The New York Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1870, Page 6

eS ——— tT aaa ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. SSS Volume XX XV. sessee No, 182 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENINS, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st.—Matines daily. Performance every evening. GRAND OPFRA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and OL —Tmx TWELVS TEMPTATIONS. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28d st,, between Sth and 6tp avs.— Tux HugurNorte. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.-Two ConvioTs—ME- CHANIOMAL TOYS—IRiOM HEIRESS, AC. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Mixnie’'s Luc. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Fex- BANDE. | OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuw FIL OF THB CLorm or Goup, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—UNoLE Tom's Canin. . CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— ‘ATRIOT. MES. PIONE THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Coulo VooaL- 1eM, NEGRO ACTS, &c. KELLY & }ON'S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— Faow-Faow—Hoxss FLY Don't TIOKLE Mz, 40, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay., between 58h and $b ots.—THEODORE THOMAS POPULAR ConcERTS. TERRACE GARDEN, Fifty-eighth street and Third aye- nue,—Barsce Biew. APOLLO HALL. corner 28th PANORAMA OF BOOTLAND, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENOR AND ART. street and Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, July 1, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYs HERALD, PAGE. 1—Advertisements. Q—Adveriisementa. 3—The Strife of Labor : Workingmen’s Demonstra- ton Against the Chinese Labor League; The Government Called Upon to Repress the New rorm of Slavery—Free Bridges in Jersey—Up ‘own Travel—Fatal Picn cking—The Fat Melter’s Surrenter—The Heated Term—Fine Arts—Stabbing Affray Between Boys—Larceny of Jewelry—Trotting at Fashion Course—A Street Railroad Tragedy—An Honest Lad. 4—Proceouings in Congress—New York Athletic Club —Naval Tntelligence—Matilda Heron and the Bogus Princess—Fireworks: The Ls ay oo nic Art as 1t Was and as It la—Brooklyn City News—Real’s Death Sentence—The Stable eo spoon Suicide in Hoboken, 5—The Washed Democracy: Opening of the Public Baths Yesterday; t Success of the En- terprise—Yachting—Personal _Intelligence— School Exhibttions—Women —__ Suffr: Bogus Clergymen—News from the Sandwich [slands—P lice Surgeons—The Ice Monopoly— Large Fire in Jersey City—Internal Revenue ~+ Seizures—Shooting Affilr in Seaning. @—E\\\tortals: Lealing Article on The Chinese and the Labor Question—The Knife at Midn'ght— The Atiantic and Pacific Telegraph Company— Amusement Announcements, ‘Y—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World— Washington: Rejection of the Dominican Treaty—New York City News—Great Fire in Jersey City—Business Notices. S—P: oceedings in the New York Courts—Ten Mil- lions of Dollars—Ghouls in Portland Harbor— North Carolina: Starting Developments in the Alleged Ku Klux Region—The Excise Law— The Baltimere Robbery—A Startling Transac- tion—The Crescent C.ty Firemen—The Skul) Mysterr—Cuba: Despondency of the Span- jaris; Cap‘ure of a Convoy—The Slaughter - House Case In New Orleans. ®—The Darien Expeuition: Interesting Facts Con- nected With the Expedition—Troops in Garri- son and ‘Troops on the Plains—A Would-be Widower—Real Estate Sales—Financial and Commercial Reports—A Georgia Corn Field— Marriages and Deaths. 10—Colleze Commencements—A Human Target: Interview with “Piper”? Byrnes, of the Eighteenth Ward—trhe Lispenard Street Rob- Dbery—Mad Steers in Hoboken—Shipping Intel- ligence—Advertisements, S1—Me he Last Hours of Congress; Strange Rum Steeple Climbing in Cincinnati—The Arkans*s Duel—Drowning Casuaity—Story of Remarkable Fatality—Advertusements. 32—Adyertisements. Wuicn Osz?—An exchange paper ex- tlaims:—‘‘The lie proven on Ben Butler!” Which one? Two Hucz Pvusiic Barus were opened yesterday, one in North and the other in East river. The young democracy will be enabled probably to show cleaner hands than hereto- fore. University ReEsiGNaTions.—What is the reason the faculty of the Cornell University, in this State, has tumbled to pieces? Has the “elegant English” of Goldwin Smith about Disraeli disturbed them? “Doctor Horrmay.”—Governor Hoffman has been dubbed an LL. D. by Princeton Col- lege. As avenerable Edinboro’ divine once remarked, ‘‘all such honors are dubious.” But it probably won't set the Governor back any at some future time. CoLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS, as they are called, are the general order of the day among the colleges, and their proceedings, as usual, are very interesting to the collegians, though to the public in general they tell pretty much the old story of lasi year and the year before the war. A Tovex Rovex.