The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news leiter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVERING. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Ma- fae SeEBACH IN EGuont, BOOTH’S THEATRE, 334 verween Kb and 6tp ave,— RiowErie. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, ances every afternoon ani even! ‘ner 30th st.—Perform- NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘Tne BLACK Cxook. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Hroadway and 1th street.— A MoRNing CaLt—Woovo00cn’s LitTLe Game. Broadway.—Tu® SPECTACLE oF LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 7% Broadway,—HuNnTep Down; On, THE TWo LivEs OF Mary Lxtod. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av, ana 23d st.— Baaue Burr. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tu® RICKELIRU OF Tak PERIOD. Matinee at 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pomr; on, Way Down SovuTH—JaQues STROP. FIFTH AVENUK THEATRE, Twenty-fourty street.— SaRaT06a. GLOBE THEATRE. TAINMENT, £0.—A¥T) Vacirry Pyren. jatinee at 234. MRS. F. B. 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CONTENTS OF TG-DAWS RERALD. 1—Advertis Q— Advertiser S—The Darien nts. ‘anal: Proposed Route of the In- ssage; Feasibility of the Present ect; Map of tie Route—The Dommion Pare Hament—The Arkansas Impeachment Ka — Sieamboat Explosion on tie Mi sippi. ' 4—Proceedings in Congress—New Jerse} ture—The Westchester Will Case: Commissioner : A Quiet Talk With Macdonaid Concerning the High Commuissi¢ The Hamburg Disaster—the Great Coal | Striki Ecuador and the Pope. $—Yachting: Commenceinent of Operations in New London; liems and Gossip—Brookiyn Bad Buildings—Proceedings in the Courts— Card from Rey. Dr. Ewer—Seekig Matri- moutal Riddance: Peculiar Divorce Proceed- lugs in che Supreme Court. 6—Editorials : Leading Articie, “The Conspiracies of the ‘Rings’ Against the lidustries of tn People—Protits of the Few trom the Pauper- Jsm ot the Many’—Amusement Annouice- ment. '7—Editurials (continued from Sixth Page)—Paris : The German Entry to Take Plac. ‘o-day— Peace: The Terms Read by Tmers to the —The Victor’s Return—General Re- ports—News from Cuba, Jamaica and Hayu— The St. Domingo Commission—Miscellaneous Cable News—Views of the Past—Business Notices. S—Financial and Commercial Keports—Real Es- tate Matiers—A Trinity of Murderers—The Sing Sing Murder—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements, 9—Aavertisements. 10—News from Washington—Affairs at the State Capitai—The Joint High Commission—E£xten- sive Fire—Shipping Iniel!igence—Advertise- ments, 3. 1—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Ir Is Sratep that Boss Tweed has bought the Metropolitan Hotel property. He may be very good at running rings, or running brooks fo supply the Croton, or running candidates for Congress, the Legislature or the Common Council; but can he, we ask in all serious- nesg, ‘“‘run a hotel?” Tne Cooresr Tone OvutT—The agitation at this time of the American spoliation claims against France for depredations prior to 1800, If France would not pay them in her most prosperous days she is not likely to do so now, at least not until that little bill the Emperor of ‘Germany has against ber is liquidated. Mr. CREAMER IN THE STaTE SENATE pro- ‘poses to make the Wall street stock and gold brokers take out licenses and deposit security with the State that they will observe the pro- visions of the law. These favored individuals have enjoyed unbridled license in many im- portant events wherein they figured, and on many carnival occasions when merriment ran riot, and it is soothing to know that they will have to pay for their license in future. Sours America IN SvpporT oF THE Porg.—By a special correspondence from Guayaquil we learn that President Moreno, of Ecuador, bas forwarded to Florence an official protest against the action of King Victor Em- manuel towards the Pope. The paper is couched in the most decisive words of devoted meal to the Chair of Peter. The early mission- ary labors of Pio Nono in Peru have endeared him personally to the South American peoples independent of his position as Head of the Church. Droine Dirromacy.—If it is an established fact that dinners are the most persuasive element in diplomacy—and we believe they are—then we may conclude that the Joint High Commission in Washington will settle all the vexing questions they are expected to adjust with no difficulty whatever, if their siomachs hold out. Minister Thornton opened the discussion yesterday with a most effective presentment of his side of the case in the way of a dinner to all the Commissioners now in Wasb- ington. He is to be followed this evening by Secretary Fish's sweeping statement of our demands in the shape of another dinner. On Thursday and Saturday Earl de Grey will follow up Minister Thornton's argument, and next week all the British Commissioners will present their facts im the same way. President Grant is to take a hand in the argument next week also, and it is possible that by that time if the Alabama claims are not settled all the Commissioners will be “busted.” NEW YUKK HHKALD, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1. 1871.