The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-04 00:00:00

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
In response to a resolution
.in the Senate, the
President laid before that body a report from Secretary

Fish, showing the official list of the States which have
ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
The Secretary has confined himself to giving the list,

without anticipating the action of Congress in defining the
relations of any State to the Federal Government. The
fol:owing are the States named :—North Carolina, West
Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana,
Michigan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Con-
necticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Now Hamp-
shire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia, Alabama, Missouri,
Mississippi, Ohio, Georgia, lowa, Bausas, Minnesota, Itht.de
Island, Nebraska, and Texas.
Last Wednesday the President issued his Procla-
mation announcing the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment, which be then declared to be part of the
Constitution. The Philadelphia correspondent of the
Times says that he sent a special Message to Congress
stating that the "amendment makes four millions of peo-
ple voters; that the newly enfranchised race ought to
strive to make themselves worthy of their new privilege ;
that the race more favoured heretofore should withhold
no legal privilege of advancement from the new citizens;
and that the framers of the Constitution believed the
Republican form of Government could not endure with-
out intelligence and education being diffused generally
among the people. The President calls on Congress to
take measures to promote and encourage popular educa-
tion, and urges people to see that all possessing political
rights shall have an opportunity to acquire knowledge, as
by such means only can the benefit contemplated by the
15th Amendment he secured."
The Times blundered in its punctuation of the fol-
lowing message, and was servilelycopied by its contempo-
raries,unaware that there was anything peculiar in the con-
struction of the sentence :—" The President to-day issued•
his proclamation declaring the 15th Amendment, enacting
negro suffrage, to be ratified. And part of the Constitu-
tion Bill, admitting Texas to the Union on the same con-
ditions as Virginia, was passed by Congress and sent to
the President." Of course the full stop ought to
have been after " Constitution," not before " And." The
bills admitting Texas and Georgia were all the President
waited for, to issue his Proclamation, and to let the
coloured citizen 3 have their grand jubilee for which

they have been preparing; and henceforth the 30th of
March will be a great day in the calendar of the African
race.
The other cable items are, that a telegram from
Texas reports a raid by the Comanche Indians on the
western border of the State, and a massacro of more than
40 families. Last Sunday a furious rainstorm broke over
New York, Brooklyn, and the vicinity. Many buildings
wore blown down, and several persons were killed or
injured. It is reported that Prince Arthur will visit
California, via the Pacific Railroad, iu the middle of
April. Mr. Pierro Sou 74 is dead ; he was born in France ;
educated for the Church, was driven from his native coma-
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try for the part he took against the Government ; pro-
ceeded to America, reaching New Orleans in 1823. Sat in
the U.S. Senate iu 1847, to which he was returned in 1849;
became a leader of the extreme Southern party, was ap-
pointed Minister to Spain in 1853, and took part in the
celebrated Ostend Manifesto. He has not mixed in politics
since the outbreak of the war.

From Cuba the news is that a sev,re engage.

went has taken place between the Spanish forces and the
insurgents near Lastunas. Both sides claim the victory.

General Rock's has issued a proclamation at Puerto Prim

cipo announcing that the operations against the insurgents
will now be conducted with increased rigour and seve-

rity, but offering an amnesty to all who shall speedily
surrender, except to the principal leaders of the revolu-
tionary movement. We are not aware that anything
could be added to the severity, unless the prison .rs were
tortured to death, after the Indian fashion. The sym-
pathy in the United States with the Cubans is as strong
as ever, though Secretary Fish upholds the Spaniards,
maintaining that no cause whatever has been given by
them for any interference on the part of the United States,
but that they had observed every international obli

