The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1870, Page 6

6 , NEW YORK HERALD |™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PRO PRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. +++No. 41 Volume XXXV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.-SUar; 08, SUMMER ScuENES aT LONG BRANCH. NIBLO'R GARDEN, Broadway.—Geaxp KosANtIO PLar oF ta% Duxx's Morro, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Hroadway, cor ner Thirtieth «t.—Matines daily. Performaiice overy Suing. BOWERY THEATRE, How Many Houss; o8, G' Bowery.--Bucx, » UP TO 18d, ae Bros, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth streot.—Tux Bunixsque oy Tae Svin. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Uih atreet.— Bono... BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 at., between Sih and 6th ava,— Epwin Boot aS HAMLET. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of ghth avenue and 23d st. —Toe TWELVE TEMPTATIONS, FRENCH THEATRE, Mtn and tth av, DE BRABANT. GeNnvinva OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Serious Fawiy— TuE Brirrinn, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brook!ya.— IRELAND As It Was—Tue RovGit Diamond, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Vocautsm, NEGRO MINSTER! 5 THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 18M, NEGRO ACTS, a0. adway.--Comto Vooate NEW YORK CIRCUS, Font EQuesTRIAN AND GYMNAGTIO PERFORMA’ HOOLEY'’S 01 « MINSTRELS—THe A HOUSE, Brooklyn. -Hoouny’s EATRICAL AGRgICY, de. APOLLO HALL, Tur New fir ver kth street and Broadway.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BCIENOE AND Aur, TR IPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, February 10, 1970. CONTEXTS OF TO-DAWS GERALDO. Pace. I—Advertisements, @—Advertisements. 3—French kevolutionism: The Radical “Reds'? Agitation tn Paria and Marseilles; Kevolutron- ary Kioting in me Capital, Barricades Again Thrown Up and the Police and Military Out; Police Charged and Opstinate Resistance of the People; Cabinet Action aud Arrests; Quiet Malntained at Night—Wasbington: Spirited Debate in the Senate over tne Census Bhi; Another Tilt Between Conkling and Sumner; Senator Morton’s Speech on Cuban Betlige- rency; Another Dificrence Between the Presi- | dent and the Senate—The Late Storm—he Rat Pit Mission—Marine Transfe 4@—The Persian Gulf: Pearls, Pearl Fisting, Slavery, Piracy and Foreign Diplomacy—itupert’s Land: Grard Mass Mecting at Fort Garry; Important OMcial Documents—Man’s Inhumauity to Man: Allegations of Crue!ties on the Ship Neptuy The United States Ship-of-tue-Line (ennsyl- vanla—Fatal Effects of Menimgetis in North Carolin S—Congiess: Speech of Senator Morton on the | Neutrality Laws; Defeat of the House Census | Bill; Tue Foster-Covode Contested Election Case; Foster Unseated ana Covode Sworn In; Discussion of the Legislative Appropriation Bill—Proceedings in the New York and Brook- | jyn Courts Yesterday—Arblirary Arrest ce dents on the Union Itic Ratlro: James T. Brady Bust—Sale of the Thompson | Paintings—Brilitaat Meteorological Phenume- non—An Enormous Ox, 6—Editorial: Leading Article on the Rochefort Arrest, the Paris Barricades, the New Age— Musical aud Theatrical Notes~A: and Navy Intelligence—Amusement Announcements, 7—Telegrapliic News from Ail Parts of the World: ; Queen Victoria’s Speech Reviewed by the Brit- | ish Pres; Parliamentary Progress in Rugland— | Tne State Capital: Caucus Nomuauons for | Police Commissioners; Discussion Among the Democrais on Clty Commissions; Passage of the Goneral Appropriation Bul the Assem- bly—Balls Last Night—Genera! Wool's Wil— Something for the Police Commissiouers— Personal Latelligence—Fire in Fifth Street— j + Business Notices. 8—New York News—Police Triais—The Board of Health—The Habeas Corpus Law—The Ni York Liberai Ciuu—Tne Board of Custom House Asfairs—Journalistic Notes— Brooklyn City N he New Charter—Subur- ban Intelligence—Connecticut Republican State Conventton—Gross ish Subject by the Span! Cuba—The Case of Dr. Schoe, 9—The Ways of Wall Street: Light On Dark Trans- actions—The Bewitching Broad Street Brok- ers—The Key West Tragedy—Pinancial and Commercial Reporta—Old People tn Nort Carolina—Marriages and Deaths. FO—Sleighing: A Splendid Day for the Roadmen; Who Were Out and What They Did—A Newark | Agent in Trouble—Surtace Blasting—The Panel Game—Voice of the People—Rome: Condition of the Outer Kingdom as Reported in the Holy City—Obituary—Foreign Scientific and Mis- cellaneous Items—Snhipping Inteiligence—Ad- vertisements, 11—Real Estate Matters—Gas Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. oslon in Boston— NOTICE TO UERALD SUBSCRIDERS. We will esteem ft a favor if our readers will inform us, by letter addressed to this office, of any dereliction on the part of the carriers of the Hrran, either in furnishing the paper late, substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled sheets. Rurert’s Lanp.