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6 Duty of te Government. The news from Utah shows that the Mor- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, @u opportunity to defy the United States gov- ernment. We learn that the Mormon autho- rities, as they are called in the despatch, dur- All business or news letter and telegraphic | ing a recess of Justice Wilson's court, at Salt despatches must be addressed New York | Lake City, on Wednesday, closed the house Hera.p. against him and the United States Marshal and refused to allow the Judge to continue bis or and packages should be properly | citing, It is sald, howover, that. efter con- 4 sultation they surrendered the hall to the pos- Rejected communications will not be re- | session of the court. This is not the first time that these fanatical people have shown their teeth to the United States government. Every -No. 14 | one will remember the incipient rebellion of a = | the Mormons during the Pierce administra- tion, when General Sidney Johnson was sent out with a large force and at great cost to en- force the laws. It is pretty well known, Volume XXXV., AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d between Sth and 6th ave.— Fox Vkusus Goosr—Lost ORK. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street, — THE LANCERS too, that several ‘of the Indian wars yrieret AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Fnou- | have been fomented by these people r ad out of hostility to: the government pRRENCH THEATRE, Idtn at, and 6m av.—Pot 4xD | and people of the United States, and with a view of making a profit out of the difficulties. How often, also, have the Mormon leaders denounced the government and threatened resistance to the extent of civil war. Their inflammatory speeches and newspaper articles, in connection with open resistance to the authority of the government, would. have ae GARDEN, Broadway—Tuz Drama or Mos- | brought down the strong hand of power upon Seiad them in other civilized countries. But the FE Pa Re Mn government at Washington has been extremely moderate, and although the party now in power declared in its platform long ago that ‘those twin relics of barbarism, slavery and Mor- monism” must be destroyed, that party seema to have been ‘afraid of facing the difficulty with regard to the latter. Slavery was abolished through the war, but Mormonism has continued to flourish, and is more deeply rooted to day than ever, Opportunely with this news of the rebellious attitude of the Mormoas at Salt Lake, and almost at the same moment of time, Mr. Cragin, of New Hampshire, made a speech in Congress denouncing the barbarism of polygamy and other crimes in Utah, and urging the passage of the bill now pending to execute the laws in that Territory. Mr, Cragin told the republican party that its mission was not completed, and would not be till Mormonism disappeared as we'l aa slavery. The law of 1862 prohibiting polygamy and making it a crime is a dead letter, he said, because the courts in Utah had no power to enforce it. He boldly declared that Uiah is now a perfect pandemonium of debauchery and crime; that ignorant and deluded women were entized there and taught, under the guise of religion, that polygamy was a sacred institution which would make them queeus in heaven, He exposed their vile customs, and showed that the women are untappy, though they were afraid to speak; that, in fact, both they and the mass of the common moa were under the most fiighiful despotism. He re- erred to the horrors of the Mountain Meadow massacre in 1857 and to other outrages, and said truly that a large part of these Mormons, who cursed and cofied the United States, were ignorant, unnaturalized foreigners. This bill of indictment is too true, and it behooves Con- gress to crush out the evil before it acquires groater strength and spreads farther, It is unnecessary to go into the history, practices and doctriaes of Mormonism. They are well knowa, The existence of such a community as these Mormons, numbering over a hundred thousand souls,’ probably, in the midst of a great civilized country, is a sur- prising anomaly and a diserace to the United States. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—GRanD VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEAT! Broadway.—Tux SoLeme tet) ‘RE, ray. Fare OnE witn GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Bight sod stcrar TWELVE TeMrrations, "2's Avenue and WOOM'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERI - ner Thirtzeh s.—Matinee daily. Pectormunae creer eshte: RB SOLUTAIRE—LION Ke ACADEMY OF MUSIC “s LACADEMY OF MUSIC, Ith street—Irattan Orrna— MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK TH “ RENT DAY—A THOUSAND MILLINERE ee? DTOOklya. THEATRE COMIQI’ — Bcd penis VE. $14 Broadway.