The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1870, Page 6

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HOOLEY'S OP ernensy, B BROOKLYN Warrr’s Minst Brooklyn,—Nrano MIN- NEW YORK crRc! weoth street, THE RING, Acvonar Soevrs 1 DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOLENCE aNv A: NEW YORK M°SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Ant. New York, Tucsday, December 6, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, PsGs. a daa 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—france: Herald Special Report from the Army of the Loire; De Paladines’ Left Wing Beaten on Saturday; Evacuation of Orleans by the French; Another Sortie Expected; Capture of Freuch Guns an@ Soldiers by the Germans; Gen- era! Manteuflei's Army in Possession of Rouen— Map of th ne of De Paladines’ Operations— Russa: Earl Gr.nville’s Reply to Gortchakom's Second Note; English Cabinet Definition of the Eastern Question; Turkey Reassured by the War Office Action in St. Petersburg; The Question of the Danube Saved from Dis- cusslen—Miscellaneous Telegraphic News— Amusements, 4—Congress: Opening of the Third Session of the Forty-orst Congress; Measage of the President; Cause of the Late Par Rneey Reverses; Our Policy Towards the Fighting Powers in Europe; The St. Domingo Treaty; Another Urgent Call ——. for lis Ratification; Ne Private Interference | With the Alabama Claims Question; The Canada J ishery Question; Specie Payments, Re evenue and Reduction of ‘ae Policy of the Administration in a Nurshell—Somnambula in Prooklyn—Mysteri- ous Mevemen' &—Tbe Finances: Annual Report of Secretary Boutwell. @ Currency: Annuai Keport of Comptrojier Huiburd—Municipal — Aitairs— Brooklyn Common Council—fhe Vandeveer Will Case Settled at Last. 6—Ediforiais: aing Article, “The President's Message—A Good State Paper and a Stancn | Party Platform’’—-Amusement Announce- ments, Y—ditorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—Wash- | ington: The Grant-Porter Imbroglio; A Manly Letter from Porter to the President; Senator Drake to be Appointed Judge of the Court of | ; Estunales for Treasury Appropria- rrest of Members of the Cherokee Na- jouncil—Personal Intellizgence—Busl- ness Notices, R=The Erie War Renewed: The Charge of Conspi- | racy Against tie Company; Erie In Bden— Proceedings in the Courts—The Lawyers’ Joust—The Ceurt House Commissioners—Hor- ror of Horrors: Examination of leokup-Evans- Ward at the Tombs; Fearful Confession of a Witnes3—Valuable acquisitions to the Central Park—New York City News—Ihe Caisson Fir¢—Railroad Rates, N—Financial and Commercial Reports—Marriages nd Degtha— Advertisements, t suth America: Prospects of Troubies Between Brazil and Peru—Caliicot: Pardon of the Ex- Collector of Internal Revenue—A Damnabie Deed--Strike Amo! tae Miners; A Coal Orispins’ Cheap Labor— ‘Tae Case or Dr. 1 vexes the pub- tic ear. The moro the mystery of bis Chatham gtrect den is stirred up the fouler it appears, Mayor Karprretscn is loeking out, like a very watchdog of the Treasury, for the money interests of Brooklyn. He vetoes nearly every- thing in the Common Council that has a sus- picion of useless appropriation about it, Ir 1 Sratep that the Hudson River Rail- toad Company has increased its passenger fare twenty-five per cent, in view of the early closing of navigation on the Hudsen. This is too strong an instance of & soulless corpora- tion’s tyranny. Passengers ought to have some rights that railroads are bound to respect. Gernxrat MANTEUFFEL's occupation of Rouen, of which we have the bare announcement, will take all persons by surprise, The city is net Vv NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Fresident’s Message—A Good Stato Paper aed a Stanch Party Platform. General Grant is a plain, unpretending, honest, matter-of-fact sort of aman, thoroughly American in manner, character, thought and purpose, and a firm believer in our popular institutions of liberty and equality, a8 now reflected from our national constitution, and such is the charactor of his annual Message to Congress, which we lay bofore our readers this morning. As an exhibit of the manage- meat under bis supervision of the government, in our foreign and domestic affairs, there is much in this Message that is good and encour- aging, and as a foreshadowing of the general policy of his administration there is nothing in it calculated to disturb the general confidence ofthe country. Let us briefly examine it. Opening with a recognition of the blessings of a Divine Providence, as devout as the grati- tude of old King William's despatches, the Message immediately follows with a regret “that a free exercise of the elective franchise has by violence and intimidation been denied to citizens in exceptional cases in several of the States lately in rebellion, and the verdict of the people has thereby been re- versed.” This is a serious charge. The States referred to, we suppose, are North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, and the ‘‘violence and intimidation” mentioned are levelled at the Ku Klux Klan. We know there was during the