and impos- sible conditions, as contrasted with the way in which the owner of the Cambria has proposed every contest, that has commended itself to his view of the chances. In Mr, Douglas’ letter to Mr. Ashbury, published at the same time with his challenge, he declares expressly his purpose to rebuke the insinuation “‘that Ame- rican yachtmen are afraid to meet their English competitors in any waters where the percent- age is not greatly in their favor.” This insin- uation, it may be remarked, was made with regard toa yachtman who was not eager to make any race, but who would sail an ocean race if it was pressed upon him, and no other. The ‘‘waters” alluded to, therefore, are the waters of the Atlantic Oceun, and it is worthy of note that we here have a leading English yachtman, and the owner of one of the finest ‘English yachts, admitting that the chances are greatly in favor of American yachts on the open sea. What, then, becomes of the theory of the superiority of the English model for scaworthiness? We are of opinion that any reflection of the sort insinuated comes very unhandsomely from an Englishman, as against Americans, within memory of tho tim> when the Harvard men went all the way to England to geta race, and then had to yieldevery point of difference regarding terms before they could get it. In Mr. Douglas’ defianc: there is no quibble, and no little limitation left as a means. of escape. We may commend it to gentlemen beyond the sea as the plain, straightforward way in which our yachtmen deal. We may also say for their information that the winter ocean race between three American yachts was made in ten minutes. If they have any fault to find with the prolixity of some yacht- ing correspondence this may help them to a knowledge where to make their complaint, We hope that the gallant owner of the Sappho will secure the races he desire and particularly that his challenge for an ocean race may be taken up by some such splendid craft as the Guinevre, the Aline or the Alarm, This would make a very interesting ocean race, and also make a noble addition to the number of foreign yachts to be in our waters next summer. With the presence of several foreign yachts here the America’s cap and the chances of a contest for its possession would be agreat topic of discussion—the more especially as Mr. Ashbury has so often declared his wish to sail for it. It appzara to us, however, that he, for one, has ruled himself out of a race for that trophy by his inability or unwillingness to comprehend the term3 oa which it is held. His claim to impose upon the holders of the cup the conditions upon which he shall sail for it is not modest, and his notion that it should be sailed for now accord- ing to the rules of the club that lost it nine- teen years ago is preposterous, particularly as this would rule out of tue race all but two of the yachts now in American waters, We are still of opinion that the America’s cup is @ trophy that should only change hands upon the clearest and least questionable demonstration of maritime sup2riority; that it should be never subject to narrower terms than those on which the America’ won it when she sailed “against the world” and beat a fleet of seven- teen yachts, Mexican News.—Our correspondent in the city of Mexico furnishes us with an account of the progress of the revolution in the State of San Luis Potosi, The latest news from that quarter shows that the revolt, headed by General Aguirre, is spreading, and that the revolutionista had pronounced against the gen- eral government. This movement, however, was anticipated, the governors of several of the States being ordered to raise troops to put down the rising. Matters look serious, and the gravest fears are indulged in by those who desire a reign of peace, law and order. JaNuaRy AND May.—We had them united yesterday. According to the almanac it was the 23d of January; but the warm sun and the soft south winds were the winds and tho sun of a pleasant day in May. A most extraordinary January this—no snow, no ice and the Hudson open nearly to Albany. Has some enormous comet dropped into the sun adding to its heat ? Has the Galf Stream changed its course? or have the internal fires of the earth been warm- ing up the ocean? We cannot tell; but we still expect a reaction, though if we have it not within a week, the chances this winter on this island for sleighing and skating will be slim. Tue Wrature AND Bustyrs3.