The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1870, Page 6

~NEW YORK HERALD BroapwaY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Alf businees or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly soaled. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, =a Volume XXXKV........ceeeeeeee ———_ —=—— AWRUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rox Rox—Niok oF sux Wooos. No. 47 7a5, TAMMANY, Fourtecnth streot.—TH® BURLESQUE oF Tue Seven. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. Sonoon. eee THEATRE, 231 at., between Sth and 6th ave,— GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘Md ot. —Tax UWELVE TEMPTATIONS. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaa HAMLET. Matlace at 2. per AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth o—Fnov a NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—TuaGRDY or Ham- uxr. —New VERSION OF ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th street.—ITaLIaN OrERA— Faver. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND M GERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtioth st.—Matinee a rforuatice every evening. MRS. F. 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Matineo at 234 OPERA HOUSE, THY, THZATRIOAL Brooklyn.—HOOury’s onNcy, &c, street and Broadway.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— Sormncr aND Ax PaGE. 1—Adveriisements. 2—Adveriisements. 3—'Vashinaton: Senatorial Debate on the Missis- sippi Bill; More Negro Legislation; Pre- scribing the Franchise of Maryland ana Kentucky; Favorable Prospects tor Recog- nition of Cuban Belligereacy—The State Dapitel: Recommitral of the Special Ses- nons Bills; City Matters tm the Assembly— The Labor Reform Movement in New fiamp- shire—The Smallpox in Westchester County— Anotner er County Murder, 4@—Furope: The English Parllament: Dress Fashions in Rome; The 8 in Parts—A Hotbed of Crime : Seven Chap on an Ex-Snowman as Temperance Orator, Reai Estate Operator and Landiord—The Clamor for Vengean Excitement Attendant Opon the Voorhees Assassination—cruelty to Animals—A Volcazo Under Water, S—Proceedings in the New York City and Brooklyn Courts—New York City News—Tue Eastern Dispensary—Personal Intelligence—Review and Criticism of New Books—The Scaffold: Execution of a Murderer tn New Brunswick— The Steam Boller Explosion—The Legal Tender Decision—The Pennsylvania Coal Trade, 6.—Editorial: Leading Article, Important from Washington About Cuba, The Time for Action Has Come—Amusement Announcements. ¥—TelegraphicNews From All Parts of the World: ‘he irish Land Dill Before the British House of Commons; Serious Iiiness of the Empress of France; ‘The Paraguayan War Resumed; Reported Defeat of Lopez; Opening of the Canadian Parliament—The Free Academy Excitement—Amusements—Fiftieth Anniver- gary of the Birth of Susan B. Anthony—Fires on Long Island—Naval Intelligence—Business Notices. S—Cuba: Another oul Muider in Havana; Pro- gress of the Revointion--The Stoughton (Mass.) Trageady—The Spaniards’ Victim: Arrival of Groenwalth’s Remains in New York—The Westchester Tax War—A Republican Primary Row—The Relapsing Fever—Algerian Recruit- ing—Qnerantne Affairs—Trifes From the Tombs—The Oidest Sport on the Globe—Mar- riages and Deaths. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—-Real Estate Matters—Brookiyn City News—Butcher Cart ‘Thieves in a New Role—Advertisements. 10—Decision ot wwe Supreme Court of Ohto on the Exclusion of the Bible from Public Schools— Now Jersey Legisiature—The Case of Fitz John Porter--The Legal Tender vecision— European Markets—Shipping Inteiligence— Adyerusemenis, Al~Advyertisenients. 12—Advertisements, Tas Mississtrrt Birt has passed its crisis in the Senate. Garret Davis got through with his remarks upon it in a few hours yester- day. Tue Bisse will continue to be read for the present in the Cincinnati public schools, The Superior Court of that city has decided that its exclusion is contrary to the Bill of Rights, OpeNING OF THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT.— The Goveraor General‘of Canada, with Prince Arthur seated on the right of the throne, opened the Parliament of the New Dominion yesterday. The chief topic of his speech was the Winnipeg rebellion, which he said would be pui down | without THE SECTARIAN Sonoors. —In the State Senate yesterday there was quite a fierce fight over the sectarian schools established in this city by various religious and charitable associations. The bill to divert from them the excise money which has heretofore been appro- priated for their benefit was taken from the Judiciary Committee and referred to the Muni- cipal Affairs Committee. Tur Rivat REPUBLICAN Faocrtons in this city will not harmonize. Whenever they meet they tread on one another's coattails and immediately a fight ensues. At their primary election in the Sixteenth ward on Monday night they even went so far as to fire re- yolvers, shed blood—in a very slight quantity, however—and to get arrested. Nobody was very seriously hurt, and the individual who fired the pistol was compelled to furnish bonds to keep the poace. Outsiders would think, with all this partisan «el, that there was some chance of the succes of the republicans in this city. But thera is not. The bone of gouteution mush po federal spoilg, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. Sa