The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. oe 2 {Yelume XXXVI — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Sg HOUSE, corner of 8th av, ana 23d st.— OUIMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas Ricar.iev or ‘ SN Steal BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pomr; on, Wax Down (MAN axp TiGeR. pats oa FIFTH AVENUES THEATRE, Twenty-fourth sireet.— BATO@A. * GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.-VaRiETY ENTER- MAINNENT, &C.—GRBEN Bannen. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Dir PRILLR. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 384 at., betweon 6th and 6th avs,.— rone.rrv. * WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 80th st.—Perform: ,Bnces every afternoon and evening, ,, FOURTEENTR STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— ORELUBU. { NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tue SP: ‘Tux BLACK CROOK. TO eee: ‘_WALLACK'S THEATRE, Bi strect— ‘HomE—BivE Devits. >, roadway end) Ip \LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 ES Broadway.—HUNTED Down; On, rae Two Li ABY LEIGH. i = MRS, F. Iheatou A TONY, PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- ixay ENTERTAINMENT. } THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Brondway.—Co mio Vocat- ‘mus, Nrexo Acis, do. if | {SAN FRANCISCO MINSPREL HALA, 585 Bros — WWeouo MinerneLoy, Fances, BURLESQUE, eee \ | BRYANT’S NEW OPERA HO Ana 7th avs. —Neouo MiNeTRE 1, 284 st., between 6th Eooentgrcities, &0. i & {s HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.— "8 AN Keury & Leoy's Miworecce’ cee f APOLLO HALL. corner oath street and Broadway,— |Du. Coury’s DIORAMA OF IRELAND, cas NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth Si jTuR RING, ACROMATS, ‘AC. eT Ten 7, © SOMERVILLE ART GALL MIGITION OF Woxas OF AX’ ERY, 82 Fifth avenue —Ex- _NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY & JBorenor anv Aur. ih a “DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 - MBOLENCE AND ant, 5 aad mele: TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, February 21, 1871. ’ con Pace. i Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. t. Domingo : The Tennessee Safe; Interesting Letters of Our Special Correspondents; Sa- mana Bay and {ts Beauties; the Yankee Vist- tors Delighted; the Commizsioners Received e Dominican President; Baez and Wade is Speakers—Map of Our Proposed Territorial Acquisition, 4—St, Domingo (Continued from Third Page)— Annexation of Canada—Custom House af- ialrs—Perils of a Poor German Tailor. S—Washington : Senator Sumner Rapidly Recover- ing His Health; Frank Biair Again Fighung the Rebellion; Another Fraud Exposed by Representative Dawes: the McGarrahan Claim Disposed of by the House—The Late General Magruder—Bills Signed by the Governor— Suicide of an Invalid—An Eight Hundrea Dol- lar Haul -Proceedings in the (ourts—Impor- tant Decisions by Judge Blatchford—The Ship Neptune Case, G—Eiitorials : Leading Article, “The Good News from St. Domiigo—The Letters from Our Special Correspondents—A Very Intereating Hudget”"—Amusement Announcements, is (Continued trom Sixth Page)—Ger- Terms ot Peace—The French National tobly—The German Headquarters—Gen- erai Report from France—The Joint High Commission—The Peace Congress—News fvom Ja;naica—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Personal Intelligence - Amusements—Business Notices. 8=—Pigeon Shootng Extraordinary—The Prize King in Ohio—A Man-Trap in Trenton—The New York italian Unity Meettng—Ilinois In- telligence—Interesting Masonic _Relic—The McCosh Lectures— Evening High School—The French Relier Fund—The New Hamburg Dis- aster—Washington and Richmond Railroad— Financial aud Commercial Keports—Marrtages, Birth and Deaths, “NTS OF TC-DAYS HERALD, 9—News from South America—Horse Thieving— Forgery in Brooklyn—Hawking $1,000 Bonds— The Fatal Fire in Brocklyn—The Brooklyn Fire Department—the Albany Express Robbery— Advertisements, @0—The Carnival ot Washington—Shipping In- ‘ welligence—Advertisemenis, i—Advertisemenis. 2—Advertisements. A VENERAELE GENTLEMAN in this city, we inderstand, has invited Louis Napoleon to fome to this city and take one of his old strolls pn our Battery, He says the ex-Emperor will be both astonished and delighted at the provements he will find if he comes by next pummer. Ai oa Tre CARNIVAL rx WasnIncToN.