The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1870, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NEW YORK HERALD |™ ™ NEW YORK .HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1870.—TRIPLE SHKET. way Arcade Atrocity=The Duty of the Governor, At a meeting of Broadway property owners, representing one hundred millions of such Property, on Thursday afternoon last, in view ‘of aremonstrance to Governor Hoffman against the bill turning over Broadway and the public All business or news leiter and telegraphic parks along the line into the hands of a railway despatches must be addressed New York | monopoly, the character of this atrocious bar- HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. THE Nanr HERALD, published every day tn the ear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price 812, Volume XXXV AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. a EMY OF MUSIC, 14th street.—ITALIAN OPRRA~ Taz MaGio FLUTE. Matlvee at 1g. FRENCH THEATRE, ttn st. and 6th av.—Tuw Lavy OF LYONS, Mutivee at 2. GRAND OPERA HO corner of Eighth avenue and ‘8d wt.—Ink TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor. ner Thirtseti st,—Matineo daily. Performance every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Pirrin; oR, Tak KING Ye THE GOLD MINES. Matinee at % BOWERY THEATKE:. Bowery.—Doo oF THR ofp TouL House-QuabiMabo. Matinee at 2)g, RBOOTH'S THEATRI 4 st. between Sth and 6tn ava, — A Wivow Huzr—Toopixs, Matinee—Toov.es, THEATRE COMIQ'E, 514 Kroadway.—Comso Vooar- tam, NEGRO ACTS, 4. "Matinee at 23g. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. — Tux LOVE CHASE. Matince—Nomz AND TRYING I? ON. OLYMPIC THEATR®. Byonuway.-Nzw VERSION OF Macuyra. Matinee at 2. FIFTH AVENU® THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRou- ¥Rov. Matinee at 1. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.Gaanp VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 239. MRS. F. B. CONWA™S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— RYAPING THE TEMPEST. . TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowerv.—Comio VoOoatism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, 0. Matinee at Zi. BRYANT'S OPERA HO! OL—BRYANI'® MINcrRE SAN FRANCISCO MI PIAN MINSTEELST. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Frow Fuow. Tammany Building, Mth 985 Bros iway.—ETHto- APOLLO HALL. corner £8th street and Broadway.— Tux New HiweRNicon, Matinee, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.— MrvetRELs— SOPEBNATUBAL ILL.USIONS—HAMLET. Matinee. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— rt AND Al coxTey Pace. 1—Advertisements, B—Advertisements. 3—Washington: Another Curency infation Scheme; The Tari] War in the House; A Huce Lard Grab Consummated—Chess” Mat- tefs—Cuba: ‘The Situatios in Puerto Princt;)e— Amusemenrts—Local Poltics—Sull Another Newark Sensa‘1on—Hammer and Buskin—The Touhe -Kerrigan Prize Fight Fizcle—The Funeral of ex Judge Rus-el. 4—Impoitast”irom Jreiand: The Briltsh War on the News Press of the Nation: Auempt to Strangle Free Speech in the Island; Coming to an Issue wih B itain—Long Branch Races— Fieetwoo! Trotting Park—The Erie Ratlroad Stock Representatives’ War-Alleved Murder for Money—The O'Day Murder—Le ture by J. W. Gerard on Assyria and Babylon. S—The McFarand Trial: A Haif Day of Common Place Testim ny; The Trivune Correspondence Ruled Ovt: A Fi-bting Lawyer and a Lively Scene Afer tie Ad ournument—Bil 6 Sisned by the Gove nov—Naval ly jgence—Yach ting Notes—Im) rove the Navy—The Bloomingdale raer; Second Day of the Yriai of John J. Nixon ‘or the Murder of David Sisco—New Yo.k City Co irts—Criticisms of New Books—A Myster ous Dicwnins Case. G—Editoriais: Leading Articie on The Broaiway Arcede Atrocity, the Duty of the Governor— Kter-ted Killed—St. Domingo—Amu-ement Announcenien's, 7—Tele_raphic News from all Parts of the World: French Electoral Agitation, the Cabinet, the Radica.s and the Church; Napoleon’s Negotia tions witn Rome; the Ecumenical Council Cer- tn of Work; British Legislation and English Opinion; Fata! Accident on the London Metro- politan Railway—The Richmond Horvor; Funerals of Twe've of the Vicums—New York City New-—Per-onal Intelligence—Arrest of Gamples—Oid World Items—Bu-iness Notices. S=The Eicct:ic Telezraph : Tue Misrepresen tations of the Weten Union Monopoly—Seamen's Mi-sionary Soviety—Army Intclligence—Weak- ness of the Navy—Post OMce—Terrible Hail rm at Torrytown—Financia!l and Commer- etal Reporta—Marriages and Deaths—Adver- tsem nts. @~ Advertisements, 10—The Lane Trisedy; Conclusion of the Inquest and Verdict of the Jury—Biossom Rock Ex- plosion—Bro klyn City News—De=tructive Fire in Jersey City—Bar-room Fracas—Real Est.te Transer-—The Troubles of a Jersey Hore Railroad—Shipping —_Intellagence—Adverttse- Mens, B1—Avvertisements. IQ—Adver.iscwm ents, The Rictmnond