The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1871, Page 8

/ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXVI.......... ++2sNo. 97 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVERING. NEW YORK STADT T Orana—Lonenesee HEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Grnway GRAND OPERA HOUS! _ LaGuanen Decunce B, corner of 8th av. ana 23d st.. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—-Ox Hanv—Tur Duma FIFTH - pe AVENUB THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— GLOBE THEATRE, 728 fron TALINMENT, 20.—DaY anv Nigw VARIETY ENTRER- ENO. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 334 «1 Tux Foou's REVENGE. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner Sth st.—Perform- ‘ances every afternoon ani eveniax, deiween Sth and 6th avs.— OLYMPIC THEATRE, adv 1! fe ai k EATRE, Broadway.—Taz DEaMa OF NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—T 7 Tux BLAoK Choox. a ed lees ahha WALLACK'S THEATR: or weer E, Broadway ana 13th street. LINA EDWIN's Linganp’s Skerouw MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK TH’ - Pt oh BATRE, Brooklyn. 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"davertisem Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The State Capital: Passage of the New Tax Measure in the senate; Text of the Bul in Full; the Amended Water Supply Bill Passed in the Assembly—Washington: Another Republican CLE Brewing; the Fight Over the New York Custom House Spoils; General Butler's New Amnesty Bill—Lhe ‘Repubit- can Rumpus. 4—Proceedings in Congress—The Alabama Clatms— Raid by ‘lars—Captured Cheroots—Spring Fashions—rhe Foundiing Asylum—A Bomb Burats in the Customs: The Heads of Grinneil and Palmer Knocked Of—Maundy Thurs- day—The Passover—Kidding—Struck by a Storm: The English Ship Hudson Disabied at ew Jersey Legislature—The Cvoper 01 S—The Crittenden Tragedy: Continuation of the ‘Trial in San Francisco—Ruliot, the Condemn- ed—Tral of a Murderer in Fonda, N. Y.--Ao Ulinots Tragedy—Gigantic Fraud—Journal- istic Notes—Literary Chit-Chat—Music and the Drama—Phiiadelphia Inteliigence—The Cen- tral ‘k Management and the Quarterly Re- view—Kunning Notes—UVelaware Peach Crop. @—Editortais: Leading Article, ‘Report of the st. Domingo Commission and the President's Measage”—The River Mystery—Views of the Past—Amusement Announcements. Y=—The Rouge Revolt: Insurgents Repulsed at the Bridge of Sevres; !rince Bismarck’s Ultimatum—The French National Assem- bly—The Peace Procession—Russta and Turkey—The Black Sea Open to Nav- igation py Imperial Prociamation—'fhe Sleepy Hollow ‘Sragedy—Personal Intelli- gence—Colored Orphan Asylum—Misceila- neous Telegraphic News—Rusiness Notices, S—Proceeai in the Courts—That Bursted Baubie—Bankruptcy Case—More Erle War— Navixation on the Lakes—Real Estate Mat- ters—Arrest of Prize Fighters—Financial and Commercial Reports—The WEEKLY HERALD. @—Departwent of Docks—Miscellaneous Foreign Items—Marriages and Deaths—Advyertise- ments, 1W—Reform: Grand Rally at the Cooper Institute ges Political Corruption—Ferry Reform— ie Army of the Tennessee— Alderman Ter. man’s Death—Bible Society—Accident on the Steamship Oceanic—army Orders—European Markets--Is she Drow.ea?—Shipping Intelil- gence—Advertisements, 31—Advertusements, 12—Aadvertisements, Tar Snetrasarcer Kv Ktivk Birt was passed in the House yesterday. It is one of the most stringent measures against the Ka Klox that has been offered in the House, and was so radical that its best friends hardly hoped to p2ssit. It is not certain, however, by any means that it will pass the Senate. Tae New Tax Levy Brt.—Mr. Tweed’s pet measure to relieve New Yorkers of the trouble and irksomeness of deciding how and by whom and to what amount they shall be taxed has been passed in the Senate. The bill in fall is given in our Albauy letter on another page, and our citizens, by a careful perusal of it, will be able to see how com- pletely the ring plays with them. The discus- sion upon the measure was very full and ex- haustive, and the friends of the measure amade the very best showing they could, while the republican minority watched it very closely, and for a wonder voted solidly against it. It will doubtless be passed through the lower House, but whether the Governor will sign it or not is a matter of doubt. It will certainly require all the nerve he possesses to veto it, but it isa measure of such general suspicion that it will certainly have to pass his closest scrutiny before he will sign it. Tue Great Rerorm MEETING at Cooper Institute last evening was a full outpouring of citizens who have good government more at heart than party politics. Speeches were made by Mr. Barrett, William M. Evarts, Henry Ward Beecher and others on the cur- rent legislative topics of the hour, the sectarian donations, ring corruption, lobbying at Albany, ang most of the city measures that now engagé the attention of our Legisla- tare. The parties in power can never refuse with safety to heed the voices of such assem- ‘lages as these, and we do not know but that it would represent the highest attainment of republican freedom if our legislative business were mainly directed by the counsels of such meetings. However it may be in future, we hope our Albany sages will heed the advice given them at the meeting last night. St. Dominco anp Watt Srreet.