—Onr neigh- bors in the capital seem to baye gotten up a ‘very good entertainment in the tiatier of & carnival celebration of the completion of a wooden pavement on Pennsylvania avenue. The full details of the festivities are furnished in another column. They show that Wasbing- ton was gayer and jollier than it has been for many along day. Although the object of all this ado seems to be insignificant to New Yorkers, who would not have a wooden pave- menf"on Broadway, Washington visitors who remember Pennsylvania avenue as it was, with its cobble stones and ruts and jolting places, ‘ean readily conceive that it filled the Washing- jtoa heart with joy to have it completely laid with the smooth and easy-going wooden }awment. Jupaz Barnarp, of the Supreme Court, gave a good rap yesterday at the growing tengency toward groundless and unjust litiga- tiqs. A lawyer brought suit to recover com- wmissions largely in excess of the amount paid him for his services, and was beaten on bis own testimony. On the question of extra allowances the Judge granted ten thousand dollars in ‘allowances against the litigous lawyer, and in Going so stated that he should avail himself of every such opportunity to discourage suits having no justifiable cause of action. If all ‘our judges would conform to this determina- on of Judge Barnard there would be a good deal less business for the courts to do, and, in \good time, less taxes for the citizens to pay. ALABAMA Bonbs AND RAILROAD SuBsipigs.— The Selma (Alabama) Zimes of the 16th inst. publishes a letter from General James H. Clan- ‘ton, chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee, and, as the Montgomery State Jour- ‘nal remarks, generally regarded as the active Jeader of the democratic party in the State, Jn this letter General Clanton reviews the question of paying the interest on the endorsed ‘Alabama bonds from a thoroughly democratic standpoint, The whole subject turns upon the pivot of railroad subsidies from the State— he demoorats agreeing to allow twelve Thousand dollars per mile and the republicans gixteen thousand, The increase is declared by the democrats to be a republican job, hence it is opposed by them, General Clanton is severe upon what he terms the railroad “ring.” J The Good News from St Domingo~The Letters from Orr Special Correspondents A Very Inatoresting Budget. And there is this peculiarity about the Hay- tion niggers: They have set themselves up a8 superior to white men. In their bloody revo- We devote, with a map, a large portion of lution against France they first exterminated all our available news columns this morning to the budget of interestinz letters from our special correspondents accompanying the United States exploring expedition to, and in the island of, St. Domingo, After all the doubts and anxieties concerning the safety of the good ship Tennessee these letters will be read with unusual interest and satisfaction, although, considering the grand object of the expedi- tion, they would under any circumstances challenge the general attention of our people. They will be found a pleasing diversiop from the proceedings at Berlin, Versailles and Bordeaux, in withdrawing the mind from tho misfortunes and humiliations of poor France to the expanding grandeur, power, glory and “manifest destiny” of these United States. There fs a peculiar fascination ia these St, Domingo letters which recalls our rity first reports of Fremont’s discoveries of the natu- ral wonders in and beyond the Rocky Moun- tains; the reports of Speke and Grant’s and of Baker's discoveries of the great equatorial lake fountains of the mighty Nile; the letters of our special correspondent accompanying Napier's famous and rsiaantts Abyssinian expedition, descriptive of that sirange people, those wild and lofty tablelands of Central Africa, their awful abysses and their Alpine passes; the letters from our appointed travel- ler among the localities of ancient Babylon and Nineveh, the Tower of Babel and the Garden of Eden, and the fascinating reports from the recently discovered diamond mines vf South Africa, We say that all these things are recalled to our mind in reading these letters from St. Domingo, because they, too, are full of their peculiar charms of novelty and romance. It is, indeed, most wonderful that this tropical island, which, within the memory of some of its living inhabitants, poured into the treasuries of France and Spain from the products of its prolific and exhausiless: soil, the wealth of a great empire, should now, from its industrial decay and in its archi- tectural ruins, remind one of those mighty nations whose glories faded away thousands of years ago. But what is the prospect for annexation ? It is too soon yet to tell in behalf of this éxploring expedition. The Commission lost no time after reaching the island, but pro- ceeded at once to business, Under Senator Morton’s resolution of inquiry, however, they have much todo. From the first landing of Christopher Columbus, on that ‘holy Sun- day,” Santo Domingo, from which the island takes its name, down to this day, they have to look up the political history of the two repub- the whites they could find, and then they ex- terminated the mulattoes of the colony, because of the white blood