The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. NEW YORK What of the Conference? It would take the skill of the most accom- plished wizard {o forecaste the nature of sone the deliberations of the London Con- JAMES GORDON BENNE Tt; ference. The only thing that we can say PROPRINTOR about it with any confidence is to repeat the heaecan vr. aaea ==== | sentence of a famous French wit, who declared XXXVI... «No, 25 bdostonei AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNQUN AND EVENING, AGRE (Pheatre Francais)~ v¥ OF LYONS. GRAND OP&RA HO: La Pertouo.... OLY Wre Wr f Sth ay. ana Md st— THRATRE. Tron iF WINKIR. Matinee THE PANTOMIME OF } BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. SAW—MANIAG LOVE Wood's MUSEUM Bi ances every afternoon 4 GLOKE THES TAENMENT, &€ Matinee at 2) STADT 7. 45 Bowery.—SrEpacn NEW ¥ as Mavurinn, TH FIFTH AVENUS RE, Twenty-fourti strect.— SARATOGA. ROOTH’S THEATRE, 4 8, between th and 6th ave. Rrouriiry. NINLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tuz SPrevacte oF 7 LACK ChOOK. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broatway and itu strect— Ovns. 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Pace. sar aag 1—Advertisements, Q— Advertisements. 3—The War in Franc Situstion in Paris; Dijon; Bombardment of Cambrai by the Ger- mans; The Stege of Lougwy—Departure of Gambetta from Lilie—The European Con- gress—Jules Favre's Mission—Austrian Diplo- ™macy—German Union. 4—-Oongress: Paseage of the St. Domingo Annexa- tion Question in the House; the Southern Ku Klux; Contested Elections — Decided—Tne United States Sinking Fond: Proposals to Increase Our Burden of Taxation—The Ala- bama Claims—Goiham on Runners. S—The Men in the Gap: Expected Arrival of Five More “Ferocious” Fenians—Anniversary of Buins’ Birthday—Votce of the People—The River Mystery—Proceedings in the Courts— a Sharpe's Deadlock—Ellen’s Escape— esperate Encounter—The Census—Beat on abo ter’’—Parade of Prisoners at the Tombs Festerday—ine Syosset (L. I.) Murder—a Colorea Claude Duval, G—Editorials ; Leading Article, ‘What of the Con- ference *—Amusement Announcements. =e (continued from Sixth Page)—News rom Central and South America—Jjamaica: Gloomy Picture of the dian Victory at Fogtand Jeaions of the Possivie Annex- ation of St. nig eh from St. Do- mingo—s a prenrers geie rs epg Hornet— News from Cuba and British Honduras—Going Home from a Wake—The Herald in Mary- iand—Views of tne Past—Personal Intelit- gence—European Markets—Business Notices. S—The American Traupmann: An Interview Under Difiieulties; Something New About His Pre- vious History—Tne Nathan Muruer: George Jones the Basest Man in New York—The Case of Dr. Woltt—The Covington, Ky., Murder— Vigiiance Committee Endorsed by a Grand Jury—Remarkable Surgical Operation—A Woman Killed by Her Lover in Baltimore. 9—The Path to the Sea: Proceedings of the Cana- dian National Board cf Trade—Real Estate Matters—Financial and Commercial Reports— The Erie Ratlway Company: The Annual Re- ers for 1876—Sweet-Scenied Seizure—Mar- riages and Deaths. 1O—Washington: Senators Conkling and Fenton in Arnis About the Custom Honse; The Sale of Government Ordnance to Cease; Mrs. Grant's Third Reception at the White ‘House—News from the State Capital—Frozen. to Death— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 31—The National Caplital—Importing Blooded Stock—Miscellaneous Foreign Items—Journal- istic Notes—-Ainericans Abroad—Advertise- ments. 12—Adveriisements. Dr. Worrr is on trial for manslaughter in producing death by abortion. He is another of those flends, like Evans, who ought to be hanged ; but he knows that he won't. REPEAL OF THE Ixcome Tax.—The Ways and Means Commitive have had a consultation on the subject of repealing the income tax, and appesrances indicate thit they will speedily report a bill to the House for that purpose. Let the friends of such a measure keep up the agitation, and even the old fogies of the Senate will be foreed to succumb to the popular demand. Afier the income tax must come the abolition of others, but, for the pres- | ‘lb ent, Congress will do very we the odious law under expunging Ovp Kine WintiaM, as Emperor of Ger- mavy, says that Germany desires nothing more than her own frontiers, and that she her he consider the ? Unquestion- cing the late id Lorraine, only just yet to say nous with Bis: us all that ae will look to industry and commerce for prosperity. But what does German frontier on the ably he considers it aa em! French provinces of Alsace he does not think if so. He says noting marek at lis elbow; bu says, and mor w necess: Ten Tot ve been voted by the Senate