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NEW YORK HJSKALtf, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 187L-WITH NEW TORKfTERALD 8KOA1WAY ANJ ANN STKEET. JAMES it Letters sealed. and slionld bo properly Tlio Presidential nnil Uo Novr 1'ciico Vtilumo XXXVI No. 40 THiS AFTERMDS A'JD EVEMG. BOOTH'S TUKATKB, Rioiiri.tru.

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Boai-EsiirEs, 40." YOEK CTfiCDB, Fonr'centb Btn-st-SossEO IN THE Eo. AOBOEATS, 4O. Matraeo ci Hew Tojkj Wednesday, February 15, 1S71. eosrara OF PAGE. I--Advertisements.

3--Advertisements. 3--International Bcallaz: Victory of Onr Tara Over Enellstt ana SweSisu Sailors-Custom Honss Affairs--The Suffering Sailors--Funeral or Alice Caiy--OBicial Correspondence Relative to Affairs in St Domingo--Sfc. Valentine's Peajboav Edacawonal fund--Ihe Broolljn--Real Estaw attoa--Kaval Affairs--marriages and Deaths--Advertisements. 4--Editorials. Leading Article, "Tie Presidential Succession--General Grant and tne JSew Peaca Movements or tus An- 3--Editorials (Conttauea from Poorta Action ol Great Britain, on the feace Question; Prussia Asked to Make Known Her Terms: Kertctnalllng Pans; Tne Elections; General Reports--Fewa from neons Telegrams--Tne Missing Steamer Ten- nessee--Tne Joint fllgn uommissioa--Personal InKlliEence--Business Polices.

8--Wasttlneton: Popularity ot tne Kew National Loan In Europe: the Eirst or tae Swamshln Subsidy Bills Passed in tae Senate--Report ot ine Congressinoal Committee on the Troubles Among tne Cadets ct West Point--The Republican Court: Mrs. President Grant's Last Ee. cepuon--ilore Snow--The Kew Hamonr" Slaughter--The Andrew Statue In Boston- Terrorism in South Carolina y--Advertisements. owvGAWK'S oi ijurope; Dr. Jacoor on tiie wan Prasslan Outrages on an English Faculr id.

Prance--In a Boot: Remarkable Strategvof a Correspondent; to Get to the Outposts; Between the Two iTres--JItiElc and the Drama--The Fenian Esles-DespOTate Kegro Affray in Ma- ryland--Bfltards-Proceedlng-s in the Courts 8-Conrts (Continued Jrom Eightt Page)--Tne Erie Preferred Suits--The Taylor Will Case: Summing Up of the Case for the Contestants--The Tombs Poace Court--Political and General Notes, with Comments--Financial and Commercial Reports-'-pnlUng" a Den-AnEUza- Ibeth Sensation--TerrlbTe Murder in Florida. 3.0--The State Capital: Tweed's Proposed Elevated Railroads Alonjr Broadway--The LiederKranz Ball-Stupping Jiitelligence--AaTerasements. "Lei us liavo ponce." Under this sublime legend, in 18G8, Gonoral Grant marched lo victoiy as resistlesfly us did llio great Cou- sttmtiue in bis day under Ills iavlaciblo bati- nor of llio Cipss. "Let us have peace" ia now (ho cry' from all tho groat Powers of Europe. We have it from tltie, German impc- ilal headquarters at Versailles and from Ibo French National Assembly at Bordeaux; wo bavo lieard from the green, (able of thj London Conference; il has been passing and rcpassing tho Atlantic Ocean between Queen Victoria and President Grant, and it is now coming to us with tho mombois en route from England appointed to tho joint High Commission soon (o meet in Washington to settle in a ireaty of peace all the outstanding differences between the two countries.

