The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1871, Page 4

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PGE. 1—Advertisements, 2—Adverusements. 3-The Wolff Abortion Case—Jeffetson Market Police Court—Brooklyn Horse Cars—Protestant Episcopal Affairs—The Methoaist Muddie— Real Estate Mattera—Marriages and Deaths— a Baitoriates "Leading Article, “fhe ol ‘orlals: Leas cle, “fhe Income Tax Repeal tr Bout- l—The Stupid Poltcy of well”’—Amusement Announcements, S—The War in Franoe—Paris on the Kye of Capit- ulation—Gambetta in Belgium—The Siege of Tongwy Operations in the East—in- eral Wat alde Paris—Gen Bette SE in Rome—The Pope and the Peoples—The al Temporalities—| arck and Favre—The SpanishCrown—Personal Intelligence—Amuse- ments—Views of the Past—Business Notices. 6=—Proceedings Oongress—Interesting News from the State Capital—‘‘Reddy’s” Hevenge: Grand Rowdy Rumpus in Mu New York lews—Ri lyn- - Meeting—Appointments by the Governor of New Jersey, 7—Advertisements, S—The Dominican Question—A Suit for Damages for Enticing Away a Man’s Wife—Board of Education—Railroad Consolidation—The Mur- derer Rullot’s =o Daughter—Forgery: Extraordinary Career of a Young Canadian— Exit the Newark Police—Jersey Street Im- Child Burned to Death—Pro- ceedings in the Courts. 9—Courts (continued from Eighth Page)—Reckless Driving—A Good Idea—Board of Health— France: Views of the French Minister to This Country—China: Report of Admiral Rodgers of His Visit to Pekin—New York Workingmen’s Convention—Massachusetts Spiritualist Asso- ciation—Ohio Ratiroad Matters—Arrivals from France—The Festive Season—Wesichester An- nexation—Boston Items—The Soldiers’ Or- Loe aes BRL ae and Commercial eporis. News from Washington—Onvelling Vinnie aka Ream’s Statue of Linceln—The Burns Van- quet—Pigeon Shooting Match—Republican Ripples—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. Woman Sui GENERAL GARFIELD says the Indians ought to have the suffrage. He thinks, probably, that they would all be red republicans. Goxp yesterday stood at 110$ all day, the dial in the Gold Room not changing oncé daring the whole session of the board. So stagnant a market has not been experienced since the midsummer of 1868, when, on one day, Joly 9 of that year, gold was wholly devoid of fluctuation—the price remaining 140§ throughout the day. MivisteR TREILHARD ON FRrANoE.—The views of Viscount Treilhard, the French Min- ister, on the present condition of France, as expressed by him in a recent interview with a Heracp reporter, are given on another page this morning. It will be seen that the Vis- count, who, it will be remembered, was ap- pointed by Louis Napoleon to succeed Paradol, and whose credentials were afterwards con- firmed by the republican government, is still os hopeful of final success as the most ardent rouge in France. Mes. Mirrzr, the notorious confidence woman, was sent up by Recorder Hackett yesterday for seven years and six months. She pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny and asked the clemency of the Court only that she might be enabled to settle up some matters in the Surrogate’s Court of Kings county in favor of her son, a boy of fifteen. She seems to be a confirmed thief, and yet the mother’s love for that boy crops out on all occasions as the one redeeming trait of her reckless and unwo- manly life. Tne Twompry-Carzy Case.—Very ex- ¢iting rumors are current in Albany. It is stated that two democratic members of the Assembly bave been bribed to vote for Twom- bly against Carey, and that a third has ex- pressed an intention of voting in accordance with the evidence rather than with party re- quirements. If these should prove to be facts Mr. Twombly has an exceedingly good chance for his seat, and the democratio majority in the Assembly, which is not much of a majority at the best, has a good chance of becoming a minority. Tue Corporation CounsEt or BrooxLyy has given the street railroad companies in that city notice that if they do not keep the streets paved through which their roads run much better than they have done heretofore, and fur- nish more cata fot the conveniente ef the public, within tén days from date, he will institute proceedings Ss add en upon the street, of pi eating bas the sihack of honest indigaatfon about it, and will doubtless wake up the sleepy companies. Could such measures be even threatened against our street corpora- Mons? NEW YORK HERALD, IMPENDING OCAPIOVULATION OF PARIS, The special correspondent of the Heratp in London telegraphs that the news has been received in that clty by the London Zimes that Proposals for the capitulation of Paris have boon opened at the headquarters of King Wililam. Jules Favro has left Parle and has arrived at Vorseilles with proposals for the surrender of the capital. The conditions upon which he desires to yield aro that the Army of Paris be allowed to retire from tho city with oe, Msern, of war, be sone necessary to add that euch propositions were refused, and that the only terms upon which the German commander would consent to agrée to capitulation will be the uncon- ditional surrender of the