The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1870, Page 6

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MINSTRELS—THE MAN AuouT TOWN, £0. APOLLO HALL, corner 28th Tue Now HieRNicon, Hoouny's street and Broadway.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— OF AND Apr, New York, Thursday, February 24, 1870. TRIPL E SHEET. "CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Pacr. Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Wasiington : Mississippt Representatives Sworn In; Senator Revels’ Credentials Presented; Democratic Opposition to the Sable States- man; Excitement in the House Over the Reso- lution to Expel Whittemore at Loggerheads—The Statesman Worsted; Debate on the Bill Abolishing Polygamy in (tah, 4—Europe : The Sporting Classes of England; The First Peer in the British Bankrupt Gazetie; Di- plomacy, Religious, Fashion and the Barrl- cades m Paris—Unba: Military Organization of the Cubaus; The Spanish Press on the New York HeRaLp’s Correspondence—Jack Rey- holds Sentenced to Death—A Quarantine Ex- enrsion—Washington’s Birthday in Bostou— Launch of a New Steamer—A Burglar on the Wing—A Curious Cause tor Suicide. 4—Proceedings in the New York City and Brooklyn Courts—The Whiskey Fraads; The Latest De- velopments in Brooklyna—Sanitary Secrets; Dr. Harris’ Antidote for Fever—Meeting of the Board of Health—Highway Robbery—New Jer- sey Legislature—-Foundering of the Steamer Two Boys—Unclaimed Moneys—That Trinity Trouble—New York City News~The Coat Trade—An Interesting Wasbingionlan Relic— Marine Transfers G—Editoriais: Leading Article on The Death of Anson = Burlingame—Amusement’ Annoance- ments. 7— Telegraphic News From All Parts of the World; The Famous Me ut Divorce Case on Trial in England; W ston’s Birthday Celera: tons in the Ola Werld~Death of Anson Bur- lingame; Biographical Sketch of His Life and Services—The Soecridan Tragedy—Pusiness Notices. S—English Sports: The Championship Billiard Match Between Roberts and Cook—The To- baeco Trade in Council—Love ana Luvacy in New Jersey—The Stage at Home and Abroad— The Delingnent Polwce—Financial aud Com- merciai Reports. 9—Real Estate Matters ~Lynon Law in Iilinoig—A Railroad Conundrem Answered --Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. 10—William H. Seward: the Ex-Premicr as a Traveller—Proceedings im the New York Legisiature—Particulars of the Loss of the Yacht Meteor—Ked Hot Frenchmen—aA Cotored Clerical Sport—The East Chester Boulevard: Important Meeting of Property Holders at Mount Vernon—Curacoa—Polyglot- ism Betore the New York Liberal Ciub~ Rellevue Hospital College Keunion—Brooklyn City News—Shipping Intelugence—Advertise- ments. 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Tar Lear % Yxrsrerpay. — Both houses of the Legislature reassembled yes- terday after a few days’ recess, Very little business of importance was transacted, THREATENED Witit ASSASSINATION.—-A de- spatch from Havana says that Acting Consul General Hall’s life has been threatened. Some time since he received an anonymous letter stating that he was in danger of assassination. The feeling of hatred toward Americans is evidently on the increase in Havana, Usoramep Moxnys,—We publish in another column the text of tie bill now before the Leg- islature providing for the payment into the State Treasury of certain unclaimed deposits and dividends held by banks and other corpa- rations of the State. The proposition will doubtless send a periect rush of corporation presidents to Albany. | Sprine Traps FOR Democrarte MALOoN- TENTS.—We have further returns of demo- cratic successes at the spring elections in the inierior of the State, Chautauqua county, the residence of the republican Senator in Con- gress, ex-Governor Fenton, has elected a democratic majority in the Board of Super- Maar ptgay first time since the organization of the ‘old anti-Masonic party in 189 Lewis county also elects a democratic majority of the Board—the first since the organization of the radical party. Verily, notwithstanding the troubles in Albany, the Tammany Regency seem to be laying out good work for the democracy in the fntare. Tor Seriv in THe REPUBLICAN Panty.