The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. INNEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic Mlespatches must be addressed New York q LD. OOOO Wolume XXXVII........ jo. 9 Oar Dificaltios with Spain—Gencral Grant’s Ultimatam—The War Questica—Our Na- Slonal Defences. Our difficulties with Spain are beginning to. be smoky and smell of gunpowder. We have already given the positive information to our readers, directly from the President, that be has sent to Madrid a demand for an apology for the outrage upon the ship Florida—that he does not think that outrage an intentional insult on the part of Spain, but deems it rather the result of the rashness of her subordinate officers, and that the monitors now being fitted out at Philadelphia and elsewhere are vot in- tended to proceed to Spain unless that gov- ernment refuses to apologize and pay a remu- neration for the outrage on the Florida, From all this we cogclude that the President is apprehensive of war, that he ls making his preparations accordingly, and that, if com- pelled to fight, he intends to “‘carry the war into Africa." There are strong considerations operating on both sides in favor of war. On our side the Spanish occupation of Cuba has become a constant source of provoking annoyances and troublesome complications, and an offensive obstruction to the proper development of our Gulf trade and our ‘manifest destiny.” We know that the island In question must ultimately be ours. We have of- fered Spain heretofore a hundred millions for it, and we would, perhaps, regard its acquisition now as a bargain at the cost of hundred millions, But Spain, though as poor is as proud as Don Cesar de Bazan, and to all our soft approaches has promptly replied, with indignation, that instead of selling Cuba on any terms she will fight to hold {t, if neces- sary, until she has sacrificed her last man and her “bottom dollar.” Divided, too, as are the various political factions in Spain upon other questions, they are a unit upon this. No doubt, if King Amadeus were to enter into negotiations for the sale of Cuba, he would be speedily overwhelmed and cast out by a patriotic uprising of ali the factions against tbis intolerable degradation. On the other hand, he would as surely rally the whole people of Spain to his support in a war with the United States for the retention of the island. Such is the general tone at this time of the Spanish press of all parties, and it ex- presses the universal sentiment of the nation. Assuming, then, that the present Spanish government is satisfied that henceforward Cuba, as a Spanish possession, will. rather continue to drain than replenish the treasury at Madrid, may it not be a wise stroke of policy on the part of that government to provoke a war with the United States, in order at least to retire from the island with dignity and glory, and in order meantime to rally all parties and factions in the Peninsula around the government, in support of the common cause in Cuba ? It Is stated, in this view of the subject, that a war with the United States would be the making of King Amadeus, whatever the issue, and that on our part a war with Spain would give us the Island of Cuba at a less cost than @ bundred millions of money. Let the war be declared, and within sixty days there will be fifty thousand American volunteers on the island, and Spain will be expelled by them, never to returo, This would settle the Cuban question; but meanwhile, outside of the island, on the bigh seas and along our own coasts, to our trading vessels and to our ships-of-war the Spanish (British built) fron- clads might do us a considerable amount of mischief, Hence, while the President is dolng all he can do, with the means at his command, to meet Spain in war upon the sea, if called to this alternative, it becomes the duty of Con- gress to give our brave sailors, the best in the world, the ships and the guns needed to put them on something like equal terms with the enemy, with all his “‘modern improvements.” The Heracp has recently called attention to the remarkable insufficiency of our naval establishment, Where misconception of an important matter is so universal and so peril- ous it becomes the duty of the press to correct the error, though in so doing truths may be told neither flattering to the national vanity nor creditable to the statesmanship of those entrusted with the responsibility of providing for the national welfare, For years the Amer- ican people have been permitted the delusion that they possessed a powerful navy—second only, perhaps, to those of England and France. Intent upon selfish ends and imbued with tho prevailing spirit of demagoguism, our public mon have avoided dealing honestly with this question, preferring