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telegraph, besides atoraing a splendid attesta- ‘Won of the indestructibility and eternity of the @nlightenment which has been from the begin- ming. Joseph was of old sold into.Egypt by hip brethren, who were themselves subse- quently compelled to visit the soil to garner corn in provision against a{umine; the Ameri- ean visitors go to the same land with gold and “United States bonds and greenbacks, and great @ames and reputation, to spend money and onsume the wine and corn and honey and tilk—pure or in “punches” as it comes— “right off” on the spot, Our list is in this | * point of view quite consoling and in complete ‘@ccordance with the modern idea. There: is mo dream about it. No equivocation of the cup in the sack, but the plain facts of the cup _| “eharged arid in hand, and che hard cash in the rwalleta, ( It is to be hoped, however, that American travel to Egypt will not be overdone. A Duke of Northumberland undertook to astonish the natives of Ireland one time by « display of his | dmmense wealth when acting as Lord Lieuten- | vant of that country. The celebrated Laurence i] Sterne, being also in the country, was called |: rto preach in the castle chapel before the vice- | eogal court, which he did, taking for his text | the words, “My vessels of gold and my ves- eels of silver have I shown unto them,” and the prophet answered and said, “Thou hast done a foolish thing.” Enough said, 4 1 {| The Free Trade Agitation in England and France. The progress of the present era is becoming ‘ evident in many and various shapes and | cannot fail to have its influence on the financial i and commercial operations ofthe many nations | of the world, The inereased facilities of tele- graphic and steam communication between tho most distant and remote points of the globe naturally cause a reaction which must vitally affect the produce and the requirements of each one nation individually. The question has been the subject of much discussion recently, in the United States, England and France, because it affects the very exis- tence of those countries. The London Times | Openly denounces protection, and infers that it cannot be in any way compatible with the times we livein. Other arguments are brought | forward by the conservative party in England tending to combat the theory of reciprocity. | Ja France the matter has been still more ear- | nes'ly discussed in the sessions of the Corps L ‘gislatif, and M. Jules Simon calls for an investigation of the various commercial treaties now existing between France and other coun- tris, France is a great producing country, ar! must, therefore, feel the direct result of any combination that is prejudicial to her com- merce and manufactures. M. Simon produces ste ‘istics proving that the present commercial conilition of France is not so ruinous as some would make it appear. It is true that some branches of manufacture are suffering, espe- eiuly shipbuilding and iron founding, and some protection could be extended to them. O.e great point in reference to commerce and manufactures is without doubt the cost of trans- | port, and. this point should therefore be brought under immediate consideration. In France the tariffs for the transport of merchandise ‘are very defective, and in many cases incon- sistent. Moreover the railroad communication in France is still very imperfect, and far behind that of many other great commercial nations, Placed as they are in respect to cach other, the question of free trade or protection between England and France is one of great import to Doth countries, and will doubtless result in many radical changes: in the commercial treaties now in force. The same influence has inanifested itself in other parts. Austria has sent a diplomatic and commercial commission to close conventions with the various govern- ments in the far East. Russia is making colossal preparations in order to push her trade in the same direction and avail herself of ‘the facilities offered by the opening of the Suez Canal. The ruler of the Celestial Empire has also felt the influence of the progress of the times, and for that purpose _ sent an extraordinary commission to visit the government of the United States and the chief governments of Europe. It is impossible to foretell the resulta of this simultaneous reac- tion, but there ceriainily is every reason to anticipate many great changes in the existing relations between the nations of the ‘world. Owing to the geographical position of this country and the nature and variety of its pro- duce the question becomes one of vital interest, and should not be allowed to slumber in Wasb- ington. The active measnres adopted towards carrying out the great ship canal through the Isthmus of Darien will tend still more to de- velop our commercial relations throughout the universe, and naturally wil! affect this country more than any other. y Decrease of the Negroes in Kentucky, It appears from a recent report of the State Auditor that the blacks of Kentucky, who in 1860 numbered 256,107 are now re- duced to 140,455—a loss of two-fifths in “nine years. At this rate the negro element will disappear from Kentucky within the next fifteen years. But this rate of loss will not be kept up. Unquestionably throughout the South there has been a much greater mortality since the beginning of the war among the blacks than there was before the war. This increased mortality has resulted from emancipation, which, in casting the blacks (who