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Pign! pcanabrenncs 1—Advertisements. 2— Advertisements, 3—the State Capital: An Exciting Debate in the Senate; The Seventy’s Charter only Discussed; A Death Biow to the Rapid ‘ansit Schemers; The Erie Amendment bull Scotched—Connecticut: Slight Public Interest in the Electton—The Presidential Campaign— Europe: The Sudden Termination of the Lady Twiss Scandal Case in London; a Royal Lec. een The Washington Treaty Again Criti- 4—Erie in England: The News in London of the Fall of the Fabric of Fraud; Collapse of the Erle Ring; Prompt Action of the Knglish Shareholders: Opinions of the London Press— Erie in New York: A Lull in the Great Battile— The Swamp angels: Press Recogniuon of HERALD Enterprise—Comptrolier Green and the Marketmen—Music and the Drama—Art Matters—Pigeon Shooting—Horse Notes—Mon- mouth Park Kaces—ihe Jersey City Frauds— The Comptroiler’s Payments. 5—Financia) and Commercial: The Erie Specula- tion Waning; A Tumble in the Shares from 66 to 58; 60,000 Shares at 55, “Seller a Year; Consternation Among the “Buils?? A Flurry in Goid and a Rise to 11055; Governments Up; Noney Easy; A Pot Pourri of Inconsistencles— Proceedings in the New York and Brookiyn Courts—Judge lowling’s Prisoners—An I[n- jured Man Left to Freeze and Die—University Of the City of New York, 6-Edttorials: Leading Arucle, ‘Mexico—War on Our Southern Borders—fhe President Must Execute the Laws and Detend Our Frontiers” — Amusement Announcements. ‘7—The War in Mexico—Telegrams from England, France, Spain, Italy, Australasia and Cuba— News from Washington—Miscellaneous Tele- grams—Business Notices. 8—‘‘Josie” McUarty, the Car Murderess, in Court at Utica: ‘The Ladies of the City Prevented from Atiending: Statement vy Her Counset— Smatlpox: Terrible Ravages of the Disease All Over the City—Importing Smallpox trom Brooklyn—Brooklyo Atfairs—The Real Estate Market—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ments, —Aavertisements. 140—The French Arms Muddie : Sumner Testifies Under a Double-Barrelled Protest; Ruffled Dignity All Round—Obituary—Auction Sule of Coal—The Westchester Town Elections— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 41—Advertusements. 12.~Aavertisementa, ANoTHER OVERBOARD.—At the meeting of the new Erie Railway Directors yesterday Mr. Drake, a member of the old Gould Board, resigned, and Mr. William Wetmore Cryder, merchant, was elected in his place, Tug Porrsvitte (Pa,) Miners’ Journal has undertaken the rile of Diogenes, and pro- claims boldly that in Governor Geary it has found an honest man. In this connection the Journal, which is a strong administration journal, advises the press of Philadelphia to “ook at home and rectify matters that need it, and desist from the pursuit of o course which has tended to alienate the country and city and retard the progress of the latter.” Ene in Enoiaxp.—The European mails bring us the story of the Erie drama as it was rehearsed in London, with the details of the first swell in the great tide of speculation. We are informed only of what transpired within the day or two succeeding the revolu- tion in the management, so that we are not aware of what was afterward done by the two rival parties in the London market. Up to the time the mails left the McHenry party had played a very quiet dle, and seemed to have contented themselves with the results upon Atlantic and Great Western produced by the Erie reformation. The other party, like their confrires here, grumbled because the victory had not been of their achievement. Toe Porr’s Spxcia, Mrssaaz to Queen Victoria, delivered for conveyance to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin- cess Alexandra of Wales, at audience in the Vatican, will constitute @ remarkable feature in the religio-political history of the present day. His Holiness’ praise of the piety of the people of Great Britain is a well deserved compliment to the religious feeling of Her Majesty's subjects without distinction of sect. Mexican Gengrats are certainly not re- markable for strict veracity. Our special despatch from Matamoros reports the revolu- tionary version of the battle of Zacatecas as given by General Trevifio. His account differs from that of the Juaristas in this slight circumstance: that whereas Rocha claims to have captured the whole rebel army under Trevifio—with the exception of a handful of vavalry who ran for dear life—and to have given the death-blow to the whole revolutiou, Trevifio, on the other hand, now lays claim to the victory on the ground that he kept the field while Rocha retired and remained skulk- ing behind his fortifications. He (Trevifio) was anxious to continue the fight, but his opponent (Rocha) had no heart for it. Which side are we to believe? Here is a task for the future impartial bistoriun of the present evolution in Mexico. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. moxice=War On Our Southern Borders— The Presidest Must Execute the Laws and Defend Our Frontiers. We are far from urging President Grant to make any illegal experiments upon Mexico. We appreciate the force of his ingenious sug- gestion, as reported by our Washington corre- spondent, that the enterprise in St. Domingo would not justify him in any further volunteer diplomacy in the tropics, The President was rudely treated in that St. Domingo business. The excuse for it may be found in the clumsy manner in which the negotiation was managed. There was never a case where good intentions went more completely awry. The difficulties about St, Domingo were that the treaty was made by the President, through one of his Secretaries, independently of the State Depart- ment, This secretary, General Babcock, is more of an engineer than a diplomatist, and what he did was ina plain, direct, soldierly manner, with more anxiety for results than about the means of attaining results, As a consequence Senators Sumner and Schurz, gentlemen in a condition of high diplomatic training, had an opportunity of criticising the treaty. They were also in a bad humor with the President, Sumner because of the Motley difficulty ; Schurz because, as representative of two hundred thousand German votes, he was not.gratified with two hundred thousand offices. At the same time they were supposed to be republicans in support of the administra- tion, and their blows were delivered under the mask of friendship, This made them more effective, and, in truth, enabled them to para- lyze the President’s policy. Another difficulty with St. Domingo was that it was simply an experiment. There was no reason for its annexation other than the general desire of the Americans for extension of territory and the tradition that every President, to be successful, should add some- thing to the national domain before leaving the White House. Even Mr. Johnson, after losing the confidence of the country and com- ing within one vote of being hustled out of his chair by a policeman of the Senate, was shrewd enough toannex Alaska, The manage- ment of that negotiation by Mr. Seward was masterly, and we cannot help thinking that if St. Domingo had been as carefully handled it would now be one of our territories. But while the President was earnest in the work the Cabinet was cold, the Senate was apathetic, and, with the exception of General Butler, perhaps, no one of the President’s supporters showed zeal in the work, Rather than make an issue with the party, and not caring to remove any of his Cabinet, as Jackson would certainly have done under similar cir- cumstances, the President with consummate sagacity remanded the whole question to Con- gress in a message which did him great honor asa manly, straightforward, frank document. He adjourned the question without abandon- ing it, and we shall, in all probability, have it revived after the election. But St. Domingo can only be considered as an experiment. There is no necessity for annexation. ‘The military and naval reasons for its acquisition existed in reference to St. Thomas, which we obtained from Denmark, and refused to accept under circumstances that were humiliating to that modest and venerable little monarchy and disgraceful to ourselves, We refused to pay for St. Thomas for the bandit’s reason that we could take it when necessary. The Senate, in the St, Thomas treaty, was stronger than the administra- tion. Mr, Sumner could have avoided that humiliation if he had made the effort, and the fact that, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, he failed to do so, went fur towards reconciling us to the movement which displaced him from the head of that body. Wecan well conceive, there- fore, how as cautious aman as Grant would remember keenly the diplomatic failures in St. Domingo and St. Thomas, and hesitate be- fore advancing into Mexico. But the condition of affairs in Mexico pre- sents a new problem to the President. Some- thing is due to our national dignity, the peace of the world and the protection of our frontiers, We are not discussing con- siderations of humanity and civilization. A President may be pardoned from acting upon sentimental diplomacy. He sees Mexico blessed beyond all countries in the richness, the variety, the exquisite beauty and luxury of its scenery. He sees a nation of eight millions living as paupers and bandits on 4 soil four times as large as that of France which supports nearly forty