The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1872, Page 6

~ 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Tux Naw sMTALLAQK'S THEATRE, Broutway ant 13h siren. — VENUS THEATRE, Tweaty-fourts sires. = 4 OF Drvouce, n NIBLO'S at 19 yt a bewee Poo sad EB Bow —{ ee, ms ta) Bowery.—Hovust Doo—Tas OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brondway,—Ti ‘TOMIME oF HuMPiY Dorr she apes resmes BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-<hird st, corner Sih ay. — GRAND OPERA HOUSK, corner 7 No Tuonovaurant ae mete WOOD'S MUSKUM, Broadway, corner Perfor ances afternoon andevening, “WeACTY Anh TUE WEast oe a, THEATRE, Twenty-cignth street and Rroed- JONALDL STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 @ Rowery.—Ovena Bourrr—La uaaeoe Ducnsest MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROO! ree. MowrTe Cristo. cart on PARK THEATRE, ite City Hall, Brookiyn.— Tauure; on, Hien, Low Saox anv rut Gane ee” STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth st. Tueopon® Tuomas? GRand ConorsT. 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Fisk-Stukes Folly; Death of Colonel James Fisk ; Preparations for the Funeral ant 5 Stokes 1n the Tombs ; What the Post-Mortem Examination Disciosed ; Erie Stoek Going Up. 4@=—Religious: The Proclamation of the Gospel in the Churches Yesterday; Mr. Hepworth’s “New Departure;” An Enthusiasttc but In- dignant Church audience; Father Beaudevin on the Star in Bethlehem; Dr. Merrill Rich- ardson on the New Year aud Its New Duties; Sermons b; Father Beaudevin, Dr, Uhapman, Rev, Messrs, Beecher, Hepworth, Longacre, #red Evans and Blaer Bywater—A Newark Monster—Frightiul Fal! froma Bell Tower— Cut His Throat—suiciie by Drowning—Felt from a@ Building—Stole a Horse and Wayou— Lost His Kar—Tne Newark Fire—Pickpockets in Hoboken, G-Oburch and State: The Rebellion in the Catholic Church in America; The Bishop of Scranton versus Father Stack; Ecclesiastical Law Defied; The State Courts to Invade the Sancttty of the Church; Charges ot Embezzle- ment and Arbitrary Encroachment—Claims on Cuba—Alleged Grand Larceny—Personul Notes—Foreign Personal Gossip, @—Editorials: Leading Article, “The edy and Its Meaning—What_ it Teaches and What it Shoula Teacn’’—News from Washington— Auvlusements Announcements. 9—The Assassination of James Fisk, Jr., (Continued from Tenth Pagei—The War in Mexico: The Revolutionists to Attack the City—Interview With President Grant: An ample Apology Demanded from Spain—\ews from France, Spam, Engiand and Switzerland—Cupa: Flight of Presilent Cespedes from tho Isiand— Mutterings of the Coming Storm—Afairs 2 Utah--Shipping —_Lutelligence—Business ot: S—State Capital: Senate Standing Committees; More About the Senatorial Muddie—Litera- ture: Criticisms of New Books; werary Chit-Chat—amusements—The Crisis in France; Gravity of the Situation of tne Republic and Increasing Dangers—The Wharton Trial: A New Sorrow in the Compli Scenes after Domesti 9—Boutwell vs. Boutwell: An Interesting History of His Change of Base; He Favors and Op- ste the Boutwell Bill; The Syndicate Job— Keport Of the Commissioners of Emigration for the Past Year—Suicide of an OfMlcer—Lynn (Mass.) Yacht Club—The Tammany Prima- ries—Court Calendars for To-Day—Financial and Commersial Reports—Domestic Markets— Drv Goods Markets—Marriages ana Deaths, 10—The Assassination of Jumes isk, Jr. (con- tinued irom Third Page)— advertisements, Qi—Fugiana: Meetiug of the Eng‘ish Erie Protec: tion Committee; Americau Shipving Inter- esis; Cheap Telegraphic Communication with America—Foreign Miscclianeous Items—The Navy: Starting Exbivit of the Worthlessness of our National Vessels--Engiish Racing— Racing in Japan—The 1 in Calitornia— Stud Farms in kentucky—The Rochester ‘Negro’s ‘rtp to Aubu 12-Sport on the Hudson citing Tceboat Con- bituaries—The Texas testa at New Hamburg: School Law Unconstitutional — Adveriise- ments, Cxspepes, the President of what is called “The Cuban Republic,” has, according to the Havana despatch which we publish this morn- Ing, made his escape from Cuba to Curacoa, where he is now said to be lying ill. Erm Srook anp Fisk's Dzarn.