The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD|™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York IikRaLp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXV AMUSEMENTS TRIS EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, eor- ner Thirtieth st, —Matinee daily, Performance every evening, Broadw: NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘Tak MEN IN THR Gar. BOWERY THEATRE, Howery.—Tur Castin oF Ton MENAR—FREDETION THE GRRAT, —INNISPALLEN} O%, BOOTH'S TITEATRE, 20 eiween Sth and 6th ava. — Evwin Boot 48 HAMt WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th streat.— Losr at Sra. juiaeSs. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Highth avenue and Md st.—-Tax TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, I4th street.—ENGuisn Orxea— ‘Tur MARKIAGK OF FIGARO. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosaway.-Nkw Version OF RaMLeT. NEW YORK STADT THEA’ Overs Burro.-Batcx Biever, oz. 45 and 47 Bowery— woe AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Proo Kou. 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I~Advertisements. 2—~Advertisements. 3—Washingion : Senator Sumner’s Bill for Resamp- tion of Specie Payment ; The Georgia Bill Be- fore the Senate—Naval Intelligence—Partial Strike of Painters, 4=—Europe: Count Bismarek on German Union and National Consolidation; Pio Nino and His Police on Temporal Fallibility and Papal Infalibility; Freach Cabinet Policy and Court Fétes: tne Eastern Schism with Rome—Cuba: Appearance of the Insurgents at Guines; Tn- surgent Raid on a Sugar Estate; An Indig- nant Spaviard—News from Venezueia—Muni- cipal Affairs. 5—Proceedings in the New York City and Brooklyn Courts—The Fullerton Case—The [allroad Subsidy King in the United States Supreme Court—American Jockey Club—Finaneial and Commercial Keports—Real Estate Matters, G~Editorials; Leading Article on ‘The Situation im Europe, the Revolutionary E}ements—Per- sonal Intelligence—Is Reynolds to be Hanged or Not?—Arrest of Phillips, the Defaulter— Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Telegrapnic News from All Parts of the World: The Prince Henri de Bourbon Funeral; French Cabinet Differences on the Papal Question; ‘The British Pains and Penalties Bill for Ire- land; An American Ex-Consul Called to Account by a Spanish Ciab tn Cuba; Another Victory for the National Troops in Mexico— The State Capital: Bills Introduced to Elect Supervisors and Appoint Pouce Commissioners for new York City—Fires—Total Abstinence— Another Stow Scandal—Kings County Super- visors—Arimy Intelligence—Business Notices. S—The Impurity of the Ballot: The Brooklyn Election Frauds Again m Court—tThe Baron Von Below—Dangers of Marine Travel: The Seamen's Strike and What It Has Developed— A Police Conspiracy—Feast of the Deliverance of the Jews from the Vengeance of Haman— Projected Social Scieuce National Congress— Marriages aud Deaths—Advertisements. 9~Advertisements, 40—The Taxpayers of Rye, Westchester County, in Arms—lndignant Taxpa; —Obituary—K, vounty, J., Courts—The Alexander Case The Ang! erican Erie War —The Metnodist Book Concern Prauds~—United State supreme Court—Baptist Sunday « School Wreckea Steamsiup Eagle—Lo Kk Waverley . Y.—Shipping Intelligence~Ad- vertivements, AJ—Advertiseme: 12~Adyertisements, Ix a Bap Way—The Manhattan Club democracy, now that both their temper and their shirts are rofiied. Susrexprp.—It is reported by telegraph that the captain of the Bombay has been ‘‘sus- pended.” We should like to know with what kind of rope. Cariran Facutia—The practical jokes of the rough and tumbie democracy in Albany on the silk-stocking and rufiled-shirt democracy of the Manhattan Club. Farsk.—Prim, from beyond the Atlantic, says the story that he had fixed any price for the sale of Cuba is absolutely false. This story was put forth here as coming from Sena- tor Sumner. Premize GLApstoxE has just given a solid pledge of his good faith and friendship towards the English Protestant Episcopal Church. His son, Mr. Stephen Gladstone, waa ordained a clergyman of the establishment yesterday. What will the bigots and growlers say now ? The British Premier returns to the original foundation of the universal Church and acts under the inspiration of the Bible. He gives his “beloved son” and is ‘‘well pleased.” Tue Devi to Pay IN THe Hus.