The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREEW. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news lelter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HEgaLp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, ‘THE SVITFIRmy Matines at FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—SuRr; 08, SUMMER SCENES at LONG KEANCH. NIBLO'S GARDEN, B: Puax or tu Duxe’s Morro. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND ME ner Ybirtveth st.—Matineo daily. BOWERY THEATRE, Many Houns; on, GoLp THE TAMMANY, or Tux SkyvEn. WALLACK'S THEAT a Ata HEATRE, Broadway and 18h stroot— Buox, How Fourteenth street.—Tax BUELrsqua BOOTH’S THEATRE, 4 e xowhr bode hy pe ad between Sth and 6th avs, RAND OPERA HOUSE, corn Tun TWELVE Tamera tions, “ett Avenue and @) Ba FRENCH T . aol Fe. vt Aye ay 4th et, and 6th av.—Genzvinve ACADEMY OF MUS Lnvpa pi CHamount MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THRATRE, B — IRELAND AS it Was—TuE Hocon Diawowe npr h street.—ITALIAN OPERA— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cowto Vooatism, NEGLO MINS £0, Matinee ab 239. THEATRE COMIQt \dway, Cost Ie 16m, NrGno Acts, % aa 4c. “Matinee at 2/5. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, 1: Gt.—BRYAN1'S MINSTRELS. Sr Pee, STRELS, 585 Bron ‘way.—Kruro. NEGRO ACTS. &o—“HAsi” KELLY & LEON’S MI PIAN MINSTRELSEY, Nu RELS, 720 Broadway.—ETit0- 0 ACTS, &C. NEW YoRK circus, Fi rtoenth street. Equrs' AND GIMNABTIO PERFORMANCES, &C. Nadine at 35." HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hooury's MINGERELS—THR THEATMICAL AGENCY, Ee. : STEINWAY HALL. Fourtecnih street—Mn. DE Con- Dova's LuCiURE, “OUk NEW CLERGYMAN.” HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.— W HIZESNICON, EUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— OF ANATOMY, 618} 4 ATERNDANCE. TRIPLE SUEET, _ 2 Advertisements, ‘2Q—Advertisements. 3—Washiogton: United States Protectorate Over St. Domamgo; Debate in the Senate Over Re- moval of Disabilities; Senator Sumner's Test of Loyaliy~The Storm in this city, m Brooklyn, Along the Coast and Througn- out the Country—The Late Storm on the | North carolina Ooast—Marrying and Matri- mouy—Second Day’s Sale of the Thompson Coleec'ion of Paiptings—Arrival of the Remains of General Wyndham, K, 0. B—A Newark Heiress, : 4~George Peabody: Last Rites Over the Remains of the Illustrious Dead; Mr Robert C. Win- throp’s Laudatory Address—Europe: Letters From Rome and Cadiz—Personal Inielli- gence—Rowdyism at Yonkers—Phenomens at Lake St. Clair, ’ S—Interesting vases in the United States Supreme Court—Proceedings im the New York aud Brooklyn Courts Yesterd ay—History of Cavs aud Ca Drivers—Second Meeting of the New Quarantine Commissioners—A Polished OM- cial—The Bad Dickey Preacher—Sport in the West—Smuggling by Mail-The Mormon Wo- men and Pojygamy. G—Ediiortal: Leading Artic’e on the Excitement in Paris, the Roehefort Barricades—Connectt- cut Republican State Conventioh—Cnarter Election in Binghamton—Amusemeat An- nouncemenis. 7—Telegrapnic News From Al) Parts of tne World: The Britisn Pariiament in Session; Queen Victoria's Review of the Condition of the Na- tion; Premier Gladstone’s Reception ana Dis- racli’s Position in the Commons—Paris Barri- cades: Rochefort’s Arrest ana 1ts Consequences in the City; Radical ‘Red Addresses, Appeals to Arms and the Barricades; Conflicts with the Police, and an Officer Killed; the Military Calied Out and the City Garrison Keinforced; Prompt Action and Peace—Business Notices, §—New York City, Brooklyn and Suburban News— Action of the Board of Health in Relation to the New Contagion—Murder Trial In Newark— Prayer Meeting in the Water Street Dog Pit— The American Microscopic Society—The W itson +Ne. 40 romaway.—SkBious FaMiLy— oadway.—GRAND | ROMANTIO v NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, ‘The Excitement tn Parle—The Rookofort Barricades. Cable telegrams which wo publish this morning show that the arrest of Rochefort, which took place at his residence, at Belle- ville, on the evening of Monday, provoked a rather serious outbreak in theimmediate neigh- borhood. In the Rue du Faubourg du Temple, the Rue St. Maur, the Rue Grange aux Belles and in other neighboring streets barricades were erecied,. As early as eleven o'clock a detachment of imperial troops arrived at the scene, The excitement continued throughout the night, and in the morning eovered a wider surface. Every precaution had been taken by, the government, The military and the police were on hand. Some arrests had been made, but neither the military nor the police had regorted to the use of firearms, Street fighting and rioting of a rather serious character fol- lowed during the morning and day yesterday. A police officer was killed. ‘Young France” was out at the