The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1870, Page 6

8 NEW. YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREBT, JAMES “GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR.~ Rejected communications will not be re- turned. lS Volume XXXV. Ne. 61 SESE AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING RAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Py entwe TWELVE Tuxerariows. lr tales OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.--Nuw Vuxsion oF Bauer. — AVENUB THEATRE, Twenty-fourth o#.-FxOU WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, oor- ner .—Matines daily. Performance every evening. NEBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Draws or Tar RMMRALD RING. vi BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Tus Tuxte GcaRps- MEN STRAPRIE ACTS otun RECLUSE. a Y OF MUSI With sireet.—Enanisu OPrta— tin Beaoe Domino, % THEATRE, 284 st., between Sth and 6a ars.— a AY TO PAY OLD Déwrs. pt WALLACK'’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h street, Loat ar 8ra. STADT THEATRE, N eS a NEM YORE: THEATRE, Nos. «9 and (7 Bowery MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Bi - Faov-Faov. oe BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Tam Lavy or Lyons. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Vocauism, NkGRO MIN6TRELBY, £0. FRE COMIQUE, 64 c PR = fo-n < Broadway.—Couto Vooat BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, 1 7 oiiarant'e Minermnce es Temmany Building, 14th SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Brox 'way.—ETnr0 - rian MINGERELSY, NeGuo Acts, 40,18 TEMPTATIONS. KELLY PLAN MINS 20 Broadway.-—E14to- os NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteonth street.—Equasretas AND GIMNAGTIO PERFORMANORS, 40. LLO HALL, corner 2th street and Broadway.— Tar Naw HiwExnicon, HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoourr's MINSTEELS—Tux 4-T Tainves, do. MBW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway,— SoImNOR AND Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. “1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Paan. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, us 3—Washington: Judge Bradley Confirmed by the Senate; Discussion of the Georgia Bill; The Tarif Bill Under Discussion in the House; Decisions in the United States Supreme Court—New York City News— Leland’s Adventures: An Interview with the Titustrious ‘fhe. Allen—Cnicken Main in New Jersey—Connecticut Morais—A Desperate “Bear” and a Novel Fraud—Brooklyu Common Councll—A Conductor Kijled on the Erie Rall- road. 4=—Great Britain: Popular Progress Towards Re- Publican Democracy and Free Institutions— NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Troubles ef the Administration. The troubles at Richmond, Va., in Tennes- see and Georgia, and at some other parts of the South, are giving the administration some uneasiness. It hardly knows how to act. On one hand it is desirous of maintaining the supremacy of civil law in the reconstructed States, and on the other it is urged to exer- cise military authority to Suppress disorders and to protect the people. One faction is working hard to pull the administration and Congress on its side, and another in the opposite direction. Each swears like s trooper against the other. If we would believe them there never was such a reign of anarchy as exists in the South. We need not be surprised, therefore, at the quandary the administration is in. But the President is covl and cautious under the circumstances. He is carefully studying the matter and taking the best advice within his reach. He will hear all that the carpet- baggers, scalawags, fire-eaters and negropho- bists have to say, and then will act, we have no doubt, for the best interests of the country and in maintaining the proper authorities, The chief difficulty {s that there is too much reconstruction and too muoh -military in the South. Five years, or thereabouts, the agony of reconstruction has been kept up for politi- cal purposes, when it might have been and ought to have been ended in one year, or two years at farthest. In the effort of the dominant radical party to secure the negro vote, and by that the balance of political power, military authority was maintained much longer than was necessary. The ruling faction has looked to that, conse- quently, for support. The negroes, under the influence of ambitious and evil-minded car- pet-baggers, have been led to believe that the political power of the South belonged to them and was in their hands. This naturally placed many of them in antagonism to the conservative white population. As the States have become restored to the Union, and the white native population have shown their power, the negroes and their carpet-bag leaders feel disappointed. They forget that the