The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, ‘AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All: business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addfessed New York Letters and packages should be properly 4 sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk DANCING Ban wun—DaUGHIER OF THE RreiMENT. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- nor Thirtieth st.—Matines daily. Performance every evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 23d a4 —THE YWELVE TEMPTATIONS. * NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Ixion--Tam MILITARY Drama or Nor Guittr, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., between Sth and 6th avs.— Tus Hoevrnors. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—IXtoN—-SaLLy SMABT— Tus Lost Sov. 6 WALLACK'S THEARRE, Broadway and 13th sirect.— ‘Tus Rep Liout. FIFTH AVENUE. THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Fan- SANDE. ‘ { MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— | Munuz's Loox. 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Sawant Pa Furt! a ington: Rumors of her Changes 1 the Cabinet; Old Fe to Retire, New Vigor to be Infused Into the Administration: Attor- ney General Hoar’s Successor Appointed; The President's Cuban Policy Sustained; Pro} Bale of @ Portion of the New York Battery Grounds—The New “Attorney General—The Posy Steamship Henry “Chaunoey—The Naval Pay Question—New York City News— The Jersey City Mystery—Probable Murder, bite | Visit of the Czar of Russia to the King or ia; Rosso-German Sympathy at Ems; The British Aristocra: rish Landlordism as Exempiitied by Marchioness—Our Occidental ‘Visitors: Red Cloud es an Ora‘or; Their De- Darture tis Morning—A Sterling Tributé to Judge Cardozo—Yachting: Annual Regatta for = — panes eee — Club; A e Breeze and @ Splen un—Ju ‘Thieves in Hoboken, 7 s ate §—Tie Modern Amazons: The Women’s Rights Women in a Row; The Crinoline Stockjobbers Denounced—Horse Notes—Iarmers’ — Holl- days—The National Game—Jourdan on the Road—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courte—Street Railroad Slaughters— Fourth of July Celebration—Probable Hom!- cide—Weat’ Point: The Last Parade of the Graduating Class—Down the Bayv—The South- ern Women’s Bureau—Clearing the Streets in J City—An Honest Bostonian. @—Etitoriais: Leading Article on The Cuban estion, General Grant, Congress and the publican Party—Amusement Announce- ments. ¥—Trlegraphic News from All Parts of the World: ‘The British “Gag Law as Worked Against the HzraLp in Ireland; President Grant’s Mes: on Cuba Read in Madrid; Papal Infalltbility Still Under Dae bate; Earthquake in Japan—-Recthoven Musical Jubilee—Javenile Beethoven Festi val—Personal Inteliigence—Sufering Cuban Women: Meeting of Prominent. New York Ladies at the Fifth Avenue Hpte]—Journal- istic Notes—A Wall Street Mystery. S—The Fine Arts: Prizes of the ‘Paris Exhibition; the Successful Compettiors—The Wharves and Piers and City Transit—The Ex-Minister to Spain at Home—The Eastern Question: The Turkish DiMiculty with Egypt; Amerioans in the Egyptian Service—Another “Professional? Homicide—Bloody Work on the Border—Pro- Sse) of Coolieism in Massachusetts—American iteamship Intcrest: Proposed Establishtent of ~ Lines Between Our Ports and Those of Europe and Asta—Matrimony Extraordinary—Interna- tional Courtesy. 9—The Fenian Assassin: Trial, Conviction and Sentence of Dr, Jaines Kiernan for the Shooti of P. J. Meehan—Exciting Chase After Burglars—Financlal and Commercial Keports—Real Estate Matters—News from eee Mullen Homicide —Marriages ana athe, O—Military Excursions—The Mystic Park Races— * Aray and Navy _Intetligence—Seizure Smuggied Cigars—The Secretary of War on a Pieasure Tour Up the Hudson—Congregatiorial Chureh Con ference at Orange, N. J.—Suipping Intelll- gence—Advertisements, "41—A Drunken Man Sent Up in a Balloon—The Bot- tom of Memphis Dropped Out—A Feartul De- scent—Advertisements, 12—Advertiserment: Tar Irish Laxn Brit.—This now famous dill is fairly before the Lords, and, from the character of the debate, there is no reason to fear the Lords will seriously hinder its passing into law. Every Now ano Tuen the administration ‘writes in letters of gold an additional reason why it should cohtinne in office. One of the last reads thus:—‘‘Reoeipts from internal revenue during the year ending April 30, 1870, $180,260,954.” Porg Pius THE NixtH enters on the twenty- fifth year of his Pontificate to-day—a critical period in the life history of his predecessors after St. Peter, as will be seen in our columns. His Holiness was seventy-eight years of age last May. He is reported hale and pretty “hearty.” According to present appearances he may tide over the dies ire of the tradition. Tur New Arrorngy GrneraAt—Tue Sovru ms THE Cantnet.