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Domingo (contin from Third Page.) Domingo (continue in Feurth Page)—The | Courts—Irelaad’s Vai—Launch of the Yacht Wanderer—Wha to Blame ?—That Fatal Disinfecting Fluid—The Cumberland and | Ohio Raiiroad. 6— Editorials: Leading Artic! Question—Our — Spe nsement Ann “The St. Domingo Correspondence’ — ents, { Sixth Page)—Re- | e Domingo Commis. Washington—Sumner at | Legisiature Rebuk- | uscellageous Telegrams— from ne Massach esha Home: ing the F §—Proe lings in Congress—Financial and C mercial Reports —Real Fs‘ate Matters—A C victed Shyster Railroad Slaughter—N 4 val Orders—Brooklyn Matters. P—Department of Docks—Shocking Case of Inhu- ity—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ite Capital: A Move Against the City s Companies; The Broadway Pneumatic Tube Bul Cre g a Breeze in the House—ine South Carolina Trou —Tnhe Hoboken Turtle Club—The c Jomt Higt Joal Question—New Jersey ing Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 11—Advertisements. fi 2—Advertisements. Tne Osnoxtous Jersey Ciry CHARTER was passed under a reconsideration in the lower House of the New Jersey Legislature yester- Gay. The republicans of our little neighboring State seem determined to make another New Hampshire of her. Mr. Horack Day has a very substantial Idea about rapid transit. He says unless New York has her three lines of rapid transit soon her seaboard rivals will draw eff her commerce, We must have one line on Broad- way and one each on our river fronts. Dr. Van Hoosen, oF ALBANY, who killed his wife in a fit of delirium tremens, has been sent te the Lunatic Asylum. The Grand Jury failed to indict him for the offence, and the court put him ont of the way of doing further harm by sendiog him at once to the asylum. This disposition of the case is apparently the only proper one, and it would doubtless answer well in all murder cases where the plea of insanity is successful. Tue New Hampsuire Evection.—The latest returns from Concord indicate that there has been no choice of Governor of New Hampshire by the people, although Mr. Weston, the democratic candidate, runs ahead of the repub- lican candidate. Nevertheless, it is pretty cer- tain that the next Governor of the State will be a democrat, as there is a democratic majority in both branches of the Legislature— the Senate containing five democrats and four republicans, with three vacancies, and the House one bundred and sixty-four democrats, one hundred and sixty-two republicans and four labor reformers, with three towne *~ b-== == swewen Wil probably elect demo- crate, and as the labor reformers are tolerably sure to vote against any republican candidate the prospect is that, after all, Mr. Weston will become Governor of New Hampshire. It is almost unnecessary to state that the failure to elect by the people throws the election into the Legislature. France Forgcastrra Her AVENGE- MENTS.—The Freach nation has commenced to cast about for an object of avengement for the disasters which its people have sustained in the war with Prussia. The hereditary feeling of France, combined with the smarting sense of present humiliation, causes the French to direct their eyes to England. In their rough radicalism they cannot understand the refinements and niceties of an elegant tradi- fionary diplomacy. The French newspapers are consequently crying out against England. The writers allege that ‘‘when the sword of Franee is unsheathed again its aim will not be s0 distant as Turkey,” indicating that there was no need of a European Congress on the Eastern question in London. Poor France! She thought, most unwisely, that the entente and glories of Iukermann, the Malakoff and th | Redan had atoned for Corunna and the Dov? and Talavera, and thus compensated +0F the balances which were established aginst her at Waterloo, The French don’t undestand the science of governmental combinasons for Future results, Hence the French ate liuble {0 endure many citizen mortificationss | selves out of it, v NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1871.-'TRIPLE The St. Domingo Question—Our Spoctal We spread before our readers to-day a full and graphic account of the proceedings of the United States Commission to St. Domingo, with highly interesting information about the island and people, making, with what we had previously published, a complete bistory or report of the investigations, incidents and views of the Commission, from the day the Tennessee sailed to the conclusion of the work at Port au Prince, If the Commission should névér Feport to Congress that body and the public have, through the columns of the HeExap, all the information necessary to form an opinion on the St. Domingo question, and that more impartial and independont than will be given either by the Commissioners or the partisan press correspondents who accompa- nied the Commission. It will be seen, too, by a special telegraphic despatch from Kingston, Jamaica, dated yes- terday, to the Heraxp, which is published in another part of this paper, that the President of the Commission, ex-Senator Wade, is