were slaves, eared for by their masters) upon their own re- sources, iguorant, destitute and improvident, cast them forth to idleness, hunger, exposure, disease and death. Under their white mas- ters these Southern blacks, from the new-born pickaninay to the poorest field hand, repre- sented each so much money, and it was the master’s interest to take care of his capital. Something like order, however, is superseding the fatal confusion which emancipation brought upon the poor blacks concerned, and they are learning to take care of themselves, and hence the mortality among them is diminishing. But in Kentucky, where emancipation came only,with the proclamation of the thirteenth amendment, four years ayo, this decrease of the negroes since 1860 cannot be charged to an increased mortality from the abolition of slavery, nor to mortality from any cause. Since | April, 1861, probably not less than seventy- five thousand of them have left the State. » During the war they left it-for Ohio, Indiana, Tiinois and liberty, or they followed the Union armies even southward out of the State to es- Bane from slavery. Since the war the blacks NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET, ° have been leaving Kentucky for Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee, for the civil and political rights to be bad in those States, but not to be had in Kentucky. At the same time the losses of the State in the white bone and sinew sacrificed’ in the Union army and in the rebel army have not been repaired by white accessions from other States, because the lawless elements returning from the rebel- lion have rendered life and property insecure throughout the State, excepting the cities and towns along the bordering Obio river. fifteenth amendment will be apt to set all these things right, and then we shall look for a rapid increase of the Kentucky white population and for a greatly diminished rate of decrease in the black element. American Cotton Munufactures, The London 7'imes, as we learn through the eable, in discussing the cotton trade in Eng- land, attributes the depression in part to “the superiority of the American manufactures.” We are not so good a customer in these days a8 we were once, because our home manufacture supplies in a very great degree the demand that it was formerly thought only Manchester was equal to. Moreover, not only does the success of cotton manufactures here deprive this Bri- tish industry of a lucrative trade on this side the Atlantic, but it threatens it with a formid- able rivalry in markets hitherto even more ex- clusively its own than was the market here, This is a result of obvious natural causes, a thing that has come to pass in dite time, and that was not even hurried by the assistance that enormous protection gave to our own manufactures. England had the skilled labor and we had the raw material. It is a slow ‘and difficult thing to move skilled labor, but to @ commercial people it is the easiest thing possible to move the material. Hence, in getting the two necessities together, the cotton went from our side to the labor on their side. This involved such anomalous facts as that cotton grown in South Carolina went all the way to England to he made into cloth that was to come back for use, perhaps, on the very plantation where the cotion grew. An enormous shipping trade was sup- ported by all the unnecessary transpor- tation. Another fact was that the laborers who wrought the cotton into woven fabrics were living in the country that of the two gave them fewer of the comforts of life and a smaller share in the general physical and in- tellectual inheritance of humanity, It fol- lowed by necessity that though the cotton was moved for many years, it would be the labor that would move finally, and then the cotton would be manufactured on the same side of the ocean on which it grew. This could only take place when the idea should finally expand in Europe that this country was the true home and sphere of the workingman in the present age—the only country whose political, social and financial institutions are framed on that view of society that is taken from the people’s level and not from the level of the privileged aris- tocratic classes. This result, long preparing, is now beginning to manifest itself, and is felt already in England, and England will soon know that its consequences are to extend im- mensely further in the same direction in which they now trouble her. The time is coming when we shall have from England towards this country the same tremendous tide of emigra- tion that we .formerly had from Ireland, and are now havifig from Germany. With the drain of her excess in the supply of loom workers we shall have one more and tke last point against her. She will then no longer have the great advantage of cheaper labor. We shall then completely oust her from posses- sion of the industry that has done so mach to make her great in the modern world. The Throne of Spain—Two | -dates, The throne of Spain still goes begging. The latest report from Madrid is that the Duke of Montpensier will be altogether abandoned, and that Prince George, son of the King of Saxony, thirty-seven years of age, and a Catholic, and Prince Charles of Prussia, cousin of the Crown Prince, and a Protestant, are talked of. While the Cortes adhere to the Roman Catholic Church in their appropriations as the Church of the State, Prince Charles of Prussia may be counted out, and, like all the other candidates proposed for this