The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1870, Page 6

%, RRS ac et TE SITE 6 ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1870.—TRIPLH SHERY, ment bears all the loss and responsibility. We doubt if the national banks ever were of service to the government, even when they were organized for thé purpose of absorbing & portion of the United States bonds. A much better plan of raising means for the war or of placing the bonds could have been devised. But now it is evident the whole system is vicious and dangerous. It will be difficult to abolish or modify the system ; for two-thirds of the members of Congress probably are interest- ed, directly or indirectly, in the banks. Besides, these banks are a vast power in the country. They feel that they can be arrogant. The only hope of a change is through public senti- ment. It is a favorable sign, however, to see such a man as Treasurer Spinner battling with the monster. NEW YORK HERALD |™™"" 2 > oe me and Specie Payments. Mr, Spinner, the Treasurer of the United States, has favored the public with another letter, which we published yeslerday, on the subject of the currency and specle payments, He rather likes to ventilate his ideas in this Rejected communications will not be re- | way, when some one gives Lim the occasion, turned. by a communication or » pamphlet to the All business or news letter and telegraphic point, and we must say he does it well upon deupatehea tuat. “be eddremeed’ ‘Naw ¥. his own financial theories. Ho is a clear- sed New YORK | headed man, and, considering the position he HERALD. holds, and his experience through the whole Letters and packages should be properly | period of that new experiment in currency sealed. and national finances which the war developed manne or brought about, his opinions are entitled to THE DAILY HERALD, pubdtishea every day tn the | respect. Then, as we have seen on several gear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription | ‘occasions, and particularly in this last letter, price G12. he learns by experience and is not afraid to Veh xxxv..... acknowledge any change of opinion which time or circumstances may have produced. Though Mr. Spinner was an earnest advo- cate of the national bank system, and aided greatly in fastening it upon the country, he begins to see the evils of it. Though he eulogizes Mr. Chase for doing ‘‘more than all other men and things combined to save the nation from destruction” by his financial skill—meaning, chiefly, by the creation of the national bank system—he has now some ap- prehension that the national banks may prove a dangerous power, and that they may retard or prevent the return to specie payments. In referring to the ‘‘arrogance of the banks” he says, ‘You can scarcely believe the extent to which some of them exhibit it.” He then re- fers to a case, by way of example, that lately came to his notice, in which a board of bank directors passed resolutions, and sent a copy of the proceedings to the member of Congress from the district in which their bank is located instructing him to oppose the Funding bill. Mr. Spinner says he did believe at ono time ‘that so great a number of these institu- tions wou!d not act in concert for evil, and that they would, therefore, not be so danger- ous to our institutions asa single machine, managed, perhaps, as a political power and for political purposes by the government of a single banking institution, like the Bank of the United States; but I confess,” he frankly 7 eae remarks, ‘‘that the recent conduct and pre- sTOQLET'S OTERA HOUSE: Brooklyn —MiweTRsLe— | gent attitude of these banks have gone a long — way towards satisfying me, a3 it has, no doubt, pen Ni atl ia ee many thousand pal ae that your sibwe (of an exclusive currency of United States notes) MEY, ORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— e may, after all, be for the best interests of the people.” = = T R IP L E NS) H E E T . Light is breaking, then, upon the Treasurer = = = of the United States, who was scarcely less lew York, Saturday, April 23, 1870. | instrumental than Mr. Chase in establishing = ‘ the national banks, and upon ‘‘many thousand others,” as to this dangerous monopoly. For years we have been telling the public and government that the system was an infamous one; that it robbed the people and the Treasury Minister; Senator Chandler's Splurge Over | Of twenty millions or more a yeur; that ‘Winnipeg; An Unprofitabie Evening Session of | it rendered no service to the government the 1s ay ag Tiger: An Ambush | or country in return for this stupendous Soap le el hs ee Beaks sum; that it was a shortsighted and stupid Freeman—The Woodrum Alleged Defaica- policy to concede the rights and profits of a tions—Ratlroad Accident in New Jersey—The | national currency to private corporations; geseeren pane Bias a that these banks would combine and be as one iu) : Frencl lcs; ties Ni i : ss st eal hein mmebaa’ shneatied for their common interests; that they would Democracy; Prussian Consolidation in Ger- prove stronger than the government if) per- many—A Scare Among the Clerks in the Cus- petuated, and that they were dangerous to the tom House—Mexico: Message of President | material interests of the people and institu- Juarez to Ee eee ting Intel. | tions of tho country, There never was a Bere cicspo ter tie bap of alsa ant greater fraud upon the American people. By Navy Intelligence. the lavishness and stupidity of the govern- =The New Dominion Tronbdies: Preparations for | Ment these banks make from twelve to fifteen ae me orb pcre or City and | percent on the capital invested—six per cent yn e more Horror: Par- | ; Snes er the Deighital mutctecy <of" ocr in gold on the bonds lodged in the Treasury as Children—Criticisams of New Books~Broad- ecurity for their cixpulation, and from six to way Dog Fighting—Don Ovicdo’s Heirs—Rall- | Dine per cent on the profits of that circulation. way Accidents in Great Britain—Scientific In- | A national banker has a hundred thousand abe Lineage Neate Scandai—Crop | dollars which he invests in interest-bearing aa aie it hsiat apg ss edad spin. | bonds, and the government gives him ninety ner on the National Banks and Specie Pay- thousand more in currency notes—nearly ments—Arrest of Counterfettere—Amusement | doubling his capital or property—without any consideration, This is o surprising act Announcements, ‘Y—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World: | o¢ ratuit! and an easy wa: of Queen Victoria Escapes from Personal Danger; chest! hae re ae nieces Fy Irish Radicalism and Agitation in England; e y: me eis) French Constitutional Exposition and Po- | of the profits on the legitimate business litical Opposition; Prim and Topete Said | of banking in making discounts, loans, to Have Fought a Duel; Russian Territorial | and so forth. Let it be remembered Arrangement with China—Untversalist Cen- A tenary Meeting—Daring Highway Robbery in also that a large ‘portion of these gains, Brooklyn—Obituary—Was it the Cleopatra’— | that is, twenty millions or more a year, Local Polltics—Westchester Police Matters— | comes from the people—a sum that might be Amusements—Marricd Intfelicities—The Last | gayed and go into the United States Treasury of the Baron Von Below—Far Rockaway Inlet if legal tender government notes were Washed Away—Business Notices. Sieh af tional k ‘ A <a Presbyterian Flutter—Atd the Navy—Interest- | Substituted for national bank currency. nd ing Reminiscence—Fimancial and Commercial who would not rather have legal tenders and Reports—Light Weights and False Measures— | 9 uniform currency than the bank notes and Spots on the Sun—The Custom House Ring— | oyr present mixed currency ? Marriages and Deaths. A e010 World Ttems—Transtors of Real Kstare— | But there is another strong reason why the Advertisements. national bank system should be abolished or 10=The State Capital: Passage of the New York | modified, and Mr. Spinner begins to under- ‘Tax Levies in the Senate ; No More Appropri- | stand that. He is a hard money man and ations for Sectarian Schools after next Sep- f si aym . He tember; Refusal of the Assembly to Order bichais cs Aan dated eee the Arcade Ratlway Bill toa Third Rreading— | ®8Y8:——‘ The government could al any time ar- range matters so as to be able to resume in ninety days were it not for its endorsement of the national bank notes. But the banks are not prepared, and they manifest no disposition Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 41—Advertisements. to prepare themselves, for an honest resump- York city Senators who voted to kill the Ar- tion of specie payments. Should the govern- 12—Advertisements. bade abomination. ment resume under such circumstances and SS Te CANALS OF THE STATE are to be vpened | banks refuse to do so the effect would be to pn the 10th of May. This means increased | throw the redemption of all the circulating BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PBOPR JETOR. The Arcade Railway Outrage. No greater fraud upon the people was ever perpetrated than is planned in the bill for the Arcade Railway. No more flagrant piece of wholesale robbery was ever attempted than that hill ts counted upon to legalize. Yet it slipped through the State Senate, with nineteen votes in its favor, as quietly as if the members of that body were not there on oath to guard and protect the interests of the people; as if they were so many clerks paid to do the bid- ding of the railway magnate who owns the Hudson River Railroad and the Harlem Rail- road, and who now wants Broadway, in which to build a feeder for these roads. It is, indeed, scarcely an exaggeration to say that in the light of such o transaction the Senate Cham- ber of the State of New York is nothing more nor less than a backdoor attachment to the offices of the railroads named—a place in which the railroad is served first, the people next, and in which the popular will, the law and the right are of far less account than the railroad man’s money. Just as this most iniquitous bill slipped through the Senate it is now counted it will slip through the Assem- bly—that is, by country votes, All the city Senators, with one infamous exception, voted against it, and the city Assemblymen may do the same; but it will pass nevertheless; for the same purse-strings are loosened for both houses. It matters not, therefore, what the people of this great city