— Speaker Blaine has written a letter, which will be found in our Washington correspond- ence, showing that the expenditures under General Grant's administration so far bave actually been less by sixty millions than for the same length of time undér Mr. Johnson, and, further, that the revenue has been more faithfully collected by twenty-six million dol- Jars, from fewer sources of taxation, than under Johnson. Thus it will be seen that Speaker Blaine ranges himself on the side of Butler against Mr. Dawes’ exposition of the extravagance of the administration, althongh he seconds Mr. Dawes’ courageous efforts to still further decroase the axvenditures. NEW YORK HERALD. “THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. Tho Death of see Burlingame. ‘The sad nows of the sudden death of Anson Burlingame, at St. Petersburg, which was telegraphed from Europe yesterday, has cast a gloom over the lengtli and breadth of the United States. Though he was the Ambassa- dor of China his native country is the chief mourner. China has reason to mourn over the loss of such an able representative; the nations of Europe may well deplore the death of aman who has done so much to break down the prejudices of the past and to advance civilization in Asia; but this country, the land of his birth, has the greatest cause for sorrow. Though he was the distinguished Ambassador, at the time of his sudden and vatimely death, of the great Chinese empire and the oldest nation in the world, he was an American in heart and feeling, and one of the best and highest types of American character, pro- gress and civilization. Looking at the high honor—the world-wide honor—Mr. Burlingame had attained, and that step by step from an humble beginning, and at the fact that he was cut off in the prime of life when a glorious future seemed to lie bofore him, we may say in the language that Shaks- peare puts in the mouth ef Woolsey, that he fell with all his blushing honors thick upon him. He had a brilliant career in Congress before he entered into the diplomatic service of his country. He was never an extreme or implacable partisan, though he belonged to the republican party and, strictly adhered to it all through. He was opposed to slavery and marched with his party in the progressive war it made on that institution. His mind was imbued with the idea that prevailed in New England and throughout the North generally that slavery was inimical to progress and the advanced civilization of the age. It was in connection with the republican anti-slavery party that he attained a prominent position in Congress. During the three terms that he served there, however, he became con- spicuous for bis talents, tact and courage. With regard to his courage, the alacrity with which he prepared to fight Brooks of South Carolina did more, perhaps, to procure for him popularity and admiration in the North than any other act of his Congressional career. The Southern men were proud of their duelling courage, and were in the habit of twitting the Northerners for their supposed want of it. In the affair with Brooks, who was the pink of South Carolina and Southern chivalry, Mr. Burlingame made himself the champion of the North, and consequently be- came very popular in his own section and with his party. Still, as was said, he was not aa implacable partisan, and through his natural urbanity and social character he was more liked, probably, by the generous-minded Southerners than any other prominent republi- can in Congress. In 1861 President Lincoln appointed him Minister to Austria, on which mission he did not go, and shortly after he was sent as Minister to China, After Mr. Burlingame reached Pekin he found there a new field for his progressive ideas. The policy that had been pursued by the great Powers of the civilized world in and toward China, particularly by England, up to that time, had been, as hs emphatically expressed it himself, the throat policy. That is, China was not recognized as an equal among nations, to have her difficul- ties settled with them by diplomatic inter- course or upon the ordinary principles of in- ternational law or comity, Conditions were offered or demands made upon the government at Pekin, and if they were not accepted an armed force was sent to enforce them. This was the mode adopted for opening China to commerce and intercourse with the Western Powers. Even the United States had partici- pated to some extent in this force policy; for our war vessels joined those of England and France at one time in forcing a way up to the seat of the Chinese govérnment. Mr. Bur- lingame saw the injustice and impolicy of such treatment, He tooka broad and liberal view of the matter, and became convinced that the time had arrived when the old throat or force policy should be reversed. Without going into the question as to the necessity of such a policy previously he was satisfied that China was then prepared for a more liberal, just and enlightened treatment, a treatment more agreeable to the spirit and progress of the age. Fortunately he found at Pekin a powerful ally—the representative