millions of souls, All seasons and the fruits of all zones, from wheat to pineapples, are embraced within its latitudes. He sees mineral resources that gave wealth to Spain long before Brewster and Winthrop disturbed the Indian hunting grounds of Massachusetts. He finds the civi- lization of Mexico under the successors of the Spaniards at a lower ebb than it was under the Aztecs; that there are wide, barren plains, sterile and abandoned, which the careful Indian was wont to irrigate and cover with crops of waving corn. Disorder, fear, horror, mutiny, superstition, bankruptcy, in- habit this land; its government is without authority at home, its flag without respect abroad. So far from these evils being radical and inseparable from the country, he remembers that two of its provinces which thirty years ago were no better than Chihuahua and Sonora (the provinces of Texas and California), are now among the richest and most prosperous of our States— and destined to become the homes of millions of freemen. He cannot but appreciate that to take this Mexico and make it as we have made Texas and California—as the dramatist says, to “lift it from the sordid dust and stamp it with a diadem”—would be an honorable and worthy decd. But, as we have said, this belongs to the sentiment, perhaps to the ro- mance, of diplomacy, To use an American term, it is apt to make an administration “popular.” At the same time considerations of mere popularity cannot control the mind of a President. Rulers have committed the greatest crimes in history under the tempta- tions of “popularity.” Warren Hastings’ per- formances ia India, the invasion of Silesia by Frederick, the occupation of Spain by Napo- leon, the partition of Poland, the seizure of Alsace and Lorraine by Germany, were ali “popular acts;” but they were crimes, and brought with them the puaishment of crime. Therefore, while presenting to the mind of the President the romantic and sentimental aspects of the Mexican question, and showing bim in what respect it would be “popular,” we are far from urging him to imitate Frederick and Napoleon and Bismarck, and do violence to public order by wantonly seizing the govern- ment of an independent republic, The problem is a higher one! The condi- tion of Mexico is a menace tothe United States. Our people have not thought so. We have pardoned everything to its weak- ness, That Maximilian business and the belief that in some way our government, under Mr. Lincoln, threw itself against Juarez and tried to elbow him out of the country, have disposed us to give the Indian President a chance. Because Mexico was weak we never believed she could do us harm. We saw during the rebellion that she was used to our injury, that her borders were depots of rebel supplies, that a French army occupied her capital and became the ally of the rebels, that Matamoros, on the Rio Grande, was a rebel naval station covered by a neutral flag, and that the actual aid given to the confederacy by Mexico, or, rather, by reason of Mexico, cost our treasury huadreds of millions. We at- tributed that to the French and Maximilian, but are we any better? Our border is now virtually in a condition of war because of Mexico. A Mexican general is levying war against the United States. Armed bands of Mexicans prowl along our frontier, Im- munity has made these men bold, and for seven years they have continued their depre- dations. Millions of dollars of property have been taken by “Indians” who are citizens of Mexico, Our revenue officers have been murdered, Law has lost its power, so that even a United States judge hesitated to punish men for smuggling. In Monterey Ameri- can citizens are compelled to pay forced loans, and an American Consul is in prison. This cannot be attributed to any foreign interven- tion. Maximilian is in his grave. Napoleon’s sceptre no longer shadows the republic. The French bave had more impressive experiences at Sedan and Gravelotte. Juarez is as much the master of Mexico as any ruler that ever sat in its capital, No revolution has shaken him from his seat. He is by all odds the most capable ruler that ever presided over Mexi- can destinies. He holds all the authority that exists, and yet his authority is para- lyzed. He cannot rule the country, and be- cause of his helplessness and our good will to Mexico and our desire to see a republic estab- lished and our sympathy with this patient, well-meaning, helpless Juarez we have sub- mitted to indignity, to plunder, and are now submitting to war. Itis war, whatever view we take of it! And the question comes, can the President be true to his oath of office and submit to this war? Can he preserve the public peace and execute