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

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Y., Items—New York City News—The Liberal Clab—Brooklyn Intelligence—The Ob- noxious Pilot Laws—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements. 41—Adverusements. 12—Advertisements, Cie Pea aa Fi There were some rather startling observations made on this abomination before the Board of Heaith yesterday. But will the nuisance bo abated? That is the important question. Swin Mink Tor Tam Exp Cavocs in Albany yester- day slipped a clause into the new Charter abolishing the Central Park Commission among the rest. Do the silk stockings want to dig up even our beautiful garden spot for spoils? Great Gentus is always modest. There- fore it is, no doubt, that silk stocking Sammy, the leader of the young democracy, does not claim the last new Charter as his own, though an admiring world inquires for its author. “Goop Mornina.”—Tho Philadelphia Day says the New York Heratp is a paper which “fears no monopoly and wears no yoke.” It is seldom so much truth and wisdom is found in so brief a sentence in the columns of a Phila- delphia paper. Justice Hoopwixkep.—Ft appears from a report elsewhere that a noted offender named Charles Hart, who was arrested last December for attempting to steal a quantity of jewels valued at four thousand dollars, from a Broad- way jewelry store, is at large, walking the streets, although when his case was called in the courts his counsel stated that he was serving a term in Moyamensing Prison for another offence, committed while he was out on bail for the present one. This is an exemplification of the blindness of justice in this city rather than of the -stupidity of our judges, y The Approach to Syccio Payments—The Prospects of the Country. ‘The news comes from Washington that at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday the decline of gold and the financial situation of the country were subjects of discussion; that all the members agreed that our condition and prospects are most favorable, and that no measures would be taken by the administration to force specie payments, This is a common sense and prac- tical view of the matter. The less govern- meat interferes just now with the currency or the gold market the better. The steady de- cline of gold and approach to specie payments are altogether independent of governnent action, The condition of the country and state of trade are the causes of the-fall of gold. If we reach specie payments within a short time, as many believe we shall, that will be brought about through the abundant resources of the country and by the natural laws of trade. If there should be a reaction and specie payments be deferred a little longer the same natural laws will govern, and it would be unwise for governo- ment te interfere, History furnishes many examples of the folly of governments attempt- ing to force specie payments. Great Britain passed through terrible disasters in conse- quence of such attempts after the long wars with the First Napoleon were ended. It is a sensible conclusion, therefore, of the Cabinet at Washington not to meddle with the cur- rency or to force resumption, but to let the country and people work out the problem for themselves, All the members of the Cabinet agree that the financial situation of the country is most favorable. Well they may. The revenve has been coming in at the rate of nearly a ‘hundred millions a year in excess of the expenditures, an enormous floating war debt has been paid off within three or four years, and the standing debt has been diminished some two hundred millions ince the war closed. But the most remark- ct is that the people have been abie to 1ormous taxation to accomplish all this without great suffering or murmuring, Such taxation or such demands upon the people of any other nation would have caused the great- est distress. No other country, probably, could Lave borne what this has, None could heve sustained or overcome in 80 short a time such financial difficulties. The natural wealth, productive industry and recuperative power of ihe republic are equal to any demands or the most trying eme o! Whatever may be thought of. the administration or whatever it may be due to it for faithfully execut- ne revenne laws, the happy condition of nal finances and the approximation to a specie basis are to be attributed principally to the industry and wonderful resources of the with regard to specie payments the people are taking the initiative. The govern- ment stands in the backgronnd and waits the uit, Business men in different parts of the country are giving change to their customers inspecie, This is particularly so on or near the Canada border, where silver is abundant and approximates the value of currency. In the city of New York specie is paid out now in the way of change at several places of busi- ness. The Secretary of the Treasury has been informed by telegraph that in Texas and Northern Louisiana actual resumption of specie payments has taken place and that currenty and coin are taken alike without distinction for cotton. In Culifornia, we know, coin has been in circulation for som2 time and the green- backs have been an article of trade. Thus we see the tendency and desire generally toward specie payments. This being the case nothing can prevent the early consummation of the object but some change in the course of trade or some extraordinary disturbance in the world. People are somewhat puzzled, it is true, at the constant and daily decline of gold, and the