The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1870, Page 6

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I—Advertivemonts. 2—Advertisements, 3—Washing: The Virginta Bil Signed by the President; The League Island Iniquity Squeich Butler’s Defence of Grant’s Ad- munistiation; Auother Bill for Inflating the cw cy—Navai = Inteiligenco—Prince Arthur: A State Dinner at the White Louse; An at the Opera—The Peabody in the Tuner Harbor of Port- lane Shootiag Matches. puth America: al and Kallroad Unterprises; Disastrous nd Slide in Ecuador—Cuba: Sereuatc to Mr. Seward; No Expectation of ‘Yermmation of the Kevolution— cat Transcon- pure of Saluave—Police Hemoraliza- tral Lord Alnsley—ihe Monthly —General orge H. Thomas— ‘ansiers—Resuit of Keeping Bad S~ Proceedings tn the New York and Brooklyn and United States Supreme Courts—che Wilkes Live! Sx ‘forts Made to Postpove the Trial— The Lat ke in Ene: The Latest irom the Seat of War—New York and Brookiya City and Poitce News—Women’s Rights in South Caro- lina. 6—Editorials: 1 ing Article on Spain and the Bourbons, France and the Ra: 13, the Two European Questions—Amusement Aunounce- Menta. * 7—Telegrapute News From all Parts of the World : Rumored Death of the Pope; Papal Infailibitty Arguments; Spanish Cabinet Economy and Election Results; Salmave Cap- tured, Sentenced and Shot—Amusements—fhe Criminal Horoscope—Lectures and Balls Last Nigat—The Alexander Mystery -Wuo was Boss There?—Sad Domestic Calamity—Crime in Westchester County—The llacide Obsequies— Giant Catiie—Alleged Burglary—Domesuc Wretchedness—Business Notices, S=—Bound to the Wheel: The Case of William Mul- ler, now in Ludiow Street Jail je Dutchess: County Mystery: Remarkable Scene in the Court m at Poughkeepsie—The Public Health: Swinburne on His Defence—The Pun- Ue Debt: Another Letter from Treasurer Spin- uer—Marrriages and Deaths. 9—Financlai and Vommaerciai Reports —Wiltiam H. Webb's Vie on the Decline in American Shipbuilding—OMeial Regulations for the Cus- tom House Cartage—Sale of Government Pro- perty ta Georgia—Advortisements. 10—The State Capital: Interesting Proceedings of the Legislature; Proposed Reduction of Fare on the Kightn Avenue Ratiroad; the Labor t Cocking Sales—Shipping intelligence~Ady A1—Advertisoments, A2—Advertiss We will esteem it a favor if our readers will inform us, by letter addressed to this office, of any dereliction on the part of the carriers of tho Hexanp, either in furnishing the paper late, substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled shects. Tue or Saunave.—The# latest accounts f Port au Prince report that Turin Salaave, tate President of the Haytien republic, was sentenced to death and sho! on the 10th inst. Toe Li Istanp Jov.—Mr. Dawes has done anexcelient thing in having the bill for the removal of the Philadelphia Navy Yard to League Island laid on the table. He will soon attain Minister Washburne’s former title of “ Watch Dog of the Treasury.” adcacanplicro tbe Tue Er TRikers have atruck their tlag. ‘The strike is ended and two thousand persons, including the families of the strikers, are left un- certain of their future means of support. Two of the ringleaders have been arraigaed for rioting and heldin five bnadred dollars bail for trial. Tus Prevmatio Tusnet.—The Special Com- mittee ofthe Assembly on the Pneumatic Tun- nel reported yesterday that there was no damage done to the surface of Broadway by NeW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Spain and the Bourbone—France and tho Rad-| Spain; but the restoration of the Bourbons, feale—The Two European Questions. ‘The European questions of the hour, at least those questions which command any gene- ral interest, are either Spanish or French, Europe is by no means in a settled condition. Scandinavia is pouring forth her thousanda to the New World. So are North and South Germany. So also are the British Islea, This vast emigration from Northern and even from Central Europe is far from being unsuggestive. It is, on the contrary, deeply suggestive. But suggestiveness is the lessa necessity that we know the facis, We know that Sweden and Norway sre awaking into newness of life. They begin to share with their German and British neighbors the advantages that result from having numerous and prosperous friends on this Continent, It is hard to live in poverty when nothing but the big pond stands between them and paradise. The Germans of both the North and the South, knowing that their wiser or more fortunate brethren have found a home in the New World, have become less interested in possible foreign wars, Whether Prussia