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mar aaaa twenty years that tba vabu aboeld ba tra-y lubreeanUd. Bad their latoreat falthfally (War hreh Ua aolaaaa, IU record baa baaa para and ii arable, and tba blyht aha at Ka proprietors ta raaar tt atar and more wartay et ita paat hiatary, a af tba nflden which aba pabita rapoaatait. Two aat ef thrrf tba wismal propnatora ettUat-raM ita peliey. and gaida It aa all pabUa o.aetioa, Tbey parpoa teat te TIKEe shall aoattaaa ta heap Blear at aU nairew worthy, iauaeae ad ad aim la raprteaat Tt boar at tba pabU. aa lelcJhV tram pareonal fa attorn, It eeaptea parfaetly tadependeat poaaoa.

ad la tree aepeek tba aratb aa ail aabjaata eat bbaat all Ita craailr ainnil atraaliMaa tferaaft- aatiba aaaatry addama Ua pawar aad tadaaaaa. It ut eaatlaaa ta ka a tUtbial arpaaaat at Sapabbeaa ataalplaa. aad adraaaU wltb aatina aaarny arary aada ta rarbaar aba waUara at tba paapla. aara win ba dariti ta paCaanac paHtt. atal aiaxna dan tba rraaHtntlil Taw dapartataataf tba papararU! ba aa- rail aad tract wartbr.

Xaaawad aatarprtaa artU ba aabibiUd ta arary dapartaiaat at paea trill ba davatad ta raparta at aanax ilnlinaa. ar aa atbar lipailiat paUtlaal i i A ary (all aaamary aawa, aad ataar gaaatal am I'll of treat iafraot. ar pabtlabad ta tba aa ail Italy adltipaa; aad 'ta tba Waakly adlatom tbara la aa apAbfidfTad report af tba ptaoadlaga at tba raraura' dab. aa axaaiiaat naaurf at paUttaal la-VdWaa. aad a irraat Tartaty af autUor aaitabU tar Pjaaull aadiag Tba HB W-TOKlf TIM K9 la pra-aatlaaatly a family papanall aajortlanablaadTarttaaaiaata botag rlwny aad It baa aaaataatly lai'aaalag airaabv aat raapaatabla aiafeaaa af tba aoaa- Tba nun.T Taut, par aaaaat.

aiiiiaaias tba tMta- ay tcaitloa. Tbo DAiir TiMEarPar aaalaalTa at tba Maaaar laa mmday Kdinoa. par TWwm Wikli, two eopiaa, aaa yaar ia wau-waaai-y. tea ooptoaoao yaar. laa axtra oopy ta aottr-w of otabl.

laa urn Twm, par aai SS a I aa Wbkalt TiMBa. i to tout as. aaa roar 1-bo bbsxt 1 lMa. tea eopeaa. aaa yaar.

Ua axtra pr to iwma af Ta Wiuli Tuasa, twaotr aoataa. aaa yaar. (aa osara oswy to aettar-apof Tbo Vuu.1 ruiaa. A fly min, aaa ta 1 aa Robot BAH KlilTIOB. por anauam, poMore axtra.

1 BoKBiu-WiBALT sad WBaaxt ataUad aaa yaar ta ataisf aa at too law aat flab rataa. aaananpOose to oil bar of oar odiUonareeatTed for a area bwarta of Mao tbaa oaa yaar at tbo yaarty rata. iimwi xaay aa ataoa to eiuoa at aiaa iKa If era tenriahlo. luolt tm rmfta mm i Itaw-Tark or Poat-offloa Hour Order tf poaalbla aaa wbara aoltbor of taeaa aaa ba prooared aaad tba 1 BB a raffrtaroa letaar. re JJLBXIAW-IUIIK TIMES, NtvSTort Cttf.

Te Adraa-Btaai-a. For tbo arceeaamodatioa of uv-town raaid.aoU. ad ertiAeznanis for insertioa in the Tibial will be received at No. 54 Wast S2d-sV, fuaetioaof Broadway and eth-ar No. aos Vfmm t3dsL.

opposite brand Opera-bouse, aad Na. IM1 Broadway, between 90th and Slat ate, at same rates as are charged af office pabheatioB. OT The Nrw-YoFK Tdik' baa opened a tkraaca office in Brooklyn at No. 44 Coort-st oppoanU the CitT HalL where adrertise-Dteato will be receired until P. M.

Ta whole story about the "French anas1 discussion in the Senate baa been vary plararly put into picture by Mr. Nast, ttt tbe) new number of Barpeta rTeetly. rkere is Mr. 8cxszji sitting at a table, with tba wall doooryod benors of a lifetime arouad aim. Orer him leans Schcjiz.

aa Mepbistophsles. jnciting him to draw up aiefaspous set of reeolutioos. designed to proT that the United Statet were guilty of flagrant breach of neutrality during the war baiweea Germany and Franee. Behind SoHtTfcl la a placard, on which is written Wanted, new plats for breaking down the Adrntaistratlon. Wanted, plana to stir up aad feeling between Earopean Powers and the United! 8ta tea.