General Grant, with this grand idea of peace, is preparing for the campaign of 1872. In 1868 he applied this popular idea of peace to our domestic affairs; in 1872 il -will be practically extended (o onr foreign relations. What is the prospect? It broad, unbounded, glorious and supremely attractive. We hear from Washington that the republicans in Congress are anything but a unit iu support of general Grant for the succession; that Sumner thinks he Is a failure and may conveniently he set aside; that Carl Schnra ia of the same opinion; that Colfax has friends who aro beating about the bush that Trnmbtill and Fenton and other leading lights of the party are perfectly indifferent concerning the claims of Grant, and will seize upon the first opportunity to cut him and whistle him down the wind; that, in short, there aro half a dozea ambitions republican politicians who are actively mining and countermining to nead off each other and to cut out Grant in the national party convention. They are aiming to weaken him before the people by a continuance of the foolish high taxation policy of Secretary Boutwell, instead of laboring to strengthen the administration by popular measures of financial reform, iacludmg a reduction of onr taxes to the extent of a hnnSred millions a year.

But, notwithstanding all these conflicting intrigues of soured aad reckless politicians, and all this confusion of the opposing cliques and factions of his party, General Grant is still as strong- against them as was Abraham Lincoln against tha Chase and other side movements to supplant Km in the Convention of 1364. But General Grant against the democratic party -will have a harder battle to fight in 1872 than his battle of 18S8. In Cm campaign General Wade Hampton, in his resolution, made in the Tammany Convention a plank of the democratic platform, proclaiming all the reconstruction measures of Congress "nneon- stitutional, revolutionary, null and void," made the battle to General Grant as easy as that of Lincoln in 1SS4 against the democratic platform declaring- the war for the Union a failure. To assurance doubly sure" for Grant, the nomination, of General Blair for Vice President on the ticket with Seymour was made, and on tas strength of Blair's famous BrodheaE letter, boldly advocating a violent overthrow of the whole reconstruction" system of Congress. "With the announcement of this ticket and plaifona.

it was apparent to every dispassionate observer of the currents of popular opinion that the Tammany Convection had foolishly throwa away every chanca Ja jiectioo, ss injLSGi, in fighting blindly against fixed and the tidal waves of a political revolution bound to run its course. 2runt sent outloolc, ho has secured his point against nimcmontn of tlio all hoslilo combinations and all comers. We assume In this opinion that before the mooting of tho Republican National Convention la 1872 the Dominican division, if nol the whole island of St. Domingo, will belong lo the United Slalcs, and wo havo no doubt that with this annexation tho value, llio tropical beauties fttul Iho commercial advantages ol llio isla'nd will make it at onco an exceedingly popular acquisition. Wo assume'thut this Anglo-American joint High Commission will givi us of peace which will'bring joy to our traders among tho losers from the piracies ihoso Anglo-rebel Alabama's 1 and Shenandoahs, and gladden the hearts of our Yankee fishermen, and gratify our wheat and corn and beef and pork raisers of the great Northwest with their enlarged concessions touching tho navigation of the St.

Lawrence aad its British Canadian canals. And we further assume that tho general results of this treaty will be harmony and good will between the peoplo on both sides our Northern boundary, and the cordial co-operation of Americans, Englishmen, Irishmen and her Majesty's provincials in the development of the resources of tho Continent, and in tho extension all over the world of the triumphs of civilization, liberty, 1'berality, Christianity and peace. Upon this grand platform of a new era of peace, mads manifest to the country and the world in the annexation of St. Domingo and the groat treaty of peace which we expect from this joint High Commission, what man or what party ia will be able to supplant General Grant and his popular administration? This is the question now to be considered by all these small potato republican politicians who are casting about for a one- horse candidate against Grant; and it is a question, too, for the democracy whs have been counting upon such embarrassments and bad luck to General Grant upon the Alabama claims and the fisheries, aod upon the Canadians and the Fenians, and upon such divisions in tho republican camp about Torn Murphy and Greeley, and Fenton and Conkling, and Snmner and Trumhull, and Gail Schnrz and Grate Brown as would clear the way for a democratic procession to the White House. As the case now stands Grant is master of the field.

