The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1872, Page 3

X THE DEAR DOMINIGN, English and American Inter- est in Its Welfare. BUBBLES ON THE POLITICAL SURFACE, The Herald and London Times Stirring Up Canadian Lethargy. A NEW PHASE OF ANNEXATION America To Be Annexed in Place of the Dominion. WHAT A HUNDREQ YEARS MAY BRING. The Future of the Gallant Seventh Regiment. ers fA Warning from the-History of the Goths and Romans. & The Beatified Beatty, of the Toronto Leader = His Tory Views of the Situation— A Very Loyal Population. * emer TORONTO, othe os 25, 1872, ‘The late San Juan decision, the remarks thereon bf the London Times, the perilous position of the Macdonald Ministry, the threatening attitude of the reform party, growing daily as it is in the popu- jar confidence and pushing toryism nearer to the wall, make the present moment favorable for noting the surface bubbles on the sea of Canadian poll- Qcs, Your commissioner and the Times editorial telling Canada to “git up and git” arrived about the same time. Asif the concluding lines of that Biticle were not enough to throw the extremely Sensitive minds of this people into a ferment, the Heratp, anticipating the Times, haa already Sounded a somewhat similar keynote; but—great- €st offence of all—it had touched with what they are pleased to consider here a malign subticty of Purpose that ever so raw a subject—annexation, For some time past DOMINION POLITICS AND DOMINION MATTERS generally have been in a lethargic state, and some Dominion newspapers have had no excuse what- ever for being in existence. The tact that my fa- vorite newspaper of this city gives two columns 01 United States news to one column of Canadian demonstrates how small a part the ebb and flow Of life throughout this vast territory contribute to the printers’ income. There is a little more.stir ‘Bow since London and New York have turned their powerful lenses on this bashful stripling of a na- on. There is a fierce bristling up of the loyal ele- ments who believe the equatorial belt would slip off the girth of the globe and the North Pole nod from its base if the various Union Jacks and royal oats of arms were hauled down and laid in a lum- ber Joft, Our own war and matters growing out of It, the Fenian forays and the establishment of the Dominion, have made these people more loyal than before, But there is AN EXTRA LOYAL CLASS, who insist upon clapping a plaster over any man’s Mouth who ventures to question the supreme beauty and advantage of British connection. This tlass I can recognize.on the strest-by the superior consequence of their bearing. They look as if they bad been sent out from the other side with royal Commissions in their pockets “to see that every- thing is all right, you know.” 1 find there-are two parties, THE CONSERVATIVE AND REFORM PARTIES, The first is in power, with Sir John A. Macdonald for Premier. The second, like the outside unfortu- mates everywhere, is secking to get in. Tne points Of difference between them are these:—The con- pervatives, like the tories of England, want strong government and stagnation. They are made up equally of French and English speaking people, and Uf they bad their own way no turnpike roads would be built, no changes of administration would oc- cur, offices would be hereditary and, like in the Jotos eaters’ island, all things would always seem the game. They were strong till recently. Now they are weakening fast. These serfs of precedent and tradition insisted that the government of the Dominion knewetter than the people’s represen- -tatives how to distribute the people’s money in works of education, improvement, &c. The re- formers making up the opposition protested, The Ministerial party went further. They insisted, and succeeded in controlling the great Pacific Railroad enterprise, and, most flagrant thing of all, they retained members on the floor to vote for contracts and subsidies In which they were themselves inter- ested. The reformers have, in consequence of these things, gained great strength, and as one of their special hobbies 1s the fullest encouragement Of emigration, they are every day making capital With the foreign element. “OH! WHERE 18 MY JOIINNY GONE ?"” “Where are the leading men of Canada to be found ?” I asked of an earnest uative. “Ha! hal" laughed he, in a sardonic way. ‘You will find the Jeading men who are paid by the people to carry on the government any place but where they Ought tobe, They are running around the coun- try all the time, and as for Lord Dufferin—butI don’t mind him so much, because he is a stranger— he is as hard to findas a needie in a bundle of hay.” This economic citizen had no right to allude to Lord Dufferin in that connection, for Lora Dufferin is very popular, and his business should be to travel over the land and make himself ac- quainted with it. Itis ofenormous compass, and {un or pastime is not the correct name for a horse- back ride of a few hundred miles through its dense and disma) wildernesses. NOT HALF AS MAD AS THEY OUGHT TO BE, It appears to me the people of the Dominion are not half so mad as they ought to be over the cavalier tone of the editorial in the Zimes, They are “riled,” in a measure, but there is no ‘cutting up." I have heard no threats of setting up a separate establishment, or ordering annexation Papers from the State Department in Washington. It is too soon to expect an outburst of feeling. News travels slowly, and editors and politicians take far more time than our own to work themselves up to the requisite pitch of passion, The HERALD has given infinitely more concern to the ‘loyal’? organs, and in the blind and amusing fury of their abuse they actually call Stanley’s story of the @iscovery of Livingstone ‘‘apocryphal,” though heir most most gracious Quecn put the seal of her faith on it by valuable present to the intrepid giacoverer, By the time I reach Ottawa, the