The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THEATRE COMIOQUVE, No: 514 Broadway.—Sramanps; on, Tux Lone Stan oF Cuns. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pastommms or Wiit o ras Wisr. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteeath street, near Third AV. —FERNANDE. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Bighth av.—Rovouing Iz, “s - x1 NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, way.—ALiE, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bepoawar corner Thirtieth st — Guanes at New Yous ix 1°43 Afternoon and Eveuing, TH and 7% Broad. ATHENEUM, No. £85 Broadway.—Gaanp Vanier Ew. ‘TERTAINMENT, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ouston —LEo B strects.. an OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Hourry Duxrrr. UNION Eroadway WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip Gangicn. BOOTH'S THEATRE, nty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Ticksr or Leave Max. STEINWAY W. Fourteenth street.—Betiew's ALL, re SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between ‘and Fourth av.—Owx Munpaxp Yeats OLD. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ALIZE, BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner 6th av:—Nxoro Mixstaetsy, Eccentuicity, 4c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanity EXTeRTainmxnt. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Froadway.—Eruioriay Mixsraxist, $c." m NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— foKce AND Arr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, Feb. 21, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “GUIZOT ON FRANCE AND AMERICA! ARE RE- PUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS A FAILURE? WHAT FRANCE REALLY NEEDS’’—EDI- TORIAL LEADER—S1xTH PaGE. THE PACIFIC SLOPE REBELLION! SPECIAL DETAILS! THE SETTLERS AND THE PEACE “BRAVES!” THE FIGHTING AMONG THE ROCKS! GENERAL GILLEM’S POSI- TION AND INTENTIUNS—FourtH PaGE. ACOURATE MAP OF THE LAVA-BED BATTLEFIELD—Fourtu PaGg. BLEEDING ARKANSAS! THE POPE COUNTY FEUDS! CRUEL WORK OF DASTARDS! SHERIFF DODSON AND A MILITIA CAP- TAIN ASSASSINATED—SEVENTH PaGE. CRUSHING OUT POLYGAMY! THE MORMON QUILL-DRIVERS GROWING BLOODTHIRSTY ! LITTLE PHIL AND SEVERAL BRIGADES DESIRED TO “COME ON!—SEVENTH Pas. A CAFE IN SMYRNA SUDDENLY SINKS INTO THE GULF! TWO HUNDRED PERSONS PERISH—SEVENTH PAGE. PERSIA ATTEMPTS TO STEAL A MARCH IN CENTRAL ASIA! THE MOVEMENT Es- TOPPED—SEVENTH Pas. PEACE WITH SAVAGES! GENERAL CANBY AND THE COMMISSIONERS TRYING TO INTER- VIEW CAPTAIN JACK! SQUAWS AS AMBAS- SADORS—SEVENTH PaGE, i NARROW ESCAPE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT! AN IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION INTRO- DUCED IN THE ROUSE! WILD EXCITE- MENT! YEAS, 105! NAYS, 109—THIRD Page. MORRILL'S MOBILIER COMMITTEE LOOKING INTO THE RECORDS OF “CIRISTIAN STATESMEN!" DAMNATORY EVIDENCE AGAINST HARLAN AND PATTERSON— TentH Page. OUR PLAGUE-STRICKEN CAPITOL! DOCTOR WILSON USING HIS ART! MOBILIER EM- PIRICISM! DOCTOR SWANN THINKS THE INFECTION FATAL—Firts Pace, AN “HONORABLE” OF Dig! RY IMPLI- CATED IN THE PREVAYLING eotnerion SUDGE SHERMAN’S LETTERS TO MR. LOCK- <<< WOOD—FirTa Pace. SPAIN! AMERICAN MAGNANIMITY TO THE NEW REPUBLIC! A GRAND POPULAR CELEBRATION! RUMORED OUTBREAKS— SEVENTH PacE. DETERMINED LEGISLATIVE STRUGGLES OVER TUE CHARTER! THE POWER OF APPOINT- MENT AND RETENTION OF THE ASSISTANT ALDERMEN THE BONES OF CONTENTION— THIRD PaGE. SPECIAL NEWS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPI- TAL—MARINE NEWS—TeytH Pack. DOMINICAN APPEAL TO ARMS AGAINST THE SAMANA CESSION! ANOTHER HAYTIAN REVOLUTION—THE SPANISH REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED IN CUBA—SgvENTH Page. EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS—LATE NEWS DE- SPATCHES—SEVENTE PAGE. THE LOUISIANA ANARCHY! SENATOR MOR- TON'S LUCID EXPOSITION! LOCAL SELF- GOVERNMENT THE KEYSTONE IN THE ARCH OF OUR LIBERTIES! OTHER SENA- TORS DISAGREE—Firth Pace. SCANNELL’'S DEFENCE BEGUN! SHARP PRAC- TICE IN REAL ESTATE! IMPORTANT RAILROAD DECISION! GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS—EicuTH Paces. aN Tax Seantsh Rerveuic Proc.aimep 1N Cupa.