—The present mild and uncertain state of the weather has a damaging effect upon business-generally, Our merchants and manufacturers are in @ quandary what to do and when to commence operations, The Late Geld Corser—Fisk and Befere the Congressional Committee. That disastrous ‘black Friday” to the Wall street bull ring on their gold corner, and the parties concerned in blowing up the bubble, are undergoing at Washington a Congressional investigation, On Saturday last Gould and Fisk, of the Erie Company, were before the inquisitorial committee, and the substaace of their testimony is that their grand experiment was made up of moonshine and green cheese. Gould, it appears, aftor a mature considera- tion of the subject, gavo it as his opinion that “all efforts to link the name of the President or Secretary of the Treasury with said gold cor- ner were malicious fabrications; that he be- lieved neither of those officers knew what was going on in Wall street” in the running up of that rascally corner. Fisk, however, who appears to have been the head devil of the ring, had hie own story to tell. In September last the Erie road was hard up—it was out of everything and was losing money. He saw a chance of making a raise on gold, and he resolved to go in. Gould ecconded the motion, for he had seen Corbin, and gave Fisk a letter to Corbin, and that Fisk, after a fall consultation or two with Corbin, was assured that he (Corbin) was all right behind the throne. Then there were more conferences with Corbin; and Fisk naively says that while talking with Corbin he felt all right; “but as soonas he was away from him he didnot feel 80 brave, and found himself getting shaky.” At last, to remove all doubts, that s2ccial messenger Chapin was sent with a letter to the President, then at Washington, in Western Pennsylvania; and with Chapin’s despatch thatthe letter had been delivered and was ‘‘all right,” the matter was clinched. The running of the gold corner and the grand smash-up, with that famous order from the Treasury Department to ‘sell four millions,” rapidly followed, when Fisk, as he informed the committee, thought it was abont time to go round and ‘‘see that damned old fool, Gorbin.” It seems, how- ever, that Corbin, with his cock-and-bull stories of letters from Mra. Grant, and of his intention to go right on to Washington and make it all right with the President, still mau- aged to pull the wool over the eycs of Fisk and fooled him asa Peter Funk fools a green coun- try gosling. Fisk, moreover, thought that he had been betrayed by .Butterfie'd. In short, from the reports of bis testimony, Fisk is still as much befogged and muddled as he was with the collapse of Corbin and his bubble on that fatal ‘black Friday.” Corbin is the man whose testimony, if truly given, will clear up this business, But‘wiere is Corbin? When last heard from he was out in Kentucky, reported sick. Since then, we hear, his whereabouts eannot be learned, It is probable, too, that he may not turn up until this investigation is closed; and as it is appar- ent that, as the President's brother-in-law, he made himself the convenient instrument of the gold speculators in their scandalous, perilous and disastrous venture of September last, re- gardleas of truth, honor and decorum, it would perhaps be as well for bim never to show his face again, except as a criminal who, from point to point, carefully feels his way into ob- scurity and forgetfulness. Prince Arthur, the President nnd Congress. The presentation of Prince Arthur to Presi- dent Grant will take place to-day, and after- wards the Prince will visit both houses of Congress. The Prince yielded a little point of etiquette in receiving informally a visit from Secretary Kish yesterday, but as Minister Thoraton stretched a point in inviting Presi- dent Grant to dine with him the young man may possibly have intended to be very gracious to our Secretary of State in order to make matters even. When he visits the House of Representatives he may hear tho debate on the amended Virginia bill and take a les- son in our politics from it, or he may hear General Butler dsfending the economy of the administration from Mr. Dawes’ attack and take from it whatever lesson the occasion may teach. In the Senate he may hear Sumner, the eloqueat denouncer of the Alabama treaty, or Chandler, the terrible foo of England, the frantic Pogram of the Senate, whose ‘‘home is in the setting sun,” or he may cast his royal eyes upon McCreery, who stood solitary and alone for England on the momentous Alabama claims question, Whatever he sees and hears the presentation and the visit to Congress will both doubtless be interesting and edifying. The Prince attended the Church of the Epiphany in Washington yesterday, and the large crowd which generally goes there to worship God was greatly augmented by an- other crowd which went t> see the Prince, and tae young sprig of royalty about evenly divided the praises and devotion of the occa- sion with the great King of Kings, Tue Presipent AND Dawes’ Spezon.—It is said that President Grant, in conversation with a committee recently said that Mr. Dawes in his speech against the economy of the ad- ministration had made several inaccurate statements. When General Butler gets the floor he proposes to prove this on Dawes, and we advise the latter gentleman to send im- mediately for old Grandfather Welles, Tue Feesers, Too.