—The financial community perused the epecial message of the President and the report of the St. Domingo Commissioners, but ex- pressed no decided opinions ove way or the other concerning them. Holders of govern- ment bonds were perhaps better satisfied with the dissipation of the annexation scheme, which threatened to increase the public debt V Report of the St. Domingo Commission and the Presidents Message. It is ended. The President washes his hands of the St. Domingo annexation scheme and leaves it to the country. Humiliating as it might have appeared to him to give up an ob- ject he had been so intent upon and pushed so earnestly, he has had the good sense to yield to public opinion and to leave the St. Do- mingo business to the American people: General Grant never did anything more sensi- ble or ina more graceful manner. True, he says in the message he sent to Congress accompanying the report of the Commissioners, that his views are not changed, and that he still considers St. Domingo a desirable acqui- sition, He could not say less than this, espe- cially as the Commission appears to entertain the same opinion. We will give him credit even for being honest in his expressions, while, at the same time, we think he is short- sighted, does not understand the question thoroughly in all its bearings and is influenced by his prejudices. But in making this con- cession to public opinion, which many did not think him capable of, he shows his wisdom. He recommends Congress not to act tipon the St. Domingo question at present, and that, no doubt, will be the end of it, for, notwith- standing the rose-colored and one-sided report of the Commissioners, the more it is discussed the less favorably will it be regarded by the people. The report of the Commissioners does not touch the important topics bearing upon the question of annexation, and does not directly recommend annexation, though the whole tone is favorable to that. Indeed, the ques- tion was decided before the report was submitted. The press had thoroughly venti- lated it and public opinion was formed. As far as the charges made against General Grant of being interested in land jobs or other jobs in St. Domingo go, both the Commission and the gentlemen of the press who accompanied it - vindicate him. There was no evidence to show that he was interested, directly or indirectly, in any jobs, and whatever suspicion there may be that those near him and others who have urged anvexation have interests in the stupen- dous Fabens, or St. Domingo land job, or other jobs, there is nothing to show that his hands are not clean. He may have been de- ceived and influenced by those having his confidence, but has acted honestly himself. No doubt the President thought the annextion scheme would be a good political move, as well as advantageous to the country, and to work for it on that ground was fair enough. Rulers and political parties are in the habit of resorting to such measures to acquire popu- larity and to strengthen themselves. He made a mistake, undoubtedly, for there never were the elements of popularity in St. Domingo ; still, itis not likely to prove so serious now that he gracefully gives up the scheme, out of deference to public opinion. The St. Domingo Commissioners, as we said, have not touched in their report the most im- portant topics relative to annexation. One of these is the policy of uniting to ourselves and bringing into our social and political life an alien people—a population of negroes and mulattoes which does not speak our language, which has not the same ideas, habits, reli- gion, or anything in common with us, and which is ina semi-barbarous condition. The Commissioners admit that the people of St. Domingo are in the most abject condition, and that there is no industry in the country; yet from sympathy oc pity they would bring them into our civilized American family, without history. Could we satisfy all their rival ambi- tious chiefs, or keep out of a border warfare with the Haytiens?. It is very well to talk of our beneficent and strong government. The Dominicans and Haytiens have a strong pride of race and are not likely to be as submissive or docile as our negro-loving Commissioners seem to think. And powerful as we are, a war in the Island of St. Domingo—even a guerilla war in the mountains—would be no easy thing, and would cost in that climate a great sacrifice of life and treasure. No, the