summer a terrible uproar in North Carolina between Governor Holden and the mysterious Ku Klux desperadoes; but we thought that business a tempest in a teapot and that it had been settled in a compromise. We had heard of scenes of ‘‘violence and_ intimidation” against the poor bewildered blacks in Alabama and Texas, but bad never supposed they were so bad as to call for a special notice in the President's Message. ‘he hint will probably be followed by some further measures of Southern reconstruction, though General Grant hopes the work will be completed with the restoration of Georgia, and we hope so too. The course of the administration in refe- rence to the war in France and the French republic, and in regard to the application from French government for the the provisional | frieadly iaterveation of the United States in bebalf of peace, as detailed by the President, is in some respects very gratifying, and in all respects, perhaps, satisfactory. We are, how- ever, inclined to think that the time is near, if not already upon us, when this antediluvian policy of a Chinese isolation from European affairs will have to be abandoned by this great overshadowing and expanding republic of the West. Soin regard to Cuba we are sorry to hear that in the State Department “‘it is not understood that the condition of the insur- rection has materially changed since the close of the last session of Con- gress.” Still it is pleasant to know that a course of prosperous negotiations is on foot which promises the maintenance of our friendly relations with Spain; and pleasant to know that ‘‘the long-deferred peace conference between Spain and the allied South American republics has been inaugurated at Washington under the auspices of the Uaited States ;” and we are particularly pleased that, in the opinion of General Grant, ‘‘as the time is not probably tar distant when, in the natural course of events, tbe European political connections with this Continent will cease, our policy should be shaped in view of this probability,” so as to meet the grand American ideas on this subject (the Monroe doctrine) of Monroe, dams and Clay. — Here, then, we have the key to*General G rants St. Domingo annexation treaty, rejected by the Senate at the last session, but in regard to which time has only confirmed the President in his views. He is satisfied, too, that if we abandon this project seme European nation will step in‘\and take our place. The argument of a ate for the acquisition of this splendid island of St. Domingo (beginning with the Dominican seo- tion) is very strong; and in view of the importance of the question a joint resolutien is recommended looking to the ultimatum of annexation as in the case of Texas, the identi- cal policy suggested in our editorial columns last summer. Doubtless, on the Texas plan this Dominican scheme will succeed, fer we quite agree with General Grant that ‘‘the project has only to be investigated to be approved.” There appears next a little difficulty with Mexico, which, with proper nursing, may bring forth good fruit. The President says that ‘“‘the injurious effects upon the revenue of the United States from the policy of the Mexi- can government in exempting from import du- ties a large tract of ita territory on our borders” (the free zone), are not only continued in spite of our representations, but that it is even pro- posed to enlarge this free zone and correspond- ingly the facilities to frontier smuggling. The earnest attention of Congress is called to this matter, and we would submit that perhaps the shortest method of disposing of this ‘‘free zone” would be to extend ‘‘the flag” over it from sea to sea and down, say to Yucatan. Nothing has been done, and nothing appears to be doing on those Alabama claims. The Message, however, asks Congress to authorize a commission to make out the bill of actual cash damages for our ships plundered and destroyed ‘by Anglo-rebel srteer e held over the head of John Bull. In reopen- ing negotiations upon the subject the admin- istration is dispesed to await the convenience of England, and in hope of ‘‘a conclusion con- sistent with the honor and dignity of both nations.” Secondly, ‘‘the course pursued by Canadian authorities toward the fishermen of the United States during the past season has not been marked by a friendly feeling,” and the Message enters very fully and earnestly into the championship of our fisnermen’s rights. Thirdly, in our British relations, “a like unfriendly disposition has been manifested on the part of Canada in the main- tenance of the claim of the right to exclude the citizens of the United States from the navi- gation of the St. Lawrence.” This becomes a weighty matter when it is considered that this great river is ‘“‘the natural outlet to the ocean for eight States, with a population of | and the result is disaster. only strongly fortified, but contained # suf- | about 17,600,000 inhabitants,” and with a ton- ficiently large force of National Guards to have | nage upon the tribuary great lakes of 661,867 successfully defended it, Ina military point | tous, The President discusses this great ques- of view its occupation cannot affect the gene- | tion with remarkable force and in a tone which ral situation; but that it should have fallen | isvery suggestive. He hopes that England will without a struggle for its posession is what | not support the unfriendly assumptions of the naual be sewarded as stranze. 