Ae ee asia MCN SRE RO RHR ot ch ar eM OT at 7 Greenbacks vs. National Banks. Hinglinil* Drifuags\6f the fu? fo goed. It | BP, Giadonenete, Head. pam we Matandr—t gf oa from Washington About Caba— Tue Time for Action Has Como. According to the news from Washington Cuba is looming up. The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs had yesterday a long discus- sion on the resolutions that had been previously reforred to it on the question of conceding belligerent rights to Cuba and the repeal or modification of the neutrality laws, It is asserted that the committee regards it clear now that the time has arrived when the Cuban insurgents should be recognized as belligerents, though the matter is deferred till the next meeting of the committee. It {s understood, too, that General Banks, the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, is prepar- ing to report shortly recommending some action favorable to the Cuban cause. Leading and prominent men of both Houses are moving in this matter, and hardly a day passes that some telling speech or motion is not made for recog- nizing the belligerency or independence of Cuba, At the same time the press and people of the country are active. Leagues and societies are being organized to promote Cuban independence. In connection with these movements we notice that Ben Wade, the sterling and brave old republican leader of Ohio, has accepted the position of vice pres!- dent for his State of the “Cuban Charitable Aid Society.” His letter of acceptance is characteristic, and shows the same strong common sense and love of freedom which he always manifested. ‘I am astonished,” he says, ‘‘at the apparent indifference of our great republican party to the fute of the people of Cuba, Are they, indeed, weary in well doing, or do they still favor that timorous, halting, hesitating policy which added more than half to the blood and tregsure in conquering our own rebellion and in giving liberty to our slaves? One brave word from our administra- tion is all sufficient to end the strife and give peace, liberty and justice to the people of that island. Shall that word be spoken? We shall be dishonored as » nation if it is not. But whether spoken or not, Cuba must and shall be free.” These are noble sentiments. They show how much the country has lost at the present time by this courageous old states- man not being in the Senate. There is hope, however, as we said, that Sherman, Morton, Banks, Carpenter and others ia Congress will successfully urge the recognition of the Cubans, Should the news from Washington prove true, as we hope it may, that the Senate Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs has become favor- able to the recognition of Cuban belligerency, Mr. Sumner has been compelled to take a back seat on this question, His sophomorical rhetoric, dogmatism and obstinate hostility to Cuban freedom will prove unavailing. We may congratulate his colleagues on their good sense, patriotism and firmness if they have determined at last to take this independent course, We know not yet who were the other obstructive members of this committee that acted with Mr. Sumner, or who may have turned the scale in favor of Cuban freedom. We hope Mr. Casserly, the distinguished Senator from California, has ranged himself on the side of republican liberty and against European des- potism on this Cuban question; or, if he hes not yet, that he will give the weight of his name and talents in support of the struggling Cubans, It may depend upon him to turn the scale in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, We cannot believe that a manof his ability, large views and love of liberty—that he who has been the ardent friend of oppressed Ireland, and who was educated in New York, where sympathy is always extended to those strug- gling for liberty—should prove recreant to his principles snd previous political career. Nor can we think that a Senator so young and with such a bright future before him would dig his owa political grave by fighting against popular sentiment and by resisting the progress of republican freedom on American soil. Let us hope Mr. Casserly will oppose the narrow- minded and un-American policy of Mr. Sum- ner and show himself to be the friend of Cuban indepeadence. The time for action has come. The Cubans have maintained the struggle for, freedom for more than cighteen months against all the formidable means and resources of their cruel oppressors and under the greatest difficulties. From the smallest beginning and with very limited means they have been gaining ground all along. A few days ago they gained an important and a deci- sive victory over alarge force of Spaniards under one of the best Spanish generals, In fact, they broke up a well and long prepared campaign, and all the plans of their enemy. Surely a people under such circumstances are entitled to be recognized as_beliigerents, When we consider the brutal character of the war waged by the Spaniards it is inhumanity not to recognize the Cubans as belligerents, The atrocious and bloodthirsty conduct of the Spaniards ought to be checked, and they should be compelled to carry on the war like a civilized nation, Then there is really no Spanish government over the island worthy of the name. The brutal and murdering volunteers control everything. The