—Our St. Paul correspond- ext furnishes a full report on another page of the late grand mass meeting of the Red River people at Fort Garry. Joun CovopE was declared elected to the | eontested seat from Pennsylvania in the House yesterday by astrict party vote. The question has been for a long time under consideration, and we suppose the evidence taken was Aigested through strict party stomachs. Tne Hovse Census Bint was laid on the } table in the Senate yesterday. It was very elaborate affair, and the schedules were extremely complicated, but if they could have been filled out conscientiously would have furnished the country with much valua- ble information. As it is, a Dill in being almost impossible for them to be properly filled out by the numerous incompe- tent persons who were likely, among the BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th St —BEYANI'S MINSTER bah via, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, £85 Brox! 5 PIAN MIN#TRELSY, NEGRO Aors. &u. “Hs KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadwoy.—ETMI0- PIAN Minsranieey, A probably the | intricacy of the schedules haa killed the | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, F Rechefort Arrest—Tho Paris Barri- cadosThe New Age. We have already given our readers the facts connected with the arrest of Henri Rochefort. We have also given our opinion on the general question, We this morning publish additional facts. The additional facts only go to show that the situation was in every respect quile as serious as we thought it was. It seems from our latest news that barricades were erected within a few squares of the Palais Royal, and that even there the police, without the aid of the military, were helpless. On all the boulevards strong detachments of police were stationed, with instructions to disperse the crowds. Rioters have been ‘arrested by the hundred, It is said that some of the rioters were wounded, It is added that not a few were killed, What adds to the gravity of the situation is this, that the Marseilaise yes- terday did not appear. Its editors had aided the rioters, and in consequence they were arrested. The Kappel, which was 80 far in the same condemnation, had to lament the arrest of one of its leading men. So critical had affairs been on the evening of Tuesday that the Ministers remained at the headquarters of police all night. According to the latest news and in spite of all the ominoug signs the city-was tranquil yesterday evening and remained so at a late hour of the night, A sympathetic radical movement in Marseilles, slight in effort, yet significant from its coincidence, was put down by the police of that city. It is safe now, we think, to say that another dangerous crisis has passed over, and that Louis Napoleon still remains master of the situation. No oneis so grateful for the fact as Louis Napoleon himself. He is master because all his friends, every one of whom owes him so much, have remained faithful. But Rochefort has revealed a strength and commanded an amount of sympathy which have given the Emperor more sorrow than comfort. It was the Emperor's conviction that by giving Rochefort permission to return to France and to take his place in the Corps Législatif he would kill him and all his friends, He thought that he was so popular that he had only to seem generous and magnanimous to make an end of all that contemptible class that mourned the death of Bandin, that read the Lanterne and the Marseillaise and that had some affection for the Rappel. Facts have not justified the Emperor’s convictions, That he has been gencrous and magnanimous no one can deny; but in proportion as he has been the one and the other so has he made himself trouble. It is undeniable that under the new system, so faras it has been tested, the Emporor has been losing at every step. Just as he has allowed France to speak France has said we will not have this man to rule over us. Tho only seeming drawback to this judgment is the unquestionable fact that both the Upper and Lower Houses of the French Parliament | have stood by the government and denounced the disturbers of the peace and the would-be revolutionists. In connection with this fact it ought not to be forgotten that the present Par- liament of France was elected under the an- cient régime. An honest and unrestrained election now might show a very different state of feeling. As it is, however, the Emperor still remains master of the situation, and there is no reason to doubt that master he will remain. As we have said again and again, Napoleon is master because the army is his humble and obedient servant. So long as he lives, so long at least as he retains the use of his | faculties, he will retain, his immense power. All the prominent men in the army, all the prom- inent men, in fact, who have power through- out France, whether in towns or villages, are the Emperor’s creatures. With him they stand; with him they fall. So long as he is himself they can be relied