Let ua hare inTestiga-Uooa. The liken ees of BcHXTRX is excellent- and kWe part In which be is portrayed exactly suits bis character. It is Tory seldom that an artist can so happily hit ofl tha physical 'and moral qualities of a man at eae stroke. 'f. Tba) rHeaae- mSLS We wast to tferough wboaa fault It was that a Pay-mast latloaed ta the Federal city, aaeer the yery ere et tea Treasury coald draw S4T4.00S rrom tae Treaaary pte oo at a nek.

ea kis wa eaeeks payabta baarvr, ana gamble away before tecudty easaer was -i i-f J. We want to kaow whether it is true that after certain Poetmstter detected one of lie taaponsible snbordisatea committing a State'a Prison offense, by dspoaiting ssTeral baadred thousand dollara with a broker, instead of ia the 8abtreaaury. be still eon tinned tais subordinate in his position for a year ar sore, until ba was com palled to remeTeTJ bios because it was disooTered that be bad stolen a hundred thousand or taoxe and. wawther IIoracs GxxrxXT was one of tbo inarlsmsa at that Pest master, and whether be has not only failed to pay fhadaft-cteacy. aoA baa iaterrenoi to aecure the teatiem of the post at sat ar in -J la theea busy day, people dd not always read the tpeecbea of pubSo but wa trust ta selection wa mak today1 from ft very able speech of Senator Wrrsox wiH reoaiT the) careful attention of our readers, rheee axtraoU recall many Important facta.

which axer sometime forgotten ta tha dia at are mow raiaiag nbout their awn party, and they aaay. per- gfet gflili (Times, NKW-YORK. THUESDAY. FEB. 21872.

ooawblabl tavaaa. iota aatbr. ib iatMt iWar ft reflwt aaora oa Ibo work which Uxo BapaUie- Partf bit dooey and took at fbe ureer ika PreaideBt aa It raallr ta. ad fMt it prpaanU ttaelf raf ractM thrtxisb tha tnediaaa of Candidate and diMppotnted offleo-oakon. Sonator WtxaOM'4 word ar worthy of all tb thoogbt which oar n-era oan giro to Uiom.

Tbo majority of tbo Aaaembly CoBmittoa on Privilege aad Eloetiona bar prabmittod tbair report oat' tbo eon tea tad aoat oaaoof tbo Fiftoeath City District. Tbo attaatton of the Commiftee wad ebiofly directed to tha retarna frona the twenty-fifth election didtriot of the Twentieth Ward. They found that while the eanraaaen 6l the rote for Assemblyman in that diatriet retarned 238 to tea for Ai-KX. Frkxr. and only CO for Fbkduuck Khxian, the latter aetnally re-ceiTed rotee.

Minety-one of tbees rotors came forward personally and testified to the fact of ha vine Toted for Mr. Khxiaw. The returns vof tbo district being accordingly thrown out, the total vote of the Aaeinbly district, iustead of showing a nisjority of 37 for I'kkab. shows a majority of 111 for Kiluan, wboin six members of the Committed accordingly, declare to bo entitled to tbe scat. Eron were the return of the Twenty -fi Election District to be retained, only with the true number of Kul-UAa Tote restored.

Lie majority orer Fjikr would be 49. and bo would, aqually. be entitled the seat. Messrs. IlutJ.

and Mosr.LEr are, to submit a minority report, and the question will coma up as a speoial order in tbe Assembly on Friday neat Mr. Orjckuct reoently dwelt in bis qsuaI mild manner on tbe impropriety of editors becoming oandidatea for offioe. There is a great deal of force in what be said, especially as applied to Horace Orcelkt. That eminent journalist ts a oandidate for the Presidency, and. went on a stomping tour in the South, last year, for the purpose of making smooth his path in that part of the country.

In tbe North, he is working for himself by endearoring to destroy publie confidence in Gen. Grant. Aa a Candidate for the office which Gen. Orastt holds, Mr. Greklkt find the President very much in hie way.

AU his criticisms upon tba President are the criticisms of a man wbo wishes to displace a riraL It is hot surprising, therefore, that OTsn the most simple-minded readers of tbe Tritua attach rery little weight to what it says about Gen. Paurtr apArit tat Ieeal Ptlltttt. It is rery much, to be regretted that the passage of tha Committee of Seventy charter in the Assembly should hare been effect ed by so near an approach to a strict party rote. If the popular uprising in November last meant anything at all, it meant that the citizens of New -York had resolved that in municipal politics, henceforth, the contest should, be, not between Republicans aod Democrats, but between honest men and rogue. The Committee of Seventy made a perfectly Impartial selection of tbe candidates on their 1 ticket from the rank of both political parties.

The Committee itself is com posed of Republican and Democrat in almost equal proportion, and its present energetic Chairman is at once an enthuaiastte Reformer and a lifelong Democrat. The charter which has been the result of the long and earnest deliberation of the Committee has never been attacked on tbo ground of being framed In a partiaaa spirit. It recognise no political divisions in City affairs, just aa the people declared that there must be none in November last. It aim at making the Municipal Government of New-York a true reflection it voting population, and there it end. Yet, in spit of sut)h considerations, we find Tammany Democrat and Reform Democrats agreeing to sink their difierences for the purpose of voting against the un partisan Charter of the Committee of Seventy, and taking special pains to havs it understood that the responsibility of passing such a measure must rest with the Republican Party.

