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

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor«e Henatp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. . THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. ‘The EUROPEAN Epirion, every Wednesday, at 81x Cunrs per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. = Volume XXXV. .No, 68 —— AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.-CaTansct OF TEE Ganars—Baxr's PRoGEEsS, 40. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13h strees— Loar at bra. BOOTHS THEATRE, 24 st., between 5th ana 6th ave. Boors as HaMirr. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘@Bd o—THE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—New VuRsiON oF Baxver. 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APOLLO HALL, corner 2th street anc Broadway.— Tus New Hipeeni0on, Matinee at 2, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— BCIENOR AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Wednesday, March 9, 1870. = = — <= Pace. Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Washington: Passage by the House of the Georgia Bill; Tennessee Again in Butler's Tolls; Proposed Reception of Legal Tenders for Import Duties; Senator Morton’s Neutrality ¢ Bill; Texas Ratifies the Constitutional Amend- Mments—Personal Intelligence—Obituary—New Custom House Regulation—The Redskins: Oficial Reports of the Expedition Against Rea Horn’s Camp—American Microscopical So- ciety. 4=—Europe: England's March to Democracy; The United States Mission at the Russian Court; Political Disorganization and Military Pauper- iam tn Madrid—South America: False Promise About the Return of the Brazilian Army; Ter- Tible Gunpowder Explosion on the River Paraguay—Sieighing Under Difticultics—The Late Prize Fight—Ex-Secretary Seward—Who Robs the Deaa? G—The Fullerton Case: Initiation of the Conspiracy Proceedings that Led to the Present Prose- cution—The Late Embezzlement by a Deputy Coliectoer—Proceedings in the New York Courts—A Deadlock in the Police Board—The Fire Marshal's Monthly Report—The Seamen's Strike—Cat ana Dog Fenianism ‘he Quarrel Between the President and Senate—Teddy Ryan’s Flibusterings—A Triumph oi Rufiian- ism—A Tar Burner on the Bench. 6—Eattorials: Leading Article on Gladstone and the Progress of Reform in Great Britain— Amusement Announcements. ?—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Minister Burlingame’s Funeral; A Vigilance Committee Proposed in Parts: The Irisn Land Bill Debate and a Serious Situation tm Ireland—New Hampshire Election: Everything Republican—Meeting of Quar- antine Commissioners—- Charter Elections in New York State—Kings County Politics— Goid 110%—Board of Police Justices—Rural Barnburners—New York City News—Fires Last Night—The Uuister County Tragedy— Brooklyn latelligence—Busmess Notices. S=—The Alexander Bond Mystery—The Cunard Bonded Warehouse in Jersey City—Real Es- tate Matters—The Newfoundland Fisheries— Financial and Commercial Reports—Mar- riages, Births and Deaths—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—The State Capital: The New York City Charter Not Yet Ready for Presentation to the Legisia- ture; Another Battie in the Assembly Over the Canai Contract Bill; Bill to Reduce the Fees Paia by the Immigrants—Army and Navy In- telligence—The Ratiroad Wer in New Jersey— A Doctor Badiy Damaged—Cuban Charitable Aid Society—Shipping Inte!ligence—Advertise- mente, £1—Advertisements. §2—Advertisementa, Tug AvasKa SEAL Fisneries will probably be leased. Having secured a larger house than we wanted in the Alaska purchase we propose to sub-let the best parts of it, so as to got some of our money back. CarpinAL Antonerii and the Emperor Napoleon are to enter into a correspondence on the subject of the new Papal schema and the organization of the Council generally. On everything relating to a schema the letters will be particularly brilliant, judging from the qualifications of the res; writers, Goop Fienama.—The report of the fight between twenty-nine Indians of the Crow tribe and a party of Sioux, in which the Crows fortified themselves and the Sioux carried their breastwork by an attack in front, the leader falling dead on the rampart, shows that the Indians can imitate the white man’s siyle very well when the occasion comes, “Young France” anp Its St. HELENA.— Eight hundred French army conscripts made & demonstration im Paris yesterday, They boisted a black banner and marched in lino to the office of Rochefort’s newspaper, in front of which they chanted the ‘Morseillaise” and then dispersed. The authorities did not inter- fere. Has Rochefort’s prison cell become the Bt. Helena of the French recruits, or does modern France love glory less and peace more? Gladstone asd the Progress of Retorm tm | The Now Hampehire Election—Mepublicans Great Britala. Our cable despatches. and our special cor- respondence from London show that politically the three kingdoms are full of excitement, The London season ts fairly begun, and, busy and gay as is the world of fashion, interest centres in the House of Commons. On Mon- day night Prime Minister Gladstone