speculators in Wall street hardly know what to expect in the future or how to act. Some attribute the existing state of things to one cause and some to another. There are several causes operating. The export of cotton dur- ing the last few months has done much toward paying for our imports. The production of the precions metals to the amount of sixty or seventy millions a year has had its effect. But the appreciation of the credit of the government abroad, which has caused an extraordinary demand for our securities in Europe, has paid the balance of trade and made exchange more in our favor. Considering the high rate of interest Ameri- can bonds bear, it is probable this demand will continue. We should not be surprised, there- fore, to see gold exported to this country and exchange being in our favor. Under this state of things there is no reason why we should not reach specie payments, Of course we should have then, with the amount of the precious metals brought into circulation in addition’ to our present currency, an easy money market and a general stimulus to trade and enterprise. Whether we can remain ona specie basis and go along swimmingly in this way will depend upon the future productions of the country and the maintenance of peace throughout the world. For the present all looks well and promising. The balance of trade is favorable, and that rules the money market and price of gold. Let us look to the future, however, and maintain, if possible, the financial position we hold by increasing our products and exportation of them, Tne Encuisn Tory Parry, under the title of a Conservative Association, made a grand extra-Parliamentary demonstration at ao banquet yesterday. As an oppositionist movement to Mr. Gladstone it was really for- midable from the amount of political influence, the talent and the wealth which were repre- sented. Mr. Disraeli was absent on account of the state of his health. The right honor- able gentleman appears just now not more likely ‘to touch the bright harp with the golden strings” again than is any other child of Judah, AMERICAN SECURITIES were-in strong specu- lative and increasing demand in London and on the continent of Europe yesterday. This is what remains of the “belligerent rights” recognition of Jeff Davis and the foreign re- port of the battle of Bull run, The present symptom is healthier, and consequently much more pleasant for all parties. Progress of the Democratic Rew. The coalition of the sill stocking and rough and ready democracy—the party with Sammy Tilden at the head and Senator Michack Nor- ton somewhere near the other end—does not go on so swimmingly as its friends would desire. In fact, its little rebellion against Tammany has come to a standstill, and when & rebellion halts, when it fails to go onward at @ galloping pace, when ‘its members havo an odd moment for thought, its vigor is pretty well run ont and its spirit is oozing away. That is the way at this moment with this little charter hodge-podge of treasons, stratagems and spoils. Just now the silk stocking de- mocracy was jubilant with elegant delight, and tapped its amber snuffbox with an air of superiority and satisfaction, It felt that it had won and that the world was saved in virtue of its consenting to a momentary contact and alliance with the rough and ready democrats. The rough and ready fellows were boisterous in triumph—the trout-fishing democracy blew the whole twelve of its penny trumpets at one time—Tammany was evidently ill at ease, and the countrymen wondered who had the money and what was to be done with the canals. But all of a sudden there is a spirit of distrust in the air, and it is evident that something has happened, though nobody seems to know exactly what it is, It is evident, however, that the anxieties of the countrymen have not been relieved, for with the new Charter in full bloom they are found to be ‘“‘ndifferent,” and even resolutely decline to consider the new Charter fight a party question and go into caucus over it. Can it be that these rural fel- lows dare doubt the men who assure them that Tammany must be crushed out? But there is something worse for the silk stocking and rough and ready coalition than even the indifference of the countrymen; and this is that there is some reason to doubt whether, in their own particular circle, each is faithful to the other. For instance, their new bill, which was presented in the Assembly last night, makes it the duty of the Mayor to appoint, immedi- aiely upon the passage of the law, a great many commissioners; and then, instead of making a new Mayor to make the new ap- poiniments, it puts the election of that func- tionary off till November. This would give all the appointments. to the present Mayor, and, because the fight is one for spoils, it is just this that they wantto avoid. Mr. Thomas Creamer, it has been stated, is the man the new party want for Mayor and want to make these new appointments, and they might fall into worse hands. But what can even Mr. Creamer do if he is not elected till Novem- ber and the appointments are made in May? November may be as pleasant as May in the. camp meeting sense, but it is quite otherwise in a case like the present. Who has fixed this obnoxious point, then, in the new Charter? And, moreover, who has betrayed the honest instincts of Sammy Tilden’s followers in their noble antipathy to the Board of Supervisors ? That Board wasto be abolished anyhow, but the newest silk stocking Charter provides for eighteen Supervisors, while at present there are only twelve. This is a very startling sort ef reform—one of those strokes of political genius with which men of tho silk stocking type always astonish the world. v Tse Dommican Purowase.