—Comto Vooar- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, of Vouatiss, NZGkO MINSTRELSY, &C. eT naka hi BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, 1 sSRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, No, 720 _ Tux BuAck Statur—-UNnuracu BLoxpee nt" HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUS! OIRKL—PaNonama, Pron: rooklyn.-HoOLRY’s MIN- 3 OF AMERICA, &c. AL PARK GARD Tarovoge Tuomas’ 7th av. between Sth and PoruLae Concerns. CE! Seth sts. NeW YORK Mi Bei AND ory Eviday, May 20, BUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— f the Postal 1 ruc tou onal Bear Garden in st ful Over the Diplos Appropriation Bil; New Seieme for ing the Pubile Debt. maets “otha,” Iti Plot, Seo tant Corseqaén os; Th Prince of Wares Gom of Consele: as in America; Regie'de Plot— na Over the Acton ates! Reports from is—Tie Pearl Stree: of the Yacht ed Sta War vorgery Case— Society-—Horitole jaius—aia, Biast- Socre neni in Hava a Grand Jury; 1 pective Policy of the mouubor Work to wl: Way of Solv- om—Meeting of the ¢ Heancs-ey Bribe- -AlcXander Will U, Anu be.ore Surrogaie ue Stabbing Al- gs The adi on Avenue + Leading Ar Freneh Nadou 3.1m Paris.t T..rone Engiish Attack « A ident io the The waole system is in conflict with the laws of nature, religion, Christianity, the ideas of the civilized world and morality. It leads to debauchery and pretends to sanctify it by the most gross perversion of reli But its influence extends beyond the limits of Utah or of the Mormon communities, The free love societies scattered about in different paris of the country, and the free love ideas which are tending to sap the foundations of the family relations and of morals, gain their strength in a great measure from the flourish- ing existence of Mormonism. Iycorant people, seeing a community of polygamists 3 AND Crzam.—Mrs. President | grow in wealth and power, undisturbed by the 2 gave a grand Innch and strawberry | government, are led to imagine there is some- festival at the White House on Tuesday afier- | thing good in it, or, at least, that there is | 7 —Business Notices. of 1870 at w Yors and News—Keal mm Can- klyn Cours to a Yhe Grasshopper Pest in nis. Uta —Aave: ciser 10 =Wah ngtoa (conte N tan Ald: goon last, which may be considered as ofl- | no great harm in it, The lewd and tially inaugurating the strawberry season in | weak, who only study the gratifica- Washington. tion of their own passions, - embrace Mormonism. This infamous staia on our civili- zation and country has spread and been per- petuated through the grossest ignorance and vilest passions. Jt is a cancerous ulcer in the body of society, and uniess cut out must prove more dangerous than it has been. Now is the time to apply a remedy, and the government wili be derelict in duty if it does not make the application at once. Agreat deal has been said about tho diffi- culties in the way of extinguishing Mormonism, and no doubt there are difficulties. But they are not so great as they will be if the evil is permitted to conti Every year adds to them by the increase of the Mormon popula- tion and their wealth, Rolenttess persecution would only make these people martyrs, and cause, probably, a great deal of bloodshed. As a Territory the government has complete con- trol over Utah, even in the mattor of marriage and the family relation. A positive law, there- fore, against polygamy can and ought to be enforced. Such a law may be made, too, that cannot be evaded. Though there may be some difficulty at first in defining the status of the women and children under Brigham Young's polygamous system, this can be overcome by wise laws. A suflicient force of United States officials—backed, if necessary, by the army—to carry out the laws in Utah will lead to considerable expense ; but the first cost will A Freresie Exrranation.—An evening out- side republican contemporary says that ‘‘with the eleciion of Fenton to the United States Senate commenced the downfall” of the repub- lican party in this State, and that ‘General Grant hag helped to demoralize it by his federal appointments.” This sounds like the venerable Thuriow Weed; but we were of the opinion that he had settled his accounts with Fenton and had retired from the Morgan firm, Goop News ror tax Lapies.—Our news telegrams from China, forwarded by way of Bombay, Indio, and throngh the Atlantic cable from England, give most flatiering and cheer- ing accounts of the prospect of the tea and silk crops in the empire. This is glorious news for the ladies. Jt may have.the effect of | revolutionizing the aspect of the woman's rights question, Plenty of tea and cheap silks may work wonders. + Somm Distanog From DosLiy.