or Austria shall be mistress of Germany, or whether Germany shall be mistress of France, are questions subordinate to this other qves- tion—whether Germans would not be more happy ont of Germany than in it. Great Britain, true to her ancient policy, goes on with reform; and although emigration does not decrease either in Ireland, England or Scotland, the state of feeling. is such, both among the people and their rulers, that there is small chance of elther domestic or foreign war, In France and in Spain matters are quite different. Both of those countries may be said to be in the agonies of revolution. What changes are about to take place in the one and the other it is impossible to predict. For twenty years Napoleon has governed France with a hand more vigorous than yield- ing. His hand is now somewhat relaxed in its grip; but it is, perhaps, more a voluntary than a compulsory relaxing. He has listened to the elamors of the people; he has thought of the welfare of his dynasty, and p arly of the prospects of his son; and, knowing that it was better to make cosmos, if possible, during his lite than to leave chaos for cer- tainty at his death, has deemed it wise, in advancing years and in failing health, to do the best he can. No man of intelligence who has watched Napoleon for the last twenty years refuse to admit that he has been the master of the French people, and that on the whole he has used his immense power wisely and well. The reforms which he has granted to the French people, and which are still on their trial, have commanded respect in France, and, indeed, all the world over. As we have just said, these reforms are on their trial, France is passing through a crisis, and the result is yet doubtfal. It is searcely otherwiso with Spain. It is now well nigh a year and a half since the Spanish people rose as one man and shook off the Borrbon yoke, compelling Isabella and her satellites to make quick time and seck a home where they might. The Spanish revolu- tion was hailed with delight. It seemed to be the resurrection of a once noble but long downtroddea and dispirited race. Men remembered the days of Ferdinand and Isa- bella, when Spain was more full of energy tian all the nations of Europe combined—the times of Charles the Fifth and of Phillip the Second, when Spain was virtually the mistress of the whole earth, the sun never setting on her soil. The revolution was so clean, so complete, the sentiment of the people was so unanimous that the conviction was general that a new force had been given to ‘the age, and that Spain was about to take her place once again, and that worthily, in the family of great nations. There were doubting spirits, we admit; but in view of facts these, if not convinced, were compelled to keep silence. During all these anxious months the doubters and the believers have waited, and to-day it does seein as if the contemned doubters had the best of it. Spain has not come up to the expectations entertained . of her thiricen months ago. Spain is not to-day happier or more prosperous than she was under Isabella. ‘The revolution, which gave Prim cominand of the army, which placed Topete ut the head of the navy and which, nominally at least, made Serrano tho chief of the State, is stillin pro- gress. It has beena long, weary, profitless thterregaum, and to-day no one can tell how near or how far distant is the end. Our latest news from France shows that Napoleon has other difficulties to coatead with than the difficulties created by the sin or rash folly of his cousin or by the implacable enmi- ties of Henri Rochefort and the radicals, The French people are divided on certain great com- mercial questions. Free trade is demanded by one class of manufacturers. Protection is de- manded by another, Free trade for years past has been the favorite policy of the Emperor, But the will of Napoleon is no longer supreme ; the people aro no longer to be dictated to; and now that feeling on both sides is keen, the question is, which party will win? So serious has this matter become already, a3 will be seen by this day’s news, that rumors are afloat of division in the Olivier Cabinet. This is one more trouble added to the numerous serious troubles which already embarrass Napoleon. The Spanish news is not more reassuring. The new constitution which proclaimed Spain still a monarchy, provided that no Bourbon conld again occupy the Spanish throne. After having for a year gone about Europe begging for a king and vainly offering to Guelphs and Coburgs, to Hapsburg’s and Savoyards the crown of Charles the Fifth, Spain relaxes somewhat her antipathies