The New York Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1874.—TRIPLE NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore HeEnatp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. -No, 37 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—EINE VORNEUME EHE, at $P. M.; closes at 11 P.M, THEATRE COMIQUF. No, 514 Broadway.—COLLEEN BAWN, and VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, ; closes at 10:50 P.M. BOOTH'S THEATRE, | ‘Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street —FLENE, at 7:45 #. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. A, Mrs, J. B. Booth. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirwenth street—MONEY, at8P. M.; | closes at ll P. M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jedreys Lewis, OLYMPIC THEATRE, eets , between Houston jeecker street. — Peto ny iLte and NOVELTY RYAINMENT ana Holman Opera Troupe, a es at ll P.M. ARK THEATRE, yn —DAVID GARRICK and Closes at 49 P.M. Mr. B.A. BROOKL’ opposite City ball, B DUNDREARY, at 8 P. Sothern. BROOKLYN THEATRE, Brooklyn.—LADY AUDLEY'S SE- | loses at IL P.M. Mrs. Bowers. CRET, at 8 P. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—THE SIAMESE TWINS: PASSION. Begins at 8P. M.; closes atli P.M. Mass Laura Alberta, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway —VARLETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 74 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. NIBLI ARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.-THE | GOOD FOR NOTHING; THE WRONG MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE, Begins at 8P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Vokes Family, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Brosdway, corner Thirtieth street.—PUSS IN BOOTS, atz P.M.; closes at 4:30P. M. TEN NIGHTS 1N A BARROOM, at8 P. M.; closes at il P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Twenty-third street and Broadway.—FOLLINE, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10:3) P.M. Mr. Harkins, Miss Ada’ Dyas. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Bight, avenue and Twenty-third street—HUMPTY | DCUMPTY ABROAD, at 7:46 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Ur. G. L Fox. TONY PASTOR’S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.—VARiETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. ‘M. ; closes at 11 P. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Twenty-third street. corner of Sixth avenue —CINDER- ELLA'IN BLACK, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at 8 I’. M.; closes at 10 P.M. COLOSBEUM, Broadway. corner of Thirty-flith street.—PARIS BY NIGHT, at 1 P.M; closes at OP. M.; same at7 2. M.; closes at 10 P.M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, No. 128 West Fourteenth, street.—EXHIBITION OF PIC- ZURSS AND ANTIQUITIES. Open trom 10 4. M. to 5 TRIPLE SHI Feb. 6, 1874. New York, Frida THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. ASHANTEE CONQUERED! THE KING RELEASES ALL WHITE CAPTIVES AND TENDERS HIS SUBMISSION TO GENERAL WOLSELEY! £200,000 INDEMNITY TU BE PAID—SEVENTH PAGE. 4 LIBERAL VICTORY ASSURED IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS! HEAVY CONSERVATIVE GAINS IN ENGLAND! FATAL HUSTINGS RIOTS—SEvENTH PaGE. GLADSTONE’S MANIFESTO 10 BIS CON- wR. STITUENTS! THE REASONS FOR THE COUP AND ELECTION 1SSUES—Fourta PaGE. A FIERCE BATTLE IN SPAIN! DISASTROUS ROUT OF THE CARLISTS NEAR LERIDA! THEIR LOSSES SEVERE—SEVENTH PaGe. HE TRIAL OF THE CATHULIC ARCHBISHOP OF PUSEN TO BEGIN ON THE 11TH! HIS OFFENCE! THE KAISER WILL NOT IN- TERCEDE! OPENING OF THE REICH- STAG—SEVENTH PaGE. SEVERE DISTRESS IN THE EAST INDIAN FAM- INE DISTRICTS—AUSTRIAN WORKINGMEN PETITIONING FOR RELIEF—SEVENTH PAGE, MME. LUCCA CONSENTS TO CHARM THE HA- VANESE AGAIN—THE CHARITY BALL A MAGNIFICENT SUCCESS—SEVENTH Pace. SPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE FEDERAL AND STATE CAPITALS—Tuirp PaGe. WOMAN’S WAR ON WHISKEY! ANOTHER VIC- TORY SCORED IN OHIO—SEVENTH PAGE. GRAND NAVAL EVOLUTIONS OF THE WEST INDIAN SQUADRON! COMMODORE PAR- KER’S REPORT—Fovrta Pace. ART—CAPITAL SOCIAL LIBERALS—EIGHTH Pace. RT! PIGEON SHOOTING AT MONACO AND HE NICE RACES— HORSE NOTES—Firru Pace. FOLEY FIRES ANOTHER DOUBLE-SHOTTED VOLLEY INTO THE GREAT UNSALARIED! SWEEPING CHARGES OF EXTRAVAGANCE— FourtH PaGe. THE SLAVE CURSE IN CUBA-IMPORTANT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS—RAPID TRANSIT WAYS AND MEANS—THE MURDERER EVANS—ELEVENTH Pace. A RAILWAY COMPANY ARRAIGNED BY THE | PEOPLE! THE UPTOWN NEW YORKERS DEMAND LOWER TARIFFS ON THE HAR- LEM ROAD—NINTH Pace. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS! THE INQUIRY INTO DISTRICT AFFAIRS—WINSHIP, THE | SALARY BROKER—FIFTH PaGe. BUSINESS SERIOUSLY IMPEDED BY THE FAIL- URE OF CONGRESS TO FURNISH FINAN- CIAL RELIEF! YESTERDAY'S TRANS- ACTIONS IN WALL STREET—NINTH Pace. Cnampern or Commerce.—The importance of creating increased facilities of communica- tion with the West was strongly urged at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yester- | day. The danger to the prosperity of our city from the diversion of trade to Montreal was | clearly pointed out. While Canada is working | hard to widen the Welland Canal, so that ships | will be able to load in Chicago and discharge | in Liverpool, our legidiators are too busy | squabbling about lobby projects to have any | time to devote to caring for the interests of New York. Yet our carrying trade is in danger | of being diverted to toreign cities, and no | effort is made to cheapen transportation or in- crease the shipving facilities of our port Tee Army and Navy—Pitifal Prope- sitions for Economy. In the Congressional debate on the Army Appropriation bill many pretty speeches were made about economy, for economy, like “good name in man or woman, dear my lord,”” is just now the immediate jewel of our souls; but we trust the endeavor to secure it will not deprive any considerable portion of the peo- ple of their reason. Its effect in some quar- ters has threatening aspect. Extravagance im every conceivable way brought financial ruin upon us; but the worst points in the ex- travagance were the reckless appropriations of public money by Congress, the corrupt and abusive expenditures in milway, salary and similar jobs; and when all these, with the bad administration of the national finances and the bad state of our currency, brought on a collapse that suspended industry and commerce and suddenly cut short the government revenue, we were compelled to contemplate the unsatis- | factory possibility of a deficit and either in- | creased taxatien or new additions to the debt. People quite easily saw at such a moment that | economy was the proper thing to care for, and they called for it clamorously, and the conse- | quence of all the noise is that Congress pro- | poses to cut down the army andthe navy. It proposes to reduce the army, particularly, by five thousand men, and to retract, if necessary, the limits of civilization. Ina final analysis it is on civilization that we must economize. Our too free indulgence in civilization is not exactly the source of our disasters, but a re- duced consumption of that article is what must save us in the future. Our frontier has been too extensive, and to maintain it is too costly. We must withdraw the forces by which the settlers in the far West have been protected and the Indians kept in restraint, and suffer the bar- baric wave of Indian savages to sweep once more over a district in which the landscape has already begun to be beautiful with the | curling smoke of the settler’s chimney. All the homes that have been made there must be given to the flames, and the settlers must come in or remain at their peril, for economy requires that we should cut down the army, and we shall not have troops to defend what we hold. Such is the shape that economy has assumed in the Congressional mind. People call for a prevention of the frightful waste and squandering of the public money, and Con- gress answers by a proposition to discontinue an outlay that is the only really profitable use this nation makes of a dollar of its money. Upon the proposition to save at the expense of the “limits of civilization’? enough money to reimburse our losses by the Crédit Mobilier and Northern Pacific villanies, the army and its proportions and its cost have come in for free and, sometimes, admirable and judicious discussion and observation in the House. Comparison has been made between the cost of the American and the English soldier, and it is found that while each soldier of the British army costs England about five hun- dred dollars a year, each soldier in the | United States army costs us for the same will probably surprise nobody outside of Congress. Apparently it seems to have been supposed that soldiers ought not to cost upon the notion that there was some similarity in the condition of the two countries and in their military circumstances, while in truth there is none. Not only are soldiers fed and clothed more cheaply in England than here, but there is at least an period at least a thousand dollars, which | us any more than they cost England ; and | this supposition seems to have been based | equal difference in the expenditures of the | whole people in the two countries. In Eng- | land labor is redundant and swarms of stal- wart young fellows find employment with | difficulty, and so drift into the army on very | small