want. The questions are what certain railroad companies want and what they will pay for it. This is the point to which our republican institutions have worked themselves down in Alba-y. The needy scoundrels who live by their wits in the poli- tics of the rural districis have the opportunity before them to confiscate Broadway and share in the plunder of its rich receptacles of property, They can put in their pockets, each one, perhaps, a Broadway lot with a house on it—one of those grand marble fronts that their country eyes have gazed at so often. Who that knows the disposition of these fellows doubts that any bill will pass that will pay as this one must? And to this point is lawmaking come in the richest and most intel- ligent State of the Western world. The only hope of the people of this city is in the honesty of the Governor. Let him ob- serve the remarkable fact that the names to the petition against the passage of this bill represent six hundred million dollars’ worth of property. Shall all this be weighed down in the balance by the will of the plundering jobbers in railroad schemes? Six hundred million dollars’ worth of property appeals against a law, and one schemer wants it, The schemer has bought up his votes; but it is confidently believed by the people and by the property owners that he cannot buy the Gov- ernor also, and upon the Governor, therefore, all rely to defeat this tremendous swindle by the veto power which he has already employed so often and so well. It is the fashion in these days for railroad corpora- tions to grab the inheritance of the people. In every part of the country they are at it. Allthe Legislatures are in the game. Congress itself gives away public property—an empire at a time—and lays upon future ages a burden that may destroy the republic. But the boldest and most gigantic of all the grabs is certainly this railroad grab for the city of New York. This law to give thé whole city into the hands of a railroad corporation—to deliver the people, bound hand and foot, into the posses- sion of an unscrupulous, grasping monopoly, surpasses in ifs impndent injustice all the rail- road laws hitherto passed for this city, by which a vast property in splondid streets has been given away, are as nothing to this law to dig up Broadway; to destroy the trade of that street; to render it useless to the people for ten years at the least; and this for the interest of a railroad corporation. This bill must never receive the signature of the Governor of this State. «No. 113 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. gore THEATRE, 284 st., between Sth and 6th avs.— A Wivow Hurr—Toopies, Matines at 135. he THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Couto VooaL- tem, NEGRO Aors, 20. Matinee at 234. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadw id 18th street. — MSe AND ACHES. Matineo—Ouus. 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Matines 2. cele CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Paas. 1—Advertisements, —Advertisements, B—Washington: Presentation of the Now Haytien iiiexican Politics and Finances. We publish elsewhere this morning, in our correspondence from the city of Mexico, the text of President Juarez’s last message to the | Mexican Congreas. It is a characteristic of all the political leaders of Mexico that they are always cheerful, no matter how dis- heartening to outsiders may be the prospect in the republic. Consequently we are not sur- prised that President Juarez opens with con- A Noste Bayp or Brornurs—The New gratulations. He cannot ignore the fact that there have been attempts at revolution, but he rejoices that the army has been faithful and valiant, without referring to the fact thata part of the same army began the rebellion. As regards the financial condition of the country he feels happy that he has not resorted to “any irregular exactions,” which isa mild way of designating “forced loans.” Mr. Romero, the Secretary of the Treasury, does not, however, give a very favorable account of the finances, as he says in his report that ‘from circumstances known to all the public credit of Mexico is truly lamenta- ble.” Meantime the rebellion is not sup- pressed; highway robbery and kidnapping continue; society is in such a state that the sons of prominent citizens are discovered in league to rob the churches, In the midst of this anarchy the people find time to discuss the question of the free zone, and the govern- ment has flatly refused to consider the claim of some citizens of New York to the confis- cated property of Santa Anna, Our corre- spondence furnishes in detail all the facts herein referred to, which will be found to con- vey a clear and accurate idea of Mexico as she was when the letter was written. pupplies of breadstuffs and provisions for the | notes of the banks so refusing upon the Trea- pity. sury. Such a load at such a time would Go ror Tuzm—The telegraph scamps who probably be too heavy for the government to Bttempted to get up » Spanish bull fight in the | carry, and a retapse would follow. So you see gold market by forged despatches about a the banks have it in their power to prevent war with Spain, When that time comes the resumption.” Without