—In the Senate yesterday a petition was presented showing that an American citizen named Hatch is im- prisoned in San Domingo, and all efforts of our Consul there to release him have been futile. it was stated by Mr. Ferry, of Con- necticut, that he believed the real cause of Hatch’s imprisonment was his knowledge of a fraud perpetrated on the United States gov- ernment in the sale of Samana bay. He urged that a more forcible argument than mere words be employed to secure Mr. Hatch’s release, and the matter was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. So it would seem that even the Dominicans fool us to the top of our bent in the matter of bargains and sale, and have no respect whatever for the mild protectorate we have established over them. CaLumny IN Reports.—Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, referring in Congress to the false charges made against himself with regard to the cadetship investigation, said:—‘‘For the newspaper press and the newspaper reporters, asaclass, he had a very high respect, and had a personal regard for many of them; but if the sluiceways of calumny were to be thus opened by irresponsible men connected with the press, the next expulsion that would be in order would be the expulsion of slanderous and calumniating reporters from the gallery.” Congress, by acting on such a hint, will doa service to the respectable portion of the press, as well as assert its own dignity. Toe Ar Ling Rairroap Brin came up in the House yesterday and was discussed with great animation for so dry a subject, but went over on the expiration of the morning hour. Mr. Swann, of Maryland, in opposing the bill, said the amount of travel to and from Wash- ington did not warrant the building of the road. But is it not probable that the building of the road will improve Washington so that the travel may increase accordingly? Tne Tax on Emicrants.—It is proposed by Senator Genet to reduce the capitation tax on emigrants from two dollars and a half to one dollar anda half. This should become a law. The tax is to support the Emigration Hospital, and now that the Commission has a very extensive establishment, paid for out of the tax, and only has to keep this in motion, it can well endure this decrease. Spomine a SENsatT10N.—Some more or less pathetic stories have from time to tine been told about the exaction from crippled organ grinders of a license fee as ‘“‘public perform- ers.” This subject has finally raised its head in Congress, and called forth the declaration that no such tax has ever been colkcted or laid, It is deemed likely that ‘‘pertons had been hired, for political effect, to sii at the street corners wearing such placards in order to bring the government, the laws and the republican party into discredit,” War in North Caporiva.—The Governor of North Carolina has declared one of the counties of that State in insurrection, and announces his purpose to send the Stzte mili- tia there and to call for federal troops if neces- sary. We hope all this will be done at the expense of the rebellious county. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Telegraph Enterprise—The Far-Seeing Policy of Great Britain. England has always been remarkable for her far-sighted policy. She looks to the future for results more than to temporary conve- nicnce or seeming preseat advantages. This is seen in hundreds of instances, but in nothing more than in her telegraph eaterprise to all parts of the world, She fully realizes the fact that in these times the telegrap. is the great- est promoter of commerce; consequently we learn that she is bringing iato instant commu- nication with herself and each other all her vast possessions, as well as every country which has a trade worth looking afler. Ex- tension of her commerce and commercial supremacy are the objects she has constantly in view. We learned lately that she was push- ing hor lines of telegraph from Europe to India by the way of Suoz and Bombay, and that she would soon extend them to China, In connec- tion with this European and Asiatic system of telegraphs it is now proposed to establish a line to Australia. Nor does England neglect the American Continent or leave it to the enterprise of the United States, A company has been formed in London, with a capital of three million two hundred and fitty thousand dollars, for extending tele- yraphic communication throughout the colonies of the West Indies, and to connect with Panama, as well as with the States of South and Central America, on both the Pacific and Atlantic sides of the Continent. There is hardly a point of any commercial importance throughout all this vast regioa of the world that will not be brought into telegraphic com- munication with England. The West India and Panama Company, which has undertaken this work, proposes to lay the cable between the West Indies and Panama during the months of May and June, and it is contem- plated that the South Pacific cable will be shipped from London in October. We shall have no reason to complaia or to be jealous of this gigantic enterprise, for it will place the United States in telegraphic communication with all the countries referred to, as wellas England, Indeed, we may de- rive the greatest advantage, being much nearer to the West Indies and South and Central Awerica than England, which must make the cost of telegraphing less to us. This great network of telegraphs to