in their veins, Since that day the Haytien blacks have legislated against white equality and to keep off white men. They are now reported to be at the bottom of Cabral’s insurgent operations against Baez in Dominica, and as a last resort, it is said, Hayti will make war against the United States to defeat this proposed annexation of Domi- nics. We are quite sure, however, that a high-colored commission to Hayti, of pure blacks, on a liberal margin of ‘“‘backsheesh,” would goon bring round the Haytien govern- ment. And are not all annexation schemes accomplished in this way? They are, And shall we pretend: to be better than the old Knickerbockers, who purchased Manhattan Island of the Tuidiais? No, We are going to annex Dominica, and then the ways and nidans will be found to annex Hayti. Thus the whole island will be reclaimed to law and order, Peace and prosperity, and toa production of coffee, sugar, rice and tobacco, cabinet woods, dyestuffs, &c., which will soon add a hundred jiltions a year tg the wealth of the country, Above all, is not this thing wrilten-as the first chapter in the West India book of ‘Manifest Destiny?” And what is ‘“manfest destiny?” Anything in the future which we see is bound to come, as we see the annexation of St. Domingo. Doings at Versailles and Bordeaux. In another page of the Heratp this morning wo publish interesting despatches from our special correspondents at Versailles and at Bor- deaux. From these we learn that although the terms upon which France can secure peace are prepared, and possibly by this time have been submitted to the representatives of the nation, yet what these terms are is not known outside of French and German diplomatic circles. Bismarck has well concealed his intentions. One day they are reported to be moderate, and the very next day we receive the report that the Ger- man demands are exorbitant. We now learn from the HERratp’s correspondent at Versailles that in deliberating on the conditions of peace it is proposed, on the part of Germany, to de- mand the cession of Nice to Italy and the neu- tralization of Savoy. The intention of this, if such a project is contemplated, would be to disintegrate France as much as possible, and to place obstacles in the way in view of future difficul- tles which might possibly arise. No one ! knows beiter than Bismarck how deep the defeats of the campaign just closed have sunk lics, the present external and internal politi- cal and financial relations and condition of Dominica, its religious and social condition, its soil and climate, its storms and earth- quakes, its population and their imports and exports, the geology of the country, its mines and minerals, its trees, fruits, roots and flowers, its beasts of the field, itd fowls of the air and its fishes of the sea, and soon; and then, from all this mass of testimony, honest “Old Ben Wade” will make up his report to the President on annexation—yea or nay—for submission to the consideration of Congress. It is supposed that all these inqui- ries charged upon the Commission can be suffi- ciently covered in four weeks, so that in about six weeks we may begin to look for the return of our high Commissioners. All hands from the Tennessee are in rap- tures with the tropical beauties and prodigal natural riches of the island. The transition from the bleak, wintry landscapes, snow storms and freezing winds of the North to the surrounding forests of palm trees and the per- petual summer of Samana Bay was too de- lightfal to be resisted. And that glorious bay of itself—beautifully sheltered, deep and capacious—is, we should say, from the testi- mony of our correspondents, worth to the United States ten times over all the estimated expenses of the gnnexation of the whole island—Dominica, ie ‘and all, “Next, 60 far as the plédiscite has progressed, the people of Dominica are for annexation and the stable governmént they éXpect from it. But the scheme has its drawbacks already discovered. The people—yellow, copper-hued, mahogany- colored and black—are all right on the dogma of equality. President Baez, a light mulatto, was in this view perfectly charmed with the equality of our mixed Commission, furnishing in its white and colored members conclusive evidence that, as there are. no distinctions of |. color in Dominica, so there are none in the United States. Fred Douglass and his son, arm in arm with the veteran Ben Wade and Professor White, have completely satisfied the mixed Dominicans on this question of “‘liberty, equality and fraternity.” ~\ What, then, are these drawbacks to this con+ templated annexation? First, it is suggested) that these Dominicans are Spanish in language’ and custom, and therefore a strange element, difficult to assimilate with our people. This is a mistake; for General Kearny, with his | conquest of