—The only immediately obvious fact in the appointment of Mr. Acker- man, of Georgia, to the place made vacant by the resignation of Mr. Hoar is that it admits the South to representation in the adminis- tration, This isa gubstantial step of progress In the good work of reconstruction—a work of which the public has for a while lost sight, out which all the time happily goes on, Tag Rampant Women.—In another column we give the letter of a woman practically seek- Ing the right to earn her bread at a trade to which women are equal. She seems to have written her own story, and bas not certainly crammed from Rollin’s ancient history or other Jiterary antiquities, This gives the more value to her criticisms of the sincerity of the charming brokers, who seem to be at the head of the woman’s movement in Wall street. The Jotter of the Princess Editha, alsogiven, makes plain the queer fact that the coterie of femi- nine agitators in the city seize upon every woman who comes before the public and endeavor to make capital out of her, which certainly ought to modify their eagerness to @enounoe per If she fails. ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, @ress and the Republican Party. The Presiddut gained an important victory yesterday ia Congress on the Cuban question, in the adoption—103 to 86—-of a harmless sub- stitute for the resolutions of Goneral Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the substitute resolution being as follows:— Thas the President ts hereby authorized to remon- strate peainns the barbarous manner in which the War in Cuba has been cunducted, and, if he shail deem it expedieat, to solicit the Co-operation of other governments in such measures a® he may ieee cas ofa eee all civillzed nations. This is equivalent to the adoption of the President's late special message on the sub- ject, not only by the House, but by the repub- lican party of the House; for only a small minority of that party voted in the negative. Several important points are thus established. First, the President is sustained by Congress and by his party, which is the responsible party in Congress. Second, his position is strengthened in Congress as the head aud executive embodiment of his party in refe- rence to the Presidential succession. Third, he is strengthened in the general policy of his administration—peace, progress, retrench- ment, the lessening of our burden of taxes and the redemption of the public debt. Fourth, the attention of Spain and the civilized world is called, in a voice which cannot be disregarded, to ‘the barbarous manner in which the war in Cuba has been conducted.” Fifth, it is left to the President's discretion whether to invite or not the co-operation of other nations in a remonstrance on this subject, and whether he shall or shall not reorganize his Cabinet for a new departure, This resolution, then, may be well pro- nounced @ot only a great victory for the soyad administrative policy of General Grant, ‘but a. most important victory for the republican party itself over the strong and dangerous temptation to go filibustering into Cuba. We find in some'of our democratic exchanges the hope expressed of such a split among the republicans as must result in shelving General Grant as acandidate for the succession. For instance, one of these prophetic democratic or- gans says that Grapt, “‘in his weakness and political inexperience, has suffered himself to be estranged from the really shrewd and cun- ‘ning politicians of his party, and has entrusted his fortunes in the hands of a clique quite as selfish and arbitrary, but at the same time in- finitely weaker in skill and resources,” and that, ‘following the dictation of these men, Grant has lost what little popularity he had with the people, and has effectually spoiled all his chances for a renomination.” Here the great difficulty which most per- plexes the democratic wirepullers for the succession is frankly confessed. It is Grant. If he were only out of the way the course would be clear. How can we shelve him? The only way is to foment discords in the republican camp and bring about such a split as will divide the party upon two candidates in 1872, or rule Grant off the track. This, then, isthe game of the democratic leaders and organs; and as. all things are fair in war they must be allowed to play it. .The same game, however, was played against Jackson, and against Lincoln for a second term, -but in both cases it signally failed, While the demo- cracy, therefore, are manceuvring to bring about the shelving of Grant, they will be acting very foolishly if they neglect to consider the overwhelming