The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1870, Page 6

6 . NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXV. — ee AMUSEMENTS TIS AFTS]NOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—T: EMERALD RING. way~THE Duama or THe BOWERY THEATRE. ts Not Gorp—HAML FT ALL Tua? GuitTrERs Day. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23 Epwin Bootw a8 HAMLE WALLACK'S THEATRE, Bre Lost aT Sra, between Sth and 6th GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 20 Tux TWRLvE Truprations. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street,—ENaLisn OrrRa— Tue MARRLAGR OF FigAno. OLYMPIC THEATRA, Broagway.—New VEKsION OF Hanuet, Matinee at 2 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRo0 FRovu, Matinee at 1. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIK, Rroadway, cor- Ber Thirtieth #.—Matinee daily. Performance every eventng. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couro Vooatism, NEGRO MINsTRELGY, 40. Matinee at 254, THEATRE COMIQ’ E sam, Nano Acte, ec." RYANT’S OPERA at.—bavani's MineTR BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 586 Broa 'way.—Rrnto - Plan MINOTRELSY, NeoRo Acts, £0.—13 TEMPTATIONS. 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PAGE. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Washington: Beltigerent Rights for the Cubans; ‘The St. Domingo Treaty Reported Against by the Senate Committee; Ku Kiux Outrages in Tennessee; the Texas Admission Bill Passed in the House—Another Change in the United States Supreme Court—New York City News. 4—The Victor Noir Homicide: Prince Pierre Bona- parte a3 a Prisoper—The Cardiff Glant: The Fraud Exposea—A Chronto Litigation: King Vanderbilt and the Bionde Prince of Erte in the Field Again—New Jersey Legislature— Execution of @ Negro in Georgia—The Cubans fo Nassau—Brazil: Discontent Among Mer- chants—Caning Affair in Broadway—Sad Adair in Putnam County, S—Proceedings in the New York City and Brook- lyn Courts—Camden and Amboy Intrizue— The Fullerton Case—Grinding the Faces of the Poor—The Income Tax—Hoodwinking Justice Couer—The Perils of Emigrants—Meeting of the Commissioners of Quarantine—A Vision. 6—Editorials:—Leading Article on The New Agents of Civilization and Their Influence Upon the Destiny of Nations—Yachting—Amusement Announcements, 7—Teiegraphic News from All Parts of the World: General Prim Mobbed tn Madrid; Parla mentary Independence in France; Another Vessel Sunk by a British Steamship off Japan—The State Capital: Caucus of the New York Delegation—Naval Intel- ligence—Another Mystery of the Sea: An Jron-clad, with ail on Board, Missing—Per- sonal Intelligence—Spectal Political Notes— The Silk Stocking Party—Business Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial Reports —jChess Matters—Real Estate Matters—Deatns. 9—Deaths—Adveriisements, 30—Europe; Military Mutiny tp an English Bar- racks; Wife Murder and a Horrtole Scene in Paris— Amusements—The Fatal Blast—A Bergh Libel Suit—Telegraphic News Items— The Parageayan War: Lopez Again on the Move—a Sensation Outrage—Brooxlyn City News—A Poughkeepsie Clerical Kick Up— Shipping Inteltigence—Advertisements. 11—Advertiseme 12—advertist Tue Worst Prace to Go.—Phillips, who recently robbed the internal revenue service of some thousands of dollars, is evidently a green hand. Old rogues will not take the steamer for Europe any longer, with the cer- tainty that the ocean telegraph will head them off. In THE oasE of a mother who sued for the recovery of her child from the New Lebanon Shakers, and which had been pending since last July, the Supreme Court, sitting in Gene- ral Term at Hudaon, N. Y., affirmed the order of Judge Miller, awarding the child to its parent. Mr. Sumner yesterday presented a memo- rial to the Senate asking an appropriation for an Ohio University where admission is not denied to any on account of race, color or previous condition. We submit that while philanthropy merits the highest praise there is not the slightest necessity for the United States Treasury to reward it. Tue House or Rerr TATIVES yesterday passed the bill admitting Texas to representa- tion, after rejecting an amendment proposed by Mr. Wood and a substitute offered by Mr. Beck. When this bill shall have passed the Senate and become a law it is to be hoped that the country will hear nothing more about re- Construction, except as a memory of what once had been. Onty Five Mitxions.—Chief Engineers Fisk and Gould, of the Erie Railroad, yester- day made their appearance in the Supreme Court. King Vanderbilt was also on hand. The attraction which drew these distinguished gentlemen into the halls of jnstice was a trifle of five million dollars for which both contend. Jay Gould was the only witness called to tes- tify in the case. The case is still on. ANoTHER TRIAL ror ReyNoips.