4 Now Dominion in relation to ita Gsheriea on the St. Lawrence; for it is evident that there ia to be no more trifling with the rights of our citizens on that river or in regard to those fisheries. Our people ‘down East” and Northwest will join hands upon this branch of the Message. The grand American outlet of the St. Lawrence is fast assuming the impor- tance of the outlets of the Mississippi under Jefferson, and it must eventually come to the same solution, The Message will open the general agitation of this solution, The subsidies recommended for the encou- ragement of American iron steamship lines will find a host of supporters, The routine business of the executive departments and the workings of the Treasury are discussed in otbers of our editorials; but upon the new party cry of “‘revenue reform” General Grant comes so refreshingly to the point and the purpose that he cannot fail to chal- lenge the special attention of all parties, His Message, in fact, is a declaration of war against these so-called par ereellence “revenue reformers.” He gives to the New York Hvening Post, the Chi- cago Tribune, Carl Schurz and Gratz Brown and their republican followers the choice be- tween the democratic party and a third party, inasmuch as their peculiar ‘‘revenue reform” notions are not the netions of Grant's adminis- tration. He moves here upon ‘the ‘‘enemy's works,” and the movement looks like the advance upon Fort Donelson. It brings the issue into close quarters and knocks these new-fangled catchwords and claptrap of ‘‘reve- nue reform” into a cocked hat. So broad, practical and liberal, too, is the system of revenue reform suggested by the President that only the extremists at both ends can reasonably obj-ct to it. The Message gives a hopeful view of the new humanitarian policy adopted towards the I[n- dians, and submits that in its appropriations of the public domain to railway corporations Jongress has been driving the engiue too fast, and should slacken steam and apply tho brakes; and so say the people. The liberal system in force of land grants to pioneer set- tlers, and for educational purposes, works admirably in the development of new States and Territories, and ought to be continued, ‘The census, we are assured, will furnish in all the departments of industry a flattering ex- hibit of the country’s prosperity in spite of the desolations of our late war. Finally, the Mes- sage sums up the policy of the administration to be the enforcement of the laws, economy, retrenchment, the payment of the sational debt, a wise reduction of taxes, honest and fair dealings with all other people, reform in our treatment of the Indians and in our whole civil service ; sa honest ballot and no repeat- ing, and no vivieace or proscription on account of party, nativity or color. Such is the annual Message of General Grant. It is a good State paper and a stanch party platform. Our only fears are that Gen- eral Grant is too old in the honesty of the sol- dier, too new in the ways of the politician, too much disposed to rest from his great labors of the war and too amiable by half to carry out his party programme after the tren- chant fashion of Old Hickory. But Queen Victoria gets on very well, though she hardly troubles berself with State affairs. She leaves them to her Cabinet, and her Cabinet to the Parliament; so General Grant, in leaving his general policy to his Cabinet, and bis Cabinet to the supervision of his party in Congress, may prosper and en- joy himselfat the same time. He knew where to look for a good general better than ho knows where to leok for a good secretary, and here he may wisely rely upon older profes- sional ace than hisown. To be a good politician, statesman or shoemaker, you must learn the trade. But this Message indicates the turning over a new leafby General Grant as the head of his party, that’he has been learn- ing the trade, and it may be that he will yet astonish his limping supporters on his strategy and tactica, action and activity as master of the political field. We think he has fairly knocked away the underpinning of the ‘“reve- nue reformers.” The War Situation—Tho End Approachieg. The old story of political interference, that so wearied the patience of peace-loving patriots during the rebellion in the South and so vexed the spirit of McClellan's army, is repeated in France. Gambetta at Tours undertakes to di- rect the movements of De Paladines in front, Orleans is evacu- ated, the left wing of that brave army that marched to the relief of Paris is thrown back upon itself and takes refuge in Blois. The fight is said to have been a severe one, and it must have been, or the Army of the Loira, urged to desperate resistance by the scared politicians at Tours, would never have fallen back half the