Tho Tonacmoc--Jtcport nor Mnvtn Hoou Suuiu Without wishing to discredit the report thn tho Tennessee was soon off the coast of Haytl on tho 28th ult. by a vessel that arrived a Boston yesterday, wo cannot but ask Ih question. By what moans would tho Tennessee, which left this harbor on tho 17th ultimo, bound to Saumna Bay, or arouud the cast end of the jsUnd'of St. Domingo, be in latit twenfy degrees north and longitude sovontjr-lhroo degrees twenty minutes west on the 28lh day ef January, and bo steering wcst-jiorthwcst, if bound to any part of St. Domingo? Fvgni tho way tho steamer seen was staenag sho was, beyond doubt, bound through the channel between tho north coast ol GAMBETTA is reported seriously iE.

He has been acting very ill for some time. THE TATLOE Wax. CASE is approaching a conclusion. Mr. Clinton summed up for the contestants yesterday very forcibly.

BBOOKLYS is threatened with a scarcity of Water. Between weakening whiskey and adulterating milk there has been a great waste of Ridgawood. THE BENIGHTED NEW JEESST LEGISLATTTBE Ifa considering- the fifteenth amendment. It ought to nuke Missouri Compromise bill a special order for nest week. THZ ExoEttEST ASSEJEBLT Bm, to prevent Tnurder by ignorant drag clerks and druggists was yesterday ordered to a third reading, and, judging from Jhe way it was taken in hand in Committee of the Whole, there is no doubt about its final passage.

THE Ku Kites of SOUIH CAEOLCTA have bscome exceedinsly sradacions. Ten negroes, priseners in TJnion conntj-jaH. were taken out by a basd of three hundred of these miscreants and murdered on Sunday night. These people will insist upon marlial law. SIB SIAZFOBD NbsrsooiE, SL p.

or Korft Devon, Basfcna, has been appointed to serve on tho joint High Commission In Washington, on the part of the government, in place of Sir John Kose, who resigned. The particulars will be found ia oar cabie telegram report from A Psorosmos is before 3ie Legislators fe Ira2J a caaal a Hell Gate. It fafaj a great tea and we doabi aot li a Ifen of removing lire obsfcactrans at Hell Gate -B5H succeed cvcntaaTy, although J3w operations go on very "Wiycaa he not Iry a Etossren Sock explosion ea i laglasworfcasajn, snca as thej la iraaasoo Bay aot aiany zjoalbs ago Two BUR-JOED EAUBOAD Bni3 were introduced in tie Senate yesterday by Mr. Tweed, girs their directors -ery extraordinary pjwsra, sncl as talaag posassdoa of -wigj- evor public paris they see fit, tearing the rosd Against tta sides of ioose-t, o. One of these b5Hs is modest to iats only that part of Broadway earfendiag from Whitehall strsM to pari row, where It swatches off to tie Bowery and Third avenue; but the pther.mates clean sweep of Broadway, from Battery to Harlem riyer.

That refolution, accomplished in the fifteenth amendment, opens before us a new order of things. The negro question, npon which the republicans iare gained all their victories, being now settled, is out of the The money question aad opestioiis affecting out foreign, relations take its place, and upon these issues the democracy have advantages and chances which eaUy in the chapter of accidents hold out some promise of victory. Nor do we think that the republicans will be gratified in their expectation of the democratic stupidity again ia 1872--another revival of their fight against the fifteenth and the fourteenth amendments of the constitution. They will, in their National Convention, accept the situation as Tammany has accepted it; they will pick out as their candidates men whose antecedents in the war are not of the -Vallandig- ham school, and they -niD order their battle upon the financial shortcomings of Grant's administration, including its high tases, with their oppressive discriminations against the masses of Jlhe people. For President Governor Hoffman has been -wisely withdrawn by Tammany.

