The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All buainess or news leiter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Rejected communications will nor be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVEKING. BOOTH'S THRATRE, 234 #1 Matinee—HAniur. Kyvenin between Sth and 6th avs.— wa MERRILIES. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bronaway. —Paut Pry—Roerer MAOAIRE. Matince at 2. FIFTH AVENUS TH! OL, BUMMEX BUENES a wenty-fourth st —SURF; RANCH. Matinee at 2 NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.-Granp RoMANTIO PLay ov ritn Duke's Morro. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor ner Thiriietl si.—Matines daily. Performance every evening, BOWERY THEATRE, Kowery.—BuoK, Many Hours; 02, GOLD Ur To 185, 40, Ms THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—fne HorLeRque oF BAD Dickey. ‘Matinee at 2 ADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Dowery— WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broad Tax SvH00!. Pow SOx FRENCH THEATR COMEDY—La Pars GRAND © Wa at.—Joo: Vooatisy, \ THEATRE $14 Broadway. tam, NRGKO Acts, &o. ‘Matinee at 2c. Comte Vooate BRYAN'’S OPERA HOUS! SL—bRYANT'S MiNLTEELS. » Mtb SAN FRANCE. TIAN Mixsre MITSTRELS, $85 Brow NEW YORK CIR AND GYNNAGTIO Py RA HOUSE, Br, —TAAT RASCAL THOMAS, &o. APOLLO Ab Tug New Wise. er 28th street and f YM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— NEW YORK MUS BIENOE AND Aat. TRI PLE SHE ET. New York, meee glands 29, 1820. CONSENTS OF mounds GERALD. Pacr. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, S—Wasbingiou: Legislatung for Wasbingtow Ne g§roes; The Gold Conspiracy twvestugation: Admission of Senator Joknson, of Virginia - Cameron's Abdailah Herocs; Maine State Tem- perance Conyention—Workiugmen in Council: New Political Party by New re Workingmen; The Workingt 3 Assembly at Albany—A Woman's Kights Con- vention in Boston. 4—Europe : Interesting Correspondence from Eng- and, Spain and France—News trom iwich Jslunds—The Smal!pox—The The Governor's Appoinrees pervisor Smith’s Election Legal- is—The Old ‘twenty-second in the New York Courts Yester- MeGarrahan Case in the United States Supreme Court—lhe Trial ef Edwin ferry tor the Marder of Thomas Hayes—The Martin Whiskey Crasade—Another Amniy Case—New York City News—Suburbaa Inieti- gence @=-Editorials: Leacing Articie on British Ponttics, the Questions of tie flour, the Approaching Besston of Parliament—Personal Intetligence— ral Punishment in Schools—Amusement News from al! Parts of the World: Mission from Rome to Napo- jeon; Reported severe Fighting in Cuba— How Jeracy Treats Burgiars—Reunlon of Oid Public School! No, i—Lectares Last Night—Yale Alumni Association—Naval Intel- ligeuce—Musical and Theatrical Notes—The Junior Base Ball Association—Alleged incen- diary Fire in Third Avenue—Business Notices. S~The New Nation: Interesting Details of Affairs at Red River—Virgimia: Military Urder Turning the State Over to the Civil Autnoritics—A New Coniagion in the City— Brooklyn City News—Appeat for Help for Cuba~—The Alexander harthquake at the Tonilan Islands—Old Pe spl P—Financal and Commercial Reports—The Pneomatic Transit Compauy Litigauon—the New vost Office—The Kema: of Generals Rousseau and Watkins—Murriages aud Deaths, 10—The Westchester Tax War—George Peabody: Programme of the Obsequies at Portiand— Shipping News—Advertisements, 11-The Prize Ring: ‘he Battles berween Seadons and Lafferty, and Casey and Galiaguer—Re- ported Resuscitation After Execution—Russia Financial Condition—Reat —The Japs in California—An Special ana Horror—suicide of a City Treasurer— Singular Suicide of a Repntea French Counte Mortality Extraordinary—Statisties of Oulo. 12—Advyertisements. LD SUBSCRIBERS. NOTICE TO We will esteem it a fiver, it our readers will inform us, by letter addressed to this office, of any dereliction on the part of the carriers of the Hera, either in furnishing the paper late, substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled sheets. New CostaGion.—In addition to the smalle pox, Dr. Uarris says a new contagion, called the relapsing fever, is among us. Tax Canats.—A bill has been introduced in the State Senate suspending work on the canals until an appropriation is made to pay | for it. Taz Postar Te! Mr. Ramsey's bill for incorporating 4 postal telegraph com- pany seems to be in decided favor with the Senate Postal Committee, and consequently a number of influential gentlemen connected with the Western Union monopoly are reported to be in Washington. Jensey Justioe.—Two burglars were sen- tenced by Judge Randolph, of Hudson county, yesterday, one to twenty and the other to ten years in the State Prison. Judge Randolph tempered his justice with mercy unusual in Jersey, for he said death was the only adequate punishment for them. CaLirornia Bropucrs, .