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

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, More ef the Inside of the Rebellion How Now York Was Saved from the Phosphorus Incendiaries. We publish this morning the report of the United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs on the claim of Colonel J. F. Jaquess for important secret services to the govern- ment during the rebellion, embracing certain Rejected communications will not be re- turned, facts connected with several distinguished politicians referred to yesterday in our editorial Volume XXXV +No. 173 | columns, and also an explanation of the fuil- ure of the notorious rebel incendiary plot for the destruction of the shipping and some of the great cities of the North, Turning to the Heratp files we find that on the night of the 25th of November, 1864, incendiary fires in this city were discovered in the Astor House, the Belmont, Lovejoy’s, the Tammany, the Howard, the United States, the St. Nicholas, the Metropolitan, the Lafarge, the Fifth Ave- nue and the St. ‘James hotels, and at Niblo’s and the Winter Garden theatres, and that in every case the fire was discovered in season to prevent any material damage. It was soon discovered that here was a rebel plot and attempt to set the city in flames, and the failure of the infernal machine in every instance to do the incendiary’s work was regarded at the time as something wonderful, if not providen- tial. The explanation, however, which is given by Colonel Jaquess reduces this gene- ral failure to an admirable trick of treachery on the part of the very man at Richmond charged with the revolting duty of preparing the com- bustible composition to be used by the incen- diaries. According to the testimony of Colonel Jaquess we are indebted to him for the failure of these infernal phosphorus machines to light a destructive conflagration. He says that on getting wind of the plot, July, 1864, he re- solved upon another visit to Richmond ; that, AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner ot Ej enue and ‘33d ot.—Tae TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. scented BOOTH'S THEATRE, . vi Peg RL "RE, 23d st,, between Sth and 6th a BOWERY THEATRE, ‘se Darla Soupiee’s ReruRN. Bowery.-Cavgt LB PER WALLACK'S THEATRI onenien ‘Tux Rep Licur. Matinoeat tg” whey FIFTH A’ fourth st.—FER- sae VENUE THEATRE, Twenty OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—THB FIELD OF THR CLOTH OF GOLD, Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Phiri atines Galle Perforauasoe ‘every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—MARBLE HEABT-~-KATY O'SaxaL. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Crn- DEBELLA—THS PaTRiot's Brive, £0. Matinee at 234. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— ¥ ooklyn,. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Couto Vi wa, NEGEO Aor, Bo. "Matinee a 33g. wT. Penis STSINWAY HALL, Fourteenth ‘MILE BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 71 ‘88th sis,—THxovoRE THOMAS’ Po! atreet.—Guanp JOVE- » between S8th and 8 CONORETS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Ant. “ el TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, June 22, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Pace. {Ra iN aioe providing himself with the necessary pass- Zeiressigemants, ports, beginning with the President, he under- 3—Washington: A Carpet- er Come to Grief; The House Refuses to Admit Whittemore to a Seat in Congress: General Butler's amnest; Bill; Reduction of P with the Nort German Union: Stupendous Land Jobs; Con- solidation of Railroad Lobbyists—The ‘Quar- ‘ntine Question: Meeting of the Commis- sioners—New York Historical Soclety—Brook- lyn Polytechnic, Institute—Trotuing at Narra- ganset Park; Opening of the June Meeting— Another East River Mystery. 4—Europe: Mr. Ashbury’s Banquet to the Yacht- ‘ashionabie| Movements to and from aypt; Disraeli and Smith, or the Ex-Premier and the Professor: The Bolton **Masque+ faders” Triats; Lord Derby on Charity, In- ‘rance and Pauperlsm—Fire in Turkey: at Conflagration in Constantinople; Pe and Stamboul in Flames; The “ Kas” in Conquest over Palaces, Mo: Churches and Consulates; Fatalism and Faith, but Very Little Water—Real Estate Sales—Un- usual Fog on the Coast, 5—The Cuban Bond Scandal: Some Interesting Revelations from Colonel Pickett—The Storm King; Terrific Lightning and Hall Storm in Boston and Vicinity—Sunday School Conven- tion—Another Examination in the Burke- Gardiner Bond Case—Our Mexican Frontier; The Revel General Martinez Before Mata- moros; More Trouble for Mexico—Rutger’s Col- lege Centennial—Red River; The Northwest Moving for Independence—Brooklyn City News—President Grant in New Haven—Base Ball Notes—A Remarkable Dog. G—Eilitorials : Leading Article, More of the Inside of the Rebellion, How New York Was Saved from the Phosphorus Incendiaries—Personal Inteiligence—Music