He ia an able, capable and popular man; but Ms time has not yet come. Hendricks, Pendleion and Genera! Hancock ere now most prominently ia the foreground of the party; but of the old set of Iggtf Hancock appears to us the only availabfe piece of limber. Eemeaiberiaj, however, Polk, in 1S44, andPisrce, In 1852, ana that both were successful from their very obscurity, we may have the same conyenieat democratic game repeated in 1S72. Andwiyaot? If tha obscurity of Polk was too much for onr greatest statesman, Henry Clay, and if the obscurity of Pierce was too much for onr greatest soldier of his time. General Scott, why may not the unknown Smith or Jones bs too much for General Grant oa the new political issues of I tie day? Against any such convenient democratic device Geasral Graai iaa provided an issue or two of great popularity, -siti -which Jiis asms and ids adainisteaSion -wiH ts idcalifisd in tie coming contest jUSe a sHfifl ssSdier, is iias ficierminsd not to leave to tie enemy his jwsl- tioa tie battle flsld, but to choose it himself.

Holding the Wiife House, la is com- to fight on tie defensive fent instead of waiiing to be snrronadod le -will go out io challenge the caoiny in the opea Sold. Hence this movement for the anoesaBoa of tho splendid island of Si Domingo; hence iais joint High Coanaission which is slorOy toaeetia "ffasiicgtan fc, comprehensive and lajiiag itfij England ana the Uaitea SteKs. Upon these two aea- "laanifest destraj" OT a both io the salarge- aentofour nainto aa prosperity The London Press on the Armktico. The London, and, in fact, the English press generally of the dates jast come io hand devotes long editorials to the situation In France and the results likely to accrue from the armistice. The London Times thinks the world may congratulate itself on the factsthat Paris is saved from farther misery aad destruction, and believes that the provinces will accept the decision of the capital.

France, the Times also thinks, will accept the con- ctneror's terms, aad all the world, that conqueror himself not eicepted, is interested in making those terms as tolerable as the clrcam stances of the case will allow. The London Daily Sews is Inclined to augur hopeful things for France from the armistice, because it removes a dangerous obstacle--Bismarck's refusal to recognize the provisionalgovernment-- which for some time back seemed to lie in the way of peace. The News hopes that the victor will spare France the bitter humiliation of seeing German-soldiers in Paris, The London Post says on the subject that it now remains to Be seen whether the Prussians In'tEeir hour of triumph can curb their desires within the bounds of moderation, and observes that unless the Prussians demand terms of exceptional harshness it is difficult to imagine that the eoatesfc will be recommenced. The London Telegraph, in a thoughtful article, contends that the resources, the hopes, the energies of a whole generation have been condensed Into this awful campaign. The land is bleeding to death; it is beaten hopelessly; it laid too much on Paris aad it lost all.

The London Standard holds that it is reasonable to believe that the capitulation of Paris brings us to the end of the war between France and Germany. The evening papers, foremost among which stands thePoB MaS Qazettz, thoughtfully express themselves, and claim that the capitulation of Paris has come at the very time of all others which is least favorable to any prolongation of the war. The London Globe, now that Paris "has surrendered and peace is probable, believes that it is England's duty to see that snch terms aro granted to the French as maybe accepted without that humiliation which is worse than rain. Cuba and the Bahama but think from the following circumstances that It was the. United States steamer Severn, and not the Tennessee.

The former sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, on the 27th-of January, bound to Havana, and this the Navy Department Tronld have soon in the HBEAID of the 29th ultimo. She would on the 28ih have been about ia the position mentioned, and would have been steering the course given. Her model and rig are the same as the Tennessee; hence we aro more than ever satisfied with our statement, that it was no other than the flagship Severn, which arrived in Havana on the 8th instant. An examination of a chart will clearly demonstrate what we say, and we cannot understand how any nautical man and a navigator should think that a vessel seen in that position, steaming to the westward, could be a ship known to bs bound to a port situated in a direction almost directly opposite. The Tennessee would have shaped a course direct for Samana Bay if bound there, and through the Mona Passage, between St.

