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The New York herald., 1869-04-25
More Horrible Barbarities mt Sea.

We yesterday gave another account of shock
ing cruelties practised at sea on board the ship
Richard Robinson on her late passage from
Liverpool to this port Her captains name is
William II. Robinson, and the first mate is
Richard Hoffman, Of Williamsburg, L. I. The
hendish barbarity practised upon the crew. OF
the ship by these two villains has few exam
Piles in the vile history of the packet ship SER
vice between England and this country They
have escaped, but If they can be captured by
the officers who are now on their track they
should be sent to prison for the longest term
that the law will permit. Properly such men,
who are a blot upon the face of creation.
should be hanged The law is too lenient and
promotes crime instead of preventing it.
The crew Of the ship, to the number of twen-
ty-one men, were kept in torture during the
entire passage. Before the vessel was out Of
sight of the land two Of them jumped over
board to escape the brutal treatment One of
them reached the shore, the other is supposed
to have perished. To amuse the captain and
mate the crew were forced to fight each
other, while the officers stood near
pricking them with needles stuck in the end of
pole. Brass knuckles, with sharp projecting
points, were freely used, and the faces and
heads OF the men were horribly mangled Axe
handles, boots, Delaying pins and every other
weapon at hand which might keep up the hor-
rors OF this ocean passage were freely brought
Into play to reduce the crew to condition
little different from death.
II Is now stated that the case 10 to como be-
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

A POINT ON WHICH SPRAGUE AND ABBOTT
AeREE.-"Y You see," said Sprague, "Abbott
is a Yankee, and he is sharp enough to know
that it would not do for him to go back to
North Carolina after having been called
puppy dog here in the Senate without some
show at what they call chivalry in the South.
Why, the very negroes down there would not
speak to him." "The people of my State"
said Abbott "would think very strangely of me
were to submit tamely to the affront of Mr..
Sprague or any other man. If 1
were to lie under this insult my people would
turn me out of the State whenever might
show my face there"
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

Mr.. BERGH ON DOwLING.-Mr. Bergh
charges that Justice Bowling defeats the pur-
pose of the ''law for the prevention of cruel
ty," &C., by undue lenity towards offenders
and by practically winking at the violators of
it. His specifications include all the recent
cases, nearly, and he is undoubtedly right.
The view that this statute protects brutes by
Furnishing men is not altogether the right one,
as it opposes men and brutes in a way that
makes the law seem to favor the latter. The
law wprevents inhuman persons from getting up
scenes in our streets that shock decency and
humanity and outrage all our better feelings;
and in this view it is entitled to better treat
ment at the hands of the Justice
The New York herald., 1869-04-25
A Son Of the Mormon Prophet at the