Calnmity—What Was the Canse ¢ Ignorance, culpable ignorance, on the part of the parties concerned in changing the inter- nal structure of the building. The Richmond reporter of the Associated Press gives this ex- planation :— An experienced archit » Capitol bi who has reviewed the ing, Bays (hat the girder which gave Way Was Composed of two pieces of tim! volted togetier, making, when combined, an @ of thirteen by twenty inches. It was formeriy supporte | by columas, which were gsubsequently re- moved ty im) nee of the hail of the ‘The fatal error was examining the girders with ity to endure the dew stress placed upou them, Of course, the pillars which the original architect put in for the support of the floor above being removed, that floor, under the weight of twenty-five or thirty additional tons, came down, with everything attached. Twenty- five or thirty tons extra weight upon that girder of nine and a half inches diameter in its joint was too much. But those supporting columns were “‘removed to improve the ap- pearance of the hall of the House of Dele- gates.” Bunt so itis. The plainest lessons of common sense have to b2 learned through the | Thiers, sacrifice of hecatombs of men, Woman Surrrace iN Sovra Carorina,— Governor Scott, in a fifteenth amendment speech in Columbia, S. C., on the 21st inst., advocated woman suffrage. The papers con- sider this a new bid for favor on the part of the Governor. Everything in South Carolina seems to follow the example of the raccoon in the case of Captain Scoit, which ‘‘came down” 120 gain and sale, and tho means whereby it, was carried through the Legislature, were pretty clearly brought to light. Judge Roosevelt, chairman of the meoiing, ‘pointed out the loose manner in which the bill was drawn, the deception manifested in its legal effect, and the trickery practised by those who voted for it, which gave the rigut to y few individuals to scoop out Broadway trom end to end, without a dollar of compensation being paid to any- body.” Judge Hilton touched upon the ‘means applicd” which secured the passage of this bill, and among the other speakers was Mr. A. T. Stewart, who, in proposing a committee to wait upon the Governor on Wednesday next, dwelt upon the inevitable and enormous inju- ries that would follow to our citizens and the cily from the scooping out process proposed. The bill simply proposes to make an excava- tion along the whole extent of Broadway, from the Battery to Union square, to the depth of fifteen or twenty fect, more or less, over the whole space to the house walls on both sides, and to give this excavation, with the full use of sidecuts and adjacent public parks, to the railway monopoly concerned for the pur- poses of a central stone and cast iron railway station, At Canal street, where the sewers from Centre street and all that low region east of Broadway are on the river level now, the side walls of this excavation, which will have to be waterproof, will throw back the drainage till it rises to the surface out of the sewers and flows off that way, or else a causeway ten, fifteen or twenty feet above the present level of Broadway at Canal street, will have to be built, extending from White street to Prince street or beyond, in order that the drainage of that low level of the city on the east side may be carried into the Hudson river under this Broadway Arcade. The elevation of this low section of Broadway, then, some ten, fifteen or twenty fect above its present level, and for the distance suggested, is a part of this Arcade scheme, or the drowning out of the eastern section of the city within the limits of the low level indicated. If there were no other objections to this contemplated outrage than this, this ought to be sufficient to kill it with the Governor. The whole scheme, however, from end to end, in- volves an unparalleled outrage upon property holders and a shameful mutilation of the city. We cannot entertain the thought for a moment that the Governor, after all his late railway vetoes, will sign this Arcade abomination. To impress upon him, however, the opinions of the citizens most directly concerned, let a strong committee in their behalf wait upon him next Wednesday. Ten days after the adjournment of the Legislature (omitting Sundays) the question will be settled, with or without the Governor's signature. The State constitution (article four, section nine) says :—‘“‘If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature shall by their adjournment prevent its return, ia which case It shall not be a law.” : If, then, after the lapse of the legal ten days since the passage of this bill it shall not be signed, it will be dead. In-other words, be- fore the expiration of these legal ten days the bill must be on the records of the Secretary of State as one of the acts of the late Legislature approved by the Governor, or