The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1870, Page 6

6 i % a BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic | Southern Pacific Railway enterprise, From despatches must be addressed New Yor« | this statement it appears that the Memphis, El Herat. Paso and Pacific Railroad Company was in- —— - | corporated by the Texas Legislature Febru- Volume XXXKV.i6sccesescesecesees «No. 132 | ary 4, 1856, for the purpose of constructing = and working a railroad from the eastern to the western boundary of the State; that on the same day, by siid Legislature, a supplemental bill was passed, providing, among other things, that if one hundred miles of the road be not finished within four years, &., the charter shall be nall and void; that the com- WOOD'R MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- | pany failed to meet this condition and other i = eres tegacrag unl nie ba ahaa J conditions; that under the rebellion the Con- ne 10'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tux Duma oF MOS | fedorate Siate Legislature passed an act that might be consteued as relieving the company from its obligations without forfeiture of its charter, but that the best lawyers in Congress are of the opinion that the charter is null and void. AMUSEMENTS. THIS EVENING THE TAMMANY, Fi Sd BLOB TAMMANY, Fourteenth street,—Guanp Vaninrr PRENCH THEATR! léth st. and 61) av.-SmaK- GrBaRe's TRAGEDY OF HAMLET. ee GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 284 at. —THE TWELVE Tanbsanione . BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Twenty Years Daap— Living Prarvze8—JuMBo Jo BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28d st., between Sih and 6th ave.— BOMOOL OF REFORM—AMONG THE BREAKERS, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— ‘fae Lancers. Pid AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Frov- a AXES. FB CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — ee) FoRuE, became president of the company eontrolling THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 . : MHRATRE COMIQUE, 84 Broadway.—Comto Vooate | it; TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, so Vooavisn, Negso Minexemese ae, C°We?-—Comte BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Butlding, uth | the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad s--BSYani's MINSTRALA, Company from El Paso to the Pacific Ocean ;” SAN FRANCISOO MINSTRELS, 535 Broaiway.—Etuto- PIAN MINSTRELSBY, 40. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, Ni _ po owrg Seng LS, No. 720 Broadway.. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hooury' > erREis—Fivta Waup Wilskey Ravuns, to. api cny company were put upon the market in France ; aia oi al were forwarded ‘‘to show our foreign friends ‘ARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th (ih su.—TuxoDoEE THoMAs Porucae Concune: ont that upon these representations bonds of said NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 B: > is &i8 Broadway. | company have been sold, mostly, if not SCIRNOR AND Azr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, May 12, 1870. and that General Fremont, if not directly responsible, is at least guilty.as a consenting and interested party to these questionable operations. These are serious accusations, and yet in CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. "tC haversisome Advertisement 2—Adveriisements, S—Washipgton : Argument of Mr. Orton a Postal Telegraph; Discharge of Employ‘s of the War Department; Protracted le In ‘ue House Over the Northern Pacific Ral Bill; Animated Debate Over the Tariff Bill— City Politics—The Washington Club—McFar- “the same ring is now before Congress with another job,” styled ‘‘a bill incorporating the Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company, bed, franchise, d&c., and land bonds to the ex- land on Broadway—Personal Intelligence— Amusements—The Delaware Water Gap Mur- ductor Injured i st Hoboken— N. J, Balto Tones iis aeRabags he @—Europe: The French Plebtscitum Vote; Execu- ee he ute in the Papal Council— Generat E pee. 2 ooo ae Ear eee: lands, &c. We are further informed that the ticulars of the Case—A Houston Si Robb:ry—A Lost Husband—rhe Hebernicht | phis and El Paso charter, and gives the com- Homuicrde—The Cruel Fate of Watson Webb. pany a right of way through to the Pacific. Spanish Report of His‘Interview with Captain i1 - 4 General de Bndes; His Arrival and Execeeen'| | Nowe Doemasoge tis appears 8 very dem in Hayana—News from Porto Rico—Launch of No. 6—The Anntversaries—Procecdings ia the | 02t. We are not, however, disposed to pre- pled ‘York ee Jabtians Ninth Ma- | judge him or his case. pee — The Americus Club lus tothe Wave's | tions in. the Rocky Moutitains, as the ‘‘Path- Mex'co—West_ Point Annual Reunton—The Mott Haven Stabbing Aj r—Harlem River and Portchester Railroad—Valuable Land in | the General in consequence of his great public eompacins