annexation of St. Domingo, in every point of considering the effect upon ourselves. Where the Commissioners do touch upon tiis ques- tion of race or condition of the Dominicans their statements are colored to suit their pre- determined purpose and the administration at Washington. For instance, they say there are few of the African negro stock in St. Domingo, when every one who accompanied the Com- mission or who has been in that country knows that the majority are blacks of the African race, and that nearly all the rest are of mixed negro blood. From the cun- ning wording of the report people might get the impression that a considerable number of the population are white; but, in fact, there are very few—hardly one in a thousand—of pure white natives in St. Domingo. The Commissioners had strong radical administration spectacles on when they looked at the dominicans. In no way is ita desirable population to incorporate with our own. Then the Commissioners speak in glowing terms of the natural resources or capabilities of the country. Admitting all they say on this head to be true, what is the value of the soil or that which it produces naturally withb- out labor? Nearly all tropical countries have a rich soil, particularly where there is plenty of rain, and St. Domingo is fully as rich as any of them, but it requires labor to make them valuable. Where is this to be obtained? It is not in St. Domingo. The whole population does not exceed a hundred and thirty thousand, and it is very doubtful if any considerable por- tion of this would be brought to habits of industry. It is simply absurd to talk of white people of the European or American stock tilling the soil in the tropics. They might work as traders, over- seers or as mechanics under cover, but white @eople never did and never were intended to cultivate the earth under the burn- ing sun of tropical regions. If St. Domingo belonged to us we should not import negro laborers from Africa. Our own negroes love their old homes too well to go there, if even we could spare them from the cotton, tobacco and rice fields of the South. Should we import Chinese coolies? In that case we must, according to the theory and practice of our government now, admit such Chinese to citizenship. We cannot hold distant colonial possessions with the people in a state of political servitude or ostracism. Are we pre- pared to try this experiment, with all its social and political disadvantages, for the sake of very doubtful prospective advantages to our commerce ? These are most important questions in con- sidering the subject of annexation, which the Commissioners have ignored "or have not aominally, if not relatively. And perhaps the weaker feeling in gold, which declined to 110}, was duo in # considerable measure to the removal of the chances of a government expenditure of coin in connection with annexa- don, thought proper to touch. Nor have they thought of the difficulties that might occur with the people St. Do- mingo—a people who been in of have J revolution and civil war through all their view, is visionary and impolitic. Possibly the few negroes and mixed race there might reap some benefit, but not the people of the United States. It would be an elephant of the worst sort on our hands, and we should become so dis2usted with this tropical experiment that it would be some time before we made any advance southward afterwards. Nothing would tend to cure us of ambition for manifest destiny more than that. The report of the St. Domingo Commissioners is weak, one-sided and in no way covers the ground, except as to vindicate General Grant from the charges of corruption made against him. With the Presi- dent's wise abandonment of the scheme of annexation we regard it as dead. The Situation in France. Five days have passed since the fighting outside the walls of Paris began, and the Versailles government has not yet succeeded in crushing the red republican rebellion. In- stead of announcing this morning that General Vinoy’s army has fought its way into the capital, we publish a report that M. Thiers has opened negotiations with the Commune with the object of effecting a compromise. What reliance can be placed in the report it is difficnlt to say, but we trust none can be. Nothing better than a treacherous and de- ceptive tranquillity can be restored in Paris if the reds are not put down by force and their leaders severely punished. We are inclined to doubt the report, because M. Thiers must know that the provinces would repudiate all compromises with men who murdered Generals Thomas and Lecomte and with the mob which has just pillaged the churches of the Madeleine and Assumption. While it is doubtless true, as stated in our despatches, that Bismarck has consented fer the Versailles authorities to occupy Paris with as many troops as they deem necessary, we are not so certain as regards the