to meet the contingeat expenses committee of ths re into i fulmanner. that “nothing was certain except the unfore- seen.” Nevertheless, there are some promi- nent landmarks by which we may steer our way toa probable corclasion after all, But, in the first place, the historical imagl- nation cannot but dwell upon the tremendous contrast presented by the years 1856 and 1871. In the former year the Emperor Napoleon Il. was in the full flush of his glory and power, and it was at the great city now beleagured and threatened with utter ruin that the Con- ference of European Powers assembled to con- clude a peace after a war of which France had, with consummate management, contrived to monopolize nearly all the glory. Now, on the contrary, France is altogether out of the fleld, as her representative has refused to appear before the diplomatic assemblage of Europe as a liberated prisoner of the German arms, and the new diplomatic departure in the inter- minable Eastern question is to be taken at London, the capital of that Power which re- presents the overwhelming mass of European interests in the Levant and the further Eastern lands. The contrast of circamstances and the transfer of place suggest the moral of the last fifteen years of history in the most power- The Emperor Napoleon confirmed his {!l-goiten power by the alliance with Great Britain and the splendid achievements of the Crimean war, It suited his policy, there- fore, to attack Russia in the first in- stance. But he had ulterior designs on Italy and Germany. He foresaw his war against Austria, and he could not afford to put aside the great reserved tramp curd of a campaign for the Rhine frontier, which he played at last to his ruin. Accord- ingly, he made use of his paramount influence atthe Paris Congress of 1856 to win back Russian sympathy by making the place sho had to fall on after her great defeat at Sebas- topol as soft as possible. In short, secure of his English friends, he threw them over in the treaty of peace as far as he dared without sacrificing entirely the results of a war and a victory to which French blood and treasure had so largely contributed. Only a small strip of territory was taken from the Russian empire to free the Danube, and the security of Turkey was taken in a mere naked promise and contract, by which Russia was henceforward to have no arsenals and no ships of war in the Black Sea. And this policy was followed up by the Em- peror fitfully, but virtually, till his fall. By his connivance the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, were, against Eug- lish wishes, consolidated into one distinct kingdom; and he even sent a French force to Syria to mark in the eyes of the Eastern people his contempt for and disbelief in Turkish independence, keeping it there until he was directly and plainly threatened by England with war unless he withdrew it, when he succumbed as readily as when the United States ordered him out of Mexico, All the world has seen the catas- trophe into which his sinister policy has at last led him—a fit retribution for a man of whom history will say that he knew not how to be faithful to any thought, any design or any alliance. And now, we ask, what of this new confer- ence? Is it to be a real deliberation of the various European Cabinets? Are they really going to debate and settle the Eastern ques- tion? Or is the proposal a mere blind and cover for necessary delays until the position and policy of all of them can be more clearly defined and ascertained? We incline alto- gether to the supposition that this last inquiry indicates the truth. Germany has her great question to settle with France, and she has to give some necessary flaishing touches to the construction of her new empire. Until these two great works are accomplished it is not very likely that the consummate statesman who guides her destinies will show his hand ungloved in this Russian question or let the world into the full secret of the vast plans which are doubtless being formed in his massive and untiring brain. He has gained a great point by stimulating Russia to repudiate the limitation of her territorial sovereignty involved in the neutralization of the Black Sea. For this step of the Czar has convinced all the sound think- ers of Europe that no nation can rely for secu- rity upon promises concerning critical terri- tory left in a defeated enemy's hands; and Russia, therefore, has quite unwittingly and unwillingly, like a puppet in Bismarck’s hands, advanced the strongest argument for the ces- sion to Germany of Alsace and Lorraine, In this first step she has, then, been visibly working the ends of Bismarck