The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1870, Page 6

NE EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN nieereuad JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERAp. Volume XXXV Wee ces 45 AMUSEMENTS TRIS EVERING. NIBLO'S GAKDEN, wa Ler, Broadway.—Tkacroy or HAM WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIN, Brosdway, cor: ner Thirtieth st.—Mativee daily, Performaice every evenings BOWERY THEATRE, Gowery.—Sxrreues 1X INbtA— GOVEUSMED REIS. THE TAM Fourteenth stree!.—Tak BURLESQUE ov THR SEVEN WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway aud 1th street.— BOHOOL. ROOTH'S THEATIS 1 st, hetween 6th and 6th ave,— Hamu ¢ Eighth avenue and OLYMPIC THEATRE, Browaway.-NEw Vaexsion oF Hawcer, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—lr uray Ovrga— RIGOLETEA FIFTH AVENUE THEATRY, Twonty-Couth mt—Tuit Busy Boor. STEINWAY HALL, F QRAND CONCERT. W. GUZMAN'S MRS. F, B {, Brooklyn. — UNot TONY P Como Vooauism, \ THEATH tem, 614 Broadway.Cowto Vooate U8E, Tammany Building, 14th BAN FRANOL ve Ov ay. PEO away. EvHtO- FQurerwtan HOOuRY's. APOLLO HALL, ¢ street and Broadway. — THE Ne oer re NEW YC SEUM OF ANATOMY, #15 Broadway.— ScLENG TRIPLE SHE ET. New York, Mouday, February 14, aint (ONTENTS OF TO-DAVS HERALD. PaaB, d—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Ketigious: fhe Champagne and the Cider Charches of the City and Vicinity; Seeking the “Thorny Way” on Silken Cushions ; ‘The Tollers of the Sea at Their Devouons; Discourses by the Rey. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Drs. worth, Chapin and MeSweeny, and the Messrs. Puliman, Foote, Tyng, Bogle and Oulers, 4—Woison in the Alr: Analy sis of Air by the Board of Healtn; Methods of Nesearch; Air in Sehools, Public a Privale, and in the ‘Theatres in New York und Brooklyn; The Dust We breathe, Its Microscopic Appearances—The Drama Abroad—Thy Father, e Pirst rapertat ton, Aristo- ashion in Wash- Seni, ‘Annnal— Public Schools. 1 to Death in tudson, io teltice 6—Faiter and Its ments, 7—Eaditoriai—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the Worid—! trou Washmgton: Goid Conspiracy Valentine's Day—Matis for Bu ve s. S—Mexico: Grave Situation of Aifairs; Free Sta ion of the Governor of Zacatecas— nish Report of the Operations of No Protection for Americans mn Cubu—The Congressional Comedies, Lively Entertainment in the Senate and House Dur- mg the Past Week—The Georgia Question— Poliucs and Trade im Australasta—rhe Pro- posed Charter Amendment for the City of Prookiyn—The Marriage of Mark Twain— Court Calendars for To-day. B—The Franking Privilege: Its Abuse Through Congressional Printing—Quarantine sSmug- giing—The English Turf—The South Carolina Freedmen—Financlal and Commercial Re- ports—Marrtages and Deaths, 10—Religious— Le ‘. Kiniorn on Jew- ish Reform—New York ity, News—Personal : Leading Article on The New Charter Op, s—Amusemeut Announce Intelligence: News—Anotner Bro Mystery In New Jersey—Post = emeant of Last Year— New Jerse ce—Slupping Intell. gene I1—Advert 12-—~Advert Tor Phivitxa n.—We publish elsewhere an exposition of the great expense to which the goverament is put by the franking privilege. It not only entails a loss upon the mail service of some two hundred thousand dollars or more per auuum, bul it is also the cause of an immense amount of printing at the public expense, which would never have been ordered by Congress had the members been compelled to their own postage. FRANKING FERNANvo’s Teme Tastr.—Fernando Wood has made a small onslaught on the Con- gressional Library and its librarian because he finds on the shelves some account of his per- sonal history, It is not stated what the book was, or what particular peccadillo or mental or moral characteristic it reflected upon, and therefore it cannot be judged whether Fernando's objection is altogether sound, Still we are glad to see signa that Congress- men have ponetrable’ skins. What might not happen if they suould all become thus sensi- tive to PaReOr a, Porson IN THE Atk. aaaee' this head we pub- lish this morning the result of a careful analysis of the air of New York and Brooklyn, but more particularly of the latter city. The report is as instructive as entertaining. From it we learn how much carbonic acid our children are compelled to inhale at the public and private schools, and how much we voluntarily breathe’ at theatres and other public places. There is but little of a pleasant character in the infor- mation. Even the streets of the two cities are filled with poisonous exhalations, while in pub- lic buildings the air is yet more dangerous to health and life, It is to be regretted that the Board of