—In addition to the wines, minerals, big trees and Chinamen which California has on hand for her sister States, we have now to record tho successful manufacture of silk from cocoons. Tho golden Btate fully repays the purchase money paid for her, and itis to be hoped Alaska will do Well. British Folitice—Tne Questions of the Hoar The Approaching Session of Parlinmont. It is now many months since we had any- thing to do with the British Parliament or, until very lately, with the speeches of British statesmen. The recess, a8 they call it in England, bas been more than ordinarily unin- teresting. Mr. Disraeli has been dumb. Mr. Gladstone, in. spite of his natural disposition to express himself, has been silent almost to dis- appointment, Latterly Mr. Bright has broken the ice, and, although we have no reason to say that he has absolutely satisfled his col- leagues, we cannot deny that he has sketched an admirably able and honest programme for Ireland. The present British Ministry has good reason to rest upon the laurels it won in the last session of Parliament. It did great things—great things, especially, for Ireland. It did, also, make great promises, and the great promises had Ireland for their object. Mr. Gladstone lost his chances in the great Reform bill movement; but he sawa great field in the removal of [rish grievances, and it must be admitted that up to the poiat of opportunity he has done well. On the Sth of February the recess ends and Parliament will be again in session, The Queen, personally or by proxy, will open Par- liament. In any case we shall have another Gladstone programme. The Queen’s speech will touch upon the great work that has been doae, upon the happy relations sus- tained towards foreign countries, upon the Alabama claims difficulty, upon the divided sentiment of France on the commercial treaty carried out mainly by the perseverance and honest convictions of the once contemned but latterly honored Richard Cobden, upon the great and troublous question of the colonies, made fresh and more interesting than ever by recent manifestations, and chiefly upon the honest policy still to be pursued in the matter of Irish grievances, It will be a good Queen's speech, at least as good a speech as kings or qneens or emperors usually make, It will be full enough to cover the great questions of the day, liberal enough to sustain the position of Mr. Gladstone and his friend Bright, and jast enough to command the honest support of the tories. Among forcign questions the two most important are the Alabama claims and the expiring French commercial treaty. The Alabama claims nego- tiations, we are told, have again been sus- pended. ‘When were they in any other con- dition? Prince Arthur, we suspect, has settled the whole difficulty. 1s he not now the honored guest of this nation? Has he not made Mrs. President Grant feel that a live prince is some- thing more than any other ordinary mortal? Has he not by a smile or a touch imparted a lifelong joy and pride to many of our Washing- ton belles? Has he not made fortunes for all the qilliners and dressmakers in the neighbor- hood of the Capitol? That the Alabama claims negotiations should be suspended is no matter of wonder, A question of honor is best settled by an honorable apology. Since we make so much of princes we cannot blame Great Britain for making 60 little of the Alabama claims. The French commercial treaty, now about to expire, is to the mercantile classes of Great Britain a very important and, indeed, a very serious question, We could name towns in England, Scotland and Ireland that have suf- fered by it very severely. Some of the oldest centres of manufacturing industry and skill have suffered to the point of ruin. Old towns have almost died and old manufacturing firms have been reduced to poverty. But we could name other centres which have gained by the Cobden treaty. Liitle hamlets have grown into towns, towns have swelled into cilies, and manufacturers, honest and able, finding a field for their wares, have swelled into dignified merchants and portly aldermen, What has taken place in Great Britain has taken place in France. Some centres, some individuals have gained ; some centres, some individuals have lost; but in the one country, ag in the other, the Cobden treaty has been a public benefit. Free trade admirably illus- trates the New Testament precept—“ It is expedient that one man should die for the people”-——a precept which covers a principle, and the principle is as old as the Flood, per- haps older. But as the love of self is stronger than the love of humanity, protection, in com- muuities selfish and not fully enlightened, will always have a chance. It is possible that some British