precarious and dangerous Spanish throne, Prince George of Saxony will probably have other fish to fry. With every failure, meantime, to find a King Log for the dominant monarchy party of Spain, the chances are increased in behalf of a King Stork that will gobble them up in the shape of the son of Queen Isabella, or, peradventure, in the per- son of Isabella herself. Something of this sort will probably be the solution of this Spanish difficulty, or, after a few more details from the army to Cuba, there may be another republican rising which will settle the question. In short, the prospect for the existing government is as gloomy in Spain as in the island of Cuba. ore Candi« OBITUARY. Truman H. Hong. ‘This gentieman, a Representative in Congress from the Toledo district of Ohio, died of pneumonia in Washington on Saturday night last. Mr. Hoag had not long been prominent in national politics, ite had been, however, for some years a popular democrat jn his part of Ohio. At the generai etec- tion in October, 1868, he was elected a Represenia- live to the present Congress, defeating Mr. J. M. Ashley, the well known ‘impeacher” of President Johnson, py 912 majority, although the same district on the same day gave Mr. Sherwood, the republican candidate for Secretary of State, a majority of 775 over Mr. Hubbard, democrat. The result for Congressman, while due im a great measure to the dissatisfaction of whe voters with Mr. Ashley's official career, was none the less owing to Hoag’s ersonal popu- larity. Jt is exceedingly doubtful if a democrat can be elected to fill’ the vacancy caused by his death. Mr. Hoag bore the reputation of being a gentleman of culture and fine abilities, His brief career in Congress afforded him no opportunity for attaming to high position in the vational councils, which he doubtiess would have attamed had his life been spared. Rev. Dr. Elton., A despatch from Boston reports the death in that city on saturday last, after a short illness, of Dr. Hiton, the weil known Baptist minister. He was graduated at Brown University, Providence, R. I, in 1813, and subsequently founded two scholarships in. that institution, His long career as # minister of tue Gospel was very succeas(ul, He was for many years pastor of a Baptist church in Windsor, Conn, WILL THE GAS COMPANIES EXAMINE To THE EMtTorR or THE BERALD:— In the matter of the practices of the gas com- panies which you so properly notice please mention that for October, November and December, 1868, my gus bills amounted to twenty-eight dollars. For the same months in 1860, and without auy increase of consumption of gas, or rather use of lignt, my bills were fyrig-miag dollape, CHELSEA, The. TELEGRAPHIC “NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD French Demand for Rochefort’s Sur- render to Prison. POLITICAL PERSECUTION IN FRANCE, Mormon Women Petitioning Congress Against the Anti-Polygamy Bill. A Georgia Conservative Republican Delegation En Route for Washington. SPAIN. The Chivairy Healtating. MADRID, Feb, 6, 1870, The duel between Seiior Figueras and Colonel Luque will probably be fought, as the former will not withdraw his offensive expressions, FRANCE. M. Rochefort—Appeal Day Passed—Demand for His Surrender. ‘ Panis, Feb. 6, 1870. In the case of Henri Rochefort, no appeal naving been taken, the sentence becomes final. The Minis- try are determined to put it into execution, and the defendant has been notified to surrender himself to the authorities, Political Prosecution. Panis, Feb. 6, 1870, M. Gustave Floureus is to pe prosecutea for words ‘used in a speech at u political meeting. Executive Retaliation. PaRis, Feb, 6, 1810. The Journal Opiciel publisnes a ‘decree removing M. Le Verrier, the eminent astronomer, from bis office as director of the Imperial Observatory for taking certain action io the Senate, of whicli he is a member, inconsistent with iis duties as an officer of the government. CUBA. General Goyenoche’s Return to Puerto Prin= cipeReported Victory over the Insur- gents, HAVANA, Feb. 6, 1870, General Goyenoche returned to Puerto Principe on the 28th ult. A letier announces that he defeated the rebels and capturea two pieces of artillery aud Many prisoners. It is reported that a son of Ces- pedes, eleven years of age, is among the captured prisoners. Seven houses and several sugar fields have been destroyed by incendiaries on tue line of the Reme- dios and Caibarten Ratiroad. UTAH. A Woman's Petition Against Mr. Cullom’s Bill—The Reform Movement Increasing. Cuicaco, Feb. 6, 1870, A spectal despatch from Sait Lake says the Mor- mons are collecting petitions signed by the Mormon Women in opposition to Mr. Cullom’s bill. The re- form party, composed of the most intelligent Mor- mons, 18 increasing. So far there has been no inter- ference (rom the Church authorities, but all assist- ance Is dented by the B: ighamites, GEORGIA. A Couservative Republican Delegation En Route tor Washington. AuGusta, Feb. 6, 1870, Senators Hull. Bryant, Caldwell, Hoiden and otner republicans oppozed to Governor Bullock and his Policy are on their way to Washington to represent the condition of affairs in Georgia to Congress. Mr. Bryant says the object of the delega- tion i8 to show that Governor Bullock has violated the reconstruction laws; that the Legislature, as now organized, 1 illegal, and that geveral persons were allowed seats in the Legislature who are not entitled to them, and that if Congress sustains Governor Bullock the republican party in Georgia will be