it goes for nothing but so much waste paper. Judging from his railroad vetoes and his views thereon, we expect that Governor Hoffman will at least give this Arcade outrage the go-by and let it die a natural death. But it is a criminal which calls for the bowstring of the execu- tioner, and in response to our citizens’ com- mittee with their protest against this bill the Governor should publicly state his reasons for withholding his approval, in order that the unfaithful members of the late Legislature— unfaithful in the interests of the people—may not escape a proper and effective rebuke, and in order that the trickery whereby this out- rageous bill was carried through may be exposed so that the people may guard against the tricksters concerned in the elections for the next Legislature. For these good purposes it is to be hoped that the Governor will not be satisfied in quietly permitting this Arcade billto be laid in the tomb of the Capulets, but will avail him- self of the opportunity to vindicate private rights, municipal rights and the general inte- rests of the people against legislative bargaining and selling, and against grasping and unscru- palous railway combinations. The Situation in France. The situation in France is, as we thought it would be, lively. The reins have been tem- porarily loosened, and France riots in a little liberty—we do not call it license. The meet- ings yesterday were, like those whicb have preceded, turbulent. Nothing new has been developed. The ‘‘Marseillaise” is again a favorite street song, as it has been any time during this century when young France has had a chance to express itself. There is some noise and not a little fun; but the situation is as it was—full of difficulty and full of doubt. In our judgment the plebiscite is to be a triumph to the Emperor Napoleon. We cannot and do not in any way qualify this opinion. But, while saying all we have said, we must admit that the sur- face life in France is apparently alarming. It is unfortunate that Ollivier has lost the sup- port of such men as Buffet and Daru and Bat as Darn has advised his friends to vote ‘‘yes” it is manifest that the Orleanists } within their own limited circle are more | divided than is France, taken asa whole. The | Orleanists aro not more divided than are the legitimists, Vote ‘‘Yes” an@ vote ‘‘No” are reiterated from the Cabinet and the radi- cal “red” centres alternately. considered, Napoleon has as good a chance to win in the plebiscite as the Pope has in the matter of infallibility. Here, without requiring a shot from the fwmous | on this Continent, more than in Europe, merkswan. wo know the ylue of» yota. With al our All things ; knowledge we must admit that both the Pope and Nap:loon are going to win, Why should they not? If they can they have a good right. Ifthe Pope can make himself infallible, and if Napoleon can make himself master of France, we have no cause of complaint, We only look on and chronicle facts. If the facts don't suit us we rejoice that we live in Amorica and cot in Europe. Congress Yestorduy—Garfield’s Now Minaa- cial Sehome, The coweurrent resolution providing for a painting of General Thomas to be placed in the Capitol was discussed in the Senate yes- terday wath what seems to us to have been a litle acerbity, Mr, Howard objected because he could rot forget that there were other gene- rals as distinguished, and he thought singling out General Thomas for this honor might cause eavy or rivalry. The Committee on the Li- brary were given charge of the resolution, and we hope they will report it for passage at an early day. None of the geacrals who compare with Thomas are liable to envious feelings over @ dead comrade, and, as to the precedent, if it is not already an established usage to re- tain the pictures or statues of our distinguished dead, it should be established at once. Mr. Wilson introduced his bill to provide a new mode of selecting cadets. His proposition is similar to the one we urged some time ago of competing examinations. Had it been in operation.a year ago we would have been spared the shameful disclosures made in the recent cadetship sale investigations, The question of improving the ventilation of the halls of Congress came up and was passed, It is for the purpose merely of making experi- ments in that way, but we would warn Con- gressmen and the architects to be careful not to fall into the error of the architects of the Richmond Capitol and weaken the supports while improving the ventilation. : A number of private army bills were dis- posed of by the House, and the proposition to grant lands for the construction of a railroad line in Oregon came up. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, made an able argument against it, showing that it was the first of one hundred and seventy like it, proposing to give away in the aggregate two hundred and fifty million acres. The road under consideration is to be only one hundred and thirty miles long, and yet the bill granted the company nearly a mil- lion acres of land. The bill was passed, not- withstanding this ruinous exhibit. Mr. Gar- field introduced a new financial bill, which provides for issuing ninety-five million dollars of currency to States having less than their proportion and for the cancellation of forty- five million dollars of three per cent certifi- eates and forty million dollars of legal tenders. It also provides for free banking on the gold basis. This proposition is equal, in fact, to a proposal to withdraw ninety-five millions of money, for the use of which we pay one and a half per cent interest, and to substitute ninety- five millions of money on which we must pay four and one-half per cent, or to take the present interest money from the mass of the people, who now get it, and give it with an additiongl bonus of three per cent to the national banks, which already have enough. Judging from the disposition heretofore evinced in the House, we think the bill is sure not to pass, and that it is only intended as o bit of buncombe to tickle the fancies of Western con- stituencies. Misrepresentati: of Our Telegraph Monopoliste—Facts und Figures. We publish in another part of this day’s paper a letter from our London correspondent refuting the gross misrepresentations which the telegraph monopolists of this country have made to the committee of Congress on the working of the government telegraph system in Europe. We recommend the committee to read the unanswerable facts and figures of our correspondent, and call upon Mr. Wash- burn to lay them before that body. The President of the Western Union Telegraph Company and the other telegraph monopolists who have testified before the Congressional committee are completely used up. Tables of distances, with the charges for messages, are given both for Europe and this country. The comparison shows that the charges here are enormous, while in the different countries of Europe, under the governmental system, they are very moderate. Double, treble and quad- ruple rates are charged here over those in Europe. But it is not only in the extravagant charges of the private monopoly on this side that the evil lies. The mass of the people are excluded from the use of this great and useful agent of progress and civilization, In the bands of the governments on the other side of the Atlantic the “telegraph is within the reach of every man. It is fast superseding the use of the Post Office, and there is no doubt that in a short time it will be the principal means of communication for the whole people. We shall see the same result produced by cheap- ening the rates as has been experienced by cheap postage. The reduction of charges will lead to an increase of business, and the reve- nue of the governments will not suffer. Again we call the attention of Congress to the facts and figures presented by our correspondent, and hope they may have the effect of convinc- ing that body that a governmental postal and telegraph system combined is urgently needed for this country. Gross The French Mails to India by the Suez Canal. Commerce, so often the pioneer of enterprise, has in our time become its umpire. Its deci- sions, be they favorable or unfavorable, are the judgment of business men, who seldom waste time and money when they can avoid so doing. Hence, we may regard the determina- tion of the French government to send its Eastern mails by way of the Suez Canal as a formal official endorsement of the practical and regular availabilty of that great work. On the | 17th instant the despatch of the French mails for India, Ceylon, China and Japan was begun at Marseilles via the regular steamer, to touch at Port Said, Ismalia and Suez, but not at Alex- andria. Hereafter these departures are to | take place at Marseilles on Sunday morning at | eight o'clock, instead of five P. M. on Satur- ; @ay, ag heretofore, and at intervals of four | weeks, until the month of July, when they will occur every fortnight, alternating with the British packets, so as to effect, in conjunction with the latter, a weekly service. The mails from Paris leave at the latest on the preceding evening by the cleven P. M. southern train bound for Lyons and Marseilles. Directly chiming in with this new arrange- ment is the effort which the French govern- ment and several private companica are making to get possession of advantageous ports and islands in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Arabia, and it is very evident that powerful interests are at work to give this grand new channel of international communication a bril- liant vitality during the present year. May wind and tide prove auspiei The American and Knglish Navies. There must be a defect in the