Taltosds General’ Premont and i ; ic ya eneral ‘remon' us Difficulties—Amusement Announcements, ig prepared to believe that at this late day he has become so unscrupulous as a speculator as yg Tyr Bi tee Bitte 73} | to be guilty to the extent charged or insinu- the People and Fatal Fire; Paris and the Flection Riot in Ireland and ‘Trades | ton. Indeed, the facts presented are admissi- eae etant atest, Boraeen “the | ble of quite a different construction from that apph which is given them by our corresponde ner—New York City News—Lecture of Senator Ls ‘A park Revels—Fat Dutchmen in Council—Bold Rob- bery—Business Notices. the facts as they appear to him. At all events, ‘an War; Sootal ane Tontioat. stairs a having given the case as made out against 1; ion o! vy Troubles in Dhise—The Case of the Revs. | General Fromont, in fair play our columns, ‘The Crystal Palace—Financia! and Commercial Reporis. _ | fence. @—West Sndics: Conspiracy Discovered in Hayti; With regard to the bill now before Congress Turks Island and Porto Rico—Rather Setar ta see wena mak Oe svatae So San meepsiansionteda Deaths—Advertisements. Seana cnet Females Let Loose—The Tren. | be granted will never be worth anything to the ton Board of Fresholdsneenraer & pore. government without s railroad, and a consider- States Marshal in Utah Misements | able portion of them will be forever as worth- A1—Adveriisements, ch carla eo = to the lands of that irreclaimable desert, for Ovr EvrorgaN Sprctat CorrEsPONDENOE, | instance, west of the junction of the Colorado by mail, supplies interesting matter coming in | and Gila rivers, and to the lands on portions the 30th of April. Our special letter from Paris | Mexico. The bonds proposed are to be se- initiates the written history of the plebiscitum | cured by the road and by the lands of the 1 y of Napoleon the Third. road, and are not to be, as usual heretofore, an forgotten Schoeppe murder case in Pennsylva- ernment. We presume, too, that with the nia is up again. It was supposed that after “nationalization” of this line, including this the late decision in his case there was but one old Texas charter, that the State of Texas, in does not appear what the trouble is now, but road in the transportation of her many thou- no doubt the lawyers are keeping something sands of cattle to market, will cheerfully make ql it all right with those French bondholders. dangling between the culprit and his doom. der—Murder in Sing Sing Prison—A Car Con- tive Coercion in Ireland and the “Memory of Diamond Robbery ana Seizure: Correct Par- | new bill ‘‘nationalizes” the old Texas, Mem- G—Cuba: Particulars of the Capture of Golcouria; aging statement of facts against General Fre- the New Pilot Boat James Gordon Bennett, Edge—Brooklyn City News—News from Lian Leading Article on the Southern | 8¢rvices and his modest pretensions. Nor are ‘Y—Telepraphic News from All Parts of the World: Baburts: stil” Held. by’ the Miltary: ated in this aforesaid statement from Washing- Sappho and Cambria; the Sappho the Win- though we cannot doubt his convioffons from S8—South America: Closing Scenes nf the Para- Smyth—Colored Troops Oficers’ Assoclation— | within a reasonable limit, are open to his de- Troubles Anticipated in St. Thomas ; Condition its demands after all. 10—Wailing Women: American amazons in Coun- Shipping Inteiligence—Advertisements, less as the desert sands of Arabia. We refer valuable detail of our cable news telegrams to | of the line east through Arizona and New Tux Scnoupre Case vp AGAtw.—The almost | ©xtra gift of so much in bonds from the gov- Schoeppe from the jail to the gallows. It view of the great advantages of the proposed Beyond, however, the facts submitted by NEW YOKK HERALD “4 A D The Genthern Pacific Rallrond—Gioneral | field; but his talents and his usefulness to the NEW Y ORK HERAL ©) Wrement aud’ Eis Dimeultios. Party, we prosume, could not well be spared ; The reader will find in this paper a state- | no the wise heads very sagaciously retained ment from @ Washington correspondent, set- | himin the service, and just in that position, ting forth, as he understands thom, the | too, where bis talents and éxperience will be facts n connection with General Fremont’s | most available. It is in every respect a good Aifficulties in Congress touching bis great | appointment, The lands proposed to }} The End of the McFarland Trial. At the close of the remarkable criminal trial that {s just concluded we may properly con- gratulate the public upon certain things the trial has made manifest. It is somewhat the fashion for the press and the people to speak with very positive disrespect of our local judiclary, and this habit, perhaps, originated in observation more or leas accurate, But the McFarland. trial has shown that in Recorder Hackett the bench here is honored by the pre- sence of one man who may justly be ranked with the best of whom there is any remem- brance in all the good