New Mexico, in 1847, declared it annexed; and from some housetop he swore in those Spanish-Mexican people of all colors as citizens of the United States, a townful at a time, and they have been good citizens ever since. So it will be with the Dominicans. Next it appears that our High Commissioners have discovered that Fabens, Cazneau and Madame Cazneau, Sullivan, Spofford and other originators of and speculators in this en- terprise have secured a perpetual lease of all the valuable water front around Samana Bay, and that Fabens, the head centre of the ring, has secured the title deeds to one-fifth of all the lands of the republic, Then it is said thet neither Fabens nor any of his speculative con- federates are to be found, but that they have all mysteriously disappeared to parts un- known, as if to evade a cross-examination. Here, then, is a stupendous job, in which Uncle Sam is to be used as the cat’s-paw; but what of it? Is there not in every great public enterprise a big job? Did we not find it so even in the purchase of Alaska? These Dominican speculators, moreover, can be whittled down to reasonable terms. They can’t expect to pocket all the spoils and profits of this annexation. BD teen But there isa more serious difficulty to this annexation in the adjoining black republic of Hayti. Those black fellows know that as soon as Dominica is absorbed their turn will gome, into the heart of the French nation, and that as soon as the French people find themselves in a position to wipe out the disgrace of the Carrying the War Into Mexico. We are accustomed to hear of revolutionary agitation, political demoralization and occa- sionally of earthquakes in Mexico. It is not, therefore, surprising to be informed by the latest news from the capital of that disordered country that the chief Lozada and his Indians in the Tepic district have taken up arms against the State and federal governments at Coruna, which bave taken the field against them; that the war in Guerrero continues with varying success; that many anticipate a revo- lution, or an attempt at one, on the election of a President; that stupendous frauds are charged upon the Treasurer General, who is held responsible. for a deficiency of five mil- lion dollars; that it is alleged a prominent statesman of Mexico has made a million by his defalcation, and that a slight shake of an earthquake Waa feit at the caplial on the 7th inst. We are used to such details of Mexican news, " that. the in the capital on the 12th of February that a Prussian corvette had captured two rich French prizes in the Pacific, And the great excitement was unabated which had been caused by a German-French riot in the city of Mexico on the Gth inst, On that day the Ger- mans had a grand celebration at their club rooms, The French, through their repre- sentative, who holds no official relations with the Mexican government, and there- fore invoked the intervention of the United | States Minister, undertook to prevent the demonstration. Minister Nelson could do no more than lay the matter before the Minis- ter of State; but this led to the adoption of such measures beforehand as prevented more serious consequences than those which fol- lowed a subsequent attempt of French rioters to break up the German meeting. The rioters were dispersed by the police, but not until many persons had been wounded, among them one lady and several Mexican spectators. Most of the wounded were Frenchmen, the Germans seeming to be as victorious in Mexieo as their compatriots in France. The authorities ordered the German flag to be hauled down from the club room, This- was held by the Germans to bea direct insult to Germany, inasmuch as the new imperial flag had just been hoisted for the first time. That symbol of the new German empire has not yet inspired the Mexican authorities with so much respect as certain British statesmen have has- tened to show toward it. The result, how- ever, has been that numerous street fights “~ SEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1871.-TRIPLE SHEXT, reason is, probably, that the present Legisla- ture knows when it is attempting to take any- thing out of its reach, and, like a bear ap- proaching hot ashes, withdraws its claws be- fore they are scorched, The Tennessce—Her Arrival at St. Domingo. - After days of anxiety on the part of those having friends and relatives on board the Tennessee, made anxious by the absurd and criminal doubts regarding her safety and in- sinuations of her loss which have been given tothe world by journals that depend upon getting up sensational stories to maintain a miserable existence, we have the pleasure of announcing her safe arrival at Samana Bay, St. Domingo, on the 24th of January, after a safe and pleasant passage of seven days from New York, all well on board. Not for one