The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1871, Page 8

6 NE av -Y ORK F HERALD BroaDy AY AY D ANN SEER. JAMES ‘Gor 2DON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXYV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Tav- GOUUNG ALF TavsonUNG. FIFTH AVENUES THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— | SaRaToca. BOOTH’S THEATRE, % wween th ang 6th ave, RicMRLIFU. FYOURTEENTN STREET THEATRE (Theatre Fraacais)— Epwin Forxesr as Kine Lr. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bro: THE BLAOK Cuoos. wae .LACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana 13th street.— ONEY. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Brondway.—Hunten Down; OR, 1HE Two Lives or Mary LEren, —Tne Sreerac.E oF GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av, ana 23d st.— BAND OPERATIO CARNIVAL, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tne Pax towruy oF Ricur.ine oF rae PEniov. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Skz Saw—NECK AND Nrox, GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broad TAINNENT, &0.—LITTLE Bo PEEP. .—VARIBTY ENTER- woon's ances every aft MRS. F. B. CONWAY Tuk Key Liour, TONY PASTOR'S 0) BIPTY ENTERTAINNE: ALL, 585 Broa ‘way.— BUB.RSQuES, &o. 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Pace. 1 Advertisements. | policy of free trade. 2-Ad sements, from Washington—Affairs at the State | Capital—Impor' from Central and South America: HERA) pecial Reports from Pana- | ma — Amorioa and HF&ALD Special Re- r 10, Cuba, Jamaica, St. Domiugo and Hayti—Personal In- | Rodyism and Thievery ‘in Hoboke: ubles—Suffering and Starvatio nd Death—The Free College—The n Extles in Brooklyn—An Ice Blockade, 5—nside Paris Before Surrender: t of the German Bombardinent in tre Streets of the Capital—Outside Paris Before the Surrender : Looking Down 0 ity from the Heignts of Montmoreney: A Night Sortie—Balloons and Carrier Pigeons—Queen Augusta of Prussia | During the Progress of the War—Ireland As It | is— Fire ip Williamsourg—Behind the Coun- ter—Hunted Down—Careless Kelly. C—Kditoria's: Leading Art “General Grant and the Treasury—The FinAncial Policy De- manded by the Countyy”—Amusemeut Au- neements. pontinned from Sixth Page- The | al: HERALD Special Reports from | he Victor's Return—The French Elecuons—The Peace Quesiton—General Re- | orts from Paris—the ‘cemiaatians Congress— Miscellaneous Telegra S= Proceedings in the Conrts—Important De in United States and State sions Courts—A_ Dis- 3 in Conclave—Roped to. Death—Indig- 1rers—Another Meeting in Regard to ‘ket Question—Methodist Church Ex- mship Hornet: Scenes and Incidents of Passage from Aspinwall to Port au Prince—The Texas Paciic Railroad Job—A Cara from Herschel V. Johnsou—Champion Composing Contest—Lecture by Dr. MeUosh. Naval Intellig nce—Treasury Dectsion: of the People—Financlal and Commercial Re- Marriages, Births ana Deaths. ng Russian: A Young Count Who Be- int Heart Ne’er Won Fair Lady" — —The Weather Throughout the jlegraphic News—Shipping Intelil- Advertise nents. a1~ Holden's Impeachment: Statements of Two of the Men Who were Hanged and Bea ‘en—The Alexander Will Case—Journalistie Notes—Ad- vertusemen's AQ—Advertis One Extra.—There will be fifty-three Sun- days during the year 1871. Let pious people be prepared to devote that extra Sabbath to charitable contributions for the poor they have among them. Wao Tey Are.—The Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald says a Ku Klux was killed in Jackson county a few days ago and proved to be a notorious thief. The Ku Kluxes are not, therefore, altogether composed of the “first f2milies” of the South, as some parties allege. Fire InsvkaNce Companizs.—Mr. Alvord has introduced a very sensible bill in the Assembly, compelling fire insurance compa- nies to deposit two hundred thonsand dollars each in the Insurance Department of the State governnient, to be held for the security of policy dolders. Tue CaorpENninG Fravp is likely to bring forth more revelatlons of dishonesty and collusion in rascality on the part of our off- cials. Mr. Dawes threatens to make new and more startling announcements if the Senate fails to concur in the House resolution squelching the swindle. Nothing can be more salutary than these revelations. If we have xascals in office let us know who they are. Wuo Is Responstece for the protracted existence of that big pile of slush and rubbish which completely blocks up the carriage way atthe corner of Ann street and Park row? Does the responsibility of its removal rest with the Bleecker Street Horse Railroad Com- pany, or with the city authorities? No matter who is responsible, let the nuisance be abated at once. A noble horse came near being killed yesterday in consequence of the obstruc- tion. THe AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE KING OF Hz Spantarps.