statement that he has threatened a German occupation of the city if the French government does not abandon its attitude of indecision. Such a movement on the part of Germany would be decidedly beneficial to France; but Bismarck can scarcely be anxious for the restoration of order unless the present anarchy prevents payment of the war indemnity. On his part M. Thiers will certainly make every exertion to pay the money, rather than permit the Germans to enter Paris and crash the Com- munists ; for, however faithful the army of Versailles may be to the government, it hates the Germans far more than it does the insur- gents, and it may resent any interference on the part of Germany, in what is a purely domestic trouble, by overturning the authority of M. Thiers and the Na- tional Assembly. Frenchmen are, in their domestic strifes, pretty much like the man and wife who always united in attacking an outsider who endeavored to prevent their fighting. We may, therefore, depend upon it that M. Thiers will not give Bgmarck any pretext for occupying Paris, if it is possiblo to raise the money to pay the war indemnity ; and when that is paid the Germans will have no excuse for interference, unless the other terms of the peace preliminaries are violated, which will not likely happen. So far as we can learn from the despatches the military situation before Paris remained practically unchanged yesterday. The artil- lery duels continued, and an insurgent at- tack on the bridge of Sevres on Tuesday night was repulsed; the government had de- clared its intention to attack Forts Vanvres and Issy, and the indica- tions were that another bloody struggle was imminent. In Paris the reign of terror continued; the Commune was forcing the male population into the ranks of the insurgents, and had issued a proclamation probable that a battle was fouzht yesterday and that to-day we shall have particulars of it, with its result. Goop Fripay.—This day, with more than usual solemnity in the Catholi: churches and with a more general observance than usual in the Protestsnt churches, will be marked by religious services in this city and its surroundings in commemoration of the Crucifixion, the crown- ing event in the Saviour’s mission upon the earth for the redemption of mankind. We hail these religious movements of the times as evidences of the still advancing triumphs of the Cross, and are thereby strengthened in the hope that the world, even inthe midst of wars and rumors of wars, is still marching on to the fulfilment of the divine proclamation to Bethlehem of ‘Peace on earth, good will to men.” Free Love anv Murper.—An extraordinary scene occurred ina San Francisco court during the trial of the woman Fair for the murder of Colonel Crittenden. She testified in her own behalf, admitted having been married a num- ber of times, avowed the most advanced free love sentiments, and declared herself Critten- den’s true wife in the sight of God. Her last marriage, she said, did not make the man she married her husband, because she did not love him. These sentiments, strange to say, were applauded by a number of females in court. Here we have another instance where free love and murder go hand in hand, Those who in this community countenance and advocate this shocking doctrine of free love may congratulate themselves upoa the point it has reached in California. Ware aNd Biaok Ko Ktuxes.—Does Con- gress propose to discriminate between whites and blacks in its treatment of the Ku Klux question? From recent developments it ap- pears that the most ferocious of these gangs are composed of negroes, and yet Congress seems to be only legislating with regard to the white branch of the Order, Give Sambo a ohauce, threatening retaliatory measures for the shoot- ing of prisoners by the Versailles army. Such are the most important items of news. It is Those “Disappoimed Men.” The President, in closing his capital St. Domingo Message to Congress, says that “he who undertakes: to conduct the affairs of a great government as a faithful public servant, if sustained by the approval of his own con- science, may rely with confidence upon the candor and intelligence of a free people, whose best interests he has striven to sub- serve, and can bear with patience the censure of disappointed men.” That's true—true as Gospel; but who are these disappointed men? . Their name is Legion. They are, great and small, ten thou- sand strong, and Senator Sumner is chief among the ten thousand. From the day of General Grant’s inauguration Mr. Sumner, in the Senate, undertook the difficult office of director and manager of the President and his policy, foreign and domestic, From the day of the submission of his first Cabinet to the Senate General Grant was made to feel that Mr. Sumner intended to take care of him, and that he would be allowed only little more line than was given to the