capital, it may be possible news of the 7imes’ diabolical attérances may have penetrated the timber gountry and fired the Canadian hearts of oak. The Grove is RAKING STR JOUN A. MACDONALD fore and aft for the part he took in the Treaty of Washington. It says, substantially, that if he had enly made an honest protest against the preten- sions of the United States in the fishery business ang disclosed the aim of the American Commis- alouers on the San Juan boundary line, or some- tuing to that eifect, what has happened might have been averted and the honor and the interests of Canada saved. The Globe does not blame England ap it blames Sir Jolin, for it believes he could have prade the matter so plain to the English people bab thelr commiasionerg would have veen com- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, pelied te adopt a different policy towards America to the advantage of Canada. Houp la! As for the Times’ editorial, it is devounced by both parties, who hold the Times alone responsibie aud abuse it for its “brutal dictation,” There need be no doubt the ultimate result of THE “INSULTING PROPOSITION” from England to Canada to take up her bed and walk will be the formation of an emphatic “inde- pendence party,” having for its frst aim the schooling of the people to national self-reliance and turning them from “apprentices” into journcymen at the regular business Of politics. It 1s becoming More and more apparent to this country that a day must arrive when the progressive people of England will deem the keeping of Canada as an ornamental appanage of the Crown too perilous for the profit—a game not worth the candle—and Canada will have to set up housekeeping on her own account, with Sir John A. Macdonald for head bottlewasher, ANNEXATIONISTS FEW AND FAR BRTWEEN. In this part of the Dominion the annexationists are very lew. The Irish, the only foreign element likely to throw up their hats for a wedding between Canada and America, are represented on the an- mexation question by @ mere handful, English, Scotch and French prefer things as they are, but you andIcan see how @ time might be apt to arrive when annexation would have an irresistible attraction for this side of the lakes, In their pa- pers they call us “Yankees,” a8 the South was ac- customed to do before the war, but the South attaches a different significance to the term now. They are AFRAID OF OUR DEBT and of many things in our social and political sys- tems, which we are well aware have nothing harm- fulin them, but viewed through Canadian spec- tacles are dreadful scourges, New York, as we see it through the innocent and inflamed optics of quiet people here, is a veritable Sodom, sending forth the poison of its atmosphere through all the arteries of the land, and only prevented from in- fecting the healthy system of the Dominion by the intervention of the chain of lakes and the river St, | Lawrence. Then there are the Fenians, who helped 80 much td DI extinguisher gp ths annexation spirit, which lived in spite Mackenzie’s abortive rebellion, and flourishe@ more or less down to the period of O'Nej way. ANOTOER Ye Then the Dominion folks are ‘‘high-toned” in the selection of their company. Union with us they are afraid would goil their garments overmuch. They might stand the Fenians, but to be compelled to tolerate the following alliterated crowd would be asking too much—for instance, the wild and wicked Woodhull; the sensational sorehead, Phil- lips; the antique anomaly Susan B. ; the red-handed Reddy the Blacksmith; the vinegarized virgin, Anna Dickinson; the soothing syrup of syntax, Theodore Tilton: the gasconading gasbag, Train; the simulating Senator, Simon Cameron, and the bounding bummer of the border, Buffalo Bill, AY, HERE'S THE RUB. As forthe United States conquering the Dominion, that isa question which has had its day in these regions, It was possible once, they say, but now we are prepared to talk of conqnering you. Did youever? Yes, indeed. This beggariy country, as we have so long considered it, talks in a quiet, per- haps @ facetious, way of annexing us. Stranger things might happen. The Huns, Goths, Scythians, Tartars, Danes and Norsemen occupied a climate like this, and on the battle field, fighting on the aggressive, were numerically inferior to the ele- gant nations they thrashed into chaff. 1 can mect men of finer build and more healthful appearance, larger thewa and sinews and hardier mettle ina five minutes’ walk on the streets of Toronto than in the same space of time in any city in the Union, except San Francisco or Louisville, Ky. This is of small account here or there as we are now situated with our superior weapons and war training, but A WUNDKED YEARS FROM NOW, @ mere bagatelle in the life of a nation, we may be as little able to withstand an army of a million of these Scythians of the future sweeping down. on our rich cities as the Romans were to stop the sweep of Alarac and his Goths, Acentury hence our Seventh regiment will have grown so utterly enervated that carriages will be needed to take them on parade. The privates will be laid up with Theumatism and the officers with the gout, Then these terrible. C: ians, Observing~ frugal living, sound sleep and healthful labor, will start out some fine mormng and enter New York by tte St. Nich- olaé boulevard, driving our gouty and rheumatic garde nationale in their carriages through the Central Park and capturing them in a body on Fifth avenue, HOW CANADA MAY CONQUER US, The climate, soil and character of the people are favorable to the development of 8 splendid fight- ing race, They are greatly in the open air and very fond of fleld sports; the soil yields no luxuries unbidden; they close their liquor stores at seven P.M. Saturdays, and thus that elsewhere fatal night to the laborer and mechanic is here passed in sobriety. The climate, while severe, is invigo- rating, and