manufacturers have gained as compared with some French manufacturers ; it is possible also that some French manufac- turers have gained as compared with some British ; agriculturally, it is undeniable that France has had the advantage; but the re- turns, which we have more than oace published in the Hrratp, show that both countries have gained immensely by the free trade policy. It is scarcely to be doubted that the feeling now prevailing in France will lead to a modifl- cation of the treaty; but the modification will be more a seeming than areal logs to Great Britain, while it cannot be a gain to France. The colonial question is one which now se- riously agitates the minds of British statesmen. Ti has already taken a shape that may break up the existing political parties. For some years past men of mere ideas, men like our friend Goldwin Smith, of Ithaca, have been advo- eating a course of policy which was fine in theory, but which, as it was totally wanting in the practical direction, has already begot- tena powerful reaction—a reaction so strong that it includes the Poet Laureate and others who, though not practical men, see the folly of political theorists. The question is whether Great Britain can or cannot afford fo lose her colonies. The late Colonial Secre- tary Cardwell thought the colonies should look afier themselves, One result of that policy has been that the whites in New Zeal- and have been massacred by the natives, and that the whites, in despair, have threatened to apply to the United States for protection. Lord Clarendon has seen and confessed the folly of this economical policy; but the ques- tion is not yet settled, and it is certain to command a certain amount of attention from the imperial Parliament of 1870. After all we have said, however, the great absorbing question will be how to improve the land tenure system of Ireland. Great pro- mises have been held out, But it will be much more difficult to satisfy the Irish people on this subject than it waa in the matter of the Churen establishmont. The land tenure sys- tem is old. It has for centuries divided the people from their landlords. It is on all hands io Ireland admitted to be the monster griev- ance. That Mr. Glndstone means to settle this other question no one can deny. That his colleagues and he are of one mind we have no reason to doubt, But it willbe a difficult task to execute. It may make an end of Glad- stone and Bright. It may give Disraeli another chance. It may dethrone Disraeli and Glad- stone forever and bring into prominence a new class of men, At any rate, what with Alabama claims, French commercial treaties, the colonies and the still disatfected Irish, the approaching ses- sion of the British Parliament promises to give us food for thought. Papal Infgllibility Appented to Napoleon. A telegram dated in Rome yesterday assures us thatthe Archbishop of Algiers has been detached from the Ecumenical Council and commissioned by the Pope on special duty to Paris. He is directed to ascertain the views of the Emperor Napoleon on the dogma of the personal infallibility of the Pope, for the reason that the ‘‘uncertainty of the Emperor's position on this question causes the Holy Father serious uneasiness.” If the cable is correct in this matter the news is really extra- ordinary. Humanly speaking it is reducing the decision of personal pontifical infallibility to a very fallible lay source for arbi- tration. Considered in a political light the step reveals a considerable amount of astute diplomacy on the part of the Head of the Church; for it is generally conceded that his Majesty of France is the most successful politician in the world, and one who has “como along” wonderfully since he emerged from his involuntary moral retreat of self- examination at Ham and carried his well dis- ciplined mind, with the resuscitated eagle, to Boulogne. The Pope concedes to his wisdom, the Emperor will advise and an anointed coronation may follow. The despatch also proves that Napoleon the First was almost miraculously prescient in his dea; for inasmuch as Pope Pius the Seventh would not send to Paris in his day, the fortunate commander of the French army went to Rome himself and brought him to the French capi- talin person. The great Bonaparte, standing in the Vatican, assured the Pope that the union of the Papacy with his government would work admirably, thus :-—‘‘Holy Father, I will in future wield the sword, and you will hold the keys of St. Peter,” and this ‘‘against the world,” if necessary. , Pope Pius the Sev- enth replied in one word addressed to his attendant, ‘‘Comidiente,” or the man is a come- dian—a satire which wounded as severely at the moment as did the sword of Waterloo sub- sequently. Napoleon the Third never aban- dons an idea and