The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERAL BIOADWAY AND ANN STREIT. Ln JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. D “Letters and packages should be property segied. Saas Velame XXX BOOTHS THEATRE, w Rioar wee 1 THEATHE (Theatre Prancaiay— POURTFENTR = Kawg Glan Srondwsy.4Tae BeHOTACLR oF DEN. o6 » $20 Broadway.—Uouwcan or Magy Lripa, rer of Sth aw and Md at— Broadway, Tae PaNTOMIUT OF Pewaon. 2. Muatioee wt 2, Wood's M apace every a ARK, THRATRY, Brootlya,— CHANT OF VRNIOB, $0. FP. B. CORNY. ARS. von Apo Amott a © a a Tha Presidential Successtoa—Geacral Grant and the New Poace Morements of the Day. ‘Met us bave peace.” Uader this sablime legend, in 1868, General Grant marched to victory as resistlessly as did the groat Con- siaatine in bis day under bis tnvincible ban- ner of the Cros, ‘Let as have peace” is now the cry from all the great Powers of Europe. We have It from the German impe- rial headquarters at Versailles and from the French National Assembly at Bordeaus; we have heard it from the greem table of the London Gonference; it bee boon passing and repassing (he Atlantic Ocean between Quaca Victoria and President Grant, and it is now coming to us with te members en route from Vagiand appoiated to the joint High Commis- siow soon to meet in Wasbington to settle ina treaty of peace all the outstanding differences between the two countsics, General Grant, tb this grand fdea of peace, is preparing for the campaign of 1872, In 1808 Le apptied this popular idea of peace to our domestic affiirs; in 1872 tt will be practically extended to our foreign relations. Whut is the prospect? unbounded, glorious and snpremely attrae- tive. We hear from Washingtoa that the republicans in Congress are anything but a support of General Grant for the suc- cession; that Sumner thinks he is a failure and may convenicnily bo set aside; that Carl Schurz is of tho same opinien; that Colfax has frieads who are beatlng about the bush ; that Trambull and Fenton and other leading lights of the party are perfectly indifferent concerning the claims of Grant, and will seize lwat.—Gomto Vooas. Big. ALU, £85 Broa tway.~ RekSQO Ea, KO. t.. between fh CRLULTTES, EC. HOOLE YS € rookie MOORS AND KRLULY & Luon's APOIO MALL. corner stroot ead Broatwey.— Dr CONEY'S DIOkANA OF IRMLAND. , NEW YORK cig eaath stroct.Sosnns ov IB-RinG, ACROLATS, & ; Matinee at 3. NEW YorRK Mt SOMNOE AND Aw’ DR. KAHN'S ANATOMIGAL MUSEUM, 7¢ SQIENOE AND Aw roadway. pH SUPPLEMI CONTENTS OF TO-DAWS HERALD. ee aerate ona L—Adveriisements. 2— Advertisements. 3—!vternational Boating Over English ¢ 4 nco—st. Vaientine’s Day—The Peabody Educational Fuod—The | Pluiladelphia Forgery—brookiyn Water Sup- Iy—NeW Buildings in Brooklyn—iical Estate latiers ~ Nav Affairs — Marriages and Deatis—Advei menis. 4—Editonais: ng Article, “The Presidential Successiom—General Grant and the New Peace Movements of the Day"—Amusement An- nouncements. S—Editorials (Continued from Fourth Page)— France: Action of Great Britain on the Peace Question; Prussia Asked to Make Known Her Terms; Revictuailiug Paris; The Elections: Gencrai Reports—News Intellizence—Business Nouces. G—Washington: Popularity of the New Loan ta Eurepe; the First of ui Subsidy Bilis Passed i the Senate—Keport of ihe Congressincal Committee on the Troubles Among the Cadets . t West Pomt—The Repubil- can Court: Mrs. President Grant's Last Re. ception—More Snow—The New Hamburg Slanghter—The Andrew Statue ta Bostoa— Terrorism tn South Carolina. 7—Advertisements, S—Europe: King Amadeus’ Address to the Other Sovereigus of Europe; Dr. Jacoby on the Wer; Prussian Outrages ou an English Family in France—In a Boot: Remarkabie cae ofa Correspondent to Get to the Ouiposis; Between the Two Fires—Music and the Drama—The Fenian Exiles. Negro Afiray in Ma- ryland—Billiar rocesdings in the Courts. 9—Courts (Continue: from Fighth Page)}—Tue Erte Preferred Suits—The Taylor Wii © ming Up of the Case furthe Contes The Tombs Po.ce €ouri—Political and General Netes, with Comments—Financiai and Com- mercial Reports—*Pulliag” a Den-—An Eliza- , beth Sensatlon—Terrible Murder in Florida. 