The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD a bs BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIET sa AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ATHENEUM, No. £85 Broadway.—Guanp Vantery En- PERTAINURNT. IBLO’S GARDEN, Hoamon streets. —Lzo Broadway, between Prince and axp Loros, OLYMPIC FRRATAR, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker etreets.—Humrry Dumrrr, INION UARE THEATRE, Union square, between mvedeny ou Fourth avy.—Ons Munpaxp Years OLD. WALLAOR'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip Ganrice. . BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Tioner o Leave Man. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5i¢ Broadway.—Paerrr Dice Toarin. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Nigar on 4 Steam 804t—Wie o! raz WISP. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Eighth av.—Rovgaine It. GERMANTA THEATRE, Fourteomth street, near Third av. as StirruNGSsrEst. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALIZE. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Across tux Conrivenr. Afternoon and Evening. MBS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ALrze. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner Oth av.—Neoro Minsrretsy, £0. bed TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Vanmere Eyrantatnuexr. % fAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and jroadway.— Emusorian Minstressy, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Sorence any Anr. Now York, Thursday, Feb. 27, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT ON THE LOUISIANA POLITICAL TROUBLE |""—LEAD- ING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—Srxtn Pages. CONGRESS WORSHIPPING THE GOLDEN CALF ! THE LEADERS IN ISRAEL WAGING A RUTHLESS VERBAL WARFARE! THE BOTTLED-UP HERO UNCORKED AND SPUTTERING IN AMES’ DEFENCE! BANKS IN FAVOR OF THE POLAND REPORT ! BINGHAM AND BECK IN THE MELEE! THE ISSUE TO-DAY—TuirD Page. PATCHING UP A PEACE WITH THE MODOCS! THE SQUAW AMBASSADRESSES ARRANG- ING FOR THE “BIG TALK’ WITH THE “BRAVES” OF THE COMMISSION! OAP- TAIN JACK ANXIOUS FOR’ PEACE—Fovrtr Page. RUSSIAN SOCIALIST INSURRECTION! THE FIENDS BUTOHERING AND BURNING WITH VANDAL LIKE FEROOITY | DEFEAT OF THE REGULAR TROOPS SENT AGAINST THEM! 47] thing of a in the NEWS TRANSMISSION ESTOPPED! THE PLOT AND ITS VERY SERIOUS PROG- RESS—SEVENTH PaGE. REVOLUTION IMMINENT IN PERU! A MOB FORCES ITS WAY INTO CONGRESS AND . DEMANDS A CHANGE OF MINISTRY! PO LITIOAL TROUBLE IN BOLIVIA—SEventa Pag. A REVOLT ANTICIPATED AGAINST THE HAY- TIAN GOVERNMENT! PORT AU PRINGE ARMING—SEVENTH Pace. UTAH RECONSTRUCTION! A LOBBY SCHEME! ENFORCING THE LAWS—SEVENTH Page. DANGERS IN THE NEW SPANISH PATIIWAY ! AN ACTIVE CARLIST CAMPAIGN DE- CIDED UPON! GERMANY AND AUSTRIA UNFRIENDLY! SWISS RECOGNITION! A EUROPEAN COALITION IN DEFENCE OF PORTUGAL—SEVENTH Pace. EUROPEAN CABLE NEWS! LONDON INSUR- ANCE LOSSES BY THE CHICAGO AND BOSTON FIRES! THE LABOR STRIKES IN GERMANY—SEVENTH Page. SPECIAL ITEMS OF WASHINGTON NEWS—Szv- anTH PaGs. A SECOND WATERLOO FOR TOM SCOTT! TSE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD DICTATOR GIVEN AWAY BY THE JERSEY PHILIS- TINES IN ASSEMBLY—TentH Page. ALBANY NEWS! LEGISLATIVE DOINGS—MARI- TIME INTELLIGENCE—TentH Page. LOOKING INTO THE EMIGRANT SWINDLES! THE LITTLE GAMES OF THE SWINDLERS AND HOW THEY SUCCEED! MULLER’S MALVERSATION—Firra Page. EXCITING DAY IN WALL STREET! A GRAND TUMBLE IN THE STOCK MARKET! THE MONEY RATE AS HIGH AS 00 PER CENT PER ANNUM! PACIFIC MAIL AND PANAMA AS SENSATIONS! GOLD HIGHER— THE PACIFIO MAIL PANIC—EicaTa Pace. SCANNELL'S SANITY! HIS MOTHER'S TESTI- MONY! A LAWYER SUSPENDED FOR OON- TEMPT! GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS— Firra Pas. SHALL GOD BE MENTIONED IN THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION? A MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF THE MEASURE! CUTTING UP THE FATHERS OF THE REPUBLIC-- Fovrrn Pacs. THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL PIGEON SHOOT- ING MATCH—THE HERALD CUBAN NEWS COMMISSION—ART—Fovrra Pace. Tas Caanten Procresses Srowty in the Assembly. The section regarding the Alder- hhas been so amended as to give us twenty-one of those troublesome commodi- ties instead of fifteen. They are, if the becomes a charter, to be selected each Senatorial district at large An attempt to appointing power in the Board of Aldermen was defeated, that power having been vested in the Mayor on tho President and Senate plan. The endeavor to push the bill to'e third reading Inst night was a failure, and the battle continues to-day. socialistic character. Frightfal atrocities are attributed to the insurgents. Neither age nor sex is spared, ond, after glutting themselves with plunder, they ruthlessly