The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the wear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription | n4¥e been made in it. Some of the depart- ments provided for in the original bill have price $12. ~ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH. 31, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT. pearance ef the Young: Demooracy. one hundred and sixteen against five. Legislature. the member of that name. Volume XXXV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE. Bot Heanta—Gyunastic Ex" BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 Bowin Booty as Macuetu. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th atreet,— T AT SEA. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broagway.—New Version ov AMLET. Company IN FRou-Frov, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRou Frou. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIR, Broadway, cor- nerThirtieth st,—Matinee daily. 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Pace. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Tammany’s Triumph: Passage of the New Char- terin the State Assembly; The Coup de Grace to the Revolting Democrats; The Brooklyn Po- lice Bil Passed in the House—The Tammany Revolt: Movements of the City Democracy— William M. Tweed and the Irieh Laborers— News from St. Thomas and St. Domingo—The New York Liberal Club, 4—Europe: The Montpensier-Bourbon Duel; The Steamships vollsion off the Needles; Franco- American Postal Arrangement—Ola World Jtems—Cuba: Unsatisfactory Result of the Winter Campaign; Spanish Hostility to Foreign Consuis—Anti-Woman’s Rights Lec- wre—Meeting of the Board of Health—a Domestic Mystery—Great Cocking Main: The Pet Birds of Schenectady and Troy in the Pit—The Passaic River Drowning Mystery. 6—Congress: The Amendment to the Texas Bill Concurred In by the House; Message from the President Announcing the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment—A Mid-Ocean Horror : Another Steamer Disabled and Adrift; Forty- two Souls Involved in an Uncertain Fate— Immigration Affairs—Police Blackguardisam— The Excise Fund—Hamilton’s Badges of In- famy—Proceedings tn the New York City and Brooklyn Courts—Marriages and Deatha, @—Editorials: Leading Article on The Charter at Albany, Mysterious Disappearance of the Young Democracy—Personal Intelligence— Amusement Announcements. '7—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: The Ex-Queen of Spain Separated from Her Husband; French Demonstration Against Pierre Bovaparte; English Report of the Pon- tifical Schema—The Fifteenth Amendment: Proclamation by the President Announcing Its Ratification—Washington: Texas Again in the Union—Tne Proposed New Market in the Mnth Ward—Amusements—The Sects and Common Schools—The Erie Railway: Argu- ments Before the State Senate Railroad Com- mittee—Horse Notes—Business Notices. 8-Financial and Commercial Reports—The Coal Trade—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements. g@0—Tragedy in Hudson City: An Old German Barber Uses the Razor on His Wife's Throat— The Sleepy Hollow Murder—Shipping Intelli- gence—Advertisements, 41—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Gae@ Law is what they call itnow. It was Ex-Governor Henry A. Wisk claims that he is still an unrepentant rebel. We do not see why he should repent. He never hurt snybody during the war. A Trvmry Pararnrase.—“‘There is a divin- Ity shapes democratic ends, let roughs use them as they may.” Goop News Erruzr Way.—The cable despatches from London intimate that the General Congregation of the Pontifical Council has adopted the Schema de Fide. The Schema ‘was published in our columns a few days since. ‘If it has been adopted, good. If it has not been adopted, good also. The world will wag ‘on just about the same either way. Opinion.” —The She “An OPINION As I5 AN opinion of Mother Goose of Mr. Kiernaa. a; There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wiae; He jumped into a brier bus! And scratched out both his eyes. But when he saw his eyes were out With all bis might and main He jumped into another busn And scratched them In again. A Hotper or Mixngsora State Bonps asks General Butler if Massachusetts will not accept some of them asa present and sue for their payment in order to contest the power of Min- nesota to repudiate them, General Butler very promptly replies that Massachusetts will accept a hundted thousand or so on those | to duty. terms and sue for them. No doubt of it, and ‘ue for them hard, too. Mixe Mvrpwy and his four confréres proved ‘to be rather ‘‘small potatoes” in the vote on the Charter yesterday. THE SERPENT ON THR Tux Soar Fat Man, tween 5th and étn avs,— fied; bill is substantially the same. and responsible executive, with a great range of power ; localizes in this city all authority over city affairs by making the commissions municipal departments, and lays some whole- some restrictions upon the expenditure of pub- lic money. In these points are the outline of a sound law, fitted to simplify and organize in an efficient government machinery the good ele- ments of our present system, and cutting away the superfluities and inconsistencies that made the system chaotic and incomprehensible