The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. - JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVIII....-+- SS — ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, EI TRRATRE, Bowery.—Panromime or Witt oan Wisr, Matinee. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourtecath street, near Third ay.—PERNANDE. RAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Eighth ave Rovauing I, Matinee at 1% NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALixe Matinee at! 'S MUSEUM, Brondway, corner Thirtieth rt— Gisceus New Yous in 1543, Afternoon and Evening, ATHENFUM, No, [8 Broadway.—Guanp Vaginry En. TeRTAINMENT. Matinee at 2, between Prince and ‘ , away, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broa y Matinee at lig. Houston streets.—Lxo anv Loros. L (C THEATRE, Broadway, between Mouston and Bleecker ‘streets,—Humrty Dumpty. Matinee at 2, NION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between pruaduay By Fourth avy,—Ox® MunDaap” Yeans OLD. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Darip Gannicx, Matince. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth @venue.—Ticket or Leave Man, Matinee at2, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5l¢ Broadway.—Srantarns; on, Tuk Lone Stan or Cuma. Matinee at STEINWAY HALL, Fi np InstaumuntaL Concert. MRS, F. B. Conway's BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Avixe. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSR, Twenty-third st. corner Bth av.—Nxano Minstreisy, &c. Matinee at 2, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Vanury Entertainment. Matinee ut 234. fAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 2th st. and Broadway.— E1uiorian Minsreaisy. &c. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st.. between Lex- Gngton and 34 avs.—Yanxer Ficnter. Matinee at2 ASSOCIATION HALL, 284 street and 4th av.—Granp Concerr. Aiternoon at 2. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bono ann AR’ TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Feb. 22, 1873. HE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Wo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. WPOLAND’'S DISGRACEFUL REPORT! EXPUL- SION AND IMPEACHMENT THE DUTY OF CONGRESS"—EDITORIAL LEADER —Sixtn PAGE. PLAGUE-SMITTEN POMEROY! THR ROTTEN- NESS AT THE CORE OF KANSAS POLITICS! THE MEANS THE OLD HYPOCRITE USED TO COMPASS HIS ENDS—FourtH Paas. WOLFAX'S CORNERING! EXCITING SCENES IN THE HOUSE! MOBILIER AMES PROVES RECALCITRANT! THE PRESIDENT ABAN- DONS THE »SOUTHERN-TOUR PROJECT! ECUADOR DECLARES FOR FREE CUBA! GENERAL BANKS’ SPEECH—Tarrp Page. WHE CHARTER AGITATION! AMENDMENTS EM- BODIED AND THE BILL PROGRESSED! THE PUWER OF APPOINTMENT! DEMO- ORATIC DEFECTION! MR. TWEED AND THE SENATE—TENTH Pace. EUROPEAN NEWS PER CABLE! THE CARLIST CAMPAIGN! SERIOUS TROUBLE OVER A SECOND CHAMBER IN THE FRENCH AS- SEMBLY—SEVENTA PaGE. AFFAIRS IN MORMONDOM! YOUNG'S HIER ARCHY OPPOSED TO PROGRESS! MUR- DERING GENTILES—SEVENTH PAGE. NEWS FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS—LATE TELEGRAMS—SEVENTH PaGE. RISKS OF THE SAMANA CESSION! DOMINICAN REVOLUTIONARY CHIEFS DECLARE AGAINST IT—Turrp Page. DONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS — WASHING- TON’S BIRTHDAY—Tuirp Paar. MORE INDIAN ENORMITIES! THE APACHES CARRYING THE WAR INTO MEXICO! TWENTY THOUSAND SAVAGES BENT ON WAGING A RUTHLESS WAR! MIGRATORY MORMONS—Fourra Pace. POLLO HALL’S NEW GENERAL COMMITTEE! ITS CURIOUS COMPLEXION — PETER COOPER ON REPUBLICAN PARTISAN- SHIP—THE SINKING FUND BOARD—FirtH PaGE. AN UNSUCCESSFUL INQUIRY INTO THE LITTLE NECK HORROR— ANOTHER DRUNKEN WIFE MURDERK—FIRES—LOCAL ITEMS— EIcuTa PaGs. ROSENZWEIG INDICTED! CHARGED WITH THE WILFUL MURDER OF ALICE A. BOWLSBY! REVORDER HACKETT’S VIEWS—Firrno PaGR. LEGAL MATTERS! JOHN SCANNELL’S SANITY! STRONG CENSURE BY THE GRAND*JURY! AN ART LITIGATION—ARSON IN BROOK- LYN—ELEVENTH PaGr. WEATURES OF BUSINESS IN WALL STREET! DECLINE IN THE MONEY RATE! THE BANK RESERVE TWO MILLIONS BELOW THE LEGAL LIMIT—Nintn PaGE. WHE ERIE DISASTER! ARRIVAL OF THE PAS- SENGERS AND CREW OF THE BURNED STEAMER—CHESTNUT HILL STUD FARM— A WAR ROMANCE—Firrn Pages. "YELLOW FEVER RAVAGES IN BRAZIL—NEWS FROM THE WEST INDIES—NAVAL—EicuTH PAGE. Yewtow Fever mw Rro.—By mail from Brazil we have a special report of the origin and progress of the late visitation of yellow fever in Rio Janeiro, with a history of the causes which tended to the development of the disease and of the means which were adopted in hope of its prevention. The consequences of its appearance were very fatal, and under melancholy circumstances, to some members of the foreign American community. Isonr Wantep.