instant, since her departure from her anchor- ge off Staten Island, have we felt the slightest anxiety regarding the safety of the Tennessee and those on board. We have made it a point ; 26 explain why reported steamers could be the Tennessee, and why they could not, and these explanations haya proved correct, and at the same time we have assertea'a every day's issue that she was safe, that she haa Stived at her destination, that her people were on | shore enjoying themselves ina tropical tem- perature and admiring tropical scenery, and that they would be heard from in good time, and in these assertions we were correct also; and now we have great satisfaction in know- ing that much of the trouble caused by the silly stories that have been circulated for days past and nearly all the anxiety has been quieted by the modest but firm assertions we have made, without reservation whatever, that the Tennessee was all right. Tn doubtful matters of any nature it is a safe thing to place reliance upon the HERALD's as- sertions and opinions, What it says is always based upon a knowledge of the subject, and those who read it feel assured that it is in nine cases out of ten correct. The per- sons who had friends and _ relatives board the Tennessee, and who read the HERALD, never doubted their safety. They went to bed and slept as soundly as if the ship was moored alongside the cob-dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It is only those— and we rejoice that the number is few—who will persist in reading sensational matter that felt the slightest uneasiness regarding their friends. They were tormented day after day by hintsand dark surmises; they were led to imagine the worst; they were taught to build up frightful scenes of shipwreck and its attendant horrors until at last they were almost rendered fit sub- jects for a lunatic asylum, and now that the daily occur between the German and French residents in the Mexican capital. The latter are not satisfied with perpetual war and rumors of war in the distracted country where they are sojourning; they must needs bring coals to Newcastle and carry the war into disasters which they have sustained they will be no way slow in taking the initiative step toward obtaining satisfaction. * In contrast to the report from Versailles, the HeERawp’s correspondent in Bordeaux speaks in a more favorable strain, and informs us that there is some reason for the belief that the Ger- man terms will not be exorbitant. The talk regarding the extravagance of the conditions upon which Germany will only make peace, it is contended, was circulated for effect, in order that when the time came to reveal the real terms they would appear mode- rate in comparison with those spoken of so extensively. Should this prove to be the case we are willing to acknowledge the wisdom of the means adopted to ascertain the state of the public mind, not only in France, but throughout Europe generally. Bismarck has all along taken a decided stand on the question of the settlement of the difficulty between Germany and France, and has given outside nations to understand very distinctly that no interference would be tolerated; but, powerful as is the German em- pire to-day, and backed as it is by a large and victorious army, it cannot afford to disregard the public sentiment of all Enrope, A wise, sagacious _and far-seeing statesman would rather ‘altempt to cultivate friendly feelings in order to neutralize the jealousies which the sudden acquirement of the stupendous power which united Germany has so recently obtained will naturally engen- der. Taking this view of the subject, it is possible that Bismarck’s terms may be more reasonable than the cries raised about the German Chancellor’s extravagant exactions have led the public to conjecture. Passing over the subject of the peace terms with the foregoing comments, another subject suggests itself—the future government of France. Will it be monarchical or republi- can? It seems to be pretty well understood in Bordeaux at the present time that, not- withstanding the formidable prray of mon- archists in the National Assembly, they are far from being united on a candidate for the throne. There is no likelihood of either of them uniting on one. It also appears that many who are rated as monarchists are really repub- licans and men who recognize the present time as most favorable for the establishment of a republic on the American system. Should this prove to be the fact, and the men who hold the reins ef government prove true and be able to succeed in making an honorable peace with the Germans, the world may see rise from out the débris of the ruined em- pire a real republic, founded on the political equality of the whole people of the French nation. Tary Have Hap a “bribery and corruption” case in the Virginia House