upon. They will stand by him so long as he can stand by them. But if the Emperor were to die to-morrow, or if he were to lose his faculties, as did George the Third of England, where is the man among all that crowd of sycophants who now live and grow fat under his shadow who would stand by him? In a sentence we can gay it, and our judgment amounts to this, that this Rochefort affair proves that Napoleon’s son has not the shadow of a chance to succeed his father if his father is at an early day cut off. The chances are just as much in favor of the Count de Paris and a little more in favor of a republic. It is well to bear in mind that the age is new. Itis not the age of the first Napoleon. It is not the age of Louis Philippe. It is not even the age which floated Louis Napoleon first into the presidency and later into the imperial throne. Railroads, telegraphs and newspapers have been working hard during these twenty years, and public opinion has grown into a dangerons fact. It is well for all men to bear in mind that public opinion is now ruling the world, and that it must rule it more and more, Newspapers are now more potent than dynasties. In ancient times mystery ruled. In these times there is no mystery, Men and nations think aloud; and this lond thinking, echoed and re-echoed by the news- papers, makes an end of all dynasties and of all monopolies, When the present Napoleon’s work is done it will not be wonderful if the peoples of Europe have made up their minds to dispense with the expensive toys which we have been trained to call dynasties. Tue Late Storm—Prince Artnvr.—The late storm was a regular old fashioned nor’easter, coming in at the Capes of Virginia and Cape Hatteras from the Gulf Stream, and drifiing up the seacoast and in the same general direction, and closing the Hudson river with a cold snap in its course, to the British possessions, and gathering strength instead of being exhausted on its journey. For instance, a foot of snow is reported as having fallen from this storm in New Hampshire. Zn route through that State by rail Prince Arthur was caught in the storm, and detained with the train at White River junction in consequence of the snow | blockade, He will be apt to remember the | incident, with the opinion that on a short notice we can get up in New England a snow siorm equal to anything in that line in Old England. Old weather gangers say that be- ; tween this and “St, Patrick’s Day in the morn- ing” we shall have a few more snows of the same sort to make up for lost time, and they large number appointed, to be found among the census takers, in the time proposed. may prove too correct in their calculations; but ‘nous verrone,” ‘The New Charter. Instinctively the politicians are against the new charter. It is bitterly repugnant to the republicans and distasteful to the democrats. To both parties the dislike to it is clear, though manifested in different ways; for while the republicans assail it with dull declamation and the criticism of very sinall points, the demo- crats look askance at it and withhold the hearty utterances of assent and approval. What does this mean? What does it usually mean when the politicians of opposite parties are on the same side in any measure that touches the public welfare? It means that party differences are lost sight of in the com- mon interest which the politicians feel as a class to retain all the abuses, all the con- trivance to cover corruption, fraud and chi- canery that they find in the present state of the many laws constituting our city govern- ment. We believe the politicians who are so actively against the new charter are alarmed at the probability that it will not reconstruct the city in the way that would be most agree- able to them. They do not find it a machine to facilitate their plundering operations, If the opposition of the press is honest it is ignorant, for the journals that have pretended fair discussion of the new measure do not seem to comprehend its proper character and scope, Our own distinct remembrance of the work- ing of the city government is from the time we began to report the proceedings of the Com- mon Conncil for the National Advocate, in 1825. At that time the Mayor and the Re- corder sat with the Council, which sat asa single body. That was an uncomplicated gov- ernment machinery, as effective and honest as it was simple and satisfactory in fixing respon- sibility. It answered completely the purpose for which it was contrived, and met all the wants of the community. Abuse of power was then comparatively rare, and it had not become necessary for the lawmakers, in giving authority, to assume that every place of trust might possibly fall into the hands of a rogue. There was then in our institutions and usages so much of the spirit of aristocracy*as is natu- ral in every simple society. Noone had ever thought that notions of equality should be carried so far as to set the street rabble, the idle and dissolute, the