— » Cell, & very smart-looking Bes The & uihe Fenian journal, started at Charleston, S. C., advocates th com ment of the Irish Winnaipeg and the prosecution by regular approaches, to the ? The n is moving for r is athand and the “ould Canadian Gr Winni The Mormons Showing . Their Tooth—Tue | that ho fs an ontecprising Franch Amorloan, with such a harmonious blending in his veins of the blood of the Latin race and the African mons are rebellious at heart and only wait tor | that be wonld readily pass for a first class Mexican, Engaged too, as he iy, in the sasa- fras oil business at Richmond, and in the real estate business in Chicago, he ought to get on in the world, The Troubles of the Sultan. The Fastern question, obscured for a mo- ment by the dust and smoke of the great po- litical contest in France, has’ nover receded from its commanding position, and now begins to glow like a fiery metoor in the southern sky as the clouds of the plebiscitum roll away from the north, Ever since the assemblage of crowned heads and celebrities from all parts of the world to honor the inauguration of the Suez Canal gave tho Egyptian Khedive moro historical prominence and more striking iden- tification with modern progress than his master, the Sultan has been in a most uneasy state of mind. Himself a sagacious and enlightened Prince, as fully possessed of the spirit of the time as the peculiarity of Oriental training, of Ottoman law and the Mohammodan religion admit, he is of all men tho bost situated to comprehend the whole significance of his Viceroy’s attitude and to estimate aright the dangers to which his own suzerainty is ex- posed, should Egypt be allowed to assert even a quasi independence, Henoe the prompt and emphatic manner in which be has compelled his great vaasal to renounce even the appear- ance of separate negotiation with the great European Powers, and hence, too, the decided modifications that he has made ia the project of judiciary reform brought by the Egyptian envoy Nubar Pacha to Constantinople and thence conveyed by the sama personage to Paris, where tho further negotiations are to be conducted, ‘To this susceptibility of the Grand Signor the Viceroy yielded, apparently, at once; but it has now bean discovered that he, in the meanwhile, was quietly endeavoring to raise a private loan of severai millions of dollars. This revelation bas led to a keen and jealous inquiry, and the latter has elicited no less important information, loudly asserted in the European journals, that @ secret correspondence has been going on for some time between the Czar and the Egyptian Khedive. Its purport is that the former shell recognize the royalty of the latter immediately after be shall have declared his indepondence. Rumor had it that thetwo dignitaries were to meet at Odessa, but, owing to the publicity given to this state- ment, the place of interview has since been changed to the Baths of Aix—an ominous name for the parties against whom the con- ference may be directed. a Singe misfortunes never come singly, but by troops and sometimes in battalioas, the Grand Turk, as he looks forth over the gar- dens and grovos of the seragtio, sees the clonds gathering in upon him toward the East as well as the West, and on the North as well asin the South. The Bulgarian difficulty, in which tho Greek patriarch refuses to recognize the Suitan’s firman establishing » new Bulgar- ian church ; the Armenian Catholic trouble, in which the Turkish law and Papal authority are brougit iato direct collision, and the Roumanian dispute over the attempt of Prince Charles to issue gold and silver eoia as well as national bank bilis stamped with bis own effigy, form a budget of complications that might well perplex aless phiegmatic ruler. Of course, the circumstantial evidence is strong that these annoyances, coming as they | do simultaneously and at so very peculiara juncture of time and circumstance, are not merely the work of chance, There are long heads and strong hands behind the curtain of diplomacy which will rise presently, no doubt, upona drama the magnificent. arena of which wil! extend from the glittering shores of the Golden Horn to the heights of Lebanon on the one hand and to the sandy area of the Nile pyramids oa the other. But the pres- ent Commander of the Faithful, with ali the splendid tastes of Suleiman the Magnificent, bas also much of that monarctis astuteness and martial gallantry. He has forty millions of a population, twenty-two millions of whom are fenatical Mohammedans, at his back. He has five hundred thousand disciplined troops, about one hundred ships of war, manned by thirty thousand seamen and carrying four thousand five hundred guas, ready for