gation.
There now seems to be no doubt that Rielle has
shot a Canadian, named Scott, for having been Engaged in
Bonbon's late movement for upsetting the insurrectionary
Government after his release on parole from Fort Garry,
for the news has been confirmed by the confidential agent
of the Canadian Government. The effect must be to com-
plicate seriously the relations of the insurgents towards
the Empire. When the day of reckoning arrives, Rielle
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must be judged ou the broad facts of the position.
Though in the eye of the law Scott's execution was no
less than delibJrate, premeditated murder, yet the ne-
cessities of the Provisional Government established in
the Red River Settlements might compel it to carry
out the decree of the court-mattitti. The law not-
withstanding, the question must be wLether the self-con-
stituted Government had been recognised as established
by the settlers. It is, however,as well for Rielle that the
United States frontier is close, for very soon, if he holds .
Fort Garry, it will be against a steel battery, throwing
what there will be a nove:ty in the way of projectiles of
which the half-breeds have no conception.
Secretary Boutwell seems to have much confi-
dence in the passage of the Funding Bill, and is so eager to
put his bonds on the market at once that the Chief of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing with his engravers has
been busily engaged on new models for the new bonds,
so as to be ready for action. Tho first fight over it in the
House was between the Ways and Means Committee and
that on Banking and Currency. If the latter gut hold of it,
the House knew that the clauses affecting the National
Banks would come to " grief ;" while the Ways and Means
Committee, though some of its members dissented from
points in the bill, would, it was thought, defer more to the
Secretary of the Treasury. General Schenck and Mr
Garfield are popular, but Schenck carried the day, having
the bill referred to the Ways and Means Committee by
79 to 65, though it does not seam to have progressed very
favourably since.
The latest accounts indicate that the Funding
Bill will be defeated in the House of Representatives, and
the bonds have risen in anticipation. We believe that the
better course would be to throw out the bill altogether,
and leave the credit of the country to strengthen, when
the Six per Cents., rising over par, might be funded at a
16Wer rate of interest; but as there seems to be a strong
prejudice against paying the coupons in Europe, and a.
belief that such a course would lead to the usual jobbery
and plunder accompanying all bills with money in them,
we cannot imagine that the time will soon arrive when any
material lightening of the burden can thus be achieved,
for it is not probable that so favourable an opportunity as
the money market of Europe has of late presented, will
soon recur. Mr. Boutwell has ordered the sale of two
millions of dollars in gold, and the purchase of four mil-
lions of dollars in bonds during April.
The battle which has culminated in a thousand
policemen clearing out and taking possession of Tammany
Hall was, we fear, but a fight for plunder, not for the
eradication of abuses. This split in the Democratic ranks
has for some time been widening ; but we do not profess
to be able to follow the Tammany intrigue, which some
dignify by the name of politics, nor could it be expected
when even New Yorkers and Democrats, too, do not pro-
fess to comprehend the movements. For instance, the
Citizen devotes a leading article to prove to the World
how gross was its error in calling the Citizen the organ
of Peter B. Sweeny, while it is the mouthpiece of the
Democratic Union, whose watchword is "Defeat to the
Ring; and Success to Local Democratic Independence."
Here is the leading national Democratic organ classifying
a leading local Democratic organ as the supporter of the
very politician against whom it is in strenuous opposition.
The rebellion inside of Tammany is the inferior strata
against the superior; that is, of those who have not got
place against the voracious old leaders who swallow all ;
and the Citizen alludes to the help given by the World to
the outsiders as being aid to those struggling for place,
given under the delusion that it was helping a struggle fora
better and purer municipal government. There is a newpolice
law directed against the present police board, with Mr.
Brennan at its head, which proposes to replace that board
with five Democrats, each appointed by a New York City
Senator. To this Mayor Hall adheres in consideration of
being re-nominated Mayor. That bill was expected to be
immediately passed, and the Commissioners appointed,
when the power would be centred in Senators Genet, Nor-
ton, and Creamer. The Croton Board is to be composed
of four members, that is a place to each Senator,except Mr.
Tweed, who remains Street Commissioner. The arrange-
ments are said to leave Sheriff O'Brien and John Mor-
rissey out in the cold, and of course Peter B. Sweeny in
strenuous opposition. Moreover, Senator Creamer aspired
to be Mayor, and other people considered they had earned
other offices. These struggles fur lucrative posts are the
Tammany "politics," which have, we suppose, culminated
in the fight in Tammany Hall, reported by Cable.
General Logan continues his attack in t ha Home
of Representatives on General Sherman. Logan has
always been the leader of the Volunteer officers, between
whom and the regulars much jealousy has prevailed.
Logan's attacks in Congress on an officer like Sherman,
whose hands aro tied, and has not the same means for reply,
is like an editor using a powerful journal against his
personal enemy ;—it is not fair, for the terms are notequal.