and opens the door for the return of the hated Bourbons, The vote of Tuesday Jast—151 in favor of non- exciusion against 38 in favor of exclusion—is so sweeping and so emphatic that he would be a bold man who would say that Isabella may not yet retura and ocenpy until death the throne of lier ancestors, despite the fact that the telegrains by the cable last night assert that the country has condemned monarchism. Prim has not yet proved himself a Cromwell. Would it be wonderful if he undertook the 7éle of a monk? Judging from our latest news relative to both France and Spain we feel justified in saying scarcely even excepting Montpensier, will strengthen Napoleon's position. Rumor ef the Dents of the Pope, We were informed yesterday evening by eable telegrams that his Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth was ailing in Rome and that the Ecumenical Council was likely to be dis- solved at an early day. A rumor prevailed in Paris after midnight that the Pope was dead, but the report could not be traced to any authentic source when our afier despatches left the French capital, Condidering the ad- vanced age of the Holy Father, his arduous labors in the ministry from an early pe- riod of life, his foreign travel, and the recent annoyances of the Ecumenical assem- blage, we would not be surprised if the ramor should prove to be true. The event of the death of Pio Nono just now would be one fraught with the moss important consequences to Europe, its governments and peoples, besides agitating to a great extent and for some considerable period of time the whole Christian world. Further intelligence from Rome will be waited for with anxiety. Our Cusan News.—By mail we have the particulars of the reception and serenade given by the volunteers of Havana to ex- Secretary Seward. In reply to an address, Mr. Seward made a very pleasant speech, in which he spoke in a manner calculated to tickle the truly loyal Havanese. Re- gardiny the close of the insurrection matters present a very unpleasant prospect. It would seem that the Spaniards are not particularly anxious to crush the revolution immediately. Now that they are satisfied of the American policy of non-intervention they intend to take their time over the work and put it down by a slow and easy process. We here perceive the effects of the unwise policy of the administra- tion in not taking a decided step, one way or the other, in the matter of the revolution in Cuba. It looks as if the powers in Washing- ton were trying to ride two horses, The Spaniards now feel easy. There is no fear of intervention, and they can afford to take their time, and we are thus indirec'ly responsible for the continuance of the wer. Tae Bu. Stanep.—The President having sigued the bill for the restoration of Virginia to Congress thut matter is settled. The Legis- lature must adhere to the fourteenth amend- ment in reference to rebel disabilities, and the State must not ‘go back” on the colored folks, The Sonators and members of the other branch of Congress elected are to be admitted sub- ject to an investigation individually in several cases where questions of eligibility have been raised, Now let Georgia, Mississippi and Texas hurry up, and let us have an end to this troublesome Southern enterprise checking business of reconstruction, and let the whole South, on the new departure, advance to the glorious career of prosperity before it, which invites whites and blacks to harmony, co- operation and active work in cotton, corn, rice, sugar and tobacco. WnorssaLe Al —The Hartford Post, administration, remarking upon the tem- per of our people for annexation, says:— “Our national policy, heretofore opposed to aggrandizement, seems to have been almost re- versed lately under the desire for acquiring new territory. The purchase of Alaska seems almost to have necessitated the acquisition of British Columbia. Why not also Red River, Canada, the Feejee Islands and St. Thomas? The question is pertinent, and demands earn- est thought and a careful decision.” The Post has omitted Cuba, Mexico, the Sandwich Islands, St. Domingo, Hayti, &c., from the list. Why not go the whole figure, even to the annexation of the ‘“‘slands of the moon ?” We suppose the politicians would if, instead of seeing a man, they saw a job in it, Crowpine IN Horse Cars.