The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ' All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New. Yorx HeERaxp. . Letters and packages should be properly sealed. , turned, Seeeaammanaememeeeea THE DAILY HERALD, published erery day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price 812. ‘ JOB PRINTING af every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neaty and promplly exe- cuted at the lowest rates: AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Tue Lancers. 3 ure AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth at.—FROv- THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.-Gaanp VARiRty ENTERTAINMENT. FRENCH THEATRE, lith at, and 6th av. — conte nua av.—Tae Drama GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8d at.—TOR TWELVE Pusinone ne ppaconse smear? 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Sore 1—Advertisements, SSWashington: Another A ‘on: Another Attempt to Reconstruct Georgia; The Legislative FY gee Bill Under Consideration by the Senate; Proposal to Consolidate the Army and Navy Depart- ments—The Anniversares—Meeting of the Park Commisstoners—Obituarit ity Poll- tics—The McGrath Outrage—Shocki Cal- amity—A Rellc of Autiquiiy—Fun in Jersey. 4—Europe: ‘The Greek Brigands’ Murders and their Probable Consequences; Papal Decree in the Revised Canons—The State Canais—Aquatics— Cuba: The Undercurrent of Feeliug in Ha- vana—The Cuban League—The Gin and Milk Trouble: The Rev. Mr. Smyth Voted Out by His Congregation—Bil's Signed by the Gov- ernor—Tiie McFarland Trial: Close of the Sut Up for the Defence; McFarland Appe: to His Peers—The “Social Evil” in Bosto! Raid on an Iron-Clad. S—Proceedings in the New York Courts—New York Law Institute—The Death of William Sherlock—Chess Extraordinary—Election of Officers of the Stock Exchange—Fires in April—Meeting of the Board of Police—Founa Dead—Martial Law in Georgia—Financial aud Commercial Reports—Real kstate Transfers. G—Euitoria's: Leading article on The Plebicitum, An Imperial Triamph—Amusement Announce- ments. 7—=Teleraphic News from All Parts of the World: Th Voice of the 8. he Prencn Plebiscitum Vote; People, the Army and the Navy; France Gene- rally Quiet; Barricades in One Quartor of Paris at Midnight and a Reported Chai of erenpa: The International Yacht Race ween Sappho'and Cambria—The Burning Mountains-- Amusements—Personal Inteiligence—Statue to Ben Frankiin—A_ Singular Death— tt and Learning—Stabbing Affray—Basiness jotices. i“ S—Aid to Jewish Fugitives trom Russia—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. 10—New York City News—Juvenile Delinquents in Jersey—Singular Accident—The Mace-Allen Prize Fight—Perils of Prize Fighting 10 Massa- chusetts—The National Game—Cricket—Essex County, N. J., Board of Freeholders—Brooklyn City ‘News—Brooklyn Common Council—A Novelty in Jersey Weddings—Shipping Intelli- gence—Advertisements, 11—Aavertisements. 12—Advertisements. “GirpLiING THE Eartn” By ELgOTRICITY.— ‘We publish a telegram which was forwarded from Calcutta, India, under date of the 28th of April, and printed and published in London at eleven o’clock in the forenoon the same day. “Puck's” work accomplished. Goop For PairapELPata.—It appears that the Philadelphia Southern Steamship line (five steamers) cleared during the last twelve months, over all expenses, some sixty thousand dollars. This is not much, but over all ex- penses, and on the right side of the ledger, it is encouraging. A Fizzim—Senator Saulsbury’s ‘“‘white man’s party” movementin Delaware. A meet- ing was called at Dover to organize the party, but the white men of Delaware, not being frightened by ‘‘the niggers,” failed to respond. “The jig’s up,” as they say in Jersey, and the fifteenth amendment is the ticket. In Great TripuLaTION—The ontside fac- tions of the “young democracy.” The grapes are high and sour, but still these young foxes would like to get into the vineyard ; but they are puzzled how to climb the fence or break it down. In demanding too much they have lost what they had, and they are in a bad way. Tae International Yacur Raoe.—The final preliminaries for the opening of the excit- ing contest between the American yacht Sappho and the English yacht Cambria, in- duced a spirited muster of yachtmen at Cowes, England, yesterday, The yachts were to start at seven o'clock this morning. The weather remained fine last night, with promise of “plenty of wind,” just as yachtmen love to have it. Tuy Hap To Come Down.—Judgment has just been given against a railroad ina case of interest to all travellers on yearly tickets, “A traveller purchased a ticket that entitled him to a hundred rides. He paid, therefore, for one hundred rides; but when he had taken fifty rides he lost his ticket, which was the only evidence he had of having paid his money. ‘The railroad company tried to take advantage of his loss by compelling him to pay again, and he sued for so much money as would pay for the fifty rides yet due, and the railroad company had to come down. Railroads, therefore, haye pot everything their owa way. Rejected communications will not be re- yesterday. fenders had been charged by the troops. Otherwise the city remained quiet and in “order.” ters than one as to how far France can vote without restraint or