The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1873, Page 6

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BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jouso Jum ano Win o’ mx Wise. BRYANT’S OPFRA HO: ‘6th ay.—NwGro MinstKets' hird street, corner Sixth Twenty-third st. corner ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanirty ENTERTAINMENT. FAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Broadway.—Emuorian MixsTRELsy, £C. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— anp Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. .New York, Monday, Feb. 24, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Merald. THE SKELETON IN THE PALACE! THE SHADOW OF REPUBLICANISM FALLING ON THE THRONES OF EUROPE!”—LEAD- ING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SixTu Page, EUROPE’S LATEST REPUBLIC! A COUP BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE VINDICATION OF POPU- LAR RIGHT AGAINST KINGLY MIGHT! IMPORTANT AND EXCITING NEWS FROM SPAIN! A GRAND REPUBLICAN PROSPECT IN THE OLD WORLD—SEvenNTH PaGE. “DEATH TO SPAIN!” A RUMORED INSURREC- TION IN PORTO RICO—NEWS FROM CUBA— SEVENTH PAGE. CAPTAIN JACK’S REBELLION! THE PLAN OF ATTACK UPON THE SAVAGES IN THE LAVA BEDS! THE FIGHTING AND RE- TREAT! HEROISM OF THE SOLDIERS! THE DEAD AND WOUNDED—FovrtH PacE. AMES! DUPES! A DIABOLICAL “TURNING” IN THE “LONG LANE” OF CONGRESSIONAL DEPRAVITY! THE ILIAD OF PUBLIC BRIBERY! A HERALD COMMISSIONER TO TARTARUS—Iirta Pace. EUROPEAN CABLE NEWS—MISCELLANEOUS TELEGRAMS—SEVENTH Pace. THE MURDER MANIA BREAKING OUT IN CHI- CAGO! A MAN FOUND BNAINED IN THE STREETS—A TERMIBLE TRAGEDY—Tentu Page. VAST BEDS OF TIN ORE DISCOVERED ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR! RESULTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND ASSAYS—Tsxru Page. BPECIAL NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—RECENT PUBLICATIONS—Tuixp PaGE. ROBBING THE PEOPLE! CONGRESS AND THE LAND OFFICE BESTOWiNG THE PUBLIC DUMAIN ON THEIR CREATURES AND FRIENDS! THE WORK OF THE RAIROAD AND LAND-GRABBING RINGS—Firri PaGs. ELOQUENT ELABORATIONS OF THE TRUTHS OF THE GOSPEL! A RARE RELIGIOUS FEAST! THE LESSONS OF THE HOUR AS READ BY THE CHRISTIAN PASTORS—Eicntu Pages. THE GREAT IRON-TRADE FAILURE IN PITTS- BURG—MARINE NEWS—TENTH PaGE. GRAIN TRANSPORTATION! THE MOVEMENT TO CHEAPEN AND AMPLIFY THE MEANS AND THE ROUTES FOR SHIPPING THE VASTLY INCREASED PRODUCTS OF THE WEST TO TIDEWATER—NINTH Pace. THE FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL STATUS AND OUTLOOK—COURT MATTERS—Ninta PaGE. REAL ESTATE SALES THIS WEEK—EUROPEAN INTRIGUES AMONG THE SPANISH-AMERI- CAN REPUBLICS—Firru PaGs. REFORMERS VERSUS MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION! THE “CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE” TO BE PURIFIED BY A NEW AMERICAN REFORM CLUB! A GRAND CLUB HOUSE—OBITU- ARY—ELEVENTH PAGE. MURDER ON THE YAZOO—CRUELTY TO A FE- NIAN—A FAITHFUL WIFE'S REWARD— ELEVENTH Pace. Revowvtronist Ourpreak tN Porto Rrco,— Speciul telegrams addressed to the Havana journals from Porto Rico report that a revo- lutionist demonstration against Spanish rule had just been made in the town of Arecibo. The revolutionists cried, ‘Death to Spain!” They were attacked by a force of local con- stables and the movement suppressed. Three of the insurgents were killed. It is quite likely we sholl hear of a renewal of tho at- tempt. Canapuan Surerrxe.—British trade reports for the last year show that the total tonnage of United States vessels entering and clearing from the ports of Great Britain and Ireland was 646,559 tons. In the same time there en- tered and cleared three times that amount of Canadian bottoms. This is a striking com- mentary on the imperfections of our laws, which repress and destroy, instead of fostering and building up a great merchant marine, which our extensive ocean coasts, with their thousand gulfs, bays and smaller indentations, 80 favor, and which the nature of our chief Products naturally suggest. Canada has ninety thousand seamen. She ranks third among the countries of the world in the extent of her tonnage—England being first and our country second ; but our Northern neighbors are fast gaining upon us, so that obviously, unless wholesome legislation shall induce a chango in the current of trade, we must soon rank after Canada as 9 maritime nation, Sa “Tax Scuenzctapy Union thinks that a great deal of the demoralization among politicians may be ascribed to the partisan, or rather to the want of a strictly independent, press, If it were not for the independent press that already the dishonest and corrupt of all ~parties would run unchecked in the grooves of their official profligacy, and snap their fingers @t public opinion and personal exposure, NEW YUKK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. The Skeletom im the Palace=The Shadow of Republica.