disciplines to hardship, There is in- finitely less of the morbid and racking lust of gain among them than there is with us, and this con- tributes to a better and sounder constitution and physique. The country absorbs yearly some of the healthiest blood and best labor of Europe. Emi- |-89j! have to work harder as a rule than across the ‘podrder. They have to contend with more that de- velopes character and makes it strong in every direction, The young men of the country are all drilled to arms, Thus you see there is a nationality maturing on this territory that is not to be despised, and one far more calcu- latea to strengthen the United States by being in- dependent than by being annexed to it under any pretence. As the HERALD remarked latcly, A CHAIN OF INDEPENDENT REPUBLICS all the way down from the North Pole is the best guarantee of republican liberty, Commenting on this a Toronto gentleman observed that if the Cana- dian people could be brought to think that the Americans would make a compact securing a mutual and inviolable independence, an honorable league, offensive and defensive, and reasonable trade and tarif regulations, there might be a move- ment for independence. This idea will bear future development; but an annexation or independence party I bave yet to find, TERRIBLE TACTICS OF THE TORONTO LEADER. I dropped into the Teronto Leader office the other day to see the kind of an institution that sent forth that comically cantankerous article on the HERALD because of its remarks about the tran- sition period that seemed to be at hand inthe politics and interests of the Dominion. I found it was a country youth who had been entrusted with the “splurge” that had been made, and that it was merely the desperate effort of a moribund sheet to die with the clangor of notoriety in its ears. I was sorry for this discovery, because I had hoped to give it many an opportunity within the next three or four weeks to “‘split the ears of the groundlings,’’ an‘ also because the estimable gentiemen connected with it were extremely kind and courteous. I saw Mr. James Beatty, the proprietor of the paper and Member of Parliament, He Is a fine ould Irish gentleman, One of the rale ould stockh— one of that : WHOLE-SOULED CLASS OF FELLOWS who carry every inch of heart and mind and the carmine of convivial feeling in their faces, He re- minded me of the great Denis Sadiier, the book- seller of New York, who, once upon a time, protest- ed in the HERALD against being credited with “a brogue so magnificent as Daniel O’Connell’s,” Denis averred he had lost it forty years before; but his friends insisted on saying that he had found it again every time they met him and heard his mel- liMuous greeting. Each of these two remarkable men is a representative Irishman of the successful class; and while my beatified friend Beatty, hike St. Patrick, has built @ church and on it puta steeple, the sanctimonious Sadiler has flooded the country with sacred literature. The member of Parliament and the bookseller are as like as hen’s eggs, and each ia crossing over to the frosty side of life with a serene twinkle in the eye that, ail things considered, times have gone well with them fa this valley of tears. VIEWS OF THE BEATIFIED BEATTY, The bewildered Beatty, talking with that singu- larly pungent and sbarp-cut accent of the North grants who make up their minds to stay on this’ of Ireland which seems to bite away the vowels and leave the consonants quivering on the tongue, said to me, “My paper is not, ag I see intimated in the HERALD, an organ of the Dominion govern- ment. It is the organ of no party, no administra- tion, Whatever is good in party or government Tadvocate; whatever is bad I denounce. As for the HERALD’s remarks, we only make such response as the voice of the people would express. There is no feeling beyond the reflection of that which comes from the sentiments of our constitu- ents, A paper and its readers make @ common cause. We want no annexa- tion nor independence, neither do our subscribers. America is in no condition to ask us to enter her “Union, We are doing well as it is, We are de- veloping our resources, spreading out our lines of travel, rendering our poiitical machinery moro handy and serviceable, and have every reason to be thankful with our present condition, What can America give us in return for our allegiance ? Whatever may happen in the future, at present it is certain that Canada has no desire to change her relations, and whatever blowing the papers in New York or elsewhere may have to the contrary will have no effect on the situation, The HERALD, having a large circulation and influence at the Other side, may give the impression to the people of the Unitea States that we are fretting for con- Dection with them, Where is the use in spreading such a delusion ? If we wanted union with America Plenty of men and papers would give ex- Pression to the sentiment in the morping. As you hear nothing of the kind you may be sure the desire has no existence.” It being near the bewitching hour of night the benevolent Beatty took his departure. THE PROMINENT INDEPENDENCE ADVOCATES. The only man of prominence in this city who came out for independence was Hon. William Mc- Dougall; but it appears he dodged around among Parties, and now he may be found supporting the administration, They have a common trick here, ‘unless @ man is well known, of killing off a candi- date for office by saying he harbors annexation sen- timents, Sir A. T, Galt, of Montreal, isthe other Prominent advocate of independence, and, as everybody knows, Hon. Joseph Howe, of New Brunswick, is the leading spirit of the annexation company, Other views of Canada I shall obtain at the capital, Ottawa. A HISTORIC MEETING. {A Senators Wilson and Sumner Meet in a Broadway Stage and Have a Good Long Talk. Senator Wilson wasin the city yesterday. He called on all his old friends and then started to go down town. At Canal street he got into an omni- bus, A gentleman who sat next to the door as- isted him in getting in. Senator Wilson did not know at first who it was, when he suddenly heard a voice— “Hallo, Wilson !’