white population was much the largest, and that throughout the greater part of the South this population had a majority of votes. As long as the States were unrecon- structed and under military authority the radicals and their negro allies had their own way, toa great extent; but as soon as civil authority was restored the white Southerners began to take the control. This is the secret of the disturbances in Richmond, of the clamor for reconstruction over again in Georgia, and + for the demand of the radicals for a military government over Tennessee. The prolonged military rule over the South has had the effect of making General Canby and other commanders mistake their duty. Old World Items—Doctors vs, Dogs—In | Though these gentlemen may be governed by Memoriam : Funerals of the Late Gnitan C. Verplanck, W. W. Cornell and George Wake- Man—Municipal Affairs—Alleged Bold Swind- lng : Twenty-five Thousand Dollars Involved ; Escape of the Perpetrators—crime in Weat- chester—The Recent Accident in Jovn Street— Rural Bloodshead Check on Bank For- gers—Marine Tri Gelmpority of the The Brooklyn Election the best motives, they are influenced by their military training and ideas. They cannot understand that when a State has been re- stored the civil law should be supreme. In the trouble at Richmond, for example, General Canby shonld have taken no actiog or have as- sumed no authority but to suppress Insurrec- Fraua Trials Finally Commenced; Two Cases | tion when called upon by the civil power. In Disposed of Yesterday; An Acquittal and a any dispute about the formality of an election Conviction—Proceedings in the New York City | or the right of parties to hold office he should and Brooklyn Courts—Personal Inteiligence— Real Estate Matiers—Police Trials—Financial and Commercial Reports. not have interfered, but have left that to the courts. An election to office is to be taken as @—Editoriais: Leading Articie on the Troubles in | a bona fide.fact, though carried by fraud, till the South, the True Policy of the Adminiatra- tlon—Negro Affray in Pleasant Valley, Conn.— Patal Case of Lockjaw—Amusement An- nouncements. Y—=Telegraptic News from a)! Parts of the World: TheegOxford and Cambridge Univerties Boat Race; Adelina Patti in Mortal Danger from Fire; Geveral Prim's Pronunciamento of Spaniab Radicalism; Prince Plerre Bonaparte Indicted and on Trial for tae Nojr Homicide— The State Capttal: The Fields-Ainsworth Im- broglio; The New Police Bill Reported in the Senate—Amusements—Lecinre by Professor Maury—The Forged Will Case—Business Notices, ®<British Honduras: Earthquake Shocks; Plain Bpeaking Against the Home Government— Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, —Advertisements. 10—The Whiskey Raider’s Flight: Collector Bailey's Defalcations Estimated at $120,000—Sunday School Socteties—The Baron Von Below—The State Canal Contractor—Jesutt Churck Mis- sion—Sbipping Intelligence— Advertisements. 11—~Advertisements, 19—Advertisements. Wonrperrct.—Strange to say that the latest advices from Rio Janeiro have not a word about Lopez. In the way of Brazilian news this is most remarkabl Governor Snarrer has arrived in Salt Lake City, and expresses himself gratified with affairs generally. He is to be serenaded and have a calico ball. The Mormons evidently intend to amuse him in view of Cullom’s terrible bill. Aw Inisn Fentan Poxr was buried in Dublin yesterday. His funeral-was made the occa-~ sion of a ‘‘vast” popular demonstration. ‘The minstrel boy to the war is gone,” although he had no opportunity of wielding his ‘‘father’s sword” here below. Apgtma Partt has had a narrow escape from being burned to death in a railroad car to Russia, What a situation and what a sen- ation for la Diva / Death at the door; death by fire, and the fire in Russia and in wiater! The incongruities of the world against its harmonies, Law anp Orpzr have atill to maintain a fierce struggle against radicalism and disorder in France. Our cable reports oft the Prince Pierre Bonaparte trial at Tours go to show that while Bonaparte submitted himself completely to the action of the court and jury, M. Pascal Grousset, the leading witness for the prosecu- tion, was so ‘‘deflant” in his language that the judge was forced to commit him to prison for contempt. A poor contrast on behall of the people with imperialism. Disrriot Attorney Morris, after inna- qerable troubles, brought his first election fraud case to trial in the Brooklyn Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday and lost it. Two witnesses swore positively that Lynch, the defendant, one of the inspectors, had allowed eral persons to vote who had not registered, frrnags Gi his associates informed ° jury that there was not miMotem sridence examined and acted upon by the proper civil authority. This is the way such things