—Our rouzhs would seem to be pretty tough, and rather hard to kill. A bartender put five bullets into the body of one of these fellows, who assaulted him night before last, and he walked off complacently with the leaden dose in his body. It may be asked what is the use of coroners in districts where this kind of animal lives ? A Heavy Jos ror Jonnsox.—We under- stand that ex-President Johnson has aban- doned the idea of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land this year, and has settled himself down in East Tennessee to the task of ‘‘A Consti- tutional Vindication of My Policy.” That's the very book we want, Mr. Johnson; bu don’t make it too long—‘‘the shorter tl better.” Toe Fat MeELrers have melted. They agreed yesterday to quit at six o'clock in the afternoon, if the Health Board would allow them that much time to empty their tanks, and, as it was a plain question of incarcera- tion or cease boiling, they promptly closed business at the hour designated. Why people follow such a business has always been a knotty problem to us; but when it comes to following it in such warm weather and against the persecutions of the police and the press we give it up. Tue Hear 1n Ecypr.—We mean the Egypt ef Southern Ilinois—for we are informed*by the Cairo Bulletin of that Egypt of ‘‘demora- lized radicalism” in that quarter, that ‘‘there is something rotten about the Logan plank, which, if agitated, will make a stink ;” that “the radical kettle is beginning to raise a ter- gible fuss,” &c., and all this about General Logan. Such things age among the results of this “heated term” at Cairo, in that sweltering swamp which lies in the fork of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Such is the effect of the heat in Egypt. Let the people in more favored localities be thankful that they are not i Eeypt dil NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Chinese and the Labor Question The extensive advent of Asiatic laborers into countries of Christian civilization is an Occurrence that is not to be considered alto- gether in its relations to the small disputes between cobblers and tailors over rates of wages. Its possible consequences reach far beyond the problem of the workshop, even though the workshop quarrel appears as an immediate cause. Disturbances of the rela- tions of labor and capital have attracted an unusual degree of attention within a few years past, and the ferment among men who live by wages, not only in this country, but even more in Europe, have seemed so widespread and of such a character as to threaten or require no- thing less than a total reconstruction of many of the social relations, In England, in France, in Germany, in Italy the workmen have pressed demands deemed unreasonable and revolutionary, and upon their failure to get what they regarded as satisfactory answers they have allied themselves with political parties that sought the overthrow of existing governments. In this country, where men cannot pretend to the same reasons for discon- tent that seem to us valid for peaple beyond the sea—where there is no chronic grievance in the organization of society—it has been made a grievance that the laws do not directly espouse the cause of the work- man against his employer, and held as an injustice that trades were left to regulate themselves, In all countries the demands of the workingman are substantially the same— first, for higher wages; next, for fewer hours of labor ; last, for the right to oppress his fel- low workman by compelling his employer not to take into his establishment persons not members of certain societies. All this implies a general uneasiness in the existing relations between the employer and the employed, due to the tendency of the laborer toward a higher plane in the social scale. In other words, it implies that the laborers of Christendom are in a generally prosperous state; for the demands that men make are modest in proportion to their neces- sities, and they grow with the sense of grow- ing power to enforce them and endure a contest on account of them. He that is dying in the desert calls only for a drop of water. If he has plenty of water he wants dates. If his life and physical comfort are secure his longing is for a swifter camel and a better wardrobe. So the demands of work- men grow as they no longer feel the pres- sure of those urgent necessities that once stimulated the simple cry for the means to live. An authentic statement represents that the workmen in the North Adams shoe shops were making from three to seven dollars a day. It does not seem that such pay ought to pro- yoke only a demand for increase. It was thought a great fact for labor when ten hours was established as the length ofa working day for mechanics; but