Notwithstanding the extraordinary assertion of the Lon-
don Standard, both Generals Sherman and Sheridan have

b3en ferociously attacked for upholding the action of
Colonel Baker in " butchering," as it is called, the Piegan
Indians; and this affair tends to weaken Sherman. A

leading Boston journal says of Sheridan's order upholdicg
Colonel Baker, that "ii is a disgrace to the American
military service, and a❑ outrage on the Americana nation.
Ho ought to be severely punished for daring thus to befoul
the reputation of a humane people."
The Hibernian procession in New York on St.
Patrick's Day was one of the grandest over seen in that

city. For hours it passed along Broadway, with bands
ing, colours flying, and the whole town decked with
The side walks were crowded with Irish girls,

and 1:11 traffic on the highways stopped by the Irish boys
with their bands, their banners, and their rosettes. The
Hon. S. S. Cox spoke at this, the ninth annual dinner of
the Knights= of St. Patrick, at Delmonico's, and abused the
British policy and the British Parliament. " Twelve of our

citizens," he said, "are now confined in British dungeons for
no other crimes than daring to speak for their rights, and
rubjectod to indignity and outrage." When a party leader

in the British Parliament thus publicly speaks of America

his remarks aro treasured up as proof of the bad feel-
iug in the old country towards the new. Mr. O'Clor-

man alluded to the flippant tongues that talk so glibly of
the " foreign, element," as they call it, with almost a

sneer, and pointed to what the Irish and Germans bad done
for the Union generally, but more especially for the City
of New York. Of courEe, George Francis Train "did a
deal of talk" on this occasion, speaking for hours at Cooper

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Institute. He was astonished to find the press there,
hough the reporters were friendly enough, but the

" blackguard editors" hate the Irish, and would rather do
anything than give the demonstration a fair show. tt is re-
volting, hemaintained, to the refined:taf.'es of Fifth-avenue
to see the Irish come out in such a parade. Undoubtedly
there is truth in that remark, for the I;,d'es have no fancy
for seeing the Bridgets wearing their silk gowns, nor the
gentlemen for finding the streets blocked by these w:tose
strong small of whioLey show that they hold Father
Mathew in far less estimation than St. Patrick.

. Mr. Greeley, at this dinner at Delmouico's spoke
on the "Abuse of the Press." There were doubtless "upright,
honest journalists in New York—while perhaps no city
was more widely accursed by men who make the Press an
instrument of calumny, of malignity, and of every kind of

abuse." According to the Tribune, however, New York
has not the unenviable distinction, for Connecticut alone
enjoys the privilege of being "infested with a journal
which can compress more deliberate, wilful, wicked vil-
lainous lies into a square inch than any other that is or
ever was printed." To do Mr. Greeley justice, although
he does give vent occasionally to impetuosity, it never
takes the repulsive form he justly censures in the following
words:—" The Press may legitimately and fairly canvass
public men and measures, and there is very little attention
paid to it. Very little harm follows that course ; but let
a journal commence to-morrow, resolved to slander every
one ; to drag secret things to light ; to make itself spicy
by calling every shrinking parson before the gaze of the
multitude, and that journal will fly on the waves of the
wind, boast of its circulation, and it 3 power will become
the terror of the public and the fortune of its proprietors."