- TRIPLE SHEET, The Conspiracies of the “Rings” Against | is our home trade paralyzed, our handi- the Industries of the Few trom Many. To afford the greatest amount of good to the largest number of people is the first and legitimate aim of civil government. The sub- ject toilers surrender to the executive, toa very considerable extent at least, the right of regulating and supervising matters which re- late most essentially to their everyday per- sonal comfort and domestic economies; of affairs which affect their savings and income, and their expenditures; nay, their very health and the lives of their children. In proportion as the people believe that the government esti- mates the value of the trast which they confide to its care, so far have they confidence in the government, Let the administration once commence to avoid, to evade, to shirk, or to abnogate its duty toward the people, and jast inasmuch as is the lapsus on the part of the ruling power, will the bond which unites it to the community be shaken and society at large receive a shock. The repetition of such shocks, springing from such a cause, produces national demoraliza- tions. A demoralized nation cannot bea pow- erfal nation. It will either succumb at the footstool of a home tyranny or fall a victim to foreign force, foreign intrigue or a foreign moneyed Power. It is, consequently, abso- lutely necessary, both for the present well being and future stren (th of a country, that its the People—Profits of the Pauperism of the government should be vigilant, active, inde- | pendent and above, and perhaps, before all, honest. No class interest, no party, no fac- tion, no family consideration should be per- mitted to come between the governing autho- rity and those who are governed. Having premised thus much in the reitera- tion and commendation of a grand cardinal principle which regulates the vitality of the social superstructure, it is almost needless to assert that we think that there should be no “rings”—“‘rings” commercial, ‘‘rings” trading, “sings” manufacturing, market “rings,” or shop “rings.” ‘‘Rings” political are equally injurious as any of the others, and ‘‘rings” legislative absolutely ruinous; for if the par- liamentary expression becomes at all tainted the corrupt tongue is made to utter a citizen approval of everything which is false and bad as it is sent forth from the centre of each and every one of the “rings” to bear injury and loss to the people, and very frequently pauperize them to the extreme circumfer- ence of the territory, to the utmost limit of the public domain. Such has been the result at every stage of the world’s history when the great staples of man’s subsistence have been sported with by tyrants or preyed on by the members of voracious corporations. The ancient Romans beheld Caligula building bridges from Baiw to Puteoli, more than a | league in length, the pontoons of which were formed of the fleet of corn vessels which sup- plied the city with food, so that the inhabi- tants famished and died of starvation during the time while the fabric was maintained. It was believed at the moment that the tyrant was first moved to this act of brutality and murder by the money bribes of an interes! which was adverse to that of the dealers in breadstuffs. The poet Pope apostrophized the issue of Queen Anne’s paper money in the words :— Blest paper money! last and hest supply, Which lends corruption tighter wings to ‘ily. Dean Swift advised the Irish ‘to barn everything which came from England but their coal”—the witty and patriotic satirist thus in- culcatisg the absolute necessity which existed for national independent action against both the control of a foreign government and the interested intrigue of home and foreign corpo- rations. Napoleon the First found that his soldiers were cheated by ‘‘ring” men contractors at the very gates of Moscow, and left to perish and starve through the soulless operations of a like agency during their retreat from Russia. Napoleon the Third would in all human pro- bability be on the throne of France to-day had he cast off the ‘‘ring” men who encircled the Tuileries for years prior to the war with Prussia, and who followed him to the field, but left him at Sedan. As it has been in the past, so will it be in the present. Like canses produce similar effects. The American people must take warning from the teachings of history. They must not permit that the industrial interests of the republic shall be managed and directed by and for the sole personal profits of the members of certain “rings.” That there is danger of the advent of such a calamity and of a ruinous oppression of the rights of home labor was made painfully and alarmingly apparent a few days since by the operations of a set o/ really irresponsible persons in the matters of the supply and price of coal, the sufferings of our city poor serving merely as a stimulus to the greed of certain incorporated “ting” men, who thrust themselves forward as the representatives of the railroad and mining interests of the United States of America, It looks, indeed, as if an attempt will be made to surrender the great industries of the Union into the hands of “ring” men, The venting Post published an article last Monday, in which it was shown very clearly that the woollen manufacturing interests of the country—for the production of blankets, carpets and