barricades. Rochefort's more immediate fricnds were as inflammable as possible. Quiet was, however, restored at six o'clock yesterday evening. The latest de- spatches have it that the precautions taken were such as to provent outbreaks in any other quarter. ‘ This intelligence will be looked upon b; some as alarming, by others as assuring. One class will see in it the end of Rochefort and tho Reds; another class will see in it the begin- ning of the end of Bonapartism. So far as we ourselves are concerned we are neither sur- prised nor disappointed, We should have been disappointed if Rochefort had not been arrested and if his frieads had not made some show in hie favor. We should have been surprised if the government had revealed any weakness in the premises, We look upon the whole affair asa grand game, in which the Emperor and Henri Rochefort figure as the principal play- ers, Which has played the more skilfully it is not yet time to say. Rochefort has been doing his best to make himself 9 martyr, and at the same time and by the same means to make Bonapartism ridicu- lous. Napoleon has been doing his best to allow Rochefort and those who act with him to play radicalism out. Both players have almost won; but neither has absolutely gained his point. Rochefort is now in prison. So far he isa martyr; but his martyrdom is not of akind to do him much honor or to win him much power. Napoleon is still master of the situation; but it is questionable whether Napoleon would not have been more powerfil in France and all the world over to-day if he had been less lenient and « little more imperi- ous. In other words, Napoleon has given Rochefort a little too much tether, and Rocbe- fort has not failed just so much as porhaps the Emperor thought he would. In his new rile of constitutional ruler Napoleon has not been quite so successful as he was wont to be | ‘Tho Reopening of the British Parliament— The Queon’s Speech. The Queen's speech to the two Houses of Parliament, which reassembled yesterday, is, 4s usual, very brief, but it is of more than ordinary importance. She commeiits on the tranquillity which prevails in all quarters of the globe, and notices the growing disposition of all countries to appeal to friendly mediation for the settlement of their ingernational diff- cullfes rather than resort to arms, She hed doubtless been reflecting upon the ‘settlement of (he recent misunderstanding between Turkey and Greece and the more recent warlike disa- greements between the Sultan and his Egyp- tian Viceroy, through the friendly interposition of the Western Powers, and was, perhaps, quietly hinting at her beliof in a pacific settle- ment of those Alabama claims, Whether she has or has not been appropriating the HERALD's thunder in reference to the coming dispensa- tion of the brotherhood of all the nations of the earth and the reign of universal peace, we can- not tell. We have certainly been somewhat in advance of her Majesty in giving expression to this opinion, and in our speculations upon the glorious future of mankind through the civilizing and humaniaing instrumentalities of our age, such as the newspaper pross, steam and the electric telegraph, we have surely given abundant reasons for our abiding faith intho Queen's grand idea that henceforth friendly mediation will be the rule and a re- sort to arms the exception in the séttlement of international disputes, From this gratifying glance at the general relations among the different Powers and peoples of the earth her Majesty passes to a glance at the finances of the realm, which she pronounces to be in a satisfactory condition, She next suggests a continuation of the inquiry commenced at the last session into the mode of conducting Parliamentary elections. Here she touches upon a broad field for reform; because the open “bribery and corruption and riots, raffianism and general looseness which characterize the Parliamentary elections in England are really worse, we think, than the roughs and repeaters and all the cheaters which make a mockery of popular suffrage in New York, « The Queen next announces the probability that the government will propose land reform measures for Ireland, and here she speaks by authority of Mr, Gladstone. The reform thus contemplated will embrace this very important safeguard to the Irish tenant—that ih being dispossessed of his farm he shall be fairly com- pensated for the improvements he may have made upon it, and shall’ no longer be abso- lately at the meroy of his landlord. This will be the entering wedge to a land reform system in all the British islands, which will sweep away even the feudal monopoly of the eldest son, The land reform sug- gested is an incomplete reform, but it | in the dle of Cwsar, It is our confident belief | that ifthe Emperor or his ministers do not