The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD NEW BLOADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, d telegraphic i Naw All business or news letic despatches uvusi be Hierax. Letters and packages should be properly addres York Bowery. —ANN FIFTH AVENUE THAATRE, Twonty-fourth atreet.— Saratoga, Ronee. YOURTEENTR STREET EDWIN Fornas? as KING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas SPECTACLE oF ‘Tar BLack Cxoox. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d at., between th and 6th avs. EATRE (‘Theatre Francats)— PAM WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ano 13th street.— Ours. LINA EDWIN’s THEATRE, 720 Broadway Dows; Ou, LE TWO Lives OF MAuY LE ,GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. ana 23d st— GRAND OPRKATIO CARNIVAL, OLYMPIC THEATR RIOAELIPU oF TLE PRI THE PANTOMIME OF inee at 2 BOWERY THRATRE, Neos. ry. SER SAW--NEOK AND GLOBE THEATRE, TAINMENT, &O.~-LITT VARIETY ENTER » Matinee at 234, woud" woes every UM Broadway, corner Y0th st.—Performs Mravon snd eveniny. MRS. P. D. 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G—Eidliorinis: Loading Article, rican Re- lief for the French and G Safterers— How to Provide it'—Amucement Announce- iments, F—Editoriai (Conti Pa from Parts of the Past— S—Proceedings in the Cour’ Ment—Tue Last Uniorva Supers isors—T raw Homicide— Lianilites of M. gents of the Governiuent Domingo: T tor Sumner's Resoluiou Blac Island ~ | corred in the Senate bill authorizi | polis! cat Satie Phare Res | With Mrs. Weodhull on such an oceasion. ate Legislature—Masonic—Keuef tor the | ie Tunnel | Fires—Is He a Murderer '—Shock.ag | geon-Popping—The Public Puise: | NEW YORK H#KALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 187L-THIPLE SHEET. American Relief for the Fronch aud Gere \ } man Sufforers=How to Provide It. By a grand universal law of compensation | the ravages of war impol all dislaterested spectators to afford immediate and substantial relief to its surviving victims, The President | and the Congress of the United States, in } arranging preliminary measures for the relief | of the sufferors by the Franco-Prussian: war, | are faithful exponents of the unanimous will | of the American pecpie that this law shall | be promptly and effectively recognized. On ; Monday the House of Representatives con- ¢ the Secre- | tary of the Navy to senda vessel of war to the \ port of New York for the purpose of carrying | provisions to the starving French and Ger- j mans. General Banks offered an amendment directing the Secretzry of the Navy to place | a vessel of war at ihe port of Boston and j {another at the port of Philadelphia for the ' same purpose, ‘Ten thousand dollars have already been subscribed in the city of New York, and contributions in kind are already beginaing to pour in {o each of these three great cities. ‘Lheiz benevolent citizons will -Huxtep | doubtless exhibit a gencrous rivalry as to which shall be foremest in a nobler sirife than any between contending foes. A signal in- stance of what can be wronght by such rivalry was shown by the American relief gladly extended to Ireland after the dreadful famine of 1847, But a rare opportunity is now offered fur the American” people to make a national act of charity unprecedented in historical annals. Congress, by a int resolution, might authorize President Grani to issue a proclama- | tion appealing to the people at large in behalf of the suffering French and Germans. To secure a popular response to this appeal it would be easy to use the macbinery employed at our elections, The inspectors of the polls | might be instructed to supply, at booths erected in every district, all purchasers with tickets, to which coupons, representing from one dollar to twenty or a hundred dollars each, could be attached. If only four fifths of the usual number of voters should buy individually a one dollar coupon the sum thus raised would amount to at least four million dollars. Many voters would willingly buy coupons of a higher figure, Moreover, the subseribers to this | published to-day, and on other occasions, from maine | Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons and other points | throughout the country, serve to show the | wretched character of the majority of the men noble charity would by no means limited to the list of voters. Native citizens, naturalized- and unnaturalized foreigners, particularly those join the throng of purchasers, What a splen- did chance would the women of America thus | enjoy to make their first appearance at the \ Bingham himself could not object to | He | State of anarchy, not hopeless we trust, as we yoman suffrage in so graceful a guise. ‘ght even march up to the polls arm in arm The less strong-minded of the sex mighi casi their votes for the relief of the widows and orphans of French and German soldiers, in ballot boxes placed in churches or in the parlors of acknowledged leaders of sociviy. college and school, at ihe meeting place of every benevolent association, in all the clubs, in all the theatres and in all the churches throughout the land special contributions might be made, which, together with private | directly profited by importations from France and Germany, ard from wealthy travellers