probabilities of his nomination for another term. So far they have done nothing in recognition of the ‘‘ fixed facts” with which in 1872 they will have to deal— facts inevitably demanding a great change from the Tammany programme of 1868, Meantime the only safe position the repub- licans can occupy is that of adhesion to Grant’s admiaistration, and their only avail- able candidate for '72 is Grant, on his safe and trusty platform of peace, progress, develop- ment of our resources, retrenchment of ex- penses and taxes, and redemption of the debt. This is admitted by the responsible party in the decisive House vote on this Cuban question. It is an admission that Congress caniot now afford to ran the risk of raising the price of gold and embarrassing our financial affairs and the business affairs of the country by filibustering resolutions; that there is no necessity for war declarations or materials for Wall street panics for the benefit of unscrupulous speculators and Stock jobbers ; that the administration must be sustained in fostering the interests of peace, productive industry, European emigration to our shores, financial steadiness and public confidence io our national treasury, and the payment of the national debt. These are the great duties assumed by General Grant, the grand objects to which it is his policy to make all other questions subordinate, and upon this policy he will be sustained by the country. The Alabama claims will keep, and if it does not settle itself meantime we can, with our way clear before us, settle the Cuban question at any time hereafier., St. Domingo is offered as a great bargain, involving no foreign difficulty, and hence General Grant has earnestly labored for this desirable annexation. *.He will not, however, quarrel with the Senate about it; for he has no notion of repeating the follies of Andy Jobnson. : General Grant, in a word, is the right man in the right place at this crisis of peace, as ho was in the crisis of the war, He has certain great objects before him now, as he had then, and he sticks to the grand peace idea of settling the debt as he etuck to the grand war idea of capturing the army of Lee. As all his combinations of the war, near and remote, great and small, were directed to the capture of Lee’s army, 80 now all his measures of policy are made subordinate to the payment of the national debt, Upon this grand idea his administration is secure, and his safe and saving policy will command the approval of the country, and the House of Representatives so understands it in endorsing him on the Cuban question, “Broopy Work on, tHe Borvkr.”—We have acéounts of no less than eight homicides or attempts at homicide within twenty-four hours in Kansas City, Mo, This is ‘bleeding Kansas” over again, but this time it happens to be on the other side of the State line—that is, in Missouri. If this bloody work had oceurred in North Carolina it would have been laid to the account of the Ku-Kluxes, and the whole militia of the State ordered out to crush out “Incipient rebellion.” ‘down a carpet-bagging Congressman. The Cuban Question=General Grant, Con- | The British “Gag? Law in Ireland—Exoous tive Outrage on the Freedom ef tho Prose Through the Herald, The English Coercion act,’ which’ is known indiscriminately to civilization’ as the Irish Pains and Penalties bill and the British ‘‘gag” law, is in complete and active operation in Ireland. We may with justice and very good reason assert that it is in audacious activity on the soil, »» Having demonstrated to mankind that the Irlgh poople in Ireland have ‘‘io rights” which the English executive is ‘bound to respect,” the ofloers of the Queen's govern- ment, demoralized perhaps to some extent by past impunity, have assailed the free and’ independent press of America, Special advices, forwarded to us through the Atlantic cable from London, coming in the shape in which the telegram appears in our columns to-day, report that one of the Hurarp special correspondents in Ireland has just beon arrested by tho police under the authority of ‘the act which suspends the habeas corpus in the island. Our writer was seized in the town of Trim, in the county of Meath, his baggage ransacked, his papers—official for the HxzaLp and -private—overhauled and read by the officers, and himself placed in durance for a time. How is this? What the cause of this British onslaught both on our journalistic enterprise and the person of our representa- tive? Two Irish editors, Messrs. Sullivan and Pigott, when suffocating under the operation of this same British ‘‘gag” law, ventured some time ago to appeal tothe Hrrap to change the venue from before the packed juries of the Crown and to submittheir