fabrics of heavy cloth- ing—are in danger at the hands of a set of associated capitalists who have ‘‘got the ear” of Congressional committees and are endeay- oring to control and master even our legisla- tion. The customs tariff rates are being ad- justed to suit them—to put money in their pockets at the expense of the consumers. Discriminating duties, for and against, are in operation, and for reasons other than the gain of the nation, Thus the duty on eommon carpet wools produced at home is fixed’ at three cents a pound, or about thirty per cent ad valorem, while the duty on fine scoured wools—which are absolutely necessary to mix with the home in order to supply a good substantial cloth—is fixed at thirty cents per pound and thirty per cent ad valurem, or, in the gross, over one hundred per cent ad valorem. The duty on blankets, which can be made from coarse wool, is fifty cents a pound and thirty-five per cent ad valorem ; that is to say, it is an absolutely prohibitory duty, ruinous to the pockets both of the operative aad the employer, just as the consequences of the coal conspiracy. The lowest duty charged on carpets is forty per cent. By such means The manufacture of the better grades of cloth bas been destroyed in America. The very few manu- facturers of blankets and carpets who work on the soil enjoy a monopoly which is of the most extreme profit to them, but ruinous to the people at large. A clique or “ring” of fine wool producers in New England have also a monopoly in the prices of their goods; they grow rich while the people shiver in the streets and in their garrets. American mills— mills which could ran cheaply by water power—stand idle for the reason that the manufacturers cannot obtain tbe foreign wools which are required to be mixed with the common home wools, The market of home producers is thus deteriorated to poverty at the very moment when the foreign markeis—from Australia to England— are glutted with wooly which would, under more equitable circumstances and without the “ring” men, be landed on our shores. This interruption of free trade—the glut at the foreign centres—enables, nay compels, our commercial rivals abroad to use their cheap labor and powerful machinery for the produc- tion of cloths of every grade, which they send to this country in quantities which enable them to undersell our mill owners at their own very doors. There is no life, no pricciple, no honesty in all this. American wool growers, manufac- turers, storekeepers, employers and work- meu—the American people, men, women and craftsmen beggared. ! children—suifer en masse, and all for the reason that a band of unseen and almost un- known monopolists may fatten and flourish at their expense. If the people tolerate this system of special legislation much longer the very lifeblood of the nation will be drained away silently. It is being drained away at this instant. The only wonder which we expe- rience is at the fuct that many more commer- cial failures have not already occurred. The American people have been placed under the operation of a “ring” turiff system which is | contrary to the spirit of the age, contrary to the spirit of free trade and in direct opposition to the intercommunion of the nations of the Earth. The general interests of the country are being depreciated here by the working of Cengressional committees, and there is mueh danger that our present “‘ring” system will bring us eventually to the feet of an aristocracy of money alone. Can the “ring” accomplish all this? It may be so. There is danger ever present to a nation so long as Millions shall kneel down And veg of hundreds what's their own. The Proposed Darien Ship Caoal—The New Route. From our special correspondent accom- panying the Darien Isthmus exploring ex- pedition, under Commander Selfridge, Uniled States Navy, we publish this morning (with an accompanying map) some, very interesting letters, descrip- tive of the new ship canal route discovered between the Gulf of Darien, on the Atlantic side, and the Gulf of San Miguel, on the Pacific. From these letters we are strongly rawn to the conclusion that the great problem is solved, and that, perhaps, a few years hence, our trading vessels between New York and San Francisco, by crossing the isthmas from the Gulf of Darien, will entirely cut off and save the long, tedious and dangerous cir- cult of Cape Horn and the South American Continent. We have heretofore regarded the Nica- ragua route as immeasurably the most feasible, the most inviting and the most advantageous of all the isthmus routes proposed for a ship canal. Between New York and San Francisco itis over a thousand miles shorter than the proposed Darien route; and a British engi- neer, Captain Pym, Royal Navy, after a careful exploration of the Nicaragua route, has esti- mated that a ship canal, with locks, may here be opened between the two oceans at the small expense of about twenty millions of dollars. The dividing plateau (that occu- pied by the great lakes Nicaragua and Mana- gua) is only three bundred feet above the sea level. The distance between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific is fifteen miles, which by this route is all the canal excavation that will be absolutely necessary ; for from the outlet of the lake on its eastern side (the San Juan river) the river, by locks and dams, may be made navigable to the Atlantic for the largest sbipa all the year round. Louis Napoleon (the present exile at Wilhelmsiéhe) was so fasci- nated with the commanding advantages of this route that he said the Power which, with a ship canal, shall hereafter hold those two lakes, Nicaragua and Managua, will hold a dominating naval and commercial position in the West equal to tiat of Constantinople in the East—that, in short, the little town of Massaya, between those aforesaid lakes, is destined to be the Constantinople of America. A glance at the map of North and Central America will be sufficient to convince the intelligent reader that Louis Napoleon, in his enthusiastic admiration of the Nicaragua route for a ship canal, was not far out of the way. But, notwithstanding the fact that Commodore Vanderbilt, with his California line of heavy draught steamships, has shown that the harbor on each side of this route is sufficient for practical purposes, neither of those harbors is all that could be desired. The harbor of San Juan especially is shallow, open and exposed, and that on the Pacific side ig too contracted for the purposes of a conti- nental isthmus canal and its great squadrons of commercial ships which, with and after the opening of the canal, will always be gathered at both ends of the line. The new route discovered by Commander Selfridge at Darien amply meets all the re- quirements of a deep, capacious and secure harbor at both ends of the line, and, we think, too, of a canal without lockages. The Gulf of Darien, on the Atlantic side, and the Gulf of San Miguel, on the Pacific, each leads into a deep, capacious and secure harbor, and thence into a navigable fresh water river. It is thought that, although from the mouth of the Atrato river, on this side, to the mouth of the Tuyra, on the other side, the route will pro- bably not exceed one hundred and twenty-five miles, the extent of the route to be excavated will not exceed fifty miles, and that the summit level of the dividing ridge to be overcome will be less than three hundred feet above the sea, or say two hun- dred above the present river navigation, The men of our exploring expedition lead us to these estimates from a preliminary reconnois- sance of a single route between the waters of the Atrato and the Tuyra, Each of these rivers has numerous branches interlocking in the sinuosities of the slender backbone of the Continent in that quarter, and it is believed that a still lower connecting depression than that discovered will be found. But the route indicated as reported will do. We conclude from our correspondent’s details of it that it is available for a ship canal, by a through cut, at less than half the cost of the Suez Canal. In other words, we estimate that a ship canal by the Darien route indi- cated, whereby a ship may sail straight through from ocean to ocean without lockage, may be excavated at half the cost required to open the Suez Canal. We believe, too, that when opened the trade of this Darien will be fifty times that of the Suez Canal. We have great hopes of the complete success of this exploration in the route suggested, and with its success the dullest landsman will begin to comprehend the advantages of St. Domingo as the halfway house between New York and the Gulf of Darien. ‘The News from Frauce. The terms of peace agreed upon between Thiers and Bismarck were read to the French Assembly on yesterday. They are substan- tislly the same as those unofiicially reported. One-fitth of Lorraine, including Metz and Thi- onville, and all of Alsace, except Belfort, goes to Germany, Nothing is said about Longwy being included in the cession, as stated in the special despatch to the London Times. We incline to the opinion that only part of the departments of the Moselle and Meurthe, with, perhaps, a narrow strip of the Vosges, in Lorraine, has been ceded. The extent of ter- ritory is not large, but it is of great strategic importance. Paris continues intensely agitated over the intended entry of the Germanarmy. Cau- tiously worded as are our reports from the city itis evident that serious disorders pro- vail. The murder of a policeman, invasion of St. Pélagie Prison, the denunciations of the government and the appeals of the press for calmness and dignity, prove the gravity of the situation. At ten o'clock this morning the entry will take place. It is aa un- wise, impolitic act; but we trust it will be unattended by bloodshed. We @hall not be surprised, however, if the most deplorable scenes are witnessed, notwithstand- ing the belief that there will be no conflict. With the National Guards bellizerent and the regulars discontented it will not require much provocation to precipitate a conflict between the victorious Germans and the Parisians. Such a struggle can have but one termination ; hence the authorities of Paris owe it to the non-combatants and to the city itself to make herculean efforts to preserve order. An evidence of how thoroughly prepared the Germans are for a resumption of hos- tilities was given yesterday when they attacked Havre, in ignorance of the prolonga- tion of the armistice. The fighting ceased as soon as they were notified of the arrangement between Thiers and Bismarck; but the energy | of their movements must have made a power- ful impression on the French while it lasted. JaMAIoA.