and over the coun- tries of both the American continents will create the necessity of more Atlantic cables between the United States and Europe, and in this way monopoly will be destroyed, rivalry will spring up, and the people and press wiil get the benefit of cheaper communication. The time is not far off, evidently, when the governments of all nations will have to take control of this mighty agent of civilization and commerce, and when there must be a general international law protecting and regu- lating the telegraphs connecting the different countries with each other. Looking at the astonishing progress made in extending telegraphic communications and at the far-seeing enterprise of the British people and government in this matter, it does appear that our own government is slow and behind the times. We ought to have had a cable across the Pacific to China and Japan by this time. The vast trade of those countries could be diverted more and more to the United States by placing the two continents in instant communication. The time was and is most propitious for that. The Chinese- Burlingame mission laid the foundation for a more extended trade, and a number of circum- stances have combined to place this country in the best position for increasing our com- merce with China. But while England is intent on pushing her communications with that great empire by the long route of India we neglect superior advantages. So, too, with regard to taking the control of the telegraphs at home. Congress seems to be stupid and altogether behind the age. The vote of the House on Monday, on Mr. Washburn’s proposition to authorize the Select Committee on the Postal Telegraph System to inquire into the whole subject of telegraphing, showed how short-sighted our national representatives are. The truth is, we want statesmen who can comprehend such great questions and the movements of the age. Congress is made up of small politicians whose vision is limited to little local affairs, and who have no idea of the wants and destiny of this mighty nation. Our public men might well study the far-seeing policy of English states- men in promoting British commerce over the whole world and through every available channel, as well as in the measures adopted for giving the people cheap telegraphic com- munication at home. Tue Verpictr or New Hampsnire is an endorsement of Grant’s administration. As in the initial race for the grand sweepstakes of 1868 New Hampshire, in leading off with Grant, gave the republicans the inside track and the lead which they held throughout, so now, in planting themselves upon the platform of Grant’s administration, the New Hampshire republicans have shown their party throughout the country how to win. To the temporizing democracy, on the other hand, the moral of this New Hampshire election signifies that the employment of guerillas is a dangerous busi- ness, inasmuch as this new labor reform party upon which the democratic managers relied to draw away from the republicans the balance of power has, like a two-edged sword, cut both ways. In fact, this new labor reform party, with its red hot democratic ideas on banks, money, &c., is just the thing to com- plete the demoralization of the democratic party, | More Opposition To THE EovMENIOAL Coun- o1L.—It.is now no longer doubtful that the opposition to the schemes of the Council has become serious. Our latest despatches prove that the fight is fairly about to begin, if, indeed, it has not begun. The Pope insists on bringing up a decision on the infallibility dogrim, France insists that no decision shall be come to either on infallibility or on the Syllabus unless a special envoy be allowed to represent her in the Council. A later telegram informs us that Austria and the other Catholic Powers join France in demanding special representation in the premises, Should such demands be yielded to the Council will cease to be a purely ecclésiastical assembly. Church and State will be in conflict more fiercely than ever. Rumor hasit that the Holy Father is hopeful of having the dogma sanctioned before the French or any other lay represen- tatives shall be able to reach Rome. Evidently the tug of war is close at hand. More and more does the Council become the centre of interest to the Christian world. The Sitantion in Mexice. The condition of Mexico at present is as bad as bad can be, Every telegram, letter and item of information from there shows that the country is rapidly sinking beneath the load that discontented, unprincipled and reck- less politicians, demagogues and miliiary leaders are heaping upon it, State after State rebels against the national authority, Pro- nunclamento succeeds pronunciamento, and treason forms the basis for their utterance. Only a short time since a revolution broke ont in San Luis Potosi, and to such a formidable extent had it sproad that the government was powerless to suppress it. So bold had the revolutionists become that they issued a proclamation declaring the independence of the State, and although the latest telegrams from the city of Mexico inform us ‘of the vic- tory of the national troops under General Escobedo over tho rebel General Aguirre, yet the recent successes are not of such a charac- ter as might lead to the belief that the revo- lution in that State is effectually crushed. The news that General Garcia de Cadena, ex- Governor of Zacatecas, was at Lagos, at the head of two thousand men and with twelve pieces of cannon, may also be regarded as an indication of fresh troubles, when it is con- sidered that Cadena