—The accomplishment of a republican form of government in Spain hag béefi pub- licly announced to the people of Cuba. A portion of the press appeals to the population of all classes, especially to the insurgents, to become, conciliated towards the parent State under the new order of affairs. It appears as if the island population is pleased with the change, although rather undemonstrative in its affirmation of the fact. . The sailors of the United States steamer Worcester were landed at Havana for the purpose of affording aid for the extinguishment of a fire. They worked in the palace yard, their ready and gallant action eliciting the admiration of the spectators, Assassinations mv ARKANSAS appear to be inseparable from politics. On Wednesday last the case of Dodson and Fowler came up in the County Court of Pope county. Dod- son had been declared Sheriff of the county by @ commission from Governor Hadley, issued immediately after the last election. Fowler claimed the office by election also, and took the case to the courts, where the decision was against him. A captain of militia who had given evidence in the case was hustled out of the Court after the decision was rendered and shot dead. Dodson was also tracked by a desperado to Perry Station and shot as he was entering a train for Little Rock. This is the reign of order and security so much boasted of revently by certain political schemera, @utset om France and Amertca—Are | monarchy than she is now. Nor do wo think Repablicam Institutions a Vailare!— | France would be. M. What France Really Needs. dreads # repub- lic because he sees in it, inevitably, the return In the remarkable interview with tho ven- | of the Commune, Woe insist that the causes erable and illustrious Guizot, published in the | of the Cummune lie deeper than any form of Henatp of yesterday, there were some thoughts | government. Wo never see phenomena of that which should not be dismissed without further | 24ture wantonly, spontaneously breaking out consideration. When » man of the years and wisdom of Guizot addresses to the American people the observations of nearly ninety years as criticism upon republican forms of gov- among civilized nations. When tho emoke rises from Vesuvius and darkens the sky we may surely expect the flames and the stroams of molten lava. We know there are fire and ernment we should weigh well what he says. | death in the mountain, and that they must long, long time to be allotted to one man, ex-Minister of France. alone are the chosen race of the world—that and that they have finally laws that cannot be improved. There is no surer sign of moral decay than to feel that there is noroom for improvement, The essence of all true life, physical and moral, ia growth. This is true of nations as well as men; and nations as well as men should re- member the Divine admonition, that he who mourned over the motes in his neighbors’ eyes should think well of the beams in his own. We note the evils of much of the gov- ernment in France. We have seen that nation, in the period of one man’s life, pass through every phase of national glory and shame. We, in America, have moved on— steady, resistless, flowing like the broadly- sweeping waves that peacefully roll over the wide Pacific—from 1776 to 1873—from a colony of four millions to an empire of forty. We have never receded. We had two or three stormy periods—English, Mexican, Secession wars—just as storms now and then | ruffle the Pacific; but the national wave rolled on, and still seeks broader seas. Dur- ing this time we have seen France pass from the Reign of Terror to the Empire, from the Empire to the Restoration and down to the Commune—in other words, from the Reign of Terror to the Reign of Atrocity and Despnir. We look upon its history and the eye becomes pained and the mind confused, as when we look upon lightning flashes. And yet France is a mighty nation. In literature, war, art, science, social and domestic economy, what have we, incomparable Americans that we are, done to excel France? In war she has given us Napoleon; in literature Pascal, Vol- taire and Hugo; in art we need not go beyond Doré; in science Descartes and La Place; ia social and domestic economy the art of living in comfort on half a dollara day. We criti- cise French extravagance, forgetting that the French people are the thriftiest and perhaps the wealthiest in the world. We mourn their want of patriotism, and forget that no people emigrate so little as the French, and that in one day they subscribed several hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the invader from the soil. Why is it, thon, that France should be so unfortunate in its goverament? M. Guizot says he sees no established future but in a constitutional monarchy, and adds that he is sorry it was impossible to have founded such monarchy in America at the conclusion of the War of Independence. “‘I desire,” he says to our correspondent, ‘to see France ruled by the most enlightened of her sons. For this reason | Iam not a republican, for I fear that in a | republic the noisiest, and not the most enlightened, men would govern France." The venerable statesman was too courteous to say as much to an American journalist, but no | doubt his thought was that in America noisy men rule and men