of Delegates. One member, a colored radical, had a sum of money placed in his hands, but has no idea who did it. Here's an instance where a colored gentleman was certainly in the wood pile. A Kenrvoxy Jupce thinks the best Ku Klux bill that cam be passed is the bill allow- ing negroes to testify in the courts, He says :—‘‘Society needs to be rid of this class of men (the Ku Kluxes) who are so fast render- ing the name of Kentucky a synonym ef law- lessness.” Tue Festan Exires have flown to Washing- ton. They have received no formal reception as yet, but from the pressing kindness of the Irish citizens there it is probable they will be as closely imprisoned in the Ebbitt House as they were inthe bastiles of Great Britain or * here at Sweeny’s, Mexico. The Troubles in Arkansas. There is a serious likelihood of lively times in Arkansas, and lively times in Arkansas ‘means blood, hair, corruption and the ‘‘ ground tore up.” The old bowie-knife duels across a handkerchief and the famous shot-gun com- bats over a table are mere miniature instances of what may be apprehended in a few days, unless the tendency towards blood among the high officials of the State is summarily stop- ped. The case stands thus :—Governor Clay- ton, who is a most unrelenting radical, has had articles of impeachment presented against him by the democratic House of Representatives for various alleged offences, such as conspiring to oust the Lieutenant Governor—one Johnson, a rabid democrat— aiding in election frauds and other malfeasance, in office; but all, without a doubt, merely covering the real charge of being a radical. : Qn the strength of this impeachment, and before the articles are presented in the Senate, Lieutenant Governor Johnson declares himself acting Governor and directs Clayton to vacate his office. This Clayton declines to do and surrounds himself with State troops and calls into the field all the remaining State. militia that will obey him. Then Acting Governor Johnson calls on the militia, too, and so the game has arrived at that interest- ing point which has been so frequently com- memorated in the history of draw poker in Arkansas, where the preponderance of aces and revolvers wins the ‘‘got.” Inthe meantime the managers of the im- peachment present themselves to the Senate merely to find that body thinned out below the consistency of a quorum by the absence of the astute radical members, and therefore they cannot present tha.articles officially. Why they should cling to red tape at all in such a lawless muddle is remarkable, but it seems they do, Then, again, Clayton, if we may be allowed to continue a simile that will be per- fectly familiar to the general Arkansas reader, “fills out his hand” by swearing a new and specially prepared Chief Justice, whose first duty is to serve an injunction on the Acting Governor to restrain him from acting. The Johnson men “‘fill” with another impeachment, the new Chief Justice being the object of the new articles. Thus stande the game at present, and all now depends upon the most judicious drawing of aces, militia and re- volvers. The whole fight seems to be merely a politi- cal contest for supremacy. The democrats are trying to carry the State, just as they have carried North Carolina, and the result will be the martial law and bloody scenes and out- rages enacted by Kirk’s lambs and the Ku Klux in the latter State. The people of the State are not interested in any great degree in any such revolutionary movement, and they cer- tainly do not desire a change of government so heartily as to undergo the terrors and horrors of civil war to gain it. Governor news of her safety has been received and the reaction has set in, they see how terribly they on | have been dealt with, how completely they have been misled, and they exclaim, ‘‘Why did we not read the HERALD and believe what it said? How much misery and unhappiaoess we would have been saved!” We agree with them fully, and it will be a lesson for them in future, one that we hope they will profit by. The Hzratp makes it a rule to bring happi- ness, rather than misery, whenever it can. It never will cause sorrow if it can be avoided, and while it gives news, no matier how dis- agreeable, it never will publish mere rumors and reports that may be the means of creating mach mischief without they have positive foundation. By observing this rule with regard to the Tennessee we have very possi- bly prevented serious consequences. There was no ground for our doing other than we did. There was no reason why the Tennessee should be lost; no reason why she had not arrived at her destination. We knew the latest dates from St. Domingo, and we also knew that until later wera received there was no possibility of her being heard from. With this knowledge we held our point, and the result has been, as