tn the Parks—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Telegraphic News from : 1 Parts of the World: Napoleon Convalescent id the Conrt at St. Cloud; French Transalpine Neutrality but a War Ald to Switzerland; British Cabinet Com- | otra to the United States and Its Return; fatal Raiiroad Collision in England— ‘The National Guard: Fifth Brigade Field Day— Venezuela: Guzman Blanco Defies the Dutch Government—Guadaloupe Visited by an Earth- quake—Sons of Temperance—Dark Deeds in oe County—The Stoney Hollow Murder— ne New Regimé—Business Announcements, S—Secret History of the Rebsilion: How New York Was Saved From Destruction by Fire; the Schemes of John ©. Breckinridge’s Rebel In- cendiary Gang Thwarted; Open a) of Presi- dent Lincola’s Spy; How Governor Seymour ‘Was Changed from a Rebel Sympathizer to a Union Man; Greeley’s Canada Peace Conven- tion—Curious History of a Connecticut Bur- ‘lar—An Outrageous Case—Execution to Come ofr in Delaware—Marriages and Deaths, 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—Political Tntelligence—Advertisements. 10—New York Courts—A Hudson River Mystery— The Milton Disaster—A Bergen Bacchanalian in a Fix—Brooklyn Board of Education—Jerse} City Common Couucil—The Storm on the Hud- son—Yaciiting Notes—The New Labor Prob- took the expedition, got into Richmond with- out exciting suspicion, found out the chemist employed by the rebel government in the manufacture of the combustible compound to be used in firing Northern cities and shipping; found that this chemist was a man of culture and refinement, had no heart for this incen- diary work, though compelled to do it; per- suaded him to neutralize the proposed incen- diary compound by some other chemicals; and that, entering heartily into the scheme, ‘‘he got up first a compound that was so very inflam- mable that it only had to be touched with a match when it went off like a friction match ;” that “‘he then put up another substance in a ball about the size of a hen’s egg, or larger, which was enclosed in the outer or inflamma- ble substance,” and that ‘“‘when the fire struck the inside composition it would sparkle and make a fuss very much like damp powder, and extinguish itself at once.” This is the secret, we are told, of the failure in every case of those rebel incendiaries who so mys-~ teriously came and disappeared with those mysterious looking black bags. The rebel chemist at Richmond, in the interest of humanity, had turned the tables against his employers and sent those phosphorus incen- diaries on a fool's errand. The name of the humane Richmond chemist is not divulged, although we think it might now be safely proclaimed from the housetops over all the South without exciting any other feeling than that of approval of his conduct. We doubt not that even General Breckinridge, charged with being an active party to this phosphorus conspiracy, guilty or not guilty, would not hesitate to approve the pious fraud of said humane chemist. If the facts are as set forth by Colonel Jaquess that chemist deserves a handsome pension from the govern- ment, as well as the Colonel himself, in addi- ues, lem—Baptist Convention—Suipping Intelli- | tion to his indemnification for expenses < gence—Advertisements. z . i r 11—Advertisements. incurred in the delicate, dangerous and impor- bari ecient ss tant public services recited in his testimony. Nor have we any reason to doubt the substan- tial truth of the Colonel's statements, consider- ing the confidence reposed in him by Abraham Lincola from first to last, and the high character for truth and veracity given him by Senator Harlan. We are sorry, however, that the patriotic Colonel found nothing in Horace Greeley but a violent temper and raging pro- fanity in his conversations on that famous Niagara Falls diplomatic mission to Jacob Thompson and company. We have seldom been given a public docu- ment which in so small a compass has embo- died such important inside facts for the histo- rian as this brief report on the claim of Colonel Jaquess. It gives us some new revelations of the impotence of Buchanan, the practical loyalty of Seymour and the weakness of Greeley in the prosecution of the war. It shows us how intimately associated were the rebel conspirators in Canada, not only with the Confederate authorities at Richmond, but with some of the peace copperheads of the democratic party; and it shows us, too, how delicate and difficult, how great, embarrassing and momentous were the duties imposed upon President Lincoln, and how skilfully he managed them, as, forinstance, with Governor Seymour... We see, too, that the cry of ‘peace, peace, we are ready fora treaty of peace,” from the rebel coterie in Canada, was a trick to divert the popular sentiment from Lincoln in the prosecution of the war, while at the same time they had a Guy Fawkes at work in Rich- mond upon plot compared with which that of the original Guy