The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1870, Page 6

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D—Advertisements. | S—Washington : Discussion on the Currency Bill in the senate; The Virginia Representatives Sworn In; Democrats Objecting to Porter; Bill to Abolisn the Franking Privilege Passed by the House; Mr. Dawes’ Sp in Reply to - General Butier—Telegraphic News Items. 4=—The State Capital: Confirmation of the Gover- nor’s Appointments; Excise Licenses Ex- tended till March—Hayt!: The Fitgnt, Captare and Execution of Salnave and His Followers— Characteristics and Resources of Alaska—High Life Sensation m Rhode Island—Prescription - for Smallpox. G—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts Yesterday—New York City and Police Jatelligence—A Scavenger's Logic Regarding the Filthy Streets—Tbe Wilkes Libel Sult ; The Defendant Acquitted—The Pneumatic Transit Company Before we Courts—Trial of Edwin _, Perry for the Murder of Thomas Hayes. @—Kditoriais: Leading 1e on the Annexation Policy of the United Statea—Personal Inteli- gence~—Meeting of the Liquor Dealers of the Eighth Ward—Amusement Announcements, » YaTelegrapbic News from Ail Parts of the World: ‘The Industriai Agitation in France; Coming Expiration of the Anglo-French Com- e mercial Treaty; The Pope Not Dead— ( Army and = Naval Intelligence—-Amuse- ments—Fire in West Twenty-seventh street— The Wiliamsburg Building Calamity—Obitu- ary—Workingmen's State Assembly—Another + Expedition to the North Pole—Business Notices, S8—The New Nation: ‘rhe Sioux Advancing on the Settlements—The Testimony in the Alexander Mystory—The Obsequies of George Peaboay; the Career of the Great Philanturopist—The Whiskey Raid of Collector Batley and What the Victims Say of 1t—Piaying on the Players— Brooklyn City News—Indiana Divorces—The Bad Dickey Preacher. 9—Financiat and Commercial Reporta—The Erte Raliroad Management—Marriages and Deaths, 3@—Prince Arthur: His Opinion of Washington City and Its Founder; ‘The Ball of the Season; Ap Immense Crowd and Genera! Jam—Snip- ping Intelligence—Advertisenents. A1—Military Chit Chat—Real Estate Matters—Ad- vertisements, 42—Advertisements. NOTICE TO HERALD SUBSCRIBERS. We will esteem it s favor if our readers will inform us, by letter addressed to this office, of sny dereliction on the part of the carriers of the Huraxp, either in furnishing the paper late, substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled sheets. Ad Gas.—In Philadelphia they have reduced the price of gas, and herp at Jpst jy one point In which we mey profitably follow the example of Philadelphia. When shall we have a reduc- tion in the price of gas here? Toe FirrgENTH AMENDMENT AND THE Lxyowtatore.—Our unterrified Legislature is gotdone with the fifteenth amendment yet. Mr, Van Steonburg yesterday introduced a resolution declaring that the adoption of the amendment by the prostrate Southern States ought to be regarded as null and void. Tae Fare on tag Feerizs.—A resolution was adopted in the Assembly yesterday call- ing for the correspondence relating to the re- duction of fare oa the East river ferryboats. Mr. Jacobs offered the re@olution, and he is very apt to bring the giant corporation to terms. Corsin was examined by the Gold Panic Investigating Committee yesterday. He seems to have fully recovered, but it cannot be said that all is well with him. He refused to divulge any.of his testimony for the reason that it would be showing disrespect to the -aommittee, yur as Fan as He Goxs—The vene- sable Mr. Geward, in his late speech at Ha- vens, in saying that ‘‘Cuba is an essential part of the great modern systems of commerce afd civilization.” On his return to Auburn we hope to hear the old statesman and dip- fomat polish off this correct idea with the ad- dition, “‘and Cuba, in this view, being essen- tial to the United States, manifest destiny polata to sunexation.” "; Mf NEW YORK HERALD, a NEW YORK HERALD | ‘rion toter ose ones son A leading London journal has been com- menting, it appears, on the policy of annexa- tion by the United States, and, in its usual patronizing way, moralizes on the subject from British point of view. It assumes that we bave adopted this as a definitive policy, and adds that England, though indifferent, is astounded at the case of Dominica, which is merely adding other negro communities to those so dificult to manage now. It is amusing to see how England, which swallows every~ thing that it can grab in the way of ter~ ritory in any part of the world, with negroes, IHottentois, Indians, Chinese, Aus- tralian