1G—The State Capital: Tweed's Proposed Elevated Railrozds Along Broadway—The Liederkranz Ball—-Stuppiuig inteliigen Advertisements. ill for some time. Tue Tartor Witt Cass is approaching a conclusion. Mr. Clinton summed up for the contestants yesterday very forcibly. been acting ver Brooxnys is threatened with a scarcity of water. Between weakening whtskey and adulterating mitk there has been a great waste of Ridgewor Toe Basie New Jeesey Legisrarcge ig cousidering -the fifteenth amandment. It ongh! to mike the Mtssvari Compromise bill a special order for next weck, Tur EXoctienr Assempiy Bus, to prevent murder by ignorani drug clerks end druggists was yeslerday ordered ta a third reading, and, judging from the way it was taken in hand in Commitice of tie Whole, thera is no donbt aboat its finel passare. Tre Kv Kuivx or tH CaBoLiNa have hecome excee audacious, Ten negroes, prisoners in n couoly jail, were taken out by a band hnadred of these mise erenuis ond mnilered oa Sunday night. These people wil! { upon martial lity. een Sim Stargorn Nore Deyon, Boxlaxd, has be on the joitt Biga Comwi on the part of the En. place of Sir Jokn Rose, particulars wil] be found in our o report from London. » MP. for Norib fi aypointed {o terce in Washington, government, in whic A Proposition is before the Legisist fe | Ynild a caval aronnd Hell Gate. It would take a great desi of time, money and patience, and we doubi not that General Newton's } plan of removing the obsiructione at Hell Gate will succeed cveatual'y, alihongh the | " operations go on very slowly. Why can he not iry « Biossom Rock explosion when he i hegins work again, such as they had in San Francisco Bay not many months ago ? “Two Pievarep Rawpoap Buia were iotro- | daced in the Senate yesterday by Mr. Tweel, | wiiich give their direviors very exiracr@inary powers, such @s taking possceefon of what- | ever ptiblie parks they sea Gi, bracing the read against the sides of houses, dv. One of these bills is modest euough to take only that part of Broadway extending from White- hall sirve: to Park row, where it switches off | to the Bowery and Third avenue; but =| other makes a clean sweep of Broadway, from tha Butters to Harlem river, upon the first opportantty to out him and whistle him down the wind; that, ia short, there are haifa dogen ambitious republican politicians who are actively mining and counterntiniag to head off each other and to cut out Grant in the national party convention. They are aiming to weakea him before the people by a con- tinuaace of the foolish high taxation policy of Secretary Boutwell, instead of laboriag to strengthen the administration by popular mea- sures of financial reform, including a reduction of our taxes to the cxtont of a hundred millions a year. But, notwithstanding all these con- flicting Intrigues of soured and reckless politi- cians, and all this confusion of the opposing cliques and factions of his party, General Grant fs still as strong against them as was Abraham Lincoln against the Chase and other side movements to supplant him in the Gon- vention of 1864, Bat General Grant against the democratic parly will havo a harder battle to fight in 1872° than bis battle of 1868. In that campaign General Wade Hampton, in his resolution, made in the Tammany Convention a plank of the democratic platform, proclaiming all the receustruction measures of Congress “‘uneon- stitutional, revolutionary, null and void,” made the battle to General Grant as easy as that of Lincoln in 1864 against the democratic platform declaring the war for the Union a failure. To ‘snake assurance doubly suro” for Grant, the nomination of General Blair for Vice Presiden: on the ticket with Seymour was made, and on the strength of Biair’s famous Brodhead letter, boldly advecating a violent overthrow of the whole reconstruction system of Congress. With the announcement of this ticket and platform it was apparent to every dispassionate observer of the currents of popular opinion that the Tammany Con- vention bad foolishly thrown away every chanco in the election, as in 1864, in fighting blindly against fixed facts and ihe tidal waves of a political revolution bound te run its course. Thas revolution, accomplished In the fifieeath amendment, opens before us a new order of things. The negro question, upon which the republicans siuce 1854 have gained all their victories, being now settled, is out of the fight, The money question and questions affecting our foreign relations take its place, and upon these issues the democracy have advan- tages and chances which really in the chap- ter of accidents hold out some promise of victory. Nor do we think that the republicans will be gratified in their expectation of the demo- cratic stupidity again in 1872—another revival of their fight against the fifteeuth and the four- teenth amendments of the constitution. They will, {n their National Gonveniion, accept the situation as Tammany has accepted it; they will pick out as their candidates men whose ante- cedonts in the war are not of the