compulsion. Let any one look at the vote of the navy or the vote of NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. : apes a tt The Plebiscltum—An Imperial Triumph. This morning we publish the latest returns of the vote on the plebiscite, Our telegraphic columns, so far as they relate to France, are, rich, racy and full of suggestion. Sunday, a8 we had taught our readers to expect, was & big'day in France—big, not in special centres only, but all over. It was, in truth, a political @ay. Frenchmen left their homes on Sunday morning, not for the purpose of worshipping God, but for the purpose of deciding under what immediate conditions they were to live. ‘The question to be decided by a “Yes” or ‘‘No” was one which came to every man’s door and almost to every man’s heart, It was, in some How it was Frenchmen knew. Altogether con- But how to make it better or what was to be their imme- To respects, @ life or death question. tented they might not be. diate future Frenchmen could not tell. halt between two opinions they were not per- mitted. ‘*Yes” or “‘No” limited their liberty. Napoleon and bis rule, or somebody else and his rule, or, rather, things as they were and things as they might be, marked the question of the moment, With the facts before us we have no choice but to say thet the French people have decided wisely and well. They have preferred the known to the unknown, the certain to the uncertain, Napoleon the Third to anarchy, As our readers know, we have never doubted the result of the plediscite. That Napoleon was again to win all our readers were taught to believe. We did so write, not because we cared especially for Napoleon or because we specially disliked his enemies, but because we looked at facts and could not be mistaken in their meaning. The ground we did iake stands firm to-day, and facts now before our readers justify our position. On Sunday morning we said that some eight or nine millions of persons all over might vote, but at least two-thirds of that number would go for the Emperor. It now appears that some nine millions did vote, and that more than two-thirds voted in favor of the plebiscite, and, of course, in favor of the present régime. Over seven millions have said “Yes.” Not two millions have said “No.” If this does not mean a Napoleonic triumph we know not what could constitute the same. From the antecedents of the Em- peror, and considering the wonderful and far- reaching power which he now can wield, we felt convinced that he knew what he was doing, and that what he was doing he was doing deliberately and with no uncertain knowledge of the result. In such ‘shape facts are before us and in such shape we must accept them. Napoleon the Third a fourth time is proclaimed the elect of France, and by a majority so overwhelming that his enemies inside as well as outside of the empire must feel that opposition is vain and useless, The large cities, so far as we know the facts, have voted ‘‘No.” But this is only what was to be expected. Cities like Paris and Marseilles and Lyons are the hot- beds of disaffection, of discontent, of rebellion, But in France, as in Great Britain and as in the United States, the conservatism of the rural districts qualifies or checks the radicalism of the cities. In the cities and the larger towns the Emperor has lost, but in the rural districts and among the peasantry the Emperor has won. Seven millions or eight millions against two make matters plain and constitute a great vic- tory. Cuble telegrams dated in Paris at mid- night report that barricades had been thrown up at one point in the city during the evening It is also reported that their de- The question has been raised in more quar- certain military headquarters and he will find it difficult to say that liberty has been denied the people at the polling booths. We cannot deny that the vote has been managed more in the interest of the Emperor than in the inte- rest of his enemies; for every official in every city, in every township, in every village, from the highest to the lowest, is more or less a creature of the empire. But while we make this admission we cannot deny—no one can deny—that proof is wanted to con- vince either of restraint or of compul- sion. The Emperor desires to rule as the elected chief of his péople, not asausurper. His ambition goes beyond him- self. He thinks of his son and of his dynasty. On this last occasion, therefore, unless we greatly mistake, it will be found that the Em- | peror has tested France to the core, and that he has now good reason to take it for granted that France is with him and with his family. The French people, who are naturally fond of show, especially of that kind of show which comes of military success, have not forgotten the first empire, or the First Consul, or the Bonaparte name. A Bonaparte once saved them and, for a time, gave them glory; such glory as no people have enjoyed in many cen- turies, and in spite of many faults and many failures the name of Bonaparte is dear to the unsophisticated heart of France. That heart beats in the country, not in the city; hence the Napoleonic triumph. It is our opinion that this vote will establish the peace of Europe and of the world, and that, if only the life of the Emperor is spared, it will give a powerful impulse