? It was the gentleman who had helped him in. Senator Wilson looked at him, and, beaming ina smile, said :— “Hallo, Sumner!’ The two friends shook hands cordlally. “Well. I declare, this is a surprise,” said the next Vice President, “Well, old boy, how are you?” the eloquent champion of Horace Gresley asked, “1m very well, old boy; how are you ?” Senator Wilson returned, still shaking his friend’s hand. Senator Sumner said he was pretty well; Indeed he was very well. His health had greatly improved, “Yes, you look a good deal better,’ Senator Wil- son said, delighted; “the trip to Europe has done ou good, You look a great deal better, And now 11 me all about Europe."’ Senator Sumner told him everything—everything he had told the HERALD reporter the day before. At the City Hall the two friends got out and went to the Tribune office, where they had another good long talk. Both were delighted to see each other, an not a word relerring to politics or the Presidential election was spoken. When they had parted Senator Wilson went to the Astor House, where he met a reporter of the HERALD and partook of some beet broth and an apple pudding. Senator Wilson was in a very good humor and talked freely to the reporter. Among other things he said that the Senate had more men of ability now than it had at the times of Webster, Clay and Calhoun, Speaking of the future of the country, he said that Canada would Kad to the Umted States before this generation had passed away, that probably several of the Northern prov- inces of Mexico would “come to us, too,” and that “we would have a controlling influence in the West Indies.” ‘I think,’’ said Senator Wilson, “that this country Will yet contain a population larger than ‘that of Europe.” AMUSEMEN(S, Italian Opera—La Favorita, The chef @auore of Donizetti was given for the last time last evening. Madame Lucca’s name and fame will ever be identified with the last scene in this opera. In her pathetic appeal to Fernando for mercy, and the ecstatic outburst “E fio ver, io m’abbandono,” in which she is united again to the object of her love, the prima donna Jent an addi- tional charm to the highly dramatic jinale of the work. The beautiful aria, “Ah! mio Fernando,” revealed much tenderness and passion, and in the magnificent finale to the third act her voice rang out out with a wealth of tone that seemed to fill the entire building. In quantity as well as qual- ity of tone Madame Lucca’s voice is phenomenal, Next to her comes the Alfonso, Signor Sparapani, who by following our advice and not forcing his voice so as to sing sharp, improved his rendering of the réle immensely. He sang the aria, “Vien, Leonora,” and with Madame Lucca the duet, “Ah! Valto ardor,” and the grand aria, “A tanto amor,” in a style becoming a conscientious artist. Abrug- nedo was in better voice than usual, and he gave “Spirito gentil” with a Brignoli-like degree of sweetness and expression; but his voice is so un- certain in tone and power that he always leaves the disagreeable impression that even after his best efforts he has barely escaped breaking down. It is an unbalanced voice, that cannot be de- pended upon, and the artist betrays in his actions on the stage an irresolution and want of confidence generally iatal tosuccess. In the finalduethe is so completely overshadowed by Madame Lucca that it might be calied a solo instead of a duet. M. Coulon did not reach the standard of his first essay in the rdle of Balthazar. His voice was tremulous and uncertaiu. Here we must exclaim against the brass instruments of the orchestra that accompanied his denunciation of the King in the second act. They disregarded the baton of Mr. Maretzek during the greater part of the scene and only his firmness kept them from introducing chaos. This evening there will be a grand Thanks- giving performance, the first part being a concert and the second consisting of acts from the operas of “Lucrezia Borgia” and “Crispino.” Masical and Theatrical Notes. The Brooklyn Philharmonic Society gives its first concert on Saturday evening. Though only half as old as the New York Society, the Brooklyn Philhar- monic ig very ambitious to equal its elder sister, and is doing some very good work. Niblo's did not open last night, as was expected, and is not to be opened tillSaturday, The work of furnishing the house, though pushed forward with great vigor, has been found too immense to allow “Leo and Lotus” to be produced asearly as the impatience of the managers and the public desired, On Sunday last Mrs. James A. Oates was married in St. Louis to Tracy W. Titus, her business man- ager. The ceremony took place in the parlor of the Southern Hotel, in the presence of Mrs. Vates’ theatrical company, @ number of invited guests, including the local editorial fraternity, and the bride’s mother, from Kentucky, The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Berkely, of the Episcopal Church, and the bride was given away by Mr. Jones, the treasurer of Debar's Opera House, where Mra, Oates has been playing. Mrs, Oates was particularly happy in being married in the presence of the “local editorial fraternity,” and it is to be hoped the brotherhood was equally well pleased, THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. This admirable collection of paintings at present on exhibition at the Academy of Design wiil be scattered over the country in a few days, and in order to allow the public the advantage of seeing it the Academy will be open to-day and this eyen- ing, Asaunter through the gallery is a small art education, a8 it will enable any one interested in art to make a close acquaintance with nearly all the