—The dumb brutes have found a friend in Mr, Mitchell, of the Assembly, who proposes a bill to prevent crowding the horse cars. The people who go leisurely also secure a friend in him; but how about persons who are in too much of a hurry, as most New Yorkers are, to wait for a car that is not crowded, especially at that time of day when most of them are overloaded? TiH£OLOGIOAL SwinDLERs, —A theological stu- deut named Travis has been swindling the peo- ple of Kingston, N, Y., to the amouat of over $20,000, If these things continue the very name of Reverend will become a bugbear against which people will shut their doors as prompily as they would against a burglar. THe Coau Quvuestion.—Prices of Penn- sylvania coal showed a decline yesterday in some cases of over a dollar per ton on the prices of last month. Cumberland coal stock also fell considerably in Wall street. Here we see the direct result of the action of the House committee on Tuesday in agreeing to abolish the coal tariff. The protectionists have somewhat favored this repeal in order, as they said, to let the people sce if it would benefit them, and now probably tuey see it. Grassuorpers AND Borrerriims.—The fol- lowing note gives us a very interesting contir- union of January and May :— WALLINGFORD, Coun,, Jan. 23, 1870. aw two grasshoppers to-day that the engi- ed up while commg througu the lots from . ‘They appeared to be as lively as they gene- in June. Lust week we saw two butierdies aint rally are dymg through the air, This { thought was wortn your nouce, EDWIN HODGDEN. Thanks, Mr. Hodgden. Butterflies and grasshoppers in Connecticnt in January are sirange visitors. What next? Perhaps the opening of the sea bathing season at Newport. Who kaows? ’ Tue Spois av ALBANY.—The parties inte- rested at Albany, as at Washington, have had some squabbling over the spoils of office; but our latest reports indicate a compromise, of the effects of which we shall hear more to-day, In the meantime we are glad to learn that the appointment of Dr. Carnochan as Health Officer is as good a3 confirmed. Prixce Arrnur was present at a State dinner at the Executive Mansion yesterday. These State dinners are sn important ele- ment of diplomacy, and this one is caleu- lated to create good feeling between our the present situation is grave, and the future is the progress of the work. The property owners above the site of the work and the passengers in heavy stages can therefore rest easy, if the word of the committee is of any weight. / doubiful. To these two countries more than to any others in Europe our syes are turned. A republic in France will create a republic ia goverament and Great Britain. e now feel keoner interest to seo the upsbot of the approaching negotiations on tho Alabama claims. Cotten—The South Getting Stifl*Necked. The Eufala (Ala.) News, afer referring to the marvellous changes for the better to be observed in the South after the close of the war, proceeds in another column to exhort the cotton planters in the following language :-— If planters will now take our advice and hold firmly they will not have to wait long before realiz- ing thirty cents for their cotton, Therefore, we say again, bold your cotton, planters. The game 13 in your own hands, and if you fail to win now you de serve to get noing and to receive no sympathy from distaterested parties who are watching the game between tue Northern speculators and spinners and Southern planters, Thus is the South becoming stiff-necked in view of its present and prospective prosperity. If she keeps on at this rate how long will it bo before sho refuses to let the North have cotton at any price? That question may be answered by asking another—how long will it be before the South*will have cotton mills of her own and about as much as she can do to supply the home demand? The fact of the matter is that the cry of Southern papers like the Eufala Mews, that the cotton receipts are short this year, is | simply a false alarm, and their advice to plant- era to hold on to their crops is dangerous. This may be ascertained by glancing at a few figures, to wit :—The total receipts of cotton at all the ports to the latest dates foot up 1,489,804 bales, against 1,177,174 bales at the same time Jast year, showing an increase in the total receipts at the shipping points of 312,680 bales. Comment upon these figures is mani- festly unnecessary, The truth is the South is on the high road to permanent prosperity, and her career cannot be impeded by obstruc- tions thrown in her way by Northern croaking or Southern obstinacy. Tho Georgin Prose at Loggutheads. Just as everything begins to look fn the South by the readmission of the Georgia press are getting at loggerheads among themselves, and if some gunpowder be not exploded among them pretty soon it will not be for the want of complications and provocations, The Atlanta Jndeliigencer seems to be the leading