—Erie stock on Saturday afternoon was quoted 35}. After the shooting of Fisk it rose to 37. Yes- terday morning, in the sotto voce market at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, it fluctunted between 87 and 38, until Fisk’s death was announced, when the shares rose to 39} a 40. Last night the market fell off again, the closing dealings being at 88. Although the Stock Exchange hhas been closed since the shooting occurred, not less than five thousand shares changed How To Serrtz Our Dirricuities with Sprain—Demand on immediate apology and reparation for the numerous offences of Span- fish provincial and naval authorities against the rights and dignity of our flag, and the rights of our citizens, with the alternative annexed of the armed occupation of the island of Oubs, and we shall have a fight anda ecisive settlement, The people are ready for it; and surely we bave bad enough of Spanish outrages and Spanish insolence, and diplomatic tomfoolery with the Spanish government. Mextoan Wanrvane is as uncertain and un- acoouatable as the whirlwind. The tactics of the Mexican generals would puzzle a Moltke, put « short time ago it was announced, with a flourish of trumpets, that Saltillo and had been captured by the revolutionists, It now appears, by our latest special despatch from Matamoros, that both places have been abandoned by the insurgents, and are to be reocoupled by Juares’s troops. As an off-set Against this reported triumph of the govera- ment, it is announced that a formidable force of revolutionists is going to attack Matamoros, the fall of which city would place an import- ant part of the frontier along the Rio Grande fo tae ty latter, Victories in hexigo, er in favor of the government ‘or in favor of the {nsurgents, seem to he alike barren fn result. NEW YURKK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘Teo Tragedy and Its Moensing—What it Teaches and What It Should T.nch. Is this really the age of romance? What a page these last days have added to our strange history! When we spoke recently ot “Chaos Triumphant,” which the metropolis was acting, we little dreamed that to-day would develop « tragedy more wonderful was ever seen on the mimic stage. Edgar Poe wrote about weird rhymes, Let us note the and app!y the lesson. On Saturday a citizen of New York, well known in this and other lands, quietly rode down Broadway and ate hotel, His purpose was is'dall on ¢ of one who towards the deed. The slayer and the slain were both young men, with gifts, oppor- tunities and friendships, Before them life opened with the brightness and beauty of morning. In a moment, as by a flash, it van- ished, The morning became night—the night of the prison and the grave. It is not for us to sit in judgment upon the heroes of this tragedy. Of the man who is dead we may epeak—of the one by whose band he died we must be silent in presence of the law. For what he has done he must answer to bis God and his couniry, and may he have speedy and unbending justice, No Journal has a right to anticipate a jury's verdict or to prejudice the case of one who is to answer for his life, When the trial is over and the verdict is given we may speak. Now let us repress all passion. We remember of the dead man that he filled a large space in the mind of the people; that he commanded vast Interests; that he had risen from poverty to wealth with a swiftness that recall the tales of the ‘‘Arabian Nights;” that he was of daring, boundless ambition; that he sur- rounded his life with a gaudy splendor that dazzled the multitude even if the wiser and graver ones mocked, No one of this genera- tion has so suddenly swept into fame—or, per- haps, what ts better, that phase of fame which we call notorlety—than the young man who was stealthily shot to death in the ambuscaded stairway of a hotel. Ilis vivacity; his come- liness ; bis incessant, effervescing good humor ; the railways he owned; the steamboats he commanded, his bands of music and flocks of canary birds; his decorations ; his seeking after luxury and pleasure; bis wild struggle with the government of the United States; his boyish love of show, of colors and gems and golden braid; that reok- less frankness, which made the world the con- fidant of his business, his dreams and his affec- tions; his insatiable thirst for applause; the world to him a stage, and his whole life, even those phases of life which decorum veils, an acted comedy—no more striking phenomenon of buman natare has been seen in our time, True, there was scandal in his life, and stern moralists will find retribution in hisdeath, It is not for us to speak of retribution, And ob, friends think that the poor always swarmed around bis gates and never went hungry away, and that those who knew him best shed tears over hisdeath bed! This we mustsay of him—and the best of us wiM die a blessed death, in- deed, if such memories attend our closing hours, So much, then, to the manes of one who yesterday was so powerful, so great, so en- vied—wielding princely power with the reck- lessness of the revolutionary Duke of Orleans, but who to-day will be slowly borne to an un- timely grave. Generations will read with varied feelings of the strange, romantic life of “the Prince of Erie,” and, in closing the chap- ter which records it, we have this thought :— ‘What shall we say of the soclety which de- veloped ‘the Prince of Erie—what of tho generation which made his death possible?’ Every age and every people find themselves reflected in the men they give and the deeds they do. We speak of the revolutionary Duke of Orleans; but he was the offepring of his time, its luxury, its extravagance, its deflance of law and religion and God's ordinances, What was George Prince of Wales, the first gentleman of Europe, but the concentrated dandyism and extravagance of an era of folly and fashion? Aaron Burr was the outgrowth of that loose morality which eame with the social upheaval that succeeded our Revolution. Robesplerre was the mun of bis time and bis race. He was possible to a maddened people, wild with thirsting for the blood of kings, He was impossible to the calmer and more practical men, whose leader was Bonaparte. Degenerate France expressed iteelf in Louis Napoleon and his gaag of adventarers—De Morny and Fleury apd St. Arnaud; and the reckless gamblers with the wealth and glory of the richest and most William, . The Prince of Erie was representative, Do we koow what we have been doing, and whither we have been drifting these later years? This 1s s volcanic period, and the lava still rolis over us, The war was « great upheaval. The work of a century has been undone in « day, Old castoms, traditions, con- stitutional rights, respect for property and law have been overthrown as easily as Pom- peli and Herculaneum, The slave power, which was imperial ten years ago, is now despised and offensive, Kirg Cotton has been dethroned and his kingdom given to serfs. The invincible Tammany has been dashed in pieces, as with a potter's sherd. The demo- cratic party which made Jackson irresistible is now as helpless as Napoleon’s army retreat- ing before the Cossacks. The Pontiff of the venerable Catholic Church has been driven from the Quirinal, and a usurping King sits in the palace of the successors of St. Peter and the Vicegerent of Christ. Napo- leon, whose frown made Europe tremble, is 9 harmless exile among the trees and garden walks of Chiselhurst. Still the volcano burns. Kings sit upon rocking thrones. Society is like the mass of molten fire. Men war upon the Church and State— Day; even upon sacraments sanctified by cen- turles of reverence. We are told that there is no God; that Christ is a fiction; that mar- rlage is = bondage; that none shall live in marriage, and that in the general overthrow the hearth and home and the family itself must perish, In this age of chaos—this heaving, tumbling age—all things are possible. The life of this Prince of Erie—his sad, tragic, sudden death—whatever we may call it—are natural phenomena. Let us look to it and apply the lesson which is written upon this day's chronicle in such terrible, bloody |let- ters, Society needs a general purification. The war did its share, but more remains to be done. The Pyramids spoke to Napoleon with the lessons of forty centuries. Shall this republic hope to have “forty centuries” of ex- istence? See what Rome did in her three hun- dred years of republican life. The memory of that epoch Is ever present, It gave us Brutus, We are aboat to close the first century of our nation’s life, What have we given to the world? What lesson have we taught? How much have we contributed to the comfort and happiness of mankind? In our pride we may say that if Rome gave the world Brutus, America has given it Washington. It is only our pride that spoaks, Rome passed from Brutus to Hellogabulus and Nero in four cen- turies, We have passed from Washington to this poor Prince of Erie, But Rome did more, She developed Cwsar and made Christ's teachings possible. Even kings pay tribute to that splendor, when Russia crowns her Czar and Germany her Kaiser, and adore the humble Jew who paid tribute to Tiberias. America has not reached such a consumma- tion, nor are we on the way to it, Let us therefore bury this dead man with all honor to the good that was in him. ‘Why,” said Mra, Stowe, ‘did you love this horrible Lord Byron, when you knew of his follies and crimes ?”