organization of our Congress, inasmach as the different branches of the service in this country are not 80 well represented on the committees by well- posted members as the corresponding branches in England are in the Houses of Parliament. ‘The difference is more particularly seen in the naval committees, which in England are com- posed of professional experts, who are pre- pared at @ moment’s notice to answer any attack on the navy or to give any required in- formation, I¢ is seldom that we find, either in the Senate or House of Representatives, a man fully posted in regard to naval matters or in accord with the Navy Dopartment, ° Most of the members are antagonistic, or at least are indisposed to pay much attention, to the requi- sitions made upon them from naval quarters. Now and then such a man as Senator Grimes may be found, who, like Mr. Childers, of the British House of Commons, can get up on the floor and fight the navy supplies through, or propose something for the benefit of the ser- vice without fear of defeat; but Senator Grimes acquired his knowledge of the service through tong years of patient study into its workings, and by bis intimate associations with the chiefs of bureaus and other principal officers of the navy, who looked to him for that support the service has always needed. Any member may get up in Congress and abuse the navy to his heart’s content without apy reason in the world, making the most egregious errors in figures, and fear no contra- diction, In most instances the misstatements are belioved, and are the signal for applying the pruning knife and lopping off the most im- portant estimates for the support of the navy, without regard to the recommendations of the heads of bureaus, who have spent months of toil in carefully shaping these estimates to suit the wants of the service. This was seen in the case of Mr, Cox, when he attacked the navy lately on the floor of Congress, and, after abusing everything connected with the service, he produced an array of figures that, if cor- rect, would proye an intolerable amount of extravagance against the department. It is needless to spy that these figures were all wrong, and no more stated the actual ex- penditures of the navy than they did anything else ; yet there was not a man on the floor of Congress who could answer them. Those who desired to refute Mr. Cox’s statements were not able to do so for want of present infor- mation, which it is presumed they could have obtained by going to the Navy Department, and in consequence of this Mr. Cox’s figures were no doubt swallowed by those who desired to believe them. Thus we see the necessity of having some one in the naval committees of both Houses who will always be ready with the naval budget to explain the truth to members when they get up on the floor of Congress and make assertions not founded on fact. What does Mr. Cox care for the interests of a service that gives him no votes and cannot put a dime in his pocket? There should, however, be some few men among the great body of Con- gress who have patriotism enough to try and save the great bulwark of the nation from the injuries inflicted by ignorant pretenders. When the navy estimates for the year end- ing March 31, 1871, were presented to the British House of Commons it was refreshing to see the manner in which Mr. Childers got up on the floor and explained to the House item by item, untilthe whole amount (of sixty mil- lions of dollars in our currency) was voted through in spite of the most vigorous attacks by the opposition. In this connection it may not be amiss to review the present policy of the British government with regard to its navy, as there are matters which few people in this country understand, as the majority form their opinions from the senseless outcries of a few noisy radicals on the floor of Con- gress, and consider that the navy is really an encumbrance—much larger than the nation requires, and conducted at an enormons ex- pense, The general results of the last few years of British naval ship building are as fol- lows :—Two first class iron-clads, six second class iron-clads, nine third class iron-clads and eighteen ordinary iron-clads, all of which are heavy seagoing broadside ships. Of first class turret ships there are two of the Thun- derer class, five of the Monarch class, two of the Royal Sovereign class, besides five smaller broadsides and two turret ships—a total of fifty-one ships. These are vessels any one of which could drive all our wooden ships from the ocean, and they carry five hundred and eighty-five heavy guns. The policy of increase in the British navy is to build twenty thousand tons of iron ships every year, which will give Great Britain an annual addition of four first class iron vessels until the number of sixty heavy iron-clads is reached, which, with a large-force of wooden vessels, will