and Germany. And very much mistaken are those, we con- ceive, who fancy that the ulterior develop- ments of this affair will prove different from its first stage. So great and astute and com- manding « statesman as Bismarck never before in history wielded so overwhelming a nation as Germany. And atthis conjuncture of the world’s his‘ory German interests and purposes as administered by this Titan of diplomacy will assuredly have the upper hand. Now it is a sovereign German interest that the valley alleged federates in tue 3 in the recent elections in said States, with a view to a litile more reconstruction. We seriously think, however, that the tim, labor and money which will thus might, even for party better employed in the work ciliation. ally of Southern cen- Tarne onglt to be more George Joues, the individu il trying to prove Hnghes larceny clionis, guilty ef ti He is badly treated on food ir seems to be a very tom of his inst t rideous fame itl he claimants to murderet hang 80: rest. He docs re much wo long as itis: Jones, J terda the Graud Jury. gave him ord U w his proots ig | ‘ of the Danube suould be free from the en- croachments of the great Slavonic power; and this freedom is even a necessity, a ques- tion’ of positive life and death, to that land which we call Austria, but waich we should much better understand, as regards its policy necessities, if we called Easiria. In fact, this Austria, or Hastria, is now the allied outpost of tie great Germanic body towards the 1 sun, And it must necessarily become the satellite and ally of the new Ger- g Brest task of confronting » Slavonic advance, of ed representative. We Bismarek’s quasi alli- take it, ther ance with Russia just now is very much like ihe sert of hazy understanding into which he ed to laure the uperor Napoleon b adowa, according to which France bour at Pro ig on this was to have the Riine or Luxe: return for counivan espausion in North Germany. Ac posed underatanding the Emperor ou the united German i 1 and destruction. or ian rashed HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, And ‘elmilarly we have a shrewd Idea that the Czar will find the United German people, with their satellite empire of Austria, barring the path to Constantinople, In this point of view the Conference is a very good plan for amusing the bewildered and befogged diplomats of Europe until the moment shall come for the master to utter his decisive word, But if there be anything in such views, what shall we say to the unutter- able stupidity of the British mind which per- sists in the supposition that Germany and Bis- marek are the very obedient, humble servants and jackals just now of the Russian Power? That is altogether a curious and amusing idea, And we imagine that thick-witted John Bull will besome fine morning surprised far more agreeably than he doserves by finding that central Europe, Germany and Austria, that is, may probably be going to do his work for him after all, It British statesmen and the British public were not as purblind as owls they would not bark at the victorious German heels as they are doing just now; for the suspicion, at least, of the possibility of such things as wo have here sketched and hinted would enter into their heads, Under all these circumstances, then, it is an absorbingly interesting thing to men of keen political vision to wateh the course of German policy ; for that is the key of the posi- tion. abroad in Europe thatthe tles between the new Germany and Austrla are being firmly knit. The Conference will drag on, in all pro- bability, fora season. It suits Bismarck and Germany well that England should arm heavily, forhe knows very well that Germans and Englishmen will never fire a shot at each other, and he probably intends to allow Russia to expand unchecked about as much as we fntend to let the New Dominion of Canada become a great, independent empire on this Continent. But the English are so stupid. They cannot take a hint or see even to the length of their own noses, The Hopelessness of France. Under dates of January 20 and 21 the special correspondent of the Herarp in Paris supplies us with the latest news by telegraph of the situ- ation within the walls of the beleaguered city. The picture presented is sad in the extreme. Suffering from cold and hunger, the unfortu- nate Parisians await the approaching end of the siege, Though no wail has gone up from the people it is painfully evident that they would regard peace with satisfaction. The long-endured privations which they have been compelled to suffer; the discouraging reports which have of late been received from the armies inthe provinces; the