pay. Here labor is always in demand and it requires at least a tempting pay to get | men into the service. British money is on a | gold basis also, and at least half the difference in the’army expenditures is due to the enor- mous inflation of prices made by the fact that our money is on no basis whatever. | part of the difference is due to the fact that the British War Departmentis managed differently from our War Department in all that impor- tant part of the military expenditure that is done by contract. It is worthy of note also , that the declaration that each soldier costs us | thousand dollars is a deceptive way of | stating the problem altogether. Our expendi- ture, with an army of thirty thousand soldiers, is thirty million dollars, and that is of course, a thousand dollars a man; but equally, of course, a very small proportion of | this is spent on the men. Out of that ex- penditure we keep up the whole military ma- chinery of torts and military posts and arsenals and armcories; but if we doubled or trebled the number of men in our army we should not increase our expenditure on these | important points. Nay, if we doubled our army we should not increase the number of our officers, and our officers cost at present | just the sum that the men cost. If we in- | creased our army, therefore, we should only increase our expenditure by the moderate sum | due in the calculation to the pay and support | of the men we should add to it, and thus for | every thousand men added to our army the | ratio per man would be less for calculation in | the budget; and if we should ascend from our little army of thirty thousand men to an army like England's, of one hundred and twenty-eight thousand, we should find that the discrepancy in cost would be no greater | than might be rationally due to difference in prices in the two countries. And the point touched upon here is to be taken into consideration practically with regard to the economy actually proposed in Congress. Mr. Wheeler argues that the dis- continuance of recruiting will during the year reduce the army by five thousand men, because as terms of enlistment expire and as men desert, if no recruits are accepted, the argues that this reduction of five thousand men will reduce the expenditure five millions of dollars. Here he falls into the error of assuming as a fact a statement of the military expenditure that is not true. Soldiers do not cost thousand dollars a man. Of our thirty million dollars at least fifteen millions are expended on things other than the personnel of the army; and of the fifteen miilions actually expended on the personnel seven millions and a half are expended on three thousand officers and the | other seven millions and @ bolf on the thirty Another | rolls will be lessened to that extent ; and he | thousand troops. By reducing the number of troops as indicated we shall, therefore, save ‘much nearer a million and a quarter than five millions. Do the American. people desire this paltry economy at the expense of an aban- donment of the Western country, that will de- populate some of the Territories, and even parts of some of the new States, if not a part of Texas? Shall we stay the tide of Western Progress, check the advance of the hardy pioneer, which is constantly opening sources of almost illimitable wealth to our people, for a pitiful saving, not to be named in comparison with the enormous rob- beries of public money made by every Congress? No. Economy must take some other shape than this. East and West may fight one another in sectional spleen for fair proportions of the public money, and the Wesiern men, with less interest than the East in the figure we cut on the ocean, will urge retrenchment in the navy; while the East, supposing it has less interest han the West in the only important service our troops are called upon to perform, will urge that it is upon army expenditures our great saving must be made; but when the two come to contemplate the subject more at large they must see that all sections are equally con- cerned in keeping up to at least their present | proportions both these branches of the national service, and will favor the application of re- trenchment to other points of public expen- diture. The Grand Naval Review. Elsewhere we publish an outline of the prep- arations for the naval drill off the Tortugas, together with a description of a squadron boat exercise, which took place on January 30, under the command of Commodore Parker. ‘The evolutions were conducted with fine pro- fessional skill by the officers and men; and among the former we recognize some of the best talent and culture of the service. We cannot, however, but regret that many of the ablest authorities in the several branches of the profession are not on duty in this squad- ron—the largest, and the poorest in point of vessels, that this country has seen for many a year. But Commodore Parker does not over- step the bounds of modesty when he says :— “The whole drill reflects great credit on the Naval Academy for the admirable manner in which the men were drilled in so shorta time.” If Congressmen could be induced to consider the question of the navy from an in- telligent standpoint, and understand the capacities and qualities of our officers, they might provide a permanent means for educat- ing seamen and building iron-clads. Tue Case or THE AncusisHor or Poszn.