Vallamdig- ham school, and they will order their battle upon the financial shomcomings of Grant's ad- miwistratien, including its high taxes, with thelr oppressiva discriminations against the masses of the people. For President Gov- ernor Hoffman has been wisely withdrawn bg Tammany, He is an able, capable and popu- lar maa; but his time has not yet come. Iendricks, Pendleton and General Hancock are now most-prouifnently in the foreground of the party; but of the old set of 1868 Han- cock appears to us the only available pices of timber, Remembering, however, Polk, in 1844, and Pierce, in 1852, and titmt both were successtul from their very obscurity, we may have the same convenieat democratic game repeated ia 1872. And why not? If the ob. scurily of Polk was too mach fur our greatest statesman, Honry Clay, add if the obseurity of Pierce as too much for our greatest sol- dier of bis time, General Scott, why may aot the unkuown Saith or Jones be ta0 muck for General Grant on the aow political issues of the day Against ay auth couvenicat demorratic de- viee General Gract has provided an igsue or two of great popilarity, with which his name aad his administration will be identified in the comfag contest. Like a Akilfal soldicr, he has determined not to leave to the enemy his posi- tion in the battle field, but to choose it him- self, Holding the While Touse, be is com- peiled to fight on the defensive; but instead of waltiag to be surrounded he will go ont to challenge the enemy in theopen field. Hence this movement for tiw annexation af the splem- did istand of St. Domingo; hamce ghia joiat. High Commigsjon which ig shortly ¢o meet iy | Washingion to exrange a cotuprehensive and lastfag treaty of peace between Eaglaad wd the United States. Upou these two mea- sures of peace—one looking directly to ‘manifest destiny” aud both to the enlarge- moat of our material progregs and prosperity oa the land and the sea—~General Grant stands now, and will hold big ground before the country fora re-election, and. (om the ure- Is is broad, * NHW YORK HEKALi, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 187.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, sent outlook, ho has seoured his polnt agginst The TegnosecemReport of Her Having all hostile combinations and all comers. We assume in this opinion that before the Mocting Of tae Republican National Conven- the United States, aud we have né doubt that with this annexation the valuo, the treptcal boautkes and the commercial advantages of the island will make {t a6 onco an exceedingly popular acqnisition, We assume that this Anglo-American joint High Commission witl give ms a treaty of peace which will’ brlag joy to our traders on the sea, who are among the fosers from the piractes of thoso Anglo-rebel Alabamas and Shenandoaha, end gladden the hearts of oar Yankee fishermen, and gratify our wheat and corn and heef and pork raisers of the great Northwedt | thon In 1873 the Dowminfcan division, if not the on the whoie island of Bt. Demingo, will beloug to | po, Been Sees. Without wishing to discredtt the report tas | the Tendessee was aeen off the coast of Hayti 28th ult, by a vessel that arrived at stda yesterday, we catnot bat aak the qtestion, By what moans would the Tonnes sea, which left this hackgs on the 17th ultimdé, bound to Samana Bay, or: arountt the east end of the {sland of St. Domingo, be in latitude twenty degrees north and longitude Seventy-three degrose twenty minntes west on the 28th day of Jaunary, and be ateoring west-northwest, if bougd to ang part of Sé. Domiugo? From the way the gteadtdr seen was steering sho was, beyond doubt, bound through the channel between the north coast of Guba and the Bahama Banks, and we cannot aut think from the followlng circumstances with thotr enlarged concessions touchiog the | Bhat {t wag the United Bates gteamor Sewern, Navigation of fhe Si. Lawrende and its British | anf not @he Tennessee. The former sailed Canadiana canals, Aud we farther assame that will be barmony tween the people on both sldes tion of Americans, Daglisimen, Lrishmen snd her Majeety’s provincial én’ the development of the resources of tho Confinent, and In the extension all over the world of the triamphs of and poace. the grea teeaty of peace which we expect from this joint High Commission, what man or from Kingston, Jamaica, on the 27th of Janu. the general results of this treaty | ary, botad to Havana, and this the Navy and good will t- | Dopartraent would have seen fy the Himarp Our | ofthe 29th altimo, She would on the 28th have Northern bonadary, and tho