Frénch capital. The German attack on St. Donts, the failure of the sorties of the 19th, the demoralization of the Freaoh army and tho sufferings of the people have hastened this step on the part of the leaders within the walls of the be- sieged city. For days past it was evident that the end was approaching, and the inevitable step could not be much longer delayed. It has come at last, if the newa,we have this morning proves correct, and there is not the slightest reason to doubt that It is. Already we are told that a meeting has takem place betweon Count Bismarck and Jules Favre. The terms of Favre, we are in- formed, as to the conditions upon which Paris is to yield, have been declined as inadmissable. That Paris will have to surrender on such terms as Bismarck will see fit to dictate there is not the slightest doubt. Resistance is out of the question, and the German statesman will have it all his own way. The surrender of Paris means the end of the war, so far as those in Paris can influence it. There. must be no further resistance when Paris surrenders on these conditions, and on these conditions only will Bismarck make terms. Whatever Favre may have to say, it is plain that Bismarck has it in his power to dictate. We well know the determination, persistency and tenacity with which he adheres to a policy when once he has set his mind on it, The threat he makes, that in case the terms ho has to offer are not accepted he will replace Napoleon on the throne, bring back the Empress and re-establish the Bonaparte dynasty, shows that he is prepared to act, and in sach ® manger as may possibly be not acceptable to the French pedple. But what can they do? There is nothing definite as yet regard- ing the interview, and it is thought that some days will elapge ere @ conclusion can be reached. ‘The Income Tax Repeal—The Stapid Policy of Master Boutwell. Mr. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury, was called before the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives yester- day, as it appears, for his opinion on the expe- diency of the proposed abolition of the income tax. It farther appears that he is opposed to the abolition of this tax because it yields a revenue of some thirteen or fourteen millions of dollars & year with only an additional expense to the Internal Revenue Bureau of halfa million of dollars. In other words, so much of the sum collected from this tax is clear gain to the Treasury that the Secretary cannot see the propriety, expediency or economy of the proposed repeal. He Is so delighted with the idea of hurrying up the redemption of the national debt at the rate of a hundred and fifty millions a year, if pos- sible, and, at all events, at the rate of a hun- dred millions a,year, that he cannot under- stand why our taxes, internal or external, should be reduced while we have a national debt to redeem, and while the wealth, enter- prise and resources of the country, compared with the debt, reduce it to a mere bagatelle. This is General Grant’s idea, and it covers his financial policy, as indicated in his inau- gural and in his late annual Message to Con- gress. It must be admitted, too, as we have a hundred times admitted, that ia retrenching expenses and in raising a larger revenue than was raised by President Johnson, and upon areduced schedule of internal taxations, and in cutting down the principal of the debt at the rate of five, six, seven or eight to ten mil- lions @ month, Mr. Boutwell, as the active agent in carrying oat the Treasury programme of Genéral Grant, has been doing wonderfully well. All the time, too, especially since that grand smash-up of the bull ring on that memo- rable “‘black Friday” in Wall street, the pre- mium on gold has been going down, down, down, until for a month or two we have had the gold gamblers reduced to the miserable margin of the fractions between 110 and 111, while at the same timé our government securi- ties have been going steadily up, up, in Lon- don, uatil for us they are nearly at par with gold. Now, looking at the world-wide finan- cial and business derangements resulting from this terrible Franco-German war, prostrating for the last six months the wealth-creating forces of the two most powerful and industrious nationalities of the European Continent, is not this a good, yea, a first rate, financial exhibit for Mr. Boutwell and for General Grant? It is—yo | that it is; but it does not meet the main ae a a si What, then, is the main question? The main question, which for the last six months has been uppermost in the public mind through- out the United States, is this question of the lessening of the heavy burdei “of taxation which the country has still to bear. General Grant's idea of the payment of the public debt at the rate of a hundred millions and move per annum is 4 patriotic idea, and, as a soldier's plan of carrying the enemy's works a la Fort Donélson, it is a beautiful idea; but, under the existing conditions of things, it is a great mis- take, Here we are, after our long and hard struggle from the flush times and flash prices, thé grand speciitati jobs, inflations