sharpers, ragamufiins and blackguards on a political level with men of character and social standing. With the tone of society in such astate, that simple con- trivance of a single council might govern the greatest city of the carth as well as it did this city in the old times. But society was swept away from its old, fixed points. ‘‘Democrat” was first applied hero as a party name in a spirit of opprobrium, and covered the charge that certain of our public men were likely to lead us the same race that the democrats of the French Revolution had led society in that country. The charge seems like a prophecy, for the practices that led to the corruption of our government began with the democrats in that early day. They acted on a theory that may apply when the millennium comes as if it were a fact, went lower for support than other men were willing to go, and thus introduced to power elements that never affect society for good. Disappointed candidates were the active agents, These fellows, defeated in their efforts to secure position in the legitimate way, did not, however, give up the ambition to wield authority or handle the public money, The fact that they were, known too well in the city to be trasted only induced them to make their appeal toa fountain of power where they were less known. So a defeated politician would call upon ‘the masses,” get up “popular indignation” and make some noise or capital in that way, and, operating from this supposed popular support upon the Legislature, end always in the name of greater honesty or economy, have himself made a commissioner, charged, perhaps, with the duties of that very office for which he had been a candidate in the city. In that way began with the democrats the practice of ad- ministering office in defiance of the public judgment, for the man thus appointed was not responsible to the people interested in his course. He was responsible to a power that knew nothing of what he was doing, and cared quite as little; therefore his responsi- bility was nominal only and had no value. This has been going on for forty years, and the original vigor of political purity here may be somewhat judged by the time it has taken to destroy it. The plan of governing the city in defiance of the public will, and so, of course, in the absence of all healthy restraint, thouga it began with the democrats, was a lesson readily enough caught up in any party, and was, in fact, learned in every party, until recently the republicans gave it a wide and general application to our whole city govern- ment, leaving to the Common Council only the supervision of the peanut stands at the street corners and to the Mayor only a nomi- nal existence. The people have the results before them in the state of the city; in the corruption that is everywhere; in the robbery that prevails wherever money is handled; in the denial of justice to those who seek it; in the facility with which criminals slip through the fingers of authority; in the debauched condition of the public mind consequent upon the indisputable fact that the ruling class is not merely the most ignorant, but the worst, the most degraded and law-defying rabble of the town. The practical fact before the people is that the worst element of the population has the upper hand in this city. Hitherto this class has been contented with the political supremacy and with the plunder of the public treasury. Does any one suppose that it will not go further? Is it not already obvious that the laws which are made to protect human life and to guarantee the safety of property are associated in the minds of the city ruffians with the obsolete laws that distinguished be- tween honest met and rogues as candidates for civic honors? How long will they who have familiarized themselves to robbery through tax laws indulge the prejudices of | society with the formalities of taxation and delay to use the powers of general confiscation ? Will they respect the forms of law beyond the day when they know that all power is theirs? And are they not now fully opening their eyes to that fact? It is only a question of how long; for in our present are the seeds and possibilities of the worst conceivable future. It is uot possible that any single law can afford an immediate remedy for all our evils; but the true remedyal is ia cestoring the governing power to its natural place, and that is the purpose and will be the firat consequence of the passage of the new charter. The new charter is not perfect— and it is not possible to get a perfect one—but it is the best we can get, and is excellent in many points. It fixes the responsibility of office-holders, and makes them subject to the judgment of the people of the city, before whose eyes all their official acts must pass, This is the only proper restraint that the people can impose upon authority, and with this re- straint in the hands of the people of this city it is idle to say that the government cannot be kept