unfortunate ‘‘Andy Johnson.” From that day down to the removal of Mr. Sumner from the Senate chairmanship on Foreign Relations by the usual action of the Senate in the reorgani- zation of its committees, the ‘‘irrepressible conflict” between the Senator and the President had been pushed so far that either the one or the other had to be displaced or disgraced. On the Tenure of Office law Mr. Sumner struggled hard to hold General Grant in the Senatorial leading strings of Johnson; and though finally compelled to give way, the Sen- ate still yielded something to Sumner in a sort of patchwork compromise. On the St. Domingo question the Senator, from the out- set, undertook the part of dictator and to make the President contemptible before the country. Minister Motley, at London, the special pro- tégé of the all-powerful Senator, in the next place, appears to have been so far emboldened’ by his backer as to disregard his instructions from the Secretary of State. Hence his recall; and with his recall, it appears, Mr. Sumner ceased to hold any social relations with Secretary Fish and the President. As it was simply impossible that the Executive Department on this footing could condu+t the foreign affairs of the government with the Senate chairman on those affairs, the Senate recognized the necessity of his re- moval, and he was removed. Mr. Sumner, therefore, is chief of the ‘disappointed men” referred to by the President in this St. Do- mingo message. Senator Carl Schurz is another. He con- sidered himself as entitled to the lion's share of the government spoils"in Missouri, and so made his requisition upon the President. But General Grant could not see the matter in that light. So Mr. Schurz bolted with his friend Gratz Brown, and between them they made a republican split which gave the State tothe democrats; and so Mr. Schurz, like the dog in the fable, lost the marrow bone which was his in jumping at the shadow in the water. The patriotic Schurz, then, as the right- hand man of Sumner on St. Domingo, is an- other of those ‘‘disappointed men” whose head fits the cap of the President's message on this question. Senator Fen- ton is another disappointed man. He thought that he had a ‘‘title clear” to the New York Custom House and all the fat places and pick- ings thereof, and put in his claim accordingly. But Fenton, like Schurz, in demanding more than his fair share, lost even that which he had secured. Mr. Fenton's ‘Mordecai sit- ting in the King’s gate” is “honest Tom Mur- phy” “‘sitting in the place of the receipt of customs” and as custodian of the fleshpots of Egypt to the republican party of New York, while Fenton is out in the cold. There are several ‘‘disappointed men” in connection with the New York Custom House ; two or three in reference to certain ‘‘castles in Spain” or elsewhere in foreign lands, and here and there all over the country the ‘“‘disap- pointed men” who sympathize with Mr. Sumner are numerous. They are breaking out as “revenue reformers,” as independent repub- licans, as denouncers of General Grant “up stairs and down stairs and in my lady’s cham- ber;” but the Connecticut election, notwith- standing the defection of Grandfather Welles among the rest, shows that General Grant has still the inside track and can afford to ‘bear with patience the censure of disappointed men.” The Viaduct Railroad—Is It a Job or a Bona Fide Enterprise ¢ The passage of the Viaduct Railroad bill in the Legislature and its sanction by the signa- ture of the Governor would seem to secure us this long-coveted and much-agitated rapid transit from the Battery to Harlem. How to get up town in any reasonable time has always been a problem. The ordinary horse railroad cars have long since become more of a nui- sance than a convenience. People tremble at the idea of going home by this abominable mode of travel; yet they have really no alter- native. The indiscriminate crowd, the total absence of ventilation, the foul atmosphere, and the want of space, where fifty per cent more passengers than the car can accommo- date comfortably are crushed into it to gratify the avarice of the railroad company, makes this mode of conveyance intolerable. Now that we have got a bill through the Legislature author'zing the construction of a viaduct railroad we see some signs of relief. But the parties who have been invested with the right to construct an elevated rood from the lower to the upper part of the island must go to work earnestly and build that road inthe quickest possible space of time, It will not do to spread the work over & period of years. We live now in a time when a year of life is like half a century com- pared with the olden age in which it tooka generation of thought to conceive and perfect an idea and a generation of action to put it into practice. We must have things done promptly to suit our immediate wants. Therefore, when we