of enlightenment are never called to power. Is this true? ‘How fre- quently we are told that we never have states- men in office—that our Clays, our Websters, our Calhouns, our Sewards are never elected to the Presidency! During the last cam- | paign nothing was more commonly said | than that one party had nominated a boor as its candidate and the other a dishonest, irre- sponsible visionary. Yet when we come to answer the question intimated by M. Guizot another is suggested. Under a monarchy what kind of men governa people? Take the Presidents of the United States—the eighteen gentlemen elected to fill that office since the foundation of the Republic. Of this number five, at least, gained a world wide fame out- side of their office, and would have had as conspicuous a place in our history had they never held the Chief Magistracy. There are no three names that stand higher among the famous men of the age than Washington, Jef- ferson and Lincoln. They gertainly gre what M. Guizot would call ‘the most enlightened’ citizens of the State, and a government cannot be radically bad that will elect such men by the popular vote. Let us go further! Take England, the model constitutional monarchy, and look at her rulers from James I. to Wil- liam IV.—twelve, including Cromwell. There are but two in the list who are worthy of re- spect, and one of these was an English squire who rose to supreme command, and the other | | a foreign prince from Holland who expelled | the rightful king. The worst President that | ever sat in our executive chair was more able, | more reputable and more thoroughly con- scientious as a Chief Magistrate than any in | this list of kings, while men of the character of Charles II. or George IV. would never by | any chance have held supreme power in the United States. It may be said, however, that | these kings chose ‘‘enlightened men” as their | Ministers and so ruled the country. We have only to add that while we have never seen men like Edmund Burke or Cobden in the councils of constitutional monarchs, we have seen men like Walpole, the Pel- hams, Castlereagh and Palmerston, and, with the exception of the elder Pitt, Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Gladstone, we cannot recall any man of the highest qualities of character and genius—what Gmizot would call ‘the most enlightened’—who has been Prime Minister | better spirit, the evils which brought the His life verges upon ® century. This is a | come. So when we seo in a country like France 8 painful, terror-inspiring, sad exhibition like But in a nation’s history » century is but» | the Commune we are bound to think that step. We can best improve our institutions | there is that in the social and moral condition and reach that perfectness of government of the people that menaces and will ever con- which we trust in time to have by carefully | tinue to menace the world’s peace until the weighing the objections and criticiams made | C®use is removed. No mere form of govern- upon it by eminent mon of other nations. ment will avoid this. We had 4 constitutional And no man now living among tho dis- monarchy with M. Guizot himself, and he is tinguished men of these times can speak with | Certainly a most “enlightened” man, and it « higher claim to respect than the venerable ended in riots and revolution—almost a Com- mune. Wo had that superb Second Empire, We cast aside as unworthy of any genuine | 84ady with all kinds of imperial glory, and people that feeling of complacency which | immediately after the Commune. No one is leads Americans so often to assume that they | More responsible for the Commune than Na- poleon III. He should have ruled his France their government is the most perfect—that | °° that the Commune would be impossible. they are free from the superstitions and tyran- You cannot prevent the eruptions of Vesuvius nies and social miseries of the older nations, by boarding over the crater. The longer you reached a system of | keep it covered the greater will be tho erup- tion, the more desolating and_ widespread the ruin, You may put a standing army ‘and a constitutional king and the Church and all ‘the enlightened men” on the top of the political crater in France, but it will break out somo day or other unless the cause is removed. A govern- ment, be it republican or monarchical, owes something more to the people than order. When a people are truly happy and all rights are respected, when labor is generously re- warded and the workingman sees something more in his lifo than four francs a day and beggary in his old age; when a government recognizes that St. Antoine has rights as sacred as St. Germain; when ignorance is madea crime and education a duty and the way to honor; when kings