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UM, 745 Broadway. ~ TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Saturday, January 18, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERSLD, | Advertisements, 2—Adverusemenis, 3—News from Washington: Grant and the War Clovd—The Indian Peace Commissioners in Souncii—rhe Women’s Suffrage Convention— The New Prince Cari: Astounding Piot to Overthrow the Great Republic of the West; Bismarck and Scuurz Conspiring—The Florida Outrage—Religious Liberty: A Jewish -Rabbt at Congress; Mr. Hepworth and the Church of the Messiah—amusements—Miscel- Janeous Telegrams, 4—The State Capital: Legislative Ata for Metro- Politan Debters; a Bill Introduced Providing for the Payment of Outstanding Claims Against the City; the Underground Phewmatic Rall- ine Again; Entorcement oi the Kight Hour di {Adjournment of the Legislature to Mon- das xt—Municipal Movements—store Sud. dle—Arrest of Morgan “3 fcr Libel: a Curious Political Quarrel: f citement in the Sixth Ward—Judge Bedtord NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY “13, 1872.—TRiPLE SHEET. Tho Dismissal of Minister Catacazy—The Significant Note of Prince Gortchakel on the Subject, Ina special degpatch from St. Petersburg we published yesterday the very important and significant note of Prince Gortchakoff, Chancel- lor of the Russian empire, to our Minister, Mr. Curtin, near that government, in reference to the peremptory dismissal of Mr. Catacazy as the representative of Russia at Washington. Prince Gortchakoff in this note says the offending Minister “‘had been ordered to come back to Russia as soon as His Imperial High- neas the Grand Dake Alexis had taken his de- parture from the United States;” that ‘Mr. Catacuzy was at the same time informed that he will not return to the post at Washington, but that his recall will be final, in compliance with the request of the United States govern- ment ;” that the Russian government regrets that this was not the termiuation of this pain- ful affair, as it ought to have been by the rules of courtesy established he- tween friendly nations, but that in the subsequent correspondence of Mr. Fish there has been neither sufficient attention nor proper respect shown to the Russian Ambas- sador under the circumstances, Finally, in reference to the serious, though vague, com- plaints made against Mr. Catacazy by Fisb, Prince Gortchakoff says that the accused Minister ‘‘has satisfactorily refuted many of these complaiuts;” that ‘‘on the others the Imperial Cabinet will deliver its judgment when Mr. Catacazy has had full liberty to present his case,” and that the Imperial Chan- cellor “hopes that justice is sufficiently understood in the United States not to expect it before,” Now this, recording to the diplomatic code, is harsh language, Reduced to the familiar conversational style of every day life it amounis to this:—‘‘Mr, Curtin, you will please inform your Secretary of State that here at St, Petersburg we think he has been making a fool of himself in this Catacazy busi- ness. We did suppose that Mr. Fish had sénse enough to understand that a Russian Minister abroad never dares to do or to attempt anything, or to give any opinion, or to discuss anything anywhere, in his official ca- pacity, without authority from his govern- ment. In notifying your government of tho recall of Mr. Catacazy we certainly expected that Mr. Fish would understand the oase; but ashe could not or would not understand it, you will be good enough to tell him that Prince Gortchakoff does not choose to punish Mr. Catacazy for carrying out his instructions as our Minister at Washington, and that, for the present, we have no further explanation to make of his course of opposition to the Wash- ington treaty and that Perkins claim.” Clearly, this pungent diplomatic note of Prince Gort- chakoff admits of this plain translation into the every day English of common life; but, to do full justice to the excited Imperial Chancel- lor, afew rough expletives, and, perhaps, even a little Muscovite swearing might be thrown in. Our St. Petersburg correspondent says that “‘the Catacazy catastrophe is a rebuke to the Imperial Chancellor himself ;” and that is evidently true. portant Communication 1 dury—Honesty of Harbor an Austrian Banker © Franklin Statwe—ihe Ni 1 Sudden Death on Shipboard, G—Pigeon Shooting: Match Between Mr. Douglas What, then, are these complaints of our government against the intolerable Catacazy ? They are very forcibly presented by Mr. Fish in his note of November 16, 1871, to Mr, and Mr, Bennett; They