‘ ‘Because, my dear,” said Lady Byron, “there was the angel in him.” There was this in the Prince of Erie; bat his life, his death and the social chaos which found expression in their impress upon all were grave and immediate responsibilities, Chaos seems to have triumphed, but is it not time the triumph should end? Is It not time that government and order and tradition and religion and moral law should begin to reign ? The O'Hara-Stack Dificalty—The Canon Law. The gist of the matter between Bishop O'Hara and Father Stack, the late pastor of Williamsport, Pa., appears really to lie in tha fact that the Roman canon law bas no appll- cation in this country. To state this briefly, it means that America, in Catholic parlance, is what is called a ‘‘mission,” in contradis- tinction to « country with a regular hierarchy. This embryo state is, of course, parallel to colovizing in the political sense, and {s as natural as necessary. The absence of the canon law means, in its application to the pres- ent difficulty, that the Bishop is competent to remove a parish priest without showing cause, The suit in the Pennsylvania Courts is brought with the intention of compelling the Bishop to do so. It seems a hardship that a priest may be turned 4 without cause stated, but the necessities of discipline are things which concern priests more than lay- men, and things to which they voluatarily sub- scribe at the time of their ordination. The puzzle to everybody seems to be how the civil Courts can help the matter at all; for as “all the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men” could not ‘put the yolk back in the cracked ogg, it is just a8 diMcult to civilly rehabilitate an unfrocked priest. The Roman College will perhaps, at some early day, find it in their province to erect America into a country with a regular hierarchy, and so cut the present Gordian kaot between bishop and priest, How to Buty a Navy—Let Mr. Bout- well drop a million or two every month in his reduction of the national debt statement and appropriate the amount to the reconstruction of our naval marine. The ambition of securing a rapid reduction of the public debt should give way to the immediate and impera- tive necessity of building a navy worthy of the nation. Sgvator Suxeman has secured a nomina- tion for another Senatorial term from the republican caucus of the Ohio Legislature, and will doubtless be re-elected to-morrow, as the republicans bave s good majority on joint ballot, Sherman was the Grant candi- date against numerous anti-Grant candidates, and his success is an important victory for General Grant over the Obio republican mal- contente—a victory, ia fact, of the same char- acter as that of Swith over Alvord tor Speaker sappose you count him among the bolters, what does it signify 7 Ilas be aot proclaimed the fact that neither he nor Mr, Fenton can do anything against the spoils of the Custom HouseZ the Syndicate Jeb. Perhaps there is no department of the gov- ernment where administrative mismanagement can be covered up so well as in the Treasury. Few people know much about floancial mat- ters on such a scale as those pertaining to the government, To most the subject of the national finances is as great a mystery as the Sibylline oracles could be. Not many, consequently, pay much attention to it, Then, Treasury figures are capable of being so ar- ranged as to deceive the public. Mr, Bout- well, for example, has had his financial opera- tions laid before the country in most flattering exhibits, apparently, and his friends and par- tisans have sung praises to him for the ability they think he bas shown, yet there never was in this country, probably, a more incompetent Secretary of the Treasury. Our Washington correspondence, published to-day in another part of the paper, shows that Mr. Boutwell has been inconsistent and has no determined financial policy, except, indeed, that. be has been consistent since he entered the Treasury in keep- ing up burdensome and unnecessary taxation and making jobs for rings of friends and speculators. Just before he became Secretary, and while a member of the House of Repre- sentatives, he introduced a bill which provided that no percentage, deduction, commission or compensation of any amount or kind should be allowed to any person for the sale, negotia- tion, or exchange of any bonds or securities of the United States, or of any coin or bullion disposed of at the Treasury Department or elsewhere on account of the United States. By the same bill all acts authorizing or per- mitting, by construction or otherwise, the Secretary of the Treasury to appolaot any agent, other than some proper officer of his department, to make such sale or negotiation of bonds and securities were to be repealed. It provided also that all exchanges, purchases or sales of bonds should be made by inviting competition through advertising for proposals, and then the awards to be given to bo best bidders. It was to be the same with the sales of