The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1870, Page 6

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Advertisements. 2—Ailvertisemenis. 3—France: Contradictory Reports of the Butte near Meung; The Bombardment of Paris De- J 0 Hope for the Besieged from the Heroism of the Defenders of Bei- ews from Wasiiington— Obituary, Important Proceedings in Both ‘The Papacy—Th tional Board of Traee—Colored Orphan Asylum— Agitation in Westchester—Brooklyn’s Bad Buyers : What Kings County Supervisors Pay ‘or Goods--Fallure of the Gas Supply in the and rifteeuth Wards Last Eveuing—' Nosed Scotty.” 5—Bank Bursters vated: An Attempt to Break Into the Bauk of New York—Organization of the New Board of Coroners—Poit Tutelsi- gene ¥ \ ligeuce—The Seven-Thirty Bond Erie Ratlroad Raree Show—That “Frog” Fight—City and County Taxes rrp eg for General Butler—Canuatan procity. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Full France --Amusement Announce ements, 7—Editorials (Continu m Sixth Page)—ler- sonal Intelligence graphic News from all Parts of the World —Lectures Last. Night — Amuseinents—Dishonest Diamond Digeers— Business Notices. S=Jerry Dunn: H of for the Murder of James Logan No, i Foi"? @ Baker's Shop Army Inteilgence—Trial of Philip Cooney for the Killing of David O’Day—Brooklyn Muni- cipal Aiiairs—The Emigrant Swindlers —Soid Aguin--Municipal Affairs--Municipal Ameni- tles—Sea Monsters: Charge of Cruelty Against | Captain Grindle, of the American Sip Uld Colony—Caught tn a Water Wheel—Naviga- tion on the Ene Canal. 9—Proceedings in the Courts—A Kentucky Cata- comb—The Late General Robert E. Lee— Financial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Matters—This Blarsted Country—Mar- riages and Deaths. 10—Switzeriand and Germany: The St. Gothard Railway as a Question of European Dificulr: Jersey City Growlers—The Crispins’ Conte: Promising Youths—Kelly in Trouble Ag: The flushing Shooting—New York City News— ens he Bible in the Sunday Punishes Remar e Fight lice Captains—Shuppimg Inveiligence—Adver- tisement=. 41—Commanism in Kans on of Famt- lies and Velvet pecitions—Englis! aken Identity—de! ments. verti 12—Ady rtisements, Dos’: Waxt correspondent who wears a lic Sreauing A Ma The silkmakers of Lyo silks by s and the U ON TH ates, as been con- of the Court of Claims, it Blair, Jr, will be nator by the Mis- firmed Ch is though elected to succeed him souri Legislature. rank Sx Any DELANO wr to Mayor Hall that he cannot allow a uniformed policeman to accowpany each deputy w 1 on his rounds for ihe taking of the census, because it is not strictly in accordance with the letter of the law. Navo.eon av Winneissnouk, they say, is | getting fat and becoming reticent. He well, takes his regular e seen happy in his release ares of State, bat has ed to be communicative on the subject the widely ration of Jt signi- restoration, “the empire. What does fies, conceding this agitation of that there is something in it, and that even Bazaine may get his reward. Preparing For THE PosrMasreRy.—-John W. Forney anneunces for sale the good will and material of the Washington Chronicle. Tue Triat or Jerry Donn for the murder of Logan No. 2 was commenced yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Logan No. 2 ‘vill be remembered as one of the persons 6us- pected of the murder of Mr. Rogers two years | age, and it is possible that the pending trial may throw some further light on that myste- rious case. The trial of Philip Cooney for the murder of David O'Day still continues. One liarity of the two cases lies in the fact that all the parties conceraed—the two mur- dered men and the two alleged murderers— beleng to that class known as dangerous. If murders are to be committed it is at least some satisfaction to know that these kind of men do §¢ ond bare ji ous upon themselves, o 720 Broadway. —Lir7v.r NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1870.-TRIPLE SHHK Uniriendly Relations with the Canadian | Astounding Lund Jobs aud The Fall of France. ancien régime was one long horror of violence Congress Yesterday—General Amnesty, St. As the end of her present hepeless struggle | and wickedness, and her revolutionary period { Domingo, Revenue Heform and Admiral approaches. we are naturally drawn from | has been but a succession of failures in domes- | Forter. France of the past to France of the future, | tic government, masked by assaults on her ‘fallen from her high estate.” The mind ac- neighbors, Theso much-brooding Germans commodates itself with difficulty to totally new | declare amid the tobacco fumes of those long conditions which reverse the whole previous | pipes, which seem to typity their long-headed- current of history. Our eyes have been so | ness, that it would be a sin and a shame to long filled with the spectacle of a supreme and dominant France that they have long refused leave Frenchmen any longer to their own de- vices, and that they must place the wholo to see what must now be her place in the | people under tutelage for a long time, until a No. 347 | world. And we have had our hearts filled go | generation arises which acknowledges