savages and cannibals, mani- fests ,such particular anxiety about the United States being embarrassed by the an- nexation of territory with a few more negroes. England is astounded that this country should wish to annex Dominica, though we cannot discover anything surprising in it ; but she will femain indifferent, and for this, we suppose, the people of the United States are expected to be profoundly thankful. But where did this British writer find out that the negro communities we have are 80 difficult to manage? While slavery existed no people in the world were more easily managed than our negroes, and that not by the lash, as the British and our own abolitionists falsely represented, There were no such chronic dis- turbances among them as in Ireland, and no such rebellions as in India, Canada or among the Caffres of the Cape of Good Hope. Since the stupendous domestic, social and political revolution which the War brought about in the South—a revolution thatin almost any other country and among any other people would have caused long years of disorder—the negroes have been peaceful, tractable and industrious, Though ignorant for the most part, though suddenly invested with freedom and political rights, and though they have been tempted to disorder by North- ern radical and carpet-bag politicians as well as by the firebrand scalawags of the South, they have conducted themselves peaceably. The extraordinary recuperation of the South and the abundance of profitable crops, where the greater part of the laborers are negroes, prove beyond all question how docile and easily managed these people are, and how well they have behaved. This shows, too, that the negroes, under the instruction and guidance of the American people—under such a people as are the greater part of the South- erners—are not a dangerous class, and can be made useful in the development and increase of the national wealth and prosperity. These are facts perfectly well understood here, but the English cannot comprehend them. Our British contemporary need not be so much exercised about an imaginary danger to the United States from the annexation of Dominica or any other country where there are negroes. The part of the island of which annexation is spoken contains not more than a hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, probably, and only a part are negroes. The whole island, including both St. Dom‘ngo and Hayti, has not more, perhaps, than half a mil- lion of people. It would not take long to cure the disorders of that country and to make the people useful under the American government and with American enterprise. We shquid have no apprehension of difficulty from the annexation of a part or of the whole of the island, and if annexed its development would be profitable both to us and to the in- habitants, as well asa benefit to the world. Still we think our government could now annex a territory much nearer home and of far greater value. Cuba is worth a hundred St. Domingos, or more than all the other An- tilles put together. It has all the elements of civilization, an immense production, about a third of the sugar production of the world, besides tobacco and other valuable products ; has railroads and telegraphs, large and flour- ishing cities, great acquired wealth, s million and a half inhabitants, over eight hundred thousand of whom are white; is almost within sight of the United States; has many of the finest harbors in the world; has an area of twenty-five millions of acres, and it commands the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and all the important channels of the Antilles, This magnificent island is within our grasp if the government at Washington has sense enough to seize the opportunity afforded by present Circumstances for annexation, Why should we go fifteen hundred miles away, to the outer verge of the Antilles, for territory that is a wilderness, comparatively, when the cultivated, rich and important island of Cuba can be ours by only saying the Whit me time is not far off when the whole of the Wes Indies will undoubtedly become portions of the United States; but it would be wise to take the best and nearest first whenever an opportunity is afforded. Annexation is the natural result of our growth and {institutions and the law of our destiny. The great Napoleon, with his won- derful statesmanlike’foresight, sold Louisiana, which embraced nearly a fourth of our present territory, to the United States, because he comprehended the inevitable destiny of this country, and because he wanted to checkmate the British in this