now the law in this State fixes it at eight, and though this may horrify some old-fashioned ideas of indusiry, it is not very certain that even this isa necessary limit to the demand in this direction. Doubtless the claim of the workman to dictate the rules of the establishment in which he works, and to enforce the discipline of his resentment by declaring who shall and who shall not work in the same place, is, of all his demands, the one most in contrast with the modest tone that labor assumed in the days before there were trades unions in the land. But, taken alto- gether, all his demands—that for wages, which, by comparison with only recent times, are ex- tremely high ; that fora very short day, and that for an unreasonable authority—all show that the disturbance in the relations between labor and capital is mainly characterized by a grand inflation of the workingman’s fancies, In disputes between labor and capital, as they have been carried on hitherto, the workingman of one city was brought to reason when his employer discovered that plenty of men were ready to come in from a neighboring city and take his place. This was the em- ployer’s victory. Then the workman extended his trade union system to the neighboring city ; the employer lost that resource, and the vic- tory was on the other side. But the employer, according to the facilities of intercourse, still had a field of operation in neighboring coun- tries, and called upon England, France or Germany. Within a few years international trade societies have opened the system of communication between all these that prevents the application of that method of securing workmen at what employers look upon as reasonable rates. What is the consequence? Only an enlargement of the circle—only an extension of tlie district upon which the employer draws for labor when the dearth of it at home makes it too dear for his use. Just asa man once sent into a neighboring street or to another city when his journeymen turned out against him, so he now sends to China, and the immense progress the world has made in the means of locomotion, the wonderful distances it annihilates with electricity and steam, enable him to bring to bear on the grandest scale the simplest remedy against high prices—an increased supply. China is a fabulously populous country, It} teems with humanity as the plague-ridden| districts with grasshoppers. Naturally th struggle for the means of subsistence is fierce and close, and wages are at their very lowest. This empire—this vast anthill of hungry, eager, industrious, thrifty people—has within a very short time been brought to our doors. The great facilities of transit given by the Pacific steamships and the Pacific Railway give the neighborhood to us of these indus- trious millions a practical effect that it would otherwise never have had. The Chinamen, therefore, accessible by the million and plas- tic in an extraordinary degree, are the quan- tity that capital throws into the scale in its ancient contest with labor, and their appear- ance in this character is a great revolutionary fact. It is obvious that when labor without limit is thus within easy reach, that if there is to be any extended reconstruction of society, with regard to the relations of labor, capital is not to be altogether without a voice. But when the Chinamen, brought in as laborers and as counters in a game, are once here, and numbering themselves by the million, what then? They are a people who are our antipodes in all soclal and Intellectual | regards ; it is not possible to imagine civiliza- tions more widely at variance than theirs and ours; and varying civilizations never harmo- nize side by side, There will be conflict, and out of that conflict other revolutions besides that in the relations of labor, Vv Rejection of the St. Domingo Treaty. The St. Domingo treaty of annexation was rejected by the Senate yesterday, the vote being twenty-eight for to twenty-eight against, and a two-thirds vote was necessary for its ratification. This action was very decisive. Yet the republican Senators opposed to the treaty claim that had the democrats not voted against it there were republicans enough | to defeat it, so that there was no hope of, its ratification. This is rather unpleasant) treatment of the President by his party friends, ashe had taken such a deep interest in the! annexation of St. Domingo. But it appears: General Grant preferred, after all, to have the matter brought to an issue rather than let it lie over. Still we do not regard this action of the Senate as defeating for any length of time the project of annexation, The same thing occurred with Texas. At first the proposition to annex that State was rejected by the Senate, but soon after it was admitted into the Union. There is more reason to think this may be the case with