right. This charter affords us a chance to get the government once more in the right hands, and that is the point in its favor so great that it shonld belittle all points against it, It would be a great blunder for the people to lose the chance for a salutary revolution by permitting this charter to fail through their apathy. Mr. Schenck’s Tariff sill. It is evident that Mr. Schenck and his col- leagues of the Committee of Ways and Means, who have worked up the Tariff bill now before Congress, are either legislating without under- standing what they are about or for the in- terest of the rich and a certain class of manu- facturers, Except in the reduction of duty on tea, sugar, coffee and some few other articles, the new tariff increases the burdens of the poor and the mass of the people. The modification of duties on these articles oven is such that the cost to the consumer will hardly be perceptible. The change is sufii- cient to benefit the traders and merchants to some extent, but not great enough to be of much or any advantage to the consumer. To show how little regard is paid to the welfare of the poorer classes we may notice the change in the duty qn wines, Under the existing tariff there is a discrimination between the high priced wines, which only the rich can afford to use, and the lower priced ones, such as ordinary Bordeaux, which people of ordinary means use. Mr. Schenck proposes to impose a duty of fifty cents a gallon on all wines alike. This of course will add to the cost of those of a low price and within the reach of the body of the people, while it will reduce the duty a hundred per cent or more on the high priced wines, which only the rich consume. To say nothing of the injustice of this to the poorer classes, or of such partial legislation in favor of the rich, the proposed change shows ignorance of what is beneficial to the morals and well being of the community at large. Cheap wines are healthful, and prevent the use of ardent spirits. In all countries where the poorer classes can get cheap wine little ardent spirits is used, and there is little drunkenness. Let us have in this country cheap wine, and there would be much less whiskey and other abominable trash con- sumed, which do so much to kill or injure the health of the people, This proposed modifica- tion of the tariff on wines proves how incom- petent members of Congress are to legislate for the welfare of the country. We might notice the increased duties on wearing apparel, and on many other things of general consumption; but the bill is full of such inconsistencies. It is framed for the benefit of a few manufacturers and the rich, And beyond that the duty of forty dollars a ton which is imposed on Russian hemp is liable to get us into a difficulty with the best friend we had among the nations during the war, The Russian Minister claims that it is contrary to the commercial treaty of 1832, as the clause makes a distinction against Russian and in favor of Manila hemp, the latter being subject to a duty of only twenty-five dollars per ton. Other foreign Ministers at Washing- ton make similar complaints of the provisions of the bill, The test vote the other day on the question of the tariff, being for revenue only, and not for protection, showed that the protec- tionists are not so very strong in the House of Representatives. On this motion or declara- tion of Mr. Marshall the protectionists had only a majority of twelve, the vote standing eighty-nine to seventy-seven. The democrats from Pennsylvania voted against the protec- tionists, which shows that the democratic party, irrespective of section or local interests, holds its old ground against a protective tariff. The time is not far off when, with the growth of the West and full restoration of the South, tariffs for protection will be things of the past. Tue GovERNMENT TELEGRAPH SysTEM.— The first operation of the telegraph in England in the hands of the government was duly chronicled to us as a great failure, without any allowance being made for the necessary de- rangements incident to an extensive change in system; but now we hear of quite another story. The sudden increase of business is without precedent—especially domestic de- spatches are sent in far greater numbers than ever before. The people appreciate the dif- ference between private management and the government. We hope this point will not be lost upon the lawmakers at Washington. Here, also, the use of the telegraph must be popularized by putting it in the hands of the government, Cruerry to SEamEN.—It seems that the terrible stories paraded by some of the papers yesterday to the effect that Captain Peabody, of the ship Neptune, and his officers, had per- petrated barbarous cruelties upon the crew of that ship during her late voyage from Liver- pool are denied in toto by the captain, who is vouched for by his employers as an exceed- ingly humane gentleman. Seamen certainly have enough troubles and endure enough hard- ships without having added to them the great cruelties charged against Captain Peabody ; and certainly it seems improbable that any one, a seaman himself, would be so barbarous as to commit such cruelties without great provoca- tion. Jory Dury.