destroyed. The delegation represents the conservative wing of the repubitcan party@n this Stavé and repudiate all polttical aiflia- lion with the democratic party. ILLINOIS. A Newspaper on the Losses Sustained by Grain Growiug Farmers. CH1Caao, Feb, 6, 1870, The Trine in an article on the losses sustained by grain raising farmers during the past year, Say8:—They have found partial compensation in the high prices realized for hogs, the receipts from the crop having saved many of them from bankruptcy. If, hogs had been sold at prices corresponding with those of wheat there would have been wide spread distress in the West, and ali classes of basiness men would have felt the effects. But the farmers have not made the most out of the situation, though shrewd enough in driving ordinary bargains. Iup- couraged by expectation of a short crop, many of them Dought pork at optional high prices to the full extent of their means, and have recently had the satisfaction of settling with sellers at @ 1oas of wo or more dollars per barrel, thus losing every cent they made in the sale of tuetr hogs. Speculation in pork has been much more fively this winter than in any former year since the close of the war, aud much trading bas been done for parues in the coun- try. While this has benefited commission men and put money in the pockcts of sharp ones here it haw hot been so conducive to the interests of the farmers and drovers that they cai atord Ww repeat the ex- periment. Scizure of Smuggled Goods in Chicagom—A Million Involved. ‘ CHICAGO, Feb, 6, 1870. A system of smuggling through the maiis, which has been carried on for some time, was brought to light in the Chicago Post Oifice two weeks ago, and since that time quite @ number of books and articles manufactured in Europe have been seized by the Custom House officers. 1t 13 impossiple-to estimate the value of the articles smuggled, but 1t must be considerable, a6 Within the last ten days over a thousand doliara’ worth of smuggled goods have been seized. ‘They consist of books, laces, furs, &c. 'Yoey arrived done up in ordinary newspaper wrap- pers, With the necessary postage stamps, Had they not been #0 irequentiy addressea to one address suspicion would probably have not been excited. Several kages were addressed Freeport, lilmois, They were 1 to contain ermine furs, lace collars and other lace. . H. Brotherton was dis- covered wo be Mrs. Brotherton, # milliner. She acknowledged having smuggled $500 worth of goods, A member of the Chicago Board of Ldaca- tion was also detected in Stnuggling books. Tweive dozen hymn books, addressed lo Brigham Young, Sail Lake, have been seiz = Brotherton, HAVANA WEEKLY MARKETS. HAVANA, Feb. 6, 1870, ‘The following was the condition of the market yesterday—the closing of the weel Sugar—The business was small and prices un- changed; the receipts were large and there was some little speculative inquiry; quotations were barely maintained. Exports during the week from Havana and Matanzas, 29,000 boxes and 4,500 hogs. heads vo 1oreign countries, and 14,000 boxes and 3,500 hogsheads to the United States; stock in warehouses at Havana and Matanzas, 210,000 boxes and 18,000 hogsheads; fair to good refiniug muscovadoes heavy at 6% @7% reals. Clayed molasses flat, but prices unchangea. Lard quiet. Fiour easier. Butter steady. Tallow firm. Bacon duil, Honey active. Petroteum dull, Potatoes steady. Hamé steady; gait, 17c.; sugar cured, 20'sc. .Lurmber steady; 5 low pine, $25 @ $26 per M.; white pine, M. Shooks firmer; box 83, a 9reais. Freights to the United States duil; © per box to Northern and Southera poris $126 a $150; per hogshead todo., $6 4 $6 50, Exchange ou London, 10); a 11 per cent pre- Minm; on Paria, 241% per cent discount; on the United States, sixty days sight, in goid, par a by per cent premium; short sight, 2a 2), per ceul pre- 1 Wma a PRINCE ARTHUR. The Koyal Scion in Boston—Attendnace at Triakty Charch—Stroll Through the Town aud Suburbs—His Dissatisfac With a Bosten HotelNe Demonstrations Amung the Hubites, Boston, Feb. 6, 1870. Prince Arthur, that clever little sprig of royalty, has had a day of pleasant rest aud rare tranquillity. There have been no attempts at assassination, no Plots to abduct him, but everything has been plea- sant and serene, and he has been permitted to enjoy himself and while away the time just as his royal conscience dictated. He attended (the Trinity (Epis copal) church this morning, the same one where the opsequies of the late Sir frederick Brace took place & couple of years since, He was accompanied by his suite, and also by Minister Thornton. The fact that the Prince would attend divine worship here Was not generally known, and therefore there was no unusual crowd present, In the afternoon his Royal Highness, together with his suite and the British Minister, took a qutet walk through the city and some of the suburbs. ‘They went to South Boston, the Highlands, and to the most distant point on the back bay, and during the whole stroll none of the pgrty were recognized. ‘The crooked streets of Boston afforded an excuse for several inquiries during their perambulations, but those who gave thein the desired information were not aware of the presence of Queen.Victoria’s son. Taking it all in all, the royal party has had an op- portunity of spending the Sabbath in a manner in commendable keeping with the solemuities of the day, and it has been fully improved. ‘The Prince speaks iu high terms of his visit to New York, and also of his trip from