to the people and thus favored corruption and the peculation of experts. As a law likely to give order to our government, to improve the character of the men entrusted with authority and to fix the responsibility for abuses, we believe this Charter will be entirely satisfac- tory to the intelligent, orderly, upright masses ofthe people and objectionable only to those who hate good laws for the most sinister rea- sons. We suppose, indeed, that the republicans in the Legislature voted for it so generally and so freely because it bore this character on its face. Republican authority declared that this Charter had ‘‘points of decided superiority to our present wretched anarchy.” Indeed, the republicans had become the responsible party in the session through the antics ofa faction of the worst class of democratic ‘‘strikers.” Because there was a knot of members from the city who merely wanted what they could make, and did not care a feather for duty or for party, the value of the democratic majo- rity was thrown away and the republicans were masters of the situation. They might not in this position have initiated any good measure for city government. The circum- stances, they may have argued, did not call for that; but when a measure of that character was laid before them they did not dare take the responsibility of defeating it. City mis- government is now a burden and an oppression to all, without regard to party, and city con- stituencies, and State constituencies, too, would have watched pretty closely the repub- lican members who permitted a factious spirit to deprive us of a chance for improvement. As to the so-called ‘‘young democracy”— the jackknife democracy—there never was before such a caving in of grand pretensions ag its career exhibits. The story of the bull- frog who wanted to be a bull, and burst himself in the effort to alarm the fields with his roar, scarcely does justice to the comical dispropor- tion between its promise and its performance, Listening a little to the noise made by these fellows one would suppose that annihilation would be only a small part of the consequence of indulging any difference of opinion with them. Their rhodomontade reminded us of something that was very common in the conduct of the Confederates during the war. Whenever a Union general thrashed them well they crowed with happy exultation. If he left them hardly a breath in their bodies they managed somehow with that little to crow even louder still. In fact, the worse they were whipped the louder, noisier, grander were their exultations on all occasions. So our jackknife democracy were jubilant when they were crushed out in the Assembly last Tuesday. There never was such a victory as they seemed to have won when shut out of Tammany Hall on Monday night. And finally, at the last trial in the Assembly, what is there of them? Nothing— absolutely nothing. They slink out of sight. They hide themselves under the convenient cover of affirmative votes. They deny their ex- istence. Their opposition is represented by the votes of five members whose fealty no party will be eager to claim. Are these five the whole jackknife party? Or was there no party at all—only a noise? Tur Country DrMocrats seem to be ‘‘just the cheese” after all. They all did so well it is hard to say who is head cheese among them. THe SreaMsHip VENEZUELA IN PERiL.— The steamship Camilla arrived at this port yes- terday with fifteen passengers of the steamship Venezuela, which the Camilla overhauled in distress during the severe gales of last weck. There are forty-two persons still aboard the Venezuela, the captain and his crew refusing to leave the ship, although she had.a large {hole jn her bull and her rudder and stern post were wrenched away and her provisions flooded. The Venezuela, when the Camilla left her, was about mid-ocean on her route from Liverpool to Barbados, somewhere in the neighborhood of latitude thirty-three degrees thirty minutes north, longitude forty-three degrees-thirty minutes west. There should be some aid sent to her promptly, If her line has any agents here it is their duty to look to it at once. They can illy spare such gallant fellows as her officers and crew have shown them- selves to be, and can never find others who will fill their places with such ardent devotion ‘Toe Greatest TRANSFORMATION Scent oF AtL.—That in the Assembly yesterday, chang- ing, quick as a flash, a horde of roaring lions into a flock of innocent sheep bouncing over , the fence into the fold of Tammany. The Charter at Albany—Mysterious Disap- | Proclamation of The latest proposed Charter for this city passed the Assembly yesterday by @ vote of This startling close to the campaign of the jack- knife democracy will give the people a just and ridiculous notion of the strength of that despatches must be addressed New Yorx | party. The Charter that received this over- whelming vote is the one that was called «Tweed’s Charter” by the copperhead organ, and by the representatives generally of the jackknife party. It is, however, the first Char- Rejected communications will not be re- | ter introduced at the present session of the Upon its first appearance it was called Frear’s Charter, because introduced by Some changes been stricken out of the present one—as the departments of Excise and of Education. Many points of detail, the impolicy and evil of which have been indicated by the fair criticisms of the people and the press, have been modi- but in its excellent conception of the unity of a municipal government the As it stands this bill provides for the election ofa Board of fifteen Aldermen on a general FRENCH THEATRE, Win st. and 6th ay.