Health did not extend the investiga- tion to the air breathed by the denizena of tenement houses, for in these the ventilation is the most defective, and if in theatres, hospi- tals, churches and schools poisons abound, what must the state of the air be in the‘homes of the poor? e * the latter hailing from Norton's own particular - NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tho Now Charter ard Its Opponents. The new City Charter is ereating quite a breeze among our legislators at Albany. An opposition incomprehensible in its nature, con- sidering the quarter where it seems most to centre, bas been raised to it, and present appearances indicate that attempts will bo made to impede {ts progress. The friends and sustainera of this much- needed measure of municipal reform are having just now sn up-hill fight in their efforts to secure the boon of self-government for the city. The cry raised against the lead- ing provisions of the bill by the radical press has been caught up and echoed in a quarter from whence support and not enmity to the people's charter might have been expected. How far this how] of opposition operates upon the turee recalcitrant democratic Senators from this city can be judged by the stand they now take against their colleagues who support the bil, That they are acquiring an unenviable notoriety among their constituents here they will perhaps discover when it is too late. For ten yeors the citizens of Now York have seen thoir dearest rights—the right of self-government paramount - to all—wrested from them by a dominant al party: and an alien and inimical Legislature, and they impatiently awailed the hour when through the ballot box they could reassert and regzin their inherent rights to § overnment, Throughout the whole qf ihe State there was a general feeling pre~ vailing against the continuance of republican misrule. New York city, whose bill of grievances was gomplete and whose cup of bitterness ran over, was of course the most interested in the subversion of the rule inangurated, instituted and directed at Mbany. The democracy of the city sent their best and most trusted leaders to meet and confer with the democratic leaders throughont the State in convention atSyracuse. The platform there adopted and the princigles enunciated assured the downfall of republican supramacy through- out the State in the then ensning fall campaign, That assurance was rendered doubly sure by the result, The victory then gained was more decisive and complete than the most sanguine and far-secing leaders of the party had calen- lated upon. Here in the city the people rolled up an unprecedented majority, electing all their candidates to the Senate, and with but ono solitary exception to the Assembly, Here was the turning point in their political existence. They wrested the power to govern and oppress from the hands of those who had so long dominated over them, and once again confided the reins of a reformed muni- cipal government to their own chosen representatives, The great city of New York was thus rescued from the ignorant, capricious and corrupt legislation so long inflicted on it and carried into execution by partisan boards and commissions billeted upon the city at large, and which by little and little succeeded in depriving the people of all their just and inalienable rights. For years the chief legis- Jators for this grand emporium of trade and commerce, for this Empire City of the great republic, with its million of inhabitants, were a handful of men, changed probably every year, and brought from the most dis- tant and oftiimes isolated districts of the interior of the State. These were our legisistors—-men who knew as much of the wants and requirements of a great seaport city as did any of the cattle they left behind them grazing on their native hills. Very rarely and at best bnt a few of these legislators of ours ever saw the city, probably only when brought here from Albany on a junketing’ committee, or when invited toa festive reunion by the heads of the boards and commissions they had legislated into existence, the citizens of course “paying the piper.” It was to remedy the many and grievous evils arising from this ignorant, corrupt and pernicious legislation that the peo- ple so earnestly and unitedly fought and won the good fight last November which gave them back the power of self-gov- ernment. The standard bearers of the democracy in that campaign—the men who organized victory—were undoubtedly the leaders in whom the cilizena trust to-day. It was under the old democratic banner which so often heralded the way to victory that the people massed their forces preparatory, to going to the