that jong with the bright and happy thought of | Germans are not barbarians and the old poi- civilized nations living together in progressive peace that it has been scarcely possible fer us to realize that the fature of humanity, ‘in the Old World at least, will be regulated, not by that ideal, but by the very different one of the stronger, wiser and more cultivated people holding down by sheer force those who have not reached such a height of moral and mate- rial force. But, above all things, we must study facts as they are; and these shape themselves now for France and Europe in a way unexpected, but which may yet prove beneficent te mankind. The great point to be observed in forming opinion upon the future of France, aad accord- ingly of Europe, is that her armies have not merely been defeated in the field, but the nation is subdued, by the German nation, It is a vanquished people, and will soon be a completely subjugated land; nay, it is so already. That question was decided virtually when the provisional government determined to continue the eontest with Germany after Sedan, instead of submitting at once to the cession of the frontier provinces. It is useless now for the most ardent sympathizers with France to regret what has happened. For it was: not to be, with the splendid traditions of the great nation, that she should have confessed herself unable to expel the Germans after Sedan. Those who have held the foremost rank in the world do not abdicate until sheer force compels, And, whatever be the fatvre of the bright people of France, they | will always be happier and more self-respect- ing for having tried a last desperate effort to save themselves after their wretched empire went down in shame and blood. This last noble and spirited appeal to the moral power supposed to be latent in the name and idea of a republic was a grand example of chivalrous though Quixotic exaltation of mind; and | Frenchmen, while their language lasts, will be always able to say, ‘‘Our Paris and our France fell, but fell fighting to the last with face ura ed to the foe.” But the game is lost,.and apparently lost, so far as human foresight can go, forever. Tho j future goverament of Fraace, in the broad | and radical sense of the term, will now be | regulated according to the interests and deter- | mination of victorious Germany. The Ger- | mans are very thorough, very searching, very | scientific in their theory as well as their ! tice ; and it is not merely a kiag or an em- ' peror ora diplomatist who will have to settle the future condition of France, but the scien- | tifie mind of Ghrmany at large. Emperors | and diplomatists will but be the organ of titis vast general purpose of the Teutonic people. And we may be satisfied that the question will be dealt with not upon any humanitarian or ‘or | cosmopolitan grounds, but the single principle of disabling France from ever renewing her ; attack again tipon the united Germany which | for the first time comes iato political existence. | It is not altogether the most pleasant idea in the world, but we may be sure that France wil! henceforward be dependent and disarmed, } and that from the vantage ground of Metz and Strasbourg the vigilant German mind and eye and arm_ will henceforward keep inexorable watch over the defeated people, repressing every tendency to military resurrection. Such goverament as France can form now will be the creature of the ne- cessity of the hour, and virtually, though not formally, the offspring of the conqueror’s will. And he will consult, first of all, his own neces- sity and interest, thinking only in the second place of unhappy France. It is very difficult to forecast so dark and uncertain a future, butat a moment when every intelligent man is asking what is to become of France we cannot help trying to peer through ihe gloom to see if, haply, there may be some brighter thing beyond; and, so striving, we can see this at all events—that the best chance for the brilliant French is to be so watched and guarded from the revival of the military demon within them as to oblige them perforce to turn their splendid facnities and generous temper to culture and to commerce, to seienee, to literature and to art. But the problem is one of inordinate difficulty, and to watch its solution will be incomparably the most ab- sorbingly interesting object ever presented to the political and social observer. For hitherto force has been the ruling principle in French politics, and her fanatical parties have sought war abroad to stave off mutnal extermination at home. What will now happen when France will have that resource cut off altogether— now that she needs must find some mode of settling her domestic affairs without a recur- rence te the stimulant and sedative—for it has been a sedative to France, queer as the thing may sound—of foreign war? How will her | rialisis, White Republicans and Red Republi- cans live together in some form of common cilizenship without the intermittent fever of | upon Tammany Hall. bloodshed? How will French history write sonof egotism is expelled from French veins. All this seems extravagant