and rapid fortunes, and the droadful breaks ard collapses and crashes of our late civil war, just getting upon our fect again, when our industrial and busin esa classes of all pursuits find that apon thelr reduced profits the bur- dens of their taxations become proportionately heavier as gold goes down and our paper money goes up. Our merchants, for Instance, since 1865, and especially for the last two or three years, have been buying their goods with gold at a certain figure, and have been solling them with gold reduced five or ten per gent below the ames at which they bought, hus bringing upoh them heavy losses, until now, when the downward tendency of gold haa reached a point so low that they have but Ilttle to fear on this score in their present or coming purchases. So it has been and so it is, more QF less, from the Minnegota wheat raiser to tho New York 'longshoreman. Tho whole people of the United States, in short, since 1865 have boen struggling to recover from tho wastages, oxiravagand i ack Inflations and speoulaiions a 6 of the wai until now, when they begin to see their way clearly, excepting the difficulties of our heavy taxations, How these difficulties have been and are operating upon the public mind the State elections of last October and November haye Indicated. The slipshod, haphazard and undefined movement of those so-called “revenue reformers” nobody conld compre~ hend beyond the object of a reduction of our taxes in some mysterious way; and yet those THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1871L—WITH SUPPLEMENT, The Papal Temporalitics and the Great Powere—Italy, Austria and the German Empire. ; As Italy advances toward tho completion of her centre of temporal unity in Rome, in face of the immovable, and apparently un- shaken, stand which has been taken by the Pope in opposition to the completion of her work, the neighboring great Powers have com- titonded to ask themselves seriously, how will the moyement torainetat Will it eventuate in the obliteration of the theory of the regular ‘Wwansmission of royalty by divine right by first disturbing, and then muddying, the waters of tho fount from which it springs? Will it so Weaken the argh on whioh the brilliant super- structure of the thrones is raised, by the loosing of its keystone, that the éntire edifice thay totter and tumble down at the very mo- ment when Italy has “crowned” it at the centre? Such questions eyidently engage the Cabinet attention of two of the groat Powers of Europe just now—two of its greatest lay forces, Austria and the North German éni- pire. This important fact is made known by the contents of a special telegraph letter from Rome, forwarded through the Atlantic cable, which we publish in the Heratp to-day. The Austrian and North German Ambassadors to the Court of Italy have just sought a special audience of Cardinal Auto- nelli, They inquired what guarantees the Pope demands from Italy in the matter of the future relations between the kingdom and the Church, This was a vast concession to the cause of the temporal Papacy, coming as it did from the representatives of the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns, His Eminence the Cardinal Secretary of State sought audience of the Pope and submitted the imperial query for hisconsideration. His Holiness replied with the non-possumus. He demands restitution of territory as a first step toward satisfaction. The Pope, indeed, almost re-echoes the words of the reply which was made by republican Rome to Casar when he was advancing to the royal purple :—‘‘Bid him disband his legions ; restore the Commonwealth to liberty ; submit his actions to the public censure.” And so “revenue reformers” materially assisted in turning Missouri upside down and played tho deuce with the calculations of the adminisira- tion even in Pennsylvania. Since the reas- sembling of Congress this idea of a reduction of our taxes has been taking a deeper and a broader hold upon the masses of the people. They are beginning to perceive the injustice of saddling upon the present generation—which has had to bear the brunt of a gigantic civil war—tho debt incurred to save the Union and to get rid of that old incubus of slavery; and they think that our posterity, with the great blessings which, from this war, we shall trans- mit to them, ought to pay a share of our heavy bill of costs. We think so, too. And this 1s exactly the point of General Grant’s great mistake touching the national debt—the mistake which his fiscal secretary is pursuing te the extremity of resisting the repeal of the odious income tax. We can tell Mr. Boutwell and General Grant and Congress and the republican party that, upon this issue of lightening our heavy load of taxations, including the removal of this odious inquisitorial income tax—yes, upon this issue—hangs their destiny. It is the main political issue with the great body of the people, and all other qnestions, St. Domingo with the rest, are but side issues. Justice to our living generation of active men and women who have done 60 much for posterity demands a great relief from these present dead weights