moved the second reading of his Irtsh Land Tenure bill, It was a noteworthy ciroumstance on the occasion that the galleries were unusually empty. There was no crowd and but little excitement, It seems already to bea foregone conclusion that the bill must pass. There is really no opposition—at least no opposition worthy of the name. Mr. Disraeli, so grand and so popular, has ceased to command any attention in the House. After, a somewhat serious illness he is allowed to come in and take his seat almost unnoticed and as if un- known. How changed since two winters ago! How, during the Reform bill period, bis tory following cheered and flattered him! Then his great rival, Gladstone, was in the shade. Now Gladstone basks in the sunshine of popu- larity, and, though aging rapidly from unceas- ing toil, seems ‘to enjoy the position of the idol of the hour. And why should he not? Did not Disraeli kill Peel? Was not Glad- atone Peel’s favorite disciple? Did he not to @ certain extent inherit his great master's wrongs? Politically it has been his to avenge the wrongs of one of the greatest of English commoners, and all the world must admit that he has done his work well. It was Disraeli’s good fortune to convince the tory gentry of Great Britain that he alone could save them, and that such a Reform bill as he had proposed was the first and most im- portant step toward such salvation, For a time Disraeli reaped the benefit and carried offthe honors. As the honors, however, were not altogether honorably won, Mr. Disraeli’s crown of glory has soon faded away. Mr. Gladstone saw that the Reform bill which he could not carry and which his. rival did carry opened up the field for sweeping and radical changes in the government and institutions of the three kingdoms. His Irish Church Dises- tablishment bill was a success such as had never been experienced in the parliamentary history of England. In one session that powerful Church, which had sucked up the resources of Ireland for centuries and cast its dark shadow over the length and breadth of the little kingdom, was demolished and laid low in the dust. The measure was so just in itself, was so carefully prepared, was so skilfully managed in all the stages of its progress, and commended itself 80 entireiy, to the Irish people that it was impossible for Disraeli and those who followed his lead to get up anything like « show of opposition, His success in the matter of the Irish Church bas encouraged him to take another and even @ bolder step in the matter of reform. Ireland is still the subject of his song. Itis his fixed determination that Ireland shall no longer be a reproach to the British government. He has removed from Ireland one wrong, not perhaps the most radical, but the most patent and the most universally known ‘and condemned. He now grapples with another wrong, and there is no longer any reason to doubt that the land tenure of Ireland shall be established on a firm and enduring basis of equity—a basis which, while it will do justice to the tenant farmer and small leascholder, will do no wrong to the proprietor of the soil. It will no longer be possible for a landlord to evict at will and to trample on all principles of justice and fair play ; it will no longer be possible for a tenant to justify a life of inglorious ease on the ground that every penny spent upon his farm is so much his own loss and so much his landlord's gain. The bill has been got up with even more care than that which made an end of the Irish Church Establishment. It is complete in all its details and satisfactory in all its arrangements, and there can be no doubt that its triumphant passage through both Houses of Parliament is certain. The Irish members, we notice, haye shown some opposition, some of them making ominous allusion to the tenant exile to America and its probable consequences in the event of a war between England and the United States; but this is not unnatural, nor can it be said to be unwise, No one knows so well as Mr. Gladstone that the most carefully prepared bill is capable of improvement, In some particulars the bill may be modified, but in its essential features it will assuredly remain unchanged. When the bill shall have passed into law the Irish people in Ireland will have good reason to be, if they are not, contented. This new measure of justice to Ireland does honor to Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues. It does mure. It does honor to the British Parliament and people generally, and it has right to be regarded as one of the progressive triumphs of the age. It is impossible, however, to close our eyes to the fact that even this measure, great and good and just as it is, is nota finality. In one sense it is another stage reached in the work of destruction; in another sense it is another siage reached in the work of construc- tion. But, whether we regard it in the light of pulling down or of building up, this latest measure of reform but creates the necessity for still another, And so the work must go on if the British empire is to be saved, or whether it is to be saved or not, Both Eng- land and Scotland have discovered fa this reform something like special legislation for Ireland. They have not hesitated to call it favoritism, and they have demanded with no uncertain tone that the favors go round. That the favors shall go round Mr, Gladstone has already promised. There are no reforms so radical as those which affect the Church and those which affect the land—at least in old conntries. The established churches in Scot- land and in England and the entire privileged orders of ihe three kingdoms are not without good reason for dreading the aspect of the times and the changes of the future, Mr. Gladstone will go on, and when Gladstone is no more another anda more daring will take his place. And why should it not be so? Moxy Srrmens.