destroy. The most serious aspect of the situation as pre- sented is that a force of Russian troops sent to put down the insurgents have beon de- feated. Socialism is no new thing in Russia ; but socialism of the Paris Communo sort would’ partake somewhat of the character of novelty, oan ; ee ey ov ‘Ts Repostio or Hart is on thé eM ot another revolution. Port au Prince has been declared in a state of siege, and, according to our Havana God and Liberty will be again invoked Pepublican po!:‘icians @t an arly day, NEW YORK HERALD, | THURSDAY, . oulst2@e Political Trouble. Congress on Wednesday regarding the politi- cal troubles in Louisiana appears to be some- affairs of that State, and, at the same time, is an appeal to Congress to help him out of the dilomma. If there be sin- cerity in the representations of the President, and he does not want the present anomalous state of things and late usurpation of power in Louisiana to go by default—to pass over and leave the usurping government in power—he has got, to use a familiar simile, a white elephant on hand. We fear, however, that Congress and the President are disposed to make short work of the difficulty, by letting the usurping government stand, because that may serve party purposes. The signifi- cant expression in the Message that leads to this inference is that in which the Prosident says, ‘If Congress differs from me as to what ought to be done, I respectfully urge its immediate decision to that effect; otherwise I shall feel obliged, as far as I can by the exercise of legitimate authority, to put an end to the unhappy controversy which disturbs the peace and prostrates the business of Louisiana, by the recognition and support of that gov- ernment which is recognized and upheld by the Courts of the State.’ This, of course, means that the President will uphoid the Kellogg State government in case Congress takes no action, and it is probable that Con- gress will do nothing, and that the over- whelming party majority in that body would prefer to see the matter settled by the Presi- dent in the way he proposes. - Congress is divided on the Louisiana ques- tion pretty much according to the political bias or affiliation of tho membors. For ex- ample, during the debate in the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Trumbull denounced the President for his interference, and advocated the establishment of the McEnery State gov- ernment ; Morton defended the action of the President and eulogized the Kellogg govern- ment, while Carpenter condemned both the State governments and asked for a new elec- tion. The Investigating Committec is at sea in this muddle just about the same. But practical common sense people ask if there is no principle at bottom—no solid ground to go upon to determine the right and to do what is just. In all the affairs of government there is some sound principle either of law or equity to guide those who wish to do right apart from political expediency or prejudices. It is just here where the President — s The Message of SbS President on the fatty cot cre Pale plea for federal interference. seems to be hampered. Honest by nature and at heart, he would be inclined to be just if not controlled by party considerations or by a stubborn ad- herence to the line of policy he entered upon at the commencement of the trouble. The first mistake was in permitting a federal judge to interfere in the State election of Louisiana, and the next in sanctioning, or, atleast, in not repudiating, the action of this rampant partisan judge. But, having taken that ground, the President is too proud or too obstinate to acknowledge the error and to rectify the con- sequences. Hence it is that the President in his Message pleads in oxtenuation of the action of Judge Durell, which was really the source of all the trouble, the Enforcement act of Congress, With regard to the rival claim of Senators and Reprosentatives from Luuisiana to seats in Congress he says each house is the proper judge of that; but about the contro- versy over elections to the Legislative Assembly and State offices he appears to sanction the course of the Circuit Court of the United States at New Orleans on the ground that it was under and by virtue of the act of May 31, 1870, entitled ‘An act to enforce the right of the citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of the Union.” No unprejudiced person believes that the action of the federal Judge was not for partisan purposes, was not arbitrary and unjustifiable ; yet the President says he di- rected the United States Marshal to enforce the process, and, if necessary, to use troops for that purpose. This was all under the En- forcement act referred to, or, rather, by an overstraining of that act to suit political exigencies and to