of Great Britain-—to carryout the new policy he inaugurated. From that time a change was made and China was placed on something like the same footing as the Western nations stood to each other. Great resistance was offered by the old British traders and opium smug- glers, but the United States government soon approved of Mr. Burlingame’s course and Eng- land followed, though more, tardily and some- what reluctantly, From thet period a new age commenced in Asia—a new life for the ancient and populous empire of China. Well might the liberal-minded regent, Prince Kung, and enlightened mandarins of that vast country hail Mr. Burlingame as their best friend. They esteemed him and appreci- ated his services to Chiua so much that when he resigned his position as United States Minister ond was taking leave of them to return home they begged of him to accept the more important mission of Ambassador for China to all the Western Powers. The world and Mr. Burlin- game himself were astonished at this unprece- dented and liberal conduct of the Chinese gov- ernment. It was a great, though deserved compliment to Mr. Burlingame; it showed the extraordinary change and progress of ideas in China; it gave the best evidence of the high esteem of the Chinese government for the United States, and it laid the foundation for the regeneration and progress of the Chinese empire. The treaties which Mr. Burlingame was sent and empowered to make with this country and the nations of Europe originated, in fact, from the policy he had pursued whiie United States Minister, As Ambassador for China be had fulfilled the greater part of his mission, He had made treaties with this coun- try, England, France, Prussia, some smaller States of Europe, and at the time of his‘sud- | den and lamented death was in St. Petersburg for the purpose of making a treaty with Rus- sia. Mr. Burlingame has done honor to his native country, has proved the best friend China ever had, and his pame will be de- servedly enrolled among the first in hiatory | and among the greatest benefactors of man- kind, We cannot bat regret his untimely death—cut off in the prime of life and height of his fame and usefulness; but we must bow to the dispensations of Providence and hope that the good and great work he commenced and had at heart will stand forever as a monu- ment to his fame. ‘ fissile ‘wae First British Peer in Bankruptcy. “Bankrupts—to surrender at Basinghall street-—Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham Clinton Duke of Newcastle, Carlton House ter- race and Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, March 16, at eleven,” The exact meaning of the above extract, taken from the columns of the London Gazette, by our special correspondent in that city, is that his Grace the Duke of New- castle was declared a bankrupt and made to “surrender” to the law and to place on the record the fact that he could not, or would not, pay his creditors, and how and what amounts are due to them, He is allowed to the 16th day of March to do it—no longer. The first British peer in bankruptcy! It appears an unenviable distinction, but cofstitutes a really important event in English history. Hitherto a peer could not be legally declared a bankrupt. The order of aristocracy stood firm on its privilege. British law has now stepped in in its majesty and decided that his Grace of Newcastle may be adjudicated a bankrupt, his barony, titles, and eo forth, to the contrary notwithstanding. The event becomes thus of great importance, standing out, as it will, as a prominent land- mark of the progress of the European demo- cracy towards a complete triumph over feudal- ism and the law of primogeniture. When the great Norman William ‘“‘flashed his conquering spears” from his native vineyards to Britain, William de Villa Tancredi served as chamber- lain in the royal train, From him, as is claimed, came John de Clinton, a baron of the Parliament in the year 1299, and thence his Grace the present Duke of Newcastle, It is an ancient and distinguished lineage, great in wars, gallant in love and famous in legislation and politics, Society, as at present constituted, will be more benefited, however, by the tri- umph of the London tip staff over the coronet to-day than ever were the peoples hitherto by all the tilts and jousts and sword-strokes and revels and routs of the forefathers of the Duke. The democracy of England can wait patiently, but they always win in the end. The Duke of Newcastle having obtained a clean certificate of bankruptcy, no suspicion attaching it will stand in a new yet significant position. He will, perhaps, be debarred from the