It was clearly no common impulse that ranged Samttki. J. TnJxir mod Tom Fields on the same aide, aod it bode very ill for the good government of tbo City if tha tactic of Tuesday evening are to be repeated before and at the April election. Mr. Tildcx did.

indeed, give, tbe aaauranoe that if tbe bill law, nobody would do more to aid in ita practical working than he. But then, Mr. Thjdxx also took great pains to show that tha triumph of the Republican State ticket in November, wa largely due to Democratic vote. What relevancy this bad te the question under discussion it is somewhat difficult to see. unless it were to show that Democrats had a partisan role to play in future municipal elections, altogether apart from their interests in common with other eiUsene.

i Tom Fixxm went still further, and with bit usual insolent braggadocio, boasted. that under tbe charter, the Democrat would roll up an immense vote, and fill, all tha local office. Setting and tho absurdity of a partiaaa victory on an issue into which politic will not enter, the of New-York will be perfectly Contented to aee Democratic bead of de-pertnteots, provided they are honest aod capable men. If we are to bay tbe City Government manned by ouch ofSeiala as Ajtdrzw H. Gaxxx, it will be an unmixed bleating for the community.

UToaf FiaxD andbifriendar to have a band in it, ball merely bava tba trouble of doing tba work of reform over again. It is to be hoped that mora pTeailng engagement! at Sing Sing may be found to occupy tba attention of Fxrud and' hi associste of greater or leaawlnUsiy. The fact in ibia natter tbe in-tincts of tba people are wtaar than those of the' politician. Tbara never wa a ingl good reason for making city, election on party iasuea. nuscblevoua ab aardity of euch a course ba mora strongly detaotvstrated than ever, new that tba people of New-York have bad a proof I that tacir: oaly chance of victory agalaet plunder ta by aisking aU acb If any party aiteoapt to ride rougn- ahed over ava aroused people, they will find tUtmaeivM wofnlly defeated.

Under tbe operation of the minority principle, tbeir de-feat will be all tba mora signal, inas-mach a a failure to respect the right of the minority will only result in giving tba minority more representation than their a ambers 'entitle tbem to. 8otne wiseacre nave found it to be aa objection to tbe charter that 'ita provision cut both war, and thataoompaet minority of thieve can aa easily return a representative to tbe Board of Aldermen aa a minority of honest men. Of; course they can. and this is only another of the penalties we must pay for having so long allowed the City to be made a first-cJaea nursery-ground for all manner of thieves. We have never beard anybody pretend, however, that the thieves ar a 'majority of the community.

What the eh arter is designed to accomplish jis to enable thej honest majority to rule, instead of the minority of thieves as heretofore. The professional criminals of any Senate district could hardly find a greater rascal to represent them tnan Wm. M. Twkko. We should imagine that a more fool-monthed or brazen candidate than Tom Fieuxs could not be desired by the worst gang of rowdies that ever infested the City.

Were those greatly misunderstood artists tbe Citf pickpocket to combine for the purpose of having tbeir interest looked after at Pobce Head -quarter, could tbey possibly make a more judicious selection than Hank Smith 1 Under the new charter, the people bave only to do their duty to render such men few and far between, either in legislative or executive position. Under the old regime they, and snch ae tney, ruled ns all. and tbeir yoke was so firmly fixed on our nooks that we have not yet succeeded in throwing it entirely off. It is eminently instructive to find newspapers that were foremost in defending tbe rule of pnblio tnieves, growing exceedingly solicitous lest the minority principle should give as one or two Aldermen who ought to be in the Peni tentiary, IjeckiaaT Dee est Railroad. i The deplorable accident which occurred on tbe New-IIaven Railroad on Tuesday, and of "which the daughter ot Rev.

Dr. Rookr of this City was tbe victim, is a sad illustration of the remarks made in these columns on Monday regarding some of tbe arbitrary and absuad rules of that monopoly. In this instance, a lady stops on board a train before it starts, but on trying to get into a car finds the door locked, and herself standing helpless upon the platform just as the train moves, and exposed to tbe full force of a furious gale of wind. The result is that she is either jolted or blown oft from the car, and almost killed by the falL Independently of the doubly -sad circumstances of this case, we cannot help denouncing this ear-locking imposition of the New-Haven Railroad Company a an outrage which should promptly cease. Tbe rule is simply one of those petty and puenle expedients whereby this Company's managers are continually annoying those wbo travel upon their load.

There is no good reason why tbe cars should be locked at all, and certainly none for keeping tbem locked after the trains bave started. The morning train, are told, are made disagreeable and' dangerous by this same door-locking rule, which is enforced under the baseless pretext that hack drivers can only thus be kept out of the cars. The most plausible reason for the rule is that school-boy sometimes avail themselves of the chance to get a free ride of a few block through the tunnel. But considering that there are drivers and brake-men on the ear, who might either drive off the boy or collect a fare from them, it seems scarcely necessary to lock in a hundred passengers merely to lock out a boy or two. The and acene of Tuesday waa one which should be atoned for by the Company both by reparation in damages, and by reformation in management.

Not anotber key should be allowed ia tbe hands of their brakemeni Now that tbe Company baa been shown what possibilities of danger lie bid in the miserable practice, we trust they are not going to wait to burn up a car-load of captive passengcra before coming to their senses upon the subject. The WicbaBbarg 01 Capt. R. FCBxntsx, of the Twenty -ffrst United States Infantry, has written a letter from Camp Date Creek, Arizona, to Hon. VlNCXNT Coltxr, which i likely to provoke controversy.