Son OF the Mormon Prophet mt the
White House-what of the NIormonss
On Friday last the visitors at the Executive
Mansion, from the various classes, professions,
religions, races and colors of men and
women represented, were calculated to con-
vince General Grant that this is indeed q
great country. In addition to the usual run
ofSenators and Representatives from Congress
and ofice-seekers, soldiers, sailors and
civilians, there was a delegation of the Ger
man Veteran Union (white men), which called
to invite the President to flag festival and
"zwei lager" on the 18th of May; there was
a delegation of Indians (red men), en- grande
tenue, from the Far West, delegation Of citi-
zens Of African descent (black men) from
Alexandria, Virginia, and last, though not
least in dignity and Importance, there was a
delegation Of high Mormons from the imperial
household of the Mormon High Priest and
head Patriarch, Protector, Prophet and Dicta-
tor, including Brigham Young, Junior, son
of the Dictator, wife Of the young man, and
one Of the many wives of the old man, and
Miss Little, all Of Great Salt Lake City, the
Holy City of Zion, the New Jerusalem of the
Latter Day Saints.
How beauteous are their feet
Who stand on Zions hill
was doubtless the thought which accompanied
these strange visitors to the'White House; for
after paying their respects to the President
they departed without ceremony and in the
afternoon train westward were heading again
for Utah. Otherwise it might have been sus-
pected that this Mormon embassy had an axe
to grind, the Governorship Of Utah, for
instance. But apparently no such thing
brought the son of the Mormon prophet to
Washington. Still, If the place has not been
filed 1t may be asked why not make the actual
President of his people the Territorial Gov
ernor OF Utah? The inhabitants of that Terri
tory, excepting the Pacific Railroad employees
and their followers and 'Indians not taxed
are almost exclusively Mormons. or the Pro-
phet's people. There are hundred thousand
Of them, and the potential Prophets word
to every man, woman and child of them
Is held as sacred as the Book of Nor |
mon or the Bible. ''The will of the |
people," therefore, in his case, under |
ordinary circumstances, would settle the ques
lion. But the republican party was founded |
upon the declaration of 'the extinction Of those
twin relics of bsrbarism. slavery and
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BAVARIA AND THE PoPE.-One of our late
cable dispatches informs us that Prince Ho-
henlohe, the Bavarian Prime Minister, during
the course of a debate on the educational bill
now before the Chambers, made remarkable
speech, in which he came down very heavily
on the Pope. 1t is notorious that the school
system in Bavaria is one of the most defective
in Europe. Honest and praiseworthy efforts are
now being made to improve it. The Church
party is bitterly opposed to the change. The
Church party, however, in Bavaria, as in
Austria, in Italy and in Spain, is not now in
the ascendant. Hence this educational bill
Prince Hohenlohe is man of modern ideas.
In repelling an attack made upon him by the
ultramontanists he stigmatized the late en-
cyclical Of the Pope ''as contrary to the spirit
of the age and as one of the causes of the diff
ferences which had arisen between the Church
and the State" This from the Prime Minister.
and in Catholic Bavarial How the world is
changing! How the wanderers multiply
Verify, there is need of an Ecumenical Council.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

THE WAY TO STRENGTHEN SPRAGUE.-
fancy that Abbott does not want to fight
Sprague. He wants to play the swaggerer
and bully the little Rhode Island clam thumper.
If any one Of the many who have been stirred
up by Sprague does try to fasten fight on
him, he will by that only convince every one
that Sprague was right and could not be
answered in any other way.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

FERRYBoATs ALL NIGHr.-The passage by
the Assembly of bill compelling ferries to
run their boats at least once an hour will be
apt to convince dwellers in the suburbs that
there are some members of the Legislature in
terested in the wishes of the people. At pre-
sent some of our suburban residents are cut
off at midnight, and some at nine P. M.
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RUM OR MEDICINE. beverages pay
high duty, and proprietary medicines pay a
small one, comparatively. So the dealers
put some bitters in their alcohol, and call it
medicine, and claim that it is liable only to
the smaller duty, and the courts sustain them.
Can they after this collect any more duty on
Vermuth, Maraschino, Curacao or Anisette?
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THE HERALD IN BRoOkL YN.

Notice TO Carriers and Newsdeaiers.
future receive their papers at the BRANCH OFFICE
OF THE New YORK HERALD. No. las Fulton street,
Brooklyn.
ADVERTISEMENTS and SUBSCRIPTIONS and all
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receiy ed as above.
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THE LoNs ISLAND RAILROAD. Another
murderous accident on the Long Island Rail-
road-a road that is but an extension of
city thoroughfare and ought to be as safe as
Broadway. Human care, IL will be said, can
not provide against the possibility of a broken
rail, and this was an accident Of broken rail.
True, but 1t was also an accident of worn out
rolling stock-of rickety old car, ready to
bounce off from the running gear on the suspi-
cion Of an occasion. Would this accident have
happened on well built car in good repair
We do not believe it would.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