going into the question whole country will know it, and no miserable pe ieneeewa ee pay’ ner preg be about under any circumstances in ninety ays, poe . “fgucca ll or if that would be desirable, even should the | SupgRrsrenpent Jourpan’s RerorMs are | government have the power to force resump- ‘stirring up the whole Police Department very | tion, we are convinced, as we have frequently Bhoroughly, as we are glad to see. Such an | gaid, that the national banks do not desire Snstitution as the police is apt to run into | specie payments and will be the greatest ob- routine and inefficiency inten years, and a new | stacle to resumption. Why should they desire Jhead once in such a period, to break up the in- / 4? ‘They make far more by a paper circula- ernstations and make the ‘little arrangements” | tion alone. Speci¢ in their vaults would be all around explain themselves, ought to be a | dead capital, while the currency costs them regular thing. nothing and is always bringing in a profit. Tue DzsrRvuctionN oF MANHATTAN ISLAND Nor should it be forgotten that in case of a by the appropriation of its grand highway to | great financial crisis, or of any great disturb - underground railroff purposes excites the | ance by war or otherwise, when there might lively admiration of rival commercial cities. | be a general crash among the banks, or secu- Boston and Philadelphia could afford to appro- | rities become greatly depreciated, the govern- priate millions toward the completion of the | ment and people might have to sustain a ‘Aroade Railroad job from the loss of popu- | frightful loss; for the Treasury is bound to Aarity among country merchants that would be | redeem the netes of the national banks under occasioned by the five or ten years of inter- | all and any circumstances. This league of to business on the backbone of the the government with these private corpora- [ftent—Broedway—in the construction of the | tions is a one-sided compact, The banks get mroade abomination, all the advantages and profits and the govern- Foreswore His Masters—Judas Genet, in voting for the Aroade abomination. —— Our European Despatches %7 Mall—-se vance of tho Old Werld i eoples. The special correspondence from’ Hurope which appears in our columns to-day comes in timely and most useful illustration of our Old World news advices by cable teleg: to the 9th of April. Our writers date in Paris)’ London and Frankfort, three important centres of information, reservoirs of the popular ex- pression on all mattera connected with politics ‘and the advance of the peoples, finance, reli- gion and democratic fraternization, From Paris we have an exposition of the primary causes which influenced Napoleon towards his latest constitutional change of the integral parts of the government of France, with ap anticipatory sketch of the probable reception of his proposition by the people and the con- sequences. The Senatus Consultum was not well received at the very outset, as will be seen, although it was presented as the act of consecration of the grand idea of parliamen- tary responsibility. The interests of the dynasty appear to shadow the genuine fecling of the imperial reformer, and the able politicians of the empire—for France has really many able politicians to-day— asked, nay urged, the people to look through the purple cloud and behold, as tho leadera assert they can and do, an elemental aggre- gation charged with future storms. Orleanism loomed up as a party element in Parla. Na- poleon glanced back to the coup eétat, and, demonstrating its present success by his position, appeared preparing for the exe- cution of another, if so required—to be accomplished with still greater force and realized on @ much broader basis than the first. The publication of our Paris special letter to-day will prepare the public mind of America for a reception of the news of the result of the French vote in the plebiscitum, as it will be taken on Sunday, the 8th of May. ‘ From London we have our special report of the continued march of the British people towards the enjoyment of a democratic system of government. The questions of religion and education loom up prominently in the corre- spondence, as they do in every instance when a nation is being either baptized or regenerated to freedom. Germany gives hope to the peoples, in our letter from Frank- fort, as showing forth the utter failure of the anti-unionist agitation in the South, and the complete triumph of the principle of national consolidation, as shown forth by Prussia. Our European correspondence by mail is consequently, at all points, hopeful for the masses, and upward and onward in senti- ment, tone and fact. CongreseBancombe in tho Senate—Tho New Element ef Fam tm the House. The feature of the Senate yesterday was 6 new dish of “‘hash” from the famous Chandler. His resolution to negotiate for the annexation of Winnipeg was called up and thus occasioned his speech. From this proposition, in itself peaceable enough, he turned his argument to ‘one in favor of whipping out the entire New Dominion at once, as the first cause, and then serving up Great Britain as a dessert, for no other reason apparently than that half the ex- pense