—The United States ship Jamestown, arrived at San Francisco from the Feejee islands, brings the joyful intelligence that those enlightened cannibals desire annexa- tion to the United States. The Feejee group of islands numbers one hundred and fifty- four, sixty-five of which are inhabited, and they are reported as producing » splendid article of sea island cotton. Why not annex them, however, for the purpose of » commer- cial and naval station in the South Pacific QOoean? In answer to the petition of the islanders let the Jamestown be sent back with the glad tidings to them that’ on the condition that they stop roasting and eating missiona- ries they are annexed. Guiap To Report Ir—That the Board of Health have adopted some good rules and issued some good instructions concerning the smallpox, and that there is no occasion, mean- time, for any apprehensions of a spread of the disease in Brooklyn, as it is really declin- ing in the infected districts. In this city the mass of the community only know of the existence of the malady from the reports of the Board of Health; but the precautions of the Board should none the less be respecied, even to the cleaning of the streets. men. The Cleveland Leader, a well conducted and generally a very intelligent journal, pub- lished in one of the most prosperous cities on Lake Erie, characterizes as humbug the re- ports of interviews with such distinguished Europeen statesmen as Bismarck and Boust by Heracp correspondents, and given in our columns. We assure the Leader that it labors under a grave mistake; and it augurs sadly for its knowledge of enterprise when it imputes to a newspaper like the Hzgzaip any attempt at deception in a matter of the kind in question. If our Lake Erie contemporary had taken the pains to have kept the rua of events in Europe he would have noticed that the statements to our correspondents by both the Prussian and Austrian Prime Ministers were amply confirmed by subsequent intelligence received by Atlantic cable, And it illy becomes an American journal to disparage the enterprise of a newspaper like the Heratp. In doing so it bolittles itself, and, so far as its influence goes, makes its readers believe that some human beings are 60 exalte] as not to be reached or talked to by gentlemon con- nected with a respectable press. We have yot to see or to hear of a prominent political personage who treats contemptuously the rep- reseniatives of newspapers who conduct them- selves like gentlemen. They, of course, havo to exercise becoming prudence in order to avo becoming the victims of impostors, charlatans and losfing Bohemians. But we feel assured in saying that there is not a dis- tinguished politician or statesman in Europe or America who would not treat courteously, and feel complimented by being visited by, any authorized representative of a newspaper like the New York Heratp. It is only sheets of the opéra bouffe description that the magnates in any country enteriain a distrust for, The eader may learn a profitable lesson from this gentle rebuke. Fine Arts=The Thompson Collection. The large number of connoisseurs assembled on Saturday evening at Leeds’ Art Guileries for a private view of the Thompson collection of oil paintings attests a revival of interest in the fine arts. It was noticeable that even the- attractions of a well spread supper table could not monopolize the attention of the invited guests in the presence of so extraordinary’ a display of pictures. More than seventeen hundred of these works are specified in the bulky catalogue, but this cannot include all the carloads of canvases that are piled at the storerooms, in addition to those that hang on the walls of the two galleries. Every variety of style and quality is represented in this strangest of collections, from the crudilies of tyros to the splendid perfoction of genuine old masters, As we have testified in a previous article, at least four hundred paintings in this collection are of a high order of art. Not a few are rare and indisputably authentic speci- mens of the skill of celebrated artists, Many which are not entitled to the foremost rank possess, nevertheless, undeaiable merits, And even among the grotesque, absurd and in the French sense “impossible” productions which make up the balance there are some that have a historical value as indications of talent that has ripened into power and distinction. Thus several early works of Bierstadt reveal the promise which his subsequent paint- ings have fulfilled. Not the least inter- esting department of the Louvre is a collection of “first sketches” by famous artists, which was presented to Louis Philippe by an eccentric Englishman. We were re- minded of these ‘“‘first sketches” by several works in the Thompson collection curiously illustrating the embryonic stage of talent of some of our best known artists, It seems that among the eccentricities of the late Mr. Thompson must be counted not only a sincere love of art and an intelligent appreciation of ita masterpieces, but a generoug disposition to encourage the struggling aspirant for fame. He was always to be found‘ at the elbow of the young ariist, stimulating his industry and ambition by liberal patronage. Sometimes he would buy out by wholesale tho miscellancous contents of the studio of an artist anxious to go and study abroad, and this may partly account for the trash which, it mu3t be ad- mitted, forms a part of this immense and unique collection. But, conspicuous in the bewildering variety which it offers, are many pictures worthy to adorn ihe finest public or private galleries in the world. Certainly nothing like it has hitherto been exhibited in the United States. Tae Rep River Arram.