pull up and show a little more energy the enemies of imperialism, in its soft as well as its hard | shape, will become at once too numerous and too powerful, | Most men, looking at the present situation | in France from the standpoint of intelligence, | wilieay that the Emperor is master because { he is master; that he wins and continues to rule beeanse be has the army at his back. The great question of the hour is whether Napoleon can continue to count on the army as he has been able to do inthe past. All the world knows that he has been what he has been because the army was his obedient ser- vant, The army made him. The army hith- erto has sustained him. The army is still faithful. But the army of France, like all other armies, is fickle and chongeful. If the army becomes convinced that the Emperor's hand is weak, that his sunis going down, that some otuer staris appearing above the political horizon, the army will begin to look out for itself and make what terms it can. A French army has already deserted a Bonaparte, and he the greatest of his name and race, A French army has gone forth from the King’s presence and with the King’s blessing to bring back the Little Corporal in an iron cage, only to come back with the Little Corporal at its head to dethrone the King and make an end of his kingdom. The French army has been faithful to the present Bonaparte because he held the reins with a firm and vigorous hand. Industrial School and Mission—Burning of | If the vigor fails, if there is any sign of weak- Colonel Dwight’s Residence at Binghamton— Book Review. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—The Be- witching Wall Street Brokers—A Habeas Corpus War in New York—Up the Hudson in Winter—The Massachusetts Ice Crop—Mar- riages and Deaths, 10—The State Capital: Democratic Caucus on the Bill to Abolish the Court of Spectai Sessions ; ‘The Bill Agreed To; Mr. Morton’s Substi- tute for the Excise Bill in the Sen- ute—Army and Naval Intelligence—Labor Reform Political Movement in New iiamp- shire—Amnsements—Balls of the Twenty- second Regiment and the Société Culinaire | tions. negs, the chiefs of the army will tremble, the army will become demoralized, and there will be an end of the empire and of the Bonapartes. It is not at all an impossibility that Napoleon in exile may give us another series of ‘“Idées Napolicnnes”—a series richer in wisdom, because the result of a riper and larger ex- perience, At the same timo while we admit possi- bilities we do not abandon our beliefs or give up our honest and well established convic- Napoleon, in our judgment, never was Phiianthropique—Reception of Old School No. | more completely master of France than he is 7—shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, 4i—Mormontsm: More About the Meeting of the Reformers—Interesting Refections Regarding the “Social Evil”—ISndian Strategy—News from Australasia—Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe “Interviewed” at Home—The Ratiroad Dim- culty in Central New York—An Eleven Thou- sand Dollar Robbery—Consolidation of the Union Home for Soldiers’ Children and the at this moment. He is not willing to shed blood. He does not need when the Cham- bers are with him almost toa man. But if he is provoked, if his lenient and patient policy is persistently misunderstood or misrepresented, he will have no choice but to again reveal him- self. He can and he will, if need be, sweep Grand Army of the Republic—Real Estate | the streets of Paris with grapeshot. He can Matters—Advertisements. 13—Advertisements. NOTICE TO HERALD SUBSCRIBERS, We will esteem it a favor if our readers will inform us, by letter addressed to this office, of and he will, if need be, accomplish another coup d'état, The Emperor is trying the people, testing constitutional government. If it is not yet time, or if it is not proving convenient, the Emperor will be encouraged by all the respectable and order-loving citizena of France to resume the reins any dereliction on the part of the carriers Of | 14 hag temporarily and tentatively ler go. To the Hrraxp, either in furnishing the paper late, | pe eompelled to go back to personal govern- substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled | ment will be a triumph to the Emperor, but sheets. A Hapras Corrvs WaAr.—Our news columns a damaging blow to France. ‘Tre ConsipERaTION OF INDIAN TREATIES.— this morning contain the details of the habeas | m.. toited States Senate made an excellent corpus war between Judge McCuna and other judges in the city. The warden of the City move yesterday in amending the rules eo that Indian treaties shall hereafter be considered Prison, Mr. Stacom, has been committed to the | ; open session except in cases where the ‘county jail for contempt by Judge McCunn, and trouble is ahead among the city judiciary. President shall request a confidental con- sideration, The evils attending the considera- Smaripox AMoNne THE Ivpians.