—It appears there isa kink in the Revised Statutes that provides for a distinct trial of sanity in a case like that of the convicted murderer Reynolds, or Breem, His counsel intends to demand this trial, and we suppose he will get it. His one point of evidence of unsound mind is the “apathy” of the prisoner. On just such evi- dence as he has to prove Reynolds insane it is possible to prove the insanity of every man ifying. There was a certain advantage in the ancient stolid temper of society that refused to gointo all these niceties. Society assumed once that it was a great deal better to hang such fellows; and if their heads were not quite healthy they were the less loss to the commu- nity. Tbat old plan weeded out the criminal classes immensely. “v The New Agents of Civilizution and Their Influence Cpon the Destiny of Nations, The boundaries and destiny of nations and empires through al! ages up to the present time have bocn marked out by the sword, The great heroic names of history, which are as familiar a3 household words all over the world, are those of men who subjugated nations and created empires through rivers of blood, The right of the strongest in war has been the law to which man'‘sind bave submited, It was 80 from the ecurliest recorded history, in pagan and Christian times and countries and under all forms of civilization; and that law only now begins to yield to the higher one of intelli- gence and modern progress which the magnetic telegraph, the press, steam power and the scientific achievements of this age have developed. The great conquerers and foun- ders of empires and dynasties—the Alex- anders, the Cmsars, the Charlemagnes, the Napoleons—were only filibusters on a large scale, The masses of mankind were merely herds of animals or mere machines, to be used for the glory and ambitious views of these filibustering chieftains. The rights of the people were not known and their interests hardly recognized. National rights even wero little respected. It is only of late years that international law has been acknowledged with any binding force or that some respect has been paid to the rights of the people and nations. The existing dynasties and ruling aristocracies of Europe and the world gene- rally were founded by the power of the sword in the hands of filibusters. Through blood and rapine they established their assumed “divine right” to govern. The old Latin motto, Vox populi, vox Dei, was not generally recognized and, indeed, rarely recognized, till the rise of the American republic and this last century. It ‘seems strange that four thousand years or more should have passed—that is, from the earliest reliable historic period to the dawn of the nineteenth century—before the world reached its present civilization. But now we appear to have sprung all at once into the full blaze of sunlight—to have made greater strides within a few years than were made in many centuries or in all preced- ing times. The science of the present age, 80 far superior to that of preceding times, is making this wonderful revolution, We have, in addition to the accumulated knowledge and discoveries of past ages, numberless inven- tions and discoveries of our own. Some of these are so surprising that the most learned and scientific of the ancients never dreamed of them. It has been said that some of the arte and sciences of antiquity have been lost. The Pyramids of Egypt and the ruins of Thebes and other ancient cities are mentioned to show this. Then, again, the beautiful works of Groeck and Roman art, as well as the rich literature of Greece and Rome, are referred to for the purpose of showing that the peo- ple of modern times are not superior to the ancients. Very few of the arts or sciences, if any, have been lost. If we do not excel the Greeks or Romans in some of their finest pro- ductions, we approach them and understand the principles upon which they worked. In this age the minds of men are occupied with a tar greater variety and really more important objects. As a consequence, therefore, the same perfection may not be obtained in any particular thing. But in amount of know- ledge and in the application of that to the progress and well being of society we are far in advance of the Greeks or Romans and of the people of all, preceding times. Still, as was said, civilization has been progressive from the time of the ancient Egyptians all through, and although there have been dark periods—the ‘‘Dark Ages,” as they have been called—the light has never been extinguished. Through the printing press all the storehouses of ancient knowledge have been opened, and now the mass of mankind are learning more than the philosophers of old knew. But, in addition to the accumulated know- ledge of the past that has been brought down to