Shoot on the Jerome + ” Park Grounds—\ir. Bergh Again Doing Dury | Curtin, at St. Petersburg, for the information by Deputy—He Sends a Mannered Man, of Prince Gortchakoff, who wanted to know. In this indiciment Mr. Fish says that soon after the arrival of the obnoxious Minister at Washington “he began to make himself very officious” in interfering in questions outside his jurisdiction; that he began to write letters to the newspaper press of the country upon ques- tions pending before the government; that in his conversations he was guilty of vitupera- tive language toward very many persons, including several in public positions” (the President and Secretary of State); that he ‘aa very offensive in his denunciations of the famous Perkins claim against the Russian gov- Who ts Left on the Wrong Stic of the Gate Asecond Match and jon w the Matches ue ia ~Osnada; Broadway Widening: ‘The Supreme Court, Gencral ‘Term, AMrms the Decision of Judge Cardozo Appoluting New Commissioners—The lnsur- rection in Cuba: The Case of General Thomas Jordan; Remarkable Address of District At- torney Davis—rhe Fourth Avenne Track: Inter- How Commodore Vanderbiit, was viewed—Murder for Love in ‘The Maass siystery—Pei fialsted’s } Marriage—The Trenton Jack sheppard— End ol! a Nighi’s Spree—The End of a sw der—Missourt Legislature. G—Editoriais: Leading Arucie, “The Dismissal of Minister Caiacazy—The Sign Note of Prince Gortchakof on the Subject” —Anuse- mest announcements. %—France: President ‘ilters' Resolve Against Gambetia’s Kadicalisin—Hngland : Govern- ment Direction and Control or the Xeieeraph | ernment and all concerned therein ; that when System—Telegrams trom Germany, Spain, aceused of the authorship of au obnoxious newspaper letter on that claim he denied it South America, Hayth and Caba—Utah &@ State: Convention to Draw Up a tate Constirut to he 4 nted— Alexis? Butalo Hants the, Grae bake Ves’ | and charged upon “the Perkins set of fellows the Guardianship of “1 D Ph dur Rus- j vet ri f 3” siah Visiters—-the Rasch Caw | to injure and get rid of him ;” that ia reference urders—“‘Let_ Us Have Peace’: President | toanother newspaper letter subsequently fixed Grant Retuses to Interfe Muddie--The nthe 1 eboat Carnival ana Skating bx. | Upow him he “stigmatized it as a tissue of lies and absurdities,” and so on; that other offensive papers of his production he de- nounced as ‘‘forgeries;” that concerning still another seandalous newspaper letter proved upon him “the affirmed as a man, in Conference; ‘ of Absolutism in the German Empire; Bi marck’s Russian Pokey; the Pope's Allocu- tion to the FB voile Statesman — gy Bh 59 io | declared as the representative of bis august SaetanE ore ie. as ular Fatality— | sovereign, and swore before Almighty God as ee eeen, Howe ; Megs The Mee: a eee he had no counection with 7) PE re Livesy tut Between the knew ede of it _ ae never rite it; Polltical Conventior J Pn a tater: that after the request had been made for his ‘The Vicum the Alle ofthe Man | recall he indecorously intruded upon the Who Shot Her; Her J »ment— The Lone inend Raitt’ hed by Presidont in his retreat at Long Branch, and Wars—Finaucial and Co Rew re 4 ae ‘Marriages and Dei orts: that ‘he bas made himself busy in season 10—Wnarton’s Delend at neas of Got | and out of season In efforts to obstruct, em- Fl Wi py 4 og. eh ey of Aduitionial Tesumeny. mt hes | barrass and defeat the recent negotiatione acter; Medical Experts al a nt, Au | between the United States and Great Britain sey Acquittal Almost Certain— ot Je City—Boss Tweert's Case; A i ‘rom te | for the adjustment of their mutual differ- Motion for the Reduction of — SD ip | * Uuteizence—Advertisemen . WP'NE | enoes,” and that “he continues in the —The Secret of Arctic 1) Address of a A 13~"Gaptale Silas Bent, of St. Lowe, on sare | “™e way now to Interfere with the due Circulation and Carre Ocean Avenues to | eXeculioa of the Treaty of Washington,” and the Pole—The Late Storm in San Franciseo-- The Burning of Jane McLanghiin—Valian- | 8° ° to the end of the budget of specifica. digham: ‘She Secret and Private Political His- | tions, tory of the Late Clemen 1. Vailandigham's Escape to Canada und Return trom, Baolsh- Such are the charges and specifications ment During the Kebellion—Mra, st vars Husbands—The Courts: The Calicnder ‘ase; against Mr. Catacazy upon which he was dis- the Erie Litigation; Alleged Einucazioment sett the Post Ofice; Maritime Liens; MeNeving, | Mised. In submitting them to the Russian the Convict, Granted a New Tital; the Fisk | government Mr. Fish is farther