near approach of the German investing lines; the use- lessness of the sorties and the terrors which the bombardment of the cily excites, all com- bine to operate disadvantageously upon the army and the citizens of Paris, Every day the stores of provisions grow smaller. Hun- ger and disease go side by side through the once beautiful streets of the famous capital of France. Death and destruction from the deadly missiles of the German batteries out- side the walls awe the starving populace for the moment, to be succeeded almost momenta- rily by a desire for revenge, which is accom- panied with all the energy of despair. Blindly, indeed, do the leaders in Paris to-day pursue a policy which cannot result otherwise than In humiliating failure. Paris has been well de- fended; the appeals of her leaders ‘have been heroically responded to; the army within the walls have time and again attempted to pierce the lines; but of what avail have all these labors been? The defence of the city cannot save the people from starvation; the response to the appeals of the government have not given to Paris disciplined or well- equlpped soldiers, and the sorties have re- sulted in nothing but the loss of life and the spreading of demoralization among a siarving populace. Disheartened, General Trochu ten- ders his resignation; but no one can be found who will assume the responsibilities of his office. The leaders are evidently perplexed ; they know not what to do; the end ap- proaches, and they dread to consider the crisis in the light in which it should be considered. They evidently lack the moral courage to ac- knowledge defeat, and while shot and shell pour into the city and the Army of Paris is powerless to stay the destruction of life and property, these self-same leaders look calmly on, seeing precious lives sacrificed, valuable property destroyed and over two millions of people suffering the horrors of a siege unparal- leled in the history of modern times, Without the slightest glimmer upon which to base the faintest hope of success a resistance is main- tained which has no justification. Paris has proved what she can do; to attempt more is worse than madness, From the provinces, though the accounts do not assume as despondent a complexion as those which were published yesterday, there is nothing in the general aspect which en- courages a hope that the French armies can in any way change the general result. What if the Prussians were repulsed at Dijon? What if Faidherbe tells Gambetta that he saved his artillery and retired orderly? Whatif General Chanzy is at Laval reorganizing bis army for further offensive operations, and that Gam- betta was going to pay him a visit? What, may we ask, do all these things amount to? Simply nothing. The French armies in the field are beaten, and not all the special plead- ings of M. Gambetta can convince the world to the contrary. The war in France is on its last legs and staggers to its fall. In some respects it presents a parallel somewhat simi- lar to the last days of our late civil war. The defiant tone of General Chanzy in the southwest, Faidherbe in the north and Trochu in Paris, may be likened to that of Kirby Smith, Joe Johusion and General Lee. These Southern leaders fought with a heroism not surpassed by” the struggles in France, but when they fouad their cause was hopeless they surrendered and abandoned the “die in the last ditch” policy which not a few radical five-eaters advocated. They were none the less.brave because they acknowledged before- hand the defeat which wis inevitable. Trochu, Chanzy, Faidberbe and Bourbuki are good and able soldiers, men of ability and possessed of experience in the art of war, but let us hope that they, at least, will recognize the true eiluation of France at present, cast their influ- enee on the side of securing an honorable peace and disregard the mad ravings of men the Straggle in Meantime there are plenty of signs | va like Gambetta, whose egotism destroys within them the natural promptiogs of common sense, justice and humanity. ‘Tho St. Domingo Ark. When the grand old father of navigators, Noab, launched his ark upon the flood he was directed to take on board of it specimens of every creeping thing and to “pitch it within and without.” President Grant seems to have taken Noah for his model for the habitation of his St, Domingo ark, There is scarcely a species of creeping thing of which Captain Temple, of the Tennessee, has not taken on board a specimen; and we fancy that the ark has been by this time pitched within and with- out sufficiently to satisfy the most fastidious stomach, In a new country like ours, where the