distance between Orleans and the temporary capital, thus permitting the enemy, a8 it were, to advance so much nearer the spot that the presence of the French poli- ticlans makes sacred. The defeat is disas- trous, for it overturns all the hopes of relief raised in Paris by the temporary success of De Paladines’ army. The brilliant sorties made by Ducrot were worthy supports of the valiant advance made by De Palladines, and showed plainly enough that the two were in or j mmunigation, Now that De wre a Sate not likely that any sorties, however desperate, can be successful. Indeed, it appears from the despatches this morning that the positions gained by those sorties are already slipping from the grasp of the Frenchmen. The Prussians are fighting desperately, and with their usual success, to drive the beleaguered enemy back into his narrow compass again. The end approaches. The disaster of De Paladines may bring the heart even of the never-despondent Gambetta todespair, and the nation that has hoped so long against hope and fought so long against unconquerable foes may soon consent to peace, Tae Pirrasure Dispatch states that General Schenck is of the opinion that the whiskey dealers will fail in the effert to have the tax increased. This, remarks the same paper, is one of the remarkable instances where the lowness of tax is death tothe dealers, The whiskey dealers are breaking from lack of taxation. The inference is that there will consequently be so many the less number of heads broken among those who indulge in *‘tangle-foot,” and gensequently a lessened criminal w chakof»s Last The reply of the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Prince Gortchakoff's last note on the Eastern or Black Sea question has been anxiously looked for, because upon the tenor of that, it was expected, would hang the prospect of poace or war. Tho text of this important document has been forwarded tous by special telegram, and is published to- day in another part of the paper. The answer of Lord Granville is clear and concise, and devoid of that circumlocution characteristic of diplomatic language generally. It has the stamp of statesmanship, and shows that Lord Granville may be classed with the school of great modern statesmen to which Cavour belonged and Bismarck and Von Beust belong. The main point of this answer to the Rus- sian note is that the British government accepts the invitation which was made to Rus- aia by other Powers for the assembling of a conference, but with the understanding that this conference shall be convoked without the expression of any foregone conclusions as to the result of its labors. In such case the Bri- tish Secretary says her Majesty's government will be glad to consider with perfect fairness and with complete respect any proposals which a great friendly Power like Russia may make, Karl Granville takes care to say, however, that he does net admit the assumption of Prince Gertchakoff, that the Treaty of Paris of 1856 bad been violated, or that there was any ground for assuming it would be, by Aus- tria possessing the Danubian Principalities. To all appearances, then, there is a prospect of a European conference, with some hope thatthe present difficulty relative to the Rast- ern question may be bridged over. Still, the question is not decided. Russia may at the eleventh hour, if she desires war or thinks she cam gain by war, refuse to accept a conference without an understanding that her claim will be admitted. There isa possibility, too, that the Powers In a con- ference might not agree. Great Britain is not committed to yield to the demand of Russia, nor is Russia to accept conditions that may be offered. But the action of both just now seems to favor peace. The proposed con- ference may lead also to a congress of the Eurepean Powers, when other questions than that of the East may be settled. May we not hope such an assemblage would do something to end the frightful and destructive war in France and to curb the overbearing ambilion of Prussia? The great neutral Powers have only to say in the language of General Grant, “‘Let-us have peace,” and the war between France and Prussia will be closed. The Herald—Italy, Home and the Pope. If the London Saturday Reviewers bave any further desire to note and comment upon the enterprise of the New York Heraup they will have no reason to complain of the want of a fresh opportunity. We have not yet found it convenient to interview the British Premier ; but there is no necessity for haste. A con- venient season will arrive. Count Bismarck, Baron Beust, the Emperor Napoleon, have all been proud of the opportunity of speaking to the world through our columns. In pros- pect of the assembling of both houses of Par- liament, and in view of the resurrection of the Alabama claims question, Mr. Gladstone may find it convenient to make use of our inter- viewer, and so through our columas speak to the American people. Two days ago we told the Saturday Reviewers to look out for surprises, What will the Reviewers say when they receive the Hezaxp of Monday, December 5, and find the protest of Archbishop