aristocratic clubs, and thus be made eligible for membership in the Manchester Radical Re- form Association. Here he can come out as an Englishman—a peer among bis peers—and take the lead. He would thus be able to tem- per the violence of Broadhead and the rest, advance the democratic cohorts to measures of salutary reform, become the Louis Philippe égalité of British revolutionism, and so perhaps distance the Prince of Wales in a Presidential canvass for votes. The Forther Decline in Gold. Gold at 117}—the price to which it declined yesterday—is rather a striking contrast to gold at the figures which prevailed only as late as last September, not to speak of the days of the war. The decline took all Wall street by snr- prise, and not the least so those who, in 1865, on the heels of the surrender at Appomattox Court House, prophesied specie paymeuts in three or four, and certainly not beyond five years. In the whirlpool of speculation which has since intervened thesg same wiseacres have forgotten their own predictions, or, with ‘“‘the wish father to the thought,” have recently expected a continuance of a high premium. The five years—the longest delay allowed—have nearly expired. They should not, therefore, be surprised at the realization of their own prophecies. The fact is that in the grand recuperation of the country we are steadily advancing to specie payments, and the speculators who endeayor to oppose such a consummation will be run down by the terrible force of our national progress. Europe foresees it, and is buying our securities at constantly advancing prices. The speculator who stands in the way recalls the observation of the Irish engineer who, see- ing a bull on the railway track making ready to attack the approaching locomotive, ‘admired his pluck, but thought little of his pradence.” Fisk, Corbin and their confederates in the gold ‘‘corner” were smashed by the irresisti- ble power of the same proggess. I Congress will let the currency alone the whole question of the finances will settle itself without trouble. Specie payments at an early day is only our inevitable destiny, Nor will the change pro- duce the direful results predicted in some quarters. With the premium on gold once wiped out enterprise would make a new start over the whole country, for we should then have a thousand millions of money in place of eight hundred millions, and the inflationists on the one hand and the specie payment contrac- tionisis on the other would meet on common ground, Mr. Sewarn.—-Our ied had an, interview with the returning ex-Secretary at Baltimore yesterday. Mr. Seward comes back from his trip to the ice fields and the tropics ten years younger physically, and much older only as regards experience and observation. Like all travellers, he is glad to talk of his travels, and he still speaks affectionately of his little investment in Alaska, where, he holds to it, “the humming bird does not disdain to flatter.” In fact, he tells some marvellous stories about his journey in Alaska and in Mexico, but about his stay in Cuba he de- clines to say anything. The taste of the Cap- tain General’s bread and salt is not yet out of his mouth, and he cannot let himself out as he would like to with the claims of hospitality fresh upon him. Tne Mormons—A Sens E of Mr. fitch, of Nevada, in the ae of Rep- resentatives yesterday, against the Cullom bill, which looks to the expulsion of the Mor- mons from Utab or their extermination by force of arma. Mr. Fitch, from the State adjoining the Mormon territory, speaks from personal knowledge and observation, and his sensible argument for a milder remedy than that of the bayonet against Mormon polygamy cannot fail lo have a good effect in tempering the virtuous zeal of the Mouse with eonsiders- tions of sound nolicy The Era of Good Feeling. The passage of the fifieenth amendment opens up to the United States a prospect of universal peace and happiness which must be gratifying to every lover of his race. With this enactment the great American nigger passes out of politics, and will remain in our political museums like one of Artemus Ward's celebrated wax figures, Some of our enter- prising agitators may dress the figure up like a Chinaman or a Japanese, or a Cheyenne brave, and start him on a new journey of ex- hibition and agitation. What these men want is a waxfigure, Mr, Phillips told us the other day that there would be greater mobs and more excitement than was ever seen in abo- lition days. So we shall have the figure over again in a new shape, but never again as ‘the great American nigger.” That exhi- bition has closed, and now for the era of good