How TO CRUSH HER.-The Chevalier Webb
is reported to have written to the Emperor of
France as follows :-''Your majesty must ally
yourself with America and crush her." His
majesty, very likely, could not crush her in
any other way.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

versy. These Napoleonic schemes will not
affect the march of the administration Of Pre-
sident Grant, nor will they deprive 1t of the
support Of the country in its American policy;
but they may seriously complicate the position
of England in her continental relations.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25
The Western Union Telegraph Company
ha C0IlaCffou nf No~w-

the western Union Telegraph Company
and the Collection of News.
We publish to-day some very curious dis
closures relative to the conduct of the Western
Union Telegraph Company toward one of the
newly established San Francisco daily papers.
The following copy of note in this connection
is pertinent
NEW YORK; April %. 1859.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
take the liberty OF calling your attention to the
enclosed copies oil protest. presented to the West
ein Union telegraph Company, which has made an
sent and to monopOllze the newspaper business
upon the Pacific, by suddenly and heavily increas-
sented fully sustain the arguments Of the HERALD
against this monopoly and IN favor of legislative
M very HESa q Ss
1t is claimed that this extraordinary increase
of tolls, entailing very heavy expense, is
for the purpose of crushing out the paper,
which has not been admitted into the asso-
ciated press organization of San Francisco;
but whether this augmentation of cash is insti-
gated by that or any other equally dishonorable
motive, it is not our present purpose to inquire
into. 1t is against the entire system of COL
lecting and distributing news as now established
by the associated press ''rings" in different
localities that we protest. According to the
rules of these "rings," no man, no matter
how much money he may have, can start
newspaper and obtain the privileges of the
press association at any cost. Therefore the
clean principle for the benefit of the public s
to abolish that rule. The substantial col
lection Of news was plan projected and
established by the proprietor of this paper
long before papers now still in a chrysalis
state ever dreamed of claiming public atten-
tion as mediums of news. We oppose these
''news rings" which prohibit honest and
legitimate enterprise from the rewards of
great care and heavy cash expenditure
in the collection of news for the benefit
of the public, not only of this commercial city
but OF the entire country. Our limits are not
prescribed when we have as topic the discus
sion of the necessity for the establishing by
national and State law matters of personal
and permanent interest. The power of trans
mitting news from one eXpanse of our conti-
nent to the other is prerogative that does
what State or by what local authority
it receives charter. 1t belongs to the
United States government, and that gov
has the power to appoint, to
institute, if necessary, a policy
for the permanent interests of the American
people. Among its most pregnant prerogatives
Is that which will give us a "free postal tele-
graph" SO that news associations, self-or-
yanized press establishments, managed by
and in many cases irresponsi-
ble and corrupt people, shall obtain no more
avors.
That the Western Union Telegraph Com
,any, corrupt or not, does not advance the
interests Of the newspaper reading public, is
by the contemplate manner in
which it has treated our San Francisco con-
emporary. We trust our contemporary ON
he Pacific coast will maintain its dignity and
Ire away at the associated blockheads who
lave conspired against it.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

A VERY PRETTY QUARREL AS IT STANDS
Senator Sprague has slapped Senator Abbott's
face-metaphorically, Of course, in calling
him puppy. Abbott is bellicose, but sends
no challenge. He is waiting for Sprague to
challenge him because he subsequently called
Sprague skulker. He thinks that ''puppy"
only calls for ''skulker," but 'skulker" calls
for shooting.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

raj SfckIes for Spain.
General Pile, of Missouri failed to get
through the Senate for Brazil Somebody
else will 60, but where goes General Webb !?
Sanford, headed off from Madrid, remains for
the present at Brussels. Carlisle, of West Vir-
ginia, virtually rejected, leaves Bartlett in
occupation of Stockholm. Hale, at Madrid,
having been invited to return home, and Perry,
his Secretary of Legation, having resigned,
those two places remain to be filed, and it is
positively given out from Washington that the
President has resolved that General Sickles
shall take the place Of Hale. Some of the
slow-coach conservatives known as ''old
fogies" are apprehensive that General Sickles
is too much of the order of ''Young America"
for the delicate diplomacy demanded at Madrid
at this crisis on the Cuban question, and that
he may involve the United States in serious
complications with England, France and Spain.
But we entertain no such apprehensions.
General Sickles as a soldier knows the value
of strict adhesion to instructions, and as
lawyer he knows too much to be caught in the
meshes even Of Spanish diplomacy. We are
satisfied, too, that while avoiding all entan-
Cling alliances, requlsitions or concessions, the
interests of the United States and American
ideas will not suffer any loss in his hands at
Madrid. We hope, therefore, it will soon turn
out to be fixed fact that he has been posi-
lively resolved upon for this mission.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

