The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-08
The Austrian MIanIon.

Thad. Stevens is much better this morning.
Mr.. Kasson, of Iowa. goes to Europe to nego-
tiate for a reduction and uniformity of postage.
The Russian Treaty.
From The ". /. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, April III cannot De denied
that the chances of the ratification Of the ES-
quimaux Acquisition Treaty, which were ut
terly desperate when it was presented to the
Senate, improve daily. Mr.. Seward is engi-
neering with all his personal influence and the
influence of his Department to win the vote of
the Senate, and TO create public opinion that
shall justify and sustain that vote. He
has already procured a spontaneous approval
of the treaty from Generals Halleck and
Meigs, and from Commodore Rodgers. and en-
ployed the machinery OF the Associated Press
to disseminate them through the country. He
is known to be stimulating similar expression
tion of this territ0ry of ice, snow, and rock in
New York and other large cities. Among the
forthcoming letters congratulating the Secretary
upon his statesmanlike negotiation, and urging
the Senate to approve and adopt IL, is said to
be an earnest one from Peter Cooper. When
put upon the wires to create public opinion, IL
may be accompanied by others from equally
eminent New Workers, but the SecreJary's
neous demand is especially applied to the resi-
dents on the Pacific slope. 1t is understood
here that on Thursday he sent a telegram OF
nearly 1000 words, at a cost to the Govern
ment of 75 cents word, to persons in Cali
fornia and other States, to work up forthwith
treaty and a demand for its ratification and
also to furnish HIM with new facts and
trial, and military character, to be used in
favor of the treaty. In the meantime two ma
kept actively at work here upon the members
of the Senate: the first Is the Secretary dinner
parties, the second is the regular washington
graduates of Fagin's Albany Institute. 1t IS sa
strange fact, and very suggestive one, that
a class OF men who never a touch public
measure in which there is not money are
eager for the acquisition of the Russian ice and
Esquimaux, ana hungry to have seven millions
and half paid in golo tor ito whom? Mr..
SewaTo's dinner.taOle is spread regularly with
roast treaty, boiled .treaty, treaty in bottles,
treaty in decanters, treaty garnished with ap-
pointments to Office treaty in statistics treaty
| In a military point of view, trAaty in terri
torial grandeur view treaty clad in turs, orna-
mented with walrus- teeth, fringed with timber.
and Hopping with fish. At these dinners the
by the Secretary with the light and playful
carelessness which has always characterized
his expenditure of other peoples money. He
is in the habit of citing the payment, within
the last year, OF over two hundred millions of
the national debt, to show that this little pur-
chase money for the ice and Esquimaux would
be but a two.penny expenditure that the
people wouldn't miss, wouldn't know anything
ReU The influence Of these Russian R ian treaty treaty.;
dinner parties can be measured from day
positively against the treaty when it was sent
to the Senate. and who now when interrogated
Enthusiastically confess their purpose to vote
for it. In aid OF them, the manufacture of the
evidence that the whole country is in favor of
the treaty, is steadily, going on in the State
were going to acquire a national ice-house
against its will, and that somebody was going
to get S7,5OO,OO0 in gold of the peoples money,
likewise against its will.
LATER.-since the foregoing was telegraphed
the "Esquimaux Ring" gave out that Mr..
and that the treaty will be pushed to vote on
Wednesday next 1t has also become known
that Russia would at any time for years past
have been very glad to get rid of her icy Ameri-
can desert for two millions of roubles, eQuiVa-
lent to four hundred thousand dollars. II like
wise 1nalrE that of tu
treaty between Great Britain and Russia
covers the territory to be ceded to us; and
we take them mortgaged with British right
to hunt trade, and fish over the country and
i9ns lis M rones s we r sa 70 geT & IOf the b lily
title to, and political jurisdiction over,a wilder
ness whose Polar game and fish, constitute its
only possible value, which the British Hudson's
Bay Company now has an equal right to with
the Russians, and will hereafter have an
equal right to with us. The unprecedented and
suspicious hurry to get this treaty through the
Senate without letting the people see It's terms,
is now explained. lit was published it would
be killed stone dead. Baron Stoeckeps extra
ordinary anxiety to have 1t confirmed and rati-
ned is natural. Promotion, decorations, and
generous share OF the price of the worthless
region he shall have the art and good luck to
sell, surely await his success. Mr.. Seward seeks
to improve his wretched political position by
getting upon an acquisition of territory, utterly
valueless though IL be, and purchased at a price
twenty-five times greater than the sum he
could have bought IL for. But there are men
in the United States Senate who are not will-
ing to take ten millions OF dollars out of our
oVerburdened Treasury, to purchase for the
Secretary of State the questionable distinction
OF buying q vast uninhR0itable desert with
which to cover the thousand notifications
and defeats which have punished the pilotage
of Andrew johnson through his shtpwrecked
policy OF reconstruction. These faithful Sena-
tors can defeat this treaty.
The Application for an injunction
Against the RecOnstructiOn Law-The
Movement to he StrenuOusIy Opposed
by the Government.
From the NetU York Herald.
One of the effects of the Sharkey- allxer
movement for the obstruction of the Recon-
struction acts is likely to be a revival OF the
Wholesale confscation schemes favored by red
not radicals. The latter regard the iniunction
application as simply areappearance of the old
treason pro slavery spirit in a new form ana
declare that 1t must be crushed out irnme-
| diately or il will ripen into something dancer.
l ous 10 the peace of the republic They lr0a that
theonlv trne crushing out policy is con isSation
| whioh will effectually and forever "stannn onti
| the last yestige of Rebellion The C6Tonieie
| which is the organ OF the Steyens-Chandler-
| Sumner party here, declares that .stha Great
| Commoner's" proposed sweeping confiscation
cure is not mere threat, but ga sleeping lion
in the path of treason;" and this sentiment is
l echoed by the ultra extremists Prominent
Southern men here proclaim that Sharlkey's
movement is not sanctioned by tho people OF
| the unreeonstructed States and that he is one
of those busy, meddling people whose friend
/ ship is more disastrous than ten thousand
u