j ' who recall with delight their visits to those | countries, would largely swell the vast aggre- gate sum to be realized by onr quasi election | elvilization, of Germaa { ; and French birth, would be alike invited io | ond each Piety womanee: § og ‘ | Bordeaux, Lyons and Marseilles have thrown | up their refuse to be used by the vnprineipled In every + rsonal gifts from the merchants who have | proof of the unexampled prdsperity of a land | in which republican institutions are eslab- lished. It would be a revelation of the might of a free, self-governing people. It would be an eloquent protest against the iniquity and destructiveness of such dynastic duels as the one ia which the Franco-Prussian war began. It would be a sincere expression of oursympa- thy with the people of both France and Ger- many, and of our gratitude to each nation for the inestimable advantages which we have ourselves derived frem their science, art and In fine, it would be the best pro- elamation in favor of practical republicanism which the United States could make to Europe and the world, The Chaos in France. No one can reflect on the condition of affairs in France at the present time without feelings of regret and pain. To see that once proud and powerful nation the prey of the noisy, turbulent and unprincipled crew who now at- tempt to guide her is a melancholy spectacle. | In the presence of the enemy, during the slege of the capital, while the armies of France were in the field or in the early days of the republic, we had few of those evidences of the conflicting elements of which the republican party in France was composed, That they existed we were well aware; but the severe lessons which the nation had experienced by the German inva- sion, it was considered, had taught the French a lesson which would not be altogether lost upon them. The devastation of the fields, the destruction of cities and towns, the capture of | the capital and the cries of a famine-stricken people have had little or no effect on the wretched desperadoes who now influence or attempt to influence public opiniongbroughout the nation. While the war was accomplishing its work of destruction these fellows kept quiet. Husbanding their strength they watched their opportunity, and now, at a | time when the nation stands weak and power- j less, unable alike to defend itself from the assauits of a foreign foe or a domestic enemy, these vampires, in the name of liberty, are by their very acis strangling republicanism in France in its in- fancy. The special despatches to the HERALD who are candidates for the National Assembly, Tt seems as though the very slums ef Paris, demagogues who wield temporary power in France, Rapidly the nation is lapsing into a | have every confidence in the ability of the | ' French people to free themselves from the | | power of the rash and reckless men { who are profiting by the prostration of the | couatry. While famisiing people cry | [for bread in the streets of Paris the | i mob yell for a Robespierre and the guillotine, | The people ask for food, sigh for perce and | pray for protection, and their leaders have | | nothing betier to give them than starvation, | war and violence. In the agony of their | despair the terror-stricken people suffer in ! | silence, afraid to speak their thoughts or raise | ; their hands to save themselves from the tide | | of violence which threatens them with destruc- ; tion. For the moment the mob rule and des- | potism is the law. Are these the materials { with which France expects to establish “al but pean ai the polls, {permanent republic? or are they Biadents : The Recent Blowing vp | . THis scheme would prove at once novel, miserable exhibitions on the part of the f the Harvard College Buildings—New ; simple and effective. Within a fortnight it pomeaedh sate who now play Saoie age Fire inf vs mercial | would yield a far greater amount of contribu- | their pranks while a nation suffers, ing in. the © Provinces. mDela | tions in kind and in money than could be pos- | °° they fall into that obscurity from which ware—Marrtages and L e 1WO—Affairs at tie Siate Capi ‘vat Rushing Rus- sian—News from AU — Amusemenis— Shipping News—Advertisements, V14—Aaver: I2— Advertisement Tre ‘Jars” 1 Wasnp attended Mrs, Admiral Porter’s German yesterday. They are determined, while siudying our financial and political systems, to pick up a few social items here and there, and they can find no better place to do it than in the glamour and crush of the Washingtou season. Coan ox Te Mississiprr.—The Memphis (Teun.) papers are congratulating themselves upon the low price of coal in that city. What acontrast! The coal market in New York is now on the rise, and no good reason for it. We hope the Memphisans will contigue to enjoy immunity from the eucroachments of coal monopol: Opposition of ihe people Tar Der of Jersey Cit; charter for that should insure its rejection by both houses of the New Jersey Legislature. Men of ail parties declare that corrupt men ure trying to ride into power by this charter, and the experience of New York city in ‘imes past should be taken as a warning by our neighbors across the Hudson. ¢MIN subarb AN ALprr 10 Muppix in Brooklyn has been settled by ed ing to his contested seat in the Board am Richardson, of the Twenty-second ward, the man who “runs” the Atlantic and Fifth avenue Railroad, keeps fires in the cars and ki warm as « pic, Rich; tested by the democra 13 Beat Was con- ndidate, Mr, Tal- madge. Bais. weeks’ wrangling to settle at once profitably thrown into circulation | the little di ie z i here, while abundant provisions are sent A Kispiy Weicomr.