going to hurry through to Washington with his report, and will probably reach the capital the latter part of next week. The same despatch states that the other two Commis- sioners, White and Howe, propose to stay at Charleston, South Carolina, with a view to make a separate and a more elaborate report. This news accords with what our special cor- respondent bas written relative to the Commis- sioners and their conduct throughout. Mr. Wade has been desirous all along of getting through with the work ag soon as possible, and has been annoyed with his colleagues for causing delay. If he could have done as he wished he would have finished the business and have been in Washington by the last days of February or the first days of March, This old political war-horse of the radical party saw the importance to the administration and its party of making an early report, and condemned his slow col- leagues in severe language. While it is pro- bable he would have been in favor of annexa- tion under any circumstances, for he is a man- ifest destiny man, and has a tender regard for the negroes of St. Domingo as everywhere else, he knew that his party and the adminis- tration needed this issue to hold their ground or to acquire popularity. Something like a snap judgment might have been taken on the question under the late Congress, and at the conclusion of the session, but the delay may have damaged the prospect. This bas been Mr. Wade's view of the matter. The other Commissioners had not such political forecast, and were less decided as to the course they should take, though it is supposed now that they also favor annexation. They care less, probably, for the question in its political bear- ing than for their own convenience and the reputation they expect to make for them- Hence, while Mr. Wade is in a hurry to report, they will take time, it is said, to work up elaborate reports. If they should report in favor of annexation it will be { more from a philanthropic feeling—sympathy | for the degraded St. Domingo negroes—than \ from political considerations at home. For the people of the United States, how- ever, this is a question of far more importance than in its bearing merely upon party polities. It is one involving a new policy in acquiring colonial dependencies, or as States with an alien population, many hundreds of miles away from our coast and across the seas. Hitherto we have annexed only bordering territory, with the exception of Alaska, which has scarcely any population, which was pur- chased with a view chiefly to press forward our destiny to continental dominion and for telegraphic connection with Asia, and which, after all, forms a part of the Continent. Nor would the annexation of Cuba, though sepa- rated by the sea from the Continent, involve the same objection or consideration as to hold- ing distant possessions or States, because that island is separated from Florida by only a narrow strait, and stretches in face of our extreme Southern coast, making the Gulf of Mexico like American lake, No doubt all the Antilles are the Atlantic Ocean, though the ‘climate is hotter generally than that of Cuba, and though and holding distant possessions as a sort of along an destined to belong at some future time to the Great Republic; but has the time arrived to begin so far off and under the conditions of our present existence, or taking into considera- tion the condition of the population and coun- intended this work for the colored races, It would be a delusion aud cruel to induce white people to go to St, Domingo as field laborers, for their health must break down and the race become enfeebled and degenerate. Are we prepared, fhe, $9 dgtpoduce Chinese coolies and to admit them as citizen of our country? We could not and would vat hold them to forced labor, and, according to the theory and operation of our institutions, we could not keep any people deprived of civil and political rights and equality. Shall we make, or rather keep, St. Domingo a negro State? Is such an element, particularly at a distance, desirable as a compenent part of our society and social and political system? Should we be prepared even for this, where is the negro labor to come from? Our own negroes would not be disposed to go; they love their old homes too well. They cannot be induced to go to Liberia, where there is a republic of their own race. Besides, we could hardly afford to part with them from the South, Their labor there is most valuable in cultivating cotton and other products. The question, then, as to the value of St. Domingo to us is one of labor. But, viewing the matter of annexation in a social and political: point of view, there are very grave objections to it. We could not take in the present population as citizens—a semi-barbarous people, who are fast going tack to African barbarism—with- out danger to ourselves, or, at least, without more trouble than they and the island are worth, The cost of governing St. Domingo and the fatal effects of the climate upon our troops ought to be considered also, te say nothing of the chances of war with the fierce Haytiens, who are