polls, and when the day of conflict camo it was to the leaders and to the party a day of signal triumph, But who was to be entrusted with the duty of making that triumph bring forth its legitimate fruits—the overthrow and eradica- tion of the last vestige of the republican boards and commissions, the repeal of obnox- ious partisan laws, and to draw up a new char- ter which would restore to the people the full measure of their civil and political rights, privileges and prerogatives? This duty must devolve upon the popularly constituted and recognized leaders of the democracy, and to them the people looked for the instrument and the legislation that should rehabilitate them in their political rights. The duty was at once undertaken, and that instrament—“‘the new Magna Charta’—is now before the people. As we said“ before, the republican “hue and cry” against it has been taken up and echoed and re-echoed from unexpected quarters. The failure of the old fossil, Samuel J. Tilden, to get his proposed charter introduced into the Assembly was enongh to beget hostility from the expiring organ ofthe Manhattan Club. Mr. Tilden found himself in the same predicament at Albany that he wae previously in at Syracuse when his plat- form fell stillborn before the Convention, from the fact that nobody could be persuaded or cajoled to father the miserable abortion. So it was at Albany. The Seymour-Tildea charter, a chip of the old fossil, bad no friends, and to-day it is shelved among the other rejected documents that have emanated from the craniums of those two political marplots. With regard to the seeming hostility of three of our city Senatora—that is the question with which the people have the most concern. We use the word “seeming” edvisedly; for we cannot believe that two of these Senators, Creamer and Genet, have any heart in their opposition or have avy intention to frustrate by their action eo popular a measure. What- ever adbesion they may have been induced to give to the two principal malcontents—Norton, of the Fifth Senatorial district, and his worthy coadjutor of the Assembly, Peter Mitchell, nS 8 = Gas ese eae 2 Se eee ee eee SR Eee MERE A Gil Re at os ERA pot ward, will be of short duration, Such an association must be reprgnant to the finer feclings of such men as Senator Creamer and Senator Genet, however naturally restive and combative the latter may be. As for Senator Creamer, we would as soon look for the mating together of the wolf and the lamb as for an alliance between him and Mike Norton, the acknowledged and recognized leader of the worst rowdy element of his dis- trict, Mike's little game of ‘‘strike” will not succeed, and the sooner he recedes from his present opposition to hia party and to the people the better it will be for him, So much for the opposition, over which the radical republican sheets, followed by the howl- ings of the Manhattan Club organ, have been sounding their prans of victory in anticipa- tion of the defeat of the people’s Magna Charta. Tt is not that we favor all the provisions in detail contained ia that instrament that we are so anxious for its passage; nor would we com- mend over-hasty legislation in the matter, The manner of electing the Board of Supervisors may call for special legislation by and by. The extension of the Aldermanic term to two years wonld come in better after we have had a trigl of the working of the proposed system of efection on a general ticket, instead of, ns heretofore, by districts. Should the Alder- manic Board be purified by this change in the manner of election it will thea be time enough for the citizens to consider the question of ex- tending the time of holding the office. Until therf we would not favor a departure from the ong year term. What the people want, however, is a restora~ tion of their just civic rights, of which they have been so long deprived; and that is just what the radical press is opposed to. The opponents of the Charter have spread them- selves upon it at length, but it proves to them a P¥crustean bed, upon which they wriggl® a writhe in all agony of spirit. They see in the fast~coming future an end to partisan rule and a return to independent self-govern- ment—to an administration of municipa! affairs such as existed here thirty-five years ago, when it was not only an honor to bea city official, but when that honcr was aspired to and sought after by tho best and worthiest citizens of New York. Such a government the people anxiously desire to have restored to them, and they hail as the first promise thereof the introduction before a democratic Legislature of the new Magna Charta of 1870, Spanish Ontrages and the Pusilianimous Conduct of