enough, but tho thought is there and will tell. To suppose that Germans will hold French territory in- definitely may seem a wild thing; but they are at least not likely to leave until they are paid their vast indemnity. And ever afterwards, at the very least, the German sword will hang menacingly over the head of France, But she will have great cempensations. Freed from military burdens, she may grow rich with astounding rapidity. Aud what bounds can be set tothe intellectual victories which her brilliant people may achieve whea culture of the German type is universal through the land. At the bottom of this dreadful Pandora's box there is hope, a bright hope, yet. ‘The War Situation in France. There appears to be continual fighting along the line of the Loire, notwithstanding previous reporis of the utter demolition’of the French army. Later despatches are as contradictory as usual, Chauzy contending that he is hold- ing his own against Frederic Charles all along his line and the Duke of Meckleaburg an- nouncing that he has successfully repulsed the assaults of the enemy, Evidently Chanzy has taken a lesson from Gambetta and the fate of Paladines, and intends to furnish satisfactory reports whether he succoeds in any very bril- liant military movements or not. All that Gambetta wants is a text to make enthusiastic and encouraging prociamations flow in a stream. But, alas! bayonets and ublans and desolation and defeat are uamindful of gush- ing rhetoric. They crowd ea without thought | or dreadof all the paper pellets the sanguine | Gambetta may hurl at their heads. The bombardment of Paris, according to a London telegram, has been decided upon. When it will take place is not stated. The Germans ure practical, undeterred by the French regard for the dramatic unities, and it | is proifible that they may commence the bom- bardment at once, even while the holiday event of all Christendom, Catholic France and | Protestant Germany alike, is drawing near, and keep it up through the anniversaries of the days when the Peacemaker was born in | His lowly manger and lay helpless in His | Virgin mother’s arms. No merry Christmas, | no happy New Year for France! Shot and | shcil her presents for the one, and sorrow and | desolation her greetings for the other! | | | The Saint Gothard Railway and German | Cousolidation, Prussia wants to consolidate the great German empire. King William wishes to per- fect the intercommunion of the German people, North and South. He is anxious that border differences shall be obiiterated—that the Ger- mans shall converse by telegraph. Hence the completion of the Saint Gothard Railway becomes of more than usual importance. The project is likely to stand forth prominently as a matter for international consideration, North Germany is about to exert itself to unite | the station of Central Switzerland at Basle to the Baden system of railways by a bridge across the Rhine. This is a very grand idea, but the attempt for its realization may lead to new difficulties in the Old World. The Swiss republic, the kingdoms of Prussia and Italy, with some of the leading financial interests of | Eurepe, are interested, if not already involved, in the matter. The subject affects not only the monetary calculations but the war-making power of Central Europe, present and for the future.. We have consequently taken pains The proceedings of Congress yesterday were not devoid of importance. The question of general amnesty was brought before the Senate ine plain, honest, straightforward resolution, offered by Senator Schurz, declaring that due regard for the fundamental principles of the American system of government, as well as every consideration of sound statesmansbip, requires the removal of all disqualifications and disabilities, It was postponed for some days, when an interesting debate may be expected. This proposition is a great improvement on that reported in the House the other day by Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, from the Jadi- ciary Committee, which hems around the pro- posed grace and mercy with formal preli- minaries and excludes from its operations several classes comprising the most influential citizens of the South, The subject which élicited most discussion in the House, and which will attract most attention throughout the country, was the bill introduced by Mr. Logan, of Mlinois, abolish- ing the naval rank of admiral and vice admiral. The opposition to it came from two members of the Committee on Naval Affairs, who wished the bill referred to that committee instead of being acted upon immediately, as urged by Mr, Logan, In the discussion which took place the letter which Porter wrote to Secretary Welles, at the time of the Fort Fisher expedition, in which uncomplimentary allusion was made to General Grant and Gen- eral Butler, and the recent letter of Admiral Porter to President Grant on the subject, were referred to, and were made the occasion for some very scathing reflections upon the Vice Admiral. Butler characterized them as sycophantic, and as attempts on the part of Porter to curry favor with those in power, and he declared