hemisphere, That was the first and most important acquisition of territory the United States made. There were prominent public men in that day ‘who opposed annexa- tion, who could not comprehend the destiny of the country, and who would have circum- scribed the republic within its first narrow limits. Then came the acquisition of Florida from Spain, with the same shortsighted oppo- sition on the part of men who had the reputa~ tion of being statesmen, So it was with Texas, when a little empire in itself was added to the republic, Even the acquisition of California, that splendid country which came in as a consequence of the war with Mexico, found objectors. The purchase of Arizona, and recently the purchase of Russian America, were objected to by a similar class of local narrow-minded politicians, who could not un- derstand the inevitable progress and future of this mighty republic. Yet what American now would return to the original and compara- tively narrow limits of the country? The overshadowing power and growth of the United States, as well as the events that are occuring all round us, point out the policy the government ought to follow with regard to contiguous or bordering territory, The revo- lution in Cuba; the insurrection in the Winni- British Columbla for annexation, th@chron‘o disorders of Mexico, the growing disposition of the Canadians and other British American colonists to be united with us, and the condi- tion of the West Indies generally, show that our republican empire must become conti- nental. Our public men who cannot see this are behind the times. Manifest destiny is not a mere sentiment, but a fact. And who will be injured by this wonderful growth and expan- sion of the United States? The English, who are most jealous of us, will be largely bene- fited, for by cur enterprise and the develop- ment of the countries we annex their trade is increased. Indeed, the same may be said with regard to all the commercial nations of Europe. The progress and expansion of the Uniled States are a great blessing to mankind and increase vastly the commerce of the world. Instead ot being envious or jealous of us the British and all other nations should hail with pleasure our astonishing growth. They ought to be glad to see annexation by a people who make the wilderness blossom as the rose wh. ev2: they go, and who add thereby to the comme.ce and wealth of the world. But, whatever msy be thought of our progress abroad, American statesmen ought to compre- hend the future before us and seize every opportunity for promoting the destiny of the republic. Butler on the Wrong Tack. Ever since the death of Thad Stevens the place of leader in the House has been a con- tested point, It has produced as many dis- sensions in the lower house as the votes of the seven republican Senators for Andy Johnson’s acquittal did in the Senate. Butler and Schenck last session fought with the vigor of Big Bethel and Vienna combined over it, but Butler far overlapped Schenck, who was driven to the wall in such utter disorder that he has never attempted again to come up to the scratch, Bingham then advanced to claim the honor, but Butler with a single epithet disabled him, and he has of late made only a very slim show of fighting. Garfield and Logan, though both good fighters, have so far shown but little dis- position to wrestle with the champion of Essex, and Banks has prudently refrained. Butler has therefore confirmed his right in some degree to the leadership, and his movement in the Virginia bill shows that he can crack his whip over his followers with as good effect as “Old Thad” himself ever did. This is an excellent success for a man who, eleven yeafs ago, was a bright light in the democratic party, reflect- ing the brilliant rays of fifty-two successive votes on Jeff Davis for the Presidency, and who, less than five years ago, was so securely ensconced in a bottle by the President, whose’ party representatives he presufnes to rale, that. it was a wonder heever came out unsmothered. It is a brilliant showing, and proves that But- ler has nerve, ambition and brains. But his action of late strongly indicates that he bas not judgment. He undertakes to smooth over the figures in Mr. Dawes’ speech, arraign- ing the economy of the administration, when, as the supporter of the administration, Mr, Butler should take just the other tack. General Grant's expressed policy, anti that of the re- publican party, is economy and retrenchment, and if his officials have failed in carrying out that policy they should be called to account. From Mr. Dawes’ statement in