St. Domingo, as some of the amend- ments to the treaty suggested by the President obtained an affirmative vote. It is a little curious that the democrats, who have always been annexationists, should have voted against the treaty. Probably they do not like the negro element in St. Domingo, and they may have opposed the treaty because it was ap administration measure and on party grounds, The House of Representatives may still bring the matter up in another form, and by a joint resolution propose to admit St. Domingo. But, looking at the vote and temper of the Senate, it is doubtful if even a majority could be found to vote for such aresolution. This question has consumed a great deal of time in Congress without a favorable result. The Spanish Throne—Napoleon’s Arrange- ment. It does seem as if during the Parliamentary recess, which is more or less general all over Europe, the long vexed Spanish throne ques- tion is likely to be settled. Wo have already commented on the abdication of Queen Isa- bella, In our judgment the abdication was of all things the best thing possible for Queen Isabella, for the Prince of the Asturias and for Spain. It was good also for France and for the Emperor Napoleon. It is evidently the Emperor Napoleon's plan for the settlement of @ grave difficulty, Any other arrangement might have compromised the Emperor's posi- tion. Fora time it did seem as if the House of Savoy was to gain by the revolution in Spain. In a general way a Prince of the House of Savoy on the Spanish throne would be good for Spain, and not bad for Europe or even the Latin races. But Napoleon cannot afford to do more for the House of Savoy if he would be just to the House of Bonaparte. A Prince of the House of Braganza would be good for Spain in the emergency. But neither suits Napoleon. Nor does Montpensier. Nor does a republic. The Prince of the Asturias has the best right to succeed his mother. In spite of the protestations of the republicans it is our conviction that within three months the young son and heir of Isabella will be wel- comed in Spain. When we say such is Napo- leon’s plan we have said enough. No better solution is possible. ReAL To BE HaNcED.—The highest court has decided that Real, the murderer of officer Smedick, has no further appeal, and he was therefore sentenced yesterday to be hanged on the 5th day of August. Perhaps if Jack Reynolds had not suffered capital punishment Real might never have been brought to the scaffold. To this extent the execution of the law has done some good; but, again, the ‘law's delay” in Real’s case may have had something to do with the many murders com- mitted in the city since his conviction. There is nothing which gives more encouragement to the lawless than the sléw process of bringing criminals to justice. As long as the door of escape is supposed to be open they are not deterred from proceeding in their usual course of crime. This murder committed by Real was a deliberate and a shocking one. The only chance for the condemned man now lies in the clemency of the Executive. Under all the circumstances it is not likely that Governor Hoffman will interfere to stay the hand of justice, and therefore it is almost certain that the murderer Real will expiate his offence on the day appointed by the Court. Tuk MuppLe in Congress on the tariff, the Funding bill, the Tax bill, the Currency bill and all other financial measures, seems to be beyond remedy this session. What can we expect with the heat among the nineties for two or three weeks straight on, day and night, especially at Washington; and when the air which they get in the Senate Chamber and in the House has to be pumped in by a steam engine ; and when both chambers are always highly charged with gas and gas bags; and when the members of both houses stick to their black cloth coats as tenaciously as Spotted Tail sticks to his loose blanket; and when they imagine that to keep cool they must be eating and drinking all the time? What can we expect of Congress under these conditions? Why don’t they adjourn and let the President go to his comfortable cottage at Long Branch? Let us hope, at least, that the appointed day for the adjournment will not be moved a week or two further on towards the dog days. Tue ANGLO-FRENcH CoMMEROIAL TREATY— A Lonpon INDIGNATION MEETING.