never forgets an insult. The united sword and keys of Peter hold pos- session of his mind, andPio Nono may view the subject in a different light from Pius the Seventh, particularly with a Bonaparte in the Sacred College. European Labor Combinution. The declaration of M. Schneider, President of the French Corps Législatif, that the labor troubles at La Creuzot were fomented by Englishmen, may doubtless be accepted as true, and the fact indicates the extent of the workingmen’s operations in Europe, through labor unions and similar machinery. The commercial treaty between England and France, in virtue of which French wines and other products go duty free or at a very low rate into England, while English manufactures are similarly favored in France, has the effect of bringing the two countries pretty close together in the matter of industrial interest. Any article that goes through the ports duty tree may as well be made in one country as the other; and thus if the English laborer demands higher wages, and the article thereby is likely to cost so much more as to materially reduce the dealer's profits, the job goes over the channel and into the bands of the French workman, who has not yet discovered all the glories of a trade union. Strikers in England have seen this thing happen a great many times, and have finally discovered that before astrike can be thoroughly effective in one kingdom it must extend to the other. It is the operation of combination in this sense that M. Schneider refers to. Five Hunprep TuousaNnp Dottars IN Szo- TARIAN Sors.—We have frequently called attention to the liberality with which our City Council gave away money that it did not own, and that it was entrusted with to use for a dif- ferent purpose than that to which it often applied it. In the past year there was an unusual frechandedness of this sort in the City Hall, and we see now that the aggregate of money given away to sectarian schools reached the sum of half a million dollars. Four hundred thousand dollars of this was given to Roman Catholic schools. But with- out any regard to what particular sect got the money, this is an enormous abuse. We pay lavishly for the support of schools in a regular and proper way, and in the public schools of the city there is ample accommodation for the instruction of all children whose parents are willing that they should be taught at the public expense. This tapping the public till for the support of a separate system of schools is a thing that should be stopped. Tne Marrin Wuiskry Case. —The case of the United States against Barker, Bamberger and others, who are charged with having con- spired and defrauded the government by re- moving a large quantity of distilled spirits from a distillery in Highteenth street, was brought up in the United States Commission- ers’ Court yesterday. A lurge number of people assembled to hear the examination, but they were doomed to disappointment, as the absence of some of the principal witnesses necessitated the postponement of the case until next week. To judge from appearances the absent witnesses do not desire to take the stand against whiskey. Tuk WORKINGMEN. IN TH® Potrmoan Frevv.—The Convention of Workingmen of New Hampshire have adopted a political plat- form and nominated candidates for the next election in that State. The Workingmen’s Assembly at Albany are busy in looking to their interests with the Legislature and -dis- cussing the question of forming a working- men’s party. In the break-up of old organi- zations that will ensue in the new issues coming before the country the chances for youog and vigorous parties are good, Another North Pole Expodition. Professor Hall, with a little help from Con- gress, thinks that he can get up an expedition which will plaat the Stars and Stripes on the tip top of the North Pole. And we believe he can do it. Captain Kune and Captain Hayes, from the furthest point they reached north- ward, within some seven or elght degrees of the pole, report as far as the eye could reach to the northward an open sea, which they be- lieve extends to and sweeps around the pole. We dare say, too, that they are correct in this opinion, but that the best way to reach the pole is not against the current of the icebergs which come down Baffin's Bay, but by way of the Pacific equatorial current, which partly flows into the Arctic Ocean through Behring Straits, or by way of the Atlantic equatorial | current (or Gulf Stream) up by the coast of Norway and by the island of Spitzbergen. ‘These two great warm ocean currents supply the water which no doubt keeps the sea open around the pole, while the current which comes down from Baffin’s Bay is only the re- turning volume of those two equatorial cur- rents after they have lost their heat. Hence the