—Farncu | ticket; gives.s vigorous head to the city gov- ernment by making the Mayor an effective likely to be unwilling to admit. Irish policy has reconciled Ireland to English rule or misrule not many men now living will be prepared to say is a fact. it be that the British Parliament thinks of nothing but Ireland, does nothing but try to make Ireland sweet, and that all the good thoughts and all the good deeds prove failures? If things go as they are it will not surprise us to learn that an exodus is about to take place from the United States to the old shores, and that Englishmen in England begin to tremble and to doubt whether London is not to become a second New York. Whatever be the final result, it is undeniable that the Glad- stone policy is giving the world a fresh illus- tration of the Irish character, Property Protection bill going hand in hand with a second grand reform movement is one of the funniest things in all history. Englishmen, to many Scotchmen, to many Americans, and, indeed, to thinking men all the world over, the condition of Ireland, looked at in the light of the Gladstone policy, will encourage the idea that honesty and earnestness are questionable characteristics of a great statesman and even of a great national policy. Moral suasion is good, but the school- master knows that castigation is a necessary and efficient adjunct, much, but it cannot create a contented people. We know that Mr. Gladstone means and does well. him as they never followed a Parliamentary leader before. this latest attempt to heal the Irish sore will be more successful than the many attempts which have gone before. plaster is the best for Ireland is atill the ques- tion. people have New York, with its fat offices, to back them, the Irish sore will be hard to heal. Gladstone should think of this. the Fifteenth Amond- ment—Now for a Universal Amnesty. Upon the final passage of the bill yesterday for the restoration of Texas, the last of the list of the late Southern rebellious confede- racy, the President promptly issued his procla- mation of the ratification of the fifteenth amendment to the national constitution, estab- lishing equal suffrage through all the length and breadth of the land to citizens of all races and colors and regardless of previous condition of servitude, The right of the citizen, therefore (male, above the age of twenty-one), to vote in all our political elections, white man, black man, yellow man or red man, is fixed inthe supreme law of the land, and North, South, East and West the politicians of all parties will actively begin to cultivate the colored element in view of the balance of political power—eight hun~ dred thousand voters—which it commands, The negro question is thus definitely settled on the broad basis of civil and political equality, and the field is open for the broadest agitation of women’s rights. To close up the work of reconstruction, however, and of the mighty revolution result- ing from the late rebellion, one more act is re- quired—a universal amnesty, wiping out all the pains and penalties, disfranchisements and disabilities on account of said rebellion, It is understood, too, that a message to Congress recommending this act of amnesty will proba- bly be the next communication from the Presi- dent to the two houses. The fourteenth amendment provides that all the disabilities re- ferred to may be removed by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress; and now we sup- pose that vote will be freely given upon a measure covering all concerned in the rebel- lion, and investing them with all the rights of brethren in the Union once more. Such an act will surely work like a charm throughout the South in behalf of taw and order; and so now for a universal amnesty. Ireland and the Gladstone Policy. Our latest news informs us that there is small chance, so far as the House of Commons is concerned, of putting down the Gladstone policy. Two great measures, each of them looking to Ireland, are being pushed through Parliament, and so far as we can see there is not the slightest chance of either the one or the other experiencing serious difficulty in either house. At the same time it is impos- sible in this part of the world not to regard this Irish-English question as one of the fun- niest questions of modern times. One whole session of the Imperial Parliament and the best part of another has been given up to Ireland almost exclusively. The present Prime Minister of Great Britain, and one of the ablest Prime Ministers that Great Britain has ever known, seems to have made up his mind that in history he shall be remembered chiefly as a skilful expounder of Homer and as the healer of Irish grievances. That his Homeric studies will be pronounced by posterity a great success, posterity is not That his Why should A Life and To many Legislation can do We know that the British people follow But we want to see whether Whether cautery or In our judgment, so long as tho Irish pipe. Stretch himself. “Shoo, fly.” Feel easy. Sing IsABELLA AND Her Huspanp.