the laws and maintain the nation’s dignity while an armed force is committing hostilities upon our borders? Is it an excuse that Mex- ico is helpless? Must we submit to war be- cause the enemy is on neutral soil and under a friendly flag? No soil is neutral and no flag is friendly which protect the enemies of our peace. Suppose a company of mutineers were to capture a Cunard steamer and to enter New York harbor under the English flag and begin to rob our ships, would we be deterred from opening our guns upon her because of the English flag? War is war, and must be resented and suppressed and punished in what- ever shape it comes. If we saw any disposi- tion or any power in Mexico to suppress these acts of war we should be patient, and content ourselves with defensive preparations and remonstrances, But what right has Mexico to impose upon us the necessity of arming the Rio Grande and lining our Texas frontier with troops? The danger exists. It is radical. We are at the mercy of Mexico when at peace with other nations; at the mercy of whoever occupies ber country in time of war. Canada is within our military lines. The population along our northern border could occupy Canada in sixty days. But our southern bor- der is sparsely settled. The people can- not protect themselves. The country is so wide and open and exposed that to defend it would require a smallarmy. Mexican ports are within easy access of our Southern coast, and would become in time of war as Nassau and Bermuda during the rebellion. Unless we mean to keep an army and a large navy we must consider our Mexican frontier as an open door. It is so widely open now that General Cortinas and a following of soldiery enter Texas and rob and slay at their humor. When the bandits of Marathon murdered cer- tain English travellers England exacted from Greece sammary revenge and a large indem- nity. Greece pleaded the excuse of Mexico— “helplessness” and ‘good intentions”—but it was not heard. English gentlemen should not be murdered with impunity because Greece was under a weak government. When the King of Abyssinia imprisoned a few Englishmen an army marched into his capital and rescued them. Yet here, on our own border, American citizens are murdered and their property destroyed. The President, it is said, has no power, butitis certain the country holds him responsible, Let him mect that responsi- bility by sending a message to Congress ask- ing for authority to defend the nation, and, if necessary, to secure permanent peace by de- claring a protectorate. And, to save time, let him order Phil Sheridan to the Rio Grande, with as many troops as can be spared, That is a ministerial act, and Sheridan’s presence at Matamoros with a simple orderly will have a good moral effect. Congress will respond quickly enough, and in sixty days Sheridan will report from his headquarters, in the Halls of the Montezumas, that order reigns in Mexico, that peace has fullowed the American flag, and that this sorely tried people have welcomed him as the Liberator of their Republic. ae Tne SALEM (Mass.) Register— whilom General Butler all over—now calls that inde- fatigable, by way of derision, a ‘‘squatter representative.” There was a time when “squatter sovereignty” was quite popular. Tae Wasnmixaton Capital refers to the Hon. S. S. Cox as “a man whose Congressional heart throbs without ceasing in bebalf of the humane.” Hence he has introduced a bill for the better protection of buffalo and other game now being slaughtered in the most wan- ton manner. The Grand Duke Alexis there- fore enjoyed his buffalo meat before the march of civilization put an end to such exciting Sport upon our Western plains ‘The Connecticut Etection. The impending Connecticut election is ex- citing an unusual degree of interest among the politicians of all parties, because of the extraordinary divisions of the political ele- ments of the State in this fight, because of the very close division of the State between the republicans and the democrats, but mainly be- cause of the doubts and speculations concern- ing that unknown quantity in the contest— the anti-Grant republican boltera. Last year the republicans were caught napping, and somewhat soured withal on Sumner and St. Domingo in New Hampshire, and they lost that State; but the effect was to waken them up thoroughly in Connecticut, whereby they recovered the State from English and the democrats, This year, roused into action by the anti-Grant republican speeches of Sumner, Trumbull and Schurz, to say nothing of Tip- ton, in the Senate, the New Hampshire repub- licans, under the flag of the national adminis- tration, bravely buckling up to their work, re- captured all they had