Our Government, Onur correspondence from Havana published yesterday gives a particular and impartial account of the shooting of Americans By the bloodthirsty Spanish volunteers, of the unpro- tected condition of our citizens generally, and of the anarchy existing in the island. The four young men from New York—Greenwalth, Foster, Johnson and Gardner—who were assaulted and fired upon by the volunteers had becn in Havana only three weeks, and since their arrival had been engaged in the business of manufacturing fora drug establish- ment. They were peaceable working men, and no pretence is made that they had anything to do with the war or contending parties in Cuba, On Sunday they took advantage of the leisure they had to go toa photograph gallery to have their likenesses taken, and dressed themselves with care for that purpose. They followed the fashion, so common in the United States, of wearing blue cravats, and this, it is pretended, was the canse of the outrage. A man wearing the hat of a Spanish volunteer, and armed, shouted to them to halt, and then, in the most rafianly manner, immediately grabbed the necktie of Greenwalth first and then that of Foster. As these unarmed men backed away from him he fired at Greenwalth, who fell. A crowd soon gathered to the spot and other shots were fired, by which Johnson and Fos- ter were seriously wounded, Greenwalth died a few minutes after he was shot, and his body was carelessly and hurriedly thrown on a bier and taken off for burial. Both Johnson and Foster were seriously wounded, but may recover. It is evident that these bloodhound volunteers are intent on committing outrages on Ameri- cans, and that there is little or no protection for our citizens in Cuba where Spain or these Span- ish volunteers rule, Neither these bloody- minded miscreants nor the Spanish authorities have any respect for or fear of the United States government. This outrage on the four young men is but a repetition of similar ont- rages upon our citizens in Cuba ever since the war commenced. It will be scen by a com- munication published in another part of this paper what a state of things exists. An Ame- rican gentleman, who has just returned from Cuba, where business had detained him three months, states that he was frequently accosted by the volunteers and impertinently asked if he was an American or an Englishman, imply- ing significantly that they might be civil to Englishmen, but not to Americans, As this gentleman says, they fear the vengeance of John Bull, but laugh at the idea of the United States government extending protection to its citizens, THe was compelled, for the first time in bis life, to dony bis country and hail as an Englishman for self-protection. Englishmen mey well boast of their country, for it does protect them, In fact, the Bri:ish government assumes that its citizens are right in any diffi- culty abroad uniil proved otherwise, and never fails to throw the protection of its flag over them. Every one acquainted with the history of Rome knows, too, what glory and protec- tion 1t was to any one who could claim the privilege of being a Roman citizen. That wasa remarkable characteristic of the Roman repub- lic, and did very much toward giving it the power it attained and in making it both feared and respected throughout the world. But under our feeble rulers-—especially under the present weak, timid and time-serving administration—American citizens have to deny their country for self-protection. Is it not enough to make the blood of every true American boil with indignation and shame? This great republic—the first Power of the world—cripges before a weak and demor- alized nation like Spain! Yes, more than that; the government of this mighty ond free country has become the friend and ally of the worst Europeans des- potism against an American people and our near neighbors who are struggling for liberty. Only think of the United States being the friend and apologist of the worst form of mon- } soil! Yet it isa fact. The whole conduct of the government with regard to Cuba proves it, The best friends of Spanish despotism and the worst enemies of Cuban freedom are the men who control the goverament—such men as Sumner, Fish, Hoar, Boutwell and others— men who heretofore have been most vociferous in the cause of freedom. Whatever pretended investigations may take place relative to the late outrage at Havana upon our citizens, wo have no hope of anything being done to exact justice or to prevent the recurrence of similar outrages. ‘There may be, possibly, some pretended trial of parties in Havana for the outrage, either of the crimi- nals themselves or of other criminals that may be