are managed In the Northern States, and there is no other safe way compatible with the laws and civil liberty. The same principle applies to Georgia and Tennessee, though Georgia, not being yet fully reconstructed, {s’in rather an exceptional po- sition. With regard to Tennessee, a State in as perfect relations with the Unionas New York or Pennsylvania, it is preposterous and dangerous to talk of reconstruoting that State or of placing it under military authority unless in the case of positive insurrection. If Tennes- see can be reconstructed or placed under mili- tary rule, why not New York, Massachusetts, or any other Northern State? All the States are on the same footing. If this infamous practice were to be admilted no State would be safe, Any political party.in power could destroy {ts political equality and rights, and there would be an end to civil liberty. This government would be the most perfect cen- tralized despotism. No, better let the factions in the South fight it out among themselves; better let the two races try their strength, even by some bloodshed, than establish a despotism either under the military or a political oligarchy. The negroes of the South have acquired all the political rights and privileges of the whites. They ought to be contented. It is absurd to suppose that eight or ten millions of the superior white race are to be the political slaves of or to be controlled by three or four millions of semi-barbarians, who hardly know their right hands from their left. In any contest the negroes must go to the wall. This is seen in the troubles at Richmond and elsewhere. It is’ positively cruel in the heartless carpet-bag politiclans to lead these poor people to destruction. We hope General Grant will exercise his good common sense in these Southern troubles, and, above all, will maintain the supremacy of the civil laws. Eneiisn Covrresies.—The English Queen extends her thanks to the United States for the courtesies extended to the ship Monarch, which, of course, are gracefully accepted. In the meantime, Captain Eyre, who ran down our ship Oneida, is on his way home to Eng- land. What courtesies will England extend tohim? Is England to let him go scot free, with the lost lives of one hundred and twenty American seamen on his head ? Tue Honpuras Rattway.—The cable de- spatch from London published yesterday has the following announcement :—‘‘The contract for the construction of the Honduras Railway was signed here on Thursday. The work is to be begun within a year.” We are informed by the Consul General of Honduras that the information sought to be conveyed by this bungling paragraph is this: That the last two sections of the Honduras Railway were put under contract last Thursday ; the first and convict, and they must find him not guilty, ! moxy {iffleult section was commenced over a whioh the jury, having 20 choice, accordingly year ago afd is Qeariy completed, and the whole work is to be fatshed Noveniber i, 4871. fm the Seuth—The Trvo Policy | Tho British National March co Democratic Self-Government. By « special correspondence from London, published ia our columns to-day, we continue to report the progress of the British people in their constitutional Parliamentary advance towards the attainment and enjoyment of a system of democratic self-government. The writer prefaced his history of this grand move- ment worthily, and with effect, in his letter which appeared in the Heap on the 6th instant. He continues the narrative to-day, noting the more prominent influencing home causes which contribute to the force of the popular wave-flow, and which, just now, com- bine so ag to make its power trresistible. These causes appear to be twofold. The first is to be found in the existence of a costly, anti- quated throne which stands forth as the gilded emblem ef an oppressive and demoralizing British feudality, the very right of tenure and existence of which is now exploded in the pages of even the elementary books of the public schools, and in the daily teeming columns of en independent and unshackled press, enlight- ened hourly by electricity and moved by steam to ite short and telling lessons of instruction. The second appears in the morale of royalty itself, as witnessed in the conduct and course of life of some of the first claimants of the crown and sword of State after the demise of Queen Victoria—claimants peremptory under the law ot settlement and by virtue of the right of pri- mogeniture. ‘The spirit of change has invaded the British Cabinet, it finds-vent on the Trea- sury benches and has its tongue in the univer- sal and independent Parliament. The people of England, of Ireland and of North Britain have their separate wants. The throne has ita isolated rights. The popular voice is indo- atructible in its assertion—the veto of the crown