agaiast sbtting such ap exaiuple before the youth of the navy. It was in vain that Scofield tried to parry the blow aimed at Porter by recalling General Scotl’s weak- ness in the department of letter writing, and intimating that even members of Congress had their ‘‘foel’s day.” The feeling against Porter was too strong. Dawes and Banks took the same view as Butler, and the discuasion was | decidedly unfavorabie to the Vice Admiral, The consequence was that the bill was passed, under @ suspension of the rules, which requires a two-thirds majority, and that there was not even a divisioa of the House on its passage. | With that unmistakable action of a co-ordi- nate branch of Congress on the subject, it is by no means likely that the Senate will act upon the nominations pending before it for the promotion of Porter to the rank of admiral and of Rowan to that of vice admiral, but will rather concur with the House iu abolishing both those positions, However, if the Senats choose to confirm the nominations it has the right to do so, and then pass the bill, leaving it to take effect when a vacancy shall next occur in either rani, The question of the annexation of St. Domingo also came up in the House, in the shape of a joint resolution, introduced by Mr. Banks, for the appointment of a special com- mission to take that question into considera- tion and to negotiate with the authorities of the island. Mr, Banks tried to have it passed under the previous question, but could not get a@ majority of the House to vote with him. Mr. Cox then tried to kill the proposition by a motion to lay it on the table; but the House refused to do that either; and, finally, a sort of compromise course was adopted, by a reference of the whole matter to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, with leave to report at any time after five days’ notice to the House. The same question came up also in the Senate, in a resolution offered by Senator Morton, and which lies over for future action. The friends of Revenue Reform had a chance of showing their hands on a resolution | offered by Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, look- to illustrate the Saint Gothard Railway news | matter, which has been referred to by cable | telegram, by the publication of the special | history of the scheme, which appears in our | columns to-day. Tue Intricacies or Erie Law Suits have always been a standing wonder to ordinary people. They have gazed and wondered as as they gazed how one little Judge could keep it allin his head, and they have entertained a sneaking sort of respect for the attainments of | the learned counsel on all sides who, even if they became mixed in their logic now and then, certainly displayed persistence and per- severance in going on with their arguments under very adverse circumstances. In the Ramsey case, before Judge Ingraham, yester- day, afr. Peckham and Mr, Field seem to have got out of their depths among the old.and the revised statues and the rules of chanoery and other simple arrangements of the law, and to | have argued side by side for a time until they | touched, when.they flew off at a tangent, but altogether the argument was much clearer than usual. The case resulted, however, in the Judge refusing an order preliminary to | another order to examine the books of the Erie s | five parties of Legitimists, Orleanists, Impe- | Railroad. THe War Against Tammany.—Republican papers all around us are beginning to open fire The Chicago T'ribune, St. Louis Democrat and Hartford Courant are | tseif now that. it can no pit et oscillate be- | among the latest. Our St. Louis contempo- | tween civil and foreign war? These are indeed | rary says that the democracy in 1868: los: the | grave questions, and wise would be the man | 1 ination of a formidable candidate for Presi- | who could answer them. In the meantime it must not be overlooked | pound very extraordinary doctrine | questions. They suggest that at the present | day and in the present generation they are | absolutely incapable of golution, and that it | may be that German troops and German officials wil! have to remain for a generation | or two in France to teach a new race of | Frenchmen geography and good temper, and | flavor the highly-seasoned French dispo- | sition with just a drop or two of hu- | mility, so that the French of the twentieth century may live in peace and amity with their neighbors. These advanced Ger- man minds declare that France cannot now govern herself; that she has tried it for a cen- tury and failed; that, in point of fact, she never did form a decent government: that her dent ‘by half an hour,” and intimates. that ‘Tammany was the cause of it. What it means that some of the most advanced minds | by fixing the precise time for the misfortune is among thé Germans are beginning to pro- | not easily to be conceived. Perhaps some upon these | parties were too late by exactly thirty minutes in binding certain bargains by sealing them with the ‘‘sinews of war.” ApvicE GRATIs.—A correspondent of a Canadian journal, in response to the anxiety expressed by the Americans abeut the free navigation of the St. Lawrence, propounds the | following question in true John Bull style?