was but a bagatelle, And yet the historian of our late terrific rebellion must look still further behind the scenes before he can properly tell the story to posterity. Let it suffice for the present that our terrible war has given us a glorious peace, the Union restored, slavery abolished, universal liberty and equal rights established, and that weare on the verge of that general amnesty from Congress which will rapidly reconcile and harmonize the South to a revolution, political and social, the most radical, progressive and decisive in the history of mankind. Let us, then, North and South, look rather to the glorious future than to the terrible past; let us cultivate harmony, and “‘let us have peace.” ArrorNey GENERAL Hoar’s Svoorssor.—- If the reason why Judge Akerman’s appoint- ment as Attorney General hangs fire in the Senate is to be ascribed to doubts concerning his “loyalty,” it will only be necessary to read the comments of some of the Georgia press upon the case to have those doubts removed. The Macon J'elegraph is particularly bitter against him. Hence it is reasonable to sup- pose the Senate will confirm Judge Akerman’s appointment without delay. Covurr Coats anp Bresongs.—Lord Clar- endon has announced to the English Parliament that the United States government is about to elevate its diplomatic mission to London to one of the first rank. England, says the Foreign Minister, must reciprocate the complimeut, and raise her representation in Washington to that of a first class embassy. Excellent good news for the placemen. Hope that the Court coat and breeches question won't loom up again. Tue Caress AND THE CrisPivs.—One of the Massachusetts lodges of the Knights of St. Crispin is in a demoralized condition and pur- poses to surrender its charter. This is one of ‘the effects of the labor revolution now in pro- gress, created by the introduction of Chinese into the shoemaking business of Massachusetts, This is the beginning, but not the end, and unless the white Crispins see the folly of using coercive tieasures in regulating the wages of labor and conform to the reasonable requests - of employers, they will surely come to grief, or be obliged to emigrate perhaps even to the remote spot where their coolie competitors epring fom” v#® Sforw Kine 1x His Gtory.—The @ffecta of the storm on Monday were of the grandly brilliant kind that occur only at inter- vals, Along the Hudson the roll of thunder was louder than the rumbling of old Hendrick Hadson’s tenpin balls, and the glare of the lightning was terrible beyond expression. A huge bolt of fire struck old Crow’s Nest Mountain and brought down arock measuring nearly e@ thousand tons, hurling it into the river beneath. The sensation created by the storm at the Hub has not been equalled since the grand crash at the Peace Jubilee last year. The lightning struck houses and set them on fire, shivered masts, while hail the size of marbles and hens’ eggs smashed win- Gows and taised the mischief generally. The storm extended to the vicinity, and all the adjacent towns suffered more or less. ‘Wo had the tail of {t here in the evening, in the ghape of a plentiful rain which, forta- Frrexpty Isrzrcovrsz.—Our republican President has accepted a kindly invitation from the democratic Governor of Connecticut, and will be the guest of the State in a recep- tion at New Haven on Independence Day. This shows the right kind of feeling. When Governor English takes the Presidential chair no doubt General Grant wi) be happy to reciprocate the courtesy. Congress—The Fraukiug Privilege, Whitte- Administration's more’s Case and Economy. The Post Office Appropriation bill was finally passed in the Senate yesterday, with- out the amendment abolishing the franking privilege, This kills the bill for the present session at least, as there is now too little time to bring up the House bill anew, especially in a Senate where the proposition is obnoxious. There was every appearance, up to the last moment, of an honest desire to secure the greatly needed reform, and the vote rejecting it was only 28 to 26; but the ways of the Senate are deep and mysterious, and there is no certainty that the final vote was not a fixed matter from the first. As it stands now the Senate must bear the full odium of deliberately defeating a measure which would have mado our Post Office system a source of revenue, or, at least, saved us many hundred thousands of dollars, merely because it reduced the minor perquisites of Senators. The Diplomatic Appropriation bill was taken up and amended by raising the position of our’ Minister in Japan toa first class mission and then laid aside. The Naval Appropriation bill was also discussed and amended by revising the entire pay roll, which will send it back to the House and probably cause a long discussion at the closing hours, It was also laid aside, and the House Tax and Tariff bill was discussed until adjournment. The