—And now comes into the arena, with a terrific blast on twelvepenny trumpets, the Democratic Union organization, and this also declares that Tammany must give way and yield up a due and immense proportion of the public plundor. Who will hold these frightfui fellows ? Still im the Ascendant. Returns received up to the hour of going to Preas indicate that at the election in New Hampshire yesterdsy the republicans guc- ceeded in retaining their ascendancy in the State, electing their candidate for Governor and securing 8 majority in the Legislature, This will send Mr. Cragin back to the United States Senate, and ae he is an ardent friend of the administration of General Grant his return to the Senate chamber may be regarded as among the most important results of the election. The vote was Jarge, but the republican majority wae considerably reduced, being only about ffteen hundred against between three and four thousand last year. The heavy vote may be accounted for from the fact that the sleighing was good ‘from the sea to the Cots, above the Upper Cots," giving all par- ties a fair chance to test their relative strength at the polls, Why did not the democracy carry the State? Let us see. But s few days ago the denocracy of New Hampshire never had a brighter prospect to redeem the State from radical thraldom. The eruptions among the radicals—the throwing up of auch segments as the labor reform faction under Sam Fiat, and the temperance faction under the Rev, Mr. Barrows, afforded them opportunities of conciliating » respect- able portion of the radical party and winning them permanently to the democratic side. Some of the prominent democratic papers inthe State and the most prominent democratic organ nearest home favored recognition of the radical malcontents. On the other hand old line democrats spurned the idea of affiliation in any manner with their ancient foes, come in what garb they might. What followed? A regular plug muss between the Democratic State Central Committee and the State central organ, in which words com- mon to the New York radical press, such as “anmitigated liars,” “you lie, you villain,” and other elegant phrases were bandied between them. Thus was a little private arrangement between the democratic leaders and a few leading radical seceders knocked into a cocked hat, not absolutely by the defection of the anti-radicals themselves, but by the squabbles and wran- gles and jobbing railroad collisions and job- bing railroad collusions among the democrats themselves. Taking advantage of this democratic discord the radicals threw their whole strength into the canvass. From every section radical orators poured into the hills and valleys of the Granite State. The departments and the halls of Congress in Washington sent their orators to arouse their quailing and quivering clans. The grandeur of General Grant's mili- tary achievements was again depicted. The opposition to his statecraft was shown to be @ weak invention of the enemy. The financial measures of his administration were pre- sented in a strong light. The reduction of the national debt, the reduction in the price of gold, the gradual approach to the granite foundation of all trade, commerce and nationality—specie payments—were portrayed in a light that first dazzled the eyes and then won the hearts of those radicals who were wavering in fidelity to the administration of their choice. Patriotic as the sons of New Hampshire are, and warmly sympathizing as they do with people struggling for freedom, the lukewarmness of the administration in regard to the non-recognition of the inde- pendence of Cuba was offset by the notorious and pregnant fact that a wellknown New Hampshire democrat, once occupying a high position in the affections of the New Hamp- shire people, and in the confidente of a New Hampshire ex-President, was and is now a paid advocate in the service of Spain to crush out republican liberty on the island of Cuba. Our copious despatches render further com- ment upon the results of this first gun of the political campaign unnecessary. We must say, however, that in our opinion it was only the personal popularity of General Grant and the abominable disSensions and atrocious and in- conceivably stupid conduct of the democratic managers that plucked from the democracy of New Hampshire the ‘plume of leading the democracy of the nation to certain success in 1872. Let the discordant democracy in