gordial co-opera- | peet about ia the position mentioned, and would have hetu stecring the corse giver. Hor model ang “rig axe: the same as the Tennessee; honeo’ we are more than ever satisfied with aur statement, that civilization, liberty, liberality, Chrtetiqnity | js wos no other than the flagship Sovern, which arrived in Havava on the 6th instant. Upon this grand platform of a new era of | an examination of a chart will clearly domon- pence, made munifest to the country and the | strate what we say, and wo cannot understand world in the annexation of St, Domingo and | now any nautical man and a nxvigator should think that a vessel seen in that position, steam- ing to the westward, could be a ship known to what party {a 1872 will be able to supplant | be bound to a port situated {n a dixection General Grant and hts popular admlaistra- tion? This is the question now to be con- almosi directly opposite. The Tenneasse would have Shaped a coursa sidered by all theae small potato republican | direct for Bamana Bay If bound thero, and politicians who are casting about fora oue- | through the Mona Passage, between St horse candidate against Grant; and it is a Domingo and Porto Rico, if destined first for question, toa, for the demoorncy whe havo} st, Domingo City. It is not possible that been counting upon such embarrassments snd | Captata Temple would bave selected any of | the intricate channels or passages over claims and the fisheries, and upon the Cana- | (he Bahama Banks or through the Bahama bad luck to Gezeral Grant upon the Alzbama dians and the Fentans, and upon such divi- sions in the repablican camp about Tom Marphy and Greeley, and Fenton and Cunk- ling, and Sumner and Trumbull, and Carl Schurz and Gratz Brown as would clear tho way for a democratic procession to tho White House. As the case now stands Grant fy master of the field. fhe London Presa om the Armistice. The Loudon, and, in fact, tho English prees generally of the dates just come to hand devotes long editorfals to the situation in France and the results likely to accrue from the armistice. The London 7imes thinks the world may congratulate itself on the factdéhat Paris is saved from further misery and destruction, and believes that the provinces will accept the deciston of the capital. France, the Zimes also thinks, will accept the con- queror’s terms, and all the world, that con- queror himself not exceptod, is interested in making those terms as tolerable aa the circum. stances of the casa will allow. The London Daily News is inclined to augur hopeful things for France from the armistice, because it re- moves a dangerous obstacle—-Bismarck’s re- fusal to recognize the provisional goverament— which for some time back seemed to lie in the way of peace, The Wews hopes that the victor wil! sparo France the bitter humiliation of seeing German soldiers in Paris. The London Post says on the subject that it now remains to be seen whether the Prassians in their hour of triumph can curb their desires within the bounds of moderation, and observes that unless the Prussians demand terms of ex- ceptional harshness it is difflcult to imagine that the coatest will bo recommenced. The London Telegraph, ina thoughtful article, con- tends that the resources, the hopes, the ener- gies of a whole generation have been con-~ densed into this awful campaign, The land is bleeding to death; it is beaten hopelessly ; it laid too much on Paris and itloat all, The London Standard holds that itis reasonable to believe thai the capitulation of Paris brings us to the end of the war between France and Germany. The evening papers, foremost among which stands the Pa Afal Gaeette, thoughtfully express themselves, and claim that the capitulation of Paris has come at the very Ume of allothers which és least favorable toany profongatien of the war. The London Globe, now that Paris haa shrrendered and peice is probable, felieves that it is England's duty to ses t@at such terths are granted to the Freneh as may be accepted without that humillatton which is worse thom ru Sreashoyne is to remaiy eternally German, Betng the key of the Rhine she 3 suppased to contaia the germ of German safety. meena A Prorowriex Has Bagg Mave in the Leglalginre to construct ag overtep raftroad with Welsh steel rails, Is there not enough stealing in Albany wlibout ealling apon our Welsh friends for afd? An undergremad tox? sight burrow into a Welga rarebit. Tax Hovse or Orttans asp Its Pros< prors,~Day afier day our news goes to show that the hopes of the Mouse of Orleang ought to be bright. Tho elections have, so far