almost {mmediate use, and controls the resources of anempire whose recuperative force has re+ peatedly astonished Western Europe when it was supposed to be utterly exhausted. Persia, bowever, has been lhobnobbing with the Czar, and her proximity to the Caspian Sea makes hera very dangerous if hostile neighbor to ‘Tur Muscovite power already overshadows Turkestan and Bokhara, and its predominance there would amount toa flank movement on Persia suflicient to impel the latter feeble Power in the line of Russian policy. The English, indeed, are present in Afghanistan and Beloochistan, adjoining the Persian fron- tier, but itis a question whether the slightest in- terference on their part in that direction would not precipitate French action in Egypt and Syria, Ina word, while all eyes have been turned to Paris, the Sultan feels thatin Con- stantinople are accumulating the elements of a%struggle that is presently to shake the whole Bastern world, involving a greater variety of nationalities, tongues and creeds than have been fused together in the crucible of war since the days of the Crusades, Se ap a er Tae Prince Imeeriat or Franoz has had a fall from a velocipede. It resulted in a sprained ankle, a first painful life incident for the youth, but one which will count for no- thing in the experiences of bis father, Doocrorine tHe INDIAN IN New Yorr.— Now we are clearly organizing a chorus of Indian shriekers. Just as we used to be deat- Seen short. be the least. The railroads and telegraph and the pressure of the Gentile population, as the Spain still bogs for a king. What miserable | Mormons call it, in and around Utah, will aid i the government very much in extirpating the baubles the Spanish throne and crown must be! . Every royal family in Europe that has hada | monstrous social evil. We call upon Congress, priuce to spare has been approached on the sub- | therefore, to act at once, and upon the adminis- ject, but in every instance the answer has been tration to work vigorously, for the removal of “Away with them.” Yesterday we were told | this last of the twin relics of barbarism on that Espartero was in favor, To-day we learn | American soil. that, having given up all hope of # prince, | Au R Spain is SzrRavo AND THE Spanish THRoNE.— —The mistake has gone abroad ded between Espartero and Ser- | that the daughter of the famous oyster cook rano. Espartero, as he himself has said, is | and American citizen of African descent, too old. Serrano has done so well as regent | George T. Downing, the young lady recently that we cannot refuse him our vote. Ifa king | married at Washington, has a white man for must be Lad let it be Serrano. her lord and servant, It appears, however, ened by the freedom shriekers when the nigger was the great topic—as all the unoccupied old ladies who do the humanitarian gabble gave their attention to that man and brother—so now it is all Indian and philanthropy, and the barbarism of our conduct nationally, Exactly the same clas of people take up all the isms and grind the monotonous tune of agilation; and it is an intellectual satisfaction to see that so vigorous, clear and competent a thinker as General Sherman has proved himself to be regards them with contempt, and does not care to conceal it, Sherman was right. The pro- per place for these people to study the Indian ia on the Plains, See en EDS REI BES IE SO A IS a A ae NE TS RE ERED SOR eS Ga NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, — —$ KF The International Gbaunel Race. ‘The splendid victory of the Sappho is not palatable to all on the other side, ‘The Lon- don Times concedes that there is probably “no schooner in England that ‘can sail with the American yacht Sappho ;” and this, whether or no it be correct, is at least a remarkable admission; but, aside from thie, all the expressions of the English journals seem distinguished for mistaken views of the subject and a questionable spirit, The Sappho, further saya the Times, was “handled by an English captain and a crew under his personal direction.” This grasfitous misstato- meat is corrected in our special despateh, given elsewhere; but the putting forth of such a statement, as if in mitigation of the disgrace of defeat, ia pitifully characteristic of a spirit that bas not the manliness to face its fortune fairly. What a poor little grain of comtort will sometimes satisfy our burly cousin! Ex- actly how much better would he fee! if this story wero true, and if he could wrest from our hardy lads some of the glory of this vio- tory by showing that Englishmen are better sailors than shipbuilders—that an Amecican boat is so good that even Englishmen can win in one though they cannot win in those they build themselves, It will be