gold. No agents were to be employed, all was to be done through the proper officers of the Treasury Department, and there was to be the most free competition and publicity. The bill did not pass, and Mr. Boutwell has done much, no doubt, to prevent such a measure being passed since he has been Secretary. His policy as Secretary of the Treasury is not the same as when he was in the House of Representatives, The very jobs he appeared intent on preventing while a member of the House he has since favored. In the syndicate job, which gives to agents unconnected with the Treasury—to a few fa- vored bankers and speculators—near two mil- lions of dollara for negotiating a hundred and thirty millions of the new loan. If the whole of the fiiteen hundred millions authorized by the funding act of Congress to be funded should be negotiated at the same rate of cost the loss to the Treasury and country would be about twenty-three millions, What now light had flashed upon the mind of Mr. Boutwell since 1869 when he was so intent on having no outside agencies to negotiate govern- ment securities, and no commissions al- lowed for doing so? To say the least the whole syndicate transaction looks suspicious, The profits allowed to the agents for placing the hundred and thirty millions of the loan, as the negotiation of the new five per cents, or barter of securities has been called, are without parallel in the financial operations of this country, or, perhaps, of any great country in these times, Mr. Boutwell has acted in this matter contrary to the spirit and intention of the funding act of Congress, if not in direct violation of law. One-half of one per cent, or six hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars, was the total amount allowed and not to be exceeded for all expenses in the sale or conversion of a hundred and thirty millions of securities, This is explicit and there is no way of evading the law directly, yet the Secretary evades it indirectly. He gives the Syndicate the interest on the bonds for a certain time, which is tantamount to pay- ing a commission of about two millions of dollars. No amount of special pleading can overcome this plain and damaging fact. Io his gold sales as well as in his bond pur- chases and operations Mr. Boutwell has over- stepped the duty of his position. He has entered the market as the bulls and bears of Wall street do, to affect prices, and thus to beaefit those who are in the Treasury Ring or in the secret of Treasury operations, He goes beyond the limit of his duty when he interferes with the market, Such conduct is aninjury to the solid business men of the country and the public, and is only beneficial to the stock and gold gamblers and the Treas- ury Ring. See the list of commercial firms and names we publish in our Washington cor- respondence of those who petitioned for a cessution of those bull and bear operations of the Treasury Department. Mr. Boutwell should have all sales or purchases in the gold and stock market public, at fixed periods, and after timely notice has been given. There would be no favoritism in this, and it would tend more than any other course to prevent gold gambling and to keep the market steady, all of which would prove advantageous to merchants and business men generally. One of the causes for Mr. Boutwell’s ex- travagant syndicate scheme, apart from the desire to benefit a certain class of Treasury favorites, was the dilemma the Secretary found he had placed himself in with regard to funding the debt, He had made Congress and the people believe he could fand the whole fifteen hundred millions provided for in the bill be recommended, and which Congress passed. Month after month passed away and little was accomplished. His policy, in fact, was a failure, Atlast he saw it was neces- sary to make a desperate effort to save his credit with the public, and then devised the syndicate scheme, Even then, with the enor- mous profits given to those agents, and after hawking our securities about Europe, only very small portion of the fifteen hundred mil- lions to be funded was placed. After putting the screws to the national banke by threatening them, trying all the money centres of the world by perambulating Treasury officials and the wyndicate agency, and paying dear, at last he bas succeeded merely in converting two hundred millions of the five-twenties. It Mr. BoutwelPs Treasury Operations and | country to have its securities hawked about in such « manner, We consider the Secretary has failed in his funding scheme, notwith- standing the conversion under pressure and at great cost of two hundred millions of securi- ties, He