the metropolis to the Hub, for the comfort of which he made acknowledg- menta to the conductors on the various rounds be- tween here and New York. The royal party is stopping at the St. James Hotel, where the attention of the waiters towards them has been such as to afford ground for complaint. and the Prince's own immediate servants wil attend upon the party dur- ing the remainder of tne visit. It t# understood the chief purpose of the Prince in visiting Boston 1s to attend the funeral of George Peavody, and, pending the obsequies, he feels called upon to decline accepting more than the simple courtesies extended by private individuals, NEW YORK. Conviction and Sentence of Murderers in Little Valley—Confession of their Crimes. Z Lirrew VALLEY, Feb. 6, 1870. Theodore Nichias was on Friday convicted in the Cattaraugus Court of Oyer and Terminer of the mur- der of Dr. Andrew Mead, in Allegany, on the 18th of December last, He was sentenced yesterday morn- ing to be hanged on the 18th of Marca proximo, ‘This is the second conviction for murder during this term of the court. Much excitement has prevailed during the trial of Nichlas, as the murder of Dr. Mead was the most brutal ever committed in West- ern New York. Nichias and Burdick, the latter of whom was convicted last week of the murder of H. H. Boker (colored), in Olean, last september, have made full confession of their crimes, but each claim their act to be a justifiabie homicide. Both mur- derers are sentencec to be hanged on the same day, Attempt to Attach a Rallrond Train Satisfy an Assessment for Taxes—The lector Arrested for Obstructing the Passuge of the Mails. Urica, Feb. 6, 1370, On Friday of last week the coliector of the town of Paris, Oneida county, attempted to attach the morning passenger and mail train on the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Ratroad at Clayvilie, to satisfy an assessment for taxes which the company refused to pay. The atvempt failed, as did a similar one on Friday evening. The collector caused the arrest of B. Van Loon, an engineer; and Mr. Tuttle, . On Saturday Deputy United conductor, o the collector was e by States Marshal J. Donaidson, charged with obstructing the passage of the mails. On Saturday evening & more decided demonstration was made wt Clayville to attach the passenger train south, » which also failed, To-morrow another attempt wiil be made, It 1 also understood that the Deputy United States Marshal will make further arrests to-morrow. LOUISIANA. Proceedings of the Legislature—Another Sugar Fraud Case. NeW ORLEANS, Feb, 6, 1870, ‘The Legislature yesterday passed a bill making the Metropolitan Police warrants receivable for taxes. ‘The House has passed a@ bill authorizing the issue Of $3,000,000 in bonds to pay for work heretofore done on the levees under contract by the Board of Public Works. Another sugar fraud case, involving 855 boxes, was decided by the United States District Court yesterday in favor of the government. The sugar was imported under false invoices as to weight, TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS. Vire Near Memphis1.ose of Life by the Sink~ ing of a Stenmbont. Yemrnis, Feb. 6, 1870. The residence of Thomas ©’Nelll, near this city, together with a baru containing thirteen bales of cotton, Was burned Friday night, The loss was $16,000. The Little Rock Gazette says five persons—Mr. Els, @ merchant of that city; two boys named ‘Thomas and two white deck nands—were lost by the sinking of the steamboat America a few days ago. Owing to the fact that the boat sunk in three min- utes and that the passengers were asleep it is feared more have been lost. The saved passengers lost everyUiing aud suffered much from exposure and cold. KANSAS. Desires the K pval of Grants and Land Scte The Legislature indiaus—iailr ters. LAWRENCE, Feb. 6, 1870. Alter a full debate tbe Kansas House of Represen- tatives has passed resolutions asking the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State to use their mduence to secure the removal of ali In- diane in this State; endorsing the wise policy of the government in granting lands for the construction of railroads, and asking liberal grants for ratiroads, with the promise that settlers ou the Osage trast lands ana the diminished reserve, after the date of tne order for the removat of the Indiups, shall nave each 190 acres Of land atgl 26 per acre, OHIO. Fire in Cincinnati—Destruction of lery—Lows Over $50,000. CINCINNATI, Feb. 6, 1870. Fire broke out last night in the building on we northeast corner of Sixth and Baymiller streeis and caused loss to the amount of $50,000 or $60,000, The building was owned by Oliver Perin and was occu- pied by H. H. Hamilton & Co., distillers and rectifiers. ‘The biullding was insured for $10,000 and and the distillery for $15,000, of which $3,500 wae tn the Delaware Mutuai Company, $2,500 in the West- ern. of Cincinnati, and tne balance in Cleveland and astern companies. The building adja on the east, occupied by fl. H. Wea & Co, and A. Kribs & Co., was damaged by @ falling wall and water. The building on the west was slightly injured, The fire broke out about twenty minutes r the workmen had leit tae distillery. ‘There is no clue to its origin, a Dintile DESCENT ON GAMBLING HOUSES IN PHILADELPHIA. PUILADELPHLA, Fel, 6, 1870, A deacent was made by the police officers yeater- day afternoon on the gambling houses here. Some fifteen places were visited. Owmg to the bungimg manner in which the aifair wa®conducied only one arrest was made, but considerable property in the shape of roulette tables, &c., waa captured. Tunis was deposited at the Central poe station. and during last night the owners visited this piace and carried of @ portion of their property. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS. Snow fell in Richmond, Va., all day Sunday, A tire Saturday night in ©, Blackfora’s furnwhing goods store, at Rochester, N. Y., did damage to the amount of $1,000, The stock of Gormley Brothers’ siore adjoining, was damaged some by smoke. During an affray it Main street, Rochester, Satur- day hight, between several young men, one of thei, named Clinton Cresswell, Was stabned in the lung, and is supposed to ve (alelly igjured, Ali of tue parhics were aspesved. “WASHINGTON. The Sale of Cadetships—A Carpet- Bagger Implicated. An Indiana Divorce Case Before the Supreme Court. Wasuingron, Feb. 6, 1876. ship by « Carpet-Bag Con- aresaman, A pretly direct case of the sale of a cadetship by @ Southern Member of Congress has come to light to-day, showing that the disreputable practice haa really an existence, The case I refer to ts that of a jolly carpet-bagger, who through the medium of brokers for a constderation of $2,000 promised for a Northern boy a cadetshtp, ‘The carpet- bagger, it seems, fatied to divide, according to agreemeal, with the brokers, and the latter have, therefore, concluded to expose the thing. Wowid it not be weli for Congressmen to investigute the whole matier? The Validity of Indiana Divorces, Mow far the matrimonial: bond. may be regarded a8 @ bond at all is iikely vo be decided soon by the Supreme Court of the United States, and from the hints thrown out the Richardson-McFarignd tripe will have cause for rejoicing. There is acase at pre- sent under advisement by the United States Supreme Court, the parties to which were married in vis Dis- trict some years ago. ‘I'he wife obtained a divorce in {ndiana, commenced by publication, to which the husband entered an appearance. ‘The divorce thus obtained was held void by the Supreme Court of this District, from which 1s was taken, on appeal, to the United States Supreme Court. There it ts given out the decision of our District Court will be reversed ana full force given to the Indiana divorces, The Gold Panic Investigation=Was the Velc= avaph Monovoly Implicated ¢ Itappears that the object for which the female telegraph operators who received Boutwelt’s order Co sell gold on the black Friday are to be summoned before the Gold Committee is uot to criminate them, but to ascertain whether certain people of the Weatern Union monopoly were in a conspiracy witit Wall street operators vo grant improper use of the Secretary's despatch before its delivery to General Butterfield. It is uot supposed that the femaie Operators were parties to ths conspiracy, but tbat they were mereiy used by their superior officers, ‘This much ought to be stated in justice to the Ladies, The Appointments to the Sapreme Bench, ‘The President, a8 soon as he shall receive oMectal nouce of the rejection of Judge Hoar, will nominate to the Senate two gentlemen to supply the vacan- cies on the Supreme Court bench, ove of whom is Judge Strong, of Pennsylvania. The President has not fully determined upon the other. ‘The President informed a friend yesterday that Judge Hoar would remain in the Cabinet. ‘The Haytion Government and the St. Domingo Rebels, OMcial advices have been received trom St. Domingo that the Haytien government had offered to aasist the revolutionists in the former republic, but the administration attach no importance to the information. Clal Al st Mexico. The -Mawry Silver Mining Company of Arizona has filed its claim for damages against Mexico before the joint commission for the seizure of a train loaded with silver bars by the Mexican troops in Sonora in 1666. Edmund 1. Goold, and Judge Morton have been retained to prosecute this large claim by the president of the company, Syl- vestgr Mawry- Failure of the Inspeachment of Governor Reed, . of Florida. Kepresentative Hamilton, of Florida, has received the ioliowing despatch from Governor Reed :— TALIQHASSER, Fla., Feb, 5, 1870. Impeachment defeated and my administration sus- tained by a vote of two-thirds. Stearns, Dickey, Wentworth, Potter, Billings and Mobley and the entire federal ‘official force fought to the last upon tue side of the democrats, HARRISON REED. WASHINGTON SOCIALS. Sale of a Ca Fashionable Movements of the Cabinet Corps and the Corps Diplomatic. THE PRESIDENT AMONG THE LADIES, WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, “shall L meet you at Cresweil’s or Gai night?” “Will you be al the state dinner next Wedues- day?” “Do you propose to attend Fish’s reception on Friday?” “Have you been at Speaker Blaine’s or General Sherman’s yet?’ “Has Belknap sent you a card for his opening night?" ‘These are the kind of questions one hears every day of the week now, showing that though “that dear, sweet Prince’ has left us, we are not altogether at a loss for fashionable attractuuons. In truth, Wash- ington was perhaps never more gay than during the present season; the capital never was better sup- phed with the votaries of fashion, and never showed @ more lavish display of wealth, beauty, rank and— 1 was going to add—inteliectual charm. fut that would be going a trife too far perhaps, 1 say perhaps i would, because 1 am not of those ancient fogies who revelied in the luxuries of Wasiinyton society years ago, during the days of the old ¢egine. Lam not of those who can shake their heads wisely when com- parisons are drawn, and who, while almost con- temptuously curling their lips at the mention of to- day’s social circles, can launch into ecstatic praises of those “good old days,” when wealth of intellect and moral character, and not mere doilars aud cents, were received as tie highest passports to ihe drawing rooms of the creme de la creme of society. Being, 0 to speak, only of to-day, 1 can only write of what I see around me now, and leave to the “raal ould stock” of the past a imouopoly of Lhose pleasing recollections. But thus much I may state very modestly of to- day, without causing the old time social paragons to roll in their coMus, that there is some fittle atom of intellectual charm left yet. One does not have to deplore a complete poverty of wit and inatractive 1370, a's toe conversation al the oficial = and private receptions and parties here. IC is quite endur- abie to spend a few hours at Cresweil’s or Cox's or Vish’s, or any other of the oficial receptions or conmersaziones. It would pe uninixed pleasure were it not for the overcrowding ‘Too many invitations are issued, and the 4 the very highest officiala are inadequate to ace modate the fashiouable throng. ‘Yo have Lo squeeze oneself turough & crowd of gentiemen in order to reach the cloak room, and atter accomplishing that feat and wetting into the drawing room; to have to pick one's steps carefully lest one commit the awkward blunder of treading on some fine lady’ train, is very weil calculated to mar the pleasure of the evening. How much better would it be were the list of invitations less numerous and the jadies? trains three or four yards sorter! The superfuity of satin and silk trating the floor is au embarrassment to gentlemen tn a crowded salon, to which ladies seem to pay not the slightest heed. The ladies Know weil enough how to frown angrily and to look unutterabie tings when shoe-leather and satin or silk come into col- lision; but would not’ it be much better were preventive measures adopted? Wouldn't shorter dresses, and faces unciouded by a single frown, be preferable to vhese ridictlously long trains and inconsiderate charges against muaculine awkwardness, Which are directly traceable tu tue absurd fashions of the ladies themselves? The Vavinet reception invitations are good, not for one night, but for the whole season, Kvery aoted airauger in town gets an invitation, avd the conse- quence is Viuat each recurcing vocgsion duds a larger | 7 throng of attendants than ita immediate predecss sor. Tqis could onaily be prevented by issuing invi- ‘anos ouly for one ning, which would enadie “our hostess and our host’ to 40 arrange the list for each Occasion aa to insure the complete comfort and happiness of ail. Tnen there would be mo tremea- dous crash; there would be uo fasutonavie swearlag 404 poite abuse; one couid give more ume to Wought aud conversation; one need have No ovea- sion to blush for lintie blunders committed in mo- Te aig, Bregecuvation, caused oy the great throug, t ng UiMeuities in ihovidg irom Oue sput Lo another, aa Of hearing poiiie iuguiries addressed to one by Tends tu (rout, in rear aad on ether side. ‘the Cabinet Ministers and others. who give such receptions or parties shoula ike Lbese suxgesuons {nto cousideration. Is it too much, also, WO ask the Jadies to curcail sue dimen: vactortane Siuns of their dresses oy & ORK WILL IROTION, The leading lasiionas wor the week just ended were the frst reception of tue Postmaster General and Mrs, Creswell “aud Ue stale dinner ab the White House, ‘The Creswei aquic was une of the most pleasant of the season. ‘it was allended by ull the celebrities in town. ‘The President bun- welt and Mra. nt were there. All the Cabinet Ministers with their ladies atiended, except Jouy Robeson, who vas not yet launched upon the mate mouial sea, That is mare iwoynitum et turbatum which, vast @# may be his nautical experience, he has not yet ventured to expiore. The diplomatic corps waa represented by many of its shining lights, Mra, Creswell and the Postmaster Generai welcomed all their company with a genuine hospiausy which made everybody’ feel wt home and deprived the entertainment of that stiff, formal po- iteness that too often characterizes oMicial recep- uous, Late in the eveulng & splendid supper was served up. The next Creswell reception occurs on St. Valentine's night. ‘TH STATE DINNER of last Wednesday ts conceded to have been superior \o any remembered by the oldost Aadtcue of i’resi- deaval entertainments. A certain minister repre- senung & very powerlul European goverument re- marked to ine of this dinner:— “Do you know, sir, 1 vave attended some of the best royal dinners in Kurope, and | don’t rememuer a stagle one that was petter in any particular tham that last night, Everything was so perfect 1a the arrangements, and tie President was so gailaut aad attentive to the ladies. 