in opposition as futile as wad the flat of Canute spoken to the eternal soa tide at his feet. Under such circumstances it is easy to say which of the Powers will triumph. The Heraip makes history by a special statement of the complete case as it exists between them. The Bailey Mystery—How About tho Bondsmen¢ Tho case of Collector Bailey is a strange one in all its incidents; and if it shall prove that this man, who has seemed to make so many resolute endeavors for th® honest col~ lection of the revenue, is in his turn only a rogue, the case will even then be scarcely less mysterious than bofore, since it will be diffi- cult to understand why a man should at last be a defaulter for some thousands who might have flourished undiscovered on the theft of millions. There is, however, one poiut that is pretty plain if he isa defaulter. This is the liability of his bondsmen, It is at least doubtful whether Bailey will ever turn up again, and if he does it will evidently be with tangled accounts and a deficlency. Yor every cent of that deficiency his bondsmen must pay. It has been too much a habit to look with lenient consideration on liability of this sort. Bonds given for men in responsible position have been regarded as favors between politi- cians, and In all the cases of defalcation it is scarcely possible to cite a case of the prosecu- tion of bonds. This is an abuse of power. The way to get good men in office is by follow- ing the bondsmen closely, and so making it dangerous for men of means to become responsible for others without good reason to know that they are what they should be. The present is a geod case for government reform on this point. Markets and Politica. It is bad enough for the political harpies that infest the metropolis to monopolize offices of every description and help to drain the pockets of the taxpayers in every conceivable manner, but when they come to interfere with our food and turn our markets into political machines it becomes intolerable. According to recent developinents it appears that a system of proscription has been inaugurated by these vandals among the marketmen. Without regard for the claims of those who have occu- pied stands so long, and their fathers before them, that they began to consider them as family inheritances, these ruthless politicians serve them with summary notices to quit and make way for some of their own friends, No explanation or satisfaction is-given, and no compensation for fixtures or improvements, The official ukase is peremptory in its provi- sions, and there is no alternative but submis- sion. Independent of the manifest injustice towards the marketmen we can see in this little game one good reason for the disgraceful state of our markets. No city in Amorica can furnish such an accumulation of filth and vile odors within the space as New York in Wash- ington Market. How can ait be otherwise when there is such gross mismanagement and political huckstering, and when the denizens of the slums and the “‘vote early and often” gang defile our fish, meat and vegetables with their foul hands? We trust that the market- men will not tamely submit to this injustice, but will make themselves heard in Albany among the assembled Solons. CoLONIZATION OF THE INDIANS.—A Dill to reorganize the system of governing the Indians has been completed by the House Committee. It proposes to colonize, them all in one ter- ritory, under three classes, a general superin- tendent te have charge of each class, and no more treaties to be made with them. In re- gard to the colonization scheme, it yet remains to be seen whether it will work or not. Some time ago a system of putting the tribes on reservations was instituted, but it does not seem to have worked very well, owing to the difficulty of getting them on the reservations. The same difficulty of catching the hare pre- sents itself in the colonization scheme. But there is no question about the expediency of abolishing the treaty system. Itis an anomaly in legislation to make treaties with the inhabi- tants of our own land—our own citizens, in fact, and the system has long been a vehicle for abuses and ewindles that will only cease with its abolition. An Etxorton to fill the vacancy in the House occasioned by the forced resignation of Mr. Golladay has been ordered by the Governor of Kentucky for the 25th of next wionth, Wo believe Mr, Golladay t3d some 7 pa enn intention at first of rupning for a re-election; ! but we think he had better not. The people of his district are likely to give him a holiday out of Congrasa, That Funny Ferry—The Secret. The Assembly committee who are investi- gating the Weehawken ferry nuisance took some testimony on Saturday which exposes the secret of the reason why that institution is so abominably managed, and is ran for fun and not for profit. Ex-Senator