—Reports | tion of these treaties with closed doors have from Fort Benton say that the Indians on been exposed in the Heratp frequently here- Maria’s river are dying at the rate of twenty- five a day of smallpox. are begging the whites to spare their lives ; tofore, and the government has already lost It is said that they | by such o method many millions of dollars in the giving away of public lands through mis- but if the smallpox is so rampant among them representation that would have been avoided qo should think the whites would not come } bad the public had access to the deliberations close enough to trouble tham. on the subject. is a great step forward in the new revolution under way in England, and which must run its course, like ours on the slavery question. The Queen’s allusions to the ggrarian out- rages in Ireland may involve some punish- ment, but they will still contribute to strengthen the righteous cause of the masses of the people, The thiriy-nine articles of the Church of England, the iron-clad oath of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Queen suggests will probably bo done away with in view of increasing the usefulness of those institutions, from which it will be seen that religious liberty, too, has taken a fresh start in Eng- land. The reference to a probable - bill on naturalization looks to the removal of other barriers of a close corporation. Upon these and all other subjects her Majesty devoutly prays that the labors of the two houses may be attended by the blessing of God. She makes no allusion to the Ecumenical Council or the infallibility of the Pope, from which we infer that she has no apprehensions in that quarter. There is enough, however, in the brief hints she has thrown out to justify the conclusion that this session of the British Par- lament will be one of the most important in British history of the present century. Genera Sioxtrs.—The confirmation of General Sickles as Minister to Spain has been resolved upon by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Mr. Sumner, chairman). All parties, therefore, calculating upon some chance for a trip to Spain upon the presamp- tion of the rejection of Sickles may retire, Their game is blocked. Tue Excrse Law.—In the State Senate yesterday Mr. Michael Norton offered a substi- tute for the bill to repeal the Metropolitan Excise law, which was then under discussion. The substitute provides for Boards of Excise all over the State, to be appointed by the Mayors and Aldermien of cities and the chief ofiicers of towns and villages. Licenses are to be granted at prices not much cheaper than at present, and liquor is not to be sold on Sun- days or election days, except tg guests at hotels, lager beer to be free on Sunday in places not exposed to public view. Intoxica- tion is to be punishable with fine and imprison- ment, This is a very easy letting down from the old Excise law, and itis a change that will hardly suit the ‘‘boys.” RETIREMENT oF ARMY Ovricers.—General Sherman issued an order yesterday retiring all officers détailed in colleges as professors and a large number of others, giving them to understand that they may go into other busi- ness and will probably not be wanted in the army any longer. This is in effect telling them that as they have fought the good ight for the country during her time of trouble they can now go home and fight the good fight for themselves, Tur Riont or Perition.—A spicy. debate ensued in the House yesterday on a motion of Mr. Laflin, proposing, in effect, to censure Postmaster General Creswell for authorizing the publication in the Globe of the petitions received, but not read, in the House for the abolition of the franking privilege, The motion was lost, The right of petition is sacred, and as the House did not care to read the petitions it was right that they should be brought officially to its notice and that of the country in the columns of the Globe, especially as much more worthless matter, such as the unspoken speeches of some of the membera, is often put before the country and the House in the same way. Exforcing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendmente—Univorsnl Amnesty, ‘The most important information received of the doings or designs of Congress yesterday is the report that General Butler, of the House Reconstruction Committee, has been author- ized to bring in a bill to carry into effect the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and the General Disability or General Amnesty bill, The provisions of the fourteenth amendment to be carried into effect are the equal civil rights of the negroes, and of the fifteenth the provi- sion to