appear consistent. We need not go further into the details of this Louisiana difficulty. They are well known to the people everywhere. But there isan im- portant principle involved, which affects the very existence of all State governments as well as that of Louisiana, which we cannot lose sight of. It is all very well for the President to say, as he does in his Message, that he is extremely anxious to avoid any appearance of undue in- terference in State affairs; but words amount to nothing when the action is so different, The greatest tyrants often talk loudly of liberty while they are destroying it insidi- ously. Nothing was better established or more sacred in our system of government, up to the time of the war, when the republican party came into power, than the non-inter- ference with State affairs by the federal gov- ernment. The very basis of American free- dom was local self-government through the municipalities and States. In fact, the germ of our liberty was found in the municipal gov- ernments of England, though it grew and be- came much enlarged on the congenial soil of America. Unfortunately our shallow and time-serving politicians and tyro Presidents have lost sight of that, and are going as fast os possible to centralized des- potism. Tho Enforcement act referred to, in the hands of narrow-minded or sham statesmen, goes far to destroy the foundation of American liberty. Ifa fed- eral judge on any pretext, from ignorance or to serve partisan political purposes, can set aside an election in Louisiana, why not in New York or Maganchusetts? The pretence of car- rying out the Enforcement act of Congress could be used in one State ss well as another. Only think how monstrous it is that one man can subvert the machinery of government, de- feat the will of the people and throw a State into anarchy! Have our liberties no better foundation than the caprice or partisan preju- dice of one federal officer ? Thore appears to be a Pandora box of trouble this ent act. Tho time might come when gn aspiring tyrant could tise it as a pretext to place a large Poruct of the coun- try under military authority. It is é4ay tom, there has not boon o fair election and that certain citizens have boon doéted to vote or L restinine! from voting, apd then to ud some his process and éause Tho Mossage which tho President sent to | for military interference. We have had that on a emall goalo in Loyisiona, and we may havo it on. larger bine. What would follow? Jn all probability the defrauded and injured citizens would revolt againgt guoh despotism, and anarchy and civil war and military rule be the result. Judge Durell, the other foderal office-holders of Now Orleans, tho President and a partisan Congress are treading upon dangerous ground. The course to have pursued in this Loui- siana matter was to have allowed the proper State officers to decide upon the election re- turns and not to have permitted a federal judge or any other federal officor to interfere. However, after the mistake was made by in- terforing and the difficulty became in oonse- quence more implicated, the alternative was to advise or authorize a now election. That would not have excused the first wrong step, but it would have applied the fairest and safest remedy. Why, then, should not Con- gress say to the people of Louisiana, “Your affairs have become terribly muddled, and that partly through the improper action of federal authority, and now there appears to be no way of extricating the State but through 4 new and fair election ?"* Why should not Con- gress meet the question thus and revert the whole matter back to the people of the State? When a wrong done cannot be repaired the only reasonable course is to make all the com- pensation possible. The people of Louisiana would, probably, accept such advice from Congress, or the Executive, particularly if offered in the kind manner proposed, and in the interest of peace. Then let this be the last case of federal interpostion in State elections or State affairs. American freedom, strongly as it may have bcon fortified, cannot long with- stand such shocks. Next to admitting the duly elected State authorities, as returned by the proper local officers, which, perhaps, it would be difficult to do now, o new election seems to be the only just solution of the trouble and the way to pence. - The Last Scene but One in the Mo- bilicr Trial Farce. This morning the House of Representatives will decide, so far as it can, the fate of tho Orédit Mobilier corruptionists. That the body has already shown a disposition to shield those who have disgraced it leads to the vory natu- ral conclusion that if even the chief offender is sacrificed it will be through indifference rather than the spirit of justice which should guide the