qualities of a judge. This was a trial especially fitted to tax the temper, to try the patience and to test the legal knowledge of the presiding functionary, and in its tedious length and its fertility in issues, as well as in the, emotions it necessarily ex- It next appears that some time after the | Clted, it did all this to an extreme degree. collapse of the rebellion General Fremont got But the Recorder was always more than equal possession of this old Texas charter, or | ¢ the occasion. His rulings on the admission of testimony are without reproach, so accn- that to establish its validity he managed rately did he balance the scales between either to get a joint resolution through the House of side, and so strictly did he keep the case to Representatives “granting the right of way to | the limits that were consiajent with the theo- ries of either side. His charge fingy simpli- fled from the immense mass of testimony the that about the same time the bonds of the | Clear points upon which the jury were to rest their verdict, and while {t was a model of im- that copies of the resolution as it passed the | Partiality it gave the law so plainly with re- House (the Senate not having acted upon it) gard to the well-proven insanity of the accused that it leftno room for any other result than the national character of the enterprise,” and | the one reached. Another point in the case is its exemplification of the real practical excel- lence of the much-abused trial by jury. At exclusively, in France, to the amount of | the end of such a case as this it is painfully eight millions, four hundred thousand dollars, | Pluin that the simple common sense of the people is the best safety of society, and this simple common sense the jury officially declares. Science inevitably misleads by an ex~ treme view. We see how lawyers take ex-- treme standpoints, or how a sense of duty the samo statement it is further charged that | Seems to compel them to pervert or distort truth to this side or that, till in the end one bes lieves the man the greatest scoundrel alive and the other holds him up as a model and granting the right of way and lands to aid of injured innocence, With such a fact before in its construction ;” that in the matter of | U8 how can wo trust to the law to help us to bonds the bill proposes construction bonds | justice? With the fasue of insanity raised the fifty thousand dollars a mile, secured on road | doctors come in, and what is the end of what they tell us? Simply this: thet we cannot tent of three dollars an acre, securéd on the | hang anyman for any murder; for on their de- finitions of insanity we should be-jnstified in as- suming that the very fact that a. man commits murder is:proof that he-is insane;. since it ex- hibits him flagrantly casting aside all the ordi- nary restraints upon which the-social fabric stands, the constant recognition-of which re- straints seems to be their notion of the state of From his first explora- | 84nity. Between all this extravagance of legal and medical science how: would society finder,” we have always had a high opinion of | 6° distracted. with doubts, and" how would the world become a bedlam: of insanity, but for this decision of twelve plain men, who, directed by a just jndge, come to:a conclusion fully in sympathy with popular thought and popular feeling ? The Execution of Goicouria tu Havana. From our: correspondent in Havana we have the full particulars of the arrest and exe- cution of General: Goicouria by the Spaniards. Captured with him on the little island of Guanaja were five others, one: of them an American. They were all brought to Puerto Principe, and the news which announced tho arrival of the. Triunfo in the-harbor, with the prisoners on beard, was received by those on shore with savage joy. The old hero, after being landed; was placed in custody. He had a brief interview with the: Captain General, but even if De Rodas was inclined to be lenient he dare not, in opposition to the volunteers, who, now that Goicouria was in their power, determined to have the old soldier's blood. The prisoner was accordingly sent to Havana and there executed, on the ground, it is con- tended, that in 1850 he was ‘‘condemned civilly for political offences.” Goicouria died bravely. The savage joy depicted on the faces by which he was surrounded had no effect on him, Serenely and nobly he walked to the scaffold, and there died a martyr for the coun- try he loved go well. This last act of the Spaniards, in dealing out so hastily the full measure of vengeance on the brave old Cuban, serves to illustrate more strongly the ferocity that ever accompanies weakness. Very Small for a Great Government. We understand that our late Minister to QueeN Victoria appeared in state before | our correspondent against General Fremont | Gpina, J. Ross Browne, has lately been to her subjects in London yesterday. Majesty formally opened the new University of | nothing of this business, We publish the London. The Queen enjoyed a most affection- | statement submitted, not as an enemy of Gene- Her } and his old charter and his new bill we know | Washington to get what money was coming to him or that he ought to réceive, and that he cannot get a settlement. Through some petty ate greeting from the people at every step of | ral Fremont, or as a party on any side in this | technicality, red tape indifference or bad feel- her progress. She was attended by a brilliant | imbroglio, but because we desire to bring out, ing, the departments put him off and say he and noble cortége. Queen Victoria has reason | in the interest of the public, all the facts neces- | mgt go to Congress. Now, whatever mis- to be happy and thankful. She is at home, whether in her palace, the cities, or the rural hamlets of her kingdom. Waar Were Tazy THANKFUL For/—An exchange, speaking of a fifteenth amendment procession and of a few whites in it, remarks— than any other man, but we want all these “What they had to be thankful for, and doubts, charges and insinuations cleared wherefor they were there, is a mystery.” | #¥7- We have hadso much overreaching sary for a full and fair understanding of the case. We want a Southern Pacific Railroad. It will be cheap to the government on the terms proposed. Goneral Fremont knows the whole country to be traversed beiter, perhaps, takes Mr. Browne may have made in his mis- sion at Pekin or in not comprehending the policy of his government, he was honest, doubtless, in the course he took, and at any rate he was the Minister and servant of the American republic. He is entitled to receive whatever money is due to him. Even with that he will necessarily be a great loser. Whereupon a Mississippi paper remarks :—“‘Of | 24 double dealing in these railway jobs from | Through a change in the administration, by the ade | Congress that we know not who can be trusted in such vast enterprises as this without the most stringent checks and balauces from the course'they were thankful for not being m: fas other men who have two sides white.” ‘They were probably of that class of the genus expiration of Mr. Johnson's term of office and the inauguration of General Grant, Mr. Browne was recalled shortly after he homo known as “white men with black | beginning. First of all, before any bill for |"srrived in China, The cost of going to Pekin this Southern Pacific Railroad is passed, all the material facts in this business should be hearts.” Taz Exousa Yacut Rack—ANorHER AMERIOAN TrIUMPH.—The ocean telegraph in- bronghtto: Hah iris otizs vt cits forms us that the long pending yacht race in A Fir AppornstMENT—That of Assemblyman the British Channel between the American | Lawrence D. Kiernan to the secretaryship of yacht Sappho of Mr. Donglas and the Eng- | the Board of Education. Mr. Kiernan’ gradu- lish boat Cambria of Mr. Ashbury resulted in | ated with high honor at the Free Academy— the success of the American yacht. This may | now known as the New York College—and be regarded as another American triumph for | with no better endorsement could a young our yachtmen and yacht builders. Chanel | man go forth into the world than from this sailing in British waters is not the kind of | democratic institution, which comes from and thing to thoroughly try the mettle of our | belongs tothe people. Mr. Kiernan has been yachts fairly, yet we have now, for the second | warmly identified with the cause of education, time, beaten English boats in their own | both as a teacher anda legislator, and no better waters. In an ocean race American yachts | successor to Speaker Hitchman, who takes tare more at home, as the magnificent race of | charge of the Fire Department, could well our three yachts across the Atlantic proved. | have been chosen by the Tammany leaders. We shall soon have another opportunity of test- | It is true that the new secretary—like other ing the comparative qualities of an American | young men—in the beginning of the quarrel of and an Baglish boat upon the broad surface of | the factions was disposed to follow the stan- the ocean. dard of the throo-tatled bashaws into the battle with his family, 6f procuring 8 residence there and of returning to the United States, without reckoning the sacrifice of property and inte- reste at home, must have exceeded by ten or fifteen thousand dollars the salary of the office. Notwithstanding the great distance to China and the cost of going there and returning, no outfit or infit is allowed under the present law. One year’s salary, therefore, will not pay by a long way the Minister's expenses, To leave the servants of the republic, and particularly those occupying high and responsible positions, in such embarrassing circumstances is mean in the government and disgraceful to the country. But to deprive a returned Minister of what is really due to’ him orto give him great trouble in obtaining itis meaner and worse