—The fact that the Hudson Bay Company has recognized the in- surgent government in the Red River region as the only legitimate government there marks a very important point in the history of the revo- lution, It must be remembered that the Hud- son Bay Company itself was the legitimate government there until it sold out to the Cana- dian Confederation; and if it has recognized the insurgents it will give them almost the preatige and fully ag much aid as any organ- ized ration could. An attempt to suppress the revolution by the New Dominion government is now out of the question; and, as the insur- gents have declared themselves independent, @ new republic looms up on our northwestern border, and the compensation that we de- manded of England for our Alabama losses is being taken piecemeal from her pooket, with- out any corresponding figures to her credit on our litile bill, Tue LicisLaturg.—The public were led to believe at the commencement of our demo- cratic reform State Legislature that it meant business, and that it would immediately look into the wants and requirements of the people and apply remedial enactments. Nearly a month, or about one-third of its time, has already been frittered away in log-rolling, dodging, buncombe movements, the healing of petty party splits, time-killing adjournments, bickerings over small fry appointments and looking after the pecuniary advantages of fat jobs. As yot nothing in tho way of business has been done, and the glorious anticipations of the people that they were speedily to be relieved of the burdens of radical legislation have vanished. Sunvrnan Harr-Way Hovsrs.—Unlesa we ean have a few days’ sleighing some of our suburban fashlonable roadside inns will be apt to feel a decided money pressure, as they say in Wall street apparent trifles in the present. deed, deduces her governmental and financial inferences and combinations about twenty-five years ahead, The stealing of a hatchet and a goat from a British settler at the Cape of Good Hope by a native afforded Britain a pretext for the great Kaffir war in that colony. .She was laughed at at first for her action and thea hooted for her apparent inhumanity. The hatchet and the goat and the war, however, brought her a valuable African colony, the possession of which enables her to trade te India to-day independently of the Suez Canal and Franco-Egyptian alliances. Grant may take a look at the thap of the Fe- jees. given has bee2 a great success. explanation of this difference between business The question. of the future of the Feejoe ———— Islands with respect to a civilized protectorate or great power ownership of the territory is of much more importance to the American people than what has been inferred from the subject as it was presented from San Francisco yesterday. attention of France, England and Germany, the European diplomacy being mainly dirccted with the view of “heading off’ American negotiations with the natives, Those facta are made patent by the publication in our columns to-day both of newspaper and official documents from New Zealand, to hand by the latest European mail, which show forth the fine resources of the soil of the islands, par- ticularly for the cultivation of cottoa and for coal mining purposes. influenced by local British interests, had for- warded a memorial to Lord Clarendon, a copy of which we append, praying for an English protectorate or annexation to Great Britain, and pointing out to the Foreign Secretary the very profitable advaytages which would from a constitutional adaptation of either plan. thus concerns them and countenances to the Feejees, how much more incumbent is it government in Washington to do «oP With either England or France, or both, ig the antipodal territory as owners or proteo- tors, and with its coal mines opened for the uae of a united Europzan steam fizet, Califor- nia would not bo easily guarded and would feel very insecure in case of a war between either or both of these “‘frieadly Powera” and the United States, It already engages the activa Some of the natives, accrue to Queen Victoria If England and France find that “it to turn their ears A far-seeing statesmanship never despises England, in- President Bustness AND Baris.