prominent artists of Kurope, They are repre- sented more completely than is usual, and the visitor has an opportunity not alone of comparing them with one another, but even with themselves. This feature, even more than the onusual high average merits of the works, lends the greut attraction to the collection, | tabulations of the census returns, covering a de- | WASHINGTON. Summary of Topies Discussed in the President’s Message. ESSENCE OF DEPARTMENTAL WISDOM. The Rehabilitation of American Ocean Com- merece and What is Recommended, SECRETARY ROBESON’S SUBSIDY SCHEMES. The American Educational Sys- tem Approved Abroad. Estimated Receipts. from In- ternal Revenue. Renewal of the Mexican Joint Commission Treaty for the Settlement of Claims. USURIOUS BANKS TO BE LOOKED AFTER. Pe The Workingmen’s National Council—A Politi- cal Savant on a Tour of Inspection—Tur- key-Day Eve at the Capital—The Hydro- graphic Office and the Arctic Regions, Wasnineron, Noy. 27, 1872, Summary of the Topics of the President's Message—Essence of Departmental Ree- ommendations, The following is understood to be @ correct sum- mary of the topics of the President’s Message, the subjects being herein grouped according to the several executive departments to which they per- tain:—Under the head of Foreign Relations are relerences to the successful result of the Geneva arbitration and the necessity of early legisla- tion to give effect to several articles of the Treaty of Washington, and for the disposition of the $15,500,000 to be paid by Great Britain in satisfaction of the Alabama claims. Sat- isfaction is expressed at the ending of the dispute ; about the posseasion of San Juan Isiand, through | the arbitration of the Emperor William. Mention | 1s made of the organization and progress of a joint commission to run and mark the boundary line be- tween the United States and British North America, Regret is expressed, in brief terms, at the continuance of a desultory thongh desolating civil war in the island of Cuba and hopes are repeated that it may not be of much longer duration, The delay of the Spanish Ameri- | can Claims Commission, organized under a treaty with Spain for the settlement of American claims, arising out of the Cuban insurrection, is alluded to as being beyond the control of either government and the belief entertained that —rat- isfactory progress will now be made with such claims. Therelease of Dr, Houard on the demand of this government claims a friendly word in commendation of the good disposition of the Spanish government in the midst of difficulties, The restoration of internal prosperity and good order in France under a republican form of govern- ment is noticed as encouraging to the friends of republican government everywhere, The approaching international exhibition at Vienna is commended to Congress as a fit- ting object for a generous appropriation in aid of the display of American art and industry, amd the sending over of Amer- ican is to study and transplant to | this country such inventive ideas as are to be gathered in a reunion of the industries of all civil- ized nations. The visit of the Japanese Embassy is referred to as giving promise of the extension of the liberal foreign policy upon which that country has entered in the past few years, and in this connection the recommendation 1s renewed that Congress shall provide for the education of @ suflictont number of American youths as in- terpreters at our legations and consulates in China and Japan. Im treating of Mexico the Presi- dent notices with satisfaction the improved pros- pects of that country under a new administration ofits affairs, and the apparent submission ofall Classes to law and order; mentions the successful negotiation of a treaty extending the term of the Joint Commission to settle the claims of the citi- zens of each republic upon the other, and calls | attention to the report of the United States Com- | mission of Inquiry into the state of the Rio Grande | border, as exhibiting a situation of gravity requir- | ing the best efforts of both governments to sup- press. In relation to financial and commercial affairs, the rrosident alludes to the gratilying re- auctions of the public debt and the interest burden, | as exhibited in the report of the Secretary | of the ‘Treasury; asks careful considera- | tion of the Secretary's recommendations | in relation to disposing of the funding | Joan authorized by law; approves the wise tariff | reductions of the last session; reports the steps { taken in execution of the law requiring retrench- | meut in the expense of collecting internal revenue; speaks impressively of the necessity of restoring the prosperity of American shipbuilding and the carrying trade, and suggests how they may be in part restored; condemns the speculative opera- tions in the gold and currency of the country, as bringing paralysis and loss upon legitimate trade and industry, and defends the | measures taken by the government for the relief of | the business interest. Referring to military affairs, he pays @ graceful tribute to the character and ser- vices of tle late General Meade, and recommends, as in his last Message, that the staff corps of the army, in which all promotions and appointments were stopped by the law of 1869, be now re-estab- lished on a footing commensurate with the re- duced necessities of the service. The decay of the Navy is pointed out, and the several recommendations of the Secretary of the Navy, including the building of small cruisers, the | use of compound warine engines and other sug- gestionsare approved. The advantage of appoint- ing officers above the grade of captain by selection instead of seniority alone is reasserted. With refer- ence to matters pertaining to the Interior De- partment the President reasserts, substan- tially, his lately published views on the Indian policy, and promises its continuance with