—By special telegram from the HeRatp’s correspondent at Kingoton we learn that the direct steamship communica- tion with New York is infusing new life into that colony. [Italian opera is also adding gayety to the usually quiet life of Jamaica. A little row between the French and Prussian consuls has formed an exciting topic of con- versation; but the war ended without more than words. The colonial government is paying particular attention to the conduct of the colored population, with a view to placing the deserving in situations under it. The authorities are moving against the squatters, and are also taking possession of all property unrepresented and renting it out to persons who will give it care and attention. Jamaica is evidently waking up, and gives promise of renewed prosperity. Mr. Wasusurne Durine THE SIEGE OF Parw.—We publish this morning a letter written by Minister Washburne to Secretary Fish reporting his official acts during the siege of Paris. Every person interested will be gratified to learn that Mr. Washburne suc- cessfully protected and preserved all the property of Americans left under his charge. The most cordial support was given him by the authorities, and he was thus enabled to prevent the occupation of apartments belong- ing to Americans and to influence the abandonment of the project to tax the pro- perty of absentees. Mr. Washburne also afforded protection to Germans and to the Prussian Legation, in doing which he incurred the hostility of some of the Parisians and was denounced at the clubs and in the press. But nothing was attempted to inconvenience him or annoy him. Indeed he slates that he is well satisfied with having remained in Paris during the siege. Cuban Arratirs.—By telegram from the Heratp's special correspondent at Havana we learn that the case of Seiior Zenea is still before the Spanish Court Martial, and that the probabilities are he will be condemned, not- withstanding the desire on the part of the Captain General to save him. It would bea pity if, with so many extenuating circum- stances, he should be found guilty, and we cannot but hope that the humane policy of Valmaseda will influence those who compose the members of the court to a degree sufficient to secure his acquittal. Gotp 1103.—The gold market, which has pursued a devious and uncertain course ever since the war broke out in Europe last summer, is yielding to the normal influences of peace the world over. The great spring rise in the gold market has so far been a delusion to those who based their calculations upon euch a con- tingency. Yesterday the price declined to 1103, much te the chagrin of the “bulls,” who are greatly exercised over Mr. Boutwell’s policy of lowering gold and enhancing bonds preliminary to refunding the five-twenties. PRORATED TONES CY Exavmine Poutioat Fosstis—The ‘‘Buck- eye” correspondence in Western papers, in which revelations are made concerning the intrigues by which Seymour was nominated for President by the Democratic Convention.in 1868, Let the dead reat The Coming Yachting Sepson. Woe publish in another part of the paper several articles on yachting, which indicate that stirring times may be expected during the coming season among our yachtmen, A number of large and beautiful vessels are about being added to’ the fleet, and descrip- tions of several of them have been given, Mr. George Lorillard’s new yacht, the Enchantress, is about leaving on an extended cruise to the Azores and tho Mediterranean, She will return, however, in time to take part in the Operations of the fleet this summer. Mr. Louis Lorillard’s yacht, the Wanderer, is nearly ready for launching at Greenpoint, The yacht Dreadnaught is abont in the same state of forwardness, and for some time to come we shall be hearing of the launches of these elegant vessels that aro destined to increase the reputation of our yachts, both at home and abroad. It is very evident that our yachtmen have not been idle since their vessels went out of commission, judging from what we hear from New London and from our immediate vicinity. Building, alteration, re- fitting’ and repairing are the order of the day, and all are striving to be in readiness for the time when spring announces that pennants are to be again hoisted and our fleet of magnificent pleasure vessels is to be placed once more in sailing trim. The next season will show what experience has done to benefit naval construc- tion, Every effort has been made to improve upon the past, and we look forward with great interest to seeif any of the new ideas that have been carried out will prove as successful as is now anticipated. The Big Jobs of tho Legislature. The act to reopen tho assessments for the widening and straightening of Broadway, which provides in effect that the frauds dis- covered in the old assessment shall be filmed over rather than altogether erased, and the act to give New York a fresh supply of pure and wholesome water, which substantially gives to one or two persons high in the con- fidence and leadership of the ring the right to purchase the fountainheads of the Croton aqueduct, have both been signed by Governor Hoffman, and are therefore both laws of the State already in effect. We