archwological mind yearns in vain after the relics of remote eras, it is not a little refresh- ing to find Uncle Sam suddenly swept back to the deluge and a cosey ark lying off the Battery to gather up all sorts and manner of specimens of created things and deposit them on a distant island, The political animal, being the most important of created beings in our day, Grant ordered Wade to become the chief helmsman of the ark, In old Noah's time thousands of speci- mens would have been required to constitute the diversified elements of political humanily which, owing to the progress made since the departure of Noah and the advent of Grant, are now represented by one single atom, and that atom Ben Wade in the aggregate. Wade is the Hast and the West and Washington and abolition and Lincolnism, and Senate and House, and old whig and young republican, all rolled into one; and equally the good plain people of Ashtabula, as well as the dignitaries who regard an ex-Vice Presidont with a mys- terious sense of awe, are all represented in this patriarch of the ark, Like Lincola, Wade is a man of the poople, for the people and with the people; and asa representative man he bears upon his broad shoulders all the people into the St. Domingo ark. President White, of Cornell University, is another felicitous representative man in this motley cargo, A Harvard or a Yale profes- sor might have been regarded as too fastidious ; but Mr. White was an Albany politician before Mr. Cornell made him president of his univer- sity. He gravitates by virtue of his academi- cal position just sufficiently towards the realms of culture to become the aggregate representa- tive of the non-partisan portion of the people; and yet his political antecedents at Albany offer a guarantee against any discord between him and Ben Wade and the correspondent, Dr, Howe, the next of the cargo, is not only a philosophical and spirited leader of the ultra radical and Bird-Sumner Club at Boston and a champion of all struggling nationalities, whether in Cuba or in Crete, but he is also the husband of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and to tat extent represents the female as well as the male species, Above all, he is a non- conductor for Sumner, and, like Ben Wade, is a mixed representative specimen, whose mys- tical mission is to soothe Sumner’s wrath in addition to the peculiar generic functions he holds in common with the other specimens in the ark. Next comes the German-American element, which especially since the stupendous rise of German power and the accession of Carl Schurz to the Senate, has become a formid- able republican engine of strength down in Missourl and Illinois as well as Washington and New York, All these elements are repre- sonted in the ark ‘by Ge efiéial Franz Sigel, who is, besides, to ag in the same mystica! capacity toward tile irrepressible Schurz as Dr. Howe to the irrepressible Sumner. Noah could not hold a candle to General Grant. His selections were predicated wholly on physiological and zoological considerations, while Presiderg Grant pays a tribute to modern civilizftion by adding to these ele- ments the ingredients of statecraft and a well-balanced partisan discrimination. Noah's ark was more crowded than its St. Domingo brother, because the venerable navigator was a novice in the art of concentration and judi- cious manipulation. Then Noah put all man- ner of quadrupeds, birds and zoological speci- mens in his ark, which Grant has omitted, because, however interesting in their way, they are useless in a political point of view. If zoology has no place in the ark, unless the creeping correspondent of the Tvombone be its allegorical representative, the other sciences are less allegorically represented. The agri- culturist department is in high clover, and will | no doubt sow many seeds which will hereafter germinate in luscious crops of new appropria- tions, Botany flourishes on the ark, and geo- logists and mineralogists may be seen waiting with eager eyes to see if anything will turn up. The African-American politician is rep- resented by Fred Douglass, pee and fils, By this General Grant must intend a special com- pliment to their St, Domingo brethren. While offering but one sample of each specimen of the Caucasian race, he puts two generations of the Ethiopean type. How, either, could Congress resist Ben Wade, fortified by Fred Douglass in propria persone and his black brethren of the ark’s litile island, looming in the distance ? 