— If you are so very anxious to navigate the St. Law- rence, why the blazes don’t you navigate 1? There it is in all its poetical tremendousness, and with its. numerous fails, rapids, whirlpools, &c., to splendid condition, This is a very racy way of putting the point, perhaps, but we hope there willbe ne “blazes” of any kind required in the premises, but that the question will be sottled in a peaceful and harmonious way, | but s'x negative votes. ing to the abolition of the interaal revenue system, except as to tobacco and distilled spirits, which resolution was agreed to with A somewhat parallel proposition was offered by Mr. Cox, of New York, except that it also looked to a lowering of tariff duties to a revenue standard; and this was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, which will probably be the last that will be heard of it. The Tenure of Ofice bill was repealed in the House by a majority of 157 to 25, and a bill was introduced in the S»nate by Mr. Chandler, of Michigan, to cut off the Cana- dians from certain privileges of commerce which they now enjoy. These are the prominent subjects that came before Congress yesterday. ‘There were,. be- sides, quite a variety of heterogeneous mat- ters introduced and. referred in either House, including bills for the incorporation and subsi- izing of steamship companies. This latter subject, in connection with the pending measures looking to the encouragement of American shipping and commerce, will be one ofthe most important matters to be disposed of at the present session. Let us hope that the wisdom of Congress. will prove eqnal to. the emergency. Revowvrion ar. THE Hvs.—With all the opposition the radicals could bring to bear against Mr. Gaston, the democratic and inde- pendent candidate for Mayor of Boston, that gentleman was yesterday elected Mayor of the city. Now let us see what the new Mayor and the new Common Council will do. in the way of required reforms. Tue Curoacc, Post, in its exhibit of what it calls ‘Journalistic Depravity,” exposes itself to indictment under the accusation. Because one of its own local newspapers stigmatizes in opprobrious. terms some of the best artists that have ever visited America is there neces- sity for using similar language when referring to one of its own neighbors ? Tae Largest Crarm to the Nathan murderer comes from Binghamton. The ‘‘dog”—that dreadful and mysterious ‘‘dog”—is said by an expert from Binghamton to resemble one lost by a carpenter there some time ago. But we fear that the ‘‘dog” will never tell the story. Greasina THR WHEELS FoR THE NEXT Presipency.—The Philadelphia Press an- nounces that Lieutenannt Goneral Sheridan is in Greece. He has already whirled around “the Hun” Goverument. The Detroit Post, administration organ, commenting upon the unfriendly legislation of the Canadian goverament in regard to the fishery question, the navigation of the St. Law- rence and other matters in that connection, re- minds our testy neighbors that St. Mary’s ship canal is wholly ours; that we can exclude Canadian shipping altogether from Lake Supe- rior; that the St. Clair Flats canalis also wholly ours, and we have the same right to forbid Canadian vessels from using it. On the other hand the Ottawa (Canada) Times, gov- ernment organ, pronounces the charge con- tained in the President's Message of illiberal- ity on the partof Canada with regard to the navigation of the St. Lawrence and the Cana- dian system of canals unfounded, and alleges that the government of the United States have not, since the repeal of the reciprocity treaty in 1865, applied for permission to use that navi- gation, and adds thatit is a fact that, notwith- standing this, since the repeal of the recipro- city treaty, “‘every application for permission for United States vessels to pass from the sea to the St. Lawrence or the lakes, or from the lakes to the sea, has been granted by the gov- eraments of @anada aud of the Dominion.” This throws a somewhat new light upon the question at issue, and Congress will, we pre- sume, discuss the subject in a friendly spirit. But whatever is intended to be done should be done at once. Delays in such matters are always dangerous. Whenever the point of unfriendly relations between our Canadian neighbors and ourselves is raised the Ala- bama irritation inevitably assumes an impor- tant share in the discussion, Strainiag at a Guat and Swallowing a Came!