—The Mobile Register | abroad. Ships can be freighted with wheat, reporis that another carpe!-bagger has been | elected representative for Yazoo coanty, Miss., in place of the one that banged himself | the other day, and the people of Yazoo “‘are | perfectly willing that he should take the place H of the deceased—that is, iu the haiter.” Will the prejudices of the Southerners against oarpet-baggera never wear out? What would the South ever have been withoat cotton bags? THe Presivent yesterday seni a message to Congress recommending that our mission to Berlin be raised to a first class, on an equal footing with that of London and Paris, As united Germany, without doubt, occupies a foremost position at preseut among the nations of the globe, there can be no possible Objsction to the proposition, and it is, besides, & very graceful recognition of the recent unton of the German States—an event which bears almost the same relation to Germany as the restoration of our shattered Union five years ago bore to the United States, to the proposed legislative | # his passengers as } sibly ohfained in any other way. By the pro- cesses ordinarily adopted the idols of mutual admiration societies in our different towns and villages would strut their brief hour on the public stage, and the only result would be col- uns of wordy and self-glorifyiag resolutions twenty or thirty thousand dollars. Such a pitifol sum would be but a drop in the bucket in view of the exigencies of the case. | No rhetoric can adequately set forth the urgency of the case, The single item of the loss occasioned by the destruction of cart wheels alone in one short campaign has been | cited by a thoughtful writer as a striking i!lus- tration of the costliness and destruciiveness of war. The a; gate of the losses, direct and prospective, incurred by the people of Ger- many, as well as by the people of France, since the Franco-Prussian war is simply incal- culable. Apart from ihe irremediable loss of life and the waste of war material, the depre- ciation of values and the utter annihilation of certain kinds of property, it must be remem- bered that food has been taken out of millions of mouths and clothes off millions of backs. Hunger and nakedness cry aloud to us for relief, not only on the desolated plains and in the bombarded cities of France, but in many a bereaved household in Germany. Doubtless no inconsiderable part of Ameri- can contributious for the relief of the suffering j French and Germans will be made in kind, especially in the West, that granary of the world. Probably it will be advisable to con- vert most of the rest of the contributions, whether jewels, plate or money, into articles of food and clothing. The money can thus be corn, bacon and all other kinds of food that can bear transportation, American manufac- tures can be more favorably exhibited abroad than they have yet been at any World’s Fair. Boots and shoes from Lynn, cottons and woollens from Massachusetts and Rhode | Island, and even, if needed, silks from New Jersey, a8 well as ready made clothing from New York, Boston and Philadelphia, might for once, at least, be usefully exported to Paris and Berlin, Altogether, aside from the immediate, sub- stantial relief which the American people would afford to the people of France and Ger- many by such a national, spontaneous contri- bution of provisions, clothing and money as we have suggested, there is a still higher con- sideration in its favor, It could not fail to impress the people of those countries and of all other countries in Europe with a sense of the prodigious force of voluntary, concerted action on the part of the citizens of the great American republic, It would be a convincing and, at the utmost, a meagre collection of | | they can never again rise? Truly, France is suffering. Bleeding from every pore, para- lyzed in every part, humiliated, cast down and prostrate, she is even now, in this bitter hour, tormented by the dissensions and evil teachings of her own children. Had these so-called republicans of France the love of country at heart and an honesi respect for the | wishes of their countrymen they would have appealed to the nation in the name of liberty, and, without threat or intimidation, awaited the result. This is true democracy, which these felows cannot appreciate. Gambeita, Flourens, Rochefort and the rest of that crew have destroyed the chances for the present of a permanent republic in France. v— The Loss or tHe Sac. ‘UE OF Her Orricers anp Ceew.