observed that the last of the three races was much the fairest for the Sappho in its conditions, inasmuch as it was a race that within a distance of sixty miles gave the wind on several differeat points; and 30 clearly acknowledged is the supremacy of tbe American craft by the whole yachting world of England, and even urcon- sciously by the preas which disparages her success, that the raco is given up to her by common consent when she bas won only that third of it in which the wind was dead against her. This is as if all the gacktmen of England should say the Cambria may try the Sappho pretty close on one point of the wind, but with the wind anywhere else than at that one point the Cambria is nowhere, Some of the state- menis of news we get are searcely intelligible, fvom their obscurity. It is reported, for instance, that the steamer posted for a turning point had to take the Cambria in tow, from which we should infer that she did not finish the race. Yet one of the despatches implies that she did finish the race and had a claim for vivtory by time allowance. This we take to be altogether a blunder. As the terms of the race were settled in the published corres- pondence, there was to be no allowance for size, and we cannot believe that this agree- ment had been in any way modified. Alto- gether, this is a splendid triumph for the Sappho—for an American boat, for the “American model” and for American yacht- men—a triump) complete in all its parts, and we are sorry that John Bull does not hand- somely ackaowledge it, rather than chafler on small points and disparage the gallantry against which he could not successtully contend, ‘Pie CATHOLIO POWERS AND INFALLISILITY,-— There seems to be no doubt that if the Pope and those who act with him push in the Ecumenical Council the dogma of Infallibility, the dogma will be carried, and carried easily. At the same time {tf becomes more and more apparent that the Catholic Powers are bitterly opposed, The Council of the Vatican may represent the Church, but most assuredly it does not represent the State. In a recent sitting of the Conacil the Archbishop of Paris, who is in the confidence of the Emperor, spoke strongly against the dogma. It appears, too, that Austria waxes more and more hot against it. Ohancellor Beust and the Hungarian Premier Andrassy, who, together, really rule the Austro-ILungarian empire, have agreed to forbid the promulgation of aay decree of the Ecumenical Conncil de- claring the infallibility of the Pope. If the prociamation of the dogma of Papal infalli- bility alienates, as it threatens to do, the Catholic governments of BEurope from the Church, the Chrrch will not have any good reason to bleas the Council, although the world may. Too Muon [nsayrry.—The city has been aroused by a fresh deed of blood. Broad- well bids fair to become a second McFar- land. if the unfortunate woman whom he calls bis wife dies of the wound she bag received from her husband's hand there can be no doubt that an attempt will be made to save his life on the ground that he was in- sane when he committed the fatal act, There are many who will regard this outrage as the first fruit of the McFarland acquittal. We cannot wholly agree with them; but neither can we say they are wholly wrong. We do not as yet know the merits of the case. But whatever shape this case may ultimately assume we must protest against this insanity cry. We must also protest against the idea that a man is master of his wife, as the Southern planter was wont to be of his slave ; that he can starve her and strike her and in a thousand ways make her life miserable, and that when she flees from him in despair he can then follow and shoot her with impunity. We have had already too much insanity. We must now have some justice. Tux Gotpen Aar, if not of literature, of the literary profession, is the golden age we live ia. Time was when the highest literary men were little better than beggars. Now we might name a host of them on both sides of the Atlantic who, in their estates, incomes and expenditures, are among the nabobs of the land. Dickens, for instance, makes a pleasure excursion to and through a part of the United States, and from a series of evening readings of his own fancy sketches he returns to Eng- land richer than he was by two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And now Disraeli, as a diversion from the cares of State, writes a novel, and for the English copyright pookets ten thousand pounds, or fifty thousand dollars, “What's in 9 name?” aske the simple-hearted Juliet. Why, Signorina, if it is a popular lite- ary name there is a California gold mine in It in this golden age of light reading. Rap Rrver Neorraciry.