The New York herald., 1870-05-12

and tho Tariff Bills.
There were two important votes taken in the
Senate yesterday. Mr.. Mowiil proposed
amendments to the Legislative Appropriations
bill providing for the building Of 8 new State
Department and for enlarging the Capitol
grounds by the addition of two squares on tho
east side. The first amendment was carried
by vote Of forty-one to ffteen,
and the last without a division. The
importance Of the votes lies in the fact
that they probably settle the question OF
removing the Capitol for an indefinite time to
come. A good many far Western and South
ern members, such as Stewart, Nye, Cole,
Ramsey and Flanagan and Hamilton of Texas,
voted for the amendments, whilc only two
Eastern men, Cragin and Sprague, voted
against them. This indicates that the distant
members are by no means united for remo-
val of the Capitol to the West, and that tho
neighboring members are very nearly united
against it. So the Washington property hold
ers need no longer be restless and unhappy.
In the House the deadlock occasioned by
the attempt of the majority to put through ths
Northern Pacific Railroad bill under whip and
spur, without debate or amendment and tho
spirited filibustering movement of the minor
ity was finally broken, and the bill, after 8
short debate, was refused third reading and
referred back to the committee. This is "
palpable defeat Of the land grabbing lobbyists
and will result in salutary amendment Of tho
bill before it passes the House. Ben Butler
came again, like Monsieur Tonson, with
his st. Domingo resolution, but this
usual objection, like the other Monsieur
Tonson, also came again. The evils of prac-
tising law in distant courts and legislating in
Washington at the same time are sadly exem
pNfed in Buffers case. For over two weeks
he has intended to introduce that resolution,
and he offered it every day before he was
compelled to attend to his law business. On
any day but Monday, however, one objection,
under the rules, would serve to prevent it's
introduction, and the objection was always
ready. On Monday of last week Butler was
absent on his law business and could not in
troduce it. Last Monday the House
adjourned before he had chance.
The Georgia bill has also been delayed
by his absence, and thus it actually turns out
that Ben Butler, in order that he may have
leisure to turn an honest lawyers fee In Mas
sachusetts, keeps both St. Domingo and
Georgia out of the Union. The Tariff bill
came up in its usual order yesterday, and
Mr. Covode said that it would be better to
drop 1t altogether, as, even after thorough
consideration and revision of it in Committee
of the Whole, it is highly unlikely that it
will pass both houses this session. He pro-
posed to take up the Internal Revenue bill--a
measure of more general interest to the
masses than the Tariff bill, and one more
likely to secure the return Of several members
of the House, who might find their seats
endangered by the continuous tinkeriug at the
tariff. Notwithstanding these well-timed
remarks the House continued to tinker.
Mrs. Mcfarland -Richardson's Statement.
Mrs. Mcfarland Richardson has given to the
public, through the Tribune, statement of
her trials and sufferings as the wife of Daniel
Mcfarland, the causes and instrumentalities OF
her separation, her relations with A. D.
Richardson and her opinion of Mcfarland.
1t thus appears that her trials and sufferings
as the wife of Mcfarland were those of .
faithful, much enduring and long forbearing
woman bound to a savage monomaniao adj
dicted to drink; that at last her tortures,
humiliations and constant dangers and ter
rors became too heavy to be longer endured,
and that her relations with Richardson
throughout were studiously prudent and void
of offence GAS to Mr.. Mcfarland, =" she says,
81 believe now, as have believed for years,
that he was man born to do
murder. The fact that he was always utter
ing threats of bloodshed does not so much
convince me Of this as the fact Of his temper
ament, which, partly from hereditary causes,
partly from his nationality, and partly from
bad education, had become one Of uncontrol-
liable violence. believe he feared this him
SELF" She says much more to justify the
plea of insanity set up in his defence. From
her statement at large, after discovering the
dangerous character of this man, her great
mistake was in continuing still to live with
him. With due allowances for the vivid CO.
loring of her personal vindication, we are in
clined to think that she was 'smore sinned
against than shining" and that to her impru-
dent friends, to whom she is so grateful, she ia
indebted for the unhappy consequences attend
ing her separation from Mcfarland, and the
still more dreadful surroundings of her mar
riage with and separation from Richardson.
1t is melancholy story, but let US hope. that
the surviving parties concerned will hencetor-
ward 90 their several ways in peace.
THE CLOSING SCENES OF THE PARAGUAYAN
WAR.-Our correspondent in Rio Janeiro
furnishes US with the closing scenes In
the long struggle between the allies and
Lopez. As has been before stated, General
Camara, the Brazilian leader, at the head Of
| n .,all eauinnad army CANA lin with the half