¢m Falling on the Thrones of Europe. By special cable despatches to the Henaup from London and Madrid, published to-day, we have a singular and interesting story in regard to thé motives which prompted the hasty abdication of the ex-King Amadeus and some important foreshadowings of tho dangers against which the young Republic may be called upon to contend, as well from the fears of the European thrones as from the indiscretions of its own citizens. According to this account Amadeus only laid down his crown with the intention of resuming it under circumstances which would have made him rather the conqueror of the nation than its constitutional monarch, and enabled him to pursue such a policy of government as might seem to him the best suited to rule a people of whose consistency, loyalty and patriot- ism he admits he has not formed a favor- able opinion. The story is a plausible one at least. Tho young King, knowing little of the character, scarcely anything of the language, of the people over whom he was called to reign, found himself surrounded by advisers whose sincerity he was induced to doubt and with whose policy he could not sympathize. Toa Spaniard, well versed in the mysteries of Spanish intrigue, and understanding the char- acter and objects of the men with whom he had to deal, there might have beon nothing embarrassing in the constant changes of min- istry forced upon him; but to Amadeus the situation must have been equally perplexing and annoying. No wonder that he should turn from frigid and uncongenial politicians, with whom he had no feelings in com- mon, to the military, with whom he could fraternize as a soldier. As the story goes, the young King anticipated that, by adopt- ing as his own the causo of tho Spanish army against the Ministers who had opposed the wishes of the military, he should enlist the troops in his favor, and that they would lift him again to the throne from which he had descended. He could then re-enter Madrid at the head of the army and resume his rule untrammelled by constitutional re- strictions. To this end he had transferred the artillery officers and all tho Spanish commanders known to be monarchists to the frontier of Portugal, anticipating that the demonstration upon which he relied would be made by them as scon as_he reached the line. The establishment of the Republic, it is said, did not enter into his calculations, and had he ithagined such an event to have been probable he would not have resigned tho crown. Amadeus fully recognizes the danger to the throne of Victor Emmanuel -resulting from the success of republican governments in France and Spain, and probably the main object of his intended coup— supposing bis motives to be cor- rectly represented—was to render his rule in Spain strong enough by military aid to crush out the revolutionary spirit which gave him so much concern. The Cortes, how- ever, by its wise action, defeated any such scheme if it actually had existence, and the prompt proclamation of the Republic is at- tributed to a knowledge of the intentions of the retiring King. If the hope of Amadeus was in the devotion of the Spanish army he certainly must have met with a severe disap- pointment, although we are told that he has not yet relinquished the hope of a military revolution and of his own recall. It is difficult, however, to discover any good grounds for such an expectation. Our «#pecial despatch from Madrid certainly indicates a dangerous degree of popular excitement. The reds are said to be at work, and there are fears that barricades may spring up in the streets. The army is described -as dissatisfied although there is nothing to show in what direction the military sympathy points. Carlist and Bourbonist intrigues are reported to be active ; but when were they otherwise in Spain? Then, again, we have an account of separate meetings on Saturday of the repub- licans and radicals, who it was hoped might act in harmony, and it is probable that a Ministry may be formed of admitted repub- licans alone, such having been the expressed sentiment of the Assembly at Saturday's session. To-night there is to be a mass meet- ing, which, in the excited condition of the popular mind, must be attended by more or less risk ; but up to the present time Madrid is represented as tranquil. By way of Paris, too, we learn that Don Carlos has entered Navarre, on his way to Catalonia, where he is to meet some of his generals. Nevertheless, we fail to see in all this any indication