be enforced is that of equal rights, re- gardless of race or color, in the matter of suf- frage. Upon this matter this proposed bill, we expect, will be one of great importance to all the States, but especially to Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky, tate border slave States, which, escaping the league of the late Southern confederacy, have escaped the pains and penalties of Congressional reconstruction, Hence they are somowhat behindhand in re- ference to the equal civil rights of tho blacks (particularly Kentucky), and have made no concession to Sambo in the right of suffrage, How far Congress is disposed to proceed in enforcing this right we shall probably know with the introduction of General Butler’s bill, Congress shall have the power, says the fifteenth amendm@nt, to enforce these provisions ‘“‘by appropriate legistation,” and this appropriate legislation may intertere very materially with the election maohinery of many of the States. Such was the apprehension of the Sachems of Tammany and their special objection to this fifteenth amendment. Certainly, in the power to en- force equal negro suffrage Congress has a broad range of authority over the State elec- tions; but we cannot believe that General Butler's bill will displace the election machinery, for instance, of Tammany Hall, though it may interpose some embarrassing checks and balances, Surely it will now be seen that on this fifteenth amendment the sovereignty of Congress is fixed, and that the States must obey. Mauntcipal Offices in New York—Alleged Souruniistic Corraption. A copperhead newspaper organ of this city published the following paragraph con- spicuously on its editorial page in its issue on Monday morning :— A DISINTERESTED OPINION.—Eight of the HERALDS editors hold sinecure offices in and about the Cty Hall. The high praise which that journal bestows upon Mr, Frear's proposed city charter as a thorough- going pian of reform indicates, therefore, one of two things—elther that the charter, if enacted into law, will not disturb the corruptionists who infest that locality, nor Guainish thelr power to plunder the people of this city; or else that the corrupiion- ists themselves have become virtuous and will plunder us no more. But in tne latter case what is the use of reorganizing our city government so that they cannot? We have not been accustomed to pay much attention either to the news matter or personal charges and assaults on individuals which have been printed and sent forth of late from this copperhgad press, When it comes, how- ever, to an issue affecting our good name, our independence of character, the freedom of expression of the Heratp, our executive con- trol of our own business and the manliness which should characterize the persons in our employ, it is quite another affair. We cannot afford to despise the source of the accusation in our anxiety to learn its truth or the reverse, With these premises we now call on this copperhead journal to forward to us a list of the names of the eight persons who are now engaged in the HeRaxp service and also ‘hold offices”—sinecure or othorwise—‘“‘about the City Hall,” and no matter whether they number eight or eighteen or twenty-eight, we will dis- miss him or them at once from the Hrrarp Building and from any employment in the HERaxp's service. We have always, from the date of the issue of its first number, thirty-six years ago, aimed to render the Hkratp employés independent of outside gratuities, gifts and corporate ‘‘pap.” We have paid them liberally and punctually for their services, and endeavored, and en- deayor, to render them comfortable and at ease in their domestic affairs. This publica- tion, even in the copperhead organ, affects us by its animus, and consequently, and for every reason just set forth, we now call on its writer or the editors, as an act of professional journalistic friendship, to furnish us with the names of the eight persons or more who are in the Heratp employ and who “‘hold offices in or around the City Hall.” A Tunnet Unpzr tae Hopsoy.—A pill has just been introduced into the United States Senate ‘To provide additional commercial and postal facilities in the port of New York,” involving the grand project of ‘‘a tunnel, tube or covered way” for the passage of railway trains under the Hudson river, Since the con- struction of a tunnel under the Thames this is, of course, to be looked upon as a feasible undertaking; and since there is here even greater reason for such a structure than there was in the English city, it is possible that it may be pushed forward with energy sufficient to give us an early taste of free rail communi- cation between the city and points to the west of it. The project is in good hands, and we expect to see this tunnel in operation before the East river bridge is passable. Tue HayreN MoveMENT AGAINST SAN Dominco.