bitterly opposed to annexa- tion, or with the factions in the Dominican republic itself. No, this question ought not to be decided upon party political ground, but with a broad statesmanlike view as to what is best, not for the Dominicans, but fer the people of the United States and for the purity and perpetuation of our own social and glorious institutions. Military Glory in a Suggestive Form. The news from France this morning is net very important, There has been no crisis in Paris, the French Cabinet deciding to con- tinue its policy of conciliation toward the insurgent National Guards, This looks very much as if the government was not certain of its power to crush the insurrection, and was trusting to time and chance to disperse the mob of Reds intrenched at Montmartre. The avoidanee of bloodshed, however, is wisdom on the part of the authorities. Men enough have been killed in France during the past seven months. Some idea of the frightful slaughter that has taken place can be formed from the despatch, published this morning, which announces that dead bodies have been found floating im the French dykes and marshes. So many corpses have been left unburied that the authorities The New Peace Arrangements West and East aad the Europe. The situation of affairs in Europe to-day is jast as interesting and perhaps quite as per- pene agit has been any time during these last ten or twelve months, The war between Frangg and Germany—a yar which, in the wide scope of itg destructfveness, has had no parallel in modern times—has been bronght to close, and there is no reason to doubt that within a brief period a definitive treaty of peace will be signed at Brussels, It is simply impossible that any hitch can now take place in the negotiations between France and Ger- many. Then, again, the war cloud which floated portentously in the Eastern sky, charged, apparently, with another Crimean war, has disappeared; and the London Con- ference, so far as we know the facts, has relieved us from the dread prospect ef another destructive and most useless war. Peace, therefere, in the West and in the East, and, as a consequence, all over Europe, it is most natural to conclude has for the present been secured. At the same time it is undeniable that, in spite of the peace prospect, and of what some would call peace guarantees, the public ‘pulse of Europe beats feverously and a hectic glow is on the face of things. While the Ger- man Emperor returns in triumph to Berlin France is taking steps to reconstruct and give greater efficiency to her army. The French in their misfortune and in their sorrow do not seem unwilling to learn-a lesson from their powerfal conquerors, The new project of law, which bas yet to receive the sanction of the National Assembly, provides that all able- bodied Frenchmen are to serve compulsorily for three years, and subsequently a similar length of time in the reserves, This means that the spirit of France is not completely broken, that she believes her time for revenge may yet come, and that she is resolved to be ready for her opportunity, so as to turnit to account, Great Britain is in one of her periodic fevers, That army system which has given her possession of one-half the globe, which has carried her language, her laws, her. religion, her commerce to sll the ends of the Earth, which has abled her to build up colonies almos! more powerful than herself, which in tines past gave her strength enough to inteyfere in Continental siife, and authoritatively and with success to fing her sword, Brennus-like, into the scale— svat army system she is now despising; and army reconstruction is proceeding en _princi- ples which a few years ago would have been deemed subversive of the British throne. The aristocratic element in the British army has hitherto wen considered its strength, as well as its pnde; but the government measure which ¢oatemplates the abolition of the pur- chase of commissions is a confession that the wants ¢ the empire, the necessities of the army, %ve outgrown the resources of the bave found it necessary to adopt measures for the prevention of pestilence. In all that part of France bordering on Germany and Belgium the loss of life must have been terrible, as both armies were well drilled and organized. We believe that from Woerth to Sedan the Germans lost more men in killed than the French, but after the capitulation of Napo- leon, however, the French loss in killed must bave far exeeeded that of the Germans; as the armies of De Paladines, Chanzy, Fai herbe and Bourbaki were compesed of r” troops, whose ignorance of warfare ’2~ tributed greatly to their slaughter on the ttle fields, But what a suggestive commtary upon war and military glory is this i-!