In returning to the Nevada, Freehold Properties
Trust Co., attracted thereto by the remark in our article
(March 5), "that we have not fun enough in us to see the
joke," the Wall-street Journal asks, What will our con-
temporary say to the following facts?—"Some thirty
years ago a book (which was a reprint from a London
edition) was published in Philadelphia, by Carey and
Hart, entitled, George St. George Julian the Prince,' by

:enry Cockton. .The purpose of the book was to put the

inexperienced on their guard against the specious designs
of ingenious knaves, and to show that however firmly a
man may adhere to an honourable course, however well
armed he may be against contamination, an association
with disreputable men teams with so much peril, that he
may at any hour have Lis reputation destroyed and his
prospects in life for ever blasted.' The writer describes
the different ' banks," associations,' societies,' and
companies' of every description, gotten up to 'rope in'
persons for the sole purpose of plundering them. He de-
scribes the Poyais Loan, and giVes in full one of the
bonds of " Gregor M'Gregor, the First Sovereign Prince
of the Independent State of Poyais and its Dependencies,''
&c. Upon these bonds or mortgages, some $150,000 were
in a short time actually raised in England. Although
this was nearly a generation ago, yet a few days since, a

Banking House in this city received a letter from London,
England, enclosing one of these Poyais Bonds described
in • The Prince,' with the inquiry how mach it was
worth ? as the bond was about to become due !" Instead
of Rich Joke,' tlia Wall-street Journal heads the
article, from which we have extracted the above story,
The Fools Are Not All Dead Xet." If they were, we
doubt if there would be a man left to recite Campbell's
poem, " The Last Man." Our contemporary pays us the

high compliment of being " reliable ;" but though the
editor of this paper never held any bonds of the " lnde-
pet:dont State of Poyais and its Dependencies,"' he has
held o' hers a great deal worse. How he came to purchase
them, is what puzzles him, and often ho is inclined to
think, that at least one fool is not dead yet. Lately some
bonds and shares have been placed on the London market
which people might imagine no fool would buy; but, in
that case, no fool would advertise them for sale. As they

have been brought forward, the only conclusion we can
reach is, that there must be purchasers. When American
railway loans are not offered through well-known houses
connected with America, such as the Barings, the Morgans,
Morton, Rose, and Co , it does not follow that they may
not be good things; but it does follow that no one should
invest in them who has not means of acquiring informa-

tion altogether apart from those who bring such loans for-
ward. Sometimes they appear to be launched with an
utter disregard to the character of the persons associated
with them ; and a striking instance of this has lately been
furnished. If investors set aside every rule of prudence,
after the experience of the last few years, the only conclu-
sion must be, that mankind are growing greater fools than
ever. It was but the other day that a very finely got
up Bond for £3O, bearing the name of "Major Buttz, was
shown as a sort of curiosity as not being worth half-a-
crown, and it recalled the floating of a Nevada mine on
the London . market some two years ago. " This is my
experience of Nevada," said the holder.
How is it that the most trusted financial journals
and men of business in the States express satisfaction at
the rejection of that clause in the Funding Bill providing
for the payment of coupons at the offices of authorized
agents iu foreign capitals? Evidently, to judge from the
tone of the remarks, because any bill with agencies and
commissions in it is regarded with the utmost suspicion aft
the work of a " ring" nursing a fat job. The rejection of
this clause has been hailed as the defeat of a ring scheming to
extract plunder out of the nation. "If London and Frank-
fort want the bonds they will send for them, and it is not
for the American people to get on their bended knees to
the financial Shylocks of Europe." The point is altogether
missed, for it is not European hclders who want American
bonds, but the Union which wants European and other
holders to surrender tho bonds they own for others bear-
ing less interest. It is neither more nor less than absurd
to suppose they will voluntarily exchange a six per cent.
bond for a five per cent. bond without an equivalent ; and
it is equally absurd to suppose that they will buy a five
per cent. bond at par in gold when they can get a six per
cent. bond under par. Mr. Boutwell is in a great hurry to
get his bill passed and to commence operations with the
new bonds. Why ?-- who in their senses are going to buy
them except the unfortunate banks which will be com-
pelled, if the Senate's measure passes, to exchange
$300,000,000 of six per cents. for four-and-a-half per cents.
In time the United States may be able to achieve such a
financial operation, but not in Mr. Butwell's day ; for,
though, the Wall-street Journal contends, the fools may not
all be dead, yet we do not think that they should be looked
for among the purchasers of Five-Twenties; nor,,indeed,
that any body of men could be so idiotic as to exchange
the Sixes for the Fives, Four-and-a-Half, and Fours; or
to purchase at par lower interest-bearing bonds, while
the higl.t r they hold do not fetch par in any market in the
world; for it must not be forgotten that the present quo-
tation represents nearly three per cent. accrued interest.
The view so generally taken in America may be correct
from one aspect, of which we know nothing, but singu-
larly incorrect—indeed, childish—from the genuine busi-
ness standpoint upon which the transaction ought to be
based.