cases, soparately yet unitedly in the narrative, to the grand inter- national transatlantic tribunal, the American people, through our columns. They threw aside the ‘delusions, the mockeries and the snares” of attorneys general and the Queen’s judges, and looked for sympathy anda plain statement and honest appreciation of facts to the solid brain and candid heart and mind of Amorica through the HeRap printing presses. We hearkened to the appcal of Messrs. Sullivan and Pigott. The “how long” of the distressed {rish nation- ality appeared in the pages of the Heratp on the 30th day of April. The Heratp which contained the letters found its way to Ireland. The case, as presented to and by us, was com- mented on by some of the English journals, It produced an effect. Hence our present prose- cution in the person of our special writer in Ireland. It is the treatment of Sullivan and Pigott brought home, as far as possible, to our- selves, We must, for to-day, seek the same means of redreas as they did—submit the case to the American people. Ask a free nation what it thinks of it? ‘Ask Europe generally, Can freedom of expression be ‘‘stamped out” by degrees in the Old World? Can the Crowns, with their feudal coadjutors, conspire success- fully against free thought, steam and the printing press? The crisis is imminent. The questions are of universal importance to the cause of humanity. Congressman Porter and Pat Woods. It appears now in evidence that Pat Woods, who is keeping company with the Sergeant-at- Arms of the House of Representatives for strik- ing Mr. Porter, the Congressman, in Richmond, felt himself insulted by Porter on the event- ful occasion of the knockdown and did not know that he (Porter) was a Congressman and entitled to Congressional immunities at the time. From his statement it would appear that Porter has a habit of going round and letting people know who he is and what ex- alted rank he holds, Hoe told Pat that he was Porter, the Congressman (according to Pat’s version) and Pat being intoxicated thought he said that he (Pat) was drunk on porter and Congress water. This was worse than gin and milk. Anybody -would have felt aggravated at it; and Pat, being a hot-blooded Irishman, - rather willing than otherwise to fight even on mistaken premises, promptly and effectually knockéd the Con- gressmanu down for what he supposed to be an imputation on his drinking capacities. This is allthere is of it, according to Pat’s version (and Congressman Porter’s version does not mach improve it), and yet the House persists in making a democratic martyr of Pat and putting the high inducements of fame and good lodging before every mascular hod-carrier in the South who finds a lucky opportunity to knock Why couldn’t Porter have risen in his tracks and knocked Pat down? It would have saved money to the country and told better for Porter than the present investigation does. ANOTHER PHASE OF FENIANISM was presented yesterday in the trial of James Keenan, a clerk in the Fenian Senate, for the shooting of P. J. Meehan, the acting Secretary of War of the Brotherhood. The shooting took place in February last, in West Tenth street, where both parties. were about leaving a Fenian meeting. The evidence was clear and direct in implication of the prisoner, and as he was found guilty Recorder Hackett sentenced him to ten years in the State Prison at hard labor. A new trial was denied, and the prisoner was removed, The severity of this sentence will redound ultimately to the great benefit .of the Fenian organization, Whatever there is of good in the Brotherhood has always been frittered away in personal rivalries and jealousies, which have on more occasions than one resulted in serious shooting matches. If the punishment meted out to Keenan serves to deter other jealous Fenians from shooting their rivals, so much the better for the Fenian Brotherhood and for the general peace of the comm unity. Spro1aL DrsPATOHES FROM THE East.— The Eastern quostion as it presents to-day is illustrated in an able and exhaustive man- ner in a special correspondence from Con- stantinople published this morning, Our writers in the Turkish capital present the re- lative positions of Turkey and Egypt, besides stating the present interest, with the bearing of the diplomacy, of the great Powers of Western Europe on the subject. Persia is becoming interested, as will be seen. The eyes of the world turn ever, and with anxious expression, towards the East, so that our special letters from that quarter of the world always com- mand the earnest attention of the public, inde- pendently even of their intrinsic excollence, ‘The Persian Shah to Visit Burope=The East Drawing Nearer te the West. |, The Shah of