substituted as scapesoats, and there will be, no doubt, a good deal of diplomatic palaver, to save Spain and the Spanish autho- rities on one hand and to humbug the Ameri~ can people on the other; but that will be all. Captain Genera! Rodas and the Spapish gov- ernment are responsible, but the administra- tion will not hold them to that responsibility, ‘The brutal volunteers will continue to outrage and insult American citizens and will remain, 23 they are, the ruling power at Havana, The Spanish government, bad as it has been at all times in Cuba, has been virtually deposed by a worse one. The only real government there now claiming to be under the Spanish flag is a revolutionary one—the government of the vol- unteers. Mr. Secretary Fish is trembling now even, according to news from Washington, at the chance of war with Spain in consequence of Senator Sherman’s resolution to grant bel- ligerent rights to the Cubans, From fear of this the whole influence of the administration will be used, it is said, to prevont the adoption of that resolution, What can be expected from a government that ean act so cowardly? There is no goul, no lofty patriotism, no sym- pathy with republican freedom, and no states- menship in it. me Ballots and Billet Doux for the Mormon Women. The polyfamic wives of Utah and the few women of Wyoming have reached the goal of suffrage far ahead of the freer and more mul- titudinous women of New York and Massa- chusetts, Brigham Young, by one bold stroke, has accomplished more than Miss Susan An- thony in fifty years. The telegraphic, report informs us that the suffrage has been gived to women in Utah, that the acting Governor has signed the bill, and that the women will rally in true election style at the polls in Salt Lake City to-day. Brigham has recently been in unusual difficulty, and this, we presume, is his way out of it. It is now merely a question of wives between him and the schismatics. The municipal election to-day will decide for the present the fate of the schism—whether the temporal power shall go into the hands of the disaffected Mormons or shall remain with Brigham. The,matter is, therefore, one of votes, and, in view of the right of suffrage to women, becomes at once a question of wives, If Brigham can secure his family vote intact he will make a good fight against the combination of Gentiles and schismatics; but if he will take a leaf from the ward politicians of New York and vote Mrs. Young twice he will come out with an overwhelming majority. All that is wanted is wisdom and wives, and Brigham Young has both. Of course we go on the hypothesis that ho has been married enough to know how to keep his better halves in obedi- ence, and that if he says they must vote Young, that Young they will vote. This hypothesis is sustained by the voice of the Mormon wives themselves in their recent mass meeting, when they protested against Mr. Cullom’s bill. We may, then, safely assume that the great Mor- mon saint has secured his position for the present against the schismatics, and will strengthen his woMs for the battle against Cullom and Congress. One or two beautiful and touching coinci- dences occur tous here. To-day is the day devoted to St. Valentine, the patron saint of lovers, and it is fitting-that the multifarious women of Utah should send their little Dillet douz, in the shape of ballots, that they should testify their love and loyalty by their electjon- eering, that they should seal their vows with votes, and that they should give public office “with their private affections. These are love tokens better than rings, or caresses, or locks of hair, and are more suitable re- turns for the huge Valentine Brigham sends to all his sweethearts in the shape of suffrage. By another beau- tiful coincidence, Miss Susan’s fiftieth birthday comes the day after St. Valentine's. She has elbowed her way through the crowding years up to fifty without having to regret one single moment lost in useless dalliance or the smallest atom of her heart thrown away upon stony- hearted man. She ought to send Brigham Young a glowing Valentine upon this occasion, congratulating him as the champign of the world in the matter of female emancipation. Ifany tenderer emotion should thrill her bosom in contemplating the work of the great Young in behalf of her sex we beg her to let it thrill to its full extent. Let not ‘concealment, like a worm i’ the bud, feed on her damask cheek.” We can recommend Brigham as a good provider for his family, and, in view of his great political achievements, probably Miss Anthony could not do betier Tor Gow Conspiracy INVESTIGATION. — The Congressional committee engaged in investigating