It will be remembered that at the Wickenburg maasapre. when poor young LorisQ and others were murdered, a was reported, by the Apaches, there were some survivors, among whom was a Mr. Krcger. This gentleman managed to slave himself and a Miss Shxphrrd, although! both were shot, and reached the poet commanded by Capt. CBezrxx.

Mr. Kecger sabeeqflently wrote a letter, which wa published various papers, charging the Captain with "inhumanity" toward Mia Shepherd and himself. Capt. O'Bkirxk, in hi letter to Mr. CoLYEkj denies' tba charge I in very strong terms.

He declare that Krcgex is aa inconsiderable liar and slanderer," that be is utterly unable to conceive what tha fellow pec ted to gain by writing snch lie," aod that "he i. however, such a dia-reputable character that is unworthy of mention. Thee are very bard word, and per hap they may be entirely deserved but Mr. Krcger i a German gentleman formerly of St. Louis, of scholarly habits and tastes, who baa written considerably for tba Amen can and.

should say, is Quit' incapable of tbo deliberate and malignant lying thus Imputed to bin). A cloud still era to hang over this affair af tho Wickenburg maaaacrs, which should glad te bav cleared up. It' baa been apparently to tbo iatereat of certain persona to bav it auppoaed that the men who attacked tbo ataga-coeeb, and killed feoatiKO aad rest war atet pack a at bat When the story first their JjCaiMfocwaUara wag JBO ntvaCuLLaOUb ta alffiSlf ft UiUcr Of eff fa)r subject, and it was understood that tbo survivor all agreed ia stating that tbo aaaail-aata were Indian. 8iae then, bewerev. frequent and energetic efforts bav boon made to impress the publie mind that Mexi-eana and not Indiana were tha criminal.

Gen. Dcduct. tbo nearest officer of his rank stationed in the neighborhood of tbo aoeae of the tragedy, ba written a letter in whish occurs th following passages The robbery of tbe mall stage aad tbe Id Ilia fiv eidsen by an unknown party, near WickBbor-. of course laid to tbe Indiao. At first even tba Preeoott papers partially admitted tbat It was a party of Mexican bandits froca Soaora.

ladiaa. when tbey attack a stage, ar aot apt to leave tbe horses, blankets, Ac. Ia this eaae tbey did. I do not -believe tbera waa aa A pacha near tbe acene of tba n. order.

All honet men hav tb sam opinion if bey dared to express It." But Capt. Medthou; wbo went over the ground directly after tbo murders, and sent in an official report on tbe subject, declare that the track he followed bore every evidence of being those of Indians; that tbey diverged, after going some distance from where the stage waa attacked, into various track, branching in different directions, after tbe manner of Indians; and other sign were not wanting confirmatory to the practiced eye of the truth of this story. On tbe other hand, again. Agent Tanner, who lives at a reservation near the scene of the attack, and who also professes to bave been over the ground, writes tbat he does not believe an Indian was enraged in tbe afhtir. In.

this conflict of opinion the testimony of tbe surviving eye-witnesses ought surely to carry some weight, especially in the abuence of any conceivable motive for misrepresentation. We trust more light may be thrown on this business, and tbat tbonewh can throw it oome forward without delay. rioede tm tat Wtaaeairt St tree. Tbe inhabitants ot tbe town; situated on the banks of tbe -Missouri River are just now in a painful state of, excitement, oyer the prospect of diastrou'flooda during tbe Spring. Indeed, in tbe breaking up of ice in the Platte, they Lave already had a foretaste of what is coming.

A telegram from St. Joseph. published a few days ago, announced tbat the river at that point had risen to more than four feet tabove its greatest height at this season. The result was that bridge were carried away, and a great deal of damage done to property. Senous floods bave occurred in the Missouri River at intervals since 1783.

In 1785, Beck's history informs us that tbe waters roe thirty feet above the ordinary level, and in its flow through the States of Missouri aod submerged about seven hundred square miles of the best farms in tbe world. Toe gregate loss reached several millions of dollars, and created much suffering. The greater portion of a convent at Kaskas-kia waa swept away. The waters continued so high that a steam-boat had to be chartered to convey tbe nuns and their pupils to St. Louis.

In 1811 and 1812 there were heavy floods also, although none of them could be compared to tbat of 1785, from which period there was really no overflow of great magnitude until the month of June, 1844. The fall of snow on the mountains during that year was heavy enough to have produced a great flood of itself but before tbe thaw bad properly set in, there was a downpour, of rain in Kansas and Western Missouri, which continued steadily for thirty days, swelling the river to Amazonian proportions, and carrying death and destruction for hundreds of miles. In I860 there was another great flood, but It earn so soon after a dryv season that very little damage was done. This year tbe enouvfall ha been as great, if not greater, than tt waa ia 1844. There ia also more ice in the tributary streams, and when the thaw begins ia good earnest, there ia reason to fear tha tbo flood will be larger, and th destruction1 mora general than at any period since 1785.