us, how much has been acquired within the last century! Yes, how much has been learned within a quarter of a century! Look at the magnetic telegraph, which brings the people of continents far removed from each other within speaking distance; which flashes instantancously to all parts of the civilized world the ideas that ferment in the brains of great thinkers everywhere; which places the peasant on a footing with the statesman in acquiring information ; which is rapidly break- ing down the barriers of caste, races, sects and prejudices of all kinds, and which is changing the whole financial and political ideas of the world. The natural ally of this new and wonderful agent of civilization, the press, lays before the people from day to day and hour to hour news of what is transpiring in all parts of the globe. The great thoughts of the first men of all nations in every branch of knowledge are furnished as regularly to the people as are their meals. No education is so valuable or comprehen- siveas this. It diffuses knowledge, enlarges the mind, inspires ambition, stimulates activity and increases the intercourse, trade and resources of every people. We might mention the other co-agents of progress in this wonderful age, such as steam power, which covers the oceans with fast-going ships and brings the people of all nations quickly and readily in communication and contact with each other, and which gives to myriads of manufacturers a market for their surprising and varied productions. We might speak of the thousands of inventions, the results of modern science, which are adding to the comforts of mankind and changing the face of the world; but every one sees them and knows the astonishing progress in these re- spects over all preceding ages. The power that in the future is going to transform and consolidate nations, to give nationalities their unity and strefgth, and to remodel or extend empires, is not the sword, but that of these agents of our new civiliza- The nation that has the most cos- mopolitan character and position, the most enlarged views of the future and the greatest enterprise, will be first. England, through the sup sight of her statesmen, has commerce extensive dominion and vast wealth-~is work- ing hard to be the first empire in the world, and she has great advantages. When we say empire, we mean the empire of commerce; for tion. { commerce hereafter Is to be more powerful than the sword. Mr. Disraeli said once that England was an oceanic empire, which con- veyed this idea, We see, consequontly, that | England is extending her telegraphic commu- nications, by ocean cables and otherwise, to all parts of the globe, She knows that these will be the agents of commercial empire. She will have the sagacity, too, to modify her policy and institutions in accordance with the spirit of the times and this ambition. The American republic also, from its geographical position and other circumstances, may become @ great commercial empire, though it has not the colonies England holds in so many parts of the world. The position it occupies between Europe and Asia, and to South America and Australia, gives it greater advantages really than England pos- sesses, if the American government and people know how to use them, England will increase her power and wealth, undoubtedly, under the new agents of civilization ; but the United States is destined to become the firat empire of the world. The wonderful changes that are to take place in Europe and Asia cannot yet be foreseen. Europe may become one republic or a confederation of republics; for the pro- gress of knowledge tends to freedom and unity. The populous and semi-civilized na- tions. of Asia will approximate to the higher civilization of Europe and America, In fact, there are those living that will see such a revo- lution in the world through the telegraph and other modern agents of civilization that they may say, in truth, the millennium has come. Privitgces To Foreign Yacuts VisiTina Americas Ports.—It is to be regretted that the bill extending to English and French yachts, belonging to regularly organized clubs, the same privileges and immunities allowed by England and France to American yachts should have met with objection in the Com- mittee on Commerce of the House of Repre- sentatives, as we are informed in our Wash- ington correspondence was the case, The principal objection seems to arise from the fact that the owners of such yachts are wealthy men and financially able to pay the duties which are required from the com- mercial marine. This is a very picayunish view to take of the subject, which is one of international courtesy and not one of dollars and cents, We trust that the Committee on Commerce will act in 9 manner commensurate with the dignity of a great and wealthy nation such as is the United States, Tax CHarTER Nvisance.