the gold conspiracy agreed on Saturday last to close the teatimony on the gold panic inquiry. Catherwood, Corbin’s sou- in-law, was called to the stand and gave his testimony in a frank and outspoken manner. Corbin’s testimony, as was expected, was the most important, and, so far as can be learned, he was chief engineer of the whole job. Many of the questions asked him proved exceedingly disagreeable. On one occision he was so overcome by them that he had to retire and cool down before the investigation could be continued. From the testimony obtained the committee can now make its report to the House, and the public will shortly learn of the origin of the speculation and those who conducted t EXxarep STATE oF INTERNATIONAL Cour- ‘rzsy—For United States fortifications to salute the Spanish flag while the blood of American citizens slaughtered in cold blood under that flag remains unatoned. This spectacle was witnessed in New York harbor yesterday, and the Sabbath day at that. \archioal tyranny, and that on American | The Red River Difhoalty=AG Amictible Adjustment with Canada. The opposition. of the Red River settlements to the transfer of their territory to the Dominion of Canada now seems in a fair way to bo peaceably overcome, and everything indicates an amicable adjustment of the whole question in a short time. On the 19th of January Mr. Donald A, Smith, commissioner on the part of the Canadian government, met the people of Winnipeg in a grand mass meetiag at Fort Garry, and laid before them voluminous docu- ments, which have already appeared in the Henap, relating to the transfer of their territory and including the message of the a & copy of the official instructions to overnor McDougall and letters from the Governor General and the Secretary of State of the New Dominion, The assurance in the Queen’s message that ‘respect and protection will be extended to the different religions per- suasions, that titles of every description of property will be perfectly guarded, and that all the franchises which have existed or the peo- ple may prove themselves qualified to exercise shall be duly continued or liberally conferred,” is reiterated in all the communications made by the Dominion government to its commis- sioner; and the Winnipeg WVew Nation, in its full report of the proceedings of tho mass meet- ing, states that the reading of the documents by the commissioner was frequently interrupted by loud and prolonged cheering. The instrac- tions given to Governor McDougall, and first made known to the Red River people at this mass meeting, provided for the establishment of nearly everything that the insurrectionists have demanded, and the meeting received the statements of the commissioner with such favor as to order the election of delegates to a con- vention to meet and‘confer with the commis- sioner on a basis of settlement. Tho conven- tion met on the 25th, and additional documents wore laid before it by the commissioner, which increased the friendly disposition already man- ifested. President Rielle made a speech warmly acknowledging his allegiance to the Queen, and stating that all the Red River people wanted was their rights, Other speeches of a similar character were made by prominent settlers, and when the mail left Fort Garry the Convention was about to draw up a bill of rights upon which they would acquiesce in the transfer of the Territory to the New Dominion. No one familiar with Canadian polities can doubt that the Dominion government will sat- isfy the Winnipeg leaders, and there is every probability that on the opening of spring the whole matter will be settled, and the Red River people will quietly resume their avoca- tions of hunting on the buffalo plains and trading for furs among the distant tribes. In view of the pectfliar elements composing the population of Winnipeg and its previous relations with Great Britain, such a termination of the insurrection is perfectly natural. One- half the settlers are English and Scotch, and are as loyal to the Crown as any of Queen Victoria’s subjects. The French half-breeds, constituting, with the exception of a very few Americans, the remainder of the population, were influenced by their Jesuit clergy, who apprehended the destruction of their ecclest- astical power and wealth in the territory. No intelligent man among the settlers expected to establish a permanent independent government at Winnipeg, the insurrection in the first place being only resistance to Governor McDougall, who was sent out in such a blundering manner, and latterly a determined attitude in demand- ing an acknowledgment of their rights by the Dominion government. All the associations, interests