rather to tickle the spread-eagle conceit of their constituents by making 00 allusion to a disagreeable sub- ject or by deliberately stating what they knew was incorrect. It is time that our citizens should be enlightened, that they may fix the blame where it belongs and hasten to insist upon the reparation of a dangerous mistake. Practically we have no navy, and are not able to protect ourselves on the sea in the event of sudden war. With a sum total of only forty-nine armed vessels, mainly sec- ond and third rates—many of them engaged in the promotion of our commercial interests abroad—it is manifest that in case of collision with any of the respectable Powers of the earth the security of our coast at least would be seriously endangered. Experience teaches that against fron-clad steamers harbor fortifications are of but little avail, and, as at New Orleans, Island No, 10 and Vicksburg, such defences, even if they may not be reduced, can be passed. The for- tifications of New York harbor, or those on the Delaware river, cannot prevent a power- ful enemy from passing by them; but tor- pedoes can, The late war between France and Germany has proved that for coast and harbor defences the torpedo is equal to any emergency, By these torpedoes the other- wise exposed German seaports and inlets were made perfectly secure; and thus, in this late war, the splendid navy of France, hardly second to that of Great Britaln, be- came utterly powerless and useless for offen- sive purposes, So for our seaports and inlets we have, in the torpedo, absolute security against all comers. Appreciative of the revolutions wrought by science in the art of war, other nations have hastened to Improve upon ideas which we were the first to suggest, while we, as if exhausted, and sick of its contem- plation, bave, eince 1865, sunk iuto a state of apathy with regard to this sub- ject from which it seems difficult to arouse. To give assurance of safety we need ships and guns competent to contend on equal terms with those now possessed by other oa- tions. In these we are wofully deficient, and before we can create them we must procure the material, machinery and accommodations requisite for thelr construction. This de- mands time and preparation. Our navy yards do not hold the facilities for building a first class iron-clad; they cannot even ex- peditiously dock and repair the few vessels which we now possess: and, worse than all this, their situation is so ex- posed that some of them might readily be destroyed before they could manufacture the means of self-protection. At Kittery, Maine, the Navy Yard is situated within three miles of the ocean, and has no defence whatever; while with regard to our otfer yards, though their defences might be adequate for what was war science of 1860, they would be unreliable to repel a naval attack in 1872. While we have stood atill the rest of the world has been moving on, leaving us behind. Not only are the fleets of other nations far superior to ours, but the guns they carry have more efficient destructive power than any our foundries can produce. Our fifteen-inch guns, once deemed the best, are now so far surpassed by the “Whitworth” ordaance that a comparison can scarcely be made between them. Assuming other conditions to be equal, one of our ships could not engage an enemy armed with the Whitworth gun and‘ have a reasonable hope of success, As already suggested, these are un- palatable truths, but the sooner they are known and appreciated the sooner will the people's servants in Congress be instigated to a better fulfilment of their trust, and legislate for eulargement of the navy of the United States. True, this will cost money; and spending the public treasure—except when it is applied to the payment, ten years before due, of the national debt—is not popular just now. It might, however, be argued that aational expenditure, when made to foster the | ingenuity and industry of our own people, is not extravagance, but is a benefit to the pro- ducing and laboring interests of the country. Forty millions a year devoted to improvement of ow national defences will give a greater impetus to prosperity at home than would one hundred millions lavished for improvement of the national credit. In the estimation of the world there is something which may be worth more to us than this, and that is national dignity and power. Congress Yesterday—Propositions in the House—Anti-Admiaistration Senators De- fending Their Positions. The House of Representatives celebrated its return to business yesterday by the introduc- tion and reference of an avalanche of bills and propositions, few of which were of much general importance, Among those, however, which did rise to that dignity was one intro- duced by