Manning, of West- miaster—a protest read in the Catholic churches of London the day previous—in full aud side by side with the protests of New York, Philadelphia and other centres? In this case, at least, it will not be possible for them—as it has not been possible for friends nearer home—to cast suspicion on the genu- ineness of the report. Of this, however, enough. What shall we say of the protests against the spoliation of the temporal domains of the Pope? If we are to judge from what took plsee yesterday in London, in New York, in Philadelphia, another crusade is not an impos- sibility. Another Paynim host has polluted another holy place. This time it is Rome, not Jerusalem, which is in danger. If the Catholics of Europe and America follow the advice of the spiritual teachers the latest crusade will be the most wonderful and romantic of them all. Seriously, however, it is not our opinion that the threatened war in favor of the Holy Father and his temporalitios will be other than awar of words. It will be another grand Pro- testant mevement; but we have mo idea that it will result in another schism. With Cardi- nal Manning’s protest we confess ourselves not a little surprised. Hitherto we had had a high opinion of his intelligence and culture. But in reading this document we seem to be reading some musty brief of the Middle Ages. We discover no evidence that Cardinal Man- ning has learned anything which was not known in the days of greatest darkness and wildest intolerance, It is undeniable—the Archbishop cannot deny it—that the Roman people have cast their votes in favor of Victor Emmanuel and incorporation with Italy. If the Archbishop is right all revolution is wrong. In so many words he denies that people have aright to rise against their rulers or determine by whom and after what fashion they will be ruled. With the exception of Father Farrell—an honorable and _ praiseworthy exception—the Ncw York and Philadelphia protests and speeches were all in the same vein. It is a wonderful thing. to find such sentiments endorsed in free America. It is fortunate that the enthusiasm of European laymen does not rise so high, Spain and Austria have generally been considered the most Catholic countries in the world; but In this matter Austria is imdifferent, and, as shown by the election of Aosta as King, Spain is contemptuous, The Catholic Church, including Dr. Manning and Pius the Ninth, must bow to facts and yield to the force of events. The temporal power is doomed, and no wild, despairing cry can save or reatore it. It ought not to be forgotten that the Italian government does not seek to banish the Holy Father from Rome, or in any way hinder him in the disoharge of his high and holy duties, It has made him large and liberal offers, The Vatican Palace is to remain to him. and for the discharge of his heavenly ministrations every facility will be given him. As it is vain to kick against the pricks we advise all good Catholics to advise the Holy Father to make peace with the government of Italy. As we have said again and again, the downfall of the temporal power is a positive gain to the Catholic Church, and, indeed, to the whole Christian world. It will be a mistake if the Pope leaves Rome. Ifhe remains in Rome he must accept the situation. Congress at Work Again. Yesterday, under fair ausplces—for the weather was bland and beautiful as in Sep- tember—and with a full attendance of mem- bers, the third or short session of the Forty- firat Congress of the United States was opened. Both Houses were called to order precisely at noon, in the presence of unusual throngs of spectators, and with an evidence of interest on the part of both members and public that aagured well for the work tobe done. That this work is not likely to be idly deferred Mr. Sumner distinctly indicated in the Senate by introducing @ financial bill to promote and facilitate a return to specie payments by gradual and natural processes, consistent with the exigencies of the government and the business of the country. The bill itself we shall have a better opportunity of discussing after the organization of the standing com- mittees, to which it will in due course be re- ferred. But we are glad to see that the subject before the country whichis the most prominent, important and pressing, is thus ensured the earliest consideration. The repeal of the income tax after the Ist of January next was algo put at once into the foreground by the bills of Messrs. Cole and Casserly, of California, who, representing both par- ties, as they do, ere agreed upon the necessity of removing a burthen which cripples the enterprise of their young commouwealth notwithstanding all its vigor and resources. A few bills of less import, but all looking like earnest business, completed the day’s work for the upper chamber. The House of Representatives, also, had a genial and pleasant meeting, and, after hear- ing the President's Message read, referring the report of the Secretary of the Treasury and passing a bill—the first, therefore, of the session—to supply an omission in the latest Indian Appropriation