to everything that constitutes modern progress. French mal- contents Will find themselves more impotent, and Frenchmen, in consequence, will enjoy more liberty. The crowning of the edifice will not be found incompatible with the improvement of waste land, with the multipli- cation of railroads and telegraphs, with the extension of commercial relationships, with the communication of noble and generous impulses to Europe, with the hastening on of the unification of mankind. Napoteon, like ourselves, has faith in progress. If he is spared, and if he uses this fresh victory wisely, he may lay the foundations of a dynasty which will long be a blessing and which will long defy its enemies. History may yet be com- pelled to give Napoleon the Third a grander place than that of Augustus Cesar. Latest Fentan News From SAN FRran- cis00—That the Menian meeting in that city was @ great success, As to what it was for, where they are going and how they are to get there. we bave no information. What ie a Nation Without a Navy? The aim of every civilized nation is great- ness and a desire to outétrip other nations in power. In this respect nations differ but little from individuals, who, no matter how comfort- ablé and happy they may be on comparatively small means, are never satisfied until they are on an equality if not ahead of the society sround them., When s nation has made itself great in commerce, in railroads, in public buildings, in literature, and in the arts, it has the elements of strength ; but if it has no mili- tary or naval power, it cannot be respected like other nations of equal pretensions. Its citizens having amassed wealth flock to for- eign parts, as ours do now to the continent of Europe, to spend among strangers a portion of the money they have accumulated. Although they may be treated with courtesy, on account of their wealth, they find that there is a cer- tain kind of deference they do not receive— viz., that accorded to representatives of a na- tion not powerful only on account of the ele- ments above mentioned, but on account of its fighting or aggressive power, which will always command respect in all parts of the world. Whatever may be our military power—and we have had proof of its greatness—it does not extend beyond our own shores. It is manifest that our power is more than ample to protect us from invasion, and we know that any foes would but leave their bones to bleach upon our shores. This fact is not, however, felt beyond the limits of our own country. Foreigness abroad see nothing that indicates the actual power of the United States. They get sight of our national vessels so seldom that they na- turally infer that we are no naval Power at all, and judge that, no matter how large an army we can raise, it would be of little utility against any other country without a navy to cover and protect it. Mexico can raise large armies, yet what nation respects or fears her, for she has no navy? What would the army of England be without her navy? No one would fear it. What hordes of soldiers the Chinese and Japanese can raise, yet who fears them? And how easily a few heavy ships of the European’ Powers keep the naturally lawless authorities of those nations in subjection. While the flag of England or of France is in sight on those Asiatic coasts there is no fear of an outrage being committed on the subjects of either Power, while the prestige of their armies car- ries no weight whatever, because it is known that they cannot reach those shores without great trouble and vast expense, and would then be opposed by immensely superior num- bers. . It is, then, after all, a navy that indicates the power of a nation abroad. No nation can be great that is not powerful in commerce, agriculture, railroads, literature and the arts, for in all these lie the resources from which a large navy springs. We have all these resources, but yet we are not a powerful nation in the actual meaning of the term; for we have not the quality of self-protection. We cannot at a moment's notice redress an injury or demand reperation for an injustice to our citizens who may be oppressed abroad. We have resources which-in time would enable us to take measures to redeem our honor, but it would require so long to do it that the merit would all be lost. In the meantime we should suffer in the estimation of the world asa man would in the estimation of society who spends a year practising with a pistol before chal- lenging @ person for a palpable insult. When British subjects were imprisoned and ill-treated in Abyssinia Great Britain never stopped to count the cost. She had the power already at command, and it cost her but little more to put it in motion than to keep it lying idle, and she at once proceeded to relieve her subjects, who but for this timely aid would have fallen victims to the brutality of a savage ruler. What would the United States have done under similar circumstances? We should have talked bombshells and grapeshot, and after getting a few canal boats ready and spend- ing a year in preparation we should have set- tled down to the conviction that we should not make a demand that we were not capable of enforcing. We are pretty much in that condition now. Was there ever a nation that had greater grounds of complaint against an- other