Laimbeer swore ‘ that the pragident of the company designedly kept the ferry in bad condition for the purpose of depreciating tho price of property in and around Weehawken until he could buy up all the land he wanted there. After that, of course, it is presumable that the ferry would be put into magnificent shape; the broken bridges would be repaired, the ferry houses would be made inhabitable for passengers, and the boats would bo cleaned until they shone even'as a mirror. Human beings, as well as oxen, would then, no doubt, have a fair show for comfort. Meantime the National Stock Yard Company have offered to purchase the franchise and run the ferry decently. They are backed up by the Erie kings, Fisk and Gould. This com- pany has a fine cattle yard on the Jersey shore adjacent to the ferry, with a branch railroad connecting it with the Erie Railroad, which it taps near the Bergen tunnel, and over which thé cattle are shipped by thousands, It is ‘probable, therefore, that they can afford to run the ferry for thelr own con- venience’as well as for that of the public. An examination of the books shows that the receipts of the ferry vary from ten dollars to three hun- dred and sixty dollars—the latter sum being sometimes realized of fine summer Sundays. That the ferry pays, even in its present condi- tion, is asserted by all the witnesses. Tho Legislature has good grounds for correcting this dangerous nulsance, and we hope that Mr. Kiernan, chairman of the committee, will act promptly in the matter. Thore is a mountain of evidence to prove that the ferry is run in the interest of the company and not of the public. Query.—Are not all our ferries in the same predicament, and would not a little over- hauling do them good? A Dos Case. Relapsing fever having paled its ineffectual fives, and the smallpox epidemic being a com- parative failure, the Board of Health has been almost without occupation, and the members of that noble commission would have been without a sensation to stirtheir languid pulses but for the fortunate occurrence of a great dog case. Dr. Strachan loves dogs, but all his neighbors do not sympathize with this parti- oular fondness on his part. Tastes are never all alike in these matters, If a man loves monkeys all his neighbors, out of mere per- versity, will take up some special spite against the playful creature, and invent stories that they climb into the windows, frightening the children, killing the canary bird and stealing fruit. If an Old lady loves the melodious note of a parrot do not all the people over the way declare that the sweet voice is a ferocious scream? If a man has a notion that he can play on the cornet, and Iikes to get up early and practice, are not all the people near him censorious on the subject? This was the way it was with Dr. Strachan’s splendid dogs, Rather, it was worse. For while the monkey, the parrot and the cornet are pretexts for all the complaints that petty, spite and small malice may imagine, they give just enough annoyance to make the complaints not altogether unreasonable. This was not the case with Dr. Strachan’s dogs, for, as will be seen in the certificates given elsewhere, nearly all the neighbors admired the animals and testified to the fact that they were not in any sense disagreeable. Never, theless, on the complaint of one neighbor, the Board of Health ordered that the Doctor should separate himself from his pets and send them into exile. Now, however, on the as- surance of all the other neighbors, the Board has rescinded its order, and the dogs are once more restored to a legal right in the domestic circle, Spain—Another Crisis. Our news from Madrid encourages us to believe that another crisis is at hand. Were it not that we have had so many crises, and that so little on every occasion has come of so much promise, we should call this fresh difficulty a great and serious one, It appears that Prim has been successful in the view he took of the Loan bill, What that view was we have not been told. What weare told is that Prim’s victory has created excitement, and that to all appearances it involves the neces- sity of Serrano’s retirement. We await further news before we pronounce on the situation, Serrano, of all the men who belong to the provisional government—for we cannot call the regency by any other name more suitable—is a gentleman. What is better, he is the acknowledged head of the unionists, the only truly respectable party in Spain. Ser- rano has saved Spain so far from the wildest anarchy. He does not much care for his high office on his own account. But he is a gentleman and a patriot, and it is difficult to believe that Prim is either the one or the other. If Prim succeeds in disgusting Serrano and driving him from power we shall look for serious trouble; but we are not too anxious as yet to forecast the future, Tug Fonpine Britt Sonzme.