of taxation, The reduction, in this view, would not be too much for justice or sound economy if carried, in our internal and external taxes, to the figure of one hundred millions of dollars, including the absolute abolition of this most offensive of all our taxes, the income tax, with the offensive official Paul Prys who collect it. The Ameri- can people have never liked the prying national census takers who come into their houses only once in ten years, The census of 1840 had much to do with that crushing defeat of Martin Van Buren; and this of 1870, superadded to these income tax gather- ers, has not been an advantage to Grant’s administration, valuable to the govern- ment and to all the people as these census statistics are. The income tax is particularly obnoxious, in poking its nose into and making public those very affairs of the citizen which, in most cases, he does not care to make public. It is an innovation upon the American's idea of his reserved private rights which he cannot get accustomed to, but will abolish at the first opportunity at the ballot box. We can also tell General Grant and our Washington lawmakers that the industrial, trading and financial interests of the country expect from the present Congress a large re- duction of our taxes, internal and external— that this reduction is the general impression, and that many business men are discounting upon itin their calculations for the coming spring trade. We expect that within a few days or a few weeks peace will be restored in Europe, and that with the restoration of peace will come large demands for our breadstuffs and provisions from France and Germany, and large demands for our raw cotton from Eng- land and all the European Continent, We ex- pect from all this such an impulse to trade as will bring to the Treasury a greatly increased revenue from a greatly reduced tariff and from a great reduction of our internal asseas- ments. Inany event, we are convinced, from the manifestations of public opinion all around us, that the present administration and the party ifi« power, if they fail to lighten to a realizing extent our present load of taxations, will be ruled out of power, and ruled out in a sweeping political revolution, the consequences of which may involve the extinction of the national debt and all its appendages as the legacies of a radical usurpation condemned by the sovereign people. This is the tendency of Mr. Boutwell’s stupid policy of keeping up our present budget of taxes in order to hurry up the redemption of the national debt. BisMaRoK aS A JoKist.—The German demo- crats in Berlin don’t approve of Count Bis- marck’s official pleasantries used in treating M. Jules Favre's application for a ‘“‘pass” to leavé Paris in order ¢ attend the London Conference, nor the unceremonious manner in which the French statesman was handed over to the Prussian generals commanding around tho beleaguted capital. This will be seen by Out Special, telegram from Berlin through the cable. A Prussian democratic newspaper organ says that the utterance of the Premier may cost @ dozen of German soldiers their lives, and that this is too heavy a charge for the Composition of a classical despatch, The Berlin democrats aré, no doubt, moved to a considerable extent by the spirit of party ‘Opposition ; but, notwithstanding all this, they appear to recollect that ‘Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away,” and that “‘never since his day has Spatz had heroes.” As it was so it may be, Pr a peers ee ee Gewerat Bratr took his seat in tic Senate yesterday, and was immediately appointed ou the Committee of Labor and Education, where Rovels is a shining light. Could his successful opponent for the Vice Presidency, Mr. Colfax, have meant » joke on Blair by this appoint- ment? ; —~ the Ambassadors of Austria and Germany have hada fruitless application to the Pontiff and Victor Emmanuel still wants the unction of the holy chrysm of an apostolic coronation as itis given in Vienna and im Pesth and may be at Versailles, after the fashion which is observed in Westminster Abbey on such sol- emn occasions. Ropublican Files Caught in Democratic “ Wobs. Some of our readers have probably heard of the rather doubtful story of a Fulton market boy who taught a Saddle rock oyster to follow him up and down stairs and to bait bis hook when he went fishing. A Munchausenism like this might be swallowed, particularly the oyster part, but to say seriously that some prominent and supposed to be intelligent and well-informed republicans in this city have swallowed the bait of the new Tax levy, sugar- coated as it is by Senator Tweed at Albany, is stating a matter of fact that none but the most credulous would regard as other than a, sham and ay imposture, It unfortunately happens that there are republicans in this city who are ready to accept tge invitation of the democratic managers to ‘‘walk into their parlor,” as the spider remarked to the fly—that “pretty little parlor” being the Tax levy—but once in, the work silly republican insect, divested of wings and of anatomizing begins, and the reduced to gossamer