procession of icebergs drifting down Baf- fin’s Bay into the Atlantic in the spring. They come from the accumulations of the glaciers on the rocky and precipitous shores of that bay on both sides, With these impressions of the warm ocean enrrents concerned, we think that the best plan fora North Pole expedition would be to go in through Behring Straits and to come out by way of Spitzbergen, or vice versa, avoiding the frozen Arctic Ocean outlet of Baffin’s Bay altogether; and we think that all the failures of British and American explorers to reach the pole may be charged mainly to the mis- take of taking the route of Baflin’s Bay. We think so because this bay is the outlet of those two aforesaid inflowing equatorial currents to- wards tho pole currents, Which are changed into & current of icebergs in their return by Baflin’s Bay into the Atlantic Ocean, At all events, in view of the national honor of solving this mystery of the North Pole, Professor Hall, an old campaigner in the Arctic seas, should be granted the trifling assistance required from Congress. Corbin’s Covfessisn—That Famous Letter. Corbin has given in his evidence to the Congressional committee on, the subject con- cerning the modus operandi of the great gold gambling conspiracy of September last. Ac- cording to Fisk the grand bull rush, or rush of the bulls, on that awful “black Friday” grew out of Corbin’s letter from New York to General Grant, at Washington, Pa.; that famous letter which was sent by Chapin, the special courier of Gould and Fisk; that all- important letter which Fisk and Gould were led to believe by Corbin touched the main question whether the administration would or ‘not interfere in the nice little plot of Fisk and company for running up gold to 200. Chapin’s answer by telegraph to that letter, after de- livering it, brought the joyful tidings to the con- federate bulls that it was “‘all right,” and so they jumped at the conclusion that Corbin had made their gold pool “all right” with the President and that he was in the ring. Hence the bold experiment of that ‘black Friday.” Now “mark how a plain tale will put them down.” Corbin says that that famous letter of his to General Grant was not about the gold corner, but that it was on another subject, In other words, he took the money of Gould and Fisk and then sold them. But where is that letter ? A Great Battie, WuEre?—One of the Havana papers publishes a thrilling account by an eye-witness of a fierce battle which took place on the Ist of January. The number of killed and wounded are given and the result carefully summed up. Of course the Spaniards were victorious. We doubt not but the battle occurred ; but as the eye-wiiness was particu- lar in stating the number of killed and wounded, details of the battle, date of occur- rence and final result, might he not also have stated where the famous victory was won? GENERAL THOMAS AND THE BATTLE or NasHvitiz.—The official correspondence he- tween General Grant and others on the one side, and General Thomas, in reference to the delay of Tomas in giving battle to the enemy at Nashville, establishes two facts very dis- tinetly. First, that General Grants was very much in earnest and did not believe in masterly inactivity at all; and, secondly, that General Thomas, satisfied that he was right, was ready to give up his command rather than go into battle prematurely. The grand result was in favor of Thomas and without damage to Grant. Tne Perry Triat.—In the trial of Perry, in Brooklyn, yesterday, Judge Pratt ruled out the dying declaration of Hayes, that Perry was his murderer, on the ground that there was no evidence to show that Hayes at the time knew he was dying. Tue Eyes or Dutawarg.—The Delaware republicans want Judge Fisher, of the Su- preme Court of the District of Columbia, ap- pointed to one of the vacancies in the Supreme Court of the United States, We may say, too, that if the old party rule initiated by Gene- ral Jackson, of appointing good party men to the Supreme bench, is still the rule, Judge Fisher did good service, judicially, in the rumpus between Stanton and Andy Johnson for the possession of the War r Department, Too Many at a TIME. —Mr. Washburn’s bill subsidizing four lines of Aflantic steamers lays out an extensive scheme for com- merce to grow up to. We should be better pleased to see one good American line in ope~ ration than to hear of four, or even forty. Each of the lines is to receive on annual sub- sidy of half a million dollars, and this is an obnoxious feature; yet, while we hold that subsidies are bad in principle, it must be admitted that in this case government has something of an equivalent in its rights with regard to these ships in case of war. So far as it makes of the ships a possible navy the bill is