™8 of dead bodies in the dykes and mbes of France! Men's thirst for martial ee Would be materially lessened if they cor look at the ewollen corpses of the poor rims of the ambition of monarchs which b® been, for weeks and mon.hs, rotting untied. Tho City Sanitary Iney"°"'* Report. The report presented by * Morris, the city Sanitary Inspector, at thet weekly meeting of the Board of Healf S#¥¢ ® comparative statement of the caser! Contagious disease . for the two weeks pon paging ‘enya During the second Of these weeks th? “re reported twe cases Jess of diphtheri?0® less of typhold fever, Gight leas of no {Yer Sve more of relaps- ing fever, fort'7@ more of measles and ten ox. In each week there was f smo, try? thea a4 Fs at typhoid fever. The Inspector St. Domingo is a rich and prolific | gays thap foueh there appears to be an country naturally, and for the most part | increase the cases reported of smallpox, as healthy as any of the Antilles, | severr-**°* having been discovered which particularly on the north side facing | haa “™ sequestered by their friends and .,«t medical attendance, yet there is no ernee of the increase of the epidemic gene- -y He adds that the thorough system of there are exceptional unhealthy localities. Butit has bardly any cultivation and com- paratively little commerce. other products experted are obtained fri the old stock now growing wild. There i no railroads or telegraphs or anything ind” ing progress or industry. On the con, 73 both sections of the island—both the 9” republics of St. Domingo and Ha: ee 2g clining and going back to a barbaric ee Bountiful nature supplies the Wei ot Sad people as far as food goes, such u: rid cat out labor, or with very little” Bde banana, plantain, cocoanut itd ber) ‘ gs which either yams, wild hogs and other f grow from the remnants ¢ peas ees a earth. As for the or spontaneous from th Fy rest—for clothing and 7°" Soa ae BeO | ple are content with J els ge aioloe . In ite present co’ vion, then, St. Domingo would be of littl, 2° value to the United States. Could ? improve it? All wealth $ zg labor, and without that St. is the product. Domingo wi be valueless, The present population! the part proposed to be an- nexed jeuttle over a hundred thousand, sparsel*Pread over a large territory. It is | dounet if even this small population could bo ned to Industry, and if it could the re- sy’WOuld not be great. Where, then, is the yeulation to come from to make St. Domingo wroductive and valuable? Some of the Com- mission imagine that white laborers would go to the island and could work there, Itis not likely that white people would go there to till the soil, and if they could be induced to leave the temperate zone and the advantages of civilization they could not cultivate the earth in that climate. People of the European race never have tilled the soil in the tropics, and never could for any length of time, Nature - The coffee ang-be Board will have the effeet to arrest the puse-to-house vaccination now instituted by further spread ef this disease. At the same meeting of the Board of Health, however, Dr. Carnochan reported that cases of smallpox continue to arrive from Liverpool and other foreign ports, and the Sanitary Committee very properly recommended the rigid enforce- ment of several sections of the Sanitary Code, particularly section two, which directs that no owner er consignee of any vessel shall unlade by land, or cause to be unladed or landed, its cargo or any part thereof, without having first received the written permit of the Health Department to that effect. In view of the threatened approach of the cholera such pre- cautions are now of the most urgent necessity. Moreover, the condition of the streets, with their accumulations of filth and their noisome odors, requires at this season especially the utmost efforts to cleanse them thoroughly, and thus prevent them from inviting and aggravat- ing the contagious diseases to which a great and crowded metropolis is always more or lesa exposed, Tue SenatoriaL Cavous or REprBiicaNs was in session for several bours yesterday, and determined to favor the appointment of a joint committee of the two houses to investi- gate Ku Klux outrages during the recess, It was quite evident that most of the Senators wanted an early adjournment, and no anti- Ku Klux measure has any chance of passage except the one just determined upon. It is, after all, probably the most sensible way in which to settle the vexed question of South ern outrages. SPEAKER BLAINE was @ great terture to Ben | Butler yesterday—a recular chilblain, aristoracy. Itis a confession, in fact, that if thesritish armies are to be properly led in Squally Condition of the fld or to give proof of efficiency equal to tha’/of the armies of the Continent their lesets must be selected from a nobility which rresents something more than mere blood 4d birth, Germany is not yet so completely unified that domestic trouble may not prove quite as serious as foreign war. Austria knows that the German crown means a great deal more than appears on the surface; and Austria very wisely halts in her career of depentralization. The policy inaugurated by Baron Beust, and which forso long has worked so well, is no longer in favor at headquarters. By yielding to Hungary Francis Joseph knows that he saved the Austrian empire; but he also knows that the price paid for the concilia- tion of Hungary, and, through the conciliation of Hungary, for the salvation of the empire, has almost accomplished