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A pretty little quarrel is progressing in Rich-
mond because Governor Walker, who under the enabling
Act appointed a new City Council, and the old City Coun-
cil. Mayor Cohoon refused to surrender the police-sta-
tion houses to Ellison, who was elected Mayor by the new
City Council, and who took posSession of the City Hall
and other buildings, and besieged the old Mayor in •ns of
the station-houses. Governor Walker backs Ellison, and
ex-Governor Wise is one of Cohoon's counsel. Judge
Underwood, of course, hurried up to the fray. Ellison
slut off Cobobn's gas, food, water, and telegraph wire, but
some negroes purchased a bakery and emptied its con-
tents into the station-house, throwing the leaves through
the windows. General Canby has sent troops to be used
in case of disturbance, which is not likely to occur. The
quarrel arose under the supposition that the troops would
be withdrawn when Virginia was admitted into the
Union, and an Act was passed by the State Legislature
authorizing the Governor and the City Councils to ap-
point and elect State and City officers to replace those to
be withdrawn. The election is alleged to be unconstitu-

tional, and a representative in Congress talked of recon-

structing Virginia, in consequence of this paltry dispute.
We were premature in predicting that there would be no
disturbance, for the troops raised the siege, and Ellison's
police, being stoned by the negroes as they retired, fired
on the mob, killing one and wounding three men, and this
complicated the quarrel. The Council backs Ellison,
ordering a levy of spezial constables, for whose payment
they provide, and two Mayors now act in the capital of
Virginia.

The debate in the Senate on the San Domingo
annexation treaty has developed the fact that its ratifica-
tion is impossible, and the pet measure of the Executive
has been, or will be, defeated. The Pi-esident sent a message

signifying that ho had obtained from President Baez thirty
days' extension of the time. 'rho subject was debated by

the Foreign Affairs Committee on the 15th March, and
reached the following vote :—Nays, Senators Sumner,
Patterson, Cameron; and Casserly ; Yeas --Senators Mor-
ton, Harlan, and Schurz ; and the Chairman was directed
to make an adverse report. A proclamation of President

Baez had been received, stating that, as it seemed to be
the desire of the Dominicansto join the United States, a vote

was ordered, the places at which it was to be taken named,
as likewise the mode of making the returns. The pio-

clamation was accompanied withan official bulletin, show-
ing the political and commercial advantages to be gained
by annexation. It is evident that General Grant will be
deeply disappointed at the decision of the Senate, though
he may live to learn the wisdom of the action of the
Chamber. On the 17th March the President assembled
the Republican Senators in his room of the Senate wing
of the Capitol, excluding the members of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee, known to be unfavourable to the pro-
ject. Most of those who came at his call expressed them-

selves favourable to the scheme; and Senator Cameron,
who had voted in Committee against the ratification,

changed his mind. It was then thought that the treaty
was progressing favourably, but it requires a two-thirds
majority, and the bugbear of " rings" stands in the way.
One of the Erie cases has been tried in the New
York Supreme Court, at special term, before Judge Bar-
nard. The directors brought an action to recover from Mr.
Vanderbilt $1,000,000 in money, and $3,500,000 in stock
paid to Lim in settlement of ihe first great Erie war, on
the plea that it was a fraudulent arrangement, and that
Mr. Vanderbilt was particeps jraudis. The testimony of