Perala, or, as hig full title reads in his native tongue, the Schabynschsh, or “King. of Kings,” when he recently repaired to the shores of the Caspian Sea to abake bands with the military envoy of Rusela, wes accom- paniod by a ‘suite of sx thousand persons, comprising guards, adjutants, chaipberlains, high court officials, pages and footmen, They appeared in all the barbaric pomp and clroum- stance of one of the most ancient and opulent Orlental Courts, and the impression produced upon the inhabitants of the provinces through which this splendid oortége journeyed revived some of the traditions of the earlicr days when’ the will of the Shah was absolute law and his anger certain death, Yet Nassr-ed-Din, the reigning monarch of Persia, is a prince of thoroughly modern ideas, although e strict Mohammedan in faith. Ho is still in the very prime of life—his fortieth year—having been born in 1830, and has been nearly twelve years. on the throne, his ascension dating from September, 10, 1848, when he succeeded his father, Mohammed Schah, in the supreme control. He is the first of his dynasty who has ever gone asa tourist beyond the ‘confines of his own realm, and should no reaction take place.in the views that he now entertains with regard to modern pro- gress he is undoubtedly destined to do very much in that direotion for hia country. By our Eastern files and special corres- pondence from Teheran and Constantinople we learn that the Shah has already acquainted his great neighbor, the Sultan of Turkey, with his intention to visit Stamboul during the present month, there to’ perform his devotions as a regular pilgrim at the tombs of the Moham- medan saints, Moreover, be proposes to leave his second son to be educated at Constanti- nople in not merely the lore of the East, but in the Western arts and sciences, not omitting the modern system of war. 6 But his Oriental Majesty Nassr-ed-Din pro- poses also to continue his journey to Italy, France, the German Courts, Great Britain and Russia, where he will be received, of course, with all the éclat: due to his distinguished rank and produce a grand sensation. How- ever, it ismot in the mere spectacle of an Oriental monarch coming to visit what to his ancient predecessors was a barbarian waste, inhabited by savage tribes, that the chief in- terest of this event fs concentrated, but it is in the astonishing political significance of the successor of Cyrus, of Darius, of Artaxerxes, of Genghis Khan and of Iskandor, doiag in- voluntary homage to, a civilization that, in the wondrous work of time, has eclipsed the elegant luxury which once made Teheran the Paris of the Orient and filled the East with the voluptuous manners that found their expression in the poesy of Ferdous!, of Saadi and of Hafiz, and their stirring record in the glowing pages of her historians, Wassaf, Mirk- hond and Kondemir. The Persian tongue is, in its melodious softness, still the Italian of all the Asiatic languages, and to hear it spoken in its purity in the ‘saloons of European palaces by royal natives of Iranistan, clad in the rich costume of her clime, will be a pregnant won- der of our day. But the thoughtful gaze that looks away beyond these outward pageantries beholds other grand results to flow from this drawing together of the ties that are to unite nations so remote and so long separated by mutual ignorance and prejudice. Not merely that the tissues and machinery, the books and pictures and carvings of the West are to be more readily exchanged hereafter for the exquisite silke and shawls and carpets of Per- sia, the porphyries of Sabund, the gems and gold of Tabrooz, the varied fruits and licorice of Merdusht, the luscious dates and sparkling wines of Shiraz and the unrivalled extracts and perfumes of Gul, are we so gratified to hear of this imperial mission; but that the broad light of the new day is now to shine in upon the recesses of the East and the way to be prepared through the mind of an enlightened ruler for governmental and social reforms which are to make universal the spirit of the Gospel and gather all the family of man, at last, beneath one sheltering banner. “Tne AssoctaTeD Press.—A writer for Put- nam’s Magazine has attempted to give a view of the organization and workings of the New York Associated Press. If he has succeeded in making such dry reading palatable to the public we certginly shall not complain; but we do object to direct misstatements of facts, or, to usea more forcible expression, downright misrepresentations, The writer says the scope of the Associated Press ‘‘is the collection of telegrams from all points and of marine intel- ligence in New York harbor.” To show how far this announcement is correct we quote the following resolution, which was passed unani- mously at a meeting of the Associated Press held on the 8d of March, 1868:— Resolved, That on and after 1, 1868, the Asso. cater Drebs will discontinne the collestion of ship news in the harbor of New York. If the writer knows anything about the association he knows of the existence and force of the above resolution, and he also knows that the Associated Press does not col- lect marine intelligence in New York harbor. WALL StREET AND THE CABINET CHANGES.