—Mayor Hall has submitted a very important memorial to the Legislature, designed to secure a more efficient performance of jury duty, and the subject is one broadly suggestive of reform, As in our elections so in jury duty, if our most capable and responsi- ble citizens habitually neglect or seek to avoid their obligations in behalf of law and order they have hardly a right to complain of the consequences. Between fines and fees and in exemptions for jury service rendered we should suppose that a satisfactory jury service oan be gained. EBRUARY 10, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Sec Seuator Morton on Cuba aad the A istration. Mr. Morton, of Indiana, made a strong and, in our estimation, a seasonable stirring up of the administration on the Cuban question, in the Senate yesterday. So far as we, outside the State Department, are informed of the present position of this question, it is not sat- isfactory. General Sickles in his negotiations has been brought to a standstill, our neutrality laws appear to be enforced with remarkable zeal in behalf of Spain, and, in sbort, the whole course of the administration on this sub- ject would seem to justify the opinion that General Grant does not care button for the island of Cuba or that he has done nothing for fear of troublesome complications, No doubt his exceedingly conservative policy regarding Cuba has, to some extent, been shaped by his very conservative Secretary of State; but it is possible that Mr. Senator Sumner (whose special idea at present is the Alabama claims) has a finger in this pie. His special objection against the Cubans has been that they have not in their constitution abol- ished negro slavery, and have no intention to abolish it; but ithas been abundantly shown that upon this matter he is all wrong. What- ever may be the embarrassments which hold General Grant to the policy of Micawber, the policy of ‘‘waiting for something to turn up,” he ought to know that the mystery of his present attitude in relation to Cuba is anything but satisfactory to the American people. Hence we think this speech of Senator Morton ig not unseasonable, and that a few more such speeches in Congress, with a little sharper accent, would do no harm “‘at the other end of the avenue.” Persian Gulf—Our Special Reports from West Asia. By a special correspondence from Bushire, dated on the 15th and 16th of December last year, we are enabled to present to the readers of the Herat to-day a grand industro-political exposition of the condition of affairs which existed at that time in this remote quarter of the world, away ‘long shore of the Persian Gulf. Not too remote, however, or outside the reach of the grand civilizing agencies of the hour—steam and electricity—as will be seen by our letters. The writer describes the line of the new steam route from India to Europe by way of the Euphrates valley, and announces the encouraging fact that steam vessels will run on the waters of the Euphrates in the month of April next. This event will produce a diver- sion both in the feeling and tone of the public mind in that quarter of the world, a change which was much needed in consequence of the agitation and soreness which had been induced in the Gulf country through the diplomatic intermeddling of the British officials and their agents, and the ‘‘muddle” and general bungle which, as is usual in such cases and from such sources, ensued in consequence. The special exhibit which is given of the state of the pearl fisheries, the mode of working them, of the national commerce of the Gulf, of the opium trade and the slave system among the Arabs and the imports of slaves will command a widespread attention in the American mer- cantile world, as well as from the humanitari- ans and philosophers who dwell on this side of the Atlantic, and who will have their experiences enlarged and their sympathies n= The still more refined by a perusal of the Heratp’s special letters from Bushire, Progress of Woman’s Rights. The movement for woman’s rights is spread- ing over a great deal of land, but whether it is gaining force and vitality or is simply flat- tening out like pancakes the more it spreads is a matter yet to be decided. Woman’s rights have long been firmly established in this city, for no movement toward progress and re- form can maintain anything like a recognized existence in America unless it is first put forth and accepted by New York. Boston some- times ventures to put forth a young idea, but, of late, it generally falls stillborn, like too many other New England babes. Chicago am- bitiously ventures on a new notion of what it calls reform every now and then; but on the principle ‘Give adog a bad name and you may