only respectable government is that of the Cuban patriots. Besides, there is no protection under the Spaniards for American citizens or American interests, The murderous attack on the four peaceable young men from New York by the volunteers at Havana, and the frequent outrages on our citizens, demand the interposition of the United States. Spain will not or cannot protect Americans, andit is evident she cannot suppress the insurrection. It is the duty of our government, therefore, to put the contending parties on the same footing. Indeed, our government ought to tell Spain in decisive language that this use- less and bloody war must cease and that Cuba must be free. We have large interests at stake in our commerce, and we have a national policy to carry out in promoting the cause of republican liberty on American soil. The time has arrived—the opportunity is before us—to settle this Cuban difficulty, which has given our government so much trouble all along, and, as old Ben Wado says, one brave word from the authorities at Washington is sufficient to end the strife and to give peace, liberty and justice to Cuba. Let Mr. Sumner, Secretary Fish, Attorney General Hoar and all the rest of the cowardly supporters of Spanish tyranny be set aside in this matter, and let us ace a pa declaration from Con- gress granting belligerent rights to the Cubans and in favor of Cuban independence, Tho interpretation of the recent Supreme Court legal tender decision given out by the national bank organs should be taken with very many grains of allowance. All the ring organs have @ point to make, They would have us believe that the decision just rendered and the one about to follow put the grecn- backs out of existence and leave us no other currency than their favorite national bavk notes, The facts of the case are just the reverse, The Supreme Court decided that all contracts made prior to the passage of the Legal Tender act must be paid in coin, and under existing law all contracts at any time made must“be paid in coin if so stipulated in the bond, Now, if the Supreme Court should decide, as it is claimed it will, that the Legal Tender act is unconstitutional, the greenback currency would yet remain the very best we ever had, and every way preferable to the irredeemable currency of the national banks. Congress would yet have the right to issue greenbacks to any reasonable extent, but not the right to make them legal tenders, ‘The first greenbacks isaued by the government were known as the ‘demand notes” of July, 1861, They were not legal tenders, but nevertheless commanded a premium almost equal to that of gold so long as any were in circulation, There is nothing in the constitu- tion or law or in any decision of the- Supreme Court to prevent Congress from retiring the irredeomable national bank notes and substl- tuting the old demand greenbacks of 1861—the best currency we have ever had and the best that can be devised. We have time and again exposed and brought to grief the ring’s schemes for driving the greenbacks out of existence and substituting its irredeomable national bank notes; but as often as they are defeated so often do new ones appear, each more cunningly devised than its predecessor, The last job of the kind got through the Senate on the 2d instant, and is known as the “Thimble-rig bill,” It provides that forty-five million dollars, in notes for cir- culation, may be issued to national bank- ing associations, in addition to the three hun- dred million dollars subsidy authorized by existing law, and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall retire an equal-amount of the three per cent temporary loan certificates, There are four sections authorizing supposi- titious banks that are to issue notes redeom- able in gold, but the practical portion of the bill is embraced In its first three sections, as above stated. It is nothing more nor less than the first instalment of the job for retiring the grecubacks and substitating national bank cur- rency. Wostera men are told that it is inflation to the extent of forty-tive million dollars, Eastern capitalists are told that it contracts the currency eleven million dollars, Friends of retrenchment are reminded that it stops the interest on forty-five million dollars of three per cents and reduces the expenses of the goverament $1,350,000 per annum. ‘The ‘‘on- to-specie” payment folks are tickled with the four sections of gold note buncombe, and the people, bewildered by conflicting reports, look, as usual, to the Heraxp for correct information, The only proper plan is to retire the three per cents—all there are out—and issue green- backs instead. On the sum contemplated our plan would save the people $1,350,000 per annum in gold, wasted by present manage- ment, and is $2,970,000 gold per annum better than the plan proposed by the bill now before General Garficld’s committee, If it becomes a law $49,500,000 gold bonds, bearing annual interest of $2,970,000 gold, will be required to secure the newly issued national bank notes, and $11,250,000 greenbacks must be withdrawn from circulation for the new subsidy re- serve. Inshort, the bill under consideration retires $45,000,000 three per cents and $11,250,000 plain greenbacks—in all $96, 250,000—and issues instead $45,000,000 national bank notes. ‘The currency is con- tracted $11,250,000, and the people’s burden increased $2,970,000 per annum ia gold ($3,500,000 currency) if the bill becomes a law. Let General Garfield look to it. There is a point beyond which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. Tho Pirates of Quarantine, or the Black= mailers of Commerce, One of the most remarkable developments made at the recent mecting of the new Board of Quarantine Commissioners was that contained in the statement of“ merchant present that the people in a ceriain trade had cause to complain, not of the Quarantine laws, bui of the way in which the laws had been administered. It seems that when he had vessels arriving with cargoes he was obliged by special edict to employ the Quarantine lighters to unload the vessels, in order to have them discharged from Quarantine, and that, as a general rule, the vessels would be up and moored alongside their wharf before the lighters would get up with the cargoes. This setiles the quostioa so far as the employment of lighters by command of the Quarantine pirates is concerned, and is one of those instances which shows that, what- ever objections may exist against the Quaran- tine laws themselves, they are rendered doubly obnoxious in consequence of the illegal and arbitrary manner in which they are executed. The points taken by the Hzrarp last year in relation to these pirates of Quarantine and blackmailers of commerce are amply confirmed by the disclosures made since the new Quaran- tine Commissioners and the new Health Officer came into power. Tue Darien CANAL.—A new treaty for an interoceanic canal has been concluded between the representatives of the Colombian and the United States governments, This is the latest news from Bogoia. The terms of the treaty have not yet been made public, but itis said that they are more favorable to Colombia than those of the former ono. The Congress of Colombia was to have met on the 1st of Feb- ruary, and, as the treaty was the first business to be considered, we expect to learn within a few days the gratifying intelligence of its rati- fication. Vimainia Never SatisFikp.—The Richmond Enquirer still grumbles, After growling be- causeVirginia was not reaffiliated with her sister States long ago, the Hnguirer complains that the new constitution was ‘‘the work of Bayne, Lindsay, Teamoh, Norton, Bland and certain other negroes on the one hand, and of Curtias, Underwood, Porter, Platte, Maddox and such Griftings of the war from New York and Now . the war had kept on drifting in the direction it was at the time of the surrender at Appomat- tox where would Old Virginia be now? How- ever, it has ever been considered the preroga- tive of Richmond partisan papers to growl and grumble at everything that is not of their own creation, and not unfrequently at that, Railway Stocks asd Speculative Inflation. Tho past year was remarkable for a very goneral watering of railway stocks, and scrip dividends, so called, were attached to almost all the shares of the leading lines. The year 1869 was a very profitable one with most of our railway corporations, and in the enhanced receipts the managing officials made profit for themselves by adding to the share capital. How far the great stock panio of last September is attributable to this inflation of nominal values is s question whioh might be investigated with a great deal of interest. With the decline in gold, however, and with the Increased competition arising out of the building of new roads and the oomple- tion or extension of others, railway property underwent an enormous. decline. Now that the same speculative combinations are again at work in the effort to restore the inflation of last year it behooves the public to be on their guard against the schemes of the unscrupu- lous men who are ever ready to fleece the unwary. ‘The matter of railway earnings is at present so surrounded with the complications of con- solidation and overissues that the capitalist who seeks a reliable investment has no sure guarantee on which to predicate his choice. The merging of two or three roads into one has so confused the receipts that the compara- tive tables presented to the public are no guide whatever to the comparative value of the old and new stock. Again, where individual lines have been oxtended so as to include new sections of country these tables are mado without reference to the increase of road or of operating expenses. The whole system is at fault in pretending to exhibit the real re- sources of the various lines, But another and a greater injustice prevails. The mana- gers are, with rare exceptions, heavily inte- rested as speculators in the lines under their care. Hence in their manipulation of the stock they not unfrequently resort to the scandalous device of declaring dividends which have never been earned, This is flagrantly the case in several of the Western railways which are active features daily at the Stock Exchange. In one instance, although the treasury of the road showed a deficit of several millions for last year, the directors borrowed money to declare a large cash dividend. As well might a man subsist on his own flesh, These lines in nr ing dividends are devouring their own vitals, and the directora who declare such dividends are simply criminal and ought to be made amenable to the laws which punish felony. The reaction from such forced upholding of railway values must inevitably come, and the public are sure to be the victims. No wonder that our railway securities are regarded with 80 little favor abroad. It was proposed to indict the gold gamblers for conspiracy against the credit of the government. Why should not Congress enact some law which will make the | speculation of railway directors a conspiracy figainst commerce? MonrrensigR IN Maprip.