excellent. Our Evropkan CorresponpeNce from England, Ireland, France and Spain, pub- lished to-day, embraces an interesting and important detail of our cable telegrams to the 15th of January, which will command tho attention of our readers in view of the near approach of the opening of the session of the British Parliament. New YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Chia Desa rte cv MN Sie eee: weer. Fes eee Ex-Secretary Welles and the Navy Dee partment. When Mr. Welles, ex-Secretary of the Navy, embarked his goods and chattels in the Talla~ poosa and bade adieu to Washington, his friends fondly hoped that he would quietly return to Hartford and doze away the rest of his life in those peaceful slumbers in which it was said he indulged while Secretary of the Navy. It was supposed that when he severed his connection with the government he would consent to let the present administration run the machine, although it was feared that, hav- ing been so long at the head of naval affairs, he would still endeavor to have a finger in the pie. A short time before his political demise the venerable Secretary was taken sick, and he then and there sent for his attorney and made his last will and testament, in which he bequeathed the Navy Department, the navy yards, Isherwood’s engines, and naval debis to an old aunt of his in Hartford, Conn., who was solemnly enjoined to conduct the navy on the same enlightened principles which had guided the old son of Neptune in his bril- liant career. Surgeon Hornitz and Lindsay Muse were appointed his executors. It was not supposed, under these circumstances, that the old gentleman would willingly give up the control; indeed, for weeks after his successor had been appointed he lingered about Wash- ington, and day after day he would wander in the direction of the department building where he had spent so many happy years, eating apple pie for lunch, and drawing his pay, which, during the eight years he slept in office, amounted to the moderate sum of sixty-four thousand dollars. How- ever, the old gentloman’s friends always caught him and carried him home, to repeat his wanderings the following day. When he char- tered the Tallapoosa to take his effects to Hartford it was supposed that he was carrying off his clothes and the plunder of the war; but it now turns out that he was taking away all the accounts and former estimates of his depart- ment, to be made use of on the first favorable opportunity against his jolly succgggor, Mr. Mr. Robeson, The idea of any one in the Navy Department deing jolly riled the ex-Secretary extremely, He never laughed himself and he never pormitted such a piece of indecorum on the part of any of his subordinates, and when he heard that Secretary Robeson hada kind word for every one, and never put a paper into a pigeonhole before having it attended to, he said, “I must get back there somehow and have matters restored to the old status.” His first act after reaching Hartford was to goto sleep, and he did not awake for seven months. At theend of that time he opened his eyes and called for pen, ink and paper, to write his annual report. One can imagine his indignation when he heard that a@ new man occupied his place apd had already written a report, in which there were some originalideas. The venerable man was so provoked that he threw his wig at his house- keeper and was heard to swear. For eight years he had repudiated original ideas, and had always ostracized any officer of the navy who attempted to pass them off upon him. He had commenced the war by _ ignor- ing naval officers and employing his own brother-in-law to buy up rotten ships for the navy, by which somebody pocketed fifty thousand dollars or more in commissions, He appointed Isherwood to build piles and piles of engines, which now cumber the navy yards and are entirely worthless ; he built tons upon tons of monitors, which would not swim when they were put in the water, and he made eati- mates upon estimates which will not bear the slightest investigation. Finding now that some one was interfering in naval matters, over which he claimed entire jurisdiction, he rushed into print and has taken to task the whole Navy Department, Even the clerks in the office smiled when they read his coal esti- mates; for it was well known to all who had served under him how little he knew of the affairs of the department when he stood at the wheel of the craft, which broached to or was brought by the lee when he undertook the steering. It is a sad commentary on naval affairs when old Neptune Welles undertakes to criti- cize them. Nothing was in such a complete muddle ae the navy when. Mr. Welles was at the tail of it, and the only hope of his friends now is that he will goto sleep again for a term of years and not again undertake to en- lighten the world with his estimates. He isnow engaged on a model of Noah's ark, which he proposes to turn into an iron-clad, and he has a plan to make Isherwood a rear admiral and perpetuate his engines in the American navy. Mr. Dawes will have enough to do to get out of the hornets’ nest he hag raised about his ears by quoting Mr. Welles’ estimates, which will so delight the old geutle- man in Hartford that it will keep him wakeful for atleast x week. The public will not rest easy until they hear again from Father Welles. They hdd no idea that he had so much ‘‘snap” in him, and although his statements may not be true they are very amusing, Tne PNEuMATIO TUNNEL.