—Shipmasters having occa- sion to pass the Virginia coast complain of the absence of a lighthouse on Winter Quarter Shoal. There is one six miles to the westward at Chincoteague; but half the time, whenever there is most need for its warning, it cannot be seen at that distance. If the Lighthouse Board would station a lightship at the Shoal 5t would be of great service to the many ves- wels constantly endangered, would prevent ‘wreck and loss of life and secure the thanks bf all the mariners of the coast. porate: Bhe vest wns» Cartam Jack anp THE Mopoc War.—The \stest reports from the Modoc country state that “Mrs, Wittles’’ and ‘(Modoc Sally’’ have been employed by the Peace Commissioners to pen negotiations with Captain Jack. Per- haps the bine coats object to being made cold Wittles’’ of by Captain Jack’s ‘gentle ‘savages’ any longer, hence the employment ok, feminine negotiators in efforts to heal the breaches, But where women are ‘engaged one side or the other is sure to get Worsted. Seriously, onr Indian policy has Doon a sort of old woman's policy all along, and now we see it literally carried out jm the pase af the Modocs. NEW YOR HKALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1873.-TRIPLE SHHKT, Poland’s Disgracefal Report—Expul- sion and Impeachment the Duty cot Congress, Bishop Poland finds that his report has not received a flattering welcome from the Ameri- can people. The duty imposed upon the committee charged with the Orédit Mobilier investigation was a solemn and sacred trust. Bishop Poland knew this when he consented to become chairman of the committee. He ought to have known also that an indignant people would not passively agree to be hum- bugged if the duty was not solemnly and sacredly performed. Now, even he cannot fail to sce that he has made a fatal mistake. Even he cannot fail to see that his course is reprobated by his conntrymen. The whole country knows that in his conduct in this in- vestigation, from tne beginning to the end, he has been a faithless and impudent trickster. If the newspapers, with the Hzraup at their head, had not demanded and extorted an open investigation, the testimony would have been taken with closed doors, and the whole truth would never have been published. Yet, in face of this, and in face of the fact, plain to everybody, that the country regarded all of the accused Congressmen, with the exception of Blaine, as guilty of the charges made against them, he has dared to defy public sentiment and the will of the people. He cannot plead duty, for it is his duty which he violated. He cannot plead ignorance, for he knew the public mind. The guilty Congress- men had no defenders left, for their crime was too clearly established. Bishop Poland finds himself in the same position, for even the blindest and most partisan defender of radi- cal sinus, the English administration organ in this city, after twisting and torturing the facts developed by the investigation, in the most reckless way, has been forced by public clamor to denounce this foolish report. That journal now sees what the Henaup pointed out long ago, that the miserable Tammany tricksters and robbers are not the only black sheep in the political fold. This report is a trick—the result of an ar- rangement with the men whom General Butler called ‘the truly good Christian statesmen.” ‘We have said this before, and we not only repeat it now, but assert that Dawes, Kelley, Garfield, Bingham, Scofield and the rest are its real authord and invento¥s. They supplied the black paint for Ames and Brooks and the bright varnish for themselves. They knew, in the slang of the day, that somebody would have ‘‘to face the music’’—that somebody would have to become a scapegoat for the others—and they selected the amiable shovel- maker of Massachusetts and the venerable rep- resentative from the Seventh district of this city. They were first bribed, bought, paid for and owned by the Crédit Mobilier. When their crime was charged upon them all of them prevaricated and some of them lied outright. To crown the mountain of their offences they at last added conspiracy to their other crimes. Bishop Poland’s report is not meant to punish anybody, although the expulsion of two mem- bers of Congress is recommended by it. Ex- treme measures with these men are not con- templated—it is scarcely possible they ever were contemplated. The one isa democrat and the other a republican. Their arraign- ment is a sham—the resolution for their expul- sion a trick to raise a storm in both parties. The democrats, as o matter of course, would resist an attempt to make a mere scapegoat of Brooks. The republicans, unless blinded by partisan zeal and ready to add outrage and in- justice to the Crédit Mobilier shame, will not consent that Ames shall be the only radical Congressman to suffer. A protracted and bit- ter debate is evidently contemplated, the result of which would be that the session will expire before anybody is expelled. The people will submit to no such trifling. We