— The gold barometer was sensitive within nar- row limits yesterday, but still in the frequency of its fluctuations closely reflected the feeling of the street concerning the Cabinet changes and the discussion of the Cuban question. Were it another season, or were there activity enough in Wall street these hot days, the pre- cious metal would have run up and down the scale quite lively, first in answer to Gencral Grant's message, and thefi in’ response to General Banks’ flery speech, and, finally, in sympathy with the mollifying influences of Bingham’s resolution, Considering the mate- rigls afforded the speculators very little use was made of them after all. The changes in the price of gold were the normal results of the changing aspect of the position of the government on the topic of the hour. Tue Capacity QUESTION IN DELAWARE.— The Delawarian says the republican candi- date for Governor of the ‘‘Blue Hen and Chickens” State lacks ‘‘capacity.” Let his friends do as the oil millionaire did when informed by a teacher that one of his offspring had no capacity. ‘‘No capacity; no capacity, ma'am? Damme! I'll buy one for her if it costs me a thousand dollars |” JUNE 17, 1870.—TRIPLE ; SHEET. : ry a , ; . The Franking bill was the main topio in the | Senate » Nearly the whole day was occupled In disoussng i, and nothing impor. tant was decided upon in the matter, except that Mr. Sumner would offer his substitute to-day, whioh, besides belng less satisfactory than the preceding bill, is morally certain to reopen the whole question. . In the House o new Coal bill was reported by Mr. Schenck from the Committee of Ways and Means, It is short and to the point, end io full harmony with the views expressed in the House resolution demanding that a bill on the'subjeot be reported. It simply amends the regular free list by adding the words, “‘ooal, bituminous and every other kind.” The House referred the bill to the Committee of the Whole, Mr, Bingham’s substitute for the Cuban resolution was accepted without much debate. One or two average land grab- bing bills were reported. One of them, grant- ing right of way to q Salt Lake railroad, was passed, Another, pr Goat Island, io San Francisco harbor, to the Western Pacific Railroad, is still under discussion. The fact that the corporation to whom this rich plum is offered is rich, and that Fernando Wood during debate offered two million for the island, and Mungen, of Ohio, went half « million better on Fernando's offer, ought to be comments sufficient on the gross extravagance of the House in even thinking of giving it away. “Bale, in our columns, and, in consequence, threw up the Post Office advertising in that connection in disgust. The Philadelphia papers must be in a sad way for advertisements if they crave . the privilege of: publishing the list of letters twice a week at the miserable rate allowed by the Post Office Department. A Russian Mission to China by Way of America. 4 By special correspondence from St. Petera~ burg, dated May 26, which appeared in our columns yesterday, we are informed that the Czar Alexander has appointed General Vian- gally, « distinguished commander of the impe- rial army, his Minister to the Court of Chins. General Viangally has already left the Russian capital on bis journey to Pekin. He has been charged by his imperial master to travel to Asia by way of America. He is also author- ized, by royal commission, to remain some few months in the cities and .among the peo- ple of our republic, This special intelligence is of a very important character. It conveys, as will be seen from the statement presented by our writer, a Russian acknowledgment of the fact shat the peoples of the hoary East must be revivified and regenerated from the newest and most potent centres of civilized and’ Christian .government—St. Petersburg and Washington—the one sending forth the symbol of a coacentrated imperialism when just bowing in graceful acknowledgment of the facts of progress, the other holding forth the banner of man’s equality, of democracy and of national independence rendered inde- structible through the agencies of a free press, freedom of mind and conscience, steam and electricity. This Russian