avenging hand. It was surely a blessed sight for those who had the privi- lege of witnessing it to see Mr. Bingham tise in the House and defend his patron Hoax Ames, That this man, steeped to the lips in the same degradation that belongs to the shovel-maker, should stand up for the honesty of the latter is, after all, fitting, That he should have the audacity to do so is only to be com- prehended in connection with the fact that the House was found willing to listen to him. That he should decry the honest spirit of patriotism which has consigned his name, as well as that of Hoax Ames and the rest, toa dishonored tomb, is as natural as that the fallen Lucifer should curse the sun. For General Butler's course in the matter there is the excuse which he makes himself, that he has defended criminals before now in courts of justice. Why, therefore, should he not be the defender of a criminal to-day? There is nothing in his position to astonish anybody, Shouts of laughter may ring ——Cracked and thin, Like a man’s laughter heard in hell, when he tells the House that there are but five just men init. He knows his audience, and knows that when he hits its measure of self- appreciation he will be applauded. He assails the press, and every galled jade whose withers have been wrung as much as his own in his day feels that there isa balm in Gilead after all. General Banks, who also made a speech, was full of apologies for tho course he and his associates of the committee felt obliged to take. His fraternal feeling for Ames made it difficult for him to sharpen the sword of Bunker Hill and strike off the head of his colleague. He would sooner have had it beaten into a shovel and throw up trenches around the be- leaguered Hoax. For Brooks, too, his bowels of compassion were strangely griped. It was the most painful duty of his life to ask for the sacrifice of these two. In face of all this backsliding, hesitancy and tears for traitors to public trust it is curious that some member with the shamelessness of Bingham—say Kelley, Dawes or Garfield— should not seriously propose a resolution not merely exonerating Ames and Brooks, but passing a severe censure upon the country and public opinion. Ifthey have decided to accept the dishonor of acquitting these men, why not rush on and formally condemn honesty and patriotism as things not to be tolerated within the walls of Congress? So faras the trial has progressed it is a farce and an insult to decency. Lot the members, then, before they conclude, do something to fill the people with side-splitting laughter, that they may have something pleas- ant to mingle with their shame. “A Journau May Fatt Hare or a trusted statesman there, but still the principles of the party will live, supported by the honest masses,’ said the Potisville (Pa.) Journal last year, and so, it repeats, “it is now. If Pome- roy, or Caldwell, or Colfax prove to be cor- tupt, their influence in the republican party will cease, while republicans will demand their punishment.” The Journal speaks for the coal and iron kings of Pennsylvania. Now let us see who and how many of the fallen trusted stateamen will be punished, “You Wa Dic tae Grave or tHe Re- pusLicaN Party," cried Congressman Haw- ley, ‘tif you increase the pay of members of Congress.’’ Oongressman Hawley hos not yet been renominated nor re-elected from the First Congressional district in Connecticut Perhaps he thinks the republican party has as heavy burdens as it can bear pending the present election canvass in Connecticut, “Let Tazre Be No Fawnmo or boot- licking, but @ genuine expression of hearty good will towards the man who is to rule our destiny for the four years from tie sth of sn” ya itay un Intelligeneet, in epeciduuce oF Ganon wengt's ba cd plongis or Emigration promgt brovosed Southern tour, sare the Statesvile (N, 0) 1 Tus The Pacific Mall Subsidy Investiga- tiom and the Panic im the Steck. The Congressional investigation into the alleged corruption in the passage of the Pacifio Mail Steamship subsidy is conducted Committee of Ways and Meane.of the of Repiesontatives, of which Orédit’ Mobilier Dawes is the Chairman aad Kelley and Brooks are members. The committee sit with closed doors. The seal of seckéey is affized to all the deeds of corruption they may unwittingly unearth. This is simplya farce: If public opinion had not forced open the doors of Po- land’s whitewashing committee room every- body knows that the guilt of the tainted Oré- dit Mobilier Congressmen would to-day have been unrevealed or only guessed at by tho people through such imperfect hints as might have leaked out through the keyhole. The subsidy voted by Congress to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company is just so much money taken out of the pockets of the