as we can see, killed the hopes of the republic end the hopes of the Bonapartes and their intperialistic friends; bat no one éan refusa t0 admit that tho House of Orleais is th high favor, France has by thts election, so far as we know it, said the empire means war, the republic chaos, and as these cover the tro extremes an intermediate course must he tried. The intermediate courage fs the restoration of the House of Orleans, In a few weeks we shall not be surprised, to leara that the Count de Paris is on the throne of France, The Count de Paris means peace, economy, consol- idatioz, development—a happy and contented but not aggressive France. Even M, Thiers is {title likely to talk about Rhine boundaries, The towh of the Capalets has revolved that question. It is dead, and, a3 we think, dead forever. Tae Sxbavanygr Gurery fs ihe weasel de. tailed by the Navy Department to carry New York's contributions to the suffering paopte of France. <A good, substantia’ name for the duty, and it is to be hoped that abe will carry ont ag fine s eupply Inside, i | | ' peal PTDINS we Oem Taxy Have Ensorgn aN ANDreW Starog in Boston, What about on Andraw Jao statue La New York? | jside of Hayti, and Yalands in order to pass around the west it is very. certain that if he did attempt it and reached tho point mentiened he would not be steering west-northwest in order to reach his port of destination, We notice that the opinion wo have hore expressed is also entertained at Washington ; but the Navy Department ap- pears to be in lamentable igaorance of the whereabouts of our vessels in the West Indies when it notifies the public that the Severn was at Kingsten and the Congress at Key West when last heard from, and we think it advisable for it net to express opinions or try to give information that tend 80 much to confuse those who depend upon it te know the whereabouts of their friends, Our opinion of the whereabouts of the Ten- nessee has not changed in the least. We be- lieve her safo and all attached to her well, and we shall hold to it for some time yet before feeling the slightest apprehension that an accident has occurred. But we must, as is our duty, correct errors that occur, and rectify as far as is inour power false reports ; consequently we do not hesitate to say, that froma close examination of the locality given and course being steered, we are satisfied that the vessel reported was not the Tennessee, and we are confident that when the latter is heard from our opinion will be found correct in this, as it is on almost every other question which we are called upon to decide. What Terms? In the House of Commons on Monday eve- ning Premier Gladstone stated that the gov- ernment had reqaested Prussia to make known her peaca terms. If Premier Gladstone had made it a point to find out what the New York Henarp reported every morning he would not have found it necossary to go back on pub- lished facts. Inthe New York Herarp of February 10 we published the German ultima-” tum. We reproduced the ultimatum on the following day. Germany demands the whole of Alsace and slxty square miles of Lorraine, the whole numbering four hundred and thirty- seven square miles, and including the fortress of Metz. In addition Germany demands the payment of a sam of one and one-half milliard francs for the expenses of the war, thirty mil- lions for captured shipa and forty millions as indomutty for losses sMstained by German Are the Peace workmen and otherg who havebeen expelled from France, Some millfons mors for orip- ples and orphans and othéra not defined, . If Premier Gladstong does nyt kngw all (his he ought to have kuown it, Whether he Kaows it or not, tt is almost impertinent to ask Prassts to make knowa her peace terms before thoy are made pubfic through the new French Na- tionat Aasombly. IY King William and Count Bismarck haye modified their demands, or in any way altered their programme, the worl¢ hag oo right to know of the change except through the Frengh National Assembly. BS EMABNDT ah A Goop Cayapfan Lpza.—The hardest trial of a now soltler in the wilderness con- fronts bint at the ontsct. It 8 the quintuple nesesslty of making a clearing, of fencing It, of building a log hut, of stocking bis embryo farm end of seonring a crop of potatoes and ether vegetables og a supply for the first wiater, To meet pasticularfy the require. tents of snob new settlers as way have two hundred or thyee hundred dollars and be will- ing fo pay a moderate sum cash down for being celieved of such a necessity the province of Ontario has voied thirty thousand dollara te encourage emigration and twenty thousand dollars to build houses and clear from three to five acres of land on a number of free grant lots. Thia is a good Canadian fdea, selenite A Loox Aursv—The amount of the French relief fund contributed in Boston 9s com- pared with that raised In New York. Foreign Inouicrarion.