—The Boston V'imes positively denies the story of the Post, that a disobedient young lady in that city recently went to a ball with the devil— supposing him to be her lover—and after the discovery of her terrible mistake committed suicide. A great many of the ball-going class in the Hub have been going “that way” for a long time, and it is not at all a matter of surprise that one should be escorted by his | 6 Satanic Majesly to one of those ‘“‘iazzling halls,” which first tempt, then fascinate, thea corrupt aud finally destroy body and soul. a eS TES a cece CR Ne 2 oC ee ee ee SS NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, Ailtuation in Europe~The Revelution~ ary Eloments. The duel—the fatal duel—which has just taken place in Spain and in the near neighbor- hood of Madrid has lent a fresh interest to European politics and to European manners, In the whole range of history we can recall no similar case, no case #0 completely illustrative of what we should call demoralization in high places, This Spanish duel, so fatal in its re~ sults, has furnished us with a point of de- parture which is absolutely fresh, Time was when duelling was common in Europe; but the growth of a healthful moral sentiment--a moral sentiment created and sus- tained by honor and intelligence—made the duellist almost, if not entirely, a blackleg. Thackeray, so keenly alive to all the follies of the past and the present, made duelling to English readers in his exquisite novel of ‘‘Es- mond” more than ridiculous—certainly wicked and despicable. It is now long since British sentiment denounced it. Years, many: years, have rolled past since Jeffrey and Tom Moore avenged their wrongs by firing off blank cartridge. It is not so long since Pal- merston laughed down in the House of Com- mons a belligerent Irishman, in the person of the so-called O'Donoghue, who challenged to mortal combat the present Sir Robert Peel. In France and Germany duelling has been a kind of pinyful pastime at the larger schools and universities, But all over Europe the practice has long since been denounced among men of sense and culture as barbarous, brutal and essentially unfair. The sentiments of intelligent Europe were heartily endorsed by the reading and intelli- gent people of the Northern States of America. Unhappily a violent Sonthern sentiment, be- gotten of slavery, did before the late civil war drag Northern men into folly and sin. against their better judgment. Burlingame, now no more, a man of sense and spirit, and the philosophic and scholarly Sumner, will long be remembered as examples of what we have said, althongh Sumner’s case is not quite to the point. Since the war no gentle- man of the North has been so foolish as to yield to’a false sense of honor. The intelli- gent Anglo-Saxon sentiment that the sword and the pistol were no fair arbiters of quar- rel has grown and grown, and in our Northern States, quite as much as in Great Britain, and, indeed, among all the intelligent classes of Europe, duelling has been openly and very justly denounced as genteel rowdyism. It has pained us sometimes to find that in spite of facts the European public, encouraged by the press, has persisted in making the most and the worst of our American habits. Un- happily, Europe can point to our barroom squabbles. They can lay their finger on the map, touching New York, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston; and in connection with each of those places they can number mur- ders by the score or by the hundred many of which touch our best society. We cannot deny the charge. We cannot say that those who make it are wrong. It is true, painfully true, that our American civilization is not developing a high regard for the value of human life. We have a little too much of the knife and a good deal too much of the pistol. It is, we honestly confess it, a huge drawback to the general excellence of our American civil- ization that men are so merciless, that life is so frequently, so cruelly, and so recklessly wasted. It is undeniable, however, that these blemishes do not attach to the better class of American citizens, They are the characteristics of the mob, which is more or less the same in all lands. In a free country like this they are only slightly exaggerated. The mob in New York and St, Louis and Cincinnati and Chi- cago is bad; but it is not much better in London or Paris or Brussels or Vienna or Berlin. If Enrope can despise the mob so can we. If Europe can say the characteristics of our civilization are not to be determined by the vulgar outbursts of the vulgar, so can we. We can say more; we can say that but little of American sin appears in European centres, whereas most of the sin of our large cities is European in its growth and training. As matters now are we have no cause to be ashamed. Our friends on the other side have no cause to be proud. On the lower level of society they have even less cause to boast than we have, They have as much sin, and they have a great deal more poverty. In the upper walks of life they must now begin to regard themselves as our inferiors, We must of course make exceptions; but when we think of the Mordauut case, which so closely tonched the royal household of England; of