—Secretary Fish, on receiving the representatives of the new government in Hayti yesterday, demanded to know if it were true that the new President Saget intended to give aid to Cabral against Baez in San Do- mingo, and stated that the United States had extended protectorate over San Domingo. The Haytien Mthister said the report was not true. Has it come to this, that we are to depend on amicable relations with Hayti to “sustain our flag in San Domingo? If we have @ protectorate there, and Cabral is in arms against us, why do we not send troops to whip him out? Tar Mormons.—We publish elsewhere this morning another letter from our Salt Lake correspondent, giving some further accounts of the progress of the schism among the Saints, It seems that two hundred persons joined the new movement at a recent meeting, and Mr. Harrison, in commenting on the new con- stitution, said he looked to a time when other Territories, States and nations would come in to Zion. This latter suggestion is commend- able to Mr. Harrison’s zeal; but considering the troubles that encompass Zion it is about as likely of fulfilment as a proposition from the Feejee Islands to anucx the United States, ! Ricketey Legislatures in the Seath. The reconstructed Legislatures in the South are not @ source of pride to the republican party. Ben Butler himself could not look upon them and say truly in ‘his benevolent way, “Bless ye, my children.” Greeley no doubt execrates and curses them in his heart of hearts, while Sumner alone, whose heart delights in war and strife, may be able to look on with inward satisfaction. The Louisiana Legislature is engaged, it would seem, in a general game of grab. The Governor, from his own statement, seems to be the only honest public official in the State, and he is 60 unex- ceptionally honest that he refused one hundred thousand doilars in bribes merely for signing bills. The dusky members, besides, have licensed all sorta of Sunday games, of which Southern darkies are so fond, until it is reported that the principal streets of New. Orleans are luminous with signs of ‘Faro, Keno, &c., Played Here.” In the Florida Legislature the little game of impeachment has been played again, the Governor being the party on trial, He was acquitted, but he telegraphed immediately to’ his Tosa in Congress to say that all the federal radical office-holders worked golidly against him. The Alabama Legislature, with a hoavy carpet bag majority, has been quarrelling with the Governor over the proper mode of spelling ; tho North Carolina Legislature and ber Governor and Auditor, between thom, have placed the credit of the State in danger; Missis- sippi threatens to put the Senatorial radicals in a dilemma by sending a colored member to the United States Senate; the Arkansas Legis- lature and Governor Clayton had to carry ona guerilla warfare for months before they could secure their positions, and Georgia—well, when we speak of Georgia even Philosopher Greeley’s capacity for swearing fails to do justice to the subject. This isa very poor showing for four years of reconstruction. The system pursued by the radicals aimed especially at bringing the States back so thoroughly republican that they would never give us any more democratic trouble. But even this has not succeeded. The States are only republican for the moment. The present Legislatures are enough to blot out all the republicanism in the South, and the radical leaders in Congress seem to know it, for they have tried to patch Virginia together 80 as to be sure of her, and are still trying to patch Mississippi in the same way. In fact, the whole reconstruction systom has resulted ina thing of shreds and patches that the rad- cals cannot trust. They fear that Reed, of Florida, is a broken Reed; that the radicalism of Smith, of Alabama, is mythical; that Holden, of North Carolina, does not feel much beholden to the party; that Bullock, of Georgia, is likely to gore his own friends, and that Warmouth, of Louisiana, like Dawes, is talking too much out of school, Grand Army The Union Home and the of the Republic. It will be seen by @ communication ia another columa that a consolidation has been effected between the New York State Division of the Grand Army of the Republic and the management of the Union Home for Soldiers’ Children. A bill has been introduced in the Logislature to give them a moderate amount per capita for the support of the institution, We hope the Legislature will make a hearty and liberal donation to the new management The time that has elapsed since the war closed has considerably lessened the ardor with which our rich men greeted the soldiers, and many of them have forgotten the promises they made so lavishly to the regiments marching to th¢ front. Charitable appeals for soldiers’ orphans are met with unconcern, and the ladies who have until lately managed the Union Home have done well in effecting a consolidation with so powerful an organization as the Grand Army of the Republic. There is nothing partisan in the movement. The lady mana- gers comprise Mra. Judge Daly, Mrs. Admiral Farragut, Mrs. David Hoyt and others equally well known and benevolent, while Judge Daly, Stewart L. Woodford and General Barlow, who assist the ladies in managing the concern, represent both sides in politics and guarantee a non-partisan use of the funds and manage- ment of the institution. Tuk Last or GzorcE Prasopy.