—It is reported by a despatch from Albany that a delegation of the Aldermanic fathers of this metropolis have restored harmony to the councils of the war- ring democracy. The harmony that our Alder- ten have made is a beautiful thing to contem- plate, and a thing in which the public may perhaps have little faith. The truth is, all this Charter row and democratic discord is becom- ing a nuisance, and it is pretty well time it was played out, While there seemed some indica- tion that there was on one side or the other a sincere wish to better the condition of our misruled city people had patience; but it is now so evident that the great reform wer to the jackknife is merely a demand for a new deal on the spoils, and that the only change we are likely to have is a change of plunderers, the people have made up their minds to care marvellously little about the whole business. They do not expect any Charter, nor any im- provement in the condition of the city, and they will not be disappointed. Tne Dominican TREATY.—The Senatorial Committee on Foreign Relations, having con- cluded its labors on the Dominican treaties, yesterday instructed Senator Sumner to report against them. The Massachusetts Senator has so far gained his point. That the mea- sures had few friends in the committee is pretty well understood, and should the House decide to act in accordance with the spirit of the re- port another opportunity to obtain a foothold in the Antilles will be thrown away. After warm discussion on the subject, in which Mr. Sumner, as was expected, led the opposition, the vote stood five against two in favor of re- commending the ratification of the treaty. Senators Morton and Harlan, it is thought, will make a minority report when the ques- tion is brought up in the Senate, and an endea- vor will also be made to consider the subject in open session. Income Tax.—The following clause of law in regard to the income tax seems to be both- ering some honest and other sort of people :— “That the taxes on incomes herein imposed shall be levied on the Ist day of March, and be due and payable on or before the 13th day of April in each year until and including the year 1870, and no longer.” Now, what is the purpose of this clause? It is to define and declare at what time in the year the income tax is due and payable. And it declares very plainly that the tax shall be due and payable by the ‘13th day of April in each year until and including the year 1870, and‘ no longer.” No payment of the tax can he de- manded later than April, 1870, and at that time we pay the tax on our incomes of 1869. On the income of 1870, therefore, no tax is payable. Prorgotina Society. —The sentences passed by Judge Bedford upon convicted criminals in the Court of General Sessions yesterday are an additional assurance from the Judge that neither sentimentality nor political influence shall intervene between justice and those who have violated the laws of the land, Society can be protected from thieves and would-be murderers and incendiaries only by a firm and fearless administration of the law, and we are glad to note that Judge Bedford exhibits no disposition to deviate from the commendable course he has pursued in thus administering justice since his elevation to the bench. Prra’s Dirtomatic No,—Prim in the Cortes denies that he has made any proposition to the United States to sell Cuba, but this denial is only diplomatic, He has made no proposition in that form, He has only proposed to “‘settle the Cuban question in a manner advantageous to the finances of Spain.” Instzap of referring the Funding bill which passed the Senate to the Committee on Banking and Currency the House of Repre- sentatives yesterday referred it to the Ways and Means Committee. Mach opposition was swanifested to this disposition of the bill. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1870. RIPLE SHEET. Prince Plerre Bonapurto’s Cell in La Cy‘! cler, Special Incerviow with the Pris’ omer, Prince Pierre Napo'eon Bonaparte remains in confinement in La Conciergerie Prison, Paris, awaiting bis trial on a charge of homi- cide, arising from the circumstances which attended the shooting of the late Victor Noir. The case will ba brought before the judge pre- siding in the Chamber of Judgment of the High Court of Justice within a few days by decree of the Emperor Napoleon. In view of the world-wide interest which attaches to the investigation, the manner in which the fatal act was accomplished, the name and lineage of the accused, and the public reputation and family griefs of the deceased writer and his relatives, a Hmratp special correspondent in Paris visited the famous prison a few days since and sought an interview with the Prince. This was accorded at once to our