lost last March in the Governor, State ticket and Legislature, and the general results have greatly encouraged the Connecticut republicans. They appear to be confident of carrying the State this time by some five hundred majority, on total popular vote of some ninety-five thousand. Last year Jewell’s majority was one hundred, and, under the circumstances, it was a great victory for Connecticut. The probabilities so far appear to be strongly in favor of an increased majority for the republi- cans in this election, They have been work- ing enthusiastically; they have had a much larger force of able stump speakers in the field than the opposition; they have con- dnoted the campaign on the offensive; they have carefully canvassed the voters through- out the State, and their canvassers report in favor of some five hundred majority for Gov- ernor Jewell. The labor reformers’ ticket and the temperance faction do not disturb the cal- culations of republicans or democrats, although the labor reformers have a weekly organ in New Haven which, over their State ticket, flies the Presidential flag of David Davis and Joel Parker. In short, from the activity and enthusiasm of the republicans and the com- parative apathy and uncertainty of the demo- crats, there would hardly be room for a doubt of Jewell’s re-election if there were not some other disturbing force besides that of the labor reformers and that of the temperance faction. But this unknown quantity of the anti- Grant republican bolters makes the issue of this Connecticut election uncertain. Appear- ances indicate a design among the anti-Grant malcontents to give Jewell the cold shoulder. Unquestionably some of them will vote against him; but howmany? The democrats have plainly informed these anti-Grant repub- licans that, if they are worth anything at all as a political balance of power, they can surely master the two or three hundred anti- Grant republicans required to give Connecti- cut to Hubbard. If they cannot do this small service to the democracy, if they cannot command the two or three hundred republican votes which will suffice to give the democrats a glorious State victory over Grant, then Mr. Brown and Mr. Schurz can hardly expect their Cincinnati Convention to be anything buta fiasco, We infer that Mr. Greeley has been convinced by this logic of the necessity of upsetting Grant in Connecticut, in order to make the Cincinnati Convention a prom- ising Presidential affair, with the aid of the democrats, to Brown, Trumbull, Davis, Logan or Greeley, because Mr. Greeley is as much a neutral concerning this Connecticut election as was the old lady of Arkansas in the cele- brated fight between her husband and the bear. She woulda’t interfere, because she didn’t care which whipped, husband or bear, and she had made up her mind for fair play, On the other hand, a leading Western anti- Grant republican organ, the Chicago Tribune, urges it as a duty upon the anti-Grant repub- licans to support, through thick and thin, the regular republican ticket in Connecticut, in order to give the coup de grace to the demo- cratic party. And wherefore? Because this party is not dead yet, and, if successful in Connecticut, the old copperheads will jump up again, and become: too proud to ask any favors of Mr. Brown and his Cincinnati Con- vention, But if you give this lingering demo- cratic party another sharp crack on the head in Connecticut it gives up the ghost, and the democrats then will have no alternative but to disband their old party and join the liberal republicans under Mr. Brown, There is some- thing in this argument which shakes our faith in the wisdom of Mr. Greeley’s neutrality, and materially strengthens the opinion that the republicans will carry Connecticut on Monday next, wind and weather permitting. A Hien Tanirr republican paper published in a manufacturing district in Pennsylvania is much pleased with Irish democrats for signing a petition to Congress in tavor of protection to American industry. It says thatif some of our “stupid American democrats,” who advo- cate and vote for free trade, do not s6on become better enlightened, ‘‘it would not be surprising to see the Irish rising far above them.” Then wo should have the green above not only the red, but the “red, white and blue.” JosEPHiInE McCarry, the Utica murderess, has been indicted by the Grand Jury, and, as we stated yesterday, appeared in Court ably represented by counsel, who declared by affi- davit their inability to proceed with the case until evidence essential to the suc- cess of their client's cause could be produced from St. Louis and else- where. The arguments put forward and the intimations of the inevitable plea