and sympathies of the Red River people were with Great Britain. Their books, periodicals and newspapers come from Canada or Europe, and al their woollen amd dress goods, calicoes, tea, stigar, tobacco, | rum, Mackinaw blankets and other articles con- sumed among themselves or used in their extensive trading with the Indians for furs are obtained either from England, through the Hudson Bay Company or in bond in New York, at about one-half the cost of the same articles in the United States. With such associations and such advantages in trade it could not be expected that the Red River people would seek annex- ation to the United States, with its attendant burden of ‘high prices and excessive taxes; and even if they had been forced to do so by coercive measures the government at Wash- ington would scarcely depart from its sirict observance of neutrality to aid the Winnipeg people in the slightest degreé. Indeed, it has already been shown in the columns of the Herarp that all the reports relating to the desire of the Red River settlements for annex- ation have been manufactured by a few Ameri- cans ein Winnipeg and St. Paul, and that the Red River settlements at present have little sympathy and no interest whatever with this country. They are a simple-minded people, living in the British possessions, with nearly four hundred miles of uninhabited country between them and the American settlements ; and it only remains for the Dominion govern- ment, in consummating the transfer of the Northwest Territory, to do what itshould have done in the first place—convince the people of Winnipeg that their rights will not be infringed. Eventually, however, the Red River country will: naturally seek annexation to the United | States, Northern Minnesota is rapidly filling up with settlers; a railroad will be constructed to Pembina, seventy miles from Fort Garry, in a year or two, and the tide of immigration so steadily +pouring into that region will not only populate the Red River valley in this country, but willflow over the boundary and occupy the rich plains of Rupert's Land. By that time taxes and prices in the United States will be so reduced that the Winnipeg people need no longer depend on England for cheap supplies; and with their remoteness from Canada, the associations and interests which proximity to American settlements will pro- duce, and the infusion of American elements into Winnipeg by means of the great artery of communication through Minnesota, the ten- dency of Rupert’s Land to ultimate annexa- tion will constantly increase, until that territory drops like ripe fruit into the lap of the United States. Tuk Paris REVOLUTIONARY Press.—M. Rochefort’s Paris newspaper, the Murscillaixe, which was lately so full of redhot patriotism and French radicalism and revolution and what not, was, as appears froma French law eourt report, which we publiab, » joint stock Sa EEE EEREEEEERREEREEEEEEE Dn mmenel advertising speculative concern from the outaet. M. Victor Noir and Pierre Bonaparte, and Noir's funeral and the funeral oration, and the “multitude” and all the rest were sacrificed, embroijed, spoken, agitated and arranged pretty much as advertising feelers and for joint stock profit. Rochefort’s effects are under seizure, and even his stipend as a member of the Legislature distrained for the sum of sixty-six thousand francs, a money advance and damages, claimed by and adjudged to the speculators. Rochefort ia now an object of pity, Ree ” The Churches Yesterday. The God of Christianity and the Goddess of Fashion had their weekly contrast at the aris- tocratic churches yesterday. Rustling silks and waving plumes, immaculate kid gloves and eye-glasses, and the other things needed by church-going upper-tendom, from the daiatily covered prayer book, with its golden clasp, to the five hundred dollar lace handkerchief, ab- sorbed no small part of attention, if, indeed, these did not throw the preachers completely into the shade. At the Church of the Mossiah Rev. George VW. Hepworth informed his hearers that they could not carry their bank accounts to heaven—a fact of which they are aware, a3 many of them had materially reduced their balances during the past week in purchasing the latest style. The reverend gentleman also remarked that deathbed repentances were rafis to get over the turbid waters connecting mortal and immortal existence. As there is no possi~ bility of his wealthy congregation purchasing & first cabin ticket on the steamer Salvation, save by early repentance, we trust his words will be hearkened to. At Grace church Rev. Mr. Foote, of Utah, beguiled the timo of his aristocratic brothers and sisters with an account