Domingo and Porto Eico, if destined first for St. Domingo City. It is not possible that Captain Temple would have selected any of tha intricate channels or passages over the Bahama Banks or through the Bahama Islands in order to pass around the west side of Hayti, and it is very certain that if he did attempt it and reached tha point mentioned he would not be steering west-northwest fn order to reach Ms port of destination, We notice that the opinion we have here expressed is also entertained at Washington bat tae Kavy Department appears to be in lamentable ignorance of the whereabouts of our vessels In the West Indies when it notifies the prfblic that the Severn was at Kingston and the Congress at Key West when last heard from, and we think it advisable for it not to express opinions or try to give information that tend so much to confuae those who denend upon te know the whereabouts of Iheb? Meads. Our opinion of the whereabouts of the Tennessee has not changed in the least We believe her safe and all attached to her well, and we shall hold to it for some time yet before feeling the slightest apprehension that an accident has occurred. But TW must, as is our duty, correct errors that occur, and rectify as far as is inonrpower false reports; consequently we do not hesitate to say, that from a close examination of the locality given and course being steered, we are satisfied that the vessel reported was cot the Tennessee, and we are confident that when the latter is heard from our opinion will be found correct In this, as It Is on almost every other question which we are called upon to decide.

Thu lira of Good I'YolIrm--Gratifi Policy Tonco tvitb All llio World. It will bo remembered that after the stern and persistent ware between Franco and England that succeeded tho French Revolution there was an unusunl rush of Englishmen lo Puns and a general fraternization among tho people of tho two countries. Franco had been a hidden land to the Bnglieb, while the French nomo had mounted higher and higher to a splendid and tcnible pre-eminence by tbo achievements of Mirabeau, Robespierre and Kapolcon. Tho English hurried to seo what manner of men theso half heroes and half monsters wore--these cxcoulionejs of Marie Antoinette and conquerors of Marengo. A generaClon haft almosl passed since the Gaul What ATS tha TeFcia? In the Hpase of Commons on Monday eva- and wffl hold his stands tef9re fte OJB STEASBOOEG Is to remain eternally German.

Being the key of the Khiue she is supposed to contain the germ of German safety. A PfiOPosmos HAS BBSS MADS in the Legislature to construct an overtop raflroad witi Welsh steel rails. Is there not enough stealing in Albany without calling noon onr Welsh friends for aid An under-round road might bnrrow into a TVelsh rarebit Tss HOUSE 07 OBISASS AXD ITS PEOS- after day our news goes to show that the hopes of the House of Orleans ought io be bright. The elections have, so as wo can see, killed the hopes of iho republic and the hopes of iho Bonapartes and their imperialistic friends; but no ono can refuse to admit that the Honse of Orleans is ia Jugh favor. France has by this ctaciron, so fax as we know it, said the empire means war, the republic chaos, and as these cover the two eistremes an intermediate course tausl be tried.

The iniermsdiate course is tie restoraJJon of the Honsa of (Means. Ia a fer weeks we shall not ite sarprised to 3-carn lint tig Count de Paris 5s on ins ihnraa of Franca The Count de Paris means peace, economy, consol- idatioa, development--a happy sad contented but not aggressive France. Even If. Tilers 3s JiUls likely to talk about Ehiac boundaries. The tomb of tha Capalsts has received that question.

It Is dead, and, as ws think, dead forever. Tss SIBAMSBIP SOTTXT is the vessel detailed by His Bitvy D-jjztrbneat Jo cany New York's coniribnUoiis io the suffering people of France. A good, snosiaaUal for tho duty, and it is to bs hoped that sis will carry oirt as fine a supply insldo. THSI HATB BESOTED AH ASDWTW STATUS Premier Gladstone stated that the ernment had requested Prussia to make known' her peace terms. If Premier Gladstone had made it a point to find oat what the NEW TOES HEBAID reported every moruiag he would not have fouad it necessary to go back on published facts.