of insanity they intend to introduce in defence of this heroine of the pistol remind us forcibly of the shifts and little legal subterfuges employed in all murder trials nearer home. As stated in our report to-day, the presiding Judge has been compelled to grant time in which to complete the defence, and from the substance of the address from the Bench and the other incidents of the day’s doing we obtain an insight into the determined manner in which counsel will fight for the life of the prisoner. Irv Now Appears that the Cincinnati Con- vention, originally appointed for the 6th, is to meet oa the 1st of May, and a baker’s dozen of liberal republican candidates, including Mr. Greeley, are humming :— And i'm to be Queon of the May, mother; Vin o ve Quecs Of Saxe The City Rallroad Schemes Disposed Of— Shall the Viaduct Hallways Be Built By the City f—Let the People Decide. The Senate Railroad Committee yesterday made an adverse report on the numerous rail- road ‘schemes which have accumulated for the consideration of the legislators in Albany. Among the rapid transit bills thus tabled, for the present season at least, are the New York City Depressed Rail- road bill, the bill to incorporate the Manhat- tan Underground Railroad Company, the bill to incorporate the Bartlett Railroad Company, the proposition of the Committee of Ninety to appoint commissioners to build @ railroad in Mew York, and ad- verse to the incorporation of the Under- ground Railroad Company. The committee could scarcely have adopted a wiser course, and their action in this matter will doubtless receive the fullest approbation of the people. No sooner was the subject of rapid transit publicly discussed than a dozen ill-conceived, wildly speculative plans were thrust into the Logislature,‘ and the lobby filled with their originators, who were willing to ‘‘put them through” at.a certain cost to themselves but a much greater expense to the public. Rapid transit is absolutely necessary to the city of New York for the accommodation of its million citizens and to afford fa- cilities to the constantly increasing trade centred here, but we could not afford to adopt the mushroom schemes of party specu- lators. Merchants and tradesmen living at one end of the island and doing business at the other must soon have the means of reaching either their homes or offices within a reasonable time, facilities that are granted to every city of any pretension in the Old World; but they ought not to be asked to pay the millions stipulated in these bills for the accommodation. The closest calculations of experts bave established beyond a question the fact that two viaduct railways, running through the length of Manhattan Island along the lines of the two rivers, could be constructed without difficulty or delay at a cost that would insure the payment of seven per cent interest on the city bonds issued for that purpose and their redemption in less than twenty-five years, without calling upon the taxpayers for the outlay of a single dollar, These calculations are based upon estimates liberally made as to the required expenditure, and far within the probable limits as to the income to be derived from the roads. The cost of the East River road to Harlem bridge is set down as within thirty million dollars, which sum would pay for all real estate required for the right of way and for other purposes, fully equip the four-track road and place it in running order for public use to a capacity for the transporta- tion of one hundred and twenty thousand per- sons daily. The income of this road for the first year is cautiously estimated, on a basis of ten cents average fare,- at four million three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, which sum, with only four hundred thousand dollars added for rental of superfluous property, would pay seven per cent on the total cost of construc- tion and equipment, all the running expenses and maintenance of the road, and leave a balance of over a million dollars annually to form a sinking fund for the redemption of the debt, As we have before shown, the estimate of the income of the road is far toolow. The rental received for unused property, stabling, storage room, cellarage, &c., would certainly reach eight hundred thousand dollars on a line of seven miles running through a populous neighborhood. The express and freight busi- ness would, we believe, reach at once one million dollars, and in this estimate we are below the calculations of experienced men in the business. Besides all this, the estimates made are based on the first year's business, and this it is well known would be increased steadily and rapidly year after year as the people became