4 Join Bull Aroused—He is Jenlous of the Annexation of St. Domingo. By special telegram to the Heratp from Jamaica our correspondent at Kingston sends us the important information that the island is to be placed in a complete state of defence, that additional troops are being sent there, that the English squadron is to be reinforced, and that it isto be made the great military and naval station of the Caribbean Sea. All this is brought about by the possibility of the annexation of St. Domingo to the United States. It is very evident that John Bull does not like the idea of Uncle Sam obtaining a foothold in the West Indies, He imagines, and not without some show of reason, that we would be most uncomfortable neighbors in the event of hostilities, and he must be ready for us or for any emergency that may arise, by fortify- ing the island of Jamaica, increasing its garrison and by making it the headquarters of a larger squadron than he has ever before had in peace times in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, Timely precaution is a good thing, and our English cousin cannot be censured for what heis doing, Our government may ask for explanations for the meaning of this show of force, and the Brilish government may tell the {871.— TRIPLE SHEET. truth about it; but we cannot find fault or take exception to it, We would do the same thing under like circumstances, We may growl; that is very natural; but there will be cause for it, for, no matter what force may be sent there, should war occur and it becomes necessary for us to have Jamaica, why we would first ask for its surrender, and if our request was not acceded to, why, there would be but one other thing for us to do—we would proceed to take it, Central and South America—Another War in Prospect. By special telegram from Panama via Ha- vana to the HEeraxp our correspondent at the former place sends us important information respecting affairs in Central and South Amer- ica. When our mails arrived by the last steamer from Aspinwall we were informed that with the Central American republics peace and prosperity reigned supreme—that war was not considered within the rango ‘of possibilities, Now, however, the whole scene has changed, and a war in which Guate- mala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica will all be engaged, is considered the most probable event that can occur. No one who understands a Spanish American republic will wonder at such a sudden turn over of the situation, War and revolution is their chronic condition; peace and prosperity the exception to their rule; and so it goes on year after year, and there appears to be no way to better their condition and no stronger arm is stretched forth to exercise con- trol over them. Coffee and cakes must now give place to artillery and small arms, and we may look for a struggle that, although it may last for a few months only, will effectually destroy the benefits that have accrued from a few years of peace and tranquillity. Among the South American republics of the Pacific coast Bolivia is the only one at present wherein the people are at war among themselves, The revolu- tionary pariy is certain of success (it always is in these South American revolutions) and the existing legitimate government is cer- tain to be overthrown, When this is accom- plished, what next? Why, before peace is established inthe one republic we shall have a row la another. Peru or Ecuador will have their turn; the routine must not be broken ; the ball of internal strife must be kept rolliag onand no government must be allowed to continue its full term. No; it must be onsted by force as soon as it is considered that the members thereof have had their share of public plunder. Certainly these republics have remarkable recuperative powers. They fight among themselves and with each other year after year, and yet they do not appear to be impoverished. Surely they must carry on war at a small expense to enable them to pro- long hostilities, and we cannot but surmise that they pay no one; that their officers and men fight for nothing—for the love of the pleasant little recreation, We await, not with much anxiety, however, the result of these little unpleasantnesses, and when they are ended we shail wait patiently for the next, M. Jules Favre’s “Pass” from Paris. We are informed to-day, by cable telegram from London, that M. Jules Favre has obtained a Prussian ‘‘pass,” which permits him to leave Paris in order to attend the European Confer- ence, and that he is, probably, now on his way to the English capital under protection and by virtue of this most potent piece of writing. The despatch mentions the word ‘‘probably.” This we do not like, as it tends to leave the question of M. Favie's Gxact whereabouts slili fn doubi? If M. favre has obtained