House passed a great part of the day in excluding Whittemore. Mr. Logan opened on him, first, with a resolution to return his cre- dentials to him and declare him unfit to be sworn in asa representative, having committed an infamous crime in selling his cadetship. A discussion of greater length than the case called for, and of more dignity than was expected, ensued, but on the vote being taken Mr. Logan’s resolution was accepted by a vote of 131 to 24. Whittemore, who had been impudently seated in the rear of the hall, thereupon took his leave, somewhat disap- pointed, but not in the least abashed. On the contrary he proposes to publish a card to show that some of the prominent members of the House urged him to run for another elec- tion, and that he was promised readmission if he was elected. The statement will no doubt be taken for what it is worth, especially when it is remembered that he claimed in his speeches that Logan himself was anxious for him to return, Whittemore’s leading charac- teristic is impudence ; but when he tried to bully the Honse as he bullied his ignorant constituency into being as shameless as him- self, he reached an extreme that even his as- surance was unequal to, and put an insult upon the representatives of honest constitu- encies which they should resent by having the full penalty of his crime meted out to him by a criminal court. After Whittemore the House took up the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, the last of the series. Mr. Dawes io reporting it took occasion to review the work of the Committee on Appropriations and to compare the esti- mates with those of last year made under Andy Johnson's administration. It will be remembered that he strongly assailed the pre- sent administration early in the session for the extravagance of its estimates as originally presented to him. Now he states that the estimates have been reduced by the correction of numerous errors until they show a reduc- tion of more than eight millions of dollars in favor of Grant’s administration over Johnson's. Mr. Dawes showed himself a true friend to his party in fearlessly disclosing its shortcomings, and other zealous partisans condemned him for his course. In correcting those shortcom- ings he proves that the present administration is able to stand the criticisth even of its friends, so far as economy is concerned, and to cure its own defects. The bill under discussion appro- priates five hundred thousand dollars for the new Post Office in New York. Tue Great Firz IN ConsTaNTINOPLE.— From Europe, by mail, we have full details of the effects of the Fire King’s visitation in Constantinople—its origin, progress and con- sequences. There was an immense amount of property destroyed and a great many lives were lost. The Turks, as_ will be seen, displayed a vast degree of faith, or fatalism, as it is called in the de- spatches. There was a great lack of water, however. A New York fireman of the good old time would have been confounded, for no one was first at the ‘‘butt;” so that our ‘‘gal- lant boy” would have been very likely, during his first moments of excitement, to forget his invocation of Mohammed in his adjurations of Moses and even of ’Lize. As we have already said in the Heratp, the fire will teach the people of the Turkish capital a useful yet bitter lesson, so that their city will rise still more glorious, in an architectural point of view, from its ashes. Nove. Meruop or REPLENISHING A THEA- TRICAL TREASURY.—They have a queer way of doing things in the theatrical line in St. Louis, It appears that the manager of a New York burlesque troupe, besides giving the regular performances, was expected to have the ladies of his troupe, when not otherwise employed, occupy seats in the private boxes and allow themselves to be invited and treated to cham- pagne and other refreshments, which, being sold in the theatre, their sale would be in the interest of the saloon. These extra perform- ances, however relishable they might be to some people, were protested against by the ladies in question; hence quite a sensational scene, not down in the bills, occurred on the stage on one occasion, which required the inter- ference of the police. The case is “‘still on,” but the principal actors and actresses want to be off—back again to New York, where it is not considered precisely an insult for a gen- tleman to offer an actress a glass of good wine, TweNTY THousAND Dotzars’ Damaqgs have been given in a verdict just rendered at Bing- hamton against the Erie Railroad. The case was one from the Carr’s Rock accident, and the Court held it as proved that that accident resulted from a condition of the road that pro- per care might have prevented. With such verdicts against them—coming pretty often, we believe—the railroad companies will by and by believe that accidents are the most expensive things they can have, and will direct their energies to prevent