Mr. Cox, directing the President to recognize belligerent rights in the Cuban insurgents; and one introduced by Mr. Hale, of Muine, to exempt from import duties all materials for the construction and repair of American vessels, and to permit the use of ships stores free of duty. The former was re- ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs with- out discussion, because the rule of the House prohibits any discussion during the call of the States on Mondays. But Mr. Hale's bill, haviog come in after the call, was the subject of quite a lively interchange of views. Mr. Dawes and the Peunsylvanians wanted it re- ferred to the Committee of Ways and Means, 80 that it might sleep there undisturbed and be never heard of more; but those who were in favor of definite action preferred to keep It before the House, where there might be some chance of having it debated and acted on. While it was in this state of suspense the morning hour expired, and the matter went over until next Monday, It is a remarkable circumstance that our government, which professes to be one of such advanced liberalism, is, in everything pertain- ing to commercial affairs, far behind that of England. Not only do English vessels have the privilege of taking all ships stores out of bond free of duty, but the same privilege is accorded to vessels of all national- ities sailing from English ports; and so, when we had steamers in the Alantic trade, they always took in on the other side supplies suffi- clent to last for the voyage both ways. But our government, instead of reciprocating such action, does not even allow the like privilege to vessels bearing its own flag. So, too, Eng- land throws open her entire coast trade to the rivalry of all commercial nations, being able and ready to compete with them on equal terms; while we, in order to majiatain the little commerce that we have left, see ourselves forced to the Ohinese policy of closing our coastwise trade to all outside competitors, Would not the better and more honorable policy be to give such encouragement to American shipbuilders and shipowners as would place’them on an equal footing with those of other nations, and then leave the coastwise commerce open, as that of the ocean is, to all competitora? Uatil we are in a con- dition to do that, and until we do it, wo should be more modest in advancing our claims to be regarded as the most liberal of great governments, Let Congress pass this bill of Mr. Hale's, as being at least a step in the right direction, and let every other ap- propriate means of reviving our maritime interests be resorted to, or else we will sink to the rate of a fifth or sixth class commercial nation, A proposition in regard to the Income tax came before the House, in the shape of a reso- lution which had been offered by Mr. Kellogg, of Connecticut, prior to the recess, instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to report, as early as practicable, a bill to repeal that tax, The question was on suspending the rules, so as to adopt the resolution, This form required a majority of two-thirds in its favor ; bué the vote fell short by ten of a simple majority, and, consequently, the resolution was rejected. As heretofore, the opposition came principally from the West and from represent- atives of rural constituencies, The most strik- ing exceptions to the first part of that rule were in the cases of General Butler, of Mas- sachusetts; Mr. Hale, of Maine; Mr. Parker, of New Hampshire; Mr, Poland, of Vermont ; Mr. Willard, of Vermont, and Mr. Fernando Wood, of this city, all of whom voted in the negative. Various resolutions of more or less public interest were offered aug disposed of in the House, Obief among these was one in reference to European co-operation in the con- struction of the Darien Ship Canal. This was sent to the Mommittee on Forelgn Affairs, {ts chairman promising to make a report fn due time, One, on <&e subject of Civil Service reform, proposing a dis- tribution of the offices among the States in proportion to their population, was adopted. One was also adopted directing inquiry into the case of acontest among certain railroad companies for public lands, to which none of them are entitled, Mr. Fernando Wood stating, in connection with it that the cause of Mr. Akerman’s forced resigna- tion of the Attorney Generalship was his having given an opinion adverse to the claim- ants and in favor of the government, which opinion is said to have been set aside by the Interior Department, at the dictation of a Senator. We hope that when the Judiciary Committee comes to inquire into the matter Mr. Wood will be prepared to make good his statement, or, at least, put the committee on the track of exposing the fraud, if any fraud has been