~. The members of the British Reform League have just held a large meeting in London to protest against giving any dowry to the Princess Louise on her marriage with the Mar- quis of Lorne, The language used at this gath- ering was pretty strong. The people were re- minded that there werea hundred and thirty- seven thousand paupers in England, dying of starvation every hour, while the Queen draws anincome of four hundred thousand pounds sterling from the treasury, besides innumera- ble sums for other members of the royal family. The orators at this meeting argued in some- what unusnal terms that her Majesty might at least imitate the example of the poorest work- man in her dominions by providing for her own children. This is a very superficial ar- gumeat, for the cases, of course, are not par- allel at all. That there are a vast number of dying paupers in ‘‘Merrie England,” probably more than the numbers here stated, cannot be denied; but for all that, while royalty exists, royal state must be kept up, and therefore the grant to the throne is quite legitimate, But these reformers forget that the people of Great Britain have been paying year after year, out of their hard labor, thousands of pounds to foreign recipients in the shape of German princes and princesses, and they have not grumbled much about it. ‘his is the first time they have been asked to contribute a dowry toa royal scion whois about to marry a subject, and remain at home, it is presumed, to spend her inceme among the people. It seems hardly.worth while, therefore, to sirain at this little gnat after swallowing so many German camels. fhe Cable and the Gold Market. The Gold Room, since the interruption of telegraphic communication with Europe, has been almost stagnant. The operators in that department are accustomed to base their movements on the fluctuations of five-twen- ties in Europe, and hence, in the absence of quotations, they are like a mill without grist. Without any desire to assist these speculators we would suggest to the cable managers that an exception be made in favor of such important intelligence as the quotations of the London market, which should be allowed to come ahead of the mass of business waiting to be transmitted. Dealings in cotton, wheat and merchandise generally ara obstructed through lack of this information, the communication of which might be afforded without detriment to other messages on the wire, and, doubt- less, without complaint from customers who would be preceded. As it is the quotations now take their place with other . business, and are ,sometimes two days old when received, “In view of the pessible derange- ment of the cables for an indefinite period the managers ought to give one quotation daily—say at noon—the right of way over other messages until communication is fully restored, Increase oF Ropserizs IN THE Crty.— There seems to be just now a large increase of robberies in the city, some of a burglarious character, some of what is called the ‘‘sneak thief” order and another class of robbery which has not been common in the list of crimes until lately—namely, the system of stopping women and children in the streets and taking bundles of clothing from them which they are conveying to and from the workshops where they are employed. This is the most cowardly class of robbery, and, we should suppose, one that would be in the power of the police easily to suppress. But that it ispractised daily in the public streets is notorious. The attention of the police is, therefore, called to the protection of these poor women and children, who are thus cra- elly fleeced by highway ruffians in open day. Just at this time, when Christmas is approach- ing, the thieves are hungry and unscrupulous, They should be well watched by the police, and Captain Kelso should urge his. men to. increased vigilance. A Hatr-way Measure—The Hon. Joseph H. Rainey, the new “light complected” colored member of the House of Representa- tives from South Carolina, sworn in yester- day. Let the full-blooded Scipio Africanus appear and then the House will be all right. Juneze Dow1ine yesterday sent the two emigrant swindlers, Peck ond Ballard, to the Island—Peck for Six months and Ballard for three. Peck begged for mercy, and said that he was a respectable man and had held responsible positions on the police and in the Fire Department, and thought that sending -him to the Island would blast his reputation, No doubt it will, but not more camaletaly than his own act has blasted it. Extravagance of Congress. The exposure made of the astounding land jobs and reckless extravagancs of Congress through our Washington correspondence pub= lished yesterday ought to arouse public atten- tion, The whole area of the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico to Maine, including lakes, mountains and everything else, and exclusive of the newly acquired Territory of Alaska, is about three millions of square miles, or near two thousand millions of acres. We may safely estimate that a third of this is useless for cul- tivation—that is,a third, probably, is covered by lakes, rivers, deserts and barren moun- tains. This would make the soil of our vast republican empire under cultivation and capa- ble of being cultivated amount to little over twelve hundred millions of acres. The soil of the States and Territories owned by individual citizens may amount to five hundred millions ofacres, Out of the remaining seven hun- dred millions the appropriations already mado by Congress and those proposed to be made to railroad corporations and for other jobs amount to over four hundred millions, or much more tham half the available Territery be- longing to the government and people, These stupendous grants and proposed grants cover an area