them, morely as a matter of economy, Quarantine—How the Merchants Want It to be Administered. The clamor against the Health Officer of the Port is mainly on these points: he subjects to quarantine vessels that have no sickness on board ; he compels vessels to discharge their cargoes in the stream and by lighters, when the merchants would like them to come up to the wharves; he requires merchants to employ only lightermen and stevedores licensed by the quarantine authorities; andif at any time he permits vessels to come up out of quarantine he exacts a previous assent to the condition that they shall discharge their cargoes at desig- nated points, This is the sum of the great in- dictment of the merchants, who deal with in- fected ports and the owners of warehouses against the Health Officer, and the head and front of the offending for which even the Colleo- tor of the Port proposes to test his authority. Indeed, it is the Collector's appearance as an opponent of Dr. Carnochan that gives the case against him any respectability, and makes it worth serious argument; for this class of merchants, we are sorry to say, are always the same in matters like this. With honorable exceptions they have ever the most acute perception of their own private interests and the loftiest disregard to the public welfare. Indeed, if it were otherwise there might be no use for the expensive establishment that quarantine necessarily is. If merchants would respect the law upon its mere publication we might dispense with the machinery devised to administer it; but they like to interpret it alittle bitin their own favor always, and hence not only is the machinery necessary, but they asarule are always more or less in conflict with it, From these merchants, there- fore, we expect opposition to restraints upon their trade, however wise or necessary the restraints, because such opposition is only a natural expression of their impatience or cupidity; but the Collector we accredit with better motives, for of cours9 we do not for a moment listea to the whisper that Mr. Grin- nell in his official action remembers his rela~ tions to the frm of Grinnell, Minturn & Co.— that he cares more for the trade of that emi- nent firm than for the proprieties of his place. We are sure that he has in view the interests of the port and the fair interpretation of the law ; and this being the case, be would not, if well advised, appear in his present attitude of hos- tility to the properly coustituted authorities in their enforcement of laws that are wise and just, though, like all laws, they bear more heavily upon some parties than upon others. The defence of the Health Officer from the points made against him is simply that he ad- ministers the law as he finds it, or enforces regulations that are absolutely and impera- tively required in its letter or spirit, As to the quarantining of vessels that have no sick- ness on board, Mr. Grinnell certainly cannot be ignorant that an actual case of disease on a ship is not the only danger that her deten~ tion is expected to provide against. It is the law that vessels sailing from ports at the time of the prevalence of certain diseases there shall be detained whether they have or have not cases of that disease on board. From neces- sity the Health Officer is generally guided by the bill of health of a vessel in determining whether she is from an infected port, and in no case has a vessel yet been detained by Dr. Carnochan having a clean bill of health. This requirement of law is eminently reasonable; for it is only after the expiration of certain periods, of variable length, that diseases make their appearance in persons whose sys- tems have taken in the poison; and thus the fact that a sailor has not the yellow fever at the time of his arrival here is not a guarantee that he will not spread that plague in Cherry street. hold of a vessel is not infected although there is no sickness among her passengers or crew on arrival. discharge of her cargo. Nor is it certain in all cases that the She may develop disease after the Compelling vessels stream is only a necessary part the detention that the law requires; for of course if they are to be kept below they cannot come up to the wharves, The requirement that they shall employ certain lightermen and stevedores is also a quarantine necessity. Ships in quaran- tine must be unloaded only by men whom the Health Officer can control, and he can control only those that have his license and have given bonds that the men in their employ shall act upon certain sanitary regulations. But for this the complete defeat of the pur- poses of quarantine would ensue ; for why keep aship below if men working on her all day are scattered through the city at night? If these lightermen charge higher rates than others they perform a special and peculiar ser- vice and are under bonds for its fafthful per- formance, and, risking pecuniary loss, it is