than we have against England? She inflicted on us the greatest injury she possibly could. She destroyed our commerce and de- prived us of one of the great sources of na- tional wealth. She sent her fleets upon our coast during the rebellion to protect her sub- jects and to see that we complied strictly with all the laws of blockade, and that it was not like many of her own blockades, a ‘‘paper” affair. It was humiliating to us to see the heavy ships of our ancient enemy sailing in among our extemporized men-of-war, instruct- ing usin our duties and cautioning us how we invaded any of the rights of the British lion. Here was England looking after her commerce—her great source of power. Law- less as the business was in which her commer- cial vessels were engaged, England was true to her traditional policy of protecting them at all hazards. They were only permitted to be molested in cases where their violation of all law’ was so palpable that England herself, from whom the laws emanated, could not interfere without drawing down upon herself the reproaches of all mankind. She did, however, protect and encourage her commerce in its efforts to hefp the rebellion, and she also brought her power to bear in protecting the rebel cruisers when they were assisting her by destroying our commerce. Had we had a navy of suitable vessels during the rebellion our commerce, which once equalled that of England, would now have been one-third greater than it was, for we should have been not only able to shut the Alabamas up in foreign ports and catch them if they ventured to emerge from their shelter, but we could\have said to England Stop this piracy or we will make reprisals on your comuierce, which we have the power to do.” We all know how much English merchants dread a war with this country. They are aware, from the results of the Alabama’s cruise, what damage twenty such vessels could inflict upon their property if let loose upon it, They know how their manufactories would be crushed if our custom was taken from them during a three years’ war, which would inflict such damage as would result in 9 revolution in England, But England, knowing her strength and our inability to do her injury for want of a respectable gayal force, will pugh matters to \ \ 5 taking any steps to vindicate our honor. as a nation, ‘ Let us, then, have a navy, and we shall see, England under another character. She ‘will willingly divide the commerce of the world with us when she’ finde us in « position to maintain our rights, When we are in that condition we can justly claim the title of a) great nation, but that can only be when we’ have the necessary fighting power afloat, Affairs in Cuba. 0 Our late letters from Havana show that, troubles are on the increase throughout the island of Cubs. Among the volunteers there | is a growing feeling of dislike to Captain Gen- | eral De Rodas, and there appears an evident disposition on their part to shape the course | of events throughout the/country so that: it | shall run in channels to suit themselves. Were | they satisfled they possessed the power it is | questionable whether they would continue to acknowledge the supremacy of the mother country. The volunteers of Cuba at this day are as insubordinate to Spanish authority as they dare be, and as revolutionary as the Cubans who are now in rebellion in the field, They show this in their act of threatening vio- lence to Don José M. Diaz, who has been sent from Spain to supersede the present political Governor of Havana, Lopez Roberts. The present incumbent is all that can be desired by the Havana volunteers, and hence their opposi- tion to Diaz. Valmaseda, the particular pet of the army, it is rumored, will also be sent home, and thus a dangerous man and an ambi- tlous aspirant for the highest post on the island will be put out of the way. The news also comes to us from our correspondent in Havana that De Rodas’ position is not an enviable one, and that’ his stay at Puerto Principe may be rendered longer than he anticipated. Havana during his absence in the Central Department has been made the rendezvous for plotters and conspirators with objects in view, it is thought, not at all friendly to Spain, and decidedly hostile to De Rodas. The failure of the home government to effectually suppress the revo- lution is an experience which the volunteers now fully recognize. Possibly believing that the United States may yet secure by purchase the island of Cuba, these volunteers, actuated by mercenary motives, are now endeavoring to show their power, in order that they may put money in their purses. As their acts in the past and present have been cruel, barbarous and’ bloody, so their aspirations looking to the future are mean, mercenary and con- temptible. It should be borne in mind, how- ever, that the volunteers and those who endorse them are but a small minority of the natives of the island. At the beginning of the revolution they threw themselves on ‘the side of Spain, and in ferocity they out- Spaniard the Spaniards, Seeing the weakness of the government with. which they at first cast their fortunes, they now seek to embarrass it. In this they prove themselves traitors at heart, unworthy of confidence, respect or esteem. Be the day far off or near at hand, Cuba must eventually become part of this republic, and when that day arrives the Cuban people may feelassured that their rights will be duly and fully acknowledged. Srvautar Facts is Reaarp To Foreien Inocration.