NATIONAL BANKERS. s.-The president of one
Of the Washington banks has been sentenced
10 two years imprisonment for larceny.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

polygamy;" and though slavery under the
reign of this party has been abolished
polygamy in Utah still prevails. Then. again.
the appointment of the Mormon Dictator, with
his mutitudinous harem, as Governor of Utah
would be a scandal to the rest of the people of
the Union for it would be equivalent to a
recognition by the President of the United
States of Mormon polygamy. So this thing
cannot be.
What, then, Is to be done with the Mormons?
They are too strong to be trifed with; they
are too rich to be bought off cheaply, and
too numerous and too useful wthal in chang
ing bowling desert to blooming garden
too valuable, with their wonderful industry and
generally peaceable conduct, to be removed.
Congress having passed no special law of re-
construction concerning them, General Grant
no doubt will be satisfied in keeping the peace
between them and the ''outside barbarians"
during the recess. To this end he might, to
some advantage, try few Quakers as peace
men among the Territorial officers Of Utah;
but in any event, through the long interval to
December next, we apprehend that strong
detachment of men of war will be needed in
Utah to maintain law and order between the
Saints and the Gentle adventurers and border
ruffans drifting in from the Pacific Railroad.
At any rate, this visit of the son of the Rajah
of Utah, even as only a call of courtesy, was q
good diplomatic move in behalf of the Nor
mons. 1t will almost certainly remind Gen.
eral Grant that, dreadful Papans as thew ara
in their domestic relations, they still have
some ''rights which white men, and Christians,
especially, are bound to respect"
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-REv
DAVID MITCHELL Morning and afternoon.
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All advertisements should be sent in before
eight o'clock, p. NJ, to insure proper classif-
cation.
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TIMDTTY.- says there is nothing
so timid as half a million dollars, unless IL is a
million. As he is about million he mus, be
very timid. 1t is perhaps on this hint that
Abbott is eager for a fight
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

AN OLD SINNER. .-Sprague, the innocent
youth from the country, says that Cameron
tried to lead him into temptation and a taste
for champagne. Cameron evidently wanted
to get something sparkling into him to improve
his speeches. Little Rhode Island would never
have had this notion of the genial old gentle
man from Pennsylvania II he had been at
Lochiel and seen the iron mill and the NADIA
gascar gameoooks
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

PHILANTHROPY on THE QuI vIvE.-A depu-
tation waited on the King Of Prussia yester-
day, in Berlin, to tender the services Of band
Of persons-whether male or female Is not
stated-who had volunteered TO attend to the
wounded Of his army in the event of war. His
Majesty thanked the members, adding that, In
his opinion, "the object Of their association
was distant, but II war should break out he
hoped merited success would attend their
efforts" The idea appears of the Mrs. Jellaby
red flannel class. There may be something
in it, however, for Europe is deeply agitated
towards general conflict.
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

CHURCH OF THE Observation-Disclosures Sci
MON REV. DR. FLAGG. Morning.
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COOPER INsTITUrE-FREE PREACHING ny REV
q. w. BRIGGS. Morning and evening" J. T. CURRY at
room No. a. Morning and evening.
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BLEECKER STREET UNIvERsALISr CHURCH.
REV. DAY h. LEE. Evening and evening.
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GU ADRUP PIE SHEET.
TO ADVER Users.

New York, sunday, April 25, 1869.
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CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION-REv ABBOTT
BROWN. Morning and afternoon.
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BAPTIST MARINERS TENPLE-REv. J. L. HODGE
Morning and evening
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Governor e. NJ. MoCook, for Colorado: Senator
j. = Morrill,, for Vermont; Collector J. l.. Thomas,
FOR Baltimore; Governor Burnside and Colonel B.
Bufium, for Rhode Island; Major Crossman, OF the
United states Army, Tor Texas; General Marvin,
Amssa Parker and Z. Corning. for Albany; Judge
ADpo't Louis Prane and Colonel p. ID. Hughes, for
Boston; Captain Leroy, for Poughkeepsle: Colonel
Bssel, for Connecticut; Captain Osborn for Bualo:
General stager and NJ. J. Lippincott for Philadel.
phia; Dr. $. Van wyckon aud Major =. JACKSON. for
New Orleans; Dr. and Mrs. l.. A. sayre, for sayan.
nah, and Captain wot,on for Liverpool
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Miscellaneous.