his reply to Mr. Butler yesterday, it would seem that the President himself did not discountenance the extravagance of the Departments. Then he, too, should be brought+ hack to the terms of his party policy. It will not stop the expenditure any sooner to put the re- sponsibility of it on Andy Johnson’s shoulders, nor will the country avoid the effects of the dart by having its head hid in the sand like an ostrich. Let the estimates be venti- lated, and if they are too large, as Mr. Dawes shows them to be, let them be cut down to agree with President Grant’s original policy of retrenchment. As the presumed leader of the House Butler should keep an ‘eye single” to that one policy of economy. The figures of Grandfather Welles, like George Washington, cannot lie, nor can they be made to lie by General Butler except as a heavy weight on the conscience of Secretary Robeson. It would be better if Butler would let Welles alone. In addition to the true economy of the mat- ter, Butler would evince more judgment in keeping bis friends together than in slashing right and left among them. At the present rate he is digging out the foundations of his party in the House like a Dutch Gap, and if he goes on he will probably soon blow them up like the powder boat at Fort Fisher. And the two exploits no doubt will have even less effect for harm on hig dgmoocratic enemy than the Bulg Gop and F ira exstetsia, His way of splitting Up his own friends i» gport to the democratic boys, but death to the republl- can frogs. His leadership is yet to be con- firmed by some wise and statesmanlike stand. At the present rate before he comes to that point he will either have no leadership or else no party to lead, Tue GoverNor’s Nomisations.—The little difficulty up at Albany which delayed so long the confirmation of the Governor's appointments has been so far tided over that there has been an executive séssion, and the Senate has con- firmed several of the Governor's nominees, Dr. Carnochan, for Health Officer, being among them. This executive session seems to have been. # Tammany victory, secured by compromise or arraigement with so much of the opposition as was absolutely necessary. It is evident, however, that the trouble within the democratic lines is not all over, and there may yet be some bitter fighting anent the distribution of what remains in the gift of the Governor and a consenting Senate. Politi- eal leaders must remember that even when they have the Governor and both houses of the Legislature their supremacy is not safe so long as an unsatisfactory distribution of patronage may awaken disaffection. Tax New Nation or Rurert’s Lanv.~Our correspondent at Fort Abercrombie, under date of January 16, furnishes some interesting extracts from the official organ of the insur- gents in Winnipeg Territory. It appears from these that the Sioux Indians are in arms and advancing upon the settlements, The citizens have armed to resist them, and we shall proba- bly find that the only efforts made by the New Dominion to recover its lost province tend to the barbarous idea of letting loose upon their Febellious citizens bands of murderous say- peg country, the epplication of the veonle’ in | ages, Free Trade or Protection in France—Lord Clarendon’s Visit to Parts, A really serious legislative and govern- mental crisis has come upow France. The questions of the formal adoption of the prin- ciple of free trade or the reaffirmation of that of protection are plainly and pointedly before the Frenoh people, their parliamentary repre- sentatives and the executive. They cannot bo set aside, The great empire—its trading, financial and home industrial interests—is moved to the centre and stands forth with its mind vibrating between the recollections of the operation of the famous Berlin decrees of Napoleon the Firat and its present experiences of the working of the Anglo-French treaty of 1860 and the diplomacy of Richard Cobden and Napoleon the Third, Lord Clarendon has arrived at the Tuilerles for the purpose of temporary personal treatment of the case, and it may be affirmed that no British minister or representative of that nation has had a more important mission in the French capital since the time of the occupation of Paris by the troops of allied Europe and the day of the Cobden-Bonaparte negotiations, The great interests of the French empire, with the millions of the working classes, are against free trade. M. Thiers proclaims the danger of the occasion. M. Schneider, presiding officer of the legislative body, who is proprietor of the works at La Cruezot, has returned to