The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1874, Page 6

si call NEW YORK HERALD|™ "= BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hxraxp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hera. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. , Rejected communications wil] not be re- turned. balay cie ns LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms aa in New York. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING TONY PASTOR'S Ore: RA HOUSE, No. 201 Bewery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10P. M BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE: ‘ondway. corner of Twenty-! eo pe sweet NEGRO MINSTRELSY, atyP, M.; closes at 10 F, M, GLOBE THEATRE, Broadway.—VARIETY. at 8 P.M. closes at 10:30 P. M. 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New York, Thursday, Dec. 3, 1874 From o our reports this morning Ove pe0bubiiNes are that the weather to-day will be clear, windy | and warmer. Wart Srreet Yesterpay.—Stocks were a trifle lower on large transactions. Gold was firm at 112}. Money strong at 4and 5 per cent. Doretz’s Restcnation.—By a special de- spatch from New Orleans we learn that Judge Durell, of the United States Court at New Orleans, has tendered his resignation. This is what he should have done months ago. Heatrn or Porz Pros.—His Holiness the Pope is quite restored to health. He is able to take walking exercise, and astonishes some of the younger members ot the Coilege of Car- | dinals by his pedestrian feats. The venerable Pontiff’s recovery will give unqualified satis- faction to millions of Catholics in all quarters of the globe. To Tne Gattows.—Lewis Jarvis was yester- day found guilty of the murder of Samuel J. Jones in Oyster Bay in June last. The prisoner heard with indifference the verdict of the jury which places his life in jeopardy. His crime was pronounced to be murder in the first degree. His is indeed a case verify- ing the saying that ‘murder will out.” Tue Preswent’s ’s Messace.—It is reported that as the President proceeds, from day to day, in the rough draft of his Message, it is considered in Cabinet council and carefully revised. If soit is probable that the Presi- dent has entered upon some bold propositions to Congress, requiring in advance the fullest consideration. Retzasep rom 4 Spanish Prison.— Dockray, the American who was sentenced in Cuba to ten years’ imprisonment for commu- nicating with the insurgents, and sent to Spain, has been pardoned by the Madrid government. This act of clemency ex- hibits the good sense and moderation exer- cised in Spain, in very favorable contrast to the violence and vindictiveness we have so often condemned in the authorities at Ha- vana, hehe Compvrsony Epvcationx.—The Board of Education, we are glad to see, is preparing for @ vigorous campaign against ignorance. The provisions of the Compulsory Education act 1030 P. M. Miss | Retrospect. The Evening Post calls attention to the 2d of December as an anniversary of more than ordinary import to the American people. On the 2d of December, just fifteen years ago, John Brown was executed for the crimes of “treason” and “murder,” arising out of an unsuccessful attempt to excite an insurrection among the slaves in Northern Virginia. The history of that attempt, its folly and failure, are among the vivid episodes of American history. The men who were prominent in the suppression of that mad endeavor—where are they? James Buchanan was President of the United States. He has been gathered to his fathers, after an honorable, if not just, yet an honored career; for events overwhelmed him, and time has not yet vindicated his memory. The officer who captured Brown was Robert E. Lee, then a eubaltern in the regular army, soon to achieve a fame which the world will not willingly let die. Henry A. Wise was the Governor of tho State, who condemned him, then a conspicu- ous statesman, prominent among the leaders of the party and candidates for the Presi- dency ; and now a lingering, superfluous, un- heeded actor upon the stage. The men who were great statesmen in that time have van- ished. Hunter, Breckinridge, Douglas, Ma- son, Slidell, Seward, Sumner—all have passed like the shadows in Macbeth’s vision. Anew race has come, and may be said to have run its career also, and to be passing away. The President of the United States was living a simple, humble, apparently barren life in a distant Western town, dreaming more about making both ends of an uncertain existence meet than of the supreme honors that fate held in reserve. Abraham Lincoln was plod- ding at law, unconscious of immortal fame, while the man who was to share his immor- tality, without his fame, by causing his death, stood guard over the execution scene, as one of the militia gathered to protect ‘the honor of Old Virginia.” There were few of those, we fancy, who imagined, when they saw the body of this strange, brave old man in the hands of a cruel fate, that his name was to outlive so many more splendid names and his death would be a transcendent epoch in our history. No one questioned the justice which condemned John Brown. Noone