still. Whatever Mr. Browne's errors of judgment may have been, he was the servant of the republic, and ought to be paid without rebate or hesitation. The Plebiacite and the Barricades. We publish this morning some cable de- spatches which show that the excitement in certain quarters of Paris and among the dangerous classes has not wholly subsided. Our readers will see by referring to our tele- graphic columns that in the now notorious Belleville diatrict a fresh attempt was made to raise barricades. Like all the attempts which have lately been made in the same quarter, this latest was 9 failure, A little killing was done—not much—and the troops remained masters of the situation, The Belleville crowd was bound to do something. It has now done its best, and we suppose men like Henri Rochefort and Gustave Flourens—the one safe in a Paris prison and the other comfortable in the companionship of Fenians in London—will be quite pleased to’ know that some weak- minded men have digd..in their cause, The days of barricades abe ended, and the men who instigate the people to resort to this played-out form of resistance are murderers. We are glad to learn from La Liberté, a journal so ably presided over by M. de Girar- din, that the Emperor is so satisfied with the results of the plebiscite that he has resolved to abrogate the decree which consigns to ban- isbment all the members of the Bourbon and Orleans families, This, we think, is wise. If France is with him—and this latest vote shows that France. is with hfm—he has no reason to be afraid of either of those families. It is but little likely that any member of either family will take advantage of tho privilege thus extended to them; but the abrogation of the decree of banishment will not on that account be the less magnanimous. The Emperor has no more cause to be afraid of the Bourbons or the Orleanists than General Grant has to be afraid of Andy Johnson. From the samo source we learn that no effort will be spared to induce the Emperor to remove all restrictions on the liberty of the press. As Girardin says, the press laws have failed in all their varied forms. We advise the Emperor to make this one stone one ornamen- tal stone in the ‘‘crown of the edifice.” The law of libel is our only restriction here. With us it works well enough. We know no good reason now why the Emperor should not make the French press as free as is the press in America. Hf he can do it he ought. These are the forms of liberty, and the: forms of liberty are striking. The Women in Council.- There are two exciting female conventions now in session. in this city, one at Apollo Hall, under the stately lead of Mrs. Cady Stanton, who is undoubtedly the noblest woman of them all, and the-other at Steinway Hall, un- der the vivacious: leadership of Grace Green- wood, who ranks-second only to Mrs. Stanton in her especial sphere, if in the present con- glomerate condition of .the woman question she has any especial sphere. The feminine agitators have beenso longin rebellion against the ancient doctrine of woman's sphere being the household that it is almost rank heresy now to insinuate that they have any sphere at all, especially as on aspiring above the house- hold they do not seem to have secured » very firm foothold outside of it. ent encouraging indications for the final suc- cess of the oppressed is the: fact that. there is a formidable split among them. ceeded without division and dissensions among the reformers, advocates of it stick close together. until it becomes: strong that they caniafford to divide on the minor questions. the workingwomen’s grievances take up a great part of the timo of the two conventions is an- other indication that speaks well for the possi- ble success of the movement. never take hold firmly on the people. questions of wages and of hours.of labor are always in order, while the ballot and the right tohold office are apt to be very dull subjects to the masses. chance to have her wages: increased or her hours of labor reduced by this movement is very likely to approve of the principle, -The. pres- conventions, however, give some sisterhood.. One No great reform has ever suc- When a cause is.weak the It is not The-fact that Abstract ideas The A working girl who sees a she is and the compelled to swallow. ballot along with even if suffrage the increased pay. These-cheering indications and the enlivening news. from England ought to give our revolutionary damsels confidence enough to carry on the movement in future without any aid whatever, even such as it is, from the men. They ought to request the im- mediate withdrawat of Parker Pillsbury, Theodore Tilton and Henry Ward Beecher from the association. They are mere bones of con- tention at the best. All they do is to wrangle with the able female orators on the platform and oppose most of the measures introduced. It is time for the suffrage women to assert practically their independence of the men and to stand alone on their rights. Tne PostaAL TrikerapH Prosgot.