instracted ‘Tragedy Beiore the Grand Jury of ‘Over and Terminer; a Collision Case and Verdict; Acuon for Alleged Slander—Pwipess im the General Sess:ons, (Continwed from Eleventh Page)—The Perils of Reporting—English Racthg—onicial + Proceedings of the Board of Assistant Alder. men--Advertisoments. by the Presideat to say that he is convinced that it is only needed to state these unwar- rantable proceedings to the imperial govern- ment to obtain against them “ihe rebuke and condemnation of the Emperor.” But instead of the expected rebuke of Catacazy wo havo a rebuke administered to Mr. Fish ; and it ig published ‘in the Messager Officiel of st, Petersburg, and it must be, therefore, ap- proved by the Emperor, The Imperial Chan- cellor has gone far enough to give serious offence to Mr. Fish and to the President, and upon questions of this character General Grant, a» regular soldier, is very exact and exacting. This Oatacazy imbroglio, therefore, may yet lead to a suspension of diplomatic relations between the United States and Rus- sia, or the removal of Prince Gortchakoff, Our government cannot now recede, but it can await the action of that of Russia upon Catacazy, when he shall have laid his case before it, If he is acquitted with a clean bill of health upon the charges of Mr, Fish Mr, Curtin may bo recalled. But in the interval let us hope that the wrath of Priuce Gortcha- Smattpox continues to extend ail over . Great Britain and io Irelund. The port and alth authorities of New York must “look out” for emigrant vessels. A Goop Bui—The bill introduced in our Legislature, through the efforts of Judge Bed- ford and the regular medical profession, for the more effectual punishment of criminal abortions than the law at present provides for, Tax New Governor or Geoncia was installed in office yesterday. Aftor discours- ing on the inefficiency of ex-Governor Bullock and the great indebtedness of the State he said be had “come to the chair in response to the call of the people after a cheerless night of misrale.” Governor Smith is right. Let Bie inaugurate a reign of economy and pay Aho State dese Koff will subside and that cool discretion will take its place. ? Nevertheless it appears to us that he is vot without some grounds of justification for his displeasure at the conduct of Mr. Fish. Surely, without further -parleying, our punc- tilious Secretary of State might have tolerated Mr. Catacazy for the time and on the terms proposed by his government, and that would have been ‘a final settlement of the ques- tion.” Prince Gortchakoff had substantially met the request made upon him, and, as ho surgests, “according to the rules of cour- tesy between two friendly nations,” this should have been sufficient. We fear that General Grant, without his knowledge of the influences operating in this business, acted with some- thing less than his usual good judgment in the peremptory dismissal of Mr. Catacazy, The offences proved upon him are justly ~con- demned by Mr. Fish; but still tue reparation offered by Russia might have been accepted. Ithas been charged, upon the other hand, that @ clique, or several cliques, of intriguing speculators have had their fingers in this pie, and that here these unscrupulous speculators, asin the St. Domingo scheme, humbugged the administration with their cunning devices. They certainly proved too much for the un- fortunate Minister, who vainly thought him- self more than a match for themall. The Minister, however, who conducted, at our national capital, the Alaska treaty business was the man who knew how to deal with the Washingtoa lobby. But our correspondent, in communicating to us this St. Petersburg despatch, says that its publication in the official journal there “‘is an unusual course for the Russian government, and has been adopted in order to express re- sentment at the peremptory dismissal of Mr, Oatacazy.” We suspect that the publication and spreading abroad before all the world of Mr. Fish’s extraordinary accusations against the offending Minister was the thing which led to this retaliatory publication at St. Peters- burg. Mr. Fish invites the world to hear a terrible lecture to Russia on the propricties of diplomatic intercourse, in which he says, ‘‘the President directs me to say he cannot look on with indifference to see this extraordinary at- tempt to introduce at Washington the diplo- matic practices of Constantinople.” ‘This par- ticular allusion to ‘‘the sick man of Turkey,” with all the other allusions in Mr. Fish’s note. nettles the Russian Chancellor, and he lec tures back again on the “rules of courtesy between friendly nations,” and publishes his lecture to the world, taking care to give the impression that Russia, in high diplomacy, needs no instructions from Mr. Fish, Well, we suppose this little diplomatic breeze will produce no mischief; but it is to be deplored that the emphatic and decisive treatment of the Catacazy question by Mr. Fish was not long ago adopted, but has been all along and still 1s studiously avoided by him in his diplomacy upon our numerous little unsettled accounts against Spain. One might think that, assured of peace with Rus- sia, Mr. Fish does not hesitate to clap his wings and crow over and flout’ the unlucky Catacazy; but that, half suspecting that the Bombastes Furioso of modern nations, poor Spain, is ready for a fight, he treats her as gingerly as an amiable Quaker would dis- course with a bloody border ruffian, We would call the attention of General Grant to this subject, and to the expediency and pro- priety of applying Mr. Fish’s caustic treat- ment of Catacazy to the more serious offences of Spain, You have had Mr, Fish show to Russia, Mr. President, that he can thunder; and why not have him thunder to some pur- pose? Congress and Our Shipping LIuterests, There are a number of bills before Con- gress relating to our shipping or maritime interests, and all, ornearly all, we believe, are in the hands of the Committee on Commerce, They are framed mostly for the benefit of some particular class of the community, as those representing the timber interest of Maine and the iron interest of Pennsylvania, or for the profit of certain companies and speculators who want subsidies, and all uader the pretence of promoting commerce and the general welfare. The members of Congress clash with one another on this ques- tion, They area set of petiifoggers, having no ideas beyond what concerns their own section of country or sowe small local interest, They are incapable of looking at the subject of promoting our commercial marine in a broad national point of view. The preposterous subsidy and bounty scheme seems to be most favored, because, probably, there is more in that to satisfy the cormorant lobby at Washington. The proposition to pay a bounty directly out of the Treasury on every ton of American shipping, both steam and sailing vessels, is monstrous, None of these expedients, objectionable as they are in principle, could remedy the evil. There is no way of restoring American tonnage, or even of preventing its decline more and more, but by a repeal of the regisiry law, 0 as to allow our capitalists and merchants to buy ships in the cheapest and best market, Let Congress take the duty off materials that enter into ship building and give a liberal amount for mail service to important steam- ship lines if it will; but that would not go far to revive our commercial marine. There is no effectual plan but that of admitting any vessel purchased or owned by our citizens, no matter where constructed, to American regis- tration and nationality. Let Congress adopt this policy and we should soon see the good effects of it by a yearly increase of our ton- nage. The benefit to the country to be derived from such increased tonnage would ‘amount to more in a year or two than all the shipyards in Maine are worth. Let Congress throw overboard all pattifogging schemes and take broad national ground on this subject, Iv tHe Matrer Or THE Broapway WIDEN- ING a4 decision was yesterday rendered by the Supreme Court, Goueral Term, Judges Ingra- ham, Learned and Barnard on the Beach, Judge Barnard dissenting, The decision con- firms the appointment of new commissioners by Judge Cardozo, This throws entirely out in the cold the old commission and their assessments and awards, and allows the new commissioners, without any further legal em- harrassment, to go on with their work of making new assessments aud aw ards, Tao Pigeon-Shooting Questiou—A Test Onse. A pigeon-shooting match took place yeater- day at Jerowe Park among some of the mem- bers of the Jerome Park Club, and Mr. Bergh, who has exhibited so much anxiety to trespass on the private sport of these gentlemen, failed toreceive the undue and impertinent recognition which he has all along been seeking. He sent @ deputy there to see if the birds were prop- erly killed, and altogether waived the assumption he tried a few days ago to enforce, that he had authority to suppress entirely the sport of pigeon shooting. The truth is, the trouble in this matter from the start must be ascribed to the Commissioners of Police, It is with them, and not with Bergh, lie