1 did uot suppose the Prest- dent could’be so much of 4 foils. ile quite sur- prised me, and J am sure the ladies themsyyves were quite charmed with hts manner.” From this you may suppose tiat Ulysses is becom- tog famous for bis ge a and a great lavoriie with the ladies, Indeed he gives the best dinoers in town. He has the best butler aud cook iu the capital, and devotes attention to some ol the preparatory details, Tuen he has adopted a pian calculated to make bis feasts more palatable. He always has ladies among the company. Unlike lis predecessors, he ni wives 4 canner to gentiemen alone. He is cidedly opposed Ww stag parties. A lively sprinkling of the fair sex 1s alWays found around his Lospitable bourd. Aud then he lays biua- self out in the Horal line. To ail the ladies iavited he sends magnificent bouquets on the morning of the dinners. ‘The choicest Sowers are gathered for tuese bouquets, The White House conserva- - tory and yardens of all the florists in wwn are ransacked jor appropriate bouquets. No Wonder the ladies all wdfaire the President and cherish his beautiful Louqaerd with #o much care. 1 Kuow three ladies al least who attended the last stale dinuer and who have put away their bouquets vo be nuriured and tenderly watched over as sweet mementoes of the occasion. Truly, as Madame Catacazy told him the otuer day, tue President has found out how to gather other Mowers and plaut besides laurels, Has oot Madame Garcia sometui presty to say about her bouquet also’ he only other notweahle festivity of the week, in addiaon to the reguiar ptions of Cox, Fish (tuose of the Secretury of State are alwave extremely select aud high toned), Bisine and Sherman, cousisted Of a favorue dinner pacty given by Dr. De Manuel Garcia, tue Argentiue Minister, and his accomplished lady, on ‘Thursday last, Their guests were secretary Roveson, Senators Sumner and Sherman, Mr, and Mrs. J, C. Bancroft Davis, Admiral and Mrs. Dabigren, Colonel Freyre, the Peruvian Minister, and lady and Senor Magathuens, the Brazilian Minister. The eatertai- went Was deughtful, BELKNAP’S FIRST RECEPTION is announced for next Naturauy eveuing. Inviie- tons have been issued to several of tue personal friends of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Belkaap, and it is expected thai the affair will be very brit: tant. Belknap occupies we old residence of pecre- tary Seward, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arriv: in This City Yesterday. Colonei W, H. Stiley, Dr. A. F. Cragin and Rev. J. W. Clapp, of Boston; Major T. Francis, of Alabama; Colonel J. W. Cautell, Judge F. &. Towner By Colonel J. H. Hickman, of st, Louis, and Judge W. W. Holden, of Chicago, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General James H. Ledate, of Chicago: W. Wiggins, of Boston, and R. Marsh Denman, of New Oriewas, are at the Everett House, General F, A, Starling, of Washingcon; J. 1 Royiston, Of Charlestown; W. G. Shuck, of Baltt- more; F, G, Welsh and A. Crosby, of Chicago, and KE, J. Curley, of Kentucky, are at the Fifth Aven Hotel. ~ General J. B. Stonehouse, of Albany; R, MeCiet- land aud RK. H. Hall, of Detroit; Captain James Law- less, C. P., of Rhode Island, and George H. Sharpe, of Kingston, are at the Astor House. T, Goetz, of Hamburg; H. Pastor, Aix la Chapelle; J.P. Clemes and J. H. Clemes, of Loudon; J. Vv. Smedley, of England; Dr. Jourdain, of Boston; B. W. Marshall, A. J. Crews and Charles Foster, of Charlestown, ‘are at the New York Hotel. 4. C. Lord, “of Cmcinnatl, and Hl. M. Drane, of North Carolina. are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Professor E. G. Vanderhot, of Pennsylvania, and Colonel J, V. Dunnam, of Oto, are at the dt. Cur Hotel, Judge W. Adams, of Hartford, and W. V. Sivane, of Montana, are at the St. Kimo Hotel, K.M, Qmerson, of Concord, Mass. and Dr. D.C. Dick, of Rochester, are at the St. Denis Hotel. George P. Tifany, of Baitimore, and Stephen BL Cummings, of Boston, are at the St. George Hotel, Paymaster C. A. MeDauigi, of the United States Navy, and Samuel Prothingham, of boston, are atthe Albemarle Hotel. Captain Bilderling, of the Kussian A Arms, of Youngtown, and Jong Toad, of ¢ are at the Homan Hous ies ; OD levelana, R. E, Clery, of the United States Army, and J. Te Dixon, of Kentucky, ure at the Coleman House. Mr. J. MeLeary Browu, Secretary of the Chinese Embassy, i$ al the Westminster Hotel. Promineat Departures, Genera: Frieze, for Providence; Assistant Attor- ney General Hammond, ior Albany; Dr, Maury, tor Philadelphia, General George W. Dent and family salied om Saturday for Sa v. Miscellaneous Persona! Movements. A Chicagé eye and ear doctor is named Tongue. ‘The fat men of Springfield, fL, are to have a skating party. Prim ts credited with £20,000 In the Bank of Engiaua. Five thoysand negroes have passed depot, Virginia, for the South. A member of our diplomatic corps franked nin Konsack's trunk, weigilug 350 pounds, from Wasiinglon te San Francisco, MAILS FOR EUROPE. ‘The Hamburg mail steamsnp Cimbria will teave this port on Tuesday for Piymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg. ‘The watla for Burope wiil close av the Poat Onlee at twelve ock 00h, Tur New York Hewatp—ditiou tc will be ready at ten o'clock In the mornin, Single copies, in Wrappers Cor matiine Bubseripuons will be received in “4 Broviers & 2 Rue de la Pas The Old Mair eas aituldy and ey impart are atiral. PH ALON'S KALVATION. FU HA newly . Oy vered agent, ix, on the other pid, ie Tragrant and elfeetive, and haa oo xnainent Cristadore’s U and aypited at bis wig and alled Hair DyemSold aly caotory, Max 6 Astor House, Rough, Wintry, Changeable Weather, Pra= dy ha, disorders of dhe luaga, neomp'dy cures, if fa Co. ¥, AL COy N.Y. A. N. TAMMANY, TAMMANY, Honeen Packed, after eight o'clock, ENING, FES, i, 1800, m1 RIOUS Magoiiicent Costumea, wie. Unique Appoinimen! Grand Fainly Matinee, daturday, Brilliant So | New an | Adnussion 50 ceute, Fine Bourbon Whiskey, Nearly ef te In the old fasbioued way, by the farmere ts gall r see ee A TORPUY, 105 Pend streak.