hold that it was a serious mistake on the part of Governor Hoffman to approve those bills, Of course the democratic ring and the ringleaders are beyond the reach of censure, Their political lives hang upon the breath of the democratic master mind of all, and he orders these things to be and they are. But Governor Hoffman, by his position and his well-won honors, is lifted far above the mere jobbers of the party, and he has much to lose by his action in this matter which the originators of the bills in the Legis- lature have no fear of losing. But the party, after all, most to blame for the passage | of these jobs are the country republicans, who hold the balance of power in the two houses— a balance so delicately adjusted that Mr. Jacobs’ one or two extra drinks with a too convivial companion on the night of the New Hamburg disaster was all that saved the democracy three weeks ago from kicking the beam. These republicans sold themselves shamelessly on both these jobs, some of them doubtless taking the bribe with a ready hand and brazen face, while the more decorous turned their heads away and heard tbe silver pieces chink in their pockets. These are the men who deserve tue greatest censure. Wita the democrats we look upon it as a matter of course, They are not expected to cut away from their ring just on account of a job or two, and yet it was known in Albany at the republican caucuses preceding the vote upon these bills that there were several honest democrats willing to join with honest republi- cans for the defeat of the two jobs. As the republicans would not join with them they saw the bills must pass, and they voted for thom rather than go down upon “Tweed’s black list” and be shut out of Tammany forever upon a mere abstract principle of right. The Governor, we think, has made a grave error, which will extend in its future effects far beyond the limits of this city or this State; but the republicans of the Legislature are the ones who deserve the fullest share of blame for the success of the Broadway widening and the water supply jobs. Tae INcomE Tax Repeat BiLt—ARTFUL Dopaine.—The good, honest souls in the House of Representatives who don’t want the income tax repealed and don’t want to go upon the record against it have invented a very neat dodge to secure its continuance and still retain the good graces of their constituents. The Senate, it will be remembered, passed it, being mindful of the demands of the people; but the” House, although professing almost unanimously an anxiety to pass it at once, suddenly felt a great respect for parliamentary etiquette and raised the point that the Senate had no right to originate such a bill. A con- ference committee on the subject was de- manded, and now the conference committee sticks to the same point. This was pretty artful dodging, and, like a lie, we suppose it is as good as the truth if well stuck to. But itis shame that parliamentary juggling like this should defeat this bill every session when the people and the press so loudly demand its passage. A CorrEsponpenr alleges improper atten- tion on the part of officials at Blackwell's Island toward a patient—a young artist named Volty—received there supposed to be laboring under an attack of varioloid. It is stated that although he was very feeble he was obliged to walk through mud and water to the hospital, in consequence of which he caught additional cold which ended in his death. The case re- quires investigation at the hands of the Com- missioners of Charities and Public Institutions. Denny Borns, of the Assembly, wants a bridge across the Hudson from the upper part of this city, a new Weehawken ferry and a new city prison in the Sixth ward. Denny has very gorgeous ideas now and then, but he excels himself in regard to his Hudson River bridge. The new Weehawken ferry and the new city prison are good, substantial ideas, which we hope Denny will see realized. As Postertry should help pay the national debt incurred for the preservation of the national government, so should posterity pay @ proper proportion of the debt incurred by the city of New York for local and permanent public improvementas rr Congress yesterday—The “Omuibas” Billi The Cincinnati and Southern Ruailroad— The Southern Pacific Railroad—Repeal of the Duty on Coal—“Bulling” the Pacific Ruilroad Securities. The Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill, familiarly designated the “Omnibus” bill, as it embraces all the departments of the government, emerged yesterday from the depths to which the vote of the House on Monday had consigned it, Mr. Dawes, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, delivered a discourse appropriate to the solemnity of the occasion of disentombing the bill, recalled the House to a sense of its wrongdoing, accused it of having heaped up, against his remonstrance and opposition, large appropriations for public buildings, and with then having shrunk from its own work and strangled its own offspring. His homily had a good effect, for after it the House reconsidered its action of Monday in tabling the bill, and then refused to lay it on the table. But Dawes, having thus got the better of his repentant colleagues, took ad- vantage of his position and offered a substitute for the bill, omitting all the appropriations