too much. What is good for Hungary is good also for Bohemia and all the Czechs, for Gallicia and all the Slaves, for the Carinthians, the Tyrolese, and who knows how many others besides? And with a common sense not unworthy of the cir- cumstances he has come to the conclusion that the most important of all the autonomies is the autonomy of the Austrian empire. And what shall we say of Russia, which is not wholly unprepared for war; or of Italy, which looks tremblingly to the East and multiplies her forces; or of Spain, with her mock sove- reign, who is ignorant of her laws, out of sympathy with her customs, and who knows nothing of her language? All over—North, South, East, West—the new situation is felt, and fear and trembling are common charac- teristics. We have not specially mentioned the smaller States, forthe simple and suffi- ciept reason that the smaller States must, in present circumstances, keep silence. As we have said, the peace negotiations are some- what full of promise; but no observing mind can refuse to admit that the aspect of affairs is something different from reassuring. Circumstances being so critical, the horizon being so doubtful, where shall we look for en- couragement and hope? Where but to France? M. Thiers has done well. He is doing well. The National Assembly, up to the present moment, has given proof that France, if only she has the opportunity, can elect a body of men which is fairly if not fully representative of the people. If M. Thiers can go onas he has been doing; if the Na- tional Assembly can continue to combine moderation and good sense with sufficient dar- ing, there is a fair hope for France, and through France for Europe. But the difficulty lies precisely here. France has yet to decido upon a permanent form of government—that form of government under which she must pay those heavy demands which Germany has made upon her. Another plédiscite must de- termine whether the contracted France of the future is to be imperial, monarchical or repnb- lican. If the French people were known to be of one mind in regard to the permanent form of government the plébiscite, which cannot be avoided, would be surrounded with fewer difficulties, But, as France is not of one mind, difficulties must not be despised. In a few days some four hundred thousand men, including their leaders, all of whom have been German prisoners on French or German soil, and most of whom are io favor of the House of Bonaparte, will be let loose; and this vast army of voters will take part in the plébiscite. How they may vote we know not, All we do know is that their probable votes SHEET, add to the unoertainty, and consequently to the difficulty, of the situation. Theh, again, the House of Orleans has its following, and, 8 all the world knows, that following repre- sents the better portion of the French middle class—the men who do business, who sustain trade, who own property. If the imperialists have places ‘g.Eetaln, they have property to gecure and places win, The republicans are unquestionably powerful; but they are not united; and, while making certain honor- able exceptions, it must be admitted that, so far as we know them, they are not tho repre- sentatives of law and order, but the repre- sentatives of anarchy and confusion. As a rule the imperialists and the monarchists have something to lose; but the repub- licans, with a similiar qualification, have everything to win, We do not say—we cannot say—which party will win. We only say that the plédiscite is to fix the future gov- ernment of France, and that the plébiscite may prove fruitful of trouble not te France only, but to Europe, It is difficult to believe in the possibility of the restoration of Napoleon. D'fficult, however, as it is, it has to be admitted that as yet no monarchical rival has sufficiently pronounced himself. The Count do Paris may be wisely waiting; but up to the present moment the Count de Paris is little more than a myth, Much will depend on the course which may be pursued by M. Thiers. In our judgment the restoration ef the Bonapartes, in the person of the Emperor or that of his son, or the restoration of the House of Or- leans, means peace; but a republic means ao European convulsion, As we have said, the peace of the Continent rests with France. Most thoughtful men do ragret that France, which is so truly the keystone nation of Europe, should be so unequal to her constantly recurriag opportunities, She was the first of the European nations to make an end of the privileged classes. But of all the European natiens she has reaped the least frait from her own experiment, Since 1789 France has been three times a republic, twice an empire, and she has tried monarchy ia two different forms, Each change has seriously affected Europe. Once again France is to decide upon her own form of government; and once again the nations of Europe, armed to the teeth, look on anxiously, fearfully. A French republic definitely pronounced upon would fire the two Southern peninsulas, might dis- solve Austria, might rouse the German demo- erats and give a new shape to German union, In such