of a desire for the restoration of Amadeus, and, whatever roubles may be in store for the young Republic, we do not anticipate that one of them is the danger of the return of King Amadeus. The story of the ex-King’s mancuvre is probable enough, but, whether correct or in- correct, it is certain that the prompt and peace- ful proclamation of the Republic has given much annoyance and alarm to Victor Em- manuel. We have already heard of the dis- satisfaction expressed by the King of Italy with the act of his son, and it has been stated that for a time Amadeus was forbidden to return to Italy. The father, experienced in political life, saw more clearly than the son the conse- quences that might follow the abdication of the Spanish Crown, and, no doubt, opposed it as a hazardous experiment, whatever may have been its ulterior object. Itis possible that he may favor and attempt to remedy the evil by a counter-revolution and restoration, and that the reported illness of the ex-Queen may be o convenient pretence for the pro- tracted stay of Amadeus in Portugal. The shadow of the Spanish Republic does not fall on the Italian throne alone. Our despatches state that there is trouble in the German Court over the spread of republicanism in Europe, and that the Emperor William be- gins to regret the false step taken in the readjustment of the affairs of France. He grieves that the German army did not replace Napoleon on the throne, or provide in some other manner—probably by a regency—for the restoration of monarchical institutions. The German statesmen see that the Spanish Republic is the consequence of the French Republic, and they begin to dread the further spread of free governments in Europe. The -restoration of Amadeus in Spain would therefore be as welcome to the Emperor Wil- liam as to King Victor Emmanuel. The knowl- edge of the wishes and intrigues of the ene- | imies of revublicap institutions should igagh the fricnds of popular rights in France and Spain the wisdom of concession and union. It is no wonder that republicanism should at this time be the skeleton in the royal pal- aces of Europe. The people of Germany are thoughtful and practical, and they have beforo their eyes, in the cheapness of the French gov- ernment and the wonderful recuporation of the country after the devastating war, a lesson which will not be lost upon them. Tho em- pire fastened upon Germany by the great vic- tory is the most costly government in Europe, and the people are already weighed down with the burden of taxation, while ther neighbora, despite their enormous war debt, are rapidly recovering their prosperity. The large German emigration to the United States supplies to the citizens who remain at homo a constant training in republican ideas. Year after year, as the effect of the great cam- paign gradually weakens, there will be a do- cline in that enthusiasm for German unity whick followed the war, anda return of the natural jealousies between the States—jealous- ies which cannot be reconciled under the rule of Prussian monarch as easily as undera government of the people. Two successful republics in Europe would hurry Germany forward with wonderful rapidity on the road to that free and economical system of ‘govern- ment for which the German race is peculiarly fitted. The effoct of the firm establishment of republicanism in France and Spain would be even more directly felt in Italy, where the throne is not so securely propped as is, for a time at least, that upon which the German Emperor sits, It is not surprising that there should be Carlist risings and red republican mutterings and military disaffection to embarrass the Spanish Republic. Such troubles are the natural results of the intrigues of” the Powers which dread the spread of republican institutions in Europe. But Franco has thus far triumphed over similar attempts to destroy the govern- ment of the people, and, backed by her suc- cess, Spain ought to feel strong enough to gain a similar victory. With prudence and constancy on the part of the true republicans of the nation the battle can be won. It is only by the inconstancy of the Spanish peo- ple themselves that they can lose the advan- tage the abdication of King Amadeus so un- expectedly bestowed upon them. The Battle of the Lava Beds—The Pa- cific Slope and Its Indians—Captain Jack. From a special Heranp correspondent on the ground, we give this morning a very full and specific account of that most extraordinary fight on tho northern frontier of California, between the United States troops and volun- teers, under General Wheaton, and the Modoc Indians, under Captain Jack, known as ‘tho battle of the lava beds.’’ This roport em- braces the general field orders of General Wheaton for tho attack upon the Indians’ stronghold, and the reports of several officers of the operations of their respective detach- ments in the engagement, with its unfortunate results to the United States forces. Consider- ing only the number of men actually engaged in this battle it was a small affair, the fighting force of General Wheaton being only some three hundred, regulars and volunteers, whilo the opposing warriors of Captain Jack are sup- posed to have been about two hundred. But, considering the nature of the ground and its difficulties, the extent of tho field of operations, the enveloping fog, the invisible enemy, the casualties to Wheaton’s command and the duration of the engagement, it be- comes the most remarkable battle with the Indians, in all the records of tho Indian wars of this country, since that of Braddock’s de- feat in the woods on the Monongahela, ono hundred and seventeen years ago. This California ‘battle of tho lava beds’’ is without a comparison in reference to the natural difficulties to the attacking party of the ground over which it was fought. The operations of Gaines and Scott and Taylor, in the everglades of Florida against the Sem- inoles, were child’s play compared with the attack upon the natural defences of Captain Jack, from which it was found impossible not only to get at his Indians, but impossible to obtain more than a passing glimpse of a war- rior, here and there, though the fight was maintained at short rifle range from early morning till late in the evening. In a pre- vious letter from the Heraup headquarters accompanying Wheaton’s command, our cor- respondent, speaking of these lava beds, says that ‘nobody had any idea of the nature of the ground until they got in there, and that that fact, coupled with the dense fog, completely bewilderod the troops and settlers forming the attacking party;’’ that ‘“‘some of the settlers who were in the fight have since told me that they would hear the voices of Indians they knew were right above them, speaking to them and jib- ing them, and, while looking up to see where the sound came from, they would hear it again right behind their backs or from an entirely different quarter;” that tho battle field is a locality formed of ‘immense masses of rocks that look as if they had been suddenly up- heaved from the bowels of the earth and had fallen in indescribable confusion one over another; that ‘there are fissures and crevices between these masses of rocks over a hundred feet deep, and all’kinds of rocks on rocks, heaped up in various groups, forming natural fortifications that five men could defend against o hundred.” But even this description fails to convey to the reader an approximate idea of the geo- logical character of this battle field of the lava beds and of the volcanic country round them for scores and hundreds of miles. Between the forty-second and forty-third parallels of north latitude and between the one hundred and twenticth and one hundred and twenty-first parallels of west longitude from Greenwich there is a won- derfal system of lakes, mountains, plains, and volcanic débris. Some of these lakes, having no outlets, are brackish or bitter and are known as alkali lakes ; but a chain of them connecting with the Klamath River, which empties into the Pacific one hundred and fifty miles to the westward, are sweet, fresh- water lakes, and near one of these, named Tule or Rhett Lake, is the scene of this bat, tle of the lava beds. From the Rocky Moun. tains to the Pacific const the prevailing char- acter of the country, as described by Fremont, is that of ‘‘a land of fracture and violence and fire.’ From the Yellowstone to the Pacific const tho numerous geysers, bot springs, exe tinct craters, yoleanic canyons and fissures, and lava beds and scori#, and upheavals of all descriptions, over all this vast and des- olate region, from Oregon to Mexico, impress the traveller with the reflection that ho is pass- ing through a section of the Continent that has hardly yet cooled down from the vol- canio forces which lifted it out of the sea. Tho lakes, the plains, the mountains, the hot springs and the lava beds, in the midst of which this late battle was fought, present only in bolder relief than some other localities of our Pacific slope the evidences of the force of the subter- ranean fires which gast up ‘these masses of rocks, and which ripped these fissures in the earth, in their strange and wild confusion, as far as the eye can reach even in that clear at- mosphero of Midsummer. Woe have no doubt that the fields of those lava beds of Captain Jack cover an area over which