—The men who are most interested in having the Funding bill passed are those who want the one per cent that Mr. Boutwell recommends, or the half per cent which the Senate proposes for ma- nipulating the debt. Our own bankers and financial agents, as well asa number of Eu- ropean financiers, remembering the magnifi- cent jobs that Jay Cooke and others had in handling the bonds and money of Uncle Sam during the war, are looking with eager eyes to the spoils this bill may give them. We do not want the Funding bill at all now; but if we must have it let the business of transforming the debt be left to the paid employés and agents of the Treasury Department. A Bgavriro, Patonwork is the new City Charter, which is to’ be discussed by special order iu the Assembly to-day. The democratic members have already invested it with all the rainbow tints of Joseph's coat. When the republicans get a chance at it they will stitch ona number of many-oolored patches, so that the Charter will not be of a “‘red, white and fing" grrangement by any means, Indeed, from the sores ne comeh, Tt aalght be expected to be more of the black and blue order. Congressional Acts of Charity and Justicow But What of the Claim ef Lincoln? Yesterday, on motion of Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Appropriations, in the House of Representatives, and under a suspension ef the rules, a bill in behalf of & charitable insti- tution was passed which will meet the general approval of the American people. We refer to the bill appropriating twenty thousand dol- lars to the Catholic Sisters of Mercy, of Charleston, S. C., for the purpose of rebuild- ing their orphan asylum; and “‘in considera- tion of the services rendered by those Sisters to the sick and wounded soldiers of the Union army while aaid city was under bombardment during the war, the money to be expended under the direction of Sister M. Xavier.” This is a becoming recognition of adebt due to those worthy Sisters for services to the govern- ment in their adopted line of religious duty— services given ‘‘without money and without price.” It was a fortunate thing for the sick and wounded “‘boys ia blue” held as prisoners by the enemy in Charleston during the war that they fell under the gentle ministrations of those good Sisters, a3 many a grateful patient thus restored to health end strength will bear witness, The war in many ways and things has, on the score of charity and humanity, required the intervention of Congress, The Freedmen’s Bureau, for instance, much as it has been de- nounced, especially by the opposition party press, as an institution for the encouragement of negroes in idleness, was, in its day, a god- send to the destitute Southern whites, rebels included—men, women and children—as well as to the blacks, Witnesses from this office, who have seen the distributions of corn and meal and bacon from those bureaus, especially in Georgia and South Carolina, testify that large numbers of impoverished whites were among the beneficiaries, and that such was the general destitution in those States so late as May and June, 1867, that but forthe timely charity of the government thousands of their helpless women and children, whites as well as blacks, would probably have perished from hunger. And so with the thousands of des- titute blucks drifted into Washington on the waves of the war. However small their claims upon Congress, the government could not per- mit them to atarve under the shadow of the Capitol. There are thousands of cases of Southern loyalists impoverished by the war whose claims are beyond the charity and beyond even the justice of Congress, because, if allowed, they would soon swell to an amount which would swamp the Treasury, There are certain exceptional cases, however, which have been or should be attended to by Congress, The recent appropriation, for in- stance, of six thousand dollars for the benefit of the. widow and children of Edwin M. Stanton, and as one year’s compensation for him as 9 member of the Supreme Court, though given as an act of charity, will, by the great body of the American people, be ac- cepted as an act of justice, but as falling far short of the claims of his family upon the government. So in regard to the services of General Grant to the Union gause, and of many others, men aud women, too numerous here to mention. . We cannot, however, permit this occasion to pass without reminding the two houses of Congress of the claim of the family of Abraham Lincoln. Under the peculiar cir- cumstances of this case We doubt whether there is another government than ours in the civilized world that would not have appro- priated without debate the salary of the whole Presidential term involved to the family of the faithful han of the uation whose life was sacrificed in its service. But the bill proposing a pension of five thousand dollars to Mrs, Lincoln still lies, we believe, under the table of the Senate; and there has been such a long silence upon the subject in that body as to leave the impression that even Mr. Sumner has concluded to drop it, But this isnot jus- tice to the memory of Lincoln. It is a mean evasion of an imperative duty; and in the fact that Mrs, Lincoln, for economy’s sake, has been driven to the cheap living of an obscure town in Germany, we have a reproach upon the government of the United States which cannot be felt except as humiliation by any unprejudiced citizen at home or abroad, i DiscraczruL Soznzs iw Key Weor.