such modifications as experience or exigency may re- quire, The astonishing increase in population, wealth, industry and education, as attested by the cade nearly half consumed by a great war, is pointed out as a subject for national pride and gratitude, and the suggestions of the Com- | missioner for @ closer and more frequent | enumeration of the subject matters of | @ census approved. The appropriation of the proceeds of the sales of public lands to the fur- therance of education is again suggested and the benefits of the bureau established at Washington to the cause of education asserted, The agricultural interests of the country receive notice in a mention ofthe operations of the agricultural bureau, The Project of establishing a telegraph service in con- nection with the postal system is strongly recommended, and the careful atten- fon of Congress invited to the Postmaster General's views in relation to re-establishing and enlarging of the Ocean Mail service under our own flag, and abolishing or restricting the franking system. The President makes no direct recom- mendation on the question of amnesty, but reaches the subject indirectly by suggesting that if amnesty be extended to those excluded from the provisions Of the late bill it be upon individual application es 3 and upon condition of the applicant taking | ctatms for two years from next February was an oath to support and defend henceforth the constitution of the United States, He ex- Presses the belief that the disorders which have marked the history of some of the States formerly in rebellion have virtually disappeared, and that the quiet enjoyment of political rights is assured to the people everywhere. ‘The election laws are mentioned as having been fully tested and proved emcacious in the late elec- tions, and allusion 1s made to the vindication of re- publican institutions in the peaceful end, at the ballot box, of an energetic political campaign, extending over several months, The miscellaneous topics of the Message embrace a reference to the Hoston fire; the President's well-known views of civil ser- vice reform; recommendations for an increase of the salaries of various government oficers; for the passage of the bill creating a labor commission ; for the protection of immigrants afloat and wiille on the way to their destination by national au- thority; for stricter legislation to secure the safety of passengers and crews im seagoing steamers, and for government aid to the approaching centennial exhibition at Philadelphia, The Rehabilitation of American Occan Commerce—Plans and Recommenda- tions of the Sceretarics—Mr, Robeson’s Scheme. There were three sets of recommendations made last session, from the Secretaries of the ‘Treasury and Navy and the Postmaster General, relative to to the rehabilitation of American ocean commerce and carrying trade, all of which, in perhaps slightly modified torms, will be renewed in their forthcoming reports. The Postmaster General concerns himself with the mail facilities, and proposes to give such payments for ocean service as will stimulate the use of American capital in that direction. He is understood to have always been favorable to the allowing of lines like the Williams & Guion and White Star (said to be largely owned by Americans) to obtain American registers and sail under the fag there- after, The increased subsidy to the Pa- cific mail was endorsed by Mr, Creswell, and itis understood he will recommend an increase for the Brayil line, and suggests that one to Mexico, to Australia and one at least to Europe should be subsidized so as to make a successful be- ginning. The Secretary of the Treasury, to whose plan in the main the President leans, would es- tablish Commissioners of Navigation aad Com- merce, composed of the Secretary of the ‘lreasury, Secretaries of War and Navy and Postmaster Gen- eral, to make regulations and keep a supervision over maritime interests, By the proposition of Mr. Boutwell, now pending before te House in a somewhat modified form, a general system ot graduated bounties, designed to encourage the con- struction apd employment of American ships, es- pecially of iron material, was proposed, to be divided over a stated period, so that the bounty for a 3,000-ton iron steamer, regularly employed for five years, would be $10 per ton, the total being the difference between the cost of such a ship on the Clyde and on the Delaware. Vessels of other classes would get less, until the lowest amount would be $3 per ton. It was proposed to raise this bounty from a special fund, which would cause the same to be no real Joss to the Treasury. Secretary Robesou's plan was largely the result of the vicws presentea by John Roach; Mr, Thompson, of Chester, and others interested in enriching themselves at gov- ernment expense, who claim that the admission of free ships will not aid our carrying trade, and that mere mail subsidies would not set or maintain an ocean steam marine afloat against the great capital and other interests involved In the European lines, Mr. Robeson proposes, in reality, to make of his proposed postal steam marine the basis of the new navy he wishes to create—swift cruisers for the high seas, heavy guns on floating armored batteries and the tor- pedo system for coast and harbor defence, The cruisers, Mr, Robeson argues, can be used under proper regulation as mail steamers, and to that end private capital can be encouraged to invest in this direction, by material aid, which can be with- drawn from the navy estimates proper, In other words, the: > can be spent in aiding the con- struction of swift iron steamers, to be used for postal purposes in time of peace and as cruisers in time of war, a certain proportion of the navy appropriations. ‘he vessels are to be built by private parties, under such plans as the department may determine to render them available for its purposes. ‘This