the Victor Noir case, which sullied the name of the Bonapartes, and of thls Spanish duel, which, in the estimation of many, makes a royal pretender a murderer, it is really hard to tind good reason for saying that monarchi- cal Europe is much better than democratic America. At the present moment the flowering of European society is to be sought in monarchical centres. If we look for it in England or France or Spain we shall have mo difflowlty in discovering bad examples. In the higher ranks of American society, whatever the cause, we have no such flowering, no such fruitage. It is this which gives us hope for the democracy, and particnlarly hope for the United States, It is thiy which confirms us in the opinion that Europe is rotten at the core, or, if the reader prefers another figure, slum- bering on the verge of a volcano, Here we look for progress and the subordination or destruction of the viler elements of society. In Enrope the viler elements are so strong that, in our judgment, cosmos can only be begotton of a chaos the terrible character of which is not yet fully known, Itis no longer dificult to dream of the disappearance of monarchies and of a grand confederation in which royal blood and princely titles will find no place, Tue Groraia Bit came up in the Senate yesterday, and Senator Trumbull ably advo- cated Mr. Bingham’s amendment which was passed in the House. Senator Stewart re- sponded to Mr, Trumbull, No vote was reached. It is reported that Revels, the colored Senator, will speak on it to-morrow. It is probable that with his record for uni- versal amnesty Revels will sustain Trumbull and the Bingham amendment, and it remains to be seen whether, in that event, Sumner and Yates will threaten to read him out of the party, as they have Trumbull and Carpenter. Or will his color save him? Our Naval Pewor—Parsimony of Congress, Gentlemen on the floor of Congress, deep in the Cuban agitation, speak of our being a great nation, and able to dictate terms to any Power on earth. They talk of our “naval strength,” which, in reality, is confined to miserable failures of wooden vessels, some few good tugs and an acre of iron monitors that would not float with their turrets and guns, The condition of the navy has been explained to the country in the report of Secretary Robe- son in uomistakeble language, and an earnest appeal is there made to Congress to place the service in a condition befitting at least a fifth rate Power. The appeal has been vain. The very men who talk so loud and who owe their present positions to the army and the navy, but for which they would now be unknown, are the most malignant enemies of the service, and are doing all they can to bring it into disrepute. Whata pitiable condi- tion this great republic would be in if war was suddenly sprung upon us; yet who knows when that event may occur? The government is now in treaty with the Dominicans for a portion of their territory, which has been much coveted by England, France and Spain. If report speaks the truth we are bound by the conditions of tho treaty to protect the Dominicans against domestic and foreign enemies with our naval forces. If we recognize the independence of the Cubans a variety of complications will arise, and we may be suddenly called upon to prepare for a collision with Spanish flesis that outnumber us in guns twenty to one. The Spanish men-vf-war now in Cuba carry over four hundred guns, while our small squadron mounts but thirty guns all told. One of the Spanish frigates now in tho harbor of New York carries more guns than our entire West India fleet, which, though it comprises good vessels of their kind, is no match for the Spanish force assembled in Cuban waters to meet an emergency, which they naturally conclude may arise at any moment. While this condition of affairs is well known to the people of this conntry, who can well understand the situation of affairs, our ships that are ready for service cannot even get to sea, because Congress has refused to grant the requisite number of men to maintain a foree of forty vessels, these to be divided among all our stations abroad. Four or five ships now ready tosail for foreign stations cannot depart be- cause the law will not allow them crews, while the crews of vessels abroad, whose times are out, have to be given one-fourth, more pay to induce them to remain a few months longer on ‘the stations. The country has seen how the present department has labored to form a navy from the débris Jeft by Mr. Gideon Welles, and although eighty-six vessels have been resur- rected from the dead, it has been*done at an expense of three and a half millions of dollars less than was paid by old Sinbad the Sailor, who in his last year fitie out buat two ships, Yet Congress cannot and will not sce this. The