committed, General Slocum tried to introduce a résolution in regard to the interference of Custom House and Internal Revenue officers with the organi- zation of the Legislature at Albany, but he was prevented by an objection from General Butler, who also stopped by the same means a proposed inquiry into the interference of federal officials in the Louisiana legislative muddle. Mr. Morgan, of Ohio, succeeded in getting an expression of the sentiment of the House on bis proposed amendment of the constitu- tion-so as to make naturalized citizens eligible to the office of President and Vice President of the United States. All such propositions require a majority of two-thirds in either House; but this, although it had a majority of fifteen, did not come up to tho requirement, and was, consequently, defeated, for the present’at least. But it affords too good an opportunity of making cheap capital among foreign-born voters to allow us to suppose that Mr. Morgan will rest satisfied with his defeat, On the contrary, we expect to have it brought up again and again until all political disabilities are removed from Hans and Patrick, and until the glittering bait of the American Presidency be offered to all lands, The Senate was entertained yesterday by Senators Sehusa and Featen ix defegge of -their respective positions in the war now being waged against the administration, Schurz paid his compliments to one of our contempo- raries, which he designated as ‘‘the metro- politan organ of the administration,” and whose statements in regard to himself consti- tuted, he said, one of the most remarkable cases of cumulative, intrepid and shameless lying that ever disgraced American journal- ism. That will do, Master Karl. the Senate committee that he has confined his selection to such persons, The chairman is no doubt a gentleman of integrity, and, as for the matter of that, may be all his associates; yet he is a warm friend of the present Erie Railroad management, and is probably io- debted to their influence for his election. Of the three remaining members of the Senate Railroad Committee. one is the goa @ a railroad superintendent and himself @ paymaster on the same line; the other is the proprietor of the draw- ng room and sleaping cara oa the Cantral and Hudson River railroads and owes to them his fortune; a third is a railroad director. We know nothing and care nothing about the personal character of these Senators; but we insist that from their associations, sympathies and ideas they are not the proper persons to hold control of a railroad committee in the State Legiélature at a time when an issue has been made between the people and certain railroad management, while the interests of the two are in conflict, and at a time whea measures of a reformatory character’ are de- manded by the public voice. From the Senate the people will tura with natural anxiety tothe Assembly, The Speaker of the latter body stands ina position different from that occupied by Senator Woodin. He has been elected on the openly professed issue of honesty against corruption—of the people against the lobby and the rings. One of bis most prominent supporters did not flinch frou charging unfaithfulness to the reform move- ment upon Speaker Smith’s opponent, Assem- blyman Alvord, at least by implication, and claimed support for his own candidate as a determined enemy of the corruptionists, In his address to the House upon assuming the duties of the ohair, the Speaker announced himself emphatically a reformer, and evinced his desire to oarry out his principles to @ practical result by initiating a necessary re- formation in the employés of the body over which he presides. We expect to sea him strictly confine his appointments to five olorka and to five doorkeepers, and to rule out of order any resolution that may seek to increase their number in contravention of law. But this is but a small item of reform in com- parison with the selection of the loadiog committees of the House, to whose hands must be confided the shaping and, in a great degree, the control of the business of legisla- tion. As an experienced member of the State Legislature he knows the overshadowing importance of these positions and the efforts that are made by approachable members to obtain them, If he desires to be true to bis pledges and to enjoy the confidence of the people he is bound to exclude from such com- mittees as Cities, Railroads and Canals every name that is in the slightest degree taraished by the breath of suspicion, His appointments will be closely scrutinized, and we call upon him in advance to be careful thit they are such as to defy criticism. ‘The Leaivlative Committece—Tho Maddle in the Senate and tho Prospect in the Av sembly. The groundwork of