—They have agreed to separate. They have also compro- mised their difficulties, What else could we look for in the circumstances? In riotous living, it is said, the Queen is wasting the family property, The Duke of Cadiz, her husband, has a regard for his children and looks to the future. The arrangement come to is, perhaps, the best possible in the circum- stances; but it is bad for the reputation of the aristocracies and the royalties. Why should not the Duke and Marfori settle their difficul- ties after the fashion of Montpensier and Prince Henri de Bourbon? Tue ANTI-TAMMANYITES have met an Antie- tam defeat. They must withdraw over the border. A Tracepy IN Hupson City, which we record elsewhere, shows that the assertion of unwomanly rights by woman may sometimes be attended with terrible consequences. Mrs. Schultz, it would appear, took all her hus- band’s business into her own hands, dispos- sessed him of his property, and, by cool treat- ment, drove him to such desperate measures that he cut her throat with a razor. It is likely that she will recover, but she will certainly have been taught a severe lesson on the duties and rights of married women. Tar Vore or THE Love Five oa the new Charter yosterday reminds us of the vote of the lone McCreery on the Alabama Claims treaty. The Moentpensier-Bourbon Duel—ieneral ‘Sickles Asked to Second the Late Princo Henrt, By a special correspondence from Madrid, published in another column to-day, we pre- sent to our readers a full report of the Mont- pensier-Bourbon duel, its exciting cause, pre- liminaries and management. The communica- tion comes in melancholy confirmation of our special cable telegram, detailing the unchris- tian-like determination and cool and vengeful purpose to murder, under sanction of the code of the duello, with which the sanguinary affair was conducted. The loneliness and almost friendless position of the Bourbon Prince in Madrid, the one day proud capital of his crowned ancestors, when seeking to prepare for the eventful moment, appears as if omi- nous of evil. Prince Henri was compelled to hunt round for a second in a city where but a few years since hundreds of knightly swords and gauntleted hands would have been un- sheathed and put forth in an instant on the mere whisper of a member of his family, even on the word of a pretender to his name, He applied to the French Minister, requesting him to act as his friend. The application was de- clined. He requested Major General Sickles to stand by his side in the emergency. The United States Minister was compelled to forego the proffered honor in obedience to the routine rule of the diplomatic body. The Prince even- tually selected his friends, the gentlemen who were named in our first special cable advices of record of the fight and whose names are re- peated to-day. Prince Henri no doubt felt the situation keenly. No doubt but that he regretted his former hastiness of temper, his intemperate language, his violence in personalities, his weaknesses, and his cutting, galling speeches on many occasions. Regret was unavailing in the emergency, useless in the crisis, He bore himself manfully on the ground, notwith- standing. The reader will learn from our letter how the men were placed, and, as it were, behold the murderous ‘‘advance,” “fire” movement as it progressed to the last shot, with the chance against Prince Henri, the leaden messenger of death almost at his head, a relentless antagonist before him, and eternity at his feet. He was cool, but not unmoved. Seeing Montpensier approach to the fatal realization of his bond—the grasping of the “pound of flesh” of the code—he took his watch from his pocket, delivered it to his second, and commended it with his love to his wife. The Duke fired instantly; the bullet whizzed in the brain of the Prince; Montpen- sier was revenged; a soul stood before its God. The Prince's general character, as well as his personal griefs and misfortunes, are referred to in very feeling terms. His earthly troubles have come to an end. Montpensier’s position here below has not been bettered. The. condition of Spain is decidedly worse. Where do we find the cui bono of the code? Spain herself renders the sad reply to-day— nowhere. Mr. Delano’s Taxes. If it had been understood by the American people when Mr. Delano was made Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue that he was to have supreme authority in the matter of taxes, and to impose new ones or increase old ones as might please him, and that under this authority he was to extort money without any warrant of law, there would have been a pro- test against his appointment so loud and gene- ral that it must have been respected by the President, who holds that ‘the will of the people is the law of the land.” In a certain section of the revenue laws it is written that from every man’s return of income there “shall be deducted” certain specific abate- ments, ‘Shall be deducted” is pretty good, plain, imperative Efiglish ; and we do not see how the