accustomed to the use of the road, and as the now fugitive population was brought back into the city and settled in the upper parts of the island. In the hands of the city the railroads would be run in the interests of the people, and hence these increased receipts, instead of going into the pockets of shareholders, as would be the case if the roads were the prop- erty of private corporations, would occasion a corresponding decrease in the rates of pas- senger fare. ‘So there is a good prospect that eventually the people could travel on their own roads short distances for three cents and long distances for five or six cents, and still realize a sufficient income to pay the interest on the bonds and to cancel the principal within a reasonable time. But there is another and a powerful argu- ment in favor of the construction of these great four-track viaduct railways by the city. With these roads in working order and owned by the city it would be easy to compel the railroad corporations running to New York to remove all their tracks from the city limits, to construct their grand depots at Harlem and Kings- bridge, and to distribute their passengers and freight over the city by means of the viaduct lines, This would add enormously to the receipts of the viaduct roads, besides con- ferring a great blessing upon the citizens and benefiting an important area of real estate, through the abolition of the dangerous nui- sance of the Fourth avenue track. In fact, the North River and East River viaduct railways, built and owned by the city, would not only increase the value of real estate all over the island, accommodate half a mullion of people on the instant and improve the health and morals of the city, but would in the end prove a source of large revenue to the municipality. We challenge the State Legislature to criti- cise the estimates we have given and to refute the arguments we have advanced iu favor of the construction of these great thoroughfares for rapid transit by the city of New York, and ve call upon the more honest and intelligent members of the Senate and Assembly to dis- card the lobby schemes and to give the people the law they want, If there can be any doubt about the propriety of the construction of railroads by the city. or any question of the wishes of the people of New York on the subject, let us have a law submitting the decision to the popular vote at the next charter election and empowering the city to issue ite bonds and complete the ! work inthe event of an affirmative result, ‘To r) this no honest representative can object, and’ agalost such a proposition no member of either house would vote, unless he should have a corrupt interest in one of the jobs of the lobby. FRanog AND THE InpEMNITY—ToE Hous or Freepom APpRoaoninc.—On the au- thority of the Constitutionnel, one of the best {oformed French journals, negotiations are in progress between France and Germany, hav- ing for their object the liberation of French territory from the presence of German troops. According to the same authority the German government is willing to evacuate that portion of France now occupied by its troops on condition that France shall pay immediately five hundred million francs, and that the re- maining two anda half milliards of the war indemnity shall be paid in yearly instalments, A despatch to the London Standard states that if the negotiations succeed the French National Assembly will be dissolved. We re- joice at this piece of news. The presumption is that the nogotiations will succeed and that France will soon be free, The dissolution of the Assembly, it is reasonable to conclade, must follow; for, after the evacuation, the Bordeaux pact will no longer have a meaning. It will be well if France, left to herself, knows how to behave. M. Thiers and the Assembly bave done well. _It will be diffloult for any government to do better, Rev. Joun P. Newman having been se- lected to teach Christianity to the Japanese Embassy and confute Confucius, the Washing- ton Capital hopes that in this crusade against the Chinese philosopher the reverend gentle- man will be more fortunate than he was in his attack upon the Mormon philosopher, Orson Pratt, But the Capital should remember that Pratt was entrenched behind a rampart of wives, and our Japanese students have no such protection—at least with them, Our DespaToHES FROM THE ANTIPODES.