— A cable despatch, special to the Hzraxp, in- forms us that Archbishop Ledochowski, who was arrested on Monday last and locked up in the prison of Ostrowo, is to be brought to trial on the 11th of the present month of Feb- ruary—that is, on Wednesday next. The Arch- bishop's offence is that he refuses to obey the laws passed by the Prussian Legislature in May of last year. He has openly and undis- guisedly declared that he owes allegiance in matters ecclesiastical to the Pope, not to Em- peror William. In disobedience of. the new laws the Archbishop has gone on, as of old, appointing priests and threatening priests with the major excommunication and other- wise exercising the rights which are supposed to belong to his position, as if no change had been made in Prussian law. The Archbishop has been repeatedly fined, but he has steadily refused topay. Because of this refusal he has been imprisoned. Now he is to be tried. The trial will be deeply interesting. It will not, we think, redound much to the advantage of Bismarck or of Bismarck’s policy. The result will be all the more anxiously awaited that Emperor William, although sorely pressed, has refused to interfere. Exzction Riots 1 THE Unrrep Kinrapom.— Our peaceful and orderly cousins across the Atlantic seem to have worked themselves into @ pugnacious tury over the election of thenew Parliament. Disgraceful rioting has occurred all over the country, and in many cases the military have been called in to quell the | popular tumults. In most cases the rioters appear to be recruited from the disfranchised, who wish, no doubt, some means of expressing their political sentiments. The ballot deprives this class of their old political influence, and hence their demonstra- tions of hostility to the new system. In Lim- erick the ill feeling between the clericals and the nationalists culminated in a fatal conflict | at Askeaton. Firearms were used by the opposing factions and three men shot dead. With this exception the elections in Ireland, so far as reported, have been peaceable. Distress or THE Worxina Cxrasses mm Avs- ve1a.—Vienna seems to be in no better posi- tion than ourselves, so far as the employment | of labor is concerned. Thirty thousand work- | ingmen have addressed a petition to the gov- ernment asking for relief. The distress seems to have been caused, as in our own case, by the reaction from over-speculation. It is to be regretted that these temporary disarrange- ments of the framework of society cannot be avoided; but the workingmen could do | much to save themselves from suffering in hard times by the practice of a wise economy in prosperous days. This, more than the action of governments, must be the best safe- guard of the workingmen. ‘Tue Inrepressrste Joun Foury is again in- vestigating the secret doings of the Park Com- | mission under ex-Commissioners Green and Tom Fields, with a view of showing how an | unsalaried commission was made profitable to some of its members. Will the present Park Commissioners let us know just how much money ex-Commissioner Green drew in eleven years out of the public treasury? At present it seems that his ‘‘salary’’ and extras realized him something over ten thousand dollars a | year; certainly a handsome remuneration for an “‘unsalaried’’ officer. Tae Famine 1s Inpia.—The distress among the unfortunate natives of India is on the in- crease, One hundred and fifty thousand are reported to be suffering from the utmost want. This probably very much understates the actual number of sufferers. The British government, which has derived such immense wealth from the plunder of the Indian people, ought to move promptly and generously to the aid of the unfortunates, There has been much wordy sympathy expressed in England. We should like to see practical measures of relief adopted. Delay is Dangerous—The Duty of the our. When Congress aasembled the Secretary of the Treasury had already drawn upon what he calls his “reserve,” and on his own re- sponsibility made an issue of legal tenders which Congress knows to be illegal. If