felt this himself, no doubt, when he resorted to the questionable means we have spoken of in funding a small portion of the debt. Moneyed institutions, capitalists and the people, both in this country and abroad, will tak» our securities when they want them, and fod it profitable to doso, without the aid of syndicates. The press and its advertising columns prove to be the best agency in these days. A great nation is not like an insurance company ora dry goods hous», needing drum- mers to improve its business. Put the whole debt into long time or interminable consols, abolish a hundred millions of taxation a year, let strict economy be observed in the expen- ditures of government, let a moderate sinking fund be kept in operation, and measures he taken at once to reiura to specie payments, and we venture to say the credit of the coun- try would rise and oar national securities at a lower rate of interest would soon be absorbed, The debt would be extinguished through a sinking fand or by applying surplus revenues, if it be desirable to extinguish It entirely, just a8 a00n as the bonds were made interminable, or had to run forty or fifty years, as if they bad only ten years to run. The whole fund- ing scheme and our financial policy need remodelling. The first step, however, is to find a competent man for Secretary of the Treasury. The Sermons—Hepwerth’s New Departure in Theology. The great feature of our pulpit budget this morning is the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Hepworth from the pastorate of the Church of the Measiah and the incidents which accompa- nied bis farewell sermon. Manlier, truer or more independent Christian words have been rarely uttered in the pulpits of this city than were spoken yesterday by this eloquent preacher, And the applause with which his words were greeted, and the hisses which mot the utterances and actions of a few persons who were unchristian enouyh to insult him gratuitously, showed unmistakably in what direction the sympathies of the people lie. It is not often that a minister is found bold enough to say of his own denomination that it had of late admitted to its fold men who would not be received into any other Christian body in the world. Should Mr. Hepworth seek to build upa church organization here he will undoubt- edly have the sympathy and support of very many who now worship in the Church of the Messiah, This church seems to be fatal to heterodoxy. First, Dr. Osgood left it and became an Episcopalian minister, and now Mr. Hepworth takes 9 new departure, proba- bly for Congregationalism. Our readeva will find his sermon in to-day’s HzRaxp interesting and instructive, Dr. Chapin entertained his church yesterday with a New Year's sermon illustrative and sug- gestive of progress in life—not merely for this life, but for that which is to come, Of all wretched men the Doctor deems him the most wretched who leads an aimless life, and such a life every man leads who neglects religion— his highest good, the salvation of the soul, The Rev. Mr. Longacre encouraged his Metho- dist congregation to hold fast to the words of truth, and to educate their children in the truths of the Bible if they would have them firmly fixed upon a rock against which the gates of hell cannot prevail. Dr. Richardson preached a New Year's sermon also, and dl- rected the attention of his hearers toward fruit-bearing and the pruning and care that is needed thereto. The only reason he knew why any man should ask to be spared another year is that he may bear fruit, This is the object of creation and of redemption, The Rey. Mr. Evans wished his congregation, like the great Apostle Paul, to ‘forget the things that are behind and to press forth to those that are yet before” in this year 1872. He gave them many good and sofficient reasons for so doing, which our readers will find out for themselves, Mr. Beecher seems to be boiling over with love, if we may judge from the frequency with which he makes it the theme of bis dis- courses. Yesterday he contrasted God’s love with man’s, and pictured also the manifesta- tion of God in nature and in grace. In the former power, order, arrangement are seen; in the latter goodness, tenderness, love and pity are manifested. We fear, however, that many weak souls would stumble at such theology as this, ‘‘If,” said Mr, Beecher, as reported, ‘‘we have the products of the temperate zone from our- lukewarm nature, God is tropical and intense in love. We are at liberty, then, in framing God, to take what is best in man.” This, without further elucidation and explanation, we should con- sider rather o loose way to frame a conception of