can question it even now, in coldly considering it as an act of necessary law. But the justice of one generation fre- quently gives way to the romance or the re- ligion of the generation that comes after. John Brown has become a sentimentin Ameri- can history, and will be remembered as we remember Brutus and Rienzi and Savonarola. He was the culmination of an idea that for twenty years had been growing into mighty being in the Northern States. Poets, orators, rhetoricians, had passionately assailed slavery as the crime of the age, the stain upon our flag, the injustice to liberty, the crime of mod- ern civilization, the emblem of American shame. John Brown struck it with his sword, and although he fell in the encounter his memory lived. And when the war came— the unnecessary war of ambition and empire inspired by Jefferson Davis and his asso- ciates—this memory became a legend, and the hundreds of thousands who swept into Vir- ginia on their errand of strife had no cry more stirring to their souls than that; while the body of the condemned fanatic was mouldering in the grave his soul was march- ing on. It marched on, carrying with it the hesitating Lincoln, the reluctant Seward, the timid conservatism of the North, until it ani- mated the war and made the battle for the Union the battle for emancipation. It was won—at how terrible and dreary a cost we dare not say. But it was the soul of John Brown that won it, that signed the proclama- tion of emancipation and accepted the sur- render of Lee at Appomattox. What events have been compressed into these fifteen years! The execution of John Brown was the beginning of a cycle. The democratic party went down in the tremendous rush that came. The republican party came into a power which has never been seriously challenged until this time, The Republic bas risen from its uncertain position as @ growing, or, as some of its critics were wont to say mockingly, a swelling country, to be a recognized Power among the greatest Powers of the world. A quarter of a century ago, when Palmerston was writ- ing to Bulwer about diplomatic affairs, he intimated that while England would be justified in going to war to pre- vent the annexation of California and New Mexico, it was not possible then | because the English fleet was otherwise en- gaged. Even as bold a statesman as Palmer- ston would hesitate in his most audacious moments before considering a war with the United States as an ordinary circumstance; like a war with Chili or Greece. Every Eng- lishman sees that this Republic has passed out of the category of nations which can be handled with a fleet. The England whose resolute minister then thought strong enough to pre- vent ‘‘manifest destiny” by a squadron of war-ships has since been only too glad to accept peace from the United States by what the eloquent Castelar called “the sublime humiliation of Geneva.” In this cycle we have proved our nationality even to the greatest of nations. We have welded the Union with indissoluble bonds. We have lifted the Republic as it were from off the uncertain sandy foundations of popular sovereignty and State rights and placed it on the rocky ground of union and centraliza- tion. Is it best that it should be so? Have we chosen the wiser in choosing the stronger? Is freedom more in danger from centrali- zation, which may be Cwsarism, than from State rights, which became secession? These are questions that many of our wisest and most patriotic thinkers ask from day to day. It is not for us to answer them, for they can only be answered by time, opportunity and temptation. Whether for good or for evil, however, the part has been chosen, and the war for union and emancipa- tion has brought with peace » government system as strong as that of Russia. Thus, then, we sum up the results of the ex- traordinary cycle which began its revolution are to be vigorously enforced. Steps will be | on the cold’ December day fifteen years ago, taken to gather all the street arabs into the | | when the justice of Virginia took the life of schools, and for this purpose an efficient ma- | | John Brown. Has the eycle run its course? chinery will be created. much needed reform into our social system, | It will introduce a | Are we to pass from the period of war to the period of reconstruction? This would seem and we hope the Board will use firmness and | to be the meaning of the recent political can- promptness in carrying out their resolutions. | vas ‘The dominant insue in that canvass NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, VECEMBER 3, 1874. Era Im Our Politics—a | wasan idea which may be considered the ul- timate fruition of the worst results of the war. This was the idea of Cmsarism—in other words, the possibility that a strong military government and the necessary violations of constitutional rights, un- avoidable in a time of war, would lead to such permanent changes in our institutions as to make possible in the future a central government s0 strong as to govern the country instead of being governed by the country. This was the idea that came as a menace and a danger from the events of the past