—It appears, that the government has given instructions to the United States military authorities in Minnesota to keep a sharp lookeut for warlike Fenians 7 route for Winnipeg and to head them off. «In short, General Grant ls resolved to have peace, extent our case against England's belligerent rights conceded to Jeff Davis? Ofiicially, has Mr. Fish any right to know that Riel and his men are belligerents one way or the other? We ask for information. Congress—The Enforcement of the Fife teenth Amendment—Disorderly Scenes io the House, The eaforcement of the fifteenth amendment was, of course, the great subject in the Senate yesterday. A night session was determined upon to close at what we'feared would be an endless flow of words, by final action on the bill, but at the last hour the Senators, with a display of good svnso and fine taste almost unparalleled in the annals of Washington legis- lation, concluded it would be better to attend Senator Stockton'’s silver wedding. Among other matters before the Senate during the day was aresolution presented by Mr. Pomeroy asking the President to open negotiations with Great Britain for an honorable union of the British North American possessions with the United States, It was luid on the table and ordered to bo printed. The time is very opportune for the opening of such negatiations, which are otherwise likely to be made at some time in the future when, perhaps, they may not be received so reason- ably as it ia provable they would be now. The accumulating troubles and disaffection in the New Dominion and our claims against England all combine to give us an advantage over that haughty government at present, and we could | feel assured that such a proposition, even it not accepted immediately, would receive very respectful consideration, In the House the shipping interest bill was considered until the expiration of the morning hour, when it weut over until Tuesday. The Diplomatic Appropriation bill was then taken up in Committee of the Whole, and, as usual, created an exciting discussion. The House can got excited over almost any kind of bill that comes up, though we believe that it never made merry over a Tariff bill until the last one was before it, and we have been a little surprised that they have kept such a dignified front on the shipping interest bill, but we hardly Our Special Letters from Europe. Our special European correspondence, pub- lished in another column to-day, supplies Old World matter of much interest furnished by our writers in London and Paris. Tho letters are dated to the 7th of May. Mr. Disraeli’s book, ‘‘Lothair” is again noticed, and the stealthy political and party effort which is just now being made to revive the spirit of religious feud in England still further unveiled. The animus of the author and of his Parliamentary adherents and advis- ers in this direction were almost certain to fail, however, partioularly after the open and pointed declaration of the Prince of Wales to the effect that in the matter of religious tole- ration and freedom of worship the English people should imitate the American practice. This Christian avowal was accepted as highly creditable both to the tone of mind and per- sonal bearing of his Royal Highness. From Paris wé have a continuation of our spedial history of the regicide conspiracy plot against the life of Napoleon, with details of its excit- ing causes, as set forth by its more.active pro- movants, its sweep of idea and possible means of effecting a revolutionary purpose. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Hon. H. 8, Sanford aud Mrs. Sanford, of Brus- sels; Congressman W. B. Allison, of lowa; George M. Pullman, of Chicago, and James Hance, of Liver- pool, are at the Brevoort House, Hon. G. Monkton and Colonel M, Hutton, of Eng- land, and Colonel Townsend, of Ciifton, are at the Ciarendon Hotel. Ex-Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont; Judge T. In Jewett and Judge R. ©. Hurd, of Obio; G. B, Gardt- ner, of Gardiner’s Island; F. T. Carrington, of Oa- expected them to be otherwise than | wego, and Dr. J..8. Delavan, of Albasy, are at the excited ither in @ jolly or bitter | St- Nicholas Hotel, sonse over the diplomatic bill. Itis sucha General Rafael de Carrera, of Ouba; Judge John D. Mediora, of Ohio; Dr. P. Putnam, of Albany; Gen- eral Tom Hamilton, of Texas; Colonel J. & Allen, of Mississippt; Judge D. L Waish, of Peausyivania; Colonel T. Pierson, of New Jersey; Judge W. Alex- ander, of Keatucky; Colonel Tl, Mlichell and Colonel G. W, Farrell, of North Carolina, are a& the Metro- politan Hotel. Commander Kimberly and H, R. Wilson, of the United States Navy; Dr. Swinburne, of New York; Rev. Charles &. Milis, of China; George Innis, of Poughkeapsie; J. C. McGuire, of