—The special telegram from Maérid, forwarded through the cable, which we publish to-day, reports that General Sickles had audience of the King of Spain at the palace in Madrid, on the 3d inst., when the United States Minister formally presented his credentials to his Majesty, and thus offici- ally renewed the friendly relations which exist between the American people and the restored crown of Ferdinand and Isabella, Minister Sickles was received with court honers, He delivered an address to the King. The sov- ereign in bis reply was as we are assured in the Hratp despatch, ‘highly complimentary to the American people.” Satisfactory facts which may tend to results beneficial to both countries. ‘idea must be abandoned NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1871-TRIPLE SHEET, General Grant and the Financial Policy Demanded by the Coun- duty on salt, is threatened with ite repeal, in | try. Under the feeble, deplorable and disastrous administration of Buchanan the melancholy though amusing exhibition was made to Con- gress of a message from tie President timidly advocating a protective tariff, in the same sury Secretary, Cobb, boldly demanding the The Southern oligarchy had taken possession of the administration, had reduced the President to a mere automa- ton, and unresistingly they carried him, with the event of his desertion of Boutwell on thie | income abomination. We bave, then, nothing | | to hope, financially, from the present Con into th the government and the country, into the | Congress in being seats ails tant yawning abyss of the most sanguinary and stupendous civil war in human history. There was something of a similar Southern con- spiracy attempted under the administration | of stout old Andrew Jackson, but, ‘‘by mony. Mark the contrast between the honor and glory which belong to the name of Jack- son and the ignominious failure and collapse of Buchanan, Of these two instructive exam- ples which is to be the guide of President Grant—the lightship provided for his safety, or the fa.se lantern of the wrecker luring him into the breakers on a lee shore? Is this an impertinent question? We think not, but that, on the other hand, itis season- able and appropriate, considering the want of accord between General Grant and his Secre- tary of the Treasury on the financial policy of the administration. For example, it is well understood that the President favors a general reduction of our taxes and the absolute repeal of the odious and superfluous income tax, while his Sec- retary, in both houses of Congress, is working like a beaver to prevent any reduc- tion of the taxes, and is especially active in urging the necessity of the continuance of the obnox'ous income tax. Ner can his argu- ments be denied if his Treasury policy is to be continued under existing laws—his policy of keeping on band a surplus of gold of a hun- dred millions or more, and p2per equivalent to ten, twenty or thirty additional millions, while reducing the principal of the national debt six, eight, ten or twelve millions a month, But just here comes in the vital ques- tion to General Grant. Is this policy to be continued? Mr, Boutwell says yes; but the American people say no! It is due to General Grant to remember, as we do remember, that the grand leading idea of his inaugural, a rapid redemption of the national debt, was at first well received by she people. They were so well pleased with his presentation of the smallness of the debt compared with the amazing resources and wealth-producing forces of the country that they did not care to look behind this charming exhibit of their ability to rattle off the debt even at the rate of two or three hundred millions a year with- | out feeling it. Tae tax gatherer, however—present every- where—and with his severe exactions upon everything, from the spoon which feeds the b.by, through all the incidents and accidents of life, to the shovel which fills the grand- father’s grave, bas spoiled this beautiful conceit of paying off our national debt during the living generation. It cannot be done with justice to the living or the dead, and the In al! the losses, crosses, trials, self-denials, sacrifices and sufferings of our great war for the Union, and in the grand and glorious revolution of uni- versal liberty and civil and political equal- ity established in the government, we who now hold the stage of action have done our share for posterity, even if we do no more. They, too—the generations next to come— must do their duty, a duty which must be given them, of meeting their share of this national debt, as but a small price for the precious inheritance which will be ours to give and theirs to enjoy. This is the new idea of the American people, and almost im- perceptibly it has spread itself all over the land. General Grant is beginning so to understand it; but his financial secretary has the film of the old Bourbons over his eyes, and he forgets nothing and learns nothing. Our recent State elections and the convulsion which has shaken and is shaking Europe to its foundations have not im the least dis- turbed him in Kis programme of maintaining our taxes in order to keep one hundred mil- lions of idle gold in the Treasury, and to knock off one hundred miilions a year from the principal of our heavy debt. We have had enough of this folly. To per- sistin it, with all the lights before him, will be the ruin of General Grant and his party, and fruitful, we fear, of heavy disasters to the country. but what would we have? Any one may tear down cur existing financial sys- tem as false and pernicious, but what would we build upinits place? We would abolish the notes of the national banks, upon which we pay interest to the extent of twenty mil- lions or more a year, and we would substitute legal tenders bearing no