bill, adjourned at’ three P.M. Thus the new session is fairly launched, without any sign of collision or unpleasantness in any direction, and we sincerely trust that the good humor of its first day may continue to its last. The amount of business accamu- lated and craving performance is heavy, but with a full Congress, few, if any, of those whose seats are now vacant, and the earnest good intent that should now animate all parties and the representatives of all sections, the task is easy enough for patriotism and statesmanship. The contrast afforded by the condition of our great country and that of distracted Europe should impress itself upon our legis- lators and nerve them to the labor that still remains to be done ere we can consider our prosperity consolidated and our future secure. The nation begins to feel fresh life in all its veins; its monstrous losses by civil war are being rapidly made good; its wounds are healing; its numbers and wealth increasing with fabulous rapidity, while, as the Message of our Chief Magistrate reminds us a bounteous Providence has ever blessed us, “our basket and our store.” A moral duty of the highest order devolves upon us, then, not only to profit by these advantages onr- selves but to set the example of their proper usufruct to other nations. There should be intelligence enough in the American Congress to comprehend its high mission, and we await its performance at this critical and eventful time with earnest confi- dence. Tae Massine oF THE FRrENow AT CRETEIL, a small town covered by the guns of Fort Charenton, indicates that Trochu intends to make the next sortie from Paris a direct attack upon the Fontainebleau road. Creteil, like Champigny, is on the left bank of the Marne, but on the opposite side of the penin- sula formed by the deep curve of the river. General Vinoy is said to have actually pierced the German lines at Choisy-le-Roi, near this point, but he was compelled to retire be- cause of the Inability of Ducrot to advance beyond Champigny. It is, therefore, pro- bable that the recent sorties have discovered the weakness of the Prussian investing line here, and as it is on the: direct road for the objective point of the Paris _garrifon we are likely to hear of a fierce struggle,between the Seine and Marne rivers. Wut Ir Exp x Syokg?—It, will be interesting to traders and consumers to learn that the National Tobacco Aasociation of the United States will meet in Richmond to-day (Tuesday). It is announced that the affair will end in a splendid ball, given by the Richmond tobacco merchants, Others think that it will very naturally wind up in ‘‘smoke.” We Have a Reporr rrom Lyons of a de- cided victory gained by the forces of Garibaldi over General Von Werder’s troops. The scene of the engagement is located near Autun, a village in the department of Sadne- et-Loire, It isa remarkable fact that every last victory gained by the Garibaldians is some miles nearer to Lyons than the preceding one. Perhaps this arises from Garibaldi’s ‘drawing the enemy on,” but it seems to us more like the case of the man who kept his antagonist down by inserting his nose between his teeth. Dozs Tris Mzan Revorution?—The Al- bany Journal, republican organ, urges the republicans elected to the noxt Legislature to attempt to obstruct the organization of the House by filibustering and other means. Does this mean revolution? Time will show. Tae New Court House has certainly served its purpose. It has made nearly every political contractor in the city fat, and might very well be finished, like a dried orange that has no more juiceinit. But it seems the Commissioners have discovered claims enough outstanding against the old Board of Supervisors to swallow up six hun- dred thousand dollars moro. A Snormaxers’ Sterxt is imminent in this city, and the. heathen Chinee may be down upon us, nictail and all. at anv moment. The Revers of cho Georetary of thd ‘Treasery. The Secretary of the Treasury is in s very happy condition as regards his department of the government. He reports the receipts for the fiseal year ending last June to be $411,225,477 and the expenditures $309,653,- 660, leaving « surplus for the reduction of the public debt of $101,601,966. But as the income for the first quarter of the present fiscal year, ending last Septomber, was $115, 101,- 230, it Is evident that the revenue continues to augment with the increase of population, wealth and business, and that although there may be special reasons for the income of that quarter being greater than in any other quarter, we may expect the revenne of the present fiscal year would not, under existing revenue laws, fall much short of that of last year. We say this in the face of Mr. Boutwell’s low estimate, which anticipates the income to be only $820,418,000. For example, the income from customs for the first quarter of the present fiscal year was $57,729,478, and yet he estimates it at only $128,000,000 for the remaining three quarters, Now It is well known that the heaviest importations are ia the spring and summer, and, consequently, the revenue from that source is larger. The