the interpretation and enforcement of the law in reference to the prevention of cruelty to animals, Bergh imposed upon the police when he prevailed upon them to inter- fere in this pigeon-shooting matter. They should have known that it is wholly outside the pale of the statute for Bergh or anybody else to attempt @ trespass of the kind which has been made. They should have known that Jerome Park is private property, belonging to the members of the Jerome Park Club, and that Mr. Bergh’s deputies had no more right to intrude upon it to carry out an illegal and ridiculous measure than to go into a private house and inquire into the manner 8 gentle- man treated his dogs. From beginning to end Bergh has made a fool of the police. It is with them, and not with him, rests the bur- den of carrying out the humane views of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. But what do we find? The President of this Society, to gratify the most absurd and fantastical whim, uses the police aa if he were an autocrat, He had no shadow of justifica- tion in law for his course towards the gentle- men who engaged to shoot at Jerome Park, and, thongh he is not candid enough to admit the fact in terms, he, nevertheless, acknowl- edges by the position he takes that he is wrong. In ao letter written by his order to one of the party in the pigeon- shooting match he declares ‘the prefers to prevent rather than suppress these violations of the law.” This is silly, There is no viola- tion of law, And if there were, why docs this man, who professes to act with the color or even the substance of law to support him, not bring the persons violating the statute to jus- tice? Yesterday’s match proved a test case. When Mr. Bergh’s deputy sought to enter the grounds of Jerome Park he was told it was private property. There was sufficient intimation given that neither he nor any police acting in the same capacity with him would be allowed to enter except by main force. There was no attempt at intru- sion, The match went forward to a satisfac- tory termination, and such a respected mem- ber of the community as Recorder Hackett acted as referee, Is it not about time that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals elected a President who can combive an acquaintance with the statute which governs its action along with a moderate degree of common sense and prudence? If Bergh had his own way he would have a police officer defailed in every ward to make domiciliary visits aud look into the treatment every household ex- tended to cats and dogs. This is the ten- dency of his fanaticism. If he confined him- self to the legitimate scope of his duties nobody would complain, The Society has the good wishes of every humane man, but the person who is at the head of it has shown abundant evidence of his inability to draw the dividing line between what con- stitutes the good and ill treatment of animals, He bas had his way for a long time without let or hindrance, When he could browbeat and persecute some poor cartman, or stop a lady's carriage on the street to examine whether the check-rein chafed the horses’ jaws, he had matters all his own way. When, how- ever, he comes to interfere with a sport where men are concerned who will not tolerate bis fanatical nonsense, he finds that he has been riding the high horse too long, and that he has perpetrated a great many things without a shadow of justification in law. The sooner, wo think, the Society proceeds to the election of a man for President in the place of Mr. Bergh, the better will be the prospect of its retaining the respect, confidence and support of the community. Avnotner BovurnoN MovEMENT IN THE French AssEMBLY.—The cable informs us that a committee of the Assembly has reported unanimously in favor of repealing the law seqnestrating the estates of the Orleans Princes, It now remains to be seen what course the House will adopt. Tie seques- trated property has been variously estimated at fifty and one hundred millions of francs, Should the National Assembly decide to re- store the property it may be judged asa pretty fair indication of the sentiments of that body toward a monarchical restoration, Though the report of the committee was unanimous in favor of the Princes we feel that wien the subject comes up for debate it will raise a storm such as has of late characterized the proceedings in the French Chambers, and in which imperialists, moderate and radical re- publicans and monarchists will take distinct issues, The present step is another movement toward the approaching crisis. What will be the next move? A Bu to ReavLaTe ComMMERce AMONG rag Severna States.