according to the general order of trade that they should make higher charges. The re-~ quirement that ships permitted to come up before the expiration of their quarantine shall discharge at certain designated places is, of all the quarantine regulations, the most necessary. The Health Officer gives a permit to save time for the cargo; but, to save his duty to the city, he “permits” the ship only for a specified isolated place. Is it tyranny to require a ship to unload at a place that is safe for the city rather than at one that is dangerous for the city? Then the merchants have an easy way to escape from that tyranny. Let them keep their ships below till the expiration of the time required by law, and if they would avoid the lightermen’s ‘‘exorbitant” charges they may keep their cargoes below also. As to the rates actually charged by the lightermen and stevedores, since Dr. Carnochan came into office they have been fixed by con- tract in every case with the owners or con- signees of the vessel; for the bosrd appointed to establish the rates has not yet met to per- form that duty, If the owners sign a contract that is oppressive to themselves they are to blame ond not the Health Officer, The remedy of the merchants against all that they complain of is ig proper legisla~ tion, which it is for them to secure, Quarantine warehouses area necessity, The quarantine laws suppose their existence, In every case where goods are, directed to be anloaded in quarantine it 1s provided that they shall be stored in such warehouses; but the warehouses do not exist, and the Health Officer must use his discretion either to direct the unloading on lighters or at wharves in the of to discharge bilities, The mass of the Northern people desire to see an end of them and the complete restoration of the South. Let the past be buried in oblivion, and let the people of both NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, points. He does this, and whatever he does they, of course, clamor iagainat, not because his acts are unjust, but because of their natural impatience at quarantine itself. In every pretended oppression it is the law that is to blame and not the persons who enforce it. Amnesty Bill of the Reconstruction mittee. | An important feature of yesterday's pro- ceedings in Congress was the Amnesty’ bill reported by General Butler from the Commit- tee on Reconstruction. It, is called a general amnesty bill and opens with a good deal of imposing and gracious phraseology. It is very Butler-like in this respect. The words are ‘full and general grace, amnesty and oblivion of certain wrongful acts” in the rebel- lion, ‘‘with full restoration of rights,” and so forth. This reads like a noble and benevolent act so far. But there is a sting bebind. There are numerous exceptions provided for, and these embrace most of the men of superior intelligence in the South, Those who were educated at the Military Academy at West Point or the Naval Academy at Annapo- lis, and were engaged in the rebellion, are excluded from the amnesty, as well as those rebels who had been members of either house of Congress and who were afterwards members of the Con- federate Congress, together with those who had been at the head of any executive depart- ments of the government, Ministers abroad, judges of any court under the United States, and who afterwards held like offices under the Confederate government, Also those who voted for or signed any ordinance of seces- sion; the Governors of rebellious States, and all who while in the service of the Confederate States treated with cruelty or otherwise than according to the usages of war any prisoner of war; those officers who embezzled or turned over the money or property of the United States to the rebels; all deserters and bounty jumpers; as well as all lands taken for cemeteries for Union soldiers, or that had changed hands by process of judg- ment or been confiscated by the United States. This bill will relieve, no doubt, a great number of Southerners from the disabilities they now suffer, and so far it is a good measure. It is a long step in the right direc- tion. But why not make a clean thing of amnesty and reconstruction? Punishment should not be vindictive. The object should be only to prevent crime. Now, no one imagines there would be any danger in granting amnesty to the classes excluded by General Butler's bill. They are utterly powerless for evil. There cannot be another rebellion. Besides, it is evident they are thoroughly cured of the secession heresy and rebellious disposition. Then, many of the people embraced in this excluded list are and will be still most efficient in sustaining order, in support of the govern- ment and in the restoration of the material interests and social well being of the South. A general amnesty in fact as well as in name would be magnanimous and the best policy for the government to pursue. No party political ends