—A special telegram from Key West informs us of the attempted assassination of a Cuban a few days since, and that a number of armed Spaniards who recently arrived from Havana are supposed to be implicated in the out- rage. This business of Spaniards coming across from Havana to American soil for the purpose of indulging in a little blood-letting has gone far enougb. There are sufficient opportunities for that kind of work in Cuba for both Spanfards and Cubans. We want no more such scenes as those which resulted in the death of Seiior Castaiion. Armed Spaniards had better remain nearer Havana than Key West and select other than American soil for lawleas deeds. Honpvras Wants To Coue Ix.—The people of British Honduras are becoming discontented under English rule. They do not like the way in which they are treated by the home government, and they threaten, that unless the province is made a Crown colony, they will invite the United States to take the country under its protection, The Amerioan people no doubt will accept this expression of the Hondurians as an evidence of their belief in the superiority of republican institu- tions over those of monarchical; but the peo- ple of Honduras must wait. They havea fine country, rich in resources and possessing an ex- cellent climate, yet the time has not yet arrived for the consideration of this question by the United States. The time, however, will soon come when all of those provinces on the isthmus will become. part and parcel of the Great Republic. . Ecneverria QN ReyNoups.—It is reported that ‘Professor Echeverria is of the opinion that, apart from any mental derangement, Rey- nolds is of such an extremely low order of in- tellect as to justify his classification with idiots.” This opinion hardly seems the result of so clear an intellectual operation, oa la aa from the facts it is based upon, as the opinion of Reynolds bigeel that “hang- ing for murder ts played out in few York.” V inae turned seventeen, = ——w Liberalism im the Amorican Catholic Chareh, The sermon delivered by Father Farrell at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church on Sun- day last deserves something more than a mere passing notice. It was to be expected that in discussing the school question the reverend gentleman would advocate the abolishment of the use of the Bible from our public oduca- tional institutions, and that he should urge this in behalf of non-sectarianism. But Father Farrell went further. He did not hesitate to declare that ‘‘there is intolerance in the Catholig Church as well as beyond it,” and to pronounce some of the religious orders as the ‘‘very quintessence of littleness and bigotry.” In the same sentence he admitted that ‘the narrow-minded doctrines’ pnt forth by some of its (i, ¢, the Church of Rome) over-zealous advocates have frequently driven the people to rebel.” Furthermore, the priest seems to be imbued with the ideas of an advanced civilization, for he tells us of more advanced theorles superseding certain instruc- tions of the Bible, which were commendable at the time the Scriptures were written, but which are no longer applicable to mankind. Now, these sentiments are rarely heard from the Catholic pulpit in the United States, The clergy of that Church have heretofore been singularly lacking in independence. We were asked to believe that all the religious orders were remarkable for immaculateness, and that there was nothing in them calling for censure, When, therefore, we consider thia fact the sermon of Father Farrell is invested with decided significance. It develops the existence of a liberal element in the American Catholic Church, which can do much in aid of those who oppose the absurd aims of the ultra- montanes, We do not suppose that Father Farrell bas any purpose of condemning the pretensions of the Papacy to infallibility. He said nothing on Sunday to indicate his opinions on this question; but he said enough to satisfy us that all American priests are not wedded to the ideas and theories of the medixval ages, and to inspire us with a: hope for the future of the Catholic Church in this