lawyera can make any difficulty as to its meaning. Among other moneys that it is declared ‘‘shall be deducted” from the tax- payer's return is included ‘‘the anfount actually paid for interest” upon any encumbrance on his property, Thus, if a man lives ina mortgaged house and pays interest instead of rent he is entitled to a reduction from his return of the whole amount of that interest, just as he would be if it were rent. This is the plain, evident, unmistakable intention of the law; and yet in the face of this the collectors are now re- quiring from the people a supplementary re- turn for the year 1869, in order that they may squeeze out of them the tax on this abatement, for which abatement there is actually a place made in the revenue blanks, and which has always hitherto been allowed. This is flagrant highway robbery, and the people must submit or be compelled to fight the government in the courts. It would be better to havea new Com- missioner. Mr. Kiernan must feel sore. He had to sit down several times in the Assembly yester- day on a point of order. Goop For TeNNESSEE.—The Athens (Tenn. ) Post states that since the year 1840 Tennessee has “never been more peaceful and quiet than now; never been freer from crime and out- rage; never were its people more zealously devoted to industrial pursuits; never were its schools and educational institutions more lib- erally encouraged and sustained or ina more flourishing condition, and never before has there been so much interest manifested in the cause of education generally.” This being the case, what is the use of Congress jabbering about sending down to Tennessee loads of guns and blunderbusses to blow such peaceful peo- ple as high as ‘‘Gilderoy’s kite?” None at all, General Butler might as well close his books, Lost—Somewhere in the city of Albany, between Capitol Hill and the Delavan House, a beautiful political party. Answers to the name of ‘young democracy,” and carries a jackknife. A reasonable reward will be given to any person having information of its pre- sent whereabouts. Address H. Genet, Albany. Tar Case of THE RivaL Mayors or Rica- MOND came up before the United States Circuit Court in that city yesterday. The decision, it is said, will affect nearly all the offices in the State, as it is claimed by the counsel of Chahoon, the military appointee, that he was entitled to hold his office until the regular elec- tion. Taz Rovean Demooracy attempted to over- slaugh the new Charter by shaking their “bunoh of fives” at it, but they found them- selves knocked out of time. General Grant, the Sonate and the Do-| The Funding Bill and tho National Bank minican Treaty. The United States Senate, since the pur- chase of Alaska (481,000 square miles on.the main land and a string of islands which no man can number stretching clean across the Pacific Ocean, and all for $7,200,000 in Cali- fornia gold), has become somewhat distrustful of any further investments for the present in real estate. The Conscript Fathers, in fact, look upon Alaska, the home of the white bear, as a white elephant, and not knowing what to do with him they don’t want any more ele- phants, white or black, Hence the failure of the St. Thomas treaty, although certain vol- canic eruptions, earthquakes and tidal waves in that quarter played the mischief with the King of Denmark. Even Cuba appears to have lost its attractions as the ‘‘key of the Gulf,” and the splendid island of St. Domingo, rich beyond comparison in all the riches of the tropics, goes begging in the Senate, although offered for a song. General Grant has concluded a treaty with the government concerned for the annexation of the republic of Dominica—two-thirds or more of the island of St. Domingo, the repub- lic of Hayti holding the remainder. The an- nexation of Dominica would be speedily fol- lowed by that of Hayti, thus securing us the entire island, the possession of which would inevitably soon result in the acquisition of all the surrounding islands, beginning with Cuba. Moreover Senator Morton has shown that in 1789 (when negro slavery was in full blast there) the productions of St. Domingo reached the enormous figure of one hundred and fifty million dollars per annum, giving employment to seven hundred vessels and twenty-seven thousand seamen—facts which sufficiently at- test the amazing riches and capacities of the island. In our possession this maximum of one hundred and fifty millions of products would soon be restored. In coffee and sugar alone the crops of the island within ten years would reduce the cost of coffee throughout the United States to one-third its present price, and sugar to one-half. How and why, then, is it that the Senate opposes this treaty which pro- vides to secure us this island for a bagatelle? Mr. Sumner, they say, does not want any more niggers. He has had enough. On his Alabama claims he is looking to the acquisi- tion of Canada and the white folks up there ; but he shrinks from Mexico, Cuba, St. Do- mingo and all those tropical places, because of the niggers and hybrids of all shades and crosses which make up their population. We had supposed that the fifteenth amendment, establishing perfect equality of colors and races, would give us scope and verge