very men in the republican party who ought to come forward and insist on the navy being put in a condition to meet the pressing necessities of the country are the first to find fault with the goverament for its endeavors to afford protection to our citizens abroad, If we recognize belligerent rights in the Cubana, then comes the right of search on the part of the Spanish vessels of war, and we all know what that will lead to with a people like the Spaniards. Spanish officers are not par- ticular how they exercise their duties, pro- vided they cripple their enemies, American vessels would be subjected to unnecessary and rigorous searches, and our naval commanders, who have always been instructed to resist the claim to the right of search on the part of any Power, and who have probably at this moment particular instructions on the subject, would soon bring about a collision. The first gun fired in this cause would fire the heart of every American, and we should find ourselves involved in a war before the people had time to comprehend it. These are some of the results that would flow from a miserable parsimony that should never be countenanced by statesmen. Berrish = ParuiaMENtary Work.—The British Parliament debated the new bill of pains and penalties for Ireland, which Mr. Gladstone has submitted to the members—as outlined in a Hrravp special cable telegram yesterday, yesterday evening and to an early hour this morning. The measure em- braces ail the points enumerated in our cable despatch, but elaborated with official care so as to be made ready for executive use. The Public Education bill for England was also considered, and one of the American naval claims, which originated during the Jeff Davis rebellion, was spoken of, Ireland and England are thus fo be instructed—the one with the bayonct and gabré ahd prison uniform, the other with the English grammar and geogra- phies. All about the same in the end, how- ever. Horry Up Taar Prooramaricn |The redi- cals in Connecticut are anxiously awaiting the promulgation of the President’s proclamation announcing the ratification of the fifteenth amendment. This will enfranchise severak hundred colored citizens in the State who never before have voted, and whose right to do so has been denied by a majority of the white people of Connecticut over and over again—tho last time, we believe, by some six thousand majority. The great bulk of this new vote will undoubtedly be casi for the radi- cal candidates, and as it may be required to defeat Governor English, the democratic can- didate for Governor, the sooner that proclama- tion, licking the Connecticut darkies into the shape of old-fashioned voters, appears the better for radical purposes in the State, Tur Jersky Justices are shrewd and un- swerving in the administration of the law. If they happen to make a mistake on the side of mercy, and find a prisoner rather pleased than otherwise at the extent of his sentence, they quickly reconsider the matter. In the Essex County Court yesterday a wife beater was sentenced to six months’. imprisonment, but as he was going out the Judge detected a pleased expression on his face, and heard him say “Thank you, Judge, I can stand that.” It was unfortunate for tho wife beater, for the Judge did not intend that he should have a punishment that he was ploased with. So he called bim back and doubled his term, Society In Europe. Perhaps we are not altogether going to the dogs on this side the Atlantic. If we may be perwitted to gather a little comfort from com- parisons, we can venture to hope that we are not much worse than all the world, From time immemorial we have been pointed at by English and continental writers as the types of the barbarous in all reapects—as the one people of the earth that was utterly, hopelessly, in- curably guilty of every known and conceiva- ble vice. But are we, after all, so much worse than our censors? It is true that our quarrels are sometimes bloody. Yet we do not often do worse than did Mr. Pierre Bonaparte when he shot Victor Noir in his own parlor. Out in Arkansas they do or did indulge in savage duels, We do not, however, remember anything worse in that way than the killing of Henri de Bourbon by the Duke of Montpensier. In some instances also the purity of society is a little damaged by free love practices; but none of our trials present a worse appearance than did the Mordaunt trial, There are Americans, too, who indulge in concentrated bitterness of speech towards their opponents ; but the canvass in which Mr, Bernal Osborne was a candidate for the House of Commons exhibited a disregard for the ameni- ties of discussion and the decencies of life altogether that quite puts us in fear for our laurels in that way. We may not be so much worse than everybody else after all. “The Colored Troops Fought Nobiy” Africa. Lord Napier of Magdala was examined the other day before a committee of the British House of Commons on the subject of the cost of the English war in Abyssinia, The distinguished soldier gave his testimony explicitly and off-hand. He stated the difficulties and dangers of the cam- paign with great modesty, and proved that it must have been expensive in order to be victorious. Lord Napier said:—‘I had not one man too many at Magdala. 