—There was an indignation meeting in London on Wednes- nay night last on the Anglo-French commer- cial treaty, which is a sort of reciprocal free trade arrangement between England and France. Joshua Fielden, M. P., end a Man- chester cotton manufacturer, made a speech showing the unfavorable operation of the treaty on the English cotton mills, and after this and some other speeches against the treaty resolutions were unanimously adopted denouncing it as the cause of the prostration of industry in England, and calling upon the Ministry to account tor denying an investiga- tion into the subject. We see from this that while England thinks reciprocal free trade on the part of the United States with all the world would be an éXvelleht thing she is discovering that English industry, a& agaist French industry, requires a little home protec- tion, f Congress Yeoserday. The Senate yesterday transacted business with an alacrity which the prospect of an early adjournment can alone account for. The House amendments to the bill to protect fur- bearing animals in Alaska were agreed to, and that bill is therefore disposed of. The joint resolution for the relief of officers of the navy was disposed of similarly. Mr. Sumner reported a resolution providing for a new sur- vey of the Nicaragua route for a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific, which was indefinitely postponed. A number of minor matters were disposed of and an executive session was held, in which the Dominican treaty was rejected. The Tax and Tariff bill was then further con- sidered until late in the evening session. The House considered the Senate amend- ments to the Indian Appropriation bill, and disagreeing on some of the items asked for a committee of conference. One of the items on which they did agree was to forbid deduc- tions from annuities on account of depreda- tions. This was the one redeeming feature of Indian treaties. The wily savage is more apt to be deterred from outrages by the dread of losing his annuities or having to pay in money for his crimes than by any other method short of extermination, and now Congress goes out of its way to guarantee him immu- nity for any terrible outrage he may com- mit, so far as his annuities are concerned. Among other matters in the morning hour was the passage of the bill making Jersey City a port ofentry. This is a big thing for Jersey, and it behooves New York to look to her laurels. The Funding bill was called up and a general discussion ensued. One cheering feature of the discussion was the almost enthusiastic support of the bill by the democratic members, some of whom even acquiesced in a proposition to have the new bonds exempted from taxation in order that the bill might pass. It finally weat over at adjournment. Portugai and Spain. The news from the Iberian peninsula con- tinues to be flat. Prim has not yet told us who is to be the government candidate for the Spanish throne. Meanwhile it is not difficult to perceive that in Portugal as well as in Spain things are not ina settled condition, Our latest news from Portugal is to the effect that Saldanha has become more and more the popular idol. Our latest news from Spain in- forms us that it is the aim of the revolutionary party to unite the peninsula under the house of Braganza. Is there, after all, an under- standing between Prim and Saldanha? It has always been our opinion that both Spain and Portugal will prove themselves blind to their own interests if they do not make a bold effort to make the peninsula a unit, If Saldanha and Prim can agree the work is as good as done. Prim has given the world good proof during the last eighteen months that he is master of Spain, Saldanha, by one bold stroke, has given us as good proof that he is master of Portugal. If Dom Ferdinand can be induced to sacrifice his pleasures and his scholastic leisure and accept the responsibili- ties of the Spanish throne, a few years of his rule would prepare the Spanish people for the recognition of his son as the chief of the united kingdom. Whatever the result may be it is undeniable that Saldanha and Prim have an opportunity which rarely falls to the lot of great statesmen, and which great statesmen do not let slip. The union of Spain and Portugal would be a gain to humanity. It would be an important step in that union movement which is revealing itself all over Europe. Our eyes are upon the two soldier statesmen. If they prove themselves equal to the occasion history will not forget them. Tne Crrvesz Lasor Propiem.—The meet- ing held last evening in Tompkins square— though in numbers far from a metropolitan mass meeting—will at least have the effect of causing thorough inquiry into the subject of Chinese contract labor for this country. The resolutions adopted, and which are to be submitted to Congress, recite in a lengthy preamble the numerous grievances of the workingmen and ask that the importation of the Chinese or coolie laborers under the pre- valent contract system be effectually pro- hibited. Mayor Hall took the ground, in his speech, that, although immigration from foreign countries was desirable and contributed to the development of our national resources, the compulsory labor of these Chinese, imported under con- tract and coming in conflict with free labor, was to be deprecated. On the German stand some wild and impracticable agitators appear to have been allowed unreasonable sway, for they talked of “fight,” of ‘‘blood,” that “capitalists had no right to exist in this country,” that ‘‘the country and city were made by the workingmen,” and that in case of necessity “‘they would take their own,” and more such and similar nonsense. Even the best founded right is but illy de- fended by threatening a wrong, and to attack injustice with injustice seldom leads to suc- cess. UstTer or ULcer?