legislation is laid in the standing committees of the two houses. It is at all times important that these committees should be composed of competent and incor- ruptible men. It is especially so in the pre- sent session, since, while the republican party has more than a two-third majority in both branches of the Legislature, it is very ques- tionable whether the honest reform party has a working majority in either, The measures introduced in either House are sent to the standing committees to be considered and per- fected, and the common and easiest method known to the lobby to dispose of objectionable bills is to get them ‘‘smothered” in committee. Unless there should bea two-third majority. honestly disposed to keep the committees up to their duty, to reverse their decisions or to force bills out of thelr possession, the business of the House is virtually at their mercy. Experienced lobbyists always work with the standing committees, and hence the desperate struggle invariably made by jobbing members to obtain prominent posi- tions thereon. It is easier to buy seven or nino members, or a majority of them, than to purchase eighty or ninety, and hence the “killing” department of the professed lob- byists’ business is transacted in the standing committees. Time and again those conversant with Albany business have seen a bill, favored perbaps by a majority of members, but objec- tionable to the “Rings,” boldly smothered in the committee room, despite all the efforts of its friends to rescue it and to bring it in any shape before the House. A chairman of a standing committee who has been “‘seen” will not unfrequently put a bill into his pocket and keep it there in defiance even of his associates. Independent of their power to suppress and delay the bills that are referred to them, the committees have the shaping of all measures, and can so mutilate them or so entirely reverse their orlginal object that their own friends would not recognize them when reported back to the House. The reprehensible practice of reading a bill the second time by its titie only, prior to its reference to its appropriate com- mittee, keeps the bulk of the members in igno- rance of its provisions until it comes back with the committee's report, hence it is gen- erally unknown to the body of the House whether the measure has been treated ina friendly or unfriendly manner. This session the bills introduced will be principally of a reformatory character, if the Legislatore should prove true to the principle upon which it was chosen, and, as a natural consequence, the “‘smothering” process will be the one to which the attention of the lobby- ists and their adherents will ba mainly directed. No great schemes of plunder will probably be originated, other than the New York city railroad jobs and similar local speculations. Tammany will not be carousing in the Delavan House parlors and buying up republicanrepresentatives as cattleat so mach per head to vote for laws increasing their facilities of plundering the people. The Erie Railroad “Ring” will not be carting up money to the State Capitol to bribe the Legislature to legalize their illegal acts and to grant them & perpetual lease of power. The New York Central Railroad will not have any little local billin regard to way fare to push through by the influence of national bank currency, and such canal patriots as Dennison, Belden, Johnson and the Lords will have no solid arguments to advance in favor of some new contract acheme. . All that these worthies will ask—Tam- many, railroads and canals—will be to be let alone. Do nothing to break up their existing little profitable arrangements, and they will be heartily content. Their money will be paid out this year to block legislation, not to promote it, and they have already com- menced their labors, They will work most vigorously with the standing committees, and it was ia pursuance of this policy that they struggled so violently for Alvord’s success and mourned go bitterly over his defeat. Itis to this end that they have been laboring, 4irst with the Senate, to induce the republican Senators to name their own committeemen, and afterwards with Senator Woodin to con- vince him of the merits of their candidates for the most important committees of that body. Our Albany correspondence has shown how well they have succeeded, at least as far as the Committee on Railroads is concerned, The simple statement of thespursuits of the mem- bers composing that committee is sufficient to show that it is one not fit to be made at this time, It is notorious that the people demand a thorough reform ia railroad management in this State. This was no doubt one of the principal incentives of the political revolution that recently swept over the State, It