feeling. We have had many eras of good feeling in our history. Tho trouble is we never kaow how good the feeling is until it is all over and forgotten and we come to read of it Mm anew generation, What good feeling there was in Jefferson's and Madison's time! And yet when we go back to the newspapers of that day there was as much bitterness and heartburning and dissatisfied ambition as we sce now. How the politicians wrangled and swore in the ‘happy days” of Andrew Jackson, and what strifes there were in the time of Taylor and Pierce! Politicians are always politicians, and these contests will last to the end of the tribe, A real era of good feeling we have yet to see. We presume Mr. Greeley will some day tell us that such an era was during the late war. Already he speaks of that tremendous strife as a “convulsion.” Some of these days he will probably see that it was only a paroxysm, a misunderstanding—not a war, but a gentle pas- sage at arms. Well, we have longed and labored for the era which is about to dawn upon us, and as we see its coming glory we feel moved with the spirit of prophecy. Weare told when the millennium comes, and the Devil is bound for a thousand years, that the lion and the lamb will lie down together, the wolf will gambol with the kids, the sword will be turned into a ploughshare and the spear into a praning hook, Why may it not be that the removal of this great American nigger from our politics is what the Scripture means by binding the Devil for a thousand years, and that this amendment means no more torment for afree and happy people? The spirit of love will spread into our national coun- cils. The irasc%le Sumner will become as gentle as a dove, and, as he sits cooing in his Senatorial chair, the tender Trumbull, and Stewart, and Conkling, and Carpenter will flut- ter and listen and gloat around him, and the speeches will be a euphony of molten. golden notes. Butler will no longer sing “Shoo, fly!” to Sunset Cox, but chant his speeches like that music in the air which the angels are supposed to sing. The legislation will be conducted on operatic principles—the libretto by Offenbach— and the speeches and resolutions and the call- ing of the roll to lively music. Our gentle pro- fessor of love-tapsa, Mr. Morrissey, will be or- dained perpetual Speaker, and the good old French custom of the public embrace, or the kiss of peace, will consume the morning hour, How happy we should be to see Fernando Wood on the bosom of Kelley, of Pennsylvania! Has our President not written, ‘‘Let us have peace,” and is our Vice President not the national smiler, who beams an unending bene- diction upon his happy Senators? Now do wo see with what a wise purpose Providence put that everlasting gre. upon the face of Mr. Colfax. He comes as the beginning of the millennium, the early swallow of the summer era of good feeling, perching and chirping and twittering the livelong day. Look at the Cabinet. There is that royal rogue, Robeson, the jolliest, happiest, most rollicking dog that ever sailed the stormy seas of the Delaware. There is the happy Belknap, a real Simon Pure, corn-fed Western camarada, full of jest and story. Fish, with his dinners and his fine old Knickerbocker good-fellowship, hearty and fall and ‘clear, with mellowness and body in him, like his rare and fragrant port wine, has made everybody happy. Creswell and Cox are known to be of the genuine breakdown order, the real Virginia essence, and as full of glee as school girls with a skipping rope. We cannot say much of Hoar nor of Boutwell, but we must enliven them, and by the time the good feeling gets fully under way even the irascible Attorney General and the pensive Secretary will be as merry as the ‘‘end men” at the min- strels, How happy we shall be in New York city! Jim Fisk has put upon record his determina- tion to “‘dust Greeley’s coat”—that imperisha- ble remnant which still floats and flaps after having stood for a thousand years the battle and the breeze. There will be no such war, but heavenly charity and helpfulness—H. G. going to the Opera House and superintending the ‘Twelve Temptations,” with his blonde hair wreathed in flowing cnris, his expansive bosom radiant with diamonds, while the Adonis of Wall street sits in the editorial room and calis upon his ‘men and brethren” to rally and buy onion seeds and strawberry plants; the happy Oakey will not only pay the suffering Dana his warrants, but give of his substance and store to the ‘“‘sorely pressed” editor ; Van- derbilt will buy Erie at par and sell Central at forty; Barnard will make Eaton his referee and receiver, and Wilkes will sit in perpetual