awatar BairBUB mm t'pyrtat, The copyright controversy has passed into another phase. First we had a bill which, it was claimed, embodied tbe views of tbe publishers; then came onefrom the anthorsj this was succeeded by a third, which absurdly attempted to reconcile the absolutely irreconcilable idea of each of these interested parties; and Senator Sherman steps in with an entirely measure, which baa at least this advantage over all the other proposed the certainty of being entirely unsatisfactory to every one concerned. This bill provides that any book, map, chart, dramatic work, or' mnsical composition that may first be published in any foreign country, may be copyrighted in the United State by the author, within twelve month after it first appearance, on the same terms a if he were a citizen of the United States, and that any one may publish it in this country, but that snch publisher shall pay tbe author, for a term of ten year, fiv per cent upon "the gross cost of pubh-cation." In he absence of any contract, it is provided that tha author of any Work thus reprinted may recover from the publisher this five per cent, by a suit in law or equity. importation of tbe work ia to be left without reirtrictioB. i I Tbo very wording of this measure not only show that Senator Shtsmak baa prepared, tha bill in entire ignorance of tbe principles upon which the buaiaee of publishing ia conducted, but that he baa done so without tbo ligbteat consultation with any on of tho nuauerons publishers or author wbo bava visited Washington during the last fsw weeks, and any una of whom could bava told him that whatever percentage is paid to an author is based cither on tha wholesale far more generHr, on the retail price of the book.

Sach a term aa th gross cos of publication is. we ar told. unknown to the trade, and precisely what it means, therefore, it impossible to determine. Those qualified to however, aara re us that 'an author might, under such a law, realir fiv or six contav per copy on a book which would retail at five dollara. -V.

If ibis paymeat i "eopyriahi, ao' abreiga money, therefore, th publisher of the United Statea. might well accept this legal condoaatiM of tbe saatter bat with all tbeir virtnoua pretense of wanting to give authors their due, it I as well that the'public should understand that all this bubbab over eopy-" right, far as many of tho publishers are concerned, ba an altogether different origin from that involved in any suoh merely sentimental consideration. Tha' publishers' do net so much- desire to protect foreign authors as they do to be protected against each other. As matters now stand it ia very frequently only the tear of incurring the hostility of some house stronger than hi own, which prevents one publisher from reprinting upon arrival any popular foreign work which may be issued. Since Mr.

Bhirman's bill does not mak it possible for tbe foreign author to confer exclusive privilege upon any publisher, this state of affair would not be mended in tbe least. The publiabers, therefore, are sure to oppose Mr. Sherman's bill, if tbey think it worth while to give it any attention whatever, and foreign authors, who are already receiving from this country copyrights tenfold as large a Mr. Sherman proposes, as well as American authors who may be looking forward to an international copyright law to secure tbem large returns for the sale of their, works in England, will not be at all grateful to the Senator for placing so low a valuation upon tbeir labors. Then, what clause in tbe Constitution confers upon Congress the right to interfere in this extraordinary manner between private parties, and to fix the price which an author shall pay the publisher for! bis labor Indeed.

Senator Sherman seems to bave framed his bill without having read the only olause in tbe Constitution bejoring upon this question, and which says tbat Congress shall hav the power "To promote tbo progress of science, and useful art by securing for limited time to authors and inventors the ercfattM rigM to their respective writings and discoveries." It would be interesting to know bow Senator Sherman construes this clause so aa to make it the baei for snob extraordinary'leg-idlation a tbat which be propose. Frederick the Great once called a General to account for having lost a and asked him to explain the cause of his defeat. May it please your Majesty," replied the officer, "I have seventeen reasons. First, my ammunition gave out second" "Stop interrupted Frederick; your first excuse is sufficient." It is to be hoped that Senator Shrrman will find this last objection to his proposed bill its unconstitutionality a sufficient reason for not asking its further consideration. The Tollewatoao Park Bill.

i It is a satisfaction to know that the Yellowstone Park bill ha passed the House. Our readers have been made well acquainted with the beautiful and astonishing feature of a region unlike any other in the world; and will approve the policy by which, while tbe title is still vested in the United States, provision has been mad to retain it perpetually for the nation. The Yosemite Valley waaj similarly- appropriated to publio use soma years back, and that magnificent spot was thus saved from possible defacement or other unseemly treatment that might bave attended it remaining in private bands. One consideration wanting in tbe latter case recommends the Yellowstone' bOl, which is tbat by reason of the great altitude of the country ven thousand feet above the aea it must always be unavailable for agriculture. There ia frost in thej Yellowstone Valley every month in year, and tbo mineral character of much of the soil likewise forbids tillage.

The new National Park Besln two Territories, Montana and Wyoming, but tbe jurisdiction of the soil, by the passage of tbe bill, remain foreyer with th Federal. Government. In this respect the position of th Yellowstone Park differs from that of the Yosemite; since tho latter wa granted by Government to the State of California on certain conditions, one of winch excludes tbe local control of the United State while the former will alway be within tbat control. Perhaps, no scenery in she world surpasses for sublimity that of the Yellowstone Valley; and certainly no region anywhere is bo rich, in tbe name space, in wonderful natural curioaitiea. Ia addition to thia, from the height of the land, and th salubrity of the atmosphere, physicians are of opinion tbat the Yellowstone Park will become al aa vaiuaoie resort ior certain classes oi invalids; and in all probability it will soon appear that the mineral spring, withwhich the place abounds, possess varioua curative power.

ia far from unlikely that the park may become in a few year the Baden or Tlomburg of America, and that strangers may flock thither from all parts of the' world to drink the waters, and gaze on picturesque splendor only to be seen in tbe heart of the American Continent. I One of tho chief incident of Mr. Wilxie Couins well-known novel, Xl 7Fa ta Ifktte, is tbo assassination in London of aa Italian refugee. Count Foeoo, by order, of a secret society of which bo waa a member. To moat reader, tha episode must bar seemed improbable, if not absolutely incredible.