fifteen years—just as slavery and secession came as the menace and the danger of the preceding eras of our history. We destroyed slavery, not from any sentiment of humanity for the slaves, but be- cause it endangered our political integrity as anation. We dreaded Cessarism, not because we were especially afraid of Grant, or that we feared his continued administration of affairs would be inconsistent with the ,honor and prosperity of the people, but because the principle, unchallenged, would endanger our political integrity asa Republic. It was only when slavery became a selfish, aggressive ele- ment in our own affairs that we warred upon it. It was only when the military spirit, the violation of constitutional traditions, the laps- ing from time-honored usage, the centraliza- tion of authority, the growth of the money and railway power into a monopoly, the use of the army and navy to establish political parties over prostrate Commonwealths, con- solidated into the idea of Cwsarism, and with all the danger that the Preetorian guards of civil service would become what the Pretorian guards of another service proved to be in the base and degenerate days of the lower empire, that the people awoke to the true meaning of the issue and smote Coosarism with as severe if not as bloody a hand as we smote slavery and secession. The cycle, which seems to have run its course, does not close our history. We are on the eve of events as grave as those which have given renown to the time which has passed since the execution of Ossawattomie Brown. Those were shrewd words which General Sherman is reported as saying o few years since to a group of fair faced young Harvard students, as he talked cheerily with them under the trees of Cambridge:—‘‘There will be as much opportunity for you boys to win fame in your generation as we have had inours.’’ There is as much fame to be gained in peace as in war—not so dazzling, not so noisy, not so resplendent, per- haps not ao alluring as the glory that comes with shell and cannon-smoke, but purer, higher, nobler and more lasting. History writes the name of her Napo- leons, her Cesars, her Hannibals and her Marlboroughs in a lofty scroll. But she givesa higher place to the men who have blessed the world without wounding it, who have aided humanity without shedding blood, who have given ideas to mankind without bringing misery and sorrow. A fame like this is open to the men who come into power with the new generation. Let them assure the work of peace and reconstruction and consolidate liberty and republicanism with the acquired blessings of a strong government. Their glory will be like that of Franklin, greater far than that of the stern liberator who died fifteen years ago, or the brave and valiant men who have won immortal fame in the war which then began. Tweed’s Habeas Corpus. The abortive attempt of Tweed’s lawyers to get him free yesterday by means of a writ of habeas corpus shows how desperately men of that profession will catch at legal straws to save a client able to pay heavy retainers. It was the judgment of the Court that they selected a wrong method of proceeding, and the writ of habeas corpus, which had been granted on the day it was applied for, was quashed on the motion of the District Attorney. The only point argued was that of jurisdiction, and the weight of reasoning was so clearly against this claim of the prisoner that it seems sur- prising that counsel so able as those em- ployed by Tweed should have advised him to petition for a writ of habeas corpus to a Court that had no right to review the legality of his sentence under that form of proceeding. The main question involved in his case can be reached only by a writ of error. The lawyers on both sides and the Judge who quashed the habeas corpus agreed in stating that a writ of error, if a competent Court can be brought to grant it, is a proceeding by which Tweed's sentence can be reviewed on its merite. The legal question involved is whether the sepa- rate counts or classes of counts in an indict- ment are so many separate offences author- izing a repetition of the penalty for each one. This question was not argued or decided yes- terday, because the Court had no jurisdiction to entertain it. Should Tweed’s counsel suc- ceed in procuring a writ of error the law on this subject will finally be settled one way or the other by the Court of Appeals, District At- torney Phelps appeared to great advantage in the proceedings yesterday, and his easy tri- umph over two such eminent lawyers as Mr. Field and Judge Comstock will natarally have a discouraging effect on the mind of Tweed and impress him with the extreme slender- ness of his ever getting free by any other means than an Executive pardon. Tue Trtat or Count Ann, as we learn by a special despatch, bids fair to be post- poned for some time—perhaps until spring. It seems that in the preparation of his defence he and his counsel have occasion to examine official papers belonging to the Foreign Office, and he is permitted to do this only under restrictions and surveillance which seem like an indignity. As the offence charged against