a Prussian ‘‘pass” he should be most careful not to lose it. The paper will certainly be looked for in after years as one of the most curi- ous relics of the war, owing to the vast amount of trouble and anxiety which the efforts for its attainment entailed on the united wisdom of the French nation, from Favre him- self to Gambetta and thence by sympathy to all the Mayors of the capital. We question, indeed, if an Irish landlord's lease, drawn up ia the ‘‘rale ould daya” of toryism, with all its “reservations” and ‘‘fines” and ‘‘turbaries” and “gold” and *‘coal mines” clauses, would prove as attractive a curiosity in the grand national American museum which will be built in the Central Park to the great grandchildren of Mr. O'Donovan Rossa ag will this famous “pasa” of Favre's to the descendants of the Panslavist Prussians and rejuvenated French- men in the France of after years, That is, always provided, as the lawyers express it, that M. Favre has a “pags.” Our despatches state that Count Bismarck refused to give such a paper as Chancellor of the German empire. The Premier could not be “caught,” by the creation of a pre- cedent, with a piece of paper of that sort; so he determined to let the thing “pass” in proper form, or, as soine one of the infant embryo Chancellors of New York would express it, to “et it slide.” M. Favre next applied to the Prussian generals commanding the army of investment of Paris, The army, as we are told, liberated him under a “‘pass ;” but the document is so carefully worded that he cannot make anything of it but a “pass.” So it remains, M. Favre having, as it is inferred, passed out from Paris, If he once gets into the ‘‘mail train, sir, for Lunnon”— “firat class” or ‘‘third,” it don’t matter—M. Favre will reach the ‘“‘chair of France” near the “green cable,” in Downing street, and the London Conference become very interesting indeed. But now, again, he won't get iato any train, mail or passenger. We were assured by cable telegram trom London last night that M. Favre communicated with Mr. Odo Russell at Versailles to inform bim that he (Favre) ‘‘declines to leave Paris.” And so he goes. Now you have hiin, and then he is not there. What will be done with the “pass?” Mus. Grant gave another of her brilliant receptions yesterday, at which she was sup- ported by Mrs. Colfax and several other ladies, and at which the President himself took part in receiving. It is gratifying to note the cordiality and harmony existing among the ladies of our leading dignitaries at ihe capital. When the entente cordiale exists between the wives of the Prosident and the Vice-President and the various Presidential aspirants in the Senate we may feel sure ences among the aapiranta themaclvem, $< $— ne oonatinnets ———— at Congress Yesterday—The Torritorial Bil for Washington—Civil Service Reform— (Bt. Domingo—Lawlessness in Georgta— Tho West Point Investigation. The bill to create a new Territorial govern- ment for the District of Columbia, which passed the House last week, came before the Senate to-day on the question of concurring in the amendments adopted by the House, It gave rise to considerable discussion, involving especially the question of giving to the Prest- dent the appointment of the Governor and Council, instead of leaviug them to the elec- tion of the people. The sentiment of the Senate was, however, not averse to the prin- ciple of giving this power to the national Executive. An effort was made to havo the bill and amendments referred to the District Com- mittee, but it failed, and the whole question was thereupon turned over to a committee of conference, which will probably mature @ measure that will give to the District of Columbia a decent, respectable government, of which it hes hitherto had but very little experience. The subject which occupied the attention of the Senate for the remainder of the session was the bill of Senator Trumbull, to effect reform in the civil service of the gov- ernment, Our two Senators had something to say in refereace to the management of affairs in the New York Custom House. No vote was reached on the bill, and there is no saying when the vote will be reached. The proceedings in the House opened and closed with references to the St. Domingo question, although nothing properly pertaining to that subject was before the body, It was got up in the first instance in the form of per- sonal explanations between Mr. Orth, of Indiana, who has engineered the joint resolution through the House, and Mr. Cox, of New York, who had on two occasions charged or insinuated that the State Department had destroyed or sup- pressed certain documents annexed