cannot wantonly in an jour send a half millica of bright eyed, strong-limbed men to cut the throats of another half million, carrying desolation and death to a million of homes, then we shall believe there is an end of these awful trag- edies like the Commune. Do these fiends burn libraries, then teach them to read. Do they destroy property, then give them a chance to acquire it. Make the return of the Commune impossible by eradicating the causes that led to it. Our criticism upon M. Guizot is this: — That he would board over the crater in France and put a king on it, when his duty is to seo what causes the internal convulsions and destroy the cause. Hoe does not see that in France there are no political questions to be compared for a moment to those terrible social questions which, indeed, under- lie all government and forms of gov- ernment. We have escaped them here because wo have land in abundance and are free from those three evils of the older nations—a standing army, an aris- tocracy and an Established Church. We have had periods of moral decay. We had slavery and Tammany and Erie, and Dishonor sitting in the seat of Justice, and statesmen who dared to discuss repudiation. We confess these sins with humility, and had we time could continue in a spirit of self-criticism and show the causes of this shame, and where in our own way we have erred as greatly as France. Let it suffice that the better spirit came in the end and the devils were cast out— that we destroyed slavery, overwhelmed Tam- many, reformed Erie, punished judicial dis- honor and made repudiation an infamy. We may sin again, but in the end the better spirit will rule. And in taking leave at this time of the venerable and illustrious statesman whose views have graced our columns, let us pray that he may live to see his own dear and beautiful France controlled by the same appalling disasters of 1870 utterly cured, and the still greater evils which flamed out in the Commune and its horrors patiently discovered and firmly destroyed, for this is the very duty of all Frenchmen who love Prance. When it is done it will be time to say whether she is worthy of a republic or still clings to a throne. The Case of Vice President Colfax, The Crédit Mobilier infamy presents no | more degrading chapter than that which re- cords the fall of Vice President Colfax. The | story of this unfortunate man presents not a | single point that can excite popular aym- | pathy. A low-priced corraptionist, he has | added falsehood to his other offences, and every step he bas taken has plunged him deeper into the mire. He has been bought at | acheap rate, and has sought to escape detec. | tion by falsehoods meaner than his former | prostitution. The House of Representatives | cannot and dare not screen him. The resolu. | tog for hig impeachment popown.t yestortay by Fernando Wood should bave been passed without a dissenting voice, cates aa who are his partners in crime should im de- | cency have refrained from voting on the ques- tion one way or the other, It was rejected, | but by a vote significantly clos ant a Feat. lution was adopted directing the Judiciary Committee to réport whether there is sufficient in the evidence taken before the Intesti- gating Committee to warrant the umpeach- ment of the Vice President To be sure, Bingham, with his twenty Crédit Mobilice shares and bis ten thousand dollars im div.- dends, is chairman of that commuttes, bat General Butler is ite senior member after the chairman, and we look to him for « proper re- port on the resolution. CoKax mast be impeached. The country demands it. No false pretence that bis term is about to expire and that the resolution of impeachment will be inoperative must be allowed to sereen him from the disgrace aod punishment he merita. The penalty of in- capacity as well as of removal attaches to his crime, and hence it is believed by many that if the articles of impeachment should be found | during his term of office the ease could be | tried after the expiration of the term for the | enforcement of this penalty. But if Colfex were to retire half an hour afterwards the | resolutions of impeachment should be adopted | of England since it adopted the constitutional | form of monarchy. f Wo do not believe that America would be happier, more powerful or more respected as & by the House as a mark of their condemnation of his action. The ropublicam members, with the exception of General Butler and five others, at present rest under the stigma of shielding this unfaithful and degraded man, who has brought disgrace upon the second office in the United States. Let ussce whether they will dare to suffer their records to remain as yeaterday’s vote has loft them. The City Charter—The