—It is with much pleasure that we give the special telegrams from the Ir S$ correspondent at San Fran- cisco announcing the safe arrival at that port of the wrecked officers and crew of the United States steamer Saginaw, all safe and | well. This will be welcome news to their friends and relatives, and it removes a load from the public mind, which has been waiting and wishing for information of the unfortu- nates, fearing that great suffering was to be their lot on the desert island upon which they were cast away. Ir is sratep that Seaxtor Sumner's Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate is opposed to General Butler’s resolution of welcome to the Fenians. They hold that it is an official recognition of Fenianism, which would be tan- tamount toa direct insult to Eogland, and is an outrageous departure from the etiquette of nations. It is quite likely that such is the case; but we are a nation of innovators, and as we were strictly correct in our previous deportment toward the Fenian invaders of Canada and in other matters of national po- liteness, we might be allowed the privilege of a little blunt rudeness in this case, where our own citizens have been returned to us from British prisons. Tax Corson between the steamers North Star and Ella Warley, on the 9th of February, 1863, off Long Branch—by which the latter vessel became a total loss—had its final de- cision in the Court of Admiralty on Monday. Perhaps the most difficult fact to come at is the actual liability to blame in case of collisions at sea, all the witnesses being interested parties. In this case Judge Woodruff decided as the Court below had already done, that in the case of the vessels, like the men who were disputing about the color of the chame- leon—that “‘both were right and both wero wrong,” but the wrong a litile on the side of the lost steamer. The cross libel suits were therefore dismissed, each litigant having to share the logs of the accident The Hudson River Railroad Accident. The particulars of the collision on the Hud- soa River Railroad, near New Hamburg, on Monday night, are replete with horror. A kerosene train runs off the down track and is | wrecked across the up one just a couple of | seconds ahead of the New York passenger ex- press for Buffalo, which, with its packed mass of human beings, plunges into the wreck. Then the kerosene, that terrible agent of death and mutilation, takes fire, and then the drawbridge upon which the collision took place gives way, and then drowning and burn- ing are added to the other horrible methods of | death that waited upon the crash. ‘Thirty-eight persons are supposed to have been slaughtered | by this dreadful disaster, and a great number of them are New Yorkers, the passenger train being the regular sleeping car train which left this city on Monday evening. The details are | given in our news columns, They are too heartrending for us to enter into them here, The description of the dead bodies wil be read — with horrible fascination by many of our read- | ers this morning, who dread to see some loved one’s person outlined in the list or read some dear friend’s name among the killed. So far as human judgment can go at present it is impossible to say that the blame of the accident lies upon any human being. There are little deficiencies that are overlooked in every phase of human life every day, whioh the ordinary human intellect is doubtiess in- capable of recognizing, and which, little as they are, are enough to affect such disastérs asthe present one, In this case the initial cause of the calamity seems to be that the train “jumped” the track. Itis not koown | that there was any defect about the rails or the wheels, or that there was any cause for the ‘‘jumping” which the human intellect could have foreseen and removed. The train, with a perverseness nearly human, merely “jamped” the track, and bounding for the length of a few rods along tie solid sleepers tilted over uponthe up track and lay help- | less In the way of the coming mass of human- | ity. The most careful investigation could not probably have foreseen or prevented this perverse jumping, and we believe there | has never been any serious complaint of the management of the Hudson River Rail- road, so far as the carefu’ness of its employés are concerned. After the first wreck took place there seems to have been no time to warn the coming passenger train, for it was | even then whirling, at the rate of twenty- five miles an hour (and yet not twenty rods away), upon the stumbling block that so sud- denly interposed for iis destruction. So far ; as these particulars go, man may be held | blameless. But the breaking of the bridge and the fearful horrors of the kerosene explo- sion are matters that must be investigated. The bridge, one of those trestles with which { the whole line of the railroad is dotted, may not have heen built to sustain the shock of euch @ collision upon it; but it should have been. It must be shown by legislative investigation at once | that there weré no rotten timbers in that editice. As for the transportation of so inflammable a substance as kerosene upon passenger railways, it is a practice which is too fraught with danger to be justiflable un- less extraordinary precautions are used. The worst horrors of the disaster would have been avoided and, most probably, many lives would have been saved had that bridge been able to bear the shock of the collision and had there been no loaded cars of kerosene to add fire to the dismal agenis of death that rioted upon the wounded. The public demands an inves- tigation into this matter, and the