a case Napoleon might have many fresh companions in tribulation. On the result of the coming plédiscite in France the interests of peace and the interests of democracy are largely dependent. Europe does not seem to have gained much by the Franco-German war. L ‘Tho Joint High Commission—Reverdy John- son Completely Eclipsed. It was said that Mr. Reverdy Jobnson, in the negotiation of his unacceptable and wholly unsatisfactory Alabama Claims Treaty, was demoralized by English roast beef and plum pudding—that the designing John Bull dined him and wined him till he was brought to believe that the moon is made of green cheese, What, then, shall we say of the Joint High Commission at Washington, in which English roast beef and plum pudding and dining and wining are the order of the day from Monday evening till Saturday night? It may be said that the English roast beef and plum pudding is neutralized by Chesapeake oysters, Potomac shad and Yankee codfish, and that London brown stout isno match for Bourbon whiskey; but we have our doubts upon these points. We have our misgivings of the stuffing process adopted by Earl de Grey and Ripon with this Joint High Commission. It is the process with the paté de foie gras which is applied to the geese in producing this choice paté—the fattening process. It is the process by which the doomed turkey is prepared for Thanksgiving Day. Well, there may be wisdom in fattening the Joint High Commission before they go seriously to the heavy work before them, be- cause your fat man is an amiable man, anda man who will listen to reason, and a peace man, At all events, let us hope that the labors of the Joint High Commission will result in a treaty of peace, and in thanks- giving, dining and wining on both sides of the water, Tag UNSETTLED ConpiTIon oF Paris.— The news from Paris is not such as encour- ages the hope of a speedy return to peaceful pursuits. The city is disturbed and the dan- gerous classes are ripe for violence. Another inflammatory journal, the Ami du Peuple, has been seized and suppressed for uttering sen- timents tending to occasion a breach of the peace in the most aggravated form. The gatherings which take place each year in mid-Lent will, it is feared, be taken advantage of by evil-minded people to create distarb- ances which may lead to serious results. It is true that General Vinoy has prohibited the procession of masqueraders in the streets to- day ; but it will be a difficult matter for him to prevent the congregation of crowds and the perpetration of deeds of violence, Un- fortunately, others than those who cause these riots are oftentimes the victims of the excesses of the wretches who occasion them. Hoping for the best for Paris we fearthe worst, owing to the unsettled state of affairs existing there at present. One of the many evils resulting from the late war is this exhibition of bad blood on the part of the roughs of Paris, who have nothing to lose by the riotous scenes which their acts may occasion in the streets of Paris, Where tae Sor Pixcurs.—A writer ia the Spirit of the Times explains the reason why Sir John A. Macdonald, of the Joint High Commission, on the part of Canada, is so anxious in regard to the fishery question. It seems that the fishermen of the Dominion and those of the United States bave formed copart- nerships, by which those of the Dominion fish near the shores, take a cargo and deliver it to the American fishermen outside the three marine miles lirait. The partnership, it is said, works well, The fishermen of the Dominion have a market without paying duties, and the Americans take their cargoes without trer, passing on British waters or paying a fish’mg licengzo to the Dominion. Here’s where the Congr? ‘Yenterdnay—Tho Biaine-futtor Quay rel—Aavtuer Republican Breach. The introduction of two bills for the sup- pression of the Ku Klux was the only matter of general interest Brought forward in the Senate yesterday. Oné of the bills wae offered by Mr, Wilson and thé other by Mr, Sherman, and both favor stringent measures for the annihilation of the rough riders in the South. No discussion ensued upon either bill, one objection being enough to send them’ over for one day. In the House the great sensation was the encounter between Butler and Dawes and Blaine, and, in fact, all the fifty-eight republi- cans whom Butler had denounced in his mani+ festo, Mr. Dawes first called on Butler for a definition of the term ‘“‘rick,” as applied to these fifty-eight republicans; but the slippery member from Essex managed to evade an an- swer. Speaker Blaine, however, vacated his seat, and, coming on the floor, made a scorch- ing onslaught against Butler, in which he stated that he had shown the travelling committee resolution of Wednesday to Butler, and that gentleman, so far from objecting to it, suge gested an amendment that the expenses of such committee be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. This Butler flatly donied, claiming to have said that he would have nothing to do with it; but Blaine stuck to his assertion, On this question of veracity between Blaine gnd Butler