Politicians im a Comic Role. The State Assembly was busy yesterday with the New York city charter, and preceding the debate in the House our citizens were favored with another letter from Mayor Havemeyer, and another long dissertation on municipal government from the untiring place-hunters of the Committee of Seventy. At Albany the debate—if the stuff that comes to us from the State Capitol can be dignified by that title— was mainly confined to the democrata, whose eloquence was principally devoted to a defence of the Board of Assistant Aldermen now about to retire to private life. Butin all cases—with Mayor, democrats and committee—the burden of the song is the same, ‘Let us have a non- partisan government.’ The spectacle is cer- tainly a comical one. Each political Mr. Mer- ryman, as he turns a summersault into the municipal rings, shouts out the old cry, ‘‘Here we are again, in favor of non-partisan rule !’’ A democratic Assemblyman, who never voted against his party in hia life, thinks it very wrong that the city offices should be filled holly _ ith repub- licans, or wholly With democrats, “Mayor Havemeyer reiterates for the twentieth time that if the offices are not distributed by him- self in a non-partisan fashion the city must go tothe dogs. John Wheeler, who believes that a good man ought to be at the head of the Department of Public Works, and believes that he is a good man, insists that the city government must be non-partisan. So do his associates on the Committee of Seventy, and so do Green, Tilden, Tom Dunlap and all the other lights of the reformed democracy. Well, let us see how they propose to secure non-partisanship in the municipal government of the metropolis. First, by retaining the Board of Assistant Aldermen, a body dis- tinguished for its non-partisan character. Next, by giving all_the appointments under thd S2¥EPHiMnt absolutely to the Mayor. Of course in exercising this power Mayor Have- meyer would himself be strictly non-partisan. He would bestow half the offices, no doubt, upon a political party led by men who plot all day to cheat the people and gamble all night to cheat each other. But can he reckon on similar disinterested action on the part of future Executives? Suppose Fernando Wood should be again elected Mayor of New York, does any one believe that he would exer- cise the supreme power of appointment in a strictly ‘non-partisan’ spirit—that he would not prefer his own political friends for office to any other persons? Suppose Hugh Gardner, Thomas Murphy, John I. Daven- port or George Bliss, Jr., should, in the course of events, be chosen to the Chief Magistracy of the city, does any one believe that they would be ‘non-partisan’ in their appoint- ments? The ‘‘non-partisan’’ pretence is as much a fraud now as it was when it was set up during the campaign by the republicans, who are at present engaged .in securing the spoils of victory, and Messrs. Havemeyer, Green, Tilden, John Cochrane, Rufus Andrews, John Wheeler, Tom Dunlap and their friends know it to be a fraud when they utter the cry. Their object is to get hold of the city patron- age through the Mayor, just as the object of the republicans is to get hold of the city pat- ronage through the Board of Aldermen. So far as the spoils are concerned, it is matter of very little interest to the people of New York what party may secure them. There are good and bad men in both political organ- izations, and if the republican Board of Alder- men will give us honest, competent and vigorous officers as heads of departments, our citizens will be satisfied. Many of our most responsible and reputable business men belong to the republican party, and hence there will be no lack of material for desirable selections, There may, however, be room for improve- ment in some of the provisions of the charter as reported by the committee; and it would be well for the Mayor and the Committee of Seventy to devote their attention to these de- tails, instead of making a useless effort to secure a few city offices. We are not sure that the namber of Aldermen might not be in- creased to the advantage of the city, say from fifteen to twenty-two—and a provision inserted | requiring that one should be taken from each ward, and required to be a resident thereof. This change would satisfy many who are now opposed to the mode of appointment proposed by the charter. These are matters for the majority of the Legislature to consider seri- ously and maturely, for while the people are fully satisfied that the non-partisan cry is a fraud and a humbug, they nevertheless expect the dominant party to give them a good, honest charter, that will secure a fair repre- sentation to the voters of the city, and they will hold the republicans