interest, and thus save this item of twenty odd millions. We would issue a new description of bonds, bearing the interest, say of 3.65, or a cent a day on the dollar, and furnish these bonds to the national banks, if the present banking law is to be re- tained, in lieu of the present bonds; and we would make these bonds under certain restric- tions redeemable at every sub-treasury on sight. We would reduce the idle gold in the Treasury toa reserved fund of not more than twenty or thirty millions. We would abolish the income tax absolutely, and so far prune and cut away our other taxes of the internal revenue and tariff schedules as te reduce the Treasury receipts to a margin not excoeding twenty-five millions beyond the current ex- penses and liabilities of the government, including the interest on the debt, Under these changes in our financial sys- tem, with the honesty, economy, care and retrenciment so happily introduced by Gen- eral Grant, it would be very easy to satisfy the bondholders on a reduced interest, while, in cutting down our taxations on the plan pro- posed to the extent of at least one hundred millions a year, all sections and all interests sharing in the relief would all be thankful, But what do we see, even on this proposition favored by the President, for the repeal of the income tax? The miserable trick of a con- stitutional quibble between the two houses, which reminds us of their game of thimble- rig on the bill to abolish the franking pri- vilare. We learn. too, that a member of the bundle with the annual report from bis Trea- | gested. gress, which expires oa the 4th of March, It has neither the will nor the time even to attempt the needful measures of relief sug- But the new Congress, on the 4th of March, assembles close upon the heels of the exit of this Congress, and here there will be a fine opening for the President, Let him first get a Cabinet that is a unit with the head of the administration, and that will have the confidence of the responsible party ia | in its appointment, Let General Grant then, | in a special message to the new Congress, define the urgent demands of the country and the great necessities of the people for a gene- the Eternal,” he stamped it out without cere- | Tl reduction of our taxes, internal and exter- nal, and the folly of paying twenty odd millions | kind of anarchy. An armistice bas been con- | as subsidies to these national banks, whieh it would be well to save, and the folly and injye- tice of saddling upon this generation the whole | burden of the national debt, and we have no doubt that he will be backed by both | houses, fresh from the people, in the great reforms suggested. General Grant’s administration, because in the event of its being condemned as a failure we know not what may follow. It was supposed that Andy Johnson spoke as a madman io recommending in his last anoual message the policy of considering the national debt settled | | doubifal value. The logitimists are nowhere, and paid when the interest paid from the be- ginning shall be equal to the principal, But | hour! Johnson had his advisers to this ceurse, and his followers in it have not diminished in num- ber during the last twelve months, In a word, General Grant must bring about a reduction of our taxes during the present year, or io the next year’s elections he wil! be apt to find that | it is too late in the general upheaval of a political revolution, The Latest Despatches from France. What political results will rise out of the war in France it is impossible to correctly estimate at the present time. From the special despatches to the Heratp, as well as others, France in the future. There is little to be expected from the Bordeaux wing of the government. The very power at present wielded by the fire-eaters who control it is a usurpation of the legitimate authority which really belongs to the Paris government ; yet from this very hot- bed of the very worst radicalism, misnamed republicanism, the world has wilnessed in this generation, the immediate destinies of a great nation mustcome forth. If the teachings of We desire the success of | ‘was bouad to suffer because she had no gov- ‘ernment. The eltaation to-day Is pitiful, and | that France bad found ber opportunity, and | that the establishment of a republic was no | of republicans, and by his selfish policy he | Gambetta and his followers prevail the most | direful results tothe French people must fol- low. There are hopes, however, that the result of the elections will prove that the people have not altorether lost their com- mon sense, and that the charlatans who now play for power under the guise of patriot- ism will learn that their occupation will shortly fade away. Many of the journals in Northern France continue to denounce Gam- betta’s decree circumscribing certain candi- dates from appealing to the people for their suffrages in the approaching elections, This is one good sign at least. The demonstration in Bordeaux yesterday was also of a cha- racter not calculated to impress the would-be government makers of France with a very high estimate of their popularity. Gambetta did not even make his appearance, but found ii convenient to speak through a substitute and tell the immense gathering, seven hundred all told, that he waa engaged holding a council of war, ‘‘deliberat- ing