a million of men on each side would have room enough for all the required strategical combinations and movements of a general engagement. It appears, too, that with these strong natu- fal fortifications in his front Captain Jack has the Tule fresh-water lake in his rear, which supplies him with water, while its grassy border supplies his beef. His capitulation or extermination, however, is but a question of a few days or weeks, and we presume, from the sagacity and skill he has displayed as a sol- dier, that he comprehonds the folly of fighting to the last ditch, and, with the prostige of his late victory, the advantages of a treaty of peace. His people have evi- dently suffered from depredations and outrages from the neighboring white settlers, including, no doubt, some would-be contractors for army supplies on account of this Indian war. To many of our reckless Western ad- venturers an Indian war is a profitable specu- lation, and even from a well-concocted canard of Indians on the warpath our desperate white speculators in such things frequently “turn an honest penny’’ to the amount of thousands of dollars for army supplies nover furnished or for losses wholly fictitious, How many bills, for the next ten or fifteen years, -will be passed by Congress for relief to our white settlers of Oregon and California for services, supplies or losses on account of this war of Captain Jack we cannot conjecture; but we may safely say that in the end the aggregate cost of this little war will exceed ten thousand dollars for every Indian con- cerned in it. We approve, nevertheless, General Sheri- dan’s decisive policy of making peace with our refractory and intractable red brethren. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail have become good Indians ; but to bring theso high and mighty chiefs of the buffalo country to reason the wholesome lesson of a terrible thrashing or two was found necessary. So, too, General Howard, with his Quaker policy among tho Apaches, was a melancholy failure until Gen- eral Crook was driven to tho other alter- native of the sabre and the carbine against those ferocious savages; and now, with their warriors reduced to a mere handful, they may submit to be fed and clothed by their good white brothers, Howard and Collyer, and to make and abide by a treaty with their Great Father to live upon his bounty, and to say their prayers every morn- ing, and to stay on their reservation, and to go onthe warpath no moro unless they hear of a passing emigrant train too convenient for plunder and too tempting for scalps to be re- sisted. The Cases of the Bribed Congress- men=—Who Are Most Gullty? Before Congress acts upon the report of Bishop Poland’s committee it may be well to consider exactly what that report means. Stripped of all verbiage the people concerned in the Crédit Mobilier frauds are of two classes— the briber and the bribed. Oakes Ames is the embodiment of the one, James Brooks the representative of the other. Morally the crime of these men is the same. Oakes Ames, ® member of Congress, in order to further the designs of men associated with him in the management of the Union Pacific Railroad, placed certain stock of the Crédit Mobilier of America in the hands of certain members of Congress. In doing this he bribed them. In receiving the stock and dividends they were bribed. Poland’s com- mittee recognized one of these facts in recom- mending that he should be expelled from the House. The committee stultified itself by ig- noring the other fact, which was equally plain to every unprejudiced mind. The case of Brooks shows how flagrant this stultification was. Brooks received one hun- dred and fifty shares of stock, upon which a cash dividend of nino thousand dollars was paid in Juno, 1863. This was bribery, of course. Let us see whether it diffors materially from the other cases. Mr. Henry L. Dawes “bought’’ ten shares of stock, upon which he paid eight hundred dollars. Soon afterwards he received four hundred dollars in dividends and two hundred dollars additional on account of his “pur- chase."’ Thorough investigation, as in tho case of Brooks, the democrat, would have re- vealed a different state of facts; but, taking it as it stands, it was bribery. Mr. Glenni W. Scofield “‘bought’’ ten shares and received the dividends—one of eighty and another of sixty per cent. There was after- wards a ‘“‘settlement’’ with Mr. Ames, Was not this bribery also? Mr. John A. Bingham “bought” twenty shares of stock, and was made happy in cor- respondingly large dividends, Mr. William D. Kelley “bought” ten shares of stock, and Mr. Ames “‘carried’’ them for him. He received the dividends which Dawes and Bingham received. The committee tell us this much, thus impeaching Kelley's vera- city, for ho denied ever having owned the stock. Mr. James A. Garfield is in a position iden- tical with that of Kelley. Tho cases of Patterson and Colfax were equally flagrant with the others, and more flagrant in this that these men were utterly reckless in their prevarication, James F. Wilson is out of Congress, and it is scarcely worth while to waste even our contempt on him. It will be time enough to settle the case of William B. Allison when ho offers to take his place in the Senate. Wherein do any of those cases differ from the case of Brooks? Colfax was equally guilty. Why, then, is he not impeached? dignity by expelling him? Dawes, Scofield, Bingham, Kelley and Garfield were equally guilty. Why, then, did not the committee recommend their expulsion as well as that of Brooks? The reason is plain and the coun- try will understand it. Ames and Brooks were made scapegoats for tho others, with a possi- ble chance for the escape of all. The report is partial, unjust, disgraceful. If Amos and Brooks are expelled it will be a wrong which the American peoplo will not overlook, for the others are equally guilty and ought to receive like punishment, If they cscape as well as the others the outrage will be scarcely leas marked. In either event Poland and his nsso- ciates will share the infamy and die with the curses of their countrymen upon them. University Reform in Ireland—Another Blow at Ancient Abuses. The members of the conservative party in the British House of Commons, under the lead- ership of Mr. Disraeli, are determined to array the Parliamentary opposition in solid phalanx against Mr, Gladstone's project for a new sys- tem of university education in Ireland. They have not, however, finally decided as to the most available strategy for the probable ac- complishment of their purpose, and, as is always the case when matters relating to pub- lic education come under discussion, a good deal can be said on both sides of this Irish university question. English Parliament- ists—Disraeli, Gathorne Hardy and others— have just taken counsel with the ropresenta- tives of Dublin city, and debated, perhaps de- termined on, tho line of assault most available to their party interests. The question is ono of vast national importance to Great Britain, for the reason that the attempt which is to be made to settle the university question in Ire- land will have generally a disturbing effect and will exercise a powerful influence in tho removal of ancient abuses both in England and Scotland, as well as in Ireland. The university system of Ireland has long been a standing disgrace to the British government. ‘The endowment of Maynooth and the establish- ment of the Queen’s colleges were attempts to remove the disgrace; but Maynooth, which was a bait to the Catholics, and the Queen's colleges, which were meant to be a bait equally to non-priestly Catholics, middle-class Protest- antsand Presbyterians, failed to satisfy the Irish people. The demand has always been for a national university ; but a national university was an impossibility so long as there was an Established Church, the very existence of which was an open insult to the sentiments of three-fourths of the population of Ireland. Trinity College, Dublin, has from its founda- tion claimed university rights and privi- leges; but from the higher benefits of Trinity College the great body of the Irish people have been during very many centuries shut out by a cruel religious test. It has been @ close, corporation, existing for tho benefit of the Episcopal Church. Its professors have always been members of that Church, and no student can win a fellowship or take a degree unless he signs the Thirty-nine Articles, It was this exclusive character of Trinity which, in years gone by, sent the Roman Catholic youth to Douay and the young Pres- byterians of the province of Ulster to Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Episcopal Church is no longer the Established Church’ in Ireland. An Established Church, in fact, no longér exists. Now that there is no Church by law established in the Green Islo, Mr. Gladstone has the opportunity of at once removing a grievance and turning Trinity College to some account. Maynooth is for clerical students only; the Queen’s colleges do not satisfy; ‘Trinity College, with its splendid halls and magnificent endowments, is an eyesore, and the demand of the Irish people is for a national university. ¥t is understood to be Mr. Gladstone's intention to disconnect Trinity College from the Episcopal Church, and by tho abolition of tests and otherwise to make it the