—Ulster county, in this State, is becoming the most notorious region in the country for horrible deeds, The most shocking cases of human depravity occur there. Rondout seems to be a nest hole of incarnate demons, and other parts of the county, to judge from the criminal record as given in the local papers, make a shocking exhibit. If these startling things continue to occur in Ulster she will soon be worthy of the title of the ‘‘ulcer” county of the State. Where is that model philosopher on the Canal street plan, Judge Hardenburgh, that he does not put a stop to these unparalleled enormities ? MounTED POLICEMEN IN THE ParK.—Not- withstanding the efficiency of the present corps of police in Central Park, there are fre- quent complaints of fast and reckless driving, which, if persisted in, will exclude from the Park many who would otherwise enjoy a pleasant afternoon in their vehicles on these magnificent pleasure grounds. This fast driv- ing business must be stopped; and we suggest tothe Park Commissioners, in order to accomplish this end, the propriety of having ; afew mounted policemen, expert horsemen, | who will be préphred To head off the fast {nlefésting improvements the Commissioners gan at the present time inaugurata drivers and bring Tein down to the Fequlred | tm The Artilléry Scheol at Fortress Monroe. In our suggestions that troops should be sont from the Eastern forts to strengthen our. army on the Plains we had no idea that such a school of artillery study as that established at Fortress Monroe should be interfered with, Wherever the army can be used to the best adgantage there it should be located. It ought not to be permitted to remain idle in the garrisons on the Eastern coast at a time when murder and devastation are rampant on the Western frontier. The simple fact is that troops are wanted on the Plains. Almost every officer who is placed in a difficult posi- tion with the Indians complains that he has not men enough to protect himself. Is it not, therefore, the duty of the War Department to send more troops to the fron- tier? There is no necessity for interfering with schools of instruction such as that at Fortress Monroe or anywhere else. We have no reason to suppose that the establishment at Fortress Monroe is not a very well conducted and valuable institution, But that is not the question. Artillery schools do not exist in all our garrisons; but plenty of unemployed sol- diers do exist in these places, who might be employed in “solving the Indian question” on the Plains in a practical way. This is the matter at issuc, and it is one which must be settled by the War Department and the Inte- rior Department. Tae Roman Covnor AND INFALLIBILITY.— Infallibility, it is possible, will be defined at a very early moment in Rome. That it should be so is no ground of complaint so far as we are concerned. It is manifest that the Pope, yielding to bad advisers, wishes it. Many Frenchmen grumble. Not a few Germans protest. Some Americans growl. But, outside of certain cliques and coteries, beyond some timid churchmen and some Pro- testant reformers, who cares about infalli- bility? It can do the world no harm. It will do it no good. If we haye apy suggestion to make it is this:—Let the Catholio Church make arrangements for the successor of Pio Nono. Let them imitate the example of the Buddhists, and single out the comeliest and most intellectual boy in Christendom. In filling the office of the Grand Lama of Thibet | this the Buddhists hate just done. Let the Catholic ‘Church do the same. During the nonage of the successor of Pio Nono it is pos- sible that in some way an infallible Pope might be trained. JoouLaR MurpER*TRIats.—The science of challenging jurors in a murder trial appears to have been made a study by Mr. Edwin James, the counsel for Sheridan, the very latest murderer, at the trial yesterday. One man, otherwise qualified, happened to be a bellhanger, and Mr. Edwin James objected to him on that account, as implying a predilec- tion for hanging. Another was an under- taker, and in his case the joke which Mr. Edwin James made is obvious, These plea- sant little replications, besides insuring the se- lection of a just and impartial jury, throw a gay and enlivening appearance about what too often is made to look like a solemn and gloomy proceeding. Besides, when the plea of in- sanity comes up, as it will in the case of Sheri- dan, no doubt, these little rejoinders will go far to convince the jury that the man must have been insane to join in the laugh, as he did, at such ill-timed jokes. Tae Ick TYRANNY 18 ABOMINABLE.