as well hang him,” the fact of it being a Chicago notion kills it at once. New York alone is the accepted mother of new ideas, and as she has placed her seal of ratification. on woman's rights through her worthy represen- tatives and citizens, Miss Susan Anthony and Mrs, Cady Stanton, it goes forth strong and girded as with an armor throughout the Conti- nent and to the ends thereof, We some, time ago noticed the pas- sage of bills in the Wyoming Loegis- lature giving women the snffrage in that Territory, and also the insidious advances of the “isms” among the grand dames of the South. We have recently added to the list Mormondom, under the new dispensation, which by a direct revelation from the Mormon Heaven itself declares woman entitled to vote in Church matters, and which by a more ter- restrial decree recently gave woman the priv- ilege to hold meetings and to forward petitions to Congress in opposition to that bill of Mr. Cullom, which no doubt he (Mr. Cullom) fondly believed was calculated directly to release the polygamic wives from unbearable tyranny. The appointments or election of women to postmasterships, legislative clerk- ships and other civil positions, and their advents into the medical and legal professions, and even Wall street circles, are matters of -every day occurrence, It has been said that the only right a married woman has is the right to be divorced from her husband. Taken as a whole, the remark is a little too strong# She has a few other rights, which we will not enu- merate; but even that right of divorce, which is claimed to be her only one, is about to be extended and increased until it shall become what Chadband called a ‘‘boon.” The Su- preme Court of the United States has a case before it on appeal involving the validity of Indiana divorces throughout all the States, and seems inclined, according to report, to declare in favor of the doctrine thata man or woman in New York, Louisiana, California or Alaska, or any part of the habitable United States and Territories, can obtain a divorce in Indiana which is just as good as one obtained at home, and a great deal cheaper and surer. This will give the Moosier State the palm tor divorces, and centralize all the separating or disjunctive powers of the divorce laws of the couatry in her little county courts, where the judge in his shirt sleeves separates loving couplos as non- chalantly as the Gretna Green blacksmith used to weld them together. Thus we have the Supreme Court of the United States advocat- ing woman's rights (if divorce ig a woman's right) along with its dry legal tender, recon- struction and Confederate bond decisions, and that is a step forward that Miss Susan has reason to be proud of. QvuananTINe.—Tho Quarantine Commission- ers and the new Health Officer, Dr. Carnochan, are now, we understand, getting fairly into the official harness, and are ready and eager tb reform any abuses of the system that may properly be brought to their notice. Mer- chants and others who have to complain at the discriminating or improper character of any regulation or exaction established by the authorities lately in charge are expected to communicate their grievance to the uew officials, Tne Appropriation Bint IN THE LEGIsLA- TURE.—The Assembly passed most of ita time yesterday in discussing the General Appro- priation bill, which was finally passed. The items were rigidly investigated and, according toastatement of Mr. Jacobs, the aggregate shows # decrease on last year's appropriation of about $200,000. Jxssk R, Grant.—The President sent in to the Senate yesterday the name of jis father (a renewal of commission) as Postmaster at Covington, Ky. And why not? The father is a worthy citizen, has proved a good officer, is popular among bis fellow townsmen, and is willing to continue doing much work for small pay. The President, in limiting his father to this little office, and the old gentleman, in being entirely satisfied with it, are to be com- mended for their modeaty and their nice ap- preciation of the delicate question of family appointments—a matter upon which, by un- scrupulous partisans, great injustice has been done to General Grant. Tax Potice ComMissioneRsuiPp.—The demo- cratic caucus in the Legislature yesterday renominated Judge Bosworth for the Police Commissionership which he at present holds. In the course of the discussion members stated that the position would not probably be in existence more than a few weeks. The repub- lican caucus nominated Samuel Booth, of Brooklyn, to succeed Mr. Bosworth as Police Commissioner. It is rather an empty honor. The fight over it will prove a ‘Bosworth field” to Mr. Booth. Tue Fisk PavEMENT has been declared unhealthy by the Sanitary Committee of the Board of Health. It is a perfect epidemic on Fifth avenue and ought to be speedily stamped out, Tne Brooxtyy Murpger.