censure and punishment must be mercilessly and impar- tially placed where the fault lies, | The Defenceless Condition of Great Britain— * Army Keform, In view of the opening of the British Par- liament on an early day it is proper to notice the fact that among the many questions de- manding attention the absorbiag question is the condition of the British army. It is on all hands admitted that while the British navy is equal to any demands that may be made upon it, the British army is weak, not only for aggressive but for defensive purposes. The condition of the army is the grand theme of the quarterlies, of the monthlies, of the weeklies. It is the testing question wherever members of Parliament have found it conve- nient or necessary to meet with and address their constituents, Earl Russell bas sub- mitted a plan by which he proposes to ulilize the strength cf the three kingdoms, Lord Elcho, the soul for many years past of the volunteer movement, has made public -his scheme, Mr, Trevelyan, an able and elo- quent nephew of the late Lord Macauley has been traversing the couniry, delivering speeches and writing for periodicals, calling for army reform and holding up the example of the soldiers of the days of Cromwell. Later, a nguished army officer, Sir Wil- liam Mansfield, a man who has won distinction in India, has submitted a plan which promises, in a modified form, perhaps, to be accepted by Parliament as the best basis of army recon- struction, Sir William proposes that every able-bodied young man be bound by law to serve for one year {in the militia, which must be reorganized and placed on a better footing. He proposes also that in the event of inva- sion the young wilitiaman be subject to service for five years more, The ranks of the militia force are to be kept fill by the ancient though disused form of the ballot. In the course of five years, according to Sir William, the ae Threatened Anarchy tm Paris. Yesterday we expreased surprise at the order and quiet which prevailed in Paris. This morning we publish a special despatch from our correspondent in the city which shows that the Parisians are becoming again as revolutionary and impracticable as ever. They are diseatisfied with everything and everybody. Allis coufusion in the French capital. Favre and his colleagues are in dis- favor because they agreed to an armistice, and the feeling against Gambetta is incroasing—we suppose because he failed to raise the siege. Red republicanism of the worst type begins to show itself. Ono orator at a public meeting declared that a Robespierve was roquired and that the guillotine alone could savé France, Unhappily for the immediate future of the country a declaration so atrociously bloodthirsty, instead of receiving indig- nant condemnation, was, our correspondent assures us, received with enthusiasm and yells of delight, And, in keeping with this atrocious sentiment, we. bave the fict that most of the Paris candidates for the As- sembly are men taken from the slums of Belle- ville and St, Antoine—men notorious for their violence, recklessness and lack of ability, genuine descendants, doubtless, of the despe- radoes who were the early inhabitants of the French capital. We have no doubt that these villains, wadmen and fanatics are a minority of the population ; but, unfortunately, they are the party of action, compact and united, against the party of order, divided and irre- concilable in their division, Will the old no- blesse coalesce with tho Orleanist bourgeoisie, the Orleanists with the imperialists, the impe- rialisis with either? Yes, if either can absorb the others, and not otherwise. not practicable the result promises to be a po- litical cutthroat game all around, probably winding up with a real cutthroat game played upon the guillotine, Jules Favre aud his colleagues seem to dread approaching anarchy. Their postpone- ment of the elections till 1o-day is an indica- tion of their dissatisfaction with the situation. Already, as our correspondent reports, their speaker, M. Gaillard, has denounced them as twelve bandits who have sold Paris for gold. Officially denied having entered into peace negotiations, declaring that they have no power to treat for peace. however, as if any explanation wilh satisfy the “reds.” Rochefori’s and Pyat’s (sweet pair of political deves!) new papers breathe nothing but revolution and vengeance. In fact, Paris is a small volcano at the present moment. And while the political situation is so threatening the actual horror of starvation is looming up. On Saturday last all the flour in victualling made but slow progress. Thus we mast conclude, from the tenor of our special despatch, that between red republican violence on the one hand and famine on the other, Paris stands on the verge of anarchy. United States and Poli- tae ‘Keaders Business Failures ia Interesting Facis for Uciaus. We have before us a mercantile circular for the year 1870, in which we find some interest- | ing facts in the shape of figures giving the | number of bnsiness failures in New York and , Brooklyn and throughont the Union for the years 1868, 1869 and 1870 respectively. Jt thus appears that the aggregate of fai ures in money for each of these years is as follows :— New York — United States