cause of this imbroglio. That paper is, in consequence, arraigned by the Macon Telegraph and Messenger as having been guilty of “acts of omission and com- mission detrimental to the democratic party of tho State;” that it ‘has placed itself alongside the extreme radicals in its interpre- tation of the scope of the oath required to be taken by members of the Legislature under the recent Georgia bill;” that ‘claiming to be a democratic newspaper of the strictest sort, it has, within the period named (some months), done more harm to the party, in the limited sphere of its influence, than any radi- cal paper in Georgia;” that it ‘thas separated itself from the people of Georgia as well as the party in its dealing with the last Recon- struction bill and its construction by Gover- nor Bullock’s Attorney General ;” that “it has gone out of its way to give a quasi en- dorsement of that conatruction by appealing to the fears and doubts of democratic mem- bers ;” in short, that “it has pursued a line of policy on this question directly calculated— whatever the motive—to shake instead of steadying the democratic column.’’ The Jn- telligencer replies at length to these allega- tions, admitting some and denying others, con- cluding by declaring that ‘‘as for the demo- cratic party of the State, whatever its contempo- raries in their arrogance may assume or aasert, the Intelligencer will remain true to it so long as it remains true to the principles upon which it was founded.” It is then, a question of “principles” after all, which may be inter- preted to mean one thing or another, according to the motives, locality, influence or precoa- ceived notions of parties most interested. The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel grows a little restive and crabbed in regard to a certain article in the Lnteligencer which, itclaims, was reviewed with fairness and cour- tesy, To this, avers the Chronicle, “the [nt gencer, doubtless stung with the evident dis- satisfuction produced by his unfair editorial, retorted, not upon the* Chronicle but upon the conduct and past political character of the writer, and sought to weaken the force of the Chronicle's argument by an improper reference to our military and politi- cal position during and before the war. Here the controversy, by the wanton act of the Intelligencer, \ost its public and political char- acter, and was perverted to o miserable per- sonal quarrel.” Thus the quarrel grows hotter and hotter, with every prospect of its culminating in some personal rencontre whigh will damage the pri- vate and public reputations of all concerned. Without obtrading advice upon people who are amply competent to take care of themselves, we will simply suggest that the more these leading newspapers in Georgia, representing the native element, wrangle among themselves, the wider will the door be opened for the intru- sion of objectionable people from the North and elsewhere. Let them take care. The Opera Bouffe in Stamboal. The road to civilization and progress is be- ing opened out in the East, and can be attri- buted chiefly to the extreme liberality displayed by the Viceroy in Egypt of the recent opening of the Suez Canal. No efforts were spared in order to afford his numerous guests every amusement and pastime that money could ob- tain. Opéra bourfe, with all iis seductions, was not forgotien, and soon proved the weak point of the Mohammedans, The success it obtained in Cairo was signal, The loosenéss of the acting, combined with the pure simplicity of costume, was too much for the sedate old Egyptians, and in face of their traditional de- corum they allowed themselves to be led away by enthusiasm. The far-famed Arabian Tales, with all their accompaniment of mystery and enchantment, which for ages have enraptured the masses, were stale. Here was something tangible, an actuality—something that could be heard and seen, From Cairo the news soon spread to Stamboul, and the fat old Turks, not desiring to give too great a shock to public opinion, arranged a private performance. “La Belle Heline” was the piece selected, and the artists were French, and well selected. The performance tickled the humor of the an- dience, but when the cancan was performed then even the ‘faithful could not restrain their feelings, and soon all were joining in the dance to their hearts’ content, Such was the effect upon the favored few that when the per- formance closed they all went their ways hum- ming the enchanting airs, and “Bu gui s'avance, Bu qui s'avance,” is now the pop- nlar melody among the True Believers, Cu- rious as it may seem, there is no