people for the advantage of a ring of speculative individuals, There is nothing in the history or management of the company which entitles it to publio aid. Its affairs have not been con- ducted in such a manner as to command con- fidence and approbation. It has been &@ magnificont fraud—a sort of fancy speculation in which fortunes might be made and lost; a football for the gamblers of the streot to kick hither and thither at their will. ‘The events of yesterday on Wall street will serve to show Congress and the people the character of the corporation that has been deemed worthy of special aid out of the public Treasury. The officers of the company wero to be seen struggling to keep the inflated stock up to its fictitious price in order to save them- selves from ruin in the speculations in which they had become involved. ‘The securities of the Pacific Mail and the Panama Railroad, both of which are under the direct control of the president of the former company, were reported to be flying about the street as ‘‘collaterals’’ in order to raise money to carry the stock, which kept falling lower and lower and growing weaker and weaker. It was a “corner,” not made by the intrigues of sharp operators but under the influence of bad management and the conviction that there was no solid basis under the stock at the quotations to which it had been driven by the bulls. The people’s money has been appropriated by Congress to aid such reckless gambling as this and not to assist the company in its legitimate business. The management of the company has been ona par with the character of the stock-job- bing operations of the officers. Its magnifi- cent steamers have been built rather for show than for use, and when they have been lost one after another, the first error has not been remedied, as it might have been if their places had been supplied with sound propel- lers, capable of being run at half the expense and of doing much better service. Enormous amounts have been expended on docks the in- security of which ought to have been apparent to engineers of ordinary capacity. One of the pleas urged in support of the company’s claim for national aid has been its American character. ‘Let us support an American line as the English support British lines’’ has been the specious cry. But the money taken from our Treasury is paid to English vessels to do the company's trade. The Ormsby, run- ning between New York and Aspinwall, is an English shell of iron which no sound English company would own. The Quang Se, an Eng- lish boat, is now on its way to the Pacific by the Suez Canal route, under the command of the captain who lost the Bienville. The Mikado, the Macgregor, the Yokohama and the Hong Kong, the two latter of which are in process of construction, are ail English vessels. This would be all very well if our lawmakers were sensible enough to enact laws which would en- able all our steamship lines to purchase ves- sels in the cheapest markets, but at present they are only subsidizing a favored company to enable it to pay English steamers to carry on its trade. It is notorious that the subsidies granted to the Pacific Mail Company have beon secured by bribery and corruption. No person fami- liat with the business of legislation at Wash- ington has any more doubt of this fact than he has of the location of the Capitol. It is asserted that, in the recklessness of successful jobbery, the members of the House who re- ceived consideration for their last votes in favor of this great swindle have neglected to cover up their tracks; that Mr. Ordway’s books will tell 1 damaging story about the time of the passage of the last subsidy. The committee to which the investigation into this matter has been entrusted has among its members, as we have said, some of the worst of the Orédit Mobilier speculators. They will no doubt endeavor to cover up the track of other dishonest Representatives for their own protection, and it is to that end that their so-called investigation is made with closed doors. This will not do! All the world knows that the Ways and Means Committee is suspected above all others of corruption in this very subsidy business, and a Star-Chamber inquiry will not satisfy the people. Although the session is near its close we must havea full exposure of the iniquity, and the money taken dishonestly out of the public Treasury must be withheld from the company. It is time that the people should be protected against the avarice of this magnificent fraud, and it is only @ proper retribution that the eompany should be made to lose the money it has invested in debauching Congress. Let us have a full and open investigation, and let every honest man in Congress insist upon the repeal of legisla- tion seoured by bribery and corruption. Pro- duce