and Brooklyn. Outside. Totm., 1868...... $31,654,000 | $32,120,000 $63,774,000 21,370,000 62,884,000 75,054,000 20,573,000 67, 669,000 88,242,000 Here it will be observed that while the failures in New York and Brooklyn in 1868 were nearly equal in money to all the failures in the United States outside of these cities, the New York and Brooklyn failures in 1869 were less than one-half, and in 1870 they were less than one-third of the failures outside this metropolitan district. This would seem to in- dicate that while the merchants of New York and Brooklyn have been holding down the brakes since 1868 those of the country out- side have been putting oa steam. So it hap- pens that while the sum total of all the failures in the Union in 1868 (iacluding our two cilies) was in round numbers sixty-tbree million dollars, it is given for 1870 at eighty-eight million dollars, There would be in all this, however, nothing very alarming but for these important facts:— The whole land, city and couatry, is overrun with merchants of all sorts. In the competi- tion thus produced there has been a fearful cutting down of profits, which, with the steady decline in gold since the war, has operated to break the backs of the weuk traders who on pay day could not come up to time. The great mass of the consumers of ‘‘store goods” have, meantime, gained from the losses of the sellers, and so the eighty-cight millions of dol- lars lost by our mercantile failures of 1870 may not in reality be the loss of a sixpence to the actual wealth of the country, The mer- chant is not a producer, He is the mere agent who passes the productions of the farmer and manufacturer from hand to hand, collect- ing his toll in the transfer, The banker is not a producer, nor is the broker; and yet upon these three indispensable classes, who produce nothing—bankers, brokers and merchants— all the productive interests of the couatry depend. And yet, again, our enormors national debt, with its heavy burden of taxations, is militia would consist of some five hundred thousand or one million of men, greater or less, in proportion to the blanks fixed on for the ballot. The regular army is to be re- eruited from the militia by voluntary enlist- ment, To avoid all unfairness which might result from frivolity or wealth the plan pro- poses that every man within the limits of age must either serve as a volunteer or submit to the chances of the militia ballot, This rapid sketch of the most promising plan of the moment shows how thoroughly John Bull is frightened out of his boots by the recent events on the Continent of Europe and how he means to prepare himself for emergen- cies. Big nations with their big armies have seriously affected the European equilibrium. No nation is so seriously affected by the change ag England. It is well that her eyes are open, In the forthcoming session of Par- liament Mr, Gladstone will have some trouble with army reform, operating in every way and among all classes, to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, to drew the solid wealth of the country houses and lands from the many into the hands of the few. The masses of the people are beginning to realize the increasing pressure of this state of things, and in looking about for a remedy—‘“‘short, sharp and decisive’— they are beginuinug to perceive that they can have itin the Presidential election of 1872. By this simple process of turning out the party in power and of turning in the demo- cracy it is quite possible that we may have a final settlement by the year 1873 or 1874, which upon paper will signify a loss of two or three thousand millions to the country, but which in reality will signify only that if somo classes of our citizens have lost so much other classes have so much gained, This is tho problem which comes upon us in the considera~ tion of our mercantile failures and the pres- sure of our taxes, and it is a problem which, And as this is ' arrest and trial are advocated, and one , To appease the public feeling they have | It does not appear, | the city was exhausted, and the work ef re- ! | if not settled meantime by Gegoral Grant and Congreas in lightening our taxes, will be settled in the result of the elections of 1872, Congress Yesterday — Tho Chorpenniog Case~Tho West Point Cadet Difficulty The Income Trx=National Education. The Chorpenniag fraud was before both | houses yesterday. The Senate disonssed the | House bill repealing the joint resolution of last session, under which an allowance of nearly half a million of dollars had been made by the Postmaster General whero there was nota ; cent due. Two Senators, Trumbull and ! Vickera, reflected upon the action of Mr, Creswell, while Senator Hamlin, of Maine, de~ fended him as having merely carried out the terms of the law. The Senate passed the re- pealing act, and there is an end of the Chor- penning fraud, for the detection and exposure of which the country is indcbted to the active chairman of the House Committee on Appro- priations, Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts. ; Same subject was also up in the House, in the form of a personal explanation from Mr, The Cessna. This was the gentleman who, as a member of the Post Office Committee, introduced and had passed