—A cable de- spatch which we publish this morning has it that the Duko of Montpensier has arrived in Madrid and that he has been closeted with Prim and Topete. Prim was long the patron of the Duke of Genoa, but that did not work. He is now open to a now engagement. Topete has been the consistent friend of Montpensier throughout, and, though less quietly, so has been Serrano, The fact that Serrano has been ably to appear in Madrid is to us deeply’ suggestive, It will not surprise us to learn on an early day that Montpensier has been pro- claimed King. Prim and the rest of them have used his money. They owe him some- thing. The crown might satisfy Montpensier, while it would relievo their consciences. But it is well to bear in mind that it is not possible for Montpensier to remain long King of Spain. Still he has a chance, now that Napoleon is no longer the autocrat of France, on Or Covrse.—-lu the opinion of * District At- torney Morvis the killing of Mr. Voorhees, of South Brooklyn, by a miserable vagabond, rendered bloodthirsty from whiskey, was the result of the drunken jubilee which followed Judge Gilbert’s decision admitting the mur- derer Perry to bail—that the thieves and murderers had become absolutely maddened with their success. Thus judicial charity to murderers and ruffians adds new perils to the lives of honest men, and thus the death of Mr. Voorhees becomes a proper subject for Judge Gilbert and all other judges of that sort to think over. Miss Susan B. Antiony celebrated her semi-centenary last evening. She is a jolly old maid of fifiy, and she is proud of it. She has a clear head, 9 good conscience and firm friends, and has never been beholden one iota to those horrid men, She is the noblest woman of them all. By her festive celebration of last night she has opened the way for that new era when women will not conceal their age from men, nor pass themselves off by adventi- tious contrivances for what they are not. Tury arg Gotxa To Hana Him.—The case of Schoeppe looks bad for that speculative doctor. The court that has reviewed the pro- ceedings of his trial has failed to find any error of law, and thus the trial stands, and the sentence must be enforced. It is as difficult to eave a man in Pennsylvania as it is to hang one here. In New Jersey they hang mur- derers in a straightforward way, without palaver. In Pennsylvania they talk a great deal, but hanging is gencrally the end of it. It is only in this State that the practice is “played out.” A HorTpep oF rine, —We publish this morning the history of a block of buildings on West Houston street, known as ‘The Mur- derers’ Block,” the proprietor of which isa notorious cx-showman. The class of wretched beings that inhabit these buildings, the mur- ders and other deeds of violence that have been committed in them, together with nume- rous interesting reminiscences, will enable the reader to form some idea of what dangerans looglitieg exist in New York, a EN Serlous Crisie in British Politics. Mr. Gladstone, fn his capacity of Premier of England, submitted his bill for the reform of the Irish land system; and the readjustment of the relations between landlord and tenant in that island to the House of Com- mons yesterday evening. The members of the House of Lords adjourned for the occasion, the assembled aristocracy of the land hurrying off to the galleries of the lower house in order that its representatives should hear the language of the popular flat which will eventually obliterate their baronial terri- torial charters and extinguish feudal- ism by the imperialism of an educated democracy. The scene in the Commons was of an unusually animated description, as will be seen from our cable telegram's report. We need not follow the Premier in his enumor- ation of the reasons which compel this change. He reste his argument chiefly on tho success of his previous legislation with respect to the Irish Church, but applies himself at the same time the more immediately por- tinent, ones which ensue from former attempts at conquest, penal legislation, ethnological distinction and domestic differ- ences, religious feuds, the general social situation and the awful hiatus of class which has prevailed and still inures be- tween the “purely Cellic” tenants, as he terms them, and those hailing in parentage from other sections of the United King- dom and the local landlords. The rates of labor and land value, population, statis- tics, crime and outrage, political and party combinations in Ireland were considered in their aspect of cause and consequence. The grand subject of the day was eventually sub- mitted in the light of modern political economy, and clearly and intelligibly as it could be after the complications and executive cobwebs and “red tape” bands and ligatures which have been thrown and woven around it during six hundred years. Mr. Gladstone concluded by submitting the Magna Charta of Ireland in a