it were not so that body would not be to-day discussing the propriety of giving it the sanction of law. Mr. Richardson has con- tinued this policy until there are now in cir- culation twenty-six million dollars of notes that are being used as money without a legal status. Yet Congress still neglects either to define the character of the issue or to provide means whereby the department may meet its payments. Clearly, therefore, the first and most im- portant duty of the national legislature is to determine these points. If the issue be illegal, as it unquestionably is, viewed from a constitutional point of view—from the inter- pretation of the constiution by Daniel Web- ster and other great lawyers, and from the decisions of the Supreme Court—let it be promptly demonetized, either by a loan at rates that will insure the conversion of these legal tenders to an amount equal to the overissue ; or let us adopt some other plan—for instance, the one proposed by Mr. 8. 8. Cox—that will effect the same result. With the manner of doing this we shall not quarrel if it be done quickly. The country is in haste, and every legitimate commercial interest demands a sot- tlement of the question now, before further harm occurs. The present momentis a favor- able one. First—Because the overissue has not yet been used as a basis for expansion. It may be withdrawn from the New York banks alone in one day, and not necessitate the calling of a single loan. It may also be converted into three or four per cent certificates without in- jury. If, however, the matter is much longer delayed no one can tell at what time these institutions may be tempted to enlarge their loans in proportion to their reserves. Every hour of procrastination is fraught with future evil. Second—Commerce, manufactures and all productive industries in the country are at a standstill, demoralized by this waiting upon an uncertainty. The people desire to know on what basis they are herafter to trade. Third—The laboring classes are suffering as the consequence of this dilatory action by Congress, and will continue to suffer until the problem has been solved. Capital, always timid, was never more so than at the present juncture, and it waits to see in what direction it may seek returns. If inflation is the watchword, capital will gravitate into the hands of the speculator, and we shall again witness the madness of the last year. If on the other hand, sound financial principles are to prevail, then capital will look for invest- ment in the legitimate channels of commercial enterprises and the country and the people will be benefited. Will Congress give heed to these things and linger no longer over a proposition that is as easy of demonstration as that two and two are four? Ashantee—The Capitulation of King Koffee. The Ashantee expedition has resulted in @ great success, within a shorter period than the most sanguine believers in British pluck and endurance could have anticipated, and with a comparatively trifling loss of life. ‘The enterprise has proved a holiday excursion compared with the long marches, the perilous mountains and defiles and the many dangers which had to be met and overcome by Napier’s Abyssinian expedition. But the results from the subjugation of King Koffee will be infi- nitely more valuable to England than the compensations for the suppression of King Theodore. It means substantially the annexa- tion of an immense territory in Equatorial Africa, exceedingly rich in all the products of the tropics, and capable of development into a great market for English manufactures. Coo- massie, the Ashantee capital, is reported to be a wealthy city in the rude manufactures of the natives in cottons and ornaments of gold, and tich, too, as a depot of palm oil, gold dust, ivory and all the exchanges from the surround- ing tribes. As Sir Garnet Wolseley, within thirty miles of this famous but unknown African capital, has halted only for a few days, we infer that after this halt he will resume his march to the city and occupy it. We shall then probably learn that the reports hereto- fore spread abroad of its barbaric riches were fabulous inventions; but, nevertheless, the occupation of Coomassie by the British army will be another entering wedge for civilization into the heart of Equatorial Africa. Tue Crrx Worx anp THE LanonErs.