can be served by continuing these disa- Com- sections be as brothers working together for the common good and the glorious future of a restored and reunited republic. We commend these suggestions to General Butler and to Congress, and hope that either he or some other member will propose an \amendment to the committee's report to give in reality com- plete amnesty to the South. General Pickett on the Cuban Bond Business. We publish in another column this morn- ing a card from General Pickett, giving another inside glimpse at the Cuban bond mystery. He denies in the main everything that Mr. Taylor stated relative to his (Pickett’s) proposition to bribe members. Taylor, he says, is of the gushing order, and too much in the habit of allowing his wishes to father his thoughts. He (Taylor) proposed to fix the matter with Congress, but never mentioned any member of that body as being actually willing to take money for his services in legislation except General Butler. This is Pickett’s story, which he de- clared himself willing to swear to before the investigating committee if he had been called. He also appends a correspon- dence between himself and Mr. Bingham, in which the latter notifies him that he will not be wanted as a witness. This whole business has returned to plague the inventor, just as the St. Domingo investigation promises to do. The bond story was no doubt gotten up by some interested lobbyist or some gushing romancer merely to create false prejudices at a time when Cuban sympathy seemed likely to run away with the good sense of the House. It proved useless, however. Grant's message, in its plain practicability, quelched the senti- mentalists, without any sacrifice of truth, much more efficiently than such senseless canards as the Cuban bond story could have done. Tae Late CoLLsion oN THE Hupson.— There is a warning to people who trust them- selves at midnightin a small boat on the crowded waters of the Hudson in the sad fate of the party who were cut down and drowned by the propeller Nuhpa on Sunday night, There seems to be a conflict of opinion as to whether the master of the propeller did not re-enact the part of Captain Eyre, of the British steamer Bombay, when she cut down the “Yankee frigate” Oneida off the coast of Japan. It is to be hoped, for the honor of American humanity, that the commander of the propeller in this case will be able to show that he did not pursue his course without mak- ing an attempt to save the ladies and their male companions. This fact is so alleged by the sole survivor of the unfortunate party, but denied by the captain. An investigation should be had to ascertain all the facts in the case, The captain of the steamer, for his own justification, should demand it, Carttz From TExss.~‘“Fat cattle” from Texas are reported in Nebraska as moving eastward by rail, This is good nows, if they will only keep moving. « Doubtless they can be kept healthy and in pretty good condition ona journey that taxes their endurance so little. We hope they may, for anything to cheapen beef hereaboute would be a greet ‘the moat widely separated from populous , hoon to the neonle, crease, manded the First division of the national army in the State of San Luis Potosi, lately pro- nounced against the Mexican government, and with the whele division of the army under his command threw off allegiance to the constituted government of his coun- try. San Luis Potosi, Nueva Leon and Tamaulipas he at length arrived on the banks of the Rio Grande, and has taken up his posi- tion before Matamoras. his stand, and is determined to fight. Progress in the States through which he passed was comparatively unobstructed, Were we to credit the reports which have come to usfrom various parts of Mexico we would be {nclined to think that the administration of Benito Juarez was very unpopular throughout the whole republic, Sections north, east, west and south are either in a state of active revolt orare ripe for revolution. heart of the republic, in the State of Zaca- tecas, the position of affairs is most unsatis- factory. Ia no part of the country, however, do the rebels appear to have made such head~ way as inthe north, and on the banks of the danger from the nouncers who surround that city, have fled across the river in large numbers, and have taken of Martinez has about equipped soldiers under him and is prepared to make a determined resistance to the forces of the government, Rocha and Trevino have left Monterey to intercept Martinez and, if possible, to cap- ture him; but it is questionable, with the numerous troubles existing elsewhere through- out the republic and the necessity for troops at many prominent points, whether these generals have enough men under their com- mand, not to speak of probable disaffection among their men, to successfully stay the march of this the latest of pronouncers, there is something rotten in the State no one willdeny. That the