Mr. Jay Gould has been given in lull, and is not calculated
even on his own showing to raise the character of his
transactions in the estimation of the public. According to
Gould's version the proceedings seem all to have been
based on the pleasant rule that two parties are to fight,
while a third party bears the blows. The railway kings
made all the II orld resound with the noise of their battle,
but all the time there was an unseen current of strategy
by which the losses incurred on the grand operations wet e
adjusted and fixed on the shoulders of the shareholders.
We closed our arrangement, said Gould, with Vanderbilt
to take $5,000,000 of his stock at $7O, and to settle his
loss in the pool, abort $1,000,000. "The company had
already settled with Schell and Work, and were to settle with
Drew; we wore to guarantee another million, and the
Erio Company were to purchase $5,000,000 of stock at 80,
and were to pay him $1,000,000, and he was to have two
seats on the board. In evidence was tendered a receipt by
Mr. Schell of $429,250 for the settlement of his loss, as also
for $25,000 for counsel fees.. Also two cheques, one for
$460,000 and the other for $540,000. payable to Mr. Jay
Gould, and indorsed, Pay C. Vanderbilt.' Also, a note
announcing the sending of 50,000 shares of Erie Railway
Stock to Work, Davis, and Barton, to be delivered to Mr.
Gould on his payment of $2,500,000. Also, a cheque for
$2,500,000 by Smith, Gould, Martin, and Co., payable to
Work, Davis, and Barton." We have no right to discuss
this case on Mr. Jay Gould's ex parte statement, but the
fact is clear that the very persons who made the arrange-
ments with Mr. Vanderbilt now charge him with partici-
pating in a fraudulent transaction, and endeavour to
make him disgorge. The testimony of Mr. Fisk was, in
a high degree, amusing, and made all New York laugh.
Closely cross-examined, as he was, little could be got from
him, except what be wanted to tell. He went on the prin-
ciple that the whole thing was "a gigantic swindle ; an
almighty robbery," for which the State prison ought to be
built larger; and after Vanderbilt's proposal to divide the
profits and losses bad been accepted, after the papers had
been passed round and signed, "I told Gould that we had
sold ourselves to the devil." When questioned as to the
time he entered the Erie board, he said he remembered the
13th Oct., 1867, as it was an episode in his life. " Why,
Sir ?" " Because 1 had no grey hairs at that time." The
old man Drew was no better than a batter-pudding ;
Eldridge had got demoralized,and there was no head nor tail
to the concern. His descriptions of his interviews with Van-
derbilt were amusing. In one the Railway King was sitting
on a bed, and Fisk noticed the four buckles on his shoes,
thinking that if great men wore those shoes, he might
want a pair like them. The thing which most impressed
him, however, was the " almighty robbery by that man
Vanderbilt." From the zin.ment he signed the first
paper ho describes himself as going with the robbers, and
keepirg with them up to now. How many more of the
fraudulent papers he signed, he does not know. In cross-
quest:oning him on the space left for the conspirators (as
Fisk called them) to sign, the counsel desired to know if he
had had a glass of wine ; and some fencing followed. "Can-
not remember what ?" asked the counsel. " What
you are going to say, probably ;" answered Fisk. When
pressed as to what he meant by joining the robbers,
he said, " after signing those papers an entire change
had come over the position we had occupied, and the acts
we had done towards this corporation." He was asked if
he meant that from then till now he bad joined the rob-
bers, and he said that before he had no lot or part with
them, but that after having done what he ought not to do,
he had sold himself to them, standing thenceforth on their
basis. He enumerated the robbers as Schell, Work, Van-
derbilt, Rapalo. It will he observed that throughout the