—The importance of the step taken by Mr. Spencer, the Senator from Alabama, in the bill which he submitted to the Senate on Monday, ‘‘io regulate com- merce among the several States,” cannot be very well over-estimated. It is the first great movement in Congress to regulate the rail- roads, canals and other highways by the fed- erul government, We have not the bill before us, and, therefore, cannot discuss the merits of it in detail ; but the principle is right. It was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Let us hope it will not remain there long, and that a strong measure will be reported back to the Senate, The railroads are the great arteries of commerce among the several States, and yet the companies impose offensive tariffs and do as they please, independent of ‘the federal government, It is time that these vast monopolies were put under proper re- straint, and that the people be protected from exorbitant charges to pay dividends on watered stock and to fill the coffers of a few road magnates, Tho Custom House Kuvestigation—What It Provee—What It Dovesn’t. The Senate Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment has raised a great cry and not particularly much wool in its raking among the rubbish ot the Custom House. As the inquiry progresses the fact becomes more and more apparent that beyond furnishing voluminous texts to the partisan press for scurrilous articles on their opponents, this washing of dirty republican linen tn public will eventuate in no particular blessing to the country at large. The fact that the Custom House patronage was used to control the pri- maries, and afterwards the State Con- vention at Syracuse, {is not “creditable to, although no novelty in, tho party of moral ideas; but when the accusers fn this matter are the soreheads snuffed out by that action, and not the party at large, that always suffers for the crimes of its leaders, the whole thing becomes very amusing. If the sorehead leader and his sorehead party were famous while in power for purity in primaries and merging of influences in conventions the case would be different, Those, however, who know anything about the history of republioan- ism in this State for the last six years qill burst into inextinguishable laughter at Featon and the Fentonites, or Greeley and the Gree- leyites, constituting themselves the Nemesis of official jobbery and’ intrigue. Time may come when forced party assessments, plots hatched in the nosts of party power, and all the dirty work of Custom House Machia- vellis and sycophant underatrappers, to gain ® momentary triumph, shall be regardea as crimes by all parties. That auspicious hour has not yet arrived; and if this display of radical sores has any present effect its lesson should be felt by the accusers of to-day, who were the ocorruptionists of yesterday, as wellas by the individuals whose alleged dis- graceful tricks and dishonesiies are now laid bare, To prove what everybody knew, that Custom House influence had been used of late to carry the State for Grant and Conkling, was, although not avowedly ao, the main object of the inquiry, The monopoly of the general order business by a young army officer named Leet, its wrongs, pecuniary and otherwise, to the mercantile community here, and, above all, the hinted sharing of the profits with the President, form the next serious point of attack. The sharing of the immense profits of the concern with Generals Babcock and Porter by means of a “mess” at Washington is a grave charge, to which these young officers must be held to answer, and on which no judgment should be rendered until their story is heard, Mr, A, T. Stewart's evidence on the matter as regards the merchants declares that he suffers in pocket by extra charges and delay from the closing of the Cunard stores at Jersey City; and if it can be proven that the business community suffers, without any corresponding benefit to the gov- ernment, something should be done to save their money bags, The appointment of Colonel Leet, under the system of favoritism which has prevailed since the time of Andrew Jackson, is the fault of that bad syatem, and altogether peslde the question of official integrity except from the sorehead point of view. Out of ll the evidence adduced there ig nothing which points to the President having any guilty connection with the busi- ness, The influence of those immediately around him would seem to have been used to preserve Leet and the general order business at the same time; but that a President, if