—Com- panies have been merged together ; a fabulous price fixed upon for the summer necessity; employés have been specially instructed not to pay attention to pea of consumers, who, the mondfollsts otal im, have no rights that they are bound to respect, and the drivers of ice carts allow themselves to be subjected to a species of blackmail that might be regarded as extremely cool were it a mid-winter operation. Is there no way to protect our citizens from the rapacity of these ice monopolists? If none can be devised by the consumers would it not be a good idea for the next Legislature to pass a stringent law affecting the case ? Hop Up, Tazre!—A lobby is said to be at work in Washington to sell out the interests of the people of the city of New York in a val- uable portion of the Battery. While the work of improvement and beautification is going on from the Battery to Spuyten Duyvel creek, is it nota shame that there should be obstruc- tions thrown in the way at, practically, the very starting point of these improvements, at the bulwark of New York bay, the tongue of Manhattan Island, the once prond.old Battery itself? The people of the city should be better informed upon this matter of a private sale of property in which they possess inalienable and constitutional rights. Therefore we say to Congress and the interested lobby in this con- nection—Hold up, there! SUPERINTENDENT JOURDAN issues two ordors to-day : one providing for a rigid enforcement of the Sunday liquor law ; the other looking to a reasonable enforcement of order and peace on the Fourth. The liquor order should have been issued and enforced long ago, and the delay in it has cost several lives already. But we are not disposed to gramble now, provided itis enforced rigidly. .We hope never again to hear of such a pandemonium as this city exhibited on Sunday last. As to the firewo: order, the patriotic boys must give vent'to their enthusiasm, and it is best to direct their efforts in that direction wisely than to stop’ them altogether. Ovr CORRESPONDENCE FROM CUBA, pub- lished this morning, reports much despondency in Spanish circles because of the refusal of the home government to send more troops to the island. The guerilla system of warfare adopted by the insurgents will enable them to carry on the contest for an indefinite period of time, Cholera, smallpox and yellow fever had combined with the Cubans against the Spaniards, and not even the satisfaction felt with the message of President Grant to Con- gress could impart confidence to the adherents of Spain, A STRANGE Story is reported from Black- well’s Island—that of the woman who died of stiallpox, and whose husband, by bribing a surgeon at the hospital, obtained possession of her body and buried jt in Greenwood with osing ceremonies, It is the Fille to hury all | and lawful gait, This will be among the most | smallpox pationts on Blackwell’s Island, an the reason is obvious, but if this report is true the rule may ag well be a dead letter: Tho Spanish Press en the Local Situations In our day and generation the public press has become the eyes and the voice of the people; and where any liberty is left to it, to carefully scan its tendency towards this or that opinion ig to obtain a pretty fair know- ledge of what is really at work in the bosom of at least the intelligent mass of any nation- ality. We may therefore, not unreasonably, turn to this great exponent of fact for some clue to guide us out of the bewildering laby- rinth of Spanish politics as they are af present. “ By processes social ag well as political Madrid has become to Spain very much what Paris is to France—the centre and the index of the nation’s activity of mind, The provinces do not always move with it at once, and both Cadiz and Barcelona have repeatedly declared their mental independence, but they, sooner or later, follow its lead and sustain its initia. tive. Paris frequently changes its mind and supports on the morrow what it yesterday opposed. So does Ma‘vid, But whatever may be the expression for the moment, if it be persisted in for a length of time the departments finally come round to it. In this point of view it is quite curious to note the political complexion of the journals that daily appeal to the mind of the Spanish capital. They are forty in number, of which nine, classified as follows, earnestly advocate the election of the Duke of Montpensier to the royal dignity, to wit:—Las Novedades (progressist), La Correspondencia de Hepata, La Opinione Nacional, Oentinda dad Pueblo and Impertinente, all independent; the Puente de Alcolea, democratic; the