Mobile; Dr, ¥. H. Peckham, of Providence; H. B. Titus, of Virginia; J. 0, Ainsworth and R. R. Thompson, of Oregon, and J. D. Ludden, of Minuesota, are at the Astor House, G. F. Sharp, of San Francisco; &. R. Andrews, of Paris, aua &. EB. Pierson, of Philadelphia, are at the Grand Hotel, Captain B. G. Lathrop, of California; Alfred Titatt, of England, aud ¥. D. Merckwald, of Boston, are: at the Coleman House. Judge Houghton, of St. Albaus, Vti.; Oharles W. Rand, of San Francisco, and Rev. Dr. Sticer, of Pal- tamore, are a’ the Irving House. General W, B. Tibbitis, of ‘troy; A, Van Vechtoa, of Albany; Sumuel May and G, A. Crosby, of Boston, and V, A. Sartori, of Philadelphia, are at. the Hoff man House, Dr. L. Parks, of Boston, and W. McMichael, of Philadelphia, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Jadye L. Tremain and Hamitton Harris, of Alba» ny; Judge P. Noyes, of Vermont; Judge Ely, of Binghamton, and Judge Neison, of Poughkeepsie, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. George Tiffany, of New York; Isaac Buchanan, .ot Canada; T, M. Dereus, of Boston, and Hon. P. V. Fox, ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy, are at the Everett House. Captain 8. B. Peoples, of the United States Army; Major J. C, Dawson, of the United States Army, and Professor J, Graham, of New Orleans, ate at the St. Charles Hotel. Professor A, Elliott, of Indiana, and Dr. J. D. Lay- ton, of Florida, are at the St. Elmo Hotel, J. V. Smhediey, of Engiand; C. Ayliff, of Arkansag,. and A. G. Betancourt, of Cuba, are at the New York Hotel. glittering subject, dealing as it does with kings and courts, plain suits and court dresses—things that plain republicans, like members of the House, do not often have a chance to touch upon—tiat the members make the most of it when they get it. The greatest excitement yesterday grew out of a proposed amendment by Mr. Brooks to accredit a Minister Plenipotentiary to Rome. It called forth moro geligious sentiment than the House was ever known to indulge in before, and it naturally brought up reminiscences of the Salem witches and Know Nothingism, and even opened up new authorities on the effect and tenor of the Syllabus. Italso called forth some astonishing personal statements, some ex- tremely unparliamentary language and some very disorderly scenes. A Good Example of Justice in Brooklyn. The punishment of bighwaymen, burglars and garroters means. the security of peaceful and respectable citizens, The public, there- fore, know how to appreciate the honesty and firmness of Judges who give this class of ras- cals their due, We have an energetic City Judge—now on the briny wave—who does not spare crime when it comes before him ina convicted form. He has set a good example in dealing with criminals wifo are alike the danger and the terror of society—fellows who would cut your throat for @ dollar or break into your house for a silver spoon. We are glad to see that Judge Troy, of Brooklyn, has followed the example of Judge Bedford in inflicting summary punishment upon two ruffians who attacked, garroted and robbed a New York lawyer within a short distance of his own home in Brooklyn. The Judge sent both of them to the State Prison for terms of fifteen and ten years, where they can meditate upon the atrocity of robbing a lawyer, or any other man. Such exercise of the judicial authority is just what we want to break up these organized gangs who infest the community. These fel- iowa rely as much upon the leniency of the courts as they do upon their own skill to com- mit crime successfully and to escape ils pen- alty by avoiding arrest and prosecution. They should be taught that justice is swift and sure, and that the bench is not to be polluted by the filthy stream which floats upon the snr- face of all our political institutions, Therefore Judge Troy did well in putting these enemies of society out of harm’s way for some years to come, Prominent Departures. Judge B. R, Curus, for Bosion; Generel. Burnside, for Providence; S. 8. Ruberla, for Havana; Wash- ington Booth, for Baltimore, and KE. O. Tufts, for Boston. Personal Notes. tephen A. Douglas has been. appointed General of the Seventecath brigade of the North Carolina militia, comprising the counties of Forsythe, Guiford and Rockinghvm, Coionei Joab Keriy, father of General Jubal E. Far'y, of Virginia, died at the resideace of his son, Robert H. Early, in Lafayette courty, Mo, om the Ist mst, He was born in Franklin county, Va., ‘and removed to Missouri at the close of the Inte war. He was a prominent Mason aad was. buiicd with honors by that Order. Dennis Heart, native of Connecticut, died in Hilsporo, N, C., on the 13th inst., aged cighty-seven, He went to North Carolina half a century