him is the abstraction of documents he is reminded that the government will not trust him with an opportunity to repeat it, 80 he is allowed access to the papers only two hours each day and in the presence of an officer of the Foreign Department, who is held responsible for the safety of the documents while Armim and his counsel are engaged in consulting them. It may turn out that Bismarck has some undisclosed motive for postponing the trial, and puts this wearying indignity on his victim for other motives than merely to mortify and annoy him. There may be a torting a surrender of the missing documents before the case is ready for trial, hope of wearing out Arnim’s patience and ex- | Mr. Disraeli on His Knees. Mr. Disraeli, the English Prime Minister, took oocasion in a recent speech at the ban- quet of the Lord Mayor of London to glorify the conservative party and dwell upon the justice and security of the English nation. Among other things he said:—‘‘The working classes of this country have inherited per- sonal rights which the nobility of other nations do not yet possess, Their persons and their homes are sacred. They have no fear of arbitrary arrests or domiciliary visits."? These expressions were loudly cheered and were understood to ex- press to the audience Mr. Disraeli’s eat- isfaction that an English workingman could not be treated as Count Arnim had been treated in Germany. When they were coupled with an unusually courteous reference to the magnanimity and courtesy of the French gov- ernment there could be only one belief— namely, that Mr. Disraeli meant to publicly and emphatically condemn the extraordinary policy of Bismarck. This was certainly the feeling in Germany; for the journals, especi- ally those inspired by the government, imme- diately resented the Prime Minister’s criticism of Prussian liberty. Mr. Disraeli in a few days communicated to the Times a disclaimer of this meaning in the following words: — “An entirely unwarranted construction hav- ing been, in some quarters, placed on the ex- pressions used by the Prime Minister, at Guildball, on the subject of arbitrary arrests, we are authorized to state that, in making those observations, the case of Count Arnim was not present to his mind, for the sufficient reason that the arrest of Count Arnim was not arbitrary, but in accordance with the laws of his country.” This extraordinary act on the part of the Prime Minister has excited grave discussion. The London Standard, the tory organ, re- minds Mr. Disraeli of the mischief of adopt- ing the foreign communiqué as a system novel in practice and opposed to ita nation’s Minis- terial etiquette. ‘“For,"’ says the Standard. with admirable force, “if we once begin smoothing down our phrases, in order to please foreign Courts, where are we to stop?" “Are the relations between Germany and Eng- land on so delicate a footing that we are bound to explain everything that appears to the German mind to reflect on Count Arnim? This is extending the Bismarck system in England and making Bismarck the director of publio opinion in England as in Germany.” The’ official German Gazette says, in a tone that must give great annoyance to English- men, that all those desirous of preventing “misunderstanding between England and Germany must be gratified with the explana- tion given by Mr. Disracli.” The London Times, in an elaborate leader, endeavors to accept Disraeli’s explanation and says :—‘‘It is not gracious to reduce to very exact pro- portions the grains of solid meaning which so great an artist so easily beats up into vast and swelling periods.” John Lemoinne, the famous writer of the Journal des Débats, and who, more than any French journalist, seems to be acquainted with English affairs, makes an angry comment on Mr. Disraeli’s explana- tion, regarding it ‘‘as a very humble excuse from the first Minister of England to the first Minister of Prussia,’ and that, to his mind, it is evident that ‘the placing of Europe in a state of siege is making progress.’’ Mr. Le moinne intimates that Mr. Disraeli, who waited eight days before his disavowal, must have been compelled todo so bya hint from the Queen or a ‘disagreeable communication from Berlin.” ‘‘Wkat is most apparent in this in- cident,’’ says Lemoinne, ‘‘is that the classical land of liberty has, in its turn, been invaded. The first Minister of England can no longer speak without submitting to and incurring censure trom Berlin.’’ ‘This incident will hardly pass without fur- ther discussion. Lord Palmerston was driven from power because it was felt he was under the influence of Napoleon, and this ata time when he was as powerful a Minister os Dis- raeli is to-day. Whether England, however, will be as sensitive to German influence as it bas been to the influence of the French is a question. We must remember that England is governed by a German family, by a Queen and royal princes who have as much interest in Germany as they have in Great Britain. Bat it is not pleasant to see an English Minis- ter on his knees before a foreign Power. Grain Trade of the YWear—Close of the Season. The canals will close on Saturday, after a season of diminished business as compared with last year, accompanied by diminished business on the lakes, The chief cause of the diminution is the good harvest in Europe, there having been decrease of about seven- teen million bushels in the shipments from the Atlantic ports between Au- gust 1 and November 21, as compared with the same period in 1873. The Buffalo papers of Monday published fall statistics of the trade of that port during the seabon, from which it appears that there was a falling off of more than nine million bushels in the grain receipts bylake. The following condensed table, in which flour is reduced to its equiva- lent bushels of grain, is worth inspection: — Jan. 1 to Nov, 30, About two-thirds of this decrease has been in corn and one-third in wheat, owing to the fact that when the price of wheat is low corn will not bear the charges of exportation. While the grain receipts by lake have so heavily fallen off at Buffalo the receipts by rail have been nearly as great as they were last year. Tho railroads kept their share by putting down their rates to o very low figure, making it a hard season for the owners of lake shipping and canal boats. The number of canal boats cleared from Buffalo in 1874 has been only 7,617, against 9.061 in 1873—a decrease of 1,444 boats. Instead of the usual crowded condition of the canal near the close of the season business has been so slack and the weather so mild that boats have gone through without choking or detention, and there is very little grain now on the canal, whereas at this time last year four million bushels were afloat or frozen in. The receipts of grain at the Western lake ports of Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland and Duluth have been as great this year as last, and nineteen millions more than in 1872 and twenty-seven millions more than in 1871. There is accord- ingly ® great store of grain in those cities to be moved by rail daring the winter, —TRIPLE SHEET. The Brooklyn Post Office. The recommendation to discontinue the Brooklyn Post Office because Brooklyn is ‘a mere appendage of this city," and because there will thus be saved $30,000 to the de- partment, is somewhat startling and not highly creditable to the intelligence of the special agents who make it. Brooklyn had a population in 1870 of 396,000, and her popu- lation is certainly not less now. It is true that a very large number of persons whose homes are in that city are occupied in commercial and other enterprises in this city, and go to Brooklyn only to dine and go to bed. But then Brooklyn certainly has a very large per- manent population that never comes over the ferry, or comes to this city no oftener than the same olass in Poughkeepsie or Albany. If we put the population to which Brooklyn is only a dormitory at half it will be an extravagantly large estimate, and then we shall have left a city of two hundred thousand inhabitants; and it is gravely recommended to deprive such a city of a Post Office. Poughkeepsie, with a population of twenty thousand, shall have a Post Office; but Brooklyn, with four hundred thousand, shall not have one, because two hundred thousand of the number cross the river twice a day. As to the economy, it seems to us very cloudy. Can the Post Office authorities of this city distribute and collect letters‘ in Brooklyn at less expense than the Post Office authorities in that city can? And will it not be necessary to pay rent for sub-Post Offices over there in as great a degroe as rent is paid now? If Brooklyn people can get their letters any cheaper than now there is at least one point in favor of the project. If they will then get all their letters from this city at the rate of city delivery only, instead ofat the United States rate, they will be the better for it; but will not that difference against the Post Office on every letter somewhat affect the supposed economy of the change? It would only take a delivery of 3,000,000 letters be- tween Brooklyn and New York to swamp the proposed saving by the loss of one cent on each—that is by the receipt of the city rate of two cents instead of the United States rate of three conts. Between two such cities the interchange of correspondence must be greatly in excess of 3,000,000 letters year. It is, perhaps, nearer 12,000,000, and thus the change, instead of an economy would represent a loss—the loss, perhaps, on this one head of $90,000. It is argued as a reason for the change that the service in Brooklyn is very defective. If the New York postal authorities can perform the same service more effectively than the Brooklyn authorities can this is an excellent reason for making some changes in the Brook- lyn authorities. It is easy enough to roast chestnuts without burning one’s house down. On the general principle that it would be to the advantage of the two cities to have their governments consolidated, such a recom- mendation as this would, perhaps, meet with extensive acceptance and even receive the assent of many Brooklyn people as a step in a good direction; but urged for the reasons above given it has the appearance of a cover for