he dared to sully his high office with the stains of profitable collusion with public plunderers, would have a finger in so small a pie, is somes thing to test the credulity even of a ‘‘sore- head.” On this subject it will be recalled what an amount of Black Friday mad was flung at the President in the gold corner business without any of it sticking, An amusing feature of the row is the free- dom with which the minor actors in, the affair call each other Tammany republicans, The Conklingites fling Hank Smith in the tecth of the turnip philosopher, who hurls the ponder- ous Murphy against the White House, with his classical ‘‘you're another!” One of the gravest and really most interest. ing developments is that which shows how dishonest a Custom House employ¢ can be If he so wills it, The checks on dishonesty may not be sufficiently absolute to insure faithful and upright service, and this should be seen to in a wise, patriotic spirit; for it has nothing whatever to do with party. It will be woticed that the greater portion of the criminality ia this de- partment comes from the temptation of not over well paid officials by grasping avarice among merchants, The weighmaster who takes the English weights of a cargo, for ex- ample, would not be likely to commit so criml- nal a negligence, to pay the least, if the mer- chant or his agent had not given his anxiety to have the law broken some tangible form. These faults are in human nature, and will be to the end of the chapter. The proper pay- ment of a better class of men would do more to purify these shortcomings ; certainly the interested tirades of the ‘‘oute” against the “ing” will not accomplisis that end. The people care very little about the squab- bles as they stand,” What one party affirms the other is pretty sure to deny, and the public are expected to grope out the truth between them. The investigation will probably end in ageneral whitewashing, with perhaps head or two thrown to the soreheads as they throw tubs to whales when they are about to Rar- poon them, It illustrates a foregone con- clusion, that the promised civil service reform will have Augean stables to clear out and then protect from further deillement, Substi- tuting the ‘‘outs” for the ‘ins’ will not achieve it. Tur Sranisu-Cona Dirrioutry.—The Span- ish Cabinet appears to be in a difficulty with respect to the plan of rule which should be adopted in Cuba, The question puzzles the King’s Ministers. Marshal Concha’s appoint- ment to the office of Captain General of the island has not—if our cable news telegram from Madrid states the case exactly—been unreservedly confirmed, for we are told that he has delayed his departure from Spain and halted at Cadiz, The “ver Faithful Isle” brings trouble, evidently, to the centre of ita devotion; but perhaps the feeling of the inhabitants may be explained fq accordance with Paddy's cule to lg aweatheart, who had ene enearnanee capensis ame eald —“Shure I dhramo every night I hating you so;” when the ardent lover—from another “faithful isle”’—replied :—‘Dbramee always go by conthraries, my dear.” , 4a Important Bill—Ciatms Against the City. Mr. Twombly made a bold movement yester- day in the Assembly, which, if supported by the reform democrats, may be successful. It was in the form of a bill providing for the better management of the finances of the metropolis. It confers powers on the Comptroller not hitherto enjoyed by that officer, and defines his duties, We cannot now see any objection to the passage of this bill, but as it {sa measure of great importance we hope it will be thoroughly discussed before it becomes a law. Another bill {ntroduced by Mr. Twombly requires Comptroller Groew to make an estimate of the amount of money necessary to reimburse any defictencies in the estimates and appropria- tions for the several departments and an esti- mate of the sums required for the payment of lawful claims against the city. The bill also provides for a Board of Audit, to which such claims may be referred, and authorizes the Comptroller to discharge these claims against the city and county. This seems to be a good bill and oarefully drawn. When it becomes » law Comptroller Green will have many anxious inquirora, In our Albany correspondence will be found the bill, as introduced, in fall, Mr. Haughton is after the clerks of the Dia- trict Courts with a sharp stick; Mr. Dyke- man is determined to spoil the Boas’ little gamo in the matter of the Croton Lake; and » zealous advocate of the rights of the working. men introduced a bill legalizing travelling on Sunday, The business