representa- tive, the prisoner expressing a sense of the most kindly recollections connected with his visits to New York and Philadelphia, and of the high estimate which he placed on Ameri- can sympathy in the present very serious crisis of his life career. Our special writer reports the Interview in the letter which we publish to-day. Tho com- munication will attract very goneral ‘atten- tion. He opens a Conciergerie to the public view. In doing #0 he recalls the great revolution and its horrors; Marie Antoinette, her beauty, sweetness of manner and fate; she who would “not lower head" at the entrance to her cell, He also reveals the guillotine again. Traupmano was confined in La Conciergerie previous to bis execution. He has been suc- ceeded by others charged with murder. The house discipline, ag will be observed, ie strict, universal and regularly and equitably enforced. Prince Pierre Bonaparte awaits his trial with resignation. He feels confident of an acquittal, In connection with this Bonaparte-Noir tragedy and the Montpensier-Bourbon duel which has just taken place in Madrid, it is well to remember that the illus- trious soldier and founder of the Bona- parte dynasty entertained a mortal aversion to the practice of the duello and the carrying of concealed weapons. Both were strictly forbidden and designated for punishment in the first Code Napoleon, He was severe in the enforcement of the penalties. The readers of the Heracp will remember that during the post-mortem examination of the body of Prince Jerome Napoleon, made some years since in Paris, the surgeons were surprised to see a flattened bullet drop from the cavity of the chest. On investigation it was found that Jerome Bonaparte fought @ duel when a young man, was wounded, and that the bullet, which couid not be extracted at the time, remained embedded in, it was said, the septum of the heart, He’ was afraid to tell the then “head of tho family,” and soon forgot all about it, An extraordinary case, but one which was very nearly equalled by the murdered Bill Poole after the Stanwix Hall tragedy in New York. Our special let- ter from Paris on the subject of the Bonaparte- Noir tragedy is in every respect attractive, and, ina moral and social point of view, ime portant. Tue Quarantine ComMissIonERs.—The Quarartine Commissioners have seemed dis- posed lately to emulate the sensational tac- tios of the Board of Health, and have ex- hausted their activity in hearing testimony and making a noise over the quarantine abuses of the Swinburne régime. Those abuses were bad enough, and it would have been a good thing to have made all possible noise about them at the time when that noise would have been useful. It strikes us that such noise is just now a little late. The Commissioners will do better to attend to the future, and we should have more faith in their good intentions for the future if they did not seem so deeply anxious about making contracts. The hint in the note of Dr, Carnochan, given elsc- where, in declining to meet the Commis- sioners, is excellent as to the true purposes of quarantine, The doctor sees that the true problem is ‘‘how commerce and quarantine can be made to harmonize so that. commercial in- terests shall suffer as little as possible without prejudice to public safety.” This is of more importance than sensation and lighterage con- tracts. ANOTHER COLLISION IN THE JAPAN WATERS. — By telegraph we are informed of another collision off the coast of Japan, in which a Ger- man ship, the Carrie and Jane, was run into and sunk by the Sunda, of the Peninsular and Oriental line. These two socidents insuch quick succession, and both leading to similar results, surely must indicate some gross fault on the part of the English commanders, However, for the moment the full particulars of the acci- dent to the German ship are wanting, and some days will perhaps elapse ere sufficient details will be received enabling us to form an opinion. The traditional order of “Port your helm! Hard a port!” in cases of threatened collision, probably calls for some discretion before being put into practice. Tue New York Dereaation to the Assem- bly held a caucus at Albany yesterday. Mr. Kiernan’s bills providing for the early election of Supervisors and appointment of Police Commissioners were referred to a sub-commit- tee, which reported them, with amendments complete, at the afternoon session, when they were adopted. The proceedings of the caucus were not altogether harmonious. Prnsion PayMENTS.