Diario Espanol, the Politica and the Pais, all liberal. Two others have contended, by turns, for the Duke of Aosta, for King Ferdinand ‘of Portu- gal, and for the Duke of Genoa. They now favor the election of Espartero, and are the Eco de Progreso and Independendia Hspa- nola, They are both progressist. [wo of the moderado stripe sustain Don fonso, vin:—f4 Hpoca and El Tiemyo, ig atill faithful to Queen Isabella ond all her claims and protests, and is, otherwise, » moderado. It is the Heo de Hspatia, The Pueblo, the Discusion and the Sujragio Uni- versal are for a unitary or consolidated republic, with one central power. The Republica Federal and the Iguatidad are for a federal republic, similar to Switzer- land. One—Zi Imparcial—is, seemingly, democratic, but really moderado, 9nd makes its special aim. and employ- ment the defeat of Montpensier. The Iberia is regarded by everybody as the special organ of the Minister of State, and sits com- fortably on the fence, ready to go with the majority. 3 La Esperanza, La Regeneracion, El Pensa- miento Espanol ond Hi Legitimista are all for Don Carlos, and are edited with consider- able force.and ability. The remainder of the forty have but « very limited issue and are purely speculative concerns, leading an ephe- meral existence that may terminate at sany® moment. , From the above statement, which, id pro- portion of number and style, quite fe rep- resents the tone of the whole kingdom, it will be seen that Montpensier stands better than any other single candidate, ' but is not strong enough against them all. ‘The voices of the whole group of journals in the Babel of argument that they have raised, agd the poll- tical confusion of tongues that has fallen upon them, begin to converge toward # compromise, and that compromise will be hatched out into a chick, most likely, of the Napoleonic 4 if not of Napoleonic race, beneath the: imperial wing. Let us hope that the young bird may prove to be an eagle of the nobler sort. Bas? TaRkEE Great SoorsMEn Go! Clarke is no more. Sir Jan gone. So, too, is one of modern surgeons, Mr, Sy1 ‘ did much to maintain the @fory of the old Edinburg School. Clarke reaped his hépors “Sir James Simpson is in London. Simpson and Syme reaped theirs in Edinburg. The three did much togpain- tain the ancient reputation of the Ei urg School of Medicine—the best of Paris not the best. PI a ei Bots in THE CoaL.—No sooner the coal speculators find out that Con; had not decided to take the tax off cof than thoy commenced to bull the black monde, and ran up the prices at their auction sales toa fictitious value, This will not do. Coal is down, and no dodge of this kind can bring it up. The supply is abundant, with no prospect whatever of a failure in the mising district. No schemes in the auction mart can, there- fore, affect the substantial facts in the case. , Cotrzctor Bartey’s Surgeries are to be sued for the amount of the deficiency in his accounts—$603,951. This is the right way to do it. Uncle Sam is not to be imposed upon by endorsers and securities any more than pri- vate individuals are. We wait with great inte- rest to see how this suit will terminate. THE KNIFE AT MIDNIGHT. Terrible Stabbing CasemA Man Shockingly Cut, and Refuses to Aid the Arrest of His Assailant. About half-past one o’clock this morning officer Trass, of the Second precinct, found a man, named - Patrick Neville, suffering from two terrible stab wounds, infifeted on him a few moments pre- viously by a man nicknamed “Ninny” Roach. Neville is captain of one of the Delaware and Lack- awanna Coal Company's barges, now lying at Bur ling slip, but he refufes to give the name of the vessel. He resides in Hoboken, at No. 160 Newark street, and says he had returaeg from Hoboken by the Cortlandt street ferry, when he met Roach in Cortiandt street, and having had @ former aificulty with him the old trouble was re- vived, and ended in Roach inflicting the wounds as above stated. One cut is very deep, on the right side, just above the hip, the other ts on the left hip. When found by the officer he had waiked to Broadway ana John street, and was bleeding terribly. Roach escaped. Neville wasin a danger- ous condition at two o'clock this morning, and was vomiting, @ very bad symptom. Roach lives in West Seventeenth street; but Neville is surly and abrupt when questioned as to the number of Roach's abode, though he says he knows it. There acems to be a mystery about the case somewhere. THE ATLANTIC AND Paciric TELEGRAPH CoM- PANY.—The report {ro vesyngten t & ieee that the Atlantic and Pacific ieahok ipa had neglected for five months to make returns to the \ Upited States Assessor 1s not correct. Mr, Cleveland, the Assessor, #ays the returns of the eompany have been made regularly month after month, withiu the time preacribed by law, ix ae