The steamboat Uselda, on her way down the Mis-.
souri, river from the upper military posts to St. Lous
NO., with discharged soldiers on board, Is reported
20 have struck a snag and exploded above Sioux
CITY. Fifty persons are missing and a large number
were Killed or woun ded.
number Of the citizens Of Rhode Island have
rendered Governor Burnside public reception In
The New York herald., 1869-04-25

CHAPEL OF ST. THOMAS CHURcH.-REv. wx. F.
MORGAN. Evening.
Middletown transcript., 1869-04-17
PROMPT,

Mdalctoicn, Del. FEB. 2s 1863
MEssRs. WALTcG, WHANN h Co.. Gentlemen,
used Whann's Raw Bone Super-Phosphate on my
corn last spring, and ON my wheat in the fall
dn each case it produced an excellent crop.
Wishing to determine which of the different phos-
Phates would pay. me best, l tried several, and
am glad to say the yield was much the best
swhere used Whann,s. shall continue to use
ft, and cheerfully recommend it to nay neighbors.
A. T. STOOPS, :.
iGddiaoscn, Del. Aaych II, 1868.
MEssRs. WALTON, WHANN 4 Co.. Gentlemen:
have been using Whanns Phosphate for some
time past alongside of the popular fertilizers, and
have come to the conclusion ii is as good as any
other. ! am going to use ten tons this spring.
Yours truly, HENRY CLAYTON.
March 27-ly
Middletown transcript., 1869-04-17

Such securities are generally valuable
in proportion to the length of time they
have to run. The longest six per cent,
gold interest bonds of the U. s. (the '8l'sl
will be due in - years, and they are worth
112. If they had 80 years to run, they
would stand at not less than 1876. A per-
fectly safe First Mortgage Bond like the
Union Pacific should approach this pate.
The demand for European investment il
already considerable, and on the complies
ton of the work will doubtless carry the
price to large premium.
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LOST.

"A Note given by S. B. Sutton, and endorsed
- by Albert @. Newton, for So, 900 in favor Of
John A. WOOD, given March 18th, 1868, at six
months. The payment has been STONED.
March l3, ls69-3m JOHN n. WOOD.
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SECURITY OF THE BONDS.

1t needs no argument to show that A
First Mortgage of $26. 500 per mile upon
what for a long time must be the only
railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pa
cifc States is perfectly secure. The en-
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~ Bibles, Prayer Books and Hymn Books
Blank Books, in various styles and binding
Tuck, Memorandum and Pass Books.
STATIONERY.
Writing. Letter, and Note Paper
Envelopes, in variety;
Mourning Paper and Envelopes to match
FANCY ARTICLES.
Photograph Albums, Work Boxes Fancy Boxes.
Writing Desks, Ladies' Satchels, Pocket Books,
Fort Folios, Purses Port Monaies, Segar
Gases, Picture Frames Tassel and
Cords, Looking Glasses,
BACK GAMNoN BOARDS, CHESS AND
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Rubber Pencils and Penholders.
Writing Fluid and Ink Stands,
Pocket Cutlery, Rogers Scissors, &C.
sleeve Buttons, Studs, Breast Pins, Finger Rings,
Spectaces
Violin Strings
Combs, Brushes, Nail and Tooth Brushes,
Gum Bands Watch Keys, Key Rings,
and Puff Boxes.
n fine assortment of Colgate u Co.'S. Soap.
PHALoN'S NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUs,
Wrighfs and Taylor's Superior Extracts,
Pomades Hair Oils,
And Dental Soap of the First Quality.
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS.
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Gloves, Hose, Handkerchief Cuffs, Wristlets.
Segars, Tobacco Pipes, Meerschaums, and To-
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Lamps, Lamp Chimneys, Wicks and Coal Oil.
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