Yet, within a few weeks, if wear to accept with unquestioning fAith a queer story published ia tbo London papers, Mr. Coxxxn tt bold invention has been titeraDy realised, A man wall known in commercial circle ta suddenly disappeared, leaving behind' him a letter purporting to have been written on tho ev of hi execution by a secret society to which be bad. belonged, aad whoeeoraVirs ho bad in tornt way disobeyed. Accompanying thjs was a missive supposed to eome from hi judges, announcing the fuidnMint of tb sentence. Certainly there is, her a moat promising sanation, and one that ought to stir in tbo average British public, already proloundly agitated by AUUmm claims and, rumors of Fenian uprising, a vary lively emotion.

i l0C La dxtaU. th circurngfapfteaj of thi curious story are tbee Meser. W. Bixws 8ow, manufactsrer of eras chandeliers at Loodoa and Birminaiiajn, atat that on tbe 18th of January last tbey received a letter dated the 13th. from their agent at Moscow.

Mr Lb R. Bavrb, announcing hi immediate departure for England to consult his employers on purines He wrote again from Riga on the 14th of the earn month, from Berlin twice on the 30th, and from Hamburg on tbe 83d. On the 25th be reached London, and telegraphed to the Messrs. Blews tbat be would leave for Birmingham on the 1030 train. Subsequently tbey received a telegram stating Mr.

Back bad missed this train, but would leave at in the afternoon. This is tbe last that has beea seen or hoard of him, except the letter mentioned, above, which is dated Jan. 27, and announce bis impending death. It is addressed to his employers, and is permitted to be written, it says, by special grace." It bint darkly at some criminal act which tho writer was bound to perform by bis obligations to tbe secret order which be had joined in a aad error of yoath and inexperience. Disobedience subjected him to death, and this bitter alternative he had chosen rather than "do things against which his whole soul revolted." His luggage, be had added, had been destroyed, and the incloaure referred to from his executioners, stated tbat for their own safety certain paper of the firm in Bauiir'ci keeping had been also burnt.

This awe-inspiring document was signed "A Sufficient Number." ApMnHn imnlinitlv what ia here related for fact, we bave certainly all that tbe roost I ardent lover of mystery could desire. This brief correspondence contains all tbe elements of a first-class sensation, out of which a bnsk imagination may weave a most thrilling and complicated romance, bristling with daggers and evil-minded masks, with secret midnight tribunals, with shadowy conspirators and delightfully unintelligible warnings, with love, and revolution, aad murder in their most attractive phase. Unhappily, however, there is one! weak point in the plot, which, for the sake of our romantic readers, woalmoat hesitate to divulge. Mr. Bauer's mental poise has never been of the soundest.

lie bad been once completely deranged, and it is quit as likely that this extraordinary correspondence is th result of a second aberration, aa that th rule of tbe Carbonari flouriahe in England. Again, there may bave been a method ia Mr. Bauer's madness, which' made a sudden disappearance expedient. Yet, underneath all its apparent wildnes and ax-travaganoe, there still remains in th story a grain, a mustard seed call it, of possibility, aad hop to see it receive th thorough investigation for which a portion of the Loudon Press Imperatively calls. The Father et fit Baltiaaer Bar.

Mr. Jonathan i Mxrxdith, whose death last Sunday we have already briefly noticed, waa, in a remarkable degree, a link between tbe past andour present national history. Mr. Meredith bad only a month ago delivered inthePeabody Institute at Baltimore two most instructive and interesting lecture, in tone distinctly audible to tho furthest end -of the vast apartment in which poke. In tbo course of one of thee addresses, he spoke of bis acquaintance a a lad of fourteen with Washington, and re-, called with pride the great General's having laid his hand upon his head and blessed him.

Many other memories, also, of the highest interest the venerable lecturer raf erred to, and it wa clear to those who heard him, a to those who enjoyed hi private acquaintance, that hi was a mind which utterly refused to accord with tho body containing it, as regards the feebleness incidental to age. His manner bad tbe exquisite courtesy of the old school of highbred American gentlemen. For many year paat hi tim had been almost entirely spent iln his library, and might truly bav sung with Southet My days antoaa tbe dead are passed. Around I heboid. Where'er these wandering eyes are east, Tbe mighty mlads of old; My ne vr-faina frlanda ar thy.

With whom Leoavera day by day." There is goodreaecia to hope that some fruit of these-later labors, of an active and lnterestmgeareer, will, sooner or later, bo Career, he publie. giTentothe publie. Tbe most melancholy reflection attending tbe departure of men like thia ia bave tbey many suoceasora I among us We have a few student, wbo shut Ltbemselye np with tbeir great accumula tion of books, and enjoy a mysterious reputation for vast acquirement. But where are these who, like Mr. Meredith, and many others of the Bar of old, are at once men of learning, lovers of tha hlU-lcttra, and.

in the beet sense, men of tbo world, too delighting in talent, delighting in aaay hospitably, social intercourse, and casting a charm around every company tbey frequent Within ten day Baltimore baa lost two snch mea in Mr. MraxDrrH and Mr. T. H. Morris.