some scheme of jobbery or some political manoeuvre. Twaep's Non-APPEARANCE IN Covgr yester- day engendered and gave currency to a rumor that he had taken ‘‘leg bail’ and absconded. It was known that he had left the Island; it was seen that he did not appear in Court, although a great deal more time had elapsed than was necessary for his arrival; and it was not known, except to some half dozen psople, how he bad ‘‘failed to connect” betweon the two places. Out of the conjectures for solv- ing this mystery arose the rumor of his escape, which flew from mouth to mouth for a few hours, It seemed to derive con- firmation from the nature of the writ of habeas corpus which requires the production in Court of the body of the prisoner in whose favor it is granted. He was merely brought into the vicinity, and not produced, because the District Attorney had given notice of his intended motion to quash the writ, and until that motion was decided by the Court Tweed and his counsel could not know whether he was entitled to it or not. Had the motion to quash been denied Tweed would have been immediately brought into Court; but the granting of the motion extinguished the writ, and the prisoner was spared the mortifitation of being made a public spectacle of for noth- ing. ‘Waston’s Succzsson.— Weston is about to have a successor. Another pedestrian is anxious to try the feat. of walking five hundred miles in six and a_ half days. The new aspirant to pedestrian honors is Professot Judd, well known in sporting circles for his feats of strength and endurance. Last night he gave an exhi- bition of what might be expected from him. He is evidenlly resolved to make a@ serious effort | to accomplish his proposed task. His wonderful powers of endurance will be severely tested, but he feels equal to the undertaking. On Monday evening be will begin his walk, and his progress will be watched with interest by all lovers of athletic sports. The track was surveyed and properly laid out last night under the supervision of the members of the Athletic Club. A committee of gentlemen has been organized to see that the programme is fairly carried out. Should Professor Judd succeed in accomplishing the proposed dis- tance we understand he will be made the re- cipient of a handsome purse, Ganwatpr's Pxston.—The Italian Cham- ber has shown praiseworthy enthusiasm in voting unanimously urgency in granting a pension to Garibaldi, With all his faults this war-scarred hero must ever remain one of the noblest figures in the history of United Italy. He was the man who never despaired. His achievements in the cause of Italian freedom read even now like Eastern legends; and the time must com when the march of the thou- gand will be regarded as fabulous. Probably good Iuck more than genius contributed to many of his great successes; but his was the all-conquering faith that gave Fate a chance to work wonders for the freedom of his native | land. Ingratitude to such a man would bea national disgrace, and we hope the hearty recognition of his services by the representa- tives of the Italian people will induce the proud old man to accept some return from the nation for the many services he has ren- dored to his country. ee ee aay General Butler and the Presiaent om the Civil Rights Bill. The republicans, at the approaching session of Congress, it is reported, are resolved upon 8 final effort to carry through the Senate Civil Rights bill. General Butler, as administrator of the last will and testament of the lamented Sumner, and as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, feels bound to bring the measure before the House for its action at the earliest possible day. As, moreover, but three months remain to the present republican Congress, and as the next House will be de- cisively democratic, this Civil Rights bill must be passed in the interval to the 4th of March, or it will, perhaps, be forever lost. Hence the necessity of speedy action upon the measure. Its advocates insist that the bill is imperatively demanded for the protection of the Southern blacks in their equal rights as citizens and in view of their unity in support of the republican party, Of course Ku Klux and White League outrages will be urged as painfully calling for this repreasive law. But success in any attempt to pass it at this late day is exceedingly doubtful. At the last session the opposition of some half dozen Southern republicans to the measure, and, mainly on the mixed school question, defeated it. At the com- ing session, however, it is conjectured that recent events may have changed the opinions of these objecting Southern republicans, par- ticularly as they have been assured that the President, who was an opponent, has become an advocate of the bill. Upon this point the case chiefly depends. If the President in his Message shall be found clearly in favor of the measure it will most likely be carried and become a law. Otherwise all the efforts in its behalf that may be made by General Butler and his supporters will signally fail. What, then, will be the President’s recommenda- tions on this important subject? It is ra- mored