15 FEBRUARY 1873, Page 3

The Yankees are beginning to fight over the Geneva spoil,

and General Butler appears to advise that what the United States counsel claimed as damages for individual ship -owners should now be admitted to be a good deal too much, and that a balance out of the OIRM paid should be reserved for the Treasury as a solatium for injured national feeling. The Senate, on the other hand, propose apparently to distribute the whole to the individual losers, which is clearly the only decent course.