other States take warning. The Income Tax Law Repealed. There is a serious misapprehension in the public mind in relation tothe income tax. Peti- tions are being sent to Washington for the repeal of the law. It should be distinctly understood that the Income Tax law was repealed by limi- tation on the 3lst day of December, 1869. The tax now being assessed is for the year 1869, After it is paid no other income tax can be collected or assessed without the enactment of an entirely new law, which is not likely to be brought about. The repeal of the old law is final and unconditional. It takes effect as soon ae the tax for 1869 is paid. A bill passed the House under the previous question gag rule a few days ago, provid- ing for the assessment and collection of an income tax for one year oply (1870), but it met with disastrous defeat in the Senate. It is not at all likely that Congress will put such a needless burden upon the people again in face of the unanimous protest of the entire press of the country. The occasion that called for it has passed away forever. Let us have no more income tax laws. Tae Senate is jubilant over the decline in gold, and seems disposed to wipe out the premium and bring it to par at one dash. Jt was proposed yesterday to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell his surplus gold and to admit all payments of import duties to be made half in legal tenders, The propositions should be well weighed before they are adopted. Our finances are now con- valescing after their fitful fever of many years, and it would probably be as well to let them resume their old health amd spirits naturally without the administering of any powerful stimulants, Not Usep to It.—The encounter in the rural districts of Ohio with a man named Pope, who had plenty of ammunition and opened fire on every one that came within rango, reads like a story of one of our city bravoes. But out there they believe Pope to be inspag The Cootinued Decline in Gold. Yesterday gold sold as low as 110}, and reacted but @ small fraction from that figure when it was announced that a measure had been introduced in Congress providing for fifty millions additional currency. The steady decline from 120, which was the price at the beginning df the year, is due to the operation of purely legitimate causes; but the public and speculative mind has been so long accustomed to think that there should be premium on gold that the decline has been contested step by step in expectation of a recovery to former prices, The fall to lower quotations in spite of this opposition only the more forcibly proves the presence of natural influences in the drooping of the gold market. It was.@ rare discovery made the other day in Washington, in the Bureau of Statistics, that our exports during the expired portion of the fiscal year have been within a trifle of our imports. The fact readily accounted for what wae a puzzle to Wall atrect— the obstinate weakness of the gold market. When the cliques undertook to ad- vance stocks and gold they encountered an incomprehensible inerfia in the latter, which is now explained. Yet some of these gold gam- blers learn nothing by the experience of the the past month, but continue to buffet away at the decline. They took the statement of the exports and imports and picked fmws in it, But even allowing the few mil- lions which they would add to the balance against us, they throw out of the calculation the Afty millions of American government bonds and railway securities which have been shipped to Europe since gold went under 130. They also forget that the swarm of emigrants who are con- stantly arriving on our shores bring specie in greater or less amounts. Moreover, the pro- duct of our gold and silver mines last year was not less than seventy millions, and, with the improvement in machinery, bids fair to reach a hundred millions annually. There is hardly any view of the situation, in fact, which does not lead to the conclusion that the decline in gold is the result of natural causes. Wall street has ‘lost millions by it; for the specu- lators were thoroughly deceived. Had not the Fisk-Corbin cohspiracy of last September made a diversion in the ‘course of the gold market, by raising the price of gold out of its proper level, we might ere this have witnessed | an actual return to specie payments, How- ever, the precious metal seems to be now making up for lost time, and is rapidly hastening to equalization with paper money. It may be that further progress toward complete obliteration of the premium will be more slowly made as each unit in the décline is passed; but the following table of the course of gold during the last six days is certainly suggestive: — 4 13% 11234 110% + 112% Taeaday The Georgia Bill. The bold Butler has been in turn defeated on the Georgia bill by Mr. Bingham, whom he defeated on the Virginia bill. Mr. Bingham’s amendment to Mr. Butler's bill to admit Georgia was carried in the House yesterday over Butler’s head. The amendment cut out all Butler’s pet projects for keeping Governor Bullock and his friends in office, and left them only the alternative of vacating or