of our late civil difficulty is attributable to the action of these countries, He was will- ing to accept Winnipeg as an instalment of the interest on the sum due us, but would insist upon all the rest of the New Dominion as the principal. If England gave us these, well and goad, we would forgive the debt; but if not, then we would pro- ceed immediately to compulsion. The question called up some general discussion, in which it was stated by other Senators that the right of passage (hrough the Saut St. Marie Canal would not and ought not to be granted to the British expedition. Finally, the resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, Among a number of minor bills passed was one repealing the veri- table and only last statute relating to slaves— that “prohibiting the importation of colored persons into certain States.” Mr, Sumner has been poring over all the old statutes purposely to find this last one, and as we have had others that purported to be the last wiped out at intervals ever since the emancipation pro- clamation, we are glad to see the veritable one disposed of. Another important bill, passed in a moment of business frenzy, pro- vides for the removal of disabilities, which, it is claimed, will enable half a million ex-rebels to hold fed eral office, The usual fund of amusement appeared to have deserted the House yesterday. To be sure Butler was present, but Cox was away with the Ohio delegation, and besides the House itself was exhausted with the uproarious humor of the two days previous and took refuge in the soothing details of the Tariff bill, A fow hours’ dabbling with scrap iron, however, awoke the risibilities of the volatile members, and at the evening session they were as jolly as the Board of Brokers, It happened that a quorum was not present on the first call, and the absentees being hunted up the House amused itself with hearing their ex- cuses. Some of them were sick—notably Cox, who had come back from the Ohio excursion— others were visiting their church pastors and one was away with a new daughter. All these excuses were valid, and the other mem- bers who had no such excuses, but were—as slated—‘‘making money somewhere,” were fined ten dollars. The mysterious movementsof the Fenians are beginning to attract a good deal of public curiosity and speculation, In the New Dominion her Britannic Majesty's provincials, from the Vermont border all the way back to the savage regions of the Red river of the North and Lake Winnipeg, are in a great state of excitement over an apprehended invasion of Fenians from the United States, and the mustering, arming and drilling of rangers, vol- unteers, regulars and Indian mercenaries in Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and other places are the order of the day. The Dominion Par- liament has suspended the habeas corpus and is actively equipping an expedition of ton thousand picked men and a force of two thou- sand Indians professedly for the suppression of the Red River insurgents, Riel and his con- federates, but really to meet an expected raid of Fenians from Minnesota. On Thursday night last four alleged Fenians were arrested at Montreal, on the train from this side, The men said they had been at work in the States and were going home to Quebec; but the Canadian detective had satis- fled himself that they were Fenians, bent on some revolutionary mission. Moreover, there has lately been a very mysterious Fenian Con- gress in Chicago, and another is now in session in this city, planning, as is supposed, a terri- ble foray upon the Canadians at balf a dozen different points at the same time. They say, too, that the number of reticent Irishmen travelling from place to place, along the whole line of the Canadian frontier and on both sides, is very large, and that the movements of these travellers are very suspicious. All these things have operated to create a general alarm among the Canadians and much talk on this side the border, At the same time the habeas corpus is suspended in Ireland, and that unfortunate island is practically under martial law. To make matters still worse for the British government depots of Fenian arms have been discovered in Newcastle and Man- chester, England, and from threats of Fenian vengeance the proprietors of the Pall Mall Gazette, London, have applied to the police authorities for protection, and the police, accordingly, were yesterday guarding said newspaper establishment. In a word, there appears to bo an epidemic of Fenianism in Ireland, England, the United States and the New Dominion, and the question naturally follows, what does all this mean? There is evidently a common understanding among these Fenians. What, then, are they driving at? Let us suppose it to be the liberation of Ireland from British rule and the establish- ment of an Irish republic.. The Fenians have no army or arsenals in Ireland, and they have no war ships here for an invasion of the island. What, then, can they do? They can get up a general guerilla sort of warfare simultaneously in Ireland, England and the Canadas. They may thus keep the British government so actively employed at home in suppressing dis- turbances as to render it incapable of giving much