is Mr. Robeson’s method of obtaining the needtul, and he also outlined a system of mai! steamship service, which includes thirteen principal line and six branch routes—five between Atlantic and Eu- ropean ports, three to and from Central and South American ports and the balance on the Pacific—to connect in a network of communication with San Francisco, China, Japan, the East Indies, the prin- cipal islands of the Indian Archipelag: nd the Australian ports, In some way these general ideas and plans are to be revived. Usurious Banks to be Called to Account. The Comptroller of the Currency, in his report, calls upon Congress for an interpretation of the law imposing penalties upon the banks for taking usurious interest. Since the report has been made, it has been ascertained that the First National Bank of Charlotte, N. C., Is one of the banks against which specific charges have been made. A peti- tion has been filed, accompanied with an atfidavit of the facts in the case, praying the Comprrolier to institute proceedings to forfeit the charter of the bank. The Comptroller called upon the Solici- tor of the Treasury for an opinion, and received one that taking usurious interest was a forfeiture of the charter. The Comptrolier placed the papers in the hands of the Committee on Banke aud Banking, where they now remain. Our School System Adopted in Sweden, Spain, South America and Japan. Sefior Domingo Toro, of Santiago, Chile, who is vis- iting the United States on some business connected with the municipality of that, the largest city in the Republic, visited the Bureau of Education to make inquiries relative to our school and other educational matters. In conversation with Com- missioner Eaton Sefior Toro, who is the grandson of the first President of Chile, gave an interesting account of school progress in Santiago. The Sefor is himself an active member of the “Primary School Society,” an association whose scope is somewhat like that of a society which formerly ex- isted in New York city, and was the fore- Trapner of its present comprehensive school system. The Santiago society is largely composed of young men who, having been educated at the “National Institute”. the German gymnasium type—have become quite liberalized, The Primary School Society have es- tablished a system of schools which are doing much good, in which the education is free and secular. The municipality also maintain primary schools, which, however, are not secular in character, ‘The Republic only maintains or aids the second- ary schools, and furnished Santiago a certain an- nual amount, which is expended for that purpose. ‘The Protestant churches, six in number, also main- tain free schools, and the Jesuits do the same. The society schools, with which Sefior Toro 1s identified, are growing in usefulness and popularity. He states that the reports of our Bureau have been received in Chile, and extracts thereof transiated into Spanish. The Commissioner has recently had a curious illustration in a roundabout way of the in- terest the Bureau documents arouse. General An- drews, our Minister to Sweden, wrote and sent here an interesting paper on the school syatem there. This was published quite recently. Gen- eral Andrews was shown & translation thereof into Spanish which was published in an Argentine (South American) paper. The government of Japan has, the Commissioner learns, «appropriated $2,000,000 for the establishment of primary scliools there, Renewal of the Mexican Joint Claims Treaty. Mr. Mariscal, Mexican Minister to this country, and Mr. Nelson, our Minister to Mexico, had a long interview to-day with Secretary Fish at the State Department in relation to affairs between our- selves and Mexico, The meeting was satisfactory to all concerned, and before it ended the treaty ne- gotiated by the Secretary with the Mexican Min- ister for the extension of the Joint Commission on | superior school of | | signed, seate-! and delivered. Minister Netson is a warm friend and admirer of President Lerdo de Tejada and believes that his administration, both in promise and performance, will realize our just expectations. He left for New York to-night. The earlier pages of the report of our Commissian on the border disturbances were delivered to the Sec- retary to-day in order that the printing of the document for Congress may begin. A Political Suvant on a Tour of 1 a The President received to-day, among other callers, Mr. Van Viiet, a subject of the Netherlands, resident in Java, who is a member of the French Institute and the Royal Society of Madrid, This gentleman, who is a political savant, is on a tour throughout the United States, and re~ turns home by way of Havana, the Sandwich Islands, China and Japan, to reduce and systema- tize the results of his observations in the countriea Visited, Turkey-Day Eve. Comparatively little business was transacted in’ the public departments to-day, the greater part of the clerks and other employés having ceased work At noon to prepare for Thanksgiving. A special’ order was issued by Secretary Boutwell giving those employed in his department leave to retire at that honr. The United States Hydrographic OMice and the Arctic Regions, The United States Hydrographic oMce, under’ Captain Wyman, continues to make accessible to’ Americans and Englishmen the publicationa of other nations on the expeditions to the Arctic regions. The large volume discussed in the Geo-, graphical Mittheilungen of 1872, page 155, is being followed by supplements containing the later ac-; counts, The second contains a minute chart of. the European Arctic Ocean, which combines, in a very practical manner, all explorations up to 1870, and deep sea soundings in relation to currents and, magnetic observations, The Hon. Working Man. The second meeting of the Mechanic and Work- ingmen’s National Council was held here last night. All the trade and labor interests were repre- sented. The Council effected a permanent organi-' zation, and clected N. E. Ridstone, President; George Lovelace and R. H, Merrill, Vice Presidents for the ensuing year, and 0, C. Boteler, Secretary. ‘The Council will convene every two weeks; dele- gates from all mechanical and labor associationa throughout the United States will be admitted to seats and entitled to hold them until succeeded by other delegates; and thus a continued session, for’ the consideration of the interests of mechanicsand working people will be secured, ‘The «ction of the Council thus tar promises good resulta, Estimated Receipts from Internal Revew mue. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue esti- mates tle receipts of internal taxation for the year ending with June next at $103,000,000, of which $33,000,000 will be derived from tobacco, $51,000,000 from spirits, $9,000,000 from fermented liquors, $8,000,000 from matches and bankers? checks, and the rest from miscellaneous sources, He makes noimportant suggestions in his report, having Included them all in his bill to reorganize the Internal Revenue service. This bill has the approval of all the former Commissioners who have been consulted, most of the Supervisors of Internal Revenue and the Committee of Ways and Means, Treasury Balances. The following were the balances in the Treasury at the close of business to-day:—Currency, $7,522,115 84; coin, $72,390,549 20; including coin certificates, $20,848,000; special deposit of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of deposit, $23,470,000. WEATHER REPORT. OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, GTON, D, C., Nov. M. Synopsis sor he Past Twenty-four Hours, ‘The barometer has risen on the Lower Lakes and over the Eastern and Middle States, with clear weather and Westerly to northerly winds; from the Ohio Valley southward to the Gulf and South Atlantic Coasts, northerly and northeasterly winds, with partly cloudy weather; in the Northwest, over the Upper Lakes, and thence tu the Ohio Valley and Missourt, southerly and westerly winds, with generally clearing and clear weather, Probabilities, For the Lower Lakes, and thence over the New England and the Middle States northerly to west- erly winds, increased pressure and clear weather; for Tennessee, the Gulf and the South Atlantic States northerly winds, veering to northeasterly, with paxtly cloudy and clearing weather; in the Northwest and thence to the Lower and Middle Wark DEPARTMENT, OrrIe Ww. . ; Ohio Valley and Michigan southwesterly winds, diminishing pressures and partly cloudy and warmer weather, The Weather in This City * ‘The following record will show the n temperature for the past twenty-fo parison with the corresponding day indicated by the thermometer at J macy, HERALD Building: 1871, 18% PIGEON SHOOTING IN TRENTON, Two matches came off at Greensburg, on tie Bel- | videre Railroad line, four miles outside of ‘Trenton, yesterday, and resulted in Messrs. Holt and Rob- inson being declared the winners, The first match was warmly contested, and some good shvoting was made by both contestants, This is the sec- ond time for Mr. Holt to defeat Mr. Spittle. The latter won 4a victory last week at Phila- delphia over Mr. Holt, which was owing, as already reported in the HERALD, to an accident which happened to the Trentonian when taking his second last siot, There was a large crowd of the admirers of the trigger present, and the day's amusement terminated in a highly satisfactory manner to all, ‘The following is @ summary :— Purse $200—1}, ounce shot, au H trap, 21 birds, 21 yards rise, 80 yards boundary, Holt—1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1% 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0.—Killed, 133 missed, J;-total, 22, Spittle—1, 1, 1, 4, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0 1, 1,1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1.—Killed, 17; missed, 4; total, 21. The second match was between Messrs, Robin- son and Youug, residents of Trenton, Both con- testants did very well for tyros, and after a very nice contest Mr. Robinson succeeded in taking the laurels. Annexed is the suimmary :— Purse $100—1 ounce shot, an H trap, 21 birds, 21 yards rise, 80 yards boundary. Robinson—0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2y Ty 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, L—Kill 12; misse total, 0, 0, 1, 0 Young—1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, d, 11;'missed, '10} total, 21. 1, 0, 0, 1, Le— BAD ROADS AT PORT WASHINGTON. 1,1, d, | ToTHe EpiTor or THE HERALD:— The Kingsbridge road is in a fearfal condition owing to the neglect of the Commissioners ap- pointed to widen it. These men have been prom. ising from day to day for almost two years to make their report of awards and assessments, but they have not so far kept their word. What is the rea son’ Why this delay’ The Corporation Counsel should ap ee fie Aes ord soi Sppoiniess ig do their duty, ¢ HERALD oblige us iv stirring them up? There will soon be @ series of indignation meetings unless the Ge ra take@ hint from == ONE OF THE SCHrEReus A BLOODY AFFRAY IN MAINE PORTLAND, Nov. 2%, 1872, In Cornish, Me., on Saturday last, two young’ men, named Daniel French and William Day, hada quarrel with a Rugsiey family, during which Levi Rugsley, the old man, aged seventy-three, had his skull fractured with @ crowbar, and he wili prot- ably die. His daughter was knocked down, and French was seriously injured by Rugsley’s son with amapure fork, French and Day were bound over in whe sum 01 $1,500, THE BOSTON CALAMITY, Nine Bodies Recovered from the Ruins of the Burnt District. Bostos, Nov. 27, 1872, Nine bodies ave been recovered from the raing of the fire, and five of them tdentified. Ninetee: bodies supposed to be buried ia the ruins are sti mconti Harvard College tune no Contributions to the ‘ 7 AMOUUE LO $105,000,