to accouptgpili'y {7 they fail to do 99. ee Spain—The Poltcy of the Republic. Im mony essential particulars Spain is doing well in the new circumstances in which she finds herself placed. On the part of the new | government there is an evident desire to con- ciliate. Aji factions are invited to come in and share the blessings of the Wopublic. It | is gratifying to know that, with the exception of the Carlist opposition somewhere in the North, the Spanish people, with wonderful unanimity, are going in for the Republic. On the 15th inst. a grand republican demon- stration was made at Saragossa. Saragossa is memorable in modern history for its two famous sieges im 1808, during which the heroic spirit of the Spanish race was nobly revealed. Saragossa never can, never will, forget that straggle ; and the memory of the beroie effort and the almost unparalleled sac- rifce is dear to Spain. On the 15th of the present month the city, which, of course, was held by the monarchists, was formally handed over into the bands of the republicans. The political prisoners wore released; the officers of the artillery resigned their posi- tions and surrendered their batteries; the red flag was displiyed from the public buildings, and in the evening there was a general illumi. nation. It was a great day, sod one which NEW YORK HERALD, FRIWAY,- FEBRUARY 21, 1873,—-TRIPLE Spain is divided are to be distributed equally among the radicals and republicans. In their desire to conciliate it almost seems as if the Present government had gone too far. The republican governors are to have radical sec- retaries, and the radical governors are to have republican secretaries. Of course the whole arrangement is only temporary. Ina short time the people must decide who are to be their rulers and by whom the spoils of office are to be shared. For the present it is impos- siblo to refuse to admit that the present aspect of things is promising for the continuance of the Republic. The latestnews from Madrid informs us that the United States Minister has assured the Cabinet of the Republic that the Cuban question will not be pressed in a shape embarrassing to the new government. Sefior Castelar read to the National Assembly an official despatch from Washington con- gratulating the Spanish people on the ad- vent of the Republic and in welcome to the new form of administration. The Porto Rico Emancipation bill found an eloquent advocacy in the Parliament. The question of the Hohenzollern candidacy to a Spanish throne is being revived, it is alleged, by leading conservatives. Should this prove to be a fact the intelligence is important, perhaps as much so as any other news point of the Present despatches. Innotents ‘te: Doagtiesomemortaa and Memorandums. It has been the common impression that the present Congress of the United States is not lacking in shrewdness and worldly wisdom. Of late the people have not looked for the mas- siveintellect, high-toned principle and patriot- ism which in former years distinguished our national legislature. The war, while it ele- vated the nation, lowered the standard of our public men, and brought to the surface a dif- ferent class of lawmakers from that which ren- dered Washington attractive in former days. But the politicians who floated into power on the muddy waves of sectional strife have never been regarded as harmless innocents, ignorant of the wicked ways of the world, careless of their financial interests, and liable to be made the victims of designing knaves. Indeed, your modern legislator has generally received, credit for more than ordinary acuteness, and one would as soom have searched for honesty among the shaved heads of Sing Sing as for verdancy in the halls of Congress. The recent developments at. Washington will shake this popular belief in the shrewd- ness of our public men. Vice President Colfax, a keen Western lawyer and journalist, whose ingenious political speeches and adroit parliamentary tactics have seemed to mark him as a thorough man of the world, is proved to have been so careless of his personal inter- ests as to be forgetful of the purchase of stock, the reception of dividends and the receipt of thousand-dollar donations from a government contracter until his treacherous memory had been refreshed by Hoax Ames’ famous “‘mems’’ and goaded into activity by the necessity of self-defence. One thousand dollars appears to have been the not extravagant price of this smiling Harold Skimpole of political life, and the natural ease and indifference with which he bagged and forgot the profits of the Crédit Mobilier and the offerings of Nesbitt indicate the guilelessness of his unworldly nature, Kelley and Scofield, of Pennsylvania, have been popularly credited with