to the St. Domingo treaty, avd supposed to show the debt of the Dominican republic and the vari- ous grants and franchises which it had given. This charge, however, was completely re- pelled by a communication from Secretary Fish, affirming that all the documents on the subject that were in possession of the State Department had been furnished to the Senate. The subject came up again, when the Diplo- matic and Consular Approprigtion bill was under coasideration, in the shape of an amend- ment, offered by Mr. Fernando Wood, provid- ing that no part of the Secret Service Fund should bo used in promoting the annexation of St. Domingo. On this occasion it got inex- tricably mixed up with the action of the Ina- diana Senate in applying the parliamentary gag to one of its republican members, allow- ing him to retain his seat, but -refusing him the right to vote. Mr. Wood’s amendment was rejected, and the bill was passed. The unsettled condition of affairs in Georgia was brought to the attention of the House by Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, who made a frantic effort to prevent the swearing in ofa democratic member from that State and to have the credentials referred to the Committee on Elections, But Mr, Butler found that the republican side of the House was not going to follow his lead in that direction, Mr. Dawes, particularly, making a strong appeal to the House not to depart from its uniform practice, which has been to admit without question all persons who present their credentials in due form, and against whose eligibility there is no allegation. Only forty-one republicans rallied to the support of Mr. Butler, the vote against his 3 pro} ogition bei ig one b hundred and forty- eight, oe hd 86 the afxth member from Georgia was*sworn in, _ - : In the House the bill to oe for the ‘cone solidation of the Indian tribes and to establish an Indian Territorial government was, after a brief discussion, recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs, which is to consult the Com- mittee on Territories in regard to it, and is to be at liberty to report at any time after the 24 of February. The bill to create a Territorial government for the District of Columbia was referred to a committee of conference, The only other matter of interest in the House proceedings was the authority given to a sub-committee of the Committee on Military Affairs to proceed to West Point and there con- duct the investigation into the kidnapping and. subsequent compulsory resignation of three of the West Point cadets. There is no doubt that the inquiry can be better carried on there than at Washington; but we cannot but think that the reference of a school squabble tea legislative committee, instead of leaving it to the proper authorities of the Academy and of the War Department, was a very unwise pro- ceeding on the part of the House. ms, The National Debt and the Sinking Fund. Since the beginning of Mr. Boutwell’s ad- ministration as Secretary of the Treasury the amount applied to the direct reduction of the national debt by the purchase of bonds in the open market has been over one hundred and eighty millions of dollars. The purchases were made for two distinct objects—-viz., the original sinking fund provided by the act au- thorizing the issue of the bonds and the so- called special faund—a name applied in lieu of a better to the accumulation in excess of the amount required to be purchased for the sink- tug fund. In the Funding act passed by Con- gress last summer cognizance was taken of these purchases, and one section directs the cancellation and destruciion of all the bonds so held in the Treasury Department. The bonds were so destroyed, and in the monthly debt statements of Mr. Boutwell no reference is now made to them. The Funding act, however, winds up withe paragraph ordering the collection of the inter« est which belongs to the bonds bought for @e sinking fund, in pursuance of which provion the people are taxed annually to the extnt of over three millions in gold coin ave and beyond what is requisite to mett ¢fe interest on the outstanding public debt The sinking fund is a myvh; the bonds were destroyed long ago and ‘heir figures are all that remains of them, Yet for this abstrac- tion the people continue to undergo unnecessary taxotion, =A = Washingwn correspondent, in calling attention to the fact, giver the alarming ramor that certain. that there are no} very serious beartburnings or po'itical tiffers { \ Congressional wiseacres, acting probyhly on the suggestions of Mr. Boutwell, who is prompied by his fatal hurry ta pay off the national debt, are agitating the question of