God, but Mr, Beecher throws outa few broad and qualifying sentences, which give assurance that he is still trae to truth, Dr, Chapman demonstrated to St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, the importance of human instrumentality in con- version and the characteristics necessary in every man to insure success in any and every effort and the means whereby such success is to be wrought out. The one end and alm of every Christian, he deemed, should be not to build up a sect, but to save souls for Christ, Tae Lasor Trovstes in Begxerom, from month to month, are becoming more and more threatening and alarming. The great diff- culty with poor Belgium is that her population fs more than she can support. Her only relief, therefore, !s emigration, and this is the remedy to which her government should now direct its attention—a grand and liberal sys- tem of compensating emigration to govern- ment and people, PERFECTLY AwruL—The condition of things in Cuba, and the anarchy that prevails in Mexico, especially in view of the fact that one word from General Grant to Congress on Cuba and Mexico, or in reference to either, would open the way of their salvation. Vior Present Courax, after all, is in- clined to be merciful, He has half made up his mind to run for and to serve as Vico President for another term, if the people will hove ito, In short, Mr. Colfax smiled again upon General Grant, and Mr, Greeley ought was really humiliating to this great and rich | to “go out West and buy a farm.” .. WASHINGTON. The Work Before Congress To- Day in Bills and Jobs. “America’s Difficulty is Bun- combe’s Opportunity.” WasHinaTon, Jan. 7, 1872, ‘The Business Before Congress—Bills on the Docket—Private Jobs in Shoals, The present session of Congress was assembled only twenty days, of which but fourteen were usea for business purposes, yet during that time there ‘were presented to the House 336 bills, while the number on the Senate docket 1s not quite two hun- dred. Tho total number of bills preagnted to both Senate and House since Congress convened on the 4th of Match last 13 over twelve nundred, uf these only the Ku Klux act and three appropriation bills have become law. It is probable that to-mor- row, being the day for call on States, there will be an avalanche of propositions, as members have had two weeks in which to mature their seyeral measures. So far few bills of an important character have been Introduced, especially those in which the looby are interested. The two most important propositions of this character are a bill granting the use of one-haif of Goat Island, in the Bay of San Francisco, to the California Central Pacific, and one materially modifying the regulations for protection of life and property made by the Treasury Board of Steamboat Inspectors, There isa huge delegation here favoring this iatter, representing a Western river and jake interest aggregating at icast $500,000,000 of capital. The bills now on the House docket have been re- ferrou as follows:—Ways and Means, 20; Appropria- tions, 9; Juaictary, 64 (of which about one-third are for the removal of disabilities); Puviic Lands, 85 (of which the fraction are ratiroad Ind grant bills, and @3 Many more call for grants to tonstruct irrigating canals); Commerce has 27, Military Affairs 38 (most of which are of the privase claim nature), Claims has 24, Public Buildings and Grounds 2%, Invalid Pensions 26, and the beiance are distributed among sixteen other committees, The greater number of the bills referrea to the above named comunittees are of but little signiticance—maintly local jobs, like those for construction of public buildings in various cities, or private claims or pensions. The committees to Which go the most important details of legislation are not yet encumbered with business, except four or five of them. The spanish Difficulty In Congress—Buacombe Expocted—Tho Washington Treaty Provi- sions. 1t is anticipated that there will be an attempt made to-morrow in the House to bring on a discus- sion over the Spauish difMiculties, Resolutions can be presented uncer the call of States, aud from some of the Statos earlier called an attempt will be made to forcea vote on some such resolution. Should it be a concerted effort on the part of a special clique the probability will be that most of the time allotted tor the cail will be consumed in an attempt to secure its passage, As sacha move is most likely to come from the opposition side, 1t will be resisted by the majority and of course defeated, It is re- Ported that the democrats will demand vigorous action with Spain, and aim to make all the party Capital out of