that keen per- ception of their own interests common to the citizens of the Keystone State; yet the legal acumen of Judge Poland has discovered that they could buy shares of Oakes Ames on credit without being aware that Oakes Ames was buying them; receive enormous dividends on Crédit Mobilier stoek in bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad without ascertaining the connection between the two corporations, and accept bribes without knowing they were bribed. Massachusetts and Ohio politicians are not generally set down as deficient in acuteness in pecuniary transactions or as ver- dant in legislative resorts; yet Dawes, a very old political bird, Bingham, the keen and red- hot impeacher of Andrew Johnson, and Gar- field, whose experience in five Congresses might be supposed to have taught him some- thing, are declared by the Poland polishers of Congressional reputations to have proved them- selves as unsophisticated as children in money transactions and.as unfamiliar as babes with the well-worn tricks of the lobby. All these simple-minded Congressmen, says the pene- trating Poland, were ignorant of the nature of Crédit Mobilier when investiag money or credit in its shares, had no knowledge of its remu- nerative character, were unaware of its con- nection with the Union Pacific, and were sim- ply as willing as children to open their mouths and shut their eyes and see what Ames would send them! Caldwell, too, who hails from the State where the rules of draw-poker ate more clearly undegstood thay the Ten Command- ments, Git otee he bowie-knife is the popu- lar toothpick—Caldwell bas been found by Senator Carpenter to be a saint behind a cloud, the innocent victim of wicked and designing plotters. Pomeroy, whose piety has been the pride of bleeding Kansas, is taken under the wings of those shepherds of the Christian flock—Nye and Conkling—and sheltered from the cruel slanders of the sin- fal York, And the Senate of the United States, taken as a whole, what a congregation of harmless lambs does it present to the public gaze! From the smiling President, Mr. Carker Golfnx, whose many virtues wrapped the contracting Nesbitt in tribute- paying admiration, past, the seat of the reverend Harlan, who remembers our Saviour’s treatment of the money-changers in the Temple better than his own pecuniary transactions with Dr. Durant, down to the oblivious Patterson, whose memory would be hopelessly lost but for the timely aid of memo- randums and tell-tale envelopes, the eye rests on scarcely any honorable member in the whole circle who may not be regarded as a model of simple-minded purity and innocence. It is evident that the world has been mistaken in the characters of these Senators and Represen- tatives ; that they aro not the shrewd, keen politicians they have been taken for, but are the merest novices in wordly affairs, always excepting the sinful Brooks and the Mephis- stophelean Hoax. What wonder that grasp- ing corporations and unscrupulous contrac- tors should find easy victims among such un- suspecting individuals, and should be able to load them with stock and greenbacks without opposition. Let usall, then, join with the venernble Poland in singing the prises of our ‘The Emigrant Sharks in Castle Gareen, There has been for some years a tainted atmosphere about Castle Gardon, for which those who have interested themselves in the matter have found it difficult to account, The Commission has always had upon it some good citizens, whose names have been cun- ningly pushed forward into prominence when- ever anything has been done or said in rela- tion to the management or affairs of the great emigrant depot. Hence those whose sua- picions have been aroused have shrugged their shoulders and concluded that no dis- honesty or maladministration could be pos- sible under such men as Gulian C. Verplanck or Andrew Carrigan in former days, or under Wallach, Hoguet and Kaufmann, who are now on tho Commission. But there has been a power behind these Commissioners, working secretly but surely to retain the real manage- ment of Castle Garden, and the consequences have been neither creditable to the institution nor beneficial to the emigrants. Session after session we have had legislative investigations into the affairs of the depot which havo ended as such inquiries invariably do. Tho. respectable element in the committee ie been Drought into prominonce, while’ th intallgaks Tove secretly supplied with “arguments” in favor of the management from the other side, and the result has been doubly advantageons in satisfying the honest mem- bers of the Board and the State Legislature at the same time. A nest of corruption has thus been left undisturbed and the Castle Garden “Ring’’—not the