measure of land reform in which, as appears to us now, he seeks to save existing rights so far as they are consist- ent with the right of the tenant to live ; gives a fair prospect to both tenant and landlord of an equitable rent, compensation for solid improve- ments, the establishment of local courts for territorial arbitration, and a fair distribution on both parties of the local and State taxes, The bill reads well in synopsis. May it pass tho Parliament and prove effectual in its operg- tion, Tho Assassination in Havana. Additional particulars regarding the assas- sination of Mr. Isaac Greenwalth in the streets of Havana show that it was a most flendish and cowardly murder, almost without a paral- lel in late years. Had the deed been com- mitted by a tribe of uncivilized savages it would have aroused feelings of indignation and of horror, but perpetrated as it was by men calling themselves Christians, we can find no words sufficiently strong with which to de- nounce it. Greenwalth, the unfortunate vic- tim of Spanish ferocity, was a peaceable, unof- fending man. To all intents and purposes he had no sympathies with either side; and yet this man, for no offence what- ever, unless the wearing of a blue necktie be considered one, was most brutally murdered by the unrestrained and ferocious volunteers of Spain. The murderer of Castafion met his victim face to face. The advantage, if any, was on the side of Castafion. But Greenwalth was attacked by a crowd, and, while mortally wounded and staggering to the police office, he was stabbed with bayonets and knives, beaten with sticks and subjected to every indignity, and while the wretched cowards were iniflict- ing these barbarities the unfortunate victim fell dead at their feet. Even then they wore not satisfied. Their lust for blood was not satiated. They tore the clothes from the body— scarcely cold in death—inflicted further indig- nities and then cast it into a hole. It ia difficult to imagine a more fearful story in all its dreadful details than the murder of Mr. Greenwalth. The question now comes up, what action will Secretary Fish take in this matter We have from time to time called attention ie the treatment of Amorican citizens in Cubs, It iss Well ind fact that the Spanish authorities there entertain very little respect for American influence in that quarter. Instances are not wanting to show that men have had to deny their nationality and seek the protection of other governments for safety’s sake. Americans are openly de- spised solely on account of the weak, timid and pusillanimous conduct of the administration. Take any other nation—England, France or- Prussia, for example—and its citizens command respect. This should be the case with the United States; but it is not. We hope this late outrage will convince the administration that the policy which it has been pursuing towards Cuba is false and productive of bad results. A change is necessary, and prompt action is required. The American people demand this, and the demand must be respected. Dereortve Poticr.—In Boston the City Council has just abolished the city detective police. Not that it has anything as yet to substitute for it, but itis satisfied that the city is better without any detective police than with the one it had, and it will find another in due time. Now, this is just the case with our city. But when will our worse than useless detective police he ¢ done away with? INFLATION AS A a Buuepy,—A motion to lay on the table a resolution iniroduced into the House the other day, declaring in effect that it is expedient to increase the paper money of the country to the amount of fifty millions of dollars, was lost. This indicated that the House, like the Senate, believes in tho healing virtues of inflation. Very well. Let them make it five hundred millions, if they like. What if they do knock the bottom ont of the tub? Will we not then all go down together? Tue Court oF SproraAL Sxssions.—The Asgembly has concluded to be a little cautious about abolishing Justice Dowling and his court, An attempt to hurry through the bill placing the Court of Special Sessions under the old law has been defeated, and it has been recom- mitted to the’Committee on Cities, We again advise our legislators to leave us barriers against crime as possible. ag many | Our Special Eurepoan Correspoudeaco—Con~ ition of A@uirs in Great Britais acd on tho Continent. The latest mails from Earopo supply our special . written correspondence: from Great Britain and the continental centres of govera- ment, religion and trade to the 1st of February. Although these advices have been delayed for an unusually lengthened period by the stress of weather at sea, they come in very intelligent and comprehensive detail of our cable telegrams to the above named date, liminarles in London gave promise of a very exciting and stormy sessioa of Parltament, during which Premier Gladstone will bo compelled to have his working majority woll in hand, and wield with great skill aud grace, so as to render his force effective against a still powerful opposi-~ tion, and which is likely to further consolidate around the young Karl of Derby, people were looming up in their citizon might and power out of doors, so that the serious question—is the present parliamentary machine equal to the equitable adjustment of the national Tho political pre- and also to hold the lines the “whip” of tho lobby The British necessities ?