— The citydepartments are squabbling among themselves as to who is to blame for the non- prosecution of the work on the streets which ought to be done, and which, if done, would give employment to a large number of idle and suffering laborers. So far as the con- tract work is concerned, the matter is clear enough. The Common Council, in accord- ance with its power under the law, has ordered the contracts to be given out. The head of the Department of Public Works has carried out the ordinances, as he was bound to do, unless he wished to render himself subject to re- moval. The contracts have been duly awarded and await the formality of the acceptance of the sureties by the Comptroller, without which they cannot be completed and the work can- not be commenced. The Comptroller, after throwing every other obstacle in the way of the letting of the work, holds possession of the contracts and neglects to accept the sure- ties. He thus defeats the ordinances of the Common Council and prevents the prosecu- tion of work legally ordered, desired by the property owners and necessary for the public interests, Arras or THe Distaicr or Corumsr— An Investication Onpertp.—The resolution from the House, ordering an investigation into the affairs of the District of Columbia by a joint committee of the two houses, having passed the Senate yesterday, the investigation will be the next thing in order. If one-tenth part of what has been alleged of fraudulent jobs and extravagant expenditures on the part of the Territorial government of the District shall prove to be true there will be ground sufficient for a comprehensive work of recon- struction, and for something, too, in the way of civil and criminal prosecutions against the guilty officials. On tho other band, if Gover- SHEET. nor Shepherd and his colleagues aro not guilty in any way of the corrupt combinations and wasteful expenditures of the publft money charged against them they will be glad of the opportunity to establish their innocence. But whatever the consequences may be to the ac- cused parties, the ends of justice can be satis- fied only with a full, fair and public investiga- tion, including a thorough overhauling of persons and papers. The Charges Against the Police Com- missioners—Let There Be Light. The grave charges made against the Police Commissioners, or some of them, by Sachems Kelly, Chanler and others, should be thoroughly investigated; and it is to be hoped that Judge Barrett, who has granted an order for Commissioner Charlick to appear on Wednes- day next to show cause why he should not be examined in accordance with the provisions of the charter, will afford the complainants every opportunity to press the case. Thero should be no covering up of any portion of the evidence; for while cheating by Tam- many may have been natural enough in old times, cheating by a Police Board whose duty it is to enforce the laws would be & monstrous offence at any time. The matter is probably nothing but a political fight ; but as it has been made public it must now be fully worked out, and the guilt or in- nocence of the police authorities must be sat- isfactorily established. The main point of soreness with Tammany Hall appears to be the election of Genet, a bolting democrat, over the regular Tammany candidate in the Twenty-first Assembly district; but as Mr. Sullivan, another bolter, has since been suc- cessful over the Tammany nominee, it seems that the defeat of the regulars was really due to the voters themselves, While investigation is the order of the day why not give some attention to the charges made in the anonymous communication of which we have heard so much? It is all very well to attempt to settle the question of the authorship of the anonymous letter, for if it really originated with a member of the Board it would prove that its author is not fit for his position. If corrupt practices on the part of his associates were within his knowl- edge it was his duty to expose them publicly and in his official character. At the same time let us know not only who wrote the let- ter, but whether the charges it contains are true or false, The people want light on all these matters, and it will not aid the character of the commission to keep them in the dark. Tae Canuists Gora Ur.—One of our news despatches of this morning informs us that the Spanish Minister of War has received intelli- gence of a desperate engagement near Lerida between the republicans and Carlists. The latter were badly defeated, and sustained heavy losses both in killed and wounded. Lerida is the capital of a province of the same name in Catalonia. It has long been regarded as the key of Aragon and Catalonia in a mili- tary point of view. The failure of the Carlists there means that their cause is dying, and dying rapidly. In a few days more we expect to learn that the Carlists have been completely broken up, and that Spain, in consequence, has been restored to herself. What will fol- low? Me. Canpenter’s Lovina Bru, intro- duced in the Senate yesterday, providing for a new election in the State, jncluding the Governor and other