General will, of course, land in New York. Perhaps he may re- ceive his first impressions of American de- mocracy in this great metropolis. It is to be hoped that these impressions will be of a pleasing character ahd thus become to him inspiriting of the future. for his native land. Russia really requires, and did from the begin- ning, under Peter, need municipal institutions. ‘Hr first ralers went into imperialism with’att almost barbaric splendor on one side and the gleam of the sword on the other. The people were “nowhere.” The original builders: of the empire neglected to “crown the edifice” by a national approbation and never thought of securing corporate retreats where freedom, which is an essential, one and eternal, of humanity, could shelter her- self from the rude hands of impassioned royalty and tend the germ, even if in gloom or darkness. In this respect the Russian war victories and battle prowess of Catharine and of Suwarrow, and of Nicholas himself pale almost to insignificance with regard to useful results, before the simple British story of Dick Whittington, as illustrative of Eng- lish citizen expression, both as the ex- ponent and bulwark of a people’s liberty. Ideas such as these will no doubt broak upon the mind of the Russian Generel Vian- gally during his visit to New York and Wash- ington and to the American people generally. The General bears letters of introduction to President Grant and many other distinguished public mon, as also to some few private gentlemen, from the United States Minister in St. Petersburg. President Grant will en- lighten him as to our grand national march and institutions. Our system of home gov- ernment and our home and foreign policy will be fally explained to him. American hos- pitality will meet him at every threshold, so that General Viangally will take his departure from New York and travel to Pekin still more enlightened and still more hopeful of the grand future of the Asiatic peoples after the cosmopolitan American and the solid ancient Russian and Fin, with the educated Tartar, shall have joined hands in the interests of science and religion on the banks of the Yangteze, in Tien-tsin, in Pekio, and away along the Jaxartes. Rep Croup and his warriors assembled with Peter Cooper and his peacemakers in solemn council at the Cooper Institute at noon yesterday. A great many pale-faced specta- tors were present. Rev. Howard Crosby prayed and spoke, and Mr. Peter Cooper spoke, both in short syllables, that the red men might understand them. Then Red Cloud spoke also in short syllables. He made a good impression upop sentimental people who do not believe with Artemus Ward that the Indian of the period is “‘pizen wherever found.” He race was disposed to do right, and was anxious to be at peace with its white brothers. The council was a great success, and Red Cloud, Red Dog and all the other “eda” were made glad, especially as they had just been informed by telegraph that the gov- ernment had given them horses enough for the whole party to ride home on. To-day they will start by rail homeward, horses and all; and within a week or two we shall hear of Red Cloud and the other “‘reds,” on their govern- ment horses, riding down the defenceless settlers on the prairies, and inaugurating the bloody wars which they so trenchantly depre- cated at the Cooper Institute. He.reme THE Wretouzp.—There is one point in regard to Cuba that there should be no doubt about. War is at least as terrible there as elsewhere in the misery it entails upon the women and children, and from our plenty and comfort we should help them. Depots for the reception of goods that the charity of our people may give will soon be opened here; and as the movement is in charge of such ladies as Mrs. J. J. Roosevelt, Mrs, Doremus, Mrs, N. H. Decker, &., there can be no doubt that such charity wiil reach its object. Rear Betatz in THe Sovts.—The Chat- tanooga Zimes says a farm of two hundred and fifty acres on Half Moon Island, forty miles below Kingston, on the Tennessee river, recently sold for two hundred dollars per acre; “but,” it continues, “before the war it brought one hundred and fifty-three dollars in gold per acre.” That is to say, it brought about twenty-seven dollars in gold per acre more after the war than before it, taking the premium on gold at the latest quotations as compared with greenbacks. Some of our Southern contemporaries seem to imagine that gold is still at a war premium, say a hundred Follow, Well Met=Coolicism in , New Bogtand. Our ex-Minister to the Court of Spain—if there happen to be any Court there—Hon. John P. Hale, has returned to his home in Dover, N. H., and been cordially welcomed by his fellow townsmen. Before