that since the late elections he has been diverted trom the conservative ground which he occupied at the last session and will advocate the bill. Should he dogo the bill, as & party measure and under the whip and spur of Butler, will doubtless be passed, and the consequences to the party will be another train of disasters, North and South. ‘Tux Case or Cant Voor, an alleged fugitive from justice in Belgium, has assumed a new and important phase as involving a constita- tional question. The prisoner, who was re- leased in this city some two years ago, on an arrest for murder in Belgium, because he could not be extradited in the absence of an extra- dition treaty, was yesterday, on being dis- charged from a local court on an indictment for grand larceny, rearrested by the United States authorities on the old charge of mur- der. It appears that since his first arrest and discharge an extradition treaty has been es« tablished between the United States and Bel- gium, with a retroactive clause, in order to reach this case. But by the constitution of the United States ex post facto laws are inter- dicted, and no person shall twice be put in jeopardy of life or limb for the same offence. Can Carl Vogt, then, be delivered over to Bel- gium under this new treaty? is the question for the United States Oourt. Tue Cuzar Transportation CONVENTION.— A gathering of active business men, from many States, called the Cheap Transportation Convention, has been for the last two days in session at Richmond, Va. The President of the body is the venerable Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, a powerful advocate in behalf of the regulation of our railways and for the building of several trans-Alleghany railways or canals by the general government. These enterprises are the business of the Convention, and its purpose is a raking fire from the East, West, North and South upon the two houses of Congress. FERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Francis Kernan, of Utica, is residing at the Windsor Hotel. Judge P. B. Hulett, of Rochester, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman Lyman fremain, of Albany, is se- Journing at the Gusey House. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, has taken up his residence at the Giisey House. Chancellor Jonn V. L. Pruyn, of Albany, has apartments at the Brevoort House. General Rufus H. King, of Governor Dix’s stag, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Congressman E. O, Stanard, of St. Louis, yester- day arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, is quartered at the Westminster Hotel. The jourth volume of John Quincy Adams? “Me. moirs”’ is in the press of J. B.-Liopincott & Co. Major Oliver D. Greene and Captain A. B. Taylor, United States Army, are at the Sturtevant Mouse. Colonel Dickinson Woodruff, United States Army, is among the latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It is understood that Edward Jenkins, Agent General for the Dominion in England, nas tendered nis resignation. Mr. Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier. Journal, arrived in this city yesterday and is at the Brevoort House. The Benchers of Gray’s Inn yesterday, afters short deliberation, disbarred Dr. Kenealy, lately counsel for the Tichborne claimant, Boston must be dreadfully poor in the materials of excitement when they have to make such a fuss over selling seats for the theatre as to pay $3,000 for the first choice. ‘The weird designs of the artist, William Blake, illustrating the Book of Job, will be reproduced by the heliotype process and issued by J. R. Usgeoa & Co., of Boston, Theophile Gautier once said that he might in a certain contingency have changed his poilttical opinions; Dut it would have been very diMcult, as he never had any to change. The Paris police has forbidden the use of certain streets to people with veiocipedes, and com manded that in all others they must carry bells by day like sleighs, and a lantern at night, The Atlantic Publishing Company will issue “Lives of the Clergy of New York and Brooklyn, Embracing 200 Biographies of Eminent Living Men in All Denominations,” It is prepared by Mr. J. A. Patten, There is a fine artistic taste in London for rare curiosities, The management of the Tusssud ex- hibition has just purchased in Parts, for $60, the bed on which expired the two wives of the pok soner Moreag. Montgomery Schuyler is nominated dy the Rochester Democrat ang Chronicle for Minister to St. Petersburg. As it speaks of the gentleman as now “performing the duties” of Mmisterat thas post, it evidently means Eugene Schuyler, Dr. &. O. Wines, Secretary of the Nationa! Prison Association, publishes its sonual report under the title of “Transactions of the Third Nationa Prisom Reform Congress, held at St. Louis, Mé, May, 1874." The book contains the history of tre views and labors of the prominent philanthropists em- gaged in the cause of prison reform, of whom Dr. Wines has been the leading spirit. Its compilation of valuable facts and able addresses will prove highly interesting and nseful to the friends gf true humanity throughout the world,