being re-elected at the just expiration of their terms two years hence. Bullock was lobbying for votes all through the proceedings, but with the cadetship investigations before their eyes the members were wary of his honeyed words. The amendment was accepted and the bill passed, and Bullock, severely gored, passed out of the House a sadder man. It has at last become evident to the House, as it became evident some time ago to the Senate, that reconstruction has gone the length of its tether. There must be some point at which the tenure of the read- mitted States in the Union is assured. They cannot be admitted and ejected at pleasure, and, as all but Texas have now been ad- mitted, the radical reconstructionists have no alternative but to receive them in good faith and fellowship. It is to be hoped that this decision in the Georgia case will settle at once the projected raid on the State of Tennessee, which radical malcontents in both houses are organizing. Mr. Butler in the committee, while hearing evidence on the latter case, stated that if affairs were as bad in Massachu- setts as they are in Tennessee he would favor Congressional interference in his own State, and had no doubt it would be constitutionally correct. The objections to Tennessee are that unqualified persons vote and hold office there, and that a number of murders are com- mitted. Cannot the same thing be said of Maseachusetts ? Treasury Towgis.—The extent to which the United States Treasury seems to need towelling is something appalling. Mr. Bout- well has just sent to the House of Representa- tives a statement of the incidental expenses of his department, with a grand total of fifty-nine thousand dollars. Nearly every conceivable article figures in some item, from flower pots to fans and alpaca braid; but the great item of Const@it recurrence is that of washing towels. This hint of cleanliness not only occurs on every page, but in gvery second or third line. It ig the monotonous gcho to everything. It will give the people a satisfy- ing idea of the filthiness of the national lucre to hear that this towel washing for one year amounts to the snug sum of one thousand eight hundred and forty-five dollars, and that the number of towels washed is upwards of thirty thousand—enough to give the Treasury people one hundred clean towels every day. Tnx Exzorion Fraups IN Brookiyy.—The persons accused of complicity in election frauds in Brooklyn want to know the names of the witnesses the District Attorney pro- poses to present against them, They are not satiefled to know these names when the trial comes on and to confront the witnesses in court. They want to know the names of the witnesses two days before the trial, What influences they propose to bring to bear upon these witnesses outside of court does not appear, but evidently it is not an influence favorable to honest administration of the law. The parties seom to “keep a judge,” and 80 1 they are-likely to prevall, Tho Fiftconth Amendment—A Vossy Ques South American Afuirs. len Answored. Our latest mail advices from Bio Janeiro The fifteenth amendment of the United | are up to the lst of February. It will be scen States constitution, providing that ‘‘the rights | {n the letter of our correspondent in Rio of citizens of the United States to vote shall | that the Brazilian people are growing discon- not be denied or abridged by the United | tented over the broken promises of the govera- States or by any State on account of race, | ment regarding the return of the troops ia color, or previous condition of servitude,” and | Paraguay. The enormous expenses necessary that “Congress shall have the power to | to carry on this war of extermination have enforce the provisions of this article by appro- | already told heavily on the Brazilian treasury; priate legistation,” hae been ratified by thirty | yet it is continued, and in opposition to the States, viz :— desires of @ large portion of the people Alavama, Matne, North Carolina, and the most sincere well-wishers of the Arkaness, Maseachusotts, bio, Connecticut, Micuigan, Penusyivenia, empire. The latest news from the Count g 1 Goren Mississippi, Bouttecarsuna, | D'Eu are not so favorable as repeated tae pimecry Texas. « telegrams from Lisbon might have led lowa, Nevada,” virgins us to suppose; but we have become eo aoa. >: Meee wicomn acoustomed to hear of the repeated successes of the Brazilian troops that we now regard them pretty much as we do accounts of the operations of the Spanish army in Cuba— questionable at all times. It is now confessed that the Brazilian commander finds himself unable to reach Lopez in his secure retreat in the mountains, Among the most melan- choly occurrences which we have of late been called on to chronicle is the, terrible disaster at the island of Cerito, at the mouth of the Paraguay. A Brazilian schooner laden with ' gunpowder was blown up, and all on board, ‘seventeen in number, lost. The pontoon from which the powder was transferred to the hold The whole number of States being thirty- seven, and twenty-eight being three-fourths of this number, this amendment has been ratified by the States