—It is not a little singular fact in regard to the present. tide of foreign immigration to this country that it does not altogether flow towards the West and South, but’ as far up as our north- eastern boundary, in Aroostook county, State of Maine. While our South Curolina papers contain reports of a convention in Columbia to facilitate foreign immigration to that State, the Maine newspapers have opened their columns to a discussion of a proposition to introduce Scandinavian immigrants under very favorable auspices into Aroostook county—the dense lumber region of the State. Verily, this is a great country! If we keep going on at the rate we have for the past few years the United States will be the abode of the flower of all the nations of the earth—Christian, Pagan, Jew, Irish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Hottentot, Scandinavian—and it will not be surprising if the lost tribes of Israel should turn up some fine morning, if a branch of them has not already reached our charitable institutions on Ward's Island. Tue Howard Investication.—To those who know General Howard and his history it sounds strangely to see from day to day the report of an investigation which seems to pre- sume that he has misapplied government money entrusted to his keeping. All this, however, is made clear by the simple explana- tion that this investigation is upon charges trumped up against a good man and a good soldier by private malice, these charges having only among Congressmen the special counte- nance of a member whose name does not lend them strength. Howard, however, will not plead any statute of limitations. Tne Boarp or Exoisk Commissioners in Brooklyn is a very considerate body. An injured gentleman who was arrested on Sun- day night for keeping his bar open called upon them yesterday to protect him from any further interference, and the Board, with an eye probably to the fact that the outraged individual isa democratic politician of local influence, immediately resolved to request the Police Commissioners hereafter to make no } arrests for violation of the law, but merely to report such cases. So the law has this terrible penalty alone attached to its violation in our sister city—if a man sells liquor on Sunday, why, the police will tell on him. Gerrine Usep To It.—The Augusta (Geor- gia) Constitutionalist of the 1st inst. says:— “Three colored men yesterday morning, armed with first class tickets from New Orleans to New York, claimed and were admitted to seats in the first clays passenger coach on the outgoing eight o’clogk morning train of the South Carolina railroad.” The South is evi- dently becoming reconciled to the fifteenth amendment, and old citizens are sensibly looking after the vote of Pompey. A Happy Famtty—The Tammany conven- tion yesterday for the nomination of local judges. To-night the fifteen candidates for aldermen will be nominated. Let: the best men be selected. Set none but ‘king pins” up in this democratic bowling alley. | bar, which the experience of the bench, it is the verge of war without the fear of our| ‘The Tammany Judiciary Nominations. Congrosr—A Protective Reveauo The Tammany Convention which met at the Wigwam yesterday to make nominations for the spring elections seemed to have been governed with » good deal. of discretion by the leaders of the party who, within the walls of Tammany, wear the and the dindem of power. In the for the additional Judges they have done well, In the postpone- ment of the nomination of Alder_.on they have done better. Precipitanoy in such a case might be injurious. It s always wise to think over any action of this kind, to weigh’and balance it a little, where popular opinion is. in doubt ‘ns to what course may guide it at the: fiolls, Therefore it was good policy in the Tammany directors to take time for reflection on the Aldermanic ticket. The public are somewhgt anxious to know whether the old class'of politicians are to. be offered for their suffrages, as heretofore, or whether the several respectable citizens of good position and having some reputation for integrity to sustain, who, it is said, are willing to run if nominated, shall find a place in the democratic ticket. The democratic party is now purified. The rough but wildly ambitious parts of it have been snubbed; but it may be said that the conquest was followed up ina kindly and good natured temper, which did not preclude the return of some of the mistaken lambs to the fold. It is to be expected that Tammany will give us decent nominations for Aldermen— such names as those outside of the party lines can vote for and thus strengthen the Tammany rule. Anything less than this will hardly he endured by the public. Nothing short of it can save the supremacy of the old democracy. With time for thought, which the Convention so sagaciously resolved upon, we may hope for a good ticket, composed of reputable citizens, i The selection of names adopted yesterday at Tammany for Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and the Marine Court are unexception- able. Mr, Hamilton W. Robinson is a lawyer of known