1 should have been very sorry to have undertaken to take Magdala with a less number of froops. If a few old women had got behind the natural bastion and thrown down stones on our troops they would have caused us serious loss.” Lord Napier’s testimony thus confirms in every particular the Herat special telegrams from Abyssinia, by way of Ezypt and through the Atlantic cable, as also our special letters from Theodorus’ country, in which we reported the progress of the Abyssinian war at the time, the march on Magdala and the assault, and also told of the gallant cheer of that Irish regiment in the Queen’s service which carried her flag to victory on the heights, The “colored troops fought nobly” in Africa, and Napier and his men found plenty of work. So says his lordship of Magdala ; the Hrratp said so specially long since. A Sproran TELEGRAM From Cusa informs us that Mr. Phillips, late Acting Consulate for the United States at Santiago de Cuba, was visited a few days ago by a committee from the Spanish Club in that city and required to make explanations regarding a despatch which recently appeared in the American papers purporting to be an official telegram from that quarter. Mr. Phillips denied the authenticity of the despatch in question; but this, it would seem, was not enough, and the ex-Consul had to sign a com- munication repudiating the statements con- tained in the obnoxious despatch. From the hostile demeanor of his visitors Mr. Phillips subsequently thought it prudent to leave a city where even a representative of the United States is as subject to indignity as a suspected Cuban. That he anticipated injury is evident from the fact that he was accompanied to the wharf by the English Consul and a govern- ment official. Secretary Fish’s policy is yield- ing a fine harvest. Six Srockine EquEsTRIANIsM.—Dan Rice’s circus is at last outrivalled, and while cham- pion equestrians stand aghast the Albany hippodrome will this week resume with novel and startling effects the performance of the wonderful pantomime of “The New Charter.” The silk stocking equestrian, whose last week's tumbles have doubtless taught a valuable les- son, availing himself of the interval of Sunday, has diligently trained his glossy zebra and untamed calico colt, and with the infant prodigy for the government of the city of New York upon his shoulders will again attempt to ride through the Tammany Ring. Whether he succeeds in governing his cavorting animal or not the display will be unparalleled, and to the democracy will, in the language of A. Ward, ‘“‘combine pleasure with profit in a eminent degree.” Queer Srare oF AFFAIRS IN TENNESSEE AND Norra Caroitna,—United States troops haye poen sont to garrison Yeckson and. Mus. Froeabord, in Tennessee, apprehensions of trou- ble being entertained. Tennessee is a demo- cratic State. Martitt Jaw has been proclaimed yaa Alamance and other coAnties In North Car- olina, ana United States troopé are called for to restore order. North Carolina is » radical State. Thus betwoen democratic puguacity and radical cupidity Uncle Sam will have a difficult time to maintain peace in his little family unless he,squanders a few millions. Bet- ter knock their turbulent heads together or leave them to fighf it out among themselves. Disrmor Artorn'£Y Morris has finally secured one point in his contest for the pun- ishment of the frandule nt voters in Brooklyn, after yielding a great n ‘any. Mr. Mahoney, one of the accused, was ca Ned up yesterday, when Mr. Britton, his couns. J, moved to quash the indictment, on the ground that the Grand Jury was not legally in ges sion when the indictments were found. Judge Gilbert, how- ever, overruled his motion, and _the trial of Mahoney will be proceeded with oaf.!'riday. Tur Property Horpers on some Ff the uptown cross streets are objecting g'? the laying of the Stow pavement on 4 heir thoroughfares at their expense. They eve? go so far as to charge the aldermen who passed the resolution ordering such a pave- ment with bribery and corruption. Tue Viceroy or Eaypr has ordered the immediate commencement of the building of new works of fortification and defence in the harbor of Alexandria, Cloudy.in the Hast, | and with the Sultan against the Papal schema. Cuban Leaders Opposing Annoxation. It appears that some of the