State officers and the Legislature, will commend itself to every im- partial mind as covering the simplest, fairest and only satisfactory mode of settling the controversy between the Kellogg usurpation and the McEnery party. Mr. Carpenter will speak at length upon this bill some day next week; but meantime it seems to be under- stood in Washington that the Kellogg usurpa- tion'is to be continued—that such is the wish of the administration and the purpose of the republican majority of the Senate, and for the flimsy reason that, whereas order and quiet have been established in Louisiana under Kel- logg, the agitations and excitements incident to a new election will revive the worst ele- ments on both sides of lawlessness, violence and blood. This, we say, is a poor excuse for the denial of justice to an outraged people. Under some such regulations as those pro- posed by Senator Carpenter there need be no fear of violence and bloodshed in a new elec- tion in Louisiana. Auaska Proposep as 4 Pznat Coroxy.— Some philanthropic philosopher has thrown out the proposition that it would be a good thing to make of our gigantic Arctic Territory of Alaska a penal colony for the United States, the idea, doubtless, being suggested from that terrible penal colony of Russia in the wintry desolation of Siberia. But what are we to do with Alaska? Should that vast Territory, with its inexhaustible resources in fish and furs and timber, to say nothing of its coal and gold, remain in the possession of a privileged fur company to the exclusion of the great body of our people, or in some way be turned to the advantage of the government and people of the United States? That is the question. Would it not be better to make that great Territory a penal colony for the reclamation of criminals under a humane sys- tem of discipline than to leave it in the actual | possession of a company of speculators, whose only object, it appears, is to make money, re- gardless of the consequences to the natives or to the government? In any event the Ter- | ritory, under some form of a Territorial ad- ministration, should be opened to all our peo- ple under our supreme law of equal rights. Tae Curnency Question.—The Chamber of Commerce opposes inflation and insists that the solid interests of the West desire a return to specie payments. No more shinplasters is the merchants’ ultimatum. Mayrnars on tHe Smewaxs,—The action of the Aldermen in ordering the removal of smooth vault coverings from the sidewalks will meet with hearty approval from the pub- lic. The wany injuries sustained by pedes- trians from slipping on treacherous smooth metal plates fully justify the measures adopted tor the suppression of the nuisance. We are glad to see also that Courts are ready to afford relief against those contractors who encumber the sidewalks with their materials, making them dangerous for pedestrians. It is to be hoped that the Aldermen will vigorously en- force their ordinanee, 6o that it may be pos- sible to walk through the streets without dan- ger of injury from treacherous slides or man- traps. q Barras Exzorions, —The London Times in its issue of yesterday takes the ground which the Hznaxp took at the commencement of the Present ing contest. The Tes anticipates a liberal triumph, but the mem- bers are to come from Scotland and Irelaad, not from England. The English constit- encies, according to the Times, will return a majority of conservatives; but the Scotch ard Irish votes will turn the scale in favor of the liberals. This view of the case is confirmed by our latest news. As the returns como in from Scotland and Ireland the conservative majority is gradually diminishing. The con- servative gains hitherto have been in the smaller boroughs. Scarcely a town or city of first class importance has deserted the libeml cause. Birmingham has stood true; so ns Glasgow and Edinburgh. We have yet to hear from Liverpool and London; but that the result will be in favor of the liberals can hardly be doubted. The news from Ashantee will exercise a very healthful influence on the contest, and Mr, Gladstone is no doubt grate- ful to Sir Garnet Wolseley. Sir Garnet, if spared to come home, will have his reward ag Lord Wolseley of Coomassie, for instance, A Sounp Opinion on TH Inpran Question. — No man is better qualified to speak of Indian affairs than General Harney. During his loag military service he spent a great deal of time on the Plains among the Indians and has often fought them. Then, being o citizen of Mis. souri and having large interests in that State, right on the Indian border, he learned all about the character of these people and the practices of the Indian agents and traders, First, then, General Harney gave his opinion to the House Committee on Military Affairs that the Indian Bureau should be transferred to the War Department. Every sensible and practical person who has paid any attention to the subject will say he is right. Next, he says nearly all the trouble with the Indians arises from unscrupulous agents and traders, who plunder the poor savages and foment disturb- ances to make money out of them. He thinks these rascals should be severely punished. All true enough. But will the government act upon the opinion of such an undoubted au- thority? Toe Cxarrry Batu.