TOPICS. A saving of fire millions of dollars on account of' the payment of another eighty -two millions of tae war lademwity a year oaf era it 1 due, may be sufficient to warrant ta extraordinary energy lately exhibited by Franc la raiaiag tbe aa required. Th preapee ef haste tun ta removal at Garxaan troop from French soil ba probably beea a suH mor potent tneeattve th offer which Oarsaaay baa accepted. Were Fraae as eapabl af ta aetf-daavtag effort of reducing ner amy, thar would a better prospect for her regeneration tbaa at present appear. Ia this direeUoa ah could easily av arty million a year, and gara a repatatiea far blag la tae vaa ef Earpaa prfixrass beetdts.

Is it aot about time that the systemait ballymg af Controller Grees by men from th DepartaMBt ef Public Verks we pat a stop to Tb Controller waa pot vim aa to to preuct tae publie a-alast ploadorers, great sag stall. In addition th amoral law badev walah bo administer ais office, th Legislature aaa lately created a special law which aaaka tba performaaea et tba ardlaarv batiaiaa at tae Sip eiraauaa'af Flu a are mars ea at bra a aad tedious tkaa it piker Is wuld be. Xa Dantrofier apprtei 'pvewjptfy aw ta1 tog of tae stable a ef." ta tcul stars' tor power te pay the tamp 'aad a atea, waa yeaUrday threatened aia wttb perasoat yiiee, a watt a aU ether mea having Net aad urge elans agaiaat tae Crty.f It took ta Aortal antra eavea week te gtv ton tbai power, i and eyaa Um it was hampered by oerUM re-strieOeae tbat reader tba diapeaai ot aseastarUy alow work. If Ua lamp aad ts '-pe have aee kept toe long watttsg. uey have I tbe Igtaiatar eblefly te ckaak.

and poaaTVly also tb samaras aweearas wbtek age 4 heir pay-roll, la aay ease, thee exhibit! af ntoa law ia tb CoctrttaaU'a ome ttiuat a'. topped; The method of "quotation" adopted the tViet.of tbtaCtty. ta tbe pleaaawtly ludod to by CoL FOBRSr "Oar J. good frtoad tbe Nw-Yrk r3 la calllBAT etteauoa te what par- -pert to bo ao extract from tae laa i aeoBber of ear Amtemmtm mf rubtte Sfm, takes tb greund that wa tried te show test aomebodv protnaed that Okast snoatd be re-elected In lr tf ba ahoald eoaaeat to be eleotad -by tb Hepablieaoa lat. As tee ex tract frees toe AnsedoU la printed us tbalYioM.

thia ta- foresee Is perfectly fair: bat unfortunately we arv axade to aaa tbe 4oUwia laaaaaaTO. whlea doe not appear ta A manlatm itaelf r- Thna iv will be seen tbat Geo. Obant aot oety desired to remain President for two term, bat. tbat it wbs only the asianee of bi frtsmls tbat should be re-elected tnat be aoeepted the outve at alL. Tbea are friven aa our worda.

when tuey are simply tb eptaton ot tb eorra--apoadent of the' rrtbauta. Tbat Mr. Otutar. --reading this atateinent aa ear awn, aboeld bav -cuade toe eonimeot te whtob we refer ia perfaoV-Ivnataraiy There waa not only no nndftrataad- in that Oen. UaAirr wa to be re-Alneteil.

bat ibere could oe ne ouch uaderetaadiit. ailauip bevauaK nobody aad aay right to otakf ja wtt oaot VI uw BIBV. Vesuviu is boginiiing ti get lively again. After one of its toog periods ef taaoUwa, ar tatcsr of uoseea preparation. It begtas to shew signs Of mischief.

A cuontb ago tba siaok was vary delioat aal tranapareat, bat it oon aflec begaa to get denaer, and to be la-lea at Uaaea wthpud of aabea. Tbea. more reoautly. bar been followed, by o.ber projaotilna. and tha Naples PttHffoto of Feb.

say Br could tbea aoeo from Mspiea, vomiting from to ratt very eight, Tbe erupt! movexoeat appears attbreediBunotpotnts.and faaraareeatertalae et a aerioos outbreak. Thev ar play lag a lauab-abuaed veraioa of tbe Laet lay of Pimbpom pist now ia Loadoo, aad perbap tbe vutoaa feels impellal proteat acaiaat tt- Admirorsof tbe old w.hhIoii lioe-of-batU. snip, with its heart of eak, and tba tbouaaad meariea-that aongand roeianoe bav helped to endear, will ptaek up froai a rather provoking aooident that baa bappeaad te one of the beat of th Bntlab Imn-clads Tb Bpapttr, eontmaaded bylird John Hav. wa run late by what tbe Army end HaQmmtf -orlbw as aa old Dublla pig boat, aad beatda haviag bar port bad boat earned away waa mauled a aareraly aa te be obliged to put lab barber for repairs. The old pig-boat, oa ta ether hand, appear te bava sastained no injury at all.