assistance to the Canadians; and by risings of the Fenians in the New Dominion at various points simultaneously with the inva- sion of halfa dozen or more different detach- ments of Fenians from the United States, they may get the whole Dominion on a very sbort notice in the ferment of a general rebellion, Suppose they thus succeed in establishing an Irish republic in the New Dominion, with their headquarters at Quebec, what then? Why, then they will have a base of operations for a regular war with England, including privateer- ing and the invasion of Ireland, with supplies of small arms and artillery for the Fenians there, at various convenient points in the island. This, or something like this, we conjecture, is the Fenian programme. Considered with a military eye, it abounds in difficulties and calculations of good luck; but still it may be the scheme resolved upon. In any event, in these combination movements of the Fenians in the British islands and in America against the British government there is abundant matter for speculation, and, considering the excitement and aclive arming among the Cana- dians, we may safely conclude that ‘‘where there is so much smoke there must be some fire.” Six Hunprep Mituions’ Wort or Pro- perTy on Broadway protests against the ‘Arcade abomination. This is as much as all the available real estate in Western New York can command in cash. ea a SY The Tax Levies in the Sennte. The City and County Tax Levies passed the State Senate last night, and will probably be signed by Governor Hoffman to-day. They are not different in any important particular from the bills as they passed tho Assembly. Although they have been passed, according to custom, amid the harry and confusion incident to the closing days of tho session, .we think our citizens may congratulate themselves upon & much more honest budget than they have been called upon to pay for in many years. The amount called for is not larger than usual, and the purposes for which it is to be appropriated are intended to improve and beautify our city in such @ manner that the taxes may be set down as a fair investment that will soon return its handsome percentage. One of the most important of these provisions is that relating to our wharves and piers, The new Board of Public Works is empow- ered by the bill to issue bonds to the amount of three million dollars yearly, with which to purchase the present docks and piers and erect in their places. iron and granite structures that will be ornaments to the river front. The present wharves, in addition to being unsightly, are almost as useless a8 vacant lots, because they will not admit of the erection of suitable warehouses upon them. Iron or granite wharves, on the other hand, will be excellent foundations, even for the highest structures of that kind, and thus the city. will in time present a solid wall of masonry to the river front instead of the ragged fringes of rotten piles now looming up at low tide and sometimes hidden under water at the flood. “Our or THE Dxprss” will be the cry of those who imperil themselves by travelling upon the thin crust above the proposed Arcade abomination on Broadway. The Last of Lopez. The latest news from Rio Janeiro confirms the telegrams previously published announcing the death of President Lopez, of Paraguay. The indomitable chief, who, for nearly five years, succossfully defied the combined forces of the Brazilian empire and those of the Argen- tine and Uruguay republics, is now no more. Surprised by the Brazilian army on the left bank of Aquidaban river, Lopez and his few followers were forced into a fight in which the odds were all against them. Defeat was inevi- table, and unable to retreat, and hemmed in by superior numbers, the Paraguayans were butchered on the spot by the victorious army of Brazil, This was tho easiest way to get rid of Lopez and his followers, and General Camara, the Brazilian commander, consum- mated the deed. Whatever may have been the faults of Lopez there is no denying the fact that his struggle against the allies has been brave, daring and determined. Every inch of ground won by his enemies had to be fought for desperately. His resistance was ever of the most stubborn nature. He has proved him- self a man of immense resources, and as a soldier one of the greatest of modern days. When we consider the manner of his capture and of his death it is impossible to regard the course pursued by the Brazilian commander other than as barbarous in the extreme. It was a surprise and massacre. The same fero- cious spirit is evidenced in the tone of Sefior Paranha’s despatch from Ascuncion, in which he states that the mother of Lopez, who was lately made a prisoner, with her four grand- children, was to have been executed the day the Brazilians attacked the Paraguayanos. That this sentence was carried out there is little reason to doubt, and possibly the whole of the captured party may have before this met the same bloody fate. When the history of the Paraguayan war is truly written it will be found that the barbarities attributed to Lopez have been far exceeded by the brutalities of the allies. How Governor HorrmMan CAN IMMor- vauize Himsutr—By peremptorily vetoing