Paris, and openly charges Englishmen with having fomented the late dangerous trade ‘‘strikes” at that place designedly and for the commercial gain of theircountry. The Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1860 will expire by its own limitation on the 4th day of February. The important question remains, will it—can it be renewed? The trading interests of the countries have become so complexedly inter- laced that it appears almost impossible to again disunite them. The artisans and labor- ers of France, the shipbuilders of Havre, the workmen of Lyons, however, demandit. Can Napoleon refuse? Can Lord Clarendon tide his Majesty over the crisis? It is impossible to predict, It may be affirmed, however, that the commercial question of France over- shadows those of Rome, Rochefort and Pierre Bonaparte in its solidarity, actualities and necessity. Fully convinced of the truth of this grand fact, we to-day illustrate our cable telegrams on the subject by the publication of all the main facts and essential provisions of the Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1860. The Execution of Sainave—Quick Work. Salnave, the man who has so long held the republic of Hayti under a reign of terror, is no more. The same sentence that he so freely meted out to histnemies has now been meted out to him. Since the fall of Geffrard the republic has been witness to scenes of blood that recall the acts committed by despots in the Middle Ages, when civilization and pro- gress were in their infancy and every man in power was presumed to have the right to dispose freely of the lives of his subjects or dependents. He, however, met his fate with calmness and firmness, proving that at heart he was no coward. From the account pub- lished in our columns it appears that too much time was not allowed him either for repentance or anything else.- The court summoned for the trial met at three P. M., and at twenty minutes past six Salnave, the terror of Hayti, wasa corpse. The execution and the inci- dents attending it do not speak much in favor of the party now in power, itis true; but for the moment we must presume that their intentions are good, and any excesses committed by them must be attributed to the excitement caused by victory. We have our almighty dollar, but the Haytiens have their coffee, He who.holds much coffee holds much power. Poor Sal- nave’s coffee gave out, and the Cacos, having much in store, won the day. Such is life in those regions. The Pope and the Council. It seems that the Ecumenical Council is likely to have an easy death. A cable despatch from Rome has it that the proceedings of the Council will be suspended about Easter and that the presumption is that the assemblage will then be dissolved. At the same time we hear of all manner of trouble in the Coungil. The Pope is finding on all hands the reverse of encour- agement to the infallibility dogma. So bad have matters become that the latest effusion of the most popular bishopin France, M. Dupan- loup, has been condemned by the Papal authorl- ties. Itis also said that the popular Father Geratry, superior of the Order Of Oratoriens in Paris, is likely to be superseded because of a letter he has published on the Houmenical Council. What adds to the gravity of the gen- eral situation is that the Holy Father is really sick—so sick that his death has been reported, nithough later reporty hgve it that the end is not yet. The Council does indeed promise to bea grand failure. It will not be wonderful if it fails in its threefold purpose—the Bodily Assumption, the Syllabus and Infallibility. Already the world is pretty fully convinced tiat an Ecumenical Council is an anachronism, If the Pope should die during the sitting of the Council what g flutter it would oreate! WenvELL Pricuips ON THE RAMPAGE.— Mr. Wendell Phillips, at thé meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Sooleiy Festerday, denounced Riorace Greeley for his course in favoring the atimission of Virginia ‘‘half recon- structed.” He suggested that that genial philosopher be ptt naked on a prairie with only the injunction to “‘root, hog, or die.” The expression is wery inelegant for Mr. Phillips and very insppropriate for Mr. Greeley, Think of thé latter gentleman, divested of his white hat and coat and other appendages, wasting his philosophy in rooting amid the bleak air of the prairies, or, in despair at his want of success in such an un- satisfactory mode of agriculture, accepting the other alternative and laying down his valuable life. Tux Bors AND A Fats ALARM.