is in- deed the most imperative duty that the Legis- lature is called upon to perform. Municipal reformation can be accomplished hy the votes of the people, even should the existing laws remain untouched; but nothing can be done to destroy the tremendous power of the rail- road rings without the intervention of the State Legislature. This power has been ac- quired by corrupt legislation; by honest legis- lation it must be stricken dowa, for the peo- ple have no voice in the matter except through their representatives at the State Capitol. These facts must have been well known to Senator Woodin, who has had the selection of the Senate committees, and he must have been well aware that the measures advocated and desired by the people this ses- sion are such ag will be in their interest against the encroachments and greed of railroad rings, It is said that Sena- tor Woodin went to Albany as what is com- monly known as an anti-railroad man—that is, as one who is opposed to the abuse of corpo- rate powers to the injury of the public and for the profit of corrupt combinations of indi- viduals, Yet he has become suddenly and wonderfully #o well convinced that pone but the warmest adherents, employés and partners of the callroad rings are compotent to gerye on AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WAULAOK’S THEATRE, Broad on Phe RE, way and 13th strept. 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BRY, NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., bet: Mikeves-BRYASTs Manerames eee SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 685 Broadway.— iB SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. NEW YORK OIRCUS, Fourteentn stret.—SORNES IN E RiNe, peetirting ao. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— IENOE AND ART. LEAVITT ART ROO! No. 817 Broadway.—E: - jON OF PAINTINGS, wig gee DR. KAHN'S AN. 5 — aoe | ARATOMIOAT, MUSBUM, 745 Broadway. Siesta one = RIPLE SHEET. ae Slew York, Tuesday, January 9, 1872. SESS CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, (Pace, I3— Advertisements, dvertisements, The Fisk Inquest: A Coroner's Jury of Solld gnd Substantial Citizens; tne Testimony Token; Opdyke, Jesse Hoyt, Henry Qlews, David Dows and A. V. Siout on the ane Sparring Between Counsel and Coroner; the To oc for the Prosecution Contradiot Each Other; Stokes’ Hack Driver Under Fire; the Excitement in Court—tne Funeral Train: ‘om New xork to Brattleboro; incidents En route, @=The Last Journey; The Tribute of Respect Pala Yesterday to the Memory of the Last Prince of Erie; Imposing Funeral Pageant; Sad Scenes at the Late Residence of Colonel ‘Fisk and at ‘the Grand Opera House; ‘Taking Leave of the Dead; Immense Concourse of People in the Streets aud on the Lor meanng ot The Military ol utes; Funeral Ceremonies in the Hall of the Erte builaing: Manifestations of Respect Along the Route of ine Procession; Scenes at the Railroad stations. §—Colonet Fisk’s Last Journey (Continued from Fourth Page)—Congress: Senator Schurz Kises to Explain; Categoric and Caustio Reply to @ Slanderous Article; Senator Fenton on Custom House Abuses; Bill Day in the House; Refusal to Repeal the Income Tax; Cox and Cuba—“The Plight of Cespedes”— “sink the Track;’’ Another Meeting on the Subject and the Various Plans Proposed—- War in the East: The Loositan War Declared and an English Expedition on the March— Virginia’s Trouvies—A us Inspector of Buildings—An Attempt at Murder, B—Editoriais: Leading Article, “Our Difficulties wita Spain—General Grant's Ultimatam—rhe War Question—Our National Defences"— Amuscment Announcements, Y—Piracy in the East: Spanish Action in tne Chi- nese Waters Under tho Aliied ‘Ireaty; A Pi- ratical Sultan Punished from the Sea; Several of His Forts Demolished ana His Palace In- jured—European Cavle Teiegrams—The New Orieans Interreguum: Preparing tue Way for Martial Law and a Republicaa Form of Gov- ernment; Both Parties Praying the President to Save Them from Themselves; Lovgstrect in Command of the Police and Miliua-ihe State Capttal—The Church of the Messiah: Annual Mecting of the Society; Sharp Practice in Re- rd to Mr. Hepworth’s itesignation—Move- ments Of the Grand Duke—Business Notices. $-—Brooklyn Municipa: Affairs: Organization of the Common Council for 1872; First Manifesto Of Mayor Powell to the People; A Wise Yet Iberal Economy to be Pursued—Brooklyn form—Tue Paterson Polsoning Case—The Treasurer of Uister County Not a Defaulter— The Custom House Committee: Four Hours’ Infliction of Hearsay and General Rumor; Outrageous Abnses of Liberty by the Sped Agents of the Treasury—Tho New Yor! - rine Society—Annual Festival of the Ortho- pralo Dispensary—The Board of Aldermen: lection of General Cochrane to the Pres deucy of the Board—The Third Avenue Savings Bank trouple—-Attempted Burglary in Bleecker Street—Lost His Money—Another Murder in QeTng Courte: Alegee Forgery Of a Signature to ‘ourta: Forgery of @ ature a val, Bond; Important Bankruptcy Decision; How Mr. Fisk's Death Affects the Lawyers and dhe Courts; Business ip the Geueral Sessiogs— The Alleged Harbor Abuses— The Circus Cas- aalty—Financial and Commercial Reporte— Domestic and Havana Markets—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 10—Washington: Congress Back from the Holi. javs; Fenton and Schurz After Grant and Murphy; the Cuban Resolution and tne ve mocracy in the House—The Trial of Mrs. ‘Wharton at Antapoils, Md.