dimensions—if he be not entirely devoured—is at the mercy of the élégantes and jubilantes of the democracy. We have endeavored te caution the taxpay- ers of New York against the proposed new Tax levy—that specious scheme to deprive the people of ‘their right to levy their own taxes and to entrust the entire control -of the Corporation financial business to the hands of a few gentlemen, who, as we have before remarked, however person- ally worthy, may not be proof against the pro- digious temptations that will environ them under this bill. ‘‘Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” should be engraved in letters of living light upon the portal of every department ja the city government, Enough temptation enters naturally into these departments without taking extraordinary measures to introduce it in an unexpected and a too alluring shape. The republican leaders should think of this and revive the memories of those days when they expressed the belief that ‘no good could come out of Nazareth” under democratic influences, and warred tooth and nail against alleged demo- cratic corruptions both in this city and in Albany. We have no doubt Bismarck Sweeny is sincere in his efforts to institute reforms in our municipal government—in his design to reduce the now enormous expenditures, especially in regard to that surging gulf of extravagance, the epening and widening of streets; and we are inclined to think that even Boss Tweed himself is disposed to be honest, like the rest of the proposed commission. ‘But we protest against the contemplated scheme to clothe them with such extraordinary power, to usurp the prerogatives of the many and to place them in the hands of a favored few. The project is not only unwarrantable, but we believe it to be unconstitutional; and it is strange that republicans, instead of endorsing the usurpation, should not denounce and make political capital out ef it. Tt may be asked, What has caused this republican acqulescence in the lead of one of the Tammany Regetioy, whose riches they have repeatedly averred were ob- tained by sharp Corporation contracts and’|\/ through real estate speculations, under the eye and sanction of municipal authority, which the taxpayers bad eventually to pay for? Where is the boasted honesty of the Citizens’ Reform Association? Have the sands of their reform lives ran out? Whete are the in- dignant fulminations against Tammany corgap- tion and foulness uttered by the dainty “‘block- heads” of the Union League Olub? Have they all passed into oblivion under the wave of the magio wand of the weird magician, Tweed ? The republican organs—the Albany Zvening Journal an? the Troy Whig—have done well i sound the alarm and to utter notes of warn- ing in this matter. ‘No party can stand against so flagrant an atiempt to rob the peeple of their right, through their proper Féprésenta- tives, to levy their own taxes, It {a the olear- a est case of “taxation without representation” that has occurred since the Amorloan Revolu- tion, It is a usurpation of power that would hardly be tolerated under any monarchy in Europe; for but one, we believe, out of the number named to set on this proposed tak commission is in any mannor responsible to the people for the places they hold under the new city Charter, That one is the Mayor, and tt la fortunate for fhe peo- ple that he ts an honest man. The Oomp- troller, the President of the Board of Publio Parks and the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works, who, with the Mayor, are t compose the proposed Tax Commission, were appointed by the Mayor, although there was @ show of an election in the oase of fie Comptroller in order to double-clinob his old upon the office, Have the people through thelr représentae tives in the Common Couticll no rights which the Tammany Regency—olever as they may he personally—are bound to respect? Let all republicéhs and honest democrats in the Legislature look before a leap into this trap. If they believe there ts not a “‘oat under the meal,” or a “nigger in the wood- pile,” they had better propare to swallow the Saddle rock Munchausenism, ‘‘hook and line, bob and sinker.” Pope Pius the Ninth and the Peoples. Our special telegram from Rome, forwarded to London and thence by the Atlantio cable, comes in attestation of the universality of that catholic spirit which sympathizes with and supports the Supreme Head of the Roman Church in his present position before the civi- lizations of the outside world. The Heratp writer speaks from the interior of the Vatican. He reports the advent of a deputation from Belgium, the members of which were charged to present an address, on behalf of the Catho- lics of that kingdom, avowing their religious fealty to the Holy See, and forwarding ma- terlal aid to the Pontiff in the shape of a goodly contribution to the Peter's pence treasury fund. _ The Belgian people have not permitted the everyday de- mands of their home industries, nor the nice adaptation of their national system of labor economies, nor the incoming wealth of their extensive and profitable trade to damp their religious fervor or absorb all