least important of those re- markable combinations in the city—has been left to pursue its plans in security. It is time that this should cease and that no officer ot the Commission should be suffered to run the Board into disgraceful complications. The railroad ticket selling in Castle Cardoen has sometimes been made to contribute largely to the profits of the Ring, and until a sturdy fight was mado some time since by some of the lines and their agents, who refused to sub- mit to extortion, there was a sort of close corporation in ticket selling inside the Gar- den. Recently this portion of the business has been more honestly conducted and we have heard no complaints of imposition. But there isa struggle at present going on in the Commission over the admission to the Gardon of a ticket agent for the Erie Railroad, who, it is claimed, is not & proper person to hold the intérests of the emigrants in his hands. We know nothing about this person, but it is stated by Mr. Willy Wallach, one of the Commissioners of Emigration, that he has been convicted and imprisoned for improper conduct as an emigrans runner, and that other charges are brought against him establishing his unfitness for the position. It is enough that this Mr. Muller is an ‘old emigrant runner to prove that ho is an unsafe person to entrust with the duty of selling rail- road tickets to emigrants, who are ignorant of our railroad fares, of our money and of our language. These poor people should not be placed at the mercy of any man who has been accustomed to make his living out of them. It is astounding that the directors of “Re- formed Erie’’ should select such a person as their Castle Garden agent. It is astounding— or it would be astounding if the whole Castle Garden management was not what it is— that the Commissioners of Emigration do not at once and peremptorily refuse admission to the Garden of any person with such a record as that of Muller, The mere hesitation of the Commission in such a matter is a proof that the Legislature cannot too soon proceed with the work of purification in tho Castle Garden Emigrant Depot. The Jumel Estate—End of a Remarke able Suit. The famous Jume! will case, which has occu. pied so much of the time of our courts for the past six or seven years, terminated yesterday in a verdict for the defendant, Mr. Nelson Chase. The plaintiff in the suit thus ended was George Washington Bowen, who claimed to bea natural son of the deceased Madame Jumel, and as such entitled to a share of the property she left, under a law of the State of New York which entitles 9 natural child to inherit from the mother. The verdict is a broad one, and will put a stop to other speculative suits which would, no doubt, have followed had the result of the trial been dif- ferent. The jury found for the defendant on the merits, and added besides a supple- mentary or additional verdict finding that Eliza B. Jumel had no interest in the lands claimed as hers at the time of her death, which was descendable to her heirs. Mr. Charles O’Conor was the counsel for the de- fendant, Chase, and his devotion to the cause and the great ability displayed in its manage- ment have added to the laurels previously won by the voteran leader of the New York bar.~ Madame Jumel died in 1865, and the litigne tion over the estate commended immediately thereafter. A compromise was made with the original contestants of the will by which, for the sake of effecting a settlement, certain be- quests under a formér instrumeat were paid by the executor. As the property involved is valued at from four to five million dollars it might have been anticipated that of- forts would be made to secure some portion of it, at least, by all who could present even a dosperate claim to heirship. In the present Bowen suit there had been a previous trial ending in a dis- agreement of the jury. Prior to the com- mencement of this suit. there was a former cage in which Champlain Bowen, a member of the same family, was plaintiff, and in that there was also a verdict for the defendant, Chase. The trial now closed commenced on, December 9, before Judge Shipman and a special jury, and has extended over threo months with very slight intermission. Both, Judge and jury have given the case their clos: and unwearied attention. We presume the litigation may now be regarded as ended. The verdict was based upon the evidence and the law, and will meet general approval. Tun Lovistaya ExtancueMent a Swarr mr ux Sunate.—In the United States Senate on! the Louisiana controversy Mr. Carpenter has, reported from the majority of the committee on the subject in favor of declaring both the conflicting State governments illegal, and has submitted » bill providing for 4 new election