enough totake in everything down to Brazil. But, then, it appears Mr. Sumner has other objec- tions to Dominica, such as the unknown debts of that republic, and upon these, it is said, the Senate is dead against this treaty. Just here, however, we have a touch of the shrewd common sense and far-reaching sagacity of General Grant. He proposes that the Senate shall suspend action upon the treaty until a competent commission to Dominica shall have inquired into all these objections, and made a straight and specific contract in dollars and centg. And we cannot believe that this fair proposition will be dis- regarded by the Senate, The President’s reasons for the acquisition of the island we hold to be conclusive. In the article of sugar (of which the United States consume seventy-five million dollars’ worth) and in coffee and other tropical products St. Domingo would largely contribute to turn the general balance of trade in our favor. Then the laws of Cuba and Porto Rico being against our commerce the possession of St. Domingo is necessary to establish our trade on ® proper footing in the West Indies, and will doit. Again, our country has become so im- mense that it needs outposts for military secu- rity against hostile European combinations, and nowhere do we need a commanding out- post so much as in the Gulf of Mexico. Such are General Grant's views of the importance of this Dominican treaty of annexation; and though obstructed for the present in the Sen- ate, the proposed acquisition on the general argument indicated must prevail. Tue Haytorr Demooraoy are, like the cherub aloft, looking out for the good of the State. Ovr Cupan Corresponpence, which is pub- lished on another page, describes the situation in Cuba. The winter campaign has been brought to @ close, and notwithstanding the boastful predictions with which the campaign was inaugurated it has fallen far short of the promises made by the government te the loyal- ists, Captain General de Rodas, who for a long time has been threatening a visit to the Central Department, has arrived at Puerto Principe, and almost simultaneously with the announcement of his arrival there reports of hard fighting in the Eastern Department were received in Havana. As yet no particulars have reached us, even as to the exact place where the engagement or engagements have taken place. Manati, Las Tunas and the river Cauto are mentioned, From the fact that the government in Havana has received despatches from General Valmaseda, who commands the Spaniardsin the East, the continued silence in relation to the affair, may be regarded as indi- cating a victory for the Cubans. Mr. Snow, in the Assembly yesterday, told Mr. Kiernan that his original destroying angel had returned with healing on his wings, ‘‘and, sir,” said Mr. Snow, ‘he will bind up the wounded spirit of the young democracy of the city of New York, and will gather the dis- severed democracy and bear them to a higher destiny.” Beautiful Snow! InpIAN MassaoRes IN Texas.—A report comes from Gainesville, Texas, under date of March 5, stating that the Comanche Indians bad made a raid in Western Texas and massa- cred over forty families. What have the sympathizers of the Piegans to say to this? General Sheridan is not in Texas or he would have either prevented the massacres or pun- ished the murderous savages who were guilty of them. For his doing 80 no doubt the journals who abuse him now would abuse him then, Tug REPUBLIOAN Memsers of the Assembly came out and voted for the new Charter boldly and aboveboard. Notwithstanding their natu-~ ral sympathy for the republican commissions they see that we will have a freer city with a , Frear Charter. Lobby. It is said the Senate Funding bill is ia danger in the House of Representatives, and that Mr. Boutwell begins to despair of its passage. The powerful national bank lobby proves too strong for the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Sherman, the Senate and the House itself, This is what we have been say- ing all along. We have maintained that the national bank organizations, which we have designated as a dangerous monopoly, would prove stronger than either Congreas or the administration. The Funding bill, we admit, is an impracticable measure, and theré” aro many objections to it; but the hostility of the banks has nothing to do with the public wel- fare. They oppose it simply because it would take away from them a por- In fund- tion of their enorjous profits. ing the debt at a lower rate of interest the bill provides that the national banks shall exchange their old bonds, which they pledge with the Treasury Department as & basis of their circulation, for the new reduced per cents—that is, instead of drawing six per cent on these security bonds they would draw on an average four and a half per cent, Now, considering that this percentage on their bonds, or, what amounts to the same thing, the profits on their circulating currency secured by the bonds, isa clean gift from the government, the claim of these banks is very Shylock-like. The government has been foolish enough to give them, without any con- sideration, about eighteen millions a year in gold; and now, when it proposes to cut down the gratuity to thirteen or fourteen