military ohicfs of Cuba are so disgusted with the United States government that they are forming clubs of Our Special European Correspondence Count Bismarck on German Union. The special Hxraty correspondence from Europe which appears in our columns to-day supplies an animated and quite impor- | independence hostile to all projects of annexa- tant report of the current of events | tiontothisrepublic, Intercepted letters by the in the Old World to the 4th of | Spanish authorities reveal this fact, it is said. March. Our writers date in Berlin, | It would not be surprising should this be so, in Rome, in Paris and Madrid. Their com- | for though the press and people of the United States generally sympathize with the Cubans in their struggle for liberty, the authorities at Washington have proved more friendly to Spain than to Cuba. We do not think such a movement would go far, or that those who have the control of Cuban affairs would sacri- fice the interests of their country from a feel- ing of disappointment or retaliation. Still it will be well to consider how far it is: prudent or politic to make enemies of a people who must some day be annexed to the United States. It is unworthy a great nation like this to pursue the dog-in-the-manger policy towards a neighboring people fighting for free- dom. We will not let any other Power inter- fere; we would not permit Cuba to fall into munications are fresh, salient in point and with a variety of original matter from each city. Count Bismarck was, as will be seen, “himself again,” and that emphatically, in the Prussian Parliament. He spoke on the subject of German national union and consolidation, and spoke evidently with a heart still warm with the glory of Sadowa and a tongue tipped with the fire of that triumphant field. The Premier knows “no north, no south,” but Germany one and free and united; Germany for the Germans, for a healthy democ- racy, his fellow men and mankind. The famous Minister became slightly excited in | kinks, temper at one point of the discussion, but he is certainly not the less a good and sound- hearted German for that, From Rome we have an amalgamated exhibit of infallibility, fullibility, Council secrecy, Council stories and tattles, the rights of the Church, art, practical religion and popular satire in the Holy City. This exhibit presents the existence of such a state of chameleon-like change and bewilderment in the Holy City as must lead American readers to suppose that the industrious people of the place—if any such now remain there—should be glad at the appearance of a modern Curtius— no matter where he procured his armor, in Paris, Berlin, Vienna or London—who would jump into or over the wonderful chasm, and seek to close it in the interest of the faithful laity all over the world. M. Olli- vier was still engaged in his endeavor to aid the constitutional crowning of the Bonaparte “edifice” in France. The task appears difti- cult, but Paris, as will be seen from our special letter,, can afford to wait for a con- siderable time under the consolation of im- perial balls and other magnificent fétes, Prim, with many other leading Spaniards, was in radical political caucus in Madrid. Our spe- cial letters go to show that the mind of Europe was seething, fretting, intriguing and agi- tating towards some grand and sudden change in the existing political condition of the aged countries, but that the new moving and im- pelling force was so widespread that it had not as yet been concentrated towards any par- ticular point of vent. It will soon be, how- ever, Aw INDIAN ACHIEVEMENT, Texas given in yesterday’s Heratp was told the story of what the Indians did at the home of Thomas Fitzpatrick. He was a poor farmer, living in peace, apparently, with all the world, when a raiding party of Kiowas came that way. They killed Fitzpatrick and_his neighbor Parkhill; killed Fitzpatrick’s wife, but scalped her while yet alive, dashed out his baby’s brains by the roadside, and carried his two little girls into captivity. Here is a story for the contemplation of those tender- hearted people whose sympathies for the Indian lead them to denounce the recent slaughter of part of a refractory tribe. People who are comparatively safe in Easiern cities may indulge a philanthropic tenderness toward the Indian, with any other sentimental non- sense, but it is necessary to,be more practical on the Plains. A Batxy Team.—The experiment tried by the Erie managers to run a ballet spectacle and a railroad at the same time is aa unfortu- nate one for the travelling public. While these magnates are admiring the red fire and tinsel of “The Twelve Temptations” the trains and the employés of the road seem to have a holi- day of their own, and hardly a day passes now without some accident. Even Sunday was not exempt from the rule, ag a train on entering the Bergen tunnel went off the track, owing to the carelessness of a switchman. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but that fortunate circum- stance does not lessen the guilt of carelessness on the part of the delinquent employé, The managers should spare a little time from their spectacle to look after the conduct of their em- ploy¢s on the railroad. Sxvator Sumner yesterday introduced a billin the Senate providing for the gradual substitution of coin for the present reserves of the national banks and for the resump- tion of specie paymerts at some time not later than the lst of January, 1871. It is merely one of Mr. Sumner’s impractical schemes, It is better to leave the specie pay- ment question alone for the people to settle naturally. At the present rate it is probable they will resume specie payments before Mr. Sumner can straighten out his crooked financial Tut Garpvers charged with the murder of Captain Alexander were finally discharged yesterday, the Coroner's jury rendering a ver- dict that the deceased came to his death from natural causes. The innocence of the accused persons has been so clear for some time that the jary could not very well do other- wise, But in the meantime the Gardners, man and wife, both old people, have been confined in jail, and have most likely suffered greatly in body and property, and perhaps reputation, by an unfounded charge. What reparation are they to have ? Prorgcrion on REVENUE.—A test vote was taken in the House yesterday on a democratic resolution providing for a revenue tariff as opposed to protection, The House refused to lay it on the table by a vote of 38 to 118, and then referred it to the Committee of Ways and Means, which favors protection, So that on one vote the House records itself in favor of a low tariff and on the other in favor of a high one, We may presume, therefore, that the sense of the House on the tariff inclines more toward buncombe than business, Kune Grant.—It will startle the people of Pennsylvania to hear that Mr. Kelley, one of their representatives in Congress, has been ar- asted on suspicion of intention to kill General vnt. We believe there was some misunder- ‘ing about the matter, however. The police y Vere instructed to arrest a man with a short com, ‘On, and the only man they could find was Ke ‘Wey, who wears a short coat because the tariff is go’ hiet he counot afford skirts, n Gn stana nothing ourselves, the hands of any other nation, and yet we do We stand with our arms folded in indifference while a fearfully bloody war is going on along our border. Badly as the Cubans may have been treated, we advise them, however, not to assume an attitude of hostility to the United States. They can gain nothing by itand may lose much, They must remember that great governments move slowly and cautiously, and if ours has not done what was expected, through the accident of certain men being in power, there will be change by and by. The hearts of the American people are with the Cubans, and the best thing to be done is to fight on for independence, and thus command the recognition of this country and the world. Mr. Kiernan introduced bills in the As- sembly yesterday providing for the election of Supervisors for New York county by Assembly districts, and the appointment of Police Com- missioners by the Mayor and Board of Alder- men. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arvivals in This City Yesterday. Colonel A. Gorloff, of the Russian Army; Major C. T. Plunkett, of Connecticut, and Coionel W. G Whiteley, of Delaware, are at the Hoffman House. Colonel W. L. Bradtsy, of Boston; Judge V. W. Petty, of Tennessee; Dr. J. M. Marmaduke, of Mis. souri; Dr. J. B. Morgan, of Georgia; Colonel 5. L. GriMth, of Arkansas; Dr. W. Dean, of Iowa; W. D. Adams, of the United States Army; Judge Irving Knickerbocker, of Albany, and Colonel Y. R. Witt, of Idaho, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Colonel R. S. Archer, of Richmond, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania; Charles Mason, of Washington; 8. F. Stevens, of New Hampshire; H. M. Anthony, of Rhode Island, and U. A, Lamount, of New York, are at the Astor House, Julius Goll, of Milwaukee; R. J. Beatty, of Sing Sing; Dr. G. Mitchell, of Hartford; C. Fora, of Jack- son, Mich., and B. F, Crispin, of Phuadelphia, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Generali Wickham and General Echols, of Virginia; Thomas Fleming, of England; T. C. Banfield and W. A. Smith, of Washington; Colonel ©. 