larger than twenty States of the Onion—that is, all New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary- land, Obio, Virginia, North and South Caro- lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Previous Congresses have given away to favorite companies two hundred and twenty millions, and the bills before the present Congress will give away a hundred and eighty-nine millions. We sup- pose these bills will pass, as many of the members of Congress are interested, aud there is an all-powerful lobby to press them through. Unless the President should veto the bills this stupendous slice of the public domain and people’s heritage will pass to the hands of the railroad corporations. The cultivable lands remaining to the government, people and future generations would be little more than three hundred millions of acres. These are startling faeis, If the public voice or the President’s veto should not interpose this monstrous spoliation will be consummated. There never was before in the history of this country or any other such reckless extrava- gance and such dotiant plunder of the pro- perty of the people. An Old-Fashioned Nor’easter—A the The storm which was gathering here all day last Sunday, which began with a light drizzle about seven P. M. of that day, and which opened yesterday morning and contioued all day in full blast, may be set down as a regular old-fashioned nor’easter, From the telegraphic reports of the Signal Service Bureau of the War Department, on Sunday night, at twenty- five minutes to twelve, Washington time, it was snowing at Cheyenne, on the Rocky Mous- tains, raining (light) at New Orleans, New York and Boston, and heavily at Washington, Milwaukee, Detroit and Buffalo. Thus the area from the latitude of New Orleans to the great lakes, and from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rocky Mountains, was covered by this storm. But we should like to know the point of its beginning on the land and its general course, and, from the “observations of the Signal Service Bureau, we think they could: readily make it out. We would also suggest to this bureau the importance of Fortress Monroe as an initial point for observations ia this signal service. From our own observations, from our weather reports by telegraph for several yeurs past, we have become fixed in the conclusion that our regular nor’easters, from Virginia to Nova Scotia, come in upon the land from the Atlantic between Cape Hatteras and Fortress Monroe—that this is due to the pro- jections of the line of the Atlantic coust upon the Gulf Stream at Cape Hatteras, and to what we may call the meteorological attractions of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers upon the vapors of the Gulf Stream, drifting up with that ocean current and accumulating from Florida to Cape Hatteras. At all events, from our observations, we are satisfied that the signal of an opening nor'easter at Fortress Monroe is a warning that, at the velocity of some twenty-five miles an hour, we may ex- pect that storm in New York. Hence we would suggest to this Signal Service Burean the restoration of Fortress Monroe in these weather reports as the most important point in these observations of any along the Atlantic coast. Hiet Signal Service Bureau. Uerx Tank Asovr Our Prorosep Naw MINISTER TO GREAT Brrrain.—The Washing- ton Patviot—anti-administration—has the fol- lowing to say about our proposed new Minister to Great Britain :— Mr. Schenck is not destitute of a certain political talent, which is most conspicuous im the angry debates of the House, where his keen malice is effective and equally dangerous to friend and foe; but he lacks the education, the training, the temper and the social amenities which are requisite for success in diplomacy and for any respectable footing in the cultivated circles of Europe. Did The Patriot is not altogether correct. not General Schenck at one time bave some experience at Vienna! Now that the late General Walbridge has gone on a leng mis- sion, why not let Schenck go on ancther? Wuart Ixnerent Crugiry and brutishuess there must be in such men as Captain Grindle, of the ship Old Colony, te induce him to mal- treat two poor devils of seamen as he did) Raus and Franco, according to the evidence taken yesterday before Commissioner Shields. . There seems to have been no motive what- ever, no particular cause even for hatred, of the men, no alleged neglect of duty, ne charge: of insolence to their officers, nothing but the! brute spirit, the love of cruelty, izherent in the, man himself. Pouttics iN Consectiout.—The Hartford! Courant having circulated a report that ex- Postmaster Cleveland, of that city, was laying pipe for the democratic nomination for Cen- gress from the Connecticut Third district by. making voluminous donations of Thanksgiving, turkeys to the people in the district, Mr. Cleveland comes out in a card, in which he positively affirms that he is net a candidate for Congressional honors, and that so far as the turkey question is concerned all he did was to present a few of the seasonable luxuries to some of the “‘noor but deserving” residents of