republic, Who Struck Billy Patterson? In another column we give a communication from a distinguished member of this commu- nity, who signs himself ‘Theodore Allen,” but who is better known in police circles by an abbreviation of those syllables. He objects ta having his house called “a crib.” Inasmuch as this word “crib” bas some pure associa- tions in every family and some sacred ones in Christian history, we think the point well taken. No such place should be called by that name. There is, however, a,far more im- portant point in Mr. Allen’s note than anything he says about himself or his house. This is what he says about the famous attempt to take the life or smash the nose of the indomitable hero, Major Leland. It will be remembered that this distinguished warrior was assaulted and defended his life by opening a file fre with his trusty revolver. As related In the note of Allen, the person who assaulted Leland was not so much assaulting that . valiant gentleman as defending a woman. Who, then, assaulted the woman? As the bravo are always full of chivalry, and as Leland bubbles with courage like soda water with carbonie acid, it of course could not have been him, It would seem, moreover, asif the confusion was such that the Major kept up his fire long after his assailant was safoly out of the way; and this dlso puts a new face on the story. This story has to be told a great many times yet, and we expect {it will be different every time. This will confuse the history of it sadly; and, such is the scepticism of this age, wa should not wonder if, fn couseadies SP dag confusion, some person should be base enough to hint a doubt whether Major Leland ever was assaulted at all. By such means the dreadful story of his combat with a fugitive foe may take its place in our annals beside the history of the assault on Mr. William Patter- son, and it may be equally doubtful who hit either the one or the other of them. Wuar taz Youna Dzmooracy WaAnts.— The young democracy evidently wants to have thingse just as they are, only with a change of men, After a most scrutinizing examination of the situation it has discovered that a new Charter would be of no advantage. It would not facilitate the stealing in the least. In fact, as the law atands—aa past Legislatures have beautifully contrived it—it is wonderfully adapted to the purposes of political plun- dering. The young democracy modestly owns it can contrive nothing better for the purpose. It wants the law, then, just as it is, but it wants new men fn all the places. This result it will bring about by just enough new law to accomplish it, and with this result it will be eminently satisfied, and the owners of the great jackknife with which the reform war was carried on will be left out in the cold once more, : Tue UNpercRounp Rat.wayvs are likely to receive a good deal of attention in the Legis- lature. Mr. Genet introduced a bill in the Senate yesterday authorizing the Manhattan Railroad Company to construct railways undor- ground generally throughout the city, NEGRO AFFRAY IN PLEASANT VALLEY, CONN. One Nogro Killed and Two Pertons Wound. ed=Mob Riot in Tariftville=Two Men Ine jured. Hantrona, March 21, 1870. A brutal fight took place in the house of a negro, named Prince St. John, in Pleasant Valley, on Sat- urday night, which resulted tn the killing of @ nezro named Aaron Freeman, of SheMela, by Ed- ward Dolphin, of Winsted, and the serious wounding of Dotpnin’s wife and St.John. Dolphin taok a jug of whiskey to the house and attacked Freeman while maddened by drink, knocking him down and jump:ng on him, ‘crushing in bis chest so that he died in about two hours. The injuries to Mrs. Dol- hin and St. John were receiyea while attempti: ‘0 Stop the fight, Dolphin was arrested in Winsted. An ai occurred in Tariffville on Saturaay which will probably result in the death of one man. Some laborers on the Connecticut Western Rath undertook to mob the saloon of Joseph Forsyt! breaking in the door and windows and fring a pistol shot into the building, the ball passing near For- syth's head. Forsyth fired into the crowd with a double-barrelled gun, loaded with buckshot, whont- ing one man through the lunge and breaking tue se cen. He surrendered himself to the au- ort LOGKIAW—FATAL RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT. A few weeks ago a youngster named John Green. grove, a resident of Harrison towaslup, N, J., while practising gymnastic exercises in Lagowatz’s trun. factory, ia Newark, over a large revolving shatt, was Gaught by pin and whirled around witn frightful velocity, 80 that his garments were torn to shreda, his Jeg broken and his body otlierwise seriouny bruised. He was removed to his home in Harrison. Within a few days since lockjaw set in, and finally resulted in the death of tie poor fellow. Ge was