jury upon libel suits and acquit every Ken- tuckian who comes to*the bar; Sweeny and Genet will control Tammany, and Tweed and Norton will be like the Siamese twins, In fact, there shall be no Tammany, no republi- can committees. The recognized organ of the thieves and roughs wili be expelled with the Devil in his thousand years’ leave of absence; and, sitting at the feet of. the Herarp, then as now—as it has been in the past, as it will be for all time to come, even to the end of the world, a comfort, a blessing, a dispensation to man- kind—all parties will sing in harmony and peace, with sweet, pleasing discourse, praise to the genius of good feeling, We shail have no puzzling ‘‘qnestions,” n embarrassing problems, no wars, no rumors of war. Horace P. Cooke will be President, Susan B. Anthony Secretary of State. Mr. Delmonico will be our Minister to England, and settle the Alabama claims over dinners that will forever dim the glory of Reverdy Johnson, Henry Ward Beecher will marry everybody by public proclamation, with no Grand Jury te molest or make him afraid. Everybody will hold office. The taxes will be abolished, Weshall have per- petual opera and public fountains of champagne, paid for out of the tax levy, Has not Kit Burns been converted, and do we not hear the Songs of praise where in other days rose the soft squeak of the flying rat or the angry yelp of the savage mastiff? What else do we see in life so sweetly radiant a8 the coming hours of this gracious time but Mr. Bonner's ‘‘pure, sweet love stories” which instruct and improve the human race? Nature itself responds to the era of good feeling which has begun to bless mankind, Truly the amendment is passed and the Devil is chained, Let us see if he will remain in bonds a thousand years. Washington’s Birthday in Vienna. We have the report from Paris that on the evening of Washington's Birthday, in that bril- lant metropolis, there was a large and distin- guished gathering at the residence of Minister Washburne, assembled in honor of the memory of the Father of his Country, and that in patri- otic toasts and speeches the meeting was kept unbroken toa late hour, This is nothing re- markable for Paris, the gay city of fashion and pleasure, which to. American travellers is what Mecca is to the followers of the Arabian Pro- phet, or what Jerusalem is to the scattered children of Israel, or what Rome is to the faith- ful Catholic, the Holy City, where all the bless- ings sought for by the devout pilgrim may be had for love or money. But the celebration of the 22d of Febru- ary this year in Vienna brings out into fine relief the new dispensation which, since that fortunate defeat at Kiniggratz, has done more for the advancement of Austria than all her wars and all her political changes since the founding of the house of Hapsburg, At this celebration in the Austrian capital, at the residence of our Minister, Mr. Jay, the occa- sion was made memorable by a little speech in English from the Austrian Premier, the Baron Von Beust, in which Austria and the United States were most happily associated as on the same high road of modern ideas and modern progress. This distinguished statesman, who is justly ranked as the peer of Bismarck, Alexander, Napoleon‘and Gladstone, first ex- pressing his congratulations on the happy accord existing between Austria and the United States, said that union and freedom was the motto of both countries—an idea which embodies a volume of great things. It can be fully comprehended only in considering the ‘harmony which the Baron, by his wise policy, has established among the different races and nationalities which make up the Austrian em- pire, and by considering, at the same time, the mighty and glorious revolution resulting from the late civil war in the United States, The Baron further remarked that union alone gives progress and that freedom alone produces. peace, and crowned these golden words by submitting the memory of George Washington, the champion of freedom and peace. This from the Prime Minister of Austria, one of the great European Powers, which but yes- ‘terday was groping in the misty twilight of the Middle Ages, does, indeed, mean progress and peace. Who could have dreamed in 1861 that withio a period so brief as the interval to this day the echoes from Fort Sumter would come back to us in such inspiring music as this from the distant Danube ? An Astonishing Independent Press. It is amusing to hear the prattle of the cop- perhead organ of the roughs on an independent press, to which it seems to fancy it has some relation. Always the organ of a faction, and generally by instinct doing