—Mr. William Orton, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, made his posi- tively last farewell speech against the postal telegraph before the committee of the House yesterday, basing his argument mainly on: the failure of the project in England, where, he contended, it had proved utterly impracticable. At the conclusion of the argument Mr. C. C. Washburn, who engineers the bill, handed him a letter from Mr. Scudamore, Secretary of the British Post Office, stating that, although thirty thousand messages per day are sent by the government lines in Great Britain, there are on an average not more than twenty-five complaints in the same time of delays or blun- ders. He says the traffic and consequent in- come are steadily increasing and the com- plaints decreasing. Upon reading this letter Mr. Orton subsided; so we may hope that, un- like Charles Kean the actor and other promi- nent personages, he has actually said his last farewell speech, at least on the postal tele- graph system. Tue Fresca Opposition AND CLERICAL newspaper organs hava commenced to belittle the plebiscitum as an expression of the national feeling and will, The writers acknowledge a “big vote,” but assert that its rendition under the circumstances is “‘without social, political or religious significance.” Plain speaking and drawing the line sharply. ‘New Powtticat Maxim.—Under a low tariff—“‘free traders.” Under a high tarif— “faw traders.” THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. | The Tammany Aldermanic Nominations. | Congrése=The Qiitetion of Rémoving the Tammany has done well in the nominations for Aldermen at large so far. These are just the kind of names wo want on the ticket, Moses Taylor, Royal Phelps, Oswald Otten- dorfer and Lawrence B. Jerome cannot bo objected to a& fair representatives of the in- telligence and reapectability of the community. This is a fair start for the Tammany managors. We have now to see with what discretion they will select the other eleven names from the differengwards—a labor which bas been en- trusted to the hands of the committee of twenty-two. The nominations reported by Senator Creamer, and approved by the convention, afford an excellent example of what may be done with a view to obtain the approval of the public in selecting names for the other members of the Board of Aldermen. The committee should adhere as closely as possible to the spirit of this first ‘nomination, and.give us names of the best men which every ward can furnish to make up our new city legislature. There are plenty of estima- ble oltizens willing to act in conjunction with such men as Moses Taylor and Royal Phelps in the Board of Aldermen. They should be chosen, therefore, for this office. The leaders of Tammany must see the increased strength it would give them to put this class of men on the ticket. It would be but re- deeming the pledge embodied in the Charter, which meant reform and renovation in the character of our local government. To this course of action the leaders of the dominant party are bound in honor to the majority, who have placed them in power, and to the citizens and taxpayers generally—whether within or outside the party—who will sustain them, looking of course to their own interests, in any effort toobtain an economical and honest city government. We must not overlook the other tickets of what is called the anti-Tammany coalition. The out of door factions have managed to get some notable names on the Aldermanic slate; such, for instance, as Daniel F, Tic- mann and W. F. Havemeyer, both ex-Mayors and men of excellent repute; but whether these gentlemen will accept the nomination or not we are not informed. Nelson W. Young, one of the nominees, has already declined. As to the other nominees, they are little known, and their chances must depend upon their merits, if theyhave any. For Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and the Marine Court there can be no objection to the lawyers nominated by the coalition. They will no doubt present a fair record, as things go, and may make a good show at the-ballot box, The republicans have also made nominations highly satisfactory, the full list of proposed Aldermen including such names as Henry Clews, William E. Dodge; Charles L. Tiffany, Charles K. Graham, and others equally prominent and responsible. On the whole, between all parties and factions, there is a good chance of our getting a respectable ticket to vote on before the: 17th of May comes around. The New Jury Law. The jury-law passed by ‘the last Legislature is precisely of that character which we have long needed in order to obtain such a class of jurors in our several courtsas might be relied upon to try a case intelligently and honestly. It is wellknown that respectable citizens have been shirking jury duty;.on the plea of busi- ness and other pretexts, to such an extent