—Some time ago the man who paved Broadway discovered that his pavement had given way at a certain point, and that the surface was several inches below its proper leyel. He accounted for this by the fact that the excavations for the preu- matic bore in progress, and hence started the alarming thought that the borers might let down the whole surface of the street. We thought at the time that the damage looked more like a defect in the pavement, and we observe that the committee of the Legislature appointed to invegtigate ia ef the same opigion. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. . ‘The Abelition of the Franking Privilege “A Surprise Party” in Congress. _ The pleasure of ‘a surprise party” was made manifest yesterday in Congress. Mr. Farnsworth, in the House, asked the privilege to introduce a bill for the abolition of the franking privilege, and desired to name an early day for its consideration as a> special order, And here came in the surprise. It was in the general cry from all sides of the House, “Now,” “Now,” “Let it be passed now.” Accordingly, after a brief dis- cussion, the bill was pushed through to its Passage, and upon this question the vote stood—yeas 174, nays 14, This is a good day’s work, For thirty years and more, over and over again attempts have been made to abolish the franking privilege, and over and over again the movement has been flatly rejected, or evaded or postponed to the next session. The privilege to the mem- bers of franking without limit their own letters, their friends’ letters and everybody's letters, and books, and speeches, and photographs, and allsorts of knick-knackeries as ‘Pub. Doc.,” was a privilege very hard to surrender; but the Postmaster General, in bringing pub- lic opinion to bear upon this thing, as & dead weight upon the public mails and a nuisance to the department, and the general concurrence of the public press in this opinion, have been too much for our national lawma- kers. They have become convinoed that they have dilly-dallied and shilly-shallied gnd tri- fled with and put off this question of abolition long enough, and that they cannot safely trifle with it any longer. Let the earnest friends of the House bill see to it that there is no need- less delay upon the measure in the Senate, and this public nuisance of the franking privi- lege will be abated. While the iron is hot for reform, meantime, in the House, let the active friends of the postal telegraph bill push it forward, for as compared with the abolition of the franking privilege, with its savings of many thousands of dollars to the department and the Treasury, the postal telegraph bill will result in gains and savings to the Treasury and the people amounting to many millions. A Job, but = Goed Iden. The proposition to forbid the Sound steamers navigating the East river below the foot of East Tenth street may be inspired by the hope of giving an impulse to real estate at the upper end on the east side, but there is no doubt that it involves a real benefit to the mass of the people, and we take it that this is the real point of public morality in this fruitful matter of legislative jobbery. Perhaps there are few great improvements not more or less inspired by considerationd of private interest, but if results of positive importance to the people are achieved the job becomes a public benefit, The safe navigation of the East river isa matter of primary consequence to the people of this cjty and Brooklyn. The bridge is so far in the future as to be still very misty, and the prospect is that we must for years depend upon the ferryboats. At certain periods of the day the river is fairly thronged with these vessels, every one packed to its ut- most capacity with its human freight, and at one of these periods the Sound boats come crash- ing along ata high rate of speed, traversing the route of every ferry and putting thousands of lives in imminent _ peril. Now, the very first consideration in regard to this matter is that this peril is altogether unnecessary, There is no good reason why the Sound boats should go to the lower part of the city on the east side even, much less why certain of them should go all the way around to the North river. They can quite as well land at points on the east side further up, and thus put their passengers nearer the habitable part of the city and the hotels, while freight, once on trucks, can go as well to one point as another. Tae VirewstA Munpers.