required, and will soon be pro- claimed part of the constitution—‘‘the supreme law of the land.” These are enough, leaving out New York, whose ratification has been rescinded by the present democratic Legisla- ture; and even without Indiana, too, from which Legislature the democratic members seceded, and plead that as there wag no quorum ifn their absence, although a majority was still left, there was no ratification. But the democratic journals still Insist that as the Southern States were coerced into this ratification while held to be States outside the Union, all such ratifications are unconstitu- tional and cannot stand. These journals, upon this construction, ask how a State held to be out of the Union can be counted in these ratifi- cations as a State in the Union, We will answer. The question is a quibble. Tho lately rebellious States have been heldas States by Congress all the way through. Mr. Sumner and the late Mr. Stevens desired to treat thent as Territories, but Congress declined to do so. Even in the admission of West Virginia, in’the midst of the rebellion, Old Virginia was treated as a State in the recognition of her consent to the separation. All the members of the late rebellious confederacy, all the way from Fort Sumter, have been treated as States, but as States forfeiting by rebellion their rights as members of the Union, and subject, in the restoration of these rights, to the pleasure of the Congress of the United States. Thus, for instance, Congress could admit any one of these rebel States to the right of governing itself partially or entirely, to the rights of its boundaries, to the privileges of the United States mails, to the advantages of the United States courts as well as its own courts, and to the constitutional privilege, as a condition of restoration to Con- greas of the ratification of a constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court of the United States in the Rhode Island case, Chief Justice Taney delivering the opinion, decided that the local organization which Congress recognizes as the State is the State, and that herein is no appeal from Congress. A State, too, may be recognized, with the reservation that it has yet some conditions to fulfil before it can be ad- mitted to representation in Congress, and this rule may be made applicable to New York as well as to Virginia. For example, let us suppose that we have had an election for Gov- ernor, State Legislature and members of Con- gress in New York, and that one of ourSenators in Congress has resigned and the term of the other has expired, so that both the seats of New York in the Senate will have to be filled. But let us further suppose that such have been the disorders in ballot stuffing, the destruction of ballot boxes, &c., that Congress is satisfied that this whole State election in all its parts has been a fraud and a mockery, and that ac- cordingly the new Senators and all the other members from New York are denied admission into Congress, does it follow that, being en- tirely excluded from Congress, New York ceases to be a State in the Union? The thirteenth and the fourteenth amend- ments of the éonstitution, recognized inciden- tally by the Supreme Court as parts of the Congress. So with this fifteenth amendment, It is as much ratified now asif the excluded States concerned were represented in Congress, because that State organization which Con- gress recognizes as the State is the State. ‘Tug Monroz Doorrme.—The Senate Com- of the vessel and the magazine on shore were also destroyed. The Ward’s Island Riot. The late unpleasantness on Ward's Isiand between the Commissioners of Emigration and their protégés, about which a great deal has been said on both sides, has led toa legists- tive investigation, and the developments turn out to be rather peculiar. One commissioner stated that the emigrants on the island might be elevated socially, but that neither the con- dition of the barracks nor the treatment they receive is calculated to produce such desired effect. Another testified that the Superintendent enjoys “discretionary” power in dealing with the emigrants, which is really absolute, according to his explanation. Again, the testimony elicited facts and figures showing that only one-half of one per cent of the emigrants who arrive at this port each year are accommodated at Ward's Island. The property on Staten Island formerly held by the commission was sold three years since, and the Commissioners are still compelled to pay twelye thousand dollars per annum interest on money borrowed nearly forty years since on account of it, It ap pears also that one party has done jobs on the island to the extent of thirty thousand dollars’ worth without being under contract. According to the evidence of the emigrants the management of Ward's Island is simply outrageous. Taking the testimony all in all, there is every reason to think that the investi- gation by a legislative committee was sadly needed, and that the “‘big plum in the pud- ding” hinted at by the members of the com- mittee is not quite a myth. Tar News From Russta.