the work of the worst faction in our politics, the ‘‘ndepen- dence” of the journal in question is a queer article. Only fancy its present independence. Three democratic factions are fighting for the control of this city. There are the roughs, who claim to control because they believe that they are the real fountain of power; there are the silk stocking democrats of the Manhattan Club, and there are the Tammany men—the present leaders and possessors of power. Because these are in the others are leagued against them. Though people would suppose there must be all the difference in the world between the political diletlanti of the Manhattan Club and Mackerelville, yet the two are together and acting shoulder to shoulder in the en- deavor to oust the Tammany men. In this fight of factions the copperhead journal is thrashing around like a short-tailed bull in fly time, and only stands still now and then long enough to roar out some rubbish about an in- dependent press. Para. Prerensions.—It does really seem as if the Ecumenical Council were about to give the world serious trouble. Infallibility and the Syllabus are too much even for the best of Catholics, Individuals have been grumbling in all lands, but now governments are beginning to take action. The latest and most significant movement we chronicle to- day. Austria, the most Catholic of all govern- ments, proposes a convocation of all the Catho- lic Powers in order to oppose Papal preten- sions. Austria waits only for the consent of Napoleon to take immediate action. This is good for Austria and good for all mankind. It is another proof of the genius and statesman- ship of Baron Beust. Tue Warrremore Casx.—Ben Buller acted as counsel for Mr. Whittemore in the cadet- ship case before the House of Representatives yesterday, and succeeded in having the final hearing postponed until to-day, when Whitte- more will make such explanation as he can. It is not likely that he will make his case a whit more excusable, The galleries were crowded with as excited a gang of spectators as in the old days of eachment, and Logan and Butler conducted opposite sides of the case with masterly strategy. Turek Honprep AND TuirTEEN THovsaNp ABOVE THE TERMS OF THE ContRracr.—This is the sum which is proposed in a bill introduced in Congress for the relief of J. Snowden and son for certain alterations, additions, extras and so forth in the building of the light draught monitor Umpqua. And ‘‘that’s the way the money goes.” A shrewd fellow puts in a bid for a government job too low to be met by old-fashioned honesty, and then, hav- ing secured the job, he puts in his extras, and Congress foots the bill. We would submit to the President, however, that this sort of thing does not tally with his policy of retrenchment and reform. em the Situation in Europe—Tho Symptoam of a Coming Change. By cable telegrams and a special written correspondence, published elsewhere in our columns, we report the situation of affairs which existed in many of the Old World cen- tres yesterday, they Huxaxp writers indicating the approach of some of the very latest and most remarkable events, which are recorded by the ocean telegraph with wonderful accu- racy and precision, The cable despatches, as well as our special letters, are indicative of change—change deep and sweeping, from the foundation to the capstone of society. The famous Mordaunt divorce case is on trial in Eng- land. The Prince of Wales was placed on the witness stand to testify as to his relations with Lady Mordaunt, the judge having warned his Royal Highness that he was not bound to tes- tify to any matter likely to criminate himself. Tn this instance Lord Penzance appears before us in a character delicately merciful almost, although perhaps not exactly so dignified as that which was displayed by his illustrious pre- decessor, Judge Gascoigne, towards the famous Henry the Fifth, when Prince of Wales. Tho main charges of the Mordaunt divorce case, as already given by the pen of our special corre- Spondent in London, are appended to the cable report, The anniversary of Washington's birthday was celebrated in Paris and Vienna. In the Austrian capital Premier Von Beust paid an eloquent tribute to the memory of the American liberator—a warning to monarchism in itself. Austria invites the Catholic lay Powers to confederate against the pretensions of Rome, the Holy Alliance in a new shape, but with the sword of Charlemagne hanging on its margin, either as a prize or as an object of future contention and division. Fox hunt- ing, yachting, the theatres and English fashionable life generally aro analyzed as to their merits or