give a navy capable of contending with those of France and the United States at the same time. The policy with regard to the dockyard is twelve thousand men on the ten hour system, and sixty-one thousand seamen and marines for service afloat. All the iron- clads this year are kept ready for sea, and all the troopsips and one hundred and sixty- one unarmored ships either in commission or in reserve. The “royal naval reserve” con-~ sists of four thousand three hundred officers, all good seamen, ready for service at a moment's notice, These are a few facts that should open the eyes of such men as Mr. Cox, whose speeches would indicate that we are spending money on useless articles when we build ships to protect our commerce. What will the gentleman think of British extrava~ gance? To show how little our own navy is feared by the English, and how well they are posted in regard to its strength,a member of the House of Commons recently remarked that “The United States have no formidable sea- | going armed ships. They have a considerable fleet of cruisera, but great doubt is felt as to | Ireland’s Appeal te the Free Press and their actual value, and the information lately recoived satisfies meas to the low estimate placed on these vessels for war purposes.” It may be asked, why is England making this large preparation of two bundred and eight heavy ships, to say nothing of her fleet of troopships, and why are their officers taking such pains to inform themselves of our poverty? Would it not be woll for our legiala- tors to ponder awhile before they out and slash any further into the appropriations? Lot them put the navy on its legs once more, and not seek to adopt an economy that may lay it up altogether. The New Austriau Entanglement, Tho Austrian empire, so lately reconstructed and, a8 its friends had hoped, quite harmo- nized by the political genins of Baron Beust, is passing through a trying crisis. On the 4th inst, the go-called Hassner-Giskra Cabinet resigned, and Count Potocki, repre- senting the Galician element, and formerly Minister of Agriculture, was entrusted with the important charge of forming a new one, In this he seems to have succeeded after nearly ton days of anxious deliberation, re- taining the Presidency of the Gouncil him- self along with his proceding office in the Ministry of Agriculture. Among the new names we especially recognize that of Count Taaffe, who is sustained by the Bohemian and Moravian interest. The new Minister of Justice and Public Instruction is less known; but Herr Distler, now ia the De- partment of Finance, and Depretis, in that of Commerce, have made conspicuous reputations. With one remark—viz. : that the formation of this Ministry indicates upon the part of the Emperor Francis Joseph a determination to adopt a conciliatory policy toward all the States composing his heterogeneous empire— we pass on to @ brief consideration of the immediate oauses that have led to the crisis, Giskra was the soul of the German coen- tralizing element in the Austrian Ministry, and, although be made some halting conces- sions to the Bohemians and Moravians, when it came to a frank recognition of the quasi autonomy of the different States, as indicated by the constitution of December, 1867, he tem- porized and lost his opportuaity. By that‘con- stitution the right of the respective provincial Diets to nominate their national representa- tives to the Reichsrath, or general Parliament of the Austrian realm, was maintained, Giskra sought to bring about the direct elec- tion of those deputies, thus assailing the con- stitution in behalf of the Germano-Austrian element, of which he was the champion. In spite of warnings and remonstrance by the Slavonic Diets this position was obstinately and haughtily maintained,“although the Cis- leithan portion of the empire contains twenty million inhabitants, of which not more than six millions and a half are of Germanic race, and they much intermingled. Thus the German cen- tralism of the empire was brought into direct conflict with the provincial autonomies fixed by the constitution, and comprising by far the larger part of the realm. The whole na- tional opposition, with the exception of a very small fraction, at once retired, including the Poles, Slovenes and others, and two Deputies from Trieste. Thirty Deputies from Galicia sent in a protest, explaining the step they had taken, and they were imltgted by twelve De- puties from Carniola, Bukovina, Trieste, Goertz, Istria and Styria. These addresses set forth the unconstitutional pretensions of the Ministry as sustained by the German votes of the Reichsrath. This secession re- duced the number of participants in the na- tional Parliament to one hundred and twenty- nine, but as one hundred form a constitutional business quorum the session was not dissolved. The question was simply: Would