—The great bore company has been confronted by what is to them another great bore. The Corporation Counsel has applied for an injunction to re- strain them from tunnelling Broadway. Tne New Nation ov Winnipra.—We pub- lish elsewhere an interesiing account of the revolution in the Red River region. It gives the secret history of the rfsing, its extent, the men who control it and the movements in prospect. At present it would appear that the Jesuits control the movement, and the Fenian element will have o hand in the fight if any takes place. The present spurt of rebellion, with no opponents, really docs not amount to much, as against a force such as England could send against the ingurgents they would be able to make a show. It is probable that during the winter months little will be done, but on the approach of spring tho revolution- iste had better be prepared for trouble. Tae Virainta SENATOR.—Senator John W. Johnson, of Virginia, was sworn in yesterday, but a question was raisod as to whether he was the identical John W. Johnson who had his political digabilities removed. Settling such. a question as that is like deciding the identity of a particular John Smith, or pick- ing out one black crow from a large flock, and it would be a rare joke if the radicals, with all their anxious carefulnoss, had been disap- pointed. And tho Sandwich Islands, Tee. The annexation fever is spreading. It has lately made its appearance in the North Pa- cific Ocean. From the letter of our corres- pondent in Honolulu it seems that Mr. Harris, the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Rela- tions in the Sandwich Islands, is attacked by the epidemic. While in this country he was ao struck by the workings of our republican institutions that he now desires annexation. The advantages of the acquisition of these islands would be mutual. The United States would secure an excellent half-way stopping place on the road to China and Japan, and the increase of trade would prove an immense advantage to the islanders and to the whaling ships that make their rendezvous there. Of late we notice that the number of whalers arriving at Honolulu has greatly decreased, and San Francisco is gradually assuming that position. The islands, once Americanized, would be greatly benefited by the commercial results which would be sure to follow. The King, however, does not take kindly to his Foreign Minister's views, and Prince Luna- lilo, his prospective successor, is strongly op- posed to it. Still there are a great many of the prominent people of the islands anxious for annexation. It is something, anyhow, to know the current of thought in this far off land, and we may add that after the annexa- tion of Alaska we are prepared for almost anything. We state the case as it is, with the inquiry, ‘‘ Who comes next?” Church Street Open—Will it Relieve Brond- way? From the lower corner of St, Paul's church yard one may now seo well down the opening of Trinity place toward the Battery, looking over a mound of débris in the foreground and between the new front walls of houses on either side of extended Church street. Wo suppose, therefore, that all the car companies wiil presently be sending their vehicles all the way to the Battery—down Greenwich street, say, and up Church. When all the cars take in that greater distance another severo blow will be inflicted upon the omnibus interest, The Staten Island ferries and the necessities of communication between up town and parts of the city below Fulton street have thus far been of great service in keeping alive some lines of omnibuses that would otherwise have failed in that general mortality of omnibus companies that occurred during the first suc- coas of the street cars. Now these reasons are taken away, and the diminished omnibus patronage will diminish the number of these vehicles on the great thoroughfare, and thus the new street will practically relieve Broad- way. Tue ConaressionaL Printér.