that the courts have been considerably embarrassed. to find’ a jury to tryimportant cases. This custom-has become an obstruction to the course of law-and justice which it is quite time to remove. The new jury law treats the difficulty boldly and covers the ground fully. The very first section of the statute explains its whole purport. It reads:— No judge or other officer tn the city of New York shall excuse any person liable to serve as a juror, and.duly drawn and summoned, from serving as a juror in any court ofrecord, uniegss it shall be shown: under oath by suck: juror, or, if he be unable to attend, on his behalf that he is then necessarily ab- sent from the city and will not return in time to serve, or that he is physically unable to serve, or that one of his near relatives 1s dead or dangerously sick, provided that any court may, in its discretion, excuse a Juror from service for not more than three days ata time when the exigencies of his business roquire temporary, exemption. This is explicit enough. Butin case a juror be not legally: excused it is provided that any court of record may bring him up and compel his service in the jury box if he be duly drawn and summoned. The exemptions from jury duty comprise those who do not own real or personal eatate to the value of two hundred and fifty dollars (otherwise paupers), minis- ters of the Gospel, teachers of schools, physi- cians, attorneys practising in the Supreme Court, United States officials, and those other easy-going gentlemen who hold office in the State or county of New York; pilots, engi- neers and captains of vessels; foreign consuls, telegraph operators, good and true firemen, who have served their term as prescribed by law, and real soldiers of the State militia regiments, whether they have shouldered a musket in the ranks, fourished a sword and sported gold lace at the head of a company, or tooted on a fife or tappag drum in “the front.” There is a very important section in the law, which provides that Any person who shal! give, pay, promise or offer any money or any other thing to any officer, clerk, messenger or other person for the purpose of en- abling or saaisting any person named or drawn as a Juror to evade or be exempted or excused from ser- vice a8 & juror, or who shall make any false state- meat or representation for any such purpose, or who shall retain, conceal, suppress or destroy any sum- mons, notice or other paper relative to liability or service a8 a juror left at the residence or place of business of~any person named or drawn as & juror, shall be deemed gulity of @ misdemeanor, and shall, ou he aa be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both. This touches the weakest’ spot, perhaps, in our present jury system, and the enforcement of this clause will do more towards giving us good juries than any other portion of the statute. The law in the main is strict, but not more strict than, from past experience, it should be. It may prove irksome to those who want to avoid one of the first duties of a citizen, but it will relieve our judges and pros- ecuting officers from great embarrassments and will facilitate the course of law in all our tribunals. Arg THe Mormons 4° Cuosgn Pzorie?— One would think so—for the wrath to come. Their fields are again overrun by grasshop- pers, which devour vegetation nearly every- where; the measles are having a splendid rua through the firet families, Salt Lake threa‘ens to inundate tho city, and Oullom ia after them with sharpshootors. Brigham must look to his tablets and hig little family. Capitel—The Northers Pacific Railroad and the Tarif Bille, There were two important votes taken in the Senate yesterday. Mr. Moxrill proposed amendments to the Legislative Appropriation bill providing for the building of # new State Department and for enlarging the Capitol grounds by the addition of two squares’ on the east side. The first amendment was carried) by a vote of forty-one to fifteen, and the last without a division. The importance of the votes Mes in “the fast that they probably settle the question of removing the Capitol for an indefinite timo tw come, A good many far Western and South- ern members, such as Stewart, Nye, Cole, Ramsey and Flanagan and Hamilton of Texas, voted for the amendments, while only two Eastern men, Cragin and Sprague, voted against. them, This indicates that the distant members are by no means united for a remo- val of the Capitol to the West, and that the neighboring members are very nearly united against it. So the Washington property hold- ers need no longer be restless and unhappy. In the House the deadlock occasioned by the attempt of the majority to put through the Northern Pacifio Railroad bill under whip and spur, without debate or amendment, and the spirited filibustering movement of the minor- ity was finally broken, and the bill, after « short debate, was refused a third reading and referred back to the committee, This