upon the means of profiting by the armistice.” It looks from this as though these mad men seriously con- template a renewal of the dreadful conflict which for over six months has beer desolating France, robbing her of the bone and sinew of the land, paralyzing her indus- tries and humiliating her before the world by continuous defeats. We learn also, by a tele- gram to the Heratp, that Jules Favre has resigned. We hope this intelligence may prove incorrect. France cannot afford, at this particular juncture, to lose the services of any of her sons who can, no matter how slightly, tend to stay the destructive tide which may sweep over her if the rule of the Bordeaux reds prevail. Henri Rochefort is again coming to the surface from the obscurity into which the startling events of the past year had cast him. Now he appears on the stage, if report speaks truly, as an advocate of assassination. Gambetta, Rochefort, Flourens, these and men of like character and similar associations, are the men who propose to regenerate France and found what they would call a republic, but what sensible and thinking people consider would prove a despotism far worse than that of the empire. If France must be a republic, let the voice of the French people so decide, but let them choose others than the men to whom we have had occasion so frequently of late to refer to guide her to a true democracy. Two Casrs or STARVATION, not unto death indeed, but to that extremity which would find relief in death, are noted in our columns this morning. They are no far away cases, but are in our own city limits and within almost immediate reach of the humane citizens of this city of charities. One Is the case of a woman and five little children at No. 144 Bleecker street. No food or fuel has been seen in the little room which ‘these miserable ones occupy for several days, and yesterday the mother, rendered desperate, attempted suicide. Another case is that of an old soldier of the war of 1812, who now sits in his little attic room in No. 133 Suffolk street poor, cold and hungry. We need only to mention these cases to insure relief for them. Before the day rolls by the goddess Charity, in the persons of some of the good women of this metropolis, will fly with the feet of Atalanta to tender them food and fire and sympathy. Sxorerary Boutwett has made another argument—this time in a letter to Mr. Hooper—in favor of retaining the income tax. He states that we need the revenue from that tax to carry on the government, and that if it be abolished we must tax something else. If such be the case let us, then, have a taxon something else—a tax that is not inquisitorial and obnoxious to all the people, as the income tax has proved to ba | Gambetta and his set have been the ruin of | To speak the simple truth, Gambetta has made we are unable to judge what is in store for | lation of the Ditieutty. ‘The situation in France to-day does really suggest confusion. Bordeaux is not Paris. Perks is not Bordeaux. Gambetta, who es- | caped from Paris in @ balloon, is not Jules Favre, Jules Favre, who by many tears has | given proof of love of country, is not Gam- betta, Our news of this morning gives proof suff- | clent that France ie on the verge of the wildest | cluded between the Germans and the oaly | government which France has recognized | since the fall of Sedan, five months ago. The French government of to-day, if less | wicked, seems to be as stupid as the French goverament of September | 2, 1870. The Government of National De- | fonee, self-constituted, prolenged a war which had no longer a purpose. The same | government, now defeated, seeks to prolong a | war beeauwse it ie no longer a government, or, rather, beeause it ts no longer a united | government, Parle admits that France is defeated. Bordeaux refuses to accept the situation, All our news ef this morning con- firme the statements we made after the 2d of September, that France was suffering and in all respects unworthy of a great people. France herself is divided, The imperialists are in bad repute. The Orleanists are of | The republicans—bebold the situation of the When this war broke out it was our opinion lenger dificult, We never did endorse the course of the so-called republicans of the time, for the reason that they never have showa any honesty of purpose. The situation of the present hour, so far as we know it, leaves us no choive but to say that France, and that they mean to rain ber more and more, Gambetta loves power more thaa country—be is more a leveller than a patriot. republicanism almost bateful in the estimation has almos! made the warm, enthusiastic lovers | of France wish for any settlement rather thay that France should further suffer, As it is, France, baving no noblesse, no | landed proprietors, no powerful class properly organized, we see nothing for it but that anarchy must be put down by the strong hand. If France cannot make terms with Germany, if the fall of Paris leaves matiers as ill-deflned as they were after the fall of Sedan, the rights of Germany and the interests of the French people, properly so called, rendor it imperative that | the great European Powers interfere and come to the rescue both of Germany and of France. Germany and | France are both tired of this war. They both wish peace. Germany offers peace on terms | not unreasonable. If France cannot accept the terms which are offered the time, we think, has come when the European Powers, in the interests of the French people, should compel the restless and unfortunate Gaul to bow to the dictation of Europe. If Gambetta suc- ceeds in dividing France we advise Count Bis- marck to convene a council of the great Pow- ers, the United States included. Such a coun- cil could not fail to prove a blessing to France. Gambetta must be taught that there is no longer in the modern world a place for a Robespierre. Tne Victor's Rervrx.