the joist resolution of last session under which the Treasury was to be depleted. His defence was that Chorpenning was a consti- tuent of his, and therefore honest; that Jere- miah §. Black, one of Chorpeaoning’s attor- neys, had been a judge in Pennsylvania, and therefore incorruptible; that the witnesses ia the case were residents of his own district, and therefore of undoubted veracity; that Mr, Earl, another of Chorpenning's attorneys and formerly the law partner and assistant of the Postmaster General, was a man of character ; and intelligence, and that Chorpenning had managed—we presume through the influence of Mr. Jerry Black—io get a sort of quasi endorsement for his claim from President Buchanan and President Johnson. Finally, Mr. Cessna asserted his own innocence in the matter and that of the Posimaster General, and invited the closest scrutiny of his official conduct. Ho did not, however, ven- ture to assert that there was any justification for the decision of Mr. Creswell, except that he believed there was still a small balance due to the claimant. And thus ends this latest |.job of the Washington lobby in defeat, dis« grace and mortification. Another job also came to grief yesterday, in | the shape of a veto by the President of a bill for the relief of contractors for building iron. clads and machinery for the goverament during the war. The President based his veto on the ground that a rise in the cost of labor and material, after the making of a contract, does not give the contractor a valid claim against the government, particularly when the loss was occasioned chiefly by delay in fulfilling the contract. The Washington and New York Air Line Railroad bill was discussed for some time in the Senate, but was finally laid aside to give place to the consideration of private” bills, One very important private bill was paased, being a bill for the relief of loyal citizens of Loudon county, Virginia, on account of stock seized by the United States forces, under General Sheridan, in 1864. The passage of the measure establishes a precedent ' for claims the aggregate of which would { bankrupt the national Treasury. | The sub-committee which investigated the | recent difficulties at West Point made a report 22 RE Se RR emg A Fe es Pee [in ‘the House yesterday, which renects | severely on the management of that institu- tion, and recommends the readmission of the three cadets who were violently expelled by the cadets of the first class, the dismissal of the leaders and ringleaders in the affair and the trial and punishment of all the other parti- cipants in it. The report is to be taken up for action on Tuesday next. The bill to repeal the income tax was re- ported from the Committee of Ways and Means and referred to the Committee of the Whole on the Siate of the Union. It stands No. 18 on the calendar of that committee, and cannot bo reached without laying aside, by separate vote, each bill that has precedence of it. When we know how business can be inter- rupted in the House by a resort to what ig termed ‘‘filibustering,” and Low calls of the House occupying a whole evening can be forced by members declining to vote, we can readily conceive what difficulty there will bo in getting at this bill, particularly as it is doubiful whether a majority vote in the House could be secured in its favor. The bill to establish a system of national education—a synopsis of which will be found in our Congressional reports—was before the House yesterday, and was supported by an argument made by its author, Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, It proposes a remarkable advance in the progress of centralization, but we doubt whether it can find much snpport in either house. Subsequently a deficiency bill, appropriating over ten-and a half millions of dollars, was reported and postponed for future action. Mr. Fernando Wood having voted on Mon- day for tha Union Pacific Railroad bill, fol- lowetl up that action yesterday by presenting petitions from this city against the land grant policy. This is another instance of locking the stable door after the steed is stolen. A Goop Stax.—Judge Flippin, of the Memphis Criminal Court, is receiving en- comiums from the press of that city for send- ing persons to jail convicted of carrying con- cealed weapons, A little of the same prac- tice would be wholesome for the city of New York. THe Ioz Crop looks prosperous for the coming summer season. Sogreat has been the abundance on the Hudson river alone that the ice houses are all glutted with the article. Although we are in the coldest portion of the winter, and ice is still superabundant, the gathering of the crop will cease altogether on the Hudson to-night, the reason why being that there is no room for more. In Maine and all the Eastern States the ice crop this year ia something immense. Now we will see what the ice companies will have to say about the price on the Fourth of July next, What kind of an account of their winter stewardship will they give? Last summer, we remembor, the plea of a mild winter in 1869-70 was offered in justification of what every one know to be a gross extortion, which compelled the rich to restrict themselves in the luxury of a freo uso of ioe. and deprived many of the poor