the Emperor retain the Hassner-Giskra Cabinet, and, as they advised, dissolve the provincial Diets and proceed defiantly with direct elections? This would have pitted the Slaves of the em- pire, amounting to more than twelve millions, against its eight millions in all of Germans, The moment was extremely perilous. A word of tyrannical sound would have set Bohemia and Galicia in rebellious motion. The Tzech papers were alroady exolaiming that the Reichsrath was no longer anything but “a German club,” and a spark might have fired the whole Cisleithan division of the empire. But Francis Joseph has had the sagacity to se- lect the middle path—in medias res tutissimus ibis—and he appoints « Ministry which repre- sents autonomies, and is expected to mest the just views of all the provinces, in general council assembled. By this concession he checks the reactionary current which had setin strongly of late, threatening to over- throw all his reforms. Moreover, he begins to put his house in order for the tremendous struggle between civil and ecclesiastical power which a declaration of the Supreme Pontiff's infallibility at Rome is likely to precipitate. That question is more fiercely agitated throughout Germany and Austria than in any other part of Europe, and the old theatre of the Seven Years’ and Thirty Years’ wars feels its ensanguined soil heaving again. But the struggle is not over by any means, and we have reason to watch with intense solicitude the grand parliamentary manceuvres that are about to ensue along the borders of the Danube. Tur DoMINIcAN SPECIAL AMBASSADOR IN WASsHINGTON.—Mr. Fabens, the special ambas- sador from the Dominican government to the United States, is at present in Washington. He brings with him the full returns on the annexation question, and is invested with ample powers from his government to treat on this important subject. The only opposition to annexation emanates from the Cabral party, who are instigated, it is contended, by the representatives of England and Spain. We hope that Mr. Fabens will be able satisfacto- rily to satisfy those legislators who see or affect to see in the financial condition of Dominica reasons why the United States should not secure so valuable an acquisition in the Antilles, CMT “rusia MIssionaRy.”--The Louisville Cou- rier-Journ@lasks, “If the King of the Cannibal Islands must have a fresh missionary for break~ fast every morning, why can’t we supply the demand from such fancy stock as Frothing- ham, Tilton, Cooke and Smyth? He wouldn't care much for the difference.” This is the first time a notice of this kind has appeared in print without advertising the name of Henry | Gvinil, Alvare Freemou_ of America, Treland, suffocating slmost to polittsal stran- gulation under the operation of the new British Coercion law, aspirates an appeal for sympathy, for moral support and Christian kindly consideration, to the American people. Breathing through the executive gag, this suffering Nuropean nationality seeks to record the present case of her children—down- trodden, yet liberty’ loving—in the pages of the Hrratp, and asks, through our columns, if it be in accordance with the order of God's providence and the rules of civilization by popular enlightenment that, in the present hour of the world's history, a powerful country shall be permitted to completely oblit- erate a distinct insular race, or shall the ruling force go on to efface a people so distinct from her own in every essential element of humanity that one of her most prominent statesmon, now deceased, declared solemnly in the House of Lords only a few years since that the ‘Irish were aliens in lan- guage, increed and blood." Accopting this modern fendal ban of alienage and divorce, Ireland has steadily and persistently endeae vored to walk alone since the moment of its utterance. She now seeks to show to the world still more distinctly how completely her children recognize the unalterable geographical position in which their country has beem placed by nature and nature's God—how she stands with “her back unto Britain, her face’ to the West.” Messrs. Sullivan and Richard Pigott,. editors of the Dublin Nation and Dublin Irishman newspapers, respectively, write us specially the letters which appear in our col- umnsto-day, They write to say that “liberty of the press has ceased to exist in Ireland.” They furnish to the American people the means of accomplishment of this sad result by presenting through our press copies of the leading provisions of the “Trish Coercion bill” which has been just lately matured in the British Parliament and which has been received in Ireland as the “message of war’—a distinct, unequivocal act of defiance coming from England after seven hundred years of continued premonitory irri- tation. We need not commont on the contents of these communications. They will commands