—may be squarely presented du ‘ing the assemblage. Irish radicalism, colonial af- fairs, Rome, the state of religion at home, treasury, finance and the budget, with their many important side issues, stood out heavily, immovably, and it may be said grimly for a Cabinet and throne settlement. Paris re- mained still consoled by the display made at the imperial ball at the Tuileries, Wo have many interesting incidents of this grand féte detailed by our epecial writer, The ball dress worn by the Empress Eugénio ia described. Anew and novel feature is pre- sented in the fact that the hundreds of servants © who were in attendance on Napoleon's guests were regaled with supper standing around blazing fires which were kept lighted in the courtyard of the palace, thus recalling to memory the history of the good old times when the Norman barons held high revel in England from the days of William the Con- queror to those of Brian Bois de Guilbert and Friar Tuck, and thence to the time of the Black Prince. Tho American bishops made quite an enlivening display in the Holy City, reawakening the Via Sacra and Corso with ‘‘fast” horses, tandems, coaches, the “atest hat’—not scarle-—‘‘knowing” litile overcoats and so forth, They went and came free to think, to drive, to ride, lunch, dine, wine and pray, resting their right on St. Peter and an indestructible democracy. Francis Lathauvers—tho latest Paris mur- derer—his knife and victim, are deseril From France we are again specially informed in other letters of the termination of the trade “strike” at La Creuzot and of the narrow escape thus made by the industrial interests of the empire from a more general extension of avery demoralizing combination undertaken on behalf of what is known as the “‘rights of labor,” but which was influenced during its pro- gress by wany extraneous forces, Tho French Parliamentary opposition was organizing ita full strength for a vigorous campaign against the Ollivier Cabinet in the Legislature. Ia this connection the sequences of the Bonaparte. Noir shooting case came in as a very inoppor- tune agency adverse to the Minisiry. The German prelates in Rome constituted a solid, substantial barrier against Papal encroach- ment on the rights of the Episcopacy, and alsoin opposition to the infallibility dogma of Pio Nono. The mitred Teutons met in caucus, arranged their plans, and pruned and replanked their platform so as to, if possible, render the gen- eral Church more in harmony with the spirit of the age, This was vastly dis- pleasing to Antonelli, who endeavored to match his Italian craft against the free thought and free speech of the Rhine in a very undignified manner. The German bishops were tendered the use of a private room in the dwelling of a member of the Sacred College for caucus purposes. They thanked his Eminence, and assembled there, not being aware that Antonelli had directed Monsignor, the host, to listen outside the parti- tion to their conversation, so as to report, and thus enable him to know and mark the ‘‘for and against” of their number. Discovering the trick, the Germans were indignant and humili- ated, and retired from the room, fully con- vinced of the truth of the posti¢ assertion of Sir Walter Scott, that “secret path marks secret foe.” The infallibility case, the rules of clerical discipline and the debates as to the exact treatment of Freemasonry and other secret societies gave rise to division and dis- sension, each one separately and the whole ia the aggrogate. HEAttTH oF THE Empress or Franoz.—The Empress of France is reported as being ‘quite ill;” indeed, it looks as if she were seriously so, by our cable telegram from Paris, The publio flurries of the day, the recent domestic trouble of the Noir case, dynastic anxieties and the news from Rome have most likely affected her constitution. Care will show its traces on the most damask cheek, It wears the most gentle heart first. Should the report of her Majes- ty’s health be correet we can really pity Napo- leon the Third. Should he be compelled to terminate his career in solitary loneliness in the Tuileries it would be almost as terrible as St. Helena, Tne Mormon Erxction.—As we predicted, Brigham Young has secured the success of his orthodox ticket in Salt Lake City, His tem- poral power is prolonged and he can use it as best he may to put down the opposing schisms. The feature of the election, however, was the first legal participation of women in the voting. It is stated that very few of them went to the polls, This fact immediately puts a brighter face on the question of woman suffrage. It seems all the women want is the right to vote, and if they won’t use it any more than the Mormon women it would be as well to let them have it, if only to get rid of their persistent demands for it. Exzcrion Fravups,—The bill in relation to the election of canvassers and inspectors of election in New York city was warmly debated in the Assembly yesterday by Messrs, Kiernan and Hitchman. It was claimed during the de- bate that persons in New York were known to have voted as many as twenty times at ond election, As the democrats generally figure up any majority here that they necd theso statements, coming from prominent democrats, are rather damaging.