brilliant ability. Mr. Daly, though young, has made a position for himself at the to be hoped, will strengthen. Mr. Larremore has not been at the head of the Board of Public Education so long without impressing the public with a sense of his capacity and his integrity. The names on the ticket for Judges of the Marine Court are not unknown in the legal walks of life, and may probably stand on alevel with any candidates pre- sented on the other tickets. We presume that the Tammany men knew what they were doing when they decided upon these names, and the people will have to take them as the best that could be offered by the democratic party which represents the ancient order. Vermont This Day i» Called to the Rescue on Woman Suffrage. The people of Vermont elect a convention this day which will be empowered to establish or reject certain proposed amendments to the State constitution, including woman suffrage. Each town or towship elects one delegate to the convention, and only four hours are given the people in which to make their election. The Vermont ladies, we are sorry to hear, evince no great interest in their suffrage amendment. In fact, it is said they don’t care a button whether it is voted up or down, but are said to be satisfied with the suffrage limited to “‘my old man and the boys.” Still, in some parts of the State the women’s rights women have been making a considerable fuss on the stump and have been stirring up the old fogies with their new sensation. It is given out that in the convention Henry Ward Beecher and George William Curtis, and perhaps Wendell Phillips and Lucy Stone will appear as advo- cates for the proposed woman's rights amend- ment. The result willbe important as show- ing the drift of the republican party on this important question; for, though it is not made areguiar party affair, the republicans will undoubtedly control the convention, Tue Prize Ficuters AND New Or- LEANS AUTHORITIES.—To-day will come off near New Orleans the greatest recent event among prize fighters this side the Atlantic, in the battle between Mace and Allen, From our despatch elsewhere it will be noted that the ‘fistic heroes have at Jast found a region that is really a land of promise for their contests—a land in which fighting is free, in which all the people sympathize with them, and in which the police is not only not adverse, but lends its aid to secure good order. Fifty policemen are de- tailed to keep the peace near the ring in which the gladiators are to pound one another. . This hasa sound of what is called the ‘‘good old times.” Evidently the prize fighters should cultivate more intimate relations with Louisiana. A Burt sy THe Horve.—A Western paper states that Senators Dick Yates and Zach Chandler are both anxious to command the Big Horn expedition—a northwestern land speculating crusade—and maliciously asserts that ‘the expedition itself they care nothing about, but they must have the horn.” This trifling with Senatorial dignitaries is very unseemly, and should not be tolerated by the respectable press. In the instances referred to it will probably appear that neither of the gentlemen named ever finds himself in a dilemma about taking any sort of a horn, WiszR THAN SoLomon.—Here is a startling creature, called Pullman, who says openly in the pulpit that one book of the Bible is “‘full of lies.” If this is the way the Bible is treated in the churches we can hardly wonder that it should be regarded with lessening respect in some other places. The book that the awfully truthful Pullman pushes at is the Book of Ec- clesiastes, the wisest, noblest, finest piece of poetical philosophy between the covers of the wonderful volume. Solomon's words are those of the mature thinker, and Pullman's criticism is the cackling of a green gosling. Cana Man Be Trigp twice for the same offence where his life is in jeopardy ? It seems so. The Reverend Mr. Smyth, who took gin and milk, and thereby probably incurred great risk of syncope or something else that might have jeopardized hislife, having been tried once and let off with a rebuke, has now been tried again by an informal meeting of sixty mem- bers. of hia congregation and declared out of the Church. . This proceeding is more unor- thodox. than. the original sin which called it forth. ‘ BRP Liane SES NS SE Tarif. The Educational Bureau, Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate yes- terday introduced ‘a bill to reduce taxation, as he facetiously termed it, It proposes. to raise all the governmental revenue by a tariff, which, being reasonable enough to attract the numerous imports that would be required under the circumstances to support the govern- ment, shall also be high to protect all our manufactures. He thonght that if this object was obtained direct taxation would be dispensed witht; and there is no doubt of the’ fact. The one thing needful: to ‘free everybody but importors from pay- Ing. tribute to Uncle Sam is to incor- Porate s securely protective tariff into « ‘parely revenue tariff—a fusion, as incongru- ous as the famous combination of gin and milk that went against the stomachs of « full board of Presbyterian, clergymen, The Legis- lative Appropriation bill came up and s lengthy debate ensued on a proposition to ma- terlally reduce the