Mr. Hale left this country to represent it abroad the ques- tion of Southern slavery occupied a large share of his time and talents as o legislator and speechifier. He could not, however, resist his joke. Therefore, now there is no nigger inthe fence, why don’t he seize the coolie question as it affects the wax-onds in New England and make some capital sport out of it? But per- haps he does not regard this matter in the light of @ joke. There are a great many cord- wainers in New Hampshire who will soon feel the effects of this coolie shoe movement unless they take steps to restrain it. It has gone too far already to treat it on the “shoo fly” principle, -and unless the old shoemakers are making . arrangements to “peg out” for some other parts of the country there is danger of their finally coming to serious grief. If Mr. Hale had returned a few weeks earlier he might have eclipsed Mr. Cragin in his race for re-election to the United States Senate on this very Coolie shoemaking dodge; for Cragin had only the anti-polygamy relic to bolster him up, while Hale could have .made the welkin ring by protesting against this introduction of a new form of slavery into New England undér the name of Coolicism.. He could show that while the Southern cotton planting oligarchy kept their niggers’ noses on the grindstone the shoemaking oligarchy of New England were about to commit the noses of another unfortunate race to an equally terri- ble infliction—the horrors of the lapstone. There is still a chance for ex-Minister Hale to profit by this suggestion. Like Sambo, has not the poor coolie a sole to be saved? The Tug of War Come at. Last. Fron,s cable despatch which we print this morning it will be seen that the fight in the Romun Council on the question of Papal in- fallibility is not yet ended. The telegraphic despatch of the 15th was vaguely worded. It said there was no doubt that the dogma of infallibility would be carried. This was not news after all; for no one has been doubting any time these many months past that the majority was strong enough to carry the measure. Our anxiety, therefore, has not been about the success of the new dogma, but about the effect of the new dogma on the mi- nority and the malcontents. What is to be the result ofthe dogma? That is the question. It is our opinion that the Council may do what it may. Ithas thepower. It has the will. No doubt it will do it. But when it does the ques- tion will not be conquest, but preservation. The proclamation of the infallibility dogma will leave the outside world as it is; but it may give serious trouble to the Catholic Church. If the Catholic Church survives it and maintains its integrity it will have good cause tobe thankful. We have been waiting long for the actual fight. We are glad to know that the tug of war has come at last. The anti-infallibilists must now reveal their mettle, Tommy Happes—Tanks TO JERSsEY.— Jersey desefves, above all things, the grati- tude of our roguery-ridden community for the wholesome example she constantly keeps before usof the punishment of crime. Jersey is sternly just in her adhesion to the notions of punishment that regard criminals as some- thing else than honest men in temporary difficulties. With her a burglar is a fellow to be disgracefl as well as punished. With us, unfortunately, the worst rogue caught in his crime is only a good fellowinascrape. Jersey has no sentiment, and even the snivelling of Tommy Hadden had not virtue to save him. We owe her, therefore, our gratitude on gen- eral principles, and-in this special case of the disposition of a New York rogue. Cannot we give our criminal justice out to Jersey by contract? Tar Dooxs ann Ur-Town Traver.—The communication printed in another column on the wharves and city transit expresses only the common popular impatience at the thought that the new Dock Commissioners propose to. repair the present dock structures rather than to build new ones, But we believe the repairs contemplated are only such as may be neces- sary to prevent actual calamity while the com- mission takes time to determine what ehail finally be done. Wecan hardly doubt that it intends to originate proper system of wharves, and in its deliberations to that end we commend to it the excellent suggestions of “a Taxpayer.” Semi-Weexty List ov Lerrers.—The Post-" master General has permitted a Philadelphia papér to publish the list of letters remaining | ora hundred and fifty per cent above green- in the Post Office in that city twice a woek, | backs, when it is only about thirteen per cont, ‘We used to think ita bore and encumbrance | and scarcely three per cout above government enough to publiah this city’s list once a week | bonda. showed that his.