are promised that this new viaduct rail- road shall be finished from the Battery to Union square in two years, we are surprised that it should take so longa time to accom- plish the work. We remember that huodreds of miles of the Pacific Railroad were com- pleted in that time. Why should it require two years, or one-fourth of the time, to build this viaduct railroad through the yards and in the rear of the houses, obstructing no highway and interfering with no portion of the traffic of the city? The connection between the Battery NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 187L-TRIPLE SHEET. and Harlem might be made tn six months apon this plan if there is not a job at the bottom of the whole transaction; but, of course, if time is to be frittered away until certain arrange- ments are made between scheming politicians, we may have to wait a long time before rapid transit between the two ends of the island is established. The Black Sea Open te Navigation—Effect of the Treaty of London. We are informed by telegram from St. Petersburg, forwarded through the cable, that the Russian government announced by official publication in the capital yesterday the formal ratification of the Turco-Russian con- vention, by which the reatrictions which have hitherto prevailed against the free navigation of the Black Sea, particularly by armed ves- sels of war, are abrogated. The Euxine waters are rendered virtually free to the nations, The Treaty of Paris of 1856 is modified almost to obliteration by this public executive act. Turkey is reas- sured. The fact of this reassurance to the Porte will tend to draw the great Powers of the Old World into a more friendly and confi- dential communion. It comes at a most critical moment in the history of Europe. One of the leading Powers which took part in the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris of 1856 is disintegrated almost to obliteration. France lies trampled under the heel of her own children, with the glory, brilliancy and dash of the Crimea dimmed and tarnished, and halting sadly in its pro- gress. Have the other Powers availed themselves of the opportunity to come closer? Will the Eastern policy be altered and re- formed to suit the exigencies of the diplomacy which has been rendered absolutely necessary in Europe by the issue and results of the Franco-Prussian war? It is very probable that it will be. It is, consequently, impor- tant—important, indeed, from every point of consideration—that the American people should be informed of‘ and pay attention to the aspect of the Eastern question as it pre- sents in its remodelled shape after the work of the London Conference, The Europe of to- day may go East asa unit—without France; perhaps without the United States. The ex- cellent results of our friendly relations with Turkey may be imperilled, particularly our commercial interests. Taking a broad and serious view of the subject, we have judged it necessary to specially illustrate our cable news telegram from St. Petersburg by a publi- cation of the history of the London Confer- ence, its negotiations and treaty arrangements, so faras they have reference to the naviga- tion of the Black Sea and the Dardanelles. Comments of the official journal of Turkey on the subject are given with the report, which appears in our columns to-day. The Paris Jacobi and Their Sacrilegious Outrages. Our latest news from Paris does not con- vince us that the lovers of order have any good reason to think well or hopefully of the Communists, The roughs who have obtained control of Paris, and who, through Paris, have vainly tried to get hold of France, have made some serious blunders. Every latest blunder is an additional illustration of their bad principles and an aggravation of past proofs of folly and crime. With honest republicans we have every sympathy. We wish them—we cannot help wishing them—all the world over, success, But, much as we love republican institutions, we cannot recognize the Paris mob. Republicanism, as represented there to-day, means mob rule, disorder, anarchy, cbhaos—everything, in fact, which a good man despises and dreads. The imprisonment of the Archbishop of Paris and the pillaging of the Madeleine reveal all the worst characteristics of the ancient but not yet forgotten Jacobins, All property in common, the Goddess of Rea- son, no Sunday—that is their programme. Some sixty years ago France worked her weary and bloodstained way out of Jacobin rule; and one of the most popular acts of the first Na- poleon was his restoration of the Sabbath. The French Communists forget that the French peasant class, which controls the na- tional vote, is religious and Catholic. If they don’t forget they close their eyes to facts. The imprisonment of the Archbishop of Paris and the pillaging of the Madeleine have killed Communism. If the Paris insurgents had kept off the Church