millions a year, for the purpose of reducing the interest on the debt and the burden of taxation, they cry out for the original bond and for the last cent of that bond. It appears that the struggle between the Com- mittee of Ways and Means and the Committee on Banking and Currency of the House to get possession and control of the Funding bill was the work of the national bank lobby. The Committee on Banking and Curreey was their committee; but though they failed to have the bill referred to it, they are just as powerful and as successful, it seems, with the Commit- tee of Ways and Means. The fact is, they are stronger than any committee or Congress itself. If we see this in the beginning, and while the banks have only three hundred millions of cir- culating currency, what may we expect should the whole circulation of the country be in their hands and their capital be nearly tre- bled? The national banks would become the virtual government of the republic. The Wall Street Menagerie. The “animals” in Wall street, after several weeks’ comparative peace and quiet, have broken loose again and fought each other furiously all day yesterday. The “bulls” made the attack in this instance and wound up the day’s engagement with a terrible slaughter of the “bears.” This sudden development of hostility on the part of the ‘‘bulls” is due to the intelligence from Washington that the Funding bill, with its present features, is to go by the board under the antipathy of, the national bank interest. Itis the popular im- pression that the debi can be funded at four per cent and that our national credit will so enhance within a year or two as to permit such a@ consummation without the intermediate “Gay cooking” of the present measure. It isa wise old saying to ‘‘make haste slowly.” If the debt can be funded two years hence at four per cent, and without commissions and fees to brokers for auctioneering it off, it will be a vast economy of the national treasure. If the present scheme fall to the ground, between Secretary Boutwell on the one hand and the national banks on the other, the public will not complain. How Arg Your Bearmes?—Captain Hall having declared that his North Pole expedi- tion has a ‘‘commercial bearing,” the Chicago Post thinks it has rather a grizzly bearing, and adds:— Itis enough to stir the pulse of any patriot to think of an American ‘“‘right whale” climbing up the side of an American iceberg, or & carnivorous cretaceous Maiwmal spouting spermacetl as high as a liberty pole, that freezes on the instant and be- comes @ beautiful oliferous geyser, standing there forever a monument of American enterprise. Avast there! Give the gallant Arctic explorer another chance to take his bearings before ridiculing his aurorean projects out of Congress and out of sight. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Sir Henry Becker, of Ireland; Sir Charles Bright and W. J. Ellis, of London, England; Theo. Lyman and Judge Bigelow, of Boston, and James Napier, of England, are at the Brevoort House. J. W. Wicker, of the Treasury Department, Wash- ington; Captain Dukehara, of steamer Cuba; Thomas M. Dukehart, of the United States Navy; Colonel P. Sanger, of Joliet, Ill.; Colonel George 8. Parsons, of Washington; Colonel F. N. Vickers, of Alaska; John R. Carmody, of the United States Navy; Rev. A. M. Baret and Rev. P. H. Maher, of Grafton, Mass., are at the Metropolitan Hotel. E. P. Ross, of Auburn; H. Sibley, of Rochester; General N. B. Forrest, of Tennessee; Judge B. B. Meeker, of Minnesota, and Dr. B. T. 0. Norton, of Missouri, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Captain W. H. Christopher, of steamer St. John; Bayard Taylor, John Van Voorbies, of Rochester; J. W. Le Barnes, of Washington; Captain W. Cobb, of Massachusetts, and GQ. R. Zeigler, of Philadelphia, are at the Astor House. - Malcom Cameron, of Canada; D. W. F. Hutchin- son, of Chicago, and Dr. Dicker, of Mount Vernon, are at the St. Elmo Hotel. Archibald Little, of Shanghae, and Metchor Lopes Lizour, of London, are at the New York Hotel. M.C. Van Halle and T. Greeve, of Holland, and Gonzales Dantre, of Montreal, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Colonel H, D. Townsend, of New York, and &. Lewis Ashworth, of Manchester, England, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Judge E. H..Rosekrans, of Glen’s Falls; Dr. Ash- ton, of Philadelphia; R. H. Maury, of Virginia, and Colonel A. Piper, of Weat Point, are at the Firth Avenue Hotel. J. T. Burden, of Troy; Henry Farnum, of New Ha- ven; G. D. Howe, and W. W. Codman, of Boston, are at the Albemarle Hotel. General Hazen, of the United States Army; Colonel W. H. Reynolds, of Providence; £. A. Buck, of Buf falo, and a. K. McClure, of Philadelphia, are at the Hoffman House. Lieutenant C. S. Medary, ef the United Stases Army; Malcom Uouglass, of Windsor, Vt.; Martin A. Sisson, of Baltimore, and George Payne, of Qhuna, are at the Coleman House. Prominent Departures. Congressman W. H. Barnum, for Connecticut; Dr. W. ©, Hard, for Alaska; Colonel D. S. Dexter and Rev. A. Relter, for Wasbington; Judge A. Ross, for Pottsville, Pa.; Colonel W. Estes, for Syracuse; J. F. Rathbora, for Albany; George P, Smith, for Corry, Pa, and E, Haas. for Chicago ~t