—The packet ship Hudson, Captain Pratt, has brougit to this port 4 consignment af lions, tigere, leopards, polar. beaes, Aldogney cows, monkeys and" vastpws? other individuals of the animal king. dom. Ki {s reported: they are the product of the Zootogical Gardens {a Loudon. Why dont Paris se: ething in that lina f Two ov tie Wrengssxs fn the Impeach. ment trial of Governor Holden tn North Caro- lina have admitted belag members af foe Ku Klux, We pelleva they are the only well uihenWoated specimens that have ever been Grotented in wrover form to the cepetal publla, The Era of Good Feoling-Uranvs Policy Poace with AU the World. Tt will be remembered. that after the atern and persistent wars between France and Eag- land that suceceded the French Revolution thore was an muysual gush of Englishman to Paris and a ecvéral fraternizaiion among tho People of the two countries, France bad been @ hidden lend to the Bngligh, while the French name bad mounted bizher and higher to a splondid and territde pre-eminence by the achlevements of Miraboau, Robaspterre and Napoleon. The Haglish burried to see what manney af men these half heroes and half monsters were—thege eXeoutioners of Marie Aptotnette and conquerors of Marengo. A Reneration bad almost paased since the Gaul end Saxon had loaked each other in the face with the eye of friendship. The opurlesy, grace, vivacity agd warmth of their welcome was surprisiny, and we had what tho satiriets mockingly called ‘“Anglophobla’—what the higtorians have regarded as the era of goad feeling. We shoald uot be surprised to se6 a similar dombngtration of kindl{aess on tbe part of the English and the Américans aa the result of the recent diptomacty. Mer soma time we lave no- Uced sigus of England and America “coming together.” Theanccess of the Northern States in the waa, was sure te command the respect of England—as, in fact, {t communded the respect of the whole world. That triamph gave ysa fieat rank among the nations, Mr. Field’s success fn Inying the cable was a wonderful advance, for London and New York became a8 one city—the words of the Queen’s speech were read in New York before they had died away on the ears of the members of Parlia- ment, and the message af the Prosident had eon discussed in the city of London before the Clerk of the Benate had finished reading {t in Washington, The influence of the great journals—the Londoa Zimes aod the New Yorx {eratp—had gone far toward spreading ® cosmopolitan spirit. England came to know Amerioa, Her representative came among us and saw our people. Every sam- mer poured thousands of curious, ob- serving, impressible Americans into the lap of English society—Amoricans who came home filled with the gonerosity, the chivalry, the nobility of the true English gontleman, The gricfs of the war lessened with time. Eagland saw that her rulers bad’ been blind and feeble. America, in her pride and strength and the exultation of victory, was disposed to look upon the Alabama claims, not asan iniriasie injary to the country, but as something to be held in reserve as a vexation whonever we felt in a bad humor—as a pretext for war whenever we chose to make war. It was good convertible political capital. The Irish liked it, and it was an emollient to the Trish nature. Every hour, however, peace came nearer and nearer. We read of the curieus growth of islands and peninsulas in the warm southern seas—- how the coral does its work for ages under tides and storms and heaving. billows, until it rises above the ocean, and in time there are trees and forests and homes for men and the basis of a nation. So, while between England and America there has been this endless unrest and misunderstanding—wars for inde- pendence, wars for sailors’ rights, threatened wars on twenty questions, Roeluck and Lind- say scoldiag us in Parliament and a hundred Trizh patriots makiug warlike speeches against the lion in New York—all tho time, steadily, surely, slowly, the work of friendship and alliance has gone on, until land is made at last, and the nations are together in the persona of this commission, They meet as men to men, frankly, truly, to calmly discuss every question, every grievance, every dis- pute, and see if we cannot really have peace. We are too strong to fear each