therefore beg the earnest men in Congress to prevent the success of any scheme of this kind, and to mete out punishment justly and swiftly. We intend to hold Congress to its duty, because we believe that more depends upon its action now than ever before depended upon the action of a legislative body in a similar case. The shreds and patches of reputation of a few unfaithful public servants are of little moment; but not even these must be left them. It is public virtue that is on trial. The world is watching for the result with interest. The good name of republicans, of republicanism is at stake. The ability of a free people to pun- ish powerful criminals is the question. We trust the answer will be one that will satisfy our own people and the rest of the world, for the fears which spring from an unsatisfactory answer are appalling. If such shameless whitewashing as that attempted by Bishop Poland is permitted this action of Congress will prove the deathblow of republican purity and integrity. This is not making a mountain out of a molehill. This is not a matter to be lightly and carelessly treated. The struggle that is to be witnessed on the floor of the House of Representatives next Tuesday repre- sents one of the most important crises in American history. It is o crisis that must be met and met boldly if the Republic is to live. The duty of Congress is very plain. Throw- ing aside all prejudices, all personal interests and all partisanship, no honest member can fail to see that if Ames bribed any of his fellow members all who took his money were bribed. To bribe is not more heinous than to be bribed. The one offence equally requires punishment with the other. If Ames is expelled from the House, as he must be for tempting others, the tempted must share the tempter’s fate. Dawes, Kelley, Garfield, Sco- field, Bingham and the whole pack deserve expulsion as well as Brooks. There is no reason why Patterson should be spared. Upon what grounds can Wilson expect to escape? Does Allison suppose he can be allowed to disgrace the seat in the Senate which Harlan disgraced before him? Above all, does Col- fax think he can be forgiven—Colfax, a man who, at the time he yielded to Oakes Ames’ solicitations and took the stock and dividends of the Crédit Mobilier, held the most power- fal legislative position in the country, and now holds the second place in executive rank—guilty of corruption and guilty of pre. varication, if not of perjury? This man, raised so high and fallen so low, should be driven from his place as a terrible example to future Christian statesmen. The plea of want of time will not satisfy the people. Ina case like his, if only a half hour remained in which he could be brought to punishment that half hour should pronounce his doom. | This is not a season for solemn trifling, and Congress must awake to the awful responsi- bility which rests upon it. Will General Butler rise to the height of the occasion? Casting aside the tricks of the lawyer which he employed in the Whittemore case, will he, not only for the sake of Ames, but for the sake ot his party and his country, denounce this great sham and move for the expulsion of all—not to save Ames, but to visit condign punishment on all? He has it in his power to doa courageous and valuable service. Mr, Fernando Wood’s resolution has been re- ferred to the Judiciary Committee, on which Butler holds the second place. Bingham, its chairman, would scarcely dare to direct its course in a case where he is himself a criminal. Butler ought to have had the chairmanship before. Practically he is now its head, and he and his associates must make short work of the task before them. Mr. Peters, of Maine, has been a long time in Congress. Before he retires he is to perform the most sacred duty which ever fell to his lot. Mr. Wilson, of In- diana, is chairman of an investigating com- mittee, which brought the whole matter of these Orédit Mobilier frauds to his knowledge. Let him show that these things were also brought to his conscience, Mr. Milo Good- rich left the republicann party and joined the liberals because he believed the party in power corrupt. He lost his seat in conse- quence. Let him show that he can be as bold in dealing with men as he was in dealing with his party. Eldridge, Voorhees and Potter are democrats. Let them show that they are will- ing to punish a democrat as well as republi- cans. Mr. Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania, is a republican. Let him show that he is willing to punish republicans as well as a democrat. Mr. Tyner’s cowardly and disgraceful resolu- tion must be kicked from the committee room, and the Wood resolution brought into the House and pressed toa vote. The Congress- man who dares vote against the impeachment of Colfax will then be compelled to share Col- fax’s infamy. In the House there are many gentlemen who ought to take up the work of purification. Will Shellabarger, whose reputation so far has been without stain, seize this occasion to de- nounce this wretched apology for an investi- gation and report? Will General Hawley add to the promiad Of his few days in Congress by taking a bold and manly stand?. Will Mr. Hoar do his duty? Mr. Marshall has been in” Congress a long time and has the reputation of being a sincere man. What will he do in this crisis? We ask the same question of Mr. Maynard. Colonel Roberts is a near neighbor as well as the colleague of Brooks. Will he help to punish Brooks as well as the republi- can rascals? What will Mr. Cox do? He appointed this committee. Some suspicion followed his action in the matter because it was believed the committee would fail in its duty. The committee has failed. We do not believe Mr. Cox was governed by any but the best of motives in constituting it. He can prove this by a bold and manly course. Will he be among the first to denounce the commit- tee he made? Mr. Blaine is exonerated from every charge made against him. Will he now tell the committee that though they exon- erated him he cannot exonerate them? If these and men like these will do their duty now Congress may yet be purified and the bribed as well as the briber be punished. Caldwell and Pomeroy may go to the Peniten- tiary, where they belong, and rascals like them meet a like fate. A millennium of political purity might thus be ushered in and Jim Nye have no further occasion to demand that in- vestigations shall cease. Tae Preswent’s ConripentiaL MeEssace ON THE Mexican Treaty, sent to the Senate to show the necessity for ratifying the treaty with Mexico, now before that body, and ex- tending the stipulations of the treaty under which the United States and Mexican Joint Claims Commission was organized, is a timely and sensible document. The President sees the difficulty Mexico has labored under during the troubles and transition period of the war against a foreign imperial usurper and the establishment of the Republic in regular form under the Presidency of Lerdo de Tejada, and wishes to give the Mexicans every opportunity to strengthen their government and do justice to the United States. He would not be unne- cessarily exacting, but would give the needed time to adjust the claims between the two countries. We commend this kind considera- tion of General Grant and hope Congress will actin conformity with it, but at the same time it should not be forgotten that our Mexican neighbors are apt to be very procrastinating and litigious about money obligations or any other claims upon them. Give them reagon- able time, but insist upon a settlement. That is the only policy to pursue toward Mexico, Tae Lonpon Globe, having carefully read the reports of the Tweed trial, concludes that all American politicians seem ina hurry to get rich and are not over-scrupulous as to the means. The English editor was sorely puz- zled at first over the system of bookkeeping by which Woodward and Garvey made the Court House account cover the cost of the modest residences. of Tweed, Connolly and Roche, as well as a liberal allowance for lobby and election expenses. Now that he has mas- tered the intricacies of Tammany double-entry figuring, it is to be hoped our English critic finds himself prepared to grapple with the abstractions of Congressional Crédit Mobilier stock speculations, and that an attentive consideration of the cases of Colfax, Kelley and their companions will correct the unfa- vorable impression he has hastily formed of the honesty of our patriots, Tue Howenzoutenn Canpmatene Revivep ty Sparx.—A Madrid paper says there is good ground for belief that several leading conserv- atives are intriguing for the revival of the Hohenzollern candidature for the throne of Spain. It may be that some wag has set afloat this story. We cannot allow ourselves to think that the Spanish people, even if they should conclude to re-establish monarchy, will go out of Spain to look for a King. One thing, how- ever, it is safe to say—if a Hohenzollern comes to Spain he will not be so easily got rid of as Amadeus. He will stick. “ Conrvpt Inreniontrres’’ is the latest term applied by an old politician to those who buy their way into the United States Senate. Mr. Jones, the newly-elected United States Sena- tor from Nevada, is © Welshman. He can searcely be called a “corrupt inferiority,’’ for he does his buying and gelling on a princely scale, Washington’s Birthday. No native born citizon of the United States, whose nature is attuned to tho institutions of his country, has any profound sympathy with the scepticism that relegates the anniversary of Washington's Birthday to the same ob- livious shelf to which most national annivor- saries are sooner or later consigned. The