—No more pitiful sight can be witnessed than the appearance of the poor soldiers widows who are entitled to pen- sions making application in a basement room of the Custom House for the mite which Con- gress allows them. The law regulating the payments has so hampered them that an unnecessary amount of inconvenience, and oftentimes suffering, is caused them before they can get what they are entiiledto, Extor- tion also helps to depress these poor people. Congress is to blame for this, and it would bé nothing more than justice to have the law which permits such wrongs altered to a more equitable form. BEtLIGERENT Riaats tro THe CusaNns.—The House Committee on Foreign Affairs have re- solved to recommend the passage of a resolu- tion according belligerent rights to the Cubans, This determination was arrived at last night. ls Our Navy Extravaganti? Maeased t— Comparison with the Britlel aud French Navies, When the present administration ov the Nav,” Department camo into power it bad bt a smail allowance of funds and a large allow~, ance of Secretury Welles’ debts to pay; but it put forth all its energies, set men to work on the rotten old hulks that encumbered the navy yards, and by fitting in a timber bere and a timber there had In the course of nine months thirty-eight vessels fitted for sea, These, however, are not enongh to relieve the rotten hulks in foreign waters, some of which had to be sold abroad because the com- manders-in-chief dared not send them home, When the appropriation was exhausted tho Navy Department stopped work in the Bureaus of Construction and Steam Engineering, deter- mined to expend no money not authorized by law. Then by @ close calculation, cutting dowa in one bureau and paring down in another, it collected of its own funds appro- priated by Congress four millions of dollars, which it simply asked of Congress permission to use to continue the work of resurrection. One day’s fnvestigation into this matier was sufficient to have made members of Congress acquainted with the true state of the case. It was not an appropriation that the Secretary asked for, but a transfer from one burean to another of money already in possession of the department, appropriated by Congress for naval purposes. The whole thing has, how- ever, been so muddled and misrepresented by those who have charge of the matter in the com- mittees that it has led to the project of sweep- ing the whole four millions into the Treasury and letting the navy whistle for its money. One ingenious mathematician in the House Committee of Appropriations took occasion, in the conference committee, to state that “Our navy isthe most extravagant in the world, while the British navy is the most economi- cal,” thus showing that it would require a large book to contain all not known on the subject, He went on to inform the committee that the total amount appropriated for the British navy was but three millions of pounds sterling per annum, which assertion go startled his fellow members that they dropped the dis- cussion to give each other time to obtain far- ther information on the subject. Now, for the enlightenment of the said com- mittee, we beg leave to stato the facts in the case, which are copled from the Britis) navy estimates for 1869, and which is an average estimate for preceding years, a few thousand dollars more or less. We find in the estimates referred t> the following net amounts appro- priated for the British navy, after deducting estimated extra receipts and repayments to be paid into the exchequer. These amounts foot up £10, 238,990. At five dollars the pound sterling this amounts to, in gold, $51,194,950. This ia currency would be $61,423,940. Now, by the same authority, we know that labor in England is just one-half of what it is in this country. Men in the dockyards there work ten hours a day, without reading news- papers during working time, and material is one-half the cost it is in the United States, as we can see by referring to our tariff. There- fore, the same number of war vessels that are kept in commission by the British government would cost $122,847,880 per annum if kept in commission by our government, making a dif- ference in the expenses of our navy and that of Great Britain during the last year of $102,847,880 in favor of our establishment. These are calculations that any boy of twelve years can make, and we commend to our legislators the study of their arithmetic. In 1868 England had in commission one hundred and ninety vessels of war, all told, including line-of-battle ships, iron-cased vessels, frigates, corvettes, sloops, gunnery ships, stationary receiving and depot ships, troop ships, store ships, drill ships, tenders or tugs, guard ships of the coast guard, &c. The United States had in commission sixty- seven vessels, including wooden frigates, sloops, small gunboats, receiving ships, train- ing ships for apprentices, store ships, training ships for midshipmen, tugs, iron-clads, wooden sailing vessels and gunnery ships. None of these exceed a frigate in size, and they number only one-third of the vessels in the British