doubt that wonderful changes will ere long follow each other in quick succession, and a few weeks of opéra boujfe may effect more than the practice of more serious measures for cen- turies, Corbin in a Bad Way. The Congressional Committee on Banking and Currency, engaged in the investiga- tion of the great gold gambling con- spiracy of September last, have been very anxious to hear what the pious speculative ring-master Corbin has to say upon the sub- ject. »But Corbin, having had his wings clipped once before by an investigating com- mittee, touching certain lobby operations, shrinks from another trial threatening more serious consequences; and so he has sent word to the committee that he is suffering from a chronic disease which makes his appearance before them a matter of some uncertainty. He is in a bad way. He evidently lacks the moral courage to make a clean breast of it in a frank confession that Gould and Fisk led’him into temptation, and ‘that he was induced to give them promises and assurances which were all moonshine, but that really the possible profits of that gold pool were too glittering to be resisted. It would seem, too, that he does not like the idea of pleading guilty in the alternative of going before the committee and declining to answer questions where the answer would criminate himself. In any event it is the duty of the committee to bring him to the Capitol or to examine him at his lodgings; for with- out Corbin this gold gambling conspiracy is the play of Hamlet with the part of old Polo- nius left out; and we presume that the com- mittee will go to the old man if he is really too sick to go to tl Tue Very Tuna For ENoLanp—The popular movements commenced in London to encourage emigration from the overcrowded metropolis and other cities of England to Canada and other British colonies. It is somewhat surprising to us that such philan- thropists as John Bright and John Stuart Mill have never thought of this simple specific for British starvation, Esoarz or Fenran Prisoners.—Fifteen Fenians arrived in San Francisco yesterday on board a British ship from Australia, where they were serving out penal sentences, They were, of course, warmly welcomed on Ameri- can soil. Tut Two Remainine Unrkooxsrrvorep Srarzs.—The cases of Mississippi and Texas, it is said, will be rapidly considered by the Con- gressional committee, and those States will be admitted without delay. Of course as the elec- tions in both of them resulted in favor of the radicals there is no necessity for any condi- tions, Being radical the average Congres- sional mind cannot for a moment imagine that they would be disloyzl. Tus Boarp or Heatru in ita last days seems desirous of doing all the work it can. Dr. Swinburne yesterday furnished a report of his six years’ quarantine duty, the doctors who were negligent about reporting smallpox pre- sented their defence, prosecutions were ordered against a large number of alleged swill milk dealers, Dr. Harris reported a large number of streets as filthy aad the street cleaning superin- tendent submitted a report casting the main blame on Dr. Harris himself for the dirty con- dition of the streets. Ifthe Board had shown such industry heretofore it would have de- served a longer lease. Tne Perry-Hayes Murper,—The second trial of Edward Perry for the murder of the watchman Hayes in Brooklyn was commenced yesterday, a portion of a jury having been empanelled. We would not prejudge this cage, but certainly the evidence taken on the previous trial was strongly against the prisoner. A trial for life may after all be a lottery, in which the main chance hinges on the choice of ajury. Tux New Casie.—The channel cable just laid from the coast of England to the coast of France makes direct communication between London and Brest, and thus makes the French cable our most direct line to London. It is a more direct transit by this cable to the British capital than by the cable that lands on the Irish coast, and thus the French cable has the inside line for general European business. Tue Tria. or Sanpers D. Bruck on a charge of libelling George Wilkes was com- menced before Judge Bedford yesterday. The defence seemed anxious to procure a postpone- ment, but the Judge refused on the groand that the evidence to establish the truth of a libel should have been at hand when the article was published, or else the article should not have been published at ail. There is law and fact in a nutshell. A Heavy Task—The task undertaken in Congress of a regulation of the tariff. Between protectionists and free traders it is the great question of the day, and whether the two honses of Congréss incline to the one side or the other there will be some disturb- ances among the leading politicians’ and their followers of both parties. Look, for instance, at the “happy accord” on this question between the free trade poets of the Post and the pro- tection philosophers of the Fribune, Tur Kantvucky LEGISLATURE proposes to butt the fifteenth amendment off the bridge. A resolution was introduced by one of the members yesterday to punish any one who entices a negro, laborer to leave his. employer or who. emplays suck a negro laborer after- wards. ‘Tan New York Batt To Prince Arruvr.