we knew it would be— viz., the Tennessee is safe and the Heratp correct. The London Conference and Sea Question. We print this morning a cable despatch which stafts that the London Conference has resolved to open the Black Sea to foreign men-of-war, and to authorize the Porte to allow tbe armed vessels of all nations, Rus- sian and Roumanian alone excepted, to pass through the Dardanelles. It is added that Russia is not opposed to this settlement of the question, but that Turkey hesitates. If the London Conference has managed to give birth to this grand arrangement it must be credited with an amount of wisdom which has rarely been granted to any assembly of mortals, Russia isto be allowed to have ships in the Black Sea; so are all the nations of Europe. The ships of all other nations are to have free ingress and egress through the Dar- danelles, but Russia must content herself in the waters of the Euxine, It is well that this report comes from Berlin, and that Turkey is reported to hesitate. The marvellous part of the report is that Russia is not opposed to a plan which openly insults her. Then the Porte objects to Powers having more than two ships-of-war in the Danube. We await further news. the Black Tae New Dommion anp THE Jot Hien Commtsston.—Our New Dominion friends are greatly exercised about the probable doings of this Joint High Commission, which pro- mises to establish peace between the Old World and the New. In another place will be found the sentiments of the Toronto Leader and the Toronto Globe. The Leader is weak, but the Globe is plucky and slightly ‘‘sarcas- tical.” We can assure our New Dominion friends that the Joint High Commission means to settle matters whether they will or will not. In the premises they are of little account. The sooner they know the fact the better. Tas Way 10 Do It.—New York has col- Clayton is the United States Senator elect and | lected nearly one hundred thousand dollars is to take his seat March 4, and it would have | for the relief of Paris. Now the question been better for their own purposes if the | arises, how soon will this money benefit the democratic agitaters had waited his natural | Parisians? In the ordinary course of affaixs, withdrawal from the governorship. As it is | what with bargaining and trading among the we are likely to have another Mexico among | men who want to make a profit on the sale of our newly reconstructed States—another | provisions to the committee, it would take a synonym for anarchy and disorder, another | month for the relief to reach France. The byword of scorn and ridicule among the order- | proper way todo isto transfer the equiva- loving States of the Union and another argu- | lent of the amount to the credit of a bank in ment against amnesty and Vance. Liverpool, buy the provisions there and ship them immediately to Paris, all of ‘which would Iipsemeentuinretisene tesla Congress Ye.terday—The McGarrahan Case< Railroad Financiering—Annexation of Canw da~frank Blair en the Rampage. The famous McGarrahan case at last reached a termination in the House yesterday. Th¢ dénouement of this “romance of rascality,” ai it was pertinently characterized in the debate on Saturday, was favorable to the hero of the romance, who had been alluded to in the sama debate as “‘the poor exile of Erin.” If pluck and perseverance that were daunted by no obstacles, and which no adverse circumstances diminished, deserved success, then was Wil. liam McGarrahan a man whose claim wad entitled to consideration and confirmation, As between him and his great adversary, the New Idria Mining Company, we doubt not that the decision of the House will be endorsed by all the people who bave ever heard of this celebrated case. But we incline to the opinion that the facts would have better justi- fled the House in coming to the con+ clusion, as proposed by Mr. Cook, of Illinois, that neither party had a legal or equitable title, and that the government should take possession of the property. That propo- sition came very near being adopted, the vote on it being 100 to 104, The proposition which wo*.adopted, and the effect of which is to con- firm Motzartahan’s title, although exprassed im, a rather roundabout and ambigddid tanner, was carried by a vote’of 110 to 92, The trouble about it, however, is that as itisa joint resolution and requires césiénrrent action by the Senate there is not the slightest pros- pect of such action at the present session, and the whole thing must fall with the close of the Forty-first Congress, on the 4th of March next, leaving McGarrahan, like another Sysiphus, to commence his uphill work over again, , Among the propositions introduced in the House and appropriately referred, under the call of States, was a resolution of inquiry as to the action of the Central Pacific Railroad Company