the country must judge, however, and it is an unfortunate cire cumstance for Butler in tiis connection that he has never heretofore cultivated a substan- tial reputation for veracity. The Speaker took further occasion to defend his course in coming on the floor and manceuvring a resde lution through the House, and succeeded in getting off one of the most merciless invectives that the old halls have heard for many a day. The end of the whole matter was that Messrs. Butler, Maynard, Kelley, Coburn and Shella~ barger were excused from serving on the com- mittee, and the House adjourned. There is said to be great excitement pre- vailing among the republicans in consequence of this new and unexpected break among the party men in the House. It appears to have been as causeless as it is unfortunate. Gen- eral Butler was treated with too much con- tempt by the members who engineered the Peters resolution. They should have deferred more to the caucus resolutions. That many of the influential republicans who were ap- pointed on the committee feel little affection for the substitute the declension of five of them plainly shows. But there was no cause for a party quarrel so fierce and disgraceful that Sunset Cox requested the combatants to retire to their committee room and fight it out where the democrats could not hear them, It is a very unsatisfactory method of ‘“‘closing up the ranks” after the New Hampshire defeat. St. Patrick’s Day. Wo have no doubt that the festival of St. Patrick will be celebrated to-day, whether it rains or shines, with all the earnestness which our Irish fellow citizens always can command when the 17th of March comes around, or when any other sentiment prevails which recalls the memories, the sufferings and the aspirations of ‘‘old Ireland.” It is a pecu- liarity in the Irish people that they never forget the traditions and never abandon the idea ef the nationality of their native country, no matter in what quarter of the globe they may be located. It is peculiar, also, that of all people who live and labor in exile from their own soil they are the most demonstrative in their devotion to the land of their birth. This feeling exists through two and three generations, so that citizens who are tho- roughly Americanized ‘‘all the year round” become as thoroughly Hibernicized on St. Patrick’s Day. It is not a bad trait, after all. A man who does not love the mother who bore him is not likely to be scrupulously faithful in all his other domestic relations. We hope that the outdoor celebration toe day in bonor of good old St. Patrick will be as pleasant as the weather will permit, and we trust that nothing will occur in the line of march to disturb the equanimity of the cele- brants or cause any trouble, such as occurred a few years ago, and which might have hap- pened in any procession by the effervescence of hasty temper. However, we anticipate nothing of this kind to-day. As for the even- ing banquets—at Delmonico’s and the Hoff- man House—of course ‘‘the feast of reason and the flow of soul” will be represented in the full spirit of the poet. Celtio wit will sparkie more brightly than the wines on the table. Pathos, poetry and patriotism will bubble up as highas Par- nassus, and probably may take a flight a little higher, according as the oraters are inspired. Upon the whole, the natal day of the Christian Saint who, whether he was a Scot, a Gaul or an Irishman, implanted the faith of His Mas- ter on the soil.of Ireland, is likely to be cele- brated here with all the honors which his exu- berant and devoted children, our Irish fellow citizens, know so well how to pay to the Saint, the shamrock and the old green sod, We wish those who join in the festivities of to- day good luck and abundant enjoyment. Tne Orreays DyNAsTY AND ‘THE FreNoR Tnrone,—A. despatch from London states that “the Count of Paris remounoes any intention, on his part, to compete with the other: princes of the reyal house of France for the throne.” This renunciation on his part is a very impor- tant act, as he is the legitimate heir of the Orleans dynasty, and if he refuses to compete. for the throne he leaves it open to competition amoag all the princes, It is probable, there- fore, that if France should decide upon the restoration of the monarchy there will be an’ interesting sernb race for the crown, Con. sidering how very uncertain in these days is/ the teaure of ofice of a French monarch, it must be aduiitied, that the Count of Paris bas displayed sownd judgment in renouncing his regal aspirations Do1nc4 or THE LEGIsLATURE.—The proceed. ings ip our Legislature are becoming rather interpsting. The hitch in the new Tax Levy bil, creates some surprise, considering the help tine measure received from outside parties, That it will be passed finally there seems to be no doubt, The Pneumatic Railroad under. ground scheme has received'an unexpected impulse, indicating that the workers behind shoe pinches, and here’s where the High Com- | the scenes have some other object in view missioners will have a kuo‘ty poiat, to settle, than in carrying out the yladuct suggestions