of the religion of the Mormon Saints, and with an appeal for ten thousand dollara with which to build an Episcopal church in Salt Lake, and help to raise the benighted Mormon females to a proper rank of woman~ hood. Mr, Beecher’s tabernacle in Brooklyn was, as usual, well filled, tho ladies, we are told, wearing dresses of moro subdued colors than they are wont to wear. They were doubtless excited to this noteworthy discard- ing of fashion by the strictures of _the Heratp. Brother Beecher, however,” was not dismayed by the sobriety of his congregation, The performance at Ply- mouth church was in every senso success. Alternate laughter and tears con- vulsed the sinners as the preacher said some- thing particularly comical or gave expression to’d sentiment tore than ordinarily pathetic, And so, with faces flushed by hilarity and handkerchiefs wet by tears, ladies and gentle- men listened toa sermon on “The Hidden Gos- pel”—a discourse with a most suggestive title, the Bible being to many attendants at church “aaa sealed book.” But Mr, Beecher’s pur- pose was solely to illustrate how men are blind to all but the one purswit of theirlives, After amusing and saddening his anditors with aneo- dotes and pathos for three-quarters of an hour he introduced Christ into the sermon, described. the intense love St. Paul bore the Saviour, and closed with an earnest appeal in behalf of “The Hidden Gospel.” Thus passed the day in three of the churches patronized by the éli/e of soicety. Elsewhere less pretentious congregations mplored divine forgiveness and assistance. At the Seventh street Methodist church, made famous by Rev. Mr. Cook’s elopement, Rev. Mr. Bockman preached on the backsliding tendencies of the age, and compared the sins of the ancient city of Sardis with those of the present day. AtSt. Patrick’s Cathedral the ceremonies were unusually imposing in view of the approaching fast of Lent. Dr. Sweeny described the narrow path to heaven, and impressed upon all the necessity of never leaving it under the delusive belief that God is too merciful to torture the wicked. Rov. Mr. Pullman, at the Sixth Universalist church, warned sinners that happiness is not the supreme prize of life, while Elder Ferris, at the June street Methodist church, denounced the political corruption of the age, declared that this city was governed in the interest of Rome, and expressed the con- viction that there was need of more religion and Christian morality in the land. At the North River Bethel Ship and at the Mariners’ Temple devout and earnest men assembled to listen to the Gospel, which was effectively propounded by Rev. Mr. Hodge and Rev. Mr. Headstrom. All the other churches wore well attended. The music at the prominent places of worship was artistic and melodious. The glory of God was sung in true theatrical style and the congregations were dismissed by the organists with a flou flourish, Our 1° Mexican The situation of affairs in Mexico is growing more and more desponding. Aguirre, in San Luis Potosi, still defies the government, defeats its generals and adds new supporters to his cause daily. It would almost seem as if the power of the Executive were paralyzed. Aguirre recently defeated the national troops under General Rocha, who lost nearly al) his artillery. The Governor of Zacatecas hag not only refused to acknowledge the general government, but has actually pronounced against the Executive, and declares in his free State proclamation that “the decrees passed at Paso del Norte on November 8, 1865, by Don Benito Juarez, and by virtue of which he retains his power, are declared to be attacks on the national sovereignty, and he is not recognized as President of the Mexican repub- lic.” Nor does the Governor stop here, as far- ther down in his proclamation he conoedes a general amnesty “‘throughout the republic for all political offences.” ‘his is liberty with a vengeance, His Excellency is equally daring in his manner of securing finances for carrying out his measures. In answer to the demand to give up the conducta, containing seventy-one thousand dollars, intended for the payment of the national troops, and which was seized on its way to the capital, he replied by forcing from the people of the State a sum of money amounting to over one hundred and fifty thous~ and dollars. Among the reports current in the city of Mexico at the date of our last correspondence from there was one to the effect that the Pre- sident was preparing to send his family out of the country. This rumor was evidently put into circulation by the enemies of Juarez and in the interest of his opponents, who caloulate making capital out of it. Tho uggettled state