in mortgaging the lands granted to it by the government, and a_ resolution requesting the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to enforce the collection of the tax of five per cent, amounting to $1,151,800, on the issue of scrip of the New York Central Railroad Company. It is too late in the session, however, to render any report or action on those subjects either probable or possible. The bill to establish the Northwestern bound- ary line, which was before the House on Sat- urday, came up again yesterday, and, after considerable discussion, was passed. The debate upon it developed the interesting fact that the Joint High Commission appointed to settle all questions in dispute between our government and that of Great Britain is expected to take such action as will abolish the boundary line altogether, by ceding to the United States the Northwestern portion of the British North American possessions, if not the whole of the Dominion of Canada. That idea must have progressed beyond the region of mere fancy, since it has found o@ resting place in the practical mind of the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. The only other point of interest in the discussion was an allusion by Mr. Swann, of Maryland, to the Chorpenning fraud, in which he expressed the regret that Mr. Dawes had not represented to the Presi- dent the enormity of the transaction, because the retention of Mr. Creswell in the Cabinet was regarded with profound astonishment, if not disgust, by the whole people of the country. This was rather a severe blow to be aimed by a distinguished Representative from Maryland at the Cabinet officer from that State, and may indicate an impending change in the Cabinet. The Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill, or, as it is more familiarly called, the “Omnibus bill,” was reported in the House yesterday. It foots up to the enormous figure of nearly thirty millions of dollars, including four millions and a» half for the payment of pensions to the surviving soldfers of the war of 1812, under the act passed some two weeks ago. In the Senate the Legislative Appropriation bill occupied nearly the whole of yesterday's session. The irrepressible Frank P. Blair, Jr., resumed his attack upon the reconstruc- tion polloy of the government, asserting that in creating and maintaining carpet-bag gov- ernments at the South the object was to enable the republican party to misgovern and plunder the country. -He also attempted to annihilate the philosopher of the Tribune under a shower of his own heavy editorial articles, published just before the outbreak of the rebellion, asserting the right of the South- ern States to secede and the willingness of the - North to let them go. He declared Mr. Greeley to be responsible for. the blood shed in the war, as well as for the vindictive spirit - which now animated the republican party, and characterized his malignity against those whom he had misled as only equalled by that of the devil himself. He also furnished a new. page of history to the credit of. the Blair family, in the assertion that every member of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet had: given an opinion in favor of surrendering the. public forts and property to the rebels except: Postmaster General Blair, on whose energetic: protest the Idea was abandoned, We begin to, seo that the entry into the Senate of this pala~ din from Missouri will have the effect, if not.of worrying and galling his political adversaries,’ at least of enlivening the usually stupid; pro ceedings of that very respectable but rathy drowsy body. The House bill to enforce the fiftey jt, amendment by securing the purity of tha ja). lot box through the intervention of f¥ goral authority was reported back yester? ay by Senator Conkling from the Judici: y Com- mittee, with. the intimation that the attention of the Senate would be asked to it/¥ ory goon, in the hope that its friends would/a! iand by it until 9 vote is reached, a Dr. Gwe, the convicted ¥ gamist, may yet escape the five years’ hard ‘ labor in State Prison to which hie was sentenor .d by Recorder Hackett in the Court of Ge aeral Sessions, Judge Barnard yesterday gv'anted a writ of error, being an appeal from the judgment of the court convicting himy, and ‘the effect of which will be to carry the Case before the General Term of the Suprem's Court to decide whether the allegation of error in the trial Tur Arpany Argus—democratic organ— | take hardly three days, Let, our charity not | holds good. The allog’4on ig that the indict- says the business of our Logislature the | he a limping, lame charity, but « prompt one, present session Ip fag beyond last year. The that will give succor at anna ment was defective in, not Properly speoifyin; ‘ the allezed bigamy. It this ig found to ve Po