is » palpable defeat of the land grabbing lobbyists, and will result ina salutary amendment of the bill before it passes the House. Ben Butler came again, like Monsieur Tomson, with his St. Domingo resolution, but the usual objection, like the other Monsieur Tonson, also came again. The evils-of prac- tising law ‘in distant courts and legislating in Washington at the same time are sadly exem- plified in Butler's case. For over two weeks he has intended to introduce that resolution, and he offered it every day before he was compelled to attend to his law business. On any day but Monday, however, one objection, under the rules, would serve to prevent its introduction, and the objection was always: ready. On Monday of last week Butler was absent on his law business #nd could not in- troduce it. Last Monday the House adjourned before he had a _ chance. The Georgia bill has also been delayed by his absence, and thus it actually turns out that Ben Butler, in order that he may have leisure to: turn an honest lawyer's fee in Mas- sachusetts, keeps both St. Domingo and Georgia out of the Union. The Tariff bill came up in its usual order yesterday, and Mr. Covode said that it would be better to drop it altogether, as, even after a thorough consideration and: revision of it in Committee of the Whole, it is highly unlikely that it will pass both houses this session. He pro- posed to take up the Internal Revenue bill—a measure of more general interest to the masses than the Tariff bill, and one more likely to secure the return of several members of the House, who might find their seats endangered by the continuous tinkering at the tariff. Nothwithstanding these well-timed remarks the House continued to tinker. Mrs. McFarland-Richardson’s Statement. Mrs. McFarland Richardson has given to. the public, through the Zribune, a statement of her trials and sufferings as the wifé of Daniel McFarland, the causes and instrumentalities of her separation, her- relations with A. D: Richardson and her opinion of McFarland It thus appears that her trials and sufferings as the wife of McFarland were those of a faithful, much enduring and long forboaring woman bound to a savage monomaniao ad- dicted to drink; that at last her tortures, humiliations and constant dangers and ter- rors became too heavy to be longer endured, and that her relations with Richardson throughout were studiously prudent and void of offence. ‘‘As to Mr. McFarland,” she says, “J believe now, as I have believed for years, that he was a man born to do a murder. The fact that he was always utter- ing threats of bloodshed does not so much convince me of this as the fact of his temper- ament, which, partly from hereditary causes, partly from his nationality, and partly from bad education, had become one of uncontrol- lable violence. I believe he feared this him- self.” She says much more to justify the plea of insanity set upin his defence, Krom her statement at large, after discovering the dangerous character of this man, her great mistake was in continuing still to live with him. With due allowances for the vivid co- loring of ber personal vindication, we are ine. clined to think that she was ‘more sinned against than sifhing,” and that to her impru- dent friends, to whom sho is so grateful, she ia indebted for the unhappy consequences attend- ing her separation from McFarland, and the. still more dreadful surroundings of her mar- riage with’ and separation from Richardson. It is a melancholy story, but let us hope: that the surviving parties concerned will hencefor- ward go their several ways in peace. Tue Crosina SouNks OF THE PARAGUAYAN War.—Our correspondent in Rio Janeiro. furnishes us with the olosing scenes in, the long struggle between the allies and Lopez, As has been before stated, General Camara, the Brazilian leader, at the head of a well equipped army, came up with the halft starved, famished and almost naked soldiers of Lopez on the banks of the Aquidaban river and attacked them. The bravery of the Para- guayans has been proven on many a hard- fought fleld, the skill of Lopez as a general has been acknowledged by enemies as well as friends, and, recollecting these considerations, and with the full facts before us, it is hard to regard General Oamara’s ‘‘great victory” over Lopez, and. for which he has received the thanks of the Emperor, other than a surprise aud a massacre. Tho slaughter, we are tol, among the Paraguayans was fearful, and, om the other hand, the Brazilians did not losd a man, The reader oan draw an inference from this record of facts. Now that Lopez is dead, and hostilities have ceased, we await with interest the next movement of the allies with tegard to Paraguay. Petr Adee ere A Frantina Cross, —The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer is perplexed to know whether Terry or Bullock is Governor of Georgia. A crosa betweon a terrier and a bulldog ig aald to make good fighting stock.