—Basines3s among ous merchants, importers, jobbers, shopkeepers, wholesale and retail, is slack and dull; but. the ball season, as well as the theatrical sea- son, is unusually lively. The catalogue of balls, ronts, partios, &0., for the next twa weeks is large, and so far every society ball The simplest and balls is probably this—that when the men have less time required of them for business they have more time to give to pleasure. A few weeks more, howover, and the tide will tur: 4 OBITUARY. John I. Stephens. Yosterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, at his residence on Broad street, opposite Trinity church, Newark, N. J., Joho H. Stephens, one of the oldest residents and largest real estate owners of that city, was gathored to his fathers, at the ripe age of eighty-two years. Ie was born ia another part of the state, and went to Newark when very young, at @ period when, as he recently stated himse!f, there were only 12,000 inhabitants in the town. During & long series of years he was well and favorably known in connection with various public interests. more especially for his sturdy and persisvent efforts to preserve and ine crease the navigable faclilttes of the Passaic river. He was a most uncompromuing foe to the various railroad bridges, wito but slight success, however. In conjunction with his two sons-in-luw—Mr, Charles &, Milnor, a New York banker, and Mr. George Washington, a great grand nephew of the “Fatner of His Couutry’—ho caused to be built at the Highiands of Navesink, at a cost of $20,000, All Saints’ Memorial church, one of the bandsomest early Enghsh Gethic struciures in the State, which he presented to the parishioners, together with @ noat Schoolhouse adjoining. He studiously avoided politics all lus life, though from his sterling qualities a8 a Dusiuess man and great woalth he might easily have secured the highest city or state honors. AN unflinching demecrat, be was an ardent adinirer of “Old Hicsory.” Eight or ten years ago ‘ne retired from business and has since lived kindly, but without auy display whatever, in his plain look- ing brick house. In bis death Newark loses, proba- bly, the snost generally known, highly respected aud the wealthiest private citizen in her annals, His property in real estate and commercial interests is Teputed to be over a million and 4 hall. His tanerat takes place hext Wednesday, trom Grace chufcb, Henry Placide. This weil known and popular actor died at Baby. lon, L. L, op Sunday morning last, He was a native of Louisiana, and was well advanced in years. At an early age he adopted the profession of an actor and soon became distinguished for the able manner iu which he represented the various chatacters he ‘was cast in, Of late years he nad settled down into “old men” parts, and was best knowa for his ren- dition of Grandfather Whitehead, The last time he layed this part im New Yorx was at the Winter Barden theatre, when tbat place of amusement was under the management of Mr. Stuart, the occasion being a benefit for Mr. Biake, the veteran actor. His sir Peter Teazle and Sir Anthony Absolute were aiso admirably acted characters. Mr. Placiae per- formed professional engagements in all the towns and citfes of the Union, and to the time of his death maintaloed the reputacion of bt one of the bess of American actors. Personally he was a clever, genial gentieman, and his death wul be depiorea by Dumerous friends. NOVA SCOTIA. Proposed Alterations of Tarif'—Interviews with the President and Vico President of the United States—Political Feeling in Nova Scotia. A gentleman connected with the local goveru ment of Nova Scotia, now staying in this city, aas recently had interviews with the President and Vice President of the United States and also with secre. tary Fish upon the state of poliiical feeling in Nova Scotiu and the dosirability of tue United States gov- ernminent. by & conciliatory policy, winning over the Nova Scotians to more decided demonstrations of alliance, by which they may become in closer allt ance with the United Staies government and ulti. mately become tadependent of the Dominion influ. ones, He urges that, as Newfoundland is @ farming and fishing country, 1s would be good policy on the art of the United States to reduce the dutlesom rexdstuds and dried fish. Canada is trying for thus trade, and he urges that it 1s more desirable thas a trade showid be with the States than wita Can. ry Prince Edward Island 1@ a large potato-growiog country, as weil as a large tsh-producing country, and the saine liberal policy would be extremely ben- eficial to this country. for Nova Scotia he urges s Teduction of the rates on coal, which would be 6x- eenely, peneficial, he nas pointed out, to New Eng- jand. . 2 Both the President and the Vice President have Promised that all these suggestions shall receive Piompt attention, and if reduced to legislative eaact- monta mes be productive of beneficial consequences to this country aad widen the line of separation be- tween these provinces and the lnperial goverament, of Canada. 4 ARREST OF TWO BuRGLAR?—William Moody and Michael! Fay, sons of common toll, wero arrested at ‘West Farms on Saturday evening by officers Osborn and Burras, of the Thirty-second sub-precinet polic on a charge of burgiary. It appears that abou twelve o’clOck On the previous night tne prisoners fo- loniously entered tre resideave of Gouverneur Corsa, in the above village, by breaking througa a glass door. ‘Ine crash awakened Mr. Corsa, who, oa quickly descending the stairs, recognized both men, tre they had.time to disappear, carrying with them in their fight a large door mat, On ther arrest the accused were fuuy identified, and pleaded intoxtow on as an excuse for thoir vurylarious explots ‘thelr cxamination Will take place to-day.