American idea is that that anniversary is to survive forever, Practically its recurrence is infinite, or to cease only with that apocalyptic moment when the heavens shall be rolled together like parchment and tho earth be consumed in flame. The Father of his Country is to have the right immortality—a post-mortem existence measured by chiliads rather than decades. His birthday has a solemn sanctity that the Fourth of July is without. Itis more serious than Christmas, is as far as possible removed from the revelry of New Year's Day, and has something of the religion of the Thanksgiving season without its table conviviality. Englishmen smile at the shooting-cracker and pin-wheel with which we seek to givo effect to the glorious Fourth, but find it impossible to do aught but take off their hats when we come to the beneficent ‘Twenty-second, An Independence Day oration is not usually remarkable for originality of thought and temperateness of tone, It is as full of sparkle and evanescent splendor as any other sort of pyrotechnics. And the same causes which prevent a speech of this nature from being distinguished by the characteristics of true eloquence preclude the character of Washing- ton from being viewed by the average Ameri- can in its true light. Dignity is apt to evap- orate when subjected tg the strong heat of buncombe, and when the American engle screams the proud bird’s lordliness is likely to be lost sight of. The reputation of Washing- ton is beleaguered by so many braggart crudi- ties from vulgar minds that, withal an effort at abstraction, itis often impossible to con- ceive him as ho really was, Throughout alf the bell-ringing and dinner-eating, throughout all the speech-making and tonst-drinking that to-day are to mark the progress and conclu- sion of the anniversary, there is probably little general appreciation of his character and services. We do not say that there is not ® profound and general admiration for him as a hero, but that that admiration is too” often based upon vague knowledge and a traditionary sentiment, unstrengthened by a patient study of his best biographers and that almost personal love which the magnet- ism of the great and good wins for then from posterity. We confess that we like to see that sort of appreciation which manifests itself in the noble imitation of some of the best quali- ties of the admired character. The present Yeeling of the masses has too much of the effect of a tableau vivant, with a touch of blue- light. And this consideration throws us back again upon the low level of the average indi- vidual and his incapability of sounding the dey®h and measuring the breadth of genuine heroism. But we cannot believe that the sen- timent of our people with respect to the beauty and dignity of Washington’s character will not grow puras and deeper with the slowly-refining sweep of years. His record lies before us like a broad meadow lit by a liberal but not intense sunlight. We might, perhaps, wish that there were more pic- turesque points and warmer tints and a more alluring intermixture of light and shadow; but, such as it is, the world shows scarcely another example of such calmness, power and equipoise, with just a sufficient tincture of sweetness to beget a warmer feeling than mere national admiration. Climatic Changes. An interesting paper has recently been pub- lished by a Southern writer attempting to ac- count for the increased severity of the Gulf States Winters. It is pretty conclusively established that the cold of former years in the cotton belt and lower basin of the Missis- sippi was less rigorous than now, and the fact seems to clash with the known mitigation of climate noted in Europe, Asia and many other parts of the world, as apparently due to fell- ing the forests and clearing the soil. The writer in question accounts for the climatal change by the felling of the South- ern forests, affording more unre- stricted scope to the northwest winds, chilled by snow on the Rocky Mountains. He also very strikingly contrasts the effect of the winds which reach Southern Europe from the arid and sun-scorched wastes of Africa and the Great Desert and those which blow from the Gulf of Mexico over the Southern part of the United States. The African winds exert no inconsiderable influence on the climate of Southern Europe, producing higher tempera- tures than those which rule on the same par- allels of latitude in this country, while the gales from the Gulf, impregnated with moist- ure, only increase the severity of the cold derived from the northwest winds. In the early part of this century the average temperature of New Orleans was more than seventy degrees, and that of the Winters about fifty-six degrees—figures undoubtedly too high for the present time. That the clearing away of the vast forests of lofty pines from the South- ern States