In the NEW TOES HEEAI.D of February 10 we published the German ultimatum. We reproduced the ultimatum on the following day. Germany demands thewiole of Alsace and sixty square miles of Lorraine, the whole numbering four hundred and thirty- seven square miles, and including the fortress of Metz. In addition Germany demands the payment of a sum of one and one-half milliard francs for the expenses of the war, thirty millions for captured ships and forty millions as indemnity for losses sustained by German workmen and others who have been expelled from France. Some millions more for cripples and orphans and others not deSaed.

IT Premier Gladstone does not know all this he ought to have known il Whether he knows it or not, it is almost impertinent to ask Prussia to make known her peace terms before they are made public through the new French National Assembly. If King William and Count Bismarck havo modified their demands, or in any way altered their programme, the world has no right to know of the change except through the French National Assembly. A GOOD CASADiis hardest trial ef a new sfitder ia the wilderness confronts him at the outset. taa quintuple necessity of making a clearing, of fenciag it, of building a log hut, of slocking bis eabryo farm aad of seeming a crop of potatoes aac other vegetables as a supply for the first winter. To meet particularly the requirements of such new settlers as may have two hundred or three hundred dollars and be T.H1- iag to pay a moderate cash down for being relieved of such a necessity the province of Ontario baa voted thirty thousand to encourage emigration and twenty thouswia JoIiai3 to teiid Jionses and dear froai ihreo to five acres of land oa a a-aniber of fres groat Jots.

"Boa la a good Canadian A LOOK AHSAI--Tie amount of lie French relief fund contributed in Boston as compared with that raisad New York. FoKnes 'S---The packet ship Caplaln Pratt, has brought to this a consignment of lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, AHeraey cows, acnkeys and various other Individuals of 4he aniiaal fciag- dom. It is reported liejaraaeproflnclof its Zoological Gardens ia IVhy doa't Paris send us 5n that liae Two oy TSS WiurassES in tho impeachment trial of Governor Holdea la North Carolina have admitted being members of the K-a Ktax, "Wa believe they are the only well' In Boston, Wlrt about an Andrew Jackson anthenUcatea specimens that been York? and Saxon had looked each other in the face with the eye of friendship. The courtesy, grace, vivacity and warmth of their welcome was surprising, and we had what tho satirists mockingly called tho historians havo regarded as the era of goou fooling. We should not be surprised to see a similar demonstration of kindliness on the part of the English and the Americans as the result of the recent diplomacy.

For somo time we have no- signs of England and America "coming together." The success of the Northern States war was sure to command the respect of in fact, it commanded the respect of the whole That triumph gave us a first rank among the nations. Mr. Field's success in laying the cable was a wonderful advance, for London and New York became as one city--the words of the Queen's speech were read in NSw York before they had died away on the ears of the members of Parliament, and the message of the President had been discussed ia the city of London before he Clerk of the Senate had finished reading it Washington. The influence of the great ournals--the London Times and the NEW YOBK HJEEALD--had gone far toward spreading cosmopolitan spirit. England came to know America.

Her representative came among us and saw our people. Every summer poared thousands of curious, ob- erving, impressible Americans into the ap of English society--Americans who came lOHie filled with the generosity, the chivalry, he nobility of the true English gentleman, 'he grieis of the war lessened with time, agland saw that her rulers had been blind nd feeble. America, in her pride and strength and the exultation of victory, was disposed to look upon the Alabama claims, not as an intrinsic injury to the country, but as something to be held in reserve as a vexation whenever we felt in a bad humor--as a pretest for war whenever we chose to make war. It was good convertible political capital. The Irish liked it, and it was an emollient to tha Irish nature.