—The Coa Strike— The Pliladelphia Americus Club Ball—The Twenty-second Regiment Reception—Ship- piog Intelligence—Advertisemeuts, Advertisements. vortisements. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. On account of the great demand for the furan of Sunday and yesterday a large ex- fra edition has been printed. Copies can be pad at the counter, or at the Uptown Branch pffice. Hereafter the Herarp can be pro- ured at the Uptown Branch office, 1,265 ‘Broadway. Gop aNp THE “War with Spaty.”—The ‘bulis” in the Gold Room were elated yoster- Way over the prospect of war with Spain, but @id not feel so well late in the day, when it was reported that “‘Spain had apologized.” War ia tho East—Aa English Expedition Against the Looshians. The British troops are once again upon the war track in the East. This timo they are moving against the Looshians, who have recently beea making disturbances and com- mitting outrages on the northeastern frontier of British India. The primary motive for the sending of the expedition against the Looshians, ai we are informed by the HERatp corre- spondent in Bombay, whose letter we publish on another page, is that about a year ago the Looshians made a descent on a number of English settlers, and after committing gross barbarities and adding even murder to their other crimes, they algo carried off a young English lady, Miss Winchester, with them as a hostage. It is stated, however, that these people were driven to desperation by the manner in which they were imposed upon and treated by the planters and others, They possessed a tract of land which had been given them by the Indian government, and on this they were inclined to live peace- fully, until the intrigues and impositions of the planters goaded them on to the perpetra- tion of the barbarities enumerated. A year has passed over since then, and now a British expedition of ten thousand men has set out to rescue the hostage and administer punishment to this uncivilized people. From what we learn from the tone of our correspondent’s letter the undertaking is one full of peril and beset with dangers. It shows, however, the disposition of England to protect its citizens, at no matter what cost. It might have been better had the movement been made at an earlier day ; it now seems tardy justice, even though it should reach the full measure of success. Eaod of the Tragedy in New York—Open- fing of the Drama. The losing scenes of the Fisk tragedy among us have taken place and New York will know the Erie Prince no more. Yester- day morning, at half-past eleven o'clock? the gorgeous rosewood coffin, with gold-plated handles, containing the mortal remains of James Fisk, were brought through a surging crowd to lie in state at the Erie office for an hour of two. Prayers were said over the body, decked out in colonel’s uniform, by the same chap- lain who prayed beside the living Fisk when Boston forced him and his regiment to be pious in a theatre or go without spiritual con- solation for a whole Sabbath. The crowd surged in and walked past the bier on which the dead man lay, and at a quarter to two the coffia was carried into the hearse, Then the fa- neral procession formed, Ninth regiment band at the head, Erie employés following, and the Ninth regiment looking sad and depressed, for all its finery; then the hearse, with the late Colonel’s charger in the rear; then the long line of carriages. At three o'clock the gorgeous coffin was being rattled away to Brattleboro, among the Green Mountains, and at this hour precisely the drama whioh is to be acted gravely in the Courts opened by Edward S. Stokes being brought from his cell in the Tombs to the Coroner's inquest held ia the Court of Special Sessions, Six witnesses were examined in three’ hotrs and the in- quest was adjourned, with evidence which will be of importance on the trial. The prisoner seemed cool, and brightened with the evidence that proved he discharged the hackman at the corner of Fourth street and Broadway, The hackmao thonght he looked “‘put out” then, Stokes was taken back to his cell, and the