— The Prince has accepted the invitation extended him, and on Tuesday next, we understand, a banquet and a hall will be given bim at Del- monico’s. This will be a limited arrangement. While the committee are about it why not engage the Academy of Music, and in com- pining charity with hospitality turn the recep- tion of the Prince to a good practical purpose? Ler Ir Go.—It is said that the project for the removal of Sing Sing Prison has behind it an offer of Commodore Vanderbilt to give for the property ten times the cost of the prison. If this be true it would seem that we may have new prison on a better plan in exchange for the old one with no cost to the State. We ought, then, to have it. ‘ Our Contral and Senth American OCerres- Dondence, Our correspondents in Central and South America furolsh us with the latest mail advices from the Isthmus and the South Pacific coast. The Darien Canal is the great topic of conversation among the people of Colombia. They have taken up the subject in earnest and express regret that the United States bas been so tardy in making the preliminary surveys, The Colombians are evidently alive to the greatness of the undertalfng, and realize the immense advantages it would confer upon trade and commerce. In Chile the political campaign is conducted with moderation; and although no activity is lacking on tho part of the political contestants and their adberents, there is an absence of those revolutionary ex- hibitions and threats which were formerly so frequent during the progress of an elec- tion campaign. Pera is marching along in the road of progress. Enterprises such as that now in prospect of building a railroad between Lima and the Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon, will prove an admirable panacea for the disorders of revolution in the South Amori- can republics. This railroad will bo an immense undertaking, and when completed direct communication across the South Ameri- can continent will be complete. What the Pacific Railroad is to the United States tho railroad from Lima across the Andes to the Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon will be to South America. Puew !—What a peck of trouble the Now York democracy must be in if we believe the following spasmodic effusion of the Albany Hvening Journal, radical organ of the State: — “The democratic party is thoroughly disorgan- ized. The priests insist upon a division of the School Fund, and stand threatening vengeance if itis not granted. Timorous legislators fear the wrath to come, The masses demand tho disbandment of commissions; politic leaders svek to defeat by delay. Hoffman nominates to office from his following; angry Senators threaten rejection,” $ Tuk Marrary Comission tx Gzorata has succeeded in reconstructing the Legislature. A republican has been elected Speaker of the Lower House, and the seats of nineteen mem- bers have been vacated, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. David Butler, Governor; Thomas P. Kennard, Secretary of State, and J. R. Patrick, Adjutant Gea- eral, of Nebraska; Dr. G. P. Lindeman, of Pennsyt- vania; T. 3. Arnot, of Elmira; H. P. Plant, of Georgia; J. H. Ramsey, President of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, of Albany; A. D. White, of Syracuse, and Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Con- necticut, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania; Captain H. Crom- well, of New Sedford; J. C. Bullock and G, S. Bul- lock, of Chicago, and G. W. Hotchkiss, of Bingham- ton, are at the Astor House. Colonei G. 8. McCartney, of San Francisco; Liew tenant E. D. Wheeler, of the United States Army, and Mayor Jolin C. Butts, of Richmond, are at tho St. Charles Hotel. K. Gatvez, Peruvian Minister, of Lima, and Willis B, voob, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. Hi. Cunard, of Halifax; L. A. Godey, of Phila- deiphia, and C. 0. Perrault, of Montreal, are at tho Brevoort House. Dr. Stillwell, of Sag Harbor, and F. W. Crocker, of the