their atten- tion. They guide their moralities according to the dictates of religion, leaving conscien¢e free and the shrine open to all. These facts are made patent by thelr present action toward the Pope, and for which they have been rewarded by a return of the really pater- nal and affectionate words of Pontifical reply which are given in our special telegram. In this brief address the Pope was not only the “old man eloquent,” but the faithfal priest ; pious, unassuming and confiding, patient as ‘was Job, and brave like Daniel. The scene in thé Vatican, which must have been quite affecting, will be repeated when delegations of addcess and offerings which are on their way from England and Holland arrive in the Eternal City. Our City MarketerA Geod Movemont en Long Island. — The terribly deficient accommodation of our metropolitan markets has long been a source of complaint on the part of citizens and traders alike; bat the outory that has been raised on the subject from time to time for years past has seemed of little avail—a mero voice with- out an echo in regions where the response should be immediate and decisive, At length, however, the farmers of Long Island, the great market garden of our metropolis, have taken up the theme with determined vigor. To-day they convene in force at Jamaica, Queens county, to discuss the whole question and to adopt such measures as may tend to secure relief, not merely for the agricultural producer, so long taxed and burdened by delay, but for the city consumer, whose garden stuff and other commodities are greatly deteriorated in quality and enhanced in price by the wretched lack of space and facility which renders our markets a disgrace to civilization. Moreover, the oppressive system of needless extortion resulting from the present practices of middlemen—a nuisance against which the New York public has been protesting for twenty years—will come under review and exposure, Great credit is due to the originators of this energetic movement; and it is to be hoped that the convention will ‘lay on and spare not” in their efforts to ventilate the corrap- tions now existing, and to obtain for our swiftly increasing population some rescue from double prices, endless prevarication and delay, and the constant presence of impending epidemics in the shape of stale fruit and wilted vegetables, A Hatt oF Retios.—We learn that the Board of Public Parks have had laid before them a proposition to establish a Hall of Relies in tho Central Park. The design is to collect and preserve specimens of all such his- tories, records, maps, manuscripts, papers, pictures, arms, accoutrements, costumes, utensils, furniture and other relics marking the rise and progress of the city of New York as shall serve to illustrate its history and per- petuate the memories of its earliest days. This is a very good, indeed, a grand, idea, We have a Historical Society, itis true; but we seein the measure proposed something that the present generation has long needed— namely, & museum, affording a familiar house- hold and general history of the early days of the metropolis of the nation. The Board of Public Parks will be doing a public good by giving the matter an early and earnest con- aideration, Sgxators FENTON AND CoyKLING have long been “‘spoiling fora fight,” and now they are fighting for the ‘‘spoils.” Reppy THE Buacksmira has crowned his edifice of crime with murder at last. The ruffian Haggerty, whom he shot ina rowdy brawl yesterday, died last night, Reddy has swung round the edges of murder all his life ; ‘but, we believe, no human soul has ever before been sent to its last account by him, The brawl appears to have had an old fend at the bottom of it, and there seems to be no doubt that Haggerty was the aggressor. Reddy has sur- rendered himself to the authorities, and, con- sidering that he is an old fox who knows the law, he nits: have felt certain of a very good case of self-defende ot he would not have so readily bared his neck to the palters Congress Yesterday—The Income Tax~Re- Guction of Import Dutiee—A New Way to ‘Tame the Savage Indian—The Noxt Session of Congrogs, The abolition of the income tax still moots determined opposition at the hands of the chairman of the Finance Committee in the rae and of the Secretary of the Treasury. Sonatok Shérmsd made a a argument sgnlit lia abolition yesterday Eke Eee aud Secretary Boutwell did the same before the House Committee of Ways and Means, The Sooretary estimated the revenue to be derived from the income tax under fhe present” law, which exétapis two thousand dollars of income from taxation and fixes the rate at twa anda half per cent, as betwden thirtesn and millions of dollars, and calculates the 61 Collection at leds than half a million. This optaion of the Secretary differa very much from that of General Pleasonton, Conimissioner of Internal Revenue, who estimates the pro- uot of the tax at only eight millions and the cost of collecting it at dn equal or greater amount, The simplogt way of reconcilisy these differenoes of financial doctors ix td abolish the tax altogether and have no moré worry or