they might have had a chance. As it is, the last shadow of their op- portunity is gone. The priests will now preach and the peasants will fight for the restoration of a strong government. In that government the ‘“‘reds” will find no place. Spain and Cuba. King Amadeus’ government pays great at- tention to the subject of Cuba, His Majesty wishes, evidently, to retain the colonial gem in his crown—that is, always provided that it can be kept there honorably, in a dignified manner and with profit to the Spanish people. “Cuba is to be pacified;” ‘Cuba will be represented in the national Cortes;” ‘‘Cuba is tranquillized at all points.” Such are the executive assurances which have reached us lately from Madrid with respect to the Spanish domain of the Antilles. We have a telegram from the Spanish capital to-day which reports that during the sitting of the Cortes yesterday the Minister of the Colonies delivered a speech, in the course of which he gave ‘‘an explicit contradiction to the report that the United States government had made a proposi- tion to Spain for the purchase of her posses- sions in the West Indies.” It will be seen here that the Minister merely denies that the “United States government had made a pro- position to purchase.” Perhaps not exactly in a business-like way. Does he regret the fact? If so, perhaps the American people will re- medy the omission and send forward a tender. The “honor of Spain forbids” her to sell terri- tory, however. Well, what of it, if the nego- tiation can be arranged with honor to all par- ties concerned and with vast benefit to the Spanish treasury ? Tue New York Custom House nominations called forth a very sharp discussion in the executive session of the Senate yesterday. Mc. Fenton made a show of very strong resist- ance to their confirmation, and Mr. Conkling as strongly advocated favorable action. As will be seen by our report of an interview with them, the officials to bg removed are com- pletely bewildered by the sudden stroke, and, like poor boys at a frolic, have nothing to say that can be called signidgant Nemater wavig and General Butler—The \‘crald’s Report Sustained in the Senate. the explanation made by Mr. Davis, of K cy, in the United States Senate yester- day, of \fthe pointed, pungent and shocking remarks wich on a late occasion passed between him and General Butler in the Senate Chamber, the Yenator from Kentucky first produced an extaact from the New York HERALD report of he affair, beginning with the expressions chargdj to Mr. Davis, as fol- lows :— “You G—d d—d old sooundret! to glare at me, and overawe m Butler replied with unparalleled coolness, atilt at Davis, “I have not addressed 01 roars @ d—n for you, sir." oirereren. Doron come kite and brewbeat “You d—d scoundrel, you |’ was the of Davis, at the same time advancing toward Butier as if he meant to strike him. ‘ Butler sat in his seat, still looking Davis full in the face. “You're a d—d old fool,'’ said Butler, “and your age protects you.’” Mr. Davis was satisfied that this report was “upon the authority of Butler himself,” and as proof of it had the following remarks of Butler in a late speech, in the House read by the Clerk :— Do the Ku Klux banditti exist in Kemtucky, that dark and bloody und, where the savage and brutal passions of men never yet have found re- straint either by time, place or clrcumstances, civill- zation or education, so that neither the palsy of years can control them, gray hair soften them, the solemnity of place or occasion curb them, in so much that their untaught and untamed outbursts may break forth even in the Senate Chamber of the United States; their impotent rage exhibiting itself with whining and piping voice of an imbecile and unhonored old age. Then, after giving the details of the seizure of a certain lot of silver plate in New Orleans by Butler and the efforts of Davis to have an investigation of the case as the remote cause of the row in question, the Senator explained the row itself, which occurred after he had finished his speech on that day, as follows :— I then took my seat. He (Butler) continued to matntain an earnest and excited ook, whereupon I turned my seat and faced him, and when we bad looke each other in the eye for an instant I said to htm:—“You d——d old scoundrel, are you here to scowl at and browbeat me?” (Laughter on the republican side.) He made no reply and I repeated that language. He then responded, “I have not ad- dressed you, sir, ur said a word to you.” Ithen said, “What are you here for? Why did you scowl atme?’ He answered, “I did not scowl at you. You are an old man.” I rose to my feet ad. vanced one step toward him and said:—“i am young enough to go with you from this Senate Chamber whenever it is your pleasure.” At this point Senator Wilson stepped between us, lald a hand on Butler’s shoulder, said a few words to him, and they walked off together. Here, it will be seen, the Heratp special report—and the HERALD aims to tell the truth, good or bad, of passing events—our report, we say, of this unparliamentary conversation is vouched for by Senator Davis as substan- tially correct. He did call General Butler “a d—d old scoundrel,” and he did repeat the profane expression; but, according to the Senator from Kentucky, “‘the gentleman from Massachusetts” was guilty of no profanity on the occasion, and to this extent we must do him justice. Finally, in view of these shock- ing profanities and personal vulgarities, that have become so common in both houses of Congress as to be disgraceful to the country, we would commend to Mr. Davis, General Butler and all concerned, as the only remedy for the disease, a thoughtful reading of the wholesome religious teachings always to be found in the Sunday and Monday issues of the New Yor HERALp. Our Coming Crops and the Prospects from the Short Supplics ia Europe. From present indications we shall have a bountiful harvest. The promises from all parts of the country are good, the yield will be most productive and bounteous plenty will be vouchsafed us by a kind Providence. Looking across the Atlantic we perceive a con- trary state of affairs in many of the countries of Europe. The fields of France remain un- tilled, the crops in Germany will be late, Italy as wellas Spain has suffered, and the grain regions of Russia will be unable to supply the increased demand which the ravages of the war in France occasioned. Apart from the slain and the sick and wounded, who by the late war were ruthlessly taken from out the ranks of peaceful industry never again to be returned to it, we must count the soldiers of the two immense armies of Germany and of France, who will find it irksome for a time to settle down as quiet agriculturists, artisans, traders and workmen. We experienced in this country a similar state of things, but of a milder form, when the conflict with the South closed. This is one of the many penalties of war, and one that will be sorely felt by the people of France particularly. Germany will not be exempt, and she, too, will have to carry the burden of her war sin. In this sad plight these two nations appear, and from this coun- try must go the helping hand to assist them in their hours of need. The prospects of abun- dant crops are so bright and the news from the grain fields of the West so cheering that, with these hopes realized, the great republic of the West will be able to give food to the suffering people of other nations. THE RIVER MYSTERY. The Body Recognized as a Newport Brile= Death Betore Dishonor. The body of the unknown woman found foaung in the water at the foot of West Twenty-second street by oficer Smith, of the Sixteenth precinct, and removed to the Morgue last night, has been identified as that of Mrs. Emma Fox, twenty-eight years of age. During the past summer she lived at Newport with her husband, W. W. Fox, who, being of a jovial and fun-ioving disposition, became so infatuated witn drink. that he could not leave it off, At the close of the season they came to cunts city, and being well provided for in a pecuniary point of view, hired a handsome sult of rooms atthe Everett House, where they remained up to within the last three weeks, when Mr. Fox died, and was buried in Westchester county, from his aunt’s house. On the night of the 11th of March last, acold, blustery night, Mrs. Fox cailed upon an intimate lady named Mrs. Maser, at 432 Fiftie avenue, and revealed all her troubles to her, stating that @ man. named Bradford bad been endeavoring to lead her astray pre. vicus to and after her husband's death, and had inserted an advertisement in @ morning paper for four successive days, which read as fullows:— ‘The boat 1s empty, let me bear from you. She informed Mrs, Maser she had nothing to live rather than submit to the insults offered her by thls man, coupled with vhe unfortunate death of her husband, she would rather commit suicide, and announced. her determination to do se. The strange and melan~ choly actions of Mrs. Fox caused her friend to de- spatch her brother after the heart-broken woman. He followed her to the corner of Ninoteenth strees and Eighth avenue, where he lost track of her ou account of & car coming between toem. This was the last seem of her until her body was tound float ing tn the river by officer Smith, e body 1s at the Morgue, where an inquest wilt ‘be held by the Coroner to-day. On her person were an oval cluster, enamelled diamond ring, solitaire dia- inond ring, plain gold ring, gold watch and chain, to 14,584, Tiffany & Uo., makers, and one jet VIEWS OF THE PAS. eens APRIL 7 1862--Isiand No. 10 surrendered by the rebets te General Pope......The battie of Pittsburg Landing was concluded in the defeat of the rebels, Vita—Fraacgs M, OC, Fourler. the Soclallak born.