aims to fill the Presi- dential chair now occupied by Juarez. Every day brings with it additional dangers to the Mexican republic. Among the foremost of those who lead the robellious factions in their treasonable opposition to the national government we find the names of Lozada, Negrete, Placido Vega, Aguirre, Espinosa and Daville. From the Rio Grande to Ta- basco and from the Gulf of Mexico to tho Pacific Ocean the peace of the country is dis- turbed by bloodshed, robberies and contempt for the law and its administrators. The revo- lutions which now curse Mexico have assumed greater proportions than any which have afllicted this unforlunate country since 1859, and threaten to bring oa universal disregard for restraint or the establishment of abso luie anarchy. In fact, the political and financial problem of Mexico is no nearer solution now than it was forty years ago. Tho last dol- lar which the government could raise by mortgaging its diseased credit is being brought to bear to postpone the reign of anarchy, while the people, having no confidence in themselves or not desiring to preserve their own institutions, refuse to volunteer their personal aid in the field to sustain order. Even when volunteers are found willing to enter upon a campaign and attempt to restore order once more they stand in danger of becoming tainted by the treason- able influeuces which surround them, and not unfrequently succumb to these influences, for- get their loyalty to the republic and join the standard of some revolutionary demagogue. Amid all these turbulent spirits the unfortunate Juarez stands almost alone, vainly endeavoring to stem the tide of disorder that sweeps over the whole face of the country. Wherever he casis his eye revolution, gaunt and bloody, meets his gaze. Even the national troops are not to be trusted. Dis- content among leading officers is common; and, such being the case, is it any wonder that when led to battle the troops sus! defeat under leaders whose conduct suggests the suspicion of insubordination, if nothing worse, to the higher authorities? Apart from this lack of confidence in many of tho officers we cannot lose sight of the fact that men forced into the fanks make poor soldiers; and then there is the additional drawback of an empty treasury, which is anything but a stimulant for men to fight. Patriotism is left out of the question, for were we to judgo the Mexicans by the last forty years’ experience there would be little to place to their credit for love of country. In view of the present situation of affairs andthe progress of the revolution, how long will the Mexican people persist in following a course which leads into the very depths of misrule, anarchy and confusion? There are scarcely half a dozen States of the tweniy-two comprising the republic in which revolution, open and avowed, does not exist, where the laws are defied, the executive condemned, murder an everyday occurrence, robberies prevalent, outrages committed without dread of consequences, and fear, distrust and coa- fusion everywhere. This is Mexico of to-day, anda pitiful picture it presents. It almost seems as if self-government by the people of that rich and fruitful land was a failure, and that every day draws us nearer and nearer to the time when, in the interests of humanity and civilization, the subject of Mexican self- government will be brought before the govern- ment of the United States for its consideration, and possibly for its action. Tur Posra Terucrarpn IN ENGLAND.— The Western Union monopoly has been enabled through the Atlantic telegraph to create the impression in this country that the government system of telegraphing in England wasa failure. Butitis always well to take these despatches with many grains of allow- ance. General C. C. Washburn has received a letter from Mr. Scudamore, Director General of Postal Telegraphs in Great Britain, saying that the working of the scheme is improving daily, and the delay occasioned at first was owing entirely to the rush of business brought about by the reduction of rates, Is Ir tHe Prick or Pract ?—Bingham, who was last heard of as fighting’ doughty Ben Butler, now moves in the House that the said Ben shall have an allowance of two thou- sand dollars for his services as counsel in the ease of Woolley against Ben Butler. Ben, it will be remembered, rather stretched the authority of the House in the imprisonment of Woolley as a delinquent witness, and Woolley sueth for damages, Hence the proposition that he shall be defended at the national ex- pense. Does Bingham proffer this as a salve to Ben? GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE, ex-Vice President of the confederacy, has shown himself since his return from exile to be one of the most sensible of all the paroled. He now denounces the Ku Klux as idiots or villains ‘The Oncida Disaster. At last we have an official list of the lost on board the ill-fated steamer Oneida from our naval officers in Japan, and a semi-official account of the disaster from Dr. Suddards, who was one of the fortunate few that escaped. The accounts only elaborate the sad story. They do not relieve the first details of any of their horror or put the disaster in any more favorable light. Sixty men were saved and one hundred and thirteen were lost, as at first reported. The infamous inhumanity of the captain of the Bombay, the unanswered calls of the Oneida for succor, the gallaniry of Commander Williams, who gathered his officers about him, that they might all go down in line, are all confirmed. No sadder story has