—The last , ceremonies over the remains of this illustrious philanthropist were performed yesterday in the village in Massachusetts that bears his name. Mr. Robert C. Winthrop pronounced an eloquent eulogy on the character and career of the dead, after which the remains were carried in procession to the family tomb and there deposited. Prince Arthur, Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, and numerous other prominent men attended the funeral. Poritican Disapriities.—The Reconstruc- tion Committee of Congress is the old fogiest concern in Washington. While ali the Southern States are coming back into the Union, regene~ rated and with all their sins forgiven, this Reconstraction Committee has reported a bill to remove the political disabilities of a few of the inbabitants of those States, and is tinker- ing at a bill which, although it is apparently a -bill to remove such disabilities by wholesale, makes distinctions as to persons, continuing the disfranchisement of some end throwing embarrassing conditions in the way of others. . Cans.—An account of cabs as they flourish in London will be found in another part of the paper, with the encouraging bit of news that the cab company incorporated last year has its vehicles in active preparation, and is likely soon to. be before the public. Once we had cabs here. They were queer, square, perpendicular, small, uncomfort- able painted boxes on two wheels, with a door behind and a driver on top, and they died out, and gave place to the public vehicle common with us now—the ricketty hack—~ whose ambitious appearance doubtless encour- ages the driver in his exorbitant demands for fare. Shall we ever have anything better? or is the problem of personal transit so far solved as to make a cab success quite unlikely? The million ride in the street cars for six cents, and they would perhaps never encourage cabs any- how. Some hundreds, perhaps thousands, at least use their own vehicles in all their movo- ments about the city, and there is room be- tween these extremes for a grand encourage- ment of vehicles for comfortable conveyance at & reasonanle rate, sariieiaiecemaeeencapenanemenailal a Commodore Vanderbilt in the “Co.” ? Since the advent of the female stock brokerage firm of Woodhull, Claflin & Co. among the ‘‘bulls” end “bears” of Wall strect a rather free use has been made of the namo ofthe veteran Commodore Vanderbilt as the aider and abettor, if not the full partner, of tho firm. He is alleged to be the ‘Co,” which gives 80 business-like a termination to the name of the new banking house; but, so for as Wall troet 1s copcerned, the only basis for the report lies in the fact that Wood- hull, Claflin & Co,, in opening an account at the Fourth National Bank, deposited a check to their order signed by Mr. Vanderbilt, Now we do not intend to question the Com- modore’s policy in this matter, but simply to suggest that he ought. to put the stock gam- bling fraternity ut rest about it. We have too great an appreciation of the man who, from piloting a ‘“‘periauger” over the bay, rose ta be virtual commodore of a steam fleet and king of a great railway domain, to think of doubting that in this new development of woman’s rights the Commodore sees an op- portunity for his peculiar powers of enriching and amoliorating whatever he chooses to favor with his auriferous attention. Did he not testify that he could run s steamship line or a railway for twenty per cent less than any man who wonld daro to compete with him? Is he going to introduce his ideas of economy and wealth in Wall street? Has he boen taken with the great advantage of female over male labor, and does he intend to inau- gurate a system of female brokers who will give their professional services tor less rates of commission than the males? The brokers and operators pause for his reply. Prorgcrion To Workmen.