United States Army, are at the St. Denis Hotel, captain T. V. Meigs, of Lowell, is at the West moreland HoteL General H. 8. Thompson, of Baltimore, ls at the Everett House. Colonel H. 8. McComb, of Delaware, and Clinton Hale, of the United States Army, are at tne Pith Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Commander J. H. Mulier, of the United Staves Navy, and Genera Frieze, of Providence, are at the Hoifman House, Clinton B. Sears, of the United States. Army, is at the Coleman House, Prominent Departures. General S. E. Webb and W. P. Dencklar, for Wash. ington; Colonel Bissel, for Hartford; G. B, McUartes, for Washington; E. 0. Tafts and R. 3. Covall, jor Boston. OBITVARY. Turin Salnave. A French sioop-ol-war arrived at Charleston, 3. C., yesterday, direct from Port au Prince, bringing intelligence of the shooting of ex-President Salnave, of Hayts, on the 10th inst., by the successful revo- lutionists, If the news be true the 1l-starred man has only shared tie fate of nearly all Hayuwen leaders, and his dying moments were provably consoled by the thought that before many montis his executioners would be shot by somebody else. Sainave was born In Hayti, and was @ man io tae prime of life. He entered the army at an early age, and was rapidly promoted for distinguished services m tne field. We believe that he took part in the in- vasion of St. Domingo by Soulouque and retreated ti good order with that distingdished warrior. Sub- sequently he aided Geitrard in overthrowing the empire, whence Souiouque fled to Jamaica, uud in re-establisiung the repuplic. Vor @ whus matters progressed favorably enough; but in an evil hour Gelrard’s government sighied Salnave, whose vosom yearued ior liberty. ‘to strike dowa tyranny he attempted the assassination of one of Gettrard’s ministers and failed, He then fed to St. Domingo, and while there organizing a rebellion was seuitenced to death by court martial assembied mn Portau-Prmee. In , 1866, he re- entered Hayti with @ iormidable army 260 men, roused the people im the name ot aud liberty und established a provisional government. Gellrard advauced against him witn the forces of the r public. Several vioody struggles wok place, in which & number of men Were serlousiy bruised and a few killed. Finaliy wie insurrection was suppressed, Salmave reurug again to st, Domingo. Subsequeatly, however, he renewed the revolutionary movement aud succeeded 12 ousting Geffrard, who prudepity wook refuge on board @ foreign war vessel. On assu- ming power Salnave issued a proclamation declaring amnesty to.all Huywens excepting Genrard, whout Bo condemned to deatn, bat who Was ucver shot, ior the very good reason what he kept out of Bayt. OF course it Was not 100g betore a revolution broke out against the new President, who neaded Cacos, while the heroic Nissage sagev, Douunigue, and other world renowned Gene- vals, led the piquets, The war lasted from Jone, 1857, unui a ew days ago. So long as Salnave was avie to pay for the printing of hig, Trea- sury notes he held out bravely; but when it took $5,000 in Haytien currency vw buy a gold dollar he collapsed. Unfortucately for nim tue piquet leaders’ supviy of coffee held out longer tua 02s, and he tell. He was sai to be a very warm triend of the United States, and was in iavor of a closer alliance between the “two repud- lies.” Of nig private virtues we know nothing. He possessed a p.ayiu! habit of shooting wealthy Citi- zens and confiscating ther property for the beueltt of the nation. Take Liu all tail we siall not see his like again, except im the persons Gi whe uCw rulers of Hava. Phineas W. Leland. ‘Thus citizen of Massachusetts ded at Fall River, on Saturday last, aged seventy-one years, He was porn fn Grafton, in. 1798, studied for some time at Brown University, Rhode Isiand, and subsequently studied medicme with Dr. George 0, Shattuck, of Boston. In 1826 he received the degree of M. D. at wadoin College, Brunswick, Me., and until 1834 Poavtused {hs profession a Meaflerd, Sass. He then removed to Fall River, lor which place he was ap- intea Collector ot Custom by President Jackson, nis position he held during successive adininistra~ tions until a short time before Mr. Lincoln’s tnaugn. ration, When lie resigned. In 1645 Dr, Leland served a3 @ mewber Of the Massachusetts State Senate, of which he was chosen president. Me was tor some years employed as an editor, first o1 the Fall River ‘Patruat, trom 1836 to 1440, and ffierwards of the Weekly News, He also coutributed at one time to the Boston /ost, and was well kuown in mis Stave as @ Quent and agreeable writer. or the «