and west oa ber wsy without any difboalty. It wUl be remembered that at tbe battle of Ltaaa tb most formidable iroa olad in tb Italian Ksvy wa run dowa aad uk by Adaitral Taaaraork ta a woedea VaaaeL Tb een tbtag. tf mistake not, occurred la our owa war. ft would em. therefore, tbat tron-elads are ae yet Invincible va to on armored antacomet 1 Th editor of the Halifax Crvni4il, free a loeg aad eareful atudy et a Treatv of Separa- tlon found In ford Bear faowtta of fa Waaiana Sohemt, ha been convinced tbst a treaty "agreeing substantially wltk that doeuweav! li at present actually in xiatene betweea' Canada and England, Xa tola treaty it ta mad lawful for the Sovereign" et Great Britala aad Ireland to glv twelve month notie ef hit la-.

teatloa to withdraw from tha xerla of all ngbtverkitabJeU ef "Tbe New Natt. -provided tbey have first Intimated a deal re thai shad db so. But without suck an tntunatiea, be shall nbt be able to cast tbem adrift. 11 at farther stipulated that tb fortifleatioas abaD; delivexad over to the eonstituted antboritia of tb 21 aw Natioa." maiaUtnad aadar tbeir exelaslve eoatroL The Ckromteta argaas tbat "Ta Nw NaUoa" is In realus Tbe Hew Dominioa." aad aotaU to "te Not that nearly all tbe Engttak soldier bav ban recaaV a eoululv video ee of tbe irwtti of ks statsmsat, Tbea agala. ta order to dlapal arary doabt, we are ramloded that Sir Joan A.

Mto-dovald earned al spars, ia aegotiating tb traaty, and that Lord Bcrt wa high la tb eon- fideae of the Home Gore rninent. for ts reaeoa that bad held th offloe of Clvd SeoreUry under two suooeasiv Govior-Oenral. Bat 1 (pit of aU thi. tesfiaoay. the other Demi- loa Journal decline to be eoavlneed.

i a Itew.Terk Penmir tmm- niothaitt Caailral xFaatfie Twm yypat IA 5a yraaeOe Jhillrf.it, 11-In Monday's BuIUHm we alluded to sick--ass among ta blockaded paaaaarcra, aad atea-tJoned the ease of a gsnUwnaa who arrived at tb Lick Hons In an smsciaisd coaditlsa. Ia-veetlsatloB bw that thia erne, aaa ef tb at aat reaa arkabl a raeerd. ha beea atteafted with fttal result, Mr. Baowxaa, tba'geatla-man 1 question, wsa attacked by exyslpela aoas ta day ape, aad, owing to the pnvattas and exposure of tbe aaow-drlfta, aufiared tm-bl aaA-ulAh, aad. tbeuch a large aad powerful man waea la good health, wa redaeed by di eaae to eater skeleton.

intended to viatt tbe Saadwieb Ialanda. wher hi daarbter. Mr. SiaaiOB. wa realdJac.

aad, deainaB? te snv ber a pioaaaat anrptiaa. he east bo aotiSeattoa et Sh projeeted visit. -Ia th mean time the daughter left the ialanda, arrived at Sea Fraud ea route for the Eaet, aod here awaited taeraJala-of tb aaew blockade. While reading the Twain- paper, tb bum of a aiok geatleetaa Bangs ber ey. fib baa toned to th hotel to the bod-aide of ber father an paaaalned there natil aai death, at 1 o'clock ytrday arala Mr.

Bmowbb waa a New-York merchant, taoaa-b what apeelal hnmneee a wa oo (Tared ta we kav aot bee abl to aeeertaln. He waa aa-versally mpectad by tbe paMeatrer. who Iumw him uly as eosjpaaiou oa tb Journey. A brief letter from Dorchester. Ma, to th Boston Adereiar.

toll tb foUawjag i ta thl tewa two twia biotbara. bUae to aok other MetrweT tkaa trager eaa hardly veil them apart. They keep grocery and prcvisioa store. sad war eaa day brlariaa- ta ba ef meal frees a MK A ai, iMJMla aa JtAraAU had at eoa oa. bat wa la shlrtlewves.

A straaper ta ta a op them ceaueg la aad got- eat pes efler la etbar, bat only eaa waa viaible at a tiaAtASU laat exclaimed to Eu. WaU. Toa ra tae smartcet man I aver aaw but why do yaaxeoe peKing oa aa) takma- Tur brothers aad several araaraiea wsretatk hAbtb of gatting np vary rlysad swtag awlnt la ta Beoarroir aad aee EU roinc. wa hia went, te Natoa beoa. ta sell him.

by tap-pIbe ea the paae, aaw hi own face reaawoa Irota the glsafc and taklog It kM brotaar. called eat. Cam ea i taajTr walUa fc y- dew the Swarded ta' Mm yvaea Oaili (Jariih) fVm. Fs. SS.

EharilY" Ok IBS waa over id Ctanwood, Iowa, a day ar two wher ha attsadsd a murder whaieta a maa named wbo wa arretad near BekayUr. ia this Stat, waa ea trial fee kUliag tw so, aajood aUaa aad Fata aa. three years-. I this State tea jary ar kept la eirlet pn racy, but la U-woodhafoaodaaamberef tb Jurors boardi? at tb seat jbotel aaa atuuu (n wub the detoadaet ta tba trial, and all pebtioir aaa tae aaoriio aaa. Oa baaoiwd Vila wr sunua" tot th waSttf, 7 I.