—A bill was passed in the House yesterday abolishing tha office of Congressional Priater and providi:tg for the election, by joint ballot of both houses, of a Superintendent of Public Printing. This fs another attempt of the House to secure part of the patronage enjoyed by the Senate.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. * General George Goad, of Iowa; Colonel J. Pollock, of Mobile; E. Gul, of Albany, N. Y.; W. H. Hipberd, ‘Dr. Fitler and General Wiliam Douglass, of Phila- deiphia; Dr. N. &,. Kelly, of New York; Dr. L. Liy- ingston, of Baltimore; General Tourtellotte, of Ala- bama, aud Colonel M. J. Smiley, of Michigan, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Generai Jos. McKileleen and General ©. P..Stone, of New Orleans; G. W. Blackourn, of Tennessee, and A. Brandigee, of Connecticut, are at the Astor House. General J. G. Magee, of New York; 8. Drullard, of Buffalo; Colonel S. R. Stafford, of the United States Army; Commander T. Pattison and Licutenant S, L. Wilson, of the United States Navy; M. A. Bryson, of St. Louis; 8. Blackston, of Norwich, and A. Mur- dock, Of Georgia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. A. K. McClure, of Philadelphia; £. A. Buck and 8, D. Caldwell, of Buffalo; L. Butler, of Boston, and Samuel Barton, of Staten Island, are at the Hoffman House. General Thomas J. McCraig. Alexander Shaw and William Waish, of Maryiand, are at the New York Hotel. Captain 0. Humphries and Licutenant J. D. Vin cent, of the United States Army, awd George W. McDowell, of Chicago, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Paymaster Carmody, of the United States Navy; Samuel Lawerance, of Lowell; N. Case, of Buffalo; Robert E. Hill, of Montreal, and Judge E. P. Norton, of Washington, are at the St. Dents Hotel. Theodore Woolsey, President of, Yale College, sna N. B. Stene, of San Francisco, are at the Brevoors House. YW. Studiron, of Detroit: A, Foley, of Englands ‘Thomas M, Devans, of Boston; E. F. Stewart, of Nor- folk, Va., and J. S, Montugue, of Massachusetts, are at the Everett House. Dr. E. A. Spooner, of Philadelphia; B. ©. Little. john, of Alvany, and D. Leavitt, Jr., of Great Bare rington, are at the Albemarle Hotel. C. A. Wilson, of Minnesota; W.C. Mayo, of Rich. mond, Va.; R. A. Scoville, of Boston; W. R. ‘tucker, of Philadelphia, and D. C. Littlejohn, of Buffalo, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Prominent Departures. B. Buffum, for Boston; H. A. Richmond, for But- falo; F. K. Fleld and George Rodman, for Massachu- setts; Signor Rodman and Colonel Thomas, ‘for Washington; A. Van Vechton, for Albany; W. H. Harrison and E. P. Kershaw, for Philadelphia; George M. Pullman and Wirt Dexter, for Chicago; ‘A. McKinney aud H. G. Otis, for Boston; and Jobn B. Lafitte, for Charleston, 8. C. Miscellaneous Personal Intelligence. A paragraph appeared in one of the morning jour- nals yesterday to the effect that Captain Albert De Groot was about to be married. The story was manufactured without the least foundation in fact, ‘The Captain‘s ideas ron into sculpture and design. ing, not matrimony. Tast of Americans registered at the office of Bowles Brothers & Co., 12 Rue de ta Paix, Paris, for the week, ending January 6, 1870:—New York—Col. H. Denike, Mr. E. M. Jewett, Mr. P. apt and family, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Moller, Miss S. M. Burbank, Mr. B. F. Breeden and family, Mr. Morse, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, Mr, William Orton, Mrs. Rinnicut, Mr. J. Shindler and family. Boston—Mr. J. V. Spalding and wile, Mr. F. R. Spaiding, Mra. E. E, Floyd, Mr. and Mrs. G, W. Bond, Miss S. E. Bond, Mr. George Stedman, Mr. K. E. Carpenter. Mr. D. G. ne Mr. H. Bigelow and family, Mr. B. F. Atkins. balumore—Mr. P. 8. Norris, Mr. Edwin Johnson. Cincinnati—Mr. Joseph Glenn, Mr. Waiter Smith and family. Irvington-on-Hudson—Mr. Douglas Merrite Lynn—Mitss Ada Babin. Detroit—mr. Cleveland—Mr. and and party. i. A. Wig a J. M. Smith, Mrs. G. H. Bly, M a Mrs, Winslow 5 oe family. San’ Franc'sco— . Broderick, Mr. H. Dimond. Rochester—Mr» unger. Pittsburg—Mr, 'T. S. Blair. Cambri ir. K. G. Shaw, Mrs, George Livermore, Mr. ©. ©. Livermore. Leavenworth— Mrs. Marens Parrott. Poughkeepsie—Mrs. M. D. Wilber, Miss G. L. Norman, Oakland— and Mrs. 8, EB. Alden and daughter. Philadeip! Mr. M. family. United States Army. » DG. hay Me ir re R. Ropinson, Mr. and Mrs P. D. Orvis. Cousantisople—Dr. L. ©. Dolley. CORPOREAL PUN'SHMENT IN SCHOOLS, Denth of a Boy from a W a Whipping ins Catcago ) School. CHICAGO, TL, Jan. 28, 1870. Willte Atkins, the lad whose punishmeat at Mr. Skinner’s scbool last November created such an ox- citement, died this morning. He has becn in a state of stupor evereince the occurrence, nearly three months ago, never speaking and scarcely giving a sign of life, The investigation atthe time of the occurrence failed to sluw that undue violence waa e