—Seldom has the Academy of Music witnessed so brilliant ®@ concourse as met there last night in the cause of charity. There were every- where indications that the charity ball is yearly growing in favor with the people. Its noble object recommends it to a public ever ready to extend generous support to institu- tions that aim at alleviating human suffering. It is pleasing to reflect that the well dressed crowds that circled to the airy measures of the dance music were mindful in their gayest hours of the misery and destitution that Opznine or THE Reicustac.—The German Parliament has been opened with a speech from the throne. The speech was read, ag Emperor William was not able to attend. The programme of the pious monarch seems unchanged; the army and navy are to be fostered and prisons built. The usual pro- fessions of peace and good will to all men are put forth, but they only mean that for the mo- ment Gerimany is at peace with the world. Tae Loenat Rervsrican Commrrer held a meeting last night, and having’ no serious political business to interest 1t, resolved itself into an assemblage of jokers. Itwas not much more successful in wit than in politics—both were alittlecloudy. If the Liberal Republican Committee is a serious political body such comic proceedings as are reported in another column ought to be avoided. Politics, to be respectable, should be removed out of the do- main of low comedy. Cuear Fanes.—The inhabitants of the newly annexed districts of Westchester aro about to petition the Legislature to compel the Harlem Railroad to adopt cheap transport rates. Asthey are very much interested in the question we may hope to see it pushed vigorously. Public opinion has long de- manded the proposed reform, but the lobby- ists have hitherto been stronger than the people, Tae Pappock Exms.—Next to the Common Boston prizes the old elms in Tremont street. But now a sacrilegious newspaper would have these venerable trees removed because they are rubbish, unsightly monuments and unduly cherished monsters, a menace to every person who passes near them. All this may be true; but we must protest against the further decla- ration that they are the butt of ridicule for strangers, for nothing that is truly Bostonian can be successfully ridiculed. Tue Encuss Parzrs of the 24th ultimo publish long accounts of the Duke of Edin- burgh’s wedding, but none of them exceed in interest and accuracy the long cable despatch from St. Petersburg printed in the Hezaup the same morning. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Governor Ingersoll, of Conpecticut, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Ex-Governor Bross, of the Chicago Tribune, ts in | Binghamton, N. Y. General J. S. Fullerton, of St. Louis, has arrived at the Gilsey House. Dr. J. C. Ayer, of Lowell, Mass., is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor A. H. Bullock, of Massachusetts, ts staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ben Butler will soon appear ia Portland, Me., as counsel in an important divorce sult, Major James Forney, of the United States Marine Corps, is registered at the Hoffman House, Count Georges and Count Stet, of the French Legation, have apartments at the Albemarle Me ar new United States Senator from Texas, 5 B. Moxey, was arebel brigadier general during the war. A cousin of President James Madison, eighty- four years old, is now in the Nashvilie (tenn) Poorhouse. ‘The ministers of St. Joseph, Mo., propose to send a committee to the different newspapers to pray for the editors. A. E. Irving, counsel of the Great Western Rat- way Company, of Canada, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. Baltazzi Effendi, Secretary of the Turkish Lega- tion at Washington, is residing temporarily at the Albemarle Hotel. { Annetta Grant (no relation of Ulysses), of Chi- cago, wants G. Leonard Huick to pay her $20,000 for breach of promise. Samuel 8. Fieher, formerly United States Com- missioner of Patents, is among the recent arrivats at the St. Nicholas Hotel, It is said that the daughter of ex-United States Senator Edmund G. Ross, of Kansas, is one of the rising politicians of that State.