—The bill to amend the act protecting the lives and persons of workmen engaged in mining and other occupations by providing a punishment by fine against employers when accidents occur came up in the Assembly yesterday, and after some debate was ordered to a third reading. Objection was made to the bill during the dis- cussion on the score of its being in the interest of the wealthy coniractors ; but if it aims to do what its title indicates it cortainly ought to operate for good in making wealthy contractors more careful of the lives of their employés. Tue Mxssace of GoverNok WALKER, OF Vinainta.—The Virginia Legislature assem- bled in Richmond yesterday, and the message of Governor Walker was received and read. The Governor shows himself to be a statesman by the ground he. takes, and fully sustains the confidence reposed in him by Genoral Grant. He congratulates the Siate on her full return to an equality with the other States, and assures the negroes of their equal zighis under the law with other men. Brrtiso Yaoutina.—It is already likely that the yachts to start from the Irish coast for an ocean race on the 4th of July next will be the centre of somewhat of a yachting demonstration in taose waters. In anticipa- tion that the Cambria, Dauntless and other boats will rendezvous at Cork before the start, the Royal Cork Yacht Club has fixed its regatta for Juno 30 and July 1, 1870. This ig the oldest yacht club in Great Britain and Treland, having been instituted in 1720, Het Gatz.—There is a great deal of semi- scientific gabble indulged in with regard to the best manner of destroying the rocks at Helt Gate. Between-the several professors who fancy themselves adepts in submarine rock blasting there is such an active argument that we are almost threatened with parties on the subject. Is there a big plum of jobbery ma- nipulating in this business? Are all the great blasters only hungry vultures? We are glad to see, however, that the outside noise does not interfere with the straightforward prao- tical prosecution of the work under charge of General Newton. We will back one of Uncle Sam's engineers against the whole tribe of speculating professors. Tuz New Cornacz.—The coinage of the United States has long been noticeable for its clumsy inelegance in design and execution, but the silver coins of this year are exceptions to this rule, and beautiful specimens of numis- matic art. We hope the time will soon come when the people may be more familiar with their appearance. Tne Far Men’s Lerrer.—The fat men pro- pose to have another ball, Their floor com- mittee weighs 2,556 pounds. Their reception committee weighs 1,798 pounds, These heavy fellows wrote a letter to Prince Arthur inviting him to come and “‘trip the light fantastic toc” in their company, and ‘become acquainted with the national institutions.” These bloated fellows fancy they are the national institutions. Arthur did not accept—the more’s the pity. Had he done so he could have corrected the average British artist, who always pictures the Yankee as a lank and skinny specimen. Toe Pop's CurrENcy IN Franot.—The item by telegraph that the Papal currency has been excluded from general circulation in France has no national or political signifi- ° cance. The Papal currency is coin, and ia probably of inferior value. i CONNECTICUT REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. HARTFORD, Feb, 8, 1870. Notwithstanding the severe storm quite a large number of delegates to the Republican State Con- vention have already assembled, A preliminary caucus for general discussion was held this evening. David Gailagber presided, and remarks were made by General J. K. Hawley, of Hartford; Mr. Durand, of Derby; Alfred Cott, of New London; A. H. Byington, of Norwalk; Major H. W. R. Hoys, of Stamford; Caluin G. Childs, of Stamford; David Greenslet, of Hampton; H. Jackson, of Put- nam; Robbins Battell, of Norfolk; L. 8, Fuller, of ‘Tolland: Benjamin Douglas, of Middietovn; Gen- eral James T. Pratt, of Rocky Hill; Mr. Gallup, the chairman, and others. The speakers generally ex- pressed great pride in the record of the republican ry in both national and State administrations. Vers many prominent men of the party are present. be made Governor Senator Buckingham is here and will resident of the convention to-morrow. Jewell and the preseat State officers will be nomi. nated, with the exception of Lieutenant Governor Wayland, who 1s absent in Europe and cannot attend to the duties of the office. Among those named to aucceed him are William Fitch, Jaines M. ‘Townsend and Morris ‘Tyier, of New Haven; Davia Galiup, of Plaintiela; Oliver Hoyt, of Stamford; Henry P. Haven, of New London, and F. J. Kings+ bury, of Waterbury, . CHARTER ELECTION IN BINGHAMTON, BINGHAMTON, Feb. 8, 1870. The charter election in this city was carried by the republicans, J. N. Congdon was re-elected mayor and every ward was Carried oy the republican can- didates for Aldermen, The democratic candidates for Assessor and Justice were elected. Toe board of ’ Aldermen stands—Republicans. 9; democrat, 1.