appropriation for the Bureau of Education. It was stated by strong republicans during the debate that the Bureau was an unrepublican attempt to centralize educational interests, and the proposition seems a very plausible one. It is an offshoot of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and, in fact, about all that remains of that national eleemosynary con- cern, and it seems to be a little late to object to it on grounds of tendency to centralization when so many other concerns that have so long flourished are open to the same objection. But the point is, nevertheless, well taken. The members of the House did the usual full day’s work yesterday with unusual rapid- ity.. They met and immediately adjourned. General: Butler, having disposed of his law ‘business in Massachusetts, has returned to his seat, and his Reconstruction Committee aro now at leisure to go on with the Georgia bill, which, with Butler's aid, they will endeavor to make more obnoxious than ever. The Travellers’ Club of New York. The Travellers’ Club of this city had its annual dinner on Saturday evening, at tho Club House, on Fifth avenue, at which about sixty members and guests enjoyed a sumptu- ous entertainment. There is nothing of a political, partisan or local character in this club, as its name implies, and it is established for the purpose of promoting the social and intellectual intercourse of travellers and lite- rary men, both of our own country and those who may come from abroad. . It is a noble object, and one calculated to bring together the prominent intellectual men of the world, as well as to diffuse intelligence among the people. In London the Travellers’ Club has attained a position of great eminence and usefulness. Every distinguished traveller meets there with a cordial reception, and, whatever his nationality may be, he feels that he is not a stranger. He finds there a warm greeting, and is at home with congenial spirits. The Travellers’ Club of New York, though in its infancy, aims at the same excellent object. The lamented Ed- ward E. Danbar was the prime mover in the organization of the club. The Hon. Charles D. Poston has now taken his place. Among the distinguished men who are enrolied as members are Professor Louis Agassiz, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Sir Samuel Baker, of London; M. Michel Chevalier, Senator of France; Professor Raphael Pumpelly, the Rev. J. C. Fletcher, Dr. Isaac I. Hayes and others. New York is destined to become not only the centre of this republic and Continent, but of the world, and the Travellers’ Club should embrace the great explorers, travellers and literary men of all countries. This is what those having control of it should aim at. This is the kind of insti- tution the great metropolis of America should have, Our own travellers and literary men would then be able to reciprocate the hospitality ex- tended to them abroad, and to take that pro- minence in the world to which they should aspire. Our citizens of prominence, influence, wealth, and particularly those of a high intel- lectual character, should support this admi- rable club and make it worthy of New York and the country. SonEMA VERSUS SACHEM. firmed that the Pope’s late ‘* schema” ply another way of spelling ‘‘sachem”—a word with which our readers are, of course, very fami- liar. So far as a Tammany sachem is con- cerned, a young democrat thinks it ought to be spelled ‘‘schemer ”—and a very adroit one at that. “Tur Nosie Savace.”—General Sheri- dan’s way of dealing with the ‘noble savage” makes him a lion among the ‘‘white folks” of Wyoming and Montana, who at. the same time regard the gentle Quaker Peace Commission- ers as ‘old grannies.” Sheridan deals with the noble red man as he finds him, in his neck- lace of scalps, a most ignoble savage, while the humanitarians who denounce ‘“‘Little Phil” no doubt think that every Indian is sort of Hiawatha spouting poetry. The simple truth is, however, that these Western Indians will have to be located to work or they will be killed off. An Unrgconstrvcrep Fetrow.—They had an editor lately of the Memphis Avalanche who was compelled to retire by the proprietors of the paper because he would not believe in the deluge, and he says in his farewell address that he sticks to the old democratic party and that “‘it stands now as it stood more than fifty years ago, the steadfast advocate of the integ- rity of State sovereignty.” This old line son of chivairy ought to join that famous Arkansas confederate who thus defined his position: — A rebel from the Jump, boys, 1 was and still lam; And I won't be reconstru 1, And I don’t care @ damn, SPEDE MEET ORNIEE Tue Tarp Suxpay—A ‘Goop Rrport.— Evidently Superintendent Jourdan has the case of Sunday rumeelling well in hand and can suppress it to order. The record of arrests for last Sunday indicates a quiet, orderly, sober day—a great improvement over the two Sundays that went before it since we became subject to the new Excise law. A Litre SevrisniIt being proposed by some Cincinnati people to spend a million of dollars in building a new opera house, thr Louisville Courier-Journal thinks “they hl better spend twice the amount in movhg away from there.” And go to Louisyile ? That would te getting out of the frying pat into the fire. y