Every hour, however, peace came nearer and nearer. We read of the curieus growth of islands and peninsulas in the warm southern seas-how the coral does its work for ages under tides and storms and heaving billows, until it rises above the ocean, and in time there are trees and forests and homes for men and the basis of a nation. So, while between England and America there has been this endless unrest and misunderstanding--wars for independence, -wara for sailors' rights, threatened wars on twenty questions, Roebuck and Lindsay scolding us in Parliament and a hundred Irish patriots making warlike speeches against tho lion in New York--all the time, steadilv, surely, slowly, the "work of friendship and alliance has gone on, until land is made at last, and tha nations are together in the persons of this commission. They -meet as men to men, frankly, truly, to calmly discuss every question, every giievance, every dispute, and see if we cannot really have peaee. We are too strong to fear each other.

Nations ara too great for war when they can command respect. There are no issues between us like the Rhine, or the Danube, or the Bosphorns. We do not covet an acre of England's vast possessions. The ocean Is broad enough for all of 03. We have each oar own work, with a world large enough for both to do it, iu tho interests of humanity, liberty and peace.

Above all, we ars of the same blood and lineage. In laws and customs and literature, in the glories of a common Iiistorv, in the achievements of science and enterprise and art, John and Jonathan are brethren. Let them be enemies, and civilization is assailed. Let them be friends, and they are strong enough to keep the world In this spirit and with these hopss, however fanciful they may bs, we accept the joint High Commission. This is the sentiment of the country.

"We remember nothing that has been received with so much enthusiasm and sa-is- factioa. Tne voices of parties are hnsaed. The Senate, almost naaaiaso isly and without distinction of party, the President's appointments. The country responded ia the same tons. Erery memory of the posi, every painfal tradition, every angry thought, was fbrgvfe'n in the desire for a peace and an alliance worthy of the Anglo-Sazoa spirit.

We are confident England will show toe same spirit The London Times is afraid the "tone of American discussion'" -cast change before there can be any lasiing peace. We sincerely trust the does not speak for Esglandia this surly criticism. American feeling is no mere shown by "American discussion" than English feeling is shown by the acrid aad atrabilious ravings of ilr. Roebuck. Tho men wbo ialk loadest do not always speak tie sentiments of the people.

How wildly wo teased about Mason and and vowed eternal war raiier than surrender them How willingly Jio snirandcr was made -TO came to sea it -57313 jest and right I For Americans are a jnst people, and wo believe justice to reign in tha heart of England. To this siatimsnt Mr. Gladstone and Gtaeral Grant have appealed in the appointment of the commission. W-g aro nsi without hopes that Mr. Gladstone's Ministry will be strengthened by doicg so.

We believe ftat Geaeral Grant has secures his re-eltctio-n. Hs has shown by this conspicuous act of ship that ha mca-nt peace Jn the largest sense wlen lo said, "Latiis At an events the American people so accept iis decision. Tasy sso peace ia the South, peacs -with Spain, peace with England, ftnd when they come to pass upon iia tdminis- ration their will bs the triumphant toeuro to uls country honorable and universal peace. Conarem Yenorany Htonmsljli. Military Academy Dlfll The Senate yesterday, as if by way of riety, devoted itself to practical There is no subject la which tho people of lot! city particularly, and Iho peoplo of tho whok seaboard of Ihe TJiiitcd Slates, havo a deopesi inlorestthnn in the revival of our and yet, with a dcfcroo of ignorance or caro- lessncss strangely at variance with the prosperity of that interest and with tho policy ot all other enlightened nations, our government has paid no altention whatever lo that most important subject.

Wo aro within about a. fortnight of the tormination of tho Forfy-Orsi Congress, and with the exception of the dosing hour of the last session, when in tho torn moil and confusion incident to adjournment there was a fruitless attempt mado to legislata 30 5, eflt of our shipping and commercial interests, it may be truthfully said that Congress has paid no attention whatever to tha question of a revival of American eom'merftsv This neglect Is the more culpable when the- frivolous matters over which tho time of Congress has been frittered away are taken consideration, as, for instance, tho Senate spending tho whole of Monday's session over the question of an official oath of a and the House spending the whole of yesterday's session over a contested election cago- which had been already decided and over a squabble of schoolboys with which It should never have Interfered. But at last the Senate did yesterday take up the subject of onr commercial interests, and did something in the way of a revival of commerce. It discussed an! passed, by a vote of twenty-four to twenty, a bill for the establishment of a semi-monthly mail steamship service between New Orleans, Galveston and the ports of Mexico. By the) terms of the bill the Postmaster General authorized to make a contract for the carrying of the mails on that route.