the Arcade abomination if it passes the House. A Suiaut Misrakz—Ina our statement yes- terday that there had been great rejoicings at Salt Lake City over the arrival of General Grant’s new Governor and other Territorial officers for Utah. These rejoicings were at the new Gentile city of Corinne, a Pacific Rail- way settlement, but inside of Utah Territory. Hence the joyous welcome extended to Gover- nor Shaffer and party. Thoir coming was hailed as ‘‘the beginning of the end” of the Mormon despotism of Brigham Young. Still we shall not be surprised if, for the sake of | appearances, Governor Shaffer is well received even at Salt Lake City; for the Mormon head chief has already played that game several times, and always with success. We dare say, however, that this time he will be brought squarely to the alternative of giving up po- lygamy or leaving Utah, and that he will leave. QuzEN Viororis had a narrow escape from personal injury yesterday. The danger did not come from the Fenians; it was caused by a runaway horse. Iris Reporrep by ® private despatch that the Colombian Congress has rejected the Da- rien Canal Treaty. We are doubtful of these “private despatches” on such highly impor- tant subjects, and we will await more reliable authority before we credit it. In the mean- time we cannot but reflect that if it is true it is paying back the United States in the coin it tendered to St, Thomas. Sovrn AMERICAN EARTHQUAKES TO BE Eouipsep—By the scenes on Broadway if the Arcade abo mination becomes a law. Tue PRESBYTERIAN CLERGY, not having enough to do in the way of saving souls, have determined to investigate the story published by ® reporter in a fine frenzy of imagination some time ago, in one of the city papers, to the effect that Rev. C. B. Smyth and the re- porter drank ‘‘gin and milk” at a saloon up town, and Smyth told the barkeeper to ‘thang it up.” We think the bookish divines will find themselves lacking wofully in the world’s eru- dition when they commence analyzing “gin and milk” as a sinful proposition and discuss- ing the connection of “hang it.up” with the devil’s own jargon; but they may learn some- thing, too, by the investigation. It is possible they may learn that ‘(gin and milk” in them- selves are not sin and perdition, that “‘hang it up” is acceptable enough, even as refined Eng- lish, if the barkeeper thought it ‘‘all right,” and thirdly they may learn that the whole story about Mr. Smyth is mainly an effort of the imagination. Tae Story or THE Sar THomas Frea- MAN, which was struck by lightning at sea and burned, is told in another column, and opens up another element of danger to those who. go down to the-sea in ships. A Movzrn Pompru—New York city under the Arcade abomination, smothered in Albany ashes and lobby lava. Governor Horrman’s Srrenota lies, among the democratic yeomanry of New Yorlc’ city. What will it be if he-fails to. veto tha, Arcade.abomination, provided it comes before him? ApwirAL Porter is investigating the gold gambling forgery that was perpetrated on Thursday in regard to an imminent war with Spain. He was rebuffed at the telegraph office at the first move, the officials ‘there refusing to show him the manuscript of the telegram. While the principle followed by the telegraph officials is in itself a good one, in this particular instance—a fraud having clearly been perpetrated—they were simply boorish. Butler, we believe, once compelled this company to show certain despatches, and we are confident Admiral Porter will be able to do 80 too. ene mm ARREST OF GOUNTERFEITERS. Last night Colonel Wiitely, Obief of Secret Ser- vice Police, arrested James Gardner, alias James ‘Thompson, and George Phillips, both notorious counterfeiters and burglars, whom ho found at No. 23 Bleecker street. Gardner has been piped tor gome months past dealing largely in counterfeit money on the Utica and Market National banks. ‘When arreste@ there was found on his person @ large amount of counterfeit money of the de- nomination of twenty dollar bilis of the above banks. Gardner resides at 140 ng sireet, and on search being made there was foun on his premises a large quantity of human hair, valued at about $1,200, Gardner is tho identifical man who, in company with others, about two years ago robbed the Keeper of @ loan office in ‘Obristie street, and about @ year ago attacked Wil- ham bette atthe corner of way and Prince and robbed him of ie Ip every cage he succeeded in escaping the hands of the detectives, Detective Farley, of the Central Office has long been {a jearou of the fugitive, Gardner, his wife and Phik + Dan ace taken (2 2 ax Seba and looked Our City Jury Bit.—We call upon our city Senators and Assemblymen at Albany to see to it that. the Jury bill of Mr, Fields is made a law before the close of this session. We need it very much, and we are assured that among all parties and ciasses of the peo-~ ple of this island it is regarded as an ercettont 1 mesa. ArrENtION !—The attention of the Board of Public Works is called to the condition of the pavement on Broadway between Barclay and Chambers streets. If it begins to sink now under the pneumatic pressure what will it be when the Arcade abomination is being worked?