other, Nations are too great for war when they can command respect. There are no {ssues between us like the Rhine, or the Danube, or the Bosphorus, We do not covet an acre of England’s vast possessions. The ocean is broad enongh for all of us, We have each our own work, with a world large enough for both to do it, in the {nterests of humanity, Itberty and peace. Above all, we are of the same blood and lineage. In laws and customs and literature, in the glories of a common history, in the achievements of science and enterprise and art, Jobn and Jonathan aro brethren, Let them be enemies, and civiligation is assailed. Letshem be friends, and they aro strong enough to keep the world in peace. In thig spirit and with these hopes, however fancifal they may be, we accept the jaint High Commission. This is the sentiment of the couniry. We remember nothing that has been received with so much enthusiasm aud saiis- faction. ‘The voices of pariles ave hushed, | The Senate, almost unaniaorsty and without distinction of party, confirmed the President’s appoidturents, The couatry te- sponded in the same tone. Evei'y memory of the past, every painful tradition, every angry thought, was forgotten in the desire for a peace and an alliance worthy of the Anglo-Saxon spirt, We are confident England will show the same spirit. The London Zines is afraid the “stone of American discussion” must chanse bafore there can be any lasting peace. We alicerely trust the Zines does noi spdak for Foglaad ig this surly criticlsm., American feeling is no more shown by “‘Auierican dis- cussion” than English feeling is showa by the acrid and atrabilious ravings of Mr. Roebuck. The men wao talk loudest do not always speak the sentiments of the people. How wildly wo tal about Mason and Slidell, and vowed etewnal war rather than surrender them! How willingly the surrender was made when we oame to ¢ev it was just and right! For the Americans aro a just people, and we believe justice to reign im the heart of England. To this seatiment Mr. Gladstone and General Grant have appealed in the appointment of the commission, We are not without hopes that Mr. Gladstone's Ministry will be strengtaened by doing 60. We believe | that-Qeneral Granthas secured hig re-election. He has shown ty tts conspicuous act of atatesmonship that he meant peace in the largest sense when he said, “Let ue have peace.” At all events the American people so accopt bis decision. They see peace in the Sonth, peace with Spain, peace with England, end whon they come to pass upor his adminie- tration theiy verdict will be the triumphant re-election of a man who was great enough to Weae succegalud wac and brave oncugh to | ees se Insure to his datry honorable and umtversal Peace. ie i a Congress Yesterday — Steamskip Subsidy Dilla—The Milenty Académy Digicultiens The Senate yesterday, as if by way of va- riety, devoted itself to practtcal legislation. Thero {s no subject in which the people of this city particularly, and the pooplo of the whole seaboard of the United States, have a deeper interest than in the revival of our commerce; and yot, with a degree of tgnorance or care- legsness strangely at variance with the pros- perity of that interest and with the policy of all other enlightened nations, our government’ has pald og-attention whatever to that mosé important subject. We are within about a fortnight of the termination of the Forty-first Congress, and with the exception of the closs ing hour of the last session, when in the tar- moi! and confusion incident to adjournment there was a fruitless atlempt made to legislate for the benefit of our shipping and commercial interasts, it' may be truthfully said that Gon- gress has paid no attention whatever to the question of a revival of American commerce. ‘This neglect is the more oulpable when the frivolous matters over which the time of Oon- gress has been fritiered ‘away are taken Into consideration, as, for instance, the Senate spend!ng the whole of Monday’s session over the question of an official oath of a Senator, and the House spending the whole of yes- terday’s session over « contested election cage which had been already decided and over a squabble of schoolboys with which ft should, nover have interfered. But at last the Senate did yesterday take up the subject of our com- mercfal interests, and did something in the way of a revival of commerce. It discussed and passed, by a vote of twenty-four to twenty, a bill for the establishment of a semi-monthly mail steamship service between New Orleans, Galveston aud the ports of Mexico. By the terms of the