bother about it, The House bill granting pensions to the sur- vivors of the war of 1812 and the widows and children of deceased soldiers was taken up in the Senate yesterday, discussed for a while and then laid aside for another subject. In fact, the Senate did nothing in ita session of yesterday except to discuss, without any result, the subject of that pension bill, the bill for the abolition of the income tax, the political management of the New York Custom Honse, and to admit to his deat as a Senator from the State of Missouri the indomitable Frank P. Blair, late democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States, The Indian Appropriation bill ocoupled the attention of the House for the greater part of yesterday's session. The usual stereotyped debate as to whether it were better policy to fight the Indians or to feed them was carried on with as much apparent earnestness as if it had never been gone over before. Mr. Gar- field, however, struck out a somewhat new vein of argument in the brilliant discovery that the one thing needful to save and to ele vate and to civilize the Indian race was to endow it with the,ballot, That gift had dong wonders with the African and must have an equally marvellous effect upon the Indlani We should like to have the opinion of “Spotted Tail” upon the relative value of a red blanket and a printed slip covered with the names of politicians, red, white or black. The Indian is bad enough now, without adding to his other graces those which emanate from Tammany Hall or the Union League, The bill which the House passed some ten days ago, declaratory of the meaning of the act of Jaly 14, 1870, and which was amended in the Senate, has become a law, so far as the action of Congress is concerned, the House having yesterday concurred in the amend ments of the Senate. The bill now allows goods imported on the 31st of December last to come in under the reduced rates of duties which went Into effect on the Ist of January, and it reduces the duty on imported liquors to two dollars per gallon. It only now awaits the President's approval and signature. It appears, from a colloquy which took place in the House yesterday between Mr. Brooks, of New York, and Mr. Dawes, of Massachu- setts, that the next Congress will undoubtedly meet on the 4th of March next, and continue the session. Mr. Dawes pathetically deplerea what he believes to be inevitable, and prophesies that Congress will continue in session tillthe middle of April or the begia- ning of May, The people will be gratified with the assurance, however, that whatever he— the leader of the House—can possibly do to limit the session to day or to a week will bé done. We breathe freer in the faith of that solemn promise, Beauty, Royalty and Hope aad Joy in Rome. We are enabled to report by special telegram through the cable, that Prince Humbert, of Ltaly, hereditary Prince of Piedmont and heir to the throne of King Victor Emanuel, accompanied by his wife, the Princess Marguerite of Savoy, has just made a trip from Florence to Rome. Tho royal pair journeyed by railroad, entered the Holy City, and took up their quarters in the Quirinal. They were received with enthu- siasm and treated with the most profound respect by the populace. Four legions of the regular army of Italy were on duty as a guard of honor, The weather was unfavorable to out-door display, but the crowd which col- lected around the doors of the palace took little heed of its severity. Prince Humbert and his wife appeared on the balcony and bowed their acknowledgments of the loyal greetings which were given to them. The smiles of the beautiful Princess Marguerite served to dispel the clouds which lowered overkead and to render the populace more happy. Her Highness was attired richly but with simple taste, display- ing the white cross and colors of the House of Savoy embroidered on her scarf. The Romans remained orderly to a degree. They had evidently received a new sensation— a fresh impulse, it may be, towards a royal restoration. The city was illuminated very generally in the evening. Humbert and Marguerite have accomplished what La Marmora left undone—effaced tho traces of a war struggle by smiles. It will be seen if the Vatican can remain proof againat the enlightenment of princely beauty, and if his Holiness invokes the heavenly aid of St. Antony and St, Kevin successfully. Italy uses the modern artillery of “lady's eyes, boys,” with vast effect; but then, again, wa know that even an Irish poet has exclaimed, “Ah, ye saints have cruel hearts,” and it may be so with the Pope and the famous Cardinal Antonelli, Tae Supreme Court of the United States decided one or two points of the famous Texas Indemnity Bonds case on Tuesday. The decision that seemed to have been most satisfactory to the distinguished members of the bar present was to tho effect that a lawyer has the right to keep his fees oat of any amount of money he may recover in suit, and if his client is not satisfied with the amount he keeps he can bring suit to recover it. This is like throwing anat after bad, or going into the river to aet out of the rain,