—Our correspondent at Versailles sends us a special telegram, pub- lished this morning, giving the programme of the future movements of the Emperor of Ger- many. Arrangements have been made for the return of his Majesty to Berlin by the 8th of March. He is to leave Versailles on the 4th of the same month and pass through Minden and Magdeburg en route for his capital. Be- fore departing from France, however, the Emperor is to spend five days at the Tuileries, during which the German army investing Paris is to make a triumphal march through the city, passing under the Are de Triomphe and along the Avenue Imp¢ratrice and Rue Rivoli. The pageant will doubtless be a magni- ficent one, and, as a gratification of pride at the mighty triumphs of the past six months, is all well enough. But the humiliation which it entails upon France is 30 great that it would perhaps be better for the future of Germany if it were omitted. ‘ Tue Br to Rapgat tae Income Tax.— Secretary Boutwell has been at the pains of addressing himself individually to the work of endeavoring to dissuade the Ways and Means Committee from reporting the bill to repeal the income tax. He has already won a great deal of odium because of bis fidelity in obeying the law requiring him te collect thetaxes. The high taxes are the fault of Congress and not of Mr. Boutwell, but he is in a fair way to deserve all his unpopularity if he pursues his present course. The com- mittee at last accounts showed a majority in favor of repeal, so that Mr. Boutwell has had his pains for nothing. General Pleasonton, whose practical knowledge of the revenue system makes him an authority im the matter, advocates the abolition of the tax on the ground that the revenue derived from it isea bagatelle after the expenses of its collection have been deducted. Moreover President Grant is reported to be in favor of the repeal of the law, which, if true, should stop all fur- ther opposition of his Treasury Secretary, Tue Magsorrty Report of the Congressional committee to investigate the recent West Point outrages intend to report in favor of dismissing all of the first class but four and censuring the officers. This is a very severe sentence, but it is not too severe, We venture to say that if it is carried out it will have a most excellent effect on the future of our national school of national defenders. But it must be remembered that the offenders in this case are as yet mere boys, and that their offence really consisted in punishing, rather too severely, it is true, a number of cadets of the freshman class who had undoubtedly been guilty of that crime held to be the most debasing among military men—falsehood. In view of that fact, therefore, it would be well to temner iugtice with marev. Colombia. By special telegram from the HgRALD’s cor- respondent at Panama we have important intelligence from Central and South America, It was only a few days since that we foretold a revolution in the United States of Colombia, now that Mosquera bad been allowed to return from his exile in Peru, He has scarcely landed before the torch of war is applied, the flames kindled, and it is evident that the whole country is to be once more involved in internal strife. Tho Mosquera party is the head and ‘front of this movement, which will not end | until their leader is once more placed in su- preme power. It may take some time; much blood will be shed, property destroyed and money squandered; but the end is easily told. The old war horse will find an empty | treasury; hut he has the means, a plan of his own to raise money enough to suit his purposes, and this is all he desires, We learn, also, that there is a strong probability of war between Peru and Bolivia, because of the former having given uid and comfort to the le- gitimate government of the latter republic in | the struggle now going on to maintain its supremacy. The insurgents threaten to invade Peru, but the latter is defiant, feeling her abil- ity to successfully cope with the band of ma- rauders that may cross her border. The revo- lution in Bolivia is still progressing, and it is considered certain to be in the end successful. Fortunately for Central America the threat- ened war cleud has passed over, the difficulty between Salvador and Honduras having been amicably adjusted. The other republics are at peace; but there is no telling what their condition will be before the next advices are received, A@airn in Paris. Our correspondent in the French capital sends us a special report of the situation in that city since tue capitulation, which we publish this morning. Contrary to general expectation no bloody outbreaks followed the announcement that Paris and her garrison, horse, foot and dragoons, forts and bastions, siege guns and field artillery, had