ago, and in 1820 started the Tlillsvoro Recorder, He died miuch respected. ’ In Cincinnati it nas been decided that a white: wornan shall not marry a negro unless she can prove herself black, A good many womencan con-~ vince easy going judges that white ts black, but it can’t be done out there, A reverend in Pittsburg, who is on trial for breach. of promise, offered in his defence his belief that the young lady was insane. He might have run the risk of future “{renzlos,”” but remembering the bad name that reveronds have got recently for little pee~ cadiiloea, le preferred not to give her the advantage of being insane from the start. Elisha Sprague, of Chicago, is tohave a new trial in the breach of promise case with “Maudy Craig,” whom, it will be remembered, he “luved beter than his Geasus” some years ago, bat whom he now doesn't love as well as the $40,000 awarded her uy the court outs of his pockets. Tar Guorata Iyvastiaatinec ComMirrEe have made a report which discloses mogt in- famous attempts on the part of Governor Bul- lock and others interested inthe passage of the stringent Georgia bill to influence legisla- tion. The intention to bribe Senators Carpen- ter and Tipton was fairly developed, but the parties called upon by Bullock’s adherents to do the dirty work refused to approach those Senators for any such purpose. The result of the investigation puts the Senate in a high po- sition as contrasted with the result of the cades- ship selling investigation in the House, and it remains to be seen if Goneral Butler, whose committee is trying to tack the Bullock clause to the bill, will proceed further in that busi- ness, THE BITDR BITTEN. Tall Swearing at Yoskers—A Connter Cherge of Perjury aud Visions of Sing Sing Prison. A German named Peter Kaiser, living in Palisade avenue, Yonkers, Westchester county, obtaiued a warrant not many days stnce. in which be charged follow countryman, Henry Fleck, proprietor. of a boarding house on Jefferson street, with, having om April 9, wulle testifying in a civil suit before Justice Donohue, committed perjury im regart to some money alleged to Nave been paid by Fleck to the complainant, Yesterday morning, and before Fleck had been arrested, he swore out a warrant charging Kaiser with wilful and, corrupt perjury in his affirmation relative toa like charge um the warrant obtained by the latter. Roun'siman Austin, in whose hands the documents indicted were placed, secured both parties and locked them up. In the afternoon fleck had an examination be- fore Police Justice Baird, when it was elicited that Kaiser hud agreed to sell the defendant some 200 cords of wood, and had receipted for $150 p:id him by Fleck to bind the contract, which reccipt was oered in eviaence. All this had been denied by Kaiser in his atiidavit charging the other with per- ary. A number of lawyeis and a justice of the cace Were called by the defence, euch tstifying: that Kaiser was not to be believed under oath. Both ya) LPS Were represented by counsel, and afer A pa- jent hearing of the case the court discharged Fleck and heid Kaiser, without privilege of bail, on a charge of wilful perjury. Taz Demooratio Viotory.—The demo- cratic organs are exulting over their late wonderfal triumph in this city and State as a triumph of the constitution, the people, justice, sound principles and such things. We havea shorter solution. This great democratic vic- tory was simply the consent of both parties to Tammany’s generous division of the spoils. Yes, it is a triumph of the spoils, and tite spoils are now the great principle of both parties, because nothing else is left to fight fox. Tur Troop Smtps CAN'T Pass--A Nick Qursrtoy.~General Cooke, in charge of the military post at Sault Sainte Marie, has posi- tively refused to permit the Canadian steamer Chicora, with troops, &c., aboard. for the Red River expedition, to pags through the canal, He says his instructions are positive on this point, Thus we seo that, in heading off the Fenians on the one side and the Canadian troops on the other, General Grant is bound to have peace in Winnipeg. It strikes us, however, that Mr. Secretary Fish is getting slightly muddled in this business. In the refusal to let this British Canadian, troop ship pass through our canal docs he not recognize Riel and his DANGEROUS STABBING AFFAAY. At a lato hour last night a fracas occurred in rront 0! No. 691 Greenwich sweet, between Thomas Lyuch and John Higgins, of No. 601 Greenwich street, during which Higgins stabbed aa in the tef side wih a large pockesknife, inflicting a dangerous Wound. Lyneu was taken to Bellevue Hospital and Red River ingurgents as belligerents? And | { Laggias was locked Up. does not sueh a recognitien, spoil to same |