navy. Taking the appropriations for our-navy in 1868 and comparing them with the British estimates as above stated, it will be found that our expenditures were only one-sixth of those of the British, and even admitting that the labor and material expenses should be thrown out of the question, our expenditures still re- main but one-third of those of the British navy. If, after this, a republican Congress think proper to lay up our navy when the best in- terests of the country demand that it be put in order, they can do so; but they will be re- minded from time to time by figures that can- not lie that there are persons who are not to be deceived by statements put forth in com- mittees calculated to prevent the proper appro- priation of money for the national defence. The following are the estimates for the sup- port of the French navy for the year 1870:— The total estimate for the support of the navy is 162,845,022 francs, equal to $32,569,004 (gold). The number of seamen (exclusive of officers) is 36,630. The number of mechanics, &e., is 28,400. This does not look as if our navy was such a tremendous affair. THe Firrgenra AMENDMENT.—President Grant yesterday sent to the Senate a message, together with a communication from Secretary Fish in relation to the States which have rati- fied the Fifteenth amendment. The Secretary names thirty States as having transmitted to the Department notices of their having adopted the amendment, and says that in complying with the resolution of the Senate calling for the list, he “‘has not assumed to anticipate the action of Congress in defining the condition or the relations of any State to the federal gov- ernment.” Mr. Fish does not state the reason why a proclamation has not yet been issued announcing the ratification of the amendment and its incorporation into the constitution, Tue Park.—The Park is tho only thing left sacred from the clutches of city poli- ticians. It is the only thing in the city not de- graded and contaminated by some taint of the management of the municipal authorities, It is the pleasure ground of the people, and it must remain such, It must not be turned into aplacer for the gold-washing municipal jobbers, nor into a squatting ground for the peanut brigade that now gathers around the City Hall, a Moore Versns Bonne!!. If ever there was a case fitted in a peculiar way to be tried by the feminine judgment it is that of Bonnell versus Moore, recently before the courts in this city, Mr. Bonnell says that he was married to Miss Moore in 1864, Miss yy oore says that she has never been married at all, The clergyman who officiated is certain that he married Bonnell to somebody, but can- not identity’ the lady. In a case of mistaken identity io Boston, 8 few days since, a young lady concluded that the other fellow must have been the Devi, and cut her throat, as if to hurry away to his arms. It does not appear that Bonnell has any notion that he married the Devil in the form of Miss Moore, and he has not yet cut bis throat. Over this Bonnell- Moore case there has apparently been among the “friends” of the parties a great deal of pri- vate scandal, and Miss Moore seems to have brought the case into court to silence at once and forever the story that she is married te Bonnell. She naturally argues that if he is married to her he can prove it, and if he can- not prove it she will be free, Thists, perhaps, a divorce case in a new shape, There waa a marriage, conducted with secrecy, and if the lady did not like the result of the marriage what simpler way to escape than by denying it and putting the husband to the difficult job of proving who he was married to? Six Braok Crows.—The first gun for the reconstruction of Tennessee was fired yester~ day, when a delegation of negroes from that State appeared before the Reconstruction Committee with a formidable document, in which the outrages they suffered at the hands of the Ku Klux were harrowingly described. It is asserted that these colored wards are hunted down like wild animals of the junzles and murdered in cold blood. Shooting, whip- ping and burning are declared to he of common ocenrrence, and a_ pootical allusion is made to the resurroction of ‘the dark and damning catalogue of inquisi- torial punishments” from “its long sleep in the bosom of the dark ages of persecution.” The sable persecuted also complain that colored ladies and gentlemen are not allowed to ride in first class cars, and wind up by requesting the speedy protection of Congress. We have no doubt that society is in an unfor- tunate condition in Tennessee, but it looks very much as if these darkies have painted the picture a trifle too hideous. It is hardly regarded as essential to the easy digestion of a white Tennesseean that he shall kill a niggee before breakfast. GeNERAL Prim has governed Spain for over a year and a half. He asked the world to believe that he could and would give Spain liberty and prosperity and a new lease of live. Prim has failed, and failed most egreziously. We are not sorry to find that Madrid has found Prim out and expressed itself accord- ingly. Prim bas proved a great failure, and’ the sooner we cease to hear of him the better. If Spain cannot make more of her own chances we shall soon get tired of her. She had better look sharp. ADVANTAGE oF Women Jurors.