has opened new ways and chan- nels for the cold Winter winds from the Plains east of the Rocky Mountains is highly probable and plausible; but it is equally probable that the rapid and wide- spread progress of emigration in the Upper Valley of the Missouri and throughout all the far Northwest has made a comparatively smooth plane over which the mountain winds may more freely and in greater volume de- scend upon the States of the Gulf. Strange to say, the paper alluded to has re- ceived a singular confirmation from an inde- pendent and very recent communication by Professor Schiaparelli to one of the learned societies of France, in which are given many curious observations on the great cyclones which have deposited in Italy some of the sands uplifted from the Desert of Sahara, If the observed increase of severity in the Southern Winters is confirmed by long expe- rience it will work very material changes in the agricultural and sanitary condition of the Gulf States. By increasing the Winter rains it may accomplish much good, supplying the soil with stores of water against the usually destructive droughts of Summer. Tux Lxortature of Missouri is investi- gating the affairs of the Penitentiary in that State. From the Capitol to the Prison thoro is but one stem The French Committee of Thirty and the National Assembly. The cable despatches from Paris and Versailles, published in the Hzraup this morning, bring hopeful intelligence of the steady and secure progress of the work of constitutional elaboration under the govern- ment of the Republic, and also of the prospect of a regular peaceable transmission of the republican form of government to the French people, despite the political machinations of the monarchists or the socialistic in terrorem violences of the reds, The latest Parliamentary proceedings of the Committee of Thirty and of President Thiers, as they are set forth in the Hznatp to-day, are of a very important and equally interesting character. Accord- ing to the news the decision come to on Wednesday last by the Committee of Thirty in favor of creating a second Chamber has led to a rupture between the parties of the Right and the Right Centre. The immediate effect of this will be to strengthen the republican party, for it will compel the left wing of the Right to lean more upon the Left side of the House. It is reasonable to conclude that the Committee of Thirty will be successful in the work which thoy have un- dertaken, They have more than once during their deliberations listened to President Thiers and done their best to benefit by his suggestions. His suggestions have done much to modify their report. M. Dufaure has succeeded in inducing the committee to adopt an amend- ment, which provides that before its dissolu- tion the National Assembly shall enact laws organizing and directing the transmission of the legislative and executive powers and creating a second Chamber. President Thiers has never been opposed to the creation of a second Chamber. A second Chamber has from the first been a prominent fea- ture in the requirements of the Com- mittee of Thirty. The transmission of power is & different question, Prosident Thiers holds his powers from the Assembly. He is their officer. With the dissolution of the Assembly his powers would cease. The Prosi- dent asks that he be allowed to hold the reins of executive authority during the gen- eral election, and for some weeks after the election—a most natural and proper request. This concession, it would seem, the Commit- tee of Thirty are disposed to make. It was a defect of the Bordeaux compact that no such provision was made, In the event of a disso- lution there must be some responsible author- ity. The Preside e Republic has the first place. After him comes the Proaident of the Assembly. The presumiption now is that the report of the Committee of Thirty will be substantially adopted. An immediate disso- lution of the Assenibiy 1s not expected. The Republic is doing well, and it ought to suc- ceed. The President and Congress=The Treaty on the Fisheries. The two houses of Congress, it would ap- pear, have become so badly demoralized by the exposures from the Crédit Mobilier and Senatorial corruption investigations as to re- quire the special attention of the President in reference to the practical business matters of the session. Thus it appears that the other day he went up to the Capitol and had a regu- lar business consultation with General Banks and other members of the Committee on For- eign Affairs of the House, and next a similar conference with General Cameron and other members of the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions of the Senate, in which he plainly told them that if we expect Great Britain to pay the Geneva award in September (some fifteen millions of dollars) we must pay for the fisheries