nucleus of a univer- sity system which shall meet the wants of | the whole Irish people, without regard to religious belief. How to preserve the Queen’s culleges, and how to conserve tho rights of the Episcopal Church—which Mr. Gladstone is bound to do—and at the same time make Trinity College the centre of the new national university system, aro questions somewhat hard to answer. When accom- plished it will bea great revolution, and it will give Ireland a place far ahead of both Scotland and England in the matter of educa- tion. It will unquestionably prove a most diffi- cult task; but Mr. Gladstone knows how to carry it through and to secure success. The alienation of Trinity College from the Episcopal Church in Ireland will be felt to be a deathblow to Cambridge and Oxford in Eng- land. The tide of ecclesiastical reform rises higher and higher. Church and State connec- tion is doomed the wide world over. It is no longer a local question or confined to any one nation. It is as much a question in Berlin as in Rome, and it is not unfair to say that what has happened and is happening in Ireland will soon be experienced both in Scotland and England. Public opinion, enlightened as it now is by the press, is making short work with ancient abuses. Right is now finding its place and truth its opportunity. The Ocean Telegra, h Cables=—Prepara- tions for Soundings. It is not long since we advised the employ- ment of two United States vessels-of-war to sound the desired routes seross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for telegraph cables. The former route could be via Bermuda, as a stop- ping place, or, possibly better, a direct route to Gibraltar; but that we leave to the judg- ment of those supposed best acquainted with the subject, Anyway, we again urge that after the equinoctial storms of April of this year this work should commence; for in these times of peace our naval vessels and officers cannot, we hold, be better employed serving the nation than by gaining information for the publie’by surveying and sounding out the beds of the great oceans, which the demands of commerce call for the laying of telegraph cables across. Thoroughly equip the vessels with'every appliance that can not only obtain accurately the depth of the ocean where sounded, but such apparatus as will bring up specimens of the bottom of tho great seas, Indeed, we should know, if possible, the cradle-bed and temperature of the ocean coverlid where we wish to lay our carefully cared-for cable that is to flash our wishes, our wants and our demands as @ nation. Patterson was equally guilty. Why, then, | Secretary Robeson has done much for the does not the Seunte aggert ite honor aud: pavy, and dosires to apsist, wo doubt not, our i eratitude. Tho only question tomaining te commercial interests, If eo, let him advise the President to direct our vessels-of-war to ran lines of soundings several times across the great oceans until the best route is shown and the commercial intsrest of our people thus served. Congress should immediately appropriate money for the best kind of sound- ing apparatus, so that the work may be well and thoroughly done. Woe await to sco what action will be taken, Ee Tom Scott's Defeat in Jersey—Down with Blonopoltes, Groat men are liable to mistakes as woll as the humble, unpretending day laborer. Docs any one cavilatthe axiom? The king can do no wrong, but ho may suffer defeat, even though he be hedged round with divinity. When the student of history looks for a mani- festation of that divinity in any ago whatever he is befogged. We are no better off in this respect than our ancestors. Nobody appreci- ates the force of this philosophy to-day mors than tho great and hitherto invincible railroad king, Tom Scott. His dominions oxténd from the Atlantic'to the Pacific, Like the lion that challenged the echo in the fable, he has stood upon an eminence more command- ing than the lofty summits of the Alleghanios or the Rocky Mountains, and dared rivalry. He conquered without stooping. A wave of his hand or a movement of his shaggy locks was more efficacious in securing obo- dience to his mighty will than tho tinkle of a cortain famous little bell within the past do- cade. Fisk was regarded as invincible, but only because public opinion is often superficial and © invincibility becomes a synonym for success. Hoe believed he was invincible and he made others believe it, and, believing it, they feared him. Vanderbilt measured swords with him, and his blade was shivered to pieces. But Fisk never challenged Scott to combat, and this in itself is sufficient proof of tho undis- puted sway which tho latter exorcised. He was ruler of