The company Is to supply, within eighteen months, three firsfc' class iron steamships of not less than: fifteen hundred tons burden, built so as to be easily convertible into ships foe war purposes. The contract is to be limited to ten years, and the annual compensation to the company is to be limited to one hundred thousand dollars, besides a reasonable allowance for any pioaeer vessels tha4 may be placed on the line daring the next eighteen months, or until the contract really commences. The Post Office Committee of the Senate has also agreed to recommend an appropriation in the Post Office Appropriation bill to double the service and the compensation ot the Pacific Mail Steamship Company between San Francisco, China and Japan. We hope that these too-long deferred efforts may not prove abortive by means of factious" opposition in the House" of Representatives. We know thai the idea of subsidies is repugnant to a very large class of people in Congress and out of it, but we must make up our mind to the proposition that withouS liberal sudsidiea we shall never again see tha American flag floating from, the steamships of any American ocean steamship company.

The amount that would be drawn from the Treasury for the purpose of fostering such enterprise would bo returned tenfold in the additional wealth that would be poured into the country through the development of our trads and and we hope that the stigma will cease to be attached to our republican government that-it is the only enlightened government which refuses to aid its citizens or subjects in extending their steamship enterprises to parts of the globe. Several other matters of minor interest wer attended to in the Senate yesterday. A House bill, to pay five thousand dollars to George F. Robinson, in recognition of his services in SST- ing Secretary Seward from assassination, in April, 18G5, was passed. Adverse reports were made on the House inll remitting duties on imported articles donated to fairs and disposed of for the benefit of destitute citizens of France, on tha ground that it would be practically impossible to execute such a law, and on the House bill authorizing the Secretary of State to have the bodies of United Slates ministers and consuls who died abroad conveyed back to and interred in the United States, on the ground that it would be a precedent in like cases for all time to come.

In the House, as we have already intimated, ihe whole of yesterday's sesslou was completely wasred. First, two hours of it were occupied in talking over a contested election case, after it had been already decided by a vote of the House; then throe hours more were consumed in discussing the measure of punishment to be inflicted on some schoolboys at the West Point Military Academy, who had committed an act of folly under the stimulus of a high and honorable feeliag; and, finally, the hours of a night session were devoted to the senseless absurdity of letting a few- members read io empiy chairs anl dsscrtel galleries essays, studiously prepared, on different topics, and which might just as wall have been handed in to the for publication in Hie Gfafa. ''Behold," said the Swedish statesman, what little wisdom tie world is governed 1" suoosgsfnl war and enough to of frozen tolfev Tbo Saow Storm--Toe Wo are vexed with a drable mischief, against which onr tempsr, tempered by philosophy, must iearn to bear np- Tae air yesterday was afloat with snow which, although they gently as summar butterflies, made vciy ngJy taad aad slusi when they touched ibis onromanlsc eaiih of o-nxs. Poels ingM. luxuriate in ihe weather wJridj we have bosn enjoying for iie pisl few days.

Wial charming plctares for the poeiic pencil But, then, the pset-OTt nrosl Kveia tho country, and never, never should sea Broadway in JHs day of onr most unpostic tabulation. The present gnow saoms Jo hava drifted from the westward, from which point it blew daring tta lata storms, and 5s now re- coHffig 5npon us from the north and wjlli a snsp of cold hail, now and mixed wjpi foattiery snow Skss. For years we Ireveuot bad such an accnm-nlation of saow in ottr streds. It stands six feet high in the abu ments which have been built vp on the die- ways In order to keep the clear. Ths important qaesl5on Is, bow are we to get rid of this vast mass enow and filth? Many plans Sat osriiaaa tha.