—It has been discussed as a great argument against feminine jurors that they would not agree. It proves a point in their favor that this very obstinacy will prevent them giving up their opinion to avoid the discomfort of several days in the jury box. Ithas been the reproach of other jurors that ‘‘Rognes must hang that jurymen may dine.” In other words, men will give up a doubt rather than lose a dinger. This a woman will not do. Toe Winnirec Revotvrionx.—We are informed by a telegraphic despatch from Chi- cago, published this morning, that to prevent bloodshed President Riel has released all the prisoners, and that in consequence of this action the English settlers have disbanded their armed force of six hundred men. This is a very simple method of preserving peace, if it even lacks somewhat of dignity. Fientine Tnxm Pomrs.—The defendants in the election fraud cases in Brooklyn do not mean to come to trial on the main issue if they can help it. The first step of their fight thus far is against the Grand Jury that found the indictment, They move to quash the indict- ment because the court that convened the Grand Jury adjourned before the Grand Jury found a bill. They failed on this trumpery defence. What next? The Cambria and Sappho. To TRE Epirok oF THE HERALD: The Sappho, as ali recollect, was sent abroad by her owner, a shipbullder, some year or so since, to be sold. Her captain was a most gentlemanly sailor and well qualified to navigate and sali square rigge@ vessels. Soon after tne arrival of the Sappho at Cowes, throagh various fndiscretions and manceue vrings she was inveigied into @ race with several of the fastest English yactts, all of them in compiete raciug trim, on @ course around the Isle of Wight, their wccustomed racing areua. The Sappho was sparred and canvased as for her Atlantic voyage— eight feet having been taken from each mast, her sails reduced @ boom foresail and baliasted with & copious intermingling of paving stones for the occa- sion, Thus accontred she started wita some three crack cutter and schooner yachis The Camobrta, of the latter class, beat, it 18 to > hoped easily, this then misrepresentative of Amert. can yachts. Forthwith a “crow, sharp as tue Needies,? went up from the Isle of Wight. the garden of Eug- land, responded to by ail the nautical chanticleers around Aipion’s coast. A picture represenung ihe Cambria leading off the Sappho, to the air of “The Girl I've Left Behind Me,”? was elaborated py a ceie~ brated marine artist and placed in a panel, adding to a series of Camoria victories adorniag the dintug saloon of that splendid yacht. Look upon that piccure “and now on this.” Mr. Wi ham Dougias, Kear Commander of the New York Yacht Club, became the owner o! the. Sappho, ha@ ber put in @ condition tit to represent a vacht be jonging to a member of the New York Yacht Club, made with her the fastestyun across the Atiantic on record, chailenged all England to a match mvolving speed and weatnerly qualiues, was responded to by none except the owner of the Cambria, who, to the surprisa only of some yacntmen who knew little, refuses to Meet the Sappho with the Cambria, except upon time aliowauce to the latter, according to Royal Thames measurement rule, which 1s ridiculed by the most reiame English journals and must of the yachting traternity, for its nautical bigowry and arbitrary miscaicuiations, operating disadvantage. ously to improvement in the modelling of vessels, and unfairly upon the Sappho. But what 1s to be done with “that picture” in view of this ‘square con- cession” that the former race between the Cambria and the Sappho was all a mistake and the yachis wholly mispiaced, and that now the same Sappiio ts abie to “re-enact” tne doings of the America atter @ lapse of some seventeen years—what 13 to be done with ‘that picture?” Shall we have a special artist to photograph it next August, wheu tue Cambria is in the pay of New York? = TRUXTUN, Meeting of the New York Yacht Club, The second general meeting of tie New York Club Will be held at Deimonico’s, on Thursday, the 24th inst, for the election of memoers and to receive tue report of the committee in Charge of the matter ot Mr. Ashbury’s finai proposai to sail the yachs Camoria for the Chalicnge Cup, and ty take action. ‘Upon Bald repuite