—By special tele- gram from St. Petersburg, and through the Atlantic cable, we report the continued honor which is being paid by the Czar of Russia to Mrs. Burlingame in her widowhood. The re- mains of the deceased statesman and diplomat will be embarked for America by the 6th of April. Our special correspondence by mail from St, Petersburg reports the honor which Mr. Burlfhgame received at the Russian Court when living. During one of those happy in- terviews the Czar Alexander expressed a wish to see President Grant in Europe, and referred particularly to the expected visit of the Grand Duke Alexis to America. Tue INpIANs.—There ia every indfcation that we are to have in the coming spring and summer an unusual effort of the Indians of the Plains to make war on a grand scale. These Indians see clearly the progress of the white man’s advance, and realize that now if ever “something must be done.” Hence the efforts of their leaders to make a Coalition supreme law, owe their ratification each to | of all the hostile tribes; yot in face of this those Southern States while yet excluded from | we hear voices raised in sympathy with the savages and in denunciation of every measure against pon a ip De Ro Tur Law’s Detay.—We are glad to see that judges listen with rather less favor lately to pleas for delay that counsel readily trump up on every occasion. The appeal for delay mittee on Foreign Relations has agreed to} on the part of Chambers, the murderer of report a bill “‘asserting the general doctrine | Voorhees, is that his counsel was only engaged that no European prince or Power shall fit out | the day before the trial. That loss of time vessels in the United States to subdue or make war on any territory on this Continent.” If it should only fall on those who are to blame for it. Itis something the public is not con- were not for Canada—and all the shipyards of | cerned in. Nova Scotia—and if this were not an age in which steamers cross the Atlantic in two weeks, this would pass for a mild assertion of the Monroe doctrine, for then it might prevent European States making war this side the Atlantic, But as it is it will pass for nothing of the sort, and is mere blatant buncombe—all the worse in its character for the fact that it comes after Spain has bought here all the vessels she seems to need in her operations against Cuba. Busmvess 13 Bustngss.—The sharp old cod- gers of the New York Chamber of Commerce hold to it that business is business, and they don’t mind doing a little stroke outside of business hours every now and then, Their last is the presentation of a resolution to Con- gress setting forth that the government, in their Lee ought not to go into the business of telegiaphiug and thereby break up the Western Union monopoly, of which many of these sharp old codgers are stockholders. One Mone Case.—The latest case of shoot- | Zepudlican is ing in the streets isso evidently an assault with intent to take life that we cannot doubt that it will be punished with the full rigor of the law. With good public spirit a citizen interfered where a ruffan was abusing & woman, whereupon the ruffian shot at the citi- zen, and only his defective aim prevented mur- | der, Such fellows must work off their super- fluous spirit in the public quarries. ‘Tn SEAMEN in port are on astrike against a number of lines which have reduced their Pore Prvs THe Nintu is distributing ' new schema to the Council prelates. We hope that his Holiness will furnish Horace Greeley with a copy of this paper immediately. An entirely new schema would ‘render the philoso- pher of the Zribune infallible in the next republican Presidential nominating conven- tion. Coming from Rome it would of course be a black schema, and therefore doubly acceptable. i Tue Carrgt-Baccer Wuairremors will be satisfied with not a whit Jcss, it seems, than a re-election to the House. His opinion is that he was ousted by the inconsiderate action of ‘‘a few Hotspurs.” The absolute shame- lessness of the carpet-bagger was never ‘more apparent than in this. No man but of that class would care to show his face in Washing- ton within public rementbrance of his expul- sion from Congress for bribery. Corrine Tarik Own Taroats.—The Chicago out in favor of the interior of the country ‘cutting loose” from the seaboard, and asks, ‘Can we not forget, for a time, that there is, for instance, such a place as New York city?” The West may attempt to cut loose from the city of Now York, but as for forgetting that there is such a place one might as well expect a Chicago man to forget bis Maker or to say his prayers. If there bad never been a New York there never would have been a Chicago, That's certain, Tar Frienps or Orper is the title of a new wages about ten dollars a month, ostensibly citizen organization which is being formed {n on account of the decline in gold. This is a Paris, France. The force and utility of the heavy reduction, considering the fact thot vigilants will depend very much on their own there is no reduction at all in seamen’s ex- penses—no decline in the prices of bread or glothing, , definition of who are the disorderlies, Where do they dwell; in the high places or the sluma?