and the claims in regard to them awarded her in the same treaty. In reply the members of the committees then promised im- mediate attention to the Fisheries bill, but against it we may expect another demurrer from General Butler, in the name of the fisher- men of Massachusetts. In relation to these fisheries, the Treaty of Washington provides substantially that, for a term of ten years, citizens of the United States, in the valuable fisheries of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Isiand, Newfoundland, &c., shall have the same general liberties of fishing as British subjects, and that British subjects shall have the same general liberties as citizens of the United States to catch and cure their fish and dry their nets, &., along our seaboard and its bays and creeks, down to the thirty-ninth parallel of north latitude, or Delaware Bay. But, inasmuch as the fishing privileges to citizens of the United States thus given in Her Britannic Majesty's possessions are more valuable than those given in reciprocity in the waters of the United States to British subjects, the treaty further provides that Commissioners shall be appointed—one by the United States, one by Queen Victoria and a third by these two—to determine upon the balance in these reciprocal fisheries in favor of Great Britain, and that “any sum of money which theso, Commissioners may so award shall be paid by the United States government, in a gross sum, within twelve months after such award shall have been given.”’ Now, whatever the award may be which these Commissioners shall give for the free- dom to our citizens for ten years to fish near the coasts and in the inland waters of the British Provinces, from New Brunswick to Newfoundland, and for the privileges to our fishermen to cure their fish and dry their nets, &c., in said Provinces, whether the sum shall be five, ten or twenty millions of dollars, we are bound to pay it; and Congress should at once give the legislative authority necessary in this matter to enable the President to meet our obligations as promptly as England re- sponded to the treaty in reference to the Geneva award and San Juan Island. General Grant desires to avoid any possible complaint of remissness or negligence on our part touch- ing this Treaty of Washington upon an agree- ment which may call for some money from our Treasury, and we presume that the bill sug- gested in the premises will be passed before the expiration of this Congress, especially as the President is acting under the impression that from the 4th of March next there will be no meeting of Congress till the first Monday of next December. Tue Cownnecticur Democracy have had their little love-feast,; in which their liberal republican brethren partook of some of the side dishes, At the State Oonvention, in Hartford, on the 19th, Charles R. Ingersoll (democrat), of New Haven, was nominated | | for Governor, and George G. Sill (liberal ree publican), of New Haven, for Lieutergnt Governor. Both tickets are now in the fidla,’ and the campaign music will soon strike up—a muffled drum corps probably leading off. The election takes place on the 7th of April next. Arbitrary Prices for Gas. Several correspondents in the city ask tha Herarp if the gas companies have the right to make their charges without regard to justice and fair play. We have two bills from one company, rendered im the last half of last month to consumors in Third avenue. In one the price charged is two dollars and a quarter por one thousand feet ; in the other the rate is half a dollar more per thousand feet. Why the difference? And has the company a right thus to discriminate? Moreover, it appears from one of these bills that as high as three dollars was the printed rate, from which it is inferred that some customers pay one-third more for a given quantity of gas than others. One writer complains thus:—‘I burn less gas for the last three months, yet my gas bill haa increased every month.”’ These things do appear a trifle strange to those unacquainted with the dark ways of our purveyors of light; but to those who have watched the subject it is an old story of arbitrary exaction. They will call to mind the case of one of the chief ornaments of our judiciary, who some years ago locked up his house while he made a Sum- mer trip with his family in Europe. When he came home he found gas bills to pay the same as though he had been continuing his custom- ary consumption. He had not used a foot of gas, but nevertheless he had to pay—‘‘he might have had the light if he chose.” ‘’Twas ever thus.”” Since the foul-smelling extract of coal supplanted honest whale oil and aris- tocratic sperm as the popular illuminator the companies making it have held the whip hand of the public. [f you do not like their terms thoy are willing you should leave your house in darkness, and