been told for many alongday. No braver, more gallant record of heroism in the face of death thun that of Williams, Stewart, Maldaur and their messmates has been written since the | days of the British troop ship on which s regiment went down with arms presented. “All hope gone, their few boats crowded with men or dashed to pieces, their remorseless enemy sailing away from the sound of their guns, they saw that death was upon them, and they mei it without cringing. They gathered about their gallant old commander, determined to stick to their old Oneida to the last, and se went down—brave, hearty men who twenty minutes before were filled with high hopes of soon seeing home, The conduct of the captain of the Bombay is under investigation by a naval court of in- quiry at Yokohama. His defence seems to be that he felt only a slight shock of collision, which he did not think was sufficient to dam- age the Oncida or his own vessel, and did not hear the sound of the guns. But his defence is too lame to avert the infamy that will attach to him and the punishment that ought to be meted out to him. It seems probable that merely to escape responsibility for the neglect of his lookouts, or to save his owners from the liabilities incurred by the careless destruction of another vessel, he left to their fate the men who, if saved, might testify against him, Ranroat. DEMONSTRATIONS IN Panis.—France is not just settling down so quieily as she ought to do to the enjoyment of her newly found privileges. A bad spirit exists, and it ia manifest that this bad spirit is finding encour- agement. We like not the boldness of the eight hundred conscripts who paid homage to the Marseillaise newspaper and its imprisoned editor on Tuesday. We like as little the temerity of the Marseillaise, which has made it the organ of the outcast and the dangerous classes. We do not much admire the new organization which calls itself the ‘‘Friend of Order.” But we do like, we do admire the calm dignity and patience of the government. Napoleon is giving France a fair chance. If France will not use her chances wisely it will not be Napoleon's fault should the reins be again tightened. M. Ollivier, backed up as he is by all the good sense of Paris and by so powerful a helper as Girardin of the Liberté, has a good right to ask time and a fair oppor- tunity; for, such favors granted, it will be won- derful if he does not win, Exxovutions IN PENNSYLVANIA.—The two murderers of the Peightal family were exe- cuted in Huntingdon, Pa., yesterday. They died with the usual firmness and hopes of here- after, The spirit of speculation seized on the occasion, The property holders around the jail erected booths, poles and stands in the vicinity for the accommodation of spectators, charging exorbitantly for reserved places, and made a good thing out of it. If the ropes had broken, or the Sheriff had been unusually awkward, or anything more exciting than the plain execution had occurred, the speculative Pennsylvanians would have become immensely wealthy by their venture, Rervusine To Proszoure.—The other day aman was beaten and had his throat cut in a den of ruffians in the Eighth ward, and the police arrested the perpetrators; but they have been discharged because the man will not appear, as he believes that “‘it is his business, and he is the only sufferer.” He, of course, is not worth protecting; but it is proper that an example made in this case should protect others. Only the authorities are to blame for the escape of the ruffians. The man who refuses to appear is their accessory before the law, and if once made to understand this he would soo! change his mind as to whose business it is when the public peace is thus disturbed. Genera Qursapa and his staff are in Washington, working like beavers for the Cuban cause. They visited the Senate Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs, President Grant, General Sherman, Secretary Belknap, Secre- tary Robeson and Admiral Porter yes- terday, and extracted an immense amount of comfort from the cordiality with which their informal visits were received. They even feel emboldened to call on Secretary Fish, and will probably do so before the week is over. Tur Rrpeiiion Amone THE ‘New Domrnt- oans.”—We give a few extracts in to-day’s Heratp from the leading Canada newspapers in relation to the discomfiture of the forces of the Dominion of Canada while operating against the insurgents under Riel, who really seems to be commander of the situation in Winnipeg. It will be seen that the opinion is generally expressed that the “New Domini- have, for the present, at least, the upper hand. OppresstvE Justice.—In thig city it is a great deal worse to be suspected of murder than to be known to have committed murder, Witness the cases of the many murderers that go quite free, and compare these with the case of the persons suspected of murdering Captain Alexander, who have been kept in prison months awaiting inquiry, and when the inquiry comes it proves nothing against them. Wno Dip Ir?—The great political query of the day is, who is the author of the newest new Charter? Is it Mayor Hall, or the ancient George Purser? We have a notion that there is less init of either of these worthies than of that magnate of reform, Mr. Sammy Tilden. Many Hanps.—It is said that the new Charter is “the work of many hands”—moro hands than heads, evidently. It is only proper, however, that a great many hands should be seen in it, as it is a machine to facilitate grabbing the spoils. Fe ES cans”-—as they may not be inaptly termed— |