the accounts and minutes of the Pacific Mail corporation and the books of the Ser- geant-at-Arms! In the meantime it will be well for the di- rectors of the Pacific Mail Company to bear in mind that they are all personally liable for any logs that may be incurred through the improper or illegal action of their officers, and it will be well also for the stockholders of both the Panama Railroad and the Pacific Mail to look to their securities, Have they reflected how long it is since a thorough ex- amination of the securities has been made? As all sorts of rumors ore flying about the street, and os it is notorious that the high Officials of Pacific Mail are badly “hit” by the bursting of the bubble, a little pradence on the part of the directors and the stockholders may not be out of place, Commusstonens or ExtonaTion on “¥! wa taatmeoting of the Commis. Abvsra.—At ge oe ted FEBKUARY 27, 1873, -TKEPLEY suier. “Ra muah. | needed action wae taken on the flagrant abuses according ¢o the report of the inveati- C made life on Ward's Island A diet like that to im the report would tend to reduce there to a condition favorable to ‘snatemical experi Ths newly-oppointed agent of the Eric Railway seems to have quite a commotion in the usually placid coun- cils of the Commission. Too much caution canifot be exercised in the protection of emi- grants against unscrupulous parties, and the Commissioners are obliged, by the daty they owe the public, to hold a rigid investigation into the truth or falsity of the charges preferrod against agents: admitted to Castle Garden. ‘This investigation in the case alluded to was commenced yesterday. Taking into considera- tion the vast tide of emigration from Europe to this port the department in question cannot exercise too much vigilance. In this instance the “investigation’’ ought not to be required. No man should be allowed to sell tickets to emigrants in the Garden whose business has been to make a living out of them as a “runner” or a “boarding house keeper."’ Congress—The Utah Bilis Passed by the Senate. The Senate has passed the House bill to carry out the provisions of the Washington Treaty in relation to the Northeastern fisheries, and as the bill has been pushed through in consequence of the President's special message on the subject it may now be considered a law. Our Yankee fishermen, thorefore, may prepare for fishing freely during the season about to open, without fear of molestation, in all the Atlantic coast waters, bays and creeks of the New Dominion. The Committee of Con- ference appointed on the disagreements be- tween the two houses on the bill providing for the distribution of the Geneva award will doubtless settle that matter, so that all the great questions embraced in the Treaty of Washington may be considered as disposed of. In deference to another special message of the President the Senate took into consider- ation and passed yesterday a bill amending the organic Territorial law of Utah, with the view of establishing the supremacy of the United States laws and Courts in said Territory, and, from the President's urgent appeal in behalf of law and order for the bill sug- gested, we presume that the new Dill will become a law before the close of the presen session. Meantime, the prospect for a Con- gressional settlement of the Louisiana im- broglio, upon which the President has also specially appealed for some adjustment, is becoming exceedingly doubtful. Some of the regular appropriation bills still hang fire, and the interval remaining to this Congress to the 4th of March is now so brief that the proba- bilities of an extra session are rather strength- ened than weakened from day to day. The Crédit Mobilier misérables of the House and the Crédit Mobilicr and Louisiana investigations of the Senate, together with the alleged bribery and corruption cases ot Senators Pomeroy and Caldwell, have so demoralized and embarrassed the two houses that they would probably have wholly overlooked the practical measures of legislation required to the end of the session but for the constant attendance of the Presi- dent at the Capitol and his frequent special messages on subjects which cannot be safely neglected. Lamentable, indeed, are the clos- ing days, and lame and impotent, from present indications, will be the conclusion, of this Forty-second Congress. New Srate Proposrrions iv tHE Sourn- west.