if you do not walk up to the company’s office and settle your supply will cease. How can mere man with right on his side strive against the heavy artillery of these rich monopolies? Ten lines of honest legis- lative enactment on this subject by our ser- yants at Albany would be welcome to all who! do not care to pay more for hight than they justly owe. What Will the Liberal _Republica: Det ; This question is propounded by the Lexi ton (Ky.) Observer, one of the oldest and m influential democratic papers in the State Referring to the plattorm adopted at the Cin- cinnati and Baltimore conventions, the Ob- | server affirms that it embodies the sentimenta held by a majority of the whole people, and that so far as the democracy is concerned it is bound by that platform. In regard to the liberal republicans it advises them to remain as they tre and be just what their name indi- cates—liberal repnblicans. Let them perfect thoir party organization and attract to them: selves all republicans who desize an honest and just government. If the democracy hopes fox success it must become just such a party. “Tt must,’’ continues our Kentucky con- temporary, ‘‘encourage immigration and throw the protection of law around every citizen; it must provide a better educational system for white children where the old one is deficient, and secure educational facilities to the blacks; it must advocate internal improvements, and must nominate its best men for office, without considering whether they served in the Con- federate or Union army, orin any army at all.” If the democratic press and people make the party what it should be there will be no longer any such question as ‘What will the liberal} republicans do?” Would it not be a little interesting in this connection for some one to show what the liberal republicans have done besides making a pretty general failure all round the political compass? Tae New York Cuanrter at AuBany.—The debate in the Assembly on the New York charter was continued yesterday, on the amendment offered by Mr. Opdyke in rela- tion to the appointing power. Without reach- ing any vote in the Committee of the Whole on this proposition, progress was reported, and in the House the bill was ordered to a third reading. It is understood, however, that when the bill is reached in its order for final passage it will be recommitted to the standing Committee on Cities, with power to report complete. It is probable that the Opdyke amendment, which gives the original appoint- ment of heads of departments to the Alder~ men and the confirmatory power to the Mayor, will then be substituted for the existing pro- vision, and that in that shape the bill will be passed by the Assembly and sent to the Senate PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘Thiers, when at college, was noted as ‘htelligent, but insubordinate. General L. L. Lomax, of Virginia, has arrived at the New York Hotel. Judge Louis Janin, of Washington, is registered at the New York Hotel. Congressman William Williams, of Buffalo, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. G. H. Lewes considers “Middlemarch” George Ellot’s greatest production. The Queen of Sweden is sole heiress of the late dowager Empress of Brazil. Ex-vemmissioner of Internal Revenue E. H. Rol- lins is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Beattie, of the British Navy, yesterday arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Lieutenant W..C. McGowan, of the United States Navy, is stopping at the Hoffman House. M. Goschier, who lately died in Paris, was for thirty years the private seeretary of M. Thiers. ‘The Grand Duke Alexis was the first fereigner to see the wife of the Mikado of Japan. Lucky Alexis! George ©. Gorham, Clerk of the United States Senate, yesterday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Lord Chancellor Hatherley lately submittea toan operation for cataract at the hands of Mr, Bowman. Prince Arthur has been comparing the modes of marching of the Italian Bersaglieri and the Englism Rifle Corps. Sidney Colvin, one of the best art critics in Eng~ land, is @ fellow of Cambridge, young in years and brilliant in intellect. Dr. Trumbull, the physician of Her Royal High- ness the Princess of Waies, is at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, and will remain a few days to look alter some property be owns in that city, Baron Haussmann is in Constantinople, negotiat- ing, it is said, with the Turkish government the terms of a loan Which the Porte is anxious to pro- cure through the French Crédit Mobilier, What's in a name? It has been suggested that @ camp meeting be held in the National Capitol for the benefit of Con- gressional sinners and backsliders. An exchange Says the trouble is they dgn’t spell praying pore rectly in Washington, .) The old penal priaciple that aperaon WHO