the rulers in the mighty railroad confederation. He, too, believed he was invin- cible, for he had nover suffered defeat. How the mighty are fallen! What a change within a few brief months! A monarch may, indeed, suffer defeat, but the mistake which engenders it is more galling than the defeat. King Scott holds dominion over vast territo- ries, where his command is absolute. His ruling passion is annexation, as his ambition is to subject the whole railroad systems of the _ country to his sway. It is but two yoars since, like Bismarck with Alsace, he set covet- ous eyes on a little province called Jersey, and he unceremoniously—for there were few forms of law observed—annexed it to his dominions. He took the railroads as a boy would his play- things into his band, and after gloat- ing over his prize quietly slipped thom into his pocket and marched back” to Pennsylvania. From that day poor little Jersey has been an appanage of the Keystone State; a province twice conquered, fer Cam- den and Amboy ruled over it for more than & quarter of a century. It was a change of masters, one being as remorseless as the other. But now, to make the parallel com- plete, Jersey has proved an Alsace to the con- queror. The mutterings of disaffection aro deep, and tho resolve for emancipation cannot be crushed out. The people cannot be cajoled with such legal phraseology as ‘railroad con- solidation,”” nor deceived by the sophistry that the promise of increased dividends to the old Jersey stockholders under the new order of things indicates the advent of an era of plenty and peace. The Pennsylvania Central in Jersey is just what old Camden and Am- boy was—a tyrannical~monopoly, That is the case in a nutshell. The peoplo have gtown weary of monopolies, for the long- standing one alluded to had become notorious for its defiance of public opinion, its disregard of the rights of the people, its flagrant corrup- tion and its demoralizing practices in tho halls of legislation. To secure both branches of the Legislature in the interest of Camden and Amboy was a matter of little difficulty. The lobbyist cracked his whip, the moncy bags wera untied, and so the corruption of public officials, especially legislators, under the reign of Cam- den and Amboy, has become proverbial. And here is just where Tom Scott made the mis- take which must prove most detrimental to his prestige. The work of debauching the Legislature at the present session is a failure. The lobbyist’s occupation is gone, for a few weeks at least. The memorable contest on Monday night in the Assembly was ostensibly carried on between the friends of the monopoly and the representatives of the people on the flocr of the House, but it was in reality a deadly struggle between the masses represented in the galleries and the recreant repre- sentatives on the floor, The menacing attitude of that audience, containing hun- dreds of ladies, could not safely be disre- garded, and three weak-kneed members, cow- ering before the storm, confessed their sins just in time to prevent their enrolment in “The Black List,” which is to be widely cir- culated throughout the State. Petitions from every quarter in favor of a new railroad in opposition to tht Scott monopoly were piled upon the Speaker's dosk till that officer, too, quailed before the storm and openly avowed his conversion. Well might the railroad mon- arch exclaim at that moment, as he witnessed the wholesale and unexpected desertion of his troops, “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!’? But no horso was at hand, and the bill, which declares that the people have rights which even railroad kings are bound to re- spect, was passed by the handsome vote of 41 to 18, The fate of the men comprising that eighteen will not be in any sense an enviable one if the expressions of the crowd collected from every quarter of the State in the As- sembly Chamber have any signification. They will retire to private life in company with the Senators who on the same night forced through a bill for another rail- road in the interest of Tom Scott, and in such violation of law aa well as of common decency that the President refused to vote and told the men whowe consciences Scott has in his pockets that they were linble to indictment. The bill had not been advertised for tho term pre- seribed by law. Mr. Taylor is a sound lawyer as wellas a conscicntious gentleman, and in hia decision he was right. But the agents of the monopoly appealed from his decision and car- ried their point. To Havens, Hewitt, Pattorsom, Letson and their companions in artns who bat tled against the monopoly on that eventfal night the people of New Jersey ows f lasting dewey