for public buildings not yet commenced, which the House had on Monday inserted in the bill by two-thirds majorities, and which it had after- wards made the excuse for action hostile to the bill. The only exception which Dawes made to this exclusion of new works was the League Island Navy Yard, and this exception he made, according to his own statement, in deference to the decisive vote of the House on that subject the other day. Perhaps he was still more influenced by a desire not to have the whole Pennsylvania delegation voting against his bill and lobbying in the House to defeat it. But a motion was made to strike out League Island, and then the Pennsylvania members, without regard to party lines, but influenced only by local interest, went sedu- lously to work canvassing for votes, and auc- ceeded in getting just enough to save their pet measure. The substitute was then agreed to and the bill passed and sent to the Senate. It contains the appropriations for the post offices in this city and Boston, but excludes all appro- priations for buildings not yet commenced. The next measure of importance on which the House took action was a bill to promote the construction of the Cincinnati and Southern Railroad. This bill is of the same character as that for an Air Line Railroad between this city and Washington—that is, it gives a national charter to the company, | instead of leaving the matter within the con- trol of the Kentucky Legislature, which is governed by existing railroad interests, as the New Jersey Legislature is by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, and is not willing to allow the road to be built through that State. The bill was passed under a suspen- sion of the rules and without discussion, by a vote of 131 to 62. The Southern Pacific Railroad bill was taken from the Speaker's table by a two- thirds majority, 136 to 59, and the dis- agreeiny votes on the House amendments were referred to a conference commit- tee. These amendments restrict the con- struction to a trunk line, cutting off all the branches provided for in the Senate bill, and reduce the land grant one half, from twenty-six to thirteen millions of acres. The House is Netermined to adhere to its position, and ¢ho psvvauillty 18 that the Senate will come to it rather than incur the risk of having the bill lost. The best thing that the House did yester- day—or, indeed, that it did for many a day— was done by it umder the lead of Mr. Fer- nando Wood, in the passage of a bill for the immediate repeal of the duty on coal. It was passed by the very decisive vote of 144 to 46, the negative votes com- ing from the coal Representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Tennessee, and a few stragglers. We hope that the Senate will not allow this best mea- sure of the Congress to fail for want of action in that body. We may expect the Senators from the coal States to resort to par- liamentary artifice to kill it by indi- rection; but we appeal to Senators generally, and especially to Messrs. Conkliag and Fenton, to see to it that this bill receives the vote of that body and becomes a law be- fore Saturday next. A Ku Klux bill of the most violent charac- ter, upsetting all the ordinary forms of civil rule and virtually declaring the Southern com- munities in a state of siege, was reported by Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, from the Re- construction Committee, who moved to sus- pend the rules and proceed with it, to the ex- clusion of all other business, till the end of the session, except appropriation bills and reports of committees of conference. That proposi- tion, sweeping as it was, only lacked one vote of the requisite two-thirds majority. Three republicans voted against it—Messrs. Farns- worth, Fitch and Wilkinson—and a change of one of these votes would have carried it, the actual vote being 127 to 65. For the present the South is safe from the proposed infliction, and it is not likely that, for this session at least, its safety will be disturbed by this measure. Conference committees were appointed by the Speaker on the Indian Appropriation bill, the Legislative Appropriation bill, the Post Office Appropriation bill and the Southera. Pacific Railroad bill. The Senate amendment to the bill for an: international exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 was concurred in, and the bill sent to.the President for his approval. To-day there is to be a grand: onslaught made on the Speaker's table. The calendar, of the extent of which we gave our readers some idea yesterday, is to be taken up and gone through with in regular order, such: bills: as are not objected to to be passed as a matter of course, and such as are objected to to have the chance of being brought up for considera- tion by a two-thirds vote. It will be a sort of ~ general jail delivery, and a proeeeding of very great public interest, to say nothing of the immense special interests involved in some thirty land grant bills and other measures that. will be reached in this way. The Senate spent the day and night session in the consideration of the Army Appropria- tion bill. An amendment was placed upon the bill, by a vote of two to one, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay over to the Pacific Railroad Companies one half of the