— The news from Australasia, by steamship to San Francisco and thence overland by tele- graph to the Hrratp, denotes the progress of @ profitable industrial expansion at the Antipodes, It shows, equally and at the same time, that the energies of the people are still hampered, to the prejudice of ‘the public interests, by the whims and caprices of an executive directed from the far distant European centre in London, The export trade in wool remained active, A British war vessel shelled the huts and villages of the natives residing near the spot where the late Bishop Patterson was mardered. Whether the cause of Christianity will be benefited by this system of propagandism remains to be seen. A PENNSYLVANIA ADMINISTRATION paper’ (the Miners’ Journal) suggests an extrava- ganza entitled ‘‘ Greeley in the Mud,” and the philosopher flopping and floundering about, ejaculating :— “But see,—what is that?—it 1s the White House f the door stands open !—it comes—see! i¢ comes— bat, oh! horror! there stands the ‘horse jockey’ in the midst of the ‘military ring,’ with the shouting, ‘Well done, thou good, faitnful and hon- est servant of the people?’ Oh, Seward! isn’t this sight horrible And the flopping and floundering is sup- posed to continue to the end of the show. Personal Intelligence. General J. R. Trimble, of Baltimore, is at the Metros politan Hotel. General William G. Ely, of Connecticut, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General J. Kilpatrick, 01 New Jersey, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Juage J. G. Abbott, of Boston, is registered at the Brevoort House. Ex-Senator C, C. Alger, of Connecticut, has arrived at the Gilsey House. Judge Pace, of Georgia, is domiciled at Earle’s Hotel. Judge Munger, of Rochester, has rooms at the St. Denis Hotel. Judge 8. Ross, of Pennsylvania, 1s at the Metroe Ppolitan flotel. Ex-Congressman E. ©. Dawes, of Onto, 1s sojourn- ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel W. B. Wilkenson, of Georgia, is one of the latest arrivais at Earle’s Hotel. Mayor H. Moffatt, of Detroit, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge W. T. Odell, of Albany, has arrived at the Sturtevant House. Colonel J. W. Bradley, of Georgia, is at Earle’s Hotel. Nayu Nato Nakashimi, Superintendent of the Im- perial College, and N. Nagayo, of the Educationat Department, Japan, have arrived in New York and are staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Mr.. Francis R. Webb, who has been for many years the efficient and courteous Consul of the United states at Zanzivar, on the coast of Africa, is at present stopping at the Astor House. Ameri- cans who have had reason to visié the far-off-shores of Afric’s sunny clime are sure to remember the constant and un/atling civilities with which Mr. Webb has always met them as countrymen in a for- eign and. Consal Webb h4s a most difficult post, owing to the unhealthy climate of Zanzibar and ‘its ‘unapproachableness from the civilized parts of the world; but in no instance has a traveller gone away from Mr. Webb without getting all the information he desired in regard to local or commercial detalis, THE LATE JUDGE WHITING'S ESTATE, Surrogate Clifford, of Westchester county, has. granted letters of adininistration to James R, Whit~ Ing, son of the late Juage Whiting, to administer on the estate of his deceased father, who resided at Spuyten Duyvil, in that county. The value of his. estate is estiinated at $1,400,0000, NAVAL ORDER, Wasninaton, March 12, 1872, The United States suip Supply.has been ordered to be fitted out to carry stores to Rio. TOBACCO CUTTERS IN CONVENTION. Crnctnnats, Ohio, March 2%, 1872, ‘The tobacco cutters of the principal Westerm cities, including Cincinnati, Detroit, St Louis, Loutsville, Dayton, Tolodo and Chicago met. herein convention today. Forty-two. delegates. were present. The proceedings were De tee ‘The Convention claims to represent the enure cutting trade of the cities mentnoned, ing in the aggregate $8,000,000 Of overument tnx annually. ‘They a og peal’ wnant. mously endorsing the: action, of the 4 ne of ‘Ways and Means in favor of @ tax 0! hehe ty-four cents per pound on fine cat and ping, aad sixteen cents. per pound on smoking topacco. See ANOTHER DEPAULTING POSTMASTER, Lovmsvin.e, Ky., Maren 27, 1872, George N. Knapp, #ostmastor at Orleans, Indy has disappeared. He is charged with having the govermment out of $4,000 through swindied tne ft ‘A wareaar has besa is arrest, but thera is nociue to Mia whereabouts. EDMUNDS TO BB IMPBAOHED., Derrot, March 27, 187% The Legislative Committee, to whom was reforred the complaint and charges ‘against Charles A, Edmunds, Commissioner ‘of the State Land Omce, made ther Trepors to-day before a crowded uouse, ‘Lhe report recapitulates the evi- dence tending to show malfeasance as developed tn sortp transactions, speculations, &e.. and the commitice Dg Mp lus impeact. ment for miscouduce, ollice aud for crimes aud misdemcaaors. diuient money orders, issued for hi