been handed over tothe German enemy, {iis true that a few Parisian Amazons delivered warlike harangues to small crowds, and a handtul of obscure individuals placarded the streets with incendiary proclamations, But the old spirit of Bellievilie and La Villette had collapsed. Four months on low diet had tamed the flery | Parisians, and they listened to the Amazonian speeches and read the revolationary placards with equal and utter apathy and indifference. Paris, however, was by no means lethar- gic. Public sentiment was etill animated on other subjocts. The approaching elections were the universal topic of conversation, and the canvass was proceeding ‘with feverish energy.” Trochu was more unpopular than j ever, and the feeling against, Gambetta was “increasing intensely.” To these interesting facts our correspondent adds namerous other items of equal importance, He tells of French | peasants anxious to leave Paris; of the Parisians remaining in ignorance of the real terms of surrender; of the continued scarcity of provisions; of the animosity felt by the populace toward the Germans; of the ex- change of prisoners and delivery of arms, and, in fine, he gives a complete picture of the siluation of affairs in Paris on Friday last. We may add, in conclusion, that our special despatch furnishes the first connected narra- tive published in the United States of the events which have transpired in the French capital since its capitulation, Misisrer Wasusvens—Ayornern German Compiiment.—Mr. Washburne, the United States Minister at Paris, has held a peculiarly delicate position ever since the begiuning of the Franco-Prussian war. It is not too much to add that he has sustained it with a tact that is highly creditable to American diplomacy. His prompt interveation in aid of the Germans expelled from Paris was du!y appreciated not oaly by them and their friends in Germany, but also by their numerous compatriots in the United States. On the other hand, his equally prompt recognition of the republican govern- ment which sprung up as an inevitable and unanimously endorsed successor of the over - thrown French empire, was just as acceptable to the French people. The impartial distribu- tion by Minister Washburae of American sympathy and aid alike among French and Germans has received well-merited com- mendation; and a Londoa telegraphic de- spatch, wich we published yesterday, records @ fresh German compliment won by him on account of his kindness to the German resi- dents who have been permitted to remain in the French capital. This despatch said that the Cologne Gazette acknowledges, in glowing terms, the fact that Minister Washbarne haa, during the siege of Paris, given needed succor to seventeen hundred Germans. Revie? ror me Svrreene Frexon.— The heartiest public sympathy has already been awakened and will in due time be still more effectively expressed with the disposi- tion of Congress and of the New York Cham- ber of Commerce to afford immediate and substantial relief to the suffering French. The motives for this sympathy are equally bonor- able and urgent. But it will be indispensable to make arrangements at once for such reli- able co-operation on the other side of the At- lantic as shall secure the direct application of the funds which will be liberally supplied to the purposes contemplated by the donors. No doubt these arrangements will be made, and the American public may feel assured that its generous contributions will be dis- tributed among those who need them most, not only in Paris but in the provincial cities and districts which have been peculiarly ex- posed to the horrible triais and ravages of war, A Cuaxce ror Our Nationa Guanp.— The proposed military caraival at Washington will afford a fiae opportunity for the militia of the different States to show to the élite of the capital and to the keen soldier's eye of Gen- eral Sherman, who is to review thom, how they compare together in discipline, equip- ments and soldierly bearing. Our own N. Y. S. N. G. will, of course, be there in full feather—and we know what that is. The sentimental Seventh, the steady Eighth, the picturesque Seventy-first aud the fussy Ninth will, no doubt, put in an appearance and make the country regiments siare. DE RATERATE Hd PR. = wi al A T ry—The | Ways and Means Committee, interested in the | ‘The Confusion tie Frauce—The Probable So- | Central and Sonth America—Revolution in | Congress Yesterday=—The Alr Line Rall- road Bill—Free Shipe—Pacific Railroads— Woman SuffrageAld for the Beliiges rents. The opponents of the Air Line Railroad bill in the House resorted yesterday to the same sort of obstructive policy which they had adopted on the previous Monday to consume the morning hour, which is the only time on that day when that bill can be got at. They made dilatory motions, on which they demanded the yeas and nays, and in this way occupied the whole hour. A number of bills were introduced and referred, among them one authorizing the purchase and registration of foreign built iron ships, of not less than fifteen hundred tons burden, for twelve months, by citizens of the United States, instead of taxing the people to subsidize lines ofe steamers, The bill was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, We do not see in it, however, any great promisa of a restoration of our