evidence Fisk took up the position that he had been be-
trayed by Drew's tears and Vanderbilt's entreaties into a
nefarious transaction injurious to the corporation he repre-
sented. Jobbery he was by that suit endeavouring to undo.
It is probable we will hear more of Mr. Burt's proceedings
on behalf of the English shareholders in Erie before going
to press, and the reason of the false report that he had
resigned the agency. The mail news left him busily
engaged in contending for their rights. He had retained
Messrs. Barlow and Tracy as counsel, and the case was to
be heard before Judge Ingraham of the State Court, and
Judge. Woodruff of the Federal Court. If the decision be
in favour of the English shareholders they can elect the
three next directors, and three in the following year,
which will eventually give them a majority in the board.
Meanwhile, however, the books are closed against the
owners of the English shares, and watch and ward are
kept at the Grand Opera House,which has, however, in vain
tried to prevent writs being served. Mr. Frederick A. Lane
has arrived in' England, but his business is a mystery.
Rumours, too,of a gigantic conspiracy are freely circulated
from the Opera House, representing the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and the New York Central as having
engaged the English shareholders in a conspiracy to rain
the Erie,whereby the formidable competitor of both for the
Western traffic would be removed. It appears by the
papers now to hand that, on the 17th March, Mr. Burt
addressed the New York Senate Committee on Railroads
in a speech spreading over three closely printed columns
of theimorning papers. His arguments were ably delivered,
but the opinion was generally held that he would not suc-
ceed, as he could not without the lobby expenditure of a
large sum, which he was not authorized to make, and
perhaps would not on principle. His aim is the repeal by
the present Legislature of the Act of May, 1869, which
continues Gould, Fisk, Lane, and Tweed in the manage-
ment of the road until 1874. Through Mr. Tweed's in-
fluence that law was passed, and his influence now is even
stronger than it was then. Mr. Burt evidently intends to
fight it out to the last, and the trial, of which we sketch
Fisk and Gould's evidence to recover from Commodore
Vanderbilt what they allege to be the plunder resulting
from a nefarious plot, must strengthen Mr. Burt's cause,
while it is for the direct interest of New York that he
should succeed.
The Presse announces the departure last Thurs-
day of Prince Pierre Bonaparte from Havre for America.
We hope that irritable gentleman will, while residing in
the Republic, be on his good behav►our, for the citizens
do not like being shot, and are apt to act hastily in antici-
pation of any hostile movement when they get into an
argument with a notorious fire- eater. The Prince has
been mulcted in £l,OOO for the benefit of Victor Noir's
family, and though acquitted of the criminal portion of
the charge, ho has been banished from France by a decree
of the Emperor. The Princess and children have gone to
Switzerland.
Charles H. Lewis has been confirmed as Minis-
ter Resident at Lisbon, and John Russell Jones at Brus-
sels. Doubts had been expressed touching the latter, but
they were baseless. C. C. Andrews of Minnesota was at
the same time confirmed as Minister Resident, Stockholm;
Robert C. Kirk, Ohio, Minister Resident, Uruguay ; Gus-
tave Jaraeke, Pennsylvania, Consul at Augsburg. The
nomination of General Sickles was discussed and strongly
supported by Mr Sumner, but opposed by Mr. Trumbull
Though the opposition was powerful it availed nothing,
and General Sickles was confirmed in his appointment.
The following consular appointments have been confirmed:
James R. Weaver, at Antwerp ; D. J. Williamson, at
Callao ; and A. A. Thompson, at Goderich, Canada.
Eugene Schuyler is to be Secretary of Legation at St.
Petersburg,