income from customs the last fiscal year was $194,538,374. There is no reason to suppose it will be less the present year, and it will probably exceed two hundred millions. Mr. Boutweil always under-estimates, and with a view seemingly to keep up an enormous sar plus revenue, in order that he may get the credit of paying off the debt rapidly. The changes that have been made in internal taxca may reduce the gross income to some extent, bat we doubt if, with the present laws, it would be much less than last year. It is not necessary to pay off the debt at the rate of a hundred millions a year, or even at the rate of forty or fifty millions, It is an in- justice to the present generation, which has borne the burden of the war and‘has paid so much of the debt already. What we want now is a reduction of taxation to the lowest possible point that an economical administra- tion and a sinking fund of twenty milliens or so will admit. The estimated receipts for the present fiscal year are over three hundred and twenty millions, and they will ameunt doubt- less to near four hundred millions. They should be brought down to less than three bundred millions, and then there ought to be a large surplus for the payment of the debt. We believe a hundred millions or 80 of taxes could be taken off and still an ample income be left for the government. Mr. Boutwell does not want the taxes reduced. He tells Congress so, Like a miser, he wishes te have his coffers full, that he may gloat upon the cash and say to the world, “See how pru- dent Ihave been!” He argues, too, that the plethoric condition of the Treasury will iaspire confidence and enable him to raise loans abroad for funding the debt. This is fallacious reasoning. Every sagacious capitalist knows already the ability of the United States to pay both the interest and principal of the debt, and his confidence will not be increased ia the least by seeing unnecessary burdevs imposed upon the people. The President, in his Message, has expressed the right view where he says there should be ‘‘a reduction of taxes as rapidly as the requirements of the country will admit, reduotions of taxation and tariff to be so.arranged as to afford the great- est relief to the greatest number.” As for the’other matters and details of tho department in the Secretary's report they are subordinate and of less consequence, and they are, on the whole, unobjectionable. His remarks about the new Post Office build- ing for New York are judicious, and we hope Congress will make the necessary appropria- tion required immediately. On the whole the exhibit of the Secretary of the Treasury shows the country to be in a condition that none other in the world is, and that unnecessary as is the amount of taxes raised the peeple are able and willing to pay them when demanded by the government, Sushi is the patriotiem and conservative character of the nation and the result of our glerious institutions, Tue Erte Rattroap has another war oa its hands in Jersey. This time the Heboken people are trying to compel it to take up its rails in the swamp lands back of that ambitious village, and, of course, Erie resists, Dirricutty Between Brazit anp Perv. The letter which we publish this morning from our correspondent in Rio Janeiro suggests the possibility of war between the Brazilian empire and the republic of Peru. A rumor prevailed in the capital shortly before the depagture of the mail steamer that the Brazilian gunboat Magé had been seized on the Amazon by the Peruvians. To such an extent did this report spread that the press took it up and called upon the government to say what truth there was in the statement. An ominous silence was the only answer. Since the report, how- ever, active movements have been going oa in. the naval depots of the empire, and six iron- clads are being rapidly fitted out, bat for what purpose is not publicly known. The next mail will bring us further particulars of the affair, and from that we may be able to form some opinion as to the chances of Brazil getting into a quarrel with another of her republican neighbors, Senator Camsron’s Visit To Gores has created no little rattling among the pre-rebel- lion dry-bones in that State. But, finding that his object was by no means altogether politi- cal, the still unreconstructed class begin to awaken to a lively sense of the effect his visit may have upon the pecuniary interests of the people of the State. ‘Money makes tho mare go.” Watt, Street AND THE ANNOAL Reports To Conaress.—A number of highly-colored, sensational rumors have been afloat in Wall stroet for a week past as to the policy which General Grant and Secretary Boutwell would recommend in the matter of securing a return to specie payments. It turns out, however, that this delicate question has been, left to solve itself, as it should be, aud that the President and his Finance Secretary are in no haste to join the army of quack doctors who would prescribe violent remedies to atimu- late the convalescence of the, national finances. If gold has already fallen to 110—as against 160 when the war stpped—is it not evident } if 4