commerce. We have so completely abandoned the idea of competition with foreign steamship companies that the mere oppor- tunity of buying yessels as cheaply as they do will hardly restore it to the position we should occupy. It is doubtful whether any mail steamship line can be sustained in competition with the English, French and German steam- ship lines without liberal subsidies, It will require both free ships and government aid for that purpose. There were two Pacific Railroad proposi- tions before the House yesterday. The first was to discharge the Committee on Public Lands from the consideration of the bill in relation to the Central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, and to restore it to its placo on the Speaker's table, where it would be in a position that it could be at least reached. The motion to suspend the rules for that purpose did not get the neces- sary two-thirds majority, the vote being 125 to 77. The next proposition was more fortu- nate. It was to take from the Speaker's table the Southern Pacific Railroad bill and refer it to the Pacific Railroad Committee, with leave to report at any time after the 15th of February. That motion was agreed to by 129 to 62. This places the bill in such a position as that, with proper management, it can be reported and passed by a simple majority. The votes on these bills were somewhat remarkable. Of all our city democratic Representatives only one, Mr. Cox, voied against the Union Pacific bill, while it received the votes of Brooks, Calkin, Fox, Morrissey and Wood. This will doubtless, astonish the constituents of these gentl men, who are supposed to view these great railroad monopolies with no special favor. They did not, however, so strongly sustain the Southera Pacific Railroad bill. Only one of them, Mr. Calkin, voted for it. Three of them—Messrs. Cox, Fox and Morrissey—voted against it, while Messrs, Brooks and Wood simply dodged the vote. We do not exactly understand these votes of the democratic Represeatatives of New York city. There was another effort in the Houso to get up an investigating committee in the mat- ter of the colored West Point cadet, but the House seemed to concur in the suggestion of Mr. Eldridge, that that nigger had made fuss enouch already, and declined to be involved in further trouble or expense about him, The Senate concurrent resolution requesting the President to station a naval vessel at this port to receive and transport supplies to be contributed for tle destitute and suffering people of France and Germany was passed by the House, with amendments requiring vessels to be stationed for the like purpose at Boston and Philadelphia. _ The strong-minded women made another fruilless attempt to capture the House in the guise of a resolution granting them the use of the hall to deliver addresses on their favorite Lobby—the enfranchisement of women, as they call it. There were only forty-one members, however, whose politeness and gallantry got the Letter of their good sense, and among these we do not fiad the names of any of our city members or of any other democrats, The two colored members, Long and Rainoy, ral- lied to the support of the ambitious ladies. Notice was given by the chairman of the Judiciary Committee that he would move next Monday to pass the bill to enforce the right of citizens to vote under the fifteenth amend- ment, and the evening session of Weduesday, the 15th inst., was set apart for other business of that committee. The day’s session wag prolonged by a call of the House, provoked by an attempt of the democrats to filibuster agalost the passage of the bill appropriating ten thousand dollars to pay the expenses of the Ka Kiux investigating committee in the Senate. The session of the Senate was principally consumed by the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Commerce. Among the measures passed by it was the House bill for the appointment of a commissioner of fish and fisheries to inquire into the causes of the diminution of food fishes in the waters of the coasts and lakes of the United States, and to report a remedy therefor. The Air Line Railroad bill came up for con. sideration, but no action was taken upon it, Faruer Keeoax, of Brooklyn, is evidently ambitious to become a second Peter the Her- mit. He wants the Catholics here to shoulder their muskets and march on to Rome to rescue the Holy Father from the meshes of the Italian unifiers, At a meeting in his church on Sunday night he said :—‘If every man here were to take a musket on his shoulder and march away to Rome the government would not bother us. We could only say we wero on the way to defend our Father.” Very well, But who will be the first layman to accept the invitation of Father Keegan for the holy crusade ? Tae Lone Istaxp Farmers yesterday vene tilated their grievances at a very large mass meetivg in Jamaica, Among the best plans preposed for remedying the existing eviis re- garding the market accommodations in this city and Brooklyn was the suggestion of Mr. Willetts, of Flushing, who favored purchasing a market site in each city. He offered to sub- scribe twenty thousand dollars for the pur- pose, and Orange Judd and several other gen- tlemen favoring the suggestion also offered to subscribe liberally. It is quite evident, outside of the personal inconveniae which