—Old Virginia, speaking in a Pickwickian sense, is once more represented on the floor of Congress, One of her Senators and four of her Representatives were sworn in yesterday. The appearance of Mr. Porter to také the oath called up a discus- sion in the House which aptly illustrated what anet of contradictions is woven by politics, Mr, Wood, democrat, of New York, objected to his being admitted on the ground that he SGE sina, ad ORT Te Poe. dent (Lincoln) in « scurrilous manner, while the republican members defended Porter by charging the same thing on the democratic members. A complete change of front was presented, and if Prince Arthur had been in the galleries he would have had an impression that the only supporters of the government during the war were Voorhees, Wood, Holman and deinocrats of «similar complexion, and that Butler, Paine and Horace Greeley were yet unpardoned rebels. Tre Exzorions x Spatn,—The elections, so far as we have returns, give eighteen for the progresaists, four for the republicans, three for the unionists and one for the absulutists, Prim is a progressist, Serrano is @ unionist, The Sgures show that Prim has a great card to play if he knows how to play it. If he not be a Cromwell he may at least be a Monk. “eb - Ea Tax Potycay Qurstioy.—Mr. Cullom’s bill to abolish polygamy in Utah has been com- pleted by his committee, and will be reported to the House when the committee is regularly called for reports. It provides that the Presi- dent shall enforce its terms by the use of troops if necessary and the calling out of twenty-five thousand volunteers among the citizens of Utah. The bill will probably pass the House, and then the question becomes one of most serious interest. Inpiana Drvorom AND PuriraN Morat- iry.—Elsewhere we give ® communication fcom an Indiana-lawyer touching one of the great staples of his State—divorces, He includes the note of a would-be client in Con- necticut, who appears to have been deserted: by her Hege and who desires to have some- thing that looks as much like a divorce as the circumstances will warrant. She is not unrea- sonably anxious that the thing should be legal, | and if it is not she will take no advantage of it; but she would like to have it look legal. This exemplifies the easy morality of the Down East world, which at bottom cares as little a8 poasible for thorough honesty, but cares an immense deal for cnewagael ted” Prince Arthur and Our Municipal Authorities. This young scion of the royal family of Eag- land, Prince Arthur, as the representative of the amiable Queen Victoria, is receiving a regular course of official courtesies and oom- pliments at Washington. A committee of private citizens of this metropolis have also proposed to the Prince, in the name of his * mother, the Queen, a quiet complimentary dinner and hop at Delmonico’s, which be has accepted; but why have we no movement of this sort from his Honor the Mayor and Boards of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen? The Japanese embassy, including “Little Tommy,” as the ‘‘pet of the petticoats,” were honored with a grand aldermanic blowout at the Metropolitan, and from the bills of that grand affair incorporated in the tax levy wo know that it was a good big job. Why not make another such job of a Corporation blow- out to Prince Arthur? Why are all our Alder- men and Assistant Aldermen silent upon. this grand idea? One of Mother Carey's chickens, with “a bit of the brogue,” has been flying about whispering two words, which solve the mystery, and those two words are “the Fenians.” Our City Fathers understand these ominous words and their bear- ing upon the next November election in reference to this question of a municipal dinner to the Prince, and #0, by common consent, the question is decided in the negative. Our Irish fellow citizens can- not forget the wrongs of Ireland, and in New York they are the power behind the Wigwam. The case is perfectly simple and perfectly natural, and in losing a big job the Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen have no right to complain. In fact, a good round sum is saved upon the tax levy in dispensing with a Corpo- ration dinner to the Prince; and is not this a good thing? EnriTLED To Ong.—On the Rome, Water- town and Ogdensburg Railroad there recently occurred an accident resulting in the death of a@passenger. This road has been in operation eighteen years, and it is claimed that this is its first fatal accident. What other road has se bloodless @ history ? Tae Murper TRIAL IN Brooxtyn.