demerits in English eyes in special letter from London. French diplomacy and governmental rule, French radicalism, French piety, religion, absinthe, vice and the barricades are also specially presented to the readers of the Hzraup, so that they can be- hold Paris society just as it is—as it is curbed and seethes and ferments and dissi- pates towards another revolution—one which we may have to announce and chronicle, per- haps, at no very distant period. Harper's Periodicals. With the past year closed the thirty-ninth volume of Harper's Monthly, the thirteenth volume of the Weekly and the second of the Bazar. All these publications have de- servedly attained a high reputation in the lite- rary world, because of the general excellence of their reading matter and the admirable cuts by which th they are illustrated. It would, per- haps, be incorrect to say that Harper's Maga- zine bas formed the literary character of tho United States; but it most certainly has given tone to and lent a powerful aid to the advance- ment of, American literature. By a happy combination of entertainment with instruction the publishers have succeeded in making it the most popular and widely read monthly in the republic. In like manner, though to a less ex- tent, the Weekly has exercised a beneficial influence upon the community, while the Bazar, which is of a late birth, has en- tirely done away with the necessity for for- eign periodicals of fashion. In pursuance of a purpose todo all that lies in our power to place American literature: in the front rank, we have heretofore bestowed upon these pub- lications hearty praise, and it affords us plea- sure to note how well their high standard is maintained. Until we are in every respect independent of foreign literature there will always be something wanting in our nation- ality. Harper & Brothers, D. Appleton & Co., Scribner & Co., Lippincott & Co. and one or two others have long been engaged in the work to which we are fending our assistance, and the prospect is bright that in a few years there will be as great demand for American literature in Europe as there is now for Euro- pean literature in America. Nor So Dott as He SEEMS.—The follow- ing dialogue passed between a juror on the Reynolds’ trial and Jack Reynolds, the Brg oP Q. What ae did you go to first, the grocer’s or the shoemaker 8? A. 1 don’t know, sir. Q. What brought you into tue grocers store? A, L don’t know anything o! itat all, Q. Where did you sleep the night before? A. I don’t know where I did sleep the night betore. Q. Where did you sicep the night before that? A. [ slept outside. Q. Outside where? A. Outside in the street. Q. On the morning of the murder did you hava your breakfast? A. I don’t kuow exactly; | don’t know fraern | about it. Alter you enterea the grocery store where did yougo? <A. 1don’t know as ever I went tnere. ‘The murderer's réle was to know nothing all the way through. But if he had answered simply ‘I don’t know” to the last question it might have seemed to itaply an admission that he had been in the grocery store; but he was careful not to leave open such an admission. This was pretty sharp for ‘‘a poor, demented wretch.” Tue Winyivea Trovsirs.—It is stated in Toronto that the New Dominion government has received instructions from England to pay over the purchase money of Winnipeg Terri- tory to the Hudson Bay Conipany and to send troops and artillery there in May by way of Lake Superior, the privilege of passing troops over American soil being refused by the au- thorities at Washington. It is generally con- ceded that the Winnipeg rebellion looks ulti- mately to annexation with the United States, and, considering that and other circumstances, we do not very well see how our government could consent to the passage of British troops across our soil to quell the rebellion. If the Dominion had asked us for thirty or forty gunboats, now, we might have given them a different answer. THE Misstsarert Rere eress.—Four of the Mississippi delegation ap- peared in the House and were admitted to their seats yesterday, tho President having approved the bill for the readmission of the State. The regular credentials of Senator Revels, the colored man, which were signed by General Ames as Provisional Governor, were presented and read, but were immediately met by the objections of the democrats. They opposed Mr, Revels’ admission on the ground that his credentials were signed by a military olficer, and that he had not been a citizen for nine years. Considerable argument ensued and continued until the hour of adjournment, when Mr. Revels went home, not yet a Senator, } and feeling blue.