bill the Postmaster General is authorized to make a contract for the carrying of the mails on that route, The company is to supply, within eighteen months, three first class iron steamships of not less than fiftesn hundred tons burden, built so as to be easily convertible into ships for war purposes. The contract is to be lim- ited to ten years, and the annual compensa- tion to the company is to be limited to one hundred thousand dollars, besides a reason- able allowance for any pioneer vessela that may be placed on the line during the next eighteea months, or until the contract really commences. The Post Office Committee of the Senate has also agreed to recommend an appropriation in the Post Office Appropriation bill to double the service and the compensa- tion of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company between San Francisco, China and Japan, We hope that these too-long deferred efforts may not prove abortive by means of factious opposition in the House of Representatives. We kuow. that the idea of subsidies is repug- nant to a very large class of people in Con- gress and out of it, but we must make up our mind to the proposition that without liberal sudsidies we shall never again see the American flag floatiag from the steamships of any American ocean steamship company, The amount that would be drawn from the Trea- sury for the purpose of fostering such enter prise would be returned tenfold in the addi- tional wealth that would be poured into the country through the development of our trade and commerce, and we hope that the stigma will cease to be attached to our republican government that it is the only enlightened government which refuses to aid its citizens or subjects {n extending their steamship entar- prises to all parts of the globe. Several other matters of minor interest were atiended to in the Senate yesterday, A House bill, to pay five thousand dollars to George I. Robinson, in recognition of his services in sav- ing Secretary Seward from assassiaation, in April, 1865, was passed. Adverse reports wera made on tho House bill remitting duties on imported articles donated to falra and disposed of for the bancfit of destitute citizens of France, on the ground that it would be practically impossible to execute such a law, and on the House bill authorizing the Secretary of State to have the bodies of United States ministers and consuls who died abroad conveyed back to and interred in the United States, on the ground that it would be a pres cedent in like cases for all time to come, In the House, ag we have already intimated, the whole of yesterday's session was com- pletely wasted. First, two hoprs of it were occupied fn talking over a contested election case, after it had been alr-ady decided by a vote of the House; them three hours more were consumed in disqussing the measure of punishment to be inflicted on some schoolhoys at the West Point Military Academy, who had commiticd an act of folly under the stimulus ef a high and honorable feeling; and, finally, the hours of a night session were devoted to the senseless absurdity of lettiag a few members read (0 empty chairs ent deserted galleries essays, studiously praparad, on different topics, and which might jurt as well have been banded in to the repersers for publication In the Congressional @lobe. “Behold,” said the Swedish statesman, ‘¢with what little wisdom tie world ia governedt” the Snow Storm~Tiv Streets, We are vexed with a double mischief, against which our tempor, tempered by phi- losopby, must leaca to bear ap. Tae air yos- terday was afloat with snow ilakes, which, although they fluttered as gently as summer butterfies, made very ugly mud and slush when they touched this unromantic earth of ours. Poets might luxuriate in the weather which we have been enjoying for the prat few days. What charming pictures for the poctic pencil! But, then, the poet-artist musi live ia the coun- try, and never, never should see Broad- way in this day of our most unpoetic tribnla- tion. The present siow storm seems fo have drifted {rom the westward, from which potot it blew during the late sforms,. and is now ve- coiliag upow es from the north aad. aags, with a snap of cold hail, now and then mixed with feathery snow flakes. For yeara we havo not had such an accumulation of siow ia our streets. It stands six feet ‘high in the abu~ ments which have beon budltup on the ehde- ways in order to keep the highways oleur. The important queatlon is, bow aro wo to get. rid of this wast mass of frozen snow and flith? Many plans Lave been quggestod. But verhaps te sim