—The case of Perry, the alleged murderer of the night watchman Hayes, was brought before Judge Gilbert, at the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, yesterday, on a motion of his counsel to admit him to bail, as he had been tried twice and the jury on both occasions had failed to agree. District Attorney Morris strenuously opposed the motion and claimed that Judge Pratt's charge gave the jurors mistaken ideas of the law, and that the evidence for the defence was perjured throughout, The Judge re-~ served his decision, Tux Movement to abolish the Congressionat Globe was virtually defeated in the House yesterday, a majority of the members probably concluding that neither they nor their speeches would ever bein print unless the Globe printed them. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOYES Mme.. Ristori 1s playing in Florence, Italy. . The Zavistowsk! Sisters are burlesquing in San Francisco. So 1s a troupe of Japanese. Miss Laura Keene closes her engagement tn Wash- ington this week. On Monday next she takes “Our Amerean Cousin” to Richmond. Another change of bill last evening at the Park the. atre, Brooklyn, drew almost as large a crowd as on the pight previous, The programme for this evening embraces “Ireland As it Was” aud the “Rough Dia- mond.” Up to the present time only four “Hamlets” at aif ferent theatres in this city are announced for next Monday evening. This is really too bad, Messrs. Managers. Can't you make “Hamlet” for once ali over town? Frank Mayo will endeavor to terrify the stoical Battalonians this evening with “a Fiash of Light- ning. ihe Richings English opera troupe will present the citizens of Louisville to-nignt with “The Postillton of Lonjumean.”? John Brougham is still flashing his “Red Light’? for the amusement of the unofendmg broadbrims of the Quaker City. Rose and Harry Watkins are Mlustrating the true story of ‘“T'rodden Down’? at Alvany this week for the benefit of our hard-hearted legislators. Kate Bateman introduced poor heart-broken “Mary Warner” to the sympathetic creoies of New vurieans on Monday night, Mr. Robert McWade is endeavoring to rip poor “ap Van Winkle” for the amusement of the unfeel- ing Baltimoreans. “Our Cousin German,” J. K, Emmett, will spielen in St. Lous ail this week. His pronunciation of the English language is almost as pure as Mr. Fechter’s. “The Happiest Couple Out”—Piuto Lingard and Eurydice Dunning—are ‘‘out West’? harmonizing the natives, ‘This evening they will drop into Louis- ville with some “sketches” and @ buriesque. Mr. Barry Sulltvan has been obliged togive up nis effort to upbold “the intellectual drama” at the Holborn theatre, London. The season has termi- nated and 1s said to have cost him little less than the heavy sum of £8,000. The fact is, the Englisa public care Very little about the so-called intellectual drams nowadays. The scene painter, the burlesque writer and actresses with short peticoats aro tne only powers by which English managers may hope to attract audiences iarge enough to pay. Says the London Musical Worid:—“Somo Parisian electrician has developed a brilliant idea, He elcc- trities singers just before they ‘go on,’’ and they electrify the audience, Tney sing with spirit, energy, fire—ail derived from the battery at so much per shock, Thus the work of the manager becomes simple; as he depends for light on the gas company. he will hencetorth depend for the life and vigor of his operas on some new becntttn | company. con- tracting to do the work nightly. Vocal genius wilt be laid down in wires, and turned on or off as re- quired—the charge s0 much per Grisi-power. If the singers do not sing well the gallery will know thas the manager js stingy er has no funds; or that, through a dispute with the company, the electric supply iscut off. But if itis trae—if brilliant singing can be bought for cash—why not extend the princi- ple? Could not sublime and startling oratory be distributed i ‘mains’ all over the land with con- necting pipes. and, of course, meters, to every town hail and assembly room? Couid not even @ hostess secure a certain amount of electricity to enliven « dull dinner party—just as now she secures table or- naments and buys flowers? And, before all and above all, could not the 19,995 dull pulpita in the land—the total nuber of pulpits being 20,000-—bve electrified, so that the plague of sleepy sermons might dually be exorcised? ARMY INTELLIGENCE, A general order, promuigated from tne War De- partment, provides that bereafter no volatile oils will be issued or used for illuminating purposes at military posts, and all varieties of coal oil will be regardea a4 volatile. In geueral lard ott will be supplied for issues of oil authorized for the uccos- sary tllumiuatioa Of military posts. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Captain Joun Henley Higbee has been detached from duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard ang ordered to proceed, via the Union Pacific Railway, to Mare islaud Navy Yard, Cal., and report for duty ay Eleot Marine Vilicer, Paciflo fees,