—In the commencement of the trial of Edwin Perry, for the murder of the watchman Hayes, before Judge Pratt in Brooklyn yesterday, counsel on both sides commented very severely on news- papers for referring to the case in a way to influence public sentiment, As jurors accord- ing to their oaths are to be governed in their verdict entirely by the evidence, we cannot see that their judgment will be perverted any more by a fair and disinterested newspaper criticism than by the biassed arguments of the opposing lawyers at the close of the trial, when the true intent of the evidence is often distorted, or by the opening statements of the case, wherein, before any: evidence is offered, the counsel on both sides alm to prejudice the jury in favor of or against the prisoner. A Hopervut Siax.—Some of the organs of the Northern democracy are beginning to dis- cover that there has beena deluge, and that the ‘time-honored platform of the democratic party” belongs to the epoch of the Fugitive Slave law. We have been trying to hammer this idea into their thick heads for some time; but at last our hammering is beginning to tell, like Grant’s incessant hammering at. ‘he eebel- lion. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Colonel P. Wood, of Syracuse; Colonel H. B Northrop, of Saratoga; George U. Carman, of Vu ginia; Colonet J. 8. Rotfinson and Colonel J. Valen- tine, of Sav Francisco; Colonel Lafliin, of Saugerties; Judge 8. C. Hovey, of Providence, R. L; Dr. W. A. Reed and Dr. G. A. Ropes, of Indiana, and Colonel J.M. French, of Detroit, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General W. H. Reynolds, of Providence; Major H. A. Gilliam and Major L. O. Latham, of North Caro- lina; ex-Governor W. H. Denison and B, E. Lauth, of Ohio; 3. Edgar Thompson, of Philadelphia; Lieute- nant Commander 8. L. Wilson, of the United States Navy; G. K. Jewitt and H. Woods, of Bangor, aro at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge B.C. Kattell and W. E. Taylor, of Bing- hamton; Captain J. W. Williams, of steamer City of Boston, and Judge Hood, of Washington, are at the Astor House. General Gordon Granger and wife, of the United Staves Army; ar. de Speyr and B. 8. Loney, of Bal- timore; Richard Ten Broeck, of Kentucky; Duncan C. Fell, of Hudson; Otta Kah, of Baden Baden, and Francis Fellows, of Hartfora, are at the New York Witt Dexter, of Chicago, and T. K. Lothrop, of Boston, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel Abram Frank, of Bridgeport; Professor H. Hopkins, of Cincinnati, and Dr. W. J. Best, of New York, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Colonel Charles Hamilton, of Fort Jefferson. Fia., is at the Coleman House. General Bayley, of Detroit; B. V. Page, of Chi- cago; Captain Wilson, of the Fifth cavalry; T. PF. Magruder, of Baltimore; S. Watson, of Washington; M. Cortright, of Pennsylvania; George B. Upton, of Boston, and L. B, Bummer, of Obicago, are at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Major B, 8. Johnson, of Charleston, 8. 0.; BR. W. Cole, of Pennsylvania, and P. Adie, of London, Eng- Jand, are at the Everett House. albany, and Samuel Engle, of Kings Creek, Va., are at the St. Denis Hotel. ¥ ‘Wainwright, of Sacremento, and Surgeon a ‘orliers, of San Francisco, are at the St, Kime Hotel. ase % ‘ Prominent Departures. E. P. Ross, for Boston; Dr. King, for Newport, id Colonel S. Lawrence, for Washington. a | ayo and the committee from the Com- mén Council of ti of Baltimore left last even- ing, en route to Portiand, foF Boston. Miscellaneous Personal Movements. ‘The Duke of Wélilngton was godfather to Prince arthar, . ‘The lowa Legislature has one female and one colored oMicer. A Misa Campbell baa been re-elected Clerk of the Kansas House of Representatives. Mrs. Abbott Lawrence, of Boston, has contributed $26,000 towards a fine art museum in that city. ‘The Hon. Jeremiah 'S. Black 1s writing a history of Buonanan’s aaministration trom November, 1860, to March, 1861. Wendell Phillips ts to deliver the oration in Bos- ton on the 6th of March, the centennial anniversary of the ‘Boston massacre,”” pllcroenr bt ARE MEETING OF THE LIQUOR DEALERS OF THE EIGHTH WARD. ‘The liquor dealers of the Eighth ward assembied last evening at 179 Varick street and organized an association to be styled the M. T. Brennan Associa- tion of the Kignth Ward. The orgarmation was ith the election of the following ofticers:— Prenaent, James Caulfield; Vice President, Thomas Bogan; Treasurer, John Meynegh; Secretaries, Law- rence Finnegan and Toomas McFadden. LOCATION OF AN WANE ASYLUM. MIDPLBTOWN, Jan. 27, 1870. Apublic meeting was held this evening to secure @ location fora Homeopathic lusane Asylum. Ad- sree male a fae ne Ww an rs. lel town will be bonded for $60,009, A. D. Dickinson, of Newark; E.L. Stinson, of |