8. Bushnell and Dr. W. M. White, of Connecticut; Dr. M. Munroe, of Missouri; W. Burnett, Jr., of Ctnclauati; D. L. Goodloe, Jr., of Lexington, Ky., and H. M. Loud, of Michigan, ere at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel H. B, Reid, of the United States Army; W- W. Evans, of New Rochelle, and Colonei H. P. Curtis, ot Washington, are at the Albemarle Hotel. W. H. Miller, of Baltimore; T. J. Sproul, of Cht- cago, and W. B. Brooks, of Zanesviile, are at the Coleman House. Seior Rodrigues, of Cuba, and Professor Duncan, of Scotland, are at the St. Kimo Hotel. Captain C, Williams, of Hamilton, ©. W.; Dr. BE. L. Sanas, of Sandusky, and Captaia George E. Echols, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Prominent Departures. Colonel A. Haas, for Baltimore; Colonel Samuel Thigssen, for Alabama; Samuel Bowles, for Spring- field; P. S, Bemas, for Buffalo; A. Van Vechton and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul, for Albany. THE THREAD OF LIFE. Is Reynolds to be Hanged or is Ho Not t—A Sheriff’s Jury to Decide it—Reynolds’ Re- bast Condition. Reynolds, to whom is attributed the familiar prophecy tnat ‘Danging is played out in New York,” 4s trying to get the prophecy fulfilled and nis owo neck saved, by using every enort, through his coun- sel, Mr. W. F. Howe, to obtain a revision of the death sentence. « Physically Reynolds has improved by his incarce- ration; he sleeps well and he eats well. The proof of this is that he has gained fourteen pounds in flesh since he entered the Tombs. .But his mind— “ay, there’s the rub.’ It is this mind of Reynoids on which the whole controversy binges and on Which his life ts hanging. Eminent medival men have within the tast few daya been to see him professionally. They have watched him and they are all astounded at his sta- pid apathy. There is a heaviness avout hiro that Daitles all their skill to explain. Among these physi- ciaus is Dr. Echeverria, of West Thirty-iourth street, who has sounded the cranium of Reynolds, watched the circulation of the blood at the same time and has taken the usual course adopted by medical men in testing cases of brain disease, and he nas come to the conclusion that the condition of Reynolds is at tributable, more or less, to epilepsy, et Seer and oa Leeied of other medi- cal me ve decided Mr, 'e tofseck to place, as a eet duty he owes fo fk’ untortunae cliens, ali legal barriers in the way of the igno- minious sentence being carried out. It is pro- yided in the third volume of the Revised Statutes that any convict under sentence of death shall have the opportunity of apply- ing to the qudge of the Supreme Court and show cause Why he should-not summon a jury of twelve electors, who shail be presided over by the Justice of the Supreme Court, the District Attorney to have due notice of such inqaisition, At this court medi- cal evidence shall be taken aa to the condition of the convict, and if tie inquisttion 6 of an opinion that the convict 18 ingane the Governor shall grant & respite. ir. Howe will on Thursday apply to the Supreme Court for the needful authority to summon this in- quisition, Viewed in any aspect this application ts @ very important one; for, if granted, it will tn all probability result m @ respiie of the sentence of death, and Wf Reynolds ta respited he will not be hanged, and 1f Reynolds 14 not hanged it may be very safe to say that ‘hanging 1s played out in New York; for it is scarcely likely that a more delibe- rate murder will ever be committed. PHILLIPS THE UEFAULTER, Arrest of the Absconding Deputy Collector ta Liverpool=Extradition to be Resorted to. . A cable despatch from England yesterday brought to this city intelligence of she arrest, on asteamer at Liverpool, of Deputy Collector Jonn H. Phillips, of the Fifth collection district, who absconded from this city a short time since, as already reported in the HERaLp, leaving a deficit in his accounts of at least $40,000, ‘Tne defalcation was discovered several months since, but the de- faulter could not so easily be determined upon. Instructions were sent from Washington to have the accounts investigated. These instructions were Car- ried out, and tt seems that Phillips, becoming aware that communications were passing between the of- fice and the Revenue Department at Washington, became alarmed and left suddenly for Europe on the steamer Idaho, It was then learned what the extent of his peculations was, and that they had been carried on for ten months, and a warrant: was issued for his arrest by Commissioner Betw, but too . The bird had own, ithe thefts were committed through the agency of the tin foil tobacco wrappers, which are stamped by the printer. The culprit 1s but twenty-eight years of age, and he has a young wife in a delicate condi- tion of heaith, and totally unprovided for. Orders were transinitted to Liverpool to the police and the United States Consul to arrest him upon the arrivat of the steamer, gtving, at the same time, a full de- scription of the muitive.