widespread, earnest attention all over the American Continent, on a soil where so many millions of Irishmen, and the children of Irish- men daily return thaiks to the God of the Universe that they have been assigned to rest, to breathe, to work and to die. Messrs. Pigott .and Sullivan appear to be men of education, culture and refino- ment. They deal in facts. They have neither the opportunity nor the mood for fancy. They appear before a nation which has been always kindly disposed towards Ireland ; a na- tion which ever sympathized with her in her want and needs, material and political. Ire- land has returned to America tribute of vast national worth, Her industrial hands have come to us by millons. Her blood was represented in the Continental Congresa and in the ranks of the patriot Revo- lutionary army. Her exiled sons stood on the decks of our infant navy; indeed, it is said that the hands of one of them, “Commodore” Jack Barry, first hoisted the free flag of the confederation to the “main” on an American war vessel. The sound of the guns of this navy was reverbetated across the Atlantic to Ireland and brought hope and re- newed life to the hearts of Charlemont, Grat- tan, Flood, Burke, Curran, Busbe, Plunkett and the rest, the ‘‘men of the oldon time.” These men have died and ‘passed away,” but to-day Ireland avails herself of the civilizing agencies of steam, electricity and the printing press, and thus speaks to the American nation, asking that she shall not be permitted toexpire under the ‘‘gag,” but be consoled to life so as that she may bear her part in perfecting the coming universal fraternization of the nationalities, and show her green flag in that grand array of free ensigns which will soon decorate the countries of the Old World ‘from Scinde to the Shan- non”—‘‘a line of freemen’s flags begirt with freemen’s cannon,” Ireland’s appeal is thus before the American people, KiERSTLD KILLED. . ~~ Tho Police Surgeons—fow Patrolmen Are Trented—A Botched Job—One Surgeon Dis-. missed for Malpractice. ‘The readers of the H#RaLD wiil remember that about a year ago, when tila paper led off in an exp sure of the negligenc> of some of the police suigeons—a crugade in which nearly all the city press joined—Police Surgeon Kicrated -was the only one who s0 far forgot nimself as to rail and flounder about as if in a sea of trouble. He walked down into -the reporiers’ rooms of the Central OMce one day, and insulted all of them by declaring, they had boen parchased. Kiersted {s no more a police surgeon. It came about this way:— Some eleven weeks ago officer Dowling, of the Thirty-second precinct, while on duty oue evening, feilover an embankment and sustained severe tn- juriesin one of his knees. He reported disabled, and Surgeon Christopher Kiersted was called in, and, it 1s alleged, took charge of the patient, The patient gradually grew worse, and the facts coming to the knowleage of the Police Commissioners an investigation was ordered by them. The Board of Surgeons, which includes a large number of geutlemen, named Aiansoa S. Jones. gad F, Otis as a committee to report. These gentiemen reported to the Police Board yes. terday, when, by the report, if it can be relied upon, as tt doubtless can, Kersted at- tended the patient for some time wihout any favorable resuits, Finally Dowling, despairing of securing oe relief, called on Dr. Frothingham, the family physician, Owilug to some misunderstanding between the doctors Frothingham ceased his visita and Kiersted took entire charge. The re- port shows that the acute iiflammation nos having been subdued, (¢ nad gone to the second stage, end the officer is likely to be permanently disabled should be not die, Upon the careful consideration of the report of the committee of the Board of Surgeons the Board of Police yesterday unanimously ntsBeK ny the force Police Surgeon Christopher Kierated. The report of the committee striv:s to shield Kiersted; but the Police Board acted promptly an¢ fearlessly. ST. DOMINGO. Mr. Fabens, the Dominican Minister, in Wash- ington—The Annexation Roturns—Who Aro the Oppositiontsts. ‘The information is obtained from Mr, J. W. Currier, the Dominican Consui Gencral at this port, that Mr. Favens, the new Minister Plenipotentiry from St. Doiningo, brings the recent election returns on the g@unexation question complete, Tne acts contain 16,119 signatures to 111 against it. This ts the largest vote that has been cast in the republic for twenty- 81x years. Tne only mat-rtal Oppo<iiton 4s on the Haylicn frontier, where Jawless bands of Hayuens we at thefr usna, guerra ratds, fustivated, it ts said. by the British Oonsul, St. Joon, and the Spanish Port wa Prince. These oMauls rately to defeat annexation, aad are sitiviag a Ward Beecher. Thoret itis done, after all, | tuey accady begiu vo Loyst of tueir succous, | ASS RSS SR ee Sad Se