curtain went down for a few hours on the drama. Spanish Naval Action Against the Sultan of Ternate. The Heratp special telegram from London, which we publish to-day, records the fact that Spanish war vessels have just been “blazing away” in the waters of the far East. King Amadeus’ officers have undertaken to chastise the Sultan of Ternate for the encouragement which he has been giving to piracy in the Chinese territory. The Spaniards acted un- der the terms of the joint convention which was concluded between the governments of the United States, England, Germany and Spain some few years since, having for its object the protection of legiti- mate commerce from the assaults of pirates in the Eastern seas. The Spanish war ships opened fire off the Island of Gilolo—one of the Malacca group—and bombarded and de- molished the forts and other strongholds of His Majesty the Sultan, besides damaging his palace domicile. In this matter the Dons appear to have accomplished a necessary work most effectually. Of the Sultan it ‘may be said, ‘‘his smoking rooftree testifies they have done their errand well.” We illustrate our special news telegram by appending to It an exposition of the valuable trading interests which are imperilled by piracy in the quarter of the East which is referred to, If the modern De Sotos continue to protect them in this vigorous manner the nations will be Greatly obliged to them, and their power for war may find a new, bealtby and profitable “departure” from the latitude of the Western republic, Tar FINANoIAL Conpition oF Virernta is attracting the attention of the entire country. Not content with funding the State debte and raising a disturbance afterwards, which has led to the suspension of the interest due ta bona fide bondholders on the 1st of January, the manipulators of affairs at Richmond aim at no less @ piece of political trickery than the complete repudiation of their entire liabilities. These are the charges, according to cur report, laid at the doors of those wio wish to repeal the Funding act altogether, instead of merely suspending its action, as the Legislature has, by ignoring the veto of the Governor ta the contrary. . If, on the other hand, the charges alleged against the projectors of the Funding act are sustained in fact, Virginia has need of @ political revolution a la New York to purge out the corruption and trickery ex- isting among her law-makers; to oust the present office-holders, and, by a determined blow, strike out the men who are ruining hee morally and socially, bringing her treasury to beggary and destroying her credit. Eni anv Fisk.—The stock market was ex- ‘pited yesterday over the fluctuations in Erie, the death of the late Vice President of the road investing the shares with unusual inter- est, The London market was also sensitive to the same influence, and Erie was the great feature in both Lombard and Wall streets, Uran as a State—Tue Foousn Horr or was Mormons.—The Utah Delegate in Con- Hooper, is either very stupid or to humbug his Mormon constituents by asserting that the Territory would be admitted as a State within ninety days, It is certain Congress will not admit Utah as o State until Mormoniem or polygamy is killed off beyond recovery; and it is not likely this can be accomplished in ninety days orina year. It would be a serious mistake for the federal government to loosen the grip it has taken on that other relic of barbarism, polygamy, until the evil is effectually extirpated. Mr. Hooper is fospiring @ foolish hope in the Mormons, They cannot be admitted as a State with their present immoral and unchristian social tnsti- tution of oolyaamy. Tae Lovistana Tigers are still growling and screeching in the New Orieans political jungle. Warmoth has sent a message to hie faithful fifty-two in the House, and Carter haa issued his pronunclamento. In the mean- while the militia are unreliable, bloodshed is anticipated, and General Emoty, “ne Mayor and many wise citizens want the President ta declare martial law. This, no doubt, will be the next move. The carpet-baggers and scal. awags are making such o fuss it is a wonder that Father Misslésippl does not rise and wagh the entige crew Into the Gulf, Tor Horner is no longer watched by Spanish war vessels, The latter have taken their departure for Cuba in view of the ex- pected arrival at St. Thomas of the United States frigate Congress with the mission to escort the Hornet on her homeward voyage. Spain has thus taken the first step to avoid an armed collision with the United States. The steamer Virginia, at Aspiowall, is also to be left undisturbed by the Spanish war vessel Pizarro, which had been watching her, Such is the tenor of our despatch from Havana, whigh will be found in another columa,