the present state of public feeling. The three bills for carrying out various provisions of the Washington Treaty now before General Banks’ committee are the first measures of impor- tance to be considered in the House. The first ree lates to the fishery articles, and General: Butier ta loaded with every legislative means of opposition, He will receive a larger support than has generally been expected. In the Senate the Amnesty bill is the pending measure, It is understood Mr. Sumner ‘will withdraw his supplementary Civil Rights bill, which be has attached as an amendment to the amnesty measure. Senator Schurz will move to airike out all the exceptions and make the amnesty general. The Committee on Elections and Privi- leges will make a report on the Vance-Abbott case which may give rise at once to a discussion likely to Postpone the amnesty debate for some me to come, 1 ‘The jealousy between the leaders of the House and the party leader of the democracy was curiously illustrated yesterday. On being asked by an ante. diluvian whether Mr, Fernando Wood was etill in the House Mr. Dawes said, with some asperity, “Wood Is in the House, but not still.” ‘The District Board of Health have declared war upon the cars of the Pennsylvania Avenue Street Ratiway,. which is chiefly owned by Sylvanus Riker, Henry Hart, of Ohatham street, and other magnates of the Third Avenue Road ia New York. The Buard intend to condomn the dirty cars a8 @ public nuisance, dangerous to heaith, and remove them from the toad, It 1s hardl Probable that this good intention will be carri out, ag the road professes to own Congressmen enough to control the District authorities, all pur- chas2d at the low price of an annual pass. A bill for the constraction and operation of street rall- ways by the local government, for the benefit of the people, 18 to be introduced into the Legislative As sembly, and in anticipation of this piece of commu. nal legisiation the memvers of the Legislawure have all been (urashed with deadhead uckets, Alleged Abuses in the Post Office partment=The Contract Combination. For some time past parties interested In bringtog, to light some of the irregularities 1m public affairs have been investigating the management of tne Post Ofice Department by Mr, Creswell, They claim to have fasteded upon him in the cleareat manner a series of conspiracies to reject respon- sible proposals for heavy mail contracts on the ground that they were “straw bids’’ and otherwise irreponsible or informal, aad to award the contracts, to favored bidders with whom previous arrange- ments had been made at higher rates, it 1s also alleged that contractors in the actual performance of mail service, under their contracts, have been in- duced to make default, with assurances that their sureties would be held harmless, thus affording a pretext of emergency for the reletting of the routes without contracts based on public advertisement, as the law requires, The sum drawa from the Treas. ury in pursuance of these arrangements ts named at about two million dollars. Messrs. George Earle, of Maryland, and Giles A. Smith, of Iinois, both of ‘whom have filled the position of Assistant Postmas- ter Generait under Mr. Creswell and resigned it to attend to the prosecution of claims and the settlement or accounts the Department, are charged as the acti agents between the Postmaster General iat the other beneficiaries of the transactions, and it 1s further charged that the Auditor of the Depart- ment, @ reconstruction loyalist from Alabama, oan- not keep his skirt clear when the coming revela- tions are made, Members of the Democratic Con- gressional Committee have @een in consuita- Uon upon the subject, and @ resol inquiry, embodying in specific nite terme the accusation Postmaster General, will probably be Doth houses of Congress to-morrow. sons and dates and other particuiars of resolutions, to forestall objections from the side of the Houses}that the resolutions are as political Mancouvres and campaign dvcaments Washington Notables in Thespine Charity. ‘Washington is promised @ sensation in aa ama- teur theatrical performance on Thursday next for St. John’s church charities, The National Theatre, the largest in the city, been engaged. The amateurs are of the best and most known families, The President and the Cabinet have been invited and are expected to attend. The demand for tickets among the citte is unprecedented, some having been telegraphed for from New York and Poilaaelpiia. THE HERALD AND DR, LIVINGSTONE. {From the Boston Post, Jan. 4) ‘The New Yoru Hergip has carried the nows De- i qe i \ paper war of enterpriao Into Attica.