—After declaring that there is ‘neither bottom nor strength’ to the movement to make a new State out of East Tennessee and certain border counties in North Oarolina, the Nashville Republican Banner mentions the re- ceipt of private information to tho effect that members of the Alabama Legislature are quietly canvassing among themselves the pro- priety of selling to Tennessee all that part of Alabama lying north of the Tennessee River and adding a portion of Florida (including, no doubt, the harbor of Pensacola) to Ala- bama. The geographical positions of both States would be vastly improved by the change; but what would Florida say to the loss of so much of her seacoast? The next new State sensation, the Banner thinks, will be @ proposition to form a new State out of all that portion of West Tennessee lying between the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, with Jackson as its capital ‘By that time,’’ con- cludes our Nashville contemporary, ‘‘we shall have moved the national capital to Nashville, and everything will be lovely.’ Provided, however, Washington Congressional corrup- Tux Srazets—Ane Tusy To Be CLEanev.— Indications of moderate weather and a thor- ough thaw should admonish the Street Clean- ing Bureau that every day’s work expended while the ice and snow are dissolving will be worth more in clearing the streets than twice the amount ata later day. We believe that the city would gladly have paid the expense of removing the snow before successive rains and frost had solidified it into the slippery ice-bed which has been fatal to so many horses. As the Bureau neglected to clear away the snow when it fell, the best it can now do is to employ every man who can be had, while the thaw lasts, sweeping the water into the sewers. If this is not done the carly Spring will find the city streets in a condition as disgraceful as that we saw last year under the discarded con- tractor. Having assumed the duty of Anas ing the streets and protecting the pul in- terests, the Police herr ee pe res; ible by our citizens, We m prepended from mud and dirt sud the Commissioners will not have the excuse of deficient power if they fail in ther self-im- posed duty. om (Manx Tams Previcrion!' exclaims the Albany Journal; “if Ames and Brooks are saved from expulsion it will be due to the action of the democatic members of the House." What pity some power could not have saved Colfax. Patterson, Bingham, Gar- ‘The March Seasom of Italian Opera, After a successful round of performances im different parta of the country, and particularl; yy at Boston and Chicago, the Italian opera com- Panty has returned fora short season of four weeks in New York, commencing to-morrow evening, with “Favorita’’ end Lucos it r6le of Leonorh. It is reported there will some change in the cast of characters in the Tepresentation of this opera, and that Jamet and Vizzani will take the places of Coulon and Abrugnedo. With this change, and Lucoa having well rested and being in fine voice, we may expect a most enjoyable entertainment. “Favorita’’ was given during the last season, and all who saw the splendid performance of Mme. Lucca then must want to ses it repeated. Among the best lyric artists of the world there is not one, perhaps, who equals Lucca in this réle in dramatia fervor, in the charm of her action and in the use of her exquisite voice. To see and hear her as Leonora is something to be remembered for life. Now that this truly great artist hag come again-for a short season, and perhaps the last in New York, let us hope there will be no more attempts to drag her down to the level of artists who are not comparable with her. It is seldom we havo an opportunity of seeing such transcendent talents as hers, and wa ought, therefore, in the interest of art and the opera, to be just, at least, if not generous. We hope the management may have a profit- able season, and that the charming little prima donna may meet with the sucvess she so well deserves. Tae Sovru Amxntcan Revowurionsr At TaTIon is extending in Peru and Bolivia. The movement in Peru has been intensified by the shooting and killing by government officials of Colonels Gamindo and Ceballos at their place of political exile on the Amazon. A change of Ministry, perhaps of government, is imminent in Lima, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Governor Hoffman and family are in Nice. General James Watson Webb is convalescing at Nice. Dion and Mrs. Boucicault bave returned to the Clarendon Hotel. General W. J. Palmer, of Colorado, bas arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Governor Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. _}.° Ex-Congressman Thomas Cornell, of Rondout, ig ‘€t the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. O. Stenersen, the Swedish Minister, is im town, stopping at the Hoffman House. “Easy as A, B, C’—(Ames, Brooks and Colfax)— winning and losing Congressional honors. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Morton and Miss Morton yess terday sailed in the Abyssinia for Liverpool. State Treasurer R. W. Mackey, of Pennsylvania, yesterday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. There’s many a slip ’twixt the rope and the neck. Vide Stokes and the Sheriff's warrant for his exe~ cution. Vicomte Montauban, son of the Comte ae Pall. kao, is to marry Miss Butterfleld, an English heiress. The nomination of Mr. Kilbourne Knox, of New York, as Commissary General, has been confirmed by the Senate. Mayor Havemeyer’s granddaughter, Miss Peet, ‘was especially noticed for skilful riding at a late fox hunt on the Roman Campagna. The editor of the Pniladelphia Press says somes thing that has occurred in Congress reminds hing of a bottle of champagne. Only one! P-r-0-d-1-g-1- 0-u-s! An exchange says it is not surprised that twa shaves should make @ Man appear crazy—one -shave with some razors has set many a man halt crazy. Captain Jack, the Modoc, says “Squire Steele made him chief.” As things look now it seems aa if a general steal might be somewhere in this Mo- doc business. It is wickedly insinuated by a Boston paper that Congressman Alley demanded pay and mileage from each committee before which he testified on the same day. It is stated that Governor Geary’s death was o@ casioned by the use of hair dye in which sugar of lead was a principal ingredient. An unbeliever Says he wore a wig. Mr. and Mrs. Field, of this city, are reperted to give the most brilliant entertainments had by the “best society” of Rome. Their daughter has be- come the Princess Triggiano. The Chicago Times is apprehensive of the fate of that $7,000 which Pomeroy paid York now that ft ism the hands of a Congressional committee, Afraid of the “sawdust” game? Henry Ward Beecher visited the ’Change at St. Louis yesterneon, and made a short speech to the merchants, which was cordially received. A large number of ladies filled the galleries of tly chamber. A modern writer has said, “Despised moneyset ting, in its normal operation, is the most bae- ficent passion of mankind.” Will this appy t® the passion of Congressmen for operatiow im Crédit Mobilier stock ? Mr. William Barnes, son-in-law of Thurloy Weed, has been appointed General Manager of tte Indus- trial Exhibition Company of New York. He was for ten years Superintendent of the Instrance De- partment of this State. “Aleck” Stephens was elected to Congress yeste~ day from the Eighth Georgia district. He "*# “coached” in the canvass by the spirit of thriate ‘Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Stephens will take 4 946 in the Porty-third Congress. Governor Jewell, of Cennecticat, nas %* abe an oMicial inspection of the Stat Wethersfield and feund everythin, Satisfactory 5 which is more than he could sa f the weather itself about the same time. sywants, bes Governor Hartranft, of Per — menced the pardoning busir#* bY pardening some scamps who poisoned @ votAble horse in order ta prevent him from winn/¥ 0 Tce {a wheh np, g Wore interostew spevare already beating the bush’ for ciindidates forthe Presidency after General Grant’s second r*™!. The Cincinnati Commervia’ expresses its prierence tor Elihu B. Washburne, our Minister ¢ France, as the successor of Grant, Mr. Peshi’ Smith, the Adviser on International Law to t» Japanese Government, has optaine® notoner %Y 8n ineffectual attempt to re noune his natienality as acitizen of the United Star of America and become & “poor, ignorant, fiold & Co. from the blandishment of the arch- tempter Ames “fr Looxeo Opp Enovan,"’ remarks the Boston Transcript, ‘to see that in Washington on Monday General Banks carried an ad- ministration measure over the decided oppdsi- tion of General Butler.” There aro a good ie pe ing things going on in Wash ee nethen Japanese."” ‘The Ghicage Tribune regards the appointment of Senator Dick Yates as a government Director of the Union Pacifie Railway as a joke. If eo, itis the best practical one that has originated in Washing- ton for@iong time, It beats Oskes Ames’ best, and in ordinary times woula be werth @ million. George Sand thinks that the late ex-Emperor Napeleon méver deserved to be treated as either a monsteror am idiot. As @ private individual he had sterling qualities, and frem her own experi- ence she beara testimony to the sincere and generous side of his character. Whata pity, then, he built on sand. Count Bernstorf, who lately arrived here to ree Place Count Arco as Chief Secretary of the German Legation, yesterday came on from Washington ‘a the Brevoort House, and will sail in the Bremen steamship Cimbria te-day. The occasion ef hia sudden recall to Europe is the serious iliness of hig father, the German Minister to England, THE PRESIDENT INVITED TO NASHVILLE. Naskvitue, Tenn,, Feb, 26, 1873. The City Council unamimously adopted a resolu- tion 6xtending af jnvipation to President Grant ta visit Neshetle during tie Soutnetn tour, and teu dering him the hoapitauty of the city.