evil can be eradicated by ‘the Mexicans themselves is a problem which few will admit. Mexico? Is the United States to look calmly on and see this beautiful land become the prey of the internal disorders that daily render life and property unsafe within the Mexican boun- daries, or will American interference be inter- posed to secure for the Mexican people that reign of peace and prosperity of which they are now deprived? These are questions which time must solve. Troubles om the Rio Grande. The perplexities of Mexico are on the ine General Pedro Martinez, who com- After raiding through the States ot Here he makes His Even in the very Rio Grande General Martinez has made such a show before the city of Matamoras that the inhabitants, fearing presence of the pro- refuge in Brownsville, the little town American soil. two thousand well The national Generals That What, then, remains for pos OUTS EI Soartet Hats anp Stooxinas.—Pope Pius the Ninth will, sometime in the monthof July, hold a consistory in Rome, and bestow fifteen cardinals’ hats on as many of the foremost champions of infallibility—that is, one hat for each champion. with it a pair of scarlet stockings—quite diffe- gent from the custom of our New York fashioners in black and white castors—it will be hot work. We trust, however, that the American prelates won't be forgotten. would look well, too, if only by contrast with the snow, in Canada, ceive hat or two let us see what Irish Fenian will attempt to knock them off. All right. Asa scarlet hat brings Scarlet If the Canadians re- Kentuoxky Too!—And now Kentucky is waking up to the necessity of encouraging European immigration. At the next Legisla- ture measures will be proposed to facilitate that object. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Judge N. H. Swayne, of the United States Su- preme Court, Washington; T. D. Tillinghast. of San Francisco; C. H. Minot, of Boston, ana S. T. Faircbild, of Cazenovia, are at the Brevoort House, Lieutenant Commander Ludlow, of the United States Navy; Captain Von Scheleha, of the Russian Army; Price Williams, of Mobile, Ala.; Dr. J. 4. Tobin, of New Orleans; Captain W. ©. Pierrepont, of steamer Jefferson City; L. D. Childs, of Columpia, 8. C., and John Hughes, of Colorado, are at the St Nicholas Hotel. Major General Sackett; of the United States Army; General J. R. Anderson, of Richmond; M. P. Bemus, of Mayville; Judge Dwight Foster and Samuel Gould, of Boston, and R. R. Sloane, of Ohio, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. E. Hollis, of Boston; W. A. Bell, of England; A. Dickinson and E. Fitzgerald, of Georgia, are at the Westminster Hotel, Lord Parker, of England, ts at the Everett House, A. Van Vechten, of Albany; J..S. Garland, of St. Louis, and A. B, Cox, of Philadelphia, are at the Hoffman House, Colonel J. M. Brown, of Kentucky; ex-Congress- man J. M. Marvin, of New York; J. Philip Roman, of Maryland; A. L. Tucker, of Louisiana, and Henry Taylor, of Savannah, are at the New York Hotel. Paymaster ©. P. Wallach, of the United States Navy; George F. Foster, of Chicago, and 5. W. Bare rett, of Missouri, are at the Irving House. G. F. Dinsmore, of Nevada; H. R. Williams, of the Onited States Army; George Morgan, of England, and the Rey. Mr. Cull, of Albany, are at the Astor House, Paymaster J. 8S. Canningham, of the United States Navy; Orpheus Everts, of Indianapolis; Baron Malty, of Berlin; Volonel Henry L. Buckley and J, H. Solo- mon, of San Francisco, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. J. F. Henry and J. Wentworth, of Boston; F. Tar- bell and J. H. Tarbell, of Portland, Oregon, are at the St, Denis Hotel. MUSIC IN THE PARKS. Tompkins square was alive last evening. The denizens of the crowded locality were out in foll force to hear the fine music, and they evidently en- Joyed it. This evening the Central Park Band will perform in Washington square from six to eight oclock, The following is the programme:— PART IL % Overture, §, Ale, “The Alpine Galop, “Atiaque”........ Grand selection, “L'dBui & Wal ‘Siviner'Freake ih 13. March, “Chasseur” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS, ‘The treasure shipped overland from San Francisco to New York last weck amounted to $245,000. ‘The first lot of fat Texas cattle slipped East via the Union Pactfic Railroad and Burlington and Missouri Railroad, ta now being crossed the river at Fremont, Neb. ‘Two Southern bruisers, Turner and Donnelly, fought. yeu. terday morning, eighty-seven rounds, Turner was declared the winner; time, two hours and thirty-five minutes. The fight took place in Kusbla, Ala., eleven miles north of Mo- bile. Governor Hoffman announces the following intended ap- pointments :—For Coumisaioners of Appeals, ex-Judge Hiram Gray, of Elmira, exJudge William H. Leonard, of New York; for Judge of the Supreme Court, Third District, in place of Rufus W. Peskham, resigned, William S, Learnant of Albany. ‘