of the Legislature yesterday gave lively indication of a busy session, and we shall be disappointed if the promise of earnest work which the reform members have given will not be fulfilled. Both Senate and Assembly stand adjourned until Monday evening, Tue -ApMission of Uran as A State of the Union in the Mormon mind is a matter of certainty. Inthe House of Representatives yesterday the bill introduced authorizing a convention of delegates of a hundred and forty members to frame a State consti: tution was read and scanned and pushed to a final passage in less than one hour, This shows clearly enough how the “wind blows” with the apostolic representa- tives. As our despatch sets forth, they ara determined to ‘“‘rush” the bill through the Senate also—a matter requiring very little effort. They wish to avoldthe semblance of absolute control, however, and have generouse ly (?) offered the Gentiles a slight participation, which has been declined witbout thanks. While the Saints were framing their bill and shaking hands with themselves over the prospective glory to be attained, the most crucl blow of all was being administered to polygamy by Jadge Strickland, in his charge to the Grand Jury, a synopsis of which we publish to-day. Conaress YgsteRDAY—Privare Bi. Day.—The Senate was not in sessign yester-, day, having adjourned over from Thursday until Monday, It was private bill day in the House and a large number of such matters were disposed of. The only business of a public character that was transacted was the adoption of a resolution instructing the Post Office Committee to inquire into recent con- tracts for the transportation of the mails, as to, some of which transactions rumor has been; busy of late. The resolution was represented as being offered at the instance of the Post- master General, so as to give him an oppore. tunity of contradicting all rumors affecting the integrity of the Department in that connection. Neither house will be in sesston to-day. Tae Granp DUKE ALEXIS ON THE PLAINS. — The ducal party arrived at Omaha yesterday’ morning, where General Sheridan, with » distinguished company, was in waiting, to receive them. After an introduc.’ tion «to numerous citizens and partak- ing of the sumptuous entertainment provided by Governor Saunders at the Executive Man- sion, the imperial party were taken under the guardianship of “Little Phil” and started for the scene of the grand buffalo hunt. What with killing the horned monsters, living in a joyous, primitive condition, watching war dances and hearing Indian songs, the Grand Duke anticipates a glorious time. VALLANpIGHAM’s Soret Portioa, Hee TorY.—A correspondent furnishes us with advanced sheets of a portion of the new work now in press, giving ‘The Secret and Private Political History of the Late Mr. Vallandig- ham’s Escape to Canada and Return from Banishment Daring the Rebellion.” It willbe found to fill an important gap in the history of the rebellion and command general interest among the many adntirers of the distinguished deceased, Tur Supreme Court, GENERAL TERM, yes< terday granted the application of William H. MeNevina, tried on an indictment for murder and now serving out @ sentence in State Prison, for a new trial, At the same time they denied a similar application by William O'Kell, also undergoing sentence in Sing Sing, for receiving, with a guilty knowledge, bonds atolen from the Norwalk Bank, Tue Cincinnatl Gazette, referring to the election of William B. Allison as the repub- lican United States Senator from Iowa, re~ marks :—‘‘Goodby, Harlan,” Is ft not about time “good by” were bid to many other Sen~ ators like Harlan, who seem to consider the membership of the highest legislative body in the republic a position upon which they enjoy a life tenure? — THR HERALD AND DR, LIVINGSTONE. (overamen, im the opinion of tke Rw jtish ment, 16 ont amsaits has been too penurious in its feeble aitempts on behalf of Dr. Livingstone, and, there fore, that enterprising journal has seen fit todo ‘what that governmont has failedtodo * * © ‘Phe question of Dr, Livingstone’s safety ts agaim brought up in the English papers, and we are giad to see that Captain Burton, the celebrated travelier, ‘and one of our most accomplished Arabic scholars, besides having an Intimate acquaintance with both Fast and West Africa, has expressea himself as hopeful of the veteran explorer’s safety. Thore is also some consolation in knowing thata correspoud- ent of the New YORK Hera ts on hts way to ine terview the Doctor, and we shall gladiy hoar Wie tex put, sould be be gpocesalule